આ તો કેવી ધરતી (What kind of land is this !! )

It has been 27 months and 19 days in USA now and over this period I have been thinking about so many thing. And I am sure there are few people might be thinking the same.

Today suddenly I started getting thoughts in form or lines as a poem and I did not waste a single minute to write it down on a paper. I started getting all lines one after another automatically and this is complete magic to me.

I hope you all like my small attempt because its completely mirror image of my thoughts and feelings.

I am looking forward to your comments in form of answer.

આ તો કેવી ધરતી ભાઇ,
જે નવી ચેતનાઓ જગાડે,
વિચારતો હતો કાઇંક અલગ
ને હવે કાઇંક અલગ સુઝાડે.

સ્કુલ કોલેજ માં ભણતા રમતા
ઘર આંગણે વિતાવ્યુ બાળપણ,
આ પરદેશ મા પગ મુકતાં જ ,
મે તો ગુમાવ્યુ મારુ ભોળપણ.

આ તો કેવો સમય કે જેમાં
કર્મભુમિ ધર્મભુમિ બંને માટે પ્રેમ,
શરીર જીવે એક ભુમિ પર
પણ મન બીજે ભટકે કેમ?

આમ તો બન્યા મિત્રો ઘણા
દરેક કાર્યમાં સાથે જ દેખાય,
પણ મન ને તો જાણે શું જોઇએ
એ હજુ પણ મને ના સમજાય.

ભવિષ્યનો આટલો ઘાઢ વિચાર
જિંદગી માં ક્યારેય મેં કર્યો નહતો,
એવી તો શી વાત છે આ જગ્યા માં
કે હું દિવસે સપના જોવા માંડ્યો હતો..

શું આ ઊંમર છે કે પછી પરદેશ
કે પછી સમય નો એક ગાળો,
ન સમજાય એવો તો આ પ્રશ્ન
કેમ કે આનો ઉત્તર છે ગુંચળાવાળો..

-Dhvanit

Bhumika's surprise bday party

Saturday on 15th August when I woke up I got the news that Priyanka is coming home to cook. what!! to cook ?? well yes Food has to be the first step for the successful surprise birthday party. Wherever we go, Whatever we do, we need food, right? Younger sister Priyanka is the one who master planed the birthday party. She choose Grapvine Lake on sunday,16th august, 6 pm with bunch of people who are close to my elder sister dear Bhumika. Saturday Priyanka came at 4 to my place telling Bhumika that she has to learn something from me and thats why she is coming to Arlington. Poor Bhumika had no Idea what was going. Priyanka , Chintan and Me started cooking cake , dahi vada, bhel, and sandwich. woww.It was actually fun with Priyanka who cant even think of cooking this much stuff but she did it finally. Yummy cake was completely made by her. Wow chiku(Priyanka)finally have made something. woo hooo.

Sunday at 6 pm we were suppose to meet and being Indian you cant meet on time. So we reached 6:45 pm (IST) with all food from home. Bhumika, Priyanka, Nileshbhai, Nimishabhahi, Mira, Harsh, Disha, Birju,Sunny , Chintan, Prashant and me gathered and poor Bhumika had no Idea whats going on. She was believing that we just came to hang out at lake. We enjoyed in blue water. The place was simply awesome with sun going down, cool wind ,blue water and beautiful friends. What else do you want , huhh. Well we needed a camera ..lolzz then started photo shooting. Sunny was so much desperate to have his photos clicked on that day which is unusual and Chintan having goggles on is strange thing. But for Bhumika more was to come. While we were down in water , Disha and Nimisha Bhabhi prepared everything for cake cutting. We had everything ready except knife.lolz. you cant be 100% when I am involved. You need to forget something.. he he . Prashant offered very small chaku which we used to sharpen pencil to Nimisha Bhabhi.. ha that was hilarious. Finally we agreed with the spoon.

We brought her to the cake and she was stunned. WOwwwwww home made cake. Priyanka made cake for me. She was very happy and her expression for Priyanka can not be express in the words. Cake cutting ,cake facing , cake eating and photo shooting took longer than we thought as we didnt think of Sunny will be a camera hog on that day. And I am already awarded a camera hog by ISO, so I was also invovled by default. He opened his car and then all stated on sitting on the top and photo shooting. We had main surpise yet to give. Fooood . That was even bigger part for her. She was highly surprised when she saw the food and 3 dishes. Wow.. Dahi Wada, Bhel , Sandwich..We started eating like hell as we normally do when it comes to eat. It already started getting dark and We can not stay after 9 pm at the lake. So we just had to complete on time and left after having excellent evening. One of the most memorable evening for everyone.

Although I am not a good writer I have tried my best. This is my birthday gift to you my dear sister. You are simply an AWESOME person and sister to me. Stay that way. I wish you happy birthday and great year ahead.

Love,
Dhvanit

ધોધમાર વરસાદ: The rain poem

In the morning at 7 am i woke up by the cloud making sound. I looked out side the window and saw the rain. It was looking so beautiful that I still remember that view. I got ready for the job and on the way I felt more and more beautiful and energetic.And sooner thought of writing down the feelings in the form of words.


ધોધમાર વરસાદ જોઇ ભીંજાવાનુ મન થાય,
જાણે કે આજે જ બધુ જીવી લેવુ છે;

કાળા ડિબંગ વાદળોથી આકાશ ઘેરાયુ,
આભે જાણે નકકી કર્યુ આજે ત્રાટકવાનુ;

વાદળોના ઝઘડાનો અવાજ ગરર ગરર,
ગમતો-અણગમતો આ તો બિનફરિયાદી શોર;

નાના મોટા ખાબોચિયા આમ તેમ ભરાય,
ટ્રાંઉ-ટ્રાંઉ કરી થેકડા મારતા દેડકા દેખાય;

જ્યારે છોકરાઓ છત પર છબછબિયા કરે,
ત્યારે મને નાનપણમા જવાની ઇચ્છા જાગે;

આવા રમણિય મોસમમાં ભાવે ભજીયાનો સ્વાદ,
જ્યારે પ્રેમી-પંખીડાઓને ગમે એકબીજાનો સાથ;

ધોધમાર વરસાદ જોઇ ભીંજાવાનુ મન થાય,
જાણે કે આજે જ બધુ જીવી લેવુ છે;

Your comments are welcome so I can improve next time.

Mumbai Terror Attack 26/11

I just saw the documentary film on last year's Mumbai Attack.I am speechless and at the same time I have so much to say , I have so much anger and frustration... But I would rather keep it to myself.I am just posting my dear friend's blog link in this blog. He has expressed his views in his recent post on this attack. So please read his post.

http://vinitasher.blogspot.com/

This is a must watch documentary posted on his blog.

Maa

This is my second blog and this is unlike my first blog which had writing in it. I wrote a poem a month ago for my Mom to gift her on her birthday. I love her the most like any other kid would love her mom. My mom said "This is the best gift I have ever received in my life." This line made my efforts worth. My brother Bhaumik helped me framing this on time to gift her on her birthday. Its written in Gujarati because I feel more comfortable expressing my feelings in gujarati as its my mother tongue. Here it goes,

વ્હાલી મા

દરિયાકિનારે એકલો ઊભો છું હું , અને જોરથી ઠંડો પવન વાય;
આખી જિંદડી યાદ આવે મને, ત્યારે મા તારુ નામ કાન માં ગુંજાય્.

એટલી બધી વાતો છે કેહવાની, ક્યાંથી શરુ કરુ એ ન સમજાય;
ત્યારે નાનપણ્ યાદ આવે મને, અને મનડુ સ્મિત થી મલકાય.

વડનગરથી તુ વિસનગરમાં આવી, કુટુંબમા પ્રેમ આપવાનુ શરુ કર્યુ;
પેહલા ધ્વનિત અને પછી ભૌમિકથી, તે દવે નુ ઘર કર્યુ હર્યુભર્યુ.

સુવંદના, રાજેન્દ્ર, જયઅંબિકા અને કલિંદી , હર દી મન હરખાય,
ક્યારેક હસવુ અને ક્યારેક રડવુ , પણ દરેક માં સાથે તુ જ દેખાય્.

શિખવાડ્યુ જયઅંબે, જયહાટકેશ,વડિલોને માન અને નાનાઓને પ્રેમ;
ચાલશે ભાવશે ફાવશે ના સંસ્કાર એવા જેને અમારાથી ભુલાય કેમ.

જ્યારે જ્યારે ભુખ મને લાગે , ત્યારે તુ પેહલી યાદ મને આવે;
તારા હાથની જો રસોઇ હોય તો , બીજુ બધુ ક્યાંથી મને ભાવે.

જોઇ છે તારી મહેનત અને સેવા ચાકરી મેં દિવસ રાતભર;
ગર્વ છે મુજને મા તારા સંયમ ,હિમ્મત અને બલિદાન પર.

પાછા આવવાનુ મન થાય ક્યારેક, આટલો દુર જે આવ્યો છુ;
મા એકલો પડુ છું જ્યારે, ત્યારે તુજ ને જ સાથે પામું છુ.

માફ કરી દેજે મને અગર કોઇ ભુલ ચુક થઇ હોય તો મારાથી;
સ્વાસ્થ સાચવી લાંબુ જીવે એ જ માત્ર ઇચ્છા તારા આ દિકરાની.

દરિયાકિનારે એકલો ઊભો છું હું , અને જોરથી ઠંડો પવન વાય;
સદાય સાથે છે તારા આષિશ , તો દરેક કાર્ય સંપુણૅ કરાય.



I believe I could have never given better gift than this because I can never make my mom happy just by purchasing something and gifting to her. No need to say that your comments are more than welcome.

hot summer at UTA but its fun

well , actually speaking this is my 1st blog and i didnt know what to write. I was coming to work and it was too hot outside.So texas heat inspired me to write this. According to me UTA is very boring place specially in vacation time. Vacation seems like its gonna kill you if you do not have work and anything iteresting to do. Well, you can say I am writing this blog because I have nothing else to do. lol.. jokes apart but lets talk summer at UTA with feeling hot hot hot in Texas heat and more over when AC does not work in the apartment what will you do ?? I just think of going to any place but out of UTA. But its not possible when there is no public transportation and I am a poor UTA desi student having no car :( lolzzz

So you must be thiking what do I do all day. Well, I do lot of things to keep myself busy and involved in some activities. As we all know our best friend in USA is our laptop. He is always there when I need him. He makes me laugh, learn, talk, watch serials and movies. I have started one new series 24. I am addicted to it. I love to watch action and crime tv shows. I am watching season 2 and I am glad I have 6 more season to go. I used to chat a lot with friends but now I just do not get online much to talk to friends, and the only reason is 24.

The best part of UTA is sports activities. I never get bored after 5 o'clock. Crieket, soccer, raquet ball, tennis, volley ball, basketball, badminton. I have 7 sports for 7 days. And I am mad when it comes to sports. So I play , run on the track and have some gym to make muscles lolzz. So I am thankful to UTA for having such a good gym and sports activities. And plus I have some of good friends who are like me always found in sports area. GP, Lola,Huzefa, Catalina people, and more are always there playing something. So I enjoy the best time at UTA in the evening. 2-3 hours of physical and mental exercise.

I work at OIT and I get 20 -24 hours a week. Is this less?well yes indeed it is. I have been asking more hours but OIT does not have more for us. So this is the best time to use what I do not do when I am home. I am looking for an internship in fall. So I apply to the positions when I am at work. I study CCNA when I am at work. But I should give more time to studies. And I have been increasing my time every week. This economical situation sucks for everyone here and specially for an international student. What more one can do other than applying for jobs, having best resume ready for himself. What you require is a small luck which everyone will get at certain time. So one tension is on the head all the time about finding a job.But I have a hope and it keeps me working.

What else is left other than working , studying, watching series and movies, and playing. Well there are few days when I meet my family in dallas and have some actual home feeling. Other than this talking with family in India , with friends (after 9 pm lol).. cooking somedays, sleeping. although I dont sleep like vacation. I sleep 6-7 hours a day which is enough for me I.And how can I forget the best game I have ever played 'MafiA'.. I started playing with my dearest friends at west crossing 201 with 15 crazy people who play till 5 am in the morning.

No classes and doing other things is really a good experience for me. And I think I am livnig my life at UTA instead of just surviving like in the semester time with the books... I wish UTA provides the credits for all these extra activities I do , so I do not have to take more classes in fall.. lolzz

I do not know whether I write good or bad, interesting or non interesting. If you are reading this line then I assume you like it. Give me your comments so I can improve next time.