Saturday, December 26, 2015

'Alaipayuthe Kanna' - Carnatic song

Flute concert by Kudamaloor Janardanan, Alaipayuthee

Alaipayuthe by K S Chitra

Alaipayuthey - Parathpara By Rajhesh Vaidhya & Karukurichi N. Mohana Raman


Alai Payuthey kanna A R Rahman

Alaipayuthey Kanna ~ Dr. Kunnakudi Vaidhyanathan

alaipayuthee yesudas and Oothukkadu Venkatasubbiyer

Alaipayuthe Kanna - Indian Classical on Uneffected Acoustic Guitar (single take)

Alaipayuthe Kanna

Devotional song to Lord Krishna by a female devotee.
It  is composed of many ‘ragas’ and is called a ‘raga-maaliga’ composition.
One of the evergreens in South Indian Carnatic music.
I have put the web-links for four vocals and four instrumentals of this song.
Hope you enjoy listening to each of them.
Repetitiveness of each stanza with subtle variations is the hall mark of Carnatic music as you can see n these performances.


How to get to Heaven from Ireland


 email from JKS Weerasekera


A true Story from an Irish Sunday School Teacher

I was testing children in my Dublin Sunday  school class to see if
they understood the concept of getting to heaven.  I asked them, "If I
sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money
to the church, would that get me into heaven?"

"NO!" the children answered.

"If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the garden, and kept
everything tidy, would that get me into heaven?"  Again, the answer
was NO!

"If I gave sweets to all the children, and loved my husband, would
that get me into heaven?"  Again, they all answered NO!

I was just bursting with pride for them. I continued, "Then how can I
get into heaven?"

A little boy shouted out, "YUV GOTTA BE FOOKN' DEAD."

It's a curious race, the Irish.  Brings a tear to the eye, doesn't it?

The Chinese girl


*I met a Chinese girl when I was in Shanghai, I asked her if she could
escort me  for a city tour and asked for her mobile number, so I could call her.*

She got excited and said:*

"sex sex sex,wan free sex for tonigh".

Wow, I'm guessing this is how Chinese women express their hospitality ! *

But then my friend interpreted it for me, and told me what she really

said: 666136429*****

Chinese Kaleidoscope Christmas Tree


This is the most amazing spectacle you’ll ever see

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Teaching ECG readings.

Super way of teaching electrophysiology

email from Piyusha Atapattu


Friday, December 25, 2015

RAJHESH VAIDHYA, VEENA VOYAGE,

Heroics of a three year old girl.

Starchild Skull, and DNA.

- The SHOCKING DNA Results Are In....WATCH THIS! *HD*
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Wishing the 1960 Batch - emails received


Chandran Ponnambalam

Thank you Philip. Premanila & our family join me in wishing you & yours  & all from the 1960 batch, a Merry Christmas & a Happy & Healthy New Year.
                                              Chandran Ponnambalam


Daya Jayasinghe




Thanks for your thoughts and wishes and the picture of a beautiful Batticaloa church and of course the music.

 We like to wish all a v happy XMAS and a safe and happy 2016 Daya and Malathi Jayasinghe


Leeda and Wijay

Hope you and family have a wonderful and Peaceful Christmas Season and a peaceful New Year.

Leeda and Wijay



Asoka Tinto

13:35 (3 hours ago)

Dear Philip,

Thank you and wish you and your wonderful family the same.. Happy Healthy 2016

Love and blessings


Sujaee

Dr. Mrs. Ganeshamoorthy

22 Dec (1 day ago)

Dear Philip
Thank you. We too wish you a Happy Christmas and peaceful New year. Thank you for x mas songs.
Love to from all of us
Jeya



Dr. Brahman Sivaprakasapillai brahman_siva@yahoo.com

Attachments8:15 PM (9 hours ago)
to BrahmanVijayalakshmi
Wishing you and your family a very happy Holidays and a very healthy, happy and successful 2016
Vijayalaksmi and Brahman Sivaprakasapillai
Attached is a picture of our long term assets!
Attachments area

WEERASINGHE SOMARATNA






 Dear Philip
Thank you for your good wishes.
Wish you and your family a peaceful and healthy 2016.
                                                                Weera&Daphne


Sarojini Manikarajah

05:12 (2 hours ago)

Wishing all my batch mates A Merry Christmas & Happy New Year.
Sarojini Manikarajah (nee Selvaratnam)

Sujiva Ratnaike

12:57 (18 hours ago)

Dear Philip,
Thank you Philip. Sorry we missed seeing you while we were in Sri Lanka. May be next year.
Wish you and yours   a happy festive season and above all Good Health in the year ahead .
Best Regards

Sujiva

Light and health

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Christmas Day, 2015.

While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night With Lyrics - Kings College Choir

Cedarmont Kids - We Three Kings with lyrics

Once in royal David's city with lyrics

Silent Night

Joy to the World

The Little Drummer Boy - Boney M. (with lyrics)

WHEN A CHILD IS BORN (Lyrics) - JOSE MARI CHAN

We Wish You A Merry Christmas Lyrics


Today is Christmas Day. I thought of arranging a few of the Carols, which were popular in our younger days ( I am now 75) and  which are still popular. I have chosen video clips which all have lyrics with them. This is to make you all join  in the singing. Hope you have an enjoyable time, listening to the music and singing along.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas

Philip G V & Family

Mary's Boy Child

Mary's boy child - Oh, my Lord lyrics

Mary's Boy Child - by Harry Belafonte
Vienna Boys Choir: Mary's boy child
MARY'S BOY CHILD - ukulele performance of Christmas carol made famous by Harry Belafonte

Mary's Boy Child

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Mary's Boy Child"
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"Mary's Boy Child" is a 1956 Christmas song, written by Jester Hairston.[1] It is widely performed as a Christmas carol.

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·         1History
·         2Covers
·         3Translations
·         4Other uses
·         5References

History[edit]

The song had its genesis when Hairston was sharing a room with a friend. The friend asked him to write a song for a birthday party.[2] Hairston wrote the song with a calypso rhythm because the people at the party would be mainly West Indians. The song's original title was "He Pone and Chocolate Tea", pone being a type of corn bread.[2] It was never recorded in this form.
Some time later Walter Schumann, at the time conducting Schumann's Hollywood Choir, asked Hairston to write a new Christmas song for his choir. Hairston remembered the calypso rhythm from his old song and wrote new lyrics for it.[2]
Harry Belafonte heard the song being performed by the choir and sought permission to record it.[2] It was recorded in 1956 for his album An Evening with Belafonte. An edited version was subsequently released as a single,[3] reaching No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart in November 1957.[1] It was the first single to sell over one million copies in the UK alone.[1] To date, Belafonte's version has sold over 1.19 million copes.[4] In 1962. the full-length version was added to a re-issue of Belafonte's previously released album To Wish You a Merry Christmas.
The song was also recorded by Mahalia Jackson in 1956 but titled "Mary's Little Boy Child"