For the past four days, I have been listening to only two songs again and again. They are Sonu Nigam’s Deewana (This one is of course not A.R.Rahman’s) and Rahman’s Lukka Chuppi. More than the music, one thing that had me hooked on to these two songs is the voice of Sonu Nigam & A.R.Rahman. The feel that they both bring to the songs with their voices is amazing.
Yesterday evening, I listened to the songs of Sivaji for the first time. After listening to Rahman singing a beautiful line like ‘Yahaan sab kuch hai maa phir bhi lage bin tere mujhko akela’ in Lukka Chuppi, his singing the line ‘Bun bun nee sweet bun’ in the song Athiradee didn’t appeal to me initially. After that, I listened to some of my favourites sung by Rahman since all I wanted to do was to listen to only the songs sung by him!
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One moment you feel as though your life just can’t get better and you are enjoying every bit of it. The very next moment something that you never ever expected would happen, happens and you feel as though your whole life has got shattered. You try to accept it as a fact of life and try your best to move on. But, is it that easy? Life indeed, is a mystery. You never know what happens when and why it happens. And the worst part is when you have to accept things and carry on with your life as usual….

No this post is not about any apartment. Anjali Apartments is the name of a show that comes in Hello FM everyday which features conversations between the Manager of Anjali Apartments, Madhavan, and others living in the apartment. If I am not mistaken, the dialogues in this show should supposedly make the listeners laugh! But, I seriously wonder who will laugh after hearing those dialogues! Sample this (not the exact words of course):

Some kid: Uncle, enga veetla yaarukkum enna pidikkala
Manager: Yaen appadi solra?
Some kid: Ennoda periya akkakku rendu thangai, ennoda innoru akkakku oru thangai aana enakku mattum thangaye illa!

Oh My God! You should realise how I must have felt after hearing it! That was the last time I listened to that program. It was a week back or so. Why can’t they come up with better content!

The Panguni festival began at Kapaleeswarar temple on Saturday. Today is the third day and it is on this day that Lord Kapaleewarar is taken out in a procession on Adhikara Nandi. Lord Vinayaka, Lord Subramanya, Godess Karpagambal and Chandikeswarar are also taken in procession. I must say I am very blessed since I got the darshan of Adhikara Nandi today for the first time. Here are some snaps that I took:
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Who searched for ‘ar rahman is not welcome in tamilnadu’ in Google? I am asking this only because I am curious to know what made someone search for this. But, look the search results for this in Google. The top two results are Prabhu’s post for Chennai Metblogs and my posts on Rahman. So, I guess this would have made whoever searched for this, know that A.R.Rahman is indeed most welcome in Tamil Nadu. 🙂

Your friend tells you that some of the unseen scenes from ‘Guru’ are going to be telecast on CNN IBN at 11.30 pm. In spite of feeling sleepy, you excitedly wait in front of the TV trying hard not to close your eyes. At around 11.25 pm, you get a blank screen on TV with an error message ‘No Signal Found’! 🙁 The set top box receives the signal only at around 11.35 and you get to see only a couple of scenes.
I don’t know what other scenes I missed. I hate SCV and my cable operator! Whenever I eagerly wait to watch a program on TV, this happens. 🙁 Can’t help saying Murphy Rules (After all, Murphy’s Law is the one law that I completely believe in) at moments like this!

Seeing an ambulance waiting at a traffic signal with its siren blaring is something that pains my heart. How I wish something was done about it! Why can’t the vehicles coming from the opposite side stop and give way for the ambulance? (I know it is easier said than done) Is it a must to follow the signal when a person’s life is at stake? Can’t the police do anything about it? I remember waiting at the signal at the Mount Road-Venkatanarayana Road junction once when an ambulance, inside which was sitting a lady crying with a baby in her arms, was waiting for the signal to turn green for some 10 minutes! Agreed it was peak hour and the traffic was heavy. But, couldn’t something have been done about it? Yesterday too I saw an ambulance waiting for some 5 minutes at a signal. It is at moments like these that I feel so damn helpless! 

Wishing A.R.Rahman and Saira Banu a Happy Wedding Anniversary! 🙂

(A.R.Rahman and his wife at actor Prabhu’s son’s wedding)

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