Jan 4, 2010
Pehla Post : Kya? Kab? Kyon? Kahan? Kaise? Kisne?
(श्री गणेश) : Right. Here We Go.
(Where): blogger.com
(Why) : So I have no clue why I am doing this; (well i do... but that seems to be the only way I could start writing :P )except that I need a place to ramble bout things, and am too lazy to write (and maintain) a diary (he he .. not that writing a blog is going to be easy.. or maintain), and that my friends are kinda tired of me writing them really huge long (and repetitive) mails and letters.
(When) : Officially, am supposed to be on "blogger" since... September.. i think (??) ... oh,, and i had a blog that i didn't know existed .. he he
(How) : All I know is recently I tried to sign up on blogger and realized I already have account (which, I remembered later, I had signed up to 'follow' my other friends.. (yeah i know "duh" ) .. )
and had a blog too (with a ridiculous name... not that this one's remotely good.... no really.. i don't get it when it comes to blog names.... * ...(Rambling 1 ...)) AND a blog (which I remembered much later) that I had created when I was experimenting with names. It had a name that was too lame even for me to accept, and so now I have settled for the less lamer 'kpm1111'...
(What) : I really don't know what (and how )I will be 'rambling' here about... but you can expect this blog to cover the following topics :
1. Funny stuff and anecdotes from home and office
2. My favourite entertainment - music, movies, TV (I don't really go to theaters and watch movies so am not that up to date. Same in case of music and TV. ill just rite stuff about things i like, or stuff i would like to recommend. CAUTION: this may also include Korean dramas and movies as am a big fan. Most people around me don't get it and tease me for it (Rambling 2...) .
3. Clever stuff that I find when am reading, my favorite books, Art and stuffs
4. Issues that (I think) are worth commenting on , Life in general
5. Well... anything else I feel like rambling on (he he)
(Who) : My profiles kinda incomplete (non existent actually) at this time, but I think i will update it soon enough.
But anyone reading this probably knows me.... so....
NOTE: '*' this is me rambling and going off tangent in the middle of a conversation. If you know me, you probably know I do this a lot. For the purpose of this blog and the sanity of the reader, I shall ramble separately, under different headings :D .
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Rambling Session #1
Rambling 1 :
Blog names:
I don't get it when it comes to blog names...
some people (no, lots of people) I know have such beautiful and poetic blog names (in the likes of whispers of the wind, rants on the roads, unheard voices, screaming silences, flowers of my mind, blooming springs, Of tangents and hyperboles, mango mood :P blah blah..(Note: many of these may not be blogs and may not know people who write them. I am just quoting the kinds of names blogs TEND to have.) no.. Now, I too want a really pretty/ clever name for my blog and I . Perhaps am not just imaginative enough but EVERY, EVERY name that I tried was taken. Even clever stuff like k-rants, a-musing and all kinds of names with all kinds of hyphens and apostrophes were taken. Man! am so unoriginal....
You have to pity me cos' my own name, and all (sensible) combinations formed by adding all letters and symbols before and after it were ALSO taken. So in frustration, I entered my usual ( and lazy) login name and viola its available and in that joy of seen green text that approves the name of my blog, i just clicked it... and here I am. With the most unusual and boring and lazy and pedestrian name like kpm1111.
(Hehehe... even the title of my blog seems so lame. God would have to make me an incarnation of दुर्गा माँ and provide me with 'n' number of hands to count the number of blogs that have titles with the words "rant" and "ramble" in them.)
ANYWAY.... (sigh) "whats in a name"... Lets get on with it.. जो काम करने आए हो, वह तो करो... नाम की क्या पड़ी हैं ....
I am here to ramble and thats exactly what I am gonna do. Ramble.
(On the lines of "Don't judge a book by its cover" am gonna say "don't judge a blog by its URL".... (how much do you want to bet that someone somewhere was cleverer and faster than me and has already quoted this)...... sigh...)
so lets get back to where I was....
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Rambling 2:
Korean Dramas :
but then, i find them very different from what I've been watching on TV (with the exception of some good and different stuff like "बालिका वधु" (which i used to watch until recently, it kinda got repetitive. But kudos to that show, it was the first of it kind - what i call social drama (too many shows of similar genre were launched soon after बालिका वधु, न आना इस देस लड़ो and अगले जनम मोहे बिटिया ही कीजो... but the writers I think couldn't refrain from entering into the family drama genre after a few months of running...), and the recently launched YRF-SONY TV section... (Rambling 2.5...) (FINALLY big production companies are taking an interest in TV ॥ esp after Bollywood so many 'not so good' years in the recent times , and after big Bollywood stars became more 'accessible' to the TV-watching-junta via reality show and quiz show..... )
P.s. There was an article in last week's magazine section of the Sunday newspaper , times I guess, saying similar things. Man... do I ever write anything first?
I think I'll talk about my Korea obsession in a separate blog. Am afraid it may get lost in my ramblings. It deserves an independent post.. but i just had to mention it now :D
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Rambling 2.5
(rambling within a rambling..???)
The YRF- Sony (Yash Raj Films -Sony) thing kinda reminds of the 9 gold channel (a one hour (??) slot in DD Metro years back that brought higher-quality-production dramas on Doordarshan. In the past 2 years or so... Some shows on NDTV- Imagine and Colors, and Sony too seemed ज़रा हटके). I watched a few of these YRF shows on last Sunday (Rishta.com (welcome "trendy dramas" and POWDER (kinda reminds me of "Sea-Hawks", not because it deals with substance smuggling, but the feel in general.. the action-thriller genre, is not one of my favorites, but I am liking this. Also reminds me of the old "उड़ान" on DD)) and I am liking it. It brings a fresh wave of production and direction style in Indian TV.
1. I don't know technical terms. But the direction and screenplay seem more real life like and because they are from a better production house, the acting and cinematography seem more of the 'movie' standard (not that many movies are good, I just mean they seem to have a better quality).
2. I don't know how long these dramas will run, but I kinda miss the old DD format of fixed number of episodes in a drama (11 or 12 or 16 or whatever). These dramas were usually completely shot prior to airing, which is why i think they seemed more complete and contained. But i don't think thats will be the case here.
I hope these new dramas have a fixed number of episodes so that their possible successes may not tempt producers to order extensions to their length and thus mar the story and the quality.
3. They get right to the point. Ever so often, on many serials, we have to wait for a week (No.. make that 2) to get to the actual storyline of the drama. Much time is wasted on the character introductions and their 'pitiful lives'... and then after the initial storyline.. all serials enter into the "plotting" and "make-heroines-life-miserable" stage. Sigh!
4. I really don't have very high hopes as the more you expect, the more disappointed you are.Besides, its just 2 weeks into the show...
I do wish they would have 2 hours airing time; one hours seems to less to keep me hooked (anything more than that would be too much...).
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End of Rambling Session #1
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Waah. I never realized this would run so long. So... I guess I do have quite a bit too say which justifies a blog... (???).., more, perhaps in posts later to come..
Until then..
ALSO: Am not very patient with proper punctuation. Though I shall try to be correct whenever I remember to. :D...
(Where): blogger.com
(Why) : So I have no clue why I am doing this; (well i do... but that seems to be the only way I could start writing :P )except that I need a place to ramble bout things, and am too lazy to write (and maintain) a diary (he he .. not that writing a blog is going to be easy.. or maintain), and that my friends are kinda tired of me writing them really huge long (and repetitive) mails and letters.
(When) : Officially, am supposed to be on "blogger" since... September.. i think (??) ... oh,, and i had a blog that i didn't know existed .. he he
(How) : All I know is recently I tried to sign up on blogger and realized I already have account (which, I remembered later, I had signed up to 'follow' my other friends.. (yeah i know "duh" ) .. )
and had a blog too (with a ridiculous name... not that this one's remotely good.... no really.. i don't get it when it comes to blog names.... * ...(Rambling 1 ...)) AND a blog (which I remembered much later) that I had created when I was experimenting with names. It had a name that was too lame even for me to accept, and so now I have settled for the less lamer 'kpm1111'...
(What) : I really don't know what (and how )I will be 'rambling' here about... but you can expect this blog to cover the following topics :
1. Funny stuff and anecdotes from home and office
2. My favourite entertainment - music, movies, TV (I don't really go to theaters and watch movies so am not that up to date. Same in case of music and TV. ill just rite stuff about things i like, or stuff i would like to recommend. CAUTION: this may also include Korean dramas and movies as am a big fan. Most people around me don't get it and tease me for it (Rambling 2...) .
3. Clever stuff that I find when am reading, my favorite books, Art and stuffs
4. Issues that (I think) are worth commenting on , Life in general
5. Well... anything else I feel like rambling on (he he)
(Who) : My profiles kinda incomplete (non existent actually) at this time, but I think i will update it soon enough.
But anyone reading this probably knows me.... so....
NOTE: '*' this is me rambling and going off tangent in the middle of a conversation. If you know me, you probably know I do this a lot. For the purpose of this blog and the sanity of the reader, I shall ramble separately, under different headings :D .
back to top
***************************************************************************************
Rambling Session #1
Rambling 1 :
Blog names:
I don't get it when it comes to blog names...
some people (no, lots of people) I know have such beautiful and poetic blog names (in the likes of whispers of the wind, rants on the roads, unheard voices, screaming silences, flowers of my mind, blooming springs, Of tangents and hyperboles, mango mood :P blah blah..(Note: many of these may not be blogs and may not know people who write them. I am just quoting the kinds of names blogs TEND to have.) no.. Now, I too want a really pretty/ clever name for my blog and I . Perhaps am not just imaginative enough but EVERY, EVERY name that I tried was taken. Even clever stuff like k-rants, a-musing and all kinds of names with all kinds of hyphens and apostrophes were taken. Man! am so unoriginal....
You have to pity me cos' my own name, and all (sensible) combinations formed by adding all letters and symbols before and after it were ALSO taken. So in frustration, I entered my usual ( and lazy) login name and viola its available and in that joy of seen green text that approves the name of my blog, i just clicked it... and here I am. With the most unusual and boring and lazy and pedestrian name like kpm1111.
(Hehehe... even the title of my blog seems so lame. God would have to make me an incarnation of दुर्गा माँ and provide me with 'n' number of hands to count the number of blogs that have titles with the words "rant" and "ramble" in them.)
ANYWAY.... (sigh) "whats in a name"... Lets get on with it.. जो काम करने आए हो, वह तो करो... नाम की क्या पड़ी हैं ....
I am here to ramble and thats exactly what I am gonna do. Ramble.
(On the lines of "Don't judge a book by its cover" am gonna say "don't judge a blog by its URL".... (how much do you want to bet that someone somewhere was cleverer and faster than me and has already quoted this)...... sigh...)
so lets get back to where I was....
back to top
Rambling 2:
Korean Dramas :
but then, i find them very different from what I've been watching on TV (with the exception of some good and different stuff like "बालिका वधु" (which i used to watch until recently, it kinda got repetitive. But kudos to that show, it was the first of it kind - what i call social drama (too many shows of similar genre were launched soon after बालिका वधु, न आना इस देस लड़ो and अगले जनम मोहे बिटिया ही कीजो... but the writers I think couldn't refrain from entering into the family drama genre after a few months of running...), and the recently launched YRF-SONY TV section... (Rambling 2.5...) (FINALLY big production companies are taking an interest in TV ॥ esp after Bollywood so many 'not so good' years in the recent times , and after big Bollywood stars became more 'accessible' to the TV-watching-junta via reality show and quiz show..... )
P.s. There was an article in last week's magazine section of the Sunday newspaper , times I guess, saying similar things. Man... do I ever write anything first?
I think I'll talk about my Korea obsession in a separate blog. Am afraid it may get lost in my ramblings. It deserves an independent post.. but i just had to mention it now :D
back to top
Rambling 2.5
(rambling within a rambling..???)
The YRF- Sony (Yash Raj Films -Sony) thing kinda reminds of the 9 gold channel (a one hour (??) slot in DD Metro years back that brought higher-quality-production dramas on Doordarshan. In the past 2 years or so... Some shows on NDTV- Imagine and Colors, and Sony too seemed ज़रा हटके). I watched a few of these YRF shows on last Sunday (Rishta.com (welcome "trendy dramas" and POWDER (kinda reminds me of "Sea-Hawks", not because it deals with substance smuggling, but the feel in general.. the action-thriller genre, is not one of my favorites, but I am liking this. Also reminds me of the old "उड़ान" on DD)) and I am liking it. It brings a fresh wave of production and direction style in Indian TV.
1. I don't know technical terms. But the direction and screenplay seem more real life like and because they are from a better production house, the acting and cinematography seem more of the 'movie' standard (not that many movies are good, I just mean they seem to have a better quality).
2. I don't know how long these dramas will run, but I kinda miss the old DD format of fixed number of episodes in a drama (11 or 12 or 16 or whatever). These dramas were usually completely shot prior to airing, which is why i think they seemed more complete and contained. But i don't think thats will be the case here.
I hope these new dramas have a fixed number of episodes so that their possible successes may not tempt producers to order extensions to their length and thus mar the story and the quality.
3. They get right to the point. Ever so often, on many serials, we have to wait for a week (No.. make that 2) to get to the actual storyline of the drama. Much time is wasted on the character introductions and their 'pitiful lives'... and then after the initial storyline.. all serials enter into the "plotting" and "make-heroines-life-miserable" stage. Sigh!
4. I really don't have very high hopes as the more you expect, the more disappointed you are.Besides, its just 2 weeks into the show...
I do wish they would have 2 hours airing time; one hours seems to less to keep me hooked (anything more than that would be too much...).
back to top
End of Rambling Session #1
***************************************************************************************
Waah. I never realized this would run so long. So... I guess I do have quite a bit too say which justifies a blog... (???).., more, perhaps in posts later to come..
Until then..
ALSO: Am not very patient with proper punctuation. Though I shall try to be correct whenever I remember to. :D...
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