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08:15 pm :: NorCal...
Current Mood:
hopeful
Off to California on Saturday night, for two weeks. Been looking forward to this visit for quite some time, so let's see what gives.
It takes me exactly 22 days to get sick of Bangalore.
Current Mood:
okay
26 years on this planet, woohoo! The last year provided a vast variety of experiences, that can be easily described using only twenty-six words.
golf | Facebook | good friends moving abroad | contact lenses | living on Santana Row | heartbreak | more great friends | Twitter | shopaholic | XSRF | King Kimi | Hong Kong | house music | numb
Current Mood: chipper
A Macbook Pro is now my weapon at work. Suffice to say that everything on it Just WorksTM, which makes you more productive.
Apple sells you an experience, not hardware, software and other such geeky things. It's like using the Porsche equivalent of computing. (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif)
yathin, accept my apologies in advance.)
Can't wait to buy a Macbook for personal use later this year.
For the second half of last month, I was in Hong Kong (again), and this time around, it was not too much fun, but fun nevertheless.
Badly in need of a vacation, and how.
location: Kowloon, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
awake
All those posts on house music will now give way to something that can tickle your aural senses, at last.
A lot of time and effort has gone into finding house playlists, and in trying to glean the best out of them. Many of my friends have also liked the numbers that I've been listening to, and that leads me to believe that house music can be liked by a wide variety of people.
Presenting the playlist that rocks my socks. Will try to keep it up-to-date with the most awesome tracks out there. Give it a listen, and if you start shaking a leg, let me know.
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
bitchy
The fact that I can go clubbing almost every weekend, with zero planning. Bangalore messes me up no end in this regard.
Current Mood: impressed
Current Music: Pryda - Muranyi
HotMix (Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, Saturday nights, 1900-2200 hours) is awesome. Big respect to DJ Ivan and DJ Rohit Barker.
Singapore Airlines has an audio channel dedicated to house music, sourced from the Ministry of Sound.
Without further ado, here are some numbers gleaned from the above sources and some more, leading to pure aural pleasure.
location: Bangalore, India
Current Mood:
giggly
Current Music: Dirty South - Let It Go (Axwell Remix)
"Your balls have been tempered with the fury of the dragon." - Balls of Fury
Hilarious.teemus turns five.
location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
accomplished
Current Music: 50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)
Five years on LiveJournal now. The posts have become less frequent and crappier. Thanks for continuing to read my blog!
location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current Mood: relieved
Current Music: 50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)
A year and 28 days ago, on January 1st, 2007, I heard the above song at the New Year's Eve party. Liked it, but didn't know its name. Heard it again in Chicago in May, on radio, but couldn't place it.
Yesterday, at a club in Hong Kong, I heard it again, and thankfully, the people I went with identified it. (Thanks, people!) It feels so dumb to not be able to find a 50 Cent number for this long.
Yay! 10:49 pm :: Born for the WWW...
location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current Mood: amused
When people ask me which state in India I'm from, I do not have an answer, for I'm a Sindhi.
In short, I am stateless, just like HTTP. Hee hee.
FWIW, I hate geeks.
Current Mood:
excited
Off to Hong Kong for a week in an hour or so. BLR-SIN-HKG, on Singapore Airlines, woohoo. Should be fun working there. Hoping to shop for some good clothes.
Current Mood: calm
Current Music: Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
Been hooked to house music for a couple of months now, particularly the electro strain. Here's a dump of some of the best dance-floor stuff of 2007, mixed with a progressive number or two.
From the January 2008 lot, check out these numbers.
Current Mood: hopeful
Late last year, I started watching Scrubs, and after watching six complete seasons and six episodes of season seven (before the WGA strike took affect), I started watching Heroes.
Completed Volume Two of Heroes now. It's a beautiful show, and inspiring to a certain extent, if I may say so.
It'd be great for television viewers if the WGA strike ends with both writers and producers reaching an agreement, so that Scrubs and Heroes can get back to regularly scheduled programming. Also hoping that the fourth season of the mother-of-all-TV-shows, Lost, actually starts on January 31st.
Not much to blog about otherwise. Work goes on in bits-and-pieces, weekends come and go with nothing major happening. (Weekends are more boring than weekdays!) Missing friends who have moved to California. (I am alone here, guys!)
Wanted to sail to Lakshwadeep later this year with Star Cruises, but they aren't sailing in Indian waters this year, so there goes one of my much-awaited, badly-needed vacations.
I think I need a life, and soon...
Current Mood:
contemplative
tu dhoop hai jham se bikhar
tu hai nadee o bekhabar
beh chal kahin ud chal kahin
dil khush jahan teri toh manzil hai wahin...
- "kholo kholo", OST - Taare Zameen Par.
Current Mood: excited
I've launched a fashion, gadgets and style-check blog. Two posts old now. Hit http://teemus.info/ !
Current Mood: emotionally excellent
At the time of writing this, there are 1823 users who have rated Taare Zameen Par on Yahoo! India Movies. Average rating = 5/5. There are not enough superlatives to describe this movie.
At this point in my life, I needed TZP. I remember watching Rang De Basanti sitting in the first row from the screen. Ditto for TZP.
Aamir Khan, I salute thee. To add to the subject, Bollywood has a new style icon.
Shah Rukh and Shahid Kapoor, please take acting lessons from Master Darsheel Safary, the child star in TZP. Or better still, retire.
location: Bangalore, India
Current Mood: whatever
My resolutions for 2008, to begin bidding adieu to a 2007 full of great-ups-and-fucked-up-downs.
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
crazy
Current Music: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably...
- Gnarls Barkley, Crazy.
That makes it three songs titled "Crazy", that I am crazy about. Seal's "Crazy", Alanis Morissette's cover of the same, and Gnarls Barkley's number.
What are you crazy about?
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood: silly
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location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood: happy
Current Music: Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
My love, life, pride, joy, indulgence and ego, all rolled into one, turns one today.
location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood: happy
After living The Californian Life for 83 days, I'm back in India. Landed early this morning at HYD, instead of that airplane garage called BLR. Lufthansa is not as enjoyable as Cathay Pacific due to the lack of per-seat-LCD-screens, but I discovered some excellent house numbers on radio channel #6, ClubMix.
Should be headed to Bangalore in a week or slightly more than that.
I've now flown in seven major passenger aircraft - the A320 family, A330 and A340 from Airbus, and the 737, 747, 757 and 777 from Boeing. The A300, A310, A380 and the Boeing 767 remain...
location: Somewhere in NJ
Current Mood: awake
It was all about shopping, and a lot more shopping, across three days. Nothing else.
On a different note, many congratulations tojaanejan and nash_da_basher!
location: Sunnyvale, CA
Current Mood: happy
My Y! Emoticons hack for LiveJournal and Flickr done two years ago, is now a feature for Y! Mash guest books. Woohoo!
On the Mash Blog today, talking about this.
Now it's my time
It's my time to dream
Dream of the sky
Make me believe that this place isn't made by the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out before you can breathe
Breathe into me.
I, stand alone
Inside I, stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside me
I'm not tired forever
I, stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone...
- Godsmack, I Stand Alone (OST - The Scorpion King)
location: San Jose, CA
San Jose rocked today, literally. Surprisingly, I reached home from work at around 19:45 today. At around 20:04, I was leaning against my fridge, with my camera in one hand, trying to take a mugshot for my Facebook profile, since I had a clean shaven face today. The fridge started shaking, and so did the unit beside it, so I thought I'd leaned too much and pushed the fridge against the unit, making it vibrate. Pulled the fridge towards me a little and stopped. All in the gap of five-six seconds.
But, the shaking continued. I noticed a vase shake violently and the plates rattle. Then I went, "Holy California, Batman! It's an earthquake!" Stood still for five to ten seconds, I don't know, and everything stopped shaking. Honestly, I was wondering whether I should run out of my apartment. Decided to wait and enjoy the moment, whatever it means. Anyhoo, I stay on the second floor (first floor by Indian standards) of my building so it was good that I stuck.
Switched on the TV to learn that it scored 5.6 on the Richter. Very impressive. "Moderate", apparently. My earlier experience was a 3-4ish tremor in Hyderabad a couple of years back.
Calledyathin to confirm that I wasn't hallucinating. hitesh's cellphone was unreachable as always. (He was driving, as I learnt later.) I was a bit shaken, but was highly amused at my vivid imagination.
Went and updated my Y! Mash and Facebook status messages thereafter. Waited for aftershocks, keeping passport, wallet, cellphone and jacket ready. Thankfully, that is not required, yet.
Oh yes, I did go on to take a couple of mugshots...
Current Mood:
hopefulOff to California on Saturday night, for two weeks. Been looking forward to this visit for quite some time, so let's see what gives.
It takes me exactly 22 days to get sick of Bangalore.
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01:24 am :: T-8y and counting...Current Mood:
okay26 years on this planet, woohoo! The last year provided a vast variety of experiences, that can be easily described using only twenty-six words.
golf | Facebook | good friends moving abroad | contact lenses | living on Santana Row | heartbreak | more great friends | Twitter | shopaholic | XSRF | King Kimi | Hong Kong | house music | numb
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02:25 am :: XCurrent Mood:
chipperA Macbook Pro is now my weapon at work. Suffice to say that everything on it Just WorksTM, which makes you more productive.
Apple sells you an experience, not hardware, software and other such geeky things. It's like using the Porsche equivalent of computing. (
yathin, accept my apologies in advance.)Can't wait to buy a Macbook for personal use later this year.
For the second half of last month, I was in Hong Kong (again), and this time around, it was not too much fun, but fun nevertheless.
Badly in need of a vacation, and how.
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04:02 am :: Crank those speakers up...location: Kowloon, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
awakeAll those posts on house music will now give way to something that can tickle your aural senses, at last.
A lot of time and effort has gone into finding house playlists, and in trying to glean the best out of them. Many of my friends have also liked the numbers that I've been listening to, and that leads me to believe that house music can be liked by a wide variety of people.
Presenting the playlist that rocks my socks. Will try to keep it up-to-date with the most awesome tracks out there. Give it a listen, and if you start shaking a leg, let me know.
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06:18 pm :: What I miss most about Hyderabad...location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
bitchyThe fact that I can go clubbing almost every weekend, with zero planning. Bangalore messes me up no end in this regard.
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11:37 pm :: var_dump($house_february_2008);Current Mood:
impressedCurrent Music: Pryda - Muranyi
HotMix (Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, Saturday nights, 1900-2200 hours) is awesome. Big respect to DJ Ivan and DJ Rohit Barker.
Singapore Airlines has an audio channel dedicated to house music, sourced from the Ministry of Sound.
Without further ado, here are some numbers gleaned from the above sources and some more, leading to pure aural pleasure.
- Dirty South feat. MYNC Project - Everybody Freakin'
- Dubfire - Roadkill
- Global Deejays feat Technotronic - Get Up (General Electric Version)
- Pryda - Muranyi
- Samim - Heater (Claude Van Stroke Remix)
- Underworld - Crocodile
- Underworld - Crocodile (Pete Heller Remix)
- SE:SA - Like This Like That
location: Bangalore, India
Current Mood:
gigglyCurrent Music: Dirty South - Let It Go (Axwell Remix)
"Your balls have been tempered with the fury of the dragon." - Balls of Fury
Hilarious.
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08:08 pm ::teemus turns five.location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
accomplishedCurrent Music: 50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)
Five years on LiveJournal now. The posts have become less frequent and crappier. Thanks for continuing to read my blog!
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12:39 am :: 50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)...location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
relievedCurrent Music: 50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)
A year and 28 days ago, on January 1st, 2007, I heard the above song at the New Year's Eve party. Liked it, but didn't know its name. Heard it again in Chicago in May, on radio, but couldn't place it.
Yesterday, at a club in Hong Kong, I heard it again, and thankfully, the people I went with identified it. (Thanks, people!) It feels so dumb to not be able to find a 50 Cent number for this long.
Yay! 10:49 pm :: Born for the WWW...
location: Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Current Mood:
amusedWhen people ask me which state in India I'm from, I do not have an answer, for I'm a Sindhi.
In short, I am stateless, just like HTTP. Hee hee.
FWIW, I hate geeks.
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07:21 pm :: HK...Current Mood:
excitedOff to Hong Kong for a week in an hour or so. BLR-SIN-HKG, on Singapore Airlines, woohoo. Should be fun working there. Hoping to shop for some good clothes.
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06:27 am :: Best of popular house, and then some...Current Mood:
calmCurrent Music: Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
Been hooked to house music for a couple of months now, particularly the electro strain. Here's a dump of some of the best dance-floor stuff of 2007, mixed with a progressive number or two.
- Evermore - It's Too Late (Dirty South Remix) - This one got my interest going.
- Armand Ven Helden - NYC Beat - Superbly-paced number.
- David Guetta - Love Is Gone (Fred Rister & Joachim Garraud Remix) - Mindblowing track!
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Waiting For (Rene Amesz & Peter Gelderblom's Remix)
- Misja vs Jasper - Project Project (Sied Van Riel Remix)
- Yves Larock - Rise Up (Vandalism Remix)
- Eric Laville & J.M. Sicky - Unknown (Original Remix) - Awesome, awesome!
- Agoria - Les Violins Ivres (Super Remix)
- Bob Sinclair feat. Steve Edwards - World Hold On (Axwell Remix)
- Federico Franchi - Cream - Nice tune!
- David Tort and DJ Ruff meets DJ Disciple - Changes (NY Sexy Mix)
- Lorraine - Transatlantic Flight (Axwell Remix)
- Paul Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
- Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Original Remix)
- Chemical Brothers - Do It Again
From the January 2008 lot, check out these numbers.
- Dirty South - Let It Go (Axwell Remix) - Amazing!
- Groove Zone - Eisbaer (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
- Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Oakenfold Vocal Mix)
- Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
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02:51 am :: Save the cheerleader, save the world...Current Mood:
hopefulLate last year, I started watching Scrubs, and after watching six complete seasons and six episodes of season seven (before the WGA strike took affect), I started watching Heroes.
Completed Volume Two of Heroes now. It's a beautiful show, and inspiring to a certain extent, if I may say so.
It'd be great for television viewers if the WGA strike ends with both writers and producers reaching an agreement, so that Scrubs and Heroes can get back to regularly scheduled programming. Also hoping that the fourth season of the mother-of-all-TV-shows, Lost, actually starts on January 31st.
Not much to blog about otherwise. Work goes on in bits-and-pieces, weekends come and go with nothing major happening. (Weekends are more boring than weekdays!) Missing friends who have moved to California. (I am alone here, guys!)
Wanted to sail to Lakshwadeep later this year with Star Cruises, but they aren't sailing in Indian waters this year, so there goes one of my much-awaited, badly-needed vacations.
I think I need a life, and soon...
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12:40 am :: khud ko zara pehchaan tuCurrent Mood:
contemplativetu dhoop hai jham se bikhar
tu hai nadee o bekhabar
beh chal kahin ud chal kahin
dil khush jahan teri toh manzil hai wahin...
- "kholo kholo", OST - Taare Zameen Par.
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02:04 am :: Expert advice. ;)Current Mood:
excitedI've launched a fashion, gadgets and style-check blog. Two posts old now. Hit http://teemus.info/ !
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01:56 am :: Aamir Khan is not just a perfectionist...Current Mood: emotionally excellent
At the time of writing this, there are 1823 users who have rated Taare Zameen Par on Yahoo! India Movies. Average rating = 5/5. There are not enough superlatives to describe this movie.
At this point in my life, I needed TZP. I remember watching Rang De Basanti sitting in the first row from the screen. Ditto for TZP.
Aamir Khan, I salute thee. To add to the subject, Bollywood has a new style icon.
Shah Rukh and Shahid Kapoor, please take acting lessons from Master Darsheel Safary, the child star in TZP. Or better still, retire.
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04:20 pm :: Let's do this for the first time, evar.location: Bangalore, India
Current Mood: whatever
My resolutions for 2008, to begin bidding adieu to a 2007 full of great-ups-and-fucked-up-downs.
- Less shopping.
- More investing.
- No relationships.
- Live for golf.
- Write a Facebook app.
- Add to list of continents visited. Enough of Asia and North America.
- More partying.
- More house music.
- Cut down on foul language.
- Visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar.
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02:21 pm :: We're never gonna survive, unless...location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
crazyCurrent Music: Gnarls Barkley - Crazy
My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done
Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably...
- Gnarls Barkley, Crazy.
That makes it three songs titled "Crazy", that I am crazy about. Seal's "Crazy", Alanis Morissette's cover of the same, and Gnarls Barkley's number.
What are you crazy about?
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04:01 pm :: Ass-kickin'...location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
silly17
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02:52 pm :: Happy birthday, sweetheart!location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
happyCurrent Music: Fergie - Big Girls Don't Cry
My love, life, pride, joy, indulgence and ego, all rolled into one, turns one today.
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08:42 pm :: HYD, AP. IN!location: Secunderabad, India
Current Mood:
happyAfter living The Californian Life for 83 days, I'm back in India. Landed early this morning at HYD, instead of that airplane garage called BLR. Lufthansa is not as enjoyable as Cathay Pacific due to the lack of per-seat-LCD-screens, but I discovered some excellent house numbers on radio channel #6, ClubMix.
Should be headed to Bangalore in a week or slightly more than that.
I've now flown in seven major passenger aircraft - the A320 family, A330 and A340 from Airbus, and the 737, 747, 757 and 777 from Boeing. The A300, A310, A380 and the Boeing 767 remain...
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05:34 am :: Thanksgiving Weekend, 2007location: Somewhere in NJ
Current Mood:
awakeIt was all about shopping, and a lot more shopping, across three days. Nothing else.
On a different note, many congratulations to
jaanejan and nash_da_basher!(2 comments | Leave a comment)
05:07 pm :: Hack -> feature!location: Sunnyvale, CA
Current Mood:
happyMy Y! Emoticons hack for LiveJournal and Flickr done two years ago, is now a feature for Y! Mash guest books. Woohoo!
On the Mash Blog today, talking about this.
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03:44 am :: Resurrecting back before the final fallen...Now it's my time
It's my time to dream
Dream of the sky
Make me believe that this place isn't made by the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out before you can breathe
Breathe into me.
I, stand alone
Inside I, stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside me
I'm not tired forever
I, stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone...
- Godsmack, I Stand Alone (OST - The Scorpion King)
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11:38 pm :: Most memorable mugshot...location: San Jose, CA
San Jose rocked today, literally. Surprisingly, I reached home from work at around 19:45 today. At around 20:04, I was leaning against my fridge, with my camera in one hand, trying to take a mugshot for my Facebook profile, since I had a clean shaven face today. The fridge started shaking, and so did the unit beside it, so I thought I'd leaned too much and pushed the fridge against the unit, making it vibrate. Pulled the fridge towards me a little and stopped. All in the gap of five-six seconds.
But, the shaking continued. I noticed a vase shake violently and the plates rattle. Then I went, "Holy California, Batman! It's an earthquake!" Stood still for five to ten seconds, I don't know, and everything stopped shaking. Honestly, I was wondering whether I should run out of my apartment. Decided to wait and enjoy the moment, whatever it means. Anyhoo, I stay on the second floor (first floor by Indian standards) of my building so it was good that I stuck.
Switched on the TV to learn that it scored 5.6 on the Richter. Very impressive. "Moderate", apparently. My earlier experience was a 3-4ish tremor in Hyderabad a couple of years back.
Called
yathin to confirm that I wasn't hallucinating. hitesh's cellphone was unreachable as always. (He was driving, as I learnt later.) I was a bit shaken, but was highly amused at my vivid imagination.Went and updated my Y! Mash and Facebook status messages thereafter. Waited for aftershocks, keeping passport, wallet, cellphone and jacket ready. Thankfully, that is not required, yet.
Oh yes, I did go on to take a couple of mugshots...
