Oh!! For a nice skip-free mp3 player!!

I love taking walks. All alone.
But nice music in my ears while I'm donig that really charges me up...makes me feel full of beans. I normally listen to stuff which has a lot of fast music like Aerosmith, The Rasmus and Green day.
I take these walks on a rather lonely stretch of the Outer Ring Road and have met all sorts of people including pimps, whores, truck drivers and of course policemen. No, I have not been mugged yet and I really hope that does not happen to me ever.
Coming back to the topic, I go on walks normally with my walkman or with my discman. Now over the last few days my disc-man has started skipping like a little girl who has just recieved a years' supply of vanilla ice-cream.
A little net-surfing told me that that is a normal complaint with disc-men (Is that right?? Disc-men???) I have a Sony DNF-610, which apparently is a very nicely designed system..with lots of engineering margin. So why this?? Looks like they have a mode which you turn on when you intend to do some slightly intense stuff with your disc-man which apparently increases the laser power. This hits you on the LED's life thing but will give you a skip-free playback for the duration of the rigorous stuff you intend to do with it. But over time, the LED's power would go down and your disc-man starts skipping.
I'm not very sure how correct all this was but anyway....

This has really led me into thinking that one should never buy stuff with moving parts if one can help it. (After all, you are moving, and so is the CD drive....your movement intereferes with the drive's movement and so you get skips).

That's why I'm not so crazy about the ipod with the HDD memory, since that fellow is also going to skip like hell. Atleast it has a good chance of doing that. I'll probably go for an ipod with the flash memory but those things are so costly!!!! (Not that the HDD ipod is not costly. It is. )
I'd really like to get my hands on one ipod shuffle or (better still!) an ipod nano, but I'm waiting for their prices to come down. Till then, my AIWA walkman will have to keep me company....
Its a pity since all the stuff that I really like listening to is in CDs and my discman skips so badly that I sometimes have had to take my walks on tip-toe....

Not using comments on blogs now!!!

If you cannot understand what I mean by the subject line, just look at the comments I got on my previous blog..... Innovative idea definitely but I really do not want to know anything about Texas Turkey Hunting...
Do you???


I'm not sure anyone would be interested so I deleted them.....

New Delhi Bomb blasts

Yesterday three bombs exlpoded in the crowded marketplaces of New Delhi while innocent mothers and children were doing their shopping for Diwali and Eid.

The newspapers are putting the toll at 67 people killed and some 200 injured. When I read the story on rediff, I was shocked. I was in office then. After finishing my owrk, I went home, turned on NDTV only to listen to our honourable Home Minister saying things on these lines:

"We condemn this act in the most stringent terms, there is little else that we can do.
The government is going to release compensation for the victims to the families of the killed and injured.
I request everyone to go home...."

I went crazy with anger on hearing this. We have become a nation who has made practising restraint a national profession. Why can't we go ahead and take out the militant camps ourselves. Why are we spending so much on defence if we cannot even safegaurd our people from fanatics across the border when:
1. We know who they are
2. We know WHERE they are
3. We know what they intend to do to us.

All we do is, cry in the world fora and listen to every Tom, Dick and Harry who tells us to practise restraint while if they were faced with the same situation, they would'nt care two fig-leaves about world opinion.

Dear Home Minister, thank you!!!
Thank you for telling us what you are capable of. Thank you for clearing our doubts about the existence of your balls. Next time onwards, if I raise a gun to defend myself, please don't hold me guilty!

Hmm Hmm..

Whew!!!
Its going to be a new day in some three minutes and I am still waiting for that simulation to end....
Home sweet home....
These days have been one rollicking ride. Working my ass off on weekdays and partying like crazy on weekends. The good thing is that time seems to be whizzing by. Early monday mornings which used to get me so depressed earlier no longer do so. I just sit back and laugh at Monday Morning and say, "Don't worry, your friend Friday Evening is coming soon!!!" May life go on like this!!!

"What's the Frequency Kenneth?
Is your Benzedhrine!!!"

Nothing to do with what I have written before that, but that's what is blaring in my ears right now as I try to stay awake while this bloody thing ends!

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
I was brain-dead, locked out, numb, not up to speed
I thought I'd pegged you an idiot's dream
Tunnel vision from the outsider's screen
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh

I'd studied your cartoons, radio, music, TV, movies, magazines
Richard said, "Withdrawal in disgust is not the same as apathy"
A smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh

"What's the frequency, Kenneth?" is your Benzedrine, uh-huh
Butterfly decal, rear-view mirror, dogging the scene
You smile like the cartoon, tooth for a tooth
You said that irony was the shackles of youth
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I never understood the frequency, uh-huh
You wore our expectations like an armored suit, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You said that irony was the shackles of youth, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
You wore a shirt of violent green, uh-huh
I couldn't understand
I never understood, don't fuck with me, uh-huh"


Never could get what this song means but it sounds nice so it stays in my playlist!

Diwali is here again. I had planned to ride down to Mangalore on my bike and would have done so had the Rain-God not intervened. Now since it's been pouring all over South India, we decided not to risk our lives. But after that Bandipore trip, I have tasted blood and I need another one like that as soon as the weather clears.
I have taken quite a few trips after that one though which I have not uploaded yet. Need to. Need to.
There has been a Nagarhole trip, a trip to SawanDurga (not sure if that's how you spell it), a trip to Kabini (Oh!!! that heavenly place) and finally one to Pondicherry. All of them were fun but the Pondy trip was the craziest and the most fun......
Comnig back to Diwali. Its a pathetic festival when you are away from your family. I'll probably get roaring drunk on Diwali evening. It'd have been nice to go home....