The weekend just got over, but with just a few hours of work in between, a two-day mini-vacation of sorts has already started for me. Am right now on the way to Tirupati for a relative’s wedding and, of course, a visit to Tirumala and a few more temples.

I love these long-distance car journeys on highways. Let me now not start the complaint about parts of this NH205 not having great road. The sun, though shining bright, is slowly getting ready for setting and am eagerly awaiting the visual treat that I am going to be presented with. 🙂 Rahman’s music is already providing me an aural treat. 🙂

Blogging from bus continues and I am enjoying it.

The green leaves on the trees on OMR appearing greener and fresh more than usual, thanks to the raindrops falling on those. The slight cool breeze peeping through the window, which I have kept open just an inch or so. Listening to Rahman’s music made all the more blissful by Hariharan’s voice singing the beautiful lyrics of pacchai nirame 🙂 Monday begins on a pleasant note 🙂 Hope you all have a great week ahead!

The last thing I expected to do on a Friday morning, forgetting all thoughts about the impending weekend, was to be forced to do a lot of thinking. This is happening, thanks to all your comments for my previous post. How much ever one might support plagiarism, I don’t think it is fair to copy lines from somebody else’s post. If it’s all right to do that, then I can actually write a dozen posts here every week, copying lines from multiple sources. At the end of the day, what is achieved because of that? A link to the original post is all I expect. If you like the lines written by somebody else so much and feel that those would be the apt lines to use in your post, then go ahead and use it. But do that after giving the source of those lines.

As for there is nothing called your own thought, agreed that all thoughts are triggered from something or other. And I do agree that two people can get the same thought. But that’s irrelevant here. On a lighter note, otherwise, why would there be the saying, ‘Great minds think alike’? 😉

Why are you making me think so much right in the morning, when there is no mistake on my part? Should I really not take this seriously? All I wanted was for the person to know that it’s not fair to copy somebody else’s work without so much as a mention about them. I would have done the same thing if the lines copied were from some other blog too. Anyway, now that I have done that, should I not do anything more about this?

The previous post was just a warm-up of sorts since I didn’t want the very first piece of my writing for the day to be started on an angry note. Nothing can match the joy of writing and seeing your thoughts, observations and experiences getting transformed into words. Sometimes, the writing turns out to be as good as you thought it would be and, sometimes, it wouldn’t turn out to be as good as you thought it would. But that is not the point of this post.

How would you feel when from one such writings of yours, a piece which you wrote with so much passion, you see many lines lifted and used directly in somebody else’s writing? And not just that, it has even won a prize too in some competition! How can people indulge in such plagiarism? When you ask the person about it, the reply you get goes something like, ‘Yes I copied some lines from your post, because those were nice’. What a lame explanation! A writing competition is meant for judging your own writing, how you write, how you express yourself and more importantly, your OWN thoughts/expressions/whatever. Not for judging something which you copied from somebody else’s writing and passed off as your own!

More than seeing my lines being used, what irritated me even more were the lame explanations that were given.

I bought a new mobile, Nokia Xpress Music 5130, recently. Blogging from it is much more easier than from my previous mobile, 6233. So, since I am in a mood to write something, here I am happily typing away, even as I am travelling by bus. I wanted to read P.G.Wodehouse’s ‘Hot Water’, but that will have to wait. Looks like even blogging has to wait now, since water drops are falling on my head from the roof of the bus! But I can’t find any other good seat either. So I might as well continue typing. The recent rains have brought the leaky roofs back in action! There was a time when water used to ‘pour’ from the top of my bus in some places even when it didn’t rain! Weird, it was! With the good intention of not boring you all with my ramblings anymore, I am ending my post right here. Good day, folks!

I look out of the window and see the leaves of the coconut, palm and other trees swaying gently to, what I suppose is, a light breeze. Seeing the sky covered with clouds makes me wish I could go out of this air-conditioned room and enjoy the pleasant weather. Listening to the very beautiful instrumental version of pudhu veLLai mazhai, I suprisingly feel like humming yeh haseen vaadiyaan, yeh khula aasmaan, and not my favourite pudhu veLLai mazhai! I see a lone bird happily flying from one tree to another. It’s a beautiful morning! The song has changed and I am now all set to get mesmerized by the brilliant Brindavana Saranga of TNS and MSG!

To the city which has given me so many hobbies and passions and has made me so very busy that I do not have time to even think of getting bored! Here’s wishing you a very happy birthday, Madras!

Inspite of knowing that ARR’s unplugged concert was going to be telecast on DD last Sunday, I totally forgot about it and realized that I had forgotten to watch it only when I saw the messages in the group the next day! 🙁 I finally found the time to watch the videos today and I just loved it! 🙂 There should be more performances like this!

I switched on the computer planning to just check my mail and maybe read a few blogposts and then go to sleep early. But the result of watching the videos was that all I wanted to do was to just listen to his songs.

Dheemi Dheemi, Rang De Basanti, July Madham, If You Wanna Come Along, Puttham Pudhu Bhoomi, Spirit of Unity concert theme, Hey Goodbye Nanba, Andha Arabic, Aayo Re Sakhi, Veerapandi Kottayile, Like an Eagle, Chayya Chayya, Latika’s Theme, Muppadhu Nimidam, Mayya Mayya, Barso Re and the list goes on! I want to listen to all this and more right now, even while I am busy copying song after song of ARR to my mp3 player!

P.S: Writing this post has made me reminisce about how this blog was a couple of years back – when almost every alternate post of mine was on ARR’s music and the frequency of posts in this blog itself was much better than what it is now!

I have been hooked big time to TNS’ Dwijavanti RTP and Delhi 6 (the title song) for the past one week. 2 completely contrasting songs! Can’t stop humming ‘ye dilli hai mere yaar’. Won’t Delhi 6 be the perfect song to listen to when you are going for a drive on a highway? The magic of TNS’ Dwijavanti continues! Absolute beauty, isn’t it? It just makes you lose yourself in the blissful music! 40 min seem to pass by in a jiffy! 😉

Last weekend was a great one and so very reminiscent of December Season, thanks to Svanubhava & Sikkil Gurucharan’s concert and Dr. Chithra Madhavan’s lecture, with which concluded my memorable weekend.
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