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Today I Met, Olmo

2016-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

So yeah, today I met Olmo. When I was headed to the airport to pick him up, I didn’t have the slightest thought in my head that I would end up documenting the little time I spent with him. We didn’t speak in the car on the way back or at the hotel. It was only at the venue, once his gig was done that we came to know each other better.

Olmo is a crazy person. He’s from a beautiful island in the carribeans but spent a major part of his life in Italy and Germany. As of now he lives in Amsterdam where he produces music, parties and cooks some amazing food. My coversations with Olmo started off just talking about how his set was not his “typical” style tonight. He played a rather mellow techno house, while he would have prefered playing more hardstyle.

The conversation slowly moved on and I started learning some really interesting things about him. Olmo studied electronic music and jazz at his university. He plays the trumpet and uses an acoustic drum to get the crowds going at his gigs. We then spoke about all the gigs he’s played and how he ended up in India. He’d been in India for a while now and had just spent a week in Goa. If someone told me that Olmo was born and brought up in Goa, I would totally buy it. He seems to be in love with the place!

It’s somewhere in the middle of all this matierialistic talk that Olmo inspired me. He told me things that require courage to be said. He didn’t deliver a speech or drop some badass punch lines but he explained to me how life was amazing if you could just do the things that you love. He spoke about how he chased his passion to just play the drums and produce music that’s gotten him where he is right now.

Olmo never said that the journey to make life “perfect” was an easy one. He just said that it was his decision to make it fun.

And that, exactly that got to me. It’s not about preparing for the future and planning and preparing all the time that’s important. If we live like that, a future will never really come and we’ll end up chasing these “goals” forever. It’s about making the journey to wherever life may be going fun (This line in only clichêd until you understand what it actually means).

If I write more, I think I’m just going to bore myself and that technially defeats the purpose of everything that I’ve written so far.

Thanks a lot Olmo.

December Travel

2016-12-05T00:00:00+00:00

Drum Rolls

I finally get the time to do what I’ve been pending for almost a year now. It’s time to Explore Madhya Pradesh! In the next two weeks starting from the 8th of December, I shall be exploring the beautiful state of Madhya Pradesh.

If you don’t already know, I’m from Indore which happens to be in MP and yet I’ve never really explored that very state. So the plan is to take reach Bhopal via the A.P Samparkranti and then take a bus to Khajuraho. Stop giggling

I plan to stay at the Zostel in Khajuraho for about 4 days before I move to explore Sanhci, Indore and Mandav. When in Khajuraho, I’ll probably visit Orcha, Panna and a ton of temples in and around the town.

This is going to be one of my longer solo trips and supposedly one of the best. I’ll try and keep everything on the blog so that I alone can read it all. (No one really reads this or knows that this exists)

Also, did I tell you I was planning to record my entire Journey and make a movie out of it. Sounds super cool right?

Awesome, I shall see you around! :D

Hello World!

2016-10-26T00:00:00+00:00

A little too cliched name for the first post right? Well, Jekyll threw a sample “Hello World” post at me right out of the box, so I figured might as well continue the tradition.

What’s thing blog going to be about? Well, at this point of time I myself don’t know. I’m going to spend a day or two fidling around with Jekyll and figuring out how everything works around here. After that it’s mostly going to be a ton of articles on random things off the top of my head.

It would be unfair to not give credit to Jekyll Now which powers this blog.

Thanks to Jerin Philip for introducing me to Jekyll and also to Tom Preston-Werner for creating Jekyll

Also, I’m going to keep this as active as possible. Shall try to squeeze in atleast one post everyweek.