The Thursday That Was

Last evening I saw Ice Age II. Since a lot has already been said and discussed about it in blogosphere, I will refrain myself to a few sentences only. Suffice it to say that I loved it even more than the first part. Simply because it was grander and larger than life than before. I specially love Ellie, the mammoth who thinks she is a possum. A huge salute to the vision, the concept, the script-writing, editing, execution...basically everything that went into making this film. Seriously, people who make animation movies are gods.
I remember reading this comment that had been made by Walt Disney at the height of his professional success, something to the effect, “Let’s not forget that it was all started by a mouse.” What a brilliant sentence to convey the fact that sometimes life’s most glorious successes come from the simplest of ideas. He then went on to discuss how he and his wife had had huge discussions about what the mouse should be called. He was in favor of some uninspiring name like Mortimer, whereas his wife’s preference was the name Mickey. Today we know who won that argument, and thankfully so.

Yesterday was memorable for another reason. I came back home to find a mysterious package waiting for me. Turned out to be three films...all part of a series that I had happened to mention to a friend, and that too very casually over an sms, as something that I have not seen yet but would like to in the future. So he just went ahead and got me those.
To him....Thank you so much! If you treat everyone in your life in this same fashion, then the world is indeed a better place because of you.