Golden memories.

Listening to the O P Nayyar special on Radio today brought alive some of my Golden Memories.

According to my parents, Mom used to sing some standard Marathi lullabies to us when we were babies ( that constitutes first 3 to 4 years of life). I can't obviously remember those times, but I'm sure these are few of the sweetest memories for my Mom.

What I do remember is listening to my dad singing some old melodious songs to us before we slept. In the cold winter nights his voice used to generate the kind of warmth that no quilt can give. In the hot summer nights in NOIDA, when the current used to play tricks with us, Mom and Dad used to fan us with Newspapers (i suspect, till late into the nights) and he used to sing to us. Few of his favorites were Kisi ki muskurahaton pe ho nisaar, thandi hawa ye chandani suhani, ye raatein ye mausam nadi ka kinara, Maine tere liye hi saat rang ke sapne chune, kahin door jab din dhal jaaye, lakhon hain nigaah mein.

I used be awed at the sheer simple yet compelling melody of these songs, especially sung by my Dad, whom I used to consider the greatest singer.

He was my hero then, now and will always be !! :)

Some intense lyrics these are :

Main nadiya phir bhi main pyaasi, bhed ye gehra baat zara si ......

Main deepak ki aisi baati, jal na sake jo, bujh bhi na paati ......

Helpless

When you perceive someone as very strong, the strongest support of your life and you see him/her cry, you feel so helpless. The person cries because he is hurt by someone else, who again is one amongst the most important people in your life. You dont know how to console, what to say, what not to say. " I'm feeling so helpless", the person said. My heart was just repeating the same words over and over again....

Laughing :D :D

I just got a compliment on the way I laugh. Exact words : "its nice when u laugh....its like u are outta control! "

Hmmm, now that I think about it.... Yes, I do get stared at sometimes cos I laugh too loudly (mostly in silent places :-p ).

But it is one of the best gifts we've got !! I never hesitate to laugh. It indicates i'm happy and carefree all the time. And yes, laughter is the best medicine, at least for the mind definitely.

Thought of finding out what some other people say about laughing :

"If human life did not have laughing, that would be boring. Laughing is what makes life fun."


"If you can't laugh, there's something wrong. You gotta let it out. If you didn't laugh it would be all bottled up. Then it'd probably come out as anger instead of laughter."


"Laughing is a kind of release. When I am sad and I laugh, I can forget about my problems at least for a little bit and be free from all the bad things that happen."

"Laughing is the smile of the World."

Cheers
:)

My new PC !!

Fulfilling the request from Krishna, I have displayed my new PC : complete with the new UPS, keyboard, mouse, monitor and CPU. Its sitting royally on the relatively new computer table!! :D

Yippppie !!

Got a brand new PC. Compaq presario, Pentium D. 960 MB RAM and 160 GB hard disk (:-O didnt know my dad had ordered for that). On board ethernet card (me happy cos the previous ethernet card gave up just two days ago, depriving me of net access from home). Super cool headset and web cam. New optical mouse (my old one had got really old, was on the verge of dying), new keyboard (with nice smooth keys. The old one insisted on getting hit hard for every key). DVD ROM too.

The best is ---> LCD flat monitor with built-in speakers. Too cool !! :D

Template Change

On popular demand and the impact of being at the receiving end of the storm of complaints about "teammates stare at your pink blog !!" I have changed the template to a more tolerable one :D

ENJOY !!

Thought for the day

"The more u get, the more u want".

Isn't it better to be deprived?? But thats not fair :-(

A Great feeling !!

Specially record/download a song to learn it, write down the lyrics and learn the song. Make mom and dad listen to it, any time of the day. And then hum it everyday until I perfect it !!

This was almost a routine for me . But from the past year or so I somehow stopped doing this.

Did it again today. While searching for another song I found a song I had learnt during school as an invocation song. But when I heard the original song yest, god its beautiful !! HAD to take time and learn it.

Felt really good !! :) Made me realise that whether I get to sing for others or not, I MUST continue to do this for myself !! :)

Another revelation, was badminton!! I played last weekend, and truly it felt like I had stopped doing something I love doing !!

Have decided to make these two an important part of my life again, just like in school days :D .
All I used to do those days was sing on stage during school and play badminton in the evenings [ and of course, study if i get time from these ;) ]

Continue begiiiiiiiiiiiiiin.....................

This is in continuation of the previous post. First, let me exaplin the title "Continue begiiiiiiiiiiiiiin............."

Our PT sir in Delhi used to shout out that command, supposedly to tell us to continue with the exercises after a rest. But he used to say that even for the first exercise of the day !!! Continue?? continue what ??? :D

Anyway, so there were a lot more jhakaas statements our Java instructor. The following are the funniest ones. Note the ones in bold. Used in this sequence, they seem to generate a "double meaning" according to my teammates. No explanation from my side :-p We had a good laugh though !!

- I will give you a twist. (Please spare me ...............)
- Java has specified that we have to be declared. ( Oh yeah sure !! Declare us as dead after ur class !!)
- Whatever things I have been taught I will ask. ( How do we know what you have been taught ??? !!??)
- You must be needed to be done ( Huh??? )
- You are going to be generate your own stub ( Huh?? yet again )
- We have only 15 mins. We have to be covered completely (Huh??? Excuse me !!!!! You to be talking very vulgar mister!! I to not be accept this !!)
- I am describing you
- Many applications are running on the market ( Ohkay.. if u say so !!)

One of his last statements were, " If god knows, we will meet again". Come on dude. GOD KNOWS ALL, he wont make me meet you again !!!

Phew !! Thats all for today :D

Cheers
Shilpa

Huh ???? :-o

Anyone and everyone claims to know a lot and begins to train you. I do not feel accomplished enough to comment on the "knowing" part. Maybe they do know a lot about the subject. But hellllllloooooo, where the hell do communication skills exactly come in while giving someone a job of a trainer !!

I am attending a Java training this week. The person who is training us should be made to sit in class 3 to learn basics of english. He desperately needs a lesson in grammer, tenses and sentence formations. I never comment on accents. Cos I agree that people from different regions have different accents. But specifically hiring someone as a trainer, by completely ignoring his spoken english, is highly insane.

Let me recall a few samples of our dude's sentences:

I hope you have been understood ( Intends to say : I hope you have understood)
You have been worked on Java? ( Intends to say : Have you worked/programmed in Java?)
You have any feeling or query, please be express ( Intends to say : Please let me know if you have any queries)
You have to be see this code ( Intends to say : You have to see this code)

Now you must have got a hang of it. Please solve the following :

I going to be show you the demo.
It will locate for the object not longer uses. (This is a tough one i guess :D )

My definitions !!

- Friends are those with whom u can talk about any crap most comfortably.
- Friends are those who can blast you for being stupid and bring u straight on track.
- Friends are those who know they can always use your shoulder to cry. Those who think they are a burden to you are not truly friends.
- Friends are those you can call out in misery.
- Friends are those you can scream at and hug the very next moment.

These are just a few !!

My mom and me at the Somnath beach :)