Being a responsible citizen, I voted and was happy to know that average voting in Punjab (65%) was quite higher than most of the states in country.

I believe it as one of the reasons that why Punjab is that ahead of those many states in terms of economy and growth – because people here are more aware and concerned about their rights/duties while states like Bihar (40%) keep asking for special status from centre government so that they can do some growth.

Known as City Beautiful or City of veterans, Chandigarh is a city full of flowers, trees and still clean or should I call it a Clean and Green city.

Safety wise, when it is called as Old-Men’s city, it maintains that status. I have seen traffic rules being followed more strictly than any other city in India (and still I managed not get even a single ticket so far!). You can’t drive above 60 km/hour (0.621 miles/hour) throughout the city (I can understand how restrictive that would feel to guys who have been accustomed to drive 110 km/hour over highways, being one of them). Helmet is compulsory for two-wheeler motor-cyclists. What else, there are traffic lights even at places where you can’t expect traffic at all.

But one issue I have heard and not encountered is that here traffic police is a bit partial to those from other states than Punjab. If nothing else, those bikers are given tickets for over-speeding (umm if not figured out, I also bear number plate of Haryana) but still, I am not having any personal experience in this matter although have been facing rough Punjabi drivers every other day.

A city designed by a famous French Architect and known as best planned city of country.

All I can say is, I am in love with this city except the land-lords (why are they same everywhere…be it Bangalore, Gurgaon, Chandigarh or Mohali)!

In the end, I am in Punjab – my home-state. A place where you can get Lassi and Makhan with meal anytime anywhere (being a typical Punjabi, I accept that I have been missing this for more than three years). Another typical thing about Punjab is that here exist more outspoken people than any other state…HA.

Wishing you all a very

Happy Baisakhi

and

start of new Indian Year (Vikrami Samvat)

I am celebrating Baisakhi / Vaisakhi by being at my hometown – Hoshiarpur.

This video is hilarious even if you don’t know what kind of language Punjabi is…

The CashEdge cap. It is specifically released for the CashEdge Cricket team members.

Proud to be a CashEdge Cricket Team player. We won the first match while wearing this cap against Simcom.

And on the other side, Prabh/Prabhjot Singh (our dear Sardar ji) has started a poll for the best sport-person of our batch – the batch of B.Tech. 2004, DCSE, Punjabi University (or Punjabi Junibrashty as Pankaj Dev spells it !)

I watched Matrix one more time on this weekend. If not hundreds of times, I have watched this sequel (The Matrix, The Matrix Reloaded, and The Matrix Revolutions) for at-least tens of times. If you love technology, action, thrill, romance and what not, you believe that Artificial Intelligence can do wonders, this is the The Sequel to watch out. First time, I had watched The Matrix during graduation when in next semester, we were going to learn AI. After that, it became my favorite movie specially when the fiction seems quite possible and realistic to you. If you get bored of watching your favorite movie again and again, watch it in other language you know and you will know many new things especially when it is quite complex movie. This time I watched it in Hindi – all three parts (thanks to bro. Yes I was at my hometown on this weekend) and I discovered lot of new things which I didn’t know before. I would like to watch this movie in all the 4 languages that I know. Every time, I watch this movie, I find few more interesting facts which I couldn’t understand previously, somethings which I never knew before, just like I discover new meanings when I re-read some old issue of Digit (:)) or Gita, Koran or Bible (well that doesn’t mean at all that I am quite religious specially when I don’t go to any religious place. I read these scriptures for self-improvement.) I always wished such movie to be created in Bollywood than just copying it.

Free your mind

Here is a transition that I went through few weeks ago and I swear, it was too difficult to have this experience!

And if you still have some time that you can spend on reading similar interesting stuff, Mandar has made a quite “interesting post” (The Love Shtory) for first time in ages over his blog .