Falling in love, for the first time

It does seem improbable. Unrealisitic. Almost Utopian. But it has happened. I feel the knot in my tummy. I feel happiness. I feel gleeful. I feel content. I feel funny. I feel happier than ever. And that, my friends, is referred to as ‘Love’ . And, my friends are the ones who actually inferred it as ‘Love’.

It is official – I’m in love with Vinokur from NYC.

The online Ditch

I was supposed to meet a certain Scotsman on a date. I was very disappointed when he returned my message saying that he’s not interested because he thought that he was not appropriate for him. I can’t think of a reason. That shouldn’t have happened. I want an explanation and he has not given it to me.

This is a big disappointment after the much-heralded ‘Back to Sex’ weekend got publicized in my close-friends-circle a few days back.

Now, I’ll have to find solace in something called voice-chatting with my new ‘cyber-lover’ from NYC.

Online friends and things

I realize that I live a big part of life in the internet. Blogging, chatting, C2C affairs etc. Something which will be considered almost pathological amongst shrinks and self-help websites.

Now, I’ve started something different. Talking to my e-friends online on Skype. Yesterday I talked for a couple of hours to a new guy called Alan. Oh the conversation is so interesting! I was captivated by the content. This is fun.

Movies and moving ahead in life

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Wednesday) was the only movie that I saw in the past week. I had expected quite a lot but it turned out to be a disappointment mainly because of the fact that I hate unsure adolescent minds. I think it’s part of the hate that I have about myself! 😉

Rating – 3 out of 5.

Apart from that, I’m looking forward to this great weekend that I’m hoping to have when I re-start my dating!

Practice with a metronome

Every bloody website on guitar says this. Over and over again. They make you feel like you have been heinous criminal all throughout our lives for not doing it. That’s was part reason by I did buy a metronome. And now it’s wonderful. Everything’s on the click. And I realize that I’m very good at playing with it. No real problem. But my right hand technique on the bass) still requires a lot of training.

And something else – This metronome has it’s beeps tuned to the note of B. That’s unheard of, everything is A as far as I have known.

The metronome and the headset – another impulsive evening

Okay. So me and E-boi finish up the debts that we have had the music-instrument store that we frequent. Sumit’s giving back the money that he owes me. That would mean that I would be really rich as compared to the pathetic situation that I’m always in.

In the same breath, almost, I have to say I figured out how it goes. Impulsive buying – something like a pathologic disorder. We go walk on the Fashion street teeming with Mallus who are decided on selling you everything from Perfumes to Porn DVD movies.

And like 60 year old dignified Daddies (;)), we walk past all of them, ignoring them with an air of dignified indifference. We walk past the music store again run by a Mallu without even bothering to turn our heads. In a spontaneous effort hovering dangerously close to conspiracy, the familiar bearded guy from the shop, who almost looks like the Mallu ‘Jesus Christ’, call out aloud – ‘Hey, guys aren’t you checking in and seeing the new stuff we have?’.

We are polite. Yeah, we are. Both me and E-boi. Another Mallu inviting us meant that we had to go. We went in. And the rest, as they say, is history.

In about 12 minutes and 24 seconds, we purchased 5 grands worth of stuff like a headphone set, metronomes, strings etc.

After having checked them out at leisure just before this post, I feel happy and satisfied. Brilliant stuff. Stuff that could make a differece in my life.

But I’m still broke.

Amazing websites

I discovered three separate websites in this last 24 hours which are brilliant in their own right. Each could easily be discoveries of a month on one of those computer magazines.

  • Expert Village.com: This brilliant website features amateur videos fo self-appointed experts from all walks of life for free. So much of stuff to learn that you’ll be feeling like an idiot when you realize that it has beena around for some time. I found it out after a stupid argument with E-boi on how to play the jembe. There are 20 or so different videos with Jembe lessons here!
  • InsideHomeRecording.com: A website with brilliant podcasts featuring two professional musicians on Recording music at home. It has amazing content with reviews, how-tos, interviews of recording artists on a monthly basis. Obviously it’s been around for a long time. It’s very interesting to listen to to. And the quality of the recording make me feel like buying a condenser microphone.
  • G8 – collection of photographs: A random websearch on something led me to this amazing website featuring photographs which are so beautiful to look at that you will want to learn more about the art of photography. It’s a collaborative website with contributions from many photographers.

Sivaji – the leader of Tamil Entertainment

After 2 weeks since it’s release, I was ashamed of not having seen the biggest movie of the year in terms of Box-Office numbers. I’m talking about the Rajanikant movie Sivaji. I wanted to watch it in Aurora. But fate made me and E-boi watch it at an exorbitantly priced Rs. 200/- ticket at Metro Adlabs.

For the movie, it had everything that you expected out of a Rajni flicks. Gimmics, Surreal fights, Stupid dance sequences and a demi-godly attitdue of the protagonist. I should say that I didn’t have too much fun. But being a South Indian, I had to watch it. And I did! It gets 1* for the way it is.

Jembe, Guitar Stand and Tambourines

Our collection of musical instruments is deemed to explode cuz When it comes to buying musical stuff, there is no one who could challenge us. Me and E-boi bought a jembe, a cheap 3-guitar guitar stand and Tambourines today evening and we went to Vikkie’s place for our jam. WOW, now the prospect of acoustic recordings is great.