12 December...

....Amidst heap of books & notes around me on bed, 2 hrs past the start of my b'day... Was wondering that what could have been the importance of this day in history... Offcourse it marks birth of the 'Aditya'... But still there could be somewhat less important events as well that this beautiful day has witnessed in past... Google Worshiper... What I'm... Provoked me to switch on the net n Google it out... But then another fone call n I realized ki exam hai subah... Got lost again in books...

Toh finally 2day got some time to Google it... N there were some events which got lucky enuff to share their occurence with the day of my birth - 12 December... :P

Apart from Rajnikant & Yuvraj sharing b'days with me & Malaika-Arbaz's Shaadi...found a few ajeeb ones like:

1911: Delhi replaced Calcutta as capital of India...

1917: First World War: 500 French soldiers involved in Italy got mysteriously killed when train derailed in Modane. 

1913: Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa was stolen from Louvre Gallery in Paris... Was found in the bedroom of a small hotel in Florence, Italy the same day...

1941: Second World War: Adolf Hitler ordered 'Clean sweep Extermination' of the Jews all around the world in a public speech...

1971: Indo-Pak War: Indian Air Force struck Pak Troups hard in blitzkrieg approach... Also dropped leaflets urging Pak to suurender...

2008: Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi released N Alex Braineir got seized with teeth of a mad dog outside his office (Courtesy: Alex Braineir microblogging at some site where I reached dunno how)...

So to conclude, there was nothing very important I got afta all that effort that I was expecting...

N m happy to have this day remembered only for a very few good reasons - one being mine... :)

* Hey ... Do tell hwz the new look of blog or shud i revert back to the earlier one ???

Keep Googling...

God Bless All !!!

- Aditya

Met A Lil Girl ...

Hmmmm...Winter Vacations...Adore this time of year soo much...

N this tym I got a chance to get away from usual course (though only for 2 days) to attend a function at Mama's place in Rajasthan... But still got full opportunity to feel the chill by leaving at 5 in the morning (night actually it was) to catch an early morning train... Loved d 'Swish-Swish' of cold air passing by my ear... Dat lesser than 20m visibility... Dew everywhere around n that virtual smoking dat I had been missing since early morning skool daz... Loved it all...

Met this little girl as my neighbour on d way in train...

Quiet she sat beside me on the middle seat... I could see dat she wasn't happy being between a stranger(i.e. me on window seat) & her Grandmom(on aisle seat) of that Chair Car Coach of train... Her mom n dad being in the next seats at the back...

Sooo cute she was that I kept switching views between the window scene outside n her typical childishly cute chores... Jaldi hi, I realised ki she was willing to be on my window seat (as I used to like wen i was small...N 2day as well)... She was constantly leaning over me to look outside n as soon as I would turn my face towards her's... She wud just shy away as if she was into something she wud be scolded for... I finally overheard her talking to her grandmom saying - "Dekha jaldi aate toh meko khidki waali seat milti"...

Offered her my seat n in return got sucha lovely smile... I could see in her eyes how much she loved the gesture... N I too felt euphoric that it made her happy... In the swapping of seats with her I got to talk to her... She was much younger than wot I had thot (I had guessed her to be around 6-7 but she told dat she was in LKG... dat means 3-4 yrs old)...

Didn't chat much n she again got hooked with her nose on the window pane looking outside n often turning here to show sum stuff outside... Kept chirping thngs to herself... N I kept observing n observing... Jus talked once more wen she asked me to have some chip from Lays Family Size Packet... I took one... N her grandmom came in saying -"Good girl"... (I jus had one chip...n it was fine... but Lays waale toh keep saying in tagline -"No one can eat just one" )...hehehe..PJ...

Datz it... 3 hrs passed sooo chop-chop n I got down with my mom from train at our station...

She must have continued with her nose on window pane...N her hand goin in n out of dat Lays Pack...Munch munch sounds among those continous attractive n holding talks she was into with herself... :)

Whatever... she made my day with her lovely smile n I hope I made her's by xchanging seats with her... 

Yea... Forgot to ask her name... Her mom from the backseat once cried - "Nonuu... gandi baat"... 'Nonu' must have been her nickname... Anyways m gonna remember her as a cute..lil..angel-like girl who made my day with that 1000 Watt smile...

* N hey sumthng's cooking... new post may arrive soon if I find sumthng on Google...

Keep Smilling !!!

God Bless All !!!

- Aditya

'CHICKEN' ALL OVER ME !!!!

Yeah !!! Datz d indulgence m currently soaked up into dese daz... Hav to xept the deglutition of d fact dat - 'yes itz simply over me' - everythng m having dese daz has CHICKEN in it... N dat includes a few of Outta Box chicken dishes dat i have been finding for a while...

Be it the CHICKEN Stuffed Paranthas... Or Shormas... Or Labnese's Pheeta Rolls... Or Barraa's... Or the usual CHICKEN stuff... Loving all of it... 

Anyways came here to include an amazing STUPID discovery into this STUPID diary of mine - "PANGA"...

Yes !!! PANGA - The best among the all those chickeney things... Got to knw bout it from a frnd who darred me with eating a whole of it without havin the trauma looks on face...

Was facinatting enuff an intro to this PANGA... dat I rushed wid him the same day to this place... 

There were: 1) Medium Panga

2) Full Panga

* Medium n Full depicting the Level of Trauma one can go under wid the Spiciness of Chicken...

Awesome it was... I started wid the Medium Panga - was able to get over it... then took the Full Panga - n I failed wid dose REDDNED Chicken inside wid chilly n GREENED outside again wid chilly flakes...

Made me cry... laugh... sneeze... jump... everythng I did while coming back... Bt will surely be back dere again... :)

Starred a few of them (those i tried in last few daz) according to the my liking:

- Barra's : * * *

- Labnese's Pheeta Rolls : * *

- Paranthas : * * *

- Shormas : * *

- PANGA : * * * * *

Will continue the quest & hunt for new CHICKEN Stuff n see if somethng beats dis basic Tandoori Chicken Panga wich freaked me out...

Keep Binging !!!

God Bless All wid Lotsa Lovely Food !!!

Take Care !!!

-Aditya

'School is Coooolll '.....

.... thats what many of the slam book entries, by friends at school, reads. The slam book that i made everyone fill, during our last few days at school...

School has such a charm to it; a child-like innocence abounds, an innocence and a freeness that i realized i had long forgotten; that i seem to have re-learnt today..Thanks to the food fest organized at my school today.

I had visited school quite a few times in the last few months, but everytime it was after school hours, when the school is all empty. For today however, i had decided to visit and be a part of the food fest. And so i reached school at 11-o-clock. And lo... the scene looked like that of a fete! It all seemed grand and complete with swings, food stalls(set up house-wise), game stalls (set up and managed class wise), a baby show going on on the stage, and along with all this, songs being played and dedicated on requests from those present there. There was a DJ floor set up in the audi, while the enclosed green area in front of it had a variety of innovative and interesting art works on display, made by children of junior classes. 

I had started by taking a round around the school, observing everything my eyes could possibly take in. Once in the school ground, i met all my teachers one after the other. I was pretty ashamed that i dint remember most of them by their names. But surely i remembered all of them by the lil incidents and the lil things i learnt from them. Like how My Hindi teacher, in class Xth., couldn’t believe that i could write some hi-fi Hindi dialogues for a patriotic play, in spite of having a track record of awful Hindi papers...:) It was, however, bcs of her teaching itself that i could write those lines for a play, which won us the first prize..! i loved meeting all my teachers. Each one of them had this look of contentedness which was a treat for my eyes. They were handling stalls with great enthu, and were happy too on meeting ex-students they had taught. It was heartening to see ex-students, who passed out even some 10 years ago, coming on this occasion.

All the teachers i met informed me abt the registration gng on for an alumni association. So i headed for the counter they directed me to, and registered myself. I also left a suggestion for a DJ party for all our batch mates, for i miss those that we had during school days..

One thing struck me hard.. there was not a single soul from my batch, whom i could spot during the one and a half hours i spent there. In spite of the fact that many of them knew abt this event. Goes to show how busy we can get in building our lives both for the short term and long term. Or probably there are some other reasons for not grabbing such opportunities to re-live the beautiful school times.. reasons that i cant see..

Everything seemed just the same as before.. and looking at all the display boards at various parts of the school building was enjoyable too. All those bold captions, strong messages conveyed thru crisp writings and other displays, interesting decorations, announcements for various competitions... everything rang a bell.. of how happening school life always was...:) and how subtly school life shapes us into what we are.. and will be...

***** Happy Birthday to Me *****

Hey Blogger... Sorry was outta sight and reach for soooooo long... But see m back just for you even in the midst of my Semester Examinations... N yes ... Wish All Good Things for Me... Coz its Mah B'day 2day... :) :) :) :)

Hmmm... The day is almost at the brink of changing... N yes it was an eventful one... Atleast eventful enough for a post...

Started 12'o Clock Midnight 2day was the stream of calls that seemed to never end... Almost every1 that I could have thought of remembered mah b'day... Abhi realized that Orkut may have helped a few... I should have disabled the thing there... 

I had an exam 2day (which has been going from last 4 yrz - havin an exam on b'day)... Kinda spoils a bit of fun but chalta hai... Went into the paper with an extraordinarily meagre preparation for a tufffffyyyy paper as this one... Goofd up on a lotto questions... Khair it had to end n it did after those 3 toilsome hrz at the first seat of the row in exactly front of the examiner... At times I felt 2day ki hez just sitting to take my exam... Feels like ajeeb at the first seat... Have to face the same trauma again for 2 more papers left...

Found a pleasant surprise outside my examination centre (actually an understatement to be honest)... Found a frnd outside the centre who had abso no knowledge where I could have been... N I could have never expected this from her... A cake for me at my examination centre... Wow !!!!! We celebrated MYYY B'day... Got a few gifts.. Nice ones... The Best among being a 'Diary' - 'Our Diary' with account of sooooo many sweet things of the last few yrz... Cudn't have thought of anything better... Mmmmuuuaaahhhh to you !!!!

So my day finally ends... Yet Another B'day of 21 yrz of my life... Hehehe... :-D

*** Now wot follows is for a speacial person who I knw is definitely gonna read this ***

Hey !!!

I missed you a loooooooot 2day... This has been mah first b'day wen u aren't here... I know you're gonna be very happy 2day as I complete my 21 yrz... Jus wanted to tell you that m missing all that 'Excessive' love, care and affection bestowed on me all these yrz... Jus this much...

N yeah... I got my passport finally done... Sorry thoda delay ho gaya... U had been pinching me for last 3 yrz for it n see the thing i got myself verified on the day u left... N one more thing - I voted against as you would have wished me to - But wot I missed this time was the nagging from 7 in the morning to go n vote...

N I'm trying not to throw my towel on bed before leaving home in the morning... Will keep you update on the progress on this...

P.S. - Plz if you could find some mistakes in the matter I wrote, do correct them... you've been doing them for me itne saalon se... I never used to like it that time... But I miss it nw... :(

Love you lotsss...

Aditya Sinha

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Still 50 mins of my b'day left... Gonna spend them with myself...

Good Night...

God Bless All !!!

-Aditya

Faith...

Since long I have been wanting to write about so may good and bad things. But I feel so overpowered by the on goings of life that I just don’t pay heed to this desire.

Result; a neglected blog. But it's always good to have unexpected sources of inspiration around you. Definitely, if someone reminds you of how u used to get up at 6 in the morning and write, you would feel the zing rushing back to you, wont you??? :)

So I thought let me base this post on some positivity in the midst of a fast life which is ironically dotted with the fear of assault anytime now....

Recently I lost my phone. One of the cheaper Nokia models, but precious it was, for certain reasons. Forgetful as I am, I left it in my office bus on a Thursday evening, after which there was a three day long weekend!

And, alas! I couldn’t contact the bus driver for all the three days that followed. I told my friends and they laughed at me, not as much for my carelessness (for probably they are used to it) but for my belief that the driver might just find it and keep it with himself to give it back on Monday.

Yes that’s what I was hoping for. But Monday morning came, and there was a completely different bus and a different driver :(

My colleagues also laughed at my expectation to get the phone back. "He is sure to have nicked it!!' they had said.

A little after I started the day's work at my desk, I received an IP (an internal messenger that links all employees at office) which I noticed was sent to the whole office. It read thus, "The person who lost a phone in the bus on Thursday, please contact the bus operator"

WOW! I got up to make the call from a colleague’s phone. I ensured that my phone would be handed over to me when I board the bus in the evening. 

Just as an FYI, I got it in good condition:)

This little incident proved a lot of things.

For one, having faith is not always in vain. I believe that people around do not always have bad intentions. In fact most of the times they want to help.

All of us learn nice little lessons like 'u must help the one in need', since childhood. But we observe the actions of hardened adults around us and wars that humans perpetrate on each other and slowly unlearn those lessons. 

I know that someone dropped a box in a busy market and a little boy who, with all good intentions, tried to give it back to its owner, died, for he never knew it was a bomb. Yet it does not stop me from having faith and helping someone who is in need.. in a similar situation or a different one.

Realize that we are surrounded by our own species. If we lose this faith in each other, it would not only be difficult to live on this earth, but will also mean victory for terror elements. And that is something we don’t want. Do we? 

Think about it.

Cares n Prayers

-Ritu...