Co-incidence? Can’t be…

I was glued to the idiot box this evening and while channel hopping i came across VH1 airing the video of the very popular Daniel Powter song “Bad Day”. I’ve been listening to this song for quite some time now, in fact almost since 2005 when it was released and went on to top a few charts. But i confess to  having watched the music video for the first time this evening  on TV (don’t know how i missed it for so long!).

Now, i guess many of us remember this Ustad Sultan Khan and Shreya Ghoshal song going by the name “Leja Leja Re” which was released around the same time in 2005. I won’t say i really liked the song or not, but at least the music video stays in my memory mostly because every single TV channel used to air it at least a couple of 100 times a day, and it looked pretty decent once i muted the volume!

Now watch the two videos and decide for yourself - which is a copy of which. Its kind of funny actually, but “which video was released first?” The similarities are way too obvious to be cast aside as mere co-incidence! Going by the “reputation” of Indian producers, I guess the Daniel Powter video came out first. And if it actually did, the producer of the Indian version must have absolutely loved it and wasted no time in “being inspired” by it.

Decide for yourself people…

The inspiration behind Bucket List part 2

My Bucket List – 2. Bundesautobahnen

Imagine driving down a highway in your new gleaming black Porsche 911 doing some 220 kmph, feeling like you’re the king of the road. You keep smirking at other ‘lesser mortals’ (read-people with cars that cant go faster than 200!) as you overtake them. You’re having the time of your life, enjoying every bit of it, when you glance at the rear view mirror for a moment. You see a red blob ,somewhere in the distance but approaching fast. You think, ‘who can go faster than my 911?’, and dismiss it with a wave of your hand. But then, you glance back at the mirror out of sheer curiosity. Only this time you can clearly make out that the red blob is a Ferrari 430 getting ominously close to your 911. As you panic and try to gather your thoughts, you hear the 430 swish past you like a ghost and disappearing into the distance ahead. For a moment, your mind goes numb, your palms begin to sweat, you’re too dismayed and horrified to even think, the cockpit of your 911 begins closing in on you dangerously... And then, you realize, you’ve been dethroned! You’re no longer the king of the road. And as if this wasn’t enough, another noisy yellow Lamborghini  Murcielago thunders past your now timid 911.  You can almost imagine the driver now smirking back at you, the lesser mortal.

For those who are not familiar with the term Bundesautobahnen, it literally means - The German Federal Motorway. And what i just described might as well happen to you while driving on an autobahn, of course considering the fact that you’re wealthy and flamboyant enough to drive a 911 (even a 430 or a Murcielago for that matter)!

As Wikipedia correctly points out- German autobahns are sometimes referred to as "the last refuge of the high-speed drivers", since they have no general speed limit, though about 55% of the total length is subject to local and/or conditional limits. But considering that they span almost 12000km across Germany, I’d gladly take the remaining 45% any day. Even the recommended speed limit is 130km/h which of course is not mandatory. Spotting cars and/or bikes doing speeds in excess of 200kmph is not difficult here. You can easily step on the accelerator and test your car’s top speed if traffic conditions permit you to do so. And that is exactly what I(saying this with starry eyes…)intend to do with my Reventón and YZF-R1 as i tick off the 2nd task on my list.

O-bum-a just can’t seem to resist…

Poor Barack Obama just couldn’t help it this one time, as Nicolas Sarkozy smirks on…hahahahahaha…well i forgive him…its completely understandable, isn’t it ??!!

The bum in question here belongs to a 16 year old Brazilian lady named Mayora Tavares who was at the G8 summit in Italy as part of a group of people, aged between 14 and 17, there to discuss how the lives of young people around the world can be improved.

But Sarkozy aint no angel himself, is he??

Source…TOI article

The reality…The EYE opener

My Bucket List – 1. Kailash Mansarovar

Topping my bucket list is a place i know many were and still would be amazed to find on my list.

Kailash Mansarovar, as i earlier wrote (and erased!), is a place that’s amazingly calm and serene. The hardships that one has to face to reach the place make the breathtaking views of Mt. Kailash and the Mansarovar lake even more worthwhile. And i’ve confessed to being an evildoer, so the added incentive of being able to wash away the accumulated sins from all my previous births makes it a place that has to be visited at least once in a lifetime.

Picture courtesy - http://tibet-incense.com/blog/wp-content/images/kailash_manasarovar.jpg

My Bucket List (Prologue)

‘Is it too early to be making such a wish list?’, i ask myself. Wasn’t Jack Nicholson a cancer patient in his seventies and about to die in 3 months when he decided to make his list in The Bucket List.Maybe. Maybe not. There are moments, usually before i go to sleep at night, when i lay down and think…I’ve lived a quarter of a century already, completed 2 degrees, worked for 2 years, made a lot of great friends along the way, gained a lot of weight, began a love-hate relationship with saddi Dilli, watched a ton of movies, started blogging, etc etc etc. But how many moments in my life do i actually wish i could live over again, places i wish i could be to once more, crazy things i wish i could do again? Three, four, five maybe. Is that it? Is that what my life’s been worth so far?

There’s obviously no point lamenting. I can’t change the past. But i can most certainly look forward to a brighter, or rather a more sprightly future. Starting today, i’ll be putting up a list of things i wish to do and places i wish to visit before the bucket eventually gets kicked from under my feet!