Today, today, today...

Imagine yourself on a regular work day..
You wake up, go to the office, work, and enjoy, if you can, come back from the office, do some things, eat something, and sleep..

You wake up the next day morning, and wow! Deja vu! Everything is the same, like it was yesterday? Has it got something to do with the Hotel, or the town, or is it a dream!Today is what was yesterday ! And the next day too, and every day in your life is going to be the same day, the same circumstances, the same people, the same incidents, the same weather, the same everything..

That is the story of "Groundhog Day"[what is], a movie featuring Bill Murray. The movie is a classic, in the truest sense, and the performances have been brilliant. It talks of a weatherman, living his life, each day being the same.

There was a theory that if we are let to do whatever we want to, without any fear of being accounted for, the world would be a chaotic hell! But there have been observations that, 70% of the humans, still did respond in what can be considered a desirable way.

This movie too, starts with Murray taking advantage of his situation, and desiring and doing all he needs to, to cater to his desires. He gets drunk, robs, has dates, and one-night stands (and he has no option either, because the next day he would be back to today!), steals cars, blows away his money in Casinos, then gets bored, starts killing himself, runs his car into valleys, over the mountains, hangs, electrocutes, doing all to kill himself, to find himself in the same bed, with the alarm singing the same music. And then he starts doing what he feels to do, and that is when the theory gets negated.

The movie, the narration, and the incidents in the story are hilariously meaningful! A must watch for anybody who has not yet.

One can't avoid relating oneself to such a situation, and so could I not. How would we live, if we realise that all we are going to do each day is the same thing, and there is no way of getting out of it? And then, why do we live, the same way, every day, inspite of knowing of a better way to live!

Let me know (better if, after you watch the movie), and I am counting on you! :)

A funny incident..

Ever felt the urge to do something different, something naughty?
I felt. I did.

It was around 8pm, as I was hurrying off from the office, to get on my bike and hit the road before the Infy buses jammed it, we - Mahantesh and me, placed ourselves in an un-enviable position..

We took the elevator, and somewhere on the way down, i tried to pull open the door. I had done this before, and then, the door had opened, and closed, no frills. It was a nice view, to see up and down the lift, and all the cables running et. al. But this time, such was not my luck. The lift stopped, the door opened, and that's it. Every time it tried to close, it got stuck, made a loud bang, and opened again. This continued for sometime, and the despair began! It was 8 in the evening, the buses are leaving, most of our colleagues have already left, the lift operators would not be around to come immediately, and I was not game for sleeping the night in the lift, with a loud bang every 10 seconds..

We thought of calling the security downstairs. But the phone in the lift did not show up his number. After a few minutes, with the despair subsiding, we called up two of our friends, Karthik and Jagdeep, who were still up in the office, to call the security guy. Meanwhile, we explored where we were, and realised we were half the way to the ground floor. Karthik had called the security guy, and was talking to us through the lift door. He tried to open the outer lift door, but could not. Mahantesh found out a pulley, a pulley which could open up the door to our freedom, and pulled it!

We cranked ourselves through the gap, and jumped off the lift. He jumped off, inspired by the movie Speed, and I followed, remembering the movie- the "Final Destination". :D