Appreciation…….. जुलै 31, 2007

Somedays ago we went to a marathi play called “Marathi bana”.It has 125 people including the theater group, make up artist , musicians and the main artist.It showcases the hindu culture. It has dances and songs showing all the festivals and rituals of Hindus. It also shows the various caste and their culture with their wedding ways their dances etc. It was truly amazing show.The participants had some colorfull dresses mainly the the nav vari saree ie the nine yards saree which are dressed according to the different cultures.for eg the ways of dressing up the kolis are different than compared to the maharastrian ladies.
They also showed main festivals like diwali, dassera. I specifically liked the way they projected diwali as festival of light.Many boys an dgirls danced on the tunes of a famou marathi song with lights (diyas) in their hand.Then suddenly the lights went off and only diyas were seen in dark.Beautifull and amazing patterns were made with lights in hand. It was mesmerizing scene.
What hurt more was my the end of the program, which lasted for almost 3 hrs, soon after the play finished everybody jumped to their feet and started exiting. Would it matter to you how bad the artist would have felt who have entaritained you for more than 3 hrs with their songs , dances and performanes. Would you atleast care to give a standing ovation for just 2 mins for such a good program. Its just a appreciation that a artist should get because he has made an effort to make you smile to enjoy your time to give somthing meaningfull. Its a token thatwhatever efforts he has put in to get the desired effect on the massess is paid off and hes recognized for this hardwork.

What i liked better than was a small animal show which i saw when i was in Thailands Dream world safari. It was showing organuttans show where monkeys ccome dance, sing play boxing etc and entairtain people for 1520 mins. The concept was simple but at the end of show people stood and gave a halfminute ovation for the trainers. Imagine the effort and sweat the trainers would have put in to teach these animals to entairtain you for just 15-20 mins. Dont they deserve it…….

Gurupurnima जुलै 30, 2007

Yday we had gurupurnima festival celebrated all over maharashtra. It a specific day in which we pay respect to out Teachers.
The day of full moon, Purnima, in the month of Ashadh is traditionally celebrated as Guru Purnima by Hindus. Also known as Vyas Purnima, the day is celebrated in remembrance and veneration to sage Ved Vyas. He is the Adi (original) Guru of the Hindu Dharma, who classified the Vedas, wrote the eighteen Puranas and the Mahabharat. On this day, the Guru is offered Pujan (worship)by the disciples.
The Sanskrit root “Gu” means darkness or ignorance. “Ru” denotes the remover of that darkness. Therefore one who removes darkness of our ignorance is a Guru. Only he who removes our ultimate darkness, known as Maya, and who inspires and guides us on to the path of God-realization is the true Guru. Students also refer to their school teacher or college lecturer as guru. The connotation of the word guru in this case is one who imparts temporal knowledge (Apara Vidya) and is thus accordingly offered respect.

A spiritual aspirant, no matter how brilliant, can never attain such knowledge by his own endeavor. This is stipulated in the Shrimad Bhagwatam in which Jadbharat reveals to king Rahugan:
“O Rahugan! One cannot attain knowledge of Atma and Paramatma by performing penance, sacrifices, renunciation, Vedic study or worshipping deities of water, fire or the sun. But when the dust from the feet of a satpurush (God-realized Guru) sprinkles on our heads, then we can surely attain this knowledge.”

In essence, one can only attain salvation by serving the satpurush. Treading the path to God-realization by one’s own efforts is likened by the Katha Upanishad as walking on a razor’s edge. Adi Shankaracharya echoes a similar injunction: “If a person, despite possessing: a handsome, disease-free body, fame, a mountain of wealth, and even if he has studied the Vedas and all other scriptures, and has himself composed many scriptures, but has not surrendered himself at the feet of a Guru, then he has achieved nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing.”

The Guru plays a vital role in boosting the aspirant frequently, when he loses track, becomes despondent or simply runs out of steam. The aspirant is thus better able to obey the Guru if he understands the Guru’s glory.

Such is the mahima of Guru … In Hindu Mythology, Guru is regarded as God…

yeppiee!!!! जुलै 18, 2007

yeppiee…. finally i can now write in marathi on blogger. com as well..
Congragulate me .. i deserve it… i have searche internet for hours for downloading a unicpde text format and a marathi/devnagari font. Believe its vey dificult especially when you dont know what a unicode is, why is i t used. cmon i am not form computers how the hell do i understand that..i know my laptop functioning and helps me make my professional life easier but that doesnt mean i know each and everything of text langs , codes and what not…. aneways to cut the story short finally i downloaded baraha and baraha IME o write my heart out in my matrubhasha….
Then came the problem of blog site not suporting the font.. again i spent hours changing hte setting of my browser.. i posted various queries on google and received highly technical data.. which to be true was not my cup of tea…
AND now out of blue when i changed my blogger settings to hindi,,it suddenly started showing me my required font… makes me gladd. and happily. Its givingm eimmense satisfaction finally i have done it.. mission accomplished…….

Yeahh offcourse you can visit my blogger at

http://ghostsin13.blogspot.com.

Puhleez dont forget to coment… it boost one morale….

Fashion street जुलै 17, 2007

Readymade garments are one of Mumbai’s chief exports – and the surplus lands up at Fashion Street, a huddle of little shops on Mahatma Gandhi Road. They cost only a fraction of the price in foreign stores however, and are grabbed by fashion conscious collegians fresh off the rack. Haggling, of course is half the fun of buying. Begin at half the quoted price and work your way gradually upwards, then follow though with a thorough appraisal of the goods: much of the stuff here is rejected by quality conscious importers and likely to have a missing button or crooked collar. But by and large the clothes are of good quality, trendy, and probably the cheapest anywhere in the world.

Break!!! जुलै 17, 2007

Once the boss s out of office means a prolonged lunch time break for all the office staff.Usually in my offie which is a technical support centre, the lunch break is not defined. The working shift is from morning 9.00 to 5.00 pm in evening with no coffee breaks or lunch breaks. The technical specialist has to take his or her own lunch breaks and coffee breaks managing the work alloted to him/her.But most of staff have unwritten rulebook which says that the lunch time is between 1.00-1.30 in afternoon. Most of the colleagues join in for lunch in pantry after 1.15 so the lunch time is a hurried bussiness in usual working days.
However when there is boss day out, the lunch time extended for more than hour making it a fun session.
Once eevryone gathered tiffins were openand curiosity of wwhat packed in lunch box beguns, the tiffis reheated in microwave and smell of yummy vegetables lingers on.. Rotis, sabji are exchanged.Few keep an handy bbottle of aachar which is served to everyone.
Over the lunch session there is lots of gossip exchanged regarding the upcoming projects, what happened in the admin dept, whos the trouble maker in admin, whats happening in accounts and whats up with the marketting and sales dept.The most discussed fact was sudden transfer of one of the prestigious employee from mumbai office to delhi office……slowly and steadilyy the discusion changed from professional to personal stuff. Things life is such a dearies and travelling in train is oohhh.. soo difficult these days. Many of the staff members come from different parts of mumbai and travelling through all harbour, central and western railways.
Then came th discussion of travelling each of the travelling experiences of railways route who fought with whom and how the second class crowd boarded the first class comapartment and how we taught the lesson.. one thing we all agreed upon was being a first class pass holder we have a right to shout at people , throw out the second class public, fight in english and if we dont get a seat in train we have a right to make other peoples life and journey a hell.afterall we are paying 5 times more than the common man….
Weelkend plan discussed ad immense discussion on monsoon party began.. with absence of rains in the citty .. not everyone was willing to go on picnic… Plans of visiting the mahshej ghat, or some resort in arnala or some fort or lonvala were in full spun.. each betting thats the best spot to venturre out for monsoon picnic…..Finally nothing is finalised as each one wants to go to his/her own favorite spot…
Latest trends in market, upcoming sale for clothing , books electronics are mostly discussed in lunch time they say…to some extent they are true..
The lunch time proceeds for hour or so.. finally some one gets up and washes his tiffin … its a sign we have to get back to our work….reluctantly evryone gets up aand moves ahead… wishing it could have lasted for another hr or so.. but theres a coffee break ahead…..lets meet at coffeee break. we can order some thing out…whats sY!!!!!!

Dagdusheth Halwai Ganpati जुलै 9, 2007

दोन दिवस पुण्या मध्ये खुपच छान गेले. माझ्या एका cousin चे लग्न होते. लग्न लाग ल्याव्रर म ध्ये वेळ होत म्ह णुन दगडुशेठ हलवाइ गणपती बघायचा chance मिळाला.
एक अतिश्य सुंदर असे हे गणेश मंदिर आहे. गणपती नुस्ता सुंदरच नाही ्तर अतिशय देखणा सुद्धा आहे. डॊळ्यांचे पारणे फिट्ले. नुस्ते डोळ्यानाच नाही तर मन ही शांत झाले.

जुलै 5, 2007

Daniel Radcliffe is only seventeen but has already proven he has that real star quality. With several films, television and stage productions under his belt he has become a young British acting force to be reckoned with. Starring as himself he joins Madame Tussauds as the youngest actor ever being immortalised by our sculptors.

Fans from all over the world have watched Daniel Radcliffe growing up on the big screen in films like the ‘Tailor of Panama’ and TV dramas such as Dickens classic ‘David Copperfield’ and ‘Extras’. They’ve also supported him in more challenging stage roles such as the recent stage play EQUUS. Daniel is still going from strength to strength as an actor and is a promising star well deserved of his spot in the lime light at Madame Tussauds!

With his 18th birthday around the corner Daniel has seen more fame than most actors achieve in a lifetime

फिरंग…. जुलै 4, 2007

हा post म्ह्ट्ल तर inspired post आहे. कारण हा विशय माझा नाही म्हणुन.

मी एका जपानी कंप नी मध्ये काम क्ररते.त्यामुळे माझे सगळे Boss हे जपानी आहेत.ब्रर ओफिस म्ध्ये सगळा इतर staff आपला मराठी.. त्यामुळे B0ss चे ragging हा रोजचा प्रकार…अगदी सुर वातीला त् र communication हाच मोठा problem असाय चा. आपण बोलणार एक हा समजणार एक असे करत करत आम्ही त्याच्याशी संवाद साधत होतो. साडे पाच फुटी हे बेंगरुळ ध्यान तसे होते शांत आणि हुशार उगीच शेंडी वगेरे लावुन घेणार नाही.
ह्ळु ह्ळु आमची त्याच्याशी दोस्ती वाढ्त गेली इतकी कि आम्ही त्याला आपले इंडियन फुड बिन्दास्त द्यायला लागलो.खरे तर आम्हीच त्याच्याव्रर प्रयोग करायला लागलो. मग कधी त्याला ताज मध्ये घेउन जा आणि मुदाम इंडियन बुफे खायला घाल असे हे प्रकार चालु झाले.बिचारा करतॊ काय हसुन ग्प्प बसतो.क्धी हाय हुई करतो तर कधी चकक मला आवडल म्हणुन सांगतो.
ब्रर परत ह्याचे गाववाले आले की त्यांचाही ह्याच प्रकारे छ्ळ चालु होतो. खरी मजा तर meeting मध्ये येते.बिचारा सगळे काहीतरी विनोद झाल्याव्रर हसतात आणि हा बिचारा काहीच न कळल्यामुळे नुसता मान डोलवत बसतो.
तसा फिरंग असल्याचा अनुभव घ्यायची वेळ लवकरच माझ्याव्रर आली. आमच्या advanced course ला जाण्याची संधी मला मिळाली.mostly asia pacific region च्या indonesia, malaysia, java sumatra, philipines etc ह्या देशातुन सगळे इंजिनियर्स जमले होते. training चालु झाल्या व्र र प्र्त्येकाने आप ले doubt singlish मधे विचाराला सुरवात केली. आपण बिचारे गरिब एकदा इकडे बघ एकदा तिकडे बघ् असे चालु केले.आणि त्याच वेळी जाणवले की आपण ह्या देशात फिरंग आहोत ते.नं त र नं त् र त र अ ख्ख training singlish मध्ये चालू झाले मी आपली मख्खा सारखी बसुन राहायची .. दुसरे करणार तरी काय …..

असे म्हणतात कि करावे त्से भरावे….. तसे असेल का हो हे …..????????????????

असच काही बाही….. जुलै 2, 2007

ब्ररयाच उत्साहाने मी हा ब्लॊग चालु केला. तरी पण म्हणावा तसा तो लिहिला जात नसल्याची खंत मनात आहे.खरतर लिहिण्यासाठी खुप काही आहे खुप नवीन पिक्च्रर बघितले आहेत नवीन पुस्तक वाच़ली आहेत तरीप्ण का कुणास ठाउक कश्यातरी खंत वाट्त आहे. त्य़ात आयुश्य वाया जात आहे त्याची ही विचित्र फ़ीलिंग सारखी येत आहे.
व्रर वर बघितले तर सगळ ठिक आहे. कामाच फारस tension नाही. वेळेव्रर घ्ररी जाता येते.ब्रर घरी गेल्यावर खास असे काही काम पण नसते ..क़रण्यासार्खे खुप असले तरी उत्साह वाट्त नाही.मनात जे येईल ते लगेच करता येईल अशी परिस्थिती आहे. तरीही हा उदासपणा काही कमी होत नाही.

सग्ळे म्ह ण तात की सुख बोच ते आहे…. ख्रर असेल हे? आहे त्यात समाधान मानायच की अजुन नवीन काही शोधायच हेच कळेनासे झालय. तसे तर ही नोक्ररी काय वाइट नाही आहे exposure चांगले आहे खुप काही शिकण्या सारखे पण आहे तरी ही हा पण मध्ये येतोच.नवीन काही शिकतेय ह्या खुशीत राहु की outdoor projects नाहीत ह्याची खंत बाळगु. चांग्ली security आहे म्हणुन सुख मानु की पगार वाढ्त नाही म्हणुन दुख क़रु….

मला वाटतय की एकाच जागी खुप दिवस काम करुन येणारे साचलेलेपणाचा हा परीणाम असावा.एकाच जागी काम करून मला त्या जागेचा, माणसांचा कंटाळा आला आहे. एकूणच फार secured वातावरण मला मानवत नाही हे माझ्या लक्षात आलंय.कधितरी हॆ सगळ बदलॆल ह्य़ा आशॆव्रर सध्य़ा आहे.

Hanging Garden जुलै 2, 2007

The Hanging Gardens, Mumbai, in Mumbai, India, also known as Ferozeshah Mehta Gardens, are terraced gardens perched at the top of Malabar Hill, on its western side, just opposite the Kamala Nehru Park. They provide lovely sunset views over the Arabian Sea and feature numerous hedges carved into the shapes of animals. The park was laid out in 1881 over Bombay’s main reservoir, some say to cover the water from the potentially contaminating activity of the nearby Towers of Silence.