Niagara Falls

Date 25th May 2007(Friday) - My trip started on a good note, when I got a ride to airport from a colleague. I slept well on airplane and reached Columbus in Ohio state. From there went straight to my friends place(hallu), had dinner cooked by Priyanka (bhabi) and chatted about Warangal days.

Date 26th May 2007(Saturday) - Woke up early(@ 8am, its early for a weekend). Rented a Vibe(its a car, how can I rent a actual vibe) and started our journey towards Niagara falls. Its a 6 hr journey, which has to be completed in breaks, else our driver(hallu) and navigator(me) would have died on the way. So our first stop was Cleavland Downtown. It took 2.5 hrs and we were damn hungry by then and after grabbing some junk food we started our(basically Priyanka's) foto session. Cleavland has a beautiful downtown just next to sea shore. After initial foto session we went to sea shore and found that ship museum was closed. So we started our journey again and lost after way as we took a wrong turn. But with the help from a guy at Gas Station, we were back on our way after 45 min's. Also there was another issue, being a long weekend every inn was full. After lot of trying we found an inn and slept peacefully after a tiring day.

Date 27th May 2007(Sunday) - Again started our journey, went to quiet sea shore and sang a few filmy songs(Not the kind in movies dancing and singing with music). And again started moving towards the falls. We had to cross Buffalo city (I thought only we keep odd names for cities, but its same in US also) to reach Niagara falls. We straight went to our inn(Inn on the river), but here also we dint got the room because rooms were booked from 3pm and presently cleaning was going on. So we started towards Niagara and had lunch at a below average costly Indian restaurant(International Punjabi Dhaba).

After that we reached Cave of the winds. You have to take an elevator ride down 80 meters and walk along the base of the falls on a series of wooden stairs and decks. Over there the feel and experience of the power of Niagara Falls cant be expressed in the words. You will get wet irrespective of the fact that you wear raincoat or not. Since we went there in evening we could see the effect of lights on the falls which were focused from Canadian side.

After that we saw fireworks, it was good. One after the other all those crackers lighted the cloudy sky with stars with shortest life of few seconds. After that we watched the falls from the goat island with the laser lights. It was beautiful.

Surprise of the day was we met 2 college people at Niagara. One was senior and another is girl from our batch. World is a small place.

Date 28th May 2007(Monday) - Day started with Maid of the mist(http://www.maidofthemist.com/) boat ride. Its a half an hour ride and it takes you near to the falls but you cant see anything over there because of the mist. Its called so because of an old myth that in the mist, there lives a lady. This story I came to know in a small movie on Niagara falls which we saw over there.

After that we left Niagara to reach Columbus on time. With very few stops and following traffic rules(except for speed limit) we reached back in 5.5 hrs(excluding stoppage time). Then slept well but late to wake up early next morning to catch my flight.

Date 29th May 2007(Tuesday) - Got up early next morning to catch my flight @ 6am and reached Houston.

Daaru

Do jaam...
Khushi ke naam,
Pyar ke naam,
Zindagi ke naam,

Do jaam...
Barbadi ke naam,
Tutey huey dil ke naam,
Mauut ke naam,

Do jaam...
ahinsa ke naam,
shaanti ke naam...

Do jaam...
mere naam.... :)

As I Walk..

As I walk,
I see poeple running,
I see children playing,
I see cars screeching...

As I walk,
I see shabby beggars,
I see dust in the air,
I see gutters overflowing..

As I walk,
I see worried people,
I see worried parents,
I see worried bachelors..

As I walk,
I wish to see happy faces,
I wish to see smiling people,
I wish to see beautiful scenery..

As I walk.....

Hindi Movies

I love watching hindi movies. I have watched four hindi movies in a day (out of which 3 were in theatre). There are variety of movies I like to watch, ranging from comedy, romantic, children movies to one with social cause or with a message(and even few without a message)

One of my favourite movie is "Tum Bin".It is a romantic sentimental film, which can bring tears to people eyes. This movie has got fantastic songs and superb dialogues. One of my favourite line is "Jaanta hoon aapko sahaarey ki zaroorat nahi hai mai tou sirf saath deiney aaya hoon.... "

On the other hand there are crap movies like "Home Delivery". I was not able to bear even first 30 minutes of the movie and was out of the theatre. I really appreciate patience of my two friends, who were able to watch it till end. And they were only two in the houseful show till the end.

Talking about hindi movies and if you do not mention about hindi songs, its like tight slap on the face of hindi cinema. Whatever situation you think of there is a song on it, from child birth to person's marriage to his/her death. Its really amazing!! The heart touching lyrics bring you out of bad mood into the cheerful world.

I salute the people in the entertainment industry for all their work!!

Confidence and Over-Confidence

There is very less difference between confidence and over-confidence. I am usually a confident person. (many times confident of my failure also). But, there were times, when I was over-confident about my success and those are the times where I have failed most. Sometimes I lost hope, while other times pulled up myself and made use of situation and was back into race.

Recently, I went for driving test. (It's simpler in my homeland. No test. Nothing) As usual I was confident, that I will pass. And just before the test, I had a test drive with the Driving school guy and I was good. So my confidence level boosted and crossed the limit and went into over-confidence zone. Then comes blunder. I started well in the actual test and thought its just simple because of my over-confidence, but just then I made a mistake and I was FAILED in the test. Here comes the lesson , ' Do not cross the limits and be confident not over-confident'. Now I have to take test again...

Wish me luck for the test next week...