Ajeeb dastaan hai yeh...

Life is but a journey, there are no stops, no destinations...... only breaks and memories..

Thursday, November 12, 2009

When silence matters more....



Kaise bataye kyu tujh ko chahe yaara batana paye
baatein dilo ki dekho zubaan ki aankhen tujhe samjhaye
Tu Jaane Na
Milke bhi ..gham na mile, tumse najane kyu
milo ke.. hey phasle, tumse najane kyu
anjaane.. hai silsile, tumse najane kyu
sapne hai..palko tale, tumse najane kyu u u u
Kaise bataye.. kyu tujh ko chahe.. yaara batana paye
baatei dilo ki ..dekho zubaan ki aankhen tuje samjhaye
Tu Jaane Na
Nigaho mein dekho meri jho hai bus gayaa
wohe miltha tumse.. hubahu
wooo
jane tere aankhen thi …ya baatein ti wajaaa
huye tum jho dilki aarzu..
tum paas hoke bhi.. tum aas ho ki bhi
ehsaas hoke bhi ..apne nehei aisehai
humko gile.. tumse najane kyu
milo ke hai phasle.. tumse najane kyuu
Tu jane na
hooo…jane na jane na jane na..ha..aaa…tu jane na…
khayalo mei lakho baatein.. yu tho keh gaya
bola kuch na tere.. saamne
ooo
huye na begane bhi tum hoke aur ke
dekho tum na mere hi bane
Afsoos hotha hai ..dil bhi ye rota hai
sapne sanjhota hai.. pagla hua soche ye
hum te mile ..tumse najane kyu
milo ke he phasle.. tumse najane kyu
Anjane hai silsile.. tumse najane kyu
sapne hai.. palko tale.. tumse najane kyu o o o
Kaise bataye kyu tujh ko chahe yaara batana paye
baatei dilo ki dekho zubaan ki aankhen tuje samjhaye
Tu Jaane Na

saregaregamagamapa
Tu Jaane Na

Friday, November 6, 2009

Weekend!!

2007: Fridays

Friday 9:00 AM : OK team, lets wrap up things by 1:00, we are going for lunch, we shuld b back by 3:00. Please make sure that all follow-up mails are ready and we are good to go at 5:30.
Friday 5:00 PM : Well all looks good, all we need is to sent out the mails and that’s it.  See you guys on Monday.
Friday 8:00 PM : Whizzing by on the highways to unplanned destinations
Saturday 12:00 AM : Dinner at a half closed all-nite dhaba with an equally crazy guy.
Saturday 2:00 AM : Back at home, Mom..wake me at 6, we have a trip.


2008: Fridays

Friday 9:00 AM : OK team, forget all plans, lets get working on the issues, we should have it done latest by 4:00.
Friday 5:00 PM : Things dnt look good at all, we lost a lot of time on the connectivity issue. We have a concall in ½ an hr, be prepared to stretch.
Friday 8:00 PM : Yeah …..ummm …. Ok , it looks like the issues are clean on our side, seems a lot of requirement changes are not propagated properly, we need send a detail followup and we are done.
Saturday 12:00 AM : Waiting for the confounded cab drop to turn up!!
Saturday 2:00 AM : Back at home, Mom….pls dnt wake me tomorrow


2009: Fridays

Friday 9:00 AM : We have two new apps going in this week, get them ready, see the tests and validation traces, and get the release letters going.
Friday 5:00 PM : Calls 1:30 to 2:00,  3:00 to 3:30, 4:00 to 4:30. Hey I still have half of the stuff pending.
Friday 8:00 PM : Well that’s a lot, done for the day. Got to get back and cook, get the stuffs going….  Oh may be if  I get some time I can catch a nap too.
Saturday 12:00 AM : Hello, yes it’s me….no no I just finished, dinner…oh …ok we got a move coming up at 4AM….sure no problem…..I would be there by 3.
Saturday 2:00 AM : Leaving apartment…. Good Afternoon Mom(on cell)… everyones fine!!  Cool…. No mom….can’t come on Skype…. I am going back to office..yeah tk cr… I will call u smtime later….

Monday, October 19, 2009

The Mcdee story…..

This incident is pretty dated…and by now almost everyone has been through it at some point of time in their adjustment between the Indo-US food habits, but incidentally a more recent happening causes me to pen this down….

A few months back, I met a friend in Boston and he was describing his 1st tryst with Mcdee…. here it goes

‘It was my 3rd nite in the US and while returning from University stressed with all the new processes and flows, was hungry as hell and looking around for a place to eat, I saw the most internationally known joint the McDonalds….  I was being cautious not to end up consuming something that is generally considered as sacred in my country…so after carefully inspecting the menu, I chose to have a cheeseburger( it says cheese…right…so nothing can go wrong),  medium fries and a coke.

After having my meal, I felt well these people certainly knows how to make cheese taste so different, I didn’t quite like it though,…but well this is America…u cant expect it to taste the same…..

Late at nite…. While googling thru my materials and stuff, I thought may be I should check out how to make it…  well this is what I discovered.

cheeseburger is a sandwich consisting of a cooked patty of ground meat, usually beef and sliced cheese, placed in an open bun or between two slices of bread.


Now….back to the real story…. the other day my cousin wanted badly to have a McD's ranch BLT, well she is new to US...so I confirmed if she had ever tasted it and whether its Ranch BLT she wanted....  she seemed pretty confident and I didnt really give any second thought about the ingredients. 


While having the burger I noticed, she was keeping something aside....so I asked if anything was wrong....  and she replied that she didnt quite like the fried and rather burnt onions in the burger......   


well I realised.....  that we are actually going the 'cheeseburger' way....... I decided to let her finish her meal...  


the twist in this story is BLT is Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato....  there are no fried onions here....  
well what can I say..... welcome to US..... and next time when u feel like digging deep into the Ranch BLT, savour the smoky taste of bacon , with the crispy chicken and ranch, it actually tastes awesome............. 



I met a person...... he said his name was life.... 
I asked him how are u doing....  he said 'awesome'
so what's ur plans.......  lets see I thot u would tell me about ur plans
well if u r life u knw what my plans should be...........





Friday, October 16, 2009

The Brook

All of a sudden a sudden discussion with a busy person brought memories of this poem back..... 


I come from haunts of coot and hern,
I make a sudden sally
And sparkle out among the fern,
To bicker down a valley.

By thirty hills I hurry down,
Or slip between the ridges,
By twenty thorpes, a little town,
And half a hundred bridges.

Till last by Philip's farm I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I chatter over stony ways,
In little sharps and trebles,
I bubble into eddying bays,
I babble on the pebbles.

With many a curve my banks I fret
By many a field and fallow,
And many a fairy foreland set
With willow-weed and mallow.

I chatter, chatter, as I flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I wind about, and in and out,
With here a blossom sailing,
And here and there a lusty trout,
And here and there a grayling,

And here and there a foamy flake
Upon me, as I travel
With many a silvery waterbreak
Above the golden gravel,

And draw them all along, and flow
To join the brimming river
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

I steal by lawns and grassy plots,
I slide by hazel covers;
I move the sweet forget-me-nots
That grow for happy lovers.

I slip, I slide, I gloom, I glance,
Among my skimming swallows;
I make the netted sunbeam dance
Against my sandy shallows.

I murmur under moon and stars
In brambly wildernesses;
I linger by my shingly bars;
I loiter round my cresses;

And out again I curve and flow
To join the brimming river,
For men may come and men may go,
But I go on for ever.

Alfred Lord Tennyson