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 !!