Nostalgic..

The last two posts were based on how boring life can be at times! For a change I wanted to tell how interesting life used to be ;-)

Its been a week since I played a new song on my Guitar and all of a sudden I felt nostalgic when I heard one online. I was inspired to watch the title of Varanam Aayiram again for it where Surya plays a series of songs on Guitar.. Movie songs are real motivations for me to learn and teach as well. Ahem, I'm sure one or the other of my college friends is going to leave a sarcastic comment after getting to know that I'm teaching Guitar lessons here. Trust me, I'm doing it because I'm liking it.. and I'm not holding to any of those revenges from my college days.. definitely not ;-)

I learned playing Guitar for the first time when I was in the second year of my college, "only" to play a song on the stage in the women's auditions held every year as an Inter-departmental cultural activity. It was supposed to be a cool thing when any team walks up there on the stage with a Guitar and we would be very sure, they are going to take away the first place. That made me say one day, "we will also sing along with a Guitar! I'll learn it! Next auditions we are doing it!" And I went for the classes for six months, came back with all spirits for playing on stage.  We did the old Tamil melody "Kodai kaala kaatrey" - And I remember how hyped our whole team felt! We of course did not win ;-) due to some conspiracies which usually happen in all auditions.. But our team evolved as one of those tough competitors thereafter.. And we also became one of those "hyped" teams yeahh.. Unforgettable moments!

Its certainly nostalgic when we get reminded of the incidents from our college days. School had been equally fun for me, but since it was a girls' convent, it was a different kind of an experience. It will take a lifetime to write about it.. I'm sure everyone has something or the other to cherish from the past.

Hmm.. I've uploaded my version of the song that I was talking about on my Jukebox here!

Have fun feeling nostalgic.. 

Fruta fresca

It is one of the assignments in my spanish class. Fruta fresca is a song by Carlos Vives. Listen to the song (actually there's a list of songs and movies given by my teacher).. with the lyrics and sing along with it! That was some fun.. As such i'm the only person in the class who is outstanding! Yeahh.. outstandingly dumb ;-)

This time the class is a mixed group of people, mostly working.. and they're here to learn spanish so that it will help them in their job.. No wonder they are so good at it! I'm the one going there just to add one more language in my resume ;-) so i kind of take it easy for now.. But suddenly last week the teacher decided to change her methods. She told everyone, "Ok, let's all talk!" and guess what? Everyone was actually talking!! I was stumbling with words.. It felt like a big joke for me! And it was not just basics they were talking, like "Hola, como estas?" - I'm still lingering there.. I can't talk one phrase beyond that.. Oh ya, i can say "Sí" and remember there's an accent on the "i". If you say it without the accent it means "If".. I can count numbers till 100, after which i can proceed with the notebook open. I can say greetings, haven't learned the opposites of greetings yet!! It may be of great use when i have to talk to our apartment manager here!! And so i'm trying to make it interesting for myself by doing the assignments on time ;-)

I was watching a movie on the NVUE this morning and was laughing simply at the actions and expressions.. My teacher has told me, "Watch the movie simply, even if you don't understand the dialogues!" - So i just watched it.. All that i understood was the advertisements between the movie scenes.. lol

Anyways the song is good.. Enjoy it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwFk-BkcSMI&feature=PlayList&p=4E950B26AD782EE0&