Sabbath bloody sabbath, Nothing much to do.
Living just for dying, dying just for you.
Yeah!

I am too bored now. Want to write something here, but nothing comes to mind. Am too bored writing abt IIT and stuff. So thought of writing these lines from "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath" by Black Sabbath (Awesome song!). And guess wat, it came on the radio at the same time :)

Okay, lemme write abt the music here. The best thing abt music here is the radio! There r sooooooooooo many FM stations here playing all sorts of songs. Most people listen to radio when they are driving (which almost everyone over 18 does). And radio stations make lotsa $$$. They organize lotsa events (live shows and stuff) and stuff. People are big fans of their radio stations.

My favorite stations are 96.5 WHTQ and 101.1 Real Rock. I dunno why most stations have these wierd names like WHTQ and all. The former station plays classic rock tunes. Surpisingly, Led Zepplin is one of the most famous rock bands here. I had heard very little of them back in India. But they made some really cool tunes. I dunno why noone hears much of them in India. Not many British bands r played on the radio, and that's one thing that I dont like! British music is kewl... and I think people here shud b exposed to it. 101.1 plays heavy rock, but they play the modern alternative rock that sucks most of the time. Noone plays the classy Iron Mainden, Metallica or Judas, probably because they r mostly British bands.

Alternative music is in a sad state here: trashy music, not much lead guitaring and harsh vocals. I have liked very few of these songs. Songs shud b like the Maiden tunes: lots of cooooooooool guitaring (the most perfect band in terms of combination of guitars, drums and vocals), sexy lyrics and cool rythm. I guess those days r gone :((

I also listen to radio online, mostly Launch. Check it out: I have a link on this page :) It's not completely heavy rock, but a lot of it is.

Anyways, I signoff with the Sabbath song (I just wanna put it here):

You've seen life through distorted eyes
You know you had to learn
The execution of your mind
You really had to turn
The race is run the book is read
The end begins to show
The truth is out, the lies are old
But you don't want to know

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies

The people who have crippled you
You want to see them burn
The gates of life have closed on you
And now there's just no return
You're wishing that the hands of doom
Could take your mind away
And you don't care if you don't see again
The light of day

Nobody will ever let you know
When you ask the reasons why
They just tell you that you're on your own
Fill your head all full of lies

Where can you run to
What more can you do
No more tomorrow
Life is killing you
Dreams turn to nightmares
Heaven turns to hell
Burned out confusion
Nothing more to tell

Everything around you
What's it coming to
God knows as your dog knows
Bog blast all of you
Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Nothing more to do
Living just for dying
Dying just for you

Anime...

... are awesome. These are the Japanese animations with English subtitles. I had seen "Ranma" in IITM and really liked it. Have got a chance to watch other stuff here, and am currently watching "GTO: Great Teacher Onizuka" on winamp. These anime are usually based on martial arts stuff and have a lot of humour in them (though GTO doesn't have lotsa martial arts stuff). Why do I like them? Because they have real nice comedy and the story is pretty interesting. Each anime has more than 30 episodes and they all follow a story. So all episodes are inter-related. The western cartoons are based upon characters rather than the story of the cartoon. That's why each episode starts with a story or theme and ends on the same day. The next episode is completely different. But anime follows a flow, and u CANNOT even imagine wat will happen in the next episode (though it follows a story), which is the awesome thing abt it. The direction of these anime is different too (most anime have similar direction) and is far better than other cartoons.

These anime cud have been made into soaps, but thank God they haven't. It's impossible for the actors to show emotions that u can produce in animations. And oh yeah, the music of anime is good too :)

So much for this. But I'm really sad that I didn't receive any emails in the past 2 days, except from by work-mates asking me to help them out in some areas. No recent blogs by Pills too :( I am wondering if it's my spring break or theirs....

HOLI

Holi was so HORRIBLE this year. It could have been a lot lot better.

We guys who had gone to Daytona had planned to reach Orlando by 8pm on Saturday night and goto the temple to see the Holi celebrations. But that never happened. We reached here at 9pm because some guys wanted some rest before they reached here. Then everyone had to take bath and get ready, so the idea of going to the temple was completely packed. But we decided to play Holi on Sunday morning in the temple. But all suckers woke up at noon and the celebrations were over by then. I was only able to put some colors on a couple of my friends. I was totally pissed at the end of the day.

Basically, none of the guys here had any enthu to play holi. I cannot understand why people dont like Holi, especially guys like Pande and Kamal who have been in IIT!

I had gone home during the first holi and played an okay-types holi there. But when I came back to the hostel, I cud see all walls covered with colors and I got to know that guys there had the best holi of their lives. I felt I had made a BIG mistake by going home. And the next holi proved it true!

Holi in IIT was all about unrecognizable half-naked poeple running around the campus tearing other guys' T-shirts. We had a custom that every guy has to wear a torn T-shirt around his waist. So the guys have to enter the quadrangle wearing a t-shirt and evryone comes over to tear off the T-shirt. We then swing that guy in a swamp of holi water, and it feels awesome, until u r turned head-down and swung in the water :D We had small ponds in each hostel where we drowned and splashed others. It was really great playing in the ponds.

I had gone to the beach once and it was a really memorable trip. All of us half-naked-colored guys were sitting in the bus, and when we came out of the campus the day seemed a normal one to all outsiders: People were going to offices, children to school and iitans to the beach. There was no holi going on in the city. I cannot forget the looks of people's faces when they saw us going in the bus! They were dumbstuck, scared, furious and everything else that u can think of. We cudn't help but make faces on them. We had already had a lot of fun by the time we reached the beach. Holi went on for an hour on the beach till the police came over and forced us out of the beach (I guess they had never heard of holi in their life!). We reached back home all happy and then had the special grub: same old payasam, banana chips, puri, chole and kheer.

Wow! Those were some great holi days in life. Wish my next holi will at least be slightly better than the present one.

Spring Break

Spring break is a fun time here, especially in Florida, Lousiana and Texas. We have a one-week complete holiday where all students head-on to the beaches to party. And the parties go WIIIIIIIIIIILDDD! Girls are known to flash when they get beads from guys :) and so all guys carry along heaps of beads. There r number of events like the wet t-shirt contest and girl-on-girl kiss contest, where guys can FREEEEEAAAK OUT! And there other stuff... but need I say more?

I was expecting to see all this when I went to Daytona Beach (ranked 6 for Spring break destinations in US). After boozing for one full nite, we (10 friends+me) went to the beach at noon only to find that it was completely empty :( It was the first day of spring break and there wasn't much crowd. Found out that the party begins usually on the second or third day of the break. Since we were going to stay there just for a day, we enjoyed the maximum extent possible: played volley and frisby on beach and did some gen timepass. The water was sooooooo damn cold that I hardly played on the waves.

Not many babes were presenton the beach, but enjoyed watching the few of them walking around in awesome bikinis ;) Wonder wat it wud b like when there'll b a whole bunch of them running around :D

But the interesting thing in Daytona was the bike-fest that was going on. There was a plethora of bikes there. I havent even seen so many of them back in India. They were mostly Harleys, Yamahas and BMWs, all AWESOME! But the riders were old geezers, and that's why the crowd eveywhere was of old people. Some baaaaaaabes were riding on bikes, and it was a real pleasure to see them ;) And one of the best gals I saw in Daytona was when I was buying a bike-fest t-shirt in a shop. (I guess the gal was also a bike-driver.)

The trip was fun overall, but wasn't the spring-break kinda fun. Hope I goto Daytona again next weekend (when the party will *really* start) with Bharat and Jai and have loads of the spring-break fun!