:)

..this and that..

Its been a 'wet' week. According to the forecast a few more rainy days ahead.

The fall colors have suddenly adorned the freeways, more prominent just within the last week.

And the American election drama continues - first Presidential debate was entertaining, (period)!

After a couple of friends expressed that perhaps I had lost weight, I thought I should check and indeed have lost 4 pounds!

Naseeruddin Shah starrer -'A Wednesday' was a good change after all the masala movies have been watching.

Work -has completely taken over me! No complaints but I still need to improve on my time management skills and control my weekend-lazy bones!

Tsk! Tsk! Tsk!

My body has become a haven for bacterial growth ; coming down with one infection after another and currently juggling two types of bacterial infections.

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Its sometimes hard not to attach 'intentions' to mistakes made by others.

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Swamped at work....

Work...

There is seriously so much to learn about 'human behavior' and 'Psychology' at work. We can really surprise one another :) For example a new team member (who is still under probation) is absolutely taking liberty on something which one shouldnt be. I am sure it will come to bite the person very soon (if it has not already) - what was that person thinking? LOL

Increasing work load and some such silly behavior is totally keeping the team busy and entertained :)

One thing I realize is that 'group dynamics' is totally under-rated by some folks, when they join new organizations or teams.

Time

Time is flying /galloping /racing ....

Lost

Modesty, Humility and compassion, where art thou?


Some mortals really need you...

Great expectations

Sometimes....

Money can buy love and happiness to a great extent. Its not enough to just be there, to 'be there'. Verbal care and comfort has no value any more, even though thats all you have to give right now.

Dev Anand

में जिंदगी का साथ निभाता चला गया
हर फिकर को धुएँ में उडाता चला गया

बरबादियों का शोक मानना फिजूल था
बरबादियों का जश्न मनाता चला गया
हर फिकर को धुएँ में uda�

जो मिल गया उसी को मुक़द्दर समझ लिया
जो खो गया में उसको भूलता चला गया
हर फिकर को धुएँ में Uda�

ग़म और खुशी में फर्क न महसूस हो जहाँ
में दिल को उस मुकाम पे लाता चला गया
हर फिकर को धुएँ में Uda�






हम हैं राही प्यार के हम से कुछ ना बोलिए
जो भी प्यार से मिला, हम उसी के हो लिए
दर्द भी हमे कबूल चैन भी हमे कबूल
हम ने हर तरह के फूल हार में पिरो लिए
धूप थी नसीब में, धुप में लिया हैं दम
चांदनी मिली तो हम चांदनी में सो लिए
दिल पे आसरा किए, हम तो बस यूं ही जिए
एक कदम पे हस लिए, एक कदम पे रो लिए
राह में पड़े हैं हम कब से आप की कसम
देखिये तो कम से कम बोलिए ना बोलिए

Whats in a name?

I always thought that my preferred name is decently short, not too short - not too long (2 syllables). But people at work in Canada manage to cut it short even further (to one syllable). Thats as far as they can go, luckily, (before people's names start sounding like animal 'cries'). NZ they never did that at work some how. How much short do the names have to get? These days some of the new born kids parents are trying so hard, very hard actually to keep it short, well short & unique actually.

Society cockroach

Discrimination of any kind is ugly, bad and sad. As the world became aware of racial and colour/nationality discriminations being an unhealthy practice, probably we as this generation have improved on that front. But day to day discrimination based on merit, beauty, class still exists not just out on some street, or some news item, but it also haunts well educated and all classes and sections of families and society. As pessimist as I sound, I dont think some forms of discriminations will ever die.

It reminds me of the well enacted scene in 'Hum' by Amitabh Bachchan, who is drunk yet comes to warn his friend and uses an analogy of the cockroach to explain him an issue plaguing this society. There are two types of cockroaches he says, in this world. One that you see in the dirt and one in this society. The real cockroaches can be killed by the sprays, but unfortunately there are no sprays available for society cockroaches.

जाने वोह कैसे लोग थे जिनको .....

हेमंत कुमार:
जाने वोह कैसे लोग थे जिनके प्यार को प्यार मिला
हमने तो जब कलियाँ मांगी काटों का हार मिला

बिछड़ गया हर साथी देकर पल दो पल का साथ
किसको फुरसत है जो थामे दीवाने का हाथ
हमको अपना साया तक अक्सर बेजार मिला
हमने तो जब...

इसको ही जीना कहते हैं तो यूँही जी लेंगे
उफ़ न करेंगे लैब सी लेंगे आंसू पी लेंगे
ग़म से अब घबराना कैसा ग़म सौ बार मिला
हमने तो जब...

Montreal

Spent a day in Montreal for the labor day weekend. The drive from Boston is reasonable and its as close as NY is to the south. Moreover Vermont is a beautiful state to drive past. The weather was good and city was lively and busy. We went and saw the Olympic stadium and the Notre Dam Basilica church, rest of the time strolled on Rue Saint Catherine and Rue Saint Denis. We even tried a couple of Indian restaurants out of curiosity and they were pretty decent. There was a store that sold Nepalese clothes and knick-knacks which I particulary liked on Rue St Denis. Even outside on the way from Notre Dame Basilica church to the water front, there was an Indian store that sold Souvenir stuff that had Indian kurtas and middle eastern clothes which was really good. I was tempted as usual and got myself a kurta and P bought me this Nepali wrap-around skirt as well . The place reminded me of Auckland a bit, though the skyline is better than Auckland but Auckland is over all a bigger place as its the main commerical capital in NZ. The strong French culture truly makes it a "foreign" experience, which I really liked. The people spoke decent English though so it was not difficult at all.

The stroll on the water front also was pretty good. All in all I thought its a fantastic city to spend the weekend, small cosy, yet busy. The people were friendly and very bindas, had a good dressing sense and style too, a place where freedom is I guess personified, so you see all kinds and types of people and places (well though I even felt Toronto is 'freedom' personified). I am waiting to visit Montreal in winter and stroll in the underground city and do some shopping. Cirque du Soleil is the other thing that we didnt do as we didnt have enough time, though it can be seen in any other city, since its base is Montreal, I thought it would add that extra charm.

On Rue St Denis, it so happened that a cyclist squeezed in between 2 cars and waited for the red traffic light to turn green. One car passenger to the left of the cyclist opened the door without seeing the cyclist to get off and hit the cyclist who lost his balance fell on the other car to the right. The car from which a passenger had got off sped as the lights turned green and this car which had suffered a small dent due to the cyclist falling on that car, the driver got off that car and began mercilessly beating the cyclist. I was shocked, P got off to stop that guy, by this time the driver had lifted his cycle and was willing to throw it on that cyclist, a small thin college kid and the driver a middle aged and well built/obese man! Some lady started yelling in french, turned out there was a cop car, 2 cars behind us, for some reason no cop came forward for a few minutes. Our interpretation was he didnt want to go there alone, by the time the cop walked till that car driver and cyclist, 2 other cops joined him, and took them to the side to resolve the matter. Phew! it was such a mood off to see a person being beaten up like that all for a small dent on his Honda SUV, irrespective of whose fault it is.