The cheeseburger of my life

Performing at the Hard Rock Café Mumbai is a thrilling experience for me. For the first three years of my Mumbai life, I used to be a regular among the audience there. I always used to dream about performing there.

Six years into Mumbai, and three years into professional music here, I have performed several times at the venue. The excitement is not as high as it used to be. But the thrill of consummating my relationship with the Hard Rock Café special cheeseburger lives on.

Every time I'm at the Hard Rock Café, I look forward to having the juiciest burger in town. I believe it is the best in Mumbai. Ah, the perks of being a musician!

Direction sense of random Puneites

Today, I went on a road trip for a gig at the Pune Hard Rock Café with one of my bands (Overhung).

Getting to the Mumbai-Pune Express highway was easy. But getting off it and heading to Koregaon park in Pune, where Hard Rock was located, proved to be much tougher. We tried to use GPS but Vodafone’s GPRS was crappy enough to not let us do that.Whomever we tried asking for directions asked us to go straight to the left, straight ahead from the signal, straight from the Railway station, straight after turning right.

One guy said this: head straight until the signal. Then you go straight until the intersection, from where you go straight. After that go straight for another couple of kilometers until you reach the Pune Railway station, from where you go straight.

We got very tired and frustrated of this ‘straight’ business. I mean what's wrong with Puneites?

Pinching myself

It's almost dawn here in India. It is the 'latest' I've ever been up to do anything like this for a long long time. I realized it when Vinokur said that it's time for him to go to bed. Anyway, since it is such an ungainly hour to write & edit some of the detailed posts that are in the pipe line, I'd like to keep my post short and sweet.

I've been totally bewildered by the responses that I got for the Vinokur photograph post. Thank you. I and Vinokur both feel honored and privileged to be the subject of adulation and adoration. This unreasonable increase in viewership has also manifested in this.

Engayging Life has been declared the best General blog and the best overall blog at a blog-review site called Linq.in. I have no clue as to how this might have happened. My nefarious self suspected a big hoax and needed a virtual 'pinch' (refer to this link) to confirm this.

This winds up an incredible day for me; a day in which I saw my own life on the silver screen in the movie Rock On, in which I got a few positive responses to my latest song, in which we got confirmation of a full night slot at the Hard Rock Cafe in Mumbai, in which we were given new hopes by the record label, in which I spent a wonderful night with my friends over wine. I'll post about all these shortly after I catch up on some well deserved snooze. Love ya 'll!