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Me along with two other friends are planning to visit Italy during Easter holidays (Apr 13 - 17), our plan is to explore Milan, Venice, Rome, Florence and Pisa (leaning tower of Pisa) in that order and will spend more or less one day in each of these cities. But as it says "Rome was not built in a day", we don't have plans to visit it in one either. We will be spending 2 days in Rome (together with Vatican). The flight tickets and hotel rates came out very expensive as Italy (especially Rome) is a hot destination in Easter time.

I hope this trip will be as wonderful as our last year trip to Vienna

map from alltravelitaly.com

Manikya Veenayumaayen...

Veteran Malayalam film music director Devarajan passed away. Devarajan Master, as he is addressed by hordes of his fans was one of the original composers of his time and was instrumental in creating a new path for Malayalam film music. He was not doing much film music during the last one decade or so and was against the degenerative music trend in the 90s.

Few of my favourites among his songs are

Manikya Veenayumaayen
Aayiram Padasarangal
Parijatham thirumizhi
Kayam Poo Kannil vidarum
Vasumathi Madumathi
Nadabrahmathin Sagaram
Swargaputhri navaraathri
Samyamakannoru
Sundari..nin thumbu kettiyitta
Pulari Thoomanju Thulliyil
Thusharbindhu veendum
Arikil Nee Undayirunnenkil

Master of Suspense

During the last one week I have watched 4 Alfred Hitchcock movies - "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "The man who knew too much", and "To catch a thief". Previously I had this feeling that watching movies which are almost 50 years older won't be much interesting, but now I realized that Hitchcock movies are at least an exception. The first 3 movies – “Rear Window”, “Vertigo” and “The man who knew too much” are excellent thrillers with good suspense till the end, though "To catch a thief" is an ordinary. Later I was reading about Alfred Hitchcock and found that he couldn't win an Oscar for any of his directional ventures, which is quite sad and unfortunate I believe.

I always liked watching suspense, detective movies or that handles stories with a hidden horror throughout. I am looking forward to watch more Alfred Hitchcock movies - especially "Psycho" which considered as one of his masterpieces.