My Proud Alma Mater

Here you go guys....my school in the news for all the wrong reasons. This dude was the vice-principal even when I was a student. Now u know where I gained an exemplary vocab from!

Songs that stayed on!

I am compiling up a list of the songs I identified with. But somehow, I feel each song has a line, a verse or a strain which has pulled me towards it. Each one of them I have identified it with an incident in my life. What are yours? Why don't you all put up yours.

1. But it rained - Parikrama
This one identifies my first and the biggest ache in my life. This is by the Indian rock band Parikrama and these thoughts stay with me each and everyday.

The ache is long gone but the never keeps staring along
The waters in the seas are high
and all the sand castles have drowned

2. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zep
This song gave me some of the best friends I have in my life. This song inspired me to chose paths I would never have ventured. These lines still inspire me

Yes there are two paths you can go by
but in the long run
There’s still time to change the road you’re on

3. Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chaplin
I hear this song as a reminder to the irony of modern life. A life I have seen affected more of us than any other. A constant balance between self and others. A reminder to slow down in the world of pace.

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He’d grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

4. Going to California - Led Zep
This has been a song to find someone near. To find someone dear. But this has been a kind of song where I would say, just to find a friend. Also some hilarious insight of something I recently figured.

Ride a white mare in the footsteps of dawn
Tryin to find a woman whos never, never, never been born.
Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams,
Telling myself its not as hard, hard, hard as it seems.


5. NIB - Black Sabbath
This is so true and probably the song which talks about the dark side and evil that I was impressed. The song was also to tell me whenever I swayed from my principles to get me back to the right track. Although I am quoting only 4 lines, this is one song you have to listen or read it in its entirety.

Now I have you with me, under my power
Our love grows stronger now with every hour
Look into my eyes, you will see who I am
my name is Lucifer, please take my hand


6. Right in Two - Tool
This is what is happening now. As we fight for crumbs and as we create borders on borderless areas, emotions, logic, prayers.

Fight over the clouds, over wind, over sky
Fight over life, over blood, over prayer,
overhead and light
Fight over love, over sun,
over another, Fight…


7. Take away my pain - Dreamtheatre
This is the song I have identified with at every point in my life where I have been emotionally hurt. This is where I have done a reality check of my life at each point in my life. This song means a lot to me in planting my feet back to the ground. This song helps me be human again and not be over-excited.

Take away my pain
Leave the cold outside
Please don’t let it rain
Don’t stumble on my pride
Take away my pain
I’m not frightened any more

8. Kandisa - Indian Ocean
My first song where I fell in love with the song the first time I heard it. A pure entertaining song with modern and traditional percurssions. The first time I received this over email and I guess it was love at first sight.

Not the lyrics, but the instruments you need to listen too.

9. Comfortably Numb - Floyd
This song has been a constant fight between an emotional side to rational side of my life. A fight between where I want the emotional side to win, but the rational is dominant.

I cant explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.