I love pasteries, they're delicious, and they're soft. And when baked well, they just melt in your mouth before you know it. And the taste lingers on for a little while, and then leaves you gasping for more.
I love other things too. Music being one of them. But somehow, I am beginning to feel that music is best appreciated by those in definite states of mind. Be it sadness or joy. It is the undecided, uncertain mind which can never truly taste this delicacy for the soul. Possibly becasue it has not decided to live life yet.
I have a simplistic approach to life. I think in my mother tongue and since its a bit of a mental effort to truly understand and appreciate english songs, I stick to bollywood songs and other hindi albums for my share of the world of chords, notes and resonances.
Of all the angrejji songs that I have managed to like, some that I can think of right now are:
1. Titanic: My heart will go on.
2. Ricky Martin: Livin' la vida loca, Private emotion, Amor etc. (Spanish though, to be precise)
3. Ronan Keating: When you say nothing at all.
4. Enrique Iglesias: Somebody's me
5. Joni Mitchell: Both sides now.
Hmm...enough of listing songs now, lets move on to the cribbing now, shall we ?
Born about 27 years ago in a place called Pandey Paikuli, in a typical middle class family with an illusory belief of belonging to the upper middle - upper class; I grew up with strong indoctrinations of what was right and what was wrong.
I feel that a lot of people from my generation would have had trouble adapting to the expectaions that an increasingly media driven culture puts on people. I for example, as a young man am supposed to always stay "cool" ,and frankly, I am someone who likes to live life at my own pace. Dont get me wrong here....I like to keep doing things. I am not someone who would sit idly at all. I would do stuff, but I would not like to be driven by some expectation of appearing cool to the world. So I would buy an average mobile phone, and not an Iphone, I would get a zenith laptop with the same specs as a dell counterpart would have, for a much lesser price; and I would not really rush behind branded apparels. But what living through this transitionary period has done to me is that it has exposed me to a lot of conflicts at several levels.
I am a conservative by conditioning, and a libertarian by taste.
I am religious by conditioning and an agnostic in my intellectual position.
I am sexually repressed by conditioning, and I seek physical compainionship indeed.
I am honest by conditioning, and the social acceptability and ir-removability of corruption makes me feel like a fool.
I am an idealist by conditioning, but I can see how the social mechanisms play critical roles in shaping our futures.
I am a bit of a lot of things, it seems. Things that may not matter in the grand universal scheme of things...or would they ? ;)
I love other things too. Music being one of them. But somehow, I am beginning to feel that music is best appreciated by those in definite states of mind. Be it sadness or joy. It is the undecided, uncertain mind which can never truly taste this delicacy for the soul. Possibly becasue it has not decided to live life yet.
I have a simplistic approach to life. I think in my mother tongue and since its a bit of a mental effort to truly understand and appreciate english songs, I stick to bollywood songs and other hindi albums for my share of the world of chords, notes and resonances.
Of all the angrejji songs that I have managed to like, some that I can think of right now are:
1. Titanic: My heart will go on.
2. Ricky Martin: Livin' la vida loca, Private emotion, Amor etc. (Spanish though, to be precise)
3. Ronan Keating: When you say nothing at all.
4. Enrique Iglesias: Somebody's me
5. Joni Mitchell: Both sides now.
Hmm...enough of listing songs now, lets move on to the cribbing now, shall we ?
Born about 27 years ago in a place called Pandey Paikuli, in a typical middle class family with an illusory belief of belonging to the upper middle - upper class; I grew up with strong indoctrinations of what was right and what was wrong.
I feel that a lot of people from my generation would have had trouble adapting to the expectaions that an increasingly media driven culture puts on people. I for example, as a young man am supposed to always stay "cool" ,and frankly, I am someone who likes to live life at my own pace. Dont get me wrong here....I like to keep doing things. I am not someone who would sit idly at all. I would do stuff, but I would not like to be driven by some expectation of appearing cool to the world. So I would buy an average mobile phone, and not an Iphone, I would get a zenith laptop with the same specs as a dell counterpart would have, for a much lesser price; and I would not really rush behind branded apparels. But what living through this transitionary period has done to me is that it has exposed me to a lot of conflicts at several levels.
I am a conservative by conditioning, and a libertarian by taste.
I am religious by conditioning and an agnostic in my intellectual position.
I am sexually repressed by conditioning, and I seek physical compainionship indeed.
I am honest by conditioning, and the social acceptability and ir-removability of corruption makes me feel like a fool.
I am an idealist by conditioning, but I can see how the social mechanisms play critical roles in shaping our futures.
I am a bit of a lot of things, it seems. Things that may not matter in the grand universal scheme of things...or would they ? ;)
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