Rain Rain Go Away

Well, after the incessant rain, a few things happen that makes the joy of Rains melt, even flood away. :(

It continued raining through the Lunch time.. and what happened?

All those who Go out and eat had to stay in and chose to have their lunch at our canteen. This additional burden was not well handled by the canteen fellow, he messed up.. so by the time us "regulars" reached the canteen there was no more plain rice, fried rice.. and the Pooris were coming in a trickle.

This made him cook up some plain rice fast, which left the rice half cooked. Overall result is that I am now sitting at my desk, letting people know that Rain is not always good and staring at a pack of good day biscuits and Tropicana juice.

Few other effects of Excessive rainfall:

• Clogged Drains
• Dirty Roads
• Spotted Clothes (especially the back)
• Flooding
• Traffic Jams (as most two wheelers are trying to find shelter)
• and Boring Blog

Rain Rain Come Again

Rains!!

Always bring a joy to me. It is raining right now!!

Heavy, fat rain drops falling through the sky with nothing to interrupt them. Making a wall of raindrops. Imagine, when it is raining one can join a particular set of raindrops in a straight line and the plane in which this line resides forms a wall. You can make innumerable lines like these and thus corresponding walls along with them. Too much geometry and planar imagination? OK!

The heavy raindrops fall through the sky unstoppable.. or so they think.. stopped by earth and its various protrusions. A few drops collide with flowers resting on a tall tree. The flowers get dislodged from the branches and it is a rain of flowers under the tree. A few drops collide with the feathers on the wings of various birds, I can see pigeons and eagles from here. A few raindrops splatter onto the solar panels of the water heaters on the roofs of houses around here.

The water slides down the surface of the panel, assuming the shape of a cascade.

Bikers who stopped over getting ready to start as the rain recedes. And I watching from the comfort of the office, pity those drivers because the rain has started again!!

I always imagine how many raindrops fall on me, during a ride in rain. Will the number increase if I go faster? (for a distance of X) or will they remain constant. Considering that driving at lower speed will keep you that much longer in the rain, thus increasing the number of drops on you. Personally I prefer going faster, reaching the place of shelter and changing clothes or wiping myself.

Well do share what thoughts run through your mind when it rains :)

Random Musings

Every human I look at, reminds me of only one thing - Self Preservation. What ever action a person does, leads directly to the self preservation of that person. I look at people. You also take a look at people different from you. The way they talk, the way they act, the way they hand folding hands with a reflective, intense expression on their face.

They think they are the center of the earth. And they are centers of a world that is around themselves. There are a few people though, who do think about others before themselves. These kind of people are rare. So rare that hardly one comes along in a century. We rather not get into who is the great person of this century and such discussions.

I just was looking from my office window. And saw a man standing on a roof of a building, checking out the road below. Enjoying the view. With his one hand on the ceiling roof wall and the other on his waist. Another guy was talking to him and he was listening to him while looking away. This triggered the blog.

New additions to my blawg

Hey  :)

I got some time on my hand.. thanks to less sleeping this weekend and more work. I kind of got around to make a few exciting changes to my blog page.

 

I changed my header.. Put up some funky effects with a year-and-more old photograph. Also added some personal talent by adding effects. Thank you.

 

I have added a poll to the blog. Which closes in a 100 days :)..It is on the right. :) Please feel free to input your choice.

 

Now there is this website called Last.fm. It provides a plug-in.. works with various audio players, called Audioscrobbler. I installed the plug-in for winamp (my favorite player) and the database has been building for quite some time now. So every time I play the song, with the plug-in enabled (plus) internet connection. The song I play gets listed on my user page - Here .

 

So, with the time I had, I decided to visit this site again. The came out with what is called Widgets. These are new exciting widgets. I put up two of them onto my blog.

    1. An animated quilt of My favorite artists and

    2. My Recently played tracks. - U can even listen to 30 seconds of the few songs that last.fm has.

 

Check them out.. They are really cool. After this blog.. there is another entry that is really helpful if u are one the move and want to blog about something and just have access to email. So Enjoy.. the benefits :)

 

Happy Teacher's DAY!! September 5.

 

 

First Email Blog

Blogger allows users to send emails to their blog which in turn get posted as a blog in itself.

 

say an email address like john.smith@blogger.com. It gets published to john.blogspot.com. :)

 

So here is my first email blog. Dint want it to be anything weird. Just an explanation of how it works.

 

If you want to mail in your blogs through emails. Go to "Settings>Email>Mail-to-Blogger Address>" in blogger.com after you sign in.

 

Here give options of email you want. only the second half can be changed. Check the Publish button to allow the blog to be published.

My First Su-Do-Ku Solve

hahaha.. did it!!

Always thought that I was incapable of the logic and the time that required to solve a su-do-ku puzzle.

Here is the solved puzzle :) - the bold numbers were given, i put in the unbold ones :D and am pretty pleased.

This is indeed the solved one..(for those skeptics out there) See how the computer solution(of a different su-do-ku) appears below.

This was a medium su-do-ku.

The Seventh Month

BOY!!

My last post was at the end of June. This one at the beginning of August. Where was I the whole of July? Man.. What can I say?

July seems to have disappeared into vapors for me. So many things crammed into one month, it spins my head to think I really pulled it off.

It all started with the wait to begin my long awaited vacation from the 4Th of July, the first three days of July seemed never to end. Then came 4Th of July and there I was, pretty pleased with having received all the relatives. Ready for the events to come on. 5 Th and 6 Th went away in shopping for stuff. Thanks to Rafi Bhaiya and Sartaj bhaiya, it was a blissful time. Great discounts and some not so great (you know, FIXED COST, NO BARGAINING type shops he he) in the end the experience simply added to the fun.

Then 6Th July was the time for me to get tense about the forthcoming days. Am I good enough? Will I be able to justify myself? Will I perform (on stage) well? Am I ready for this? All silly questions. Made me miserable for some time. but the constant goings and comings of friends, relatives and everyone kept me quite occupied.

There was never a time i felt so lonely at the start of the day and so well cared for by the end of the day, never ever in my life!!!

7th July will be quite an unforgettable day. I kind of lived my whole life in that one day. The morning wasn't anything spectacular. I was sitting around doing nothing. Those questions surfacing again. My best friend was occupied somewhere else. No one was there beside me. At a time when i was about to enter another life, I sat alone, doing nothing. But soon, my sisters took charge and took all the trouble to make me up to be a good-looking bridegroom. And hence commenced my first facial ever. HAHAHA. Then came the head massage and i was cleared. Then came Badar to gift me those spectacular watches he bought for me. That was a great feeling. And I was no longer alone. I was literally swarmed. After this the pace never slowed down a bit. Things kept happening at such a fast pace... it seems a blur now.

There were serious deadlines to be kept in reaching the function hall. My in-laws wanted it to be a punctual affair. So did I. So there were quite a few things to be done before leaving for the function hall. The room had to be decorated for which i had to get an electrician who would drill a hole to set up a mosquito net!! hahah.. bloody electrician understood my need and over-charged me. Lemme get my hands on him once. I will make him realize what a mistake it was.

Did some shopping in my colony, where I chanced upon a set of my in-laws, surprised to see me out and about. Soon it was time to start for the hall. In the back of a Toyota Qualis and my dadiammi(granny) in it. I holding onto her wheelchair from banging into the seat with another cousin of mine. That moment, being with my granny when going to the Nikah was one of the highlights of the day. It made me so happy.

The bride's side was getting ready at the hall with all preparations in place. Me and the bride (Sameera) reached the function hall (Pavan garden) within 10 minutes of each other. Offered the prayers at the function hall. Three of them (Asr, Maghrib and Isha). It was time to get ready after maghrib. I put on my Sherwani, which was quite hard to do, had to seek help from a cousin to put the top most buckle. And there that in place, i headed for the stage. On the way i could see old friends reaching the function early. waving to them i reached the stage and once again, I was ALONE! nobody to keep me company. My friends busy with their own stuff. soon some friends joined me on stage. I felt better. Then the Qazi came and performed the paper-work. Meanwhile Imam saheb delivered a lecture on the importance of marriage which i missed as i was busy with paperwork. This happened so fast, by the time i realized what was happening it was done.

My marriage. With one "Maine Qubool kiya!!" I was married!!

After the sermon in Arabic and Dua in Arabic-Urdu started the flow of invitees. The Hyderabadi Dulha (bridegroom) has to complete nearly 1200 hugs (approx). 3 to each person. So there was the performance i was talking about. Never in my life have I hugged so many people - known and unknown. :D

It was a little too much to handle. The constant press on my lungs made me nauseating and my head started throbbing. I was down and out. I was sick. Dinner followed and I never thought that I would not eat at my own wedding!! Reminded me of my Sister's reception, where I didn't perform too well either.

Had a nice laugh later with Moin. The rest room event is one of the most funniest things to happen in July. Hahahaha.. (not to be shared here!!)

After that came the most wonderful part. Well, :) It was time to meet my bride :D Which will be one of the happiest moments in my life.

After some rituals of farewell we both were allowed to get back home to sleep.

Valima - The reception went well. I was much careful. Giving lighter hugs and drinking water intermittently. I was very very careful and in the end it paid off. I had a gala time at the dinner with chilly chicken and stuff.. hmmmmmmm.. and next day we were supposed to leave for Kashmir so we tried to wrap up stuff faster and leave and wake up early in the morning.

Well it was a short trip but filled with the entire gamut of experiences that I will again not forget. I will put the trip into telegraphic style.

We reached just in time for the check-in. Took the flight. Reached Delhi. Baggage Missing. Missed connecting flight. Stayed in Delhi - 1 day. Visited important places (India Gate, Metro, Presidential Palace, Red Fort). Reached Srinagar. Tight Security. Beautiful Mountains. Great Hospitality. Went to Gulmarg. Amazing Place. Horse Ridings. Lovely Food. Went to Pehelgaum. Nice Road. Cool Water. Great Views. Got Back to Srinagar. Houseboat. Wonderful Experience. Dangerous Shikara Ride in Night. Good News of Ayesha. Pleasant Shikara Ride in the Morning. Water Sled ride. 5 star buffet!! Next morning Flight to Delhi. Met Harpreet (friend). Reached Hyderabad. Baggage Missing. :)

My Sister was leaving for the US right at the moment we landed at Hyderabad Airport. Me and Sameera rushed out to meet her and we reached just in time. Gave her some Kashmiri mementos and bade her farewell. Then All our household got busy with Ayesha's good news. i.e. Her wedding. Fastest planned wedding I ever experienced. One Week Flat. And everything went smooth Alhamdullilah. Went to her Reception in a Bus. Which indecently got stuck deep in mud. The proposed time of departure that was 12 a.m. turned out to be 7 a.m. All the while we were awake. Trying to get the bus out. Helping with bricks and granite to no avail. It had to be a bull dozer and 4 rounds of a 9mm steel rod between the bus and the dozer to get that thing out. Unforgettable experience. Maybe a blog in itself. 20 days of the month already gone!!

I reported back to office. The last week of the month in office, trying to work. In the meantime, got an infection and got a bad cough. Father-in-law left on 28th by which time had to attend some delicious dinners. Awesome.

So this is it. Not a complete account by any stretch of imagination but mandatory. I will most probably write about the firsts that I did during the Kashmir trip. Till then. Have fun. Keep Praying for me as I pray for you. PEACE