Western Boyz!

Okay, so maybe I gush over Bollywood lads a tad bit too much. What to do? I'm a sucker for Desi boys. But that doesn't mean that the boys out west aren't cute. Hardly people! Hollywood houses some uber cute hotties and needless to say, there are days where I gush and swoon over them too. Hello! There are days where my favorites in Bollywood become like "ghar ki murgi, dal barabar" types and then of course, variety is the spice of life too! So who are these cutesy boys that I personally swoon over? Take a peek!

Jake Gyllenhaal
I have always thought Jake is one helluva looker - bearded or otherwise. But besides being incredibly hot (read: me is swooning and how!) he's a great actor and also politically active. I love a guy who stands up for something!

Ryan Gosling
Definitely one of my childhood celeb crushes! I remember loving Ryan Gosling as he played this despo-for-a-girlfriend character in Breaker High. Even then, at such a young age, I was just mesmerized by his sense of humor. And now, many moons later, he's cuter, more talented and still a funny lad.

Richard Gere
Forever and ever, I'll gush over Richard Gere. I think it's the salt-and-pepper hair that does it for me. Add to that the fact that he looks so freaking cute in a pair of glasses (my weakness in a man) a sexy smile, and I'm done.

George Clooney
Who on this planet doesn't find George Clooney hot? He's beyond hot and sexy. I don't even think I need to say anymore. As I normally say: enuff said.

And last but not least, Leonardo DiCaprio
I wasn't a fan instantly. No siree. In fact I think it took me ages to finally see what every other girl in the world saw in Leonardo DiCaprio: sexy and how! But now in every single film, I go va-va-vroom. Yes, Leo, suddenly I see!

In-Awe-Ception!

How on earth some people, i.e. Chris Nolan, director of Inception, come up with such an ambitious, innovative, smart, creative, enticing, gripping, intelligent ideas from is beyond me. Yes, it did require all those adjectives. After walking out of the cinema, I couldn't stop thinking and of course, make sense of a film that really has you puzzled. Ask me what its about and I really wouldn't be able to tell you. But it really is a Dream com true, pun intended. Inception is the kind of film from which every member in the audience comes out with a different understanding. That Leonardo Di Caprio and Chris Nolan are fantastic in their own areas of film, is a known fact; with Inception they only further prove that filmmaking is more than just an art.

Without spoiling the film, because it really is a MUST WATCH, Inception makes you think about your subconscious and what emotions lurk down there. More recently, I myself have been trying to bury issues that are now coming to the surface because my subconscious could not hold on to them anymore. We often repress emotions, situations and burdens that we don't want to deal with. Where do they lie? In your subconscious. For the most part, they lie there dormant but I don't think they can live there forever. Ultimately, you have to face those demons and clear your subconscious. What was most interesting is how your conscious holds your deepest darkest secrets to the extent that if you are an influential person, they could be extracted or manipulated. Fascinating!

Not a lot of people pay close attention to their dreams and according to Nolan, we have different layers to our dreams too. But how can you separate between reality and dreams? Whose to say we all aren't in one long dream -- in the last layer, put in a limbo which is impossible to get out of. But then, that layer is where you can make your own world, your own dream, your own life. And if that is true, then you know for sure that this is nothing close to a sweet dream; not my kinda dream anyway.

And lastly, if I had to have a totem, mine would be a small music box that played in reality but not in my lucid dreams. Come to think of it, I want one now!