Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Efflorescence in waste



This never fails to make me wonder,seeing blossoms in the apartment building play ground(filled with sand),which houses a big plastic water tank,but in an area which could be considered the refuse dump!

Monday, May 13, 2019

Target charge reached(100-x%).Please disconnect your charger

This notification pops up on my phone,so any Android device,but what is so wrong about having 100%???And I am a person who likes seeing 100%,whatever that says about my personality,but like I said,it is a bad personality disorder of Android devices to repeatedly want not to reach maximum charge.Personality disorder,but I am an understanding person,so I'll play along till it gets to be a painful demand..

Cognitive demands:response to it

This is probably in the list of my pointless blog posts,a lot of wordplay to drive home a point which is more succinctly made in the title,or within the space of a single sentence.

My brother advised me to start programming,to make my entire day more productive,and though I agree with the point,I suppose my resistance could be because the intellect feels it is being taxed unnecessarily,whether the end result is hugely positive or not.

Ultimately,the human intellect could be a bigger mountain,with its associated thoughts,or being busy('business'??),to climb than whatever the heights are to be scaled.

Finally,I guess as a wannabe-student,I should learn the suitable lesson from this rigmarole,which is to be as good a student as I can be,i.e. complete the recommended programming courses...


Sunday, May 12, 2019

Home artistry







It should be obvious that I have,lets say,a greed for order[think beautiful photos],and that translates to cleanliness and beautiful shapes,straight lines etc, when transposed to words.
My Amma maintains such a pitch-perfect harmony when she arranges items around the home,and in the dishes she concocts,that it has a strong link to something my paternal grandfather used to appreciate whenever he visited!!


Monday, May 6, 2019

Carnatic:: one of my all-time favorite ragams,Karaharapriya: thy beauty!!!

This is a lovely ragam,a sampurna ragam to boot(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampurna_raga),with notes positioned to excite the tear glands to their most fruitful state,and I have learned 3 very highly regarded,and,necessarily,lovely,keertanams in it: Chakkani Raja,Ramanee Samaanamevvaru,and Prakkala Nilabadi,all masterpieces of the great Thyagaraja swamigal(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyagaraja).As the wikipedia link states,"Tyagaraja and his contemporaries, Shyama Shastri and Muthuswami Dikshitar, were regarded as the trinity of Carnatic music."

There are a few ragams I know multiple keertanams and varnams in,like Kamboji,Bhairavi,Kalyani,Sankarabaranam,all of which I have the highest affection for,but I have also learned some special representative keertanams in some peculiar ragams that I love to show off my knowledge of,not because I am as capable of improvisation in them[like stage performers are],but because they show me off as multi-faceted.

The Four Seasons: a distinctive Western classical masterpiece

 Anyone who knows me well enough will know I am a music nut(not among the popular fruits : cashew, almond, hazelnut, but implying I am moved...