So many things I got to say… (Pt. I)

I have so many things to write, I guess I don’t know where to start. So much has happened since I last posted a blog. First off, there was this huge fanfare for HPGoF. As usual, it took two sessions to fully understand what happened, and what were removed from the book. It was a bizarre experience. But it has been so long, I can’t remember the movie. I liked the part introducing Viktor Crum. Nagini was unexpectedly large. I knew the book described it as huge, but I never imagined it to be monstrous. Almost like a Boa constrictor. And to add on that, it’s had poisonous fangs. Of course there’s no such thing as poisonous fangs on the movie, but the story of HPOotP demands such fangs. So what was I disappointed about in the movie? For starters, I never imagined – may be I did not read right – that talking through floo powder would look like that, just a shape of face among red hot coal. I thought your entire head would be there, floating just above coal and looking out of fireplace, and certainly not above into chimney. Harry’s encounter with that Hungarian Horntail looks very exaggerated than the book. I’d have liked to see the Chinese firebolt being depicted in the movie. And yes, the ladies. Fleur Delacour certainly seems very graceful. And pretty too, but not as much as described in the book. May be no one in real world is as beautiful as described in the book, because Cho Chang, again a very pretty lady, comes short of what the author described in print. But again, what was that saying – beauty is in the eye of the beholder? I have to accept, the casting manager did manage to find some very pretty ladies, but why were the Patil sisters so… how to put it? Mundane? And that dress for ball? What happened to their fashion sense? It looked more like Indian casual dress than a formal one – as far as I remember it was pink Salwar-suit. Come to think of it, I think they looked more like two village girls walking around a typical Indian rural bazaar for some groceries. Then again, coming from me, it does not mean much.

So much about a movie that I watched in December. I don’t think I will do justice to the movie writing about it from what’s left in my memory. Furthermore I have few more things to write about. Now, many people have advised me to write in parts, at least post them in parts to the site. I am trying with this entry, but I am not sure whether this will work or not. Considering the fact that this post has been conceived with lots of little things in mind, I might. And I do have a bit of few more things to write about.

I have been involved in transcribing a few things. Actually it was an interaction program among commercial banks and central bank. As I had very little to do in office, I volunteered to transcribe the whole discussion. It was just over 4 hrs of recording, but … hoo boy… did it take time? At times, transcription of a 5 minute session took more than 3 hours of constant listening, typing, re-listening, retyping, and then some more re-listening and retyping. After about 2 months, first draft is over, and I still have to correct the whole thing in another couple of day’s session. So far I haven’t been able to start correction, not because of lack of time, but because of lack of enthusiasm. And if you ever get a chance to volunteer for any, and I mean any, transcription process, PLEASE DECLINE!!! It may not be pretty, but it sure is easy!