i know i am writing after a really long time .... finally i am out of florida. huh ..... till the last minute i was thinking that will i be able to leave or not ... etc etc ... u know the last moment things always come up when u really dont want them to come up ....
this week was a very very hectic week for me. i mean in the sense that lot of thing happening ... Jackob my childhood friend ... we stay in the same colony ... we have spent like many summer vacations playing cards cricket chess hockey frisbee lagorii and what not .. we had an amazing group in our colony. NO GIRLS ..
bablu - amazing sense of humour . into advertising
roy - the computer wizzard. has his own s/w business
sandeep - the finance guy. first attempt IIM Indore pass out. currently with infi
jackob - share khan ... i mean he is into shared. works with kanbay.
melwn - have no clue where this guy is
rahul - infi ... he is in the us for the past 2 yrs ... huh. he is gonna build a mansion if he ever comes back to life ...
leo - neighbour. chess guy. scrabble guy.
all this janta used to come to my place at sharp 9 am ie once my parents leave at 830 am for office.. then the chess/cards/ carrom/ scrabble etc etc session would start this would go on till say 1255 pm .. y ??? because my parents would come for lunch bet 1 pm to 145pm ...and guess what at 2 pm everybody was back in my house .... kya din thee woh ... then the same stuff would go on till 5pm .. yyyy ??? my parents would come back from work na then ... then everybdoy used to go back .. get refreshed and then the whole janta woh jamofy for playing outdoor games .... hockey cricket frisbee .. lagori ... it used to in a phased manner ... say hockey for 3 weeks .. cricket ... for 4-5 weeks .. lagori ... frisbee... and then play till 730 .. or till the time visibility is there ... and then gappe ... till 8/9 ... i had to go back early because of curfew at my home .. hehe ... i used to come back and write one page of handwriting .. ... itna sab karke bhi my dad could not improve my handwriting.. hehe ... neways ...
and the same cycle would repeat for 5 days of the week ... y .. because my parents would have holiday on sat/sun hehe ... sat sunday we all used to be either at sandeeps/roys place .... everything was soo much fun ... those were really amazing days ....
ok all the discussion started from Jackob ... so we are back to jacob. yeaah last weekend he came over to my palce .... sahi mazza aya ... dude landed up on wed night .. thur kaam kar raha thaa woh ... friday also he did not do anything. friday we had planned for miami in the evening but somehow i got stuck in office rt at thelast moment and everything just got screwed up :-(( ... but even then we went to miami at 11pm .... to see the night life ... jane ke baad parking hi nahin mila ... for 1 hr .. got parking at 1am ... 1am - 2am we were roaming on the streets of miami ... it was wonderful .. u wont believe that it is 1am or soo ... it just feels like it is 8pm or soo .. so many ppl ... most of the shops doing business ... and since we had been on a friday night the crowd was aweeeeeeeeeeeesome ...... huh ...too much r these amru ladies .... thoda toh khayal karne ka ne mere jaisee desi dhakkan logon ka :-)) ...
neways we came back home at 3am ... had plans for orlando on saturday ... but got up at 930 am ... phir kya orlando janeka .. boor hooo gaya ..then we shifted the sunday wala plan to sat. ie miami seaquarium and miami /keywest ... we left home at around 11am .. reached seaquarium .... went in .. this time i took a yrly pass ... this entitles u to a lot of benifits.... like 15% discount on guest entries ... 10% disount on whatever that is sold inside ... :-) .... I bought two soft toys there ... sahi hai dono :-) .. cuty cuty ... chuunu munnu :-)) ... at the seaquarium we saw the killer whale and the flipper dolphin show ... since this was my second time i was like naya kuch nahin hai per it was fun seeing the stuff again ... hehe ... then jackob said lets skip the sea lion show and go to keywest ..that ass only wants to go to places to take photos ... but yes thats too very much like me ... so we took lot of snaps and you can seee some of my US snaps at http://community.webshots.com/user/ajoynandi latest snaps are not there though .. but keep visiting for latest .... then at 3pm we started for keywest (my 3rd time) ... this time it took us 4 hrs from miami ... traffic was too much .... we wanted to reach the 7 mile bridge before sunset ... but we reached at twilight ... but neways light was enuf for jacob to take the pictures :-)) .... then we went to keywest ... the drive is really one of the most amazing drives that i have ever had till date ...sea on both sides and u r in the middle of it .. awesome it is ... and bridges after bridges ... ufff it is too much ... 7 mile bridge islike truely amazing .. once we reached keywest we took the pictures ... did a bit of shopping on duval street. the first time i had come to keywest i did only shopping .. that time i had taken most of the stuffs from one shop so that guy knows me know .. second time when i went i returned something that had a defect which i took during my first visit ... and the 3rd time i went i just went in to tell him HI .. i have a photograph also with him .. heis from isreal .. khuul guy... he gave me close to 8$ cash discount ... on a 50$ bill .. khuul na .. bargain kiya mein uske sath ... hehe .. :-)) ... ok back to jacob ... then we had dinner at Burger king and started for home ... around 9 pm ... reached by 1am ... again the same thing .. by the time it was go to sleep it was 3am ...
next day was planned as orlando ... and we woke up at 9 instead of 7...huh .. again thot everything is messed up ... but we decided to still proceed with the plan ... and this time i decided no breaks .. drive non stop ... nahin toh we are going to miss out on somethings in universal studios ... so we started ... and drove like mad ... no speeding thought .. all within the imits ... 225miles in 3hrs 30 min ... with an average speed of 65mph ... waow ... we did not get lost at all .. accept at the entrance of universal studios ... hehe ... after that the best thing of jacobs tour happened .... while we were entering Universsal studios a group of 3-4 ppl told that please take these tickets ... we were like y is he giving the tickets to us and does he want money or something ... i and jack told ... HUD HUD ...humko nahin chahiye ... we will take it at the counter only ... actually we thot ki these guyz are doing black ... or something like that .. so thot forget ... but somehow we done know what happened and after 2-3 seconds tickets were in our hands and those guyz were gone .... they we said agar yeh ticket work hoota toh man it will be diwali for jacob ... and guess what we were able to enter universal studios without any trouble .. sahi mazza aya ... sahi laga ...and to top it all guess what it was a 2 day 2 park pass ... then we finished of universal studios ... i showed him the best things in universal studies ... like mummy .. shrek ... horror show... terminator ... then we had a good late lunch ... then we ran tooo Islands of adventures .. it is similar to six flags .. :-)) ... hehe ... we went only into the spider man wala show as it was not soo risky .. we both r damn fatoos ..... one nice incident happened at universal .... there was a street dance that was going on ... and suddenly they asked jacob what was the time .. he was soo confused in life ki kya bolu ... it was around 3 .. he looked at his watch and guess what he told it is 4pm ..i could not believe what is happening .. and was laughing like anything .. mazza aya :-)) ....
baad mein universal / Island of adventure see hum around 8pm ko nikle ..before moving out we contacted rutu and hrishi that we r coming to ur place at around 1030 ... so prepare dinner for us .. hehe .. and we went in a pav bhaji was ready for us ... then we had a great dinnner ... met with hrishi / rutu spoke to them for quite a while and then headed back to plantation florida ...
next day i left jacob to airport and his memorable trip came to an end .... :-)) ..
i hope jacob u enjoyed the whole trip as much i enjoyed presenting it to you :-)) ...
Friday, January 21, 2005
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
SABRA KA FAL MEETHA HOTA HAI
somehow coming to the US was always a big thing in my mind. and esp when all my colleagues with whom i had joined motorola started going to the US one by one the feeling started to get in more and more... but finally i had told myself ki ... hua toh hua nahin toh soochne ka nahin ... vaise mere life mein sab kuch kafi late hota hai ... and as my college friends say sabra ka fal meetha hoota hai ... and so muchit is true. i really got a very nice time to come to the US. Florida is one of the best places in the US .. thats what the ppl of US have told me...and i have experienced that myself ... it is sooo clean ... the county side is so beautiful .. everything is soo well planned. I also got a good friend named malav who is also of the same frequency ... and we gel a lot. also the Shamrocs family as the call it is also another very good experience. We live like a family .. really feels nice to be in such a good company. However i also made it a pt to stay in Shamrocks and not in hotel. somehow feel very homely at shamrocks.
something similar had happened during placements ... everybody in our group got placed and then when i got into motorola everybody told "sabra ka faal meetha hoota hai" and this thing is soo true in my case. :-) .....
here in the US i have so many friend ... avanti tejal sush radhika sam ash sameer hrishikesh atul ... so many and have made a lot of new friends here also ... so feels good.
but i am a bit unhappy that sheetal could not come to the US with me. but she does not like to work in the US. uska manager ussse bahut kaam karwata hai ... so one way it is good. and moreover she has come to the US 2 times for 2 months each time and she has seen this land a lot also .. so there is nothing very exciting about the third visit ... (accept for business class :- ) ...)
something similar had happened during placements ... everybody in our group got placed and then when i got into motorola everybody told "sabra ka faal meetha hoota hai" and this thing is soo true in my case. :-) .....
here in the US i have so many friend ... avanti tejal sush radhika sam ash sameer hrishikesh atul ... so many and have made a lot of new friends here also ... so feels good.
but i am a bit unhappy that sheetal could not come to the US with me. but she does not like to work in the US. uska manager ussse bahut kaam karwata hai ... so one way it is good. and moreover she has come to the US 2 times for 2 months each time and she has seen this land a lot also .. so there is nothing very exciting about the third visit ... (accept for business class :- ) ...)
Thursday, November 04, 2004
booring day
todays day was really boring at office. on of our tools was not woking so was in wait state the whole day.
Wednesday, November 03, 2004
SONU NIGAMS LIVE IN CONCERT
ok so lets start guyz ... sonu nigam show was there in bangalore on 31st oct .. incidently this day Mrs Indira Gandhi was shot dead. ok common let me now not shift from the main topic... ok back to sonu ... so many distractions hai yaar life mein ki kya bataoo tum logon ko re .... ;-) ...
actually i milindand sheetal had been for that show ... initially i and sheetal were not going to go for the event as we had homeworks lectures etc etc ... and believe it or not milind was going to go alone for the show ... we were like sala yeh banda kaisee jaa sakta akele yeh show ke liye per i guess FANS are like that only ... may be avanti can answer that better ... :-) ... actually the previous day i and sheetal were seeing one program called INDIAN IDOL (search for a singer who will get 1Cr Rs) ... on sony TV there sonu was the judge re ... he sang one song at the end of the show .. it was sung soo well ki kya bataoo ... immediately we decided bahut ho gaya .. sonu bangalore aa raha hai aur hum naa jayee kaisee hoo sakta .... lets GO .... raat ko 12 baje ticket walee ko phone kiya aur puucha ki tickets available hai kya ... 200 / 400 / 600 / 800 ke tickets thee ... humne bola 800 ke hai kya .. woh bola hai ... hum bole we want 2 tickets ... because milind nee pehle hi liyee thee tickets ... then woh bola ki kal call karte 9 baje aur 10 baje ko tickets lake deete tum long ko ghar pee .. i mean free home delivery yaar .. sahi na ... we got a call the next day ... got both the tickets ... and guess what show was going to start at 730 and it was drizzling the whole day ... shaam ko 6baje toh kafi barish huee ... humko laga ki hum hagee joor see tickets leeke ... but then 630 pm rain stopped and we were off to Palace grounds where the show was supposed to be ....
reached there ... milind kahan toh ghum hoo gaya .. per finally we met inside ... kafi theek thaak types seats milee ... then 830 ko show start hua .... initially sonu sang the first song praying to GOD .... it goes like this ... vakratunda mahakare ....... i guess those of you who have seen mahabharat would remember the tune... and i tell it was just amazing ... we could not believer that it was sonu who was singing .. his voice is like just toooooooooooo gud .. and the system was like crystal clear yaar ... aisa lag raha thaa ki CD see play hoo raha thaa ..... after the initial worship to god .... came one guy named RANA .... he sang the most HOTTEST song on indian cinema tooday ... ie from murder ... "O Ohhh Ooooo" he sang it soo well that we really could not imaging how good it would be if sonu sings yaar ..... phir ayii SOUMYA RAO .. she is an upcoming singer from Bangalore who has done playback for a few latest hindi songs .. :-) .. she also sang well ... btw whe was very pretty ... rather her dressing sense was very good :-) ./..... ok i forgot to mention the host for the show was Ruby Bhatia ... kuch toh panchat giri kar rahii thii woh beech beeech mein ... general re .. nothing special .... then came the moment the whole crowd was waiting for ... MR SONU NIGAM ... his entry saw many girls skipping couple of heart beats ... (personally i dont think he is that cute ... but neways ... ).... sonu then started singing ... HE sang ...
SATHIYA :- in this song he had 3 pair of dancers dancing behind him and he was singing on the ramp.... the song sounded exactly like the way it is played from a CD. just amazing man ... and guess what the dances did the same steps as it was in the film .. they were so very well choreographed ki kya bolu u...
MAIN HOO NA :- Tumsee milke dil ka joh haal , Main hoo na title track ... both were very very well sung ...
Pyar tune kya kiya :- Kambakth ISHQ ..... very well done again ...
PARDES :- yeh dil ... deeewaana ... another one to which the crowd was singing with him ....
DEWANA :- deewana ... uske album ka gana hai ek .. if you guyz remember ..
BIJURIYA :- another of his albums ... to this he also danced ... if you guyz have seen this vedio .. he did the same steps ...
K3G :- You r my sonia ... yeh song jab gaya na usnee tab toh pura standing public naachne laga re ... mereko bhi nachne ka bahut maan kar raha thaa per nahin naacha tab ...
Suraj hua madham ... this was the song with which he started the show .. it was just wonderfully sung as is the song ... just too good yaar ...
KHNH :- Title track ... If is one of the most wonderful songs every made. really just listen to the lyrics .. they are just too good ... when he was singing this song he mentioned one incidence when he was in pakistan ie in april 2004 .. during his show ... there was a bomb blast in a bus standing just where the show was being held ... he also told us to take our mobiles out and put on the back light and wave ... it was another amazing site ... since we were sitting in the front few rows ... when we turned back it was like some 20000 torches all waving ... it was a glimse of the night .... very touching though ...
Mujhse shadi karoogi :- Jeene ke hai chaar din .... it is fultu tapori song .. esp if you have seen the movie.. this song has salman as usual nanga punga and dancing on the beach with some 500 bikini clad girls around .. there is one step in this song where in he is wearing towel .. fairly long one ;-) and moving another towel with both is hands under his legs ... i guess that was a really bad description but u must see this song ... i tell you ;-) ... yeh ganee pee bhi public nanchne laga re ...
Soldier :- tera rang ballee balle .. tera ruup balle balle ... naiyoo naiyoo .... sahi gana hai yaar yeh .. this was the last song he sang ... and it was like he made even the old ppl stand up and dance ... now even we all stood up and danced away to gloory in the middle of the night .. it was just amazing ... dancing with some 20K odd people ... with pounding music ... i mean pounding means it was pounding right in our hearts ... we had to shout in each others ears to convey whatever little we wanted to convey to each other ... just amazing feeling .. i guess the effect can be compared standing near one of those huge set of speakers on boat club during the fun fair ... remember good old coep days .. those were another amazing set of days ... ok avoiding further diversions ... :-) ...
also in between sonus younger sister sang the most popular song in india now .... DHOOM ... ie ISHQ ISHQ .... it was sung exactly the way sunidhi sings it .. i guess sunidhi is the original singer ... also SOUMYA RAO sang a couple of song that i cant remember as of now ... :-( ...
can u imagine the show ended at around 12 midnight ... none of us had any food .... when we came out it was like everybody was singing some or the other song ...
now after that we did not know where we would get food ...
so we decided to go to barista on 100 ft road it is usually open till 1am but guess what when we reached there it was like they were closing down ... so we decided to go to barista at leela palace ... and guess what we found ourselves at barista at 1am ... no comments about leeela .. :-) .. it is just too good ... guess what at the price of normal barista rates u are gettting the ambience of leela .. cant ask for more .. we had snacks .... digested the fact that we had seen one of the best live shows till date and then even relaxed and chilled out a bit at the LEELA ... uff what an amazing day it was ... really one of the most memorable days in my life ... at leela milind was telling that yeh show deekhne ke baad life mein alag saa ek joosh saa aaa gaha hai .... ek aisa feeling which tells u ki ... sala routine life toh chalta raheega ... we need something extra to bring that EXTRA thing into our lives nahin toh wohi roooz ka routine ...
today i went around telling everybody about the concert in my team ... he he he ...
actually i milindand sheetal had been for that show ... initially i and sheetal were not going to go for the event as we had homeworks lectures etc etc ... and believe it or not milind was going to go alone for the show ... we were like sala yeh banda kaisee jaa sakta akele yeh show ke liye per i guess FANS are like that only ... may be avanti can answer that better ... :-) ... actually the previous day i and sheetal were seeing one program called INDIAN IDOL (search for a singer who will get 1Cr Rs) ... on sony TV there sonu was the judge re ... he sang one song at the end of the show .. it was sung soo well ki kya bataoo ... immediately we decided bahut ho gaya .. sonu bangalore aa raha hai aur hum naa jayee kaisee hoo sakta .... lets GO .... raat ko 12 baje ticket walee ko phone kiya aur puucha ki tickets available hai kya ... 200 / 400 / 600 / 800 ke tickets thee ... humne bola 800 ke hai kya .. woh bola hai ... hum bole we want 2 tickets ... because milind nee pehle hi liyee thee tickets ... then woh bola ki kal call karte 9 baje aur 10 baje ko tickets lake deete tum long ko ghar pee .. i mean free home delivery yaar .. sahi na ... we got a call the next day ... got both the tickets ... and guess what show was going to start at 730 and it was drizzling the whole day ... shaam ko 6baje toh kafi barish huee ... humko laga ki hum hagee joor see tickets leeke ... but then 630 pm rain stopped and we were off to Palace grounds where the show was supposed to be ....
reached there ... milind kahan toh ghum hoo gaya .. per finally we met inside ... kafi theek thaak types seats milee ... then 830 ko show start hua .... initially sonu sang the first song praying to GOD .... it goes like this ... vakratunda mahakare ....... i guess those of you who have seen mahabharat would remember the tune... and i tell it was just amazing ... we could not believer that it was sonu who was singing .. his voice is like just toooooooooooo gud .. and the system was like crystal clear yaar ... aisa lag raha thaa ki CD see play hoo raha thaa ..... after the initial worship to god .... came one guy named RANA .... he sang the most HOTTEST song on indian cinema tooday ... ie from murder ... "O Ohhh Ooooo" he sang it soo well that we really could not imaging how good it would be if sonu sings yaar ..... phir ayii SOUMYA RAO .. she is an upcoming singer from Bangalore who has done playback for a few latest hindi songs .. :-) .. she also sang well ... btw whe was very pretty ... rather her dressing sense was very good :-) ./..... ok i forgot to mention the host for the show was Ruby Bhatia ... kuch toh panchat giri kar rahii thii woh beech beeech mein ... general re .. nothing special .... then came the moment the whole crowd was waiting for ... MR SONU NIGAM ... his entry saw many girls skipping couple of heart beats ... (personally i dont think he is that cute ... but neways ... ).... sonu then started singing ... HE sang ...
SATHIYA :- in this song he had 3 pair of dancers dancing behind him and he was singing on the ramp.... the song sounded exactly like the way it is played from a CD. just amazing man ... and guess what the dances did the same steps as it was in the film .. they were so very well choreographed ki kya bolu u...
MAIN HOO NA :- Tumsee milke dil ka joh haal , Main hoo na title track ... both were very very well sung ...
Pyar tune kya kiya :- Kambakth ISHQ ..... very well done again ...
PARDES :- yeh dil ... deeewaana ... another one to which the crowd was singing with him ....
DEWANA :- deewana ... uske album ka gana hai ek .. if you guyz remember ..
BIJURIYA :- another of his albums ... to this he also danced ... if you guyz have seen this vedio .. he did the same steps ...
K3G :- You r my sonia ... yeh song jab gaya na usnee tab toh pura standing public naachne laga re ... mereko bhi nachne ka bahut maan kar raha thaa per nahin naacha tab ...
Suraj hua madham ... this was the song with which he started the show .. it was just wonderfully sung as is the song ... just too good yaar ...
KHNH :- Title track ... If is one of the most wonderful songs every made. really just listen to the lyrics .. they are just too good ... when he was singing this song he mentioned one incidence when he was in pakistan ie in april 2004 .. during his show ... there was a bomb blast in a bus standing just where the show was being held ... he also told us to take our mobiles out and put on the back light and wave ... it was another amazing site ... since we were sitting in the front few rows ... when we turned back it was like some 20000 torches all waving ... it was a glimse of the night .... very touching though ...
Mujhse shadi karoogi :- Jeene ke hai chaar din .... it is fultu tapori song .. esp if you have seen the movie.. this song has salman as usual nanga punga and dancing on the beach with some 500 bikini clad girls around .. there is one step in this song where in he is wearing towel .. fairly long one ;-) and moving another towel with both is hands under his legs ... i guess that was a really bad description but u must see this song ... i tell you ;-) ... yeh ganee pee bhi public nanchne laga re ...
Soldier :- tera rang ballee balle .. tera ruup balle balle ... naiyoo naiyoo .... sahi gana hai yaar yeh .. this was the last song he sang ... and it was like he made even the old ppl stand up and dance ... now even we all stood up and danced away to gloory in the middle of the night .. it was just amazing ... dancing with some 20K odd people ... with pounding music ... i mean pounding means it was pounding right in our hearts ... we had to shout in each others ears to convey whatever little we wanted to convey to each other ... just amazing feeling .. i guess the effect can be compared standing near one of those huge set of speakers on boat club during the fun fair ... remember good old coep days .. those were another amazing set of days ... ok avoiding further diversions ... :-) ...
also in between sonus younger sister sang the most popular song in india now .... DHOOM ... ie ISHQ ISHQ .... it was sung exactly the way sunidhi sings it .. i guess sunidhi is the original singer ... also SOUMYA RAO sang a couple of song that i cant remember as of now ... :-( ...
can u imagine the show ended at around 12 midnight ... none of us had any food .... when we came out it was like everybody was singing some or the other song ...
now after that we did not know where we would get food ...
so we decided to go to barista on 100 ft road it is usually open till 1am but guess what when we reached there it was like they were closing down ... so we decided to go to barista at leela palace ... and guess what we found ourselves at barista at 1am ... no comments about leeela .. :-) .. it is just too good ... guess what at the price of normal barista rates u are gettting the ambience of leela .. cant ask for more .. we had snacks .... digested the fact that we had seen one of the best live shows till date and then even relaxed and chilled out a bit at the LEELA ... uff what an amazing day it was ... really one of the most memorable days in my life ... at leela milind was telling that yeh show deekhne ke baad life mein alag saa ek joosh saa aaa gaha hai .... ek aisa feeling which tells u ki ... sala routine life toh chalta raheega ... we need something extra to bring that EXTRA thing into our lives nahin toh wohi roooz ka routine ...
today i went around telling everybody about the concert in my team ... he he he ...
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