Nostalgic ...

Hi ...

Done with finals and I am ready again to post ...

This time again its about television series - but this one you must have watched .. I guess everybody of my age group had watched it .. at least single episode ...

Let me give some clues. Its story about uncle and nephews... butler... nanny... crank pilot (crash master)... scientist who invents even time machines - no time tubs and time teasers ...

Second clue boys with black goggles who will always try to steal uncle's money ... cruel lady magician who is behind uncle's lucky coin ... a rival, who is always making schemes to get richer than uncle ...

Last clue the name of the town was Duckberg ... and uncle's name was Scrooge McDuck ... Yes, you got it right - Ducktales, it was the series that premiered in late 1980's in USA and then spread worldwide, not to mention in India too.

And as a child I was great fan of this series - those days were early days of my life and also Indian open economy days - so we were nearly the first generation you can say which enjoyed actual global stuff ... Hahaha - many multinationals came in India - and most important Disney with its all cartoons ... It was part of our Sunday morning to get up and watch Ducktales - yah that time it was in

Hindi (If I'll get a chance I will still prefer Hindi version). Not just in Hindi, it was dubbed in many languages, Swedish, German, many other European languages and not to forget it was the first Disney show to air in Soviet Republic in Russian.

And I am again watching those episodes - this time all the episodes not letting any one missing ...

So I am Nostalgic ...

Second part of my Nostalgia came from a story book series or magazines which I used to read ... "Chandoba" in Marathi - "Chandamama" in other languages that means The Moon every child's favourite . In recent days only I found the website for it and it had most achieves - not just from my childhood but those are even from 2-3 generations back so if you see for Marathi - they have from 1952.

I am very pleased to see this site: http://www.chandamama.com/ . This have stories in many Indian languages and also in English. You will get loads of stories from all over the world and still you will get the scent of India in it.

Just to mention I found an old story half read and I just completed it - so go ahead and dive in your own nostalgia ...

Please don't forget to write about your comments ...

Hope I will be back soon ... till then I am signing off !!!

Julie and Juia

Hi all,

Bonjour!

You know I am such a lazy person .... this is work that I like and still I am not doing this ... I don't know ... I should find some more time to meet with you ... I will try ...(Hahaha)

Oh I am thinking I am not even a small kid in this blog world because I saw Julie's blog and she started it in 2002 and I am so late ... though there is saying "better late than never". I will give you link of her blog but first some background story ...

Yesterday (Friday eve) I saw movie Julie and Julia (Dir: Nora Ephron) and it's like my 2 favorite things combining together Movie + Cooking ... oh I just can't resist the combination. So I just went and really it was a good movie. Those who want to see something grand, big action movie or highly emotional drama: don't see it. But if you have liked Nora Ephron's previous movies like Sleepless in Seattle or You've got mail then you will like this movie.

This is not a kind of grand movie but Nora connects two stories Julie's story and her 365 day's project and at the same time Julia's story when she was in Paris and how she got her publisher. It's like she wants to connect these two ladies on some points and she has been successful in that. Nora creates two different worlds 1940's France and 2002's NYC easily and joins them with some fine and some cliched connectors (No offence it's my opinion - yah it's my blog)

Ok so without disclosing anything else I will leave you people to see the movie as that's my preference that prefer to watch a movie that you do not know anything about.

Yup - now as I promised earlier here is the link of her blog: http://blogs.salon.com/0001399/2002/08/25.html and you know what is more delightful is to read the comments. Though those comments are new (after release of movie) but really you will come to know about Julia Child and how she was idol once for all those who loved French cooking in US. But still I will guide you that you watch movie first and then go through blog - comments and if you find read books also.

One thing I am not sure about is why people are fascinated with French culinary cooking (I have never tried a French dish) but still I saw lately many series in Japanese and they were inspired by French cooking and then Ratatouille - one of my favorite, is also made with French cooking and not to forget Paris. I would like to search more about it ...

Oh and I liked soundtrack too ... so I am adding widget from Sony - I hope at least some of you will like it ...

Till then - bon appétit !!!

It started with a Song...

Hi all,

First of all sorry for this big break...

Let's not waste more time and start. Some days after writing my last post I was listening bollywood song Peheli nazar me from movie Race and suddenly I saw one video called Sarang Hae Yo and I started it. It was the original track by Kim Hyung-sub from Korean drama Delightful Girl Choon-Hyang (쾌걸 춘향, Kwae-geol Chun-hyang). I read through its all information and got attracted to it. I had watched many Korean movies in winter but had not watched any drama series till that time and finally I started it and really got addicted to it… And as per rules of addiction after finishing that I started next then third one and it’s just time – I have finished my 5^th drama series.

In Korea they have a folk tale of Choon-Huang and they have tried to change the version of that story from old one to 2005 – modern age in this drama. Choon-Huang is a small town girl who accidently marries with a spoiled brat of chief of police. Story continues with their breakup, reunion, realization of love and then enters a boss of big entertainment company who forces Choon-Huang to leave our hero and live secretly. But after some years hero manages to defeat all odds and they live happily ever after. You will think it’s the same old love story – what did you find new in it? Yup though it’s a same old love story, it’s really fresh in terms of actors, treatment, and creations of twists and turns in the story. I am not saying that I got addicted means you all will get it but it is very important to know where to stop and Korean drama creators will get 100 out of 100 for it. They planned their series and with the ratings you can guess that how they kept graph always going high.

Then starts Shining Inheritance (찬란한 유산, Chanranhan Yusan). It’s again a story of girl - Go Eun Sung. Starting from rich family because of some events and her step mother she ends up as a poor but one oppa helps her to set her life and she finds old granny on street. She cares her and it turns out that, the granny is president of big food chain and is sick of her hopeless grandson. So she is searching someone to take her responsibilities after her. Granny decides this will be Eun Sung. Thus her grandson starts hating Eun Sung, but with some twirling they start liking each other. But still there is that wicked stepmother and stepsister – they try hard to separate Eun Sung and grandson. Ha ha ha, every Cinderella story should have happy ending so did this – Eun Sung finally meets her love of life, Grandson and they live happily ever after.

So you must be getting some idea why I did not post for last one month… hahaha … This post is getting so bigggger so I have decided to cut it in 2 parts. Wait for a while for next exciting episode of It started with a song…

Till then 안녕… ^o^

मुक्त - चिंतन पण मराठीत

नमस्कार मित्रांनो,

ख़ास लोकाग्रहाकरीता हा लेख मराठी मध्ये लिहितो आहे ...

मराठी मध्ये लिहिनाता बरोबर कळ सापडली नाही म्हणुन चूका झाल्या आहेत तरीही समजुन घ्यावे

तसेही कालच ' मी शिवाजीराजे भोसले बोलतोय ' बघून झालाय... सगळे बसले होते अणि मग चर्चा झाली थोडी फार ... आता मी त्या चित्रपटाची कथा सांगणार नाही माहिती आहे कही उपयोग नाही कारण बहुतेक सगळ्यानी तो माझ्या आधीच बघितला असणार .. पण माला तर तो चित्रपट खटकतो बुवा .. म्हणजे माला एकट्यालाच नाही पण आता जे माझे सवंगडी बसले होते माझ्या बरोबर त्याना पण थोडा फार नाही आवडला .. काय करणार ? आता सगळेच जण मराठी - हो म्हणा आता दूसरा कोण येउन हा चित्रपट पहिल ... बर ते राहू दया ... पण आता इतके चित्रपट येउन गेले पण हा कही त्यातला चांगला प्रयत्न आहे असे मला तरी नाही महानता येणार. कारण मी ' नायक ' पहिला (हिंदी आहे म्हणुन काही लोक माझ्यावर टिका करतील पण तो असाच होता - अन्यायाविरुद्ध बंड करणारा) शिवाजी राजे मध्ये जे दाखवले आहे ते तर आता तो मराठी असो किंवा दूसरा कोणी असो - जर त्याच्याकडे पैसे नसतील तर अशीच वागणूक मिळेल - उलट तो सदारयाच्या दुकानातला माणूस भोसलेंना ओळखतो - आता मला समीक्षक म्हनू नका किंवा टीकाकार ही पण हा जो कही सदरयाचा प्रसंग दाखवला आहे तो थोड्या फार फरकाने ( सदरया ऐवजी अत्तर) इरफान खान बरोबर ( मुंबई मेरी जान - परत हिंदी आला - याला न मराठी चित्रपटाची किंमतच नाही) घडतो.

मराठी अन्यायाबद्दलाच बोलायचे असेल ना तर खरच निशिकांत कामत ला दया (डोंबिवली फास्ट अणि हो मुंबई मेरी जान चा सुद्धा दिग्दर्शक) त्यानी ती चीड बरोबर मांडली आहे ... म्हणजे मी पैसे खात नाही अणि माझी अशी अपेक्षा असते की हे जग (जाऊ दया ना कशाला जगाकडे बघता) पण माझी दुनिया (हिंदी शब्द आला) - माझे घर - कार्यालय ईत्यादी ईत्यादी मध्ये जे लोक माझ्या बरोबर आहेत त्यानी पण जरा नीट वागावे ... माझा तुम्ही पैसे खायला आक्षेप नाही पण माझ्याकडून गैर कम करून घेऊ नये अणि आता असे नाही की साहेब अमराठीच असेल - तो मराठी ही असू शकतो - कारण आपल्याला लहानपण पासून ची शिकवण असते की बेटा नीट वागावे - देव बघत असतो - अणि मोठे होउन अपन जरी पूजा करणे वगैरे सोडले असले तरी ती शिकवण कही पुसली जात नाही ना ...

तर शेवटी सांगायचे म्हंटले तर मलाही आदर्शवाद अवाड्तो पण तो शिवाजी राजे सारखा नको - तो आदर्शवाद नाही ती एक परिकथा आहे - आणि माझा आक्षेप आहे जर त्या परिकथेवर विश्वास ठेवून - जर कोणी काही गैर करत असेल तर त्याला - शेवट नेहमी गोड असावा ( मलाही दुखांत आवडत नाहीत) पण तरीही शेवट हा माधव आपटे (डोंबिवली फास्ट) सारखाच होतो (हो त्या सारखाच अजुन एक शेवट - रंग दे बसंती) -

कोणीही उगीच हिंसेच्या मार्गाने जाऊ नये - हिंसा शेवटी वाईट - कितीही कोणालाही नाही आवडले तरी मला गांधीजींचे अहिंसा आणि आत्मसंतुलानाचे तत्वज्ञान आवडते - आणि माझी खात्री आहे (परत आशावाद - आशा, इच्छा दुःखाचे मुळ) एक दिवस परत लोक अहिंसेच्या मार्गाने जातील अणि हिंसा सोडून आदर्श समाज निर्माण करतील (थोडेसे धन्यवाद राजकुमार हिरानी ला ही - लगे रहो मुन्नाभाई मधून - वेगळ्या नावाने का होइना पण गांधीजींच्या तत्वज्ञानाला पुनर्जन्म दिल्याबद्दल)

अरे हो अणि अजुन एक गोष्ट - मला इकडे राहून कळती आहे ती म्हणजे - मराठी मध्ये शिका - शिकवा ( आपल्या मात्रुभाषेमध्ये शिकवा) नाही अहो इकडे त्यांच्या सोई करता स्पेनिश, जर्मन अणि चीनी जापानी मध्येही पाट्या असतात हो - आणि भारतीय मात्र इंग्रजी मध्ये बोलतात - नाही हे मात्र मला नाही पटत - विषयांतर होतय पण हा लेख नंतर कधी तरी लिहिन जरुर.

आणि माझे लेख हे मी सर्वानी वाचावे म्हणुन इंग्रजीतून लिहितो आपले आक्षेप जरुर कळवा ... मंडळ आपले आभारी आहे .

Walking on the street ... after a concert

some thing abstract ... not from any paper but its a state of mind I think when you dont know what are you doing and finally you end up creating something and if its expressed in words or any visual form of art anybody can strive hard to find the meaning of if ....

yah ... it's also some kind of wiered introduction. you will thing this guy is complete mad now but as I stated in the intro this is a state of mind and I somewhat experienced it after concert of Alf Clausen. as you may know Alf is the man behind the music of The Simpsons.

So he was in our town for one concert and that was a good one ... i liked his music and as you see in the pic it was a mixed experience ... some from simpson and some really good Jazz ... though i am not a fan of Jazz i enjoyed it and after that walking on the road mind slipped in the all together different route ... may be the reason that i got time to think afte so many days .... yup .. i keep myself busy and normally dont give time to my mind to think anything that

's why you are receiving blog posts so scattered ...

oh but the main point was - i thought about relegion .. why we worship ... why do we need god .... and then suddenly politics .. history .. why should we learn history .. which history should be taught .. government hides things and shows things but there is noting reall ... you will always get half truth ... yah i am

thanking my chinese friend here to give great speed to my mind roller coaster - taking it up and bringing it down suddenly ....

this was my wallpaper for many months .. its a abstract by Tamilia I found it oninternet .... generally i try to use my own things but somethings are good and i like to share those this is one of those ...

and following is my new wallpaper and it is snaped by me so no

probs ...

this is Cinderella's castle in Disney World, Orlando ...

that is different subject ... will talk with it later ....

till then good bye .... have a nice summer

and best of luck for Rain in india .....

Summer

Hi all,

This is rare in Fargo. Summer ... good temperature ... sun ... So we enjoyed Memorial day weekend. I am going to share some pics of Fargo Summer with you. Hope you will enjoy it ...

...

Hi all...

Just want to share somethings ... I know you must have heard it many times but still ...

"Enjoy every moment of your life" and "Don't regret your decisions"

Thanks...

So many things ... so little time...

Hi all,

Sorry for this biiiiiiig g a p between the post...

I know everybody is busy in daily life ... doing lots and lots of things but still ... still they try to take out time to do what they like ... what they want to do from bottom of their heart ... and thats a nice thing in this world ...

I know very few luckey ones get chance to work on the things they really like - do something new everyday and live the life routine-less... oh ! some of you may find the life with the routine is the best life ... but still I know you are searching... at the deepest root of your soul there lies a naughty kid who is ready to do some mischief at every moment...

Yah I was busy these all days ... in my routine ... but still I was doing so many things actually ... I was watching movies ... I went to weekend outings ... I travelled through South and North Dakota - watching Mount Rushmore in the snow - driving on the interstates when visibility is near Zero - spending a great evening in the bar in small village - admiring the Capital of North Dakota - and paying homage to the Dakota-indians who were kings of the great plains ... Yah and also I was cooking ... I was chitchatting ... man .. I can't name those all ... And in all these things I could not find time to share my words with you... sorry...

Oh I am sharing some of the snaps with you now .. hope you will enjoy them ...

Capital Building of North Dakota

Great Seal of North Dakota

Snaps from North Dakota Heritage Center, Bismarck, ND

Ft. Abraham Lincoln State Park

And Finally a biggggg Bison .....

I promise you I will write a new post soon .....

Till then ... bye ...

High schools - Indian education (my experince)

Hi all...

One of my friends in the US is writing some report on the high schools and education. He was eager to know about the education in India so he sent me a mail and asked some questions. I feel it is good if I share with you all. Please write your comments also. If you can share your experience it is well and good ... you are welcome... 

So let's start:

1. What high school did you attend?

 

In USA I guess you term High school as grades 9 - 12 or 10 - 12, but in India we have some different system. We call 5 - 7 middle school, 8 - 10 high school(Secondary) and 11-12 junior college(Higher Secondary). There are different Boards of Education which usually gives Certificates.

 1)The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) board.

2)The Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) board.

3)State boards of Education for different states.

 

Also There are different streams like Science, Commerce and Arts for classes 11 - 12. student can choose 1 of these as per his career goals. In short you have to decide about your major early.

 I attended high school which gives SSC(Secondary School Certificate -after 10) and HSC (Higher secondary School Certificate - after 12) run by private organization but funded by state government.

 

 2. How many students did you graduate with?

 

As per statistics from state education board number of HSC passing students in the state for the year 2008 were around 830,711 (http://mahresult.nic.in/hsc2008/HS-OVALL.htm) This figure is for complete state that is number of students which gave the same exam on the same day...

 Talking about my high school, there were about 100 students in my class. I was student of science stream for 11 - 12. Also there were about same number of students for commerce and arts.

 

 3. How many classes did you have a day?

 

Now we are talking about class 11-12 only. We had subjects like maths, physics, chemistry, biology, Language 1(English) and Language 2(I opted for Sanskrit - options present are: Marathi, Hindi, German, French and many other.)We had classes of every subject each day. So there were around 5 - 6 classes every day.

 

 4. Were you able to leave the school for lunch?

 

In India, in my school the food was not provided by the school. We were allowed to bring lunch boxes to school, go to home if it is nearby or eat outside.

 

 5. Did you have any free hours?(we had those at our high school, it was just a time slot for a class, but you dint have class, so you were able to do whatever within that time slot.)

 

I don't remember having any free slots ... as they were in hurry to complete there all subject matter for Final state exam schedule was pretty tight. In 11 we had some hours but nothing in 12th.

 

 6. What did your high school emphasis on? I know ours was just general education, like basic math, English, history, science etc.

 

I was surprised after coming here to listen that even engineering major in undergrad has to take history and arts classes. I think it is good for the students who are not sure abut their liking and major.  

But we did not have these things. If you are in science stream you will learn history geography till 10th only and after that only subjects that are related  to science that is physics maths and chemistry. In some schools even it is allowed to drop maths if you are concentrating on medical or pharmacy major or to drop biology if you are concentrating on engineering major.

 7. On average, how many students did you have in each class?

 

It is dependent on which institute you choose. But it is normally 50 - 100 if you choose junior college that is run by secondary school. But if you choose 11 - 12 to be done in school that is run by Senior college (undergrad in US) then it may be around 200 students also.

 

 8. Any after school activities? such as sports, clubs, chior, band, those sorts of programs.

 

Not much for us [:(]  we were concentrating on studies ... [:(] sometimes I feel bad that I opted for junior college run by my school. But in senior colleges there are many clubs, sport activities, teams. We had some chances like elocution competition, sports week, cricket tournament, but those are really less.

 

 9. How much studying did you do a night on average?(if you can remember at  all)

 

It was my habit to complete everything in that day... from first I was raised like that so I used to sleep early around 10 pm but sometimes get up early around 5 am. and study then. In 11th it was not so tough but as I remember I studied for 4 - 5 months getting up at 5 - 6 am and studying for 2 - 3 hours.

 

 10. All and all, how was your high school experince?

 

I think it was good but with somewhat less leisure because everybody was concentrating on studies as it was the final and on these scores we were going to get admissions in the Undergrad sources and you need good score if you want to get admission in the good college... I guess competition in India is much intense than here in US [:)] I feel students are more intended towards higher studies in India than here .. thats why I came to US as it is very difficult to get the admission in good school for Graduate studies but it is somewhat easy here (I personally feel).

Actually in high school also we used to play cricket every evening after school and watch some TV and hang out with friends. It was all and all good experience. But I think it should be somewhat general like in US.. they should give some more time to be focused on the majors and all. But still because we were focused we could finish our undergrad pretty early as I can see many juniors and seniors here as of my age while I am doing my graduate studies.

Please do share your thoughts... 

 Till then Good bye, नमस्ते , Shabba Khair, An-nyoung, sayo-nara, 再见, Auf wedersehen … 

Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

The guy who followed me...!

Those were the days when I was a beautiful young lady in the town. It was a dark chilly winter night ... I was walking from the cafe' to my home. I was seating in that cafe' drinking and reading the old spy novel for whole evening. Now the roads were completely deserted. Dogs were crying at the corners of the street and cats were fighting. Owls were hooting ... I was so shocked to hear the sound of owl in this winter ... and unexpectedly every sound just died down... dogs, cats, owls... Oh my god I can hear sound of my heartbeat... and what was it in that dead silence, I could hear one other sound, the sound of footsteps ... somebody was coming from behind me...

I was really afraid and started walking fast. I felt the sound of footsteps increasing ... now I was nearly running ... and the person behind me was also running ... oh my god, again ... I comprehended that there is a shortcut with some fences to go to my home. So I took the turn and jumped over the fence... and was on the run again ... and I heard the person jumping behind me....

In the light of moon I could feel something flashing in his hand ... “is it a knife ...?” I was approaching my home fast and distance between us was getting lessened. Foot by foot he was coming closer to me... and completely sweating in that winter night I was pretty tired, feeling helpless...

I was able see the door of my house now... I looked for my purse to take out my keys and realized I don’t have purse in my hands... oh my god ... now what I was going to do ... suddenly a sound knocked my dead ears "oh I am sorry Ms. but you forgot your purse in the cafe' and I just came here to return it to you." He left, giving my purse in my hands and I was startled about “The guy who followed me ...!”

Hope you would have enjoyed it, the story I heard or read somewhere ..... :)

Till then Good bye, नमस्ते , Shabba Khair, An-nyoung, sayo-nara, 再见, Auf wedersehen …

Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

Story of Kwaku Ananse...

Hi All...

Moving away from the serious thinking and entering in the world of fantasies I am going to tell you today the story of Kwaku Ananse. This is the story told to me by my friend from Ghana, Iddrisu. Thanks to him...

Once upon a time (every fantasy should start with this line...) there was a wise (wicked) spider named Kwaku Ananse.It was the time when all spiders used to live in houses. Kwaku was full of tricks. He wanted to be the richest in the jungle. One day the prince of the jungle got sick. This king announced "There is one beautiful song in this world and listening to that song would heal my son". Everybody went in the search of the song. Kwaku went to the small bird Bobo. He knew only Bobo could sing that song. But Bobo was unaware of this announcement. Kwaku asked him that if could borrow Bobo's voice for a singing competition. Bobo readily accepted but he wanted the half of the prize to be shared. Kwaku answered that he would give half of the prize to Bobo. So bird gave his voice to Kwaku for one day.

Kwaku went to the king's palace and asked him about the prince. The price was very sick. Kwaku started singing and hearing the Bobo's voice king's son was healed. King was very happy and he gave Kwaku an urn full of jems and jewels. Seeing all those jems, Kwaku's dream of being the richest in the jungle appeared in his mind again. And he left the jungle without giving half prize to Bobo.

Bobo waited for several days but he didn't here anything from Kwaku so he decided to find him out.Bobo started his search from one jungle to another, from one river to another, after many months one rabbit told him that he had seen one spider in nearby jungle. Bobo went to that jungle hurriedly and there he saw kwaku ... Bobo was very angry over Kwaku, he held the Kwaku in his beak and flew high in the sky. At the great height he dropped the Kwaku down. Kwaku fail down but he landed in the Web. And from that day spiders started living in the Spider-web.

I hope you would like this story. Please post comments as those will help me to improve.

Till then Good bye, नमस्ते , Shabba Khair, An-nyoung, sayo-nara, 再见, Auf wedersehen …

Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

Movie Confusion...

Hi All...

Sorry, because I am in the confused mood again and still writing this. I think: you should be clear whenever you are making any statement or putting forward your opinion. But still today, I am in confused mood writing this... see the confusion -I am repeating...

The culprits behind this confusion are three movies which I saw in these three days... Earlier I watched The Reader (Academy award winner: Kate Winslet), The Secret Life of Bees(2008 USA) and just finished 아내가 결혼했다 : Anaega Gyeolhonhaetda : My Wife Got Married (2008 Korean movie).

My Wife Got Married is a story of man, he likes a girl, starts sleeping with her, breaks up, asks for marriage, gets married and suddenly his wife tells him: she wants to get married with the other man and she wants to live with him and the other man too... Here comes the thing ... Now onwards everything is what I feel and its my personal opinion and I don't have much knowledge about films but still I want to write why I am confused... OK let's get back to it...) It's like director has wasted half of the film in the showing romance between the girl and first guy... ( it might be necessary for the professional success on box office ...) but I did not find The Thing (The Love) between the couple or in their romance. It doesn't show that he is mentally involved in her. He goes on acting like " she is mine and she should be mine only ... " and in this pursuit he asks her to get married, to show that she is now his property. But she is not the bird in the cage - she moves ahead and likes another man and says that she liked him before meeting our hero. OK I understood this. Now she gets married with the other man too... and lives with him for weekdays and with hero for weekends ...

OK I will not reveal all the plot and again I am not advertising the movie but I want you to go, see the movie and tell me answers of my questions.

Why they didn't show the thoughts of the heroine? It's like till the end I didn't understand the reason behind her second marriage. I think there exists some reason behind it but it should be uncovered Just saying sentences like " He is just like me or our thoughts are same " do not help to clarify her feelings. I can understand this is the movie from the perspective of Hero but it's injustice with the Heroine that showing her like the selfish one and just seeing for herself.

In today's society, you have rights to live your life on your terms but still I don't feel that you should live your life hurting others' feelings all the time and not thinking about them. Because it's not the case that you can live without other people. So you have to give, not much but little respect to society.

(Oh is it heavy ? should I write like this or not ... I am confused again ... )

I am not going to talk much about the reader but I would suggest you to watch this movie, too. It is a good drama. But I personally feels the same about it. Director failed to show the real bonding between the two leads. He failed to display why the boy loves the lady so much. Is it because she is his first love ... but that's the thing ... I am not getting The Love in it ...

( May be I am searching just too hard but ...)

But I could find the Love in The Secret Life of Bees. The love between boy and girl, between sisters, and between friends... I guess I think a lot ... Again as mentioned in the earlier post I should not think ... But these movies made me confused and so ...

I will write again soon ... and I promise: that will not be such a heavy thing ...

Till then Good bye, नमस्ते , Shabba Khair, An-nyoung, sayo-nara, 再见, Auf widersehen …


Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

Fall ....

Hi All ...

One fall day, I was walking alone on the street and suddenly, a tree with all its leaves - yellow, caught my eyes. A thought came in mind. That tree is a juvenile, wearing gold ornaments, waiting for her first love to come… His footfall will appear riding on the driving wind and in her wild thoughts, she will forget about her ornaments – falling down… And … her snow-lover will arrive one day to embrace her transforming her milieu into different colors…

पानगळ अशी कधी समजलीच नव्हती...

जणू एक नव यौवना
सोन्याचा साज लेऊन
आपल्या प्रियकरची वाट पाहतेय ...

पानगळ अशी कधी समजलीच नव्हती...

वार्‍या बरोबर येणार्‍या त्याच्या चाहुलिने
बेभान होऊन नाचताना साज गळतो
तिला भानच नाहीये...

पानगळ अशी कधी समजलीच नव्हती...

काही क्षणातच हिमरूप प्रियकर येईल
तिला कवेत घेईल
आणि तिचा आसमंत निराळ्याच रंगात रंगून जाईल...

पानगळ अशी कधी समजलीच नव्हती...


Till then Good bye, Namaste, Shabba Khair, Angyoung, sayo - nara, Zai jian, Auf widerzehen … (oh I am terrible in spellings).


Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

Fears.....Risks

Hi all...

Have you ever thought of doing bungee jumping, paragliding, and river rafting...? Yah... I know you must have thought it some time ago, when you were young ... but now if you will go there ... you will hesitate to do so ... you will have some doubt in your mind that should I or not to do it....


It’s like; we have less thoughts and worries when we are young. We will not think, if we want to do something then we will just do it. But after some time we start thinking about any consequences that will happen after doing such thing… Sometimes I feel it is better that we think… but in the mean time we are missing some of the great moments of the life.


If you don’t want to experience it right now just go and watch Yes Man; a good movie of Jim Carry. I am not going to tell you what is there in the movie but you will definitely love it and it will help you to change the perspective of your life … (oh it’s a pretty hard statement … perspective of life … ha ha) … just take it as a new thought and go with it. Just live your life fully and don’t try to over-think …


I am giving you advice of not to over-think, so I am not going to think on this topic more … and will give you lead to Do the thing … not just think … (that’s good).


Till then Good bye, Namaste, Shabba Khair, Angyoung, sayo - nara, Zai jian, Auf widerzehen … (oh I am terrible in spellings).


Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

Chop-stick

Hi all ...

It's on last Wednesday... one of my dreamz came true ... I can hold a thing in chopstick. Yah and I have received those chopsticks you can see in snap as a prize because our group won the chopstick competition ...

Thanks to our instructor Hyo-sil that we could make it so early ... Let me enlighten you about the grail of the holding and eating with the chopsticks. Yah I am writing with the help of PPT made by Hyo-sil ... so credit goes to her ...

So first step is to hold one chopstick tight in between the second joint of your thumb and your ring finger ... you can see that in snap...

Second step is to hold the second stick in between your thumb, index finger and

middle finger just like you hold your pen ... Its kinda hard step .. but with practice you can do it ...

OK ... now will move on to opening and closing the chopsticks ...

If you got first 2 steps right ... these are really the piece of cake ...To open it just move your middle finger up and to close it move your middle finger down ...

I will suggest you, to do it with your friend.

If you don't get any chopsticks you can try it with your pen or pencil. [Let me tell you, if you are doing it with your friend, you can hold eraser in your pencils and give it to your friend ... you can poke them and pull their nose with your stick... it is really fun ... ]

And one more thing... try doing it with the song " I don't know the love yet!" from Korean movie "My Little Bride" i.e. 어린 신부 ( for you who can read Korean ha ha...) Oh... you can also try
Nobody (by Wondergirls). Its also Korean and its favourite song of our instructor...

Let's end it here ... I promise you I will try hard to post the next one soon ...

Till then Good bye, Namaste, Shabba Khair, Angyoung, Siyo - nara … (oh I am terrible in spellings).

Have a nice time and Stay Warm and stay away from ice (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)

Attending a seminar about Dance Floor

Hi all ....

After attending several leadership seminars, I was kind of tired of listening same old things … leader should do this that … blah blah … But still I registered for the Dance Floor Theory – The name itself sounded interesting – and after attending it I can tell you this was the best seminar I have attended … really …

Let me ask a simple question to all of you … I know – “We hate questions!” But still be honest, how many of you think that you would like to attend a seminar and do not try to hide the sleep even once in it? Take my words - Dance Floor theory will take you to complete different world. It won’t give you time to think about sleep.

The most interesting part of it was that it was made for Student leaders. The problems students face in their surroundings and ways to resolve that were explained. I am not going to write a review about this seminar but the thing that if you are a current or future leader and if you ever get a chance – do attend it. You will never regret it.

In the seminar, Kevin (presenter) told us what to do and what not to do on the dance floor when you see somebody just sitting and not attending the dance. Let me share the same incident happened with me on the Saturday before the seminar. We had a party called Club NDSU with rocking music and beautiful crowd. But one of my friends was just sitting on the chair and looking at it. I called him once or twice; still he was not ready to come along. I tried to pull him in and threw him in the group and suddenly after 2 – 3 minutes the music seemed to dry up and everybody just left the dance floor and went to chairs.
I didn’t realize what had happened but after attending seminar I came to know the technique to take the person from chair to center of the dance floor is different. Oh I will not explain it here but now onwards I will definitely use it whenever I get a chance.

I don’t know what the word limit for the blog post is but think this is sufficient as this is my first post. I hope we will meet more often now onwards and my writing will improve …

Oh, in addition to that we have also started a Facebook group for our department and hoping participation from all the students. Let’s see how it goes. I will update you on this as time passes.

Till then Good bye, Namaste, Shabba Khair, Angyoung, sayo - nara, zai jian, auf widerzehen … (oh I am terrible in spellings).

Have a nice time and Stay Warm (you have to say it, when you are living in Fargo…)