1st Video clip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQC34PJEsvQ
For Pink floyd fans and other curious minds... Hold on tight !!

With greetings from NOIR UPSURGE

(Jimmy, Me*, Korg AX1500G and 7x)

(Sangheeta, 20/10/06) *I was told I am as red as a strawberry juice, when I choke on the spices... Am I ?

October

During October, there was the Diwali which is the indian "Christmas". They have celebrations all through the week-end with prayers (Puja) and the tradition wants you to wear NEW clothes. Then they do firecrackers in front of every hostel, all night long! For that occasion, we participated in doing a RANGOLI, which is a drawing on the floor, filled with coloured sand. It gives a message of peace and welcoming for the occasion.
The swiss/french girls doing their first rangoli... Enjoy !


First you draw the design on the floor (left(Me, Amandine))

Then you do like the indians do (right)



Then you can also get some help from indian friends...

...3h later...
We are proud to present you OUR RANGOLI ! (2nd prize!!)

Otherwise the month of October ended with a nice event... my 24th birthday !! It started at midnight of the 26 oct. Anna, Danielle, Amandine, Aurore, Fanny, Jan, Romain, Olivier, Benoit, Reto, Vivek & Arun were waiting at the hostel entrance with a surprise cake ! Even Suryadeep and Jimmy from my "band" were there ;-)
(unfortunately not the bass player, who is ALSO born on the 27th oct.. Incredible coincidence !!)

All day cakes and good food...B-day tea time in the mess (Mara, Lisa), then indian food (Keki, Sin)

At evening, dinner in Sangheeta. Nice table of 20 people!! Thank you to all who came !! And thank you for the gifts !! And thank you for the wishes, sms, calls !!

(Me, Matthieu)

Jam session

Amandine at the percussion and my new guitar, on the roof top of Sharavati !!

Best Rock Band of India

Remember the singing contest where I performed ? Remember the one who won this singing contest with the song "the pianoman" ? (*) Remember the organiser "Batman"? (**)
Well I am proud to tell you that I am the new drummer of
NOIR UPSURGE, band composed of

Vikas - a very good bass player

Jimmy - an excellent singer (*)

Suryadeep - a crazy guitarist (**)

Tanya - a swiss drummer !!

First performance yesterday 14th Oct 2006,
Student Activity Center, IIT, Chennai

Check out the guitar solo at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKbiTWd1Jwc
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Dehli soon

Last week was a travelling week... I flew to Dehli and then joined the 3 swiss guys Benoit, Olivier and Reto for a road trip through Agra (Taj Mahal) and the whole Rajasthan (Jaipur, Pushkar and Udaipur).

Photos from Olivier will soon be available. For the moment, I can only show you the view of Dehli from the biggest Mosquee...

Lots of the european I met here have or will have to leave soon. After the departures of Arin, Maxime, Phillipe, Vukasin, Benoit and Pablo, this was Alice's last night in Chennai. Wonderful dinner at the wonderful "Mocca". Hope you're doing fine in Lyon Alice ! And looking forward for a bollywood movie session in december in Lyon. Khabi Alvida Naa Khena !!
(left to right: Amre, Matthieu, Me, Alice, Mikael)

Otherwise this is the proof that if you really WANT to send me chocolate, there is a way to do it :-)

Thank You Cnad !
By the way, if someone could send some condiment/aromat, it would be nice !! White rice would taste better...