Well...I don't have anything to say today. I'm pissed off...in a really pathetic mood. And the worst part about being pissed in the way that I am right now is that since I'm not pissed at or because of any particular thing, I'm pissed off at everything. Right now, every single bloody thing I see is getting on my nerves. The stupid MSN chat window flashing at the bottom of the screen...ugh i wish it was alive so i could kill it. It's soooo HOT in chennai. I feel like killing someone. UGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!! ok im going to go find something to kill. God, please help me. bye...i'll try blogging later in life...
Hello again. Here I am, blogging away. Again, I don't have a clue as to what to blog about, but I'm going to generally blabber in the hope that some form of sense will emerge somewhere in the middle. I know I'm hoping in vain...but anyway...where was I? It doesn't really matter, does it? Since I'm generally going to blabber anyway. But if you think about it, you need some sort of a topic, even to blabber about. Hmm...what to write now?
Ok..well...my audition went quite badly yesterday...as in I didn't sing extrordinarily badly or anything, but there was no mic and there was a mridangam and a violin and all that, so I really don't know if the judging lady heard me, with my great volume. Anyways, we'll see...otherwise...major music mood today...i practiced a lot... Hmmm...guess what else?? My dad's coming!!!! = D On June 24th...I can hardly wait...!! And...my mom's off to Manglore tomorrow, so I'm staying at DC mostly. It's the last week of the holidays and I'm depressed. So everyone had better plan something and we had better meet up and do something fun before school.
Nothing else. Actually, Dhruva was somewhat right about carnatic musicians. I think carnatic music is really awesome stuff but I do listen to...non-carnatic music, but many many people I meet that are really INTO carnatic music are pretty much closed toward other kinds of music...or at least western music. Its quite weird. I don't understand how people who call themselves musicians can just dismiss other forms of music like that. Many of them haven't even heard the slightest bit of anything thats not Indian Classical music. Maybe they don't think its inferior or anything, but I guess it just doesn't appeal to them. I suppose they are quite put off by the kind of stuff one sees on MTV and the like...music videos and all that.
At the function that was held at the end of my music camp, we were given a talk about how we should behave as 'upcoming carnatic musicians', most of which was extremely valuable information about what kind of practice we should do and stuff like that. However, there was this bit about how as carnatic singers, we should not wear 'jeans-pant' and 'ooru sutthu-fy', and how we should not waste our time listening to 'vendaadha english paatu'.
I really don't know. Maybe they are right, maybe too much western music does prevent one from doing well in classical music. But I, for one, genuinely like a lot of western music, and I find it as worthy of appreciation as any classical music. This does not mean that I love classical music any less.
So there it is...another (successful ???) blog. Please comment and tell me what u think ok?? Though I have a feeling i pretty much suck at this blogging buisness. ok bye!!!
I really don't know why I'm blogging. It's just that everyone seems to be blogging, and from the look of it, it's good fun...so why not? The only problem being that I don't have too much to say...actually, right now, i don't have anything to say, which would probably explain why im jabbering away like this. I've got LOADS of work to do...school is starting next week and I have 5 assignments to complete, none of which I've started. I've got an audition at MOP also this evening...god knows what I'll sing there.... Anyway...I have a feeling that for me, this year is going to be nothing short of complete hell. School, physics tuition, chemistry tuition, math tuition...not to mention very rigorous music classes if I do happen to get past the audition this evening for which I should be practicing right now...for that matter, even if I dont get past the audition, there's no way I'm gonna stop my classes so...ugh...I'm actually quite freaked out about the 12th standard. I really hope I do well. This is the first time since we came to India that its almost the end of the summer holidays and I really don't want to go back to school. Usually, by this time in the holidays, I'm thoroughly bored and actually (though i don't think I would have admitted it) wanting to go back to school. Maybe it's because these holidays have been so busy, or maybe its because of the promise of a mind-blowingly busy year coming up, but right now, I'm not too excited about the prospect of going back to school. But I'm not complaining. We'll see what comes. Right now, I'm quite bored and in a very weird mood. I have to go to DC for lunch in a while. Kogi said he'd come... Please tell me about any good books...I have nothing to read...= ( ok I guess I'll go now...I hope you had fun getting bored by my blog...
