Music "la musique"

       Does this ever happen to you, when you listen to a song you relate to somehow, the manner or things in which you relate to it, those moments flash through your mind with the song still playing as a background score, your life's moments in flashes come across like a video with that same song playing as the soundtrack to it and you just sitting by summing it all up,by all I mean your experiences, your mood, the way you feel,all in the song.











There are better ways than just words to describe emotions and the most beautiful of them is 'music' - be it with lyrics or without, it gives you an exact idea idea of the mood setting, the feel of the surrounding, the things the musician is trying to express through this beautiful representative art.





        Sometimes when words are simply not enough to lay the correct amount of emphasis on the way we feel, like if you are sad, its just not enough to say, you are sad, you might just accompany it with the saddest symphony or may be even 'rock' may help you :) Another example might be of the song by James Brown - "I Feel Good" which would be simply incomplete if not followed by the 'tadada' music to express it in its full and utmost form.

         A beautiful melody perfectly gelled in with the magical words to describe the mood is just what is required sometimes to represent emotions the best, which is why we say that " la musique est le miroir à une âme" ie "music is the mirror to one's soul."




          From very simple statements or emotions or feeling like feeling good, love, soothing, rage, anger, to other more and more complex emotions and relationships can be composed through music.Its Fascinating to trace how music has so much power to express feelings. Music from a very early period has always been revolutionary in its nature and will always continue to amaze us by being so..... 

I solemnly swear that i am up to no good ;)

 Ever heard of the phrase " your reputation precedes you" , that's exactly what comes in my mind when i think of the what people in the big wizard world of J K Rowling think about Mr Harry Potter. I know its kind of late to write a review on the "harry potter" series because by now there's not much that can be said about the Harry Potter phenomenon  that hasn't been said already. Worshipped by kids, enjoyed by adults, this modern myth has become an accepted classic worldwide. Pull any copy of the series off a shelf anywhere in the world and you're holding magic.

   And there are probably numerous reasons for it. For every individual with a good imagination these books provide an excellent experience of a whole new world where the major cause of existence is 'magic', which is beautiful because sometimes you don't really want to read about the same old things that happen around you in the real world. The wizard world definitely offers you a great escape from the misery of the real world. But that's not the prime reason - Besides this out and out imagination it still keeps you rooted to the basic amenities of life like friendship, love and courage (as in the words of Dumbledore himself "love leaves its own mark").

        The character harry potter how initially starts off sympathetically as a male counter-part of Cinderella, living off on his cousin's old rags, with his little room below the stairs somehow ends up in a world where he is so mysteriously famous for something that happened to him when he was a year old and this continuously keeps up the mystery from the start. Drawing the readers more and more close to him is also the fact that how natural he is and how he manages to do great things at the end of every book, though like he always says modestly "with help from others" of course.

              The magic potion Rowling herself concocts starts solidly with Harry, a remarkably unassuming kid who's got "hero of mythical proportions" written all over him. He's courageous, clever and resourceful. He's got a special talent in the form of magical powers, and a noble and mysterious birth. He's wounded - a big one in myths - not just physically as evidenced by the scar on his forehead, but emotionally as well due to the death of his parents, not to mention a tortured upbringing by uncaring relations. But most of all, as was hinted right from the start, he's got one heck of a destiny.  All this comes together to introduce a character the reader immediately bonds with. You *really* want to be this kid's friend and hang out with him to see what happens.

        Another major essential element in this magical potion of J.K Rowling is the friendship portrayed between the characters and the fact which keep it so real is that no character is perfect, every one in the story makes mistakes even the famous Harry Potter. Every character becomes so real around you that it keeps you all the way in the story like Hagrid for example - despite his love exotic and deadly creatures, you can't help it but feel good about him. Even the character "Malfoy" that was truly depicted as a minor villain in the start makes you feel pity for him when he fails to obey "he who must not be named" (Voldemort) 's orders to kill Dumbledore.   

And to sum everything up its through out the simple yet extra ordinary writing style of  J.K Rowling that draws the readers in the first place. From the mystery of 'he who must not be named' to the subtle humor at times ,to every classic explanations of Dumbledore, the writer keeps us thinking of all the logical explanations for the deeds these characters do until explained later in the book itself. 

       Its definitely addictive and even though imaginary fiction yet bizarrely as close to reality as possible. And the books are definitely much much better than the movies. All that the movies do is confirm the look of the characters which  the author herself has done a fantastic job in describing. Though the movie even disappoint at that sometimes. (for example the Sirius Black the author describes is much more handsome than the one in the movie.)

"I wouldn't be surprised if today was known as Harry Potter day in the future - there will be books written about Harry - every child in our world will know his name."

Professor MCGonagall, first chapter titled "The Boy Who Lived"

Hopeless........

  Everyone reaches a point in their life when they think they have failed in every aspect of life, when they start to doubt their capabilities, when they find themselves at the nadir of the otherwise hopeless world which doesn't seem exactly welcoming to them. A point where every thing you have done before seems nothing and what you are expected to do now is either beyond your reach or is completely clueless. I won't say all people at some point in their life feel so but many of us do, and what we need at this point of time is a refill of confidence and support which only our friends and family can provide us with.
           At such a crucial stage of life we need the support of our closed ones, people who have known us from the start and who know the things we are capable of, who still have hope in us. A hope that says this is just a rough patch, you will get through it and strike again with all your might and eventually you can get whatever you want. We need people who can help us find out the path which we have so efficiently missed. Only such love and support can get us through this and help find the right chosen path for us.

            But what if you reach a low point in you life and people around you are determined indeed to make sure you feel all the more depressed and when you doubt your capabilities, they make sure you realize you have none. When the people you trust the most to help you come out of this situations are the people that discourage you the most. Tell you at all point that "you are nothing and we are all better off without you to worry about". Life doesn't seem any more fair and just leaves you with a choice to make - Either work double hard and try to convince yourself and others too of what you are worth of, or simply accept the fact that most of the people who know you the best, that includes yourself and your family, think you are worthless, what more is required to make it official- you really MUST BE a good-for-nothing jerk who has really let down everyone including yourself.              

what people see and what they don't??

        we live in a world where we are all hypocrite in some way or the other, not always in a bad way.

People like us are so insecure, they have a tendency to behave or do things in a way that would please the other person, it might not be in any way a characteristic quality of your behaviour, it might not represent in any possible manner what we as a person would tend to behave in certain circumstances. But it definitely is how the other person who may or may not know us, but expect us to do the same. Why? because we can't do everything right, and even if we have a notion to think we know the difference between right and wrong and our instincts will guide us to do the right thing, its not as angelic as we give it credit for.

         A lot of the times we don't speak the truth to the people we may actually care about because we know it hurts to accept the harsh reality at times but it is the right thing to do at the time. A perfect saint kind person's instinct will tell him to be honest and speak the truth which may also be the right thing to do at the time considering that at some point of time in the future the person will face the truth and that won't make him any more prepared than he is right now to face it.

        So basically the whole point here is there is no such thing as right or wrong and no matter what your instincts tell you, you can't always trust them to be true. The society runs with a balance of rights and wrongs, deeds that people do. Sometimes the thought behind it is so noble that all that should be taken into account is the thought and nothing else. So being hypocrite is the nice thing to do, if you have noble intentions for some one other than yourself behind it. 

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I am sorry do I sound sarcastic to you.....bite me :P

        Well its a strange concept but sarcastic people do actually have a lot more brains then the regular all so sugary coated sweet people and they are also the type that is safe to have around and fun too. People just should have some tolerating stamina and an awesome  amount of co operation when it comes to dealing with the side effects of them being around.                                                                          

I can prove this -

• Sarcastic people no matter how sore the reality is always present you with the facts (though not in the manner you might have imagined).
• Sarcastic people are the ones who see the world just as real as it really is,which may not be your idea of picture perfect. (although optimism may help sometimes).
• If one of your best friends is sarcastic, you can always look upon them for a reality check and may be a check on yourself too.(though keeping blind faith in ourselves is good too).
• 'Sarcasm' preferably 'wits' can be a great asset, at least those people have an opinion and a witty remark on every situation. (which may not necessarily land them in the wonderland always)
• Apart from the reality check, at least they take the pain to think enough to have an opinion on things, which easily makes them smarter from half the people who just keep a database based on what they know and never bother to tease a brain nerve to actually connect those facts.  

     Apart from the last point I know I have contradicted every other one but its to actually emphasis the amount of risk and pain that these people undergo just to think straight and different (more like correct) from others.                                                         SO this ones for all the people who are sarcastic or love sarcasm and to my top 3 sarcastic characters.

Confessions Of A SHOPAHOLIC - by Sophie Kinsell

I must start by saying I was completely stuck to this i finished it in to reads and i would say it was definitely worth it. The character 'Rebecca Bloomwood' was completely mind-blowing, she was frank to the point of absurdity which was hilarious. The author definitely has a lot of imagination and used it pretty well in generating this amazing character. The way she plans her shopping list out of the lottery money which she is so sure she will definitely win is just out and out funny. She has a great personality and people can definitely relate to her and see themselves thinking, not exactly in the same way i would say but definetely close.

The fact that she is a shopaholic makes it more and more familiar to girls and ladies to relate to her even sympathize with her with all her helplessness. But as in the end she gets it all right, and in a manner that was brilliantly potrayed as justice.

What i absolutely love about this book is though the all so simple language in which the writer has epressed Rebecca's whole thought process, from an emotion of dullness to excitement, from nervous to embarassment, everything is so real and so frank that you really get the whole picture of it as if its a neighbourhood scene with the victim being a person you know really up-close.

I also saw the movie and liked it but I am definitely more impressed with the book though in my imagination I had Isla Fisher playing the lead of 'Rebecca Bloomwood' and Hugh Dancy as 'Luke Brandon'.

Though the movie as bit diffrent than the book itself but i would definetely say the book was better as in most cases they are. And it was a fantastic read to go through. I could actually see mysely laughing at her situations, feeling bad of her and also learning from her. It was a GOOD READ.