Aparna’s Blog

My sister and I went to Marina beach today to see the sunrise. The first rays of sun appearing, the golden-orange sun and its reflection on water and sand, the sky in various hues of orange, pink, gray and blue were all so beautiful!

Here are some photos taken by us:

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Listening to (and singing along) A.R.Rahman’s songs non-stop over a game of Scrabble with my sister is what I consider to be one of the best ways to spend a holiday! Enjoyed doing that today after quite sometime. It brings back the memories of the many summer vacations when we used to do that almost the whole day.

It is said pagalla pakkam paatthu paesu raathrila adhuvum paesadhe. It so happens that I often keep forgetting this and I realize that the person whom I am talking about or someone close to that person is sitting right next to me only after I finish talking! It may not be anything bad about that person but it will definitely be something that I wouldn’t want him/her to hear. I hope at least in the future, I remember to look around me before I open my mouth.

Yesterday being a holiday, I was doing channel surfing hoping to find some good movie to watch.

• A Simbu movie on Sun TV - Who can watch him on screen for 2.5+ hours!

• Some boring movie on K TV (featuring Sibiraj?)

• Mozhi on Kalaignar - this movie can be watched only once & I have already watched it once. Of course the movie was good, can be watched with the whole family, etc. But I couldn’t find anything great in this that would make have made me want to watch it again and again. I don’t like the kaaTrin mozhi song either.

• Ilayaraja concert on Raj TV in which whenever I saw, Ilayaraja was only singing - There are times when I wonder if he knows how bad his voice sounds! He is a genius music composer who has given so many wonderful songs and I wish he had stopped with that and not started singing his songs.

• IPL cricket match on Set Max - Cricket fails to interest me even one bit.

• Ambikapathi on Mega TV - Yeah Mega TV was the channel that finally came to my rescue.

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I enjoyed reading this wonderful interview with Mani Ratnam. A nice interview after a long time with none of the usual questions!

I first saw this tag in Dandilsa’s blog and decided to take it up. Now, Aparna has tagged me to do the same tag.

1. LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATER?
Jodha Akbar

2. WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?
The Code of the Woosters by P.G.Wodehouse – The first ever P.G.Wodehouse novel that I am reading.

3. FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?
Scrabble

4. FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?
Reader’s Digest. Till a few years back, Gokulam too.
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I did a mistake by writing here about me being called aunty by a kid. When I saw the Search Engine terms for my blog in the Blog Stats, I saw the term ‘aparna aunty’ and when I did a Google search, my blog was the first result for that.

Talking about blog stats, the hits for my blog has crossed 50K and it’s now 51,586. Thank you all!  
And here are the all time top 7 search terms for my blog.

• aparna

• jodha akbar dvd cover

• jodha akbar cd

• jodha akbar cd cover

• ar rahman
• a.r.rahman
• a r rahman

Thank you, Rahman!