Raksha Bandhan

Happy Rakhi to One and All. I remember my child hood on this day :) . It was the time when we don't know the actual significance of the day but we tie rakhi to our brothers to get some nice nice gifts from them.. :) - I even used to ask my brother to tie rakhi for me, but I will not give any gifts :D
But as I grew up I knw the Significance... I knew the tradition from where we got this festival.. here is a gist of what all I knew about this special Day...

Rakhi : The Thread Of Love

In the month of shravan, on the full moon day, like any other Indian festival RAKSHABANDHAN is celebrated with the same gist and warmth. This very day marks the promise of never ending love and affection between a brother and a sister.

Traditions And Customs

On Rakshabandhan every sister ties a thread on the wrist of her brother and prays for his long and prosperous life. The brother takes this as a pledge to protect his sister throughout his life.
This festival has its roots in the ancient times and even today it has not lost its charm. It has a very significant place in the hearts of Our Indians and parents make strong efforts to imbibe the values and emotions associated with this festival into their children. This relationship is no where so celebrated as in India.

The Meaning of Raksha Bandhan

The name 'Raksha Bandhan' suggests 'a bond of protection'. Relationships are the essence of any festivity and it holds true for any Indian festival. Each occasion brings the family together which calls for a celebration. Raksha Bandhan is a celebration of one such relation - that of a brother and a sister. Raksha Bandhan is a festival which celebrates the bond of affection between brothers and sisters. It is a day when siblings pray for each others' well being and wish for each others' happiness and goodwill.

I Wish All A Happy Raksha Bandhan !!!

"There's no other love like the love for a brother. There's no other love like the love from a brother"
Urs

Stages of busy life without missing fun in it !!!

Busy ...Busy ......Busy ...

I donno what am I doing , but I can say strongly I have been busy all the day :p

And...... Day by Day as time passes I am getting more busy than earlier :D

During my job days in pune, I was busy with heavy project schedule and weekend masti :) Weekdays busy busy work in office til late night, weekends busy busy timing with friends , chit chat with roomies till late night :) Busy with Fun .... enjoyed LIFE and learnt a LOT about LIFE during this busy phase of my life :)

During my married life in USA, days were more busier than before, It was a  new place for me, different food, have to prepare box for my hubby, making calls to India to be in touch with parents, relatives nd friends and more than that , need to got up early in the morning to manage all household things .........uuuffhhh,, I still wonder how did we manage to do all things those days.. even weekends were busy as the day starts at 12- 1PM for us :) even if we woke up early it would for a date outside :) Life has become more busy with much FUN, surprises and excitement in my new life :)

and nowwwwwwww, most loving phase of my life I would say,,, I am most busy than ever, and I am enjoying life at most than anytime...... Full time goes with my loving kid, her mischief...... How innocent these kids are.....Why cant we all ppl be such innocent for ever :p I doesn't even have time to think about job, and why to think lifez amazing like this,, why cant it be like this for some more time :)

Is life leading towards busyness all the time :D what ever time you see, its busy , busy and more busy :) But by god grace all the time he was with me and made me enjoy the true color of life ........... Bottom line I want to say ,, however busy you are.......... dont ever miss fun in your life, enjoy life at max, coz you never know you have another chance or not :)

cheers buddies :)

How do you Really Look At things ??

A small story I came across and would love to share it to everyone -

One day a father and his rich family took his son to a trip to the country with the firm purpose to show him how poor people can be. They spent a day and a night in the farm of a very poor family.

When they got back from their trip the father asked his son, “How was the trip?”

“Very good Dad!”

“Did you see how poor people can be?” the father asked.

“Yeah!”

“And what did you learn?”

The son answered, “I saw that we have a dog at home, and they have four. We have a pool that reaches to the middle of the garden, they have a creek that has no end. We have imported lamps in the garden, they have the stars. Our patio reaches to the front yard, they have a whole horizon.”

When the little boy was finishing, his father was speechless. His son added, “Thanks Dad for showing me how poor we are!”

Isn’t it true that it all depends on the way you look at things? If you have love, friends, family, health, good humor and a positive attitude towards life-you've got everything!

You can’t buy any of these things, but still you can have all the material possessions you can imagine, provisions for the future, etc., but if you are poor of spirit, you have nothing!!

Urs,

Dad's Retirement

43 years of dedication, hard work, never ending commitments and ever lasting responsibilities…. You should be real tired and stressed out by now and you deserve some rest. Congrats on your retirement dad. YOU ARE THE BEST.

My dad retired from his government service as a Senior Section Engineer on 30th June 2014. He begins his carrier as a painter and taking away promotions, he retired as a Senior Section Engineer. We’re so proud of his attitude and his colleagues comment on the way of his service he followed as a ideal to others and today’s younger generation.

We know how much you and mom strived to raise us. Bringing up four kids is a great challenge, but you stood for it and accomplished it in an outstanding way. No one else could have done better. You never compromised in providing us what we want or felt large family as a burden. You stood brave while in trouble, neither panicked nor lost the smile on your face. You tried every possible way and sailed this large ship to its destination. Now it is our turn to take good care of the tired sailor. The underlying truth is that, " Its hard to sail a huge ship to its destination through all the storms and cyclones out there, but if you could make it to the destination – the pay back is high". You proved yourselves as successful parents and now its our turn to prove. We admire the smile on your face and your attitude towards life. Dad...You are a true inspiration .

As some one said "retirement is from work, not from life" . I know you still have responsibilities but the best part is, Now you have children to share them. I have loads of feelings, but short of words to express them. Thanks for every thing you gave us. We feel blessed to be your children. CONGRATS DAD.

Urs,

When I was Kid

• I'd put my arms in my shirt and tell people I lost my arms.

• Would restart the video game whenever I knew I was going to lose.

• Had that one pen with four colors, and tried to push all the buttons at once.

• Waited behind a door to scare someone, then leaving because they're taking too long to come out.

• Faked being asleep,so I could be carried to bed.

• Used to think that the moon followed our car.

• Tried to balance the switch between On/Off.

• Watching two drops of rain roll down window and pretending it was a race.

• The only thing i had to take care of was a school bag.

• Swallowed a fruit seed I was scared to death that a tree was going to grow in my tummy.

• Closed the fridge extremely slowly to see when the lights went off.

• Walked into a room,. forgot what you needed, Walked out, and then remember.

• Thinking earthworms falls from sky when it rains.

Remember when we were kids and couldn't wait to grow up and now we think why did we even grow up?

Childhood Was The Best Part Of our Life

I know u have a smile on ur face while reading, bt frankly we all miss all those childhood days and now im feeling , experiencing and sharing same moments with my daughter.

Urs,

What would make you happy?

This is a question I found somewhere while browsing. For a second I thought what a question it is to ask. Initially I thought it was a fool question. But it was only when i started to think of an answer not able to give a complete answer.

Well what makes you happy...

Few answers I thought are below:

1. Spending ample time with my husband.

2. Making webcam chat with my parents and family members.

3. Watching and playing with my niece.

4. Chatting with old school and college friends in phone or online.

5. When I see my favorites food dishes when I’m hungry.

6. When I see an innocent baby smile.

7. When my husband gives me surprises.

8. When I eat chocolates, ice creams and sweets.

9. When I look at my childhood pictures.

10. When I capture things with my camera.

11. Help a neighbor or friend with something.

12. Humming my favorite songs.

13. Post on my Facebook page. (How can I forget this?)

14. Blast out with my favorite music and dance around with no regard for rhythm or appearance.

15. Paint my hand and toe nails with all bright and light colors.

16. Watch my own made videos. (Really very funny)

17. Go out for shopping with my close friends.

18. Making new friends.

19. When my blog view count increases(:P).

20. When I see any comments for my blog posts.

19. Watching uplifting videos like the below ones:

well the list goes on...

Can anyone think of what makes you happy.....

Cheers,

What Will Tomorrow Bring?

This is such a great flick... it depicts loneliness .. lost love.. the effect that distance has on inseparable souls... amazing piece of art n photography...

Everything about this image is soft and wistful, from the delicate treatment of the hand to the muted colors of the flowers.

Wow..now I feel "Imagination is a dangerous thing".

As it;s a saying "'Life is like a box of chocolates, you nev

er know what you're gonna get!'" Tomorrow is such a long time (according to Bob Dylan).

Art by: artofgold

http://www.flickr.com/photos/artofgold/38227120/in/photostream/lightbox/

 Cheers,

All about love in the 21st century

Today i was watching a show "One life to love" in NDTV Good Times TV Channel and come across with the topic "All about love in the 21st century" discussing with four young people all between the age 21 and 23.

In my opinion Love is something which confuses with liking and it happens because we share our choices, interests, musics and all the things that we like and start dating each other. But then in a while it get to know that this is not I wanted, even our choices and interest is similar but this doesn't mean that we are in love.

From childhood we lives with our family, our parent teaches us all good things, hence it becomes bonding with family from the beginning of our life days and it becomes a habit of sharing all good and bad things, there we start loving each other. What i wanted to say is here the love comes from our habit where we share all the things like home, food, happys, saddies, clothes etc etc.

People says that I love music, I love my parents, I love my dog, I love reading books etc etc.. here the Love  really comes from there habits. Why people say that I Love music..because, they like music and it makes a habit of listening to music, this applies to all the things i mentioned above.

Today i am very proud to say that I Love my husband. My marriage was arrange marriaged and before my marriage I doesn't met my husband except on my engagement day..:) of course we used to talk in phones and shared all our past life, likes, interests etc. and there i started liking him and after my marriage I started living with him leaving all my past life including parents, family, jobs and friends back. At first it had taken some time to adjust myself with my husband but day by days it became my habit of eating, sleeping, watching TV, movies etc. with my husband and today without him I cant live. All this happened becz i am liking the way of my habit of living with him. Here comes the Love formula:

Like + Habit = LOVE

Watch this wonderful video:

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xon7s9_all-about-love-in-the-21st-century_news#.UUOT8hzbP1w

Cheers,

Hindu man raising a Muslim child in Lucknow

Today, i.e Thursday the 31st January, 2013, at around 11hrs, As I was flipping the channels to kill my leisure time and my remote paused me at the Sony Entertainment Channel where I was glued with this programme called crime patrol with shock and amazement. Initially, I was for sure that programme would contain full of criminal related incidents but truly happened one somewhere in our country. Later from internet I came to know that this story belongs to Aiku Lal Sandil and Akbar from Lucknow city.

On February 2002 a tea vendor in Lucknow Aiku Lal Sandil finds a Muslim boy abandoned at a garden near his tea stall, when asked about his whereabouts the boy only remembers his name as Akbar, Aiku reports to police but the police were unable to trace the boy's parents as there was no complain registered on missing of a three year old boy in any of the police station all over the state. 

After loosing hope police advice Aiku to shift the boy to an orphanage, Aiku refuses and brings up the boy on his own, Aiku has merge income but ensures the boy gets proper education and also retains Akbar's religion by taking him to a muslim clerk and making the child learn Quran and read Namaz daily. Soon a lovely relationship blossoms between a hindu man and a muslim boy and they both form a family of their own.

But their world turns upside down when the boy's biological parents turn up and seek the custody of boy, but the boy refuses saying Aiku is his father-mother and wants to stay with Aiku, but the boy's biological parents go to court to claim Akbar's custody. But court pronounces judgement in favor of Aiku and acknowledges Aiku's upbringing of the boy by retaining his religion and providing education. During court proceedings we get insights about the life of Aiku as how he was brought up with love an care by a Muslim family in spite of him being a Hindu.

“I am a Hindu brought up by a kind Muslim man. When I found Akbar, it was like God telling me that it is time to return the love and care I got from His people. I was never forced to change my religion and, having got that education from my guardian, it was my duty to take care of the child and bring him up as per his own religion,” Sandil says. 

I got to know about this story through Crime Patrol but the names of Aiku and Akbar have been changed to kishan lal and imran, when i first watched the episode i was moved by its message that showed us how Humanity is greater than religion and also the fact that love is out of bounds of religion and caste.

                                       

                                       

                                       
It makes me really proud to think such people still exist in this day and age, where people of different religions continue to live in unity. No conversion was attempted. They retained their original identity and yet they are far superior at heart.

"One who raises is always bigger than the one who gives birth."

Yours,

Love Has No Reason..

Lady: Why do you like me..? Why do you love me?

Man : I can't tell the reason. But I really like you...

Lady: You can't even tell me the reason... how can you say you like me? How can you say you love me?

Man : I really don't know the reason, but I can prove that I love you.

Lady: Proof? No! I want you to tell me the reason. My friend's boyfriend can tell her why he loves her but not you!

Man : Ok..ok!!! uhh...   because you are beautiful,
                                    because your voice is sweet,
                                    because you are caring,
                                    because you are loving,
                                    because you are thoughtful,
                                    because of your smile,
                                    because of your every movements.

The lady felt very satisfied with the man's answer.

Unfortunately, a few days later, the Lady met with an accident and went into the coma stage.

The Guy then placed a letter by her side, and here is the content:

Darling,

Because of your sweet voice that I love you...Now can you talk? No! Therefore I cannot love you.

Because of your care and concern that I like you...Now that you cannot show them, therefore I cannot love you.

Because of your smile, because of your every movement that I love you...Now can you smile? Now can you move?

No, therefore, I cannot love you.

If love needs a reason, like now, there is no reason for me to love you anymore.

Does love need a reason? NO!

Therefore, I still love you...And love doesn't need a reason

With love always,
Forever yours.

Urs,