Started Writing a Diary in 2018

Having heard from many people that maintaining a diary is a very effective habit, I too bought one and as a resolution started writing my daily happenings in it and WOOHOO! I was successful in doing that!

I did find this to be one good thing to do at the end of the day and here I share my experience.

How I made sure I didn't miss writing:

I just kept the diary and a pen next to my bed; this way I had no reason to not write it and go to sleep. Also keeping it under the pillow could help as it would hit you when you are about to hit off to sleep forgetting this. P.S. In all cases, make sure that nobody else reads it.

What I wrote: just recall whatever happened in the day and start writing (it can be as minute as trimming your beard).

• the places visited
• people I met
• what I talked about in conversations
• things that equipped my mind
• and anything of relevance to that day

I got lenient on not necessary writing very crafty sentences and in fact, some of my entries just mention the keywords separated by hyphens.

This way I was able to curb down a lot of time and thinking process but gave my best covering as many things as I could in details. And let's be honest - as long as I can understand what is written it is going well; nobody else is going to read it.

Problems Faced:

There are days when I was not able to write things like when travelling or other guilty times when this got slipped off my mind. The habit picked up well and after a while, it became something I would look forward to doing.

Pros:

In that sense, it did act as a new tool to try new experiences and increase productivity. Somewhere it has become a daily evaluation of effectiveness and it does feel bad at the end of the day when there are not many interesting things to write as compared to other days when one whole page falls short to write things down. It also has changed my view to be more positive towards everything and has helped in tracking the progress with tasks and goals. The most fascinating thing was to realize that are so many things happen throughout the time and I really would have missed if I hadn't started writing a diary!

Catching Dreams -  I do get some weird dreams and can only recall till the time I search for the brush. Now that I had a diary next to me - I could record them. This probably means nothing but like some of them are so weird that they are funny, I just wrote my weird dreams with no purpose.

Above all, it is quite an experience reading the entries sometimes in my free times and remembering some memorable days like I often read the days I spent in Kerala in summer this year,

Now that the year is coming to an end I want you to think of writing a diary and if you do, let me know how it goes! Happy Holidays!

Reasons to Watch Bohemian Rhapsody in the Theatre

Bohemian - a socially unconventional person, especially one who is involved in the arts

Rhapsody - An effusively enthusiastic or ecstatic expression of feeling/ (in ancient Greece) an epic poem, or part of a poem, of a suitable length for recitation at one time

          The much-awaited biographical movie about the legendary British rock band Queen released in theatres on the 16th of November in India. The biopic is getting an amazing response all over the world and has seen amazing performances by all the actors; especially Rami Malek (lead actor in the TV Series Mr. Robot) who plays the voice of Queen - Freddie Mercury; the movie is directed by Bryan Singer some of whose works include The Usual Suspects (1995), X-Men (2000), Superman Returns (2006).

So here are six reasons why you should leave no chance to watch this masterpiece...

1. The Journey of the Band

The entry of Freddie to the band, the troubles that they face, the things Freddie goes through in his family and personal life is captured really well to their days of glory!

FUN FACT : Freddie was born in Zanzibar to a Parsi family from Gujrat; he spent most of his childhood in India and was schooled at St. Peter's School in Panchgani where at an early he developed his interest in music.

Some intense scenes show the conflicts amongst the band and all of what culminates to the music that became an inspiration for many other bands and artists like David Bowie, Katy Perry, Lady Gaga (Gaga in Lady Gaga comes from the Queen song Radio Ga Ga), Kurt Cobain and many others.

A still from the song Bohemian Rhapsody

2. The movie gives a deeper meaning to the songs through the story

The soundtrack of the movie features some of the greatest hits of rock music of all time! What were the events that gave rise to epic songs like Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You, Love of My Life, We Are The Champions and Radio Ga Ga.
It really is an amazing experience to hear all those evergreen hits that shaped cultures, people and eventually the music that we listen to now. The songs in the film have been recreated very well giving as a much closer resemblance to the original ones- be it their live performances and concerts or the official music videos.
A YouTube video where a guy compares their Live AID 1985 concert as shown in the movie.

Real vs Reel

3. The movie is inspiring in many ways

Have taken two mind-blowing dialogues from IMDB that are so effective in the movie.

John Reid: So, tell me. What makes Queen any different from all of the other wannabe rockstars I meet?

Freddie Mercury: Tell you what it is, Mr. Reid. Now we're four misfits who don't belong together, we're playing for the other misfits. They're the outcasts, right at the back of the room. We're pretty sure they don't belong either. We belong to them.

Freddie Mercury: Let's go and punch a hole in the roof of Wembley Stadium.

Brian May: Actually, Wembley Stadium doesn't have a roof.

Freddie Mercury: Then we'll punch a hole in the sky.

The highs and lows in their journey and how experimenting their works, fighting with the record executives, the personal life of Freddie and how it turned out to be one of the greatest bands of all time!

4. You will start loving Rock Music

Personally, I had listened to all of the popular Queen songs before watching the movie but after watching the movie I just cannot take off their songs out of my head. They surely find a place in my forever favourites!
And not just rock music, the makers have shown very well how essential music is to this world, why it finds a place among everyone's hearts and how much it means to the people who create it. Kudos on that!

The band members, Brian May and John Deacon will become your favourite guitarists, Roger Taylor will become your favourite Drummer and Freddie Mercury will be the best showman you must have seen in your life!

From the song - Somebody to Love

5. The Live AID 1985 Concert at Wembley Stadium, London

One of the most iconic shows of the band lasting more than twenty minutes has been recreated in the movie and it is simply amazing! This is the ultimate point of the movie that is highly emotional and shows how much everyone enjoyed them when the band was at its peak! This performance just left me speechless!

6. Length of the movie is 133 minutes

This movie is indeed worth all of your time for all reasons! Do not leave till the end credits complete as Queen hits keep playing from the start to the end!

This is a gem of a cinema and trust me, it was an amazing experience watching it!

As I coincidentally publish this post on the 1st of December, World AIDS Day let us remember Freddie Mercury as AIDS was the disease that took him away from us...

Ending this post by quoting my favourite lyrics from their song It's a Kind of Magic- 

"It's a kind of magic

There can be only one
This rage that lasts a thousand years
Will soon be done
This flame that burns inside of me
I'm hearing secret harmonies
It's a kind of magic
The bell that rings inside your mind

Is challenging the doors of time

It's a kind of magic"