Lighthearted (Guess what this word exists)

Just feeling so damn great right now.. memories of good times

Things I know that will never fail to make me smile

Soft, slow music in the air remixed but retro

Spreading a 360 degree smiles on my face

Far from all I love and so closely connected

I love this moment, this feeling, right now

In this messy, tube-lighted office with no windows

Ambiance... important and yet, not so much...

Faith...Hope...

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called!

Thoughts...

When 

You 

Stop waiting for miracles

Start believing in yourself

Miracles happen

~ Me

I

I feel
the power
I love
the revelations
I feel
tall
I feel
alive

It could be worse...

Things have been a lot tense lately.. so much that I used to feel choked. And as if things were not bad enough...it just got worse.. had a bug attack last night.. well I'm exaggerating.. just saw one big fella but when it comes to bugs I feel their one toooo many. Argh..

I'm paranoid about keeping things clean so you can only imagine my situation the whole day!! :-D - NOT FUNNY!!!.... managed to clean in and around my bed, spray, do my laundry - the works!!! Hopefully I did a good job.. will find out soon....

Like I've said before... this is probably God's way of telling me.. Stop worrying.. things could get worse!!!...

Anyways leaving it to that for now... more on the drama laters...

Heavy heart...

I've gained and lost..
Prayers - powerful
God's ways - mysterious
Memories I have too many
Everytime I close my eyes theres another one playing
Too many years
Uncountable cares
Immeasurable love
Not sure what to wish for
That would satisfy
That would be the best
That is THE WILL
One last moment..day.. month.. year.. decade..or another lifetime
All I know is I MISS and
I WILL FOR ALWAYS MISS YOU...
NANA.

Going on...

Going on...
Happiness in others' happiness
Waiting
Hoping
Wondering
Hoping
Hanging on
Hoping...
Going on...

Friends forever???

You suddenly seem to be around more than often,
making your presence felt more than I can bear
I wish I had the power,
To make you go away...

There are times ofcourse when you are forgotten
Those precious sweet moments that I wish would never end;
times when I am away.
But without a doubt or question
your right back in my face

I wonder if there is a way, to keep you away for good
Away from me and everyone else you haunt...
Cause in no way can I imagine me or anyone and you
friends forever...

Chilling out!!!

Just submitted this horrible horrible... stressful take home exam today - one would expect these take home exams to be good - no need to sit in one place for 3 hours trying to remember and reproduce everything you've learnt, on the exam paper, no sitting and thinking
"Shit!!! this is it,if I don't make sense now I fail..", but take homes are worse, or atleast this particular one was..we had the whole weekend, the whole world but no one with the right answers!!! Thank God its over :-D

.... so just chilling out....did a little shopping - needed it. Did alot of cleaning - needed to do that for some time too, wanted to do my laundry - really HAVE to do that but the laundromat is in use so thats postponed to tomorrow :-).

Anyways, just doing some timepass, its just amazing how much time one can spend you tubing (on YOU TUBE) - YESSSssss.. that's exactly what I've been doing for the past 3 hours... started out watching Chris Brown's With you and then went on this journey... which I'm still on.. found a couple of in house singers... people who sing and put up home videos on you tube...

Its like they living my dream.. I'm such a fan of their voices :-). Just so you know what I'm talking about..I've attached links of the same...so enjoy them and HEAR, what I mean :-)

The first artist is Kina Grannis and here are a couple of her links

I Will Follow You Into The Dark

Stay Just A Little

Dont Matter (cover AKON)

Gotta have you (cover Weepies)

The second artist I found is Sheena Melwani another great singer...

Bleeding love (cover Leona Lewis)

With you (cover Chris Brown)

~ "Love vanquishes time. To lovers, a moment can be eternity, eternity can be the tick of a clock." Mary Parrish

Day by day...

Yesterday, really ended up being one of those great days which are so rare.. went out to watch a local production of the musical - Godspell which I thought, or I should say, which WAS excellent. Every performance was hair raising... I hardly remember sitting comfortably on my seat cause I was so excited to see the show (slept with a terrible backache, but it was worth it).. It was so good, that if I had a chance to see the same (same group) perform again I would go!!!.... It had such wonderful messages, the same stories I've heard since childhood, with a different perspective..

Here are some good performances of other production of Godspell, these of course are some of the best that I've searched...

By my side

Day by day

All good things

Obviously, I'm a fan... :-D

I love the music, and yes it turns out that here, I realize, I find myself looking for it subconsciously. Finally today, I will join the choir :-) yipee!!! and I am so excited about that. This choir is just a group of 4-6 singers but the music that they make is so good.. one of the reason I have started attending that service regularly..and today I will sing with them too.

If only, ...arrgh!!!...

~Nevertheless... thankful :-)

A tribute

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
- W. Somerset Maugham

I cannot deny that some days do feel like that, but something tells me today is not one of those...Woke up with this feeling of thanks for all the people I've met in my past and the difference they have made and make till date.

Looking back seems like, I've been blessed more than I ever thought I was. Its amazing how we just bond with certain people. How in spite of the way it seems when you first them, it always changes. People you think you could never befriend, end up making all difference by just the little or weirdest things they say or do...

And, how these people, are the only ones that are the types that give you this great feeling of "I don't care who you are, where your from, don't care what you did...as long as you love me!!!" (you know what I mean). And the best thing is that they always, or almost always, drop at strategic times.

All this makes stronger my beliefs that we are never alone... someone up there is watching.

I wish somehow, on days when I would prefer not to wake up, these feelings are as strong as now...cause now (with 8 hours sleep and a happy mind) that I think about it... It's a reason to live...a reason to hope...

I miss them all...all together..

Winter Wonderland

Just surfing and found something I thought I might put up :-). I am sure you've heard the song winter wonderland, I've heard it so many times and keep humming it when I go out (because that what this place seems like - A big WINTER WONDERLAND), but never bothered to read its lyrics. Anyways just did today, and the verse

"In the meadow we can build a snowman,
And pretend that he is Parson Brown
He will say: Are you married? well say: No man,
But you can do the job when youre in town."

Made me wonder about Parson Brown..so looked it up and found the following :-)

"Parson Brown" is the term used to talk about a typical angelican priest of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. "Parson Brown" is not an actual person (though he might have been at some time), but a figure of speech, like "John Doe" is an unidentified male and "Charley" is a watchman. "Parson" by itself means minister. ~ Urban Dictionary

In the period when this song was written, parsons (now known as a Protestant minister) often travelled among small rural towns to perform wedding ceremonies for denominational followers who did not have a local minister of their faith. Therefore, the children are most likely pretending that their snowman is a Parson with the surname "Brown," which would be visiting the town again in the future. ~ Yahoo Answers

For more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parson_brown

Today's special - Chicken Curry :-)

Guess what.. today for the first time in my life I (all by myself with no help) prepared chicken curry and it seems to have come out good... have'nt had anyone taste the same as yet, but yes my first time...:-)

I am excited and at the same time hoping its cooked right.... :-). The picture - hmm kinda looks creepy in this picture but it tastes good I think....

Concrete Lingisaon on the streets of Halifax...

Went for a walk today.. Inspite of the cold just cause I wanted to kill some time since I'm free .. done for the term. Went to this part of downtown Halifax and came across this big statue - actually a symbol outside the news company of this guy supposedly carrying bags full of news papers but one look at it got me laughing so much...

I am not sure how many of you are familiar with Goa sausages or lingisaon, as we call them in Konkani, but this guy to me seems to be carring a giant Lingisaon!!! :-)

See what I mean... :-) !!!!!

Ice Ice baby....

He he felt the first drops of ice here in Halifax... forecast for snow tomorrow and I am so excited was'nt supposed to get out but just had to, just to see what it was like... I was'nt out for long was bundled up so didnt feel too cold but it was so much fun... :-)

Hmm according to the forecast it is supposed to get cold over night and snow too so looking forwared to the whole place looking white...

Tomorrow morning is going to be a surprise..... scheduled to go to church at 9:00 .... dont know what its going to be like....

...

You take me to a different world each time I pray
You make your presence felt in so many forms
Your familiar smile I see on unknown faces on the street
Your comfort shows up in the most unexpected forms

For all that and more
I'd prefer not to wonder but to thank you...

Aftermath...

the storm's long gone but I have to say that that night was infact the scariest night of my life!!!! the sounds of the wind roaring against the window and the feeling of it breaking throught the wall and falling in on us was just very scary. I was so scared to see what it was like through the curtains but when I did there was nothing so rain, you cant see the wind but you can hear it - more reason to fear.

the next morning was fine - the sun was out like it was all some kind of joke nature was playing... :-).

We'ev moved on with the thought that hmmmm.... we survivied... it could've been worse... :-)

....its life!!!

3:25pm in Halifax

Well the storm is picking up.. right now looks like a normal rainy day in halifax but not for long. Visibility is decreasing and precipitation increasing..

Went to the store about an hour back to get some supplies in case of emergency and the wind hit us hard as we walked passed an empty space, that was totally unexpected... Like I said hoping for best prepared for the worst!!!!

Had the windows sealed this morning so atleast won't hear so much of the wind hissing through the corners and it is surprisingly more warm inside.... finally the heating is working, guess it was just the tiny air holes all this time....

Ooookkkay heard some water leaking.. hmmm some water has managed to get in already and its not even raining hard enough!!!!......

P.S Pray for Western Nova Scotia...

Live from Haifax

Finally my first blog entry from Halifax,

How has it been so far??? - Well life's fine, very different from any place I've been in the world. Feels like a vacation sometimes with all the white people around only NOT.

Classes are going on fine - got an easy class schedule which works out to 3 days a week so like I tell everyone its just about a long weekend all the time which is good and bad.

In the middle of trying to study right now..but... :( not happening...

It seems there is going to be this hurricane tomorrow - Hurricane Noel (noel: defined as a shout of Joy) definitely not :-)

The last time we had heavy rains, say 2 weeks ago ( not a hurricane ) we had water seep the corners of our windows in the room... this time its a hurricane and frankly speaking I don't know what to expect!!!!.

For more on Hurricane Noel follow the link.

Wierd/Facts about Rowe

Tagged by the mighty SHEK!!! so .....Whokay…

Hmmm 10 weird things or 8 facts… or was it 8 weird things and 10 facts.. whatever it is.. I’m just gonna write whatever I can thing of for now…

So weird things about me ….

mmmm… hmmmm…..uummmmm……arey i'm thinking…. Ah!!!!....ok… here goes..

1. The best compliment I think I’ve got till date is “You have a nice set of teeth”, from a dentist; I must add, I remember that day as one of my happiest.
2. Oh I sometimes brush with my left hand, just as practice if someday for some reason I cannot use my right…why???? Don’t ask…I don’t know
3. When I was younger I wanted to be an astronaut… but that I wouldn’t say is weird
4. I talk to my code/computer when I work.. But I know a couple of people who do that; they work with me…. :-)
5. I cannot sit crossed legged on the floor… I’ve had friends laugh at me for that… I can sit on a bed like that but not on the floor :-|
6. I don’t like cheese, but I’ll eat it on a pizza or in a sandwich (if I don’t see/know it’s in there)

Some facts about me…

1. I can dozed standing!!!!... This ability was discovered on the eve of my first year engineering MI (maths1) paper
2. I love to eat
3. I enjoy making lists for trips or long journeys
4. I like to trouble kiddies but I like to play with them too :)
5. I love war movies – Troy, 300, Lord o the rings and the likes
6. I like talking/getting in touch with friends from time to time
7. I'm bad with colors. I cannot clearly distinguish some shades of green and blue and gray…
8. You’ll mostly find me in casuals, unless am going to church or some function
9. I don’t like to have white milk i.e. milk without any flavor or color. In college there were times I used to mix haldi when there was nothing else.
10. I can type (SMS/Keyboard) fast.. its the thoughts that come out slowly :)
    

This is it.. all I can think of for now…

For the record.. A good friend, the “All knowing” once said that weird is good!!!! So.. thumbs up to all us wierdos….

This tag thingy is fun so Rod, Tins, Chris… you guys are tagged!!!

SSSSPPPPPPAAAAARRRRTTTTTTTAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!... Just received a scrap from Rod which read that, so thats whats on my mind now... WOoops and that’s another one :) !!!!!