Are you alive?

Think again. Most of us are dead. Not in terms of breath but in terms of life. What kind of life are you living today? Every week day you get up (after watching late night TV shows) and start rushing to get to office quickly. You work in the day time from 11 am to 8 pm and sometimes even till midnight. Then you get back to home to sleep. And the routine continues. At weekends you hang out with friends, relatives, celebrate and then back to square one on Monday. These days, everything depends on the fixed number of leaves you get at work. If your parents want to spend time with you, you either have an evening call with the client or your leaves account is in negative. Your elder relatives are not keeping well. Or just that they want to spend their time with you in those last days of their life. But you don’t have the time to spare. You cant miss your office. You don’t want that cut in your salary. How selfish have we become! Our life is not just ours. And even if its ours, how are we spending it? Infront of that dead box! (Ohh no! Sorry if I have hurt you…) We are no less than that dead box today. Or are we!

Sweeet Memories

I was browsing through my college photo album where I found this photo. And a soft breeze of memories flashed through my mind. This is a 6-7 yrs old photo when I was in college and this was our friends group which we proudly called 'SPARK' :).

Sometimes we cant write everything we feel. And such feelings can just be felt by going through those moments of life. Such moments may not seem important at that instant of life. They may be just other days in life. But you realise their importance only after you get an opportunity to look back and ponder.

To some, this photo will arouse college days memories, to some, total dhamaal and to some those old nights by the sky near the lake.

To me they are just those moments of life which on remembering bring smile on my face and I go out of words to describe my college days. To me they are those moments which I yearn for more and they remind me of moments which are not there in the photo. To me, they are the moments which show how moments change lives and how lives have changed today!

Sweeett Memories.... Hmmm!

Michhami Dukkadam

Today is Kshama divas i.e. khamat khamna or michami dukkadam in jain festival. Many of you might not be knowing it :).
JAINS kaa biggest festival is "Paryushan", 8 days of fasting and limitation of food items u eat and maximum prayers etc
At the end of this , that is the 8th day is called as "Samvatsari" when most of the Jains fast, fasting means not eating anything for whole day and night too :), just on water for 30+ hrs.
And next day is called "Kshmapana Divas" i.e we say Sorry or "Kshama" , for each and each mistake we make for whole year in known or unknown way (Jaane Anjane main) ,to everyone whom we know :)

So Michami dukkadam to all!

(Photo Courtesy: Kaustubh Patwardhan)

Shall we Dance?

Yeah.. a post after a long time. I have been busy doing what I love – DANCE.
Here are the photos of my performance at Shiamak's Summer Funk'07.




I joined Shiamak Davar’s Institute (SDIPA – www.shiamak.com) this summer funk in beginners batch. I had lot of fun learning a drop from the ocean of Shiamak’s style of dance. We performed on Rock This Party song.








The fun was doubled when the enrollments for the presentation started in June. I came to know that new SPBs are starting in Pune. For people who don’t know SPB – SPB stands for Special Potential Batch – the students from all the batches from a city are selected based on their dance talent and performance to become a part of this group. I was dying to be a part of SPB – for its workouts and dances and ofcourse the glamour and brand name and the host of opportunities that come when you are a part of SPB. You generally get a call from SDIPA if you get selected in the SPB batch - to tell you to come and sign a contract with SDIPA and then join the batch.
But I never got a call from them. I was very upset until I realized that I had changed my mobile number. So when I saw their ad in the PuneTimes, I called them to find out. I called them and asked to tell me if my name was present in the SPB list. She didn’t have the list handy. So she told me to call back in 5 minutes.
In few minutes, she called me back to tell me that I was selected :). I could not believe I was really selected. I was jumping with happiness!
The next day I went to the SDIPA office, collected the contract and then I was there on the first day of my dance journey in SPB batch.

Since then, I have been busy 3 days a week with rigorous workout and dance. Coming Tuesday, we have the presentation. Lets hope Shiamak comes to see our performance! Will post the pictures soooooooon!