NickelBack - Over the time.

One of the best Canadian Band ever to rock out a live performance, throw an album together and make featured singles even. With amazing huskiest,make-girls-go-crazy voice Chad Kroeger has sung wildest of rock songs ever! The band has stuck around for quite long. I was craving some good rock song last night and thought about making a NickelBack List. Though the new album Dark Horse is a bit of disappointment - with only 'Something in your mouth', 'If Today was your Last Day' and 'I'd come for you','Gotta Be Somebody' being the decent songs on the album. This album shows a bit softer and high pitch side of NickelBack - which is kind of a surprise. The lyrics are somewhat okay - the whole album is some what mediocre.



Their first album was 'Silver Side Up' with the hit number 'This is how you remind me'. This album also has 'Too Bad' and 'Never Again' which top the charts too.



My favorite album would be 'All The Right Reasons' maybe because it came out around the time I was in collage and some songs on this album have some AMAZING lyrics. I made this slideshow/video montage thing with a nostalgic mood to it and 'Photograph' track was my choice. The song has something which gives you happy tears! :)



Nickelback also threw in a good cheesy romantic rock number for a good measure in this album which though being a mellowest song on the album also became a quick it with its wonderful lyrics and melody.



The album featured songs like 'Rockstar' and 'If Everybody Cared' also.

Chad Kreoger did the song 'Hero' for the Spider Man Movie with Josey Scott.



I LOVE SANTANA! So I nearly yelled with excitement when I heard that Santana and Kroeger were getting together to do a single! 'Why Don't You and I'

Cute lyrics! and obviously mind blowing guitar beats :D

To wrap up with this little list - a song from their new album Dark Horse - 'If today was your last day'

The JackFruit Story

So something interesting happened over the dinner today, Papa, my Dad's eldest brother called up at our house at around 8:30 and excitedly asked me to hand over the phone to my Dad. If you'd know my family you'd know this is somewhat a weird thing to happen. No my Dad and Papa don't chat up on phone like bros! For them to be excited is always - Eerie, kind of.

Anyway I did not find out the details of the 'chat up' - no surprise there. Until Papa showed up at dinner with something yellow on a plate with a great big smile.

The yellow on the plate was what he called 'Khathul' or you can call it JackFruit. Its not that easily available in Karachi, even though it is its a private gardening thing and is not sold out. Together Dad and Papa sat on the dinner table to enjoy this yellow creepy looking this. It was a nice yellow color though, perfectly shaped and ripe for the eating, it had a fleshy texture kinda rubbery and smelled tangy and fresh at the same time.

Papa told me how it looked like a cute fruit (no he didn't use the word cute) inside but on the outside it was one creepy looking thing with great big thorns and it would weigh around 16kgs if full grown!

For Dad and Papa it was a nostalgic thing, they used to eat this back in Bangladesh. I was quickly sucked into the 'Tales of Jackfruit' and I did eat one cube - if thats what you will call it - it was kinda tangy yet sweet. After two I was full!

It was sweet to eat and to watch the nostalgia unwind :)

Money-Honey-Bling-Baby

Yes we all have heard it over and over again. Its Love that makes the world go around, not experienced that myself I think I would stick with rather the more accepted version of this line and go on the record and say its definitely 'Money that makes the world go around'

I was born to the average income earning man - my Dad, he tried his level best to put on the fanciest, 'brand-iest' and latest stuff on my back, buy sparkling shoes, all the crayons in the world a girl could have and so many dolls I remember dismembering them with some psychotic pleasure - creepy I know. Now today when he is retired and not so much in his financial position to let say 'buy me stuff' things though don't feel different, they feel restrained. Now I have a fixed pocket money and have to get by the month with it.

It doesn't really help when you have friends who want to throw money at the most insane reasons of all - Lets just go out they all repeat. You mentally calculate how much you can swing to cover your hide without looking like a scum in front of your own friends. In the end you decide you'd take the public bus home for the coming week then a rikshaw so maybe you could save money after all.

I have done it - I have gone out with friends and actually ordered desert. No I mean JUST desert cause yeh I couldn't swing for the meal in the fancy/we-r-too-sophisticated-to-serve-you-big-portions restaurant and my pride won't have me asking for money. It kinda gets tiring, we really don't have to go out 3 times a week now - do we? Food is not all, sometimes its a movie or a birthday gift.

It best when you go out shopping with girls. No I cannot afford a 2k worth of sandals! No I can't buy the 1k worth of jewelery - r u kidding me they r so tiny I can't even see them! You have to balance between No-I-don't-wanna-sound-like-a-loser and your pride. Its not easy- mostly it gets to your nerves.

I had/have a frenemy not sure where we stand now - He is all abt brands now, so yeh you earn, I don't - You can go ahead and talk abt brands I can't even pronounce, if that makes you feel like a man - I am really sorry. I know people who would gift their partners some expensive stuff and in return their partners would gift them in more expensive stuff and next time they would tempt the scales even more - I wonder where it would stop, probably when one of them would try to buy the moon.

Its not like I am poor or anything, I own a laptop, a cellphone, go to an okay university, live in my own house but I just have a huge problem with people who just want to spend money over and over, throw it, rub it in your face that they own it.

Money Money Money - its not all, is it?