In recuperation

So here I was out of hospital and thinking well a few days off drinks will be a good change and tried that as well; but me bing Guzzler, it didnt last too long..

BAD MISTAKE.

so after a few more rounds to the friendly neighbour hood doc; I decided to be off my name giver for a while.

Its been 3 weeks w/o one and I am pretty vella now; since now I up at 7 am even on weekends; and I can only run for upto 3/4 hours; I am effectively left out of all binges and the lot.

Thus the point of this post .. what do you think I should do?

Options -

1. Learn a musical instrument - violin, guitar (any other ... dont say piano and stuff .. it has to be somehting I can carry)

2. Enrol for a boxing fight and train for it.

3. Traveling? well not much can be seen ovre a weekend unless you know where to head and have someone to go with.

4. What other options?

I have lost my reading habit else that would have been a good option; and I read a lot of magazines anyways so not too keen on novels just yet.

The Must Watch Movie Of 2007

is not Bourne Ultimatum or Michael Clayton or No Country For Old Men

It is Juno!

The script has been written by a first-timer who is an ex-stripper. What more can you want?

The movie is about this 16 yr old girl who gets pregnant and then she decides to give the baby up for adoption to someone who really needed it.

And unlike other movies on such a theme, Juno is not about adopting the above setup and making it into a drama in which everyone becomes teary eyed and I am like why-the-hell-did-I-agree-to-watch-this-damn-movie-in-the-first-place (read Taare Zamein Par, which Adnan I havent YET watched; though one day I saw the ending and heard the song "Ma" - which was enough to make me watery eyed)

Back to Juno; the pace is brilliant; for the first half of the movie I was smiling all the way and then at the same time you could make out what sort of tensions might come up in the second part of the movie and they do; but the manner in which they come up you are like yeah of course you saw it coming. More importantly the manner in which they get handled are more like hhmm now I didnt see THAT coming in a movie!

I mean you expect shennanigans like people crying and ranting; nothing like that ... just the pace takes it on.

One more thing about the movie is that it hasnt tried to be larger than life - i.e. it has not tried to deal with "issues in general" - abortion, teen-age sex, adoption, divorce or anything like that which you could assume will be associated to a movie like this and perhaps that makes it so special.

Its just that - its about Juno - and not Women Power in general which a lot of movies do turn out to become.

I can go on a lot more but then I dont want to spoil the fun for you.

I think if you all like movies and havent seen this one you are missing out on something.