Zendagi Migzara

I read about this challenge long back. And have re-read it some 100 times since then. I always shut the website thinking, I'll start tomorrow and that never happens. So this time, I said I'll start TODAY! It's a simple concept, encouraging people to just be happy. You know what I mean, just simple happiness from simple pleasures of life. The challenge isn't a competition of any kind. It's for you, for you to identify the happy moments in the busy lives that we lead. And the aim is to slowly make being happy a habit, to make being positive a habit. To start looking at the good and not the bad. It's sounds too simple to bring about any kind of real change in your attitude and your life. But I now believe, especially after becoming relatively healthier after my yoga practice, that to make anything a success, you need to first make it a habit. I've started waking up at 6 AM everyday (ok, Saturdays and Sundays don't count!), thus making it a habit. I...

आंहटें  हो रही तेरी दिल के दर पे मेरे तू यहीं हैं कहीं ना  कहीं आंहटें  हो रही तेरी दिल के दर पे मेरे तू यहीं हैं कहीं …… कभी मेरे ख्वाब सा कभी उलझजे जवाब सा कि चंदा में भी दाग सा मेरे जैसा तू के दरियां का हों एक सिरा कि अरमानो का सिलसिला कि सेहरा में भी आब  सा मेरे जैसा तू मेरे जैसा तू आंहटें  हो रही तेरी दिल के दर पे मेरे तू यहीं हैं कहीं ना  कहीं ~~ Aahatein, Agnee This song brings back insane amount of memories. It was the farewell song for when a couple of folks from our team left to join another team at work. We were young and it was everyone's first job, so the team had bonded really well and to then suddenly split was painful. So a farewell video was made with pictures from all the fun times and this song was the background music for that slideshow of pictures. I think everyone cried at the end of it, when it was played in the last team meeting. But generally it's such a beautiful song. ...

[ A Buddha statue looking out to the valley in Borobudur] Happy New Year or Sugeng Warsa Engga, as they would say it in Java. As 2013 came to a close, I caught myself looking back at the moments that made me insanely happy and the moments that made me indescribably sad. And what a year. Life changing indeed. So i wanted to do something for myself at the end of the year. Now what could that be. I certainly didn't want to stay here in Singapore, and didn't have enough vacation leaves to make the journey home and back. I opened my laptop and went onto the Tiger Airways site and booked myself a ticket to Yogyakarta, then booked the hotel. And in 10mins, I was ready to fly away. I've done more impromptu things like that, but never alone. Actually, I'd never traveled alone, ever. Always thought it would be too depressing. But I was in for a huge surprise. Yogya or Jogja as they call it, is a city in the Javanese group of islands in Indonesia. You can read all about...