Tum Hi Ho (Aashiqui2) - song cover.. My Home recording..

Recorded on mobile
Vocals: Shanx
Background music composed using Chordbot on mobile.

Steve Jobs and his fascination for the 'Eye'

Steve Jobs will always be remembered as a revolutionary in the world of technology.
There is a small observation that I made, that I would like to share.

Steve had a great fascination for the human eye, the organ that serves as a window to the world..

Most of his creations start with the letter "i" (be it the ipod, iphone, ipad,  and even iOS) which phonetically sounds the same as Eye.
The images in the human eye are projected and formed in the layer called Retina, the name he gave to the most beautiful display of his latest iphones n ipod touches. Moreover he ensured that the pixel density of his new display named Retina exceeded the perceptible pixel density of the human retina. This ensured sharp clear unpixelated display on the devices.
Now what struck me is...
What controls the amount of light entering the human eye? What controls the amount of visual information from the world that gets projected onto the retina? What basically acts as an interface between the world of information and the retina?
It is the Iris, the one that controls it all..
Well, Iris spelt backwards is Siri.
R.I.P. Steve

TWO THINGS!

This one i wrote in 2004...
It was a realisation then, today it is a Re-realisation...

"They look down, down from the Heavens above,
They look up, up from the Hell below,
The man is walking on a straight path,
He is thinking fast, but his pace is slow,
There are Two Things that he needs to know,
From the day he comes, until the day he has to go,
He knows the first, the second he does not,
The first he learnt all by himself, the second wasn't taught,
What he has learnt is that, success,
comes through hard work and thinking straight,
But he needs to know there's something more,
something that people call fate!

Lateral Inversion

People keep saying, keep talking about themselves
Explaining who they are, extending out some helps

To make an image, is the motive behind
That image makes everyone call them fine

But this sugar coated image is not gonna last
As sights are changing into vision real fast

What the world perceives is Virtuality
Invert it to uncover the true Reality
The man you see before you,
is not as good as he seems to be
The image he has made is Virtual,
he's celebrating hypocrisy.

...Wrote this in 2001, when i was in school... The mindset was different then, but the meaning still holds good today.

The Hands that Save lives, cant even save a penny for themselves...

The Hands that treat the ill and save a million lives are also the hands that feed two square meals a day to the person they belong.. Indeed, a Doctor too is a human with the same anatomy and same physiological needs as any other.. While the earth continues to revolve and the cost of living keeps going up, one thing does not seem to be changing at all.. And that is the Stipend given to the Housesurgeons (C.R.R.I.) and Post Graduate students in the Medical colleges in Tamil Nadu.
It appears to the common man that doctors always earn big and lead the big life.. eat this - a House-surgeon (MBBS Grad) in a Tamil Nadu medical college hospital gets Rs. 4500 per month for endless hours of tiring duty in the hospital.. A Post Grad student who has gained entry after cracking a real tough entrance exam, and is already a doctor, doing specialisation, gets Rs. 8000 per month.. This is not the 1980s we are talking about here.. Wake up guys, its 2009!
Look around and you will come to know that the average stipend for house-surgeons in most of the states in India is around Rs.8000-9000. That for Post Grads is no less than Rs.20000-25000.
In the state-wise list of stipend paid to house-surgeons, West Bengal tops with Rs. 12180 per month. In the list for Post grads, AIIMS tops at Rs.49000 per month.
From the setting up of a BMW factory to the development of the next largest IT Highway in the country, Tamil Nadu is doing it all.. Chennai is already the Detroit of India with all Automobile majors planning to open a manufacturing unit here. Known for its cutting edge Medical facilities and Medical Tourism, its quite an irony that the medicos in Chennai are the most ill-paid in the country.
As if this was not enough, the Health Minister of the state makes this statement in a leading national daily - "Tamil Nadu is one of the best pay masters in the country" - article dated 17th June, 2009. Get your Facts right sir, before making such statements, because the truth is quite on the contrary.
Silence has always been mistaken for weakness.. Its high time that the doctors rise up and seriously demand what they deserve. People should know what a duty doctor goes through everyday, and what he gets in return.

Changing Shades

Hello there! You call out my name
There's a thing or two that you want to say
You call me near and say a few words
We are here together, we are here to stay

And then comes a day when you call my name
There's a thing or two, again you wanna say
You call me near and say a few words
I'm left alone and I need to pay

I was wrong in saying we are here together
I was wrong in thinking we are here to stay
Its the one who loves who is left alone
The one who hates is the one who stays

It cant go on, It wont go on
Thank you sir, those days are gone
The image you made, very fast it fades
I've seen enough of our changing shades...

The Yesteryears

A lot has happened over d years.. there've been days n there've been nights.. real long dark nights.. n then those evenings too..
life has been passing thru phases of all colors..
its difficult to get time to connect to urself.. to pause for a moment n just look at ur life from d outside.. as a 3rd person.. as an observer.. non-involved..
Sometimes u just need to disconnect from d outside.. and connect on d inside.. sometimes.. yeah sometimes..