to the moon and back

You know I noticed a funny thing today while listening to the song 'to the moon and back' by Savage Garden. The thing is most english songs use 'vocals' to take the song at the stage from where the instrumental can take off. So they end in a long instrumental section. While Hindi songs are just the opposite. They use instruments to take the song from where the vocals can take off. So they end always in vocals. hmmmmmm

btw here is the song ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uhdajt0C1sE

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I got a reject from google adsense since this blog has not been active for past six months. aaaaaaaa

Nu Look

Yup. Back to the flashy layout. Added two gadgets too one for the vids and one for the news both related to the title.

Finally WANTED is released here

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I don't know why some movies still take so long to get released here. Anyways 'wanted' has some real good action scenes. Though the story is not matrix-good still the action and Jolie makes up for it. Some action sequences are so good you wonder why no one thought of them before :) Must warn though, lotsa use of foul language all throughout the movie though that gives authenticity to the plot. I mean I couldn't imagine Morgan F saying anything else but kill that MF in the climax :)

Reshammiya is back!!!

First things first. It's really difficult to spell his name. Something I just realized. A long time ago Amitabh Bachchan (I am not sure how to spell his name either, anyways) in one interview took his name and made me realize that I used to pronounce it incorrectly. I used to pronounce it Reshamayya!!! But since then I corrected it to Reshamiya (like reshami or somthing) but the spelling correction realization didn't happen until now.

So well after a long break dude is back sans the cap. So far I have heard three songs from his new movie Karzzz. Let's talk about the first one 'Lut Jaun'. I first heard it on FM. The underlying tone continues all through the song. That's uniq and gutsy. To keep it on all through.
But then looping is what makes Himesh so hummbale. This repetition is why we can't get the damn song out of our minds. They just get imprinted there due to the bombardment.
So he's done that to the extreme in this song. The main theme tone just goes on and on and on. He tops it with Aaaalaaaaps and they are real nice too. Then the song begins and my favorite drums come into the picture! Himesh is a master when it comes to using the drums and building the composition. In the end I love this song. As of now that is. I am sure I'll get sick of it. But as of now this song rox.
The second song is all over the network. Hari om hari om hari om om. With the fake accent. This one's ok. Very similar to so many other hits of his.
The last one is the remake of Ik Haseena Thee. Man he's messed this song. The guitar is good but rest all is crap. The gaps in 'us gali men' 'mera aanaa' 'jaanaa tha' are essential. They create the tension that's the soul of this song. oh he has so messed this one up. Anyways. Lut jaun lut jaun lut jaun is good.

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customer is not always right

Found this hilarious blog which has n number of entries on misbehaving customers. Not always funny but very insightful if you want to know the typical American customers.

http://notalwaysright.com

what a perfect day

Nice weather today.

Bachna E Haseenon

What a song what a song dot com.

I really love the use, the grand use of trumpet in this song. I never liked the original but this remix is fantastic and I am making everyone listen to this song when I am driving these days :) But the video sucks man. The dance is such a let down.
but what a song. apni ada hai yaron se juda ...

time is illusion

lunch time doubly so.
so my last post was on 42. I have not only read the book twice since but also heard the complete BBC radio series and watched the movie. I understand now how different characters behave differently in the different versions or behave the same for entirely different reasons. no wonder it's now one of my fav books. HHGG rocks.

42

I was reading answers to the famous question "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD???" by famous people on the site www.infiltec.com
one of the answer was 42. which made no sense so I asked google baba and what an answer I got. Sometimes it's difficult to judge if a discussion is plain stupid random talk or awesome amazing MIT stuff. forty two

nerd score

I should apply to MIT :)

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Rang De Basanti : A ghost post by Suka

I must categorically opine that RDB can indeed be viewed as a "coming of age" of Indian cinematics. The juxtaposition of past against present, of the increasing capillarity of the all-pervasive McDonaldization of Indian cultures (as indeed is the case with most "third world" cultures) versus the inner voice within us which cries out to be heard and which thirsts to hold on until Kingdom Come to our once-glorious past, is captured in RDB in a new paradigm, with a new vibrancy, and is indeed reflective of the essence of "Traditional Hindustan" versus "Modern India". RDB is, in some ways, a "tipping point", not just for the petty fiefdoms and narrow bylanes of Bollywood, but indeed of the present era of our nation, where the pull of sartorial splendour and "Lingua Anglicia" prevades over time-bound feelings - feelings which are now perhaps no more than misty myths of memory which will fade in due course and, like all things noble and commendable, will get washed away in the ever-shifting sands of time.

To pose a counter-argument I would declaim, with equal vehemence, that RDB has indeed viewed a plethora of weighty topics through a very narrow prism. The ominscient "Mediafication" of society, the impact of cultural anarchy and rootlessness among our susceptible youth, and of the entire concept of "patriotism" - or more accurately, "nationalism" - is the bottomline thrust of the movie. And how is this thrust achieved? In the process, the director undertakes the mission of glorifying the mirrors that the various facets of media keep reflecting to us, nay to our inner selves. Is this aggrandization necessary? Is it even desirable? Are we now so insular unto ourselves and so out of touch with our feelings that we have lost the ability to introspect and instead need external stimuli - in the form of a typically brazen and biased media - to understand our Ego as opposed to our falsified Id? Perhaps not, as the author so eloquently (though not succintly, alas) phrases it. In any case, a counter-view to every mode of expression is a welcome indicator of a democracy which is inclusive and virile; and in leveraging his indenible right to expression, the author has done no mean disservice to the land of the birth of his forefathers - which is indeed, in itself, in isolation, a patriotic act!

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this is it

no turning back from here. leaving for home today. off to a three week vacation then. zindagi aa raha hun men.

seven things : tagged by srini

Thought I'd complete it before I go off. maybe my list'll change when I return. we shell see, no?

Seven things I would like to do before I die
1. Visit angkor-vat in cambodia
2. start a firm
3. learn Arabic
4. ransack THE tour operator's office
5. learn to whistle the real loud finger in the mouth one
6. learn rock-n-roll
7. read or listen to Shrimad-Bhagwat.

Seven things I can do...
1. play guitar
2. play harmonium
3. listen to ANY kind of music
4. drink water. lots of it. really lots.
5. eat gulab-jamun with curd
6. read lord of the rings along with the hobbit.
7. watch DDLJ

Seven things I cannot do...
1. play cricket
2. play cards
3. listen without reasoning
4. drink pineapple juice and eat karela
5. calculate and keep accounts.
6. read poems.
7. tell jokes.

Seven things I say the most
1. why
2. holi mari kombs
3. burrrr
4. switch apok
5. bah
6. raat ki baat kabhi sach nahi hoti
7. I forgot

Seven things that attract you to the opposite sex..
1. smile
2. long hair
3. western clothes
4. intelligence
5. sense of humor
6. sense of dressing
7. frankness

Seven celebrity crushes
1. Ash
2. Sush
3. Zinta
4. Barrymore
5. Uma
6. elisha
7. spears

I am getting married in the morning

ding dong the bells are gonna chime ...

ok that's the song from my fair lady but I AM getting married. The feeling is not sinking in and I am freaking out these days. But I suppose once the rituals start and I am among family I'll feel better.

anyways Srini tagged me.... 'and rohan will answer.' well, that's LOTR's dialog. ob I'll answer.may be I'll discover something abt me while doing so.

Ganguly got selected. THE END IS NEAR.

we are so close to the tape out. THE END IS NEAR.

Federar lost. ha. there is no END there.

18th Nov 2005

here comes the day. Can't miss the premiere. Can't miss the train. Can't miss the call. So what to do??? we'll see. I am not even sure if it's releasing on the same day here.

ok 6-1

well we came pretty close to 7-0. I couldn't watch a single match though so far. but I'll sure watch tomorrow's match.

I love my bike. not a popular one. hero honda ambition. the old model with the crown. In three years I have had absolutely no problems at all. It's always ready to rock. after reading fountainhead I feel like a resident of the dana building.