Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

Day by day many people are going abroad for future studies. I don’t know why I never had this in mind that I would be going abroad for my further studies. In those lots of unsuccessful dreams and aim, one comes of becoming an army doctor. I was so passionate about the army life and being a doc and helping poor people who need the care and treatment. Well some dream never comes true, but who knows may be those who go abroad for their studies may fulfill their dream. My childhood dreamland has always been USA. I don’t even know why I would want to go there but it has been like my recurring dream, and as I said some dreams that won’t come true.

Our country, Nepal, has lots of instability in running the classes for the school and mostly colleges. There is always some strike once a month or so, and sometimes the strike goes so long that they would have to postpone the exams. The courses for the subjects are never finished. The students have to read by themselves without any guidance of any teacher, and I it so damn hard for them to concentrate in their studies with all the strikes and instability of the country’s government rules and problems. That is the main reason lots of youngsters are going abroad for their future studies. In a way, it is quite good idea. They can study in peaceful mind and can earn loads too. Our country’s economy is unstable as well and this might help them as well as our country’s economy. But going abroad is not an easy task. You need to fulfill the requirements and that includes a very high fees for the college and all the expenses to be made before the visa applications, all those SAT, GRE, GMAT, TOEFL, IELTS, and lots more of tests that you need to clear up with high marks. Then after you get to apply for the college and then go for a visa interview, and if you get pass through all these tests, you are now ready for abroad studies. You will then get your visa and they can fly away to the country you hope would make your dreams come true. Lots of my friends are abroad for their studies and their bright future. I hope god is with them, and I wish them all the best in pursuing their dreams studying abroad.

Though I haven’t listened too much of Nepali songs that passionately, I am trying write some of the things I know about “The Shadows” our own Nepali Rock Band, being them my girlfriend’s favorite band. My friend Bhupesh has been a friend of this band from what I know, but I have never listened to them back then. It’s only when one day my gf told me that I should at least listen to what she likes that I tuned in to their song, and I didn’t find it too bad. They were kinda good. In person as well I have met some of the band members in one of my friends party but haven’t spoken to them quite closely, but they behave like gentlemen and were friendly in behavior too. So now that I have listened to them and met some of them as well, I can tell they are one awesome rock band and cool people to meet.

Here is what I know about the band members:

Nowadays many band members are coming with new energy and excitements from different parts of the country. The Shadows is also the one who came out from Narayangadh, Chitwan, Nepal in the year 1996. It has been nearly 11 years that they have established their band. This unique band has altogether five band members and one band manager.

The Shadows are:
Swapnil Sharma: The main vocalist.
Amit Pradhan: Bass guitar.
Prakash Rasailey: Lead guitar.
Prashant VK: Rhythm guitar.
Bikash Manandhar: Drums.

Rupesh Sen: The band manager.

The album that I have listened of them is Hidne Manchhe Ladchha. Her favorite song is “Prakriti” from the same album. So far I find all of the songs in this album equally cool, heavy metal type songs. Well I hope they will try and keep it on and win people’s heart in years to come.

“I got my first real six-string
Bought it at the five-and-dime
Played it till my fingers bled
It was the summer of '69

Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we'd never get far

Oh when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya - I'd always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life

Ain't no use in complainin'
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin's down at the drive-in
And that's when I met you

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me that you'd wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69

Man we were killin' time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin' can last forever - forever, no

And now the times are changin'
Look at everything that's come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six-string
I think about ya wonder what went wrong

Standin' on your mama's porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life

Back in the summer of '69
Ah huhhhh.
It was the summer of ’69.
Oh. Yeah.
Yeah my baby it’s ‘69.
Ohhhh.
It was the summer
Summer
Summer of ’69…”

That’s the song that rocked and still rocks my mind whenever I listen to it. Amongst all of this supercool Canadian rock singer, “Summer of ‘69” song just rocks the most. I and my friends have sung this song so many times at picnics, get-together, gatherings, and most of the times when we are in our motorbike ride. It just rocks our brain out shouting out loud and rhyming the summer of 69. It’s something you gotta do to feel it. Just sing out loud with Mr. Adams in our heart. Though we weren’t even born in summer of ’69, we can feel what he means as we had been in those times where we’d feel the same like he felt in his ages.

Something about Summer of ’69:
The song was in the album called Reckless which was released in 1984. It was written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance. And in 1985, the song became a smash hit in the US and was able to reach the #5 on the Billboard Top 100. It remained there for two weeks. As Mr. Adams got more popular in 1990s and 2000s, the song was hit all over the world.

This song is pretty old but still rocks in the present time of metal and hip hop age. Just touches the heart and makes us dance and jump and shout out loud. It is just awesome!

Bryan Adams is one of my favorite singer. His unique voice and his cool songs just makes my mind go easy. He is a Canadian rock singer who was born on born 5tb of November 1959. He is not only a rock singer but a fine guitarist, songwriter, and a photographer too. I find all of his songs so rocking and meaningful, and his unique voice boost his songs. He must have high goals and career in his mind as he quit his high school when he was 15 and used the money that his parents saved to buy a grand piano. Yeah, it really sounds crazy but that’s what he did. He used to play in nightclubs in bands like Shock and Sweeney Todd, which released an album called If Wishes Were Horses with Adams as lead singer. It was in 1978, age 18, when he send a demo recordings to A&M Records in Toronto, and was signed to them not long afterwards for the sum of one dollar. Since then he has written and released 14 albums. “I am ready” and “Remember” was on his first album. His first ever self-titled debut album was released in February of 1980.

No singer can play without a band backup and his band right now has the following lineup:
Keith Scott – Lead/Rhythm Guitar
Mickey Curry – Drums
Gary Breit – Keyboards
Norm Fisher – Bass Guitar

Keith Scott and Mickey Curry has been with him since early 1980s while Gary Briet and Norm Fisher were a part of band since early 2000s. Before them, Tommy Mandel used to play keyboards in the band and Dave Taylor played bass guitar till 1980-1997.

Studio albums
Bryan Adams
You Want It You Got It
Cuts Like a Knife
Reckless
Into the Fire
Waking Up the Neighbours
18 til I Die
On a Day Like Today
Room Service

Compilation albums
So Far So Good
The Best of Me
Anthology

Live albums
Live! Live! Live!
MTV Unplugged

Top 10 Singles
Straight from the Heart
Run to You
Heaven
Summer of '69
Heat of the Night
(Everything I Do) I Do It for You
Can't Stop This Thing We Started
Thought I'd Died and Gone to Heaven
Do I Have to Say the Words?
Please Forgive Me
All for Love
Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?
The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You
Let's Make a Night to Remember
I Finally Found Someone
When You're Gone
Cloud Number Nine
Don't Give Up
Here I Am
Open Road

Well that’s quite about Bryan Adams. I have listened to like every song of him and till date I have none that I would say “I don’t like this one.” So here I am cheering up for Bryan Adams. Lets make one more album to remember from January to December, eternity till you die. How about it Mr. Adams?

Kobe Bryant, one of my favorite player in NBA. He is 6 feet 6 inches tall, weighs 210 pounds, and plays from the Los Angeles, Lakers. He is the youngest man ever to play in the NBA at the age of 18 years and 2 months and 11 days. I am quite fascinated by his quick moves and his distinctive dunking styles and his superb shooting skills. It just increases my adrenaline rush and makes me more interested in watching the games he plays. There are lots of NBA superstars in the NBA who makes us say, I Love This Game!!! Among those, Kobe is one of the best players. As stated, his moves and game has leaded his team Lakers to most of the playoffs and some championship trophies too. He acted as Robin with his co-superstar Shaquille O’Neal so called Batman in one of the finals. The pair led the Lakers to NBA championships in 2000, 2001 and 2002.

The definition of lie that I got from Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary is:
lie n., v., lied, ly·ing.
A false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.

I used to lie too when I was a kid but that would be instantaneous lie like I used to lie to my teachers. Sometimes I wouldn’t know the answers of certain questions so I would be unable to finish my assignments, and when the teacher asked for my assignment, I would simply lie by saying, “Sir/Ma’am! I forgot to do it or I forgot to bring my assignment.” It was so easy answer, and of course I would get some kind of punishment for my lies but there was a reason behind that lie. If I would have said I don’t know how to do it, they would have punished me even more coz the fault was mine as I must have not concentrated in the class. May be mind was at a different location at that time. Well there was a reason. As I grew older, I lied to my parents to go outside and play. I would play certain games, which I wasn’t allowed to, and when asked if I did that kind of stuff, I would simply say, No. I didn’t. And in my adolescence the lies were even more deliberate. I would only lie when I need to but soon I began to realize that lying is never good. It would hurt people knowingly/unknowingly. So I started hating lies and liars.

There were times when people closed to me lied. I would know when they lied but I had to keep my mouth shut in order to save our precious friendship. I have lots of good and bad experiences where people have lied to me. One question that always bugs my mind is, “why do people lie?” Most of us would say people lie for a reason and for their benefit. I agree on that statement as well, but as I experienced it, I found out that people do lie without a reason as well. I don’t know if to address them as psychos or insane or whatever but I have found so many people lying without a reason. May be they find pleasure in lying, may be it’s their mischievous behavior that puts those act of lying and playing with other person’s feeling and life. I still haven’t found the answer. Why would people lie?

He scores flying in the air, he dunks flying in air and slams it home, he dribbles and before you blink your eyes he is there for the hoop, he belongs in the air may be that is why he is well known as “Air Jordan.” Yeah, I am talking about the greatest player in the NBA history, our own MJ, Michael Jeffrey Jordan. He was born on January of 17, 1963 in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated his High School from Laney (Wilmington, N.C.) and his College from North Carolina. He was drafted by Chicago Bulls in 1984 (third overall). He is 6 feet 6 inches tall and weighs over 216 pounds. It was his one of the Slam Dunk Contests performance when he dunked the ball from the foul line and earned his name as “Air Jordan” and “His Airness.” He really had unique combination of fundamental soundness, grace, speed, power, artistry, improvisational ability, and an unquenchable competitive desire that lead Jordan single-handedly redefined the NBA superstar. He was just extraordinary.