Your eyes are so beautiful

thaerae bankae loein dhanth reesaalaa ||
Your eyes are so beautiful, and Your teeth are delightful.

sohanae nak jin lanmarrae vaalaa ||
Your nose is so graceful, and Your hair is so long.
(Shabad by Guru Nanak Dev Ji in Raag Vadhans on Pannaa 566)

I had the good fortune of attending the 2007 UK vaisakhi smagam rehansbai, and this shabad took me by surprise actually, since I had never come across it before but then I realised that this is how Guru nanak Dev Ji would praise God. Our Gurus were such amazing people, they had an enormous amount of love for Waheguru (God), they adored every beauty of Waheguru's creations. They saw God in everything and every life form.

Full shabad here


Download shabad here

Soul-Bird

Earlier today, I was having a nice conversation with someone and somehow stumbled across talking about a person I played football with during the UK 2002 smagam. Now, thinking about the smagam always directs my mind to the Friday night keertan darbaar in leicester where I was convinced of being a million miles away from this world. At the end, all i remember was just standing around, without having langar (don't know why i didnt eat that evening), waiting for transport back to gurdwara accomodation in a somewhat state of 'shock'. That evening was magic.

Here's a track from one of my recordings.



Translation for this shabad here

Download this track here (right-click, save link as/target as)

http://www.novtej.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/harpreetsinghtrack3uk2002friday.mp3

My first computer...

I'm glad I had this image file archived away on a CD. I remember the day when it arrived, my very own personal computer! I was really excited at the prospect of having my very own computer at home when the techie dude was installing it!..to think it was 10 years ago is probably long enough to be in todays school history books. 'Back in the days' hardly anyone had a computer, the only people I knew who had one was my eldest cousin and a friend at school. Anyway it was windows '95 which was somewhat state of the art back then with its amazing new GUI. I got encarta 96 within the package which I thought was mind blowing.. a whole enyclopedia at your fingertips! I used to score really well in all my courseworks; obvioulsy now I know the meaning of plagarism....oops

I got it as a birthday present when I was 11. I remember how everyone was having a go at opening up Word or something and being stunned each time without fail.
The first thing I did was create this image. I remember it took me around 4 hours to do using microsoft paint. I'm glad I had this image file archived away on a CD as now it is archived on the internet for the first time (and in its true resolution); 10 years after being created.

I used a font called 'Panjabi' back then since the more common punjabi/gurmukhi fonts available nowadays didnt exist.
Well I suppose archving things on CDs is a nice way of recording history and to remind you of past times. I can't remember why I put the cactus there, I suppose if you go off the path you will only be confronted with spiritual pain.

For those of you interested, the specification of the system as i remember was:

3.6gb hardrive
Intel Pentium 2, 333mhz processor
32mb Ram
4mb graphics card
15' Crt monitor

Oh that reminds me of how long it took to load!