DAY 5919
StWork, Mumbai May 2, 2024 Thu 12:49 PM
Yo !
here before time for a very big change .. haha ..
but at work and got a bit of time and BOOM !
got to say the travel from Juhu home to work Marine Drive in 30 mins .. amazing Coastal Road and the Tunnel emerging on Marine Drive , just before its flyover and simply amazing .. !
Super constructed roads, tunnel, neat clean construct .. no traffic jams .. and done ..
Ok just to change the topic .. here is something to know :
Know what is a “mondegreen?’
MONDEGREENS
If you’ve been listening to rock music, you know it’s often hard to make out the lyrics. They sing it their way and we hear it our way.
Jimi Hendrix famously sang the phrase “While I kiss the sky” which was heard by thousands as “While I kissed this guy.”
CCR’s popular song originally said, “There’s a bad moon on the rise.” Many heard it as “There’s a bathroom on the right.”
Deep Purple’s still-popular chorus (known for its timeless guitar riff) “Smoke on the water/Fire in the sky” was misheard as “Smoke on the water/Fire engine guy.”
Nirvana’s anthem “Smells like Teen Spirit” had the lines, “Here we are now/Entertain us.” They were misheard as, “Here we are now/In containers.”
When Elvis Presley sang, “Everybody in the whole cell block”, many heard it as” Everybody in a wholesale frock”
There’s actually a word for misheard lyrics like these.
Mondegreen.
Some mondegreens became so famous that even artistes like Hendrix and CCR sang the misheard versions in their live concerts in a spirit of fun and tease.
It’s not just in pop songs that mondegreens occur. The US national anthem begins with the lofty words, “Oh say, can you see, by the dawn’s early light.’ Some heard them as “José, can you see…”
Occasionally, mondegreens had an interesting side-effect. Joe Cocker sang of a ‘lovely planet’ which was misheard as ‘lonely planet.’ The latter became the name of a well-known travel guide series of books.
No one knows why we hear the wrong thing although there are theories. It’s akin to the game of Chinese Whispers where the original line gets progressively distorted into some hilarious garbage by the time it reaches the last guy.
Mondegreens are not restricted to English alone. South Indians, with limited knowledge of Hindi, were taught patriotic songs in Hindi by zealous teachers. A popular one had the repeating phrase, “Bara tamata.” School students sang it with great gusto. Years later, some of them realized the actual words were “Bharat Mata.”
A popular line from Qurbani song, “Aap jaisa koi meri/zindagee mein aaye/ toh baat bun jaaye” was understood as “Aap jaisa koi…toh baap bun jaaye.” The defective version made sense to many who saw Zeenat Aman gyrating on those lyrics while gaping at Feroz Khan.
Many who weren’t familiar with the hill station between Bombay and Pune heard the Gulaami song as “Haathi ka andaa la” until they realized it was “Aati kya Khandala”.
I have a friend, her name is Geeta. Her family called her Gitu. Throughout her childhood and youth, she thought Rajesh Khanna was singing for her, when he said, ”Mere sapnon ki raani kab aaye Gitu”.
‘Mondegreen’ sounds French but isn’t. In 1954, a writer at Harper’s Magazine remembered how as a little girl she misheard an old English ballad. The actual words, saluting a dead war hero, were:
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭 𝘰’ 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘺
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘮 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯.
She heard them as:
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘭 𝘰’ 𝘔𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘺
𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘓𝘢𝘥𝘺 𝘔𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘯.
And thus was born the word ‘mondegreen’ to signify all misheard lyrics from that moment on.
Turns out, mondegreen itself started life as a mondegreen.
sent to me by a friend .. 🤣🤣
More perhaps later .. or perhaps not ..
Amitabh Bachchan
and some more .. a very pertinent article in TOI ..
DAY 5918
Jalsa, Mumbai May 1, 2024 Wed 10:50 PM
There was a back end error on the numbering of the DAY , and many felt there was a mistake on my numbering .. but no all was correct , just that the server for some reason changed the order and the error was noticed .. that has since been rectified ..
some that had sent comments to 5911, felt they have been deleted .. but no, they shall i believe appear on DAY 5911 ..
that is all for the day .. today .. yesterday was heavy with philosophy and literature and language impressions from Babuji .. and there were some that made very eloquent responses to it .. my gratitude ..
soon more shall follow .. early to bed .. there is work tomorrow early ..
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5917
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr/May/ 30/1, 2024 Tue/Wed 3:34 AM
🪔 ,
May 01 .. birthday greetings to Ef Anat Magen .. Ef Zalina Tidjieva .. and Ef Hitee Arrora .. ❤️🙏🏻🚩
..
It comes on to the day next and still there is enough within to continue despite the dictat to get to bed early ..
But early be the writing for them that shall never understand the Ef post Blog connect .. and so here we are ..
Last day post was a bit literary and philosophical .. but it gives me pride that I am in the capacity to be able to bring remembrance and the genius of Babuji to all here ..
More shall follow I do hope and wish .. for the legacy of unmeasured capability of poet writer thinker shall ever be eternal ..
“मेरा attitude romantic abandon का है । बादलों को भी मैंने ये अधिकार दे दिया है, की मुझे जहां चाहें वहाँ ले जायें । ‘प्रेरे’ के प्रयोग पर मुझे बड़ा संतोष है - ख़ुशी भी - कविता का एक काम ये भी है, पुराने - अप्रयुक्त - विस्मृत शब्दों को नव अर्थ देकर नव जीवन देना । इससे भाषा अपनी जड़ों की गहराई के प्रति सचेत होती है । खड़ी बोली सब कुछ नया गढ़ने के आग्रह में सतही हो गई है । उसके शब्द, वाक्य, रूपक, लय, लहजे किसी समय - सम्मानित pedigree ( कुलीनता ?) ( वंशावली, वुप्त पत्ति, उत्पत्ति, शब्द साधन, वंश) का सबूत या संकेत नहीं देते । नवीनता अपने प्रयोगों में अधिक venturesome होती है जब उसके पीछे प्राचीनता का बल या आधार हो ।”
( वंशावली, वुप्त पत्ति, उत्पत्ति, शब्द साधन, वंश ) my additions, because Babuji put a ? after his word mean for pedigree
( a random mention in his Pravas ki Diary )
“My attitude is of romantic abandon . I have given the liberty and the right, even to the clouds, to take me wherever they desire. The use of the word 'प्रेरे’ - prayre, (in one of the words in his poem under mention) gives me great satisfaction , and a happiness too - the job of a poem is also that it take the older - words not in use - forgotten, and give them a fresh new meaning, and give them a new life … in doing so it gives a consciousness, a mindful alert, to the very roots of a language .. खड़ी बोली khadi boli - a form of language speak , pure in its content but ruralised and spoken in the interiors , in its firmed attempt to do something new has become far too superficial .. its words, sentences, its graph , at some point of time, do not give it the pedigree testimony it had .. a freshness, a modernity is greatly more venturesome in its use , when it has the backing of the strength of age and antiquity ..”
“… a freshness, a modernity is greatly more venturesome in its use , when it has the backing of the strength of age and antiquity ..”
such graceful observation .. not just in the realm of the use of language, but in our everyday existence ..
Is it not .. ?
My love ❤️
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5916
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 29, 2024 Mon 10:13 PM
🪔.. April 29 .. birthday greetings to Ef Pawan Kumar .. and Ef Raj (The Noble Master) .. ❤️🙏🏻🚩
🪔 .. April 30 .. birthday greetings to Ef Shatha Jarrar .. 🙏🏻🚩❤️
💐 .. Wedding anniversary greetings to Ef Madhvi .. for April 30 .. 🙏🏻🚩❤️
What to see and what to ‘see’ … a difference ..
You may go to a known place to see , but do you actually 'see’ ..
Often you go to see the place to be able to say you saw the place .. but never did understand the 'see’
Poets, scientists, philosophers when they 'see’ , the brightening in their eyes conveys the 'see’ .. that 'see’ is never found in the eyes of the others that went to see ..
What could possibly be the inspiration for them that went to see .. they visit, move about its circumference or its periphery and come away ..
There is an 'art’ to be able to enjoy 'art’ .. 'The art of appreciation’ .. something that is achieved through education and research ..
When the one that truly understand art stands before it, that is when 'वो अपने को मुक्त रूप से उघारती है’ .. it frees us of our self ..
( or if there are other Hindi knowledged to explain that sentence ) ..
It will be wrong to say that art is available to all in similar vein ..’ केवल अधिकारी उसको देखता पाता उसका रस लेता’ one that is entitled to authority can enjoy its true elixir .. 'उसका रस लेता है’ ..
And no .. this is not the mind of your Blogomaesrta .. it be his Babuji’s .. from his Diary of the years he spent in Cambridge for his PhD ..
'प्रवास की डायरी’ .. a diary written on a journey away from home ..
The prolific standard and mind and nature of Babuji is beyond understanding and acclaim ..
2 years to finish with honour and recognition a PhD in English Literature on a dissertation that read 'WB Yeats and Occultism’ .. Yeats the famous Irish poet .. and while there in Cambridge wrote about 200 poems in Hindi and a Diary every day .. now in print along with his other encyclopedic work called 'Pravas ki Diary’ ..
The expressions and thoughts on art be a small mention on one of the pages of the Diary, when he talks of the visit of some of his friends from India on a visit to England who wished to see Cambridge .. and their reactions on the time when he took them to see some of the renowned Universities of the land .. they saw, to be able to say they saw Cambridge .. but never understood the depth of the visits to these prolific educational institutions , nor bothered to stand on its grounds to breathe the air of the enlightened minds that erupted from there …
Each page of his works, his writing his paragraphs his elaborate philosophical poetic vision, are not seeking reward or award .. they elucidate that which you and me and many others like me may never have thought or desired ..
Reward and Award .. !!!???
AAHHH .. someday they shall be written about here, on my impressions ..
BUT NO !
perhaps never .. it would be too autobiographical ..
Self aggrandizement be something that I run away from ..
why ?
When there are such prolific stratospheric human minds to fill the pages with the letter 'I’ .. who am i .. it be a deliberate low case 'i’ and not a typo ..
I have no 'i’ ..
My love
Amitabh Bachchan
.. the mind that researched and designed the prolific structures, above, albeit in imagination, were beyond the thinking and power of the minute human figure that is seen in the drawing ..
ab
DAY 5915
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 28/29, 2024 Sun/Mon 12:10 AM
समय को समझ लेना, समय से, बड़े समझ की बात होती है !🙏
to understand time, in time, is indeed a great understanding
time does not wait upon any .. it moves away .. it travels its path given in time for time about time ..
so when time is up , its up .. understand it .. for it shall be futile to battle with it .. accept it in the silence of its bearing .. you shall never hear its sound but you shall be able to see its reverberation ..
that reverberation defines and defies all other ..
“There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune”.
~ Shakespeare, Julius Caesar .. Brutus
So if miss the flood .. do what ..wait for the next flood .. ?
I wonder ..
My love and care .. as ever .. 🌹
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5914
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 27/28, 2024 Sat/Sun 11:01 AM
🪔 ,
April 28 .. birthday greetings to Ef Parmjit Grewal .. 🙏🏻🚩❤️
Late as ever and now rushing again .. but shall be back soon .. at times the late becomes unavoidable, but knowing that there shall be GOJ by 5.30 in the evening it is reassuring and comfortable ..
meanwhile the Ef makes headlines in the media .. TOI
Love
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5913
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 26/27, 2024 Fri/Sat 12:01 PM
🪔 ,
April 27 .. birthday greetings to Ef Satish Shetye .. and Ef Aayush Kundal Divyang from Indore .. keep well and happy .. 🙏🏻🚩❤️
So late again but never neglected .. and after the late rise due to late 😴 .. a quick morning exigencies .. exigencies ? , if they can be addressed thus , and a bit of the yoga pranayama प्राणायाम .. for whatever it be worth at this age and time .. done and now because of differenced schedules a quick march across to the vyayamshala, which in the conversational talkathon of this generation be a gymnasium .. which where and how it came to be is perhaps unknown but ..
what is known is that it came from a German word, or Scandinavian which referred to a School preparing students for an entrance examination ..
BUT .. here is more .. it came in the 16th Century from a Latin Greek word ‘gumnasiom’ from 'gumnazein’ to exercise naked from word 'gumnos’ meaning naked ..
aaahhhhh .. the beauty of word renditions and their history ..
thank God the modern day Gym setups are not following the Latin/Greek traditions of 'gumnos’
🥹
So to get back to the Blog and the post .. I be off now to the .. yes the place of exercise .. and NOT following the LatinoGreek 'gumnos’ tradition ..
more in later times ..
some reading to be done .. of scripts presented from various sources and a desired response from them that delivered it ..
So yes .. !
And .. Oh Gosh !! .. what is the IPL turning out to be .. never ever imagine that KRK after scoring 261 in 20, would ever be defeated by Punjab at 262 for 2 or 3 I think ..
I had given up the game and shifted away .. and then looked up the result and immediately went back to the replay ..
This is amazing and the volume of the talent that is emerging in each game is simply STUNNING .. !!
Given a chance .. the emergence is phenomenal !!
NOT JUST IN CRICKET .. BUT IN EVERY FIELD ..
We never had that opportunity before .. but now within over 75 years of Independence and Freedom - from 1947 to 2024 .. the emergence of talent and opportunity and progress is INCOMPARABLE !!
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
Love ❤️
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5912
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 25/26, 2024 Thu/Fri 12:34 AM
The IPL is filled with the elements of chemical formulae .. put this burn this , fume it .. allow to cool .. and .. BOOM !
An explosion of unheard of talent , from quarters that were never made to reside ..
Unpredictability at the start, predictability in the middle and left in the lurch by the 20 ..
The fascination with this game and the system and the design and the operation .. is an unknown number ..
Juggle it .. pour it out ..
… and wait to catch the expressions of the close up audiences ..
that is the learning for them that study performance and .. well .. a learning for one that faces the camera for a living ..
My love
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5911
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 24/25, 2024 Wed/Thu 10:49 AM
.. and the grace and reverence of the Mangeshkar Family .. and the privilege to be honoured by the Award that carries the name of the jewel of the nation - Lata Mangeshkar ..
A Lifetime Achievement Award .. one that I ever shy away from .. not deserving of any such recognition .. but ..
when in the presence of such immense tradition and culture and values .. we are blessed ..
to accept blessings is a boon ..
and I feel blessed ..
Amitabh Bachchan
DAY 5910
Jalsa, Mumbai Apr 23/24, 2024 Tue/Wed 12:50 AM
🪔 ,
April 24 .. birthday greetings to Ef Rajesh Goenka from Chennai .. and Ef Vishal Bhatt from Amdavad .. 🙏🏻🚩❤️
Wedding anniversary greeting to Ef Irfan Nuyani .. for April 24 .. 💐🙏🏻🚩❤️
निकले थे काम पे अपनी गाड़ी से ; रूप स्वरूप हुआ लोगों की ज़िमेदारी से ।
खेल होने जा रहा है नये season का ; स्नेह प्यार बना रहे Ef परिवार का
.. a non stop schedule beginning at 9 .. and worked till 5 without the traditional break .. done it driven off , and lunched in car .. that rolled appropriate eat and that consumption drink .. and back in the love of the game at IPL .. as exciting as all the others that are unfolding before us this season ..
and unexpectedly in the Fortress of Chepauk a most stunning hard fought result .. almost the same as the day before when the last ball decided the one run victory !!
it be looked forward to this game and the work schedules adjusted accordingly .. interest never waning .. from that ‘John Jaany Janardhan’ song shoot at Filmistan when all of us sat outside what then was a miracle mechanism - a transistor monitored small TV screen .. enraptured with the game ..
gone the days of stopping by that panwala to hear the commentary beyond the walls of the College grounds at University .. err 1956-58 approx .,
and now a million alternatives in immediacy available ..
BUT ..
Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury the experience of a Stadium is simply incomparable ..
.. it beckons all .. to come and explore the opportunity of a winning ..
Must to bed .. to bed .. to bed .. and 😴
Amitabh Bachchan