If you're from South India, then you probably know what Avial is..... Its a semi-dry curry made by mixing literally every single vegetable you can lay your hands upon..... sort of a medley of a hundred different tastes. Yet by the end of it all, you end up with a curry that is so complete, so clear, and so very yummy (You can check out the recipe of a traditional avial here).
But wait a minute, why is Navin talking bout some weird sounding south Indian food?? Guess what, this post ain't about food at all..... Its about the brilliant band from down south!! Unbelievable?? Read on my friend!!
With the amount of free time I've had over the last few days (Believe me, even a jobless call centre employee wouldn't have as much free time as me!!), I've been tuned into all sorts of extra curricular stuff like music, photography, novels, films,web designing, Orkutting and the rest!!
On the musical front, I've been experimenting with various obscure bands whose whose music is offbeat to say the least. But I've been hooked on to this new genre of neo-Indian rock/metal music. You're wondering how I said Indian and metal in the same sentence?? I thought it was impossible too, until I heard this brilliant band whose name is, you guessed it right, Avial!!
Note: These guys sing in malayalam, but all I can say is music crosses all boundries. Even though I don't understand their lyrics, I really really like their music.
Avial is a five member band based in Thrissur,Kerela. The bands line up is as follows
Tony John- Turntables
Rex Vijayan- Guitars
Anand Banjamin- Vocals
Naresh Kamath - Bass
Mithun Puthanveethil -Drums
These guys have sound amazing ..... and I certainly understand why they call themselves Avial: Their music is a blend of metal, classical music, rock, and flavours of many other "traditional" genres of music, just like the dish.
I've heard quite a few of their songs and all I can say is that they impress me more with every song I hear. Here are a few of their songs along with my personal ratings. Click on the songnames to download the songs.
Feeling a little poetic, and a little nerdy, and missing that certain somebody in my life...
Found This On The Net....... Added a few stanzas of my own before posting :) ....You may find this a bit slow compared to the general pace of this blog.....par kya kare, dil ka maamla hai...... and after all the blog title does read: "Life Of Navin-Mere Dil Ki Baat..."!!
Engineer's Serenade I was alone and all was dark, Beneath me and above My life was full of volts and amps, But not the spark of love
But now that you are here with me, My heart is overjoyed You turn the square of my heart, Into a sinusoid
You load things from my memory, onto my system's bus My life was once assembly code, and now it's C++
The days I do not see you, my tears all turn to drops This guy who was a MBit, starts doing TeraFLOPS
Its great how well you dress up, I really like your hair I hope you use a welding torch, coz my brain needs some repair
My hard disk has corrupted, my keyboard's lost its keys but holding you by my side, I'll run with complete ease
Its cool how hot i think you are, I think you're so sexy Why don't you get in my registers, lets runtime this exe
I love the way you solder things, My circuits you can fix The voltage across your diode is, much more than just point six
My voltage rails have malfunctioned, I think there's been a surge there's been a point of inflection in my cardioidic curves
Adrenaline starts pumping, my heart starts beating fast Its not pythogorean, its more confusing than Laplace
Baby, you've changed my life, and made my maths discrete And now I'll end my poem here, Control, Alt, and Delete
Happy B'day Dear LoN .... Yes, Its officially been one year sincemy first post (which by the way is unofficially the lamest blogpost ever)
Sorry that I wasn't able to attend the birthday party, but as Suhanna rightly said, I was definitely waiting for this day for a looooooooong loooooooong time.
And it seems, by the number of wishes you've gotten, that people actually like you.....and for me, there is no greater compliment than that (coz after all, you are my baby!!).
So I totally hope that Mike Ronson's wishes come true and you live to be a 100 years old!!
I'll just end this post saying it all over agin, this time in style:
Update: Thanks Mike, Suhanna, Rohan, Sharon, Mr/Ms. Anonymous, Rajneesh, Shreya,Avantika, Sarvesh, Robin, Samar, Govind, Twinkle, Diya, Deepti, Kris "e8rnlRokr", Nivedita, Anushree and the long list of others who wished LoN happy birthday through Twitter, the comments section of ths post, emails, and phone calls!!
I'm just hoping you guys remember my b'day as well!! :) :)
Update 2: Oh yeah, in case you didn't notice, I'm back after my loooooooong break .....So LoN, will be back up to speed from now on
So over the past few months, starting from my first post on LoN, this blog has become an integral part of my life, my way of telling the world that I'm not a "Nobody", or just a "Somebody" but the moronically unique, technically challenged, humorously untalented NAVIN PAI. To a large extent, I have been successful in doing so. I've recieved emails and comments from people from around the world, made friends within the international blogging circle, developed professional contacts ranging from web gurus to security researchers to even a hair stylist (seriously!!) and even been the recepient of a few brickbats (Life's not always a bed of roses!!). Also, LoN has gotten a pagerank from Google (in less than a year of its existence), and the first result in a Google search for "Navin Pai" shows up my Blogger profile. (I simply love going to Google.com, typing in "Navin Pai", and clicking on "I'm feeling lucky"!!). The other results on the first page include my blog and my twitter page!! So I guess when you wonder who Navin Pai is, even Google says "It's this internet freak from Goa"!! "MISSION SUCCESSFUL" to say the least!!
But over the past few days, I've been struggling to find the time to update this blog, mainly due to my pre-occupation with other **activities** (I'd already said in this older post (at the end) that Sem 2 would be barely eventful).
My dear friend (snicker snicker) Albert gave me the following advice:
As such, after going through my list of options, I've decided to put myself and LoN on a temporary timeout until May 2009...... I stress on the word temporary, because I'm sure that I'll be back up and running once May is here. Now that's less than 2 months so I'm guessing that I won't miss too much. But I promise, that I'll be back (not with a bang, but with a BOOOOOOOOM!!), and so will LoN, and this sign sums it all up:
Hope that you guys (and gals of course) will understand......
Finally after all these years, here's to the beginning of what was there, what is there and hopefully what will remain!! So here are my thoughts & words -Online!!
If you're from South India, then you probably know what Avial is..... Its a semi-dry curry made by mixing literally every single vegetable you can lay your hands upon..... sort of a medley of a hundred different tastes. Yet by the end of it all, you end up with a curry that is so complete, so clear, and so very yummy (You can check out the recipe of a traditional avial here).
Avial is a five member band based in Thrissur,Kerela. The bands line up is as follows
