Sourav Ganguly... The Die-hard Spirit

Wanted to write about him.. for long, but you know.. when you try too hard for something you are bound to struggle! I wanted to get equipped with all the stats n then sit n write smthing bout my Hero.. but that was not to be. Guess i'm better off writing things in an unstructured manner.. unless they happen to be related with my work or studies.. lol

Hmm so here I am.. the one who truly believed that Ganguly was the only and the only player who brought the real glory to Indian cricket (dunn wanna talk bout the '83 cup thing..). He was the only guy I ever saw.. giving it back to the aussies and the pakis.. both with the bat & with the mouth. He just was not scared of losing something.. of anything infact.. not even his wicket. I had never seen any Indian.. so bold on the field, I'm not even talking about the class of his batting.. which is incomparable in its own ways. I have not seen anyone hit those sixes... as easy as that!!

Now let us go through some headlines.. (yeah i'v some stuff ready..):

Ganguly and Chappel asked to patch up - Sep 27, 2005
Ganguly ignored for the next three one dayers - Oct 28, 2005
Amidst th by-lanes of Behala, someone awaits a return - Nov21, 2005
Ganguly Loses test captaincy to Dravid - Nov 22, 2005
Ganguly axed for the 3rd Test - December 14, 2006
Ganguly fails to find a place for the one-day series in Pak - Jan, 2006
Ganguly axed again - Feb 23,2006
Will the the prince charm us again? - April 3, 2006
Sehwag asked to plaster his mouth on Ganguly issue - May 09, 2006
Struggling Saurav gets one last chance against Pakistan - July 20, 2006
Ganguly drops an email bomb on Jagmohan dalmia - July 22, 2006
Sourav, Kumble Ignored for Champions Trophy - Sept 03, 2006

For more.. get 'em there:
http://www.cricketfundas.com/souravganguly.html

It isn't farewell time as yet for Saurav!!! - One of the best reads.. find it there:
http://www.cricketfundas.com/gangulyjune7.html

He is back finally.. & aggregating more than he ever did.. But more than anything else.. its his shear grit & determination which has made this 'come-back' story more interesting.. infact I would say its gonna be a legend of sorts, its 'text-book' stuff with the moral of the story sounding like -

" When the going gets tough, the tough gets goin".

Slow.. & Confused.. what's wrong with that?

Slow.. & Confused.. what's wrong with that?

I find that people often are very quick to grade others as 'slow in taking decisions' or 'confused'.. Well, what I interpret from that is.. people who don't easily make stupid mistakes - are called confused! I truly believe that life is surely not like flying an aeroplane or guiding a rocket into the sky.. so.. supersonic quick speed in taking decisions is definately not required. May be I myself am a slow (read as 'careful') decision maker.. thats why I am here trying to justify that kinda approach.. but I love my deliberated decision making approach.

Had I been chosen to drop a bomb on 'Hiroshima & Nagasaki' ..probably lot of destruction would have been avoided, thousands of people would have been saved.., and nobody would have been crippled for life.. Cus I know I would have been very slow.. I wud have thought 10.. 20.. 100 times.. n may just not have dropped the bladdy bomb... So why shouldn't I love myself for being confused.. being slow.. & for making deliberated decisions..??

I love myself.. love myself for being confused everytime I have to make a decision.. 'cus i'm confused for 'anybody' but not for myself.. I know what wanna do & dunn mind deliberating on it.. Most importantly.. those who really know you, and those who really care for you, those who are not trying to extract a favour out of you.. will never ask you to 'not be slow' in making decisions. My bestest buddies & my loving family has alwz given me time .. n whale of it.. to make my decisions..

So, for the rest of the world i'll alwz be 'painfully slow'... while for my bestest buddies, n my loving family i'll alwz be a caring person.. who does all sort of deliberations, thinks about everything.. n then makes a wise decision! ;D

Awwww.. thats been an awfully painful.. slow write-up.. i gotta end it here or else i'd start sounding like a bladdy preacher :-p lol...

Delhi Heights - Rabbi is back..

Rabbi Shergil - the one with earthy voice, the one who made sufi popular.., Rabbi - the Bulla ki jaana main kaun..? guy , He who sang 'Tere bin, sanu sonya.. koi hor naio labhna' is back. Yes, Rabbi is back with 'Delhi heights' & though I had truly believed that 'Bulla' can't be repeated, he's proved me somewhat wrong with three wonderful songs Dilli, Kitni der tak & kabhi aana na..

Listen it here:
http://www.lyricsmasti.com/song.php?id=3787

Hair-cut @the bonnyz

Hair cuts to my niece.. an extension of my creative instinct.. & 'cus i'm the only person she can stand quitely in front n get her hair cut..

Well.. yeah, i'v given my li'l niece a hair cut for quite many times now & she stands oh so quitely n gets her hair cut so peacefully from myself that my sister waits for a travel back home for her daughter's hair cut! LOL.. I think me being a creative soul helps the cause too.. & my clientele' is growing.. wit my younger sis joining in!! happy me!!

Hmmm coming down to how I cultivated this interest or how I got initiated into it.. I think India's untrained & Untalented manpower in this skill-field has a lot to do about me. Every time I go for a hair-cut.. its a torture, those guys simply don't know how to cut hair.. n they never change. I guess they are not exposed to suave hairstyles & hollywood stuff.. neither they have any sort of inherent art in 'em n thats why they cut hair.. very un-imaginatively n are shocked to see cropped hair & are never sure how to cut a mop! All this has lead me to believe that someone like me, who's eternally been interested in style & is inherently creative.. cutting hair should come easy to me..

& here's proof of da same, some picz of my pricess .. before n after da haircut:
http://new.photos.yahoo.com/album?c=bonny25_ind&aid=576460762388571667&pid=&wtok=bq9egFZmdT26FTnJMCGSRw--&ts=1170789942&.src=ph

I hope d link wrks..

Li'l Introspection.. & trying to make some b'ful memories..

Time for some introspection.. & it always comes after I had have a talk with my best buddy Amit! So after a long talk on saturday.. when we dug into almost everything that's important for two of us.. here I am trying to make a good copy out of that conversation.

This year & the coming year.. lets say next 6 to 24 months are gonna be very important & crucial for our lives (Amit are you reading this?? ehh??). We know we will be taking some big decisions during this period, most probably going our own ways.. & also its pressure time, confusing time.. time of bit of turmoil & since we are both similar kinda people no hesitation in admitting that.. its not gonna be a cake walk. You have to go through it all.. if you wanna live your life your own way.. follow your principles & stick to them even when things go against you.

Whatever.., keeping in mind that we may not get too many chances to meet & make trips that we always wanted to.. We decided that during the next six months or so.. we are gonna make some memorable trips.. & click some memories!!

One of the things we are gonna do is.. go on & see every place worth seeing in delhi & we will most probably hire a delhi tourism bus or something, that wud be kewl.. cus feeling like a tourist is always exciting! The second thing that we gotta do is visit some places never seen before.. those historical things which I love clicking picz of & click some memorable pics...
And finally we will move out for an outstation trip or two maybe... One should be Jaipur - Jaisalmer.. somewhere in that direction, And another one (if possible..) to some hill station.. Shimla or mussouri or maybe dharamshala...

I am looking forward to the coming months for some great memories.. which i'm sure i'll cherish for long!!

Bharatpur (Balaji) Trip..

http://www.rajasthan.gov.in/Bharatpur.SHTM
Last weekend, we happened to visit a religious place 'Balaji' near(??) Bharatpur... infact 'bout 80 kms from there.. The location wus quite a confusion.., it wus supposed to be near Bharatpur but once we reached Bharatpur we had to travel 80 kms back & deep. It seemed like it was right on the back side of Sohna, or at most 50-60 kms from there if there was a straight road from there, but roads are just like life.. they are anything but straight.

From the preface, you can already guess that i'm more interested in the geography of the place than its religious relevance.. Well frankly I'm a believer, but I don't really believe in being part of stampedes & getting crushed to visit holy places. I am in love with God & his creativity.. the things that he has created never stop to amaze me, & above all the human life..

Something about the place 'Balaji'.. 'Balaji' is what people call younger Lord Hanuman, thats what I heard my dad tell me & since as a Kid I was always fascinated with Lord Hanuman I was pretty much interested in the trip.

Coming back to the Balaji, I just discovered via internet search, something very intriguing about balaji:

"One of the most interesting and popular centers of tantrik rites is at Balaji, near Bharatpur off the Jaipur-Agra highway. Exorcism is a way of life at Balaji, and people from far and near, who have been "possessed by spirits" flock to Balaji in large numbers."

Though.. thats not what we went for!!!! it was my dad's love for seeing an ancient lord hanuman temple that took us there.

Read more here:http://hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/extra/bl-tantratemples1.htm

More about temples:http://www.indiantemples.com/encwest1.html

Though, I wanted to make it more worthwhile & enriching by making a visit to Bharatpur wildlife sanctuary, Mathura, Vrindavan, Govardhan or even Agra... but Alas! my dad hardly likes my tiring ideas. So, we finally had to be content with a visit to the mathura (the disputed janambhoomi/Mosque site) & it was not much enjoyable either. The kind of security they had & the way they were frisking people one hardly felt like it was a visit to a temple or a sacred place.

Well.. infact it was another one of those moments when I felt that this world is truly becoming a mad-place. People do things they don't know why they wanna do? & after being die-hard materialistic souls.. they try to find spirituality by visiting places like these!! hmmmm let me not get into this.. i'll dig into it some other time..

My Songs Blog..

Finally i'v got my songs blog going... gonna post all my favorite songs there.. all those songs which kinda shaped my life.. or just helped me spend my idle time.. check 'em out at:
http://www.bonnyzsongs.blogspot.com/

Rocky... the childhood memories

There are so many things to talk about... but hard to come when you actually sit & think of writing them down. So, here I am.. after banging my head on so many thoughts n ideas.. i'v got a blank mind, but after a conversation with a friend.. wherin a mention of 'Rocky' was made b'cus the movi was shot in Philadelphia.. the place my fren recently moved to n she was thrilled to the bits to see those places where the movie was shot. Her curiosity n enthusiasm.. reminded me of the thrill that I used to get while watching that movie, the sadness that I used to feel when rocky was sad.. lol so Nostalgic.. these old movies make you at times..

So, I'v asked her to send me across the pictures of Road that Rocky ran on.. the roads he ran on in the early misty mornings.. before his workout.. n before he ate those raw egs ( which inspired me to do the same.. n i still remember that awful taste)!!

Umm.. whatever, i dunno why i'm feeling like talking about this movie so much.. but it surely is a great part of my growing up years. I loved the struggle Rocky had to go through... n I loved his never dying spirit.. guess it surely made me a stronger person. Now i'm feelin like seein that movie one more time.. rocky running on da roads.. makes me feel real high!!!......

Brothers Under The Sun

Never thought Bryan could ever sing anything else.. anything other than those mushy love songs.. But When I heard this song, I instantly fell in love with it.. One of the best songs on brotherhood..

Brothers Under The Sun
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I had a dream - of the wide open prairie
I had a dream - of the pale morning sky
I had a dream - that we flew on golden wings
And we were the same - just the same - you and I

Follow your heart - little child of the west wind
Follow the voice - that's calling you home
Follow your dreams - but always, remember me
I am your brother - under the sun

We are like birds of a feather
We are two hearts joined together
We will be forever as one
My brother under the sun

Wherever you hear - the wind in the canyon
Wherever you see - the buffalo run
Wherever you go - I'll be there beside you
Cos you are my brother - my brother under the sun..

Life is a game, aint't it? NO!! life is not a game.. atleast not Just a Game, itz much more..

Life is Game, aint it? ..That was the question popped by someone.. & I thought i replied really well to it.. so I am scribbling it here for record pursposes. lol

Yea.. life is a game! but not just a game.. its much much more.. its everything or say anything. You can compare life with anything..

Life is a bitch - when everyone around you is bitchy, & things seem so hard.. thats what you feel like dunn you?? 'life sux' dunn you whisper those words to yourself when ya annoyed with something??

Life is a joke - its so funny sometimes.. ain't it??,

Life is a book - it starts.. goes on & on for a long time, & then ends.. the endings are happy sometimes, sad sometimes & sometimes mysterious lol & just like a book .. the cover can never tell you the real story..

Life is a River - always flowing... & you are alwayz curious to know where it started from n where its gonna end..

And offcourse Life is a Game - You are rewarded if you play it well! lol

Life is different for everyone..Some may say - "life is short, dunn take it seriously".

But others may say - "Those who dunn take life seriously, life doesn't take them seriously."

But this is for sure that.. "you get back,..whatever you give"!! So be happy & spread cheers.. dunn cheat.. dunn be dishonest.. live & let live.Cheers!!!

Arranged marriages or Love marriages...

Here's my take on this never ending .. alwz popping quesition.. which popped up again with the release of movie 'Vivah'. Haven't seen the movie.. but I know Sooraj is adamant on promoting good-human-values (yeah i dunn call them Indian values.. cus Indian values have got corrupted long before...). So, i'm sure Sooraj must have done something really good to the human value system..

Well as for arranged marriage or a love marriage..

All marriages are arranged marriages... some people arrange a life partner themselves, others let their parents do it! What is more important is Values... good values, like trust & honesty.. thats what makes one keep believing in Love & life. Else,... everything is fake. What is more important is .. honesty, trust & good moral values! whether a marriage is arranged by your parents or yourself.. doesn't matter.. But you have to be in love with the person you marry.. you start loving him after marriage or you loved him even before marriage.. dusn't matter..

The society over the years have got corrupted. People are busy working hard to earn their living.. & they have to work so hard they forget instilling value systems in their children. Thats the story for the middle class in the metros or anywhere.. With very few people encouraging their offsprings to stick to the moral values.. When you lose honesty.. you lose everything.. in every aspact of life...

Today people are trained to lie.. cus thats the only way to survive in this big bad world!! So the question is not love marriage vs arranged marriage.. The question is whether you are honest when you love somebody? or do you fall in love with someone just cus you were lonely? or just cus you didn't have any other option? or ...... so many questions.. & all of them true in the case of marriage too!!!

I think I can alwz fall in love with someone who is honest & sincere in his approach to life, no matter I find that person myself or my parents arrange a meeting with that person..

Practically.. the question remains unanswered though... :-)

Back to Blogging..

Finally I have recovered my password.. & i'm back to blogging after more than one year!!! My fisrt stint at bloggins as amateurish & I only posted some photographs with some comments. However, from now onwards i'll take to some serious blogging.... look out!!

Now she looks like the Brat that she is.. 

Harshita again, in some studious mood, I guess.. 

My neice Harshita!! 

Thats me 'the kid' with my Mom!! 

Some more snow, N no more after this.. PROMISE!!! 

Thats the church on the Mall Road, must have seen it in some hindi movies... 

Some more of Snow n Sunshine!! 

He's Vishal, my second cousin, a Silent Crime Reporter..for certain publications in himachal!!!