Saturday, October 13, 2007

My best friend

Friendship is a beautiful bond in which people share common interests, habits, likes and dislikes etc.It is one of the most wonderful relations existing in one's life. Friendship blooms into an everlasting relationship if there is an equal reciprocation from it's counterparts and for this to happen there should be a certain kind of mutual understanding among them.These counterparts can very well be termed as friends.So friends are the family you choose.One can make many friends but someone who's a bit different from others and has got certain similar interests becomes one's best friend.Likewise, I have got many friends with whom I often spend a good time, but there can only be one best friend, and that is, Ira, my childhood friend.Since, our friendship is very old, so with each passing day it is becoming deeper and denser with it's roots entrenched so deep.
Since, childhood we have been studying in the same class so I am very much fond of her company. We both share a unique chemistry between each other and there is an equal reciprocation from both the sides, so this is what makes our friendship very special.There is such a great mutual understanding between us that there is no room for any kind of misunderstandings. She truly defines the character of a best friend as she is a good natured person, simple at heart and has got a kind and helpful attitude.She encourages me by raising my self-confidence and asking me to always take things in a positive stride. She always stands by my side, be it in my moments of sorrows or be it my happy moments.
All these features makes her very different from the rest of my friends so that is why i consider her my best friend.She plays a very integral part in my life so I can't imagine my life without her presence. Though she is far far away from me this time, I strongly feel her presence and I miss her everyday.

Friday, October 12, 2007

I've become soooo numb!

Yes it’s really hard to write this stuff but at this point I'm so much depressed that I need some space to unwind myself. When you come to a place with so much expectations and even when you see all your expectations coming true, it real hard to say, “This is not the place I was looking for”. And at this time, I must realize that the real beauty of the place is not defined by the facilities or infrastructure but by the people who dwell there. It’s me who was so excited to come to a place where I can employ my abilities to learn new skills, later found that the world is not that beautiful as it was looking and now my opinions for this place is completely different from what I’ve written in my first and second blogs. A fair competition is always good among students to make them more active, learn, gain more and more knowledge and perform well in their studies but what if no no I can't say anything more.................
But soon I realized, that it is just a start, I’ had lost my interest in studies, I needed help, but it is not that if you had been helping others, you should expect any helping hand, OK, I agree to cope with it but at least it should be clear, but...…
I came here with a pure pursuit to learn, I was talking to everyone, thinning not to have a herd mentality, but I was taken for granted. Now situation in the campus is such that students are quarreling like child, no maturity at all and even for a small matter like nothing, they are complaining in administration, and when it happened to a student which has been helping all the students in clearing their doubts, it was really shameful. And at this time, when there must be full-throttle study for coming Quiz week and MGPT we are intertwined to solve such silly problems. So I can see a big difference between the study environments we had here for the first month and what we have now.
Study schedule is out of track and with dying spirits it gonna be real tough to perform well in the exam, don't know where to start but only thing I know is that if I didn't perform well, I won't b able to forgive myself for the rest of the course, as even I have cleared 9 MGPAs i still not able to forget failure in 2nd one and not able to forgive myself for that. But even if I want to do my best, I can't do much but to wait and watch, what happens in the MGPT, but my further efforts will be strongly affected by that. With such a Kaleidoscopic state of mind, in my dreams I'm dying all the time.....

Sunday, October 7, 2007

Western Music, new Addiction

As I said in my previous blog, in my childhood I used to listen only old Hindi music, but you can't always stick to one thing, because life is dynamic and changes are mandatory, if you say, "this is my favorite song", I would ask, "for how long?", because in my case my favorite song changes with time and I put them in my favorite list but its not always that I would like to listen those songs. In my childhood, I saw some west rock songs, those were Electric Rock; too much loud and I had a bad impression for west music just because of those song, but when I heard songs by Enrique, I realized that they are better then us in music too.
I started with songs of Enrique, Westlife, Kylie, Holly Valance, and Sting i rally enjoyed them very much. At that time I was almost out of addiction for music but that drastic change helped me very much to regain the passion. And now I'm experimenting with it to listen more and more players to get myself acquaint with it to a great extent...
Spanish people have contributed to west music to a extent that we can't forget to mention them, if we are talking about western music, even in the English version of a song there you can see Spanish words. There are very popular singers of Spanish origin, named few Enrique, Ricky and Madonna and Sakira...
Here I have classified my favorite singers from west by Gener:
POP(Blue, Backstreet Boys, WestLife, Kylie Minogue , Enrique Iglesias), ROCK (Avril Lavigne), RAP( Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Saggy, Busta, Nelly, Usher, Ludacris n ........), BLUES (JM, Enrique Iglesias) Alternative (Sting);

Here is a list of songs, which has been my favorite listed according to singers...
Few Favorite: What Goes Around Comes Back Around and Sexy Back (Justine Timberlake); Incomplete, Shape of my Heart ( Backstreet Boys); Flying Without Wings, Miss Nights, What Makes a Man(WestLife); Sorry..the Hardest Word, One love, Best in Me (Blue); Numb, Lying from You(Linkin Park); Addicted, Bilamos, I've Always Loved U, Not in Love(Enrique); Desert Rose (Sting); Summer Girls (LFO) and almost all by Enigma, Sonu Nigam, Avril Lavigne, Kylie Minogue, PCD...
Time to conclude, and finally I would like to say, It is copyism that had made our well cultured music worse. People here just copy music from west but failed to just with it, they mix it with their meaning less lyrics and that is just bullshit. If want to copy, at least you should make it better and if you can't make it better, just don't do it at all.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Music, my passion

Music, is the only addiction I got, I don't even remember when I got into this addiction...
I belong to a joint family n my elder cousins were used to listen the songs of Kishor, Rafi...etc and a simple child mind were facing a strong influence of music, no way to escape almost all of popular songs of those singers were in my mind by the time. And I was singing them most of the time and that was one of the great time-pass. At that time new songs were coming from movies but they were not up to mark and people of that time had strong feeling "Old is gold" and I still agree with them as mid of 90s was the worst period of Hindi Cinema. However era was changing and private albums were making their presence... ya I'm talking about the boom Indi-Pop. With the release of Sonu nigams private album "Deewana", the scenario was completely changed, and songs from that album were on everybody's tongue. The album Deewana was a great success and over 10 million copies were sold, I also had become a great fan of Sonu Nigam and he is still one of my favorite. But now I'm little disappointed because he is not releasing any private album. I also liked the genuine work of Sonu Nigam in Jaan and Yaad and title songs from all three album are in my great favorite list. In start of 20s we saw great contribution in both Music and Cinema from Bollywood but we were getting ahead of mid 20s, the charm was start disappearing, and now there is no good private albums and we have mutants of singers in playback industry( at least I can't call them they seems shouting on meaning-less lyrics). But Still don't want to give up.
The answer came from Hollywood, their I av lots to explore, and great songs are there from all perspective, now I'm getting feeling that, how can I call myself a music freak, without understanding Hollywood well, as they have genuine music, sound lyrics, great variety in genre. Yes nobody can call himself to music lover before understanding songs from Hollywood, they really have great variety which is still to be explored, which will be completed in my next blog. However I must say that music can't be separated by language or religion. I strongly feel that turning to western music has deepens my love and addiction for music...Sometimes I listen Spanish songs, which I don't understand at all but still give me feeling of great satisfaction.