Funny conversations

We had best times with the professor who taught us Power Electronics and also conducted TY practicals! He is the typical Maharashtrian sir with a heavy local accent... At the Alumni meet last Sunday, me and some of my 2006 batch mates were discussing with Z Sir about how to have such meets annually (once or twice) etc. and lots more (as the college plans to go Autonomous in a year or two). We had a nice time with him for about half hour, following is one of the discussions. These conversations happened in Marathi, will give the best ones in local language... rest will be English.

Sir: Actually, from 2005 batch - one of the girls had her wedding in Indore, MP few days back.
One of us: Oh okay
Sir: And today is the reception of her wedding in Mumbai, hence only 10-12 from that batch have come.
Few of us: Oh okay
Sir: Yes, rest of the lot have gone there. "Aata kaay aahe naa, lagna he ek'daach honaar naa, aaplya department chi meeting tar kadhi hi tarvu shakto" (Translation : Her wedding is going to happen only once, department meetings can be held anytime)
Few of us: Aaj kaal asa kaahi shakya naahi (Translation: These days even that is not predictable)
Sir: Ho... pan aapan asa tarvun gheuya, ekhaadach (Translation : Right, but lets all assume its once)

Sir told that there were current batch students who did a perfect mimicry of him, then we told ... we were doing the same an hour back during refreshments within our group!!

Alumni meet

It was a worthwhile evening at the Alumni meet on the eve of Electronics Dept celebrating 25 years!! Met few friends after long and had a great time catching up with professors. Though we are the recent 3-4 year old batches, we got to see the first batch of 1988 (pass outs) as well. Looking forward to 125th yr celebrations of (whole) Fergusson College on 2nd of Jan 2010! NMK Sir (he was the professor for computer h/w & networking subject (only for my batch), he is now Vice-Principal heading the Science faculty) informed us the whole campus is going to be lit up in the evening... the old stone buildings is going to be a charm! Will be time for some photography and hanging around with friends again.

Dreams do come true

Five years of passion for music, two years of slogging in IT services, about a year and half of preparing for the dream and losing one in it... and now four months of my patience testing gets over after writing an entrance exam...
My dream sees a day!!! (News is unofficial for now, officially will get confirmed in a week or two)

No More Bhopals

Its been 25 years of courage and 25 years to Bhopal Tragedy...
and people are still suffering from gas-related diseases in Bhopal. Here is the video song of 'No More Bhopals'

I came across a band called 'Karnatriix' at Landmark when I picked up a copy of their album 'Namaste' early last year - same time when Raghu Dixit Project was was recommended to me by Ajit, and I noticed another band/ album by the name Swarathma by EMI (Record Label). So after getting hooked to Entharo and other tracks of the album by Karnatriix, I did research on the Internet about the band, I had come across a song 'No More Bhopals' by John Anthony (guitarist of the band). Here is the link to download audio of the song - 'No More Bhopals'. Last year (2008) in December, there was a theme concert 'Justice Rocks' at Chennai for the same. This year (2009), after lots of requests by music lovers, The Hindu canceled the associate sponsorship offered by the killer company Dow for the Friday Review November Fest concerts... as Dow Chemicals is the company who acquired the company Union Carbide India Ltd. responsible for Bhopal Gas Tragedy 25 years ago.

Kurbaan... waste of time!

Kurbaan was like watching New York again. What a waste of my vetti time last night at Inox!
Wondering what will that SRK fellow do in 'My Name is Khan' to make it different.
Got to catch up with two more movies this week... Sukhaanth (Marathi) and the hyped 2012 for VFX only!

Watched 'Whats your Rashee' - liked it for the marriage/astrology related jokes/aspects (true to some extent)!!
I have to watch 'Kaminey' as well this week (managed to get DivX of both these movies from cousin K).
Apart from this am tired of burning DVDs, I have already burned about 200 gig of English movies in the past 6 months... and have 100 something more to be burnt... and my Dad is behaving like a kid, today morning his dialogue was - "Why are the movies lying just like that in your hard-disk? Give them to me in DVDs." I told him that the DVD-Writer is not functioning (some reason), and he was ready to fund to buy a new writer the next moment. He never gave such an instant-reaction (How I wish he had !!) when I asked him to buy me that Camlin 0.5 lead pencil instead of the regular Apsara-black some 15 yrs back.

Ya Allah - The Laya Project

This was the first song I ever heard in Tamil-language about 'Allah' - I have this track as part of The Laya Project album for over a year now. This song is also included in the album 'Nagore Sessions' released few months back, both albums are by Earthsync Productions. Location of recording is the Nagore Dargah in Nagapattinam (TN), India. Nagore was one of the places affected by Tsunami in Dec 2004. Another song available is The Saint, from the album Nagore Sessions.

Know more about THE LAYA PROJECT :-)

I was to visit Andaman Islands in Dec 2004 (from 20th - 28th) with my family. We were late in making plans, and could not do bookings for accommodation, even Mom could not find help with SBI guest houses. So we dropped the idea of going there, and had visited Rajasthan (Jodhpur, Jaisalmer, Ajmer, Mount Abu) and later landed in Amhedabad at my Dad's cousin's place for few days (this was from 12th to 22nd Dec). My bro flew back to his base Hyderabad (then) and on way back to Pune from Ahmedabad with my parents, I made a decision midway to get down at Kalyan and went off to Thane on 22nd Dec... and on 23rd December,visited Titwala (after 10 years) along with my cousin bro and his family! The Ghoda-gaadi rides enjoyed after long, and more-so nephews enjoyed it a lot. On 24th morning, headed to Powai to attend Mood Indigo at IIT, where my college friends had already arrived... and also met up with three folks from the Iyers community of Orkut (yea, we guys used to meet up then and have hell loads of fun!!) that noon... It was fun for two days at Powai... and on 26th morning... tired and almost dead I traveled in a Lal Dibba (ST Bus) towards Pune... had no clue that Tsunami happened down South and in other countries throughout the journey... only after reaching home at noon 12, I got to know about it!! Rest .. whole world knows!!

Abbey - Aye Sanam Mere

Abbey - This singer gave this hit song in 1999 and later sang Khallas with Asha Bhosle (in Company) and then disappeared !!
He also performed the song Todenge Phodenge with Vedic Chant in Channel [V] Jammin' series.



Those days of music on MAGNASOUND (a record label) and BMG Crescendo: What songs they were!!!