Tagged and Tagging

Chain mails, chain smses and now a chain blog. My fellow blogger, Anish, has passed the baton to me and I've been obliged to answer the following questions:

Four jobs that I’ve had:

• Student
• Volunteer Aid at the Dubai Center for Special Needs
• Student
• Student

Four movies that I could watch over and over:-

• Crash (also see previous post)
• Black
• Armageddon
• I Am Sam

Four places I’ve lived in:-

• Riggae, Kuwait
• Chennai, India
• Dubai, UAE
• and either Montreal, Canada or Ithaca, New York next year

Four TV shows that I like:-

• Prison Break
• Lost
• Scrubs
• Married to the Kellys

Four places where I’ve vacationed:-

• Sentosa, Singapore
• Sun City, South Africa
• Jerusalem and Bethlehem
• Thekkady, India

Four of my favorite dishes:-

• Pasta Pasta Pasta with a lot of parmesan.
• Rib Eye Steak. Done well.
• The Molten Chocolate Cake at Chilis
• Seekh Kebab

Four sites that I visit daily:-

• eBaum's World
• Yahoo! Mail
• New York Hack - Blog
• Yahoo! Music's LAUNCHcast

Four Books that I’ve read lately:-

• Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts
• A Million Little Pieces - James Frey
• Hour Game - David Baldacci
• Angels and Demons - Dan Brown

Four Bloggers that I’m going to tag with this:

• Noor's Green Print
• Kim's Korean Crib

Sorry, but that's the only other bloggers I personally know!

Till next time then.

Crash

Every once in a while, you watch this movie that really gets to you. A movie that isn't just "Really Good" but instead "One of the best you've seen" I just watched the movie Crash and, oh my God, it was so damn good.

I absolutely loved it, but at the same time hated the fact that there is so much truth in it. No matter what setting you're in or where you're from or what color your skin is, people around you are judging you and expect you to behave in a certain manner due to stereotypes that society and the media have ingrained into our minds. We all do it. And, rarely do we acknowledge the fact that stereotypes can be overly exaggerated. Perhaps, it's because we, as humans, need some set formula or "expected result" to rely on. Anyhow, the movie has brilliantly shown how volatile a multicultural society can be and how complex human nature is.

Also, I feel Thandie Newton and Don Cheadle deserve a special mention for their wonderful performance in this movie. They were just purely brilliant.

Let's hope many more movies as profound and breathtaking as Crash are made. Every single scene in the movie deserved that Oscar Award! Make sure you don't miss out on this one.