The pleasure of finding things out

The song itself is amazing, but when you apply it to an event of amazing magnitude, a wedding, it totally blows you away!

Jill and Kevin truly *brought* this song to the world... do not miss their wedding march to this amazing number.

I have to give full credit to their band of friends and family who actually agreed to participating in the march/dance/whatever!! :D

Various comments on blogs and in youtube have trashed the celebration by stating that this is an insult of God [the march is in a church], but I personally feel that a celebration is a celebration, and God only joins in! :)

Be prepared to be amazed: JK Wedding March on YouTube [sorry embedding is disallowed].

The song actually drove up sales for Chris Brown's hit single Forever!! :)

Some lyrics I loved from the song:

Feels like we're on another level
Feels like our loves intertwined,
We can be two rebels breaking the rules
me and you, you and I
All you got to do is watch me
Look what I can do with my feet
Baby feel the beat inside,
I'm driving you can take the front seat
Just need you to trust me
       - Forever by Chris Brown

I've been running down the road trying to losen my load I have seven women on my mind... [okay just the lyrics going through my head from Eagle's Take it easy, the title of this post].

Today was a long day, and tiring inspite of being not too tiring. Work is good and rewarding, but quite hectic these days. Hopefully I'll get used to it soon.

That aside, not much happening. I have a multitude of plans in my head, of what I want to do, but I'm waiting for Shruti to come back before I can execute them! :) Catch 22, huh?

All said and done, things are going well. More tomorrow!

I had always respected Lance Armstrong for his Livestrong Foundation, and was an ardent supporter always sporting a livestrong band. I knew it was about cancer and that Lance himself was as survivor, but I didn't know much else.

I chanced upon his book while waiting at the MG Road Barista one night. I picked up the book thinking I'd flip a couple of pages while I wait the few minutes I needed to wait.

Lucky for me I ended up waiting for an hour or so, and read 25% of the book.

Lance writes it in a really gripping manner without using fancy words to cover up for his masochism, arrogance as well as fear.

The narrative is straightforward and chronological for the most part, beginning with his childhood and rise to fame at an early age, following through with his diagnosis of cancer and the tough road to getting well, and ends with a fairly detailed account of him winning the Tour de France in 1999.

What did help Lance in his journey through life were his awesome physical attributes that included low lactic acid levels (which mean less pain and faster recovery from physical exertion) as well as his high VO2 (lung capacity). He does mention that a lot of this is luck and good genes, hence he cannot take full credit for his wins or his recovery :)

This book will easily fill any male's hero void, and is inspiring beyond words. It makes you want to go out there and make a difference. I don't intend to be sexist, but I think this is one story the guys will understand at a completely different level than the girls.. maybe because it deals with testicular cancer and fear (something that supposedly doesn't exist in a male's dictionary) in a blatant and in-your-face manner.

Do go out and read it. It's a page turner and totally inspiring! And yes, do support a cause, any cause as long as you believe in it.

Links of Interest:

• Lance Armstrong on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lance_Armstrong
• Lance Armstrong Foundation: http://www.livestrong.org/

One of the best forwards I've read in a long long while:

Celebration means......

A winter evening.
Four friends.
One barsaat.
Four glasses of chai.

(OR)

Hundred bucks of gas.
A rusty old bike.
And an open road.

(OR)

Rainy evening.
Holding hands with a loved one.
2 steaming corn cobs.
A long road ......

(OR)

Maggi noodles.
A hostel room.
3.25 a.m.

(OR)

A muddy field.
22 guys.
1 football
Game On ! !

(OR)

3 old friends.
3 separate cities.
3 coffee mugs.
1 internet messenger.

(OR)

2 a.m.
Sitting on your window ledge.

So I got engaged.. I mean formally, with ring et al. Our engagements don't really have rings, in fact the bridegroom isn't even supposed to be around at the engagement! I gate crashed and we exchanged rings at the end of the so called bridegroom-less engagement :D

All said and done it was a great event, and I have a ring with a huge rock in it. I had wished for a gold band as that is more comfortable, but it didn't work out that way for me.

India won the final against Pakistan in the Twenty20 World Cup, sending them packing home with their tail(s) between their legs. A couple of us had left work early to catch the match from the beginning, and boy was it worth it!

The Pakis did a good job in restricting us to 157 in 20 overs, but we still got the better of them. It was a nail-biting finish that all of us will remember for some time to come!!

What did suck was Shoaib Malik's statement right after the match that went, "I would like to start by saying to the people of Pakistan and all the Muslims in the world, that were are sorry we lost". What was lost on me was why make this about religion, when it is about sport and country? We won, you lost, so bug off!

If you would like to read about that bit in detail, do look at Doc Mitasha's post on the topic.

Yuvraj knocking the socks off of the Aussie bowlers. India deserved this win!

Adorable isn't she? How I wish she were mine :)

Went today to the Maharashtra Mandal's Ganesh Chaturthi function. It was pretty good. It was worth the trip, though I was pretty exhausted with the activities from last night.

Yesterday night was unforgettable. Around 12, friends showed up. A few moments later, Vardhan and gang (Amalesh, Sudarshan, Manish, Niranjan and Ketan) showed up.

The cake was this awesome chocolate one. I was like yummy! :) Then the problem arose with lighting the candle. No one seemed to have a match! Once that was sorted out, thy started singing the traditional 'Happy B'day to you' song and I blew out the candle and cut the cake. Before I could even put a piece into my mouth, I was whisked off to be given b'day bumps! :(