I finally sat down and recorded one of my arrangements for the piano. This is the piano version I did for the song “Jeena Yahan Marna yahan” from the movie Mera Naam Joker… The song was sung by Mukesk, music by Shankar Jaikishan. one of my all time favourate songs!
Jeena Yahan Marna Yahan
The result of an awesome landscape and some photoshop…
The Sun setting on 2008
Sunset at the resort
silhoutte
The entrance to the St. Xaviers Church
Suspended Animation
Every 5.6 years, an unseen companion crosses in front of a 10.8-magnitude star in the constellation Cepheus, making it dim for a few weeks. The next eclipse of this star, known as EE Cephei, is expected in mid-January 2009. But because these dimmings are leisurely affairs, the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) urges experienced amateurs to start monitoring the star right now, and to continue through the end of February.
An interval of years between minima is unusually long for a star system of this type. But more intriguing is the fact that successive fadings of EE Cephei over the past half century have not been carbon copies of one another. Sometimes the star becomes just half as bright as normal, and other times it fades by a factor of five! And the light curve sometimes has kinks in it, hinting the companion may not even be round.
What could the mystery companion be? “It’s probably a small, cool star or close binary surrounded by a dust torus, kind of a cosmic doughnut,” says the AAVSO’s Mike Simonsen. In his blog athttp://simostronomy.blogspot.com/2008/12/mystery-star.html, he tells the history of this star and suggests models that could explain the light-curve changes. But there’s a chance the light curve in early 2009 will deviate in some new way, upsetting the apple cart again.
EE Cephei lies 1.5° southwest of 4.2-magnitude Epsilon (ε) Cephei, where it marks the easternmost corner of a distinctive trapezoid of 11th-magnitude stars spanning less than 4 arcminutes. The variable lies at right ascension 22h09m 22.8s, declination +55° 45′ 24″ (equinox 2000.0).
Simonsen’s blog includes a link to AAVSO finder charts for EE Cephei. Once there, enter “EE CEP” (without quotes) in the box for the name of the star.
If you received this AstroAlert by e-mail, be sure to check the online versionhere for possible corrections or updates.
I was just browsing YouTube and came across this…I wish I could play like this man…crazy stuff…shit
I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music.”
-George Eliot
How often, on ordinary days, those dull black and white keys become extraordinarily vibrant and magnetizing. How frequently do those strings on your friend’s guitar long to produce sweet music right out of the mind of the player. The melody is always there, you just need to find it. Be it a lush green meadow in spring or a lonely tree on a mountain, everything has a certain explicit music to it. It is a pity that only some develop that ability to find that melody, that never-ending soundtrack tailor made for a movie, a movie called life, and a greater pity that only a minute fraction of them actually understand it. Agreed, it is pretty difficult to understand how music, rather trivial in most of our lives, could influence and inspire the events that take place in your life, and the lives of all the people around you.
When music becomes a part of your life, beautiful things happen. You start supplementing your vision with the pleasant notes of nature, adding that favorite symphony to the tranquility of the Kashmir valley, or maybe overlay the latest simple plan punk rock single on being scolded upon by parents. Now, that makes life a bit more interesting…eh!
Hoping for a musical life henceforth.
What if?
What if I told you that every human, every single one of us were adopted! Brace yourself ‘cause I am going to do just that. To put forward my idea, I ask you one commonsensical question, the answer to which you ought to know. What is the name of our parent Galaxy?
The Milky Way, you say…
I guess when u start off with a score of 6/20, it shows…well I thought Physics was tough, but BET…with BET tough has reached a whole new high…it never stops suprising me. Just when…Just when you start getting the hang of it…u actually start getting correct answers…it’ll come up with this wierd question from hell, which no matter what happens will not get solved. BET is like this first person shooter game which in order to par you need to perish and respawn infinite number of times…
I have an aim this sessional…to Bite BET in the ass and pass…but will I succeed in my aim…will BET kneal to my actions…Only time will tell… For the time being…
It’s funny how sometimes things work out the way you want them to. With Revels (MIT’s own cultural fest) scheduled, we were all excited about it. The area of interest was the small and rather unknown competition of Lights, Camera and Action. The entry to the competition was supposed to be a 5 min video responce to an English/Hindi song. A couple of friends from my corridor and I, started the process of making the video which including coming up with a list of songs, developing the story, writing the storyboard shooting and then finally my favorite part…Editing. As the month drew on, everyone started losing hope in our idea and slowly forgot about it, however much I tried to remind them.
Disappointed, I dismissed them and forgot about the whole thing. Coincidentally, on the night before the competition, my good friend Ravi comes up to me and asks me whether I know how to edit…He tells me about some people wanting someone who can edit videos…so I reluctantly say yes as I don’t knw those people and I finally end up editing all night sitting at the Archi foyer…I although cannot deny the fact that I had fun…
So the end product lies below, check it out…
Hey, so…I’ve been busy.
The past few weeks I have had the lowest amount of sleep ever…I have been goofing around a lot…
As I have decided to help out the astronomy club (decision accompanied by a fair amount of interest for that subject), I had to finish my share of work for the workshop. I was to help finish the play that everyone had put up at the workshop on the last the prior to the Night Sky watching session which was tragically cancelled due to unwanted cloud cover.
The astronomy club workshop gave way to the revels where we saw a lot of enthusiastic participation, although not enough to change my view on manipal culture where the aim in everyone’s life seems to tend towards getting drunk and wasted…no offence…
Anyways, the western Battle of the Bands was gut busting as a handful of the bands that participated were actually good. All hail Sandmonkey…
Also, Sanchit, a good friend of mine, was also bassing for a first-year band I had all the more reason to go see the gig…which turned out to be the best evening out of the four revels threw at us.
The following day I had to accompany Atul Pandey on the Keyboard…we were playing a popular hindi song called Toh Phir Aao…we rocked and came third…
The night of the next day I spent editing one of the entries to Lights camera action which ended up second in the competition…
what else….
I am sitting right now at home, in Delhi passing time writing a blog post after a long time….
And I think I am gonna crash cause the night is getting to me
Goodnight…
Engadget…posted this…
“Rest assured, we’ve seen some wicked frickin’ lasers in our day, but apparently, even the two-kilowatt rendition that heats coffee in mere seconds can’t hold a candle
ray of light to HERCULES. Intentionally named in all caps by University
of Michigan gurus in order to highlight its awesomeness, said laser
contains 300 terawatts of power (or 300 times the capacity of the
entire US electricity grid) and could “help scientists develop better
proton and electron beams for radiation treatment of cancer.” Still, we
can’t help but conclude with UMich’s own description of this
masterpiece: “If you could hold a giant magnifying glass in space and
focus all the sunlight shining toward Earth onto one grain of sand,
that concentrated ray would approach the intensity of [HERCULES].” Damn.”
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