The Ten Day You Challenge: Post 8 Three Films

Sorry friends i's getting lazy at it so couldn't write out for the last few days on The Ten Day You Challenge. I managed time for everything else but writing out my next post seemed to be such a tedious task. :(:(
Anyways finally i realized I needed to complete this challenge. Here goes out my eighth post on my three favourite movies.



1. If Only

It is a very ordinary story, nothing very much special about it. But you are bound to fall in love with this movie the way it unfolds itself. It conveys a very simple message- Don't take your partner for granted. Show her all the love. Life's too short to live, so why waste it in grievances. Don't be too late in expressing all your love to your loved one. You got to make her feel special. If you are a lover of romantic movies, this one is a must watch.

2. The Boy in Striped Pyjamas


An army officer and his family moves to Berlin as he is Promoted to Commandent of a Nazi Concentration Camp. Bruno, his son is confined to the new house, and all the while he keeps missing his old house, his grandparents, his best friends. And moreover he is lonely, has got no one to play with and his mom restricts him from exploring the nearby areas by his mother. One day while looking out of his window he sees a small area occupied with people wearing striped pyjamas and bald heads or striped hats. He concludes that place to be a farm (but its actually Auschwitz) and asks his mom if he could play with the children of the "farm". His mother strictly restricts him to do so. But the curious child somehow escapes one one day and goes up to the farm. There he befriends a Jewish kid. The movie beautifully potrays the childish bonding and friendship between the two kids of two opposite camps in the times of Holocaust. This is one movie which would bring tears to your eyes.

3. October Sky

It is the story of a boy of fulfilling his dreams with nothing but sheer determination. He is the inhabitant of a place(read coalfields) where the coal mine is the only means of living. Every boy grows up knowing someday he too would be a miner. When this boy and his friends watched Russia launch Sputnik, they decided to make a rocket of their own, inspite of numerous difficulties. The story shows how they are finally successful in making a rocket which gets them the 1st prize in the National Science Fair. Its a beautiful story.

She wasn't the same again....

She wasn’t the same again,
Her life was all different now,
She was alone once again.
After her love, yet again, left.
She didn’t care how she looked,
Or do things she needed to,
Loneliness seemed to accompany her all the time,
And she kept forgetting things she shouldn’t,
Alone she was, but all the more vulnerable,
And all the time, she thought of the past, and wept.
They had been in love,
Truly madly, deeply.
But somehow,sometime later they fell apart,
Yet fate made them meet again,
And their love grew with the times
And when things were as good as they could be,
He left her all alone once again…
She wasn’t the same again,
Her life was all different now,
After he passed away in an accident….

This piece was a random thought.

Within the silence lies a many words unsaid,
In the blankness lies many a things unfazed,
In the run many of us are still unmoved,
In the journey of life lie myriad meanings untold.....

Lonely smiles and lonely tears
Over all these years,
Vying to survive alone.
Ebbing away emotions,
Holds me there.
Unmoved I may seem,
Reality, though,is very different.
Trying to escape solitude,
Serendipity of company is what I seek.

Beneath the Smiles

This is a Guest Post by Sandip Acharyya who blogs under the title " The Blogging Experience". Here goes out the post.

In last one year,
I learned to operate 3 critical machines scanner, printer, Xerox
I learned to use 3 high end softwares, Microsoft word, excel, power point.

I learned to staple, to punch…n to file….
I learned to use 3 great shot cuts…Ctrl+c….Ctrl+v…..Ctlr+s……

I learned to say three very imp words for professional life, yes sir, OK sir, i’ll just do that sir.
I learned to wake up early….to sleep late…n continue to work ….when I really wanted a quite sleep….

I learned to face Monday…to fight for 5 days…to wait for Sunday.…
I learned to give reasons to family frnds and relatives for not making phn calls, msg…n mails….

I learned to celebrate B'day...new year....n win of Indian cricket team...far away from loved ones..
In last one year….ppl say you learned…..u earned….u enjoyed….

But when I compare me with my self…I just sustained…..I just tolerated…..i just survived… for bucks
Few more than required to live…. that I never demanded. I never dreamed….
For convenience of family…to avoid blame of society…..to get tag of employment…..I survived.

I learned to rejoice…to be happy….n to smile…..when I already knew that I have got the wrong train.
I learned that life and dreams can never meet ….because when they meet both will loose their meaning.
In last one year….I think I learned to live…


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The 10 Day You Challenge : Post 7 Four Books

Well,this is my seventh post on The ten day you challenge. Finally the challenge is nearing its end. This ppost is going to be about my favourite books.I have a great love for books since childhood, but if i am to list just four of them it becomes pretty tough coz my fav list includes many of them. Still I'm trying to put down some of the best books i've read.

Here goes out my list:

1.Rebecca
-Daphne du Maurier
When I came across this book for the first time, i never realized that the old,battered book would remain etched in my heart forever. The book belonged to my friend's mom and it was pretty old. At that point I's voraciously reading all Sidney Sheldon and John Grisham novels, but just thought to read this book for a change. And once I started reading it, I didn't pause before I completed. I never came across a book where the male protagonist is a place(Manderley),the female protagonist is a dead woman and some unnamed charecter does all the narration. The expressions of a distressed woman who's tormented by the shadows of her husband's dead wife is just wonderful. But the best part of the story is the twist in it, something that's quite enexpected. I won't reveal any more about the story. If you love fictions, just dig for this book.

2.Memoirs of a Giesha
- Arthur Golden
It is the story of a giesha, working in Japan, before and after World war II. The girl speaks about her childhood, how she was sold away at the age of nine to an okiya(a giesha boardiing house) and from there the story is all about how her life turns out to be, How did she become a giesha, How was her life pre- and post World War II. Its a beautifully described story of a girl,her miseries, her journey from childhood to womanhood, Her struggle for existence, all about her life. I'm sure you would surely enjoy reading this story.

3.Shantaram- Gregory David Roberts
Gregory Roberts wrote this book while he was at prison, and amazingly, he had to write this book three times after prison guards trashed the first two versions. The story gives us an insight about the author's life. Its the story of an armed robber and heroin addict who escapes from a prison in Australia and comes to India. He settled down in the then Bombay, and starts living in a slum. As the back of the book says, "He established a free health clinic and also joined the mafia,working as a money launderer, forger and street soldier. He found time to learn hindi and Marathi, fall in love, and spend time over in an Indian Jail. Then in case anyone thought he was slacking, he acted in bollywood and fought with the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan....". And what i love the most about this book is the way it is written. And revisiting India through the eyes of a foreigner makes it an even more interesting read. The author has a classic choice of words and his expressions are beautiful.

4.The Hungry Tide- Amitava Ghosh
The story is set in the Sunderbans. It is the story about Piyali Roy, a young biologist from America who comes to sunderbans in search of a rare species of Irawaddy dolphins. Here accidentally, she meets Fokir, an illiterate fisherman, who turns out to be her life savior. As we go deeper into the story we find the subtle brewing of an unspoken relationship between Piya and Fokir, and both of them are powerfully drawn to each other. This story gives us a deep insight of the Sunderbans, its vengeful beauty, the plight of the settlers there and the political turmoils it faced. A beautiful amalgamation of political and personal insights, lovely read it is.

The 10 Day You Challenge : Post 6 Five Foods

The sixth post is going to be on five of my favourite foods. This one is going to be easy coz I'm not much of a foodie and the list is really short.



1. Fish : I'm a true bengali to the core wen it comes to fish. I simply love fish, in all forms. Hilsa, Prawn and Pomphret are my personal favourites. I like it spicy, I like it baked, and I like it cooked with lots of mustard and oil.
2. Sweets : Again like any other typical bong, i love sweets. Be it Roshogolla or Rosho Malai, i just gorge on them without even bothering for the extra calories gained.
3. Momos : Another of my favourite. I love the red spicy tangy sauce and the clear soup. And its easy on pocket too.
4. Chowmein : Be it the gravy or the hakka chowmein I love gorging on this Chinese dish.
5. Mushrooms : I love mushrooms in any form, be it pakoras, soup, or just as an ingredieent in any dish.