mewpsych ([info]mewpsych) wrote,
@ 2005-07-11 15:03:00
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Current mood: hopeful
Current music:Poonkadave thaal thiravai
Entry tags:srilanka

Chinna chinna aasai
This was the conversation i had with my mom yesterday afternoon.
Me: Amma, The weather is too good. I feel like sleeping under my thick bedsheet.

Mom: You know, you should not sleep during such rainy afternoons.

Me: Why amma?

Mom: It was on a rainy afternoon during her sleep that Sita dreamt of Ravana taking her away from Rama.
Thats why.

Me: Oh! Then i will try to dream of that. It would be really cool if Ravana comes and takes me away to Srilanka! Wow..i would love it..

Mom: First find a Rama who can come and rescue you over there and then sleep..

Hmmmm. If you are still wondering what is wrong with me.. It is that i just love Srilanka for no reason.
I just dream of that day when i feel small before the magnificient statues of Lord Buddha there.
It is one of my chinna chinna aasai-s.
Infact after reading Ponniyin Selvan, this small desire of mine has become multitude.


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[info]sunson
2005-07-11 11:09 am UTC (link)
It is that i just love Srilanka for no reason.

For me it is an unexplainable love for the tamils there. I'm not any regionalists. But I think they are very sweet and somehow have the 'paavum' feeling for all the trouble they are going through. And of course, their tamil itself. How so beautiful!

Infact after reading Ponniyin Selvan, this small desire of mine has become multitude.

I Gotta read it ;/

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[info]mewpsych
2005-07-11 11:51 am UTC (link)
Yeah, i agree. Their tamizh is very beautiful.
I miss the Ceylon radio channel (Ilangai oliparappu kootu sthapanam) over here. Have you watched their TV channel - 'Rupavahini'?
I've grown up watching the cartoons and Tamizh programmes in that. Probably that is how i developed a love for Srilanka in my sub-conscious mind.

One of the reasons why 'Kadhirkaama kandhan' of 'PapanAsam sivan' is my favourites is that it is abt the deity in Kadhirkaamam which in Srilanka.

Grab a chance somehow to read 'Ponniyin Selvan'. It is a great experience to read it. I used to get those characters in my dreams when i read it non-stop for a week.

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[info]knutties
2005-07-11 05:21 pm UTC (link)
Kadhirkaama kandhan'
The only time I've heard the word Kadhirkaama kandhan was in Thenaali (Kamal's deity guarding him against his fears. Provided whale of a time with the Vel of his)

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[info]mewpsych
2005-07-12 05:15 am UTC (link)
Yeah true. He indeed 'provided'. :)

I feel the Sinhala (Ezhlam) accent and Palakkadu accent sound a bit similar.
For example, in the movie 'Naladhamayandhi' where Madhavan speaks 'Palakkadu tamizh' and the heroine speaks 'Ezhla tamizh', i sometimes felt both of them talked with the same accent.

More about 'Kadhirkaama kandhan'.. It is a beautiful song in Kambodhi which i learnt from Shri.Ashok Ramani. He used to tell us that whenever he goes to visit M.S amma, she used to ask him to sing it for her.

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[info]kadambarid
2005-07-29 06:40 am UTC (link)
Awesome song- Poongathave..- is it from Nizhalgal?
And tell me a place, any place- and as long as I've heard of it, I'll give you atleast 5 reason's why I want to go there!-same applies for Sinhala, it's high on the list of places I wanna visit,though, once I start earning, of course!
Ouuuuch!Ouuuch!- I jus' got bit by another travel bug!:D

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[info]mewpsych
2005-07-31 11:47 am UTC (link)
Oh, yeah! It s a lovely song in MayamAlawagowlai from Nizhalgal.

Travelling is also fun if you have the right company. I am a bit lazy, so i always stress on taking breaks in between to snatch a good nap. Any trip is more rememberable if the photos taken during the trip turn out to be good..:D

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[info]kadambarid
2005-08-01 11:21 am UTC (link)
Yeah!:)

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