The Pursuit of Happyness

On my way back to home from office on Saturday I dropped at a movie shop to get a nice movie. There were number of good movies so it was darn difficult to take my pick. Finally I decided to go for The Pursuit of Happyness.Wow what a BEAUTIFUL movie with an inspirational message of love and determination. Surely it has become one of my fav movies. Staring Will Smith and his real-life son, the movie is based on a true story of Christopher Gardner. The movie has some fine & touching scenes of father-son relationship and a man who struggles in his life to make his living. Will Smith gave his finest performance and he got an academy award nomination for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. It’s a must see……… 

Dialogues that Christopher Gardner (Will Smith) had with his son Christopher (Junior Will Smith) in the movie…………..

 Christopher Gardner: [to his son] You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you that you can’t do it. You want something? Go get it. Period.
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Christopher Gardner: It’s not “H-A-P-P-Y-N-E-S-S” Happiness is spelled with an “I” instead of a “Y”
Christopher: Oh, okay. Is “Fuck” spelled right?
Christopher Gardner: Um, yes. “Fuck” is spelled right but you shouldn’t use that word.
Christopher: Why? What’s it mean?
Christopher Gardner: It’s, um, an adult word used to express anger and, uh, other things. But it’s an adult word. It’s spelled right, but don’t use it.
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Christopher Gardner: Probably means there’s a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not.
Christopher: Okay.
Christopher Gardner: So, what does probably mean?
Christopher: It means we have a good chance.
Christopher Gardner: And what does possibly mean?
Christopher: I know what it means! It means we’re not going to the game.
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Christopher: Hey dad, you wanna hear something funny? There was a man who was drowning, and a boat came, and the man on the boat said “Do you need help?” and the man said “God will save me”. Then another boat came and he tried to help him, but he said “God will save me”, then he drowned and went to Heaven. Then the man told God, “God, why didn’t you save me?” and God said “I sent you two boats, you dummy!”

Pakistan Bounced Back

Its all over …..Pakistan won the match…..

So High five!!!! What an electrifying performance by Pakistan Cricket team. Afridi…THE GUY…. hammered the South African bowlers and his 74 for 31 balls were a treat to watch. He was too good both with bat n ball. I wonder y he didn’t get man of the match. Muhammad Yosuf and Yonus khan also batted intelligently. Azher mahmood emerged as confident and he bowled well and thus made his mark. He will be a good pick for upcoming world cup. Inzi is such a fine player but he lacks agility between the wickets…grow up dude ….run Inzi run Inzi …u can make it & reposition yourself.

It was darn heart wrenching when Pakistan lost the match against South Africa two days back. I thought Pakistan has zero chance for winning the world cup…..Bunch of twits…wimps….should quit cricket and opt for modeling ….. and today Im all out for my team. I know im being so typical but that’s the way the cookie crumbles. When someone play good they should be lauded but if perform poorly should get hell in order to shape their behavior.

Pakistan team exudes trememdous zip and is pretty pretty capable of beating any team provided players use their mind at the right time.

Hope Pakistan performs during world cup…….keeping fingers crossed…..

One World, One Family, One Festival

I had two back to back rocking trips to Dubai in the month of Jan. The trips were pretty exciting as I managed to see the 11th Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF) which revolved around the theme of One World, One Family, One Festival. From malls to Global Village to new film releases I thoroughly enjoyed the shopping & entertainment extravaganza.

The best part of the trip was visit to Global Village. We stayed there for 8 hrs and covered nearly all the country pavilions. The entire world came under one roof, from Sudan to Greece, in 8 hrs I saw the entire world. Also saw some amazing fireworks. I had my life’s best time over there.

But I also experienced two major probs in Dubai – one the massive traffic jams & the other expensive cost of living. Traffic jams in khi are nothing in front of the jams I saw in Dubai. We are far far better off. The jams on Sheik Zayad road and the road that connects Dubai to Sharjah were the worst I had ever seen. But the taxi driver told me that this prob would get solved in 2008 as subway making inroads to the city. Apart from jams the taxi fares were dent on one’s wallet.