My trip re-making memory lane!! Oh and I played a show as well!

Hey all,
Hope things are going great for all of you. They certainly are for me. Well, on the 26th of this month I was scheduled to appear in a show as the guitarist for Shilpa Rao. As it so happened, the show was to be in Darbhanga, this most legendary of places. This place has provided me with great stories and greater friends and I was very keen to finally get there and see what the madness was all about for myself. The rest of the band and I were driving up to Darbhanga, which is a fair distance away from Jamshedpur. Somebody told me the Nepal border isn't far off from there. My dad reminded me of the time he and my brother had to undergo a 36 (yes 36) hour bus journey to get there for answering an engineering entrance exam. But that was 10 years ago, the roads have improved and we had a very competent driver.

Well, we started late night and made excellent progress, got to Ranchi in 1.5 hours (against a normal time of 3 hours). My own health was little bit of a downer as I am not used to long distances inside a closed car, obviously couldn't keep open windows for it was fiercely cold. That aside, all went well and we were well into Bihar till the next morning.

Then the legendary madness began. Before you think of this as some great expose`, please be forewarned. I am just using saucy lines, the stories aren't that crazy. We were some distance off of Samastipur when we encountered this massive traffic jam. Time brought curiosity and we found out that earlier in the morning a truck ran over a hapless motorist killing him instantly and now the villagers have blockaded the road in an effort to get compensation for the victim's family from the state government. One man in a car ahead of us suggested paying Rs.1500 to the villagers so they'd clear the road. I'm not sure whether that sum was the gentleman's value of human life but the comment was in poor taste, at the very least. We were already running a bit late and decided to step out of queue, reverse and head back the way we came from. The villagers, who had by now decided to walk down the queue of vehicles, asking them to pay up to be let through, spotted us and started running after us. Of course they couldn't catch us, this car got to Ranchi in 1.5 hours. What ensued was driving through a village dirt-track through fields, cattle-sheds and so on for around 45 minutes till we got back on any kind of tarred road again. After a fair amount of asking about, we finally landed on familiar territory and went right through to Darbhanga, and then asked our way into the hotel. The hotel was actually situated in the premises of an old fort, and the accommodations and service too was from another time, but that is just an observation. I stayed there for less than 10 hours, I really didn't care much about the standard of accommodation, although the bathroom could have used a shower.

More fun after the gig, we packed our instruments in, our driver safely napping away in the hotel room (he was the one driving through the entire night after all), and as we are to leave the venue, one of the tires gets punctured. Nobody apart from me had any clue what to do and I was rusty at best. There I was, in the Darbhanga night, 12 midnight actually, lying down beneath the car trying to get everything in position. A lot of hard work and a couple of mistakes later, finally it was all done. Took a long time though. Got back to the hotel to realize they stop dinner after 10 or something. Thankfully somebody from Shilpa's entourage had ordered a lot of food as back-up and we didn't go hungry. Anyway, at around 2 in the night, after 11 odd hours in Darbhanga, we got back in the car. Went off to sleep, knew that they stopped somewhere to try and repair the puncture in the tire. Anyway, was awoken at 7:30 in the morning to be told that..... the tire was punctured, the same one!! Ha ha, what fun! And it turned out, on the previous occasion, the tire wasn't punctured, the air just went out. Go figure! Anyway, there I was in the middle of the highway on my back again. Thankfully, the driver was a great help, and we got through this quickly. And he had blazed through the night because we covered a huge distance in a very short amount of time!! For that I was grateful. From there on it was pretty much routine, albeit a little delayed as the guys were intent on making random stops! Nevertheless, an action packed 36 hours. Yes, by this time, my dad was getting to Darbhanga. He he.

Oh and btw, played a kick-ass show in the midst of all of that!

Cheers!
Surjo
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My best live experience: Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Pandit Ram Kumar Sharma!!

Hi all,
Hope everyone is in good health and enjoying life to the fullest. I want to talk about a performance that I witnessed this evening. Quite simply the best live performance I have ever seen with my two eyes. The artistes in question were Pandit Vishwa Mohan Bhatt on Mohan Veena and Pandit Ram Kumar Sharma on Tabla.

The evening started well as we reached the venue (Tata Auditorium) on time, the event was running a bit late so we actually caught the soundcheck as well. Now since I have performed around the city a fair few times therefore I know pretty much all the sound guys in the city, and to my dismay, one of the absolute worst was handling the console and sure as the sun shines everyday he was making a lot of errors. Nevertheless, the quality of the performers was such that he couldn't make much of a negative impact.

Well after the soundcheck and the introductions, it was time for the music to take centrestage. Before he began, Pandit Bhatt gave a small discourse to the audience, speaking of the movement within a raga and the tradition of performance followed in Indian classsical music. For those who don't know about the order, it is the alaap followed by main theme of the raag on a fixed taal (gat) followed by the final phase of drut gat where the improvisation takes the most brilliant turns and the call and response themes are evoked between the lead and rhythm instruments.

The choice of Raga for the evening was Shyam Kalyan. The alaap at the start itself was absolutely mesmerizing. It was of course an added bonus for me that the Mohan Veena is very similar to a slide guitar so I could understand all that was being performed in terms of movement and nuances. The tuning of the Mohan Veena initially sounded like an open F major sus2, although I couldn't be sure of that.. He did change it later to a 1-5-8 tuning on the lead strings. He had a small machine with him which made the sound of the drone or tanpura, so that was actually neat, since he was able to control the volume of the drone himself.

When the alaap was over, Pandit Ram Kumar Mishra entered the fray, Tritala being the rhythm of choice. His entry was on small call and response session itself, but that soon gave way to the fixed structure of the raga. Now my elder brother was a tabla player and a good one too, so I kinda know the basic necessities of technique and slight intricacies of movement that are needed, so that being said, Pandit Ram Kumar Mishra is the most astounding table player I have ever seen. The clarity of his thekas, the quickness of his fingers, the position of his wrists, his control over the dynamics of the instrument, he could take the thing from a whimper to a rumble in a matter of seconds. There was a section where he was playing 64th notes (1/64) continuously for atleast 3 minutes till the audience had to applaud his effort. As is true for all artistes, the two Pandits were temperamental, which I appreciated greatly, and they really loved the respect they earned from the audience. After every cadenza, the audience let loose a flurry of applause and both of them lapped it up.

After the madhyam gat came the dhrut gat and that is when things really spiced up, the call and response section was amazing and I am not going to even try and put it in words because you got to see it to believe it. Now as a pure experiment I was actually trying to bob my head to some of the stuff being played and funnily enough some of my movements were very similar to the rhythm for a headbanging experience. Which basically meant that even though the music sounded very serene, there was a lot of aggressiveness in some of the improvisations, especially in the final sections.

They finally finished with a huge flourish. I realized that they had played one raga for almost an hour, an hour on one melodic idea (let's call it a scale for the purpose of understanding), with 3 notes as the chords in the background. That is insane, that level of depth is available only to those who are willing to dig deepest.

After that he played 3 more songs, one was a "pahadi" song, then a request from the audience, I couldn't quite hear what the request was but I thought I heard Dilli gharana or something in there. And finally he played the composition that won him his Grammy. I really can't say much about all the other songs for 2 reasons, a) I recollect them all to be awesome, especially the Grammy winning piece. B) The raga had knocked me out.

The audience was standing, the applause was unanimous, and so was the smile on all our faces, and on the faces of the two stalwarts who made it happen. Best show ever.

Noodling!

Hi,
Hope everyone is doing good. This is going to be short, talking about a few things. My Youtube channel has now crossed more than 20,000 views in total, and that is a lot in thanks to the fact that I have put up regular covers this year for the fun and entertainment of all those who were kind enough to ask for fun and entertainment.
However, I have decided to stop playing covers and requests from here on out because of one rather important thing. To be considered seriously as a musician, I got to stop playing stuff of others and concentrate more on my own music, there have already been many instances when a lot of people have put me down for playing covers. I'm ok with being put down by certain people who have tonnes more experience and whose advice will invariably help me a great deal.
The playing covers isn't something that I used to live for, when I got a guitar in my hands I am not playing covers for even one second, I'm just jamming and playing. Whatever comes out of me, so I guess I should be a little bit more concentrated in those random ideas and work on making something more out of it.

Anyway, a lot of work is being put in and a lot of decisions are being made, my own personal life is in a bit of a rug right now which is leading to a bit of a rut in the music scheme of things as well. Nevertheless, the stuff is being made ready and you will be having something from me soon. This blog has also crossed more than 5000 page views, never thought such things would happen. Very very cool. :)

Thank you and take care.

The wanderer!

Hey all,
This is going to be a little introspective and hopefully short. I am very lucky in that I recognized what I needed to do in life, and I devoted myself to it. It takes a lot of sensitivity I guess to even realize what it is that you like in life. I am a very stubborn person by nature and I just stuck to my guns as far as my decisions for life went. I wanted to pursue music professionally for a long time before I actually took the plunge. I wasn't interested in a college education because I knew it wouldn't help me at all. But on the insistence of my parents I did my engineering from a very decent college, had my job at the end of it all. Only to throw it all away, best throw ever.

The music business isn't an easy business, stress on the word business. But I am not going to talk about that, that is an eternal struggle that is part and parcel of this game. What I am going to talk about is a little different. You realize that from the time we are born. we have a home. But actually, the home changes a lot for a lot of us. Parents move, we move out, hostels, apartments, PGs and what not. But wherever we stay, that is home. How do we classify that as home?? It is because "WE" stay there. The places might change, but our core set of values defines that place, as HOME.

Now I have found something similar in music. So far I have been a journeyman musician of sorts, playing here and there, helping people out with songs and stuff. So no home in music to speak of in terms of a band. Oh, and for those of you who don't know, I have quit _RoCKBAaJ_.

But despite me being a journeyman, I still have a home in music. It is in music itself, when I first got introduced to music, I used to listen to old Bangla and Bollywood songs, the things my parents were into. Then when I was in my teens, I too was swept up by the pop brigade that dominated Mtv, in Backstreet Boys and that entire trip. A little older and I got introduced to The Eagles and Bon Jovi. When I first started playing in band, it was GnR and Iron Maiden. The tastes have changed over the years, and that is my home. So it's like my home has changed over the years, and I feel with every new style of music that I come to appreciate, that there's something more waiting for me out there, that I need to go seek. Which results in me walking on. There will come a time when I shall settle down, and that time seems incredibly close, to one style of music, which I can call my own. A home which shall be mine, and I won't be a mere guest but a part of the family.

Thank you for reading, wherever you are, have a good night.

Morley Mark Tremonti Wah Pedal GuitarPlayback Wallimann Contest

Hi all,
Another day of happiness for me. I think these things I am doing haven't been done before in India, definitely not a small town kid (kid, who're you kidding!!) like me. I have managed to make it to the final list for another worldwide guitar contest. Like the last time, I didn't win, but I am getting closer to the prize.

You might be wondering what this contest is all about. Well, it's quite simple really. They had asked the participants to choose one out of a collection of backing tracks. What are backing tracks.. well they are songs without the main guitar parts. So you can fill that space up. There were a lot of backing tracks to choose from, and I went with one that I thought would challenge me. No point going in for the track where everybody knows what to do, there were so many entries on similar backing tracks, had to do something to be different from the rest from the very outset.

So I picked up this really difficult funk/big band backing track in the style of James Brown maybe. And I always associated funk with rhythm playing, but to play a solo over it, and make it sound convincing. Very very difficult. Anyway, cut to the chase, I put in my entry and it made it to the final round of 18. So I am really happy. Unfortunately there was only 1 prize, so we can't know who came second or third.

The prize was the Mark Tremonti wah pedal. Mark Tremonti is the ex-Creed, Alterbridge guitar player. BTW, you guys should watch this video on youtube, and read the comments in there by the other participants. You'll see the respect that I manage to gain on a worldwide basis, but of course, not many people know about that in India. It is a little weird, I am doing things that no one has done before, and nobody who is anybody, knows about it, or gives a shit. Funny world and funnier line of work I have chosen.

Anyway, if you have read this much of the post you might as well watch it. And please don't forget, the Indie Aid for Japan album, please help the victims by buying the album. It is only $6, Rs. 266. Think about it.

Take care

Of a time in the past!

Hi all,
This post has nothing to do with music, and it's been a while since I have written something of the sort. Well, I have been reading the Mahabharat of late. All those who are close to me know that I have a fascination for the book. I have read several versions of the epic depending upon the amount of abridgment offered. But for the first time ever, I am attempting to read the complete Mahabharat, translated directly from Sanskrit (by Kisari Mohan Ganguli all the way back in 1896, close to 4000 pages), word for word. Since it is written in somewhat old English, it is a trifle difficult to follow language wise at times, and is very difficult to follow as per content throughout.
But it is an amazing read, I am still in the nascent stages, but there are a few things that I have gathered without a doubt. Now there is a thing which is written in the book, which says, if you read this book with the spirit of belief, you shall benefit from reading it. If you read it with the spirit of fault-finding, then you shan't benefit from it. Having read a fair bit of The Holy Bible, I see this as a recurrent theme in books which are somehow related to Dharma( religion) in whichever way. I always thought it to be a really good marketing ploy, I mean you have to believe in it to benefit from it. But it is much simpler than that.
These books are telling us the tales of extraordinary human beings, people whose great power was on display on account of their extraordinary deeds. People will find it hard to believe if they don't see it in front of their eyes. There will be doubt, but therein lies the choice. If you believe in that man, then you believe in his deeds, and are uplifted by the knowledge that a common man like you and me could be capable of such greatness. If you choose to not believe in it, then you simply scoff at it, and turn your back on it. I chose to believe, and personally, it is one of my better decisions.
Reading about society as it was prevalent then, one thing jumps out very clearly. Their society is far superior than ours, having a far higher moral standard and standard of living as well. There was no crime in those kingdoms,barely 50 years before the Pandavs and Kauravs were born. No crime, not because of a very good law and order system, but because nobody needed to commit a crime, they were that content with their place in life, and with what life gave them in return. To me it seems like they were all part of a giant machine, and they knew it. They knew that they were cogs of a wheel that contributed to something much larger than themselves. If they could continue being a part of this supremely well-oiled machine, then they would reap all the benefits that come from living in a Utopian society.
I'd like to give a couple of examples, and I'll talk about the ones which caught my eye the most. In this day and age, where all people are concerned about is making a quick buck, and then some more, there is hardly any great amount of integrity towards a greater purpose in life. Everybody has to struggle a great deal just to get by, just to be able to earn enough to keep the family moving, and nobody is different. The people who have a lot of money, have a lot of power, have the power to take some extra money off of the poor who don't have enough in the first place. Even though you don't need the money, you take it.. why?? Because you can!!!
Compare this to that period. There was a strict caste system in place and every caste had their specific duties. Brahman, priests, people who devoted their lives searching for the greatest truth, and if they were to find it, to help everybody else in society partake of it. Kshatriya, warriors, leaders of the people and defenders of the land. If they didn't do their job right, then who'd lead the people, then who'd keep the hermitage of the Brahman safe and allow him to carry on with all of his studies in peace. Vaishya, traders, whose job was to earn profit in the most honest way possible, to make sure that the kingdom stayed wealthy. Shudra, the lower caste, assigned to perform the menial tasks that the other castes wouldn't perform. The caste system has been abolished from common senses now, but that is because it was violated by the people, used as a pretext for killing another man.
That wasn't the case with the society of old. Think about it, a Brahman could never earn wealth in his life, it was against his teachings, he was supposed to beg for alms and food. So in a kingdom where the Kshatriya and Vaishya do their duty correctly, he should never have to go hungry, and in his gratitude, he could make sure that the blessings of the gods were showered upon his benefactors. The Vaishya wouldn't have to worry about the security of his crops, cattle etc. because the Ksahtriya would take care of it, and about the blessings of the gods because the Brahman would take care of it. And you can see how this goes, everybody was the part of a much greater chain, and all they had to do was perform the assigned task to the best of their ability and the entire thing would run smoothly. And judging by the quality of life that they led, I think the system they followed had way more merit than demerit.
Now some of you might be saying, there were fewer people then than there are now, so there was more to go around. Which brings me to my second example, that most debated of all subjects, sex. Such is the mindset now that an average man thinks about sex once every 8 seconds! That's a scary figure. Humans are also animals, and if you look at any animal, they mate only during the season of mating, not at every drop of a hat because they felt like it, or because the weather was good, or because that's what they do for a living.
Again, in that time 50 years before the birth of the Pandavs and the Kauravs, it is actually written in The Mahabharat, that there would be no birth of children outside of the proper time, the men and women would mate only during season or they wouldn't. It was an act of procreation, not recreation. And that was written in a paragraph which stated that everything took place in it's proper time, with it's proper weightage. It was said that the trader, even though his job was to earn a profit, could not be greedy. If the bull who carried his yolk looked lean, then he wouldn't force it to carry the yolk, but would instead fatten him up till he was able to carry the yolk. If a calf was nursing on the cow's milk, then they wouldn't milk that cow, since the calf would then get lesser to feed on. If they had the prospect of extra produce, they wouldn't take it, since they already had enough, and didn't want to tempt the gods by trying to take advantage of the bounties thus provided.
So I come back to the differences in the then and now, and the total change in mindset that has occurred over the course of thousands of years. I am not writing all this to start a war of words, I am writing this almost as general knowledge for those who read it, as a different prospective to life, as a look back to how our very ancestors lived, and why it was a happier time, and why we were the leaders of the world.
I have of course decided to read The Mahabharat and there is a mine of information in that epic, will write about a few more of those things in the future.
Take care

The journey so far 2!!

Hi all,
Hope everyone is doing good. There are a few quick things that I shall address in this post even though I am in a mood to ramble a whole lot.

Before I start, as you might have noticed, "The Land of the Rising Sun" is on the top left corner of the page, you can play it while you read, and download it from here for free as well. No need to go the main site whatsoever. :)

Read on.

Firstly, thank you guys so much for all the support. My first single was released earlier in the week and it has done much better than I expected thanks to all of you. The song was actually written and recorded and finished at a breakneck pace of 4 days!! The main motivation behind the song was simple, the tsunami in Japan has caused a lot of damage and everybody is trying to contribute in some way or the other to help the cause. Now since I don't have any money to donate as I am still struggling to find my feet in the music industry, I did the thing that I am supposed to be doing in life.

I wrote a song for the victims of the tragedy. Now the thing is that there is a group of benevolent people who are compiling a number of songs and intending to sell it as a CD. The funds collected from these sales shall be donated for the cause. So I have put in "The Land of the Rising Sun" for consideration. My fingers are crossed, hopefully it gets selected and is put to good use.

Now I have been using a number of social websites to put my music across for the listeners, and I am using facebook as my major helper, and www.reverbnation.com as the medium for listening to and distributing the songs. Now the song is up for free download. All you have to do is copy this here link onto your address bar( I couldn't find out how to hyperlink it :(, Sorry), http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_7802903, and click on the big download button. There will be options like join the mailing list and join the street team. I will quickly explain what that is.

The mailing list is basically a list of contacts that I can contact to inform about future songs, shows etc. through reverbnation itself. Rest assured you shall not get any spam from the site, all mails will be from me.
The street team is for those who want to help me out with small tasks such as publicity and so on. The advantage of being in a street team is that if you are the best guy doing the task (there are stats that show everything to me) then you will be eligible for prizes which I shall give. For example, if you work and get 20 people to join my page, I could give out a free CD to you. :)

You could say that you already have our e-mail ids on gmail and so on, why do you need it here?? Well this is the most important thing for you'll to know. When my songs will be ready and I will be looking for shows, I can do that through reverbnation as well. So when a big venue looks at my profile and sees a lot of people on the mailing list, then immediately that boosts my chances of getting booked by that venue. And then I can actually go and play in the cities where you'll are staying, which is the grand plan anyway.

Very honestly, this is a very very tough business to stay afloat in, and all your help is welcome. Every single download, share and so on goes a long way to ensure that I can live out my dreams. And believe me, the people who help out the most shall not go without my appreciation. I will make sure that you'll receive for all that you have given for me.


As always, looking forward to your support. This journey would be very very short if it weren't for you'll.

God bless all of you.
Surjo

Poribyapto.. the meaning behind the song!

Hi all,
Hope everyone is doing good. This post is solely dedicated to a very important purpose. _RoCKBAaJ_ has released it's first single and thanks to all of you, "Poribyapto" now stands tall at #3 on the Alternative Rock Charts for Kolkata.
All of you'll have shown your love by listening to the song, but there are a lot of you who will not understand the meaning of the words, since it is written in Bengali. I have therefore, tried to explain the song in English. I have no qualms in admitting that I am no expert in Bengali but since the song was written in front of my eyes, I have a fair idea as to what it means.

I'll just start with the general theme of the song. The song is written about a woman, who decided to become a prostitute willingly. The song takes place at a time in her life, when she meets an old friend from her school days, after a span of many years, and even though the choices she made were hers, and not forced upon her, she looks at the things she has gained and lost as a result, while gazing upon her friend, and seeing the station in life where he is.

And the next thing I have done is like a paragraph translation for the song. I have not kept it in rhyme like the original bangla version is, but I hope you get a clear picture for the flow of the lyrics.

The words were written by Kaustav, our lead singer. It was only a matter of time before he addressed this, because this particular issue was in his head for quite the amount of time. Like I had mentioned in a previous post, Kaustav possesses a uniquely twisted mind and as such his lyrics portray that. The music is made by yours truly (thank you, thank you). Hope you enjoy the meaning of the song as much as you have enjoyed the feeling of it.

P.S. There is more stuff coming out soon, so be on the lookout for further lame-ass translations!! :P

Tara gulo cheye dekhi, drishyo aakorshito,
Shomoy theme jaay, shopne aami roto...
Aajker aabohaowa thik shei raater mato,
Jeno kichhu bole jaay, chhoto kono golpo...

I look at the stars, it's a fantastic sight..
The passage of time has stopped as I'm engrossed in a dream
The air tonight is just like it was then,
And it seems to tell me a story of that time

Aajo shei jhulo guli, mone pTore jaay,
Dule dule bohu kaal, shomoy kaat-to...
Shondhe te lukochuri, shopne harano,
Chhelebela aamader roilo okrito...

I still remember those swings from our childhood,
Where we spent so much of our time
The hide-n-seek in the evening, getting lost in dreams
The friendship of our childhood remained incomplete

CHORUS:
Gobhir raate kono haat sporsho,
Ojana kono daak kaane baajto,
Neon-er aalo jeno chokhe bheshe jaay,
Bhalobaasha pore thaak poribyapto...

The unknown touch in the depths of the night,
An unknown voice ringing in my ears,
Blinded by the neon lights,
My love always unfulfilled.


Oi obujh kaale aami fer giye darai,
Bhalobasha obhimaan nimeshe harai...
Roye jaay pichhutaan, aaj thomke je darai,
Bhalobashar chahidaay aami aajo haat barai...

I go back to those years of innocence,
Love, pride, all stripped away in a second,
All that is there has held me back, as I stay rooted to my spot
I still reach out my hand looking for love


Kichhu khuchror binimoy aamar shorir bikri hoy,
Chhottobelar prem, se toh aaj o aamar noy...
Dekhechhi tomake aaj bochhor dosh pore,
Ek chotto rajkumar tomar haat dhore chole...

For the price of a few pennies is my body sold,
The love of my childhood, that is still not mine,
I'm looking at you after 10 long years,
And there's a small prince holding on to your hand and walking

And the chorus comes in again till we finish! :)

Thank you so much guys for reading,
Spare a thought for the people in Japan,
Take care all
Surjo

WinZilla \m/ Lick entry ( New Chappers Competition) by Surjo

Hi guys,
This post is being written with me in an exceptionally happy mood. REASON?? Well, this post is about the first time that I have been able to achieve something on an international level for guitar!! There was this competition online on youtube asking for the best lick. I will explain what a lick is later on in the post. Anyway, the guys were giving out an undisclosed prize, the person organizing this contest is a big shot guitar god from England, regularly plays with Malmsteen and so on, so it's a biggish deal. Anyway, there were more than 200 entries worldwide, and I made the top 10. I didn't win it, so not going to be offered mysterious undisclosed goods, but I did make the top 10.. Feels damn good to see your name( youtube user id) on the final list. Thanks to Girish Ramesh for the news. :)

Next thing I guess is, what is a lick man?? Well, this is not the same lick as use tongue and gross people out, although it can have it's uses in the bedroom. Whoa, major digression.
A lick in guitar terminology is like a phrase. Just like you use phrases to make sentences, we use licks to make complete solos. As a matter of fact, positioning of licks in a solo is called phrasing!! So licks are short sweet things, as you can see in this video that it is only 13 seconds long. This lick has a more bluesy approach to it, which is an approach I favour a whole deal.

http://forum.monkeylord.co.uk/threads/vote-on-the-winzilla-runners-up.10968/page-3

This is the page where you can see my name amongst those of the top 10.
Thank you so much for taking the time out to read this. I am really happy so I'm going to go a step ahead and say a small prayer for all of you'll who take the interest to read my stuff. :)
Cheers!