Weird

A couple of minutes back I was browsing on orkut and saw Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel sitting there on the corner of the webpage. I decided to give the two great artists a visit. I wonder still how I was introduced to them and all the other artists I listen to…well I have a weird, rather unconventional taste for music. You don’t expect a 18 year old guy to listen to the likes of The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Queen and Billy Joel, do you?
So how did I start? The credit seems to go to my aunt, whom I frequently call AC, and one of my best friends Rohit. I started off with music on my aunt’s music collection I shared it completely with Rohit, whose frequency of thought matches with mine a lot.  So the  both  of  us  started listening to those 1500 songs a lot and then we would share our observations and tastes with each other. More often than not, we would want to share the same song and we would end up listening to it for hours at a time. Something similar happened to That Thing You Do by The Wonders.
another intriguing story takes me back to Pachmarhi in Madhya Pradesh. Seven of us friends saddled up and left with our fellow school mates to this crud land as we came to call it later (crud signifying shit).  One evening in Pachmarhi, I felt the happiness surround me and I still carry a mental picture of that moment with me all the time. The sun was about to set when Abhishek(another one of my crazy friends), Rohit and I, sat on a bench next to a lake and had a couple of earphones buried in our ears. The song was a piano solo by Yanni called In the Morning Light. I still go and listen to that song when I am reminded of everyone in Delhi.
Funny, eh, how music can affect your life so much that you cannot live without it for even a week! Hell, my face is not worthy of expressing what I feel, believe me I carry a straight emotionless face whatever be the situation, but I vent out all the emotion once I let go of my hands on black and white…
So be it. Don’t expect me to let go of my keyboard for quite a while now…that goes specially for those who hate my taste of music and what I play…

I love college!!!

Hey,

after a long while of college is shit…and why do I have to face these prof.s again and again I finally got to know college the way it’s supposed to be done…

you know it is the complete and utter vella panti and time paas that gives college the status it deserves…

Now a bit about MIT…well I have come to like this place because of a few intangible reasons…not for materialistic ones that serve the baser passions of men in MIT…my life here circulates here on learning as much as possible from as many people as possible…as a matter of fact, I think I have someone who can beat me hands on at whatever I am good at…Studies for once isin’t in the competition…I have tried my hands on the piano and I was told I was pretty good…but then I was destined to find people who could bloody play 5 instruments fluently and I was to succumb to them…but I keep cool I still carry the same passion for music I did before now under the guidance of a fellow student (whose advice I seldom follow…hehe). This place has offered me something or the other to keep my mind off things, keep my hands dirty and my mind working overtime…

God I love this place…

Think…

Tonight I was just reading a friend’s blog and well he put me in a mood for some constructive criticism…well that and also the incident I witnessed this evening. Well today was my first visit to the police station alone. My aim was to try and find out whether they had recovered my lost phone. As I entered the place I saw a local wearing a clima-cool adiddas T-shirt and siting there on the bench all stressed up…I reckoned he had commited a felony and had been caught. The Station officer who was sitting right there on his Desk called the man to ask him a couple of questions…the man walked towards him and then embraced him in a fit of affection asking the officer to let him go. I found this extremely strange untill I saw what the local held in his left hand. He wanted to bribe the officer.

At first the Officer tried to push him off. I felt happy…there is atleast some good in this world. Alas, I was wrong, after a while the Officer gave in and took the bribe but he wasn’t still satisfied so in his own way he went on asking for more…!

Now, I have a question to ask…

Do you really think there is any good left in this world…or have we become so materialistic that in every situation we have to seek the path of maximum gain? Is money so important that we need to forget the laws set by us for our own good?

I think we need to now forget our differences and work towards a greater good, towards peace and try to save what we have left…

New one from reason…

ok I may be posting too frequently but I have gone crazy on Propellerhead’s Reason…

this is my second song using my romio….

click on the link below to listen to it…

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First Arrangement using MIDI

Hey this is my first arrangement of the 12 bar blues using romio my MIDI controller…check it out…

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This was made on Propellerheard’s Reason 2.5….I know I Know…..it’s now old…but the reason 3.0 CD’s r in manipal…I had no other option…lol

Keyboard Revamp…

Went out to the music store today….

spent $80 worth of rupaiya and got myself a ESI ROMI/O MIDI interface…

As I got back home, I hooked it up to my AMD dual core and brought up the driver installer and now I have a perfect composition machine…wait till I get reason 3 and steinberg cubase installed on this baby….

And this is my pyara sa little home studio…hehe…instruments included…

Back to making sweet notes!!!

Hey I forgot to tell you guys that I finally recollected my Yamaha PSR-280 from the music store after repairs completed.

Now, one can find me in my room most of the time standing next to it and jamming constantly in the key of F…that is my favourate key…I just don’t know why…

I am going to go this week to the  store again to buy me a treat…a USB MIDI interface to add that sampler and pitch wheel to add a little more bluesy feeling to the 12 bar blues in F Maj….

Now that sounds cool blue won’t you agree?

Welcome 2008!!!

Hey so my first post in the new year…

Odd time u think eh…

well I am not such party person more of a party pooper…

so sitting at home all night trying to figure out what to do…

So I pick up greasemonkey and start downloading scripts…

New Year’s Eve and what are we doing…

Ok so we are about to bid farewell to 2007 and welcome 2008 with all it’s resolutions…

Meanwhile…

I stand waiting here at home for the Auto Expo ‘08…waiting for those golden business passes to go see what the greatest minds in the world have cooked up for me…not to mention the star attraction TATA’s 1 lakh car…thats is precicely $2,536.13 .

Also owing to the fact that India is growing at a rapid pace and a lot of foreign car-makers are ready to explore the untouched market for sports and luxury cars…hence the other attraction of carbon-fibre beauties sitting in the halls of Pragati Maidan.

I hope this years expo is up to my expectations…

Looking forward to a day of fun with friends…

Venuvain Lightning

Venus recently joined the club of planets with electrically active atmospheres, namely Earth, Jupiter and Saturn. The lightning on Venus is peculiar in a way that unlike Earth, where lightning takes place due to water clouds, the cause for lightning on Venus are the clouds of Sulphuric Acid(H2SO4) which fill the planet’s atmosphere.

The discovery is very important as lightning is one of the factors that drives planetary chemistry. Also, Venus being a planet with extreme pressures and temperatures, electrical discharge allows the breaking of molecules into fragments and therefore unexpected compounds sprout in the atmosphere.

The findings were reported after the Venus express spacecraft mission collected data using the on-board magnetometer for 2 minutes everyday for the period when the spacecraft was closest to the planet. The magnetometer was provided by the Space Research Institute in Graz, Austria. Another mission scheduled to arrive at the planet is the Japanese mission named the Venus Climate Orbiter(a.k.a. Planet-C) will reinforce the findings of its predecessor.

Despite stark new discoveries, Venus retains its status for being devilish and one should keep the idea of a holiday there out of the sane human mind.