Bits and pieces from the US
A few photographs from Minneapolis, Minnesota
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A few photographs from Minneapolis, Minnesota
See some more of my work on my facebook page : Prashant Bhardwaj Photography – And Pictures
With the music of Gulal, there is one more song that has been added to the list of my favorites… the ones where you need atleast space for 3 people, have a gamcha in your neck, your lower lip between your teeth, and dance like there is no tomorrow 🙂
राणाजी म्हारे गुस्से में आये, आइसो बल खाए,
अगिया बरसाए, घबराए म्हारो चैन
जैसे दूर देस के टावर में घुस जाये एरोप्लेन
जैसे सरेआम इराक में जाकर बस गए अंकल सैम
Actually two songs 🙂 the other one is
बीड़ा दूजी थाली का लगे बड़ा मसालेदार
मन बोले चक मक हाए चक मक हाए चक मक हाए चक मक चक मक चक मक
खाई तो मचल गई रे ओ कजरारी नार
मन बोले चक मक हाए चक मक हाए चक मक हाए चक मक चक मक चक मक
The simplicity in lyrics and music is something that bowls me over EVERY single time with such songs… Thank you Rekha Bhardwaj for rendering it in a way that it touches the heart!
Thanks Geet for the post on Gulal… Good music and some very strong lyrics! I am looking forward to the movie as well…
Oh and talking about the title… here is the last video from my trip to Minneapolis… the gang enjoying with Billo Rani !
The best part is that Papa also likes this song a lot and there is no time when he listens to this song and we do not put it on a repeat 🙂
Another random thought, I need to prepare a list of songs for my bachelor party, whenever that happens 😀
If you are not able to see the embedded video, click here to see it on youtube.
You might also want to see some photographs of these guys HERE.
But don’t take my word for it… watch the movie… It would still show you a “few” glimpses of the beautiful walled city !
Oh, and apologies for a bad video quality of the embedded video.. it was the darker corner of the room where we guys were sitting and chatting… If the above video does not work for you, here is the link for YouTube.
You’ve read what I write… here is a chance to hear it too 🙂
Apologies for a bad video quality… It was taken using a regular point and shoot camera and in the darker side of the living room !
I had aimed for a good weekend, and I hit the bull’s eye if not anything else 🙂
So Friday night i took the bus to Minneapolis and reached around midnight…
Happy Valentine’s day had started 🙂
On Saturday all we could do was hit on the dartboard instead of some hot girls around, because it was kind of snowing and very cold…
But the sky opened up, and it was bright outside… Pritam was excited about the shoot I had promised him of his new car !
No, not the one above… its the one below 🙂 The one above was just parked where we were shooting…
What yummy tires his SUV has… Tires and the lights are the first thing that I like to notice in any vehicle and if they are not attractive, I am usually not going to give the car a second look… and Pritam’s Nissan is a nice mean beast !!!
We went around driving for a sunset point and reached the Medicine Lake instead… Realized that this was our chance to drive on ICE and without much deliberation took the car on the lake as well… Now this was some crazy experience… driving on the frozen lake….
Waiting till sunset there and then headed back home…. The evening saw some lovely Indian music with an overdose of Delhi 6 numbers, specially Gainda Phool and ended with a lot of RD Burman music… not to mention the repeat of Umrao Jaan songs over and over again… so finally slept around 0300 hrs after finishing the conversation quote for the night…
The next morning… 0830 hrs and some hot ginger tea thanks to Deepak woke me and the rest of the gang up !!!!
Suman still did not want to get up and he just got up and went into a different room to catch up on his sleep 🙂
While the rest of the gang was getting ready, I took a few pictures of the customary roses to mark the Valentine’s day celebrations 🙂
The day was sunny and nicely warm !
So we decided to go out for a short drive around Minneapolis…
and saw the frozen waterfall @ the Minnehaha park…
The stairs that would take you to the bottom of the fall were closed and that saved us some time… so me and Pritam decided to take Golu, Lakhan and Sapna to the Medicine Frozen lake….
This time around, there were more people on the lake, and ICE fishing was at its full swing…
Lakhan got adventurous and decided to take some rest on his makeshift ICE bed…
The rest of the people were more intelligent, and had small cabins which they we spending time in…
And then we tried another game… sit on the pillow push ! but this did not work well… either our subject (Pritam in this case) was too heavy for the pillow to slide on ice, or the ice was not that frictionless… anyway, before we came out of the lake, we decided to do some wheelies and Pritam did take some nice complete turns in the car… very very interesting… i am sure they would have looked more interesting from outside !!!
With not much time left, we then rushed to Perkins to have lunch… i love Perkins by the way… the Granny Omlette (without any meat) and the Pancakes with honey are the best combo !!! mmmmmmmmmmm….
With just about 30 minutes left for my bus, we rushed to the downtown stand…
Took the bus at 1530 hrs from Minneapolis and was back home around 2200 hrs….
And did I mention that during these two days, we managed to take some crazy interesting portraits too !!! enjoy 🙂
Like I had said in my earlier post… Had a very refreshing weekend… Frozen lake, Frozen Waterfall, Umrao Jaan, Ginger Tea, Crazy Face Making Photo Session, Hunt for a Pineapple Cake, were just some of the few things that happened, not to mention the non stop talking !!!
A walk around in the downtown, looooong walk around a lake and sunset at another followed !
Enjoy the few photographs below, while I think of how to write more !
More to follow soon !!! Get bored with this post first 🙂
The flight was long by any standards… took a total of 15 hours from take off to landing… pathetic collection of movies, and not even average food with ultra casual attendants most of them over 40 yrs of age… so was American Airlines !!!
anyway… when I reached the Chicago O’Hare Airport I could not get any information about my connecting flight except that I should go to terminal 3. I did, checked in again and realised that non of the display boards had my flight number out of the about 60 flights they were displaying… Felt a li’il strange and manage to find an agent ( here the people who are associated with the flight, but are not Crew members are called agents) and after a couple of understanding and misunderstandings I was told that the flight was cancelled and I was moved to the next available flight… It added about 2.5 hours of waiting at Chicago with nothing much to do… If it was not for a few lovely words and I had read and heard when I left Delhi, I did not have anything much to think about either!
Anyway, I reached alright… hungry, tired and with a backache 🙂 as expected from the long flight !!!
I had talked to a guy here a couple of days back and he was kind enough to come over and take me to a super market to get some bread etc and then show me around a few restaurants and my office which thankfully is just about 5-6 minutes away…
I am happy that subway tastes the same in India and London and now Minneapolis too… Just stuffed myself with a footlong and two laaarge glasses of Nestle Iced Tea…
Back at the hotel room now and trying to pass sometime so that I sleep only when its evening here… That would help me wake up properly tomorrow morning! Maybe !!!!
I will crash now, Just can’t keep my eyes open anymore…