Radio Assignment got screwed...

Well we had three days and we thot that we cud pull it off...but the whole thing was screwed up...every possible that could go wrong, went wrong...i was on the mixer...and i made several mistakes..i was pissed...cos some of my team members and talents werent serious...but animesh has told me that i should not expect anything aout of anyone...guess am goin to follow that only now...i fekt so bad cos radio is my forte and doin bad in that is like reakky relly sad...hope things change

it's raining men, alleluia!!!

Its raining...its so nice...i love the rains...especially in manipal...they are so beautiful...i so wish i could stay here forever...but i have just an year left...n i will say good bye to this place forever..its rains so much over here...its so so so good...i dont mind getting wet in the rain even...but except for the fact that i have my mobile and i dont want that to get spoilt..thats the only problem i have...when it rains many of us look at the things around us...we see how rains just clean the area of all the dust and dirt...how they make all of us run for shelter...how the thunder manages to scare the weak hearted (am one of them!!) everytime it happens...but i...hmmm...i like looking up when it rains...i like to see where all this water comes from...its so amazing...yet so simple...certain things are complexly simple (dont know if these words even exist)...rite now amchi is playing some stuff on my steel guitar...it was a nice day that me, priya, amchi n rini spent together...twas a break after a long time...its nice...i hope these moments stay for ever...but guess they wont be there for long...after two days...all of us will be back on our normal schedule...in one of my friends words-it mite be a tough life, but its a good life...its still rainning...n wat can beat a cup of coffee...who wants to pay 40-50 rs in CCD, when my frnds can make some great coffee for me...i dont mind...after all,my own friends have made it and i dont care if its good or bad...my friendsd took the time n effort to actually make some coffee...but i dont know...i piss em of so much that i really dont know if they will even make me coffee!!!hoping that the next tow days are the best days of my life this month!!! (i know this sounds strange,but i am strange!!!) deepak came back just now...he was playing the match...poor guy has sgot cramps...they tried hard...who says its all about winning...we have always fought...n we will continue fighting...well i say-only if you lose once can you win...so we lost...so that we can win the next time...so lets hope that lady luck does not smile at us but that she laughs her guts out at us...

Chillax...Relax...

Today was a nice day..i took a break after a long time..so i decided to blog today...had fun you know...the day was a bit ok...paid the house bills n stuff...came back home...n watched a movie...twas a plan that PR'darsini, amchi n riniiiiiiii had made...so tas me, anisha,amchi,n priya who were watching a movie...n guess what...we watchedd SHIVAJI-THE BOSS...with due respect...i found out that the movie was for "Superstar Rajni" fans alone...no stroy man..no logic.but despite of my poor knowledge of cinema, i must confess...this movie had the best sets that i had ever seen in an indian movie..pah!!!wat sets man...they had made sure that the minutest detail was taken care of...pretty nice...and the shots were nice too...though very few shots were stationary, others were always moving...after the movie all of us sat on the terrace (we still are sitting)...its so cool...we are supposed to go somewhere tomm...but we dont know where...i am clueless...everyone else is clueless...wat to do???
we got three days in a row ass hols...cool na??nothing to do...m so relaxed...lil part of the time would be taken up by assigenments...but its k...the rest time goes for the relaxation and the chillaxation!!!! so yeah..its nice...lets see...the fun begins today...will blog you about how these days went...

Just wanna wish all of u a very happy holi and a very meaningful Good Friday..

Why blog???

am not a regular blogger...in fact i would not like to call myself one too...what do i blog about??why???whom do i talk about??? nothin seems to make sense...but why am i blogging...well am experimenting a new concept...a new medium that has turned everyone into an extrovert...everyones so introvertly extrovert...its so private, yet so public...

If i want, i can write about a million things on whats going on in my life...well i would say that there are so many things that if i write em down, i might jam blogger!!!its an exxageration, but if things are not exxagerated, they dont seem to work...

but i am really not writing anything...cos everything is so important...i have my studies to take care of...the student council...YELL (thanks to rohan, meha, kerban, ajinkya n ruchika...the pressure is a bit less)...Manipal Media Students' Convention...and last but definetely my priority number one-Church...

i am always pre-occupied with MMSC...doing something for the college is nice...its fun...but its not easy...MMSC is this new media event...but am really not happy with the way i am blogging...its sad you know..come once in a while...and then come after 1oo years...wats the point...i dont see any...do you???

Ha Boss...ek hot coffee..aur ek...um....ha..ek egg sandwich...

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!!!

...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...

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.....

Technolgy and its hard disks full of surprises...

Not all the days are meant to be beautiful n sunny...looking back at the 365 days in the previous year...no one can sing-"we had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun"(in the typical Westlife style!!)...if life would be that simple...the very concepts of joy, happiness, sadness, etc would cease to exist...cos all these concepts are so subjective...they are the relative comparisons of the state of minds of two persons(either a real or a virtual one) in more than one situation...sittin here in front of the computer i may dream...that am so unfortunate to have taken birth as elvin and not as bill gates..as he has so many hi-tech gadgets...but i would be happy if i compare myself with someone from a village in India where a Nokia 1100 is a sign of prosperity and heights of sophistication...decades back when TV was frst shown to some...they tried to catch the objects in them...cos they thought that they were real...n things could not exist in an electronic world...sometime later they came to understand that things cant be touched...that the tv screen is a boundary between them and the virtual world..if someone that time would say that you couls actually use the screens other than the purpose of viewing..you would have been mocked at and would have been termed as some one who hasnt kkept himself "abreast of the latest technology"...but touch screens did the exact opposite of what the "self proclaimed technology gurus" said...

How does technology manage to surprise us every time...well the answer is simple...every time a technology updates itself..we tend to assume that its the pinnacle of success for the scientists as nothing can cross the barriers that this particular technology has set...but when its outdated by any other technology, the we are surprised again...this surprise actually forces us to consider it to be the end of the evolution of that technology...but that doesnt happen..as we must be knowing so well..


When the Wright Bros said they could fly..the question was-really??
When planes cross shorts distances...the question was-really??
When planes went transcontinental...the question was-really??
When the crossed the sound barrier..the question was-really??

But surprise...all of these things did happen...n they are so common now that if you ask them if they feel strange about these things happening here..they would term you crazy to ask such a question...fuuny rite..well those people are funny alright!!!

Guess whos back!!!

hmmm...so here i am...after almost six months of hibernation...wid lots of things to express...but words arent a perfect means to communicate...words can only present a part of the picture...sometime the birds view n sometimes the worms view....for e.g. i can say that a flower smells good...but how can i possibly pen down the feelings that went around my mind when i smelt that flower...remember what Niel Armstrong said when he first set his feet on the moon(Chuck the Moon Hoax controversies n stuff...i believe that NASA fooled us..but for sometime for the sake of convenience lets just think that NASA is truth personified!!!)

"Its a small Step for man....A giant leap for Mankind..."

wow...sounds cool eh??!! well it is ...that dude must have rehearsed for hours the lines that he was about to utter...but was he able to explain to all those white guys in The Civilized State, black guys in The Uncivilized State, n some brown guys in The Confused State about what went around his mind when he did so... never...never can i believe that Perfect Communication can exist via Verbal Communication...But I do believe Ronan Keating when he sang-"You say it best, When you say nothing at all"...cos i firmly believe that only the mind can communicate in a perfect way...ever wondered why a baby feels so comfortable in its moms arms...its cos during those nine months..the baby n the mother are so close that even the smallest tension in the mothers brain can increase the chances that the baby will grow up to become a hypertension patient!!!so if the mother is worried throughout her pregnancy, you can be sure of what to expect after those six months!!!

Voice just conveys the basic points of the message that you want to convey...the rest has to be interpreted by you...n often you do that by analysing the other person...whether that person is sarcastic when he says such stuff...or is he a guy who speaks just for the sake of speaking...thats your job...thats the reason why they say that you should never trust strangers...thats cos you wont know what he/she actually means...

I have always felt that some of the best conversations happen the non-verbal way...n i think am still not doing it...cos even if you read it right now...i must be somewhere else thinking of something else...which i might never be able to express...even ths blog..i have so many thoughts running through my head that the moment...but i still cant pen down everything...sad rite..well its the biggest irony that man is the most intelligent creature on earth but still it does things that are so stupid that even a cricket can label as absurd!!! hail Mankind...the Failed Mankind!!!

P.S. NASA played a trick on our heads...the entire space landing was a hoax..there are enough proofs to prove that NASA guys are not good space guys but excellent movie makers!!!