Musings of an Idiot

Match Point

Today was supposed to be a really long day for me as there was supposed to be a guest workshop in the evening but it got postponed because of unavoidable circumstances and that meant I came back from work early. I decided to do some shopping for groceries, so that I could cook some Chicken Quorma and I was really surprised to see the number of school kids hanging out at the mall after their school. I felt sad for them - it is almost like they don't have anywhere else to hang out or go to after their school was done.

I am proud of myself because I managed to do a parallel park with my first attempt today. Usually I avoid parallel parking and drive till I find an easy parking spot. This is because of my irrational fear that I might damage the other cars which are already parked but today I found a free spot in front of the house which asked for a parallel park and I decided to give it a go (especially after the clear instructions from Benji on Sunday about how to do it). And yeah...did it the first time, so am pretty happy about it.

Since I was feeling so happy - I decided to take a walk across the neighbouring reserve {which is right next to our house}. I was a bit uneasy when we first moved into this new place because the photograph I took at night of the reserve looked kind of spooky, so taking advantage of my good mood I went to have a look at what was there and it turned out to be a nice and pleasent walk. So that's another fear that I managed to overcome today.


So I came back after the walk and cooked some Chicken Quorma and as soon as I finished it, I got distracted by the beautiful colours in the sky and off I went for a walk again. Here are some of the pics from that trip.

So yeah - it turned out to be a really pleasent evening. Ate the Chicken Quorma, which turned out to be really delicious - not hot but not completely bland either- just right. Watched 'Match Point' afterwards. It was a slow burn movie but in the end strangely satisfying. It had such a leisurely pace to it that you are kept wondering as to where they would take the movie but then half way through the movie it changes genres and turns into a thriller of sorts. My only complaint is that they should have made the main guy {played by Jonathan Rhys Meyers} more likeable, so that the audience could atleast be rooting for his character but nothing that he does or says really does that and you are left with a sense of bitterness about life really.

And I just had a massive deja vu - I always get thrown haywire when that feeling is so strong.
Anyway thats me for tonight.

Cya,
Amit

Labels: Food, Movies, Random

posted by Amit @ 9:25 PM