Kurban bayramı mesajları

Bugün sevinç günü, kederleri bir yana bırakıp mutlu olalım. Kurban Bayramını doya doya yaşayalım. Hayırlı bayramlar! Her şeye kadir olan Yüce Allah, bizleri, doğru yoldan ve sevdiklerimizden ayırmasın!

Hep bir arada, sevgi dolu ve huzurlu nice bayramlar geçirmek dileğiyle, Kurban Bayramınız kutlu olsun! Allah tüm inananlara nice huzurlu, bereketli bayramlar nasip etsin.

Varlığı ebedi olan, merhamet sahibi, adaletli Yüce Allah kendisine dua edenleri geri çevirmez. Dualarınızın Rabbin yüce katına iletilmesine vesile olan Kurban Bayramınız mübarek olsun.

Her ilkbaharda gelinciklerin en güzel başlangıçları müjdelemesi gibi, bu bayramın da sana ve ailene mutluluk ve neşe getirmesini diliyorum… İyi bayramlar!

Bugün sevinç günü, kederleri bir yana bırakıp mutlu olalım. Ramazan Bayramını doya doya yaşayalım. Hayırlı bayramlar! Her şeye kadir olan Yüce Allah, bizleri, doğru yoldan ve sevdiklerimizden ayırmasın! Hayırlı ve bereketli Ramazan Bayramları dileğiyle.

Bayramlar berekettir, umuttur, özlemdir. Yarınlar niyettir. Kestiğiniz kurban ve dualarınız kabul olsun, sevdikleriniz hep sizinle olsun.. Kurban Bayramınız mübarek olsun.

Kaynak: kurban bayramı mesajları

Em mais um processo julgado pela Lei dos Recursos Repetitivos, a Primeira Seção do Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) consolidou o entendimento de que a TR é o índice aplicável para a correção monetária de débitos do Fundo de Garantia por Tempo de Serviço (FGTS), decorrentes dos valores recolhidos pelos fundistas e não repassados ao Fundo. O entendimento será aplicado em todos os casos semelhantes.

Acompanhando o voto do relator, ministro Luiz Fux, a Seção entendeu que conforme previsto no artigo 13 da Lei 9.065/95, a taxa Selic incide apenas sobre tributos federais não se aplicando às contribuições do FGTS, que não têm natureza tributária.

Para o ministro, os débitos perante o FGTS possuem disciplina própria de atualização monetária e de cobrança de juros moratórios, prevista na Lei 8.036/90, prescrevendo o mencionado diploma legal que sobre tais valores deve incidir a TR e juros de mora à razão de 0,5% ao mês.

No caso em questão, a Caixa Econômica Federal recorreu ao STJ contra decisão do Tribunal Regional Federal da 1ª Região (TRF1) que excluiu a TR como fator de correção monetária do débito fiscal referente ao FGTS, em acórdão assim ementado: ”consoante entendimento jurisprudencial já consagrado no âmbito de nossos Tribunais, afigura-se ilegítima a aplicação da TR/TRD, como fator de correção monetária do débito fiscal”.

Leia mais:

Débito tributário é corrigido pela taxa Selic 

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Fonte> STJ.

OK, so you want to edit/view all the files matching certain pattern on vi from command prompt. How would you do it?
Search files using usual “find” command, then translate new line in result to space using “tr” command and feed the list to vi – simple! Here you go:

vi `find . -name *.sh  | tr '\n' ' '`

Tables are the staple of web sites. Even though CSS has arrived, which we won’t go into yet, tables remain much more functional and practical to use for displaying data and arranging the layout of a web page.

It helps to think of <table>s as legos. Much like them, you have blocks that you can group however you’d like.

The bare-bones table consists of:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Content</td>
</tr>
</table>

Which on a web page looks like:

As basic as it gets, but it gets so much better very quickly. Let’s break down this code:

<table> = starts a table
<tr> = starts a table ROW
<td> = starts a table CELL

That’s basically it. The slashed brackets end what you started (i.e. </td> ends a <td>.)

With this sample code in mind, think: <td></td> is your lego block, the rest is about placement. It should also be noted that the coding for tables is hierarchical, neaning you better end your first <tr> before you start another one, and so forth.

For a more useful example let’s make a 2 x 2 grid:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Box 1</td>
<td>Box 2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Box 3</td>
<td>Box 4</td>
</tr>
</table>

As we can see here, we have 2 columns, because there are 2 <tr> brackets. It’s also important to remember that <td>’s go ACROSS horizontally. So boxes 1 and 2 are on one row, and boxes 3 and 4 on the row below it.

Here’s that code in action:

I hope that this method is fairly straightforward and simple, if you have any questions regarding this concept, please write me a comment and I will happily answer it.

One final example to finish, let’s make the table a little more complex, with the same example we just used but with 2 boxes in place of box 2:

So, how was this done? Actually, it’s 3 cells on the top row, and 2 on the bottom- but it looks like box 2 was made into 2 boxes because tables stay uniform. Meaning that whether you have 3 boxes, or 10 on one row, the row will fill up the space from the row that has the longest width (in this case Box 5 was stretched because Box 2 and Box 3 were wider.

Here’s the coding:

<table>
<tr>
<td>Box 1</td>
<td>Box 2</td>
<td>Box 3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Box 4</td>
<td colspan=’2′>Box 5</td>
</tr>
</table>

colspan is the key here. I knew to put colspan=’2′ in that <td> because it was the one directly below Box 2, so adding that stretched Box 5 across 2 columns (hence why it is called columnspan)

That finishes up our simple HTML Tables tutorial, I hope it was of use to some web-goers out there.
Be creative!

Hey guy, want to hear a riddle? No? Okay, but you are going to read it. okay. So there was a man from Peru, who dreamed he was eating his shoe. One day he woke, and lo and behold, his dream had come true.  Now, what does the shoe represent about him, and what is the representation of him eating the shoe. If you guess right, come email me at Jamesyoo93@yahoo.com. I will bring to you freshly made muffins with a special dark chocolate filling. Of course there is no definite answer, thus none of you are correct. But whatever.

So the other day I was watching Top Gear, my favorite show really, I saw Jeremy Clarkson, the semi-racist bigot of a presenter, and laughed my buttocks out of my trousers! I really wish I was British so I could understand that show though. Lately, I’ve been obsessed with driving and getting a car. I’m sure I will die before my 30th birthday the way my addiction of cars and speed is going. Not the drug speed mind you, the action of movement speed. I’m really tired and I just realized I put a metal screwdriver in my mouth; don’t understand why I did that, but it’s still in my mouth. I’m going to take it out. It’s out. Yaay. Mann….I’m bored.

for real, today was a boring Tuesday. No school for teachers workday, 4 day weekend. Did NOTHING. I wish I had a car..I really do.. Oh, and a license would help, but whatever. I Really wish I could do something other that sit in front of my computer and look at videos of people having fun. I live a sad, sad life really,but that will all pay off when I rule a 50 billion dollar industry and have a nice car. That’s all I really need, my own multi-billion dollar business, and a nice car. I don’t need nice clothes, cars, etc. I just want the car and business, yep. All the other 49,998,000,0000 will go to some charity or something. I don’t need all that. I need a Nissan GTR, a decent single home near the mountains, a nice suit for meetings, a nice wife, a large electric powered minivan, and a computer with internet. That might be a little over a million, but 49 billion is still a lot for charity and other fine things. I find that all I need are these things….and a steady supply of homemade Kimchi and pho. MMmmmm…..alright, now I’m bored and just ranted on about nothing. Bye whoever reads this piece of crap.

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Very often, you have to keep an eye on a log, or maybe more than one log, and a couple of other things while a long-term simulation is running. The GNU/Linux distributions offer the program watch that allows the periodical execution of a command in the current interactive shell. While watch is convenient, you still have the problem of displaying the needed information in a terminal geometry aware way. Turns out, there are tools to query the terminal geometry and we can use them to write simple, effective, well displayed scripts.

So let us see how we can make BASH somewhat aware of the terminal it runs in.

The first command we will look at is stty. Traditionally, stty is used to set the various terminal’s parameters, but for now, we are interested in its parameter reporting capabilities. Invoking stty -a will output the current terminal’s settings (use the view plain option as WordPress messes up the formating a bit):

.../somewhere/>stty -a
stty -a
speed 38400 baud; rows 29; columns 80; line = 0;
intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?;
swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W;
lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0;
-parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts
-ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff
-iuclc ixany imaxbel -iutf8
opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0
isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop -echoprt
echoctl echoke

So it seems to be reporting all needed information, including some obsolete or unneeded information (such as the terminal’s baud-rate for a terminal running on the console in graphics mode). But like most commands, it has its peculiarities. From the above, we may gather that the parameters are separated by semicolons (;) and that new lines are inserted so to more or less separate parameter categories. But if we resize the window to a very weird shape, like a very narrow, very high window, we see that the newlines change places! The first step to extract the information from stty -a is to get rid of the newlines altogether, using the tr command, replacing newlines ($'\n') by spaces:

.../somewhere/>stty -a | tr $'\n' ' '
speed 38400 baud; rows 29; columns 80; line = 0; intr = ^C; quit = ^\; erase = ^?; kill = ^U; eof = ^D; eol = M-^?; eol2 = M-^?; swtch = <undef>; start = ^Q; stop = ^S; susp = ^Z; rprnt = ^R; werase = ^W; lnext = ^V; flush = ^O; min = 1; time = 0; -parenb -parodd cs8 -hupcl -cstopb cread -clocal -crtscts -ignbrk -brkint -ignpar -parmrk -inpck -istrip -inlcr -igncr icrnl ixon -ixoff -iuclc ixany imaxbel -iutf8 opost -olcuc -ocrnl onlcr -onocr -onlret -ofill -ofdel nl0 cr0 tab0 bs0 vt0 ff0 isig icanon iexten echo echoe echok -echonl -noflsh -xcase -tostop

Fields are fortunately separated by semicolons. Adding:

.../somewhere/>stty -a | tr $'\n' ' ' | cut -d\; -f 2-3
 rows 29; columns 80

So we’re almost done. Now, let us extract the numbers only:

.../somewhere/>stty -a | tr $'\n' ' ' | cut -d\; -f 2-3 | tr -c [0-9] ' '
      29          80

which we wrap in a BASH array:

.../somewhere/> (z=($(stty -a | tr $'\n' ' ' | cut -d\; -f 2-3 | tr -c [0-9] ' ')); echo ${z[@]} )
29 80

Using this in a script lets us get the dimensions of the terminal in characters:

#!/bin/bash

# get the rows and columns
# in the current window
#
res=($( stty -a |\
        tr $'\n' ' ' |\
        cut -d\; -f 2-3 |\
        tr -c [0-9] ' '\
    ))

cols=${res[1]}
rows=${res[0]}

Now, what we have to do is to use the known size of the terminal ($cols and $rows) for pretty-displaying a log and, say, the used disk space. Let the file watch-log contain:

#!/bin/bash

# get the rows and columns
# in the current window
#
res=($( stty -a |\
        tr $'\n' ' ' |\
        cut -d\; -f 2-3 |\
        tr -c [0-9] ' '\
    ))

cols=${res[1]}
rows=${res[0]}

# du will use du_rows rows
du_rows=$( du -h | wc -l )

# the normal log will take
# what's left (after du,
# watch, and maybe a trailing
# white line)
log_rows=$((rows-du_rows-6))

# check if the number of log rows
# is positive, at least, and if the
# terminal is wide enough
#
if [[ $log_rows -gt 0 && $cols -ge 20 ]]
then
    echo "Space Used:"
    du -h
    echo
    echo "Log Tail:"

    # here, add your own stuff to
    # watch over
    #
    tail -n $log_rows watched.log | cut -b -${cols}
    exit 0 # success!
else
    echo "window too small for watching!"
    exit 1
fi

We invoke watch-log through watch. The actual frequency that suits you best is up to you, but to get an update every second, you would invoke: watch -n 1 watch-log. Now, resizing the window produces a seamless update of the information.

*
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Working with cut, sed and tr is alien at first, but they will prove most useful in basic or advanced scripting. Here, we used two of them to extract and use the terminal’s resolution (in characters). Another thing that we could have done to beautify the script is to use colors, but I personally think they’re best used in moderation. Maybe we could display the result of du in red should the used disk space exceed, say, 1GB or some other convenient limit, but I will leave that to you.

I am looking for an interlinear NT.

I would like one that contains some manner of  justification for the reading chosen.

At this point I have two based on the TR, but would like one based on the TR with variants noted with a justification for their inclusion.  I would also like one based upon the latest UBS of Nestle that would also have the same.

Any suggestions?

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Ett amerikanskt missionärspar (Woody Harrelson och Emily Mortimer; Lars and the Real Girl, Rosa Pantern 2) beslutar sig för att åka transsibiriska järnvägen mellan Beijing och Moskva och blir under resan vänner med Carlos och Abby (Eduardo Noriega och Kate Mara; Full of It, Shooter). Dessa har dock inte helt rent mjöl i… väskorna och i samband med att Harrelsons karaktär missar att komma med tåget vid en station startar en kedja av händelser som omkullkastar allt för de inblandade.

Jag har själv tillbringat några timmar på en fruktansvärd flygplats i Moskvas utkanter och den här filmen spär ytterligare på min sedan tidigare kraftfulla övertygelse om att inte besöka Ryssland igen. Regissören Brad Anderson har uppenbarligen velat göra en Hitchcock-influerad thriller och det börjar väldigt bra utan att man egentligen vet vad som är att vänta. Viss urspårning sker vad gäller intrigen och summan blir inte riktigt vad jag hoppats. Harrelson är vansinnigt enerverande som präktig men ack så trögtänkt tågnörd. Ben Kingsley som brutal rysk kriminalare är desto bättre och Mortimer gör en intressant karaktär som den komplexa kvinnan runt vilket det mesta cirklar. Helt ärligt kan jag så här efteråt inte riktigt bedöma om filmen är annorlunda eller halvkass – trots det (eller just på grund av detta) har jag svårt att inte gilla den.

Betyg: 3

Det har gått en tid sedan den första kontakten med de utomjordiska varelserna och de goda Autobots hjälper nu en specialdivision av militär att spåra upp och oskadliggöra de ondskefulla Decepticons runt om på jorden. Vi återser Shia LaBeouf i rollen som Sam Witwicky som här råkar röra en liten bit av Allspark som blivit kvar när man i den tidigare filmen lyckades gömma undan den från de makthungriga robotarna. En rad händelser planlagda av Decepticons leder till att hotet mot jorden nu är större än någonsin och mänsklighetens överlevnad  hänger på Sam, Optimus Prime och de andra i gänget.

Det är verkligen en snygg produktion och vad är att vänta med Michael Bay som regissör och Steven Spielberg som producent?! Det smäller högre och tempot är än högre än i ettan, men borta är lite grann av den känsla och stämning som gjorde föregångaren till en så pass stark film. En hel del känns som en upprepning – man har sett det förr helt enkelt och dessutom kan jag tycka att det spretar lite mer än innan vad gäller storyn. De flesta känner vi igen som den neurotiske John Turturro, soldaterna Tyrese Gibson och Josh Duhamel, Sams föräldrar Kevin Dunn och Julie White samt Megan Fox som flickvännen. Vad hon hade för funktion i filmen har jag inte förstått förutom att hon tvingas kråma sig i de mest fånigt provokativa poser och konstant pluta med läpparna som om det vore hämtat från Playboy Channel. Nytillskottet Ramon Rodriguez tillför däremot en rolig ny karaktär som jag hoppas hänger med i trean.

Betyg: 3

It has hardly been a week since i came back from the Andamans. Normally, people would not feel like travelling, let alone on a motorcycle so soon. But then you know me! Where normal people stop, i begin!

The idea of doing a weekend ride occured to me as Aamir and I were sitting and chilling at my place. We had two days off and i had some (very little, mind you) spare cash. I could have saved it, but the amount was so insignificant that i decided to fuck it. I thought that if i did the ride, the experience would be much more worth it than the money in the bank. There were two major hurdles to the successful completion of the trip. First, to get Aamir (who’s fast approaching thirty and has the mentality very similar to, say, a turnip) up on his ass and preparing him for the trip; and secondly the constant nagging voice in my head which said that Pushkar and back in two days is impossible.

All doubts laid to rest, the day of the trip fast approached. By the time i got home after work, sorting out small mechanical issues on the bike, buying spares and collecting back-packs, it was nearly one in the morning. As per plan we were supposed to be out by 3:30, so we packed fast and settled down for an hour’s sleep.

Thanks to calls from a very supportive girlfriend and a very worried mother, we were up an running on schedule. Our first stop was at the ATM near IIT. From there we hit the NH8, which we would be following all the way to Ajmer.

Dope at the ATM

We crossed Gurgaon at 4:15 in the morning. The expressway is a pleasure to drive in even during peak traffic and at this godforsaken hour of the day when we were practically the only people on the road, it was a whole new feeling altogether. The needle on the speedo stayed still at 120 kmph. Originally (and i attribute it to a late waking-up habit) i had thought that the sun would be out by five, around the time we are out of the NCR and hit the open stretches. But 5 rolled to 5:30 and 5:30 rolled to 6 and there was no signs of the sun. At one point of time i was even thinking that maybe we left at 2:30 instead of 3:30. But anyway, the sky lightened sometime after 6 and by 6:30, we were already within a 100 kms of Jaipur when we stooped at this dhaba for tea and smokes and some photos.

Shameless poser!

You know you are in Rajasthan when....

As we approached Jaipur, the highway got prettier and prettier. The landscape was increasingly getting rugged and we started seeing the first signs of the Aravallis.

Aamir's helmet is too big for his head!

Bodhi on Dope!

Soon we hit the turn which would allow us to by-pass Jaipur and continue on our way towards Ajmer. As soon as we hit the by-pass, the shy darkened and it started drizzling. I was seriously disappointed…first Andamans and now this! The rains must have a serious issue with me. No! Not this time, i pressed on the throttle and began speeding away…. for the next half an hour, we literally outran the storm brewing behind us. What a feeling!

Thats the feeling you get when you outrun the storm!

If the Delhi-Jaipur stretch of the highway is ’smooth’ then from Jaipur to Ajmer, it is a veritable Autobahn. Hills flank the wide tarmac on both sides and for the longest stretch, the surroundings were devoid of any human presence. I have never been on roads like this. The road eventually leads to Mumbai which is 1200 kms from Jaipur. The urge was great to keep driving and not stopping till i reached Mumbai…but not this time. Very soon, though!

NH8, somewhere between Jaipur and Ajmer

By the time we crossed Jaipur on the by-pass it was 9:30 in the morning and our stomachs had started to growl in symphony. Aamir at this point started acting like a bitch that he is. He rejected all the highway dhabas that i wanted to go to. He wanted a nice, sanitised, clean, ‘family’ place. So after much searching, we stopped at this dhaba and got ourselves stuffed on some awesome pakodas and paneer paranthas.

Pakodas

After this dhaba stop, we had to go on for another 80-85 kms where a state highway branched off from the NH8 towards Ajmer, and guess what… we completed this stretch in under 40 mins.

I got sun on my face!

Aamir had been a very good boy to this point. But when he saw a Cafe Coffee Day outlet on the highway, he just could not resist himself. He started flailing his arms about, jumping on the backseat, threatening to jump off if i did not stop. So i had to. He marched in, sat on the most comfortable couch and ordered a cold coffee! Road tripping with such people is such a pain, i tell you!

Aamir finally finds 'his kinda place'

Me in 'Aamir's kinda place'

Once we took the turn from the National Highway into the state highway, ther  was a perceptable change in the landscape. Dhabas and petrol pumps were few and far between, as were the villages. Soon we reached Kishangarh, which marks the beginning of the ‘Marble Belt’. For centuries the hills in this area have been quarried for their white marble. 4o kms down the road branching towards the right are the fabled mines of Makrana, that supplied the unblemished white marble used for the construction of the Taj Mahal.

These hills were once very high. On the outskirts of Kishangarh

Kishangarh fort in the Distance

Soon after Kishangarh, we entered Ajmer. It is a rugged yet serene town located along the base of a line of lofty hills. At the centre of the town is the sprawling Maharana Pratap Sagar lake. Our plan was to go to the Dargah Sharif before continuing towards Pushkar, 15 kms from here. The Dargah is located insuide of the Ajmer’s busiest markets and since it was also Diwali, the crowd was unbelievable. So we decided to skip it and continue towards Pushkar. We would come back for the darshan the next day, on our way back to Delhi. We stopped for some time on the lawns beside the lake and took some pictures

Maharana Pratap Sagar, Ajmer

In Pushkar, we were booked into the Pink Floyd Cafe, where the decor is psychadelic and the rooms are named after Pink Floyd albums. As Luck would have it, we were given the room called “Animals”. Anindita had a good laugh when i told her about it!

Pink Floyd Cafe

Interiors - First Floor

Interiors - Second Floor

The Lounge

The hotel was spread across three floors. All floors had a hall into which all the surrounding rooms opened. The top floor was the restaurant cum lounge and on the terrace there is a landscaped garden as well as another seating area. The terrace provided amazing view of Pushkar and the surrounding hills.

Pushkar From the terrace

Pushkar From the terrace

Pushkar from the terrace

Pushkar from the terrace - The Savitri Temple atop the hill watches over the town. We climbed the 700 steps leading to the temple in the evening

When we reached the hotel, we were quite exhausted having slept for hardly an hour in the last day and a half. Aamir was all for going to sleep and i had to push the old man along. So tired of me prodding his ass, he came up to the restaurant where we sat flicking through magazines and taking pictures while we waited for our lunch to show itself.

The best part about the hotel though was this little girl called Appu. She is hardly two years old and is all over the place. She, without hesitation enters rooms of strangers and every half an hour, there is someone or the other returning her to the reception to her dad. She came to me and settled down on my lap and narrated me a story in her own language, made up of a lot of different undistinguishable sounds and hand gestures.

Appu!

After a rather satisfactory and surprisingly delicious lunch, we went off to explore the town. To our great dismay, the lake was quite dry except for a puddle here and a puddle there. But on the upside, the ghats were gloriously deserted. There were hardly 10 people there and the architecture was brilliant. It is like Benaras, scaled down, built around a lake.

There are more than 52 ghats at Pushkar. Each of the ghats leads either to a temple and in some cases, the courtyards of  rich landowners and merchants.

The deserted ghats at Pushkar

A moment of quiet reflection

Two people and a whole lot of piegeons - the recipe for serenity

Among the larger things in the picture like the clear blue sky and the deserted ghats there were these innocuous little corners which are equally attractive. This jaali window once had a view, but has since been blocked up by a wall of bricks.

People have various methods of making a wish. In this case, some leave hand prints of themselves on the walls in vermillion. The last place i had seen this was at the Mmahamaya Temple, a shaktipeeth near Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh

This babaji claims to have walked down from Rishikesh!

This tree was the trippiest thing in all of Pushkar. Reminded me of the gnarled tree on the ramparts of the Hall of Gondor in Minos Terith.

The old man was feeding his piegeons. Sometimes they ate from his hands while others sat on his shoulders and sometimes even on his head.

Thats Aamir surveying the scene from his vantage point on the ghats

More signs of worship!

From the ghats we wandered off through the markets to the Brahma temple that makes Pushkar so unique. Apparantly, it is one of the only four Brahma Temples in the world. I thought it would be different from the other temples i had seen, but i was grossly disappointed. It was as commercial as any other big temple. There was nothing striking about its architecture too. I preferred to stay out while Aamir went in.

Outside the Brahma Temple

Hanumana himself!

A rare sombre face on a festive day!

Goodies at the Pushkar Bazaar

We walked a lot through the markets and the bylanes. I have seen lots of markets like this and there was hardly anything unique  about it, except for the stalls that were selling a vast array of swords, daggers and other hacking / slashing / cutting paraphernelia.Owing to the huge influx of Israeli tourists, a lot of the shops had hoardings or posters in Hebrew! I hace heard about stuff like this in Himachal..but the first time that i am seeing one.

Before i came to Pushkar, i read some blogs and all of the raved about the malpuas at the sweet shops. So we decided to check it out. The sweet shops had spilled into the streets and there were heaps of Bangali sweets in makeshift stands in front of the shops. A little conversation with the halwaii inoformed us that Pushkar sweets are so famous that people come here from Ajmer. We asked for two plates of malpus and that stuff was outright delicious. I am not a big fan of sweets and crazy as it may sound, i hate if my sweets are… well..too sweet! But not this. It was soft and chewey and just the right amount of sweet. It was excellent. Aamir wanted to pack some for home, but as usual, he forgot!

The Pushkar Bazaar

from the 'Dali Shop'

From the markets, we drove to the base of a hill on the top of which is a temple dedicated to goddess Savitri, Brahma’s consort. A board at the base of the hill where the stairs start, informed us that we would have to climb 702 stairs to reach the temple. In the beginning the steps were of concrete and very comfortably spaced. About halfway up, the concrete disappears and the stairs are just made of the hillside rock, chiselled to have footholds. And very steep!

Didnt know back then how excruciating it would turn out to be

Pushkar viewed from the initial stages of the climb

The valley...the road from Ajmer passes through it to reach Pushkar

As you climb on, more and more of the surrounding wastelands show up. You can see the gap in the mountains through which the road from Ajmer enters Pushkar. You can see the town, so tiny that it seemed to fit in the fold of your hand. On the other side of the saucer shaped valley where Pushkar is located, you can see hills, one of them  even topped by a temple. As you go higher, you can feel the vertical distance between you and the town increasing. What a place to build a temple!

and we climb a little higher

...and higher

The real climb!

There were a group of Vaishnav pilgrims from Bengal. Most of them were elderly couples from a lower middle class background. Many of them were visually aged while some were bent over and walked with sticks. All of them were climbing the steps… people who were slightly more able were helping the others. Others were shouting words of encouragement to others. A few of them chugged on, chanting ’shakti dao, Ma!’

Faith Moves, literally!

We finally made it to the top and so exhilerated were we about doing this, that we forgot about at least going to the temple. I guess, sometimes the test of faith (for lack of a proper word) is maybe, just to reach the right place. A sojourn that i am more than willing to make…where the journey itself becomes the destination.

We did it!

View of Pushkar from the top

A close-up

:D

Under his wings!

We soent a lot of time on the top of the hill. The sun was just going down and the entire valley was bathed in the glorious orange light. There was a little cafe there and we just ordered large servings of water! The climb had completely drained. We sat on the chairs and looked at the sights unfold in front of our eyes. One by one and often in little groups pilgrims reached the top and were visuallly happy at the achievement. We decided it was time to go down when it started getting dark. The steps leading down looked even scarier while climbing down. The rocks were slippery and it was difficult to find a flat piece of stone. Help came in the form of a Sikh babaji (in the pic) advising me ‘Radhey, chappal utar lo’. It worked!

Descent, very Descent!

Sun switching off!

...until tomorrow!

mystic notes!

When we came down to the parking there was a man playing the instrument (i must find out the name). He stared off with hindi fil tunes. I asked him to play some folk tune and he obliged.

I had to get the rear brakes worked on so i took Dope to the “Shreeram Enfild Gairaj and Sarvice Canter”

How do so many Indians win the spelling bee?

How i wish, how i wish you were here, Anindita!

We decided that we would go out for dinner again and we had seen this restaurant in the market which we kinda liked. It was a shack made on the terrace of a building. So we went ot the almost-empty Hard Rock Restaurant and ordered some sphaghetti and macaronis. Le less we say about the food, the better!

Hard Rock Restaurant!

Fireworks - 1

Fireworks - 2

Reeling from tiredness and lack of sleep, we went to bed at 9:30 and woke up 12 hours later, fresh as flowers bathed in the autumn dew! All that was left for us to do was visit the Dargah and then head back to Delhi. So we decided to have a laid back Breakfast. We went up to the cafe upstairs and ordered the creamy lasagnas. While i waited a saw a copy of the book ‘Eat, Pray, Love’ that someone must have left behind. I picked it up and started reading. It was turning out quite interestingly actually, but can you blame a guy for putting down a book when a hot cheesy platter is laid in front of him?

I swear i was not posing for this one!

Yeah yeah..Lennon and all!

On the road from Almer to Pushkar, you have to cross a mountain. There comes a point in the road, the highest pint from were you can see the land for miles and the road snaking through it across all impossible angles. While going to Pushkar we stopped here too but something went wrong with the camera and it just didnt click! Not this time, though!

The road to Pushkar!

The road cuts through solid rock at this point, creating a gateway of sorts. This photo was so overexposed that i had to convert to b/w just to make it visible!

Gateway to Pushkar!

I am tempted to use "Riders in the Storm".. but its too overused!

All i desire... a life on the highway!

We reached the main bazaar at Ajmer from where the road to the dargah begins and parked the bike. We deposited our luggage and helmets at a flower shop and proceeded towards the shrine. The road was covered with tinsel streamers which made it a very pretty sight!

In my defence, i was not aware when the picture was taken

Entrance to the Dargah!

The Pilgrims!

SOME PICTURES OF THE DRIVE BACK FROM AJMER…

Another hill...another temple crown

The colours of Rajasthan

Food, truck-driver style!

A most delicious lunch!

dilli abhi bhi kaafi dur hai

The Highway!

Pit-stop for pakodas!

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Some More stuff I found looming around from Newing. Their Nice and simple Audi TT along with their Widebody GTi and Wide Body 3series Sedan

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