Sumeet's Autohypertextbiography.

NorCal...

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:52:23 GMT

Off to California on Saturday night, for two weeks. Been looking forward to this visit for quite some time, so let's see what gives.

It takes me exactly 22 days to get sick of Bangalore.

T-8y and counting...

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 20:22:17 GMT

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Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:01:52 GMT

A Macbook Pro is now my weapon at work. Suffice to say that everything on it Just Works^TM, which makes you more productive.

Apple sells you an experience, not hardware, software and other such geeky things. It's like using the Porsche equivalent of computing. (yathin, accept my apologies in advance.)

Can't wait to buy a Macbook for personal use later this year.

For the second half of last month, I was in Hong Kong (again), and this time around, it was not too much fun, but fun nevertheless.

Badly in need of a vacation, and how.

Crank those speakers up...

Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:22:22 GMT

All those posts on house music will now give way to something that can tickle your aural senses, at last.

A lot of time and effort has gone into finding house playlists, and in trying to glean the best out of them. Many of my friends have also liked the numbers that I've been listening to, and that leads me to believe that house music can be liked by a wide variety of people.

Presenting the playlist that rocks my socks. Will try to keep it up-to-date with the most awesome tracks out there. Give it a listen, and if you start shaking a leg, let me know.

What I miss most about Hyderabad...

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 12:56:09 GMT

The fact that I can go clubbing almost every weekend, with zero planning. Bangalore messes me up no end in this regard.

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Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:23:00 GMT

HotMix (Radio Indigo 91.9 FM, Saturday nights, 1900-2200 hours) is awesome. Big respect to DJ Ivan and DJ Rohit Barker.

Singapore Airlines has an audio channel dedicated to house music, sourced from the Ministry of Sound.

Without further ado, here are some numbers gleaned from the above sources and some more, leading to pure aural pleasure.

Dirty South feat. MYNC Project - Everybody Freakin'
Dubfire - Roadkill
Global Deejays feat Technotronic - Get Up (General Electric Version)
Pryda - Muranyi
Samim - Heater (Claude Van Stroke Remix)
Underworld - Crocodile
Underworld - Crocodile (Pete Heller Remix)
SE:SA - Like This Like That

Confucius say...

Sun, 03 Feb 2008 06:44:38 GMT

"Your balls have been tempered with the fury of the dragon." - Balls of Fury

Hilarious.

teemus turns five.

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 12:11:49 GMT

Five years on LiveJournal now. The posts have become less frequent and crappier. Thanks for continuing to read my blog!

50 Cent feat. Mobb Deep - Outta Control (Remix)...

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:45:28 GMT

A year and 28 days ago, on January 1st, 2007, I heard the above song at the New Year's Eve party. Liked it, but didn't know its name. Heard it again in Chicago in May, on radio, but couldn't place it.

Yesterday, at a club in Hong Kong, I heard it again, and thankfully, the people I went with identified it. (Thanks, people!) It feels so dumb to not be able to find a 50 Cent number for this long.

Yay!

Born for the WWW...

Sun, 27 Jan 2008 14:51:46 GMT

When people ask me which state in India I'm from, I do not have an answer, for I'm a Sindhi.

In short, I am stateless, just like HTTP. Hee hee.

FWIW, I hate geeks.

HK...

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 13:56:28 GMT

Off to Hong Kong for a week in an hour or so. BLR-SIN-HKG, on Singapore Airlines, woohoo. Should be fun working there. Hoping to shop for some good clothes.

Best of popular house, and then some...

Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:24:57 GMT

Been hooked to house music for a couple of months now, particularly the electro strain. Here's a dump of some of the best dance-floor stuff of 2007, mixed with a progressive number or two.

Evermore - It's Too Late (Dirty South Remix) - This one got my interest going.
Armand Ven Helden - NYC Beat - Superbly-paced number.
David Guetta - Love Is Gone (Fred Rister & Joachim Garraud Remix) - Mindblowing track!
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Waiting For (Rene Amesz & Peter Gelderblom's Remix)
Misja vs Jasper - Project Project (Sied Van Riel Remix)
Yves Larock - Rise Up (Vandalism Remix)
Eric Laville & J.M. Sicky - Unknown (Original Remix) - Awesome, awesome!
Agoria - Les Violins Ivres (Super Remix)
Bob Sinclair feat. Steve Edwards - World Hold On (Axwell Remix)
Federico Franchi - Cream - Nice tune!
David Tort and DJ Ruff meets DJ Disciple - Changes (NY Sexy Mix)
Lorraine - Transatlantic Flight (Axwell Remix)
Paul Oakenfold feat. Brittany Murphy - Faster Kill Pussycat
Wonderland Avenue - White Horse (Original Remix)
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again

From the January 2008 lot, check out these numbers.

Dirty South - Let It Go (Axwell Remix) - Amazing!
Groove Zone - Eisbaer (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)
Dirty Vegas - Days Go By (Oakenfold Vocal Mix)
Everything But The Girl - Missing (Oakenfold 2008 Remix)

Save the cheerleader, save the world...

Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:55:34 GMT

Late last year, I started watching Scrubs, and after watching six complete seasons and six episodes of season seven (before the WGA strike took affect), I started watching Heroes.

Completed Volume Two of Heroes now. It's a beautiful show, and inspiring to a certain extent, if I may say so.

It'd be great for television viewers if the WGA strike ends with both writers and producers reaching an agreement, so that Scrubs and Heroes can get back to regularly scheduled programming. Also hoping that the fourth season of the mother-of-all-TV-shows, Lost, actually starts on January 31st.

Not much to blog about otherwise. Work goes on in bits-and-pieces, weekends come and go with nothing major happening. (Weekends are more boring than weekdays!) Missing friends who have moved to California. (I am alone here, guys!)

Wanted to sail to Lakshwadeep later this year with Star Cruises, but they aren't sailing in Indian waters this year, so there goes one of my much-awaited, badly-needed vacations.

I think I need a life, and soon...

khud ko zara pehchaan tu

Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:13:15 GMT

tu dhoop hai jham se bikhar
tu hai nadee o bekhabar
beh chal kahin ud chal kahin
dil khush jahan teri toh manzil hai wahin...

- "kholo kholo", OST - Taare Zameen Par.

Expert advice. ;)

Sun, 06 Jan 2008 20:37:16 GMT

I've launched a fashion, gadgets and style-check blog. Two posts old now. Hit http://teemus.info/ !

Aamir Khan is not just a perfectionist...

Fri, 04 Jan 2008 20:38:34 GMT

At the time of writing this, there are 1823 users who have rated Taare Zameen Par on Yahoo! India Movies. Average rating = 5/5. There are not enough superlatives to describe this movie.

At this point in my life, I needed TZP. I remember watching Rang De Basanti sitting in the first row from the screen. Ditto for TZP.

Aamir Khan, I salute thee. To add to the subject, Bollywood has a new style icon.

Shah Rukh and Shahid Kapoor, please take acting lessons from Master Darsheel Safary, the child star in TZP. Or better still, retire.

Let's do this for the first time, evar.

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 11:09:38 GMT

My resolutions for 2008, to begin bidding adieu to a 2007 full of great-ups-and-fucked-up-downs.

Less shopping.
More investing.
No relationships.
Live for golf.
Write a Facebook app.
Add to list of continents visited. Enough of Asia and North America.
More partying.
More house music.
Cut down on foul language.
Visit the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

We're never gonna survive, unless...

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 08:52:58 GMT

My heroes had the heart to lose their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinking, I want to be like them
Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And it's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

Maybe I'm crazy
Maybe you're crazy
Maybe we're crazy
Probably...

- Gnarls Barkley, Crazy.

That makes it three songs titled "Crazy", that I am crazy about. Seal's "Crazy", Alanis Morissette's cover of the same, and Gnarls Barkley's number.

What are you crazy about?

Ass-kickin'...

Sat, 15 Dec 2007 10:30:57 GMT

Happy birthday, sweetheart!

Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:22:07 GMT

My love, life, pride, joy, indulgence and ego, all rolled into one, turns one today.

Stacy...

HYD, AP. IN!

Wed, 12 Dec 2007 15:23:19 GMT

After living The Californian Life for 83 days, I'm back in India. Landed early this morning at HYD, instead of that airplane garage called BLR. Lufthansa is not as enjoyable as Cathay Pacific due to the lack of per-seat-LCD-screens, but I discovered some excellent house numbers on radio channel #6, ClubMix.

Should be headed to Bangalore in a week or slightly more than that.

I've now flown in seven major passenger aircraft - the A320 family, A330 and A340 from Airbus, and the 737, 747, 757 and 777 from Boeing. The A300, A310, A380 and the Boeing 767 remain...

Thanksgiving Weekend, 2007

Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:40:02 GMT

It was all about shopping, and a lot more shopping, across three days. Nothing else.

On a different note, many congratulations to jaanejan and nash_da_basher!

Hack -> feature!

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:21:19 GMT

My Y! Emoticons hack for LiveJournal and Flickr done two years ago, is now a feature for Y! Mash guest books. Woohoo!

On the Mash Blog today, talking about this.

Resurrecting back before the final fallen...

Sat, 03 Nov 2007 10:47:50 GMT

Now it's my time
It's my time to dream
Dream of the sky
Make me believe that this place isn't made by the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out before you can breathe
Breathe into me.

I, stand alone
Inside I, stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside me
I'm not tired forever
I, stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading
I stand alone...

- Godsmack, I Stand Alone (OST - The Scorpion King)

Most memorable mugshot...

Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:55:14 GMT

San Jose rocked today, literally. Surprisingly, I reached home from work at around 19:45 today. At around 20:04, I was leaning against my fridge, with my camera in one hand, trying to take a mugshot for my Facebook profile, since I had a clean shaven face today. The fridge started shaking, and so did the unit beside it, so I thought I'd leaned too much and pushed the fridge against the unit, making it vibrate. Pulled the fridge towards me a little and stopped. All in the gap of five-six seconds.

But, the shaking continued. I noticed a vase shake violently and the plates rattle. Then I went, "Holy California, Batman! It's an earthquake!" Stood still for five to ten seconds, I don't know, and everything stopped shaking. Honestly, I was wondering whether I should run out of my apartment. Decided to wait and enjoy the moment, whatever it means. Anyhoo, I stay on the second floor (first floor by Indian standards) of my building so it was good that I stuck.

Switched on the TV to learn that it scored 5.6 on the Richter. Very impressive. "Moderate", apparently. My earlier experience was a 3-4ish tremor in Hyderabad a couple of years back.

Called yathin to confirm that I wasn't hallucinating. hitesh's cellphone was unreachable as always. (He was driving, as I learnt later.) I was a bit shaken, but was highly amused at my vivid imagination.

Went and updated my Y! Mash and Facebook status messages thereafter. Waited for aftershocks, keeping passport, wallet, cellphone and jacket ready. Thankfully, that is not required, yet.

Oh yes, I did go on to take a couple of mugshots...