There are always some songs which get on top of my head first and those that I have to get somehow and listen. So the latest song which I accidentally heard and then had to find out and download was Euphoria's "Bhoola Tumhe".
The spies around me will somehow find lots of reasons to point out that I was contemplating on something to be appreciating this song but seriously this song deserves a hearing and that too repeated a few times over. Lyrics are simple and perhaps the whole songs is just 6 lines but the music is awesome. One of the usual experiments of what Euphoria calls as Hind Rock.
Will just leave you with the lyrics as pointers to where to download from would be illegal :). Morover I know, those that want it, can get it anyhow.
"Bhoola Sab"
Na na na...(4)
Bhula sab, Bhula tumhe..
Sach tha ya koi sapna, bhool gaya,
Neend main keh ke apna, bhool gaya,
Yaad hai sab haan, jo bhi hua na
Hua hai jo, sab kuch main woh, bhool gaya,
Ab nahin tere geet, ab nahin tu mera meet,
Bhula sab, bhula jahan, bhula tumhe
Ab nahin ??? raat, ab na hogi taaro se baat,
Bhula sab, bhula jahan, bhula tumhe
Sham ka karke waada, bhool gaya,
Yaad hai kuch kuch zyada, bhool gaya,
Aaine main jo, dekha tha tujhko
Maine kaha, ye bhi main haan, bhool gaya,
Ab nahin tera zeher, ab nahin mujhe koi darr
Bhula sab, bhoola jahan, bhoola tumhe
Ab nahin ??? raat,Ab na hogi woh pyari baat,
Bhula sab, bhoola jahan, bhoola tumhe
Jo tere saath guzaare the, woh lamhe sach much pyare the,
Lekin woh itne saare the, yaad rakhna bolo aakhir unme kis kis ko
Bhulana tha aasan, bhula unhe
Bhula sab, bhoola jahan, bhoola tumhe
Bhula dhun, Bhule geet
Ab nahin tere geet, ab nahin tu mera meet,
Bhula sab, bhoola jahan, bhoola tumhe
Ab nahin tera zeher, ab nahin mujhe koi dar
Bhula sab, bhoola jahan, bhoola tumhe
Lyrics seem incomplete (Some question marks left) but this is what I could get off the net. I think hardly anyone has noticed this song. We'll have to wait till they are released on the official website of Euphoria. As some site I was looking also pointed out, they even have their songs mp3 for download on their own site which lets you download without bugging registrations. I like the free spirit.
Technorati Tags: Euphoria, Music
7/23/2006
7/18/2006
Go Metro?
The hot sun, staring at me, wakes me up as if its trying to lift my eyelids up and poke a finger in my eyes. There is hot dust around me and I am not on my bed, I am at the changeover bus stop called peck road, waiting for my next connecting bus to office. Worst of all I am as sleepy as one is when he just puts the tooth brush in his mouth in the morning. The bus stop!! Is just one pole which reads the bus number (interestingly not even the stop name). Its difficult to feel this harsh on the morning Sun unless one sees it for himself, how hot or pinching is morning 7:30 Sun in dry California. The 35 mins in the first bus used to be so sleepy that it was almost as if being thrown out of the bus while you were sleeping.I used to see this advertisement daily in the bus which said, "Free yourself, go metro". Well! Irony has never been fun at such times but some times I used to analyze what freedom one would get if he chose metro. Here's what I could get:
First of all metro wasn't a choice, I had to choose it because that was the only means to my office. I think in my most previous sojourns also I never made a choice for public transport. Public transport generally is not a choice by conventional wisdom, choosing a luxurious transport is rather. Well for here, its a little opposite. I researched the LA area metro pamphlets, website, maps and understood the value of the shortest path algorithm finally. Not that it could have solved any problem if I had studied it properly, only thing is that considering all the options in this world from my home to office there was only one way by changing a bus in between, both run by different companies, both honoring different monthly passes and most helpfully, different offical times and late timings. So very often my ~1 hour travel time used to translate into ~1 hour 40 mins: courtesy late/missing buses. Also the frequency of the office hours buses is 30 mins (and very intelligently these buses keep to their 30 mins frequency even when there would be no one using them whole day).
So to the traveler, who has become wise and become free I would suggest to get a backpack and keep the following stuff at all times of travel: Food (muffins/fruits), an umbrella for these 40 mins wait in the sun, something to read if you can do that in the sun and headphones to avoid distraction from other free spooky travelers.
So wisdom says, gas prices have gone up, freeways are choked etc and one should use metro only. I would say please go ahead and tell me when you see one wise or free man traveling with you. As for me it was none less than a freedom struggle to free myself from this metro!! For me the campaign always used to read "Go metro? Free yourself (rather)"
7/13/2006
Zidane vs Materazzi
| It must have been a difficult decision to ruin one's career ending moment. Tolerate or get a red card. He has now even gone and apologized to the children of France who might feel ashamed of him. Its better to be right than to be courteous and safe. This video might have been made by zidane lovers and in football it might also not be that tough to show any player a villian considering the physical game it becomes at times. But even without that one could judge that materazzi must have asked for it and got what he deserved. My only message to Zidane: Arre khopche main le ke kharcha paani dena tha, faaltu main itna publicity liya. | |
7/12/2006
Are Indians not unanimous?
As Americans are waking up to the fact that India too has terrorism problems I had a discussion with an inquisitive American on the recent Mumbai blasts. Well every meeting I went to today had people questioning me on how are Indians taking it. I guess if it was America, atleast a dozen Pakistani cities would have been bombed by the time they saw the morning. Well, I had to explain them, its India and we've been facing this kind of things since two decades if not more.
The discussion went on long with my Indian colleagues pouring in their own ideas. We kind of flooded them with loads of data each one had but what he had to say was that in his talks with many Indians what he figures out is that Indians have lots of conflicting ideas or thoughts about any thing. Leave that what data he gets to hear from all of us is mostly different.
On that I think he was not all that wrong. At the same time each channel in India gives different number of blasts, different death toll and we are kind of used to that as we know anyhow the figures are more grim and plus or minus one anyhow does not make any difference. Truth about this, what I understand, is that truly we Indians are first of all not at all politics people. We generally don't care about politics of the country, 50% don't even vote and as the latest example we see here is that most Mumbaikars would be leading a normal life without even forcing their government to apologize for the security lapse.
And while all these things happen, at one of the million chai shops in UP we would be discussing gossips about India/Pakistan/Kashmir/Bollywood and what not without even caring of its accuracy.
That's India
The discussion went on long with my Indian colleagues pouring in their own ideas. We kind of flooded them with loads of data each one had but what he had to say was that in his talks with many Indians what he figures out is that Indians have lots of conflicting ideas or thoughts about any thing. Leave that what data he gets to hear from all of us is mostly different.
On that I think he was not all that wrong. At the same time each channel in India gives different number of blasts, different death toll and we are kind of used to that as we know anyhow the figures are more grim and plus or minus one anyhow does not make any difference. Truth about this, what I understand, is that truly we Indians are first of all not at all politics people. We generally don't care about politics of the country, 50% don't even vote and as the latest example we see here is that most Mumbaikars would be leading a normal life without even forcing their government to apologize for the security lapse.
And while all these things happen, at one of the million chai shops in UP we would be discussing gossips about India/Pakistan/Kashmir/Bollywood and what not without even caring of its accuracy.
That's India
Tinatile??
Being an Indian with not many options for lunch, most of the lunches happen at burger joints like McDonald's or burger king. Don't get me wrong, I am not a vegetarian but somehow my office is in a peculiarly Chinese neighborhood where experimenting can be fatal. I have tried a couple of times things that I had never tried before. Last time I had lunch at such a Chinese/Vietnamese/Japanese joint, the soup bowl was similar to a living pond from which you could fish out living thing possible. It had clams, shrimps, fish, crabs and some of the things I hardly remember name of.
Coming back to Burger joints or similar fast food joints, they have a peculiar process defined even for asking question. That's gone so standard that some day some chimpanzees could be trained to take orders. Well its something not new to me but today's incident opened my eyes a little more. I was off to Burger King and ordered a menu number x with coke and medium fries (I tend to tell whatever they want to avoid time wastage). But the conversation doesn't stop here, she asks me
"tinatile" (she was a Chinese I guess),
I said "What!!"
"tinatile"
I again "What!!!!!!" (With all my ears focusing only on this one word in English)
"tinatile" (what the heck, C'mon if someone is not understanding a sentence their process should have a clause to re-phrase it with some different words but no!!)
I said "I just want this and nothing else."
Well that was the golden answer and then I understood what she was asking was "Anything Else?"
And the last part of the process I kind of guessed rather than making out the Chinese accent.
"For here or to go?".
By this process memorized for all the major joints I think people should be able to answer them in any part of the world. Ask the same questions in Mandarin and I'll shoot the answers now.
My problem would be solved but I just wonder how these people's reflexes in real life be. Guess if the boy friend asked her for a kiss, I bet the answer would be Medium or large? :)
Coming back to Burger joints or similar fast food joints, they have a peculiar process defined even for asking question. That's gone so standard that some day some chimpanzees could be trained to take orders. Well its something not new to me but today's incident opened my eyes a little more. I was off to Burger King and ordered a menu number x with coke and medium fries (I tend to tell whatever they want to avoid time wastage). But the conversation doesn't stop here, she asks me
"tinatile" (she was a Chinese I guess),
I said "What!!"
"tinatile"
I again "What!!!!!!" (With all my ears focusing only on this one word in English)
"tinatile" (what the heck, C'mon if someone is not understanding a sentence their process should have a clause to re-phrase it with some different words but no!!)
I said "I just want this and nothing else."
Well that was the golden answer and then I understood what she was asking was "Anything Else?"
And the last part of the process I kind of guessed rather than making out the Chinese accent.
"For here or to go?".
By this process memorized for all the major joints I think people should be able to answer them in any part of the world. Ask the same questions in Mandarin and I'll shoot the answers now.
My problem would be solved but I just wonder how these people's reflexes in real life be. Guess if the boy friend asked her for a kiss, I bet the answer would be Medium or large? :)
7/11/2006
Bombay's Boom
A recent issue of Time which I happened to see on the stalls and picked up had this cover story on India Inc. and Bombay's Boom. Little did I know that Bombay's Boom would give a sad connotation. Anyone who has to prove anything tries to raise a havoc on the city which takes it in its stride over and over again. Its the people who keep rising back to normal over and over again but I hardly see a difference created by the people who should be responsible for safety, comfort and development of the Mumbaikars.
I agree we in India don't have the most complying or disciplined citizens of the world, but still people can do things to a limit. They can unite in times of calamity or they can stay calm without making much panic but what do the authorities do? Just do repair work when something rips off Mumbai? I think they need to get their act together.
The Time issue was both amusing and surprising. Amusing because most of it was "What is India?" kind of
article. These people are still trying to discover India and the
shockingly surprising things were the facts mentioned. There was a lot
of focus on Mumbai. Some of the facts like the number of people who die
annually in local trains runs into several hundreds. Its shocking even
to an Indian to know these figures. Here's what the article says:
Imagine this happening in any developed country. They would get on a war alert and in India it is something many would not even know.
Well considering we know so much that goes wrong in Mumbai, why do the authorities sleep is something I can't digest. If you know the railway system can't support so many people think of some alternatives. At the least advertise things like what hours should be avoided so that the local trains don't get over crowded, perhaps enforce rules for safety, arrange more trains, have more technology help etc. etc.. I don't know what not but I doubt there is any serious thinking process going on this.
Well!! Finally I hope those in Bombay are able to come over all this yet another time while the government would sleep a few years over it's post analysis.
I agree we in India don't have the most complying or disciplined citizens of the world, but still people can do things to a limit. They can unite in times of calamity or they can stay calm without making much panic but what do the authorities do? Just do repair work when something rips off Mumbai? I think they need to get their act together.
The Time issue was both amusing and surprising. Amusing because most of it was "What is India?" kind of
article. These people are still trying to discover India and the
shockingly surprising things were the facts mentioned. There was a lot
of focus on Mumbai. Some of the facts like the number of people who die
annually in local trains runs into several hundreds. Its shocking even
to an Indian to know these figures. Here's what the article says:
As a result, passenger groups say, an astonishing 3,500 travelers die every year on the tracks, hundreds simply falling from the trains.
Imagine this happening in any developed country. They would get on a war alert and in India it is something many would not even know.
Well considering we know so much that goes wrong in Mumbai, why do the authorities sleep is something I can't digest. If you know the railway system can't support so many people think of some alternatives. At the least advertise things like what hours should be avoided so that the local trains don't get over crowded, perhaps enforce rules for safety, arrange more trains, have more technology help etc. etc.. I don't know what not but I doubt there is any serious thinking process going on this.
Well!! Finally I hope those in Bombay are able to come over all this yet another time while the government would sleep a few years over it's post analysis.
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