Life is how YOU make it

Well, everyone must have heard it many times that Life is how you make it…. Well I strongly believe in it :-)


Because my life has been what I have made it… my life has been interesting, adventurous, full, complete, wonderful, beautiful, scary (at times when I don’t know how did I get in this situation ;-)), hilarious, happy, sad, disappointing, confused, thrilling :P but most of the times funny would describe it :-)

Well I am strongly stating this because recently I have encountered another of “the alchemist” experience.

Well as u all must know (though some of you who are not Harry Potter fans might have just ignored the posters and the trailers) that the movie “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part-1” is releasing on the 19th November 16, 2010 in India and worldwide I guess…. But South Africa chooses to be a little hatke…. They are showing preview shows on the 19th and 21st, and officially releasing it on the 24th November 2010. Really wonder why!!!!

Well, first of all, I didn’t know that the “Gauteng Film Commission” (that’s the film Committee in the state of Gauteng in which lies the city Johannesburg) has decided to only release “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1” on the 24th so I went on Friday the 12th, evening to the theatre so I could get tickets for the 21st as I am eagerly waiting to watch the movie.

I reach the theatre after a half hour drive. The theatre’s called Montecasino and its basically an Entertainment area with a Casino, theatre, 10 movie screens, coffee shops, restaurants, people playing music and basically one of the few places that’s gun safe in South Africa and open till late in the night (the other malls here close at 6 or latest 7 and carrying a gun here is for your own safety :-)). It is one of those romantic places where u see a lot of couples just roaming around or having coffee. Well I go straight to the ticket counter (I have the club card so have a different queue to follow). I enquire about tickets for 21st, and I get the weirdest answer from the lady behind the counter saying “well, you have to go and purchase the “YOU” magazine and ul get the tickets, Ma’am.”

When she said that, I certainly didn’t believe her and laughed it off thinking to myself what a crazy idea to sell tickets only when you buy a certain magazine. And to think of me as being foolish I dint even confirm with her or ask too many questions. I simply thought that she was having a really busy day and had gone a little insane on a Friday evening telling me to buy a magazine ;-).

Well anyways I took a ticket for “Life as we know it” for a Sunday show and then I spend the remaining evening wandering around and reading my book (I always carry a book with me and my recent favorite author is Nicholas Sparks) sitting on one of the benches meant for couples :P.

On Sunday, the 14th November I was very adamant to find out how do I get tickets for the Harry Potter movie show on the 21st. and so just before the movie “Life as we know it” starts I again go to the ticket counter and ask them the same question. Their answer doesn’t change a bit. The lady behind the counter still tells me “well, you have to go and purchase the “YOU” magazine and ul get the tickets, Ma’am.”

By now I was really exasperated and I asked her for a little detailed explanation as to why is it so? And after the explanation I was convinced that I wouldn’t get a ticket for the Sunday show unless I buy that magazine and come and show them some page clipping. Well I was pretty determined to get the tickets for Sunday, due to prior commitments made by myself ;-).

So I decided I had to get the magazine and bring it here. Well I had come to watch a movie and I just couldn’t go right now. so I watched “Life as we know it” and simply loved it.

After watching the movie I went to a mall and bought the magazine and then came back to the theatre to get the tickets. I gave them the page clipping and I got a pleasant surprise. They gave me four tickets which I could utilize to watch any movie and the tickets are valid till the 30th of November 2010. I was so elated and it once again made me believe “jo bhi tum dil se chahte ho, sach me, really, actually, who tumhe mil jaata hai” well this doesn’t mean god will give u everything u hope for… but it should also comply with “god’s will.” Well but still I really love it when I have such beautiful experiences in my life. It tells me “Life is indeed beautiful!”

The day arrives… it is 21st November 21, 2010 today and as the tickets I had could be utilized for any movie I arrive at the theatre at 9 in the morning so I can get the confirmed Harry Potter movie ticket (02:30 p.m). And as always I have another surprise for me ;-). The girl behind the counter gets me 4 movie tickets for Harry Potter with no seat numbers written on them. I again request her to give me confirmed seats and she tells me that the seats are on first come first serve basis. Now I am really in for an adventurous day. Well, but I know that I am determined to watch the movie come what may :-) and well the alchemist theory really truly works for me  and finally I get to see the movie sitting on the second last row with free popcorn and a fanta :-)

I should say I really am grateful to the “Gauteng Film Commission” to release Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1 a little late here so I could happily experience the “sneak preview” show.