Celluloid is calling.. Where are you ?

A bunch of film buffs get together for a movie night ! And it is happening in Bangalore. The Roof Top FF just turned into indoors, given the flaky Bangalore weather. (plus lack of a good roof top – what a pity!). So if you are ‘listed’ J , the address where you’ll have to get yourself & your paraphernalia is:

No: 10, 2nd Cross, Shanthivana, (in front of the twin tower Lakeview Habitat, Hebbal)

Sahakarnagar Post, Near Hebbal,

Bangalore 560 092

The details on the event and route map to the screening venue are available on the event website . This is a dusk to dawn affair and will showcase both local talent and a few biggies. So just get yourself there, settle down and see it unfold - Catch you there !

And then there was blog!

(This will be my new home. For those of you who had access to my older blog, I’ll try to move a part of the blog pretty soon. Try not to be mad, until then) 

My friend came back from her business trip to Helsinki. I got a wooden all-purpose mug (I can’t make out what wood it is. But the wood is soaked and seasoned in coffee), an English translation of Moominpappa’s memoirs, a couple of Finnish wooden kids. All 7 Finnish movies I had asked of her to pick up for me seemed to be in stock ! Boy, my weekends are fully booked !! 

As the month pans out, it turns out to be a season for gifts !! Another college came back from a business trip to France. Sylvie (an ex-college’s wife) had sent tons of stuff, everything neatly gift-wrapped. The five-year old in me opened it… Some things in you never die.  The pack had some nougat, a music CD of Jacques Brel (I haven’t listened to any of his songs with the exception of ‘Ne me quitte pas’) and three French books: La vie devant soi, L’étranger and Les noces barbares. My French vocabulary is fast deteriorating.. I should get to Alliance Française before I lose all of it! Skyping with Sylvie could put a few things back on track. 

I buried my nose under my keyboard for a half hr today to pull up the Aki Kaurismaki movie reviews I had read couple of weeks ago when I made the movie list. The DVDs that came from Helsinki have only the Finnish title on it (Surprise, surprise) & I cannot remember the Finnish titles well enough to do Match-The-Following with the summary I had read. 

Have been thinking of doing some photog and printing a calendar to make money for a social cause. Would a wide angle lens qualify as a social cause, if I took picture of street children or the crumbling Bangalore infrastructure  :o) Well, on a serious note – want to turn in a few bucks towards education/child healthcare.  Thinking of a good photog theme.  Ideas anyone? (And on a even more serious note, I should spend more time with the camera before I buy another piece of glass) 

Got in touch with Maha Akka/Pandiyan on the scholarship programme at Alagappa University. Probably a visit to his BioChem lab and the much awaited trip to Kaanadukathan Aranmanai won’t hurt J I can feel the Nikon thumping.. Or is it me ! Just before going to bed yesterday night, it occurred to me that the ribbon sticker on the gift pack said ‘Plaisir d’offrir’. Giving is indeed a pleasure.That is the last thought I remember from yesterday.

My blog insight: Whatz with the brackets () that I seem to keep using ??  Does it interrupt the text flow?