2005 ... The Beginning

May all good things happen to you in the year 2005 ...

May all your camels have the best of humps ...

May all your cows have the maximim calcium in their milk ...

May their be no cavities in the canine teeth of your lions and may they remain sharp all year round ....

May your tigers never lose their stripes ...

May your Leopards never lose their spots ...

May your spiders weave the best of webs ...

May your cobras spit the most potent of venoms ....

May your chickens lay the biggest eggs in your respective towns/localities ... May there be peace on earth .....

and May God bless you and give you a great new year ahead ..
Happy New Year everybody ....

Ring out the old and ring in the New ....

Hehe... I know the previous post was supposed to be the last post of the year... but then i thought why not one more... (this is last one, I promise).

Love You All!

Last Blog of the Year

Well.. this is going to be my last blog in this year. I'll be off & away from my PC next 3 days, and will get to blog only on 3rd Jan. I hope new year will bring better postings from me, I'll write better things, which will make more sense to me, which will make the readers smile, and which will make me grow my only most valuable asset ... i.e. my friends.

Yeah, In a small time since i started blogging I already feel friendly with some of the blogmates. I have met some very nice people, who help me think more and make me ponder about topics i never thought of. They are thinking people, they are fun loving, they have a beautiful mind. I feel blogging is also adding to my persona... I read various posts, i either agree with their thoughts or i don't (well.. isn't that obvious) and in this process i gain something.

Though I have very few regular people who visit my blog, but i would like to thank them all for contributing their thoughts. You all (Meta, Enembius & Shubhi) have a great grand new year 2005.

Catch ya folks in new year, which hopefully be more cheerful, more pleasant, more love-filled.

"Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah
Sarve Santu Niramaya
Sarve Bhadrani Pashyantu
Maa Kshchit Dukh Bhagbhavet"

May all be Happy
May all be Healthy
May all see Good
May No one has sorrows

Love!

I love TODAY!

I am so much happy..
I just listened to that same innocent, careless laughter which I was dying to listen to.... and i feel so good now..

There is something special about that voice, that smile, that dimple on cheek, and that laughter... let it always be like that.
I am happy.. I love myself... I love you... I love all...

One Good Thing About Today

It's Sweetu's birthday today...

Y Yay!!! Happy Birthday Dear Y

Loads of Love :o))

How it happened?

Checkout this Slideshow, it shows how the deadly Tsunami Waves invaded a Beach Resort..

Kahani mere Ghar ki...

Well... We shifted to this new apartment on the day of Christmas. Its so much different than the place where we used to put up earlier. The earlier place was bang in middle of Lajpat Nagar market, so many people around in the area, so much noice, traffic jams, honking cars ... by standing in my balcony i could see what an urban Delhi life is... We shared one wall of our house with a Gurudwara, and every morning i used to get up with the sound of chanting Shabad in my ears. Every thing was so much accessible, get down the stairs and you have every possible thing that you need to get on with life accessible to you. The best part was we could walk down to the 3C's movie theatre as and when it came to our mind and watch a movie without really planning for it.

On the contrary the new apartment is Bigger, better and being in Vasant Kunj... quieter. it's also getting tougher to maintain such a big apartment, the fact that its new, makes me feel guilty if i create a mess all over the place. The flooring of light colour tiles looks dirty if we become even a little careless. I dont mean that i like to be messy and dirty (like lot of bachelors do!), but keeping things always in shape and make them look good takes lots of efforts.. and even if I am not messy and dirty.. i certainly am lazy (thats why I love Garfield... I can so easily relate to it ;-)). The new apartment looks very empty since we do not have much stuff to put in, and it has set us thinking about buying some more furniture and all. more expenses!

I want to confess... I had nothing interesting to write.. so i just wrote all the boring stuff.... dont read or you too will end up disappointed with this post, as I am myself..

Give Relief

Check out these sites if you want to send some help to those who need it badly..

http://o3.indiatimes.com/primeministerrelieffund

http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/

http://ssrdatta.blogspot.com/2004/12/walls-of-water-ii-recap-how-to-help.html

Even as I was busy shifting to a new apartment in Vasant Kunj, and arranging things over this weekend, the nature has caused havoc in South East Asia including Southern part of India.. Shifting to new place and arranging things meant that we could not contact the local new paper vendor and the Cable guy. So in a way I was totally cut-off with rest of the world... and today I came to know about the dreaded Earthquake in Indonasia, which eventually caused 'Tsunami waves' and which has already caused about 6000 lives in southern part of India, and many more all over the S.E. Asia...
Aah!! I am having this very strange feeling ever since I've come to know this disturbing news. I dont feel good.
God Bless!

IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING

Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in the world they've been given than explore the power they have to change it.

Impossible is not fact. it's an opinion.

Impossible is not a declaration. It's a dare.

Impossible is potential.

Impossible is temporary.

Impossible is nothing.

- Taken from an Adidas Campaign.

SanDiego

Last Year in November i was in US. These are some snaps from my SanDiego trip.

nJoy!

Once More....

"apne hi pani mein pighal jaana, yahi baraf ka mukaddar hota hai...."
(to melt in its own water, that is the destiny of ice....)

Tamanna , Swades & 'Baraf ka Mukaddar'

Tamanna ... A special School for special kids. This was the first time I was directly involved with Tamanna's cause. The occasion was a Christmas Carnival for kids of Tamanna School. I manned one of the games stall which were put up for kids. It was great to see the lovely kids to whome God has not been fare, but still they have chosen to embrace life with its realities. It felt so great to see them competing on the game stalls, and to see the joy on their face when they won something and the momentorily disappointement when they failed.
They might be disabled mentally, but the emotions that were on their face were not disabled... expressions of joy, sadness and satisfaction which I could see on their faces was exactly similar to mine and every other human being, who by God's grace do not have any disabilities. All they need is love, just like i need, just like you need. Let the Love be everywhere.... Keep it up "Tamanna"!!!

We the People... that is what Swades is all about. I liked it, though the other two who accompanied me to the movie did not like it at all. The reason is clear... Swades is not an entertainer, its a movie with a social message. The movie seems too slow sometimes and lacks the grip to keep viewer engaged. Though SRK is superb in his role... very simple, very 'unlike typical shahrukh', without any over acting. Music is great and so are lyrics ..
My fav dialog from movie (people who meet me in next few days will have to listen to this dialog irrespective of its relevance.. hahaha):

"apne hi pani mein pighal jaana, yahi baraf ka mukaddar hota hai...."
(to melt in its own water, that is the destiny of ice....)

any thoughts??

Weekend that was....

Things I did over the weekend ...

1) Got up at 8 am on a saturday morning ... (oh! such a pain)

2) Volunteered at "Tamanna Carnival" organised for disabled kids studying at Tamanna Special School.

3) Watched "Swades".

4) Sipped coffee on the staircase of Ansal's plaza with Sachin and Shernaz (my future Padosan ... hehe)

5) Dinner at Haldiram.... Surabhi and Kaustubh joined us too

6) All of us just "heard" surabhi for next 2 hours... coz when she is around only she talks & talks & talks, and u cant do much about it.

7) Dropped Kaustubh at Railway Station at 1 o'clock in night

8) Died on my bed at 1.30 o'clock on saturday night and wasnt alive untill 10 am next morning

9) Perfect start of sunday with "chai" & sunday times

10) Reached nitin's place, for lunch (finally I made him invite me.... haha :D ), Shikha prepared some yum food.

11) Also met Mr & Mrs. Preetam at nitin's.. Preetam hasn't changed a bit.. he still hasn't lost touch with his PJ's :))

12) Visited Surajkund on a micro trip, spent few minutes there, not a bad place to go for a day's trip... ( I'll be back )

13) In evening struggled to find some good birthday cards from Archie's. Somehow managed to pick only 3 cards from GK and Lajpat Ngr shops. Sweetu's birthday is approaching :o))

14) Had coffee at "Mocha" for the first time... nice place.. worth visiting again.

15) Travelled some 160 kms on my bike over the weekend....

16) Ah! what a weekend :o))

Emerging 'isms' and Cows

I found this hilarious ppt on Economic Times... It talks about Emerging 'isms' of the new economy, and its analogy with 'Milking Cows'.

Three of my favorites 'isms' are..

MICROSOFTism
You have a cow. Force the world to buy milk from you. Spend a million dollars to feed poorer cows.

SUNism
You have a bull. It doesn't give milk. You hate Microsoft.

RELIANCEism
You don't yet have a cow. You sell empty cans to people for Rs. 501, because Dhirubhai wanted everyone to have milk.

To get a crashcourse in all the 'isms' have a look.. Click Here

WYSIWIG (What You SAY, Is What I Get)

"I wont say 'may you get whatever you wish for', coz i know what you really want"

Life!!! Love!!! Destiny!!!

Some Funda on "Life"

I had put a comment on Mae's blog... Today I read it again and kind of liked what i wrote... haha.. so thought of putting it here as well :-))

Read the complete Post with my comments right here.

Here is the part i wrote....

Your student has another name........"life!"

Life in its purest and raw form is 'absolute meaningless' and yet we try and find a meaning in it. It is 'strange' yet 'brilliant!'. It is 'the most creative' and at times 'destructively hyper' too.

Life has its own ways, which are often surprising and unjustifiable. Like the sound of piano when you play it with one finger, 'which allows sound to continue until the next note is played' , the Life is sometimes slow .... you can listen to every note, you can see every move and every step it takes ... every moment, every move, every step haunts you till the next moment, next move, next step is taken... And you cant do much but to be a mute spectator to each of these unending moments.... and then something somewhere happens, like a storm after lull, like a sudden high tide of the sea, and the piano starts playing so fast that you cant even locate the position of the finger, they do not push the keys one by one anymore, they just float over the keyboard making sounds that you never heard. By the time you get a breather, you find so much has happened in a flash .... days turn into nights, sky changes its colors and starts to cry and even as its crying, it laughs out loudly with lightening smile.. it all happens together, and it all happens so fast...

You find yourself smiling and then you notice some scars here and there... and the moment you notice them the smile goes away and you start feeling the pain.
And then you feel that you need to discipline it, for something which is so huge, so gigantic in itself, needs to be properly 'aligned', needs to be 'nurtured' to be 'creative' in true sense and not turn into something destructive and wasted away. if you can 'nurture' the life, derive some meaning out of it, you can certainly kick the ass.... else you get kicked instead!

Confusing? Meaningless? go kick some ass ;-)

A random observation....

1. Why do most men spit while doing what they are supposed to do in the loo..... ?
2. Do women do the same ??

call me crazy... but its the truth, any one has any reasoning?

Chitthi Aai Hai..

Finally today it arrived, what I have been waiting like crazy past one and half month. I dont know who is responsible for making me wait for 45+ days to get my birthday greeting card, which my sweetheart sent me ages ago... Is it the royal mail of UK or our own 'desi dakiya' from India Post. I had already lost hope and it was such a great feeling to hold it in my hands and read the words ..no, not just words.... feel the emotions and love my sweetu sent me from London. In the end I am happy that I received it, it doesn't matter who and what caused the dealy, it could not have arrived at a better time..

Thanks Royal Mail/India Post!!

It was when I was leaving for office today, when the guy in shop below my house asked me if the pink envelope that he was holding in his hand belonged to me. For a moment my heart stopped beating.. is it what i have been waiting for a long long time??? and yes it was!! next moment i had the envelope in my hand, and happily i started crossing the road to find my cab to office.... i was lost somewhere, and suddenly i realised that i did not notice the cab which was right behind me and the driver had been honking for some time to grab my attention...

for a moment i felt the same boyinshness in me, the same energy, the same carelessness which a 'newly/madly in love' has when he sees his girlfriends love letter. It's kind of crazy... but i thoroughly enjoyed that one moment of crazyness and carelessness. In the cab i started to tear open the pink envelope, and it was then when i noticed that there was another passenger in the cab with me, who was looking at me and the big pink envelope with curiosity. I said Hi! to him, and suddenly felt discomforting as I was unable to enjoy the moment in which i wanted to be all alone with my darlings wishes and love filled words. My actions slowed down and I opened the card, only partially so that only i can see what was in it...just like a kid closely holds his teddy bear so that no one other can take it away from him. There were two cards in the envelope, the bigger one, a lovely birthday card which also had a letter from my sweetu. while reading it my eyes became moist but the realisation that i wasn't alone made me stop there only....

The other card, which somehow reflected her true feelings for me... and believe it, the words exactly echoed what i think, that she thinks about me. I dont know if the card was made to order, coz it was perfect in describing the thoughts both of us are going thru... (another proof that I understand her so much, i even know how and what she thinks :-)) )

Sweetu, when you know that what you sometimes do is not reasonable, that it is sometimes insensitive towards me.... still why do you have to do it... ??
Why do we have to make things difficult for us, even when we perfectly understand each other????

I dont care, how you treat me or how you behave with me......... I LOVE YOU TOO !!

Hazaar Rahein..

while on the way to office today heard this song by Gulzar. I had heard the song before as well, but today it seemed different, as always Gulzar is superb in lyrics, but today the song touched me so deep inside....

I miss you...
kya jaane wale kabhi lautate nahi ? kabhi bhi nahi ????


Hazaar rahein mud ke dekhi
Kahin se koi sada na aayi
Badi wafa se nibhayi tune
Hamari thodi si bewafayi

Jahan se tum mod mud gaye the
Yeh mod abhi wahi pade hai
Hum apne pairo mein jaane kitne
Bhawar lapete huye khade hue hai

Kahin kisi roz yun bhi hota
Hamare haalat tumhari hoti
Jo raatein humne guzari marke
Wo raatein tumne guzari hoti

Tumhe yeh zid thi ke hum bulate
Hume yeh umeed wo pukare
Hai naam hoton pe ab bhi lekin
Awaaz main pad gayi dararein

Right here next to me

Right here next to me
That's where i want you to be
When i see you again
I'm gon'a hold your hand
And bring you right here next to me
That's where i wish you could be
I can't wait till i see you again

Happy Happy Day ..

I realise that most of posts on this blog have been boring, cribbing and dull, and it gives an impression that I am a guy frustated with ways of life... (thanks to mae's post .. i realise this fact)
I want to assert that it is certainly not the case, I am not bored.. In general I am quiet ok with the life that I am leading... though life is never perfect and there is always something in your life that you can crib about. I have a very decent life, I have loving parents, caring and lovely brothers & sisters (cousins included), great and bankable friends (a lot of them), and a wonderful girl who has filled my life with loads of love and charm (though we are in a fighting mode these days and both of us are sticking to our respective guns.... i guess these tiny disputes are an integral part of love life).

So now I have decided that i would not use this blog only to take out my tensions and frustations but also share the vibrant side of my life... I like writing .. though I've never taken it seriously enough, It gives me pleasure when I write something that is in there in my mind, it kind of opens my mind up and brings in freshness. That is why whenever i m upset with a thing or another, I write... i write and put all my mental conflicts in words and there I am, relieved from tensions. earlier I used to write these tensions and used to mail them to someone close, who would understand.. but doing that sometimes can mean that you are overloading someone else with your emotions and burdens.... I find blogging, a nice place for this kind of stuff though, i can write as much i can, i can feel refreshed and at the same time I am not troubling anyone else... isn't that great ....
it is this quest of getting rid off my tensions that makes my blog a rather boring one ... but as i said now i m gonna share all... not just the bad and sad but also the gud and gr8 in my life... :-)

well.. to start with, the past weekend was good, on saturday me n sachin visitied the new apartment we are gonna shift to end of this month, it was really good, and now we need a lot of stuff to fill that big apartment... (any one wanna help with gifts is welcome ;-)) I also advised Sachin to get married, that ways his wife would make his life much fuller, though that would also result in my moving out of that apartment and give the couple some privacy, that is why i just did not press him that much to get married, who knows if he gets real serious and decides to go ahead ... hehehe.. selfish me ;-)
Guests in form of Sachin's parents, Leen Di and then Baa kept me busy till tuesday...

now the coming weekend looks promising too .. On friday we have a company townhall... that means some presentations from leaders and then a lavish lunch at Maurya ..... gee thats one of the few elite hotels in delhi i've not been to yet.. the good thing is that we have an option to come back home post lunch and not go back to work... year end brings a lot of fun on work front ... nJoy...
The saturday night is gonna be even bigger ... as we have company's year end party at 'Decibel' ... so lot of fun, food, drinks and dance is gonna be there... am looking forward to it too...

Ready to Groove!!!

Forever and Always

I found this blog 'http://blinkmusic.blogspot.com' and it has some lovely poems, One of these poems perfectly describes my thoughts, my state of mind..So I am posting it here...

"Forever" by Steven Carr

Today i saw you
But you did not talk to me
I sat there and stared at you
And you never looked at me

I tried my best to get you to look
But you never saw one step i took
What do i do now
Where does this go now

I want to be there for you
Forever and always
I will be there for you
Forever and always
I care to much to let you slip away

Listen to me
I want to talk with you
I need you to talk to me
Please tell me what is trubleing you

When will you see
When will you look at me
I can't wait till then
But i got'a hold on till then

I want to be there for you
Forever and always
I will be there for youForever and always
I care to much to let you slip away

- posted by PnkPnthr

Skid..

The day started on a Injurious note today. As I moved out of my house this morning and I was hardly few meters away from my home, my motorbike skid on the road causing a minor injury on my knee. after getting up from the road I had a good look at the road, at my bike and i could not find any good reason why my bike would skid??? I was very slow, the road was clean, the turn wasn't sharp, till that moment i was totally in control of the bike.... and still a moment later my knee was brushing against road and right after that i was off the bike.
one might say that I am thinking a bit too much about such a small incident, may be I am, but when you are not going thru one of your best days, every small infavorable thing seems so negative. anyways after that incident I have not had any more negatives till now. and i hope the day passes by peacefully. I should have a all new n fresh skin on my knee in about a weeks time.
I sincerely hope that with the fresh skin I also get a refreshed heart and mind, and all outstanding issues get resolved. Till now there is no progress. In all the life is going on without any excitement on any front.
Though I hate to lead such a boring life, but still that is the way life is these days.... I need some action, some adventure, some romance, some love, some fun, some loud laughters, some innocent smiles, some wild parties, some peaceful moments of togetherness. But hows that gonna happen ? that is a BIG BIG question...