Kabhi Kushi Kabhi Gham

Hello everyone. Peace be upon you. So, its independent day for me and I have no where to go except watching interesting movies on tv. If and only if there is a television here in college. Lol.

Back to the topic, I have been watching this movie since standard 5 if I'm not mistaken. This movie never get me bored even though I have been watching it over and over. I'm really attracted to the movie.

I'm sure you are familiar with the poster and the actor actresses. a good family story that should be an example to the young generation. songs that are really nice and really good to hear.

For nowadays generation that never watched this movie, here the trailer. Feel free to watch this on online portal. till then, take care.

Wedding Dress

Peace be upon you. So, yes. I have been seeing every single hindi movies and quite attracted with their clothes. Somehow it shows their decency.

In India, girls that are getting married are really been celebrated with so many occasions. You could say our Malaysia tradition are like them but actually we are the one that follow them. They have the engagement ceremony plus the -inai- kan self ceremony plus with some -mandian- self ceremony. They also believe that girls that get married will leave their parents house even though in fact they can always visit them.

Yes, its just like in Malaysia. But yes with the culture, people then everything's quite different. We are been influenced by the culture of surroundings us. If it's a famous people that wear that, then its going to be a trend. But then its again to the people.

maigod. its totally sociology. after have learnt sociology, everything has been influenced me in here. Hiks. So, lets forget about what I said just now. Lets talk about wedding dress. Just take a look at the wedding dress here.

And if you ever wonder why everything is red, then I really dont know. It seems every single wedding are full of red and most of the time they wear red. Its look bright and beautiful actually for me. 

Okay, night people. Sleepy already. Have a nice dream.

Kurta

Haaaaa, dont stare at the models for too long girls. Haha

Peace be upon you. :)

So, before this I have post about girls outfit that famous in India that called saree. and I think its not fair to post something that has benefit only on one sided person. so here I am post another entry.

One of the famous outfits in India. Yes, there were so many more such as dhoti, lungi and etc. But, my focus were on this one as you can see the mens that are wearing it look so manly and handsome in this. The colour were not too soft or too light.

This outfits were usually be wear to weddings or any cultural events related to India. Even though they are using jeans nowadays, but this traditional wear still been used for a groom.

For your information, kurta also been wear by girls. But, its not call kurta. It's called kurti. Something that has become trend nowadays. Wait, let me share the pictures.

So, for those wanted to try you are most welcomed. do share the pics with me. :)

Saree

Peace be upon you.

Hopefully everyone is in a good health. Wishing a good health for someone else that we love will never decrease our value.

Today, I'm going to talk about traditional dress. The one that people wear in the last century could be said as traditional I guess. And something that I know about India is saree. Saree has a long length of cloth and have been using by some actress in some movies. As I'm the one that watch too many movies, I have to admit that I really love saree because of the colours and the decent it looks when they wear.

It looks nice and yes they have in a long blouses. Wait, I will give you the picture.

It looks really nice right? Hope to wear it soon but with the hijab on. :)

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Ghajini

Hey, everyone. Sobs sobs sobs. So, yes after I have cried I update this blog.

wanted to share the sadness with all of you. Haha. actually, its not the sadness but the story that I have watched now just now really really makes the tears falling down like a rainfall. I know that its quite over the top but then its the reality.

The story about a successful business man that in love with a girl that is not know his real status. The man (Aamir Khan) has tried his best not to tell his lover about his status because she hates the rich man. She wants to get success in her life before making any further move. until one day, jeng jeng jeng. Haha. I dont want to be a spoiler. Feel free to watch by yourself.

The hint is he has lost his memories due to the incident and his girlfiend has died. What is going to happen to him?

This is one of the interesting movies all the time. make sure to bring tissues along during crying or you will wet your shirt. Keep my words.

Happy watching. Really hope that all of you will enjoyyy.

Kathak

Namaste. :)

Welcome guys. again, we are here. Peace be upon you.

Its the mausum (season) of love. Yes, I will tell you a new information about dance in India. Do your ever hear about Kathak? Okay, this is not the 'katak' as in Malay that means frog. Its a dance that originally comes from northern India.

A little bit info on this dance.

Its a dance that tells us a story.  Kathak itself means tells a story. This dance likely a story that has narrate the myth or epic. Gestures has been added to made the dance becomes more interesting. Its likely to be like the 'geisha' in Japan but its simply needed someone that professional to dance.

Hope you guys enjoyed with this dance. See you again.

Bharatnayam

Hey everyone. Peace be upon you.

Have you ever heard of salsa, cha cha or maybe the most exotic one will be shuffle. Yes, there are some famous dancing in western. The popularity of this dance show like has been shown in So Do You Think You Can Dance and so much more has attract the popularity of the dance step itself.

So, what do you think about Indian dance? They are quite powerful and close with the arts especially music and dance.

Lets see the first dance that quite popular in our country or mostly known as bharatnayam.

This dance acquire you to bent your legs while keep your feet in rhythm. Originally, its a temple dance for woman and usually to express about Hindu religions and devotions.  It traces its origins back to the Natyashastra, an ancient treatise on theatre written by the mythic priest Bharata.

Short bharatnayam dance you should watch.

There were a lot of cultural dance in India that are really interesting. But till then, stay tuned. :)

Taj Mahal

Hey, welcome back! Today, I'm going to tell about famous love story.

Have you seen this picture before? I’m pretty sure if you haven’t seen the picture yet but there are songs about this monument. Taj Mahal. Yes.

Before that, peace be upon you. :)

The creators of this symbolic of love are Shah Jahan. A little bit love story on Shah Jahan loves on his wife, Mumtaz.

Mumtaz Mahal was died after she delivered her 14th child. Shah Jahan was an emperor that known as he has built impressive structures through the reign has ordered to build the building of a magnificent mausoleum across the Yamuna River from his own royal palace at Agra. The building has took more than 20 years to finish.

Hopefully, I could go someday. With Allah's will. :)

Sweeeeettttsss

Who like sweets? 

Peace be upon you everyone.

Have you ever eat something sweets as large as a small ball? If you are not, then welcome to India.
This sweet was genuinely made from oil, flour and for sure some amount of sugar to make it sweet.

I have taste it before as I have an English teacher that really made it free without something that are not halal for muslims.

First, its quite sweet and truth to be told I could only a little bit of it. The sweetness that my teacher has put its only it a little bit but leaves a lot of affects to us. Now, I’m quite understood why all of them in India were really sweet. 

The colour were so attracted and the shape also really unique. I have taste once. For anyone that wanted to taste, actually its quite simple to prepare it. :)

You can simply search at google. The most importantly its halal. :)

Stay tuned guys

Paratha

Hey, peace be upon you. So, this post I am not that excited as I have fully eating something before. Just figuring out that I could share India traditional food. This is so exciting to talk about foods. Hihi

Like in Malaysia, we have nasi lemak. The number one favourite of Malay races because of the precious coconut milk in the rice. We could see that every day in the morning that people sell this food. There will be no day passed without this morning foods.

In India, they have the special foods like us. I really wish to taste all the flavours because they have various type of flavours in this food that called paratha.

In some movies, the foods that called paratha are really famous. Like potato paratha, ginger paratha, cabbage paratha and so much more.

It will be cook like a pancake its just more crunchy and larger in size. Its really nice to be having with onions or maybe some curry.

I'm so looking forward to eat this! Looks yummyyyy. Soon.

Bye everyone. Searching for this. ;)

Kashmir

Looking for a place to honeymoon or maybe even a place to leisure with your beloved? Or maybe it’s quite expensive in Europe. Here, I will give you a place that owns a good accommodation that are similar to the Europe country. You just need to pay less.

Oh, I’m too excited to share about this place. Before I begin, yes. Peace be upon you.

Like I said before there is a place that are similar to Australia or maybe more greater than that is Paris. This is only present in India and one of the places that has a lot of visitor every year because of the weather.

Flowers that blossom really looks beautiful and romantic!

Subhanallah. The scenery were something that most of the people wont leave Kashmir. So, why need to spend more? :)

Lets go to Kashmir. ;)

Mohabbatein

Please live with my memories. Live by feels that I'm there with you.

Yes, thats what Mohabbatein is all about. Love fight between a man and the father of his beloved. This story really really sad and I need to remind all of you to carry tissues along as I couldn't speak more about this movie.

Ohhhh, too excited I guess. Peace be upon you.

This is the epic movie all the time. People will always remember this three couples based on the advice from their music teacher. A music teacher that owns a history in his life. The ultimate love that he feels will be eternity.

Languages

Hello, welcome back in here. Namaste. Wow, I could speak Indian language but it’s not end there because they have so many languages in India.

There are 29 individual languages that have been spoken by 1 million native speakers in 2001. Just imagine the numbers.

There are Hindi, Bengali, Urdu, Marathi, Telegu and the list goes on and on.

 

This is the video how you can learn to speak in Hindi. All the best! 

Well-Known Person

Tumko Hamise Churalo. Phir bhi dil hai Hindustani.

Yes, that’s the song that is most popular that has been known around the world. But not forgotten, they have the famous person in their country like our own Tunku Abd Rahman. Before I begin, peace be upon to you. 

There are so many well-known persons in India as they are good in movies, and they also have their own independence well-known person. To rate their popularity according to the knowledge of people in India, it seems not really fair as I hope people around the (globe) read this. Hiks

To make it fair, I will give only 5 well-known people in India according to the world research.
Let’s look at them whether you know them or not.


1. Mahatma Gandhi

This person have been known as the Father of Independence in India. He has been using peaceful forms of civil disobedience. 

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

2. Amitabh Bahchan

He is been known in movies such as Zanjeer. has been acted in 202 movies and still counting as he has his own production. 

3. Sachin Tendulkar

Goal! Haaaa, stop! Thats only for football. But this player is a cricket player. Widely regarded as the greatest cricketers all the time and the best batsman. 

Books: Playing It My Way

4. Mother Teressa

Mother Teresa was the founder of the Order of the Missionaries of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women dedicated to helping the poor.

If you judge people, you have no time to love them.

5. Lata Mangeshkar

Famous playback singer for movies that has recorded more than 30,000 solo and 20 indian languages. Everything that you feel like Preity Zinta, Aishwarya Rai, and other pretty indian actress sings actually the voice comes from her.

Till then, hopefully everyone knows and have the benefit from this post. Stay tuned.

Races

Hey everyone. How’s your day? :)

Okay, let’s move to the biggest things in India which is the races. In Malaysia, we own three major races but in India they have five major races and that’s totally not included the minor races that they have. They do own 2000 or more ethnic groups!  They are bigger in the populations and not something weird to have so many races.

The first races will be:

1. Negritos.
They are coming from Africa and were the earliest to inhabit India.

2. Pro-Australoids or Austrics:

 They are coming to India right after Negritos.

3. Mongoloid

 People of this racial ancestry are mainly found in North-Eastern India

4. The Mediterranean

The dominated race in India.

5. Western Brachycephals

Background

Hey everyone. Peace be upon you.

So before we get in deep with India I will likely to let you know about India. Before this, I'm really sure you have heard about Indian culture, movies, and even the well-known person.

India are a country that own a lot of citizens. and when I do said a lot it means 1.271 billion of people and more than two thousand ethnic groups. Can you imagine how so many people that from different background lives together?

They have 29 major languages that has been used in India. Actually, the language will be more as they have a lot.

India is a vast South Asian country with diverse terrain – from Himalayan peaks to Indian Ocean coastline – and history reaching back 5 millennia.


Try to look at this picture in India.

try to guess where they hang all over?

Yes, on the train. They have so many peoples that staying together but never its become a disturbance to them. In the next post, I will show more about the uniqueness of India through its culture, lifestyle and maybe more on the interesting facts,

till then, stay tuned.