Let Yourself Go

It all began just like any other random boring day, with me at work.. checking my mails and running through the notifications on Facebook.. when one of my friend 2Blue posted this video from the movie, 'zindagi na milegi dobara' (won't get this life again) called Dil Dhadakne De (let the heart beat). I don't know why but this song just made my day.. After a long time I have loved a bollywood song and couldn't stop re-playing it like a doz times already.. So I thought why not share it here with you guys too.. Enjoy!! and learn to live the moment.. :)

Love Actually.. is all around..

Whenever I get gloomy with the state of the world, I think about the arrivals gate at Heathrow Airport. General opinion's starting to make out that we live in a world of hatred and greed, but I don't see that. It seems to me that love is everywhere. Often, it's not particularly dignified or newsworthy, but it's always there - fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, husbands and wives, boyfriends, girlfriends, old friends. When the planes hit the Twin Towers, as far as I know, none of the phone calls from the people on board were messages of hate or revenge - they were all messages of love. If you look for it, I've got a sneaking suspicion... love actually is all around. 

The above quote from the movie "Love Actually" is so true. Today, I went to the airport to pick up one of our senior pastors, Ravi Raj who had come to visit our ailing pastor Christopher. I always loved visiting the airport. I love the whole atmosphere in an airport.. with so many people greeting each other. Some bidding goodbye's and some welcoming other back home. Young students returning from overseas, businessmen talking on their phones and chalking out their next move, grandparents visiting their grand kids, young couples excited about their honeymoon and their time they look forward to spend together.... you find all kinds of people. And so true to the above quote, not once do you see an air of hate in the atmosphere. I really think if you ever feel life sucks, or not worth living, take a walk to the nearest airport and that will change your perspective towards it.

What Only You Can Do!!

Today I was little upset about a certain incident that happened at my work. When a certain man raised his voice at an innocent salesman who was just doing his job. I was very disturbed with what had happened.. We are so caught up with our own business we rarely do consider others important.. Anyways I came back to my desk.. and put on some Guns N Roses music.. and for some reason it got more depressing. And to make it worse.. it began to rain heavily and the whole scene was very dark and depressing. Just then I switched my songs to Misty Edwards. Now I am not a Misty Edwards Fan.. but i just stumbled upon this particular song.. and I can't believe how comforting it was.. The moment I played this song, my heart was at rest and outside, the rains had stopped and there was this very pleasant sunny view that blessed my heart even more.. So I though it will be nice to share the song with you all.. :)

I'll take my cold, cold heart

I'll take my unrenewed mind

I'll take Your word in my hand

And I'll give You time, to come and melt me

I can't even love You unless You call my name

I can't even worship unless You anoint my heart

I can't een want to unless You want me first

So come fan the flame

Do what only You can do - Come fan the flame

Do what only You can do - Come fan the flame

Do what only You can do - Come fan the flame

Do what only You can do

Just let my heart be alive

Let me be living deep, deep on the inside

Just let my heart be alive

Let me be living deep, deep on the inside

Come fan the flame

Adam Young - Most Under-rated Musician/Artist

There are times when you come across an artist accidentally.. and you're like "WHOA!!! where were you all this while man??" That's pretty much what I felt when I got introduced to Adam Young. This young Christian lad from Minnesota used to work in a Coca Cola warehouse and compose songs in his parent's basement. Adam used Myspace and CdBaby to distribute his songs, until the record giant "Universal Republic" signed him up in 2007. Adam works under different project names such as Owl City (Synthpop), Sky Sailing (Acoustic), and more... well you can click here to read more about him and about his other projects.

Something about Adam's songs are that they were pleasant to hear and creates this really magical atmosphere around you which just leaves you mesmerized. So I thought I'll just leave behind a few of his beautiful songs for you guys... Enjoy!! :)

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/

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.

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...

Just Beautiful!!!

Well... on today's post... its nothing clever or anything smart that I have here, but I was just browsing thru Deviant Art and I found this beautiful picture that I just couldn't help but post it on my blog. It's titled 'Lonely' but I am not sure why would the guy do that... I think it should have been "lovely' cos it looks so lovely just to be around a calm ocean and spend sometime alone with yourself... Please do click it to view on a bigger screen. It's worth watching it on a bigger resolution... :)

I heard Angels singing...

The last few weeks have been kinda like a struggle for me. But I knew something was up for me on the other end of the tunnel... Yesterday my friend Virginia, introduced me to worship leader Jason Upton's songs. She gave me a few of her collection and there was this album 'Remember' which was recorded live and was a compilation of two nights of worship.On the first track, he is heard rebuking a tornado which was tearing through Oklahoma City at the time and was headed directly towards the building that he was worshiping in. Some say the tornado broke apart at the moment Jason spoke against it. And there is this 6th track ' Lullaby' where he asks the Father to come and play with him and just after that the last track 'Fly' you can hear an unknown high-pitched voice. Jason Upton credited it to 'An Angel'. I usually don't fall for these things, but when I heard the track I had tears in my eyes.

I didn't know what was it, but I never felt like it before. I have always been a Christian and never shed a tear for my God. And this moment was totally different. I think it was all real. I believe the Angels were already there. They were there to protect them from the tornado, maybe they couldn't just stand there when everyone else was worshiping that they joined in. I think everyone should experience this. I am attaching a video below here, check it out and be blessed... :)

How to save a life?

I was just hovering around on the 5th floor at my workplace and heard my friend Violet listening to this song. I was so caught up with the music of the song. It sure is a broken-hearted's song but its so beautiful that I had to look it up on youtube. And I managed to find this video of the song. Ladies & Gentlemen this is 'How to save a life' by The Fray.

Step one you say we need to talk
He walks you say sit down it's just a talk
He smiles politely back at you
You stare politely right on through
Some sort of window to your right
As he goes left and you stay right
Between the lines of fear and blame
You begin to wonder why you came

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

Let him know that you know best
Cause after all you do know best
Try to slip past his defense
Without granting innocence
Lay down a list of what is wrong
The things you've told him all along
And pray to God he hears you
And pray to God he hears you

Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend
Somewhere along in the bitterness
And I would have stayed up with you all night
Had I known how to save a life

As he begins to raise his voice
You lower yours and grant him one last choice
Drive until you lose the road
Or break with the ones you've followed
He will do one of two things
He will admit to everything
Or he'll say he's just not the same
And you'll begin to wonder why you came

Dancing with God!!

Pic Courtesy: klairy

When I meditated on the word Guidance, I kept seeing "dance" at the end of the word. I remember reading that doing God's will is a lot like dancing. When two people try to lead, nothing feels right. The movement doesn't flow with the music, and everything is quite uncomfortable and jerky. When one person realizes that, and lets the other lead, both bodies begin to flow with the music. One gives gentle cues, perhaps with a nudge to the back or by pressing Lightly in one direction or another. It's as if two become one body, moving beautifully. The dance takes surrender, willingness, and attentiveness from one person and gentle guidance and skill from the other. My eyes drew back to the word Guidance.

When I saw "G": I! thought of God, followed by "u" and "i". "God, "u" and "i" dance." God, you, and I dance. As I lowered my head, I became willing to trust that I would get guidance about my life. Once again, I became willing to let God lead. My prayer for you today is that God's blessings and mercies are upon you on this day and everyday. May you abide in God, as God abides in you. Dance together with God, trusting God to lead and to guide you through each season of your life.

- Anon.

Cartoons speak better than words...

Courtesy: www.joyfultoons.com

Marine Drive... The Queen's Necklace

I didn't really have any intention of posting this... but I just love this picture of 'Marine Drive' that I had on my computer I thought share it with you all... This is so beautiful... some thing that make us proud bout being a mumbaite.. :)

PS. For all my Non-Indian friends... a 'mumbaite' is the local term used to describe 'Inhabitants of Mumbai (Bombay)'

Next Best Thing To Falling In Love

I found this on a random web searches. I don't know why did I like it so much...
Maybe I was just listening to this beautiful song by this certain band 'Friday Night Boys'.

On a second thought... I think listening to a beautiful music is the next best thing to falling in love itself... :)

(Click on the image below to view the gif animation)

Welcome 2009!!!

WOW!!! so here we are in 2009 finally... I have been really busy the last few days of Dec last year... Guess you guys figured that out since I haven't been blogging much.

I have no idea what to write about the year that just passed but... it was a beautiful year... am sure we all had our ups and downs thru the year, but its also been a year of blessing. When I look back for a sec I can't think of any good thing but when I take my time out to see all the possible good things that has ever happened to me... I think its countless... :)

But overall the month of December was the best... it all began with a youth camp at Khandala, followed by Rob n Ann's wedding and then a few Christmas programs and then Andrea's wedding... then Christmas itself.. and the new year's program... and of course the most special of it all, meeting our President's 13 year old grand-daughter Deborah Nazareth... She is one of the most sweetest kid I have met.

Well I think since pictures speak better (and maybe louder) than words... I'll stop boring you guys... and leave some pics here to see... :)

Camp at Khandala:





































Rob n Ann's Wedding:






















Andrea & Chagas's Wedding:






















New Year's Eve:


































1st Jan 2009:



































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