"Did no one come to save me just because they missed me?"
- Captain Jack Sparrow, Pirates of the Caribbean, At World's End

Perhaps the most lovable of all Pirates, Jack, sorry, Captain Jack is. And so is this one single line. The question of the simplest kind, something that one would just take for assumption, he asks. Not because he wants to know, or because he thinks its something different to ask, but because this is what makes him HIM. Of all the lines spoken by Captain Jack, this is the one that endeared me to him most, because of its sheer innocence. The innocence is so characteristically Jack Sparrow, that you cannot help but marvel at the strength of those words.
Captain Jack Sparrow is my most favourite character of the world stories. This line just proves me completely right. Long Live Captain Jack Sparrow!!!!! Yo Ho Ho!!

"Courage was mine, and I had Mystery;
Wisdom was mine and I had Mastery;"
- "Strange Meeting", Owen Wilson

My most favourite poem and the best lines in it. The first time I read this poem, these two lines stood out like I'd read them somewhere before and now couldn't remember. But, the fact is, that this is my most favourite poem. We learnt this one in Class 10, a poem that speaks about war, against it, and in the least of words is able to describe the horrors of war and 'dogs of war unleashed'. The two lines above almost are the central idea of the poem. The soldier had the courage to look for the true meaning of life and happiness and when he solved this, he had the knowledge which enabled him to step away from the reality of war. However it was war that cut short his life, which he would otherwise have spent, in spreading the knowledge he had gained.

I've never appreciated war, and neither have I been able to appreciate poem which talked against war by describing it. Because, they were never able to appeal to my heart. But this poem was very different, because it was sort of real and not exaggerated. I found pages on which I'd written this poem down after my exams got over two years ago, so that I'd never lose it, even if I lost my textbk. All that anti-war thing just comes back now......

Remberance

This thought goes out to a very dear friend of mine who passed away a year ago on this day.
Its hard to think about you on this day, without a moment of grief and longing. I wish I had the power to call you back. A year ago had I wished and prayed and yearned from God to give you the strength to fight on and win the battle of life and death. " She deserves it more than any one else on earth.", I'd pleaded to Him, hoping that He would listen to me and give me my one wish. I felt so optimistic that you'd come back, as happy and radiant as always, and push behind that accident as one of those bad chapters you never wanna open again. But what He did was let me down for the first time ever, in a way that I'd never expected Him to do. You went on, leaving behind a chapter that we would never want to open. You left the world empty, and us to continue without you there. All through the past year, I've gone through every exam, wondering what you would do if you had ever faced it all. I wonder how God could be so harsh to cut short such a young life in the way He did. I miss you.... And I'm sorry for not realising it was you who'd had the accident, when I first heard about it. I'll never be able to forgive myself for this...Never

"Karma- what goes around, comes around."

- A dialogue by a character in "Day Break", a serial on Star World

Today, this is just perfect. I got my result of probably the most important examination of my life, if not my most favourite. And I've MADE IT THROUGH TO A GOVERNMENT SEAT IN A MEDICAL COLLEGE!!! Its supposec to be really tough for freshers to do so! So obviously an achievement!! I believe that Karma had to do A LOT with this result, simply 'coz I'd really worked hard and my board marks overall didn't really show that courtesy one subject. Plus, my competition was with one person, who'd got the Rank 1 in Pune in the boards 2 yrs ago. It isn't like I deserved that, but to come so close and not make it was tough, considering that I was never in the running for that close a place throughout the years I prepared for that exam. this time, I've got 7 ( quite a lucky and strong number. Thanks JK Rowling, I owe you one!!) marks more than her and am sure of a seat while she is not. Thirdly, people from my school don't tend to do as well as they should and I worked really hard to try and get that shadow off me. So, I really did get what I wanted and somehow all the marks I've got now, the rank I've got makes up for all the losses suffered in the process. I feel really special at having made my family very proud. This is a landmark day for me. And it is the 14th!!!!

"M. le docteur over there, he said just now, that all this"- his hand smote the Canon's stomach, and the Canon winced- "was only a residence. Tell me, if you find a burglar in your house what do you do? Shoot him, do you not?" "No," cried the Canon. " no, indeed- I mean not in this country."

- "The Fourth Man", Agatha Christie

This conversation really made me think. It is a story in which a man, during a train journey, tells the three other occupants of the compartment, the story of a girl who suffered from multiple personalities. It is so interesting to consider the body as the residence of the soul. So there are the usual occupants of the so-called residence who are somewhat similar. These are probably our similarities with other people, the resemblances of our actions and reactions with somebody else. But when a stronger occupant comes in in the form of a burglar, it is only but right to kill him for having done so. Yet, that is never the case in a civilised country like ours. But when we consider the case of a personality entering the body, we do really kill it, right? By making the person forget it, making it all come out, by psychological treatment. Interesting comparison there, Agatha Christie.

" Har Ghadi Badal Rahi Hai Roop Zindagi,

Chaav Hai Kabhi, Kabhi Hai Dhoop Zindagi,

Har Pal Yahan Ji Bhar Jiyo,

Jo Hai Sama, Kal Ho Na Ho."

- Title track of a hindi Movie, 'Kal Ho Na Ho'

I really live by this thought. The thought that there might be no tomorrow haunts me and so I really wanna enjoy the day given to me and I am very thankful for it. The very idea of having my own blog came to me in Dec 2007. I wanted to start a afresh so I decided to push the idea of starting, after my exams got over in May. But, it kept on haunting me , that thought of wanting to to do it then and there. And so I did it! I made a blog though I had no clear notion of what I wanted to write. I wanted a blog and I had to do it, simply because I might never have another chance to do it.

I kinda live by the song above. Its, like this, theme song of my life, something whose meaning just reveberates every day in my life. I watched the movie yesterday and the song stayed with me. Once more. Just thought I'd write about it...