Cribbing continues...

Dear Mausam Kaur,

weather.com said that the temperature was 44 degree fahrenheit ,but it felt worse. Maybe it was coz of the wind.Maybe it was coz I was right next to the Charles river. I could'nt keep my hands out, as the wind was sharp enough to hurt. The day was chilly and gloomy.I started walking, with my ipod. (I have been in love with my ipod ever since I bought it. It has been the best thing that has happened to me in a long-long time. I am in totally a different world when I am with my ipod.)
I heard "Ay Hairathe" and "Tera Bina" from Guru, multiple times. Tracks from "Mannat" and "Dil Aapna Punjabi" gave me company.Jagjit Singh, Nazia Hassan and Alam Lohar had their share. I kept walking along the Charles River, crossing numerous exercise freaks and strollers. The ducks in the river looked at me inquisitively.
After a while my knees started hurting and that is when I realised that I had been walking for 2 hours at a stretch! I had to take a train ride back coz there was no way I could have retraced my path.
A couple of weeks ago I went for trials for Boston Bhangra. There were about 20 people who were trying for a place in the team. A team which would have participated on behalf of Boston Bhangra all across US. A while back I received a mail from those guys that I am not on their team!
Holy Cow!
When I was in India I was an automatic selection for any Bhangra team that I wanted to be part of. But here in USA, where the standard of Bhangra is at best, pathetic. I have been rejected. I think I am my biggest critic and I never shrug to criticize myself. I make no bones about the fact that I am a pathetic engineer but there is one thing that I know I am one of the best and that is Bhangra. Accepted that I need to built my stamina for actual stage performance standards, but that is not something beyond me. I wrote a mail back to thoseBoston Bhangra guys expressing my disappointment. To which they replied back talking about how fair their selection process was. The guy who was incharge of the selection process braggingly told me at the trials that he 'z been performing Bhangra since 2001, I resisted telling him "dude, I stopped performing Bhangra in 2001, when you started learning Bhangra".
Maybe times have changed...as Harbhajan Mann sang in the song "Tin Rang"
".....Sadaa na baageen bul bul bolle.. oye sada na mauj baharaan, sadaa na rehndi chadi jawaani oye sadaa na mehfil yaaraan,
kaun sukhaan diyan gharriyaan gindah, kaunn sukhaan diyan kadiyan gindah kon khushi nu naapey..."
I am longing to get done with this application process, coz I got to take care of a lot of stuff...
Regards,
Ajj Kaim Singh