mute......

From silence... to despair... to celebration!!! Life indeed is Beautiful!!!

Jailbirds!!

Well...

'my pigeons gone
his flutters no longer by my door
he left at dawn
and as I slept I felt him go
return no more
I will not watch the ocean
my pigeons gone
no earthy ships will ever
bring him home again
my pigeons gone'

That sweet fat thing would saunter accross from my balcony into my room every morning and would get screamed at - 'get out! n lemme sleeeeep!!!' But hey, then it would somehow realize it's been bad n go into this corner, huddle up there, puff it's wings n go gutttttaaarrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!! Eventually the 'gutars' would get louder n they would begin to mean, 'yeah yeah! u never lemme in! here I am, I save u from all other pigeons who could shit in ur balcony (it's different that I gleefully do!) and you don't even lemme into your room...!! Dekh lunga!' Then in sheer defiance it fly up into the room and conveniently perch itself on the open door and go, 'yeah baby!' But by then my weapon of war ( a handtowel that's you can perpetually find on the armrest of the chair conveniently placed right next to the door) is already in place and the 'sweet fat thing' is being shooed out...!! Mission acccomplished and it sits in the corner with a hige sulky expression till 'action replay!!!' (this happens a gaziliion times in one day!!)

Question: Where's it gone?? The dark, cold hands of a hostel warden n the frozen gray matter of the 'decision maker' have supposedly 'ensconced' us in the 4 walls by putting a wire mesh all around the balcony!! The balcony that offered a respite from 'their' clutches, the balcony that hailed the sunshine each morning, the balcony that was home to the 'sweet fat thing' and the balcony where a million dreams of flying high in the open skies were dreamt!

Right now: Caged beyond mercy! And the sweet fat thing - homeless and wandering... fluttering hither and tither!! Eventually settled in a lonely corner it found somewhere there...

Digital epiphany:

Dedications galore!!

Ok ppl!! lets do something here....

1. Dedicate a song to ur someone special! (umm.. ok! ok! u dnt hafta name them!!)

2. Now since it's my blog ur readin, dedicate a song to me!!! (haan haan, haathi mere saathi typs bhi chlaega!!!!) :-D

The weekend and then some...

Well... like the previous post makes obvious, Mommy dearest and The Greatest Dad on planet earth were here yesterday!!! (yeah yeah yeah.. i've heard it before! n i know!! for a girl her Dad's like this magic man, superman, awsum person all packaged together n nothin anyone can say or do can do anything to that!!! Always reminds me of the Sunflower ad that went 'My daddy strongest!' :-D)

Well... food as usual n the most amazing chocolate pastry with coffee icecream followed by a sizzling brownie with not vanilla but coffee ice cream and chocolate sauce!! (yeah yeah yeah - eat ur heart out!!!!) :-D again!! N of course, the most amazingly chilllllled cold coffee!!!!

Yours truly was taken shopping then and she had a gala time!! The evening ended with a lot of hugs and Papa so didnt want to go!!!! I'll meet him soon... so that was some solace!! :-)

Foooood at Upper Crust!! (One of the most amazing places for sizzlera and baked dishes in this part of the world!!) Yeah - absolutely completely Baby's day out kinda situation!!!! And then..... close to 10 wild and hungry hostel students break loose on the awwsum christmas cake and gajar ka halwa!!! P.S:-I still manage to save some for the morning!!!! And then Mom calls and a chorus of 'thank-you' resonates through the grounds of IM-NU! Dada this morning find me and thanks me again!! He then does onto add 'long live the Gulati family!!' :-D again again!!!

Now for the then some....
Sat with the book of readings for 'Business to Business Marketing!' and the music that begins to resonate somewhere around is as follows:
'Chhoti si umar me lag gaya rog
kehte hain log...mai mar jaungi!'

followed by - (trust me it gets better!)
'Sheesha ho ya dil ho....
aakhir... toota jaata hai!!'
(imagine the song on a speaker tats crying out loud 'spare me! spare me!'

The icing on the cake:
'humko bhi gham ne maara...
tumko bhi gham ne maara...
hum sabko gham ne maara...
is gham ko maar dalo....!!!!!!!!!!!' **

:-D again again again!!!!

Bas fir kya tha.. 'gham removal spree!' Opened the box of chocolates and gleefully satisfied the tummy and soul cravings and pushed myself back to Padhaaaiiii!!!!!!!!

:-D full n final!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n Merry Christmas again!!!

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** Here's the link for the song: Humko bhi gham ne maara...
The songs been sung by Lata Mangeshkar and Anuradha Paudwal!!!!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!!

Hey all!

Wish you a verrrrrrrrrrry Merry Christmas!!

My plans for the day: to feast on some home made plum cake and maybe finally hit the books!!!! exams frm day after!! :-D

Cya all!
Have fun!

2 in 1!

1. Calvin n Hobbes Mastercard commercial on YouTube!! It's way too cute!!
Go here: Calvin n Hobbes!
For all my buddies!!!!!

2. Euphoria's 'sone de Maa'
Absolutely brilliant stuff! Stauatory warning: Keep a pack of tissues closeby! It made me cry!!

Euphoria - Sone De...

Here are the lyrics:
'

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

Teri kahani me sachayi jeeti sada

Tu hi bata Maa kya jhootha vo vishwas tha

Bikhra kyn Maa mere sapno ka sansaar tha

Lamha lamha dhokha naya

Tanha tanha mai thak gaya

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

Ho……

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

Sapna jo toota bhi dekho mai roya nahi

Saya jo rootha bhi khud ko Maa khoya nahi

Sadiyan hui tere aanchal me soya nahi

Lamha lamha jeeta jahan

Ladte ladte mai thak gaya

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Ab na jeena….

Sone de Maa ab na jeena

Sone de Maa…….

Sone de Maa ab na.. jeena…

Ho……

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

aey Maa, aey Maa

aey Maa, aey Maa

aey Maa aey Maa aey Maa

aey Maa aey Maa

hmmmm….. mmmm….

Hmmmm…..

aey Maa aey Maa aey Maa

aey……

aey Maa aey Maa

sone de… sone de……..

sone de… sone de……..

sone de… sone de……..

aey Maa..

sone de..aey Maa..

sone de..aey Maa..

sone de….

sone de…aey Maa..

sone de…aey Maa..

sone de…..

sone de, sone de, sone de Maa

ab nai jeena nai jeena nai jeena na

sone de, sone de, sone de Maa

ab nai jeena….

nai jeena..

sone de….

Sone de Maa.. ab na jeena…

Sone de Maa.. ab na jeena… nai jeena…

Sone de Maa.. ab na jeena…

Sone de Maa..

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm

Hmmm hmmm hmmm hmmm'

Love is...!!

Found this today:
This is the traditional Chinese character for love. It's got a heart in the middle, surrounded by 'accept', 'feel' or 'percieve', showing a graceful emotion!!

Makes u go 'hmmmmmm.........!' doesn't it!!

Love this too: The Love Is comic strip!

The other men!!

Right now: Listening to Ankur belt out words of Maaeri while strumming his guitar!! He's awsum with it!! All who've heard it have been like isn't this Palash Sen himself???!!! (not kidding Anks!) Also listening to Buddhi singing 'aayega aane wala!' I love that song.. and more so in his voice!!

The weekend:
'Loose control
I am rebel
Talli hoke girne se samjhi hamne gravity
Ishq ka practical kiya tab aayi clearity
Na koi padhne wala na koi sikhne wala
Naata yeh sannata hai dekho lambu shor hain
Har dil mein bud bud karta h2so4 hain
I am rebel
Loose control'

This actually sums it up!! She walked in to 2 sleeping giants who were rudely woken by the bell and then her continuous chatter!! Eventually the 'Guest of Honor' - hamara firnagi (Ankur jus returned and going back to London!) walks in and there begins a blanket fight to get everyone out of bed!

She just begins to put their fears of 'Shopping' at rest(5 men - shopping!! With one girl who's hell bent on lootoing 'em Linking Road!! Bandra!! That's one of their grossest nightmares right!!) n Yogi Mumma* starts of that Linking road has been one of his slowest 100 m ever!! 30m an hour with his sister!!! :D Well..we're missing the point here... She just said she needs to buy a watch n lo and behold, the firangi says, 'Tujhe ghadi lene ki kya zarurat hai?' She jus begins to explain when she looks at him again and his expression says it all..He's got a ghadi for her!! (And is it awwwwwwwsummmmm!!!!!!!) How he knew she wants one, she'll never know!!!

Next Morning: 6 hungover giants trying to figure out what happened last night!! The loo is their only solace right now.. one by one they make their way and their heads slowly stop feeling woozy!! Jab tak firangi got through with his morning ablutions, his suitcase was ransacked for sum yummy chakli, laddoos and pooris!! :-D In the word of her luv, 'assi aise hi hai si!'

Well, vidaai ka waqt: sab gale mile, thode senti hue... (banta hai yaar... march/april types milega ye fir!!) Kehta fir milenge... apun bola 'yup! online!!' :))

Firangi ke jaane k baad, She decided enough is enough! She has to go on a shopping spree!! So out she goes... then.. Dear big sis, (Pallo) calls and we decide, after a lot of 'u sya na, n no u say na' that we have dinner at Kobe's!! So we go home to a well serviced, shining black Pulsar (Gosh!! in 2700 bucks that thing turned from a Kabadi ka something to neighbour's envy, owner's pride!!) and we fly down on the Highway to kobe's!! Befor that, yogi mumma is looking all set to dazzle in a Suit and is on his way with his killer smile to a friend's wedding!! Yummy sizzlers, topped with a sizzling brownie (scraped to the end with all the burnt chocolate being gleefully eaten!). Time calls... her bus is at 1030!! Charsi says, 'Have no fear, I'm here!!' She chills and takes her seat of glory as the pillion and they zoom through the city on the Western Express highway (at dunno what speed) and make it just in time!! Climax: The bus is late!! :D

Well... (I wanna go baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacccccccckkkkkk!!!!!!!!!)

Note: Yogi Mumma is as you can figure out Yogi bhai! he prefers to refer to himself as 'Mumbai ka Don!' She calls him Mumma coz he's so genuinely concerned about the 2 bachcha's he stays with and also about her when she's in town! He takes care of just about eveything just as Mom's do!!! (Ludviskpnks!!)

Fragments!

"Where do we go when we just don't know
And how do we relight the flame when it's cold
Why do we dream when our thoughts mean nothing
And when will we learn to control"
-Serenity, Godsmack

"Lighten up while you still can
don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy Lighten up while you still can
don't even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
and take it easy"
-Take it Easy, Eagles

"It couldn't be more wrong
Cos there's no one there
Unmistakably lost and without a care"
- Are you there, Anathema

"In the dream of the proud
On the wings of the night
As the daytime is stirring
Where the speechless unite
In a silent accord
Using words you will find are strange
And mesmerised as they light the flame
Feel the new wind of change
On the wings of the night"
- On the turning away, Pink Floyd

I was standing by the edge of the water
I noticed my reflection in the waves
Then I saw you looking back at me
And I knew that for a moment
You were calling out my name
- Take away my pain, Dream Theater

And then there were none!

Just had to write that line somwhere... so there it is in the title!! :-D

Placements dun-duna-dun!! Yours truly landed up better than her dreams could offer so she's way beyond cloud 9 rite now!! The roller coaster ride of emotions - the joys, the smiles, the tears, the relief, the hand holding, the prayers, the support, the love, the care, the concern, the turmoil, the choices and decisions has all come to an end! Trust me - you had to be there to believe it! Once in every lifetime one should go through an MBA placement process!! (Seriously!!)

And then - 22 of the 123 placed MBA's (imagine!!) were on the loose in Diu! The keyword here is 'PLACED!' (wild, reckless and carefree). Unforgettable moments!! The early morning walks, the sunrise, the discovery of a virgin beach with rock cliffs (words demean it), the sheer blue water, the 'gappe' and the bonding... The dry state convicts having a gala time in 'wet wet' land!

(yeah baby! I discovered that on my morning walk!! Thats the sunset!)

An early morning escapade at 6:30 in the morning from the balcony (all other routes of exit were locked) and a long long long walk - me and myself! It's good to be with yourself once in every li'l while and this time it had been long! A reconnect happened and slowly, gradually it all (too long to tell you what all :D) fell into place... and slowly, gradually became perfect again! So she smiles her 1000 megawatt smile again!!

A trip home thereafter - a proud and happy Dad! It was all there in his hug! I luv him sooo... much!!

Now: She's also looking forward to meeting the 'other' men in her life! :-D Her bestest buddies - Ankur, Nishu, Yogi and Shekhu!

A quote: 'Abhi to mutthi bhar zameen aayi hai haath mein... aage poora aasmaan baaki hai!' (Just a hand full of your piece of land has come to you, the whole sky awaits and is calling!)