Blogswara 3

For those of you who don't know - Blogswara is a collaborative effort by music enthusiasts from all over the world (who've known each other only through the world of blogs) to create an online album. March 25th marked the release of the 3rd album.
My favourite songs in no particular order are:

Vasantham - I don't understand Malayalam, but I do understand the language of music and "this" is a beautiful creation.
Anil has done a fantastic job with the tune composition and orchestration. The instruments used, various accompaniments especially the strumming of the Sitar (if that's what its called) is just too good.
The lyrics by Sreeja nicely fit the tune and bring out the feel of the song.
Murali's done a fabulous job with the vocals. The voice modulation, the stress on a few specific words - the gamakams, the variations... are all sung beautifully.
The tune creates a feeling of such tranquility.

Azhage - This is a peppy romantic number. The factors adding to making this song a success are the amazing vocals, the lively tune, the perfect combination of instruments especially the flute pieces.
I love the interlude. It has the perfect combination of vocals, a flute section played along with keyboard... its just wonderful. The mixing/orchestration add on to make the song what it is...
The facts given about this composition just make you go 'wow-that's cool'.

Lal Subah - I loved the instruments in this song especially the bass and the drums. The vocals just blend into the mixture superbly. The music brings out the feeling of desperation... about loneliness, the wait... The mixing is so well done that it makes you listen to the song again and again!

Listen to the songs and enjoy :)

Some things never change

After about 2 years (sheesh is it really that long) I met up with a couple of friends. We've not been completely in touch with one another - a few mails, a few phones calls is what its been. Over the past 2 years, we've each taken up different paths, career-wise & life-wise, doing different things, been with different people in different places, made new friends, gone through hardships, had a few achievements... yeah - a lot has happened.

Back in those days, there were no worries in life (apart from studies ofcourse). All that we bothered about was articleship, marks, pass percentages... all this related to the ever so feared demon called CA. But now when we look back, those seem to have been very happy days.

Little did we know then, that it was all just the begining. We were just stepping into the world, the corporate world as they call it. A world full of competition, tension, frustration, a rat-race where if you paused even for a moment, you'd be left behind. Ok lets not go there now....

Had a good time yesterday. Recalled the good old days, the funny incidents, the wierdos we had to deal with, the lessons that we learnt... those were the lessons of life!
Though so much time has passed and so many events have occured, the bond of friendship was not strained. I'm glad!

"Some" things never change. Even if they do... its only for the good :)

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Mean Mom !

Read this in the paper the other day... liked it and could totally relate to it!

"Some day when my children are old enough to understand the logic that motivates a parent, I will tell them, as my Mean Mom told me:
I loved you enough... to ask you where you were going, with whom and what time you would be home.
I loved you enough to be silent and let you discover that your new best friend was a creep.
I loved you enough to stand over you for two hours while you cleaned your room, a job that should have taken me just 15 minutes.
I loved you enough to let you see anger, disappointment and tears in my eyes.
I loved you enough to let you assume responsibility for your actions even when the penalties were so harsh they almost broke my heart.
But most of all I loved you enough ... to say "NO" even when I knew you would hate me for it.
Those were the most difficult battles of all. I'm glad I won them, because in the end, you won too."
thus the article went....
"Because of our Mean Moms, we missed out on lots of things other kids experienced. None of us have ever been caught shoplifting, vandalising other's property or ever arrested for any crime. It was all her fault.
Now, we are all educated, honest and responsible adults.
I think what is wrong with the world today is... it doesn't have enough Mean Moms"

Lovely... isn't it!