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Will the earth cease to exist after 2012?

2012-01-19T01:18:00.000-08:00

Most of my friends' this year's resolution is to freak out as much as they can cuz they believe that this year is gonna be their last year for the earth to exist, after which, the globe will shatter to pieces (such dumb friends i have!) or cease to exists. Humiliate them not cuz they do not want to take a risk on that noticing all the drastic changes that happening around but an opinion like that is just a mere joke, me thinks.

The recent inventions and discoveries suprises me a lot. Lately, I stumbled upon an article on disproving Einstein's theories in The Week magazine. E=mc2- The formula which we all have been using for years have been disproved by scientists. Further more experiments have been followed to claim Einstein was wrong. E=MC2 has been the only reason for me to scrape through all my physics papers. I used to breif out what E was, what "=" was, what M and C was and why C was squared, who Einten was, about the apple which fell on his head with which he came up with the law of gravity etc for pages and pages. And yes of course it was all from my head and not from the books. Disproving the only formula i know in physics makes me feel a little thick.

Einstein's theory was that no particle can travel faster than light. But scientists have discovered that neutrinos can travel faster than light and with that, they have also discovered that it is possible to travel back in time. Humans percieve things by the reflection of light. You see a person and you can see him by the light reflecting from his body reaching your eyes and hence you are able to see him. If neutrinos are claimed to travel faster than light, it is possible to travel back in time. Imagine the 'neutrinos powered' you can run fater than light, and when you stop and one point and turn back you see yourself running. Since the neutrinos are faster than light, you travel faster than the light and that you perceive things by reflection of light, you can see your our self running behind as light travels slower than neutrinos. Kinda funny to understand the notion but if everything falls in place and things's been proved, anything can happen.

If its proved that its possible to travel back and forth in time, then I have so much to change and to design my future. It makes one feel a magician! I wish scientists slog a little more on investigating our earth's length of life!!

"Morning cold"- in Chennai as well !!

2012-01-16T20:05:00.000-08:00

I got up in the morning and for a second I thought if i were in Bangalore. I was telling my friends in Banglore that I was gonna visit them. And when I woke up, the morning temperature took me aback that for a second it made me think that my friends have abducted me to Banglore until I took my thinking cap off. When I was traveling in my office bus, for a moment, the trembling code served a reason for popping another question up my head- that if I were sick. Thank God I'm not. Cuz everyone was sunk into their seats to warm themselves up. Feels really good to come up against a temperature like this once in a blue moon as Chennai is meant for scorching your skin. I request all Americans to visit Chennai for sunburns, cuz it could really burn your ass off.

I thank God for a wonderful morning but I'm not sure how my task of the day would change it to as I'm working in an IT company- you never know how worse things have turned out until you realise it, cuz when you realise it, its always worse!

Thank you Pongal

2012-01-16T09:20:00.000-08:00

This Pongal has been the one important reason for everyone to reach home early after office. I plump myself in my office bus for two and half hour journey everyday till i reach home after office. I have three office buses of my route running at different times which gives me a choice to choose the one which my work coerce me to. In bygone days, I used to board the 6:30pm bus which drops me home at 9:00pm. And then when i exert myself for my mundane project, sitting in front of the electronic idiot box, oblivion to what the hell is happening around and then all of a sudden I get to look at my watch and realize its time for me to leave, I started boarding the 7:30pm bus which drops me home by 9:45pm-ish. And then when my project gives me a screwed up issue which i need to get it fixed to avoid abhorrent reprimands on status calls the next day from someone who'll have sunbath in the beaches of US of A to make him not look pale or pigment-ally challenged, I started boarding the 8:30pm bus which drops me home by 10:30pm-ish. No matter what, the traffic on the roads of OMR at any given time will be the same as there are thousands of other I-dont-have-a-clue-on-what-the-hell-is-happening-in-my-project IT schleppers just like me. But today was unconventional and fresh. The roads seems to give a "black carpet" welcome for all IT buses pushing aside the traffic, which got me home unbelievably early. This happened in the morning as well. Reached office very early. But that's just not what we want yeah?

Thank you Pongal. I hope you come once a month on different names.

Pasi Edukkuthu.!!!

2011-10-20T14:41:00.000-07:00

The usual preamble- I'm posting after a long time (duh!). Reason- I've been in a very major accident which almost took my soul to the heaven's gate. Maybe God was not expecting me then so He put me back down to earth. He gave me a second life. Im so thankful to Him to have given my life back. At the hospital for a month, at home for another. Been through a lot physically and mentally. I'm confused as to why God has designed my fate to shuffle between the extremes. He made me recover so fast that surprised the doctors. May be for someone who has been in the same accident I've been in, he would need 3 months bed rest at the minimum. I was OK in just 2. Maybe that's God's way of balancing equations. I'm OK now but it takes a little more time for certain injuries to heal.

Two months off office was a little sombre. Apart from the usual work, office was always fun. There was one very good friend of mine who never lets you know the rush of time when you're with him. We had a lot of good time together. It was one afternoon when i called him for lunch through my office communicator and he gave me a weird reply which gave birth to the song Pasi Edukkuthu. The lyrics just bloomed over our funny chat and the lyrics was so funny that we wanted to make a song out of it. I composed it using FL Studio. Please listen to it and leave your comments.

Sajith Pasi Edukuthu by Sajith
Click here to download

Song: Pasi Edukkuthu
Lyrics: Harish, Sajith
Music: Sajith
Singer: Sajith (please bear my singing!!)

Lyrics:
Pasi edukuthu pasi edukuthu oyyala
Vayiru girru girru'nguthu girru girru'nguthu thannale (2)

Oru mani ayidichina..
Oru mani ayidichina kannu rendum theriyala
Kaiyum kaalum odala
Ada vaayum pesa mudiyala

Ellathayum vittu puttu canteen poga thonuthu
Purse'il ulla kaasu eduthu thooki vesa thonuthu

Pasi edukuthu pasi edukuthu oyyala
Vayiru girru girru'nguthu girru girru'nguthu thannale

Oru mani ayidichina..
Oru mani ayidichina thala thongi poguthu
pasi kaatha adaikuthu
paarva mangi poguthu

Koncham kuda mudiyama nazhuvi nazhuvi poguren
Patcha thanni kudichu puttu pasiya theerka paarkuren

Pasi edukuthu pasi edukuthu oyyala
Vayiru girru girru'nguthu girru girru'nguthu thannale

My encounter with a star!!!

2011-05-26T03:14:00.000-07:00

The below pictures might give you a bit of a surprise and makes you raise your brows asking "How!!?" :P
Read on to know how and where I met him..

Your friends and team mates would be as much happy as you are on your birthday only for one reason- Treat! Treating someone on his/her special occasion has become a custom now. My team had asked for a combined treat from everyone who had their birthdays last month. And also during the recent appraisal process, people who have been promoted were on the list as well. So all together, there were 11 victims for the day!

After intense research, we decided on Aloft, Sholinganallur. The hotel was really good with its ambiance and atmosphere so pleasing (It had to be! cuz its a 4 star hotel!!). While we were scoffing with our complete concentration on the food, there were commotion and camera flashes all of a sudden. As we were lost in gulping down scrumptious food, we took our eyes off the plate wanting to know who it was. To our surprise, its one of the leading actors in Bollywood Mr. Amir Khan with his family and two bodyguards. As i went forward to take few snaps, his bodyguards stopped me asking me to give him some privacy take pics after he dines.

As people started to throng towards Amir wanting to take a snap with him, the hotel officials moved him to another private spot which was on the other side of where we were dining. Though we were able to see him we couldn't go near him as his bodyguards stood there as barricades. I think some girl from my team spoke with one of the bodyguards and expressed her wish to take a snap with him and she was asked to wait till he dines.

After all it wasn't an excuse he gave to dine peacefully but he did spend some time to take few pics with him though he had to go for a shoot that night. Everyone who came there for dinner got something to put up/brag about on Facebook- "Me with Amir Khan!!" My intention of taking a pic with him was for the same reason as I'm not a big fan of his but like him as an amazing actor.

There would've been a fight between me and the bodyguards if it was A.R.Rahman instead of Amir. I'm pretty sure I would've done anything to have a chat with him, take a pic with him and to get an autograph from him. And that not for showing it off to friends but as a simple wish of a big big fan of his. I wish i get an opportunity like this with superstar Rahman next time. ;-)

In the pic: That's me and my team mates with Bollywood star Amir.

Tick tock on the clock!

2011-05-17T03:15:00.000-07:00

It seems like just a couple of months since i joined Cognizant but the reality surprises me- Its been almost a year and a half. Time seems to fly in the blink of eye that most of the beautiful things in life have the air of being missed. The run of time is descried at some instances in life like when you skim through a marriage album your work didn't allow you to attend, looking at some of it you exclaim "He's grown up so fast! He was just a kid when I last saw him;" "Oh, She is no more? When did she pass away?;" "What? He is married now?" "Who is she? Wasn't he married to another............. so on.

I've been always curious to know the reason why time runs so fast. I rescheduled my calender and gave priority to "analysis of the run of time" over "day dreaming." To understand it better, I'd broken down the analysis into smaller parts- from hours to years. (Disclosure: I'm not so good at math. If the figures are wrong........ Well...... huh.... don't mind. Just read on!!)

24 hours makes a day in which I work for 9 hours. It takes 4 hours for traverse, to and fro. Which is 9+4=13 beautiful hours is eaten up every single day. The rest 11 hours is further eaten up in 7 hours of sleeping. That give out a residue of just 4 hours everyday and that is been used to gear up to another day of oblivion.

7 days makes a week and the above said routine goes on for another 5 days that leaves 2 days in a week- weekends. (Wow! Just getting my tongue around the word "weekend" gives me all smiles.) Now after going through 4 hours-left-over-fun shitty routine, weekend appears longer. But not long enough to enjoy. Saturdays and Sundays appear just to let me know that I'm still alive. It makes me wanna earnestly beseech God to make weekends have 42 hours each. Life seems like a drag when you were asked to slog even on Saturdays!! Weekends run like a flow of water. So fast, so quick!!

One thing which buck me up when broadening the analysis on months is for that one day which will make any employee super happy- salary day!! This reminds me of a forward mail in which a picture, relating to the tale of the tortoise and rabbit, depicts how "money comes in like tortoise and goes out like rabbit." That's true in a way. We patiently wait for the end of the month, for that one day which makes us feel that we are rich (as the above quote describes, it doesn't take too long for the money to fritter away!!)

As this sequence of the above said is unvaryingly followed throughout the year, and summing it all up:

24 hours - 9hours slogging - 4 hours travelling - 7hours snoozing = 4hours/day. [4 of 24hours]
4hours x 5days/week = 20 hours/week excl. weekends. [20 of 120 hours]
20hours x 4weeks/month = 80hours/month excl. weekends. [80 of 480hours]
80hours x 12months/year = 960hours/year excl. weekends. [960 of 5760hours]
That means I get only 40/240 days time to rejoice in a year?? What would you practically do with that?

Everyday we wait for the day to end; everyday we wait for the week to end; every week we wait for the month end, for salary; and every month we wait for the year to end, for a hike/promotion/etc. And then i realised that it was i/me/myself who wanted the time to run fast so that i could rejoice my 40/240 days a year!! I would've mentioned in most of my posts that i will have to balance my work life with my personal life and though it sounds easy, there is a minute barrier which stops me and projects out the barrier like a great wall of China! And its pretty obvious that for someone to write a post like this wouldn't have had the ability to balance his work life with his personal. Well, there is time and I'm gonna start utilising my 40/240 days/year to think of how to get things straight and gonna spend as much time as i can, if possible (is this the barrier??)!! ;-)

The quote i just came across while writing this post. Sounded apt to this so putting it up:

WE ARE NOT HUMAN BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.
WE ARE SPIRITUAL BEINGS GOING THROUGH A TEMPORARY HUMAN EXPERIENCE.

She is the best in the world!!!

2011-05-08T23:45:00.000-07:00

Today is one of the days to honour the person responsible for your existence. Mother is the reason for what you are and who you are. Not very often do we think of gifting something to our mom until its her birthday (and not very often do we think of writing a post about how wonderful of a person your mom is! :P). Mother's day has been a day to commemorate motherhood and has been an occasion to make her "extra" happy. I bought my mom a party handbag and made her that "extra" happy. (Well, bigger the earnings, bigger the gifts! I wish i get a salary hike!!!) I usually surprise her by keeping the gift in the kitchen (a place where every mother's day starts!!) so that when she wakes up in the morning and goes to kitchen, the joy she gets when she sees gift wrapped up all good with her name on it, and the moment of excitement when she opens it up, its just priceless! Never give your mom a moment to frown but make her smile forever with joy!

Happy mothers day to all!!!

Rebecca Black's Friday- The top of all!!!!

2011-05-02T00:21:00.000-07:00

For the past two weeks, the top trending topic on the web has been Rebecca Black and her hit single Friday. The track has gone viral over the net and has become an overnight sensation. Its video has 110 million clicks on YouTube and both Black and Ark Music, its record label, had received $20,000 from YouTube's revenue-sharing program. The song was No.39 last week and its jumped to 19 on iTunes chart. It also entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 72 and rose to 58 the following week. The song is considered as one of the Hot 100 songs. So what's so special about this song? The song has gained universal popularity...... negatively!! Yes, the song is considered as the "Worst song ever" on YouTube and received harsh reviews and responses. The offbeat lyrics in the song makes it sound eccentric and exasperated almost everyone who saw/heard the video/song. Even me. The song is 'loved to hate' by people on the net. Numerous parody videos have been uploaded on YouTube that making a parody video of it has become a trend. After the song gained much popularity, ABC TV went to interview Rebecca Black. After the initial congratulatory wishes, Andrea Channing, the interviewer, started off by asking how she felt about the harsh comments that people have given for her song and also read out few jarring comments right at her face for which Black was a little emotionally shaken, of course. But she was bold enough to respond that she do not care about the harsh comments and that she took things positively. "Friday is the worst song ever that even dead people are complaining" was one of the comments. Black, in the interview, said that the worst comment she came across was "I hope you cut yourself and I hope you get an eating disorder so you’ll look pretty, and I hope you go cut yourself and die…" After stating this, she expressed her wish to sing a duet with Canadian singer Justin Bieber. LOL!

American Idol former judge Simon Cowel, who is familiar for his blunt, sarcastic comments, has recently commented that he likes her as a person who has gotten so much publicity in just one week. He also expressed his wish of wanting to meet her.

Me thinks that for a song to top the chart (or at least sound listenable) all the elements of the song has to be given equal importance- voice, lyrics, music and all other technical aspects. The song fail to impress the audience if even one of the elements just mentioned is not up to the mark. Friday lyrics are so hilarious and she was crowned as the "lyrical genius" in few social networking sites. The excessive use of auto tune work in the song left a question in the listeners mind wheather Black is really a singer. To check how her voice would sound without auto tune, Channing, in her interview, asked Black to sing Friday without the aid of auto tune. She was not bad after all. Rebecca sensed her intention and responded that she is "not the best singer but also not the worst singer."

I hope her next song is a "good" Friday! :P

PS: I've been writing this post for a week now since I haven't found much time to finish it off at once. So this post is a week old and hence few information in the post may vary. :P

A stupid black mark on my index finger...

2011-04-13T13:34:00.000-07:00

If its every citizen's duty to participate in the decision making that happens every five years, then count me in. I cast my vote today despite knowing the fact that its not gonna make any difference. All i needed was a mark in my finger to prove that i have done my duty as a citizen. I must mention that I was lucky to have my name in the polling register cuz there were few people who fought a losing battle with the authorities as their names were not in the list. Eventually they exited the way they entered cursing both the authorities and the politicians. Too bad that the EVM does not have an option for a blank vote. If it had, i guess half of all the votes would've been a blank vote. The other half, of course, would've been casted to any politician whose bribe amount per vote rate scaled up. My facebook status for the day was this

"Do I have to vote for the prosperity of the already opulent politicians or for the attractive inducements they've promised?? Cuz I don't see an option to vote for the good of our country!!"

As soon as i updated my facebook status, one of my friends commented on it asking me to cast my vote under 49-O. 49-O is a rule which states that a valid voter need not vote if he doesn't want to. Text of the Rule 49-O from wiki

"49-O. Elector deciding not to vote.-If an elector, after his electoral roll number has been duly entered in the register of voters in Form-17A and has put his signature or thumb impression thereon as required under sub-rule (1) of rule 49L, decided not to record his vote, a remark to this effect shall be made against the said entry in Form 17A by the presiding officer and the signature or thumb impression of the elector shall be obtained against such remark."

He believed that if the majority of the vote is a blank vote, which is 49-O, then the contending parties will be disqualified and the state will be under the Governor's rule for six months. And after six months, election will again be announced but with new candidates. I made him understand that whatever he believed was just hoax. He suggested me to vote under 49-O but little did he know about the fact that the EVM does not have an option for people to cast vote under section 49-O and to do so, the individual must inform the presiding officer about his/her disinclination to vote.

The election period is the time when the rivalry between the ruling party and the opposition party reveals more truth about all politicians. During the election campaign, all that is needed for a politician is a mike, henchmen to extol him and some liquor to start a verbal attack on other politicians. Me thinks that a special drug is formed when liquor and enthusiastic praises mix so well that would make any politician high enough to blast about anyone. For instance 'Karuppu MGR' Vijayakanth can be taken as an example. I assume that most of them would've known about how Vijayakanth campaigns as it was "flash news" on Sun TV and Kalaignar TV. Check out how Vijayakanth blabbers, how Vijayakanth loses cool and thrashes his own candidate and an angry Vijayakanth.

If Vijayakanth has a serious drinking problem Vadivelu, Sarathkumar, Kushboo, Singamuthu and others have different problems. Everyone seems to have taken election campaigning as an opportunity to blast their competitor in their respective fields. Its also fun to watch their cheap way of fighting live on television. Thanks to the media.

The video clip that was recently telecasted on Kalaignar TV as a video campaign that shows two women impersonating Jayalalitha and Sasikala was the height of cheapness. The clip shows the two maliciously planning to take over the throne and cease all "good deeds" and systems that Kalaignar established followed by clips of Kalaignar arrested, Murasalimaaran laid down after being "attacked" by cops, Shankaracharya arrested etc. The video indirectly conveys a very clear message- "I beg you. Please vote for me."
This is one of the DMK election songs!

It is everyone's duty to vote. If compulsory voting system are brought to effect in which everyone has to vote else they are subjected to punitive measures, I don't think it would make any difference as people would come to vote in mere fear of paying fine or being imprisoned and would not vote for the betterment of the country. Gone are the days when people know nothing about anything. But since we have a very powerful weapon called "Internet" everything is literally in our fingertips. Just a few minutes with the keyboard and everything is right in front of you in your computer screen. Just a few taps on my keyboard and i was able to find these useful sites
About 49-O.
The conduct of election rules.
Everything about our very own politicians.
(and lots of YouTube videos of course!)

I referred Internet as a weapon because it is very useful, but equally harmful. Just imagine that you create a page in facebook that contains "your views" about a politician and one of his staunch followers get to see that and finds you? The chances are very less but do you want to take a chance on that?

People really hope that one day everything will change. But according to me that day never comes. Politicians' blatant fight to take over the throne pretty obviously shows that its not out of their interest to make the country better but to become rich. Rich by swindling lakhs of crores. I think that makes a person more than the word "rich" actually means. Today i cast my vote to yet another craving dog that wants power and money. I cant reveal my vote as it violates the secrecy of the ballot. ;-)
Another five years for another stupid black mark on my index finger...

World Cup 2011- Tigers defeat the Lions.

2011-04-05T04:02:00.000-07:00

Words are just not enough to extol India's triumph over Sri Lanka. The match was a rollercoster ride for all cricket fans with their expectancy dancing up and down the scale. I thought that the probability of the Indians winning the match was unthinkably less when the Sri Lankans sweeped the ball off the ground in the last five overs. My hope totally evaporated in the air when Mallinga got rid of both Sewagh and Sachin not very long after the match started. 275 was not an easy score to chase but the Men In Blue played extraordinarily well and made history. It is after 28 years that Indians are lifting up the World Cup and was a proud moment for every Indian. If it wasn't for Ghambir, Kholi, Yuvraj and Dhoni's cautious play, Indians would've missed the chance of lifting the world cup and would've left all cricket fans look on the black side forever. Malinga's boisterous enjoyment when he sent Sewagh and Sachin back to pavilion vanished when Dhoni was to hit 4 runs from 11 balls. Dhoni finished the match with his magic shot- the helicopter shot.

There were moments in between the match when me and my friends were in total despair of winning and the seething anger resulted in switching off the television and went out for a walk to ease off the situation. One of my friends went nuts that he asked us to sit just the way we were sitting when Gambir hit fours so that he will hit fours again. He started swearing and went bonkers when we disobeyed him or disregard his superstitious believes. The plummeting Indian performance made him stroll to a temple in the vicinity and made an intense prayer for like 15 minutes. It was fun to watch his antics.

Overall, the match was as best as it can be with ecstasy and expectations equally mixed up giving out the best result. The whole team, especially Sachin, deserves the cup.

Ever wondered about getting rich (or more richer) in just one night? It happened with the Indian team with all money flowing in and swanky gifts from various sources. Of course, they deserve it all.

One thing that bothers me is the fake cup controversy. When they can award numerous prizes for the team, why isn't it possible for them to give 25 lakh at the clearance and get the original cup? That was a little too unwise. And about "Poonam Pandey daring to strip naked in the Indian team dressing room" matter, all i want to ask her is "Lady, are you nuts?" She must be the whore of the whores to have announced such a disgusting thing (Uhh.. disgusting is a strong word. Hmm.. May be it can be replaced with 'not that good'? LOL!) My personal opinion is that, she can strip naked and get some money for the act without having to announce it publicly (the video will be on the net within hours and the dent in her reputation is all the same!) She must've thought that the stripping-naked-in-the-Indian-team-dressing-room thing would be cool, but she should've thought about how the people in India will take it. I would definitely like to know what Shiv Sena want to say about it? Can we expect a video of her beaten up real bad?

Anyways, My hearty wishes to the Indian team who fought the war well to get what they deserve. Special thanks to Indian team coach Gary Kirsten. The celebration all over India was amazingly wonderful with people bursting crackers with full zeal, people proudly waving the Indian flag and the patriotism factor on the eve of April 2nd was a little too stronger and was good to feel. It was an amazing show after all. Whatsoever, Now that the IPL starts from 8th, all eyes turn to that!

PS: Do not confuse the "Tigers" with the Bangladeshis as they are commonly referred as in cricket. A sensible person can understand whom am I referring as Tigers here in my blog as I'm talking about a match between India and Sri Lanka. I chose to refer Indians as "Tigers" because its our National Animal for God's sake! Duh! (I wrote this postscript because one of my brainy colleague saw the title while i was writing this post and asked if I was writing about a match between Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Grr.!!)

World Cup 2011- India Vs Pakistan- Magnificent!

2011-03-30T23:38:00.000-07:00

Before the match:
The big fuss about the India-Pakistan match seems to be growing every second and the excitement seems to be never ending. Restaurants, lounges, showrooms have all put up LCD displays and projector screens making it possible for everyone to watch the match. Cognizant prevised beforehand that employees will never gonna miss the most significant match of 2011 World Cup and might take an off from work. So they've put up LCD monitors in all cafeterias that telecast Star Sports non stop. Undoubtedly, India-Pakistan match is regarded as the biggest "rivalry" in this World Cup 2011 and is quoted as the "Mother of all matches." The expectancy and eagerness among Indian cricket maniacs and everyone in my company is at its core with everyone checking their watches every 5 minutes wanting it to tick faster. The move was satisfactory as not many in my office took an off because Cognizant has enabled everything to watch the cricket match live. Encouraging the cricket spirit, Indian and Pakistan supporters (there weren't any for Pakistan!) were allowed to wear team jerseys and it was blue everywhere. 1:30pm and the cafeterias were jam packed already. Hope the Men in Blue will not let us down!

During the match:
Even if the building was on fire, people give a damn about it as far as it doesn't interrupt the live telecast. People were glued to their seats; rest were standing and the cafeterias were crammed that for a second it felt like the room was flexible enough to accommodate so many people. Loud hurrahs and roaring was obviously for the Master Blaster whenever he appeared on the screen that could be heard from miles away. I could see people sitting at the edge of their seats watching the match live and parallely praying for India to win. As soon as the match started the excitement meter begins to dance up the scale. People so want Indians to win this match as it was not just a game, it was war! Me thinks that people wont be much gleeful when India wins the World Cup as much as when it defeats Pakistan.

The cheer was loud enough to break the decibel meter when Sehwag comfortably hit each ball across the boundary line. The enthusiasm ceased as soon as Wahab Riaz sent him off the ground. Sachin was lucky enough to hit 85 after four lives until Saeed Ajmal caught the ball. As the match went on, people didn't really like the progression of the game and started to lose hope when Yuvraj Singh went back to pavilion hitting nothing. 260 was a decent score after all. Unfortunately, it wasn't for Pakistan. In the end, People already started bursting crackers and howling around when Pakistanis were to hit 30 runs in 6 balls. Misbah-ul-Haq played really good but it wasn't good enough to win the match. Indians contained it very well and was a great match after all.

After the match:
Celebrations were colorful and for a second, it looked like a festival. Thousands of people jumping and howling on the road as Indians entered into the finals. Crackers went on for so long till it woke up everyone who was sleeping (the oldies!!) Youngsters went around in bike holding the Indian flag celebrating the victory. It all subsided later after 11:30pm.

Hope the Indians defeat Sri Lankans and would win the World Cup 2011. Thankfully, the finals is on Saturday Apr 2nd. Guess everyone will want to watch it with their big friends gang that will make it more exciting and exhilarating. Two days to go and the clock ticks......

Pics: Office: Eveyone standing for the National Anthem.	Office: Crowd in Cafeteria -1
Office: Crowd in Cafeteria -2	Celebrations (from Google)
Celebrations (from Google)	Office: Crowd in cafeteria.

One step forward.

2011-03-29T09:17:00.000-07:00

Like tides in the sea slowly reaching the shore that subsides into the cold beige sand, today yours truly have steadily but successfully completed one astounding year in one of the world's faster growing companies- Cognizant Technology Solutions (ironic eh? That's what made it to the top!) Completion of one year means that my probation period is over and I'm a permanent employee of Cognizant. Looking back one year behind, there used to be moments of uncertainty in comprehending my future, an unclear vision of what lies ahead. Torrents of question falls on me like freezing rain that each drop of it tore through the pores of my skin for which the answers, again, were insoluble. I'm kind of a person who takes things easy, who thinks the world is not gonna end today and I still have more time left to accomplish any task. Take-it-slow policy is what i follow and it helps me in many ways, though I'm not sure if it helps others. If you had read this post of mine, you would have a picture of what it is for me to be an employee of a company like Cognizant.

Three months of an amazing life in the Cognizant Academy (a place where trainees are technically and professionally groomed) was the best ever. My friends list extended limitlessly when was in the Academy that each and every minute of my stay there was fun. After been put in business unit, things have changed the way it used to be as most of us were scattered across India. The bonding that the Academy groomed between friends were still thick and strong that we'll have a conference at least once a week to update ourselves to know what is happening with each other.

For your office hours to be easy going, your team have to be fun. My new team is much convivial than the previous one and fun to be in for i believe that its the team that really converts one from 'trainees' to 'experienced' and if its not absolute, he is a trainee forever.

There were days when uncertainty prevailed; life had become a question that I felt like walking blindfolded in an already dark place; facing reality had come almost indistinct; when the biggest imperfection in life, being unemployed stuck hard like a bullet, Never really had imagined of myself being in one of the top IT companies in the world as these CMMi level 5 companies weren't in my list in the first place throughout my job hunt during the recession period. But after all, the improbability of me becoming an employee of a well reputed organization apparently wasn’t too big for my boots and I'm proud to be called a Cognizant employee. Hope the upcoming years that lie ahead teaches me lot of stuffs morally and technically that all success comes my way and prosperity prevails.. ;-)

Century!

2011-03-28T03:23:00.000-07:00

This post is just to let everyone know that this is my hundredth post! ;-)

Aadukalam- Otha Sollala (Karaoke)

2011-03-27T02:51:00.000-07:00

This is the Karaoke of the latest hit song "Otha Sollala" from the movie 'Aadukalam' composed by yours truly (originally composed by G.V.Prakash). This song was a hit soon after its release. May be because of its "kuthu" genre or Velmurugan's voice or for the composition itself, the song was on the Top 5 hits just few days after its release. When I listened to the song, like everyone else, i liked it too. And after listening it a few times, thought of making a karaoke of it. I composed it using FL Studio 8. I've used the beat samples from the song and made the rest from FL Studio 8. Cutting out a loop from the song wasn't difficult for me, but to cut out loops without vocals was pretty tough. So I cut the basic beat sample into different slices using Edison and placed it appropriately to make it sound original. When you hear the "Onnu Sollaama Usuradhottaaya Manasa Inike Vachha Seenum Ittaaya.." line, the beat you hear was sliced up into many pieces and patched up together to sound like original (In the original song, you can hear the vocals over the beat and its kinda impossible to separate both).

Like I usually say, I've tried my best in replicating the original song by making a karaoke of it. Please listen to the track and give your valuable comments and feedback.

Click here to download.

Please leave your comments..!

-S

IDentity!

2011-03-21T00:04:00.001-07:00

There used to be a time when a guy falls for a girl and if he wants to know about her- her name, where she lives, her profession, her phone number etc, the guy probably have to exert himself vigorously in finding at least one of the listed above. If you and the girl you're dotting on are working in an IT company, things are simpler. From busting your gut to know her name, today all you have to worry about knowing is her Employee ID. From just a click of a button, you behold her complete profile right on your computer screen. There is this friend of mine who fell for a girl and even before logically being curious to know her name, he was more curious to know her employee id. For a moment i was stumped considering the ease of the situation. Well, one has to be. Just a six figure number (differs!) called an employee id can give you information about anyone in an organization. Name, phone number (very important!), business address, home address, email id, her job title and what not? Now that every company has a chat application, the primary move of approaching a girl becomes more easier. PING! Hi. -Hi. Im...blah blah blah. To dig a little more into her personal profile, there is always Facebook, global database for people's information. Like trying to know her employee id, in Facebook, its all about worrying whether she accepts your friends request or not. Accepting friends requests is access to her personal stuffs. You get to know more about her- like her friends, or whether you both have any common friends, her interests, her hobbies, her latest photos (you can save it and drool over!!) etc. Getting to know each other has become as easy as falling off a log.

It was long back when you fall for a girl, talk to her, get to know her, understand each other, and everything seems like a long process. Today, things are made very simpler by 'social networking,' a concept that is followed in almost every organization for a better rapport and for easier communication between employees. Its good that it also serves as an intimacy notion. LOL! Whatsoever, Making a girl fall for you does require a special wooing skill that people like me are not really blessed with!! *Heaves*

Zzzz Grrrrs!!

2011-03-16T04:47:00.000-07:00

I think i will be able to turn the sky green; I think i will be able to walk on water; I think will be able to sneeze with my eyes wide open; I think i will be able to do everything what Rajinikanth could; except for one thing- getting up in the morning and jog. On the contrary, there is one guy in my office who never misses jogging every morning, no matter what. I tried to be 'him' for just one day and had set alarm at three consecutive time around 5 am, with a hope that it might wake me up. No. Even the repeated raucous hooting of the alarm failed in walking me up. Kept snoozing the alarm every time it rang and resumed my sleep. I'm still not able to find out if its my mind that automatically tells me to snooze the alarm or my hand, unconscious to my senses, gropes for the clock and shuts its off. There was this one time when i was so close to accomplishing my task. I woke up every 2 hours to check if its 5am and then dozed off when it actually was. I need to invent something that wakes me up in the morning, something like a clock that sprays cold water on face instead of ringing (I wonder not even if I wipe the water off my face and resume my sleep!)

Its been a routine for me to get up at 6 in the morning and do the brushing-bathing-dressing-eating in one hour and catch the bus at 7. Now to wind the clock needle back one hour than the usual time might take a little long to take effect. I wonder how longer would that 'long' be??

Tsunami in Japan.

2011-03-11T03:39:00.000-08:00

The news was a bombshell when one of my friends told me about the massive earthquake that destroyed most of Japan. 8.9-magnitude earthquake shook Japan erupting a violent tsunami. It was so powerful that it sent ships crashing to the shore. I read in the news that the water level was equivalent to the small houses in Japan and the it engulfed most of it. Its discovered that the earthquake was Japan's largest in 140 years. Russia and Indonesia, Central American countries like Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica and the U.S. state of Hawaii were all hit by it in the late afternoon today. The causalities count is not yet announced but after a forceful tsunami that washed most of Japan, the count is expected to be a little high. People are in shock across the globe after hearing the news and all TV channels are busy updating latest news from Japan. It was found that the tsunami hit Tokyo the most, one of the 47 prefectures in Japan, having a population of 30 million people. Authorities said that another tsunami is expected to hit in a few hours. When i was searching the latest news about the incident, there was tsunami alerts in Google home page warning people that another tsunami is expected because of the shock wave that the earthquake in Japan caused. This is a terrifying news to everyone and i wish that the impending tsunami just sink into the earth and NEVER erupts.

Here are some latest devastating pics:

Cognizant's Doosra

2011-03-08T23:02:00.000-08:00

As India is a country of cricket fanatics, Cognizant has introduced a new fantasy cricket game called Doosra to boost the World Cup fever among employees. The game has been designed by Cognizant employees to knock off employee work pressure (?) with a little bit of fun. Doosra will be active for the entire duration of World cup and to login to Doosra, you should be a Cognizant employee (or have a Cognizant employee's login credentials!) For someone like me, who is not much into cricket, Doosra will make a difference. People in Cognizant seem hooked to the game that they keep talking about it all the time. Doosra is more like predicting the possibilities of winning or losing a game. It has two play modes: Super 11 and My Team. To begin with, every player will be provided with a minimum points in each play mode. It is the employee's way of playing the game that would double, triple or make it 10 times the minimum points provided. There will be a fixed amount of 1100 points in Super 11 that will be given to each player for every match and the player has to select 11 players from two teams that are playing the match as per the fixtures. The player has to apportion the 1100 points among the 11 chosen players and a star player (from the 11) has to be chosen. Depending upon the runs scored, wickets taken etc, the player will be awarded points. Points are awarded based on the points the player has given to each of the 11 players. Suppose if a player has chosen Sachin Tendulkar among the 11 players and have awarded 200 points from the 1100 basic points, and if Sachin has scored 100 runs in that particular match, then the 200 is multiplied with 100 runs + bonus points for every 25th, 50th, 75th and 100th run and if he is chosen as the star player, the final value is tripled. Hence the 11 players has to be cautiously chosen and the 1100 initial points has to be cautiously assigned.

For My Team play mode, the player has to place a bet on one of the two teams that plays the match that day. The player will be provided with 5000 initial points and the player will be awarded 1000 points everyday. For example, if its between India and Pakistan, the player can place the bet on either India or Pakistan. Similar to Super 11, the points are multiplied depending upon the bet. If the player bets all the points on a team, the points are quadrupled and if the team loses, the player loses all his points; If the player bets more than 50% of the bet, the points are doubled and if the team loses, the player loses only the percentage of the bet he had placed on the team.

Doosra has become an obsession among all Cognizant employees. When Doosra was introduced, the number of Doosra players increased every minute and now has around 45k players. If you have a question of what is gained from the game, well, its just mere fun and that the winners will win "exciting prizes." Though Doosra players were given weekly prizes for the top players, I hope the grand prize is gotta be really "exciting".

Very recently Doosra team have added two new features to the site- Silly Points and Tweets. Tweet is something everyone knows in this day and age (for the ones who doesnt know, its an exchange of short messages among individuals; social networking!) Silly Points has the statistics of the winners, losers, bets, highest score etc.

Its really fun to have such a game and I sincerely appreciate Doosra developers to have brought such an amazing game to all Cognizant employees. I had bet all my points on England in the England VS Ireland match and lost all my points. Not just me, 98% of the employees have lost their bet on England. After all, Circket is a funny game. You never know what will happen! Looking forward to win all other matches and I hope I would win that "exciting prize." ;-)

Here are some screen shots of Doosra:

Happy Women's Day!!

2011-03-08T20:35:00.000-08:00

[From Wiki] International Women's Day (IWD), originally called International Working Women’s Day is marked on March 8 every year. Nowadays this is a major day of global celebration of women. In different regions the focus of the celebrations ranges from general celebration of respect, appreciation and love towards women to a celebration for women's economic, political and social achievements. In many regions, the day lost its political flavour, and became simply an occasion for men to express their love for women in a way somewhat similar to a mixture of Mother's Day and St Valentine's Day.

TRAIs "100 sms per day" is a dumb rule.

2011-03-04T02:55:00.000-08:00

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India has announced a nonsensical regulatory restricting mobile phone users to send only 100 sms per day. This has to be one of the stupidest move by TRAI. Authorities say that they have to introduce this rule so as to "cease" telemarketing people from sending bulk message on free jobs, free PAN services and stuff. In this state-of-the-art world, who would come up with such a dumb idea of restricting 100 sms/day to everyone in India just cuz a bunch of telemarketing muttonheads sends bulk sms? Well, TRAI does!

I always had a strong dislike for the radio that plays in my office bus cuz it would not let me sleep as the RJs incessantly prattle on some random shit right into my ears. This news wasnt a 'random shit' after all. (Info: Now, I learnt the art of sleeping even when the radios play next to my ears in full volume! LOL!) Since i have to sleep bearing RJs constant blabber waves flowing through my ears, my mind makes a dream out of RJs indiscreet talk! To be honest, I was startled from my sleep without my knowledge when this news gushed into my ears! All i had to say about the news was: "IT'S INSANE!"

I wonder how the thousands of people, who are blessed with a girlfriend in their life, would feel. Since im not very fortunate on that part, everything is the same to me except for one thing- that i wont be able to send Rahman updates to my friends! Texting has become a dope to all college goers and something with a rule like this, would defenitely dishearten them. Imagine how would you feel when you were so close in making a girl fall in love with you with the contemporary cupid weapon "text messaging" (Booster package. Of course!) and you were deprived from sending free messages?

To serve steadfastly in sending Rahman updates to my fellow friends, i called the Vodafone Customer Care to confirm the news. They said that the TRAI's rule has not been effectuated on Vodafone as yet and that they will let their customers know if it does. I also happened to come across some forums on the internet where the discussion on the TRAI subject concluded by someone stating that the TRAI took back the 100 sms rule. There is also a Facebook page called "Take back the rule of 100sms a day" opposing TRAIs witless rule.

It makes sense if they come up with something else to stop telemarketing bulk sms rather than this. Hope TRAI realises how stupid it is and take back the rule. Looking forward to what is gonna happen..

A Special Post.

2011-03-03T04:21:00.000-08:00

Today is one of the most significant day in the history of mankind. Wonder why? Its the birthday of the most influential, passionate, deterministic, vivid and most promising person on earth. The one who defines the power of human existence. The man who is admired for his courage and numerous accomplishments; The man who could turn the world upside down; The man with copious feat; An oomph booster that Jonny Depp has to lick his shoes!; Master of the Masters; Legend of the Legends. Wonder who I'm extolling here? Well, its none other than yours truly. LOL! Yes, Today is my birthday and it went great. Birthdays are just another day if there are no family and friends around. Friends may seem annoying sometimes but it doesn't take much time to realise the bliss out of their annoyance. It used be our custom to go to birthday boy's home, ringing the bell at night 12 o clock with a cake in hand singing the birthday song when he opens the door and smashing the cake on his face. Since all my friends were scattered across different parts of India, the custom was knocked off. Still, their calls at sharp 12 made me feel very happy and also made me hit the bed very late at night.

Though you have many customs among your friends group, there is one universal custom among all friends across the globe which is known as- "treat!" (not sure if it applies for girls since money spending is something which they've never done before, unless its for them!) Treat can simply be defined as- An occasion camouflaging bankruptcy for the one treating you! Treat is a unique way of celebrating birthday in which you take friends to a good restaurant in town, treat them with whatever they like and make them strong enough for them to kick your ass. Yes, ass kicking is another custom called "birthday bums!" It only happens among friends that you get them good food to eat and get your ass kicked. LOL! That is why birthdays are just another day when there are no friends around!!

I sure have to mention about a special fawning mail I received for my birthday from one of my close friends. The mail was all buttered up with exaggerated flattery words and had some of my funny pictures. It was one of the things that made my day!!

Its 5:50pm and my day was fun till now and hope the rest of the day brings me more surprises. I would like to thank all my friends through this post for remembering and wishing me on my birthday today. I hope this year turns out all good to me and be more prosperous than ever! ;-)

A look at the latest songs.

2011-02-24T03:44:00.000-08:00

I read in the newspapers that Superstar A.R.Rahman is not going to take up much projects this year and that he is taking an off from his work! Good for him. May be after a year, a more relaxed Rahman would come up with something more mind boggling. Till then, I'm forced to listen to other MDs compositions (LOL!) and this post is just a small review of the latest tracks that have been released of late. Some of the tracks that keeps playing in my PMP in repeat mode are Yaathe Yaathe, Ayyayo and Otha sollale from Aadukalam; Mynaa Mynaa and Kayya Pudi from Mynaa. Like Rahman, Even Yuvan Shankar Raja has taken a pledge not to sing this year. I feel that except for the music, Yuvan tries so much to be like Rahman (which is impossible and Yuvan must learn that!!) Though En Nenjil from Baana Kaathadi give goosebumps, the other tracks in the album are just in a typical Yuvan's style. Harris Jeyaraj's Ko succeed in climbing up the chart with Ennamo Yeadho and Amali Thumali songs, but couldn't hit the top 10 list. I feel Harris have tried the same method of composition like did for his other films- A Bombay Jayashree song, a Chennai hip hop song, a soft song and a Pop song with lots of synth and bass. Ko has everything in it. I really wish some day he would change his composition pattern. Yuvan Shankar Raja's Pathinaaru and Baana Kaathadi was "just another Yuvan's album." Its only sometimes that a lightning strikes his head and he realises to come out of the box. All Yuvan's composition sounds almost the same to me. Once when i was humming one of his songs I was able to sing more than three songs with the same tune and unsurprisingly, all three songs were his compositions. Imman have outdone in his album "Mynaa." His idea of choosing Shaan to sing Mynaa Mynaa was a good one as his voice blend perfectly well with the song. Kayya Pudi, crooned by Naresh Iyer and Sadhna Sargam, is a soothing heart touching song. G.V.Prakash is coming up well with most of his albums hit the top 10 list (after all, he is our very own Rahman's cousin!! May be the effect??) I downloaded Ayyan when i learnt that it was Ilayaraja's composition. But it didn't impress me much and i felt its got his signature all over it, a typical Ilayaraja album. I liked Viduthalaikuyil Naan song from it because of Ilayaraja's magical voice. Devi Sri Prasad aka DSP (as he calls himself!) was lucky to have Kamal himself lending voice for most of the songs in Mammadhan Ambu. His Neela Vaanam tried to scramble up the chart with Kamal's mellifulous singing. Vidyasagar's Siruthai is in my PMP for Naan Rombo Nalla song as Ranjith's singing was flawless and also for the song itself.

People all over the world are waiting for the much awaited Rockstar soundtrack. It is confirmed that the album is going to be released in a couple of months as Rahman has already done with its background score. He has also composed a promotional song for the Malayalam film Lavender which is in filming now. Eagerly waiting for its release. Since Rahman is relaxing this year, I wish other MDs come up with good albums this year!

Coldly hot!

2011-02-22T01:50:00.000-08:00

Its not been many days after writing a post on the awesomeness of Chennai climate, I've got something to rant under the same heading. Yes, Chennai's climate is steadily becoming more unpredictable. The temperature vacillates between the two extreme of the meter scale and baffles Chennai people. When i had to wipe off my sweat in the morning, not too long after it turns out to be a clement weather. The sun in the morning was burning my skin, while in the afternoon, when its supposed to smoulder, it rains! I wonder if its a preliminary indication of global warming. I came to know that it was raining outside when everyone in bay ran out to see it (No one actually couldn't believe!) That's when i ran along with them. I pray God almighty to make the world exist for a couple of more years as this is the time that a youngster like me goes to another level in life!! LOL!

An eye for an eye..

2011-02-20T21:35:00.000-08:00

It was dark and he was all alone, with him. Damian chose the park bench which was right under a huge Banyan tree, to be unnoticed. It was a perfect place with a good vantage that had a full view of the park. The huge branches of the tree camouflages the bench that Damian was almost invisible in his black hooded track jacket. He was constantly gazing at him jogging around the park intermittently looking at his bowie knife which was still in its sheath so as to prevent it from reflecting light from its fine sharp blade. Saint Marys park is famous for the concealment from the outer world. The huge trees filters all kinds of pollutions and maintains a serene atmosphere in the park. Its overcrowded in the weekends but had very less people otherwise. The park becomes almost empty at its closing time. Damian has been observing and learning the regularities of the park. He has been watching him for weeks and now can predict his every move. It was 8:00pm and its been 15 minutes since he started gazing him. Anger and retaliation seethed within him which turned his eyes turn blood red. As every second passes, sequence of memories flash at the back of his head intensifying his anger. He gripped his bowie knife harder without taking his eyes out of him. He was incensed and his anger boiled when he saw him laughing while talking to someone over the phone. He wanted to take away his happiness forever. Memories flashes at the back of his head and a tear drop rolled down his eyes. He watched him jog faster now. He watched him appear and disappear under the golden lights in the park. He gripped his knife harder by its holder and waited for the right time. His anger engulfed his fear engendering retaliation. Being equally strong as him, his confidence shuddered. Gripping his knife harder, he took his hanky from his pocket, tied his hand tightly along with the kinfe so that it doesnt slip off his hand. His watch showed 8:12pm. His long wait had to pay off. He did not care about the repurcussions. He was wounded so deep that he couldnt be wounded any deeper. He watched him pass by everytime he finishes a round. He waited patiently in ambush to come across him the next round. He took his bowie knife out of its sheath and remained prepared. He didnt want to let down his promise he made to himself. He constructed his thoughts to do everything as planned. As he passed by him, Damian, with full rage, lunged from behind covering his mouth. He slit his throat with the knife tied to his hands and pushed him to the ground and sat on his chest, still having his hands on his mouth. He tried to push Damian down but the pain reduced his strength. He violently moved his body in pain which almost pushed Damian down, but he maintained to stay on him with his entire weight. The pressure he applied to stay over his chest broke his ribs. He enjoyed watching him die slowly with his blood oozing out from his throat. He gave another slit across his throat and watched him suffer the pain of death. The slit was powerful as the knife were tied to his hands. Damian, with an evil smile on his face, enjoyed every second of his death. He saw his eyes filled with tears and with blood scattered across his face. His violent movement then slowed down with his fully opened eyes slowly shutting down. Damian, without realizing he is dead with his throat half cut, feared that he might be saved and come alive. He looked around the park. Quitness prevailed, except for the crocking of insects. Wanting him to be dead forever, he took his knife, servered his throat, beheading him. A more contented and victorious Damian got up, looked one final look at his head, gave a peaceful smile at himself, unfurled his sleeves covering his blood stained hands and cautiously moved out of the place leaving the body under the golden light of the park.

With joy, sadness and fear equally mixed up, for a second Damian couldnt feel himself. He made sure no one noticed him while returning. Sitting in his study room in the dark with his boold stained hands, he felt peace. He switched on his table lamp to see the picture of his wife and his daughter more clearly, placed on his desk. He ran his fingers on the edges of the photograph, smiling at them. Reminded of something, he opened his desk drawer and tore the poloroid photograph which had a note written "Kill him" below it. He thrust his knife on the newspaper on his desk which had the headlines: "Mother and 12 year old daughter raped and killed. Criminal escapes."

After having a dozen sleeping pills, he went to bed with a hope that he would see his family again...

ICC Cricket World Cup 2011.

2011-02-17T02:35:00.000-08:00

Since now the Cricket World Cup fever is on, people go bonkers to do anything for a ticket. The ticket price is exponentially increasing as the D-day is getting closer. Tickets are now between 2000-3000 bucks and goes as high as up to 5000 bucks. I wonder why people have to spend so much to watch it live in the stadium cramped with thousands of people.

Despite the hassle while watching it live in the stadium, people seem to enjoy the match so much so that even if the world disintegrates, they give a damn about it!! For me, watching cricket at home is more comfy and enjoyable than watching it live in stadium. Who would say no if everything is shown live on TV in every possible angle and in case if you had missed the last ball would have a replay shown? There are people who wouldn't say no and I'm one among them. I would rather choose the ease and comfort of watching it from home (with friends, of course!) with relishing homemade goodies.

There is nothing that is allowed inside the stadium except just you. No cameras, no cellphones with cameras (like they have 200mm optical zoom!! Gosh!!) no snack items and not more than one water bottle! And they claim the restrictions is for "security reason!!!" Who would want to kill a cricketer with potato chips or with a water bottle? And even if someone did kill, how can he take a picture of it to put it up on Facebook when cameras are prohibited!??

Looking forward to the 2011 Cricket World Cup (just two days!!) and wish everyone who are watching it live in the stadium to return home safely without having your picture flash on the news under "stampede causalities." Be safe and have fun. And for my watching-it-on-TV nanbargal, make sure you've paid your cable bills. ;-)

Yuvan Shankar Raja's concert on Vijay TV!!!

2011-02-14T00:53:00.001-08:00

While watching Yuvan's concert programme on Vijay TV two days back, my first thought was to rant about this on my blog! I wonder why his concert fiasco had to be shown on TV! Vijay TV is predominantly renowned for its TV shows jamboree, and for this "Yuvan concert," its needless to say!

The concert wasn't like a concert after all, rather it was more like a drama. That was pretty obvious when Yuvan droned about why actor/superstar/singer/director etc Simbu couldn't show up for the concert even after he invited him. Then all of a sudden Simbu shows up with hundreds of security guards flocked around him (Like someones gonna shoot him! Well, there are chances, cuz of his extreme acting!!!) and eventually after all the dramatics, he came to center of the stage on a moveable dais on the traverse stage (something like a conveyor belt). He was waving his hands (like a superstar! Oh gross! You know him!!) as this piece of stage moved to the center. He got down and started explaining why he wasn't able to come (the reason was that he had cold! God, Kill me!!!) and explained how he managed to show up planning it all in the last minute! Wow. Wonderful! For me he seemed like he was in the pink of health and seemed like he was planning this for days. Yuvan is good with music but worst in acting! He couldn't give that "surprised" expression on his face. It was more like a drama. Both Simbu and Yuvan isn't all good in singing when it comes to a live show. Now I admire the work of all the latest technologies in his songs, like auto tune and stuffs. Kudos!

Apart from all these dramatics, singers did their part real good. I loved Shankar Mahadevan's "Merke Merke" song performance. The aalap he sang at the end of the song was out of words to appreciate. Whenever a singer takes the stage, a fake cheering was played at the background (The fake cheering was pretty obvious! Hail Vijay TV!!!)

I wonder why Yuvan chose to sing "Where is the party" at the end. All the singers got on stage and sang "Where is the party" with Yuvan in the middle. Everyone was running around the stage, jumping off the stage, running towards the audience, lightmen, etc. For a moment, i was like "what the fuck is happening?" I called my friend Ram Vittal to know what the hell is really happening but even he was equally confused. Being his show, Yuvan wasn't lionized and seemed like he was mobbed. Then luckily they realised it was Yuvan's concert and he was lifted up by everyone. My friend on the other side of the phone was like "Shit macha.. Semma sothappals."

I never felt like watching a concert but it was more like watching Super Singer finals. As I've been to two of my thala Rahman's concerts, this one felt nothing (Obviously! Rahman is Rahman!!!!). People were orderly sitting and waving some posters unlike a real concert. I think the events were not properly planned and organized.

Yuvan, having been taken a step to prove himself, has to be appreciated. I wish he doesn't screw up (this bad) next time. All the best Yuvan!!!

A new sitcom on the list..

2011-02-10T20:46:00.000-08:00

After watching Friends, Scrubs, a more regional sitcom is next on list. I came across a Malayalam sitcom called "Akkara Kazchakal" through my friend who shared an episode on Facebook. Though the show started long back in 2008, I came across it very recently now. The episode was funny and i was agog to watch all episodes. It has 50 episodes, everything very well directed. Though the actors are not professionally good enough to be appreciated, they are much better in how they are as themselves. After the show gained much popularity and got more viewership count, the team has decided to release a movie based on it. The group does a lot of stage shows and hence their TV show is on hiatus. The best thing about the show is that very episode is wrapped up good and would have a message in it. Every character is unique and have an ingenious funny nature. Having watched all its episodes, I'm now waiting for the next season and the most awaited Akkara Kazchakal movie. Meanwhile, I've downloaded South Park and will start watching it from today......

PS: Suggest some good Malayalam sitcoms if you know of any!

A wish for a change.......

2011-02-10T02:26:00.000-08:00

Lately, Life seems to be really boring. With not much time to do anything, days seems to go by faster. I wish Saturday and Sunday have 48 hours each. Days between two Sunday seem very less and weekend seem to fly by even before I get a real buzz out of it. Office life seems to devour most of my personal life and hence need to cautiously balance between the two. There used to be a time when I used to sleep like a pig, hang out with friends like mad, watch 3 movies a day. I find no time to watch even one now. Used to have my friends around often, used to have a get together once in every week. Now do I have no updates on them. Have been long since I've even talked to them over phone. Things change. I need to be having a strict hold of everything. Wish things change!

Dezzzember 2010......!!!

2011-02-09T03:42:00.000-08:00

Chennai's weather is stunning, cosying all Chennaites for the past four months. Due to my extra abdominal flab, i made sure i do the daily morning exercises. Now because of the comfy weather condition, it procrastinates. Six hours of sleep isn't sufficient enough for this weather that my body demands for more. Having my office two hours from home, travelling eats up four hours of glorious time every day. The morning fresh air and the cool breeze puts me to sleep in the bus but the traffic commotion, tailback vehicles honking and the smothering dust wakes me up at OMR. Though its not much sticky in the afternoons, the following summer heat can already be felt. I guess there is not many days left for the sweltering heat to come but we'd really miss the cool weather as this December, was not like any other December!

Story of a job hunter..

2011-02-07T03:50:00.000-08:00

If you are one among the 2008 or 2009 passed out, then you must've known how hard was it to get a job then. And for a guy who is one among the 2009s and had a very weird preconceived opinion about getting a job, its even worse. I was someone who did not have any ambition to whom i wanna be. If you had asked me then, i would've said that i wanna become like A.R.Rahman. Pretty impossible. But i could've made that possible (Of course not like Rahman but at least a small time composer!) only if everything fell in place. Everything that interest me back in the day was music. So it was pretty obvious for me to choose the path i should be taking. For everything in life, there has to be a bad phase. Like the bad time that struck when i had to choose my career. It was when i went along with my brother for his Engineering admission, my Engineering admission was confirmed. How funny can that be? My focus was to get into Visual Communication but then everything changed when a she-devil cast an evil spell on my dad. She brainwashed him by prophesying her version of the future of VisCom students. It was that they had to shoot videos for marriage functions and nothing else. That's when my dad's conscience had to balance between my words and hers. And obviously, the experienced person wins. That too she was none other than the person responsible of my college placements.

Four years of Engineering was hell when it comes to studies but was fun otherwise. Every semester was like a war that i had to build a very strong heart to face every paper and so do for the results. For my parents, arrears in the very first semester was a pre cognitive notion that i would never graduate Engineering at all. It was hard to convince them that arrears are just a part of Engineering life (for us it was like an unofficial mandatory custom to have at least one. Mandatory? Well, arrears naturally comes our way!)

When God closes one door, he opens another (for all reasons!). He didn't want to see me struggling all alone. So he had gifted me an awesome set of friends and asked us to stay together since childhood. And they gave a helping hand when arrears fell like rain during my college days. It was one of my close friend Naveen and me who always used to study together. Like all other Engineering students, we dust off our books only during our study holidays. If there is 3 days preparation holiday, we would take our books the night before the exam. Our method of studying is different. We used to start studying at 10pm, each of us would complete 2 units in a book of 5 units, would finished it by 2am, do a knowledge transfer that goes till 5am. The rest one unit, would finish it on the way to exam. I still wonder how we used to clear the papers. Well after all, Engineering papers evaluation method is still a mystery.

As days went by, the biggest burden of placements started to petrify me. Not many companies come for placements in our college and being the year 2008, nothing really came. We had a very confused placement officer who knows nothing about anything. One day he would walk in to announce that L&T or TCS is coming, two days after he would walk in again to say it is not. This used to happen very often and then whenever he walks into our class, we never used to take his words seriously. It was one day he informed about Infosys placements. We never took it seriously as usual but we came to know Infosys is really coming from other outside sources. I started preparing but the preparation wasn't enough to clear Infosys aptitude test. The first 8 toppers from every two class of every department went home with their offer letter. Me, just went home with a heavy heart. We are 7 in our gang and 3 people got placed except me 2 more friends, and my brother (though he is far better than me and since just 2 companies came to our college, it was hard for him!!) My brother and two of his friends decided to start a small time web designing business till they get a job. I didn't wanna join them cuz i couldn't compete with their technical intelligence.
During my final year, i had a promise instilled in my mind that i should not have any backlogs cuz it would be hard for me to clear it then. Hence I needed more people's guidance. Its always easier to listen to someone explaining than learning it yourself (quick learning!) I used to go to some 5 of my friends house everyday for the knowledge transfer. It wasn't difficult to write what my friends explained and hence cleared all my final year papers (kudos to them!)

Graduated out of college with no job. It was then Nikith, another close friend of mine became my good companion for THE JOB HUNT. Every week we attended around 6-7 companies. Either we will not get selected or will it not be like a company at all. There was this one company called us for the interview and we couldn't find the company even after hours of intense search in that area. Later a tea shop owner helped us locate it. It was in one corner of a building terrace which had only two rooms- One to take interview and the other, a so-called 'workplace' which had only 3 computers.

After a very long search, i got into Allsec BPO and the other guy got into Cognizant BPO. I guess many 2008 and 2009 passed outs would've been in at least one BPO before joining an IT company. Allsec was one of the best BPOs. Had so much fun there and made lots of friends. My batch in Allsec seize to exist after 3 months cuz everyone in my batch were Engineers and everyone absconded when they got a job cuz that's when IT field started to come up. Many of them got into big IT companies except me. I listened to my friends' advice that i wont be able to find a job being in a BPO, night shift. After leaving Allsec, i again started my job hunt, this time, all alone.

Everything changed one night when i went to my brother's office for night stay. My brother and his two friends started asking me about my future plans and made me realize that i wont get a job unless i gain some technical knowledge. All of a sudden it was like a star of wisdom shone above my head and showed me a road to travel when i was stuck in pitch dark. I started learning the basics of few technologies and prepared myself to face any interview and come out with an offer letter. My brother was smart enough to get into Systech solutions but i got stuck right at the technical round. It was then Shaan, a HR working in Systech, helped me out and gave me a chance to attend the final round straight away. Still, my preparation wasn't enough for them as their expectations were more. I started to think if i would ever get a job. It was then my friend told me about the Cognizant recruitment. It was a mere joke for me when he asked me to attend the interview cuz for me, companies like Cognizant, Infosys, L&T, etc were like Microsoft, Google, Facebook. Imagine where Microsoft, Google, Facebook are.? They are not even in my list. After so much advice from my brother and friends i just wanted to give it a shot. Luckily, I cleared all rounds (even the 2 rounds technical interview, each 40 mins!!! Can you imagine??) I felt "joy" within me, churn out with vibrant spectrum of colors. I wanted to thank Shaan for trying so hard to get me into Systech. Nothing can be equivalent for her timely help but bought her a big bar of chocolate as a token of thankfulness (I had to insist her to take it. And Choco?? Well, money constrain!! :P) I also wanted to thank the VP for rejecting me there which had me get into One of the World's Fastest Growing IT Companies In The World.

Life after college is so different. Hope this post would've tingled a reminiscence of your past struggles to get a job (strictly for guys of my type!!) Its time that i had to add Google and Microsoft in my list.... LOL!!

Idhu Varai (Kaadhal Endral) [Karaoke]

2010-10-16T05:34:00.000-07:00

This is the karaoke of the song Idhu Varai (Kaadhal Endral) from the movie Goa, composed by Yuvan Shankar Raja. This karaoke was fully made using only FL studio 8. No loops, no samples. I tried my best to make the replica of the song. Please listen to it and leave your comments.

Sajith_Idhu Varai (Kaadhal Endral) [Karaoke]

Please let me know if there is anything that has to be changed to make it sound even better. Dont forget to leave your comments.

Happy singing!!

My Comp.. !!

2010-10-10T09:53:00.000-07:00

Hi. Did this when i was bored. One is Ilayaraja's 'En Ulle' song from the movie Valli and the second one is a very famous song 'I Like To Move It' by Reel to Real. I did not make the full version of it cuz it eats much of my time (which i didn't wanna waste cuz i get only 2 days off :-( ). So they are less than a minute (Can use as a ringtone though :P). Since facebook doesnt support 4shared links, I'm putting it in my blog. Please listen to it and leave your comments. Merci Beaucoup :-)

1. Sajith_En Ulle (My Version)

2. Sajith_I Like To Move It (My Version)

Merci Beaucoup :-)

Rahman- Neither Endhiran nor Robot!!

2010-09-15T02:54:00.000-07:00

People always wanted to do things apart from what they meant to do (atleast have an urge!). Be it anyone. The 'little extra' thing you do really defines you. Lately, the trouble encompassing the CWG theme composed by Oscar winner A.R.Rahman infuriates me. The corruption and venality that surrounds the CWG has now become incredibly small in front of the CWG theme song issue. Politician's new stint as music virtuosos have outmeasured any other country's politicians. The number of thumbs down was more in the rating of the CWG theme. We all know about the magic of Rahman's composition. When most of the music aficionados have admitted the 'drug effect' of Rahman's music, politicians have now want to see themselves as music juries to judge Rahman's music. My blood boiled when Rahman was asked to re compose the tune. Rahman was not even paid the amount he demanded. Yet Rahman worked so hard to bring out the best from him to give out the CWG theme. Complaints were profuse when he needed extra time for the completion like he was working for some random Hollywood project. People must know that after all, even rahman is a human being. I was glad to see the music fraternity had supported him and had given positive response for the song. People who has the quality and capability to comment on his theme has given positive comments when politicians who knows only to scrape off people's money had given negative comments. As i said, People always wanted to do things apart from what they meant to do.

Everyone wants everyone to do something great for thier country. Even when someone emerges out from the whirlpool of corruption and ugly politics, there comes the imprudent set of politicians who wanted to get publicity one way or the other. People want Rahman to win Oscars, do Hollywood projects as well as Bollywood, Kollywood, Tollywood, Mollywood etc at the same time, win every award in the world, do everything what everyone says etc etc etc. Imagine, he is human as well. People just dont put themselves in his shoes. Rather they complaint with obsurd statements that Rahman only works for Hollywood projects. People here wants Rahman to give importance to India. Of course. But at the same time they also want him to win Oscars. How can one win Oscars doing Bollywood and Kollywood projects? I wanted people to see Rahman as a human first, then a musician. There were millions of Rahman fans all over the world even before he had won Oscars. That is the kind of talent Rahman has, to make eveyone dance to his tunes, irrespective of the age.

I really dont like it when people point at some random MDs and tell he is Rahman's competitor. No one really has the quality to compete with Rahman. If Ilayaraja comes into this picture, then its a big NO. Ilayaraja and Rahman cannot be compared and shouldnt be compared. They are good in their times. Its Rahman who is ruling now. Lets learn to appreciate that. The amount of creativity in bringing out a good music is significant when composing music. Rahman and Ilayaraja were really good at it. But they cannot be compared anyways. Some say Ilayaraja was able to give mellifulous tracks when there was no much teachnology. I agree. But it needs really good talent to rule the world with music made using modern technology. To be unique, One has to keep updating himself on latest music technologies, like Rahman.

Please do not compare Yuvan and Harris with Rahman. They are not worth to be compared with him. The kind of music what Rahman does is not even close to what they do. Once i even started an argument with a stranger in the bus who said that Yuvan is the next Rahman when Yuvan couldnt even cross Chennai. No one in the world can become Rahman. No one actually can. To be short and precise- Yuvan copies under 'inspiration' cloak, Harris just copies. To compare between the two, Yuvan, who steals from non-English songs and gives a strong hip hop influence in his songs is better than Harris, who follows a pattern no matter the story. Both are good but sometimes when we listen to their song which sounds similar to an English song, thats when they lose credit.

I started this post with exposing my anger on behalf of Rahman fans and slowly drifted to eulogize him (That happens to all rahman fans!). The main point of this post is- Stop accusing Rahman for nothing. He had given excellent music till now and he is the only one experimenting music and constanlty giving out hits. Lets wait and see how the CWG theme comes out. Im pretty sure the ones who were against it will soon be in favour of it (that will be a little easy for politicians!).

''--=--;> "B"-.-"O"-.-"R"-.-"E"-.-"D" <;--=--''

2010-07-13T05:12:00.000-07:00

I dont wanna start with the usual 'After a long time im posting a blog' statement. Oh, I think i just did. Anyways, life after being employed is fun in many ways. When there are so many people outside who writes codes even in their dreams, why did Cognizant chose me? There must be a reason for eveything. And im happy that im in One Of The Fastest Growing Companies In The World.

There is something called "training" in every company where the newbies are SUPPOSED to learn few technologies. Cognizant owns something called the 'Academy' where the freshers are trained on whatever technology they are put in. My 3 months of training was fun to its exent. The one thing i hate about the Academy is that it gives you all opportunities to bond with your collegues so close that you so wanna be with them even after training. Even in my college farewell i was not as much saddened as i was when i left the Academy. We were 23 in our batch and we all wanted to stay together no matter what. But unforunately, that didnt happen. People were put in different places. Luckly, some people were put in the same location but under different managers. Unluckily, I was put alone. Im put in a "big project" which was recently launched. So my manager said there will be so much for me to learn compared to my friends.

Now im here in the alloted location, in the alloted cabin, with a alloted computer with no alloted work. My manager has so much work that he forgot the fact that a newbie joined his team. Im NOT dying to work, of course. But something is better than nothing. The bay where im put in is so wierd. People dont talk much to each other. Even if they talk, they only talk about Java and codes and crap. People look like they've lost their life the moment they stepped into this project. Im here sitting what to do next, chat with all my collegues and ask for updates, check mails, have coffee, play games, just do everything what can otherwise be done. The birth of this post is also one of the reason for my boredom. Thanks to my manager who didnt make me occupied with work which made me write this post after almost a year. Hail boredom. :-)

Provoked- Im Alive chords..!

2010-02-26T02:29:00.000-08:00

This is the chords for 'Im Alive' from the movie Provoked. Music scored by The Legend A.R.Rahman. I searched for the lyrics on the net, but couldnt find one. So i wrote the lyrics and found the chords too. If there is any mistake just let me know. Please leave your comments.

Chords position:

F add9 x03213
Cm7 x35343
Gm xx5333
A7 x02020
Dm x00231
A# m 113321
Fmaj 133211

(--F add9-- --Cm7--)

--F add9-- --Cm7--
Every beat that keeps beating is right
--F add9-- --Cm7--
Every minute is longer each time
--F add9--
Where should i go
--Cm7-- --Gm--
Where is my mind taking me
--Gm-- --A7--
Why is the sun breathing on me
--Dm--
When im feeling the cold

--Dm--
I see, I know, I cant feel you anymore
--Dm--
I breathe, Im free, Im not afraid anymore
--A# m-- --F maj--
So fly away little bird
--A# m-- --F maj-- --A# m--
The storm has gone it wont hurt, anymore
--F maj--
Im alive
--A# m--
Its alright
--F maj--
Im alive

(--F add9-- --Cm7--)

--F add9-- --Cm7--
Every shadow that comes in the night
--F add9-- --Cm7--
Every sound that i hear makes me hide
--F add9--
Where should i run
--Cm7-- --Gm--
Where will tomorrow carry me
--Gm-- --A7--
Why all the stars shining on me
--Dm--
Cuz im feeling so cold

--Dm--
I see, I know, I cant feel you anymore
--Dm--
I breathe, Im free, Im not afraid anymore
--A# m-- --F maj--
So fly away little bird
--A# m-- --F maj-- --A# m--
The storm has gone it wont hurt, anymore
--F maj--
Im alive
--A# m--
Its alright
--F maj--
Im alive

Im alive.. Im alive..

Please leave your comments..

-S

Vinnaithandi Varuvaya Guitar Chords..!

2010-02-02T14:11:00.000-08:00

Hi. This is The Legend A.R.Rahman's Vinnaithandi Varuvaya chords. I've found these chords myself. Some chords will be in brackets which means they have to be strummed instead of plucking. Some chords here are played in alternate ways and here I've numbered it in square bracket for convenience (To know, scroll down for the tabs). I guess its the right chords. If you find any chords wrong, correct me.

This is how the starting goes:
(Scroll down for the tabs)

--D9 (no 5th)--
e----------------------------------------------|
B---5----------------5----------------5--------|
G--------5----------------5--------------------|
D------4---4-----------4----4-----------4------|
A---5----------------5----------------5--------|
E----------------------------------------------|

--D m9 (no 5th)--
e----------------------------------------------|
B---5----------------5----------------5--------|
G--------5----------------5--------------------|
D------3---3-----------3----3-----------3------|
A---5----------------5----------------5--------|
E----------------------------------------------|

--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)--
--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)--
Ohrey uyire, Unnakagha thudithaen, vinmeeney..
--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..
--D m9 (no 5th)-- (D#maj7 [1])--Dm-- (D#maj7 [2])
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaaaahh..
--D#maj7 [3]-- (D#maj7 [1])--Dm--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..
(C# maj7) (C#) (G#) (D#)
Vinmeeney varuvayaaahh..

--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)-- --D9 (no 5th)--
Neytrum iravil, Unnodu iruthaen, Athai neeyum,
--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)-- --D9 (no 5th)--
Maranthaaya maranthaayahh..
--D m9 (no 5th)-- (A#maj7 [1])--Dm--
Kanavodu vizhaiyaada..
--D#maj7 [4]-- (A# maj7 [2])--Dm--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..
(Cm7) (G#) (backing 1*)
Nilavae nee varuvaayah..

*backing 1:

e--11------11-----11-----12------12------12--------|
B-----9-------9------9-------10------10------10----|
G------8-------8------8--------11------11------11--|
D--------------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------|

e--12------12------12-------12------12------12------------|
B-----10------10------10-------10------10------10-----------|
G-------10------10------10-------11------11------11---------|
D---------------------------------------------------------------|
A---------------------------------------------------------------|
E-------------------------------------------------------------|

--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)-- --D9 (no 5th)--
Ohrey uyire Unnakagha thudithaen, vinmeeney..
--D9 (no 5th)-- --D m9 (no 5th)--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..

(Cmaj, Gmaj, Fmaj are played in the same way)
Oooohhhhhhhhhhh..oooohhhhhhh…..
Ooooohhhhhhhhhh..oooohhhhhh…

(then G#maj, C#maj, D#maj, Fm (and some power chords) are played in

the same way)
Uyire neeyum naanum,
Pirinthadhu puthirrr-pu maiyathil thaaney..ooooohhhhhh
Iruthuruvam sern-antha orr-idam,
Anggatheythaan naam sernthomey..
Inimezh naanum neeyum pirivathillai..anbeyy..

--C# 9(no 5th)--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..
--C# 9(no 5th)-- (C# m7)--C#m-- --Amaj--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..
(Amaj7)--Dmaj7-- --C#m--
Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa..
(D6)--Gmaj7-- --Gmaj--(backing 2*)
Vinmeeney varuvayaaahh..

*backing 2:

e--7------7------7------------------------------|
B-----8------8------8---------------------------|
G-------7------7------7-------------------------|
D--------------------------------------------------|
A--------------------------------------------------|
E--------------------------------------------------|

TABS:

D9 (no 5th)
e------------------------------------------------|
B---5-------------5--------------5--------------|
G-------5--------------5------------------------|
D-----4---4---------4---4---------4------------|
A---5-------------5-------------5---------------|
E------------------------------------------------|

D m9 (no 5th)
e-------------------------------------------------|
B---5-------------5--------------5---------------|
G-------5--------------5-------------------------|
D-----3---3---------3---3---------3-------------|
A---5-------------5-------------5----------------|
E-------------------------------------------------|

D#maj7-1
e--------10-------------------------------|
B---------8--------------------------------|
G--------8--------------------------------|
D--------8--------------------------------|
A------------------------------------------|
E------------------------------------------|

D#maj7-2
e--------------3--------------|
B--------------3--------------|
G----2---3----3--------------|
D--------------1--------------|
A-----------------------------|
E-----------------------------|

D#maj7-3
e-----------------------------------------|
B---8-------------8--------------8------|
G-------7--------------7----------------|
D-----8---8---------8---8---------8----|
A---6-------------6-------------6-------|
E-----------------------------------------|

D#maj7-4
e-------------------------------------------------------|
B---6----8----10----8-------------8--------------8---|
G------------------------7--------------7--------------|
D----------------------8---8---------8---8---------8--|
A--------------------6-------------6-------------6-----|
E-------------------------------------------------------|

A#maj7-1
e--------10------------------------------|
B--------10------------------------------|
G-------10-------------------------------|
D--------8--------------------------------|
A-----------------------------------------|
E-----------------------------------------|

A#maj7-2
e---------5------------------------|
B---------3------------------------|
G--------3-------------------------|
D--------3-------------------------|
A----------------------------------|
E----------------------------------|

Dm
e------------------------------------------|
B---6-------------6--------------6--------|
G-------7--------------7------------------|
D-----7---7---------7---7---------7------|
A---0-------------0--------------0--------|
E------------------------------------------|

C# maj7
e-----------10----8------------------------|
B--------8--------6------------------------|
G----8-----------6------------------------|
D-----------------6------------------------|
A------------------------------------------|
E------------------------------------------|

C#
e--------6---------------------------|
B--------6---------------------------|
G--------6----5----3----8----------|
D--------4---------------------------|
A------------------------------------|
E------------------------------------|

Cm7
e---------------------------------|
B---------4----------------------|
G--------5-----------------------|
D--------5-----------------------|
A--------6-----------------------|
E---------------------------------|

C# m7
e---------9-----------------------|
B---------9-----------------------|
G--------9-----------------------|
D--------9-----------------------|
A---------------------------------|
E---------------------------------|

C#m
e---------------------------------|
B---5--------------5-------------|
G-------6--------------6---------|
D-----6---6----------6---6------|
A---------------------------------|
E---4--------------4-------------|

Amaj
e-------------------------------------|
B---5--------------5-----------------|
G-------6--------------6-------------|
D-----7---7----------7---7----------|
A-------------------------------------|
E---5--------------5-----------------|

Amaj7
e---------9------------------------|
B---------9------------------------|
G--------9-------------------------|
D--------7-------------------------|
A----------------------------------|
E----------------------------------|

Dmaj7
e------------------------------------|
B---5-------------5-----------------|
G-------6--------------6------------|
D-----7---7---------7---7----------|
A---5-------------5-----------------|
E------------------------------------|

C#m
e----------------------------------|
B---5--------------5--------------|
G-------6--------------6----------|
D-----6---6----------6---6-------|
A----------------------------------|
E---4--------------5--------------|

D6
e---------7------------------|
B---------7------------------|
G--------7-------------------|
D--------7-------------------|
A----------------------------|
E----------------------------|

Gmaj-7
e----------------------------------|
B---3--------------3--------------|
G-------4--------------4----------|
D-----4---4----------4---4-------|
A----------------------------------|
E---3--------------3--------------|

Please leave your comments.!

-S

My Composition.!

2010-01-18T13:04:00.000-08:00

This track is called "Rejoice". I did this two days back and never had time to upload it. I hope the name suits the track best. Please listen to it and leave your comments.

Click here to download.

Please leave your comments..!

;)
-S

Vinnaithandi Varuvaya album review.

2010-01-13T03:53:00.000-08:00

Aaoromale- Awesome guitar work. I loved the style of the song. Its so different with a feel of rock and lot of blues style backing. Alphons Joseph has sung really well. One of the best track in the album.

Anbil Avan- Devan and Chinmayi has sung it. Hard synth and mridhangam is an awesome combo. Rahman proves once again that he is the best. Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March comes in between, soon after which our very own Mangalyam music takes over with strings and chorus. The song ends with church organ and mridhangam backing the song.

Hosanna- I've become a fan of Vijay Prakash soon after listening to Manmohini Moore from Yuvvraj. Vijay Prakash is an excellent choice for this song. Blaaze's rap was unusual as usual. Suzanne D'Mello's backing vocals singing "Hosanna" was remarkable. This song was released long back in the internet and i believe was also the song which created great interest among Rahman fans to buy this album. One of the best track in the album.

Kannukkul Kannai- Ultimate violin, electric guitar and cello combo in the song. Nice song with Naresh Iyer rendering his voice. I keep listening to this song again and again just for the violin-electric guitar-cello combo. Its just super.

Mannipaaya- One of the best in the album. I loved the chords in the song. A. R. Rahman & Shreya Ghoshal would have sung really well. I like the part when Rahman sings "Urugi Urugi.." and there is a lapse in the beat (or a slightly different beat pattern). Chorus with flute, sitar and piano is super. Wonder how the song is shot!

Omana Penne- One of the best in the album. Benny Dayal & Kalyani Menon have lent voices. The auto-tune work in Benny's singing is just beautiful. The song is even more beautiful when Kalyani Menon comes in with her singing in Malayalam. With a little suppressed Nadhaswaram backing the song, it sounds mellifluous. Benny's style of style singing in the song is good as usual.

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa- My favorite track. Only Rahman can compose something like this. Awesome chords. I feel like flying every time i listen to it. Karthik has sung it. This is one of the best track in the album.

Every song in this album is really good. But some people feel that the album is more adhered to Hollywood and western style of music. Maybe its because the film might've needed that type of music. Rahman's music is always good but its best when its heard with the video. So lets all wait for the movie to release. After all, its A.R.Rahman's album. What do you expect other than awe-inspiring music?

My Composition..!

2010-01-09T08:13:00.000-08:00

This is the karaoke of the song "Palavattam" from Vineeth Srinivasan's 'Coffee at M.G.Road'.. Long back, It was my friend who sent the YouTube link of this song's video with a "must watch" tag.. I really liked it.. Now just a few days back while i was listening to this song, my idea bulb with "DO A KARAOKE OF IT" flashed.. And here it is.!! Hope you will like it..

Click here to download..

YouTube Video of the song:

Please leave your comments..!

;)
-S

My Composition..!

2009-10-18T11:21:00.000-07:00

Its been long since I've posted anything in my blog.. The reason being- No Time.. I eventually found little time to compose and upload this song in my blog..

This is "My Version" of the song 'Hey There Delilah' by Plain White T's.. I loved this song the very first time i heard it.. Its a simple song with just a guitar and vocal, but yet so powerful.. Since the original song is with just one instrument, i wanted to listen to it a little different.. So i added some instruments to make it sound my way, and hence "My Version"..

Just to show the difference, I've pasted the link of the original track too (for the ones who haven't heard the song before!).. Hope you will like it.. Please leave your comments..

My Track: [Sajith_Hey There Delilah (My Version)]

Click here to download..

Original Track: [Plain White T's- Hey There Delilah]

Click here to download..

YouTube Video.. !

Please leave your comments..!

-S

Vaarnam Aayiram- Oh Shanthi Guitar Chords.!

2009-09-26T23:10:00.000-07:00

*This is posted upon request*

Am-G
Nee endri naanum illai
Am-G
Yen kadhal poyyum illai
Dm-G- -G-Am- -C-
Vazhi engum undhan mugam thaan
Dm-G- -Em-Am- -F-C-
Vali kooda ingey sugam thaan

Am-G
Thodu vaanam sivandhu pogum
Am-G
Tholai thooram kurainthu pogum
Am-F-C-G
Karaigindra nodigalil naan nerungi vanthene
Am-G
Imai unnai piriya maaten
Am-G
thuli dhooram nagara maaten,
Am-F-C-G
Mugam paarka thavikiren yen iniya poongatrey

Dm-C-G
Oh shanti shanti oh shanti
Dm-C-G
Yen uyirai uyirai nee yendhi
Dm-C-G
Yen sendrai sendrai enai neengi
Dm-C-G-C
Naan vanthaen vanthaen unai thedi.. ohhh..

The chords are pretty much the same for the next stanza and chorus.. Enjoy..

Hell Calling.!

2009-08-04T22:43:00.000-07:00

Hell Calling is a short film about a boy who smokes marijuana for the first time. The after-effect puts him in delusion and he starts to see, feel and do things that did not actually happen.

Directed and acted by my friend Raj Kumar who has won the Best Actor Award for his short film "Story Of My Library" from Rotary Club, East Coast. His film "Story Of My Library" has been screened in more than 6 International Film Fests. Hell Calling is his third short film. I scored music for this film :).

The movie starts with a guy buying marijuana from a drug dealer. He gets back home, mixes pot with tobacco, and smokes it. He suffers severe after-effect which scares him to death. He tries to do things (like hit on the wall, drink water from bubble top) just to make sure he is still alive. To reduce the activity of the drug, he takes bath which in turn produces more effect. He then takes a book and writes down the "effects of marijuana". Just to differentiate and to show what the boy feels, the director would've shown the boy's view in black and white screen and the actuality in color. By that, we see that the pen he uses to write down will have no ink in it, and also the book he uses to write the effects will have nothing written on it. The effect of the drug makes him feel hallucinated. He gets a call from hell (his phone displays 'Hell Calling..' as caller identity) and wonders what is happening to him. He tries to go back to think what he had done for its cause. Several images cross by and he gets an indefinite idea of what happened. He then attends the call and the movie ends, giving the rest to the audience.

Hell Calling:

Performed by: Raj Kumar.
Directed by: Raj Kumar.
Music by: Sajith.
Edited by: A.S.Dominic.
Produced by: Rajesh.

Please watch the film and leave your comments.

-S

My Composition..!

2009-08-01T13:46:00.000-07:00

This is my new composition called "Kanshashka". Now you may wonder what Kanshashka means. Its just Kanda Shashti Kavasam. I just wanted it to sound different. This piece is a remix of Kanda Shahti Kavasam. I hope you will like it. Hear it and please leave your comments.

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YouTube:

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;)
-S

A Weird Day In My Life.!

2009-07-05T16:15:00.000-07:00

4/5/09 was a weird day for me. The previous day, I was asked if I was coming to my maternal grandparents’ home which was in Tambaram. I said yes. But I was also said that I should have to drop by some other places before going to my grandparents’. I said yes to it too. It was me, my parents, my aunt (who came from Kerala to stay here till she feels like going back),an uncle (my neighbor), my grandma (paternal grandma), who went. We started at around 9. My father drove the car and it stopped nowhere until it reached Tambaram. I was not said where we were to actually “drop by”. The car took a left from the main road which led to a small street which again had so many other streets, like the branches of a Banyan tree, from which we reached at a place. My mother gave me a cynic look and told me to stay in car while they go and meet the person whom they are to meet. This was the “drop by” they meant. I said I cannot stay in car alone cuz that really irritates me, so I went along. We went into a house which had two floors; The person we were supposed to meet was on the first. There was a huge hall which had a sofa set to the left of the entrance. Left to the sofa set was a room which led to the toilet. We went inside to the hall and we were asked to be seated till he comes. I was wondering on who the “he” might be. I didn’t know. I thought we were in some distant relation’s place that I couldn’t recognize any of. Cuz they were talking Malayalam, which was my mother tongue. I was waiting for my parents to introduce me to the lady who asked us to be seated. But they didn’t. The lady was around 50 of age and was wearing saree and was quiet busy with her chores. I didn’t understand what work she had other than taking care of the guests. I was confused. We sat there for half hour. The lady was in the kitchen doing her household works and didn’t even care to come ask us for something to drink. Only then I realized they were not our relatives. I was sitting on the sofa which was to the immediate left of the entrance which showed the entire view of the hall. At the other end of the hall was a cot over which was a window which showed nothing but some houses far away. There was a television set to the right of the cot. There was a room next to the television which was the pooja room. To the left of the cot was a room which was the kitchen. To the right of me was a room which led to the toilet.

After half hour a man entered the room. He was around 60 of age. He was wearing a white shirt and white dhoti. He was very charming and energetic. He was clean shaved and was bald. He welcomed us and asked his wife to make some tea for us. That was when she realized that she had to make tea for guests who visit their home. We were served just tea, cuz I was expecting some biscuits with it. Maybe she didn’t bring biscuits cuz she was not ordered to bring them by the old man. The old man lifted one end of his dhoti, and with the other hand he trailed the hem of it till he reached the other end and made the two ends meet and tied it loosely, just below his waist, making his legs visible. We were having tea while the old man was looking at something outside the door, having his tea. After we had tea, he went inside the kitchen to keep the empty glasses while I took a brief look at what he was looking. Straight outside the entrance, there were steps which led down to a Tulasi plant which was planted on a little raised cement cube. It had triangle shaped cut at each side of the cube and the Tulasi was planted on top of it. I came back to my seat. The man came out from the kitchen and started talking about the history of Ramayana with no initial small talk. It was indistinct for someone to talk about the history of Ramayana to guests who knew anything about it to know its history and origin. Especially me. I looked askance at him as he droned about it. Then he shifted the topic to something else which I had no clue what it was. It was all myth. I had no clue where I am and why the hell I was there. I looked at my parents and they managed to hold a I-can-understand-what-the-hell-you-are-talking-about look at him. My aunt looked at me and smirked instantaneously. The man disappeared into the pooja room when I asked my mom what the hell was happening. She didn’t tell me and asked me to go be in the car till they come back. I said it was ok for me to be here rather than being there alone.

We were sitting like this- I was sitting in a sofa, which is for one person, which was placed at the immediate right to the entrance. Next to me was a sofa which holds three person in which my mom, my aunt and my grandma was sitting. Next to it was a sofa, like mine, in which my father was sitting. To the left of the entrance was a small dining table which had four chairs. One of them was now occupied by my uncle.

The old man came out from the pooja room and walked straight to my father and looked at him. “Everything will be ok” he said.

“What?” I said to myself.

“Everything will be ok. It would take few days for you to get on track. You don’t have to worry about anything. What has to happen, must happen. God is there with you” he said.

Only then I realized that he was a seer. My parents knew I would get mad if I was taken to places like this. ‘Oh, That’s why I was asked to stay in car’, I thought to myself. I hate these people- seers, ascetics and people of that kind. I gave a very bad look at my mom who gave me back a regretful look. My parents never used to believe people like this. Someone must have told something about this man which made them want to see him. But I just wanted to see what this man was up to. I controlled my anger and appeared calm to see what he was going to do. He went inside again and came out with a small plastic container which had some powder in it. He walked to my father, held the plastic bottle close to my father’s mouth while he was mumbling something. Must be a prayer. My father gave a what-am-I-supposed-to-do look. He told him to blow air inside the bottle. He did. He took the bottle went inside again and came out with a small tube. He placed the bottle on the dining table and filled half of it with a beige colored powder with the already containing powder. The he squeezed the tube over the bottle which oozed out a high viscous transparent liquid into the bottle. He closed the bottle tightly with its cap and placed it on a betel leaf and took it inside the room again. He came out and droned about his life and some facts which he related with the myth.

My father was then asked to come to the pooja room. He came back after a while. Then my aunt. Then my grandma. Everyone took turns. I was really bored with all what was happening, so I was playing Bounce in my mobile. After everyone had finished with their turns, it was finally mine. My mother was very concerned about my future more than myself. She asked him to foresee my future, and tell how my job and other things would be. I was not conscious of some of the acts he was doing while he was doing the “prophecy”. I was busy playing Bounce. My mom prodded me to look at the man who was standing in front of me. I took my eyes from my mobile to see him. He was looking at me. I gave him a what-do-you-want look. He guessed that I didn’t believe him. He pointed his finger to a showcase which had some memorabilia. I studied at them thoughtfully. And looked at him again. “Did you see that photo” he asked pointing at the photo I missed. “Ya” I lied. There were some 50 people in that picture standing in order, one behind the other, but were a little higher than the people in the front, just to get their faces clearly in the picture. There were four rows of them like that. He went close to it and pointed at a man and said “It was me. I was a member of the Director Of Education, Madras University. I know how students like you behave. I have handled so many students of your kind”. I looked at him without saying a word. I just kept looking with a what-the-hell look. He studied me for a while and looked outside the entrance at the Tulasi plant and mumbled something, which I apparently wasn’t able to hear. I kept looking at him. Still looking at the Tulasi plant, he raised his right hand and talked feebly like someone was actually there, right in front of him. He shook his head like someone said something and whistled. Yes. He whistled. He whistled for 10 seconds and looked at me.

“Everything is ok but for the way you look.” he said.

What the hell is wrong with my look? “I don’t understand” I said.

“You look very dull. Like you’ve lost something in your life. Young people like you need to have the spirit in ya’ll which should charm others. Which should make them feel to be like you. But you don’t seem happy. What is your problem ?”

What is your problem now ? I asked to myself. “I don’t have problems. This is how I normally look.”

“You shouldn’t be like this son. It’s bad. The glow that is supposed to be in young ones like you is missing. Don’t worry. Everything will be alright.”

Go to hell. I said. He looked out again at the Tulasi plant and raised his right hand with his palm visibly shown. He whistled at the Tulasi plant and smirked.
He looked at me and said “Ok son. Everything will be alright. In just three months you will get a job. A very good one. But by then you should change yourself. You shouldn’t look like you’re in deep melancholy. Be active. Be brave.”
Fuck you. I thought. “ok” I said. He went inside and brought a small clay-made hemispherical lamp which had a thread to hold the fire and filled with oil. The lamp was lit when he came out. Before he went to take the lamp, he made the two fans in the hall run at full speed. He came out with that lit lamp and walked across the hall and made his way to the entrance. He stopped at the entrance and said “I made the fan run at full speed cuz I want to see whether the light goes off. It didn’t. It’s a good omen.” He went outside and stepped down to that Tulasi pant and kept the lamp in one of the triangle cut of the raised cube over which the Tulasi was planted. He climbed back over and said “Come to the pooja room son. I need to talk to you”. I thought this guy is a mad man. I went to the pooja room. I was a little scared after seeing everything he had done. It was a little room which had a cot, over which I was asked to be seated. To my right was some 20 pictures of Hindu Gods framed and hung on the wall. Tiny colorful bulbs ran around the borders of the pictures and a devotional song was played from an electronic player which plays only the songs recorded on it. It was hung high on the wall for the sound to resonate through the entire room. He stood in front of me and looked at me. I felt little nervous, not only for I was with a mad man, but also the pictures and atmosphere in the room was little weird. He asked what my problem was. I said I have no problem and I’m as I usually am. He did the evil thing which scares me. He raised his right hand and this time, he was talking with the pictures framed which hung on the wall. That seriously scared the shit out of me. For one thing, that I shouldn’t play bad with him or snub him cuz he knows voodoo, which he might use on me if I tease him (I believed he would do it by the way he acted. It was fuckin’ weird). I was looking at him without blinking. He looked at one of the twenty Gods, which was the last by rows and columns, and he gave a sly look at it. Like a look given by someone when you joke with a hidden meaning and he manages to find what you actually meant. He winked at that picture and nodded as if “Is it? Is it?”. I was fuckin’ scared like I felt like running out from there. He was mad. He winked at a Hindu God and he was giving a sly look at it. He was becoming more insane as he talked with that picture. He then looked at me and laughed. I was out of immediate instinct to what has to be given in return to that smile. I just looked at him. “Don’t worry son. Everything is alright with you. Your future is good. Tell me a number between one to ten.”

“Seven” I said.

“Hmm. Ok. Tell me any four-legged animal”.

“Eh, Tiger.”

“Ok. Tell me any flower.”

“Hmm, Rose.”

“Good.”

He wrote it all in a book and did some calculation. He then gave the book to me and asked me to sign just below where he did his calculations. I signed. He said I don’t have to worry about anything and asked me to leave. I came out and gave everyone a bad tempered look and everyone knew I was mad. I sat where I was sitting. He went inside and disappeared for 5 minutes. He then came back with a shoe flower and two more flowers which was yellow with numerous numbers of small petals on it. The shoe flower had some burnt marks on the edge of its petals. He plucked one of its petals, mumbling some prayer and said “Eat it. The marks on the edge of the petals are the dirt in your heart. You should eat it to purify you”. How will eating dirt will purify something ? No logic. I had to eat it cuz my mom was pressing my hand hard which said- ‘Eat it for me’, when I had the petals in my hand. Like a fool, I ate those petals. It had five petals. I ate all five. I thought he would treat me like a donkey asking me to eat the other two flowers he had had in his hand and some more leaves and papers. But he said those flowers had to be kept near the Tulasi plant. Thank God.

We left to our grandma’s place soon after exiting from there. After our stay there for three hours, we returned back home. I tried to put everything up in front just to show how the picture was. How and what had really happened out there. And I think I was close. I am a kind of person who never believes in things like this. How accurately can someone predict your future more than yourself ? I thought he was to be a crystal gazer but he turned out to be a talking-to-invisible-people-with-his-right-hand-raised git. All what he did was funny to me but it might be a serious thing for people who earnestly seek him for their good will. He claims he can predict future. Is he God ? To my eyes, he just looked insane, more like a fool with no future. If he is so good in predicting future, why cant he foresee his future and make amends ? He can be a rich man. I have just three words for him- Get a life ! I will have to go to him again if I don’t get the “good” job that he said I would be getting. I would certainly tell him to go work for someone or do the households rather than doing a job like this. I don’t know his name. What do I name him ? ‘The man who predicts future and sucks at it’ ? I have no idea. Maybe ‘Loser’ suits him best. I made my mom promise that she would never go to people like this anymore. Or at least, not to take me with them !

Realization Of Pulchritude- The Radiant Art.!

2009-06-30T14:11:00.000-07:00

After every exams, I used to shovel the question papers, and other stuffs i used to take for the exam, in my bag and bring it home, Only to realize that i have them there when i search for a book in my bag for the next exam. I used to put every question papers in a drawer in my closet. After years, i got to arrange my closet to eliminate unwanted stuffs from it. While i came across this drawer, there were some hundred question papers filling the drawer. I don't know whether you'd reminisce looking just at a question paper which you've tried to answer, but i would certainly do. Because never a question paper that was given to me will have nothing written on it unless its a university question paper. I used to write something just to while away the time allotted to finish the question paper. Im an average student. Well, for the record, I'm a bit below average who fight wars to contain a 67%. So its obvious for a guy like me to write shit on a paper given to me to answer according to the questions given on it. Sometimes i used to do the general thing- shade all the circles with a pencil/pen (the circles include the circles in the letters 'a', 'q','b','g' etc.) just to make the paper look funny or- interesting. If that gives some more time which might provoke me (which never usually happens unless i study) to write something, I would usually write funny poems or captions or one-liners (which takes time to think as well as to write the same!). My personal option would be to write something rather than shading letters. I sometimes cartoon small character which resemble resistors and capacitors in my Electronics related paper and characters which resemble monitor and CPU in my Computer Science related paper. Now you might think how i managed to maintain an awesome percentage of 67 doing stuffs that wouldn't help me get more than 50%. Well, Im trying to find it out how. Its a miracle, i guess. Coming to what i was telling, i was going though all my question papers which i happened to find in my drawer and was laughing out loud just to bottle up a pang that kept telling me at the back of my head that i would've written something that the miracle would work out to get me a 70%. But i was happy, To see how beautifully i scribbled in all my question papers, and how beautifully i shaded every letters that not a mark of my pencil went beyond the circle, and how beautifully my poems sounded, and how beautifully my question paper looked. I always write what affects me the most. And i write it instantaneously as my mind says. My personal favorite is: "You took me to heaven, and i saw what hell is. Girls are fake". And sometimes i used to write "The questions given in this paper is no way related to ECE or at least the subject" at the top of the paper, just below the "JAYA ENGINEERING COLLEGE" heading. I also found some interesting stuffs in that drawer. There was a sheet of paper (the paper which was usually given to write the answers) which had three columns with names neatly written one after the other in every column. It was the names of all the pop and rock bands i know and was neatly written one below the other with no repetition. I just thought how much time i would've wasted to write that (probably most of the time allotted to finish the paper) cuz it takes so much time to think all name of the bands, write them down, then when i think again of a band name i would have to check it with the already listed bands, etc. Wow, ask me how to kill time in an examination for which the answers for the questions asked were unknown (at least for you!).

I loved to write lyrics of some songs (which my friends have hardly known of) in a paper and show it to my friends for their comments, claiming that it was mine. Some would find that it wasn't mine and some wouldn't; and some would comment on it. But eventually after any of the above cases, i would say that it wasn't mine. You might think what a sick job i've been doing when the class was going on. But it would be just wonderful to see the ones who comment for the lyrics written by some popular pop or rock artist. But i sometimes used to write something on my own. Some lyrics of just some random thoughts. I would get good comments or some turn out to be the sleuth and claims its not mine. Funny, either i plagiarize or truly wrote it.

When i was going through my 'question paper art' which took me to the good old days, i found a sheet of paper in which was written a poem- or so-called "poem". I dont remember who would have written it cuz there was no name. And am not that good in finding out who it could be just by looking at the handwriting. He probably would've got inspired to write this from.. well.. I don't have a clue. It goes like this (just as written):

"Whenever I feel, Im alone
I'l be thinking about you my dear
All the nights Im dreaming about you my dear
While Im walking,
While Im talking,
While Im bathing,
While Im ......?
I'll be thinking about you my dear
This is how the days of my life, have passed away
And that's how i came to know love is a sweet poison.

I can see your face on my book pages.
I'll be hugging and kissing my book pages.
The pages becomes wet, you are the reason for that
I don't want to blame you for that
But i want you to pay me, for the loss of my days.

It would be nice, If you are by the side of me
all the nights
No visa, no passport. I'll take you to heaven.
The doors are always open for someone like us my dear.
This is how i scribble versus on thinking about you my dear.
That may be the curses from God of love.
Whenever I feel, Im alone.
I'll be thinking about you my dear.. my dear.. my dear.. my dear.."

There was no name for this poem but i presume it to be "My dear". I liked it for what he tried to say, fighting my laughter. I wanted to share this with someone. So im putting it in my blog.

All my question papers are in my dustbin now. But it helped me take myself to the examination hall, seeing myself write shit on my question paper, never attempting to ask unknown answers to the person next to me, and the person next to me never attempting to ask anything to me for he would've known im either busy writing poems and one-liners or that i will have the faintest clue of what the answer might be. Reminiscing and repent the days simultaneously, for that miracle which would've got me a 70%. I hope another post would come up soon, as soon as i know where my answer sheets are stacked.!

B-O-R-E-D.!

2009-06-13T05:25:00.000-07:00

Im really bored now. So bored that im writing a post. For no reason. Nothing. Really nothing. I don't know what to write. But still im writing. My computer has gone dead. So you may wonder how i got to write this. I have cousins. And they have laptops. Its been two weeks since my computer went dead. What would i have done if my computer was ok? Man, i wouldve watched loads and loads of movies, compose songs, listen to Rahman songs, sit in front of it with an open Orkut page and wait for a scrap, read blogs and post some funny comment, play games, do shit! I wouldnt have bought three novels if it hadnt been for my computer's temporary death. Three novels. Rs.60 each. Man, i spent 180 bucks. I read two books already. And im with the thrid one. A little thicker than the two. My brother takes the CPU to his friend's home to get the problem fixed. While i'll be at home, with this thicker book in hand, flipping each page, with a thought that he'd come with a no-problem CPU. But in vain. ok. To while away time, i went out with my friend. We went to three different places, which were at three different places, each very far from the other. Now you might think that for sure the friend must have been a girl. No. Its a guy. He has the same wavelength as i have. And even he was as bored as i was. Now. To kill time for at least 15mins, i write this. Now if even u were to kill time, I think i helped you kill 5mins in reading this. If you think i've wasted your time, then GO TO HELL.!

My Composition..!

2009-05-11T10:02:00.000-07:00

My new comp.. I've named it "Sound of South" cuz that's what it sounded to me like.. I've used synthesized sounds of Mridhangam, Gottuvadhyam, Morsing etc which was all tuned using software to get its tone (Not the actual instrument though!) and some strings, flute and damped keys.. This is just a 2:21min track.. Hear it and leave your comments.. [Software Used: FL 8]

Click here to download..

Please leave your comments..!

;)
-S

Condolence.

2009-04-08T10:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday, After passing the afternoon dozing, I woke up at at around 5:30 to hear a very bad news. That my class mate Vijay Saravanan's father passed away. I couldn't go over to his place to see the body right away. Instead, i prayed for him during my evening prayer. Today, Me and some of my friends went to be with him until the body was taken. I take this little space for my condolence. Let the eternal rest grant unto him and let perpetual light shine upon him. May his soul rest in peace. And i pray God to give Vijay enough strength to overcome the loss.

Rule of the world.!

2009-04-05T05:04:00.000-07:00

"This is the rule of the world today
As it has ever been

The world bestows its smile on those
Who have the strength to win

Beneath all outward semblances
It looks for merit true,

It little cares how much you know
But asks what can you do?"

- ??

Desirous.!

2009-04-04T23:33:00.000-07:00

People have desires. Each and every single human in the world have desires. Desires that some wanting for so long. It takes different shapes. According to me, its only of two- Ominous and Divine. When someone wants to achieve his desire, their endurance can shatter any barriers on its way. Human intentions are so strong that it would make us do anything for it. When desires are conventionally restricted to certain limits, we call it- Culture. I believe, 'Desire' and 'Culture' are two contrary words, well, in most of the ways. The things one crave to get is often restricted under the cloak of 'Culture'. Yet, its always the hidden human desires that dehisce to show its true form, which is often far away from the borders of culture. Yes. By some way or the other, everyone's manifestation asserts that they crave for sexual desire. It cannot be accepted when a person says that he never had sexual intentions in his life. You will look ugly in that person's eyes, when he can read your mind, when he can see what is on your mind very clearly. We always feel its awesome when we have the power to break in a person's mind. Its true that you'd hate him the very next moment after you see whats on his mind.

People have a lot of cruel intentions. Its that they dont overtly show it. When a person falls for an opposite sex, he will have zillions of cruel thoughts running in parallel in his mind. He tries to control his mind that he should never change the track. After all, mind is the most powerful thing in the world- You have it in you, and you dont know where it is.

When the word 'desire' is commonly said, it has got lots of meaning. I searched for its meaning in my dictionary and it showed- 1. unsatisfied longing or wish; 2. sexual appetite. By 'unsatisfied longing', one would think its something related to sex when it has thousands of other meanings. Well, i initially thought it has got something to do with sex. That was my instinct. Only then my mind shifted to search for other meanings. That doesn't mean that i always get all exited when i hear a sexual innuendo. That is what strikes one's mind when 'desire', 'unsatisfied', 'longing' comes together. After all we are human. And as i said, we have hidden desires that we conceal, that only you know how dark it is in. The more the shade of your mysterious archive comes to light, the more you become sombre.

Every human have cruel intentions. When these intentions pile up, they pave way for cruel desires. Desires that will make you do anything. It controls you untill you bring them under your control. As i said, desire have several forms, but the most of it are often cruel. I believe that every human is an artist. Camouflaging their ominous desires that one always have and presenting a counterfeiting structure. A structure that will do the opposite of one's desire. Its better to be in disguise than showing our real selves. Desire- 'You will look ugly in that person's eyes, when he can read your mind'..

My Journey Of Life.. !

2009-03-29T11:55:00.000-07:00

I tried to turn back to see how long I've walked. It was long. Very long that the road faded in the dark. I've crossed so many things and i've fought so many obstacles. I've jumped when there were ditches, and pushed aside things that'd hurt me. I felt I've chosen a wrong path when I'm half way down the road. I thought I'm on a road in which I'm not supposed to be. I was wrong. The only difference is that- I would've been a little more better than what I am now if I had chosen the other road.

When i started off with with my journey, there were labyrinth of roads ahead from which i was made to walk on a road i don't belong. I thought I'm gonna land in a much more competitive destination. So competitive that you may need to lose things you more possess. Now I've almost crossed half way down my road and still have no clue where it leads. I would have to devise each and every step of my walk to reach my destination. Or 'a' destination.

I walk with a trust that the trees, that adorns the road on both sides, would help me give shade when I'm tired. I was wrong. I thought all the sign boards were true. I was wrong. I thought there would be light when I walk in the dark. I was wrong. And then I realized I should be myself if I have to reach where I'm supposed to reach. It is better to be you rather than trying to be like someone else. I should believe in myself instead of stretching my hand for help.

I've learnt things that made me wonder, and sometimes surprise. I've seen the impossible happen. I've seen the blue skies turn dark. I've seen rainbows with more than seven colors. Everything I believed was deceiving, and more deceiving as I walked down on my way. The bewildered foggy roads threatened me when I made each step. I feared my next step would be on a ditch. One wouldn't be knowing that it was a ditch cuz it was covered beautifully with leaves and flowers from deciduous trees. Ditches that attracts you. You get closer to it without realizing what it really is. I didn't believe it was a burrow of wretchedness when people said it was one. I came to knew it, only when I'm in it. My journey would've ended when i had still been in the ditch waiting for someone to help me come out. Everyone who crossed by the ditch knew someone is struggling, fighting for relief, so wanted to come out. But no one helped, or wanted to help. I put myself hard enough to climb up and resume my journey. Of course I got hurt. But that didn't stop me.

I don't know where my road leads. I should find the right road that lead me to the right destination. It is hard when you have to choose a road from hundreds of road that divide from the one on which you are standing. It would have always been better if had chosen the 'other road'. You always feel you could have chosen the other road, that you believe would've taken you to where you want to be, when you are already on it. I've learnt that there should be no turning back. Time dies, but it sometime kills too. You never know you are wasting time regretting on the time you've lost. When you start to realize, you are left with less time to cross the river before the water starts to flow faster.

I believe the road I'm on would take me to where I'm supposed to be. Where I like to be. 'Faith' is the only map that i have. And I believe it takes me to the right place. I believe. My journey would never end until then..

Chennai- Cochin- Munnar- Athirampally tour..!

2009-03-25T14:39:00.000-07:00

20-3-2009:

-> Deparute for Coimbatore by Intercity Express at 2:00pm. Had fun in train. Had more
fun with girls who traveled with us in the abreast compartments. By 'fun' i just meant the howling and hoy we threw at each other. Our pastime were nothing but cards, lurking and footling confabulations. [Chennai to Coimbatore- 497kms; Travel duration: 8hrs approx.]
-> Reached Coimbatore at 10pm. Had food in a hotel opposite to the station. Our next
train to Ernakulam was scheduled to be at 2am. We had some time to meander in the roads of Coimbatore.
-> Train to Ernakulam was at the station on time. Took a snooze and got up before we
reach Ernakulam. It was at 6am the next day when we reached Ernakulam and we were
taken to hotel Shalimar Residency by Subash, who joined us there. [Coimbatore to
Ernakulam- 206kms; Travel duration: 3 and half hours approx.]

21-3-2009:
->At nearly 8am, Everyone bathed and got ready to wander. We went to a nearby
temple and took some pics. At 9:45am, we started on our way for sight seeing. At
10am, we reached Ferry Boating. We were taken to two islands which had two
important sites- St. Francis Church and an Archaeological Museum. We also saw the
Chinese Fishing Net, which is very famous in Cochin. Tripunithura Palace is where we
stopped next. It was beautiful. Before leaving for our hotel we went to Chottanikkara
Temple. At 5:30pm, we returned to our hotel after having our lunch on the way. It was
hot as hell in Ernakulam and we were drenching in sweat.
-> That night, at the hotel, we got to know that students from SMC have come for a
tour and staying in the same hotel where we stay. Soon it bruit about among us. Had
fun lurking about for girls and some more fun.

22-3-2009:
-> At 6:30am, we depart for Munnar by bus. It was a tiring 4 and half hours travel. On the way, we took pics at Rajamalai. The roads of Munnar were simpy awesome.
Munnar was never less of a heaven. We reached S.N Hotel at 10:45am. The hotel was
awe-inspiring and was very neat. There was no fan since its very cold up there. It was 17*C at 12 noon and less than 10*C in the night. I think only me and Guru bathed. The rest did'nt cuz the water was so cold that it'd numb your skin.
-> By 1:30pm, we started on our way for sight seeing. The ghat roads en route was simply dreadful.
-> By 2:00pm, we reached some place where they take you on elephants for a ride. It was too coslty to go for a ride on them, so we took pics with the elephants.
-> In another half an hour, we were at the Echo Point. Everyone howled their names
and all we got was a meek echo. There was boating too, but we had less time to go for a ride.
-> At 3:15pm, we went to Kundala Dam. There was boating and everyone gave it a shot
except me. The entire place was picturesque. The place serves as a reason to leave no memory space in your camera.
-> We came back to the hotel at 7pm after shopping some spices, home-made
chocolates and tea powder, for which Munnar is famous.
-> At 8:15pm, we had lunch in S.N restaurant, very close to our hotel. We had to eat
early cuz all the shops will be closed by 9pm.
-> We started out for a walk at 9pm. It was fun cuz it was pitch dark and i was carrying a torch that helped us show way. It was so cold that the words coming out of our mouth turned to smoke in the cold air. We went few kilometers and came back cuz of Prakash who got scared cuz of the dark roads that were ahead of us. It was 10:20pm when we reached our hotel.
-> We slept a little early, were others were paying cards untill they fell asleep.

23-3-2009:
-> Got up at 6:15am cuz we had to leave for Athirampally early. By 8:00am, we
checked out of the hotel and left. We stopped on the way near a tea estate to take some pics. By 3:30pm, we reached the Athirampally falls after 7hrs journey by bus. We had lunch on the way. [A humorous incident happened at the hotel. Me and Shanmugasundaram had a burger and a sandwich which we thought might help us on a journey that goes 15kms high altitude. All the Brahmin guys said they wont have lunch in 'Veg and Non-Veg' hotels. They needed pure Veg hotels. Me and Shanmgasundaram, after having our burger, waited in the bus. The rest went to a hotel which was some few mts away from the hotel from where we had our lunch. They had ordered for Veg Biryani. While eating, Santhanam found two dead cockroaches in it. The funny part is, he had put the dead cockroaches aside and continued eating his food. And then he found a worm in it. Only then he realized that the food has gone bad. He complained and they canceled all their orders].
-> We got a news that actor Jayam Ravi has come for a movie shooting in
Athirampally. I dont know how far that was true. Or even true. We never saw him.
Took many pics there. The place looks beautiful but one has to be very very careful near Athirampally falls. Cuz the rocks were very slippery and was in no good shape. I got slipped once, but managed to climb up with no injuries. Ram Kumar and Yugasirpi got hurt when tried to move from one rock to the other. The rocks were sinister and
scared the hell out of everyone. Soon after we got off the water, it started raining. It was beautiful.
-> By 5:30pm we left the place and reached Trichur station at 7pm. Trivandrum Express was scheduled to be at the station by 11:10pm. It was on time. Me and Paramesh shared a lot of things in train and slept a while later. I got up the next morning at 5:30am. After everyone was astir, we played cards again. There were some northies traveled with us in the same train but in S7 compartment (we were in S9), so we had to go there to feed our eyes.
-> We thought the train wouldn't stop at Perambur, but it did. Not at the station, but before the station that we had to jump off the train. It reached Perambur at 9:45am. I reached home at 10:00am, on 24.03.2009. [Trissur to Chennai- 628kms; Travel duration: 10 and half hrs approx.]

I am a Keralite, but i don't used to go to Kerala very often. Im more of a Chennaite than Keralite. I love Kerala for the place itself, beautiful girls and eye-catching houses. All three are stupendous in its kind.

Yes, it was a very normal tour cuz i've been to Kerala so many times since its my hometown. But its always special when with friends. The more the friends, the more the enjoyment. We were 23, and it was rockin'. I never know if we get to go for a tour like this again. But if we do, i'l be the first on the list for sure.!

Connections- Mann Chandre karaoke..!

2009-03-08T04:46:00.000-07:00

This is the karaoke of the song 'Mann Chandre' from Rahman's "Connections". Like Manmohini Moore (Yuvvraj), even this song chivvied me to compose a karaoke for it. I heard it so many times that i was able to find some of the instruments Rahman have used in this song. Its not very easy to find the instruments in a Rahman's composition (I think all the instruments i've guessed were right!). The singers of this song were Sukhwinder Singh and Shraddha Pandit. Rahman's made a good choice of singers (like he usually does!). I loved it the first time i heard it. After all, its a Rahman's composition.!
I hope this karaoke will fall very close to the original track. Hope you will like it. [Software Used: FL 8]
Dhanyavad.!

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Please leave your comments..!

Rahman Made History..!

2009-02-23T06:35:00.000-08:00

Yes. He made history. He made the whole India feel proud. Being the fourth Indian to win the precious Oscars (First was Bhanu Athaiya for the movie "Gandhi" in 1982 in the Best Costume Design category, Second was Bengali filmmaker Satyajit Ray in 1992, Third was Resul Pookutty in Best film sound mixing category in 2009, just before Rahman), He also holds the record of the First Indian to ever win two Oscars.

I, like billion other fans of Rahman, wished him luck and prayed for him to win the most coveted Oscars. It was said that the results were to be announced on 22nd. Yesterday, I was at my friend's place, curious to know when the Oscars results will be announced. From the news channel, it was confirmed that the Oscars will be telecasted live on Star Movies exclusively. We (school mates) had a small get together meet at my friend's place but wretchedly we had no source to know about the Oscars cuz we had no TV in his room. If we had to watch the TV, we would have to wake up his parents who were sleeping in his house down stairs (Actually it was two floors where we took the top). I was then informed by my friends that the Oscars will be telecasted tomorrow morning at 6 30 am. We all went to bed sooner than we supposed to, just to save some energy to watch the Oscars live.

Rahman's 'Jai Ho' and 'O Saya' were nominated for the Best Original Song and he was also nominated for the Best Original Score. Every single Indian wished Rahman to win atleast one Oscar. Even me. I never thought he'd win one for the Original Score. When the results for the Best Original Score was announced, I jumped off the couch and whistled so loud that all my neighbours came running to see what happened. I believe it would have been a reaction given by everyone who was watching the Oscars live. Even for a person who was not a fan of Rahman, would have become his fan by the speech he gave with the award in his hand. He was so humble, unprejudiced. The best part was that, even at the Oscars he uttered the most used line by him in tamil "Ellam Pugazhum Iraivanukke". Soon after recieving the Oscar for the Best Original Score, he also won another Oscar for the Best Original Song 'Jai Ho'. But before the results for original score were announced, he performed 'O saya' and also performed 'Jai Ho' soon after 'Down To Earth' by singer John Legend. While Rahman was singing 'Jai Ho', John Legend joined with him singing 'Down To Earth' and the combo was really good. While recieving the award he said "All my life i've had choice of hate and love, and chose love, and im here. God bless". Again i drew all my neighbours attention by whistling with all my breath.

Rahman has etched his name on the walls of Indian history. Histroy that Indians wished to happen for a long time. Rahman made it happen.

There was also another Indian who won the Oscars before Rahman recieved his- Resul Pookutty for Sound Mixing. In the order by which the Oscars were announced, he was the thrid Indian to receive an Oscar. He was equally previliged even though he was one among the three (the other two who recieved the award along with him were Ian taap, Richard pryke) who won the award.

I personally feel that this was not Rahman's best composition. He has done many outstanding compositions which was not globally recognized. I wonder what would Rahman get if all his songs were put to light at the International grounds. After the winning of 2 Oscar awards, im sure that he will be Globaly recognized and has a favourable chance to write scores for more International movies and to win more Oscars.

Today was a great day for India and for all Rahman fans. I felt very happy for Rahman as if he were my own brother. Kudos to Rahman. I wish him more and more success in future. Jai Ho.

Bigger than big.!

2009-02-21T21:39:00.000-08:00

It was in the music competition that happened yesterday in my college in which we won prizes and more. I didnt expect that we'd win. But eventually we won first prize. The judges were two musicians from Laxman Shruthi, a famous orchestra. The first prize didnt impress me at all. I was put to feel more than 'impress' when the judges asked the audience to give us a standing ovation for our performance. We did a melange of songs. We did three songs in which the first one happened to be thala's (A.R.Rahman's) Vellai Pookal (Roja). I did the guitar strumming well that it sounded good. And i knew it was good from the response i got from the crowd. Next was Nenjukkul Peydhidum from Varnam Ayiram. I am pretty thorough with the chords and stumming of that song cuz when you search for Nenjukkul chords in Google, the chords which i posted in my blog comes first (Wow.! Worked hard on it though). So i was pretty good in re-creating the original guitaring. That brought me a good round of applause from the audience. Next was again thala's Mana Madhurai (Minsara Kanavu). For this song i played the bass guitar with which i think i did well (Cuz im not that good with the bass guitar. But since i wanted to sound professional, i took notes the previous day by listening to the track keenly and practiced much with it). Even this sounded a little good.

When to tell about my performance, i would say i managed to convince the crowd with my guitaring. As a team leader, when to tell about my team mates, they were really good at that particular time period ie., on stage. We had a good set of keyboards (Korg O1W) and good guitars and drums. Everyone did their role well and knew when to do what.

After the performance, we were told to wait on the stage cuz the judges wants to talk something. They lauded us for our performance and also said we sounded professional. And then came the big thing- a standing ovation. It was flattering when every single person whole heartedly stood up and applauded. We have won plaudits for half the cultural competitions we have participated in (Cuz some of them were really competitive), but this one was/is very special. I was glad.

Though the program was not that big enough (after all its our college's!), we managed to get good comments from people who knows music better. The one thing (actually many) i hate with my college is that they are still old fashioned. The high level management have to update themselves with the recent cultural trends. They run college with a bunch of lowbrows that the college still sticks to the old times. The way an event is organised is totally immature (a hard word though!). Even when it is students who has to organize the events, they are pulled back by the management so that they wont get into (or atleast touch the borders of) a 'real organised event'.

Team Mates: Arjun, Priya, Saranya, Vijay, Rekha (Singers), Me (Guitars), Vinod (Drums), Anurag (Keyboard).(This is my new team. My old team was best where this one was better.)

After all, yesterday was a great day. Had fun. Lurked about and ogled at girls (Not from our college. The frumpiest can be seen in our college.!). Had a great time. And do you know what.? My college princiapl wanted us to perform for half an hour in our Annual Day function. I think that is going to be something our college have never seen before. Cuz its always 30mins of fun (that includes dance, light music, other events etc.) and 3hrs of speech (chief guests, principal, and the someones who sit abreast to the chairman on stage). And thats why we always have students stay at home rather than coming to college on our "Grand Annual Day" function. This time, it would be fun to guess!

The Dissembling of Humankind..!

2009-01-19T03:30:00.001-08:00

..The golden shades of dusk fell on his body adding more picture while he was organizing his memories. Standing on just a piece of concrete of breadth not even the length of his foot, he was fighting the wind to balance himself against the gravitational pull. Tears were chill due to the wind and directs its flow to his ears. Sorrow and conscience pulled him back to stay, untill he made his final act of his life. He was confused. Controlling the balance and his emotions his thoughts goes back to his happy times. Happy times which faded like his tears, even before realizing the true happiness of it. Despaired of ever getting back to his life again, his contempt for himself, made him to become what he is now, right now. Before he takes his step, he wondered how could his life be so miserable. He never wanted to be the way they wanted him to be. But he had to. He had no options or choices but to obey. He shouted at the stars, which he was told by his mother that every single star has his mother's love for him. He now believed that his mother was watching him from above, behind the blanket of silver dotted love, with tears in her eyes, wanting him to get to her. He closed his eyes for the last time and pictured heaven, as he believed he would go there where his mom is. He assumed he never had any other relations other than his mom. He had defeated the lion hearted, devoured the incompetents. Yet he is not successfull. Now, as he could see the eagles fly right in front of him in a cirlce, he thought they were there for him. He gave a beatific smile that he had never given ever in his life before, he streched his arms wide and did his final act of his life- taking one step further. He felt his gut on his back. The rush of wind smothered him. With his arms wide open, he felt he was God. He turned his head to sides to inhale some oxygen but in vain. Ironically, He never needed oxygen then. He observed the looming earth. Earth was what he thought it was. The distance between the ground and his feet was extensive. He pictured the prospects of himself in a couple of seconds, Yet relished his final few seconds. With his hands and legs spreaded, he maintained to stay in one direction of the fall, with heads facing the ground. As he observed the gradual increase in size, of which, a few minutes back seemed to him as tiny humans, he knew what he was going to become. The precipitaion of his identity into someone loathsome, someone whom he never wanted to become. The someone people never wanted to see or flinched after seeing. The body which gained force twice the gravitaional pull, hit the surface as hard as rock. Bounced back to a certain height against the gravitation due to ginormous force with which it fell. The fall formed a circle of dust around him brushing it away from him radially. At the first hit, he felt a thundering shock wave passing through his arms, dislocating his shoulders from its sockets, when he ignorantly tried to protect his body from hitting the ground. That was his instinct. Before his second hit, a few meters above the ground, almost every brain cells died, his face was twisted such that even his close ones will not be able to identify him. At the second hit, which was less intense, a puddle of blood hid most part of his face. Most of the bones were visible, which apparently were not white but were red with pieces of flesh still sticking. He appeared more chronic under the neon lights of the streets. The dry shades of his tears were now mixed with traces of blood. With a final death rattle, his eyes closed with a last drop of tear that stayed at the corner of his eyes. His life faded as did his heart beat.

Next morning, A newspaper, which took the part of a calling bell, flew hitting a door. A young lad opened the door with a coffee in one hand and took the newspaper with the other. He squinted at the headlines which read "Terrorist Committed Suicide".

Happy Bithday Rahman..! You're the Man of the World..!

2009-01-05T12:35:00.000-08:00

Today, the 6th of January, is the birthday of India's most notable music composer A.R.Rahman.. My admiration and love for Rahman is echt and can be measured to the length equal to the stretch of the blue sky.. I always wonder how he composes songs that eventually becomes a hit.. Does he have any magical powers.? Like when he stike the keys of his piano with his dextorous fingers, music conjures up that gives him unfailling sucess..? World knows he is a hard worker.. But still.. And for a person to be so highly admired, respected, envied, how could he yet be so humble and differential.? Personalities who have achieved nothing close to Rahman, make excessive claim to what they do, or what they are, or what they've become, show off shit.. But how could Rahman, after achievng so much in life, be so down-to-earth.? Not only his amicable charater that helped him fight through wars, his talent that had been revealed to the world with his first movie Roja.. His way of compositions are unique and easily adored by listeners of all age.. Let his legendary musical works continue to give birth to lot of hit songs to which, we fans, are looking forward to..

On his 43rd Birthday, I would like to wish him my hearty wishes on his birthday through my blog..

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY THALA..!"

I wish him more success and prosperity in his life.. Awaiting for his future hits..
'Rahman.. Magnificient you.. India is proud of you!'

Today at Sangam...

2008-12-28T10:10:00.000-08:00

After savouring my holidays with the expected level of enjoyment at my grandma's place, i came back home today morning.. The reason for my coming back was to enjoy the residue of my holidays- which is gonna fade like the morining dew, in a few days- with the same expected level of enthusiasm.. But today, as when the sun went down in the evening, it took away my 'enjoyment' along with.. It is as if the sheen and lustre of my happiness had gone forever.. Yen ivalo build up.? The matter is.. I happen to see 'Silambattam' today.. The movie was SICK.! Sickest of its kind.. Simbhu, with his 'monkey' dancing, tried to rule over the screen but eventually failed.. He had ruled too much to be admired.. The exasperation persisted throughout the movie with a melange of nausea and headache.. While me and my friends were watching the movie, this was what running at the back of my head- YOU SHOULD RANT ABOUT THIS..! A crap which was beautifully tried to spread over the threatre screens.. And about the heroine- though i do not know who she is- SUCKS! (Well, it was according to me.. Cuz there may even be fans for her).

Simbhu had tried to boost up his image using Ajith's.. He used the Billa 'thala' image and connected it with his role in the movie.. Utill the Ajith's 'Billa' antics were screened, the whole audience were seemed like they were glued to their seats just for the 70 bucks they paid for this movie.. When he started to play his Ajith antics, the whole theatre- for the first time till we entered- started to burst with hails of howls and claps.. That was when my friend, who was sleeping, woke up..

The movie was so boring that my friend, the one who wasn't sleeping (we were three!), told me while returning home that "We could've put the money we spent for this shit in a donation box. It would've been useful for them in a way!". He was riding pillion, and it jerked me out of laughter that i almost lost my balance while riding.. The bottomline- SHIT movie! Too much exaggeration to be accepted. The movie reminds us of Basha (and movies of that kind) were the hero has a flashback to flash..

Tomorrow we are planning to go to Abhiyum Naanum, which would satisfy us cuz most of the reviews read- "Good".. We were pushed to watch this movie cuz we did not get ticket for both 'Ghajini' and 'Abhiyum Naanum'.. That is the two movies i really wanted to watch.. Hope we'd get tickets tomorrow..

The headache is still kiling me.. Gotto take some rest..

My Composition..!

2008-12-09T00:34:00.000-08:00

This is my new comp..! I've just put myself in being solitary and composed this.. So named it 'Solitude'.. I hope this will be something which you will like.. It has got some tranquil effects which sounds good even for a layman ears.. Please hear it and leave your comments.. [Software Used: FL 8]

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;)
-S

Yuvvraaj- Manmohini Morey Karaoke..!

2008-11-08T06:24:00.000-08:00

This is the karaoke of the song 'Manmohini Moore' from the movie Yuvvraaj.. I liked this song the very first time i heard it.. This has a very subtle music.. A.R.R Rockzzz..! I listened to this more than a hundered times.. It still keeps playing within me.. This karaoke is close to the song and not the exact replica.. I couldn't concentrate much on it cuz i have my semesters going on.. So, I've just put some normal chords and some basic drum loops and made it sound close to the song.. (very tough one though ;)) I'll do the exact version later on for sure..

I did this using FL Studio and the "whoosh" sound in between is because of the trail version of Poizone i used.. With the trail version i cant save my file.. So i sat 3 hours for this and completed it.. It would've been far better without that sound.. I'll be glad if someone could find a crack for it, please post the link..

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Listen to it and please leave your comments..

-S

The one mistake of my life.!

2008-10-27T12:26:00.000-07:00

Cha..! I'll never do this ever in my life again.. I should've listened to my friends.. They told me a hundered times not to.. But i did.. How could i.? Im totaly depressed.. Im mad now.. I wanna hit my head on the wall for doing that.. I've tried to tie a noose around my neck to kill myself and then realized not to.. Cuz i have social responsibilities.. I have to save a lot more others before they do that, and kill themselves.. I wasn't so low in life, nor tired of my life.. Yet i did what my friends had told not to.. Yes..! Unfortunately.. yes.. Unfortunately i watched 'Sakkarakatti' today.. My God.! If there has to be a sick movie ever made, the title should be given to this.. It was totaly crap.! Today was Deewali.. I could've spent that 2hrs in something useful.. My face had no reaction from the beginning till the end of the movie.. No reaction.! Rather wincing..!

Peter english, over-acting hero, stupid heorin who tries hard to talk in tamil (I guess everyone in that college knows only Englees.. Maybe for this movie they tried to talk in Tamil, which they found so difficult to speak.. Or maybe..!? SHIT), Sudden unrelated burst of songs in between, Stupid jokes and after all- Mokka story..!

I saw this movie just for the music.. I wonder why A.R.Rahman chose this film.. The director atleast could've concentrated on the songs.. He, for sure, would know the songs are gonna be hit.. He could've picturized it a little more better.. Even 'little more' is no close.. He should've completely changed his ideas and had done something realted to what the lyrics has to tell.. Anyway.. Please dont watch this movie.. If you feel you are so low in life, if you think you're no more fit to survive, if you wanna commit suicide, then go watch the movie..!

Dhanyavad..! /*Thud*\

Aegan- 3.5/5 stars..!

2008-10-26T11:08:00.000-07:00

Saw Aegan today.. Ajith has acted so well and is one of the good movies that has been released for Deewali.. Eventhough the story is a stolen one, the direction and the screenplay is as one could appreciate.. Moreover, the delivery of dialogues was really nice.. Ajith has managed to balance between the roles where he has to act as a comedian, and a hero.. The one thing i really thought when i saw the 'Mallika' song on SS music was- HE IS FAT.! Ajith's paunch is pushing out to be visible.. And the one thing i really liked when saw the movie was he agreed that he has a paunch in the movie itself.. There was a scene where his father (Naazer) asks him (Ajith, CBI) to act as a student in a college so as to find a bad guy.. Ajith strongly averse to it cuz he looks more aged than a college-going and he says he also has a big belly.. That one was cool.. The whole movie is a melange of 'comedy' and 'serious' scenes.. Even the villian is shown as a comedian at times.. Nice movie.. Can be watched once.. Or maybe twice.. ;)

I saw this movie the day before Deewali and its suprising for me to see that only very less number of people were bursting crackers.. It was also in the newspaper that lot of people chose not to burst crackers.. I've stopped bursting crackers since when i left school.. Its pretty suprising to see people really considering this pollution problem (or maybe cuz of the cost of the crackers!) and reduce the pollution and problems it causes.. I always used to think that bursting crackers are like burning your own money.. The difference- a 'BOOM'..! I guess this time people got a bit conscious and started to buy something useful instead of crackers.. Some people thought deewali is a festival to booze.. I saw many drunken people, fighting and lying on the road helplessly, on the way to the theatre.. That was sick.!

Afterall, the movie was good.. Worth watching..

Happy Deewali..!

Nenjukkul (Varnam Ayiram) Guitar Chords..!

2008-10-25T04:28:00.001-07:00

This is the guitar chords for 'Nenjukkul' from the movie 'Varnam Ayiram'.. This is what i've found listening to.. Please post comments.. And BTW, this is my 50th post.!! Happy guitaring..!

(-A- -Asus2- -A- -Asus2- )

-A-
nenjukkul peidhidum maamazhai
-F#m- -E-
neerukkul moozhkidum thaamarai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
sattendru maaruthu vaanilai
-E-
penne un mael pizhai
-A-
nillaamal veesidum paer alai
-F#m- -E-
nenjukkul neendhidum kaadhalai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
ponvannam soodidum kaarigai
-E-
penne un kaanjalai

-Bm- -A- -E-
om shanthi shanthi om shanthi
-Bm- -A- -E-
en uyirai uyirai nee aenthi
-Bm- -A- -E-
aen sentraai sentraai enai thaandi
-Bm- -A- -E-
ini nee thaan enthan andhaadhi

-A-
nenjukkul peidhidum maamazhai
-F#m- -E-
neerukkul moozhkidum thaamarai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
sattendru maaruthu vaanilai
-E-
penne un mael pizhai

-A- -D- -E-
aetho ontru ennai eerkka
-F#m- -D- -E-
mookkin nuni marmam saerkka
-A- -D- -E-
kallaththanam aethum illaa
-F#m- -D- -E-
punnnagayo pogum illaa

-A- -E-
nee nintra idam entraal vilai aeri pogaatho
-A- -E-
nee sellum idam ellaam panikatti aagatho
-Bm- -D- -E-
ennodu vaa veedu varaikkum
-Bm- -D-
en veettai paar ennai pidikkum

-G- -A- -E7-
ival yaaro yaaro theriyaathe
-G- -A- -E-
ival pinnaal nenje pogaathe
-G- -A- -C#m-
ithu poiyo meiyo theriyaathe
-G- -A- -E-
ival pinnaal nenje pogaathe

-A-
nenjukkul peidhidum maamazhai
-F#m- -E-
neerukkul moozhkidum thaamarai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
sattendru maaruthu vaanilai
-E-
penne un mael pizhai
-A-
nillaamal veesidum paer alai
-F#m- -E-
nenjukkul neendhidum kaadhalai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
ponvannam soodidum kaarigai
-E-
penne un kaanjalai

-A- -D- -E-
thoookkangalai thookkich chentraal
-F#m- -D- -E-
aekkangalai thoovich chendraal
-A- -D- -E-
unnai thaandi pogum pothu
-F#m- -D- -E-
veesum kaattril veechchile

-A- -E-
nillentru nee sonnaal en kaadhal nagarathe
-A- -E-
nee soodum poovelllaam oru pothum udhiraathe
-Bm- -D- -E-
kaadhal enaik kaetkavillai
-Bm- -D- -E-
kaetkaathathu kaadhil illa

-G- -A- -E7-
en jeevan jeevan nee thaane
-G- -A- -E-
ena thondrum neram idhu thane
-G- -A- -C#m-
nee illai illai entraale
-G- -A- -E-
en nenjam nenjam thaangaathe

-A-
nenjukkul peidhidum maamazhai
-F#m- -E-
neerukkul moozhkidum thaamarai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
sattendru maaruthu vaanilai
-E-
penne un mael pizhai
-A-
nillaamal veesidum paer alai
-F#m- -E-
nenjukkul neendhidum kaadhalai
-C#m/E- -Asus4-
ponvannam soodidum kaarigai
-E-
penne un kaanjalai

-Bm- -A- -E-
om shanthi shanthi om shanthi
-Bm- -A- -E-
en uyirai uyirai nee aenthi
-Bm- -A- -E-
aen sentraai sentraai enai thaandi
-Bm- -A- -E-
ini nee thaan enthan andhaadhi

Yuvvraaj Lyrics..!

2008-10-20T05:28:00.000-07:00

Tu Meri Dost Hain

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Benny Dayal, Shreya Ghosal, A R Rahman, Salman Khan
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 6:13

Aaja Mein Hawaon pe Bithake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To,Tu hi to Meri Dost Hain
Aaja Mein Khalon Mein Uthake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hain

Awaaz Ka Dariya Hoon
Behta Hoon Mein Nili Raaton Mein
Main Jaagta Rehta Hoon
Neend Bhari Jheel Se Aankhon Mein
Lyricsmasti.Com
Awaaz Hoon Mein

Aaja Mein Hawaon pe Bithake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To,Tu hi to Meri Dost Hain
Aaja Mein Khalon Mein Uthake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hain

Aaja Mein Khalon Mein Uthake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hain

Raat Mein Chandni Kabhi
Aisi Gungunati Hain
Sunn Zara Lagta Hain Tumse
Awaaz Milati Hain

Mein Khayalon Ki Mehek Hooon
Gungunate Saaz Par

Ho Sake To Milale
Awaaz ko Mere Saaz Par

Aaja Mein Hawaon pe Bithake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hain
Aaja Mein Khalon Mein Uthake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To Meri Dost Hain

Awaaz Ka Dariya Hoon
Behta Hoon Mein Nili Raaton Mein
Main Jaagta Rehta Hoon
Neend Bhari Jheel Se Aankhon Mein
Awaaz Hoon Mein

O Kabhi Dekhe Hain Saahil
Jahan Sham Utarti Hain
Kehte Hain Samunder Se
Ek Pari Guzarti Hain

Woh Raat Ki Rani Hain
Sargam Par Chalti Hain

se ra se ra se ra
sa re sa sa re sa

Aaja Mein Hawaon pe Bithake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To, tu hi to Mera Dost Hain
Aaja Mein Khalon Mein Uthake Le Chalun
Tu Hi To Mera Dost Hain

Awaaz Ka Dariya Hoon
Behti Hoon Mein Nili Raaton Mein
Main Jaagti Rehti Hoon
Neend Bhari Jheel Si Aankhon Mein
Awaaz Hoon Mein 2

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Mastam Mastam

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Sonu Nigam, Alka Yagnik, Naresh Iyer, Benny Dayal
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 6:17

mast mast dar mastam…
dar rind vind dar mastam…
aast hast gar mastam… gar mastam
mast mast dar mastam…
dar rind vind dar mastam…
aast hast gar mastam… gar mastam
aaye ji baanke aaye, hastam mastam
o danke bajate aaye… rustam shustam
bheje mein bhochaal hain
pairon mein paatal hain
dil ka ahwal leke aaye
billi ki khaal hai
cheeteh ki chaal hain
dham dham dhamaal leke aaye
o rustam aaya
o chustam aaya
sou surangon se mein
chup chup ke yun lene aaya

mast mast dar mastam…
dar rind vind dar mastam…
aast hast gar mastam… gar mastam
badega mamla badega
kachachari lagegi
mukadma chalega
shani jab talega
toh dushman jalega
kabhi toh dur hogi duriyan dil ki
mohabbat toh jahan dhua wooan uuthe
wahi hoti hai
jahan aagan lagan wagan lage
wahin hoti hain…
mast mast dar mastam…
dar rind vind dar mastam…
aast hast gar mastam… gar mastam
barson yeh kahani
likh ke jubani
kahega zamana
sunega zamana
aaye ji baanke aaye
hanstam mastam
O danke bajate aaye
rushtam shustam
koi toh raaj hain
wohh sunte ho naraaj hain
unko awaaj dene aaye
duniya mein naam hain
par logon mein badnaam hain
shadi ka paigam dene aaya
aayeji baanke aaye hanstam mastam
O danke bajate aaye rushtam sushtam
aayeji baanke aaye hanstam mastam
O danke bajate aaye rushtam sushtam
durr durr rustam sustam
raftam raftam durr
durr durr
kategi ye jodi kategi
kasam de dar kasam
ye kundli kategi
ab tu marega
hum kuchh bhi karega
kabhi to door hongi dooriyaan dil ki
mohabbat to jahaan dhuan wuan uthe wahin hoti hai
jahaan agan lagan wagan lage wahin hoti hai
aayeji baanke aaye hanstam mastam
O danke bajate aaye rushtam sushtam
bheje mein bhochaal hain
pairon mein paatal hain
dil ka ahwal leke aaye
billi ki khaal hai
cheeteh ki chaal hain
dham dham dhamaal leke aaye

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Main Hoon Yuvvraaj

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Salman Khan
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 1:13

Ladies And Gentleman, Main Hoon Deven, Deven Yuvraaj

Maaf Karna Beethoven Sahab, They Think I M A Bad Guy
They Are Right, I M A Bad Guy

Thoda Sa Ziddi Hoon, Thoda Sa Awaara
Thoda Sa Paagal, Thoda Sa Naakara
Yaani Total Mila Ke
I M A Bad Guy

Ye Hai Meri Mehbooba, Jo Sochti Hai Ki Mujhe Kuch Nahi Aata
Na Saaz Hai Na Awaaz Hai, Par Main Banunga Superstar

To Jaan-E-Mann Jaan Lo Ek Raaz, Ab Suno Meri Awaaz

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Tu Muskura

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Alka Yagnik, Javed Ali
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 5:37

Tu muskura jahaan bhi hai tu muskura
Tu dhoop ki tarah badan ko choo zara
Shareer se yeh muskurahatein teri
Badan mein sunti hun main aahatein teri

Labon se aake choo de apni lab zara
Tu muskura jahaan bhi hai tu muskura
Shareer se yeh muskurahatein teri
Badan mein sunti hun main aahatein teri

Aisa hota hai khayalon mein aksar
Tujhko sochun toh mehak jati hun
Meri rooh mein basi hai teri khushboo
Tujhko choo lun toh behek jaati hun

Teri aankhon mein,
teri aankhon mein koi toh jaadoo hai
Tu muskura jahaan bhi hai tu muskura

Tu muskura jahaan bhi hai tu muskura
Tu dhoop ki tarah badan ko choo zara
Shareer se yeh muskurahatein teri
Badan mein sunti hun main aahatein teri

Tez chalti hain hawaaon ki sansein
Mujhko baahon mein lapetke chupale
Teri aankhon ki haseen loriyon mein
Main badan ko bichaun tu sulale

Teri aankhon mein,
teri aankhon mein koi toh nasha hai
Tu muskura jahaan bhi hai tu muskura

*sargam*
ga ri ni
ni pa ni
pa ni sa
ri sa ri
sa ri ga
ri ga ma
ga ma pa
ma pa ni
pa ni sa
ni sa ri sa ni sa sa sa

sa ri ga ri ga ma ri ga ri ga ma pa ga ma ri ga
sa ri ga ri ga ma ri ga ri ga ma pa ni sa ri ri

Tu muskura jahaan bhi hai tu muskura
Tu dhoop ki tarah badan ko choo zara
Shareer se yeh muskurahatein teri
Badan mein sunti hun main aahatein teri…

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Shano Shano

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Sonu Nigam, Srinivas, Karthik, Sunaina, Vivinenne Pocha
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 6:22

Everybody in the party are you ready
Say Ex Ex Ex
Go with the flow
Say Plo- O
Ready for D put the D to the E
E E
Explode with me
Explode

Yeah.I know you want me
Get on the floow
I am lookin for that special girl
Get on the floor
Goota gotta get on the floor
Get on the floor

Shano shano get on the floor
Shano shano
Shano shano lets start the show
Shano shano

Shano shano get on the floor
Shano shano
Shano shano lets start the show
Shano shano

Atke atke
Kitne latke
Deke bulaye tu
Bachpan bachpan keha ke pachpan
Chand churaye Tu
Ander Ander beech samunder
Dubki Khaye tu

shano shano get on the floor
Shano shano

Roz Yehin par aana
Jab suraj wapas jaye
Aadha din hain aadha
aadhe raat ke chahye
Roz yahin se jaana
Jab suraj sham nahaye
Doob raha ho aaha
Pani mein gaute khaye

Pakka shikari hain
Pakka shirkari
Aari chalata hain
Aari aari aari
Tune chalye hain
Barche hazaron
Aapni to pheli hain
Baari baari baari
Pyala pyala
Maika pyala

Aage se tarasha
Ek gulab dekha
Aisa wohh shabab dekha
Tez hawa se uttra
To paon pe chalna hoga
Dhoop Mein pan jalenge
To chalon mein chalna hoga

Hosh ka paani chirko
Madhosi ki aankhon par
Aapno se mat uljho
Tum gairon ki baaton per

Udke toh dekho
Uchi udari
Mit jayegi hasrat
saari saari saari
Zindagi koi juz
Nahin hain
Jisne lagari baazi
Hari hari hari
Pyala pyala
Maika pyala

Shano shano get on the floor
shano shano

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Zindagi

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Srinivas
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 5:09

Zindagi
Zindagi Zindagi
Kya kami raha gayi
Aankh ki kor mein
Lyun nami raha gayi

Zindagi Zindagi
Kya kami raha gayi
Aankh ki kor mein
Lyun nami raha gayi

Zindagi Zindagi
Tu kaha kho gayi
koi aaya nahi
Doparhar ho gayi
Koi aaya nehin

Zindagi Zindagi

Din aaye din jaaye
Sadiyan bhi gin aaye
Sadiyan re

Tanhai lipti hain
Lipti hain saanson ki
Rasiya re

Tere bina badi pyasi hain
Tere bina hain pyasi re
Naino ki do sakhiyan re
Tanha re mein tanha re…..

Subah ka kohara hain
Shara ki dhool hain
Tanhai hain
Raat bhi zard hain
Dard hi dard hain
Ruswai hain….
Kasie kate saanse uljhi hain
Raatein badi jhulsi jhulsi hain

Nain,Kori sadiyan re

Tanha re mein tanha re

Zindagi Zindagi
Kya kami raha gayi
Aankh ki kor mein
Lyun nami raha gayi

Tu kaha kho gaya
Koi aaya nahi
Dopahar ho gayi
Koi aaya nahin

Zindagi Zindagi
Kya kami raha gayi
Aankh ki kor mein
Lyun nami raha gayi

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Manmohini Morey

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Vijay Prakash
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 3:12

tum tum tana tum tum tana... tana nanana
lat uljhi suljha ja balam -4
mathe ki bindiyaaaaa... - 2
bikhar gayi hain apne haath saja ja balma
lat uljhi suljha ja balam

tum tum tana tum tum tana

ga re ni sa
ga re ni sa
ga re ni sa
pa ni pa sa ni sa

pa ni pa ga re ga sa re ni sa ga ma na ni sa ga ma ma ni sa ga

ma pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa ga ma pa ni

ni dha pa ma pa sa

ni ni dha pa ma ga ma pa ni ni pa ma pa ni

ma pa ma ga sa ga ni ni pa ga ma ga re sa ni ni pa ga ma ga re

sa ni ni pa ga ma ga re sa ma ga re sa ma ga re sa ma ga re sa

ga re sa ga re sa ga re sa

lat uljhi suljha balaam
man mohini more man bhavey
man mohini morey man bhavey
man mohini
tum tum tana......

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Dil Ka Rishta

Movie: Yuvvraaj
Music Label: T-Series
Singers: Sonu Nigam, Roop Kumar Rathod, A R Rahman, Clinton

Cerejo, Suzanne D'Mello, Vivinenne Pocha
Lyricist: Gulzar
Music Director: A R Rahman
Duration (mm:ss): 7:39

Ekkkkkk jaaaaaaaaaan haiii hummmmmm
Fashion, imigration can i leave it somwhere
ohhh dil dil haii dil dil miljaneee deeeee
Fashion, imigration can i leave it somwhere
Dil ka yeh sikaaaaa chal jaaaaneeee deeeee
rishta yeh rishta pak jaaaneeee deeee
dooooooooor dil se nahi hai hummm
dooooooor jism alag haii sahiiiiiiiii

ek hi jaaan ek roooooooh
lamba safar umre ka hai
tanha guzar ta nahiii
sar pe agar dhoop na hooooo
saya uter ta nahiiii
rishtey binaa hai dil tera
saye bina addmii
dil ki kisi dori se hai
bandhaa hovaaa addmiii

ohhhho ran away
never leave us all behind uuuu
ohhhh slow it downnn
wish u all the happyy trueee(2)

fashion,imigration can i leave it somwhere
ohh dil dil hai dil dil miljaneee deeee
fashion imigration can i leave it somwhere
dil ka yeh sikaaaa chal jaaaneeeee deeee
rista yeh rishta pak jaaaneee deeeee

fashion imigration can i leave it somwhere
dil ka yeh sikaa chal jaaneeee deee
rishta yeh rishta pak jaaneeee deeeee

haste hove jeeenaaa hai to
jeeeley kisi ke liyeeeee
tere liyeee hai zindagiii
tuuu zindagi ke liyeeeee

tuuuuuuuuuuuu
palkeee ohthaaa to zaaraaaaa
rishta kiii roshniii hoooooooo
ruk chalaaa to chalaaaa

so when u nnnnn
ill be a be a brother from all u nnnnn
to be my side
dont let t passs

it really doenst matter if we ever
never never never look back
since when'd u meet to me
i wanna smileeee
shy down
we got to find a world wide
from my sayinnnnn
ohhhhhhhh

tuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
dil se nahi hai to doooooooor
miljaaaaaaaaagiiii zindagiiiii(2)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Yuvvraaj rocks- 4/5 stars..!

2008-10-18T04:02:00.000-07:00

Music Maestro A.R.Rahman has not let down his fans.. Yuvvraaj music is too good.. The movie stars Salman Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anil Kapoor and Zayed Khan.. The orchestration used in the album is good.. As this film is a music-based one, rahman gave out his best as always..! Click on the song to download it..!

Main Hoon Yuvvraaj- This begins with salman Khan's melodramatic voice with Beethovan's 5th played behind.. I've read that Salman plays a music-lover role in the film, But he starts off with the introduction track with salman's voice telling 'Im a bad guy'.. Maybe he is a 'bad' musician.. you know what i mean.! ;)

Tu Meri Dost Hain- Nice melody.! I really could'nt believe Benny Dayal has sung it.. His voice just cross the borders of melodies and drifts us pensive.. Shreya Ghosal as usual have added beauty to the beautiful.. Other voices- A.R. Rahman, Salman Khan.. This song is awesome.. Too good.! My rating- 9/10

Shano Shano- Shano Shano is pop.. According to me, this is a bit not-much-interesting track.. But makes you keep it played untill its over.. Good one, not a very good one.. Sonu Nigam has taken the lead were Karthik, Timmy, Sunaina, Vivianne, Tina, Blaaze has given back vocals.. My rating- 7.5/10

Tu Muskura- Too good.! The orchestration that supported the song is beyond explanations.. Soothing song with Alka Yagnik's soothing voice.. The interlude inbetween is phenomenal.. Roop Kumar, Javed Ali has also given voices.. Javed ali's part at the end reminds me of 'RDB'.! My rating- 8.5/10

Mastam Mastam- Mastam Masatam is a medley.. Sonu, Alka, Subhash Ghai, Naresh Iyer, Benny has given voices for this song.. Rahman have treid to give out a different melody, and it pays off.. The eding of the song is just not that words can explain.. My rating- 8/10

Zindagi- Srinivas has sung this song.. This song reminds me a bit of 'tu bin bataye'.. Melodious track, good music.. My rating- 8.5/10

Dil Ka Rishta- Orchestration of this song is stupendous.. Rahman comes inbetween with his carnatic singing, in his usual high pitch.. The ending of this song is just AWESOME.! Sonu, Roop Kumar, Clinton, Suzanne, Vivianne, Naresh, Benny, Blaaze, Rahman has given voices.. My rating- 9/10

Manmohini Morey- A new guy Vijay Prakash has sung this song.. Fantastic Hindustani.! He manages to stay within the subtle music of this track.. This song is too good.. Rahman have yet again proved that he is the only one who could do wonders in music.. And this happens to be my favourite track.. My rating- 9.5/10

Shano Shano remix- Villian-ish music at the begining after a rap, blends in with the chorus of the original shano shano.. This remix better than the original one.. My rating- 8.5/10

Click here for the entire album

I loved the music not just cuz im a rahmaniac, cuz of the stupendous music.. And thats why im a rahman fan like millions others.. The Rahman-Subhash Ghai combo comes after a very long gap and i guess the film will not let us down as well..!

Aegan- 2/5 stars..!

2008-10-17T12:18:00.000-07:00

This is my review of Aegan songs.. I am dissappointed with the tracks and its not all that good.. May be it sounds good on screen..! Click on the song to download it..!

Hey Baby- This song is so jazz-y, with a heavy mixture of piano, trumpet and sax.. It made me feel like this- Maybe yuvan would've made this song half done already, and when the director approached him, he'd have finished the rest of the piece, just to make it a '4 mins track'..! Jazz rules more than the song itself and shankar mahadevan seems to sing in a passive pace throuhgout the song..! Initially, when i first listened to the track, the song sounded more like the jillunu oru kadal title song..! My rating- 5/10

Hey Saala 1 & Hey Saala 2- This begins with an emotional recital and catches up with the "yuvan's" synthesised beats.. There are two tracks with the same name- Hey Saala.. The only difference is the level of usage of synth.. Blaze, as usually, blends his voice with the song in his stylish tamil pronounciation.. Naresh Iyer and Mohd. Aslam comes in when the songs shifts to a bit more heavy synthesised beats.. Although this seems a little heavy to the ears, it makes us wanna move to the beat.. My rating- 6/10

Kichu Kichu- It begins with Vasundara Das's thin, sharp voice.. With an Arabian touch, the song goes on with vasundara das maintaing her half-suppressed seducing voice.. Yuvan comes in with "mallika, i wanna bite u like nellika" rap.. (sucks!).. My rating- 4/10

Odum Varayil- The cheering of crowd at the begining sounds like it has recorded from some cricket stadium (At first, while listening to it for the first few seconds, I thought it was kinda 'cheer the player' song.. (My guess was wrong).. And then the chorus mixes with the beats, yelling 'FREEDOM'.! Kay Kay and Bela Shende has given voice for this song.. The songs shifts to pleasant-sounding chords, and that is where Bela Shende comes in.. Yuvan would've played with chords to change scales up and down and then comes back again to where he was.. My rating- 5/10

Yahoo Yahoo- This happens to be the teen-y song of the album were the lyrics are all about college and teens.. Suvi, Ujjaini, Sathyan, Ranjith and Naveen have given voices to this song.. Yuvan would've thought the word 'Yahoo' might turn into a trendy word among youngsters, like he defined his song 'Dost Bada Dost' from saroja as the 'anthem for the youth' (what the hell?).. My rating- 5/10

When i saw the posters with Ajith having long beard, skull cap and a gun, i thought the album would definitly strech beyond people's expectations.. But i was dissapointed when i heard the tracks.. My total rating- 5/10 for the album.. Waiting for the movie..

Varnam Aayiram- 3/5 stars..!

2008-10-17T09:36:00.000-07:00

Its a little late to write a review for this album.. But i really wanna write one for this.. I have not heard the album untill two days back.. And i've also read that the music is a bit good.. So, planned to write one.. Click on the song name to download it..!

Adiye Kolluthe- Distorted guitar, running bass, awesome voices,percussions, totally- GOOD.. Krish, Benny Dayal sang it well especially the 'Adiye Kolluthe' line.. Shruthi Hassan is far ahead of what i thought she might be.. Her voice is too good with a western mix.. Her stylish pronounciation of tamil in this song was really good.. I want more of 'shruthi haasan songs' to get realease ;).. My rating- 8/10

Annul Maelae- Nice melody.. It has a touch of 'Enadhuyire' from 'Bheema' (same director.. so similar music.?).. Sudha Raghunathan's mesmerizing voice embellishes the song.. Sudha has given a mix of Bombay jayashree and M.S.Subhalaxmi in her voice.. Nice song, but gives a feel that the tune already exists.. My rating- 8/10 ('8' for the pads he used to make it sound 'melodious'.!)

Ava Enna- A 'harris' folk song.. Karthik, V.Prasanna gave the voices for this song.. Nice song.. My rating- 6/10

Mundhinam- The dialogue in the begining of the song is just AWESOME.! The acoustic guitars and the 'thinny but muffled' tones of this song easily shows that its a harris music.. Naresh Iyer, Prashanthini has given voices for this song.. My rating- 7/10

Nenjukkul- This song is good.. I wanna the name of the one who played nylon guitar lead in this song.. If anyone knows, please let me know.. Again, a 'harris' song (i mean, the guitar and muffled tones.. He uses the same combinations.. As of how it sounded to me.!).. Good guitar work.. Hariharan, Devan, V.Prasanna are the singers and they are too good.! My rating- 8/10 ('8' for the guitar works.!)

Oh! Shanthi Shanthi- A rock version of the mundhinam song.. Clinton's husky voice adds sugar to the cake.. S.P.B.Charan sounds like krish in this song.. My rating- 6/10.

Yethi Yethi- Super song.. good beats.. He made it sound with a touch of the Arabian style, esp. when 'Yethi Yethi'.. This songs moves your head to the beat.. Nice song.. Benny Dayal, Naresh Iyer, Solar Sai are the songers.. My rating- 7/10..

When i downloaded this, i found two extra songs 'Ragasiyam' and 'Meela Mudiyamal'.. I wonder who the musicans could be.? 'Ragasiyam' song is good.. It made me think that the music director might be harris.. Nice compsition and awesome voice.. I really loved the female voice.. And 'Meela Mudiyamal'- SICK.! To be more specific in our lingo- MOKKA.! A voice that should'nt be called for singing.. But the tune was good and it sounds like it was made using FL Studio.. ;)..

Totally, Varnam Ayiram is good and my overall rating- 7/10.. Waiting for the movie..

Have you ever wondered how a song is composed.?

2008-10-16T07:17:00.000-07:00

Here, in this post, im gonna explain how a song is composed in a studio.. I got inspired to write upon this from a blog which i read last night.. Im not sure whether these are followed by every music directors, but most of it are basic ones that one has to follow to bring out good music.. As of i know, and as of i've learnt, i think this is how a song is done.. The process starts like this..

The music director listens to the script of the movie and then deciedes upon having it agreed or rejected.. It all depends on the script of the movie and the way a movie director conveys it..

After the selection of the script, the music director asks the director for the need of the song and the reason why it has to be played after that particular scene.. If he is satisfied, he agrees.. else he rejects..

There are two ways by which a tune is composed.. First, the lyricist writes the lyrics and music directors compose tunes or vice versa.. The latter is comparitively easy..

He then sits down to compose with his own voice and records every songs in his voice.. (This depends upon the music directors.. Some may have singers who are used for this purpose..)

He deciedes for the singers depending upon the actors in the movie.. More than the song itself, voices are more essential and it has to be selected so that it matches with the charater screened in the movie..

The singers are called and are made to sing the song which was already sung by the music director (or someone).. Recording the vocals takes 3-4 days and it takes 10-15 days for a song (It depends upon the song and the music directors).. Legends like Rahman never modifies the song, instead, he makes the singers to modify as per the song..

Music arrangers are people who assist Music Directors.. Music Directors supervise the works of the Music arranger and tells him if there is a change that has to be made.. Music arranger takes care of rest of the process.. He arranges the pads, percusions, rhythms, chords, basslines, strings etc.. Muscians like Rahman and Ilayaraja are not Music Directors, they are Music Composers and are totally different from Music Directors..

The actual music composition starts only after when the vocals get over.. He applies his ideas and creativity to make the song a hit.. The vocals and the music are done seperately and are then mactched accordingly.. The frequency must match else it has to be matched using the FDM and it is a huge process..

The song mixing is a very tedious one.. Programming is done using softwares like Logic, Garage etc.. Logic is a audio mixing software that can only be used in Apple Mac computers.. Pre-mixing is done by channeling the tracks- chorus in two tracks, percusions in two tracks etc.. Every track has channels which has a baud rate frequency.. And that frequency is used for the pitch of the song (for more on this technically, google it!).. There is something called the 'resonant frequency' which is achieved from the intersection of pitch depth value and volume graph.. It is very difficult to obtain the resonancy and it purely depends upon the equipments one has in his studio..

Then EUPHONIX comes in for its work.. Euphonix is used to give an analog warmth.. Most of the directors use Abysynth for generating synth.. Synth, Loops and samples enhance the song.. Music directors buys loops and samples from companies like Sony and Apple who are the major distributors.. Musicians, example, a pianist would've have played his tunes and would've sold it to Sony
or other distributors on agreement.. Music directors buys it from them and uses them in their songs.. Its like this- Instead of calling the musicians, they buy thier recorded piece and uses them..

Audio samples plays a very vital role for music directors.. Audio samples can be used anywhere in a song and it sounds original.. A portion of a sound recording is taken and can be reused as an instrument or element for a new recording.. This is done using computer programmes.. I've read from a blog that the drum beats which comes at the end of Rahman's MUKABULA MUKABULA are nothing but Audio samples and he has got the largest collections of Audio samples in Asia..

There is something that we have to learn which sounds very similar to pitch.. Music directors have 'tracks' which range from 1-15.. A singer who sings in track 15 is of a very high scale.. Rahman, Shankar Mahadevan, Hariharan can sing in track 15 which is a very high scale.. To differentiate between these tracks, let us take the song JAAGE HAIN from GURU.. Rahman starts in low mod and then shifts to high mod track 15.. These are done in many songs.. Krish's voice in Vennilave (Vetayadu Vilayadu) is made to modualate from low mod to high mod.. It is difficult for some singers to sing in a very high scale so the music directors tells the singers to sing in a low mod tack 5 or 6, and then shifts it to track 12 or 13 as they wish.. To make this, it takes more time and it is done by Frequency Division Modulation.. To replicate the same sound of the singer in track 12, advanced machineries should be available in one's studio, else it clearly shows.. And also, this is a very costly process..

Music director composed BGM from the script explained by the directors.. After when the movie is shooted, the BGM is altered numerous times to attune to the scene.. Sometimes, the directors make the scene attune to the music.. For most of the BGMs, local directors use software which create pleasent sounds.. Sound editing is done using softwares like Neundo, Cubase ,Sonar and Logic which reduces the work of the music director.. Rahman uses very less of these and he always opts for original sounds.. Harris, yuvan and other local directors uses atmosphere pads like Area 51, Air 201, Equinox etc in their songs which gives a pleasent sound.. Even FL studio has various pads collection.. These just make the song sound good but the originality gets burried..

Composing a song is a very difficult process which requires advanced softwares and hardwares to transform the sound into a required one.. A very basic software that can be used for composition is the FL Studio where one can sit at home and compose tracks.. It is even possible to make a song sound good using FL Studio but all we need to have is creativity.. Tunes that i compose using the FL Studio sounds normal and it has no originality, perhaps, no life.. For a song to be felt, or to get it etched in our hearts, the very basic ratio is 1:10.. That is, 10% is of the loops and 'software-created' instruments, and 90% is of the originality and innovation.. FL helps in exercising our innovations and creativity, but it should be known that you're still a 'dummy composer'..! And ya.. That goes for me as well..!!

Comics.!

2008-10-15T22:34:00.000-07:00

Stand-up comedies are being my 'always special' heart-warming shows.. I've watched sitcoms, and other farcical comedy shows but none can emulate stand-ups.. As far as I seem, Every stand-up comics have a special talent within.. Comedians like Stephen Lynch, who is also a musician, plays guitar and writes his own songs.. The lines in his lyrics interprets meanings that you never have imagined to come in a song like that.. He starts off the song with a beautiful guitar strum with a beautiful line like "there once was a guy..", and then it slowly drifts to rhymic funny lines.. He, according to me, is so talented that he balances perfectly between his singing, his guitar'ing, his lines and his attitude.. As a guitarist, that kind of an act is a bit difficult for me.. Some of his best which i like:

If I were gay:

The ugly baby song:

Lullaby song:

Love song:

And next comes my always favourite- Russell peters.. He is a canadian comic of Indian descent.. Most of his jokes are on rascism and Indian culture.. I've seen his DVD's and the one which i like the most is 'Comedy Now- Uncensored'.. I've also watched his latest DVD 'Outsourced' and some of other videos which he had performed in NY and Canada.. His audience could not stop laughing their stomach out when he starts talking in Indian accent, the 'typical' Indian accent.. Some of his clips i liked the most:

Indian Accent:

Gay Indians:

Be a man:

Ugly women:

on Jamaicans:

the list goes on..

Next is a person i always adore- Jeff Dunham.. He is an Award-winning ventriloquist.. Peanut, Walter, Achmed, José Jalapeño and Melvin are his puppets.. He's been doing ventriqolism since his school days and is still a star.. One would not see it as a puppet, instead, he makes you see it as a character.. I've seen videos of other ventriloquists but when it comes to pick the best, its Jeff.. I wonder how he writes his scripts.. Ironically, he has named one of his DVDs as 'Arguing with myself', but it never seem so.. He had introduced two new puppets- Bubba J and Sweet Daddy D in his 'Arguing with myself' DVD.. Some of his shows which i like:

Achmed the dead terrorist:

Peanut:

Melvin:

His always favourite puppet- Walter:

For me, these guys seems like a way better than others, or maybe i might not have seen comics better than them.. Watever.. I've also watched comedies of the famous Ellen DeGeneres (you might've seen her shows, cuz shez a bit 'famous'!), Pablo Francisco (this guys make jokes about sex and is very good mimic. He beatboxes, and also delivers his jokes burlesquing, and is very good at that), George Carlin, Lewis Black, Will Smith, Jim Carey and list goes.. So, When u feel like you're down in emotions, just watch some stand-ups and that'l bring you up back ;).. Dhanyawadh.!

My Composition..!

2008-10-08T05:57:00.000-07:00

This is my next one called 'Indian Cult'.. I had named it so cuz i have used a mix of Indian and Western.. It shifts between the two and they mix at one point.. Hope you'l like it.. [Software Used: FL 8]

click here to download..

Listen and leave your comments..

;)
-S

Happy Days- Oh My Friend [Karaoke]..!

2008-10-05T09:40:00.000-07:00

This is the karaoke of the song 'Oh My Friend' from the movie 'Happy Days'.. I like this song very much and hence composed the karaoke.. Listen, sing and enjoy.. [Software Used: FL 8]

Click here to download..

Please leave your comments..

;)
-S

Happy Days (Rock Version) [Karaoke]..!

2008-10-02T01:53:00.000-07:00

This is the karaoke of the song 'Happy Days' from the telugu movie Happy days.. Though i know 0% telugu, I liked this song the very first time of listening to it and wanted to sing this with a karoake.. Found no good results on net.. Even if i find one, that'd be of '.rm' file that is futile for me cuz i dont have softwares that help me support it as BG for me to sing.. After all ways, i thought of creating it my own.. I spent a whole night and ahoy! its done.. Some of the instruments are reproduced the same way as in the song.. Hence the originality differs in just a few millicenti in a 10m scale (i believe so. ;) ).. Hope you like it.. Sing it yourself and upload it (and if possible, please drop the link where u've uploaded cuz this song is of a little higher pitch and i want to listen to your voices :) ).. [Software Used: FL 8]

Click here to download..

Please don't forget to leave your comments..

;)
-S

My Composition..!

2008-10-02T01:46:00.000-07:00

My new comp "Trance".. This has got a very sophisticated techno touch.. Listen to it fully cuz it slows down in the middle and kick starts again ;).. [Software Used: FL 8]

Click here to download..

Hope you like it.. Please do leave your comments..

;)
-S

My Composition..!

2008-09-27T06:20:00.000-07:00

This is my next comp, called 'love philter'.. A simple tune with pleasant music.. Hope you like it.. [Software Used: FL 8]

Click here to download...

Hear it and leave your comments..

My Composition..!

2008-07-25T09:48:00.000-07:00

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Belt out- Click here.. to download.!

This song is called 'Belt Out'.. I composed this track using the FL studio advanced.. This'd be a little different cuz it starts with a pleasant piano touch and then shifts to kinda rock song.. I would've tried to shift the style without changing the essence that the starting of the song had.. Just an experiment with 'shift of moods'.. i hope you'd like it.. Listen to it and please leave your comments.. [Software Used: FL 8]

Sakkarakatti Rockzzz.!!

2008-07-12T17:02:00.001-07:00

Sakkarakatti songs rock.! Heard it today morning and it just rocks..! I feel that there is some common relation in four of six songs.. Maybe i might feel the difference if i keep hearing it..

Track Listings:

-1. "Taxi Taxi".
Singers: Benny Dayal, Blaaze, Viviane Chaix and Javed Ali.
Lyrics: Blaaze, Na Muthukumar, Viviane Chaix.

-2. "Marudaani".
Singers: Madhushree, A R Rahman, Hentry.
Lyrics: Vaali.

-3. "I Miss You Da".
Singers: Chinmayi, Indai Haza.
Lyrics: Na Muthukumar.

-4. "Chinnamma".
Singers: Benny Dayal, Chinmayi.
Lyrics: Pa Vijay.

-5. "Elay".
Singers: Krish ,Naresh Iyer.
Lyrics : Na Muthukumar

-6. "Naan Epoudhu".
Singers: Reena Bharadwaj.
Lyrics : Pa Vijay

After all, its AR's.. No doubt, it rocks...!

My Composition.!

2008-06-13T22:51:00.000-07:00

This is my new composition.. Its just a 65secs tune.. I composed this using FL studio advanced.. It was a pretty much difficult one and took 5hrs for this.. My Own.! [Software Used: FL 8]

Here's the link:

Click here..

Hope you'll like it.. Leave your comments..

Sarkar Raj--> Govinda Govinda..!!

2008-06-12T16:25:00.000-07:00

Yesterday i saw the movie Sarkar Raj in Inox, city center.. I think there's no need for a detailed review cuz the movie is dumb.. Dialogues were like typing sentences with a long gap in between.. It takes 3 to 4 secs for each word to drop from Big B's mouth.. Ironically, He proved that action speaks louder than words.. And about the BGM which is nothing but 'Govinda Govinda' with all strings ensemble.. I guess the BGM gave a cryptic message about the result of the movie.. Its somewhat like 'Godfather'.. Me thinks, the movie was'nt all good.. Was'nt good that we exited the threatre even before the climax was screened.. Story-> Aishwarya Rai brings a power plant proposal to Abisheik to set up in Maharashtra.. Abishiek takes interest over it as he believes it would help the people of Maharashtra.. Amitab Bachan opposes this as his insight tells that something was wrong.. Tanisha Mukarjee (abishek's wife), who is pregnant, dies in a bomb blast which is actually set in Abishiek's Benz to kill him, who is saved by a phone call and when Tanisha, in the car, requests the driver to switch on the AC, which blasts the car.. And then bad guys kills Abieshiek and Amitab takes the revenge with Aishwarya.. Eventually, all of whom Abeisheik and Amitab believed to be the good guys, were the actual bad guys.. Amitab kills everyone.. Hurray.. The movie's over.. Govinda Govinda.. !!

Reminiscence-- School Visit..!

2008-06-12T16:01:00.000-07:00

School is the only place where one's mind and attitude is chiselled, nourishing education.. School is the reason for what you are and what you've become.. Its true that studying/working/being in a place for a long time would bring hatred, but not until we realize the sweetness that makes us stand nostalgic.. I happen to visit my school after 3 years.. I studied in St.Mary's Boys HSS, chennai.. Those memories of the old days where i used to savor every moment i'v been in my school.. Although 3 years is not much a long period, i missed my school a lot.. When in school, i wanted to finish my education and get rid of it as soon as possible.. But i was'nt sure that it'd bring tears when i step in my school after years.. The visit was'nt all planned.. I got a call from a friend who told me to assemble at my friend's place.. We were only five of 'em and no others (of our classmates) were available.. The memories of the good old times flashed when i reached the main gate of my school.. A spontaneous smirk rose in everyone's face and we looked at each other with reminiscence.. Since i studied in the same school right from my childhood, i remember the place where i used to wait for my autorikshaw to come and pick me up.. Renovations has been done and the classes looks neater than it used to be.. I went with my friends- Srivatsan, Arumugam, Ashwin and Balaji (the guy who acted in KKK as 'joe'.. He's my school mate.!).. We were first recognized by our P.T master, who was shouting at the students to form a line for the prayer as the lunch period just got over.. Everybody recognized Balaji and students thronged to have a closer look at him to believe that it was really him.. It was uneasy for us to accompany him.. Its so stupid to see students huddle around him begging for an autograph.. It was fun to watch as he was my classmate since my childhood and now he suddenly turn out to be a star, or kind of 'a star'..

The school canteen where we use to fight for samosas and bajjis.. The labs where we used to stand out most of the time with a 'incompletion of observation' tag.. The playground where we had fun playing weird games.. The toilets where the walls were once decorated artistically with profanities by us.. The libraries where we never borrowed a book from, rather read zoology books for better sexual knowledge.. And the classes where the actual heaven dwells, were welcoming us.. Most of the teacher remembered us except a very few.. Welcoming were profuse.. Teachers gathered and we had a talk for 2 hrs.. Many of the staffs that i wanted to see, retired from their jobs and new staffs were replaced.. I wanted to see my maths professor (who once has set a record in my class by taking 7 periods of mathematics subject in a 8 periods daily schedule) who was one of the reason for me to score 172/200 in a subject that i'v never crossed 50.. Unfortunately, he had retired from his job 6 months back ('i was late' i thought to myself.!).. Then saw our principle who was very happy to see his old students and spared his time with us to share some memories.. We allowed ourselves to walk the whole school, floor by floor, class by class, savoring the flourishing aroma of our old school..

The most astonishing thing is that i happened to meet a teacher who was my classteacher in LKG.. She was pretty old and hardly could recognize me.. I told her that i was her student and she was happy that i still remember her.. The only thing i wish i would'nt have done was calling Balaji, if i wanted a peaceful chat.. As school children was aware of the tv serial KKK, many students thronged to get an autograph from him that disturbs our conversation.. And then teachers start to ask about his current projects and he would brag about that.. And then we crack a joke on him and change the topic.. But it was fun watching little children longing for an autograph from a guy who studied with us, who now, is an actor..

School is always a step ahead of universities and colleges.. The moments we enjoyed in school would never come back again in any other educational institution no matter how big the institution is.. The shift of age from a little boy to a teenager, first crush and first love, everything happens nowhere but in school..

School days- Unforgettable memories that would bring tears..!

He said Rahman's Ada is dumb..! I could'nt slap him.!

2008-06-04T21:09:00.000-07:00

Today, while i was reading the newspaper (The Hindu), an article caught my eye.. A unknown i-am-more-a-critic junkass wrote the music review of 'Ada' and 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na'.. He almost related every single song of the album with some other song which i think, is no way related.. He said 'Hawa sun hawa' song from Ada is similar to 'Udhaya' from the movie Udhaya.. oh.. wait a second.. who are you.? what the fuck is wrong with you.? Have you ever heard the song.? And hey.. i wonder why they publish crap like this in a reputed newspaper.. He related most of the song with songs hell no way related.. who is he.? A music critic.? Oh fuck him man.. After reading it, i thought its worth a crap.. I mean, whos gonna appreciate for his i-found-something article..? huh.? This provoked me write this blog.. And this dumb ass &^$&$ also commented about 'Jaane Tu Ya Jaane Na'.. He said that Rahman copied tunes of Devi Sri Prasasd's.. Oh come on man.. Are you out of your mind.? 'Kabhi Kabhi' is similar to 'Appudo Ippudo' from bommiliru it seems.. Does it.? I dont think so..

He, with no sense, commented that Rahman copied Devi Sri Prasad's songs.. It almost had me jumped of my couch and i cant stop laughing.. I have him this- A Big Hard Slap on his ugly little cheeks.. Oh wait.. why am i writing this..? No one's gonna give a darn about his article anyway.. He thinks he found something, which people think- It's just shit.. A literal shit in words.. Me jibs.!

Meherban karaoke..!

2008-05-28T09:30:00.000-07:00

This audio clip was created by yours truly.. This is 'Meherban' from the movie 'ada'.. I created it using softwares and it took 6 hours to create this.. What took me so long.? Actually, the instruments you hear in the audio has to be arranged and played accordingly, manually.. This is not a loop, the keyboard you hear in the audio has to be literally played through the software.. Playing in a real keyboard or drums is completely different from playing it through softwares.. And also while playing a instruments, the pressure (to get the grand piano effect) you apply on the keys also has to be determined, for a pukka replica of the song.. And hence it took me so long.. I completed just 50% of the song and will complete the rest soon when i find time.. Comment on it.. Personally i like this song, i liked it the first time i heard it and hence made me create the karaoke.. AR's the best..!

The softwares i used to create this are FL studio, Audacity, Sound forge and sound recorder.. Anyone can create this provided they must know the basics of playing any instrument.. I'l soon upload another track with my voice.. Rite now im working on 'Malare' song by S5.. will post that soon.. Do comment on it and let me know how do u like it..

-S

Ada- Rocking..!

2008-05-20T05:53:00.000-07:00

Another mind-boggling album- 'Ada'.. A.R once again proved he is the best.. as he always does.. Songs are mesmerizing.. With 9 tracks and 1 instrumental, im sure the movie's gonna be a musical hit.. My favorites tracks are- Ishq ada, hawa sun hawa, meherban (of course, cause of Rahman's voice) and also the instrumental.. Yet another album to have it heard all day in your PMP.. Rocking.. Buy the album right away..

Shatter the fetters..!!

2008-05-19T14:43:00.000-07:00

I have this strong dislike for orkut being introduced the 'lock-your-album' crap.. The only pass-time we get through orkut is peeking into other's albums when you get to stumble upon a good looking female grinnin' in her display pic.. Actually, this was a pass-time for everyone when orkut got introduced.. And now they slowly started to harden the privacy thing by letting you NOT see other's scrapbook (this sounds to be a rant of a poor guy who tried to examine every profile he finds..!) Actually yes.. If you plot a graph between the usage of orkut during the introduction-period and current-period, you'd probably find the graph high at first and then dropping down drastically.. All because of this lock-your-album crap.. But i also know the reasons for why they made their security stronger.. After being heard of this killer-through-orkut rumors, there was a talk that orkut's gonna get shut down.. But it rather got up with a different and stronger approach of introducing the advanced security systems (which i believe could'nt be hacked).

They also have introduced google products in orkut, like videos, google talk, blogs, feeds and lot more.. This actually made the room even more bigger to stay in orkut for a long time than expected.. It has the equal level of disadvantage too- Pornography (that was like a 50 yr old says.. but actually its cool, not for me! ;).)..Orkuteers create fake profiles and upload it with hundreds of porn videos and pictures (they wont lock their profiles).. Are they actually trying out some service for the porn-cravers here..? Why does'nt orkut have a check on all this..? Not recently i studied the misconception my father has on orkut.. He believes its a place where someone easily prone to get spoiled.. Actually yes, but depends on how one uses it.. I had my father saw me sitting in front of my computer screen which displayed Orkut home page and he shot me this : "how long since you've been into this.? ".. Been into what.? Sounded skeptical.. From that time on, i wont let him see me using orkut.. funny huh..?

I started off with my rant to shatter the album-locks and then ended up with something else.. I think (like everyone else) that it'd be great if the lock is shattered.. Ahem.. Amen..!

PS: And rite now, having been finished with the Da Vinci Code, i cannot understand its epilogue.. Did Langdon get the Holy Grail..? It'd be helpful if someone help me out with that.. waitin'..

Kuruvi- Tawdry movie.!

2008-05-15T23:21:00.000-07:00

Unthinkably crummy.. Another commercial vijay-type movies in which the climax is predictable.. The film can be illustrated three-pronged-> Vijay's intro and the happy dancing, Vijay in love with trisha (i hate her though.. brr.!) and in trouble, and eventually figth scenes, eradication of the enemies with tetanus shots and saving the people with a happy ending.. Songs starts with no relation to the scenes.. A pukka commercial movie which can be seen once, if there's no other tickets available in the theater..

Original or Parody..??

2008-05-12T22:34:00.000-07:00

Ilayaraja's one of the best composition is 'Agaya vennilave..' from the movie Arangetra Velai.. When i listened to this song for the first time, i myself pictured the song with beautiful love scenes.. I never had seen the song before until when i got to hear my friends' comments about the video when i hum this song in class.. Can a choreo get any worse.? watch this..

Revathi actually tries something close to Barathanatiyam (or something else) but i dont think it is a Barathanatiyam.. And about prabhu.. just one word- Sick.! He does this 'Break-dance' thing.. crap.! this is not a song where one break-dances listening to.. There's an awesome violin bit with strings bgm, something like a music for a soul who just broke up with his lover (i actually pictured so.. ).. It starts at around 00:57 in the video and choreo was even worse, not even close to give out anything relating to the music.. But was a different picture- It was hilarious to watch them dancing around a tree (which has pink leaves) where prabhu tries this 'romantic' thing (but fails) and revathi stupidly gives him a rose.. Brr..!

Upshot-> Awesome song, sick dancing..!

Alas.! It's back.!

2008-05-07T12:35:00.000-07:00

I heard some weird sound that made me jump out of my bed and ruin my sleep.. The alarm from my cell phone that literally jolt me.. I saw the time with a half-closed eyes and it was 3 am.. The alarm was still ringing.. Thought time is running so fast, but who cares a darn, I fumbled under the sheets and went back to sleep, again, pressing the 'snooze' option.. The same monotonous alarm started ringing and this time i felt like throwing the phone off my window.. I almost heaved, but by then thought about the repercussions, that my father would kill me.. Totally exasperated, saw the time in my cell phone, it showed 3:05 am.. @#*..! Got out the bed, brushed my teeth, drank hot coffee to get myself active enough to study.. This is happening to be my everyday routine because of my exams.. Its been a week long since i've slept continuously for 12 hrs like i used to.. It is so worrying me and a thought always runs in my mind in lines, "I should've studied this chapter earlier.!" , everytime i sit with my book.. Winced all the three months and expecting for the last moment preparation to work.. Ridiculous.! As my title goes "alas.! my exams are back.!"

A.R. Rahman launches the music of 'Ada'.!

2008-04-30T01:42:00.000-07:00

Rahman, launched the music of his upcoming film 'Ada' in India's entertainment capital Mumbai on April 28 night. He also launched a competition of remixing two songs from this film, with cell phone giant, Nokia, and music label Big Music.

Two winners of this competition will get a chance to work as a music director with Rahman.

[Source: as on yahoo news]

Rahman- God of music.!

2008-04-29T08:55:00.000-07:00

Lately, im kind of obsessed with Rahman's music.. Im familiar with the line: Ideal mind is devil's workshop.. But if my mind is ideal, it starts playing random Rahman songs.. I've become even more obsessed after watching Rahman's live concert that happened recently in chennai.. Im getting to know more about him, his history and future plans.. He is the one who inspired me so much that i turn back if i hear someone calling the name 'Rahman'.. I wish he continues doing wonders in music and make people stay within the chord..

Changing notes- I was there.!

2008-04-22T07:59:00.000-07:00

India has very few people that the whole world recognizes.. One of them is A.R.Rahman.. The music maestro is better known for his remarkable compositions and love towards his motherland.. His concerts were held in so many places around the world and also happened in chennai recently.. I was lucky to be one of the audience waving my hands to the tune.. Times of India released its first edition on 14th.. They offered this Rahman's concert tickets in exchange for a coupon.. Not within half-a-day, all the newspapers got sold out and people were seen taking Times Of India in bundles.. I was informed a bit early so i managed to buy 10 papers.. The concert was held on 14th in St.George's ground opposite to pachayyapan colege.. People thronged in for the concert which made a heavy traffic congestion near Pachayyapan college.. The show was scheduled to start at 6:30, but got delayed due to some reasons.. Scintillating lights, crowd yelling and with confetti adornment, A.R.Rahman stepped down from the stairs on the stage, getting down humbly towards the crowd, singing Ore kana from Guru.. It was like the God of music himself is getting down.. People were so enthusiastic and energetic that they forgot themselves.. The list of songs performed in the concert:

1. Jaage Hain - Guru - Saadhana Sargam & ARR.
2. Ella Pugazhum Oruvan Oruvanuke - ATM - ARR.
3. Endendrum Punnagai - Alaipayuthe - Karthik/Naresh Iyer/Shankar Mahadevan.
4. Varadhe Nathi Karai Ooram - Sangamam - Shankar Mahadevan.
5. Vaaji Vaaji - Shivaji - Hariharan & Madhushree.
6. Barso Re - Guru - Madhushree.
7. Newyork Nagaram - Jilunu Oru Kaadhal - ARR.
8. Enaku Oru Girlfriend - Boys - Karthik & Blaaze.
9. Jashn E Bahaara - Jodha Akbar - Javed Ali.
10. Roobaroo - RDB - Naresh Iyer.
11. Munbe Vaa - JOK - Karthik/Naresh Iyer/ Chinmayi.
12. Enna Solla Pogirai - Kandukonden Kandukonden - Shankar Mahadevan
13. Kanodu Kaanbathellam - Jeans - Nithyasree.
14. Dil Se Re - Dil Se - ARR.
15. In Lamhon Ke - Jodha Akbar - Javed Ali/Karthik & Madhushree.
16. Adhiradi - Shivaji - ARR/Sayonara and others.
17. Chaiyya Chaiyya - Dil se - AR Rehana & Javed Ali
18. Azeeem Shah - Jodha Akbar( this was capped off with the first line of 'Veerapandi Kottaiyile') - Shivamani ('the man')/ Naresh Iyer and others.
19. Oru Koodai - Shivaji - Blaaze
Intros by Blaaze
20. Pray for me Brother - ARR
21. Bombay Theme.
22. Khwaja Mere Khwaja - Jodha Akbar - ARR
23. Udhaya Udhaya - Udhaya - Sadhana Sargam & Hariharan.
24. Ay Hairathe - Guru - Hariharan.
25. Tumhari Adao Pe - Mangal Pandey - Saadhana Sargam/ Rayhana and others.
26. Maiyya Maiyya - Guru - Neeti Mohan.
27. Maduraiku Pogadhadi - ATM - Benny Dayal & Darshana.
28. Tere Bina - Guru - ARR and Chinmayi.
29. Antha Arabic Kadaloram - Bombay - ARR/Karthik/Shankar Mahadevan.
30. Vande Maataram - 'GOD'

Singers:

Karthik
Shankar Mahadevan
Naresh Iyer
Nithyashree
Sadhna Sargam
Blaze Dayal
Benny
Chinmayi
Sayanora
Neethi mohan
Hariharan
Javed Ali.
AR Rehana
Darshana
Ishrath
Tanvi

Sivamani showed his talents by using suitcases and bubble top bottles as drums and made an awesome performance.. Neeti mohan burned the stage out with her dance/singing for Myya Myya from Guru.. Nithya shree sung kannodu kanbadhellam which was outsanding.. Songs that Rahaman sung (in order):

Ore kana- Guru
Ella Pugazhum- ATM
New york nagaram- JOK
Roobaroo- RDB
DIl se- Dil se
Athirade- Sivaji
Pray for me Brother- From his album Pray For Me Brother
Khwaja Mere Khwaja- Jodha Akbar
Tere Bina- Guru
Humma Humma- Bombay
Vandhe Matharam- from his album

The highlight was when 'Azeeem Shah' was played, 20 to 30 people, each with a bass drum, played for the song with Shivamani leading them.. It was awesome.. The crowd gathered was huge that rahman said (exactly) "itha madhiri gosham en life'la.. atleast intha rendu varshathula paathathilla.. . " (english-> he never has seen a crowd like this in his life.. or atleast in this 2 years..).. Had a nice time.. Concert ended at 10:45pm.. It was the best concert ever.. I wish for more A.R. live concerts in chennai..

As he said:
"Im not changing the music, the music is changing me"
"Music is change, the change is me.!"

He is the BEST..!!

A.R.Rahman- 'Changing Notes' concert on 20th.!

2008-04-16T10:23:00.000-07:00

Its my long time wish to go for a A.R concert.. Times of India started their edition from 14th.. They offered A.R. concert tickets in exchage for a coupon.. Im sure the highest sold newspaper on 14th is apparanly gonna be Times of India.. Guru called up on 14th morning and told me about this offer.. I was put busy cuz of my heavy pending record works.. Stalling it all, went to the nearest paper mart, bought some 10 papers.. Right now i have 6 free passes in hand.. Im contented that im gonna see A.R live.. The name of this concert is "Changing notes".. Of no doubt im sure it rocks.. Waiting for 20th to fall on.. I wish i could run the time..!

ARR Videos..!

2008-03-27T10:57:00.000-07:00

ARR's music conservatory..

This video shows some random pictures of the maestro A.R.Rahman right from his childhood to the present.. Awesome video..

ARR receiving gifa award..

ARR receiving filmfare awards for SOK..

Shreya Ghosal is receiving the best music director on the behalf of arrahman in Star Screen Award 2008..

Yesudas praising ARR..

and this..

ARR at IIFA award..

ARR given an award by Limca Records..

Here..

ARR at 53rd Filmfare awards..

ARR at carnatic chills..

Shankar about ARR..

Here..

SPB about ARR..

Guru's of peace..

ARR at citi center..

ARR ariving at TVM airport..

My College Annual Day..!

2008-03-15T07:23:00.000-07:00

This is really a long due after my last blog (Infact, this was the starting line of my previous blog too.!).. That's cuz i did'nt find time and also had nothing to blog on.! Now i have something to write.. Nothing but my college 'Annual Day'..

Its been quite long since i attended my last class .. I guess its been 3 weeks.. Cuz i bunk classes for the so-called 'Annual Day practice'.. It was some three weeks back i met vikas sir (Department of CSE)., later became our team leader who deals everything regarding Annual Day.. Hez really a very nice guy and well talented.. He deals with the poster designs for our college, format designs, flash movies, animated movies lots more.. he's extra talented .. In fact, hez one of my friends now (hez jus 26).. Initially we had no singers in our team.. So i called my friend parvathi (awesome carnatic singer in our college) to join our team.. later, many singer from 2nd and 1st year showed up..

The Annual day was initially scheduled for 8th of march.. But then it was postponed cuz of the chief guests (cuz of their dates).. So we got extra time to bunk (I know how mad my friends will get while reading this.. Guys chillax.!).. We use to practice for some 2hrs and chat for the rest of the time.. Initially we have only a guitar and a very small basic keyboard.. I took my acoustic guitar cuz if someone asks anything, i have to play something with my guitar just to show them that we are practicing.. We did'nt even plan anything for the annual day and used to sing some random songs during the practice session.. That was how we used to kill time..

It was 3rd march, my birthday.. Vikas sir asked me to stay that evening for the practice.. Parvathi had lab to do so even she asked me to stay as she has to go alone back home.. I thought of staying but i could'nt resist vikas sir's request.. I told parvathi that i could'nt come and went with vikas sir.. Vikas sir wanted to buy a guitar so he wanted me to select the guitar for him.. I called clement (guitarist) with me, to select a good one for him.. I was not in good mood that time (had some personal problems).. Vikas sir told us to wait in Avadi station.. Varun (my friend) and vikas sir came to Avadi station after some 20 mins.. We got into the train and surprisingly they placed a birthday cake with my name written on it and asked me to cut it.. I was flabbergasted.. I cut the cake and shared with everyone.. Frankly, they really made my b'day so special and i was so happy.. Later, We went to Musee musicals (near casina theatre, mount road) and bought a guitar for vikas sir.. Myself and clement just walked in, took two awesome acoustic guitar and performed a small gig, attracting audience.. That was fun.. Then we went to THALAPPAKATTU and had nice food.. Actually it was my treat, but viaks sir paid for it eventually.. Then went to juice shop and had juice, we could'nt walk cuz we were fully loaded with food.. I really have to thank vikas sir, varun and clement for making my b'day so special..

Thats Vikas Sir with his new guitar.!

The date for the Annual Day was finalized and was preponed from 18th to 14th.. So we had to rush up with our practice.. We finalized songs and effective practice was begun.. I had my department (ECE) symposium on 12th.. My friends from SVCE came to participate in the events.. I've to be with them to show them the places where the events was taking place and also i've to be in the practice session as im the team leader.. I managed both somehow running here and there.. We planned to stay that day for the practice.. We asked the girls to leave early and we stayed in the college till 8:00.. That was the only time we used efficiently for the practice.. After the heavy practice, we completed two full songs and started at 8:30.. If we are in need of anything, we just walk to vikas sir cuz he just splurge money.. We had good food, drinks and stuffs and obviously vikas sir paid for it.. He is such a nice person not just cuz he spends a lot, but also has a very nice character and attitude..

Initially we had an acoustic guitar and a small keyboard.. On 12th everyone brought their instruments to college and at last we had two acoustic guitars (Vikas sir's and mine), Electric guitar (mine), Bass guitar (clement's), Yamaha clavier E403 keyboard (junior's), Yamaha PSR-550 (Dinesh's), Tabla (Venkata krishnan's), Manual Drums (Vinod's).. It was well organized and was better looking..

The actual practice started on 13th (the day before the Annual day, just like i used to study for my semester exams..!).. We stayed till 9:30 in our college and had a small rehearsal.. All our college staffs were there till 9 to make sure everything was perfect.. It was our CSE dept HOD who asked us to have dinner.. We were so hungry and thought of eating food outside cuz the food in our college wont be that good.. It was already late so we had to eat our canteen food.. We did'nt know the taste of food cuz we were so hungry as if we did'nt eat for ages (I thought i would fall sick.. thank god, i was normal the next day.!).. After the small rehearsal, we started off from there leaving all our instruments in college.. I reached home at 12..

It was 14th, i have to reach college early to set up everything up on stage.. Vikas sir wanted us to wear blazers as it looks attractive on stage.. It was 8:50 when our show started.. Everything went on well and i believe it would be much better if the audio system was proper.. Local audio controllers showed up who did'nt know what LEAD CORD is.. I shouted badly at them cuz he kept reducing the guitar volume in the mixer.. It really would've been better if the audio system was proper.. We had something called the 'Digital Orchestra'.. Digital orchestra is something that we create music using computers and softwares.. I composed the sahana bgm (FL) for the digital orchestra and i believe it came out well.. Our chairman and staffs were so impressed with this Digital orchestra and congratulated us.. but frankly, i dont think it was that good cuz the one who was playing the sahana lead must listen to the bgm as well., only then he can play.. but we forgot to place a speaker near him, so it was'nt that good the way we expected it.. He missed the beats and was a bit off tune.. But was'nt that bad..

Everything ended good as planned and ended up well.. I saw something that i did'nt expect from our college.. i have to write this down here.. There's a lot of politics (i guess its there in every college and we dont know).. Shit.! there's a big cold war happening.. Everyone has weird complex., a bad attitude within, except a few, very few.. I came to know all this cuz i was with vikas sir all the time and i know what was happening.. Every department has its own rules.. I cant say everything here, all i can say is this: "shit.!".. If i am the chairman, i would've stabbed the staffs who dont act like a staff..

I got many friends through this Annual Day like every other annual day.. As Clement and i were the team leaders, we had to face a lot of problems and small fights with juniors.. but everything was solved at last and we are friends now (small fights is the starting of a good friendship.! line nalla irukka.?).. I really miss those days and i cant participate in my next annual day cuz i'll be busy with my projects and placements.. This was my last Annual day and was fulfilling.. I enjoyed every moment, every second of my stay with them.. The only thing i worry is, No ODs. and i have to attend my classes now on..

Knockabouts..!

2008-02-22T22:26:00.000-08:00

It's been quite long since my last blog.. So i thought i would make ya'll laugh through this post of mine.. Just check out the videos and you'll know..

1970's pop star..!

Azhagiya Tamizh Maatukkaran..!

Ariyatha Vayasu.!

Sivaji Ganesan Jalsa..!

Khaka Khaka spoof..!

Malayala Terminator.!

BBC news. Malayalam comedy..!

Taare Zameen Par Guitar Chords.!

2008-02-15T22:16:00.000-08:00

Taare Zameen Par chords:

After watching the movie, i wanted to play all the songs in my guitar.. I found these guitar chords in the internet.. Play and enjoy..

Taare Zameen Par:

Intro:

Esus4 E B6 B
Esus4 E B6 B A B Esus4 B
Esus4 E B6 B A B E E

E -----------------F#m------------
Dekho Inhein Yeh Hain Aas Ki Boondein
E -------------------F#m-------------
Patton Ki God Mein Aasmaan Se Koodein
E------------------- F#m-------------
Angdayee Lein Phir Karwat Badal Kar
E --------------F#m------------
Nazuk Se Moti Hans De Phisal Kar
E ---------D --A --Esus4--E --------B6 -----B -------
Kho Na Jaaye Ye Taare Zameen Par
E -----------------------F#m-----------
Yeh To Hain Sardi Mein Dhoop Ki Kirane
E --------------------F#m--------------
Utarein Jo Aangan Ko Sunhera Sa Karne
E -----------------------F#m--------------
Mann Ke Aandheron Ko Roshan Sa Kar Dein
E -------------------F#m--------------------
Thithurti Hatheli Ki Rangat Badal Dein

E ------------D--A--Esus4 --E-------- B6 -----B-- A ---B--- Esus4 ---E
Kho Na Jaaye Ye Taare Zameen Par

Instrumental:

E E A E E E

E
Jaise Aankhon Ki Dibiya Mein Nindiya
Aur Nindiya Mein Meetha Sa Sapna
A --------------F#m------- E-------------
Aur Sapne Mein Mil Jaaye Farishta Sa Koi
Jaise Rangon Bhari Pichkari
Jaise Titliyan Phoolon Ki Kyari
A --------------F#m -----------E--------
Jaise Bina Matlab Ka Pyara Rishta Ho Koi
C#m-------- A--------------
Yeh To Aasha Ki Lehar Hain

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Kholo Kholo:

The song starts with Em and A chords.. (Actually its two guitars)
Bridge #1:

---Bsus4-----------Bsus4/G----
tu dhoop hain jham se bikhar
---Em----------G---------A-----
tu hai nadee o bekhabar
----Bsus4---------Bsus4/G----
beh chal kahin ud chal kahin
----Em----------G---------------------F#7add11-----F#7add11/G----Bsus4(#2)
dil khush jahan teri toh manzil hai wahin

The kyun is kadar part:

G----------------Asus2
Kyun is kadar hairaan tu
G----------------Notes(A - G - F# - E) [Chord: Em]
Mausam ka hai mehmaan tu

Em7------D-----------------------Em7-------D----
khul gaya aasmaan ka rasta dekho khul gaya
Bm------Am----------------------E7sus4----Em7-------
mil gaya kho gaya tha jo sitara mil gaya mil gaya

The chord formations for the various sus/11 chords used:

F#7add11: 244300 (F# - C# - F# - A# - B - E)
F#7add11/G: 344300 (G - C# - F# - A# - B - E)
Bsus4: 224400 (F# - B - F# - B - B - E)
Bsus4/G: 324400 (G - B - F# - B - B - E)
Bsus4(#2): x24440 (B - F# - B - E - E)
E7sus4: x2223x (B - E - A - D)

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Maa:

C -----------F ------C-----------
Main Kabhi Batlata Nahin,
G ------------F------------------- C------
Par Andhere Se Darta Hoon Main Maa
C ------------F -------C--------
Yun To Main,Dikhlata Nahin
G ------------F ----------------C---------
Teri Parwaah Karta Hoon Main Maa
F------------- G -----------C-------
Tujhe Sab Hai Pata, Hai Na Maa
F-------------- G -----C------------
Tujhe Sab Hain Pata...Meri Maa

Chords repeat:

Bheed Mein Yun Na Chodo Mujhe
Ghar Laut Ke Bhi Aa Naa Paoon Maa
Bhej Na Itna Door Mujhko Tu
Yaad Bhi Tujhko Aa Naa Paoon Maa
Kya Itna Bura Hoon Main Maa ..
Kya Itna Bura ..Meri Maa

Instrumental:

Am Am F F Am Am F F Am F G F Am F G E Am Am G C C

C ------------E-----------
Jab Bhi Kabhi Papa Mujhe
Am------ Fm -----------------C------
Jo Zor Se Jhoola Jhulaate Hain Maa
C -----------E----------------
Meri Nazar Dhoondhe Tujhe
Am-------- Fm ----------------C
Sochu Yahi Tu Aa Ke Thaamegi Maa

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A.R.Rahman to launch Music School..!

2008-02-09T10:06:00.000-08:00

Does anyone ever had the dream of learning music from the God-of-music himself.? Music maestro A.R. Rahman is going to build a music conservatory near Chennai airport and he is working on it real hard..

"I feel young talented musicians in our country, specially those who want to learn Western classical music, have nowhere seriously creative to go. We need to cultivate a taste for Western symphonic music so that an average musically-inclined young musician would be as enthused about learning the violin as the star," said Rahman.

Its always his dream to build a music school and eventually he is working hard to make it come true.. The land for the project is ready and the work is on progress..

"I want it to be one of the best music schools in our country" he adds.. Man.! i wish im one of its students..