Jammin' n' quizzin'...

All right! I'm really happy today...no, I didn't have a great meal; no, there isn't a break from school and no, I didn't just speak with my girlfriend. This weekend, a few of my classmates and I finally got around to jamming for the very first time.

We managed to rent a studio downtown, complete with lead & bass guitars, a drum set, microphone, speakers, amps, the works. And then...it was time to rock n roll! Started out with "Smells like Teen Spirit", and "Paranoid", 2 songs about as archaetypical as you can find, but not bad songs to get the old music waves flowing. Then forayed into a host of other songs as well and finalizd another 2 for our next session. There was another band from school as well and we ended the evening jamming all together on probably the biggest rock anthem after "Stairway to Heaven": "Sweet Child 'O Mine". Awww, it was 4 hours of rock bliss...just G-R-E-A-T!

At the end of it all, the guys were all so ecstatic that we were running across roads violating traffic signs, shouting, gesturing and basically, making a complete ass of ourselves. For those amongst you wondering what the fuss is all about, please keep in mind that we are in SINGAPORE. I'll leave it at that. Anyway, its pretty mild in the realm of rock n roll decadence.

Speaking of "...Teen Spirit", few of the guys didn't know why the song is named as it is and I'll take the liberty of elaborating on this point as I did with them. Teen Spirit was the name of a cheap deodorant for women back in the mid-80s. Apparently, many of the girls in Kurt Cobain's high school used this deo regularly. I don't know whether the smell turned him off or on, but that is the story. Anyway, it was all great fun...really was. And the music wasn't bad either...for our first trial.

On a completely different note, I just went through our first "test" in the form of a Prices & Markets quiz. Its really not a big deal but the event, at least for me, is symbolic of our coming. In a program of just over 10 months, there is no such thing as a senior batch and we'll all be out of here before we realise it. So, such events, trivial as they are in absolute terms, demand a certain significance when taken in the right context.

Cheers to that and many more to come !