வாழ்வே தண்டனை!
ஓடும் இரயிலை எறிய விட்டான்
ஓயா ரெளத்திரம் பழகி விட்டான்
அறத்தின் பொருளை மறந்து விட்டான்
அழிவின் பாதையில் சென்று விட்டான்
சூழ்ச்சிகள் பலசெய்து பழகி விட்டான்
சூழலையும் அவனுடன் அழித்து விட்டான்
கருவையும் குழந்தையையும் கொல்லுகிறான்
பெண்ணையும் கர்ப்பையும் சிதைத்துவிட்டான்
சகோதரத்துவத்தை அழித்து விட்டான்
சகதியில் வாழ பழகி கொண்டான்
ஆக்கம் வேலையை நிறுத்தி விட்டான்
அழிக்க இன்றொரு சபதம் கொண்டான்
தாயை கொல்லவும் துணிந்து விட்டான்
தாலிகள் அறுபட சிரித்து நின்றான்
படுகொலை செய்வதை பழகி விட்டான் அதை
படம் பிடிப்பதில் ஏனோ பெருமை கொண்டான்
மூத்திர மண்ணாய் மக்கி போனான் தான்
மனிதன் என்பதை மறந்து போனான்
கடவுள் இதுகண்டு கோபம் கொண்டான்
மனிதனை தன்டிக்க இறங்கி வந்தான்
உலகம் இருக்கும் இருப்பை கண்டான்
இதுவே தண்டனை என திரும்பி விட்டான்!
- வெ.பிரஷாந்த்
Monday, December 1, 2008
Indraiya Kuyil Paattu!
இன்றைய குயில் பாட்டு
கேளடா மானிடா எம்மில்
மத பிரிவுகள் இல்லை
குண்டுகள் வைப்பதில்லை இன
சண்டைகள் எம்மில் இல்லை
வாழ்வினில் அச்சமில்லை என்றும்
மான்புடன் வாழ்வோமடா!
ஒருவரை ஒருவர் கொல்ல
ஒருபோதும் அறிந்ததில்லை
திட்டம் தீட்டியே கொல்ல இங்கு
தீயவர் எவருமில்லை
உங்கள் பிறப்பினை கண்டு முன்பு
போற்றி துதித்ததுமுன்டு
உங்கள் வாழ்வினை கண்டு இன்று
உம்மிட நிணைத்தலுமுன்டு
மத பிரிவுகள் சொல்லி அதில்
மக்களை சன்டையிட செய்வார்
மதத்தை காப்பதாய் சொல்லி
மக்களை கொன்றிட முனைவார்
மத பிரிவினை அழித்தால் வையம்
வாழ்ந்திட உருவகையாகும்.
கேளடா மானிடா எம்மில்
மத பிரிவுகள் இல்லை
குண்டுகள் வைப்பதில்லை இன
சண்டைகள் எம்மில் இல்லை
வாழ்வினில் அச்சமில்லை என்றும்
மான்புடன் வாழ்வோமடா!
ஒருவரை ஒருவர் கொல்ல
ஒருபோதும் அறிந்ததில்லை
திட்டம் தீட்டியே கொல்ல இங்கு
தீயவர் எவருமில்லை
உங்கள் பிறப்பினை கண்டு முன்பு
போற்றி துதித்ததுமுன்டு
உங்கள் வாழ்வினை கண்டு இன்று
உம்மிட நிணைத்தலுமுன்டு
மத பிரிவுகள் சொல்லி அதில்
மக்களை சன்டையிட செய்வார்
மதத்தை காப்பதாய் சொல்லி
மக்களை கொன்றிட முனைவார்
மத பிரிவினை அழித்தால் வையம்
வாழ்ந்திட உருவகையாகும்.
Saturday, November 22, 2008
Merciless
I heard a lot about the recent law college issue. For the uninitiated read on @ http://www.hindu.com/2008/11/14/stories/2008111454210400.htm
College, though not devoid of clashes between groups, I thought was fun! At least to me it was. During a period which is supposed to be a platform for people to move with others regardless of the class, caste or creed, here are our future responsible LAW people indulging in inhuman practice. Worst is that they were beating each other in the complete view of police. I do not know why the police did not act to stop the incident. It was CRAZY like Hell. Having just seen the video, I am robbed of words. I cannot write any more abt this.
Though, I heard about this incident some time in last week, the impact dawned upon me only on seeing the video of the clash. Not for the weak hearts....Video is here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozp2DYs4yBA
If such is the behavior of the future lawyers then GOD BLESS INDIA! Every student must put their head down in shame. Shame on you people...SHAME ON YOU!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Vaaranam Aayiram
Yaanaikkum adi sarukkum! (Elephant can also slip)
This supposedly tribute to Goutham Menon's late Dad is by far his worst movie so far. Surya's effort has been completely wasted. For Surya its like scoring 200 and still ending up on losing side. My sympathies! Tests your patience to core!
Songs are beautifully picturized, though.
Nandri. Vanakkam!
This supposedly tribute to Goutham Menon's late Dad is by far his worst movie so far. Surya's effort has been completely wasted. For Surya its like scoring 200 and still ending up on losing side. My sympathies! Tests your patience to core!
Songs are beautifully picturized, though.
Nandri. Vanakkam!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Partiality...
Mr.Karunanidhi - for all the respect you commanded by means of your work in tamil literature, art and for the state of Tamil Nadu, you would have done well not to have gone public with your sentiments on Hindus wearing sacred ash on their fore head.
I seriously do not understand the concern. Time and again, he picks a needle to prickle with the sentiments of hindus. If they prefer to wear sacred ash, so be it. There are helluva other concerns to be addressed in this state. And he doesn't dare to touch the sentiments on other religions. I presume an atheist doesn't believe in existence of God as claimed by any religion. So if he claims to be one, he got to denounce all. Why bashing only one section?
This action of his, the seasoned politician that he is, is to merely distract the people from other compelling issues. He played the "God sent" trump card of Srilankan Tamil issue for some time to keep people occupied. Now that one is shunning down, he had to resort to playing his old trick of Hindu bashing. What really bothers him about wearing a sacred ash or wearing a sacred thread is some thing that is beyond my capacity to comprehend.
So Mr.Kalaignar avargale, If you want to follow some thing, follow it. We do not give a damn about it and we do not expect others to dictate what we should do about our religious sentiments. So please buckle up and get back to your work. One entire state is waiting for you to do something for them. You would be better placed to answer that call.
Peace!
I seriously do not understand the concern. Time and again, he picks a needle to prickle with the sentiments of hindus. If they prefer to wear sacred ash, so be it. There are helluva other concerns to be addressed in this state. And he doesn't dare to touch the sentiments on other religions. I presume an atheist doesn't believe in existence of God as claimed by any religion. So if he claims to be one, he got to denounce all. Why bashing only one section?
This action of his, the seasoned politician that he is, is to merely distract the people from other compelling issues. He played the "God sent" trump card of Srilankan Tamil issue for some time to keep people occupied. Now that one is shunning down, he had to resort to playing his old trick of Hindu bashing. What really bothers him about wearing a sacred ash or wearing a sacred thread is some thing that is beyond my capacity to comprehend.
So Mr.Kalaignar avargale, If you want to follow some thing, follow it. We do not give a damn about it and we do not expect others to dictate what we should do about our religious sentiments. So please buckle up and get back to your work. One entire state is waiting for you to do something for them. You would be better placed to answer that call.
Peace!
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Meaningless Mortals
Before I dwell upon the topic of this post, I wish to say that I am not anti-(anything). Every body think what they do is right.
I was shell shocked to listen to some of the speeches made by so called "Maar thattum" tamizhans. I have no intention whatsoever to listen to any pro-LTTE speeches. But I thought this agitation was all about the ill-treatment rendered to the fellow Tamils in the land of Sinhalese. And hence I watched it.
Alarmingly, almost every one of them delivered a pro-LTTE speech. The LTTE proposal (a parallel proposal drafted by them) says they and SL will have one cabinet each, one prime minister each albeit under one president of SL. It is like an autonomous college operating under an university but not bound to any of the rules of the university. This is some thing that impacts the sovereignty of SL and how can another country interfere in this kind of an internal affair?
I am also puzzled when they claimed that LTTE is not a terrorist outfit. I mean if IM, LeT or any other outfit that bomb, conduct suicide attacks demanding Kashmir from India can be labelled as terrorist outfits then certainly LTTE falls under this bracket and to openly support it is, according to me, supporting terrorist activities in neighbouring island nation. The cries from them asking Indian government to interfere and ask military to enter in to ceasefire should be brushed aside as rubbish. As Smt.Jayalalitha rightly pointed out, LTTE would use this time to rebuild their arms wing and retaliate strongly.
Had only people talked about the suffering on Tamil people in the island nation, it would have been much better. Please... learn to differentiate LTTE and the innocent Tamils bearing the grunt of the military oppression. We need to talk for the innocents and not the outfit. The common people nursing their wounds, both physically and mentally, need our moral support and not the outfit.
I think these people must shut up and carry on with their own business unless they know what exactly they should be talking in these meetings. Do they really know what they are standing up for?
I stand for the rights of Tamils in SL 100% and at the same time I am 0% with these outfits because of their chosen modus operandi. For their cause might be noble but they resorted to inhuman practices. If these were to be achieved by means of peaceful dialogues, world would have been much better. I will use couple of Mahatma's quotes to close this. "Non-violence has its own share of difficulties. It tests the people abiding by it to the core. But it also promises success in the end"
"He who volunteers to serve a band of dacoits by working as their career or their watchman or their nurse when they are wounded is as much guilty of the dacoity as the dacoits themselves"
---Peace----
I was shell shocked to listen to some of the speeches made by so called "Maar thattum" tamizhans. I have no intention whatsoever to listen to any pro-LTTE speeches. But I thought this agitation was all about the ill-treatment rendered to the fellow Tamils in the land of Sinhalese. And hence I watched it.
Alarmingly, almost every one of them delivered a pro-LTTE speech. The LTTE proposal (a parallel proposal drafted by them) says they and SL will have one cabinet each, one prime minister each albeit under one president of SL. It is like an autonomous college operating under an university but not bound to any of the rules of the university. This is some thing that impacts the sovereignty of SL and how can another country interfere in this kind of an internal affair?
I am also puzzled when they claimed that LTTE is not a terrorist outfit. I mean if IM, LeT or any other outfit that bomb, conduct suicide attacks demanding Kashmir from India can be labelled as terrorist outfits then certainly LTTE falls under this bracket and to openly support it is, according to me, supporting terrorist activities in neighbouring island nation. The cries from them asking Indian government to interfere and ask military to enter in to ceasefire should be brushed aside as rubbish. As Smt.Jayalalitha rightly pointed out, LTTE would use this time to rebuild their arms wing and retaliate strongly.
Had only people talked about the suffering on Tamil people in the island nation, it would have been much better. Please... learn to differentiate LTTE and the innocent Tamils bearing the grunt of the military oppression. We need to talk for the innocents and not the outfit. The common people nursing their wounds, both physically and mentally, need our moral support and not the outfit.
I think these people must shut up and carry on with their own business unless they know what exactly they should be talking in these meetings. Do they really know what they are standing up for?
I stand for the rights of Tamils in SL 100% and at the same time I am 0% with these outfits because of their chosen modus operandi. For their cause might be noble but they resorted to inhuman practices. If these were to be achieved by means of peaceful dialogues, world would have been much better. I will use couple of Mahatma's quotes to close this. "Non-violence has its own share of difficulties. It tests the people abiding by it to the core. But it also promises success in the end"
"He who volunteers to serve a band of dacoits by working as their career or their watchman or their nurse when they are wounded is as much guilty of the dacoity as the dacoits themselves"
---Peace----
Thursday, October 9, 2008
One man...one PRINCE
That was the time when cricket was being talked about for all non-cricketing reasons. That was the time of bookies. Playing, let alone leading a team, needed so much motivation.
That was the time even a stalwart like Sachin wilted under the pressure of captaining Team India. That was the time when few legends,until then, painted their names black by earning money through means that is best not discussed.
That was the time, one man stepped up to take the thorny baton in his hands. Arrive Sourav Ganguly, the Prince and fondly DADA.
To take it up from there in 2000 and building a team that storms in to 2003 WC final is no mean achievement (all be it, we lost the finals). Today much of Indian cricket owes to his foresightedness. He transformed a bunch of boys in to men and instilled in them the confidence to look in to the eyes of opposition and not to fade away like a dew drop in a broad daylight. He has been the definition for phoenix, rising every time written off.
2002-2005 were not best of his days. But captaincy has taken a lot out of every Indian captain. He had to give away his favorite opening slot to Sehwag to build for future. And after an unfortunate row with Chappel, he was gone. And he was not talked about. Fair enough, owing to his batting performances.
But once he made his comeback, the last two years were awesome. And still gets dropped. Enough, he thought. For he is DADA. He commands. And so he hangs up the boots. A masterful, eventful journey is about to end. I have the same feeling as the kid who knows his horse ride in the beach is about to end. With heavy heart, I bid adieu to my star!
Dada, you rock! You are a LEGEND!
That was the time even a stalwart like Sachin wilted under the pressure of captaining Team India. That was the time when few legends,until then, painted their names black by earning money through means that is best not discussed.
That was the time, one man stepped up to take the thorny baton in his hands. Arrive Sourav Ganguly, the Prince and fondly DADA.
To take it up from there in 2000 and building a team that storms in to 2003 WC final is no mean achievement (all be it, we lost the finals). Today much of Indian cricket owes to his foresightedness. He transformed a bunch of boys in to men and instilled in them the confidence to look in to the eyes of opposition and not to fade away like a dew drop in a broad daylight. He has been the definition for phoenix, rising every time written off.
2002-2005 were not best of his days. But captaincy has taken a lot out of every Indian captain. He had to give away his favorite opening slot to Sehwag to build for future. And after an unfortunate row with Chappel, he was gone. And he was not talked about. Fair enough, owing to his batting performances.
But once he made his comeback, the last two years were awesome. And still gets dropped. Enough, he thought. For he is DADA. He commands. And so he hangs up the boots. A masterful, eventful journey is about to end. I have the same feeling as the kid who knows his horse ride in the beach is about to end. With heavy heart, I bid adieu to my star!
Dada, you rock! You are a LEGEND!
Sunday, October 5, 2008
"H" goes Hopping
Its been my long standing rant. I do not have an unusually long name. Prashanth is after all a three or four syllable name (he he... oru vegathula sollittaen...I do not know if this is right..but that's not the topic here)
I can't stand people misspelling my name all the time. After all, I can accept the fault with pronunciation but spelling mistake is some thing I can't take. All the time, people comfortably do away with one of the "H" in my name.
They either write it as "Prasanth", "Prashant".
Worst, if they miss both the "H". It sounds like answering a roll call. "Prasant" mam...see?? Awful!
One of my colleagues seems to be very unhappy with my name. He wants be to be some kind of "Nath" so he turned me in to "Prasnath". This he does in every single mail of his. I can understand if there is no reference to my name. But when you are replying to my emails, its there to be seen in the "To" section in the top. Its there in my signatures... but people still like to give me names!
I may be Mr.Kamal fanatic...but I hate to play multiple roles with out my ID.
Hi.. I am PRASHANTH!
I can't stand people misspelling my name all the time. After all, I can accept the fault with pronunciation but spelling mistake is some thing I can't take. All the time, people comfortably do away with one of the "H" in my name.
They either write it as "Prasanth", "Prashant".
Worst, if they miss both the "H". It sounds like answering a roll call. "Prasant" mam...see?? Awful!
One of my colleagues seems to be very unhappy with my name. He wants be to be some kind of "Nath" so he turned me in to "Prasnath". This he does in every single mail of his. I can understand if there is no reference to my name. But when you are replying to my emails, its there to be seen in the "To" section in the top. Its there in my signatures... but people still like to give me names!
I may be Mr.Kamal fanatic...but I hate to play multiple roles with out my ID.
Hi.. I am PRASHANTH!
Friday, September 12, 2008
Seidhigal Vaasippadhu...
This is gonna be a out and out tamil post...of course written in English. Wanted to write a spoof... so non tamilians, if any reading my blog, please have mercy on me!
...Bayam thelindha Balachandran.
Vanakkkam! Thalaippu cheidhigal.
-> Engalukkum Chequemir il nadappadharkkum endha sammandhamum illai
-> Bomma solvadhu ellaamae poi - Malaignar arivippu.
-> Meedum 250 B.C India vai uruvaakkuvom - Soyawati aakrosham
-> Sothyam irandaam baagam nadippaen - Puratchi Palpodi paetti
-> Meen pidithu meendum aatril vida aasai - Diamonds manam thirakkiraar
Virivaana seidhigal
-> Engalukkum Chequemir il nadakkum prechanaikkum endha vida thodarbhum illai endru nammudaiya pakkathu desathin pradhamar thitta vattamaagha arivithaar. Indru adhi kaalai 4:30 mani alavil, Chequemir-in ellai arugae ISI training petra 100 perai nam naattirkkul ayudhangaludan anuppi veitha pozhudhu avar ivvaaru therivithaar.
-> Bomma idhu varai unmaiyae sonnadhu illai enbadharkku naetraya avaradhu arikkai oru saandru endru sutti kaatti irukkiraar Malaignar. Meedum oru murai thanakkum CERN nadathiya LHC test irkum Bomma sonnadhu pola endha vidha thodarbhum kidayaadhu ena arivithaar.
-> Soyawati ellaa thozhirchaalaigalaiyum azhithu meendum andha nilangalai ellam vivasaayigalidamae thara vendum endru varpuruthi irukkiraar. Avarudaiya arikkaiyil 250 B.C il India vil makkal ellaam nalathodu vaazha vazhi vaguthadhu thozhirchaalaigal illaamai dhaan endru sutti kaatti ullaar. Idhanaal angu "varatta" thozirchaalai varum endru edhir paartha pala 1000 kanakkaana kudumbangal yaemaatram adaindhanar.
-> Sothyam padathin irandaam baagam nadithae theeruvaen endru puratchi palpodi therivithu ulladhaal tamizhagam engum makkal beedhi adaindhu ullanar. Idhu satrum edhir paaraadha oru dhideer mudivu. Sameebhathil avar naditha Sothyam padathai paartha adhirchiyil makkal koottam koottamaaga tharkolai seidhu kondadhu kuripida thakkadhu.
-> Pandhai adippadhai vida meen pidippadhu kadinam endru munnaal natchathira aattakkaar Diamonds therivithu irukkiraar. Adhai patri melum kelvi ezhuppiya podhu, karuthu therivikka maruthuvittaar.
Nandri Vanakkam!
...Bayam thelindha Balachandran.
Vanakkkam! Thalaippu cheidhigal.
-> Engalukkum Chequemir il nadappadharkkum endha sammandhamum illai
-> Bomma solvadhu ellaamae poi - Malaignar arivippu.
-> Meedum 250 B.C India vai uruvaakkuvom - Soyawati aakrosham
-> Sothyam irandaam baagam nadippaen - Puratchi Palpodi paetti
-> Meen pidithu meendum aatril vida aasai - Diamonds manam thirakkiraar
Virivaana seidhigal
-> Engalukkum Chequemir il nadakkum prechanaikkum endha vida thodarbhum illai endru nammudaiya pakkathu desathin pradhamar thitta vattamaagha arivithaar. Indru adhi kaalai 4:30 mani alavil, Chequemir-in ellai arugae ISI training petra 100 perai nam naattirkkul ayudhangaludan anuppi veitha pozhudhu avar ivvaaru therivithaar.
-> Bomma idhu varai unmaiyae sonnadhu illai enbadharkku naetraya avaradhu arikkai oru saandru endru sutti kaatti irukkiraar Malaignar. Meedum oru murai thanakkum CERN nadathiya LHC test irkum Bomma sonnadhu pola endha vidha thodarbhum kidayaadhu ena arivithaar.
-> Soyawati ellaa thozhirchaalaigalaiyum azhithu meendum andha nilangalai ellam vivasaayigalidamae thara vendum endru varpuruthi irukkiraar. Avarudaiya arikkaiyil 250 B.C il India vil makkal ellaam nalathodu vaazha vazhi vaguthadhu thozhirchaalaigal illaamai dhaan endru sutti kaatti ullaar. Idhanaal angu "varatta" thozirchaalai varum endru edhir paartha pala 1000 kanakkaana kudumbangal yaemaatram adaindhanar.
-> Sothyam padathin irandaam baagam nadithae theeruvaen endru puratchi palpodi therivithu ulladhaal tamizhagam engum makkal beedhi adaindhu ullanar. Idhu satrum edhir paaraadha oru dhideer mudivu. Sameebhathil avar naditha Sothyam padathai paartha adhirchiyil makkal koottam koottamaaga tharkolai seidhu kondadhu kuripida thakkadhu.
-> Pandhai adippadhai vida meen pidippadhu kadinam endru munnaal natchathira aattakkaar Diamonds therivithu irukkiraar. Adhai patri melum kelvi ezhuppiya podhu, karuthu therivikka maruthuvittaar.
Nandri Vanakkam!
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Nightmare
Yesterday night was all pleasant.... I think I was in very good company of frenz.
I remember we drove some where and we were all sitting together and passing comments on few people. It was all ok...
And then I suddenly felt that some one was trying to cut me in to pieces... they start cutting me from neck with an axe.... then I panic... no one was there!
Then after few minutes.. I felt some one was hitting with a hammer on my head... I see no one except my frenz but the pain is there in the head. This wasn't any good.
And then came the final touch, some one was trying to strangle me to death and they were standing in front of me. I could clearly see all of them... I was dying and they even showed me all their names.... There is sure revenge after my death...
Watch Dhaam Dhoom in theatres!
Monday, August 25, 2008
Like it or Hate it
I like choices... the more they are happier I am.
Probably that's one reason why I prefer Indian restaurants to other cuisines. Being a veggie, other restaurants leave me with little choice. I got to pick that god damned item that is there in the last page of the menu as respite for the veggies.
But people leave you with little choice. They tend to think that since I like one, I hate all others. For long time now, when I have maintained that I am a BIG fan of Kamal Hasan I also like Rajinikanth's movies.
I wonder when people ask me to take one side and tell them who I like.
When you are young, the most use less question you face "N" number of times is "Who do you like the most? Your mom or dad?". A kiddo comes up with some answer... if its mom it doesn't mean the kid hates dad and vice versa.
When it comes to being a fan or admirer why is it only one choice?
Prima facie, I think this is one reason why there is so much of nonsense going around among the fan clubs. All the killings, spats and fights among the fan base just nullifies the joy of entertainment!
BTW, does actor Shaam still enjoy fan base? In a recent interview, he has mentioned that "Antony Yaar" will not disappoint his fans! LOL
Probably that's one reason why I prefer Indian restaurants to other cuisines. Being a veggie, other restaurants leave me with little choice. I got to pick that god damned item that is there in the last page of the menu as respite for the veggies.
But people leave you with little choice. They tend to think that since I like one, I hate all others. For long time now, when I have maintained that I am a BIG fan of Kamal Hasan I also like Rajinikanth's movies.
I wonder when people ask me to take one side and tell them who I like.
When you are young, the most use less question you face "N" number of times is "Who do you like the most? Your mom or dad?". A kiddo comes up with some answer... if its mom it doesn't mean the kid hates dad and vice versa.
When it comes to being a fan or admirer why is it only one choice?
Prima facie, I think this is one reason why there is so much of nonsense going around among the fan clubs. All the killings, spats and fights among the fan base just nullifies the joy of entertainment!
BTW, does actor Shaam still enjoy fan base? In a recent interview, he has mentioned that "Antony Yaar" will not disappoint his fans! LOL
Monday, August 18, 2008
Painful
It is such a pain to see our own people chanting "Down with India" and "Long..." the second part doesn't matter at all!
Geelani declares that all Kashmiris are Pakistanis because they are united by Islam and demands freedom!
It is so very painful that they are willing to move away from a country that's slowly but steadily carving a niche for itself and making it economically more viable just on one count... religion. I think they also enjoy the freedom in this country to the extent that they can chant "Down with India"... I do not understand what good would be bestowed upon those people if their wish is to be granted!
I wonder what kind of sadist satisfaction few leaders get out of getting the people to fight with each other and die! I am boycotting news these days! It's way beyond the limits that I could tolerate.
Hope there is light at the end of the tunnel!
Geelani declares that all Kashmiris are Pakistanis because they are united by Islam and demands freedom!
It is so very painful that they are willing to move away from a country that's slowly but steadily carving a niche for itself and making it economically more viable just on one count... religion. I think they also enjoy the freedom in this country to the extent that they can chant "Down with India"... I do not understand what good would be bestowed upon those people if their wish is to be granted!
I wonder what kind of sadist satisfaction few leaders get out of getting the people to fight with each other and die! I am boycotting news these days! It's way beyond the limits that I could tolerate.
Hope there is light at the end of the tunnel!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Mismatch
I seem to have more invites to different social networking sites in my inbox than the actual number of friends I have.
A mismatch!!!
Apparently, many of us accumulate the same list of friends in Orkut, Yahoo Msgr, GTalk etc. etc. I found this fact extremely amusing...that I have been
1. Chatting
2. Scrapping
3. Calling
4. Offline Messaging
5. Text Messaging
6. Emailing
over and over to the same set of people! Too many modes.. too less the time!
A mismatch!!!
Apparently, many of us accumulate the same list of friends in Orkut, Yahoo Msgr, GTalk etc. etc. I found this fact extremely amusing...that I have been
1. Chatting
2. Scrapping
3. Calling
4. Offline Messaging
5. Text Messaging
6. Emailing
over and over to the same set of people! Too many modes.. too less the time!
Monday, August 11, 2008
Details...
One wishes that ordering food or drink in the US is not much complicated. Half the time when I order I do not know what the ouput is gonna look like.
Last saturday I, along with my friend, was in DD (Dunkin Donuts). As many of you know, Cappuccino is predominantlythe choice. My friend went for the same and I thought I would experiment some thing different. So I asked for "Espresso with milk" which I spotted some where in the display menu. the quantity was so less... and when asked why...she gave a blank look and said that it is supposed to go with the coffee. It's an ADD-ON!
Thank heavens! No one else was around....
Based on my experiences at ordering stuff, stick to what you know should be the policy I reckon!
Last saturday I, along with my friend, was in DD (Dunkin Donuts). As many of you know, Cappuccino is predominantlythe choice. My friend went for the same and I thought I would experiment some thing different. So I asked for "Espresso with milk" which I spotted some where in the display menu. the quantity was so less... and when asked why...she gave a blank look and said that it is supposed to go with the coffee. It's an ADD-ON!
Thank heavens! No one else was around....
Based on my experiences at ordering stuff, stick to what you know should be the policy I reckon!
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Regards...
The greatest way to show regards to Rajini is to NOT write a review of Kuselan!
P.Vasu.... Please retire! Your stupidity is unbearable... (For ex. when the whole crew involving super star comes for a shooting in a village they actually make two different movies a.k.a Annamalai-2 and Chandramukhi-2...how possible????)...
P.Vasu.... Please retire! Your stupidity is unbearable... (For ex. when the whole crew involving super star comes for a shooting in a village they actually make two different movies a.k.a Annamalai-2 and Chandramukhi-2...how possible????)...
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
One day... one race...
After accepting your sincere thanks for not writing all these days, yours truly is back! Let the panic button be pressed!
Last weekend, our company tried to replicate some thing very similar to Amazing Race on CBS. An ardent viewer of tamil channels and tamil programmes that I am, be sure that I had no hint whatsoever on what this "Amazing Race" was. And the mailer from my manager did not help either. Below is the essence from his email..
"We assemble at Rebecca restaurant for breakfast at 8:00 am and after the event we meet at Tantric (Indian cuisine) for lunch."
Everything that went in between seemed so insignificant.
Alas, that turned out out to be the killer. With a fruit salad for break fast, we went around the whole (WHOLE) of Boston before we could end up at the destination for lunch. It was like tying a biscuit to a cane that sticks out from the dog. No matter how long the dog does the running, never will it reach the biscuit. It seemed so endless.... the most tiring 4 hours I have ever spent my whole life!
Top top it all... the challenges involved drafting and singing an English song. We did one and heard that there were at least 10 suicides and 15 homicides in that area on that saturday. We managed to write one in English but when we tried to sing it, Governer issued a curfew and declared emergency. Such was the quality...of the song and the singers if we could call us one!
But it was fun... running around places.. using the game to take photographs with beautiful young women :P And as it turned out, we managed unhurt and were not arrested!
Last weekend, our company tried to replicate some thing very similar to Amazing Race on CBS. An ardent viewer of tamil channels and tamil programmes that I am, be sure that I had no hint whatsoever on what this "Amazing Race" was. And the mailer from my manager did not help either. Below is the essence from his email..
"We assemble at Rebecca restaurant for breakfast at 8:00 am and after the event we meet at Tantric (Indian cuisine) for lunch."
Everything that went in between seemed so insignificant.
Alas, that turned out out to be the killer. With a fruit salad for break fast, we went around the whole (WHOLE) of Boston before we could end up at the destination for lunch. It was like tying a biscuit to a cane that sticks out from the dog. No matter how long the dog does the running, never will it reach the biscuit. It seemed so endless.... the most tiring 4 hours I have ever spent my whole life!
Top top it all... the challenges involved drafting and singing an English song. We did one and heard that there were at least 10 suicides and 15 homicides in that area on that saturday. We managed to write one in English but when we tried to sing it, Governer issued a curfew and declared emergency. Such was the quality...of the song and the singers if we could call us one!
But it was fun... running around places.. using the game to take photographs with beautiful young women :P And as it turned out, we managed unhurt and were not arrested!
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Unfair
World is just an unfair place to be in. Ain't it?
I am not gonna write a review of Kuselan songs. Coz nobody is gonna give in. More so, I do not want to be spammed/thrashed over the topic.
But take the music sites. Hey...they must be really crazy. Raaga.com has given a 4 Star rating for each of the song in Kuselan. Thats the most lopsided review stars that you can ever find for any movie.
Is the rating for the audio album in the website relate to who acted in the movie? Strange.
And when I was talking to Sunil abt this... he says "All the songs are lovely and gonna rock this whole world". Justified the ratings!
Refer to my review on Dasa songs... I seem to be unfair in rating the songs too...
Unjust world!
I am not gonna write a review of Kuselan songs. Coz nobody is gonna give in. More so, I do not want to be spammed/thrashed over the topic.
But take the music sites. Hey...they must be really crazy. Raaga.com has given a 4 Star rating for each of the song in Kuselan. Thats the most lopsided review stars that you can ever find for any movie.
Is the rating for the audio album in the website relate to who acted in the movie? Strange.
And when I was talking to Sunil abt this... he says "All the songs are lovely and gonna rock this whole world". Justified the ratings!
Refer to my review on Dasa songs... I seem to be unfair in rating the songs too...
Unjust world!
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Bliss is...
.....to wake up suddenly in the morning and check the time to only find that you have one more hour to sleep.
Priceless!
Priceless!
Friday, June 13, 2008
Demi God!
At this time, you might have guessed that the title goes to none other than Kamal Hasan. Went out to Hartford from Boston to get a view of the actor in 10 roles on the giant screen. Man, wasn't it worth the effort? I would say "YES".
First to the negatives
1. There were 3 or 4 scenes where the graphics was not up to the mark. I mean didn't match up the standard set by the same movie.
2. Some times, in the close-ups, the make up shows
3. The first 15 minutes, the period where he tries to get you in to the scheme of things, is a dampener.
4. Asin in 12th century is just a joke.
Positives:
There is whole lot. As you can see, there are no negatives in the lines of story or the screen play or the bg music or the way songs have been handled. It all fits perfectly in their slots.
THEN THE MAN HIMSELF. Is there some one else who coule pull it off? My god! The elan with which he carries the roles... mind blowing. You cannot really beleive that its one person who is doing all ten of the roles. The body language, the style of each character stands out with a stamp of individuality. Demi god he is! Pick of the characters are Balram Naidu (CBI), Kaif Ullah (Tall guy), Fletcher (CIA). Balram and Ullah have you in splits. Fletcher come through as a stylish villain.
Crazy mohan jumps in with his style in places more than one. The funny interludes are just awesome and runs with the story. Now that's what makes the Crazy-Kamal combo one of the best in business. Screen play is really good. The narration races in front of you and before you could realize its half-time and then the SECOND HALF BETTERS the first half, in every frame.
The CLIMAX FIGHT is a must-watch! How all the 10 characters stick to each other in the narration shows the class. Kamal puts it rightly as "Chaos theory". The ACTION SCENES are very well done and is class apart.
The movie ends with trademark Kamal style "Kadavul illaennu naan eppo sonnaen? Irundhaa nalla irukkumnu dhaan sonnaen" (When I did say that "God does not exist". I only said that it would be good if he exists). The movie would really set some bench marks in areas more than one which would be hard to beat or meet in the near future. The movie is not time warped as well... you can even watch it 10 years down the lane!
Ulaga nayagan rocks!!!!
First to the negatives
1. There were 3 or 4 scenes where the graphics was not up to the mark. I mean didn't match up the standard set by the same movie.
2. Some times, in the close-ups, the make up shows
3. The first 15 minutes, the period where he tries to get you in to the scheme of things, is a dampener.
4. Asin in 12th century is just a joke.
Positives:
There is whole lot. As you can see, there are no negatives in the lines of story or the screen play or the bg music or the way songs have been handled. It all fits perfectly in their slots.
THEN THE MAN HIMSELF. Is there some one else who coule pull it off? My god! The elan with which he carries the roles... mind blowing. You cannot really beleive that its one person who is doing all ten of the roles. The body language, the style of each character stands out with a stamp of individuality. Demi god he is! Pick of the characters are Balram Naidu (CBI), Kaif Ullah (Tall guy), Fletcher (CIA). Balram and Ullah have you in splits. Fletcher come through as a stylish villain.
Crazy mohan jumps in with his style in places more than one. The funny interludes are just awesome and runs with the story. Now that's what makes the Crazy-Kamal combo one of the best in business. Screen play is really good. The narration races in front of you and before you could realize its half-time and then the SECOND HALF BETTERS the first half, in every frame.
The CLIMAX FIGHT is a must-watch! How all the 10 characters stick to each other in the narration shows the class. Kamal puts it rightly as "Chaos theory". The ACTION SCENES are very well done and is class apart.
The movie ends with trademark Kamal style "Kadavul illaennu naan eppo sonnaen? Irundhaa nalla irukkumnu dhaan sonnaen" (When I did say that "God does not exist". I only said that it would be good if he exists). The movie would really set some bench marks in areas more than one which would be hard to beat or meet in the near future. The movie is not time warped as well... you can even watch it 10 years down the lane!
Ulaga nayagan rocks!!!!
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Some body....
.....save me!
I hate the onsite-offshore model. There should be people dedicated to handle cross-shore communications, one reckons!
Just a rant...nothing serious!
I hate the onsite-offshore model. There should be people dedicated to handle cross-shore communications, one reckons!
Just a rant...nothing serious!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Disgust...
The most disgusting act by a person could be putting that fake smile on their face. I know you hate me for what I am and I ain't here expecting that fake smile of yours!
I wonder what goes through a person's mind when he fakes a friendly smile. It shows!
I wonder what goes through a person's mind when he fakes a friendly smile. It shows!
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Heartfilling
Have you ever handled a 50 ft Anaconda all by yourself? I would die even if you try to make a cartoon character out of me and leave it to the beast.
I was put to some thing similar.
No, not the anaconda, dinosaurs...leave those to Spielberg. I was given a mammoth Toyota Sienna on my second only drive on US roads. All I asked for is a mid-size car and was upgraded to Sienna. My friend was very happy that he gets to drive the monster.
I was, probably, scared to shit.
But then I had to handle it. I cannot believe that I handled it for 300 miles or so. Then the charger for the GPS was not working... so we went to Avis to get that fixed. And there stands a shock beautifully dressed as Chevy Uplander.
Worst things were yet to come... I thought to myself.
And yeah the trip to Niagara and NYC was awesome. NYC hasn't lost its charm one bit. But surprisingly the crowd in time square was meagre. Spending 1:00 am to 2:00 am at NYC is a bliss!
I was put to some thing similar.
No, not the anaconda, dinosaurs...leave those to Spielberg. I was given a mammoth Toyota Sienna on my second only drive on US roads. All I asked for is a mid-size car and was upgraded to Sienna. My friend was very happy that he gets to drive the monster.
I was, probably, scared to shit.
But then I had to handle it. I cannot believe that I handled it for 300 miles or so. Then the charger for the GPS was not working... so we went to Avis to get that fixed. And there stands a shock beautifully dressed as Chevy Uplander.
Worst things were yet to come... I thought to myself.
And yeah the trip to Niagara and NYC was awesome. NYC hasn't lost its charm one bit. But surprisingly the crowd in time square was meagre. Spending 1:00 am to 2:00 am at NYC is a bliss!
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Mini India
If any one misses India and wants to see a miniature of it... wants to stand in a "B" shaped queue if you might want to call it a queue... Wants to relive every bit of Indian life....
......Pls plan to be in Niagara this weekend. I know a huge number of people gonna be there this weekend, given its a long weekend here in the US. Any ways its gonna be fun. If you are there this weekend, you will probably find hell-a-lot of Indians and sure you would find me as well.
I am excited... ciao!!
......Pls plan to be in Niagara this weekend. I know a huge number of people gonna be there this weekend, given its a long weekend here in the US. Any ways its gonna be fun. If you are there this weekend, you will probably find hell-a-lot of Indians and sure you would find me as well.
I am excited... ciao!!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Corporate Cocktail
If you had stepped out of India some 10 yrs back and haven't been there for past 4 yrs or so... We welcome you to the new CORPORATE Chennai!
Corporates are every where and in every business. They ventured in to IT, Chennai saw a change in lifestyle. People started making more money and now it has managed to create a rift between the IT people and non-IT people with the latter blaming almost everything, even if their dog falls ill, on the former. Increasingly, these days, tamil movies have taken a dig at people working in IT industry. They portray people as being paid big money for doing nothing. I might have to get in to "Mudhalvan" (tamil movie) style of challenging them to be working on a tight-deadline-die-and-finish-it project at least for one project.
The corporates then moved to Shopping malls, we saw big malls coming up in Chennai. These were fun! Time pass... time pass and then there were some serious buyers as well. To add to it they then stepped up to the cinema halls. Come "Multiplexes", which Cheran in his last movie says is only for the well-to-do people. With multiplexes and malls and big, classy and well done offices, the outlook of Chennai started changing drastically. Then in to retails... Reliance has taken over the retail world.
But then they moved in to an important area.... HEALTH CARE. Yup the hospitals. Good is that we have got brilliant hospitals with all international facilities. You can get any thing done with out even thinking about going abroad to get it cured.
But its more painful to see these hospitals with state-of-art facilities operating on a Eureka forbes style "fix-the-target-and-do whatever-it takes-to-achieve-it". Personally, I have gone through the experience.
Please do not get me wrong. I am not here saying that doctors shouldn't be making money. I am not a dumber! But when corporates enter a field, the focus is on making money. The profit margins turn in to a bigger balloon and I am sure that doctors out there would also agree when I say this.
One big chain of hospitals on old-mahabalipuram-road in chennai has only one way of treating the customers (yeah the patients)
1. Take ECG
2. Take X-Ray
3. Scan
4. Blood test
5. Urine test
With all this, let me find out why you have a high fever. One of my close doctor friend agrees that they are compelled to do what they are doing. These hospitals are fixing targets for each of the in-house doctors and their renumeration is tied to the target.
Now you might want to consider doing a "MBA" after your Masters in the medicine field. With corporate hospitals doing this to the health care, people are slowly moving away from these hospitals.... Once I was rushing this employee of a small mechanical lathe shop to a hospital. He was bleeding badly as he had his hand crushed in the machine. The only thing he said in the state of pain is "Please do not take me to that premium private hospital. Take me to 24-hrs hospital (govt run)"
Can doctors out there do something abt this?
Corporates are every where and in every business. They ventured in to IT, Chennai saw a change in lifestyle. People started making more money and now it has managed to create a rift between the IT people and non-IT people with the latter blaming almost everything, even if their dog falls ill, on the former. Increasingly, these days, tamil movies have taken a dig at people working in IT industry. They portray people as being paid big money for doing nothing. I might have to get in to "Mudhalvan" (tamil movie) style of challenging them to be working on a tight-deadline-die-and-finish-it project at least for one project.
The corporates then moved to Shopping malls, we saw big malls coming up in Chennai. These were fun! Time pass... time pass and then there were some serious buyers as well. To add to it they then stepped up to the cinema halls. Come "Multiplexes", which Cheran in his last movie says is only for the well-to-do people. With multiplexes and malls and big, classy and well done offices, the outlook of Chennai started changing drastically. Then in to retails... Reliance has taken over the retail world.
But then they moved in to an important area.... HEALTH CARE. Yup the hospitals. Good is that we have got brilliant hospitals with all international facilities. You can get any thing done with out even thinking about going abroad to get it cured.
But its more painful to see these hospitals with state-of-art facilities operating on a Eureka forbes style "fix-the-target-and-do whatever-it takes-to-achieve-it". Personally, I have gone through the experience.
Please do not get me wrong. I am not here saying that doctors shouldn't be making money. I am not a dumber! But when corporates enter a field, the focus is on making money. The profit margins turn in to a bigger balloon and I am sure that doctors out there would also agree when I say this.
One big chain of hospitals on old-mahabalipuram-road in chennai has only one way of treating the customers (yeah the patients)
1. Take ECG
2. Take X-Ray
3. Scan
4. Blood test
5. Urine test
With all this, let me find out why you have a high fever. One of my close doctor friend agrees that they are compelled to do what they are doing. These hospitals are fixing targets for each of the in-house doctors and their renumeration is tied to the target.
Now you might want to consider doing a "MBA" after your Masters in the medicine field. With corporate hospitals doing this to the health care, people are slowly moving away from these hospitals.... Once I was rushing this employee of a small mechanical lathe shop to a hospital. He was bleeding badly as he had his hand crushed in the machine. The only thing he said in the state of pain is "Please do not take me to that premium private hospital. Take me to 24-hrs hospital (govt run)"
Can doctors out there do something abt this?
Monday, May 12, 2008
Heartless Honor
Talk she did to a british soldier Paul
May her soul rest in peace...
Some where in Iraq, barbarians prevail!!!!
Read Here... More painful is the way she was killed!
May her soul rest in peace...
Some where in Iraq, barbarians prevail!!!!
Read Here... More painful is the way she was killed!
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Gift..
What a lovely Mother's day gift for my mom... Sourav sizzled with a 57-ball 91 with 5 sixes!
And my mom hates him these days!!
Happy mother's day to moms all over the world... you people rock!
P.S: Every one might have had a gud akshya trithiyai last week... But as luck would have it my chain putukkuchu. I am on look out for sponsors... any takers?
And my mom hates him these days!!
Happy mother's day to moms all over the world... you people rock!
P.S: Every one might have had a gud akshya trithiyai last week... But as luck would have it my chain putukkuchu. I am on look out for sponsors... any takers?
Friday, May 9, 2008
A fancy meet
For some reason Dush, Barjun Singh, Gaswant Singh, Ladoo Prasad, Vanmohan and Gramadoss are in one place discussing the Indian economy.
Ladoo: I think the good performance of the railways has a lot to do with India's rising economy. With this, every Indian should buy cows. I will take the fodder contract
Barjun Singh: I have a plan ji! We will introduce reservation system here. Backward class cows will be sold first.
Gaswant Singh: This is ridiculous. I think we should confiscate money from all cricketers and build a cement factory
Barjun Singh: 33% reservation for women in employment ji!
Gramadoss: Women going to work is against ancient tamil culture. I strictly condemn this proposal of Barjun singh.
Gaswant Singh: Due to all this money, food prices are increasing.
Dush: With improving economy, you guys are demanding more nutritious food and you are eating lot. This has caused food price to increase in the US.
Gramadoss: aaaaaiii... Dush has spoken ill abt tamil culture and Indian culture. we should stop screening all the hollywood movies.
Ladoo: Vanmohan ji... what is your response?
Vanmohan: (Zonia ji... Can I talk?) According to Bongress high command, we can resolve this issue amicably.
Dush goes out for a smoke...
Gramadoss: Mr.Dush has to learn few things from Rajinikanth. Being a leader of a extremely powerful country. He is giving a wrong example to others.
Dush: I heard that Mukesh is building an awesome house in Mumbai
Barjun singh: Yes ji. First 6 floors are RESERVED for parking.
Ladoo: Barjun ji... can't you talk any thing other than reservation ji? Yes Mukesh house is gud. I cannot build from the revenue railways is generating
Vanmohan: Ladoo ji... revenue generated by railways is not your money.
Ladoo: Then who will enjoy all the money?
Gaswant: We should give employment to all poor people in India with that money.
Dush: I think over all India's health care has also improved.
Barjun: Yes ji. We have reserved 43% of mortuary space. In the rest 57% - 23% is reserved for women and the other 34% is open category.
Gramadoss: Mr.Dush... my son is the health minister and because of tamil culture only our health care has improved.
////****Dush leaves frustrated.****////
Gramadoss: Vanmohan... please support us for one more seat in Rajya sabha from Tamil Nadu.
Ladoo: No Vanmohan ji... I will not hand over Raliways department.
Vanmohan: Ministries are part of Lok Sabha Ladoo ji.
Barjun: I have an idea Gramadoss ji. We will create reservation for Rajya sabha members. We will allocate 15% for MPs from Tamil nadu.
Gaswant: Poor people should be brought in to politics. Some party should invite poor people. Some one should take care of them.
Vanmohan: Gaswant... why? Your party can take care of them right?
Gramadoss: That apart, I think we should ban Dasavatharam movie.
Barjun: Why?
Gramadoss: Dasavatharam is not a tamil name and Kamal is not glorifying tamil history...
and the conversation continues....
Ladoo: I think the good performance of the railways has a lot to do with India's rising economy. With this, every Indian should buy cows. I will take the fodder contract
Barjun Singh: I have a plan ji! We will introduce reservation system here. Backward class cows will be sold first.
Gaswant Singh: This is ridiculous. I think we should confiscate money from all cricketers and build a cement factory
Barjun Singh: 33% reservation for women in employment ji!
Gramadoss: Women going to work is against ancient tamil culture. I strictly condemn this proposal of Barjun singh.
Gaswant Singh: Due to all this money, food prices are increasing.
Dush: With improving economy, you guys are demanding more nutritious food and you are eating lot. This has caused food price to increase in the US.
Gramadoss: aaaaaiii... Dush has spoken ill abt tamil culture and Indian culture. we should stop screening all the hollywood movies.
Ladoo: Vanmohan ji... what is your response?
Vanmohan: (Zonia ji... Can I talk?) According to Bongress high command, we can resolve this issue amicably.
Dush goes out for a smoke...
Gramadoss: Mr.Dush has to learn few things from Rajinikanth. Being a leader of a extremely powerful country. He is giving a wrong example to others.
Dush: I heard that Mukesh is building an awesome house in Mumbai
Barjun singh: Yes ji. First 6 floors are RESERVED for parking.
Ladoo: Barjun ji... can't you talk any thing other than reservation ji? Yes Mukesh house is gud. I cannot build from the revenue railways is generating
Vanmohan: Ladoo ji... revenue generated by railways is not your money.
Ladoo: Then who will enjoy all the money?
Gaswant: We should give employment to all poor people in India with that money.
Dush: I think over all India's health care has also improved.
Barjun: Yes ji. We have reserved 43% of mortuary space. In the rest 57% - 23% is reserved for women and the other 34% is open category.
Gramadoss: Mr.Dush... my son is the health minister and because of tamil culture only our health care has improved.
////****Dush leaves frustrated.****////
Gramadoss: Vanmohan... please support us for one more seat in Rajya sabha from Tamil Nadu.
Ladoo: No Vanmohan ji... I will not hand over Raliways department.
Vanmohan: Ministries are part of Lok Sabha Ladoo ji.
Barjun: I have an idea Gramadoss ji. We will create reservation for Rajya sabha members. We will allocate 15% for MPs from Tamil nadu.
Gaswant: Poor people should be brought in to politics. Some party should invite poor people. Some one should take care of them.
Vanmohan: Gaswant... why? Your party can take care of them right?
Gramadoss: That apart, I think we should ban Dasavatharam movie.
Barjun: Why?
Gramadoss: Dasavatharam is not a tamil name and Kamal is not glorifying tamil history...
and the conversation continues....
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Miss!
Marriages are made in heaven. But marriage dates are, in all probability, fixed in consultation with my project manager. At least for people who I know of and more importantly people who know me. Looks like they have my calendar in their hands before they fix up the dates. All those days when I am in chennai doesn't seem to matter at all.
My mail box has been viewing more wedding invites approximately from the time I came in to the US. The day I stepped in to the US one of my friends was getting married else where. Its been like 4 marriages in the past three months or so. And more marriage invites are coming my way. Its acceptable if I chose to live in this country... But as people might want to have it, every thing happens in the short period when I am here away from home town.
The fun.. friends... festive mood... oh am I not missing some things really beautiful?
My mail box has been viewing more wedding invites approximately from the time I came in to the US. The day I stepped in to the US one of my friends was getting married else where. Its been like 4 marriages in the past three months or so. And more marriage invites are coming my way. Its acceptable if I chose to live in this country... But as people might want to have it, every thing happens in the short period when I am here away from home town.
The fun.. friends... festive mood... oh am I not missing some things really beautiful?
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Raz strikes again!!!
Bear with me.... another tag!! Raz - I did not want to disappoint you and hence proved ur statement "Naan tag panna ellaarum somberi kazhudhaingha"
1) Last movie you saw in a theatre?
This is the killer question... Kuruvi! nominated for Oscars - Scariest movie!
2) What book are you reading? - I have been trying to - I have Mahatma Gandhiji's autobiography in hand.
3) Favorite board game? - Carrom, Chess
4) Favorite magazine? - I don't read magazines.
5) Favorite smells? - Smell bfore the rain, petrol, masala vadai, pakoda
6) Favorite thing to do in weekend? - Hang out! Any day!
7) Worst feeling in the world? - Ignored by your close friend.
8)What is the first thing you think of when u wakeup? - Pray every one gets the good things they pray for. Really!!!
9) Favorite fast food place? - Murugan idly kadai, Any kai yendhi bhavan
10) Future child’s name? - Girl - not thought of yet; Boy - Dhyaneshwar.
11) Finish this statement --- 'If I had a lot of money' - Period.. the thought of it is awesome.
12) Do you drive fast? - Some times.
13) Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? - Hmm... With pillow!
14) Storms -- Cool or Scary? - It's cool. Love the stormy day.
15) What was your first car? - Hot wheels!!
16) Favorite drink? - Mango drink, Long Island Ice Tea.
17) Finish this statement --- If i had the time i would.... - Give it to others!!
18) Do you eat the stems on broccoli? - Whuaaaaaaaack!
19) If you could dye your hair any other color, what would be your choice? - I am very protective of my hair!
20) Name all the different cities/towns you have lived in? Lived only in Chennai... been to Boston, Dallas, NY, London, Malaysia
21) Favorite sports to watch? - Cricket
22) One information about the person who sent this to you? - Every body reading my blog knows her!
23) What’s under your bed? - Prashanth..the I am!!!
24) Would you like to be born as yourself again? - If I don't like who else can take my birth?
25) Morning person or night owl? - Night owl!!!
26) Over easy or sunny side up? - Very very easy.
27) Favorite place to relax? - Beach, Play Flute, Music!
28) Favorite pie? - Never tasted!
29) Favorite ice cream flavor? - Caramel!! Yummy!!!
30) Of all the people you have tagged, who is the most likely to respond first? - None. So no tagging!
1) Last movie you saw in a theatre?
This is the killer question... Kuruvi! nominated for Oscars - Scariest movie!
2) What book are you reading? - I have been trying to - I have Mahatma Gandhiji's autobiography in hand.
3) Favorite board game? - Carrom, Chess
4) Favorite magazine? - I don't read magazines.
5) Favorite smells? - Smell bfore the rain, petrol, masala vadai, pakoda
6) Favorite thing to do in weekend? - Hang out! Any day!
7) Worst feeling in the world? - Ignored by your close friend.
8)What is the first thing you think of when u wakeup? - Pray every one gets the good things they pray for. Really!!!
9) Favorite fast food place? - Murugan idly kadai, Any kai yendhi bhavan
10) Future child’s name? - Girl - not thought of yet; Boy - Dhyaneshwar.
11) Finish this statement --- 'If I had a lot of money' - Period.. the thought of it is awesome.
12) Do you drive fast? - Some times.
13) Do you sleep with a stuffed animal? - Hmm... With pillow!
14) Storms -- Cool or Scary? - It's cool. Love the stormy day.
15) What was your first car? - Hot wheels!!
16) Favorite drink? - Mango drink, Long Island Ice Tea.
17) Finish this statement --- If i had the time i would.... - Give it to others!!
18) Do you eat the stems on broccoli? - Whuaaaaaaaack!
19) If you could dye your hair any other color, what would be your choice? - I am very protective of my hair!
20) Name all the different cities/towns you have lived in? Lived only in Chennai... been to Boston, Dallas, NY, London, Malaysia
21) Favorite sports to watch? - Cricket
22) One information about the person who sent this to you? - Every body reading my blog knows her!
23) What’s under your bed? - Prashanth..the I am!!!
24) Would you like to be born as yourself again? - If I don't like who else can take my birth?
25) Morning person or night owl? - Night owl!!!
26) Over easy or sunny side up? - Very very easy.
27) Favorite place to relax? - Beach, Play Flute, Music!
28) Favorite pie? - Never tasted!
29) Favorite ice cream flavor? - Caramel!! Yummy!!!
30) Of all the people you have tagged, who is the most likely to respond first? - None. So no tagging!
Suicide and Mass Extinction
Police are arresting people who are going to theatres with the intention of watching "Kuruvi" starring Vijay. It has been legally announced as an attempt to suicide.
If the movie is dubbed in 12 regional languages...it might lead to mass extinction #8 (#7 - is my car driving)
Kuruvi...Kuruvi... adichaa... Kuruvi Kuruvi... Nadichaaa.... Kandraaaaaaaaaaaaavi!
Sun TV style... Kuruvi... Kandraavi!
If the movie is dubbed in 12 regional languages...it might lead to mass extinction #8 (#7 - is my car driving)
Kuruvi...Kuruvi... adichaa... Kuruvi Kuruvi... Nadichaaa.... Kandraaaaaaaaaaaaavi!
Sun TV style... Kuruvi... Kandraavi!
Sunday, April 27, 2008
Dhasavatharam...
....album is pretty good! Himesh's music is actually fresh for tamil cinema world!
"Kallai Mattum" from Hariharan is just awesome..rendered brilliantly by Hariharan. Its abt vaishanavites and should date back to 12th century.
"Ulaga Nayagan" is the dream song for any Kamal fan. Glorifies Kamal to the extent possible. For others, passable. Rendered by Vinit. Probably for the titles!
"Oh ho sanam" by Kamal is sure hit! Its really gud. This genre actually suits Kamal well.. Its like the Ullaasam song sung by Kamal! Awesome rendering.
"Oh ho sanam" by Himesh himself should hit the dance floors soon..Himesh's tamil lingo is not tht bad.
"Kaa..karupanukkum" by Shalini (I guess) is interesting. Probably will get used to it. For dance floors again.
"Mukundha Mukundha" is Himesh's try at divine melody. Himesh..pls stick to other genres!
On the whole... definitely not a let down! Exciting days to Dhasavatharam!
"Kallai Mattum" from Hariharan is just awesome..rendered brilliantly by Hariharan. Its abt vaishanavites and should date back to 12th century.
"Ulaga Nayagan" is the dream song for any Kamal fan. Glorifies Kamal to the extent possible. For others, passable. Rendered by Vinit. Probably for the titles!
"Oh ho sanam" by Kamal is sure hit! Its really gud. This genre actually suits Kamal well.. Its like the Ullaasam song sung by Kamal! Awesome rendering.
"Oh ho sanam" by Himesh himself should hit the dance floors soon..Himesh's tamil lingo is not tht bad.
"Kaa..karupanukkum" by Shalini (I guess) is interesting. Probably will get used to it. For dance floors again.
"Mukundha Mukundha" is Himesh's try at divine melody. Himesh..pls stick to other genres!
On the whole... definitely not a let down! Exciting days to Dhasavatharam!
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Jackass!
I am back from the workshop for increased mental ability. Now I can recollect my name instantly. Seriously!
With improved memory, I ventured in to something that I have never done here in the US.
It was like swimming upstream against tsunami.....
It was like drinking beer after 3 shots of tequila....
It was like writing my board exams all over again...
It was driving car in the roads to Chicago!
I have never felt like driving a car in the US for the sheer fear of not knowing the rules. Not knowing the driving always came second! Last time when I was in India, I worked some magic, drove a car and secured a license. And here last weekend, some evil spirit got in to me and made me rent a car. Why I know tht it is an evil spirit? Who else would rent a full size Toyota Camry on his/her debut in the US roads?
With a full size car in my hand and the roads of Chicago in front of me, predictions were in full swing. Some said it could be as devastating as the Great Chicago Fire that ripped through the city while others predicted that it might be a safe bet for Mass Extinction #7. With all these speculations, I drove the car in the downtown... I drove well. At least mortality rate was 0% with none hurt. Surprisingly, the roads in chicago downtown were not that crazy in the weekend. Full marks!
Now comes the major mistake. Having conquered the downtown, I took an unassuming turn that landed me straight up in the fast lane of the Inter-State express way! There stands a jackass with a steering wheel in his hand that controls a full size Camry! It was like giving a dog a sealed can completely filled with its favorite biscuit and handing over a can opener to it. There is definitely the inclination to pull it off but..... HOW? God knows how I drove my way out of the express way!! Phew.
P.S:
1. My driving improved as the day progressed and may be I am ready for another adventure. Watch out... Boston!
2. With the trip to chicago I am now 243 photographs richer! Is there a printing machine in the vicinity?
With improved memory, I ventured in to something that I have never done here in the US.
It was like swimming upstream against tsunami.....
It was like drinking beer after 3 shots of tequila....
It was like writing my board exams all over again...
It was driving car in the roads to Chicago!
I have never felt like driving a car in the US for the sheer fear of not knowing the rules. Not knowing the driving always came second! Last time when I was in India, I worked some magic, drove a car and secured a license. And here last weekend, some evil spirit got in to me and made me rent a car. Why I know tht it is an evil spirit? Who else would rent a full size Toyota Camry on his/her debut in the US roads?
With a full size car in my hand and the roads of Chicago in front of me, predictions were in full swing. Some said it could be as devastating as the Great Chicago Fire that ripped through the city while others predicted that it might be a safe bet for Mass Extinction #7. With all these speculations, I drove the car in the downtown... I drove well. At least mortality rate was 0% with none hurt. Surprisingly, the roads in chicago downtown were not that crazy in the weekend. Full marks!
Now comes the major mistake. Having conquered the downtown, I took an unassuming turn that landed me straight up in the fast lane of the Inter-State express way! There stands a jackass with a steering wheel in his hand that controls a full size Camry! It was like giving a dog a sealed can completely filled with its favorite biscuit and handing over a can opener to it. There is definitely the inclination to pull it off but..... HOW? God knows how I drove my way out of the express way!! Phew.
P.S:
1. My driving improved as the day progressed and may be I am ready for another adventure. Watch out... Boston!
2. With the trip to chicago I am now 243 photographs richer! Is there a printing machine in the vicinity?
Monday, April 14, 2008
Point blank!
You could have possibly hit me last week like a crazy man hitting a stray dog. And yet when you appear the week after in front of me, you can introduce yourself and start all over again!
You may think I am crazy.But I am not. I mean I am not that crazy. My memory power would have driven even a research scholar like Hermann Ebbinghaus to a mental asylum. People talk about Alzheimer's, Amnesia, Dementia etc. I probably have the perfect blend of these three. Yes. I am yet to find a contradicting evidence against this statement.
People are pissed over my mental ability all over (well not exactly what you think)! I forget names, I forget birthdays. I have been trying to post this since last week and kept forgetting. Then there are my friends who can remember when Venkatapathy Raju last took a wicket. I am sure a misfit. And when you think its abt aging, I would step forward with a firm "No". I am not even half the age of Jothika's new born daughter. But some how my mind's volatility seems to put a volatile solvent like acetone to shame.
Over the period, I have been thinking that I keep forgetting things at a rate that is inversely proportional to the rate at which I learn it. But this theory can be immediately shot down. By the time I learn some thing new, Shahjahan would have built 275 Taj Mahals. I never learn anything quick. Only later I realized that my mind doesn't even encode the information in to it. House full!!
I may soon launch in to methods of Gajini-Surya, tattoo-ing information all over my body. This sounds feasible for you can write whole of Indian history. Its huge hectares of vacant land! The practicality of this solution hits hard on me. Imagine, every time some one asks me a question, I might have to rush to a restroom to get the answer. And probably I might have to write some where that I can refer to the answers from the tattoos all over my body.
The inference is that this is never ending pain for all people with me. You gotto bear with me cos there is no way on this earth that my brain will improve. If you still think so, you might be the contender for the "Most positive minded person living on earth".
One interesting theory that I came across...
Decay Theory
Decay theory states that when something new is learned, a neurochemical, physical "memory trace" is formed in the brain and over time this trace tends to disintegrate, unless it is occasionally used.
I have not been using my brain even occasionally and hence the proof.
You may think I am crazy.But I am not. I mean I am not that crazy. My memory power would have driven even a research scholar like Hermann Ebbinghaus to a mental asylum. People talk about Alzheimer's, Amnesia, Dementia etc. I probably have the perfect blend of these three. Yes. I am yet to find a contradicting evidence against this statement.
People are pissed over my mental ability all over (well not exactly what you think)! I forget names, I forget birthdays. I have been trying to post this since last week and kept forgetting. Then there are my friends who can remember when Venkatapathy Raju last took a wicket. I am sure a misfit. And when you think its abt aging, I would step forward with a firm "No". I am not even half the age of Jothika's new born daughter. But some how my mind's volatility seems to put a volatile solvent like acetone to shame.
Over the period, I have been thinking that I keep forgetting things at a rate that is inversely proportional to the rate at which I learn it. But this theory can be immediately shot down. By the time I learn some thing new, Shahjahan would have built 275 Taj Mahals. I never learn anything quick. Only later I realized that my mind doesn't even encode the information in to it. House full!!
I may soon launch in to methods of Gajini-Surya, tattoo-ing information all over my body. This sounds feasible for you can write whole of Indian history. Its huge hectares of vacant land! The practicality of this solution hits hard on me. Imagine, every time some one asks me a question, I might have to rush to a restroom to get the answer. And probably I might have to write some where that I can refer to the answers from the tattoos all over my body.
The inference is that this is never ending pain for all people with me. You gotto bear with me cos there is no way on this earth that my brain will improve. If you still think so, you might be the contender for the "Most positive minded person living on earth".
One interesting theory that I came across...
Decay Theory
Decay theory states that when something new is learned, a neurochemical, physical "memory trace" is formed in the brain and over time this trace tends to disintegrate, unless it is occasionally used.
I have not been using my brain even occasionally and hence the proof.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Happy Tamil New Year
Amidst all the confusions... we have finally decided that we would officially celebrate this year's tamil new year on Apr 14th!
Tamil puthaandu nal vaazhthukkal!!!!
This new year is quite different for me. Bcos I am the cook I am the guest!!! All the best to me for the payasam try!!!!
Tamil puthaandu nal vaazhthukkal!!!!
This new year is quite different for me. Bcos I am the cook I am the guest!!! All the best to me for the payasam try!!!!
Thursday, April 10, 2008
Picturesque
A day, that I, never imagined was finally out here today.
Today... all summer wear were finally dusted by people all over Boston. It was an amazing day with perfect weather. While back home, people are complaining about the heat... Sun was out on an exotic vacation from this part of the world until today. If you were out for an evening walk, you might have to be defrosted after you get back home (if at all you get back).
It was full of life today. After a long hiatus, people were finally out of there apartments and were found in the tennis courts, parks et al. Hope the weather stays the same. But in Boston, you never know!
Today... all summer wear were finally dusted by people all over Boston. It was an amazing day with perfect weather. While back home, people are complaining about the heat... Sun was out on an exotic vacation from this part of the world until today. If you were out for an evening walk, you might have to be defrosted after you get back home (if at all you get back).
It was full of life today. After a long hiatus, people were finally out of there apartments and were found in the tennis courts, parks et al. Hope the weather stays the same. But in Boston, you never know!
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Happy Ugadhi
To all my people hailing from a beautiful state named - Andhra Pradesh.....
Wish you all a very happy ugadhi!!!
Ugadhi dhina subhakhanshalu!
UPDATE:
I learnt that Ugadhi is also celebrated in Karnataka! Happy Ugadhi to Kannada brothers and sisters as well!
Wish you all a very happy ugadhi!!!
Ugadhi dhina subhakhanshalu!
UPDATE:
I learnt that Ugadhi is also celebrated in Karnataka! Happy Ugadhi to Kannada brothers and sisters as well!
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Rules rulz!
I have been diagnosed with movie watching syndrome. The fact that I know hindi, tamil and telugu has only added fuel to the fire. What ever might be the language there seems to be certain rulez followed, with an obedience of married women of ancient Indian civilization, by the movie makers.
1. Heroines are the dumbest women on the earth. They can fall for even silliest of trick. They have limited costume and brains!
2. A horror movie always has a semi-lunatic/lunatic person in the vicinity of the place of horror.
3. Villains always kidnap people to places with lots of drums and barrels.
4. Another one on horror movie... the maid of the house luks like a heroine with out make-up (ghost) and has borrowed voice from one of the character in star-wars!
5. I am yet to see a horror movie with out black colored cat. I advice police to replace all the dogs with Cats (black colored) as they can sense a murder even before it happens.
6. Heroes are like cartoon characters. There is no limit to what they can do. (Just like Bunny walks up in the air - thro a virtual ladder)
7. Action heroes are always bearded
8. Action heroes do not woo the heroine. How ever bad they are, heroines will be behind them.
9. Heroes' close friend will always die
10. Villains always choose the most time consuming methods to kill the hero there by giving him an opportunity to escape (like hanging'em up with a ice block beneath... so the moment ice melts.. hero will die)
11. Poor always loves the rich
12. Poor heroes' mothers are either widows or die.
These are few... there are lot more. Once you watch lotsa movies...you tend to grasp the trend!
God save movie watchers!
1. Heroines are the dumbest women on the earth. They can fall for even silliest of trick. They have limited costume and brains!
2. A horror movie always has a semi-lunatic/lunatic person in the vicinity of the place of horror.
3. Villains always kidnap people to places with lots of drums and barrels.
4. Another one on horror movie... the maid of the house luks like a heroine with out make-up (ghost) and has borrowed voice from one of the character in star-wars!
5. I am yet to see a horror movie with out black colored cat. I advice police to replace all the dogs with Cats (black colored) as they can sense a murder even before it happens.
6. Heroes are like cartoon characters. There is no limit to what they can do. (Just like Bunny walks up in the air - thro a virtual ladder)
7. Action heroes are always bearded
8. Action heroes do not woo the heroine. How ever bad they are, heroines will be behind them.
9. Heroes' close friend will always die
10. Villains always choose the most time consuming methods to kill the hero there by giving him an opportunity to escape (like hanging'em up with a ice block beneath... so the moment ice melts.. hero will die)
11. Poor always loves the rich
12. Poor heroes' mothers are either widows or die.
These are few... there are lot more. Once you watch lotsa movies...you tend to grasp the trend!
God save movie watchers!
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
I declare....
.... that methi leaves (Vendhaiya keerai in Tamil) is by far the worst among the greens used for cooking and the dish I made of it today is by far my worst!
Why the hell did I buy it?
(Methi leaves are sour in taste... so what ever you add to it also becomes sour)
Why the hell did I buy it?
(Methi leaves are sour in taste... so what ever you add to it also becomes sour)
Sunday, March 23, 2008
Lighter... Like air!
Our guy Mr.X has been struggling with his weight. BMI, Obesity, Over-Weight... few words that had become part of his day-to-day vocabulary as some one or the other sure brings up this topic. Mr.X hates the very notion of exercising! He may opt to drink a glass of poison rather than working out in the gym for a hour's time. So he decides to visit this Doc.D who is very famous for alternative solutions for obesity/over-weight. Here is the converse
Mr.X: Hello Doc.D, You know my problem. I do not want to exercise but still want to lose my weight.
Doc.D: Mr.X, there are many people like you. I suggest them to take up some sport which they love very much on a daily basis. What's yours?
Mr.X: Chess, Carrom, Snooker. I love these. I can go for hours!
Doc.D: Now I know. Pls choose any other game like tennis...
Mr.X: ...yes...yes... I like tennis!
D: That's gud.
And Doc prescribes hours of play every day and all those stuff..
D: do give me a call in case you have any doubts and start playing from tomorrow!
X: Fine. Great Thanks!
Next day.... Evening. Tring... triiiiing....
D: Hello.
X: Hello Doc. X here. I have a question in starting the game!
D: Gud. Ask me.
X: Which difficulty level should I choose? Easy, Medium or Difficult?
D: #$#$%$#^&#$
Unlike this X, I have been trying every thing. There must be a day when I would feel lighter... like air!!!
High hopes!!!
Mr.X: Hello Doc.D, You know my problem. I do not want to exercise but still want to lose my weight.
Doc.D: Mr.X, there are many people like you. I suggest them to take up some sport which they love very much on a daily basis. What's yours?
Mr.X: Chess, Carrom, Snooker. I love these. I can go for hours!
Doc.D: Now I know. Pls choose any other game like tennis...
Mr.X: ...yes...yes... I like tennis!
D: That's gud.
And Doc prescribes hours of play every day and all those stuff..
D: do give me a call in case you have any doubts and start playing from tomorrow!
X: Fine. Great Thanks!
Next day.... Evening. Tring... triiiiing....
D: Hello.
X: Hello Doc. X here. I have a question in starting the game!
D: Gud. Ask me.
X: Which difficulty level should I choose? Easy, Medium or Difficult?
D: #$#$%$#^&#$
Unlike this X, I have been trying every thing. There must be a day when I would feel lighter... like air!!!
High hopes!!!
Thursday, March 20, 2008
I know... I know...
...that very dialogue instantly reminds us of the now-veteran Raghuvaran. Villainity came to him as if it was his second nature. The way he uses his voice... amazing.
In more than one way, he redefined what villainity in cinema meant. The characters he played are not the stupid stereo-types with "Lungi" and with some useless folks around him... going around screaming on the screen. He played them with magnanimity. This gave the film makers a chance to experiment with his villainity. No words can match his achievement and aptly he was awarded "Kalaimaamani" by Government of Tamilnadu.
But film makers have to do some thinking now before etching a character with him in mind. Because, today, he is no more (at an age of 49 he could have lived more). But his characters like "Mark Antony" etc will stay with us forever.The "Kollywood" has lost in him a great actor (villain and character roles) and a very good personality (sans his drug addiction and divorce with Rohini).
His demise leaves a huge void that would be unfilled for the rest of tamil film industry's life!Lets pray god that his soul rests in peace.
This year tamil film industry has already been plauged with death of Sujatha, an awesome writer of fictional novels and film dialogues. (Raz's version of denmise of Sujatha can be read here)
In more than one way, he redefined what villainity in cinema meant. The characters he played are not the stupid stereo-types with "Lungi" and with some useless folks around him... going around screaming on the screen. He played them with magnanimity. This gave the film makers a chance to experiment with his villainity. No words can match his achievement and aptly he was awarded "Kalaimaamani" by Government of Tamilnadu.
But film makers have to do some thinking now before etching a character with him in mind. Because, today, he is no more (at an age of 49 he could have lived more). But his characters like "Mark Antony" etc will stay with us forever.The "Kollywood" has lost in him a great actor (villain and character roles) and a very good personality (sans his drug addiction and divorce with Rohini).
His demise leaves a huge void that would be unfilled for the rest of tamil film industry's life!Lets pray god that his soul rests in peace.
This year tamil film industry has already been plauged with death of Sujatha, an awesome writer of fictional novels and film dialogues. (Raz's version of denmise of Sujatha can be read here)
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Go paperless??
These days, every service provider every bank offers us the option of going paperless. No paper at all. All the transactions will be emailed to you.
If you have signed up for paperless billing/statements, be sure to save those emails. No...nothing against the banks. You might have to put them to use in many important occassions in your life. Recently, my friend's family was looking for an alliance. Here's what the girl's parents wanted to know (not one bit exaggerated)
1. Annual Salary + Variable component
2. Office address in the U.S
3. Work phone number
4. Brother(who is in the U.S) of the girl will call and talk to him on the work phone.
Many more... only these are on top of my mind!
Going by the scheme of things, this would form a great base as a new business model. Do all these activities and have pre-cleared grooms :P
If the current trend persists, probably people getting married in another 3 years or so will have to do the following
1. Submit address proof for stay in your current U.S address. (If your stay is less than 3 months in the current address, then include an address proof for the previous address along with the reason why you moved)
2. Recent 6 Months bank statement. (Salary account(
3. Photo identification proof.
4. Letter from your employer attesting the fact that you are employed with that company
5. Three people's reference in your locality along with their numbers.
If you submit the above documents, your application would be processed within 2 months from the date of submission and your eligibility to compete will be determined.
If eligible, your photograph will be taken up for discussion with the girl!!!!
Married guys - Lucky you! Yeah for a change... Lucky you!
Unmarried young guns with GF - You are rulers!
Third front - Write up a similar post - All the best!
If you have signed up for paperless billing/statements, be sure to save those emails. No...nothing against the banks. You might have to put them to use in many important occassions in your life. Recently, my friend's family was looking for an alliance. Here's what the girl's parents wanted to know (not one bit exaggerated)
1. Annual Salary + Variable component
2. Office address in the U.S
3. Work phone number
4. Brother(who is in the U.S) of the girl will call and talk to him on the work phone.
Many more... only these are on top of my mind!
Going by the scheme of things, this would form a great base as a new business model. Do all these activities and have pre-cleared grooms :P
If the current trend persists, probably people getting married in another 3 years or so will have to do the following
1. Submit address proof for stay in your current U.S address. (If your stay is less than 3 months in the current address, then include an address proof for the previous address along with the reason why you moved)
2. Recent 6 Months bank statement. (Salary account(
3. Photo identification proof.
4. Letter from your employer attesting the fact that you are employed with that company
5. Three people's reference in your locality along with their numbers.
If you submit the above documents, your application would be processed within 2 months from the date of submission and your eligibility to compete will be determined.
If eligible, your photograph will be taken up for discussion with the girl!!!!
Married guys - Lucky you! Yeah for a change... Lucky you!
Unmarried young guns with GF - You are rulers!
Third front - Write up a similar post - All the best!
Monday, March 17, 2008
Funny little circle
My friend went back to India from here and shared with me the pics of my college and the places where we used to roam! Funny little circle, ain't it?
Nevertheless, air is filled with aroma of heart-filled fun and laugter we used to have back then.
Nevertheless, air is filled with aroma of heart-filled fun and laugter we used to have back then.
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Indigestion!!
No... not because of any eatery. Its because of a movie titled "Kaalai", directed by "Thimiru" fame Tarun Gope and enacted by Silambarasan a.k.a Simbu. The story line was undigestible.
Some body has to tell Simbu that he has got more talent in acting and that he shouldn't be chosing these movies.
Another matter....
Today I heard one and saw one incident - Totally 2 incidents!!!
1. Hamara dosth was beaten up by locals in NJ and they took away his purse. While he tried to run away from them, he lost his mobile and glasses!
2. Today, in the bus in which I came back home... driver (a woman) and a passenger (a woman again) had a fight...
More on Incident 2:
There is this only one route that covers our apartment from the train station. As the bus came and we were all getting in.. the driver closed the doors suddenly saying that the bus is full leaving more than 10 people stranded in the station. One woman who got in called up the other folks (who were her frenz) and was talking abt taking this issue to oppicers... then the bus stops!!!!!
I didn't know why and I didn't mind asking! The driver says that the bus would move only if that woman got down (T.Nagar bus reminding)... she got down and hence we all reached home!
More than Kaalai, the two incidents caused the indigestion! People who are not at fault are always put to hardship.
For those who say pareen country is better... think again!
And yeah the labels....
Some body has to tell Simbu that he has got more talent in acting and that he shouldn't be chosing these movies.
Another matter....
Today I heard one and saw one incident - Totally 2 incidents!!!
1. Hamara dosth was beaten up by locals in NJ and they took away his purse. While he tried to run away from them, he lost his mobile and glasses!
2. Today, in the bus in which I came back home... driver (a woman) and a passenger (a woman again) had a fight...
More on Incident 2:
There is this only one route that covers our apartment from the train station. As the bus came and we were all getting in.. the driver closed the doors suddenly saying that the bus is full leaving more than 10 people stranded in the station. One woman who got in called up the other folks (who were her frenz) and was talking abt taking this issue to oppicers... then the bus stops!!!!!
I didn't know why and I didn't mind asking! The driver says that the bus would move only if that woman got down (T.Nagar bus reminding)... she got down and hence we all reached home!
More than Kaalai, the two incidents caused the indigestion! People who are not at fault are always put to hardship.
For those who say pareen country is better... think again!
And yeah the labels....
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Tagging is viral
At least its been made viral. And I have been asked to join the bandwagon to spread the virus. The ever effervescent Raz had me tagged and here I go fulfilling her wish!
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In the 8 Facts about Yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going.
Here are the rules:
* Each blogger must post these rules first.
* Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
* Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
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And here are the facts:
1. On any given day, Out of eight times I lie atleast twice (Pls decide if this is a lie or otherwise)
2. I love humour. Its the way of living for me
3. I am harcore fan of Kamalhasan, Sourav Ganguly and Goundamani!
4. I hold my friends as very special treasure
5. I day dream a lot during my free time and i am free for most of the day :P
6. I love my Pulsar 150CC and love singing while driving
7. I hate to be away from my home town for more than 6 months on the traught.
8. I am attracted to things easily and also get detached easily. I do not care to complete things!
That's it with the facts...
Indha vaangikko... my tags are Arun the gr8, Sunil the MAC, Ramki, Tys, Raz (giving back the torch to you)
Avvlavu dhaan pa! Varratumaa?
P.S: This post's title is suttufied from my colleague who named his presentation as "Innovation is Viral". We can say the title has drawn inspiration from it.
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In the 8 Facts about Yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going.
Here are the rules:
* Each blogger must post these rules first.
* Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
* Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.
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And here are the facts:
1. On any given day, Out of eight times I lie atleast twice (Pls decide if this is a lie or otherwise)
2. I love humour. Its the way of living for me
3. I am harcore fan of Kamalhasan, Sourav Ganguly and Goundamani!
4. I hold my friends as very special treasure
5. I day dream a lot during my free time and i am free for most of the day :P
6. I love my Pulsar 150CC and love singing while driving
7. I hate to be away from my home town for more than 6 months on the traught.
8. I am attracted to things easily and also get detached easily. I do not care to complete things!
That's it with the facts...
Indha vaangikko... my tags are Arun the gr8, Sunil the MAC, Ramki, Tys, Raz (giving back the torch to you)
Avvlavu dhaan pa! Varratumaa?
P.S: This post's title is suttufied from my colleague who named his presentation as "Innovation is Viral". We can say the title has drawn inspiration from it.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Rush home...
I wanna go back and live in Chennai at least for 6 months before my marriage is fixed. I do not want the label of US maappillai on me. Having seen the plight of these guys in the movies... The most pavam guys on earth!!!
I would expect her to email me well in advance to inform any such thing! Climax la vandhu hero ninaan... Kallarai dhaan!!!
P.S: Pavam, they do not even have a dialogue.
I would expect her to email me well in advance to inform any such thing! Climax la vandhu hero ninaan... Kallarai dhaan!!!
P.S: Pavam, they do not even have a dialogue.
Done...
....with the semi-barbaric way of celebrating birthday with cream all over the face. That too waking him up at 12:00 in the night! Poor roommate!
Sunday, March 9, 2008
(A)wait!
There have been two masters from two different fields who have been regarded as best in their corresponding business by the entire world. Yet they manage to have people who regard them as a thing of the past. People are ready to pounce on them on every poor show of these stalwarts!
Yes... one is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and another is Kamal Hasan.
They are such people that they do not need any introduction. Both have done wonders to their fields. You have thousands of things to celebrate about each of them. But yet this world does not fail to amaze me with the reasons they can point out to degrade these super stars!
Sachin, they say, is Selfish, Tactician, Doesn't contribute to India's victory. Kamal cannot stand aside and laugh about this because he is in the line of fire as well. It is amazing how people are lopsided. I do not understand what more can these two do in their corresponding fields to be unquestionable.
On the same note, no matter what ever I do, how much ever I do, my manager (at the client side) expects me to do more. I do not know what more should I do to meet their expectations. What should I do? I am searching for solution.
(A)waiting...
Yes... one is Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar and another is Kamal Hasan.
They are such people that they do not need any introduction. Both have done wonders to their fields. You have thousands of things to celebrate about each of them. But yet this world does not fail to amaze me with the reasons they can point out to degrade these super stars!
Sachin, they say, is Selfish, Tactician, Doesn't contribute to India's victory. Kamal cannot stand aside and laugh about this because he is in the line of fire as well. It is amazing how people are lopsided. I do not understand what more can these two do in their corresponding fields to be unquestionable.
On the same note, no matter what ever I do, how much ever I do, my manager (at the client side) expects me to do more. I do not know what more should I do to meet their expectations. What should I do? I am searching for solution.
(A)waiting...
Sunday, February 24, 2008
True Innocence!
Me: Amma! It has been snowing here all day... non-stop.
Amma: (excited) Oh! how does snow fall? Does it come down like rain? Or does it fall like ice? Is it filled with ice every where? Do take the snaps and share.
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Me: Maamaiyya (Mama), I am in US now! I am in Boston
M: Hey! Do you know Kumar? He is in LA. He has been there for three years now.. ask him if you need any help.
Me: Sure thing!
Innocence!
Amma: (excited) Oh! how does snow fall? Does it come down like rain? Or does it fall like ice? Is it filled with ice every where? Do take the snaps and share.
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Me: Maamaiyya (Mama), I am in US now! I am in Boston
M: Hey! Do you know Kumar? He is in LA. He has been there for three years now.. ask him if you need any help.
Me: Sure thing!
Innocence!
Saturday, February 23, 2008
What's with today?
... I do not see any one online! May be I should make more frenz :P
Saturday nights....
Saturday nights....
First year of graduation!!
Here is a social awakening topic...
There was this long queue. The scene is at Anna University in Chennai (Madras). It was counselling. You had to go thro counselling to get an admission in to engineering colleges. The first day of counselling and there was this long queue.
I was wondering
...How am I going to go past this queue?
...How long is it going to take?
...How many vacancies would be available when I reach there?
Then came a consoling voice from my friend Manikandan...
"Don't worry machaan... our counselling is not today.. Mine is on 15th day and yours is only on 24th day, one day bfore the final day of this leg".
See that is why you need friends. They reduce your sorrow amazingly with few truthful words. I was relieved. No tension. Now its up to some college to induct me. And one such college was Bharath Institute for Science and Technology. Don't under-estimate the college. I got only payment seat. Ok...do not worry abt that too much. My dad takes care of the finances. When I came out of the counselling, he wasn't there. He was heading to a bank to get my educational loan.
The "D" day. I was going to college. My mom and dad should have been accompanying me since it was the first day. But they weren't coming. "Welcome to the freshers" - screamed the seemingly-friendly banner. There was huge rush. When lots of students came with their parents,there were many more who came there with out parents. I could easily make out. They all must have taken payment seats. It was easy to spot them as they were every where. After all those boring, himalayan speech from correspondent, chairman, his nephew, all those related to him, we were alloted class rooms and I saw an immediate clash in interest there. Every one was fighting for the last bench. Probably, I thought to myself, I am the only person who is ready to sleep from the first few benches. Any ways, college is for serious learning... oh what a misconception?
I would have gone in that terribly wrong direction but for my seniors. They showed us the path. They always did these two things
1. Do not turn up to college
2. Even if they came, they left by 1:30 to 2:00 pm. And they come in only at 10 AM.
And they all passed their courses. Oh the god sends! They showed us what it takes to complete engineering. But year 1 wasn't the time to be doing all those.
And the classes, all of the lecturers were very sincere. All the classes were taken and hence we lost sleep during the nights. You can't be sleeping the whole day. And so that cycle continued... sleep duyring mornings and wide awake during nights. That's when some channels play educational programmes. We used to take notes :D
Ok...what did we do during the breaks? The coffee breaks were the time to play pranks on other 1st years. Go to their classes and pretend to be seniors and rag them before rushing to our classes for the next session of sleeping...errr.. classes. Then lunch time is when it really happens. Seniors swarm the classes with the intent to find good looking girls atleast in their junior classes. But they did not get their prayers right I guess. But they found solace in picking up the best-looking from the lot. Again a lesson for us. Their every step seemed to teach us some thing. Oh the great seniors!!! There was two kind of classes.
1. One with atleast 2 or 3 good looking girls
2. Which doesnot have one to boast
The first category classes will be bustling with activity during lunch times and the guys in that classes are most loved by god. They are out of all the ragging stuff. Not one senior would turn up to the majority section of the class where guys sit. All have their filters set right. Only area visible to them is where the girls sit. Alas! the other category of classes are unprivilaged. The guys there run for their life. All the seniors vent their anger and disappointment on the guys. Hey don't get me wrong. Ragging will be in peak in such classes is what I meant.
I, fortunately, belonged to category 1. So girls saved our class. But we had to do some "allakkai" work like pass on the chocolates to the girls. Yes, these high-end tasks are assigned to us by seniors. Some times, we have to buy them and give it to girls as if the senior bought it. As days rolled on with such great learning and yawning... finally the exams approached.
Guess what?? We all passed. The seniors route seemed to be working. And we all moved to the next year of graduation. We are seniors now. We erected the banner this time for the freshers
"Welcome Freshers"
After all... I too have social responsibility!!!!!
There was this long queue. The scene is at Anna University in Chennai (Madras). It was counselling. You had to go thro counselling to get an admission in to engineering colleges. The first day of counselling and there was this long queue.
I was wondering
...How am I going to go past this queue?
...How long is it going to take?
...How many vacancies would be available when I reach there?
Then came a consoling voice from my friend Manikandan...
"Don't worry machaan... our counselling is not today.. Mine is on 15th day and yours is only on 24th day, one day bfore the final day of this leg".
See that is why you need friends. They reduce your sorrow amazingly with few truthful words. I was relieved. No tension. Now its up to some college to induct me. And one such college was Bharath Institute for Science and Technology. Don't under-estimate the college. I got only payment seat. Ok...do not worry abt that too much. My dad takes care of the finances. When I came out of the counselling, he wasn't there. He was heading to a bank to get my educational loan.
The "D" day. I was going to college. My mom and dad should have been accompanying me since it was the first day. But they weren't coming. "Welcome to the freshers" - screamed the seemingly-friendly banner. There was huge rush. When lots of students came with their parents,there were many more who came there with out parents. I could easily make out. They all must have taken payment seats. It was easy to spot them as they were every where. After all those boring, himalayan speech from correspondent, chairman, his nephew, all those related to him, we were alloted class rooms and I saw an immediate clash in interest there. Every one was fighting for the last bench. Probably, I thought to myself, I am the only person who is ready to sleep from the first few benches. Any ways, college is for serious learning... oh what a misconception?
I would have gone in that terribly wrong direction but for my seniors. They showed us the path. They always did these two things
1. Do not turn up to college
2. Even if they came, they left by 1:30 to 2:00 pm. And they come in only at 10 AM.
And they all passed their courses. Oh the god sends! They showed us what it takes to complete engineering. But year 1 wasn't the time to be doing all those.
And the classes, all of the lecturers were very sincere. All the classes were taken and hence we lost sleep during the nights. You can't be sleeping the whole day. And so that cycle continued... sleep duyring mornings and wide awake during nights. That's when some channels play educational programmes. We used to take notes :D
Ok...what did we do during the breaks? The coffee breaks were the time to play pranks on other 1st years. Go to their classes and pretend to be seniors and rag them before rushing to our classes for the next session of sleeping...errr.. classes. Then lunch time is when it really happens. Seniors swarm the classes with the intent to find good looking girls atleast in their junior classes. But they did not get their prayers right I guess. But they found solace in picking up the best-looking from the lot. Again a lesson for us. Their every step seemed to teach us some thing. Oh the great seniors!!! There was two kind of classes.
1. One with atleast 2 or 3 good looking girls
2. Which doesnot have one to boast
The first category classes will be bustling with activity during lunch times and the guys in that classes are most loved by god. They are out of all the ragging stuff. Not one senior would turn up to the majority section of the class where guys sit. All have their filters set right. Only area visible to them is where the girls sit. Alas! the other category of classes are unprivilaged. The guys there run for their life. All the seniors vent their anger and disappointment on the guys. Hey don't get me wrong. Ragging will be in peak in such classes is what I meant.
I, fortunately, belonged to category 1. So girls saved our class. But we had to do some "allakkai" work like pass on the chocolates to the girls. Yes, these high-end tasks are assigned to us by seniors. Some times, we have to buy them and give it to girls as if the senior bought it. As days rolled on with such great learning and yawning... finally the exams approached.
Guess what?? We all passed. The seniors route seemed to be working. And we all moved to the next year of graduation. We are seniors now. We erected the banner this time for the freshers
"Welcome Freshers"
After all... I too have social responsibility!!!!!
Sunday, February 17, 2008
The Alert Me!
As usual, I woke up to my alarm at 5:27 am (it is a hour and half drive frm my hotel to office so need to start early). Since I went late to the bed... I was feeling very sleepy and wanted to continue sleeping.. so I was sitting on the bed and had the pillow on my lap and took a short nap and then suddenly the whole world came crashing down... It was an alarm, as loud as it can get!
Oh my god! My alarm clock at hotel room had gone mad... then i tried to put that off...snooze it...every damn thing and then finally covered it under the bed (Hotel had a very thick mattress). No avail...
Hey! Wait a minute... the noise is from some where else... Oh! thats the fire alarm... gosh! I checked my kitchen and then went running to the alarm and tried to put tht off! No use... the volume was getting louder and louder! It was so embarassing for me that I am spoiling every one's sleep and then I called up the hotel office... no answer!
So I came running out of my room to go to the office and then I saw the whole of the inmates are walking out of the fire exit.
The alarm is NOT from my room but from the hotel kitchen! What the heck.. I thought to myself and i couldn't help but to laugh at my stupidity!
It all happened at 5:40 am EST! You can imagine.
Oh my god! My alarm clock at hotel room had gone mad... then i tried to put that off...snooze it...every damn thing and then finally covered it under the bed (Hotel had a very thick mattress). No avail...
Hey! Wait a minute... the noise is from some where else... Oh! thats the fire alarm... gosh! I checked my kitchen and then went running to the alarm and tried to put tht off! No use... the volume was getting louder and louder! It was so embarassing for me that I am spoiling every one's sleep and then I called up the hotel office... no answer!
So I came running out of my room to go to the office and then I saw the whole of the inmates are walking out of the fire exit.
The alarm is NOT from my room but from the hotel kitchen! What the heck.. I thought to myself and i couldn't help but to laugh at my stupidity!
It all happened at 5:40 am EST! You can imagine.
The "Terrorist knife" and the "Arrogant" tomato
If you have thoughts that I am going to narrate a great story with embedded thought provoking stuff... sorry I am gonna disappoint you. Not withstanding the amount of seriousness I am managing to put in my each of the posts.. here I go.
The villain of this story is the "Terrorist" Knife...
...My finger!!!!! Only then I realized how the knife and tomato teamed together and pretended to be giving up. My knife... oh yes... the holding edge is sharper than the cutting edge.
The villain of this story is the "Terrorist" Knife...
yeah I call him terrorist bcos he belongs to me and does harm to me :) and the center of attraction is the "Arrogant" tomato who refuses to give up.
How they both got together against me forms the rest of the story...er...blog
I... by all means... didn't try anything unusual. I was just trying to chop tomato with a huge knife.
It was like the battle of kalinga ( :O) The tomato was in no mood to give up. The knife.. the main villain was all the while laughing at me.
After a huge battle for 15 minutes or so.. I started making inroads.... only slightly...
If you only locate the cut in the tomato... pls try with your zoom lens. The struggle continues. I am in no mood to give up either. Its between me and the tomato... yeah come on!!!!!!!!
After some serious effort... finally the tomato was giving up. He could not resist more. I was encouraged by this...
"Give it more effort" - I told myself. "You are succeeding. Well done mate" - Words of encouragement from ppl around. All these pepped me up and with a final effort, I used all my energy and pushed the kinfe through the tomato... I was finally able to cut....
...My finger!!!!! Only then I realized how the knife and tomato teamed together and pretended to be giving up. My knife... oh yes... the holding edge is sharper than the cutting edge.
Friday, February 15, 2008
Bleak... yes it is!
Oh yeah... its been a month since I wrote my last post. Why wasn't I writing? Not that I was writing down 2 posts every day before this hiatus... Yeah back to the question... why wasn't I writing? Going by my blog's name "Blasé", I did not want to become uninterested in blogging by doing it too frequently... and why would I return now? Just to keep my account and blog active :P
Where in the world is Innocence?
For the uninitiated...
in·no·cence Pronunciation[in-uh-suhns] –noun
1.the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong.
2.freedom from legal or specific wrong; guiltlessness: The prisoner proved his innocence.
3.simplicity; absence of guile or cunning; naiveté.
4.lack of knowledge or understanding.
5.harmlessness; innocuousness
I thought, even before I talk about it, I should define innocence. Its quickly fading away from all of us... yes faster than the indian tigers. While it would be phenomenal to have your kid who can multiply 4378997832566 with 6374657498498 and come up with the answer in a split second... what fun can you derive out of it?
Yeah the innocence. That's more phenomenal... that is some thing that's gonna obviously fade away from you as you grow older. Why kill it immediately?
What is special to have a cutie that can wag like a talk host? Why the kid? Oh yeah... that innocence... that harmlessness... that simplicity.... with which they are supposed to operate. The innocence with which the child smiles when you throw him up in the air... he thinks you gonna catch him.. oh wait... does he think about the consequence at all??? Nay!!!! What if the same kid says "Hey buster... listen...you gonna throw me up now and if you aren't 200% sure that you will be able to catch me.. then forget this and go get yourself some stupid kid who can play with you like this". Would you want to play with that kid any more? This is just not an exaggeration as it might sound or look like. I, on my experience with the kids... have often seen that they talk and behave like matured blokes even before they went to their Pre-KGs. I hate such kids.. they aren't kids... just that they are smaller in height and lighter in weight than me or any other grown up.
To be innocent is a boon!!! It is so very a special gift that even god doesn't let you enjoy that during or after your adolescence. Its that very small period.
In that pursuit to make your kid stand taller and brighter among the whole set, you are actually not letting them live their life. You want to secure their life even before they can walk properly. Such is our sense of insecurity and we directly pass it on to them. How happy we would be if TCS or Infosys or Cognizant can recruit your kid on his first birthday and constantly press him, from then on, to become what the company wants him to be?
And what really matters when I deprive the kid from innocence? Nothing really other than what we have managed to achieve until now...
1. School goers resolving to shoot outs: I was not even allowed to see a shoot-out scene in the movie when I was a kid... The school-starter now knows to steal father's pistol and pull the trigger. Parents got to be proud. Put him in military. He knows to operate'em all! What a proud moment huh?? It was not until long ago that these were confined to the distant western countries. We have drawn a leaf out of their books. School verandaas are not the safest place to relax any more.
2. Morality: How kids have transformed these days? I wouldn't dare to strike a conversation with one. You never know when it is coming at you. There prevails no values among the kids... how many kids know and respect their relations? It is quickly dying.... No wonder.. when you leave your 10 month old kids with a baby sitter... it takes a huge effort from the kid to remember their parents name... leave alone the relatives.
3. Oh the disgusting school-sex and what not?
If only parents could invest more time and effort in parenting... Its not that you only teach them how to earn money... also impart some values in to the kids.
Other wise we will leave a bunch of reckless people in this world after us.
Where in the world is Innocence?
For the uninitiated...
in·no·cence Pronunciation[in-uh-suhns] –noun
1.the quality or state of being innocent; freedom from sin or moral wrong.
2.freedom from legal or specific wrong; guiltlessness: The prisoner proved his innocence.
3.simplicity; absence of guile or cunning; naiveté.
4.lack of knowledge or understanding.
5.harmlessness; innocuousness
I thought, even before I talk about it, I should define innocence. Its quickly fading away from all of us... yes faster than the indian tigers. While it would be phenomenal to have your kid who can multiply 4378997832566 with 6374657498498 and come up with the answer in a split second... what fun can you derive out of it?
Yeah the innocence. That's more phenomenal... that is some thing that's gonna obviously fade away from you as you grow older. Why kill it immediately?
What is special to have a cutie that can wag like a talk host? Why the kid? Oh yeah... that innocence... that harmlessness... that simplicity.... with which they are supposed to operate. The innocence with which the child smiles when you throw him up in the air... he thinks you gonna catch him.. oh wait... does he think about the consequence at all??? Nay!!!! What if the same kid says "Hey buster... listen...you gonna throw me up now and if you aren't 200% sure that you will be able to catch me.. then forget this and go get yourself some stupid kid who can play with you like this". Would you want to play with that kid any more? This is just not an exaggeration as it might sound or look like. I, on my experience with the kids... have often seen that they talk and behave like matured blokes even before they went to their Pre-KGs. I hate such kids.. they aren't kids... just that they are smaller in height and lighter in weight than me or any other grown up.
To be innocent is a boon!!! It is so very a special gift that even god doesn't let you enjoy that during or after your adolescence. Its that very small period.
In that pursuit to make your kid stand taller and brighter among the whole set, you are actually not letting them live their life. You want to secure their life even before they can walk properly. Such is our sense of insecurity and we directly pass it on to them. How happy we would be if TCS or Infosys or Cognizant can recruit your kid on his first birthday and constantly press him, from then on, to become what the company wants him to be?
And what really matters when I deprive the kid from innocence? Nothing really other than what we have managed to achieve until now...
1. School goers resolving to shoot outs: I was not even allowed to see a shoot-out scene in the movie when I was a kid... The school-starter now knows to steal father's pistol and pull the trigger. Parents got to be proud. Put him in military. He knows to operate'em all! What a proud moment huh?? It was not until long ago that these were confined to the distant western countries. We have drawn a leaf out of their books. School verandaas are not the safest place to relax any more.
2. Morality: How kids have transformed these days? I wouldn't dare to strike a conversation with one. You never know when it is coming at you. There prevails no values among the kids... how many kids know and respect their relations? It is quickly dying.... No wonder.. when you leave your 10 month old kids with a baby sitter... it takes a huge effort from the kid to remember their parents name... leave alone the relatives.
3. Oh the disgusting school-sex and what not?
If only parents could invest more time and effort in parenting... Its not that you only teach them how to earn money... also impart some values in to the kids.
Other wise we will leave a bunch of reckless people in this world after us.
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Mentality - The Indian Way!
Yup, Indians have it their own way... And I, as an Indian, cannot proudly boast about it. Be it any one from a normal uneducated person to highly sophisticated person, very few beg to differ.
I have always had this frustration that even people, when put in to road on any other country, right away follow the rules... refuse to do so in their own mother land... India. Have you seen bikes fizzing past you even if you were standing there for past 15 minutes to reach the other side of the road? Well thats the same person who would have stopped atleast 5 meters infront of a pedestrain crossing in US roads. I have been thinking that it has got to do with rules and the application of it!
Ney.... that is not everything. Its got to do with our damn mentality. Any way, we have not got the great reputation of being on time any where.... then why the hell do you wish to overspeed? What are you trying to do by plugging all the gaps between other vehicles standing by in the traffic?Half of the chaos created can be attributed to the way we organize ourselves when there is a traffic jam.
Take this situation for instance..... If a bus is trying to make a "U" turn from one side, the cars and then other heavy vehicles behind it stop (they gotto...coz there is no room for them to go past the bus).... then comes our bikers... they try to sneak in behind the bus and whooz past the bus in the front before the bus makes the turn... Then slowly as the bus moves forward...bigger vehicles start sneaking in. The other side is not any better either. Nobody cares a damn to wait for 15 seconds max for the bus to make the turn and then move! As if they were being pursued by 20 to 40 goondas who are trying to take the life out of them! So when there is a problem on the other side..... the bus cannot make a move backwards..... if it does...it would crash in to atleast 4 two wheelers! Its like pouring water in to a glass half filled with ice.... the water tries to sneak in to all the gaps left by the ice cubes.
It has got to the level now that even if a person tries to follow the rules.... he is honked out of the road. Happened to me couple of times as well. Try stopping near the "railway crossing" when the gate if closed... people behind you start honking as if you were doing some thing illegal. They expect every two wheeler to cross the gate by doing what ever is takes to go beneath the gate. Why? No body knows. Why could not we wait for the train to pass? Just that every body have been doing this for ages... let me do this as well. The way people jump the signals, the disregard they show for onwalkers, the way pedestrians organize themselves.... everything brings the lack of discipline to the front!
Now, take the same person to US. Voila! What an amazing turn around in discipline? Stops in signal in "Orange" ("Orange" light earlier meant that you need to accelerate as fast as you can to go past the signal before it turns "Red"). How? We have always easily adjusted ourselves to rules imposed on us by others than the rules imposed by our own government. We are loyal to other goverments more than we are to our government. Yeah the Indian mentality....
Its been 59 years since we lost an inspiring leader who instilled discipline in us... who instilled the faith in our own country... who taught us that self-discipline is MOST WANTED amongst us.
Today, we have forgot him, his principles, what he taught us, how he wanted us to live. SHAME! Had it not been for Godse, Mahatma would have shot himself today after seeing the lack of discipline in today's Indian life!
If only we pledge ourselves to conduct better.....
I have always had this frustration that even people, when put in to road on any other country, right away follow the rules... refuse to do so in their own mother land... India. Have you seen bikes fizzing past you even if you were standing there for past 15 minutes to reach the other side of the road? Well thats the same person who would have stopped atleast 5 meters infront of a pedestrain crossing in US roads. I have been thinking that it has got to do with rules and the application of it!
Ney.... that is not everything. Its got to do with our damn mentality. Any way, we have not got the great reputation of being on time any where.... then why the hell do you wish to overspeed? What are you trying to do by plugging all the gaps between other vehicles standing by in the traffic?Half of the chaos created can be attributed to the way we organize ourselves when there is a traffic jam.
Take this situation for instance..... If a bus is trying to make a "U" turn from one side, the cars and then other heavy vehicles behind it stop (they gotto...coz there is no room for them to go past the bus).... then comes our bikers... they try to sneak in behind the bus and whooz past the bus in the front before the bus makes the turn... Then slowly as the bus moves forward...bigger vehicles start sneaking in. The other side is not any better either. Nobody cares a damn to wait for 15 seconds max for the bus to make the turn and then move! As if they were being pursued by 20 to 40 goondas who are trying to take the life out of them! So when there is a problem on the other side..... the bus cannot make a move backwards..... if it does...it would crash in to atleast 4 two wheelers! Its like pouring water in to a glass half filled with ice.... the water tries to sneak in to all the gaps left by the ice cubes.
It has got to the level now that even if a person tries to follow the rules.... he is honked out of the road. Happened to me couple of times as well. Try stopping near the "railway crossing" when the gate if closed... people behind you start honking as if you were doing some thing illegal. They expect every two wheeler to cross the gate by doing what ever is takes to go beneath the gate. Why? No body knows. Why could not we wait for the train to pass? Just that every body have been doing this for ages... let me do this as well. The way people jump the signals, the disregard they show for onwalkers, the way pedestrians organize themselves.... everything brings the lack of discipline to the front!
Now, take the same person to US. Voila! What an amazing turn around in discipline? Stops in signal in "Orange" ("Orange" light earlier meant that you need to accelerate as fast as you can to go past the signal before it turns "Red"). How? We have always easily adjusted ourselves to rules imposed on us by others than the rules imposed by our own government. We are loyal to other goverments more than we are to our government. Yeah the Indian mentality....
Its been 59 years since we lost an inspiring leader who instilled discipline in us... who instilled the faith in our own country... who taught us that self-discipline is MOST WANTED amongst us.
Today, we have forgot him, his principles, what he taught us, how he wanted us to live. SHAME! Had it not been for Godse, Mahatma would have shot himself today after seeing the lack of discipline in today's Indian life!
If only we pledge ourselves to conduct better.....
Sunday, January 6, 2008
What difference "Two" can make!
One of those contests that is fought till the fag end... one of those days where things doesn't seem to be happening for you... Yes, it was the second test match of the Border-Gavaskar trophy, Day 5. First of all, I must thank Indian batsmen and bowlers for coming up with a performance that marked character... barring couple of people (that's a different story altogether).
Coming to the title, who are the "Two"? Read on...
Here is the balance between two teams
Phil Jacques = Wasim Jaffer
Mathew Hayden = Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting = V.V.S Laxman
Michael Hussey < Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Clarke < Ganguly (in current form)
Andrew Symonds > Yuvraj Singh (in current form)
Gilchrist > Dhoni
Hogg = Kumble
Mitchell Johnson = Harbhajan Singh
Brett Lee > Ishant Sharma
Stuart Clark = R.P.Singh
Pretty much balanced. Isn't it? But then, when "supposed-to-be" neutrals join hands with one team, there is no talk of balance any more. The Australian score card in first innings should read
Jaques c Dhoni b Singh 0
Hayden c Tendulkar b Singh 13
Ponting c Dhoni b Ganguly 14
Ponting lbw Harbhajan Singh 37
Hussey c Tendulkar b Singh 41
Clarke lbw Harbhajan Singh 1
Symonds c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 30
Symonds st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh 18
Symonds st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh 65
Symonds not out 55
Gilchrist c Tendulkar b Singh 7
Hogg c Dravid b Kumble 79
Lee lbw b Kumble 59
Johnson c Ganguly b Kumble 28
Clark bw b Kumble 0
Because of two people under the white dress were shockingly bad, India had to take 14 wickets to end an Australian inning. Despite dismissing Symonds thrice, he remained not out in the inning. And Ian Chappel says, Indians let Australians off the hook. Crazy!
This is the story of just one inning... rest of the match was no different. Indians had to absorb all of the "HUMAN" errors committed by Umpires. Surprisingly all, except one, decisions were against India. When two established umpires continue to commit such mistakes one after the other at crucial junctures, eyebrows bound to raise.
If a team had to get the aid of umpires to pocket a game, that in itself is a victory to opposition. So for me and millions of other Indian fans... the result of the match is
"India has won the match"
Coming to the title, who are the "Two"? Read on...
Here is the balance between two teams
Phil Jacques = Wasim Jaffer
Mathew Hayden = Rahul Dravid
Ricky Ponting = V.V.S Laxman
Michael Hussey < Sachin Tendulkar
Michael Clarke < Ganguly (in current form)
Andrew Symonds > Yuvraj Singh (in current form)
Gilchrist > Dhoni
Hogg = Kumble
Mitchell Johnson = Harbhajan Singh
Brett Lee > Ishant Sharma
Stuart Clark = R.P.Singh
Pretty much balanced. Isn't it? But then, when "supposed-to-be" neutrals join hands with one team, there is no talk of balance any more. The Australian score card in first innings should read
Jaques c Dhoni b Singh 0
Hayden c Tendulkar b Singh 13
Ponting c Dhoni b Ganguly 14
Ponting lbw Harbhajan Singh 37
Hussey c Tendulkar b Singh 41
Clarke lbw Harbhajan Singh 1
Symonds c Dhoni b Ishant Sharma 30
Symonds st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh 18
Symonds st Dhoni b Harbhajan Singh 65
Symonds not out 55
Gilchrist c Tendulkar b Singh 7
Hogg c Dravid b Kumble 79
Lee lbw b Kumble 59
Johnson c Ganguly b Kumble 28
Clark bw b Kumble 0
Because of two people under the white dress were shockingly bad, India had to take 14 wickets to end an Australian inning. Despite dismissing Symonds thrice, he remained not out in the inning. And Ian Chappel says, Indians let Australians off the hook. Crazy!
This is the story of just one inning... rest of the match was no different. Indians had to absorb all of the "HUMAN" errors committed by Umpires. Surprisingly all, except one, decisions were against India. When two established umpires continue to commit such mistakes one after the other at crucial junctures, eyebrows bound to raise.
If a team had to get the aid of umpires to pocket a game, that in itself is a victory to opposition. So for me and millions of other Indian fans... the result of the match is
"India has won the match"
Happy New Year's Day or Was it?
I wish one and all a very happy new year. I hope this new year would continue to amaze us with the surprise it has in store for all of us as with every year that has gone by.
Dec 31, 2007
I had a pretty ordinary New Year's eve as my friends were all out of town or country. I was in no mood to welcome the New Year by staying awake. So be it.. I went to sleep on my cozy (?!!!?) bed of mine at 10:14 pm sharp. And yes, the final night of 2007 passed by as I was busy dreaming in my sleep.
Jan 1, 2008
Come next day... I thought, with the New Year, everything around us gonna be new... every happening is gonna be new... Alas, my hype to the New Year was shattered. I was saying to myself that I was hoping against hope. The series of incidents that I heard/listened to left a bad taste in the mouth..... Here is what I heard
1. 27 cases of druken driving case in East Coast Road, Chennai alone.
2. 4 youth arrested for creating public nuisance in Besant Nagar, Chennai
3. 3 cases registered in Elliots Beach, Chennai and to top this all
4. Mumbai incident
It all happened on one single day..much more had happened but failed to make the news. OK, fine... what's so annoying about this? The most annoying thing is that THESE ARE ALL COMMITTED BY YOUNG, EDUCATED, EMPLOYED PEOPLE. It would be denial of truth if I do not accept that most of them belong to the beloved SOFTWARE industry.
To make my stand clear...I am not against boozing... If only all the people who have a sip of an alocoholic beverage stand up and start creating nusinace, we might have to worry abt that. That's not happening after all. Its those people who always loved to do some thing of this sorts... resort to such activities after boozing... Why? Its simple. They can claim that they were under the influence of alcohol and that made them do so.... NON-SENSE. Alcohol is not an evil spirit that gets in to you and uses your body to satisfy itself by molesting or raping an innocent girl and leave your body only for you to find yourself in an embarassing position. That might probably make a good story for a movie... not in reality.
You might call it lack of parental guidance, you might attribute it to whopping pay check, you might point out the fact that they are away from home.... but down beneath all these reasons only one stands tall..... SELF-DISCIPLINE or the LACK OF IT to be specific.
After hearing all these, the only one thing I could do was pray that 2008 instills in people some self-discipline, dignity and mutual-respect for fellow people.
God bless thy.
Dec 31, 2007
I had a pretty ordinary New Year's eve as my friends were all out of town or country. I was in no mood to welcome the New Year by staying awake. So be it.. I went to sleep on my cozy (?!!!?) bed of mine at 10:14 pm sharp. And yes, the final night of 2007 passed by as I was busy dreaming in my sleep.
Jan 1, 2008
Come next day... I thought, with the New Year, everything around us gonna be new... every happening is gonna be new... Alas, my hype to the New Year was shattered. I was saying to myself that I was hoping against hope. The series of incidents that I heard/listened to left a bad taste in the mouth..... Here is what I heard
1. 27 cases of druken driving case in East Coast Road, Chennai alone.
2. 4 youth arrested for creating public nuisance in Besant Nagar, Chennai
3. 3 cases registered in Elliots Beach, Chennai and to top this all
4. Mumbai incident
It all happened on one single day..much more had happened but failed to make the news. OK, fine... what's so annoying about this? The most annoying thing is that THESE ARE ALL COMMITTED BY YOUNG, EDUCATED, EMPLOYED PEOPLE. It would be denial of truth if I do not accept that most of them belong to the beloved SOFTWARE industry.
To make my stand clear...I am not against boozing... If only all the people who have a sip of an alocoholic beverage stand up and start creating nusinace, we might have to worry abt that. That's not happening after all. Its those people who always loved to do some thing of this sorts... resort to such activities after boozing... Why? Its simple. They can claim that they were under the influence of alcohol and that made them do so.... NON-SENSE. Alcohol is not an evil spirit that gets in to you and uses your body to satisfy itself by molesting or raping an innocent girl and leave your body only for you to find yourself in an embarassing position. That might probably make a good story for a movie... not in reality.
You might call it lack of parental guidance, you might attribute it to whopping pay check, you might point out the fact that they are away from home.... but down beneath all these reasons only one stands tall..... SELF-DISCIPLINE or the LACK OF IT to be specific.
After hearing all these, the only one thing I could do was pray that 2008 instills in people some self-discipline, dignity and mutual-respect for fellow people.
God bless thy.
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