8 days to go

bank ... credit cards ... telephone ... gas connection ...moverNpackers ...no dues ... house .. tickets ... nostalgia .. rains ... heat. oh god.

the one

Sometime random playlists surprise you! there are so many of us who have an absolute hindi background :) My entire schooling was in Hindi Medium. When I went to BITS,first time I got attracted to music other than the hindi movie songs. I remember how I hated rock that time but this song moon and back from savage garden became probably my first non hindi favorite and then I guess the appreciation for others began :) Darren sounds soooooo genuine in this song. I had almost forgotten this song but for the random list playing today.

I would fly you to the moon and back
If you'll be if you'll be my baby
Got a ticket for a world where
we belong So would you be my baby

This one is for TI

Back home when ppl ask me which company I work for, after getting the answer they most often suggest I switch to Infy or Wipro. not blaming them as after all they are the biggest indian brand name these days. But I thought I can do some promotion myself :) Some bullets from TI's 75 year old history

:: TI is the world’s most admired semiconductor company, according to Fortune magazine.
:: TI has shipped more than 20M graphing calculators.
:: More than 50% of 3G phones sold worldwide use TI technology.
:: TI DSPs are so fast they’re in the Guinness Book of Records. TI DSPs let you download in five seconds what took an hour in 1980. TI produces half of the world’s DSPs.
:: Before TI invented the handheld calculator, a typical calculator was as big as a typewriter and cost as much as a car.
:: TI has shipped more than 120B semiconductor chips.
:: TI’s Educational & Productivity Solutions business has trained more than 100,000 educators in innovative methods of teaching math.
:: TI provides support to some of the world’s most prestigious engineering universities including Carleton University, Georgia Institute of Technology, MIT, Rice University, Seoul National University, Stanford University, Tel Aviv University, and Texas A&M University.
:: TI has enabled the creation of more than 1300 real-time digital signal processing labs in universities worldwide.
:: Senior female business leaders at TI have formed the Women of TI Fund to develop and foster programs to keep girls interested in math.
:: Every week day, TIers across the United States are serving as mentors to elementary, middle and high school students to help them achieve their learning goals.

discovery

well I never liked Bangalore but this post from Vikram it-feels-great-to-be-back-in-bangalore made me wonder if I ever knew bangalore. Funny you always realize the value when you loose it. sigh.

and the party begins

had the first of the 'bye bye' parties in IndiJoe this weekend. Didn't know the place is so big from inside :) good food, great atm. and the blogger pic upload works!!! sizzlers sure delighted the animal haters :) Sarba's antique phone is the pic of the day. CHANGE IT YAAR.

quickies suck

watched a 20-20 game for the first time. asia IX v/s rest of the world.
Dunno why no paki in the asian team. but anyway didn't quite like the
concept. the match somehow seemed like watching one day highlights. I
mean ppl hitting fours and sixes and you expect them to hit fours and
sixes hence it becomes quite a bore. In one day it's different. I think
they should change some laws first. may be remove LBW, no ball for
height, wide ball etc. more runs for consequent sixes :) the idea of
allowing the 12th an active participation is good. that is something
which should be there for one dayers as well. yes. that's right. capital
capital capital. some tea will do fine.

shy guy

hey did I mention that thanks to nitesh I found "don't be shy". Apparently it's from a girl band called rouge (I always read it rogue somehow ) but don't think they have released any album. this one features in 'friction'. Stupid Raghav's foto is on the CD. I don't understand why is he suddenly all over the place. With a voice which sounds like sonu nigam under 220 v shock and a creepy yet another remix of 'kabhi aar kabhi paar' how can he be on every chart show on tv. money money money..

original is after all original

Those who listen to tamil music know that 'sakhi re' came ages before 'saathiya'. I used to love the tamil version while in BITS to the extent that I had the tamil lyrics byheart. Today for the first time I saw the video on SS channel. What a beautiful one. Matches the rythem to a perfaction. Loved the way Madhawan and co appear from the bottom of the screen jumping in slow motion when 'sakhi re' plays. and the autum background. phew. lovely.

no pipe dream this

pipe dream here and pipe dream there. Though I knew what the phrase is all about I wanted to know from where it comes. it's my nature. I had once seen a movie on TV with this name where a plumber plays the role of the director. very good movie. tells us how we ignore these lil ppl like plumbers who work for us. In our context I guess security guards will be more apropriate. Here and there you will find one going abt his job and I am sure we never give them a second look. anyway so I was behind pipe dream.of course I did a google search on it and bang came a site phrases.org.uk or something like that. never knew such site exists which lets you know all about the origins and meanings of phrases! to ab raaz khulega sabka. lekin google nahi hota to hamara kya hota?

brother justin! where is the kid?

hey I am moving to NOIDA in a couple of weeks. so close to home. Hopefully I will be able to visit the good ol sleepy town every month. next couple of weeks are gonna be hectic. making sure I visit all the near and dear ones here. treats to all the unlucky souls still stuck here :) hopefully my departure will ease the congestion.

and this one for g/d p. life is such a rat race.

Show me the meaning of being lonely
Is this the feeling I need to walk with
Tell me why I can’t be there where you are
There’s something missing in my heart

So many words for the broken heart
It’s hard to see in a crimson love
So hard to breathe
Walk with me, and maybe
Nights of light so soon become
Wild and free I could feel the sun
Your every wish will be done
They tell me

Life goes on as it never ends
Eyes of stone observe the trends
They never say forever gaze
Guilty roads to an endless love
There’s no control
Are you with me now
Your every wish will be done
They tell me

There’s nowhere to run
I have no place to go
Surrender my heart, body and soul
How can it be you’re asking me to feel the things you never show

The Garuda Mall

This one is just like the ones in the US in all the ways. Big malls in Bangalore be it the Forum or the Bangalore Central don't give you that feeling. Now of course my exp is limited to malls I've seen in and around Houston. The one distinctive feature of those malls is the 'Indian Thadi'. Small corner shops near elevators mostly run by folks from this sub continent. Another is the corner food joints. Designer shops are the other attraction. Even Shopper's stop which has shifted to this mall wears a different look. There is a very good shoe store with all the brands under one roof :) Mittal Saab's immediately declared upon entering the shop 'agar yahaan nahi mila to bhool ja'. Apparently I found out sometimes back that I am very very choosy abt my shoes. The last time I bought them was a year ago and I hunted for them for nearly 3-4 months looking into every shop everywhere. This time though since I was aware of my 'state' I inadvertantly started to like almost every shoe I saw and in the end bought a pair of adidas which looked very similar to the skechers that I have. Ever since I heard their new punch line 'impossible is nothing' I wanted to buy an adidas pair. So now that I have the right gear I should start sailing for something better than impossible. hmmm. how abt Kim Possible :)

The Sunidhi Chauhan show.

mast, sajana ve sajna(chameli), aisa jadoo daala re(khakee), tauba tauba ishk(kaal), tere ishk ki deewangi(ab tak, I guess), dhoom machale dhoom. every one of these songs can get your feet tapping in no time and it's just a small set of all the great songs she has sung in her lil career so far. I have been following it from the very beginning. from meri aawaj suno's tearful final, from her 'era gera natthu khaira' days till today. So there was no doubt in my mind when I saw the hoarding announcing her show on 4th June in Palace grounds that I'll be there no matter what. Anticipating a lot of crowd and rains I wanted to go with 'safe' partners ;) but my flatmate who's an equally ardent fan of her backed off siting the interview for MS on monday. Then I called gaga in the middle of the nite which is the only good time if you need a favor and surprizingly I got two instead of one partner :) Three years in Bangalore and this was the first live show I was going to attend in the palace grounds. In the end there were four of us and we reached the venue dot on time to find it empty :( one hour of waiting and chatting and 'pata'oing security guards to allow us into the better segment since there were so few people only to find that these private guards are the most honest ppl in India. of course in the end we managed to get in there with just a lil over 3000 ppl in my estimate. the organizers didn't obviously advertise the event properly or bangaloreans are too 'angrez' or they hate rains, whatever, we had a blast. I still have a sour throat due to all the shouting I did and I love it when people in front don't turn your necks but instead take it from there :) I was really thankful to the organizers since such a lil crowd made it my type of show with all the fun and no hastle. and believe it or not the moment she went off the stage it started to rain! but we sped ahead of the clouds and were able to come home quite dry!!!

cable and wireless

Finally my cablewalla became meherbaan on us and resumed our cable connection. yeah for the last couple of weeks we have been living cableless. not even the good ol DD1 to watch. by the way during my recent stay at home back in Rajashthan I watched DD1 a lot and realized how down to earth their programs still are. Actually many of them are the old shows they are retelecasting but they are wonderful to watch.
So being cablefull on a federer-nadal semi day was really fortunate. But I watched the game for the first two sets only thinking federer is back aur ab nadal ko dhool chata hi dega only to be surprized today by the news of a Nadal win!
Also was able to watch remix after a long time. star one is so cool to watch. Though I must complain that devil's own without the cream and the beans is just another cold coffee.well said.
Above all my fav shows from the disney are all available. Must go back home early to watch KP in action and Lizzy-miranda-gordo in another mix up :)

Please no rains tonite. plz plz plz.

smith

when I could not think of a sane title I said to myself this could only be me. whenever I hear me me and me with after a gap me too agent smith comes to the mind hence the title. but there is more to only me which I find difficult to explain. one day, some day it'll occure to me and then it will no longer be only me but everyone else. Only problem is what if even then it becomes only me.