2007 all set to usher in

Hopefully the new year will see more of 'green'.

Have a fun filled 2007 !!

Wilderness

I live my life alone

among the wilderness

until the day i turn to stone

Life is but a dream

among the wilderness

Picture clicked by Joel D'sa
Song by Agalloch

To stand or To walk away

His life taught me there's a time to stand your ground. His death taught me there's a time to walk away
--Green Street Elite "The Movie"

Closing on to middle ground

He jumped up wide awake as if someone had thrown a bucket of ice cold water on him. Feeling queasy, he opened to window to let some fresh air come in. But in quite a departure from the normally windy month, the air was still, just like his life has come to a stand still, from that fast and furious pace to a screeching halt.

"How did it happen, why did it happen, whom to blame for it?"

"Should I also blame god for everything that happened, after all I credited him for everything that was happening before? A'int that what we invented God for, we the smartest beings on face of this mud-ball."

"Should I blame myself for letting life do this to me, am I too weak to fight the things life is throwing at me"

Now I will leave this in middle and run away, some way to pull some bull crap.

An Ode to Himesh

Keeping in mind the contributions of our own 'Himesh Bhaiya' to the hindi music scene in recent past, we decided to contribute precious few minutes of our life and bandwidth to him. The outcome of this was this video shot with trembling hands and respectful hearts.



Lets say a lil' prayer for the man himself and wish him all the luck for his new movie 'Aap Ka Suroor', the eternal love story of his life. And keep your fingers crossed, he is gonna reveal his hat(e) secret in the movie.

November Rain

It has been raining over here for last 3 weeks, ain't no big fan, but reminded me of rains in Mysore and how beautiful the Infy campus used to look.

So if you want to love me
then darlin' don't refrain
Or I'll just end up walkin'
In the cold November rain
-Guns N' Roses

Tere Tille Ton...

Old bapu singing the Manak's classic. These are the things you miss when you move out of punjab ...

Rant...

There was wind in my hair, I used to move with gay abandon, careless about the world. Where have those days gone?
I wanna feel the same energy in my feet, same enthusiasm in my spirit, same crazy idea about the world, spewing random lines without any care in world.
C'mon get up on yer feet, the energy is still bublin', a lil' under the surface though, c'mon tap it, don't waste it, let the turbine of your life harness it.
Don't waste no time, no more, this is the tipping point. See the happiness in their faces, the joie de vivre.
Every second counts from now onwards...........

PS: Nostalgia hit :-)

Goleee Mar!!!!

Is it Chirru Jackson??

Kaafir

Khuda ke waste parda na Kaabe se utha Zaalim,
Kahin aisa na ho yan bhi wohi kafir sanam nikle.

-- Mirza Ghalib

More power to Small Massive

All the 'Need for Speed' fans will surely recognize this

Power to the Small Massive

Found the video for '1000 Broken Mirrors', one of my all time Fav's


Another of my fav's, I gotta buy one of those ADF T's


njoy maadi

Whirlpool

Walking 24 miles in a night, over those rocky mountains, sharps rocky edges, snow filled crevices, dragging sheru all the way. I still can't fathom was it the fear of death that carried me through or was it my all-encompassing hatred for her. I still wonder was the fear stronger or the hatred more vicious? Was it the fear that emanated from love of life or the hatred that sprung from love of my life?

Hue, cry and Peace

Well, show me the way
To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why

Show me the way
To the next whiskey bar
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why


For if we don't find
The next whiskey bar
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, i tell you i tell you we must die


Oh, moon of alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why


Oh, moon of alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why


Well, show me the way
To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why
Oh, don't ask why


Show me the way
To the next little girl
Oh, don't ask why oh, don't ask why


For if we don't find
The next little girl
I tell you we must die
I tell you we must die
I tell you, i tell you i tell you we must die


Oh, moon of alabama
We now must say goodbye
We've lost our good old mama
And must have whiskey, oh, you know why

-- The Doors

Gangs of New York

I rose up with full heart and buried him in his own blood

-Bill 'The Butcher'

Just found this interesting

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
- Dr. Seuss

Guys who were taken off from plane at Malaga

Here is an interview with the guys who were taken off a plane at Malaga.

Hmm do they really look dodgy, I think I have to shave everytime when i am about to board a plane, I dont look too different except for long hairdo.

In Thing

Looks like head-butting is the latest fad.

Can I say something....

oR ShOulD I saY SomEtHinG . I aM FeeLIn' a ToucH CRazY Or HaZY OR iS iT JuST a HAngOvEr, bUT i NevER DraNK.

Falls in black & white,,, and shades of grey

I feel my heart breaking into a million tiny pieces as it falls to the ground...

Waterfall, what was frozen then is now falling again
Waterfall, what was frozen then is now falling again
I'll live without you...

In the days of old, in the days of gold,
How oftentimes I repine
For the days of old
When we dug up the gold,
In the days of '49..

We're livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge
You can't help yourself at all
Livin' on the edge
You can't stop yourself from fallin'
Livin' on the edge

And I wonder if you know
How it really feels
To be left outside alone
When it's cold out here
Well maybe you should know
Just how it feels
To be left outside alone
To be left outside alone

Chop Suey

In my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die.

-- System of a Down

Big City Life

The Linguist across the seas and the oceans,
A permanent Itinerant is what I;ve chosen.
I find myself in Big City prison, arisen from the vision of man kind.
Designed, to keep me discreetly neatly in the corner,
you'll find me with the flora and the fauna and the hardship.
Back a yard is where my heart is still I find it hard to depart this Big City Life.

--MattaFix

almoraboy: Har ki Dun trip

Prashant on one of his trips. He z got some great pictures and a nice write-up. Reminds me of some of the lonely planet shows I saw.

Enjoy all you having wanderlust in your feet.

Read more at almoraboy.blogspot.com/...

Some pics from Tarn Taran

Some pictures of Darbar sahib, Tarn Taran during the 400th martyrdom day of Guru Arjan Dev ji.

What comes to your mind

Gone are those days
Originally uploaded by navee_pawar.

Mind says 'Move On', but heart still says 'There a'nt no sunshine without you'

If something comes into your mind after seeing this picture, jus' holler it out!!!!!!

DesiRock makes it to 2006 FIFA World cup

It might be two month old news, but I can't resist posting it. DesiRock is going to be one of the 35 songs on the EA SPORTS 2006 FIFA World Cup. All the Swami fans rejoice ..

Check out other songs here

Collaborations

Found some nice videos, while killing some time of youTube.

First one is the collabo between Gurdass Mann, Shinda and Abrar ,, One hell of a song, Looks like its coming out on Shinda's next album 'Collaborations' Traditional punjabi style boliyan, Mann and Abrar just kill' it ,, wicked .



Second one is Jazzy and Shinda having a go at some concert. Now I have nt heard of this song before on any of their albums, so this one also might be coming out on 'Collaborations'.



Till the time album comes out, enjoy these ..

Cheers,
navee

One more day to go

One more day is left .....

and I still dont know where I will be after that day ...God I used to love this unpredictable nature of live.. but guess what !!! I think I am tiring out ..living out of suitcase for past so many months or if I think a lil seriously all of past three years..

Anyways what the heck, I will get to write another travel post, the silver line,, yeah

Good & bad ... another rant

Okk, the bad thing first , I forgot to turn off my roomie car's lights yesterday, so the battery is all gone and it needs a jump start now. I had to pick up the guy at airport, so poor guy needs to hire a cab ,, too bad ...

Anyways the good news is that i found some videos of old univ. days, those youth fests. and dances , Nice nostalgic memories, and it was good to see myself lean and young, those were the days when kids used to call me 'Bhaiya' or 'veere' (thats the same in panjabi), not 'Uncle'. All the guys can vouch for the fact that transition from that 'Bhaiya' to 'Uncle' comes without a warning and you are just left to ponder whoa what happened. And if you are still single by the time, all the members of the auntie team will start bugging you , beta when you gonna get married, you know ***** daughther(After living in south india for so many years, i have started to put h wherever i see a t) has just completed her MSc, she z a very nice gal . What can I say, I find all the gals to be very nice , and as its universally known gals can of only of two varities, either good or very good. Indian parents are very good at playing that emotional cold war to nudge you towards an arranged marriage. Here are some of the weapons of war:
* All the gals are getting married. Keeping in mind the skewed sex ratio in panjab, this seems to be a valid reason.
* I want to see you married before my retirement, like panjab govt will refuse to give pension benefits if any of the kids is unmarried.
* We need someone to take care of you,, Valid argument, i also need some one to take car of me ..
* Silent with hard probing looks, we get so lonely here , means we want grand-kids,

but the best one is from my cousins ,,,
* There are so many good bhangra songs at the moment ,, why are you not getting married ,, Haha like Jazzy B gonna stop singing if I dont get married this summer..

Any of you guys got some excuses to buy some time, holler back ..

Wired 14.05: The RFID Hacking Underground

A decent article on various real-life hacking scenarios using RFID chips. I think this is going to be an interesting arena for people like early days of internet. And probably I should get in touch with the 'cloner guy' to make some duplicate key for my office

Read more at www.wired.com/wired/arc...

Testing the blog post feature of MS Word 2007

Just writing this post to test the blog posting feature of MS word 2007. I thought why not make most of my stay at MS and try out some of the latest features. The UI of this office is totally different from the earlier versions and, I like it at the first go.

The French translation of the same using Translation feature in this version.

Écriture juste ce poteau pour examiner le blog signalant le dispositif de Mot 2007 de MME.. J'ai pensé pourquoi ne pas faire les la plupart de mon séjour à la MME. et ne pas essayer certaines de les derniers dispositifs. L'UI de ce bureau est totalement différent du des versions plus tôt et, je l'aime à la première vais.

Satyam Story: The reasons

When the indian IT industry started booming somewhere in late 90's, there were four major players grabbing all the headlines. And they were TCS, Wipro, Infosys and Satyam. While the other three continued their ascent, Satyam lost its way somewhere and got booted out of the top bracket. After a long soul search Satyam management have finally found the reasons for this, ah wait not reasons actually their is a 'single' reason for that and that is the 'unprofessional' behaviour of the female empoyees.

According to the HR chief of Satyam, once women reach the age of 30-35 they become complacent and dont want to forge ahead. This shows the lack of dedication to the company, when all employees are expected to work for 14 hrs a day, these women folk leaving early for home create an unhealthy atmosphere in the company. What if all the males also start showing interest in their family life?? Just imagine the impact on the industry which is totally based on the concept of labor cost arbitrage.

Another interesting point found in this study is that single women especially the divorced ones have been responsible for slow growth of satym. Mr. Murthy thinks that single or divorced women is an concept alien to Indian culture and having these women in more visible position, affects the values and culture of Indian companies. As seeing these symbols of western civilization in power might encourage others to embrace it and start demanding blasphemous things like 40 hour weeks, yearly vacations, overtime etc. That will be the end of road for us.

Read more at www.thehindubusinesslin...

Sound Waves - Rising and Fallin'

The history of hunt will always glorify the hunters, until tigers have their own historians.

1. Joban||Yudhvir Manak||Dil Dharkey: A refreshing song, not anything new, but the same manak style, a good hear. And I think the only decent one on this album.

2. President||Wyclef Jean||Welcome to Haiti: Got amazing lyrics.Just Check em out

3. A Ballad for the fallen soldier||Jay Z||The Blueprint: Jay Z compares the life on a soldier and a hustler on the street. An interesting take.

4. Happy B'Day||Flipsyde: In this one the MC from Flipsyde raps about the his 'never to be born child'. Again one with some great and touching lyrics

Cheers

Now this is real flattering ...

My Inner Hero - Warrior!





I'm courageous, straightforward, and charismatic. I'm a born leader, but I'm also not afraid to face danger on my own. Nothing stands between me and victory... nothing that lives to tell the tale, anyway. If you need someone to charge into battle for you, call on me.



How about you? Click here to find your own inner hero.

Alien

Alien

I woke up one day and found this strange pic in my fone. Has anybody seen this creature before?

Repost of 1-900-Hotties at Random Thoughts of a Demented Mind

This is a must read, can't stop laughing even now ,, Yo call 1-900-Hotties ... dont miss this

Read more at greatbong.net/2006/04/2...

Shash o Panj: slushie engineering

Two wicked video clips here .. njoy ...

Read more at sashopanj.blogspot.com/...

Sound waves, risin' & fallin'

Ain't our lives like that, I know you won't agree, but when have we agreed before,,,

Looks like start of another abstract post, but it ain't one. I am just gonna list down few of the songs that I have been playin around these days. It is quite a mixed bag, so here they go.

1. Your Bangles||Dr. Zeus feat. Master Rakesh||Streets: This is another mix of the classic "Kangna tera ne", by Zeus himself. The original is so good, so whichever way you twist or turn it, its always gonna be sweet for the ears. Also I have a lil' sweet spot for the girl in 'Gangster' named Kangna, so I think I am somewhat biased towards this song.

2. Tings||Dr. Zeus feat. Lehmber||Streets: Another great mix from Zeus. I dunno how this keeps on improving such classics. For the uninitiated this is the mix of '3 cheeja'n' (three things) from Unda da Influence album. The female hook in this song just takes it up another level.
Sach de manzil aukhi hai, jehre mil de hai mar mar ke,
Jaa thal vich sarh jayeye, ja phir kache ghare te tar ke,

3.Separation||Dr. Zeus||Streets: This one reminds of the old skool Ranjit Mani tracks. All those college love tracks of 90's,like 'Kathe college padhde sa','Mere ranjhe da Principal je' etc. Getting nostalgic...I will leave this track at this,,

4. Fanaa for you||DJ Aqueel feat Shaan & Kailash Kher||OST Fanaa: DJ Aqueel rocks it again. The guitar riffs do the trick in this track for me, and Kailash Kher rocks as usual. More on him later, I have been listening to his album quite a bit, but it deserves a separate posting for itself. And I think this is last movie for which Jatin-lalit are giving music as a pair.

5. Tu hi Meri Shab hai||Pritam feat KK||OST Gangster: I have been fan of gangster movies for a long time, but this one got great soundtrack. Wanna hear a soothing song at the end of day, this is da one. KK's got it nailed to the perfection. And bollywood's famous Kiss machine Emraan always get the best songs. This song is one the evergreen variety, you can compare it with tracks from flicks like 'Phir teri kahani yaad aaye'( I know all ya Anu malik fans will be grinning)

6. Mujhe Mat roko||Pritam feat. Kavya seth||OST Gangster: Dont stop me, jus' let me go ... This subtle dedication to love, is just amazing. I haven't heard such a brilliant song for a long time, its got a sufi tilt to it,it brings out the pain of a soul longing for its body, a creature longing for its creator, the dedication to pursue HIM to the end.

Part 2 coming as soon as I get some time ....

Save Indian Family Foundation

Have you ever seen a worst site ...All the crap let loose

Read more at www.saveindianfamily.or...

Chn-->Bangkok-->Tokyo-->Seattle

The Thai airways flight from Chennai to Bangkok was fully jam packed and as usual the flight comfort was not even comparable to the Indian railways sleeper class. Anyways the highlight of the journey was big tour group on their way to Bangkok (conducted by JTB). For the first time in so many years I saw people pateling inside the plane. It looked a bit weird, but it was fun to see the faces of some of the foreigners. After that I dozed off, only to be woken up by strains of apdi podu from few rows behind me. And lo behold, some kind of antashkari was going on in there. About the flight service, it was mediocre, I was expecting a little bit better from Thai airways. Following points summarize my virgin flight experience with Thai airways:
• Seats were too cramped
• Food was ok, nothing much to mention about.
• Air hostesses were wearing a pretty traditional dress. (Hopefully airlines will go into cost cutting sometime soon )

If not for some eye candy provided by sexy gal in a skimpy adidas top, it would have been one of my worst flights ever.

So finally the flight landed and I woke up fully cramped up (I should have done all the exercises they were showing on the monitor) and we entered the SwarnaBhumi airport at Bangkok. Bangkok. I could not see much of the airport as there wasn’t much time between the flights and also it was deserted at the wee hours of the morning. Got my boarding pass, went through security, and answered few questions of the suspicious airport officials. If you will see my passport, you will get suspicious too, though I feel Europeans/Americans in general are a more trusting race as compared to us, Asians. (I am good at making sweeping generalizations.)

And the misfortunes of my journey continued, I got a seat in the middle this time. And surprise was that there was another desi sitting besides me, I think that was the only other desi in the flight, do these airlines guys have some algorithm to make the guys from same country sit together. The scenery around was somewhat pleasant this time and journey passed peacefully.

Now I am sitting in the Narita airport, Tokyo and trying to type this, surrounded by lots of Japanese chicks.

This one seems to be pretty good airport, even the Bangkok airport had a pretty big shopping section. But still the shopping area of Heathrow seems to out shadow ‘em all. Or might be I am biased towards Heathrow as you hear some Punjabi or Hindi talk in every third shop. And if you go to Heathrow, make sure you go to the Nike shop there and spend some time. The reason for this recommendation, ah, it should not be too difficult to guess, there is an awesome looking desi gal that works there. The big difference between the European route and eastern route is that there are few desi’s on the eastern route. So all the veg people think atleast two times before traveling this side, you might not get all that aloo gobhi here

Man, I think I need to learn Japanese or whatever language these gals sitting besides me are talking in and laughing aloud. Thankfully I don’t suffer from the same phobia as one of our managers suffers from, otherwise I would have gone into depression thinking that these gals are talking about me and laughing.

I think I will sign off now, wrote everything that I saw in the few hours I was awake during this journey.

Enjoy maadi

Start of another journey

Right now i am sitting in cyber cafe inside Chennai airport, start of another journey. This time the destination is Seattle. I think i am gonna write a series about Life's experiments with me :-) . and my time is running out now ..

signing off

`navee

Brain Sparks: Ma Rewa

Another view point on the Narmada Bachao Andolan and all the current happenings related to it ,,

Read more at apurvashukla.blogspot.c...

IndianExpress.com :: Ram, roti, romance

Really nice take on the situation ..

Read more at www.indianexpress.com/s...

Never got stuck before

With empty palms people act empty,
those who got a lot act like they don't have plenty,
so u say u getting places but u ain't moving at all,
still some race on and some sit back and wait for his call
-- Outlandish, Walou

I have listened to this song so many times before, but these verses got stuck in my head today. I dunno there was something in the Chennai air in the morning(apart from the humidity),it just got stuck ... and I have been humming them from the morning.

Never got stuck before (I am lying, sometimes i get stuck with Himesh resh-chamiyya songs also).

Ponty Manesar

Something to chuckle at..

Read more at indiauncut.blogspot.com...

Chill Pill

Some people try to be cool,
Other's are born punjabi

tagline of someone's profile ............................

25 years on this planet boil down to this !!!!!

This Is My Life, Rated(by some so called AI tool)
What has it come to, some monkey is rating my life
Life:	6.9
Mind(Still there):	7.5
Body(Runnin'):	6.5
Spirit(Lots of it):	6.7
Friends/Family(Thank God!):	4.7
Love(Poor Me):	0.8
Finance(Looks good):	8.4
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

The sex life of Micro Henry

Amusing read .... everyone talks of 'chemistry', but its physics in action ...

Read more at www.barficulture.com/co...

some really old stuff

i am drifting away...........

i am drifting away.........
into land of dreams,
where the only dream is
,to have no dreams
,when the reality swoops
,no'one screammmmmmmmmmmms

i am drifting away...........
into land of desires,
where the only desire is,
to have no desire,
there s everlasting peace
,no war, no fire.

i am drifting away...........
into land of lights,
where the only light is,
ur inner light,
u dont doubt urself,
u r always right.

i am drifting away...........
U cant stop me.....
into my own paradise,
U cant stop me....
havin the ultimate rise,
U cant stop me.....
it s gettin so nice,
U cant stop me.....
U cant stop me.....

mytruth

Mani seems to be quite a dark mood ,,, was this Xenon inspired ...

Read more at albertpinto.blogspot.co...

Techtree.com India > News > Internet > Blogbar: Latest Sabeer Bhatia Muse

is this really something?? I am writing this comment using the google extension to the firefox and as much as I have been able to gather on this 'Sabeer Bhatia's ' new world changing innovation, it does not do much more than this extension.

But Sabeer's last night 'performance' at CNN IBN (www.ibnlive.com) was great, it felt like worl was going to change drastically because of this, the internet will be more of a democracy now and what not ,, but alas everything isnot gonna be a hotmail ....

Read more at www.techtree.com/techtr...

Stan Gibson's India travelogue - A worker at the Wipro campus

Someone tell the poor guy this aint a 'sari' :-)

Read more at www.eweek.com/slideshow...

» Can virtualization double Apple's market share? | George Ou | ZDNet.com

The guy builds up pretty interesting case,,,

Read more at blogs.zdnet.com/Ou/?p=1...

Tata America sued over tax refunds

Lets see what comes out of this case. If TCS has really been doing this, hopefully its gets hit badly. Why can't these guys be ethical even when they are earning milliions, my fingers are crossed X

Read more at www.businessweek.com/ap...

Back to blog and Usa..

Ah, everytime the title of any thing i write starts with back to something ,,,,, why i keep on going back to whatever ?? Anyways that can be discussed later.

I am back in USA ( don't ask for how many days) after about month and half in India... Visited my family for about 10 days ,,, met all my folks ,, had a ripper of a time except for the overwhelming 'Shaadi' talk,,,, somehow i managed to run off ,, all of you who dont know about the concept of arranged marriages in india, I can explain it later using the (in)famous 'Slot machine' theory.

Was in chennai for about a month and ahhh what a month it was ,,, slogging in office for hours and hours and still the project was scrapped ,,,, all that 24/7 work and working Xmass and New year eve went waste ,,,

So again back in USA doing " who knows what " ,,,, let me find out and i will get back to blogging then ,,,,