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Yes, i am not posting regularly off late. And yes, i have my excuses. But then strange things have happened.

I have started posting articles as a guest in our own MusicAloud.com, mostly for the section A Song A Day. It all started on a busy afternoon. I was heavily bothered by the recurring bugs that i was looking at the gtalk window for inspiration. So there was Vipin, busy as ever, and a lot more of other friends online. I thought i will talk to Vipin and started giving him some suggestions, notice the thread below.

Me : Dude you are going an impressive job writing about the songs. I want you to write about few other songs also, which i will duly mail you.

Vip: Wait for a few mins, i have this assignment to be done with. Will get back to you in a while.

I , well aware of what IIMs does to gifted mortals like VIP, went forward chatting with few others. That is when VIP pings me back and spake thus “Dude, I think you can write about them and send it across. We can post it as a guest post. And lets see how it goes from there. Hope you know how to write a sentence or two.”

Although i thought it to be a joke, i realised that he was serious when he mentioned about it once more. And then i started writing. I started with the Don Mclean song The American Pie. and followed it up with George Harrison’s While my guitar gently weeps and Chuck Berry’s Johnny B. Goode.

Although i wrote all of them, i should thank Vipin for searching for apt videos to be put along the songs and also fine tuning the write ups.

And yea finally, I did tell him that i can write a sentence or two.

So Long!!

Music Aloud 2

Couple of months back, if my memory serves me right, i remember posting a blog titled Music Aloud. I must admit that I visit that site at times. But these days have been reading it quite a bit. Apart from VIP who I had talked about in my last blog, I see another name which is quite familiar. The name is VR, an equally cool friend of mine. He was quite famous in our college for being half of the quiz team which kept winning every year’s quiz event at Ragam.(For those who are not familiar with Ragam, its a fest conducted by NITC.). But I would say he was a better friend.

VR also comes up with cool reviews , even though as a reader and a friend one might wish that he is more frequent.

Apart from that Music aloud has come up with a new series called “A Song A Day”. And trust me its mind blowing.

And there is a online music quiz which started a few days back.

So people musicAloud is the place to go. Trust me, it is!!!!

The incomplete and short ballad of the man called Me

There was a man who lived like a king
talked and laughed with a gleam in his eyes
did things which always pleased his mind
reading a book or following art
seldom doing things which multitude does
lead a peasant’s life with prince like charm
little did he know he was living a dream
all he knew was that he was called me.

Came in two with motives clear
freshly out of a garden they claimed
they talked a bit about an apple tree
those two set out to reform the king
yes, the skies were grey and the Gods happy
for the man called me was slowly reformed

The man lost his once had gleam
A book nor art did make him smile
Living a dream he no longer was
There was a man who once lived a dream
some people say he lived like a king
There was a time when he had a name
That was the time when he lived a dream