I miss...

...my parents
...CUPA
...long gossip sessions with my mother after a relaxed lunch.
...my bike
...the dogs down my road who knew it was me no matter where they were hidden and when I passed by on my bike would all run towards me with such glee!
...eating pani puri at Victoria Chaat House.
...Bangalore traffic (surprisingly)
...my friends back home.
...shopping on Commercial street and getting the best bargains.
...the crowd
...watching a Bollywood movie in a theatre filled with the mawalis of the city sitting in Gandhi class whistling and passing rediculously funny comments on every scene.
...autorickshaws and the fights I used to have with the drivers over the rigged meter and the 2 bucks it charged more.
...Eloor library and the numerous book stores.
...hot idlis and vada at Shanti Sagar.
...national market and its galore of pirated cd's.
...the cafe coffee day outside bombay store.
...malleswaram 8th cross on the eve of a festival.
...the little ganesha temple within our apartment complex.
...home and Bangalore deeply.

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P.S.I love You

This is an extremely touching movie although slightly cheesy around the edges, but not enough to claw on you. It's the universal truth behind those emotions that deeply touch you. The movie opens with a young couple obviously in love fighting over some triviality and like all couples in love, they kiss and make up. Life goes on as normal and theirs is full of ambitions and dreams just like anyone elses. But fate plays a cruel game and Gerry (Gerald Butler) unexpectedly dies of brain tumor and the young widow Holly (Hilary swanks) is plunged into a void. The whole movie is about Gerry's sweet plan to ease Holly's pain and help her move on in life without him.

Every now and then she gets letters written by him before he died. Each letter predicts her state of sorrow and each letter pushes her slowly out of the vaccum. He plans holidays for her. He plans her birthday party. Whatever anyone might say, this movie is more than your regular "chick-flick". There is so much truth in that pain and that emptiness. She carries the urn with his ashes back home after the funeral ceremony and when she eats her breakfast places a bowl of cereal in front of it. She calls his phone again and again just to hear his voice in the answering machine. Sometimes, the silence and that void she feels seeps into you and you feel so helpless for her.

After a year of living alone, one day she realises no matter how much life and living there is to do, she is alone in this. Noone or nothing could replace her Gerry, not her mother or her cheery friends or the classes she frantically enrols in. One day rushing into her mother's store, Holly cries and tell her mother that sometimes the lonliness chokes her so much that she just can't breathe. The thing is she couldn't have put it better. Losing someone we love is such a hopeless, helpless situation. Life freezes with that moment for that person and yet it seems to go on as if nothing happened.

To love someone so much that you would think of them and care and provide them emotional support even after you are gone is such a heartwrenching thought. Aww! I don't care if it just got too cheesy to make some fondue, I loved this movie. Look watch it for Gerald butler if nothing else. He is one hot man worth drooling over.

Houdini, the dog!