I had been tagged by Priya Iyer sometime back. Every time I started to write this tag, something or other came up. I finally got the time to finish it.

Ten Things You Wish You Could Say To People Right Now (names withheld):

• Thanks a ton for that lovely gift! 🙂

• I don’t want you to give me any motivation. Atleast don’t de-motivate me!

• I am so happy that I got a friend like you 🙂

• For heaven’s sake, learn to take good care of yourself!

• Hope you come back to Chennai soon!

• I will never forget all those motivating/inspiring words of yours.

• I never expected that you would change like this!

• I have got tired of waiting.

• Thanks for reading my blog!

• Thanks for all the wonderful comments!

(I thought of not withholding the names for the above two. But what if by mistake, I leave out one of your names, my dear blog readers? So I had to withhold the names 😉 )
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March seems to be the month of tags. I have been tagged by Nithya. Here goes the tag:

A-Available? Am asking the same question as Nithya. Available for what? 😛

B-Best friend(s): There are many

C-Cake or Pie: Cake

D-Drink of choice: Lemon juice
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There are times when you are lost in the beauty of music so much that all you would want to do is just listen to it and do nothing else. That’s how I feel right now, completely mesmerized by Sanjay’s Nattakurunji. As I listen to the beauty of the raagam unfold with every passing second, I am falling in love with it more and more. I have lost track of the number of times I listened to it this week. I am already listening to it for the third time today! I can’t wait to go home and listen to more of Nattakurunji – Sanjay’s vazhi maraitthirukkudhe and jagadeesa (not this version but the one from his Chatushram CD) and M.S.Gopalakrishnan’s Nattakurunji varnam (This one is the best!).

‘A Walk to Remember’ by Nicholas Sparks – This book was on my ‘books to read’ list for quite sometime now, after reading about it in Nithya’s and Priya’s blogs. I finally read it day before yesterday and I loved it. It has been a long time since I finished reading a book on a single day. Oh yeah the book indeed wasn’t a huge one but that was not the reason why I finished reading it in a few hours. It was so riveting that I couldn’t put it down at all.
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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!