It's all about spirits and little fun!

He (means my Husband, he doesn't want me to use his name in public, as he thinks whoever reads his name will immediately become a nagging fan of him cos of his charming name) believes in evil spirits. When I asked him why do you believe in it so much, he said "Its cos I've seen one myself". I got quite interested in it and then asked him when did that happen. And this is what he said.

"During my high school I used to go to a tuition class, and a girl from that tuition class committed suicide. After few days we had to write a test and while submitting the test paper, I saw a test paper with her name on it. First I thought, someone is playing pranks, but later when I discussed with other tuition mates, we gotta know that no one did that, and didn't know how that paper ended up there. We were all scared, and another day we saw her slippers outside the tuition and we did not get into the class, just ran back home. The tuition teacher called a priest, and he said the evil spirit of that girl is over here, and did lots of prayers etc. to get rid of it."

Then I asked, "So they were able to get rid of her spirit, is it?" He said "Don't interrupt my story, it's not over yet, when we went to that tuition after few days to give another test, we saw her with long hair writing a test there. We all ran back home, and the tuition teacher also shifted to another house."

He narrated this story to me at 2'o clock in the night, it was kinda spooky and weird. I was thinking about the gal in the movie "The Ring". I was also wondering, of all the things why will a ghost want to write exams????? That's the one thing anyone will never want to do, even if they are alive. And I always thought, spirits do not have legs, and why does she want a shoe? Btw, how does he know if that was her shoe and not someone else's? Looks like he knew everything about the tuition gals, including wat shoes they wear. I should ask him how much did he score for that subject in public exam :-P

Speaking about spirits, my father's elder brother and his wife were very close to us. When we were kids we used to go to there house in Neerodi for all our summer, half yearly, quarterly vacations. (Even now I feel very happy to say those words half yearly vacation, quarterly vacation etc.) It used to be a lot of fun. During summer vacation, they used to play movies every alternate days in open theater in that village. It might sound posh, but it is just a temporary theater near the beach, with four walls made out of woven coconut leaves, and with no chairs, we have to sit on the beach sand :-) I still wish I can go back to those days. Ok, looks like I am diverting from the topic. Both of my aunt and uncle passed away few years back, it was a great loss for us. I see both of them in my dreams very often. It is always me vs anyone of them at their house in Neerodi. Even last night I had a dream about my aunt, she spoke a lot to me. I don't know if she was trying to tell me something, I wish I could understand that. I am not a believer of evil spirits but I strongly believe that the spirits of my beloved ones exist and they are the angels who protect and guide me.

Btw, for those who believed in my husband's story, it is just one of the few stories made up by him. He never saw any spirits. I am sure he wouldn't be here today if he had seen one :-P

Talking about spirits, this is one of my favorite songs related to it

Life in US.... Books I read

I've been thinking of writing about my life here since the day I landed.... One of the main reasons I came to US before April is to get rid of scorching sun in Chennai during April and especially May :-P and ofcourse I wasn't too interested in the project I was involved in and the most important reason is to get rid of all those questions "What is your plan? Sajeeve is in US and you are in India, what are you guys planning to do?" UFFFFFFF gimme a break, its not that now I don't get such questions. Nowadays they ask me, "So when are you guys coming back and have you started searching for a job there? Can you work there?" etc. etc. but atleast now I don't have to listen to them 'cos it's an ISD call and I don't get these questions every day...

I wonder how I was able to spend time all alone for the past 3, oh no it's gonna be 4 months now :-( other than watching lots and lots of movies I read 2 books and I listened to one audio book. These are the books I read,

This story is about a guy who kidnaps a 6 months old baby, the kidnappers name is Blaze. Initially he kidnaps the baby for money but he slowly starts liking the baby and wants to bring him up as his own. You will feel pity for this guy Blaze, especially when he dies in the end.

Another book is Sweetheart by Chelsea Cain.

I picked this book only 'cos of it's cover. And as you know don't judge a book by it's cover, I was not very impressed by the story. Didn't like the characters in it.

The other audio book was given to me by the owner of the house wherever we are staying in. His name is Andrew Wilson, a nice guy. He is the manager of some audio books division in some company. He gave me this audio book "The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon" by Stephen King.

The story is very simple but I liked it though, and it was a different experience to listen to it. Unlike reading a book you easily get distracted while listening to the audio book, and it is kinda difficult to keep track of the story unless you listen carefully and remember where exactly you paused the story previously. But with the background musice and the expressions of the reader you will be easily drawn into the story, and if you listen to this in the night you will kinda feel eerie. I guess these kinds of books are preferred by visually challenged people other than that I don't find any reason why anyone should go for this instead of buying a book.

I want to buy Amazon Kindle or

Sony Reader

so that I can read lots more instead of just sitting in front of my laptop throughout the day. But I am sure I will not enjoy reading in any of these as much as I enjoy reading a book.

Ok, I'm done with this post, it's already long, I shall probably write another post about other things I've been doing here.

My First Post

I have no clue why I got the idea of creating a blog at 2.30 am.... My husband is sound asleep next to me. By the way, I understood the real meaning of "SOUND ASLEEP" only after marriage, "SOUND" is nothing but a sophisticated way of saying SNORE.... Well, he is my inspiration of creating this blog.... I have been thinking about creating a blog for quite some time, but always felt that I will never get time for that, but looks like hereafter I might find time at such odd hours of the day….

My blog name “Can you hear the Angels Sing?” is the first name which clicked to me as soon as I decided about creating a blog… I picked this name based on the book titled “To Hear the Angels Sing” by Dorothy McLean. Few years back (when I was in High School) I found this book in my granny’s home, I took it to my home to read, but never bothered to read it thinking it would be very boring. After slogging with all the academic related books for almost a decade I finally took up a job in Bangalore, and travelling to work for almost 15 kms in Bangalore is not a joke. That’s when I came to a stage of reading anything and everything in the bus just to kill the over killing traffic in Bangalore. And that’s how I started reading this book. I can say this book is very much related to spirituality, once you read this book you will start loving nature more than anything, and you will be filled with positive thoughts and you will be extremely optimistic about everything in life, and I truly believe this positive approach in life has got me this beautiful life and such a wonderful person in my life…. I don’t know whatever I start it finally ends up with my husband :D

I’ve been completely on rest for the past two weeks, ‘cos of a small leg injury. Probably I should’ve started blogging then…. Well, I am still having the pain, not able to sleep and I just need to divert on something so that I don’t realize the pain, and looks like the best way for now is blogging….

Nothing seems to be right from morning for both of us, we went for an engagement; got completely confused with the area, and reached the place after few hours… on our way back some moron, came and hit our car from behind… looks like we have to shell out few more thousands to fix it…. And S (that’s the first letter of my husband’s name) had to pay 1000 Rs fine on his way back from office. He went to drop his colleagues and got into some No Entry road without knowing…. Sometimes, I feel we should avoid doing all this…. In fact, I was very much against going for this function, but I didn’t have a proper reason why I didn't want to go; I didn’t feel really nice about going….

This might sound superstitious but whenever I believed in something it definitely had happened…. I wanted to get married in the age of 25, just a month before turning 26, I wanted to work at least for 2 years before marriage, and I always had a fascination for the date December 28, 2007. After my Post Graduation everytime I meet my friends or relatives their first question would be when is your marriage and for fun I always used to say “It’s on 28^th December 2007, but I have not found the guy yet”. Believe it or not, I got married on 28^th December, 2007. There are lots of other incidents which always reinforced my belief…. My dad always tells me, you somehow manage to get what you want, probably ‘cos I have such loving family who fulfill all my wishes or it might be ‘cos of unconventional belief or both…

This is my first post and I don’t know if this is the right way to end this….