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Aparna — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:17:23 +0000

The number of people with whom you are chatting with doesn’t matter. What matters is whether the conversation goes beyond the same old questions like How are you?, Howz life?, What’s up?, What’s new? or not!

July Maadham

Aparna — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:44:10 +0000

No this post is not about this month but about the song ‘July Maadham‘, which I am listening to on repeat mode now.
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National Flag & National Anthem – What they mean to me

Aparna — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:48:22 +0000

Writing the previous post made me sit back and think about what made me develop such strong feelings for the national flag, national anthem, etc. I can never tolerate seeing people sitting and listening to National Anthem. Mind you, I am not saying that those people are not patriotic or anything like that. It’s just that I can never sit when I listen to National Anthem. That’s all.
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Papers

Aparna — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:53:16 +0000

Books & Papers - These are two things that I always handle with utmost care. I hate seeing books/notebooks having wrinkled pages. There is nothing more annoying than seeing somebody crumple the pages while turning the pages of a book, that too a new book. Ask my friends who used to borrow my record or graph sheets in college and they will tell you how I used to ask them to take care not to kasakkify my record or graph sheets.
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T.M.Krishna’s Todi

Aparna — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:35:12 +0000

There is a saying in Tamil that goes ‘vilagi poanaal virumbi varum’. Well that’s how it has been with me and T.M.Krishna’s Todi! Todi turns out to be the main raagam in most of his concerts that I go for. And the worst part is that I miss many of his concerts where Todi is not the main. I missed the concert where he sang Sahana RTP too! Before you start off saying that his Todi is excellent, etc., etc., having listened to way too many Todis of his, I know it very well too. Yet I am just not interested in listening to Todi in every other concert! Just last Saturday, he sang a RTP in Todi in a concert, which, by the way, was superb (That concert deserves a separate post. I will write about it soon). So I least expected Todi to be the main raagam in yesterday’s concert. But when that is exactly what happened, I left the concert the moment he started the Todi alapana.
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What’s your name?

Aparna — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:54:43 +0000

Well that is supposed to be the question that all of us ask when we meet someone for the first time. But imagine knowing a person for more than a year and talking with her regularly and still not knowing her name at all! She comes in my bus and her stop is same as mine. I had been chatting with her while waiting for the bus all these days, till it recently struck me one day that I didn’t know her name at all! When I asked the others in the stop, they too didn’t know! They forgot it seems. After knowing a person for such a long time, the very thought of asking what her name is, was too embarrassing. I finally managed to see her ID card today and got to know her name!

The Gaana Bajaana Tag

Aparna — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 03:29:21 +0000

Sometime back Priya Iyer had tagged me with this tag. Here goes the tag:

Opening credits:
Bombay Theme - Bombay

Waking up:
veLLai pookkaL - Kannatthil Muthamittal
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