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Tell me your favorites…

I joined the blogging bandwagon pretty late, just few months back. The reason I was so reluctant to join this party was

  • I was never convinced that there would be anyone interested in reading what I write.
  • I would never be motivated enough to write regularly.

But when I did start blogging, there were people who were reading what I wrote and even giving feedback. And to be honest, it happened many a times that these people were the motivation for me to write even when I didn’t want to write. Read Further

Is life coming to a halt or is it freedom?

Do you ever get that feeling that everything around you has come to a halt? The things that you love have been taken away from you?

I am getting that feeling now. Today its all coming to a halt. Everything will stop. Everything close to me will not be close to me anymore. The only “thing” close to me would be my car which I’ll driving all the way from Delhi to Chandigarh for a visit to my in-laws. And yea my lovely wife and my sweetu kid would be accompanying me for the trip. Its a long weekend and it will begin with a road trip to Chandigarh.

So what was I so melodramatic about? The things close to me – internet, television, laptop, this blog. No Wayne Rooney, No Lionel Messi, No Manchester United, No FC Barcelona. No football and No movies and no thoughts to fuel this blog. So this blog along with me would be taking a welcome break from the fast paced life.

But thoughts can’t stop coming through. Can they? Even while I am writing this I am thinking – is this life coming to a halt or are these few days of freedom.

Daily office, work, blog, same schedule of doing everything – thats not freedom. That is monotonous life. It has its excitements. I wait every week eagerly trying to figure out the results of football games, plots of the new movies to watch, plots of the new episodes of the TV shows. And I am so used to this monotonous life and this excitement that its just impossible to think life without these. While packing for the trip I was thinking about ways to watch the United game over the weekend. What movies could be watched while being on this trip. What would I do without internet. This blog is my new found passion. How would I live 4 days without seeing this blog. This is not freedom.

FreedomFlyingThis is what I call freedom. Freedom to do something really crazy without worrying about the consequences. I don’t think I would be able to do something like this on this trip. But let me try to do something different on this trip. Something which I will remember. It might be as big as jumping nude in a pool (like this pic) or a small thing like just spending entire time with my wife and my kid. But what exactly it would be, I am not sure.

For all the people who follow this blog closely: Time for a break. This will be the last post till I return. No scheduled posts either. In case you guys do leave some comments for me to read, please be patient as I will respond to those once I am back. Till then Happy Journey to me :)

KarwaChauth – Conversation in my Car

One guy narrating this story in my car. Lets call him guy 1

उल्लू ने भगवान् विष्णु से कहा ‘में लक्ष्मी माता का वाहन हूँ. उन्हें जगह जगह लेके जाता हूँ. पर हर कोई उनकी पूजा करता है और मुझे तो कोई पूछता भी नहीं है’

भगवन विष्णु ने कहा की चितन मत कर वत्स. दिवाली लक्ष्मी जी का त्यौहार है. अबसे दिवाली से कुछ दिन पहले पूरी दुनिया उल्लुओं की पूजा किया करेगी


To this guy 2 says:
मुझे नहीं पता था करवाचौथ पे उल्लुओं की पूजा होती है. में कल विकिपीडिया पे जाके चेक करूँगा.


Guy 1 gives his reply:
और नहीं तो क्या. दुनिया के हर पति की पूजा ही तो होती है करवाचौथ पे.

जेब में Pocket – Funny Conversation

This actually happened in front of me and I couldn’t stop laughing in the end.

There were 3 guys in the car – one being me. Lets name them guy 1 and guy 2.

Guy 1 was driving and Guy 2 was sitting right behind him. Guy 1 got new seat covers for his car and Guy 2 has a habit of not putting his cell in his pockets while sitting in the car. So here is how the conversation goes. The conversation actually takes place in Hindi. I would try to translate it wherever possible but the fun part should be read in Hindi.

Guy 2: सीट covers मैं मोबाइल पोक्केट्स होनी चाहिए! (Seat covers should have mobile pockets.)

Guy 1:  क्यूँ? तेरी जेब में पोक्केट नहीं है? (Why? don’t you have pocket in your pocket)

Guy 2 (laughing his ass off): इस बात का में कोई जवाब नहीं दे सकता! (I can’t give an answer to this response)

I could not stop laughing for 5 minutes on this. Guy 1 himself couldn’t stop laughing at this thinking what he wanted to say and what he actually said.