I was watching a movie last day, Julie & Julia. In fact, I have watched it many times before, but something about the movie just keeps me wanting to watch it again and again. This film has all the “recipes” in the right propositions to make my taste buds sing hallelujah - a quite drama with nothing out of the blue or quaking but still feels real and moving through the two strong women characters played by Meryl Streep and Amy Adams
The movie is about two women living in two different times and how the one thing they had in common brings them together. How inspite of the difference in era they lived or the difference in the lifestyles they followed, they could relate themselves to so many things through the only one thing they both found love in; cooking.
Apart from the fact that the threesome of us (Julie, Julia & Me) loves cooking, the grades we are likely to get for our dishes would straight away eliminate me from the competition. I could stand a good chance if I am competing against Nicky or Athi (My sole companion at work and my best friend ever). But, cooking isn’t the only thing that makes me play the movie again and again. I love watching Meryl Streep and the role played by Amy Adams in the movie is just me. Even before actually watching the movie for the first time, I had uttered several dialogues in my life which Amy's character does in the movie. Well not until the last day did I notice a few other resemblances with the character. …Julie Powell (Amy Adams) is a blogger too. Well, that’s not it, she too thinks she has ADD. She is also married, living with her husband and working in some consultancy. She too had nothing exciting in life to look forward to until she started her special blog.
And further more catchy scenes of resemblances that I just couldn't let go was her meeting up with friends and the calls to her mom. Well, all my friends, thanks to the Lord above, have always loved me enough and more than I deserve, but what I could relate with Julie and me regarding meeting up with friends were both of us being the odd ones out in the group, the difference being in Julie's case, she was poor and as for me Orkut was the culprit. The other likeness was, just like her relationship with her mother, I too had little patience with mine.
When I and my friends used to call up such get together (almost 10 years back) half of the time mummy wouldn’t feel it safe for me step out in the world alone when there are so many chain snatchers and rapists on loose. And at the other times, when my mom gathers up some confidence and let me go, our get together meetings usually get drowned in the talks about Orkut. What could be more thrilling than discussing a friend from KG who knocks on our Orkut doors and drops a “Hi” once in a while? May be that’s the reason why I almost hate net working sites …well for the record, I do have accounts in a few, it’s just that I rarely pay them a visit. I, being PC- less those days, was a total illiterate in technology and had nothing much to do in these conversations. Well when the majority sticks with something it’s really hard to pull them apart and get their attention into something else, unless you have a very captivating communication skill to compensate. As to mine, I talked a little about this and that; mean while hoping and praying within that things don’t turn the Orkut way and inspite of my better attempts if they still do, I sat there gaping around silently sipping my milkshake and sometimes wondering when will I be genuinely a part of the awesome group and chat away about cool things like Orkut. Myself sitting in the great IT park of Kerala sometimes take time out to laugh at my old self that sat screwed up thinking that I was a loser coz I dint have a clue about the Net. At the same time, I can’t help feeling a little overjoyed about what happened to Orkut after Facebook took over the world. Hey, no offense to the Orkut fans eh.
Well let’s leave the haunting past behind and get into business. The point I was trying to make here is, the resemblances I felt with Julie that makes me watch Julie & Julia again and again. Well before Julie starts blogging she sets a deadline. The task was to blog her way cooking through the recipes of her icon Julia Child. (Julia Child wrote a cook book of French recipes for all the servant less Americans.) She had 524 recipes and 365 days. The reason why she sets the time line was because she never completed anything she starts. Just like me.
Well when I started blogging I thought this would be different, then again, I came to a halt that I completely ignored my figments for almost half a year. I wasn’t in any such earth quaking circumstances that could have absolutely prevented me from penning down a post, like I wasn’t kidnapped or run over or dead…well most of the times I was busy managing work and home and at the other times I was just lazy. But the positive point is the world is still surviving without my posts and nobody in particular misses it at any extent. That’s kind of a letdown and a relief at the same time. Why it is a letdown is self explanatory but why it’s a relief is because the other day I was reading a blog on someone who hates Chetan Bhagat, well I liked the blog it had good humor and language but he totally failed in taking care of the Chetan lovers who tortured, slaughtered and murdered him figuratively.
I would rather have no one comment on my blog, than have such a blog traffic just to bad-mouth you. But then as the saying goes; it is only the fruit-laden tree that receives the shower of stones from passersby
