Diary Entry - 17 "My soul sister and unrivaled friends"

Hello Jenny. :D Fine day Sunday, ha? :) Why are you always sitting here in my paradise? Don't you have anything better to do? Hehe. I know, I know, you like me and moreover you like my stories. Yeah that's why I am more open to you than anybody else, I guess. :D

So, today I am gonna introduce a new person to you, Jenny. Ashima. She was my junior at college. The one and only girl who I call and treat as a sister. About her, I still remember, I didn't know her till she sent me a friend request in Facebook. She really like my singing I guess. That's why she started chatting with me. But now its like, there is not even a single day without her message. I really like her Jenny. As you know, I don't have a sister, off-course I do have many cousins, who I don't  even have contact with. Ashi is really a good girl or may be one of the best I have seen in that college and now she is always there for me. In all my happiness and sadness.

With Ashi - at NIT

We became more close in my final year. There are many reasons why I like her so much. She is cute, very funny and  too good in spontaneous jokes. :D and after all she has a good heart. I never seen a girl who is so unselfish. She is so benevolent and I really like her for that. That's why I call her "my sister" from the heart.
Even my best friends may forget to message me everyday, but she won't.(no offense to whosoever intended) :) She knows most of my stories. So Jenny, I would call her my soul sister. :) Even now she is messaging me. :D Ahem, sorry for that. I hope she will always be the same and I don't want to lose her in my life.

The college has given me the best time of my life Jenny. I am really so glad that I have got the best people in this world as my friends. You know what, Nithin calls me most of the days. It's a great thing I guess. I really admire him for that. He is very busy studying for GATE Exam. But still, he calls everyone of us more often. And then Sarath, who is always there for me when I need him. I owe him big time. :D
Jenny, there is nobody in this world who is so busy, it's all about priorities. When you no more care for or miss somebody, their part in your life is over. And you find reasons to keep them off the boundary. But I am telling you Jenny, I will never be like that. I will always be there for my loved ones. Off-course even I may become busy one day. But I will definitely find time from my personal life for those who need me.

Nitin, me and Sarath - back in the summer of 2011

I know the value of friendship very well. I have gone through the toughest times of my life and all I had then was my friends. In the end all we have will be our friends who can offer a shoulder when we are down. I really know how they can support and lift us up from the most perplexing and thorny situations. So how can I leave them Jenny? If I have earned something in life, it's them. Now it's like I have houses in all 14 districts of Kerala. :D I will never miss them in my life for nobody. Love'em all :)

So, I shall take leave now Jenny, gotta go. I promised Amma to take her for a marriage reception. :-/ Yeah I know, it's so awkward but I have to. See you later. Take care and bye-bye till then. :)

Diary Entry - 16 "The Cinderella story"

Dear Jenny, I hope you are fine. As I promised, I am back. So what's up with thee? Hey, I wanna ask you something. Did you really like my stories? You sure you wanna keep on hearing my stuff? Well I guess its not so bad. You know, I can't invent new stories to make you comfortable. What I am telling you is true to best of my consciousness. So, I think you like it, your cute curious face is pushing me to tell the rest of my story. :D

Where we stopped? Yeah Manthra. The one thing that steered me to many great things. :) We all had so much fun working together. I could get close to some best people around. One of them was Sharanya. She is more like a elder sister to me. I call her didi(elder sister). She was from my place, so we became close in no time :) I think she is the only senior who is very close to me even now.

After performing at the stage, it was really a great experience. We all wanted to improve so badly and give the audience a better show in the next college day. Me and Rethin, did not stop, we continued practicing and recorded a few cover songs in my small camera and made it live on YouTube, and off-course we got some views and likes :D

Days passed, it was our third year and one day Rethin came with a lyrics in his hand. He said, he have taken it from the internet. It was written by a not so famous artist and he wanted to make the cover of the song. I agreed, but I never heard the song before and so he started teaching me the music progression of the song. It was very good music, very soothing and chilling kind of composition and lyrics. I really liked it and hence learned it so fast. I liked the title much more. It was named "Cinderella". Jenny, you know I was so obsessed with Sasha at that time and when I heard the name Cinderella, I started imaging Sasha in the Cinderella costume and that propelled me to learn the music so fast and record it as soon as possible. :D

Album art for Cinderella : Rethin on left and Ashwin on right

So we recorded the song in my camera and after finishing the recording, Rethin revealed a truth that the song was actually written and composed by himself. I was shocked Jenny, Oh god, I even felt like a minor heart attack. :D We were recording a new song till now? I was very happy Jenny. We recorded the song in a lot more better way, and shared on Facebook. Thank god, and many of our friends liked it. We were so glad. That's how Ashwin heard the song. He liked it and he said we can record this in a studio and make it more alive.

Rethin and Ashwin made me write lyrics for a popular english song for making it's malayalam cover and they said we will record both the songs together. Ashwin was not really a beginner in this field. He was already a professional in small scale so he knew a studio in his place where we could record the songs. Also Rethin, had a musical background. His father is a music director and professional guitarist. Actually I was the only one who is new to this whole thing. So, me and Rethin went to Ashwin's house and started making the background music for the two songs. It was one of the best moments of my life. His parents was so supporting unlike mine. :D We spend two days in his house. After setting the music and everything, we needed a name for the band and after so many name suggestions "The Imperfect Notes" came up. It was Rethin's idea to make it a long name just like "All American Rejects" :D and then we can call it as TIN by short. Jenny, that's how the Imperfect Notes was formed. :) The next day itself we recorded the two songs. The studio experience was so good. We recorded our songs at midnight. I really liked the sound engineer for his patience. So, Cinderella became very much alive from the Boss Studios. After recording I stayed with Sarath and Nitin at Sarath's house at Ernakulam. We had a blast in the next days. :)

Happy happy moments

Jenny, I will never forget this in my entire life. The moments I had at Ashwin's house and my first studio recording experience. If I am anything now, it's all because of Rethin. Off-course, whoever know me in my college, knows me as a singer and I am so proud of that and moreover I am always obliged to Rethin and Ashwin for that. Also all my friends who have supported us. With this I am concluding today's story Jenny. I will see you tomorrow. Take care till then.

Diary Entry - 15 "Twist of fate and rise of The Imperfect Notes"

Hola Jenny, How are you? Did you miss me? I am having the busiest days of my life I guess. My exams are almost over Jenny, but I want to tell you a sad news. I am not gonna be an engineer this time also. The questions were too tough and I don't think I will pass. What to do Jenny? I really wanted to pass this time, but I think my time hasn't come yet. :( So sad. Ah leave it. I don't want to make you too sad. So, what's up?

Today I am gonna tell you a story that changed my life. The story of "The Imperfect Notes". I never even dreamed of being a singer in this life when I was schooling. I used to sing at school, not in stage or a platform but in the classroom, with very low voice. Only a few of my friends knew I could sing. Not even a single faculty. I really liked singing before my friends. I still remember one of my friend at school named Shereef, he used to say, I will definitely become a singer one day. But I don't know, I never had that kind of a thought. I just wanted to make my friends and myself happy. So during my first year of college too not many of my friends knew I had some singing talents. Actually there was another singers in my class, coz of them I never got a chance to sing. :D (Hehe no issues) Rachel and Riya was the singers of our class. Srimathi teacher used to make them sing on a regular basis. :) I still remember Rachel singing a christian devotional song and Riya, some classic malayalam high pitched songs. :D

Actually, my singing talents were first realized by Shiny and Reshma, who were sitting at the front of me and Shan in the classroom. I used to sing all the time with Shan during the class hours. It was so much fun and off-course to get some girl followers ;) Yeah, every boys are actually same to some extend. All are so enthusiastic to impress girls. It was just the first year and we needed some girl friends apart form Rachel and Stacy. :) I think Reshma and Shiny really enjoyed that and if they didn't please excuse me and Shan now :) So that's how my singing talents got boosted. Yes Jenny, girl friends are a great asset. :) They made me famous in our classroom and even in the other departments too.

I have already told you that Deepu's guitar played a vital role in changing my life. It was our second year when Rethin brought a Guitar for Deepak. I haven't seen anything like that before, and so very excited. When Rethin played it for us, Uff ! I don't have words to express the feeling I had that time. I even wanted to learn it the very same day so that I can play "Nenjukkul Peythidum"(The best love song of that time). So this guitar made me more close to music and I became more passionate about it. Until then I just wanted to be a singer in my classroom but after this I really wanted to be a musician. Even-though Deepak was the student at first and offcourse Rethin was the teacher, eventually Deepak stopped learning and give studies more priority during exams. But me, on the other hand, was so addicted to this and continued from where Deepak stopped. :D So Rethin was my first and last guitar tutor. :) Yes, Jenny I have learned some basics and even with that I can make you fall in love. :P Hehe kidding, my friend :)

Till then the only English artist I knew who was alive was Michael Jackson and because of Rethin only, I started listening to more and more songs of other western artists. Actually I was going deeper into music. Slowly I lost interest in studies and was very determined of making an album someday.

Manthra on stage - Yup its me on the right-most

After someday's I heard our college day is coming. All my friends wanted me to sing. I too wanted to sing. So that I can impress Sasha. :D One day, a senior named Vivek came to our class and called Rethin, He wanted Rethin to play guitar in the program which they are organizing for the college day. A live music performance. I have heard before that Vivek is a singer. They were having actually a few other singers from our college too for the performance. So I thought there wont be any chance for me. But the next day, Vivek came for me and with him was Sharanya. They took me to an empty classroom and started auditioning. :D Hehe and I got selected. Therefore, I became one of the singer in their unnamed band. :) We were, around 10 in number. Ashwin was the keyboardist, but at that time we were not so close. We all practiced really well and somehow performed on stage on the college day. Prajith sir was our band manager :D We called ourselves "The Manthra". I still wonder how we could do it on stage. It was really funny. I still laugh when I see that video. So that was my first ever performance on stage. :D I wanted Sasha to see us performing, but since our performance was the last program, many have left by that time and only a few saw us. Thank god, she didn't see it :D. It was a disaster. Hehe.

To be continued.

So Jenny, I gotta get going now. Maths 4 exam on 6th Dec. I will go to Coimbatore tomorrow again but will be back soon and continue this story. Miss you till then. Adiós and Tener cuidado. :)