Images captured from my cell phone, Sony ericsson W810i

Mr. and Mrs. Abhishek Bachchan!

This was an article I read on the web and it mirrors my perspective!

I cannot disregard the pinch I felt in my heart when I switched on the television. The headline said, "It's Official!" while the visuals showed Ash and AB Jr arm in arm. A skeptic fan, I told myself that perhaps they have confessed their love in front of the media...but I was in for a surprise! The 'official' notice was that the couple was engaged to be married. And who better than AB Sr. himself confirming the report on all news channels? As I swapped channels to update myself with the latest, I kept asking what made Abhishek go for Aishwarya? I mean, they don't even sizzle on camera? Aishwarya's plastic Barbie-doll look doesn’t match up to Abhishek's raw yet vulnerable persona. One is out going and fun, the other only politically correct. While I kept musing over my feelings, I wondered what the couple was thinking. I don’t know about Abhishek, but I assume Aishwarya must have felt like winning another crown! All the best to (the soon-to-be) Mrs. Bachchan. I hope you are able to shoulder the responsibility of being the 'bahu' of the first family of Indian Cinema!

Make your own kind of music........

Well, tis been a while...............since I used the communication media of the net to kill time. Life's a blur for me at the moment................Hopefully am headed the way I wanna head. Time will tell whether I have a head with grey cell area! lol! Neways, here's the latest song that I've been tripppppppppppping on....it's just simply awefockingsome! Suits my mood fer the moment too. Actually, come to think of it....it suits ME.

Oh n btw..........Remember Richard (Monica's guy at one time from FRIENDS) had a 'twinkie in the city' , who was actually Maanica(this is fer ya cleo) , I just have mine I guess. ROFLMAO!

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Nobody can tell ya;
There's only one song worth singin'.
They may try and sell ya,
'cause it hangs them up
to see somone like you.

But you've gotta
make your own kind of music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sing along.

So if you cannot take my hand,
and if you must be goin',
I will understand.

You're gonna be knowing
the loneliest kind of lonely.
It may be rough goin',
just to do your thing's
the hardest thing to do.

But you've gotta
make your own kind of music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along.

So if you cannot take my hand,
and if you must be goin',
I will understand.

You gotta
make your own kind of music
sing your own special song,
make your own kind of music
even if nobody else sings along.
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If anybody wants it, then :

http://rapidshare.com/files/3894271/Mamas___Papas_-_Make_Your_Own_Kind_Of_Music.mp3.html

B'day!

It was mom's b'day yest. Had fun. Around twenty of her friends had come home. After a long time we actually celebrated someone's bday at home!

Those were the best days of my life!

A copy of a blog post I came across on the net. Definitely worth a read. Makes a lotta sense, at least to me. Improvements in technology for the bad. :

Doordarshan : A balanced diet

Do you remember how special the ‘Sundays’ used to be when we were kids? Lets try to remember what we all used to see on Sundays…

The day used to begin with Rangoli … a program containing only songs..!! Songs for everyone… old ones for mom dad and the new ones for us. That used to be followed by morning news, then Mahabharat or Ramayan or Chanakya …. Or any other mythological or historical serial .. which whole family used to see together ..!! Then we used to have a cartoon film … just try to remember how eagerly we used to wait for it whole week ..!! He-man, jungle book, duck tales …!! Then ‘potliwale baba ki kahani’ ..!! Then we used to have a one hour program by National Geographic Society…. A science based program ! then it used to be the time for Indian music ‘National Integration for Spirit of Unity Concert’ ..!! Then again ‘Chaayaageet’ before lunch time. In the afternoon there used to be a ‘Pradeshik feature film’ where we used to get movies made in other state; basically non-hindi films.

But why to remember all these things when we don’t even see DD National nowadays..!!
If we try to analyse this schedule carefully we will realize one thing that Doordarshan was truly a balanced diet. Balanced diet for our brain, our mind..!! No matter how long one watches the same channel, everyone used to get something….. not only entertainment but also some knowledge…not only about our history but also about mythology, science, music, our culture and life and people of other states….!!

What has changed with facility of cable? We have so many new channels like star tv, star sports, espn, discovery, sony, setmax, zee, national geographic channel, travel and living, aaj-tak, ndtv 24x7, sun tv, HBO, Cartoon Network and many more…. Every channel is good in its own respect. Every channel is trying to give the best they can …. Every channel is trying to be best in this competition ….!! Can we see Doordarshan anywhere in this competition?

But what is the change that has occurred with so many channels? Grandfathers and dads keep on seeing news channels day and night, children stick to cartoon network, youth can’t leave HBO and grannies and moms can’t live without family dramas..!! Everyone is happy because everyone is getting what he/she needs ..!! Where’s is the problem then ..?

Let’s analyse one’s physical growth and try and relate it to the case above…….. There’s a child who likes ice-cream so it keeps on having ice-cream day and night…!! When it grows, it starts liking veg Manchurian … so it starts having veg Manchurian day and night ….for several years..!! Then it reaches the age when it develops the taste for fried rice …. Then what? …fried rice for several years …day and night …!! And thus the cycle continues with different dishes in same pattern…!! Now imagine that child…may be 30year old now…… what kind of physical growth we expect him to have? So now, we might say that if he would have got all the kind of food, he might have had a better health by now…!!

Won’t it happen with our brains also? 24 hour cartoon network for children, 24 hour movies for youth, 24 hour family dramas for ladies, 24hour news for oldies, everything 24hours unlimited…!! Now what kind of growth our brains are supposed to have?

What we have started loosing is ‘contol’ …!! Just because we have everything available 24hours we just don’t realize how much we have had …and what is lacking? Earlier even Doordarshan used to sleep during nights … but these 24hour program facility has literally disturbed our biological cycle…!! We just keep on watching HBO and may be at 2.30 or 4.00 am we realize that it’s a time to sleep ..!! Even if we watch the news channel, what we get is the same news repeated after one hour. And if we really try to think logically, what really happens every second that can be shown as news? And to be more logical, what difference does David Beckham-Victoria love affair makes in our lives? And just remember the amount importance does these news channels give it to …!! Earlier we used to wait for a week; that’s 24x7=168 hours for just a one hour cartoon and just try to remember how much we used to enjoy that one hour..! Same thing used to be with ‘The World This Week’..!! Now everything is made easy, just change the channel we get to see whatever we want..!! Is it good or bad ...that one has to analyse by himself, for himself …!! The idea behind this article is not to promote Doordarshan but the idea behind Doordarshan..!! Children know Harry Potter but they don’t know who was Arjun, Duryodhan, Raja Akbar ..!! Children know Michael Jackson, Madona but don’t know Pandit Bheemsen Joshi, Pandit Jasraaj…!! Children know Saint Valentine but don’t know Saint Gyaneshwar, Meerabai…!! Children know Teacher’s Day but don’t know Guru-pornima ..!! All these children which are going to be the youth of India after few years, what knowledge and what culture are they going to handover to our next generation?

If we try to analyse Doordarshan in comparison to other channels, we will realize that Doordarshan in loosing its audience mainly because of its appearance. The kind of graphics it has and the way it presents itself. The quality of programs may also be lacking somewhere but what how good those family dramas could be?

Just for a day do one experiment. Forget the attractive graphics of all the channels. Open the newspaper, read the schedule of all the channels and then prepare your own schedule for the day …. And do see to it that you do get the balanced diet and do enjoy your day watching TV…… exactly the way we used to enjoy our Sundays 10 years back …!!

Dreams............

I am not the one who gets dreams every now n then. One becoz I work at nights and two I don't know. This was a few days back. Got three dreams. I somehow have developed a habit to remember a few of my dreams. Don't ask me how ;) So in this hat trick of dreams, I remember that I die in the second one. All my dreams till date have been VERY weird to say the least. I remember one of them even now. I am standing in front of a snake pit and a snake bites me, on my BACK. No idea how that happened. lol! And I have a mole called 'Garuda macche'. Garuda the god eats snakes as first priority for food. So according to olden day beliefs, snakes are afraid of people who have this particular mole. I just don't have the nuts to test it. ROFL! Coming back to the hat trick of dreams, I don't remember the first one. The third one is actually unbelievable even in dreams! I am walking naked on this desert kinda place and vultures are preying on me and almost half of my body has no skin left. ugh......

'Sweet dreams' to all.

work?

It's been eight days of night shifts without an off, till date that is. Not sure when this is gonna end. Hopefully in the next few days. So there's this guy who stands in the corner of the four way signal diagonally opposite to my office. Stays there the whole night selling ciggies and tea for passers by and regulars who know the place to get ciggies at any time of the night. I used to visit him once in a while long long ago.Now that my current office is right in front, go n get ciggies whenever I run out of stock. Yesterday I went with two ppl from the team and generally were talking to the guy. He's got a prob with his right leg ( read handicapped ) which is just a nicer way of telling. This poor guy comes on a four wheeled TVS every night with two big flasks of tea and a whole bunch of ciggies of all kinda brands. Anyway, I asked him how come he doesn't stay after four in the morning nowadays, to which he replied with absolutely no shyness......"no saar, am leaving around four in the morning from the last one month. I got married so leave at four. Don't want to stay here the whole night and go at six in the morning". Two things, one is I am really happy he got married. Second, not a lot of ppl get what they want in life , the way they want it and when they want it. As the local police ppl trouble him if any guys are having a ciggie after buying it (duh! where do ya want us to smoke after buying them in the dead of the night neways!), it's something he fears. Anybody can easily understand the true meaning of 'fear' by seeing this poor soul's reaction. He gets all alert and asks ppl around to leave from there right away. It's something you need to experience, although not a pleasant one. I suddenly realized how lucky I am to have a body without any problems(sans the stent in the chest neways. lol!) and having a job (its night shift and in a kyaal center, so what!) which pays me enough to support my family and suffice my fetish for electronic gadgets. It's a very weird time when you see somebody like this guy. You feel sorry for him and at the same time you feel very happy for yourself and your family.