Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Carnivorous cow eating trees????

You gotta read this: Carnivorous trees grabbing humans and cattle and gobbling them up [... ].
http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IEK20071023040252

It happens only in India! :)

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Stroke of luck?

Airtel used to ran a campaign of guessing the score of innings. If you predict correctly then you would supposedly get a sum of [score] x 300 INR. On August 24, 2007, Ind Vs Eng, 2nd ODI, when India started batting, just for the heck of it, I predict that we would score 329 and send the msg to 8888. I soon got a reply from 8888, "this service is temporarily unavailable". I didnt bother till the end of 1st innings, when India scored exactly 329. Now, 329 x 300 = 98,700!!! But ofcourse I can never hold Airtel accountable because of the unavailable service disclaimer!! Someone up there, didn't want me to get the money! tch!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Mind is restless, O Krishna!

It is turbulent, obstinate, hard to restrain!

"That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!"

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Indian Ocean Live 16 Feb: SJCC Dhwani

By 6:30 pm, I was in front of St. Joseph's College of Commerce, eagerly waiting infront to get the tickets for Indian Ocean playing at college's festival. Akshat and Sharan joined me and we were settled at center front of the stage. I paid Rs 50 for the ticket, must have been one of the cheapest IO concerts, no! Actually I have gatecrashed and jugad'ed a few!

In college festivals generally the sound ain’t ever great but IO always makes it somehow great. The set list included pretty much like the IBM show on 3rd Feb, (not in order)

Khajuraho
Boll Weevil
Jhini
From The Ruins
: Was a the best song of the night for me. It was after a long time, I heard IO playing this at concert.
Hille Le
Bandeh
– With the promo of the “Black Friday” hitting the music channels, crowd knew the song by heart and has turned to be big favourite amongst crowd.
Bharam Bhap Ke
Bulara
– IO’s new song. Has a smooth lucid beginning on guitars by shusmit. It feels more of a “on the move” kind of feeling song. Like “cycling-through-the-aisles-of-paddy-fields” or like “climbing-up-a trek-with-a-spring-in-your-steps” kinda feelings. J
Asheem leads the song with others joining in soon. “Bula raha hain koi mujkho, bu-la raha hain koi .. “
The chorus is played over a really beautiful and interesting chord progression played down the entire fret length (sort of chromatic?) - “Per jameen pe, asmaan pe najar/per jameen pe, asmaan pe najar/PER JAMEEN PE, ASMAAN PE NAJAR/……….. “. It builds up like that. Very nice and fluid. I have heard the song twice so far, and the tune is swirling in my brains somewhere already. So it catches on quickly..
Kya Maloom
Ma Rewa
Kandisa
Kaun (Encore)

Parts of the crowd were well versed with IO songs. Fans like us who will go anywhere for IO concert. The environment wasn’t like the recent IIM concert, where they actually sang the opening verse of Kandisa in such unison and so beautifully in tune that Rahul just gave the cue. Wasn’t anything like that here but it was pretty good to see people instantly relating to Indian Ocean. For example, bunch of “rockin” crowd just behind me, were soon grooving to the tune, clapping, cheering. That’s the magic of IO, which you can instantly relate to it being an Indian. (People at Edinburgh will agree for more reasons! J )

Time passes by in a jiffy always in an IO concert. I can’t really have enough and it’s a short concert for me! We hung around for a bit after the concert to chat with Rahul. IO were going to play at my college, NIT Karnataka, (erstwhile KREC), next day. I was initially thinking about driving down to catch them play there. But urgency of work over the weekend restrained me!! Imagine what a pleasure and proud moment it would have been to watch IO play at the open air auditorium, SAC of the college!

Some info:
IO is going to be releasing new live DVD in 2 months or so. I am eagerly waiting for that also to see if my face somewhere figures J
IO has composed music and background score for a movie called, “Shoonya”. It has one song intermittently used in the movie in the background. The promo for the movie however will be the continuous song.
Shusmit is supposedly composing music for another movie called “road to ladakh”. (Unconfirmed!! Will verify)