Rage

I can sing!

With lot of help from Audacity, of course :)

Sometimes when I listen to a song, I keep thinking how awesome it would have been if I was able to sing that well, or compose that song or write lyrics like that. "Beladingalante minuminuguta.." from the Kannada movie Psyco is one of such songs.

Today, on a caffeine high run, I took that song, ripped off the male vocals(will explain how I did it.. another day) and dubbed my voice on it using Audacity and a little bit of php.

Listen to it here!

(Warning: I cant sing well.. not even close to well. Please use external speakers, it mitigates some artifacts introduced by software DSP :) )

Audacity is one awesome piece of software. All hail Audacity!

You know you are growing old when..

1. You start using Word over LaTeX to typeset your documents
2. You start taking the stairs at work saying "its good excercise", which actually is the only excercise you get all day
   
3. You start looking straight at the street while driving your car, instead of looking at the birds and colors on the sidewalk. ( You are afraid of increasing insurance premium.. )
   
4. You start maintaining spreadsheets for all sorts of arbitrary things like "What do I cook this week" and have columns like "Estimated effort time"
5. You start analyzing the utility of a hack before doing it.

The picture you see above is that of the "remote birthday bumps" my friends Hema, Srikanth and Abhijit sent me. I had heard of remote girlfriends, remote pets, remote assistants and even remote wife(s), but this is quite ingenious and awesome.

Thanks guys!

For the record, I don't look at the road while driving ;)

p.s: This post should have come up on July 15th, but I did not get this "gift" until recently.

Intense love

Guess which SSID you will pick when you are in my house..

Chitranna (n) (ಕನ್ನಡ: ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ)

1. Combination of boiled rice, an assortment of vegetables, lemons, groundnuts and turmeric.
   e.g: ಮಗಾ.. ಇವತ್ತು ಮನೇಲಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ..
2. Chaos, utter disorder, destroyed, cataclysmic change
   e.g: ಮಗಾ.. ಮನೇಲಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ ಮಾಡಕ್ಕೆ ಹೋಗಿ ಅಡಿಗೆ ಮನೆ ಬೆಂಕಿ ಬಿದ್ದು full ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ ಆಗೋಯ್ತು ಮಗಾ...
3. Awesoemness
   e.g: ಮಗಾ.. ಇವತ್ತು exam full ಚಿಂದಿ ಚಿತ್ರಾನ್ನ!
   

ನೀನು ಹತ್ತೀರ ಇದ್ದಿದ್ದರೆ...

Needs to be sung in "ನೀನು ಹತ್ತೀರ ಇದ್ದಿದ್ದರೆ" tune from the movie "Anjada GanDu"

ನೀನು ಹತ್ತೀರ ಇದ್ದಿದ್ದರೆ ನನ್ pant ಉದುರುತ್ತಿರಲಿಲ್ಲ..

ನನ್ನ ಸೊಂಟಕ್ಕೆ ಸಿಕ್ಕಿದ್ದರೆ, ನನ್ ಮಾನ ಹೊಗ್ತಿರ್ಲಿಲ್ಲ

ಓಹೋ beltಏ, ಎಲ್ಲಿ ಕಳ್ಧೋಗಿದ್ದಿಯಾ...?

Awesome things!

Today, I was reading 1000awesomethings.com and was inspired to make my own awesome things list! Here it is

1. Bengaluru's evening rain and the smell of wet soil
2. AmboDe and bonda on that rainy evening
   
3. Mom's coffee ( if it comes after 2(above (wow.. nested braces. Awesome!) ), it is even more awesome! )
4. Eating a heavy lunch and sleeping near the window on a bright sunny day (with sunlight falling on the face )
5. Getting that kite to finally fly after multiple attempts to fix the balangochi (tail)
6. The first bite of an awesome sambar you prepared all by yourself inspite of being terminally hungry
7. Getting a buguri(top) to rotate on your hand
8. When that new beautiful girl in class smiles at you for the first time
9. Waking up to realize you have a pair of ironed clothes
10. Sniffing expo markers while writing on the whiteboard
11. Sniffing new electronics. I love it!
12. Coming home to see that the UPS package you were expecting has arrived a day before.
13. Making a list of awesome things which reminds you of multiple awesome things! Recursively awesome!

this list is huge! I will sure try to list out 1000 awesome things in my life too!

AWESOME!

I can dance

..or so it seems. Take a look at my almost impromptu dance performance at KKNC ugadi celebrations and decide for yourself :)

My dance comes after the first dance. All the salsa-ish steps you see in the dance after mine(Tik.. Tik.. Tik.. Tik..) was choreographed by me.

p.s: If you are wondering, you cannot see the invisible shield which was installed around the audience. It kept off all the projectiles hurled at me :)