My singing attempts

These were a few of the songs I recorded amateurly some 6 months back. Didn't get to upload them at all. I thought I would improve on them and then upload. But I don't think I'll find time in the near future to do so. I listened to them and thought it wasn't that bad to ignore. So here I am, uploading them :D

http://www.switchpod.com/users/p_ramasamy/feed.xml has the list of all songs for download.

To listen to the indivudal songs, visit http://www.switchpod.com/p6629.html

I've uploaded 5 songs in total.

1. Ilaya nila pozhigiradhu
2. Kalyana Maalai
3. Poove Sempoove
4. Raasaathi unnai
5. Vellai Pookal


Listen to them and let me know your comments.

Thanks for putting up with my voice ;-)

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Anto has written a great piece at http://antorocks.blogspot.com/2006/12/lover.html
Do check it out.

A small story...

As I woke up, I didn't know where I was... It was so cold. It was killing me. I could see a labyrinth of creepers on the ground. Everywhere I saw, it was just the creepers. I crawled under one of them. It was warm. As I got more layers of the creepers above me, it was more comfortable. I could see the entire population cozily covered up in the twines. I thought I wasn't lost. I was happy.

I grew. With every small movement, the twines started hurting. Each one was twined in a peculiar pattern. As long as everyone moves with in the permitted range, the twines didn't hurt. But beyond that, it tore people apart.

I didn't quite understand this unless I saw a person fly above the maze. How could he fly, I wondered.

He showed me something that I didn't know was with me. He pointed to something on my shoulders. He said that it was called the "wings". Due to lack of use, they had become vestigeal. He taught me to strengthen it.

The sun is shining. The cold, I bother no more. I am able to see my wings. I now know that I am a bird. I only know. But I want to experience that I am a bird by flying. Yes, I want to fly. I want to cut open these twines and fly. I have started flapping hard. I shall continue to. One day I shall fly above this labyrinth into the endless space.

Thanks to the One.

How am I gonna thank u...

Yup, how am I going to thank A.R.Rahman for what he has given in the form of "Guru". Guru songs have been perennially running 24*7 ever since it released.

I want to write a detailed review on each song, just not finding enough time. Will soon write one.

Rahman, you are simply awesome.

The traitor...

As I was talking with my good friend, I was telling him how my perceptions about almost everyhting has changed within the last couple of years. It was then I realised how much taking a snapshot of the state of mind helps when you want to look at the path of the mind. One thing is for sure. This mind is a great traitor.

What it touts at one moment as THE THING to pursue, a few moments later, it simply ditches it only to go after some other thing. Let me recount the things that mattered to me the most in the last 20 odd years of "eating-doing various levels of insane things-sleeping" routine. What follows looks pretty stereotypical to me. Anyways, i feel like recording this and hence this crap post.

In the early school going days, it was the madness for first rank. Even if I miss the rank in only one out of the 10 tests held every year, that one night I would sleep crying. Amma used to find it out from the long face I used to have following such disasters (that was what it used to be). It was after the 10th board exams that this desire for rank 1 lost a bit of its' hold.

Next came the desire to get into the best engineering colleges available. The pursuit began. And when it was done, the next attraction took possession of my mind. I always had this notion that one needed to study only till 12 th and then freak out (thanks to the tons of tamil movies that wallow with college and the "so-called-love" life). Yeah, the next attraction was the fairer sex. I still remember the air I used to have around me when walking into college during my first semester. It used to say "I am a COLLEGE STUDENT and I am here PRIMARILY to sight-adichufy". This attraction was something that took over my mind when I was probably in my 10th standard (when the adoloscence started showing its existence), but I held it suppressed for fear of losing out in the competitive exams.

Then the mind wandered away to point out that a "top notch job" was the thing to pursue. After sometime, it again started grousing that management studies should boost the resume better. For some strange reason I don't feel like writing anymore. So cutting it short. Other things which it said were the most important things are: great career recognition, world-wide recognition/innovation, money, power...

The cacophony hasn't stopped. But I have ear sponges using which I can comfortably ignore the noise...

The happy family...

The happy family of bus no.10 during Dhyan Yatra 2006.
(Standing in the bus footsteps): Esha, Meenakshi
(Standing on the ground):Venkataramanan, Vimal, Manohar, JP, Arun, me, Kalpana, Jayashree, Mallika, Shyamala, Bala, Aditya, Kumaran, Utkarsh and Vishal.
(Squatting in the front):Bhoopesh, Anto, Prasanna, Netaji, Siva, PandiMurugan.

Just for laughs

Certain mail conversations are absoultely funny. Following is one which happened among my close friends circle.

Note: Only for people who can understand Tamil...

A mail had come with the subject "To all who know Dharma". Basically here Dharma referred to a person.

Machi 1: For those who know Dharma`nu potta udanae "Dharmathin vaazhvuthanai soothu kavvum, Dharmam marubadiyum vellum" range`ku think pannikittu open pannaen ...atleast for those who knows Dharma anna`nu pottu irukalaamda machi ...

Machi 2: Adhu seri...Nee koodadhaan..."Dharmathi vaazhvuthanai soothu kavvum"la soodhu-nu pottu irukalaamda... ;)

Rest of all Machis: ROTFL