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Blurty for Ashwin Dongre.
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| Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005 |
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No I’m not starting to blog again, you need not worry. (Yeh! I heard that sigh of relief) Its been about a year that I've posted my last entry. And it was the last one. I am posting this entry for some experiment; therefore it will be removed in few days. So if you are reading this because it’s in your friends’ list or you have reached here from Freshlook or from somewhere else, you can either leave right away or persist. Well! This post definitely guaranty you that I am alive. Yes, alive and doing quite well. Even though I’ve stopped blogging, I am writing for Freshlook, a review site, where you can read experts speaking about movies, books, music etc. It’s a good site, you must read it sometimes. You can even leave a comment there or suggest a movie, book, music album or so to be reviewed. I’m sure you won’t be disappointed. I generally write about movies, that’s something of my area of expertise, but that’s not a rule. Life in this part of the world is quite good. I recently finished reading “October Sky” again. It was the same good read and there was the same inspiring effect. I am currently working for a design studio called Green Apple Design. Those who know what I am aiming at, I’m sure will be glad to know that I’ve started to walk on the path with a good start. I assure you that I’ll mention you at the Kodak theatre with that golden statue win my hand. That’s all for now! I hope to hear from you. I still can be reached at my email address. Farewell Pals! |
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| Monday, March 15th, 2004 |
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So pals, after more than one and half years of 110 entries, I guess its time for me to stop. It might be releaving news for some of you people :D. There are many reasons behind this decision. Maybe I am bored, finding no interest in posting anymore, maybe there is nothing to post anymore, maybe the posts are not readable/interesting/meaningfull/orWhate I'll miss you all. Your posts, comments were verymuch helpfull, inspiring and just everything. I'll offcourse visit your journal quite frequently. I hope You wont forget me. So pals even if I am not posting, dont think I am dead. :D Parting is such a pain, but cant really help. My all the best wishes are always there for you in your lives. Hope you all live a very happy life. So will I. Luvu all! Farewell! ashu. |
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| Sunday, February 15th, 2004 |
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I was reading my post on the last Valentine’s day, and as I read I was answering the test there. And you know what, I passed the test with full marks. Yes, I am in love. I wish there was a Nariman Point in Nagpur. But even Shukravari Talao was great! |
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| Saturday, February 14th, 2004 |
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The more I see movies, read books even philosophy and listen to people talking about life, the more I notice, all they concludes only one thing that the ultimate destiny of human being is “Love”. It is Love for what everybody does live, Love for relatives, Love for the spouse, Love for self, Love for life itself. No matter how they interpret it, it is one and the only thing. In its all forms Love is what it is : Love. And everybody does live for it. Now it might look funny I thinking about such a thing at this age of life, but it is so. In fact I have been thinking about it since quite a long time. I used to think about what am I doing and how is it going to be in future, in terms of career, and when I used to think it in terms of life I used to feel a huge gap, a valley, a hollow, nothingness inside me for something, that I never exactly could interpret. But today, I don’t really have any such feeling and even now I think it was Love I was missing in my life. At certain point of life even you people might realize that. Of course there is Death, everybody dies. But then death is a part of life and yes, everybody dies. But it is Love that makes life complete. Happy Valentine’s Day Pals! |
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| Thursday, February 12th, 2004 |
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If not anyone, I certainly have invented the invisibility potion. You see I am so invisible here on blurty that people are asking about me everywhere. Asking by mails my whereabout by mails is no new to me, but now I am asked on phone and in person. Well I thought my posts are very little interesting. ( I still feel so, at least this one certainly isntl.) Anyway, pals I am living and still in the body and mind. I hope you havent forgot me. I had been to my home last week for a wedding. Not mine, but of a daughter of a friend of my parents. People are asking when am I marrying. Though I have no Immediate plans, dont be surprised if I am married tomarrow. Life is going well, though not smooth, but then when it really is so..? |
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| Thursday, January 29th, 2004 |
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Now because of changes in policies of my image hoster, no image can be seen on my journal! )*&^*$#*@%^*&^#@ But now I have solved the problem and yes guess what whose pic is up for the first time...Ana! So pals here is my Ana. It is supposed tobe the greeting for her B'day which is there on the date as well. She is wearing a lugada, a traditional Indian wear. She looks too young in the pic, trust me she is not. :D She is even younger, (I hope I am arrested for marrying an underaged girl when we will. :D) 
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So I still am in Mumbai, watching movies, enjoying, practicing for my upcoming exam and lots and lots of enjoying! I've booked tickets for the LOTR shows on Sunday. There something called as LOTR Festival going on there. They are showing the all the sequels there back to back. Unfortunately the third part of the sequel is not going to be released here before fifth of Feb and so unfortunately I wont be able to see it since I am returning to Nagpur on second. But anyway, I'll have first two sequels which I anyway will be enjoying at the grand Regal cinema. So... And somehow or other, I seems tobe in Love with The Gateway of India. I visited there for the second time in four days and love tobe there. The cool breeze from the ocean, the endless length of the ocean, and just everything. I just love to be there. Sometimes I just sit there over the long rock parapet or stand over the staires with surfs washing my legs or sometimes I just lie down and sleep over the green green grass of the garden in front of the great monument. But whenever I am there, I always wish that Ana should also have been there with me. It would have been a lot whole different world. I remember you Ferz as well, sometimes I see the ocean and the Gateway for you. Wish you were here also. You soon would be. Love, ashu. |
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| Tuesday, January 27th, 2004 |
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Remember me talking about TechFest last year? That its an event worth attending???? Well, here is some update. Its not so anymore. I am never going to attend it ever again (unless I am in IIT Powai). It was the most mismanaged event I've ever been to. And I am sorry I came specially to be there this year. Well to err is human! But you see, since i am in Mumbai, I am not able to come online. (I hate TechFest PPL) I have been to Gate Way Of India. And standing there I remembered you Ferz. I saw it for you! Luvu all! ashu. |
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| Monday, January 19th, 2004 |
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I hate happening it with me. I couldnt come online at all because of some trouble with the cable ISP, had to travel a lot to get this done. But anyway! Here I was reading Readers' Digest (RD) the other day which had the exclusive interview of Dalai Lama. It was a great read, it told a lot about him. He's not like any of other spiritual leaders. He's just like one of us, having feelings, desires and all just that he knows how to control over them. Here is some part of it. I guess there is a lot to learn from it. **************************************** RD : Religious intolerance seems tobe a major source of violence in the world today. What can be done to reduce it? DL : I have four suggestions. One is meetings of scholars to discuss the differences and the similarities between religions. Second is meetings between practitioners from different religions. This exchange of spirtual experiences is very helpful to understand the value of other traditions. The third is to make pilgrimages to different holy places. I have visited Jerusalem, Lourdes in the south of France and Fatima in Portugal. And, here in India, I visit churches, synagogues, mosques and Hindu and Jain temples. I dont believe in God. I dont believe in the creator. But I have respect. For example, a few years ago some Catholics from England came to India to Bodh Gaya, to attend a seminar. Each morning under the Bodhi tree Christian and Buddhist brothers and sisters, then some Muslims and some Jains, came together in silent meditation. All have different beliefs, but we are all seeking inner peace and trying to be good human beings. My fourth suggestion is to hold conferences where religious leaders from different ffaiths come together and speak from one platform. Now the fundamenalists, I think one of the main causes (of their intolerance) is because they remain isolated. Many Tibetan Buddhists when we were in Tibet, including myself, felt Buddhism is best. But after meeting other people, now my feeling is we must respect other religions. To try to convert them is conterproductive creates a lot of problems. You can see, because there are a lot of Hindus, lot of Sikhs, lot of Jains in India, the attitude of Indian Muslims towards other religions is much more open than Arab Muslims, who are isolated,. More contact with other traditions helps to reduce this extreme fundamentalist sort of attitude. RD : DO you find there's shared spirit of ecumenism among religious leaders? DL : Yes, most religious leaders respect pluralism. But one catholic priest in Paris many years ago, he actually tried to convert me to Christianity. That's impossible! (laughs) RD : Do you have a favourite saying that you use in life? DL : Yes, it si this prayer. If I feel a little discouraged, sad or ask "What is the mening of this life?" this verse give me purpose of life and inner strength: So long as space remains, So long sentient beings' suffering remains, I will remain, In order to help, in order to serve... And when things are okay, and people are praising the Dalai Lame, again this poem helps me: I am nothing but a servant to provide to others. Otherwise you get like, " Oh, I'm quite important." And that creats arrogance and exploitation. So if you provide some happiness, some comfort to others, then your life becomes meaningful. IF your life creates ploblems or suffeing to others, then there's no meaniong to your existance. **************************************** |
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| Tuesday, January 13th, 2004 |
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| Monday, January 12th, 2004 |
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Yes, Yes I know its pretty long since I’ve updated my blog, my own account info showed my last entry was posted 13 weeks ago. But you see I couldn’t do it. It wasn’t so that I had nothing to post, or din’t have time to post, but I needed a break. I needed a break for I started to feel that all my posts were becoming, well like the entries in the diary, which was not exactly for what I started this journal. So I needed a break to slow down, recollect and study all the thought, events and all. I needed it to study all the entries made so far and to see how I’ve evolved in the period. But looking at the journals of all my friends, it seems that I wasn’t the only person away from blurty. Cyril, Khushee, Saru, Phatichar and Sur were my mates in the break too. :( If you’d see this is my 101st post. That means I stopped exactly after posting my 100th entry. What a time to take a break. But it wasn’t intentional. It happened … just like that. All I had intended was to take a break, a break for a very short while, but as it proved, it took much longer than that. It was more than three months. But whatever! It was very difficult to stay away from all you people. I only hope you haven’t forgotten me. So what did I do in this break? Some of you mailed, commented me asking this. So here is the answer. I basically took a break (:D ) and I did a lot of things. I, with Amol started working upon our website for our design venture, Pixel Munge. A preliminary page of which you can see here. Currently we are working upon the whole site. Secondly I am preparing for the an entrance exam called CEED for IIT, which is scheduled on February 1st. Then now I am (I avoid using the word proud) owner of "Quran" and "BhagwatGita". Most importantly I am walking on the way I ever intended to, as a designer. And etc etc, for the list is pretty long. Lots of things have happened in the meanwhile. Matrix Revolutions, the third in the matrix sequels, released and disappointed me. I found some software CDs by “Cyril” in Nagpur, it was great, looking at my surprised and happy face the shopkeeper asked me whats the matter, I hope you can understand my feelings while telling hime that Cyril is my friend. :D I had been traveling a lot. Have been to my native place in a small town called Pandharkawda, then been to Shirdi, a holy place(okay I know that doesn’t suit me, but you see there were some reasons for which I had to go there. I’ll talk about them in my fore coming entries), and to Pune, to attend the wedding of my cousin brother. I had been to my hometown. And so I did travel a lot. I got a mobile phone, so now you can talk to me anytime at +919850300660. Things are going fine with me and Ana. And yes the year has changed. Even if it is late to wish, let me wish you a very happy and a prosperous new year. I wish all your wishes come true and you have a happy life to live. That reminds me this is third year of my blog. I started on October 29th, 2002, though it wasn’t anything more than just a start, it was 2003 when I started doing it regularly. And now its 2004. Okay you will say third year and just a hundred entries? But then you see, its almost only a year of posting regularly, which roughly sums up to one entry in three days, not bad I guess. Beside making it a daily diary wasn’t my intention. I wanted to speak up, give words to my thought and I wanted to know people, hear them, know what they think, and above all make friends. And I think I pretty succeeded in doing that. I am happy to be able to do that. So whether it is 100th post or 1000th post, it doesn’t matter to me, what does matter is, what I achieved through it. |
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| Monday, October 6th, 2003 |
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So the time has come to the end of the story and so the trilogy is about to finish with its last part to open worldwide on 5th of the November this year. Great! I cant imagine what it might come up with. I cant hardly wait for it. The second and third part of the series were finished together just the release dates were put apart. Here are some of the news realated the release. Plus you might find some interesting records and achievements made by the movies. The first two movies were great and I am excited by thinking what they might come up with this time. All the parts have a great breakthrough visual effects and even if this wasnt enough now the Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures are now coming with its IMAX version. They call it "Matrix Reloaded : The IMAX Experience" I hope they show it in India as well, got to see it. |
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Its not that I dont have anything to update or something. But since last few days I had started to feel my posts were getting to something that they were not intended tobe. I mean I started blogging to convey my thoughts, my inner feelings, my opinion about the world around and about how the things are and how they should be and not to write my daily dear diary. But for past few entries, I feel that they are more like my dear daily diary. So I decided to take a break. I have some things in my mind, I want to post a little review on "Pirates of the Carebbean", some visual effect industry trends, something upon capital punishment, about Barkha Datt's show "We the People". But the thing is that I am not getting time and proper mood to write. I will soon do it again. The break is about to end. But yes it still is on. Luv u all! ashu. |
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| Tuesday, September 30th, 2003 |
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I had been to my home so I couldnt post and reply. So if you find very old comments of yours replied, please do understand and manage. Luv you all! ashu. |
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| Friday, September 26th, 2003 |
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As I said, I had been to the air show on the second day as well, this time with Ana, and this time it was even better. Now for the records: There were nine Suryakiran not 12 as I previously mentioned. The Suchoi-30 flew all the way from Puna base to the show just in time after all the Suryakirans had landed and started its stunts. What a timing. It then flew back to Puna base. It was practiced on both the days. And guess how much time it took to reach Nagpur from Puna, just 27 minutes. Whatever are the facts and figures, it was great experience and worth watching. If ever you have an air show nereby dont miss it.. |
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| Tuesday, September 23rd, 2003 |
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It was awesome, exotic, out of this world and all those adjectives I cant spell off now. I live pretty near to the Nagpur air port. Watching planes and hearing their noises is no new to me. But this thing is beyond whatever I ever had imagined. Have you ever actually seen them doing that? Man! it was so mesmerizing that I couldn’t take my eyes off them. Okay talking some senses, I am talking about the air show that held here in Nagpur today. The Indian Air Force (IAF) organizes an air show and an exhibition once in four years here at Nagpur base. I remember to have attended one around eight years ago, but all I could catch was the Para jumping. But today I saw it all. I thought they had stopped showing air stunts after the Delhi air show accident. But no, they haven’t done so as yet. Today the show started with three biggest carrier planes passing off only a few hundred feet from the ground. Then came the ”Suryakiran”. The fighter planes, which made some great formations. There were 12 of them and such a great formations they made. Formations of different shapes, making the tricolour off the coloured exost, coming from all the different directions and swooshing past, very close to the surface and very closed to each other, and very close to the spectators. Two of them flew past each other coming from two different directions so close to each other that made me open my mouth this a wide…That was thrilling. And then came the Suchoi-30 with its thunderous sound. India’s Famous slick fighter plane. It did lots of stunts those actually scared us. Going high in sky and making circle, flying upside down, going too high and then dropping dead as if its gonna crash and then very close to the surface coming to life and fly away, and what surprised me was it actually glided in air, I mean it was going so slow I thought its gonna stop in the middle of the air like a chopper. Man that Suchoi-30 was real great. And finally came the Para-troopers. Dropping from an altitude of 3000 feet and opening the parachutes at the 1000 thousand feet they made some great formations. They actually were so close to each other that I started feeling something’s not right and they are going to get tangled. But it was just an my imagination, they did it with such a perfection to prove it actually was. There is one exhibition as well where they are displaying many planes, how they work and all. They are repeating the show tomorrow as well, I am definitely going again. And since tomorrow is Ana’s off, I am taking her with me as well. And if it is possible for you people too, I recommend you also to come. |
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| Thursday, September 18th, 2003 |
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I wrote at least a couple of times in my posts about my passion of reading. Needless to say that it has not changed even a bit. Reading is fun plus a perfect learning experience. As Forrest Gump’s mother always said, “Life is like a box of chocolates ; you never know what you’re gonna get. These are some of the quotes I came across while reading, which are really quotable. ”The squeaky wheel may get the most oil, but it’s also the first to be replaced.” “heroes are the people who rise to the occasion and slip quietly away.” “Flowers and plants are silent presences; they nourish every sense except the ear.” “100 bucks saved for 100 years will become 1,00,000 bucks at which time it will be worth absolutely nothing.” But then, “A penny saved is a penny gained.” “In reality, prophecies are the memory of humanity. No prophet has ever predicted anything; they have simply remembered things past.” And then following are the one of my favorites, first among them being by Nicole Kidman, ”The power of work, and the power of creativity, can be your salvation.” “I listen to critics because often they’re a good source of information for what you have to do differently.” “A vision without the ability to execute is probably a hallucination.” And last but not the least, “People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.” |
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| Sunday, September 14th, 2003 |
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The other night, I was humming Kenny G’s By the times this night is over. Nothing else but the title line was being played repeatedly in my mind. And I started thinking, is something really going to be different by the time this night is over? And it did. Many things changed. And from of those changes I concluded three things, or should I say, I learnt three things. I think I knew one of them I had been noticing for many months and yet ignored. One is that my face reflects what goes in my mind exactly, without fail, sometimes exaggerated. Other two things I don’t think I’d like to share. I’ve taken some decisions. But it was disappointing. |
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| Wednesday, September 3rd, 2003 |
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Blurty for Ashwin Dongre.
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