London Adventures
Me, ash, and the birthday girl Indeep kaur on the "tube" heading into london.
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Wednesday, August 31, 2005
Me, ash, and the birthday girl Indeep kaur on the "tube" heading into london.
It was Indeep kaur's 26th birthday (lower left corner). As we walked into the park we saw people roller blading so we decided to go and rent some blades and go for it. I have wanted to go in the past, but they never had my size (size 15 US). I was in luck today! they had a pair that fit me! So we padded up and off we went on our adventure.
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Me and randeep singh chilling out on the grass waiting for ashvinder to show up. He took off and went to play volleyball and left us stranded.
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the blade crew! Notice me wearing kurta pajama and knee pads. If I had known we were going to roller blade I would have worn some different clothes which are better suited for this.
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Taking a break from roller blading for a picture.
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Rollerblading in the park in London
Here they are holding on to each other for dear life. For most of us this was our first time going roller blading.
Ashvinder try to show some of them how to brake and turn around on the roller blades.
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Crossing the street where the carnival runs down..
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We didn't get to the carnival area till near the end...and it was pretty gross. Trash was everywhere. beer cans were all over the place and people were quite drunk. This definitely was not my kind of carnival.
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The crowds in the street near the end of the carnival in london.
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At the carnival we came accross this Singh police man...so stopped to chat with him and take a picture.
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We couldn't find a place to eat that we could all fit in, so ended up at pizza hut. Here we are after.
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Singing in the "Tube" on our way back from London
Ramta singing some punjabi songs and entertaining us as we head home in the train from a long day in london.
Hay Jamaalo....
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Tuesday, August 30, 2005
Super Singh - Ashvinder Can't keep his feet on the ground
We spent the afternoon walking around london. Here is the last thing we did before heading back. Ashvinder went on this trampoline thing and was flying up and down. I wanted to go too...but we were already late for an appointment so didn't have time. Super Singh!
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Posing as the studends in the classroom of Guru Nanak Sikh school in England. Sukhmani pointed out that the front seats were for the naughty kids. I was in the good boy area.
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We visited Guru Nanak Sikh school and took this picture with Maha Raja Ranjit singh. Sukhmani kaur teaches here and showed us around.
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I was like a zombie totally tired from the previous days events, following everyone as we walked through london.
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Ashvinder trying to convince the police to let him in to speak with Tony blaire
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Sikh Student Camp Sports
The first few days I was at camp it rained every day so our world was inside the halls of the school where our camp was. This was one of the first bright sunny days that we went out to play sports.
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The last full day we did a group picture with most of the Sikh student camp
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Surprise bucket of water on Sukha singh. This day they were having quite the water fight.
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Getting ready for a huge game of tug-o-war with most of the camp.
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The marathon runner Fauja Singh came to the camp one afternoon when we had a lot of different sports activities. It was really cool to meet him in person after reading all the news articles on SikhNet.
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Group picture with Fauja Singh and others from the camp
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Monday, August 29, 2005
Blog Circle
Sukhmani Kaur posted some of her pictures from yesterday on her blog. We were having fun messing around and taking all kinds of pictures. All three of us had our digi cameras out taking snaps for our blogs. Ash is breaking the circle...he has to post his portion of the blog photo circle.
Come on...Ash... get me off the computer....and post your stuff!! hahaha
It's pretty late once again. We had a really fun day. We went roller blading in the park in central london with a bunch of friends. Then went to a carnival and out to eat. Ash has my camera...so when I have a chance I'll post some pics.
I still have a bunch of pics from Sikh student camp...and stories to tell, but I need a good chunk of time to do that. Might not be till I get back to the US.
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Gardens of Bayfordbury Hertford
Shiv Charan Singh, Satya kaur, and some other parents hosted kirtan and dinner party at a beautiful place in Hertford. This was a going away party for their children who are going to go to boarding school this year at Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar.
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Ashvinder doesn't really live in Singapore.... hahaha... he really live in England and runs a chain of grocery stores. Yesterday we got lost and ended up driving up and down this street about 50 times. This was one of the stores on the road.
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Driving through southhall. All the houses looked exactly the same and were right next to eachother.....like one long house.
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Picture Circle. Sukhmani taking a picture of Ashvinder...who is taking a picture of me taking a picture of Sukhmani kaur.
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The house where we had the party at. It was a beautiful country style house that used to be a stables for an estate.
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Sukhmani Kaur and Ashvinder Singh in the court yard
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Ash taking a picture of me taking a picture of him.
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The temporary Gurdwara tent setup in celebration of 4 children who are going to be going to boarding school at Miri Piri Academy in Amritsar.
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Sunday, August 28, 2005
Khalsa Camp - England
Well, I'm finally able to get a few minutes to start posting some stuff on the blog. It's been a pretty non-stop week since I arrived. I got my first long stretch of sleep last night, and am feeling much more rested. I've met so many people and it can be quite draining to talk a lot.
When I got to England my friend Mandip Singh picked me up and we drove 4.5 hours straight up to northern England. I didn't really get any sleep on the flight so I slept a little in the back seat.
I was so tired and was schedule to speak to the camp that day. In the end it all went great. I just bowed to the Guru before and left it up to him to flow however it was supposed to flow.
Khalsa camp was great. We would get up around 3AM and do simran and banis. The camp was very focused on banis and simran as the core part of Sikhi lifestyle. We would have a similar gurdwara in the evening also. During the day we had various workshops and lectures about Gurbani and Sikhi.
I don't understand Gurbani much, so there was a lot to learn. I enjoyed learning and sharing with my English brothers and sisters. There were some really great people there at camp.
I was only at the camp for the first couple days so didn't have a chance to really get into the flow of the camp. I loved doing the afternoon sports, and one day taught some of the campers how to play Ultimate Frisbee, which was a lot of fun for them.
When we were playing soccer it was so funny hearing some of the guys shouting "singh, singh, singh". Basically, whoever had the ball was "THE" singh. Since most of the players were Singhs it was funny.
On tuesday night I left the camp with Mandip to head for the Sikh Student Camp in Chiwell. I didn't take many pictures at all so don't have much to share. I was so involved with the activities.
Ok...more to come later....Ashvinder is waiting to use the computer.
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Showing the camp some pictures from this blog of the sangat in Espanola.
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One of the many Simran sessions in the Gurdwara. It was great.
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Balpreet Singh from canada talking to us about the "purpose of life"
(Above 5 images from Khalsa Camp © 2005 http://www.akaalimages.com/)
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Friday, August 26, 2005
Almost...
Well.. every day has been so long and full of joy, love, excitement, sharing, and fun. So much so...that I can't seem to find the time to get on the computer. Everyone in camp seems to get only a few hours of sleep every day. It has been pretty standard to be getting to sleep around 2am and getting up between 4-6am. Some of the sevadhars don't seem to get any sleep.
This is the last day of the Sikh Student Camp in Chigwell, England....so after I catch up with sleep after camp.. I'll try to post some pictures and stories from this week. It seems like it has been a lifetime this week. The week has been so long...but so full. It's been really great.
Ok...got to run. Lot's to do... :)
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005
Saturday, August 20, 2005
Some of Sat Gurumukh Singh's Pictures
I have some time to kill before my flight and was just looking at some of Sat Gurumukh Singh's pictures. He has some great stuff. A budding photograher :) Here are a few general pictures...and some really silly ones. His camera has some type of feature that let's you take a picture of the top and bottom of two people's faces (joined together). They are quite funny. You can see the mix of two people. It's the weekend....why not have some fun??
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Hanging out with Guru Ganesha Singh (Spirit Voyage Music) and talking about him and Snatam Kaur touring around the world.
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Sat Gurumukh Singh, Guru Darbar and His wife Guru Prakash Kaur and new child.
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Hari Mander Jot Singh (Center) with Sada Sat Simran Singh and his fiance
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Guru Darbar Singh with his super "Pind wale" Punjabi turban.
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"Ustad Ji" (Chardi Kala Jatha's Gurbani teacher of in Amritsar)
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Lakmi Chand, Siri Chand, Amar, and Guru Jot Singh..
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Ready for the Day...
Well... another day has come and I really am ready to get on the plane and fly to England; so... God... make it a smooth and speedy trip :) I really don't want to be on the blog later writing how I missed the connection in Minneapolis to London. I'm sure it will go fine though.
I stayed the night with my friend Hari Mandir Jot Singh (Chardi Kala Jatha) who lives in Albuquerque when he is not in India. It's nice having friends all over. He treated me to some really yummy Thai food from "Thai Ginger".
After all the email requests of people wanting to contact CK Jatha and get more Kirtan, I started working on a blog/website for Chardikala Jatha. It will be great for them to be able to share their travels and Kirtan. I'll try to get some more MP3 files from Hari Mandir Jot today. When I get back from UK I'll work on it some more and let you all know when it is up.
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Quote of the Day
"Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person." C. Neil Strait
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Friday, August 19, 2005
Musicians in the ABQ Airport
Here is a short video clip of the family that was playing music in the airport yesterday (before we got "evacuated" out).
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Well... I guess not....
Well....I thought I was leaving for London today. I got to the airport with 2 hours to spare. I was pleasantly surprised to find this really cool family of musicians who were doing a performance in the airport. I sat for about an hour listening to them play music with all kinds of instruments. They call their music "New Grass" (based on "Blue Grass").
Anyways.... after they finished the music I went through security and was just waiting to board the plane and then this loud alarm goes off. I was thinking it was just some temporary alarm that someone would just turn off (false alarm)....but no...it was just blaring for about 5 minutes. Everyone is sitting there with hands covering their ears. After a few minutes...TSA (Security) tells us all that we have to evacuate from the Albuquerque airport and that there was some type of security breach. They have to clear the whole airport and make sure it is safe/secure. So...here I am with a mob of hundreds and hundreds of people slowly pouring out of the airport.
I only had an hour between my flight connection and there were no other options on other airlines...later on.....so flight missed. I'm reschedule now on the same flight tomorrow. My only consolation is that they gave me bulk head window seats...so hopefully I can stretch my legs. Luckily I have friends in ABQ to stay with (Espanola is 1.5 hours from the airport).
This morning I had a feeling something was going to happen. I don't know what...but I had a weird feeling. Like I was saying good bye to Arjan and Narayan forever. I had a feeling I was going to miss my flight. So...who knows...maybe this is one of those things where something might have happened but Guruji covered for me.
Well...bottom line is I'm taken care of. Though I was going to have a day to recover from the traveling (jetlag)...but now I fly in Sunday...and drive 4.5 hours to Khalsa Camp...and have to jump right in.