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Monthly archives for April, 2009
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Change
Time for a bit of change…
1. Seat moved from the 13th to the 7th floor
2. Need to share the cubicle now… so much for being the vendor and not an employee
3. Will take a while to adjust to the new seat… different height of the keyboard, monitor, docking station
4. Will miss the view of the MAM and the lake…
(चाय और चम्पी ) Chai aur Champi !
Kshitiz had a post on flickr a couple of days back which was something about why he was going back to India, and his response was that he does not get the roadside tea here !
I could not agree with him more…
If there were a few reasons why I want to go back to India, not being able to park my car and have tea/food in a dhaba would be in the top 5… What a blessing it is to enjoy a different kind of food and tea, every 100 kms in a open air dhaba… and here, all you get is Subways, Wendy’s, McDonalds and so on and so forth… sab kuch ek jaisa !
Another reason and very silly one that is, would be not getting the proper hair cream… I have not been able to find any hair cream that I like so far here in the US.. my biggest issue is the huge number of options for almost every issue for your hair, and not one which says non sticky hair cream !!! aargh…
Anyway, this weekend I managed to find something from Garnier that looks and feels like my favorite Parachute After Shower… though this one does not smell as nice as Parachute… Monday morning when I used it, I was so happy !!! finally !!!!
Oh and one more… the 10 rupe ki champi that I get at my hair dresser !!!
I going to move out of my comfort zone and path of least resistance at work soon… It is for doing the right thing, so hoping it works !!!
शोले – भाग १
पिक्चर : शोले
सन : १९७५ (1975)
निर्देशन : रमेश सिप्पी
निर्माता : जी पी सिप्पी
कथाकार : जावेद अख्तर, सलीम खान
संगीतकार : राहुल देव बर्मन
अब मैं क्या बोलूं? मुझे तो सब पुलिसवालों की शक्लें एक जैसी लगती हैं…
शायद खतरों से खेलने का शौक है मुझे…
लेकिन ! भागने की कोशिश मत करना !!!
वीरू से टक्कर !!!
मैंने कहा था… भागने की कोशी श श श … क्या बोलता है? भाग तो सकते हैं ! इससे इस हालत में छोड़ कर?
खाना पीना साथ है, मरना जीना साथ है…. सारी ज़िन्दगी…
ये दोस्ती …….
अरे उठाओ अपनी लकड़ी और निकालो पैसे
पैसे ! ऐसे कैसे पैसे मांग रहे हो?
वो नोट तो दो रुपे का था !
अरे तो ये लकड़ी दो रुपे की है !
दो रुपे में इत्ती सी लकड़ी !!
और नहीं तो क्या दो रुपे में आप सारा जंगल खरीदने निकले थे?
सूरमा भोपाली, हम जेल जाना चाहते हैं !
अल्लाह आपकी तम्मना पूरी करे !
भोपाल होता तो हम वैसे ही दो मिनट में आपको अन्दर करवा देते ! हमारा नाम सूरमा भोपाली वैसे ही नै ये!
क्या के रहे हो आप !!!
अगला सीन है जेल का… वहां से कहानी बाद में !!!! इंतज़ार कीजिये भाग २ का !!!
तब तक शब्बा खैर !
ओह, और हाँ ! यहाँ पर सिर्फ़ मजाकिया भाग पेश किए जायेंगे॥ कृपया और किसी तरह के भागों की अपेक्षा न करें।
OverDose
I was doing this fun quiz on Blogthings and this is what it had to say about me..
“You shine brightly and are best in small doses. Too much of your company can be overwhelming and even dangerous.“
How so very true !
I love blogthings !
and its cricket time today… Gawd I suck at it !!! Lets see how big a fool I make out of myself on that ground !
The bridge and bus of Orchha!
A few friends went on a trip together to place they had never been to… Prashant, Deepak, Priyanka, Kavita, and Anjali…
The train journey to Jhansi, and the bus trip from Jhansi to Khajuraho was great(9 types of horns that bus had, and the driver was more than happy blowing them to amuse us all the way)… walking around in Khajuraho was great… realizing that Khajuraho is not only about Kamasutra was great…
taking an unplanned jungle safari was great…
realising that Poha, some local chutney, aalu tikki, pineapple dahi, could make a trip memorable was great…
And then the gang reach Orccha… and on this orccha evening something happened…
These 5 to be good photographers were clicking at the banks of the Betwa River, which has a bridge connecting the two sides… one side is populated by Orchha and the other by I don’t know what… This bridge is not too wide a bridge, maybe good for two scooters from either directions, or one car and one scooter approaching each other from opposite ends, or a few cycles together… bring a bus on the bridge, and she is the queen of the bridge.. there is no space for anyone else…
Priyanka was clicking on the other side of the bridge and started walking towards Orchha slowly, she had covered just about a quarter of the bridge when she saw a bus coming from orchha towards her… the option was to walk back and wait for the bus to cross, or to run towards the bus and cross the bridge before the bus comes onboard…
Priyanka chose the latter, and decide to run towards the bus…
No points for guessing that the bus was a bit faster than what it was expected it to be! and it reached the bridge while Priyanka was still on the it…
Now because the bus was packed, and there was no space to climb it either, Priyanka had to walk all the way back towards the other end, with the bus following her slowly…
We did not realize this had happened till she told us about the incident later in the evening and we all almost died laughing… The bus above is the same bus, and I was wondering why did it stop on the bridge 
Now I know
I still smile at this incident…
I also remember this trip because this was my first trip with the dSLR.. and I had gone crazy taking pictures, and most of them were rubbished by my photography guru and friend Gaurav…
p.s. Priyanka, if you read this, its not to make fun of you or anything, its just to remember that amazing trip we guys had and because someone had commented on the picture of the bus recently and I though that the bus event deserves a special mention here…
Oh, and how did I forget mentioning about that Auto Driver who brought us to Jhansi from Orchha… what a singer… phew !!!
Check out some more pictures from that trip here.
Original post about the trip here.
30on30 Updates
The 30on30 Project got an overwhelming response from friends all around. Here are some of the highlights so far:
1. Reached the initial goal of raising Rs. 30000
2. Decided to not stop there
3. Revised the goal to Rs. 50000 and are about 5K short of it as of today
4. Even if we reach 50K we would try to continue raising some money till 30th April and do as much as possible
Thank you everyone who has participated, appreciated, purchased, promoted, and wished for the success of the project.
And like I said, its not over yet !!! There is still more than a week to go.. please do spread the word around if you have not yet done that.
notes
One fails as a consultant if (s)he is not able to bring value to the table. I get very disappointed when I have to work with people who only fill spaces…
p.s. don’t need comments on this… just had to take it out of the system !
To be or (K)not to be !!!
I kept thinking about it, and at the end of the year, I had “TO BE” 30 years old… could not do much about it… so here I am on the other side of the decade… in my “Thirties” now
The photograph is not really relevant except that the the title of this post is the title of the photograph as well But in case you can get some analogy going with the shoes, the knot, the years, you are more than welcome… but please don’t come up with the “tie the knot” thing… its too predictable !!!
I like quiet birthdays and on the contrary when I was a kid the birthdays were FAR from being quiet… Mom used to invite all my relatives home and the mornings used to be Havan time and the evenings a cake cutting ceremony… I used to love it, mostly because that was one day of the year when the entire family used to be together… all my chachas, mamas, grandparents, cousins… fun times !!!
But over a period of time, things changed, the way birthday was celebrated changed, the family gathering reduced to phone calls, SMSs, Facebook and Orkut wishes, and ecards… Friends became more important than relatives, and evening dinners with friends took the priority over family dinners…
and then another phase kind of took me away from these as well… as of now, I like quiet birthdays, silent, peaceful, with either my parents or with just the friends who understand how I feel within… and not driven by social networking obligations… I like those few calls from “parts of my life” far away from me, and I like waiting for them too… and Aro you ass, you did not wish me this time !!!
This birthday was different and full of loads of fun !!!
- Midnight drive to search for Perkins and have pancakes
- Not finding anything open at 1 in the night
- Cutting a Apple Pie instead of a Cake
- Conversations that were put to a forced stop at 4 in the morning
- Getting late for all planned activities
- Driving to 3 different key “what to visit when in Milwaukee” locations and not getting inside any
- The amazing poori, matar paneer, aalu sabzi dinner… Thank you Deepak, Sapna for that effort, and ofcourse Deepali for the utensils
- Me driving Pritam’s SUV for atleast 150 miles in 3 days
- The live music at Mo’s Irish Pub
- Deepak’s confession, which is now recorded on the camera
- Some conversations to laugh about for a long long time ! including what happens to a deer if you hit it with a car in Wisconsin
- Getting Choclates and a CD from Canada (Thanks Jas)
- Getting Tea cups from India (Thanks Swati)
- Tricking Pritam into giving his iPhone to me when the new version comes out sometime this year (Thank you Pritam
) - Gifting myself a flash(not sure how much I need it, but I am sure I will put this to good use) and a macro lens (finally)
I have a lot going on in my mind these days… need to get some thoughts out, some things done, some tasks completed… one at a time !
side notes…
I am going to stop commenting on posts, blogs, photographs where the writer/photographer conveniently writes “thank you all”, “thank you folks”, “thank you friends”, “thank you peeps” etc etc… I have seen that there are times when people ask questions or have something specific to say, and even if not, they spend time, a minute or two writing a comment for you… and its unfair to not address that comment personally… spending any time on such pages is only a waste of my time… I don’t think it matters anyway to the author
सब कुछ हो फिर भी सब न हो
जो अब तक होता आया
वो शायद अब न हो
ज़िन्दगी के लम्बे सफ़र में
दुःख भरी कोई शब् न हो
बचपना है प्यार है
यारी है दोस्ती है
हंसी है ख़ुशी है
उम्मीदें है ख्वाहिशें हैं
सपनो के टूटने पर
उम्मीदों के छूटने पर
उतना दर्द
शायद अब न हो
एक रास्ता था वो भी
एक रास्ता है ये भी
उस राह के छूटने पर
अकेलापन शायद अब न हो
नयी मंजिलों का इंतज़ार है
नयी राहों से मुझे प्यार है
इन राहों पर मिलने वाली मंजिलों में
सब कुछ हो
फिर भी सब न हो
प्रशांत भारद्वाज
अप्रैल २००९
