Dancing to her tunes

Sam (petname) , my youngest cousin sister spent a week with us & kept us all on our toes! She loves Pogo, music, junk food and all her cousin brothers - in that order. She's also a terror. I used to sleep beside her and all these kids get wild as midnight approaches. She sat on me, pinched, punched me encouraging my cousin brother to take a video of the same! I hope noone reading has a mental picture of me as a plump thing since honestly, I am not a well-endowed or a fleshy person who can endure all this. Bottomline is it hurt and I was sore! We also had a 'cold' fight one night. It was all started by the brat (thats her..any doubts?). She stealthily approached me from behind , told me to close my eyes and stand still. I was busy searching for something in my bag and obeyed. Immediately there were 2 ice-cubes in my hand & high-pitched giggles. That was it. I  aimed at her stomach. So the ice-cubes went back & forth for a few minutes when I took our game to the next level. I slid one of them inside her t-shirt! You should've seen her dance!! ;-) She was tugging my t-shirt to take sweet revenge but thank God I happen to be taller than her (atleast now). This was late at night and her mom was the not-so-amused spectator so we had to put an end..also the ice cubes melted! 

    I made the mistake of playing her favourite song on my laptop once. So everytime I took out the laptop, she'd beg me to play songs for her on youtube. Here's her pick. Mostly tamil songs so non-tamilians, please excuse and I hope you read on to savour the spirit of the post(they say music is a universal language) ;-)

*Vaaranam Aayiram - Ava Enna 

This is her favourite! I used to play this atleast 5-6 times daily on an average. I can now sing the entire song backwards people. If I watch it two more times, I can even dance like Surya (I think). On most days I used to be addressed in this fashion - 'anjaley pode' !!! Huh!!

* Subramaniapuram - Kangal Irandal

So after watching the above song 15 times, I made a deal with her & told her we'll also watch my favourites once in a while. We both liked this song. She liked the last few seconds specially since the hero falls into a ditch while cycling & eyeing the heroine ;-D

*Pokkiri - Dole dole than

She watches this song wide-eyed  everytime in total fascination. As for me, I like this song in Telugu better ;-)

* Hippo & the Dog - The lion sleeps tonight

I had had enough of film songs & distracted her with this very cute song.It was entertaining as she would imitate the dog's dance. 

* Aayirathil Oruvan - adho andha paravai pola (remix)

This was our unanimous favourite!! I loved this song just for the way Reema Sen moves. Ooh la la! Both Sam & I used to also err..try to dance like her. My uncle played this song in hi-fi speakers with bass/base et al and the effect was phenomenal.

       Speaking of tamil songs and dance takes me back in time to one office party. A bunch of them got together and sang some popular songs in their mother tongue (HIndi). This spurred a few tamilians to sing 'vaseegara' (Minnaley). Then Mals sang, Bengalis sang and it was competition. It soon became a mandatory one. Whenever song-dance related events happen, I hide in a corner. After majority of the people sang, the embarrassment began for talentless folks like you guessed right! I was left to myself for sometime. Soon everyone had sung except me (tamilian that is). So I was asked to be a sport and whatnot. I relented but not without fervently praying for the earth to swallow me whole. Thank God noone recorded my err.. 'mellifluous' voice!! It would've sounded like nails scratching the blackboard. Ok I won't drag it further.. I sang facing a crowd of about 50 for the first time in my life, not solo but with another teammate who obliged when I pleaded in desperation.  Result - There's a picture of myself in a pose a la Avril Lavigne-wannabe while belting out 'kuchi kuchi rakkama' (bombay)!!!!! Not a very flattering debut to say the least.

 

      There's also a video of me dancing in broad daylight. On our way back from Wayanad, one of my friends N had this idea. We played 'kannum kannum' (Anniyan) on one of the car stereos and danced..in a corner of the road on the Western ghats.The whole thing was recorded too! My friends didn't drink by the way. Several cars and buses passing by thought there was a movie shoot going on. I was playing/dancing with my colleague's 2 year old son who was enjoying the song! Whenever I am low I just have to play that video. I invariably start smiling wide at everyone's antics. At the end  there's a sequence where everyone walks towards the camera one by one. That's my favourite as there are females doing catwalk, my friends' husband making monkey faces, 2 others scurrying back and forth like rats and one guy doing hip-hop !!! Spontaneity :-) The kid & I appear at the end together and look far too respectable in comparison to the others.


Well, as usual, I started off with something & ended up at the other end of memory lane. Heee ;-) Typical goofy me! Here's a picture taken at Chembra peak in Wayanad, Kerala.