The boring Bangalore crowd

Shreya Ghoshal and Sonu Nigaam were in town! And that simple sentence is probably enough to get your attention. They were performing at the APS college grounds in Basavanagudi as part of the Ganesh Chaturthi celebrations. And the cost of the entry ticket was.. wait for it... zero!! That's right. It was free.

And as with everything free in India, the number of attenders was indeed a lot. Young and old alike stood in the queue to enter the concert. And as usual, there were the few self assuming "senior citizens" who bulldozed past many of us who were standing in the queue just because they are old. Now, I have nothing against old people or queues. Its just the combination that I'm not too fond of. A note to all people who might organize such concerts... please have a separate special queue for "senior citizens", and you will be able to cope with half of your problems. Have separate seats reserved for "Senior Citizens" and hence put all party-poopers in one basket.

What is the main intention of attending a concert? To have fun and to listen to music. and what to these housewives and old grandmothers do? come to the concert and talk family politics. Such killjoys. And then there were the ones who believed that they were attending a serious classical recital. They sat there with their strict, emotionless pokerfaces and expected everybody to do the same. Another category of people included the ones who wanted to have fun but feared their lowering in social stature if they went with the flow.

All in all, the Bangalore crowd (read, basavanagudi crowd) is a very boring one. If anybody is planning to go, please go there with a large group if you want to have fun, ?If not, enjoy listening to family problems along with bits and pieces of every song.

P.S. Shreya Ghoshal... You rock!!!

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Height of Inspiration

College started at last! And there came an end to our seemingly never ending holidays. Now that classes have started in full swing, I did find it difficult to get back to the serious listening mindset. (in other words the tactical, repeated nodding of the head, irrespective of whether the teacher is making sense or not) My college campus is pretty good. Much better compared to Jain college anyways. The canteen is nice and the cup noodles bloody expensive. Other than that, this actually seems like a good place to spend 4 years.

Mr. N.R.Narayana Murthy was the chief guest for the inauguration function. It sounded as though BMS college had borrowed the old speakers from our very own railway station. The sound quality was horrible and I was forced to lip-read in order to understand what they were all saying. This was the only bummer in an otherwise pretty good program It seems Mr.Murthy had 100% attendance in his Engineering college!

The first two days in college were boring. We were introduced to our respective departments, visited the library and the sports dept. We had some Self motivational classes which were intended to inspire and motivate us.

The lady who talked seemed to be teaching us english rather than motivating us. She finally put across a few motivational points and one of them was asking all of us to smile at each other.

After enduring all that for a couple of hours, I say a classmate of mine (dunno the name though) grinning maniacally at me from across the parking lot. It was a very weird experience.
A bit of advice to all the "easily-motivated"... Please think a little before you try and implement all that people ask us to do.

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