होसाना मराठी रूपांतरण :)

हे हृदय, बंध ते... तुटूनही!

सा..SS द घालते, जळते अजूनही!

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"पहा"...ट झाली आणि

"पाह"..ता तेव्हा तुला

मन असे बावरले!

गोंधळले, वेंधळले

सारवले, सावरले

तरी भरकटतहरवले!

होसाना, मर्यादा ओलांडल्या जिथे,

होसाना, माझ्या आता हाती कुठे?

मी हरलो

..की जिंकलो

त्याचा तरी आता इथे पत्ता कुठे?

होसाना, जगणे ते कळले मला

होसाना, घाबरणे आता कोणा?

होसाना, अपवाद तो तुझ्या मना

होसाना....

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(Rap) Everybody wanna know what I feel like? I feel like

I really wanna be here with you

Its not enough to say that we are made for each other

Its love that is hosanna true

Hosanna, be there when you're calling out my name

Hosanna, meaning of my whole life has changed

I never wanna be the same.. its time we re-arrange

I take a step... you take a step...

Me ah... calling out to you

hello helllo hello yo o hosanna

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जग सारे भवताली

रुपेरी रुपेरी

सौंदर्य ते कोठून आले?

तुझ्या नजरेने

कधी ते मोहरले असावे,

की स्पर्शाने थरारले?

होसाना, स्पष्टीकरण दुसरे ते काय?

होसाना, प्रश्नाचे उत्तर या काय?

तुझ्याच त्या प्रेमात,

अन त्या नादात

तेही वेडे, जग वेडं

लोक वेडे, आम्हीही वेडे!

होसाना, व्यक्त करायला मला

होसाना, शब्द का ते सुचेनात!

होसाना, शब्दांनाही आहे सीमा....

होसाना....

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(हे हृदय, बंध ते... तुटूनही! सा..SS द घालते, जळते अजूनही!)

Waiting for your comments :)

Video background score (my very first)

A few months back, wife of a friend of mine was supposed to present a video to her professor and audience as part of her project. Their project was about a software that alerts you whenever a synced blue-tooth compatible device gets out of its range (say you happen to forget your headset). I was asked if I could spare some time making background score and I was shown the video she made.

Here's what I came up with. Single layer, simple tunes! Since video was of animation genre, I came up with something that would rather suite a video-game, but (hopefully) adhering to the emotions/mood it had to convey along the way. :)

Thanks for your time :)

Do you always see what I always see?

Before you mouse over, stare at this image for a sec... Do you see anything?

I used MS paint to best describe what I saw in there, the moment when I looked at this picture...

(Photo courtesy: Vishal Ghotekar's facebook album)

NDE (Near Death Experience)

Remember my post "NDE (near death experience) "??

Aah, you don't....!!! x-(

So, anyway here's that post:

http://vedhaspandit.blogspot.com/2009/10/little-spooky.html

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And now.....

drums rolling...

....still rolling

Cymbals!!!!

HERE's the instrumental/karaoke version -my own composition!!!! :)

I cannot claim I 'know', but I always 'believe'd that the big-bang theory literally "BLOWS UP" the most profound question! How and when did it all start?

My own compositions

I just took a time off the schedule to record some of my own compositions.

However, you must remember: I don't have fancy equipments with me, and also that I have recorded these with the microphone embedded in my laptop and not direct line-in inputs, so these are not exactly as I have in my mind. Anyway, here are few of those

My song "Every single night". I had composed the tune very next day, oops... night! :D

....my take on everybody's addiction these days.

(Please do not plagiarize :D)

New laptop :)

I just bought a new laptop a few weeks back, its good to see so many good features packaged for such a small price. Here goes one casual recording... :)



PS: You don't have to listen till the end ;)

Thanks Mak! :)

A very creative friend of mine came up with this note/short poem for my birthday!

वेधसा, तुला या खास शुभेच्छा ! ( "नटरंग"मधील "ईश्वरा- जन्म हा दिला -- प्रसवली कला -- थोर उपकार" या गाण्याच्या चालीवर पुढील काव्य वाचावे )

वेधसा,
जन्म हा तुझा,
आज ती सजा ;
सर्व विश्वाला ! :P

तू करशी,
bore ते फार
सर्व पळणार,
भिउनी तुजला ते

मात्र ते-
तुझे संगीत--
आणि वृत्तीत ,
झुंज तू देशी (Remember n no of incidents at coep)

लावूनी -
शास्त्रभिंगास---
scientist
म्हणवूनी घेशी ..

(पुढील कडव्याच्या शेवटी चाल बदलते )
या शुभाशया -
स्वीकार --
तुला देतसे आज
मकरंद SSSS
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His blog: श्रीमधूक्ती

स्वल्पविराम

http://hrushismind.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post.html

स्वल्पविराम

ठेउन ओळ गेली माझ्या वहीत ती

झाला उशीर थोडा वाचायला मला ||

उशीराच पाहीला तो पानाचा दुमडलेला कोपरा

अजुनही त्या पानाला मात्र, मोगरयाचा गंध होता ||

अंधुक होती काही अक्षरे, शाई पुसटशी होती

इथेच बहुदा तिच्या डोळ्यातला, मोती ओघळला होता ||

वाटले मिळाली सर्व उत्तरे, क्षणाचा होता भ्रम तोही

कारण प्रत्येक उत्तरामागे, एक नवा प्रश्न होता ||

वाट वेगळी झाली तरीही कुठेतरी भेटू आपण

दुनिया गोल आहे, इतकातरी शास्त्रावर विश्वास होता ||

शेवटी पुन्हा तेच सारं, अखंड प्रवास असीम शांतता

कधी न संपणार्या कवितेचा, हा फक्त स्वल्पविराम होता ||

-हृषिकेश गांधी

झाली असेलही तशी हळवी ती,
मोहरून गेलो अन् मी उगाच, दोष मात्र तिचा नव्हता ||

ती मला की मी स्वत:ला,
कोण झुलवतंय कोणाला, हाच खरा प्रश्न होता ||
प्रश्नाचिन्हांवर "पूर्णविराम" तिचे,
स्वल्पविरामात जगण्याचा माझाच हट्ट होता ||

-वेधस पंडित

Happily Disappointed! Feeling awesome!!!!

Ok, a quick update after a long break!

I'm bit disappointed as well as happy for the fact that I came up with one story/theme last month, and happened to watch the film "The butterfly effect" this week which is much like what I had penned down then. I have not watched the movie completely as yet, but its been good so far. I am happy because I feel awesome! A feeling: something I myself came up with is worth a hollywood movie. Its also disappointing that the theme is not original anymore, or lets say its not as much novel/out-of-the-world as I first thought when I penned it down so excitedly.

माझी वही अशा गोष्टींनी भरत चालली आहे... साधारण ह्या गोष्टी स्फुरतात त्या स्वप्नात. स्वप्न लिहायला सुरुवात मी COEP मध्ये असतांना केली होती, तेव्हा deja-vu हा फक्त भास की खराच ह्या उत्सुकतेपाई! सांगत काय होतो, तर.. ती वही माझ्या उपस्थितीत कोणी वाचू नये अशी माझी इच्छा असते, शरमेने म्हणा, किंवा काहीही... त्या लिखाणाबाबत मी थोडा टची आहे, त्यामुळे त्यावरचे criticism बहुधा मी पचवू शकणार नाही असंही कदाचित असेल. मी लहान असतानाचे निबंध, "तथाकथित" कविता वगैरे जपून ठेवलं आहे ते तेवढ्यासाठीच!! पण आई जेव्हा तो विषय काढते/त्याचं कौतुक करते तेव्हा for some reason, I get uncomfortable आणि मी विषय बदलतो! गम्मतच आहे! :D

मात्र सुप्त इच्छाही आहेच की ह्या कोणी वाचल्या, सादर झाल्या तर चांगलं होईल! बघू... हाती पैसे आले,लाईफ सेट झाली की बघू, सिनेमा-बिनेमा काढता येतो का ते! :D

.....पण "The butterfly effect" मूळे झालेला आनंद+खेद काय वर्णावा!!!!! भई मजा आ गया!

"खेळ मांडला" partially extended:

("उसवलं गणगोत सारं.." च्या चालीत):

कडाडत्या विजा, पेटतं वारं,
दर्याराजा:
यमाची खेळी

जसा वर्मी घाव, सलता बाण,
घायाळ,
क्रूर फसगत जाळी

Please feel free to comment! :)

PMMM Diwali 2009

This was a sheer team effort. We performed at Phoenix Metro Maharashtra Mandal Diwali 2009 program. Check out these videos:

Singers : Aditya Vaidya, Shruti Vaishampayan, Aditi Vadodkar
Harmonium : Vedhas Pandit
Percussion: Nilesh Badwe

Singers : Vedhas Pandit, Shruti Vaishampayan;
Keyboard : Aditya Vaidya
Percussion: Nilesh Badwe
Side Rhythm : Aditi Vadodkar
Chorus : Hrushikesh Gandhi, Shreyas Palkar

Singers : Aditya Vaidya
Guitar : Sawan Sakale, Shreyas Palkar
Keyboard: Nilesh Badwe
Chorus : Hrushikesh Gandhi, Shreyas Palkar, Aditi Vadodkar, Shruti Vaishampayan, Vedhas Pandit.

Narration:Hrushikesh Gandhi.

Please feel free to comment! :)

Poetry

NDE (near death experience)

Where the shadows would walk,
and you can't even catch up!
Would almost hear the air scream,
but no storm, or even a breeze to face up!
You lie there all numb, not really sure why,
Dark creepy woods, n' a bloodcurdling red eye

It looks at you straight,
and drags you deep into your mind
Never thought this would be so scary
Bet you wish you never had to find!

No clue where you are headed,
never knew what lies in the past
A sudden illumination
-why linguistically called a "tense",
this freakishly universal time-space cast!

You realize few things,
but you're as numb as before
Have to speak up, but blacked out,
n' left all alone ashore

You open your eyes slowly,
Waves barely touch the dry feet
That's what they do the best,
Come back, run away, and they cheat!

You engage yourself discerning,
the last drop of each wave
Suddenly one grows and takes you in,
and now there's nobody to save!

You suffocate to death,
n' then you are too eager to die
suddenly you are at the cliff,
an edge that is way too high!!!

Thrown into the infinitely deep abyss,
you feel freed from all bounds
Such a revelation, such a sublime exaltation,
You forget all the wounds!

You feel there all yourself weightless,
roaming like a free spirit
A near-death experience? you wonder,
n' you lose it all to your wit

Suddenly something rings up,
it wakes you up from your bed
Wait!!! Is this is what is real,
or a parallel life ahead?

Crappy song!

This is not a love song,
Not a song a family could sing along
No childs play, not even a rap,
Expect nothing but a whole lot crap!

Yeah u bastards, go ahead and laugh it off,
or turn ur back at me, or ask me to fuck off

You never cared a shit, n' now d world's gonna explode
why me pessimistic? well, seen a life running in safe mode?

We talk about democracy, and brag about justice
oh ya' expert in hypocracy, where's the fucking peace?

I don't understand whats exactly wrong with this world
I see everything's so perfect, n' yet there's blood!

"Just another preaching song" you say, n' ignore as you go
But i dont care abt this anymore, have told u already so!
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Wanted to write something aggressive, somewhat abusive too, just for the heck of it, and managed to write all this with complete peace of mind last night. :) Yeah, believe me...! nothing went bad that day, n' even I don't know why I felt an urge to challenge myself to write something that would suit a rock genre, but I did it finally! :)

This is one of those instances where literally you drive yourself to an urge, so I won't be surprised to get bashing on quality/genre of this post। In essence, feel free to put your comments on this crappy song! :)

काला बन्दर (my lyrical additions)

ok, first of all..... Listen to this song!

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Kala bandar is a reference to a hypocrite, secretive, sly dark side each one of us has... You might want to google for the lyrics, it will help you appreciate more... :)

And!!! Here my additions:
(Rap):

Hey, yes this song was already too long
Didn't think a minute n' this came along
was obvious, as i know him personally
he's there for ages, 'be there till eternity
I bet you've seen him, but... anyway...
keep droppin hints n' help him run away
Better not find him anywhere, anyhow
polymorphic: revered, devil, taboo and cow!

(Tune: आओ हम शीशा देखे):
सिंपलसा लाइफका मंत्रा,
ख़ुद जिंदा, दूसरा बकरा
बोटी खाखा के हम जिंदा,
और बचा वो बेचके धंदा
(Tune: घूँघट की गहराई में)
पैसों की इस "बारिश" में,
"भीगा" लाल खून है
छनक छनक है ऐसी उसकी
सन्नाटा कहाँ गुम है?
(चूस ले चूस ले लाइफ की भांग ले... दिल में भी झाक ले)

(Tune: आओ हम शीशा देखे):
खुदगर्ज बनके है जीना
मस्त रहके खाना-पीना
"बिल्ली" के पिच्छे भागे
"चूहे" से डरके जीना

(Tune: घूँघट की गहराई में)
ख़ुद से न डरके जागे
आयनोंसे क्यूँ है डरते?
मुह अब बंद करके सबका,
बंद है "शीशों की आंखें"
(चूस ले चूस ले लाइफ की भांग ले... दिल में भी झाक ले)
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As for the song in Delhi 6, I didn't like this song much really when I heard it for the first time, in fact was badly disappointed by Rahaman's this piece of creativity.... but as usual is the case with Rahman's songs (slow poison as they say), I started loving it after accidentally listening it twice or thrice. As often is the case, I went into the lyrics after the music managed to haunt me, and lyrics have a deep meaning as you know now.... I hope you too will like this song, may be sometime soon...

Anyway, this was my very first attempt at writing a poetry/song in Hindi....oh yes.. and a rap too!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :) :) :)

Mood this week!

ह्या आठवड्यात मी गझालीँच्या प्रेमात पडलोय! विरह, nostalgia किंवा दु:क्ख हीच बर्यापैकी सगळ्यांची थीम असते! पण नीट काव्यावलोकन केलं तर कळतं की किती वेगवेगळे "perspectives" असू शकतात!
त्यातल्या विशेष आवडलेल्या पंक्ती:
एन्जॉय!!!! :)
तुम इतना जो मुस्कुरा रहे हो:
१. आंखोमें नमी, हसीं लाबोपर.. क्या हाल है, क्या दिखा रहे हो!
२. जिन जख्मोंको वक्त भर चला है, तुम क्यूँ उन्हें छड जा रहे है?

तुमको देखा तो ये ख़याल आया:
१. आज फ़िर दिल ने इक तमन्ना की, आज फ़िर दिल को हमने समझाया
२. हम जिसे गुनगुना नाही सकते, वक्त ने ऐसा गीत क्यूँ गाया!

तू जो नहीं है तो कुछ भी नहीं है!
१. तुझे पा के दिल में ये खालिसा क्या है?
२. तेरीही तरह तेरा गम भी हसीं है!

तुझसे नाराज़ नहीं जिंदगी हैरान हूँ मैं!
१. कल क्या पता किनके लिए आँखें तरस जायेगी, जाने कहाँ गम हुआ, कहाँ खोया एक आंसू छुपाके रक्खा था!
२. तेरे मासूम सवालों से परेशान हूँ मैं! (it makes a whole lot sense the way its portrayed in the video too: a parent and a child relationship)

कोई ये कैसे बताएं!
सम्पूर्णच!!!!!! :P

Btw, काल डोळा लागता लागता एक गाणं compose झालं! Not the lyrics, but just the music!!! मला टक्क जाग आली! थोड़ा विचार केला, अन् अजुन बीट्स आणि संतूरिची addition झाली! (काहीसा क्लास्सिकल touch होता त्याला!) संतूरिचा आवाज तर क्रिस्टल क्लीअर ऐकू आला मला!!!! शहारे आले काहीसे, एवढं भारी वाटलं! त्याच दुपारी एक गूढ़कथेची थीम लिहिली होती. आणि हे music काहिसं त्याला साजेसं होतं! (medium फास्ट बीट्स, थोड़ा classical touch असलेली high pitch tune.... मला राग कळत नाहीत, मी शिकलो नाहीय्ये हे काही formally, नाहीतर नाव सांगितलं असतं त्या जवळच्या रागाचं! :) )

Exam च्या काळात सगळ्यांचं डोकं फार छान चालतं, पण तितकंच वाट सोडून "पळतं" हेही खरंच!! :D

-Vedhas Pandit

Adv. Analog Integrated Ckts Exam :(

माझा आत्ता मोठ्ठा पोपट झालाय! Exam चा चांगला अभ्यास केला, last year's papers पाहिले, आणि गंमत म्हणजे चारही प्रश्न repeated होते. आणि Murphy's law prevailed yet again! (जे सोडले होते, तेच नेमके 2 विचारले होते!)

असो काही चांगल्या updates (अद्यतने) आहेत, ज्या सांगायच्या राहून गेल्या! गेल्या वेळेला मी ज्या परिक्षेबद्दल बोललो होतो, त्याचा स्कोर कळला, माझा चांगला आहे :). (85=Class Average+Std Deviation च्या जवळ आहे...)

More focussed this week!!! :)

This week has been good so far :)

I had one exam this week -a 500 level course: Semiconductor Characterization! Exam went fine, I was well-prepared, had gone through previous year examination papers from seniors, spent quite a time in library/lab -NOT that I studied full time, time pass सुद्धा चालु होताच, पण nights मारल्या एक-दोन (ह्या वेळी exams मुळे :D) . बाकी मनाला लगाम घालून होतो/आहे and I'm talking about reminisces -nothing else! ;) :P :D

कारण एकच, गेल्या semester मधे लागलेली वाट! ताक फुंकून पिण्याचाच प्रकार हा काहीसा! I scored really bad in both my 1st midterms and did well for rest of the midterms and finals, but got B and B+. आणि कारण काय तर फक्त आळस आणि टाइमपास... मनाचे फार भावनिक लाड करत असतो आपण, नाही का?!!!

So hopefully, history won't repeat this time! पण एक phase अशी येते, ज्या phase मधे मी सध्या आहे... की स्कोर्स चा आपण विचार कमी करू लागतो! All you care about is how much you know, how much you understand. How much of this will I be able apply when I step into the industry tomorrow. आणि then even if your exam goes bad, well then -of course you DO feel disappointed, but then there is this good feeling in the background somewhere की वाह वाह, छान अभ्यास केला होता ह्या वेळी :)

खर्या अर्थाने खुश होण्याचं कारण म्हणजे productivity of this week, the way I managed my time. On 19th I had exam, on 18th I had a meeting with my MS advisor -so had to show him some thing about what I was working on, 17th was a due date for one lab project. Add to that preparation for the exam, and did I mention career fair on 18th Feb??? So some Resume preparations and all the related stuff! I managed everything, was up in Hayden library whole of 17th night, came to my RA lab in the morning, slept for some 3-4 hours and attended both the lectures that day. And all these days, I have seen myself playing my keyboard/flute/harmonica more than ever (well, ever in US so far! भारतात तासन् तास जायचे असे) and there were some bits of Badminton/treadmill/yoga -although might not be that significant! :) It was possible to bunk some things or postponing -for example attending lectures on 17th, but I'm feeling great that I managed all. May not be a big deal, i know... but its just that I'm feeling more focused now! :)

मग सोमवार ऐवजी शुक्रवारी कुकिंग केलं ह्या आठवड्यात! (I'm fortunate to have supportive Apt-mates after all :) ) सोपीच होती म्हणा भाजी (कोबी होती), पण स्वत:सोबत इतरांकरता सुद्धा करायची म्हटली की मी बराच conscious होतो। ह्या वेळी काही न विचारता/बिचकता जमली ह्यासाठी थोडासा खुश झालो!

hehe... आता मी हे वरचं सगळं वाचतोय तर ते लोकप्रभा सारख्या अंकातलं article वाटतंय! मन मोकळं करतोय इतकंच बाकी काही नाही! तेच ते one of the "भावनिक लाड":D

Oh and here are few links I came across this week, I would recommend you reading :)

Are we under threat???
http://www.rediff.com/news/2009/feb/19barbarians-at-the-gate-are-we-ready.htm

We will take care of your economy! :P
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/opinion/11friedman.html?_r=3

Some fun in Marathi
http://www.misalpav.com/node/2921
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu2vv_d4Tn0

(आणि हो हे पोस्ट लिहित असतांना एक मैत्रीण ऑनलाइन होती, जी योगायोगाने माझे आधीचे पोस्ट्स वाचत होती! it feels good to know that people are reading what you write and more than that... they like it! But I still wonder why do people prefer to tell me this in chats or in one-to-one conversation -but never put their comments on the blog! I feel good anyway, but its just that comments on the blog remain there forever, so its an opportunity for you to leave your mark permanent on my blog. डायलोग मारायचा झाला तर "all you have walked into my life and have made some special imprints forever -one way or the other... its just matter of putting it in small scale here. Your comments are valuable as much as you are!!! " :)

2:50 am, Feb21st, 2009

My first composition!

Yess... I managed to compose a tune for my new song! (the last post)

The best part is that I tried the composition to get in sync with emotions in the first 2 stanzas... and right after that, I realized the lyrics were such that the tune automatically followed this synchro subsequently!

I am not a good singer, but I would try to record that soon... may be the keyboard version!

Its indeed a big achievement for me... I can surely play almost any damn tune on my keyboard, but hey...!!!!! I've just composed a song of my own!!! (and not a pritam/anu malik composition)

(Btw, lyrics were written at abt 5 am this morning, I slept peacefully right after that... :) )