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Channel: star world
Program: Miss World 2005

what do i see…
about 25 Chinese women dancing on the stage in a beautifully choreographed performance…

and what do i think…

what if these were not Chinese women, but a group of Indian dancers, doing Kathak or Bharatnatyam or Kuchipudi or something else…

and then i felt sad very sad about the fact that Indian art forms are vanishing with every passing second… every second we have more people who are dancing on the remixes, and copying every possible movement of the body they can from outside Indiyaah !!! but then are we doing at the cost of our original art forms…

i see more people inclined towards the guitar, the keyboards, the drums and more… but then what happens to the harmonium, the dholak, the tabla, the sitar, the mridang !!!

i cannot write how scared i am with the thought of that day when no one would know what a sitar is… when the only place to find a tabla would be a museum.. when i can see the Kathak only on old CDs…

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1) Statement number 2 is true…
2) Statement number 1 is false…

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Richa tagged me.. and then called me up to tell me that she tagged me.. and now i have to make this post…

5 somethings….

5 things i just loooove to eat:

# Noodles
# Sweet and Sour Veg
# Rajma Chawal or Kadi Chawal
# Any Mithai
# South Indian Food

5 Hindi songs i like:

# Liye Sapne Nigahon mein, Chala hoon teri raahon mein… Zindagi aa raha hoon main…
# Pyaar Hamein kis mode pe le aaya… ke dil kare haye.. koi ye bataye.. kya hoga…
# Hum bekhudi mein tumko pukare chale gaye….
# Phoolon ke rang se.. dil ki kalam se.. tujhko likhi roz paati…
# and loads and loads of them… would do total injustice to my love for hindi oldies if i limit it to five songs…

5 English songs i like:

# I beleive i can fly – R Kelly
# Summer of 69 – Bryan Adams
# I want to be your underwear – Bryan Adams
# All Star – Smashmouth
# and tons of more songs…

5 things i hate:

# Double Standards
# Arrogance
# Stupidity
# The Kapoor Sisters Lelo and Bebo.. or is it Lolo and Bebo… for the people with low GK.. Karishma and Kareena Kapoor
# Assholotic Drivers on the roads of Delhi…

5 things i want to see:

# the jungles of South Africa
# Pyramids in Egypt
# The great wall of China from the space ( i heard that its the only man made architecture which you can see from space)
# Sunrise in Kausani on a bright clear day ( I have been to kausani twice and could not see it both times)
# again… my thoughts are not limited by the maximum entries i can put in this post.. so not closing this part too…

5 things i like about/in women:

# brains especially when they come in a surprise package with beauty…
# long hair and expressive eyes
# the smile when you least expected it and wanted it like anything…
# dusky skin tone
# the you make me complete look

5 Characters from TV that i like:

# Raymond from Everybody loves Raymond ( hey richa… common thingie here)
# Joey from FRIENDS ( how you doin’)
# Ehsaan Qureshi from The Great Indian Laughter Champions
# Caroline from the Caroline in the City
# Monisha from Sarabhai vs Sarabhai (Another Common eh !!!)

5 Pastimes:

# Inter -the best way to kill time – net
# T – another time killer – V
# Conversations
# Silence
# MeuZik

i am not tagging anyone.. coz i am not sure if anyone would do this !!! so if you like it, do make a post on your page with this info.. if you don’t want.. no issues…

I hereby TAG everyone who is reading this !!!

check this site out… wonderful !!!!

http://www.dontclick.it/

there was a concern about how a certain situation is be to handled after we start using the tool that i am training ppl on…

the person who was asked this question did not know the answer…

he comes to me and asks me if i have an answer… fortunately i had the answer… and a valid one too.. he asks me to put it on an email and send it to him…. i do that…

next i have to go to his workstation for something.. and i see him copying and pasting my note to a new email and send it across to everyone concerned…. no mention of who actually gave the answer..

so much for working hard and knowing the right answers…
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Satyug
Tretayug
Dwaparyug
Kalyug

This is how the time is divided.. why am i talking about this.. well because shilpa and me were talking about a line which is used a lot these days…

“Kya Jamana Aa Gaya Hai… Ghor Kalyug…“

and i was talking about what all is captured in MMS these days… Shilpa incidently is working on some MIS for MMS in bharti.. and this is how the conversation started…

MeE !!! – how is work these days..
ma friend – gud and challenging ..
ma friend – 🙂
MeE !!! – what is it that you are doing now?
ma friend – MIS for MMS
MeE !!! – MMS
MeE !!! – hmm..
MeE !!! – MIS
MeE !!! – hmm…
MeE !!! – hmm..
ma friend – yup 🙂
MeE !!! – interesting..
MeE !!! – do you get to see all the MMS as well
MeE !!! – 😉
ma friend – lol@the series of hmmm..s
MeE !!! – 😀
ma friend – lol@see all mms
ma friend – nopes
MeE !!! – 🙁
MeE !!! – ye to nainsaafi hai
ma friend – gud one doesnt get to see all dat..
MeE !!! – if you do not see the mms how can you have the mis taken care of..
ma friend – 😉
MeE !!! – 😉
ma friend – oh mahn!!
ma friend – aap to kaafi khatarnaak baatein karte hain..
ma friend – 😉
MeE !!! – main to sirf baatein hi karta hoon..
MeE !!! – log to pata nai kya kya karte hain..
MeE !!! – 😛
ma friend – lol
ma friend – ghor kalyug aa gaya hai
MeE !!! – haan..
ma friend – ram ram

And my response was this…

MeE !!! (2:45 PM) – pata nai meri kismat satyug mein kya kar rahi hai abhi tak lekin
MeE !!! (2:45 PM) – :'(

so my dears.. ladis.. and gentel mans…this is abouts my kismats in this kalyugs…. the times has changeds… buts my times stills remains withs the olds yugs… aarghs…

p.s. the above conversation obviously has been edited… to keep a few things secret 😉

my mind should work like a body does…

i cannot beleive how this thought came to my mind… i was talking to richa when i told her what i am going to write here… and what was i talking about at that point of time… SHIT… so shit leads to good thoughts too.. here is how…

to keep a body alive …eat…..
to keep a mind alive…communicate

your body… takes the best out of the food and leaves the rest… which goes out of a human body as shit…
your mind… takes whatever thoughts that come to you, whatever conversations i am a part of…

and what should it do.. it should just keep the best of that lot with itself.. and use that to enrich itself.. and just throw away the crap and the unusable shit !!!

my mind should work like a body does…

aaj socha ke upar waale se poochun
ke mujhe itna kyon sata raha hai tu….
aur tabhi teri aawaz ne kaano par dastak di
ab kya sawal aur kya gam…

i am getting better with my poetry 😀 now i can write something once every 4 months 🙂 hehehe.. very good prashant.. keep it up…

i was thinking about a few things which have not happened to me so far in my life… and now they are going to happen or are happening…

1. i have never been inside an airport – i get to be inside the airports in 5 cities of india next month…
2. i have never been close to an aeroplane or sit inside it – i get to fly for the entire business trip… delhi to kolkata to bhopal to mumbai to chennai to banglore ( by road) to delhi…
3. i have never seen the sea – i get to go to both the west coast and the east coast of india.. see the sunset in mumbai.. and a sunrise in chennai.. and maybe pondichery too..
4. i have never been outside my house for more then a week – i am going away from my house for a month now
5. i have broken all records of staying in the office.. for the last two months i am spending an average of 11 hrs in the office…

masta life hai !!! God bless me.. and gimme a lot of strength 🙂

and a girlfriend too 😉 bong babe… or some from soorma bhopali’s familiy…or a mumbai magic woman…. i am not really sure about banglore bombs and chennai chicks… hehehe.. they seem to be the names of some hockey teams from these cities 😛

oh.. and burfi wrote a post about better gurls a few days back… i have a very very similar story… and here is the line that i use for myself…

All the Good Gurls are taken… and the bad ones do not find me good enuff 😉
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Umre Daraaz maang ke laye chaar din…
Do aarzoo mein kat gaye.. do intezaar mein !!!

this is going to be one long post…

not being able to write for so long…. has made me miss some of the important things that i wanted to put down on the blog.. and i am not even sure if i can remember all of them…

anyway… i have too much of work load these days… but then i am not complaining.. somewhere deep inside me i am just sad.. that if i am so much capable of taking the kinda responsibilities given to me.. why can’t someone in IBM realise this.. can get me onboard !!! i want to give this project my best shot.. and then go ahead full blast on a job search… this time into core consultancy…

what takes up most of my time these days is preparing the training material for a india wide tool implementation and training… the best thing about this project is that i am getting to travel to places i have never been to…

i am leaving delhi on the 8th of December for kolkata.. will stay there for 5 days.. and then move to bhopal for another 5 days before going to Mumbai and Banglore.. i am also planning to meet up with Deepak.. and catch up with him on the new years.. hope he would not mind.. though i am not sure if i am screwing up any of his plans which he must have made !!!!

i would be out of home for over a month.. the longest so far in my life.. its going to be tough.. its going to be exciting.. its going to give me a lot of time with myself.. and probably rediscover myself… lets see how it goes !!!!

and today was supposed to be the last sunday of 2005 when i am not working.. on the contrary.. i have been working for about 4 hours now 🙁 i am already tired !!!! how am i gonna work all the next weekends 🙁 lets see… i have a point to prove here to myself.. and i cannot let myself down !!!

some of the other interesting things that have happened in the last few days…

Amit got married.. my manager in Hughes.. and his marriage function looked like a HSS Reunion.. and i am going to another marriages today.. Nishant. one of the best managers one can ask for… and he is getting married to his long time sweetheart Ruchika, who used to be a part of Hughes as well… God bless him.. and Ruchika… they make a great couple.. and the way Nishant handled the entire relationship thingie in office was amazing.. just another act to display the kinda grey matter he has.. so another HSSBPO reunion tonight…

Rupak is also getitng married tonight… he was the one who was totally against marriage…. and we came to know about his thoughts last year when me waquar saxena and rupak went to bhimtal…. and look at how things move.. he is getting married… God bless him and his wonderful better half too…

I have been talking about legalisation of prostitution and how and why we would or not accept someone who sells her/his body as a part of our lives… i will write about that later.. i am not really in a position to gather all my thoughts about that right now…

Met Narang somedays back.. on the 22nd to be precise.. its such a pleasure to meet… one helluva friend i have.. God bless you buddy.. love you…

Aro se bhi mila.. and it was as good as always to meet up with him… i can laugh my heart out when i meet this guy !!! i am going to meet his parents when i go to Kolkata.. apprently i do not need any introduction when i meet his folks.. they know me well through him though i have not met them ever…

what else has been happening.. nothing much actually…

i am still with the thought of a look makeover… have been switching between french cut beard.. a li’il bit of beard.. Nishant has specifically asked me to be clean shaven today or not come to the wedding…so… i guess.. i am going to look at myself clean shaved after quiet sometime today 🙂

what else… cannot think of anything..

just need to rush to the market to get a tie for myself !!! tmrw is my training pilot.. wish me luck !!!

kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahan pe…
do pal milte hain…
saath saath chalte hain..
jab mod aaye to bach ke nikalte hain…

kitne ajeeb rishte hain yahan pe…

Raina had this song in one of her posts sometime back !!!!

somehow this song makes so much sense… relations indeed are kinda strange… we meet people who are strangers… and become the best of friends… and then we have ppl who used be our closest pals.. and distances come in between from God knows where…

are these things controllable… yes to an extent… there is a lot that i can do to keep my pals with me…. oh.. let me correct myself… i can do a lot to keep myself close to my pals…

but then what happens when they do not make an effort…

anyway.. that is a rotten topic and i really am not in a mood to write more about that…

what i really wanted to write today.. was about new relationships that bring magic to your life… new people.. new smiles… new days… new evenings… 🙂 does it look like i am in love… hehehe.. it might feel that way.. but i am not…

i am outside love & relationships….and am trying to look at it from a outside world !!! Sunil got married yesterday, and we had a looong talk day before about how he was feeling about everything.. he was very very relaxed… and was very very happy too… and then he had so many reasons to be happy… and it felt really good to see someone who once used to study with me start another life !!!! and also be a part of one more life… ankita his wife (now) is a very lucky girl… Sunil is a mature guy.. and he understands how difficult it is for some girl to leave her house and start staying with ppl who are unknown !!!! and that too with a feeling that she would be judged almost with everything that she does… everything that she is going to do.. the minutest of the things would create an impression… how she walks in the house.. how she talks on the phone.. how is greets her new parents… everything… i think its very very tough !!!! just too tough for a human to think about !!! and so many of them go through it and a good percentage of it comes out of it happy !!!! God bless them !!!!

There is such a huge amount of responsibility that sunil and his wife are going to share now… a life that starts new !!! a life that needs them to be together come whatever may.. a life that promises to bring happiness… and with a condition… that they give each other space to breath… that they let each other speak their heart out… that they respect each other and the people they are and were associated with.. family friends relatives and wat not !!!!

at the end of the day they have to make sure that the other person looks forward to even one minute of time spent together !!! God bless you Sunil God bless Ankita !!! i hope they and all the couples in this world stay happy !!!!

and the good/bad girls who are still single.. and ready to mingle (please do NOT read “get married” ) send a message to me 😉