ए मेरे दिल तू गाये जा...

'Music is a part of my life' is a sentence heard in abundance when a reality show contestant needs to make an impression in the minds of the people with the all empowering handphone in their hands. It always does seem to work, and if by any chance it doesn't, then there always is the AV featuring their mothers and hometowns along with a few tears rolling down the cheeks here and there.

However, in my case, I am no aspiring singer in a TV show trying to convince people to vote for me (I would love to learn classical singing though, but thats for another day) and I still say that 'Music is a part of my life'. Without music, I dont know how I would manage to spend a day, forget weeks or months.

Music has this uncanny habit of lifting my mood instantly. Depressed and down, music is the saviour I turn to. Strangely, I have this habit of associating songs to the times I am experiencing in real life. For instance, throughout my grade 10, I used to listen to just Swades songs, in a walkman and repeat the songs until I had heard the album at least 5-6 times continuously! The time studying was spent well, and now whenever I hear any song from Swades, I get transported to my 10th grade and its memories.

Oh, that mentions another interesting aspect of my connection with music. I cannot study without music. Throughout my high school, I could study only if music was playing. Developing the taste for music started then, and it still hasnt subsided. And I realise I have reached the correct place it seems...in the MRTs in Singapore, almost one in every three people have ear plugs seperating their current state of being pushed around in the public transport, from their musical world!

Music, what would I do without you?! Thank goodness for the advances in technology and creation of ipods, allowing me to be connected to my beloved music through the thick and thin of the singapore public transport!