Stories of a Xavierian Kind. Some about love, most about me.

I am Unlimited!

25Jan12

I went to watch Wicked on Sunday – it over whelmed me in parts, bored me in parts. Here are some photos of the set I managed to sneak in.

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Tags: Music, Musicals, Singapore

I like to say technology and Steve Jobs introduced me to The Beatles. In 2005, I had just completed a month at Google, I chanced upon Manan Singhi’s music library on iTunes. (ITunes libraries can be shared among users on a common LAN and we used to try and get to work early so that we could get access – the number of users per library in those days was restricted) One fine morning in Hyderabad, I heard ‘I am the Walrus’ in Manan’s library and that started a long romance with this band of poets and rebels and wanderers.

Looking back in 2012, no other singer comes this close to what I feel for the music of The Beatles.

Along the way, many singers and musicians have come and gone, some songs I will never forget. Surrounded by auto tune, rude rapping songs, clones of R&B, sometimes it takes something very simple like this cover of While My Guitar Gently Weeps to remind myself true love is TS Eliot put to song by four very talented dreamers.

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Tags: Music

Sister, sister

07Jan12

My sister and I were playing the fool on the day my parents and her were supposed to fly back to Bombay.

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Like Mother, Like Daughter

03Jan12

My mother and younger sister had a fight. I took this photograph with my smartphone and I am still laughing over it. Here they are sulking in their respective corners. HILLARIOUS family drama.

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Starting work in the new year

03Jan12

The coffee table contains various paraphernalia that will be all thrown into my bag when I leave for work.

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Culture Clash

02Jan12

Living in Singapore, helps adorn the Christmas tree with not just the traditional bauble, but also testaments to the wonderful cultures we are lucky to be immersed in. Here is a dragon and a fish for good luck.