Hum to hai pardes mein des mein niklaa hoga chaand
apni raat ki chhat par kitna tanhaa hoga chand

Jin aankhon mein kajal ban kar tairee kaali raat ho
Un aankhon mein aansoo ka ek katra hoga chand

Raat ney aisa pech lagaya, tooti haath se dor
Aangan waale neem mein ja kar atka hoga chand

Chand bina har din yun beeta jaise yug beetey
mere bina kis haal mein hoga, kaisa hoga chand.....

-- Dr. Rahi Masoom Raza

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One year completed in Alien land!

Quick update

"Band bajeee padhi hai"

Don

Don ka review likhna mushkil hi nahi...na mumkin hai....kyuki kuch yaad hi nahi rehta :-)

Total masala, total yaari-dosti type movie, SRK recommending Priyanka, Arjun of his Temptation troupe..and Farhan giving work to his friends..

Music was on weaker side, Shankar Mahdevan's voice was medicore in 'Ganpati' song, someone with heavy voice like Rathod or Amit Kumar would have done a better job!!

And I'm 200% sure nobody can write a complete review or more than 10 lines about storyline!
All I can remember is that it started with Chunky and ended with Isha, with lots of useless characters like Kareena/Rampal/Om Puri and equally useless songs thrown in.
Almost all songs were picturized as stage shows; Kareena's number was worst and SRK 'Paan' song was best choreographed.

Only saving grace was the background music, coz that was remix of older version.

After KANK, and now Don, I'm convinced that SRK is no longer an actor, he is simply SRK in his movies not the character, but just larger-than-life SRK himself.
Its time he and his director-friends realize that and stop him from heading towards Dada's fate.

In all, a gamble that didn't pay off; still a risk-worth taking, a failed experiment by Farhan, anyways every time he cannot deliver a DCH or Lakshaya, but still he managed to remain in the elite league. From a 'male-bonding story' to a 'love-story in war-background', and to a 'classic-remake', now lets wait what he comes up with next!

Time to go....

No, no I'm not going anywhere; I mean its high time to drop 'SEHWAG, RAINA and PATHAN'.
Replace them with Gambhir, Mongia/Rohit Sharma, Zaheer Khan.
(Don't even think of bringing in Kaif, he is hopeless and strokeless)

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It was our first diwali away from home, and it was kind of mixed one,
it was just like every first thing one does in life with all confusions n doubts and in the end feels relieved that things went on well. Well, we too took our lessons from it. Needless to say, home was terribly missed.

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Read these though provoking words somewhere, so simple and so right.

Never tell anyone that you're: writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death. -- Lynn Johnston

No-no seriously no, I'm not trying to say anything ;-)

Another Tag completed :-)

When Aalapana tagged me here, I thought this is going to be really tough tag to complete, but surprisingly when I started doing, it took no time and really really enjoyed writing about my favourite music.
Thanks Aalapna for this wonderful tag.

Your favourite lyricist and the lyrics you remember the most....
"Shailendra"

"Sab kuch seekhaa humne naa seekhii hoshiyaari
Sach hai duniyawalon ki hum hain anaarii "

Your favourite song on friendship
"Diye jaltey hain, phool khiltey hain, badi ,mushkil se magar, duniya mein dost miltey hain "


Best song portraying life's emotions {zindagi se bhara hua,zindagi ke baare mein}
"Zindagi khwaab hai, khwaab mein jhuuth kyaaa...aur bhalaa sach hai kyaa "

Which song are you humming today?
"Jhuuthey nainaa bole saanchi batiyaan "

One song which brings tears to your eyes
"Luka Chuppi bahut huyi saamne aa ja naa..."

A song which gives you hope,reason to try again and again,a reason to say that life is beautiful:)
"Kisi ki muskuraahaton pe ho nisaar, kisi ka dard mil sake to le udhaar
Kisi ke vaaste ho tere dil mein pyaar jeenaa isii ka naam hai"

When you want to be with yourself,silent and content but with music,with song would that be?
" Yaad kiya dil ne kaha ho tum...."

If you have to express your love for someone with a song, which would that, be?
"Tere mere sapaney ab ek rang hain ...."

5 songs, which you listen to the most

"Yeh nayan darrey darrey...."

"Tere bina zindagi se koi shikwa to nahi...."
"Main zindagi ka saath nibhaata chalaa gaya...."
"Din Dhal jaaye haay, raat naa jaay...."
"Abhi na jao chhod kar ke dil ab...."

Ho gaya….

I am thinking about...home and mom
I said.....'hmmmm...'
I want to....be successful
I wish....sometimes
I hear....voices and songs in my head, in no particular order
I wonder....why I get bored so easily
I regret....times when I lost my temper
I am....in control
I dance...only in baraats
I sing....all the time
I cry....sometimes
I am not always....boring
I make with my hands....all sorts of cricketing gestures
I write....sometimes
I confuse....my boss by giving him 100s of ideas
I need....good sleep and peace

vs Harsha's 18 and song of the week :-)

At last I'm writing something, not just to keep it alive but keep myself motivated and interested to come back and do the cool tags passed by my oldest blog buddies!!

Well, last 2 weeks were hectic; or hectic 'd be an understatement!!
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Recently read here Harsha's 18 for 2007 WC, and before I forget I decided to jot down my list of 18.
Here it is::
1 Sachin
2 Sehwag/Gambhir
3 Dravid
4 Mongia
5 Yuvraj
6 Raina/(Rohit or Badri)
7 Dhoni
8 Pathan/Agarkar/Powar
9 Bhajji/MuraliKarthik
10 Khan/RPS
11 Patel/Sreesanth
I don't wanna go into details of why Rohit or Badri and why not Tej or Raghu; thats pointless like any other thing. My blog, my list. Period.

and here is Harsha's list
"Rahul Dravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Virender Sehwag, Yuvraj Singh, Dinesh Mongia, Mohammad Kaif, Suresh Raina, MS Dhoni, Harbhajan Singh, Ramesh Powar, Anil Kumble, Ajit Agarkar, Irfan Pathan, Munaf Patel, RP Singh, Sreesanth, Zaheer Khan and Ashish Nehra."
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Aajkal song playing in my head is...
"Aye dil hai mushkil jeena yahan
Zara hat ke zara bach ke,
Yeh hai Bombay meri jaan"
and this para is in loop
"Beghar ko aawara yahan kehte has has
Khud kaate gale sabke kahe isko business
Ik cheez ke hain kai naam yahan
Zara hat ke zara bach ke, yeh hai Bombay meri jaan"

I'm delighted to see myself tagged by Arunima ..atlast got some thing to write :-) ....though I'm sure it'll turn out to be as boring as re-runs of 'krishi-darshan'.
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Deleted my orkut profile, was kinda bored of it, and I think its for lot younger generation, as none of my school/college/pg time friend is active there, probably they too have found it boring/kiddish.
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Completed 7 years at work :-) ,and I'm happy about it :-)
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I feel major factor behind success of LRMB is the major-failure(in terms of mass expectations) of KANK.
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If you are following 1993 Bombay blast trials and you've not seen 'Black Friday', then you are surely missing something.
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Corruption, poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, crime, reservations, terrorism, pathetic health-care, riots, scams, overloaded judicial system etc etc...list of our problems are unending with no solution in sight, things are getting worse from bad.
Common man doesn't want to fight the corrupt system; infact is busy in making his ends meet and rightly so!!

All above mentioned problems are inter-woven, and if one digs further into each of them, why so much corruption/poverty etc etc...The root cause comes out to be is our ever-increasing POPULATION.

Everybody knows this but there is no law for curbing it, and here I feel common man can chip in by following a one-child policy for a better tomorrow, for inheriting a better India to the next generations!!