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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Excessive Use Of Slang

A very good friend of mine comes to town after a long time. Nothing has changed especially the way he uses that derogatory more than thrice in every single sentence. This I have found very amusing and hilarious to which I can’t stop laughing. We were out at Gahana Pokhari sitting on the edge of that circular pond and at one of those peculiar moments; he got an opportunity to enquire my current status. He caringly and worryingly started to suggest me, provided me tips to take my life to the next level and such inspirations. But the derogatory popped out of no where at regular intervals. I knew, he was in some serious mood to console me or inspire me but then again, that particular word which burst out of his throat was already making me laugh. I simply couldn’t laugh at that very moment but the topic we were discussing was in no way a topic to laugh at. I suppressed my laughter and finally the barrier broke. I couldn’t help myself from laughing when he used that derogatory.


Astonishingly, surprisingly he asked why I was laughing. I told him that the frequent use of that derogatory is making me laugh and I also suggested him to avoid using that derogatory if possible and if not possible, not to use it very regularly. He laughed and confessed to me saying that, “We have been in the free world after a long time, we haven’t talked like this for a long time and when I’m with friends I can’t control my language. This is when I am completely at ease, I don’t have to worry about words or sentences coming out of my mouth because you people are the only people who know me inside out and you won’t even mind my language.”


“Yeah you are right but then again the frequent use of that derogatory is really making me laugh and I can’t even focus on the subject we’re trying to discuss” was my reply. “Ok then, you stop counting the number of times I recite that derogatory after all I don’t know when would I be able to speak to friends in an atmosphere like this” came his reply. Eventually I had to give up on convincing him to avoid that derogatory and so we continued our talks but I had a real hard time suppressing my laughter. I wonder why other friends don’t laugh like me when people around them are excessively using that derogatory. I am the only one who laughs in those situations. Those words don’t irritate or annoy me but makes me laugh and which is why I am compelled to ask myself, am I insane or do I have the best sense of humor?

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels


After a real long gap, I finally watched a movie full of entertainment. There were a lot of talks regarding this movie among my circle which made me more curious to see it. The movie is directed by Guy Richhie and is based in England. It is basically a comedy drama in which four close and intimate friends named Eddie, Tom, Bacon and Soap get into big time trouble when they were forced into debt.



The four of them individually accumulate twenty five thousand cash each summing to one hundred thousand which they invest upon card game. Edie who happens to be a card magician is trusted to book a table in a local illegally run casino. The boss ‘Hatchet Harry’ tricks Edie on the table and thus entitles him to a loans of half a million pound. The side-kick of Hatchet Harry grants six days time to clear the debt. This is when the guys get into trouble. There is no way these guys could accumulate such huge cash and if they are not able to clear the debts, Harry’s men would take over Eddie’s dad’s bar, the character which is played by Sting.



So to get that huge amount of cash in order to save themselves from Hatchet Harry, they decide to rob a gang and the gang which turns out to be a savage, brutal and vicious looting and torturing other fellow businessmen. The businessmen of course includes drug dealer who have their own farm of marijuana in their apartment. In between the robbery, another vicious gang gets involved which is led by and afro named Rory. In the end, all the gang members are killed in the crossfire, the hitman who works for Hatchet gets away with a bag full of cash, the four of them also escape legal actions. The end is even funnier, when they all come to know the price of a pair of antique shot guns which Soap, Bacon and Eddie asks Tom to get rid of them by throwing them off of the bridge.