Ranjha Ranjha lyrics from Raavan movie (ARR magic)

Song Name: Ranjha Ranjha
Film/Album: Raavan
Singer(s): Rekha Bhardwaj, Javed Ali, Anuradha Sriram
Music Director: A R Rahman
Lyricist: Gulzar

Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi
Ranjha ranjha saddo ni mainu heer na aakho koyi
(note: the above two lines are by Bulleh shah)
(I have been chanting the name of Ranjha so much that I myself have
become Ranjha)
(Call me Ranjha, there is nobody with the name Heer here)

Oo ranjha ranjha na kar heere jag badnami hoye
Patti patti jhar jaave par khushboo chup na hoye
(o Heer, don't chant the name of ranjha because it would lead to
infamy in the world)
(the petals of the flowers wither away, but the fragrance doesn't
become silent and is still there in withered petals)

Begunah pakda gaya (yaaro), ishq mein jakda gaya (yaaro)
Aankh ke dosh mein dil (yaaro), bewajah pakda gaya (yaaro)
(the one who was innocent got nabbed, o friends.)
(he got shackled in the love)
(it was a mistake of the eye that it saw the beloved, and it was the
heart that got caught for no reason)

Aankh se hatt ti nahin, arrey hatt ti nahin, arrey hatt ti nahin
Sotey sotey bolta hoon, kabhi bolte bolte sota hoon
Kya jaane kya hota hai, kabhi jalti aag dadolta hoon
Ek baar to aake dekhe woh bhi
(her image doesn't leave my eyes)
(I start to speak while asleep)
(whereas sometimes I fall asleep while talking)
(I don't know what happens to me)
(sometimes I explore burning fire)

Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi
Ranjha ranjha saddo ni mainu heer na aakho koyi
Oo ranjha ranjha na kar heere jag badnami hoye
Patti patti jhar jaave par khushboo chup na hoye

Jal ja, jal ja ishq mein jal ja, jale se kangan ho
Jalti raakh laga le maathe lagey to chandan hoye
Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main
Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi
Ranjha ranjha saddo ni mainu heer na aakho koyi
(get ignited, get burnt, get burnt in the fire of love, by getting
burnt, one becomes a bracelet)
(by putting the burning ash to the forehead, it will feel cool like
sandalwood)

Waqt katt ta bhi nahin, waqt rukta bhi nahin
Dil hai sajde mein magar, ishq jhukta bhi nahin
Bina tere raatein, arrey raatein kyun lambhi lagti hain
Kabhi tera gussa, teri baatein kyun achchi lagti hain
Yeh jalte koyle, arrey koyle ab rakhna mushkil hai
(the time doesn't pass, the doesn't even stop)
(the heart is bowing to someone, but the love doesn't even stoop)
(without you, why do the nights appear longer)
(sometimes your anger, sometimes your talk, why do they feel good)
(these burning coals, it has now become difficult to keep them)

Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi
Ranjha ranjha saddo ni mainu heer na aakho koyi
Oo ranjha ranjha na kar heere jag badnami hoye
Patti patti jhar jaave par khushboo chup na hoye
Jal ja, jal ja ishq mein jal ja, jale se kangan ho
Jalti raakh laga le maathe lagey to chandan hoye

Chal, chal junoon chalte rahein, tu kahin theher nahin
Dil agar aa bhi gaya, woh tera shehar nahin
Bina tere saansein, arrey saansein kahin khatam na ho jaayein
Sabi teri yaadein, sabi yaadein kahin basam na ho jaayein
Sulagte koyle, arrey koyle ab bujhna mushkil hai

(let us move on together, o my madness, we keep on moving on, you
should not halt anywhere)
(if you heart likes a place, that is still not your destination)
(without you, hope the breaths don't get finished up)
(all your memories, all memories, hope they don't get burnt to ash)
(coals are burning, o coals, it is now difficult to stop burning)

Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main
Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi
Ranjha ranjha saddo ni mainu heer na aakho koyi
Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi
Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi

Oo ranjha ranjha na kar heere jag badnami hoye
Patti patti jhar jaave par khushboo chup na hoye
Ranjha ranjha kardi ve main aape ranjha hoyi - 4 times

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Cambodia tales...

OMG!! how could everyone who told us how beautiful the place is not mention how scarily hot it is???!!!! I got heat stroke and almost died!! OK, that's an exaggeration. But truthfully, I suffered alot.. had fever, sorethroat, cold, runny nose... I had to keep popping pills like they were sweets.. arghhhh.. food sucked.. msg was their main ingredient...

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But then there were moments.. of just astounding beauty... Sunset over the temple, sunrise at Angkor Wat, the beautiful sculptings on the walls, stories of Hinduism and Buddhism, the sad tales of how religions clashed back then itself.. Not to forget Happy Angkor Pizza.. hahah....

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Someone betta give me a medal for having gone thru Cambodia.. But I feel confident to take on Nepal next.. Anyone interested?? =D

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Yet another exotic destination... Cambodia...

Siem Reap, here we come...

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Maersketeers, I'm glad we've made this an annual event... =D

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Happiness abounds...

The whale has a bump, no! not a hump, but a queery kind of lump right opposite her rump. - courtesy of my pregnant fren...

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Once upon a time, I thought all my frens were getting married.. Now, they're all getting pregnant!!! Happiness abounds...

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Home...

7th Heaven
When I see their happy faces,
smilin' back at me...
7th heaven
I know there's no greater feelin' than the love of family
Where can you go
When The world don't treat you right?
The answer is home!!!!!!!!!
That's the one place that you'll find,
7th heaven.
Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh!
7th Heaven
7th heaven

Dilbert's Words of Wisdom

Dilbert's Words of Wisdom

- I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good, either.
- I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
- I'd explain it to you, but your brain would explode.
- Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
- I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
- On the keyboard of life, always keep one finger on the Escape key.
- I don't suffer from stress. I'm a carrier.
- Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level.
- Don't be irreplaceable --> if you can't be replaced, you can't be promoted.

- After any salary raise, you will have less money at the end of the month than you did before.

- You are always doing something marginal when the boss drops by your desk.

- If it wasn't for the last minute, nothing would get done.

- When you don't know what to do, walk fast, carry a clipboard, and look worried.

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Blindsided...

I wish I were elsewhere right now...

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Written by Adrian Tan, author of The Teenage Textbook (1988), was the guest-of-honour at a recent NTU convocation ceremony. This was his speech to the graduating class of 2008.
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I must say thank you to the faculty and staff of the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information for inviting me to give your convocation address. It’s a wonderful honour and a privilege for me to speak here for ten minutes without fear of contradiction, defamation or retaliation. I say this as a Singaporean and more so as a husband.

My wife is a wonderful person and perfect in every way except one. She is the editor of a magazine. She corrects people for a living. She has honed her expert skills over a quarter of a century, mostly by practising at home during conversations between her and me.

On the other hand, I am a litigator. Essentially, I spend my day telling people how wrong they are. I make my living being disagreeable.

Nevertheless, there is perfect harmony in our matrimonial home. That is because when an editor and a litigator have an argument, the one who triumphs is always the wife.

And so I want to start by giving one piece of advice to the men: when you’ve already won her heart, you don’t need to win every argument.

Marriage is considered one milestone of life. Some of you may already be married. Some of you may never be married. Some of you will be married. Some of you will enjoy the experience so much, you will be married many, many times. Good for you.

The next big milestone in your life is today: your graduation. The end of education. You’re done learning.

You’ve probably been told the big lie that “Learning is a lifelong process” and that therefore you will continue studying and taking masters’ degrees and doctorates and professorships and so on. You know the sort of people who tell you that? Teachers. Don’t you think there is some measure of conflict of interest? They are in the business of learning, after all. Where would they be without you? They need you to be repeat customers.

The good news is that they’re wrong.

The bad news is that you don’t need further education because your entire life is over. It is gone. That may come as a shock to some of you. You’re in your teens or early twenties. People may tell you that you will live to be 70, 80, 90 years old. That is your life expectancy.

I love that term: life expectancy. We all understand the term to mean the average life span of a group of people. But I’m here to talk about a bigger idea, which is what you expect from your life.

You may be very happy to know that Singapore is currently ranked as the country with the third highest life expectancy. We are behind Andorra and Japan, and tied with San Marino. It seems quite clear why people in those countries, and ours, live so long. We share one thing in common: our football teams are all hopeless. There’s very little danger of any of our citizens having their pulses raised by watching us play in the World Cup. Spectators are more likely to be lulled into a gentle and restful nap.

Singaporeans have a life expectancy of 81.8 years. Singapore men live to an average of 79.21 years, while Singapore women live more than five years longer, probably to take into account the additional time they need to spend in the bathroom.

So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you’ll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.

Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they’re 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn’t meet their life expectancy.

I’m here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.

After all, it’s calculated based on an average. And you never, ever want to expect being average.

Revisit those expectations. You might be looking forward to working, falling in love, marrying, raising a family. You are told that, as graduates, you should expect to find a job paying so much, where your hours are so much, where your responsibilities are so much.

That is what is expected of you. And if you live up to it, it will be an awful waste.

If you expect that, you will be limiting yourself. You will be living your life according to boundaries set by average people. I have nothing against average people. But no one should aspire to be them. And you don’t need years of education by the best minds in Singapore to prepare you to be average.

LIFE’S A MESS

What you should prepare for is mess. Life’s a mess. You are not entitled to expect anything from it. Life is not fair. Everything does not balance out in the end. Life happens, and you have no control over it. Good and bad things happen to you day by day, hour by hour, moment by moment. Your degree is a poor armour against fate.

Don’t expect anything. Erase all life expectancies. Just live. Your life is over as of today. At this point in time, you have grown as tall as you will ever be, you are physically the fittest you will ever be in your entire life and you are probably looking the best that you will ever look. This is as good as it gets. It is all downhill from here. Or up. No one knows.

What does this mean for you? It is good that your life is over.

Since your life is over, you are free. Let me tell you the many wonderful things that you can do when you are free.

RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO GET A JOB. INSTEAD, PLAY.

The most important is this: do not work.

Work is anything that you are compelled to do. By its very nature, it is undesirable.

Work kills. The Japanese have a term “Karoshi”, which means death from overwork. That’s the most dramatic form of how work can kill. But it can also kill you in more subtle ways. If you work, then day by day, bit by bit, your soul is chipped away, disintegrating until there’s nothing left. A rock has been ground into sand and dust.

There’s a common misconception that work is necessary. You will meet people working at miserable jobs. They tell you they are “making a living”. No, they’re not. They’re dying, frittering away their fast-extinguishing lives doing things which are, at best, meaningless and, at worst, harmful.

People will tell you that work ennobles you, that work lends you a certain dignity. Work makes you free. The slogan “Arbeit macht frei” was placed at the entrances to a number of Nazi concentration camps. Utter nonsense.

Do not waste the vast majority of your life doing something you hate so that you can spend the small remainder sliver of your life in modest comfort. You may never reach that end anyway.

Resist the temptation to get a job. Instead, play. Find something you enjoy doing. Do it. Over and over again. You will become good at it for two reasons: you like it, and you do it often. Soon, that will have value in itself.

I like arguing, and I love language. So, I became a litigator. I enjoy it and I would do it for free. If I didn’t do that, I would’ve been in some other type of work that still involved writing fiction – probably a sports journalist.

So what should you do? You will find your own niche. I don’t imagine you will need to look very hard. By this time in your life, you will have a very good idea of what you will want to do. In fact, I’ll go further and say the ideal situation would be that you will not be able to stop yourself pursuing your passions. By this time you should know what your obsessions are. If you enjoy showing off your knowledge and feeling superior, you might become a teacher.

Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.

Most of you will end up in activities which involve communication. To those of you I have a second message: be wary of the truth. I’m not asking you to speak it, or write it, for there are times when it is dangerous or impossible to do those things. The truth has a great capacity to offend and injure, and you will find that the closer you are to someone, the more care you must take to disguise or even conceal the truth. Often, there is great virtue in being evasive, or equivocating. There is also great skill. Any child can blurt out the truth, without thought to the consequences. It takes great maturity to appreciate the value of silence.

In order to be wary of the truth, you must first know it. That requires great frankness to yourself. Never fool the person in the mirror.

BE HATED.

I have told you that your life is over, that you should not work, and that you should avoid telling the truth. I now say this to you: be hated.

It’s not as easy as it sounds. Do you know anyone who hates you? Yet every great figure who has contributed to the human race has been hated, not just by one person, but often by a great many. That hatred is so strong it has caused those great figures to be shunned, abused, murdered and in one famous instance, nailed to a cross.

One does not have to be evil to be hated. In fact, it’s often the case that one is hated precisely because one is trying to do right by one’s own convictions. It is far too easy to be liked, one merely has to be accommodating and hold no strong convictions. Then one will gravitate towards the centre and settle into the average. That cannot be your role. There are a great many bad people in the world, and if you are not offending them, you must be bad yourself. Popularity is a sure sign that you are doing something wrong.

LOVE ANOTHER HUMAN-BEING

The other side of the coin is this: fall in love.

I didn’t say “be loved”. That requires too much compromise. If one changes one’s looks, personality and values, one can be loved by anyone.

Rather, I exhort you to love another human being. It may seem odd for me to tell you this. You may expect it to happen naturally, without deliberation. That is false. Modern society is anti-love. We’ve taken a microscope to everyone to bring out their flaws and shortcomings. It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance. It is hard work – the only kind of work that I find palatable.

Loving someone has great benefits. There is admiration, learning, attraction and something which, for the want of a better word, we call happiness. In loving someone, we become inspired to better ourselves in every way. We learn the truth worthlessness of material things. We celebrate being human. Loving is good for the soul.

Loving someone is therefore very important, and it is also important to choose the right person. Despite popular culture, love doesn’t happen by chance, at first sight, across a crowded dance floor. It grows slowly, sinking roots first before branching and blossoming. It is not a silly weed, but a mighty tree that weathers every storm.You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

You will also find that it is no great tragedy if your love is not reciprocated. You are not doing it to be loved back. Its value is to inspire you.

Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

Don’t work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone.
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age catches up...

I'm old enough to buy a home PC... 8(

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UPDATES: I've thought about it... I'm not ashamed of my age..

I only grow more confident with the added experience.. =P

Dresses...

My bonitochico dresses are still not here!!! =(

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UPDATE: they're here!!! Arrived on 14 Apr (Wed)!!!

& they're purrrrfect...

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gd things come in small packages...

Thought about it long and hard...

Especially after "Wax in the City" & "Wellness Village"...

But then I decided to take the risk...

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So now, I have a package with Strip... =P