First US concert

Finally, I can cross out Goto a metal concert in US from my long TODO list. It took place right at Madison, so commuting wasn't a problem. There were 3 bands playing that night, and I really liked their music back when I was at BITS. Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace and Flyleaf! I still remember Chaitu loving the female vocals of Flyleaf :-) Personally, I like BB the most among them, but apparently TDG is so big here that they were the highlight of the night.
I would have absolutely loved the show, but for what happened the day after Valentines Day in 2009. Something that just blew you away.. a stage presence that IMHO is tough to beat and metal music at its brilliant best. It was all about Iron Maiden at Bangalore on Feb15th '09 and they played hit after hit to leave you baffled to the point you knew that this was going to be your greatest evening in a long time.

Comparing what I saw the other night to that at Bangalore would be a sin in hell itself. The organizers added all the spice they could to make it special. A rotating platform for TDG's very talented drummer, lights shaped as cannons and fireworks! The crowd was ecstatic and loved every bit of it. Hell, the bands put on a great show. Whatever few songs I had heard of TDG and BB were dished out and I enjoyed every bit of it. But its just nothing compared to Iron Maiden. TDG's lyrics revolve around teenage love/breakup and being lonely. Song after song, its the same thing and still the band is so huge over here! :-/ Breaking Benjamin were brilliant, and I was waiting to hear the Diary of Jane which was their last track of the night. There's something about that song that is so refreshing!

Anyways, Feb 19th is gonna be much bigger than what I've just witnessed. Dark Tranquillity, one of my favorite bands is playing (you can check the melodeath post for my recommendations :D) and there's Killswitch Engage too, so I'm sure its gonna be a treasured experience. I've finally ordered a cam (am so pathetic at decision making :'( .. ) so I'll try to get some pics with DT after the show if all goes well! Damn, this semester is gonna be so screwed up!~!

3i, 3 times the imaginary crap

I speak for a lot of people when I say "3idiots is simply amplified bullshit". I guess all the 'Aal eez well' shit on facebook raised my expectations, but even if it wasn't for that, I'm sure I would be writing this post here, albeit without this line. Lets start with the biggest nab of the film, Silencer. WTF man?! Are you such a sad actor or did the director actually think portraying the bookish college goer that way would leave the audience in splits? Total retarded crap! Here I am, having traveled 45 mins hoping to enjoy a movie and here you are, screwing the whole thing up.
And then there is the principal or dean or whatever his role was. The acting during the 'comic(?)' scenes was just yuck. If you have to act stupid, don't overdo it then for fcuks sake.
How many times will you drop your pants in a movie? Good Lord, thankfully, they didn't make Kareena do that, or I might have puked. 


Whats with using all the e-mail forwards as jokes? Seriously, is it so tough to come up with funny stuff or have script-writers just stopped thinking? The million$ pen v/s pencil, putting your exam paper randomly in a pile coz the prof doesn't know your name (duh..), the crap just kept piling on. The speech modification was nice, but then over-repetition killed it. I have to admit, I absolutely despise Kareena which becomes yet another reason to dislike this movie. Her 'sister' in the movie was way hotter :-/
Oh yeah, what's with the baby kicking every goddamn time someone says 'Aal eez well'? They just overdid it the whole time.
The job interview, Oh c'mon! Seriously, give some practicality to it.
The songs weren't that good either barring the first one. The only thing I liked about the movie was the scenic pics during the journey :-/ College stories might have become a good selling point, but this one was utter fail in my opinion. Many people might say, you shouldn't try to focus on the stupidity in the movie. If they wanted to make a hilariously stupid movie, why try to depict it with seriousness then?

I expected a much better movie, especially given the amount of earned-hype Aamir gets. 
Happy Days, a telugu movie was way better. That at least brought back college memories :-/

3i = intolerably idiotic iMovie

Reminiscences

The good ol' days. How I wish I could get back to my first day as an undergrad! Flocks of students from across India (ok little exaggeration here, purely gults + illads population :P), who mugged the living hell out of their 12th standard textbooks, with big dreams in 180 acres of land. Here I am, more than five years later, realizing that those big dreams were just dreams at the end of the day. One of my best friends describes the BITS saga as a four year vacation. How true! After a decade of being the sincere school going student, its amazing how you can change before you even realize it. I lol at myself when I think back to the day I got the MSc Chemistry admit. Chemistry was my pet subject in school and though I loved computers, I'd always thought about inventing a way to dispose plastic in an 'earthly manner'. This is what happens when you're slogging your rear off for so many entrance exams at such a tender age. You lose sight of reality. To hell with the education system.
Anyways, the reason I got into writing this post was the new feeling towards holidays. Back in school, summer holidays were the most awaited thing. No more classes yipee! In college, any day of the year was a holiday. Speaking to the same fun loving people now, either working or in grad skool, there is a new found essence in holidays. There is a new meaning in going back home and staying with family, meeting old friends and reliving some of the past. A week back, I went to a guitar shop for the obvious, and ended up chatting with the owner. He mentioned his brother being senior VP of a big corporation, earning truck loads of money, wanting to quit because of the sheer work stress, and himself, earning a middle class income with a lot more freedom in life.
Its something that keeps coming back to my mind every now and then.
Why does work life have to be so hectic or so mundane and boring?
Why can't we try to enjoy everything we do or do what we enjoy for a living?
Why is it so difficult to find what you like?











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