Hellooo to a New and Happy year!!:-)

Twenty minutes to go for 2008 to end and here i am writing my third and last blog for the year which will always be unforgettable(the bachchan's tour included)for being the best,rather the most different year of my life. The year when everyone woke up and either went to school,college or office or planned to go to one of these places,I happily slept,watched movies endlessly,ate and i would like to believe grew as a person(yeah..in size too).


This year won't be forgotten by any of us..definitely not by those who lost their jobs,those who couldn't find any,people like me who made global recession the best and the most believable to at home,by those who were a part of the terror attacks across the country..directly or who just watched the ordeal on tv,by those who woke up to the need for change,by Shah Rukh fans like me who watched and loved Rab Ne and Surinder Sahni,by all the Singhs are Kings,by those who watched the new face of America and hope for the world come up in the form of Obama,by all of us who lived through this year and survived it..we will never forget it!



As we welcome ourselves into the New Year..lets welcome ourselves into a happier,safer,more blessed and definitely a better and a 'love-lier' world. Lets say bye bye to 2008 and hellooooo to 2009.


And ofcourse i cannot end the last 2008 post without a few lines from guess what..Rab Ne banadi Jodi..
Haule Haule Se Hawa Lagti Hai
Haule Haule Se Dawa Lagti HaiHaule Haule Se Dua Lagti Hai,
Haule Haule Chanda Badhta Hai
Haule Haule Ghonghat Uth Ta Hai
Haule Haule Se Nasha Chadhta Hai, HaanTu Sabar To Kar Mere Yaar,
Zara Saans To Le Dildaar
Chal Fikar Nu Goli Maar Yaar Hai Din Jindadi De chaar:-)


Its 12 and i can hear all the crackers go off..so HAPPPPPPY NEW YEAR and HAPPY 2009!
:-)
Have a great year ahead and a better one definitely:-)
Happy new year!

A month-exactly one!!

Ahhh..i know one is supposed to write and update the blog daily or weekly or regularly for that matter, but i am just tooooo lazy(unapologetically) to do that. i was sorta forced by my sister who is an active blogger to start blogging and i must admit i was very fascinated by the whole blogging thing looking at her blog too and i sort of over estimated my potential to maintain one myself! but nevertheless,today again after exactly 30 days i am back and this time also,like always, i have been forced to write by my sister,though she didn't directly force me but she wrote about us on her blog and so i wanted to write too:-)

hmm..well in the last few days alot has happened in India and in my life too.i have been quite sad,depressed and anguished about all thats been happening and all that we know is going to happen as far the attacks in mumbai are concerned(things just seem so predictable..its a dead end out there).I've been watching news endlessly..i haven't watched a news channel for a longer duration than i did this time..the 62 hour ordeal followed by all the arguments and debates,politicians being bashed,people criticising those who play the blame game without realising thats exactly what each one of us are doing as well,candlelight vigils being carried out all over the country,Pakistan's 'reassurances' to take action,the Indian media playing investigators(and doing a decent job at it),the Pakistani media blaming India for fabricating the whole 'event' and getting it all wrong unlike America,pictures of the terrorists being flashed on news channels and in newspapers,blah blah blah...feeling bad about the people who were caught in there,those who didn't return and those who will have to live with the trauma of being in there forever,celebrating the victory(am not sure if we can call it that) of the very famous(and deservingly so)NSG commandos,feeling bad, yet proud of Ratan Tata for forming a wonderful team of employees at Taj,feeling miserable for baby Moshe(nd i still feel equally bad,rather worse for him now)feeling sorry for Ajmal Amir Kasab and his accomplices(they were my age and just misled),feeling helpless and irritated. But it was during,rather soon after this ,that i cast my first vote and i don't know how its going to sound but this attack on mumbai made it even more special for me..i felt there was something i could do..i felt like a true citizen of my nation and believe me i have never ever experienced that before. it was unforgettable and rightly so coz i voted for the winning party..rather the party i voted for won!!:-).

Amidst all this i managed to celebrate too...my aunt's retirement(the food was amazing),the whole family getting together and finally all of us getting a decent family photograph clicked(we look like monsters in the previous one),a trip to Amritsar(amazing food again), celebrating my cousin's 21'st birthday which is on the 24 Dec(we tend to celebrate whenever we feel like..true punjabis after all..punjabi by nature),of course being overly demanding with my sister,finally watching Rab Ne Banadi Jodi and loving it and planning to watch it again real soon,contracting fever from my sister:-(having food poisoning,missing a wedding which supposedly had very good food and goood punjabi music and well am still recovering both from my fever and the trauma of starting a blog and not updating it!!:-)

Ordinarily Special

Well I created this blog about 2 weeks back and still haven't posted anything only I thought the first post had to special,after all its the 'first post'. But now after waiting for over 2 weeks now,I've decided I will write just about anything even if its about me failing at the attempt of making this first post 'special'.I thought of a couple of things to write over the last few days but one thing that has really stuck with me is a movie that i recently saw-Stolen Summer by Pete Jones.Its a beautiful story of faith and friendship of an 8 year old catholic boy Pete who has over the years learnt that only Christians go to heaven and in his quest for spiritual salvation tries to convert Jews so that they could too go to heaven.During his quest,he meets Rabbi Jacobsen and his terminally ill son Danny who is as old as Pete.Pete convinces Danny,who wants to go to heaven after his death,that if he manages to pass a few tests(the decathlon),he too could go to heaven and have a better afterlife. Its a sweet story of 2 boys trying to follow the path of lord and deciding on which path to choose. The story tells us about how we force our faith and beliefs on children instead of letting them trail their own path. the movie has some beautiful moments,especially the one where Pete's father explains to him that its not just Christians who go to heaven because why shouldn't an Eskimo in north pole who hasn't heard of Jesus,yet has been a good man all his life be allowed into heaven. And the scene that follows where Pete goes to the Rabbi after Danny's death to apologise for saying on a previous occasion that Danny couldn't go to the heaven because he couldn't live through the conversion and says that Jesus is just a symbol of being good and it didn't matter what symbol one uses,as long as it symbolised goodness,it could be the symbol of heaven and that for them Danny could be that symbol.

This movie is an eyeopener for all of us who on the name of religion leave behind humanity and our love for our fellow beings.It gives us an important and much needed message in today's age that what matters is how good you are and not what religion you follow or which god you worship.