“If this is justice, I am a banana”

I am an idealist. I believe that good should be rewarded and bad should be punished. Hard-working employees should get promotions and good-for-nothing average performing ass-kissers should get demoted or worse kicked out. People who stand up for what’s right should be lauded and the perpetrators should be given their due.

But, we do not live in an ideal world. Things do not happen as we want them to, they do not even happen as they ‘ought’ to. The ideal world is ‘how the world ought to be’.

But it isn’t.


Day after day, we see injustices take place, walk around, sleep on their desks, shout at us - in the family, in the workplace, in the train (yes! Even in the trains....ok maybe not), on the streets, in the courts, on campuses, around the world. Criminals going scot-free on technicalities or lack of witnesses, lazy government employees getting bonuses, corrupt and criminal individuals getting in to politics – not to run the country but to stuff their pockets. One look at the newspaper in the morning and whatever little hope or optimism you woke up with, dissipates.

“It’s twilight.”

The 2nd day of 2010. A lovely Saturday evening. A cozy carpeted living room. A sturdy coffee table in the centre. A board game on the table. Scrabble.

It was the time of the evening when it’s dark enough for the stars to be visible and yet bright enough to not have to grope your way around the house without the lights on. Twilight.

The scrabble game was fun. There was fierce competition with a ‘heated exchange of words’. Victory was sweet..for the victor.

The ‘WAGER’ (also the first word of the game) was that if I won, my ‘companion’ would have to watch the movie Twilight with me. And as I watched Twilight for the umpteenth time, I decided to give it some space on my blog.

I am what the urban dictionary would call a ‘Twilighter’ -     

 (image courtesy – Twilighter.org)

I am a fan of The Twilight Saga and am equally crazy about the movies. Now, that is.  At first, when I heard about this new rage ‘Twilight’, I was sceptical like most people. I had read a few things here and there about the book but did not give it a second thought.

Then, I got the opportunity of watching the movie ‘Twilight’. My boyfriend had the movie on his computer (no he didn’t download it. He never ever would) and so he passed it on to me in case I wanted to watch it (which he regrets to this day – quote unquote “Shift+Delete would have been a smarter decision.”). I was neither for nor against it, so I thought I’ll give it a shot. See what the movie is like.

And That is how it all started. I Loved the movie!

1.    The non-conventional take on Vampires (Vegetarian Vampires who only drink animal blood and Don’t turn in to creepy bats)

2.    A love story so enthralling with its innocence and chastity. (till book 3, FYI)

3.    The self-sacrificing lover (Edward, sigh!) that you only read about in Books...like this.

4.    Edward Cullen = Robert Pattinson (Sigh! Sigh!)

5.    Robert Pattinson = Edward Cullen (Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!)

6.    “What if I’m not a superhero? What if I’m the bad guy? “ – Edward Cullen