! Monsoon Wedding !


The past few days have been smashing, and not just because of the festive season. I can list a whole lot of reasons why I have been livelier than usual. And believe me, by lively, I mean Lively, because I've spent almost my entire 20 pointless years looking sombre and brooding like a parody of Drona. And a lame one, at that. So, we were discussing reasons, right?? Here they are:


a) The Monsoon. My personal favorite, the very sight of gloomy grey skies brings out the poet in me[:)] and the thundering dowpours add to the beauty of that divine time that mortals call a 'rainy evening'.


b) My Practicals. They are over. And forgetting the fact that I screwed Micro up beyond any hope, methinks I did a pretty good job of not losing my nerve through the nightmarish Micro session, for I realised over the extent of two hours how Chandler must have felt when George Michaels bitch-slapped him when he rushed the stage at a Wham! concert.


c) Its the festive season! Diwali dude is here, finally! The lights, the sweets, the pudhu-garish-ramarajan-dresses my folks force me to wear everytime, they are all back, and me is one year closer to getting married and laid(!)(yecha polappu)


d) Mouli n Co. wedding reception. It was a fun night, a gang of eight guys, we headed to Mouli's sister's wedding reception and man, was it a riot. Hours of thinkingse on what to gift the couple, (which we spent watching Gary Unmarried and a B-Grade flick called Animal Instincts plus a premiere of the Ravikrishna movie 'KD' at my place), and after an extra hour of me trying to choose a decent outfit to wear amidst the pile of my wannabe-ramarajan clothes, we finally headed to the Hall with no gift in hand!



Add to that, all the fun we had diving into dinner, grinning into the camera through mouthfuls of puri-masala looking like the displaced tribals of Orissa. Ajay 'Mokka' Maddy was the star of the evening though, thanks to the fact that he vaguely resembled the Groom. All in all, orey the photos, orey the videos, orey the shaking hands, and orey the kalaaichifyings. And I tried Beeda for the first time in my life. Too sweet, me didn't like it much. Free.


Its a relief to loosen up a bit before the impending debacle of the semesters, I must say.


P.S: I hate the weird Indian habit of videotaping the people tucking into food in the dining hall. But as long as its osi soru, who cares... :)
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Death Magnetic!


The gods of Thrash are back, and how! All the riffs, all the quirks and that unearthly sound of pounding drums left at the mercy of Lars Ulrich's hands and feet..!!


All hail the return of Metallica, one band that refuses to age and proves its critics wrong everytime. The guys who were gloating after the release of the dismal St.Anger can sulk in peace now, the naysayers can shut their traps, and the followers of the Metallica glory can revel in the sound of their icons at their best.


Downloaded the whole album Death Magnetic via Limewire, and my first impression was 'Whoa-oa!'


Believe me, I was kinda worried after the St.Anger debacle that Metallica were losing their grip slowly over a genre they perfected through the years. Death Magnetic lays all questions to rest. Its thrash metal at its pure unadulterated best. Metallica leaves back its attempts at modern music, and gives us a revisit to its old Master Of Puppets days.


All Nightmare Long, the so-called sequel to Enter Sandman, Judas Kiss, The End Of The Line, The Unforgiven III, My Apocalypse and a whole lot of other tracks promise a permanent place in my playlists for the future. If ur not a Metallica fan, the tracks may take some time to grow on you. Each track goes for, like, 6 minutes on an average, and the hooks and guitar solos will sink in only through regular listening. For Metalheads, however, this is gonna be a wild ride..!


Over gethu, potru, chancee...


Do check it out, free... Peace.
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