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  • Fever and Happy

    Had to finish my drink quickly and I did… the ice cold drink immediately tore the throat apart and I knew it was not a good idea… However managed for another day and a half before fever took over and I was completely out of energy, with a bad throat and red eyes… Good, I carried a few tablets with me and that I managed some brandy to help myself… slept and sweat well in the overnight bus journey… and managed to reach Horley with a not that bad a throat, and some fever…

    Crashed and got up now…

    So that was THE only not so good part about the road trip… I am yet to mention about
    ~ Spending Christmas eve with Scottish family and staying overnight in their house.
    ~ Having the best Christmas ever.
    ~ The VW Polo that I drove for about 300 miles in two days and the amazing music system that car had.
    ~ The views that I got throughout the drive
    ~ All weather conditions from sunny to rains to bad rains to winds that will take you with them to frosty… almost everything.. did manage to spot some snow up on the mountains too.
    ~ and a lot more…

    I should be fitter in a day or two, and thats when I would write in great detail about my best christmas EVER… till then here is a Photographic preview into the trip…

    Loch ( pronounced Lokh) Lomond Shores

    Loch ( pronounced Lokh) Lomond Shores

    Loch ( pronounced Lokh) Lomond Shores

    Somewhere in the Country…


    A lounge in the Hotel

    Fort William

    Somewhere on the Scottish Highlands

    This was just a trailer if I can put it that way… Will write more later… God bless…

  • Notes of Happy-ness


    Notes of Happy-ness, originally uploaded by ~OM~ ॐ “FoTo-SoFiCaL” Bhardwaj.

    Hope there is loads of happy music flowing in your life in the years to come…

    Merry Christmas everyone…

    I am off to Glasgow for three days, road trip!! Really looking forward to it..

    See you soon….God bless !!!

  • What Completes?

    A friend asked me a while ago, Prashant what completes you? and I could not answer that.. there is so much… too much of space around that needs to be filled !!!

    Small question, big answer…

    It however helped a few words come out and fill some empty space.. here they are.. enjoy 🙂 and feel free to add…

    पहाड़ की चोटी

    नदी का किनारा
    चुप चुप बैठा था
    तभी साला किसी ने पत्थर मारा
    देखा तो मेरा बॉस था
    न मुझे कुछ होश था
    याद आया ईमेल नहीं करी …
    ख़ुशी की मछली तभी उस नदी मे मरी
    मैं वापस काम पर
    आगे बदने के नाम पर
    अभी तक काम कर रह हूँ
    एक एक दिन करके जीवन से गुज़र रहा हूँ
    और ख़ुशी की मछली वही किनारे पर रह गई
    जितनी तस्सली दिल मे थी वो कहीं उस गहरे पानी की धारा मे बह गयी

  • I Make Time!!!

    Its been a nice weekend this one… I am at Anil’s place and having food which is home food… Chawal dal dahi !!! its nice… and Soumitro invited us (Well a forced invitation it was) and treated us to some amazing roasted potatoes, bell peppers, some nice music followed by Naan, Spicey Potatoes, Lovely Baingan, and Egg Curry !!! I am stuff like anything right now, and a 30 minute walk in the nice cold weather was just worth it after a nice tummy and heart filling dinner… God Bless Soumitro and his wife who did a great job with the dinner !!!

    While walking towards Soumitro’s place, Anil and me got into an interesting discussion, well all the discussions were interesting but I particularly remember this one because I have been hearing something around it for a while now from a few people I know…

    Anil said that he wants to play cricket or be associated with any club/team that places and get an opportunity to bowl or bat or just be there on the field sometime… My question, and a very prompt one, bringing him back from that lush green field that he had mentally wandered to was, “Do You have time for all that?”

    His simple answer was, “I would make time for it.”

    I was forced to think when we say we have been too busy or we just did not make time for what we wanted to or we just did not want to make time or we did not find a reason why we could make time…

    I somehow don’t really believe when someone tells me that they could not take time out.. I guess its not about taking time out, its either making it or stealing it from the world for things that are yours…

    I make time for my blog and my stills… and a few people who are in my thoughts, ma pa a few friends…
    I am fortunate to know a few friends who work for at least 12 hours a day in and out, and still make time for things they want, people they want…
    People find me crazy, and will probably think that I am simple plain lucky when I tell them that starting september’05, I have traveled out of Delhi every single month, the fototrip links on my page show that just right… Except March’07 when I shifted bases to Chandigarh for work… EVERY OTHER month I could find time to travel and take pictures… and I am bloddy well proud of it for myself !!!

    And I know of a lot of people who love to say that they did not get time or a chance to do something…

    I feel that its not really about how much time we got, its about how much WE wanted time for it… Wanting or not wanting to do something comes first, and then time for it or excuses for “not it”.

  • When Eye Speak


    the mouth can stay shut…

    Thanks Abhishek for the picture…

  • Jahan Chaar Yaar…

    I have been searching for this song for about an hour on the net and have not been able to find it so far…

    If you have this song from Sharabi, please send it to me @ prashantbhardwaj(at)—-(dot)com

    Post purpose over 🙂

    Post Closed !!!

  • The Coin’d Me…

    I am listening to Madhushala right now and every single time I hear it, I like it more… not sure if its the music that calms me down, or its one of my favorite singers Manna Dey’s voice or its the words… I guess this poem is much more than I hear !!!

    This is how even people are, much more than we can hear or see… notice closely and you might just find something new about someone who know, and ditto is with me… I have been noticing myself for a while and needless to say I have realized more about myself in the last few years than the rest of them and I can only surprise myself over how I am and what I am…

    I have been good, I have been bad… People have been with me for a long time, and people have written me off completely… People have loved me and then hated me to the core, people have not liked me and then liked me too… All of this happening when I was trying to know myself more, and liking it or not liking it depending on the discovery.

    I am the coin, with both its sides together… and I am flipping, at times just enjoying the flip and hoping for myself to fall in safe hands at others !!!

  • End of the Week’end

    Fukk’ed up noodles, going down the drain…

    Some rice with curd, helped ease the pain…

    The Shawshank Redemption and Ned Kelly on the screen…

    Friday’s over and Saturday comes clean…

    A lazy day on the couch, a call home, no bath and internet…

    Saturday is when I get my food and keep it where it should be kept…

    Finished the dinner and about to rest…

    Abhi calls and asks me to come over, the sub-zero temprature outside is ON for a test…

    I miss a train, and the next one’s late…

    Cold winds, empty platform, nothing to do for 40 minutes… oh c’mon thats not fate !

    OK !!! enough!!! That’s IT for the poetic dude !!!

    This is till Saturday night… Sunday… NOTHING done… too good… waking up at 1100 hrs, saw three episodes of The Great Indian Laughter Challange back to back and laughed my ass out a number of times in a long time… loved watching it…


    Evening just walked around, went to a nice restaurant in Kensington, owned by Abhishek’s friend Shahid, had amazing masala tea after a nice dinner… and took the last train home…

    Walking back home at midnight on a footpath which is slippery because of frost on it was fun… even jumped and hopped around on my way… it was fun being with myself…

    I think I saw a FOX as well on my way near my house… it was not a DOG, it was not a cat… I don’t know of any other animals around…

    Should go off to sleep now.. have a long week ahead and a nice break next week when I go snow hunting up north in this island…

    Hope the coming week is blessed !!! Happy English Diwali 🙂

  • Review : Smorty

    There came Internet, and then came blogs and with blogs came various flavors right from personal blogs to commercial ones, from pages where people pour their heart out to pages where people make money… during all this the concept of online advertising added a flavor to the internet by having advertisements over these blogs. Its a win win situation where the blogger would get paid for blogging, and companies would advertise on blogs. Sites like Smorty help bridge the gap between the advertisers and the bloggers by making available opportunities to earn money through blogging… Text entries as posts which link back to the companies websites or relevant sections earn money for the bloggers. Smorty has a very easy to use interface where you see the opportunities that you qualify for and the details along with the money on offer, all you need to do is accept an opportunity, take care of the links and text mentioned in the details, and submit your post. Once approved you get your money. You also get emails about the relevant opportunities.

    Overall something worth have a look at, and helps you get things with are worth some $$$$$s 🙂

  • A Date with Friday Evening…

    ~Come back home early… Ok atleast try to… 30 minutes early is good enough…~Don’t change…

    ~Sleep in what you were wearing…

    ~Wake up whenever…

    ~Find out what time it is… (No Idea why this is important, but I tried to find the time as soon as I woke up)

    ~Think of something different to eat…

    ~Think of a nice movie to watch… now that you have slept for a while, you can stay awake longer…

    I am kinda stuck at the last step now..

    I have

    • The Shawshank Redemption
    • Silence of the Lambs
    • The American Gangster
    • Goodfellas
    • Momento
    • One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest
    • Pulp Fiction
    • Ned Kelly

    I have never been an english movie buff, and I never cared to make an attempt to watch the classics so far. Thanks to Lalit, who helped with finding out what all I can watch, I made a move in that direction. Let me do an Inky Pinky Ponky and choose my movie for the night…

    Oh, I think I have Manorama – Six Feet Under too…

    So here is the plan…

    Lemonade and Pineapple Juice, some noodles, Doritos and one or two of these movies… You are welcome to join in !!!

    Song in the background :
    धम धम धडाम धढैय्या रे , सबसे बडे लढैय्या रे … ओमकारा ….

    I love the way this song has been sung… Infact the rest of the songs in this movie also have the folk touch that I love to love like in Beedi and Namak…

    Can’t Forget how Saif Ali Khan did Langda Tyagi to perfection… Amazing stuff… Another movie where he impressed me a lot was Ek Haseena Thi…

    anyway… I should get back to the angrezi movies and go to the kitchen to make my dinner…

    Adios… May God be with us…