Every so often, I like to go to the window, look up, and smile for a satellite picture.

What she said !

2015-04-24T11:40:00.001+05:30

A simple reminder of all the stuff the lil one is saying :)

* Juzzz for Juice
* Led for Red

-8 steps from the door !

2014-02-10T14:30:00.000+05:30

In response to http://mythsramblings.blogspot.in/2014/02/the-joys-of-flashback.html

The last time I watched a first day first show of a movie without bothering about reviews and hype was “Band Baaja Baaraat “ and it was entertaining . So was Hasee toh Phassee sometimes you just know it’s going to be a fun movie.

Yep it was fun, I got to spend 2 hours with my daughter with no disturbances at all - apart from the time the lil lady wanted to see the popcorn kernels go – POP .

>> I have to mention this song – very catchy ! Watch the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVkU8dDSC9w

I said I wasn’t gonna lose my head

But then pop! Goes my heart

(Pop! Goes my heart)

I wasn’t gonna fall in love again

But then pop! Goes my heart

(Pop! Goes my heart)

So there we were 5 minutes into the movie ,the lil lady was mesmerized by the big screen, the laughing crowd and the smells of popcorn( oops that was me) and then it got too much for her and she let me know bubbly eyes and heart wrenching wail . I had to stand on the stairs holding and swaying her and ended up spending the next 2 hours at Step 5- from the door and sometimes especially during song sequences step -8 ( 8 steps outside the door). I won't deny the fact that we were dancing or in our case- shaking a couple of legs and 1 small booty to that Punjabi song. We ended up watching the movie ( the most part) with the popcorn boys. Sadly they did not share their popcorn.

I was not annoyed when my wife pointed out ( last count 18 , add a few more because I stopped counting after the first 30 minutes of the movie ) that the new kid on the block Mr Sidharth Malhotra was charming and a hulk ; because annoyance is an unpleasant mental state that is characterized by such effects as irritation and distraction from one's conscious thinking. I was not going to be “annoyed” no way !

The movie turned out to be a fast paced love story with several “Oh “ moments and the songs were all Hip and Happening .

My Stamp !

2013-02-16T20:26:00.000+05:30

Philately a common word you will find under the section Hobbies. Well I used to collect stamps when I was little, trading stamps from Srilanka for stamps of Vietnam and even coins for stamps. I liked the triangular and 3D stamps of Yemen :). I think they are called lenticular stamps.

I still remember a simple conversation with a colleague in Australia on the joys of Philately and a few weeks later she sent me an envelope which had a whooping 227 Australian and Papua New Guinean stamps. God bless her soul!

I wanted to surprise my wife with her own personalized stamps for her birthday,it turns out the “entry form” needed her signature and so I had to be satisfied with giving one of my own passport photos. The whole process took just a couple of minutes + Rs 300/- ( it did include running around the GPO to find a Xerox vendor- for a Photocopy of my ID).Soon I had 12 of my own personalized stamps !

Hah , who said you have to be famous to have your photo on a stamp.

The other thing I did was become a member of the Bangalore Philately Club, looking forward to my first stamps :). Maybe I’ll even get a few scented stamps , I think they released three different fragrances — sandal, rose and jasmine.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966

2012-11-27T13:53:00.001+05:30

Date : Sep 16th 2005.

It all started with a simple sms that I received a couple of days ago.
"I had an accident and almost killed a tatha.Windshield broke into a million pieces "

Vc: What happened?

Dee: I was thinking of Mr. A (She's been married just over a month and Mr. A packed his bags and went off to Swiss .The minute his flight was in the air, she was throwing a kitty party ... I'm sure she'll make it into the upcoming edition of the local PAGE 3.)

Dee: And suddenly this old tatha came out of nowhere and I had to apply brakes.I think I hit him( it seems she closed her eyes, typical). The windshield shattered (How? that cannot be explained, Ripley's believe it or not have been contacted). I really thought I killed him. A crowd gathered and I was so afraid.

Vc: Is he? I mean did you?

Dee: No he was all right, the people were so understanding they consoled me and told me it was not my fault. The old man was all right but still I took him to the nearest hospital in an auto. I was crying and the old man was screaming " Narayana Narayana " .I thought his hip was fractured. At the Hospital I was advised by the auto driver not to mention that it was an accident. I looked at the old man and he understood what he had to do. You know he told the doctor that he fell down. (Sniff sniff). That &@#** Doctor kept asking if it was an accident .He kept giving me shady glances. You know what he said?

Vc: What??

Dee: Why are you so nervous? Did you run him down? #$%#$ Doctors.
Vc: Uhahahhahaa then what happened?

Dee: Thank God, he just had a bruise and the doctor gave a couple of painkillers. I then took him home and he consoled me (it seems she just couldn't stop crying) and told me that he had a feeling that something was going to go wrong today. He was so nice; you know he is 71 years old. Sniff. He promised me that he wouldn't lodge a case with the police. No complaints no case.( was she smiling ?? )

Vc: What happened to the car?

Dee: Oh my FIL and me went to the police station and the Inspector asked me to get a No Objection Certificate from the Iyer tatha. Did I tell you that he was an Iyer ? You know I wanted to stay back and look after him, it seems his wife was visiting relatives in Chennai and he was all-alone. Later as we( FIL and me) were walking towards the accident spot, this roadside vendor approached us and said " Madam it was not your fault, I saw the whole accident. If required I will come to court as a witness" .That was so touching.

Vc: What was he selling ?

Dee: I think he owned a roadside bhonda bhajji shop.( Similar to Bhaaji of the pav bhaaji fame)

Vc: Wow .. Dee how come you have all the fun ?
Dee: Because I am hip and Happening .
Vc: Yeah right !! and people come running to help you ??? what's the funda there?
Dee: Oh they recognize an Angel when they see one..
Vc: @##@$@#$# Angel … Hmmm Dee.. did the tatha have a charming and beautiful granddaughter ? ( Vc smiles ).

If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies. ~Author Unknown

2012-11-21T13:28:00.006+05:30

When I was 4 I wanted to be Farmer – well sort of a tractor driver- when I grew up. Maybe I was influenced by the farm in front of my house . As time went by I dreamed of becoming a pilot.

I remember writing this in reply to one of our essays in school- What is your ambition in life ? Air force Pilot.

25 years later am I a pilot, Nope. It was close, especially when I was onboard a KF flight and they had given 2 people the same seat number and I was left stranded. The flustered air hostess asked me to sit in any vacant seat. I was angry and said “Maybe the pilot seat’s vacant”. Grr.

I knew someone who wanted to be a true hero helping people, he is now head of a Customer Support team – helping real people. As times change, reality sets in and not many have the urge to go where no man has gone before.

I am sure all my classmates have done something different , unique and extraordinary in life : An archaeologist , A nun, A detective, An Artist or even a life saving surgeon.

Hanging by a moment

2012-11-06T14:30:00.002+05:30

It was the year when India successfully launched APPLE – not the iphone but- Airline Passenger Payload Experiment ,India's first three-axis stabilized experimental communication satellite, using ARIANE launcher.
The year which saw the release of- Raiders of the Lost Ark and the nomination of M*A*S*H to the Emmy's. It was also the year when MS-DOS was invented.

I on the other hand was getting ready to be photographed with my LKG classmates.

I am trying to remember all my classmates who danced, sang and learnt the fundamentals of life with me and also how to make that lollypop last 30 minutes. I call this mission - Memory of Light ( as a tribute to Robert Jordan and the final book of the Wheel of Time series) and hope to touch-base, talk , email or chat with 25 of them before the end of the Mayan Calendar ( Yikes). Its funny that you can recollect all their first names but not the vital and important last name.Arrrgh.

I will be using Facebook and Linkedin to make this happen.

Maybe I will get a chance to say thank you to Ajith for sharing his egg curry and to Machiah for the guavas, Rahul for teaching me how to play scarbble or even Shaheen for influencing me to change my handwriting, Ruben and Nishad for helping me learn how to ride the bicyle.

Geet ,Nitesh, Anand, Roger,Joseph,Sachin ( he ran like a gazelle) Lokesh,Ceema,Julie,Naresh,Ashok,Gopi,Manjunath,Sara,Malavika,Smitha,Maheshwari,Harish,
Ajay,PraveenP,Yogamani, Rathi,Smitha,Vidya,Sreeja,Gayathri,Mahesh,Padmini.

The impossible - what nobody can do until somebody does.

Don't forget to breathe ...

2012-10-22T16:28:00.001+05:30

So I said to the gym instructor: 'Can you teach me to do the splits?' He said: 'How flexible are you?' I said: I can't make Tuesdays.' Courtesy – Google+some weird site.

Continuing from what was to what is : http://vinodc.blogspot.in/2009/10/blessed-are-flexible-for-they-shall-not.html

New Area New Yoga :

I have joined yet another yoga class to enlighten my mind, body and soul. I read somewhere that yoga is believed to calm our mind and soul, free our body from toxins and reduce the degeneration of cells. Well I am not sure if it is working for me. After 6 classes waking up at 5.45 and looking forward to some back breaking and toe touching exercises, do I see the light ? No not yet.

But I can hear the dogs again , well they are relatively closer these days, maybe because of the BBMP strike. Garbage everywhere.

Some of the new exercises that I am learning is Bhramari. You have to keep our two thumbs on two external auditory canal, index and middle finger together on two closed eyes and ring finger on the two sides of the nose. During exhalation you must chant the word "O-U-Mmmma" with a humming nasal sound mimicking the sound of a humming wasp , so that the laryngeal walls and the inner walls of the nostril mildly vibrate. I believe that this will definitely reduce your Blood Pressure. Now can you use this in a project meeting. Of course you can. Just go into the Bhramari pose and Boom! Your BP is down and you are out.

The Yoga center that I go to is run by a lady who was recognized for quitting her “high paying IT job’ and is now taking pains to enrich human life by teaching yoga. Ahem ahem..

I am still in the “new joinee” list and soon will be able to do 40 minutes of nonstop sweating exercises . I wonder if I still have that scar on my toe :) or was in on my knee ??

Q: What do yoga meditation and an apple peeler have in common?

A: They both take you to the core.

My pics from the photowalk

2012-10-18T17:51:00.002+05:30

And walking we will GO !

2012-10-18T16:25:00.001+05:30

I was fortunate enough to be part of the http://worldwidephotowalk.com/ held in more than 100 countries. I was disappointed that none of my friends and colleagues could make it, not for the lack of interest, but as they were not able to wake up at 6.30 am on a Saturday morning.

The leader , who was a young kid, was fashionably late .The group consisting of 31 gathered at Town Hall to start our 2 hour walk through the bylanes of Bangalore. I found it interesting that the group was mostly from the other states,like the Bengali currently pursuing his PhD at IISC, a couple of Android programmers from Pune, a lot of them from the IT bigwigs HP, INFY,WIPRO and IBM primarily from Tamil Nadu and AP.The number of Bangaloreans was less than 8 .It was funny when someone approached us and said that he was new in town and found out about our walk and wanted to know if he could tag along so that he could see the sights of the city, for free. Our leader smiled and said no , invitations were based on registrations only. Well out of the 50 only 31 turned up.

When we got the go ahead, I went along with this guy from AP, new in town and so I acted like the local guide telling him about the buildings and culture of Bangalore.Later we formed a smaller group consisting of a Bengali, a person from Andhra ,a Tamilian and a couple of Kannadigas ( including me). Talk about diversity ;).

I was surprised with the “group shot”. For someone who knew so much about camera’s, the dude who shot it completely ignored the photographers and was focusing more on the ‘building’.Sigh.

Taking snaps of unknown people is so much fun, especially if you are in group. I learnt that people tend to pose and smile naturally if prodded. The street was just waking up and it was fun looking for those small things that we usually miss. Most of them went for “portraits” and a few for those obtuse angle shots of people and animals.

The bystanders were caught unawares, but curiosity always wins . They approached us and asked us a lot of “pointed questions” like : Why this road ? What will you do with the photographs ? Are you from the Government? Are you from the Media ? and so on. It always ended up with ‘Take a photo of me” J

One passerby wanted to know the difference between Photo day and Photograph day J . I still remember a cop coming up and asking what was going on and we had to show our bands ( Thank God) and explain about the World Photowalk.It seems some person actually shouted at a few of the “walkers” and asked them not to take photos of the drainage and filth and that they were showing Bangalore in a “bad light”. Reality Sucks. When we were waiting for others to join in, the owner of a nearby hotel approached us and asked why we were standing there with cameras :) , maybe he was afraid we would take photos and inform the Health department.

We ended our walk – tired and hungry- at the Udupi Sri Krishna Bhavan. Yummy Masala Dosa and sweet IdliVada Sambar .

Later that evening I saw the pics that were being uploaded and was shocked. The pics were amazing ! I have decided to take my friends on a walk too J

Change the channel.

2012-10-11T13:22:00.001+05:30

Change is a bunch of coins which sum up to the value of a paper note

Change is what a chameleon does when it sees a dragonfly on a green leaf.

Change is what we do after a hard day’s work.

Change is what differentiates us from the sea.

Change is what happened to Dhoni’s hairstyle.

Change is what happens if you don't keep the milk in the refrigerator,overnight.

Change is what we look for every day.

Change before you have to.

Tales of Battani, the pea

2012-09-26T11:01:00.002+05:30

It’s the annual school day and the “play” was Bhaktha Prahlad.

The kids who were supposed to play Hiranyakashyap and Prahlad had a fight and were not on speaking terms ( it was the scent rubber , Oh!! come-on Strawberry flavor). The scene they were performing had Hiranyakashyap questioning Prahlad about Lord Hari and his very existence. You do know that Hirnakashyap, wanting eternal power, asked Brahma to grant him with a Vardaan, a boon,that his death not be caused by man or beast, with a weapon or without a weapon, during the day or the night, indoors or outdoors, on earth or in the sky.

The stage is set , with “the Narasimha “ avatar ( naah it’s Battani, the kid, ) hiding in the 3^rd pillar. The script was written in such a way that Hiranyakashyap was supposed to break pillar 1,then pillar 3 and then at last pillar 2. So the play goes on and ….

Hiranyakashyap: Uhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhahhaaaaaaaaaaaa Prahlad come here…you keep harping about your Lord Hari, tell me is he everywhere ..

Prahlad: Yes my Lord!

Hiranyakashyap: Ooooooooho. .is he ..umm. Is he in this pillar ? ( points to pillar 1)

Prahlad: Yes my Lord !

Hiranyakashyap picks up his “mace” and WHAM breaks pillar 1 .. and roars"Uhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhaa Oho Now let me see your LORD burst through this pillar”. ( pillar 3)so saying he sits down on the floor glaring at Prahlad and twirling his fake mustache.

Prahlad is shocked !! the Drama/PT master is shocked, Narasimha who was supposed to materialize out of pillar 2, panics and wants to go to the loo ……. he runs out of the backdoor,makes an exit from the stage,takes a wrong turn and finds himself in-between the audience . He smiles and touches a shoulder “psst Raj move move make way “ and approaches the stage and shouts “ Oye demon king, pull me up “.. Hiranyakashyap is bemused but pulls him up..and looks on …Prahlad bows and gives a 60 watt smile and winks at Sheela.

Narasimha roars ” GRRRRRRRRRRRR Oye Hiranyakashyap do you think I’m your house servant to obey you and come out of the pillar that you point out ? Haaaaaaaaaaak thu…….. I am NARASIMHA I can come out of whatever I want , even from the audience………..Hah!!

The audience is roaring in laughter and applauds Battani for his quick thinking !!

2012-07-30T09:55:00.001+05:30

Keep your mouth closed until your mind is in gear.

Yet to comprehend the hidden meaning of the song : Kabhi from the band Josh.

Is haseen samay ki yeh raaht

Samhaj me aane lagi
Ban jaayegi yeh kushi
Mil jaayegi yeh kushi
kitne samay guzar gaye
bichad gaye samay
ban jaayegi yeh zameen

The Magic Boyz

2011-07-18T21:40:00.000+05:30

The Magic Boys: Well that’s how my mom knows Harry and Ron. I had the privilege of reading the Prisoner of Azkaban (3rd book) in the year 2000, before book 1 or 2 and was wondering what all the hoopla was about. Here we are eleven years later and I guess my imagination of the fight scenes is so much better and colorful than Mr. David Yates (Director of the Deathly Hallows).

We are back after watching the Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 and we did shed a couple of tears ( well the 3D glasses were so bad or was it the screen) for Snape and for Neville. I would love to understand how someone who has not read the books liked and understood the movie series. I bet they would act as if they were hit by the Confundus Charm)

The movie did have its 3D moments but sadly I can’t remember them . I still rate Lord of the Rings- the book much higher than the HP series or for that manner any other book. The Wheel of Time comes a close second.

Someday in the near future I will do a movie marathon- all 8 movies in a day. I think I liked it much better when we did not know how it would all end and every Ram, Sham and Gansham speculating if Snape was gay or if Malfoy was Harry’s step bro and of course if Dumbledore was alive even after being hit by the spell -avada kedavra. Aaah those were the days. I am sure Rowling aunty will come up with the next season of Harry Potter or is it going to be Albus Severus Potter .

So long , Wingardium Leviosa (Levitation Charm) Vc launches into the night sky.

Chicken roooooool

2011-01-29T20:24:00.000+05:30

For the forearms :)

2010-11-25T17:02:00.000+05:30

@ the Leela

2010-11-06T11:16:00.000+05:30

An Indian goddess

2010-11-06T11:15:00.000+05:30

Lifeu istene

2010-11-06T10:59:00.000+05:30

A good movie to watch when you have lots of Soda and popcorn...

ಮತ್ತದೇ ಫಿಲಾಸಾಫಿಕಲ್ ಡೈಲಾಗುಗಳು, ಮರುಕಳಿಸುವ ಗಡ್ಡಧಾರಿ ಹೀರೋಗಳು; ಚಡ್ಡಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಓಡಾಡುವ ಹುಡುಗಿಯರು, ಕಡ್ಡಿ ಮುರಿದಂತೆ ಮಾತಾಡುವ ಹುಡುಗರು; ಸಂಬಂಧವಿಲ್ಲದ ಹಾಡುಗಳು, ಸಂಬಂಧಿಕರ ಪಾಡುಗಳು; ಮುತ್ತಿನಂಥ ಮಾತುಗಳು, ಮರೆತುಹೋಗುವ ಕಥೆಗಳು; ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಮಧ್ಯೆ ಸುಂದರ ಲೋಕೇಷನ್‍ಗಳು, ಕೊನೆ ಕೊನೆಗೆ ಕಥೆಯ ವೆಕೇಷನ್‍ಗಳು; ಗುರುವರ್ಯ, ಮಾತು ಚಿನ್ನ, ಕಥೆಗೆ ಕನ್ನ; ಬೇರೆ ಏನಾದರೂ ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಬಾರದೇ? from http://bellitere.com/pancharangi-movie-review.html

Aaaaaaaaakrosh .. the anger ? Why did i Download it ? WHY Y Y

2010-10-29T08:56:00.000+05:30

I think it was because of Ajay and his crooked stance.Ofcourse it was a bad print what do you expect 2 days after the release , duh ?

It has some touching scenes, like this one.. Ajay throws a couple of coins and.. you have to see it.
But the main action scene is when Ajay D goes looking for a rowdy who has never been arrested. He goes to the local bazaar, and .."Chotu ek plate biryani, tandoori, kaabab, ..he goes on and orders like 10 chicken items, some I never knew even existed. The kid comes back in like seconds with the order, and Ajay takes just the kababs and says " baaki, " T " ( the rowdy ) go de aur kaho Pratap ne bejaa". The kid goes through the crowd, AD follows him and can you believe it he did not even eat them..Grr.. He finds the rowdy, takes out his gun, "Chup Chap mere saath thane chal", A gun is pointed at AD's head, Another gun comes out of no where, enter Mr Akshay and he says " Gun please" someone fires and the rowdy escapes thru the roof or was it the window.

So thus starts the most amazing chase through gullies,using windows, roof tops, houses, toilets, dhobi ghats, cycles trucks , vegetable shops, uff. too good and atlast they catch him , well corner him. And the most super duper thing happens, hold your breath , BOOOM he is killed by a slow moving Sumo :) .

I was hoping it would make it to The Greatest Chase Sequences of course Tom and Jerry is also not on that site :)

At last a new series : The Death Gate Cycle written by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

2010-05-19T20:36:00.000+05:30

Ages ago, sorcerers of unmatched power sundered a world into four realms--sky, stone, fire, and water--then vanished. Over time, magicians learned to work spells only in their own realms and forgot the others. Now only the few who have survived the Labyrinth and crossed the Death Gate know of the presence of all four realms--and even they have yet to unravel the mysteries of their severed world....

In Arianus, Realm of Sky. humans. elves, and dwarves battle for control of precious water-traversing a world of airborne islands on currents of elven magic and the backs of mammoth dragons. But soon great magical forces will begin to rend the fabric of this delicate land. An assassin will be hired to kill a royal prince--by the king himself. A dwarf will challenge the beliefs of his people--and lead them in rebellion. And a sinister wizard will enact his plan to rule Arianus--a plan that may be felt far beyond the Realm of Sky and into the Death Gate itself.
After 10 months I got to read something interesting :) I am off to Blossoms to get the next book in the series " Elven Star".

"When Tendulkar goes out to bat, it is beyond chaos - it's a frantic appeal by a nation to one man"-- Mathew Hayden

2010-04-18T09:08:00.000+05:30

Today was a day in which I learnt how to say 1 to 10 in Japanese, a stranger called me charming ( eew), I walked past a supposedly bomb blast, screamed my lungs out for RCB, saw God waving at me and to top it all I got wet in the rain :) , aaah April Showers.

At 4am, I got a call from GP ( no relation what-so-ever with Kevin Pietersen) asking me if I was interested in attending the RCB vs MI match ;) , I jumped at it but before that I had a lot of stuff to do including attend a training session, get the bike from service centre ,buy a memory card,eat some chicken wings, uff.

Yep I learnt how to say ek do teen, char paanch che saath in Japanese  its Ichy knee, san shee, GO rook, shichi haaaaachi kyuu juuuuu .

At 2.30pm, I ran to the stadium ( I can’t say I skipped and went tralalalala can I ? ). When I was a km away , I heard a blast very similar to a “lakshmi bomb” .l thought it was crackers and even stamped over the evidence I guess. Going ino the stadium was an adventure in itself, the colorfully painted RCB faces, the flags the zoozoooos, people asking if I had extra tickets uff.

The match was delayed for an hour and “you know why” and it was quite an experience sitting on those stone slabs. The atmosphere was amazing and the only thing I missed was the commentators saying the words, Karrbun kaaamaal catch and it’s a City moment of Successsss. I did get the local commentary” lo eee nan maaklu singles thogondu thogondu saitha idaare” and I could easily predict where Rahul would be hitting the next ball. At certain points of the match, I thought I was in a Chennai local train, vendors blocking my view while selling pepsi, samosa, something called cold coffee, ice creams and ofcourse lays lays lays.

The chants just kept on coming !!

RCB RCB , Rahul Rahul Sachin Sachin ..boss we can’t chant Uthaaaapaaaa Uthappppaa nor can we say Kaaaaaaaalis Kaaaalis..

A huge thank you to MC Rahul Kapoor and the local DJ’s who had the crowd dancing to the oldie goldie tapanguchiii songs and ofcourse for helping us get the Mexican Wave right  .

A paragraph on Sachin ? Naah.Earlier that day, I overheard a conversation in which a dude was proudly announcing that he thought Sachin was God and he drinks Pepcee because Sachin endorses it !!. Naresh enquired “ But you do realize that it is bad and that they use it as a toilet cleaner ?”. The fan’s answer was that it didn’t matter. Uff if that was duh !!, the fans in the stadium chanted his name continuously until he turned around and acknowledged them. ( hello ! I was compelled to do it, mass hysteria and all ;) …)

I felt I was in Tirupathi, waiting in line for the Lord’s darshan.Yep long queues and high security. Ofcourse the biggest difference is that Lord Venki won’t be waving back at you , will he ? ( wink wink).

The fans cheered for every four and six but the RCB cheer leaders were a class apart , the fans went berserk when they made an entrance and ironically it was the girls in the stadium who were more interested in them :) . Sachin’s son got a huge applause as well. And if you thought we cheered when Sachin got out you are mistaken, it was a cumulative sigh :) .

It was fun to see the superman of cricket (for his flying abilities) Johnty Rhodes cleaning the pitch (he picked up a couple of bottles that the players had left behind).

If you are wondering what they do during the breaks I have a snap which explains it all ;)

I am looking forward to the next match, yep I am hooked :) RCB RCB RCB

go chipkoo go go..

2010-04-12T22:00:00.000+05:30

One day ----

2010-04-12T21:24:00.001+05:30

http://www.chinatour.com/attraction/beijing/panjiayuan.htm

Films i won't miss ;)

2010-04-11T14:39:00.000+05:30

Down memory Lane..

2010-04-11T13:17:00.002+05:30

The year -2005.

Shiny Disco Disco Disco Balls.

At the inauguration of our new Office campus , we had invited DJ Lloyd and Oh! some ministers and the Police Commissioner too but... let's skip that for now and go to the interesting part. Girls...
Yep lots of them in all sizes,color,shapes and ages. Haii.. one looked so much like Steffi Graf.

Well I did get a few shocks...like when this young beautiful lady came up to me, looking lost .I asked her if there was a problem and she smiled and said she wanted a balloon .Well her wish was my command and so I rushed to my cubicle and gave her the one which was hanging on my monitor. She was delighted .. you should have seen her face .. she thanked me and said " It's for my son " .... you should have seen my face.

After lunch and some 4 cups of ice-cream , it was the DJ's turn to entertain us and boy was he good. He started off with my fav " Teri tho Teri tha " from the Bombay Rockers .

The sound system was amazing ... and the Dance floor was filled with all types of people .. kids got the most attention.. there was this one kid ..aged 3.. who just jumped up and down for like 2 hours. I’m sure at the end of the day, he lost a couple of pounds :).

DJ Lloyd cleverly mixed and matched the songs and then I realized that being a DJ was all about taste .... and Huge Monstrous Speakers.. He played all the regular songs apart from 1 song, which he refused to divulge ( Grr ). Oh and nowadays its tradition to play a tappangucchi Tamil song ... he played " Manmatharasa " the crowd loved it,, they didn't know which language it was but they loved it .He never played my other fav " What is love " by Haddaway( *#$#@# ) .

Pics later…

Vc's guide to be a DJ :
1. Color your hair white, pink, green,red .. the more "eye-catching" the better.
2. Wear an earring.
3. Chew Gum and keep nodding your head.
4. Get all your DJ mixes from the local National Market for Rs 50.
5. 10,000 watt speakers: beg borrow or steal this is a must.
6. Cross fading software available for download free on the net.
7. I'm eating a peda , want some.
8. A turntable : well the DJ box has everything , so gone are the days when the TT's were a rage.
9. Watch the music channels for the latest R&B hits and use "London’s urban-underground music scene" , "groovy", "Latino ","wicked", "wild" and "Shakira" in your sentences.

Bangalore has so many talented Dj's but the best has got to be DJ IVAN. Listen to his choice of music on 101.3 FM, Saturday 7 to 10 pm. It’s totally wicked !!