DEPARTURES - JAPANESE- 2009

Hai all, today am so bored, waked up very late, have exam after couple of days. But not in a mood to learn anything... lazy all these days or we can say, the trauma, ma first exam left on me is still making some sense…
I was feeling comfy in ma bed, then came to mind a Japanese movie that I saw last week. So I thought why can’t I share ma review of that movie to ma friends
Departures that’s the title of the movie
The Oscar Winner for best foreign film is a testament to life's detours and finding the art in them. It is one of those rare films ever. It is a delightful journey into the heartland of Japan as well as a beautiful look at a sacred part of japans cultural heritage. Daigo has always dreamed about being a cellist. After devoting his whole life to his craft, he finally secures a job in symphony. The career is derailed when the symphony goes out of business. Devastated and lost, he convinces his wife to move back to his hometown to live in the house his mother left him.
Desperate for any job he answers a want ad for someone willing to work with departures. Excited to become a travel agent he interviews with the companies owner Sasaki. The money is fantastic, but there was a typo in the ad. It should have read working with the "departed”. The shop specializes in ceremonial encoffination, a Japanese ritual for preparing a body for burial. Daigo decides to give it a shot while hiding it from his wife. After a series of very funny training mishaps, Daigo learns to the love this art in himself. But how will he tell his family and friends what he does for a living?
And the story continues unitl he perform his father for the Last Departure…
Am going with four out of five for the Departures directed by Yôjirô Takita
It's one of those rare films where all the elements get drawn together into a stunning blend. The performances are startlingly natural and effortless. The cinematography is gripping, whether they are shooting this cellist playing against snow capped mountains or showing the beauty of a life lost too soon.
DEPARTURE is a stunning piece of work, and should be viewed in a wide screen to feel the beauty in it. Ba bye...

AM ADDICTED TO LOVE!!!

Wish all of you a splendid and safe diwali... and good wishes for the whole year....
Here in my locality Diwali is not being celebrated to its full spirit. Last night when I just made a round of driving with my bike, I saw people decorating house with lamps very rarely. I missed fireworks too. Here its onam people celebrate… I started celebrating diwali only three years ago… thanks to my relative… its him who made everthing possible those days.. I enjoyed a lot but now his absence makes my diwali boring… I enjoy times when I get an opportunity to celebrate… life is beautiful… celebrate it & live it…
Last night my bro went for training… I will miss him for next SIX months… already feeling a bit… It’s for the first time we are parting for this much lengthy period of time… for the first I will miss him for Christmas… yup, I have to accept the fact… it’s a part of life…
It’s after a long time am writing for ma blog… September saw me working hard… It also gave me lot learning as wells experience… enjoyed being the student coordinator of state level gathering of social work students and faculty. Soon 15 days of all India tour… covered five important places of ma motherland… circular journey helped me to cover almost all the states of the largest democracy in the world… It gave me opportunity to walk inside the great indian parliament, Taj Mahal, Agra Fort, Red Fort, Jalianwala Bagh, Golden Temple, Juma masjid-New Delhi, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Kerala House…etc… also can’t forget ma first taste of Metro rail & suburban Train, children of same mother with completely different characters… Also remembering all those lovely ladies, who walked in front of me… It’s hard to detail everything that I saw or in other words, experienced throughout my journey… I saw the facilities for our parliament members as well as children of Mother India begging for their meals… Last but not least I enjoyed my moments at Waga Border… It was amazing… enjoyed the evening ceremony there… saw the national flag of two countries, who always yell at each other for the lives of many innocent men and do nothing to stop more bloodshed, coming downwards at the same time… All those stuff makes the trip, the memorable one… O` no I can’t forget the support and love that I got from my classmates as well as my teachers who was with me during the ‘journey that I can’t forget’.

Now its exam time for me, yes the theory part… Internals are already over, so now am cooking ma brain for the Giant… pls pray for me… and about the title… yes am addicted, Addicted to Love…

Enjoying break after busy days...

Here I am again, sitting down, watching Ugly Betty.

Well, I should give two thumbs up for this American
TV series, really teaching us that inner beauty,
intelligence do make their ways more than the outward
appearance. So, thanks to Hermawan, I am passing my holidays by
watching Ugly Betty...It does help improve my
English watching Ugly Betty. Oh I love the English of Betty, Amanda and Christina.
Wow. Beth is crazy about Christina, due to her
Scottish accent... But I think Betty is nicer. Well, Beth's English is similar to
Christina's, but what do I have?....