Argentina - Bienvenido

The Land of the metal Argentum...

Arrived in the beautiful city of Buenos Aires. It is a city rich in European architecture. I have not heard so much of praises for the architects in all of my life as I have done in the last couple of weeks.

Argentina is a land of
Football - It is the land of Mario Kempes, Diego Maradonna, Batistuta, Messi. It has a great rivalry with neighbours Brazil on that subject. Boca Juniors (CABJ) and the River Plate are the arch rivals.
"Mate" - It is a drink just similar to green tea, but very bitter in taste. It is typically offered in small hollow cups made up of Calabash and a typical leather cover. Nowadays it is made from metal, porcelain, bamboo, wood, plastic...
Leche - In plain English it is milk. Argentina has

Dulce de Leche (Caramalised milk) - It is used as as spread, in ice creams, cookies. Alfajores is a speciality.

Beef - Carne. Almost 99% people eat and love beef. This is part of the Argentians staple food. God Save vegetarians (Vegetariano's) in this country. There is a huge dearth of Verdura (Vegetables).

Leather - Cattle is not spared even after death. People utilize it almost 100%.

Wine - Produces a lot of wine and people do like the wine. Typically the red wine is more popular, but White wine (Blanco) is also widely consumed.
Spanish - An amazing land of Spanish speaking people. English is hardly heard from the local people. From an Indians viewpoint, it is easier to have Hindi in Chennai than English in Argentina.

Went on a trip of Teatro Colon, Boca Juniors Club (CABJ), Port Madero, Casa Rosada (The Pink House - President's office), Tigre, Obelisk.....

Subway is okay, buses are good, but the trains are not good at all.

Finally a Revival

Ah....

A Post after 4 long years......Time has gone by...the hairs have fallen, am married, have a kid and am bloody back again in the same place and same website....

Am on a short stint in UK right now, nothing else to do apart from some work, phone calls to family (lemme try remembering my friends) and pointless browsing....but have started to turn and look back at my life ??? Life well spent or wasted without exploring or neither here or there - still searching....probably will keep exploring till the end (should have written every now and then)...

All the like minded people will agree that if you have no other thing in life to do, you end up making couple of drinks. Every time you have a couple of drinks and one ends up asking all the basic philosophic questions of - who am I ? Why was I born ? what am i doing here ? what should I do next ? Am I doing good ? Am I in the right place ?..... But there is no simple answer you see and then just dose off. I guess one can imagine what stage I am in currently - no prizes for guessing the right answer - about to dose off and in the midst of philosophical thoughts (no point guessing what I was doing before this...hahahaha)...

This is blog is just for revival...Hopefully more to follow...

Bye for now.

trial

 

Movies - Last half of 2006

I like watching movies in a theatre only when the movie is worthwile. The fascinating thing about watching a movie in the theatre is that it leaves a life long flash in your mind. If one does that in every Tom Dick and Harry movie then I feel it is corrupted thought. "Golamaal", "Chupke Chupke", "Mr India", "DDLJ", "MPK" etc all of them are of that genre. I as a person believe that if a movie/plot is good enough, it is like watching a movie afresh everytime. In the bollywood perspective I like people with fresh ideas/plots. I generallly like Ram Gopal Verma stamp movies. They are generally so different from other stories. If I feel a movie is good, I go and watch it in the theatres else online/Cds/DVDs are a better route. I happened to recently see "Darwaza Bandh Rakho ne" and "Shiva" both of them were a good movie for different reasons. I also happened to see "DON" the new onw. I should appreciate Farhan Akhtar for all his previous movies, but in this movie he has tried to copy a bit too much. Had he adapted it, it would have been more likeable than this. He should have copied only the story to a large extent and a few dialogues and essence and not the other things.

The Indian movies when they have a betterstorylinearebetter than most of the other movies that I see. HAIL BOLLYWOOD at the end of the day.