Saw it first in "the Village" section of the Week magazine, the world's first Glass Strings Concert was recently held on the 26th of December in Tokyo. Hario, a Japanese glassmaker, studied wooden violins & cellos beofre making the instruments with glass. Take a look.





The Discovery Channel has a great new sister channel - Discovery Travel & Living. They have some great series in it, two such series are (with the same theme of building customised bikes) are "American Chopper" & "Great Biker Build-off". The first of the series is about Orange County Choppers a company which was started 4 years ago by a father & his sons. This series shows how OCC comes up with rather unique themes for their choppers which are later showcased in several prestigious bike shows. What I don't get is the tension & swearing & agrravation & hostility shown by the father (who owns the company but almost always is shown just bad-mouthing his son & pushing his weight around, nothing much)real or just made up for the show! Here is an example of their excellent work



I had been working 15 days in a row without a day off as our main supervisor had gone for a vacation to Hyderabad on Dec 30th. He was supposed to be back on the 3rd of Jan but got stuck there due to lack of tickets. Hence my continous working spree which has led me to exhaustion and a tense pain in the back of my neck and my shoulders. The rest yesterday did some good. I slept, watched tv, stole some of my dad's whiskey (ha ha ha) with which I spiked some Sprite.

Below is FINGER ELEVEN a great band out of Burlington, Ontario, Canada. Some of you might have heard their song "Slow Chemical" which is also the theme song of WWE Raw wrestler Kane. Their self-titled 3rd album has been doing well and the ballad "One Thing" was #16 on the Billboard charts. It was recently used as a promotional for Wrestler Chris Benoit in the WWE show "Experience", which was profiling Benoit's 18-year career which was highlighted by him becoming the WWE World Champion at WrestleMania in 2004. Also "Slow Chemical" was included in the soundtrack of the PUNISHER movie. Watch out for these rockers.



Lyrics to "One thing"

Restless tonight
Cause I wasted the light
Between both these times
I drew a really thin line
It’s nothing I planned
And not that I can
But you should be mine
Across that line

If I traded it all
If I gave it all away for one thing
Just for one thing
If I sorted it out
If I knew all about this one thing
Wouldn’t that be something

I promise I might
Not walk on by
Maybe next time
But not this time

Even though I know
I don’t want to know
Yeah I guess I know
I just hate how it sounds

Song for the day - "One Thing" - FINGER ELEVEN