From the title of this post one would expect it to have some supernatural theory or something extraordinary or something out of this world! What you will see is a weird yet true thing!
This is something which people do and have loads of fun doing it. I call this the GJ phenomena! You can actually keep anything before the word phenomena!
GJ is nothing but our very own Gulab Jamun! What I feel is the real fun of having gulab jamun is not in those bowls which we have in our house. The one’s in which we are given 2-3 pieces with some syrup and a spoon to eat! This is being very formal and actually looks strange for real GJ lovers!
The phenomena is something like..you see these fresh GJ’s being prepared in the evening..you have some just for a taste or say testing purpose! the real thing begins in the night! Everyone is sleeping..you come out of your room in the dark..you try to get to the kitchen like a blind man! Well these days you can have the light of your cell phone, earlier it was more fun! So reach the kitchen however you can, in fact count the number of steps for the next session! Reach the fridge, open it and then search the huge bowl having the GJ’s! This is just half work done...the real thing begins now...you need to see to it that you make no noise! The toughest part! While getting the hand on the bowl we tend to forget the other things present in the fridge due to the excitement and end up making some undesirable sound! Then we start searching for a smaller bowl, two spoons..one for eating and one for pouring the syrup following the traditional way is again a waste of time! What I do is just remove the lid from the bowl keep it on some other bowl and start gulping how many ever pieces I can just a like we have pani puri or gol gappa! ahhh heavens!!
The best part is you have the light coming from the fridge! So light is never a problem once you reach the kitchen! I’ve never had the bad luck of making any noise or disturbing others or anything like while doing all this! Well even if you are caught doing all this, you have a world full of excuses! The standard one being I was drinking water!! The most amazing part is the people in the house who think they can have them the next day find the empty bowl to their surprise!
Then watch a movie or a match and again carry on with the phenomena! One of my best experiences of the phenomena was during last year’s Wimbeldon semi final. I was seeing the champ Roger Federer play and I decided that I’ll eat as many GJ’s as the number of games he wins! He won 7-6 6-4 7-6. You got your math right I had 20 GJ’s that night!
Well GJ is just one of the things.There are many more(especially eateries!)like this and its real fun doing it! I guess this is the right age to do all this!
Friday, May 22, 2009
Sunday, April 19, 2009
I miss those lifechanging lyrics!
These were the words of the maestro A.R.Rahman in a recent interview when asked about today’s music.
How true! We’ve been listening to the same old kind of lyrics since ages. The combination of words like soniye, mahiya, chunari, kasme,vaade,deewana dil,rabba, judaai,dupatta, marjava and many more words like these are top choices for lyricists even today!
When you see the older movies say around the 70s, we had lyrics and stories which used to show the frustration of the common man. The common problems he was facing like poverty, unemployment or frustrated with corruption! This can be seen as the period of Amitabh Bachchan’s peak( the angry young man type!). Then we had these romantic melodies of Rishi Kapoor and the Yash Chopra ones which continued with use of words like soni, mahi, rab and those pind songs which by then had become cliché. Some of those songs are still heard with the same enthusiasm today. Most of the songs that came in the next 10-15 years were just over the top and melodramatically funny especially the Govinda and Sunny Deol ones!!
When you see the lyrics of some recent songs, say the last 2-3 years..we have seen some wonderful lyrics..from jashn e bahara of jodhaa akbar to maa of taare zameen par..and then songs of jaane tu ya jaane na were youthful, soulful and highly entertaining! The songs of vishal shekhar surely can’t be called as conventional! The major change which we see today is the use of English and sometimes Punjabi words and phrases in a song which initially make the song attractive and make the audience listen to it at least once..then the audience is bored of it! I find most of the raps in the midst of a song cheesy and irritating to be frank! (courtesy Pritam’s music!)
Apart from Javed Akhtar there are lyricists like Prasoon Joshi, Syed Quadri(bhatt camp fame!), Anvita Dutt Guptan(a regular at yashraj camp these days!) have done commendable work. How can we forget Gulzar sahab! I still wonder what is the meaning of chaiyya chaiyya..chappa chappa charkha chale..auni pauni rasme or even the Oscar nominated song o saya and many other fillers used by him. Those songs were hugely popular then..but who remembers them now?
The main problem what I see is these lyrics and the music is temporary. No one remembers them after a period of say 3-4 months or 9 months maximum. Once there used to be a craze for Himesh Reshammiya(his songs ruled for almost 8 months in 2005!!)..who remembers that music now?(those songs were again full of jaaniya ve, soniya ve, mahiya ve and his recent songs still have the same!!).Coming to songs of the last 2-3 years..who remembers songs like mitwa..wherez the party tonight..piyu bole..no entry..dus bahane..kajra re..songs from metro..heyy babyy..chand sifarish..tumse hi..ajab si and many more which were supposed to be the chartbusters and commercial hits of that time!!
Nowadays the taste of the audience has also changed. That is why we find the something like emosanal atyachar gain popularity and something like dil gira dafatan and songs of luck by chance go unnoticed!. No matter how meaningless and weird the songs are people will make them superhit, chartbusters and what not just by calling them “different” or “out of the box”! And then forget and move ahead!
How true! We’ve been listening to the same old kind of lyrics since ages. The combination of words like soniye, mahiya, chunari, kasme,vaade,deewana dil,rabba, judaai,dupatta, marjava and many more words like these are top choices for lyricists even today!
When you see the older movies say around the 70s, we had lyrics and stories which used to show the frustration of the common man. The common problems he was facing like poverty, unemployment or frustrated with corruption! This can be seen as the period of Amitabh Bachchan’s peak( the angry young man type!). Then we had these romantic melodies of Rishi Kapoor and the Yash Chopra ones which continued with use of words like soni, mahi, rab and those pind songs which by then had become cliché. Some of those songs are still heard with the same enthusiasm today. Most of the songs that came in the next 10-15 years were just over the top and melodramatically funny especially the Govinda and Sunny Deol ones!!
When you see the lyrics of some recent songs, say the last 2-3 years..we have seen some wonderful lyrics..from jashn e bahara of jodhaa akbar to maa of taare zameen par..and then songs of jaane tu ya jaane na were youthful, soulful and highly entertaining! The songs of vishal shekhar surely can’t be called as conventional! The major change which we see today is the use of English and sometimes Punjabi words and phrases in a song which initially make the song attractive and make the audience listen to it at least once..then the audience is bored of it! I find most of the raps in the midst of a song cheesy and irritating to be frank! (courtesy Pritam’s music!)
Apart from Javed Akhtar there are lyricists like Prasoon Joshi, Syed Quadri(bhatt camp fame!), Anvita Dutt Guptan(a regular at yashraj camp these days!) have done commendable work. How can we forget Gulzar sahab! I still wonder what is the meaning of chaiyya chaiyya..chappa chappa charkha chale..auni pauni rasme or even the Oscar nominated song o saya and many other fillers used by him. Those songs were hugely popular then..but who remembers them now?
The main problem what I see is these lyrics and the music is temporary. No one remembers them after a period of say 3-4 months or 9 months maximum. Once there used to be a craze for Himesh Reshammiya(his songs ruled for almost 8 months in 2005!!)..who remembers that music now?(those songs were again full of jaaniya ve, soniya ve, mahiya ve and his recent songs still have the same!!).Coming to songs of the last 2-3 years..who remembers songs like mitwa..wherez the party tonight..piyu bole..no entry..dus bahane..kajra re..songs from metro..heyy babyy..chand sifarish..tumse hi..ajab si and many more which were supposed to be the chartbusters and commercial hits of that time!!
Nowadays the taste of the audience has also changed. That is why we find the something like emosanal atyachar gain popularity and something like dil gira dafatan and songs of luck by chance go unnoticed!. No matter how meaningless and weird the songs are people will make them superhit, chartbusters and what not just by calling them “different” or “out of the box”! And then forget and move ahead!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Computer science is not all about programming!
The craze and anxiety which people have towards programming is amazing. Programming really has the scope and is truly worth its hype and I feel that a lot more can be extracted from these languages and it can have better applications. But computer science is not all about programming right!
I don’t discourage people from doing programming neither do I say that programming is the ultimate thing one can ever do on the computer. There are various other fields which are equally interesting and have the same scope which programming languages have. Just a few days back we have seen the launch of Firefox 3.1 beta. Just imagine what it takes to make browsers like firefox, chrome, opera or even developing stuff like Photoshop. Even Flash doesn’t require much of programming skills. The craze for vfx and animation was always there. Computer science as a subject is undoubtedly like an ocean. I am here to get to know more about it, but what I see around me is people are giving importance only to programming!
One strange thing i found out few days back in my college. I always thought HTML, XML as markup languages. Of course they are markup languages as their abbreviation suggests. Topics like HTML, XML, JavaScript, PHP come under what is called as Web Programming!. In a place where I study and the atmosphere around me, the scope for “programming” ends with desktop tips and tricks, C, C++ and Java. I might be wrong...but that is what it looks like.
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
starting off!
soo..finally i've started blogging!..as every blogger would think for his/her 1st blog..WHAT TO WRITE!..Well even i'm thinking of the same thing!..it took me a lot of time to start blogging..i had to see what others are writing and how they are sharing stuff..to start off..i'm aniket..residing in hyderabad..doing my B.Tech in CVSR college of Engg. in computer science..
As you would see my profile..i'm interested in web development..sooner or later..you would see me making my own website..
As of now..this should be enough!..I'm expecting to have a good time blogging! and learn more things.
As you would see my profile..i'm interested in web development..sooner or later..you would see me making my own website..
As of now..this should be enough!..I'm expecting to have a good time blogging! and learn more things.
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