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  • Black Yellow Pink and Blue… oh and some green too!

    This weekend was fun!!! Saw some really good movies..

    Transformers (must be the 5th time I saw it)
    Pineapple Express, and
    Groundhog Day (loved it)

    and spent a lot of time watching clips from old Hindi comedies and Amir’s Coke Ads kyonki kurta to shareer ke upraard ki lajjanivaran ke liye hota hai na sir !!!

    Also finally gave two B/W rolls for developing and scanning… they should be back in a week’s time… really looking forward to the results!

    Got two more rolls…

    My Canon AE-1 Program Manual SLR!!! love this camera…
    I love this picture… very happy feeling for some reason!
    I wish I was carrying the Macro lens with me when I saw these flowers… but I was not… never mind… some other time!
    And my new new watch!!! I love how simple and yet classy it looks! One of the few times when I see something and I take it without second thoughts… This just took a second visit!

  • for the lack of a better word, lets be friends!

    I find it hard to digest that some people have “good friends” too many too soon… you know someone for a month and (s)he is a good friend, and then there is one more and one more… I mean how many good friends can one have?

    I think this word is being used a lot and without much meaning to it these days… too bad!

    I can count my good friends on my fingers, and my friends, well, maybe twice on my fingers… anyone else, and no offence please, is someone that I know or someone who knows me through Chai ki Dukaan, or my flickr page, or through someone I know through chai ki dukaan or my flickr page, or through someone who I know through someone… but com’on!!! friends? its takes something to be called a friend or to be a friend! is it not? or I am just plain stupid?

    For me 1 incident, or a couple of them between two people do not make or break friends… its takes time! and something more than the verbal or written or visual to be a friend of someone… a connection that makes you open up and share, and it HAS to be two way!

    and I see on blogs and comments and other places, sentences like I love you all, thank you friends, and all that… I find it crazy!

    On second thoughts, what is a different word for friend? Are there more words like it which can be used? Is it offensive to admit that you do not treat someone as a friend, but just as someone you know? I personally feel its ok, I would know my place and space and if I don’t I should…

    Maybe I am just going crazy! well! never mind!

  • A tag for a tag!

    Its been a while I have been tagged or I did one… here is one, that Wishes Galore tagged me for!

    Justify FullLets talk about the rules first :
    Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real …. nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can’t use your name for the boy/girl name question.

    And now the tag:
    1. What is your name: Prashant
    2. A four Letter Word: Pure
    3. A boy’s Name: Prem Pratap Patiyale Wala
    4. A girl’s Name: Premvati
    5. An occupation: Priest
    6. A colour: Purple
    7. Something you wear: Pajama
    8. A food: PaniPuri
    9. Something found in the bathroom: Paste
    10. A place: Pangong Tso
    11. A reason for being late: Phone call
    12. Something you shout: Pencho
    13. A movie title: Pran Jaye par Shaan na Jaye
    14. Something you drink: Passion Fruit Iced Tea
    15. A musical group: PINK Floyd
    16. An animal: Puma
    17. A street name: Pappu Singh Marg
    18. A type of car: PALIO
    19. Something scary: Poisonous Snakes 😛
    20. Ice cream flavour: Pink wali icecream

    Enjoy a bit of yesteryears with this ad…

    [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xep4RftkRdo&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0]

    There is something about this simplicity that is getting lost slowly…. thank God for Youtube that it can be revisited at times 🙂

  • Make Easy Choices…

    Get the best you can!

    Give the best you can!

    Live the best you can!

    Speak the best you can!

    Be the best you can!

  • …

    Keep the room cool, and the bed warm
    Keep the head cool, and the heart warm

  • ugh!

    If I hear Rakhi Sawant continuously for more than 3 minutes, I might just puke!!! thank God I can always switch channels!!!

    make it 2 actually!

  • Do these right, and not much will go wrong!

    1. Listen
    2. Speak
    3. Respect
    4. Give
    5. Express
    6. Un-clutter
    7. Smile
    8. Hug
    9. Kiss
    10. Enjoy

  • A guy, some girls and two break ups

    Its just the right title… Love Aaj Kal… It could also have been Movie Aaj Kal…
    Why?

    Because this kind of a movie has been made aaj(today) and it has been made Kal (yesterday) and will be made Kal (Tomorrow)

    The love that you see in movies Aaj (today), and you must have seen it kal (yesterday) and you will see it kal (tomorrow) too

    So in a nutshell, this is a movie you have seen before, with different characters, different situations, different actors, different locations, different trains, different stations, different camera angles, but trust me you have seen it all before… So there is something similar, yet different about this movie….

    Some of the reasons why you would like to see Love Aaj Kal

    1. Rishi Kapoor stays a fine actor… very natural, very elegant, very easy
    2. Saif Ali Khan’s suits… I personally think he dresses very well
    3. Deepika’s Gorgeous Legs…Just can’t get enough of them ever!
    4. The music… Pritam has done a brilliant job… Neeraj Sridhar, Mohit Chauhan, Sunidhi Chauhaan, Raahat Fateh Ali Khan, KK, all of them are worth listening to… I have been listening to the music of Love Aaj Kal all this week, and I am still not over Twist and Chor Bazaari… Chor Basaari specially…
    5. It reminds of some parts of a Delhi… Don’t know of many movies which have been shot in Purana Quila…
    6. Giselle Monteiro has looked so convincing as a sardarni… infact adorable
    7. Saif’s Mustang !!! nothing major, I love a mustang so its important!
    8. The movies reiterates a couple of facts… Men are mostly slow and stupid when it comes to relationships, Women are simple plain scared when it comes to relationships…and most couples get entangled into the “what if” and “what if not” modes…
    9. Some good lights and photography at places…
    10. Chor Bazaari is an amazing song! I love the music… Did I say that already? I think I did!

    and reasons why you might not want to watch
    1. 2 hours and 40 minutes.. umm…
    2. Saif has produced the movie, and that means that he speaks atleast 50% of the time, maybe more during the movie… uff! someone has to ask him to shut up…
    3. Under-utilization of Rahul Khanna..,he is such a fine artist… and Veer Das I wonder why this guy was in the movie.. he is a fine comic guy! and very smooth at times… what a waste…
    4. Useless dance routines! such amazing music wasted… I have been imaging much better stuff in my mind in the last few days… now you know why I need a mind printer!

    It was nice to be able to see a Hindi movie in a cinema in Milwaukee… liked it 🙂

    and today I made the best DAL EVER… someone needs to give me a “you can finally cook” certificate!

  • Gems from Hindi Cinema!

    Whenever I think of movies, there are a few characters I just cannot miss thinking about… Some of my favorites from the world of Hindi Cinema…

    Prem Pratap Patiyaale Wala from Wo Saat Din

    Ram Prasad Dashrath Prasad Sharma from Golmal

    Soorma Bhopali from Sholey

    Miss Chamko from Chashmebaddor

    Jai from Sholey

    Angrezon ke Zamane ka Jailer from Sholey

    Sukumar from Chupke Chupke

    Babu Rao from Hera Pheri

    Subhodh and Sameer from Dil Chahta Hai

    Daljit or DJ from Rang De Basanti

    Ashok from Angoor

    Som Mangal Budh Guru from Satte Pe Satta

    Ashok, Vinod, Tarneja, Ahuja from Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron

    Crime master Gogo, and Amar Prem from Andaz Apna Apna

    I am sure that is not all… if you remember any other scenes, please do share the links and I would put them up here!

  • A french festival and the Great Circus Parade in Milwaukee

    A couple of weekends ago, Milwaukee celebrated two events…. One called Bastille Days, which is a french festival and the second called The Great Circus Parade.. This post is about my visits to these events over a period of three days… Enjoy the photographs!

    Bastille Days is a 4 day festival which was held at the Cathedral Square in Easttown Area of Downtown Milwaukee… This was essentially a festival focusing on three things, Good food, Good music, and take a guess, well! good Wine!

    I am not a wine fan, but I did enjoy some brilliant performances, and some Egyptian and Greek food during the festival…

    Over to visuals now…

    This is the north stage…
    Street artists at the Bastille Days…


    Some images from the South Stage in the festival…


    So this was all about Friday… The next morning I decided to walk over to the Lakefront where the Great Circus Parade was camping… Walked around the place looking at various wagons, watching people enjoying with family, this was a place to come to with kids… They really enjoying watching the horses, elephants, Jokers, Camels etc etc

    This guy’s mom had an inter-cast marriage with a Dalmatian…

    India? Someone is still living in the British Raj when it comes to India…


    After spending a few hours at the Circus Parade grounds I headed back home…


    And decided to go to Bastille Days again in the evening ! Just the right time to enjoy some amazing live music….

    What I really like about US is that people enjoy and dance irrespective of their age… Mostly people in their 40s and 50s were dancing around the south stage this time around… Teenagers and Youth apparently were not interested in this festival, as I did not see many !

    Some rope acrobats as well in the festival….

    I have developed a strong liking for country music here, and I was happy to hear it live too… The base guitarist was amazing!!!

    And the next morning which was Sunday, I went to see the parade… People had reserved/blocked spaces on the street sides for days in advance, some kept their chairs, some had marked the spots with duct-tape, some had even pitched their tents and were staying there for a few days… The number of people I see in Milwaukee every weekend is probably equal to the number I see in 4-5 winter months together!

    Ok, back to the Parade, enjoy!

    Like I said, these were family events 🙂 Even the horses were not behind… Baby horses were a part of the parade with Mommy Horses…

    Hope you enjoyed the parade and the festival… Will have more from other events from Milwaukee… Stay tuned!!!

    I have purposefully not written the details about the festival or the parade assuming that if you are interested, you would google and read about it!