Day Good/Bad

Tuesday 28th November 2006, I reached office as usual at around 8.20am. There were couples of mails in the mailbox. US colleagues had come back from “Thanks giving” vacation and lots of issues reported. Who likes to hear about problems in their code, even I felt bad to read mails about only issues. Thought a Bad day.

But I had to start working to fix the problems and started looking at that. Usually logs provided will be insufficient and finding the root cause of the problem takes time. But that day logs were sufficient and could find the root cause for almost all issues. So thought Day is not that bad.

I have telecon every day at 6.30pm. So I go home and take the call. I left office at around 5pm so that I can reach home on time. I might have come a kilometer from office and I found front tier gone flat. Should this also happen the same day? “Bhagvaan deta hai to chappad bhadke deta hai” so true.

But again I could get hold of mechanic to fix. I couldn’t reach home before 6.30pm. So parked the car on road and attended the meeting. Day was more of problems and getting it fixed.
End of the day I couldn’t make out if it was a bad day or a good day.

Song From Movie “Lakeer” Sung by Daler Mehendi

I came to know about Daler Mehendi from Songs “ Bolo tara ra ra” and “Tunak Tunak tun” I always wondered why people like his voice/songs. They sound so similar and I felt his songs lacked expression( Bhava in kannada). No doubt his songs were the first choice for any college dance function at that time.Then he became famous for Duplicate Passport, but that didn’t stop him from singing for films. In glamour world any publicity is good publicity. Same happened to Daler I guess.
Around this time I happened to listen to “nachle na na nachale ,jara tal tal nachale” from “Lakeer”. I love that song. And guess what it’s sung by “Daler Mehendi”.I still don’t like his voice, but I like this song.
PS: I am not sure whether he recorded "nachale na na nachale" first or passport case was first.

Songs and ME

One of my hobbies is to listen to music. I love to sing too, but no one likes to listen :-) I listen to Kannada, Hindi and English songs. I listen to folk, filmy, pop. But I don’t like rock music.

Most of the time I hum the song, which have good lyrics. Even though music catches attention first, lyrics remains for longer time in my mind. I won’t know the movie name, actors, location anything about the song but I will know the lyrics of the song.

Many enjoy the music even if they don’t get the lyrics of the song. I can’t enjoy a song if I don’t understand the meaning. When I listen to Tamil version of “Roja” song I hum Hindi lyrics.
If I like the song I can listen to same song whole day. I don’t get bored. I learn the lyrics and tune and then I can hum for myself whenever I want to listen to the song.

I listen to song sung by anyone and everyone. Sometimes I don’t like the voice of singer but if the song is good I listen to it. But vice versa song not good and it is sung by my favorite even then I won’t listen to the song.

I like S Janaki, Kavitha Krishna Murthy, Sunidhi C, Chitra and Lata ( her old songs and not new)among female singers. PBS and Sonu Nigam among male singers. Nowadays started liking Kunal Ganjawala.

Among Ghazal singers I like Pankaj Udas, Jagjit Singh and not to forget Gulam Ali. Kannada Bhavageete I like C Ashwath, what a great Singer. How energetic his songs are, my battery charges hearing to his songs.

Same with songs sung by Sunidhi. She gives her 100% to all the songs she sings whether it’s melodious (Songs of Chameli) or fast track (Mast, Khaki list goes on). Listening to songs by anyone of these Singers make me happy.

My favorite song list is huge. List has songs from old black and movie till today. Most of them are all time favorite.
Most of the days I listen to same song whole day. I call it song of the day. Today its “TangaLiyalli nanu teli bamde” from Janma Janmada AnubaMdha” Thanks to my friend for letting me know the movie name. I liked the song but didn’t know movie name to listen to song.

But Probably I don’t like the song, which has any word, repeated multiple times in the same song. For example I don’t like “manase o manse” from Chandramukhi PraNasaKhi”. Many till date like this song. Recently I heard “tanana tananam amtha hesaru” song, new movie I guess. I don’t know the name. But I don’t like the song.

Music has become the part of life. I sometime imagine what if there were no radio/TV and Tape? Everyone had to listen to their own voice :-)

Back To School

Its long time I completed 7th Std. I did in a village near Sorab Taluk, Shimoga District. We had 2/3 three teachers to handle from 1st to 7th Std. My mother says, I knew 2nd std poems when I was in 1st and so on because we used to have combined classes.

Till 7th Std My mother taught me . I did learn in Kannada medium till 7th.Now I work in a software company. Thanks to my parents and relatives for whatever I am today. I know how difficult it is to educated in life studying in village when there is no support from parents. Govt schools in Bangalore is similar to schools in village at that time for many reasons. One,village people didn't give more importance to education same with the parents of govt school kids in Bangalore now. I wanted to help such kids in knowing the importance of education. I got such opportunity when I joined DSF.

From 3/4 months I am going to Govt Primary school on Saturday to teach English/maths to the govt school kids. There are few kids who are really interested to learn things, and there are few who probably don't know the importance of education.Its little difficult to make these kids learn things though not impossible.

As usual I went this Saturday to School at 9.15am. We are 5 to 6 volunteers who go regularly. This Saturday they got late and I was waiting for them. I Was listening to music sitting outside. School Headmaster didn't like me sitting outside he asked me to sit in office room. I went and sat there and couldn't listen to music, so switched off radio. I didn't had any other work than listening to the headmaster and teacher discussion in office room.

Head Master had work in Banks and so he had to go to Bank, he was expecting few visitors too, but didn't knew what time visitor will be coming. He told the teacher, he will go to bank and if someone comes asking for him, give a missed call and he will come back :-)
I was surprised, its not that I didn't know he had a mobile nor that I am not aware of missed calls. But how technology has helped us. We probably can't imagine a day without a mobile now. But didn't we leave without all that few years back?
When I heard that discussion , I remembered a incident which my mother told me.
When I was in nursery my father used to drop me and come back to hospital. My father is a doctor and he was posted in a village that time. One day when my father was away to drop me to nursery his boss came to hospital. Hospital and our house was in single compound. He asked my mother where is my father and when he will be back. She told him my father went to drop me to school and he will be back in few minutes. Boss asked will he come back, my mother replied he will drop daughter and come back and he will not be sitting in nursery. If we had mobile at that time Boss would have called/given a missed call to my father :-). We didn't had even a phone in that village at that time.

Even though I go to school now on Saturdays so many things are changed. Back to school yes but not back to good olden days.