Sunday, January 23, 2011

ProperNounisation

ProperNounisation (figure of speech): Capitalisation of a common noun to stress upon a recurring pattern.
e.g.
If your girlfriend finds out about this, you're in Big Trouble.
I'll be in the mall around 6 doing some General Loitering.

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Classical guitar

For a long time, my classical guitar skills were quite limited. I've mostly been dabbling with an electric or (non-classical) acoustic sounds. But in the last 6-8 months or so, I've been drawn to classical guitar. I happened to come across this video of Capricho Arabe (by the legendary Francesco Tarrega) and I was blown away. This degree of expressiveness using a single instrument is basically unheard of in rock/metal circles. imho. No entourage of bassists/drummers/vocalists, no distortion pedals to muddy the waters, just pure unadulterated music.
Soon thereafter, I got my first real classical guitar. The Almansa 434. I just had to do it.
Now I'm learning some of Francesco Tarrega's other songs. Also planning to take proper classical lessons from a well-known local guitarist, Anthony Garcia.
Where is this going to lead me?
PS: Never 'drink and blog'. Or this may happen to you.

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Unsocialising

Unsocialising (n): Reducing or eliminating your social footprint in the cyber world.
Although I acknowledge the human need to socialise, I just don't find it appealing to have my personal details paraded on some server belonging to some company I don't really know well enough to trust.
So; I have decided to unfacebook and ungoogle myself.
As far as fb is concerned, I don't have much there thats personal, but I will have to remove my name-tags from a few photos. Boy I hate that feature.
UnGoogling will be a more difficult task - their apps actually provide value to me. Maybe a mobileme subscription... I need to think about this. Now is not the best time. I am drinking irish whiskey.