Some more cartoons...

I just can't enough of some of these coolest Christian cartoons I find on the net.. so here are some more :D

Image Courtesy: Joyful Toons

You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When…

I was on Facebook the other day and stumped upon this page 'You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When...' and this is the content of that page... its just too beautiful to miss if you were indeed one of those who grew up during the 90s... :)

You Know You Grew Up in India in the 90s When…

1) You know the words to ‘In-pin-safety-pin’ and ‘akkad-bakkad’ by heart

2) Cricket is almost a religion for you, and you idolize at least one of Rahul Dravid/Sachin Tendulkar/Saurav Ganguly

3) You have read at least some Chacha Chaudhary or Tinkle comics

4) You’ve watched Shaktimaan on TV at least once in your life. And you can immediately recognize the character when you see him.

5) You have some ‘NRI’ relatives.

6) You couldn’t wait for it to be December so you could have the Toblerone chocolates your NRI relatives brought you

7) You watched Cartoon Network, and then the late night movies on TNT that came after Cartoon Network ended.

8) You watched corny dubbed versions of Small Wonder, Silver Spoon, and I Dream of Jeanie

9) You were THRILLED when McDonald’s opened in your neighborhood (or even eight kilometers away)

10) A visit to Pizza Hut used to mean a special treat

11) You have seen Kuch Kuch Hota Hai and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun at least 5 times each

12) You still remember the theme song of Hum Paanch. (Hum Paanch, Pam Pam Pam Paanch!)

13) You have played hours upon hour of running and catching, chor-police, lagori, saankli, ‘Doctor, doctor, help us!’, ‘Lock and key’

14) You have seen girls play ‘Amina Super Sina’ more times than you can remember. (And you still don’t know what it means!)

15) Dog ‘in’ the bone was your favorite co-ed game.

16) Much of your free time in school was spent playing UNO.

17) You collected trump cards of wrestlers, cricketers, and airplanes, and did not quite understand why your younger siblings were obsessed with Pokemon and the other Japanese trends that followed.

18) Your summer vacations were often synonymous with visiting your grandparents or cousins

19) Your parents, at some point, told you ‘Dark Room’ was a bad game to play. But you still loved playing it.

20) Bole mere lips, I love uncle Chips!

21) You know the song ‘Made in India’ by Alisha Chinai

22) You have seen many many many episodes of ‘Antakshari’ on Zee TV and know the only thing constant in the show is Annu Kapoor.

23) Many evenings have been spent watching little kids gyrate vulgarly on Boogie Woogie on Sony.

24) You were the coolest thing in class if you had a computer in your house while it was still the 90s.

25) You learnt LOGO and BASIC in school!

26) You couldn’t wait to start 4th standard so you could start writing with PENS instead of with pencils!

27) You often used terms and phrases like ‘two-say’, ‘same to you, back to you, with no returns’, and ‘shame shame, puppy shame, all the donkeys know your name.’

28) You most probably saw Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge at the cinema at least once. You also fantasized about singing songs in mustard fields as in the movie.

29) You have seen David Dhawan and Govinda movies and laughed at them.

31) You have said ‘haw’ or ‘yuck’ when you saw people kissing in English movies. (nowadays kids are used to it!)

30) Titanic was your FIRST favorite English movie.

31) You thought seeing English movies and speaking English made you the coolest thing ever.

32) You remember the Gujarat earthquake very clearly and could possibly tell everyone EXACTLY what you were doing when the earthquake occurred (yes, this happened in 2001, January 26, 2001, to be exact — but this group is about the things that Indian kids that GREW UP in the 90s remember and identify with).

33) Barbies for girls, and GI Joes for boys were the ultimate status symbols. You just wanted more more more and more. And how can I forget Hot Wheels, for both boys and girls?

34) You thought ‘imported’ clothes were definitely way better than ‘made in India’ clothes (never mind that a lot of clothes brought from overseas by NRI relatives were actually made in India, before ‘Made in China’ started appearing on EVERY existing thing)

35) "Jungle Jungle Baat Chali Hai Pata Chala Hai! Chaddi Pehen Ke Phool Khila Hai Phool Khila Hai!" You watched "The Jungle Book" every Sunday morning at 9.a.m" and just loved mowgli, bhalu and bagheera. A few years later, you watched Disney Hour, which had cartoons like Aladdin, Gummy Bears, Tail Spin, Uncle Scrooge!

36) At some point or other, cool was your favourite, and therefore, most overused word.

37) Captain Planet was your first introduction to environmental consciousness.

38) You have tried to convince people around you to not burst crackers on Diwali, and then gone straight back home and burst them yourself.

39) You have had endless packets of Parle Gluco G biscuits, and of Brittania Little Hearts biscuits.

40) You loved licking off the cream from the centre of Bourbon biscuits.

41) There were no Nike, Reebok, Adidas, Puma- Bata and Liberty was the way to go for your sports shoes.

42) You have probably consumed more Frooti in your lifetime than there is oil in Iraq.

43) You watched Baywatch on Star World when nobody was home even though (or because) your parents said you shouldn’t watch it.

44) You bought packets of potato chips for the specific purpose of collecting Tazos. And you had Tazos depicting everyone from Confucius to Daffy Duck to Daffy Duck dressed as Confucius.

45) For the longest time, the Maruti 800, the Premier Padmini, THE Fiat, and THE Ambassador were the only cars you saw on the road, and the Contessa was cool because it was bigger.

46) You would literally jump up in excitement if you ever chanced upon an imported car (Oh my gosh, is that really a MERCEDES?)!

47) You spent a good part of 1998 drooling over the Hyundai Santro and the Daewoo Matiz , debating which one was better.

48) You used to Fuzen gum. You also chewed Big (big) Babool and/or Boom Boom Boomer chewing gum. They were bright pink and disgusting tasting, but you loved them for the temporary tattoos.

49) Talking of temporary tattoos, you sometimes had contests with your classmates about who had more tattoos on their arm, leg, knee, hand, forehead, wherever.

50) You thought Mario and Contra were the coolest things ever invented, especially if you were a boy.

51) You knew that having the latest Hero or Atlas bicycle would make you the coolest kid on the block.

52) You can imitate Sushmita Sen’s winning gasp to perfection.

53) You have, at some point of time, worn GAP clothes (real or fake) like SRK in KKHH.

54) Seemingly senseless acronyms like SRK, DDLJ, DTPH, KKHH actually make sense to you..

55) You have at some point debated who was more beautiful- Aishwarya or Sushmita.

56) Baskin Robbins ice-cream was THE thing to have!

57) You know what Campa Cola is. And you also knew that Coca Cola was THE drink.

58) You would watch WWF keenly every evening/afternoon and loved Bret Hart "Hitman"! really thought Undertaker had seven lives and he made an “actual” appearance in the Akshay Kumar- starrer Khiladiyon ka Khiladi.

59) When all backpacks (or ’schoolbags’) and water bottles and tiffin boxes had strange cartoon characters that were hybrid versions of seven or eight different characters, and you still bought them, because a green man wih a water pistol, boots, a jet-pack, Johnny bravo hair, a rajasthani mustache, gloves, and underwear (long johns) over his pants, called ‘Mr. X’ was OBVIOUSLY a status symbol.

60) You remember the Nirma tikia jingle.

61) You remember the Nirma girl.

62) You remember the ‘doodh doodh piyo glass full doodh’ ad and also the ‘laal kaala peela, gulabi hara neela classic hai badia bristles wala’ and 'roz khao ande' ads.

63) You grew up reading, if you read at all, some or all of Nancy Drews, Enid Blyton books, Hardy Boys, Babysitters Club, Animorphs, Goosebumps, Sweet Valley series, Judy Blumes, and Tintin, or Archie comics. Because naturally, reading foreign authors made you much cooler than reading Tinkle.

64) Towards the late 90s (1998-99) at least some of us started our Harry Potter obsessions!

65) You absolutely HAD to go to Essel World if you were with cousins! “Essel World mein rahoonga main, ghar nahin nahin jaaonga main!” (I never went but always dreamed of going there!)

66) You watched the Bournvita Quiz contest on TV pretty religiously. The smarter ones amongst you actually took part in it and had your entire school and your entire extended families watch you on it!

67) Maggi 2 Minute Noodles = ultimate snack (and tiffin, lunch, dinner)!

68) If you grew up in the early 90s, you recall the nation’s obsession with Mahabharata on TV

69) In the later 90s, you religiously followed Hip Hip Hooray on Zee. Maybe Just Mohabbat on Sony too

70) You remember parzan dastur sayin "JALEBI!!!!" in the Dhara Ad

71) You eagerly awaited Friendship Day, so you could give friendship bands to all your friends, and get bands from them in return. Then, of course, those with the most bands loved to show them off.

72) Backstreet Boys' "Quit Playing Games" was one of the first English songs that you LOVED!

73) Andaz Apna Apna is and most probably will always be your favorite comedy flick!! "Aila Jhakaas!!!"


And I miss that age, it was sooo awesome!

For the Love of Ireland!!!

Hey people.. there is this really beautiful blog I just came across on the web.. if anyone of you truly love Ireland and miss being with her.. this is an awesome treat... :D

http://irelandgo.blogspot.com/

Happy New Year 2010!!

Heyyyllllllooooo Everyone!!!!!!!
Wish you all a Happy New Year.. this year... 2010!!!
Alright I ain't got any hangover from the previous night.. just being whack... :P
So after a really long time I am back to some serious (not so much) blogging... looking forward for this year to be more fun filled, adventurous, romantic (ooooooooo...), hilarious, and blah blah blah!!!!

How do I make friends?

There is one question that I have been asked by so many people - How do I make friends? We all need friends, and we all need to know how to make friends, especially when we move to a new place, a new school, a new college, new church, new workplaces, new building... no man is an island. He needs somebody. I don't know why people ask me this question, perhaps its because I can make friends easily, and maybe because I can just talk to almost any kinda person whether they are old, young, highly educated, not so educated.. I realized this pretty late in my life that it was a gift that I could do that, considering the fact that I stammer. So today I thought about it and have jotted down these steps that I think I follow when meeting a new person.

Step1: Greet the person with a smile - Nobody likes a grumpy face. A smiling face always welcomes.

Step2: Introduce yourself - just a casual introduction about yourself.

Step3: Listen carefully - when you introduce yourself the other person would also introduce himself/herself. Listen carefully and pay attention to every single word the person is talking to you.

Step4: Find out his/her passion/interests - Based on the conversation you are having, listen carefully and find out what are the person's passion and interests.

Step5: Ask Questions - Ask questions that the person would love to answer.

Step6: Give an open ear - Always give an open ear. Everyone likes to be with someone who listens to them.

Step7: Follow up - Do bump into the person occasionally and follow Step 3 thru Step 6.

Take care to follow these 7 steps very carefully and you will have surely won a friend.. :)

Just another passing thought...

Just the other day while I was taking shower there was these series of thoughts that flashed across my mind (Nah!!! it's not what you are thinking) and just then it kinda paused on this one thought.

When God made all the creatures of the land and the sea, He made them in pairs - male & female. Then why did he not make Adam with a woman, why did God wait until he realized Adam is lone? Did God not know that Adam would be alone? He created all the other creatures and knew it wouldn't be nice to leave them alone and hence got them into a pair. Why did he create Adam alone?

So this is just my thought, I don't say this is what God probably thought (if He did the same way then I would be God). Well I think, like we all know everything else was made by just commanding over them to be, And they were formed. But with Man it was little different. He said, Gen 1:26 "Let us make man in our image, after our likeness". He probably said that to Jesus and the Holy Spirit who was with him even before the creation. The catch-phrase is he wanted to make us in his own image. And he created us a little lower than Himself.

I guess he wanted to be our sole lover. He wanted to be a passionate lover. He wanted to just gaze at his this beautiful creation. Just watch him when he was walking in the garden of Eden, sleeping peacefully, playing with the animals or eating.. or whatever it be. I guess He wanted to be the only person in the whole world who wanted to express his love for his son. (Now I know what the Bible means when it says, Our God is a Jealous God). But Adam couldn't understand this, cos he wanted someone of his own type. And hence God had to make Eve, a perfect pair for Adam.

So many times in our life, we make all the wrong choices in life and don't care for his love that he wants to shower on us. He really longs to love us and be the sole provider, but we just never seem to understand him...

Lot of things to say...

It's been a really long time I have blogged. There is so much to write, some of them I have forgotten what it was all about. Some I am little hesitant to write on a public space. But this blog is about how life really is worth living so let me share a little thing I learned...

As most of my friends know I am an ardent 'How I Met Your Mother' fan and have watched almost all the episodes of all the 4 Seasons. There are many things I don't agree with but some thing I have learned. One of the things I have learned is how to value my friends... I learned no two persons are the same and will never have the same characteristics and quality. Cause they are unique, every one of them. And there is nothing you can do to change them. But you can still love them cos they are your friends. It wont be long until you realize the only reason you love them is because they are different from you.. they are.. they are special to you in their own way...

There is something I learned from this sitcom also from my own relationship with some of my close friends.. sometimes you might love them so much that you begin to dislike them cos they are not like how you want them to be. Well... don't let them be different. And STOP PRETENDING that you are living... and START LIVING... its totally worth living... :)

For the Ladies...!!!

This is a very interesting video I saw on the net... Beauty is just skin deep... it's what inside you counts more...

Now That Sucks!!!

Yeah now that totally sucks that I got so busy all of a sudden.. and have posted just 2 posts in the last month... Woah!!! whats up with me?? he he

Guess I am just getting too busy these days... Lot of things happening in life and career... don't know where to start.. Well.. got a band manager at last.. one of my old college class mate, who promised me would finish MBA and become my band manager if I was serious about my band.. and Yes I am serious so there he keeps his word... :)

So there goes the band thing... pretty soon we would be playing a few gigs at places like Not Just Jazz By The Bay, Aura (Powai), Firaangi Paani... to name a few... but one of our most sorted out place is the Blue Frog. But we aren't sure how long would it take us to get to there... But nevertheless we are enjoying every moment of our lives now... :)

So Practically it doesn't suck... he he...

Ubuntu Rocks!!!!

I have always loved change... cos it lets you explore more, which is very adventurous... and Adventure is Fun!!! I have been stuck with a Windows Operating System ever since i first touched the computer in 1999. And after years of upgrading from an older version of windows to the latest every year... I was introduced to linux in the year 2005. Linux back then though was robust, was a meant for geeks... it was difficult to use as it was mostly command prompt. But over the years it has evolved tremendously. Other than windows operating systems I have tried some of the linux distros namely Red Hat, SLED, SLES, Yoper, Gentoo 64 and the best happened just 3 days ago.

One of my friend shared with me about Ubuntu, and I think my search for a real cool OS was over. Ubuntu is a really cool linux distro and maybe even cooler than Windows Vista or the latest Windows 7. Ubuntu is the most user friendly OS I have ever come across. I have uploaded a few of the screenshots here and a video with the demonstration of what Ubuntu is capable of.

The Login Screen

My current Desktop

Shift Windows in 3D

All the options appear on the top

When you use the mac theme on it

VIDEO DEMO

National Geographic Photo of the Day

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This is a Cuban tree frog on a tree in my backyard in southern Florida. How and why he ate this light is a mystery. It should be noted that at the time I was taking this photo, I thought this frog was dead, having cooked himself from the inside. I'm happy to say I was wrong. After a few shots he adjusted his position. So after I was finished shooting him, I pulled the light out of his mouth and he was fine. Actually, I might be crazy but I don't think he was very happy when I took his light away.

Crazy Busy Weekend...

Last weekend was pretty terrific and lovely... it all started with my friend Carmeline's birthday on friday. We gave her a pretty good surprise throwing her a party, which lasted pass 1 am. I woke up at 9am the next morning, watched a couple of episodes of 'How I met your mother' and headed off to a lunch with Mike and the gang. One of our friends, Christopher had come to the city for a few days and so we met up for lunch. It was a wonderful time we spend talking about our childhood memories.

We talked about how as kids we fought with our siblings, troubled our teachers at school and how we all were a mischievous lot and tried doing the impossible things. Some of the things I am not sure if I can post it here due to privacy issues.. but soon after that I had my church band rehearsal. Finishing that came back and watched more of 'How I met your mother'. Yeah I love watching it, but its so cool and besides Barney reminds me of my Animation professor Mr. Lloyd from Arena Multimedia. Lloyd used to try to hook me up with all the women I met just as Barney tries to hook up Ted with every girl he comes across with.

Sunday we had a good worship, after which Laura, Dave and I gave Katherine a farewell lunch as she is leaving back to London next week. There was this very funny thing that we encountered. When Dave, Kath and I picked this rickshaw the rickshaw driver just looked back and saw these white folks and immediately pulled out a mask and wore it. It was so hilarious to find this guy trying to cover up in order to protect himself from the Swine Flu...

Laura joined us at Silver Coin, she had to catch a flight at 3pm but she stayed with us until 1.30pm. There was this really interesting thing I witnessed at the restuarent. I was having Chicken Steak while these folks were having Roti and veg Kadaai. It was such a cross culture thing - me using the fork and the knife and having a western meal while these folks using their fingers to have an Indian meal. It was a lovely time again.

I came back home and joined for a 2nd lunch time with the guests I had my home. Well, Katherine already had predicted about that when she came to know I had butter chicken and Chicken Tandoori prepared at home. Well I didnt wanna prove her wrong... so I did have a second lunch at home... ;)

In My Head - Work In Progress

Lately I have been really feeling bored to write about my recording status... but just to keep you all updated. We have finished with 'All I Need' you can find it on www.myspace.com/win4i

We finished with the guitars on 'In My Head' tomorrow. And we loved the output... still have to work on the vocals and some string actions... Too much work to do but we are really excited about it.. :)

MLTR Still Rocks!!!

Yesterday we had this power cut in office and we didn't know what to do? so we took our guitar and started playing music until it was back again. We started off with Beatles and John Denver and went on to singing some of the classics by Michael Learns To Rock... and I was like... WOW I need to listen to some of MLTR soon... anyways the power came back at 4pm and then we stopped and I headed back home...

But soon I got to download the entire Discography of MLTR and began listening to it. And it was the sweetest feeling in a long time... just reminiscing those school time memories... when I was 15. And I felt like I had gone back in time and was a teenager again. One of my favorites 'Someday' I have embedded here for all of you to watch. I always believed Someday was kinda like my story. Something I have been doing all my life... and it was nice to stumble upon these old classics agian...

Sunny Rain...

Yesterday evening, I experienced this really unusually beautiful sight ever in my life. I was waiting for my friend to go to church, when he arrives and cared to pick me up in the rickshaw he was in. Just then it began to rain heavily. It was pouring and I was glad I made it just in time. But as we were travelling I happen to witness this really beautiful sight. I saw that it was raining heavily but at the same time the skies were clear and it was sunny. I have never witnessed anything like this ever before in my life. It was truly an amazing sight. But then I began to think how the creator manages to surprise us every time with these beautiful things. I wonder what it would be like in the place where he dwells... :)

Here is a picture of what it looked like. Now this isn't the picture what I clicked but its close to what I witnessed...

Pretty Cool..

I was just about to write to my friend on gtalk... that's when I saw that her profile pic is so similar to another friend of mine's pic. So I thought il just put it up here... ;)

Click on the image above.

Happy Birthday Ann... Belated...

Well... since my internet is down since 2 weeks now and I have nothing to do, I thought about working on Ann's birthday video which has been pending since last year. And I came up with this. I think its pretty fun, but I can't really judge my own work. So here it is, judge yourselves and have fun... :)

Long Sunday...

I don't know how to begin this post, but it's been truly a great weekend and a great Monday... :)

To begin with, my dad celebrated his birthday on Saturday. So I took the whole family out for lunch... well the ultimate aim in taking them out for lunch was so that I could hog on my sweet delicious Chicken Steak, which I haven't had in a long time... On Sunday, we began with a kick-ass worship in church. Totally rocked the morning, it was so wonderful. We just had this really awesome time of worship.

In the afternoon, a few of my friends and I gave Abigail a terrific surprise party. We totally scared her by our weird, crazy, bullying love, and appreciation, that she almost got back in her room. We had dinner with her and played a few games, music and watched the DVD we made for her. She totally loved the moment with us. After finishing with them, I went for the Youth Worship. We had a wonderful Youth Service, and had some great activity round. I loved the view from the fourth floor we had. It was just simply beautiful - with light showers, and the sun rays passing through the clouds. Indeed a beautiful sight...

Soon after the youth service we all left to watch 'Ice Age 3' at InOrbit. But we were too disappointed to find it 'House Full'. Well it wasn't us who was disappointed but just Chris. Then we hogged onto some subs and salads and had a wonderful time together. It had been really long time we spend sometime together, So it was quite refreshing and wonderful. The best part was, I gotta have my second best - Chicken Salad...

I thought my happy days were over, but I was surprised to know that it had just begun. Today, being Monday usually is such a dull day. But I happen to meet my dear friend Tracy Pereira on yahoo. And we chatted for quite sometime. We never got to chat so much. It was such a blessed time with her. Totally loved it. Well so its 18:23 hours here at work. And I am more than happy and excited bout the last 3 days that just passed, I can't wait to see what this evening and the week has in store for me... :)

Am I wasting my life, or living it?

There are many people who know me, but very few who know about me. And these few who know about me, know how I have evolved in my professional life over the last 4 years as a graphic designer, to become a Project Coordinator, to a web designer and now an IT Executive and also with a born passion to be a rock star someday. And over the years many people have counselled me into not wasting my time like this. Many have told me that I have been wasting my life and would regret someday in the future.

Well I don't know about the future but 4 years down the line I know for sure that I am an IT Executive who knows the in and out of graphics and web development and also a bit of Project Management and also am currently working on my debut album... And when I ask myself the question, 'if I am wasting my life???" I think its negative... I am living it... I have always lived my life... did what I wanted to do, found pleasure in and always excelled in it. Guess its just my life and only I can handle it... that's why God has created everyone unique... I love my life...

99

Saturday was like any other day... BORING!!! Morning I had nothing to do, afternoon left for my church practice and I was back in the evening by 7pm and didn't know what to do. So I began browsing thru my movie collection that I had and stumbled upon this movie '99'. I have heard quite a lot about the movie but wasn't so keen on watching the movie... but it was a good decision to watch it. It is by far one of the most wittiest comedy movie ever. Very well directed and leaves your bones tickling every sec. The best part is, it isn't even a non-sense movie like many of the other comedy movies that have been released in the last few years. It's got a beautiful script and a perfectly timed comedy. Interestingly you will find every second worth of laughing.

99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is as much “what could have been” as it is “what really happened.” In other words, it is historical fiction – fiction being the keyword. It is a genre-bender – spanning a few genres – it is slick, fast-paced, realistic and importantly, very funny. It is the story of two different men in two different cities, who are bound by a common feeling of always being stuck at ‘99’. They never seem to make it to a ‘century’- figuratively speaking. It is a journey of two men who want to break away from the rut and ‘strike it big’. What follows is an unpredictable and hilarious ride through two cities with extremely likeable and very grounded characters, unbelievable circumstances, real twists of fate, small-time crooks, big-time conspiracies, fateful car crashes, a briefcase full of money, two cricket matches with hundreds of crores riding on them, ups of friendship, downs of love and a climax that will keep everybody on the edge of their seats.

This is a clip of the song 'Delhi Destiny' which I just happen to love a lot, so just thought about embedding here.