MY COMFORT ZONE

I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn't fail.

The same four walls and busywork were really more like jail.

I longed so much to do the things I'd never done before,

But stayed inside my comfort zone and paced the same old floor.

I said it didn't matter that I wasn't doing much.

I said I didn't care for things like commission checks and such.

I claimed to be so busy with the things inside the zone,

But deep inside I longed for something special of my own.

I couldn't let my life go by just watching others win.

I held my breath; I stepped outside and let the change begin.

I took a step and with new strength I'd never felt before,

I kissed my comfort zone goodbye and closed and locked the door.

If you're in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out,

Remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt.

A step or two and words of praise can make your dreams come true.

Reach for your future with a smile; success is there for you!

Don't give up

When things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road you're trudging seems all uphill,
When funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh.
When care is pressing you down a bit.
Rest, if you must, but don't you quit.
Life is queer with its twists and turns
As every one of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about
When he might have won had he stuck it out:
Don't give up though the pace seems slow -You may succeed with another blow.
Success is failure turned inside out -The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are.
It may be near when it seems so far:
So stick to the fight when you're hardest hit
It's when things seem worst that you must not quit.

Song: Gurus Of Peace (Rishtay Aur Dosti)

Song: Gurus Of Peace (Rishtay Aur Dosti)
Singer: Fateh Ali Khan with A. R. Rehman
Chanda suraj laakhon taare hain jab tere hi yeh saare
Kis baat par hothi hai phir thakraarein
Keenchi hai lakkeere is jameen pe par na keencho dekho
Beech mein do dilon ke yeh deewaarein

Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi…
Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi
Thadpe to humko yahan pe
Ehsaas uske zakhmon ka ho ke
Apna bhi dil bhar bhar aaye roye aankhein

What are u waiting for another day another talk,
Somewhere we have to find a new way to peace
What are you waiting for another sign another call,
Somewhere we have to find a new way to peace!!!

Doori kyon dilon mein rahe faasle kyon badhte rahe
Pyaari hai zindagi hai pyaara jahaan
Rishte badi mushkilon sebante hai yahaan pe lekin
tootne ke liye bas ek hi lamha
Ishq dava hai har ek dard ki
Zanjeer ishq hai har ek rishte ki
Ishq saari hadhon ko tod daale
Ishq to duniya ko pal mein mita bhi de
Ishq hai jo saare jahaan ko aman bhi de
Ronaq ishq se hai saare aalam ki…
Chanda suraj laakhon taare hain jab tere hi yeh saare
Kis baat par hothi hai phir thakraarein
Keenchi hai lakkeere is jameen pe par na keencho dekho
Beech mein do dilon ke yeh deewaarein
Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi…
Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi
Thadpe to humko yahan pe
Ehsaas uske zakhmon ka ho ke
Apna bhi dil bhar bhar aaye roye aankhein
What are u waiting for…………

MeaningChanda suraj laakhon taare hain jab tere hi yeh saare-When the moon, the sun, and the thousands of stars are all yoursKis baat par hothi hai phir thakraarein-then for what reason do clashes (fights) happen?Keenchi hai lakeere is jameen pe par na keencho dekho-lines have been drawn on the ground but don’t draw them, see [that]Beech mein do dilon ke yeh deewaarein-between two hearts there are these walls.
Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi…Duniya mein kahin bhi, dard se koyi bhi-anywhere in the world, anyoneThadpe to humko yahan pe-would tremble from pain, then we hereEhsaas uske zakhmon ka ho ke-recognise his pain andApna bhi dil bhar bhar aaye roye aankhein-our own heart also becomes heavy and our eyes cry.
What are u waiting for another day another dawn,Somewhere we have to find a new way to peaceWhat are you waiting for another sign another call,Somewhere we have to find a new way to peace!!!
Doori kyon dilon mein rahe faasle kyon badhte rahe-why does distance remain in our hearts, why do the distances keep growingPyaari hai zindagi hai pyaara jahaan-life is lovely, the world is lovelyRishte badi mushkilon se- with great difficulty relationshipsbante hai yahaan pe lekin-are made here buttootne ke liye bas ek hi lamha-to break them just takes one moment
Ishq dava hai har ek dard ki- love is the medicine for every painZanjeer ishq hai har ek rishte ki-love is the chain of/between all relationshipsIshq saari hadhon ko tod daale-love will break all boundaries/limitsIshq to duniya ko pal mein mita bhi de-love will even destroy the world in one moment
Ishq hai jo saare jahaan ko aman bhi de-it is love that will give the whole world peaceRonaq ishq se hai saare aalam ki…-the whole world’s brilliance is from love…

My City -Nawalgarh Shekhawati

Introduction to city Shekhawati - In Rajasthan
Popularly known as the open art gallery of Rajasthan, Shekhawati is an invaluable contribution of the Marwari traders of Rajasthan. This semi-desert region is known for its colourfully painted havelis (mansions) that are commendable pieces of the great artistic tradition of Shekhawati. The name Shekhawati literally translates into ?the land of Shekha?s clan??a name derived from Rao Shekha of the 15th century and a scion of Kachhwaha family of Jaipur. The region extends over two districts of Rajasthan, namely, Jhunjhunu and Sikar. Most of the havelis were constructed between AD 1750 and 1930 by the Marwaris, but successive droughts forced many of these families to leave the state. For a long period, these havelis remained in sheer neglect and started crumbling when one or two wealthy Marwaris took the initiative in restoring them. The money flowed in the next few decades and the entire region attained great touristic value. The architectural style of the havelis or mansions here evolved mostly around the courtyard. This was done to ensure safety and privacy of the womenfolk from the extreme summers of the region. Most of the havelis are painted in many colours like indigo, yellow, green, maroon, and blue and beautiful wall paintings adorn the walls.
Sightseeing : Places to visit in destination - Shekhawati
No other region in Rajasthan is perhaps so rich artistically as Shekhawati. Creating beautiful images by using vibrant colours is not a hobby or professional practice but a way of life. Mandawa is a small town founded in the 18th century by the wealthy Marwari businessmen. Nawalgarh, not far away, is known for some curious images painted on the walls of havelis.
Excursions : Places nearby city - Shekhawati
Apart from the rich tradition of frescoes seen in Mandawa and Nawalgarh, there are many other lesser-known places in the region. Jhunjhunu and Sikar are the district headquarters known for their palaces and havelis. Dundlod is a beautiful town famous for its fort and palaces. Fatehpur was founded by the Muslim Nawabs, but the Rajputs later took over the place and developed it to their taste.

Get Ba ck to Field

When lifes circumstances
Stop you in your tracks (Get back on the field)
When all seems lost Loved ones are gone
"Get back on the field"
Through tragedy and grief
You feel so all alone
"Get back on the field"
With each step you take
Your stride will increase
"Get back on the field"
Though tackled by The trials of life
"Get back on the field"
Never give up Your dreams to see You must
"Get back on the field"
The half line You now have reached
"Get back on the field"
The goal is Now in your sight
"Get back on the field"
A few more steps All cares left behind
"Get back on the field"
Victory is just ahead
The cheers you can hear
"Get back on the field
Now all that is left for you to do is
"Get back on the field"
"Keep Moving"

Few Best Sufi Songs I have ever heard ...and these are very very special for me

Noor e khudaaa
Ohhhhooo ohhoooo
Noor e khuda

Ajnabe mod hai
Khauf har ore hai
Har nazar pe dhua cha gaya
Pal bhar mein jaane kya kho gaya

MMm..Aasman zard hai
Aanhein bhi sard hai
Tan se saya juda ho gaya
Hmmm…
Pal bhar mein jaane kya kho gaya

Saanse ruk si gayi
Jism chil sa gaya
Tootey khwabon ke manzar pe tera jahaan chal diya

Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Tu kahan chupa hai hume ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Yun na humse nazarein phira
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Tu kahan chupa hai hume ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Yun na humse nazarein phira
Noor e khudaaa ..
Noor e khudaaa…

Hoo nazarein karam,pharmahi de
Oo deen o dharam, ko jagaa hi de
Oo jalti huyi tanhaiyan
Roothi huyi parchahiyan
Kaisi udhi ye hawa
Chaya ye kaisa samaa

Hmmm rooh jum si gayi, waqt tham sa gaya
Tootey khwabon ke manzar pe tera jahaan chal diya
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Tu kahan chupa hai hume ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Yun na humse nazarein phira
Noor e khuda

Aaa aa
Aaaa aaa…
Ga ma pa ni.. sa da ..
Aaaa aaa..aaa aa….

Ujdhe se lamho ko aas teri
Zakhmi dilo kyun hai pyaas teri
Har dhadkan ko talaash teri
Tera milta nahin hai pataa

Khali aankhein khud se sawaal karein
Thamne ki cheek behaal kare
Behta lahu fariaad karein
Tera mitta chala hai nishaan

Rooh jum si gayi, waqt tham sa gaya
Tootey khwabon ke manzar pe tera jahaan chal diya

Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Tu kahan chupa hai hume ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Yun na humse nazarein phira
Noor e khuda

Noor e khuda, Noor e khuda
Aaj kal tu kahan hai ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Aaj kal tu kahan hai ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Aaj kal tu kahan hai ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Aaj kal tu kahan hai ye bataa
Noor e khuda, noor e khuda
Kya ye sach hai ke tu hai humse khafa
Noor e khuda …

Though the list is a very long one but few best of them includes :

1- Arziyan .....Maula Maula from Delhi 6
2- Dil to Bacha Hai Ji ......Ishqiya
3- Sab Rishte Nate Hanske Tod Du ...
4- Aaj din chadiya ....LOVE aAJ kAL
5- Tujh me rab dikhta hai ...specially hansde hansde line ... Rabne Bana Di Jodi
6- Tujhe Dekh Dekh Jina....list is never ending and a very big one ....rest later

Review- My name is Khan

He repairs almost anything, including irreparably damaged relationships.

In case you are frustrated with unchanged wrong things in your life , in your society , in your city or country , this film will certainly ask to or rather inspires you to change eerything for good . You get a very beautiful message out of this movie more like Chak De .....but yes the film is more intense compared to Chak de . I personally feel i will be a changed person and certainly change my attitude toward people , I will try to help them as much as i can .

I know a person very closely who has got the same illness like SRK in the film , SRK showed that we need to show more respect towrds such people . The film is a great one , it gives the lesson of unity and one world ...and ha ...duniya me sirf do tarah ke insan hote hai ..ik ache and dusre kharab ......koi dharam , majhab na kabhi kharab hua hai or na hi hoga .

Talking about the action aspect , SRK has done a fair job , Kajol this time has shown the maturity without lossing her real charm and innocence . To be honest with you i was inspired by Mama jenee as well but the charactor which i think has changed the film was the wife of Jimmy in the filem as she was the one who got the name of the illness and took SRK to the doc and the way she calls SRK in the film ....Bhai .......bought tears in my eyes as well ....this was because of the personal reason .

But this film about damaged lives needs no repairing. My Name Is Khan is a flawless work, as perfect in content, tone and treatment as any film can get. The ‘message’ of humanism doesn’t come across in long pedantic speeches. The film’s longest monologue has our damaged but exceptionally coherent hero Rizwan telling a congregation of Black American church-goers about his dead son. And if that moment moves us to tears it’s because the emotions are neither manipulative nor flamboyant. It isn’t because Rizwan’s son Sameer perished in a racial attack. It isn’t even because Shah Rukh Khan delivers his life’s best performance in that moment of reckoning. Rizwan’s heartfelt rhetorics are not about changing the world with words. Born with a physical disability this is a man on the move. And boy, does he move! In what is possibly the most touching testament on film to the spirit of world peace and humanism (lofty ideals to achieve in the massy-masala format but see how pitch-perfect Johar gets it) Rizwan takes off on a picaresque journey to meet the US President with a message that initially strikes us as being too naïve for reiteration. But look closer. Some of life’s basic values have been lost in recent times. Writer Shibani Bathija’s seamless screenplay, arguably the best piece of writing since Rakeysh Mehra’s Rang De Basanti, recovers that long-lost message of loving your fellow human being unconditionally without getting trite around the edges. Sex and politics have nothing to do with it. It’s okay to hug your neighbour. First and foremost, My Name Is Khan is a wonderful story told with a flair and flourish that leave a lingering impact on the viewer. Almost every frame is composed with a mix of mind and heart creating an irresistible progression of moments so tender and forcible we’re simply swept away in the tides of the tale about a very special man who undertakes a very special journey. My Names Is Khan opens with Rizwan boarding an American flight, being frisked after a suspicious co-passenger hears him chanting religious passages. Before we begin to suspect this to be one more film on the persecution of the innocent Muslim, Karan Johar doing a smart and slick spin away from his trademark content and style, takes his hero on a journey that crosses several emotional, political and geographical borders before stopping with breathless integrity to say, life doesn’t go on... it changes colours and textures with the moral values that the individual chooses to confer on the life given to him. Superbly scripted by Bathija with pithy outstanding dialogues by Niranjan Iyenger, the film is edited by Deepa Bhatia with just that much amount of time allotted to the character’s and their thought processes to make them appear warm humane and tangible without over-punctuating their presence. To take one example, when Rizwan's brother (Jimmy Shergil, making the best of his brief but comprehensive role) quietly tells his lovely wife (Sonia Jehan) to not wear her veil to work in the US because God would understand, the scene with beautiful economy conveys the couple’s mutual empathy and determination to override the hatred outside their home. Karan Johar, always a master of overstatement, for once holds back. The silences in My Name Is Khan often speak far more eloquently than the spoken words. The relationships that the inarticulate Rizwan forms during the course of his life from child to husband to father to a political individual are contoured with a luminous lack of laboriousness. Whether it’s young Rizwan (played sensitively by Tanay Cheda) and his mother (Zarina Wahab, memorable in her brief appearance) or much later, Rizvan and his step-son (brilliant young discovery Yuvaan Makar), the traditional relationships are done-up in striking but subtle shades. We look at every moment in the film (even the clumsily-done flood sequences) as special because they are part of a vision that goes far beyond the real of hop-in-hop-out entertainment. The director swerves out of his comfort zone without the sound of screechy wheels. Karan Johar’s unconventional take on modern marital mores in Kabhi Alvida Na Kehna faltered due to over-statement. In Khan he doesn’t try hard. The characters and their predicament as America gets increasingly suspicious and hostile about the Muslim presence, are portrayed with a lightness of touch that lights up almost every sequence. Then there is Kajol to provide the kind of natural light to every frame that no amount of artificial light can supplement. As Rizwan’s Hindu wife Mandira, with a smart, intelligent son, she has a distinctly secondary role to Shah Rukh Khan. She leaves a lasting impact as a divorcee and later an angry wife and grieving mother, as only Kajol can. The scenes of courtship between Mandira and Rizwan work so beautifully because of the exceptional chemistry between the two actors. More than a strong political statement and moving message of peace My Name Is A Khan is a love story of a man who can’t express his love through words, only deeds. This is a film that Frank Capra would’ve made if he had lived long enough to see 9/11 happen. The narration is carpeted with virtues, both invisible and visible. Ravi K Chandran’s cinematography captures the incandescent soul of the pure-hearted protagonist as effectively as the stubbornly unbroken spirit of unknown passersby on the streets of America. Rizwan, we are told, is petrified of the yellow colour. The offending colour recurs with just a hint of insistence. Rizwan wears shocking pink because he hears Mandira’s buddy (Navneet Nishan) say it suits her. He proposes marriage and sex (in that order) at the most inopportune moments. He suggests Mandira have her dinner when she’s traumatized by grief. He wears his dead son’s shoes as he takes off to meet the President. Rizwan moves by his clock. But his tale is timeless. Shah Rukh Khan doesn’t PLAY Rizwan. He becomes one with the character’s subconscious, portraying the man and his spirit with strokes of an invisible paintbrush until what we see is what we cannot forget. Undoubtedly, this is Shah Rukh’s best performance ever. This is no ordinary hero. And My Name Is Khan is no ordinary film. Long after the wary-of-physical-touch Rizwan has finally shaken hands with President Obama, long after the heat and dust of racial and communal hatred has settled down the core of humanism that the film secretes stays with you. Yes, we finally know what they mean by a feelgood film.