Swagat to Karo Humara!

Finally 2020 is just round the corner, the teens are over and it’s time to start a fresh decade. 2020 will also see Sethi Sahib getting into 40’s but looks like something never change, Sethi Sahib love for Salman Bhai’s heroics and bhai’s larger than life entry scenes, Chantu & Bantu’s obsession with mobile phone and their single minded focus and sincerity to tinker , distort and destroy anything and everything that gets into their hands.

Gratitude, and big thank yours for another busy decade.  Arrival of K V S, S and also Alexa 😃, shifting to Jaat land and addition of white hairs and extra pounds …all part of the interesting journey.

And this year, K continues to be her amazing self, holding it all for me and keeping up with Sethi Sahib’s  maverick ways . S and V continue to be the bonding glue of the house and beautifully  growing  together and N Singh and S Singh both brought in tonnes of smiles , laughter’s and equal measures of yelling’s 😃

But it’ been Mom and dad who like pillars that stood behind all of us and held our backs.  No words can express thanks for everything that they do to keep our lives together

As I look back at 2019 , Modiji continue to surprise us every year  and my man Kejriwal continues to hold the fort , tony kakkar and neha kaakr made a dheeme dheeme entry into my playlist  while Vrindavan, Mathura, Agra, Dehradun, Mussorie , Jaipur were all the many places where C&B bestowed upon their presence and made all of us more adept in handling all kind of challenges.

As I look ahead another decade stands in front of Sethi Sahib, I hope pray and wish that when I write 2030 post, the gratitude only rise, smiles only increase and all of us stand together to welcome many more years in our lives together.

So let Sethi Sahib welcome another year and another decade with Salman Bhai’s famous words again.. Swagat to Karo humara 😃

Happy New year 2020 !! Wishing you a healthy , happy and smiling year ahead!

Ranjha yeh fannah ho gaya! 

And here comes 31^st of Dec again and boy how fast this year went…. faster than the touch and go screen space time Sara Ali khan had in second half of movie Simba … Which I think is good both ways… for the year 2018 it meant despite all the challenges all the ups and downs it went off well.. lots of gratitude to the big boss up there for the same and for Sara Ali khan it meant , the screen space was  much better utilized with all the SUV’s TUV’s….ZUV’s flying around.

This year too, it was K who pushed me to deliver this blog right before the deadline date. JFYI…Couple of hours back in the ATM queue I was reminded off the same. I guess somethings never change at ATM queue. If last year it was modiji reminding us of our cashless status, this year it was K reminding me of my blogless existence as I stood in the never-ending ATM queue. Saving grace, this year ATM’s had cash and were working and K’s reminder worked.

At work, it continued to be the year of change, and looks like 2019 would be no different, busier, different, and challenging than the previous one and on personal front chantu bantu are getting naughtier, smarter and in some cases over smarter too……..As they take turn to test your abilities to be able to work , move, think…. drive…eat… “just go on with life”..”bade chalo bade chalo”..right in middle of Chaos , chorus and cries for apparently no reason mankind could fathom and in turn making you appreciate the beauty of words like meditation, spirituality , karma…😊 But jokes apart they are the blessings that hold the house together and I just pray they both stay blessed always.

This year, there was another entrant too. … Fortuner…. finally and fortunately everybody has their own AC vent now … and we all will drive happily ever after…not exactly the right reason why others buy cars ..but I guess for us it was the biggest attraction after years of me sweating it out in the natural sauna of the back seat of scorpio.

It was also year of changing tech slowly seeping in day to day life – Amazon, flipk cart , Netflix &  prime movies, alexa , casting ,  mirzapur, voot,  online streaming of movies…video calls....a big wow and  and a bigger how for the way  the world is changing …

And as I wrap up big thanks to everyone in my life. Mom and dad for keeping us right and holding us tight, K for all that she silently does in the background  and bearing sethisahib’s nuances , S & V for always being there and bringing tonnes of joy and every day in the house..  friends at work , life,  WhatsApp and facebook ( in no particular order)  for hundreds of smiles , thoughts and messages you share every day.

And not to forget the most important thing as I end…. this year while half of bolly wood was either getting married and the other half was attending the marriage parties of who were getting married, just one man, our very own Salman bhai stood just the same… single…nonchalant ..doing what he likes to do ..It was just memorable watching him do his regular stuff in RACE 3 in jaipur’s raj mandir  theatre in middle of all the whistle calls and wild dancing  right next to the theatre’s screen flexing his shoulders and biceps on Ranja yeh fanna hogaya …boy I can still hear the song in my mind 😊

Andc as we concluded and bid goodbye to 2018.. I wish each one of you a very healthy successful, happy and a smiling new year 2019 and as Salman Bhai said on this years BIGG BOSS , apna kaam karo, , taaki mata pita ka naam ho, mata pata pita ka nam hoga to desh ka naam hoga aur agar kaam nahin hoga to ….. 😊

 

Swag se Karenge Sabka Swagat!

Finally 31st of Dec again and another year has just rushed past. Time to write my yearly post and this year too, as always, K has been pushing me to sit and complete this annual ritual. And looking at her "telling u last time " looks in the morning , I know if I don't do it now, I m only getting Tinde , tori , ghiya and shalgam in my lunch box for the most part of 2018

So here is Sethi sahib  back again ...sitting on his drawing room seat, away from the hustle bustle of lobby area,(which btw also backs up as dangal arena for the boys) trying to contemplate on the year that has gone by and also on the lunch menu for the new year, if this one gets posted on time :-)

This year started in queues, courtesy modi'jis Mitroon call. ATM hunting became part of morning ablutions and  Cash was as scarce as hint of intelligent life in Rakhi Sawants mind. Then came Mr Trump in God bless Amreeka followed by something like GST which everyone is still trying to decipher.

There were lot of changes at work front too, many of the old colleagues and friends switched jobs, new people joined in, times are changing , robots are slowly coming and the matrix is going to be unplugged soon. Look out for that elusive NEO is on.

Personally, Chantu Bantu are growing now and if anything that can give dangal a run for its money are these two ustaads put together. You realized the importance of Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery as you run through your day, but at the end of the day, its them and their presence which puts a big smile as you crash out in the night.

K continues to be what she does best, handling a crazy guy like Sethi Sahib in her own way with additional responsibility of managing Chantu who looks like to be two steps ahead in his craziness, So thanks K for everything you do and also a big shout out and thanks to S and V too who are the stabilizing factor in life. I wish the best of world for them as they run through there share of highs and lows together. Mom and Dad,you are the glue which holds this whole world together. There are no words to express the gratitude for everything they have given and continue to give , every single day of our lives.

Some other Names and songs that resonate this year - Jasmine Sandlas ( Bamb Jatt, Munda UP), Shape of you, Despecito ( or what ever way its spelled), Ding Danng , Ek baar aa to sahi, Judwa 2 ( Chantu Bantus first favorite movie, will always remember , both dancing together in movie hall on the songs of this movie ) and last but not the least Doremon and Shinchan - they mysteriously appear on the TV after some minutes for some reason :-)

Baaki 2018 is just knocking on the doors, Hoping its good for everyone. Looking forward to welcome a new year, a new day , some new moments, new people, new hopes with our full Punjabi swag or as Salman Bhai , in his own poetic style puts together for all of us... " Swag se Karenge Sabka Swagat"

So be good ,be healthy , be happy and do whatever you want to do yaar..but don't trouble your mother!