Kanpur-Gandhinagar-Bangalore-Calcutta

Check out the muppets(for definition of muppets check out the link)

Stumbled upon this video. From my limited search, found that it's a video from an old episode(The Muppet Show). Also it was used as a part of presentation by Rio for olympic's presentation.
No doubt they won!

omg...I'm just humming this tune now..it's real addictive...
cool penguins...lizards...ahhhh...i love this video...

I go to rio..lala...i go to rio....



lyrics-

When my baby
When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio
De Janeiro,
My-oh-me-oh
I go wild and then I have to do the Samba
And La Bamba
Now I'm not the kind of person
With a passionate persuasion for dancin'
Or roma-ancin'
But I give in to the rhythm
And my feet follow the beatin' of my hear-eart

Woh-ho-oh-oh, when my baby
When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio
De Janeiro
I'm a Salsa fellow
When my baby smiles at me
The sun'll lightens up my li-ife
And I am free at last, what a blast

Woh-ho-oh-oh, when my baby
When my baby smiles at me
I feel like Tarzan, of the Jungle
There on the hot sand
And in a bungalow while monkeys play above-a,
We-ee make love-a
Now I'm not the type to let vibrations (Rio...)
Trigger my imagination easily (Rio...)
You know that's just not me
But I turn into a tiger (Rio...)
Everytime I get beside the - one I love (Rio...)
Woh, oh, woh, woh-oh..., (Rio... - Rio...)
Yeah Ugh - (Rio...) - Ugh

Woh-ho-oh-oh, when my ba-a-aby (when my baby)
When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio (Rio...)
De Janeiro
I'm a Salsa fellow-ow
When my baby smiles at me
The sun'll lightens u-up my li-ife
And I am free at last, what a blast

When my baby (when my baby)
When my baby smiles at me I go to Rio (Rio...)
That's when I go to Rio (Rio)
Rio - Rio De Janeir-eiro
Rio...., Rio...., Rio....

Bold black alphabets against yellow background of rock at the platform read- Calcutta.

It felt like this rock was only thing stationary in my vicinity. Everything else was moving, rather bumping into each other. The whole place was in utter confusion. Somehow I managed to locate my uncle in swarm of people.

I was on a short trip of my dream city. But the dreams seem to fade in the utter confusion and chaos.

Mamaji, gaadi kahan hai?
Bas besta, saamne hi hai. We can drive inside the platform to park our cars close to the bogey. (You need to be there to understand it).

Anyways, the car was just infront and I thanked God for saving me some millions of pushes and stepovers on my foot. We drove, rather slowly moved ahead to the main road. The traffic was overwhelming. Everyone wanted to go everywhere.

There were black colored cabs, new swanky cars, old ambassadors, trams, autos, handrickshaws, scooters, bikes and not to forget poor old pedestrians who were trying to figure a way out of the puzzle created by vehicles. Suddenly loud bong accent voice started coming from some distance. I tried to take a sneak peak to realized that a car tried to smart it's way infront of tram and created a deadlock.

Whole area was brought to a standstill, save the pedestrians. Honks and screams were only thing that indicated the city was alive. And then it started raining.

Oh great! What could be worse in life than being stuck in a stupid traffic jam! We need few helicopters to air lift us!

I closed the window of car partially because of the rain and partially because it was stinking like hell. There was a huge pile of leftovers of food, probably remains of a night party, thrown on the footpath next to us. It was stinking like hell and I prayed to God to atleast move our car few metres ahead so that I'm saved of this torture.


Kaise log hai yahaan! Kahin bhi khana fenk dete hain! Ise to janwar kya bacteria bhi nahin khayenge!

I was cursing my luck when I saw a beggar approaching the pile. He squatted next to the pile. And then my vision faded because of the water on glass. It seems like world was melting and images were getting distorted. I saw some activity from the beggar but it was too unclear to determine what he was doing sitting there. Out of curiosity, I opened the window.


Beta bheeg jaaoge. Khidki band kar lo!
Bas mamaji, 5 min thoda hawa kha loon!

What I saw next, changed my entire life. I saw the beggar merrily eating rice and daal from the huge pile. It seemed like a feast to him and he was gulping down handful of the pale yellow mixture. The same leftover that was painful for me to even see or smell, to somebody else it was a lucky meal. I took out my head of the car so as not to vomit in the car. I vomited not only the food, but my preconceived notions, my sense of misery. I realized how lucky I was to be sitting inside this stupid car stuck in the stupid traffic rather than being outside.


Kya hua beta! Theek ho na!
Nahin mamaji! Bas wo thoda journey ki wajah se....

I closed my car window hastily and allowed the world to melt infront of my eyes. It was a pure bliss to live in my virtual world with meaningless problems. I wished I could do something, but like a coward, I felt comfortable in my small little world. I was so happy in my small-little-problems-of-life.

Chalo beta! Traffic khul gaya. Ghar chalte hain! Ache se khana khayenge!

Still, a dent in my wall had been made. The world really melted and distorted for me that day. I was lost in the streets of Calcutta and in the realities of life.

Dhan te nan..te nan..te nan..
Dhan te nan..te nan..te nan..


I didn't like the new version of the song...accidentally stumbled upon the old version of song....it's mindblowing! Simple song..Great effect!

Enjoy the song..till then..dhan te nan!