D-day.
D day corresponds to the unnamed day on which a military operation is started. Probably dreamed up by some theorist at Sandhurst. The world knows D day as the 6th of June, 1944 when a few hundred thousand Allied soldiers stormed Normandy and established a bridgehead on occupied Europe. D could also stand for Desolation. It could also stand for Drizzle. Which we could upgrade to Downpour.
So it was raining yesterday. Big deal. What is a little rain? But then, there is rain, and there is rain. Rain follows me around. On my more paranoid moments (usually on Thursdays) I imagine that I am turning into that truck driver in the Hitchhiker’s Guide who was followed by rain all over. I like a lot of rain as long as it comes down at one go and then clears up. I dislike the sky being overcast. It makes me feel mildly miserable.
So I started seeing “Ab Tak Chappan”, a hard hitting movie with Nana Patekar playing Sadhu Agashe, an ‘encounter specialist’ with the Special Unit of the Mumbai Police. And the DVD was so badly scratched that it refused to play for more than ten seconds at a go. What do these people do with the DVD, clean it with sandpaper?
So miserable again. So read ‘The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents’. And slept. Today is workday, midweek, Wednesday. Wednesdays are funny. I always go through at least one existential crisis each Wednesday. Finally figured out how to get the pretty software to talk to me. Ya!!
I never knew that Manoj Bajpai acted in Drohkaal. Got to go back and see that movie again. Also never actually made the connection between Severus Snape in the Harry Potter series and Hans Gruber in Diehard. Remember that famous line, ‘Now I have a machine gun. Ho Ho Ho’? Well, both by Alan Rickman. One great actor.
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