Hi all....heres wishing u all a VHNY with loads more happier ones to come.
i am at present still in Bpl,,,forcibly grounded ,,,all thanks to a major cough/cold viral,,,,,and the rains and cold arent doing much to a speedy recovery !!!!!!
i was going throo the posts and Tas,,,,i believe u guys know HIMAKAR??its such an unusual name,,,,anyway,,,last met him in Bpl pre diwali,,,,small world,,,isnt it???
had a wonderful holiday in rajasthan including new year,,,,in fact drove down from here to ajmer and onwards....had done last yr too n loved the places esp the desert at Khimsar .
will be back in pune in a week,,,,,,tc.
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Hey Ashu,
HNY!!
Its really a chota world. Fancy meeting Tata in Bhopal. I thought he was in Vizag. A great guy and a very good pal of mine. Was my batchmate in the railways, but quit sometime back to join an NGO.
Btw, Jason was in Bhopal too but just after Diwali; as an Election Observer for the Assembly polls.
Hope you get better soon.
Do gargling, steaming, hot soup....the works n you'll be fighting fit in no time.
TC.
Hi everyone else. Faiyaz, where on earth are you? Tumhara computer theek hua ki nahin. We are missing your wise cracks. Blog not the same without you. How dare you do the disappearing act on us for soo long. Very very uncharacteristic of you. Aur Nargis, what's up? Total silence from your front too.
Jago folks...Make the blog alive once more.
Heard Vinita is going great guns. Congrats. Apne blog mein bhi do akshar likh deejiye behen.
Stan Bhai, humlogon ko bhool gaye kya?
AB, I'm sure something is brewing in that imaginative mind of yours before you spring yet another treat, hence the silence. Chalo maaf kar diya.
Vimal, thanks for the interesting tidbits in the email.You can post them here too.
Kausty n Omkar, are 100 % in hibernation! (Artic blast n all)
Wake up men, rise n shine! ;)
C'mon, ye all, get crackin & spice up our blog.
Tasneem,
thanx for giving me the benefit of doubt. but yes the blog looks so very khaali khaali.
Yeah tas,,,,Himakar is really a wonderful person,,,he is related to Mils maasi,,,and yes he was on 1 of his missions!!!
thanks for all yr NUSKAS ~~~i am doing all these ,,,as i need to be fit ,,,what with the wedding of my niece in pune!!!and my bones r crying to be away from the cold !!!!!!!!!!its always grt to be back on the blog,,,,wakey guys...........FAI ,,,u will be losing yr mantle of a reg blogger,,,we need to see u soon,,,,ditto for the rest
Naresh aap bhi kahan gayab ho gaye?
Et tu, Alps, Venu, Ratna, Banhi, Sarita, Louis and all those I've missed out??
Blog bahut soona, soona lag raha hai.
Happy New Year!
I still can't beieve all of this, maybe it's the 30 years or so. I am so looking forward to seeing everyone, hopefully this summer.
Tas, do send me your contact info, in case I find myself in Calgary. Also, any plans to be in the NY/NJ area any time soon?
Hi Reena,I'll send you an email with my contacts soon. Will be lovely to talk to you. Trip to NY/NJ? no dear, no such luck. Am in the thick of my Boards (my son's !!) You try coming over to Calgary. We'll paint the town all hues!
Hi Everyone
Tas, hum gayab nahi hua. Majboor hain aur lachaar hain .. my plant is shut due to recession till Jan 31st hence limited access to mails.
Sold of my System at home to go for a Notebook , for more portability but again squeezed budget. Only succour is Cybercafe.
Well saving for the rainy day like an ANT.
Aashu: have u met Irfaan Khan at Jaipur. This guy is really making waves at Bollywood. Itching to see ' Billu Barber '. What was the fort where 007 's ( Roger Moore ) film was shot ??
By the way where have Faiyaz, Nargis and Ali Khandaan have vanished. Faiyaz's double entendre is missing !
That's sad Naresh. I'm really sorry to hear that. Hope things work out for you soon once the plant reopens.Have faith in God. There is always a light at the end of the tunnel and you will see it soon.
I'm going through a kind of a rough patch myself, but I try not to let anything faze me.
Take care & God Bless.
EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING.
I have been giving a quick glance at all the mails. But at present I am very much engrossed with the book Q AND A by Vikash Swarup and intend finish reading before the release of "Slumdog Millionair".
And my apology for wishing you all A HAPPY NEW YEAR a month late. But today being Pongal its a start of a new year too! So once agaain HAPPY NEW YEAR and GOOD HEALTH>
Happy Makar Sankranti everyone!
Saw Slumdog. Didn't like it one bit. I's been made to pander to the Gora's sense of superiority over us lesser mortals and also to show that realising "The great American Dream" is possible.*&!#!* Doesn't happen that way.
haven't seen slumdog but would tend to agree with you on the treatment of the third world. saw ghazni and i thought that aamir was awesome. asin was even better and their love story has been refreshingly told. a must see.
Loved "Slumdog". Its an entertaining movie, as opposed to films like "Rab Ne Bana ..." which bored me to tears.
The only reason I hesitate to see Ghajini (?) is its a plagiarized version of Memento. Geez, Bollywood plagiarizes left & right. Its embarrassing.
Tas, Hi
its so nice to find your postings -- though you reside in a freezing zone your warmth spills o'vr the entire blog touching each one of us with your concern and involvement in our mundane process of existence. Its so heartening when you chip in with your remedies,--you empathise and relate--thanks for being there---feel so reassured!!!
No doubt the movie Slumdog Millionaire was very well made, the actors performed brilliantly, especially the kids...but the concept was ridiculous and the portrayal of India nauseous.
Can India only be visualised as a place with slums, child prostitution, child beggary, police brutality, people wallowing in shit, communal riots, underworld dealings, gang warfare? I know we can't wish it away, but what about the new India – a country that is experiencing a rate of growth paralleled by few other nations in the world...a fact which has disconcerted many a nation?
It went all out to pander to the misplaced sense of superiority of the 'goras'....to allay their fears that India is not all that 'shining' as is it made out to be. No wonder it caught everyone's fancy in the Western world.I was not comfortable with the message which I thought it was surreptitiously trying to convey.
SRK doing its presentation at the GG Awards, for me personally was a big let down. Rahman, however deserved every bit of the Award that he got.
Thanks a ton, Sarita...you made my day!
Nothing special about me...I'm just being me ;)!!
My prayers are with all of you n I'm sure yours are with me too.
I really need it. It's sometimes so lonely here, especially during the cold,brutal winters (it seeps to your bones n not having a car doesn't help either)
Things don't always work out as we want them to....one has to take life as it offers itself; sometimes sweet, sometimes sad.
I try to keep my spirit high, no matter what and J is a big help all the way through Skype!
On a lighter note... guess what? If all goes well, I'm planning to go on a movie marathon tomorrow. Will be seeing 'The Reader' and 'Revolutionary Road' back to back...both Kate Winslet movies. If you get a chance to see 'Seven Pounds', don't miss it. Will Smith has done a fantastic job as always.
Bye n tc.
Aashu --your appearnce however briefly --and with all the Harold Pinter "silences" accentuated by your punctaution marks brings out wonderful responses from all of us..
Tas --I find that you are a real movie buff --which is also my fav habit-recently I saw 'Motorcycle Diaries" based on the travels of Che Guevara across Latin America --a real lyrical journey --a visual and emotional treat...
@ Stanley:
I'm seeing so many movies here for want of anything better to do. In India, I hardly get the time for these luxuries.
The last two movies that I saw were The Road and Valkyrie. Both great ones set in Germany during WWII.
Revolutionary Road didn't have a very good review, so I gave it a miss for the time being..
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