November 29, 2009

It is interesting to know that I finally managed to get some time for writing my blog. I was thinking daily to write something but I couldn’t able to make it somehow. However, today I have finally got some time. This is superb great!

A lot of things have been happen in the last few days which are very difficult to remember and write it down. However, I will try to write at least some of them.

Professor Michel has given me a gift which is sent by Saint Nicholas (A sweet dutch culture). The gift was a very testy chocolate having my initial in big font. Photo of the gift is here:

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Apart from this, I also visited to Den Haag. There, I went to Scheveningen Beach. In this winter, almost no one was on the beach except few crazy adventurous fun lovers doing surfing on the strong wave. It was fun watching them live. I spent more then an hour just standing and watching them, enjoying strong wind, and natural beauty. This trip was on the bike when the outside temperature was 8*C! It was fun doing biking of almost 40 KM in this cold and rainy weather. Here, I have some photos of this trip:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ashish.nigam/ScheveningenBeachInWinterNov09

The next big task I have completed is very interesting. I have finally collected some photos and videos of our diwali celebration. As I have already mentioned in past blogs, I have participated in two dances, a skit and a fashion show! I have uploaded all the photos and videos on ISA-Delft youtube and picasaweb account. The video of my dance, all photos and entire playlist is linked below:

http://picasaweb.google.com/ashish.nigam/Diwali2009ISATUDelft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XF3p4A2-su0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXFXDbcpc9g

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=E11AE94C9B51B250

Hmmm, how can I forgot that I watched a movie name "Ajab Prek Ke Gazab Kahani". There is a very beautiful song in this movie, prem ki naiya ai ram ke bharose, ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RYm-e1GfFA

Apart from all these events, I have done some study and made progress in the thesis work. I have to again concentrate myself for thesis work.

I think this is substantial to regain for the blog. Let me sleep and get refreshed for tomorrow.

November 19, 2009

It was another day of the week but with full of energy because I was completely out of vacation hangout now. I finished the first version of the report in the college time and watched the movie "2012" in the night time.

November 18, 2009

It was another day for writing the same report. I had written down the content of the report (mostly mathematical equations and explanations) on the sheet of paper. Once the layout was ready, I decided to install MikTex for writing the report in Latex. Finally I had completed a part of the report on the day. In the evening I thought to watch the movie "2012" and decided to download it. Luckily I got a single file link with the file size of 2.04GB. Unfortunately the download speed was very-very poor, around 30-40 kbps, it took the entire night to download the movie.

November 17, 2009

The morning was quite normal and I was still trying to come out of Diwali hangout. The day started slowly, I had the task of writing down the mathematical equations of the work I had done till now, and I had finally progress a little on that. That was the work in the whole day!

November 16, 2009

Next day after every event is always very tiring. The same happen today. I woke-up very late, around 11AM and then somehow came to college because I had to make phone call. In the college I made phone call to my home, did lunch and then I returned back to home. I was still very tired, and slept very early, around 10PM. So, basically I did nothing on the entire day.

November 15, 2009

BIG DAY! The day of 15th Nov was second most awaited day of the year (first one was the day when I return back to India!). Today we had Diwali celebration in TU Delft. Diwali celebration is not the reason to say this day as most awaited day, today we had a cultural program and we had six programs in the list. And, I was performing in four out of these six programs. This includes two dances, a skit, and a fashion show on Indian culture. And I was excited because first time in my life, I was going to dance on the stage, and walk on the ramp of the fashion show! This diwali fills a lot of happiness in my life because I am doing something which I always wanted to do but never had enough courage to really do it. Out of these two dances, one was on a very old Indian TV Channel Durdarshan with the lyrics "Ek Chidiya, Anek Chidiya". And the second dance was on a very well known bollywood dance song "Bumaro Bumaro" from movie "Mission Kashmir" and the song is a "Kashmiri Lok-geet". The skit was based on the recent activities on the "TUDIndian" Yahoo Group and I (BALRAM urf BALMA urf BALLU) was acting as a new master’s student who is email-addicted and doesn’t like girls at all! And finally in the fashion show, I was a gujju guy. In the entire program I changed my dress four times, so basically right after every event I was running toward the change room to get new dress-up. I am still collecting the photos and videos to share over here.

I was in these performances because people have given me a chance to perform and helped me to learn the steps. They guided me at every step to learn the steps and expressions to give a better performance. I am very thankful to Akshay for selecting me in "Ak-Anek", Vaibhay for selecting me in "Bumaro-Bumaro", Himanshu for giving me a role in "Skit" and Shilpa for accepting my request in "Fashion Show". These thanks are not a formality, but an emotional feelings coming from the bottom of my heart.

I know some people personally who were very actively involved in the preparation of this event. Akshay/Mukta had a 7 month old baby but they were guiding every single stage performance, Sachin/Supriya and Chetan/Shilpa were also intensively involve in organization and event performance, Krishna/Murthy/Deepak/Amit had put there best effort to make sure that every single detail of the event organization goes smoothly. In spite of the fact that Krishna and Murthy knew that they will not be able to attend the event, they did their best in the organization, talking to International Office, arranging venue, dates, bla bla. There were many more, and I am unable to mention every name here.

At the end of the program, we had a professional DJ! It was desi DJ with full of Hindi disco songs, and we had 2 hour full masti in DJ. It was amazing and we had a lot of fun in the entire day. Finally we were very tired and could not able to do anything after that went to home and slept.

At the end, I would like to remember the motivation force which always encouraged me to participate in the cultural program and gives the motivation for dance.

Here I have some photos to share:

1: http://picasaweb.google.com/ashish.nigam/DiwaliCelebration2009InTUDelft

2: http://picasaweb.google.com/kedar.ksd/DiwaliFunction2009_TUD

Will update more videos and photos in coming blogs.

November 14, 2009

"Kaise bataye kyun tujhko chahe, Yaara bata na paaye, Baatein dilon ki zuban, Aankhon ki tujhe samjhayen"... the day started with this song because I forgot to shutdown my laptop last night and there was only one song in the winamp! And then, a busy day started with the chat with few people in the morning... it was a nice start of the day. Finally I eat some food and went to market to buy the daily food items. Fortunately, we had finished all the food items (including rice) last day and had nothing to eat, so I had no option other then starting the day with the shopping. Right after the shopping, the rush of the day starts. Tried to cook some quick-food, eat it and run for the diwali practice. Even with very fast work, I was one hour late in the practice session. In this diwali, I am participating in 4 events and had practice of 3 events today. Dance practice is always tiring but skit was cool. I enjoyed it a lot. Today we had rehearsal with the final dress, so I changed my dress 4 times in the practice session! And ready for final show of tomorrow.

The day didn’t ends here. All the disorder of the day starts after this. I returned from the practice at around 6PM and then slept because I was very tired. I know that 6PM is very early but I don’t exactly know when I slept, which indicate that I was really very tired... and finally I wake-up at 12:00 mid night... and then I tried a lot to sleep again, but could not able to get it... so thought to had dinner and checked email... not only email, now I have to check wave as well because I finally got the wave account and now I should be regular to check the wave like email! Orkut and facebook is already there to kill a lot of time.

Anyways, its already 2:22PM and I think I should somehow sleep as I have to go for shopping again tomorrow, followed by cooking and then final grand finale of this session! I have to be there at around 2PM with all the set of dress. I still don’t know if the fashion show is going to happen tomorrow or not, but at-least a kid-dance, a choreography-dance, and a skit is ready for tomorrow. There are quite a few more events tomorrow but I am in only these three events. There will be video recording tomorrow and will be uploaded on the youtube sometime. I shall be happy to share the videos once they will be ready.

It’s time to try to sleep now. Good Night.

November 13, 2009

I am back on the blog, writing about myself after almost 9 month. I could have produced a lot in the 9 months if I would have worked had in those days. Anyways, the gone time can not be returned. Only we can learn and improve for future. I will try to start the process again!

Today is another Friday, but no as usual. It is very busy. The day started with the invigilation duty in one exam, followed by thesis meeting with professor and team. Somehow I got exactly 10 min to finish my lunch today. Right after the meeting, I ran for another appointment with doctor, took my friend to hospital for the check-up and consult with physician. The day didn’t end here. Now I have to go for the dance practice session which we are going to perform in the Dewali celebration in TU-Delft by TU-Delft Indian community. A very first question anyone can think is why we are celebrating diwali one month after the actual diwali. And the answer is very simple; this diwali is for TU-Delft Indians and should be celebrated when majority is available. We have 1st quarter exam during that time so, we decided to shift by this time. Anyways, we have dewail celebration on this Sunday, 15th Nov, 2009.

Before I finish the talk, let me put a beautiful song which I am listening since last one hour:

Audio Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iboKJKipgvI

Lyrics Link: http://www.lyricsmasti.com/song/7107/get_lyrics_of_Tu-Jane-Na.html

Kaise bataye kyun tujhko chahe, Yaara bata na paaye

Baatein dilon ki zuban, Aankhon ki tujhe samjhayen

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

hmm Mil ke bhi, hum na mile, Tumse na jane kyun

Milon ki hai fasle, Tumse hai jaane kyun

Anjane hain silsile, Tum se na jaane kyun

Sapne hai palkon tale, Tum se na jaane kyun

Kaise bataye kyun tujhko chahe, Yaara bata na paaye

Baatein dilon ki dekhon zuban ki aankhe tujhe samjhayen

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

Nigahon mein dekho meri Jo har bas gaya, Woh hai milta tumse hoo bahu

ooo Jane teri aankhen thi ua, ya baatein thi wajah, Huye tum jo dil ki arzooo

Tum paas ho ke bhi, Tum aas ho ke bhi, ehsaaas ho ke bhi, Apne nahi

Aise hai apne gile, Tum se na jane kyun

Milon ki hai fasle, Tumse hai jaane kyun

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

Khayalon mein lakhon batein, Yun keh gaya, Bol kuch na tere samne

OOO, huye na begane bhi tum, ho ke Aur ke, Dekho tum mere hi bane

Afsoos hota hai, Dil bhi yeh rota hai

Sapne sanjota hai, Pagla hua soche yeh

hum the mil, Tum se na jane kyun

Milon ki hai fasle, Tumse hai jaane kyun

Anjane hain silsile, Tum se na jaane kyun

Sapne hai palkon tale, Tum se na jaane kyun

OO, Kaise bataye kyun tujhko chahe, Yaara bata na paaye

Baatein dilon ki dekhon zuban ki aankhe tujhe samjhayen

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na

Tu jaane na, Tu jaane na