Reading Martin Rattler can surely give one insights into a Scottish way of life, which is actually quite unlike the English Way (I am not referring to 'hanging on in quiet desperation', if that's what you're thinking). At least until Rattler gets lost in the Amazon Rain forest, that is...
Surprisingly, I actually understand phrases such as "He'll niver bate ye, Martin, avic, as long as there's two timbers of ye houldin' together", and"Troth an' besmearin' ye with too much honour that same".
Note: The book was given to me to read by NS... along with my tuba for the weekend! :)
I like the book, the physical aspect, I mean, It smells of the music room! :) (Not to be confused with the Band Room, where we keep the instruments. That place smells of horse manure, vomit and fungus...)
The Music Room smell reminds me of Music Competition Practice! And German! And a certain fussy person who I will not mention here...
Lately, I've been wondering: If I were to write an autobiography, it would resemble Roald Dahl's 'Boy' and 'Going Solo'... Granted, my life till date has been uneventful (relatively), but with the proper advertisement, it could have the potential to become a classic childhood.
I mean, think about it. You've all read my earlier post 'Nostalgia Beckons'!
And there's still more to come!!!
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Friday, July 1, 2011
The E-flat Tuba and other things...
I finally realised why our tubas are so tiny (as far as tubas go, at least)! It's because they are E-flat Tubas, and all the ones I've seen on the Net are BB-flat! Much lower in note!
Anyway, I now know 'Abide With Me', and I'm learning 'Lead Kindly Light', now! I wonder if I can convince NS to let me take my Tuba home to practice... I heard it's a 'done' thing...I can get the hang of those darn high-C's!
The band is learning a new piece called 'Holiday March', which sounds gorgeous! The Band may have a hard time though! Anyone would, if you had a march switching between 6\8, 3\4 and 9\8 timing!!
Anyway, we have to decide on a charity, that is, we, the Interact Club. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, we need to start holding meetings during the lunch-break, so members must be informed! We need to decide things fast, because I need to have a speech prepared! I wish somebody who is actually in the club was following my blog... I need to publicise it!!
Anyway, I now know 'Abide With Me', and I'm learning 'Lead Kindly Light', now! I wonder if I can convince NS to let me take my Tuba home to practice... I heard it's a 'done' thing...I can get the hang of those darn high-C's!
The band is learning a new piece called 'Holiday March', which sounds gorgeous! The Band may have a hard time though! Anyone would, if you had a march switching between 6\8, 3\4 and 9\8 timing!!
Anyway, we have to decide on a charity, that is, we, the Interact Club. Does anyone have any suggestions? Also, we need to start holding meetings during the lunch-break, so members must be informed! We need to decide things fast, because I need to have a speech prepared! I wish somebody who is actually in the club was following my blog... I need to publicise it!!
Monday, June 27, 2011
School and other things...
Good grief! Or so Charlie Brown would say... Except, I mean it in a good way (??).
After a day of running around the corridors, gathering people like sheep, shouting out announcements and tallying and endless number of votes, one realises that there's more to life than football, ice-cream and samosas... or maybe all that is just part of the whole...
So here I sit, in a pair of new tracks which I strongly suspect should have been thrown in for a preliminary wash because they smell strange. I don't think I've ever written a sentence that long without commas... Grammar-Nazi that I am...
We should start a Grammar-Nazi Club in school.
Lesson One: The difference between 'back' and 'backside'...
Lesson Two: The difference between 'Bag' and 'Cover'...
Lesson Three: Enunciation of the letter 'Y'... and also, the difference between 'alphabet' and 'letter'!
Lesson Four: How not to mistake sexual allusions for abusive gestures... Sounds random, but is quite specific... 14-year olds (rolls eyes)... (Please ask me if you are wondering what the bloody hell this is about!)
The weather right now is very beach-like! :) soft evening light, strong, warm breeze... my favourite!
I take my leave! Heil!
After a day of running around the corridors, gathering people like sheep, shouting out announcements and tallying and endless number of votes, one realises that there's more to life than football, ice-cream and samosas... or maybe all that is just part of the whole...
So here I sit, in a pair of new tracks which I strongly suspect should have been thrown in for a preliminary wash because they smell strange. I don't think I've ever written a sentence that long without commas... Grammar-Nazi that I am...
We should start a Grammar-Nazi Club in school.
Lesson One: The difference between 'back' and 'backside'...
Lesson Two: The difference between 'Bag' and 'Cover'...
Lesson Three: Enunciation of the letter 'Y'... and also, the difference between 'alphabet' and 'letter'!
Lesson Four: How not to mistake sexual allusions for abusive gestures... Sounds random, but is quite specific... 14-year olds (rolls eyes)... (Please ask me if you are wondering what the bloody hell this is about!)
The weather right now is very beach-like! :) soft evening light, strong, warm breeze... my favourite!
I take my leave! Heil!
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Der Regen...
What can one do if he has just discovered a new-found love and awe for 'Indian Rondo', but can only find a low-quality performance by our own brass band on 'youtube'?
Listening to 'Stand Up and Fight' by Turisas on repeat should not be counted as a start...
For those who don't know, Turisas is a Finland-based Viking-Metal Band famous for their bad-ass, fiery live shows and their epic Orchestral metal... I have yet to meet someone (besides me, of course) who appreciates their wackiness...
Guess what! I found a somewhat substantial description of the manufacture of nail polish! My Chemistry project can now progress unhindered!
I also found out that nail polish is dangerous for asthma patients, and also contains formaldehyde, a 'mild' carcinogen... That's fun...
The weather can't make up its mind whether it wants to be sunny or cloudy, and that is very annoying, for some reason... Oh! It's started raining! That's a start...
I had a recent revelation that some of my friends are connoisseurs of Hindi films and Music... Is it okay to be proud not to be one? Or is it just plain un-patriotic, if that's a word!
It's started pouring bloody murder now, if rain can do that...
I just realised that my blog posting is very random... every new line has absolutely nothing to do with the previous line... sort of like life, in its own way, innit? Wickedly awesome though! Life, I mean, not the blog... that would be vain...
Let's not go there now...
I shall take my leave now, because I feel like standing in the rain for a while... :)
Listening to 'Stand Up and Fight' by Turisas on repeat should not be counted as a start...
For those who don't know, Turisas is a Finland-based Viking-Metal Band famous for their bad-ass, fiery live shows and their epic Orchestral metal... I have yet to meet someone (besides me, of course) who appreciates their wackiness...
Guess what! I found a somewhat substantial description of the manufacture of nail polish! My Chemistry project can now progress unhindered!
I also found out that nail polish is dangerous for asthma patients, and also contains formaldehyde, a 'mild' carcinogen... That's fun...
The weather can't make up its mind whether it wants to be sunny or cloudy, and that is very annoying, for some reason... Oh! It's started raining! That's a start...
I had a recent revelation that some of my friends are connoisseurs of Hindi films and Music... Is it okay to be proud not to be one? Or is it just plain un-patriotic, if that's a word!
It's started pouring bloody murder now, if rain can do that...
I just realised that my blog posting is very random... every new line has absolutely nothing to do with the previous line... sort of like life, in its own way, innit? Wickedly awesome though! Life, I mean, not the blog... that would be vain...
Let's not go there now...
I shall take my leave now, because I feel like standing in the rain for a while... :)
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Change of Season...
Politics... Where greed wears the mask of morality.
Who would have thought that it would get so very sticky... But sometimes, being a smiling observer pays off! Or maybe that's just because you have some security... I doubt many of you have any idea of what I'm talking about!
To those who do, and to those who would resort to dirty politics, all that can be said is summed up in the third scene of the First Act of Macbeth. Lines 129 to 136, to be precise.
The Summer Solstice has come and gone, and there is a change in the winds, as the old world mixes with the new, and strange, exciting things begin to manifest.
The rains are here, if only in modesty, and they fill the air with a chill, and the energies of excitement! With Vikings, Iron maiden and Sherlock floating around in the head, it seems all is quite well with the world, in terms of discovery and joy.
And yet, I cannot find a good description of the industrial manufacture of nail polish...
Who would have thought that it would get so very sticky... But sometimes, being a smiling observer pays off! Or maybe that's just because you have some security... I doubt many of you have any idea of what I'm talking about!
To those who do, and to those who would resort to dirty politics, all that can be said is summed up in the third scene of the First Act of Macbeth. Lines 129 to 136, to be precise.
The Summer Solstice has come and gone, and there is a change in the winds, as the old world mixes with the new, and strange, exciting things begin to manifest.
The rains are here, if only in modesty, and they fill the air with a chill, and the energies of excitement! With Vikings, Iron maiden and Sherlock floating around in the head, it seems all is quite well with the world, in terms of discovery and joy.
And yet, I cannot find a good description of the industrial manufacture of nail polish...
Saturday, April 16, 2011
Some Days are Perfect...
Some days are just perfect. No, maybe there aren't any great movies to see, or anything of the sort, but some days are still perfect.
When you are woken up at 8:00 a.m. on a summer morning for a game of cricket, you just know you're in for one of those days...
Well, okay, so our cricket isn't really a thing to brag about, I mean c'mon! A T-shaped driveway for a pitch, where the only possible fielding positions are Point, Square-leg and long-on or long-off? Somehow, you get the feeling that scores aren't going to be that high...
Nonetheless, we play. None of us are that great, but hey, who said it isn't fun!
FACT: My team's current test victory record is unbeaten, but with the match closing for that day with the opposing team trailing by three runs for no-loss, I'm not sure whether we'll be able to maintain that record...
So then, we play with our kittens. Well, not so much play as conduct behavioral research (not the vivisection kind!). We can't really decide on names. They're brother and sister, so we had to think of paired names: Jupiter and Artemis? Narcissus and Echo? Osiris and Isis? Surprise, surprise... guess who came up with the names...
FACT: The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small furry domesticated carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. Cats have been associated with humans for at least 9,500 years, and are currently the most popular pet in the world. Owing to their close association with humans, cats are now found almost everywhere in the world.
We treat them like lion cubs... Jupiter\Narcissus\Osiris made us proud by hunting and catching a gecko...
The afternoon sun beckoned me... I had to go for a swim... On the way, a visible mass of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the Earth's atmosphere above the surface of the Earth blocked out this particular sun. Plans of swimming went down the drain. We reached home, and our car battery died... Convenient.
Would you believe it, the clouds had disappeared... Nature sure works in mysterious ways. She prevented us from stopping the car at the club and not being able to start it up again, owing to that dead battery...
SOME RANDOM FACTS:
When you are woken up at 8:00 a.m. on a summer morning for a game of cricket, you just know you're in for one of those days...
Well, okay, so our cricket isn't really a thing to brag about, I mean c'mon! A T-shaped driveway for a pitch, where the only possible fielding positions are Point, Square-leg and long-on or long-off? Somehow, you get the feeling that scores aren't going to be that high...
Nonetheless, we play. None of us are that great, but hey, who said it isn't fun!
FACT: My team's current test victory record is unbeaten, but with the match closing for that day with the opposing team trailing by three runs for no-loss, I'm not sure whether we'll be able to maintain that record...
So then, we play with our kittens. Well, not so much play as conduct behavioral research (not the vivisection kind!). We can't really decide on names. They're brother and sister, so we had to think of paired names: Jupiter and Artemis? Narcissus and Echo? Osiris and Isis? Surprise, surprise... guess who came up with the names...
FACT: The cat (Felis catus), also known as the domestic cat or housecat to distinguish it from other felines and felids, is a small furry domesticated carnivorous mammal that is valued by humans for its companionship and for its ability to hunt vermin and household pests. Cats have been associated with humans for at least 9,500 years, and are currently the most popular pet in the world. Owing to their close association with humans, cats are now found almost everywhere in the world.
We treat them like lion cubs... Jupiter\Narcissus\Osiris made us proud by hunting and catching a gecko...
The afternoon sun beckoned me... I had to go for a swim... On the way, a visible mass of water droplets or frozen ice crystals suspended in the Earth's atmosphere above the surface of the Earth blocked out this particular sun. Plans of swimming went down the drain. We reached home, and our car battery died... Convenient.
Would you believe it, the clouds had disappeared... Nature sure works in mysterious ways. She prevented us from stopping the car at the club and not being able to start it up again, owing to that dead battery...
SOME RANDOM FACTS:
- The surface area of an average-sized brick is 79 cm squared.
- According to suicide statistics, Monday is the favored day for self-destruction.
- Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.
- The three best-known western names in China: Jesus Christ, Richard Nixon, and Elvis Presley.
- The word "nerd" was first coined by Dr. Seuss in "If I Ran the Zoo."
- Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.
- "Goodbye" came from "God bye" which came from "God be with you."
- Kansas state law requires pedestrians crossing the highways at night to wear tail lights.
Friday, April 15, 2011
Hymn of the North Star...
Okay, I know some of you may already have read this, but anyway...
Ae! Irralah! Estrai un Stellai,
Slivren Etsral miel Estellia ai
Adai miæl vellai!
Læn miel veil e vailes miel ceis,
Cerlai miel, Valos un Feaeis.
Avæ mie, Stellaier un Lænai!
A! Irralah! Star of the North,
Thine Sacred Light like Siler Mist
Upon the Worldlings falls.
Bright is thy hair and fair thine skin,
Thy lips, the Nectar of Valos.
Hail thee, Brightest of Stars!
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)