My experience with MUSIC

ARR's show in hyderabad on 24th October....i'm planning to go and attend it.However just decided that if i am going to any shoe i should be in the top class tickets...which means 1.5lacs juz for d tickets...and since i am not in a mood to shell out such huge amount we've decided to stay back at home and watch it in the TV.

This reminds me of my old days...naah not those dealing with big concerts but my own singing talent which i show off now and then. 

Triiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing...going back again to those old-gold days.

It was in my 5th class....there used to be this fierce Late VijayKumar sir whom all of us used to go for Maths,Physics and Chemistry tuitions. He is a very good teacher and completely opposite to those old weak teachers portrayed in the cinemas. He was dynamic and fierce. Man i was damn afraid of him :((May his Soul RIP). His sons Kranthi anna and Bhagath anna were our seniors. They used to have this music instruments at their house. All the complete set since they had a good grip on guitar,drums etc.

Then came one Vinayaka chavithi and in our colony there was this big pandal and obviously the colony president and his team planned for various cultural activities for that. One of which is the orchestra by Vijaykumar sir's family. Here they needed few female singers in the troupe. My sis and her friends who used to go for the tuitions were by default part of the troupe and then i entered :D

A lanky kid with a high pitch voice....thats one worst combination i say. Anyway i was give this song to practice  and perform with them. And that song is none other than.."Chinni chinni asha" from  Roja. That one was a nightmare...after the performance Kranthi anna came to me and told me that the song i sang...i mean the way i sang...no one else can butcher it more!!!...It was the worst possible way one can ever sing that song.

Anyway later on due to the so called growing up my voice dramatically improved and the next year itself i was the part of the choir group in my school. My sis and I were the important members in the group. Still when i go to school now...i mean after some 15 years....my teachers  remember the way i used to sing and 2 years back on my visit i even sang one prayer song from the old days to the 10th class students. Those gospel hymns i still sing sometimes only to irritate Ravi.In that way in school i bagged up few prizes in singing competitions.

All through these years i have joined the classical musical lesson and veena classes which i stopped  due to lack of interest at that particular time. Then in Btech i started learning music from Padma teacher...and this time i learnt it for 3 years....on and off. And participated in few competitions in college. As usual in my first year my song in the freshers party was booed down by everyone. Then in the college competitions i've bagged some 3-4 prizes.

Then comes the biggest disaster. I participated  in the APAC Idol.....just for the sheer pleasure of being a part of such a big event. I sang the song Dole dole from Pokiri..the Karaoke version and as expected i didn't win..but that was one beautiful moment i can treasure.....singing in the Amphitheater in Bangalore campus.

All this came flooding back when i was listening to the ARR's show details on the radio....No other work kept me busy.......hence here i am flooding this page with my thoughts!!

Luv...

Bindu

Me and Cynophobia

Most people i know or related to are fond of DOGS....
And everytime i go to a house which has a resident canine...there will be a huge drama and loads of questions asking me y...y d hell do i hate dogs!!!

Now here comes my one and only standard answer..i've been giving since the age of 9.

"I cant tolerate any living species ...humans are just an exception"

But to describe y i came to the conclusion i need to go back to that old not so black and not so white flashback...

I can say in telugu.."Nakappudu tommidellu....."in a dramatic tone......but the flow might not follow...anyway...

...I was in my 5th class...we moved to our own house and i had one of my long lost friend(Yes i say LONG LOST...as after 5th class i've never been in touch with her) Sethika, living in the same colony...one fine evening( i still remember the climate...it was wonderful....it was like the best day one can ever wish for...) i dressed up in my sturdiest skirt and top(i cant actually remeber which one..but u'll know after reading that it is indeed a thick skirt) and went to her place..

Infront of thier gate there was this dog...mongrel with 3 pups...as usual i went and opened the gate without bothering about the dog...in the next second it jumped on me and the drama started....it was all over me barking and god knows how and why it didnt bute me...after some 5-10 mins or so someone came and shooed it away...actually many people surrounded but it wasnt leaving me. Anyhow i escaped with few scratches and my skirt was most of it was torn.....i was rushed to my dad's clinic where they gave me the necessary injections.

That was just the start.......We had a big farm in our village which is now a mango orchard but before we used to have all different crops in those 50acres. It was the time when sunflower crop was harvested. There were 3 mongrels in our farm to be there with the hired helps. one fine day i was at our fram with my aunt and cosuin brother....i was may be 10years at that time and a dog came running towards me and i got scared and pleaded Raju anna to save me and also made a deal that i'll give him 1000Rs if he do that...(Man!!....... it has been 13years..and if i count the actual and intrest and also now that for him it wud be in dollars.....may be i should sell all i have to repay him :P). That was a story which still make rounds in my relatives circle  whenever some incident  inkling with dogs surface up.

Then in 2002 i think dad brought home a Alsation pup - Marshall. That was the time i was away at vijayawada plotting to run away from the histel instead of studying for my Inter/Eamcet. In May when i came home i noticed this hairy creature and created all the hungamam which made me the reason for its being tied up for 16hrs a day.....
One fine afternoon, mom was sleeping and sis was speaking to her friends who conveniently left open our main gate. I opened the back dorr of the home and came face to face with this dog and immediately i gave out few shrill cries and ran back inside...what i didnt knew was...the dog was not tied at that time and even it got scared and ran out of the open gate......we never found it !!It just ran away or can i say...i just scared it enough that it forgot where it stays....we searched i mean excluding me.. my family searched for  10-15days but in vain.
Now again here comes a pup named MARSHALL which is just 1month old now...i mena we brought it home when it is 18days baby. I am damn scared to touch it or let it come near me. I do all the things like playing papaer ball game, giving the cerelac/milk concotion every few hrs etc but i feel scared alot to be there when it is not inside that confined area. Since its a pup dad is not even ready to chain it saying it stops it growth..hence here i am admiring it through the window and cooing its name now and then to let it know that i am there.....

Huh....long post......
Will be back.....

Bindu Kondoju  aka Maroju