Haryana Hurricane – Himani

If people blame me for writing only about girls then I am really sorry. But I was just listening this song and thought that if I don’t write about Himani then it will be injustice to her talent and my interest to music. Haryana Hurricane Himani always rocked the musical platform of SaReGaMaPa 2005, and she was among one of my favorite contesters. Though I always liked Nihira the most, but Himani was always good with her confidence. She has caliber to sing all the songs what Sunidhi Chauhan sings. I liked her presentation most for this song “Der na ho jaaye“. Hope you’ll like the song and appreciate Himani.

My Bangalore Experience

The day, I came to Bangalore, I was full of dreams and faith. And those dreams came true, and it happened in in the dream city of every IT guy – The Silicon City - Bangalore. Bangalorewelcomed me with open arms. I really want to thank Bangalore for beautiful changes in my life.

Bangalore - the garden city has become complete IT city today with lots many IT companies. Evergreen weather of Bangalore attracts so many people towards it.The land of Kannadigaas keeps a strong hold on culture and stands first in modernization. The lovely Monday traffic kicks off the week with the dreams of coming weekend. This city’s movie mania also astonishes you, when people come on roads to fight with God on natural death of a superstar or when you find that people are so crazy on film "Sivaji". And the good thing is you never have too many problems because of language. In fact, if you know few words like "Maadi", "Bega", "Illa", "Gottilla" then you can survive in Bangalore easily. As being a miser person [in opinion of my teammates], I feel that Bangalore is very expensive. In Bangalore, you may find good south Indian food. Normal hotels cheat you on the name of north Indian food by giving Maida Naan/Roti instead of wheat Chapati.

I have learnt from this city that we should feel proud for the land we belong to. There is no harm in speaking language, which you are comfortable with. There should be always a passion for our own culture and land.

This city is very beautiful, makes dream true if we have patience. I wish people keep it green as it is today, and we should always be able to say that "Namma green city, namma Bangaluru".

Yogesh In Bangaluru [2005-2007]

Yogesh in Bangaluru [2005-2007] is a fast forward of my life, just trying to recall what has happened in past two years.

15th July, 2005 – Stepped into Bangalore [now Bangaluru]

29th July, 2005 – Got offer of internship in Macromedia for Contribute

5th September, 2005 – Joined Macromedia

6th November, 2005 – First Flight Journey – Amd-Blr [SpiceJet]

11th May, 2006 – QE Summit In Adobe, Noida

12th May, 2006 – Jaipur trip with teammates [An unforgettable event for everyone in my team]

20th August, 2006 – Got confirmation as Quality Engineer in Adobe, Bangalore

1st September, 2006 – Joined as QE inAdobe

September, 2006 – Shubha leavesAdobe

April, 2007 – Sritama moves to Noida

May, 2007 – Freddy leavesAdobe

May, 2007 – Avinash moves to Director

Year 2007 came for me with so many changes, few were good, few weren’t. But this year has appeared with lots many dreams. Lets see what’s new and different is waiting in rest of the year.

Welcome to Udaipur

Its a long time that I didn’t post any blog entry, because I didn’t want to reveal out few things. But before I start revealing out those secrets, a long time awaited post from my side for those people who keep saying that its a Mauli and youtube blog. I am sorry boss this entry of mine will also be containing a youtube video but no Mauli.

This entry of mine is for my native Udaipur, Rajasthan which is my favorite place also. I wanted to show this place to my teammates last year, but because of distance from Delhi, we changed our plan to go to Jaipur. But I promise them that if I’ll get chance, I’d happily like to be guide for them again. And I want other people also to visit Udaipur through this entry of mine. Ok lets start the journey.

Sukhadiya Circle and Lake Peechola

Udaipur has been named on king UdaiSingh Ji and this place is very well known for lakes and natural beauty. Few people call it "City of Lakes", "LakeCity", "Kashmir of Rajasthan", "Venice of West". This place has so many locations to visit i.e..- "Lake Fateh Sagar", "Lake Peechola", "Lake Jaisamand" [Asia's biggest man-made lake], "City Palace", "Sukhadiya Circle", "Moti Magari", "HaldiGhati","Lake Palace", "SajjanGhar", "Saheliyon Ki Baari", "Gulab Bagh [Rose Garden]", "DoodhTalai", "Shilpgram" and "Meera Kala Mandir" [for artisitic people] etc. .

I have added two beautiful songs here, both were shooted completely in Udaipur to give you a glimpse of exotic locations of Udaipur. First song from film "Yaadein", shooted in ‘Lake Palace‘, ‘Jag Mandir‘ [Where Raveena Tandon got married] and ‘Lake Peechola‘, and the boat in scene is from Mewar Rajgharana, which is used for "Gangaur" [big festival in Rajasthan] procession from City Palace department. Other song from film "Khuddar", 90% of this film was shooted in Udaipur. The locations in this song are "Saheliyon Ki Baari", "JaiSamand","SajjanGhar" and "ShivNiwas Palace Hotel", in the same order. Recently movie "Eklavya" was released, which was shooted in DeviGhar Palace in Udaipur district.

"Saheliyon Ki Baari" is a garden which was build by the king with the purpose that queens can enjoy month of Sawan [Rain] anytime in a year. That is the reason, one pond is surrounded with four Gokhara kind of architecture with black stones at corners and each of these architecture has bird on top, which rotates and throws water. In between the pond one white stone architecture, which is basically a fountain. And in any season you may enjoy rainy season here. One more thing to be noted down, this was strictly for queens in old time. Now anybody can visit this place. But still one day – Hariyali Amavasya in year, this place is open only for ladies.

Beautiful locations, rich culture – puppet shows and folk dance, simple people, wooden toys to be purchased as gifts and delicious food – I wish that if you are planning your holidays for Udaipur then do it. Udaipur is almost same as Jaipur in terms of development and has airport also.

Reviews Holiday In Udaipur: "http://www.scottburdick.com/India06.htm"

Amul Star Voice of India

As everybody knows that my blog is almost dedicated to music. Here is another musical gift to all the readers of my blog, Gajendra Singh’s Amul Star Voice of India’s videos – you can find few clips of this serial here. This serial is giving a tough competition to SaReGaMaPa 2007, and there are number of good singers in this serial as well.  I liked the song “Tu chanda mein Chandani…” (link to Original Song) most from Jaipur auditions. This song was sung by Abhilasha Venkatchelum, she seems to be most likely star voice of India.

There is no regional feeling, and truely she has sung very well. Judges were so impressed with her performance that they appreciated her with following comments: “Dekhane me Hirani, Gaane me Koyal, Rajasthan Ki Rani, Mumbai Chal” [By Music Composer Lalit Ji] and “sabse paaya hai alag, tune ek andaaz, ishwar kare tu hi ho, voice of India ki awaz” [By Music Composer Jatin Ji]

Lyrics of Annie’s Mahiyaa

I have found a great response on my Annie’s song "Mahiyaa" post. Here is the lyrics of the song. Enjoy it.

Laughter Challenge – Sunil Pal

A nice video from The Great Indian Laughter Challenge. Sunil Pal was the champion of first laughter challenge, here is one presentation of Sunil Pal.

The First Woman President of India

The First Woman President of India

India is set for a woman president as Pratibha Patil, who is Rajasthan state governor. I am trying to express my feelings on this historic event, which is irrespective of any kind of political influence.

Presidential Election

As we all know that electing a president for all the parties was a politically motivated movement. We all should understand that neither Congress nor BJP are motivated with nation’s welfare. But still we have faith in nation’s constitution and pride, and that faith should increase day by day, however politicians try to hurt it. Because sitting in our cube/cabin or drawing room and blaming them, saying India is not going in the right direction, is not going to help the country in any sense. We should always have a positive thought on whatever coming on the nation’s way.

Who is the loser? 

In fact, both the major political parties and alliances are loser with this decision. First of all, both the parties decided not to go with APJ Abdul Kalam, which was a big surprise for everybody. These parties were trying their best to get political benefit from this election. Now because of alliance politics both the parties had to rethink on their decisions: Congress, which was set to choose ShivRaj Patil and Sushil Kumar Shinde, had to come up with one non-controversial option i.e. Pratibha Patil. BJP has also come up with Bhairon Singh Shekhawat, while they were saying that he will not be the NDA candidate. Along with these two parties, media is also looser, as they could not figure out the government’s moment till last moment. And now they are trying to increase their TRP with stupid questions, i.e. “Is India ready for woman President?”.

Who is winner?

Indian republic is true winner in this whole scene as none of the decision was a single party imposed decision. Finally, a lady is set to sworn in as President of India, and Indian Women are having one more achievement in their credit.

Overall, I am happy that we are having our next president as a lady and long political drama has also come to an end somehow. I wish her a great success as president.

The Great Indian Laughter Challenge

The great Indian Laughter Challenge – Raju Srivastav, Sunil Pal, Navin Prabhakar – I guess almost everyone who loves laughing, loves this challenge for some or other contestant. I also admire this series a lot. Nice jokes, nice mimicries – Its total fun. I didn’t get chance to see Challenge 3, which has started few days ago, but I came across a very good youtube video of the same series – A lady named Arti Kandpal, it seems that she will give a tough competition to others.

The way Arti has enacted – Meena Kumari, Rakhi and Aishwarya, its awesome. Its really nice to see a lady on the platform where few days ago only male performers were ruling. Way to go Arti, keep it up.

To see the full presentation of Arti in the show, visit youtube.

Mauli Davey’s new performance

Mauli Davey – Great going. Super voice. I love your voice…Super performance. Here are another two performances of Mauli.