And the Music Plays!

What is ‘hit a home run’?

A1: Ghar se bhagna… ya ghar ko bhagana

A2: Maybe hit a home and then run

All you language ke pujaris… Shoo!

So PA decides to move to a new muft blog from WordPress.

You are invited for the namkaran

What name should we give it? Send in your suggestions.

We intend to have a virtual opening ceremony. Suggestions invited for that as well. Ha!

Oh we can have a ribbon cutting ceremony also! And WordPress will shower my blog with small white snow balls.

Quickly, tell me what name should we give it.

I contemplate moving to a new domain

Or maybe restrict this one for saner things

and dump the insane rants on the other one

Ik Onkar

ik-onkaar sat naam kartaa purakh nirbha-o nirvair akaal moorat ajoonee saibhan gur parsaad
One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying, Beyond Birth, Self-Existent. By Guru’s Grace

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Chant And Meditate

aad sach jugaad sach
True In The Primal Beginning. True Throughout The Ages

hai bhee sach naanak hosee bhee sach
True Here And Now. O Nanak, Forever And Ever True

sochai soch na hova-ee jay sochee lakh vaar
By thinking, He cannot be reduced to thought, even by thinking hundreds of thousands of times

chupai chup na hova-ee jay laa-ay rahaa liv taar
By remaining silent, inner silence is not obtained, even by remaining lovingly absorbed deep within

bhukhi-aa bhukh na utree jay bannaa puree-aa bhaar
The hunger of the hungry is not appeased, even by piling up loads of worldly goods

sahas si-aanpaa lakh hohi ta ik na chalai naal
Hundreds of thousands of clever tricks, but not even one of them will go along with you in the end

kiv sachi-aaraa ho-ee-ai kiv koorhai tutai paal
So how can you become truthful? And how can the veil of illusion be torn away?

hukam rajaa-ee chalnaa naanak likhi-aa naal
O Nanak, it is written that you shall obey the Hukam of His Command, and walk in the Way of His Will

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I have it as my dialer tune for close to two years now. And many a times I listen to it on repeat on my music player. There’s something about it which is magical beyond words. Problems seem to disappear, the mind becomes calm and the heart fills with happiness…

~ Unknowing ‘address’ an ice-cream wrapper as Folder

~ Call PA a ‘teddy bear’ to which PA takes terrible offense. Because certainly PA doesn’t think of herself as a Bhaloo moreso after she’s been told that there used to be some bhaloo-ka-naach just like we have bandar-madari-ka-naach nowadays.

A cute little chubby sparrow chirping on your window sill and refusing to go away till you get up

A little boy wanted Rs.50 very badly and prayed for weeks, but nothing happened. Finally he decided to write God a letter requesting the Rs.50.
When the postal authorities received the letter addressed to God, INDIA, they decided to forward it to the President of India as a joke.

The President was so amused, that he instructed his secretary to send the little boy Rs.20. The President thought this would appear to be a lot of money to a little boy, and he did not want to spoil the kid. The little boy was delighted with Rs.20, and decided to write a thank you note to God, which read:

“Dear God: Thank you very much for sending the money. However, I noticed that you sent it through the Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi, and those donkeys deducted Rs.30 in taxes …..”

Note: Political post ahead.

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Came across this a through a Facebook community -Thanks Jigar.

Subject: Jaago re- We never learn!!!!

ACTIVE POLITICS- All us bloggers & members of various groups should go back to our mundane lives and continue to sulk. WHY, please see below!!!

Nationalist Congress Party leader Sharad Pawar on Friday announced the name of Chhagan Bhujbal as the next Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra replacing R R Patil who had to quit in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks. The Deputy CM will also hold the Home portfolio.

The appointment of Bhujbal rekindles the Telgi scam, which had tainted his name and pushed him into political wilderness.

Bhujbal (61) was the Deputy CM in the first Congress-NCP government sworn in in 1999 and had to quit after his name surfaced in the Telgi multicrore stamp paper scam in 2003.

Abdul Karim Telgi, the main accused in the scam, has admitted to the Special Investigation Team, during brain mapping tests and later the narco performed on him at the Forensic Science Laboratory in Bangalore, of making payments to Bhujbal in return for favours.

During these tests, Telgi had also said that Sharad Pawar and former Karnataka minister Roshan Baig were benefactors and beneficiaries of the payments he made in the scam.

A few months after Telgi’s narco tests, a recorded CD of Telgi’s brain mapping was aired on TV channels where he was shown disclosing names of Pawar and Bhujbal pertaining to their alleged involvement in the scam. Both the leaders denied the charge, however Bhujbal was forced to quit and has been virtually out ofaction since then.

Interestingly, after about three years, in 2006, Telgi did a turnaround and claimed that he had never met Pawar nor did he give any money to Bhujbal in connection with the scam.

He claimed that the CD was “doctored” by the SIT. Telgi is still lodged in Pune’s Yerwada jail and Bhujbal is the Home Minister once again.

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Any answers?

Saw this tag at Mumbaigirl a while ago and just had to do it!

Out of the list – you are supposed to make “bold” the things you have done.

Altering the rules a bit – “Italics” for those that I am dying to do.

01. Bought everyone in the bar a drink

02. Swam with dolphins (I want to! I want to! I want to!)

03. Climbed a mountain (If trekking counts)

04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive

05. Been inside the Great Pyramid

06. Held a tarantula

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone

08. Said “I love you” and meant it

09. Hugged a tree

10. Bungee jumped

11. Visited Paris

12. Watched a lightning storm at sea

13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise

14. Seen the Northern Lights

15. Gone to a huge sports game

16. Walked the stairs to the top of the leaning Tower of Pisa

17. Grown and eaten your own vegetables

18. Touched an iceberg

19. Slept under the stars

20. Changed a baby’s diaper

21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon

22. Watched a meteor shower

23. Gotten drunk on champagne

24. Given more than you can afford to charity

25. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope

26. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment

27. Had a food fight

28. Bet on a winning horse

29. Asked out a stranger

30. Had a snowball fight

31. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can

32. Held a lamb

33. Seen a total eclipse

34. Ridden a roller coaster

35. Hit a home run

36. Danced like a fool and didn’t care who was looking

37. Adopted an accent for an entire day

38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment

39. Had two hard drives for your computer

40. Visited all 50 states

41. Taken care of someone who was drunk

42. Had amazing friends

43. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country

44. Watched whales

45. Stolen a sign

46. Backpacked in Europe

47. Taken a road-trip

48. Gone rock climbing

49. Taken a midnight walk on the beach

50. Gone sky diving

51. Visited Ireland

52. Been heartbroken longer than you were actually in love

53. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them

54. Visited Japan

55. Milked a cow

56. Alphabetized your CDs

57. Pretended to be a superhero (Super-heroine rather!)

58. Sung karaoke

59. Lounged around in bed all day

60. Played touch football

61. Gone scuba diving

62. Kissed in the rain

63. Played in the mud

64. Played in the rain

65. Gone to a drive-in theatre

66. Visited the Great Wall of China

67. Started a business

68. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken

69. Toured ancient sites

70. Taken a martial arts class

71. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight

72. Gotten married

73. Been in a movie

74. Crashed a party

75. Gotten divorced

76. Gone without food for 5 days

77. Made cookies from scratch

78. Won first prize in a costume contest

79. Ridden a gondola in Venice

80. Gotten a tattoo

81. Rafted the Snake River

82. Been on a television news program as an “expert”

83. Gotten flowers for no reason

84. Performed on stage

85. Been to Las Vegas

86. Recorded music

87. Eaten shark

88. Kissed on the first date

89. Gone to Thailand

90. Bought a house

91. Been in a combat zone

92. Buried one/both of your parents

93. Been on a cruise ship

94. Spoken more than one language fluently

95. Performed in Rocky Horror

96. Raised children

97. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour

98. Passed out cold

99. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country

100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over

101. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge

102. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking with the windows open

103. Had plastic surgery

104. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived

105. Wrote articles for a large publication

106. Lost over 100 pounds

107. Held someone while they were having a flashback

108. Piloted an airplane

109. Touched a stingray

110. Broken someone’s heart

111. Helped an animal give birth

112. Won money on a TV game show

113. Broken a bone

114. Gone on an African photo safari

115. Had a facial part pierced other than your ears

116. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol

117. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild

118. Ridden a horse

119. Had major surgery

120. Had a snake as a pet

121. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon

122. Slept for 30 hours in a 48 hour period

123. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. States

124. Visited all 7 continents

125. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days

126. Eaten kangaroo meat

127. Eaten sushi

128. Had your picture in the newspaper

129. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about

130. Gone back to school

131. Parasailed

132. Touched a cockroach

133. Eaten fried green tomatoes

134. Read The Iliad and The Odyssey

135. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read

136. Killed and prepared an animal for eating

137. Skipped all your school reunions

138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language

139. Been elected to public office

140. Written your own computer language

141. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream

142. Had to put someone you love into hospice care

143. Built your own PC from parts

144. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you

145. Had a booth at a street fair

146. Dyed your hair

147. Been a DJ

148. Shaved your head

149. Caused a car accident

150. Saved someone’s life

Goodmorning PA! So now you realized that there is lot more to do!

And now the fun part – Time to torture tag people: Neilina, Nachnani, Jaggy and anyone who wants to do it, feel free to take it up and leave a link in the comments.

Take it up guys… you wouldn’t regret

I logged onto my WordPress account. And lo and behold! A new look! For a few seconds I thought I was elsewhere! And a few minutes to figure out what was where.

What say? Like it or not.

Take the poll…

Sindbad the sailor… na na na na… na na na na… aisa tha sindbad the sailor

Just humming… till I get back and actually write something!

Bombay terror attack

As part of post trauma care, psychologists are required who could offer help for free.

We are currently in the process of collating a list of the same.

Drop in a comment and we will get back to you. Alternatively if you know of anyone who could offer their services, write back with their name and number.

And spread the word.

Something inside me died when I saw my Taj burn.

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when I saw brave men give their lives to keep my city alive.

when I saw the faces of those people who had lost a family member.

when I saw politicos playing their dirty game yet again.

when I saw my city and its people burn.

when I saw my city and its people bleed.

when I saw innocent people die.

For the last couple of years we have literally been living on a landmine. We don’t know whats going to happen next. We move out of houses in the morning not knowing if we would come back. Terror strikes again and again and if nothing else some local terrorists create ruckus in my city when the external terrorists are away. A handful of people hold my city at ransom again and again – either internal of external.

‘Bombay’ it is. Thats it. Bombayites all over the world love the city which they call home – whether they have lived here for over hundred years or a few days.

And we will fight back.

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There have been a couple of emails floating around and a couple of communities being formed on certain networking sites.

I don’t know how these would help the situation. But I would still like to believe that it should. So I show my support in every way. To this and to many more initiatives in every form.

I have been getting emails from people I know stating that they would not participate in any such campaigns. I respect their decision. I respect their choice. They say that people who start such campaigns are cowards. I totally disagree. They have at least started doing something about it. They are taking brickbats all along. If you think that you are planning to do something better, feel free to dis-associate yourself from such campaigns and DO something. Just don’t sit there and preach. Do something constructive and not give vague solutions. As an individual and as a collective force, what are you doing about it… DO IT. Ask yourself – what are you doing about it when you degrade someone else’s initiatives.

We need to start somewhere. No matter how small or how big.

At the same time it is time be be an alert citizen. A vigilant citizen. And collectively as a force we ARE capable of bringing changes.

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Politicos are resigning left right and center. What are they trying to do – chicken out…

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They say that there are 5-6 more terrorists moving around freely. What is being done about it?

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Its time for proactive action rather than reactive actions.

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Even after a few days after the mayhem, I still do not see any proper security in the city especially at public places.

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I saw Ramgopal Varma moving around with CM Deshmukh in Oberoi/Taj to get a first hand feel of the situation. What is he trying to do? Make a movie on it and make big bucks. How can someone be so heartless! I refuse to watch such a movie right away. Haven’t we seen enough!

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I can’t thank our brave soldiers enough who lost their lives to protect us. Words fall short. Nothing can equate their sacrifices. And to the hotel staff who died while saving their guests. The unsung heroes.

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Mr. Tata, don’t worry. The people of Bombay will never ever let this happen again. We will pitch in whenever you want us to. And bring back the Taj to all its previous glory. Stay put, my Taj. Stay strong.

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Why the hell do we pay taxes? To live an unsafe life! To feed politicians and provide them Z security!

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But this time ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. The world will now see what happens when an entire city is angry. Very angry. We are not going to forget these scars. Never.

Received this in my mail box a few minutes ago:

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Dear friends across India and the world,

We’re all feeling the shock of the awful attacks in Mumbai. All our hearts go out to the victims and their families.

The attacks were aimed at our people, our prosperity and our peace. But their top target was something else: our unity. If these attacks cause us to turn on each other in hatred and conflict, the terrorists will have won. They know that hatred and chaos feed on division. As radical extremists, their only hope of winning is by turning the rest of us against each other.

Let’s deny them that victory. We’re launching a message to extremists on all sides and all our political leaders, one that will soon be published in newspapers across India and Pakistan. The message is that these tactics have failed, that we’re more united than ever, united in our love and support to each other, determined to work together against terror and call on our leaders to do the same. If millions of people sign it, our message will be unmistakable, click below to sign it and please forward this email widely:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/india_undivided/98.php/?cl_tf_sign=1

It’s time to speak out, let’s do it together.

Thanks

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Signed up for it.

Sign up for it. Sign up for it if it matters to you. A sincere request.