Grazie, Signore Colombo

Had a nice weekend, thanks to Mr Columbus and his voyage that discovered America. Here's what happened -

• some work (can't just leave my regular life alone)
• getting drenched in rain, twice !
• hear some beautiful songs (can't get enough of Omana thingal kidavo )
• couple of siestas (soooo good)
• a hearty lunch (gracias, Chipotle)
• a night at the movies (Flightplan)
• a bit of cooking
• conversations with friends
• couple of movies at home (Minority report [brilliant !], Indiana Jones and Temple of Doom [hopeless characterization !])
• Gentoo Linux installation (fat chance for a dumb user, I have given up on it for the time being)
• couple of evening walks

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Wikipedia on Columbus
Kasak, Jism

Omana thingal kidavo

One of my endless searches for mp3 songs lead me to this lilting lullaby. I think I have heard about it being studied in primary school in Kerala but not as a song. I was thinking of coming up with a list of Malayalm lullabies and turned to google to find the ones not in my collection. There in one of the webpages I found a mention about this famous lullaby. I found it on coolgoose.com. I am not sure who the singer is, it could be Bombay Jayashree. She released an album of lullabies sometime back called Vatsalyam, which includes this song.

Its a very refreshing song. Listen to it and get cajoled in to leaving your worries behind and enjoy the soothing melody. I did some more googling to find more about it.

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The lullaby and its poet
Lullaby for a king
Classical song, Lyrics in Malayalam and translation in English
MP3 on coolgoose.com
Bombay Jayashree's album

Rain, Aha !

What a way to start a 3 day weekend - I walked home from work in pouring rain. By the time I reached home I was all wet and cleansed for my weekend. I love rain, I am a rain walker. It has been more than 2 years in Washington and many rains later, I still don't have an umbrella.

Work has been pretty hectic over the last two months. So I am falling behind in updates both here and my column on Zine5.com. But this weekend I will get some done. So wait for the news folks.

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Someone else's love for rain
What I had to say on rain