A Japanese movie

Just finished watching Hana-Bi.....what a movie!!!....the first time i have seen stillness cause an undercurrent of emotion so strong I could not peel my eyes away from it......Takeshi Kitano gives an excellent performance in a movie where the humour, absurdity and suddenness of life is encapsulated in a moving tale of love and redemption........it is hardly noticeable as a yakuza movie.....The silences speak for themselves.......its like watching statues come to life in a sudden burst of energy and then fall back again to their musings......and the surrealist paintings by Nishi's partner Hireke are just as thought provoking......A ex-cop gives his dying wife a last journey of love while his ex-partner, now disabled due to a shooting that he feels responsible for, paints away the thoughts of suicide in his beach house......along the way a couple of policemen who reminisce the days of the two ex-cops and a group of yakuza's who are owed money play a perfect background to a beautiful music score interposed with large portions of silence that seem the hallmark of the film......the final segment is one of the most moving and touching endings to a film that has all the markings of a true winner.....the fact that it won many awards is a minor note as it encapsulates the Japanese way of thought and a sprinking of Zen in every frame.

I am Back!!!

Its been two years.....searching for answers, looking for meaning.......trying to figure out something I already knew......they say you find your path in the road you to take to avoid it....I guess I found mine on a starry beach (I don't know why all the great things in my life happen on a beach).....on an island with 10 girls and a camp fire between us.......I learnt the meaning of life that night.......I have been learning really fast ever since......its like I am growing up really fast.......This year is going to be a make or break year for me.....I know that......its my last chance at salvation.....and I want to record every moment of it.....The highs and lows.......everything......Let me start with what I want to accomplish this year:

• Become physically fit in a way that I am proud of myself
• Learn to drive a Car and get a license
• Learn to speak French and Arabic
• Make some robots again
• Read lots of books - Salman Rushdie, Rohinton Mistry, Amitav Ghosh, Margaret Atwood, etc....
• and most important of all - GET INTO AN MBA with a score > 750