Happy Marriage Anniversary !
Happy Marriage Anniversary Mummy…
Happy Marriage Anniversary Papa…
Happy Marriage Anniversary Mummy…
Happy Marriage Anniversary Papa…
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?
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
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 🙂
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 …
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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…
sounds like a funny situation !!! When that happens to me, which it does at times… i usually scream out loud!!! 😀
what happens when something of this sort happens to emotions…
Something similar happened to me sometime back… Its not been a very interesting trip this time in UK… work pressure, being alone, not speaking a single word for the entire day, etc etc keeps me busy…
and to add to it one of my monday mornings, not today, started with bad rains and winds… and while I was trying to handle the umbrella and myself, there were cars on the road, which shamelessly kept splashing water on me everytime they passed by… for someone looking at me, that would have been a funny situation.. but there was li’il that I could do… if i stand under the only two shades around, the cars would ensure i was wet… and otherwise, the rains and the winds would… pretty neat consipiracy that was 😀
last week… I was told that when I told about this incident to a friend, I was looking for sympathy for my condition in UK…
and I was stunned… why would a friend ask for Sympathies?
… friends don’t need sympathies !!! do they?
was I looking for sympathy? NO…
strange…
That incident made me think about a few other people would have reacted to this situation of mine
Aro: He would have laughed his ass off…. and he will when i tell him this…
Deepu : Would give a quick practical advice on how i can manage the next time this happens…
Subbu : Would listen and not really react to it…
Bindiya: would just laugh and tell me that I am responsible and that I am an idiot to get out in the rain… to end it would ask if I managed a cup of tea or not when i reached office…
Tushar : Would have said,” Chal koi na… wapas aaja chai piyenge”.
Mom : Would have called, emailed to ensure that i was keeping myself warm and packed for atleast 5 days after that day… she did… though she does not know that I was running fever the entire week…
While I now smile thinking about how some people, I know, would extend their sympathies to this cry baby; I remind myself of being careful of how people look at you… its not a very good feeling when you are looked down upon and made to realise that you are not worth it… and I am going to not like it for a very long time….
Oh on a footnote, I am thinking of doing a roadtrip between London to Brussels via Paris sometime soon… any ideas or thoughts?
Why am I crying, as one of my friends always says, or feeling bad about things and people who are not around me?
Instead why am I not loving and living what I should ?
There is more to life than I can see, there is something else which I don’t realise, there is something that I am a part of but its a part of me too…
Too many thoughts flying around in random motion inside my head, but when I move out of my own body and see them from outside, they look in perfect symmetry…
Reminds me of the times, when as a kid, I used to think what if I have to travel to the end of the space… would i really find it?
Peace
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 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?
While eating my favorite Doritos and having Litchi Juice in a Pint Glass i write this post…
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…
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
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…