Meh.

This is miscellaneous things off the brain of a girl who goes by the name Arthi.

Warning!: You may find me alarmingly boring.

You were warned. So yeah, that's it.

Sunday, July 22, 2012

The Dark Knight Rises & Other Stories

I never know how to start these things. There's always these great ideas in my head before I open the page and then when I do, Boom!, my ideas crash into an endless whirlpool of lost great ideas that can never be found. Sometimes I think people will discover the remains of Flight 19 before I retrieve half the ideas I lost to my own Bermuda Triangle in this little mind of mine. I'm blabbering aren't I? That's what I meant when I said I never know how to start these things.

Now I remembered! The Dark Knight Rises. It's a movie that, without sounding like those snub movie critics that I'd love to sound like, is yet another successful Batman venture of Christopher Nolan. Perhaps not as successful as The Dark Knight but successful nevertheless. For people already exposed to the Batman comics, the end was unsurprising. But for people like me, who have learned and loved the caped vigilante from only the silver-screen, the end was not only surprising but quite the joy ride. In a single line about the movie, borrowing from a movie critic, I'd say the movie was a fitting finale for the trilogy. If I were to add one more thing, just one, it's a movie that one must watch for the reason that it is one of the greatest superhero movies of our times.

I always lose track of my ideas somewhere in the middle of a blog. Somewhere between the start of the typing and the finishing of a line of thought, the other lines of thought hide themselves from my core and turn to their trusty whirlpool of great ideas where they will live for a long long time hoping never to be found by the light of day. Why, I shall never understand. Nor do I hope to. Sometimes in life things are just that. No questions asked and, of course, no questions answered. Like the Second Law of Thermodynamics, for instance, devout Christians will never get their head around the idea. No questions asked and no questions answered. Sometimes faith is what keeps the world running. Faith is what keeps your systems up and running. In times of great distress, faith is the light at the end of the tunnel.
Arthi

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

The Art of Non-Zen Meditation

Zen art of this. Zen art of that. Zen art of the other thing. Zen art of the most random thing on Earth. Zen art of motorcycle maintenance.

BRAIN FREEZE.

Non-Zen time.

Non-Zen Art of Living Life.

The Non-Zen art of packing: stuff it all in till bag will almost tear.
The Non-Zen art of meditation: Sleep.
The Non-Zen art of overcoming frustration: Think of the other Non-Zen arts.
The Non-Zen art of motorcycle maintenance: What motorcycle?

Hence, I bring you The Art of Non-Zen Meditation. Aum.
Arthi

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Book Review: And Another Thing... - Not for a fan of the original series

I'm the kind of person that is a big-ish fan of the Douglas Adams' outrageously funny 5 part series Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. So it was with a lot of excitement that I held in my hands a copy of the 6th installment 'And Another Thing...' written by Eoin Colfer as Douglas Adams.

Maybe it was because I expected too much of it or maybe it was because I wasn't able to digest the fact that another author has tried to replace DNA. Whatever the reason, the book was a huge disappointment, on so many different levels. I had to try so hard not to sleep after every 3 pages. It took me a whole of 2 weeks to read the book, in small parts sleeping off when it tested my will beyond limits and completing two other books in the duration.

The story in itself is not too bad. Actually speaking, it's quite alright. Speaking with respect to just the story, it was perhaps better than Mostly Harmless, the 5th book of the trilogy and the last one to be written by Douglas Adams. But even though the story is as good, Eoin Colfer fails in terms of the story telling and adopted method of writing. His method of writing closely (perhaps too closely) resembles that of Douglas Adams. At first it is mildly amusing but later on it tends to be a harmful irritant hiding the nice story to the reader.

Bottom-line is that this book is not for the religious Hitchhiker's fan. If you are not as big a fan of the DNA series, you may probably like this book. All said and done, this book can be read for the hell of it.

Arthi