Some superb lines ...

To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.

When God takes something from your grasp, He's not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better.

The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.

Because of the low battery, my cell died yesterday around 10 pm, and when i finally switch it on at 12.20 am, saw few missed call alerts. Among all of them one was from a very dear friend of mine. I called her up this morning. Without even asking the reason she had called, i started like a chatter box. Because i had something to tell her too. Two of our friends are getting married, after all the fights and struggle of years they have finally manage to convince their parents and YAY they are getting married. I was way too excited to tell her this. She was way too happy to know this too. We talked and then she disclosed a news to me, that yesterday her engagement date has been decided. WOW !!! Even though i was happy more than that WOW expression but i couldn't say anything. This was not just a piece of news for me, she is a close friend and she means a lot. I am tooo happy for her and i wish her all the happiness and a wonderful life ahead ...

There is just one problem, they both in fact all 3 close friends of mine are getting married at the same date ... 25th Jan. :) Its gonna be tough to attend the weddings. But for now i am too excited and happy for them.

Congrats Guys !!!

A Smile

A smile,
sometime cute,
sometime confident,
sometime relaxing,
sometime inspiring,
sometime soft,
and its always so beautiful,
sometime so amazing,
sometime killing ...

a simple smile can make your day,
a simple smile can help you forget your pain,
a simple smile can motivate you,
a simple smile can lead you,
a simple smile is so easy to follow,
and its always pleasure to see it ...

It takes nothing to smile,
so never think before smiling,
you never know who is falling for your smile :)

Leh Ladakh - The most beautiful place i have ever seen

Trying to write something about the trip to Leh Ladakh since the day i came back from there, but i guess i have very limited vocabulary to describe the place and its beauty. It's beyond explanation and one should must visit the place to make sense why i am saying like this.

Ladakh is tibetian influenced area. The people there are very helpful and charming. They always wear smile on their faces, its really good to see people smiling all day long, even if they are in middle of the market, and even when they met with any kind of the accident on the road and that's amazing.

24th July (day 1)

We started our trip from Pune on 24th July. But the real travel starts from Delhi, where we took a bus for Manali. Not sure about the rest of friends but i slept all way long on the way to manali and reached manali on 25th July morning.

25th July (Day 2)

On the same day we started for Leh in a Sumo @2.30pm. Even though the Sumo condition was very bad ... we some how manage to reach Leh. The driver was so wired that he did not knew anything about the car and its machinery. He had just one cassette in his Sumo and we had to listen to his sad love song cassette all 2 days, until we reached Leh. I can't forget the song "tu to bewaqt aati hai, teri yaad har waqt ati hai".

1. We crossed a placed called Maadi, full of flowers and beautiful rocks. The place had a guest house worth spending 3-4 days.
   
2. Tandi bridge was the next stoppage on the way, a bridge over the Bhaga river. The place was so clean and the weather was good clear that there were 3 times more starts were visible in the sky.
3. Rohtang pass, this place is like lonawala, not because of the place but because of the crowd, the place was full of people local as well as visitors.
   
4. We stayed at a hotel @keylong overnight.

26th July (day 3)

1. Started early morning @5.00am for Leh.
   
2. Crossed Zingzingbar, amazing place. It was cold, we had salty tea there.
   
3. Surajtaal, the first glimpse of snow and we played as if we will never get to see snow again :)
4. Jipsa - The first place you will start feeling mountain sickness. Make sure to take rest whenever u feel mountain/motion sickness.
   
5. Baralachala Pass
6. Sarachu - Border of HP and J&K. [End of Deepak Project, start of Project Himank]
   
7. Pang - This place have very less oxygen and u will probably feel sick bcoz of the same.
8. 21 turns/loops - The route had 21 steep turns. And it was looking amazing from the higest steep :).
   
9. Morre plains - The areas which was more like a desert, a plain surface area totally different from the hills.
   
10. Lachlungala pass
11. Taglungala pass
12. Rumtse
13. Upshi - A beautiful valley with mountains and rivers.
14. Crossed Army check post of Leh and finally reached Leh @10.30 pm.
    

27th July (day 4)
1st day in Leh, we saw places in Leh, to get acclimatized with the Leh weather.

• Hall of Fame - A museum, constructed by Indian army. The place with biographies, weapons, attires, multi layered shoes and many more things related to war and army.
  
• Stok Palace - A beautiful palace with beautiful architecture and internal construction.
• Shey Palace
  
• Thikshey Gompa - A beautiful Monastery. It has school of Buddhism.
  
• Leh Palace
  
• Ingtse Gompa
• Shanti Stupa - Whole Leh can be seen from this place and its looks amazing in the night.
  

We had lunch at a Chinese restaurant with chopsticks, it was fun learning that.

28th July ( day 5)

We started early morning for Nubra Valley.

1. Khardungla pass -The world's highest motorable road @18,380 feet.
2. Reached Panamik - A place where you can find natural hot springs situated at valley of Sumoor. Had bath with the natural hot water, it was awesome. The view of panamik was amazing, greenery, sand, water, hills, every things can be found together at one place. WE stayed there overnight, it was cold there at night.
   
3. We had thanktuk for dinner. Its a local dish which was watery containing veg, wheat in it.

29th July (day 6)

Left panamik, for sumoor Gonpa, a monastery.
Then for Hunder, where you can find camels with 2 humps. Hunder a place of wonder where you can fine, water, mountain, greenery, rocks, sand all at one place.

Reached Leh around 4.50 pm and then kept ourself busy in search to shop something or other ...


30th July (day 7)

We started early mornign for Pangong Lake.
Stoped at Changala Pass on th way, world's third highest motoring road. The routes to the lake was exceptionally beautiful, but when i saw the lake, i realize this might the most beautiful i have ever seen in my entire life ....
It was awesome ... the water was toooo cold and it was so amazing to sit there ...
Unfortunately we had to leave the lake a bit early .. and we stoped around 4.30 pm at a place, for the overnight camping.
This was my first camping and i must say, there could not be a better place than this for the same. The palce was so good, clean and chilled. Sounded by mountain from 3 side with a small river just by the side of the tent. After having delisious dinner we played card till late night....


31st Jult ( day 8)

We started our journey back to Manali, packing our camping ...
Reached Kelong and stayed there overnight ...


1st Aug (day 9)

With a heavy heart we started from kelong, as this was about to be our last day of this beautiful trip and the amazing jaouney ...
On the way to Manali ...
1. Experienced Paragliding, it was awesome and scary in start .. but we had fun.
2. Cycling till manali ( just for 15 km, but still it was fun)

Finally as soon as we reached manali, shopping was only thign we were interested in ... :)

2nd Aug ( day 10)

Started for delhi around 12.oo pm in a enova.
Reached Delhi @3.30 am.


3rd Aug (day 11)

Took flight for pune @9.00 am and finally reached Pune @11.00 pm.

Not to menton, this was my best trip. Had so many amazing, awesome and different experience. Looking forword to go there again next year ...

Why Do We Feel Sad?

Why do we feel sad?
Are these sad feelings nothing more than a part of the usual cycle of mood swings? No they are not; these sad feelings are a message sent to you by your subconscious mind, in order to take an action.

Sad feelings are like all the other emotions we experience, they are an indication that something is going wrong in our lives. The root causes for sad feelings are uncountable but they can be summarized under one big category, Unsolved Problems.

Feeling Sad without Knowing Why
Feeling sad without knowing why is usually the result of having too many accumulated problems in your subconscious mind to the extent that you don’t know which of them is the real reason for your sad feelings.
Some people escape solving their problems by taking drugs, others escape them by sleeping while a third category escapes by going into a new relationship. There are hundreds of methods that people use to burry their problems deeper in their subconscious minds, but the subconscious mind never gives up, it always replys back by sending a more intense sad feeling in order to wake you up.

Feeling sad all the time is one of the symptoms of depression. You may be feeling sad because you are depressed. Personally, I consider depression a message too telling you that hope was lost and that you should take actions to restore it.

Whether it’s an unsolved problem or whether it’s a problem that is buried into your subconscious mind, the result will be sad feelings. The only way to deal with these sad feelings is to solve what can be solved and to accept what cannot be solved; only then your sad feelings will go away.
If you don’t like this approach, you can start it the other way around, by starting a journey towards feeling happy.

Why do we shout in anger ??

A saint asked his disciples, 'Why do we shout in anger? Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout for that.'

'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the saint. 'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice? Why do you shout at a person when you're angry?'

Disciples gave some other answers but none satisfied the saint.

Finally he explained, 'When two people are angry at each other, their hearts distance a lot. To cover that distance they must shout to be able to hear each other. The angrier they are, the stronger they will have to shout to hear each other through that great distance.'

Then the saint asked, 'What happens when two people fall in love? They don't shout at each other but talk softly, why? Because their hearts are very close. The distance between them is very small...'

The saint continued, 'When they love each other even more, what happens? They do not speak, only whisper and they get even closer to each other in their love. Finally they even need not whisper, they only look at each other and that's all. That is how close two people are when they love each other.'

MORAL: When you argue do not let your hearts get distant, do not say words that distance each other more, else there will come a day when the distance is so great that you will not find the path to return.

Let the spirit of friendship in us not die

Horror gripped the heart of a World War-I soldier, as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. Caught in a trench with continuous gunfire whizzing over his head, the soldier asked his Lieutenant if he could go out into the "no man's land" between the trenches to bring his fallen comrade back. "You can go," said the Lieutenant, "but I don't think it will be worth it. Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away."

The Lieutenant's words didn't matter, and the soldier went anyway. Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and brought him back to their company's trench. As the two of them tumbled in together to the bottom of the trench, the officer checked the wounded soldier, then looked kindly at his friend. "I told you it wouldn't be worth it," he said. "Your friend is dead and you are Mortally wounded." "It was worth it, Sir," said the soldier. "What do you mean by worth it?" responded the Lieutenant. "Your friend is dead." "Yes Sir," the private answered, "but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I had the satisfaction of hearing him say...."Jim...I knew you'd come."

Many times in life, whether a thing is worth doing or not, really depends on how u look at it. Take up all your courage and do something your heart tells you to do so that you may not regret not doing it later in your life..