...4, 3, 2, 1

...its a backward count, just in case you are wondering what that means in the title space. And with that, my mind has already started working on the things I want to PLAN for the next year. Isn't planning the best thing to do...so here goes my list for the 2009! In other words, my new year resolutions as of today (and the list will keep increasing...)
1. Sponsor a child for education and food and living for sure. Grow up with him/her.
2. Dig deeper into the mythologies around Garhwal and do something more concrete than just reading.
3. This follows the second point - attend the Nanda Jat yatra - even if it is for 2 days.
4. Click more of garhwal than I have in the recent times - with a purpose.
5. Visit Ladakh for sure this year (either Nanda Jat or Ladakh that is)
6. Listen to more of Top 40 chart songs... :) no..haven't gone crazy...just a resolution. A silly one.
7. Kerala backwaters/Italy - either of the two!
8. Grow my hair until my waist. :)

Stop....that's all until 27th Dec...I know the list will be a 100 by the time 1st Jan comes for me. Quite a task in hand in 2009...no? :) I love it.

Hizr!

Itni muddat baad mile ho,
Kin socho mein gum rehte ho?
Humse na poocho, hizr ke kiss-se,
Apni kaho, ab tum kaise ho?
Tej hawaa ne mujhase pucha
Ret pe kya likhte rahte ho
Kaunsi baat hai tumme aaise
Itne achche kyun lagte ho?

This Gazal is by Ghulam Ali Saheb. A beautiful one that I use to hear some 9-10 years back - I still love it today, just that haven't heard it in a long time.

(Uploaded this picture on Flickr today and thought of posting it here as well.)

People, happy sunday...enjoy the day....

Ye Dil Maange MORE...

I can’t believe it has been so long am off the virtual world – guess the real life is proving to be much more challenging than I thought it would. I obviously miss the presence of all those I connect through the net – specifically Sakshi (my shweet little friend), Hello World (A person so full of affections), my new found friends – Elusive, Impressionist, Kshitij, Anjali…Jlo (her queer comments!), Aawargi – her once in a blue moon comments [But these two I am connected every hour..], Doc – my support system, Murari – His amazingly cute comments and thought process, the philosophical Om and his humorous comments, West Shine (Madamoiselle Wisdom)….and so much more! But hey, you are there with me in my thoughts....

Life to sum it up for myself is on wheels off late – over 3 hours of driving everyday, settling down in the new place and working on an RFI with two goals in hand – project management as well as transitions…am somehow pulling along – don’t know what comes next but this day, this hour, am only learning…doing mistakes and again learning…and I like that form of unlearning a great deal from so many years now. Sometimes, I want to repeat my mistakes…and trust me, I do that. :D ..and then I do them over and over again…and now I am smiling because naughtiness gets into my head again (as usual)…and I want to write what I am itching to - they say ‘flattery gets you nowhere…I have never believed in this..I say ‘Flattery always and always gets you wherever you want to go”…. Love the Fun or Fun up the Love – either ways you enjoy…sheesh..that was not supposed to make sense..so let us talk sense now…

It is fun to be busy in life – and however challenging life may seem….IT…makes you crave for more time, makes you cherish the little that you have for yourself, makes you want more of everything, makes you dream so much more, and makes you realize the importance of time that is just about to slip away. As I write this, I begin to think of so much more that still remains unexplored, unwound, uncherished (if I may use that word), unspoken and unfelt (permit me!!!)…as if that was not enough…here I go again…the depths of a human heart, the wilderness of the Wild, the freshness of the breezes, the divinity of the human kind and the one Up Above, the passion of working beyond recognition of any sorts, the innocence and warmth of emotions, a feel that’s just so out of world, the time that you want to spend understanding those little kids, yaari dosti ki inteha, chillam chilli, jhakaas nautanki doston ki, aur phir unka pyaar bhi, beauty in all forms - raw, chiselled and unseen...bus ab dimaag kaam nahi kar raha. While so much and more than “so much more” may already would have been explored..there is still room for yet so much more. Have I lost it? I usually do – periodically. So bear with me…oh come on, I don’t need to tell you this anymore…you have been reading that and knowing me, you know it by heart now.

So, I await life and Life, you gotta’ wait for me – here I am!

...La Divsy!

Talking of the kid within..it is fun to be with kids...like I said before it was a hectic weekend this time..but I take out time for what I like doing..and so here are some pictures of this little angel called 'Ahaana'.

Kids have new things to explore everytime....

Sun bathing...big time...

Watch out my walker...

Choti Mishi with that deadly smile...

Though subtle, but a smile in the making...

two little angels...holding on to one another...

Ahm! With two angels by my side, that smile is natural...my adorable Divsy and Ahaana...a picture I was dying to put up here for so long....am so glad Divsy is in form again, gyming and all that...wait until I shift to Noida ....then its gonna be the same old times "cruising in my first car..acting like movie stars on a friday night..." - a song so close to our hearts, when we would drive aimlesslessly and listen to it.and sing along loud...and remember that one 'bheegi bheegi raaton mein'...we would lose count of the times we would play that one and the modulations that you would do........memories of those times make me so happy. Thanks darling, for being there with me..through thick and thin..for being my angel!