I

I is the lion

I is the wind

I is the sun

I is king

I is pink

I is blue

I is me or is I you?

I is dance

I is music

I is the girl who laughs like a lunatic

I is the voice

I is the words

I is the thoughts of the world

I is the cupcake

I is the cookie

I is the sister

I am the mummy

I is whoever you want me to be,

Your dream, your reality

But who is I, who is me?

I is all I want to be

Vote for me

I got an interesting message in my youtube account inbox. The following is the message..

Hey there!

I watched the video you uploaded and wanted to let you know about the Bollypop competition that Verizon and Saavn are putting on. It's your chance to be in a Bollywood movie!

You can enter the Bollypop competition by uploading your video to http://www.bollypoptv.com and clicking ‘join now’. Better yet, we can upload your video for you. Let me know if you would like us to do that. You can e-mail me directly at bollypop@saavn.com.

The entry with the highest rating will fly to India and get a role in a major Bollywood movie, so tell your friends to vote for you!

Here's a link to the contest's promo on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qhnzLAvDRw

Please feel free to forward this to friends and shoot me any questions you might have. Thanks and good luck!

Priya Patel
bollypop@saavn.com

So basically I decided to try my luck and have entered the contest. Now I need yor votes to hopefully get me closer to my life dream of walking in the path of my passion of dance. This is the link for my profile at BollyPop.com http://affiliate.kickapps.com/38708/madancer

My Dance Videos

If you want to enjoy my dance video you can check out the link below.

http://www.youtube.com/user/icharuamadancer

Feel free to comment and rate the videos

Welcome to Sajjanpur

Date Watched: 28th September 2008
Venue Watched: Prince
Watched With: Parents
Ratings: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: It is a nice movie with a real stroy. Village life and the characters are well potrayed. But there was a kick missing in the movie. However I loved Illa Arun's portions, especially the wedding part. Overall a enjoyable movie. The language might be a problem as it is typical village talk.

Shaurya

Date watched: Can't remember
Venue Watched: My room
Watched With: Me
Ratigs: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: Lovely movie with a real story and characters. The corrupt army officer is really repulsive yet believable. Love Rahul Bose in a strong role.

My Sunflower

Fascinating is the sunflower
Bright as the sun,
Whom it follows around

Standing tall and proud,
Drinking up the warmth
Be it in the open fields,
Or the pretty vase in my house

Fragrant it may not be,
But it has its own beauty

A natural wonder, a bright marvel
A creation of mother earth,
That is the sunflower

My Rose

http://wiphotographers.multiply.com/photos/album/4/Rain#12

Red as blood is my rose
Its fragrance filling this prose
Its beauty shining like a torch
Lighting up what I see not

My rose delights with beauty
Yet thorns too bite with cruelty
Kiss of my rose is purer then dew
Its touch is soft as silk

Captivating, seducing
Passionate and loving
My rose is what it is,
Simply a beauty

Wall.E

Date Watched: 6th September 2008
Venue Watched: Orchard Cineleisure
Watched with: Darren
Ratings: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: Really cute robot love story filled with "oww" moments. I felt the movie was too Bollywood filmi. It had the love story, the villian, the "poor guy", the "rich girl", the "social misfits" (who gang up with the poor guy and fight the enemy). Good date movie.

Khuda Ke Liye

Date Watched: 4th September 2008
Venue Watched: My room
Watched With: Myslef
Ratings: 5.5/6
My 2-cents worth: Really great movie showing both sides of a religion I personally feel has been over scrutinized yet still remains largely misunderstood. I love the weaving of the 3 stories showing different contexts of Pakistanis and Islam. I really really felt for Mary, Mansoor and Shohib. I hope some misconceptions gets cleared via this movie

Fire

Date Watched: 3rd September 2008
Venue Watched: My Room
Watched With: Myself
Ratings: 5/6
My 2-cents worth: A truely bold ad taboo breaking movie.. Even after so many years it remains shocking. The acting is superb. Each actor breathes life into the character. I was especially impressed by Nandita Das. Also the extent of lesbianism shown was shocking even to me. But a movie to be watched as it is as real as the person next to you.

My Body, Your Body

Creative Writing Poem 1.
Background on poem: Titled 'My Body, Your Body', the poem is about my body and your body. My body is my body but your body is the Singapore History Museum. That was all the brief we got. We were told to go to museum and use that as inspiration for the poem. So on Saturday I spent 2 amazing hours at the museum. The result of all this is the poem below. I hope you enjoy reading it.

My Body, Your Body

What is a body,
an object occupying space?
My body, your body both the same
Yet we differ in what we hold inside us
Me, I hold emotions and a life living
You, tales and stories of lives past

Bodies, yours and mine, are nothing without our souls
Just empty spaces waiting as moulds
My body, your body await the unknown
To give our existence a reason for being

Each day passing adds something to my body, your body
My body lives for the now as with time
Your body lives for the past as gone with time

Still I ask what is your body, my body?
An enigma with treasures hidden?
Or
Just an empty shell?

Creative Writing Class

So one of the 4 classes I am taking this semester is Creative Writing. It is quite a contrast to my accounting modules. But hey I am not complaining. The class is relaxed with the professor super chilled out. He is the some what famous Singapore author Kirpal Singh. He is kinda witty and wacky and very liberal.

Anyways for this class I will have to write a collection of 10 poems. Each week Kirpal Singh would give us the title and basic background to the poem. We are then required to pull out a poem from the air (or where ever else we do)..

I will be posting these poems here.. Do leave your comments and critics. I am not a professional and I am certainly not a technical poet. I just write from the heart.

Gates to Buckingham Palace

Gates to Buckingham Palace, originally uploaded by madancer.

I took this photo on my first trip to Buckingham Palace. It was an accidental visit meant for Hyde park. Fortunately the weather that day was gorgeous. It actually felt like summer!

Looking at this photos makes me think of the Pearly gates of heaven.. Well either ways I love this shot. The sky looks amazing and the ornateness of the gate can be appreciated.