Puranjoy has tagged me. I enjoyed writing this tag since it gave me a chance to write about my school as well as college life. 🙂

Life Ten Years Ago

A decade back, in class 8, I was this silent girl in the class who spoke with only a few people in the class and whom most of the teachers didn’t know. The home works, assignments, lab sessions with simple experiments which seemed complex at that time, classes all through the day in school that I used to enjoy, Tata McGraw Hill Physics book for class 9, craze for reading Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew – finishing a book within a single day most of the times, a group of friends with whom I always had loads of fun during the class hours and a close friend with whom I used to chat away endlessly all through the day on all topics under the sun (I lost touch with her a few years back 🙁 ), the Hindi (I enjoyed writing all those exams conducted by Hindi Prachar Sabha), Math and music classes after school, the summer holidays when I went to my grandmother’s place where all the cousins had gathered and had fun unlimited all through the day, playing shuttle/badminton with friends in my flat in the evenings, when TV meant only Doordarshan, lost in how beautiful Nithyasree’s voice was in kaNNoaDu kaaNbadhellaam, when weekends didn’t mean as much as it means now – never did I keep telling TGIF on Fridays when I was in school – Life was indeed fun at that time! 🙂 Am missing those days now! Sigh!
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I took up this tag from Nithya’s blog.

Rules:

1. Put your MP3 player on shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write the name of the song no matter what. No cheating!
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Having nothing to do on Sunday evening, I thought I might as well watch the movie, Jab We Met (telecast on Sony), since I remembered reading good reviews about it. But I have never liked Shahid Kapoor. So I started watching the movie, not sure of how long I will have the patience to watch Shahid and Kareena. Besides, these days, I seem to have lost the patience to sit through the long breaks in between. 20 minutes into the movie, the first break came and still I wasn’t bored of the movie. In fact, I seemed to like it!
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sEvikka vENDum ayyA by Madurai Mani Iyer – This one is a must listen! I have been listening to it since morning. Can’t stop listening to it at all! Andholika is a real beauty! I just love the swarams at the end in this one.

Accompanists:
S.Varadarajan – Violin
Neyveli Venkatesh – Mridangam
K.V.Gopalakrishnan – Khanjira

Where & When? – Ratnagireeswarar Temple on 1st March, 2008

Songs List (Partial):
1. Varnam – Pantuvarali
2. Ananda natana prakasham – Kedaram – Raaga outline, Swarams at tha jam thari pa ma ga
3. Maarubalka – Sri Ranjani – Alapana, neraval & swarams
4. Chidambaram ena manam – Kalyani – Alapana, Swarams at Chidambaram
5. Kaayarohanesham – Abheri – Brief Alapana
6. unnaDiye gati eNRu aDainthaen – Bhahudari – Raaga outline
7. Keeravani Alapana
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Everybody knows that this song is based on raagas, Nattakurunji and Sahana. But when this album was released, I didn’t even know the raaga Nattakurunji, which incidentally has now become one of my favourite raagams!! And neither did I identify the Sahana part in this song at that time! It was only after a few years that I was able to exactly identify the raagas in the song and started enjoying the classical beauty in it. So, this song being based on classical raagams was not why I liked it instantly on seeing the trailer itself – Aishwarya’s teasing looks, a blushing Tabu, a handsome Ajith, the colour of the costumes & finally, the music! – I liked it all! Later when I saw the entire song, I liked it even more. I would put this song in the category of those Rahman’s songs that have been picturized very well. What about you?

Incidentally, the very first time when I watched the trailer of Alaipayuthey (Snehidhane song) was right after watching the trailer of Kandukondain Kandukondain featuring this song. At that time, I liked this trailer more than Alaipayuthey! :O Anyway, I really wish Rajeev Menon takes a movie soon and Rahman composes music for it. Hope that happens soon!

This is also a better late than never post! The past two weeks have been great what with 3 excellent concerts of Sanjay’s, that too Sanjay being accompanied by Varadarajan on the violin (my favourite combo) for all the concerts! If I start describing the concerts, this would become similar to all my earlier posts on Sanjay’s concerts. 😉 So I am going to post just the songs lists. Here are the list of songs sung by Sanjay in the past three concerts (including today’s) that I went to.
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These days, with three Tamil music channels, I get to see my favourite songs often on TV. Day before yesterday was one such day. I wanted to write this post on that day itself. Anyway, better late than never!

The whole of day before yesterday, the one song that I was continuously listening to was ‘nee oru kadhal sangeetham’ – my favourite song from Nayagan. I don’t know why but the scene in the video of this song that I like the most is the one where Kamal and Sharanya will be sitting inside their house and all of a sudden, raindrops start leaking (or should I say pouring?) through the roof and they move to a corner and a group of pigeons comes inside through the door. The music in the background when this scene comes, is one of the best interludes. While listening to the song, I got reminded of this scene and I very badly wanted to watch it. I had decided that I will watch the song on youtube soon. But the moment I switched on the TV on reaching home, guess what song had just started playing on Jaya Max? nee oru kadhal sangeetham! A pleasant surprise it was! 😉
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How would you feel if very often you have to keep repeating the same thing again and again like a thaenju poana record? I am reaching the limits of my tolerance! 😡