let me sing, not because i sing good, but because i love to

I know little about music, less about musicians. Nonetheless, i LOVE to sing. This recently launched commercial of TATA Capital home loans pretty much tells my tale

I don't sing anywhere close to awesome. Therefore, my singing ain't received so well by people who have to put up with me day in day out. My sister pleads me to sing inside my room, my best friend advises i limit my singing sessions to bathroom. My partner initially used to listen patiently to my singing when we used to be on call driving to our respective offices (of course using hands-free), and often appreciate it too. But now even he subtly stops me in middle and brings a "a topic of discussion" that seems very obviously placed in the situation. I don't crib either, because he is at least nice enough to not tell me straight on my face that i don't sing so great after all ;)

Well i don't sing so bad after all :D And my self belief was reinforced by a bunch of awesome strangers i met a couple of weeks ago. I literally bumped into a photo-tour organised by this group of photography enthusiast called Delhi Photography Club (https://www.facebook.com/delhiphotographyclub). In the eleventh hour, one of the ten participants opted out and the notification for the same came on my facebook homepage. Since there was a vacancy now i registered for the trip which was going to Haridwar and Rishikesh to click pictures. I registered for this tour also because my personal adventure-sports trip to Rishikesh during the same time was on the verge of being called off, a fact which i was quite pissed off about (that trip did happen the very next week though :D).

This photo tour turned to out to be an amazing experiences, met new interesting people who shared the interest, got critique and compliments on my picture and had my time off :D Will share my pictures from the trip in a separate post. On our way back to Delhi we played India's favorite picnic game - Anatakshari. Oh my God...i was exhilarated :D :D Everytime, i sung a song, I sung it complete...which is not how you are supposed to do in this game! :P And guess what? People loved my singing..to the extent that the game stopped and the microphone rested at my personal disposal...huhuhahahaha! I had the time of life. I sung...one song after another. It felt nice..singing to eleven audience (trust me, that's a good number)...people appreciating something i love to do. One of the coordinator of the club said i should try singing at professional level; i told him that's an overrated compliment. He said you are at least better than 95% of us - that could be genuine..i like to believe so at least :)

I will keep singing...because i love to!