First of all let me declare something, I am a die – hard HP fan. But the movies have somehow left a void when I watch them. But then again, the analytical mind says, “Come on, it is not quite humanely possible to fit a 440 page book into just around 2 or 2 1/2 hours of movie”. Imagining things from a book is quite different when you see the actors actually portraying them. Well the first time I met Harry was in the movie of course :) The much hyped Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone released in 2001, when I was in class nine. I had to convince my mom that I would really watch an English movie (I was a kid and I didn’t watch much of English movies then!!) So I convinced my mom and asked her to take to me to the movie. After a lot of pestering, she yielded and we both went to the movie. It was then I met Harry – a cute lil baby with an old person (Dumbledore) leaving him at the foot steps of his aunt. My sympathy rushed for him, and after the movie, I instantly fell in love with the “Wizards”. And the last sentence that Harry says – “I am actually leaving my home”:D After that The Chamber of Secrets was released in 2002. This time my mom understood that I liked the previous one and so she took me as soon as I asked her. I liked both the movies because I wasn’t still introduced to the Harry Potter books then. After my class ten, came a time when I had loads of free time and finally I could lay my hands on the books. I got immersed in them and I fell in love with Hogwarts and The Wizarding World and Dumbledore ofcourse :) From then on, I got my hands on the books before watching a movie and it always left me unimpressed. I went to the movie s expecting more out of them but always came out disappointed. But I still go and watch the movies because it was due to these movies; I fell in love with the books. I must have read almost each one of the book at least ten times and whenever my mom sees me reading a book, for that matter any book, the first question she asks is “Is that a Harry Potter book?” And I give her my huge close-up smile :D That’s how I fell for the books. My bro still asks me, “Isn’t that for the kids?” And I give him a reply, “Everyone has a kid in them! :P” Will tell u more about my feelings after reading the books, soon……………

With the advent of the month of ‘Aashaadam’ – discount is the word of the month. People, especially the women tend to go on a shopping spree for the month of ‘Shravanam’! Being a gal, even I went for shopping with my mom and aunts. Going to different malls was a different experience altogether. All the behaviour depends on the price range of the items you buy. If you want to buy a ‘pattu saree’, then u are given a royal treatment, if it is a fancy saree, then u are given a VIP treatment and if u want to buy a normal or casual saree u are asked to wait and wait and take ur lot amongst a thousand such women who are looking for different sarees. And at the discount sale, u need not tell the scenario. People flock there and go on taking different things. When my aunts were looking at sarees, I had the leisure of looking around the shop and I could see some men looking after their children when the wives were looking at the sarees. The first thought that came into my mind was “Poor fellows!!” My heart went out with them. I mean why bring them when they are not interested? So that was the shopping spree. Though it has its own amounts of fun

Once upon a time, there was a dove named Diya. She had a small world of her own. From childhood, she watched different people, different beings, a whole new world out there. She always dreamed of reaching those new people out there and exploring the world. One day, she decided that the time has come to explore the world. So she set out, flying alone. She was happy and excited because finally, she could try to do things which she has always dreamt of. The excitement mounted and she flew hastily and then suddenly BANG! She didn’t understand what happened. The world was waiting there for her but she couldn’t go there. She tried again and again. Every time she tried, BANG! BANG! BANG! After many attempts, she felt unconscious. Poor Diya, she didn’t know that she lived in a glass cage. She could only see the outer world but it is not hers to do what she wants. Later in the evening, the boy who kept her as a pet saw her fallen down, took her to a vet, nursed her and put her back in the glass cage. She had to live all of her life in that glass cage, for, the boy never really understood that Diya wanted to fly high and feel the world. The boy thought that he was protecting Diya but never understood that he was stamping all her aspirations and dreams. This, in short, is the life of a girl. Every girl has a glass cage around her which she realizes at some point of time in her life. Realizes that her life is not in her hands but she lives in a surreal world where she thinks that it is in her hands!