Just one of the moments, which will make my marriage worth it I guess!
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Showing posts with label personal. Show all posts
23/03/10
Nani
I was in Meerut last night, and the expression and body language that my Nani had, when I told her that I am ok with getting married and would try to get married soon, was priceless!
25/02/09
Randomness in me !
Come to think about it, Chai Ki Dukaan is a random blog !!! Not many posts are in order of being connected to each other, however there is a certain order that got built in between all this randomness over the last few years !
I am wondering if there are enough random things that I can write about myself, but looks like there are... every month every week every day something new happens that might just seem random but is a part of a larger plan someone (I don't know who) is busy making for me !!! so thank you that someone :) !!
and here is a free flow of some randomness about myself...
1. I face Southwest in my office and at days when I reach early (like 7ish) and the day is sunny, there is sunlight on my desk... I love it
2. I like to give and get credit for things both at work and in personal life! If I am using something that someone else has worked on, I do try to ensure that the audience knows about that effort ! I absolutely hated it when a friend once used a picture that I clicked and put it on her page without a mention of me anywhere and without asking me... and all of this when she knew that the picture was very close to my heart... to top it all she comes back and tells me that she did justice to the picture by doing that !!! phew !
3. I don't work for money.. I love what I do at work, and that's why I work ! IT Services Consulting... love it! and money most of the time is the least of my worries... Surprisingly whenever it has been a cause of concern, it was taken care of... as if someone was ensuring it does not bother me! and at multiple times!
4. Mostly my life is driven by needs and not wants... if I want something too much then I try to figure out how it qualifies to be a need and then get it!
5. I want to get married next year... how to go about it is another story and will need a post a blog a diary an year to write about ! I am hoping I will find someone really nice who my parents would like too sometime!
6. I forget about drinking water and having food at times when I am too much into work!
7. I take my time (now) before I decide on what kind of a person someone is... earlier it used to be a quick(er) judgment !
8. There has been a phase in my life when I totally hated women and that went on for a year or so... no points for guessing that it was because of a relationship that ended at a very very bad note.. I have never cried that much in my life...
9. My behavior (mostly) is driven by how I would like to be treated in a similar situation... that has helped me a lot over the past few years !!!
10. I don't have an excuse for not working out regularly ! and thankfully for the past two days I am regular with exercise... ;) two needs to be 20 and 20 needs to be 200 !
11. I love tea and not all tea... tea is with tea leaves and not really anything and everything that you can dry and crush to a powder and put in a bag! Though I have to admit that I like some of them, but not many!
12. I am an extremely lucky person. There are times when I feel frustrated, but when I look back at things I realize that most of it did fall into place... and Uncle God has been around most of the time either in the form of my parents, or my friends or in forms that I did not realize then but I do now!
13. I can act strangely crazy, closed, stupid at times, and all of this while knowing that I should not be doing it... I guess I cannot lie to myself !
14. I think flowers good great in B/W photographs ! For that matter, I think most of the things look great in B/W... even life ! :)
15. I had a 3 gb collection of porn which I deleted last year! ok 3.4 GB!
16. I enjoy walking
17. Alone on the hills
18. and I feel the need of a company at times on the beaches
19. But I have sat down and looked at the sea for hours alone as well, and I loved all of those experiences !
20. I broke down the beach/hill/alone/company points above so that I finish 25 random points quicker !!
21. My interest in anything stops when learning from it stops!
22. But I also feel that I am growing up to be a more patient person than I have been all through these years ! So I tend to find ways to get some learning or make things interesting when they are too conveyor belt-ish.
23. I want to go back to London and stay there for at least 6 months during spring and fall.
24. I like open windows and fresh air... Even when the temperature was in negatives outside, I would open the window an inch or so that fresh air can circulate inside my apartment...
25. I like heights... I could jump from a plane 14500 ft above ground (Sky diving, Chicago last year) but I find it difficult to jump from a 22ft cliff into the water (River Rafting, Rishikesh every year, well almost every year).
26... So I finished 25 but I think I can write a few more
27. I like to be in love... Its a very complete feeling... and I am not really talking about the relationship love, it can be the love for someone without being in a relationship as well, and the willingness to do things to make them happy... I do not like an overuse of the word "love"... its a precious word for me!
28. I don't understand football but I love Tennis (Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf are my favorites, but I don't know everything about them like most fans do; watching them play was a visual delight like nothing else; I liked watching Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker as well) and Basketball( Lakers happens to be my favorite team and Kobe Bryant the favorite player)... I cannot watch cricket alone...
29. This number and my age have a certain resemblance that is both comforting and challenging at the same time
30. I am going to be 30 soon.. I wanted to take a month long break travel throughout India when that happens, but looks like I would be spending it here in the US.. the month long break has been deferred and the three must go places for me are Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Mumbai
31. I have learned how to play a keyboard and a guitar and have spent most of my college life either on the stage or in greenrooms or writing/directing/doing street plays... I really miss those times ! Really!
32. This is a very very long post ! tell me if you did manage to read it !!! Chandan, you specially :)
I am wondering if there are enough random things that I can write about myself, but looks like there are... every month every week every day something new happens that might just seem random but is a part of a larger plan someone (I don't know who) is busy making for me !!! so thank you that someone :) !!
and here is a free flow of some randomness about myself...
1. I face Southwest in my office and at days when I reach early (like 7ish) and the day is sunny, there is sunlight on my desk... I love it
2. I like to give and get credit for things both at work and in personal life! If I am using something that someone else has worked on, I do try to ensure that the audience knows about that effort ! I absolutely hated it when a friend once used a picture that I clicked and put it on her page without a mention of me anywhere and without asking me... and all of this when she knew that the picture was very close to my heart... to top it all she comes back and tells me that she did justice to the picture by doing that !!! phew !
3. I don't work for money.. I love what I do at work, and that's why I work ! IT Services Consulting... love it! and money most of the time is the least of my worries... Surprisingly whenever it has been a cause of concern, it was taken care of... as if someone was ensuring it does not bother me! and at multiple times!
4. Mostly my life is driven by needs and not wants... if I want something too much then I try to figure out how it qualifies to be a need and then get it!
5. I want to get married next year... how to go about it is another story and will need a post a blog a diary an year to write about ! I am hoping I will find someone really nice who my parents would like too sometime!
6. I forget about drinking water and having food at times when I am too much into work!
7. I take my time (now) before I decide on what kind of a person someone is... earlier it used to be a quick(er) judgment !
8. There has been a phase in my life when I totally hated women and that went on for a year or so... no points for guessing that it was because of a relationship that ended at a very very bad note.. I have never cried that much in my life...
9. My behavior (mostly) is driven by how I would like to be treated in a similar situation... that has helped me a lot over the past few years !!!
10. I don't have an excuse for not working out regularly ! and thankfully for the past two days I am regular with exercise... ;) two needs to be 20 and 20 needs to be 200 !
11. I love tea and not all tea... tea is with tea leaves and not really anything and everything that you can dry and crush to a powder and put in a bag! Though I have to admit that I like some of them, but not many!
12. I am an extremely lucky person. There are times when I feel frustrated, but when I look back at things I realize that most of it did fall into place... and Uncle God has been around most of the time either in the form of my parents, or my friends or in forms that I did not realize then but I do now!
13. I can act strangely crazy, closed, stupid at times, and all of this while knowing that I should not be doing it... I guess I cannot lie to myself !
14. I think flowers good great in B/W photographs ! For that matter, I think most of the things look great in B/W... even life ! :)
15. I had a 3 gb collection of porn which I deleted last year! ok 3.4 GB!
16. I enjoy walking
17. Alone on the hills
18. and I feel the need of a company at times on the beaches
19. But I have sat down and looked at the sea for hours alone as well, and I loved all of those experiences !
20. I broke down the beach/hill/alone/company points above so that I finish 25 random points quicker !!
21. My interest in anything stops when learning from it stops!
22. But I also feel that I am growing up to be a more patient person than I have been all through these years ! So I tend to find ways to get some learning or make things interesting when they are too conveyor belt-ish.
23. I want to go back to London and stay there for at least 6 months during spring and fall.
24. I like open windows and fresh air... Even when the temperature was in negatives outside, I would open the window an inch or so that fresh air can circulate inside my apartment...
25. I like heights... I could jump from a plane 14500 ft above ground (Sky diving, Chicago last year) but I find it difficult to jump from a 22ft cliff into the water (River Rafting, Rishikesh every year, well almost every year).
26... So I finished 25 but I think I can write a few more
27. I like to be in love... Its a very complete feeling... and I am not really talking about the relationship love, it can be the love for someone without being in a relationship as well, and the willingness to do things to make them happy... I do not like an overuse of the word "love"... its a precious word for me!
28. I don't understand football but I love Tennis (Pete Sampras and Steffi Graf are my favorites, but I don't know everything about them like most fans do; watching them play was a visual delight like nothing else; I liked watching Ivan Lendl and Boris Becker as well) and Basketball( Lakers happens to be my favorite team and Kobe Bryant the favorite player)... I cannot watch cricket alone...
29. This number and my age have a certain resemblance that is both comforting and challenging at the same time
30. I am going to be 30 soon.. I wanted to take a month long break travel throughout India when that happens, but looks like I would be spending it here in the US.. the month long break has been deferred and the three must go places for me are Ahmedabad, Kolkata and Mumbai
31. I have learned how to play a keyboard and a guitar and have spent most of my college life either on the stage or in greenrooms or writing/directing/doing street plays... I really miss those times ! Really!
32. This is a very very long post ! tell me if you did manage to read it !!! Chandan, you specially :)
05/08/08
A Burrito of Thoughts...
I have loved the movie "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", every time I have seen it, which should be about 10 times already so far!
And I so wish that I erase the memory of a few people from my brain, because anything about them just brings back the pain that I went through, with them, because of them, when they were there and whatever crap... Even the mention of their name is painful at times !!! Actually not pain, its the wrong word to use right now, but for the lack of a word, worse or better (wondering what !) then this one, I will let it be !
Anyway, the good part is, that the movie is wonderful and Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet can be seen doing something which is unusual for their typical style of acting... The movie has been directed the unusual way too, or should I say the "Pulp Fiction" or the "Memento" way... (This basically means that you have to add two more movies in addition to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in your must watch list)
Had mexican today for lunch... (wish i could rewrite it like this - had a Mexican girl for lunch today, but I guess she would fit better for dessert I guess :P) anyway....
so this Mexican Girl.. no, Mexican GRILL, yea that's right, Mexican Grill, called Panchero's serves all sorts of food (Deepu, Subbu, Bindiya, Aro, you have a lot of love here as I heard that the non-veg is great at this place) but I managed with a Veggie Burrito... which was both very tasty and filling... I am going to refrain from speaking the name of the place too much, because it sounds more the common sentence filler in Hindi ;)
वैसे हिन्दी में बोलें तो, मैदे की बड़ी सी रोटी में, राजमा, चावल, सब्जी, और चटनी भर कर खायी !!! और काफ़ी स्वादिष्ट भी थी...
First time experience of Mexican Food... and I guess, we can put this on the menu in the Chai Ki Dukaan too sometime later :)
Oh and btw, this weekend has offered me a series of first time experiences, which I am going to write about later... Till then, its for you to guess!
And the people who know it already, please do not spill the beans, I might use them in the next Burrito that I eat !
And I so wish that I erase the memory of a few people from my brain, because anything about them just brings back the pain that I went through, with them, because of them, when they were there and whatever crap... Even the mention of their name is painful at times !!! Actually not pain, its the wrong word to use right now, but for the lack of a word, worse or better (wondering what !) then this one, I will let it be !
Anyway, the good part is, that the movie is wonderful and Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet can be seen doing something which is unusual for their typical style of acting... The movie has been directed the unusual way too, or should I say the "Pulp Fiction" or the "Memento" way... (This basically means that you have to add two more movies in addition to Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in your must watch list)
Had mexican today for lunch... (wish i could rewrite it like this - had a Mexican girl for lunch today, but I guess she would fit better for dessert I guess :P) anyway....
so this Mexican Girl.. no, Mexican GRILL, yea that's right, Mexican Grill, called Panchero's serves all sorts of food (Deepu, Subbu, Bindiya, Aro, you have a lot of love here as I heard that the non-veg is great at this place) but I managed with a Veggie Burrito... which was both very tasty and filling... I am going to refrain from speaking the name of the place too much, because it sounds more the common sentence filler in Hindi ;)
वैसे हिन्दी में बोलें तो, मैदे की बड़ी सी रोटी में, राजमा, चावल, सब्जी, और चटनी भर कर खायी !!! और काफ़ी स्वादिष्ट भी थी...
First time experience of Mexican Food... and I guess, we can put this on the menu in the Chai Ki Dukaan too sometime later :)
Oh and btw, this weekend has offered me a series of first time experiences, which I am going to write about later... Till then, its for you to guess!
And the people who know it already, please do not spill the beans, I might use them in the next Burrito that I eat !
02/07/08
The So Called Bad Did Me Good !!!
Unlike a lot of studious kids around, I never could study late nights... My logic was, I am sharp enough to do what others do in double the time... why study more? And that’s why I used to choose what I want to study wisely... here is how
Pick up the syllabus and start dividing into sections
- Most Marks
- Difficulty Levels
- Current Understanding
I would first finish the ones with high level of current understanding, less difficulty level and more marks, gradually moving towards the ones which were least in value, highest in difficulty and I had no clue about...
At the end of my preparation, I would have left some 10-20 percent of my syllabus and I would have no clue about it either :) Peers would talk about a few topics and I would always give them a blank look: P
Once I get the test paper, I would quickly browse through the things once again in the manner I mentioned above and just ignore a few questions...
Relaxed preparations/ relaxed examinations... a decent 80+ percentage consistently... life was good!!!
And then came the final year of college... My only option for survival in this big bad world was to get through MCA or a similar different masters :) I had not attended even 20% of my classes in graduation, thanks to my attention to Theater and Drama and Stage during that time... but this was scary now... If I would not crack a competitive exam, my father would throw me out of the house...
Started coaching for MCA near my college, and by and large I used to sleep in the class... What else do you expect from someone who studies, err, is there in the college the entire day!!!
Anyway... so studies were a must now... and the course was too large... and I was not a night person... So what to do... and hen a miracle happened...
My cable guy started showing a channel called TB6 during those days, and I one day accidentally realised that there is a soft porn program "some diaries something" at 0330 hrs every night...
So here was the deal now... I would study from 2200 hrs to 0330 hrs every night, and then carefully switch on the television, and watch the 30 minute program on mute... We used to live in a 2 room flat then, and switching on the old TV, reducing the volume (we had a non remote TV ) were all works of ART!!! There were nights when I used to study like crazy till 0330 hrs, switch on the TV and see some irritating non- understandable Russian drama too, only to hope for my awaited program to start, and finally go off to sleep around 0400 hrs...
Whatever said and done, that half an hour of uncertain television ensured that I get top ranks in 9 out of 11 examinations I gave!!! It was amazing.... missed the first two, but after that every result brought only a smile to my face and a potential future to my life!!!
Thank you TB6 :)
Pick up the syllabus and start dividing into sections
- Most Marks
- Difficulty Levels
- Current Understanding
I would first finish the ones with high level of current understanding, less difficulty level and more marks, gradually moving towards the ones which were least in value, highest in difficulty and I had no clue about...
At the end of my preparation, I would have left some 10-20 percent of my syllabus and I would have no clue about it either :) Peers would talk about a few topics and I would always give them a blank look: P
Once I get the test paper, I would quickly browse through the things once again in the manner I mentioned above and just ignore a few questions...
Relaxed preparations/ relaxed examinations... a decent 80+ percentage consistently... life was good!!!
And then came the final year of college... My only option for survival in this big bad world was to get through MCA or a similar different masters :) I had not attended even 20% of my classes in graduation, thanks to my attention to Theater and Drama and Stage during that time... but this was scary now... If I would not crack a competitive exam, my father would throw me out of the house...
Started coaching for MCA near my college, and by and large I used to sleep in the class... What else do you expect from someone who studies, err, is there in the college the entire day!!!
Anyway... so studies were a must now... and the course was too large... and I was not a night person... So what to do... and hen a miracle happened...
My cable guy started showing a channel called TB6 during those days, and I one day accidentally realised that there is a soft porn program "some diaries something" at 0330 hrs every night...
So here was the deal now... I would study from 2200 hrs to 0330 hrs every night, and then carefully switch on the television, and watch the 30 minute program on mute... We used to live in a 2 room flat then, and switching on the old TV, reducing the volume (we had a non remote TV ) were all works of ART!!! There were nights when I used to study like crazy till 0330 hrs, switch on the TV and see some irritating non- understandable Russian drama too, only to hope for my awaited program to start, and finally go off to sleep around 0400 hrs...
Whatever said and done, that half an hour of uncertain television ensured that I get top ranks in 9 out of 11 examinations I gave!!! It was amazing.... missed the first two, but after that every result brought only a smile to my face and a potential future to my life!!!
Thank you TB6 :)
18/06/08
I AM Wondering...
About a lot of things... Glad I had thought of a few and managed them pretty well... there is a whole new set waiting to be completed... Going through a series of mixed emotions these days where everyday is a plethora of thoughts and feelings and I sleep looking forward to a new day !!!
10/04/08
O Billo Raani....
I have this thing for the songs that are labeled as "Chichora" songs... and the latest addition to the list is...
Billo Raani! Kaho to Abhi jaan De doon...
I hear it almost every morning on 9Xm or radio... and today I asked Tushar to download it and send it to me too... so I can listen to it after any hot pursuit of some people in the office, or a call where i had to speak a lot, or just like that...
The list is endless... but the ones that I can remember right now are...
I can' think of many right now... Can you? Please share... let me make a collection, an exclusive one !!
and look at the irony... I am currently listening to a Jugalbandi with Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasiya :) Raag Kirwani... lovely !!!
Some additions to the list thanks to the Chai ki Dukaan'ers..
Billo Raani! Kaho to Abhi jaan De doon...
I hear it almost every morning on 9Xm or radio... and today I asked Tushar to download it and send it to me too... so I can listen to it after any hot pursuit of some people in the office, or a call where i had to speak a lot, or just like that...
The list is endless... but the ones that I can remember right now are...
- Nain Lad Jai Hain to Manwa ma Kasak hoi be kari...
- Mere Pairon mein ghungroo bandha de, phir meri chaal dekh le...
- Sapne mein milti hai...Aye Ganpat...
- Bidi...
- Namak...
I can' think of many right now... Can you? Please share... let me make a collection, an exclusive one !!
and look at the irony... I am currently listening to a Jugalbandi with Pt. Shiv Kumar Sharma and Pt. Hariprasad Chaurasiya :) Raag Kirwani... lovely !!!
Some additions to the list thanks to the Chai ki Dukaan'ers..
- Aai meri meri zohra zaheeb.... phurkate gam mita ja !!! jumme raat hai ;) aaja !!!
- Ek chumma to mujhko udhar dai de :D
- Babuji zara dheere chalo....
- Chamma Chamma (China Gate right?)
- Kajraare Kajraare tere kaare kaare naina...
27/03/08
The Chimpanzee Omzooz
So I am a monkey... or a Chimpanzee I guess
Why????
Because...
~ Maya Didi is very very sure that I am one...
~ I think I am one...
~ I like climbing trees...
~ I crave for attention.. and make strange noises about it at times :)
~ and when I don't get it... I can throw stones or whatever I can lay my hands on... running around my cage like a crazy.. umm Chimp...
~ I don't like being caged too :) and i keep pulling at the bars to get out...
~ Some Chimps oops... friends call me Cute.. though I don't see a reason why someone has to call me cute... ugh.. i am NOT CUTE....
~ I can be as silent as I can be, at times when you least expected it...
~ I can make a lot of noise when you really don't want to hear anything...
~ I can sing and dance like a Chimp too, though my hands don't really reach my knees :)
oh...
and more often than not... I am happy with a few nice people around me... I don't need a lot of chimps to make me happy :) I want my chimp friends to be around...
and this is how I can be when I am at my chimpiest besht :
Why????
Because...
~ Maya Didi is very very sure that I am one...
~ I think I am one...
~ I like climbing trees...
~ I crave for attention.. and make strange noises about it at times :)
~ and when I don't get it... I can throw stones or whatever I can lay my hands on... running around my cage like a crazy.. umm Chimp...
~ I don't like being caged too :) and i keep pulling at the bars to get out...
~ Some Chimps oops... friends call me Cute.. though I don't see a reason why someone has to call me cute... ugh.. i am NOT CUTE....
~ I can be as silent as I can be, at times when you least expected it...
~ I can make a lot of noise when you really don't want to hear anything...
~ I can sing and dance like a Chimp too, though my hands don't really reach my knees :)
oh...
and more often than not... I am happy with a few nice people around me... I don't need a lot of chimps to make me happy :) I want my chimp friends to be around...
and this is how I can be when I am at my chimpiest besht :
18/03/08
Change of State...
I have to learn how to laugh at a few people I am angry with...
Realising that my anger is not helping anyone, and most importantly me... but laughter might just give birth to a few smiles once in a while!!!
Anger : Out... get out... just get the fkk out !!!
In fact I wonder if these people are worth anytime, but unfortunately we meet and walk a distance with folks who leave a deep impact on our lives, on our thinking and on our behavior... all in the name of life...
Fortunately, I have had people I have laughed my lungs out with... and I have had people who made me cry till I could not breathe anymore...
Extreme pain, access sadness,
Blank Thoughts, insane madness,
....
Have been feeling a li'il low for the past couple of days.. happens all the time whenever I am back from an amazing trip !!! I guess I need to write about the trip soon and read it myself to get back to life :)
Realising that my anger is not helping anyone, and most importantly me... but laughter might just give birth to a few smiles once in a while!!!
Anger : Out... get out... just get the fkk out !!!
In fact I wonder if these people are worth anytime, but unfortunately we meet and walk a distance with folks who leave a deep impact on our lives, on our thinking and on our behavior... all in the name of life...
Fortunately, I have had people I have laughed my lungs out with... and I have had people who made me cry till I could not breathe anymore...
Extreme pain, access sadness,
Blank Thoughts, insane madness,
....
Have been feeling a li'il low for the past couple of days.. happens all the time whenever I am back from an amazing trip !!! I guess I need to write about the trip soon and read it myself to get back to life :)
01/03/08
Yaari Dosri Taaza Maaza...
Making friends is easy... take a picture show it to the person, and ask if he thinks there is a picture that I can take... and make sure you thank him too :)
the formula works and I know it by experience... because I now have a new set of friends...
Bimal Kumar... called Kaliya... has a chai ki dukaan near the Khari Bawli T point, Fatehpuri Masjid, Chandni chawk..
Kishan, the cool dude who handles the shoes at the Shani Dev mandir near the Metro Station, Chandni Chawk...
Bitto... who sells fruits near the Tpoint as mentioned above...
Munna, the pan wala, who knows that me and Aro do not want the hard supari in our Meetha Pan...
Anil Yadav, who sells flowers in the Chandni Chawk Phool Mandi... and looking for a job outside...
And Munna, told someone who asked what and who we were... that we are writers and photographers, and thats our line... and that we are writing a book... and we are thinking that we should actually...
Photos coming soon...
and if you think you are a foodie, i might make you rethink about it...
the formula works and I know it by experience... because I now have a new set of friends...
Bimal Kumar... called Kaliya... has a chai ki dukaan near the Khari Bawli T point, Fatehpuri Masjid, Chandni chawk..
Kishan, the cool dude who handles the shoes at the Shani Dev mandir near the Metro Station, Chandni Chawk...
Bitto... who sells fruits near the Tpoint as mentioned above...
Munna, the pan wala, who knows that me and Aro do not want the hard supari in our Meetha Pan...
Anil Yadav, who sells flowers in the Chandni Chawk Phool Mandi... and looking for a job outside...
And Munna, told someone who asked what and who we were... that we are writers and photographers, and thats our line... and that we are writing a book... and we are thinking that we should actually...
Photos coming soon...
and if you think you are a foodie, i might make you rethink about it...
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
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...
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...22/01/08
Me the KID, at times like this... and at times different...
A Friend called me a KID at two different occasions...
At one, it was probably some affection that was coming my way...
and at the other... it was probably a question mark on my maturity as a person...
Its interesting how one word can sound/mean so different at different times... and can make a good amount of sense at both too..
I don't like someone questioning my logic or maturity as a person... I give shit loads of people a run for their money when it comes to being practical, logical and a matter of fact guy !!
And obviously a few people are better than me... which is good... because that way, I can figure out what I can become if I am more logical and practical and all that... thankfully it also lets me figure out if I want to be that practical... I am glad I let a few dreams rule a part of me !!!
Amen to practicality that makes dreams LIVE !!!
oh... and that reminds me... I have a few new kids on the block in my camera bag... need to write about them sometime... Thank you God Uncle... you are the beshtesht !!!
At one, it was probably some affection that was coming my way...
and at the other... it was probably a question mark on my maturity as a person...
Its interesting how one word can sound/mean so different at different times... and can make a good amount of sense at both too..
I don't like someone questioning my logic or maturity as a person... I give shit loads of people a run for their money when it comes to being practical, logical and a matter of fact guy !!
And obviously a few people are better than me... which is good... because that way, I can figure out what I can become if I am more logical and practical and all that... thankfully it also lets me figure out if I want to be that practical... I am glad I let a few dreams rule a part of me !!!
Amen to practicality that makes dreams LIVE !!!
oh... and that reminds me... I have a few new kids on the block in my camera bag... need to write about them sometime... Thank you God Uncle... you are the beshtesht !!!
14/01/08
EXHale...
For about 2 weeks, I have been thinking of writing why I had a series of unsuccessful relationships in my past, and why I still know how to MESS things up BIG time and why I think I am a misfit when it comes to relationships :D
Just that I have not been able to gather enough courage to go public with that amount of truth...
I should start an anonymous blog !!! or steal someone's diary and write what I want to in there... or hack someone's account and post it in their name !!!
what else can i do?
Write it on a wall in UK :D when no one is watching... Graffiti... with the crazy people I know here, it might just sell for millions...
Make a painting out of my thoughts... again worth some greenies...
Umm... take pictures and say what i want to say in code... Naah... I make an attempt to take happy pictures or make them look encouraging.. with some exceptions of course !!!
What else?
Talk to someone about it? I did... with three friends...
One took a split second to agree to the fact that I suck !!!
the other gave me a lot of gyan and tried to pep me up, and partially agreed...
and the third, made fun of me and applauded at the honest confession !!!
For some reason, I am not feeling too bad about it... there are good things about me, there are bad ones too... Not being able to handle people I love is one of the BADDEST ones !!!
Why am i writing about it right now?
Valid point...
And I am doing it ,
Because I think i should take that thought of thinking about writing about thinking about why I suck should be out of my system...
And because I have been carrying this thought for a long time... years maybe !!! It needs to go out of my system... it need a body wash that can clean things from inside...
Or maybe I just need to eat at a dhaba, have chai at a road side stall, drive the entire night, have a few paranthas at murthal, honk the horn when i feel like, have a few golgappas till my eyes and nose start running, flip through the useless TV channels, etc etc...
Ok... so two things now...
1. No Gyan please :) take this post into your stride and humor :)
2. Read the previous post and help me out !!! not with Fishing Rods and instructions on how to fish, but with some FISH :)
Just that I have not been able to gather enough courage to go public with that amount of truth...
I should start an anonymous blog !!! or steal someone's diary and write what I want to in there... or hack someone's account and post it in their name !!!
what else can i do?
Write it on a wall in UK :D when no one is watching... Graffiti... with the crazy people I know here, it might just sell for millions...
Make a painting out of my thoughts... again worth some greenies...
Umm... take pictures and say what i want to say in code... Naah... I make an attempt to take happy pictures or make them look encouraging.. with some exceptions of course !!!
What else?
Talk to someone about it? I did... with three friends...
One took a split second to agree to the fact that I suck !!!
the other gave me a lot of gyan and tried to pep me up, and partially agreed...
and the third, made fun of me and applauded at the honest confession !!!
For some reason, I am not feeling too bad about it... there are good things about me, there are bad ones too... Not being able to handle people I love is one of the BADDEST ones !!!
Why am i writing about it right now?
Valid point...
And I am doing it ,
Because I think i should take that thought of thinking about writing about thinking about why I suck should be out of my system...
And because I have been carrying this thought for a long time... years maybe !!! It needs to go out of my system... it need a body wash that can clean things from inside...
Or maybe I just need to eat at a dhaba, have chai at a road side stall, drive the entire night, have a few paranthas at murthal, honk the horn when i feel like, have a few golgappas till my eyes and nose start running, flip through the useless TV channels, etc etc...
Ok... so two things now...
1. No Gyan please :) take this post into your stride and humor :)
2. Read the previous post and help me out !!! not with Fishing Rods and instructions on how to fish, but with some FISH :)
05/01/08
Those Were The Best Days of My Life... so far :)
The first memories of being on stage go back to class V or VI when I was a part of the dance team which performed on Boney M's Its a Holiday... This was my first ever english tape as well.. Boney M's 18 greatest hits and I still love those tracks...
Remember practicing during the not so important classes and enjoying it... Vicky was my partner in that song, however I wanted some other girl to dance with me :) but then, li'il I could do about it... Nice white shirt and the black trousers... I am sure I kept that dress for a while before I moved on...
and then a lot of years of stage-o-fobia...
Until one day, when I was in class IX... I had to climb up the stage to fill in for a few people who ditched us in the Independence Day functions... my first stand up comedy stunt :) it went pretty well for the lifelessness I felt in my legs and the dryness in my throat in those 10 minutes...
Another few years of stage silence, before it was broken in the form of Mughal'e'Aazam in my first year of college... PGDAV was no great college, but the kind of friends I earned there, the life that I lived there is something that no other place could have given me... I loved those 3 years of my life...
I still remember that the entire team had practiced on my terrace for a day and by the time we had finished the entire play was changed... We laughed our asses out because of the changes that were made during the entire day... Ankur Wahal had written and directed the play and he was flawless with his work... Today he is a brilliant Corporate Lawyer and no one is going to believe that he once used to rock the stage with his amazing performances...
His entry in the play on that yellow tricycle... mine with that 8 inch sword and the loose pyjamas... Tushar as the Kaneez... Karan Bindal, our 6 foot tall Laila... and Ankur.. the short Majnu....
The play was a super hit second year in a row, and that 800 strong audience enjoyed it as much as we did who were on the stage at that time... Ankur and Taru had hosted that year's Aaghaz...
I was a part of the Cultural Committee now, and in my second year.. we were looking for people who would join the group... This is when I dragged the freshers Nimisha Bhagat, Sandy, Vandana etc into the group... Ankush joined, Gaurav Marwaha joined, Meghna Jain came in... along with a few others and we had a brilliant team of people doing everything they could... This is the year when I got an award for winning the maximum number of prizes in an academic year too.. 18 prizes I won in various individual and team competitions in Delhi University that year... MY year of glory...
Ankur did not host Aaghaz that year... I followed his footsteps and was responsible for managing the show for about 7 hours and with me was Virat Vikram Juneja... and both of us created a riot... I loved it... it was the kind of feeling that nothing else can even come closer too... NOTHING...
Third year of college... Cultural Society at its best... The dance team from my college won almost every single competition that they participated in.. Gaurav Marwaha and Ankush were leading the pack here... Ankush focusing on the dance team, which needless to say, had some of the most brilliant dancers I have met till date...Gaurav worked his sweat out to get the sponserships and managed more than we expected... he did work too hard... and I managed the theatre part along with Meghana and a few others... Ankur, Patrick, Nimisha etc were our western music champions.. this is the time when our Rock Band Nakshatra also revived itself... Some ex students came back to play with us too... the green room below the stage in DAV always used to have something or the other happening...
This is the year when Kapil Sharma who used to be a DAV student sometime also came back to college and taught me and other most of what I know and remember today about Theater and stage... Getting out of home at 0700 hrs and coming back at 1700 hrs.. even later.. and spending most our time reading scripts, discussing plays, acts and learning and talking was a life well lived... I both smile and cry at times for those times... I still remember the song from Chupke Chupke we used to sing... the one with Amitabh and Dharmendra... we used to rock !!!
Aaghaz again was my baby this year with me on the stage for about 6 hours and with Virat again... A repeat of the last year... Laughter, comedy, fun and the feeling of being on the top of the world... the only difference being that this year we did the show in Army Auditorium, Dhaula Kuan... what an evening it was... bad throat by the end of the day but smiles that would not stop for days to come.. because every time you entered college you would have some eyes who would recognise you... some people would even come up to you and tell you how good you were....Even Ashish bhai, our canteen wala guy said to me one day... Arre tu to wohi hai na Stage wala !!! I just smiled and said haan woi hoon.... :D
The making of posters, the winning and loosing competitions, the bunking classes, the professors refusing to even know you at the end of the year when you requested for attendance, the understanding and the misunderstandings, the certificates, the sitting on stage stairs and singing or talking or just being, walking up to the srinivas puri market to have tea and keep sitting on the stools there for hours, Out of the Gate, across the Road down the street was our favorite spot... during the festivals, the entire cultural society dancing together in jam sessions... I don't really remember seasons changing for some reason... every day of the year was as bright and sunny as we thought it should be or wanted it to be...
I moved out of college... thankfullly was in Delhi itself... Jamia Millia Islamia... and not too far away from DAV... though the classes were many, but I still used to go to DAV at times... meeting people in person was the only way to keep in touch.. that is when we did not really rely on Text messages and Mobile Phones or emails to keep in touch... so a typical routine used to be... I would finish my classes in Jamia, rush to DAV, find someone in the green room... talk for a while or wait for classes to finish and then come back home together...
For some reason the team back in DAV did not find anyone to host the show, and they asked me to do it... I was not sure if I could because I was already out of college but they insisted and I agreed... I wanted Virat to do it with me again, but he was not ready... after a lot of begging and requesting he agreed... and Prashant and Virat did it again in FICCI this time... third year in a row I was there... could not have loved it more... my professors who used to look so serious all around the year laughing off their seats, the people who i did not know responding to every line that i said on the stage... it was a dream... a dream i lived... my then principle Bhatia Sir, who had taught me mathematics in the second and third year also came upto me and said, Inko tujhse achcha koi aur nai milega :)
By the end of next year, things settled down... I was now looking at how am I going to earn a living... Nimisha was busy with her studies, Meghna wanted to do her post grad in NID, Virat started assisting his dad and his work in Faridabad, everyone from the dance team got busy somewhere or the other, Ankur was already doing his LLB... We all moved and Time too....
Its like I lived a life in those few years and lfe that no more there.... but I know that something has not died inside me... its still there... Thank you God Uncle for letting me live and not just exist !!! You are the best !!!
Remember practicing during the not so important classes and enjoying it... Vicky was my partner in that song, however I wanted some other girl to dance with me :) but then, li'il I could do about it... Nice white shirt and the black trousers... I am sure I kept that dress for a while before I moved on...
and then a lot of years of stage-o-fobia...
Until one day, when I was in class IX... I had to climb up the stage to fill in for a few people who ditched us in the Independence Day functions... my first stand up comedy stunt :) it went pretty well for the lifelessness I felt in my legs and the dryness in my throat in those 10 minutes...
Another few years of stage silence, before it was broken in the form of Mughal'e'Aazam in my first year of college... PGDAV was no great college, but the kind of friends I earned there, the life that I lived there is something that no other place could have given me... I loved those 3 years of my life...
I still remember that the entire team had practiced on my terrace for a day and by the time we had finished the entire play was changed... We laughed our asses out because of the changes that were made during the entire day... Ankur Wahal had written and directed the play and he was flawless with his work... Today he is a brilliant Corporate Lawyer and no one is going to believe that he once used to rock the stage with his amazing performances...
His entry in the play on that yellow tricycle... mine with that 8 inch sword and the loose pyjamas... Tushar as the Kaneez... Karan Bindal, our 6 foot tall Laila... and Ankur.. the short Majnu....
The play was a super hit second year in a row, and that 800 strong audience enjoyed it as much as we did who were on the stage at that time... Ankur and Taru had hosted that year's Aaghaz...
I was a part of the Cultural Committee now, and in my second year.. we were looking for people who would join the group... This is when I dragged the freshers Nimisha Bhagat, Sandy, Vandana etc into the group... Ankush joined, Gaurav Marwaha joined, Meghna Jain came in... along with a few others and we had a brilliant team of people doing everything they could... This is the year when I got an award for winning the maximum number of prizes in an academic year too.. 18 prizes I won in various individual and team competitions in Delhi University that year... MY year of glory...
Ankur did not host Aaghaz that year... I followed his footsteps and was responsible for managing the show for about 7 hours and with me was Virat Vikram Juneja... and both of us created a riot... I loved it... it was the kind of feeling that nothing else can even come closer too... NOTHING...
Third year of college... Cultural Society at its best... The dance team from my college won almost every single competition that they participated in.. Gaurav Marwaha and Ankush were leading the pack here... Ankush focusing on the dance team, which needless to say, had some of the most brilliant dancers I have met till date...Gaurav worked his sweat out to get the sponserships and managed more than we expected... he did work too hard... and I managed the theatre part along with Meghana and a few others... Ankur, Patrick, Nimisha etc were our western music champions.. this is the time when our Rock Band Nakshatra also revived itself... Some ex students came back to play with us too... the green room below the stage in DAV always used to have something or the other happening...
This is the year when Kapil Sharma who used to be a DAV student sometime also came back to college and taught me and other most of what I know and remember today about Theater and stage... Getting out of home at 0700 hrs and coming back at 1700 hrs.. even later.. and spending most our time reading scripts, discussing plays, acts and learning and talking was a life well lived... I both smile and cry at times for those times... I still remember the song from Chupke Chupke we used to sing... the one with Amitabh and Dharmendra... we used to rock !!!
Aaghaz again was my baby this year with me on the stage for about 6 hours and with Virat again... A repeat of the last year... Laughter, comedy, fun and the feeling of being on the top of the world... the only difference being that this year we did the show in Army Auditorium, Dhaula Kuan... what an evening it was... bad throat by the end of the day but smiles that would not stop for days to come.. because every time you entered college you would have some eyes who would recognise you... some people would even come up to you and tell you how good you were....Even Ashish bhai, our canteen wala guy said to me one day... Arre tu to wohi hai na Stage wala !!! I just smiled and said haan woi hoon.... :D
The making of posters, the winning and loosing competitions, the bunking classes, the professors refusing to even know you at the end of the year when you requested for attendance, the understanding and the misunderstandings, the certificates, the sitting on stage stairs and singing or talking or just being, walking up to the srinivas puri market to have tea and keep sitting on the stools there for hours, Out of the Gate, across the Road down the street was our favorite spot... during the festivals, the entire cultural society dancing together in jam sessions... I don't really remember seasons changing for some reason... every day of the year was as bright and sunny as we thought it should be or wanted it to be...
I moved out of college... thankfullly was in Delhi itself... Jamia Millia Islamia... and not too far away from DAV... though the classes were many, but I still used to go to DAV at times... meeting people in person was the only way to keep in touch.. that is when we did not really rely on Text messages and Mobile Phones or emails to keep in touch... so a typical routine used to be... I would finish my classes in Jamia, rush to DAV, find someone in the green room... talk for a while or wait for classes to finish and then come back home together...
For some reason the team back in DAV did not find anyone to host the show, and they asked me to do it... I was not sure if I could because I was already out of college but they insisted and I agreed... I wanted Virat to do it with me again, but he was not ready... after a lot of begging and requesting he agreed... and Prashant and Virat did it again in FICCI this time... third year in a row I was there... could not have loved it more... my professors who used to look so serious all around the year laughing off their seats, the people who i did not know responding to every line that i said on the stage... it was a dream... a dream i lived... my then principle Bhatia Sir, who had taught me mathematics in the second and third year also came upto me and said, Inko tujhse achcha koi aur nai milega :)
By the end of next year, things settled down... I was now looking at how am I going to earn a living... Nimisha was busy with her studies, Meghna wanted to do her post grad in NID, Virat started assisting his dad and his work in Faridabad, everyone from the dance team got busy somewhere or the other, Ankur was already doing his LLB... We all moved and Time too....
Its like I lived a life in those few years and lfe that no more there.... but I know that something has not died inside me... its still there... Thank you God Uncle for letting me live and not just exist !!! You are the best !!!
23/12/07
I Make Time!!!
Its been a nice weekend this one... I am at Anil's place and having food which is home food... Chawal dal dahi !!! its nice... and Soumitro invited us (Well a forced invitation it was) and treated us to some amazing roasted potatoes, bell peppers, some nice music followed by Naan, Spicey Potatoes, Lovely Baingan, and Egg Curry !!! I am stuff like anything right now, and a 30 minute walk in the nice cold weather was just worth it after a nice tummy and heart filling dinner... God Bless Soumitro and his wife who did a great job with the dinner !!!
While walking towards Soumitro's place, Anil and me got into an interesting discussion, well all the discussions were interesting but I particularly remember this one because I have been hearing something around it for a while now from a few people I know...
Anil said that he wants to play cricket or be associated with any club/team that places and get an opportunity to bowl or bat or just be there on the field sometime... My question, and a very prompt one, bringing him back from that lush green field that he had mentally wandered to was, "Do You have time for all that?"
His simple answer was, "I would make time for it."
I was forced to think when we say we have been too busy or we just did not make time for what we wanted to or we just did not want to make time or we did not find a reason why we could make time...
I somehow don't really believe when someone tells me that they could not take time out.. I guess its not about taking time out, its either making it or stealing it from the world for things that are yours...
I make time for my blog and my stills... and a few people who are in my thoughts, ma pa a few friends...
I am fortunate to know a few friends who work for at least 12 hours a day in and out, and still make time for things they want, people they want...
People find me crazy, and will probably think that I am simple plain lucky when I tell them that starting september'05, I have traveled out of Delhi every single month, the fototrip links on my page show that just right... Except March'07 when I shifted bases to Chandigarh for work... EVERY OTHER month I could find time to travel and take pictures... and I am bloddy well proud of it for myself !!!
And I know of a lot of people who love to say that they did not get time or a chance to do something...
I feel that its not really about how much time we got, its about how much WE wanted time for it... Wanting or not wanting to do something comes first, and then time for it or excuses for "not it".
While walking towards Soumitro's place, Anil and me got into an interesting discussion, well all the discussions were interesting but I particularly remember this one because I have been hearing something around it for a while now from a few people I know...
Anil said that he wants to play cricket or be associated with any club/team that places and get an opportunity to bowl or bat or just be there on the field sometime... My question, and a very prompt one, bringing him back from that lush green field that he had mentally wandered to was, "Do You have time for all that?"
His simple answer was, "I would make time for it."
I was forced to think when we say we have been too busy or we just did not make time for what we wanted to or we just did not want to make time or we did not find a reason why we could make time...
I somehow don't really believe when someone tells me that they could not take time out.. I guess its not about taking time out, its either making it or stealing it from the world for things that are yours...
I make time for my blog and my stills... and a few people who are in my thoughts, ma pa a few friends...
I am fortunate to know a few friends who work for at least 12 hours a day in and out, and still make time for things they want, people they want...
People find me crazy, and will probably think that I am simple plain lucky when I tell them that starting september'05, I have traveled out of Delhi every single month, the fototrip links on my page show that just right... Except March'07 when I shifted bases to Chandigarh for work... EVERY OTHER month I could find time to travel and take pictures... and I am bloddy well proud of it for myself !!!
And I know of a lot of people who love to say that they did not get time or a chance to do something...
I feel that its not really about how much time we got, its about how much WE wanted time for it... Wanting or not wanting to do something comes first, and then time for it or excuses for "not it".
12/12/07
Happy Marriage Anniversary !
Happy Marriage Anniversary Mummy...
Happy Marriage Anniversary Papa...
It was such a joy to hear papa laugh when I called home a couple of minutes ago to wish them !!!
I know for sure they must have become very sad after I kept the phone down... I can feel it here :(
I love you two... more than ANYTHING else in this world... May God be with us !!!
Happy Marriage Anniversary Papa...
I know for sure they must have become very sad after I kept the phone down... I can feel it here :(
I love you two... more than ANYTHING else in this world... May God be with us !!!
feel it say it... hear it cherish it...
It feels so bloddy nice when I get to hear nice things about myself !!! God bless those who feel good about me and make it a point to say them too !!!
One of my dear friends did and I feel too bad that I did not really know how to react to it :) but I know i felt real good...
Looks like I am not that bad afterall ;)
That brings me to a question : How good are you with taking compliments?
One of my dear friends did and I feel too bad that I did not really know how to react to it :) but I know i felt real good...
Looks like I am not that bad afterall ;)
That brings me to a question : How good are you with taking compliments?
08/12/07
the interface to emotions
No software is complete without a decent interface... I know of so many applications that failed miserably because the users did not see the interface that would have helped them get the feeling of what the application was capable of...
As people, as consumers the interface is very important for all of us...
I remember in one of the workshops I had attended a few years back, we talked about how every interaction that we have with any one is like a transaction... where someone is the customer and the other one is a provider... and that did make sense to me then and it does make sense to me today as well...
Ok, coming back to the initial point... the interface.. so in every transaction I feel that an interface plays and important role...
So does how and what we express... our emotions, our mind, our heart is the application running at the background and our expression of those emotions and thoughts is the interface...
having emotions, having feelings, having thoughts is a complete waste if we don't express...
a lot of times our eyes speak...
a lot of times our actions speak...
and at times we do...
and if nothing of the above happens, I think we only increase distances... which at times become so large that it becomes impossible to bridge them.. no matter how hard we try !!!
07/12/07
Let the HEAD be where it should be...
We have a total of X minutes with us to live, out of which we all would like to give Y minutes to work... which is very very important because
work gives us money,
work helps us sustain the standard of living that we like to live or to reach closer to the one we might want to, and
a lot of other reasons like
work helps us reach closer to that stage where we reach a certain level of maturity and see things in the right perspective most of the time, or that
work helps us unwind...
we all have different reasons to work and spend those Y minutes...
and in and for those Y minutes,
~ We plan everything just right or would atleast like to strategize it right, after all our companies earn money if we do things right...
~ We ensure that we have a certain level to meet everytime we do something... we cannot mess up, can we? we would be thrown out of work or someone else who can do things better would get this profile or the next one we are aiming for...
~ We give it our heart and soul to ensure that everyone who is looking at our work or is getting effected leaves with a good impression of our effort...
~ We look forward to things happening and reaching next levels at work, in maturity, in hierarchy, in composure, in sense and all that...
~ even if cannot handle it anymore, we live those Y minutes and manage somehow... so what we have to skip our lunches, and we don't have time to even drink water the entire day... work comes first...
~ Even if getting up is the last thing we want to do, we do and log on to the conference call in the middle of the night...
~ So what there is a backache, we still manage to get up and get going...
and then there is a X-Y amount of minutes, which we label as personal life...
~ We tend to ignore the planning part
~ We can do a lousy job of it because there are no standards to meet, there is no competition, there is no annual appraisal after all... there is no one who will throw us out.. and even if things get bad, we assume that we can take care of that, WHeN THE BLODDY TIME COMES... as of now we don't have time to deal with it...
~ We are too tired to give our heart or soul to it... and have no option but to defer things that might be important... oh com'on there is that important meeting at work... I think about that or this issue?
~ We look forward to things, but have that amazing capability of keeping them at the back seat or tuck them away under the blankets because there is a business suit that is waiting for us that moment...
~ We get angry with our loved ones !!! why the fkk can't she understand that I have a headache !!! God, I had such a hard day at work, and he has to pick up this topic right now !!!
~ Ignore ourselves... Let me just take a painkiller right now for the backache... will see if I can see the doctor over the weekend.. and that weekend never comes because we were too lazy to get up on the only day we get an off...
What are we trying to do? Could I please know it one more time? I lost myself somewhere back there !
I realised that I did not even hear my thoughts because I was listening to music a li'il too loud... I don't even know what I have written up here...
but let me tell you these sony headphones(MDR G42) I got are worth dying for... amazing bass I get in them... nicey nice...
and its too funny trying to rub your own back and put some balm on it... How come the hands don't reach exactly that place where the pain is? anyway... I shall try putting some balm again and sleep before this backache kills me and stops me from getting up in the morning...
And here is All Star singing...
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Back to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
p.s. The picture was taken on a recent visit to the British Museum in London.. amazing place
work gives us money,
work helps us sustain the standard of living that we like to live or to reach closer to the one we might want to, and
a lot of other reasons like
work helps us reach closer to that stage where we reach a certain level of maturity and see things in the right perspective most of the time, or that
work helps us unwind...
we all have different reasons to work and spend those Y minutes...
and in and for those Y minutes,
~ We plan everything just right or would atleast like to strategize it right, after all our companies earn money if we do things right...
~ We ensure that we have a certain level to meet everytime we do something... we cannot mess up, can we? we would be thrown out of work or someone else who can do things better would get this profile or the next one we are aiming for...
~ We give it our heart and soul to ensure that everyone who is looking at our work or is getting effected leaves with a good impression of our effort...
~ We look forward to things happening and reaching next levels at work, in maturity, in hierarchy, in composure, in sense and all that...
~ even if cannot handle it anymore, we live those Y minutes and manage somehow... so what we have to skip our lunches, and we don't have time to even drink water the entire day... work comes first...
~ Even if getting up is the last thing we want to do, we do and log on to the conference call in the middle of the night...
~ So what there is a backache, we still manage to get up and get going...
and then there is a X-Y amount of minutes, which we label as personal life...
~ We tend to ignore the planning part
~ We can do a lousy job of it because there are no standards to meet, there is no competition, there is no annual appraisal after all... there is no one who will throw us out.. and even if things get bad, we assume that we can take care of that, WHeN THE BLODDY TIME COMES... as of now we don't have time to deal with it...
~ We are too tired to give our heart or soul to it... and have no option but to defer things that might be important... oh com'on there is that important meeting at work... I think about that or this issue?
~ We look forward to things, but have that amazing capability of keeping them at the back seat or tuck them away under the blankets because there is a business suit that is waiting for us that moment...
~ We get angry with our loved ones !!! why the fkk can't she understand that I have a headache !!! God, I had such a hard day at work, and he has to pick up this topic right now !!!
~ Ignore ourselves... Let me just take a painkiller right now for the backache... will see if I can see the doctor over the weekend.. and that weekend never comes because we were too lazy to get up on the only day we get an off...
What are we trying to do? Could I please know it one more time? I lost myself somewhere back there !
I realised that I did not even hear my thoughts because I was listening to music a li'il too loud... I don't even know what I have written up here...
but let me tell you these sony headphones(MDR G42) I got are worth dying for... amazing bass I get in them... nicey nice...
and its too funny trying to rub your own back and put some balm on it... How come the hands don't reach exactly that place where the pain is? anyway... I shall try putting some balm again and sleep before this backache kills me and stops me from getting up in the morning...
And here is All Star singing...
Well the years start coming and they don't stop coming
Back to the rules and I hit the ground running
Didn't make sense not to live for fun
Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb
p.s. The picture was taken on a recent visit to the British Museum in London.. amazing place
04/12/07
Addition to the menu...
Its no big deal...
all it takes is some
~Fresh grounded black Pepper
~Salt
~Butter like spread
~Chilly flakes
~ Basil and oragano
~ Chilly tomato sauce
~ sandwich pickle with veggie peices in it..
~ tomatoes
~ bell peppers ( I like yellow and red ones) and finally
~ bread( preferably the brown bread, but for this week, white one will do)
and you got a not too bad lunch pack with two different types of sandwiches ready...
And it tasted pretty neat too, because of the fact that I made it or I made it for the first time or whatever... it was nice :)
this means, The चाय की दुकान would now, also be able to serve freshly prepared sandwiches while you are sipping your favorite cup of tea...
Enjoy :)
all it takes is some
~Fresh grounded black Pepper
~Salt
~Butter like spread
~Chilly flakes
~ Basil and oragano
~ Chilly tomato sauce
~ sandwich pickle with veggie peices in it..
~ tomatoes
~ bell peppers ( I like yellow and red ones) and finally
~ bread( preferably the brown bread, but for this week, white one will do)
and you got a not too bad lunch pack with two different types of sandwiches ready...
And it tasted pretty neat too, because of the fact that I made it or I made it for the first time or whatever... it was nice :)
this means, The चाय की दुकान would now, also be able to serve freshly prepared sandwiches while you are sipping your favorite cup of tea...
Enjoy :)
01/12/07
कुछ ऐसा करने का dil करे
dil का अरमान के खुली हवा हो ...
और उसे सांस मे भर लेने का dil करे
आखों के आगे न ज़मीन हो न आस्मान ...
और चलते चले जाने का dil करे
ऊपर देखूं तो कुछ तारे मुझसे बात करने के लिए नीचे हो जाएँ ...
और मेरा sirf उनको niharne का dil करे ...
कहीं दूर पहाड़ के पीछे से बांसुरी की आवाज़ आये ...
और मेरा भी कुछ गाने गुनगुनाने का dil करे ...
कहीं दूर एक झरने से पानी के गिरने की आवाज़ आ रही हो ...
और उस आवाज़ मे खो जाने का dil करे ...
एक् रेलगाडी की सीटी सन्नाटे को चीरते हुए मेरे कानो तक पहुंचे ...
और फिर वापस घर जाने के dil करे ...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dil ka armaan ke khuli hawa ko...
aur Saans lene ka dil kare
aakhon ke aage na zameen ho na aasman...
aur chalte chale jaane ka dil kare
upar dekhoon to kuch taare mujhse baat karne ke liye neeche ho jayen...
aur mera sirf unko niharne ka dil kare...
Kahin door pahad ke peeche se baansuri ki aawaz aaye...
aur mera bhi kuch gaane gungunane ka dil kare...
kaheen door jharne se paani ke girne ki aawaz aa rahi ho...
aur us aawaz mein kho jaane ka dil kare...
ek railgaadi ki seeti sannate ko cheerte hue mere kaano tak pahunche...
aur phir wapas ghar jaane ke dil kare...
और उसे सांस मे भर लेने का dil करे
आखों के आगे न ज़मीन हो न आस्मान ...
और चलते चले जाने का dil करे
ऊपर देखूं तो कुछ तारे मुझसे बात करने के लिए नीचे हो जाएँ ...
और मेरा sirf उनको niharne का dil करे ...
कहीं दूर पहाड़ के पीछे से बांसुरी की आवाज़ आये ...
और मेरा भी कुछ गाने गुनगुनाने का dil करे ...
कहीं दूर एक झरने से पानी के गिरने की आवाज़ आ रही हो ...
और उस आवाज़ मे खो जाने का dil करे ...
एक् रेलगाडी की सीटी सन्नाटे को चीरते हुए मेरे कानो तक पहुंचे ...
और फिर वापस घर जाने के dil करे ...
+++++++++++++++++++++++++
Dil ka armaan ke khuli hawa ko...
aur Saans lene ka dil kare
aakhon ke aage na zameen ho na aasman...
aur chalte chale jaane ka dil kare
upar dekhoon to kuch taare mujhse baat karne ke liye neeche ho jayen...
aur mera sirf unko niharne ka dil kare...
Kahin door pahad ke peeche se baansuri ki aawaz aaye...
aur mera bhi kuch gaane gungunane ka dil kare...
kaheen door jharne se paani ke girne ki aawaz aa rahi ho...
aur us aawaz mein kho jaane ka dil kare...
ek railgaadi ki seeti sannate ko cheerte hue mere kaano tak pahunche...
aur phir wapas ghar jaane ke dil kare...
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