High Hopes - Pink Floyd

Artist: Pink Floyd; Album: Division Bell; Title: High Hopes: Composer: David Gilmour

I have always existed with an illusion that beyond the horizon there is a world far superior and evenhanded than the world I currently live in. The world, which does not work on magnets of control bred from fellowmen. Men do not believe in power of miracles but hold high regards for value of labor. Men with immense passion to achieve what they dream. The world of my imagination where men are rewarded only for what they deserve. The inhabitants, who are blessed enough so that they don’t have to depend on an Abstract Extra-ordinary Super Power to live through their lives. A world where emotions are not like shackles that bind men. Instead they stir up motive power to go a step further. Men, who cheat or kill, perish at once. The others that survive the heat of healthy competition live their way with an honesty of purpose. Not very sure whether it is same as Atlantis or is it different?

Several attempts, successful and unsuccessful, have been made to get a sneak peek in a world of my fascination. The successful ones could only succeed to break open just a small hole through the horizon, just open enough to allow a distinct single ray of light. The unsuccessful attempts were blurred at first and then beyond a certain distance they went no further, only to be blocked by a wall. As DG very rightly stated in his earlier blog entry, the whole scenario looks so similar to masons building the wall around the center of creativity and talent, the bricks being the our well-regarded communal round, the masons are left for us to figure out. Inspiration very naturally came from Pink Floyd – The Wall.

And then I was moved by a brilliant blend of music and lyrics composed by David Gilmour, popularly known as ‘High Hopes’. The fact that it was the very last song composed by Pink Floyd, it couldn’t have got any better than this magnum opus. The lyrics were instituted during the period when the band had torn apart and law suits worth of a million dollars were trying to bring it further down.

It an epitomized by talking about all the insignificant countless small creatures that are trying their very best to confine our feet to a second-rate way of life. And to add to the agony, leaving all of us to a life obsessed with slow decay, signifying end in the most brutal mode.

But very soon, a passion drives a ray of hope in the blood stream of brave men who fear none but loss. And it’s this towering hope that keeps the will going, to achieve what currently appears to be behind the walls of a narrow minded world. It is this hope that shall dwell in men of character. Men that deserve to live in the world of my imagination. For now it may appear like a tough ask, but I have HIGH HOPES.

The desire, ambition and the hunger shall remain forever and ever.

PHANTOM of the Opera

A long time since any activity on this blog…..but it has to be today…..of all the dayss....

Today I sat in a ROLLS ROYCE PHATOM!!!!!!!.Yes I took a ride in it, probably the most expensive car we cud ever think of(i hope not....i plan to buy a mclaren F1 in the far future)...it was on a promotion spree for the mobile store in our college campus…..God knows what connection is between a 5 crore masterpiece and some crappy mess of similar looking cell phones and utterly confusing talk plans…..

Still who cares….as far as u get a free ride in your own college campus in a Rolls Royce……..oh yes u do feel like a king!!!!!!!!!!!!

So here goes….we were studying in the library(seriously…we were)…and Ashish calls me…..come down fast to RRC…..fast…come fast…Rolls Royce….ride free…free ride…come fast….and I was on my way….we reached there…Ashish and the others waiting with sparkling eyes….chatur updated us on the experience ….he went in the rolls for a ride already….we all were waiting…finally after a lonnnnnng minute we see it coming towards us….first slow…then suddenly accelerating very fast….car stops….some girls and guy come out….we pounce in the car…I was left waiting due to foto sessions…but I got the front seat….we climb in…there are buttons to close doors. They are too heavy and hinged in opposing manner….so electronics doing the job for us.The car starts…we take a left turn….the guy blasts the stereo with a promotional track and shows us how to take reverse using proximity sensors…and a free demo of how ur car can be rear ended if u have an asshole driver at wheel….n number of sensors cannot help u….an Indica bumped at the back….indica’s bumper seriously damaged….rolls left with a small scratch and slight mis-alignment of the bumper.

Ride ends with a small trip thru the petrol pump in front of the college…..lots of awestruck looks….and finally when we arrive in the college…theres a huge crowd waiting….felt as if we were kings getting down the rolls…(too imaginitve I guess….but happens when u r in a Rolls…a whole new world inside there)….well how was the car is the big Q…and I am no Jeremy Clarkson to comment on it….but still

The car was awesome royal,quiet,heavily loaded with gadgets and screens and controls and auto doors and mirrors and wood and leather and 100 years of Rolls Royce 'hand crafted' heritage and a blasting sound system and also an ASSHOLE driver

We managed to see the features of the car in live action.....the rolls wing logo going under the bonnet when the crash was detected (a typical feature of the Rolls Royce cars).

At the end I was left with the same feeling Jeremy Clarkson had after driving Bugatti Veyron.....I will never be able to afford it.....and is it really worth the money???

Do u pay 5 crores for the car or the aura that comes with it...the Rolls heritage....the umpteen man hours that have gone into it...the fanatic attention to details...the perfect combination of cosmetic and scientific excellence?????????

Well u pay to be a part of the elite who have driven on this planet in the ghostly coffins(all rolls cars are named after ghosts).U pay respect(read crores) to humans who have dedicated their lives to create the feel of a "ROLLS ROYCE"....