Musings of an Idiot: Behind

Sunday, June 04, 2006

Behind

I am feeling a lot better today - not sneezing as much. Most of the day has been spent in housekeeping again - vaccuming, cleaning dishes, washing. I also did some cooking - well, not really cooking since it was more of a semi-prepared meal. The thing with cooking Indian dishes is that it takes a lot of time to cook the base paste which will ultimately provide the taste for the dish and the problem I have with packaged readymade bases is that they all taste the same. Yesterday I found a new brand - "Parampara" at the local indian store and decided that I would give it a go. Hmmm...i cooked 2 seperate dishes: Chicken Hyderabadi and Nawabi Chicken and both of them taste different and both of them taste really yummy. I would highly recommend that you give it a go if you can get it in a shop near you.

I have also been shifting rooms, since I have decided to pay a little bit more and take up the bigger room which Greg used to stay in and the progress on that has been extremely slow as I keep running into pieces of past which I had forgotten that I still had and end up spending time going through them. Pieces I discarded - notes from my student year at South Seas; script development of 'Memories'; first draft of 'Memories' to name a few. Talking of 'Memories' - I found out today morning that it will be getting a DVD release in Australia on July 10th,2006 - it is currently listed at EzyDVD . So I was talking about shifting rooms - I also found my personal diaries which I had kept when I was studying at South Seas in 2003 and it was a really interesting read. It just made me realize that I have come a long way since my student years and it is always a learning curve with each passing day and each project. Anyway - I have moved half my stuff to the other room now need to move the rest of it and I will leave that for tomorrow.

I also watched a couple of movies - 'Ruby & Quentin' and 'My Architect'. 'Ruby and Quentin' is a french movie and was a good laugh and full credit to Gerard Depardieo - who pulls off the bumbling/clueless crook so well. The movie was fast paced and nutty and has some really good laughs. 'My Architect' on the other hand is a doco which is profound, sentimental, brutal, beautiful - all in one go. It is a son's search for knowing who his father was - it so happens that the son is an illegimate child and the father is renowned architect Louis Kahn. The documentary is a must watch as layers after layers are peeled away.

There is another documentary that I have booked for later tonight - titled 'The Omen Legacy'. It should be an interesting watch as it deals with religion, christ and anti-christ. I will leave religion and 'The Omen' till the next post.

I will leave you with a couple of pics from school on Friday when the students were installing the set for 'Honeymoon Suite' - a single camera studio production.