Meet The winners of contest – and Meet Frosty and Flake

Can you guess which one is Frosty and Which is flake..  Flake is the Male snowy owl and Frosty is the Female.. ?

The Winners are …  DRUMROLLLLSSSSSSSSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss — CLAPPPSssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss Tain tain tainnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

1. Farida Rizwan of  Chapters From My Life

2. My ERA of  The Era I lived in

3 NriGirl of NRIGirl 

4. Andy of Thoughts of Beauty in the Stillness of Dawn

5. Punam  of Dreamzz forever

6.  Jaish from JaishWrites 

7.Techie2Mom of techie2mom

8. Andro of Androgoth

9.Vinay of  MUKTA MANASSU

10.The Holy Lama

and This is what you win

Your Prize..

Thank you to every one who participated :- here is something for the effort ..

Thank you All..

See you again on the next contest …

Ps:- I did not get time to watermark the pictures, so please don’t copy them without permission 🙂  If you want them just email , I can email you the originals.. Thanks.

Contest Time Again (4).. What do you see

Right haven’t had a contest for ages .. so how about this little one .. Can you guess what this is

And this is what you win .. For correct answers .. I have set the Comment Moderation on ..

Bonus question :- What part do you see 🙂

Thank you for participating

Ps:- 30/august/2012 – I am closing the contest now , But you can still reply the answer 🙂

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I also participated in  apd-loverscove.blogspot.com  Lover’s Cove Challenge #4.. In short, you must come up with a line of 15 words or less and your line must continue on in thought based on what the previous person on the linky wrote!

Previous link was :- “I would rise and fly high till I touch the sky, conquering an eternal bliss.”

My line is :- “The bliss I feel… Ah it transports me into a world so enchanting, and suddenly, I am set free…”

Some facts about Punjab and Being a Punjabi – 1

It is funny how different states have different ways, Here are a few that I found somewhere , Will put some more later..

1. If it Isn’t a PATIALA PEG, it isn’t a Drink … (Make that a bit more than a double)

2. A Punjabi Wedding without alcohol will always have a DRINKS-Car parked outside

3. If you are a Punjabi you definitely know at least one Sweety, sunny, Bitu,Tony, Jassi

4. No party is complete till people start to dance and sing “Oh Ho ho ho .. Ishq tera tadpave” or “De Lai geda” or alltime favourite “PUTT JATTAN DE BALAUNDE BAKRE”

5. When we say Cloney we don’t mean GEORGE CLOONEY.. we may be talking of Defence CLONEY …

6. Butter chicken, butter naan, butter Milk   – THREE COURSE MEAL FOR PUNJABI

7. Tandoori Chicken – National bird in Punjab

8. And the best one

Which state has the highest english speaking population

      Before 8 pm :- KERALA

      After 8 PM :- PUNJABBBBBBBBB

Ps:- Message of the day …

Please Honk your HORN slowly.. My country is SLEEPING

PPS:- All pictures courtesy Google

 

Update:- 15-12-2012

READ:- 

Some facts about Punjab and Being a Punjabi – 2

Some facts about Punjab and Being a Punjabi –  3

Me being Philosophical — Bad idea. This is on Religion :(

My day usually begins at 6AM when the alarm goes off, bzzz bzzz ting tong… bzz bzz ting tong It is annoying and I keep the alarm away on the table so I have to get up to switch it off , else I would go back to sleep. I reach the gym about 6:30 and pass my time, showing off, trying to do some exercises. On the way back I visit Gurudwara Sahib (sikh temple), sit and listen to the baani. These days they have someone explaining the meaning of each line written in the holy Granth sahib (sikh holy book).

I usually sit for 5 -10 minutes listening, trying to get into the good books of God  , I am not very religious, but today something got my attention, the guy was trying to say that the best way to get into the good books is to do SEVA of god. By that he meant helping in the Langar (dining hall where free food is served to all and Everyone), cleaning, feeding the sangat (people) and various other jobs that we can do in the Gurudwara sahib.

He gave an example that Guru Amar Das Ji before he became Guru was sevadar of Guru Angad Dev ji, He use to get up early morning every day even at the age of 72 walk the distance to Beas (one of the rivers in Punjab), Get water, bring back warm it, for Guru ji’s bath and this according to the person reciting was one of the SEVA Guru Amar das ji did.

But is it really all this that will make God happy, do we seriously think it to be true, I seriously don’t think this alone can do it, what about WHATS in your heart or Mind. Sometimes I try to sit and listen to the path, close my eyes to listen with full concentration, but it only lasts a few seconds before lots of useless thoughts start to come in mind, that’s human nature I think.

So by doing seva at gurudwara sahib, will all my bad deeds be rectified, I don’t think so, if it was, then all you need to do is do a bad deed and then go and do seva. There’s got to be more than that. Will god not be happy if we are a good person, go about doing our work without hurting anyone, helping others if we can ?

It should not be that we have to go to a religious place to do something to get God.

My thoughts are continuously questioned, a person is poor can’t earn money, I give him some money from the goodness of my heart, I have done a good deed helping him, He goes, spends that money on drugs, goes home beats his wife, kids or worse… Who is responsible Him or Me… If he did not have money this would not have happened… I gave… it happened so was it a good deed…

So in the end WHAT IS A GOOD DEED, WHAT IS SEVA… that we could do for our salvation…? I see people each day in morning saying “waheguru waheguru” loudly , then touching every shoe , cleaning them, doing various other things, Then the moment they come out of Gurudwara Sahib one can hear them “F-ing”, smoking, drinking, few of them are WIFE BEATERS, treat their Wife’s so bad, I am not making this up, I know for a FACT.

Come election times in the Gurudwara Sahib the same people come brandishing swords, shouting slogans, the person reciting and speaking himself was one of them, This also I know for a fact, Cause I was there when it happened, Police had to enter the premises with shoes on.

So coming back to the point what should a person do for salvation, to please the almighty, what is SEVA in modern days TODAY. Do the same rituals still hold?

Will me helping in Langar, or cleaning shoes or cleaning the carpets etc constitute as SEVA…

Just a thought……

PS:- This is a repost .

PPS :-  The earlier Photo post Love _ _ _ and Dhokha – Love story – err.. maybe. Was adjudged the spicy saturday pick at blogadda .. Thank you so much  Arvind Passey and BlogAdda.

Thursday Challenge : LEISURE

Thursday Challenge : LEISURE (Vacation, Sports, Fun, Rest, Relaxation,…)

It seems this blog is turning into a PHOTO blog now , I promise to write something soon 🙂 bear with me please..

Here we go.. Lets change clothes

Lets get the Gun loaded

Fun Time

The end

Paint Balling Any-oneeeeeee… come on lets have some fun.. It hurt a lot though got a lot of bruises to prove 🙂

And then This Happened

Continued from   Love _ _ _ and Dhokha – Love story – err.. maybe

Where has everyone gone…. They left me Allll

Now is My chance……….

At your service Ms./ Mr.

Now what do you guys think, After the previous pictures….

This is how it unfolded,

1. The two grey birds flew away together

2. The white one then flew to that door ..  Looking up .. then it flew and landed on a different branch..

I fancied putting the title as Plenty more fish in the sea .. he he he But thought of asking all you lovely people NOW WHAT !!!!!!!!!!!!

in the previous post Thanks to everyone who came out with lovely idea’s and comments …

Love _ _ _ and Dhokha – Love story – err.. maybe

I can see something brewing …..

awwwwwwwwww.. Lovers at it …

Here comes the Villian or “EXxxxxxx” 🙂

Nahinnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn I dont know you … I cant see you…

Or  can you think of another 🙂

UPDATE :-

Swaram says :-  Accha sila diya tune mere pyar ka, yaar ne hi loot liya ghar yaar ka 😛  I loved the reply .. suits perfectly to the pics ..

To all My friends and All who visit this blog- Happy Friendship Day

Khushiyan-Khede Gidhe
Bhangre te Mele Sab ne Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

Joys, fun, dances and fairs, every celebration has been with friends

Gusse Gille Shikve
Ladaiyan te Jhagde Sab ne Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

Anger, fights and all complaints,all disagreements have been with friends

Dil Jodne-Todna Mohabbat, Pyar
Wafa te Dhokhe Sab ne Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

Broken hearts, mending love,  affection, loyalty and betrayals, all ups and downs have been shared with friends

Daroo Diyaan Shamaan
Gadi de bonnet te murge diya lataan
Bakre Bulaune te Ludiyaan Pauniya Sab ne Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

Evenings with drinks, relishing chicken legs on the car bonnets

Screaming and cheering, we have been high on friendship and danced together

Seep di baaji, Pa Hukam de Begi ch Ikka.. Tera ne Banaune..
Maar maar Thapan fer Hukam de Raje naal 26 hai Banaune
Kotpees te lai ke ikhatiyaan 7 baajiyaan Kot karne Sab ne Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

Those moments when we played card games and made a thirteen, adding a king to make a perfect twenty six

Or wind seven hands in a row, to do a KOT on the others… Every game was played in company of friends

Fad lai- Chak lai – Chadhi na – Thok de
Vekh lange, Aun de – Koi na Sab ne Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

Hold them, declare war, don’t leave them, hit them.. Worry not, Just let them come, bring it on…

All wars were fought with undying support of friends

Bas Idaan kaho Mere yaro – dosto – mitro

Ke Duniya hai Yaraan-beliyaan de naal

 

Tuhade Sab de naal

That, my friends, is the story of my life

A life that is lived for buddies and friends

My friends mean the world to me

My friends, all of you out there,

My life is with all you friends

Translation of a few other words 🙂
1. Bakre Bulaune – ( I don’t know how to convert this bakre bulauna is when drunks do burrrraaaaaaaaaaa…. )

2.. Seep di baaji, Pa Hukam de Begi ch Ikka.. Tera ne Banaune..

(Seep is a game of cards, where you count the points of the number for cards of spades.. Begi is Queen .. Ikka is Ace.. queen has 12 points and ace has one.. you add both and can pick with a King which is 13 points)

Maar maar Thapan fer Hukam de Raje naal 26 hai Banaune (so 12 + 1 + 13== makes it 26)

 

PS:- I am sorry not to have replied to all the comments .. or read the posts .. Will do them very sooon