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There was a really annoying information glitch at work, since originally I didn't have any work marked for today and tomorrow, but last night after getting home from Old Schoolfriend (at about 1 a.m.) I noticed a text message on my phone from my team supervisor asking if I'd been informed that I had a shift today from 7.55 a.m.?
Well, that was the first I heard of it, but since my hand is still achy, first thing this morning I called the doctor for an appointment and made a brief appearance at work before the doctor, where my boss apologized a lot for the break in the information chain (she had thought that the resource services that plan our shifts had informed me abou the new shifts and they had thought that she had informed me...).
In the end, my sick leave was continued for about a week, since my hand is still aching. But to look at the bright side, I guess I'm getting a bit of an extra summer holiday on the side, since my proper summer holiday isn't until the middle of July. (This - writing long entries on my LJ - is exactly what I shouldn't be doing :P...)
I spend almost all of yesterday at Old Schoolfriend's having another movie night with her. We watched Andaaz, Fanaa, and The House of Flying Daggers (which I'd all seen already before), and in between movies chatted about all kinds of things. She made us sangria and we ate salmon/mushroom/mozzarella pizza for dinner.
I'm such a sap, since I cried again at the end of THOFD. Old Schoolfriend was laughing that it was almost like we had a theme, since both HOFD and Fanaa had a blind woman as the lead :).
Fanaa was interesting on rewatch, since this time I paid much more attention to Rehan's (Aamir Khan) actions and the struggle he had with his feelings and his mission - especially in the first half of the movie.
Kajol is gorgeous and I loved her outfits in this movie, especially the red churidar kameez she was wearing in the latter half of the film. Favourite songs were still "Chand Sifarish" and "Mere Haath Mein".
I'm probably overanalyzing the song picturisation, but I started thinking that the white section of the song with both Rehan and Zooni (Kajol) clad in white on wintery scenery and the boat on the river in the beginning was a foreshadowing of Rehan's death. The next part was the red autumn section with Kajol in a blood-red costume and the final part of the song was the midnight blue night-like part. So the song had funeral colours, blood-red and the night falling within it. Symbolic?
Well, a very beautiful picturisation anyway.
Andaaz is a light, very predictable timepass movie, but I like some of the songs and find at least the picturisation of "Rabba Ishq Na Hove" very amusing with both Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra wearing as little as possible and dancing around Akshay Kumar on the rocky cliffs :D. It was a fun moment when we noticed Lara's brief special appearance in Fanaa.
The ending is a bit preachy, and my friend was convinced that Akshay's character ended up with the wrong woman. Still, it was amusing enough.
"Chand Sifarish"
"Mere Haath Mein"
"Rabba Ishq Na Hove"
"Allah Kare Dil Na Lage" (also from Andaaz). Akshay doesn't seem to do much dancing, mostly he lifting the women in his arms or standing still while they dance around him :D...
Well, that was the first I heard of it, but since my hand is still achy, first thing this morning I called the doctor for an appointment and made a brief appearance at work before the doctor, where my boss apologized a lot for the break in the information chain (she had thought that the resource services that plan our shifts had informed me abou the new shifts and they had thought that she had informed me...).
In the end, my sick leave was continued for about a week, since my hand is still aching. But to look at the bright side, I guess I'm getting a bit of an extra summer holiday on the side, since my proper summer holiday isn't until the middle of July. (This - writing long entries on my LJ - is exactly what I shouldn't be doing :P...)
I spend almost all of yesterday at Old Schoolfriend's having another movie night with her. We watched Andaaz, Fanaa, and The House of Flying Daggers (which I'd all seen already before), and in between movies chatted about all kinds of things. She made us sangria and we ate salmon/mushroom/mozzarella pizza for dinner.
I'm such a sap, since I cried again at the end of THOFD. Old Schoolfriend was laughing that it was almost like we had a theme, since both HOFD and Fanaa had a blind woman as the lead :).
Fanaa was interesting on rewatch, since this time I paid much more attention to Rehan's (Aamir Khan) actions and the struggle he had with his feelings and his mission - especially in the first half of the movie.
Kajol is gorgeous and I loved her outfits in this movie, especially the red churidar kameez she was wearing in the latter half of the film. Favourite songs were still "Chand Sifarish" and "Mere Haath Mein".
I'm probably overanalyzing the song picturisation, but I started thinking that the white section of the song with both Rehan and Zooni (Kajol) clad in white on wintery scenery and the boat on the river in the beginning was a foreshadowing of Rehan's death. The next part was the red autumn section with Kajol in a blood-red costume and the final part of the song was the midnight blue night-like part. So the song had funeral colours, blood-red and the night falling within it. Symbolic?
Well, a very beautiful picturisation anyway.
Andaaz is a light, very predictable timepass movie, but I like some of the songs and find at least the picturisation of "Rabba Ishq Na Hove" very amusing with both Lara Dutta and Priyanka Chopra wearing as little as possible and dancing around Akshay Kumar on the rocky cliffs :D. It was a fun moment when we noticed Lara's brief special appearance in Fanaa.
The ending is a bit preachy, and my friend was convinced that Akshay's character ended up with the wrong woman. Still, it was amusing enough.
"Chand Sifarish"
Click to view"Mere Haath Mein"
"Rabba Ishq Na Hove"
"Allah Kare Dil Na Lage" (also from Andaaz). Akshay doesn't seem to do much dancing, mostly he lifting the women in his arms or standing still while they dance around him :D...