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Firefox 3

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Firefox 3 Beta 1 was made available for download yesterday to be tested…

What surprises me is that this is available in Gujrati as well, however only for Mac and Linux… Why did they choose only this language of all the languages in India, and why is it that its not there for Windows…


Are there many gujju users of firefox and who use it on Mac and Linux?

wondering…

anyway… THIS is where you click, in case you want to try it out…

And after many many days, i forgot to have my lunch… not that its anything great or to be proud of… but i like it when my mind is occupied with work… it does not wander around with things that would trouble me otherwise…

Fill it up… and don’t ask how !!!

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There is a way to talk to people who work with you…

either you simply blame them for making a point, writing an email, sending a note or speaking something.. and turn them off to whatever you are going to say next..

or you first put your point across, and understand theirs and then see what needs to be done…

thankfully, i don’t get as irritated as I used to get if someone does the first one with me… but it still does not piss me off any less…

and thankfully, of all the 60-70 people who have reported to me at work at some time or the other, none of them complained about me being the first type of a person…

Who can fill a bloddy form right if they are not given the instructions, and specially when the form is also an older version, which is not to be used anymore? and no one bothers to tell that to you either !!! and what adds to the irritation is the fact, that you had asked about the instructions months ago, and thats when it was treated as the least priority item…

I Ain’t Got no Left Feet !!!

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Its amazing what one good song can do to you…

I have been pretty dull since morning… and winamp just now chose to play “Mauja hi Mauja” from Jab We Met…

first thing i did was pause it, put the headphones one, increase the volume and PLAY…

and i could do nothing but dance while sitting in couch… well too lazy to get up you see…

My eyes closed… and what flashed through my eyes were

1. The jam sessions at college
2. Spectramind parties
3. Hughes get-togethers where we used to dance our asses out on our favorite songs being played over and over again ( the sariska outing where we played Dhol Mix of Summer of 69 over 25 times; the rain dance party when Summer of 69 ruled, followed by Amar Arshi’s Kala Chashma)
4. Mantas party when we danced almost all night;
5. IBM’s new year parties;
6. A couple of outings at Capitol, Ashoka in Delhi

Not that I am a great dancer, but I don’t dissapoint… not myself neither anyone who gives me company !!!

I am getting a kick out of thinking about those evenings…

And while I was writing this post, Winamp decided to play DJ with Hare Raama Hare Krishna from Bhool Bhulaiyya…

and now in true DJ ishtyle, a twisty song from Hey Baby…

O Meri Jaan, na le le meri jaan… teri adaa…

Gustaakhi Maaf Kardi.. Ab to insaaf karde…
Apna Dil Saaf Karde.. Kehna to Maan le..

Jaane bhi De.. Jo bhi hua Jaane Bhi de !!!

Hey… could someone send me a link where I can get the list which is published in the Delhi Times every week, for the last weeks best songs?

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Almost Lost

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While eating my favorite Doritos and having Litchi Juice in a Pint Glass i write this post…

I almost lost him yesterday.. and why because of one simple reason.. i was not careful enough..

I am talking about a small plant with yellow flowers that i got for my room sometime back… the instructions said that i need to ensure that the soil is damp and moist and that it needs water once a week… i read the instructions and was happy to see the yellow flowers everyday in my room…


now what happens day before yesterday is that i come home and for some reason i had to change the place where i had kept this small plant… and i realised that it was dying… the stems were loose, the flowers dull, and leaves almost giving up…

i felt so bad about it and added some water quickly to it… maybe because the room is pretty warm the water had evaporated earlier than usual… but for whatever reasons, i was loosing my lovely yellow flower plant…

i checked it yesterday, and it was better… and today its looks as if its kinda improving… i hope it lives for some more time…

It forced me to think, as if it needs a trigger, but still, about people… don’t we at times treat people like i treated this plant… they are good, we feel nice that they are there, we look at them feel good, they are around we feel happy… but miss out on that small attention that they need to stay that way… and also wonder when we loose people as to what went wrong…

I think that staying alone has made me more sensitive towards people that I care for, and at the same time makes me want more from people who I feel should take care of me… No, I am not looking for attention here, not at all… I can manage pretty well on my own… and am doing that too…

the crux of the post, that i wanted to write about, is that this incident just reminded me to do something, however small it may seem, for things that give me something… and not because i am returning a favor… but because I should…
And lights are coming up slowly all around… the one above are being put up on Lamp-posts in Horley, where I live…

keep walking..

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Happiness…

is

Music

specially when you are walking

on a road

which has minimum traffic

in a weather

which is cold and wet but its not raining

and you are hit

by wind on your face… lets call it cold breeze for pleasure 🙂

and रफी साहब sings

गम और ख़ुशी मे फर्क न महसूस हो जहाँ
मैं dil को उस मुकाम पे लाता चला गया

(Gham aur Khushi Mein Fark Na Mehsoos ho Jahan
Main Dil ko Us Mukaam Pe Laata Chala Gaya)

I was smiling throughout my walk today i guess…

Thanks to

Manna डे who sung… आयो कहाँ से घनश्याम
Kishor दा who sung… एक हसीना थी एक दीवाना था
and a few other lovely singers who gave me company…

aaj maza aa gaya… sach !!!

ello… ek aur mast gaana…

jihal-e-masti mukun baranjish
Bahale hijraan bechaara dil hai…

sunai deti hai jiski dhadkan
tumhaara dil ya hamara dil hai…

wo aake pehlu mein aise beithe
ke shaam rangeeen ho gai hai…

zara zara si khili tabiyat
zara si gamgeen ho gai hai…

aisee evening ke liye clapping !!!!

God bless

Choti?

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One of my friends calls her daughter Choti Mishi… no she is not the younger of the two or three… she is the only kid as of now… but still she is Choti Mishi..

Cute…

Maybe the mamma thinks she is the badi Mishi… 😀 😀

Choti Mishi is a darling.. God bless 🙂

Junk Food, and a story from Junks…

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Junk food is tastier than the regular food… ever wondered why? well i feel because when you are eating junk, you are not really thinking but only enjoying 🙂 not that you cannot enjoy while you think… but enjoying is more fun without thinking for sure 😀

I had a nicey nice pizza today… what fun digging into that lovely vegetarian pizza full of brll peppers, jalapenos, olives, sweet corn, and yes.. the fattening cheese… but then i had it after long walk in the bloody 4 degs of cold…

i loved that walk… a few things kept coming back, no matter how hard i tried shooing them away… but then i managed to leave them somewhere on the horley town centre bus stand… what a relief…

talking of Pizzas it reminds me of a brilliant day that i had very long time back.. i guess in 2001.. i remember it because that time i was working in Global Groupware…

well, what happened was the I had to go to office… well not really.. i just made that story up because i wanted to meet my then girlfriend… and i offered mom dad a ride to RK Puram… my chacha’s place… the plan was I would drop them there… pick up my girlfriend… come home… call some friends over, have a party and then drop her and go to chacha’s place to pick mom dad up…

everything happened exactly like how we thought… except a blunder…

we had ordered pizzas for food… i had kept the pizza boxes to be thrown when we were moving out.. and asked her to pick them up… now in rush i forgot all about them… and when i reached chacha’s place i suddenly was reminded of this.. i called her up, and asked where did she threw the boxes… and as luck wanted it.. the Pizza boxes were on the washing machine… bang in front of the door, waiting for mom dad to arrive with me…

now there was no way i could remove the boxes now.. and i was already on my way home with mom dad.. thinking about how on earth am I going to save myself from being killed !!!

well.. when we reached home.. i volunteered to open the doors.. took the keys… opened the door… picked up the pizza boxes… and put them behind the safe in my room… what a CLOSE SHAVE it was… i blasted her off for this… and then almost died laughing on what could have happened to me !!! oh boy…

i can still laugh at that day…

and today comes to an end…

May tomorrow bring peace and happiness to all.. Amen…

Walking with myself…

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Walking is a nice thing to do…

depending on how you’d like it lets you talk to yourself, sing to yourself, be quiet, be sad or be happy or whatever…

or you may just walk…

i did… primarily because i was feeling too restless in my room yesterday… it was very warm and cozy, and probably thats exactly what i did not want at that time… so i picked up my jacket, the phones ( which i will not when i go out for a walk now, probably) and went out..

walked for about an hour before i came back… and in a much better shape mentally than before.. i could appreciate that warmth in the room better now… and was feeling more at ease as well…

realised:

that i can humm one song for about an hour… and when i attempt to change the track, i will get back to the original within 5 minutes…

that i need a music player with all my favorite oldies.. somehow when i am alone, the new songs don’t strike that chord that the oldies do.. maybe because i can sing along better.. whatever…

that i could resist the temptation of looking at my cell for a while… the first half i just kept looking at if off and on again… dunno what was i waiting for… but maybe i needed something to break that silence, before i got to terms with it…

and that walking helps you with acidity too 🙂

i hope i can gather enough courage to change clothes and get out of my room again tonight… its getting real cold these days here… as low as 0 degs which is predicted for today… right now my igoogle says that the temprature is around 8 degs outside…

Blog and Get Paid…

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Blogging is fun… Blogging is a certain medium to dump your thoughts out of your mind and heart and feel better… and blogging is also a medium of spreading awareness… and recently blogging is a good, rather a very good way of making money…

Are you wondering why would anyone get paid to blog? It’s not that complicated actually… Blogs work like advertisements, we all have seen that… good blogs also make those adverts worth it because they help generate some money both for the blogger as well as the advertiser… and blogs also help increase the rating of websites which is not becoming important every minute with the online world getting serious about a lot of things…

Tushar introduced me to Pay Per Post sometime back and I did like the concept, though not really getting hooked to it completely. With Pay Per Post, you get paid to blog about something, like in this case PPP itself… it give you a very nice interface to see what opportunities are available, and which ones do you qualify for basis your page ranking ( which also means that you have to have a good Google page rank before you can start getting that money), you can choose one of these opportunities and write about it on your blog, post it back on PPP and you get paid after a while, usually 30 days… do that regularly and some money comes to you at the end of every month…

I think this is a very good way of sustaining my online presence… I have so far used the money to buy domain names, purchase my flickr account and renew it, so it’s been a good experience so far… Hope it continues 🙂


sat sun…

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Saturday happened… and got over pretty quick as well… with some washing… some walking… some shopping…

Sunday was planning to go to a bird park about 2 hours away from home, but looks like its going to be raining today… so I am home.. resting again…

Good that I get my favorite TV shows every morning here too… Just Shoot Me, Will and Grace, Everybody Loves Raymond, Fraiser, and a few more… all of them… good good…

have been thinking about a few things.. may be later… right now, i gotta find the torrents for Heroes…

Feelings from a distance…

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The lights all around… the candles on the steps… the diyas in the house… the aarti with family… the friends coming over… the sweets… all that is happening…

and I will go back to a silent room… super silent infact…

learning to live with it…

मनोरमा

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Listening to the soundtrack of मनोरमा these days, off and on… and I love it…

It at times reminds me of the kind of music Maachis had… needless to say the lyrics are good, music soothing…. and I think the movie has been made nicely too….

तेरे सवालों के वो जवाब जो मैं दे न सकूं …
Pighle से अरमान हैं , दो पल के मेहमान हैं …
आखों के आलों में चाहत की लौ जलने दो ….

बेहतरीन !!!

Music to my (y)ears….

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the chirping of a bird

a voice long unheard

the sound when she breathes

my heart’s beats when she keeps

the growl of my car

a baby’s chuckle not too far

the air on the hills, the sound of the wings

the leaves falling on the walk, the water when the stream sings

whats music to your ears?