Pro Crastination

"MaMa......... wake me up at six thirty tom, gotta do sadhakam and study", a usual statement frm the mouth of the lethargic DunCe.......
" Mmmmmmmm(angdai) MaMa wats the time?????? Ten!!!!!!!!! It was all ur fault....Wat the heck were u doing??? i told u several times to wake me up at six thirty...... U wud definitely not b engrossed in ur cuisine errands coz u hardly cook anything........AAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhh(phir se chalooo)..."
Hence goes the day's work messy...........The satan being ProCrastination............

Procrastination comes from the Latin “pro,” meaning “forward, forth, or in favor of,” and “crastinus,” meaning “of tomorrow” . However, to go beyond this notion of delay is to encounter considerable disagreement. Not everyone believes it means the same thing.

Once when a great person was asked abt his not being punctual, he gave a funny definition of ProCrastination...

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."- Don Marquis

For which Wayne Dyer gave a reply,

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday and avoiding today."
Wayne Dyer

"Procrastination is my sin.
It brings me naught but sorrow.
I know that I should stop it.
In fact, I will - tomorrow!
These beautiful self -humoring verses are that of Gloria Pitzer............

Every tom , dick and harry, even legends are well known for getting away with this ProCrastination.

A very good example for ProCrastination could be the preparation for your final or semester exams.... Its kinda black mark on ur cool attitude if u start ur preparation one month in advance...... Even toppers try hard to spend little time for studies to portray an image that they can also belong to the so called COOL community by preparing the day b4 the exam....... Ultimately, ppl resort to cramming and toil so hard getting rid of a good slumber, not even caring to have a nap the day before the exam.......
The source to this problem is ProCrastination..........

"Hey, yesterday there was a concert scheduled at six in the Music academy ....The show started at six and was over by 9......"

Well has anyone heard such a statement........ Not in this planet for sure..... Might be some paradoxical place....

Great achievers have to maintain their image by taking care of everything, their looks, costume ,health,, every damn thing except time....................
Even if there s a rare case a moron tryin to perform on time, then the dedicated audience would be few in no. scattered here and there,,, welcoming the chief guest,, Procrastination for more audience to come.........

Such is the present scenario......Ppl are ready for a compromise..... Punctuality is no more a relative thing.......

Even last week , Mr. Sharath kumar, the bicentennial actor(for his robotic dance moves), was 3 hrs late for a campaign in T.Nagar........ But ppl didnt mind that and they had gathered in swarms figuring around 15000 in no.
Who cares when he arrives????? Thalaivar varaaru..................

Even projects are not given a fixed deadline in the companies.....They do consider a minimal delay due to certain factors.......... So, Procrastination has breached into the whole system and has indeed rattled the foundation........

Hey, i had planned to write this blog last week............. Bas mann nahin kar raha tha......... I m infected wit the virus Lethargy( syndrome: Procrastination)

"MaMa!!!!!!!! tom six thirty!!!!!"
"dai i told u to sleep early naaa. wats the time!!!!"
"its k maa... Do watever u want wit me... Pour hot water on my face , shed ur irritation by beating me to death, spank me , or sing out loud....Just wake me up........"
"Nee asara maata da"........... ( Here ends the lore leavin behind the DunCe snore........).....

Music- the elixir of my life

OOncha koi Mera naam kar diya...........

This song , from the movie MAIN, MERI BIWI AUR WOH , just energizes me whenever i m outta power....... Ghazals and Hindustani music bring u back to life..... They have the ability to mystify ur hearts with their soothing tunes and swaras that melt ur brains.... More than a lullaby to me......

Once i had attended this concert by ARUNA SAIRAM..... It was not only a treat for one's ears but also for the brains... She is so much experienced and mature enough to know where she needs to give stress upon the aksharas , i mean the words(lyrics).... Many singers miss that spashtam..... sudha ragunathan is the first person in my detest-list..... She is more a professional than a divine like aruna sairam...... A person with a music knowledge , not necessarily a critic, can picture the divine grace from the voice and the way they bring out the swara sancharas and neravals.......

Once asked by a person from the audience , the difference between HINDUSTANI MUSIC AND CARNATIC , aruna gave an impressive answer..


HINDUSTANI- it just gives kinda curve to a straight note
CARNATIC- it straightens a curved note

Can it be put simpler than this..... The power of hindustani is ur note sustenance,, how long can u give beauty to a particular note whereas carnatic demands more of spashtam , i mean stress upon the lyrics and grip on each swaras... u straighten each swara and try to implement a combination of aarohanam and avarohanam of that raaga.... A person should know the nuances of a raaga to fully play with its swaras...... As my patron ,,my manasiga guru MAHARAJA PURA SANTHANAM SIR does.... U need a divine force, some devotion when u try to perform .... Ppl cannot practise b4 a concert.... One has to imagine the swaras spontaneously and deliver them in the concert hall.

How to Master hindustani????????????????


This is not a daunting task..... All u have to do is hell lotta practice and follow certain techniques.... To sustain on a particular note , u have to mould ur voice to be able to do that....
A little bit of knowledge in carnatic music will help a lot in this case....
For example there s not much of a difference between Hindustani kaapi and kaapi raaga.......


My favourite raagas are many ,of which i would like to mention a few,
1.varaali
2.keeravani
3.karaharapriya
4.aahiri
5.brindavana saaranga

I ve even composed a tamil song on brindavana saaranga..... Whenever u feel like enjoying the Lord almighty in the form u want him to i.e u want to decorate him in ur own way..... u can sing the raaga Yaman kalyani,....There s a purandara das bajan, called BHOOSHANA KE BHOOSHANA , raaga: yaman kalyani ...... I always get lost in paradise when i hear that song...

Bhajans are kinda boost to ur own self... MORALE ... It just activates ur body parts ... bhajans demand more of vigour, grace than melody ....... one should be able to sing them from the naabhi and try to maintain the tempo not trying to lose the vigour....

The set of songs that keeps me alive.....
1. Hey govinda- raaga : desh
2. O ranga sai- a krishna pancha ratna raaga: Hari kamboji
3. kalikiyunte- raaga:keeravani
4. Rama nama mey thuthi- raaga:desh
5. En nenjil palli kondavan ranga nayakan- raaga: yaman kalyani (composer - yesudas )
6. Bho shambho- raaga: revathi (MAHARAJAPURA SANTANAM)

The list is endless.........
Music s just not my hobby , my passion or a lullaby to put me down to sleep or a LOOlluby (its my slang, to indicate those who like to sing in bathrooms and loos)......

Music s the elixir of my life and i m not gonna sell it as a profession ... coz i have to live with it... I can share it wit u ppl but i dont wanna disown it by trying to make it as my step towards fame.....

Nostalgia

Lend me ur ears- its me the NOSTALGIA

Lend me ur ears, o ye the souls heavenly,
Thou shalt hear from deep within a song of melancholy,
Lend me ur ears o ye the sons of venus,
Bless me with love for its thy onus.......


God damn the ephemeral feeling of nostalgia,
Lost in memories, sulking in paranoia,
Lend me ur ears, o Lord almighty so unperturbed,
Find a panacea for a mind thats disturbed............



Vented away are those , pent up emotions so sublime,
Contrived in efforts, trying to set a paradigm,
Lend me ur ears, o ye the satan so vicious,
Let me be free for i wanna live a life, vivacious.....



Lend me ur ears o ye the guardian angels,
Take my gratitude for having given me this identity,
Evanescent are the woes, short lived the laurels,
Eternal is soul for i vow to preserve its sanctity......


Mi pal: Hey pal, that s the most screwed up poem i ve ever read..... Not able to find any bitta correlation bet stanzas.... U wanna show u r in desperation for a lady love or u getting bugged by nostalgia.....

Me_shaggy: Well if that has given u such a picture, then i ve failed in tryin to convey somethin thru these verses.................. Nostalgia , which is something sweet , flashing every now and then enlightenin ppl with fond memories.... reflecting the great times of masti ,,,,,,,, is a demon for me not allowing me to pursue my efforts in trying to set a paradigm,,,,, so i m tryin to beg the gods of heaven and hell to find a cure for this....... My desperation to get back to my frnds , my school mates is really rippin me off.......

Mi pal: U really made a mess of it ... U seriously confusin me.....

Me_shaggy: Let me confide in u something......I was such a dumb flirt that i was being fooled by 12 ppl in the pretext of a female for more than a year..... she was my school mate in 10th grade....

Mi pal: lol! U r a real dumbo man...... How can that happen? u should have given her a call... it s as simple as that/.......... No wonder ppl say u r the most hagga person on earth....

Me_shaggy:: Well gotta digest all ur crap now.... i ve had one helluva thing which s been disturbin me for months....... I gave her a call buddy and my frnds, i mean these 12 ppl had set an amazing ploy that they had left no clue.....My frnd rohan had taken the role of the female's dad.... Kevin the role of her cousin and so on...... I was a jack asss to believe all that they had set up/////

Mi pal: hey that sounds very interesting.....

me_shaggy:: haan haan kisii ka kela kare tujhe ujjala

mi pal: wah wah kya baat hai

Me_shaggy: I had a crush on that female in my school days... but i was so hesitant to take a step forward..... So the nostalgia, which crept into me in the form of desperation made me assume things..... I blindly believed after my first test i mean the call.. Rohan recd it and he spoke in a very cacaphonic voice which resembles the female's dad's voice...... and he told me that she had gone out wit her frnds. Next time again i called her but they had arranged for one of their frnds, a gal to speak on the phone.... I was left wit no clue....

Mi pal::: Ulti kela.... that was ur last ditch effort to find out the truth..... U had really proven to be terribly desperate for a female...

Me_shaggy: Hey mind ur words, desperate not for a female..... For that female..... That was How i had mentioned in that poem....Nostalgia drivin me crazy...... I even fared my tests badly because of that


Mi pal: then wat happened

Me_shaggy: I had been chattin wit her for hours everyday . i even missed a cycle test in that chakkar..... One fine day i recd their call ,i mean her call and iwas asked to wait in spencer plaza....

Mi pal: Oh yeah well u would have planned to propose to her and smooch her...
Me_shaggy: Hey would u pls stop , i m not a sex pervert like u.... it was just frndship


Mi pal: the same old cover for all NITTIANS.
Me_ shaggy: thats bad.... why do u put it that way

Mi pal: coz thats the way it is.....
Me_shaggy: i dont wanna argue upon that..... i waited for her and these 12 ppl stormed in, lifted me for bums......
Mi pal:: well that would have been a treat to watch .... ur ass getting reddish.... wow i missed that scene ......

Me_shaggy: U r a sadist bey... anyway i gotta leave... planning to go to temple...

Mi pal: the college temple... Well u ppl dont go for prayers , u flirtin pigs...

Me_shaggy:: Well u dont know the aisiyat of Nittians... U cannot generalise things...
Newayz...Bye for now....

Mi pal: Bye.. U ve made my day by describin ur khela for me.......
:-)