Prashanth HN

As many of you already know, I’m a big music lover, I like all kinds of music. Well, yeah, whenever I say that many people chip in saying me too, me too But normally these folks listen to 20 rock bands & say I love all kinds of music

I rely on last.fm most of the time for music though majority of my 750GB hard disk is filled with music. It just costs as much as a visit to CCD, so that’s fine, I just love it. When I wake up, I normally play Manish Vyas tag radio on last.fm which includes Manish Vyas, Prem Joshua, Tabla Beat Science, Karunesh, Talvin Singh, all Indian classical & new age artists. Listening to this kind of music brings some kind of smooth start for the day. Later in the day, my listening depends on the mood, so it’s normally random. If I’m in a romantic mood, I listen to Bollywood, kannada, tamil, telugu music, if something is fucked up I listen to Linkin Park!! If feeling down, Coldplay. When there is a little headache, I listen to metal, preferably Iron Maiden. Even the research says listening to loud music releases some kind of hormones in brain which gives ‘feel good’ feeling!

When my mood is normal, I listen to rock, punk, hip hop, dance, trance, electronic, metal, alternative…etc. My normal playlist includes Green Day, The Prodigy, Fall out boy, coldplay, 3 doors down, Dream Theater, Flo Rida, Bon Jovi, Poets of the fall, Lifehouse, DJ Tiesto, Deadmau5 and lot others. I listen to lot of Indian bands too, motherjane, Junkyard Groove, Swarathma, Sona Mohapatra, Zero are few of those. When I get bored of all the music I have (thats very rare!), I just hit last.fm & listen to ‘world’ tag radio & discover some music which is in some language which I cant figure out!!

I have the habit of listening to music as I sleep! Normally I play instrumental tracks at this time, create a playlist worth 30 to 40 minutes & sleep. Thanks to this winamp plugin which automatically shuts down the computer once the playlist is done! I think Blackstartblues is the most played artist at this time for me. And not to forget my new favorite ‘Rodrigo y Gabriela’, acoustic guitars on steroids!!!

And forgot to mention about my last.fm profile, do check it out & add if you are on last.fm. Most of the music I found are via last.fm & last.fm friends. If you are a music lover, you should be using last.fm. It keeps track of all your listening & gives suggestions based on that. And also helps in finding music compatibility with your friends. Personally, I’m very addicted to Last.fm radio, especially when I play “My Library”  or “My loved tracks”. 3USD a month is really great for what it offers.

I’m yet to find kind of music I hate, any suggestions??

Some of the facts about Orkut which I found with set of friends I have there, but it’s the same for most of you I guess.

• Most of the people on Orkut have personality disorder!! They pretend to be something which they are actually not.
• Though there’s a separate box provided by Orkut to update status, most of them still edit their First & Last name to update status. Like: “Rahul – back from the trip!”
• More than half of my friends don’t have their own picture to upload, they use some actor or actress’s pictures!!! <This annoys me a lot>
• “LOLZZ” is the most used word!!! in status messages, scrapbooks, etc…etc.
• They use some jinck-chack characters in their names, which takes a while to understand to read & understand who that person is! Like: ♥●• ♪Ğø|{$.. ♥●• …not lonely any more !!
• Some of them are so ego conscious, they force you to write a *good* testimonial for them, rate full on “Cool”, “Trustworthy” & “Sexy”
• Most of them are “Very attractive” or “Mirror cracking material”

That’s it for now!!!

Saw so many people changing their DP to childhood pic on twitter, facebook…etc. I kinda liked the idea & started looking into old photo albums. So, following are few nice moments of my childhood which I love to look back again & again!

With Grand parents:

First hair cut!

Krishnawataara!!

With Mom & Dad:

When I was afraid:

That’s it for now!

Happy Children’s day!

It was great experience for me, it was not just first Go Karting experience but also my first four wheeler experience. Few folks who went before me crashed the car & staff there told you will be diqualified if you crash. Means, you cannot continue riding it if you crash! I was bit careful & started my lap, started off quite slowly, carefully. I was given four laps, once I completed the second one I got the grip on the track & car! I started putting more pressure on the accelerator from third lap. Finally finished first!