A little tour of Ladakh for you

Dear Readers,

Hope you guys are still there even though its been eons back that I've posted here. 

Well, I was busy. Believe me or not! There was this phase test, school exams, annual day prac. 

And diwali was great. Made this huge rangoli! 

Then we have our annual day on friday which is exciting. So happy times ahead, mate!

Anyway, isn't masterchef superr awesomeee. God, it's so addicting.

Phaltu sab baat choro, Ladakh pics here baby. Check out!

The ever amazing jumping pics, this was @ a monastery in Leh, just beside our guest house.
My personal favorite monastery out there. Monasteries are so calm and peaceful and have this unsaid aura.

Changla pass, 17590 ft. We had to pass through this pass on the way to the pangong lake.
Juley is namaste in Tibetian. The snowy mountains so near felt like I was on top of the world.

The pangong lake. The 3 idiots lake. It's breathtaking. No wonder that last scene was the best :)
The lake was seeing hues of blue my eyes had never laid upon before. 

Pangong tso. Pardon me and my dad's eccentric photography. We go nuts :P

These white stupas are strewn all over ladakh. This was at some place near the Hemi's monastery.

Pangong tso. Through glasses yo!

That's 0.0000000001% of ladakh for you. For the rest, stay tuned.

Some time, same place, love always

SAM B

ps. there's plans of a joint blog with Antara :) hopefully.

This is to Anuja

Darlings,

I'm crazy happy/ dancing on air happy. Had a fabulous time in Ladakh. More about that in the EXCLUSIVE ladakh post :P

But well, Anuja is this avid reader of this blog ( I have no idea why?! cos I have nothing here to read that much, you know?! )  So this is for her. Hope you love listening to this fusion over here.

Both being songs close to my heart, this is a fusion that I instantly fell in love with. And to all those bongs and the non-bongs too SHUBHO BIJOYA! Hope you had a wonderful Pujo! I did I swear.

And here's to Diwali, right on the cards!

Much love ( Anuja *wink wink* )

SAM B

Pujooooo

Dear "people who make me happy",


Durga Puja is a few blocks away and I can't stop feeling festive even though the beastly half yearlies are going on. 


Durga Puja for me is: 

• Waking up one to the intoxicating fragrance of shiuli phool.
• Doing the rounds of Pujor bajar ( shopping for the pujas ) and asking the "Pujor Bajar sesh?" question to almost everyone I cross paths with. 
• Craving for months to wake up to a sunny Autumn morning with the sky sketched in white
• rolling in bed to the mellifluous chants of Mahalaya, baba shouting to me "shuru hoye geche; wake up" (It's started wake up!)
• Wearing a new dress everday for those 4 days. 
• pandal-hopping till I cross my 100 pandals mark, and not even complaining about the shoe bite.
• Listening to the dhakis beat and dancing along to it.
• the unlimited paani puri and the little detours to look for a shop selling mountain dew to boost me up for the long day ahead. 
• The countdown to mahalaya, the star ananda superstar megastar, the annual meetings with ISHA
• The traditional bengali food - you know the shorshe ilish, potol chingri and all.
• Durga Puja for me is a reminder that you don't have to pour yourself into books, tuitions, and stupid exams for four whole days. Every year. ( class 11 makes you say these things. I kid not.)  That every woman looks stunning on Dashami after a vermillion bath and that if you go touch the feet of your elders you get 50 ruppee notes that end up to be a pocketful of money.

Here's sharing you a picture of last year's pujo, this was some pandal at kakurgachi.

Durga Puja '10

Watching every pandal with a different theme, pandals so awesome that you stand in awe and wonder how the hell do they do these in such short a time. 

There are the traditional pandals which stick to the very conservative pattern they have been following for years, big pandals, the thakur exactly the same each year. It's this similarity that make them even more special. 

Then there are the pandals which bring new things, new ideas, mind boggling ones that make you go wow. How in a few months time a total replica of the Egyptian pyramids go up, we have no idea...all we do is stand in queues for hours to catch a glimpse of the creation.

Hope you have an awesome puja as I myself travelling my way through Ladakh. It will be a good one. :) 

Till then, in the words of my grandmother, Dugga Dugga.

SAM B

I'll be back...

ON MONDAY. :P

Have no effin to time to write down a post
The half yearlies are on. And I hate studying our stupid Sunita Arora CS book.

Brb

SAM B

Lights will guide you home.

Hey there,

You are welcome to read my stupid rant.

• I have a new tennis racket now. Well it's not all new, joy's racket. He won't be playing so I now have this awesome head racket. 
• We had a teachers day celebration at school which mostly consisted of us running wild around the school corridors, staring at the seniors in hot saris and making fun of the teachers and dancing to Senorita :P 
• My hair is growing. What relief. I'm frickin tired of my hair falling over my eyes every single time I bend my head. 
• Writing in points is so much fun. 
• I am finally reading Pride and Prejudice. I know..i know, stop :O ing. 
• and watching lots of gossip girl. Serena is so badass in season 2. I'm tending towards liking Blair more. "Lonely boy" is still so hot! There you go,

• Can someone tell me why does it seem like class 11 just started? My gawd, I have no track of time or mind, of whats going on. 
• One day I'm in Kharagpur peacefully scooting away with my scooty, next day I'm taking a 6 hr class at fiitjee. It's creepy!
• Had an awesome time catching up with jnan and suman over coke and yougurt, I miss my old class at times. But I guess, you finally settle down with whatever changes happen around.
• And I congratulate my very loved Ria for the head girl honor. You know you were the best choice and so deserved it.
• And I'M OFF TO LADAKH this puja. Hope nothing in the world blunders that plan.
• And have you guys started your Durga Puja shopping? (Like the best festival here in Bengal, google if you have no clue!) 

Off to study chemistry, my blog's getting pretty boring and I haven't taken a decent picture in ages. Sad sad..

Listening to:

Buhbye,

SAM B

AWAY

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So you finally let it out

You know I trusted you

But yes you had to do it

Make me feel worse too.

And here was I, seeing the angel in you.

And silly me, kept on worrying about you

Silly me, kept on thinking that I was wrong all along

Now, for all I’ve heard you do to me

I hate you for coming up and faking your sweet song.

I hate you for scaring me to think what is right and wrong.

And I will take you out of my mind

Every time I see you at school

I will shout out silent curses

For all that you’ve done from behind.

It pains me to think how to you I had been that kind!

I guess you can’t change people like you

I tried and now I know

It’s just waste of time

To clean you up, to scrub all the dirt of your soul

And then you do this to me, to someone who’s come back to you

Someone who cares for you, talks to you?

I think there’s nothing more to do,

Nothing more to say

Here is my last goodbye to you

I hope you understand that I need you to stay away.

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Little something I wrote. Tell me if you thought it was completely useless. :P

Hey It's mum's BDAY. Happy Bday to her :) And that reminds me it's a happy day at home today. And I'm watching Gossip Girl of all things. From season 1. I can now understand the hype behind gossip girl. Blake Lively is a complete doll!

Cheers,

Stickin around

SAM B

Currently reading : Awakening