The past couple of weeks, I have been so busy that I didn’t get time to either write blog posts or read blogs even though I did read a few posts once in a while (& saw the number of unread posts increasing with each passing day). When I logged into Google Reader today, I saw that the number of unread posts were 588 and some of those posts were written more than a month ago! Out of this, some 40 would have been comments. Apart from those, I would have marked only some 15 posts as read without really reading those. Guess what the number of unread posts is now? Just 100! Yay! I will hopefully read the remaining those tomorrow and resume blogging soon. Unlike earlier, I am now missing regular blogging. I hope I am able to find good topics to blog about.

The promo (click on the link to watch) of A.R.Rahman’s Changing Notes Concert is superb! I watched it only yesterday evening and since then, I have been watching it again and again! I had got the passes for the concert on Monday itself but I am yet to decide whether I will go or not.

Btw, for those who haven’t listened to ARR’s song for the Hyderabad airport yet, here’s the link.

One scene that has always remained etched in my memory ever since I watched it as a kid is a scene from the song, ‘kadavuL uLLamE’ from the movie, ‘anbuLLa Rajnikanth’. I am sure almost all of you would have watched this song many times, since that used to be often shown on the programme, ‘oliyum oLiyum’ on DD.
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And here I was, all these days, thinking that I cannot be without the internet, without blogs or checking mails regularly! How wrong I was! Though I didn’t plan on taking a break of any sort, I eventually ended up taking something like a break during the past few weeks. There were only very few blog posts that I read and I didn’t even check my mails for days together. Till now, whenever I have not blogged regularly, there was some specific reason for it. But this is the first time when I didn’t blog for no reason at all. I spent all my free time reading books or doing absolutely nothing worthwhile and I am happy to say that never once did I miss the internet. But what with so many blog posts waiting to be written and read, it’s now time for me to come out of this supposed break….

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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