Realistically Real

This blog is officially dead. Farewell.

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 18:40:19 PDT

I started blogging back when blogging was a new 'it' thing. I think it was somewhere in 2003 or 04. I deleted my blog once, only to come back again. I used it as a place to just rant, rave and post about the songs I liked. A large part of it were rap lyrics. From a very young age, I was addicted to the spoken word. English was not my native tongue, but I spoke and wrote enough to be able to

B,o.B Striking it Big!

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:37:37 PDT

Recently, I've seen the ascent of the next superstar of rap & hip hop music. You can always say that an artist has struck gold when you see covers of the song being performed by people world over. The next big thing is 'B.o.B a.k.a Bobby Ray'. The Adventures of Bobby Ray hits stores on April 27th, 2010. The first single was 'Nothin' on you' which is at #2 on Billboard Hot 100. However, the song

Masala Dosa Vs er... Tourism? Part 2

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:54:30 PDT

Right. So, Chennai did well to get 246/5. Rajasthan are chasing 247. Highly improbably, but with Yusuf Pathan, nothing is impossible. If they do chase it, Its going to be close to 500 runs in 40 overs. I hope they don't. Shane Warne to all of his players : "We're all about making history aren't we?". The look on the players faces said it all. Demoralised to their core. Be right back after a break

Masala Dosa Vs er... Tourism?

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 06:54:49 PDT

3:20 AM Pacific Standard Time: Its crunch time for Chennai Super Kings (no, not much time!). This is my first attempt at live-blogging an IPL match. Be kind. Background: I'm a big CSK supporter. Every match I've watched in IPL3, they've ended up making a mess of it. I am defying logic, the gods, and every one out there who says "Don't watch!!!". Since I am in a precarious position of not being

Rhymes Without Reason - Part 1

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:27:33 PST

Sanjay a.k.a 'SunRun' was sitting in his room blasting hip hop music on his 1600w system. It was cold Saturday morning for Chennai. Valentine's day was approaching with no luck in his pursuit of cupid's arrows, let alone lady love. He thought of making it big rhyming words like 'here' with 'beer'. "Rap is always misundersood in India. If only I could prove them wrong!" was a constant thought that

CyHi Da Prynce!

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 04:19:32 PST

Lately, I've been listening to this new artist CyHi Da Prynce, who I think is the next big thing after a co-sign by Kanye West. Just thought I'd embed the song Sweet Georgia & I wish (Remix) by Yelawolf. CyHi Da Prynce kills it in both the songs. Sweet Georgia has been on a repeat loop in my iTunes. Nice!

#nithyananda - God or Fraud?

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 06:16:46 PST

I maybe the 10 millionth person probably posting about this muck. I know, this message would get drowned out in the lynch mob that is after the now famous-for-wrong-reasons sex-scandal godman. I remember seeing this guy way back in 2002, maybe 2003. He was buying private airtime on a couple of channels to spread his spiritual message. As always with money, power and fame, came the adoration or

Kuruvi - Happy New Year Lyrics - Yogi B, MC Jesz, Dr.Burn Ft Sunidhi Chauhan

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:31:52 PST

I've been wanting to post these lyrics for a long time. As you can see, I'm quite a fan of hip hop and rap, especially when fused with tamil mainstream music. Throughout this blog, you'll find tons of tamil song rap lyrics. I won't waste much time shameless plugging my blog. My guess is you got here from Google, so welcome. This is one of the best hip hop kuthu tracks of all time. Yuvan Shankar

The Paradox of 'my' NRIness

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:34:07 PST

The spark for this post was when I saw this topic by 'Lady Pineapple' in a forum. Also, Anjali'swas another of the recent posts. 'The NRI', a rather interesting name, had this to say. Reading through all these posts, something struck me. Its been eating my head ever since. Where do I fit in? From a young age, I've been confused of my identity as a pucca Malayali living in Madras. I used to visit

Of Indian Bloggers and Stat-Ran-KING!

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:12:58 PST

So, I came across this nice enclave of Indian Bloggers, an attempt to form an ecosystem of IndiBloggers. Digging through the site, I found many great blogs that I've missed out on during so many years of my hibernation. What was also nice to see was so many amateur bloggers giving this old 'fad' a go. In the age of Twits, FB and Buzzes, I say 'Well done me lads!' and the female equivalent of that

Goa Lyrics - Go Enbathu a.k.a Goa Title Song a.k.a Goa (Club-Mix)

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 18:16:19 PST

This is the lyrics to the song from the tamil movie Goa directed by Venkat Prabhu starring Jai, Vaibhav and Premji Amaren. The music is by Yuvan Shankar Raja. This particular song is sung by Krish, Ranjith, Tanvi, Suchitra (Mirchi Suchi), Chynk Showtyme, Pav Bundy. Chynk Showtyme is the rapper who was on Kannai Vittu in Pattiyal. Illpath is their label I think. You can find that they've posted a

Moozik production!

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 01:17:01 PST

I made this using Fruity Loops and some royalty free samples. This is my first ever music production to get published on youtube. Although I did some crazy stuff back in download.com as a teenager, I consider this a first!Anyways, this is a promo video for my buddies from apartment 127. They've not come up with many videos as yet. Watch this space for more!P.S: The cameo at the beginning was

My first Superbowl experience

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:59:25 PST

So, I'm in a very ecstatic mood right now. Today was the first time I was watching a Superbowl game. I can hear my friends in India going "So what? Big deal. American Football is a game I don't get", I pity your ignorance. The 4 quarters, all the plays and the various terminologies make it a very exciting game which requires a lot of strategy.I had no idea about the Superbowl before except that

SEO

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:11:11 PST

Its been a while since I posted anything. I've been doing some SEO (search engine optimization) on this blog. I've noticed Google has some cool tools which I didn't know existed. Feedburner was taken over by Google a while back, and I never bothered to check out the new feedburner. I was amazed at all the tools available now to optimize the hits that come to my blog.I've also got my school

Revamp!

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:42:04 PST

It's that time of the blog again. I've lost count of how many revamps I've done to this blog. The layout has been abused many times, but the fact that I still visit this place to keep tinkering around says something about me. I'm sentimental. Yes, I hang on to things. I have memories of my possessions, won't let go of them until they give up on me and yes, you'll find a lot of stuff like that in

What's in a name change?

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:20:43 PDT

Well, I decided to revert back to Realistically Real. This is part of my moving on after the break-up with Infosys. Oh what fun I had in blogging Madras Tales. Anyways, as Jaya pointed out in that post, it would be a misnomer for me to be running this blog a Madras Tales.And I reserved that name for my first music album. Which I'm not working on by the way. I'm building my student website now. I

Tuesday Morning Blues

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:04:36 PST

Its 1:30 AM on Tuesday and I don't have time to sleep. I have 2 assignments due this week and 1 quiz tommorow. For the uninitated, student life in America is not similar to student life in India. That coming from a guy who doesn't even have an on-campus / part-time job yet. When you study in India, you basically allocate that time of your life towards studies. If you're working, you quit and join

What's in a name?

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:51:42 PST

Finally. Realistically Real has undergone the name change after making its debut 4 years back. Technically 6 years back, when I first debuted this blog and deleted it in 2005 only to make a big comeback again. It was during my Infosys stint that I reached my "Blogging Peak" or scaled heights or some other cliche adjective you would use to describe it. I figured a small part of me is fixed with

Trash talkin'

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:38:27 PST

I gotta let you guys in on a dirty little secret. I'm sitting on a couch taken from the trash. A week back, the guys (meaning me, my roommates and the guys in the nearby room) picked up a huge haul of furniture from the trash.Now before you pop your eyes out, let me explain. In America, the cost to transport a piece of furniture is about 70% of the cost of buying a brand new one. Especially if it

Amreeka tales

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:16:30 PST

Ahh, finally I get the time to make a post. I have been itching to get online and update my blog, but have failed to do so everytime. Some of the following updates were what I scribbled down on my notepad to post on my blog, being the procrastinator that I am, didn't post it at all.Hopefully, I'll keep this updated from now on.**********************Waiting at the Chennai airport, I had great fun

Funny Facebook

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:02:58 PDT

Sometimes, Facebook can really play pranks on you. And this has nothing to do with the activities of my friends being totally visible to me.This was a notification on my profile "Last week you were viewed for dating 2 times and no people expressed interest in you. Check your Social Profile12:54am "Hahaha. Man, do those guys know how to poke fun. I don't know how I signed up for that app. Must be

Kamasutra - Yogi B & Natchatra ft Mogethen lyrics

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:51:12 PST

DISCLAIMER:First off, credit for the song & lyrics solely to Yogi B & Natchatra (and /or other folks they've mentioned in their album). I'm reserving the right to this version of the lyrics online. Apologies to the original authors if I've not deciphered the lyrics correctly. No other website's is allowed to copy paste this stuff without mentioning my name or a link to this site. Those not

From Live Writer

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:44:20 PDT

This is a test post of mine. Have started using Live Writer beta version. So far, so good. Hopefully, will post more often now that I have this little thing sitting on my desktop.

Shocking IBNLive.com

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:52:14 PST

I went to IBNLive.com as usual to check if there was any interesting news. To my horror, the website uses an intelligent advertisement display on its homepage. A pop-up ad that configures itself according to top news stories. Somewhat like Google ads.Perched at the top left hand of the home page is the graphic news article about CCTV footage capturing the Delhi bomb blast. Once the website loads,

Placements & Email-ids and other college humour

noreply@blogger.com (Navin) — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:52:52 PST

The most interesting thing to happen during my college time was the Placement tests. Little known companies (um..I remember i-Soft from my college days), dream companies (many consider Infy their dream company to work in) & 'Get-outta-here!' type of companies (Google falls here) were the subject of many a discussion among aspirants. The serious types used to ponder over sample papers & "study"