Bang & Olufsen

knew about this Danish hi-end electronics manufacturers for a while. all their products are extremely desirable. they're all on my list, you know the list you make, of things you'll gift yourself... and then you keep discovering new products every few months.
so this time it was the Serenata, the mobile phone they're launching in collaboration with samsung (very unlikely partnership, in my personal opinion) needless to says its just awesome too.

was just exploring a little more of their site, n guess what i found. there's one of their products which was just waiting for me to discover it. never had i imagined i'd get to use one of B&O things so early in life. yes this thing i can just start using. right away. now...

it is the Beoplayer 4.65
its a piece of software to interface their different products with the computer
it actually comes bundled with these products, but they're allowing even others to use it, to get a taste of how brilliant their products are

i'm using it as a media player. you'd say how much better can it be than your winamp or itunes or STP? a hell-lot! u cant imagine it unless u use it
installed alright, but then i couldnt even start anything without reading the guide, which took all of 10 mins. but after that, it just blows your mind from the first minute. this thing is like a miracle! its magic! now used it for less than an hour, but think i know most of it. thats how simple it is. sound quality unmatched, (guessing) it takes hardly any resources. fast smooth, functional, perfect! makes my life beautiful. m gonna be on a high for a few days...

PT Live!

Okay, this lucky bastard "pagan109" just told me that he'd gone for a Porcupine Tree show. i knew he was gonna go, knew it for a while, just didn't know exactly when. as soon as he tells me this, these weird, indecipherable, never-before feelings explode. it's a massive turmoil, and i couldn't make out anything. its a cacophony, and its all smeared. just didn't know what i was feeling inside, then gradually the storm inside turns into still, like the dead of the night, black... no thoughts at all, like the tranquility after the storm, the unbearable lull, everything goes blank, turns white... almost... nirvana ?!? i still cant think anything. never happened to me before. just cant push a thought to the back of the head. cant think other things that need urgent attention, not really thinking about this one either. its a grand mess inside the head

after a while i start doing what's supposed to be done, but only mechanically, waste of time, its so bad, m gonna have to discard all this later... then something tell me i should listen to the album Beck - Sea Change. yea... this feels just a little better...just what music does...keep this on...

wth!... brain's still not thinking, frustrated, stop what m doing, just have to get this out of the system... hey isn't that what blogs r for? so here i am...
gonna try to put this into words, then i can get back to work...
its not jealousy for sure... probably should've been... could've been much easier to handle, but no, m not jealous at all...
feeling heavy in the chest... is it in the heart, is that where the heart is? yea feeling heartbroken... thats it... no wait, that doesn't make sense, there's no reason to be heartbroken... if anything, this is a ray of hope, now m a little closer to going for a show myself, as the lucky bastard consolingly tells me... this has made the too-good-to-be-true possibility a little more believable, there's now at least one person i know who's seen it himself. actually i didn't even know such a show was so high on my "list of things that can really affect me"... so then y do i liken this feeling to heavy-heartedness?

Ohh... get it, must be this music... or is it?

okay think its served the purpose, guess i'll never completely figure out what this feeling was, but now its kinda subsided...
gotta get back to shitting now, got shitloads of shitty shit to shit for the college submissions...

thanx for listening...
-anshuman

International Day of Non-Violence

how do u watch the movies u have on the computer? i dont like to give a continuous 2 hrs, so just watch em with meals. so i end up watching just about 20-30 mins with every meal, n so every movie takes 4-5 meals, which means one movie in 3-4 days

so 4-5 days back, i read some mega-event being planned for Gandhi Jayanti, thought maybe i wont go for the event, but i can definitely watch the original, Gandhi, the one with Ben Kingsley n hundreds of actors. so i put it on, but in 2-3 meals, my mood changed, as usually happens, n then i decided to start another movie...
this time i chose The Pianist, which is about a Jew in Poland, around the time when Germany invaded Poland. in this movie there are shots where the drunk nazi soldiers just line up a group of jewish workers, n randomly shoot some of them. for no reason at all, they even jokingly say that they're killing the jews just to celebrate new years... at this point, this question came to my mind. how would Gandhiji had reacted to this? can u use non-violence against such unreasonable tyrants? i still havent finished that movie, but my question was answered a few mins ago...

today, Gandhi Jayanti/October 2 is now the International Day of Non-Violence. so i thought its a good day to watch the remaining part of Gandhi. somewhere around the last 45 mins of the movie, this female reporter comes in n asks Gandhiji about Hitler, n he gives his opinion abt it... if u wanna know what he said, google "Gandhi on hitler" n see the number of results u get. it seems Gandhiji even wrote a few letters to hitler...

My new class

So m on my way back from college, in a bus, all by myself... i mean there is a driver n conductor n other passengers, but noone i know, noone i know by name... except myself. what do u do when you're with a group of strangers, 60-70 strangers, so close together, yet with no interaction whatsoever, no eye-contact inspite of all the undesirable and unavoidable contact?

these are the things i do - listen to music, read a novel if lucky enough to find a seat, look outside aimlessly, look outside with the aim of concluding something worth something by observing pedestrians, look outside with the aim of concluding something worth something by observing drivers, look outside with the aim of concluding something worth something by observing roads n road-signs, look outside with the aim of concluding something worth something by observing different vehicles, look outside with the aim of concluding something worth something by observing buildings n structures, try to click some vague photos with the most abstract motion blurs, try to and sometimes successfully sleep, trying different positions n finding the best one so that all body parts are comfortable even on the worst bumps n extreme braking but soon enough you've done everything you can think of, and then you start doing something that you can never do enough of... Think!
you can think of everything under the sun when you're travelling, i dont think i should get into listing out things you can think of when you're travelling cos of various reasons, which again i dont think i should get into listing out

so on my way back from home this day, i was thinking. thinking of my class, my new class, the class that people, who're not from my class, keep asking me about. n i make the same vague mumbled sounds in reply. so here is an answer in brief!

i've seen quite a few classes- school, juniour college, junior college, college, college, college, and tution classes for all these. but never a class in which, even after 8-10 weeks, u feel like you're travelling in a bus! u dont know ppl, n ppl dont know u. they're all nameless faces, n faceless names. n its not cos i'm new to this class. after spending 3 yrs together, these ppl themselves hardly know each other

in this class i've seen Prof.M.D.Patil, who's a strictly no-nonsense guy, smiling!!! n these ppl even coaxed Prof.Jadhav to sing! and let me tell you that these profs have a reputation of being the grumpiest of our dept.i guess this class is so freakin studious that the serious profs enjoy teaching them; this in a college which is known for its indisciplined students

there's this geek in this class, he's the the consistent topper, talk nothing except studies etc, etc, etc. now this same guy, at least once every week, dons a message t-shirt which blazingly announces "I'm here about the Blowjob". at first i thought it must mean something else, but i just couldn't think of anything else. so i asked him what it means, giving him an opportunity to act as if he didn't know what he was flaunting. but to my amazement, this guy, very confidently, tell me that the message means exactly what he wants it to mean! and that he's proud about the fact that not many ppl can carry off such a thing, while he can! he still is the consistent topper, but man, this is self-confidence gone bad.

now to add to all this, i know less than 10 ppl outside of the class, so there's never anyone to hang out with, n so i end up sitting all the lectures


just at the peak of these thoughts, as it always happens, there's my stop, ting ting, the time is gone, the journey's over, thought i'd something more to think...

p.s. Mark Twain said Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
someone said True Life is stranger than fiction.
i say Life is full of contradictions...

Blogs r important

maybe i was taking this lightly, but they're important
in the last week alone i've rediscovered more of my college alumni than i did in the last 3-4 yrs
orkut etc r good for tracking ppl, but if u really wanna know what they're/'ve been doing, be sure to check if they have anything on that "my webpage" link on their profiles. n if its a blog, you've hit jackpot...
next thing i'm gonna do is make a list of all the blogs i can find n make it impossible to lose it(the list), keep it in at least 7 different places. n then read them all one by one in free time, over the following years. tell me if u want a copy of the list too, or if u already have made it
didn't contact most of em, maybe they dont remember me as i remember them
but feels really good to know abt ppl u knew during the best times of your life

so now i'm gonna try n keep this page alive n add the link to my orkut page
n if u hidden rustams too have blogs, add the link to your profiles, do it NOW!!!


p.s. Understand that friends come and go,but for the precious few you should hold on( to). Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you need the people you knew when you were young.
[quoting from Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) by Baz Luhrmann]

Thank You losers...

This post i dedicate to all you people who start a blog and post just once or twice. I understand completely why this happens. When there are no boundaries, there are no guidelines either. There's so much you can write about, that you don't know where to begin, so you end up not beginning at all

You one-post-absconders, are the people who really inspired me to start a blog, to write, to actually get out in the open, and prove that it isn't very difficult to come up with unlimited, unrestrained, unrelated crap. Domain Maximus and The Renegade of Junk (just discovered this one) can only teach me, now that i have decided; but all credits to you people for motivating me to start in the first place. Thank You losers...

and see, i'm already at the end of my first self-written, non-copy/pasted blog... phew!

Now dont touch the remote (or mouse), and stay tuned for more from Raven...

Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet

Roadrunner Records and Atlantic USA have officially announced the release of the new Porcupine Tree album "Fear of a Blank Planet" in mid April. The album features six (mostly lengthy) tracks, and is the band’s most ambitious and cohesive work to date. Much of it was debuted last year on tour to a rapturous response from fans.

The lyrical content of the song-cycle on the album is a 21st century cocktail of MTV, sex, prescription drugs, video games, the internet, terminal boredom, and subsequent escape.

...this is what u can do, when you have your own blog... :D

this is how it begins.....