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28/02/08

aur pyaar ho gaya !!!

Bhai, mujhe pyaar ho gaya hai...

Abe phir !!! abhi pichle hafte wali ka kya hua?

Bhai, usne after that day skirt hi nai pehni... pyaar sab dhak gaya mera !!!

Tum BC... sirf badan se pyaar karte ho...

Par bhai, aatma dikhti nai hai.. sirf body hi dikhti hai...

Ya right... ab? ab kya dikha..

Bhai, uska chehra ghoom raha hai saamne.. teen din se... sota hoon to wo nazar aati hai.. uth-ta hoon to wo nazar aati hai... sach mein ho gaya hai is baar to pyaar...

tereko na, fifth time hua hai pyaar... and guess what in only 4 weeks...

yaar teri samajh main nai aata.. ye sachcha pyaar hai... tujhse jhoot thodi bolunga... Par mere nai lagta wo bhaw degi... uska boyfriend hai already i guess.. bahut khil khila kar has rahi thi wo us Launde ke saath...

Achcha hai saale tere liye... tere dil ki MCBC honi hi chahiye...

tu dost hai ke dushman... kutta kahin ka... main kuch aur dhoondta hoon...

haan zaroor... chal chai ki dukaan par chalte hain... wahin baith kar discuss karenge..

chal...

aur 2 ghante baad...

bhai.... mereko pyaar ho gaya hai....

26/02/08

And So I Travel...

10 people
Shimla Railway Station Platform
Doing what... Singing songs for 3 hours, songs on demand, songs of our choice, songs of my team's choice, and songs just like that...
leading the brat pack... your highness :D
Occasion... my team outing... took a train to Kalka... an open three wheeler to the bus stand, a bus to Shimla...
and loved it...


3 People...
Arobindo Sanjit Gaurav...
On our way back from McLeodganj...
Argued on India and various situations for over 3 hours... non stop... stopped only when the throats started hurting of speaking...


5 people...
On the banks of Pangong Tso... high up in the mountains... looking at water, hills, mountains and nothing at the same time... walking around doing nothing and all by ourselves...
Subbu, Me, Pondy, Gupta and Deepu... in Ladakh...


4 people...
Uttarakhand...
Drove around the state for 4 days... almost 12 hours everyday... with minimum words spoken...


Friday worked hard... started driving in the evening... and drove almost continuously till 0800 hrs next morning... over 12 hours again...
Met Ankur for the first time... and Neitya and Nidhi and uncle and aunty for the first time too...


Salt Lake to Korunamui to Hawrah to Belur Math to Dokkhineshwar to Harwah to BBD Bag to Esplanade to Park Street to Robindro Shodon on a richshaw, bus, boat, bus, ferry, and my tired legs...
alone...
My date with Kolkata...
Thanks Aro for keeping me company on the phone and helping with directions...


4 people... adventurous...
trying to climb up a hill top the difficult way...
realizing that they have done something really stupid when they found out that it was no defined path... and they made their own way through rocks, stones, cactus plants, and no spaces and vertical falls...
Welcome to a different Pushkar with Me, Gupta, Adi and Shubhi... oh... and how can I forget reaching Pushkar in a li'il less than 6 hours? top speek 160kmph... vehicle : the rocking Petra !!!


Flight to Banaras... and an overnight sleeper class to Ambikapur... humidity, rattling seats and dust...
Boat ride in the Ganges
Aarti from the top of a boat...
Disgusting commercialization of the temple...


Delhi - Rishikesh - Chamba - Dhanaulti - Dehradun - Delhi...
one tank full in my Palio...
first long drive
Loads of Buransh all around
Sunset and sunrise in the hills
Telling a German friend about India... so loads of talks and drive and silence all around... with Aro, and Martina


About 15 hours of drive...
about 4 hours of trek...
Snow and Snow all around...
White gets a new definition...
and Snowfalls gets a new viewer...
Tungnath... with Tushar, Deepu, Aseem, Subbu and a few more...

Cab full of people...
Raft full of people...
My favorite Left front seat...
Water all around... water all over... every Rapid like never before... Three Blind Mice, Return to Sender, Good Morning, and many more...
Flowing in water.... sleeping on the sand...
Fun, Team, Cheers, Loudness...Tushar, Me and a few more... many times...

I have

  • looked into silence
  • heard nothing
  • talked with myself
  • shouted
  • driven
  • walked
  • trekked
  • loved
  • hated
  • liked
  • adored
  • cried
  • slept
  • counted stars
  • took a bath in a mountain river
  • not spoken for hours
  • talked for hours
  • had heart to heart conversations with strangers
  • almost died
  • felt like God
  • felt with God
  • seen myself getting wet in rain
  • made a fool out of myself
  • driven fast and very fast
  • enjoyed my own singing
  • cursed
  • smiled
  • thought
  • remembered
  • been surprised
  • been disappointed
  • fallen in love
  • let go

when I traveled...

Did i say I have also taken a few pictures when I traveled? :)





p.s. If you want to read about my travel tales... look for the link on the top of the page called "I Travel I Tell" and if you are interested in having a look at the pictures, check out the column on the right with links to all the photo trips... Enjoy...

And I thought it was only fair to have a few pictures in this post too :) so here we go...

On my way back from Hemkund (near Valley of Flowers)

Early morning in Rishikesh... for my favorite sport... Rafting...

From a drive to Uttaranchal.... 4 days... 12 hours everyday...

Triund... top of the hill... greenest of green grass...

We almost got stuck here because of how the trek path was... somehow managed to cross without falling off the hill... This is Tushar...

Corbett Falls... about 45 minutes from the Jim Corbett...

Golu Devta Temple @ Chitai... somewhere in Uttaranchal... from the same drive as I mentioned above...

Lansdowne... Me Deepak and Aseem... long drive that was... from Delhi to Lansdowne to Haridwar and Rishikesh... all in one day...

One of my favorites pictures EVER... from McLeodganj... Me Aro Gaurav and Sanjit went on a drive...

After the trek in the to VoF and Hemkunt... 4 days in the hills... and these were brand new shoes before i started...

One of the many times I went Rafting... love it love it love it..

Amiad from Israel... who rafted with us once...

On my way back from Bhakra Nangal... This is called Painting the Town Red :) Jai Radha :)

Bharatpur... bird sanctuary...

On my way back from Tungnath...

24/02/08

Randomizing Myself...

I have been given an opportunity to write about myself :) I love it... so here we go... oh.. first thanks to Arch @ Rang,who has one of the mostest bestest blogs that I know of, for tagging me... though I am not a keen tagger or the tagged kinds, but I guess I will take this one :)

so here we go... Random things, 7 of them about me...

1) I have a feeling that I have written something of this sort before as well... some random facts about myself... but I don't know when or why...

3) I am very glad to see how my photography has improved in the last one year and I hope that this is just the beginning...

2) There is a break in my travel for the last two months, and the thought makes me very restless and uneasy. Now that I am back in India, I have to have to go out of Delhi and Chandigarh (to the hills or somewhere else) But I have to... and an official visit to Bangalore DOES not count anymore...

6) I very seriously considered closing down the Chai Ki Dukaan a week ago, because of how one person interpreted my writing on the blog... but I just woke myself up to the fact, that I have always written for myself and not for anyone. I am fortunate, that there are a few people who like to visit Chai ki Dukaan regularly and share their opinions here...But the fact still remains that I write for myself, however selfish that might sound...

4) I have not yet given half of my prize money to Sankalp and I don't like it... I am going to something about it, and will do something to make it up for the delay too...

7) In the last one year, I have not stayed for 7 continuous nights at one place. This is strange but true :)

5) My shaadi.com profile got deactivated because of inactivity :D hehehe !!!! and the pictures that were there, were good enough to scare people away, though I loved those photographs...

And a random 8th thing... My opinions/judgments about people are based on my individual interactions with them and not because I heard/saw/read something about them... and I am kinda happy about that :)

Oh and the numbers are not in any sequence... random it was to be...


20/02/08

And Heaven is...

Having Golgappas till water starts flowing from your nose and eyes...

Having Tikki with that wooden spoon... and almost burning your mouth in every bite...

Sitting on the stool, and having the Cafe L'orange...

Resting your butt against the boot of your car, and staring into space...

Sleeping till 9 in the quilt on a mattress on the floor...

19/02/08

I am...

One of my good friends today told me today:

"You are one of the biggest ego person I have ever met !!!"

This is FYI please !!!


And that... I am going to write this post because I want sympathy from the world...

Brilliant Observations !!! Bull's Eye !!!!

Did I mention I am hurt?

18/02/08

and Heaven IS !!!!

And I did not mention it before...

Heaven is your darling (read Radha) with you... you two roaming around the roads for no apparent reason... just zipping past some traffic at times, or slowing time just to let some suckers move ahead and feel good...

having the windows rolled up...

listening to your favorite CDs one after the other like there was no tomorrow...

Heaven is when you are with yourself and someone you love from the bottom of your heart... and you can't figure out the different between the two :)

all this really makes me feel that Heaven IS...

17/02/08

Heaven is....

An announcement...
A few friends surprised...
A few cribs and laughter that follows...
Being told that you were missed...
The smell...
The noise...
The Life in between...
The people... the flair...
The surprise and the happiness on your parent's face...
The feeling that you never went away... you've always been here...

Heaven is being back home :)

14/02/08

This day of the year...

Reasons to be happy if you are single...

  • You have a free evening...
  • You don't have to go through the pain of selecting just the right gift which does not look like a cute white teddy bear with a heart on it or a box of chocolates which is in a heart shaped box or something which is not colored red
  • You will not shell out twice even thrice the money for Roses that suddenly become very important...
  • You will not be sitting in a restaurant and feel like being in the sea of couples some of them are happy, some of which just there, some which are only looking at others' properties
  • You don't have to do something if you don't want it, and because the world does it
  • You will not be thinking, wish I was single again :)

Reason to be happy if you are a couple...
  • You got another day together...
  • You can finally spend sometime thinking about how to express (unless you are too lazy and end up buying a few roses, a teddy, a box of chocolates and the loads of other things which are more common than air)
  • You don't have to through the thoughts about why you are still single
  • You are not looking at every girl/boy/woman/man who is walking alone hoping that he/she looks at you and there is a chemistry that builds up right there and then


Why is it that we need a specific day to celebrate affection ( i am choosing not to call it love, because I personally feel that its a word, not just any word, but still a word which is the results of hundreds of other emotions)... so coming back to my thought... why do we need one day?

Men always hope they will get laid... does not matter if its valentine's day or not... only on valentine's day they feel that every other women they are going to see is hunting for a guy !!!

Women always don't want to get laid only because its a specific day... ok almost always !!!

This day the earth or the air or the mountains or the stars are at no specific position which would increase the feeling of being loved or love someone more ( ok ok... i used that word; did not know what would fit better there)

At the end of the day...
its the Rose dealers, chocolate companies, restaurants etc etc which take away the love that you have showering on your guy/girl only because its the 14th of Feb...

I someone is really special to me, I rather make them feel special every morning when they wake up...
and every evening when they call it a day...



Also I have a plan... when my Chai ki Dukan opens in its real form... on valentine's day the entry of couples ( like only two people who are madly in love) would be banned...

Come with
Friends
Parents
Grandparents
Kids

and I will assure you one of the best days at the Chai Ki Dukaan...


Also keeping in mind the chichora guy I am... I would not be surprised if the song list of the day includes...

Ek Chumma tu mujhko udhaar dai-de... aur badle mein up bihaar lai le...
Meri Chamiya tu haan mein jawab dai-de... aur badle mein dilli punjab lai-le

and...

Kisi Disco mein Jayen... aur hotel mein khayein...
koi dekh le ne hamein yahan... chalo ghoom ke aayein humm

Chalo ishq ladayein chalo ishq ladayein... chalo ishq ladayein sanam...

and...

Bidi Jalaiye... jigar se piya... jigar ma badi aag hai...

and...

Sapne mein milti hai, o kudi meri sapne mein milti hai...

and...

loads of songs where you don't have to worry how you are looking when you dance :)


ok.. so coming back to the point...

enjoy your day... make someone feel special today... and make sure you make them feel special tomorrow, and day after tomorrow, and day after day after tomorrow, and the next Sunday... and the next Monday and Thursday as well...

Do that !!! its IMPORTANT... more important that you know it is...

13/02/08

what the FUCK !!!!

The Happening news...

~Hindi speaking community attacked in Guwahati
~Protests against non-Mumbaikars staying in Mumbai
~10,000 North Indians flee from Nashik in 48 hours
~The riots because of some remarks made by Karunanidhi over the Ram Setu (I think he said that Ram was a made up character, and that the Ram Setu did not have any value as such, not sure though)

And loads more which are not doing any good to the country !!! and to add to this, there are people, and thousands of them who blindly follow what these so called leaders have to say...

I wish the people who play with the people of our country, ROT in hell...

BASTARDS !!!!

12/02/08

wah wah :P

dil to karta hai ke dil na kare,

phir dil hi kehta hai ke dil kar raha hai


दिल तो करता है के दिल न करे,

फिर दिल ही कहता है के दिल कर रहा है

Isn't having a blog the best thing EVER... i can write about what i thought, what i said, what i wrote... and be assured (unless blogger deletes it) that I will have it for a long long time :P

11/02/08

CTRL Z and NOT, with Pictures...

You want attention, and love... you don't get it...

You realize that you are being a leech, you back off and someone "now" realizes that you should get the attention... funny...

And this happens only after the critical balance is lost, which was never met... wish there were come CTRL Z buttons in real life too...

On the other hand, I am thankful there are none, because I have a strong faith in the fact that while you think there is something going wrong.. there is something else which is only getting better !!!

like my days in London... After I have shifted to london, I have been busy.. with friends, walking around, talking, taking pictures, buying stuff, and clicking with the stuff I bought... very interesting...

Last Saturday, the shopkeeper even offered me a Lens Reviewer Job... he gives me a new lens.. i use it, and review it and post the review... Very interesting, though it requires me to study a bit which I would soon...

Some of the other non CTRL-Z moments, minutes, hours were spent over the last two weeks that involved walking around some parts of London in no hurry...

Went to the O2 Arena last weekend, and this weekend walking around Covent Gardens, Trafalgar Square (for Chinese New Year Celebrations) and British Museum ( yes, yet again :); its high time I dump this blog with loads of pictures from there...soon)

I have a li'il too much to write about and that is making writing difficult so the best way out is to leave right now with loads of pictures... enjoy London the way I am doing...

Some pictures from a visit to O2 Arena...
The ticket counter of the show Afrikai Afrikai


The two crazy people in London who are my life lines right now...

Some pictures from the Chinese New Year celebrations


And a few random pictures that I kinda like...

Vandalism (Not too uncommon a sight all around London)

The Escalators @ Canary Wharf Underground Station

Bow Church Station

My savings :D after the lenses... I am playing in Penny and a few pounds :D

A "Visit Canada" kiosk in Canary Wharf Area...

Vodka tastes better if you put in some lime slices and a slice of Orange in it...

My Desktop wallpaper these days.. another still of the same glass as above...

ME :) Looking a li'il extra red because of the warm lamp above me...


08/02/08

How IT can support NGOs?

I am developing a questionnaire that needs to go to various NGOs and would try to capture in detail the IT needs for them which might range from Hardware requirements, software requirements, reporting, MIS, Project Evaluation using IT tools, Improvement methodology detection through trend analysis and data monitoring, and anything else that an NGO might need from IT as a facilitator...

Need your help if you are reading this post...

Write for me situations where IT can support an NGO, and how...

05/02/08

Continued from the Pas(s)T !!!

Its not really the feelings or emotions or situations, but the people associated with them that leave a certain taste in the mouth towards them and we end up having an opinion in general...

Statements like

All men are the same...
Whats the Point...
Why do women have to spend so much time doing make up...
Bosses Suck

are all generalizations which get substantiated because of similar individual experiences, a lot of which revolve around relationships...

I feel sorry to write this, but I also end up making quite a typical fool of myself every single time I start liking someone...

I like to surrender, let myself loose, expose the weaker parts of my personality, look for support and assurance, whenever I start liking someone... and more often than not, I end up like an idiot watching himself do all this...

I either over do things and try to give whatever I have, and like a normal human being, EXPECT myself to be treated like THE ONE; or the women who cannot understand how to handle me are bigger idiots than me.. whatever the case maybe.. it all ends up in a disaster and pain...

There ends the second part of the post that I had written about why I am not too good with relationships :P

But still, like I believe... Hope is my word !!! and God Uncle my friend, who ensures that people like Tushar, Bindiya, Ruchi, Bharti, Arobindo, Abhishek, Rains, Monika and a few more, fill-in for him and be my angels !!!

बोलो किस्को Thank You बोलूं? Rather... here is a hug for you people :D :) will Thank You later !!!

it ain't

It ain't friendship, if you can't love...

It ain't love, if you can't be a friend...


Oh... and Happy Birthday Baandri, may God bless you today and always !!!

01/02/08

NO PARKING for long...

Leaving a few memories behind...

Of watching movies alone..

Of being sad..

Of Being happy...

Of dancing on Himesh Bhai's Songs..

Of getting up and hoping for an SMS to be there on my phone..

Of opening the eyes and searching for the keys in the dark...

Of having backaches and not being able to tell it to anyone..

Of spending many moments looking at my camera and the lenses and they looking at me :)

Of spending days without speaking a word...

Of being patient and being impatient...

Of making friends, and losing them...

Of expecting more, and expecting nothing...

Of being a kid and an adult at the same time..

Of smiles that came to my face for nothing, and smiles that went away for nothing...

Of buying my first plant and not taking care of it...

Of working out for two days...

Of messing up the disgusting Malaysian noodles... thank God for that :P

Of loving the aam ka achaar with chillies the most...

Of enjoying the Motichoor ke Laddoos thousands of kilometres away from home...

Of being ME most of them time !!!



I leave this room today.. which was my home for the last 3 months...

The gypsy moves...

Have a blessed weekend everyone !!!