Music- Ecstasy, love, bliss and passion

Music has always been a passion for me. Though I haven’t learned to sing or play any sort of instruments, I have always admired singers and instrumentalists. I have had loads of friends who were good singers. Maybe that’s why anything related to songs attract me. I love songs that have a good beat, whatever genre it is in. There was a time when I simply liked the songs-filmy ones or albums- just because they were good to hear. Later on I began to give more importance to lyrics. Even if the songs are boring I used to listen just to get the lyrics, some of them which bring out the emotions inside you easily. Then again as time passed on, I began to notice about the voices. I get easily turned on by people with good voices. I don’t remember when it all started but I do remember falling head over heels hearing RJ Rakesh’s voice from Club FM who did a show called Love Bytes. The disappointing thing was they play the same set of songs again and again. But I always tuned in from 10pm to 12pm daily just to hear his voice :P Yeah I know. weirdo!!!

There were times when I got really paranoid about some of the songs (I still do ;) ). That times my ringtone, message tone, alarm tone, favorite playlist etc would consist of that particular song only. I would listen to it about 50 times daily. My status updates in all social networks and messengers would be its lyrics. I Google all available information about the singers, the scenes, the movie, the plot, the composer, the lyricist etc. People say even if you love a song so dearly listening to it after a while bores you. Not me!!! I still listen to my favorite songs over and over again. I thought to list down the songs, the ones I remember, that took me to paranoiac state :D

1. Song: Kangal Irandal

Movie: Subramaniapuram (Tamil, 2008)

Singers: Deepa Mariam, Belly Raj

Lyrics: Yughabarathi

Music: James Vasandhan

Genre: Soundtrack

Cast: Swathi, Jai

*It was when Orkut was in limelight. I didn’t change my status for a very long time :D

2. Song: Pookal pookum

Movie: Madrasapattinam (Tamil, 2010)

Singers: Harini, Roop Kumar Rathod , Andrea Jeremiah, G.V.Prakas

Lyrics: Na.Muthukumar

Music: G.V Prakash (my favorite :* )

Cast: Arya, Amy Jackson

*Friends said its weird to see me wearing t-shirt and jeans and having a classical ringtone for my mobile :P who cares!!!

3. Song: Aaromale

Movie: Vinnaithaandi Varuvaya (Tamil, 2010, though I heard this song on January 2012 only)

Singers: Alphons Joseph

Lyrics: Kaithapram

Music: A.R.Rahman

Genre: Psychedelic rock

Cast: Silambarasan, Thrisha

*Don’t know why my mom and most of the friends didn’t like this song much but it just makes me go crazy, even nowJ. I never understood why Darshana sang this ALL the time (before me hearing the original soundtrack :P ).  She sang the part ‘aaromlee..’ like some crazy rock star. But then I got curious when I listened to one of my friends, Abhay, sang the same song while performing at CET’s Dhwani’12 eastern orchestra competition. After that only I downloaded the song and huff!! Then I knew why she sang all the time :P. I still wonder why my windows didn’t break due to my speaker’s volume :P

An interesting fact about this song is that it was made in just about 4 hours!!!

4. Song: Thaai Thindra Manne (cholan ecstasy and classical version)

Movie: Aayirathil Oruvan (Tamil, 2010, though I heard the song towards the end of 2011 only)

Singers: Vijay Yesudas, Nithyasree Mahadevan, Shri Krishna

Lyrics: Vairamuthu

Music: G.V.Prakash

Cast: Parthiepan, Reema Sen

*One of my friends, Govind, recommended this song along with the song ‘Penmane...’ from the same movie.

5. Song: Muthuchippi poloru

Movie: Thattathin Marayathu (Malayalam, 2012)

Singers: Sachin Warrier, Remya Nambeesan

Lyrics: Anu Elizabeth Jose

Music: Shaan Rahman

Cast: Nivin Pauly, Isha Talwar

*I still remember opening my mouth when I first heard the song in the theatre. It was actually Remya Nambeesan’s voice that captured my attention. It was like haunting and soothing your soul at the same time. Later on only I noticed Sachin’s voice and after that it was about 2-3 weeks of replaying the button again and again :D :P And the scenes are also simply amazing- kudos to the cinematographer. Although I'm not a student of LBS anymore, when I heard Sachin Warrier is coming for the union arts club inauguration, me and my friends woke up early and went to my ex-alma mater, just to hear his voice :P And that's when I heard 'Namosthuthe...' properly when he sang. I didn't notice the song much while watching TM but now. . . Sigh!!! 

6. Song: Namosthuthe

Movie: Thattathin Marayathu (Malayalam, 2012)

Singers: Arun Alat

*And this is my recent crush or I don’t know what to call it. I sleep listening to this ‘devi shuthi’ , wakes up listening to this, currently my alarm tone and ringtone :D. Problem is I’m forgetting to attend calls nowadays :P I feel like getting positive energy listening to this song, bringing all positive thoughts, feeling lighter, and my mind and head feels clean. . . It’s actually Sanskrit with fusion music (I guess that’s what you call it). The English translation along with the lyrics can be found here.


And with that I bow onto you :) Thanks for reading :)

A Rainy Night

Recently I went through my drawers and found many diaries and bits of paper in which I wrote. . . My my! I used to write a lot though half of them are not complete or are just trash. The following one, dated 28/7/10, 11.12pm caught my attention.


      It is pitch black outside the window. The frequency of the rain keeps changing minute by minute. For a while I stood near the window listening to their angry voices. Yes! The downpour was so heavy that I could actually hear it scolding me.


     I drew in a long breath. The smell of earth filled my nostrils. I could feel the plants rejoicing in the rain. The leaves would be void of dust and dirt. The rain purifying them from the inside of its soul. I listened carefully for secret messages from the nature's tears, but I received none. Was that a simple visit? I closed the window and the rain splattered on the window as if they didn't want me to go.


       Do they miss me like I miss my soul?

10 Things I Do During Exam Time

People always post the same things about what students do during exam times. Well some of them are true in my case and some are not. Two days before my s8 university exam, Distributed System, and here I’m blogging about the 10 things I do during exam time. . .

1. Gets itchy feet all the time to leave the house and travel to some new places. The wanderlust that would end up in reading travelogues (mostly places in Trivandrum which are isolated) and checking out the places to visit. My travel list is growing fast but chances of visiting them are almost zeroL.
2. If my camera (CANON IXUS 95) is anywhere near me then I would end up taking photographs of all the mundane things around me like the clothes stand, the brass vessel where I keep coins, handbags, watch, key chains and if I’m not too lazy then the flowers,  seeds,  leaves, sand, birds, sky. . . Oh sometimes I take pictures of  the prints on my text books at various angles :P. 
3. Daydreaming about my crush- what would happen if everything works out well, what if not, what he would be doing right now, how we would unexpectedly meet at a resort at Alapuzha (for Dachu’s bachelors party ;) ), what if he turns up on my 22^nd  B’day party, stalking his Facebook profile and so on.
4. Playing Angry Birds, even though I finished all the levels, just to beat my friend’s top score :D. Yeah Gold Crown!!!
5. Planning what to do after exams- planning, scheduling, asking opinions. . .etc
6. Reading and rereading old messages in mobile inbox.
7. Looking at the mirror and showing weird faces.
8. Reading all the troll posts on Facebook.
9. Talking about future life and having heated discussion about silly things in life which we have never ever given a damn about (happens during combined studies).
10. Thinking what to blog next or work on a new story. Don’t know why but my creativeness wakes up when exams are on full swing K

One of the snaps I took during an exam time ;) :P

Yeah I know all these are reflected on my grades but then I can't help it :-|. Guess this would be the last time I'l ever do such things between my exams as my B.tech life is about to end (hopefully). Sigh!!! Not sure whether I should get elated or dismayed. . .