I went to IMDB site to check the proper spelling for David Niven for my earlier post (Yeah, yeah, I know, I am a stickler for correct spellings!) when I noticed one old lady featured there under the "Born Today" section - her age 99. The face looked familiar. So I clicked on that. The name Gloria Stuart didn't ring a bell either.

So I checked out the list of movies she has acted in and Bingo! This lady has played old Rose in Titanic!

I might have mentioned this on this blog before but you will have to excuse me. I just love the movie so much. I am talking about "The Guns of Navarone". Today I got on to the tail end of it and kept the TV Remote aside.

Don't get me wrong! I like every moment of this movie but the last few are my special favorites - the Germans cutting through the sealed doors, Gregory Peck and David Niven jumping off into water, the steadily advancing Allied ships, the German Officers' flinching when the decoy mouse smokes, the guns firing twice but failing to hit the ships, the 3rd shot with the giant explosion and finally the triumphant blowing of the ships' horns mixed with the cheering of their crew as the guns are blown into water!

When I read that old Simeone Lee compares his dead wife's brain to that of a "Louse", I wondered what this creature is. Wiki to the rescue and I was surprised to find that "Louse" is the singular form of "Lice"!

The book that I have in my hands in my spare moments (getting increasingly rare these days!) is John Grisham's "The Associate". When I saw the word "Nokia" mentioned as the brand of the phone which is used to shoot the crime, I wondered about the "Product Placement Deal" :-)

Finished reading Agatha Christie's "Hercule Poirot's Christmas" yesterday. Need I say that I thoroughly enjoyed it? One thing puzzled me though. Why is Harry Lee referred to as "Henry Lee" when Superitendent Sugden tells Poirot who the residents of Simeon Lee's house are.

I debated whether to check out "Murder on the Orient Express" or not because though I remember watching the movie, I am not sure if I have read the book - at least I don't find it mentioned in the list that I keep of all the books that I have read since 2006.

आज आषाढी एकादशी ! सकाळी सकाळी मुंबइतल्या रस्त्यावरून विठुच्या दर्शनाला निघालेल्या वारकर्यांच्या दिंड्या पाहिल्या आणि वाटलं आपण कधी जाणार पंढरपुरच्या वारीला - घाटात पाउस अंगावर घेत, झेंडे नाचवत, विठुनामाचा गजर करत, देवाचे पाय कधी दिसतात ह्याची वाट पाहात आणि अन्तिम मुक्कामाइतकाच प्रवासाचा आनंद घेत....

क्षणभर मन खंतावतं पण मग लगेच लक्षात येतं देवाचे पाय दिसायला त्याचं बोलावणं यावं लागतं। ते येई पर्यंत थान्बावंच लागतं। म्हणून इथुनच विठू-रखुमाईला दण्डवत आणि जयजयकार - पुंडलिकवरदे हरी विठ्ठला, श्री द्यानदेव तुकाराम!

A forwarded SMS:

अर्ज किया है:
ये आईने तुझे तेरी ख़बर क्या देंगे फ़राज़
आ देख मेरी आखोमे तू कितना हसीं है

And another Spanish proverb quoted is - "Take what you like and pay for it, says God." - something all of us would do well to remember.

I had written about a quotation in Agatha Christie's "Hercule Poirot's Christmas - "The mills of God grind slowly". I realized a few pages later that it is only one half of the quote. The full one goes like this:

"The mills of God grind slowly, but they grind exceeding small"!

Finished reading Paulo Coelho's "The Winner Stands Alone" over the weekend. What a disappointment! Sure, I got a glimpse into the world that those stick-thin models you see on Trendz Channel inhabit. I got to know about the trade in Blood Diamonds too. And a few thought-provoking tidbits scattered here and there in the book. That's all!

But when I turned the last page, I realized that I didn't get much from it. :-(

If there is one person on earth who I am intensely jealous of, it is Kunal Vijayakar. Every time I watch another episode of "The Foodie" (Times Now, Sunday, 11:30am) I am green with envy as Kunal travels across the country and eats to his heart's content. And he gets paid for it too! Talk about having your cake and eating it too!

Presently reading Agatha Christie's "Hercule Poirot's Christmas". Here's a quotation I found on one of the pages that made me sit up and think - "The mills of God grind slowly"

What will you do if while driving on your way to work you receive a call on your cell phone and the person at the other end of the line asks for your help because she has been kidnapped? No idea? Watch "Cellular" and you will know.

Last week I had occassion to type the word "Feedback" on my cell phone and went fairly crazy doing it. Oh, I am one of those who don't like that Predictive setting so I have turned it off. The word "Night" in "Good Night" is equally annoying!

I am seeing the cars with the all-important-looking red/yellow lights on top - daily these days on my evening walks. Where are all of them zooming off to? Not to alleviate poverty, I am sure. Not to move heaven and earth to free people like Sarabjit, I am sure. Not to make life easy to live for common Indian, I am sure of that too. Then where are they rushing with so much haste?

To mint money of course! It's only 5 years for God's sake - and they are not enough for making money that is enough to last generations!