Finally.........

Hi everyone,
Well we can safely say I'm not exactly the most punctual person in the world.
The last time I blogged was when I was leaving for the US of A, and said I would blog from here. Well its been almost 3 months and I havent posted even once. I wont say I didnt have time because I have wasted some major time here. But it is also true that I really didnt have time to sit and blog.
Anyways the entire point of this post is to acknowledge the fact that I have started to blog again, and well there are going to be quite a few posts now about my stay here so be prepared (well except one which is going to be about me becoming an Engineer!!!!! :) yipppeee ).
So talk to you guys soon.
-- Madhura

Saat Samundar Paar

Hey all,

I am leaving for U.S. in half an hour!!!!!

Though I cant wait to get there, at the same time I cant wait to come back and be with everyone again.

Going "saat samundar paar" (I really dont know which saat samundar we are going to cross:) )

My next blog will be from my sis's place. See everyone then :)

Madhura

The Leaf left because of Wind's pursuit or maybe because the Tree didnt ask her to stay....

Disclaimer: The image is freely available on net. The story is not my own creation but I heard it from a friend, Priyanka, who in turn had read it in a mail.

"The Leaf left because of Wind's pursuit or maybe because the Tree didnt ask her to stay...."

Once upon time there was a Tree and a Leaf. Both had been the best of friends. The Leaf harboured special feelings for the Tree though the Tree did not know this. He was very popular and considered the Leaf to be his BFF (Best Friend Forever), nothing more. The Leaf was a very simple girl who always hoped that one day she and the Tree would be together.

Then one day the Tree found a girlfriend. The Leaf was heartbroken though she supported the Tree in his pursuit of love. But as the Tree's relationship with his girlfriend blossomed the Tree and the Leaf grew apart.

Enter our hero, The Wind. Now, the Wind was a very nice guy who had fallen in love with the Leaf. Very soon he found out that the Leaf loved the Tree, but he did not give up on the Leaf. He pursued the Leaf to come with him and start a new life.

Meanwhile the Tree broke up with his girlfriend. The Leaf supported him throughout this difficult time, but still the Tree did not say the thing that the Leaf wanted to hear.

By the time the Tree realised that he loved the Leaf she had decided to go with the Wind. So the Tree heartbroken did not say anything. And the Leaf left with the Wind.

The Leaf left because of Wind's pursuit or maybe because the Tree didnt ask her to stay....

Harry Potter and ME

Disclaimer: This is an original post about my views on the Harry Potter series. The image is freely available on internet as a wallpaper.

The first time I had heard about the Harry Potter series was when I was in the eight standard. Though I cannot give a specific reason my first impression the series was not at all good. I practically hated the series. I think it irritated me to think that grown ups got hooked on a book which was about magic!!! This 'hatred' lasted through all these years till recent times.

Come August 2008, having been nagged and pestered on by a friend of mine called Nidhi (thank you Nidhi) I started reading the Harry Potter series. It took me just one book to start liking the series another two to start loving it and just one more book to become an ever-lasting fan. 

Now you can hear even me saying things like "I wish I could just "Accio" the remote" or imitating the famous drawl with which Snape (Alan Rickman, who is incidentally my favourite character) says "obviously".

The most captivating part of the books is the narration ,well story too "obviously", but quite a few good stories have been destroyed because of bad narration. The ease with which J.K. Rowling guides the reader through the story is just too good. So when the young Harry is scared at Voldemort's rebirth you can smell his fear or when Snape kills Dumbeldore you wish you could just jump in the book and strangle him. You jump with joy every time Gryffindor wins the Quidditch cup and cry profusely when Sirius dies. And the Harry-Ron-Hermoine friendship is very real with all its fights and jealousy and of course love. That is the MAGIC of Rowling's narration.

The storyline is just too awesome. References to earlier events makes you flip back not only the pages of the book you are reading but also the previous books. Things that go unexplained are explained later in the book or as is the case most of the times in later books, not one tiny morsel of information goes unexplained.

One of the things that impressed me most about the series is the detailing of the "other" life. The spells have been well thought of and are meaningful. There is not a single spell called "Abada Cabadra". Every single detail from the food they eat and clothes they wear to the Ministry Of Magic to the dangerous beasts (trolls, hags, dragons though my favourite remain the blast-ended skrewts) have been worked out.

Well the moral of the story (in this case blog) is that I WAS WRONG. Harry Potter series is an excellent read. Worth every nail biting moment you spend reading and re-reading and re-reading it. Like every Harry Potter fan now even I wish that the wizarding world is real and some day I get to be a part of it.