SHOCK

Have you ever heard of girls who would earn for higher research?? Sounds familiar right? I believe it is so but how many of us know that the drive to study turns most of us blind and we land up sometimees in deep s__t. I know of two girls in the novel Robin Cook wrote and believe me it is a SHOCK. Cutting-edge technology and personal greed converge in this spine-tingling novel of medicine run amok. Deborah Cochrane and Joanna Meissner, students and close friends, spot a campus newspaper ad that promises to solve their financial problems: an exclusive, highly profitable fertility clinic on Boston's North Shore is looking for donors. Deborah and Joanna figure they can perform a good deed in helping infertle couples, while earning some money for themselves. Although rumours surface of a fellow donor's unexplained disappearance, they remain undeterred and possibly don’t realize that the medical profession does have some dangerous affairs too which can affect even common man! The procedures seem to go smoothly, but second thoughts and curiosity prompt the two women discover more. Stymied by the clinic's veil of secrecy, Deborah and Joanna obtain employment there to continue their probe. Working under aliases, they soon discover the horrifying true aims of Dr Windgate's research, immediately putting their lives - and their sanity - irrevocably at risk.
The same effect as in TOXIN. And as usual he avoids too much use of technical jargon to make it reach common man…A must read

http://www.twbooks.co.uk/authors/rcook.html

The weekend was just fine. As usual not moving from my place for 2 whole days. Trying to fish for some good movie and TV programs resulting in indefinite browsing of channels. So saw awful as well as good movies, some of them that i would never even think of seeing. They include "Mein prem ki diwani hu", "Khwaish", "casper"(cuz the nth time), "hum aapke hai kaun"(again for the nth time), saajan, hadh kardi aapne, Bridget Jone's Diary(again a repetition but tooo good), and so on.......

YA this movie Khwaish was a horrible cheap attempted copy of Erich Segal's Love Story! My god! ask them how they got the heart to spoil the bestseller so royally! Bullshit. nothing else. Even the dialogues were utter copy of the 'such an awesome great book'. I mean cant they make a movie in a decent inspired way that at least uhave to try and think which book had that story?? Is it necessary to show off that u lack the creativity that a movie making requires??? Oh im sorry. they of course WERE showing their creativity in the lady's clothes. Phew!!!! utter stupidity....
Remember the dialogues in the 'Love Story ' where he calls her a bitch and she calls him a bastard? And the one when she is at his parent's place for the first time and he says that they need to go and she says ' We must stay back for the dinner'. He asks why and she says quitely 'because Im hungry!'.....
It sounds so light when u read it....here the two actors sound as if they JUST HAVE to finish off the lines of dialogues out....ABSOLUTELY NO EMOTIONS....

And of course I managed to see the IIFA awards in Amsterdam cuz i wanted to see AB square and Aish number...kajrare....phew. man they made u watch the whole thing bfore they could show u that 'coming up' song.....i was sick of seeing the word 'coming up'. Why do they have to tell u that its coming up when ITS NOT coming up????? or they must write 'cmoing up in 2 hours' so u do other things instead of making ur mom shout at u for getting glued to the screen. (although i know even she was glued to the other tv secretly ;))
Hey i wish Swades would have got the best film and best director award...anyway bye for now........

The monk who sold his Ferrari !

I read Robin Sharma’s “The monk who sold his Ferrari”. Man, I must say this man sounds more influential than the most powerful politician in India. He can change lives like that! I immediately went through his site (http://www.robinsharma.com). Very impressive. Maybe im getting too excited, but i guess the book had some magic with it. The book is a simple one giving you easy steps to attain a more powerful and meaningful life. I loved the sayings that he's used like "The purpose of life is a life of purpose". How many times do we think about such things. We are so entangled with our 'career goals', jobs, salary hikes, increments, certifications and stuff that we forget to get the certifications of our own life, hike our own life, health and most of all the mind. But the book makes you realize all that you are missing and wakes you with a thud on your head :)
The lawyer in this book who narrates the story and the one who goes through a brilliant experience in a fictitious place called Shivana are both common men. Thats the beauty of the book. A man who is highly under the pressure of worldly pleasures and is living a life of a burdened soul turns into a handsome, strong and enlightened soul ... A man whose goal was to earn 300 million dollars, changes into a monk who lives on what he calls as "Live food" !.

Infact the book is an experience. One cannot explain it in words. You should go through it. So ppl, thats not just one more book onto my bookshelf now. Its a new piece of treasure in my locker now.....