Rocking in audi!!!

Now from the title of this section please do not jump to the conclusion that there was a musical nite or an amazing movie in the audi. Today I discovered a new dimension to myself. I had been to the annual music festival of Ragamalika, SANGAMAM 2007, its eleventh edition in BITS Pilani.

After a brief inaugural function attended by the likes of VC LKM, Dy Diros and Deans the first concert of Sangamam 2007 kicked off. It was by Sangeetha Kalanithi Sangeetha Shikhamani Padma Bhushan Shri. Dr. T.V.Shankaranarayanan.

He started the musical journey with a vandana to ganesha in his enchanting style with violins and ghatam playing in the background - I rediscovered carnatic music. In the pin-drop silence of the evening, the maestro's voice drowned BITSians in an ocean of mixed emotions - the feeling of melancholy, but we were enjoying that, his voice was deep - touching our souls - but we felt lighter too at the same time.

He enthralled us with his magical voice for one full hour. In the end it was a brilliant experience for me and Haki. We decicded to drop in for tommorrow's concert as well- a jugalbandhi of sitar and bansuri. Will update on it soon.

The audi was truly ROCKING!!!

More on Vint Cerf.

This was the Vint Cerf, first day at office in Google. As he was given the post of Chief Internet Evangelist, he didn't know what to wear.Photo was taken by Eric, CEO, Google who happened to carry his digicam.



Vint Cerf was 'feeling lucky' perhaps for the reason that he was the only one to have faced the shortest interview.
Vint Cerf was a friend of Eric Schmidt.

Vint Cerf - " Eric can you do me a favor?'
Eric - " Yes"

And he was in. He was inducted into Google as the Vice President and when asked what he wanted his post to be called, he said the 'Archduke'. But later realized the problems associated and they named him as the "Chief Internet Evangelist".


Vinton Gray Cerf, remains one of the most respected and influential person in the present Information age.

The Father of Internet Speaks!

Vinton G Cerf, the so called Father of Internet, Chief Internet Evangelist, VP Google, was here in Bangalore. There was a buzz of his coming from some time.. abhi and me decided to go in the last minute, of course he got that jpg invite! The talk was pretty decent. He was a simple man with good sense of humor and he talked on the various things on how technology was being used to improve life.
He talked on the various problems that the present technology is facing. Semantic networking being one of them. He is working on the interplanetary internet system. The major focus being communication between Earth and Mars. He explained the problems in setting up such a network.
Cerf predicted that mobile phones, not personal computers, will fuel growth of the worldwide web as countries like India snap up millions of handsets. Then he focussed on using of more mobile phones & laptops so that people know what are the real time problems and how they can be improved. He says internet will be the only medium of communication which will have impact on every facet of life, but definitely there will be a time when some means will be invented which would have a greater impact than the internet.

The talk was a pretty good one. though we rated in between 3-4/5 it was a good chance to go see someone great like Vint Cerf. Every aspect in life is developing and when we see a new one there is definitely no time to look back, and as far as the knowledge bank is increasing tremendously, the present technology will cease to exist.

GONE

She told him she’d rather fix her makeup

Than try to fix what’s going on

But the problem keeps on calling

Even with the cellphone gone

She told him that she believes in living

Bigger than she’s living now

But her world keeps spinning backwards

And upsidedown

Don’t say so long in the cellphone

Don’t spend today away

Cuz today will soon be

Gone, like yesterday is gone,

Like history is

Gone, just trying to prove me wrong

And pretend like your immortal

She said he said live like no tomorrow

Every day we borrow

Brings us one step closer to the edge

(infinity)

Where your treasure, where’s your hope

Forget the world and lose your soul

She pretends like she pretends like she’s immortal

Don’t say so long

Your not that far gone

This could be your big chance to makeup

Today will soon be

Gone, like yeterday is gone,

Like history is gone,

The world keeps spinning on,

Your going going gone,

Like summer break is gone,

Like saturday is gone

Just trying to prove me wrong

You pretend like your immortal

your immortal

We are not infinite

We are not permanate

Nothing is immediate

We’re so confident

In our accomplishments

Look at how dark it is

Gone, like frank sinatra

Like elvis and his mom

Like al pichino’s cash nothing lasts in this life

My highschool dreams are gone

My childhood sweets are gone

Life is a day that doesn’t last for long

Life is more than money

Time was never money

Time was never cash,

Life is still more than girls

Life is more than hundred dollar bills

And oh the town fills

Life more than fame and rock and roll and thrills

All the riches of the kings

And up in wills we got information in the information age

But do we know what life is

Outside of our conveinent lexus cages

She said he said live like no tomorrow

Every moment that we borrow

Brings us closer to the God who’s not short of cash

Hey bono I’m glad you asked

Life is still worth living, life is still worth living

NEW ONE-- AFRESH to the mayadari's!

sorry guys for the confusion that was created..
there was some problem with the mail account thingy
so couldnt send invites and also some problem with logging in again.
anywayz this is the REVISED version of our blog.

HAPPY BLOGGING guys!

love,
MADDY
DISPLAYING PERFECTION

PS: will try poting all those already posted in the old one.

AllAdvantage 2.0 - Get Paid To Surf The Net

AllAdvantage 2.0 - Get Paid To Surf The Net

I can’t believe it! AllAdvantage is back! For those who don’t know, AllAdvantage was a site that paid you to surf the Internet. What’s more, it paid you when you refer other people to surf, and paid you again if those people referred other people - down four levels.

AllAdvantage 2.0 comes with a new name, AGLOCO, which stands for A Global Community. This time, the founders are doing things a bit differently. They said that AllAdvantage failed the last time because the timing, and not the concept, was bad. They may be right, and there is certainly nothing wrong with trying again. If they can sign up as many people as they did last time, and the advertising market doesn’t implode, I say they will have a success on their hands.

When you run the AGLOCO Viewbar, AGLOCO will pay to you to surf the web (currently up to 5 hours/month). Once the five hours are up, you can turn the Viewbar off until next month. However, you also make money on every hour for people you referred when they surf, and income is made for every hour for people they referred down to 4 levels. There is no cap on how much you can make because of this.

According to the AGLOCO member calculator, if you sign up 10 people and those referrals sign up 5 people, and those sign up five all the way down the 4 four levels, you would earn 9,767.50 per month! However, before you start doing jumping jacks, that figure is not a dollar amount - it reflects earnings in both cash and stock of the company. The stock price has yet to be determined.

You can sign up for AGLOCO here.

Please do give it a shot!! U dont need to spend a penny... :)

Sandy!!

Grammy 2007 : Oscars for the Music Community.

Grammy 2007 : Oscars for the Music Community.

With the OSCAR fever creeping into everybody...lets just deviate a bit to have a look at the OSACARs for the Music community. It has been quite exciting an exciting year with good albums and songs released and making it BIG in the records.

Here are the nominees for the grammies in 2007.
Record of the Year:
"Be Without You," Mary J. Blige
"You're Beautiful," James Blunt
"Not Ready to Make Nice," Dixie Chicks
"Crazy," Gnarls Barkley
"Put Your Records On," Corinne Bailey Rae.

Album of the Year:
"Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks
"St. Elsewhere," Gnarls Barkley
"Continuum," John Mayer
"Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers
"FutureSex/LoveSounds," Justin Timberlake.

Song of the Year:
"Be Without You," Johnta Austin, Mary J. Blige, Bryan-Michael Cox and Jason Perry (Mary J. Blige)
"Jesus, Take the Wheel," Brett James, Hillary Lindsey and Gordie Sampson (Carrie Underwood)
"Not Ready to Make Nice," Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Dan Wilson (Dixie Chicks)
"Put Your Records On," John Beck, Steve Chrisanthou and Corinne Bailey Rae (Corinne Bailey)
"You're Beautiful," James Blunt, Amanda Ghost and Sacha Skarbek (James Blunt).

New Artist:
James Blunt
Chris Brown
Imogen Heap
Corinne Bailey Rae
Carrie Underwood.

Pop Vocal Album:
"Back to Basics," Christina Aguilera
"Back to Bedlam," James Blunt
"The River in Reverse," Elvis Costello and Allen Toussaint
"Continuum," John Mayer
"FutureSex/LoveSounds," Justin Timberlake.

Rock Album:
"Try," John Mayer Trio
"Highway Companion," Tom Petty
"Broken Boy Soldiers," The Raconteurs
"Stadium Arcadium," Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Living With War," Neil Young.

R&B Album:
"The Breakthrough," Mary J. Blige
"Unpredictable," Jamie Foxx
"Testimony: Vol. 1, Life and Relationship," India.Arie
"3121," Prince
"Coming Home," Lionel Richie.

Rap Album:
"Lupe Fiasco's Food and Liquor," Lupe Fiasco
"Release Therapy," Ludacris
"In My Mind," Pharrell
"Game Theory," the Roots
"King," T.I.

Country Album:
"Taking the Long Way," Dixie Chicks
"Like Red on a Rose," Alan Jackson
"The Road to Here," Little Big Town
"You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker," Willie Nelson
"Your Man," Josh Turner.

For further references please do visit GRAMMY 2007 Nominees.

Here are a nominated songs in the category of BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE and BEST MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE (for download).

BEST MALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:

1. James Blunt - You're Beautiful

2. John Legend - Save Room

3. John Mayer - Waiting On The World To Change

4. Paul McCartney - Jenny Wren

5. Daniel Powter - Bad Day.mp3


BEST FEMALE POP VOCAL PERFORMANCE:

1. Christina Aguilera - Aint No Other Man

2. Natasha Bedingfield - Unwritten

3. Sheryl Crow - You Can Close Your Eyes

4. Pink - Stupid Girls

5. KT Tunstall - Black Horse And The Cherry Tree

Have fun and enjoy the songs!!!!
Adieu....
Sandy!