Saturday! I’m so happy. What a busy work week it’s been. And this is my LAST working Saturday with this firm! From November onwards we work only 5 days a week! Unless of course the admin in Delhi decides to revert to working 2 or all Saturdays a month. Brrr. Cancel cancel!
I do like Saturday mornings at work though. Noone with more than 2 years of experience ever shows up before 11 am. And we get to wear mufti– ‘colour clothes’, as we used to call them in school. (We could wear them on our birthdays and on Children’s Day. On Children’s Day the teachers would also put up an entertainment for us. Whoever came up with the idea for Children’s Day– may they rest in peace.) So this morning I’m sitting in my near-empty office, wearing a half-sleeve with black jeans and nice brown shoes… and tripping on music!
The music system in my car has been giving me trouble for the last month or two. A couple of weeks ago it conked out entirely. It’s been “repaired” twice already, and I don’t have the money to replace it. So I’ve been managing without music, except for the limited selection on my phone, which I keep on my lap and play through its loudspeaker as I drive. But there’s only so many times you can listen to the same selection in the same order: Keane – The Killers – Chris Brown – Eddie Vedder – RCHP – Santana – Dido – Pain of Salvation – Keane…
And I hardly listen to music at home these days too. My CD collection is still in one of my trunks, packed away as it was all those months ago in Delhi. I usually play a few perfunctory songs off the laptop before I pass out every night, but I’m tired of the limited stuff on my laptop, and it’s a far cry from my student life, when every waking minute in my room was spent with music playing.
This morning, though, it struck me that I do have a perfectly good mp3 player with earphones. (Not an overpriced iPod– this is a little Philips that has been great value for money over the years and doubles as a pen drive.) I know it’s not really safe, but I figure I can get away with driving with earphone music for a few weeks– until I have a bit of cash and can buy a new car stereo.
And so I’ve discovered the joy of listening to new music on the morning drive– not the same old Dream Theater CD in the car (and certainly not the crappy Madras radio), but new albums I’ve downloaded but haven’t had time to listen to yet. The Black Eyed Peas, Muse, Lady GaGa, Thirteen Senses. (It all sounds very poppy, I know, but its great fun listening to pop albums. It’s popular music for a reason. And Muse is a very respectable rock band. So there!)
(Plus, Thirteen Senses are fantastic; you should definitely check them out if you like Death Cab / The OC-type music and you haven’t already.)
Whatever’s available to put you in a good mood in the morning, right?
31 October 2009 at 2:39 pm |
I thought you judged people who used the word “conked”.
Listen to temper trap’s sweet disposition.
Simply amazing.
31 October 2009 at 3:00 pm |
“Conked off”, dearie– that gets my goat. ‘Conked out’ is perfectly acceptable in PerakathLand.
That title sounds familiar. I may have already shortlisted it for download..
31 October 2009 at 6:24 pm |
i love the everything about madras FM except the song-playing. The ads and the cheesy RJs are totally worth it.
1 November 2009 at 7:57 am |
yes, the chennai FM stations are just fantastic. i would rather listen to the static that was the staple of 1980’s late night radio instead.
2 November 2009 at 11:02 am |
Have you tried listening to the radio at night now? The static remains.
2 November 2009 at 4:17 pm |
Nope. I am sleeping or trying to watch some chick flick on Tata Sky these days. Trying, because, hello, Tata Sky bloody sucks. More than radio.