Sunday morning, after a rather heavy night.. head still dizzy, maybe a hangover. You have still not brushed your teeth or washed your face. Yeah a cup of tea from Shyam was wonderful, a usual Finnish spring morning(-5 C). Cloud cover, that will aid a perfect swing balling if it would have been Lords, maybe on a first day pitch 150 all out kind of weather. And here you are sitting there, Generous tuning 20 Euro Chinese Guitar which i have screwed up. And here he goes..
"Pretty Women, walking down the streets". Just him and his guitar and we had a trance suddenly everything felt good, life seemed worth it and not a word is spoken when he delivers three melodies one after the other. Just him and the untuned guitar.
That's the power of music. Its ability to affect your brain so fast and so positively. Amongst all this noise, music is a gift e have found for ourselves. And the wonderful and beautiful of all art forms. Its special because unlike other arts it doesn't imitate nature, its special because it so natural that even babies who don't know colors and words respond to music. Instead of copying nature as other arts, it adds to it.
Its a mans return gift to gods whereever they maybe.
Monday, March 17, 2008
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Spring time
Spirits are high… first the days are getting longer and we see a lot more sun, and second... i am going back to india on 21st. It already is smelling Holi... its already feeling India.
The feel of sunrays biting your skin, as you sit dazed after the morning of colors and glasses of bhang. The nights that are still cold enough, not to be the humid warm ones of April May. Even the 6 Hours Light cuts seem sexy. Oh... the call of the land.
Well, you can expect histrionics from me time to time; the mood swings have stabilized a bit. And I am even thinking about getting my family here. Not such a bad place at all this Oulu is... And not much is going around this world now a days, atleast not something i feel strongly about.
Loved it when we beat the Aussies in their own den, but i think the media got a bit overboard with the celebration and importance. A set of 11 humans have beaten another human team, that’s it. Or you are celebrating like you know it is a miracle, and that is an insult to team India and we never needed the facilitations in Firozshah kotle. Now, are we going to facilitate our team on any successful return??
Share market is steadily going down and some of the bars are making big money i guess. But overall outlook of American economy is not good and so we will too suffer if they go down for long term.
What else, Black and White released. Plan to watch it over a week.
The feel of sunrays biting your skin, as you sit dazed after the morning of colors and glasses of bhang. The nights that are still cold enough, not to be the humid warm ones of April May. Even the 6 Hours Light cuts seem sexy. Oh... the call of the land.
Well, you can expect histrionics from me time to time; the mood swings have stabilized a bit. And I am even thinking about getting my family here. Not such a bad place at all this Oulu is... And not much is going around this world now a days, atleast not something i feel strongly about.
Loved it when we beat the Aussies in their own den, but i think the media got a bit overboard with the celebration and importance. A set of 11 humans have beaten another human team, that’s it. Or you are celebrating like you know it is a miracle, and that is an insult to team India and we never needed the facilitations in Firozshah kotle. Now, are we going to facilitate our team on any successful return??
Share market is steadily going down and some of the bars are making big money i guess. But overall outlook of American economy is not good and so we will too suffer if they go down for long term.
What else, Black and White released. Plan to watch it over a week.
Sunday, March 2, 2008
The first final, sachin's inning, budget and nothing much..
A perfect 10/10 innings this was. This is as good a hundred you would get when chasing 240. Paced to perfection.. 46 singles.. 2 upper cuts to third man and you have Sachin that we all loved to love. If he repeats this again, I have no doubt we are coming back 2-0. But it was a team effort to put it that way. Harbhajan making his balls talk against Heyden's mouth, Pravin kumar's initial spell, good fielding, and yeah don't forget Rohit's batting. Australia would be more worried about the way India won then the loss itself.
Budget... well i am not a very financial times man but what i get of it is i would be saving some 40K on taxes next years, some really troubled famers are finally getting some help and the biggest thing is the education allocation has increased. This is the key, if we have to be anywhere near the Finalands, the UKs, the Japans or even Chinas of this world we have to get our literacy, the infrastructure and our basic amenities right. I don't give a damn where our Sensex is going or what out growth forecast is. If in some corner of India people don't have clean water to drink, a doctor nearby and schools for their kids... we are not good enough. Money in the hands of few is no use. I would have rather forgo’ed that 40K if it would have meant better roads to drive on or lesser electricity cut. Take that 40Ks back and please do build those power plants that we desperately need. So overall i think though populist, an "aam aadmi budget" is what we need for another few years. But the hope is that this money would indeed reach those farmers who are committing suicide and not the ones who are already having tractors and harvesters for themselves.
Let’s have bread for everybody yaar...
On the personal side Shrini cut his finger in the Mixer. He still can't remember how he did that, he says he was trying to adjust Pudina leaves in the running mixer. 7 stitches on his right hand and i am still having a headache on this. I did this to myself about 15 years back but i was less stupid trying to see why the blades were not running when my brother actually switched on the mixer.
Well i have an explanation... he cut his finger because he doesn't drink beer. Because when i cut my fingers even i didn't drink beer and since i have started drinking beer from last 12-14 years, i have never cut my fingers in my Mixer.
So for all of you who want there fingers intact, cheers... :-)
Budget... well i am not a very financial times man but what i get of it is i would be saving some 40K on taxes next years, some really troubled famers are finally getting some help and the biggest thing is the education allocation has increased. This is the key, if we have to be anywhere near the Finalands, the UKs, the Japans or even Chinas of this world we have to get our literacy, the infrastructure and our basic amenities right. I don't give a damn where our Sensex is going or what out growth forecast is. If in some corner of India people don't have clean water to drink, a doctor nearby and schools for their kids... we are not good enough. Money in the hands of few is no use. I would have rather forgo’ed that 40K if it would have meant better roads to drive on or lesser electricity cut. Take that 40Ks back and please do build those power plants that we desperately need. So overall i think though populist, an "aam aadmi budget" is what we need for another few years. But the hope is that this money would indeed reach those farmers who are committing suicide and not the ones who are already having tractors and harvesters for themselves.
Let’s have bread for everybody yaar...
On the personal side Shrini cut his finger in the Mixer. He still can't remember how he did that, he says he was trying to adjust Pudina leaves in the running mixer. 7 stitches on his right hand and i am still having a headache on this. I did this to myself about 15 years back but i was less stupid trying to see why the blades were not running when my brother actually switched on the mixer.
Well i have an explanation... he cut his finger because he doesn't drink beer. Because when i cut my fingers even i didn't drink beer and since i have started drinking beer from last 12-14 years, i have never cut my fingers in my Mixer.
So for all of you who want there fingers intact, cheers... :-)
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