Day 14: Cross-Cultural Music

I have a Bangladeshi friend from Youth Camp For Asia's Future on summer 2006. Actually, I remember his face but totally forgot his name. Thanks to Facebook, we finally reconnected after 3 years. His name is Muhammad Islam, but he wants to be called "Sahin".

We chatted on Facebook messanger, and started to chat on Yahoo!. Last night, he told me he was listening to Bangla Song. Then he came up with the idea: send local songs to eachother.

So this morning, I took a moment to find Indonesian songs from Astra's old music folder. They have to be very good and hmm.. representative? Hahahahaha..

Well... I finally sent him two songs, one is a very very popular dangdut song (yesss, Astra has it!) and one is Maliq & D'essentials' Dia. He sent me two Bangla songs, titled "Duti Mon Aar" and "Tumar Samadhi".



I enjoy myself listening to the Bangla songs as much as I enjoy listening to Korean, Japanese, Filipino songs. Language is not a barrier, because music itself is a language, a universal one. I just loooove learning my friends' cultures and I love their existances in my life.



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