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So Weird

Home at 8:30. (Actually got home 20 mins ago)

Usually this is the time I leave office. (I need a live so badly).

Anyway decided to hitch a ride with a friend cause 'the city is on high alert' after bombs being found at Andheri.

Gooooooo India

So happy we won the 20 20 World Cup.


Will be so much happier if the team can play like this at least 70% of the times they play if not more.

Mauja Hi Mauja

Totally love the song. It does sound like a copy of an english song but can't figure which one.

Some how this is one of those songs that make you feel like getting up and dancing (or at least moving a little).

It's from the movie Jab We Met

What a match...

Totally kick ass.

Now India and Pakistan in the final. For me of course India in the final is the reallllllllll kick.

All so wrong...

So very wrong...

Saathiya...

Song from Darling.
Totally love it.
Music is good. Lyrics are okay. The way it's sung is excellent. Especially the saathiyaaaa bit at the end of the ummm verse or whatever it's called.

The movie has 3 music directors - Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam Chakraborty, Prasana Shekhar (which I find pretty strange and therefore mention it).


Lyrics -

Saathiya…. Saathiyaaa..aa.aa -2

want you baby, need you baby

ishq bedardi mujhko pata hai
isaki chaahat mein milati saja hai - 2
bekaraari mein mar hi na jaau
na samajh ko main kaise samajhaau
dil hai ki maanata nahi hai
bechaini jaanata nahi hai
main karun kya bata zaraa saathiyaa.. ha - 2
saathiyaaa.. saathiya..aa..aa..aa… saathiyaa..aa

need you baby, want you baby

narm khwaabon ki baahon mein jaagengi aankhein
garm yaadon ke saaye mein bitengi raatein - 2

yaad toh aayegi, bekhudi chhayegi
dard de jaayegi, tanhaayi tadpaayegi

dil hai ki maanata nahi hai
bechaini jaanata nahi hai
main karun kya bata zaraa saathiya.. hoo - 2
saathiyaaa.. saathiya..aa..aa..aa… saathiyaa..aa

need you baby, want you baby

saare aalam pe aahon ka chhaayega jaadu
apane hi jazbon pe toh hoga na kaabu - 2

zakhma yeh tho jigar ho gaye sau asar
na rahe ye khabar bechida hoga safar

dil hai ki maanata nahi hai
bechaini jaanata nahi hai
main karun kya bata zaraa saathiya - 2
saathiyaaa.. saathiya..aa..aa..aa… saathiyaa..aa

you messed up my day, you liar

I hate when people lie to me.

What a day...

Learned so many things today with just a couple of incidents. Sure they were major incidents but still... Also came to question so many things.

• No matter how solid a wall, enough of battering will bring it down.
• Will a species keep surviving if a few fundamental elements are intact and strong? What leads to extinction? How easily would extinction occur when basics start falling apart?
• Knowing and accepting is different from knowing and being in denial.
• All the burden of the world will fall onto your shoulders at some point in time.
• Not all loses are equal.
  
• Who do I talk to? No one. Who should I talk to? I don't know.
• Our lies have a way of catching up with us.
• Having 'contacts' might just be as important as it is cool.
• Things that are super great today might turn sour tomorrow. Very sour.
• Those you think of being 'good for nothing' types can actually end up being the ones who talk the most sense.

I soooo badly miss my old self. If only we could turn back time. I want to be the person I was 6 years ago.

Aloof..free floating...no care in the world....content....

i know i am dharti pe bhoj sorry but u cant ever change me!

by popular demand

NISHA OBVIOUSLY.

and key says -

dude...wats with ur nick.....its making me cry....

Lost my phone...Need your number...

Ya I didn't have a backup of my phone book.

Was stupid enough to believe that I won't loose my phone :(

Old is ...what I have

Back to my 3310.

And what I am telling everyone is that I might end up using it a couple of months too, cause my biggest problem with my phone before Jan of this year was that my phonebook was full after deleting numbers every week.

Now that my phone got lost and I am back to my Nokia 3310 with a new SIM card, I have no phone numbers lol so my previous problem doesn't exist anymore.

P.S. I hate that I can so easily afford to buy a new phone. The pinch of losing my (relatively new) mobile isn't hurting too much.

Lost my phone...

:(

Stranger

There's a stranger in my life.

Song by Hillary Duff.

The song is pretty cool. I heard it on TV and liked it without understanding all the lyrics so came online and checked the lyrics out - quite nice mainly because they seem so real. 'There's no kindness in your eye', 'Your not the person I once knew', ' You made yourself look perfect in every way, So when this goes down, I'm the one that will be blamed'.

Nobody believes me when I tell them that you're out of your mind.
Nobody believes me when I tell them that there's so much you hide.
You treat me like a queen when we go out,
wanna show everyone what our love's about.
All wrapped up in me whenever there is a crowd,
But when no ones around;

There's no kindness in your eyes,
The way you look at me, it's just not right.
I can tell whats going on this time,
Theres a stranger in my life.
You're not the person that I once knew.
Are you scared to let them know it's you?
If they could only see you like I do,
Then they would see a stranger too..

Did I ever do anything that was this cruel to you?
Did I ever make you wonder who was standing in the room?
You made yourself look perfect in every way,
So when this goes down, I'm the one that will be blamed.
Your plan is working so you can just walk away,
Baby your secret's safe.

There's no kindness in your eyes,
The way you look at me, it's just not right.
I can tell whats going on this time,
Theres a stranger in my life.
You're not the person that I once knew.
Are you scared to let them know it's you?
If they could only see you like I do,
Then they would see a stranger too..

Such a long way back, from this place that we are at.
When I think of all the time I've wasted, I could cry..

There's no kindness in your eyes,
The way you look at me, it's just not right.
I can tell whats going on this time,
Theres a stranger in my life.
You're not the person that I once knew.
Are you scared to let them know it's you?
If they could only see you like I do,
Then they would see a stranger too..

There's no kindness in your eyes,
The way you look at me, it's just not right.
I can tell whats going on this time,
Theres a stranger in my life.
You're not the person i once knew.
Are you scared to let them know it's you?
If they could only see you like I do,
Then they would see a stranger too.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards...

Happens oh so often

Headaches...

A little too many in my life

Happy Independence Day

To be very honest, while I do say I love India and there is no country like it anywhere in the world, I wouldn't die for this country. I unfortunately am not that patriotic.

Also someone once said to me - 'It's not this country or the city you live in that you love so much, it's your life here. If you had to live somewhere else in this city, forget country, you would see things in a whole new light'. After some contemplation, I realise that the guy was absolutely right. I have so many privileges in my life. If some were taken away from me, I don't think I would love so many things I love right now.

Anyway I think one privilege we all take for granted is our independence. I do not say 'freedom' because freedom has a totally different connotation in my mind. No one can really be free but they can be independent. Living in a Democracy is a big thing. Sure we aren't in the day and age when the state would torture people, take away all their rights, take away their money and property but still being able to fall back upon the thought that we can topple governments collectively is a thought that gives comfort to a lot of us. It may never happen but we at least know we have the right.

Anyway enough of a rant which isn't even sounding good.

I always use to say what is the point of all these days. 'Independence Day' sure as hell doesn't remind me about our struggle for independence, our dead freedom fighters, our marches and our fasts, etc. I wasn't around. I also didn't see life before the independence so I wouldn't realize how much I should be grateful for it. But I still believe that days like this are important to 'celebrate' because we then spend a little time contemplation the struggle, contemplating what life must have been like before, contemplating about those who made sacrifices, etc. We never think about this stuff otherwise.


For me 'Independence Day' does have some significance. It wouldn't if Partition hadn't happened but it did and so much of my community (Sindhi) went through such a tough time. I have heard stories of how people who had tons of money had to come into India and live in refugee camps. Stories of how the 'muslim police' entered houses and threw people out in the middle of the night. Stories of how people feared their life and ran.

It wasn't all bad for everyone though and movie sometimes seem to exaggerate things. I know my granddad was in Pakistan till Jan-Feb of 1948 and lived to tell about it. I also know that the torture, murder, mayhem happened even to muslims in India very close to the new border or those trying to get into Pakistan.

I also end up wondering, especially on independence day, whether having a state is important or not. I see culture, values, tradition, language, etc of my community disappearing and it's sad. Sure I am not big for traditions and cultures but it's such a wrong way to loose them - just because we got scattered all over. Traditions etc should be sieved to take out all that is bad and retain all that is good. They shouldn't just disappear because people aren't practicing them collectively.

I don't speak Sindhi and am quite ashamed of it even though I may joke about it. I still am not clear if I am all for a one language, one culture world. I do see it's merits but we would loose a lot in the bargain. While being part of different communities segregates us, I think it also makes us feel unique and collective to some extent. It makes us feel that the others in the group are just like us. So we feel pride and shame when someone in the group feels the same. We have the same problems. Similar outlook. Similar attitude to certain things.

I don't this it is worth loosing all of this.

So much to do...so much to do...

How many people truly reach their full potential?

Do you know your potential?

Or better still

Do you work to your full potential?

I have a bias but I honestly believe that if you say 'yes' and that too very quickly, you never understood the question.

I also don't believe that a 'yes' would ever be the right answer.

What is the point?...

Don't remember now what the nick was about, but I do remember that I was pissed and also that I did want to blog about it.

And you thought it happens only in India...

A bridge collapsed in Minneapolis, USA....