Man..Life at home is different with continuous music in the background. No wonder I can't pat myself enough on my back for my decision to buy that CD MAN at last....Thanks to lesser work in TCS and a renewed interest in reading..I rush home to get hold of any piece of literature(The Hindu qualifies for this as well;)) hidden motive being - listen to the amazin music that I play on the CD Man....It used to be walk man before...but the continuity and quality has improved since Walk became CD....;)
Bryan Adams with his "Cloud Number Nine...", "The only thing that looks good on me", "Inside Out" etc and ofcourse "Summer of 69" is high on my playlist....
As far as Rajaa is concerned...there are some 120 songs from the 80s that are all Beauties...some chupaa rustums that I look for being..."Pon Maane Sangeetham", "Naan Paadum Mauna Raagam" and "Vaan uyarndha solaiyile"..
Out of the ARR wonders "Mudhal murai killi" and "Oru poiyaavadhu sol" were recent addictions...
Comin to Latest stuff...My respect and awe for Vidyasagar is growin by the day...Man
that "Vizhiyum Vizhiyum" from sadhurangam is abso-bloody-lutely the victory of good ol' melody....So too his "Konja neram" from chandramukhi....His "Vamba velaikku" from Ji had me dancing yday;)
Kaadhal and its "Unakkena iruppaen",Kaadhal theme, and ofcourse " thottu thottu" made me realize one thing...Haricharan is the next big thing in Tamil music...absolute bliss each time i listen to these three songs....Taht female harini sudhakar is very cute in singing that "Kaadhal" last line of saranam....
Among other favourites..."Kaadhal Valarthen","Kan pesum vaarthai", "ninaithu ninaithu" get the psycho in me going...Especially, hats off to Karthik in "Kan pesum vaarthai"...;ROFL remembering the mimicry session on singers that we had in Giri's place this weekend in chn....
So much for my Musi-Mania....and my musing mania on my musi-mania....
Suggest more such songs which i can load and enjoy my evenins....
p.s
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Thursday, March 31, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Sachin...Who are you?
As the little master trots towards his tenthousandth run i was tempted to take a tour down memory lane...I thought Sachin Tendulkar must have read "Who Moved my Cheese" by Spencer Johnson...Sachin merits being studied as a case in top b schools as an example of a successful professional who changed with the times...The causes that necessitated the changes being....Himself, his team, his fans, his opponents, his critics, and fate.... Change is a permanent entity and there is no one who is not a victim to change,...but whether all adaptation is positive is a question to ponder over indeed....
In sachin's case, A fast ferrari encountered a small traffic jam in a race track, and had some riding to do in a crowded street, but the changes made to the engine and the car were such that it drove the same way even after the track cleared and the conditions perfect for high speed driving. This sums up the effect of change on Sachin the master blaster....
With no offence meant to sachin, He needs to take a feather out of Sehwag's book and rediscover the joys of batting, that he gave to millions worldwide. Making batting a laborious exercise is a compulsion of lesser mortals, and they dont resort to it by choice, So when someone as ridiculously gifted as Sachin bats like a worker bee, it is a loss to world cricket...
One sincerely hopes and prays that once the self inflicted burdens of the 35 centuries and the Top scorer in world cricket are off his shoulders, he again makes a symbolic debut in world cricket and starts as he did as a cherubic teenager who was a stealth bomber with bat in hand. Setting and beating Records don't merit genius, but delighting crowds and scaring the s**t of bowlers requires GENIUS...and when a genius bats like a overworked factory labourer struggling to make ends meet, One can only pity the vissicitudes of the human psyche...
Sachin...You know yourself like the world knows you...That's what we all want....
In sachin's case, A fast ferrari encountered a small traffic jam in a race track, and had some riding to do in a crowded street, but the changes made to the engine and the car were such that it drove the same way even after the track cleared and the conditions perfect for high speed driving. This sums up the effect of change on Sachin the master blaster....
With no offence meant to sachin, He needs to take a feather out of Sehwag's book and rediscover the joys of batting, that he gave to millions worldwide. Making batting a laborious exercise is a compulsion of lesser mortals, and they dont resort to it by choice, So when someone as ridiculously gifted as Sachin bats like a worker bee, it is a loss to world cricket...
One sincerely hopes and prays that once the self inflicted burdens of the 35 centuries and the Top scorer in world cricket are off his shoulders, he again makes a symbolic debut in world cricket and starts as he did as a cherubic teenager who was a stealth bomber with bat in hand. Setting and beating Records don't merit genius, but delighting crowds and scaring the s**t of bowlers requires GENIUS...and when a genius bats like a overworked factory labourer struggling to make ends meet, One can only pity the vissicitudes of the human psyche...
Sachin...You know yourself like the world knows you...That's what we all want....
Thursday, March 10, 2005
Life is Good- Tour diary...
Man...Spending the supposedly last three months of life at tcs is peaceful...the withdrawal process has slowly started...i have started to dream of life beyond the confines of the crowded cubicle and life beyond coding...well, there is a lot of unknown about my life in the b-school and am looking forward to an exploratory and insightful journey...BTW...
Yeah...I had been to delhi and mumbai for my IIT B and NITIE interviews..and more than the interviews i enjoyed the trips...man..here goes a tour diary...
Saturday 5th Mar....
Alarm set at 5.15 got up at 5.40 and pedal eduthen first thing in the morning..Great article on Budget in the bathroom....Then...Rushed in the bike to pick up my call letter from my aunty's house in sec'bad 20 kms from my house and realized i was running out of time cus it was 6.40 and i had to check in before 7.30 cus the flight was at 7.50....
finally i drove 20 kms in 15 mins...god saved me...was drivin at 80 mosta the time...but all was well...i made the airport after parkin my bike in her house and the auto guy was fast....
The flight to delhi was spent reading, finishing the last 100 pages of "The IITians" and devouring jack fruit chips that chaitra had got from her home town...Good book and great chips...
Rohit (My cousin, Jayant's bro) was in the airport in his car and we raced to their house where i idled the rest of the day...chattin and browsin...that evenin we went to a top college cultural fest where I realized that Bombay was not half as good as delhi in the ABI (Averabge Beauty Index).."Had a good time;)"
Sunday 6th Mar...
Got up reallly late for the interview...was at 2 pm...arnd 9 am i realized i had no SOP...so wrote one down in 30 mins and then read statistics in the car while goin to IITD...GD was more a parliament meeting and managed to butt in a few times and spoke well...
Interview expectedly was on Statistics...did ok and had meals in an IIT canteen...Man it felt good and i missed studyin in an IIT for the nth time...
That evening was non descript...and so was the night...
Monday 7th Mar
Got up late rushed for the airport and reached the boardin exit at 8.45 for the flight which was to leave delhi at 8.50...i missed all the buses and they had to drive a qualis to take me to the flight thru the runways...;) and after a round of apologies slept off the flight journey and was rudely awakened by the pretty air hostess Anne..she asked me to fasten my seat belts and prepare for landing...and at 11 reached mumbai..where my periamma had been waitin with the car....Went to their house...slept and arnd 3 pm walked out to have a feel of mumbai...
was damn happy seein the 100s of doves flutterin away to glory arnd a tree and a fence and inspired me to take a movie like Nayagan;) Mani touch na summaavaa...
Then browsed to post a comment on that;) and ofcourse went to eat Chaat...,and spent 2 hrs readin The Week in a park....Felt good bein my own companion and wanderin in the streets..After a temple visit after months....came back home to sleep and prepare for NITIE...
Tue 8th Mar
Got up reasonably in time at 6 for an eight am interview.and after a delicious aloo paratha breakfast which ate into my time....I still was jus in time thanks to a great drive by my cousin to the insti...Met Bk's cousin Bala there and had a good time relishin the feeel of bein the only 2 guys not in ties....After a good PPT by the NITIE guys and a Nice GD, had a long wait for my interview...Did some time pass with a tvm class mate and a few TIME batch mates...Interview was fine and rushed in the suburban trains to catch Balalee run thru the Paki tail....
Again had a flight to catch to Hyderabad...this time it was very irritating to see the plane do a girivalam around the run way for an hour awaiting take off...Finally wat was supp to be a 1 hr ride turned out to be a 3 hour agonizingly boring journey...and thankfully reached Hyd before the auto guys start askin for dugna lagaan;)
The day had a perfect finish with a telephonic crossword session with sab at arnd 11 pm...;)
All in all it was a nice tale of 3 cities and 3 flights and 2 interviews..and ofcourse ME
Yeah...I had been to delhi and mumbai for my IIT B and NITIE interviews..and more than the interviews i enjoyed the trips...man..here goes a tour diary...
Saturday 5th Mar....
Alarm set at 5.15 got up at 5.40 and pedal eduthen first thing in the morning..Great article on Budget in the bathroom....Then...Rushed in the bike to pick up my call letter from my aunty's house in sec'bad 20 kms from my house and realized i was running out of time cus it was 6.40 and i had to check in before 7.30 cus the flight was at 7.50....
finally i drove 20 kms in 15 mins...god saved me...was drivin at 80 mosta the time...but all was well...i made the airport after parkin my bike in her house and the auto guy was fast....
The flight to delhi was spent reading, finishing the last 100 pages of "The IITians" and devouring jack fruit chips that chaitra had got from her home town...Good book and great chips...
Rohit (My cousin, Jayant's bro) was in the airport in his car and we raced to their house where i idled the rest of the day...chattin and browsin...that evenin we went to a top college cultural fest where I realized that Bombay was not half as good as delhi in the ABI (Averabge Beauty Index).."Had a good time;)"
Sunday 6th Mar...
Got up reallly late for the interview...was at 2 pm...arnd 9 am i realized i had no SOP...so wrote one down in 30 mins and then read statistics in the car while goin to IITD...GD was more a parliament meeting and managed to butt in a few times and spoke well...
Interview expectedly was on Statistics...did ok and had meals in an IIT canteen...Man it felt good and i missed studyin in an IIT for the nth time...
That evening was non descript...and so was the night...
Monday 7th Mar
Got up late rushed for the airport and reached the boardin exit at 8.45 for the flight which was to leave delhi at 8.50...i missed all the buses and they had to drive a qualis to take me to the flight thru the runways...;) and after a round of apologies slept off the flight journey and was rudely awakened by the pretty air hostess Anne..she asked me to fasten my seat belts and prepare for landing...and at 11 reached mumbai..where my periamma had been waitin with the car....Went to their house...slept and arnd 3 pm walked out to have a feel of mumbai...
was damn happy seein the 100s of doves flutterin away to glory arnd a tree and a fence and inspired me to take a movie like Nayagan;) Mani touch na summaavaa...
Then browsed to post a comment on that;) and ofcourse went to eat Chaat...,and spent 2 hrs readin The Week in a park....Felt good bein my own companion and wanderin in the streets..After a temple visit after months....came back home to sleep and prepare for NITIE...
Tue 8th Mar
Got up reasonably in time at 6 for an eight am interview.and after a delicious aloo paratha breakfast which ate into my time....I still was jus in time thanks to a great drive by my cousin to the insti...Met Bk's cousin Bala there and had a good time relishin the feeel of bein the only 2 guys not in ties....After a good PPT by the NITIE guys and a Nice GD, had a long wait for my interview...Did some time pass with a tvm class mate and a few TIME batch mates...Interview was fine and rushed in the suburban trains to catch Balalee run thru the Paki tail....
Again had a flight to catch to Hyderabad...this time it was very irritating to see the plane do a girivalam around the run way for an hour awaiting take off...Finally wat was supp to be a 1 hr ride turned out to be a 3 hour agonizingly boring journey...and thankfully reached Hyd before the auto guys start askin for dugna lagaan;)
The day had a perfect finish with a telephonic crossword session with sab at arnd 11 pm...;)
All in all it was a nice tale of 3 cities and 3 flights and 2 interviews..and ofcourse ME
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