It took me 3 hrs 12 mins n cost me a meal…

Everyone will hum some tune or the other without their knowledge when they are doing something continuously… it might either be a tune which they lately heard or they fav tune or a tune that someone sung nearby or anything… amazingly I tend to sing the same song again and again when I walk for long distance…what is that song that I tend to sing always well it has a small history behind it LISTEN UP!!!
I heard the song first one morning around 6:30 am (never seen that time after those camp days) when I was in our parade ground (well I was in a NCC camp) when my seniors were practising their march-past… which covers around a minimum of two kms. We had to follow them behind, early morning to keep ourselves awake and to forget the strain, and also to keep up the timing of the march-past we tend to tell LEFT RIGHT LEFT. Usually it’s the seniors who give us the count, it so happened that day that one such senior started singing… at the end of each sentence it ended LEFT RIGHT LEFT… rhythmically and beautifully the song was sung that everyone was singing left right left before of our breakfast break and we wanted to learn the song so desperately…time ticking 8 am we were given our break when my friends and myself went to the senior and asked us to teach that song…he said he would after the breakfast… my friends and myself were so excited that we didn’t feel like eating …my seniors were scolding us for not eating just to learn a song which was “JUST A SONG” for them but for us it was more than that…

My senior came after his breakfast… took his pen and wrote down the whole song and handed the paper to us and said “well that’s about the song you are old enough to read and learn (huh! What a sarcasm… which we didn’t even hear that time properly bec we were so excited that we got the song…) a couple of my friends and myself sat in a circle and started reading the wordings first… since it was a typical ganna song it had slang of the local tamil… which we had to learn first… clock was ticking and the time was around 9:15 am we were supposed to fall in (meaning assemble back for our march-past practice) …we took special permission from sir (guess telling what??? Ya as usual that we were sick and that we would come for practice after lunch ;))
We three made it to our barrack (that’s what we call our rooms) and we sat in our beds and we started reading and re-reading it again and again so that we could at least understand the words properly first…then we roughly followed the tune which we had heard our senior sing in the morning…after three hrs of solid practice we at last made it by heart… the last twelve mins was for us to make sure that we could teach others ;) we became so well versed with those words and tune…after our lunch we made it to march-past practice… our seniors were rehearsing, we juniors were practicing nearby ended up singing and marching… the senior (who had wrote and given us the words) came running to see us and was astonished to see us sing the whole song by heart…

I know by now you would be thinking what song is that…read it… sorry!! sorry sing it along ;)

Oleyka kondaila oru kuda thalampoo…
Thalampoo cithada thala niraya vandhada…
LEFT… RIGHT… LEFT…
Mukadu potavaley enna munnu mura eaichavaley…
Unmukada nee vilaka un mugatha koncham na paaka…
LEFT… RIGHT… LEFT…
Allithandu kaleyduthu eva alungama nadandhu vandha…
Cinungama kanaduchi enna aathupakkam varach sonna…
LEFT… RIGHT… LEFT…
Podadey… ;) ava kupidara…
(oleyka…)

Well that’s the song it just goes with diff paces of speed … left right left… left right left…
Everyone is eager to learn something or the other at some point of time whether knowing or unknowing that thing would help him to keep himself going in life…J yup this song gives me company when I walk alone (in many walks of my life…)