A quick hello

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 5/14/2013 2:56:00 PM

'this post is for swati from the comment post... I tried calling up, but you did not pick it up, can you please give me your mail id if it is that important to talk!'

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Share Your Dabba~

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 5/11/2013 11:56:00 AM

'Something shared on FB that really touched my heart, unstoppable tears when I saw the kids eating the food eagerly... every child deserves a lot more than this!'

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Whats up

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 5/5/2013 2:14:00 PM

'So, after a long hiatus I am back. What is actually happening is... nothing really... I was kind of addicted to the TV/movie/book and FB thing to find time to blog.  There were a lot of times I kind of made these imaginary blog posts that I wanted to put on here but then dwindled away, busy watching all sorts of things...so what have I been doing...watching The Kennedys  TV series about the Kennedy Family and the curse of Kennedys.Watching Balika Vadhu, Madhubala without f(...)'

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Untouchable - The strange Life and Tragic Death of Micheal Jackson- Randall Sullivan

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 5/5/2013 2:06:00 PM

'well, you know my obsession with something I pick on and like OA says my latest muse is MJ.. found yet another bulky book on him and got it.. this one is better than the previous one throwing in an insight into a lot of things of MJ's life in a less biased way...good read'

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Movies Post :)

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 5/5/2013 1:17:00 PM

'Gundello Godaari:Art cinemaki takkuva, commercial cinemaki ekkuvagaa undi but must say captured the essence of life in villages very well.  Manchu Lakshmi has a very nice taste but the skin show of Taapsee is always a put off to me in any movie she acts,  I somehow find it very cheap and disgusting more than anything!  Set in the backdrop of floods in Godavari district is a story of a newly wed couple, who for different reasons get married to one another while they ha(...)'

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Atlas Shhrugged

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 4/11/2013 5:13:00 AM

'My first stint with Ayn Rand was 10 yrs. ago when my brother would not stop praises about "The Fountainhead" and to this day, it remains the only book that I never really got beyond the first page :-p. To me, Fountainhead is above my head :-p but of late, RGV (yup, another maverick like me) got me back to her and this time I chose Atlas Shrugged.God, she is one genius, a writer who thought ahead, predicted ahead, the virtue of selfishness, altruism, the political connect to what she(...)'

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Pent-up

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/29/2013 5:05:00 PM

'I have come to realize that the worse thing a loved one can do to another is NOT TRUST and make the other feel it. The feeling of mistrust, however minute it is, just throws me off into a tangent. Lack of mutual trust in a relationship leaves nothing there in it to even try to work on!Something which threw me off the hook a few years ago, I just hope I have the strength to tide it through... blowing a whistle on it ,does it help... got to see!'

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Gudla Veta - The egg hunt

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/28/2013 8:57:00 PM

'Everything is so commercially done out here in US, like the valentines day parents flock the stores buying goodies for school... or name it a day and you find the wares.. the latest is the eager egg craze and yes, as much as the kid enjoyed collecting the eggs, as much as the parents were eager for the pictures of the kid to be taken and stored, I still feel some materialistic tinge to it... or I am just plain crazy to enjoy those tiny little pleasures... hmmm!'

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Youtube Movies

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/28/2013 8:46:00 PM

'I am actually enjoying watching movies on youtube more than I thought... so it is a movie a day marathon these days, good quality ones mostly both print wise and content wise.  keep a movie, do the household chores :)... aadutu paadutu pani chestunte days are gone I guess, choostoo vintoo pani chestunte... :)16 DecemberTypical defense forces movie busting the revenue crimes in India, money in Swiss bank used to buy weapons to destroy India by Pakistani who is upset about his na(...)'

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Komaram....??? Puli

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/23/2013 6:11:00 PM

'I have not seen this movie earlier, but had some really crazy reviews about it... but now when I actually see it I feel nothing does justice to the comedy therein... Damn! was thinking that Balayya had patent rights for such crazy movies, PK gives him a neck-to-neck competition here...What made him do this movie?  It is like a caricature of PK... not even an enemy should do to that guy is my feeling... aa expressions enti, aa story enti, aa action enti... dialogues are good, fo(...)'

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Of biographies and net searches...

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/22/2013 8:48:00 PM

'of late, reading biographies, especially of those in showbiz and politics, I begin to wonder where all the hard work one puts in goes and when does this facade start, too many versions, too much of confusion... and whether it is all worth it.. and also looking at such tragic events, why dont others learn not to slip... guess, popularity gives the highest of highs and leaves one in lowest of lows once it is mishandled!I have been reading a good number of biographies of late and watch(...)'

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Unmasked, The Final Years Of Michael Jackson - Ian Halperin

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/22/2013 8:04:00 PM

'The first time I ever saw Michael Jackson was on cable tv, where they were showing his concert videos.  I did not really understand the crazy fans, the ones who were crying, jumping, screaming, running, total mania and chaos... after that I loved his song Heal The World.Then learned about him, his child abuse cases, weddings with Lisa Presley, Debbie Rowe, the kids, the divorces, the Neverland Rach and all those things but never really took a keen interest in him.  I was i(...)'

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Queen of Dreams - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/22/2013 6:24:00 PM

'After the super successful read of The Palace of Illusions, I have decided to pick another book of hers, yes it was indeed a good read but I am left with confusion on the narrating style...the mother is a dream reader (if that exists) and the way the daughter always felt shut from her mother's past in India, the country of her origin, she is never let into it.  In an accident, the mother dies and the daughter finds her journals written in Bengali, which the father agrees to tra(...)'

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Indira Gandhi, An Intimate Biography - Pupul Jayakar

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/22/2013 5:59:00 PM

'After reading the book on Sonia, me being me, made sure I go through a lot of youtube resources and google photos and pictures to see the timeline and incidents and about Maneka Gandhi and rest of the family, the facts and rumors and a whole lot of things.. so in that quest for the unknown which kind of keeps me going these days :), I pick up this book on Indira.Pupul is a friend of Indira personally and for her to write this would have been a challenge had Indira been alive when sh(...)'

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watching, reading - ??

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/18/2013 3:18:00 PM

'Have you ever felt that having subtitles for a movie is like reading a book in superfast mode.. 'cos when I tend to turn that feature on... all my eyes do is just pop down to read it as fast as I can :)... but still the reader in me prefers that to watching the onscreen action going on.. sigh!!'

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ting-tong!

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/17/2013 3:53:00 PM

'As usual, the sick, wheezy me back in bed with the back pain that seemingly does not go away.. just about a month of feeling getting back in track and things go back to square one... watching a lot of TV, saw Table 21, The attacks of 26/11.. loved them both, the first better.. second is a good taking but too much of dragging in Nana's modulation and long-drawn lectures rather than showcasing the courage of localites and policemen... on a lighter note, so final product after taking d(...)'

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Midhunam - Madhanam

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 3/1/2013 7:43:00 PM

'పూర్ణిమ చాల రోజుల క్రితం ఈ సినిమా చూసి వచ్చి, చాలా బాగుంది తప్పకుండా చూద్దండి అని చెప్పినప్పటి నించి చాల చాల ఎదురు చూసాను ఎప్పుడు చూడగలనా దీన్ని అని.. అందరు ఆహ ఓహో భరణి, లక్ష్మి, బాలు అంటుంటే కనీసం ట్రైలర్ అన్నా చూడాలి అన్న ఆశ చంపుకుని మరీ ఆగాను.   మా దేశంలో ఎక్కడైనా వస్తే వెళ్దామా అంటే మా పండు గాడికి సినిమా నచ్చట్లేదు, ఇంకా youku  లో పెడతాడా, youtube లో పెడతాడా, dvd  రిలీజ్ చేస్తాడా అని ఎదురు చూసి, ఎదురు చూసి చివరాఖరికి ఇవ్వాళ youku  ఉన్న లింకు పని చేస్తోంది అని(...)'

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Youtube Movies

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 2/27/2013 10:24:00 PM

'My latest pass time these days is watching telugu movies on youtube, searching for full movie.. the print is usually a very good one and I love watching it on TV, thanks to my smart Blu-Ray player ;) and ipad pair feature with you-tube in premium apps... (nenu kooda konchem konchem techie aipotunnaanocch ;)).SundarakandaA Bapu-Ramana movie, a making style of their own, dialogues of their own, Charmi the naughty girl, Allari Naresh the village all-in-one journalist helping her out ca(...)'

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The Palace of Illusions - Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 2/26/2013 5:41:00 PM

'This is one of the books I had been planning to read for quite some time, first I saw it in Rad's list and then started the search.  I moved back to India, had my own life to look after and then somehow the desire to read it kind of went down.  Now that I have an access to a good library, hunted it down and got it.  No, absolutely not disappointed at all the effort.  It has really made me sit up and read it in one go.I do not know how far it is true, this version(...)'

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The Other Side of Me - Sidney Sheldon

Author : Sree      Blog : Simply Sree...      Date : 2/25/2013 8:06:00 PM

'An autobiography of a versatile writer.. I did not know much about him, how he got into writing books and all that, to me he is one writer and when I read this book.. I got to know he has much more to him, a successful theater writer who started as a song writer, who got into movie writing, then directing and then finally into a successful book writer popular world over.I have not seen any of his movies.  I had watched his I dream of Jeannie on TV a long while ago but then I di(...)'

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