Tu....... Meri Jaan Hai

I came across this video song - Tu Meri Jaan Hai - on youtube today and have watched it at least 15 times since then - that is in less then 5 hours. Somehow it stuck an instant connection. Everything is so good about this video song. Kailash Kher's voice is so divine - makes me want to listen to it again and again. The video is shot partly in Golden Temple, Amritsar and partly in Fatehpur Sikri. The whole story depicted in video song is beautiful. The song is a prayer to the Almighty from a lover's heart. Religious rituals are depicted nicely, specially the dhaga ritual that is done at Fatehpur Sikri dargah. I went back in the time when I visited Agra - Fatehpur Sikri with mummy-pappa - aahh. its been long time since then. I guess it was around sometime when I was in college - don't remember the exact date and time though.

Golden temple looks so beautiful. I was reading user comments under the video on youtube and someone had posted following comment - "The Golden Temple is still looking as beautiful as ever. The blessings of the Waheguru keep its structure timeless" - I second his or her thoughts - so true. I think its the spiritual me which is really enjoying this video. I guess reading Many Lives Many Masters has affected my thinking.

I watched 1976 Oscar winning movie called One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. I was told about this movie by someone long back but I guess I was not too keen on watching such an old movie then. But after watching Casablanca other day; I decided to try it. Upon knowing that Jack Nicholson is the lead actor, I was looking forward to this movie. Its a great movie and I completely enjoyed watching it. However, I didn't like the end. I also watched Kramer Vs Kramer today. Its a 1979 movie and Aamir Khan starrer Akele Hum Akele Tum is a scene to scene copy of it. Also, another Aamir Khan starrer Mann is a scene to scene plus dialogue to dialogue copy of 1954 classic An Affair To Remember. I feel both originals are better than their respective copies. As I will be watching more and more american movies in future, I am sure many secrets of Indian movies shall be revealed to me. Looking forward to that.

Well, its a Sunday night and that means tomorrow is Monday - the get back to work day. So I will try and crawl into sleep now.

Cheers !!.

The Square Root of Three

I watched Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay today. There is this poem in this movie that I simply loved it and can't resist myself from posting it on my blog. Here it goes:

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I’m sure that I will always be
A lonely number like root three

The three is all that’s good and right,
Why must my three keep out of sight
Beneath the vicious square root sign,
I wish instead I were a nine

For nine could thwart this evil trick,
with just some quick arithmetic

I know I’ll never see the sun, as 1.7321
Such is my reality, a sad irrationality

When hark! What is this I see,
Another square root of a three

As quietly co-waltzing by,
Together now we multiply
To form a number we prefer,
Rejoicing as an integer

We break free from our mortal bonds
With the wave of magic wands

Our square root signs become unglued
Your love for me has been renewed
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What do you think !! :).

Many Lives, Many Masters

I just completed this book called Many Lives Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives. Somehow I stumbled upon this title and ordered it from Amazon a couple of months back. However, I started reading it about 2 weeks back only. It generated such an interest that I completed half the book on my first reading. Its authored by Dr. Brian L. Weiss who is a practicing psychologist in Miami Beach, FL. In software language, the book is the narration of a PoC (Proof Of Concept) about past life and re-incarnations. It proves the Bhagavad Geeta's theory about soul. The soul never dies, it only takes different forms. As a result, one should not fear death and just try to live every moment as much truthfully as possible. Do the Karma, and leave the rest on The Almighty. After reading this book, I have started looking at life and death from a different perspective all together.

The book mentions that all life forms progress from one life to another - with positives and negatives. The good deeds pay off and help a person move ahead fast to the next level of life at the same tiem bad deeds are debts that every person has to pay off in future lives. With every life, all of us make progress - more or less - it varies from soul to soul and person to person but ultimately we all progress to the ultimate level which as per Hindu mythology is referred as 'Moksha'.

A group of same souls are also likely to be born again together with each other so that they can pay off their debts towards one another. You meet some people in life and instantly feel comfortable and friendly with; where as some people you might have known for long -but still you are not very comfortable with them.

Masters are mentioned as certain souls who have been through the initial cycles of life and death and matured to a higher level as compared to we normal souls who are still at the lower level. There are various levels of masters as well - the ultimate level being The Almighty himself into whom all the souls get merged as they progress to the higheest level.

Quite a spiritual thought provoking book. It makes me feel happy about my life and re-instates my believe in truth and honesty. Do your job well and everything else will be taken care of !!!

Cheers !!

Québec and Montreal

I think I am not keeping up to posting regular entries here. I guess I have traveled a lot during past one and half month and that seem to be contributing to less blog posts. But never mind, that should be arrite as there are not too many(read any) readers for my posts as of now :).

So, I want to write about my trip to Québec City and Montreal. I like to spell Québec in french and am ignoring the spelling error given to me by the software :). Let me put some introduction about Québec first. Québec is a province in the eastern Canada. A person named Champlain found Québec City about 400 years ago and its called new France also. French is the basic language; so you are more then likely to be greeted with a Bon Jour if you are in any part of Québec. I was very happy as I was actually able to make use of whatever little French I know. As you go north in the province of Québec; french influence seems to be getting bigger and stronger and you can notice that by broken English usually spoken there. If you are in Québec City; you will feel a combination of culture of Europe and North America - mainly more of Europe and less of North America. Let me start with Québec City - its a beautiful city; probably the most beautiful place I have visited till now in whole of North America. The old city specifically is very pretty in its architecture and cultural richness. Luckily, when we reached Québec, it was the 400th anniversary celebration and there was a lot of festiveness including great food, great music including concerts and live shows. The Chatau Frontanac, the painted wall, the citadel, statue of Champlain, narrow streets of old Québec city, churches and what not. It was a wonderful expirience, a true holiday - simply fun. Coming to Montreal, the old Montreal was also very beautiful and rich in culture just like Québec city. Visiting the 1976 Olympic stadium was a once in a lifetime experience. I would certainly mention the bridge connecting Montreal to AuT 20 and AuT 15 highways - north to Québec city and south to New York state respectively, was the most scary bridge I have ever driven on :) and I have no clue why they have made it so scary :). I think enough about my trip and expirience- may be time to talk something else.

Coming to my favorite topic of movies, watched some real good movies off late. The Others, The Game and Lucky Number Slevin to name a few. I also watched two horror blend of movies lately - namely American Psycho and Haute Tension(french movie dubbed in English) - both are highly graphic. All the above movies had twist endings and the later two just rose so many questoins in my minding about their genre of film making and entertainment. Those are the kind of films that leave the viewer in thinking mode - the movies with open endings and left to people what they want to deduce. But I believe I dont like such movies with very very open endings; I dont find them entertaining enough. They leave me puzzled and I end up spending a couple of hours reading about them on imdb. But I was glad to know that director and script writer of american psycho felt that they felt the biggest failure of the movie was that it failed to convey the truth to the audience. As per them, it was not intended. Now that's honest and I admire them.

I guess thats about it for today as I conclude this post with pledge to enjoy rest of my weekend. Cheers !!.