Am I going to stop?

I have this rather great(let not others answer this question) habit of humming tunes while listening to songs. It is no doubt a wonderful thing to be in a state of artful thinking. Being passionate about music doesn't mean you get the basic elements right to reproduce the same. But, there should be some coherence to the originality that would make others to listen to the so called hum. What happens if the standard deviation takes you to terrible limits?

Last night, I was listening to some of my all time favourite songs of AR Rahman. Obviously, the music takes you to unimaginable heights that you are left wondering how in the world did he come up with those out of the world compositions. The mesmerizing thought just adds fuel to the fire, and almost sub-consciously, you begin to follow the lyrics without paying any heed to others around you. Venkatesh, a step away from my seating position, asked me to calm down and came up with a suggestion. Why don't you put on the headphones, listen to the song, sing simultaneously with it and record it using Windows Sound Recorder? Once you do that, I bet you will never hum any tune in your life! This actually sounded like a good idea, not because I wanted to base my humming from the results of a sound recorder, but just that I wanted to listen to my voice and see how close it comes to the perfectionist. As I sang away to glory, I was not able to concentrate on the song knowing fully well that Venkatesh was hidden under the blanket keeping his emotions in check. The emotions comprised of everything - frustration, irritation, pent up anger and a bout of sarcasm that can drive any budding singer to abysmal depths. Inspite of the numerous facades of emotion expressed by him, I continued with my song and finished up with one stanza of Yeh Jo Des Hai Tera from Swades. He then told me in a serious voice, After listening to this, if you don't give up singing, I will kill you! I saved the sound recording carefully, and played it from Windows Media player expecting it to start off in a hearable fashion though not in a spectacular way. I listened to the song and then came up with the statement Yeah, I couldn't sing this line properly since even great singers can't reproduce that properly. He immediately retorted, "Do you think all the other lines are sensational? How can you find fault with a single line when everything is butchered?" This actually sounds good in Tamil "Aamanda, Baaki yella linum romba nanna vandhurku paaru". I kept quiet like a silent assassin and then consoled myself with the fact that people are jealous of my abilities. But then, I will not mention anything about the outcome of the sound recorder. It can get too embarrassing!!!!