The Radio Rants

The me being the lazy me, I finally read the remaining portion of ‘The Alchemist’ last night. I won’t say that the book is great, or anything, but the whole idea of ‘moving on’ with life and ‘prioritizing’ stuff  for oneself is wonderful. It is indeed an OK read. So the radio kept playing the whole night, like I talked about it in my last post. Great songs followed back to back. And I thought I must put them up here. Record sake atleast.

Tum- Euphoria

This is perhaps one of my favourite songs done by Euphoria. Always brings a smile on to my face, no matter how grumpy I might be.

Aazmale Aazmale- From the movie Taxi no. 9211

This song always reminds me of the final year festival of my graduation. Very very motivating.

Baatein kuch ankahi si- From the movie Life in a Metro

Kuch Is Tarah- Atif Aslam

The last two being the ones that always puts me in a ‘thinking’ mode! Who knows what I mean???

Back to back… to back to back!

~ Lazy Sunday!

P.S. I’m gonna start reading ‘Da Vinci Code’ tonight

Radio Ga-Ga

I would sit on that rickety chair kept in the veranda of my house a lot! When I wouldn’t sleep at night and sit there and see the rising sun… or when I came back late from college and observed the relative position of the moon and the stars each night!

A lot has changed since then!

And while I sat there, I had the earphones plugged into my ears all the time… listening to radio on my cellphone. I do not have a hi-fi cellphone nor do I have an I-pod! Only sometimes, good songs were played back to back… to back to back! And those were like the best times.

Dreams do come true, they say… most of the dreams I’d seen then!

I’d bought new earplugs yesterday. I lie down and look at the ceiling…

…dreaming, and wondering whether the rickety chair broke down back home!

Happy Saturday Night!

Sweet November ends!

I’ve been planning and trying to post stuff in here but couldn’t! The hard disk of may laptop crashed last week and I’ve been handicapped since then. However, I did (am doing) a lot of stuff apart from just staying online and waste my life away!

To begin with, I managed to read a book after like ages. I read ‘Two States’ by Chetan Bhagat. I quite liked it as it was on the lines of ‘Five Point Someone’ which I had really liked. It surely would raise a few eyebrows as not everyone loves his stuff, may be because they think its too naive, but I kind of find it excellent, specially for people like me who aren’t voracious readers. The whole concept in the the novel and also the humor was quite impressive.

I’ve finally picked up ‘The Alchemist’ which had been lying on my desk since ages. I’m half done with that short novel and will be completing it by this evening itself.

Oh that reminds me of how much college and classes have I been missing lately, or rather the whole of this semester. Tonight I shall give myself a good talk to start attending classes from tomorrow morning. 8:15 class tomorrow? Oh damn! But yeah, on a serious note, I shall attend classes, henceforth!

I’m missing my laptop a lot. It had been a best friend for quite some time now. Best Friend, True Friend, Special Friend…. hahaha! However, I do manage to use my friend’s laptop and reach on to my online social networking and etc etc.

I watched ‘A Lot like Love’ on my friend’s laptop (like for the 10th time now) and it always feels like the first time. Infact better! I love the song ‘Look what you’ve done’ by Jet which features at almost the end of the movie and I kept playing it again and again! Watching it close over and over again! A Lot like Love!

And the best part was the treat I gave myself day before. I felt fucking alone the other day and thought that it was some time that I went out by myself and treated myself. So I went to this ‘one of my favourite places in Calcutta‘, called Momo Hut and fed myself with some awesome Tandoori Chicken and Chicken Soup. Headed straight over to a nearby multiplex to watch the movie 2012 and really loved it. I liked a movie after a really long time. The way they showed the cities going down was very very fascinating. There are a few glitches in the movie and the concept but this long movie keeps you at the edge of the seat throughout. Atleast I was!

And then I watched ‘17 again’ last night, and Mathew Perry is awesome. He always was. I want to watch F.R.I.E.N.D.S. again!

Its December, and time seems to be running away. I’m looking forward to Brio where I plan to enjoy myself as much as I can. And of course, the new years would soon come over as well. A lot to look forward to.

Oh! Look what you’ve done..

you’ve made a fool of everyone…!

Of Black Tea, Music and Movies!

Insomnia? Well thats what they call it! I think its more of a sleeping pattern disorder!

The other night I’d slept almost the entire day and just couldn’t sleep at night. Knowing the fact that the next day was a long day including an early morning class. I hate the schedule this semester. Just so very anti-Charu schedule!

There comes my Black tea! Prepared in Five minutes, poured into my favorite cup and there I am set for the night! It kind of gives me a high. In Calcutta, I’ve done a few of my best stuff over black tea! Yeah really!

So setting up for the night these days means catching up on my favorite music and watching movies. This particular night I really wanted to listen to Pulse. So, Pink Floyd and Black tea works really really well for me. Atleast, the other night it did!

I’m not much of a movie-watcher! But these days I’m watching movies like I’ve never done before. This is both on the screen and on my laptop. And frankly I’m quite liking it. It opens up my mind and helped broadening  my thinking a bit. However the three movies I saw lately on the screen were all from Bollywood and I quite disliked them. So whenever I would come back and tell my friends that it was a pathetic movie… they would always say, you shouldn’t be trusted on this one. But whatever it is, I’m liking watching movies! I have a few lined up on my list already!

Yes, before I forget I should mention that George Harrison IS INDEED my favorite Beatle. I’ve been listening to ‘All things must pass’ a lot all this time. He’s awesome. The Silent Beatle!

The weather is great here in Calcutta for the last three days and I’m really waiting for the winters to set in.

A ‘Where have you been?’ entry!

Afraid of dying, or?

I’m not afraid of dying. I’m more afraid to think and decide on what to do if I was to die tomorrow, or even if it came after a week. In a conversation with a friend and then later on a TED video, the very question kept coming, and I’m still thinking. Its been a week already!

Who all would you like to meet if you knew you gonna die? What would you like to do? What would you say? Oh, and you have no time to rehearse, make a plan or make a script. You have no time. Panic. Listening to ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’ makes me go much beyond! Will people have time? Will they have the same excuses that I have been throwing at them all this time? Would they have forgotten me? Will they come to my funeral, specially when I didn’t care when their family members died? Would they just think it’s the last means for a revenge?

Will I die happily? laughing on a friend’s joke? Will I die on the road? car accident? Would I get a heart attack, then rushed to a hospital, my family would spend lakhs to save me, and then I die? Will someone kill me? I already have a secret fantasy (no more) that the barber would chop off my head while I happily sit to get a shave.

A few years back, I can’t recall who, but some friend or teacher of mine told me the importance of forgetting and forgiving. Both being very important. If I’m told today of death, may be I start thinking on those lines. That I should forgive people for anything unjust they did to me? But otherwise? Forget, is much easier. I guess. But does it happen? It’s just mere coincidence that ‘wish you were here’ started playing.

I have had a lot of nightmares lately. I have woken up to a few as well. Some, which I even can’t talk about or share with anyone. But it just makes me laugh as I think of them right now. I wasn’t dying in any single one of them though! *grin*

Reminds me of a couple of years back in Delhi, while I saw these twins crossing the railway line hand in hand. When I heard a voice which came from one of them,“Are you afraid of dying?”; and the second just looked at him in a sense of belongingness and attachment. Nothing could I hear though.

Theres no reason for it, you’ve gotta go sometime…
I never said I was frightened of dying.

One Weird World

One Weird World! Oh yes!

“envy, jealousy, malice and pride… these must never in your heart abide…”… This is taken from one of the hymns that we used to sing in the morning assembly back in school. But it still keeps coming on to my head time and again. Even now!

I’m home for about a week right now. And there’s nothing SPECIAL or EXTRAORDINARY that I’m doing, but the feeling is just so GREAT! Is life the way we percieve it to be?

Life has a lot to do with the people we are with… They say that the personality of a person is developed right away at how he was at school. I firmly agree. Then comes the family, the peer group etc etc. The people around has a lot of impact on the way we work or do things. Sometimes even how we form opinions and percieve things.

Whenever I go to a mall, and look at the crowd, I’m amused. I dont want to sound idealistic but looking at them I see emptiness all around. I see different sets of masks. I see people talking, not even looking at each others eyes. Horrible!

Coming back home means great music too! I have been listening to a lot, a lot of Floyd past three days now! Floyd-esque!

“Running over the same old ground, how we found; the same old fears… Wish you were here…!“

I really don’t know what I was supposed to be writing. Its GREAT to be random at times. I love it.

One Weird World? Damn it!