As promised…. here is the first post from our new home!

Mars aka Dr N Sain is interviewing me…. mainly because I politely asked her to! This is how it went down….

1) Describe your ultimate dream job. It could be absolutely anything, without fear of cashflow, morals or anything in reality – it is a dream after all.

In the real world – I am almost there with regards to my ultimate dream job. I work as a Software Consultant, and I get a chance to be involved in both high and low levels of detail with major financial institutions; I work with management, with developers, with back-office users – I don’t think there are many restrictions in the job that I do. I also get to travel from work, so it’s all good!

But that ofcourse is a boring answer – my real dream job would be a “fly on the wall”. I love observing people, I love listening to their thoughts, I love analysing their actions and being able to predict, based on their historic behaviour, how they will react when provoked; I guess some branch of psychology, or psychiatry? Definitely NOT Big Brother!

2) What qualities do you look for in partner/date/soulmate (where applicable)?

This is an interesting, and tricky one! There are ofcourse a huge number of qualities which one desires from a partner, but for me – the number one quality which I would look for is the ability to unconditionally trust me, and know that I will reciprocate. Let me explain –

I’d like to think that I am a very passionate person in life; I think I am a wholehearted person who gives nothing but 110% in everything. As a muslim, I believe in the interpretation (an open interpretation) from the books that it is the role of every able bodied man to earn the living for their family, and the role of the woman to raise the family. Ofcourse each one is supposed to compliment one anoher, and my description is a very loose one.

Now, before you go all up in arms and call the femist brigade, let me clear up one thing – not for one moment are either Islam, or I implying that women should stay at home and not work etc – hence the “open interpretation”. What I am trying to say is that, in any family model, there are “fixed” roles and expectations from each partner; being a guy, I want to fulfil my role in the relationship by having the confidence of my partner that I will  earn that living an make sure that there is roof on top of our heads and food on our plates, look after then in every situation, and if god forbid we get stuck in a pickle – my partner would have the belief that we will get ourself out of it. That is the level of trust which I desire from my partner.

3) What super-power or ability would you want and why?

If there was one superpower which I could have, it would be the ability to motivate and educate people consistently. I believe in the saying “Give a man a fish, and he will eat today. Teach him how to fish, and he will eat for a lifetime”. The saying is so simple but also hard hitting at the same time – too many people have the ability to do things, but just don’t have the confidence to push on; I would love to have that ability to help them cross that hurdle.

4) We all have a dark side. What would yours be? It could be in any form – a deadly sin, super-villain, etc.

If I were to have a dark side…. I would love to be a Heath Ledger from The Dark Night, or a Jack Nicholson or Anthony Hopkins – an almost sane-ly psychotic character. I would love to learn what goes on in their minds and what their motivations were. Remember – none of them ever portrayed or demonstrated greed, they were just almost schizophrenic in an attempt to dominate their surroundings.

5) Speaking of a dark side, we all have a price. What would yours be to kill an innocent?

Aaah! What a question! *looks around for the hidden psychologist* I’ll keep this one simple… it’s a no brainer…

There is no price to kill an innocent. If there was one, then I would have to live through the guilt for the rest of my life, and that life is not worth living. So if it was between someone innocent and I… well, i’d have to step out and face the music!

Here are the rules in case you want to tag anyone, or if someone wants to play off your blog…

1. Leave me a comment saying “interview me.” The first five commenters will be the participants.
2. I will respond by asking you five questions.
3. You will update your blog/site with the answers to the questions.
4. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions. (Write your own questions or borrow some.)

The last act of my weekend was to take my two of my cousins and one of my brothers to watch The Dark Knight. Teabelly has a decent review here too…. but get there after you have read mine!

The movie itself – pretty good I think; not brilliant, but good. The disappointment of the movie? Well, the 2 villains (yes, there are 2 villains (to my surprise)) had a higher profile and better performances than Batman. I also kept thinking that Rachel Dawes was played by Kirsten Dunst – of course it was played my Maggie Gyllenhaal from Secretary (that’s no disappointment in any way).

A lot has been said about the performance of Heath Ledger as the Joker. Michael Caine went to the extent of claiming that it was the best performance in a negative role that he had seen by any actor in his entire career. Actually…… I think he is right. He was too damn good. In fact, I would go to the extent to say that the movie has been held together by his performance alone. His character in the movie is definitely stronger than that of Batman. I don’t think I have watched a Heath Ledger movie before, but I think its a real shame that he is no longer with us. His performance was almost legendary!

MA (Changing Direction without my GPS) suggested Johnny Depp as a possible replacement for the Joker in a future sequel…. but I don’t think that Ledger’s performance could be matched. In the age of multiple sequels for any movie, I think that Hollywood should appreciate the performance of the Joker in this movie, and just draw a line at the end of The Dark Knight; the pinnacle of Ledger’s career one might say.

As for the movie – well as always, I won’t spoil it for you. It’s definitely worth watching, over hyped I guess, but it has a good plot, sharp dialogues by the Joker, and a wicked twist towards the end of the movie…. The second villain was totally unexpected, and adds a very good dimension to the movie. I must say though, the Bat suit was pretty disappointing; does anyone else remember the Batman series with Adam West? Now that outfit was something!

All in all a very good movie I think, but I really hope that there is no sequel to this movie. Now… go read Teabelly‘s review!