vinayaka's victory dance

v have this ganesha idol in whisper valley...i havent seen it yet..

basically the thing is..everyday 3 families from wvalley co-ordinate and do the puja...n call the rest of the colony residents for dinner...today is our turn...

it was sposed to be yday but i got my mother to postpone it to today...yday was THE MATCH...yea i know v lost...blame it on bad cosmic karma but never on our beloved cricketers!!!

neway i really feel that the whole idea is jus lost sumwhere...everything is so material-driven now...frankly i dunno wat exactly GOD is...i dont pray everyday..i'm not over-pious...i visit the temple wen my family does...i dont really wish for nething...(ok i do but its all the usual stuff which v ultimately get only if v "work hard"..so no pt)...neway i do know sum slokas...n a li'l abt vedic spirituality..n the whole idea of hinduism..wat it stands for...is jus fascinating...neway now the whole thing is jus so artificial...they actually have fashion shows every evening...u no kids take part one day...the next day the teenagers of the colony n so on...last yr one of the "judges" actually asked this 17 yr old.."how wd ur parents react if they saw u in a movie theatre alone with a guy"...nuthin wrong with the ques if it was a general query...but wat really irked me was that this was in front of this towering ganesh idol...i mean where is the devotion??? yea so i did learn classical music till i was in class 10..n then obly my interests then went directly from m.s.subbalakshmi to metallica...not that there's nethin wrong with metallica cos i seriously luv sum of their songs...but then i have that need to listen to sum m.s.sub also once in a while cos carnatic classical music is the best! it's really soothing and their voices...u can jus tell the diff between sum1 who's trained in carnatic music n sum1 who's jus got talent but not the voice...neway all I do is sing the few songs that i know word-to-word on these festival days n only because sum neighbour either cajoles me into it or sum1 in my family orders me to do it...either way..it's great listenin to every1 praising me but i forgot exactly wat i'd first started with...

neway there r a few ppl who feel as strongly as i do abt this fashion fiesta that goes on every yr...so maybe this time instead of that v can actually have sum classical music or a bharatnatyam recital..even if its a li'l amateurish..i think it'll still be better n more appreciated...

neway wish me luck...they'll defly ask me to sing n i know a coupla vinayaka keertanas..i jus hope i dont forget the words...

happy vinayaka chaturthi... :)

n dont ask me wat the victory dance bit was abt...thats a story for another day...i actually started out to write abt that but... :)