The adventures of Tin Tin

Something is very special about Tin Tin movie. It was planned long back by the three musketeers to watch the movie in big screen. However one of the musketeer missed Tin Tin by a whisker. It was a perfect day with good start early in the morning when we started to sathyam cinemas. It was just 1 day left in the countdown clock of my first time-all-alone-9000 miles journey. Its hard to pack all the things that I need. Because my need is the WHOLE CHENNAI, which is impossible.

I don't want to deviate from the current topic, so let me continue with Tin Tin Tale. As usual its an adventurous plot where Tin Tin's crew were rattling and tattling to uncover the secret of unicorn, the treasure ship. However, the movie was not a spine chiller one and the suspense ingredient was less than what I expected.

The storyline was crystal clear with no hidden knots in it. "This movie is a Indiana Jones movie for Kids" says Steven Spielberg. I wish to make a slight change to his statement - "This movie is an animated version of Indiana Jones where the characters are alone replaced", hence its not just a movie meant for kids alone. The movie beings in a market place where Tin Tin is attracted towards The Unicorn Ship's model. Once he becomes the rightful owner of the ship he is stopped by two other people who are also interested in owning the same ship. But this suspense essence behind this Unicorn didn't last for a long time. The ship had a secret scroll in it which when opened with two other similar scroll will be the map to a 17th century treasure. Soon before Tin Tin learns that one of other two scroll is already with Sakharine, he is been kidnapped by Sakharine's men and dropped in his ship. Snowy plays a key role in rescuing Tin Tin from the mob. While they escape from the ship Captain Haddock joins the team. This flight scene won many claps and whistles from the audience. The hallucination scene in the desert was also depicted well. Tin Tin cracks the puzzle step by step with the help of Captain Haddock who is the grand son of Sir Francis Haddock, Commander of the Giant sea vessel, The Unicorn. Now the trio marches towards the third scroll. Once Tin Tin succeeds in getting all the scroll there is breath taking final chase scene something like Tom and Jerry strip. Finally the movie ends up with the expected climax where the trio lands over the treasure place. In between Thompson and Thompson invaded the screen with their witty portion. Overall, I will give 8 of 10 for the movie.

"I am not sure when again I will be at Satyam Cinemas along with my whole bunch of beloved people." With this frozen thoughts I sailed my ship back home.

Anju

Deadly Hallow Hunt Again

In continuation to my previous blog posts here and here, let me write about my hallow hunt experience at US Consulate, Anna Salai. The VISA initiation was done through the corporate company where my man is working. It was just my duty to be there 15 minutes prior to my appointment time, attend my interview, get my Gate-pass stamped, fly my 9000 miles Final Destination journey and start my new life.

This time the lucky charm was totally diffused in each and every cells of my body. My appointment was on 4th Nov at 11:45 A.M and I had to be there at least by 11:30 A.M. The first right move for the hunt day was my dad's idea of booking a cab to reach my interview location and the next appropriate move was my plan of travelling along with my cool Big Brother. Both the combo worked on well though there were few fiasco like heavy rainfall, traffic over kathipara, hectic 2hrs journey to reach Mt Road from my place.

Looking like a totally drenched chicken, I entered the Consulate sharp on the gun time, en-queued myself in the security-check queue(not a big Q, just 2 ppl were before me). Its a kind of tight security check where they scan us head to toe electronically and manually. You are not allowed to carry any electronic gadgets inside the Consulate. Once I was done with the security check, I was given with a token number. Then, I was taken inside to a counter were my HDFC receipt and other Docs were verified, after which my finger prints were all scanned by a bio-metric recorder. I was then made to wait in a hall were the interview procedure was taking place. Each and every petitioner were called in accordance to their token number. I was just staring at the board were the token numbers were displayed. It didn't took more than 5 mins time for my token number to take a position on that board. The interviewer greeted me with "Good Morning" and a broad smile. I too greeted him back and gave my Docs folder to him. As mine is an H4 petition it didn't have any freaky questions. It was all direct obvious ones. One should see to it that your interviewer is convinced with 2 important pointers:

1. You are the real dependent of primary applicant or ur spouse. (It needs few supportive documents like marriage certificate, wedding photographs, photocopies of spouse's documents-Passport, Visa, Client letter, work permit, payslip, bank account statements, Tax forms etc)

2. You don't have any plans in permanently settling down at the US.

It didn't took more than 5 mins for me to get the desired two words "Visa Approved". I walked out of the Consulate in search of a telephone booth, called my lucky baby and drove back home celebrating the Hallow victory with everyone through phone.

So whats next? Its my 9000 miles journey. Stay tuned.

Anju