Indian Classical Music by Two Chinese Boys

Last week, there was an Indian classical musical concert in NTU. The amazing thing was, music played by two Chinese guys with Indian name, Krsna and Govind. One played sitar while other tabla. They learned both instruments from their father, who was in fact student of great Pandit Ravishankar. Though I am not an expert in music, at least I can say that both boys displayed their talent amazingly. As an Indian, it feels great if some foreigner practices Indian music and culture. Also surprisingly, there were more foreigners in auditorium than Indians to listen Indian classical music. I guess, they all wanted to know about highly acclaimed Indian music. That also taught me that it may do good for me if I make an attempt to attend such music concerts, irrespective of it's origin, which are frequently organized by NTU.

M'sia Trip

Last weekend I finally visited M'sia. After staying in S'pore for almost 2 yrs, I guess it was a right time to see some places in M'sia.

Well, thanks to my room mate Suresh, I got excellent company for this trip. Our main aim was to do water rafting, which is something I never did. In fact, after doing water rafting, I realize that there are hell lot of adventurous things to do and places to visit in world, and it was a perfect lesson for a lazy bum like me :-).

Coming back to rafting, I must say it was an awesome experience. Our instructor threw me in fast stream of water to give me real time experience of what to do when u fell out of boat. I will probably never forget that experience. After that short training, we finally started rafting. As the flow of water quite high, it wasn't that much physically intensive. But going through rocks was amazing. Once our boat was stuck in rocks, and in process to take it out, it tilted in one direction so much that I was almost thrown out of the boat, but somehow I cling to the rope, and back into boat. Overall, it was a great experience.

Next day, we enjoyed banana boat riding in Pankor Island. It was again a thing which I never did as I don't enjoy much going into sea water. Waling on that beach and playing volleyball with friends was extremely relaxing.

Third and last thing, which again I will not forget, is palying antakshari and singing for almost 5 hrs!!! Well, I wasn't alone. With able company of Chinmay and Shubhashree, we three night creatures were singing for almost whole return journey. Incidentally, only we three were not able to sleep in taxi. Thanks to them, it was real fun.

I guess this short 2 day trip to M'sia helped me to relax in busy PhD schedule. I will probably go out more often than before and will be looking forward to another M'sia trip in near future.