Smile, Once, for me..!!!

Rooster - Ox - Snake - Pig

2012-01-26T22:51:00.000-08:00

The Rooster and the Ox make a nearly perfect pair, whether their relationship is romantic or platonic. They're quite similar in temperament and values and their differences are complementary. Both the Rooster and the Ox are rather conservative in their approach to life: Both prefer practical, tried-and-true methods to anything risky; the Rooster's perfectionism meshes well with the Ox's penchant for doing things right the first time. All these qualities lend themselves especially well to work and career, and as business associates, these two make a strong and practical team. The sturdy Ox can serve as the backbone of the business and the Rooster's keen eye and innate resourcefulness can move things forward toward success.
As lovers these two are every bit as compatible: Both value trustworthiness and honesty, so neither Sign will ever give the other reason for jealousy or possessiveness. When in love, the Ox's normally shy, serious and reserved demeanor gives way to a deep sweetness; the Ox avoids discord whenever possible and loves to create a calm, harmonious home life. The Rooster needs this kind of calm, orderly atmosphere to blossom in a love relationship; this Sign has a tendency to idealize lovers and romance but the honorable Ox will more than live up to the Rooster's expectations. The Rooster is a bit more of a social butterfly than the shy Ox and may be able to draw the Ox out of its shell. The only trouble between these two may result from their mutual tendency to be rather blunt, critical or judgmental at times but, as this results from their honest, direct natures, this may not be a problem at all.

The Rooster and the Snake make a mutually satisfying match since they share many of the same interests and values. Both have a social side -- the Snake is charming, popular and seductive and the Rooster loves going out with friends -- but both are more interested in home comforts and security. These two can make a solid connection in any type of relationship -- friends, lovers, business partners, members of the same family -- because together they create a smoothly-running and prosperous base, be that at home or in the office.
As lovers these two are well-situated for a long-term relationship and may move in together early on, not because they're impulsive -- far from it -- but because they see that living together would only enhance life for both. The Rooster has a keen eye for detail and likes to keep a spotless, comfortable and classically tasteful home. This Sign has great taste but also loves a bargain. The Snake is considered lucky with money and can be counted on by the Rooster to bring home the bacon. The Snake often tends toward jealousy and possessiveness in relationships, due to an inner sense of insecurity, but that isn't likely to be a problem in this relationship. The loyal, faithful Rooster will never give the Snake reason for suspicion.
If these two are business partners their company should be orderly and prosperous. The Rooster's practical nature and attention to detail make it a natural to handle the finances; this Sign can also contribute greatly in planning low-risk methods of progress.

The Rooster and the Pig may need lots of mutual understanding to get along smoothly, since their differences aren't exactly complementary. The Rooster is likely to find the Pig's sensualist nature to be excessive; the Rooster abhors messes and to this ultra-practical Sign, anything beyond bare necessity could constitute a mess. The Pig is generally an easy-going Sign that gives in to stronger personalities, which may have to be the case with the Rooster. The Rooster likes to be in charge, to keep everything and everyone in order, and this Sign has its work cut out for it with the luxury-loving Pig.

The Pig loves creature comforts: fine food, lovemaking, sleeping in a deliciously soft bed ... The Rooster loves practicality and perfection and can't tolerate laziness. The Pig isn't lazy; this Sign is actually very hard-working, but the Rooster may mistake its sensualism for indolence. The saving grace between these two as lovers may be their mutual dedication when in love. The Rooster is very loyal to its intimates and the Pig makes a generous, dedicated mate.

These two might fare far better in business together, where their individual strengths can best be utilized. The Rooster, of course, will want to be in charge of things. This Sign's practical mind is perfectly suited to managing finances or any other job where details are key. The Pig is a very hard worker who takes direction well; this Sign is well suited to helping carry out the Rooster's plans. Also, the Pig will likely be instrumental as a liaison between the Rooster and potential new clients or associates, as the Rooster can sometimes ruffle others' feathers with its exacting ways.

So this is goodbye...

2012-01-09T21:39:00.000-08:00

Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.

In my dreams I'm dying all the time

When I wake its kaleidoscopic mind

I never meant to hurt you

I never meant to lie

So this is goodbye

This is goodbye

Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.

Tell the truth you never wanted me

Tell me...In my dreams I'm jealous all the time

Then I wake I'm going out of my mind

Going out of my mind

Hey, Hey, Hey, Woman, it's alright.(x4)

2011-12-18T10:30:00.001-08:00

Any time you put a limit on something, you are hurting yourself.

- Unknown

2011-12-01T21:38:00.001-08:00

Feelings are like Phoenix bird which never dies...even if you die....

It Must Have Been Love..

2011-10-14T08:44:00.000-07:00

[It must have been love]
[but it's over now]

Lay a whisper on my pillow
Leave the winter on the ground
I wake up lonely, is there a silence
In the bedroom and all around

Touch me now, I close my eyes
And dream away...

It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time had run out

Make believing we're together
That I'm sheltered by your heart
But in and outside I turn to water
Like a teardrop in your palm

And it's a hard winter's day
I dream away...

It must have been love, but it's over now
It was all that I wanted, now I'm living without
It must have been love, but it's over now
It's where the water flows, it's where the wind blows

It must have been love, but it's over now
It must have been good, but I lost it somehow
It must have been love, but it's over now
From the moment we touched till the time had run out

Wake Me Up When September Ends...

2011-09-30T20:53:00.000-07:00

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass
seven years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends

summer has come and passed
the innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

ring out the bells again
like we did when spring began
wake me up when September ends

here comes the rain again
falling from the stars
drenched in my pain again
becoming who we are

as my memory rests
but never forgets what I lost
wake me up when September ends

Summer has come and passed
The innocent can never last
wake me up when September ends

like my father's come to pass
twenty years has gone so fast
wake me up when September ends
wake me up when September ends
wake me up when September ends

TOMORROW

2011-09-02T09:28:00.000-07:00

When Tomorrow starts without me
And I'm not here to see
If the sun should rise and find you eyes
All filled with tears for me

I wish so much you wouldn't cry
The way you did today
While thinking of the many things
We didnt get to say

I know how much you love me
As much as I love you
And each time that you think of me
I know you'll miss me too

But when tomorrow starts without me
Please try to understand
That an angel came and called my name
And took me by the hand

And said my place was ready In heaven far above
And that I'd have to leave behind
All those I dearly love
But when I walked through heaven's gates

I felt so much at home When
God looked down and smiled at me
From his great golden throne He said
"This is eternity and all I've promised you"

Today for life on earth is past
But here it starts a new
I promise no tomorrow
For today will always last

And since each day's the same way
There's no longing for the past
So when tomorrow starts without me
Don't think we're far apart

For every time you think of me
I'm right here in your heart.

Author: Red

Love - John Lennon

2011-08-12T16:52:00.000-07:00

Love is real, real is love,
Love is feeling, feeling love,
Love is wanting to be loved.
Love is touch, touch is love,
Love is reaching, reaching love,
Love is asking to be loved.
Love is you,
You and me,
Love is knowing,
We can be.
Love is free, free is love,
Love is living, living love,
Love is needing to be loved.

2011-08-11T11:42:00.000-07:00

Love is two minds without a single thought. -Philip Barry

Comfortably Numb & Shine on You Crazy Diamond.. - Pink Floyd

2011-05-31T21:36:00.000-07:00

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
And get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

I have become comfortably numb.

O. K.
Just a little pin prick.
There'll be no more AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
But you may feel a little sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe its working. Good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye
I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

2011-04-18T22:59:00.000-07:00

Stand up, be bold, be

strong. Take the whole

responsibility on your

own shoulders, and know

that you are the creator

of your own destiny.

--Swami Vivekananda--

Can't help falling in love.. - UB40

2011-04-09T13:34:00.000-07:00

Wise men say, only fools rush in.

But I can't help falling in love with you

Shall I stay? Would it be a sin?

I can't help falling in love with you

As the river flows gently to the sea

Darling so we go, some things were meant to be

Take my hand take my whole heart too

'Cause i can't help falling in love with you

As the river flows gently to the sea

Darling so we go, some things were meant to be

Take my hand take my whole heart too

'Cause i can't help falling in love with you

2011-03-29T23:28:00.000-07:00

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years....!

Quote of the day...

2011-02-23T09:40:00.000-08:00

Meaning is man-created. And because you constantly look for meaning, you start to feel meaninglessness.

~Osho~

I've never been (so you'll never know) ....

2011-02-02T16:13:00.000-08:00

I've never been for the word love
As silly as it may seem
Too many people just say it
But not knowing what it means

And even though I am in love
It's something I'll never show
I'll never stop to say that words
So I'll guess you'll never know

I've never been for promises
They make people look like fools
No one ever means to keep them
They'll be broken just like rules

And even though I am sincere
And feel it's something I owe
I can't say I'll be there for you
So I'll guess you'll never know

I've never been for love symbols
Those really stupid tokens
People give them out like presents
Then leave your heart all broken

And even though I want to kiss
You under the mistletoe
I don't feel its right to do that
So I'll guess you never know

I've never been for anyone
Cause there's no one just like you
How can I tell you how I feel
When this world made love untrue

And even though I feel for you
I'll let my emotions go
I don't think these words mean enough
So I'll guess you'll never know

I've never been for sad goodbyes
Cause I don't know what I'll lose
I've never left a friend behind
It is something I will refuse

And even though I really want you
Away my love, I will throw
I can't say what you want to hear
So I'll guess you'll never know

-AI-

Quote of the day...

2011-01-30T13:45:00.001-08:00

The Solution of a Problem always lies within Problem.

Quote of the week....

2011-01-23T16:57:00.000-08:00

Love doesn't have expirty date. - Unknown

I Just Can't Stop Loving You

2011-01-21T08:56:00.000-08:00

I Just Want To Lay Next To You
For Awhile
You Look So Beautiful Tonight
Your Eyes Are So Lovely
Your Mouth Is So Sweet
A Lot Of People
Misunderstand Me
That's Because They Don't
Know Me At All
I Just Want To Touch You
And Hold You
I Need You
God I Need You
I Love You So Much

[Michael]
Each Time The Wind Blows
I Hear Your Voice So
I Call Your Name . . .
Whispers At Morning
Our Love Is Dawning
Heaven's Glad You Came . . .

You Know How I Feel
This Thing Can't Go Wrong
I'm So Proud To Say
I Love You
Your Love's Got Me High
I Long To Get By
This Time Is Forever
Love Is The Answer

[Siedah]
I Hear Your Voice Now
You Are My Choice Now
The Love You Bring
Heaven's In My Heart
At Your Call
I Hear Harps,
And Angels Sing

You Know How I Feel
This Thing Can't Go Wrong
I Can't Live My Life
Without You

[Michael]
I Just Can't Hold On

[Siedah]
I Feel We Belong

[Michael]
My Life Ain't Worth Living
If I Can't Be With You

[Both]
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
And If I Stop . . .
Then Tell Me Just What
Will I Do

[Siedah]
'Cause I Just Can't Stop
Loving You

[Michael]
At Night When The
Stars Shine
I Pray In You I'll Find
A Love So True . . .

[Siedah]
When Morning Awakes Me
Will You Come And Take Me
I'll Wait For You

[Michael]
You Know How I Feel
I Won't Stop Until
I Hear Your Voice Saying
"I Do"

[Siedah]
"I Do"
This Thing Can't Go Wrong

[Michael]
This Feeling's So Strong

[Siedah]
Well, My Life Ain't
Worth Living

[Both]
If I Can't Be With You
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
I Just Can't Stop Loving You
And If I Stop . . .
Then Tell Me, Just What
Will I Do

[Michael]
I Just Can't Stop Loving You

[Siedah]
We Can Change All The World
Tomorrow

[Michael]
We Can Sing Songs Of
Yesterday

[Siedah]
I Can Say, Hey . . .Farewell
To Sorrow

[Michael]
This Is My Life And I,

[Both]
Want To See You For Always
I Just Can't Stop Loving You

[Siedah]
No, Baby

[Michael]
Oh!

[Both]
I Just Can't Stop Loving You

[Siedah]
If I Can't Stop!

[Both]
And If I Stop . . .

[Siedah]
No

[Michael]
Oh! Oh! Oh . . .Oh . . .

[Siedah]
What Will I Do? Uh . . .Ooh . . .
(Then Tell Me, Just What
Will I Do)

[Both]
I Just Can't Stop Loving You

[Michael]
Hee! Hee! Hee! Know I Do
Girl!

[Both]
I Just Can't Stop Loving You

[Michael]
You Know I Do
And If I Stop . . .

[Both]
Then Tell Me, Just What
Will I Do

[Both]
I Just Can't Stop Loving You

There is no such place as Far Away....

2010-12-29T04:52:00.000-08:00

There is no such place as Far Away :

If you want to be with someone you love,

aren't you already there... !!!

- Richard Bach -

Stranger in Moscow..

2010-11-22T08:07:00.000-08:00

This track was written by Jackson in 1993, at the height of the highly publicized child abused accusations made against him. during his visit to Moscow. It was during a time when Jackson felt very alone, far away from his family and friends, yet every night throughout his tours fans would stay by his hotel and support him.

"Stranger in Moscow" turned out to be one of Jackson's most critically acclaimed songs ever. The song's music video depicts the lives of six individuals, including Jackson, who are left isolated and disconnected from the world around them.

I was wandering in the rain
Mask of life, feelin' insane
Swift and sudden fall from grace
Sunny days seem far away
Kremlin's shadow belittlin' me
Stalin's tomb won't let me be
On and on and on it came
Wish the rain would just let me

How does it feel (How does it feel)
How does it feel
How does it feel
When you're alone
And you're cold inside

Here abandoned in my fame
Armageddon of the brain
KGB was doggin' me
Take my name and just let me be
Then a begger boy called my name
Happy days will drown the pain
On and on and on it came
And again, and again, and again...
Take my name and just let me be

How does it feel (How does it feel)
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel (How does it feel now)
How does it feel
How does it feel
When you're alone
And you're cold inside

How does it feel (How does it feel)
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel
How does it feel (How does it feel now)
How does it feel
How does it feel
When you're alone
And you're cold inside

Like stranger in Moscow... Lord have mercy
Like stranger in Moscow... Lord have mercy
We're talkin' danger
We're talkin' danger, baby
Like stranger in Moscow
We're talkin' danger
We're talkin' danger, baby
Like stranger in Moscow
I'm living lonely
I'm living lonely, baby
like a Stranger in Moscow

[KGB interrogator - Russian to English Translation]
"Why have you come from the West?
Confess! To steal the great achievments of
the people, the accomplishments of the workers..."

Take a look at me now...

2010-11-02T23:55:00.001-07:00

How can I just let you walk away, just let you leave without a trace
When I stand here taking every breath with you, ooh
You're the only one who really knew me at all

How can you just walk away from me,
when all I can do is watch you leave
Cos we've shared the laughter and the pain and even shared the tears
You're the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now, oh there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me,
just the memory of your face
Ooh take a look at me now, well there's just an empty space
And you coming back to me is against the odds and that's what I've got to face

I wish I could just make you turn around,
turn around and see me cry
There's so much I need to say to you,
so many reasons why
You're the only one who really knew me at all

So take a look at me now, well there's just an empty space
And there's nothing left here to remind me, just the memory of your face
Now take a look at me now, cos there's just an empty space

But to wait for you, is all I can do and that's what I've got to face
Take a good look at me now, cos I'll still be standing here
And you coming back to me is against all odds
It's the chance I've gotta take

Take a look at me now

Romanticizing (RQ) and Pragmatizing (PQ) Tests

2010-10-02T17:39:00.000-07:00

I just discovered that I am more Romanticizer than Pragmatizer. :) Go to http://eqsq.com/rqpq-test/ and discover yourself.

Here are the scores :

RQ: 19

PQ: 13

Brain Type : Romanticizer

Romanticizers (High RQ: Romanticizing Quotient) are ruled by their hearts. Gut feelings, signs, and impulsive actions define their approach to love and romance. Romanticizers truly believe that their loved ones are the most beautiful, clever, charismatic people in the world, despite any evidence to the contrary. Love is without reason, after all.

Pragmatizers (High PQ: Pragmatizing Quotient) are ruled by their heads. Gut feelings, signs, and impulsive actions make them nervous. Pragmatizers are aware that by objective measures their loved ones may not be the most beautiful, clever, charismatic people in the world, but they don’t care. They know exactly why they love their partners. Love should have a solid basis, after all.

Your mind is the scene of the crime...!!! - Inception

2010-08-16T18:09:00.001-07:00

Inception is a 2010 American science fiction action film written, produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. The film stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Marion Cotillard, and Cillian Murphy.

DiCaprio plays Dom Cobb, a thief who extracts information from the subconscious mind of his victims while they dream. On the run from Cobol Engineering, and unable to visit his children, Cobb is offered a chance to regain his old life in exchange for one last job: performing an inception, the planting of an idea into the mind of his client's competitor.

Inception was first developed by Christopher Nolan, based on the notion of "exploring the idea of people sharing a dream space — entering a dream space and sharing a dream. That gives you the ability to access somebody’s unconscious mind. What would that be used and abused for?"Furthermore, he thought "being able to extract information from somebody’s brain would be the obvious use of that because obviously any other system where it’s computers or physical media, whatever — things that exist outside the mind — they can all be stolen ... up until this point, or up until this movie I should say, the idea that you could actually steal something from somebody’s head was impossible. So that, to me, seemed a fascinating abuse or misuse of that kind of technology."Nolan drew inspiration from the works of Jorge Luis Borges when writing Inception.

Nolan had thought about these ideas on and off since he was sixteen years old, intrigued by how he would wake up and then, while falling back into a lighter sleep, hold on to the awareness that he was dreaming, a lucid dream. He also became aware of the feeling that he could study the place and alter the events of the dream. He said, "I tried to work that idea of manipulation and management of a conscious dream being a skill that these people have. Really the script is based on those common, very basic experiences and concepts, and where can those take you? And the only outlandish idea that the film presents, really, is the existence of a technology that allows you to enter and share the same dream as someone else." Harvard University dream researcher Deirdre Barrett points out that Nolan did not get every detail accurate regarding dreams, but that films which really do that tend to have illogical, rambling, disjointed plots which wouldn’t make for a great thriller. "But he did get many aspects right," she said, citing the scene in which a sleeping DiCaprio is shoved into a full bath and water starts gushing into the windows of the building he is dreaming, waking him up. "That's very much how real stimuli get incorporated, and you very often wake up right after that intrusion."

Development began roughly nine years before Inception was released. In 2001, Nolan wrote an 80-page treatment about dream-stealers, presenting the idea to Warner Bros.. The story was originally written as a heist film, inspired by concepts of lucid dreaming and dream incubation. Feeling he needed to have more experience with large scale films, Nolan opted to work on Batman Begins, The Prestige and The Dark Knight. He spent six months polishing up the script for Inception before Warner Bros. purchased it in February 2009. Filming spanned six countries and four continents, beginning in Tokyo on June 19, 2009 and finishing in Canada in late November of the same year.

Overall its worth watching movie of the year so far.

Here are some of the quotes from movie.

***

Cobb: We only use a fraction of our brains true potential, now in a dream, our mind can almost do anything.

***

Cobb: One thing you should know about me: I can access your mind through your dreams. It's called Inception. I know how to find secrets from your Mind, I know all the tricks!

***

Cobb: There`s one thing you should know about me. I specialize in a very specific type of security, subconscious security.
Fischer: You`re talking about Dreams?

***

Cobb: You create the world of the dream, you bring the subject into that dream, and they fill it with their subconscious.
Ariadne: How could I ever acquire enough detail to make them think that its reality?
Cobb: Well dreams, they feel real while we`re in them, right? It`s only when we wake up that we realize how things are actually strange. Let me ask you a question, you, you never really remember the beginning of a dream do you? You always wind up right in the middle of what`s going on.
Ariadne: I guess, yeah.
Cobb: So how did we end up here?
Ariadne: Well we just came from the a...
Cobb: Think about it Ariadne, how did you get here? Where are you right now?
Ariadne: We`re dreaming?
Cobb: You`re actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping. This is your first lesson in shared dreaming. Stay calm.

***

Eames: If we are gonna perform Inception then we need imagination.

***

Cobb: Never recreate places from your memory. Always imagine new places!

***

Cobb: I think positive emotion trumps negative emotion every time.

***

Ariadne: (contemplating her totem) An elegant solution for keeping track of reality.

***

Mal: You keep telling yourself what you know. But what do you believe? What do you feel?
Cobb: Guilt.

***

Mal: Do you know what it is to be a lover? Half of a whole?

***

Cobb: What do you want?
Saito: Inception. Is it possible?
Arthur: Of course not.
Saito: If you can steal an idea, why can`t you plant one there instead?
Arthur: Okay, this is me, planting an idea in your mind. I say: don`t think about elephants. What are you thinking about?
Saito: Elephants?
Arthur: Right, but it`s not your idea. The dreamer can always remember the genesis of the idea. True inspiration is impossible to fake.
Cobb: No, it`s not.

***

Ariadne: Why is it so important to dream?
Cobb: Because, in my dreams we are together.

***

Ariadne: These aren`t just dreams, these are memories and you said never to use memories!

***

Cobb: I need to get home. That`s all I care about right now.
Ariadne: Why can`t you go home?
Cobb: Because they think I killed her.
Ariadne: (silence)
Cobb: Thank you.
Ariadne: For what?
Cobb: For not asking whether I did.

***

Ariadne: Who'd want to be stuck in a dream for 10 years?
Yusuf: Depends on the dream....!!!

***

Quote of the day

2010-08-12T19:23:00.000-07:00

But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

--Ernest Hemingway

Quote of the month..

2010-06-06T16:46:00.000-07:00

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem.

- Theodore Rubin-

Fall in line - by Robert Skoro..

2010-06-02T14:38:00.000-07:00

Got a youtube clip forwarded by friend last week. The performance is amazing and the song as well. Rob Skoro's “In Line” was featured in the April 29th episode of the CW’s Vampire Diaries. Here is his website : www.robertskoro.com

Your address hangs on my wall
And I've got nothing at all
To remember you by
But I've been waiting for days on end
For you to call
And I never got to say good-bye
To you, my friend

And I swear that I can feel you
Creeping underneath my skin
And it feels like Heaven to me, sometimes
But I don't understand
Why you just can't let me in
And I close my eyes and just let it all fall in line

And we could wait a while
Let everything have it's way
Crack a secret, subtle smile
And everything will be OK
But I promise you that I won't leave you here
I couldn't do that to myself
And not again, not with you, my friend

And I swear that I can feel you
Creeping underneath my skin
And it feels like Heaven to me, sometimes
But I don't understand
Why you just can't let me in
And I close my eyes and just let it all fall in line

And just let it all
Let it all fall in line
And just let it all
Let it all fall in line
And just let it all
Let it all fall in line

Hard to say I'm Sorry....

2010-05-29T21:00:00.000-07:00

Everybody needs a little time away
I've heard her say
From each other

Even lovers need a holiday
Far away from each other

Hold me now
It's hard for me to say I'm sorry
I just want you to stay
And after all that you've been through
I will make it up to you
I promise you, baby

And after all thats been said and done
You're just the part of me I can't let go

Couldn't stand to be kept away
Not for a day
From your body
Wouldn't want to be swept away
Far away from the one that I love

Hold me now
It's hard for me to say I'm sorry
I just want you to know
Hold me now
I really want to tell you I'm sorry
I could never let you go

And after all that we've been through
I will make it up to you
I promise you

And after all that's been said and done
You're just a part of me I can't let go

I can't let go.

Love will keep Us Alive... - Eagles

2010-05-03T21:19:00.000-07:00

I was standing
All alone against the world outside
You were searching
For a place to hide

Lost and lonely
Now you've given me the will to survive
When we're hungry...love will keep us alive

Don't you worry
Sometimes you've just gotta let it ride
The world is changing
Right before your eyes
Now I've found you
There's no more emptiness inside
When we're hungry...love will keep us alive

I would die for you
Climb the highest mountain
Baby, there's nothing I wouldn't do

I was standing
All alone against the world outside
You were searching
For a place to hide
Lost and lonely
Now you've given me the will to survive
When we're hungry...love will keep us alive
When we're hungry...love will keep us alive
When we're hungry...love will keep us alive

Do you miss me like i miss you?

2010-04-05T22:49:00.000-07:00

Do you miss me like i miss you?

Thats the question i have

i remember the fun times, yes

I miss talking to u

It was you who always seemed to understand

It was like i could tell u anything and everything

I miss that....... I miss you

Its been awhile since i talked to you

Yes i still love u, always will

But do u miss me like i miss u?

- Alaina Gubbin -

It makes its way itself..!!!

2010-03-01T00:31:00.000-08:00

Valentine's day passed two weeks back, on this occasion, would like to share few facts about love. In fact, it is a feeling which can't be explained.

- It is always Unconditional without any expectations.

- It does not have any boundaries.

- It requires sacrifice of self, desires, and almost everything.

- It provides strong will power, confidence & happiness.

- Controlling the feelings or blocking can be harmful.

- It is an eternal feeling which always stays forever.

- In most of the cases, alarm of Love rings late..!!! :)

- Falling in love indirectly helps to restore the nervous system and improves the lover's memory.

- At times, it makes people crazy.

- You always feel short of time when you are with him/her.

- No need to tell, he/she will get it without saying it.

- Love always makes its way itself..!

Thats what this song says:

Jinko.. jinko bhi, milna hai likha, Ishq milwayega,
Door door se dhoond dhoond ke,Pass le aayega

Kahin bhi jaake chuppo, ishq wahin aayega,
Kitna bhi na na karo utthah ke le jaayega
Maano ya na maano, yeh saari hi duniya
Isi ke dum pe chale.......

.......

so what you are waiting for..? pick up a phone or send an email...!!!

(500) Days of Summer

2010-02-08T19:51:00.000-08:00

Narrator: This is a story of boy meets girl.

The boy, Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey, grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. This belief stemmed from early exposure to sad British pop music and a total mis-reading of the movie 'The Graduate'.

The girl, Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan, did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parent's marriage she'd only love two things. The first was her long dark hair. The second was how easily she could cut it off and not feel a thing.

Tom meets Summer on January 8th. He knows almost immediately she is who he has been searching for.

This is a story of boy meets girl, but you should know upfront, this is not a love story.

**********

Tom: What happens when you fall in love?

Summer: You believe in that?

Tom: It's love, it's not Santa Claus.

**********

Tom: It's official. I'm in love with Summer. [while Montage of Summer plays]

Tom: I love her smile. I love her hair. I love her knees. I love how she licks her lips before she talks. I love her heart-shaped birthmark on her neck. I love it when she sleeps.

**********

Partygoer: So Tom, what is it that you do?

Tom: I uh, I write greeting cards.

Summer: Tom could be a really great architect if he wanted to be.

Partygoer: That's unusual, I mean, what made you go from one to the other?

Tom: I guess I just figured, why make something disposable like a building when you can make something that last forever, like a greeting card.

**********

McKenzie: Hey, don't you have like 20 cards to write by Friday?

Tom: Nope, all done.

McKenzie: Really? Well, could you help me with mine? Because I'm running out of ways to say "Congratulations". So far, I've got: "Congrats", "Good job" and "Well done".

Tom: Hmmm. How about..."Every day you make me proud. But today you get a card."

McKenzie: Shit, that's good!

Tom: I know.

**********

Tom: This is lies. We are liars. Think about it. Why do people buy cards? It's not because they want to say how they feel. People buy cards because they can't say they feel or are afraid to. And we provide the service that let's them off the hook. You know what? I say to hell with it. Let's level with America. Or at least let them speak for themselves. Right?

Tom: People should be able to say how they feel - how they really feel - not, you know, some words that some strangers put in their mouths.

**********

Narrator: As he listened, Tom began to realize that these stories weren't routinely told. These were stories one had to earn. He could feel the wall coming down. He wondered if anyone else had made it this far. Which is why the next six words changed everything.

Summer: I've never told anybody that before.

Tom: I guess I'm not just anybody.

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The style of film is presented in a nonlinear narrative as it jumps from various days withing the 500 day span of Tom and Summer's relationship. Each scene is introduced using a title card showing which of the 500 days it is. Tom is a guy who has a beliefe that there is something like love and he is going to meet such girl in his life. Summer, on other hand, do not believe in true love and do not want to have boy friend.

After brokeup with Summer, Tom enters a deep depression, only leaving his apartment for alcohol and junk food. After a few days, he returns to work hungover and quits his job. He sets about re-applying himself to architecture, makes a list of firms, and begins to attend interviews.

On day 488, Summer sees Tom at his favorite spot in the city and they talk. Tom states his lack of understanding towards her actions but ultimately, wishes Summer well. Twelve days later, on Wednesday, May 23, he attends a job interview and meets a girl, who is also applying for the same job. Before entering the interview, he makes a date to have coffee with her afterward. He asks her for her name, and she replies, "Autumn".

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Overall (500) Days of Summer is a 2009 romantic-drama-comedy film. It was written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, directed by Marc Webb, produced by Mark Waters, and stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Zooey Deschanel.

The film was originally set in San Francisco but was later moved to Los Angeles and the script rewritten to make better use of the location. Buildings used include the Los Angeles Music Center and the towers of California Plaza. The older Fine Arts Building is featured in the film, in a scene where Tom shows it to Summer, describes it as "his favorite building" and mentions its builders, Walker and Eisen.
Christopher Hawthorne of the Los Angeles Times describes the film as having "finely honed sense of taste" to include the Bradbury Building where Tom goes for his job interview. The famous building has been used for many films before but is probably most famous for "Blade Runner".

Here are the my two most favourite scene from this movie.

A.Tom and Summer visiting Ikea store.

B.When Tom visits Summer's party, his expectations vs reality.

Devdas - Selected Scenes..

2010-01-08T04:13:00.000-08:00

I always wanted to have selected scenes of Devdas. Finally today, i was able to do that. By doing this, i learnt basic thing of editing video. Here is the playlists for all the scenes.

Strange & Beautiful - Aqualung

2010-01-01T05:41:00.000-08:00

Happy 2010 to everyone...!!!

Watched '(500) days of summer' again and was searching for its soundtracks online. And i found this nice music video - Strange & Beautiful by Aqualung made with this movie clips. [ this clip no longer exist on youtube (: ] Will plan to write about that movie next time.

I've been watching your world from afar,
I've been trying to be where you are,
And I've been secretly falling apart,
I'll see.
To me, you're strange and you're beautiful,
You'd be so perfect with me but you just can't see,
You turn every head but you don't see me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep and I'll put a spell on you.
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me.

Yeah... Yeah...

Sometimes, the last thing you want comes in first,
Sometimes, the frist thing you want never comes,
And I know, the waiting is all you can do,
Sometimes...

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep,
I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me.

I'll put a spell on you,
You'll fall asleep 'cos I'll put a spell on you,
And when I wake you,
I'll be the first thing you see,
And you'll realise that you love me, yeah...

yeah... yeah... yeah... yeah...

Koi Fariyaad...!

2009-11-18T23:09:00.000-08:00

Koyi fariyaad tere dil mein dabi ho jaise
Tune aankhon se koyi baat kahi ho jaise
Jaagte jaagte ek umr kati ho jaise
Jaan baaki baaki hai magar saas ruki ho jaise

Jaanta hoon aapko sahare ki zarurat nahin
Main sirf saath dene aaya hoon

Har mulaakat pe mehsoos yehi hota hai
Mujhse kuch teri nazar pooch rahi ho jaise

Raah chalte huve aksar yeh ghumaan hota hai
Woh nazar chupke mujhe dekh rahi ho jaise

Ek lamhe mein simat aaya hai sadiyon ka safar
Zindagi tej bahut tej chali ho jaise

Is tarah pehron tujhe sochta rahta hoon main
Meri har saas tere naam likhi ho jaise

Koyi fariyaad tere dil mein dabi ho jaise
Tune aankhon se koyi baat kahi ho jaise
Jaagte jaagte ek umr kati ho jaise
Jaan baaki baaki hai magar saas ruki ho jaise

I wanna go home...

2009-10-07T23:24:00.001-07:00

"Home"

Another summer day
Has come and gone away
In Paris and Rome
But I wanna go home
Mmmmmmmm

May be surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
I just wanna go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

And I’ve been keeping all the letters that I wrote to you
Each one a line or two
“I’m fine baby, how are you?”
Well I would send them but I know that it’s just not enough
My words were cold and flat
And you deserve more than that

Another aeroplane
Another sunny place
I’m lucky, I know
But I wanna go home
Mmmm, I’ve got to go home

Let me go home
I’m just too far from where you are
I wanna come home

And I feel just like I’m living someone else’s life
It’s like I just stepped outside
When everything was going right
And I know just why you could not
Come along with me
'Cause this was not your dream
But you always believed in me

Another winter day has come
And gone away
In even Paris and Rome
And I wanna go home
Let me go home

And I’m surrounded by
A million people I
Still feel all alone
Oh, let me go home
Oh, I miss you, you know

Let me go home
I’ve had my run
Baby, I’m done
I gotta go home
Let me go home
It will all be all right
I’ll be home tonight
I’m coming back home

Je t'aime tant - I Love You...

2009-02-26T23:08:00.000-08:00

Julie Delpy (born December 21, 1969) is a French/American actress, Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, and occasional singer. She studied filmmaking at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, and has directed, written, and acted in more than 30 films.

Delpy is also a musical artist. She released a self-titled CD in 2003. Three tracks from the album, "A Waltz For A Night", "An Ocean Apart" and "Je t'aime tant" were featured in Before Sunset.

Here are lyrics of Je t'aime tant with translation.

Tu me suis tu me souris dans la nuit tu me seduis
YOU FOLLOW ME, YOU MAKE ME SMILE IN THE NIGHT THAT YOU SEDUCED ME(?)
Je sais que tu sais que je ne sais plus qui je suis
I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT I NO LONGER KNOW WHO I AM
Je t'aime tant, je t'aime tant pourtant
I LOVE YOU A LOT, I LOVE YOU NEVERTHELESS
Comme le temps qui passe et ment j'attends
LIKE THE TIME THAT PASSES AND LIES, I WAIT

Toujours perdante tu me tourmentes
ALWAYS LOSING, YOU TORMENT ME
Et tes desirs me prirent pour me detruire
AND YOUR DESIRES BROUGHT ME TO DESTRUCTION
Je prends un certain plaisr a souffrir
I TAKE A CERTAIN PLEASURE IN SUFFERING
A me punir a me repentir
PUNISHING ME MAKES ME REPENT

Toujours soumise tu me meprises tu me rejettes tu me maltraites
ALWAYS, YOU TOOK ME YOU REJECTED ME YOU MISTREATED ME
Douleur et desir sont synonymes de mon plaisir
PAIN AND DESIRE ARE SYNONYMS OF MY PLEASURE
Je m'abandonne aux hommes sans souci ni tourment
I HAVE ABANDONED THE MEN WITHOUT CONCERN NOR AGONY
Je me suis perdue sans retenue pour un jeune homme
I AM LOST WITHOUT THE SEARCH OF A YOUNG MAN (?)
Un peu hors de la norme
A LITTLE OUTSIDE OF THE NORM

Tu me cherches tu me guettes tu me tiens et je me sens bien
YOU LOOK FOR ME, YOU WAIT FOR ME, YOU HOLD ME AND I FEEL GOOD
Tu me prends si lentement je desapprends
YOU TAKE ME SO SLOWLY (?)
Puis tu me rends mon tourment
THEN RETURN ME TO MY AGONY

Je serai ce qui te plait la lumiere sur ta peau
I WILL BE THE ONE THAT PLEASES YOU ..THE LIGHT ON YOUR SKIN
Celle qui t'attend a la porte
THE ONE THAT WAITS FOR YOU AT THE DOOR
Et celle qui peu importe je serai ce que tu veux
AND THE ONE THAT DOESN'T CARE, I WILL BE WHAT YOU WANT
La sueur sur ton front la brise dans tes cheveux
THE SWEAT ON YOUR FOREHEAD BREAKS IN YOUR HAIR
Ou celle qui te brisera le cou
OR THE ONE THAT WILL BREAK YOUR NECK

Je te souris je te nuis je t'aime, je t'aime
I SMILE FOR YOU, I HURT YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU
Je te detruis je te tiens et tu viens
I DESTROY YOU AND I HOLD YOU. AND YOU COME
Tout est bien qui finit bien
ALL IS WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Tu sais que je sais que tu ne sais plus qui tu es
YOU KNOW THAT I KNOW THAT YOU NO LONGER KNOW WHO YOU ARE.
Depuis que tu t'adonnes a nos petits jeux hors de la norme
SINCE YOU HAVE DEVOTED YOURSELF TO OUR LITTLE GAME, A BIT OUTSIDE THE NORM

Je te plais tu me plais
I PLEASE YOU, YOU PLEASE ME
Nous sommes les amants du tourment
WE ARE THE LOVERS OF AGONY
La nuit nous tuons l'ennui l'amour toujours nous suit
THE NIGHT KILLS US THE BOREDOM THE LOVE ALWAYS FOLLOW US
L'amour toujours nous fuit, l'amour toujours nous detruit
LOVE ALWAYS ESCAPES US, LOVE ALWAYS DESTROYS US
Comme la pluie et l'oubli comme des cris dans la nuit
LIKE THE RAIN AND THE FORGETFULNESS LIKE CRIES IN THE NIGHT
Je t'aime tant je t'aime tant pourtant
I LOVE YOU A LOT. I LOVE YOU A LOT, NEVERTHELESS
Je t'aime tant, je t'aime tant
I LOVE YOU A LOT. I LOVE YOU A LOT.
Je t'aime tant pourtant
I LOVE YOU A LOT, NEVERTHELESS.

Paris ...

2009-02-20T06:38:00.000-08:00

(Translated)

I fled to a different place
So quickly
The farthest away and I succeeded
I am in Paris
Lit candles
Gray and foggy
I am happy and it`s good for me
And it`s so good for me
In Paris

I wander around
In enchanting narrow alleys
I am spellbound
It sucks me in I am
In Paris
Beautiful buildings
They are old
And so very noble
But the country lights me up

In Paris

Mmm...
Fair from my house in Paris

I came here
A bit disenchanted
This beautiful illusion of mine
A trial to catch up with myself in Paris
Again I disappear
A sad dream
I am famous already
And they hear me here
In Paris

Now your voice
It whispers to me from far away
I miss you
Come return to me
Already from Paris
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
I miss you
And...Paris.

Mmm...
Far from my love in Paris

The country is so good to me here
So why do I cry and get upset?

Yes, I am happy
So why do I cry at night

I miss you...from Paris
Mmm...

The sun wakes me up
From the window
And I feel the warmth a little more already
Mmm...
The plane lands
And there aren`t any
Lush and trickling clouds
I`m back again
Shalom Paris...

-Yael Naim-

I've been tagged...!!!

2008-12-27T06:02:00.000-08:00

I've been tagged by mysticalme.. as a chain reaction... :). This is something which i usually don't do.. That's why it took longer than expected. Rules are very simple and i made them more simpler... answer the question with image.. i removed few questions which might not be required.

1.The age you will be in your next birthday: If it is about mental age, I am in still in my twenties... ;)

2. A place you’d like to travel to: Athens, Greece.

3.Your Favorite place: My native.

4. Your favorite food/drink: Traditional Gujarati thali with mango pulp :-)

And i also love Veggie Burrito bowl from Chipotle.

I can drink anything which is not non-alcoholic....lol... except i don't like wine.

5.Your all time favorite song: There are plenty.. so here are the samples from all three languages i know.

a.Tara vina Shyam mane

b. Apni aankhon ke samandar me.. by Jagjit Singh

c. Hotel California... by Eagles

6. Full name of your significant other: hey... don't be so curious..

7. The town in which you live in: Bay Area, CA.

8. Your Dream Job: Becoming an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley.

9: Bad Habit you have: I am too much positive..

10. Your worst fear: Loosing job.... :(

11. The one thing you’ll like to do before you die: meet someone in mumbai (why most of the people wants to go to mumbai ??? )

Broken Dreams...

2008-10-22T02:23:00.000-07:00

I love you more than life itself
But I'm afraid to love.
My heart is like the fragile wings
Of a tiny little dove.

I'm scared to get too close.
I feel that I can't win.
You'll love me for a little while
Then you'll set me free again.

I've lived so long on hopes and dreams
I don't know what to do.
I don't think I can trust my heart,
For it belongs to you.

I know you'll only hurt me
Yet, I still keep running back.
Between the paths of our hearts
There's a worn and beaten track.

You've got my heart held on a string.
It's breaking right in two.
Enough belongs to me -to hurt-
The rest belongs to you.

I know that somewhere in your heart
There is a place for me.
I just don't know how to find it
And there's no way to make you see.

I can only hope that someday
You'll wake up and you'll find,
That while my heart belongs to yours,
Yours, too, belongs to mine.

--Tamra L. Noe--

Quote of the Week

2008-10-03T04:06:00.001-07:00

Be Yourself. Everyone else is already taken.

--Oscar Wilde--

Memories & Feelings...

2008-09-23T23:40:00.000-07:00

Last week, I suddenly recalled heartbeat music of Kal Ho Na Ho and it activated many other cells in the brain. In this rush of life, we use to forget so many important things! And when we recall old memories, we get back there, in those days and can feel the same thing.

It is strange but true...

I'm OK, You're OK, by Thomas A. Harris is one of the most successful self-help books ever published. It offers a practical guide to Transactional Analysis as a tool for solving problems in life.

The body of the book starts with the observation that historic attempts to understand human nature have long recognised that individual personalities have multiple facets.

Harris suggests that the pioneering work of brain surgeon Wilder Penfield in uncovering the neurological basis of memory could offer complementary insights grounded in observable reality. Specifically, Harris highlights reports of Wilder’s experiments stimulating small areas of the brains of conscious patients undergoing brain surgery. Though the patients were conscious that they were on the operating table, the stimulation also caused them to recall specific past events in vivid detail – not just facts of the event but as a vivid "reliving" of "what the patient saw and heard and felt and understood" when the memory was laid down. Based on these experiments, Harris postulates that the brain records past experiences like a tape recorder, in such a way that it is subsequently possible to relive past experiences with all their original emotional intensity.

Harris continues by linking his interpretation of Wilder’s experiments to the work of Eric Berne, whose model of psychotherapy is based on the idea that emotionally intense memories from childhood are ever-present in adults. Their influence can be understood by carefully analysing the verbal and non-verbal interchanges (‘transactions’) between people, hence Berne’s name for his model: Transactional Analysis. ....

And I must thank Mysticalme for this beautiful poem which is most suitable for this post :

Memories...
a passport to pleasent past
in your mind you see
streets long forgotten
friends left behind
faces...
and you feel everything come alive.

when alone
Memory breaks like
coffee breaks
bring peace to mind.

They...
are like lifelines
which uplifts you
on dark gloomy days
making you
re-experience everything
at times so vivid
recreating all the emotions
that went with the moment.

My Blueberry Nights...

2008-09-10T03:14:00.001-07:00

If you are in the mood for a light romantic movie, this is the perfect movie for you. It has lots of soothing blues music that makes this movie perfect for a Sunday evening.

This is a story of a woman who takes the long route instead of the short one to meet up with the man she loves. After a rough break-up, Elizabeth sets out on a journey across America, leaving behind a life of memories, a dream and a soulful new friend.

This is the first English-language film of well-known Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai starring Norah Jones, Jude Law & Natalie Portman. This film was presented for the opening of the Cannes Film Festival in 2007.

Here are some quotes from the movie:

Elizabeth : I guess I'm just looking for a reason.
Jeremy : From my observations, sometimes it's better off not knowing, and other times there's no reason to be found.
Elizabeth : Everything has a reason.
Jeremy : Hmm. It's like these pies and cakes. At the end of every night, the cheese cake and the apple pie are always completely gone. The peach cobbler and the chocolate mousse cake are nearly finished... but there's always a whole blueberry pie left untouched.
Elizabeth : So what's wrong with the blueberry pie?
Jeremy : There's nothing wrong with the blueberry pie. Just... people make other choices. You can't blame the blueberry pie, just... no one wants it.

*****
Elizabeth: How do you say goodbye to someone you can't imagine living without? I didn't say goodbye. I didn't say anything. I just walked away.

*****

Dear Jeremy,

In the last few days, I've been learning how to not trust people and I'm glad I failed. Sometimes we depend on other people as a mirror to define us and tell us who we are, and each reflection makes me like myself a little more.

Elizabeth

*****

Katya: Sometimes, even if you have the keys those doors still can't be opened. Can they?
Jeremy: Even if the door is open, the person you're looking for may not be there, Katya.

******

It took me nearly a year to get here. It wasn't so hard to cross that street after all. It all depends on who's waiting for you on the other side.

*****

Jeremy: "A few years ago, I had a dream. It began in the summer and was over by the following spring. In between, there were as many unhappy nights as there were happy days. Most of them took place in this cafe. And then one night, a door slammed and the dream was over."

Love is...

2008-08-21T06:25:00.000-07:00

Love is like a Cigar...

It starts with fire...

Continues with smoke...

and ends in ashes.

But don't worry - We are chain smokers..!!!

On this note, I must not forget one of my favt song from Tashan...

Apni to baat magar kuch nirali hai, Apne to khoon mein ishq ki laali hai..

What if...

2008-08-14T02:20:00.000-07:00

This is a soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie, which reached #1 in Ireland and #6 in the UK, performed by Kate Winslet. The video has been made with clips from the official music video and from Titanic by a guy called Clifton,15,living in South Carolina, US.

Here I stand alone
With this weight upon my heart
And it will not go away
In my head I keep on looking back
Right back to the start
Wondering what it was that made you change

Well I tried
But I had to draw the line
And still this question keeps on spinning in my mind

What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know

Many roads to take
Some to joy
Some to heart-ache
Anyone can lose their way
And if I said that we could turn it back
Right back to the start
Would you take the chance and make the change

Do you think how it would have been sometimes
Do you pray that I'd never left your side

What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know

If only we could turn the hands of time
If I could take you back would you still be mine

'Cos I tried
But I had to draw the line
And still this question keep on spinning in my mind

What if I had never let you go
Would you be the man I used to know
What if I had never walked away
'Cos I still love you more than I can say
If I'd stayed
If you'd tried
If we could only turn back time
But I guess we'll never know
We'll never know!

Quote of the week..

2008-08-08T21:20:00.000-07:00

The Best way to Escape from a Problem is to Solve it. - Alan Saporta

A Small Love Story

2008-08-08T00:03:00.000-07:00

A girl and guy were speeding over 100 mph on a motorcycle.

Girl: Slow down. I am scared.
Guy: No, this is fun.
Girl: No, its not. Please, its too scary!
Guy: Then tell me, you love me.
Girl: Fine, I love you. Slow down!
Guy: Now give me a BIG hug. (Girl hugs him)
Guy: Can you take my helmet off and put it on? Its bugging me.

In the newspaper next day: A motorcycle had crashed into a building because of break failure. Two people were on the motorcycle, but only one survived.

The truth was that halfway down the road, the guy realized that his breaks broke, but he didn't want to let the girl know. Instead, he had her say she loved him, felt her hug one last time, then had her wear his helmet so she would live even though it meant he would die.

Acknowledgement..!

2008-07-30T05:58:00.000-07:00

I want to thank all my friends and family who have forwarded chain letters to me in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 and the half year of 2008

Because of your kindness:

* I stopped drinking Coca Cola after I found out that it's good for removing toilet stains.

* I stopped going to the movies for fear of sitting on a needle infected with AIDS.

* I smell like a wet dog since I stopped using deodorants because they cause cancer.

* I don't leave my car in the parking lot or any other place and sometimes I even have to walk about 7 blocks for fear that someone will drug me with a perfume sample and try to rob me.

* I also stopped answering the phone for fear that they may ask me to dial a stupid number and then I get a phone bill from with calls to Uganda, Singapore and Tokyo.

* I also stopped drinking anything out of a can for fear that I will get sick from the rat feces and urine.

* When I go to parties, I don't look at any girl, no matter how hot she is, for fear that she will take me to a hotel, drug me then take my kidneys and leave me taking a nap in a bathtub full of ice.

* I also donated all my savings to the Amy Bruce account. A sick girl that was about to die in the hospital about 7,000 times. (Poor girl! she's been 7 since 1993...)! As also a female in Bangalore whose husband was suffering from cancer and they have four children to support... And like Amy Bruce, I found that ... you know what)

* I went bankrupt from bounced checks that I made expecting the $15,000 that Microsoft and AOL were supposed to send me when I participated in their special e-mail program would arrive soon.

* My free Nokia/Razr phone never arrived and neither did the free passes for a paid vacation to Disneyland.

* Made some hundred wishes before forwarding those Ganesh Vandana, Tirupathi Balaji pics etc. Now most of those 'wishes' are already married (to someone else)

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you do not send this msg to at least 136,548,946,857 people in the next 10 seconds, something bad will happen to you today at 6:30pm.

Quote of the Day...

2008-07-17T22:19:00.001-07:00

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful.

It's the transition that's troublesome.

Na Hanyate...

2008-07-05T03:26:00.000-07:00

Precocious, a poet, a philosopher's daughter, Maitreyi Devi was sixteen years old in 1930 when Mircea Eliade came to Calcutta to study with her father. More than forty years passed before Devi read Bengal Nights, the novel Eliade had fashioned out of their encounter, only to find small details and phrases, even her given name, bringing back episodes and feelings she had spent decades trying to forget. It Does Not Die is Devi's response. In part a counter to Eliade's fantasies, the book is also a moving account of a first love fraught with cultural tensions, of false starts and lasting regrets.

Proud of her intelligence, Maitreyi Devi's father had provided her with a fine and, for that time, remarkably liberal education -- and encouraged his brilliant foreign student, Eliade, to study with her. "We were two good exhibits in his museum," Devi writes. They were also, as it turned out, deeply taken with each other. When their secret romance was discovered, Devi's father banished the young Eliade from their home. Against a rich backdrop of life in an upper-caste Hindu household, Devi powerfully recreates the confusion of an over-educated child simultaneously confronting sex and the differences, not only between European and Indian cultures, but also between her mother's and father's view of what was right. Amid a tangle of misunderstandings, between a European man and an Indian girl, between student and teacher, husband and wife, father and daughter, she describes a romance unfolding in the face of cultural differences but finally succumbing to cultural constraints. On its own,It Does Not Die is a fascinating story of cultural conflict and thwarted love. Devi's "romance" is a powerful study of what happens when the oppositions between innocence and experience, enchantment and disillusion, and cultural difference and colonial arrogance collide.

"In two novels written forty years apart, a man and a woman tell stories of their love. . . . Taken together they provide an unusually touching story of young love unable to prevail against an opposition whose strength was tragically buttressed by the uncertainties of a cultural divide."--Isabel Colegate,New York Times Book Review

"Recreates, with extraordinary vividness, the 16-year-old in love that she had been. . . . Maitreyi is entirely, disarmingly open about her emotions. . . . An impassioned plea for truth."--Anita Desai,New Republic

"Something between a reunion and a duel. Together they detonate the classic bipolarities: East-West, life-art, woman-man."--Richard Eder,New York Newsday

"One good confession deserves another. . . . Both books gracefully trace the authors' doomed love affair and its emotional aftermath."--Nina Mehta,Chicago Tribune

Haal-E-Dil...

2008-06-19T02:01:00.000-07:00

Singer : Rahat Fateh Ali Khan,Shreya Ghoshal
Lyricist: Munna Dhiman
Music Director: Vishal Bharadwaj

Jaan Ve Jaan Le Haal-E-Dil, Jaan Ve Jaan Le Haal-E-Dil
Jaan Ve Bol De Haal-E-Dil
Aaja Tere Seene Mein Saans Saans Piglu Mein
Aaja Tere Hothon Se Baat Baat Niklu Mein
Tu Meri Aag Se Roshani Chhant Le
Yeh Zameen Asmaan Jo Bhi Hai Baant Le

Aaja Tere Maathe Pe Chaand Ban Ke Utaroon Mein
Aaja Teri Aankhon Se Khwaab Khwaab Guzroon Mein
Rag Rag Pe hai Tere Saaye Ve Rag Rag Pe hai Tere Saaye
Rang Tera Chad Chad Aaye Ve Rang Tera Chad Chad Aaye
Jaan Ve…..Jaan Ve….Jaan Le….Jaan Le…Haal-E-Dil

Aaja Tujhe Haathon Pe Kismaton Sa Likhloon Mein
Aaja Tere Kandhe Pe Umra Bhar Ko Tikloon Mein
Teri Ankhiyon Ke Do Gahene Ve Teri Ankhiyon Ke Do Gahene
Thirte Hai Pehne Pehne Ve Thirte Hai Pehne Pehne
Jaan Ve…..Jaan Le….Haal-E-Dil
Jaan Ve Bol De Haal-E-Dil

Thought of the day...

2008-06-04T01:47:00.000-07:00

If you can't find brighter side of life, polish the darker side !

-unknown

A Thinking Man's Speech

2008-03-21T03:31:00.000-07:00

A strong, thoughtful and important speech by American Presidential Candidate Sen. Barack Obama on March 18, 2008 Philadelphia, PA. It seemed as honest a speech as one in his position could give within the limits imposed by politics. As such it was a contribution.

He didn't give eight seconds of a line followed by clapping. He spoke in full and longish paragraphs that didn't summon applause. This left TV producers having to use longer-than-usual soundbites in order to capture his meaning. And so the cuts of the speech you heard on the news were more substantial and interesting than usual, which made the coverage of the speech better. People who didn't hear it but only saw parts on the news got a real sense of what he'd said.

Why Do We Celebrate Valentine's Day?

2008-02-14T00:14:00.000-08:00

In the year 270 A.D., Claudius II, emperor of Rome, had formerly been a general under Emperor Valerian. When Claudius II succeeded Valerian, he continued to exercise his instinct for war. While in conflict with the Gauls, Claudius II came to the realization that married men are inferior at warfare, due to their personal attachments. Moreover, married men had a tendency to even avoid joining the army. To remedy this situation, Claudius II outlawed marriage.

Valentine, or Valentinus as he was known, lived in Rome at this time, and was outraged at the decree of this warmongering emperor. He refused to follow it. Valentine became a haven for young couples hoping to enter the Sacrament of Marriage. He married them in private, until eventually he was captured and imprisoned.

Valentine’s devotion to God and love continued while he was in jail. Despite the overwhelming odds, Valentine took it upon himself to convert the Emperor, in hopes of reversing this unjust decree. But to no avail. Instead, the Emperor became further enraged by Valentine and sentenced him to death.

While awaiting his execution, Valentine became friends with the daughter of his jailer. She was a blind girl who showed Valentine kindness in his captivity. Through his faith and through prayer, Valentine cured the girl of her affliction – an act of love even for the daughter of his captor.

Supporters of Valentine would show their love by casting flowers up to the window of his cell. This link between Valentine and flowers would be forever established over the centuries into modern tradition. Nonetheless, Valentine was executed on February 14, 270. Before he died, he wrote a letter of gratitude and hope to the jailer’s daughter. He signed it, “From your Valentine.” This sentiment, of course, carries on today and is echoed every year on the anniversary of this saint’s death.

One of the most famous St. Valentine’s Day occurrences was the first St. Valentine’s card. In 1415, the Duke of Orleans created a St. Valentine’s Day card and sent it to his wife. He was currently in prison at the Tower of London, and he wanted to send a message of love, much like Valentine had years earlier.

Celebrating St. Valentine’s Day is a tribute to St. Valentine, later titled Patron Saint of Lovers. His devotion to God and his commitment to supporting love and marriage set a wonderful example for us. When we celebrate St. Valentine’s Day, whether through cards or flowers, we are acting as the saint acted. We are appreciating what God has given us.

St. Valentine taught us about the importance of love and the Sacrament of Marriage. He believed in these things so deeply that he was martyred for them. Although we live in easier times, where marriage and love are not forbidden to us, we must remember that things weren’t always this way. We must remind ourselves that all we have is precious. And St. Valentine’s Day is the perfect opportunity to reflect on what we have been given.

Happy Valentine's Day...!!!

Chris Gardner - The Pursuit of Happyness

2008-01-23T00:04:00.000-08:00

He is a self-made millionaire, entrepreneur, motivational speaker and philanthropist who, during the early 1980s, struggled with homelessness while raising his toddler son, Christopher, Jr. Currently he is owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Franscisco.

Always hard working and tenacious, a series of circumstances in the early 1980’s left Gardner homeless in San Francisco and the sole guardian of his toddler son. Unwilling to give up Chris Jr. or his dream of financial independence, Gardner started at the bottom. Without connections or a college degree, he earned a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds training program. Often spending his nights in a church shelter or the bathroom at a Bay Area Rapid Transit station in Oakland, Gardner was the sole trainee offered a job at Dean Witter Reynolds in 1981. He spent 1983-1987 at Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a top earner, and then in 1987, he founded the brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co. in Chicago.

The amazing story of Gardner’s life was published as an autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness, on May 23, 2006, and became a New York Times and Washington Post #1 bestseller. Gardner is also the inspiration for the movie The Pursuit of Happyness released by Columbia Pictures on December 15, 2006. The movie was #1 at the box office its opening weekend. Will Smith stars as Gardner and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations for his performance. Gardner is an associate producer on the movie.

A must watch movie and must read book.

My Love for You

2008-01-15T22:09:00.000-08:00

Now a days when I sit alone
I think of the days I wasted in talking
And never told you
How I felt about us.

Do I know when I started to love you?
I have loved you from the day we laughed and talked
I have loved you for who you are
for nothing but you.
My love for you has never faded away.

Love is also like life
Just like we can’t stop living,
We also can’t stop loving.
Love is not always easy,
It’s not always fun.
There isn’t any easy way out of love.
But Love is so beautiful that
It can cover all the evil things that had, is and will happen.
But I can’t accomplish this with out you.

You make me smile
You make me happy.
You brought love in my life.
Before you came, my life was like a desert.
But you came into my life with
Trees of happiness
Flowers of joy
And wind of love.
There is nothing in life that I want but you.

I love you.

- unknown -

EQ SQ Tests

2008-01-10T00:57:00.000-08:00

I just discovered that I am more systemized than emphathize. :) Go to http://www.eqsq.com/ and discover yourself.

Here are my scores :

EQ: 56

SQ: 55

Brain Type : Systemizing

Take the EQ SQ tests

Quote of the Day

2007-12-31T10:23:00.000-08:00

"If i have 8 hours to chop down a tree,

i would spend 6 hours sharpening the Axe."

-Abraham Lincon-

Moral: work smarter NOT harder.!

+ Wishing you all a very Happy and Prosperous 2008 +

A CM who has skills of CEO..

2007-12-12T21:22:00.000-08:00

He was once a tea vendor, and his is a rags-to-riches story. His fans call him a messiah. Others say he is a power hungry Machiavelli. Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi is perhaps a bit of all this.

In the decades he has spent in Indian politics, Modi has transformed himself from the quiet 'pracharak' (propagandist) of the Hindu right to perhaps the most talked about chief minister in the country.

Today, he is single-handedly spearheading the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) aggressive campaign to retain power in Gujarat after six tumultuous years in office during which the terrible anti-Muslim violence of 2002 left over a thousand people dead.

Since then Modi has become a hate figure for rights groups, secularists and large sections of the political establishment. But the 57-year-old politician has a huge following, in Gujarat and elsewhere.

If he does lead the BJP to victory in the assembly elections Dec 11 and 16 , he would emerge as the strongest leader in the country's main opposition party - and the electoral win will cast a shadow on national politics.

And if he loses, he will have only himself to blame - and his seeming inability to carry his colleagues with him.

Social scientist Ghanshyam Shah says : 'This election is going to revolve around Modi. Gujarat has never seen a dominant personality like him in independent India.'

For this man from north Gujarat, life began from running a tea canteen at Ahmedabad's teeming bus terminus.

Once he joined the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS), Modi worked as a 'pracharak' in the Kangra region of Himachal Pradesh where people remember him as a docile and humble man, an image contrary to his present one.

During Modi's tenure in New Delhi as the BJP's national spokesman in the late 1990s, he went to the US for a three-month course on public relations and image management. This apparently now helps him to get the publicity he desires.

Even his opponents admit that he is a master of publicity and propaganda, one who can turn any situation to his advantage. He seems to prove it almost every day.

Said one from his media management circuit: 'He knows what to say when. Even on most controversial issues, when facts are not in his favour, he turns the situation to his benefit. He also knows when to create controversies and how to draw maximum mileage out of them.'

His critics say he has proved to be a master of Machiavellian politics.

'He knows how to use the administrative machinery to settle scores with NGOs, lawyers contesting on behalf of minorities and adversaries from his own party,' said a social activist who did not want to be named.

He has used the state machinery to build an image of himself as a man committed to the development of the state.

Be it the issue of girl child education, end to female foeticide or use of modern techniques and equipment for agriculture, he has hogged the headlines and earned the sobriquet as Gujarat's saviour.

The upcoming election is the third poll being contested within six years by Modi who likes being referred to as CEO of Gujarat.

In the short span he has been in power, he has earned a reputation of extremes. People love him or detest him. His supporters say he has nurtured the phenomenon of Gujarati pride in the state. Hence they consider any attack on Modi as an attack on Gujarat.

Some feel Modi is a visionary who manages to bring in investments to Gujarat. Others contest this, saying Gujarat is what it is today because of the Gujarati enterprising spirit, not due to any politician.

And he is accused of dividing society on religious lines and merely showcasing a few big cities to project the image of Gujarat and himself. But his fans say these are allegations of 'secular fundamentalists'.

(From yahoo india news)

This Might Hurt a Little - SiCKO

2007-12-01T20:31:00.000-08:00

Sicko (or SiCKO) is a 2007 documentary film by American filmmaker Michael Moore (also filmmaker of Fahrenheit 9/11) that investigates the American health care system, focusing on its for-profit health insurance and pharmaceutical industry. The film compares the non-universal and for-profit U.S. system with the universal and non-profit systems of Canada, the United Kingdom, France and Cuba.

Sicko opened to positive reviews, but also generated criticism and controversy. Some policy specialists have praised the film whilst others have criticised the film for its positive portrayal of the publicly funded health systems of Canada, the United Kingdom and Cuba, and for its negative portrayal of the health care system in the United States.

Fifty million Americans are uninsured, and those who are covered often become victims of insurance company fraud and red tape. Interviews are conducted with both types, including former employees of insurance companies who describe cost-cutting initiatives that encourage bonuses for insurance company physicians to deny medical treatments for policy holders.

Sicko received a standing ovation at Cannes. WBAI Radio, part of the Pacifica Radio Network, reported that Sicko was revitalizing the debate for universal health care within the United States, calling the film "adrenaline for healthcare activists." The Manhattan Institute said that Sicko misrepresented the health systems of Canada, the United Kingdom and Cuba, and criticized it for its negative portrayal of the American health insurance system compared to these countries.

Investment..

2007-10-08T08:09:00.000-07:00

Our Birth is our Opening Balance.
Our Death is our Closing Balance.
Our Prejudiced Views are our Liabilities.
Our Creative Ideas are our AssetsHeart is our Current Asset.
Soul is our Fixed AssetBrain is our Fixed Deposit.
Thinking is our Current Account.
Achievements are our Capital.
Character & Morals, our Stock-in-trade.
Friends are our General Reserves.
Values & Behavior are our Goodwill.
Patience is our Interest Earned.
Love is our Dividend.
Children are our Bonus Issues.
Education is Brands / Patents.
Knowledge is our Investment.
Experience is our Premium Account.
The Aim is to Tally the Balance Sheet Accurately.
The Goal is to get the Best Presented Accounts Award.

Where is $1 ?

2007-09-10T18:47:00.001-07:00

This is very famous problem of mathematics but I would like to know how you all give solution for this problem.

Three friends went to a hotel. The bill was $75 and each one contributed $25.

The waiter took the bill to the cashier. The cashier was happy & decided to give them a discount of $5 & asked the waiter to return them $5.

Now the waiter was confused. How to distribute $5 among 3 persons? So he kept $2 & gave $1 to each one of the 3 persons.

So initially each one had contributed $25. Now as they are given $1 back, their contribution reduces to $24.

They all contributed $24 -- that is 24x3=$72 & $2 are in the waiter's pocket.

The total becomes $74. But they had paid $75.

Where is the remaining $1 ?

The Truth About Love...

2007-07-18T17:21:00.000-07:00

Wynstan Hugh Auden is best known as a humanist poet and was a highly regarded scholar. Born in York, England, he attended Oxford University from 1925-1928 and wrote several plays and traveled abroad before moving to New York City in 1939, taking U.S. citizenship in 1946. Auden wrote the libretto for The Rake's Progress by Stravinsky in 1951 and published "Homage to Clio" in 1960.

Tell me the truth About Love is collection of 15 love poems and cabaret songs written in the 1930s by W.H. Auden, including "Funeral Blues", which featured in the film "Four Weddings and a Funeral".

O Tell Me The Truth About Love

Some say love's a little boy,
And some say it's a bird,
Some say it makes the world go around,
Some say that's absurd,
And when I asked the man next-door,
Who looked as if he knew,
His wife got very cross indeed,
And said it wouldn't do.

Does it look like a pair of pyjamas,
Or the ham in a temperance hotel?
Does its odour remind one of llamas,
Or has it a comforting smell?
Is it prickly to touch as a hedge is,
Or soft as eiderdown fluff?
Is it sharp or quite smooth at the edges?
O tell me the truth about love.

Our history books refer to it
In cryptic little notes,
It's quite a common topic on
The Transatlantic boats;
I've found the subject mentioned in
Accounts of suicides,
And even seen it scribbled on
The backs of railway guides.

Does it howl like a hungry Alsatian,
Or boom like a military band?
Could one give a first-rate imitation
On a saw or a Steinway Grand?
Is its singing at parties a riot?
Does it only like Classical stuff?
Will it stop when one wants to be quiet?
O tell me the truth about love.

I looked inside the summer-house;
It wasn't over there;
I tried the Thames at Maidenhead,
And Brighton's bracing air.
I don't know what the blackbird sang,
Or what the tulip said;
But it wasn't in the chicken-run,
Or underneath the bed.

Can it pull extraordinary faces?
Is it usually sick on a swing?
Does it spend all its time at the races,
or fiddling with pieces of string?
Has it views of its own about money?
Does it think Patriotism enough?
Are its stories vulgar but funny?
O tell me the truth about love.

When it comes, will it come without warning
Just as I'm picking my nose?
Will it knock on my door in the morning,
Or tread in the bus on my toes?
Will it come like a change in the weather?
Will its greeting be courteous or rough?
Will it alter my life altogether?
O tell me the truth about love.

W. H. Auden

Feeling bored in the office ?

2007-07-05T06:05:00.000-07:00

If you find it very boring in the office, here are some tips:

1. Form a detective agency to find out who is quitting next.
2. Make blank calls to your Boss.
3. Send mails from lotus notes (outlook) to your internet mail (and immediately get to the internet and see who reaches first, you or your mail?) and read them there, and note down the time they take to reach there. Then do vice versa....... ...... !!
4. Rearrange the furniture, i.e. flick someone else's chair just to irritate him/her.
5. Count your fingers (and toes if you still get bored).
6. Watch other people changing their facial ex-pressions while working and try changing your ex-pressions also.
7. Try to stretch status meetings as longer as possible, just by asking silly doubts.
8. Make faces at strangers in office.
9. Have a two hour lunch; it's a big social occasion.
10. Learn to whistle.
11. Revise last week's newspaper.
12. Hold "How fast my computer boots" competitions.
13. Practice aiming the coffee cup into the dust-bin.
14. Enhence your Literature skills. you can author "1001 innovative ways to waste your day" to help your collegues
15. Pick up phone and dial non-existing nos.
16. Have work breaks in between tea.
17. Count maximum no of applications your computer can open at time.
18. For Windows users....Move things to Recycle bin and restore them..Then repeat this process.

19. Look at someone & try to imagine how (s)he might have looked when (s)he was 5 years old.

Today's Life.

2007-06-08T01:21:00.000-07:00

From my old collection :

YOU KNOW YOU ARE LIVING IN 2007 when...

1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.

2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is that they don't have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a web site at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn't have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

12. You're reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn't a #9 on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.

The Right Attitude

2007-05-29T12:10:00.000-07:00

I praise loudly; I blame softly.

Catherine the Second (1729-1796) Russian Empress

The Struggle of Life

2007-05-18T22:45:00.000-07:00

The one who does not know the struggle of life is either an immature soul, or a soul who has risen above the life of this world. The object of a human being in this world is to attain to the perfection of humanity, and therefore it is necessary that man should go through what we call the struggle of life.

Because life means a continual battle, one’s success, failure, happiness, or unhappiness mostly depends upon one’s knowledge of this battle. Whatever be one’s occupation in life, whatever be one’s knowledge, if one lacks the knowledge of the battle of life one lacks the most important knowledge of all.

As soon as a man loses the courage to go through the struggle of life, the burden of the whole world falls on his head. But he who goes on struggling through life, he alone makes his way.

One must study the nature of life, one must understand the psychology of this struggle. In order to understand this struggle one must see that there are three sides to it: struggle with oneself, struggle with others, and struggle with circumstances. One person may be capable of struggling with himself, but that is not sufficient. Another is able to struggle with others, but even that is not sufficient. A third person may answer the demands of circumstance, but this is not enough either; what is needed is that all three should be studied and learnt, and one must be able to manage the struggle in all three directions.

The one who struggles with himself first is the wisest, for once he has struggled with himself, which is the most difficult struggle, the other struggles will become easy for him.

What is the nature of the struggle with oneself? It has three aspects. The first is to make one’s thought, speech, and action answer the demands of one’s own ideal, while at the same time giving expression to all the impulses and desires which belong to one’s natural being. The next aspect of the struggle with oneself is to fit in with others, with their various ideas and demands. For this a man has to make himself as narrow or as wide as the place that one asks him to fill, which is a delicate matter, difficult for all to comprehend and practise. And the third aspect of the struggle with oneself is to give accommodation to others in one’s own life, in one’s own heart, large or small as the demand may be.

The nature of life is illusive. Under a gain a loss is hidden; under a loss a gain is hidden; and living in this life of illusion it is very difficult for man to realize what is really good for him. Even with a wise person, much of his wisdom is demanded by life and by its battle. One cannot be gentle enough, one cannot be sufficiently kind; the more one gives to life, the more life asks of one. There again is a battle.

The balance of life lies in being as fine as a thread and as strong as a steel wire. If one does not show endurance and strength to withstand all the opposing and disturbing influences among which one always has to be in life, one certainly reveals a weakness and lack of development.

Quote of the month

2007-05-12T03:42:00.000-07:00

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

-Khalil Gibran-

Lean on me..... - Bill Withers

2007-05-03T07:33:00.000-07:00

One purpose of Life is to help each other during the hard times. This is a well known hit song written and performed by Bill Withers in 1972. It is ranked number 205 on the List of Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Sometimes in our lives we all have pain
We all have sorrow
But if we are wise
We know that there's always tomorrow

Lean on me, when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
'Til I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Please swallow your pride
If I have things you need to borrow
For no one can fill those of your needs
That you don't let show

If there is a load you have to bear
That you can't carry
I'm right up the road
I'll share your load
If you just call me

So just call on me brother, when you need a hand
We all need somebody to lean on
I just might have a problem that you'd understand
We all need somebody to lean on

Lean on me when you're not strong
And I'll be your friend
I'll help you carry on
For it won't be long
Till I'm gonna need
Somebody to lean on

Lean on me...

Life is not a Dress Rehearsal !

2007-04-25T23:06:00.000-07:00

Each of us is born, spend our days searching for peace, success, happiness, freedom, pleasure and then we die. Some people leave a positive legacy behind while others leave a destructive one. Some people contribute to the lives of their fellow man while others only take from society. And some people have a positive impact on the world while others have a negative one.

Why the difference? I can’t answer that question in 200 words.

I can tell you that each of us has the gift of a new day, a new chance and a new responsibility to serve if we were blessed enough to see another sunrise.

Life is not a dress rehearsal for something later. Each day is the first and last act of the personal performance of our lives. Some people seem to live with the illusion that life will be better when they are older, wiser, richer, more famous, happier, busier, better looking, retired, or a million other reasons. Not so. Life is either good or not good, now. Yes you may be richer later, but who is to say you will need or want the wealth later? Yes you may be wiser later in life but who is to say you were not wise now? Yes you may be more famous later but what is real fame mean?

So many people chase the illusions of life with a rigorous zeal hoping that somehow life will be better when or if. Sorry folks. Life is now. This is not a dress rehearsal for your next life.

So bask in the sunshine or the shade, whichever you prefer, now, be happy now, have fun now, love now, work now, spend money now, save for a rainy day now, and feel gratitude for the life you have, now.

It doesn’t really get any better later, just different. If you are not happy where you are you can never be happy where you aren’t. Life is not about tomorrow or yesterday. It is about now. So don’t worry if you forget your lines, misplace your costume – today is the real thing.

- Tim Connor

How to Stay Young...??

2007-04-16T20:10:00.000-07:00

I was going through my collection of emails and found this one interesting... so sharing this one with you all. Feel free to add your tips for staying young tooo.... :)

1. Throw out nonessential numbers. This includes age, weight and height. Let the doctor worry about them. That is why you pay him/her.

2. Keep only cheerful friends. The grouches pull you down.

3. Keep learning. Learn more about the computer, crafts, gardening, whatever. Never let the brain idle. "An idle mind is the devil's workshop." And the devil's name is Alzheimer's.

4. Enjoy the simple things.

5. Laugh often, long and loud. Laugh until you gasp for breath.

6. The tears happen. Endure, grieve, and move on. The only person who is with us our entire life, is ourselves. Be ALIVE while you are alive.

7. Surround yourself with what you love, whether it's family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever. Your home is your refuge.

8. Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help.

9. Don't take guilt trips. Take a trip to the mall, to the next county, to a foreign country, but NOT to where the guilt is.

10. Tell the people you love that you love them, at every opportunity.

AND ALWAYS REMEMBER: Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away....

Blood brothers

2007-04-10T23:14:00.000-07:00

From Karmacy's Debut Album : "The Movement" : This song is one of the most important pieces, both emotionally and sociologically. It utilizes two languages, Gujarati and English, to paint an honest picture of the often overlooked hardships involved in leaving one’s motherland. This story of two brothers, one who emigrates to America and the other who prefers to remain in his native land, is presented as a dialogue that spans both time and place. This heated discussion strives to capture the essence of the immigrant experience: the reconciliation of old and new within a constant struggle to regain balance.

little things...

2007-04-04T14:11:00.000-07:00

Enjoy the little things,

for one day you may look back and realize

that they were the big things.

-- Robert Brault --

I Hate Love !!!

2007-03-29T01:39:00.000-07:00

I hate love

it's the one feeling that steals your heart into it's deepest desires

I hate love

no control over it as it grasps your soul

I hate love

a fire burning trying to consume something that is unconsumable

I hate love

cause it makes me frail and easy to be broken

I hate love

my heart spins out of control until

I just hate love

because I have just lost control and I am at loves every whim.

- Habibah Gooden

But even after all these reasons, I still would love to fall in love again and again and again..... :):)

Redesigning the blog

2007-03-25T23:27:00.000-07:00

I thought its time to add some new components to the blog to make it more live and interactive. So i've added welcome message, quote for the day, news and visitors location.

Also added skype button to show my online status for you all buddies. So anybody can chat with me whenever I am online. And I was also missing this a lot. :):)

Still thinking to add couple of other things.

Any other suggestions/feedback...???

Nowadays....

2007-03-22T07:36:00.000-07:00

nowadays,

everything looks beautiful to me,

the mountains, the nature, the sea,

the weather, the forest, the birds...

......everything.....

because.....

because..... you are with me.

Chanda re .....

2007-03-18T23:39:00.000-07:00

Prabhu Deva got his first Best Choreography award for this song in Sapnay(Minsaara Kanavu).

I heard this song today after long long time and this broght up so many bhuli huyi yaade of 10 years back - the time which you can not get back but you can still feel those moments.

After watching the movie in 1997, I became a big fan of Sapnay, this song, AR Raheman, Hariharan, Sadhna Sargarm, Prabhu Deva and Kajol.

Enjoy this beautiful composition and dance.....

Tamil-Hindi Remix :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=knyX_oQbwo0

Live performance in AR Rahman Concert :
http://youtube.com/watch?v=NfKV-JBrJ5M

What is Life ?

2007-03-13T22:25:00.000-07:00

Life always sounds strange to me. At times, i think about Life very much. What is Life ? Why is Life ? Why someone is somewhere ? etc etc..... Sometimes i think, there must be a reason and purpose for everyone's Life.

The above picture is of The Qabalistic Tree of Life. The Qabalah is a system of esoteric learning which originated in the Hebraic tradition, but draws together innumerable esoteric influences and organizes a multitude of occult and philosophical concepts. The central symbol of this esoteric system is a pictorial diagram of circles and lines known as the Tree of Life.

You can also visit : http://tim.maroney.org/CrowleyIntro/The_Tree_of_Life.html

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Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. -- Lou Erickso

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin--real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.-- Alfred D. Souza

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. -- Anonymous

Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. -- Danny Kaye

Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. -- Elbert Hubbard

What is the meaning of life? To be happy and useful. -- Dalai Lama

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death. -- James F. Bymes

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. -- John Lennon

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on. -- Robert Frost

A must watch movie..

2007-03-07T07:52:00.000-08:00

A peck on the cheek - one of the best movies by Manirantam. It is a story about a little girl's search for her biological mother. With this movie, Maniratnam again proves that he is at his best when tackling human emotions and relationships.

Though the movie is in tamil, but i could enjoy the whole movie with english subtitles.

http://www.filmmovement.com/downloads/press/Peck%20on%20the%20Cheek%20PRESS%20KIT.pdf

'I could fall in Love' by Selena

2007-03-02T22:06:00.000-08:00

About Selena :

Born Selena Quintanilla to Mexican-American parents in Texas, Selena became the first artist in the Tejano style to top the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album, Dreaming of You, had been intended as the first step in her crossover to English-language audiences, but by the time it hit #1 and went double platinum, the singer was dead at the age of 23, shot in the back by the president of her fan club.

Check out this beautiful song :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WTMESWDWMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTgxHJMdvoI

And here are the lyrics : http://www.romantic-lyrics.com/li41.shtml

Hi Friends

2007-03-02T06:12:00.000-08:00

Buddies,

Welcome to my first blog...!!!

Life is always un-predictable but we must try to keep pace with it. And sometimes it is hard to do so. Thats why, we all friends are here.

To me, one must not forget to Smile :) anytime...

So keep Smiling....

- Ajnabi