"The Cuppy cake song"

Just yesterday I was talking to a very close friend of mine and she told me about the “Cuppycake song” by Amy Castle which she recorded when she was about 3years old. The song goes this way:

You're my Honeybunch, Sugarplum

Pumpy-umpy-umpkin, You're my Sweetie Pie

You're my Cuppycake, Gumdrop

Snoogums-Boogums, You're the Apple of my Eye

And I love you so and I want you to know

That I'll always be right here

And I love to sing sweet songs to you

Because you are so dear

I am sure that many people have come across it and have seen the videos of this song posted on youtube. If not I would say go ahead and watch it. It is really beautiful. I liked it so much that I immediately Googled it up and found the lyrics and a site dedicated exclusively for the song. In the site her mother says she wrote the song for her daughter thinking of all the sweet names her parents had called her and sweet names she called her daughter Amy.

After reading this I tried to remember what were the sweet names my parents called me. My mother had a very weird way of expressing her feelings. She used to call me “Goobe” (which in Kannada means an owl) with lots of love. She used it so often that apparently when I was just about 2 years old I was convinced that it was my name and when some one had come home and asked me what my name was I matter of factly had said “Goobe”. That is the last I was called any sweet name. From then on I have always been called by my first name and I am sure this will continue. Am I glad and so thankful to my parents for it, else probably I would still be mistaken about my name.

"No Country for Old Men"

On Saturday, me along with a friend of mine went to watch this critically acclaimed and Oscar winning movie, finally. For those who don't know I am a movie buff. I am writing about it because was a great experience.

This is how my evening goes. I was utterly bored with nothing to do, which is not unusual these days to me. To make my evening my friend wanted to shop, so we went to "Wal-Mart, The Super Center". As usual when we go out we need to grab a bite, hungry or not. So there we were sitting in Mac Donald's eating fries, and we decided to catch a movie. My friend had heard about this theater which showed movies for real low price(no this is not the dollar theater). We reached there for the 7:45 show to watch "No Country for Old Men". The tickets were half the price. That itself had me excited. (You see I am still a student in the US and not earning!!!)

The movie was two hours long. But it did not get boring. Javier Bardem, I think has done a great job as a psycho killer. Many things in the movie impressed me. For one, I was surprised the way he kills (very strange). There is this one scene in which Tommy Lee Jones is talking to the character played by Barry Corbin in which he expresses his inability to stop the bad things that are happening around him and he not being in control of them ('cause he is the town's sheriff) to which Barry Corbin says that it has been happening for decades that people disregard their own fellow men and that he or no other person could do anything about it. This impressed me a lot for two reasons. Metaphorically speaking, this happens to every one. How much ever you want things to be under your control it does not, but still we do not stop and continue trying to gain control. The other reason being what the character of Barry Corbin said of getting hold of oneself, accepting that it has been happening and will continue to happen and that it is not in our control. The dialog has a sarcastic tone to it, which impresses me even more.

All in all a well made movie. Next in my list to watch is "Sweeney Todd". It has my favorite actor so looking forward to watching it.

Wanted to try out!!!

Everybody I know is into blogging these days and some of them have been for a few years now. I have read many; never thought I would be blogging too. But here I am. I have some free time on hand these days and also I am lonely and bored. Writing always helps. So that is why I have decided to blog. Lets see how regular I will be and how many thoughts I would be able to pen down.

Here goes nothing :)