tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13465129708477613422009-11-09T07:03:11.398+05:30Celebrating the presence and grace of the Divine One in a being so frail and so immensely mortal, that the phenomenon defies all known forms of logic and wisdomaJCfreakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03338198718046828412ajcfreak@gmail.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1346512970847761342.post-29565797797994352122009-02-19T15:48:00.003+05:302009-02-19T16:01:05.204+05:30

Yep - that's right - Smithafied!!!To all of those who're wondering - what the heck is that - well, it's not much. It's just a meshing together of two lives that God brought together... More specifically, it's the state that Dan is in since God brought Smitha into his life. He's been Smitha-fied......JC-fying life has always been a top prerogative. But without realising it, Smithafying my life has

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Early on the morning of the 23rd of December (the day after we met the parents),  both my parents, Smitha and I left for Mehsana from Baroda. We had hired an Indica to take us there. The trip was nice. We slept for the most time and mum kept complaining that she couldn't see a single peacock. Smitha made the mistake of mentioning that peacocks were extremely common along the highways in Gujarat (

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For the uninformed, the entire trip up north to Gujarat this past Christmas week was so that my parents could meet up with Smitha's parents. None of us were really expecting anything much to happen - it was supposed to be a simple spend time together thingy.So after that decent train journey, I landed in Baroda at around 05.15 on Monday, the 22nd of December, 2008. I caught an auto (with the help

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This entire Christmas season has been sortofa blur... But an amazing and an awesome one at that. So I'm gonna blog about it in parts..............On December 22nd, my parents were to meet up with Smitha's parents at their place in Baroda. So I decided to make my way up there directly from Bangalore, while my parents were trudging up there from Chennai.I caught the train at 21.50 hrs on Saturday,

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So ... I never really bought the iPhone. Should be obvious, considering that it's priced at Rs. 31,000.My life is going on pretty great, right now. Had an awesome Birthday weekend at Baroda. I've got the recently launched Motorola ZN200 slider phone. It's pretty decent. Rs. 6000 and works for me.God's been drawing me closer to Him. I'm beginning to rediscover truths about Him, life and the way

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Vodafone has just released a statement on their website http://www.vodafone.in/iphone which states that the 8 GB model would cost 31k and the 16 GB model would cost 36k. This is way too much for the iPhone.... popular speculation held that the iPhone would cost anywhere between 15k - 25k in India, when released on August 22nd. This itself is higher than the subsidized price in the US, where the 8

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Looks like the band (that has been a looooong time in coming) could become a reality pretty soon... Bina Mathew (my bosom pal from CSI CE) hooked me up with a school pal of hers - Renu Kotian, who's supposed to have this awesome, sultry voice, and who's apparently dying to sing in a rock band.A lil bit of chatting with the Kotian cleared up preliminary fears and encouraged me to meet up with her.

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Yes, I will be owning one, if all goes well, by the 22nd of August. I thought I might not have enough cash to go out and purchase one, but then I ended up praying to God to send someone who would be willing to gift it to me... and guess whom He sent? Smitha D. Gnanaolivu.We all know that she's awesome and she's the sweetest, but this is like the icing and the cake. She's simply the best. She came

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I've posted some more videos of the John Schlitt The Grafting India tour 2008, Chennai concert, in addition to the three that are already available at my YouTube channel. They are available at the following locations:4. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 04 Grafting5. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 05 Creed6. John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 06 Beyond

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Hey all....I've just had a glorious weekend sleeping over at S uncle's place (from church). And yesterday, Sunday, I convinced him to purchase a MacBook. Or rather, I convinced him to take a look at the MacBook at the Imagine store in Forum Mall. (For the sake of our international readers, I should mention that India does not yet have a single Apple Store)So we went... And I told one of the sales

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Hello again,The videos of the Chennai concert are taking simply ages to upload. But they are in the process of being uploaded to my YouTube channel - http://www.youtube.com/ajcfreak/Currently, I've uploaded only three videos - none of them of the song performances yet.John Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 01 SetupJohn Schlitt - The Grafting India tour May 08 : 02 Pre-showJohn Schlitt -

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Hello all...The photos of the event are up on my Picasa folders. There are two folders - One with really high-quality pics, taken badly (cos we used the wrong setting on the camera) and another folder of pics taken with one of those point-and-shoot digicams.You may check out both folders at the following weblinks:http://picasaweb.google.com/ajcfreak/

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Hi all... Just a quick note to let everyone know that the Chennai show was great. It kinda had a major hiccup, but I had the time of my life. I've got some photos and videos, but right now am sitting on a pretty slow connection. Will upload them within the next week - gimme few days. But for now, the photo of the moment is the one where John's got his arm around me!!!! (Tried uploading it -

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We're at d John Schlitt concert... We got here at 3.30 and were let in at half past five... And right now, we're waiting for half past seven to arrive - which is when they're supposed to begin. But we've had a few issues with having such a huge camera at the concert... And also, we saw John's band doing d sound check wit a few Petra numbers and a few of John's own. Haven't seen or heard THE man

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Well, looking at my list made earlier, let's see how far we've come, shall we:1. Front-row seats (350 bucks each) Check!2. Arrive at the venue at 3.55 PM (gates open at 4; concert's at 7 PM)3. Buy a white tee Check!4. Buy a permanent marker5. Hold up a sign saying "I made your promo video, John!" (Ha - only I can do that!) Slightly different, but still - Check!6. Get Daddy's big, badass semi-SLR

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So, if you check the stuff that needs to be done to attend a John Schlitt concert, you'd see that a poster was mentioned.... Why not make it three?!!?! Well, so we're gonna get a few posters printed out on A3 size paper, and then hold it up, from our front-row seats (no points for guessing that we won't be seated!) so that John (and the band) could see it... and be encouraged!!!In honour of the

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Yep - a little bit of lobbying yielded a lot more photos. For your joy and excitement, I'm putting up some more of the photos that I could get my hands on....We've arrived, yo Indians look out!Chk yer belongings.... got 'em all?YAIY! Go guys... Our Indian promoter being quite encouraging(John Schlitt) He came....He saw....And he ordered food.... Yep. Looks like that's what he's doing here....Just

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So... The tour of Petra's lead vocalist for twenty years - John Schlitt - is all set to begin. I've bought myself a nice white tee that I'm hoping to get him to sign.... and we're planning on printing out some vinyl poster or something. Let's see.But for those of you itching for a glimpse of the rock vocalist, here're a coupla pix of the maestro stepping onto Indian soil - at the Chennai

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Yep - it looks like my church has changed. It may be too soon to say this, but looks like I'm going to be a regular at the LWCC, which is situated half-way across the city. It's a lovely little house church and I'm beginning to think that all our churches should be broken down into house churches. At the end of the day, the size/building doesn't really matter does it?Well, I went there this

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Hello world! I'm a very happy person right now.We got the first tickets to the John Schlitt concert!!!Yes, we did. It's gonna be a rocking show and I've got so many plans in ma head... But to simply know that they were still cutting out the rest of the tickets when we got ours........ AJ picked them up from the GenX Entertainment office in Chennai yesterday. He's been bugging them until they said

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Hello all. Yes, it's been a while. Just thought I'd update here on a cool new thingy that's been started (yesterday!)...I was talking to a friend of mine when I realised that we really need to hold up each other, if we're gonna make it through this life on earth as God's people. One thing led to another, and before I knew it, Living Momentum was born.Written from daily devotionals linked to

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Hey everybody!I know it's been a while. I just wanted to update (anyone who cared) that John Schlitt, lead singer and frontman for Petra from 1986 till their retirement in 2005, has released a new album called, The Grafting. He's gonna be touring to promote the album and it has been confirmed by reliable sources that he's gonna be performing in Bangalore, India, on April 5th. I'm definitely

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Yep - you read it right - it's the Rat-a-thon and I'm blogging about it... Can ya believes it?!Our story begins on one fine Winter day in Bangalore at the residence of #7, 1st Cross, Nagappa Reddy Layout located in A Narayanapura. It was the 26th of November, 2007. Suddenly, a streak of speed and gray caught the corner of our young hero's (Me, Myself, Dan) eye. Yep - it was a rat. Oh my, Oh

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So, I've started Dan's Desirables... It's a blog I began yesterday to try and write about the funky, cool gadgets that I desire. The first gadget I've blogged about is the iPod. Obviously, it's on my top-top-ten must-have, must-desire list... Hence the beginning.Basically, I plan to update the blog with my latest and recent and not-so-recent gadgets-I-desire. So keep checking it for future

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Last time I'd been home, I struck upon the idea of visiting my Periamma (Mum's elder sis) and Periappa (her hubby!) in Vellore as they were down here from Aus. I hadn't seen Periamma since Thaatha (Grandpa) passed away in May 2006. I hadn't been to Vellore since December '05 cos I didn't feel like visiting Periamma after she moved out of the house in the wonderful CMC Bhagayam campus. :(Anyways,

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