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Happy Holidays!

October 31st, 2005  |  Published in food and music  |  5 Comments

Case in Point —

Indian Friend #1: “Happy Diwali! You’re the first person I’m sending this SMS to. Guess why? Guess? I’m sure you know! You’re the most Indian person I know.”

Indian Friend #2: “I can’t believe I’m going out for a Diwali party. It really should be more appropriate if you were going for something like that.”

Indian Friend #3: “What’s my Indian friend doing tonight to celebrate?”

You see, this must have been some kind of cosmic joke. Something went terribly wrong as the stars aligned during my birth, and everything got messed up. You can’t blame me: my Chinese parents chose an auspicious date to get married, and it happened to be Diwali. My brother was born in Diwali month. And I, as an early indicator of what was to come, was so excited I couldn’t wait for it, and popped out a month before Diwali. Which explains a lot, really.

To celebrate, here’s NNMT. (Download here from external site)

The Happy Diwali Songs
1. Kal Ho Na Ho
2. Kal Ho Na Ho (Sad) (Both obviously from Kal Ho Na Ho)
3. Raghupati Raghav (From Kuch Kuch Hota Hai)
4. Haan Maine Chukar Dekha Hai (From Black)

And as a special tribute to the Kolkata’s Pizza Hut.. I’ve thrown in “Pretty Woman” from Kal Ho Na Ho.

Enjoy! The download will be available for seven days, and is hosted externally for bandwidth reasons.

The other holiday for which I don’t have music goodies for:
Grrrrrrr...

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  1. Vicnan says:

    October 31st, 2005 at 10:30 pm (#)

    Happy deepavali!

    I’ve just finished the first bit of the rituals, and it felt natural to come online with oil and gunk on my scalp. Hmph.

    And I had people asking me “deepavali next week right? excited or not?”

  2. Prab says:

    October 31st, 2005 at 11:56 pm (#)

    Happy Deepavali/Diwali !

    haha, it felt more natural for me to be online first before I did the rites.geeky smile

    I wonder how Popagandi spends her Deepavali…..

    wow, by the way vicnan remember me ?

    Byron’s friend from Dmn.

    Funny, we got to meet here of all places.

  3. zhi yang says:

    November 1st, 2005 at 2:20 am (#)

    nothing halloween for you?

    and happy deepavali.

  4. kvacit says:

    November 1st, 2005 at 7:05 am (#)

    shubh diwali! and ‘haan maine chukar dekha hai’ is’ is lovely. (:

  5. dubby says:

    November 1st, 2005 at 2:44 pm (#)

    Hurhur I know someone equally indian-masquerading-as-munjen as you.

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