Orgasmic Music!! :)

With all due respect and admiration for the music maestros.. I shall say no more than what the title says about their performance..

Ustad Zakir Hussain , Sivamani , Taufiq Qureshi, Gino Banks, Louis Banks, Niladri Kumar , Shankar Mahadevan - ALL LIVE ON ONE STAGE!!n The snap has only two of them though :(

By far the Best I have witnessed in my lifetime :)

Hard Rock Cafe - 10.dec.08

Drop the Idea !!

Lots of awesome memories , cherised moments ,a couple of heart breaks and a few disappointments down  doesn’t stop the light in my heart to still burn for true love…So here is a little something I penned down.. (Inspired a little by something I read sometime back)

Drop the idea that Love justifies expectations

They are enemies . It is expectations that Destroy all love.

If you expect , then you love with a selfish motive

If you Love with all you got, then expect nothing back - its unrequited love

They are not one, one kills the other when it overtakes.

Drop the idea that attachment and love are one thing.

They are enemies. It is attachment that destroys all love.

If you feed and nourish attachment, love will be destroyed;

If you feed and nourish love, attachment will fall away by itself.

They are not one; they are two separate entities, and antagonistic to each other

Drop the idea that love leads to heartbreak

They are enemies. It is a heartbreak that makes you lose faith in love.

If you experience heartbreak, its not cuz your love was impure

If you love even after your heart breaks, its called True Love

They are not inter connected, hearts break ‘cuz of expectations and attachments.

... I think this is incomplete.. shall add more when I get more thoughts...

Essel world!!

A long over due trip to the FUN LAND! Essel world!! And finally we did end up going and it was awesomeeee fun!!  

06.dec.08

So who is right and who is wrong ??

I read this interesting quote which lead me to write this blog entry:

Imagine There's No Heaven,

Its Easy If You Try,

No Hell Below Us,

Above Us Only Sky.

A lot of people are either against athiests or are under the opinion atheists are stupid. Why?Is it because we question the proof of god's existence?No, its because we are going against majority.(to put it very frankly)

Some often ask me 'How can you tell god does'nt exist?Who made the world?The sky?The grass?' My standard reply is 'I don't know.' Yeah,i'll admit it. I really don't know. I don't know if the world never needed a source from where it was born. I don't know if god and his allies came up with the idea of some creatures with 2 arms and legs which walked and talked and killed and lived. I just don't know.

The point is, unlike many who are under the very idea(its ONLY an idea) that god, the omnipotent, created the world and humans, I stand to take a better and more satisfying answer for existence of this world. Proof? I get the very baseless reply that proof is FAITH.

Lets start by defining faith. According to the Oxford Dictionary faith is defined as '1.complete trust or confidence. 2.firm esp., religious belief'

So theists have complete trust and confidence and belief that there is a god who is above all, who controls how this very world works,how we walk, talk, live and die.

Trust and confidence is not at all the same as reality.Trust is just the opinion that one has on another.Reality, unfortunately, is very very different.

For eg, I'm questioned 'how do you know that a certain person cares for you?

My answer to this illogical and baseless question is: I have FAITH and TRUST in that person. But that person does have an the option of not caring at all. (It's an option,its the friend's wish to choose whether to care or not)

So thats a very simple way of stating the difference between reality and faith.

The question of god's existence is not at all in any way related to science or satanism. Its a mere doubt which can arise in a normal person at some point of time.The only difference is,some choose to be satisfied with the given answer for eg, faith, while others need more substantial proof for eg, signs of existence apart from faith, like sight.

Now another very common question asked to me when I say 'I haven;t seen God, so I dont believe in his existence'.. is 'Can you see air?You cant.But you know air exists.Similarly god also exists.'

Air may not be seen,but it has numerous other properties which a god does'nt.

I don't, by any chance, mean to sound rude or insensitive, but when one thinks with an open mind he will definitely demand solid, percievable proof that there is a supernatural power above all, and its god.

So who decides who is right and who is wrong?? Who gets the proof!!

Amma its yummaa!

I have this replusion to south Indian food.. but for all the times I said I cant stand south Indian food.. I take my words back.. 

Had the yummiest south indian thali at chutney's in Hyderabad! Thanx to the weirdo though :).. 

Fun time!!

Post a lame movie.. 'Hancock' , having a beery good time at marine drive late at night :)

Finally life is moving on to happier times.. !!

Syd.. Dhoomsie.. Jiggy.. Chocoo and Sunil

...

I read this piece online recently and loved it.. so had to put it on my blog!!

THE INVITATION
It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living.I want to know what you ache forand if you dare to dream of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me how old you are.I want to know if you will risk looking like a foolfor lovefor your dreamfor the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me what planets are squaring your moon...I want to know if you have touched the centre of your own sorrowif you have been opened by life’s betrayalsor have become shrivelled and closedfrom fear of further pain.

I want to know if you can sit with painmine or your ownwithout moving to hide itor fade itor fix it.I want to know if you can be with joymine or your ownif you can dance with wildnessand let the ecstasy fill you to the tips of your fingers and toeswithout cautioning usto be carefulto be realisticto remember the limitations of being human.

It doesn’t interest me if the story you are telling me is true.I want to know if you can disappoint another to be true to yourself.If you can bear the accusation of betrayaland not betray your own soul.If you can be faithlessand therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty even when it is not prettyevery day.And if you can source your own life from its presence.

I want to know if you can live with failure yours and mine and still stand at the edge of the lakeand shout to the silver of the full moon,“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me to know where you live or how much money you have.I want to know if you can get up after the night of grief and despair weary and bruised to the bone and do what needs to be done to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me who you know or how you came to be here.I want to know if you will stand in the centre of the fire with me and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied.I want to know what sustains you from the inside when all else falls away.

I want to know if you can be alone with yourself and if you truly like the company you keep in the empty moments.

Standing tall!!

Two or Too Special people!! =)

I totally love this snap I took ! Love the emotions in it!

What is special about this snap is, the fact that both the people in this snap are people I had weird unpleasant first meetings with, and never thought that they would end up being important people in my life's journey in their own way!

So for being the amazing Friends that you are to me, you lucky guys get a little space on my blog!! =)

... somethings never change...

It is amazing how we keep talking about how everything in life keeps changing constantly and barely ever talk about the things that never change!
Last night,while I was lying down in my bed and listening to ‘Heal the world’ on Radio , I happened to wander away into my world of thoughts and think about the things that never change, like never.. I mean I have heard ‘Heal the world’ a zillion times and will continue to, but it always makes me all emotional, gets me to want to sing along, to hold a candle and sway !
As my thoughts moved on, I happened to think of a few more things that never change…

· My want to become Miss India =)... Oh come on! Every girl wants it!
· Crying every time I see the climax of Kuch Kuch Hota Hain!
· The way Doordarshan has looked over the last few decades!
· Or for that matter the logo or the smell of Bata shoes!
· The temptation to eat wet mud every time the plants are watered!
· Parents thinking that their kids will never grow up!
· Kids thinking their parents will never understand their needs
· Men in uniform looking hot! ( Olive green, navy blue or just plain white!! )
· The butterflies in the tummy every time you see the one you want to be with!
· Sitting for hours and hours crying over a heartbreak and thinking it’s the end of the world, and

days later smiling and thinking ‘how crazy was I back then!’
· Wanting to be the hottie in your class! Yaya!! Deny it! But deep down... we all know!
· The smell of Pond’s Dreamflower Talc! It’s the same since my granny used it!
· The importance of a hug when you are down in the dumps! ( so a lot of us say we don’t like

hugging, reality check – We all need hugs!)
· Everyone falling in love with the wrong person at least once in your lifetime!
· Laughing like crazy every time mom tells you the same childhood stories of yours!
· Begging parents for more allowance
· Dressing up just to go out to buy grocery (you might just bump into ‘her / him’ )
· The little happy feeling at midnight on your birthday!
· Thinking that strangers who try and help too much have something fishy about them.

( even if the poor thing is trying to help genuinely)
· Shah Rukh Khan’s ability to romance women of all ages and make it look so believable
· Jeans being the most comfortable piece of clothing for teenagers!
· Maruti 800! Kudos to that little thing for still finding its way on the roads, considering there

are innovations in automobiles every other day!
· The melody of ever green Kishore Kumar songs! Yeah I know Sonu Nigam is melodious

too, but hello, are we even thinking of comparing!
· The humor in F.R.I.E.N.D.S!
· The Goosebumps every time I hear Jaana gaana maana!
· The romance that rain creates!
· And the mistakes you wish you had never made!
All said and done.. I do know that change is inevitable! But then again sometimes it doesn't take much to look beyond cliches and notice the simpler things in life! Believe me... It's worth it!

The lonely tree.. lonely no more!

I was standing at the window at 7am with a camera in my hand, trying to get the tree alone in the barren land and then the cow walked in, and then I clicked!!

Windyy!!

A windy evening on marine drive! Not an extraordinary snap.. but I liked it.. so clicked!!

Love this song...

Look what you have done - Jet

Take my photo off the wall

If it just won't sing for you'

Cause all that's left has gone away

And there's nothing there for you to prove

Oh, look what you've done

You've made a fool of everyone

Oh well, it seems likes such fun

Until you lose what you had won

Give me back my point of view

'Cause I just can't think for you

I can hardly hear you say

What should I do, well you choose

Oh, look what you've done

You've made a fool of everyone

Oh well, it seems likes such fun

Until you lose what you had won

I have never written anything about the lyrics of a song, but this song has been playing on my media player in loop for days now and somehow makes so much sense to me, its amazing!The words are simple and yet so meaningful. Everytime i hear this song (which is a zillion times a day) it feels like someone felt just what I feel right now when they made this song! According to a friend of mine : "dude the jet song is totally for you..its almost as if thy dedicated it to you!!"

I couldn agree more with him!! :)

Movie time!!

Air Ballons!!

Kalaghoda - Feb '2008!

Love clicking random snaps.. and sometimes manage to get a few decent snapshots!!

Clicked this one at Kalaghoda Festival!