I'll get to it, when I get to it.

Do I have any pending action? If not, why not? 
If yes, When will I act to complete it?
Am I going to act at all?
Is the pending action even a valid ask?
Lots and lots of questions involving intricacies...


My only answer is:
'I'll get to it when I get to it. 
Tab tak khaane ka, peene ka, Aur chill maarne ka...'

LEGALIZE IT! FEST 1983

**How did you do it? 
***Do What?
**How did you become this? I mean I love my life, but I'm not sure I like loving it. 
I think about going for anything more than that, I look at my life and who I am. I'm too far gone. I'm broken.
***Son, I was far more broken than you'll ever be. But look at me now. Don't get me wrong, Settling down is a challenge, its the biggest challenge of your life.
**So how did you do it?
*** A magician never reveals his greatest trick. But I'll give you a hint. You gotta meet the right girl. Who knows? May be you'll meet her tomorrow.
** May be I have met her already.


*** Ohh.. and Thanks for taking good care of this.===========>>
It Means a lot to me that you have kept it safe for all these years.


(Hopeless himym-s06e21)

2nd April 2011, The Day to Remember

Nehru's famous words on 15 Aug 1947 ::
"At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to Life and freedom. A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance..... We end today a period of ill fortune, and India discovers herself again."
I feel the same today: 2nd April 2011: 
I know cricket and freedom fights cannot be compared but I'm just talking about the above words. They are so so so apt for tonight. Today I witnessed the same spirit in every Indian out there. Unity, Joy, Ecstasy, Feeling of a Win as if conquered a WAR.
Pune roads were full of people with flags and 'Team India' Tattoos. This was the same scene across the country. Everyone was hugging each other, dancing, clapping, shouting, with people whom they didn't even know. That explains how huge this win is for India. What it means to Indian people. Its one thing that binds together all Indians despite of all the cultural diversity.

The tears of joy in Dhoni's, Yuvi's, Sachin's and Harbhajan's eyes spoke more than words.

This is something huge. This is something they have provided to a cricket crazy nation which celebrates Diwali on an Indian win and in the same way feels agony on a Indian loss.

Also the 22 year long wait for Sachin finally ends.

I feel great today. I feel privileged to have witnessed this day. 
Its one of those days which I'll remember all my Life and will feel proud about having lived it.
And yes, Tonight, No Indian sleeps. क्यों की आज की रात जश्न की रात है !
                                              

O'Mama.. Acoustic version...Lyrics...

Of course the original one is also great.. but this one is great too.. couldn't find these lyrics anywhere.. so posting here..


Gol banakar hoth, bahot pass aaye par.. o Mama,, o Mama.,,
Unke lab hi dekhte reh gaye chai par..
takraaye hotho se phir bhi ummeed ho..
koi toh iss tarah aashiq shaheed ho..
koi gaya gaya..
O Mama.. O Mama...


o mama, kanche maare
billi jaisi aankhon wali
ek myaun si ladki
o mama
oonghe kabhi soonghe kabhi
jhanke kabhi aaun kabhi
kabhi jaaun si ladki
O mama
O mama

Dhobi Ghat -- Niche.......!!!

Yes, this is some real stuff.. . 
Dhobi Ghat shows the life of 4 different people with different aspirations and backgrounds in the dream city.. Mumbai--- Arun- a painter( Aamir), Shai- a banker and an aspiring photographer ( Monica Dogra), Munna- a Dhobi (Prateik), Yasmin- ex resident where Arun stays currently (Kriti Malhotra). 
The back ground score by Gustavo Santaolalla is the Heart of Dhobi ghat. Kiran Rao makes a mature debut and audience can expect many more good movies from her.
Aamir again shows the depth in his acting and performances by Prateik, kriti and Specially Monica are admirable.

Dhobi Ghat's Depth amazes you. I won't go into the details of the story. But to put it simply, it is 'no-compromise' Cinema at its best. 
Dhobi ghat isn't really about only Mumbai. It mainly depicts human emotions in different situations of life.It unveils the loneliness of every individual in today's crowded city life.
This one is meant for a niche audience, who feel their money is worth for some brainy entertainment.

Crazy Superstitions in India: a needle and thread

Yeah we all know most of these superstitions and you guys must be thinking why I'm making a big deal out of it. Not that I'm someone who is oblivious to these superstitions. But today I think it reached a limit, I feel like expressing my frustration here.

So just sometime back I realized, that by mistake, one of my new shirt's button got ripped off during washing. So I thought of getting it stitched myself. I went to a normal stationary store in search of a needle and thread.

Location: Pune. A stationary shop in BVP campus.

Time: 7:00 pm

Me(to shopkeeper): Do you have a needle and thread?

Shopkeeper: No.

Me: (Umm why not?..Chuck that) Where else can I get it?

Shopkeeper: May be at the next stationary shop..

I moved on to the next stationary shop to get the same reply from there. :( I started wondering may be stationary shops no longer sell a needle and thread.(a speculation  :D) May be I should check at a grocery store.

At the Grocery Shop:

Me(to shopkeeper): Do you sell a needle and thread? (I had to ask :D)

Shopkeeper: Yes.

Me: (Sigh of relief), Okay then Can I get one?

Shopkeeper: (Looks at the watch (around 7:30 pm)) Nope I can't sell you.

Me: (WTF??)  Why not? I'll pay you :D

Shopkeeper: Its late now.

Me: but shops are at least open till 9 'o clock, right?

Shopkeeper: Yeah but its already night and we don't sell a needle after evening.

I felt like abusing him :D but thought it would be in vain, So left the shop in the hope that this whole 'not selling after evening'  could be only this guy's thing.

But after checking out at least 7-8 grocery and stationary shops, it turned out that, its a ritual (rather a shitty superstition) to stop selling/using a needle after a diya has been lit up in puja ghar in the evening and Not to my surprise, not a single one of them following this superstition knew the reason behind why they don't sell it. 

Uff .. Crazy stuff..

One of them even went to an extent saying, that he could sell me a thread right now and I should come for the needle early next morning. (What will I do with only thread?) Still I asked, "how early?" He said, "Sooraj ki pehli kiran ke saath.... Shop opens at 6:30 am"

I felt like the helpless Jackie Shroff from the movie Border, begging God for the Sunrise. (Saali yeh subah hoti kyun nahi hai?? Baaaaang!!:D :D)

huh,

As a matter of fact, at the time of writing this post, I still don't know why they don't sell it? 

I'm wondering now, if climates were to change ever, (may be after 2012 predicted tragedy or something), and it happens that India's climate conditions become 6 months night and 6 months day, like Sweden, then people would wear torn out clothes for half of the year and spend next half year stitching them.

Hope you understand the Bhavna (frustration) behind this exaggeration.

And I think I now understand what the term "time" stands for, in the phrase, "a stitch in time saves nine"

UnFinished!!!

(Unfinished!!
Of all the words you could use to describe "La Sagrada Familia"

..Brown.. Pointy.. Weird..

The one that really seems to stick is, UnFinished!!

Why? Because on June 7th 1926, The architect, Antoni Gaudi, (whose beard was also brown, pointy, Weird and Unfinished) ... was run-over by a bus.

And So... his greatest Masterpiece would remain forever.......)

UnFinished!!!

Gaudi to his credit never gave up on his dream But that's not usually how it goes.

I mean usually it isn't a speeding bus, that keeps a brown, pointy, weird church from getting built..

Most of the times ,,its just too difficult or too expensive or too scary..

Its only once you have stopped, that you realize how hard it is to start again..

So you force yourself not to want it..

But its Always there...

Until you finish it, It will always be............

Courtesy : Himym s06e03