Good old music

Thinking about the 60s and 70s Bollywood music and Kollywood(this is Tamil movies), many things come to mind. They were made so special to our ears and were really soothing as compared to today's fast paced electronic music. Some of the songs today are mixed at the last moment. Hence when the song is actually sung, there are not a lot of things going on. The voice is taken from the singer and then added into a track during mixing stages, thanks to today's mixing gurus.What we tend to oversee is during the 60s and 70s our parents would have been in their teen ages. Radio was the only form of entertainment then. TVs became popular during the 80s. My grandpa I remember bought a Solider TV during the 80s for Rs.5000/- and then he sold it in the late 90s for Rs.5000/- again. Funny but true as the value of Rs. 5000 in the 80s was really far too much compared to the late 90s. Before the TVs were popular the radios ruled the roost. The songs that played of Kollywood flicks, Bollywod flicks, news, cricket commentary were unforgettable for the people from this era. My dad was brought up in those days of his teens, listening to the classy stations of radio.(there was only one or two channels on the FM unlike todays frequency crowding)

No wonder, he seems to grasp all the announcement made due to his acute listening skill developed through radio in his younger days. My mom, was again mad about these songs during her teenage. She had by-hearted most of the songs as all the songs tend to make it big, as the number of movies releasing per year would be less compared to today's digital world, were a movie releases almost every weekend. My late Grandpa would mock my mom saying, she cannot remember a chapter from her text, but she can by heart all the songs of these flicks.

Truly, these songs must have captivated its audience so much that these songs remain in my parents heart even today. Yesterday, I tuned on my World Space radio to receive a station that I have not heard a lot before. KL Radio, was the name. It was broadcasting old Tamil songs, which my mom and dad knew so well. As the songs went on one by one, my mom and dad sat singing with it. They were marveling those delicate nuances that only they would know.

Listening to each and every stanza and closing their eyes as if the world had stood still all these years. I was just sitting beside them reading today 'Times of India'. My mom even remembered the way a particular actress danced in a song. She tried to repeat making those moves. Just listening to and observing what they were upto, made me feel contempt. After all who does not enjoy seeing their parents happy after all those years of pain and turmoil in bringing us up. Every now and then my dad would say something, in praise of the old music.

I should thank KL radio for broadcasting such gems. Looking at my parents enjoy their good old music, made me realize that some day even I would be listening to today's music. Would I be enjoying like how they are enjoying it? All these songs came before this digital supernova. Twenty to thirty years from today, god knows where and what I will be doing. I don't think there are lot of quality music around now a days that I can reflect upon in those days. During my teenage, AR Rahman came into this music world and completely changed the phase of music which is made now-a-days. I might listen to some of his songs. Beyond his songs, I don't find many songs that are as griping and captivating to me today, forget them being 30 year hence.

(Snaps taken from google search)

Whats up gal?

Crazy as it sounds, I wish, I can just shout out loud and get my pent-up frustration away. I want to do something, but not sit idle in front of the stupid computer. I have to say, I am very much addicted to my laptop. I can go on surfing the net and doing something or the other on the net all day. I want to get rid of this addiction. They say to remove one kind of addiction, you have to replace it with another one.

The main reason for my addition is my blog, orkut (I randomly scrap a cute girl, try to pull her leg), facebook. I have to say, now a days girls have become so intelligent that they don't even reply to an anonymous scrap. To be frank, some girls do reply. The whole reason of socializing site is lost when a person becomes a closed book only to her/his friends. If you are not willing to talk with a stranger, then what are you doing in a socializing site. Taking nothing away from them. I pity girls who are cute and beautiful. They are forced to change their display image to a cartoon, or a flower. As the sex-ratio with respect to a cute girl versus guys has become increasingly acute.

Hence the cute girl becomes a victim of continuous bombardment, not only with scraps but also with friend request. Orkut has made lot of features to precisely avoid such an avalanche. Sometimes you are not allowed to scrap a person as she is not your friend. I have also seen lot of them, write in their about me section saying, "I am here only for people whom I know" or "If you don't know me, don't add me". A lot of them are victims of such "Fraandship" request from unknown people and they have had enough. This is sad, but none can help. This is how it has been and I afraid it will be the same.

Why is there such a rush of guys towards these gals, on orkut or facebook or any other socializing sites? The constant search for humans to find a partner with whom they can share things, can be a reason. Infact, humans minus the physical part are emotional beings. To share such emotions, they are in a wander to find the ultimate emotional partner. Being very selfish, they want lot of attributes in this partner. The basic criteria for filtering out their probable partners goes along the lines of looks, style and sometimes attitude. Being someone who meets all these three criteria means, having to deal with innumerable scraps and never dying friendship requests.

Guys (I am being really frank, not all are like this; but most of them are) looking at a cute girl, kind of imagine her like their future girl friend. They think they have to some how influence them and become a friend. All this to get a illusive partner; an emotional partner to be frank. This never works, even knowing that it will not work, they try their luck with everyone of them, which I should say is utter rubbish. Rather it just discourages the girl towards socializing.

The search for this partner of life, is as good as searching for a imaginary city of Shangrila. Many people mature early and understand their needs and their shortcomings, viz. imperfections and accordingly change their search. Or may be halt the search for some days. Some of them are so frustrated with this search that, they just give it up. They feel, the illusive gal is just a dream. For them this search is worthless. some are so very well emotionally balanced and content with themselves that, they don't actually feel a need for a partner. But life is such a leveler that, it makes them rethink some day.

The flip side of orkut is meeting very old friends through communities of school and colleges or tuition classes and many more. For meeting these old friends, we wouldn't have required an orkut. There could have been a alumni site wherein all the school and college students register. I am not confident, but if such a site becomes popular, then (I should actually take a patent for this :)) may be this would have been possible.

These sites for some minuscule amount of people saves also as a boon as they do find the gal of their dreams. But for most of them it has become worthless. The population of India makes sure that it stays worthless. Meeting some one of my dreams through a socializing site is fast becoming an impossible dream. The human urge, infact a lot of urge has resulted in upstaging the actual need for socialising. One fine day, I will have to delete my orkut profile as it is just worthless.

Hot bikes!!

Thinking about buying a fast super bike....well, I should have been a multimillionaire or my dad must have been an industrialist with lot of money to spend. In short, my father must have been very rich, or I must have a great amount of bank balance that I can buy one and show off. But none of the above is applicable for me. Not even to an extent that I can go for a second hand bike.

I do dream of buying one of those super bikes. The Yamaha R1 is on of my favorites. It costs around 12 lakhs, which for me is an insurmountable amount at this time of my career. So I made an ingenious plan. I really bought one of those Yamaha bikes!! :):)

Look at the snaps...



Well almost got you. The trouble is I cannot ride or sit on them. They are so small that, I just can show off. These are miniature bikes I got scaled down. See my ingenious idea works out atleast to show off!! :)

I got one more bike, this is the Moto GP bike of Yahama and Fait of the year 2008. Awesome I should say. More snaps!!


Now some duet snaps!! :)