(This is NOT a review)

I have no idea what French Food tastes like & I’m not very keen to find out – but that doesn’t make one bit of difference to the fact that I’ve waited for Julie & Julia with bated breath for I don’t know how long.

The Master Print finally arrived in shops here yesterday.

To celebrate, Hubby got me TWO plates of AWESOME gol gappas & only someone who has pinned for Karachi type Gol Gappas for TWO years can imagine how happy finally finding some made me.

I have been pinning for the movie mostly cause as far as I know Julie Powell is the first person to get a movie deal for her blog. Yeah, technically, it is the book that has been turned into the movie – but the book is essentially based on the blog.

How heartwarming is it, to know that something as simple & approachable as a blog can get you all this?

It was great to see Julia Child in making – I do not own the legendary book , and of course haven’t seen her shows – but it is apparent why she enjoys the great rapport that she does.

So armed with Julie & Julia – a sajji from Bolan Sajji House – Coke & Coffee – we headed back home late last night. Hubby of course could not help rolling his eyes at the ‘sissy’ movie.

Post dinner, with steaming coffee & the blessed heater – Julie & Julia finally happened for me.

I AM itching to criticize a few aspects of the movie – but the truth is, it left me smiling AND I woke up happy. Both of which are enough to make me hold back any criticism & sing  praises of the movie.

Meryl Streep is wonderful as Julia Child. Amy Adams is not bad either but somehow, the blog voice of Julie Powell comes across as a little different. For example, the movie shows Julie idolizing Julia Child to a fault’ but on the blog Julie often had to say things like “So the moral is this: Julia Child is great and good and knows everything. But nobody know how to roast chicken better than you. Or me. As the case may be.”

Not saying she did not idolize Julia, just that the movie takes her devotion a few notches up.

I soo identify with so many things.

But mostly it is the fact that I remain the one who didn’t get it made like she was expected to – the one who never lived up to her potential. While friends move ahead & make a place for themselves in the world, I remain to date, nothing but a simple clog in the corporate wheel, with nothing to my own credit. How was it possible not to smile at Julie asking if it is normal to hate your friends.

Starting so many thing & letting them rot is again, something I can totally & completely identify with.

Uffff….. i wish I hadn’t written that – cause I don’t feel so happy anymore.

~Sigh~

I didn’t learn to cook anything though – I don’t know why I was hoping to – but it did give me a few ideas & the coming Sunday might just see me wrapping a marinated chicken in a pie  crust & baking it to a crisp. No Boned Ducks for me Thank You, I’m not that fearless yet!