A Song for a Team Trip

Author : Ragesh Chakkadath      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 12/28/2012 2:37:22 PM

'Yes. This is my first composition. Its a song in Malayalam that starts with “Manjuneer thulli’ with beautiful lyrics by Shiny, my colleague. The two female vocals are by Shiny and Rashmi. It could’ve been a normal team trip that we used to have half-yearly. But this time Sohal came up with an idea of making a [...]'

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Emergency for KFC?

Author : Ragesh Chakkadath      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 7/19/2012 5:56:45 AM

'Last Saturday (relative) KFC opened a store at Trivandrum city, the first in the city! I didn’t go home that weekend spending it fairly lazily checking Facebook status, and something that I don’t even remember. Fairly a colorless Saturday that was until I saw the twitter status update from Subin “KFC opened at Trivandrum”. I saw the store under [...]'

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Rock Bands, Please Stay Away from Technopark!

Author : Ragesh Chakkadath      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 6/5/2012 12:21:50 PM

'I would never have written this on an isolated incident. It happens repeatedly in technopark. If you are so proud of being a rock/metal artist, come and have the experience. In SRK’s words ( I know its a little awkward to quote a mainstream artist in a blog on rock music. sorry for that! ) [...]'

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Baiju’s Crossover in June

Author : Acquired Sound      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 5/29/2012 7:44:21 AM

'Baiju Dharmajan the ex-motherjane “God of small strings” has been an ultimate source of inspiration for the guitarist in me. The way he effortlessly incorporates those carnatic elements in to those advanced sweep/legato techniques always amazed me. After his departure from motherjane, he composed three songs in a band called Wrenz united. While some projects [...]'

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49-O – The Right to Reject? What a F*cking Joke!

Author : Acquired Sound      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 5/28/2012 7:05:26 AM

'Before reading this post, I reccomend you to take a look at the website called http://www.indiaagainstcorruption.org that claims that they have started yet another freedom struggle that could make it to the history text books of next generation. Needless to say, there are a lot of people supporting this; the cleanest and ‘mahatma’ kind of [...]'

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Slingshot

Author : Acquired Sound      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 5/24/2012 6:38:05 AM

'A perfect blend of funk and folk I would say. This band called slingshot which was formed in 2006 hails from Calicut aka Kozhikode, a northern district of Kerala. They were the winners of the first edition of Kingfisher Kerala Rocks. Slingshot recorded its first album ‘Half-Naked’ which was unofficially released in the Great Indian [...]'

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Ettam Pattu Unplugged Cover!

Author : Acquired Sound      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 5/16/2012 9:15:42 AM

'I hope everyone know the band called Avial. Ettam pattu or “8th song” in English as the name implies is the 8th song of their self titled album. This is my favorite song as it is a slow folksy ballad which carries a taste of rural Kerala as well as impeccable melody. Arjun and me met at Technopark when he saw [...]'

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2011 in review

Author : The Half-Blood Geek      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 1/2/2012 10:15:59 AM

'The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,900 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]'

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A Personal Appeal to Tamilnadu

Author : The Half-Blood Geek      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 11/22/2011 2:37:46 PM

'Before starting with this post let me say this. I or we have great respect towards Tamil people for various reasons. We depend on you for our food (Raw materials including 70 per cent of our vegetable requirements) and lot other things so there is a situation that we cannot live without you guys. As [...]'

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IRCTC Going Green?

Author : The Half-Blood Geek      Blog : The Half-Blood Geek      Date : 9/27/2011 8:28:18 AM

'If you take the Indian railway portal (irctc.co.in) you can now see a message on right side which says “Please do not take printout of E-Tickets, Travel with electronic tickets”. The “slide show” continues to say “Save Paper, We can save 3 lakhs of A4 size paper everyday”. three hundred thousand? Well, good move! Late [...]'

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