Thursday, July 30, 2009

Quote..

I don't know from whom or from where I read this improvised version of a quote but its sure is very depressingly funny thinking on that person's part.... Ok the quote is like this

"It takes more muscles to frown than smile ...and my doctor told me to exercise more" :-P :-P

I am elated....

Somebody is angry with me and because of that that somebody is ignoring me but all this is making me laugh and feel so important because when I do the same thing to that somebody I know how much importance and thoughts I have to give them.........

Although it sucks to see somebody upset because of you but at the same time it makes me feel elated....... :-P

PS: This all ignoring and being angry can be my imagination too....

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Random Thought XXVII

"The worst things in your life at least makes you appreciate the better things that you have"

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Finally it rained....

Well I have been praying intensely since last few weeks (or may be more than month) for it to rain heavily for at least an hour in Faridabad and for me to witness it while its pouring, so yesterday finally it happened...

Although I couldn't get drenched :( but I had the privilege of being out there, maneuvering my car through the floods of water that filled all the roads while the wipers despite being at their top speed couldn't keep the glass clean even for a fraction of second.

It was so fun to drive with the rain pounding everywhere, although I couldn't open the windows as it was pouring at an angel but nevertheless it was the next best thing to getting drenched.

Just hope it keeps raining like this for few weeks or atleast a week and I pray to get drenched one day , although my colleague who goes with me daily from my house to stop and vice versa, is definitely going to kill me for always landing him in soup with my these stupid wishes .... :)

Monday, July 27, 2009

Dance and Movies......Weekend Snippets

This weekend we changed the place from where we were initially learning dance (read P T) as we had already changed three instructors there and all of them had the same problem of not paying attention to, lets forget the minute details, even the basic details of each step.

So we went to a new place named "Pink Rockers" and so far its better.

Well I completed reading both the "A Thousand Splendid Suns" and its predecessor "A Kite Runner" (in the same order as written here). And both the books are must read kind of books. Since I read Kite Runner later so its more fresh in my memory and hence I am more in awe of that but nevertheless Kite Runner is a very well written book , quite high on emotions and the way it portrays the darker side of Amir, the main protagonist, you never feel anything bad about that guy rather you always feel bad for him. The only thing I personally felt lacking was Hassan's side of story. Ok may be the people who have read the book won't agree with me but I just felt that it would have been good to know his side. Just like Amir wanted Hassan to hit him back with the Pomegranate, in the same way I wanted Hassan to speak up but may be thats what made his character so adorable.

Actually since I read A Thousand Splendid Suns first, I liked the way he simultaneously kept telling the sides of both Mariam and Laila and this helped one understand both's perspective.

Anyways both books are beautiful and give you an insight to the history of Afghanistan and creates a sorry but sympathetic picture of that country.

As I completed Kite Runner on Friday so on Saturday I watched "Kite Runner" the film and as already put forward by one of my friend. The movie is just a fast paced account of the book. And as felt by most a movie cannot create the emotions in the same way as the author has created through the book.

Just two things in which I felt the director did a good job were that he took the liberty to show the reason of why Amir and his father had to leave Afghanistan which the book never mentioned and secondly the last scene in which he shows Amir flying the kite and then running it for Sohrab. The emotions related to that scene were beautifully shown.

A so - so movie if you have read the book.

Moving ahead then I watched "Hangover", a funny movie about friends who go to Vegas to celebrate one of their friend's Bachelor's party and then after consuming alcohol mixed with Date Rape drug they get up the next morning in a mess and they cannot find their friend who is getting married and because of the drug they cannot remember anything that happened last night. So its story of how they trace back what they did last night and ultimately find their friend.

Then I completed Finding Nemo which I was seeing in pieces since last few days. Another lovely animated movie and beautifully portrays a father-son relation.

And lastly on Sunday night I watched "Pursuit of Happyness" a biography of Chris Gardner and his struggle from being a non-selling salesman to a successful stock broker. An interesting thing that happened was after I copied this from one of my friend I changed the title by replacing the y by i in Happiness as I thought that person has misspelled it by mistake but as soon as I started the movie and they started the credits I found that the spelling was intentional and now I know that its related to the story.

Well its a lovely movie and Will Smith is too good. Its just that I din't find it that sad except the time when he cries while sleeping with his son in the toilet of that Railway station or the time when he sells his blood for money. Apart from that I found his story quite filled with hard work and at times luck (when he shows up at the Ceo Robbbins and then by luck accompanies him to the ball game which although doesn't result in him getting the contract from him but he manages to get contacts of other important people who later help him meet his target and get the job.)

A slept a lot too this weekend with a stretch of 4 hours sleep in the afternoon both on Saturday and Sunday. And also had to bear an agonizing pain in my stomach for no reason.

Also vented my unwanted anger at some one who as always ignored it.

Nevertheless a weekend filled of anger, expressing myself, sleep, exercise(not started with dancing yet) and movies......

Funny...

A Funny thing happened ...... A colleague who travels with me in the bus today asked me if I was carrying any book so as I had just completed Kite Runner and was about to return it today, so I told her that right now I have Kite Runner.

Hearing that she said that she has already read it and in the end she cried, I said good. Then she said "Kya aapko bhi aisa hota hai ki you just cry at times reading or seeing something without thinking where you are ? Its so embarrassing". I simply laughed on hearing this as its reminded me the last week's incident and post..

Then I gave her "How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie" which is one book which is always kept in my bag.

Just was little amusing to hear that thing from her......

Friday, July 24, 2009

Quote..

Never regret something that once made you smile.
-- Amber Deckers, Ella Mental and the Good Sense Guide

Its a very important thing to remember when you start doubting all the things that happened in past.
But unfortunately people will make you regret it by their actions or rather inactions.

Thursday, July 23, 2009

Boys do cry......

Well this was my Gtalk status for today and it got few comments from people on my contact list and some of them do wanted to know what happened? why this status?

I really thought a lot about writing this post in a way that I won't have to touch what happened but after thinking a lot the voice within me told me that you need not hide it from your blog.

So , yes I cried today in the morning(ok it wasn't like tears were flowing from my eyes just that my eyes got wet and its not that a rare phenomenon since last year) while sitting in the office bus (I generally sit alone so don't worry I din't embarass myself and generally people hardly notice me :) ) but why ? thats all together a different post. And seeing the urge to write (this happens to be the 6th post and the 4th published post I am writing today. and I skipped my guitar class to write this) I might write that too.

Ok coming to that status. Generally my morning happens this way. Sitting in the bus , when the bus hits the expressway, I close the book I am reading and close my eyes and then start dreaming (I try hard to sleep but due to some apparent reasons I can't, so its generally day dreaming). And then the thoughts I am pondering upon lead to some statement or quote and that becomes my status for the day.

So today as my eyes were wet , a statement which till last few years used to bother me because of my lack of crying, sprang into my mind "Boys don't cry" and immediately another voice rebelled saying "Boys do cry" and a series of incidents flashed into my mind.

Ok one sign that I generally associate with maturity is not being able to shed tears(I mean constant flow of tears from your eyes) and this has disturbed me a lot in past and I somehow accepted it as an ill effect of "getting mature" but ever since my Masi died and tears rolled down my eyes I somehow thought that its not that true.

So coming to the statement and incidents , yes we boys do cry. One of my contact commented that "Yes boys cry ..in loneliness" but I said "Not only then, I have seen people(I mean boys) cry even in front of their friends".

So the incidents that flashed in my mind starts from way back when I was in school. One of my friend who was quite Macho in his attitude cried in front of us on hearing that one of our close friend's father had died. I was sad and I cried too at home but I still remember the image of my that other friend(the macho one) crying while discussing it with us. I know it was indeed a very sad incident but I just couldn't imagine him at that time crying in front of everyone.

The next incident was that of Veeru Dada , who happens to be quite an emotional guy . He cried twice,many times more, but these two were significant. First one was when he cried while talking to one of our friend(girl and she was just friend and married now :) ) and I don't remember why but he told me later that he did and then again when we cancelled a party at his house after he had already arranged everything . Ok it wasn't a childish cry of why you guys cancelled it, it was more out of the circumstances in which it was cancelled. And after that many times in private either just in front of me or our close friends.

Then came an incident when I cried while still being in college, owing to a comment made by one of my friends about me and another friend and when all the involved people came to know that it made me cry , they all cried. :)

Then on the last day of our college , Mr Chocolaty cried and since that was the life-changing day of my life(the day after which my life changed for both good and bad), I couldn't sympathise with him and I just laughed. But had it been one of my normal day I would have cried too.

Next was when Mr NRI cried in the SRS parking lot(forgive me if I goofed up the order), he just got so frustrated with the way everything was going on in his life and he just couldn't hold back his tears. We all hugged him and consoled him.

Another incident was when we went to our village as my grand mother has died (One more of an incident which strengthen my then believe of boys don't cry as tears din't flow) and sitting there while my Dad was talking to my Pishi (Father's sister), I for the first time saw my Dad cry. Again I used to think when I was a kid that My Dad don't cry because he is mature. But that day I saw him cry for his mother.

All these incidents strengthens the fact that boys do cry and its definitely good to cry at times and as Dev says that it helps to clean your eyes too :)

I can see myself and my friends crying on a very emotional occasion, both happy and sad and I don't think anyone of us will try to hold our tears back then. And believe me crying do help a lot :)

PS: I am fine now so no need to worry :)

Meera Bai...

Well recently on TV (I forgot the channel) they are airing a promo of a new serial which is based on the life of Meera Bai.

Meera Bai was a princess of some province in Rajasthan, I guess Mewar and when she was a kid , on, seeing one of her closed one getting married, she pesterd her Mom to get her married too . And finding her not being bobbed down on being told that she can't marry now , her mother gave her an idol of Lord Krishna and told her that this is your husband and you can get married to him now. And after that she devoted her whole life to Lord Krishna. She was so devoted to him that even after being forced to marry Bhojraj she never accepted him as her husband. And finally seeing her undivided devotion, her mother in law gave her poison and she readily drank it and died.

Ok , so actually this post isn't about Meera bai. With due respect to her and her devotion , I never really liked her character and one reason for this was that way back in school , while I was studying in 3rd or 4th standard at Jaipur , we enacted this play and in that play I played the part of Bhojraj :). And a very good friend of mine played Meera Bai. My elder sister (Didibhai) played the part of my mother.

I still remember the day the castings were announced. I was very happy (and as always I showed my expressions too loudly)as I was Bhojraj and my friend was Meera Bai but that evening Didibhai came to me and told me that my friend cried in front of her saying that she don't want to play my wife as she always looked up to me as her brother (till this day this one line never left me, I still hear it from those quarters from where I never wanted it to be said).

So it made me sad (although it makes me laugh too) and I remember throughout the rehersals and the play she couldn't accept it and was always miffed because of this. She even shrugged it off when on the day of the play I ran backstage towards her to tell her that for poison we are using Coke. All those moments still flashes in front of my eyes as if it happened just yesterday.

Ironically I thought of writing this post the day I saw that promo(which was few days back) but couldn't get time and today when I am writing this , I just got the news that she is getting married this November. It makes me so happy for her and thats why just after knowing this news I wanted to write this post at any cost :)

She is a very good friend of mine and despite not being in touch after I left Jaipur in 1994, after almost 13-14 years she searched and found me on orkut.

May God bless her and give her a very happy and prosperous married life :)..Ameen

My Mom says....

My Mom very rightly says that "Whatever we do in this life, we get it back in this very life. Whatever we say or do to anyone, whether good or bad, the same thing comes back to us "

I have experienced it both the hard way as well as the better way.

Untitled

Aadmi aadmi se milta hai,
Par dil yahan kisi-kisi se milta hai.
Bhul Jaata hun uska har sitam,
Wo kuch is Saadgi se milta hai.

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Random Though XXVI

Somebody must have said this before too..

"It was never meant to be the way it isn't"

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Quote..

"In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person."
--Margaret Anderson

Its good if both merge into one but if thats not the case then you have a constant fight with yourself trying to make sure that both don't contradict or at least the first remains the main motive.


This is my 100th published post :)

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Quote..

Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. People will take you very much at your own reckoning. -- Anthony Trollope

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Untitled...

MahaStri once told me that "Nobody is ever going to understand you the way you want them to." She is so true...... but still we want them to understand....

Aj Din Chadheya from Love Aaj Kal

Another one from Love Aaj Kal...this is a soothing song and very well written.

Song : Ajj Din Chadheya
Music : Pritam Chakraborty
Lyrics : Irshad Kamil
Singers : Rahat Fateh Ali Khan


Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga
Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga

Phul Sa Hai Khila Aaj Din
Rabba Mere Din Yeh Na Dhale
Woh Jo Mujhe Khawab Mein Mile
Use Tu Lagede Abb Gale
Tenu Dil Da Vasta

Rabba Aaya Dar De Yaar De
Sara Jahan Chod Chad Ke

Mere Sapne Sawar De
Tennu Dil Da Vasta

Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga

Baksha Gunaho Ko
Sun Ke Duwao Ko
Rabba Pyaar Hai
Tune Sab Ko Hi De Diya

Meri Bhi Aahon Ko
Sun Le Duwao Ko
Mujhko Woh Dila Mene Jisko Hai Dil Diya
Hoooo

Baksha Gunaho Ko
Sun Ke Duwao Ko
Rabba Pyaar Hai
Tune Sab Ko Hi De Diya

Meri Bhi Aahon Ko
Sun Le Duwao Ko
Mujhko Woh Dila Mene Jisko Hai Dil Diya

Aasmaan Pe Aasmaan Uske De Itna Bata
Woh Jo Mujhko Dekh Ke Hase
Pana Chahun Raat Din Jise

Rabba Mere Naam Kar Use
Tenu Dil Da Vasta

Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga

Manga Jo Mera Hai
Jata Kya Tera Hai
Mene Kaun Si
Tujhse Jannat Manga Li

Kaisa Khuda Hai Tu
Bas Naam Ka Hai Tu

Rabba Jo Teri Itni Si Bhi Na Chali

Haaanaaa

Manga Jo Mera Hai
Jata Kya Tera Hai
Mene Kaun Si
Tujhse Jannat Manga Li

Kaisa Khuda Hai Tu
Bas Naam Ka Hai Tu

Rabba Jo Teri Itni Si Bhi Na Chali

Chahiye Jo Mujhe
Kar De Tu Mujhko Ata

Jeeti Rahi Saltanat Teri
Jeeti Rahe Ashiqui Meri

Dede Mujhe Zindagi Meri
Tenu Dil Da Vasta

Rabba Mere Din Yeh Na Dhale
Woh Jo Mujhe Khawab Mein Mile
Use Tu Lagede Abb Gale
Tenu Dil Da Vasta

Rabba Aaya Dar De Yaar De
Sara Jahan Chod Chad Ke

Mere Sapne Sawar De
Tennu Dil Da Vasta

Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga

Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga

Ajj Din Chadheya
Tere Rang Warga

Din Chadheya

Tere Rang Warga

Ajj Din Chadheya

Lyrics taken from glamsham.com

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Chor Bazari from Love Aaj Kal

Lovely song from Love Aaj Kal...Has lovely lyrics and foot tapping music.

Song : Chor Bazari
Music : Pritam Chakraborty
Lyrics : Irshad Kamil
Singers : Neeraj Sridhar & Sunidhi Chauhan

Chori!!!

Na Re Nanna Re

Chori Bazari Do Naino Ki
Phele Thi Aadat Jo Hat Gai

Pyaar Ki Jo Teri Meri
Umar Aai Thi Woh Ghat Gai

Duniya Ki To Pikkar Kahan Thi
Teri Bhi Abb Chinta Ghat Gai

Chanda Rre
Tu Bhi Tu Hai
Mein Bhi Mein Hoon
Duniya Saari Dekh Ulat Gayi
Tu Na Jaane Mein Na Jaanu
Kaise Saaari Baat Palat Gai

Ghatni Hi Thi Yeh Bhi Ghatna
Ghatte Ghatte Lo Yeh Ghat Gayi

Aahan Chori Bazari Do Naino Ki
Phele Thi Aadat Jo Hat Gai

Tarif Teri Karna
Tujhe Khone Se Darna
Haan Bhul Gaya Abb Tujhpe Din Mein Char Dafa Marna

Tarif Teri Karna
Tujhe Khone Se Darna
Haan Bhul Gaya Abb Tujhpe Din Mein Char Dafa Marna

Pyaar Khumari Utari Saari
Baaton Ki Badli Bhi Chhat Gayi

Hum Se Main Pe Aaye Aise
Mujhko To Mein Hi Mein Kat Gayi

EK Hue The Do Se Dono
Dono Ki Abb Raahein Kat Gayi

Na Re Nanna Re
Na Re Nanna Re
Na Re Nanna Re
Na Re Nanna Re

Abb Koi Fikar Nahi
Gum Ka Bhi Zikar Nahi
Haaan Hota Hoon Mein Jis Raste Pe
Aaye Khushi Wohin

Aajad Hoon Mein Tujhse
Aajad Hai Tu Mujhse
Haan Jo Jee Chahe
Jaise Chahe Karle Raj Yahin

Laj Sharm Ki Choti Moti Jo Thi Dori
Woh Bhi Kat Gai
Chauk Chawbare Gali Molhalle
Khol Ke Main Saare Ghonghat Gai

Tu Na Badli Mein Na Badla
Dilli Sari Dekh Badal Gai

Ek Minute Mein Duniya Dari Ki
Saaari Samaj Nikal Gai

Haan Rang Biranga Pani Pe Ke
Seedhi Saadhi Kudi Begad Gayi

Dekh Ke Mujhko Hasta Gaata
Sadh Gai Yeh Duniya Sadh Gai

Na Re Nanna Re
Na Re Nanna Re
Na Re Nanna Re
Na Re Nanna Re

Lyrics taken from glamsham.com

Thought provoking.....

I always wonder how come a Woman be so cruel to another woman. I mean consider all the cases of Dowry, infant mortality etc, the main offender or provoking party in all these cases is a female either as Mother in law or any elder female relative. I know Men are animals but when it comes to family matters its the woman who is generally the driving force. I just couldn't understand how can she forgot that even she went through all these things and at that time she also didn't like it at all , so how can she repeat all those stuffs to someone else.

A got an answer few days back while reading "A Thousand Splendid Suns " by Khaled Hosseini . The female protagonist of the first part Mariam is an illegitimate child who lives with her mother, who having seen the cruelties of life, being a woman, always protest especially when Mariam starts dreaming about spending some happy times with her Father and even threatens to kill herself(and ultimately does) when Mariam decides to spend her birthday with her father and her siblings.

Seeing her protests, Mariam says this to herself, which I feel is true, She thinks "I think mother You are afraid, You are afraid that I will find the happiness that you never had"

I also feel in most of the cases people feel that if they were made to go through something, no matter how bad it was , there subordinates should also go through the same experience.

Will continue.......

Monday, July 6, 2009

Random Thought - XXV

The worst thing about brushing your teeth at night is that in the morning rush you find it real hard to remember whether you have already brushed your teeth in the morning or not.

Friday, July 3, 2009

Dad

For every question or thing that we want to know about, there is one person whom we always go first to ask, and that person is our Dad.

Somehow we are always quite sure that no matter anyone else knows about it or not, he will definitely know or at least can give us a pointer to something from where we can find it out. For most of the essential things we take his opinion and knowledge for granted. I have seen almost everyone ringing up their father for any general thing they need to find out related to money matters, asking routes, knowing about some place etc etc and the list is quite long.

And as we grow up , we see him asking (sometimes innocently) few things, respecting us for our experience and affinity to newer things. That sometimes makes us wonder, WOW! Daddy asking us this? Make us feel proud.