Violin Fever

I recently got bitten with the violin bug when I heard Tuesday's Gone by Lynard Skynard a concert version of violin and piano rock arrangement :D - started you tubing and fishing for these electric violin, rock violin, hip hop violin artists and making a music list of it. I didn't touch orchestra violin music because they are so classy they deserve a different post altogether. These are few artists n songs I found of rock/hip hop violin music composing or composing old songs with their unique touch. They are pretty damn awesome. (Do try to go down the list and then decide)

#5. Vanessa Mae - Storm



#4 Paul Dateh - Celtic Blues (This is my ringtone lately :D)



#3. David Garrett - Smells Like Teenage Spirit

#2. Josh Vetti - Hip Hop Medley



#1. Paul Dateh and Inka One - Hip Hop Violin

Underrated Songs (Mellow/Indie Rock/Pop Rock)

I thought I finally needed to write a piece on for music .. the blog is clearly called jukebox where as I have been venting issues here. Anyway... so I decided to make a small list of mellow indie pop rock songs I think are very underrated (thanks to Bieber mania).

#5. Zack Berkman - All That I Know




#4. Michael Castro - The First Time




#3. The Afters - Beautiful Love

#2. Ben's Brother - Beauty Queen

#1 Annasay - Winter Air

Num's Observations: Trust

It fun to headline a blog in a third person gives it a very uber pretencious/I-am-know-it-all vibe which is actually not cool but really cool when you are trying to appear as a self-help coach :D yes- HA-HA.

Anyway recently somebody pointed out to be that I observe a lot and most of my writings are genuine due to that. I never thought about it, I just write in a very rambling approach tripping on my own words as they come to my mind :D the more I focus the more it seems forced upon (Goodbye writing my book, I just can't move forward after my first chapter).

Anyway so I decided to write a little blog series of my Observations. Today I will talk about

Trust. Rule No.1 : Don't Trust BLINDLY!

Please in this world, No! No matter how naive and how plain simple minded person you are don't trust people blindly. I don't second guess my self, its a habit I have grown with - I do things instantly. Mostly they tend to backfire right into my face but I have an inner peace which tells me I have no regrets - this please doesn't mean you jump of a bridge and not second guessing your steps! I see the best in people or try to and trust them usually, not thinking about it. Its pretty wrong - people have to earn your trust.

Rule No. 2: Its a two-way street baby!
Don't go on rambling all your secrets to people who aren't willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Some people take time to open up, pace them out. Its two-way street... you have to meet somewhere in the middle.

Rule No.3: Trust your instincts!
Your instincts are never wrong, learn to trust them. I depend way too much on my instincts. It started from when my English Teacher in grade 3 start us with tenses and I was way confused - I used to depend on my 'it feels right'/'it sounds right' approach with it. Later I learned to apply that to my life. I do it if it feels right, if it doesn't I hold back. At the same times your instincts might be right about you but don't presume your instincts can predict future :D - they cannot. You decide to tell somebody you like them, you go with your gut feeling - they don't reciprocate it doesn't mean your instincts were wrong, it means your instincts helped you have no regrets. You decide to buy something pricy and in your head you are constantly calculating if its worth it or not. - Trust your instincts to know what YOU truly want - NOT what the universe wants from you - Whoa dats was deep :P

How to find friends and alienate losers

Anyway to start with the whole bookish start - who is a friend? What is the meaning of the word friend? How to know if somebody is a friend? Blah blah blah. I have had many friends since my play group times to school to college to university and all. I have made bests of friends and have lost many good friends. The idea of best friends for life is - amusing. I am not saying it doesn't happen. My Dad has a pretty tight group and they have been together for lifetime.

So how to find friends? - the simple answer would be by being truly yourself. If you make the mistake of pretending to be someone else then you attract the crowd who wants to hang out with the pretend you, not you. People with different interests make interesting friends, why? Because they introduce you to a whole new different scale of things, they bring you out of your comfort zone, be it loosely translating to sitting on a chin-chinchy ride home and yelling your lungs out :D People with same interests make gud friends for obvious reasons, you can have nonstop killer discussions on 'how the tv series should have ended' or tag them in music videos over n over again :D

Long time back when I was in phase of reading quotations from great authors and finding my own meaning which had nothing to do with the quotation at hand :D haha rush to adulthood, Anyway I came across a quotation which went something a true friend is the one with whom silence is comfortable. I didn't understand it then cause my friends were nothing but LOUD :D but I guess I understand it now..

How to alienate losers? Hmm.. this one is little tough. First and foremost you have to IDENTIFY these people. and how to identify? again pretty simple - once friendship becomes 'work' its pretty much done. Cut people off who bring you down,Selfish friendships are just plain emotionally abusive, they are anchors and you will sink down right with them. I used to be a people-pleaser and suffered a superman complex, am not proud of it. Its better to make good friends who will stick with you instead of great friends who will eventually bring you down. Its like its a two way street: I believe in You, You believe in me. You don't believe in me, then whats the point of this?

In all this everybody needs to understand that people change. Times becomes different. That doesn't mean that these people were never your friends. I know people who were greatest of my friends but times have changed. Now I am just civil to them but I respect the times I had with them. I also have friends who I don't talk to for months and years and just one phone call and we are instantly jolted into our own time. Recently my bestfriend had a baby girl, Mashallah. I talked to her last night and it hit me nothing has changed, she is still the same even though there is a baby in picture now.

Friendship is a very overrated concept, you become friends with people you like. People who like you back hang around and thus it continues so.

2011-2012 - New Possibilities :D

So 2011 was epic. It was. It was graduating year... Saying I did just few things is just pure insulting the thought even. 2011 was crazy!! Absolutely bonkers!! Last year of NED, Last year of Engineering so I guess I did all possible stuff. Bunking maximum of my classes, halwa puri with friends, twice went bowling hardly with 5 days of gap! So many ice cream hording trips, singing senselss songs on car drives, carbo load trips :D

It rained 14 hrs straight on my bday! :D it rained and rained and God it rained!! :D So I was stuck at home with dal chawal for my bday treat cause we couldn't even go out :D 2011 was the year of weddings frenzy in my family!! 20 days and 4 weddings :D

2011 was the year our family tree grew :D and official addition of four brother-in-laws and a bhabi :D and my youngest cousin was born :D (His name is Aaiz, but to call him chutti-munni or tun-tun or tun party is all the more fun) 2011 was the year of movies!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so many trips to cinema, so many sequels! so many super power movies! 2011's last night was absolutely great :D and all-nighter with cousins, surrounded in blankets, gossips and nuts :D

Lessons learned in 2011: After everything is said and done, the bond of family is what makes us great :) Giving more, loving more, just putting an effort in being more makes you happy. Friendships become what you make of them. You can't hold on to people if they want to move on. Love comes naturally. Drifting apart comes with age. Listen to groovy music it makes you happy :D (Andy Grammar - Gotta Keep Your Head Up). Engineering is overrated :P. Movies are the best place to steal dialogs :P . Barney and Ted (How I met your mother) are classy role models. Books make good pillows some times. Zinger and parhata together makes an epic mouth watering treat; we call it cripsy roll :p. Bold Make-up is an intimidating tactic :D Irritate people all you want, make no excuse for who you are...it filters out the crowd and all the best of your friends hang back with you and deal with who you are :D Pineapple souffle is remedy to all life's problems.

2012 A fresh new start: Its scary to start the year with a degree in hands and no prospect of jobs and time soon :D but wait and effort is what keeping the unknown more enjoyable :D so what its going to be like? will I land the job of dreams? Will I fly out of the country? will i FINALLY get my nerves in order and write my book? :D

its a fresh new start...open to all and any kind of possibilities :D

POSSIBILITIES :D

New Year's Resolution: Make it Happen :D - and stop using so much emoticons in your blog woman!