Hairat Hai

Currently listening to Lucky Ali sing Hairat Hai .. from Anjaana Anjaani ... :) .... one day .. i just wanna be riding a bike down monument valley listening to music like this and have absolutely no one around! .. me the bike and ok maybe s ... but thats that ... oh and some awesome music.

Ganpati Bappa Morya

This years Ganpati festival was a bit different. Our Family didnt have the traditional Ganpati stapana at our homes. We are a huge family of 4 grandfathers and 3 grandmothers who are brothers and sisters.. and they each have about 4 - 8 kids on an average and we are the third generation of this tree. Us cousins used to have loads of fun hanging out and playing cards and loads of other games during Ganesh festival. In the two days that we would have the ganpati at our uncles place .. it would start with the first night of setting up the decorations for the idol .. called as "Makhar". Then followed by going and bringing home the lord and the first aarti. This was followed by lunch and lots of cards.. and then the late night hour long evening Maha aarti that was so unique to our family that it was with pride that we all enjoyed this. The next day was visarjan... and with it the official end of Shravan month ... which would mean awesome yummy food in the night :).

Nothing of that this year. All the uncles are old .. some are no more, and so its becoming tough on those that have to carry fwd the tradition. The third generation, us are all dispersed in different parts of the world and cant have it at our places. So we stopped this tradition.

This year to celebrate, I went to a friends place where we sang Aartis in similar tune to that at home, had awesome food, and ukadichey modak and then went to an aarti at the hindu temple.

The end line... Ganpati bappa Morya... tradition or not.. God has his way.. in a nice n lovely way.

Gnight.

Y2K Y2F?!

So remember how Y2K was a big thing a couple of decades back? Well someone needs to wake up and stop synching and integrating everything with facebook and twitter. Facebook updates this .. twitter account link this ... People need to stop making technology that is dependent on being linked and synched with fb and twitter.

Software Technology and technology developers have for ages tried to join whatever the hottest latest bandwagon is. Its by design not the best thing to do.

Can someone please tell the developers of the future that?

Travel

Doesnt travel bring out the best and or the worst of people out? I was recently travelling to a city I had never been to before. Its all under wraps :D. But I think there is no better art than the expressions that people have.

Saw a kid, poor little boy, scared to death. First flight experience. :)
Saw an old lady, lost in between time (read as decades and modern life) walking down the street.
Saw a cute asian girl notice me take pictures of flowers and came forth to better align her flowers on her stall for me to get a good snap.
Saw anxiety on person.
Saw a kid with autism making a lot excited noise in being able to see a plane up close. Unfortunately his grandfather wasnt up for understanding his excitement and pacifying him. God Bless.
Saw a whole bunch of military/Army/ROTC kids going back to their hometowns after a week long exercise. Making new friends at the last minute, sharing information, beer, friendships formed with a common bond and a week.
Met an old colleague, shared coffee and some excitement.
Saw a father suggest his son to kill time by sitting in a phone booth, thought that was fun, Kids response... Can I also call someone? :)
Saw a daughter in her mid 40s taking her mom in her mid 60's to a town monument and saw how they rapidly talked and shared their mother daughter bond.

Saw so many people in one place it was just too nostalgic.

Sometimes I think why do we need art? Art I believe is a medium to express. But if you turn so cold hearted that you can't feel feelings, then art just wont be for you.

New Blogger Template Designer!

Finally! this is really a great thing! wonder what took so long. but this is what I have been wanting. Thanks El Goog!

All this while I did get to learn some CSS and html and template designing. But this is good.

Weekend

Just watched braveheart for the first time in my life. Good movie,
fighting for freedom with a zeal that you just cannot develop in one
day!

Also went to the Charlotte NASCAR hall of fame, it doesn't open for
another 10 days but we got tickets to sneak peek soft opening, it was
really a good experience.

"you can overcome anything in the world but fate" - Richard Petty!!
This is a good lesson of life.

And thencooked food at home watched angels and demons and bravehert....

Now for some reason I just cannot get myself to sleep!!!

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