Song On My Mind – Angreji Mein Kehte Hain

 

I happened to watch this song after eons today, thanks to BA. I totally love the peppyness and joyfulness this song exudes.

In love with this song!

Hum tum pe itna dying jitna sea mein paani lying

 

Clutter

I have some clutter to give away. Clutter, I no longer need. Clutter, I no longer want. Clutter, of the voices in my head. Clutter, of memories. Of people. Of places.

 

The Art and Science of Confusion

What happens when one is confused?

Do you wait for the confusion to end?

Or do you take some action for the confusion to end?

And if it does end; and when it does end,

Does that again start a chain of more confusions?

Or does that become a happy moment?

Or you wonder, oh hell, why did the confusion end?

And what if you find yourself saying,

The state of confusion before the end of confusion was better,

Or the state of confusion after the end of confusion is better?

 

The Facebook Page

Well well well… My beloved blog finally has a Facebook Page.

Hope atleast this makes me blog more often.

Yes, yes, YES… be good and show some ‘like’ love.

 

Help a fellow blogger, will ya?

PA gets back on Google Reader to discover that she has a 1000+ unread blog posts. O my God! Fellow bloggers are sure churning words by the second. For a second, I thought of reading each blog post that has been missed. Better sense prevailed and I just scanned through most and very deftly clicked on ‘mark all as read’. Smart, aren’t I?

Most of my favourite WordPress blogs have been listed on Blog Surfer and the non-wordpress ones are on Google Reader.  I have no idea why I did that. Anyways. Now the scene is such that WordPress is in the process of shutting down its Blog Surfer page and will be transferring all blogs added there to Subscriptions. Now my question is – How do I add all these blogs (from Blog Surfer and Subscriptions) to Google Reader?

I tried doing this manually, i.e. adding each one by one and it sure is one hell of a tedious task. And there are tons of blogs to be added. Any ideas, fellow bloggers, please enlighten me.

Also, are you aware of any one-click tool to upload simultaneously on Facebook, Twitter and WordPress?

Be good. Help a fellow blogger May god help you churn out more posts. Ah! How else does one bless on the blogosphere!

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Har Credit Card Kuch Kehta Hai

Do you know what the 16 digits on your Card mean?

So Now you know!

 

 

Another gem…

[Via Paulo Coelho's blog]

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.
Is the system going to flatten you out and deny you your humanity, or are you going to be able to make use of the system to the attainment of human purposes?

I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live – that is to say, for the money – has turned himself into a slave.
Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

When people get married because they think it’s a long-time love affair, they’ll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment.
Marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
When you make the sacrifice in marriage, you’re sacrificing not to each other but to unity in a relationship.

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are. Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.

Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths.

Joseph John Campbell (March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987) was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative religion.

What say?

 

October Nuggets

1. A good deed may not always have a good intention behind it.
2. A bad deed may not always have a bad intention behind it.
3. A good person does not always do good deeds.
4. A bad person does not always do bad deeds.
5. A grey person does both. And is the most misunderstood of the lot more often than not.
6. A good deed with a bad intention is a bad deed no matter what.
7. Some deeds are good on a micro level and bad on a macro level.
8. Some deeds are bad on micro level and good on the macro level.
9. Be good and do good.
10. A random act of goodness may not always be in the best interest of the doer and the receiver.

PS – Over-thinking on the above points is not always a good idea.

 

Blackberry Boys

Vodafone India has come out with a new TVC called ‘Blackberry Boys’ targeting the non-business segment and emphasizing on the various uses of the smart-phone for daily use.

Advertiser: Vodafone, India | National Creative Director: Rajiv Rao | Creative Directors: Rajesh Mani and Mehul Patil | National Account Head: Kapil Arora | Account Management: Sarang Wahal and Prithviraj Shetty | Director: Prakash Varma | Producer: Sneha and Lisa | Production House: Nirvana Films | Creative Agency – Ogilvy India

Lyrics of the Jingle: We wear cool suits | We wear shiny Shoes | We’re the Blackberry Boys | Oh yeah | We’re the Blackberry Boys | We’re special, we’re clever | We’re very very clever | We’re the Blackberry Boys | Oh yeah | We’re the Blackberry Boys | We do chat | and we do mail | We do surf | We do all on the move | Oooo, ooo, ooo, hoooo | Cos We’re the Blackberry Boys | Oh yeah | We’re the Blackberry Boys | Na na na | We’re the Blackberry Boys | Oh yeah | We’re the Blackberry Boys

~

So what if there is hullabaloo over banning Blackberry services in India

We will increase the reach

And then let the janta create a hullabaloo to stop the ban

Methinks, this is what they think, what say?

~

Well, the first time I saw this advertisement, I thought it’s a local cable TV ad Then when I realized that its not, I went ‘eeks!’. A few days later after being subjected to their jingle constantly, I found myself humming along. Yes that’s what it does. It sticks to you like chewing gum. And then you start enjoying it beyond a point. Some things just grow on your with their subtle demeanor. And before you know what’s happening, you are grooving along!

 

Thursdays with Bhagwad Gita

What did you produce,
which you think got destroyed?
You did not bring anything,
whatever you have, you received from here.
Whatever you have given, you have given only here.
Whatever you took, you took from God.
Whatever you gave, you gave to Him.
You came empty handed,
you will leave empty handed.

~Excerpts from the Bhagwad Gita

 

Happiness

Sometimes a moment of happiness

Just sums up into

Feeling the rains and the breeze on your palms

And Sometimes

A lifetime of happiness

Sums up into

Feeling the rains and the breeze on your palms

 

Wordless Wednesday 22.09.2010

Courtesy Nokia N73 Music Edition Phone Camera

 

Whats in a Surname

To the People

Who use only their first name

As a way of introducing themselves

And then get annoyed

Just because we can’t place them

Hi! Y here!

Who Y?

Y here, Y! Don’t you remember!

You have a surname for a reason

Use that

 

Tale of the Treadmill Woman

To the Woman-Always-on-the-Treadmill

I see you on the treadmill when I enter the gym

I see you on the treadmill when I leave the gym

I see you playing trainer-the-trainer

Convincing your trainer that the treadmill is the only thing made for you

And only you

Much to the bewilderment of everyone around

I see your worried trainer trying to convince you to get off the darned machine

To the Woman-Always-on-the-Treadmill

I see you on the treadmill when I enter the gym

I see you on the treadmill when I leave the gym

At 65Kgs you have not a visible sign of extra fat

55Kgs is what you aim for

By running on the treadmill

And only treadmill

Much to the annoyance of your trainer

Twelve and a half minutes is all that I could manage

On the treadmill

Newbie that I am

You run at a maniac speed next to me

I walk at a snail’s speed next to you

I see you on the treadmill when I enter the gym

I see you on the treadmill when I leave the gym

To the Woman-Always-on-the-Treadmill

I admire your level of endurance

I chose not to run next to you

Or walk next to you

It does nothing for my levels of motivation

I now know

Why nobody walks next to you

Why nobody runs next to you

 

Meet the Jallad

Trainers are not Jallads, remember this?

I digress.

Some Trainers are!

Trainer T – The Tall Chap

Made me do such a lot of weights!

Every centimeter on my body is aching!

Says it’ll take at least a week for my body to adjust!

If I survive, bhaiya!

Bhaiya matt bolo!

!!!