The day nostradamus nodded in approval

Hello Friends

I am back and this, i think is my 99th post.

When I was young, I went to a school. We all did, i suppose. Or is it that my parents tricked me to believe so.  The school i went to, or to be more specific the class which i studied in  were filled with wunderkids, i must say. The kinds who had the capability to disprove Newton’s apple-fell-on-my-head-hence-this-law. Yes, there was a lot of potential there in that batch of 60 geniuses. And the management of school thought that it would be great if they could provide the batch some assistance in deciding the professional life we wanted to thread. And  it was decided that  we will be provided  the excellent guidance of the consultant genius Patrick Pavanansam Franzey.

Patrick Pavanansam Franzey or in short PPF was a sharp man. He was one of those guys who always had no problem listening to people. He is credited to have duly helped three couples ,who went to him with small problems like who will be driving the car , agree on consensual divorce. On asked if it was the right advice to give PPF was found quoting his own modified version of  Shakespeare “Nothing is good or bad, than advice makes it so”.

Patrick Pavanasam was a busy man. So after a lot of persuasion, PPF agreed to take a two hour session for our batch on a Saturday of his choice. Patrick, a self proclaimed astrologer, announced that it will be fourth Saturday of January 2000. The management said “So be it”.

The management was excited at the announcement and they made a lot of attempts to publicize the news. The following day a newspaper read like this “Educational Institute ABCDE becomes the first institute to arrange for consultant to channel students to achieve what they should attain.” The reporter who also works as a plumber during free time goes on to lament the lack of such guidance during his graduation days which made it impossible for him to decide if he has to walk to his college or jog to his college.

Amidst such reports the day arrived, and the first 15 minutes the organizing staff had to spend arguing and convincing the parents that PPF would only consult for their kids and whoever who got their pets along for consulting should duly take them back without any objection. Amidst all this noise PPF did his appearance on a horse and proceeded to the class. It was rumored that PPF took the whole session seated on the horse back, but the management was quick to deny such rumors.

And the session that will shape the future of prospective doctors, scientists, engineers, lawyers, writers, bloggers began thus.

PPF : Hey all,  I have been assigned two hours to tell you guys what you all should pursue. But i have only three words for you. Go to Hell.

<Silence>

PPF: Hahahaha, I was just kidding. I dont want you guys to go to hell. Not before this session gets over. Not that i dont mean you should not go to hell, even if you guys wanted to. Its a free world and you can go anywhere as long as you adhere to the new trespassing laws, although i dont approve of them myself.

< Silence>

PPF: The purpose of me being here is to guide you to be decide what you want to be. But all i can promise you  that at the end of the session you will always be able to make a cup of coffee all by yourself.

<Giggles>

PPF: I want all of you guys to tell me where you see yourself in ten years from now. Any amount of detail would be helpful. But i would prefer you to be precise. I think you in the green shirt, start.

Student One: Hello Mr Patrick Pavanansam Franzey, I would …

PPF: Its not pronounced Franzey , It pronounced F- R-E-Y. Frey as like prey.

Student One: Sorry Mr. Frey. Ten years from now, I think i will be working as a chief architect and managing partner of a very successful builder. We will be handling a lot of projects for instance designing skyscrapers. I would also be submitting my thesis on the modern building technique which will win me credit and world wild fame.

PPF: If you have completed,I would suggest you to be a Doctor. You can sit now. Hey , the guy with specs. Please tell us what will u be doing ten years from now.

Student two : I think i will be getting married…

<Silence>

Miles away, in one silent cemetery in France, a skeleton started nodding its head in approval of whatever being said.

This my friends is the real story of a poor school going teenager whose life changed just because  the prophetical power of a dead seer refused to diminish.

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Hey hey hey

Yes, i am not posting regularly off late. And yes, i have my excuses. But then strange things have happened.

I have started posting articles as a guest in our own MusicAloud.com, mostly for the section A Song A Day. It all started on a busy afternoon. I was heavily bothered by the recurring bugs that i was looking at the gtalk window for inspiration. So there was Vipin, busy as ever, and a lot more of other friends online. I thought i will talk to Vipin and started giving him some suggestions, notice the thread below.

Me : Dude you are going an impressive job writing about the songs. I want you to write about few other songs also, which i will duly mail you.

Vip: Wait for a few mins, i have this assignment to be done with. Will get back to you in a while.

I , well aware of what IIMs does to gifted mortals like VIP, went forward chatting with few others. That is when VIP pings me back and spake thus “Dude, I think you can write about them and send it across. We can post it as a guest post. And lets see how it goes from there. Hope you know how to write a sentence or two.”

Although i thought it to be a joke, i realised that he was serious when he mentioned about it once more. And then i started writing. I started with the Don Mclean song The American Pie. and followed it up with George Harrison’s While my guitar gently weeps and Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode.

Although i wrote all of them, i should thank Vipin for searching for apt videos to be put along the songs and also fine tuning the write ups.

And yea finally, I did tell him that i can write a sentence or two.

So Long!!

Music Aloud 2

Couple of months back, if my memory serves me right, i remember posting a blog titled Music Aloud. I must admit that I visit that site at times. But these days have been reading it quite a bit. Apart from VIP who I had talked about in my last blog, I see another name which is quite familiar. The name is VR, an equally cool friend of mine. He was quite famous in our college for being half of the quiz team which kept winning every year’s quiz event at Ragam.(For those who are not familiar with Ragam, its a fest conducted by NITC.). But I would say he was a better friend.

VR also comes up with cool reviews , even though as a reader and a friend one might wish that he is more frequent.

Apart from that Music aloud has come up with a new series called “A Song A Day”. And trust me its mind blowing.

And there is a online music quiz which started a few days back.

So people musicAloud is the place to go. Trust me, it is!!!!