Well …

Hum deewanon ki kya hasti
Hain aaj yahan kal wahan chale,
Masti ka aalam saath chala
Hum dhool udaate jahaan chale ||

Aaye bankar ullhaas abhi,
Aansoon bankar beh chale abhi,
Sab kehte hi reh gaye, arey!
Tum kaise aaye, kahaan chale ||

Kis or chale? Mat yeh pooncho,
Chalna hai bas isliye chale,
Jag se uska kuch liye chale,
Jag ko apna kuch diye chale ||

Do baat kahii, do baat sunii,
Kuch hanse aur phir kuch roye,
Chhak kar sukh dukh ke ghoonton ko,
Hum ek bhav se piye chale ||

Hum bhikmangon ki duniya mein,
Swacchand lutaakar pyaar chale,
Hum ek nishaani ur pe,
Le asaphalta ka bhaar chale ||

Hum maan rahit, apmaan rahit,
Ji bharkar khulkar khel chuke,
Hum hanste hanste aaj yahan,
Praanon ki baazi haar chale ||

Ab apna aur paraaya kya,
Abaad rahe rukne waale,
Hum swayam bandhe the, aur swayam
Hum apne bandhan tod chale ||

Do not know who the poet is. Enlighten, if you do.

I am moving to US in the first week of January for pursuing Master’s at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Now, I know exactly what it means to feel like you have a hanger in your mouth! I can’t stop laughing …

Keep guessing why

Someone burnt a hole in my scooter seat cover with a cigarette today. Why would anyone want to do such a thing? What a bunch of sadistic morons with nothing better to do in life. This is the sort of stuff that really gets on my nerves. ‘Cause there is nothing I can do about it.

<lots of expletives>

I know I have abandoned this blog for a while now. Been pretty involved with stuff, so couldn’t find enough time to pen down anything. Most of all, I wanted to write about my Kodai trek and my trip to Mumbai. Will probably do that some day soon. I have also made two trips to home (Hyd), one to Tirupathi, attended weddings, wedding receptions and house-warmings of friends and family. Been watching Desperate Housewives (I know I am cheap :-D) for a few weeks. 41 out of 72 episodes down. Reading this crazily funny book called “Barrister Parvateesam” by M. Narasimha Sastry.

So now you know what I have been busy with

Anyway, this is what happened yesterday …
I posted a few pics of me in a saree from one of the weddings that I attended recently. I made the photos “Friends only”, but it turned out I don’t have nice friends …

(11:22:43) Srivani: check out my flickr to see some pics of srivani auntie
(11:22:44) Srivani:
…….. After seeing the pics
(11:28:46) Sudhir: aiyyoooo
(11:30:50) Srivani: whatever happened to plain old “you look nice” compliments??????
(11:31:52) Sudhir: aiyoooooooo
(11:32:44) Srivani: :-((

Starring Salmaan Khan, Akshay kumar and Preity

Most fun movie I have watched since “Malamaal Weekly”. The movie was HILARIOUS. There is a bit of senti stuff too, but it hardly ever gets heavy. Now this is called Entertainment!

Do watch it if you haven’t yet already. I assure you, it’ll be fun.

The YHAI summer trekking schedule is out. You can check it out here. The trek route and other details are not available yet. Should be up soon.

Novel by Dharmveer Bharathi
The language of a book, in my opinion, influences the way you look at the characters, the plot, the conflicts etc. a lot. Hindi is any day closer to my sensibility than English. I realized that while reading a Hindi novel, I am a lot more sensitive, a lot more conforming, a lot more accomodating than I am when I read an English one.

“Gunahon ka devata” was written in the 1970s, if I am not mistaken. One of the classics in Hindi literature. I should say, the book is pretty progressive for its age. Conflicts in relationships is the central theme of the book. It raises a lot of questions and attempts to answer some. I might not agree with the author completely, but its nevertheless nice to know that others go through the same things you do.

But that is all I am willing to talk about here. Read the book to know more :-p

Okay, normally, I am not the kind who would go anywhere near writing hacks. However, for the past few days I have had this itch to write a script that would help me post directly from Yahoo! Photos to Flickr.

While I was at it, one thing led to another, and finally decided to setup DynDNS on my modem yesterday. Was successful and was quite happy about it. Just when I was revelling in my humble entry into geek-dom (if that!), I happened to read this blog entry of a fellow yahoo. And I thought, “Now, that’s a geek! A really crazy one at that.”.

I had been trying to install the flash plugin for sometime now. Tried a number of things, nothing went through. Was wondering what could be wrong. At last it struck me that I own a 64bit machine now and there lies the deamon. I guess, I did not yet get used to the fact that I am 64bit now.

Anyway, the process is pretty straight-forward. This post helped me out. Enjoy!