Immediate Music

This is also my instrumental phase. Have been listening to instrumental covers of my favorite songs, and original compositions. They’re breath taking. It just proves that sometimes words are never needed. I’m just going to put up the few I heard this morning, all by Immediate Music from their album Trailerhead, will put up other links later ’cause there are so many !! But before that, I MUST put up one of my all time favorite performances. It’s the G3 concert – with John Petrucci *swoons*, Steve Vai *applauds* and, of course, Joe Satriani *^m^* – in Tokyo and the song’s called Smoke on the Water *smiles and wishes she was there*

G3 – Live at Tokyo – Smoke on the Water *I’m wondering if I did post this earlier…not sure*

Serenata Immortale

Trial of the Archangel

Lacrimosa Dominae

Fides en Lucius Dei

Metal A Cappella !!

The holiday spirit is setting in!! Lights are up on trees, Christmas inflatables and other pretty green and red adornments are making their appearance all around, the temperature fluctuates between 5 Celsius and 10 Celsius with the promise of a snowy Thanksgiving. It’s the Christmas spirit, baby!! With Grandpa and Grandma set to be here, well in Atlanta, in less than twenty four hours, I feel a sense of satisfaction. Almost done with an entire semester of my master’s degree!! Three more to go!! I still have assignments, quizzes, presentations and finals to sit for – till the 14^th of December – but I’m in the mood to refresh my carols, go to winter concerts – a cappella preferably – pull on my wonderfully warm and soft red and black coat with golden buttons on it and make snow devils *yes, none of the usual angels for me…I’m going to replicate my Lucifer – or Damien as I would also like to call him – in snow…they get to be snow twins.*

Been working for a month now, and it’s pretty cool. Not as technical as I was used to, and definitely not so stiff with the deadlines – but that was an actual company, this is the electronic resources of a law school’s library – and it’s good for me. I get to work, things that I don’t know about but always wanted to try out, I get to be around books, I have a perfect schedule, and I get paid. It fits me perfectly. I’m no longer the lazy ass I was almost becoming, I’m on my feet from 7 to 11 everyday except weekends, and I get all my tasks done. Two more weeks of that, and then I’m off on my month long holiday!! Yay!!

So, another idea of a story came to me. It’s more of a rewriting of a previous idea which I typed out and deleted when I realized that it was nothing but a reflection of a book I read sometime back…but now it has been renewed and I’ve come up with a pretty good plot for it. Let’s see how that figures.

I survived a scare of deleting data. I think I may have chronicled it, not sure – the time when I lost some of my best work because my backup DVD got corrupted, and I’d formatted my hard drive. Well this time, it was 4 years worth of emails – many rather important ones. My Gmail account. Gosh! I did something I knew was not supposed to affect the mails in my folders, but when I looked in my Inbox, it was all gone! The usage still gave me the exact figure (percentage) but the number of messages was done to a hundred! I was stupefied! I cursed, silently, to eternity! I really thought I’d lost everything because none of the mails showed up even in my Trash! *Of course I haven’t mentioned what I actually did, because that would involve revealing some details which are better off in my head than in my public blog .* Let it just be known that it would’ve been an absolute disaster for me had I not realized that by clicking on the labels I had created for the messages I was able to view them, assuring me that I hadn’t deleted it from the server! I retrieved all of them and vowed to never again delete any message except those that were caught by the spam filter. I will not delete. Not at all. It’s not worth going through the fright again. I can’t stand it.

Oh! As far as my old/original/first novel goes, I got the perfect idea of how to make Ariel seem more like a simple human – make her hydrophobic. Neat, huh? It’s a twist I need to put in the plot, just to make it more humane, that she’s not perfect. Yeah. The ideas are flowing.

Now I shall move on to a different post, this one dedicated to the latest novel I have managed to finish reading.

Heard this awesome cover of Iron Maiden’s Fear of the Dark and it’s an a cappella group. They’ve done a spectacular job of it. Definitely cannot be put on par with the original – but then who can do it as Iron Maiden does it? – but I’m truly impressed. Really. Metal and a cappella. Very very good job.

Van Canto with Fear of the Dark, an Iron Maiden’s a cappella cover

Speaking of the Weather

Literally, speaking of the weather, it has been rather strange. We’d adjusted to the 35-40 highs over  the past few weeks, and suddenly it was 70F, which had everyone wearing summer clothes. And just as suddenly, it’s dropped back to the high 40s. Yes, it brought about the whole argument of how I don’t exactly like the sun – this supposedly because I listen to black death heavy trash metal according to a friend. Apparently happy people don’t listen to stuff like this. *Thinks*

I can’t wait for winter break !! My grandparents will be here, and I get to trim a Christmas tree – missing the star that Dad made a few years back. I still have to book my tickets, though – maybe tonight. I feef somewhat confident whipping out my credit card for this, now that I’ve got my first salary – in USD . I should also get Christmas presents…Gosh! So much to do and so little time. This semester has just flown by!! Yikes! I need to be doing all the final touches for my courses!! Already registered for my spring courses, even that’s going to be a bit of a hectic semester. Looking forward to it!!

We’ve been around the city a little bit, now that I go downtown every morning. I walk eight to nine blocks everyday surveying the city, taking in its sights and sounds. I’m a city girl, so yes, it’s nice. Went up Willis Tower two weekends ago. Standing on a glass deck 1343 feet off the ground, looking down upon the vastness of this city I call home, was enticing. I felt good. I love heights, maybe I’ve mentioned it before, maybe not. It felt awesome. Strangely powerful, in a way that only someone who isn’t prone to acrophobia and can appreciate architectural as well as natural brilliance can understand. Loved it.

Took a tour of some of the famous places around downtown last weekend – very delighted to have seen Lincoln’s statue in Grant Park, the Tribune Tower, Daley Plaza, the Cultural Center, and some filming locations of one of my favorite movies of all time – The Dark Knight – saw Bruce Wayne’s penthouse, Wayne Enterprises, the final showdown, Harvey Dent’s office, the bank robbed by the Joker…others would include Willis Tower, Navy Pier, Metra Station and some others that I’ve already visited before. Walked around for almost three hours before heading back home. It was a Saturday well spent

OOOH!! I’ve installed, or rather had one of my French floormates install, Windows 7 on my laptop, along with Ubuntu because he loves Linux. Pretty cool. Experimenting with a lot of other development software in the process. Chelsea won against Manchester United (1 – 0) over the weekend *jumps with joy*. Whopped and celebrated after Terry’s header allowing Chelsea a 5 point lead on the table at 30. And just recently discovered that Christiano Ronaldo’s antics of diving haven’t left the Premier League even though he has – N’gog of Liverpool is proving to be a very good contender for the title after yesterday’s match against Birmingham City. Hehe!! I was laughing the whole time!! Just imagining my sister’s delight at knowing that Ronaldo is at least a little more dramatic!!

In other news, I’ve been feeling a lot of positive energy of late. Keeping that contained so I know where I’m headed. Also gives me an assurance. More on that when I actually have an answer to the ‘what’, because I already know ‘why’.

So, off I go, with the flow… Corny? I know!