Ozma ...

Yet another concert :) Damn I'm loving them, this one was at Excess @Novotel and free drinks n snacks. The music was good but I'm not a great fan for rock (though it was rock-jazz), and I loved the earlier one by Sylvian Luc much much much much better but it's overall a very good concert also considering the company :)
Starting out as a working group as well as one of the musical research and experimentations, OZMA was born in 2001 as a result of the meeting of three young students at the conservatory of Strasbourg. A trio at first, inspired by metric jazz, funk and some musical exoticism, Adrien Deennefeld, Stephane Scharle and Edouard Sero Guillaume lay down the foundations of what was to be the future ozmic music.

In 2004 the group expanded with the arrival of David Florsch and Guillaume Nuss. The quintet then created a new repertoire combining each members energy and experience. In 2005, the group of five release a self produced album called OZMA which was the fruit of severall years of friendship and musical connivance. OZMA gave and captivated by frevidness, dynamism, generosity and childlike mindset, its passion, five friends who like playing together a real talent's fusion, which let nobody indiffernt.

It's just a great group and they played really good numbers mostly self composed, and for a change here is the group in b&w

Marriages, Concerts and life

This was supposed to be posted in mid March :D

Like I previously mentioned, had a very nice time at both the cousins weddings. No more close relatives weddings for the next 6yrs, and by then who knows whos who!!

Been to this concert, "Duo Rosario" on 1st March and one by Sylvain Luc on 18th March.

The 1st one was vocal + instrumental, it included French, spanish and Italian songs along with English. There was also solo instrumental by a 8yr old and another vocal by a local group. But the actual group i.e. the Duo Rosario was excellent. Two music lovers of classical vocal and guitar, Celine Laly and Mickael Noel, set up the Duo Rosario in 2005. It was important for them to add value to the unusual combination of voice and guitar in the world of classical music, which favoured only the more regular forms like guitar-flute, guitar-violin, song-piano, completely negating one side of the repertoire. To highlight their repertoire, the musicians have selected works of each era, particularly representing their style and their form. So they enter into their program works as varies as songs of farmyard, cycles of melodies or popular songs and thus us SIX different languages. But yes the major languages were French and English, and I should say the lady had an incredible voice. Mickael didn't really know English and was on guitar all the time.

This inspired me to buy a cam ;) and this was on 18th March Sylvain Luc Trio -- Only instrumental and I have to tell you, this was/is my all time best concert. "In Esukadi, before the music, there is the transparency of the air, and the wide song, lyrical atfirst. Over there where Sylvain Luc comes from music is in your mind before being in your fingers." - Sylvain Luc, indeed was excellent. An accomplished and talented musician, he begun music early, sharing his love of music with his brothers in Bayonne. Accordion on one side, drums on the other are as many influences he claims as he plays manouche music, valse, or basque folklore. He laso plays bass, violin or cello which he studied at the conservatory. In early 90s and since he played with many great names like Richard Galliano the Argentinean singer Jairo or George Moustaki among many others.

Here he playes with Jean-Marc Jafet on bass guitar and Andre Ceccarelli on drums. Andre also played music with a plain paper, trust me it was just a plain paper. No wonder this group won the best jazz music award in 2003 and also nominated for the best jazz album of the year.


I wish I could write more, infact I could write forever, I recorded a few but I definitely realized how much I missed not having a cam and I bought one finally a 7.1MP Powershot, simple and does the purpose.

More marriages and concerts lined up, I'll be doing a lot of travelling too :D just in India though

Once upon a time

Once I went a sailing, a sailing in the sea,
I sailed in a boat, I sailed in a ship,
I sailed to Switzerland ....

la la la la lala ..lala lala laaa ... lalalalaa lalalalaa .. lala lala laaa

A Negro sat beside me,
In a cool and easy way.
And when I passed my love to him,
This is what he had to say:

"Amruta manza kanza,
Namast kaara eegro,
Chiki chiki chelom, chikaku chelom,
hey ya eh ya hoi !!! ..."


PS1: No offense meant
PS2: Switzerland is landlocked, sue me :P
PS3: It actually sounds much much much better in my mind with the tune (lala ...)
PS4: I got no clue what those words mean :P its pure fiction I guess
PS5: The last line is supposed to sound like ayyay ayyayyoooooo....
PS6: No I'm not gay :P it only means I was trying to socialize (perverts ...)
PS7: Blame the weather outside, not me :D

Incredible

After S and after KR, this is the 1st time I went out to a pub/disco which means I went out after nearly 6months (or more). And I had a real good company, 3 girls all committed so no complications :D The worst part of it though is that all their 3 bfs were working @office while we were partying around :D hehe ....

So we (D,A,V,me) first hit grillroom/fusion9 where there was a band playing, it was awesome music but the girls wanted to dance, so we had a few drinks n drove back to poison @11PM. Luckily withdrew money on the way. It was ladies night @Poison, and trust me the music, the ambience and the food was awesome, but the drinks were. I don't know why but V and I had 2 tequila shots and 1 large whisky raw but didn't get high (and this is after having 3 vodkas @f9 each, Do they mix something ?? or are we too excited to get drunk). D,A,V dance but as usual I just stay back and watch the folks dance on the dance floor (For those of you who haven't been to a pub/disco/dance floor with me, I don't dance. I like watching ppl dance + I can't dance + I have never danced. So I just don't. I just watch ppl dance, and trust me its really great to watch others dance, you learn a lot about ppl, both those whom you are with and those whom you have never met).

So after spending 2 more hours (i.e from 8PM to 10:30PM @fusion9 and 11PM to 12:30PM @Poison) we are back home. A who didn't have any spiked drink drove us back home, and after they dropped me they had to go some 7KMs odd to their place, so I dropped them @their place (I just couldn't let them go alone @1AM, its too risky) and came back home on my bike @ an avg of 80KM/hr speed (key word avg). V asked me to stay back @their place, but I just couldn't. I'm still in my senses, so came back home.

It's one of the best company I had since S i.e. for the last 1yr ... I could use the same company more. Though there was KR, we never went out to a pub or disco and it was more confined to parks or movies. Now that I'm single again, I'm glad I could go out. V was great and A danced good. D was hyper as usual :P.


PS: Slightly drunk, so might not make complete sense, but just wanted to post. Might review and refresh tomorrow morning.

Confession: Liked V, she's committed though :P :( (reiterating to myself, stay single stay single stay single ....)

That was just spurr of the moment, actually A is absolutely gr8 hehe, ofcourse she'z committed too.

I cheat on her !!

Before you decide to be judgmental and start throwing all that gyaan on me, let me brief you, its all gonna be a disappointment ;).

So here I'm one day (27th) looking at my old friend with whom I have been for the last 4yrs. She hasn't changed a bit in these years .. although I tried to get her to do a makeover once she remained the same old self; beautiful, simpleton, plain, a little few extra pounds though; like one of the heroines from 70s ;). I was always proud to have her. I used to(I still do once in a while) brag about her when among friends, and they would tell me how lucky I'm to have her and how difficult is it to maintain the pompous ones they were with. But I changed, changed a lot in these 4yrs, I'm everything but for what I was back then. People change and its common, and I was thinking its time I change her too. Not that there is anything wrong with her, but I reached a stage where I can't just stay with her ... I needed more, I had my own desires(wants not needs) she couldn't satisfy.

Say coincidence, fate whatever but on the same day I see someone else.. gorgeous, extravagant, stylish, urbanite and ofcourse slim, like one of those heroines from the 2010 :D ... and thats it I decide to lay my hands on her whatsoever. All night I tried to tell myself that my good old friend is still perfect for me and its just the hormones kicking in disabling my power to distinguish between wants and needs and then there is this thing that I know I wont be able to handle such an extravagant miss for long.

28th morning ... I try to forget everything and stay with my old friend, went to office happily, some important work but overall a nice day, came back home by 6 and the urge to 'own' the beauty hit me again .... This time I don't think I fought for even a minute, I decided to cheat on my old friend. I decided to tell her I'm going away for a few weeks on work and so I did.

This is how the eventful thing happened after a lot of cogitating:

Started the bike went to the store bought the new HTC S710, removed the SIM card from 1100 and lo & behold I have a new mobile after using 1100 for 4yrs.

hehe I know such a stupid narration, I just wrote whatever came to my mind not even bothering to proof read it once, lazy me :D. I thought I'll say 1100 retired, but then I realized I still own the piece and could get back on it whenever I want so cheating sounded apt :D

I don't think posting the pic here is such a nice idea, viewers can figure out the story even before the start reading it :), but what the hell its a dumb story anyway ..so here is my new HTC s710 .....

A perfect guy thing over the weekend

NO it's not beer n sex nor is it beer n xbox, its a bike ride, YES I drove all the way to my grandparents village(200kms from Hyd towards Vij on NH9) on my bike. Can you imagine, CAN YOU IMAGINE what it was like ?? I simple have no words. Let me describe a few memorable things:
1. I chased rain for around 30-35kms, yes it was raining exactly before I reach the place and the roads were slippery, so I started to chase the rain..vroom vroooom it started to drizzle on me ..vrooooooom and it started to rain vroooooooooooooooooooom and i overtook it :D, now it was raining behind me [later the newspapers reported a hailstorm in one of the places and 5people died phew!!]
2. Now its a race against the rain, the rain was behind me and dark clouds hovering beyond me, the sun trying to peep through and glance at me from behind those clouds ... DAMN DAMN DAMN, there wasn't a second during the journey when I felt bad that I didn't have a camera with me :( :(( :((( It was like that ad "Why listen to the sound of humans when you can listen to the sounds of heaven" :)
3. Then there were these vast stretches of green fields and lakes which don't need any introduction nor description :)
4. and last but not the least, straight roads where my Glamour could touch 110kmph [no this is not an ad for Glamour but then it DID touch 110 :) on a straight road & no slope]
All this while going to my g.parents place .... and the journey back was no less exciting with a 'no sun - no rain' day and some 3 dark clouds protecting me from the hot sun it was quite a nice & pleasant journey overall, with ofcourse a lot of scolding from all the near & dear :D

So... Isn't it a perfect guy thing to do :->

The April 1st post

Well have been a little busy in life recently (NO, not with work :) luckily for me),

1. Recently went to MV Foundation ( http://www.mvfindia.in/index.asp) (all together a different post), spent time with the kids for half a day
2. Made few new friends outside office, don't even ask me how quite weird coincident situations made us friends :)
3. Got to know few more 'relationship' stories, mostly which didn't work
4. Thanks to Arora ug2k3 yearbook is up & running again, but apparently I'm the only one who is not able to login :( :(( :((((
5. I'm getting screwed this Friday, literally screwed !! Escape is not an option, truth guarantees nothing :)
6. Don't DON'T ask me why this post is titled so, just felt this would be the easiest way to fool my readers :D lol I know
7. I don't feel like typing nowadays & have got this urge to use pen & paper !! I know its just a phase :) but still ...
8. I saw 1-2-3 movie (latest hindi flick) & no comments on this .................
9. Its been more than a week since I tasted rice, I have been living on subs & pizzas lately :D & ofcourse no regrets :P
10. Just wanted to finish 10pts

Womens day, hyderabad and ...

"
I was taken aback when one of our writers told me that her aunt was not allowed into a nightclub a few weeks ago because she was wearing a salwar-kurta. She was told that on an events night such as the one on that Wednesday, salwar was a strict no-no, that the aunt and others with her were finally allowed in after saying she was a journalist.
If in earlier days it was British imperialism that did not allow you to enter a sahibs club without a suit and boot(you still can't as a matter of fact), these days it is the American hegemony. We not only go to the pubs and malls like the Americans, but have dress rules like them too. Remember we are still in India which has strong traditions of dress and culture that cannot be ignored despite our predilections for coke and burgers. What could be a nightclub's objection to the sari or salwar? Whats is the point we are trying to make with such rules - that people who wear saris and salwars are mummyji types who cannot enter pubs? Or that there is no place for older women who cannot think of dressing in any other way?

Fashion designer Sabyasachi seems to have similar views. I quote from the interview: "I think a woman covered, showing just an inch of her ankle is more sensual that a woman who blatantly exposes because she doesn't leave anything to the imagination".

Indeed as Sharmila who brought yogasanas and pranayama back into our life says, the west has taken the best out of India - yoga, ayurveda, spirituality, food - and has given us in return BPOs, pubs and fast food and stress. Naturally, if you party like that every night and still have to look fit so that you look good into all those western clothes, boy, do you need to worry!

What we need, on Womens Day and all other days, is freedom of the mind. To be what you are. There are photographers, artists and pilots following their heart's dream even if society seeks to set rules about what women must or must not do.
"
and this comes from Ratna Rao Shekar - Editor WOW magazine

and yes I typed the whole post myself, not a copy paste phew!! but then I really found the article worth being mentioned on this blog :)

Though I don't complete agree and I think there must be some dress code to maintain the pub standards, but then I'm sure a strict no-no to something is always bad and infact brings down the reputation.

Hyderabad is changing and so is India ... sometimes for good and sometimes for worse. One has to live with it and adapt to change.

A one night stand

This happened to one of my friends few weeks back [names cannot be taken] ... lets call him T
Quite melodramatic ....


Around 10:30PM Thursday night, T is on his way back home from office, it got a little late today but then he's just a bachelor (with a gf but irrelevant here) so he wouldn't mind staying back once in a while if it meant being noticed by his boss (who also happens to be a lady, but again irrelevant :D). He is on his bike, with his ipod and singing away to glory and in a nice mood that things are going good at work and he's a high contender for the promotion due next month.
As he nears a bus stop, he sees a beautiful (so was I told ;) ) girl sobbing and being the gentleman and movie buff that he is, his heart overpowers his shyness & approaches the girl;

T: {ahem} {aaaaa....} {mm..} excuse me, I couldnt help but notice that something is wrong, {mmm...} may I help you?
[The girl raises her head and for the 1st time he sees her face completely and she looked more beautiful than she did in the brightness of the street light]
She: {sobs}{sobs} thank you!! well some ******* stole my purse and even my mobile is inside it, I'm not able to reach my roommates and there is no cab in the past 20mins. {sobs} ..I'm having the worst day of my life :(
T: hmm ... [ask you idiot ask, this is your chance] ..{aaaa...} If you don't mind, I could drop you
She: [now stopped crying and has a small smile on her face which weakened his heart all the more] .. well thank you, but I can't trouble you soo much, if you don't mind let me make a call to my roommate from your mobile
T: [tsch losing a gr8 opportunity to drop her, why God why :( ] sure no problem, here [hands over his mobile to her] {well atleast I'll get her roommate's number ;) .. maybe things will turn out lucky for me afterall }
[sees that she is not talking on the phone and is looking worried] ... is everything ok???
She:{now in a frustrated but sweet voice} roommate is not picking up the call :( I think my bad day is not over yet :((
T: well I could still drop you, and I have absolutely no problem doing that. {praying to god now}
She: .... but .......
T: I insist, please let me
She: Ok fine, btw my name is X and I live in ABC colony
T: and I'm T, I stay in xyz colony [yay, yay, yay]
[she's now on his bike and her right hand on his shoulder, he's all geared up, the night is still young and hopes that some magic does happen]
T: {ahem} {ahem} ... I'm not sure if I know the place, you'll have to guide me
[starts the bike and prays to god for a small push]
She: sure, no problem and thank you once again
T: its my pleasure ...

after 10mins of journey, she directing T to her place and both of them talking about movies and stuff and having a nice ride ... she asks him to take a left turn into a dark road with no street lights, ... T having a great time and a nice ride was all carried away ... half way through the road something stuck him on his head from front and the next thing he knows it's 3AM, his head is paining like hell, he could even feel the blood on his forehead... there is no girl around him and neither is his mobile nor his bike nor his purse nor his gold ring nor his ipod....... quite simple she had some accomplice waiting for her and all she had to do is lure him into that street ...

next day there was a huge hullabaloo, police complaints, hospital, his parents happy that the head injury wasn't fatal, followed by a huge fight with his gf (this was a funny part worth watching according to my frnds who were there :D) .... finally no trace of the bike nor the girl yet!! (this happened somewhere in mid february btw) ..

Soo ..... wouldn't you call her beauty with brains :-> .. I definitely would :)
When I see those movies, I always wondered how people could be fooled soo easily and how dumb they behave, but all it took was one incident to someone close to realise that afterall mean are dogs & girls can take advantage of that quite easily, can't they! ;)

SO WHAT ???

Hail Calvin