Happy New Years!!!!
And here I am minutes before another CD of 365 differnt songs comes to an end...
a good listen overall!
This year I came to believe that indeed, life teaches us more and more as we get older.
This was the first year of my college life that distance away from my family was most severely felt!
I guess it is because during earlier years, there was this excietement of being away from parents, the excitement that any 18 year old would have upon realisation of almost complete freedom! Hence as I mentioned earlier that life teaches us more as we grow older, I sort of accepted that freedom and learned to get comfortable with it. Now that the freedom is well-controlled, I begin to tire of it.
More on the professional side of things, I am now very well aware of what exactly this education system demands from me....and the amount is copious!!!
A few months back it used to be extremely painful to open the book and sit for even 2 hours doing calculations over calculations over calculations...
A few months passed, and I am beginning to grow into sitting for the entire night...only I can truly feel how frightening the transition is!
Turning to social aspects, I've began to train myself to be more social with any and all genders (probably not including the 3rd one). Assuming I am half way there, I have to work on the 2nd half, the more difficult one, a WHOLE on its own (do not assume any puns)!!
It's due to exposure to a multitude of cultures and their interpretations and limits of male-female interactions! I descended down from a more extreme mode of social interaction to a rather conservative one. That implies that all the previous knowledge gained is useless =p !!! However, time isn't an ocean!
Now to the less expected, or not the most interesting of topics FOR EVERYONE, music.
This year I expanded my playlist to beyong commercialised music. I got listening to some bands that only a small fraction of this world would have every put through their ears. MotherJane for one really caught attention! Do have a listen if you ever decide to pop out of commercialisation!
I also developed a great respect for old-school metal (although OLD defines it too directly). Ottmar Liebert, Marty Friedman, Carlos Santana and crew, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Sabbath, Element Eighty, Eric Clapton, Fuel, Jason Becker, Megadeth and Pearl Jam to name a few of those that topped my charts.
I still hate Rap, RnB, Hip-hop as much as I used to last year, still tasteless!
Fave band of the year:
--ALTER BRIDGE--
ENTERTAINMENT!!!
Favorite movie this year: SNATCH - by Guy Ritchie
Hillarious, tricky, admitingly vulgar, one hell of a movie!!!
Favorite puzzle:
Yes I have one this year, SUDOKU, I am sure you must have heard of it! If you haven't then you have too much of a life! Lose some!
Now moving outside the box slightly, this year has also been a puerile for the rest of world. Insane weather, tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes and heat waves. My town had a frying pan 41celcius topping summer (go convert it in farenheit yourself)!
Then there was continuation of the Iraq war, and the growth of my nails...it happens!
The hullabaloo (spelt pathetically) in the techworld over the much waited WINDOWS VISTA, I thought, is a big news! A beautifully created GUI, somewhat similar to that of MACINTOSH's, yet somehow but not surprisingly more favored.
And to top it off with the most dangerous cherry of it all, the hanging of Saddam Hussein. A news indescribable without risk of debate! Both happy and sad the world looked on to the hanging of this year's most talked of dictator!
The sun did rise and set like everyday, and plants grew and leaves fell. Water flowed immeasurably and the earth made one more revolution, just like every year, some may think. However, it is not until you take a moment to look back on what you did, and what the world did and learned in the past 300 and some days and write about it, that you realise that this year was nothing like from all the others. Just a little bump in the step to show the IMMENSE variety and magnitude of this life and universe, and we think that a year ends after every few calculated days. However, nothing has ended. Infact, what is a year? Since we all know, the sun will set tonight, and rise tomorrow...just like everyday!
Happy 31st of January, 2006!
a good listen overall!
This year I came to believe that indeed, life teaches us more and more as we get older.
This was the first year of my college life that distance away from my family was most severely felt!
I guess it is because during earlier years, there was this excietement of being away from parents, the excitement that any 18 year old would have upon realisation of almost complete freedom! Hence as I mentioned earlier that life teaches us more as we grow older, I sort of accepted that freedom and learned to get comfortable with it. Now that the freedom is well-controlled, I begin to tire of it.
More on the professional side of things, I am now very well aware of what exactly this education system demands from me....and the amount is copious!!!
A few months back it used to be extremely painful to open the book and sit for even 2 hours doing calculations over calculations over calculations...
A few months passed, and I am beginning to grow into sitting for the entire night...only I can truly feel how frightening the transition is!
Turning to social aspects, I've began to train myself to be more social with any and all genders (probably not including the 3rd one). Assuming I am half way there, I have to work on the 2nd half, the more difficult one, a WHOLE on its own (do not assume any puns)!!
It's due to exposure to a multitude of cultures and their interpretations and limits of male-female interactions! I descended down from a more extreme mode of social interaction to a rather conservative one. That implies that all the previous knowledge gained is useless =p !!! However, time isn't an ocean!
Now to the less expected, or not the most interesting of topics FOR EVERYONE, music.
This year I expanded my playlist to beyong commercialised music. I got listening to some bands that only a small fraction of this world would have every put through their ears. MotherJane for one really caught attention! Do have a listen if you ever decide to pop out of commercialisation!
I also developed a great respect for old-school metal (although OLD defines it too directly). Ottmar Liebert, Marty Friedman, Carlos Santana and crew, Avenged Sevenfold, Black Sabbath, Element Eighty, Eric Clapton, Fuel, Jason Becker, Megadeth and Pearl Jam to name a few of those that topped my charts.
I still hate Rap, RnB, Hip-hop as much as I used to last year, still tasteless!
Fave band of the year:
--ALTER BRIDGE--
ENTERTAINMENT!!!
Favorite movie this year: SNATCH - by Guy Ritchie
Hillarious, tricky, admitingly vulgar, one hell of a movie!!!
Favorite puzzle:
Yes I have one this year, SUDOKU, I am sure you must have heard of it! If you haven't then you have too much of a life! Lose some!
Now moving outside the box slightly, this year has also been a puerile for the rest of world. Insane weather, tsunamis, hurricanes, typhoons, earthquakes and heat waves. My town had a frying pan 41celcius topping summer (go convert it in farenheit yourself)!
Then there was continuation of the Iraq war, and the growth of my nails...it happens!
The hullabaloo (spelt pathetically) in the techworld over the much waited WINDOWS VISTA, I thought, is a big news! A beautifully created GUI, somewhat similar to that of MACINTOSH's, yet somehow but not surprisingly more favored.
And to top it off with the most dangerous cherry of it all, the hanging of Saddam Hussein. A news indescribable without risk of debate! Both happy and sad the world looked on to the hanging of this year's most talked of dictator!
The sun did rise and set like everyday, and plants grew and leaves fell. Water flowed immeasurably and the earth made one more revolution, just like every year, some may think. However, it is not until you take a moment to look back on what you did, and what the world did and learned in the past 300 and some days and write about it, that you realise that this year was nothing like from all the others. Just a little bump in the step to show the IMMENSE variety and magnitude of this life and universe, and we think that a year ends after every few calculated days. However, nothing has ended. Infact, what is a year? Since we all know, the sun will set tonight, and rise tomorrow...just like everyday!
Happy 31st of January, 2006!
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