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Golden Lotus .... Me sings..

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Thanga thamarai | Upload Music

ChalaNaatai - Edayaa Gathi

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Edayaa gathi.... | Upload Music

Hindolam - Muruga, One more time!

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Further testing muziboo and your listening skills! :) One more time! | Music Codes

Testing Muziboo with Kaialavu Manasu - It works

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Kai Alavu Manasu | Musicians Available

Those things...

There are some things that you just cant forget, right? ..... it's just so ingrained in your brain, no matter how long back it happened. You probably hear most of it being recalled more by your amma (this was the first dress you wore or something like that) .. like for me, where I bought that stupid but favorite red t-shirt, those live-in denims I bought to wear to a meeting with my HeadMaster in school (cant even believe that now :P), the senior farewell that we hosted  (it was supposed to be modelled out of a new TV channel launch) However, these events or ideas are muddled somewhere behind in my brain.. and sometimes, get triggered by different agents - sometimes my dreams, an old photo and the likes! and then, you (I) rewind and play it again.. and then, the current state seems strangely sad, nostalgic! I've started hating this feeling called nostalgia - guess it's no use - Living in the moment is what I need to do! That thing that I used to do back in B or M or C alw

A city of L.O.V.E

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It's not Paris, nor is it Venice (hehe.. :) But still it's a city that you'll fall in love with! A young city, teeming with techies But dont forget, a few budding managers too! And right in that city, just out of it though, Is a sylvan beauty, so green and pristine! Those woods that hum with anthills that scare, And all else that's there will stay in your eyes! Snakes are aplenty, peruchalis for their prey :) And to make us jump on a Night Canteen day, Great Expectations, with those you enter, Great surprises, you surrender, you swim, No fun like this, can ever return, A culture of its own, quite usual but dear! Not days of summer, but those rainy MAR(S)ian ones So rainy, so wet, yet you never wanto fret! All the time to discover yourself, And still no time, just if you're lost :) Just step out, So many places to hang out! Maiyas and PVR, those days of yore Blah Blah Blah Blah, not in Singapore And if you still havent figured out, it's

Unlike India

Things that I didn't know I'll miss: (in no order, so don't judge me!) 'Semmozhi' song being played in continuous loops on TV - when it was played yesterday on TV, I realized that I hadn't seen the video in one whole week, almost blasphemous in TN nowadays! Normal Bollywood songs - Set Max, 9X etc.. An interesting Tamil Reality show like Airtel Super Singer - the Sangeetha Maha Yudham is crass! Mixie - at least to grind coconut ever silver tumbler - so that you get that froth on the coffee ever silver karandi - feels very vaaku, these peengon and plastic things are useless thayir saadam - I never knew I'd miss this one Short Power cuts - for that edge of unpredictability that adds spice to life! Time to read English and Tamil fiction - I actually do get it, this is a vetti point Physical Hindu newspapaer - the e-version just doesnt feel the same! Grand Sweets Pepper Rasam mix - it takes painfully long to make the rasam on my own!   Things I ha

Immortalised by Madurai Somu and Aruna Sairam

This is one song that is usually sung, brimming with emotion and almost on a begging note, asking the Lord to shower his blessings on mortals - Although it's one on God, am sure the emotion is universal and something that everyone can experience. However, this one's my version of it. :)

Of Mars and Spics

It's strange how organizations and institutions tie us up by just being there. When we join an organization, there is a sense of nervousness and fear about the whole thing. - New place, new people, new relationships and so on. You may start off by hating your hostel room or office cubicle. In due course of time, however, the very same places become the cosiest and the most comfortable ever. You start relating to the place and building an identity (naturally or otherwise) for yourself there. And yes, there is this phase when you might feel 'What am I doing here?' - I seem to be going nowhere. Though when the exit finally happens, there are mixed feelings again! The stark grey stones of my institute failed to endear to me when I saw them for the first time. In fact, my first visit was highly disappointing! I felt the campus was too small, too randomly built and lacked any architectural design. I felt the hostel blocks were lifeless, the rooms where shady-max and the whole p

A Beautiful Night

And Yamini returns! If you're somewhere around Bangalore on Jan 25th this year, and if you dont mind getting treated to some awesome classical music and dance, do not miss this one. And yes, entry's free. You just need a pass that can be downloaded from www.iimb-yamini.com ; Really looking forward to it! One of my last big things in the last 2 years that's almost closing in now. Hope it all goes well. Jumbujaaaa ..........

When I look back....and forward

Back in school, some of my favorite subjects were English, Chemistry and Geography. Precisely in Class X ICSE. Struggled through Maths and finally got a respectable score in the final exam, but not before screwing up every practise exam in school preceding the boards. Not sure if I really enjoyed Maths that much. But I really enjoyed English (Merchant of Venice, Selected Short Stories and Pageant of Poems) and Chemistry. When almost all of the class hated chemistry, I used to just love the subject, especially organic chemistry and chemical bonding. Though I had an excellent Bio ma'am, I really did not fancy the subject that much! Those were the days when I aspired to become a Chemistry or Geography teacher I guess. And then, just like everyone else, did science in Class XII (put some enthu into the drab State Board syllabus), Computer Science engineering (how irrelevant was that!). Put fight in Comp Sci. engineering, took GRE & TOEFL, apped to 4 colleges (got through 2), took