Family and Friends - A Birthday Story

Today was a splendid day. I took a day off from work to spend time with friends, family and most importantly myself. "after all, it's my day ;)"

Family

The day started well with helping my Dad configure Internet in our new house in Kerala. All thanks to Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited's "technical challenges" due to which this request was pending for 3+ months. We finally got it all setup and tested it off with a Skype call to Dad.

Love you Daddy!!!

Called up Mom who was at my sister's place in Bangalore and did yet another Skype with Mom, Deena, Seby and my sweet Nephew RJ (Raphael Joseph AKA my "Rappi" kuttan)

It was a heavenly bliss when I saw RJ saying (for the first time) that his uncle's name is "Danny" and when he wished me saying "Happy Birthday to you."

Deena, Seby, Mummy and RJ; Love you!!!

I miss you Rappi Kutta

Friends

The most important thing with friends apart from the numerous wishes over FB/ unexpected but welcoming phone calls are the few small sacrifices that a few of them made to make my day better. A few of them worth mentioning were:

1. When one of my best friends (Kams) apologized that she couldn't decorate my house/ buy me a cake like last year. "She was sick and she still managed to get me a few Birthday Gifts."
2. When my friend, ex-roommate and colleague (Ashok) covered me at work and took the responsibility of my work for the day.
3. The best for the last - When my friends "Sudip and Meryl" baked me a birthday cake and prepared an awesome dinner with two main courses and several side dishes/ gravy. "This was after both of them worked different shifts to balance their work life and take care of their 5 month old baby."

Guys, all of you just made me feel blessed and my day special; Love you all!!!

Overall, it was a wonderful day. Off to bed now with these wonderful memories.

Cheers,

Danny :)

Happy Womens Day

To all the wonderful women who have touched my lives and make everyday of mine worth living.
To the one who brought me into the world.
To the one who fought with me when I went to school.
To the one with whom I shared my secrets.
To the one who will take my hand.


I just wanna say, "I love you all and my life would be incomplete w/o you."


Wishing you all a very Happy Womens Day.


With only Love,
Danish

Random Lines - er!!

Had a really gr8 day today. Went to Office early in the morning, came back early too. I'm was so excited to return back home early today. Came back home and after watching a few cartoons, was off to fetch my dinner and shop for the nightly dose of milk. It was cold outside which made me hum the following lines:


The night is cold, mornings Colder;
Am I now getting Older;
Do I need support from a Holder;
Or will I stand like a Boulder.


This is just a stanza when compared to my earlier works (All Poems); however I feel that this is ok to begin the New Year.


Danish :)

A Brand New Year - The Beginning

For most of them, the feel of the New Year kicks in on the New Year's Eve!!! I was no exception. Let me write on what happened after I left office on 31st till this moment when I planned to start blogging again (Kinda New Year resolution)

19:30 - Went home, took a shower, wore New Clothes, packed a couple of things and started my journey towards Madiwala.

20:30 - St. Antony's Friary. Sermon was in progress when I reached the Church. Enjoyed singing along with the choir and had the satisfactory feeling of starting the year with God!!!

21:00 - Met up with a few friends @ Church.

21:30 - Met Akki and collected the chocolates which she owed me for a long time. She came all the way from Coimbatore to Bangalore to keep her promise (All smiles)

22:00 - Dinner with Sis and BIL. 3 dishes of Pork.. (Yummy!!! A really nice way to start the year)

00:00 - Back @ my sister's place. Opened an account in FB. (5nally after a lot of my friends requested me to be available in FB)

03:30 - Blogging all this.

FB Mania:

     Guys, thanks a ton for forcing me to FB.. I had a really good first impression. BTW, I've send request to every single one of you who forced me.. :)

New Year Resolutions:

     More blogging/ reading/ playing

     Less tummy... I need to work on this.

B4 I sign off for the night, lemme wish everyone of you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year 2011 :)

Danish :)

The Feeling of Love

Tears flowing down my cheek
    My phone stopped to beep
The Joy that I had
    Once; made me mad
Rain that I enjoyed
    Once; made me glad
Now the same rain, tears me apart
    Making a cavity in my heart
Oh my God!! I'm feeling the pain
    Every time I see a rain
I think of her & there's no one to blame
    No one but me is to be blamed

To finish it off in such a fame.
To finish it off in such a way..
    That it haunted me back with a feeling of love

Why do we call it the feeling of love...
When there is nothing lovable about it..

Danish :)

Perfection

        I am just one step away from attaining perfection. "Being myself" is the only thing which stops me being perfect.

Danish :)

A Responsorial Psalm well sung

        I've go to church every* Sunday and I do sing the Responsorial Psalm. However, today was a special day wherein I sung in it's true meaning (with full emotion):-P.

Reason: I did my exams really really bad.

        Today's recital was from the book of Psalms, Chapter 22, Verses 1 to 11. For those people who would like to hear it from me, here it goes:

        My God, my God, Why have you forsaken me?

Danish :)

Moral: I have to study for my exams after all.

To do the right thing

        You have to do what you have to do and not what the heart desires. By doing what you have to do, you always do the right thing.

Danish :)

Love – chance or choice

      Hi there, Happy Valentine’s Day.. On this day, I would like to share my views on Love; whether it happens by chance or by choice (or both.)

      Most of us think and believe that love happens only by choice. People in Love will definitely agree to it coz they chose their partner. Kudos to ‘em. However, I would like to say that if it was not for chance, you may not have chosen them at all. Let me explain with an example:

      Who do we love the most? “Our Parents” would be the definite answer. We all love our parents. Now answer this, “If they were not your parents, would you still have loved them as you are doing it now?”

      The most likely answer to that question would be “Maybe” but not a definite “Yes.” It is by chance that we met them (in this case, being created by them) and we chose to love them.

      Life is short and we have limited chances to meet the one that we all wait for. Few of them find this love in the form of their beloved, a few in the form of friends, sister, brother, etc... Hope you have utilized this chance in finding the one you love (Could be more than one too.) Take this opportunity today and say “I love you” to the ones you love.

      Once again, wishing you all a very Happy Valentine’s day..

Love, Danish :)

Firefox 3.6 and Personas

    Whew!! Last night I successfully completed installing Firefox 3.6 in both my home & at work. Now, that I have the power of 3.6 @ my disposal let me try some new features. Hmmm!! I have never been a lover of Themes because I preferred performance over looks. What this, something called as Personas… Hmmm!! Interesting.. I could just see ‘em by a simple mouse roll-over. This could be it!! :D

    I installed the Personas Add-on (http://tinyurl.com/cu4y2b) by Mozilla.. This went on fine, no issues, and created the urge in me to explore more Personas. However, to my dismay I found that after using a specific Personas (Don’t want to mention the name), my FF 3.6 boot time got reduced. Earlier, it used to start in less than a sec but now after installing that crap-work, it took me nearly a min for me to get my FF 3.6 started. I then decided to remove personas. Hope this article will help ppl to do the same. Remove personas. To do that go to Tools –> Add-ons –> Themes and uninstall the crap which is creating trouble.

    The one cool feature which I found in FF 3.6 is the security feature. Click on the FavIion on the Address bar to get the basic info on the site. Clicking on more info takes you to a Page Info window where you can get detailed info. This is a good one.. Way to go FF team.

    Anxiously waiting for FF4.. Pls don make me wait long…………