I don't know, how I was unaware of this game till date. Recently bought and started playing. Just made me realize how slow the mind has become in connecting odd letters and making a sensible word. Mostly we end up making only 3 letter word to get through our turn. It takes time to start realizing the possibility of big words.
Also a realization: There are hardly any word in English starting with "q" and not followed by "u". Any word that is known like Qatar, Iraq are all derived from other languages mostly Middle east, Chinese, Indian and all.
Makes me wonder, is there any real need of this letter "q". I found it replaceable everywhere.
The week has begun on a very sad and shocking note. Can you believe it?
Sridevi is no more.That's really unimaginable.
Some of her movie have played a big role in grooming my childhood. I remember watching her song from Nagina on chitrahar. I must be hardly 8-10 years back then. But she made me believe that such thing as woman and snake in one, exist. While I went to my uncle's place and movies were brought in to see on VCR, I fought with everyone to watch this movie, because everyone else had seen the movie already except me.
This song, I supported Sridevi like anything and I wanted to beat Amrishpuri personally for trying to use her to get Naagmani. I was living the movie.
Then, came the other movie, Mr. India. Her role as the reporter, tenant, Charlie Chaplin, Hawa Hawai, every thing I enjoyed to the fullest. Though, it was all Anil Kapoor's movie, but I totally felt that Sridevi's character played a major role. I was young enough to not understand the song Kate nahi katate back then. Was just wondering, why she is dancing in rain, dark and moving like this ? Except that, she was the best.
I liked her movies more than that of Madhuri's. Though her movies with Jitandra were little difficult to watch for me (because of him). Her movie Chalbaaz, I found more entertaining than the original Sita aur Gita.
Her Bollywood career is more closely associated with my childhood and those are the things which you miss the most. She was the best and she will ever live in my memories as a legendary actress.
Last weekend was amazing. Beautiful weather, slight chill and fantastic environment in Mumbai. While in Five Garden, Matunga, for a moment, I forgot that I am in Mumbai and felt like being somewhere in Europe. Do visit a park early morning in Mumbai over the week end. The weather is awesome here atpresent.
Last week, the sky was amazing on Saturday. I got to see the blue sky, rarely seen here and one I witnessed frequently in Europe.A combination of this white cloud filled blue sky with greenery upfront gives an unusual 3-D effect to the picture. Not to forget the flying birds add a new dimension to it.
Today is the birth anniversary of the beloved king of Maharashtra Shri Chatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
On this occasion, sharing a picture of Shivaji Maharaj's statue present in the Shivaji Chowk in Badlapur.
Yesterday, we went to participate in the Hiranandani Half marathon at Thane. I participated through someone, so I had no direct connection with the participation process. Whatever the mediator person was saying, I was accordingly following. We were supposed to report at 4.45 a.m. apparently, when our run was to start at 7.00 a.m. It made no sense and it was just not possible by any means for us to reach there at that time. We decided, we will reach by 6.00 a.m. and will see if still we can run.
When we reached, the atmosphere was electrifying. The place was decorated as if it is Diwali. Not to forget, there were fire crackers too. In fact too noisy ones. I wonder, how this doesn't add to pollution when Diwali crackers do! We were not able to stand there, it was so smoky. Imagine people who were running through it. How much of those poisonous gases must have entered their lungs.
Anyways, the atmosphere was really good. All enthusiastic people moving around. A bhangada Dhol playing in the background. Different troops running through the track. Some people were complaining as the parking was little far away from the starting point, but that could not be helped. Overall, a good energetic beginning of the week.
In one of my visits to IGCAR, Kalapakkam, with some free time in hand, we decided to give a visit to a near by museum in Mahabalipuram, made exclusively for sea shells. It is a wonderful place and worth giving visit. The fascinating part begins from its entry itself that shows a huge, wild octopus keeping control on the entry of the museum.
As always is the case with such places, the museum received a visit from school picnic, where are students are least interested about the place and more about running around here and there. So, that kind of cut our visit short.
Samsung India service came up with this TV commercial which apparently is one of the most watched commercial of 2017. It indeed is good.Somewhere it plucks the chord and would surely make your eyes wet. The story slowly builds up where a blind girl wants to avail the service of Samsung India service to repair a TV in her home in a very remote hilly area. The kind of efforts this person from Samsung India service takes to reach her home and then having a sudden realization about the background of this requirement of urgent service to be provided makes this commercial reside in mind even after it is over. No wonder this is the most watched commercial, if the claims are to be considered true. I felt a need to share it with all here.
I wanted to visit Vir Savarkar Sabhagrah since the time I used to go to Shivaji Park, Dadar for jogging. If you measure the distance through outside road around Shivaji Park, it comes out to be around 1.2 kms. I used to begin my run from the side where the hospital Shushrusha is located. So, when I had just started running here, and I was not in practise, by the time I would reach the other side, i.e. around 800-900 mts run, I generally used to be exhausted. And I would mostly be struggling to complete one round. Many a times I could drag myself to get going, but then there used to be days, when throwing any more steps was just impossible. This used to be times when I would stop right infront of the entry to Vir Savarkar Sabhagrah. Back then I had no idea what it is. I thought it is some kind of museum. That initiated my interest to go in there someday. It though never happened. Last week, I got a chance to visit the place to attend a programme in the theater. The insides of the theater is really good and immediately takes the grip of the person. A huge curtain in the center and two very beautiful sculptures on either sides of the curtain. The first one I could understand partially that depicts art, religion, spirituality, the defending strength, the growth (agriculture) strength, all associated with India. But the second I could not deduce.
I am not sure if the two sculptures are just associated with Indian way of life or does it go more specific towards the identity at the center of the name of the Theater, Vir Savarkar. These things need to be deduced. Are you aware of it? Do share then.
There is anticipation on one side and anxiety on the other.There is curiosity on one side and excitement on the other. Only thing that separates the two sides is this curtain. As long as it is down, all these feelings exist. As the curtain goes up, they all converge to one, expectation of a good performance.
It was an interesting astronomical phenomena of Super Blue Blood Moon, that we witnessed yesterday here in India. But as obvious it is, many people might not have been able to monitor the whole sequence of the phenomena, considering the time schedule of 4 hours needed to witness it. So, some enthusiasts came up with the idea of shrinking the time slot of 4 hours into 1 minute. These 4 hours have been nicely captures and squeezed into a one minute video that has already started making rounds among people through Facebook, Whatsapp and Youtube. I also saw it first on Whatsapp and wondered who must have made this video. That's why I started searching it on Youtube. But realized many people have uploaded it there. So, the name of original maker is unknown. That is a pity. Credit should go to the owner. Now, I am embedding here one of those videos probably uploaded by a person name Avinash R.P. I am not sure, it belongs to him or not. But the credit goes to the owner. ( I hope it is Avinash).
Have an experience of this unusual phenomena where the Moon turns Blood red for some time. It is wonderful. Hats off to the video maker. Great work.
