I once read in one of my sister's old E. Nesbit books that the author that you are currently reading influences your writing style. Now this might have been true for those days but more appropriate to today's world would be that the movies or TV series you watch influence the way you write. But that's just my opinion and this is not a discourse on writing styles, just wanted to see how many would guess 'Goodfellas' just by reading the first few lines.

So now that the semester s almost gone and my exams are nearing, thought might do me some good to share my thoughts with the world. Obama got elected as president the same day I went to book my bike, an FZ16(Flaming Orange, yeah baby!) and so a mixed day for me. 3 days later we had two performances, one for Instrumentation and Control conference(CISCON) and the other Dhol Baje which was touted as the biggest event of the year(KMC girls...was the secret tagline which drew a crowd of over a thousand). Trouble was our lab exams were on, and though I was free as ever, my bandmates were all busy with some or the other organising so we couldn't get any practise and had to cancel the Dhol Baje gig.

Soo I was free and my mind drifted, thinking about Manipal, the junkies safehouse, the beachside paradise, it reminded me of a place called 'Haven' in the superman series, where all the criminals and dregs of the space society coexisted 'outside the fabric of the universe in a parallel dimension'. Anything goes in Manipal despite all the stritness and the best part is, just like Haven-Anyone is welcome as long as they don't try to disturb the status quo.

In Manipal you can be a different person everyday, you can be "A millon different people from one day to the next". You can be the library bug, who sits in the study hall all day, you can be part of a bikers gang, you can be a layabout like me who only comes out of hiding when absolutely essential( and sometimes not even then) or if nothings working out then the weed smoking, dope taking crazy who doesnt go to college and gets an ordi in everything.

Manipal is a mad place to be sure, look far enough, you'll find businessmen searching for that one great idea through which they can mint enough money to retire in comfort even without a degree , you'll find people trying to save the world, make it a better place, which as it happens is a song by Michael Jackson "Heal the World" listen to it, there is this one line that goes 'And if you want to know why, theres alove that cannot lie, love is strong, it only cares for joyful giving' wonderful words by a great artist for all his flaws.

Starry Night, a painting by Van Gogh and an amazing song on the guitar by Joe Satriani, I'v been practising it but only got the first part right so far, well prep leave is there for another week....plenty of time ;)

Chow guys if you read through all of this then please read through the next edition too.