Aarz Kiya Hai II.

PUNJABI SHAYARI:
Gaira de hatha vich apna hath fara ke tur geya.
Bewafa, mere seene vich khanjar khuba ke tur geya.
Naam ki lena ussda, te yaad ki karna ussnu,
Jo okhe vele palla chuda ke tur geya.
Phir kadi na mudeya oh mere pyaar di khatir,
Dil, jigar, ehsaas te jo pathar maar ke tur geya.
Uthdi na aakh sharam naal,
Jadon da oh kolo di nazaran chura ke tur geya.
Tarasdiya aakhan nu aje vi ussde vapis aaun de hain aas,
Jo kise be-dil leyi mera pyaar wala dil dukha ke tur geya.
Saanbh lenda ohh phul mere pyar da,
Par oh jaanda jaanda mere pyar de saare khat jala ke tur geya.
Aakhda si jo ke main ussdi izzat han,
Oh mainu hee mitti vich rula ke tur geya.

Google Gadgets.

So the other day I discovered Google Gadgets. Now I've filled up the whole left side of my blog with the ones I thought I'd want to see and would find useful on a daily basis. Seriously, I had a hard time narrowing it down because there were Gadgets with fun & games, stuff to go with your lifestyle, quotes, and a whole bunch of other good stuff.

I narrowed my Gadgets down to:

• Happiness Tips --> because who doesn't want to be at their happiest?
• Spanish Word & Phrase of the Day --> cuz I need to brush up on mine!
• Spanish for Travellers --> in case if I go to Honduras or Spanish speaking places again
• German Word & Phrase of the Day --> becauseeeeeeee... ;)
• Indian Movie Trailers --> duh! I need my Bollywood flicks!
• Top 5 Movies at the Box Office --> So I can stay updated with the American world & not be such a FOB)
• World News --> So I never find myself asking, "Who's side is Iraq on?" or something similarly stupid ever again.
• Socrates Quotes --> Cuz I want to know more about what him & his homies talked about
• Things to Ponder --> Pondering & Daydreaming are my favorite pastimes.
• Cheeky Quotes --> Sarcasm is always entertaining.
• Hangman --> The BEST game ever, so simple compared to the crap out there these days.

Analyze This II.

Before any major test, I always dream of almost getting violently attacked. I tend to overcome my attacker, which could be my subconscious telling me that I need to/will overcome my test. However, the way my mind chooses to depict that in dreams is always absurd. Take my dream last night for example:

My family and I were headed off to dance practice in a far away city. We decided to take 3 different cars (I don’t know why we felt like wasting hella money on gas or something). My mother and aunt were in one car, my brother and dad in another, and I was in a beat up mini van by myself. I was leading and realized when I got to the location of practice (some underground garage) that no one was behind me anymore.

I parked in some shady looking street near it. The street lights were broken and it was pretty dark, well into the night. As I walked up and down the streets trying to get signal for my almost dead phone to call my parents, some dude that was yapping on his phone spots me, makes a catcall and starts running towards me. As in real life, I had mace on my keychain and I sprayed the crap outta the dude (who was a bald, middle-aged man, with none but 3 teeth in his mouth that protruded out) and forgot about him.

I found one, lone street lamp that somehow gave off phone signal. As I called my parents no one picked up and my phone’s battery was very low. I was overcome with this eerie feeling that everyone but me was killed. I looked around, hoping that they would pull into the street soon. Further down the street I saw the door of my van ajar and cautiously walked toward it. “What the hell, I always lock doors and double check. Did I forget just this once? What the…” My eyes fell on a gasoline box that I immediately recognized as a bomb!

Looking toward the direction of Dude’s car, I saw that he had a remote in his hands to make the bomb go off. Without thinking I threw the gasoline-box-bomb in his direction just as he pushed the button. Hearing his car explode in the distance, I decided it was too dangerous for me to be outside and needed to seek shelter in someone’s home.

I saw one house on the street with their porch light on and cautiously entered. “Hello?” I called out. An old man tried stumbled towards me, and then gave up when he saw a chair close by. He seemed all boozed up. “Ok, he’s too intoxicated and old to be harmful,” I thought to myself. “Sir, can I use your phone?” I asked. He said it was fine but to make no more than two calls.

Seeing how smashed he was, I was pretty sure he was not going to be able to really keep track. As I played with the phone cord of the wall phone and called my parents, I noticed a picture of Dude that I had blown up outside. Shit, it was the guy’s son! I calmly told my parents my whereabouts and they picked me up, and we nonchalantly went to dance practice in that abandoned garage…

Nit Picky.

Over the past few years of my life, I've come to realize just how particular I am about a lot of things I do. Here's a list of some things I feel strongly about:

1. I strongly prefer to walk on the left side of a person and will walk around them and switch sides when they're not paying attention.

2. I hate hate hate walking in front of a person/people. (It makes me feel paranoid) So given a narrow walking spot I'll be found behind.

3. I unconsciously count everything. From how many times I've sprayed hairspray onto my hair, to the number of M&M's I've picked out of a bag.

4. I prefer odd numbers to even numbers. So much so that when arranging dates, I'll pick odd numbered days.

5. I always like to start things (i.e. studying, cooking) at the start of an hour or 1/2 past. (i.e. If I wake up at 8:50am, I will stay in bed until 9:00am to start my day)

6. I allot myself time when gettin ready (i.e. 15 minutes for hair, 10 minutes for make up, 15 minutes to eat)

7. I keep a rubberband on my right wrist, a watch on my left wrist, a tiny clip on my front right belt loop, and a bobbypin in my right pocket.

8. I absolutely can't stand crooked frames. So much so that I've straightened out the frames of awards on a doctor's exam room wall when he walked out for a minute.

9. I carry a nail cutter with me where ever I go because I have a hard time focusing on anything when my nail chips.

10. When adding liquids from a measuring cup to things I'm baking, I always put the cup on a table top to check if the meniscus meets the measurement line exactly.

11. I crop and center all pictures I post in albums.

12. I put a period at the end of blog titles & make the title 2-3 words long because I hate it when titles run into the second line in the "Blog Archive."...and I make sure the font color matches the picture I choose for my blog...

Wow, the more of this I'm writing the crazier I am sounding to myself. But than again who's "normal" anyway? :P Ok, I found a quote that describes my feelings exactly! ;)

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." --Nora Ephron

Aarz Kiya Hai.

So the Blog name is ABCD Shayari and I had yet to post up some shayari (poetry). Well here is one of my favorite of all time:

Jis din se judah vo humse hua
Is dil ne dharkna chor diya.
Hai chaand ka mooh utra utra,
Taaro ne chamakna chor diya.
Vo saath humare hota tha
Berut hi bahar ah jaati thi.
Ab laakh baharein bhi ahey
Phoolon ne mehakna chor diya.
Ik din duaa maangi humne,
"Takdir humari badal de ay Malak."
Awaaz yehi ahi ke:
"Humne takdir badalna chor diya."

TRANSLATION:
Since the moment he was separated from me
My heart gave up on beating.
The moon’s face is now colorless and sad,
The stars have given up shining.
When he used to be with me,
It would be a beautiful, endless spring.
Now even when spring comes,
Flowers have given up smelling lovely.
One day I asked in a prayer,
"Oh Lord, have mercy and change my destiny"
The only response I received from above was,
"I have given up changing destinies."

I know, It's pretty emo, but very fitting of the gloomy weather today.

Personality Quizzes.

I love taking personality quizzes. They're an entertaining waste of time. And they're quizzes you can't fail! So according to Facebook Quizzes, I have discovered:

• My most compatible sign is Cancer (apparently I need someone motherly & suffocating)
• If I was a 2008 song, I would be Brittany Spear's "Womanizer" (cuz I "always get what I want & love it.")
• My lucky color is Red (cuz I'm "radiant", like parties, & fun, loud, crowded activities.)
• If I were a planet, I would be Earth (boringggg. I'd rather be Saturn w/pretty rings or a glowing Jupiter)
• If I were an alcoholic drink, I would be a daquiri (cuz this quiz thinks "Don't worry, be happy!" is my motto. Funny cuz "stressball" has been my nickame for quite a while now.)

On the topic of alcoholic drinks, Strawberry Daquiris are my favorite for sure! :)

Happy New Year!

Ok, so my "I will not procrastinate anymore" resolution went down the drain considering that I'm writing this blog 6 days late. hahaha.

This year I decided not to make any resolutions. But then that made me feel like I don't have any goals in life! To avoid feeling like a complete loser, I made one to take my vitamins everyday. So far so good. :)

NYE was possibly the most uneventful one I've had in years. This was the first year (since my kiddie years) that I slept in and didn't even get to see the clock strike 12am. I found sleeping to be a more satisfying way to kick off the year. True may be the saying that how you start the year is how you'll progress thru it... my year so far has been quite sluggish and sleepy. :P

On the topic of New Years, here's a quote I found that I really liked:

"We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential." --Ellen Goodman