Video - "Ek - Anek"

The classic "Ek Chidiya Anek Chidiya" cartoon from Doordarshan. Quite nostalgic ..isn't it !!






Didi: mmmm mmmm
hind desh... mmm huhu... hum sabhee.... ek hain... tara ra ra raaa
bhashaa anek hain
mmmm mmmm bhasha anek hain.... mmmm mmmmm

Bhayya: yeh anek kya hain didi ?
Didi: anek yani bahut saare....

Bhayya: bahut saare, kya bahut saare?
Didi: acha, batatee hoon...

Didi: suraj ek...
chanda ek.....
taare anek....

Bhayya: taroN ko anek bhi kehte hain ?????
Didi: nahi nahi !!
dekho phir se
suraj ek, chanda ek, ek ek ek karke taare bane anek....
Bhayya: theek se samjhao naa didi

Didi: dekho dekho ek gilahari
peeche peeche anek gilahariyan
ek thithli, ..... ek aur thithali......
ek ek ek karke ho gayee ab, anek thithliyaaN...

Bhayya: samajhgaya didi
ek ungli, anek ungliyaan

Didi: haaan,

Bhayya: didi didi woh dekho anek chidiyan...

Didi: anek chidiyoN ki kahani sunoge ....
Bhayya: haan haan

Didi: aa aa aaa,

ek chidiya, ek ek karke anek chidiya....
dana chugne aayee chidiyan .....
chorus : didi humen bhi sunaonaa.......

tho suno phirse...

ek chidiya, anek chidiyaN
dana chugne baith gayee thi .....

hai raam, par wahan byaadh ne ek jaal bhijaya tha...

Bhayya : byaadh, byaadh kaun didi ?
Didi: byaadh ... chidiya pakadne wala

Bhayya : "phir kya hua didi, byaadhne unhe pakad liya, maar daala... "

Didi: un..huh...

Himmat se gar jute rahe to
chote ho par, mile rahe tho
bada kaam bhi hove bhaiya..
bada kaam bhi hove bhaiya ...

ek..do..theen..

Chaturrr cidiyaaN, sayaani chidiyaaN
miljul kar, jaal le kar, bhaagee chidiyan
furrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

door, ek gaaon ke paas, chidiyon ke dost, chuhe rahte the....
aur unhone, chidiyonkaa jaal, kaat diya.........

tho dekha ki tumne, anek, sirf ek hojate hain tho kaisa mazaa aata hain
didi main bataoon...

HO GAYE EK ...
BAN GAYEE TAKAT..
BAN GAYEE HIMMAT...

Bhayya : didi agar hum ek ho jaayen to bada kaam kar sakte hain?
Didi: haan haan, kyon nahi ...
Bhayya : to is ped ke aam bhi thod sakte hain ???
Didi: haan, thod sakte hain, par jugat lagani hogi ...

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Chorus : achaa, eh jugat, wah... bada mazaa ayegaa..

hind desh ke niwasi sabhi jana ek hain, -2
rang-roop vesh-bhaasha chaahe anek hain -2
ek-anek... ek-anek...

suraj ek, chanda ek, taare anek,
ek titli, anek titaliyaaN
ek gilhari , anek gilhariyaaN
ek chidiyan, ek ek... anek chidiyaan

bela gulab juhi champa chameli..... -2
phool hain anek kintu mala phir ek hai ...-2

Origin of SHIT

 

In the 16th and 17th centuries, before commercial fertilizer was invented, large shipments of manure were transported by ship. It was shipped in dry bundles because in dry form it weighed a lot less than when wet-but once water hit it at sea, it not only became heavier, but when the process of fermentation began, a byproduct which is methane gas was formed. It didn’t take long for methane to build up below decks and the first time someone came below at night with a lantern, BOOOOOM!

 

Several ships were destroyed in this manner before somebody figured out what was happening. Once they determined the role that manure played in the explosions, everybody began stamping the bundles with the term “Ship High In Transit”, so that the sailors would know to stow it high enough off the lower decks so that any water that came into the hold would not touch this volatile cargo and start the production of methane.!

 

Thus evolved the term S.H.I.T, which has come down through the centuries and is in use to this very day. You probably did not know the true history of this word. Neither did I.

Video - Pelvic thrust at its best

This lanky should be listed in the Limca....Pepsi..or Coke..whatever book of records ...

Video - Censorship

Awesome Idea in advertising

Video - National anthem of India

Video - Incredible India

The film is a journey through emerging India. It celebrates the relentless spirit of people of India, who through their Karma give it a place amongst the leading economic nations of the world.

Video - Forrest Gump

Video - Sholay:Jay with Mausi

Mera Toh Dil Hi Kuch Aisa Hai ....



Mausi: Arre beta, bas itna samaz lo ke ghar me jawaan beti seene par pathhar ke sil ki tarah hoti hai. Basanti ka byaah ho jaaye to chein ki saans loo.

Jay: Haa sach kaha mausi aapne. Bada bojh hai aap par.



Mausi: Lekin beta, is bojh ko koi kunwe me to phaik nahi deta. Bura nahi maannaa , itna to poochhna hi padtaa hai ke ladke kaa khaandaan kyaa hai uske lachhchhan kaise hai, kamaataa kitnaa hai?



Jay: Kamaane ka to ye hai mausi,..,ke ek baar biwi bachhon ki jimmedaari sar pe aa gayi to .. kamaane bhi lagegaa.



Mausi: To kya abhi kuchh bhi nahi kamaataa?



Jay: Nahi nahi ye maine kba kahaa mausi, kamaataa hai lekin,... ab roj roj to aadmi jeet nahi sakataa na. .. kabhi haar bhi jaataa hai bechaaraa?



Mausi: Haar jaata hai?



Jay: Haan mausi ab ye kambakht juwaa cheej hi aisi hai ab mai kyaa kahoon?



Mausi: heynnnn. to kya juwaari hai?



Jay: chhi chhi chhi chhi mausi, woh aur juwaari na na. woh to bahot hi achchha aur nek ladka hai.Lekin mausi, ek baar sharaab pi li na phir, achchhe bure ka kahaa hosh rahataa hai. Haath pakad ke bitha liyaa kisi ne juwaa khelane. ab isme bechare Veeru ka kya dosh?



Mausi: Thik kahate ho beta. juwaari woh sharaabi woh lekin, uska koi dosh nahi.



Jay: Mausi aap to mere dost ko galat samaz rahi hai. woh to itanaa seedha aur bhola hai. aare basanti se uski shaadi karke to dekhiye, ye juwe aur sharaab ki aadat to do din me chhoot jaayegi.



Mausi: Arre beta, mujh budhiyaa ko samaza rahe ho. ye sharaab aur juwe ki aadat kisi ki chhooti hai aaj tak.



Jay: Mausi aap Veeru ko nahi jaanati , wishwaas kijiye wo is tarah kaa insaan nahi hai. Ek baar shaadi ho gayi to woh us gaane-waali ke ghar jaanaa band kar degaa. bas, sharaab apne aap chhoot jaayegi.



Mausi: Hi hi, bas yehi ek kami raha gayi thi. Toh kya kisi gaane-waali ke ghar bhi aanaa jaanaa hai?



Jay: Toh isme kaunsi buri baat hai mausi. arre , gaana soonane to raajaa - mahaaraajaa unche unche khaandaan ke log jaate hai, haan.



Mausi: Achchha ! to beta ye bhi bataate jaao ki tumhare yeh gunwaan dost kis khaandaan ke hai?



Jay: Bas mausi, khaandaan ka pataa chalate hi ham aap ko khabar de denge.



Mausi: Ek baat ki daad doongi beta. bhale sau buraaEyaa hai tumhare dost me ,phir bhi tumhare munh se us ke liye taareefe hi nikalti hai.



Jay: A kya karoo mausi.. mera toh dil hi kuchh aisa hai.(pause)...

Toh.. mai ye rishtaa pakkaa samazoo?



Mausi: Pakkaa? . bhale saari jindagi ladaki kuwaari baithi rahe. Lekin mai aise aadami se Basanti ko nahi byaahanewaali. Sagi mausi hoon. Ki sautelee maa nahi.



Jay: Ajeeb baat hai.. Mere itne samazaane par bhi aap ne inkaar kar diyaa.. Bechaaraa Veeru... naa jaane kya karega?

Video - Sholay:Kitne aadmi the ??

video - A scene from Jo Jeeta Wohi Sikandar

Video - Pehla Nasha

One of my fav songs

Video - Gemini Gemini Gavani Gavani

Huh ..can anyone in the world sing faster and louder than this song ?

Watch it ...err..listen to it ..err..feel it..ok do whatever you like with this one.

Photo - Brother by the Sea

  

Photo - Brother with Beatles

  

Photo - Brother

  

Photo - WO/MEN in Black

  

Photo - Sinking in Singapore

  

Photo - Sinagpore

  

Photo - A Family in Forrest

  

Photo - Cock's Tail

  

Photo - Bangkok

  

Photo - Kid

  

Photo - Kids

  

Photo - More Kids

  

Photo - Yenn Pondra

  

Photo - Fear Rajni Anna

  

Photo - brothers in Rhyme

  

Photo - My Family

  

No funny Caption for this. You see I am emotionally quite attached to my family :-)

Photo - Back to backwater

  

Photo - Justifying my Name

and making Satyajit Ray proud

  

Photo - Miles to go

So ..why not rest a bit.

  

Photo - Globalisation

People from five different countries !!

  

Dance Mania

Just look at the way these folks dance !!

Amazing !! I wonder how much do they get paid for these aerobics !!

US Diary

APARTMENT

Cost of the apt ranges from $450 - $600. Let me give you a glimpse of the apts here. These guys never compromise in living style. They highly depend on machines. Every part of the house, you will find gadgets. Especially kichen. Big electric stoves, motor sink, microwave etc etc. In every room there is heater, ofcourse that is a requirement here.

There is a common laundry in the apt where you can wash your cloth for 5 quarters (25 cents = 1 qtr). I m yet to go there.


You will laugh at the sizes of the vegetables here. Onions twice the size of a cricket ball. Cabbage as big as a foot ball. Everything neatly packed and barcoded. Chicken legs sold separately, and chicken backs separately.

WALMART

I was surprised by the way they keep commodities in Wal-mart. Everything is just dumped. Not much employees. Even the Point of Sales are automated. You just pick your stuffs in the cart and go to the POS machine, take one by one and keep it on the tray, it will calculate the prices,when you are done, it will ask you for payment. If cash, just insert notes one by one into the slot and it will recognize them, give you the change. If its card, sign on an electric panel and it will recognize your signature. And the commodities available are from hairpin to vegetables to Plasma TVs. Everything under one roof. I just wonder how they mantain.

COMMUTATION

Now commutation part. Its a dog's life if you dont have a car. Even you have to get a pack of fags, you have to depend on the car. Coz the shops are very distant.
I come with TCS guys here in the Car pool. Car pooling is very much encouraged here. You have a separate line for car poolers. Parking charges are very less for poolers. So even if you have a car, you are forced to go by car pool, otherwise you can't afford. There are some 6 guys, evey one of them have cars; they take 2 cars daily in rotation basis. I ve joined them. Have n't talked about money, will do. Most horrible part is evening time, when I go back from office, there is none in the house. Even going out alone is not advisable.


A place called Duluth

Duluth is a very nice place. At this time it should be a little bit more cold out there.
A nice serene place. It should take you guys three hours to go. It is up north and since this is the Fall season you will be seeing the fall colours.
The tree leaves change colors in this season mostly in the North Minneapolis region.
They have an Imax theatre. Dont miss that. There is a special Bridge called the London Bridge. This one raises over in the middle to let a ship pass under it.
First when you go there, plan to go to the City centre, you will get all the nearby attractions on it. You could try to skiing for a start.

The trip was good. Duluth which is sorrounded by the Lake Superior, US's largest lake. The day was perfect, as we could see fall colors in the trees we bypass. All the leaves of the trees become yellow or golden for a short perios of 2/3 days and then fall down (Patjhad). So it appears like the trees are in full bloom. Went near the US-Canada border. Also went to Lutsen ( a mountain range lake side ).


Idiot Box

Yeah, we do have TV, DVD etc at home, but no Indian channels. Its available for subscription, but Naresh has n't got it. So I watch the local programmes.
The local programmes are so stupid you know. They just show fashion related stuffs, shopping things and some reality shows which are never real. Some comedy
channels are there who show senseless and useless comedy. I watch 'friends' sometimes.

Neighbours

No question of neighbour here, unless you have a whole community of your own staying nearby. Such as Bengali community. No question of mingling with native people here, they don't have any discrimination for us ( or atleast it shows like that), but they would never mix with us. They just say hello or hi when they see us.

Entertainment

Life will be very enjoyable here, if you learn how to enjoy. You have got endless option. Playing Tenis, TT or going to Gym etc etc. One has to first settle down, then its a matter of time. But foremost important, as I have told u before, is commuting. A vahicle of your own. Its a long way to go for me, infact I am repenting of not going to driving classes in Mumbai. If I had an Indian license, it wud ve helped a lot in getting the license here quickly.

That day I was perhaps preparing for sleep, so the conversation was not good. That to sometimes you tend to get bore of talking the same thing like how do you eat, how do you go, how do you sleep. Things are not so bad. And I will manage. Not to worry.

VISA

typically, your application (with your resume, project role, invitation letter from autodesk america) will be prepared, and it will go to an attorny ( with whom your company has tie up)

that attorny will file your application here, and if it gets approved( which generally gets thru), here INS will give you a petition.
with the petition, you can apply for a visa. for which you have to go to consulate for an interview.
they will give a business visa ( they give it for longer period, 5-10 yrs).
but generally people carrying Business visa don't stay longer here, generally 30 to 45 days max

and everytime you wlll come here, you can use the same visa.
I think you need not appear in the consulate too everytime you come here, once you have got B Visa for longer period.

B1. Meant for short trips. typically for business meetings.

But we desis use it for working here for short period, which we are not supposed to.
for me, business visa wont work, since I needed to stay here long time. thats why I came with L1 visa. which is kind of transfer from TCS India to TCS America.
There is H1 also, which is a work permit. that eventually leads to green card after long time.


so. B1, L1, H1. Wife of L1 will get L2. Wife of H1 will get H2. Dependent visas.
Wife of B1 can't come with dependent visa.
That was Nut shell ;)

and there is another one. F1. which is student visa. all MS students come with this visa.They are not allowed to work with F1. Only study.
and I dont know what tourist visa is called.


so much of standardisation aint it


CITIES

I was surprised to see their cities while in flight. Even cities are rectangular man.
Even some states are full squares as if somebody has done with pencil and scale
its like they build everything in plan.
Even full newyork is a grid of Streets and Avenues. if u see the map, its like a uniform net. Thats why its very easy for them to computerize everything, (Mapquest etc) because each and every house is well defined. Well, atleast in cities. May be in rural areas, there is not much of standardization.

have u seen forrest gump ? The villages are exactly like that in that movie. I have seen some rural areas here.
Haan Alabama is a State. Small coutry sides are achha khaasa small towns, with proper roads, malls.

SNAIL MAIL SERVICE

When I changed my apartment, I had to go to the postal services site and update my new address. And now, all my letters from old address get automatically forwarded to my new address



Subways


The Subways, McDs are not very different from that we get in Mumbai, just the ingredients are different. Here you get beef, pork also.
And culture is different. Can u believe some family just rely on McD and don't cook at all. But one thing is infered, we are blindly following
US culture in India. Very fast. Or atleast in Mumbai. But I bet they can't afford to keep Coke fountains as openly as they keep it here,
coz there is a difference of attitude also.

Phot Section in Walmart

It was fundu. You organize your photo yourself. A menu driven machine is there. Insert your media into that, it will guide you through all steps and finally
you get your photos. Sola mane technology ro pura fyda uthau chanti.

Eating habits

People take a lot of salad here, so they fulfil the fibre requirement. Also eat a lot of bunns in burgers etc, so cereal need is also satisfied.
I took salad yesterday. They keep a lot of ingredients and you have to choose from them including a range of dressings. You have to pay by its weight.
And by mistake I took a bite of beef in the salad

Get off you monkey !!

Writing has never been so much of pleasure, so exciting and the same moment so scary and intimidating. After numerous attempts to stamp my presence in the blogoshpere I finally gathered enough courage, enough time and enough exhilaration to actually sit and type this first blog of mine. May be its too little too late. May be I am the last one to board this bus but what the heck. I finally did it. I am writing my first blog.

There were so many reasons for me to be indisposed to start a blog. The very thought that it’s going to be read by thousands of readers or may be hundreds of thousands (ok ..I am just getting too optimistic here) made me nervous. And to add to my agony a majority of the readers would be total strangers to me. The very thought that there are people unknown to me, people I have never have met would be reading my writings made me affrighted. These writings will not be hidden in my closet and then make their way to the junk yard ultimately unlike the hundreds of pages I had written in the past. Yeah, I can make this blog private and keep it to myself but that would be against the very basic principle of blogging. Wouldn’t it.

But I saw blessings in disguise. When my readers don’t even know me, it becomes easier for me to express what I feel. It matters little if they loved or hated my writings. I don’t have to see their faces after the sun rises. It’s like entering a yahoo chat room with an id like “satisfymepls” and give tongue to all your fantasies without worrying too much about your reputation. (I know what you are thinking. I never did it. I just happened to see people doing it).

And of course blog publishing doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket. Neither does it ask for too much of your time. Just imagine reaching to so many people across the world (one more word of optimism) without spending a penny (office pays my internet expenses). Isn’t it incredible?

It’s the modern tool to evince your emotions, rant your heartaches and convey your thoughts. Blogging helps you in sorrow, in happiness, in dillema, in catastrophe, in felicity. ( a little exaggeration is not bad ). A blog a day keeps the psychiatrist away.

Aren’t these reasons enough to write the modern way and embrace blogging? How could I not think of this earlier!! Sheer stupidity. Blame it on my sluggish brain.

Anyways, I have finally managed to get the monkey off my back. I promise to myself to walk the blog way now.
Amen!