Random Crap

I'm back and so is Spring! Does geography make more sense here or what? Back home, the year was generally made up of seasons such as Summer, Deadly Summer, Rainy Summer and Mild Summer. If you lived in an uber cool city like Bangalore, you'd have Freakishly Awesome Weather as a major season. Over here, you actually see so much variation in weather that the whole Summer/Winter collection showcased in fashion makes more sense now :P

As usual, I'm gonna deviate from the topic. My mind just wandered away to the day I landed over here and I just made this crappy whatever-you-call-it in the last 25 minutes.

Remember, Remember the Seventh of August
When Amrika opened its arms at dusk
To yours truly, a man in bitter disgust..
Almost thirty hours clocked in flight
Not a chick seated near me, oh my plight!


Chicago O'Hare, I was finally there
Just a bus trip to Madison left to bear
I was tired as hell, but all was well
Or so it seemed, I had to tell..
The weather was so chilling and I, shivering,


How terrible will the winter be, I thought..
Now that Spring is here, I ought to say
Hype it was, all the way
A bit cold at times, but what's to complain
When snow is so serene, white and plain..

Bah, enough! I can't mix any more words :x
Moving on, I've always believed anyone can become good at anything, provided they put in a good amount of effort. Yes, there are prodigies/savants, who just 'get' it, but then most of the world is full of normal people like me! Also, research suggests that 10,000 hours spent in learning something will make you a master at it! And its amazing how everything we do fits into 'patterns'. Be it recognizing patterns, creating patterns, or even doing things repeatedly (which in itself is a pattern). The guitar keeps reminding me of patterns and learning to recognize them. My current favorite chord is A-minor. It sounds so awesome =] Such a sick learning curve it has, I wonder when I'll get a hang of the normal tuning and shift to the 2 step down tuning Insomnium use..

Damn, I wonder how I never got into music as a kid. I still remember loving the tracks of a Hindi movie named Mohra as a kid. All sorts of bollywood and some tamil music till 4th, the pop music craze of BSB, Boyzone, Code Red, Westlife, N-Sync, 98 degrees, Britney, Enrique and all the other shitty stuff that MTV and [V] brainwashed me with lasted till 12th. That ruined everything :( I still remember the lyrics of a number of BSB songs and I just hope to erase that sector of my brain.. what a waste of memory :-/
Thank goodness I didn't choose Anna or NIT Trichy for my undergrad. No offence to either of these awesome colleges, but from a cultural perspective, I would have been exposed to a lot more local tamil stuff than the heavenly genre of rock/metal. When I joined BITS, I don't think I had even heard of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Nirvana, Pink Floyd etc.. I think the first"rock" song I heard was Linkin Park - In the End and was the end of all the crappy pop music I had heard before. The state of some of my best buddies was also the same; it was their first one too! Together, we embarked on a journey to explore the genre of rock music. Soon, Evanescence, Metallica, Maiden, SOAD and a ton of main stream metal bands followed. Marilyn Manson was also one of the pit stops we had a good laugh at. Damn, some of their tracks are so awesome, but the videos are sick as hell. And finally, in my last semester, I downloaded a song called Fate of Norns by Amon Amarth by mistake. That changed everything. And the rest, as they say, is history. The Melodeath post contains the continuation of this saga.
This point of the post has been randomly selected as the sudden death, keeping with the theme.
The End.