Yup.. all those zeros are correct.. that is the total number of songs my friends downloaded on to an external hard drive and gave me as a 40th birthday gift.

A friend of a friend ( x 10) worked for an internet company and downloaded all these songs from the mid 70’s to 2005.. all alphabetized.. ( He apparently got sacked when his company found out what he was up to..)

I think I mentioned before that Amma didn’t allow me to take my song collections when I left India, because my father had bought most of the tapes/cd’s and it belonged to the family..not me.. and since then I didn’t want to buy any more cd’s, cause I didn’t want another person to claim ownership later.

Some of the songs I haven’t heard for so many years…

Today I was listening to songs by blue.. Remember them? they used to be popular in early 2000.
Their song, “All rise” used to come often on Light and easy radio station…and my son must have been about 1 + at that time and used to dance when ever the song was played.
I remember him in a red snoopy singlet and huggies diapers, holding on to the couch and tapping his chubby feet. He had huge eyes then..typical undakkannu..he would be grinning and nodding his head and dancing..It was his favourite song.

He will be 11 soon..
time flies.