Eternal Dance

In Black and White

Adhoora Chitr

Ek adhoora sapna, jiske poora hone ka intezaar hai...

Do shaamein Banasthali ke naam!

Saturday, May 20, 2006
Went to Neha Sarin (Begam)'s place at South Ex with Neha G(upta). Met Shiva (Shivaji Maharaj) and Meenakshi there. Had good food, good laugh and a good time.

Sunday, May 21, 2006
While coming back to Noida, met Madhulika. Once back in Noida, met Shipra di (a senior) and went to Rashmi (my old roomie)'s place. Met Sandhi (another roomie), Shweta Singh and Swapna Ray there. Had good food again. :-)

In between, watched Gangster. Loved Shiney and the songs!

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nazm ulajhii huii hai siine me.n

nazm ulajhii huii hai siine me.n

misare aTake hue hai.n hoTho.n par

u.Date-phirate hai.n titaliyo.n kii tarah

lafz kaaGaz pe baiThate hii nahii.n

kab se baiThaa huu.N mai.n jaanam

saade kaaGaz pe likhake naam teraa

bas teraa naam hii mukammal hai

isase bahatar bhii nazm kyaa hogii

(~Gulzar)

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Smile

(Another one of the sketches I did the other day. Quite a raw one, as it's done using a thicker brush mostly. But it's more expressive, sort of! And the girl looks like Nanda somehow :-D )

Mere do nayan...

Tum ho mere dil ki dhadkan

Tum bin laage na mann

Tumko hi dhoondha karte hain

Har pal mere do nayan

(Had been given an assignment I didn't want to do. So decided to do what I wanted to instead - sketching! And here's what came out of it :-) )

Pseudo Random!!!

saath mere hain tu har pal shab ke andhere mein
paas mere hain tu har dam ujle savere savere mein
dil se dhadkan bhula dena aasan nahi hai
ab toh aadat si hai mujhko aaise jeene mein
juda hoke bhi tu mujhmein kahi baaki hai
palkon mein banke aansu tu chali aati hai

Current favorite song

Well, my current favorite song...

(Movie: Gharonda
Music: Jaidev
Lyrics: Gulzar
Playback: Runa Laila)

tumhe ho naa ho, mujhko to itna yakeen hai
mujhe pyaar tum se naheen hai, naheen hai
mujhe pyaar tum se naheen hai, naheen hai

magar maine ye raaj ab tak naa jaanaa
ke kyon pyaaree lagatee hai, baatein tumhaari
main kyon tum se milne ka dhnoodhoon bahana
kabhee maine chaahaa, tumhe chhoo ke dekhoon
kabhee maine chaahaa, tumhe paas lana
magar fir bhee is baat kaa to yakeen hai
mujhe pyaar tumse, nahin hai nahin hai..

fir bhee jo tum door rahte ho mujhse
to rahate hain dil pe, udaasii ke saaye
koi khwaab oonche makaanon se jhaanke
koi khwaab baithha rahe, sar jhukaaye
kabhie dil kii raahon mien faile andheraa
kabhie door tak roshanii muskuraye
magar fir bhee is baat kaa to yakeen hai
mujhe pyaar tumse nahin hai, nahin hai..

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Vuja De - the feeling you'll be here later.

Pi R squared. Nooo! Pie R round, cornbread R square!

If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.

Dogs crawl under gates, software crawls under Windows!

OS/2? What's that? Half of an Operating System?

DOS never says "EXCELLENT command or filename"...

ASCII a stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!

If I save the whales, where do I keep them?

What do computer engineers use for birth control? Their personalities.

Due to budget cuts the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

Who is General Failure and why is he reading my hard disk?

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

My truck does not leak. It's just marking its territory!

On the other hand, you have different fingers.

I wonder how much deeper the ocean would be without sponges.

Those who live by the sword get shot by those who don't.

When you kill a bug, ten more come for the funeral.

User - a technical term used by computer pros. See idiot.

She lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted looks.

As the evening comes

I had always loved evenings for their freshness, vitality and colors.
But I no more look forward to them (well, I do - 'coz it means I'll be getting out of the office soon). But not the way I used to, for their beauty. 'Coz they're all the same to me. I know exactly what I'll be doing every evening (ok, 5 days a week at least) - sitting in front of my system.
And I no longer feel fresh - it's more like exhaustion.
It's not making sense I guess - we're all going through it.
But oh, I miss my evenings!

Your Girl

No more the girl you called your Sunshine!
No more the girl of yellows and whites...
No, not crimson either
Maroon maybe, dark and murky
And I won't fear black if you hold my hand
Won't mind killing if it were for you
Won't hate sins if you hold my hand

Oscar Wilde and others

"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that, but not with all those flies and death and stuff"
~ Mariah Carey

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life."
~ Brooke Shields

"That lowdown scoundrel deserves to be kicked to death by a jackass, and I'm just the one to do it."
~ A congressional candidate in Texas

"Half this game is ninety percent mental."
~ Philadelphia Phillies manager, Danny Ozark

"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."
~ Al Gore, US Vice President

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
~ Joe Theisman, NFL football quarterback & sports analyst


"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure."
~ Bill Clinton, former US President

"If we let the loggers go in and cut down all the trees we wouldn't have a problem with forest fires."
~ George Bush

A few by Oscar Wilde:

Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects. (:-p)

*When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel that no one else has a right to blame us. *It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution.*

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. *Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself.*

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes they forgive them.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. ( =)) )

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.

Only the shallow know themselves.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's. ( ;-) )

One's real life is often the life that one does not lead.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays. ( :-p )

Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.

Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

*I am not young enough to know everything.

**Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Biography lends to death a new terror. (:-p)

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is invariably plain. (hmmm...)

Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones.

Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women. ( /:) )

Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. (...guys!!)

My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth, I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important. ( :)) )

Women give to men the very gold of their lives. But they invariably want it back in such very small change.

I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting.

I prefer women with a past. They're always so damned amusing to talk to.

People who count their chickens before they are hatched, act very wisely, because chickens run about so absurdly that it is impossible to count them accurately. =))

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.

*We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man. ;-)

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot.

Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures.

Nowadays to be intelligent is to be found out.

My day today

...was not exactly what I'd planned it to be (as usual, I had planned to study A LOT :-p).
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Anyway, I woke up at sth like 1 pm, which is late even by my standards.
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Another thing worth mentioning - I had missed my fairwell while I had been home to attend my sister's marriage (plan to write a blog abt tht too, if I get time). So like the good juniors that they are, my juniors came to meet (?) me, and I got my 'fairwell title' which went -

'Ek ada aapki dil churaane ki
Ek ada aapki dil mein bas jaane ki
Ek chehra aapka chaand sa
Aur ek zid humaari chaand paane kii'

I wish I studied in co-ed! :-p
Also got a beeeautiful photo-frame. Haven't yet put up a pic in it!
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Well, I'm not particularly financially sound these days, and to add to my 'gareebi', I came to know abt this book fair in Banasthali. I'd promised myself I won't buy anything. But as they say, promises are meant to be broken. So I ended up buying seven books (I had selected some 15 or so).

• A collection of stories by Edgar Allan Poe. I had always liked his style of writing, plus his feel-good stories.
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. I already had Tom Sawyer's, but Huckle's my fav and I absolutely had to buy this!
• Another collection of stories by Ismat Chugtai 'Chidi ki Dukki'. Seems interesting. Lesse.
• Yet another collection, by Bhishma Sahni, titled - Vangchu.
• Collection of Russian folk tales - 'Ilya ki Bahaduri'. I've always had this thing for russian tales, they're short, sweet and well written (almost always).
• Collection of Indian folk tales - reminded me of my Nandan days. I wish they're good. (both these folk tales' books are for Nanu)
• And, lastly - Midnight's Children. I had no particular reason for buying this, except tht I had nothing by Sulman Rushdie in my collection till now. Though I've often tried reading Booker winning books, I always end up promising myself never to pick another one up again. Still, I got this one. Lesse if I cud finish it :-p

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After a couple of hours of studying, as always my mind drifted away. And I realised there are songs which I like for no reason (I always find reasons for liking a song first, be it anything - lyrics, voice, music). But these are the songs which shud have come in my un-likeable category-

• Kyun Chhupaate Ho Mann Ki Baat (Mann) - A typical Nadeem-Shravan song, with typical Sameer lyrics, and typical Udit Narayan voice (I like UN thou'). There's no reason why I shud like this one.
• Diye Jalte Hain, Phool Khilte Hain (Namak Haraam) - I don't usually like songs abt friendship. Not this much. Maybe it's the RD-Kishore combo!
• Woh Chaand Jaisi Ladki (Devdas) - Why?! I don't know!!
  
• Haaye Rama Yeh Kya Hua - I want to hate this song, but I can't.

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~Yet again Pseudo-Random

T-Shirt Slogans

I've already sent this to some of you. For others, have a look :-)

"Upon the Advice of My Attorney, My Shirt Bears No Message at This Time"

"Two rights do not make a wrong. They make an airplane."

"Rehabilitation Is for Quitters"

"Where there's a will I want to be in it"

"Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana."

"Automobile -A mechanical device that runs up hills and down people."

I'm not as think as you drunk I am.

I'm so old they've cancelled my blood type.

For the first 9 months i was trying to get out ... and ever since i am desperate to get in.

Computer science engineers with soldering irons are deadlier than electronics engineers with compilers!

I was an ATHIEST until I became an ANEASTHETIST.

BORN FREE!
My dad's a doctor:)

There are 10 kinds of people in this world..those who understand binary and those who don't.

"Take me DRUNK..I'm HOME!!"

French connection:
TO
BUSY
TO
FCUK

I am so poor that if I were not a boy I would have nothing to play with...

Life is sexually transmitted!

'4:20 am'
MEANS NOTHING.
Mind Your Own Business

Sick my duck

Who says nothing is impossible
I've done nothing in my life

Sorry if i look interested .....coz i am not!!!

Been nowhere, did nothing
Stole the T-Shirt

Dont look at this.
Get your own DAMNED T-Shirt

Warning: A Random One

(Edited)
After B.Sc. III year, we decided to stay back at Banasthali for our summer training. There were only six of us (me, Richa, Pooja, Ballu, Kimi and NehaG), with literally nothing to do – ‘cause the training consisted of developing a ‘software’ for ‘admission management’ in Banasthali (we basically had to design some forms using VB and provide a back-end in MS-Access :-p). So, there we were – the six of us, max-wellas.

Now, living in Rajasthan in May-June is not all that pleasant, so we spent our day (8 am to 9 pm) at the department (read, in the internet lab). From 0800 to 2100 only, ‘coz we were supposed to be back in hostels by 9. Now, what do 6 girls, who have nothing else to do but surf the internet for 13 hours, do? They find arbit people for chatting. :-p

Our (bad)luck – we found some 7-8 guys from IITK, also staying at their hostel, as wellas as us – some fakka-fied, some staying back ‘just like that’. Let’s call them B, J, S, M, V, N and U.

So, we chatted. About IITs and Banasthali, girls and guys, love affairs and frustration, families and expectations, about X, Y and Z. Now, we were new to chatting, and new to IITians too. Believe me, they’re altogether a different species. And I can say this even after knowing them for all these years. They’d crack the most chosen PJs, use swear-words as if that’s what they’re taught (that was sth very shocking to me at that time, now I really am not bothered), get all psyched up for no apparent reason, go into depths of depression at time, use each other’s Ids, and sometimes disappear without any prior warning. They’re not at all like what (we common people) suppose an IITian to be - bookworms, very sincere, you know the ‘chashmish’ type. :-D

It was with them that I came to know of terms like baap, bhai, fakka, zukka, bulla, lassa, dassu, GPL (this one came out after much coaxing) and so on. And it was with them that my vocabulary of swear-words built up. :-p

That reminds me of an incident. Let’s say I (as in me) and B are good friends, and I and J are very good friends. So B tells me, that ‘lasiyana’ (verb form of ‘lassa’) means ‘to chat’(Edited: it means - ishq ladaana or sth like that). Now J comes and the conversation follows:

J: Kya kar rahi ho?
I: B se lasiya rahi hoon.
J (shocked): Kya?!!
I: Suna nahin, lassa maar rahi hoon B ke saath!
J: Yaar, usse kyun lassa maar rahi ho?
I: Koi aur mila nahin, maine socha yahi sahi.
J: Vaise ek baat to hai, lasiyaate sab hain, lekin aise kahta koi nahin.
I: Ismein sharmaane waali kaun si baat hai?
J: Badhiya hai, lage raho!
I: Nahin yaar, bore ho gayi. Mere liye S hi theek hai.
J: Woh bhi?!
I: Aur kya? Hum Banasthali waalon ke paas aur kaam bhi kya hai, tum IITians ke saath lasiyaane ke alawa?!
J: *faints*

Car Bumper Stickers

• Caution: I drive like you do!
• No, I don't have PMS. I just really hate you.
• My mind works like lightning, one brilliant flash and it's gone.
• I'm a cruel and heartless bitch but I’m damn good at it.
• I brake for scholars, priests, and no apparent reason.
• I break for........................OH SHIT NO BRAKES.
• Stupidity is not a crime so you’re free to go.
• Watch out for the idiot behind me!
• Moooooove, I'm trying to speed!
• Buckle up... it makes it harder for the aliens to suck you out of your car.
• There are 2 types of pedestrians, the quick and the dead.
• Friends help you move; real friends help you move the body.
• IT'S IMPOLITE TO STARE.
• DRIVE IT LIKE YOU STOLE IT!
• I'm not driving fast-just flying low.

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Hai iKhtiyaar me.n tere to mojazaa kar de

(I added a few word-meanings, if there's still some confusion, contact me for translation)
By Rana Sahri

hai iKhtiyaar me.n tere to mojazaa* kar de
vo shaKhs meraa nahii.n hai use meraa kar de

ye ret_zaar* kahii.n Khatm hii nahii.n hotaa
zaraa sii duur to rastaa haraa bharaa kar de

mai.n usake jor ko dekhuu.N vo meraa sabr-o-sukuu.N
mujhe charaaG banaa de use havaa kar de

akelii shaam bahut jii udaas karatii hai
kisii ko bhej koii meraa ham-navaa kar de
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mojazaa = miracle
ret_zaar = desert (I guess, not sure)

My perfect guy

Should know-

• that I don't talk a lot while eating.
• that I have a B-A-D handwriting.
• that I still cry watching movies, and reading novels. Even the most stupid ones, like K3G.
• that I love chocolates. And flowers.
• that I love beaches and mountains, too.
• that I'm always having moodswings.
• that making fun of people is not my idea of fun.
• that I like reading novels. And unlike some others who do, I don't finish them if I don't like them.
• that at times I'm not talking, I want him to talk to me.
• that I do absurd things.
  

MUST-

• have a good sense of humor.
• be someone my mom would like.
• be (reasonably?) intelligent. And must know about a lot of things.
• be stronger than me.

May-

• be crazy.
• be lazy.
• be weird. Not all the time though.
• flirt. I might get insanely jealous though.
• have his space and time, I won't bug him. At least I'll try not to.

And a lot of other things, I may add them later on.

By the way, I had always wanted my 'perfect guy' to be a doctor, too. :-p

It's been some time since I posted some true 'Rozaana' stuff. So, let's have some!

1. I'm having my midterms. I was almost certain I'd flunk, but looks like I won't!

2. The papers in V semester are not all that bad. Especially Reat Time Systems and AI. Guess I could like even Pattern Recognition.

3. I still like songs from Swades. The music and the voices, specially. Yeh Taara and Pal-Pal are my current favs.

4. I'm looking forward to going home, am kinda missing all the fun everyone's having back there.

5. Then I'm also looking forward to coming back, have my fairwell and annual cultfest after the vacations.
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Then there's been this VERY interesting Chennai/Madurai trip. And I learnt a lot from it.
I don't like curd-rice.
I like Italian burgers.
I don't like olives.
I like nariyal-ki-chatni.
I don't like pudine-ki-chatni.
I like fries.
I don't like nuggets.

I'm a foodie. I eat everything. Even what I don't like. :-p