footprints Oo Oo

Leaving behind footprints
yet looking for cutted strings
life takes strange swings
singing different twings.....

Gr8 to be back !!

Hmmmmmm... it's been over an year and times have changed drastically... things have changed.. people around you have changed... conditions... locations .. everything has changed.. and I have landed myself in US of A.. sounds like a place of joy, fun .. but not for person who becomes homesick often(Read that as ME M E ME) ... and the irony is... that once you land here on for business work.. you cannot go back that easily..

I wish I can go back soon... sooner....soonest ???
(gotcha catch my project manager for that answer ;))

~Pankhudi's 3rd Collection Drive

15th June 2008; it was yet another ordinary day that Bangalore woke up to...but for ~Pankhudian's it was a day to be remembered, though it was just like any other day, but also had filled a lot of enthusiam in the Volunteers, for they were making a heading towards Sri-Lankan Refugee Camp/School (also known as Rajiv Gandhi International Academy - IGIA) at Yelahanka, Bangalore.

~Pankhudi Bangalore had initiated a collection drive, it's 3rd; for the children staying at the refugee camp and had collected clothes and other basic household stuff for the kids.
16 Volunteers from ~Pankhudi came together to take time out to spend time with children, the way a weekend of a ~Pankhudian is spent usually :), we reached at IGIA around 11 AM and quickly finished the sorting out of the clothes donated by various friendz, neighbors and like minded people.




Having sorted everything into proper respective groups, we had a joyous time playing around with the children, where else will one find heaven on earth.. it's gonna be definitely with children :). Some volunteers had a round of the school area where children actually study and which also serves as their sleeping room .. yes ironically the space serves both the purpose. Also maybe due to the fact there the girls have a separate quarters where they sleep. But still the camp has a lot of space of built a good infrastructure, but it's the funds that they are lacking.
Another revelation that came out this time (yeah, we already had had conducted another collection drive here, when we had stayed there for almost the whole day and also had watched some skits and dances and talent show being performed by the children, for it was
a kinda celebration day for these kids) was that these kids had never ever stepped out of the boundaries of the camp and are totally immune to the outside world, not because they are not allowed to, but because they were never taken out before.
Hope that they do get a chance to visit the outside world and thus have a clear picture of the outside world.

Having spent some time with them and playing and gossiping around, it was time to pack up for us and we did that with a promise that we'll be back at this place soon :)

(and yes, Thank God for making Yatin count the total head-count for the people who visited IGIA, at the last moment when the traveller was heading out of the gate, for if he would have had not.. in Mohan's words: we would have had donated just more than kind.... for we would have also left behind Nivedita (Pune Chapter), who's on a intern training in b'gore.. which was meant to; have had gone ahead and also donated a Volunteer ;)

**Thanks to all the people who donated the articles and made this drive a success as well as the volunteers for showing their unbeaten sporty attitude to dedicate their sunday with the kids to make our sunday not a missing sunday but... fun-sunday :)**

PS: I used to be a Volunteer with ~Pankhudi, and I hope I'll soon join a new venture to work with Children and pursue what I was doing with ~Pankhudi.

Small things make's smiles bigger :)

ज़िंदगी है छोटी, हर पल में ख़ुश रहो...
Office मे ख़ुश रहो, घर में ख़ुश रहो...
आज पनीर नही है, दाल में ही ख़ुश रहो...
आज gym जाने का समय नही, दो क़दम चल के ही ख़ुश रहो...
आज दोस्तो का साथ नही, TV देख के ही ख़ुश रहो...
घर जा नही सकते तो फ़ोन कर के ही ख़ुश रहो...
आज कोई नाराज़ है उसके इस अंदाज़ में भी ख़ुश रहो...
जिसे देख नही सकते उसकी आवाज़ में ही ख़ुश रहो...
जिसे पा नही सकते उसकी याद में ही ख़ुश रहो
Laptop ना मिला तो क्या, Desktop में ही ख़ुश रहो...
बीता हुआ कल जा चुका है उसकी मीठी यादें है उनमे ही ख़ुश रहो...
आने वाले पल का पता नही... सपनो में ही ख़ुश रहो...
हसते हसते ये पल बिताएँगे, आज में ही ख़ुश रहो
ज़िंदगी है छोटी, हर पल में ख़ुश रहो

This was yet another piece of those so called inspirational messages wrapped in creativity and having a fun-pun; yet at the same time oozing out many different perception towards life; that I had received innumerable times through emails which were often discarded without even giving a second glance. But when it was posted as a scrap on orkut, I decided to atleast go through it, and to my utter surprise it was a worthwhile piece to read.

There have been times when we just work towards getting many of our bigger dreams fulfilled and in the process ignores the relatively smaller; yet much more stronger one's.
Just one thing to ponder on ... do we really do justice with our smaller dreamzz and aspirations ??
One q's and a thousand answers ...

the iNdiaNizeD version of .. Hotel California

This is the Indianized version for the biggie 'Hotel California' which is pretty hilarious .. hats off the the song-matcher .. for matching it to perfection :)


On the road to Trivandrum

Coconut oil in my hair
Warm smell of avial
Rising up through the air
Up ahead in the distance
I saw a bright pink tube-light
My tummy rumbled, I felt weak and thin
I had to stop for a bite
There he stood in the doorway
Flicked his mundu in style
And I was thinking to myself
I don't like the look of his sinister smile
Then he lit up a petromax
Muttering "No power today"
More Mallus down the corridor
I thought I heard them say

Welcome to the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Such a lousy place,
Such a lousy place (background)
Such a sad disgrace,
Plenty of bugs at the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Any time of year
Any time of year (background)
It's infested here
It's infested here

His finger's stuck up his nostril
He's got a big, thick mustache
He makes an ugly, ugly noise
But that's just his laugh
Buxom girls clad in pavada
Eating banana chips
Some roll their eyes, and
Some roll their hips
I said to the manager
My room's full of mice
He said,
Don't worry, saar, I sending you
meen karri, brandy and ice
And still those voices were crying from far away
Wake you up in the middle of the night
Just to hear them pray

Save us from the Hotel Kerala-fonia
Such a lousy place,
Such a lousy place (background)
Such a sad disgrace
Trying to live at the Hotel Kerala-fonia
It is no surprise
It is no surprise (background)
That it swarms with flies

The blind man was pouring
Stale sambar on rice
And he said
We are all just actors here
In Silk Smitha-disguise
And in the dining chamber
We gathered for the feast
We stab it with our steely knives
But we just can't cut that beef
Last thing I remember
I was writhing on the floor
That cockroach in my appam-stew was the culprit,
I am sure
Relax, said the watchman
This enema will make you well
And his friends laughed as they held me down
God's Own Country? Oh, Hell

ReDeFiNeD *MATHS* for Math-o-phobic

Caught hold of this funniest Definition for MATHS

Question:What is the fullform of maths.
Anwser: Mentaly affected teachers harrasing students


This was really an antidote for people who suffer from Matho-phobia .... like Me :)

Unspoken words..the language of Eyes

This post is for my brother, while chatting today on gtalk he asked me to write something for 'EYES' on mahh blog so that he can write some comments on the same, and when I asked; why specifically eyes.. he said.. okay it's your wish.. u can write about nose too :P, So in the interest of junta I decided to post something as a dedication to eyes (whoze eyes !!! :D still remains the question to be answered and the answer might be quite an interesting one, will catch hold of you bro for that :D ). Here's something for you...

ढूँढा तुझे जहाँ मैं ....
इस दिल की राहों में, अपनों में सपनों में ...
पलकों की चिलमन में, आंखों के आँसूं में ....
मुस्कुराते होंटों में, हर हसीं चेहरे में...
हर लम्हे यादों में, खूबसूरत मौसम में...
फूटती कलियों में, खिलते फूलों में...
सूरज की किरणों में, धुप में साए में...
कदकते बादल में, बारिश की बूंदों में...
ढलती शामों में, तनहा रातों में...
रात की तारीक में, चन्दा की रौशनी में...
तारों की झिलमिल में, खुशबू में साँसों में...
अनकही बातों में, प्यार में मोहब्बत में...
ढूँढा तुझे जहाँ में, पाया तुझे आंखों में !!!

~Learning to love...journey of a Lifetime

One thing that ~Pankhudi taught me to the fullest is learning to love .. Journey with ~Pankhudi has been a memorable one and has brought a lot of inner revelations and apercevoir bringing in an enlightenment and a strong sense of commitment and dedication towards working for the underprivileged children. There's are innumerable thought's, feelings, learnings to pen down for ~Pankhudi.
This post is a special note of Thanks to ~Pankhudi and everyone out there working for children. Hats off to you guys.

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