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  • Looking in the Mirror…

    I am wondering how easy is it for someone to

    Set an expectation
    Forget all about it at his/her own convenience
    Get Angry when someone reminds him/her of it
    Making sure that the other person feels like (s)he has done a mistake by speaking his/her mind
    Coming back and almost laughing at him/her, while justifying what was done with proper and valid artifacts

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    I don’t call a lot of people friends… I don’t like to… because I know I cannot do justice to that term… its an underrated word, for all I know… So I have a few friends, and a lot of people I know, and some are somewhere between the I know and are friends area…

    When I call someone a friend, it basically adds a whole lot of responsibility on me to ensure that I intentionally or otherwise don’t do things which would hurt them…

    Not that I can always prevent myself from doing such things, but I, from my past, know that I would be genuinely sorry for hurting anyone of the people I call friends…
    And I do make it a point to make it up to them either by saying sorry and meaning it, or by doing something that would help me make it up to them…

    I would not like to first hurt a friend, and then at the next opportunity go back and justify what i did… If I ever did that, I shouldn’t have done that… I know it feels bad when first you are hurt and then made fun of…

    I am sorry…

  • Seeing with my eyes closed !!!

    Have some nice lyrics that make sense, add a nice folk flow with music in it, garnish it with a dhol, dholak, tabla, harmonium, a few more simple instruments.. and what you have is the song that I mention below…

    I had heard it sometime back on TV and then forgot about it completely before a friend mentioned it to me generally today and i downloaded it….

    Now these are my options:

    1. Close my eyes, listen to this song and think about the amazing street plays that I used to be a part of in one for or the other, scripting, direction or just acting… this has so much of that sing together feeling with a message…

    2. Close my eyes, listen to this song, and think about how it would be dance to this number… what free flow of music this song is.. and I can effortlessly think of enjoying my dance on it…

    3. Close my eyes, and just listen to this song… like I have been doing for a while now…

    4. Keep my eyes open for a change, and read the lyrics while the song is playing…

    Ever wondered why we usually like to close our eyes when we are really enjoying something… is it a way to disconnect from the actual visuals and have a visual that we want to see in our brain? How do we see what are we thinking of? Is this the eyes that see it? Does a movie play on the eye lids?

    Its strange how my eyes can see whats running up in the brain !!! God Uncle, you are great !!!

    Enjoy the lyrics below… and if possible do listen to this song… and sing along too… if possible write the lyrics down… and sing-a-long loud together with friends… I can assure this is an awesome song to enjoy with friends !!!

    क्यूँ खोये खोये चाँद की फिराक मे तलाश मे उदास है दिल
    क्यूँ अपने आप से खफा खफा ज़रा ज़रा सा नाराज़ है दिल

    यह मंजिली भी खुद ही तै करें
    यह फासले भी खुद ही तै करें
    क्यूँ तो रास्तों पे फिर सेहेम सेहेम संभल संभल के चलता है यह दिल

    क्यूँ खोये खोये चंद की फिराक मे तलाश मे उदास है दिल

    ज़िंदगी सवालो के जवाब ढूँढने चली
    जवाब मे सवालों की एक लंबी सी लड़ी मिली
    सावल ही सावल है सूझती नही गली
    की आज हाथ थाम लो एक हाथ की कमी खली

  • Radhe Radhe…

    Arobindo called me and this is how the conversation went

    Aro: I have something very serious to talk about!!

    Me : Kya ho gaya?

    Aro : I am thinking, what happened to Radha?

    (What the fkk, what happened to my car)

    Aro continues : Not your car idiot…(No points for guessing that the first thing I think about when I hear the word Radha is my car) the Radha Radha… the Krishna Radha, Radha…

    Me : What about her?

    Aro : What happened to her?

    Me : What do you mean what happened to her?

    Aro : Where did she go after Gokul? Do you know?

    Me : She never told me where she was going ! How the hell am I supposed to know?

    Aro : But there has to be a mention somewhere? She was with Krishna, and we all know what he was upto throughout his life… what happened to her?

    Me : Oh I remember, she got married to someone else.. and used to stay away from her husband and all…

    Aro : Really?

    Me : Nope.. I think that was Meera.. I don’t know.. maybe she transmorgified or something herself into my car and is with me now….

    Aro : Right, but what happened she broke up or whatever with Krishna…

    Me : I don’t know.. maybe she left or something… maybe she was a potential threat to Krishna and he hid her somewhere to save the world… but this needs an investigation… call Papa, he would know for sure…

    Aro : Krishna would not do anything for the world and not speak about it… everything that he has done was properly broadcasted… any act done to do good to the world cannot be hidden.. there has to be something else..

    Me : I guess so.. find out… call home.. and its their marriage anniversary today..

    (Laughter from the other side)

    Me : Not Radha Krishna’s idiot, mom dad’s… make sure you call them and wish them too…

    Aro : Ya i know 😀 hehehe… i will call.. send me the numbers again will you?

    Me : Roger that…

    Aro: Chal tata..

    Me : Ok Bye…

    This is exactly how the conversation would have went if I was in India or on Mars for that matter… its amazing how a few things don’t change… I am blessed !!!

  • Happy Marriage Anniversary !

    Happy Marriage Anniversary Mummy…

    Happy Marriage Anniversary Papa…

    It was such a joy to hear papa laugh when I called home a couple of minutes ago to wish them !!!

    I know for sure they must have become very sad after I kept the phone down… I can feel it here 🙁

    I love you two… more than ANYTHING else in this world… May God be with us !!!

  • feel it say it… hear it cherish it…

    It feels so bloddy nice when I get to hear nice things about myself !!! God bless those who feel good about me and make it a point to say them too !!!

    One of my dear friends did and I feel too bad that I did not really know how to react to it 🙂 but I know i felt real good…

    Looks like I am not that bad afterall 😉

    That brings me to a question : How good are you with taking compliments?

  • Ban Diesel

    Delhi’s environment Secretary says

    “We will come down with a strong hand and ban registration of diesel vehicles in Delhi if everything else fails.“

    Its easier this way for everyone isn’t it? Because cleaning up the already created mess is something that we see as impossible!!!

    Has anyone in these departments heard of out-of-box thinking, innovating ideas etc… I think the government work also needs to be outsourced to a few corporates !!!

    He carried on by saying :
    “Delhi can ban the use of any fuel it wants. We have the legal powers under the Air Pollution (Prevention and Control) Act, 1981, to ban the use of any fuel in the capital.“

    Does anyone have legal powers to stop them?

    Read more here…

    These days, the minimum temperature in Delhi is about 2 degs more than the maximum of where I am living… I say too hot !!! 😀

    And I read another piece of news a while back about a 8th standard student shooting one of his classmates dead… I am wondering if this is just a start of many more such incidents to happen… I hope not… God please 🙁

  • Walking Around Shooting Things…

    I have been walking around photographing the Brit Capital these days…

    Must have walked atleast 30 odd kms in the last two weekends… I end up very tired when I call it a day, however there are some reasons to smile about everytime…

    I should mention that I have been going to the British Museum every weekend for the last three of them, and I think will go there again atleast 2 more times…I am in love with what all that place has to offer, its like the entire world under one roof…

    As of now enjoy the pictures below, I shall have a dedicated picture post about the British Museum sometime later….


    And this is Abhishek… Thanks Bro… London is no less than home because of you !!!

    And whoever thought of having the TAJ with the Bombay Mix …

    Hope you enjoyed watching the pictures as much as I enjoyed clicking them…

    God Bless…

  • the interface to emotions

    No software is complete without a decent interface… I know of so many applications that failed miserably because the users did not see the interface that would have helped them get the feeling of what the application was capable of… 
    As people, as consumers the interface is very important for all of us… 
    I remember in one of the workshops I had attended a few years back, we talked about how every interaction that we have with any one is like a transaction… where someone is the customer and the other one is a provider… and that did make sense to me then and it does make sense to me today as well… 
    Ok, coming back to the initial point… the interface.. so in every transaction I feel that an interface plays and important role… 
    So does how and what we express… our emotions, our mind, our heart is the application running at the background and our expression of those emotions and thoughts is the interface… 
    having emotions, having feelings, having thoughts is a complete waste if we don’t express… 
    a lot of times our eyes speak… 
    a lot of times our actions speak…
    and at times we do…
    and if nothing of the above happens, I think we only increase distances… which at times become so large that it becomes impossible to bridge them.. no matter how hard we try !!!

  • Let the HEAD be where it should be…

    We have a total of X minutes with us to live, out of which we all would like to give Y minutes to work… which is very very important because
    work gives us money,
    work helps us sustain the standard of living that we like to live or to reach closer to the one we might want to, and
    a lot of other reasons like
    work helps us reach closer to that stage where we reach a certain level of maturity and see things in the right perspective most of the time, or that
    work helps us unwind…

    we all have different reasons to work and spend those Y minutes…

    and in and for those Y minutes,
    ~ We plan everything just right or would atleast like to strategize it right, after all our companies earn money if we do things right…
    ~ We ensure that we have a certain level to meet everytime we do something… we cannot mess up, can we? we would be thrown out of work or someone else who can do things better would get this profile or the next one we are aiming for…
    ~ We give it our heart and soul to ensure that everyone who is looking at our work or is getting effected leaves with a good impression of our effort…
    ~ We look forward to things happening and reaching next levels at work, in maturity, in hierarchy, in composure, in sense and all that…
    ~ even if cannot handle it anymore, we live those Y minutes and manage somehow… so what we have to skip our lunches, and we don’t have time to even drink water the entire day… work comes first…
    ~ Even if getting up is the last thing we want to do, we do and log on to the conference call in the middle of the night…
    ~ So what there is a backache, we still manage to get up and get going…

    and then there is a X-Y amount of minutes, which we label as personal life…
    ~ We tend to ignore the planning part
    ~ We can do a lousy job of it because there are no standards to meet, there is no competition, there is no annual appraisal after all… there is no one who will throw us out.. and even if things get bad, we assume that we can take care of that, WHeN THE BLODDY TIME COMES… as of now we don’t have time to deal with it…
    ~ We are too tired to give our heart or soul to it… and have no option but to defer things that might be important… oh com’on there is that important meeting at work… I think about that or this issue?
    ~ We look forward to things, but have that amazing capability of keeping them at the back seat or tuck them away under the blankets because there is a business suit that is waiting for us that moment…
    ~ We get angry with our loved ones !!! why the fkk can’t she understand that I have a headache !!! God, I had such a hard day at work, and he has to pick up this topic right now !!!
    ~ Ignore ourselves… Let me just take a painkiller right now for the backache… will see if I can see the doctor over the weekend.. and that weekend never comes because we were too lazy to get up on the only day we get an off…

    What are we trying to do? Could I please know it one more time? I lost myself somewhere back there !

    I realised that I did not even hear my thoughts because I was listening to music a li’il too loud… I don’t even know what I have written up here…
    but let me tell you these sony headphones(MDR G42) I got are worth dying for… amazing bass I get in them… nicey nice…

    and its too funny trying to rub your own back and put some balm on it… How come the hands don’t reach exactly that place where the pain is? anyway… I shall try putting some balm again and sleep before this backache kills me and stops me from getting up in the morning…

    And here is All Star singing…

    Well the years start coming and they don’t stop coming
    Back to the rules and I hit the ground running
    Didn’t make sense not to live for fun
    Your brain gets smart but your head gets dumb

    p.s. The picture was taken on a recent visit to the British Museum in London.. amazing place

  • Just felt like bringing all the smiles together 🙂


    Just felt like bringing all the smiles together 🙂, originally uploaded by ~OM~ ॐ “FoTo-SoFiCaL” Bhardwaj.