The love affair that never was..

The two of us, you and me..

was it love or lust,

or none of these?

Movies together,cheesy love talk..

never meant to be?

Promises,cards,roses..

all fake,to be discarded?

The praise of beauty;false,

all forceful,duty?

The midnight messages,virtual kisses,conversations,

'lovey-dowey' tiffs..

Is ignorance really bliss??

Where did those feelings go?

Did we really care?

or was it just,

A LOVE AFFAIR THAT NEVER WAS?

Artistes Unlimited

I remember that day..

I walked into this small little room in St. Paul's school,all nervous and tensed.

When i reached there,I almost tripped;thanks to the million wires..sitting there were two people(whom i knew but did not know altogether),beaming broadly they were Annette Philip (Director,AU) and Anindo bose (Lord of the keys :p).

They sort of guessed that i was totally freaked out,so they started by ranging me..la la la..I think it was about 3.5 octaves on the higher side,Annette even asked if sang soprano in school! I was quite happy,they then asked me to sing. I began,"Breakaway" being my favourite..took it really low and got stuck at 'window'..highly embarrased i asked for permission to start again,but it was MUCH better this time..then i sang "I get on my knees",i tried hard not to look at Annette because she knew me and the song just SO well,but i just had to..thankfully she only smiled..I was relieved..like to the CORE! Then the best part,the tune! They gave the chorus of face to faith.Since we hadn't done that song in the HMM for so long,i was totally lost..Annette was quite suprised and asked " Radhika,don't you know this song?" promptly i replied,"No! we haven't done face to faith." Look at me,i knew the song..just not the chorus lol. Nevertheless it was all good,I was able to sing it just the second or third time Awknee bhaiya played it. Relaxed,happy,content me and Sadhvi went home,no actually to Barista..where we ruined our throats by having cold coffee and ice tea.

This was my AU audition a year back,

9Th May 2007.

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The next day,we met Annette in school,she had got some throat infection and could not speak.

She hugged us,took out a pen and paper and wrote "You guys were good yesterday!". That was the best thing to have ever happened to us,i mean like ANNETTE saying that to you is such a BIG deal! We were just so happy that day!

A few days later,we got a mail from Annette saying "WELCOME TO ARTISTES UNLIMITED!!!".That was a dream come true for the two of us!

Life in AU has come full circle. I'm officially a 'one year old AU baby' as Annette calls us. This year with AU has been great! so much fun! The madness,lame jokes,'crax' theory,'kaur' theory,Atish 'adapting',the hugs,the shameless quotient,the 'Kannada' theory,the randomness,the songs,messing up parts,magazine interviews,concerts..just so much fun! an experience in itself.

I wish AU all the luck in the world.

Thank god for music!

May god bless Annette and AU too :)

AU i love.

Radhika

( AU alto and meso soprano,

9th may 2007 - 9th may 2008)

Hope to stay with this lovely group forever! :)

i know its kinda late,had to post anyhow!

jai ho Bo!

yes,jai ho Bo!
Sunday,11Th May, we The Untouchables celebrated the one month and 20 something day anniversary of Bo!!
For those who don't know of the origins of Bo..
Bo was born last month during our visit to the Oxford bookstore :)
Nangia couldn't spell Boo!! :p
The rest you'll understand poem पढने के पशचात!! :)

So there we were at the Oxford bookstore again to celebrate Bo,but the damn bookstore was closed *sigh* . कड़ी धुप में Nangia and I waited for Vasudha,a bloody 50 Min's,no actually it was 25Min's but we were two people Na,इसलिए 25 x 2 = 50!! :p. We were bored and had nothing to do,so we thought of exploring what looked like the parking lot..अन्दर जाकर पता चला that it was some weird high voltage zone we weren't supposed to enter!! so when we did find the parking lot,we decided not to enter it he he..

We were bored,HIGHLY BORED..so while discussing the recent developments in each other's lives,Nangia told me that she 'successfully' made 'non-poisonous' chocolates..that was it,we lost it..we made our Christmas plan..so if any of you are planning to go to Select City walk or G.K. - 1 market around Christmas,we suggest you don't! (obviously i won't be disclosing it here...!! ;) )

After Vasudha's 'much' awaited arrival,we went for breakfast to Subway..wahan par Vasudha came up with the brilliant plan to go to Adventure island..so after taking some random pictures at Central Park and shooting my suicide attempt,we got onto the metro to Rithala..a 20minute journey..plenty of time,so we sat down to write a poem on Bo..got down at the Rithala station caught a rickshaw to Adventure Island..(Nangia's 3rd rickshaw ride!) some more random pictures later we reached Adventure Island..it was around 12pm then and the ticket booth was closed till 12:45pm..koi baat nahin,we utilised the vella time in convincing the guy at the ticket booth that we were 16years of age..(in order to buy the student tickets) all we had to do was show him a register with some shit written in it and change our date of birth to 1992! such a dudd that guy was! he believed us..relieved we went to Mc. Donald's and had an ice-cream each,that was all we could afford as we were trying to save money to eat afterwards and go home..this is what happens when people like Vasudha make impromptu plans and people like me and Nangia agree..anyway after having eaten we went outside ( we were almost thrown out of that place ) and sat at some gaurd's thing,shooed away again,we went to sit underneath a stircase..and we were shooed again yet again! what fun! :p while in que to enter Adventure Island..i was busyt putting on Vasudha's tacky,shiny clips and clicking pictures of them! :p

Once we entered,Nangia and Vasudha decided to go to the scariest rides of all..and they forced me too *sigh* though higlhy scared i did have fun :p

some 5-6 scary rides and 100 random pictures later,we were left tired,exhausted and with stomach's that were churning BIG TIME!.. we bought ourselves a bottle of coke each and sat down to take some more random pictures,then we ate burgers ( all we could afford ) and took the metro back to CP. While on our way back,we completed the poem and did some other random shit :).

All in all,it was a fun day that we had :)
Our fun trip was over * sigh*
we hugged each other and came home..*sighs heavily*

For better or for worse..

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE..
my second poem
rhymes at places..

It all started one day,
"You've grown worse" they say,
But do they know;
the reason it is so?

Its solely because of them.
They tortured me,never appreciated me,
left me broken.
Each day i cry,
silently and slowly i die.

whithin me is plain hatred.
for people who betrayed.
They say i've strayed away,
but the question is..
have I really?

I think not,
to this they say,
" we judge better"
well then,I must say,
One day you'll find a letter,
my death letter..

Perhaps that day they'll know,
That i was so much more.
hope they'll shed tears of remorse..
because that is something that cannot be FORCED.