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    I Pink therefore I am…

    As I do every few months I was cleaning out my music CDs and DVDs today. They have a habit of getting into the wrong cases and then finally disappear without a trace especially if they are very expensive or rare. While doing this I noticed something peculiar. Peculiar because I am an engineer MBA and, as everyone knows, engineer MBAs like the sort of music they can listen to while lounging on grass and breathing in fresh clean air and, especially, vice versa. But wait. I actually have albums by people like:

    Enigma
    Bryan Adams
    Dire Straits
    Boyzone
    Bon Jovi
    Yanni
    The Bee Gees
    Hootie and the Blowfish
    Boney M etc. etc.

    While I completely detest Metallica, Iron Maiden and all of those types and have nothing by them. Even when it comes to Pink Floyd I can hardly stand just a couple of tracks (Gasp! You say?). I find most of the songs just too weird. To me it all sounds like:

    (Deep booming sound)

    Completely wasted guy: Coming intooh the dahrkness…

    (Twang… boom)

    Anywhere-ere-ere but where you are… are…are (echo echo)

    (Crash… shuffle shuffle… pouring water…)

    Light is where the truth begins to gargle

    (Crash… tinkle tinkle… bang…)

    The smoke is green… or blue… even (very grave vocals…) magentaaaaaahhhhhh (climax then fade)

    Repeat

    You get the picture right. But I also find Raveena Tandon very hot, Celina Jaitley an eyesore and I positively adore Amisha Patel. Nothing makes my heebie-jeebies go hubba-hubba like Kareena Kapoor. Is this a problem? Will I become socially outcast? Am I abnormal?

    I am scared… scared… scared… scared… (Twang!… CRASH)

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    Comment by ashwin sundar
    2006-03-24 09:46:52

    First comment me..well everyone r entitled to opinions but for me floyd will always remain in the top draw..and hope your book releases soon

     
    Comment by Connor's Corner
    2006-03-24 09:56:05

    *GASP!* I can understand if people have different tastes in music… but “adore ” Amisha Patel…”hubba-hubba” for Karena Kapoor … WHAT IS THE WORLD COMING TO??? DIE! DIE! DIE!

     
    Comment by Whadaheg
    2006-03-24 10:12:18

    Whats with all these weird analogies about women and locomotives/ music genres, Sidin?

    ithonnum athra shariyalla..

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-24 11:46:26

    yes you are.
    accept it sidin vadukut u are abnormal.
    Remember u quit your job and is currently exploring craters in aurangabad.

    iw

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-24 11:58:58

    You don’t like Pink Floyd??? Damn!!
    I had “High Hopes” after the grass bit but now I am “Lost for Words”

    Amit

     
    Comment by Vamsi
    2006-03-24 12:59:09

    Nope…I’m not lying but i can relate to your choices very much. The Music & The Ladies you talk about.
    Amisha is a hottie.
    I drool over Kareena.
    As a kid i used to do (like) Raveena Tandon.
    ;)

    Three posts in 2 days..!! Man..sure a treat for ur starved readers.

     
    Comment by daysleeper
    2006-03-24 13:53:57

    yup. it’s abnormal. but have no fears about being a social outcast. ppl will be laughing so hard, they won’t notice. :)

     
    Comment by Maya Cassis
    2006-03-24 13:56:02

    first time in here.interesting posts:)

     
    Comment by Falstaff
    2006-03-24 13:59:33

    Forget the women, you’re telling me (us) that you’d pick the Bee Gees over Metallica? The Bee Gees?!! And here I was thinking that mile wide depression on the horizon was a meteor crater. Turns out it’s just your absence of musical taste.

     
    Comment by Aparna S Mallya
    2006-03-24 14:42:54

    Amisha Patel? Kareena Kapoor? Raveen Tandon?
    uh… no comments …

     
    Comment by Kuttan
    2006-03-24 15:46:03

    The guilty pleasures of life poppiing out.

     
    Comment by Sankalp
    2006-03-24 16:08:44

    How can an engineer not like pf/metallica etc.?

    Okay, that is forgivable, but Raveena Tandon hot? Hubba for Kareena? Come on!

     
    Comment by Dev
    2006-03-24 16:36:59

    I can dig where u’re comin from dude!!!
    Never understood the hoopla over all these in college.. and probably never will…. :)
    Btw, linked ya… :)

     
    Comment by suhas
    2006-03-24 17:16:32

    Brilliant Brilliant stuff…introduced to this blog only recently..hooked already..
    tell you what , thought you could have been more imaginative with the title than ” I PINK therefore i am..”
    Any oblique references there to the punk female who goes by the same name and hence a reflection of your tastes ?
    clang….

     
    Comment by Julius Seizure
    2006-03-24 18:47:39

    I am actually reconsidering your status on my bookmarks! BeeGees? Boyzone? What did you do Sidin? You were my favourite blogger, now all I can think of is the guys I used to make fun of when they sang along to boyband songs.

    Then again, everyone has their own tastes but you had so much promise, so much potential - I would have never guessed you belonged to the darkside.

    I’m speechless. Delete this blog entry!

     
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    2006-03-24 18:59:03

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    Comment by Riggs
    2006-03-24 21:28:24

    What’s wrong with the BeeGees, I ask you? I know everyone here including the one’s wot gasped all hummed AND know the tune for Staying Alive.

    Floyd too. Couple of songs, Nice. The rest, needless melodrama with nice lights and lasers.

    Ditto Raveena Tandon.

     
    Comment by amIda1
    2006-03-25 05:00:42

    dude , this aint funny ! :(

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-25 07:56:29

    guys! variety is the spice of life-tastes differ. but whats this thing abt musick all of a sudden?ur taste almost matches mine..except certain replacements-amisha with abishek bacchan and raveena with hrithik

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-25 08:04:01

    amisha patel?raveena tandon?kareena kapoor?
    you disaapoint me sidin!!!!!

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-25 08:49:37

    you’re losing it sidin dude…dont try too hard…

     
    Comment by J. Alfred Prufrock
    2006-03-25 10:18:58

    (slow blink as I see the feet of clay … disintegrating)

    Well … I thought Raveena Tandon was fairly attractive in tight clothes (or, presumably, altogether out of them). But Ameesha? Kareena?!!

    I shall not even discuss your taste in music. You HAVE no taste in music. (Knopfler with Yanni and Timberlake? DIE, you alien!)

    (stalks off in high dudgeon, ignoring Sidin’s broken sobs and pleas for “jaast kaa-eendly conseedaar, saar”)

    (wisely refrains from editing the Bloglines subscription)

    (watch this space …)

    J.A.P.

     
    Comment by The Graduate
    2006-03-25 13:31:33

    Thanks for the music. Amisha is quite pretty, Raveena has a certain charm, Celina doesn’t have much going for her. We seem to be in agreement.

    But Kareena?!?! The woman looks like she’s suppressing wind. Especially when she smiles. The lips pout, collagen pulsing, and when the smile goes on a fraction too long, it makes me suspect it’s been a big one. Do you notice that her male co-stars avoid standing behind her?

    If you want an alliterative K-female, try Katrina Kaif. Although she looked like she’d packed on a few during Maine Pyar Kyun Kiya

     
    Comment by Melody
    2006-03-25 16:01:58

    My first time here, came in from a link at dev’s place…

    I personally can’t stand Kareena Kapoor - she iritates the crap out of me. On the other hand, I also can’t listen to heavy metal & the likes of Metallica-ish bands…

    So my diagnosis of you is that you’re not abnormal, you’re just honest enough to admit your true tastes.

    Then again in today’s herd mentality world, that does make you abnormal.

    hmmm..

    PS: Liked the blog, am blogrolling you!

     
    Comment by If I tell ya, I'll have to kill ya
    2006-03-25 19:17:49

    walk towards the light sidin. walk towards the light….

    I always knew the perfect man didn’t exist.

     
    Comment by dazedandconfused
    2006-03-25 20:46:06

    “…lounging on grass and breathing in fresh air or vice versa…”, loved that part.
    As for the women, Raveena Tandon was the object of my wet dreams when I was 14. Remember “Tipp Tipp Barsa Paani…??!” :)

     
    Comment by Jaycee
    2006-03-25 20:53:16

    Zingaro beer…

    did`nt know it had after effects… :)

     
    Comment by indianpeppone
    2006-03-26 07:22:42

    Love Amisha, kareena??
    Hate Metallica, Pink Floyd??
    Hope u dont put that in ur book!

     
    Comment by plenoptic
    2006-03-26 07:54:22

    concur with your taste in music. IMHO, it is just a heard mentality which makes people *think* they like PF.

     
    Comment by shub
    2006-03-26 11:16:54

    uhhh am I the only one on whom the sarcasm here isn’t lost?!
    but you mentioned Kareena Kapoor and DIRE STRAITS in the same breath!
    *bawl*

     
    Comment by venus
    2006-03-26 20:47:38

    amisha, kareena or the hot hot girl? Well, I can understand why you don’t like pinl floyd or dire straits now ;)

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-26 23:24:59

    Kareena Kapoor?

    Gosh Sidin.. I was about to leave my groom search and come propose to you. Now re-thinking.

    ok. Am not.

     
    Comment by chitra
    2006-03-27 08:25:28

    Tee hee…no Sidin..you are not. You just belong to the rare(r) species

     
    Comment by PuneetM
    2006-03-27 08:55:05

    Your blog displays google ads for Pink Floyd dvds and just below that you say the band is so so typse…
    How will it make ppl do more clicks?
    Think in $ economics and change the post… :)

     
    Comment by Ekta
    2006-03-27 09:28:19

    Hey sidin,
    First time on ur blog and enjoyed reading it..
    U can let everything else pas…but floyd..!:-))…Cmon..maybe u havent tried hard enugh to listen to floyd!..Give it another shot…and am sure u’ll own one CD in your collection!

     
    Comment by laxmi bansal
    2006-03-27 09:32:45

    You make even the mundane interesting. Wish people would read and enjoy the humor or thought instead of arguing over Pink Floyd and Ravina Tandon.

     
    Comment by the Monk
    2006-03-27 18:20:42

    dude, I totally understand..i think i’ve even done a post about it…my musical preferences too were a little offbeat, to say the least…

     
    Comment by joe_cheers
    2006-03-27 19:10:00

    boss you missed ayesha takia she is hot

     
    Comment by Karthik
    2006-03-27 20:08:33

    freak ;)

     
    Comment by sunshine
    2006-03-28 00:22:48

    And I thought (endangered) species like you (and me) are almost on the verge of extinction!!!

     
    Comment by vash
    2006-03-28 00:34:29

    Sidin,
    It’s 4 days and no new posts. Waiting for more. Dont make us to wait for long.

    Vash.

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-28 06:42:36

    You have an utterly despicable taste (if there is one! :)) ) in music…Floyd = twan..dish..dhamaal????
    Are u freakin nuts? ;)

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-03-28 07:34:08

    sidin
    congrats on that piece on business line. keep up d good work.
    bold decision to give up tht cusion job.
    take care
    tina

     
    Comment by Ramaa Iyer
    2006-03-28 07:54:23

    You & abnormal..Kabhi nahin

     
    Comment by cloud9ine
    2006-03-28 08:43:44

    okay now, what’s so special about pink floyd, guys…?

    just kidding, don’t flood my blog pls..

    Sidin, take it slow and don’t shock ur readers pls…

    BTW > blogrolling you

     
    Comment by Myndfcukd
    2006-03-28 10:04:41

    People with deviant behaviour are needed in society to show the sheep where to flock.

     
    Comment by Ramaa Iyer
    2006-03-28 11:11:59

    You & abnormal..Kabhi nahin

     
    Comment by KS
    2006-03-28 11:13:09

    Whatever, But Linkin Park is probably the best that’s happened to Heavy Metal

     
    Comment by coup-de-grace
    2006-03-28 12:06:42

    son, you are entering a world of pain!

    this won’t stand man, this aggression won’t stand!

     
    Comment by Dhanya
    2006-03-28 14:11:52

    I loved you for hating all those jazzy ear barring stuff, although some seemed to disagree. u r the first one from REC trichy who seems to be out of it ALL…

    But I hated you for loving raveena, kareena and the like…that makes things a little weird. don’t u think?

     
    Comment by Sankalp
    2006-03-28 17:42:50

    @ ks: man, lp isnt heavy metal. and much better things have happened to rock music than lp.

     
    Comment by Sujeet Kuchibhotla
    2006-03-28 20:36:57

    well i read the whole bevy of comments on ur bevy of babes.. and got reminded of a particular quote …Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder …wonder how people could forget that…regarding music…i feel even music is the same case…although i listen to all that u do and also pink floyd and metallica…so dint really understand the whole hullabaloo over your choice…perfectly normal mate…and rush in the book!!!!

    Regards,

    Sujeet Kuchibhotla

     
    Comment by virdi
    2006-03-29 07:04:12

    KAEENA KAPOOR???? well she has a good skin… thats it nothing else… and u cant love the whole of kareena kapoor just because her skin is good… or can you???

    V…

     
    Comment by Kusum Rohra
    2006-03-29 09:19:16

    Raveena tandon! Thats the lowest low one can fall :) oops i am wrong u hve mentioned kareena too right *yikes*

     
    Comment by Aslan
    2006-03-29 09:47:36

    Haha. Hoho. I know (hope) you’re just being sarcastic :)

     
    Comment by Neo
    2006-03-29 11:17:33

    i sure do hope, this is ur new style of being sarcastic - esp the bollywood heroines part!!:P

     
    Comment by IdeaSmith
    2006-03-29 15:06:54

    Hee hee…self-deprecating and funny? Makes for a good post, though.

     
    Comment by Rubic_Cube
    2006-03-29 21:29:41

    Sidin - I know this is going to sound like a typical Indian match matching style, but can’t help it - I am blogrolling you because I like your blog and you happen to be my jigri friend’s friend’s schooltime buddy boy. :-)

    And as far as PF is concerned, bro. Take it easy. Dwell in on the album “Division Bell”. Let it sink into you. And then make a decision. :-)

    PF is the God! I dont know if it has anything to do with Engineering grads. But PF would have been a natural choice for me.

    And those gals dont even deserve a mention. puh-leaaaaaaaaase!!

     
    Comment by Kusum Rohra
    2006-03-30 10:43:02

    *dramatically* Oh my god! you blogrolled me!! *muahh* i hope you didn’t do this in the hopes of being seduced. I will forever be loyal to obelix :)

    How about putting my name instead of my blog title :)…

     
    Comment by Sp^wN_0F_S^T^N
    2006-03-30 16:44:22

    Am I abnormal?

    YES!! YES!!!! HELL YES!!!!!!

     
    Comment by qwerty
    2006-03-30 17:51:50

    Gosh, cut the guy some slack people! Man, they all seem so disappointed in you! People are so weird.

     
    Comment by Mr X
    2006-03-31 00:15:00

    Dude, while I cannot quite fathom Boyzone etc, I totally support you on Pink Floyd. So many Eng types just profess to like PF because it is perceived as cool. Frankly, they are very overrated and I have heard better local bands at Mood -I than Floyd.
    To all those who like Floyd : try listening to some of the bands currently playing or at least those who produced their music AFTER you were born. Stop being pretentious pseuds and admit to what you like, not stuff that you think is cool.Metallica is utter bull crap too as is Iron Maiden.
    Get a life posers and kudos to Sidin for telling it like it is.

     
    Comment by stan_da_man
    2006-03-31 05:43:52

    dudeeeee………..
    hmmmm…like someone else said.. evryone has his/her own weird taste in music…

    for me..PF n DS n Met rule!

     
    Comment by manji
    2006-03-31 15:11:07

    the music is fine dude…

    i agree with dhanya when she wrote “But I hated you for loving raveena, kareena and the like…” …

     
    Comment by quills
    2006-03-31 16:43:10

    Hmm..perhaps on the fence..could go both ways. But I do like your taste in music although I like a few Pink Floyd tracks as well.

     
    Comment by bunky jumping pundit
    2006-04-01 06:23:28

    hey no worries!! i am an MBA too…i also dont like the hard rock… be proud that u are one among the normal human beings…this is my forst visit….enjoyed reading ur blog…cheers

     
    Comment by Hiren
    2006-04-01 16:05:26

    Why not listen to Just good old Kihore Kumar. Kay ko faltu lfade main padne ka?

     
    Comment by sagarneel
    2006-04-01 16:21:45

    Not being into Floyd’s acceptable …but having Boyzone listed along with Dire Straits !!!! God that’s sin .
    Man how could you ?

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-04-02 01:04:18

    totally understand why people who smoke up love Floyd but all these other lesser beings who can’t even roll a J, let alone know what it’s to be stoned,what on earth do you find in Pink Floyd??? :-D

     
    Comment by n3o
    2006-04-02 02:46:53

    loL!! interestin way to end it!

    but not all metal music bands are like tat.. maybe a lil patience wit it.. u’ll start to like the beat..

    twang … boom .. chrrasshh!

     
    Comment by Sayesha
    2006-04-02 10:31:43

    Haha! I’m one of the few who likes Raveena Tandon too! :)

     
    Comment by sopeti
    2006-04-02 11:16:43

    And I like Karrreeeiiinnnnaaa very much….

     
    Comment by Jang!!
    2006-04-02 14:23:29

    Hmmmm…Interesting.

    First person I know of you can write about MetallicA and Amisha Patel in the same post.

    And I think a second shall take a loooong time to come

     
    Comment by Spartacus
    2006-04-03 09:41:27

    *gasp* *choke* *stifle* how could someone NOT like Pink Floyd!!

    Their music transcends time and genre. Maybe you’ve never been melancholic. The next time your girl ditches you, slide that Pink Floyd CD in, and just feel the music.

     
    Comment by Domain Guru
    2006-04-03 15:11:57

    I notice that the young crowd who frequent your blog are frowning over your choice of BeeGees…

    Anyone who has heard the song ‘Guilty’ by Barry Gibb and Barbara Streisand and still prefers Metallica deserves to have his eardrums punctured..

     
    Comment by Domain Guru
    2006-04-04 09:31:18

    oh, I forgot to mention…
    philistines who aren’t exposed to good music can download the song ‘Guilty’ by Barry Gibb and Barbara Streisand from this place:
    http://mis.sjsmit.edu.tw/~god/music/Guilty.mp3

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-04-04 09:40:34

    Hey Sid… long time since one commented… excellent posts - as usual.

    There is hope if you’re not into that noise that is Metallica, Iron Maiden…etc.

    But Kareena? Ahem… much as I love you… Kareena?!!

    Anyway, to each his own.

    Any excerpts of the book on your blog? And where all are your columns cming out? Tell us…

    Rosie

     
    Comment by Rahul
    2006-04-04 10:31:22

    You’ve got delicate eardrums. And give Kareena some credit please :(

     
    Comment by Anonymous
    2006-04-05 13:34:00

    Hey, anybody knows any way other than P2P(the place that I am in, they have firewalls), any site where I can download free Western music?

     
    Comment by jak
    2006-04-05 15:29:35

    Listen to Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”. It’ll cure you of all the worldly doubts.

     
    Comment by Kanishka
    2006-04-06 10:50:21

    checked your blog after a while and it was worth the wait! great pieces all 3 of them.

    What was really interesting was the reaction to the I Pink post by most people. Funny how people with thump their chests with laughter when you make fun of Venkatesh Prasad but come out with their claws sharpened if Pink Floyd is ridiculed!

    Loved the Pink Floyd musical recreation though!

     
    Comment by Domain Guru
    2006-04-06 14:01:25

    During the late 80’s there was a leader called Mahendra Singh Tikait.(He’s still there in the scene but terribly low-key.) He had some pretensions of being leader of farmers and he wanted to usurp the political space of Devi Lal, Balram Jakhar etc. He really had a nuisance value in those days.

    On one of those of protests of his, he thought of an idea of marching to New Delhi with all his farmers and lay seige to India Gate. He thought he would stay put in India Gate lawns along with his jat friends from Haryana, and flex his muscle.

    Now, anyone who’s visited India Gate lawns in the evenings during winter would recall the soft, melodius Shiv-Hari’s music (has any one here heard of ‘Call of the valley’) played over the speakers kept in the sideways of lawn.

    The night Tikait swamped the India Gate and threatened a massive show of farmer-power with a sit-in, Rajiv Gandhi decided to hit back with his own Doon brand of humor.

    Throughout the night, when the tired farmers were trying to snatch some sleep in the mosquito-filled air, the santoor-flute music was replaced and all of a sudden, loud music, real ‘head bangers ball’ started blaring over the speakers and continued till late in the early morn.

    Unable to sleep, and robbed of the will to fight, the farmers’ stir soon dissipated into thin air.

    What did Rajiv Gandhi and his buddies do? They played Deep Purple,Jethro Tull and Pink Floyd throughout the night!

     
    Comment by mukku
    2006-04-07 09:36:35

    wonderful humour sidin….wish ppl would just appreciate the humour, instead of making it a forum of musical and bollywood tastes !!

     
    Comment by Furious at you
    2006-04-09 07:49:43

    well written but your choice of music is pathetic. I feel like spitting
    sorry for being harsh at that, but i really cant believe THIS!! Aweful!! Have you heard songs from the dark side of the moon? If no, please go hear it. Remember, you are belittling the legends. Metallica and Floyd, they rock!

     
    Comment by Sandeep
    2006-04-09 18:30:45

    hey, just off topic, as a suggestion, why don’t you write something on the recent 50% reservations debate!
    I feel you have got the audience which very few bloggers enjoy and so can make an impact if you try to put up a discussion here….

    i am not an active participant in your blog though i check it out once in a while… but then i thought suggestions will always be wel