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26/05/10

1ka100 - A drive for Child Rights and Education

Chitrakaar helped me raise a small but encouraging amount of Rs. 12500 in 2008, and then 30on30 last year saw a phenomenal success by raising Rs. 79000...

This amazing support from people who I knew and a lot who were not known to me, coupled with the focused thoughts of a few friends brought Sopaan into picture. While the registration under the Society's act is on its way, Sopaan is proud to launch another fund raiser called 1ka100...

Here is how it works

1. Bhaskar Jindal drives from Delhi to Mumbai
2. The distance is a total of 1500 kms
3. We are requesting people to support the initiative by donating Rs. 100 or multiples. Every 100 rupee supports one kilometer of the drive... All 1500 kms getting support, would mean that we are able to reach our aim of Rs. 150000.
4. The raised funds would then be donated to identified NGOs working for the cause of Child Rights and Education. Two of such NGOs are MAD and Cankids which are going to get funds from 1ka100
5. Please do read about the initiative here, and join the Facebook event here.
6. If you like the idea, the cause, the thought, please do contribute by donating money and/or encouraging your friends to spread the word around!
7. The intention is to reach out to more people and spread the word, hence the individual participation is kept as low as 100 bucks!!!

Hope to see a lot of support for 1ka100 like I got for 30on30 and Chitrakaar!

We would be sharing a progress report of 1ka100 in the format below...

24/05/10

Blogthings says!!! एंड टू सोंग्स !

You definitely march to the beat of your own drum, and you don't succumb to peer pressure.
You enjoy doing your own thing - and this means having your own unique tastes and preferences.

You are confident and calm. You tend to find other people annoying, especially when they want to tell you what to do.
Just because everyone else is doing something, it doesn't mean you want to do it. And you're okay with that.

It just feels nice to read on a Monday morning!

Add to this a song that touches my heart every time I hear it...

Another beauty from Do Aankhen Barah Haath (दो आखें बारह हाथ)

20/05/10

Sharma Bandhu!

Was talking to Ma in the morning and was reminded of this... One of the very few Bhajans that I am totally in love with...

Enjoy!

I feel at Peace!!!

17/05/10

हींग के फायदे!

औरो : यार जब तेरी शादी होगी तो में तुझे एक मस्त गिफ्ट दूंगा! बोल क्या चाहिए?

मैं : भाई कैश दे दीजो !

औरो : नहीं यार! ऐसा कुछ जो काम भी आये और ख़तम भी न हो!

मैं : पेंचो! हींग दे दे दस किलो! खाना बनाने में काम भी आएगी और ज़िन्दगी भर ख़तम भी नहीं होगी!

औरो / मैं : हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा हा!

I am sure that if Aro and me come together on a radio show, we will make people cry because they laughed so hard!

And we laughed for atleast 5 minutes... over a few more things how I would stuff him with all that heeng if he gives me any, and how I could get rid of the heeng by gifting it to people who attend my marriage, saying that he was mixed with the body dust of a mahatma from the Himalayas and had a shit loads of medicinal value and blah and blah!!!

Bees on the Road!

We humans are animals! and some of us insects! and I am not saying it in a derogatory way! Its the characteristics which are common and are hard to ignore!!!

e.g.
Most drivers in India are like Bees, and in the west are like sheep!!! Try to visualize any road from the top... and what you would see is a pattern within the patternless driving... one car moving from one lane to the another trying to occupy the space which just got freeed, while the space also seems to be moving from one lane to the other! The red lights and the toll gates, putting a break to the bees, I mean, cars, and then suddenly the same patternless pattern repeats! I would love to study these patterns from a chopper and make drawings out of them! Also a lot of drivers remind of the game road-rash!

Now why the west is like sheep! because they usually move in a lanes! irrespective of how long the lane becomes!

14/05/10

Perfect for today!

13/05/10

yawwn!!!!

I am feeling amazingly sleepy right now!!!

and I've had tea, coffee, water and stood in the sun, the shade and I am still very sleepy!!!

damn it!

10/05/10

दिल्ली के दीवाने! गाली देने के बहाने!!!

Great minds think alike! really?

Great Minds think alike!!!

I disagree!

If the minds are that great, they will probably not be thinking alike, but better! if all great minds were thinking alike... All of them would have been making the same light bulb, or a radio or a telephone, or music!

But we see so many great things around us, and they have been given to us by great people with great minds! and for all I know they were thinking different to give us a variety of greatness!!!

Great minds might support other great thoughts, but they for sure do not think alike in my opinion!

07/05/10

Life ka Maza!!!!

I am getting to realize what keeps me happy!!!!

Its simple...

Doing a lot of things together!!!

Its like a catalog of things that I have to have in my mind, and I need to start and stop my activities... It keeps me going...

If I am doing just one thing... I end up being very restless and dissatisfied with myself!

06/05/10

टोटल विन विन

बेटा : पापा ऑफिस नहीं जाओगे?

पापा : जाऊंगा... थोडा देर से!

बेटा : मैं भी उसी साइड जा रहा हूँ! १०० रूपये दोगे तो फ्री में ड्रॉप कर दूंगा!

पापा : हम्म!!! चल चलता हूँ!

बेटा : ड्रॉप करने के बाद ! पापा, १०० रूपये?

पापा : ले बेटा! ऐश कर!

इसको बोलते हैं टोटल विन विन situation!

03/05/10

Why the fkk!!!!!

Someone please help me understand

Why is Kasab's death sentence even worth a discussion?
Where were the so called human rights activists, when these bastards were shooting people away to glory?
Why is one person who is apparently just another contract killer (assuming that he was just paid to shoot and had nothing personal to do with it) worth so much time, money, and effort?
Why can't India behave like US did after 911?

Though I feel very positive about this country, there is very little which lets one keep feeling that positive for a long time!!!!

Damn it!

01/05/10

Vidambna!

Micky is a mouse!

Donald is a duck!!

Pluto is a dog!!!

Tweety is a bird!!!!

Bugs Bunny is a Wabbit!!!!!

What is Goofy?

He could be a geek dog! Why does this sound more like a greek god to me? strange...

Geek Dog! Greek God!

Greek Dog! Geek God!

Greek God! Greek Dog!

Geek Dog! Greek Dog!

Images : Google image search

29/04/10

Tring Tring!

Me, the telephone user, has seen so much happening in my life that I often get confused if the past was true or the future is a dream!!!

The fact, however, is that this is just a part of evolution! or shall I say revolution!!!

I used to be in school when we got our first telephone! There used to be only one kind of a telephone at that time... the one that you connect using wires, which stretched all the way to the poles at the corner of your street... and a cut or a nook here or there would mean a screeching disturbance in your connection, or a dead telephone! which would mean that you have to go all the way to the nearest telephone exchange to file a complaint and someone would come and fix it! The telephones of the techies used to be very charming then... they were one single instrument with both the dial and the mike along with the headset! they would just connect the wires to a phone and voila! it works!

Life was simple then!

- A blank call meant no one would ever know that it was me who called... I remember dialling random numbers when mom dad were out of home, and just keeping the phone down when someone picked it up.. had even dialled 100 once, without realising that the police-walas need to cut the line for it to be disconnected... the bugger policeman waiting for 15 minutes before he hung up, while my heartbeat was increasing according to a quadratic equation with every second! Thankfully he disconnected before ma-papa came home!

- I would never know if someone called while no one was at home! (mind it! I am not talking about the riches who had answering machines even then)

- The numbers were just 4 digits long! before a 4 was appended in the beginning, and then another 4, and then a 2, and then a 5 and what not increasing the number of digits in my phone number, an indicator of the increase in number of phone subscribers!

- I did not really know how to keep the dialer silent if I wanted to make a call while parents were around! it would make all that sound because of the spring! duh!!!

Then we got another telephone! and now I could hear on the second instrument if we wanted a three way call between the relatives! A huge drawback being, that if I was talking to a friend, and someone else picked up, they would hear everything! Teenagers hate that, irrespective of what they are talking about!

Anyway, we graduated to having two telephone numbers in an year! one business telephone and another one a home phone! Made life a lot easier!

Now the huge irritant with these dialler phones was the fact that any number having digits like 8, or 9 or 0 were a big task to dial, and if it ends being a wrong number or a busy phone at the other end.. you would have do the entire excercise all over again! bummer!!! So you had be very careful while dialling a number, and keep praying that the person you are trying to talk to is home, and is not talking to anyone else! When mobile phones arrived, my faith in God suddenly increased because I used to pray very hard before I dial a mobile number! numbers starting with 9, numbers which were 10 digits long! oh God!!!!

It took us a while before we got a tone dial phone at my home! They were not free, and pa was never keen on making an investment in an instrument which could not be replaced free of cost by the telecommunications department!

A little later, everything changed!

- you could not make a blank call without the other person knowing who called!

- dialing a phone number sounded like beep beep bopp bopp beep bopp!

- phones stopped sounding like tringgggggggg tringggggggg.. but more like treeeeeeeppppp treeeeeeeeep!

- ringtones, mobile number, caller tune, friends and family, handphone, were the new in-words!

And today, while I spend over 9 hours of my day sitting in the Corporate IT department of a new Telco Company, I evaluate new offerings that can go to Voice and Data Customers! Its a long way from where it all started!

Incidently! my favorite ringtone still happens to be the old phone sound! and it does not look like something I will change given a choice!

30on30 Again!!!!

However this time around, its Paromita who is celebrating her birthday by trying to do something for the society!

Her initiative Deepdana is aimed at raising Rs. 30000 in 30 days, by selling some of her selected photography work!

Paromita is a photographer of immense talent, and this intent of giving something back to the not so privileged, definitely warrants for a lot of support! Please do visit the initiative website, please do spread the word, please do connect back with her to contribute!

Everything helps!!!

I am personally very happy that even though I was not able to do anything special for my birthday this year, 30on30 had an impact which is more than just the collection of Rs. 79000. Paromita is doing a 30on30 this year, and who knows there would be 10 more people who do more 30th year celebrations by trying to do something for the world! Makes all the effort absolutely worth it!!! Thank you and congratulations Paromita for keeping 30on30 alive!

28/04/10

randomization!

Blah!!!

Chuck it!!!! I do not want to think about the fact that getting about 6-7 hours of sleep these days is a luxury, thanks to the bucketloads of things that are happening in my life currently!!! I however feel very sad that Jas was here in India and I was not able to give her anytime. I am really sorry Jas!

Pa, on my request, found the weights that have not been used for the last 3 years... Loads of dust, coupled with rust makes them look sad, but they still weigh the same :) and a bit of cleaning and oiling the bolts would make them work just right! the first step to some light weights happened today in the morning! good!

Am trying to figure out how to make time for some photography or related work... I have not been able to edit a single photo in about 2 months! There is no mention o a quick Jaipur trip on my blog or my flickr page! and there are atleast 30 odd photographs that I still need to transfer to my laptop! Am thinking of giving photography a break for a while and restart afreash sometime in future! Knowing myself, I would not be able to stay away from it for long!

Am also doing very exciting things at work! Very new to me and probably a unique role otherwise too, and there are times when I struggle because till the time I do not know which side the shore is, I do not really like to swim! And this time around, its wide open spaces all around for now! Lets see how things shape up with time!

The Beat is running very fine!!! Its still extremely silent after 2000kms on the dash! I love the way this car moves around in slow traffic, quick response time, decent airconditioning, sharp turning radius and comfortable sitting, make this a good city car! and I am realising that driving a sedan in city traffic is not really worth it! so hatchbacks its going to be for me in the city!!!

Here is a song that I have been listening to and enjoying since my college days, and I am still very very fond of it, me being able to sing it decently being one of the few reasons for it as well!