The date was 8th April 2010. I wound up work well ahead of schedule to hit the road and be at the M. Chinnaswamy stadium for the IPL match between Royal Challengers Bangalore and Deccan Chargers. Though not a keen follower of cricket, I was pretty excited with the prospect of watching the match live at the stadium for the first time ever. Thoughts of seeing the players play for "real" and being in that ocean of the cheering RCB crowd was filling up my head as I was driving down the busy Hosur road listening to Melodee Austin on Radio indigo.Halfway into the drive, out of the blue, Melodee brought up a very silly, yet interesting quiz contest - she popped up the question "What is my favourite Ice Cream flavour? . Message me at 52919. If you get it right, you get to win a couple of vouchers from Natural Ice creams". At a traffic signal in one of the intersections, i just hit the keys on my cell phone and typed "Black Currant" and sent it to the magic number.. Not so much for the ice cream, but only because I was getting bugged by the bright red light ahead of me... :) Some time later, I get a call... ..
"Hello?"
"Haie.. This is Melodee from Radio Indigo.. How are y.... "
"Heyyyy Melodee.!!. How are you?? " I was so excited to listen to that charming voice speak to me. Crazy.. But I can't help it if somebody from the Radio station calls me to put me on air.. :) :)
"Ha ha ha... I'm good.. how are you? "
"I'm good too..thank you so much.. "
"So, may I know your name?"
"I'm Bopanna "
"So Bopanna, Black currant is your fav flavour or mine?" He he.
"Well, I think it's your fav flavour, because it's one of mine too.. "
"How sweet.!. Bopanna, I'll put you on air now.. so if you're driving, just pull over.. It's just gonna be 2 mins, in and out.. "
"Yes of course.. I'm on it :) :)"
And so, for the very first time, Bopanna came on air, swinging to the 'Melody' of Radio Indigo.. I tell you, it is a great feeling to listen to yourself on air conversing with a beautiful voice.. Things do get exciting when you least expect them, don't they? =)
So, two first timers for me this day.. Watching a live match being played by cricket biggies and listening to myself on radio... and the result- addition to the list of my memories that will be cherised for a long time.. :)
Cheers !
Nice .. but you never mentioned wat you spoke when you were on air! Did she ask you the same question on air or something different ?
ReplyDeleteGr8 dear !!
ReplyDeleteIndeed I would like to ask the same questn being askd by Czar ?? - Divya Gulati :)
Nice going! Do you by any chance have a recording of it?
ReplyDeleteOn air, it was the same routine questions :
ReplyDelete- Hi, Bopanna,, How are you?
- I'm Great Melody, How are you?
- I'm doing great... So what are you doing right now?
- I'm headed to watch the IPL.
- How mean, all o you leave me alone and go to watch the match.. very bad.. he he..
.. So tell me Bopanna. What do you think is my fav flavour?
- Well, I think it's Black Currant..
- Black currant is your fav flavour or mine?
- Of course, its yours because it's one of mine too..
- Awesome.. you know what? you have just won yourself the couple vouchers from Naturals ice cream.. Black currant is indeed my fav flavour..
- yeaaayyy.. !
- Ha Ha
- Thank you so much Bopanna for coming on air.. one of us will get in touch with you to let you know how you can collect the voucers
- Great.. thank you so much for putting me on air.. It was my first time and the feeling was awesome.. :)
- How sweet.. Have a great time watching the IPL, Bopanna.. I'm sure you'll let me know the result of the match.
- Absolutely, have a great time Melody.. :)
Beep Beep Beep.. :)
gr8..!! btw.. its "Melodee Austin"... :)
ReplyDeleteMy Bad :(...
ReplyDeleteThanks chait for pointing.. I've edited the blog.. :)
Cheers..