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MASHUPS It is that time of the year when we prefer to stay indoors. I guess I found a perfect way to make your evenings relaxing sitting in the warmth of your home. Hello everyone. Mashups, we are all a fan of it. These are something that kind of give us a sneak peek into some of the best parts of different songs in just one. If you have been following my blog from the beginning, I posted a blog post about a friend who plays guitar ( click here ). Guess what? He has his own small band now.It is called Octave the Band.  They have been giving some live shows around the city of Hyderabad. This post is more about making their talent reach to all my readers. They have some amazing mashups already on YouTube. Please do share and subscribe to the channel.  These are the songs that I grew up listening to. Their mashup's are a bit different and capture some of the forgotten gems.  There are even more amazing songs in the channel. Please subscribe

It's been really long since I published something here. I wasn't that busy but was searching for ideas to share something meaningful. In the last 2 months, I took up a part-time job at a bakery in a hospital. I was put on the line on the back where I had to make sandwiches, salads, and wraps for the customers. Many people back off when they are assigned that duty. But I really liked it.  There are a few reasons why I liked it and wanted to share them. Food is something that is right at the top in anybody's life. It is like the most basic necessity for any living organism. How do you feel when you are done with a really long day of work and you go out to grab some food and you get some extra food than you asked for? It makes my mood happy seeing that extra food. ALWAYS! There is a different kind of satisfaction when you see someone smile seeing good food at the end of the day. And that satisfaction gets elevated when you are the one making that food. Ain

Ego : A person's sense of self esteem or self importance How would one react when their ego is hurt? Would you go all angry and violent? Or just let it go because you know what you are?  Bigg Boss in Telugu is a TV reality show just like Big Brother. I follow it regularly. Many people have a notion that it is all unwanted drama. But I see it as a social experiment. When you have nothing to do and need to live with a few other strangers for 100 days, is something of an experiment about human behavior.   There is a contestant in this season who is a human activist, atheist and many other things. There was a small disturbance last week where his ego was hurt. This made him react with anger to the situation. In my opinion and based on what was shown in the show,  he was superior to the other people in the house cause he had achieved so much in life and wanted to make a mark of it. He was later trolled a lot on social media by the tag international figure for what he s

Pain and Sculpture Hello everyone. It has been a long time since I posted something on my blog. I  was seeking for motivation to write something. I have been through more than 50 documentaries during the past 2 months trying to find any kind of inspiration that I usually tend to.  I was watching a famous event for the automotive world called GOODWOOD FESTIVAL OF SPEED. It is an annual event where different kinds of cars are showcased and run over a hill climb course. The cars date back as long as 1903 to the future autonomous race cars. While I was watching these cars go up the hill, there was this small Formula 3 car by Billy Monger. Looking at the car you wouldn't know what the story of this kid is unless you are into motorsports. Formula 1 had its fair bit of safety record after the death of the famous Ayrton Senna on the 1st of May 1994. Until 2014, there were no fatalities because of accidents on the track. In 2014 Jules Bianchi crashed into a crane that was clearing o

Shadows As a kid, if there was a power outage in my house, the whole household used to gather around one lit candle, and I remember playing with the candle flame and making different kinds of shapes with hands to see how the shadows are cast on a wall. I am sure every one of us might have done this in our childhood.  img source This was all fun until you had to study these phenomena in physics in high school. A shadow as defined scientifically is " a dark area or shape produced by a body coming in between rays of light and a surface". It is a simple everyday phenomenon that we observe.  A few days back, I was watching some comedy programme in which a guys shadow comes alive and gets him into trouble. It was a stupid comedy. But that got me thinking about shadows in a different way. It has been quite a while that I wrote something from my thoughts and this started feeling like something I could relate to things that happen to us in life.  The same object ca

Feelings!! I came across this question when I was going through Quora recently. How do I mask my depression so it does not effect my day-to-day life? And this got me thinking. Is this even a valid question? While I came across this question, I also happen to watch a video on FALSE POSITIVITY in one of the Ted talks. I will attach the link to the video at the end of this post. But the video talks about how we judge some of the emotions as bad. So I replied to the question above as follows,  Why do you want to mask something that is a natural feeling? Why does the world see anger, depression, unhappiness etc as all bad? Aren’t they with us from the time of birth? If you are feeling depressed. Be so. Why do you want to show something other than what you feel? Would you mask your hunger to stop affecting your day to day life? All these so called negative feelings are part of life. There maybe a day you stop being depressed. Let everything flow naturally. It isn’t a norm t

DO YOU BELIEVE IN KARMA? Hello. I hope you found my previous review about one of my scale model interesting. I will update more reviews as and when I can get them in my hands on them and will include a plethora of photos.  Coming back to this post, Karma! We all often come across this word. It is originated from the Sanskrit word Karman, which translates to 'duty'. But what does it actually mean?  Karma : noun  in Hinduism and Buddhism the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.   So do you believe in this karma? Everything we are today and will be in the future is affected by the state we were in or are currently in. We don't give a second thought to it as we assume such is life and it simply goes on.   Many a time, Karma is associated with the bad that happens in our lives. "Karma hits you back" is what we hear more often. Why is it that it is not assoc

Maisto Audi R8 V10+ Review Hello everyone. Till date, my blog has been more about my own experiences and thoughts. But today, I wanted to add more stuff to my blog and make some more interesting topics and things to talk about. For those people who do not know me personally, I am a small collector of Scale Model Cars . I currently have a collection of 32 scale models in 1:18 scale. With this post, I want to start my own reviews about these scale model cars that I own/buy. My personal favourite car in the real world is the Audi R8. I already own 4 scale models of the R8. So, I wanted to start these reviews with my personal favourite.  Let us start with a brief history of the Audi R8. It was launched in 2005 and sales started later that year. It was a first for Audi to enter into supercar business. They had a success with their Le-mans car, the Audi R8 during the early 2000's. The le-mans car used the TSI petrol engine, which is what you see in the modern Audi's and

Immigration Story Hello everyone. Today, I would like to share my experiences at the immigration during my travel to the United States for the first time. I recently wrote the same as an answer on Quora and I do not know why and how it went on to get 46,000 views and over 600 upvotes. So I thought maybe I need to share it on my blog as well. And here it is. Link to the Quora answer I was traveling for the first time to the U.S. for my master’s. I had been admitted to the University of Cincinnati, Ohio. I took off from Hyderabad, India, and had a layover in New Delhi, India, and then the final destination was O’Hare International, Chicago. (Yes it is more than a 16-hour flight and it is not a pleasant one). This was on August 5th, 2016. It was my first time traveling abroad and I had no clue how things work at immigration. They gave us a form in the flight an hour before landing to be filled out. Below is the customs declaration form. I only knew one of my friends in

How far is too far? When was the last time you had to prove a huge mathematical formula, maybe for one of your exams or assignments? While trying to prove it, did you ever give a thought to why you were proving something that has already been proved? Everybody would reply that it was for grades.  When was the last time you were trying to prove a point to a friend or a colleague while having one of those feisty arguments?  We often see in some of the Indian cinema, the main protagonist is challenged by the villain to prove that he loves the heroine and the hero turns out to risk his life to prove that he loves her. Ironically, the girl does fall for such a thing (wouldn't work in real life though, unless both of them are stupid enough to meet each other).  Hello everyone. Thank you for coming back again and again and rolling in the views.Happy new year to everyone. By the way, what is it that I am trying to prove with my statements above? I will get to it, event