ostracize

The first time he ain't looking at us in the second pic....

Fade to Black

The opening of this song is orgasmic...tantalizingly orgasmic (which might just be an oxymoron there!)

It starts slowly, with what I can only imagine to be either a single violin or a singly guitar without distortion, playing just one note...Rising in volume ever so gently...And then guitar 1 hits you! And while you're digesting the melancholy in those notes, the electric guitar oh so majestic! Like a whip cracking through air, it catches you short of breath, sharp and arrogant! And like a seemingly out of control ride in an amusement park (yet designed to perfection in reality), it ascends and descends the musical track until it culminates in the final, blissful sequence leaving you with an 'ah!' on ur lips...

What follows is rather subjective...Until the masterful Kirk Hammett (lead guitarist of Metallica btw) takes over again...

Well some people, including my brother, might describe it in a rather woeful manner...Whenever I make the gross error of playing some sort of metal/rock/uknowhati'mtalkinabout kind of music when he's around, he usually brings a mock scared look to his face and asks me "lo is somebody breaking something?", an intelligent quip aimed to highlight the noise being caused by the drummer, or "does somebody want to take some revenge?" or "Why is somebody so angry to break the guitar and rip off the strings?"

speed kills is what i'd heard...For speed to kill music...well...
I guess Beauty lies in the...........

How to get a reco letter (the thrill way)

Follow the steps given below to make your life exciting :

1. Let your profs have shifted to a new building so that apart from sanitary and other basic functionalities, the building might as well host a 'under construction' board than the department board (key point to be noted : no internet connectivity for our papachi, dear profs)

2. Let the profs be reluctant to check their emails, by going to old building... (there is almost no concept of Internet connection at home, it seems)

Points one and two above satisfactorily require you to go for the hon. paper based recommendations...

At this point proceed to steps given below :

1. Get a viral fever
2. Have events at work which prevent you from attending to this all important matter at the earliest (atleast this is the official reason)
3. Pick "lab examination week" to get recos done, so that lecturers are away on external duty or are busy in ur own college lab
4. Schedule appointment with lecturer on Saturday so that it co-incides with another "function" of the family, for which ur dad has demanded you to set aside one or one and a half hours.
5. Let there be no college letter heads available in the department...its a saturday and department incharge guy is on leave
6. Let system in department where you are supposed to take printouts, be having no printer driver because of recent BIOS update

Something like whats given below might spoil ur experience...so beware
7. Lady in department might know where driver for printer cd is...She might still not know how to install it so we're back on track (hurray!)

8. Install printer and wait for letter heads to arrive...Let it not arrive until its absolutely time for u to leave for family function...Promise lady in department u will arrive "in time" to collect printouts

9. Do not arrive in time...Arrive to find department locked...
10. Mysteriously locate attender and get department door unlocked...Get printouts on new letter heads and await lecturer to arrive.
11. Allow lecturer to talk on phone while filling up recommendation forms...Allow lecturer to sign in place where you should sign...

12. Keep a smile on your face :)

Krishna, you were so wrong lo....Nothing usually happens like this to me nodu...Its all smooth sailin! Why you would want to go and say something like, "there has to be something wrong with /about you all the time" is beyond me...

Tring tring

A new and innovative way of ending a conversation...Normally u are used to a 'bye' but check this out :D

(Conversation already in progress)

Muli : So what time is ur training from and when does it end?
Girz : Mumble mumble blah di blah

Muli : Oh ok...Wasn't you supposed to get your laptop tomo man?
Girz : Ah no...Klibtz blub glug glug meeouw bow bow

Muli : Ah ok...So uh this....
Girz : Eno ond prashne idde iratte alva? Nillode illa nindu maataadodu, eno ond kelta ne irtya...
Trans: (Some or the other question will be there yes no? Doesnt stop only your talking, some or other thing you will be asking)

Muli : Goodnight lo
Girz : Goodnight lo

I talk swalpa jasthi che.

Stupid fever...

Almost lost my head....

Kal ho na ho

Nice lyrics! (Sonu in senti mood OMG)

hoo...sach hai ke dil to dukha hai
hum ne magar socha hai
dil ko hai gham kyo aankh hai nam kyo
ho na hi tha jo huva hai
us baat ko jaane hi do jiska nisha kal ho na ho

Khumaar

"Get ready to be drowned in the Waves... The first song that we're gonna be singing is about love...There have been many songs on love...

Kya yahi pyaar hai...Haa yahi pyaar hai

For instance...But what we're gonna present today is of ........ (Forgot what he said cos I was starting to get excited)...Here's KYA Mujhe Pyaar Hai from the movie WOH Lamhe"

So exclaims Nithin Raghuveer

And Arun Shankar, the drummer goes "Ready? TIK TIK TIK TIK with his drum sticks and the guitar starts.....




And then I close my eyes....


Kaisa Khumaar haiiiiiii aaaaaaa.............

The word "khumaar" in Urdu means intoxication. As of now I AM intoxicated by this song.

The beauty and majesty of the distorted guitar...The magnificient chorus...The weird but enchanting female artist singing something incoherent (seeiykamiyaaa?!!?!?)...The small keyboard bits in the interlude...The drums going in a swinging rhythm...And KK...KK the man...

Can sing this song all day...Ppl told me it came out well...I'll block the one hundred voices in my head pointing out the two hundred different things that weren't right according to me, and accept what they say :)

Music I'm listening to as I write this post : Kya Mujhe Pyaar Hai :)

Touché

Edit 19th November 2007 : Thanks to padma for providing the funky 'e' in the title of the post

The subject line, for the french nescient readers of my blog, means the following :

1. Acknowledgement of a good point made at one's expense

On a day with no "grey" clouds and when I was feeling like having a "brown"ie, the following enlightening encounter occurred...The conversation has been edited to filter out mundane details :


She said : Whats that?!
I said : I thought its nice...I'm sorry. I don't have good taste.
She said : Yeah I'm sorry too. You don't have good taste.

Such honesty! Endearing...

Haunt

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why __________
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Old love, just leave me alone
Old love, go on home...

No Tequila No Sunrise

Oh and its a hollow feeling
When it comes down to dealing friends...

Spiffing

"God is absence. God is the solitude of man."
- Tuesdays with Morrie, by Mitch Albom

"Traffic" by Srini

Special thanks to kaattu for this very good concept and to his artistic (s)kills!

Past, Present and Future

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A stupid forward maybe? Some nice lines nonetheless....

"If u TREAT her nicely, she says u are IN LOVE with her; If u Don't, she says u are PROUD.
If u DRESS Nicely, she says u are trying to LURE her; If u Don't, she says u are from CHENNAI. If u ARGUE with her, she says u are STUBBORN; If u keep QUIET, she says u have no BRAINS.
If u don't Love her, she tries to POSSESS u; If u Love her, she will try to LEAVE u.
If u SCOLD her, u are like a CHACHA to her; If she SCOLDS u, it is because she CARES for u.
If u BREAK your PROMISE, u Cannot be TRUSTED; If she BREAKS him, she is FORCED to do so. If u HURT her, u are CRUEL; If she HURTS u, u are too SENSITIVE!!
If u send this to girls, they will swear that it's not true but if u don't, they say u are selfish...."
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My life today...Balls!

Goyal, Apurva said at 2:51PM:
hey Murali
S, Muralidhar said at 2:51PM:
Hi Apurva
Goyal, Apurva said at 2:51PM:
the balls is ur court
Goyal, Apurva said at 2:51PM:
any updates

Fat chance of him reading my blog...

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Cyclops

A rather esoteric post this one...Only a select few to enjoy(?) this...

Ohm Shanti Ohm

Just another day in paradise...

Girish is bored after dinner...Even though he lacks the Karan exuberance of "We must do something lo!!", he still desires sommmme stimulation...And I know he'll nod his head as he reads this, he prefers mental stimulation more than err..eh..physical stimulation...

And what better mental stimulation than random chit chats about assorted topics...Tonight's conversation started with him politely asking me to go hang myself using the electric wires running above my head, as i stood in front of my house gate..

And thus was triggered a physics related discussion!

If a man (example me...we spent some time laughing at this a bit :D ) were to hang by an electric wire with both his hands, suspended in mid air, he isn't grounded and he won't die...But why won't current pass from the wire, thru his left hand, thru his body, thru his right hand and then back onto the wires again? A small sketch to illustrate...



Well, I'll let u guys figure out the answer to this one (Girish Physics knowledge mele respect banthu :O)

Well, the gist is that some current does indeed flow thru us, which is not too much to affect us, but might efficiently render an innocent crow quite mad :D :D

And then we went into whether bats are nothing but crows sitting on electric wires and experiencing a shocking moment in their lives...Might not just be conjecture...

At roughly 10.39 we concluded that it must be the magnetic field, around the electric wire right above my head, which was causing all these brilliant theories to be propounded...and we ended the fun :D

Layla

* Dual scale song
* A killer opening on the guitar
* A long slide solo going beyond the frets of the Guitar by Mr Allman, ably accompanied by the blues excellence of Mr Clapton
* The suicidal notes of the mesmerizing piano (sigh)

Enough to make me go ga ga over this masterpiece.

With his hoarse vocals, Mr Clapton usually takes credit for this song and does a fine job...

Here he is on stage, enjoying his music(oh he always does!)..Going at his solo like a blind, doped guy...But he's only human annodanna prove madakke, at roughly 3:35 he extremely blatantly strikes a wrong note...

The expression on his face is priceless! Its almost like saying to himself "Oh Eric!!...Tut tut tut..."
:)

Black eyed peace?

Pay for a punch place...Daring Innovation or small typo?
I love bengalooru!

Cricket

Stupid addictive game! Daridra...

What with our "young and dynamic" team lifting the T20 World Cup (and heavy suitcases of chaching! also), cricket fever is well n truly here..

But one segment of the society has traditionally been against this captivating sport..Specifically, it taking up substantial TV time! Aha good guess mah friend...The moms in the houses...

Somehow, with them, the josh is never at the same level as the males in the family...Maybe they don't appreciate the beauty, the art, the small technicalities or the rather embarrassing and funny Sreeshanth histrionics!

I had a chance to run into a living exception to this rule monn monne...After supplying me with some yummy gas gase payasa, she kindly reported the score; And as I was heading towards the front door, she watched an Aussie batsman execute a rather crafty fine sweep towards the usually vacant fine leg region and exclaimed :

"Ayyo yaaaaaaaru illa alli fielders...Idanna nodtaa iddre naane hogi fielding maadana ansatte!"
(Ayyo noooooobody is there fielders...This if i keep seeing let me only go and do fielding i feel)

Rather cute, what!?

Truth

"Satyamapriyam na brooyaath"

"Bitter truth should not be told"


Too generic a statement...Look for the fineprint...

And develop the sense of judging a circumstance and the clarity when deciding whether truth is "apriyam" or not...And whether the truth is necessary and safer, even though "apriyam"!

Steam room

Chandler : Why did they have to put so much steam in there!?!?!?
Ross : Cos otherwise they'd have to call it the 'room' room :chuckle

Steam with Eucalyptus oil is very good for ur health.
A. It cleans up ur respiratory system realllll good
B. It opens up the pores in ur skin so that it becomes clean and refreshed.

I learnt this all from the the guy who was with me in the steam room. Before the Maruti Suzuki esteemed readers of this blog start assuming a very Friendsish scenario, let me state unequivocally that no such thing happened. For a while I was feeling the heat, but I realised very quickly that I was sitting right above the vent that produced the steam and quickly moved away with a "what ho!". After that it was all smooth sweating. I reaped all benefits of steam + eucalyptus oil.

The End.



SCREEEEEEEECH!

But wait!

The eventful journey TO the steam room! :D
I'll let the car freaks guess which model this beauty on Intermediate ring road was...Captured by yours truly, on 4th gear on his bike at around 50 kmph on one hand!

The darnest things

You might've heard about the phrase "Kids say the darnest things"...
Well, Computers aren't far behind either!


Provider could not perform the action since the context was acquired as silent.
(Error 0x80090022) For customized troubleshooting information for this connection, click Help.

Nothing new for the avid follower of such bloopers, but look at that!!

The context was acquired as silent?!
How the hell am I supposed to get an inkling of what went wrong with my VPN connection with taht?!


Customized troubleshooting info!!!
How can I trust you after the previous msg!?

Jeez....

All in a day's work

Who says work means minimal learning, only restricted to software and shtuff?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_%28food%29

The unnamed feeling

And the cadence tells me that soon i'll meet my judgment day!

So much to do, so little time! (If you don't have time, how come u are writing this blog maga? ahahahah) Is this the cause of a sense of numbness and the frustration?

As I look at the next coupla months and see staggered deadlines, I cant help but wonder about my future...

There's a seemingly aggressive movement going on in our product section called "Build For Future"...Seems to be holding good for my personal life too...That part of my life (already?!), I think, where I stop, DONT look back and squint at that fuzzy milestone with "Murali's super wonderful wi...life" written on it...

Oh hahaha I'm so naive!

Freakin out

I'd envisaged about 6 different openings for this blog.
Make that 7.

A torrential downpour, a reason for lots of women to go on leave and a rather lonely day at office..
Just another day in paradise...Just cant say TGIF!

If we thought the omens weren't any good in the morning (a full hour and a half to get to work at snail's pace), we were in for a treat in the evening.

The rain didn't let up much or maybe it did...Was caught up @ work and lab meetings with sparse attendance...Almost lost my iPod earphones @ breakfast too...

But the chilly rainy icing on the cake came on my way back to home...A plethora of vehicles on one of the best laid roads in Bangalore! There's nowhere to run when the heavens open up and the populi decide to rebel against the good ol' traffic cops!

After having been denied room by our "assigned" cab in the rain, a moment of quick thinking (or so i thought) or survival instincts took my feet towards another bus which was headed home bound...No sooner had i boarded the bus, than i realized that Outer Ring Road was just not Iwannagobackhomeitsfriday!! conducive.. (Thanks to Girish's traffic update aka 91.3 FM)

Wasn't left with much of a choice was I? I had oodles of time to analyze this and several other viewpoints about several other topics. And I woke up from my reve(ning)erie to walk up, almost in a trance, to the driver and request him to turn off the engine to prevent pollution cos we'd been in the same spot for what seemed like eternity (10-15 minutes).

The usual lack of concern for orderliness, discipline or humanity and yelling and honking and swearing was there. At one point I seriously considered getting off the bus and was doing my walking speed math when we hit Agara lake. And lo behold the craziness and selfishness of it all! A bunch of vehicles trying to take an impossible turn and blocking vehicles going in their opposite direction! And as we passed this scene, I saw more and more vehicles heading towards the traffic jam, powerless to tell them to go elsewhere, to avoid themselves some anguish...

As I finally walked back home, I even remember looking at a small kid in a mother's arms and feeling sorry for it...

Gaucherie

There are times when one shouldn't recall dialogues from "Friends" and match it to real life scenarios...One way ticket to hell, almost...

................

her : i love u in spite of all that murali..

me: Some line in friends alla?

Monica ge chandler heltaane

her : i said it myself

me: I don't love you because you are so fussy(or some such adjective)

I love u inspite of it!

:D

her : i dont remember anything...

9:58 AM me: oh i know i know

damn

i meant

there is ALSO a line in friends like that

:stoopeeed

9:59 AM her: go to hell

i wont talk to u
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Its Electric!!

Today will go down in history as

I apologize for my audacity and starting trouble.

Today will go down...as the day when I first played an electric guitar. Some parts of the experience are worth remembering :

1. Its heavy!!
2. The strings are bendy!
3. The sound is Jesus Mary Joseph enchanting!

Although my guitar teacher mistook my rather pained and stressful attempt of Hotel California (byThe Eagles) to be an attempt of Eleanor Rigby (by The Beatles), I will sleep peacefully tonight knowing that I produced recognizable, rocking music!

An earthquake's sound to a girl's guitar is just another good vibration! :D

Dedication deference delirium

Well I forgot what the third 'D' was so put in the first word that popped into my head that started with 'D'

Most of my blog readers should probably know by now what this post is about, broadly :)-

Yeah yeah I went back to our dear old P.E.S.I.T... No block pants, No running to class at 8.10 am but a casual, almost superior air...Watching young blokes and blokies meandering around, wearing funky shirts and sun glasses...Did not feel old though...

Almost every glance at something familiar brought back a memory...The famous prepaid parking area, the canteen, the cricket pitch, the "new block", the lifts, the audi etc etc

Had been there to talk to my dear HOD about a recommendation letter...Its quite simple apparently, the whole process...What surprised me was the warmth which she afforded me...Lets face it, I didn't depart from college with a very flowery ending...Part of the class with whom the lecturers had their "no speech" morcha, Amazingly brazen interchanges with lecturers about internships and projects...The personal ad writes itself :D

But the point I want to drive college err home is this :

Everywhere I went, I missed the people who I wanted to be there with...Walk the same grounds with them that I used to, visit the places and waste time and comment aimlessly about topics that we werent/were concerned about...And it hit me how THIS was the place where I met some people who are still around in my life...Who've made some kind of impact on me...Who were different people back then, but nonetheless, are still around...

P.S : I dono if I got the first two "D"s in the subject line right!

Ain't no happenin no more

And when you wanted me
I came to you
And when you wanted someone else
I withdrew
And when you asked for light
I set myself on fire
And if I go away I know
You'll find another slave

Bad timing

There's bad timing
And there's sheer good luck

Guy@Work walks up to my desk with another colleague

G@W : "So Hows it?!"
Me (tears himself from comp monitor and says without thinking) : "Hows what?"
G@W (Stares meaningfully at me for a while and says) : "Life!"
Both start guffawing like an annoying oafs

See he dudn know that the chemicals inside my brain were mixing up to form a particularly nasty concoction and his words were the right catalyst to make a formula called raiiiiiiiiigeah!

Sheer good luck and the absence of a shovel has saved G@W from a rather misfigured piehole, you know what I'm sayin?

Extremes

At dinner I had the privilege of experiencing the best of tollywood!

One Chiranjeevi movie name unknown other language actors galore

That which caught my attention was the following sequence :

Villain is staunch villain bent upon avenging his father's death caused by our own heroh chiranjeevi baabu...But lo behold! Chiranjeevi had to go and save villain's small kid from a super big raging lorry! As usual the kid is dumb enuf to sit there crying or staring at the road and the lorry driver notices the lump on the road (the kid) only at the last minute...

No no thats not what i wanna comment on! After chiranj saves the kid and the villain learns about it, in order not to stay in chiranj's debt, the villain takes a sword and ends the stupid kid's life...Temporary grace of life from God expired...Raam naam satya hai!

On the other hand I am watching also, a series called Prison Break which shows the rather rough side of things in a typical State prison. In the US. I advice anybody who reads this blog and who likes thrillers/drama series to go watch it.

A fickle mind

Rain

So Tuesday you see, She had to be free!
- Tuesday's gone, Metallica

So I drove for 1 hour 45 minutes in relentless rain...eneega?!

If you have a jacket to completely cover your upper body and enjoy bigger vehicles bossing over you by splashing ur profile with muddy rain water ( :D ), you'd be ok with eet too i think...

And we have a rare selection of artisans who've mastered their trade in the field of music! Ranging from Pink Floyd to Velvet Revolver, we carry psychedelic rock, metal, hindi blues, rock and dancie wancie music too!! (ipod)

(The last wancie geencie crap kinda took the gloss off the prev statement...che at self)

If people wanna mistake slow driving with cautious driving, it is their inanity! I will "discover" (hee hee) new routes in congested traffic and get home quicker than them pa! :P

Some rain water has surely seeped into my brain, what?!

Tamizh songs!

Pudhu kalyaana chelaiyile (en) kanneera thodachikkittu poaravale... :(

Parking ticket

Was unaware of this practice being implemented here in Namma Bengalooru...

Alfredo James Pacino

Well well well...What a show!

The 35th AFI Lifetime Achievement Award show was quite special...It dealt with a rather iconic figure in Hollywood, one whom I've come to adore in all his roles...

What an honour to have such a versatile and varied bunch of ppl come on stage and applaud you! Some were forced, some felt it genuinely...But they all said things that were true and that which mattered...

From Robin Williams' brilliant humor to Sean Penn's heart-warming speech, we had it all. But I think that which made me go 'ahh!' was uttered in a clownish tribute by Jamie Foxx :

"When God made you, He took his time...After that, He took a 30 minute break...He then came back and said 'That's a good one!' "

Hooah!!!

Love Unravelled (The conclusion)

A small series this has become, about love, on my blog...And what better way to end it, but by quoting anthropologist Helen Fisher :

"I don't think honestly that we're an animal that was built to be happy...We're an animal that was built to reproduce...Whatever happiness we find, we make..."


Many thanks to Kiran for posting that link in the comments section of my previous post :)

Love (Contd)

Its a sin to love in this world...

Its a sin to dream of a future in this world... My uncertainty to generalize has now officially made way to a languish cynicism...

Its like an unseen, cruel entity is sitting somewhere as you suffer, holding your neck, rubbing ur nose in the dirt and saying "Eat mud" and laughing sadistically at you...While you suffer silently, under the power of that "entity", helpless, suffocated, with only the pride and the doubt, lingering ur head, of being right...Yes, the pride and doubt simultaneously...

Take this space to mourn all of 'em...My respect to you, cos you have shown great strength...Somehow find it in you to keep going on...Onto greener pastures maybe...

But you only want the ones, that you cant get.........

- Desperado, by The Eagles

Love

Love love love everywhere I see...Discussions at work, Couples in malls..
And Television and cinema...So in ur face! phew!

Here's a small, paradoxical poem dedicated to them...Sorry, only for those who understand and are willing to understand kannada...

premi avala kaanade iralu, preeti novu tande tahudu, prema roga bande bahudu
prema roga bidade baralu, premi edeya sudade iradu, suduva edege premave maddu!

Hallelujah

The first string of my guitar was broken as I took it out of my bag

There was something very sorrowful in that...Even though I knew that all I had to do was go get it restrung... It still responded beautifully with just its 5 strings, as I touched it and maneuvered it...

And from your lips she drew the hallelujah.....

Grrr

Mood : Disgusted

I hate the concept of a woman "coming in between" two men... My blood boils and I want to break something...Let me be clear that I mainly blame the party involved who strays (man or woman)

Between friends who are close, between blood related brothers too! Aah all my emotional power expressed as rage and loathing...I hate it with all my will

The movie "legends of the fall" delineated something like that...My mercury rose...The movie ahead might be good, but this sequence....

If I liked a woman and she liked my friend and my friend liked her too, I am man enough(yes I would consciously like to use the unjustified and cliched phrase here) and have the guts and the strength to bow out

Also not go and like another woman who is already taken...Against my code...Horrible act...

And painfully finally, SHUT THE FUCK UP if I eventually strongly like a woman who is not taken but doesn't like me...


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EDIT ON 4th August 10:34 Pm

Thanks to Girish for reminding me the unisexual nature of this topic... i,e. guy getting in between two women or guy straying from a relationship also :)

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Of serendipity and pig tails!

Before :

Lotsa ppl wishin n hopin for a good outcome, including candid requests to the Maker like :

"may lord fill sense n purposefullness in u"
Probably hinting at a lack of either/both in me.... :chuckle

On the day, things to do:

"Just take ur admission ticket and passport"
"Don't worry"

As I read this, point 2 made me worry a bit....

After:

I received various interpretations of/responses to my efforts; efforts aided by serendipity.

One of them included this very nice phrase : "Stop sulking like a lil girl with pigtails!"

Hair not long enough yet I think

My wake up call

I was staring at the roof, lying on my bed...

As usual...Sleep eludes me...The more angles the hour hand covers, the farther i am from sleep...

11.30 pm already... Or it was so last when I checked...

Tomorrow is ....

Just numbers and words... How simple yet taxing and profound...

And then it happened ... my wake up call!

Some sadistic dillholes (to be read dumb ass) thought it pertinent to burst some annoyingly long(enuf) lasting crackers a coupla streets away... The pure silence of the night violated, their arcane cause vindicated (I heard some chanting after 3 well separated, well timed "dhat fata fit fat dhat dhat dhat ftuss fffat! dhat dhat ......... dhat dhat" s )

Ah Yes... on the subject of unwanted alarm services....

Slipping from me

.... So at the end of it all I think to myself :

Here's the heart of the matter...What's more annoying? The fact that Time won't let you freeze and capture moments in reliveable, physical capsules or the fact that Time itself belittles the moments you considered momentous, after the moments have passed??

Music : Bleeding Me - Metallica

Data sufficiency

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Somehow people didn't get the fact that I wanted the readers (aka the people) to solve this problem and leave their answers as comments.... I wouldn't have posted this problem if it didn't hold something more interesting than an obvious solution

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The fules to answer the rollowing question are simple :

Say 1 if you think 'A' alone is sufficient to answer the question
Say 2 if you think 'B' alone is sufficient to answer the question
Say 3 if you think both 'A' and 'B' are needed to answer the question
Say 4 if you think either 'A' or 'B' can be used to answer the question
Say 5 if you think neither 'A' and 'B' can be used to answer the question (data insufficiency)

Ok here is the question :

Is 'n' even?

A) 2n is even
B) 3n is even

where, A and B are standalone, true facts.

Just a thought

Whenever you sense yourself reaching out for sympathy, punish yourself for doing so....Splash some cold water onto your face, hit/pinch yourself whatever

Sympathy never did nobody no good....

Case in point

Wimbledon 2007...Must be a quarters match...Daniela Hantuchova vs Serena Williams

Serena up by a set...Second set 5-5...All's hunky dory...

Hantuchova musters her courage and her battling spirit and hits one down the line...Serena is far away from the line and lets it go....Just another point dropped on her way to victory one feels, but gasps and oohs aahs in the crowd! Lo behold, cramps in her left leg!! Just another innocuous point has turned into nightmarish pain and agony for Serena...

The chair umpire, some other official and most importantly the physio quickly rush to her aid...She's on the ground for roughly 10 minutes, her eyes tear laden, unable to get up... After that period she is barely able to stand...A few more minutes of furious massaging etc later, she is able to move gingerly...She loses the game...

But only to win her own service game coming up to level it at 6-6!! Miraculous! Her mental, and more so her physical, strength inspires her to get the vital 4 points to push it into the tie break! No surprise that Hantuchova takes a 4-0 lead in the tie break...

You can write any one of the cliched sayings here, but it started raining at that point...Serena limped off the court, to live another day!!

When she does come out I hope that......the best player wins....
(What did you expect, sympathy?? Smirk)

And when you see me strut, remind me of what left this outlaw torn....

TV

BSNL is soon gonna launch IPTV apparently (August)
(Too lazy to look for the link and give it to u ppl)

Termed as triple play, you can have three services bein dished out to you outta one box. Broadband Internet, Telephone and Television. All over IP.

Welcome to the world of (not Corolla but) IMS.

Life

Is like an eagles song...

You just sit there on stage, with people u like and people who have hurt you and people who might be strangers....

You are clearly made aware of what you are supposed to do....You will also find yourself at different places playing different roles, sometimes without a guitar, in front of a piano, with a chika chika in ur hand (The instrument which makes "chick chick" sound)...

And you are supposed to do your bit and focus on it only... Singing an F# note ONLY is ur job for next 10 seconds...Why cant you just do that?!
Your neighbor's responsible for strumming her Em chord and singing the lead...Another is doing his chorus part... Don't bother about them....

Eventually, you would like to create a nice looking piece... And if the harmony is lacking, its only shown quite glaringly... Its just one big rehearsal I guess...Sometimes, it comes out nice and u feel high... Sometimes, the dissonance is in ur face...

(Note to self : Are you aware that you're still talking?!)

woof woof

You guys wanna call your linux distro 'Puppy Linux'?

I'll let you do it...





You guys wanna throw errors like this on my terminal???

sh-3.00# ** (.:3786): CRITICAL **: gtk_pizza_set_size: assertion `pizza != NULL' failed

I'll think you guys are quite hungry and let you do it...

Overheard...

Ah those halcyon days when we used to be naive!

And the type of concerns we used to have were "How many ppl did this company pick last time they visited the campus?"
or
"Why does this bloody lift not work!?!"
or
"He's been givin me some rather friendly smiles nowadays...I hope its MY hand thats brushing against my thigh now!" ( Err... hee hee)

This is the story of life on the other side! When we no longer gawk at experienced "working" guys, but watch mere mortals gawk at us!

Lay Man pretending to have knowledge (LMPTHK) : "So neenu yen software baritya?" ("What software do you write?"...A humdinger indeed!)
Soft engineer : (Silence) "Andre?"

LMPTHK : Andre, systems side o application side o?? ("I mean, systems side or applications side?! " Now this is a tricky one...You would've seen two answers bein fed to this tough question...One involves high deceit, a swindling of such high order that u leave the questioner dazzled by ur choice of words and "knowledge")

Soft Engineer : (Silence) "Andre?" (Thankfully the sane answer!)

LMPTHK : Andre........ (Lay Man Kernel Panic....say something smart...no say something!...anything will do...Just words are enough...OH MY GOD this is the longest anybody hasn't spoken! :D ) ... Adhe Drivers....

After this I stopped following the conversation...Not before I heard something like "No...no drivers...mainly application side" or something like that from the polite Soft Engineer :)

Koramangala

Such a nice, warm, friendly place na!

Bramha kamala!

Nammane gida hoovu :)

Jaane woh...

http://www.wikiupload.com/download_page.php?id=161469

A sad song from the movie Pyaasa in my voice...

P.S : Forgot to trim the file...Apologies..

Lucid Tigers

A lucid dream is a dream in which the person is aware that they are dreaming while the dream is in progress. In lucid dreams, it is often possible to exert conscious control over the dream characters and environment, as well as to perform otherwise physically impossible feats.

Well, what if you experienced this phenomena in a dream where you can "feel" a fully grown tiger's breath on ur right cheek, in a dingy room? Of course ur comrades are as petrified as you are...Doesn't matter...You are closest to its jaws...Its analyzing ur right profile...It sees the yummy cheeks, the ears and other body parts it is gonna relish shortly...And you are looking ahead, away from its eyes, willing it to move away, exerting all possible mental power on its mind to NOT start licking you...

Was very much sweating when that scene was over!

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about. ( :O )
-- Albert Einstein, The World as I See It.

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. ( :D )
-- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ( :P )
-- George Bernard Shaw

(C)HUCHCHU

God is a funny guy....
(God does have a sense of humor)

Maybe he thinks some people don't deserve to see...
(Hoo...huhh!)

If You're doing this to have some fun at my expense, ...... not funny....

Extreme love

How do you handle an unexpected spasm of extreme love??

Anger?
Frustration?
A smile? (masking the pressure within)
Crying?
Jealousy?
Freakin out!?

I think I witnessed many such instances today...where people haven't been able to control their excessive love for another person...BELIEVE me, if 50 yr olds dont know how to handle it, then other much younger ppl failing is no big deal :)

But do they realise that they are running out of time??

And oh.... Leopards have rings and cheetahs have spots! :)

Its another tequila sunrise
Starin slowly cross the sky, said goodbye


Every night when the sun goes down
Just another lonely boy in town
And shes out runnin round

She wasnt just another woman
And I couldnt keep from comin on
Its been so long

Oh, and its a hollow feelin
when It comes down to dealin friends
It never ends

Take another shot of courage
Wonder why the right words never come
You just get numb

Pure Fiction!

Femme Fatale : Hi...u there?

Femme Fatale : This is *censored* from VHS...remember??


(Flashback music........)

Its a routine day in class...The same old stuffy classroom, the same old guys sitting in the same old bench....

One boy wasn't feelin very well though...You see, when you've entered your teens, there's this tingly wingly feeling in the pit of your stomach...And this poor boy had been sadly baited by this angel with a fair complexion, the most beautiful of brown eyes, a mellifluous voice that could stall him completely in his path, and hair as long and luscious as ... as... Sigh! (High restraint exercised not to carry on describing...)

And the reason was that, his cronies were threatening him with a pardaa faash! They were gonna tell the angel of all the feelings that he harbored for her, try to explain to her the tangle of emotions that arose in him many times when he saw her or heard her... And all this in that highly risky time DURING class, when the teacher had his back to the class, scribbling away to glory on the board!!

What was being written and taught meant little to our protagonist...The time had come! To meet glory or to suffer humiliation!! Which was it gonna be...whats she gonna say?!?! The suspense was killing... He bravely cathces her eye as soon as she is told that "he has a crush on her"...........

She mutters a curse under her breath and shakes her head in disgust......


(Notices messenger window blinking and wakes up from his reverie)

Boy : Hi!.... *censored* from F section right??..........

.

Could I BE more....

I just drank a hair from my coffee!! :D

Two bodies, one soul I say :D :D

How True...

When a Man Lies, He Murders
Some Part of the World
These Are the Pale Deaths Which
Men Miscall Their Lives
All this I Cannot Bear
to Witness Any Longer
Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation
Take Me Home

Sanitarium

She enters the room and flicks the light on... The mirror stares back hard at her... It is inevitable that she be there, even if it is for that ephemeral period... Huh! Ephemeral maybe for the outer world... She has to endure this every single day, twice... Endure might be too strong a word, but its harsh on her she feels... For it is all so still, staring at the wall and sitting at the same place, unmoving...

She starts to undress and flinches ever so slightly at her reflection in the mirror...For she is used to herself now, the seemingly surreal and capricious imperfections, created and deleted by her own encumbered mind...


And of course there is the light...She is not even afforded darkness to escape this suffocating reality...She strips slowly, running this in through her mind...She cannot switch off the light once she sits down, cos she cant get up...Well she can, but her mind has imposed the restriction on HER!, binding, chaining her to her spot...

As the music starts to play in the innards of her head, she carefully places herself on the ground, ready to run thru the same rigmarole inside her mind...Of agony, of frustration - slowly building upto a climax, which is the realisation that all of this is inevitable.............

Philanthropy

Philein - To love
Anthropos - Mankind

Well, Google atleast seems to be loving e-mankind for sure!! Found and read this article on bbc news recently...Felt very happy about it...

Now to see it in practice is just the culmination of a very good venture I think! Keep it up bru! :)

Gunan Gunan Gun ....

"The licence includes a picture of a toothless Bubba and a squiggle that represents his best attempt at a signature."

Huh what?! I'm not sure whether this gets into the category of "cute"...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6662213.stm

Weekly wisdom

Things learnt in this eventful week :

• There is something called 'Pain-Shock' (Medical Purists shall go elsewhere for the apposite terminology)... When one has taken a sharp jab, it somehow hits ur brain or some such crap and the shock causes one to become quite weak... Irulli Doses eaten just 30 minutes ago will fail to provide the required stamina/energy and one shall be susceptible to collapsing unless taken care of...
• On sets of movies, the extras(as in those eternally happy faces dancing beside, behind and everywhere except the hero/heroine's spot) get some extra money by doing some extra work "at night"...The price? A meager 25 Rs
• An auto driver driving from 4-5 pm in the evening to 1-2 am in the morning earns only upto 100 Rs per day...The same driver, who has been working for roughly 25 yrs, does not even have a quarter of the money he has earned in that period...Bad investment planning? ooooh huge words...
• And the most important insight of all : Perspective

It is very hard for a person (P1) to consider another person's (P2) viewpoint in a situation involving both of them...Be it something P1 says or thinks or responds to something P2 has told P1...Cos people rarely think about what their reply or words or actions might appear as to other people...

Point to be noted that I am not asking anybody to change their actions or words to suit others...One should always adhere to personal policies and conveniences...But in a situation where it "costs" one nothing to be there for the other person, one has got to consider the other person's point of view and state of mind and respond to THAT...

Needless to say, the whole issue of perspective becomes highly significant when there is some sort of misunderstanding or communication gap...Many might consider what I am about to say as giving up their stronghold, but I deem it necessary cos ultimately what you want is resolution of the situation...Think a minute...Think a minute about the other person...About what he/she is going through right now in his/her mind...Then make ur move...A minute didnt cost no one nothing...

A soul in tension is Learning to Fly
Condition grounded, Determined to try...

- Learning to Fly by Pink Floyd

A tribute

Never ever have I been more made aware of the meaning of the lines 'Life is ours we live it our way'...

I feel To do what you want to do with your own life, to do what makes you happy can be the most amazing and greatest realization of your life!

How close or far away from it are we?! It doesn't matter, because you can only feel happy when you see another soul achieving it...

Here are lines uttered by one such soul (I think) :

"....Beligge Ramnagarakke hogiddvi...ond 10-20 km odaadbittvi...Beligge ond cigarette hodediddiddu...tindi ge (!!!)...Sakkat susth agoithu...Urvashi menake ella rudraakshi haakond kann munde dance maadida hange aagtittu...So ond putta gudslittu...Alli hodvi enaadru tinnakke sigatta anta...Raagi Mudde ide saar andru...Yammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmah!! YEEEno sakkataagitthu!?! Six rupeeslo ond mudde, saambhar......Gowda's black soft tasty juicy ballsu!!

adella aadmele, sir tumba chenagitthu anta heldvi avrge...Aaga avru ond smile kottro...Aa smile eshtu genuine aagitthu gottha?! Full ishta agoithu!"

Shine on you crazy diamond... You, KA-05 EJ 2086, are without doubt a crazy human being...Continue being you...Cos maybe deep down inside me is a part who wants to be like you...

Achtung!

Only Human

Dedicated to you...

Under the grey expanse, in my terrace
A shining star transfixed in my sight
God had wound his jukebox up
Melancholy seemed to be the theme of the night

Easy for the mind to wander
Muse about things past present and yonder
But funnily the thoughts are lucid enuf
Of what will be and what i did squander

And as I lay still, reacting to the crescendo ( :) )
Not a limb moved, not a hair bristled
Everything except the star blurred and wavered
Along with the song this unique experience i savored!

But then the clouds took over
and tried to subdue the star
Bade its time, the star did
And shone again unscathed, without a scar

Realise that there might be clouds obscuring you now
And wise men say that in everybody's life some rain must fall
To me you're just like that star, wonder when you'll realise it
Intrinsic beauty n all n all n all !!

( Super duper P.S : I solemnly swear that I was not drunk when I composed this...If at any point of time, you thought this was some good shit, then YOU must be drunk...

Ok Serious P.S : The title of the post is intended to highlight the asinine, flawed nature of the author (also a human)... Extremely capricious and emotional, he tends to magnify simple events, like time spent with his ipod...)

Spiderman 3

Foreword : I will not talk about the movie here...Do not wanna write something which mite ruin the movie for others...

Instead I will say that on Saturday morning, I was to be found in Gold Class getting restless about why my lazyboy isn't as inclined as the one beside mine... Karan's patience, wisdom and experience came to the fore as he calmly pointed me to the switch that would take me from 90 deg to 160-170 deg...

First the cushions under ur leg start their ascent...They get to ur calves and say 'excuse me sir, we'll take it from here'...And off u go until u end up staring at the well aligned lights that adorn the gold class ceiling...I said out quite loud "I wish there were stars 'ere!"...

For most of the movie, the scene in row B seat number 5 could only be described as lazyboy lying on lazyboy (oooh that sounds quite gay, what?!).... Only during some moments was I impulsively "outta the chair!" as I rushed to ensure that my friendly neighborhood spidey was theek thaak :D

Everything's red inside...Wooden floors leading upto the loo/john...A bar upfront to lure you and fleece you...We went straight to spidey thanks...

Tata goodnight...

ootada aata! :)

ondu eradu
baale ele haradu

mooru naaku
anna haaku

aidu aaru
bele saaru (beshtesht part i think! so simple)

elu entu
palyakke dantu!

ombatthu hatthu
ele mudr etthu!

Ootada aata mugiditthu! :D :D :D

Stupid

I Think I ( My personal opinion only )

- am stupid
- care too much about others
- am good to others more than necessary
- consider others' feelings more than mine sometimes

All these.......Hazardous.....

Will I change? Most Likely Not.Continue to get clobbered and find only myself to blame (Eventually its me right?!)

Running over the same old ground
What have we found
The same old fears...

What else could I debut with!?

Here's my humble, unassuming rendering of an amazing song. This was probably done to satiate my inner self...

I apologize and request the readers of this blog to bear with me, for the following reasons :

1. The imperfections and distortions in the instrumental
2. The drawbacks of recording with a mike which comes with a 75 Rs Headphone, balanced on two pillows!
3. The several musical shortcomings of the piece

Remember to hike the volume of ur ear/head phones (aaaaaaiiiiii!! Please don't listen to it on speakers or something!!! :eek2), cos of point number two mentioned above...

And don't forget to listen to the original once u are done with my halla gulla :)

P.S : Wikiupload...Interestin, reliable(?!) and FREE service :)

Serenity

A lazy Saturday afternoon....

A laptop on ur...well...

Metallica/Maiden et al blaring away in ur ears inside ur mind...

Some interestin docs to be read....

The prospect of Rooney et al and Gilly et al to come in the evening! (yay!)

Onthara chenaagide ella :)

Money matters

Ashwin maga, tum bhi kya yaad rakhoge! :D

Found out about a very practical and useful concept today... Although the University of Michigan chose to name it Consumer 'Sentiment' Index, which aroused my curiosity, Wiki provided a better explanation for it all :)


After reading Wiki intently and devoutly, and emitting the customary 'oho' which accompanies most of my wikiperiences ( :D ), I turned to Google to temme about something of the same in the Indian Context...

And what does he throw at me?! A two-three month old link!! And I thought bravo bravo my fellow amigos and Indians! :)

Then I went to bed....zzzzzzzzzzzzz

Coming back to life

So 4 close shaves in one day (8km stretch actually) is not good what?

Took some luck based and skill based maneuvering to keep me on my bike...
And after the second one, I think, my heart said "Okke! Since you intend on scarin me shitless today, I am gonna stay in your mouth for a little longer"


So quite an exciting ride to Cunning road today....My prayers today morning kept me alive I thinks!

God bless Bangalore Traffic!

Yeah! you don't get to hear THIS one a lot right??

But I'll tell you why...

As I approached Lal Bagh XXXX (i never get 'em right!), and God decided to say "Okai, open the sprinklers now...No no we'll go with max force this time", and I said to myself "only coupla kms to go to my house now...will I get drenched enough??", the Bangalore traffic rose to the occasion and splendidly blocked my path delaying me gettin to my house!! And I couldn't help but thank all those crazy, hurried, indisciplined brothers and sisters...And one song ran thru my mind :

Yeah, here comes the water
It comes to wash away the sins of you and I
This time you see
Like holy water.....

- Slither by Velvet Revolver

Water has always been a fascinating thing to me...My mom tells me that I used to revel in my bath tub (yeah had one back when i was a tot too!! :D ) splashin around, takin my time...And as I grew up, my fascination grew with water in its magnificence and grandeur and its healing properties(believe me I'm not kidding here!)...

And tonight was something I'd been waitin for... Those ppl in the rain gettin all cautious, those extraordinarily long traffic signals makin you feel as though u were standin under a steady waterfall, that coooold wind coupled with the rain which makes you shudder and take a slight gasp! , those cute couples holding each others hands and running as though all hell has broken loose with just a book or something over their heads, that look on mom and dad's face as I arrive home drippin' all over, that hot coffee to return your body to normal temp within 20 seconds...

ahh! izzaaaaaaaaaaalllguuuuud!! :D

What were they thinking!?

A. When they wrote the following :

Just washing it aside
all of the helplessness inside
pretending I don't feel this place
Its so much simpler than change...

These words make you despise them sometimes and wonder abt, at others

Aa. When they thought of the fact that a pair of protagonists, one of each sex, running around trees professing their love in extremely exaggerated, imaginative, poetic phrases could actually mean entertainment and make money...and they were right...AND they upgraded it by throwing in some more hapless, colourful humans cos they thought 'oh the hero and heroine must be feeling lonely and embarrassed'.... (don't even get me started about their dancing)

E. When they thought of extremely irrational, unrelated and embarrassing ads like "bingo chips", "har kutte ka naam tommy nahi hota..." etc etc (we seriously lack flexibility in laws relating to use of guillotines...)

Ee. When they thought two computers should be allowed to exchange "dayta" (most americans, notably one boda genius Vint Cerf say it that way) ..... Voila! Internet!

U. When they came up with the notes and chords and the structure of the song 'Nothing Else Matters'...I've recently become obsessed about this song...Quite intricate the way they improvise on this song in concerts...Or is it just me...

Oo. When they made movies like SAW, wrote books like FountainHead and obtained patents on ideas like 'bar code reader to charge your prepaid account'!!!!!

The answers to these 'What were they thinking!?'s shall remain obscure...The capacity of the human mind...immeasurable probably...

If I could have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?

Stop to warm at karmas burning
Or look ahead but keep on turning

Do I have the strength to know how I'll go?
Can I find it inside to deal with what I shouldn't know?!

could have my wasted days back
Would I use them to get back on track?

You live it or lie it (2)
My Lifestyle determines my deathstyle (2)

Keep searching keep on searching
This search goes on...On and on

Frantic tic tic tic tic toc!!!!

Tritheeya is good, what with Akshaya Tritiya coming up...Nan thitheeya aagde iddre saaku...

numb and tired

(Head bent eyes dead)
........
Doctor ge phone maadi appointment fix maadu
Nimmappanige hosa shirt tankodu....avru change maadi ready aagli, naanu hogteeni avr jothe doctor hatra....

Bari anna maadu....Nenne raatri saaru fridge nalle ide...Adanna tegdittu bisi maadu saaku...

Beligge tindi tinnode martodvi alva? (Lifts head, Surprise in eyes...)
Nange hashu! (slight hint of weakness/sadness)


Why was I able to relate to her emotions..........

:)

Head ek lekin us me bhi headache!

The TOI

Some gifted people have been given the opportunity by TOI to express their views on topics of controversy in the Sunday times... I salute TOI for this very purpose... I think that the articles appearing in page 6, titled "All that matters", are of very high caliber both in terms of the content and the semantics... A very firm grip on the language can only taunt the reader and excite him as he is continually perplexed by the point of view being unraveled in front of him...

Notable amongst these writers are Swaminathan (Swaminomics!!) and Shashi Tharoor... Those of you who've read the latest of his offerings, will agree with me when i laud his sense of humour and his wisdom...

Mental Note : Must resume reading his book...

reflection x

Aaina mujhse meri, pehli si soorat maange
Mere apne, mere hone ki nishaani maange

Knowledge

is power, sez my friend

Today very early in the morning, i learnt what happens to a person suffering from a rather severe case of frontal temporal lobe problems...

It was visually demonstrated, with particular attention to detail, that :

1. The patient must be given only a general anaesthetic..Its very important in such cases for the patient to be attentive

2. The patient's head must be to a side and the patient must be very still.

3. All you have to do to relieve that person of severe headaches, is to cut open his head, remove a square piece of skull using a drill and a powersaw...

4. After this rather simple procedure, you ask the person to lift his/her hand and flex the fingers...

Voila!

The question you have to ask yourself is this: are you willing to take a bullet for the man who killed your son? Does "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" apply here, Jeff? Make your choice.

My affiliation with weird movies continues with trainspotting....

rannygazoo

Extremes?

Can you imagine what it feels like to have someone sit you down and tell you that you're dying? The gravity of that, hmm? Then the clock's ticking for you. In a split second your awe is cracked open. You look at things differently - smell things differently. You savor everything be it a glass of water or a walk in the park.

But most people have the luxury of not knowing when that clock's going to go off. And the irony of it is that that keeps them from really living their life. It keeps them drinking that glass of water but never really tasting it.

Those who don't appreciate life do not deserve life.

A psychopath(?)'s words.....

Static

One word which eliminates a memory leak of approximately 4-5 Gigabytes of Memory.

Rather powerful eh?

Also powerful when it surges from one person/object to another person!

Musings

If somebody constructs an entertainment center, not unlike the forum, but with limited amenities and entertainment outlets, could it be called a 'small' ?

Indifference

Apni tasveer ko aankhon se lagaata kya hai?
Ek nazar meri taraf bhi tera jaata kya hai?

Paas reh kar bhi na pehchaan saka tu mujhko
Door se dekh ke ab haat hilaata kya hai?

Perfection ko improve karna mushkil hai....

I love to walk in the rain....then no one can see me cry

Belated happy birthday to you, Aamir!

What a day!!!

Time : 12:12 AM (Sunday the 18th)

Mental State : Doped, Delirious

Physical State : Aching body parts, notably neck and left leg...Pinky toe of right leg numb


Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem for me Bangalore (ROOOOOOOOOOOOARRR!!!!)
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeem for me Bangalore (Bigger ROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOARRRR!!)

You just can't deny Bruce Dickinson...But wait! I'm getting ahead of myself! For to justify the title of this post, I'll have to rewind to the mornin!

A rather quick sojourn on my Discover caused self to be present in Yelahanka at around 11:10 am! (35 mins I took i think). Ive always loved this place, the calm area, the ppl here etc etc

So once I knew that I'd be going to palace grounds on the 17th of March (details below ;) ), I thought I'd visit my dear friend Krishna :) And such a quick visit it turned out to be! Cos time reeeeeeeeeeally flew from 11:10 am to 2:45 pm when I left, amidst us trying to watch 'Being Cyrus' and our visit to coffee day and the oh so delicious dinner! It had been a looooooong time since I'd eaten so much that it filled me upto my neck! And Krishna threw a in chocobar that I can never resist I think :D Innumerable thanks to Krishna and his family for the whole half of Saturday!! I was extremely happy post the visit to his house and in the right mood to attack Palace Grounds...Thanks Kris :)

And so I entered the arena! Parking...Easily found, to my surprise...Entry into the grounds...Even easier! Just a coupla frisks and I was looking at a sea of people who were united by their love for Iron Maiden! And in this plethora, I was to locate one Mr Srinivas...Boy am I glad that I was with him for the whole show!? Thanks Srini for making this show rock for me :)

Found him and his colleagues gathered somewhere and showing off their newly bought t shirts and sipping pepsis which seemed to have a rather generous amount of water in them :)
And then the painful wait.....

.......

The whole evening could be described as a sinusoidal entertainment package! FTN (a band), winners of Campus Rock Idol competition, sucked big time! But then came Parikrama to solve all that! Oh the violin, oh the vocals, oh the whole band!!! God bless you and inspire you to create more such music and live forever!

Then came Lauren Harris who sucked too...She was just hot and running around stage, which is a turn off kinda...But then her father and his band came on stage to just fuckin kick some ass!!!

I won't go into the details, cos most songs will be unknown to my readers...But the ones I enjoyed most were The Trooper, Fear of the Dark and Hallowed be Thy Name.. And in the remaining songs, most of which I hadn't heard a lot before, Kattu was there right next to me, giving super trivia, and just sharing his enthu with me to keep going!! You deserved last night and all the fun Sheeni! :)

Never have I found myself, without the stamina/strength to sing!! I opened my mouth at the end of Hallowed be thy name to say "Hallowed be thy name" and I could only get till "be"....What came out was just exhaustion cos Maiden rocked sooooooooo much that I remember thanking God somewhere in the middle for having created the world or something like that! :D :P

There is something about 20,000 people screaming and singing songs with you, which gets to you and causes your adrenaline go thru the roof! :)

Oh Well, wherever, wherever you are,
Iron Maiden's gonna get you, no matter how far!!!!!

I was at EddFest!!!!!

The C progression

The C progression is quite a unique and amazing piece of musical material.
It is made up of the following chords :

C
Dminor
Eminor
F
G
Aminor
Bsus
C (again in the higher octave)

Many many songs have been composed on the C progression and the C scale.
Most notably : Jeff Buckley's Hallelujah

I've usually maintained that music can very easily betray emotions and speak to u...
Well, if you look at chords, thats what they do too! F for instance is that weird emotion which can depict uh...this strange feeling inside u almost like surprise sadness or happiness...Its typically a transition chord to move from one emotion to another

'D' though is ur typical happiness chord...Similar thing can be said about G...But u twist D a lil bit and then u end up with 'Dminor' again more inclined towards sadness!

And what can you say about C! They teach u this one firsht...Cos its easy and simple and just plain nice!

So the C chord is a mixture of Nice, Happy chords and Mysterious sounds and music which can make u sad and happy at the same time...

Tada!?!?

So the progression C, is made

Ruminate

Ruminate means the following :

1. Chew the cuds
2. Reflect deeply on a subject

Little did I know

Now I know that conferences and coffee talks can get boring...

But this post, atleast this part of it is not, about me...Its about what THE hell is going on in the mind of the guy sittin next to me, who proceeds to chew, bite and probably even eat a major chunk of his water bottle! And lemme establish the fact that, this guy's humor quotient and brain power is to be highly admired and clamored for! He's just wow! in what he does!!

Talking about humor, i found out that it can be expressed in several ways...For instance, its quite funny for some ppl to point out to the chewing guy described above, that the guy sitting next to him (aka me) has noticed the fact that chewing guy is chewing into, probably quite bio friendly and recyclable but still, plastic!! and make chewing guy aware of this sub conscious act he was committing harmlessly, immersed in his own world.... I don't subscribe to such methods of humor, but no doubt it is quite enjoyable to see guy next to chewing guy (aka me) squirm in humiliation and embarrassment, which let me assure you is quite temporary, nonetheless real...

Of course it doesn't matter that guy next to chewing guy (aka me) totally admires and looks up to chewing guy and would've prooooobably not at all wanted this weird feeling...

NEhhhhhh!!! Then again, the world doesn't run on stupid feelings...

And oh, I also saw a team mate of mine furiously chewing a pencil today out of sheer tension and frustration...

Holiday

Let me take you far away
You'd like, a holiday...

Exchange your cold days for some sun
Good times and fun

Howda?! Really?! Hahahahahahah you must be kidding....

Or

London (Goa), Baibee!!!


More the latter I think....Atleast I'll make it happen...Make something happen...

Name

"What's in a name?!" is quite a popular adage alright

But I had this whimsical thought...And started checking out "name".blogspot.com, where name iterated thru the list of first names of my friends...The names that I use to call them or refer to them...

And I realised two things :

1. NONE of us have our first names,sweet and simple, as our blog urls.
2. All those who stole our right to assign our own nice name to our blog url, have NOT blogged in aaaaaaages! There are some of us who just haven't tried using their own first name (name.blogspot.com still available for use), but for some of us, I saw that the owners have well and truly given up blogging!

There is no bottom line...

Folly...Nice word

Wally mite look weird, but nice dilby I got this saturday...
True, quite true...

Anger

Really really easy to react and satisfy urself, give in to the emotion...

But I learned from an artist, who practices this theory btw, that its quite hard and probably the best way, to check yourself verbally when u are angry. Cos for one thing, with time ur anger WILL subside (no arguments accepted) and what u say when u are angry can make u feel like having an embolism later, when u reflect on it.

And saw a "mad" guy's response to wild, probably unreasonable allegations by another "person" (I will refrain from using adjectives here :D )....And quite generously admired the way he handled what undoubtedly was anger! Way to go!

I am lucky to be surrounded by such inspirations :)


P.S : Sometimes, u need loud music....Really loud music to drown ur own thoughts!

St Anger round my neck, He never gets respect..... :)

Bring your daughter to the concert

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_maiden_%28torture_device%29

March 17th...I'll be there...Gates open at 3 pm...I'll be there at that time, if I can help it...

First big concert. Quite excited.

The inquisitive shall replace the last word of my subject and run a google on it. Reader's choice tho....after all, it ain't a matter of life and death...

Ill you sion

If somebody doesn't tell you what you wanna hear, you can't be sure that that person is lying to you...

Neither does it mean that its not the truth...

Free your mind, Neo
Just free your mind....

Boy, is it hot in here!?!

For some ppl, over this weekend, the temparature mite've risen steeply, undah the collah...

The reasons could be different and shall remain unexplored in this discussion

For me though, it was the plain fact that allllllllll the windows in my room were closed :D

I realised this when I started sweating like a varaha, whilst I was chatting with the Sheetal

Btw, did you know that balarama was ALSO an avtaara of Lord Vishnu?? I must approach some one with expertise on avtaaras of Vishnu...Or those who befriend them maybe?? ;)

Mood : Mischievous, Intrigued

Its the nexus, of a crisis...

What do you do when you are inexplicably happy??
Well, you go out to your terrace and test the newly laid out three seater jhoolaw!

And of course u carry along ur trusted maite, cos you just can't shake a song off ur bloody head!!

And so u are gazing at the stars and the oh so bright moon and u are at peace...Wait something's bothering u as far as the whole setup is concerned...There's no power so its just you bein soaked in the moonlight, the breeze is as pleasant as it could get! AHA! Thanks mom!! For switching off the light which was spoiling nature's extravaganza B-)

Ah come suzie dear lets take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married :(
But you want to know where the winds come from...

And then u decide u've sat down long enough, strained ur neck long enough looking up so u wanna lie down...And as u are realigning various body parts, Mr Slash begins to slash through you with his soulful, intricate and damn melodious Guitartistry!!

The melancholy, the beauty of the music, the rhythm almost matching the back and forth motion of the swing on which u are lying alternately hiding and revealing to u the moon! It is mysterious how, many simple and seemingly innocuous things can come together to cause that weird feeling inside you similar to being content!!

Que sera sera!

In life, somehow, what has to happen will happen! And you just read ur lines and act accordingly and flow with it...Call it a 'script already written', 'fate' or anything u wish, but it is true...Cos no matter how hard you close your eyes and pray for God to listen to you, to make the pain go away soon...This emotion in me is elegantly captured in Robbie Williams' song 'Feel'

I sit and talk to God and He just laughs at my plans (I apologise for the blasphemy on robbie's behalf!)

here is a nice lil post by ktk about pain...This will clearly illustrate my next point about key events in life which make u press the pause button and write such posts...A perusal of the above mentioned link (and its comments too! ) can only enlighten ppl!

Yeah so key events...They can only make u wonder in general and make u think, but can't make u learn!! Here's the nub of my monologue...Learn from your mistakes!? Not too sure that works mister/miss whoeever coined that phrase...

And while we are on pain, different ppl, I see, have different mechanisms of dealing with it...Silence, blogs, bite ur teeth and other such optimistic and "brave" medothologies, Denial, Avoidance...I have also found that shuddering/sighing and ejecting liquids from the body is also an effective way!

Err um...Drifting here!!

Notable notes!
1. You don't have much control over ur life...What has to happen will happen...You mite be wise enough to "listen" to some ppl's words and "think"
2. Pain...Karan's post is just too good! Nothin to add...
3. You relished typing all this crap cos u and only U know tat it ain't exactly crap...noooooo I don't think so...

Good night and good luck and Hallelujah!

Ae zindagi gale lagaa le
Humne ni bhi, tere har ek gham ko, gale se lagaaya hai na?? :)