Saturday, February 5, 2011

Musical Me

I am very fond of Music.Its everywhere around me.or in other words i can say that i cant exist without music.A minute of it can make me feel fresh again.I play the keyboard,mandolian,Guitar,Harmonium.I think its a VERY VERY GOOD thing if one is into music.Lemme now drive u back into my childhood



I was in class 2nd and my bro aditya was in K.G that time when my parents got a casio SA-41 for us.Aditya wanted to play casio and my parents got one.I clearly remember the day wen we went to Gaffar Market in Karol Bagh to purchase the casio.We had Chole Bhature at Kishan's and purchased the casio from a sardarji's shops(Gaffar is full of refugee Sardars).We went back to home and discovered that the adapter was faulty.We went back to the shop n got a new adapter for it.My brother started playing the keyboard and all he could do was to play the different sounds the casio produced like that of the ambulance and the airplane etc. he did learn a bit of the leads part but was no longer interested in it.The casio was a waste of money untill i started playing it.I dint know that i had something for music in me until i played the casio.I played it for the first time and my parents were amused to know that i could play the casio without even learning it.i dont know how it happened but the tones and beats were in me from my birth(thanx mom for listening to kishor kumar and all before my birth :P).I started playing the casio at home.I was in 3rd standard now and had to select an S.U.P.W subject.i took Instrumental music in it and gradually i was included in the school orchestra.i was in 4th then.the same old SA-41 was doing its job.i was then selected as the head of the orchestra fo our annual day celebrations at SIRI fort Audi and we were to perform before the vice president of India.Now the SA-41 was outdated and i needed a nice pro keyboard.The school arranged for it somehow and we performed.We received a great round of applause from the audience.it was a job well done.i was gaining recognition in school.I m a fairly good actor too...though i dont mention it anywhere but i am.Done many plays and skits and won awards and certificated for it.i was in 8th by now.we had to shift to a new place in Delhi and that meant i had to change my School.I was going to miss my school now.I took admission in The Air Force School,Delhi.As i was new to it,i was not kind of open there.it took time.again,as a new student,i had to choose an S.U.P.W subject.there was just a single vacancy in the Dance section and i hate to dance.i went up to the head of the dept. and made my request for granting me instrumental music as my supw subject.the head was our instrumental teacher only.She asked me to play different tunes on the harmonium and i played them with ease.bingo!!I was in.I played harmonium in this school as there was no casio in the school.I participated in all the annual day fests of the school and was in the orchestra.But after 10th,wen i was in 11th,i wanted to concentrate more on studies.I dint want to go for the practice for annual day and i dint want to participate.But there was something else in store for me.I received a call from the head and my teacher at my home to come for practice.She spoke to my Dad about it and i had to go there for practicing.I participated in the event and it was the most memorable one.There was an inter school jugalbandi competition in our school which was won by me and my partner on tabla ,Momin Mishra.It was great.Then Again came a turn in my musical life.My bro got a mandolian for him has it was being taught to them.he used it just 7 times and again it was left to rust out.I took it up,cleaned it and started playing it.From that day i gathered an intrest in string instruments.I played the mandolian for an year or so but then i had to my hostel.i was in college now.I wanted to learn to play guitar.i wanted to play gutar as it was in fashion and i loved its sound and the thing that one can sing along while playing it.i wanted to get a guitar as soon as possible.it was 4th march 2010 when i first got my guitar.it was my birthday and that was the reason i was able to get a guitar.i am in the learning phases and have performed at a couple of places in ajmer itself.i have an acoustic guitar but i have a feel for rock and metal music so i want an electric guitar as soon as possible.Also,i want to try out something new in metal.that is to play classical indian ragas in metal effect.i think it will be a great thing for music and for our youngsters to know indian classical music in the genre they like the most.i however dont know when i will be getting my electric guitar.Probabily after my graduation when i would have no time to play it :P but i will be getting it for sure.



Note : i have not taken any professional coaching in my life in the music field.


Thanks for bearing it ;)\have fun.Take care

Monday, January 17, 2011

TechFests!!!

Guys,i am back....I had my 5th Sem exams so i was not able to post anything here.
Hope u guys will keep reading my stuff.

In this post,i will be writing about the techfests i attended.

1. PANACHE 2008,Vivekanand Institute Of Engineering and Technology,Jaipur 21st Dec 08 to 24th Dec 08

My first every techfest was Panache 2008 which was held at VIT,jaipur.it felt good to be outside campus in another college representing my college....a sense of pride was there in me as ECA is a reputed college.....we had to take part in the Paper presentation.We presented a paper on wind turbine but failed to win any prize.and we had plans to take part in dance too.....we won a 2nd prize in group dance n 1st in solo.it was all great.we called our proctor sir n told him that his prediction of us not winning anything was not correct.We were jumping all  around,pouring cold drinks on each other and were as wild as 1 could not think of.my first tractor ride was frm the vit campus to skit campus here as we were accomodated in another college's hostel.the trip was highly successful and this raised our confidence level.I along with Ujjwal Singh,Vijay Soni,Vipul agarwal,Dilip meena and Amar mudgal went there.it was great fun at VIT though many things following it were not good.I fell ill and Ujjwal met wid a serious accident.He had stiched on his forehead,scalp,n fractures in the wrist but he played counter strike wid us wid his fractured wrist :P.

2. TARANGINI 2009,Engineering College,Ajmer

it was april,i dont exactly remember the dates.My college was organising a techfest.its was all fun this time too.i think ppl who miss these kinds of events are jerks.i took part in counter strike event and we won 1st prize in it.during tarangini,ratings for each girl had doubled :P.those who got a 4 on 10 now got an 8 by boys ;).Well,tarangini 09 was great.

3. Eureka 2009,MBM Engg. College,jodhpur

Our basic aim here was to participate in a robotics workshop by EFY,but we took part in other events as well.i won 1st prize in need for speed most wanted and an year's subscription of EFY mag. for the best innovative idea.we stayed in a youth hostel and it was the best techfest i had ever visited.Ajmer sucks at facilities and food,so we were loving every moment of it.My band performed "Socha hai" from rock on but we were not able to woo the audience coz we were not ready and not experienced.It was definately a stage for us to perform and bind our band togeather.i think this was the moment our band was formed and i think its one of the best bands in ajmer compared to the quality of instruments we hav got. We went to McD n CCD and njoyed a lot.

4. Tarangini 2010

Our college organised this from 27th march 10 to 29th march 10.It was full of events from both technical and cultural fields.I took part in GD as i think it is the best possible was to express ur things n to improv ur language skills.I reached the finals for the event but was not able to make it to the top.Counter strike was definately the edge within us and we won it again for the second time.I had decided earlier that i wud take part in many events in tarangini but i had a sore throat and i had just bought my guitar on 4th march so,i was not able to perform andthing though we made it to the finals of the ad mania but luck did not favour us.My aim was just to participate.Tarangini was gr8 as it was in our own college

5. Neuron 2010,MNIT,Jaipur

How can i forget this fest.My 3rd Sem result was declared in the middle of it.I remember i was at my bua's place on day to of the fest and then at 11 pm at night yash called me and told me about the result that has been declared.I checked but the site was jammed and failed to load.I then called back yash and enquired about the result of other friends and i was shocked to knw that many ppl had failed in the exam.i just prayed to god about my result and at dat very moment,i got a call back from yash.The conversation was as follows

Yash : "Haan yaar,tera result mil gaya,....Tension naa le,TU PAAS HAI";

Vishal : Sahi bata yaar,Mazaak mat karna.Tere muh me Ghee Shakkar yaar.Back toh nahi hai naa kisi me??

Yash : nahi hai bhai

Vishal : sahi hai yar,chal,percentage ko mar goli.60 ke upar hai naa.....

yash : haan re 60 ke upar hai.

Vishal : chal badhiya hai.


It was the best moments to knw that i had passed despite the result being very very bad.I however did not win any prizes here but it was special indeed.Being at MNIT was a nice experience and i came to knw how a techfest of such a large scale is managed...We will be organising Tarangini this year and we needed ideas for it which i think we there wud have been no one better than mnit in providing it.

Will post more stuff here later as we have our practicals tomorrow.hope u stay in the best of health.

Bye,
-Vishal

PS : ignore any grammatical or spelling mistakes plz. i am not checking this before posting as i hav to prepare for my viva tomorrow

Saturday, January 1, 2011

EXTREMELY SORRY

Guys........i will be writing down here after my exams.......
Will not be expressing anything on facebook from now on......
bye