Sunday, September 30, 2007

White men CAN dance!!!

Ok, I was at this Sukshinder Shinda concert a few months ago; and was amazed to see that there were more non-indians than Indians there enjoying and dancing to the music!

Although I must say, their (attempts to make som) Bhangra-moves; did require some improvements - they did quite a good job heating the dance hall (with their random movements!) haha.

It was that day (night) that I was convinced. White people will never manage to dance Bhangra properly. [No I am not being serious- for those who have a hard time comprehending irony, I am NOT a racist peace of shit!]

I just had to post this video that I saw on Dilpreets blog; which proved me wrong!
This Bhangra group - Izzhat Punjab di (The Pride of Punjab) - make some amazing moves!.

Link


Sunday, September 23, 2007

....bunch of red indians yelling


Today I was at the Gurdwara (Sikh place of worship, Sikh temple) and a few interesting things happened.


Well the most interesting thing was that; Snatam Kaur came and sung a bit!



Snatam Kaur is a very talented young artist/vocalist (nominated to the grammy awards) who sings devotional songs in a very light, inspiring and soothing way. She sung really nice today, and me being me, I recorded it!


I must say that the sound quality was awful; too loud – I was too optimistic when setting the volume on my mp3 player, so the recording comes with a few distortions if you listen very closely and carefully with a high volume; so try to keep it low. Also, the first 3 minutes is basically full of disturbances since they were still sorting out the microphones and stuff (no I haven't bothered editing and cutting the track since that takes ages)



Today’s recording.


Recording from last year. (this recording is much better)


Another thing that happened was that, since I brought my mp3 player I started messing around with it, and recorded something that a friend of mine thinks sounds like "a bunch of angry red Indians yelling."


Link (Caution; only listen if you are healthy, don’t have any heart disorders or are pregnant)


This is post as light humour only; and I have no intention on offending anyone.


Hope you enjoy the tracks.



Friday, September 14, 2007

Wish with care

Although there's a lot of stuff I need to blog about, among other things the two camps I've been to lately and a lot of other stuff, I decided to post about something that's very recent. A bike ride with my cousin where we discussed the issue of 'wishing stuff', and how we easily get carried away wishing stuff and, once we get what we wish we really regret it.


Sometimes what we wish comes as a really big challenge and struggle.


A bit background info; I’ve studying Medical Technological engineering (basically maintaining and developing machines in hospitals). My education started last semester (Jan 2007). The first semester we studied medical courses (in order to make a pulse meter; you need to know what a pulse is! In order to make a pacemaker you need to know how/why/when the heart depolarises etc). I found that a lot of fun. I found it really interesting; thought – I might as well study biomed. So I apply for biomed and a few other extra courses I had applied for ….which are realllllly hard to get in…. The fact that I applied late doesn’t help


I was anxious all summer waiting for the response; did I get into everything I wanted to get in to? (this was one of the small things that didn’t allow me to enjoy Sikh student camp to its fullest).


Ok so a lot of prayers and anxiety later I find out that I got into the program I wanted to!!! Wooohooo!


But what about my other seat, in the engineering? Should I just dump that? How can I dump something I haven’t even done!!?


So although I had gotten what I wished, and prayed for; I was now in a big dilemma – what do study and do for the rest of my life!!!


I since not all of them started at the same time, I decided I’ll start all of them (don’t worry; education in Sweden is totally free [which might be the reason why I’m so spoiled] – so I wasn’t spending all my summer savings paying 4 different university fees.)


Studying 3 different fulltime courses, and one part time course just doesn’t work. Believe me; I’ve tried it. (I’m struggling with 2 fulltime ones – it’s working!!!). On a more serious note; I managed to make up my mind; I decided to carry on studying Medical Technology; and worse comes to worse I'll have to change later on if I find it really boring - but I can't just leave something I haven't even tried! I don't regret it - and am really happy that I've got my priorities straight now. And who says it needs to be so dramatic - something I want to do for THE REST OF MY LIFE. Come on! Nothing says I can't change field later on; after I get my basic degree - I think it's a very tabu thing within Indian culture - to change your mind later on. But one thing is for sure; life was living hell when I still hadn't made up my mind !


Point being; wish with care – cause its very likely that you might get what you want; but in the end you might regret asking it to begin with.


Kind of reminds with the quote;



ਵਿਣੁ ਤੁਧੁ ਹੋਰੁ ਜਿ ਮੰਗਣਾ ਸਿਰਿ ਦੁਖਾ ਕੈ ਦੁਖ

ਦੇਹਿ ਨਾਮੁ ਸੰਤੋਖੀਆ ਉਤਰੈ ਮਨ ਕੀ ਭੁਖ


To ask for any other than You, Lord, is the most miserable of miseries.
Please bless me with Your Name, and make me content; may the hunger of my mind be satisfied.


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