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  • excel-lent day…

    110 + emails to start off…

    A file with more 16000 rows to be updated with responses…

    Now down to a respectable 7 unread emails…

    File updated, no errors, all good, Status shared !!!

    Life is not that bad !!!

    Oh wait… People woke up again… Emails pouring in…

  • Modern Day workouts…

    • Walking out of Relationships…
    • Jumping to Conclusions…
    • Sitting on issues…
    • Standing up against whats not cool enough…
    • Running away from truth…

    Can you think of more?

    I think we can do better as people !!! Can’t we?

    Some more workouts from the visitors of Chai ki Dukaan:

    • PULLING legs.
    • PUSHING your beliefs on others.
    • CLIMBING up the wrong tree.
    • PLAYING with words

    (Credits : Anonymous)

    • Stretching the limits.
    • Swimming out of loopholes.
    • Bending the truth.
    • Pushing the target date.
    • Weight of stress.
    • Balancing the responsibilities

    (Credits : Vinita)

    • Lunging over dreams

    (Credits : Nitin)

    And for a long time I have been saying that the Civic looks much better than the more expensive Accord, and today I saw the new Accord 🙂

    And its dripping SEXY !!!

    This is the 8th Generation Accord, and I have to admit that even though I am never going to buy it, this would still be a very very desirable car for me !

  • Sharp Turn Ahead…

    They had met just once… Long time back ! Felt like a decade or something, but it was just 6 months ago…

    Both scared, both afraid of things that had happened in the past, but still keen on taking a step towards each other, towards something that they felt was strong enough to let the bond stay…

    The first meeting was over even before it started, or atleast it felt like how it was… but still it was long enough for each of them to hold on to something till they meet next… though both of them were not sure when would that really happen… or if that will even happen or not…

    They waited…
    They laughed…
    They fought…
    They expected…
    They Got…
    They were irritated…
    They were strong…
    They had a faith…
    which was to last for long…
    They missed…
    They cared…
    They wanted to say a lot, but none of them dared…
    Something they said, some they left just like that…

    Time was slower then it usually is, for the period they were away from each other… But like time is expected to, it did pass !!!

    Things happened, both bad and good…

    And time just passed… with that strong thin thread, which both of them kept holding on to…

    And today !

    Its a different day…

    They are not two people anymore… they are a couple…

    He is not a boy anymore… he is a husband…
    She is not a girl anymore… She is a wife…

    That thin thread has survived the test of time, and it has only grown stronger !!!

    Life has a new meaning today… Brilliant !!!

    ________________

    On a lighter note…

  • Eazy Breezy

    No electricity for a loooooooong time…

    The inverter did help, but then again it runs on batteries that eventually died…

    Hot Humid Uncomfortable irritating time…

    The hand-fan did help… it was like heaven when the air from the hand-fan hit my face…

    and then the weather changed… cool breeze flowing all around now… the rains helped the weather even more…

    I feel good !!!

    God Bless !!!

  • …

    What is the best excuse men can give for their Mood Swings?

  • And I say Jump and Jump and Jump And JUMP….

    Flickr does not allow me to post it like a series which I would have ideally liked to…

    Here is some free flowing fun from Brahm Sarovar, Kurukshetra… If the Gods were looking they would have been clapping too 🙂

    Enjoy !!!

    Scene one Take one OVER….

    Lets start all over again 🙂

    How About Some more diving and funn? Ready? HERE WE GO !!!

    Lights… Camera… and ACTION !!!

    All of this in a few seconds !!! and I LOVED IT !!!!

  • Flying with a Broken Wing…

    A Bird with broken wings… yea.. thats what I have been feeling for a while now…


    but something to make me feel better happened this weekend, though the start was not the best of it… I hope God Uncle is looking after everything just right !

    Anyway…

    I just come back from a very refreshing break….


    Here is a photo preview… enjoy !

    Yes yes… I drove… not too long though 🙂 but long enough to make me feel nice…








  • MP Diaries : The Rock Paintings (Blast from the Past)

    The story so far:

    Delhi – Kanha
    Kanha and around
    Kanha to Bhopal
    Bhopal to Bhojpur and Ujjain

    The next morning we did wake up as required… as early as 0400 hrs and were out of the hotel and in the temple on time… We had a small argument with the police there over the temple opening early and no cloakroom available to keep our stuff there…

    We entered the temple… waited in a not that small queue, and finally got a seat near the Shivling… The Arti was already on and we watched the entire proceedings on the TVs fitted outside the Garbhagreh… The most typical of the morning arti at Mahakaal Temple is the BhasmArti where ashes from a still burning pyre are brought to be used in the arti…

    What caught my attention was a Naga Baba who was standing still throughout the Aarti but suddenly he started moving as if he has the most energy in this world… For the next 20 odd minutes throughout the time when Bhasm Arti was going on, he was the person to look at… AWESOME it was….

    We rushed back, picked our bags and rushed to the Railway Station to catch the 0715 Intercity Express back to Bhopal… We were just in time to take the tickets and this time we took the reserved compartment, to see if we could make up for the lack of sleep and manage some during out 4 hour journey back to Bhopal…

    The Ganeshji 🙂

    The next 4 hours did not see a lot of activity except me not letting Aro sleep when I did not get to sleep well…

    The train reached Bhopal on time and we quickly found a hotel near the station only and planned for the rest of the day… We wanted to go to BhimBethka ( to see the rock paintings) and then again to Bhojpur ( We could not get enough of the place the last afternoon)…

    A Bison attacking men…

    So we changed, hired a cab and set off to Bhimbethka… The place was without a doubt magical with all those colorful paintings all around… You can read more about the paintings here. and the pictures you can check out below…

    The Flying Man…
    Ready to go hunting…

    Community Dancing and Festivity…

    Hunting in Progress…

    Mammoths…

    The Rock Shelter popularly known as the Zoo Rock…

    Community on Rocks… There is a King as well whose horse has flowers all around…

    Another one of the paintings…

    After a while we moved towards Bhojpur again and spent the rest of the day there…

    The Gold that INDIA produces… Wheat…

    Harvesting Wheat…

    The Shivling at Bhojpur…

    Sunset from Bhojpur…

    The place is in our hearts… Visible in the shades right now…
    The platform at the Bhojpur Temple…

    By evening we were back in Bhopal and in the new market area… Did some shopping in Mrignayani and had the best pan in the world at Banarasi Pan Bhandar… I was happy to see that the taste had not changed much in the last few years…

    The day that started a li’il too early finally came to an end around 2200 hrs with no plans for our final day in MP… there was a certain amount of satisfaction though in whatever we had in the last 5 days !!! had lived INDIA the way we liked…

    and tomorrow was yet another day 🙂

  • Cannot Do and the To do…

    Its better to take your mind off a few things that you cannot do anything about, for a while… And honestly speaking, almost EVERYTHING that I need/want to do something about is not in my control these days… its a very very irritating situation… so here is a small list for me that I can finito…

    1. Go through the CDs in the Changer and put in new ones… that usually needs some effort… getting the best 10 MP3 into the car is not an easy job…

    2. Go long driving… this would be happening on Saturday hopefully if something does not go terribly wrong… and if this is not happening, I am going anywhere in the first bus or train I can take…

    3. Re-think about a few things related to flickr…

    4. Buy the Bose Headphones… or maybe not… I really really want to… have had my eyes on them for sometime now…

    Allah-Hafiz

  • Itchy…

    There is something bothering me… and its bothering me too much …

    and for the last few weeks…

    In between I also get vibes that there is something wrong and I don’t know what… something like the itch I cannot scratch !

    I am not sure but I guess its the lack of travel travel wala travel…

    The travel that I do for no reason… I have to get out of here… switch off for a couple of days.. or maybe just one, a couple of good hours should be good enough too for me…!!!

    Its TIME !!!

    let me figure out what is the best I can do !