Life is Miserable

I havent recovered fully from what has happened on personal life and here comes another shock in my professional life. Iam on the verge of losing my job.( Thanks to the global meltdown , “Resource Optimization” , it isnt confirmed yet, though!)

I dont know what to do? Iam pushed to the extremes! I still have some hope in life. I dont know what i should write! my mind is blank, i just hope i dont take any extreme measures that hurts me or others!

And I just hope not even my best enemy should be in my position. Life is very very miserable.

No blog for a week!

IAM in a complete state of shock. Yes First time in my life, i have lost something. The better part is it isnt any life. My house in chennai is completely under water and i have lost everything thats been in my house. (including electronic goods.. Iam blogging from a i-cafe :( ) Iam still not out yet. This is a valuable lesson for me and sometimes when nature strikes its little that we people can do. I just hope and pray everything turns good soon.

And my inspiration to stay calm has been derived from the way our country, people and the brave soliders reacted to the terror strikes in mumbai. As they say, life has to move on and i hope such things dont happen in future. My heartfelt condolences to all those who laid their life. (and this is the 1st time i really understand the feelings of loss from my heart when i say such a statement)

And inspite of all these losses, i decided to watch Varnam Ayiram to cheer up myself. Though i liked the movie in parts, i wouldnt call it a great movie. But the romance part in the first half (between surya & Sameera : love panna ipdi pannanum da :P) definitely brought a smile to me in otherwise a horrific last 4 days. It would definitely take a week for me to setup my entire house again and till then iam going to miss this space! :(

Bye for now but I WILL BE BACK! :)

Nishaaaaaaaaa - I Hate you di !!!

 All Nisha's frriends/ supporters please stay away!  :P

 What pleasure do you have in seeing us go red? You made me wait all day for you and haven’t come yet! We still dont know when you will come!? And you know what, I didn’t go to office today because of you, you stupid! What pleasures do get in stopping us from doing our work? Do you know how much trouble you have given us you silly gal?  

• Our street Annachi had to close his shop early this evening fearing your early visit  and I dint have razor so iam looking like a Devadas! L).
  
• I couldn’t watch the India’s thumping win over the poms because of the frequent power cut (The EB was also blaming you!! Sigh)
  
• Our next door baby was crying for hours and his mother was citing you as reason.
  
• My bike wasn’t starting and I couldn’t go to my favourite restaurant! L
  

 Magale nalaiku olunga silenta vanthutu poidu ila adi “IDI”ya vida bayangarama vilum!! :P

 I seriously hope and pray there isn't any casualty! 

If you are wondering who this bloody Nisha is!  

 Please check the picture below! L

I have this BIGGGG doubt!! Why do they always keep a girl's name to a hurricane? Aren't women meant to be very soft and sweet? (atleast to all those leaders and authorities) :P 

Hey women folks you have any clue on this? :D 

My New Inspiration!!

 Disclaimer : The subject below is NOT a REVIEW of the movie mentioned in the picture ( and its one of my fav movie and i would definitely write a review to this all time classic some other time!) :)

Ok, Here is some confession!!

I was a random blogger before, writing about so many things on the society, political scenario and movies(which I shouldnt have may be!?). I couldnt blog for more than a year  and i never missed it because i was busy with so many things in life. Oflate i was having some free time so i decided to re invent my passion for blogs.

This time i decided let me be "The Shadow Blogger" (i mean to be anonymous :) )  and decided i will share only the good, better and best moments of my life and have been doing the same so far. But this one is going to be an aberration.

Iam angry on someone here.  I have this colleague of mine who is around 50 years. He had joined our office this june and often he keeps to himself. Iam one of the biggest chatterbox of my office, its very difficult for people to escape my radar. Today as we both were working late, I started bothering him with a casual conversation and slowly it moved to his family. ( To be honest, I was expecting him to say that he has a cute girl and would introduce her to me later). But I got the crudest shock of my life. He lost his ONLY  son to cancer 3 years ago. He also said his son was just 18 years when he passed away. I just couldn’t control myself, tears ran through my cheeks and I just couldn’t control myself and choked. He just said its ok and consoled me.

 Now when I look back, I just admire this poor dad the way he is carrying on with life unlike others who whine and lose their focus in life after such a monumental loss. Imagine, he has lost his only son whom he and his wife had loved so much. But, This gentleman amazed me today. He still has the passion to learn new things in life and goes about life in his own way. Hats off! I salute this gentleman for the respect he has shown for life.

 Well I don’t know whether I will sleep this night, iam sure in the last 3 years he must have had innumerous sleepless nights!

 Now where is he? where is that guy whom we all have been searching for! where are you sir?  When are YOU going to change Mr. Gawd?

ABC of me!! :)

The Letter A
Are you available?: for what?
What is your age?: late 20's
What annoys you?: asking questions! :P
The Letter B
Do you live in a big house?: its big enough for me
When is your birthday?: a few days away
Who is your best friend?: Bala, Sara
The Letter C
What's your favorite candy?: thean muttai :D
Who's your crush?: too many... of late My cute angel Bhavs!
When was the last time you cried?: i laugh n cry daily
The Letter D
Do you daydream?: no, i dream only when i sleep! :D
What's your favorite kind of dog?: i dnt like dogs! :P
What day of the week is it?: sunday!
The Letter E
How do you like your eggs?: my eggs? enna veichu comedy kemedy pannalaiye?
Have you ever been in the emergency room?: nope.. hope i dnt in future too!
What's the easiest thing ever to do?: eating, sleeping!!
The Letter F
Have you ever flown in a plane?: yeah.. 6 times so far! :P nice air hostess man! :D pilots koduthu veichavanga!
Do you use fly swatters?: no.. only hands! :P
Have you ever used a foghorn?: what does that mean? :O
The Letter G
Do you chew gum?: yeah, boom boom boomer
Are you a giver or a taker?: both!!
Do you like gummy candies?: noooooooooo
The Letter H
How are you?: iam fineeeeeeeeee, suppppperrrrrrr....
What color is your hair?: karupu than ennaku pedicha coloru
The Letter I
What's your favorite ice cream?: black forrest
Have you ever ice skated?: yeah in video games! :D
Do you play an instrument?: yeah, jalraaaaaa!! :D
The Letter J
What's your favorite jelly bean brand?: the one shane warne uses!?
Do you wear jewelry?: yeah iam almost like PKS jewelery!!
The Letter K
Who do you want to kill?: iam a gandhian! :)
Do you want kids?: yeah, i love kids... longing for them! ( amma, appa are u watching? :P)
Where did you go for kindergarten?: ischoolku than, vera enga? :P
The Letter L
Are you laid back?: hmmm sometimes! :D
Do you lie?: yeah if it does something gud!! ( for me offcourse! :D)
The Letter M
Whats your favorite movie?: too many...
Do you still watch Disney movies?: hmmm yeah, i still do...
Do you like mangos?: yeah i love them!!
The Letter N
Do you have a nickname?: yeah quite a few
What is your real name?: solla mattane
Whats your favorite number?: 2
Do you prefer night over day?: yeah!! big boys play@ night!
The Letter O
What's your one wish?: whatever i think should happen!
Are you an only child?: nope! i have pangali's! :D
The Letter P
What one fear are you most paranoid about?: bayama, ennaka?? naanga ellam terror!
What are your pet peeves?: nothin
What's a personality trait you look for in people?: humility!! :)
The Letter Q
What's your favorite quote?: life is colorful
Are you quick to judge people?: yeah, sometimes i form an opinion n mins! :(
The Letter R
Do you think you're always right?: yeah kings are always right in their kingdom!
Are you one to cry?: yeah sometimes..
The Letter S
Do you prefer sun or rain?: rainbow
Do you like snow?: yeah i loveeeeee :(
What's your favorite season?: winter..
The Letter T
What time is it?: 8.45pm
What time did you wake up?: 12 noon.. sunday pa :P
When was the last time you slept in a tent?: when i was 14 yrs
The Letter U
Are you wearing underwear?: nope.. only pattapati! :P evan da ath intha kelvi ellam kekurathu?
Underwear or boxers?: none
The Letter V
What's the worst veggie?: i like all veggies if they r fried!
Where do you want to go on vacation?: alps :P
The Letter W
What's your worst habit?: surfing the net!!
Where do you live?: veetula than!!
What's your worst fear?: death!? innum onnume anupavikila pa! :P
The Letter X
Have you ever had an x-ray?: yeah when i was around 10 yrs
Have you seen the x-games?: yeah in espn.. ithu ellam oru kelviya da?
Do you own a xylophone?: no
The Letter Y
Do you like the color yellow?: no.. iam not ramarajan's fan!
What's one thing you yearn for?: a true companion? :P
The Letter Z
Whats your zodiac sign?: sagi
Do you believe in the zodiac?: no
Favorite zoo animal?: i see it daily in mirror

My cute buddy: Tinku

Who said only gals love teddies? Here is my cute little buddy Tinku! :) He is my best pal. I share everything with him coz he is the only 1 who doesnt talk anything against me :( He stands by me always unlike others :P .. Such a nice softie guy! He has 2 more buddies whom i will introduce later to the world. :d

Give her back!

She has been bugging me too much of late. Not allowing me to sleep, eat and work or anything that I do on a normal day. When I first saw her, I didn’t like her, because she was not the same smiling girl then. She always had this staring look and was bit somber. So I thought she is just another girl and moved on. But one fine evening when I went out with my friends, I happened to see her again. She was so damn cute and I just couldn’t take my eyes off her. I would have blocked a toe crushing Yorker from Wasim Akram but couldn’t block her lovely smile and had all my stumps down.
From that day, I started collecting information about her. I knew where she is from, her birthday, her fav color, food and what she likes and dislikes and so on. I never miss an opportunity to see her. Sometimes I used to take my friends too to see her and would just brag about her to them. They were so jealous of me that they started spreading rumors about her. One of my close friends said she is seeing a Telugu guy and that they both are roaming a lot nowadays. He also said they are going to get married in a year or so.
Initially I didn’t believe a word of his and was very angry that I started to ignore him. Later on, few more of my friends started teasing me with the same news. My heart broke like the Titanic and I wouldn’t sleep well. She wasn’t coming in my dreams anymore and I thought I would become normal soon, but I couldn’t! L
So I would like to make a plea to my Villian there… Take whatever U want from me, but pleaseeeeeeeee Give her back!!

Request everyone to help me out with this! Please find below the pics of my sweetheart and my Villian! :(

He is my Villian!

And Here is my CUTE Little ANGEL!!

The Difference!

They Say a Photograph says a million words.

Now, here are two pictures which will probably say 305 million words!!




Picture 1 :








Picture 2:





America in safe hands!! :)

The Bloggers!

Disclaimer: This particular topic is not to offend anyone’s feelings and it’s a very generic view. :)

I have this bad (!?) habit of watching/ observing people. It was real fun watching the way people write, react and sometimes defend their views. Here is a list of observations I made,

Most of the bloggers

• Are BIG TIME Attention seekers.
• Want to show they are very well read and articulate.
• Yearn for adulation.
• Blog to vent their frustrations in life.
• That they are different from the crowd (sometimes illustrate themselves in a weird way).
• Want us to believe they are social conscious.
• Project they know each and everything under sun and can debate on that.
• Don’t even read what they write! : P
• Crib (&) (or) rant (&) (or) Boast.

I had more fun reading the blogs of some girls. The most common word I found there was “musing”! I really don’t know what’s so amusing in the world musing! I did find some bloggers who are more honest and sincere but they are very few and far. And I should admit one thing here, watching / observing bloggers is very interesting and definitely a good pastime though not that educative.

Evalavo panreenga itha panna kudatha? :P

First Show with Mr.Bublic

Intha thak sshowuku ungal anaivaraiyum intha Koundamani varaverkuren.Intha nigalchiya arambilakamnu mudivu panna piragu yaara mudhal guesta kupadhalamnnu naanum intha manga mandaiyanum rumba neram yosichom. Neriya peru manasula vanthanga, ana makkal manasula nikkanumnu mudivu panninom. Athanala intha Quarter with koundarin mudhal guesta ungalaiye kupadalamnu mudivu pannitom. Yes, the guest is the ones and only Mr. Bublic ma..

Ahhh Ladies and the Kunjomon ( Ada amam pa, Kadhukulu maranamilai poster pakkalaye? Our Gentleman is “back”!) blease welgome the Mister Bublic.

Koundar: Dei Ipod Mandiya enga da pona? Guestey vanthutaru, intha manga payale kanome.
Senthil:Anne, Anne ithou vanthuten ne.
Koundar: Dei Blueetooth vaaiya enga da pona? Ippovey un dagalti velaiya arambichutiya? Enga da pona naaye?
Senthil: Namma Sshoe nalla varanumnu pooja potutu vanthen ney.
Koundar: En apdiya bhajanaiyum paditu vara vendiyathu thane da kidna naaye? Iru di unna aparam veikuren.. Mr.bublic namma sshowa arambikkalama?
Mr.Bublic: Sari saar.
Koundar: Mudhal kosteen, athu epdinga namma nadu ivalavu mosamana nilamaila irukum bothum neenga ellam sandhosama irukkenga?
Senthil: Annen, pinniteenga mudhal kosteene superu..
Koundar: Ama ivaru columbusu kandipeditaru, dei burger thalaiya geep guiet man. Mr.Bublic neenga answer pannungo..
Mr.Bublic: Enna saar mosamana nilamai? Saturday ana Jodi no.1 , Sunday vantha Manada mayilada ithuku mela enna saar venum?
Koundar: Adang goniya,!! Innum intha TV ya vidamattengala? Munna ellam Serial parthutu irundheenga ippo dancea. Ungala solli kutram ila, govtey freeya TV tharum pothu neenga enna pannuvenga.
Sendhil: Annen, Naan kuda Kala Master kitta poi dance kathukittu Haarthi kuda MM3 la oru round varalamnnu nenaikuren.
Koundar: Ada set top box vaaya oru manasatchioda than pesuriya? Nee aduna athu manada mayilada ilada, naaiada nariadannu makkal sollunga. Mr.Bublic so ipdi than neenga sandhosama irukkengala?
Mr.Bublic : Ama sir, ithula enna santhegam?
Koundar: Naatula vilaivasi eripochu, velai ila thindattam athigama agi iruku, global reccessionnu solranga, ithula vera intha pacha ela pudingi thivura vathinga vedi veikuranga, ungaluku ellam bayama ilaiya?
Mr.Bublic: Naanga ethu saar bayapadanum? Engala kaapatha enga Gap10num action king arjunum irukkanga.. apparom enna sir?
Koundar: !!!!! Mr.Bublic very good ipdiye irunga, oru vazhiya agiduveenga. Dei Idiyappam vaaya, intha nadum nattu makkalum nasama pogatum sonnangale athu yennu ippo than puriyuthu.
Senthil: Ada ponga ne, ungaluku avanga mela poramai. ( manasukule, gap10 ku innum konjam support panni apdiye avar partyla oru nalla post vangidanum).
Koundar: Dai Magane, nee enna nenaikura nnu ennaku nalla teriuthu. Nee yarunu enaku terium naa yaru unaku terium namma yarunu ellarukum terium. Nee nenaikurathu oru pothum nadakathu magane. Mr. Bublic, Namma Abdul kalam kanavu kanungal munneralamnu sonnare, athayachum keekureengala?
Mr.Bublic: Avar solli epdi sir keekama irupom? Daily kanavu kanrom sir, nethu Namitha vanthanga, inaiku Shriya varuvanga nenaikuren sir.
Koundar: Ada karumame, ithuku mela ethuvum solla mudiyala. Sari narpathu varushama rendu katchiku maatume votu podureengala, ungaluke bore adikalaiya?
Mr.Bublic: Ada ponga sir, ennamo anju choice koduthu choose panna solra mathiri keekureenga? Onnu ithu, ilaina athu apdi thana sir iruku?
Senthil: Pudichanga ya pointa..
(Koundar senthila era iranga parthutu)
Koundar: Sari, Future la India vallarasu agumnu neriya peru solrangale atha pathi enna nenaikureenga?
Mr.Bublic: Ellam namma Dhoni kaila than sir iruku, avar manasu veicha namma nichiyam 2011 world cup jeichu vallarasu agidalam sir.
Koundar: adada dada… Mudiyala da samy. Naan evalavu peruku counter koduthu irukken, ana Mr.Bublic neenga…..
Senthil (manasukule Mavane ethana pera torture panna nalla venum da unaku) Annen, Adutha rounduku polama ne?
Koundar: Hmm Polam polam. Athuku munnadi oru short cutting breaku.. Viewers naan oru cutting pottutu vanthuduren, athuvaraikum neengo engayum poidhatheengo.. bulease wait ma..

Welcome bagk to Quarter with Koundar. Mr.Bublic intha roundu Thiruvilaiyadal round. Kelvigalai naan than keepen, neenga bathil sollanum readya..
Mr.Bublic: Ready sir.

Koundar: Arivuku?
Mr.Bublic: Abdul kalam
Koundar: Alaguku?
Mr.Bublic: AishwaryaRai
Koundar: Arasiyaluku?
Mr.Bublic: Amma
Koundar: Adithadiku?
Mr.Bublic: Anja Nenjan
Koundar: Actingu?
Mr.Bublic: Andavar
Koundar: Anbuku?
Mr.Bublic: Naanga
Koundar: Aapuku?
Mr.Bublic: Neenga

Koundar: Yabba sami, mudiyala! Mr.Bublic adichu pinnitengo. Last and final roundku porathuku murupadiyum oru short cutting break ya.

Koundar: Iam Bagk. So Mr.Bublic last rounduku readya? Intha round Moondru mudichu. Naan moonu kelvi khepen athuku correcta solanum. Firstu kosten Ungal latchiyam enna?

Mr.Bublic: Oru small car, oru 2 bedroom bedu, oru lcd tv, oru 10 lakhs bank deposit ithu than sir latchiyam.
Koundar: Enna oru latchiyam!! Ithu pothuma? Vera ethuvum venama? Ogay ogay second kosten, nattuku ethachum seiyanumnu aasai irukka?
Mr.Bublic: Irukku sir, Transformer orama kaa kaa porathu, Bana miri Dhum adikurathu, Saraku adichutu Vandi otturathu, Lovenra perula public placela nuisance panrathu, Vaaikizhiya pesitu votu podama irukurathu, forward Mails anupitu salary vangurathu Ithu ellam niruthanumnnu asai irukku sir.
Koundar: Shaabba.. Ippayachum asai vanthuche!! Ogay mister.Bublic last kosteen, Ivalavu kasthamana situationlayum santhosama irukkengale epadi?
Mr.Bublic ( oru second yosichitu) : Ellathukum neenga than sir karanam. Unga comedy scenea parthale ella kasthamum maranthu poguthu sir.
Koundar: Adang Gonniya adichan da Goalu.. Okka Makka, Mr.Bublic ithaiye maintain pannunga ungala yaralayum onnum panna mudiyathu. Inthanga Iam very Happi ya.. keep this prize ya..
Senthil: Annen , ennaku ethuvum prize ellam ilaiya?
Koundar: Athana parthe, enga da aale kanomnnu parthen! Unnaku thana? Anga kuppa thottila orugai packet onnu potten atha eduthukittu apdiye odipoidu da naaye.

Haallo viewers, meendum ungalai innoru guestoda meeting yaa. Ahh byengo..

Quarter with Kounder!!

Tamil nattu Makkale, Ellarum epdi irukkenga? Naan than unga comedian Koundamani... ahhhh the sheme(Same) CountMoney..

Enna pakkama romba naala sogama irukkengannu intha mouse mandaiyan sonnan. En manam thangavillai. Nenju proukavilai (side la tirumbi.... kaarrrrii thuuu) Athan ungala ellam regulara meet pannalamnnu mudivu panni irukken..
Athuku than intha Sshoow... Quarter with Kounder... Nsooiiii ya... ensooii..

Naan maatum ila, ungaluku pedicha/pedikatha, terinja/teriyatha, sorinja/soriyatha chiiiiii arinja/ariyatha VIP’s also you going to meet here ya. So all the edjucated family there, be ready ya.

Innoru mukkiyamana vishiyam, intha Sshoowku maavillaku thalaiyan Senthilum en kuda aajar agiduvan enbathai santhosthathudan (karumam da) therivithu kolkiren..
Kudiya veraivil En Sshooowwoda muthal guestoda varukiren.. Athuvaraikum…
Ahh Nandri.. Ahh vanakkamungoooo…

Mudhal Guest yaarunu munnakey kandupedikuravangaluku oru Old monk quarter parisaga tharapadum enbathai suyaninaivodu therivithukolkiren.

"Nakkal Thilagam"

After every hectic day in office (don’t ask me what I do ;)) I look to one person to recharge my batteries. He is none other the legendary comedian Sir. Goundamani. If you happen to watch any of the Tamil channels after 10pm you would definitely come across Sir Bell. Every time I watch his comedy scenes it grows manifold times on me. I really get awe of his indomitable timing sense and dialogue delivery.

Here are some of my favourites of the Hon. Bell sir (Not in this order)

Karakattakaran : Who can forget this movie? This movie ran for 365 days continuously and everyone knows why it ran for.

My pick is : Ada enn da, antha cinema karanga than ipdi thangaluku thange poster adichi ottikurangana neengaluma? Ada athuvathu parava 35 vayasu mela poranugalannu patha poga maturanga…..

Awesome nakkals and timing sense. Oh my God, I can see it all day. Special Kudos to Senthil’s appavi look. This is definitely a landmark movie in Tamil cinema and I can still remember each and every scene evenafter20 years.

Next in line is Singaravelan. When two legends in comedy combine what else do you get other than rib tickling, bone breaking, jaw dropping, and teeth cracking humour! If there is a movie that I can watch infinite times without getting bored, then it has to be this one.

All the scenes involving Kamal and Bell sir just brings the roof down. To me this one of the best comedy movies ever made in tamil cinema. My pick is when kamal says why he came to Chennai, our sir says, “ enna latchiyam. Ithu allava latchiyam.. Ama unga oorle oru ponnu pathu kalayanam pannikita unga latchiyathuku iluku varuma?” ROTFL.

Then comes another fav of mine. “ Maaman Magal” This satyaraj and Sir bell’s combo is another masterpiece. Infact iam a huge fan of this combo and Iam almost 90% of Tamil nadu would be mad of this combo. Most of us believe the Bell & senthil’s pairing is the best comedy pair but I feel this Satyaraj and Bell pair is a notch better. Iam an addict of this pair and hope to see this pair again. J

Other than these, I love almost all the 80’s comedy of Sir.Bell be it the All in All Alaguraja or the Pattuvathiyar Pavadasami or the inumerous characters that are delight to watch even after two decades.

When every kiddo entering Kollywood comes with up with a “Thalapathi” or “Star” title its really sad to see that our very own Bell sir being without any. As an eternal fan of this living legend and doctor of laughter therapy Iam proud to coin the title of “ NAKKAL THILAGAM” to our beloved sir.

Now, here is a small imagination, Me meeting Bell sir, to convey the news about this title.

Me : Ayya, Unga kalai sevaiya munitu ungaluku unga rasigaral agiya nanga pattam koduka porom.

Bell Sir: Adang goniya.. Pattama?? Vaal veichatha veikathathua?

Me: Ayya , naanga sonnathu kaathadi ilanga, title..

Bell sir: Apdiya da mang kotta mandaiya, munna ellam padathuku than title veipeenga ippo manushanukey veika arambicheetengala? Enna da athu title?

Me : Sir, Athu vanthu… Athu vanthu…

Bell Sir : Seekram sollu da idiyapam vaiyaa..

Me: Nakkal thilagam saar..

Bell Sir: Vaada Berika mandaiya, unna than da theyditu irundhen. Naan enna Naaiya nakkurathuku? Ithu munnadi naan yaara nakkunen? Ila nee than naan yarachum nakkurathu pathuthiya? Ethana peru da ipdi kelambi irukkenga?

Me: Sir Athu vanthu…

Bell sir: Dai, olunga odidu peru veikurangalam peru.. Nakkalu, vikkalunnutu…

Me: !!!

That week that was!

The Last 7 days would have been a complete feast for the media. Starting from the presidential elections to the further global financial meltdown to the Marathi Manoos to the Saffron terrorism to Jumbo’s sudden retirement, it’s been nonstop action around the world.

Now here’s the top 5 news items that caught my attention.

5. Kollywood’s one day Fast!
When you have the entire Kollywood’s actors on stage for a fast it’s definitely difficult to ignore. As usual the highlight of the show was Rajni, Kamal and Satyaraj.
The surprise packets were Mansoor Ali Khan & Radha Ravi. Both reveled in what they are known for, unintended fun. Btw, SJ Suryah’s lateral thinking on issue made sure there were few eggs ( I mean literally) on his face by the end of the show.

4. Marathi Manoo’s
What started as a single person’s attempt to gain political mileage has indeed started taking very very ugly scenes. The last week has showed how hatred has been already sowed in the minds of people when a Bihari guy was shot by the Maharastrian police after he took few bus passengers as hostage. After watching Praful Patel ‘s(NCP leader & Civil aviation minister) interview with KT in devil’s advocate I feel the Devil is yet to come in full.

3. Global financial meltdown
It was really funny to see Mr.Brown (UK premier) literally begging to the OPEC & China to provide more money to the IMF inorder to save the sagging economies around the world. Well, never knew the world would revolve in this way.

2. Jumbo’s Journey
It was definitely the shocker of the week. Everyone knew it’s going to happen, but definitely not this Sunday. He is going to be missed big time. He definitely deserves a separate post. To me, Kumble is almost on par with Sachin in terms of contribution to Indian cricket. Truly a Legend!

1. Barrack - Hamilton
This week two people took world by storm. They are quite similar in lot of things even though they belong to vastly different fields. The first thing that comes to everyone’s mind is they belong to the oppressed colour. But they have done something extra –ordinary to make sure that they are not remembered for their color alone. One is on the verge of becoming the 1st Afro-american US president and the other has already become the youngest F1 champion. We can surely expect more fireworks from both of them in the coming years. As far now, lets cherish the domination of these two over the world in their respective fields.

The “T” that tear us to Tears!

As I was spending my Saturday browsing the channels, I found one word being mentioned every second minute. Be it the interview of Barrack Obama or Raj Thackeray or for that matter any Amar Akbar Antony everyone was talking about this one this “T” word.

Ever since that day Sep morning of 2001, this word has become the household name of the world. Not only did it played havoc with the life 3000 odd Americans that day, it made sure that thousands of educated & employed engineers in far off sub continent were also made to search for a new livelihood.

Even though I haven’t been affected directly by that, It did send shivers down my spine whenever I see a flash news in the TV channels. Of late hardly a day passes without me hearing that horrific word. I was very insensible to most of happenings that have been taking place around the world until a couple of months of ago. But since this August, I just couldn’t control my emotions and wanted to pour them out somewhere and thought blogging is a better bet.

So when did it start? Some may say it started on 11^th sep, 2001, for some 1991 (gulf war) for others it could be much before. I don’t think anyone knows when it started but I surely hope that everyone be in a position to give a timeframe of when it would end.

So how can we stop it? What can we do for it? Well, it’s a quite difficult question to answer. I think its all because of one thing. Development. This One D led to another D. Destruction. Whenever human race developed in certain areas, there was lot of destruction be it the atomic energy, the technology, the medical inventions, you name it and its there. I know many of you wouldn’t agree with me, well if you can prove me wrong, iam ready to backtrack on us. But just give a thought about it!

Humanity could be the only answer to this. I think instead of identifying ourselves as Tamils, Telugus, Marathis, Biharis or Indians, Pakistanis, Americans, Africans or Hindus, Muslims, Christains we should be identify ourselves human beings. I think this would be the only solution because most of the reasons for the spread of the Horrific T starts from the clashes due to above mentioned IDENTITY. I would definitely point my finger to the identity crisis which has made the world so insecure.

This is just the beginning, I wanted to pour out all my thoughts just to satisfy my inner conscious.

P.S: Iam not against any country, religion or sect. Iam just against one word. I don’t know whether it would happen in my child’s time but I certainly don’t want my grandchild to find the word TERRORISM in his dictionary.

Human life is too precious to be lost for anything!

Good Boy - Bad girl

A few days back I came across a blog talking about the good and mature guys falling for the not so good girl ( I hate the word BITCH, so iam not going to say that anywhere! J ) . For long we have heard how the fit for nothing rogues hanging out with the most perfect girls in the neighbourhood, but now time has caught up the girls too. They are getting their light under the sun.

Now, Iam not going to take sides. To me, both are equally good and bad. Its not that only girls are always choosy in picking their guys even guys are choosy. But when we do a comparison we would find that guys fall easily for a girl. The man reason for that is due to the lack of choices. We guys don’t get a choice of picking the best of the lot unless we are either Hrithik or Ambani. So when a girl gives the mildest look at a guy, he has no other option but to fall at her feet (I have seen atleast 3 such cases in the last year or so) .

When a girl chooses a girl there would be atleast 10 criteria’s running on her mind but when a girl is on the verge of choosing a girl we can be 100% sure that he is OUT OF MIND( No offence meant). Its not that the guys are so desperate but its something which every guy would never like to give a miss.

Now, there was this guy who looks as good as any young south Indian hero. He was rich, I mean so rich that whenever he goes out for dinner with friends he ends up paying the bill irrespective of the number of girls. He was decent enough in studies to get masters and is currently living in US. He met this girl who was his junior in a college bus. Accidentally he sat next to her and they had a conversation. She was a very ordinarily looking girl from a middle class family. According to many of her classmates, she was a real show off and had tons of attitude. Just one thing made the guy fall for her. And you would laugh if you come to know what made the guy for her. They shared the same birth day and that’s the weirdest reason one can get for falling in love.

I have been trying to find one true, sincere couple for the last decade or so but in vain. At this monetary age, there is only one true love that exists. It’s the motherly love!!

P.S : Iam not a crusader against lovers as such its just that I could see any honesty/sincerity in today’s lovers.

D for Deepavali!!

The D day!

Festivals always bring in some vibrant energy to people. At a time when the world has been facing the global recession, the inflation, price rise, terrorism, global warming and many day to day issues, only festivals like these bring some cheers to the saddened soul.

The very thought of celebrating a festival with your family and friends would make you smile and that’s the power of these festivals and these do still remind us of lot of values in life which we forget on a normal day.

Now here are the TOP 5 remembrances for the next Gen of the D Day!

1. One day holiday
2. Meet old friends & Relatives
3. Reason to buy new dresses / gadgets
4. Watch all the new cinema releases & TV programs
5. Eat lot of sweets

This is how most of our generation celebrates Deepavali. Iam sure many of the teens wouldn’t even know the reason why Deepavali is celebrated. Sometimes I just wonder should we stop following all these western ways of living. Whatever I do have a strong belief that soon there would be strong desire to search and follow the Indian traditions and values because of the simple reason that the west has just started to do that.

I wish everyone a very Happy and prosperous Diwali. Let this festival of light bring all the light you needed in your life.

The Gaming Solution for Eelam!

I just couldn’t keep myself away from writing this one about the eelam Tamils. Before I go any further here is a self declaration. Iam just an ordinary tamilian in Tamilnadu with no real political /power ambitions and Iam not a complete follower of what’s happening in SL. My knowledge is very much equivalent to that of a average Chennai resident.

Whenever there is some sort of war in SL, we can see the following faces in the media more frequently. Nedumaran, Vaiko, Tiruma, Ramadoss & S.Swamy. While the 1st four make powerful noises about tamil veeram and gauvravam, the latter at the same time would provide unintended humour giving the double V’s (Vadivelu & Vivek) a run for money.
Till a couple of years I never felt that the people in Eelam (read Tamils) are someone very close to me. But off late its changing a bit due to the wide media coverage and I should definitely mention our film fraternity’s contribution in the same. After interacting with some of the Eelam Tamils across the world through online forums and channels I did come to know the various issues they had faced in SL. Though Iam sympathetic to their issues I really don’t know how much can India really do in this considering the FACT that its still an internal issue (just like our very own Kashmir).

There is a very old saying that all that’s not fair in love and war and I feel that’s what’s happening right now in SL. I don’t want to play the blame game here, coz its really difficult to find a solution unless there is COMPROMISE from both sides. Now I don’t think the Eelam fighters would compromise for anything less than a separate nation. As for the GOSL, I think if there is to be solution for this issue, it has to come from them.

Now I have this strange or you may even call weird idea to solve this issue. Now nothing comes in this world without a price. So what Iam suggesting is, I know there is a huge, I mean a real huge Eelam Tamils across the globe and if they can donate a considerable amount of their fortune and make it a real big sum ( may be say 50 Bn US$) and start negotiating with GOSL for a separate Eelam. I know many True Tamils would be jumping on me asking why we should pay to get back what was ours. But please do think for a second, you have been fighting them for almost 3 decades and the amount of money, energy, human life you put all these years has gone drain most time. So may be its time to try out some other strategy and Iam sure the crores and crores of Tamils in TN would also be ready to contribute ( but don’t expect much the TN politicians ) to help you gain your homeland. Now why don’t we give this a chance?

Let’s pray that we hear only crackers sound and no more gun fires in the island nation.

P.S: This idea’s inspiration is the trading game which we play when we were kids, buying the towns, states and countries.

Cheers!

Why I hate chennai Rain!?

When i was in bangalore, i was just wishing and praying all my fav gods & lucky charms that i should settle down in chennai ASAP. And i was lucky enough as my prayers were answered within a year. But the happiness lived exactly for a year and quarter. Today i really felt why i ever landed here and after seeing all the rain, rain, rain and more rain.

I do have heard of Chennai's water problems earlier but this one was completely unheard of. Today most of the busiest roads in T.Nagar, Nungambakkam were completely submersed and had knee deep water. Right from the time i left home in the morning i have been wet all day! :( It was water was just following me like the good old hutch (now vodafone) dog. And to my misery more rains are predicted. Just remains me of Vivek's Thannila kandam!!

My dear god, once more iam praying to you. Now wait, iam not asking you to relocate me, please...... pleaseeeeeee stop this drain rain atleast till deepavali. If this is answered i promise i will not raise another request for next fortnight.

C U tomorrow! :(

The day of inevitables:

None of the games followers of my generation have seen the Australian cricket team lose so badly in a test match. May be this is the beginning of more such instances as I really don’t see a mix of overaged and raw bunch fighting a raging bull head-on. After the second test, I would give a 3 – 0 score line to the Indians incase there is no divine intervention in form of rain/fog.

Another inevitable happened in Mumbai.Yeah iam referring to the arrest of Raj Thackeray. People like him need to be either kept in mental asylums or Zoo’s or in prisons or else there wouldn’t be a country called India in near future. May be few more of the Thackeray genre need to be taken care to make sure India and Indian states are safe. Happy advance diwali to Maharastra.

I have been hearing the songs of Varanam Aiyaram since a week and at last I started liking them. My pick of the album is Yethi Yethi... Hope the film is also as good as the songs. And iam betting something on the movie here (there is still a week’s time for the release), my gut prediction is the movie may do good in A centers but iam predicting only an average run in B&C and I feel even Gautham has the same feeling (or else why will a Ghana/Kuthu find its place in this album)

Before I hit the sack, I heard India is on the verge of sending its first unmanned spacecaraft to Moon. Sincerely hope and pray that the mission is truly successful and even if its unsuccessful I would still be proud and happy coz I know that we wont be duping the world like the Americans when they claimed Neil Armstrong had walked, jumped and ran in the moon. :P

Cheers, C U tomorrow. :)