I take the company transport to work and back and this post has been on the back of my mind for quite some time now. The bus which i take quite an antique one, it is an old model from the Toyota stables but still in prim condition. The major part of the maintenance is done by our protagonist, the driver. He is an affable character, friendly and helpful..but then you wonder why write a post about the blatantly obvious ?? Well, he is quite a music connoisseur and his taste in music does have a synonym in the english language : ATROCIOUS !!!!

The bus is never devoid of music, whether this is good or bad is a subject open to debate.  Am pretty sure most of us passengers would debate you to death with this topic . Some of the songs you hear are so good that you wish you could jump out and run away at the speed of light…to give you a taste of it, one song that plays in the bus goes like : Thannithotti thedi vanna kannukutty njan ( this translates as : oh…am the calf that came in search of the water trough !!!). This ladies and gentlemen, is but a taste of the musical massacre that happens in the bus. The other day i got a call when i was traveling and the song playing at that time was from a Malayalam movie that featured a yakshi ( similar to the greek sirens). Yakshis in the movies have an irritating quality, they cackle and cackle as if there is no end. The call came in just when the cackle started and i could hear the caller hesitating before talking ( he might have wondered : Jeez, where is this guy ??). Such incidents are quite common place.

Afterall tomorrow is another day….of god knows what songs….