Amin ….eeek Armin !

Ladies and Gentleman , It gives me immense pleasure to write following  :

• I attended World’s no #1 DJ gig in town
• I witnessed Armin Van Buerran in Delhi
• I was ‘there’
• I felt Armin’s touch of muzikkk
• I attended ASOT , Asia Tour 2008

not sufficient , all right Picture is worth than thousand bakar words:

 Whatever you read , It will gonna elated me again and again ! Yes I made it .

Detailed:

Armin Van Buerran , World’s number #1 DJ , famous for his ASOT ( A State of Trance ) Episode , Global Broadcast every Thursday with many online Radio station ( e.g. DI.fm ) has stepped to India for his ASOT , Asia tour 2008 .

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All right so this blog is inspired from movie ‘Rock On !’ . I’ve seen this movie over weekend with my friends , and one of them is guitarist .

Let me start it with review and feedback.

Awesome , brilliant movie away from normal Bollywood crap , definitely picture matured Bollywood , truly Urban and youth feeling with musical background.

it showed life of a college group having band ‘Magik’ and they were given chance to launch a music video on basis of their talent , however they had some scuffle within the group and band broke up since then and even after gap of 10 years no body has clue for whereabout of other members of band in real life post college . ( Movie started in a flashback )

It showed very well how one of the musically oriented character ( Aditya : Farhan ) having each and every thing in life : Rich , Good Life and nice Wife and still he was not happy.When her wife tried to peep in to his history it was discovered that he is singer / poet and looking at his past pics she sensed he is happy with music with his band so she decided to reunite the band ( with help of another band member she met while shopping ) , hoping this might make him happy , and the Magik worked )

Key Take Away ?

1. You cannot hide your passion with all luxury n life
2. Musically oriented ppl needs their passion alive n kicking always
3. All music lover have one or other weired hair style and thats natural ( + stylish )
see this :

4. All the business ppl ( or busy ppl ) MUST have some or other hobby to pursue *real* happiness in life , because all materialistic things ( Money , Wealth ) comes to halt a.k.a saturate one point of time . Any hobby keeps your creative side alive and make you feel and behave like a human .

Rock “me” ON

Throughout the movie I wish myself to be good musician some day, I had a dream since my college to learn Guitar though I’m still on “learning” stage however I’m making an effort ( slowly I admit ) I hope gradually I’ll reach to the mark sometime sooner or later..

At my college time I couldn’t afford Guitar and tuition fees for same , though I had much of time but now in job , I’ve money but no time …

Whats Important : Job or Hobby ( An Indian perspective )

This could be a debatable topic here , might be but I would write my input to this .
Case Study 1
As seen on movie Aditya was a successfully businessman and well settled with luxury apartment and b’ful wife >> Still he was not happy !

Case Study 2
Another Character Joe ( Arjun Rampal ) very talented and lead guitarist but he was financially not up to the mark , even her wife was pissed off from him . She has given up on him and on ‘Magik’ band that she could only think of for ‘making money’ somehow from his hobby , so though Joe is extremely talented >> Still he was not happy !

Case Study 3
< Work + Hobby >
When Aditya reunited with his peer band member and did due performance on behalf of his band >> We saw him ’smiling’ since then !

When Joe performed on stage with band he got into profession with Aditya and fulfilled his financial need along with her wife , as a stylist >> He was happy since then…

< / Work + Hobby>

So here is the catch for another big take away ( for Indian Society ) here.
Things that worked was combination of “Money + Hobby” , lack of any one of it witnessed sad face(s) .

And I believe this is the fact of Indian society , May be I could be wrong here but as far as My analysis is concerned I think no one could make money , have better lifestyle plus promised future for family only on basis of hobby !

And parallely,

This is not guarantee that ppl making big bucks are always be happy ! This is the combination of “Brain + Heart” ( or “Work + Hobby” ) that clicks and works …

I know this is easier said than done ..but its a valid truth here. So I note a take away from here and would try to push myself to carry on with pursuing hobby along with job
Hope combination of both , do “Magik” for me too …Amen !

oh yes ..I’ve having sensational feeling seeing this …wish me luck to try my hands-on someday.

Hey and you know , I liked the music of the movie too much that whilst in middle of the movie I decided to purchase music cd for this , to pay my tribute to all artist / musician involved for such a nice movie and the key parties involved for this ‘drift’ in normal bollywood movies trend and interestingly at the end of the movie , there is a message on the screen “Do not download, buy Music CD” …so here I’m , with a proof attached :

Bill :

CD :

Price :

After a long time, a film is made to touch all the generations. Hats off to Farhan and Abhishek Kapoor.

Happy Listening and lets have “Rock ON” always !

Google did it again , with new browser called ‘Chrome’I'm very much impressed with its philosophy and spcially with its intro (  )very very impressive . 

• Open Source
• Plugin supported
• Google Gears inbuilt
• Sandboxed process for each tab for better performance
• Better code to handle ‘curren’t web for : photos,vidos,blog etc.
• Free and Google Trust
• Webkit and Mozilla base  

Google guys are very courteous too I liked the way they acknowledged the Mozilla and Webkit . These guys know how to pay human back , working for human just for the sake to imporve ‘Web’ ..so nice of them . As me impressed with each and everytrhing Google does , here I’m writing this blog using ‘Chrome’ . Apart from that reading book ‘Google Story’ taking me close to understand the Google Philosophy more .. Kudos to the team , keep up the good work.  

Hello ! Happy Birthday to me and this is my birthday blog , flashback of journey from 26-27 orbital of the Sun. It would be very out of flow in structure please ignore , If you going to read it All the best !

All right Today I’ve a set of mix feeling here of being happy and sad.

Happy > Of course its my b’day

Sad > There are multiple factors for this. I’ll talk and write here.I’ll talk to myself and write here as in different state of my mind .

State of Somberness

1.  Aging : Being 27 is taking me near to 30’s (which definitely scares me )
2.  I’m still Single and ‘Not Committed’ yet ! ( I’m also happy about it !)
3.  I’m not ‘there’ yet in Guitar and Dance as per my expectation.

• Cheltenham (Gloucestershire ) Flood 2007

. Its sad to witness the flood in 2007 there in Cheltenham . Gloucestershire was the worst affected county .It was massive and affected everybody including us . I remember it very well ,whole town was out of water and almost everything was shutdown including :Hospitals, Shopping Center , food joints and even pub !I’m not trying to be funny here but that was serious . we spared in mineral water bottles from more than a week.I remember the day when I specially went to office to have shower and wash my l-o-n-g hair . I wish not to see such of things ever ,anywhere in this world and I Hope world wake before any nature disaster stand up again against Global Warming and do think about Mother Nature first . Its strange coincidence that I’m writing about flood when Our country hit by flood in Bihar due to Kosi river. Here is the Wikipedia link for more info here

• Pickpocketed in Poland

Yes , I was ! and some Asshole made a transaction of 34,000 INR ( ~= 526.756 EUR ~= 426.11 GBP ) in a single day . I remember all extreme conditions I came back from Poland when I nearly had no money / Visa valid till that day / Phone balance in 1.50 GBP / Phone Battery about to die anytime .But it was my attitude that allowed me to handle all such by myself and yes I Survived, indeed !

• Lost Sony Ericsson P1i

Last Month I lost my sony Pi1 my adorable baby.It fallen off from bike and I never realized it when . It was on my ‘must-have list ‘ for so long . I was the proud owner in Jan07 but lost in July07 . It was shocking as it was my baby ( as any other gadget would be for a Gadget Lover) it had all my archived msgs ,photos,videos , contacts. I’ve bought same cell again after one hour of separation as definitely can’t live without it !

State of Gloominess

• Love Life

I won’t say much here but yes I do feel the lacuna in my life and ufortunately I’m not lucky ( yet ,maybe ? ) . Its not like that I never came across . It actually case of ‘One-way’ road where only me was travelling and other person *respect* never gave me chance , despite  hard work of chasing/persistence/patience.  I feel hurt sometime when I look back of all my hard work gone vain : Learning Assamese , sleeping whole night in car (fighitng with mosquitoes) , shopping from most expensive street of London, Gifting for more than 500£ for no reasong, writing 10 page hand written letter …OMG … Anyways …”STOP HURTING ME” !

State of Happiness

UK Life

I start with my onsite experience . Yes , I had onsite ( ! ) . It was my luck and God grace that I had a chance to have the pleasure of being in onsite more than year time .April07 to May08 . I had a time of my life there plus I learn / analyzed things that I have never done in India . I stayed in Cheltenham for 1 year and 3 weeks in Basingstoke . I also discovered my traveling passion and being there to Germany and Poland too .

Starting from Cheltenham , It was challenging in beginning to handle work and managing myself plus cooking and other household stuff . It was also challenging for me as I was trying to overcome myself personally from f****** crush part ( This was serious one ) , I was revived for my wonderful time in a new relationship there but it was also came out to as forced bad choice and I end up having breakup again. It was severe for me as it was somewhere on different land where I don’t have any of my friends and family . It took me time to build strength from inside to live everyday working , cooking and hoping for better future . I decided to live for other and decided to invite my parents too UK ,this was brilliant idea and I made it , prior to LoveParade in Germany I had a chance to meet my parents in UK .It was memorable experience for whole family and it definitively bonded all members in strong bond. Plus watching my parents having fun and smiling was the ultimate experience . I’ve seen them so happy after very long time I guess . So far so good , I would say . My parents being to London Tour , their Scotland visit and leisure time in Cheltenham were the golden moment . We did shopping for each and every individual in family . Everyone was so happy. As everything come to an end I remember how I felt after they left England . Next day was so horrible ,it personally felt like I’ve couple of more breakup in row , I don’t wanna feel that nasty feeling again in my life .

• LoveParade 2007
  

Trance +Techno+Electronica +DJ+Livesets+Musik(-Drugs) = LoveParade.

Trance Valley …After all my craze towards Techno music ..I finally made it to LoveParade in 2007 , Germany.After all my all my hard work there and took my first break in August 25,26 to the Germany Love Parade . This was my long term dream to be there ’some day’ and I made it . I felt very proud that I actually witnessed the Dance Valley by myself Live ! It was an amazing experience

Here is the link to my LoveParade Blog << link >>

 

• Social Life in England
  

Apart from work part . I made quite lot of acquaintances there in Cheltenham. I made some friends too. Two of them are from my work team itself .Catherine and Chris, both of them are very nice gentle person . Catherine was so kind that she took me for horse riding and I met her lovely female horse “Teasel” . It was nice experience overall to know her and meet her family. I was overwhelmed with her hospitality too .

Chris and I went for drink one day and I actually discovered a friend in him . He is like a college student and youth by heart too. We clicked from one conversation to another , beer and conversation was a perfect combination , and he is the first person as a British that I know well enough. That night I came very very drunk hitting Cheltenham walls back to my place ,but it was day to remember . My social nature helps me clicking with others .

Overwhelmed by hospitality from both I decided to invite both of them for Indian Lunch courtesy my other Indian office colleague .

We all prepared multiple dishes for them including -

• Muttar Paneer
• Dal
• Raosted chicken with Lime
• Roti
• Aloo ki Subzi
• Beers n Wine

Here are the pics for same: click here

This were not the only social bites I had , Starting January 2008 all my office colleagues used to spent every weekend together by socializing at one place and making dinner / lunch together and these were the memorable moment now ,I really missed those happy weekend where there is no parking tension / car driving / petrol.

Shopping for everyone

Earning in GBP gave me chance to buy anything for everyone ( Thank God ) . Whenever I came back in flyback or for my final return I brought so many things that I’ve forgotten the counts and all of them were nice . It includes : Gadget for me , Wardrobe for family/friends ,Toys for kids ,special and most expensive gift for special person in my life. I remember whenever I skip my food or other thing to buy something for someone.

I’m glad everybody liked it …but not all of them.

Trip to Poland

You might ask me Poland ? But if you know me you should be saying “Yes , He made it ” ! Only single reason “Ania” .I cannot imagine how happy I was , feeling of meeting her again in my life . In fact none of us ever imagined that we will meet again .But I made it.

In short words , I met her in 2005 at my first office and was being asked for a favor to be a “Guide” for some woman from Poland : Ania and Monika came to visit India as a part of vacation . I did my job though I was very poor as a guide but was good ( and still ) intellectual and Ania and me clicked instantly.I helped them in buying train ticket for their India tour ( covered in 1 month approx .) and bit of shopping .

I must admit Ania’s nature , very friendly and flexible . I can never forget her “Red Bull Kiss ” . We didn’t had any physical contact neither none of us were interested but its something about her that made me to meet her again . And this fire within me took me to Poland finishing my UK assignment. I remember the CAP which I bought and offer both Ania and Monika as a slam book .

And I decided not too wash until I met them again in Poland ( this was in 2005 ) and I didn’t had a stable job at time and saving and big perks were out of question . I’m glad I made it in 2008 and I remember how happy Ania was to see me with same Cap in Poland at her place !

I do remember the last day of her in India , 16 April 2005 when I found myself upset in sleeping whole night ( nostalgic feeling of something going away ) . I thought its my adolescent crush again ( I had my gf by that time ) so I left this idea to go …around 5:00 in the morning …and guess what happened next second : I received a text message from Ania stating “She couldn’t sleep throughout the night, I was the reason” …OMG ..this was for real .Though we were not in any relationship but its something beyond crush, some sort of virtual connection . I remember her word while leaving India “Nothing last forever” .I’m very lucky that she still remember me and called me from Poland as soon as she reached there.I believed her and I made it to visit her in 2008 . She is very kind woman , she came to pick me up at Airport , this was the kind of breathtaking moment for me to meet her again , she recognized me with my long hair ( duh ! ) , took me to her place and introduced me to her boyfriend . we chatted a bit that night and I land up on my bed tired . Next day Ania had a party for her new house and I met so many of ppl there , Each and everyone was so nice , so keen to know about India and its culture . I remember the “No Vodka , No Life ” ! ( Polish ppl drink Vodka mostly ) and yes I gifted her t-shirt for her and her boyfriend along me “Indian Shoes” for Ania. She is crazy about footwear ! She liked them , I was elated.

Apart from my crush I also found :Monika, Izabella and Martyna nice person . Life gave me chance to meet them in real . After all three came in 2007 for India visit and I helped them out for ticket booking from UK .Thanks to my family member the did the real job. My family also invited all three of them for lunch at my place , it was simply memorable for all of us.

In Poland , Monika was my guide for a day in Poland ( Warsaw ) , here is the << link >> for photos . Martyna came to pick me up in different city Wroclaw and took me to Izabella place.Izabella is very very interesting personality , she is a very good speaker and had very big house and massive book collection I’ve ever seen !

• MS ( Software System ) , BITS-PILANI

Finally I completed my MS from prestigious Bits-pilani this year . <

>. I was elated to be a part of Bits-Plani now .Something I wished to do my post graduation from some prestigious institute and finally my dream come true. I thank everyone here , special thanks to my office cab and number of Red-Bull I consumed so far specially on exam days.

Ray of Hope

Initiatives

Technical consulting for society to tackle social problems :

After my UK experience I was tempted to ‘have’ the similar online organized network just like in UK from Ticket booking to Train booking to information on anything . So I made an attempt here in India . After impressive performance by Theater group ‘Mitr Cultural Society’ I made an effort to help those guys to setup their own blog which could support online ticket booking and feeds .

Having met with real artist offfline from stage was good experience . I wish them all the best.

Teach India

I signed up the very first day for such a great nation level initiatives. Thanks to Times of India . I’m officially enrolled from my office too So hopefully I would be going out soon in weekdays to teach the young guns. Fingures crossed.

Enhance local business by IT | Social consulting
As me being part of my dance class. My IT passion push me to take initiative to enable my dance class to have their own blog where students and trainer can put comments so that it could help dance freaks to share ideas and take this art forward with a blend of technologies.


State of Happines

Hobbies ( Dance and Muzik )

 

Spending 26 year in this planet and of my existence I’m now being sure of my musical sense that keeps me dragging my feet to one or any event /hobby related to music .

 

I’m crazy about music and just can’t live without it . College time gave me exposure to Trance / Techno muzik ( thanks to my peers ) and post college being an IT industry all the download-upload music channel , gave me access to the resource i need to survive and explore it further. LoveParade and Sun Burn injection is also to be blamed :)  As of this writing I’m going to be in Goa , December 2008 for 1 week with my college pals …dammn let me use this word with proud : “Reunion ” ! God bless us !

And the matter of fact is I’m bit happy about it as this the only source of my happiness these days. I like dancing these days more than anything and having my hands dirty on : Salsa and Jazz classes . I wish I would be a good dancer some day ..thats it .

Say Amen !

Friends

Friends : Fuel of my Life : All my treasured friends ( All my College peers till date , my previous office pals ).I’ve earned some new friends , thanks to my dance classes : All of them are nice so far but not to much into going out socially )

Family

Definitively one of the prime base of my happiness . Strong and stable base always keep your smiling curve bend ! My lovely pair of niece have their own contribution here.

Taste of Delhi Culture

Since my UK trip I was very enthusiasm to take part in Delhi cultural activities so I started with theater and the matter of fact that I attended two of the theater ( comedy ) in Delhi :

• TajMahal ka Tender
• Bheja Fry

Both of them were totally hilarious and liked them so much , That I’m ready to go anytime to watch any comedy play with only one condition
: I don’t want to go alone ! I hope to see change in my statement sooner or later by recovering my social circle again .

Milestones achieved

• Gadget(s)
  

  Ppl knows me directly of indirectly as and Gadget Freak / Gadget Man. (after my first breakup I suddenly got enthusiast to gadget somehow J ) or “Gadgets are better than girlfriend” !

 

Gadget List ver 1.1

 

• Sony Ericsson P1i | Current Phone

• Sony Erricsson Bluetooth MBW-100 | Show caller Identification on watch panel , Let me control my phone music player , And yes shows me current time too J < >

• Apple Video iPod 30 GB, 5^th Generation < >

• Gear4 Blue Eye Bluetooth | Enable to pick n receive call on iPod itself, Remote for iPod | FM receiver for iPOD

• Gear4 House Party III | Sounding dock n charger for iPOD | FM Reciever with remote

• Kensington Pico iPOD FM Trnasmitter | Enable to transmit ipod songs to any FM receiver worldwide
  • Kensington iPOD FM Transmitter with ipod Charger | Charge ipod while playing song , connect with Car cigarette lighter power source
  • iPOD Wall Charger
  • iPOD world Charger set

• Sony Cordless Headphone < >
• Multimedia HDD and Recorder 500 GB with Ethernet Port | Runs on embedded Linux !
• Sony Free Agent Desktop
• Dell Inspiron D-400 Laptop < >
• Compaq EVO Laptop
• NetGear Wireless Access Point
• Numark DM950 USB Mixer

 

• DJ consoleur

Finally I made it ,one rough college dream is finally came true . I have a proper hardware DJ mixer at my home , my place at my table ..oh man this is real ! Now I’m all set to try my hands dirty on mixing as well…hope my musical sensed guide me here too…

Wish me luck guys …for curious here are the

• MY Den and Creativity Lies Beneath

After post UK exposure to luxury life and visitin intresting ppl home at Poland , pushed me to he next level here. Though My den was already loaded by creative ideas everywhere, this time I decided to improve more quality . As picture are worth than 1000 words here are they << pics >> New Sofa-Cum-Bed Flower Flast ( with smal flask from Poland ) My MR.Organiser Notice the use of BaseBall Bat here isn’t it coo … King Size Train Ticket >>

• System Admin dream comes true
  

This is my fav subject here to talk here. This is really an achievement that was on my hit list since I’m being introduced to computer field, exciting stories of how big company like Google and Yahoo came up. How geek lives there life and ‘automated’ and ‘robotic’ comfort life.

I got :

• Wireless Internet
• Web Server
• File Sharing
• Home Web Gallery
• media Jukebox
• Movie downloader 24X7
• and thats all running on my Linux !
  

My T-shirt collection

Yes I do have my T-shirt collection, you can see it here

UK V/s India

Though British already ruled us and looted us ,fetched money from India .I’m not a history expert but my analysis is we allowed them to take advantage of us . Before British India company there were no concept of India as a whole , each and every state has its own King, the used to fight with other state king to rule but none of them have worked toward one nation approach . when our freedom fighter did it was too late to reciprocate things ! Even after 60 years of Independence its still difficult to have the team work approach here , People still fight with other, hate each other . Background politics still rules .I’ve analyzed life after my UK experience.

Post return to UK , I feel this more often , People do not smiles . In the bus, in the car , on the way everywhere …happiness comes in chunks and as Lance Armstrong said ‘ its like a slipping rope from hands ‘ but in Indian terms its like ‘ So many ppl get seldom chance to hold that rope ‘ ! It never felt good to see sad faces . It felt like ppl without spark.

I wont say its a conclusion but it would be a starting point for me to work upon towards my 28 year. Journey was mix of good and bad , but I still thank God for all the good things almighty gave me this year, Specially giving me chance to make others happy too. Something that pissed me off very often :

Liars
Discourtesy
Professionalism behavior in India ( case study : Citibank )

Thanks to all of you who read this blog and pass posts on to friends. You have my gratitude.

Random Quotes from my mind –

If A,B are two person ..then “Courtesy” between them stretch from

C—-> Y !

Cya with next blog.!

Another big feather in Cap to Noidaites ( me feeling proud tooo

Noida Metro to touch Sec 62:

Noida, August 2 MP and UP Development Council Chairman Amar Singh today laid the foundation stone of the Noida extension of Metro.

Speaking on the occasion, he announced that the Noida Metro would be extended up to Sector 62. The present plan involves linking of Metro from New Ashoknagar in Delhi to City Centre in Sector 32.

However, Noida officials said the extension to Sector 62 still needs to be worked out and work on that stretch could begin only after the present plan is implemented. Work on the 7.1-km New Ashoknagar-City Centre stretch is all set to begin tomorrow, with the Noida authority promising to wrap up the work on time.

Foundation stone of Noida metro rail project laidThe foundation stone of Noida metro rail project was laid at a function at Sector 32 here. Uttar Pradesh Development Council chairman Amar Singh and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav laid the foundation stone. Noida-Greater Noida chairman Rakesh Bahadur and Noida CEO Sanjiv Saran were present on the occasion with local MP Ashok Pradhan and Meerut Divisional Commissioner Deo Datt.

Source : http://news.noida-properties.com/500/noida-metro-to-touch-sec-62-amar-singh/

Check this out too, Nice Blog

http://www.akhilesh.in/life/noidametro/

Ballet : A theatrical representation of a story that is performed to music by trained dancers

It might sound as a surprise , but its true my growing immature dance passion finally took to me title=”ballet” to witness the Ballet Dance performance in Delhi.

It was all initiated at random , Last Friday I had a look at city daily newspaper for Events and found this one ‘Ballet Dance , Kamani Auditorium for Passes contact Fernando <number> ‘. I was thrilled to see this happening and my chance to actually witness and explore my horizon on dance front . It all started with Salsa .

Well the entry for this event was not an easy job as me being in my office from 9-5 on weekdays , very little chance to physically go anywhere in Delhi on weekdays to collect pass or anything so I took help from my salsa partner , She favored me and asked her peer friends to ‘allow’ me in and give me company too , Sweet ! Special thanks to Siya a.k.a mirchi and Suneeta . That’s something I really appreciated from all of them Now I’m writing this blog , post Ballet Performance and I’m glad that I actually witnessed such a beautiful thing in my life at this stage .

< Performance >

There were more than 8-10 performance comprising of Solo, Group, Couple powered by some theme / story and matching music . For a amateur like me everything was breathtaking, I clicked couple of pictures and shooted video too .

Here they are :

I’ll looking forward to be a part of such type of activity in my life . I’m not committing myself but it is something that attracts me now a days .

Signing off from this ballet dance.Hoping to write some more on this front.

Happy Dancing .

Finally settled down to write this blog after my memorable vacation back to my home country after 8 months !

Well it was very ad hoc planned holiday the only trigger was that my dad transferred to Kerala and I decided to lets have vacation in sync with dad holidays so that whole family can spent time together at least for few days. so the decided days were officially from 17 Dec to 31 Dec ,2007 . The final plan :-

• Spend time with family as much as possible
• Have home made food as much as I could
• Visit best pals
• Visit India office
• Visit places famous for tasty food
• “Go Goa” for Sunburn 2007 ( My actual vacation )
• Other important personal and official work

Now as countdown begins , begins the intensity of pressure of shopping gifts for individuals and family members along with usual office life , so kept myself busy for buying gifts and I purchased : Laptop,mp3 players,Smart dresses , Scarf, Hat, Choclates , Kitchen items ( yes ) and as usual I crossed my baggage limit <phew> …..finally day arrived for my flight and was very excited with joy to see my family again .

17/12/2007 Grounded in Delhi [ Taxi Driver tried to loot me ]
This is interesting to mention here , I grounded in Delhi around 3:00 ( flight delayed a bit ) and was out from airport around 5:00 AM in morning and incident happened is worth mentioned here .

As I was pre-decided not to bug my family early in morning rather give them a surprise so I decided to take Pre-Paid taxi at airport .So I went to Pre-paid taxi booth and asked for taxi to Noida , touts roaming around taxi booth jumped on me with demanding with hire price :800 rs , I negotiated in 700 and agreed and the chap said follow me , it rang bell to me initially then I asked , let me paid it here and get the slip he said “sir , Please come , 50 rs hamien bhi kamane do” I said OK yaar lets go with him . Now when I was boarding the taxi I was surprised to see such a taxi in pathetic condition with no proper logo , light and even it was making annoying noise . I was agitated and asked driver “Why is this noise ? ” He gave me some lame answer and I find out that he is totally drunk , time for me to being alert now . And I said I don’t like this taxi as I’ll be paying you full amount and should be getting the service in same respect and as per that he replied “Ok, sir lets go to one place and change the taxi will have a new one ” . Now this was making me nervous now I said No let go straight to Noida , I don’t want any middle stop [ My heavy tone ] and he was mad at it ! f**** and that chap stopped the taxi in the middle of road with no feat that whole traffic is honking at him ! I got little scared and than he said “Sir , let me drop you back to the airport , I don’t like you tone ” I was relieved that its fine with me let go back to same place so he took a ‘U’ turn and then again dragging me to same place as before ….this time I outburst him and opened the window and shouted the ppl standing outside , waving hand “Stop, Stop” hearing this that bastard stopped the taxi and I opened the door and started pushing as much stuff out of taxi ( as I was in impression , driver will try to run out with my stuff so I quickly pushed all of my stuff from inside in seconds [ with priority : Laptop bag , Gift bag ,luggage ] and then I abused him loud, bastard ! [ and said internally “Welcome to India ” ] phew …

Seriously this is the first time when anybody trying to oversmart me in My Delhi. If I was without luggage I could have kick his ass man ….anyways….I wore my Delhi shoes again and took auto for 1/2 price than taxi [ bargained ]

Reached Home

So finally reached home at 5:30AM , My dad opened door for me . was happy to see him again and met all my family members including my newly born baby niece ….feels good at home .

And then I opened my Gift bag :

Mom: Ladies Bag,Kitchen utensils ( Glass Bowls, Ice Cream Spoons )

Dad: Captain Cap,Chivas Regal ( x2 )

Elder Bro : 2GB Mp3 player, Scarf

Younger Bro: Laptop, Scarf

Bhabhi : Ladies Bag

Baccha Party : Clothes, Toys, and Choclates !

Delighted to see everyone happy , and then I demanded “Aloo ke parantha” oh man !

Felt in heaven ….and then I went to sleep , eliminating my JetLag.

18/12/2007

Slept for whole day and relaxed , ping the janta for my presence in NCR

19/12/2007

Went for my bike service , she was also in standby for 8-9 months

20/12/2007

Went to my Hair expert to straight them , took 5 hrs !

21/12/2007

Went to my newly opened Noida office to meet friends and some official work

22/12/2007

Went with Dad for some pending work on property ,met with my Salsa partner and conversation over a coffee

23/12/2007

Yes , this was the perfect day , Went to CP new Delhi and you know clicked random photo from driving car , as I was missing my Delhi much see :

and CP :
and the Visible GopalDass Building , used to be my landmark to bus stop to my home:
Hey Watch out this : the Parking Slot meter ( actually tells you parking space vacancy ) Cool naa :
Hey its time to next proud of my nation :
The old and famous Regal
and here is the British sense of Delhi !
CAUTION: Here is the mouth watering , yummy part :
Salad
Butter Chicken
Oh simply it was escstacy man ……ah was feeling so sleepy after such a good tasty food
and then at randomTaare Zameen ParI decided to see Aaamir Khan “Taare Zameen Par”I know it was almost not possible to have ticket such quick so I went to optimistic place yes , Noida ! PVR Spice and AAmir Khan is my personal fav so I decided to see movie at any cost .
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I love Aamir Khan taste and style of experiment , he simply put the eye opening facts and figure in front of us ! and I really love this movie and you know the best part : It was constantly reminding us of our school days .And on the same note , When I was used to be on the school I always used to think.Why no one could ever make films of our life , exams , study and school life ?
Finally Aamir khan gave this answer …..And I love one special song from this : called Maa ;
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Simple and Realistic movie

About children

Away from Bollywood bakar ….

Aamir Khan

and you know what , while movie was ending I was skeptical whether ppl like it or not and was thinking to clap …but I restricted myself and suddenly I found ppl clapping after the show !
Simply nice isn’t it ?

Reached late that night …..

24/12/2007 [ To my dad native town in UP ]

Monday , My fasting day but had worked whole day with dad , went to UP with Dad same day to see my Grand Father , who is running ill now a days ….nothing funny there but I did manage to capture some funny pics of mine with Hookah !

See this :

and
25/12/2007 [ Reunion ]
Met my Gurudev and presented him “Captain Cap” discussed with life’s blues with him late into night was nice though…26/12/2007 [ Visit to Gurgaon Office ] I went to my Gurgaon office for some official formalities .A Big day as well , have targeted to meet one of my friend as we stopped talking from last 8 months and Thanks God , its back to normal < I believe > and feeling happy since after ….Met quite number of ppl there in office , Smiled …..for longer duration seriously ! and then our project team and colleague sat down for beer or two [ sorry I forget the count ] << Its a Sanity Check that I got drunk very well Anyways left Gurgaon with one of my driver friend on Bike saw his newly purchased home in Mayur Vihar ….and as usual reached late in night …..but had food at my home [ was chicken biryani ]and I did packing to Goa , very ad hoc very random , have to leave 5:00 AM in the morning .
27/12/2007 [ To Bangalore ]

5:00 AM in morning , I bid goodbye to dad as Dad has to leave for Kerala on 30th , I’ll not be around that time , so I say goodbye and left for my actual part of vacation waiting for me .

Rushed of flight timing , sleeping all the way to Bangalore [ First Stop : Kartik’s Place ], My trance techno Grandfather .

Grounded to B’lore

Finally me at the Silicon Valley of India, KS came to pick me up . Saw him he hasn’t changed since college neither his car , style , I saw the ALPINE logo in his windshield….( intact from college days tough car been changed ! He used to flaunt the logo very proudly …

Then we moved to his place met uncle auntie , after long time . Had b’fast , saw his newly build house in B’lore and had wonderful chat of college days ..and added some good moments it was really nice .so we actually waiting for Ankur to be turned up at his place as he’ll be coming straight from office …so we finished our packing and Ankur arrived bit late and put our stuff and faith to TATA and his driver , Mr KS >>
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So we packed our stuff , me bid goodbye from Uncle and Aunty as I’ll be leaving from Goa to Delhi directly ….

Bangalore to Goa
Ankur ( Navigator),me (helper ) , KS (Driver) and our mean machine ( Tata Indica)

..we all 4 kick started our journey of more than 592 km and we sat to cover it in 1.5 days as we expecting to reach on Sunburn Event on time .
Please meet our IndicaFlight Crew :
Map
The Crew
We had KS as usual had its Trance music CD collection ready and I enjoyed being a back seat paddy and enjoying the bliss of music and sleep ….[ was too tired ]We drove car till midnight and took lodge in night for 3-4 sleep and continued our journey next day.28/12/2007 , En route to Goa
Good Morning , we still on the way had our morning tea at highway dhaba :
continued our journey and saw some funny stuff like this : >>
this was hilarious …we continued our journey and we drove some 100 km extra as one of the National HIghway was closed ( don’t ask me which one as I was not in charged for driving and navigating We continued our journey and entered Goa and then Panji …..
reaching Goa our adernaline rush kicked off as we were already for Sunburn opening day so we want to reach ASAP ….and we saw the invitation hoarding on the road ( similar to Ibiza )
and the official SunBurn one :
and obviously we were tempted to join in …..
but it delyaed a bit further as we reached the place we organized to stayed in and took time to fresh ourselves after a long journey .SunBurn2007, Goa
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We faced some of initial hiccups and chaos of bit of mismanagement of parking space but once we are IN to fest ..it was truly brilliant and well organized .Hats of to Nikhil Chinapa and Submerge.in They really given birth to EDM generation in India man ..and by calling such an event they even built a stronger foundation for more future events yet to come …yet to enjoy for crowd to cheer up. and I was really proud to see that .It’ll be intresting to read chinapa’s blog

http://www.sunburn-festival.com/links/about-pg1Seriously even If I do comparison with the LoveParade ( in Germany ) which I attended on same year in August 2007 ( see my blog entry at : http://nkataria.planetfloss.net/blog/?cat=13 ) and this event in India is truly at the level of world class event with intrenation Djs , Visualisation in background , and the lovely Crowd …even I was bit surprised to see the EDM loving crowd in INdia , specially the chics …uhhh <<<The DJs:
The best part is that apart for International DJs its giving chance to India one as well .
A Truly talent hunt and supported platform .We did nothing much on first day as we arrived late so just matched our frequency with the crowd and got the feel already to be ready for next and the last day for event.
Parallely KS and me drafted plan to meet our college friend : Shruti .29/12/2007, Sunburn second day
EDM morning ..here at sunburn it was looking too good this day , we captured the place and explored in sunlight …it was really very chilling environment outhere man see :Stage
KS and Me chilling out in sun with music in background:
Crowd
We took our time to meet shruti outside event and I was delighted to see her more than two years.Here is the close up smile pick

took our time in chatting near beach and exploring it :

Me and KS on the beach
and see Ankur ..its looks like he saw ocean for the first time and trying to attempt suicide and KS stopping him
and more weird one
and this one , “Good to see them smiling together , no offense plz ”
and this time me and shruti :
and then we all sat together for some nice lunch , we sat in Shake called “Club 21 ” .
This was the awesome time ..we started chatting college talks , and the good past we all shared together …and everyone was smiling , enjoying it ….and then I saw Ankur trying some hand on with some random chick behind our table for Salsa / Jive …. ( Club 21 playing number of salsa music ) ….so I showed it to Shurit as well and did some stuff of it ..and it was good .Food : uhhmmm…..finally I was pre predetermined mood to have sea food today …and why not I’m in Goa man …so me and shurti ordered some Prawn some ( one in Garlic stuff , and other one I don’t remember now …) …we had our lunch , shared our gossip for more than 2-3 hours though we are constantly listening beats from sunburn as our reminder “DJ is calling where are you ? “So KS left to join the DJs and me and Ankur stayed with Shruti till his bike taxi driver come to pick her up ….and I was feeling some leisure time till this point of time ….We entered back to heaven …now energy was amplified , crowd gone crazy and DJ pearl was on the stage :
I missed couple of Djs as well around lunch time but no regret …meeting with old pal was also nice .plus I met one of my good freiend , Rahul Joshi ….a.k.a “Joshi Saab” / “R.A.W”
and evening was going better and better :
and even ecstasy going too great on us :
and then we saw : Carl CoX
Yelling to save my life from DJ ….:)

and here are others >>>
feeling tempo
more …..
10:00 PM this was the last set by Carl Cox …and crowd was so overwhelmed that they asked for “One More ” .This was a very good night …we all three enjoyed there , and then we heard public announcment from Nikhil for overnight party in Tito’s [ only for couple’s , condition apply ]

but we choose to left as we were feeling hungry so we gone again to Club 21 , had last dinner in Goa for 2007 and spent some more quality time together , chatting having bears and nice food …really I felt as I’m in heaven on that day and still I can feel the same fresh feeling when we all three sitting togther laughing , and enjoying each other conversation ….no one from us was thinking to go back and sleep even me was thinking could it be possible for us to stay all over night here facing beach and talking ……however as I had flight next morning to delhi and then on 31st morning flight back to UK ….we finally logged out around 1:00 AM in the morning ….its was really good time I had with KS , Shruti and AK.

and not to forget the hospitality of KS friend who gives all three bachelor to stay in her house and supported us even odd hour of night . I found her husband Ishaan a very nice chap , had a wonderful conversation with him though I missed most part of it . but KS is too passionate about all this stuff , I believe he must took some tip from him .

We really enjoyed the place , ppl , support and their hospitality plus the unforgettable notorious AK acts within the house ….SSShhhhhhh !

All and all I had a great time in Bangalore , Goa met quite good number of ppl and old friends,along with the emerging trend of India that really making me proud.

I wish I could make it every one end in Goa …with college friend around and power of EDM .
I’m thankfull to KS,AK and shruti as well for their time and support .

God Bless,
Trance Zindabad …