The Eleventh Commandment

Never go shopping with women. It strongly convinces you - those who underwent medieval torture were the lucky ones. The history of the world may have been different if Germany had invented malls in the 1940s, and ordered their POWs to shop with their women.

Mall shopping is the worst of the lot. Now, you have hundreds of stores crammed into one little place, where women can merrily wander around, with you in tow. What's the torture part you ask? Well, for starters, no shop seems to have chairs for men to rest their tired legs. Secondly, "shopping" to women is not the same as shopping to men. Shopping to men essentially means buying things which you need/want. Shopping to women is essentially the process of looking around for things that they may need. It is the seemingly pointless wandering around that is shopping - it's the journey, not the destination. Ironically, most women then cannot understand how men watch a game which can stretch for five days and have no result! (At least there's Lunch and Tea!)

This also answers another age old question - why do men never ask for directions? The answer is simple, those directions proabably lead to a mall somewhere!

Rajni

Saw Shivaji - the B.O.S.S. a couple of weeks back. Of all the things I thought I'd be doing for the first time in the U.S. - watching a Rajni movie in the theater was not one of them. Man - what an experience! There was nothing spectacular about the story, the acting, the music or the effects - but that all does not matter. The only reason to watch the movie is : Rajni. The funny thing is, even though the heroine actually looks spectacular for once (for someone from the south), it's hard to concentrate on anyone but a slow moving 50+ year old Rajnikanth in the songs - even with the skin show.

The movie did have its highlights - the gun scene to upstage the famous Mithun "2 gun over the wall shooting". The website where he finds a list of all people with black money in India (still nothing compared to "naanima" in Humraaz). Rajni's ability to not only break the laws of mechanics, but also current electricity for good measure! And of course, Rajni is 10 times better than Keanu whatsisname!

The best part was that I missed an hour of the movie, and yet at no stage felt that I missed anything!

So, if you've not seen the movie yet, I'd urge you to go and see it asap in the theater. It's certainly better than the "Oscar" fare about "epic tales" which is dished out year after year. This is truly great cinema. The only thing i'm looking forward to even more is of course, the one and only: "Aap ka Saroor". Ah! Great things await us! I believe there's already a sequel in the works for that one!