SNAFU

SNAFU, Here is a crazy ass word for you. In short, 'I royally f***** up'.

Remember this?

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I am not in a much better state at the moment. Both my eyebrows now look as if they are running scared from each other. 

I am in a 'Joey' moment and AM not liking it a bit. 

Call me a lazy bum....I deserve it, for not getting up and plucking my eyebrows under better light. 

I have scant hair in my eyebrows and so missing a few hair at odd spots really makes me look scary, maybe I will get a job to scare the pants off little pesky kids, bwahhhha

Or I can join celebs....no eyebrow thingy was quite hot last year and I can start a new trend all together.

I usually pluck errant hair around my eyebrows and chop off the too long ones to bring them into shape. It was easier and cheaper in India, where you just hop into a salon and get them threaded by a beautician.

Lancaster does not have any salons that provide this service and even if they did, I am too much of cheapskate to spend precious moolah on it. 

So, I did what I usually do...I sat in front of the television with my beauty kit and started weeding away. The light was insufficient, but I with the usual over-confidence marched on to beautify my cranium. I plucked a few from the left one and then moved to the right eyebrow and shaped it with a too much enthusiasm and forgot to check back the status of the left one and crapstatic....I look WEIRD!

The end result is I, now have one eyebrow which looks like a fat caterpillar and the other on starvation diet. 

Check on me in a decade or two, I am hiding behind a veil till they grow back.

Till then, enjoy this

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Hachiko - A Dog's tale - A Movie Review

I love dogs and I am a sucker for all Dog Movies. I have never bawled my eyes out so much in a movie. This is was a real tear jerker and pulled at my heartstrings. I cried a few tears while reading 'Marley and me', but this movie is in a league of its own. It too is based on a real story. 


*Spoilers Ahead*

'Hachiko' or Hachi (DVD Version) is a remake of a Japanese film 'Hachiko Monogatari'. The American version is a bit different from the original story. It is about a college professor who adopts an Akita (Japanese dog breed) puppy wandering on the platform of a railway station. That is a beginning of an unbreakable bond between the dog and his master which transcends beyond the death of the master. 


Hachiko, during his owner's life, bade him goodbye each day at the front of the station and used to be there at the same place to greet him when the professor came home from work. This ritual continues till one day the professor passes away. He suffers a stroke and never returns home to where his friend is waiting for him.
After the professor's death, his daughter adopts Hachiko, who keeps escaping from her house and comes back each day to the designated spot in front of the railway station to wait for the professor to return. He becomes a stray, but never forgets to return to the station.
He becomes a permanent fixture at the railway station and attracts the attention of commuters who had seen Hachiko with the professor. They feed him during his long wait. After a decade of waiting, Hachiko dies waiting for his owner outside the railway station.
The loyalty of Hachiko brings a lump to your throat. It makes you sob like a baby and you feel like reaching into the screen and cuddling Hachiko. The movie has very few dialogues and the Hachiko's eyes do all the talking.


The actual story of Hachiko is some 80 years old. Here it is as provided by 'Wikepedia'.

In April 1934, a bronze statue in his likeness was erected at Shibuya Station in Tokyo and Hachikō himself was present at its unveiling. The statue was recycled for the war effort during World War II. 


In 1948 The Society for Recreating the Hachikō Statue commissioned Takeshi Ando, son of the original artist who had since died, to make a second statue. 


The new statue, which was erected in August 1948, still stands and is an extremely popular meeting spot. The station entrance near this statue is named "Hachikō-guchi", meaning "The Hachikō Exit", and is one of Shibuya Station's five exits.

The movie has been directed quite well without cluttering it with too many characters. The Hero is out and out the dog/dogs that play the character of Hachiko. Even the strong hearted will weep a few tears so, watch it at your own risk. A must watch film for the whole family.

P.S.: Oh, I forgot to mention, drool-worthy 'Richard Gere' is the professor in the movie. 

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