The music

Once in a while I play songs in office on Friday evenings (hey, it should feel like a Friday, shouldn't it? :)) and invariably, I get asked by a few about my collection and if I can pass it on. Generally, my reply is "I do have a list but you may not like what I like, here are a few if you still want to know"...and I rattle off a few song names, and say "they are all on youtube, check 'em out!" :). So I thought of compiling a list of some of the songs I like so that I can just point people here (and maybe get some sneers - who cares to read blogs in the twitter-facebook era? :)). If you reached here by chance and you are a music lover, do checkout the below collection, you may find a new favourite :). Without further ado, here we go!

The relatively unknown ones

...and the ones that most know about

Raindrops keep falling on my head [from the movie] Wind of Change Flowers on the wall Fallin' and Flying Heart of Gold Shape of my heart [the movie] The weary kind [the movie] Society [the movie] Riders on the storm Falling Slowly [the movie] Iris [the movie] Fresh feeling Between the Bars Corrina Corrina Sweet Disposition When the stars go blue [the corrs version] Stand by me Blowing in the wind Sittin' on the dock of a bay When a blind man cries Something in the way Nowhere Man I believe I can fly

Nothing else matters [my fav] Imagine High Hopes Stairway to heaven Knockin on heavens door The man who sold the world Wish you were here Coming Back to Life Hero 21 Guns Sweet Child O' Mine Here I Am [the movie] Eye of the Tiger Californication The Unforgiven Wonderwall One Love Fields of gold With or Without you Hotel California The End :)

I am aware that the collection may not be to everyone's taste but then I'm not a DJ ;)...that's just my personal collection. Although that is entirely an English collection but like most Indian kids in the 90's, I too have grown up listening to the likes of Kishore, Mukesh, Rafi, Manna De, Lata songs and I still love them. Old Hindi music is undoubtedly great but I'm assuming everyone has heard most of it, except maybe for the kids born around the beginning of this millennium (hope they didn't start with Justin Bieber :)). Please drop in your personal favourites in the comments if you like to.

Is happiness infectious?

I was walking down to my regular juice shop and noticed a guy coming towards me. Of all the passers-by, he stood out for me - he was strolling blissfully with a smile on the face as if revising happier moments or maybe has just cracked a difficult problem in his mind, almost completely oblivious of the surroundings. A photographer would have wanted to capture his bliss. A few steps ahead, I was past him but by then a smile was on my face too...and I was thinking "Is happiness infectious?"

Coming back home, I googled for the exact phrase and was surprised by the results. Déjà vu! This has happened to me so many times before - you think you have a novel thought, only to figure that somebody has already chartered the waters. I downloaded the white paper from here and went through it. Was nice to see that an Englishman and a Srilankan set out to study the Chinese :). The paper deals a thorough treatment to the subject and makes a nice read. The answer to the main question is - certainly!

Stay Happy!

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