Aai sathi kaay lihu !

What do I write for mom ?

20 best Hindi songs !

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20060626&fname=ABestSongs&sid=2

Sale with Body and bath works !

I think I shall stalk for the next 6 months with this sale...

6-6-6

The figure long associated with Anti-Christ had its day yday.
Fortunately, nothing significantly wrong happened (chuckles).

However, here's a funny piece of news from Reuters.

Some ppl....do not have any work (absolutely !) and hence, get involved into such acts ... hehehe !

Eden got married !

btw, Eden got married over the long weekend.
35, divorced, celibate since Apr 2004..I think of it as some sort of fasting for pleasing her gods. Finally, she got married. The guy is someone who she met online and continued in real life. Both are intelligent. She is a tech manager.

Quite a few of her things resemble to those of someone I know of closely and had been thinking about over the weekend. I wish it comes true for her...that she gets married !
I would be so happy for her.

Depressing Saturday !

An absolutely morose climate around....
I was too tired. also, called home and quite a few friends to catchup....

I was so down today !

I can't make you love me....

An old acquaintance called me up in the morning....surprise, surprise !
After hours of talk, suddenly, she started singing the George Michael song...

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me

'Cause I can't make you love me If you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart, and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't

I'll close my eyes and then I won't see
The love you do not feel, when you're holding me
Morning will come, and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then, to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight

And I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
And here in the dark in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no, you won't
And I can't make you love me
If you don't

Ain't no use in you trying
It's no good for me baby without love
All my tears, all these years, everything I believed in
Baby
Oh yeah
Someone's gonna love me


....and I was touched. Touched - because of what she had to offer - love ?!

I was however, too focussed on my studies at this moment....doing my Fin Stmt Analysis assignment. She asked me to visit this Dec ...well, and I had to decline. Not that I meant to be rude to her but because of my current status in this country. I am on H1 transferring to F1. If I get out of this country, I would have to get passport stamped.

Anyways, there was a huge geographical incompatibility in anything about this relationship. It cannot exist. Moreover, we had met just half a dozen times. I always saw that in her eyes and in her communication. However, it never crossed my mind that it would be something beyond that.

I was vulnerable when she sang it....since I am single, 24, away from family for more than 17 months now and not seeing anyone these days due to study committments. However, key learnings and experience teaches me that I need to be far more discreet and rational. This nature of relationship had no future and though it would keep occupied (waste time on GTalk! and raise my Reliance India phone bills for both of us) it didn't make sense to continue.

Moreover, if she goes one step ahead and becomes a little bit more outgoing, she would get a thousand gentlemen who would be a better fit. I failed to understand this coming up after such a long time... !

GRITS (Girls Raised in the South)

Well, while at Barnes and Noble doing my reading assignment for the Conflict Resolution class, I wanted a change in the reading material.

I came across this book:
The GRITS (Girls Raised in the South) Guide to Life
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525947264/002-2393374-3770462?v=glance&n=283155


Awesome book !
Structure, presentation, illustrations, etc everything was well in place.
Deborah Ford has done a good job with the pen.

I read it in 85 minutes flat :)

The Southern Girl

The fairest thing on land or sea

Is the Southern girl, to me.

You should see her when the stars

Come studding all the sky;

And feel her beaming eye

On you when the moon is full –

Fairest of all that’s fair is she,

The Southern girl, to me.

....it happens only in Amsterdam !

Pedophiles to launch political party

Dionne Warwick rephrased !

A friend of mine rephrased the old song by Dionne Warwick

What do you get when you fall in love?
A gurl with a pin to burst your bubble
That's what you get for all your trouble.
I'll never fall in love again.
I'll never fall in love again.

What do you get when you kiss a gurl?
You get enough germs to catch pneumonia.
After you do, she'll never phone you.
I'll never fall in love again.
I'll never fall in love again.

Don't tell me what is all about,
'Cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out,
Out of those chains, those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you

What do you get when you fall in love?
You get enough tears to fill an ocean
That's what you get for your devotion.
I'll never fall in love again.
I'll never fall in love again.

What do you get when you fall in love?
You only get lies and pain and sorrow.
So, for at least until tomorrow,
I'll never fall in love again!
I'll never fall in love again!

Don't tell me what it's all about
`Cause I've been there and I'm glad I'm out
Out of those chains, those chains that bind you
That is why I'm here to remind you. (here to mind you) 3x
What do you get when you fall in love?
You only get lies and pain and sorrow
So, for at least, until tomorrow
I'll never fall in love again
Oh, I'll never fall in love again

Hinglish...in Oxford !

Check out the latest additions to Oxford.

http://www.askoxford.com/pressroom/archive/ode2newwords

India is certainly taking over the globe !
Mehndi, offshoring, etc are the new words added in it.

How Credit score works ?

Check this link out.

Marriage on the rocks in the western world !

Check these articles out... as the society is advancing more and more.... such issues are taking over precedence.
Link


Males in western society

Detterent to marriage

btw, this is crazy....what kind of society is this ?
Marriages are off.....one of the genders is overpowering others.

well, in such a scenario the emotional health of ppl is in question.

Murphy's law in action

Every thing that can go wrong...will go wrong !
Well, I experienced this first hand.

I made a sudden decision to hit Cincin on Friday/Sat night after 400 miles towards Pitts and my bumper got hit.

I made a decision to keep my car parked outside....street cleaning guys put a 15$ ticket for me. Have to check out the date to pay it. Also, shall have to figure out how to pay it.

If that was less, the realtor slapped us with a notice ...a legal one stating that our entry into the townhouse was illegal !
Well, shall have to negotiate with him .

So, in between
parking tickets, notices and a broken bumper, I could get some time to blog this.

Some happening phase of life... !

Russell Peters

New link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6802438413010363103

This dude is hilarious !

my new place,...

Drove down to Pittsburgh and after a long harrowing journey...reached on Saturday morning at 4:30 am. Chatted with mom on the phone for a while and then gave a call to Arun on the cell...He woke up and Anirban and himself helped me unload my stuff from the car.


Here's Arun and Sri in the picture I took near CMU...while we were going towards a photocopy shop!




This was taken on a side-walk of the Forbes Ave....opposite to Hamburg Hall (Heinz School's bldg).

First few days have been fun and wavelength matching is happening well.

Townhouse is cool and land lady has agreed to clean it up for us !
Hence, I am pretty much sticking out here itself .

I shall post picture of our house and neighbourhood shortly.

I am officially now a resident of Squirrel Hill...........finally !

..Madonna...losing it...

Some ppl lose it ...when they get old...
Check out the latest act of Maddonna...to get back into the spotlight !

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5006008.stm


Is she suffering from some sort of mid-life crisis or late menopausal symptoms ?

Strange is the path of love...

Do not mention the name of love,
O my simple-minded companion.
Strange is the path
When you offer your love.
Your body is crushed at the first step.

If you want to offer love
Be prepared to cut off your head
And sit on it.
Be like the moth,
Which circles the lamp and offers its body.
Be like the deer, which, on hearing the horn,
Offers its head to the hunter.
Be like the partridge,
Which swallows burning coals
In love of the moon.
Be like the fish
Which yields up its life
When separated from the sea.
Be like the bee,
Entrapped in the closing petals of the lotus.

Mira's lord is the courtly Giridhara.
She says: Offer your mind
To those lotus feet.  

The value of failure

Failure is a normal and natural part of achievement. When the failures come, learn from them and then move quickly along.

Failure is not the worst thing that can happen. The worst thing that can happen is to let the fear of failure prevent you from ever doing anything.

If your top priority is to avoid all failure, then you will surely fail. For only by accepting and living with the possibility of failure can you succeed and achieve.

Failure is not the end of the world. It is merely another step on the pathway to fulfillment, wisdom and achievement.

Though you would never intentionally set out to fail, when failure does come the best thing to do is to gracefully accept what has happened. That will enable you to gain the most positive value from it.

Then you can move right along to the next step, and soon you'll be a long way past the failure, filled with more wisdom and experience. Let failure be, and achievement will surely come.