Malaika and Roberta

My high school yahoo group has become active now. A few members were fished out of Orkut and added to the list. There was a mention of a song called 'Malaika' in one of the emails. Boney M seemed to have done a cover version of this number. The song itself was in Swahili and I could find both these versions on YouTube.
Sometime back, after seeing the song's reference in the book 'Snow', I searched for the song called 'Roberta' and found that song as well on YouTube.

Actually I had first searched on Google and the first hit took me to Peppino Di Capri's home page. There I came to know that he had actually performed as the opening act during Beatle's first live show in Rome ! How great is that !!
Anyways Roberta, an Italian number, and a few other songs were available on his web site but unfortunately my browser refused to play any of the songs - even from home.
I had given up on finding that song, when I happened to search on the tube and found it there.

Anyways, both these songs, though being in different languages, seemed to be having a similar kind of spirit - nice, soft numbers. In fact the place where Angleique, the signer, goes Malaiiiiiiiiiikaaaaaaa and point where Peppino goes Robertaaaaa seem pretty much same !
Which I found pretty interesting.

See if you can listen to these songs on the tube. Let me know what you think.

The first 10K !

Finally, I managed to reach the first personal milestone - my nanostats bar graph touched the 10K line! Yohooo !!


This is turning out to be a bigger challenge than I initially thought. There have been momemnts of self-doubt. Even times when I thought of throwing in the towel.
But I have somehow managed to reach 10K !!

So another Yohooo !!
As 15th November is nearing, I should have been closer to 25K than 10K. Need a good couple of real good days of write-a-thons to make up now.

Its all uphill from here :-)

Me too !

Read about NaNoWriMo in an internal blog post and signed up on an impulse. So what's the deal ? You attempt to write 50,000 words or more in the 30 days of November - that's all. As the web site conveys, the preference given to 'quantity over quality' is a refreshing change from some of the other endeavours that one pursues and the expectations out of them.

Starting a day late, I now need to type like crazy. The preparations of the upcoming quality audits, festivals (Diwali, arguably the biggest festival of India) and 6 month old kid at home do not help the cause.

Let me make it clear - I am not complaining about the last 2 points. Diwali brings a few holidays along with it which should mean more time to type :) And Vidush's smile can launch a more than a thousand novels !

Anyways, now that I have joined the madness I better figure out a method to it !!
Or should I even bother about the method ?