wake up sid !

Just watched this movie - Wake up sid !
:):):):):):)
I am sure you can already guess whats coming next....
Awwwesomee movie ! nice n clean n casual .. nothing looks made up here... made with utter simplicity, you ll be a part of it instantly! Everythings perfect - every character, every feeling !
To top it all, great acting, great music.. esp like this one.. the lyrics are too good.. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyauNfiMh7E

Must watch it ! I am jus back from sid's world, and still loving it :)
A BIG applaud to the wake up sid team !!

Blessed moments..

It was blissful... cold winds, light drizzle, washed surroundings, the smell of wet mud, and good friends.......!
Left office at 6pm by office bus, it was all dusty winds that welcomed, as I left the office premises. Quickly managed to get into the bus, plopped myself at the window seat. As the bus started to move, I opened the windows wide and let the winds come in - I was reeling with a bad headache when I left.. but now it did not matter.. with my good friend sitting next to me, I started looking forward to the next 2 hrs. We quickly unpacked an aaloo paratha we had just got packed minutes ago, and started to enjoy the delicacy (missed the chai though!) - loads of gappe, laughter with great weather and jus made the evening !
Soon my friend got off. Sitting at the window, all by myself, I pulled out my earphones, plugged them into my mobile.. and bingo.. one of my fav songs was on radio- Masakali ! I slightly snuggled into the seat - I had 2 of them for me by now :D - rested my head on the window pane , . It was already drizzling by now and the bus was at 60km/hr on an empty open green road (the best 4-5km stretch on my way home).
Cool winds with lil drops of water, just the right amount that will not drench you through the open window, and still will let u enjoy it, fav song in the ears with the hangover of the fun I just had with my friend -- AAH.. it was HEAVENLY !
Truly a God blessing after the scorching heat! Thank you God :)

Pencil magic..

My hand at the pencils.. Should say I was blessed when I did it.. again dates years back.. have never sketched again..

Painting

My first try at the brushes.. dates years back.. still waiting to try again.. :)

Was surfing channels on TV when came across this old movie called Aankhen. saw it for like 10 mins.. found it pretty boring.. however the interesting part was mala sinha was named 'Meenakshi' in that .. :P
ha ! believe me it sounded wierd ! am still wondering how could a heroine be named so.. its a way too long and complex name for a hero to keep calling :P

Fish Woes - 2,3,4..

Uaaaaannnn........ :(((
am jus left with 1 now...

4 have gone one after the other.. and I do not know why.
Ok, when the first one died, I took it to the shop owner, from where I bought them, to ask him and understand what actually went wrong.. so as to prevent anything wrong that may happen to the others. I was really scared.
Now this is what the guy said - "Madam, fish hai.. bolegi thodi ki kya problem hai .. kuch hoga, marr gayi.. fish to marti rehti hai.. abhi theek hoti hai abhi marr jaati hai.. kuch nai pata inka"... HUH !!! so this is what an expert has to say.. a guy who has been spending atleast 16 hours everyday with them, feeding them, carin for them, and earning a livelihood out of it ! I was shocked ! I insisted I was genuinely interested in knowing the reason, since I was worried about the rest, but he just made me feel, I am making a mole out of a mountain... ek fish hi to mari hai .. aur yeh madam !!

Phew! Anyways I thought of buying another one to keep them still 4 in number. And now I had a new series of woes. This new fish, looked a lil bigger than the rest.. was very UNFRIENDLY and DOMINANANT ! The only thing that this fish did was to scare the other fishes - run after them and poke them, and then all they could do was hide wherever they could. I thought that may be a kind of play because initially I did see some retaliation too, but as days went by, I saw more of fear than playfulness, and one by one the fishes just perished. They showed no evident signs of sickness, maybe it was just plain stress/fear that killed them. I am not sure.

The unfriendly fish is the only one I have now.. it seems happy somehow - content and calm - all by itself. I am not sure if its healthy for it to be all by itself, since the fishes live in a school, and breed the best in a group, but I dont have the courage to get another one and see something happen to it.

I still wonder what has happened and what is happening - But I have decided to learn more about fishes before I buy any more.
Its just too hurtful, to see them go...

Re-training brain!

Read about this interesting concept called Neuroplasticity, where brain cells can be reorganized by our thinking and actions.

There was a story I read in the latest RD issue.. about a man, who had an accident and hurt his head in a way that made his legs immobile. The part of the brain that controlled the movement had been damaged severly, and it plainly meant he being on the wheelchair all his life. However, this man not being ready for this, went in for a rigorous physiotherapy to an extent that his other brain cells learnt to understand his leg movements, and now he is as normal as anyone. His brain cells learnt again what he had lost in the accident.
He amazed the doctors and amazed the world ! Thats the power of the brain - the most puzzling and complex organ !
WOWO ! I am awestruck !

Play of Genes !

Read another interesting article on genes and the role they play in our being the way we are.. It was in the latest Scientific American Journal.
Not going into details - it was way too technical for me to understand .. please excuse my limited knowledge on biology :)
The crux was..
It said we have 99% same genes as chimps.. and that 1% is what makes all the difference ! Also, Chimps were not our ancestors, but humans and chimps had the same ancestors (ok :)) And... And.. the ancestor of this common ancestor was .. guess..
CHICKEN !

Yikes... CHICKEN our forefathers..... !!!
INTERESTING !!!

Fish woes - Part 1

My cutest little fish died today :(

I bought an aquarium 4 weeks back, and it was the lovliest thing ever - 4 tiny red mollies. Loved to watch them play with each other, and this one was the youngest of them - very naughty and very adorable.

I saw something wrong with it yesterday.. and couldnt figure out what - it was jus lying in a corner, was not eating, rather was not able to :( but I just couldnt think something could be so wrong..

I was sitting next to the aquarium today morning, and saw it struggle, as if gasping for breath. It circled around once and sank, and then again and again.... and then when it sank.. it never rose again.. it went right in front of my eyes :(
(in the pic : my lil fishy that died, few hrs before)

Thank you...

To those of you who laughed at me, thank you.

Without you I wouldn't have cried.

To those of you who just couldn't love me, thank you.

Without you I wouldn't have known real love.

To those of you who hurt my feelings, thank you.

Without you I wouldn't have felt them.

To those of you who left me lonely, thank you.

Without you I wouldn't have discovered myself.

But it is to those of you who thought I couldn't do it;

It is you I thank the most,

Because without you I wouldn't have tried.

- Author Unknown

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