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I never saw such huge pumpkins in my life. Its halloween time and Whole Foods Market has all these pumpkins lined up outside their store. These pics were taken with iPhone’s camera and they come out really good.

This is a great video. Watch and feel it yourself !

It was 1994, my big bro. bought a stereo music system. I was so excited. He also bought 4-5 music cassettes with it. Those days, A cassette would cost at least Rs. 25 and it was too much for school boy like me. So we listened to same 4-5 music tapes again and again.

Then I won an essay competition and I got a Rs.50 in award. I didnt know what to do with it. My friend suggested to buy a music cassette. I bought Sunita Rao “Dhuan” for Rs. 26. I was on cloud 9. I listened it to several times. In fact everyday for several months. After 14 years I still have the tape and still love Sunita Rao’s famous track “Pari hun main”.

I kept collecting money for buying my favorite music tapes. My favorite music would always cost a lil more than Rs. 40 and it was huge amount for me. But still, I cherished my love for music.

A.R. Rehman and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan were my favorite at those times and I would buy almost every tape of their next release and listen to it day-in day-out for months still I would buy next tape.

Music has always taken me to another world. My taste kept changing. When I entered college, I was introduced to western music. Those tapes would cost more than Rs. 100. But that didnt stop me from cherishing the love. I would goto Sunday Bazar and buy used/stolen tapes at Rs.5 to 10 each.  At a time my music tape collection reached to some 500 cassettes and it kept increasing. I bought several music systems. From local made stereo decks to Sony systems. At a time I had all the ways to listen to music. Stereo System, Walkman, CD Player, Disk-man, Computer, iPod. And often I used them all.

Since last few years when I was introduced to digital music (mp3 and CDs), my love for music started declining. I was restless to know why this is happening. Why dont I enjoy music like the old days. My introspection revealed that

1. Since the mp3s came into picture, I almost stopped waiting for a specific music title to release.

2. Music is available abundantly and freely. More supply than demand. More choices, easy availability killed the patience and taste thats required for listening.

3. Most importantly I listen to music which I haven’t paid for. These days when I like some music, first thing that catches my mind is how to get that music for free. If nothing works then only I pay for it, and then I don’t have any value for the freely acquired music.

4. Its not that I dont buy music, in fact, I buy more CDs and Tapes I could listen to, not one at time like old days. But because now I can easily afford it, I have less value for it. So most of the time  I would listen to  it once or twice and never look at again.

5. In old days, a song when listened to several times, would reveal something more each time. Every time it was more enjoyable than previous. Now I dont do that anymore.

Somehow I have lost the way I used to listen and enjoy music. Its sad but true.

After graduating from college a few years ago, I found myself working for a company that wasn’t at all what I expected it to be. As I thought about it more, I realized that there wasn’t any way I could have known about some of the downsides when I decided to take the plunge and accept the job. Later, I switched between few jobs, more or less, I had same experience.

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This doesn’t happen everyday. Six sixes in a over. Yuvaraj Sing did it. It was spectacular. There was some exchange of words between him and opposition player. Why use words when you have bat in hand? Yuvi did exactly same. His bat spoke far louder than words and everybody heard it.
India rejoiced, after such a long time. The dust and rust got shaken off from cricket with this new version, called Twenty20. And what a surprise? India won the final, that too against Pakistan! It was like winning the world cup two times. It was like Diwali for half an hour. I enjoyed the fire-crackers from balcony. That was spectacular too.

Watch these sixes right here.