| Review: Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna
Too long. Too tedious. And strangely plastic. No, this time, Karan Johar seems to have got the formula somewhat skewed. For unlike his earlier successful celluloid soap operas, the audience doesn't get to shed any real tears even though the protagonists keep crying. In all his earlier ventures, the characters would hardly need the tissues despite the heartbreak, heartache, heartburn. It was the viewer who'd do all the crying, sighing and tear jerking 'coz Shah Rukh chose to laugh while he died, Hrithik sashayed to bring his broken family together and Kajol played basketball to drive her dilemma - Salman or Shah Rukh - away. Naturally, we the aam janata couldn't bear the agony of these bravehearts and broke down copiously, while the box office jingled. But this time round, the rona-dhona becomes somebody else's business, the jolly good fella bits seem to be in short supply and the aam janata ends up feeling gypped.
Ways to survive esophageal cancer
A few days ago I posted about Cathy's EC Cafe. It's a webpage designed to help those diagnosed with esophageal cancer. In that post I mentioned one of the stories I liked on the webpage written by a six year esophageal cancer survivor named Barry Bokhaut. I decided to email Barry and talk to him about his experience and any advice he might have for those diagnosed.
I think Barry's story is inspirational and can help others newly diagnosed know that survival is possible even though the statistics look grim. According to the American Cancer Society 13,770 of the 14,550 estimated cases of esophageal cancer in 2006 will die of their disease. At the current time only less than 20 percent of patients survive five years.
Barry answered the question as to why esphageal cancer is so hard to cure.
It's making me sick
I'm suffering from PCO (Pharmaceutical Commercial Overload) and there is only one known cure, TVTO (television turnoff). Side effects may include excessive reading, stimulating conversation, listening to music and long walks or other forms of physical exercise that will cure most other ailments that are being discussed in drug company commercials on television. Whatever happened to the quaintness of the old "plop, plop, fizz, fizz, oh what a relief it is" of the Alka-Seltzer commercials? Now when we turn on the television we are inundated with countless ads for ailments that few people knew existed. It seems that most of these ailments cause, or may cause, or are related to a certain condition specifically affecting men. Given the current state of health care, it receives entirely too much attention.
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