After having seriously considered putting up a blank post tagged Life is still like that, for about 10 minutes, I thought since all the gchat status message space is being occupied these days... I would just put up random lines here that probably might have been put up there:
These follow no particular order. They make no particular sense too.
Been to Hyderabad. Attended cousin sister's wedding. Came back. That's about all that happened.
Read the Watchmen comics. The only non-manga comics till now. Liked them better than the movie. The movie wasn't that bad to be fair too.
Read Ender's Game. Best science fiction I have read till now. Though the only others I remember reading are Asimov's 'A Child of Time' and Arthur Clarke's '3001, The Final Odyssey'. I do remember reading a book about sci-fi short stories, but its too far into the past and all too vague.
Saw Harry Potter -and the Half Blood Prince in Inox, Forum. Liked Ron and Luna's acting. Liked the scene with the fire and Inferi in the end. The rest of the movie was trash. Re-reading the book to get over it.
One Piece and Bleach manga are reaching amazing heights these days. And if you in any way like anime or manga, I would really recommend that you start on these. Naruto Shippuden is not too bad too. But the first two over shadow this.
Been watching a lot of Joe Odagiri's movies. Yet to see one movie of his which was not downright brilliant. Saw Dream last. New respect for the dude.
Watched the second season of Black Lagoon. Hate that they stopped at that. It was really good.
Watched Trigun. Liked it better than Gun vs Sword, which is of the same genre.
Started watching Samurai Deeper Kyo. Seems better than Buso Renkin. But still don't feel it measures in any way up to most other anime series that I have seen
Read A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follet. The last paper back I read. Again, since I mostly used to read bits of it on the bus, and it was not all in one sitting, it didn't feel all that great.
Have a Wilbur Smith(Wild Justice) and a Arthur Hailey (In High Places) now. Yet to start either. Miss reading books in one sitting.
Saw the trailer for Dexter 4. Hate that no decent serials restart in the near future.
Listening to Tool after a long time. Sounds good.
And from 11:10 pm to 11:17 pm these are the only things that came into the mind.
And so it came to pass that I had to get my passport done. The application form was obtained and filled up. I had also made trip one to the passport-application-submission-office to ascertain the distance from my house, and to clarify for good what documents need to be carried along, what kind of photograph needs to be affixed et cetera. The person I talked with told me that the background of the photograph needed to be white, and the one I was carrying with me, was light [which is exactly what is mentioned in the blue form [comes along with the application form, and contains rules how to fill the first form]], but not white, so I needed to get those. Also, he checked my other documents and told me that I needed to get them attested by a gazetted officer [even though the blue form says only ‘self attested’], and for address proof, any item of the following: a water bill / current bill / an address proof from the employer / ration card / election id / bank pass book would do. I showed him my pass book and the bills I had with me, and he said those were more than enough. This was one week ago.
Scene One:
One week later. Same place. Trip two. I enter the office. There were only a few people comparatively. I asked this female who was sitting nearby what the new protocol for the application was. Because the last time I was there, there were four counters and the original documents were being checked in a two other counters, which were presently empty. She looked back dumbly at me, and told me she had no idea, but was sitting there for the last half hour. I went to the reception-like lady, at the corner of the room, and asked the same question. She unglued her eyes from the TV on the wall, which was playing a Vishnuvardhan movie, without audio, and gave me a token number 3, and asked me to wait till that number was called. I told the female I talked to earlier, about the token. She jumped out of her chair, hurried over to the corner and returned with token number 5. The dude sitting next to her had heard me, and had beaten her to it.
It was 4:30 pm. The token number presently was 0 or some negative value, because I asked around and found a person in the far corner seat with a token 1. And he was actually waiting for his chance, with the expression ‘mera number kab ayega?’ Anyway, since I had nothing else to do, and there were only two others in front of me, I started listening to Stairway to Heaven on my mobile phone.
Scene Two:
Led Zeppelin’s ‘Stairway to Heaven’ is 8:03 minutes. I heard the entire song. The next was Eminem's 'Sing for the moment', and that was 5:41 minutes. Yet, the token number was still at 0. I decided that rather than sitting idle, I would at least make sure that I had all documents in order. So I walked over and asked the female behind counter 12 [the counter] whether the address proof given by the company would suffice [I started with that document because it was in glossy paper under a letter-head, with all the necessary details]. She took one glance at it and told me that I need to be working there for at least a year, for that document to be used as a address proof [and this is a on-the-spot-made-up rule. There is not a breath of this anywhere on the blue form]. It’s been only about three weeks through the job till date. So since that document was a no-go, I started pulling other similar stuff out from my bag. I took out a water bill, current bill, another water bill of the previous month, my new pass book, my mom’s pass book, my election id card, a ration card, the another address proof from the company, and attested copies of a few of these. But she came up with new rules for each of these documents. I needed to have bills dated at least one year apart. There needed to be at least one year’s transactions in the passbook [mine is as old as my time in the company]. The election id should not have this years date[I was in Surathkal for the last four years]. And the one rule that was mentioned in the blue form was that if only the ration card was being submitted as address proof, another document had to also be submitted alongside. So, even that couldn't be used.
Man, did that suck. All that time and energy and documents - and I still had nothing that actually could act as a satisfactory address proof.
That was the nadir.
Scene 3:
Then it hit me. My mom’s pass book also had me as a joint account holder. I rifled through the pages and found my name updated on the nineteenth page. I showed her my discovery. She went and discussed the matter over with her boss, came back five minutes later, and told me the decision - As an address proof I needed to get - a xerox of my mom’s pass book in such a way that - the first page having my mom’s name and the name of the bank; and the 19th page having mine and mom’s name together with the permanent address; and two pages following the 19th page, showing transactions over a a period of time greater than one year – should all be on the first page of the xerox. Also, I needed a xerox of my new passbook. A xerox of my election id card – printed back to back, like the card itself. And all these xeroxes in duplicate. Additionally, one copy of each of these three xeroxes needed to be attested by a notary [and the nearest one was on the ground floor of the same building]. This would satisfy the office.
Scene 4:
It was now 5:03 pm. I went to the Xerox shop, also on the ground floor, same building, where there was this female with total experience with a Xerox machine less than that of mine. After having successfully screwed up two sheets she got the hang of a back to back xerox. Another two sheets later, she learnt the art of printing multiple pages in the same sheet.
At last, I took the xeroxes from her [my new passbook was still xeroxed in such a way that only the king or the jack in a pack of cards could read it correctly. normal people would have to turn it over.] and the duplictes, and went to the notary. It was 5:18 pm by now. There was a big board saying ‘Mr. Vishwanath [Someone]’ [LLb, etc.]. I walked in and there was this fat dude who took three xeroxes from my hand and painstakingly slowly put two seals on them. He asked me to wait for sometime, as ‘Saar tea anta hogidare’. After five minutes he got bored of waiting himself, so he took the three ‘sealed’ documents, along with a few other sheets and disappeared. I was waiting there with these two other clueless females in the same predicament as I was in. [by the way, the passport office closes by 6:00 pm, and I had no intention of going through all this again, so I was desparate of getting this done with].
Twenty five minutes later, he sauntered back with a green signature on the sheets, by some Deeepa Srinivas. I then observed that the seals on the sheets didn't match the name of the notary in any way. I let that slide. Time was against me.
He asked me ‘Amount kottra?’ and I told him that I haven’t paid anything. He says ‘Ondu arvattu rupaayee kodi’ – 60 rupees for three goddamn signatures by one arbit Deeepawith three e’s in her bloody name. She had no nameplate in the room.
It was 5:45 pm already, and I had no choice but to pay him the amount and return in haste.
Scene 5:
I rush back to the first floor only to find out, that that the dreadful pace in which the process was moving along hadn’t changed a bit, and the token number was now at 2. But atleast, I was up next. By this time there was no damn seat to sit. So I stood till the counter-12-female found a dozen ‘faults’ in female-token-2’s form, and at last female-token-2 conceded defeat and left. I stepped up then. It was 5:55 pm.
She looked at the xeroxes and observed me that the address in my voter’s id was slightly different than the others. It is. I knew this. There is one useless extra line saying ‘Fifth Cross, Kuruburahalli’. The first half of the new line is news [as there are no Crosses from 1 – 4 anywhere around my house], and the second half redundant. But the rest of the address is right. But this was a grievous, unforgivable error by her standards. The address had to be same in all three documents. So, she asked me to replace the notary-attested-voter-id-xerox with the company’s address proof itself. A pointless waste of twenty odd bucks for the useless signature and xerox. Then she looked at the other xeroxes and told me then that I need to have xeroxes of these documents after they have been attested by the notary.
Man, how I wished I could have some kind of recording device just to prove how these idiots contradict each other and even themselves all the bloody time. Still. her word was law. I went to the xerox female and helped her increase her experience with the machine, and got three more copies of the notary signed documents.
Scene 6:
It was 6:00 pm. I got back. The other stuff, the more important part, took about 3 minutes. She checked my original documents. Took a photograph from a webcam. Printed a sheet with the details which would be entered into the passport. Gave a receipt with the information that I had applied for a passport and had paid 1000 bucks. It was 6:03 pm. I was done. I walked out.
Epilogue:
After having endured a two and a half hour BMTC bus journey, in the middle of the bloody afternoon; most of that journey spent cramped in the last seat between these two gentlemen who seemed to have had a day long drinking competition, which involved neither of them wanting to concede defeat to the other; a half an hour to the passport office; and with all the documents duly filled, double checked, cross checked, clarified with people working in the same bloody office, all the while following every measly rule given in the blue sheet to the smallest apostrophe– I still had to go through all that utter crap just to prove that the house I have been living in from the last 18 years was indeed my bloody home.
Damn, they should really come up with a better solution.
For starters, if you need to add more rules, update the bloody blue form at least. And remove the on-the-spot rule making power that is so freely exercised by most people on the other side of the table.
Damn, again.
PS: I still have the police verification to look forward to. And there are similar delightful stories about that too.
PS_2: About the length of this post. I was bored. I was pissed off. And strangely not sleepy. Added to the fact that I type slightly faster than I used to, I had three pages typed before I knew it.
Anyway, consider this a heads up, if you haven’t yet got your passport done. Else, last heard, the earth is still rotating from west to east.
It is one of those experiences that you can’t really put in words. You feel like an attempt to use language to describe what you feel at the end of the day is just going to dilute the experience.
It is similar to what I felt after I heard the Kadtal in the Rajasthani Folk troupe perform during a Spicmacay concert. At the end of such a concert - you can not exclaim that it was awesome and breathtaking. The music went beyond these words. I remember, then, we invented a new level called KT level – Kadtal Level, that transcends these 'trivial' words.
I need a similar new label here to describe the Corporate Theatre. I will call it the Paul Mathew experience.
About:
Paul Mathew Director, Academy for Transformational Learning ("Corporate Theatre") Madras, India
Summary:
Ex-Army Officer (Regiment of Artillery)
Worked in corporates for 22 years - in Avery India, and Godrej & Boyce. Have more than 40 years of theatre experience as an Actor, Actor trainer, and Playwright.
Conceived and developed the "Corporate Theatre" Methodology while in Godrej. He resigned as Regional Manager, Prima Division (South India) in June 2002 to start the Academy for Transformational Learning in collaboration with ATBM Holdings. The Academy uses "Theatre" tools for Management Training using a very interactive, totally experiential, provenly transformational, and thoroughly enjoyable process. Over 28,000 participants from across the world have experienced this original Methodology since June 2002 and till Aug 08. Participants have ranged from Presidents to Plant workers, CEOs, Directors, Consultants, Facilitators and Faculty from a wide range of Industry.
About the workshop:
I initially thought of posting all the exercises we had, as a part of the workshop [in Taj Recidency] here, but then decided against it, as someone has already posted a decent enough entry about Corporate Theatre.
[See here] for a detailed write up of a very similar workshop. The few areas where it differs are in the number of people in the group [we were closer to 40]. Also, the tableau that we were supposed to depict was different than flying geese. We also didn’t sing on the bus the way back. And the authors feelings about the workshop, though certainly true, don’t do it complete justice. Other than these things, I have no real complaints about the post.
But anyway, for the benefit of the people who attended the workshop [including me], to one day reminisce fondly, a few reminders are posted here:
Pre-lunch session:
Games: From silly, sillier to absolutely silliest
1. Point and act: I want to talk to you [ x-( ] [:-D] [ :`- ( ]
2. The three man boat: Pachak, Pachaak, Pachaak, Pacchak, Splash, Splaassh.
3. The three man elephant: Flap, Flaap, Flaaap, Flap, Flap, Umbrrraagh, Umbraagh
4. Bang, Bang You Are Dead. ‘Aaaaaa….h!’ ‘Bhawawh Bhawaha Sob Sob Sniff!!’
The 30- minute preparation time freeze – shot :
1. An accident at a circus – complete with two tigers, the patient, a doctor, paramedics, manager, an orchestra, audience, clowns, hunter, ring master, and a pick-pocketer.
2. A fight at a cabinet meeting – complete with a speaker, two gaurds, the stenographers, Lallo Prasad Yaday, Sonia Gandhi, ManMohan Singh, Vajpayee, other cabinet members and journalists.
The Post Lunch Session:
The Trails, Three Level Ones, One Level Two, One Level Three Acts.
A few enactments:
Airhostess, Model, Butcher, Executioner, Potter, Night Club Security, Barber, Lab Technician, Fisherman, Golfer, Air pump mechanic, Chef, Sadhu, Masseuse, ATM user, A pillion rider, Mason…
[The list is just too long …]
Lessons Learnt:
Aspects touched upon in such a way never before:
Self introspection, Team work, Team behavior, Dropping Personalities, Embracing the child within, Commitment, Losing Inhibitions, Battling Stage Fright, Theatre, Acting as opposed to Dumb Charades, Leadership, Time Management, Motivation, Goal orientation, Energy flows, Clear quick thinking, Creativity, Imagination into realty... damn, the list is endless.
This one day course, as someone pointed out , was so much more better than a whole year's Management course.
Most importantly, the workshop was fun. It was hilarious, actually. I do not remember laughing that long and hard for a long time.
As I began... the value of the entire experience can’t be put into words. What a person learns in these out of the box workshops can not be itemized and labeled and described. The entire post lunch session was non-verbal acting. Words to describe it will only lessen the experience. The only way to really know what it is all about is to be there, and experience it first hand.
1. A Perfect Circle - Gravity (5:08) 2. Agnee - Sadho Re (4:13) 3. Agnee - Shaam Tanha (5:01) 4. Agnee - Ujale Baaz (4:07) 5. Akon - Blame It On Me (4:57) 6. Anime Music - Full Metal Alchemist- Brothers (4:05) 7. Audioslave - Be Yourself (4:39) 8. Bowling For Soup - High School Never Ends (3:28) 9. Breaking Benjamin - Sooner Or Later (3:38) 10. Breaking Benjamin - You (3:21) 11. Charlie Clouser - Hello Zepp (3:00) 12. Chris Daughtry - It's Not Over (3:35) 13. Disturbed - Darkness (3:56) 14. Don Omar - Conteo (3:18) 15. Eminem - Sing For The Moment (5:41) 16. Evanascence - Whisper (5:27) 17. Godsmack - Asleep (3:58) 18. Godsmack - Spiral (5:23) 19. Juanes - A Dios le pido (3:28) 20. Katy Perry - I Kissed A Girl (2:58) 21. Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven (8:03) 22. Linkin Park - Cure for the Itch (2:35) 23. Linkin Park - Easier to Run (3:24) 24. Linkin Park - From the Inside (2:55) 25. Linkin Park - Lying from You (2:55) 26. Linkin Park - Numb (3:07) 27. Luz Casal - Negra Sombra (5:28) 28. Mana - Vivir Sin Aire (4:49) 29. Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams (4:45) 30. Nirvana - Dumb (2:52) 31. Oasis - Wonderwall (4:23) 32. Pink Floyd - High hopes (8:31) 33. Porcupine Tree - Four Chords That Made a Million (3:36) 34. Puscifer - Momma Sed (3:24) 35. Rammstein - Mutter (4:32) 36. RBD - Cuando El Amor Se Acaba (3:20) 37. Ricardo Arjona - Mojado (4:43) 38. Rihanna - Take A Bow (3:47) 39. Scorpions - Still Loving You (6:26) 40. Serj Tankian - Charades (3:14) 41. Serj Tankian - Empty Walls (4:03) 42. Serj Tankian - Falling Stars (3:05) 43. Snoop Dogg - Sensual Seduction (4:05) 44. Tony Dize - Quizas (4:13) 45. Tool - Parabol (3:06) 46. Tool - Parabola (6:02) 47. Tracy Chapman - Mountains O' Things (4:39) 48. Usher - Make Love In This Club (4:27) 49. Vallavan - Kadhal Yengge (4:31) 50. Wisin y Yandel - Por Que Me Tratas Asi (4:03) 51. Yanni - Almost A Whisper (3:12) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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I downloaded Ayreon’s album called “Human Equation” yesterday, and that’s presently playing in the background. That music pretty much restricts one from watching any other thing. That, coupled with the fact that I don’t feel like reading Wilbur Smith’s ‘A Time to Die’ at this moment, I thought I would put down some great movies, that one just doesn’t stumble across often.
All the movies below are awesome. Thought provoking. And totally different from the regular mainstream movies.
Mogari No Mori [The Mourning Forest] The Mourning Forest is a 2007 Japanese film directed by Naomi Kawase. It was awarded the Grand prix at the Cannes film festival. It tells the story of a nurse who is grieving for her dead child. She works at a nursing home and grows close to an elderly man suffering from dementia who is searching in the local forest for something connected to his dead wife that he cannot explain. On this unexpected journey of discovery, an eloquent story unfolds against the lush and tranquil setting of Japan’s forests.
The movie is all about ‘human warmth through understanding’. The growth in relationship between the nurse and the old man is beautifully pictured.
It is also one of the slowest movies that you will ever watch.
Jisatsu Sakuru [Suicide Cirle] Tagline: Well then, goodbye everybody. Suicide Circle [Suicide Club] is a 2002 Japanese independent film, written and directed by Sion Sono, that gained a considerable amount of notoriety in film festivals around the world for its controversial subject matter and gory presentation. It won the Jury Prize for "Most Ground-Breaking Film" at the Fantasia Film Festival. It deals with a wave of seemingly unconnected suicides that strikes Japan and the efforts of the police to determine the reasons behind the strange behavior.
Although parts of this movie, makes one squeamish, the overall effect is of wonderment and stupefaction. It makes one look at life from a different perspective.
La Haine [Hate] Tagline: So far, so good… La Haine is a film directed by Mathieu Kassovitz, released in 1995. It is about three teenage friends and their struggle to live life in the streets of Paris. Kassovitz won the Best Director award at the Cannes festival
The most important quote of the movie is the one it begins and ends with:
"Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper? On his way down past each floor, he kept saying to reassure himself: So far so good... so far so good... so far so good. How you fall doesn't matter. It's how you land!"
It deals with the society’s negative view of cops in times of strife, racism, etc. The best part is, it tries to offer no solutions, just paints it raw and strong.
PS:
1. check out Ayreon if you want to know what rock-operas are all about. 2. the movie list above is not exhaustive… will be back with more later. 3. these movies can be found in mininova.org
I always thought otherwise till I saw this in Last.fm…
“Tracy Chapman
4,513,285 plays scrobbled on Last.fm
Tracy Chapman (born March 30, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter, best known for legendary singles "Fast Car", "Talkin' Bout a Revolution", "Baby Can I Hold You", and "Give Me One Reason." She is a multi platinum and multi Grammy award winning artist.
Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Tracy Chapman began playing guitar and writing songs as a child. She received a scholarship through A Better Chance that allowed her to attend WoosterSchool in Connecticut, and was eventually accepted to TuftsUniversity in Medford, Massachusetts.
I bet that if you have only listened to her songs, without reading any article about her elsewhere, or seeing her picture, you can't tell that the singer is a female, either.
She sounds so masculine. The album covers don’t really make it easily evident too.
I always thought that the lyrics were screwed up in a few places, for a man to be singing them… but I tagged it 'poetic license'. :-P
Mar Adentro is a 2004 film by the Spanish/Chilean director Alejandro Amenábar. It is based on the real-life story of Ramón Sampedro (played by Javier Bardem), a Spanish ship mechanic left quadriplegic after a diving accident who fought a 28-year campaign in support of euthanasia and his right to end his own life. [ripped from Wikipedia, the web-based solution to the question of life, the universe and everything else]
This person from Europe commented:
“This small, quiet, harmonious movie grows into a masterpiece on human dignity. It is intelligently structured, filled with meaningful little details and important side-plots. It tells a story of one man with great humanity without positioning itself politically, but fostering life as a precious right (not an obligation) and underlining individual's right to choose. It enjoys the richness of different landscapes (mental and physical) and languages (important detail). Outstanding acting by each of the actors, especially unbelievable by Javier Bardem. His screen-presence has such a force that you forget that this is fiction. The movie has a wonderful rhythm, it is beautifully shot and outstandingly directed. It takes real talent to make a movie on such a difficult theme with understanding, humor and heart. Six stars out of five.”
And that more or less is the same thing that I wanted to say anyway.
The other great thing of this movie is its soundtrack.
It is called "Negra sombra" [The Black Shadow]
[Lyrics by RosalÃa de Castro, Music by Carlos Núñez, Performed by Luz Casal]
“Negra Sombra” gets a totally new dimension and depth if you listen to it after watching the movie [even though the song by itself, too, is pretty neat]. It is exactly like listening to Clint Mansell’s orchestral version of “Requiem for a Dream”, the original soundtrack of Saw and Departed, after having watched the movies.
Have a listen here, if you fancy one - "Negra Sombra":
By the way, The Sea Inside won the 2004 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, the 2004 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film, and 14 Goya Awards including awards for Best Film, Best Director, Best Lead Actor, Best Lead Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Original Screenplay, some other 58 wins and 30 nominations.
Regardless of the above hype, this is really worth watching. Movies like these are not made everyday.
PS: This post was mainly
to try embedding a mp3 into a blog post.
add ‘Movies’ to my tag list. [:-P].
Speaking of Movies, check out these crazy new DVD by the Japanese record label Avex. It is called Miteiru dake (Just Looking).
And the women there do just that. Stare. And thats pretty much all they do.
About W230: If one is looking for a mobile with an MP3 and FM player, this is the phone to buy. It has a 256 MB memory card which can be extended up to 2GB. It boasts of an extremely long battery life [9 hours talk time, 450 hours stand-by]. It’s been decent till now, I have charged it only twice for about a week now. [The usage, though, has been minimal in the week]. It comes with an USB data cable + real good ear-phones + weighs less than 100 grams. Anyway, this post wasn’t meant to be a Motorola products advertisement. Given the fact that I had only about 256 MB free space for music, I needed to come up with a playlist. With some help from my page in last.fm, this is what I ended up with. Playlist: 1. A Perfect Circle - Blue (4:13) 2. A Perfect Circle - The Noose (4:53) 3. A Perfect Circle - Weak And Powerless (3:15) 4. Audioslave - Like a Stone (4:54) 5. Breaking Benjamin - Home (3:43) 6. Breaking Benjamin - Medicate (3:45) 7. Breaking Benjamin - Wish I May (3:58) 8. Breaking Benjamin - You Fight Me (3:09) 9. Clint Mansell - Requiem for a Dream (6:34) 10. Don Omar - Si La Vez (3:17) 11. Eminem - Cleanin Out My Closet (4:57) 12. Eminem - Till I Collapse (4:57) 13. Enrique Iglesias - Por Amarte (4:00) 14. Evanascence - Haunted (3:06) 15. Flobots - Handlebars (3:26) 16. Kanye West - Homecoming (3:23) 17. Linkin Park - What I've Done (3:28) 18. Metallica - The Unforgiven II (6:36) 19. Metallica - Turn The Page (6:06) 20. Metallica - Wherever I May Roam (6:44) 21. Nirvana - Where Did You Sleep Last Night (5:13) 22. Porcupine Tree - Shes Moved On (5:13) 23. Puscifer - Rev 22:20 (5:08) 24. R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (4:36) 25. Sean Paul - We Be Burnin' (3:28) 26. Serj Tankian - Feed Us (4:29) 27. Serj Tankian - Piano Improvisation (1:36) 28. Serj Tankian - Saving Us (4:42) 29. Serj Tankian - Sky is Over (2:59) 30. Snoop Dogg - Neva Hafta Worry (5:10) 31. System Of A Down - Ego Brain (3:21) 32. System Of A Down - Holy Mountains (5:28) 33. System Of A Down - Nuguns (2:30) 34. System Of A Down - Sad Statue (3:27) 35. System Of A Down - Soldier Side (3:39) 36. System of A Down - Toxicity (3:41) 37. The Fray - How To Save A Life (4:23) 38. Three Doors Down - Kryptonite (3:58) 39. Tool - 10000 days (Wings pt 2) (11:16) 40. Tool - Rightin' Two (8:57) 41. Tool - Sober (5:03) 42. Tracy Chapman - Fast Car (4:56) 43. Wisin & Yandel - Permitame (3:05) Statistics: 43 tracks in Playlist, Average Track Length: 4:31 Playlist Length: 3 hours 14 minutes 42 seconds W230 Music Library – Media Storage Label: Additional Storage Device Free: 304.0 Kb Used: 243356.0 Kb Total: 243660.0 Kb All in a good day's work. :-D PS: 1. Motorola W270 offers the same features and that is a flip-open kind 2. last.fm got a radical new look, as I was typing this post, go check it out