back to good 'ol routine

The festival season is over and has left a tired body and thoroughly entertained soul behind. So the body needs a good night's sleep and a warm bath (in reverse order ;-) ) to recuperate for the coming days.

Celebrations however went well. Lots of relatives, some of whom we met after so many years was a good experience. The whole weekend was engulfed in a spiritual atmosphere and lots of things to do that kept at least me confused what to do myself and what to delegate.

But finally all concluded well and here I am back at my place preparing for the week and thinking what I was doing at the office when I left for home.

I would also like to mention that I have been riding home and back which s around 150KM one way. The experience has been great with changing scenery that varies according to weather and time of the day is something that I find refreshing! This time the same was marred by some festive traffic, so had to be extra cautious in towns. When on the open road this ride does  a great job both at taking me around and comforting my back. People whom I tell that I use it for traveling back and forth from home often wonder what shape would my back be in. I believe that my bike takes good care of it (rear mono-shock you see).  All I feel after 3 hrs of riding is a little tiredness and hunger. ;)

So off to regular routine.
See ya.

An auspicious diwali

Since few weeks, family was thinking to have an 'Akhand Path' (a three day long continous recitation of holy sikh scriptures concluded with a prayer and kitchen for all) at home to seek spiritual blessings and thank the Akal Purakh for his blessings till now.
Early morning today, on Diwali, Sri Guru Granth Sahib Saroop blessed our home and will be here till sunday noon till conclusion of the ceremony when the 'Hukam' (holy order for the family) will be pronounced.
The 'Granthis' (Sikh priests) would recite, in continuation, the whole 'Bani' from Sri Guru Granth Sahib in changing turns through night and day. Thank to them for such hard work and praying for well being of our family.
I wish God blesses our home with prosperity, contentment and keeps the problems, worries and disease away.
Happy Diwali to all.

(posted from mobile device)

Lets discuss

Festive season is around and there is lot going on around be both in the office (product release) and at home.

Home especially because apart from Diwali and Vishwakarma, we have another religious function this time all during three consecutive days! So I am seeing some busy and rather eventful days.

A few day ago, I told you that I have something serious to discuss. Some questions have been looming in my mind and eating up my free-time thoughts. Hence I have decided to share the same with you so that I may have some opinions.

The first to come is not on this blog but here.

You are invited to have an opinion on the same and share with the rest of the readers.

Thank you.

Salman's Dabanng | review

Got my hands on a Dabanng DVD this weekend. Popped it in and it didn't pooped at all :-)

Now this would be one of the very few moments and very likely to be the only one instance of it when I am willing to appreciate Mr. Khan without any regrets. No offenses to Salman khan fans but he has been in the bottom 10 percentile of my list. Mostly because of the non-sense acts of hopping around without a sense of  story at all that characterizes most of Salman flicks. Matter of taste!

In this one as well, there is a characteristic, madness that is sole forte of Sallu baba but this time managed to bring a smile each time. An inspector on a sort of mission impossible, starts to sing on the tune of a bandit's cellphone while the scripted momentary ceasefire allowed the dueling both enough time for the lawmaker to ask the bandit to forward the tone! Eh! I was about to shut it down the very moment. But the the special effects that were more realistic, almost within the boundaries of physical laws and great particle effects (if we ignore the impulsive force of Mr. Panday's muscles)  made me to adhere to the chair a bit more.

Bit by bit, the movie finally ended with numerous instances of what trademarked crazy Panday's style and forced me to smile, not out of sheer wit of the situation but due to the whole volleys of PJs that just kept coming.

Well, to conclude, I was well entertained and enjoyed the SFX effects throughout. Not to mention the beautiful portrayal of Mrs Pandey (Sonakshi) as an assertive, strong and drop dead attractive in that rural backdrop. A perfect match for the like of Mr. Chulbul Pandey.

"Chulbul". One of a kind name for the hottest star of the movie acts as another ingredient of entertainment here amongst many. Not to mention his brother "Makhhi" :-)

From the special effects, I am pretty sure Bollywood will soon compete the west. Let us see what they bring forth next.

Enjoy the hurdanng@Dabanng!

Weekend Ho!

At last! much awaited weekend is here and this time I have decided to take the weekend off!
By weekend off I mean that I am not going to study, research or so anything of that sort that I used to do earlier...just surf and sloth and of course attend to my online diary here.

So, sleeping eating and add some well done workout to compensate for Aloo Parathas. That is what that day today was.

So that's most of it.

See ya round because I have some serious discussions to do with you all. Nighty!