Ha Boss...ek hot coffee..aur ek...um....ha..ek egg sandwich...
those are the first words that i utter at MG Road...at the Indian Coffee House(ICH)...the ICH is a nice place...reminds you of the old times...reminds you of The Raj...ICH was set up very early...i dont know how old it is...but all i can say is that...our grand dads must have gone to ICH in their young days as we go to CCD today...but the cultures quite different...we go to CCD to eat a 50 Rs Chocolate and to drink a 40 Rs Mocha...at the end of the day...you feel good that yeah...had something nice...but ICH is not about the food...or the coffee...its about the waiter...i would say that the dress of the waiters wat ICH woudl impress me anyday more than that of CCD...i like that dress...nice ones...and i like the old posters on the wall...promoting Coffee!!!ha ha...they are nice...i like the way ex-service men walk into the place...and sit with the daily newspaper...they have an air of the typical service man...dont know wat is it...but the moment you see an ex-service man...u knw that once they did wat a normal human being wont even dare to...risk his life for people whom he doesnt even know...but i see them everyday...walking into the palce...and the waiters know them too...they say hi to them...i so wanna talk to them...cos i see them everyday...i wanna share my table n breakfast with them...u can approach people for talking to them for the first time only in ICH...not in CCD..never never can you do that in CCD...and if you are of the opp sex...then thats it...the person will think that you are hitting on them...and as they say---"a lot more can happen over coffee"!!!there are many frequent visitors at ICH...like theres this one girl..must be in 2nd or 3rd year of college...she comes there everyday...takes out a novel...n reads it with enormous amount of concentration...n then orders the same order...omelette n coffee...then her friend comes...she talks to her...sips her coffee and then goes away...the others change...new people come in everyday...and different kinds..day before yesterday i was sitting in ICH...n there was this mother daughter..the daughter was some three years old..n the mother looked like a single parent to me...she looked self confident and that "i-earn-my-own- money" look...that baby was so naughty...she wanted her mums attention all the time...so she would hit her hands on the table and then tell her mum that shes hurt...one cute one she was...else to get her attention...she would just throw thinsg on the floor...her mum somehow managed...and left...theres one more thing that i like abt ICH...its the fact that there are cats out there...some days back i saw a big one...but a cute one...day before yest i saw this cute black kitten...i wanted to lift it..but was scared...the people i mean...a 20 year cuddling a kitten...they would have shot themselves...
i have never tipped a waiter in my life but once...but at ICH...i have started to tip waiters...cos i feel nice when i do that...i feel that they deserve it...
i am just loving my morning breakfasts at ICH...i look forward to it...feels good...i just feel sad that i eat alone...with no one to share my morning happiness with...even at office...i am a bit sad that i havent made friends...not cos they are unfriendly...but cos i cant stop acting formal...something in me is stopping me from being friends wid them..am alone during lunches too...i work hard at office...i so wanna give my best to them...to prove that m really into radio...n that am not among those who just experiment...but i wanna do more n more of radio...i wanna prove that i am good...or atleast i wanna become good by practice...so if during the office i need to take a break...the only thing that i do is go to the loo...n come back...thats the only break that i take...but am glad that i will leave this place satisfied...that i gave my best...n i did something good...that i dindt intern by looking at the studios...but by recording in them...that i did work...n gave them some really good stuff...i hope worldspace finds me competent enuf to work in stressful conditions...that i have it in me...that will do...i will return to my college like a man...whos proved himself...thats it..."well done...you were good"...i just wanna hear those words from my bosses...thats it!!!
Saturday, July 21, 2007
...and u've tuned into Radio Jhankaar powered by Worldspace!!1
well hello and waaaaaaaats up people...here i am...2 am...sunday...after more than ten days of painful work...well i have been interning in Worldspace bangalore for almost ten days now...and i must say that lifes fun out here...its quite tough though...but am happy that i need not sit at home and get bored but work and get some real cool experience...Worldspace was like some dream come true for me...here i was...working with a satellite channel...people like a r rahman, santana promote them(saw santana is some ad online)...i am literally working among celebrities...meet the superstars of the radio...who are known by their voices and their excellent song selection than actors who are known for their latest break ups and patch ups...feels nice to have these rj's actually talk to me...am working under this lady called supriya...shes very very sweet...n quite friendly..she doesn't make me feel that am an intern...n talks as if we are friends...thats some skill...i have heard her on record and man...does she sound good...uff...she sounds so good on the radio...and i like that fact that she knows how to spur people towards their best performance...
i rem when i was asked to make promos first...i came out with really stupid stuff...trust me...they were quite dumb(but that time i thot they were too good!!!)...but she said that i need to come out with something that would make people say-now how did that boy think about this concept!!!she would make a good leader...n then theres RJ Sulagna...i dont interact with her at all...but i feel shes nice at heart and committed to work..if she wants the computer for sometime, she would ask sweetly...nice lady...theres one more RJ called Fizza...whom i havent met...but am so sure that i must have seen her...but its only that i don't know her name...then theres this other guy who sits next to me sometimes...i dnt know his name...but i think hes from the english channel...hes quite nice...n i would call him quite cool...he dances on the chair swaying to the music that he would be listening to on the headfones...am not saying thats bad or funny...all am saying is that is you should be passionate about your work and not let your external environment stop you...n thats what he does exactly...he suffering from insomnia...after all the evesdropping that i have done i know that he hasnt slept for long...but he does his show the normal way...the nice way...he lives the music...n hes nice too...then theres sharon n vijay who sit rite behind me...nice people...close friends...from cigarettes to tips on sound forge, they share everything...there are so many people in the office that i cant describe them in a single go...there are people from my college too...feels nice to see people from my college here...they are seniors whom i havent even met while in college...
i gave my voice for interstitials too....twas abt nasseeruddin shah...i couldnt pronounce naseeruddin shah properly...i was pronouncing it as-nassurdin shad!!!...but twas ok after sometime...twas aired on the 20th i guess...
it has been quite hectic for me thruout ths week...cos am rite now on a 14 hour work schedule which includes the time spent travellin n the breakfast n lunch thing...i leave home at about 730...n come by 9...but its worth it...cos i have my breakfast everyday at Indian Coffee House MG Road...MG Roads literally empty at 8 in the morn...n Brigade Road looks like this sidey road...empty wid no one on the street...
am learnin a lot from this internship...not just about radio...but also about bangalore...there is so much to see...so much to experience..earlier i had no clue to sip a coffee in Indian Coffee House at one of the most famous roads in the country and look at ex-service men sipping their coffee...n i see so many people....my next blog will eb bout the Indian COffee House...so you can know abt my experience there...
i rem when i was asked to make promos first...i came out with really stupid stuff...trust me...they were quite dumb(but that time i thot they were too good!!!)...but she said that i need to come out with something that would make people say-now how did that boy think about this concept!!!she would make a good leader...n then theres RJ Sulagna...i dont interact with her at all...but i feel shes nice at heart and committed to work..if she wants the computer for sometime, she would ask sweetly...nice lady...theres one more RJ called Fizza...whom i havent met...but am so sure that i must have seen her...but its only that i don't know her name...then theres this other guy who sits next to me sometimes...i dnt know his name...but i think hes from the english channel...hes quite nice...n i would call him quite cool...he dances on the chair swaying to the music that he would be listening to on the headfones...am not saying thats bad or funny...all am saying is that is you should be passionate about your work and not let your external environment stop you...n thats what he does exactly...he suffering from insomnia...after all the evesdropping that i have done i know that he hasnt slept for long...but he does his show the normal way...the nice way...he lives the music...n hes nice too...then theres sharon n vijay who sit rite behind me...nice people...close friends...from cigarettes to tips on sound forge, they share everything...there are so many people in the office that i cant describe them in a single go...there are people from my college too...feels nice to see people from my college here...they are seniors whom i havent even met while in college...
i gave my voice for interstitials too....twas abt nasseeruddin shah...i couldnt pronounce naseeruddin shah properly...i was pronouncing it as-nassurdin shad!!!...but twas ok after sometime...twas aired on the 20th i guess...
it has been quite hectic for me thruout ths week...cos am rite now on a 14 hour work schedule which includes the time spent travellin n the breakfast n lunch thing...i leave home at about 730...n come by 9...but its worth it...cos i have my breakfast everyday at Indian Coffee House MG Road...MG Roads literally empty at 8 in the morn...n Brigade Road looks like this sidey road...empty wid no one on the street...
am learnin a lot from this internship...not just about radio...but also about bangalore...there is so much to see...so much to experience..earlier i had no clue to sip a coffee in Indian Coffee House at one of the most famous roads in the country and look at ex-service men sipping their coffee...n i see so many people....my next blog will eb bout the Indian COffee House...so you can know abt my experience there...
Monday, July 09, 2007
The Problem...and its solutions...and the solutions problem...and the solutions problems solution!!!!
well they say every problem has a solution...but i say every problem has a solution for sure...but that solutions gotta problem...n that needs to be solved by its solution...n so n so forth..
man created stuff for his own "good"...to solve the problem he worked hard and came up with a solution...now that solution brought some problems later...and then man had to solve those problems, only to find new ones...
ever thought why the wheel was invented...twas just for transportation...speed became the norm later...faster cars meant dangerous roads...so the "accident trauma/ward" came into existence...now bringing people fast from the accident site to the hospital was a problem..so we solved it with ambulances...then traffic caused problems...so the heli-ambulance was invented...but then heli-pad was a problem...so they had to construct new n big ones...but then again money was needed for all these...n the patients had to naturally pay for them....so the insurance companies came into the scene...phewwww....didnt even think of a connection between the wheel and the insurance company!!!
i guess everything is connected some way or the other...its just that we cant believe it...i had gone to this "mini supermarket" with "everything" in it...i was shocked to find that there wasnt any religious symbol out there in the shop...no pictures...no incense sticks...no nothing!!!BUT...i saw something for the first time in my life...A POLLUTION GEAR!!yup...a mask costing 130 rs...that would protect you from every single gas attack, not from the al-Qaeda dudes but, from the cars and the bikes...phew...talk about being modern...i wonder...these KOMPRESSORS E200's and Turbo Intercoolers boast of making your interiors so good and posh...the very term luxury has lost its meaning...some other word needs to be invented for that...even though the inside will be comfortable n the air "clean"...twill be coughing up so much smoke that you just cant stay near those cars...
when i was a kid (not that i've grown up now!! :P), i had read a story...twas about keeping your surroundings clean...it said that there was a guy who kept his clean..really clean...really really clean....but how???twas by throwing out the garbage through his window...the streets below looked like some historic dumping zone that has been used for dumping for years...i found a stri(n)king similarity between this story and the mercedes E200 Kompressor...
huh!!the problems and their solutions.....
man created stuff for his own "good"...to solve the problem he worked hard and came up with a solution...now that solution brought some problems later...and then man had to solve those problems, only to find new ones...
ever thought why the wheel was invented...twas just for transportation...speed became the norm later...faster cars meant dangerous roads...so the "accident trauma/ward" came into existence...now bringing people fast from the accident site to the hospital was a problem..so we solved it with ambulances...then traffic caused problems...so the heli-ambulance was invented...but then heli-pad was a problem...so they had to construct new n big ones...but then again money was needed for all these...n the patients had to naturally pay for them....so the insurance companies came into the scene...phewwww....didnt even think of a connection between the wheel and the insurance company!!!
i guess everything is connected some way or the other...its just that we cant believe it...i had gone to this "mini supermarket" with "everything" in it...i was shocked to find that there wasnt any religious symbol out there in the shop...no pictures...no incense sticks...no nothing!!!BUT...i saw something for the first time in my life...A POLLUTION GEAR!!yup...a mask costing 130 rs...that would protect you from every single gas attack, not from the al-Qaeda dudes but, from the cars and the bikes...phew...talk about being modern...i wonder...these KOMPRESSORS E200's and Turbo Intercoolers boast of making your interiors so good and posh...the very term luxury has lost its meaning...some other word needs to be invented for that...even though the inside will be comfortable n the air "clean"...twill be coughing up so much smoke that you just cant stay near those cars...
when i was a kid (not that i've grown up now!! :P), i had read a story...twas about keeping your surroundings clean...it said that there was a guy who kept his clean..really clean...really really clean....but how???twas by throwing out the garbage through his window...the streets below looked like some historic dumping zone that has been used for dumping for years...i found a stri(n)king similarity between this story and the mercedes E200 Kompressor...
huh!!the problems and their solutions.....
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