Good Start

So the new year has been a pretty good start for me... and for the band.. The band has got 4 gigs so far for the month, one of them we had to refuse and hence 3 so far. So it so happens a few of my friends and I are enjoying dinner at Martin's Chinese Nook, when my brother Chris (who is also our band manager) got a call from Channel [V]. They said they loved our performance at Blue Frog and would love to have us at LaunchPad. Hence we registered for it, not really knowing what it was. On Sunday evening I was out for dinner at Pizza Hut with my friends Mr. & Mrs. Scott when we get a call from Channel [V] saying we have been shortlisted for Launchpad and that we need to perform the next day at B69 at 3pm.

Now that was indeed a shocker for most of us guys, cos we had to literally bunk work and play the gig. Well it happens I was the only one who had to bunk work, my vocalist went to work after the gig and the guitarist before. I had been sick since Sunday evening, so I told my boss I was sick and went for the gig. But it got worse there.. So I bought a bottle of cough syrup and drank it until I find relief for my throat.. I finished the entire bottle but never really found the relief, in fact my throat went dry during the gig and I had to hunt for a bottle of water. We left promptly after our slot was done. One of the reasons being I was drowsy having finished the whole bottle of the syrup. My friends said that I was performing drunk in the influence of Alcohol in the cough syrup. I did not really care for what they had to say, until I crashed after getting home and got a hangover the following day.

Some more cartoons...

I just can't enough of some of these coolest Christian cartoons I find on the net.. so here are some more :D

Image Courtesy: Joyful Toons

il·lu·sion

Image Courtesy : Might Optical Illusions

il·lu·sion

[ih-loo-zhuhn]

–noun

1. something that deceives by producing a false or misleadingimpression of reality.

2. the state or condition of being deceived; misapprehension.

3. an instance of being deceived.

Being an IT Geek it sometimes irritates me when I find people are so ignorant about Technology and how are not easy to a change. A simple example would be, how about 80% of the world's population is still stuck onto windows when there are Open Source Operating Systems like Linux available for free of cost. Linux for most of the times was known as a Geek's Operating Systems, but of recent (since 2004) has developed and launched Desktop versions of it, which are more easy to operate than Windows Operating Systems. But yet many choose to purchase it for a price. So then I began to study the human behavior and this is what I found.

Our human brain likes anything that is appealing to the eyes. It could be colorful, smooth, shining, glittering, flashing... etc.. And that's what exactly Microsoft provided the world with.. here is a screenshot from the last decade - popular Windows XP Operating System.

Windows XP Professional

Image Courtesy: Open Book Project

And here is a Linux Screenshots from the last decade...

Mandrake Linux - Circa 1998

Image Courtesy - Maximum PC

If you look closely you will see that the Windows XP screenshot looks more appealing than the Mandrake Linux screenshot. But not many people understand the importance of an Open Source Program. Microsoft's windows is a closed source program, which means first of all its not free of cost, secondly you have no right to modify the software to suit your requirement. You have to be satisfied with what you have purchased. On the contrary with a Linux OS, you have the right to add/remove/modify anything in the OS to suit your requirement and its free of Cost, Cos the Linux community believes that every person has the right to access Technology, and they should not be charged a price to do so.

Now, as I was thinking bout it, I realized its not different in the spiritual realm. We all know a Christian walk is a walk through the narrow path, while the world provides us with quite a wider path with lot of choices. But it's pretty much the same as the above example of the Operating Systems. Our Christian walk might look quite boring and bland but that's the real free world we are living in. The broader path definitely looks greener but its full of bondages. We don't realize that we are under the bondage as we are blinded by the glitters of the world.

Image Courtesy - Robert Donsker Photograhy

Happy New Year!!

So another year passes by.. And that was so quick.. hardly realized how quick that passed by. The year 2010 was pretty interesting.. lot of things happened.. for example.. lot of new crushes, lot of new friends, lot of new projects at work, the formation of the Rock Band Supervibe, new songs composed... and more.. There are lot of things I regret and things I am proud of that happened in the previous year.. but I am totally looking forward for this new year.. So far it looks pretty interesting.. with my album almost completing its Post Production and Supervibe playing their shows next week onwards.