Happy Thanksgiving... & IITF-2008

Happy Thanksgiving to all my dear ones and thanks for there love & support!!!

For my friends who may not know about thanksgiving... Thanksgiving, also known as Thanksgiving Day, is a harvest festival. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. It is primarily a North American holiday which has generally become a national secular holiday with religious origins. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members.

I was talking to one my russian friends recently and I asked if they celebrate
thanksgiving. The resposnse was an astonishing NO saying 'its an american festival so why should they celebrate it' and I am funny. I am not saying that thnaksgiving has to be celebrated all over world or it is not an american festival but why should anyone feel offended by this. I think thanksgiving is a beautiful festival where people get to thank there loved ones fro all the good they have done. We are always thankful to people around us for tehre goodness but we hardly put it in words. Saying that THANK YOU sometimes is not bad I guess. So this is a festival in very good spirit and I like it.

Last year I was in US during thanksgiving. A day before thanksgiving, I went to one of my dear friend's house and had delicious dinner (not a usual turkey dinner though, but some kinda hen). Then I went to Los Angeles for a fun trip and on the day of thanksgiving I had an awesome thanksgiving turkey dinner at the hotel. And then had an aweosme fun in Los Angeles & Las Vegas (I spent $3500 in 4 days, never done that). Thanksgiving is gooooooooooooood!!

Second news is that I went to IITF-2008 today i.e. India International Trade Fair organized at Pragati Miadan in New Delhi. I have been going to Trade Fair since 1998 regularly every year (except last year when I was in US). The awesome thing is it hasn't changed much in all these years. It still looks almost the same every year with thousands of p[eople & hundreds of stalls everywhere. I went to few stalls as usual like Electronics, Saras/Handicraft, Good Living & few states (Delhi, Haryana, Bihar, Punjab etc).

I feel that food is not as interesting as earlier anymore, especialy in state stalls. The stuff is ususally very expensive as compared to other places, i ma not even sure if it's origianl or even good quality stuff. But it's really interesting to see all different kind of stuff at just one place. It used to be an amazing experience when i was in school. I used to go to Techmart & all oher halls/stalls and collect tons of pamphlets & information brochure (for no reason). And later just visiting all the food stalls for eqating only. And now just roaming around and watching lil stuff here & there to finish the whole thing in less than 4 hrs (which used to take 10 hrs & twice or thrice visit). But it has always been a nice FUN!!!

Anyways, that's it for now. Please keep blogging & keep reading my blogs (& COMMENTING as well please, if you wanna). This is RAHUL again saying, Good Bye & Good Luck!!!!!

There have been terrorist attacks in Mumbai... WTF!! Why do people do stuff like this? Or maybe they are not people anymore, just Weapon Of Mass Destruction. And we know what needs to be done against WMDs, destroy them completely from root. Afterall how can anyone ever justify killng hundreds of innocent people; there cant be any appropriate reason for this ever. Something really needs to be done to end this now & forever.

May god bless the souls of all who lost there lives, got hurt and there families; bad things like this may never happen again to anyone......... Amen!!