Music- Keep It Original

Source

Music is one of those things which I guess everyone appreciates in some form or the other. What is that about music, which makes it one of the most appreciated things? The answer lies in the simplicity and complexity at the same time. There are various songs that would just seem so simple and their tune flows like a water but the hours that have been invested and the intricate stitching of notes to create that gem is something that is clandestine most of the times.

It is said that music has no language and is independent of borders. It is right because music like any art form is created to appeal to individuals all round the globe. It is not really something that is been created to cater a specific audience. Although people have different choice when it comes to music they like but no one can deny the fact that a lot of effort and thought goes behind that process of creation.

Still I would agree to the fact that pure music is something that is not witnessed quite often and whatever we listen to is a commercialized aspect of it. Blaming those artists for creating music that satiates few specific ears isn’t something I support because it is absolutely normal to supply the music that people demand and make bucks out of it. We need to have respect to all the artists irrespective of whether we like them or not. There is one artist who needs to be reprimanded for his music and that artist is the one who steals music and call it inspiration. Those individuals are nothing but thieves, who make living out of the creativity of others. Being a blogger I know how bad plagiarism is. There are many individuals who just blindly copy the creative capital of someone and post it as their own.

Music being a universal language needs to be kept free from such individuals who do not have a creative nerve. The hard work that goes into creating something can never be compensated by someone who is just blindly copying the ideas.

Music is an awesome way of relaxation. People have accepted that music has such a deep impact on them that their mood depends on the song they listen too. I second their statement that music can change your mood. When I feel restless I just plug in my earphone in mobile and just blast my ears with heavy metal and it helps. I can actually feel better after listening to those songs. In the same way soulful instrumental gives you an insight of yourself. I find it really inspiring to listen to soulful music because it helps me introspect.

I feel that music being such a therapy and so pure and universal, it should be copied or should fall victim of plagiarism. Creativity is for everyone but not for stealing. 

This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Be Peppy Be Happy

Source

Do you have any friend who is a pure bundle of energy? I guess everyone have such kind of friends. They are those individuals who resonate energy. They make even the most trivial of the things interesting with their sheer enthusiasm and energy. It is fun to be with these individuals. I can recall that most of the amazing and interesting memories that I had during my college life was because of those peppy beings. It feels as if they are made of a different material all together. They would bring light to the gloomiest of the settings.

I had one friend who was power house of energy. It is not just about the physical aspect of energy. The way he spoke about the most trivial of the things and making it sound most interesting thing in the world was his quality. You could see individuals opening up to him in no time.

Peppy is more of choice. You can be that peppy being who brings energy to the dull setting and light up the whole place. It is often seen that people who were once enthusiastic and full of energy turning into something they are not.

In recent times a movie was released where the protagonist had these weird side, which he never revealed to anyone. He hid it deep beneath the fake character that he played in his life. He was not acting the way he was but he was acting the way people around him wanted to. It is quite a common phenomenon that we stop ourselves from doing things our own way because of others. Sometimes we care too often about others, about society that we stop caring about ourselves. As that movie suggested, we just become a machine assigned to do a task, without logic, without creativity.

There was a time in childhood, when people used to come up to you and ask what you wanted to be, to which few used to answer doctor, engineer, IAS but very few said dancer, actor, singer, musician. When we used to answer that question, did we really answered it because we wanted to be doctors and engineers or we were just reiterating the things that people around us wanted to say.

Many of the individuals grow up to be nothing but a machine which is performing tasks assigned to it. We miss on the opportunity of being peppy and happy. Sometimes you got to unwind yourself and indulge into activities that you love and fell peppy and happy about it.

Peppy is not something that is reserved for a certain age group but it is an emotion, a feeling you can enjoy at any time of your life. Be peppy and spread the energy.

This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Music: Art Of Living

Source

What is music? Is it really related to the sound that is generated from the instruments or is it something more?

When I asked individuals about their hobbies, I have often come across this answer from individuals that they love to listen to music and name their favorite artists. For me music is not really something that you listen from great musicians or maestros. I will not deny the fact that the creation of those creative minds is music but it is not just plane sound, which is music.

Have you wondered how your favorite song would sound without all those pauses? How empty would be if the music did not have that elegance of pause, which gives that stability to the changing beats and tunes?

I am very sure that many of you have heard of this phrase “Nature playing its music” or “wind was singing to me”. Is it really something that has been said metaphorically or something that is observed keenly? I bet you cannot deny the fact the nature has its own music and the instrument she uses is just jaw dropping.

On a lazy summer afternoon birds chirping and the wind blowing on the deserted road. What is that sound, isn’t that a melody? If you have ever been on beach and paid attention to the sound of the waves, you could relate to the music I am talking about. A music that is not dependent on the instruments but a music that has beauty, which is not repeating itself, that is not created just to soothe few ears.

A kid laughing, wind blowing, lustful whisper and many more happenings of life can be music. Rustle of leaves on an old boulevard to honking of cars in a traffic jam, everything is music.

If the beauty lies in the eyes of the onlooker then music lies in the ears of the listener.

I play guitar and do treat the sound that is generated from it as music but also consider the pause in between the tunes as music. Music is beautiful and truly a stress buster. It gives time to you, to realize and contemplate on your being. For me it is really something in which I can find my reflection. It helps me unwind and let me focus on my being myself. It sets me straight.

As they say music is same everywhere because it has no language, no borders and no appearance of its own. You cannot differentiate between music as rich or poor or black or white. It is universal. If you ask me perfect definition of democracy then it has to be music because music is for everyone and anyone can contribute to it.

Music not only makes me happy, but it can also make sad, it can also scare me and it can also make me violent because music to me is emotion. Emotion that spreads without medium.

         

This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Impact- A Ripple Effect

Source

We all are created to do something. That something can be really anything. It can be leading the nation by being the Prime Minister or it can be being a sweeper and making society cleaner. But what is important part of life is doing something not for the sake of yourself but also for others. It is about having the positive impact on life of others.

From ages we have been hearing this phrase “Human beings are social animals”. What does the term social refers to in this phrase. Is it something like living in a group or having get together or throwing parties or is it something else?

Being social does not really mean having X number of friends or having Y number of friends on Facebook. It is more about having positive impact on life of others. It is more or less related to working for the betterment of yourself along with the society. If human beings would have kept all the knowledge they got to themselves then what the world would have been like. I guess who would have never come to know of the fact that earth is round and also we wouldn’t have been able to identify ourselves too.

I have a friend who, who once told me a story about making the difference and having positive impact on someone’s life. There was a person who used to live in his neighborhood and sweep his parking space and also the road in front of his house. He was mocked by few in the starting but eventually the whole neighborhood joined hands and swept the road daily. The whole society was cleaning the roads, making it one of cleanest societies of the city.

That person did not require great effort or a lot of resources. He indulged in the activity he felt right about and eventually everyone started following him. There is one term that I have used quite often in this blog, which is “positive impact”. Having impact on others life can be anything from good to bad, what is important is that a person should work on having positive impacts on other’s life.

That action can be as simple as planting a small tree or adopting a stray dog or giving free lectures. It can be anything under the sun. As people say a good deed is like a ripple effect. No deed done with good intention is big or small. Get out of your house and pick a banana peel from road and trash it in dustbin, which is also a good deed.

There is so much in life that you can do. It don’t always need a great mansion or good bank balance to do well to others. No one is asking you to give away yourself for others but it is the thought that counts. Spreading the awareness about something also a good deed. If you feel like indulging in a good deed and having positive impact on someone’s life after reading this blog then I would feel that I have also done something that had positive impact.

This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Navigate With Courage

Source

Have you ever been stuck in a situation where you cannot think of any way to get out of it? That feeling of being helpless and being stuck is really frustrating. When you feel as if you are going nowhere and the whole world seem to be passing by you and you just stand there and watch everyone get ahead. Have you wondered how a sailor would have felt when he gets lost in the ocean and all he can see is the emptiness all around him. For him feeling blue becomes reality in a literal sense. In the vastness of sea and emptiness of it, how small and trivial he feels.

Imagine you getting stuck on an island for few days and all you can think of is finding a way out of it but not finding it and you can see the days passing and the whole world moving forward except for you. That is when you need to muster courage and navigate through the unknown. If you look at the sea, you would see nothing but the blue vastness extending to infinity but those who navigated through those waters know that there is land on the other side of it. They were the one who navigated their ships into the unknown.

Everyone is afraid of something and everyone hesitates to take that first step but some day to know what lies on the other side of horizon you got take out your boat and start navigating into the waters and have to keep in mind that waters will not be forgiving and they would push to the limit and test you. The moment you start to accept the defeat is the moment the blue waters will become your destiny, the destiny you have not asked for. When the journey becomes your destination that is when you feel stuck because it is not something you wanted.

Always remember you set out for land and you would settle for no less but land. You will reach there because you have fought waters and have always kept it under your boat.

Navigation is a skill. It is the skill to be able to think straight while life is in spirals. You are responsible for your actions and no one will row you out of ocean. You got to pick up that oar and start rowing towards the land. Even if you can’t see the land, you must have faith in you. If you feel like getting stuck, you got to work on your navigating skills.

Navigating is just like navigating in seas. You have to know your coordinates and also know the capabilities of your boat. Once you know about these aspects, there is no one stopping you from reaching the coast.

This blog post is inspired by the blogging marathon hosted on IndiBlogger for the launch of the #Fantastico Zica from Tata Motors. You can apply for a test drive of the hatchback Zica today.

Losing Her

Source

Have you ever felt that sensation running down your body, which makes you feel naked instead of donning the best dress from your wardrobe? I have felt it. The feeling was triggered by losing something. At first I took it as something not of importance but as they say “You come to know the value of something after losing it”. Same was the case with me, I lost her and now I long for her.

It was a fine morning. Nature was playing its music and vehicles’ honking at a distance seemed like a melody. I was lying on my bed awake and caressing her texture. I did not wanted to get up, everything seemed just perfect about the moment. I looked at my cell phone’s screen and got out of the comfort of my bed with haste. I was running late and got ready in quick time and then as I picked my cell phone, I got agitated. I was early. There I sat again on my bed caressing her and looking into the mirror and that is when the crazy idea struck me. I got rid of her and all little bits of her were flushed down the gutter.

I looked in mirror and that is when I realized, what I have done. I felt as if I have lost my identity. I was ready to go to office but felt as if nothing covered my skin. I felt that bare naked just like the bare naked truth of she not being with me anymore.

I promised to myself that this time I will not lose her. She will be with me again. Now I have brought her back and she is with me again. She spends all her time with me and I know she would never leave me. I love it when I look into the mirror and see her there in the reflection. Beard becomes a man's unique identity in the world of monotonicity and losing her nothing short of losing the clothes. 

Source

Custard- My Perfect Dessert

Source

Food is one of those things that keeps me driving. Right now I am working in IT Company in Pune, far away from my home and I miss the delicacies that used to satiate my taste buds when I used to be home. As I never did much of cooking, I missed the dishes that my mom used to cook for me. One such dish that I used to miss a lot was fruit custard. Last time when I was home my mom made that for me. I helped her while she was cooking and she taught me how I can prepare it. When I came back to Pune, I tried to recreate the dish that mom made for me. I recreated the dish and instead of sugar I used Sugarfree Natura for that.

The recipe for my favorite dish goes like that.

Ingredients:

1 Liter Milk

5-6 Table spoon custard powder

3-4 Cardamom

9-10 pills for SugarFree Natura or as per your taste

You can add fruits as per your taste, I added Pomegranate, banana, apple and strawberries

You can also add dry fruits if you want to like cashew, pistachio, almond etcetera

Method:

Take a pan and pour milk in it

Bring the milk to boil

While milk is getting heated up, take custard powder in a pot and add some milk, stir it well so as not to form lumps

Now put the mixture obtained in above step in boiling milk and stir it well, so the mixture gets properly mixed in the boiling milk

Now let the mixture boil for 10 minutes and then add sugar free pellets in it

Stir well to mix the pellets and boil the mixture for another 15 minutes

Turn off your gas and let the custard cool at room temperature

After that keep it into the refrigerator to chill

Serving:

Mix cardamom and dry fruits into the custard

Cut fruits in small pieces

Keep fruits in bowl and add custard

You can also add dry fruits and fruits for garnishing

Viola mouthwatering custard is ready to satiate your taste buds.

My Sweet Custard

I made fruit custard for me and my friends and they really liked it. Seems like I have grown a little as a cook now. I know there are many for whom cooking to close to next nightmare but such an easy recipe is something you can try. I have now made it a couple of times and it has become my specialty. There are few more dishes that I can serve with these fine dessert but recipe to those some other day. Just try out this simple recipe and enjoy the sweet taste of fruit custard. Going to surprise my mom with my fruit custard now.