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2011 – an year that was…

I thought 2010 was a remarkable year… It helped shed a lot of mental weight and made a big difference in my life….

2011 turned out to be even better… the biggest event being Veda’s entry to our lives! A job change around the same time to enable me to move back to what I like to do! And then moving to an apartment…

All this has resulting in giving me time to spend with people who are important, place and space to spend that time!!! life is getting better for sure…

The following were clicked on the 31st of December 2011… Last sun of the year, but first for myself, Pooja and Veda in the apartment…

Looking forward to a bright, peaceful and happy year ahead! Amen!

8 January 2012
Christmas

Managed to sneak in a bit of Christmas photographs between a lot of other things happening this week…

🙂

27 December 2011
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays…

24 December 2011
Kabir ke Dohe

A few days ago I had posted about Kabir by Abeeda…Have been listening to that album a lot, and today was listening to Kabir by Jagjit Singh..

While listening to Abida was a soulful experience, when I hear Kabir by Jagjit, its more calm and peaceful! The same words, but such a different experience and feeling… Here are a few words that I captured while I was listening to the album…

माँगन मरण सामान है मत कोई मांगो भीख
माँगन से मरना भला, ये सतगुरु की सीख

काशी काबा एक है, एक है राम रहीम
मैदा एक पकवान बहुत, बैठ कबिरा जीम

अच्छे दिन पीछे गए, हरी से किया न हेत
अब पछताए होत क्या, जब चिड़िया चुग गई खेत

दुःख में सुमिरन सब करे, सुख में करे न कोई
जो सुख में सुमिरन करे, दुःख काहे को होए

ऐसी वाणी बोलिए, मन का आपा खोये
औरो को शीतल करे, आपहू शीतल होए

बड़ा हुआ तो क्या हुआ, जैसे पेड़ खजूर
पंछी को छाया नहीं, फल लागे अति दूर

दुर्लभ मानुष जन्म है, होए न दूजी बार
पका फल जो गिर पड़ा, लगे न दूजी बार

23 December 2011
Coach Carter

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won’t feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. It’s not just in some of us; it is in everyone. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.” – Coach Carter (2005)

I love sports related movies, and don’t remember not liking any that I saw ever… Coach Carter is another addition to the list… must watch for its truthfulness, and the non romantic-ness.

21 December 2011
Just saying….

Easier said than done!

Better done than said!!!!

20 December 2011
Kabir (कबीर) by Abida (आबिदा)

Have been listening to the album Kabir by Abida today, and am loving it… Gulzaar Sahab introducing every song is a treat to the ears as well!

Here are some verses that I loved and managed to write while listening..

मन लागो यार फकीरी में…

माला कहे हैं काठ की तू क्यों फेरे मोय

मन का मनका फेर दे तुरत मिला दूं तोये

कबीरा सो धन संचिये जो आगे को होए

सीस चड़ाए गाठरी जात न देखा कोय

माली आवत देख के कालिया करे पुकार

फूल फूल चुन लिए कल हमारी बार

चाह गई चिंता मिति मनवा बेपरवाह

जिनको कछु न चाहिए वो ही शहंशाह

Hear a part of it yourself, and love it…

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RCiX59Ka5j8]

14 December 2011
Chai ki Dukaan on its new platform…
Has been doing reasonably well in the last few weeks!!! Here are a few observations wrt moving from blogger to wordpress!
- WordPress as a platform gives blogging a little more professional feeling than blogger… Feels a bit more mature in terms of how services are delivered via wordpress including the themes, plugins, widgets etc.
- Addition of a lot of fancy plugins slowed down the website to an irritating extent, however have tried to sort that out by understanding more about “under the hood” stuff! Also I am using Cloudflare services to make the website faster
- WordPress gives better control over management of media (used photographs so far only though) and has much better ways to present them (using various plugins)
- I have really liked the way I can now arrange my posts in categories and tags now, and also work on displaying them accordingly. Menus are a welcome change for me too. Browsing to content of interest is now way much easier.
- I am not too sure about how SEO works, however the plugin that I am using for SEO seems to be doing its job alright!
- WP integration with other social media platforms also seems to be a much tighter in comparison with blogger(mostly thanks to the third party plugins though)
- The website, in my opinion, looks more clean and neat! Though I have heard the exact opposite from a few friends 🙂
- Most importantly, I am liking the exploration of wordpress so far, and have been more actively adding content to Chai ki Dukaan!
- Blogger was definitely lighter to use, and quicker to load! Changing of colors and tweaking a theme was easier on blogger, and never felt the need to know code there… here I feel that with learning some code, I can do better!
- I move away from Google, where a single signon was working nice.. with wordpress, I have to move away from Single Signon
- And I missed this one when I wrote the post initially… When I imported the content from Blogger to WordPress, though it was a simple process, it took me a number of attempts before I could import everything! That meant that I was partially successful with the import, deleted whatever was imported, and tried it again, and followed the same cycle a few times before I had everything… and when it all finished, I still did not have the comment contents, only the comment writers and number of comments for each post! too bad!
More later, as I explore more…
13 December 2011
Empty and nice!
Huge office campus…

Big shop floor…

Large parking lot…

Empty!

with a few exceptions here and there…including the 4 people that I see on my floor which can seat about 500 people easily!

Sitting next to the windows, I can see the trees responding to the breeze, some random cabs moving, a few people walking…I can also listen to my favorite music and work with undivided attention!

Current playlist has likes of
- Abida Parveen ( with Chaap Tilak, Man Kunto Maula)
- Khitiz Tarey (with Javeda Zindagi)
- Indian Ocean (with Ma Rewa, Kandisa, Bandey)
- Mohit Chauhan (with Rockstar)
- Rahet Fateh Ali Khan
Empty at a few levels, but extremely nice at others!
10 December 2011
Chai ki Ketli

Found this Kettle at an IOC Petrol Pump @ Majnu ka Tila (New Delhi) waiting to be clicked! While I was clicking, I was getting all sorts of looks about what on earth was I clicking this one for, but it was fun 🙂

How was your morning cup of tea today?

7 December 2011

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