Humming this song from the movie Khamoshi is how I began the day today and a major part of the day itself had me feeling happy and in a cheerful mood that even as I am typing this post, I am singing the same song. 🙂

A pleasant weather in the wee hours of morning, the sky with some beautiful golden hues looking very gorgeous during sunrise, solving today’s kakuro in bus sooner than usual, solving a sudoku with maximum difficulty level again in about 15 min, a nice, long break with a friend, listening to my current favourites Paarthaale Paravasame and If You Wanna (from New) on repeat mode, sky with pinkish hues when the sun was setting, dinner at Eden with friends, the yummylicious Chocolate Fetish Sundae at Eden 😀 (I decided not to have ‘The Last Time Ever I Saw My Waist’ 😛 That’s an ice cream’s name there). What a good day it has been! 🙂

By the way, today is Madhavan’s birthday. Happy Birthday, Madhavan! 🙂 May he get to act in more good movies like Anbe Sivam, Evano Oruvan and Yavarum Nalam!

The year 2005 was when I first listened to Prasanna’s guitar in a concert of his at Music Academy during the December Season. Though I liked the concert, it wasn’t until I got a chance to listen to a couple of songs from his album, ‘Peaceful’ – ‘Peaceful – The Cause’ & ‘Peaceful – The Effect’ (his own compositions) – that I fell in love with Carnatic music on guitar. The next December Season saw me going for some 3-4 concerts of his. It was after that, that I first listened to his ‘Bliss Factor’ – a beautiful composition in Ananda Bhairavi & Sahana. After that, it wasn’t just Prasanna’s playing or Carnatic on guitar, but the very sound of guitar itself started fascinating me like never before. The guitar interludes in July Maadham suddenly seemed more beautiful than before. 😉 Meanwhile, I happened to listen to a Dwijavanti played by Sai Prasad on guitar, which, I must tell you, was awesome!
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Trying in vain to read a book in bus today morning, I thought I will solve the sudoku in today’s Ergo. By the time I was halfway through it, Kakuro given below sudoku caught my eye. Have been glancing through this paper for more than a year now and yet I never seem to have paid attention to it. Googled and got to know how to solve it. Got some old issues of Ergo from a sudoku-crazy friend and have since then been solving one puzzle after another!

Or so it feels like when I see the date of my last post here. So what’s been keeping me away from blogging?

Wanting to try some author I haven’t read before, I borrowed a couple of books of Sudha Murty from the library on the Monday before last. I first started reading ‘The Old Man and His God’ and liked it so much that I finished reading it at a stretch on the same evening. Finding ‘The Wise and Otherwise’ too equally engrossing as the previous book, the next day had me reading it at every possible free moment I could get. I can’t remember the last time I found a book as inspiring as these two! Reading those books made me do some serious thinking about a lot of things.
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It’s raining here! Yay! 🙂 Thunder, lightning, cool breeze, maN vaasanai, semma mazhai! Listening to the thunder and rain pouring, I am now happily singing

thandhaane thandhaane maega kooTTam thandhaane
iDiyellaam taaLam dhaane
mazhai thuLi maNNil vandhu sindha chindha ezhugiradhe oru vaasam
adhu ennai vaanavillil koNDu saertthu viDugiradhe sila naeram

😀 Veyil had been unbearable for the past 2 days with the temperature crossing 42 degree celsius. And now what a super weather! 🙂

4 days. 10 temples with no two temples being close to each other.1600+ km travel by car – Exhausting, tiring yet a very memorable trip!

Apart from a few temples that we had on our must-visit list, visit as many temples as possible without rushing even in a single place was the only plan that we had for this trip. And we did succeed in doing that. We left the entire trip planning to the driver since he knew all the routes.
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My current favourite songs are Manamadurai and Poo Pookkum Oasai from Minsara Kanavu and Chinna Kuyil Koovum from Yavarum Nalam (Yavarum Nalam songs deserve a separate post). Though I like the entire lyrics of all the 3 songs very much, my current favourite lines from two of those songs are related to rain and I just can’t stop humming those!

From Manamadurai:
thandhaane thandhaane maega kooTTam thandhaane
iDiyellaam taaLam dhaane
mazhai thuLi maNNil vandhu sindha chindha ezhugiradhe oru vaasam
adhu ennai vaanavillil koNDu saertthu viDugiradhe sila naeram

From Chinna Kuyil Koovum:
mazhai thuLi aayiram
kaDal maDi thaeDudhe
alaigaLaaga maaRi thuLLi aaDiDave

If only it rains here now, how great it would be! 🙂 And what a great respite it will be from the veyyil!

P.S.: Just as I was about to publish this post, I saw that Word had auto-corrected chinna of Chinna Kuyil to china and this old He-She was what I remembered immediately 🙂