Ram's Perspective

Banggggg!!!

2009-08-12T09:43:00.000-07:00

After 1+ years of forced sabbatical(i shud say) back with a bang (refer title) to blogosphere ;) Many things have changed in this time. I got a life partner. MJ is dead, .... ,... many to say. Will post regularly from now.......

I L(O)IVE MUSIC!!!!

2008-04-21T23:50:00.000-07:00

Had a hectic week, my heart and mind was craving for a break. Thanks to Times of India for giving the break i needed in my most favourite form, MUSIC. The man whose songs i have been listening right from my child hood performed in Chennai, eventhough this is not the first time am attending his concert, it was different from the previous ones, this post is just an effort to jot down my 3.5 hrs of experience. Fortunately my buddy Sathya got a ticket for me. I reached the place by around 6 PM. As expected the place was crowded. But this time the crowd was different, it was composed full of college students and lower band of IT employees(i mean the youngsters). There was electrifying enthu floating all around.
Too much of mobile conversations, SMS ing happened. I imagined that if i had a specs to view the communication signals, then everything around me would appear opaque :). It all started at 7PM, when VJ adhiraj(i suppose it is him) initiated the show. The Guru came into the stage singing Jaage hain.... from Guru.
I dunno why but great music directors always have a unique voice, e.g. Raja. This man has the same too. I was a bit bored thinking that he might perform the same songs as the previous concert, but he again proved why he is a genius. He had understood the pulse of audience, this time the set of songs was completely different and it was a mix of all genres.
Then Shankar came into the stage with his national award winning song Vaaraga nadhikarai oram.... from Sangamam. When he sung the lines "Panjavarna kizhi neee parandha pinnalum....." from charanam i remembered those good old days, when i was in school and listened this song 5 times a day enjoying the music with my close buddy Vijay, i wished he was there with me to recollect. He is in bombay now. Both of us have exactly the same taste for music.Yet another highlight of this concert was a bass guitarist named Steve, he resembled actor pasupathi in his looks. Oh man what a performance with the guitar. He started with a heavy metal kinda stuff and ended in the prelude of the song "Enakoru girl friend venum...." from BOYS. I cudnt do anything but dance for the awesome beats and rhythm of the genius. The genius displayed his likeness for all kinds of music by alloting Nityashree Mahadevan a separate 10 minutes. She sung an alap for around 5 minutes with thavil and drums in background. She looked so adorable in the pattu sari. Then she sung one of my all time fav songs "Kannodu kaanbathellaam..." from Jeans. I thought he has composed some songs upto Raja's calibre. Another special needs to be given to the fusion piece done by Sivamani, Srinivas in mridangam and the thavil guy. It was mind boggling, sivamani started creating music from VIP luggage and mineral water cans. I remembered the comedy from vadivelu "Isai engerndhu varudhu theriyuma" :), this guy justifies the statement "Music is everywhere". Then the man himself sung Pray for me brother.... all of us started waving our mobile fones(the 21st century equivalent of candle light :)) In the middle he commented that "Indha maadhiri satham kettu rendu varusham aachu", i thought "Neenga chennaila indha maadhiri concert panni rendu varusham aachu". Since there was too much of dancing for us, we were exhausted, nalla velaya the ppl residing close to the ground were offering water through their windows to the ppl in ground. It means a lot to offer free water for so much ppl. It requires a good heart. Vaazhga engalukku thanni kodutha andha AKKA. We went there and quenched our thirst, aana isai thaagam adanga villai.
Then the genius continued his feat by singing "Khwaja mere..." from Jodhaa Akbar, he performed it with a simple harmonium. We closed our eyes for a few minutes and joined the man in his spiritual journey. One more interesting thing it noticed was that some caucasians started dancing for chayya chayya and maduraiku pogathadi. I was proud to see this, inspite of having zero affinity to our culture, they enjoy his music.Then the concert ended as usual with "Arabi kadalorum.." and Vandhe mataram. I left the place a few minutes before to avoid last minute rush. My only disappointment was that he didnt sing "Khalbali.." from RDB. With a happy heart, reached home and continued with my hectic week in office. Now am typing this before my system in home, inniku kaalaila naalu maniku veetuku vandhalum, thirumbi office ponumey. Pozhapu vera interest vera............

Have they failed?

2008-02-13T09:44:00.000-08:00

The they in the title refers to leaders cum revolutionaries like Karl Marx, Che guevera. I am not a communist, but i like the idea of "all are equal". I have not read any books written by communist leaders so far. But i know the essence of their concept by reading some small articles. So i take the liberty of commenting on some communists i have encountered. Today i boarded the bus as usual at 9:00 AM. usually there ll be a break of 5 - 10 mins for the driver. To my surprise 2 guys dressed in bright red shirts came into the bus, one of them started collecting money while the other stood near the gear box and gave a short lecture for a minute.
His lecture was as follows "India makkale, Nepala naatil mannar aatchiyai ozhikka maoist poraaligal poradi varugiraargal. Adhai thadukka america vin kai kooli aana India arasu than raanuvathai anupugiradhu. Arasaanga panathil thindru kolutha raanuva veerargalin thalaivar, nepalathil maoist aatchi amaya vida maatom endru peti koduthullar. Idhai thadukka naam poraaduvom....." i dont remember all the words. Then the other person came near me and showed the box, i noticed that they gave a pamphet to those donated money. Since i was so curious to read about it i gave an amount. He handed the pamphlet to me. It had a long story about how nepal has starved in monarchy, how the maoists came into picture, how US plays politics to avoid another communist nation and bla bla.
I wondered why are some ppl who are living in a southern state of India feel so much for ppl in Nepal?Are we in a developed country or super power and all our ppl are satisfied and rich so that we have time to think about neighboring countries? We have millions of problem in India which are yet to be resolved, numerous of our fellow citizens are suffering without basic needs.But putting aside all these things the communists whom i saw today are more worried about establishing a communist government in some other part of the world and they speak ill of their own military force who suffer hard day and night to keep them peaceful. Is this the communism that Karl Marx and Ernesto Che guevera would have intended to spread through out the world. IMHO definitely not.
They also said that some nepalist maoist leader is gonna give a speech about this in public.In the same chennai city around 5kms far from the location where they are collecting money,exists a grade separator construction which has not been completed for more than a year and is causing huge trouble for the commuters. Why cant these ppl held a poraatam or aarpaatam to force the govt. to take fast action, instead they are collecting money to spend for some unnecessary problem which most of our ppl might not be aware of. This prompted me to ask the question, HAVE THEY FAILED in imparting communism to the world? I wud say Kamal's Anbe Sivam gives us the better meaning of communism rather.In my belief communism is helping the needy and not conducting rallies and meetings in public.

Sariya Idhu Thavaraaa?

2008-02-01T09:54:00.000-08:00

3.5 years ago when i was in the final year of Engineering hardly 50 ppl from my college got a job in campus. but now the situation is reverse, in a batch of 500 ppl only 50 ppl dont get a (gud)job in campus. Thanks to the outsourcing veri of americans. This campus drive has reached its peak with this year when 3rd year students start getting placed even before they get their 6th sem results. The effect of this premature recruitment has started showing its effects. This year the whole Anna Univ's final year results had a sharp drop in the average percentage. I dunno the stats, but i ve enquired with many ppl from many colleges including my sister's and cousins. All sing the same song of final year students performing badly. The root cause is known obviously. In INDIA, especially in non elite institutions we ppl believe that studying is only to get a job.
Even though it is the primary reason, gaining knowledge also has importance. But we ppl ignore the latter. One of my frends says,"Padikardhu velai kedaikardhukku thaan, adhaan ippovey kedachiruchu, inimey minimal aa padicha podhum". Even if we put good efforts, we dont get the targeted marks due to faulty correction and stuff, but when we prepare minimally for an exam, the outcome is gonna be disastrous and tats what has happened now. the IT cos in the race to acquire the fresh creamy layer of the lot, start their recruitment process as early as possible, the worst case is that they recruit a student with 2 semesters pending. Atleast the recruitment procedure should be fair enough to test whether he has the consistency and motivation. But most companies have loopholes in their recruitment procedures nowadays. I ve heard facts about 20 ppl being sacked after a month of training in a company, since none of them opened their mouth during training sessions. Since these companies recruit almost everyone, most of the students who get placed in their pre final year ignore the studies and start enjoying life for the next 1 year. Colleges also mind only about the placement records. The drop in the final year performance is primarily because of this premature placement of students with gud pay packages. Just before a couple of days i thought why cant Anna Univ bring a rule that campus placement should start only after 7th semester. Today i heard that VC of ANNA UNIV has made an announcement for the same. Kudos to him. This is very good move, now the students will have some responsibility and interest in the studies...............

P.S: The above pose does not imply that the students currently in final year are unfit to work. It does not mean that i am very responsible and studious. If i have been placed in 3rd year i wud have been more reluctant. Thank GOD it didnt happen, else i wud have become lazy.

Sleepless nights...................

2007-12-21T09:42:00.000-08:00

Nowa(nights)days am not able to sleep too early, it is taking a minimum of 2 am every time, something is preventing me from sleeping, irrespective of i have to go to office or am in home, am not able to sleep as i used to before, since idle mind is the devil's workshop and i dont want to let devil in as its already there i keep watching movies, till i feel some need for closure in my eyes, checked whether its due to some high BP or what, negative. My mom is accusing my onsite trip after which am not sleeping properly, searching for an answer on why am not able to sleep, may be i shud try reading some history books :)

Indha 7 naatkalil naan rasithavai

2007-11-20T09:01:00.000-08:00

Just wanted to post the things that i enjoyed in the past 1 week.Since a scarcity for melodies has been existing offlate in Tamil film industry, i just tuned into some gemini and kiran tv instead of SUN music. Got this song as an accident in Kiran TV. This is from a movie named Nivedhyam, what an amazing composition and rendition by Vijay, Yesudas has gifted this world with a person who can sing like the genius himself. I keep hummin this songs atleast 20 times a day. Out of curiosity listened to all other songs in this movie, wow gud songs with Carnatic base, but this is my pick.

The next thing, i shud say a person rather. Happened to watch Tamil M.A. The heroine looked so cute an attractive, saw the movie twice for her, she is not like the stereotype heroines, but looks beautiful.

The other thing that i enjoyed was a small title music for the serial "Kadhalikka Neramillai" from VIJAY TV featuring Prajan, am not a fan of him, but the music was so gud, it was a kinda hip hop with carnatic flavour. Gud one.

The next one is a comedy from Marudhamalai, vadivelu has gone to extreme levels. The moment he says "Naan shock aagiten" i burst into laughter. LOL......

MORAL SCIENCE

2007-11-15T08:15:00.000-08:00

One Line Story:

Sachin misses century for the 15th time

Moral of the story:
Being over cautious will lead to failure, no matter how skilled you are.....

ATM

2007-11-14T10:38:00.001-08:00

It happens always, i dunno only 4 me but it happens always. Things i try to avoid come again and again in my way, one such thing is ATM,
the acronym for Azhagiya Thamizh Magan. I have taken an oath not to watch this movie as i dont want to contribute to the success of formula
movies. But destiny thought the other way, so had to watch this out of compulsion yesterday. Thought of writing a few words about this movie.
Since this is a Vijay movie i expected some electrifying(only for VJ fans) intro scene followed by a song. As expected it came, but the inroduction
song had some tune (even though it wasnt gud) instead of the usual tappankuthu. Instead of shankar mahadevan it was sung by a man who all of us
know as a genius, i think we shud say he is the right MD in the wrong movie. His voice didnt suit VJ, the song didnt have a good tempo, so VJ seem
to have had some difficulties in dancing for the song, but some how he managed to dance his usual fast paced steps. "Paatu eppadi irundha ennanganna
naan ipdi thaanunganna aaduven" nu sonna maadhiri irundhuthu. But some steps were really hard to do and VJ with his usual grace did them to perfection.
As usual the hero is a sportsman who is invincible and invulnerable to any one. The story goes around his gud qualities, helping kids, giving message etc.
Suddenly the heroine of the movie pops in, she is India's answer to Shakira i guess, i dunno whether her hips lie or tell the truth, but the truth is her
hips are awesome and she has made gud use of it. She looks sexy (not cute) in certain scenes.
Then the movie goes into the story, the crux of this movie is premonition, VJ gives some reaction as if he is affected with some low sugar before
experiencing the premonition. The boy takes the gal to his hometown to convince his mom for marriage and finally succeeds as usual. Then comes the
song "Maduraiku POgathadi" reminded me of "Naatamai paadham patta" from the movie Nattamai.The villain of the story is not the girl's or the boy's
parents all of them have become comedians, so the villain is hero himself, i mean VJ has done a double action.
One fine day VJ gets a premonition of killing Shreya. So to avoid this he goes to Mumbai and splits from Shreya. There he finds there
is another VJ, who is a baddy and will do anything for money. Rest of the movie deals with how the goody VJ rules out the baddy VJ and wins his girlfriend
Sh(akira)reya. In between comes Namita who is added for some extra spice in the masala movie. May be the director thought audience might be bored watching
the fit and toned Shreya, so he added the gums(pronounce like Geff boycott) namitha, the camera man has covered the thighs and hips of Namitha more than her
face. He knows the pulse of tamil audience, he is aware that we tamilians like fluffy figures like Namitha :-). Shakila also has done a wonderful role in
the movie.
VJ has done a double role, he has tried to change the dialogue delivery between the 2 roles, gud effort, but for an actor of his experience it is
not enough a novice could have done this. He could have also tried to change the body language, at some part of the movie he starts talking like
Ajith(baddy VJ) and Sarathkumar(goody VJ).After some movement and aalmaarata swarasyam comes the song "Valayapati Thavilu" which was hyped the most,
the video disappointed me. Only gud part was VJ's dance.Finally in the climax a weird thing happens, the baddy VJ thirundhify and becomes a goody.
The comedy part is that he will thirundhify after hearing a ridiculous lecture from Shreya about sex and chastity, the lecture is given by Shreya in the ICU @ hospital where she is being admitted. If it had been
some gud actress the scene would have been superb, she could hardly provide any emotions. IMHO her hips act better than her face :-).
This is a story MGR shud have acted some 40 years before, grafix are poor but watchable. This movie can be watched once if u are VJ fan. The dancer
VJ has done his best, but actor VJ still lacks the skill for becoming the next superstar(as his fans tell about him)........................

The other side of outsourcing!!!

2007-08-31T14:27:00.000-07:00

Been almost half year since i have blogged. Didnt feel like blogging from within. Some incident in my office just prompted me to write this. I am in Nederlands. Before few days 2 of team mates got relieved and returning back to their parent company, both of them are Dutch and so is their company. As usual there was a farewell, every one offered their gud wishes, even though we were the only 2 Indians in the team and just 2 weeks old, we proceeded to greet him. He said some simple things in his broken English, here goes the words "Hi Ram, You come from India, i go out, you replace me" and laughed. I felt so embarrased.
Just penning down the thoughts that came to my mind, assume that we are working in India for a client, life is fine. Suddenly one fine day can the client says that, i can go back to my parent company just because a person from a country behind India economically has agreed to work for few more hours than i do at half my salary.
Will we be in a position to welcome such people? but if i feel like this and think in such a way i wont be able to do my work, it happens everywhere.
Already something similar to this situation is happening now, IT biggies have started recruiting science graduates instead of engineers,one of the main reasons for this is have the work done in lesser salary, leaving apart the debate of whether or not it is a gud move, i suspect that all of the engineering community wud be able to appreciate this initiative.

The INDIAN attitude!!!

2007-03-26T09:06:00.000-07:00

Usually we Indians have an attitude of exaggerating things, going overboard for silly matters. Whether it is cricket(Sachin) or cinema (Rajini). Even i cant avoid it, am an Indian too. Why this thought has come to my mind now? The past weeks of World Cup fever. We exaggerated the normal Indian team, now we are going overboard when they have lost and let us down. Being and ardent fan of Sachin, i expected that he ll play the game of his lifetime. He played the Game of his Life, but it was the Worst Game of his life. Initially after seeing the Srilanka match i was very angry towards him, i cursed the whole team including Sachin. I maintained the same stance till i read this. This made me think that how he must have felt bad for letting down billion of our hopes and faith. How ashamed he must have been. Cud do nothing but feel pity for him. All of us are accusing them of not playing well, failing etc. But are we doing the right thing? Cricket is just a game and we are treating it like a Kargil War. This attitude of our fans creates more pressure on them and spoils their psyche thinking about the effect of failing. The same kinda pressure is not given to Aussies or other western countries. Only their board screws them if they lose. See here in India how foolish we are, burning effigies, throwing chappals, damaging their properties etc. It is we who make them mentally unfit for playing with our pressure and hype. Another important matter in which cricketers are accused is the Ads. Why do the companies approach them. It is because of us. We prefer PEPSI over Coke just because our favourite player prefers the same. But we forget what suits us the best. Again this is the over exaggerating attitude of our people. It is high time we realise that we treat a game as a game. The fucking media adds fuel to the fire,they are the ones who spoil everything.

If they lose we shud criticise them but not hurt them. India will win the World Cup only when the fans become rational enough to ease the pressure on the players, we require a change of attitude.

P.S: I am trying to change mine but it is not so easy.......

Kedachurchu oru topic!!!

2007-03-02T00:25:00.000-08:00

We listen to many songs everyday, but some remain close to our heart. There are some music directors who are gifted with providing such songs. The foremost is our Ilayaraja. Many of his songs are evergreen and can touch your heart. Apart from the lyrics his tunes provide a separate language for the feel of that song. Once such song is "Thenpandi thamizhe" from Paasa paraviagal. This song is about Brother, Sister affection. The genius has provided an excellent tune that conveys this emotion. The voice of KJYesudass will be like a caring brother and the Chitra's modulation and voice denotes an affectionate sister. Hear this to feel it.

The video also will be superb, Sivakumar and Radhika had done absolute justice to this tune by the maestro. Nowadays how many songs does have emotions like this. Tamil is full of Gaana and Kuthu crap, hindi is full of remix crap. Whenever i listen to these kinda songs i feel "Indha maadhiri paatukkal inime varuma"?

Test Post

2007-02-26T09:24:00.000-08:00

Posting after almost 3 months. Forgot my blogger password. Now trying hard to figure out why i didnt blog so far. I have missed a wonderful thing in my life. Have to revive something. Will DO IT.

Idhuvallavaa Bhakti!!!

2007-01-03T07:32:00.000-08:00

Went for Thiruvilayadal Aarambam last week. Kasi theater after a long time, just went by the tea shop nearby and had to see the following posters. Since there was no light and my mobile cam is bad, did some tone correction to display the text.

Actually the next night was "Vaikunta Ekadasi", as per puranas people who remain awake for the whole night will attain salvation. The poster was regarding the screening of mega hit movies throughout the night in lieu of Vaikunta Ekadasi to keep ourselves awake. i.e. the cinemas facilitate us to attain salvation. Cudnt stop laughing at these posters. Special offers were also introduced like 3 movies in a single ticket etc. Theatres do business and they ll do their part to attract audiences, but is there any rationale behind this?

Is there going to be any use if we remain awake throughout the night by seeing Nayan's navel and Asin's assets? This is a clear illustration of how we have misunderstood ancient scriptures. Our ancestors have mentioned this so that we will think about God and his prowess thru' Bhajans, pujas etc to attain salvation. But what we are doing now is inverse. Just asked to myself "Idhudhaan Moodanambikaiyo?"

P.S:- I am an Aathigan.

After some time....

2006-12-07T08:39:00.000-08:00

Well, work has become a bit hectic nowadays and i didnt feel like blogging even if am free. Didnt know what caused this.
Rain didnt visit our Chennai like last year, but due to the poor maintenance and government our city faced a tough time this year too. Just took some pics in the rainy season. Posting those here. I thought of posting this long back, but cudnt.

This photo was taken in Velachery, even now this road might not have been completely recovered. I have to go to office daily thru' this road, had no other alternative. Thanks to the corporation and govt. for such awesome roads. :-)

This one was taken out of a closed shop in Saidapet, opposite to the bus stand at morning 5:30. I found a shelter for rain there. The RED colored thing in this foto is a poor paati who cudnt withstand the rain and chill, she too has found a shelter like me. But the difference is that i have a home, family. She has nothing. The white box and cover shown near that lady is her only asset. She was shivering. While looking at her i felt tears in my eyes.
Ivala ippadi pannina pulla ponnu ellam velangave maatanga. Cudnt understand why ppl abandon their parents in old age. Atlast offered her what i cud and left the place with a heavy heart.

Vallavaa ennai vellava!!!!

2006-10-26T05:57:00.000-07:00

A Series of Unfortunate Events occured in my life a couple of days b4. Had some junk work in office, drenched in rain. And finally watched Vallavan. After 3 and 1/2 hours of movie watching, tried hard to figure out the story and its purpose, after 48 hours cudnt find an answer. We all know that Simbu wants to be the next superstar of Tamil cinema, whether or not he is fit to be. Vallavan is not about love, action, romance, sex. It is about SIMBU and his fantasies or hallucinations.
The movie starts with the Manmadhan like music, i was very upset that i missed the Littel Super Star animation :-). Then comes the inroduction scene, Sandhya, Santhaanam and every body keeps searching for Valla a.k.a Vazhuvan a.k.a Vallavan. Suddenly Sandhya remembers that it is Children's Day. Then comes the intro song of our thalai Simbu. Lyrics goes like this "Unna edhukavum enna edhukavum evanum porakkavilla....." Simbu dances with young kids who will be wanna be Simbu in future. Somebody commented that "innum sinna paiyanaave irukkan da, adutha thadava KG students oda aaduvaan pola irukku, ivan eppavume Little Super star thaan", then he goes to college, as expected he is the lover boy and the smartest student in college, girls are always behind him. Then our thalai preaches about what is love? how a girl shud be etc etc...
         He goes to a temple and prays GOD for a gud figure to make luv. As expected GOD shows Nayanthara before him. He decides to luv her and starts preparing 4 that. Here comes another twist in the story, since our Simbu is so smart and handsome, he doesnt wannna correct Nayanthara in his own getup, so he changes himself like a ugly idiotic guy. The getup is similar to Kalayanaraman kamal. Looks like a spoof of the former. Then he does some usual tactics like singing, getting beaten for Nayanthara, stealing chappals etc. What a way to express your love? Atlast he becomes successful as expected.(Simbu enniku thothirukaar). Then the revelation begins, Simbu shows his true face in yet another comic situation. Nayanthara as expected becomes dumbstruck and everyone is surprised by the beauty of our thalai Simbu. After some romance, Simbu seduces Nayanthara with repeated kisses and sleeps with her. The scene is so natural and Simbu has performed very well in this scene(only). No doubt that Nayanthara is an upcoming sex siren of Kollywood. At one stage Nayanthara refuses to marry Simbu bcoz he is 3 yrs younger to her and the student in the same college.
        Then our hero becomes sad, depressed and starts walking on the road, suddebly he reaches his school. Then the story goes into a (must have been) superb flashback. Simbu looks younger without his moustache in school. There comes the second heroine Reema sen, she looks like Vellai vadivukkarasi in school uniform, how the hell did our thalai decide to show her as a school student. That too she is no match for our Simbu's smartness. He does everything from cleaning shoes to vomit for love. Since reema sen is dominating too much and our thalai doesnt wants to be dominated by anyone, luv breaks with some bad words between the two. The scene (must have been)was like Padayappa oonjal scene. Simbu performance chance ae illa(sema comedy). Reema acts like a psycho who becomes obsessed with Simbu. Then comes the worst part, movie again comes back to present time. Reema sen does some tricks to separate Nayanthara and Simbu permanently. As expected Simbu overcomes all the obstacles and succeeds in marrying Nayanthara.
Santhaanam is the only saviour who made us sit inside the theatre (excluding Nayan). Sandhya is not necessary for the movie. Somebody said "padame thevai illai da". Even though the movie didnt win any claps some dialogues by audiences won claps from others. For eg. in climax Simbu says "thappu panniten" repeatedly. One guy from audience said "Aaamam da, nee padam eduthathu thappu".
       Music is not good, esp the BGM was pain to ears. Songs picturisation also lacked quality, except for Loosu Penne. The song by TR "Yammadi..." was gud dappaankuthu. Nayan does dhola dhola dance like an amoeba in the song. She is not fit like Reema. Aaaga mothathula padame oru yega comedya irundhuthu.
We were disappointed after coming out of the theater. In Manmadhan Simbu concentrated on the movie. But in Vallavan he concentrates more on how to generate build up, send messages to his co stars like Danush etc. And that is y the movie flunked. In manmadhan i saw the Simbu who had the potential to become a gud film maker after some years, but in Vallavan i see a thinking 3 much of himself Simbu.Thank God he removed the dialogue kalaaichifying Kamal(kutra unarchi pola irukku). I am not sure whether he wants to become next Rajini or Vijai. He tries imitating both of them. Why cant he be in his own? It is time for him to realise that tamil fans have matured and not ready to accept self build up movies like this. Simbu's formula for film making - pick some hot chicks from modelling industry, select some exposing costumes for them. choose a sexy heroine(more than one if required), dance with them, kiss them, sleep with them, frame some story that fits the above mentioned scenes, release it.
        Eventhough he has put in a lot of efforts in directing the movie and co ordinating a team which needs to be appreciated, everything goes waste due to the poor movie. hope he comes back with a gud movie next time.........
                       - A tamil rasigan

Endru thirundhumo indha samoogam!!!

2006-10-13T05:08:00.000-07:00

Happend to go 4 the RTO office last week. My purpose was to go there renew my LMV LLR and come back. As per the instructions from my driving school i jus went there half an hour before time. As usual the office was closed till 9:30 AM. There was a long Q of around 70 - 80 persons and i was in the 30 - 40 mark. Time passed on and we waited almost half an hour. Suddenly a gang of gals came in, some were women. They dint mind the Q, just went in and formed a separate Q. Some guys started murmuring like "Vandhutaalunga..","Ivalunga ennatha otti kizhikaporaanga.." etc. The person in the counter said that he ll receive the fees in alternate manner like a guy and a gal. We were around 100 by that time, they were just 5 or 6. Within 10 minutes all 6 of them got their job done and went to take the test. We were waiting in the same Q for the next 20 minutes. Some ppl returned empty handed since the time was over.
If you can get a LLR in 10 minutes just becoz u r a gal while other guys have been waiting for an hour, who is the weaker sex here? What was surprising is that some guys started arguing with the officers, they told "Ithanai peru nikkarenga onnu rendu ponnunga nadula vaangitu pona ennavaam?". "Are we ppl mentally retarded to stand for hours?" asked one guy. He received special treatments from the officers.

Why this kinda attitude? Arent we equal?
Are their legs gonna pain more if they stand in a Q?
Are they gonna loose their virginity if they stand in the same Q with guys?

the gals are not to be blamed, anyone who has an advantage will try to use it. It is the system that has to be blamed. I find this in many places, for eg. in a bus if we sit in a ladies seat, there ll be some one to chuck us out. But if they sit in a gents seat and we try to push them(provided they dont have a baby or not old) ppl around including gents will bark at us. Why this bias in the society?
Like Racism, Caste based discrimination etc. Sexism also has to be banned.

When i came out of the office with an LLR. thought to myself

"Porandhaalum Aambalaya Porakka Koodaathu
Appadi porandhuvitta govt. office pogakoodaathu..."
[Reminded a Chandrababu song]

I have a feeling that this doesnt happen in North India....

P.S: This post is not against Thaaikulam. Just to convey the stupid attitude of our ppl. Infact i have to share my life in the near future with a gal :-)

What the FCUK?

2006-09-23T06:44:00.000-07:00

The photo was taken last night on the signal between Teynampet and Nandanam, during peak hours 7:00 pm the signal at the most used road of the city has failed. I dunno whether this is common, but all the 3 lights together confused every one of us, a software company bus even tried to runover the ppl in the signal. But out CCTP shud be appreciated, they have come immediately to the rescue and a police was manually looking over the traffic, but they cud have siwtched off the signal.

I have the feelin that i ve become a free lance fotografer now. he he he :)

Ada cha......................

2006-09-20T08:04:00.000-07:00

Am having Chikun Guniya, i cant walk properly, i feel like crying, i fear that it may spread to my loved ones. So what they have given me a color TV. I ll watch mega serials happily.
-Some pachai tamilians

WTF are such ppl gonna do to make this nation a super power. GOD only knows.
Just thonichu adhaan post panren.

Raghavan's Instinct

2006-08-28T07:17:00.000-07:00

Luckily gotta chance to watch VV in 2DFS(2nd day first show). Thanks to my friend Sathya who booked the ticket at 5 Am sometime last week. Inspite of a night out at my office on Friday cudnt sleep the next morning as i was excited about watching VV at 11 AM show. Since it has Kamal and gautam i though there wud be something in store for ardent Kamal fans like me. The introduction of kamal begins with a superb thenavettu scene only Rajini cud have given otherwise. Followed by the stylish "Karka Karka" song.
Pullarichiruchu, all of us attained a paravasa nilai. After a while i thought. Oh GOD! Why the hell is Kamal aging. He shudnt. His age is clearly visible in his face, we wanted him to be young always.Compared to his previous movies he looks a bit aged in this one. He is one of the few who gives hope to Tamil fans that gud movies will keep comin. I had a hard feeling about his age.
       I dont want to tell about the story here. See it for yourself.But the characters in the movie are well casted. The next major actor in the movie is Prakash Raj, who plays the role of a 40+ cop. As usual done to perfection.The villain Balaji has done well too. May be bcoz he has acted with Kamal, awesome performance from him. Especially the encounters between himself and Kamal were too gud.Another gud thing was that the movie didnt have any separate comedy track. All the jokes were spontaneous and timed well by Kamal.

       Coming to the ladies side, Jo cries most of the movie but looks CUTE. but Kamalini Mukherjee who is Kamal's wife in the movie looks CUTER. Whoa what a beauty? every man wud luv to have a wife like her. Especially the vetkam when Kamal proposes to her. She can write a book on "Vetkapaduvadhu Eppadi".The music of the film was also gud. I didnt hear much of it before. But Harris has done a commendable job. The BGM with Saxophone were completely ARR style but was gud. The songs "Paartha Mudhal Naale" and "Velli Nilave" were superb and enjoyable.Eventhough Jo comes most of the time in the movie it is Kamalini who comes to mind most of the time after the movie.The cameraman RaviVarman and other techinicians have done a gud job too. The lightings and colour enhancements were perfect. But i feel that the cinematographer wants to implement all that he has studied and went a bit overboard in some scenes. Fights were awesome and well choreographed by Vikram Dharma. Especially the dialogues between Kamal and the villains add more punch to the movie.
       But inspite of all this the movie is not perfect like Kaakha Kaakha, the romance between Jo and Kamal drags a bit, which slowed the overall pace of the movie.Some scenes remind Gautam's previous movie. Jo character is not so gud, i liked Maya more than Aradhana.Dont know why,but Gautam seems to have had a fear that the "Gummanguthu lady kammakara vaadi group"(used to watching wannabe superstars dancing for some dappankuthu music) might ignore the movie. this is clear from that unnecessary item number "Sikki Mukki neruppu" and some stupid romance scenes betwen Jo and Kamal, that didnt impress much of us. He seems to have compromised the quality of the film for some reason, may be business. Otherwise the movie is gud, go to theatre without any expectation to enjoy it.

Eppadiyo post panniten

2006-08-18T21:48:00.000-07:00

It has almost been a month i ve blogged. I didnt even read any other blogs. reason being my hectic work and that i didnt get any topic, feelin that i ve cribbed more than enough on reservations, terrorism, bomb blasts etc. i cudnt get a topic. I was affected with BLOG-UN-GUNIYA(my own term for lack of topics to blog about). Finally am out of it and successfully got something to blog about.
I was on a 2 day trip to Paranur, a village near villupuram. This is a place where Sri Krishna Premi Swamigal alias Sri Anna conducts the annual festival for Krishna Jeyanthi with Bhajans and rituals. I was desperate that i have to get out of this city,so i joined my parents. The village was so small that it had a couple of streets and some houses sans electricity. It has a temple built by Sri Anna himself and the street had some veda patashaalas. The experience was different, especially the bhajans were great. Being a great devotee of music, the varying tempo and beats of bhajans mesmerised me. I realised that music has energy the Nth time in my life. There was abishekam, aaradhanai etc. The next day i witnessed a different function in which Sri Anna threw vennai on all of his devotees while dancing. Every oe of the devotees were enthusistic that they didnt mind their digi cams,handy cams, honda cities being drenched with vennai.Learned that it was the Nandhothsavam.It was nice and fun. Some pics of the trip.

Travelled thru' the NH to Villupuram after 2 years, was amazed to see that the road is maintained well and comparable to international standards. Kudos to NHAI.

With this post my blog completes 1 year. Yes i wrote my first post on this blog on August 19, 2005. In the past one year i got many new friends thru' blogs. Learnt a lot. Improved my english a bit. Hope this continues.....

DUMB or INTELLIGENT?

2006-07-22T03:33:00.000-07:00

1. He has scored 298+ in TNPCEE.
2. He got a seat in IIT ROORKEE.
3. He got a seat in STANLEY MEDICAL COLLEGE.
4. Inspite of getting a medical college and IIT seat, he chose a seat in PSG.
5. He finally says he is gonna join in IIT and just attended the counselling becoz he
received a call letter.

Is he intelligent or foolish?
Why dont these ppl consider the lives of others before showing off....

Thats my house!!!

2006-06-27T09:32:00.000-07:00

Wiki - most of us have heard this term. I heard that WIKI is the acronym for What I Know Is. Encyclopaedia has already gone Wiki.
Seems that now map has gone Wiki. Checkout this link. Here you can find anything you know, label it and save so that others can find it afterwards. Even we can find our house and save it, so that others can view that next time. Unfortunately i tried hard to find my house, "endha nerathula eduthaanugalo" clouds has covered my whole neighbhourhood :-(. Look at the pic below

Unga veedu enga paathuteengala?

P.S: All those tech savvies and net wizards out there, plz dont think of this as "Old News". For those who have not seen this already enjoi a gud search

Andraya comedy Indraya Reality...

2006-06-15T08:55:00.000-07:00

Have a look at this link.
MP has removed many English rhymes from its syllabus, saying that they r gonna teach something relevant to our country.
When i read this, recollected Dindigul Leoni before 3 years in a Patti Mandram. He sang, "rain rain go away, Little Johny wants to play". His remarks was - "Indha rhymes Englandula ezhudhunaanga, anga eppavum Mazhai peyyum adhanaala idha paadaraanga, namma oorula mazhai peyyardhe periya vishayam, inga poi pullaiga ippadi paadina, vara mazhayum varaama poidum la"

Sounds funny but How true? We are aping them eventhough it doesnt suit us. Instead why cant we imbibe cultural aspects from them which suits our country. Time to change....

Enga Area Ulla Varadhe!!!

2006-06-13T08:18:00.000-07:00

The weekend has just passed by. I spent mine with 2 movies. Both of them have something in common, that is VIOLENCE. One is running in theatres and other one was released almost a year and a half ago. The first movie was Pudhupettai. Before watching the movie i asked myself one question. What can i expect from a PsychoRaghavan a.k.a SelvaRaghavan movie? Immediate things that came to my mind was, psycho Dhanush, Sonia agarwal, some seducing scenes. I was 5 minutes late on a Saturday evening, yet fortunate to get a ticket in Satyam, oru velai padam sariyilliyo nu thonichu. I missed this title song. Then the movie started. As usual Dhanush was moaning in his Kadhal konden voice. This is the story of how a poor boy becomes a Dadha because of this rot society and his irresponsible father. Story is not new to us. But the way it was handled was different. The director has overdone some scenes in the name of "Yadaartham", but some scenes and situations were enjoyable, like the one in which Dhanush completes his first assignment with the guidance of his senior rowdy.
Liked some passionate scenes like, when Dhanush gets his new house, he just looks at Sneha for sometime inside the bedroom, she says "Raathirikku vechikalaame" :-). Sneha has done her role to perfection. Initially when i heard about her character before months, i thought "What is the necessity for her to choose such a role?". But she has done well. I could not see anything vulgar on her performance. The music when Dhanush joins that gang of rowdies was amazing, felt like dancing for each beat. Yuvan rocks. Apart from all this one particular feature of this movie needs a special mention. Cinematography was great and new to tamil cinema. In Virumaandi, night scenes were accompanied with a blue filter. I didnt like that, but in this movie it is much more improved and perfect. So the movie scores in the technical area too. No movie is perfect, this movie has some negatives too.
1. Climax is comedy, especially that mist effect made me laugh.
2. Over violence. ( this is not for below 15 boys)
3. Sonia agarwal was not necessary. ( i dont know why SR is so superstitious)
4. Dhanush overacting in certain scenes.

The scene in which Dhanush marries Sonia was atrocious. SR is expressing his stupid fantasies like this to the audience.Apart form this the movie is good and definitely different from current competitors.
The other movie was SAW. Chance ae illa, one of the best movies i have ever seen. i dont want to say the story. But everyone shud definitely watch this one.
Atlast i wud like to ask one question to some Tamil fans and politicians.
If Virumaandi was violence for you people, why the fuck didnt you protest against Pudupettai. "Kamal mela irukkura urimaiya?" illa "Oravanjanaiyaaa?".

Recently i could see that Chennai traffic police have been given a different hat like the one our Aettu would wear during british times. Veyillukagavaam....

Tag!!!

2006-05-27T05:01:00.000-07:00

I dont want to write about reservations anymore. Cudnt think of another topic as of now. Thankfully Ponnarasi has tagged me.

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4. Ans. "The equals() method"- it is technical book

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.& catch air? Ans. Nothing

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? Ans. Jo in a song (Kaadhal suthudhe) from Saravana

4. Without looking, guess what time it is? Ans. 5:30PM

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time? Ans. 5:32PM

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? Ans. My iPod

7.When did you last step outside? What were you doing? Ans. This morning to my Bank

8.Before you started this survey, what did you look at? Ans. TV

9.What are you wearing? Ans. Shorts and T shirt

10.When did you last laugh? Ans: Just before 10 minutes when i saw Simbu dancing for that same Saravana song.

11.What is on the walls of the room you are in? Ans. My veshti

12.Seen anything weird lately? Ans. No

13.What do you think of this quiz? Ans. Height of vettiness...

14.What is the last film you saw? Ans. Amistad

15. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy? Ans. A tea estate with a house in center at some hill station.

16.Tell me something about you that I dunno Ans. Not possible to answer this.

17.If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? Ans. Make all people forget 3 things. Caste, money, bad things done by others.

18.Do u like to Dance Ans. Yes

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her?
Ans. Pass

20 Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call her? Ans. Pass

21.Would you ever consider living abroad? Ans. May be i can live for some 2 or 3 years but not permanently.

22.What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates? Ans. Are you playing some kinda game by simulating terrorists, castes, war etc? :)

I dont want to tag anyone as many of my frends have already completed this tag.

INDIA 2020

2006-05-24T07:03:00.000-07:00

India 2020

Scene 1: Huge number of people stage their protests outside a foreign embassy. Media person asks one of the protestors.Media: Why are you ppl staging this?
Protestor: We are deprived of our basic rights, we are fighting for that.
Media: Were you not given food, shelter, education or freedom?
Protestor: No, last time ABC and XYZ(are 2 great international banks specialized in Investment Banking) came to campus in our institution, but they recruited only 2 OBCs , but 4 other ppl. We are demanding a 50% quota for OBCs in their company, we would like to force them thru' their respective embassies where they are based.
Media: Which institution you are into?
Protestor: ||An elite institution for Management in India||

Scene 2:

Embassy officer(foreign) has been invited to the studio to discuss on this issue.
Media: Sir, what are your comments?
Officer: They have recruited only those who deserve. Thats all.
Media: But in our country we give 50% quota for people whether they deserve that or not.
Officer: Thats acceptable for ordinary institutions.
Media: Sir but our government is trying to create social equality thru' these quotas in elite instituions.
Officer: That's y u are still underdeveloped.
Media: After a long silence, they invite the HR manager of that ABC/XYZ bank to join the conference and ask them to comment on this issue.
HR Managers: We have been recruiting gud candidates from these institution for the past 2 decades, but if junk things like these keeps taking place, we ll have to reconsider our decision of recruiting students from India.
Media: What is the reason?
HR Manager: Thats simple, those who deserve will be given the chance.
Media: ||dumb||

Scene 3:

A major software company based in US, who has a workforce of more than 30000 in India has decided to layoff around 25000 ppl in the next 1 year and shift their development centres to China. Media interviews the Vice president of that company.

Media: What is the reason behind this decision?
Vice President: The government has imposed a new law stating that we ll have to recruit people based on caste, we are not ready for that and hence we have decided to shift our base to China.
Media: When Indian companies are implementing the principle why can't you?
Vice President: Look at their profits. They have shown a sharp decline in their profits and have lost most of their customers. We are not ready for that.
Media: ||dumb||

Disclaimer:

The above mentioned post is purely fictional, any resemblance to live people/institutions is purely coincidental.
The post mentioned above does not mean that OBC ppl are not in par with others in education, intelligence, behavior.
I personally know ppl who are good.This is only to convey that what happens when non deserving ppl are given higher positions, may it be a Forward or Backward caste.

Just my funny/silly imagination after i saw this, eventhough i have mentioned in the disclaimer that these are purely fictional, am afraid that this may happen one day. GOD save INDIA.

Have a look at this too.

Andavaaa..........

Thirutu Payale

2006-05-19T19:22:00.000-07:00

A break from usual LOVE and REVENGE crap. Tamil cinema is heading to a stage where only movies based on love have to be released.But there are some gud souls like the producer of this movie who are ready to present some different movies like this one. Bored on seeing ideal Heros in Vj ,VjKanth movies this one has a hero who is a culprit and corrupt to the core. The movie conveys extra marital affairs among the so called "High class" of the society and its implications when leaked out to 3rd party.
Bollywood has been releasing a chain of movies on this subject after the success of Murder, hope that doesnt happen here. The characters suit well in their roles except for Sonia and Susi Ganesan.
The story goes like this. Jeevan is a corrupt boy/man from a village, he ll even kill his own mom for money. They send him to Chennai where his Mama Mr. vikram's father stays. He resides near a golf club and accidentally discovers the extra mrital affair between Malavika and Abbas. He films the matter and starts extorting money from Malavika, he even enjoys a vacation in Australia, where he meets Sonia and falls in love with her.Sonia was setup by Malavika to crack Jeevan.She blackmails Jeevan to return the tape in exchange for Sonia Agarwal. A simple flashback illustrates why Jeevan goes corrupt becoz of his corrupt father.Then the movie goes with twists and turns to the cilmax.

Seems that Malavika is still suffering from that "C U at 9" hangover. There are some steamy scenes between Malavika and Abbas and she has done well ;-). Her voice especially was seducing, dunno whether it was dubbed, she has performed well in the acting section also. Screenplay was different and there is a subtly filmed love story between Sonia and Jeevan. Some scenes won applauses among audiences. The climax fight in which the hero kills 30 - 40 rowdies was humorous and a bit different as well. Instead of blasting the baddies in Matrix fashion,defying gravity,
he lures the rowdies into the race course and makes them chase him. They chase him for around 4 or 5 laps and then become tired physically. Then the Hero repays his part. First i laughed at this and consoled myself that atleast he didnt fly like Dhanush did in Sullan. Abbas as usual vandhutu poraar, we cannot expect acting from him. The person acting as Malavika's husband has done well. He is the cop from Dhool. Susi ganesan comes as a detective who investigates about CU AT 9's extra marital affair. Praying to God that he shud' not have any ambitions to become a Hero like
Perarasu.
Now lets come to the worst part of this movie. Thats a five letter word. That is "VIVEK". Why the hell did the director put him in a well planned movie like his?With his Adhi Medhaavi thanam and over punch dialogues he made me utter some bad words. Towards the end of the movie,while he came in the frame, there was a sound from audience "O!@a vandutaanda poram pokku...". The old vivek is gone, this guy is a new "thinking too much of himself" vivek. Definitey inclusion of this guy degrades the movie. Overall the movie is gud and watchable. The climax also was practical. Songs are not that gud. But the Title Song "thirutu payale..." was great with its superb lyrics.

When i came out of the movie i had a doubt.Looking into the story and screenplay, i though "Edhaavadhu foreign movie oda inspirationa irukkumo?" Kaalam badil sollum.....

SARCASM at its best!!!

2006-05-12T09:19:00.000-07:00

Look at this comment by some guy for Reservation issue in a forum

I think we should have job reservations in all the fields. I completely
support the PM and all the politicians for promoting this. Let's start the
reservation with our cricket team. We should have 10 percent reservation
for Muslims. 30 percent for OBC, SC/ST like that. Cricket rules should be
modified accordingly. The boundary circle should be reduced for an SC/ST
player. The four hit by an OBC player should be considered as a six and a
six hit by a OBC player should be counted as 8 runs. An OBC player scoring
60 runs should be declared as a century.

We should influence ICC and make rules so that the pace bowlers like
Shoaib Akhtar should not bowl fast balls to our OBC player. Bowlers should
bowl maximum speed of 80 kilometer per hour to an OBC player. Any delivery
above this speed should be made illegal.

Also we should have reservation in Olympics. In the 100 meters race, an
OBC player should be given a gold medal if he runs 80 meters.

There can be reservation in Government jobs also. Let's recruit SC/ST and
OBC pilots for aircrafts which are carrying the ministers and politicians
(that can really help the country...)

Ensure that only SC/ST and OBC doctors do the operations for the ministers
and other politicians. (Another way of saving the country...)

Let's be creative and think of ways and means to guide INDIA forward...
Let's show the world that INDIA is a GREAT country. Let's be proud of
being an INDIAN..

May the good breed of politicians like ARJUN SINGH long live...

He has nailed pro reservation ppl. But its a bit too harsh as well...

Back to pavilion...

2006-05-11T06:19:00.003-07:00

Got a break from my regular duties as i mentioned in my previous post. Visited my Kula dheivam temples after 3 years. Those are remote villages showing remote chances of development in the near future. Same roads, same ppl, same illiteracy. God save them.

This is my Amma vazhi kuladheivam called Arasaalvar, this temple is located in Srivaikuntam near tirunelveli. The speciality of this temple is that it does not have any roof. Moolasthaanam is situated below a Arasamaram. Inspite of many tries nobody was able to build a roof, something or other has stopped them. The poor town has not developed yet.

This is the Pathrakaali amman temple located at Perungulam, a small village located near Srivaikuntam. They didnt allow me to take a foto inside. This temple also has a speciality that the Utchavar Amman statue is taken in a "Pithalai Kudam" instead of the regular pallaku or any special vahanaas. Had a gud and divine darshan for the first 2 days.

Then i was on a short trip to Thenmalai in Kerala. It is located at around 100 kms from tirunelveli, near Sengottai. The whole area is lush green and climate was also gud. The area and surroundings have many waterfalls and rivers suitable for taking a 4-5 hours bath. Of course who will miss it? Mother Nature has given her best to these ppl. The area is famous for Eco tourism as well, there are stuff like boating, trekking etc.

The photo shown below was taken in a Deer rehabilitation center created by Govt. of Kerala. There was only a single deer inside and that too ran away when we tried to photograph him. Shy creature :). but the locations were cool.

this place had small hut like strutures created on top of trees like the one below, having food in these Kudils was a different experience.

Another interesting place was the Kalladai irrigation Project Dam, which stands massive, the place was gud to watch.

This place also hosts a famous bridge built during British times named as "Kal Paalam", a song in Jeyam was filmed here.

On return we had a surprising rain, because of this Kutraalam aruvi started flowing and we had a gud time there too. While i was in the 5 falls i met a guy from Mumbai. He was a 40 year old respectable who was standing besides us waiting for a chance. he was so paavam looking, spoke to him about Kutraalam falls and places around there. After sometime he took his bath and went away. I saw 2 guards armed with machine guns accompanying him. Enquired ppl near me about him. He was the special IAS officer appointed to supervise elections. I thought Idhe namma ooru aalugala irundhaa, enna scene poduvaanuga, but this guy was simple and down to earth. He waited in the queue. I mean he has the power and authority to bypass everyone but he didnt do it. He stood as an example for simplicity. India needs more officers like him.

BREAK!!!

2006-04-30T08:56:00.000-07:00

Yes have gota break from my usual strenous hectic office work, am in a week long vacation. With the rising heat of summer, election heat is also raising, happened to speak to some ppl like auto drivers, call taxi drivers, this is what they said abt elections "Ivanunga rendu perum thavar yaaravadhu vandhaa thaan adanguvaanga" hope u understand who these 2 are. Hope this same attitude remains for all ppl. Will keep posted abt my vacation in Tirunelveli....

P.S: This is just a avasara post :-)

Justified!!!

2006-04-11T06:02:00.000-07:00

The year was 1998, on a summer afternoon i had my English class, since we were CBSE we had some interactive sessions in our classes. My english mam Ranganaayaki told us that we ll be discussing a chapter on Brain drain (export of gud brains from India as soon as their education is over). She had brought one of her relatives to the class, that guy was a former IITian and a Phd holder from Michigan University who is working there. He spoke about many differences between the education system in USA and India, he didnt brag much. The class was over and we left usually, i thought that he is a "Nandri ketta jenmam", he learnt here in the best institution of the country and without contributing to his motherland he left abroad and works for the betterment of another nation by doing some research there. My life made me realise that he had made a correct decision to leave this country and i am a fool. I realised it a number of times, some of those were....

My engineering counselling-> i had only Chemical engg./Geo informatics in Anna University, the guy who came back 10 ranks after me was offered a better course in Anna Univ jus because he was born to a mother and father of some other caste.

When my friend who was so poor and perfectly eligible for scholarship from govt. was not given what he deserved just because he was born to a father and mother of BC, but other guys who are economically better than him got a scholarship because they are MBC.

A couple of days back when i heard that the govt. is planning for reservation in IITs and IIMs, now i strongly believe that guys like the one i have mentioned above are doing the right thing because they dont get what they deserve here in this country.The govt. has justified the actions of these guys.At the same time we should consider that tribal ppl do not get the same facilities as we do, so they definitely need a reservation to come up in their life and this reservation shud limit itself to ordinary institutions, but except for them reservation shud' be abolished(solli enna prayojanam).

If we are going to continue on the same path, India 2020 la mattum illa, 4040 la kooda ippadiye thaan irukkum. People who quote the Share market and cell phone revolution to argue that we are developing.please keep in mind that the development happening now is purely because of software boom and some foreign investments which will not be persistent.The true development happens only when there is no such discriminations based on caste, religion,language and all are treated equally.

Disclaimer: I am not against any caste or sect of this society nor i am against India.Oru varuthapatta Indianoda feelings avlodhaan.

Do they have the Responsibility?

2006-04-07T09:09:00.000-07:00

Over the last couple of days i watched all the famous news channels of India, there was a striking similarity between them, all channels displayed a real player Window in which a girl came with some fashion attire cat walked towards me, undersood that it was a fashion show(when i watched the first time), suddenly a part of the screen was blurred and her robe slipped from her body exposing her top. This has occured because of some silly mistake. But our News channels who brag that they re on par with International Biggies like CNN and BBC retelecast the same video again and again, i cud see the video around 15 times in the short span of around 1 hour.(Idhukkaagave okkarndhu paathiya nu nenakkaatheenga). In the name of "Freedom to express" thoughts, what are these ppl doing, relaying the same video again and again like a porn movie? If they really wanted to convey that such things shud not happen in future why play the same crap repeatedly? Some may claim that theyve blurred the video, what is the use of blurring? hiding something increases the curiosity among teens and even some grown ups to look what is behind? I dont mean to say that they have to play the clip without blurs.They cud have avoided broadcasting this clip, a flash news or just words cud have been enough.Instead these ppl are trying to increase the viewership count of their respective channels by broadcasting the clip. Is this what they claim as social responsibilty? The same happens for rape cases etc. but eventhough rape itself is unfortunate,fortunately rapists do not record what they do otherwise these ppl will broadcast those videos with some light smudges, claiming that theyve hidden the awkward part of the video. My grandma used to say "Oru sinna punnu irundhaa adha appdiye vittudu thaana aaridum, adha vittu romba nondinaa, perissayidum" i cud not avoid comparing what has happened in former case with this saying. With all such mistakes what is the use of vetti arguments like "Who will replace sachin?" "Will this dog piss today?" etc. Vetti scene thaan.....

Another news i heard was that Govt. is gonna probe into this matter, do they think that she might have done it delibrately? In my opinion it will not be true. If the government decides to stop such accidents(or incident) in future it can penalise the Show designer and organiser financially instead of probing into such things. So that models and designers will take care while designing for shows.

Movie spree!!!

2006-04-02T06:16:00.000-07:00

Last week was unusual in my life yes i watched 4 movies in 6 days inspite of my office work. Thanks to my cousin.
Pattiyal

Inspired from pithamagan, but the movie has lots of thenavettu, i mean the scenes in which Arya and Bharath murder ppl. Arya has done well in his comic role, Padmapriya has done well too, but she surprised me with her exposures,bedroom scenes. Maybe the character requires this, so she might have done it. Songs are not so gud, BGM is great and the movie has too much of violence.Ilaiyaraj has sung after a break, "namma kaatula malai peyudhu.." was gud.

Thambi

Dialogues are great eg. "Lanjam vaanginen ulle pottaargal, lanjam koduthen veliye vittargal", Pooja looks cute, story is a bit different except for the Pudhiya Geethai style climax. Maddy does over acting and really looks MADdy :-)). The songs "Summa kedantha..." and "Sudum veyil ..." are gr8.

Kalaabak Kaadhalan

Ulta of Vaali and Aasai, but the new girl has performed well, movie has some steamy scenes and mugam silikka vaikkum dialogues(not 4 me but 4 my elders), climax is gud and movie ends with a tragedy. Music is medium Arya has done well.

Sithiram Pesudhadi
Already told much about it.

P.S: Might resemble some telegram, ella padathayum vivarama solla porumai illa :-)

Tag!!!

2006-03-25T05:42:00.000-08:00

Hi, Have been tagged by Ponnarasi. Here goes my tag...

Movies I would watch over and over again:

* Thillu Mullu
* Panchathanthiram
* Anbe Sivam
* Kannathil Muthamittal
* Matrix 1,2 and 3
* Star Wars all 6 episodes
* The Last Samurai
* A Beautiful Mind
* Hot Shots 1 and 2
* Karnan
* Dil Chahta Hai (of course with English subtitles)
* Devar Magan

List romba perusu.....

TV shows I love to watch:
* Lollu Sabha
* Boss's Day Out

My favourite foods :

veetu saapadu aerkanave solliyaachu
Outside food
* Dahi Pani puri(AAB)
* Ghee Pongal(HSB)
* Thaengaai thovayal and saadham

My Greatest victories :(not so great but nothing to tell except this)

* Got gud marks in 12th board and surprised everyone including my parents.
* My job.
* Vilayaata aaramicha my final year project was selected and published in IISc journal and we presented the thesis there in front of International intellects last year.
* Got 2 awards for performance in my office.

Things that I hate
When someone forces me to do something that i hate to.

Great Personalities I would like to dine with

* S.P.Balasubrahmanyam - Will ask him to sing all my favourite songs while dining with him, first i ll sing a song for him (Dheivame Dheivame ... from Dheiva Magan)
* Albert Einstein
* Pamela Anderson
* Dr. Kamal Haasan

Things I dream often

* To be a CEO of a company

A GUD movie after a break.......

2006-03-18T05:51:00.000-08:00

Watched Sithiram Pesuthadi last week, we went for a night show to a not so famous theater (SSR Pankajam), since it was a week day i expected around 100 odd ppl which normally happens for mediocre budget movies, but the theatre was almost full. I wondered why? guessed it might be for the Gaana song in that movie. The hero introduction didnt have a song which usually will have some hundreds of ppl waiting for him and will dance together with him. But this introduction was simple and didnt have much of a build up. The hero looks normal, no hair coloring or special outfits with cargos, blazer not even a pattu veshti, instead he wears normal costumes except for songs. But in our movies we r used to "Pichakara ezhai heroes wearing high class outfits". The most important thing was that the hero does not have any Punch Dialogue. He jus utters "Saavadichiruvendi..." periodically tats all. The director has proved that movies without punch dialogues can be made in Tamil Nadu and ppl will accept it. Next we ll come to Heroine, she does not has that posh look but looks cute and homely like a pakkathu aathu ponnu from our locality. I ve already seen her in "Kanaa Kannil.." from Police(Malayalam Movie). I used to think why doesnt such QTs act in tamil movies(i am not saying that tamil heroines are not cute), it has been fulfilled now. The hero seems different in this movie, i didnt recognise that he was the smart and trim cop who played in 4 students till my cousin told me. He has adapted himself well for this rowdy role. The comedy track is also different in the sense that is embedded in the story itself, there is no scenes like "Hero nalla sandai pottiturupaar, sandai mudijanthum oru cut panni Vadivelu or Vivek moonjiya kaamikaradhu.." the comedy is not extraordinary but you can laugh out loud. One more thing was that generally in movies some one will be "Uthama purushan/pathini.." i mean ideal character and they ll make no mistake or kettadhu in their life, but this movie is not like tat, it is a bit practical and each one makes mistakes which normally happens in real life. The core story is not new, same old panakaara ezhai love stuff but the way it was presented i.e. the screenplay was different and Misshkin must be appreciated for his effort. The music is not so gud, but you can listen to all of them.

Apart from all these the movie has one more gud feature, the simple but powerful "Vaazha Meenukkum..." song by Gaana Ulaganaathan. Kuthu paatuna ippadi thaan irukkanum, veri pudichu kathara maadhiri irukka koodathu, in my opinion. Even though it is a Gaana song it has a gud tune, and different lyrics, the way in which that guy had personified ppl in terms of fish is somewhat new and gud. Maalavika has to be appreciated for her dance in that song, apart from her vilagippora sari and seducing movements what impressed us was her smile and the grace with which she danced in that song, the steps were also simple like the song and movie itself. Kudos to the team. Immediately i changed my ringtone to this song. Am sure that this guy will get more chance in movies and give us some different Gaanas like this one. I am happy that ordinary and down to earth films like this are doing well, yes in the interval they displayed a slide saying "Rasigargal vendukoluku inanga naalai mudhal Naangu Kaatchigal", definitely it is a gud movie and a break from current tamil cinema, i wud rate it better than Gajini(claimed to be a great movie by some) because Gajini looked like a spoof of memento except for that bubbly flashback. but ella movies um idhe maadhiri vandhaalum bore adichudum.......

P.S: did anybody listen to the song "Karka Karka.." in VV, gud one and Kamal andha paatuku style police dressla vandha chance ae illaaama irukkum.

Exams - what is the purpose?

2006-03-11T06:37:00.000-08:00

The "Ondra Maasa Sani" for all +2 students started last week. I mean the Board Exams. Since i have been thru' i know the trauma and pressure that the students face in this time. Parents keep saying repeatedly "Nalla padida/di engineering seat illa medicine vaanganum" such that there is no other course in this earth. The students literaly become machines in this 1 month. Commerce students have their own tensions but doesnt bear the brunt like Science guys. The Physics exams happened yesterday and as usual students started saying that "ellam out of syllabus", "avanga kettadhu bookla ille","ippadi ellam kaetta naanga enna panradhu?". When listening to such comments i asked myself what is the purpose of this exam, if they ask straightforward questions only from the specified text book, even a computer can do this on a 300 page word document if we click on Ctrl + F. I am not trying to downgrade the studiousness of our +2 boys/gals. I myself had a chance to see the Physics paper coz my sister is in 12th std. The paper is not easy i agreed, but it is not so tough as well. It is somewhat a bit higher std. that too only 1 marks. Around 3 or 4 questions were twisted and the choices were given a bit intelligent so that the students will get confused on deciding the correct answer. This is happened and it was over the previous day. The next day i saw a Tamil news paper and to my surprise found that the media has hyped this issue also, he has mentioned that "Maaanavargal kumural..." for what? for asking some 3 or 4 indirect questions? the parents also joined them in saying "ippadiyellam kaetaa avanga eppadi padippaanga?", look at the attitude of these ppl. This kinda attitude questions the very purpose of examinations in this country. IMHO exams shud test the intelligence, analysing ability, aptitude and time management skills of students instead of transforming them into human USB drives, load into memory at home and write it into paper and forget the whole thing coz we dont understand many things in our school syllabus, we just mug it up. The saddest part of all this is that, students are demanding a re-exam it seems. Does it mean that exams are for making students score gud marks? instead of testing them.
After reading all this you will definitely ask "Nee engada padicha? idhe kuppai thaane?", i asked the same question to myself, "Yes i agree that i studied this same medium and i am one of the victims of this spoilt education system and testing methods.", i have to blame myself for not thinking the same way as i am thinking now, if i had thought i wud have chosen to study in a CBSE/ICSE school(even after 10th std.) and found a better career other than Software engineering, my parents wanted total, they didnt want knowledge so i was forced to study in a TNHSE school. When i realised all this it was too late, coz i was in my 3rd year engineering, from that point till now i understand everything i study. The reason for this transformation is some frends of mine i met in college. I mean to say that til college 2nd year naanum olunga padikkalai. Now the CBSE is also losing its stature and scoring there has also become a "Not so hard JOB". This system and the testing method definitely needs a change. It is high time parents think about what knowledge their child has received in this 14 years of schooling rather than targeting on the total, in the same time govt. also shud do something to alter the current situation of "Mark edutha podhum".....

P.S: Will continue later.

Tagged!!!

2006-03-08T08:46:00.000-08:00

So i am tagged by Ponnarasi on this day. The TAG is that i have to right about the woman to wish. I will wish my Paati who is special to me,OK lets move to the Tag.
Two things i like about her:
1. The guts and her boldness, there are incidents to justify this.
2. Her intelligence and the affection she shows towards me. I am basically a very absent minded guy, whenever i search for or ask for any of my belongings she ll be there to bring it to me, thats why i ll seek a wife like her. :-))

Things i dont like about her:
1. She will speak unwanted info about others( i mean gossips ).

Two dishes I love her preparing:
1. Idly with chutney and Sambar
2. Mizhagu Rasam.

Manasu kekkalai so i ll also write about my Mom,
Two things i like about her:
1. Very much caring and affectionate towards others(may it be anyone).
2. Her humorous nature.

Thing i dont like about her:
1. Very very short tempered.

Two dishes I love her preparing:
1. Saambar sadham and Ulundhu appalam.
2. Podi dhosai with paasi paruppu saambar.

Regd. this Women's day stuff, last year same day our Yahoo groups was flooded with wishes, one guy asked dont we have Men's day? A reply came that, "Machi inniku mattum thaan Women's Day da matha 364 daysum Men's Day" :-)), dont think that i am a male chauvinist, jus said it for a Joke, Wishes for all women who read my blog.

Somethings change......

2006-03-07T08:25:00.000-08:00

Yesterday a change happened in my life it was something i did expect, the change was instead of scolding me like "22 vaisu mudinjaachu innum porupillama alaiyariye da" my mom and paati said "23 vaisu mudinjaachu innum porupillama alaiyariye da", yes i was born in the same day before 23 years. I was surprised that they changed the wordings accordingly. Hope this year is gud for me and all others. I received lotsa wishes than usual, felt a bit proud and happy that i have made many frends after getting a job ;-).

K(al)ezhavanin Kaadhali

2006-03-05T01:54:00.000-08:00

For the past FOUR weeks i have not even seen a single movie, neither in TV or theatre. Mansaatchi ennai uruthiduchu, so inniku eppdiyaavadhu edhavadhu movie paathudanumnu mudivu panniten. Called my friend, he also told the same story of not being able to watch a movie due hectic office work. We planned for Dishyum and arrived at Udhayam for a morning show, unfortunately the show was at 3:30. So we decided half minded to go for this movie. My expectation was that since the great star SJ is acting in this movie it shud have some dubble meaning dialogues and some skin show. Yes he didnt disappoint us. I noticed one thing in the title, there was a side line saying 36-28-36, guess it is Nayan's size. Why did the director choose such a comment? publicity huh. The story is not so great and so is the screenplay. Nayanthaara looks gud and beautiful in sarees/half sarees and churidhars, but she is horrible in jeans and tight tops. "Edho Arisimootai load thaangaama vedikka pora maadhiri irundha". In some songs while making fast movements she looks like an Amoeba. I feel it is better if she dances like "Oru vaarthai pesa oru varusham.." from Ayya. Then comes our smart, sexy heart throbbing hero of all times. SJ Surya has performed his role perfectly, nah nah he has lived as a playboy. In some songs he performs some solo bits like Vijai used to do, I thought where is the choreographer, gues he is doing his own choreography. Dancing like a buffon. Vivek as usual does some comedy, its gud but not so great. The other girl who sleeps with SJ was hot and did her part well. The last 20 minutes of the movie was great, it tested our patience to the max. we survived and atlast won the challenge by sitting till the climax. Appo padathula nalladhae illiya? :-?. Irukku, the songs "Eno kangal..." and "Tajmahal oviyakaadhal.." were nice. And some scenes by SJ were a bit comic. In short if you have not seen a movie for a long time and longing for some entertainment you can go for this. To my surprise the gals outnumbered guys for this movie. Yes they enjoyed the movie better than us, i cud c for myself. Namma paakumbodhu en avanga paaka koodadhu, they also have the right to c stuff like this coz both are equal na. Then one more thing - Dhayavuseidhu kudumbathoda poidaatheenga, pona padam mulusa paaka mudiyaadhu.

Moozhgaadha Shippae Friendship thaan......

2006-03-03T08:43:00.000-08:00

Met my old class mate yesterday, once upon a time we were playing as small 4th std. kids, astonishingly 13 years have passed away, now she is married and gonna be a mother in few months, but she is still my friend. Last year same time she called me suddenly after 7 years to personally invite me for her marriage, she is far away from Chennai hence cudnt come in person. When i picked up the fone and found out it was her, i cudnt speak any words. I was dumbstruck and amazed. She has somehow got my fone number from my relatives in my native and called me. I didnt even manage to see or call her when i had been to my native every year. Thats when i understood the value of True friendship which does not fade with time but improves with even if we are parted away. Now she is in Chennai near my street and came to my house yesterday, i thought it was renewal of friendship after 13 years.....

The Warrior Prince

2006-03-02T07:27:00.000-08:00

Warning: If you are not interested in Computers and tech stuff please Skip this post.

Warrior prince who was huge and strong, but slow in speech. His father was king Telamon of Salamis. He was considered the second greates warrior after Achilles, and he was the one who carried the hero's dead body back to the camp while Odysseus held the Trojans back.
Who is this Prince?
He is AJAX. This word is popular in another field too, yes it is one of the buzzwords in Software Industry now. I just tried a sample application with this technology, just thought i cud blog about it. I am not going to brag about my application coz there is nothing in it. It is very simple.
AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML. Initially when i heard about it i thought of AJAX as some hi fi tech stuff, and when ppl said "You can update the data in WebPage without refreshing it " i confirmed that. But atlast it turned out to be simple and so simple like ordinary "HttpRequest". The core object of this AJAX is a seemingly new object called "XMLHttpRequest" why is this special? and how is this different from the former? will be the next question. The answer is it is not special but different from a "HttpRequest" object. Basically there are 2 differences:
1. It implicitly provides support for XML(which is the standardised data transfer method).
2. It has the ability to connect to the server and get the information without the knowledge of the User, i mean the request -> server -> response cycle happens in background.
Initially i had a misconception that this is called Asynchronous because of the background process stuff, but i was wrong.Thanks to the Google and its results that cleared my doubts. This is called Asynchronous because of the following reason:
In ordinary Requests stuff, the user will have to wait in the same window until the server's response is completely received by the browser, i.e u have to be in sync. But in case of XMLHttpRequest, there is a flag attribute which when set appropriately allows you to be out of sync, i.e. you can proceed to the next action without having to wait for the server's response. This can be made synchronous also. The XMLHttpRequest can call almost all kind of requests that can be made via an ordinary browser.
Another misunderstanding about AJAX was that it is a cutting edge technology. No its not it is already around 10 years old(i dont have proof for it) jus heard it from a senior. Biggies like Microsoft and Google have been using AJAX in the past, Google maps is an example. Now lets look at the pros and cons. Before which i ll have to mention a disclaimer.
Disclaimer:
I have not used AJAX intensively, so these info may not be accurate, i am writing what i feel about this technology.

Pros:
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1. You need not refresh the page boss, which saves time.
For eg. you have around 10 fields in a screen of which only 2nd-5th have to be autopopulated based on the first field and the fields 7-10 have to be autopopulated based on the 6th field. You need not refresh/reload or click the buttons in the page twice to autopopulate the details. Instead it will be done automatically as you enter the values, another striking example is auto completion of forms.
In short your application will behave like a standalone Desktop Swing/VB like application instead of a Web App.
2. Since it supports direct XML response you can render the incoming data easily using some stylesheets.
3. Asynchronous mode, no waiting until server responds, proceed with the next fields.
4. Improves the User experience.

Cons:
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1. Since the process happens in background, if there is some problem in the server's response we may not know directly coz in the normal case browser will display a "404" or "500" error, but here we have to explicitly handle these kinda errors by getting the status code manually.
2. It does not suit every application. Whenever we hear about something new we ll have enthu to use it imme (i am one of them), but we shud not do that mistake here.
3. One more con is that when you use GET method for Http requests, the browser will cache the response and will not retrieve the latest data , the remedy for this will be:
i.add a timestamp to the end of request URL.
ii. use POST method.

A typical use of AJAX wud be, most of us wud have noted that when we republish our entire blog we see the page being auto refreshed while showing the progress if we use AJAX we can make this progress bar behave like a Windows component and no need to auto refresh atleast for the User, coz actually it refreshes the data.

Now i ll tell about my Application. I just wrote a simple html with Javascript, which will display the netstat info of a remote UNIX server each 30 seconds without refreshing the page. The server side component was a single CGI script.
AJAX is not supported by all browsers, currently Opera 7.0 doesnt support it so we ll not be able to use full features of Gmail etc. in Opera.

For those who are interested in further study visit this link.

For ppl who came thru' this patiently please dont curse me for an inappropriate title. :-)

Cheers,
Ram

Valentine's Day Special

2006-02-14T07:10:00.000-08:00

Got this forward long back, just recollected in the occasion of Feb 14th, this post is not against love, it is for the ppl who blindly do anything for Love, i.e. ppl who decide to leave their families for love, applies to both Boys and Gals. Ensoi...

Challenge
Visit this link, this has 2 astonishingly same but different photos, enna kozhappudhaa, the 2 fotos have 3 minute differences, if you are able to identify all the 3 then you are a genius, i found 2 but cudnt make out the 3rd, try for yourself.....

Bollywood or Pornlywood?

2006-02-13T22:50:00.000-08:00

Just now watched "Mirchi Countdown" in Zoom. There was a total of 20 songs. Even though i dunno Hindi, i like hindi songs coz language no bar for me. I observed that around 10 songs had many similarities between them. Some party kind of atmosphere in a bar, 10 to 20 chicks dancing with almost nude dresses in colourful lights, some were accompanied with water splashing on their body, in the middle our hero or any other dude will be oraasifying them in the name of seducing dance, the beat and tune is completely foreign similar to the ones like Shaggy and Eminem. There were some exceptions like "Piya bole.." from Parineeta and "Rubaroo.." from RDB. One more thing was Aaashiq Banaya Aapne, i like the song much and i have never seen the original video of this song so far, today happenend to see it, Tanushree Dutta has worked very hard in this song, to expose her body. I was watching the video with Appa, after sometime he said "Vijai TV poduda" i understood why. Enna pannuvaar paavam. Before 4 or 5 years i used to watch Ftv and MCM stealthily, now i had to watch Hindi music channels in the same manner. :)) India is developing and soon it will be like western countries, not in politics and infrastructure but in spoilt culture, am not a Saamiyar or conservative guy and am not against glamorous songs but everything has a limit, and what bollywood is giving us now is an overdose of soft porn(not all movies). I am 23 yrs old and can watch these things and keep myself in control but think about a teen who is in his/her 7th or 8th std. they may lose control at any time because of videos like these....

P.S: i didnt get a chance to watch such videos in my 7th - 10th std. time period.

Disclaimer:
I am not against any movie or person jus posting my views generically thats all.

Periya Koil....

2006-02-11T06:26:00.000-08:00

I have already posted about my trip to Kumbakonam, posting some pics of Tanjore Brihadeeswara Temple. I felt very much proud to stand in the place where great ppl like Raja Raja Cholan has stood, walked etc. The temple was massive and well planned, i guess it can accomodate more than 5000 ppl inside.
The Nandi deserves a special mention carved out of single stone, it is superb and reflects the passion of our ancestors for Arts.

And one more thing visit this website Paritrana, you ll know why.

A different way to propose.....

2006-02-09T21:31:00.000-08:00

I feel like cursing you, for all the sleepless nights that you have given me...
"You'll have a son, who will go mad behind my daughter, just like the way I am mad for you"
....but then......why trouble those innocent ones....come lets make them brothers and sisters

P.S: Got it as a forward.

The best way to answer....

2006-02-07T00:39:00.000-08:00

And finally the MRF willow and the Genius who holds it had answered all the idiots of this nation who questioned his ability. This proves why he is a Genius. Even though we have not won the match coz of the stupid Duckworth Lewis method and even though the pitch was a batsman's paradise he has proved why he deserves a place in this team, with the 39th diamond in his crown. Long live the Genius......

The 2 wolves

2006-02-03T08:00:00.000-08:00

One evening an old man told his grandson about a
battle that goes on inside people. He said, "My son, the battle is between 2
"wolves" inside us all.
One is Evil. It is anger, envy, jealousy, sorrow, regret,
greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false
pride, superiority, and ego.
The other is Good. It is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility,
kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather:
"Which wolf wins?"
scroll down....

The old man simply replied, "The one you feed."

Must read...

2006-02-02T09:38:00.000-08:00

Got this as a forward, felt that everyone must read it, please visit this link. Choose "Free" option from the site.Download the full presentation and send it to your buddies as well.

Why the Hell????

2006-02-02T08:35:00.000-08:00

Why the hell, does every media asks this question?
The question is "Is this the end of road for Sachin?". What has happened? Had Sachin got out for 0 in continuously 10 innings, had he gone blind? No, he has just failed to score in a match. And surprisingly 78% of the nation is saying "YES" this shows how Nandriketta makkal we are, remember that he is the one who saved the World Cup match with Pakistan in 2003. Am not saying that he shud be in the team even if he doesnt perform well, but look at his past records whenever the media has criticised him he shut their mouths with his bat. And he ll do the same this time too, no doubt. But the media shudnt have asked such a stupid question. Even other players didnt do well in this series but we dont blame them and curse them , Sachin is always ill treated by the media if he misses a half century, i wonder how these idiots expect a player to perform well in each and every match, considering cricket is a team game. The best player is the one who performs well for most of the time and the number of man of match awards speaks for Sachin. It is the fate of India that whether it is gud or bad we follow it with a exaggerated zeal and Sachin's form is no exception. I see many ppl speaking about "If Ponting doesnt play well they re chucking him out, why cant we", i wud like to tell only one thing to those "adhi medhaavis", you are not in Australia and your team is not as great as theirs, talk about something that suits our country instead of blindly following others. Sachin will be back and there is no necessity for him to get out of the team, if he doesnt deserve a place in the Indian team then who does? Dravid fans used to speak about his consistency but why didnt he perform well? It happens,it happens for everyone that they may fail sometimes. Am not against Dravid just quoted him as an example. The question shud' have been "Does Sachin needs a rest?" instead. Again politics prevented Dada from playing in 2 batting pitches were he would have proven himself like Sehwag,Dhoni etc. who have the habit of getting out if the ball doesnt come to bat.

Professionalism???

2006-01-29T19:33:00.000-08:00

What does this word mean? Dictionary says it is professional status, methods, character, or standards. The next was who is a professional? I searched the same dictionary it says Having or showing great skill;Performed by persons receiving pay;Engaging in a given activity as a source of livelihood or as a career;. Many people believe that professionalism exists in the way you dress, the level of luster of your shoes measures your professionalism etc. The image above was the first one i got when i searched Google images for Professionalism and it shows a man with coat, suit and tie.In companies i have seen many ppl saying that "Come on you are a professional dress perfectly!!!", even in colleges nowadays ppl start saying "you must have a habit of tuckin in your shirt wear polished shoes etc, etc. because you are going to become a professional". But in my opinion these things are secondary. True professionalism lies in character, behaviour of a person and not in the dress code. I agree that gud and smart dressing is required at places but in the same time i find ppl stressing too much on it. If a person who is your senior dress smart speaks gud english and starts bullying you whenever he gotta chance,is he a professional? No definitely not, instead i wud say that a senior who inspires you, and knows how to get the job done without creating a difference of opinion is a better professional than the former even though he doesnt know any english or dress a bit casually. I wonder how these ppl speak about professionalism without even knowing the meaning of that word. Kudos to the management of my college we didnt have a dress code during my tenure of 4 years in that college.That doesnt mean that my college allowed semi nude dresses, they jus mentioned that wear something decent, tats all. Instead of speaking too much about dress code, rules and regulations i think colleges shud focus more on how to create true professionals who can make a gud society. One more thought,perfection cannot be achieved by imposing rules instead it can be achieved iff each and every individual realise for themselves....

Disclaimer:
Yet another random thought from my brain. :)

Kumbakonam times contd.....

2006-01-28T15:06:00.000-08:00

Atlast i found out what was the problem and why my blog didnt accept any photos. I use Opera instead of IE and that caused the trouble, instead of manually scanning the fotos myself i ordered a foto cd from the lab, i believed in their professionalism but they let me down, they ve scanned the photos with the lowest resolution possible. Some are gud some are bad, anyways i ll scan them manually and post it here, the 1st photo i wanted to post is the samadhi of the great Sri Thyagaraja Swamigal.
When i went to this place the famous Thyagaraja Aaradhanai was taking place. I found many maamis sitting near the samadhi and performing some classical vocals. After they completed i went to one of them to ask "Why is this person worshipped while there are many others who can sing?". She replied me with a "R u a Gnana Sooniyam?" look :). She didnt answer my question directly, instead she told me to get a book about Thyagaraja swamigal's life history that costs around Rs.3.00 from a nearby shop. I did it, the book was around 20 pages or so and i completed it in 20 minutes, then she came back to me and said "Ippo puriyardha", i understood. This person has composed around 24000 keerthanais in Carnatic music in his short life span of 60 years. There is no similarity between each other it seems. I find many ppl learning Carnatic music who boast too much on singing one keerthanai. Inspite of lucrative offers from Kings and Landlords Thyaga Brahmam only sang about God(Sri Ramachandramoorthy). How great it is. He lived from 1767 - 1837 according to that book. Visit this link for more info. The lady who told me about the book was very much enthusiastic and told me that she visits the place every year for the past 15 years and there are many ardent carnatic singers like her who spend the entire week in Thiruvaiyaru. She showed me an itenary in which i cud see some big name like Unni Krishnan, Sowmya, Yesudas etc. She told me that each of these persons will be given a max of 20 minutes to perform on the stage except for Yesudas who sung 7 kritis of Sri Thyaga Brahmam non stop for more than an hour. That is a separate world. While speaking about Yesudas i remembered a saying "Music has no language and religious barriers" and Yesudas is a living example for justifying these words. Myself and my cousins looked at some locations there and told "Dei idhu Anniyan padathula varume " etc. I was ashamed of myself that i had to know such places thru' movies instead of knowing the true prodigiousness. When i listen to Sankarabharanam i used to believe that the songs like "Maanasa sanchara re..." ,"Dorakuna etuvanti seva..." etc. have been composed by K.V.Mahadevan but last week i came to know that they ve been composed by Sri Thyaga Brahmam himself, i cud do nothing but laugh at my ignorance :).If i had known Carnatic music i wud have appreciated these things better than what am doing now......

2006-01-28T00:39:00.000-08:00

My first Photo

the best SELlers....

2006-01-28T00:34:00.000-08:00

The SEL in caps stand for Shankar Ehsaan and Loy , the 3 awesome ppl who performed on Saarang in the eve of Republic Day 2006. Luckily we got a leave on Republic Day
:)and who wud miss the mother of all culturals, 14 of us made it atlast. This time the number of tickets were minimised due to the IISc incident and other security threats by terrorist lunatics.
The show started at around 7:00 and Shankar made us stand breathless for the 1st 5 minutes. Amazing exhibhition of vocal wizardry. Compared to last year the show was very much interesting coz Shankar made the entire concert interactive. Usually whenever we stand up and start dancing immediately the volunteers wud come to stop us. But this time Shankar himself declared that none of us shud sit. Similar to last year our dudes and dudettes performed a candle light like dance with their cell fones. Everyone has a mobile except for my friend Muthu who doesnt want to get 1 fearing his manager might call him to office :)). The Urvasi song from the movie Kaadhalan deserves a special mention, the way Shankar changed the tempo in the due course of the song was amazing. Then came the magnum opus of these 3 ppl, Dil Chahta Hai we were very much excited when they sung each and every song of this film. Shankar and co. was accompanied by Mahalakshmi Iyer and Blaze. Srinivas and Vijai Yesudas were surprise packages even though they sung just a few lines. Shankar changed our mood alternatively by mixing his fast and melodious numbers. The other guy Ehsaan did a gr8 job with his guitar, he was playing with it, and thats when i understood why some ppl say "i play guitar" mind blowing performance. When Shankar performed Pretty Woman from Kal Ho Na Ho he called some cute looking pretty women on the stage and danced with them. In the middle Shankar said that he composed some songs which is close to his heart but didnt make it well with the audience and he sung "Aaaona Aaaona..." from some movie in which Vivek Oberoi paired with Ash,that movie was a flop but i loved this song it was so melodious. While singing "Ganan Ganan.." from Lagaan Shankar stopped in the middle and said it wud rain if he completed the song, and it rained yesterday night. Simple coincidence huh. but it happened.
We all danced througout the show and had a great time, in fact we returned to our college days. Shankar ended the show with his patriotic pop number "Hindustani..".After the show some of my frends even started blabbering that "PL, TL thollai illama inniku nalla thoonguven da","College Dayku appurama inniku thaanda sema kuthu" etc. :)) in short we had a very gud time and enjoyed to the max.
Now lets come to the cons, Shankar jus sang a few lines of tamil songs, i understand that majority of the crowd likes Hindi but he shud have sung those 2 songs that fetched him national awards,(Varaaaga nadhikaraiyoram from Sangamam and Sandhana thendralai from KanduKonden). The next thing was girls, they were infact in both pro and con category. I cud c some girls delibrately overexposing themselves in the name of westerb culture, some girls standing behind me even started dancing with sleeveless mundaaas banians by waving their over coats in air. Our country has not matured enough to take this gesture in the right sense, i think it is too early to accept such changes among girls. Anyway Kadham Kadham. :)

Sandakozhi!!!!

2006-01-25T10:29:00.000-08:00

Happened to watch this movie 2 days ago. Again a normal tamil movie with luv, sentiment and some extra action, not bad definitely watchable once. This is the story, hero is a gud boy and goes to his friends native , meets heroine makes love( i mean the romance) due to situations happens to kick the villain's ass. Then villain wanst revenge and the movie goes on. But one thing was different in the story, hero instead of being an ordinary guy turns out to be the son of a bigger Dada in Madurai, so that the villain cannot take him up so easily. The villain is like some gym master with beard, he also growls like King Kong frequently in the movie, made me laugh instead of creating a weirdness.
There are 2 thinga i liked about this movie.
1. Meera Jasmine's cute actions, she has tried imitationg Jo, but not bad and the movie proves why she is a national award winning actress.
2. One song - Dhaavani potta deepavali....
Sung well by Vijai Jesudas and composed beautifully by Yuvan, both are successors of genius, they ve honored their fathers. I started humming the song after this movie.Definitely in my playlist.
Apart from that nothing special. Gud movie overall compared to other contemporary releases.

Kumbakonam photos have come up well, had to scan them, i feared the lighting because the roll was just a 100, but Surya Bhagavan saved me, all the photos took under direct sun light came out best. Will post them soon.

Kumbakonam times....

2006-01-22T21:53:00.000-08:00

I was on a short tour to Kumbakonam last week from Thursday to Saturday. I shud rather mention it as a pilgrimage because i didnt visit any place except for temples, Wah what a place. Definitely nobody shud miss the place and its surroundings for its cultural richness, beauty and heritage. It is in India and obviously the roads are bad. It takes atleast 2 hours to travel 60kms there. I visited the surrounding temples like Thiruvidaimarudhur, Swamimalai, thiruvaiyar, tanjavur, govindapuram etc. The primary reason that i visited these temples is for their architectural features and next is bhakti. That entire area surrouding Kumbakonam has a divine touch. Each and every temple in that area has a unique heritage or legend. The places made me realise the richness of Hindu religion and how it flourished in the past. The Brihadeeswara temple deserves a special mention. A monument of such magnitude cannot be built nowadays(without computer schematics and simulation plans). The Lingam in the Moolasthaanam of the temple is so big that its base dia is the size of around 12 feet. I observed that many foreigners stood there stunned on seeing the temple and its beauty. While travelling i observed some things and enjoyed some, i will try to recollect and put it here. I passed thru' many villages which stand as the first name of Carnatic biggies like Kunnakudi Vadiyanathan, Umaiyalpuram sivaraman, Semmangudi, Chembai etc. I dont know why they are so great but they have come from ordinary remote villages which dont even have a population of 500. The area is lush green which has made it far more cooler than Chennai. The misty air in the morning with a tea in roadside tea shop is worth a mention. The Nandhi in Tanjavur Periya koil was superb. But some issues there disturbed me, i was able to see a kwaater bottle inside the temple compound. A foreigner started smoking inside the temple prakaaram, they removed their chappals wore Indian traditional dresses etc, but this particular guy didnt show any respect for our culture and the temple. But his guide approached him immediately and asked him to stop it, else we wud have blasted him. There was some Bharat Naaatiyam arranged inside the temple for these foreigners, even though i dont know anything about BharathaNaatiyam the girls who danced were cute and i photographed them with their permission :) . The inner portion of the entire compund wall of Periya Koil was painted with Tanjore art. But our citizens ( i shud call them ass!@#$s) engraved theyre own love stories there, they have scratched the surface of the painting by writing Roja loves Mani etc. Why do these ppl do such insane things instead of preserving these priceless possesions of our country. Thanks to the archaeological dept. they have fenced it now. The area is well watered with Kaveri and has ponds everywhere. In my opinion these areas shud remain as it is and need not develop into some hitech cities like Chennai.I was accompanied with 3 uninvited guests,(cold, fever and throat pain) but that didnt prevent me from enjoying the trip, thanks to Crocin and Amrutanjan :) . I wish i were born in some village near Kumbakonam,join some veda paatashala and settle there in my next birth(if i have one).I have taken photos of temples i have visited. Will upload them later and will write more about this trip...

Tagged!!!

2006-01-17T23:10:00.000-08:00

Ricky has tagged me, the rules of this tagging stuff are given below:

1. The tagged victim has to come up with 8 different points of their perfect lover.
2. Need to mention the sex of the target.
3. Tag 8 victims to join this game & leave a comment on their comments saying they’ve been tagged.
4. If tagged the 2nd time, there’s no need to post again.

P.S: Rules cut and paste courtesy Ricky

Now my answer:
Target: Obviously a female Homo Sapien

8 Qualities i expect in her:
1. Great sense of humour.
2. She must be a music lover and preferably a Singer
3. Open minded and straight forward.
4. Must be my best friend.(best friend means a lot)
5. Should adjust with me and my family and understand other's feelings.
6. Should be modern and at the same time respect ethics and values.
7. Must be romantic and gud looking.
8. Must be the best Cook, coz i luv eating a lot.

In short she must be like Kakka Kakka-Jothika(not in looks and complexion, but in attitude and character).
I am tagging Nallavan and Veda.....

Roads are not Circus grounds

2006-01-13T22:59:00.000-08:00

This is the message i saw on a hoarding kept by Chennai City Traffic Police near Gemini signal while returning from office today. I can see many guys in bikes performing stunts on cities roads with heavy traffic.It reminded me of an incident couple of weeks ago, i was on the way to a bank in Madipakkam. It was a sunday and a school in our area had some special classes for 12th students i guess. The students of that school were coming out. Suddenly i cud c 2 guys coming in Pulsar showing too much of gimmicks and circus in the vehicle, they skid around cut some vehicles in the road etc. they wore the same school uniform, the bike was remodeled to spoof a race vehicle.In the process of showing off to their classmates of opposite sex they hit a cycle. Only one sentence came to my mind "Ivanungala solli kuthamilla ivanunga appana thaan seruppaala adikkanum". I cud not frame or translate this in English. When i see many ppl like this in roads i feel that it is their parents who are to be blamed. Why does a school going boy need a bike? if at all he needs it why cannot it be a TVS champ or so. Since becoz they ve lotsa money the parent may think that let his child be comfortable and provide them with such facilities, but the immatured mind will most probably think the wrong way. Not only the bikes it is cell phones, computers etc. Remember the Delhi MMS incident, it is parent's foolishness to provide a school boy with cam in mobile, he thought of himself as an ambitious porn movie maker and published that MMS to show off on how he had succeeded in gettin that girl. If that boy had been provided with a NOKIA 1100 then atleast the matter wud not have come out right. Am not saying that parents shud be very stingy and be strict or stubborn,because that ll also spoil the child the other way.am saying give your child only the necessary accessories. There is nothing to be happy about your son/daughter using the latest phone, bike or car. Similarly a broad band net connection for a leser than 10th std student without proper vigilance can spoil him, and it is happening in many places. I used to fight with my dad 5 years back when i was in 12th std, for a vehicle(geared bike), i had a cycle at that time. Now i understand why he didnt get me one. In short it is the parents who are to be blamed if a child get spoilt.

Disclaimer:
I am not against students or children who really make gud use of facilities and there are many exceptional cases in which children get spoiled even if parents are perfect, i am talking only about the majority.

The great debate

2006-01-11T07:15:00.000-08:00

Warning: If you have 0% interest on technology and computer science Please skip this post.

There are lots of never ending debates in this world, this is definitely one of them. "Which is great,Linux or Windows". I am not a computer expert or OS research scholar but i have used both of these operating systems for a while, so i think and feel that i can comment on both of them. The idea for this blog struck thru' my mind when i read this link. So far linux supporters mention 2 points primarily,
1. Linux is free of cost.
2. Linux is secured compared to Windows.
The 1st point is clear and cannot be confronted. Coming to the 2nd point Linux has very minimal viruses or Trojans compared to Windows, why is this so, many critical systems or PCs dont use Linux, so the hackers have not turned their eye towards Linux, but now it is becoming increasingly popular and theyve started.One more addition is that Linux does not have the concept of MBR, normally virus creators target this area because the booting process of the whole system depends upon this place. A lot of white papers and technical articles have been published in this regard. In my opinion Windows is the best choice for a PC which requires multimedia stuff. Linux is a mimick of Windows using UNIX Kernel, but Linux has its own advantages like setting up an own mail server etc. is easy, and the superb file permissions(owner,group,others) which is not available in Windows, i am saying this because i have worked on both these OSs professionally and personally. Comparing the performance criteria, in terms of desktop applications like media player etc. Windows is very much faster than Linux, i think the Linux requires some more optimisation in this regard. But in terms of other softwares like Application servers, database servers etc, i feel Linux is the better performer, Oracle works faster in Linux than on windows and same with WebSphere and stuff. File transfer from a CD to harddisk in Linux takes more time than on Windows. Another major problem of Linux is the support, since the development of Linux is sporadic, there is no single place or company to provide all in one. Thanks to the Fedora initiative which combines some major Linux vendors. In the end am not able to decide which one is the best, because both of them have their own advantages and disadvantages. Putting it short the best OS depends upon the requirement of the User. If ppl wanted to try Linux it is available as free version in this site, all you need to do is register here they ll give u any number of Linux cds with free shipping.

Disclaimer:
The above mentioned are my personal opinions and experiences, i have not conducted any performance tests or something, nor i am promoting any brand here.

Interesting article

2006-01-11T06:22:00.000-08:00

Just got this link from another blog. Thought that evryone should read it to understand a foreigner's perception of India and our economy. This relates to my previous posts. The section 2 says that even if India is grown the booming middle class will buy only American products. True,But what if we manufacture our own? The time has to come and hope it is near.

Are we really dumb....

2006-01-07T12:40:00.000-08:00

Got this one as a forward, but it made me think a lot, jus wanted to share with others so posting it here,

Are Indians really dumb?

'The whole process where people get an idea and put together a team, raise the capital, create a product and mainstream it -- that can only be done in
the US. It can't be done sitting in India. The Indian part of the equation is to help these innovative US companies bring their products to the market
quicker, cheaper and better, which increases the innovative cycle there. It is a complementarity we need to enhance.'

-- Nandan Nilekani, CEO, Infosys, quoted in The New York Times, March 7, 2004.

Translated into plain English, this means 'Indians lack creativity and cannot come up with the ideas to create and sell a product. Indians can only do
the backend slog work that helps US companies create and sell their products.'

How about this?

ISRO -- the Indian Space Research Organisation -- is the result of Dr Vikram Sarabhai's vision. Its first rocket, like the one in the picture, was
launched 40 years ago. Over the past 40 years, a multi-disciplinary group of electronics, mechanical, electrical, civil and chemical engineers has
designed and built 32 satellites and three generations of launch vehicles culminating in the GSLV.

This was done with almost totally indigenous R&D, battling US sanctions. Each time that a technology or component was unavailable, ISRO went ahead and
developed it on its own. ISRO's satellites help India in telecom, television broadcasting, weather forecasting, disaster warning, telemedicine,
education and fishery. Technologies in areas as diverse as optics and artificial limb manufacture have been developed and transferred to Indian
industry.

Jamsetji Tata wanted to make textiles in Nagpur in the 1800s with the cotton grown there. Nagpur had no textile industry then, and in Manchester
Jamsetji was told that Nagpur's weather was not suitable as it was too dry. He said, 'Alright, I will bring the Manchester weather to Nagpur.' He
imported humidifiers and started India's first textile mill in 1874.

When Jamshetji started the Tata Iron and Steel Company and wanted to export steel rails to Britain, a Britisher called Sir Frederick Upcourt said, 'Do
you mean to say that Tatas propose to make steel rails to British specifications? I will undertake to eat every pound of rail that they make, if they
do that.' The Tatas did manage to make steel rails and export them to Britain. Upcourt must have developed a massive case of indigestion). In World
War II British tanks were called Tatanagars because the steel was made in Tatanagar.

To paraphrase Nilekani, Vikram Sarabhai and Jamsetji Tata got an idea, put together a team, raised the capital, created a product, and mainstreamed
it. They did it sitting in India, 40 years and 125 years ago respectively, when India's technical capabilities were far less than they are now.

So we now have two Indias.

One has a severe inferiority complex and is unwilling to do anything creative because it thinks it is incapable of it. It thinks being called the back
office of the world is the ultimate compliment, missing the implied insult in the word back. It thinks its ultimate destiny is to do all the slog work
of the world.

The other is confident about its capability, dreams big dreams, then goes ahead and translates the dreams into reality. There are innumerable success
stories like ISRO and Tata Steel in India today, in manufacturing, electronic hardware, pharmaceuticals, software, fashion design, or any area that
you can think of. The problem is that these are not highlighted. Creative individuals and organisations who are developing products or technologies
with a lasting impact are unsung heroes.

To be a hero in India today you just have to make a lot of immediate money. Creativity is irrelevant, and maybe dreamers like Vikram Sarabhai and
Jamsetji Tata would be considered fools.

When you dream a big dream, maybe a small part of it gets translated into reality. If you do not dream at all, what do you finally get in reality?An
entrepreneur must have self-confidence bordering on arrogance. Why is it that this confidence is missing in the heads of India's biggest software
companies?

Back to the Raj?

Every Indian child's history textbook says something to this effect: 'During the British Raj we exported cheap raw material to Britain, then imported
the finished products at a much higher price. We were paying for the value addition done in Britain, and the Raj prevented us from doing the value
addition here. We were being exploited by the British.' The IT industry is considered to be India's biggest success story, but in reality 99% of it
involves the export of cheap (human) raw material and the import of expensive finished products.

We are happy if Microsoft starts a development centre in India and employs a couple of thousand people. We develop the software modules that go into
Microsoft Windows XP at a low price, and then pay through our noses to import the finished Windows XP.

There is no British Raj to exploit us today, so what prevents us from doing the big value addition here now instead of exporting cheap man days? Why
are we exploiting ourselves? The standard argument is that the software industry is evolving, and will 'move up the value chain.' There is, however,
no evidence of any motion up the value chain. Some of the biggest IT companies are on the contrary regressing into BPOs. Everyone is happy making a
lot of money today, and there is no thought of tomorrow.

Another argument goes: 'Oh, but see how much foreign exchange the IT industry is earning for the country.' Agreed, we are making a lot of money
selling our time, but we would be making many times this amount selling our creativity through technologies, designs or finished products.

Current government policies, value systems and the education system are creating a whole generation of people who believe they are second class
professionals unfit to do anything creative. During the Raj the British convinced us we were fit to only produce raw material and not finished goods.
They'd be proud of us now -- we've learnt the lesson very well and are now convincing successive generations too.

In today's India Jamsetji would probably have said to Frederick Upcourt, 'Maybe you have a point and I'm taking a big risk trying to make steel in
this Third World country. I think I'll just sell you the iron ore from my Noamundi mines. Besides, I can start selling you the ore from next month
itself, while it will take me 5 years to build the steel plant and start making money.'

So are we really dumb?

A century ago, Jamsetji Tata took some foreign visitors to the Majestic Hotel in Mumbai but was denied entrance because he was an Indian. Jamsetji
simply resolved to build a hotel that was even finer, and which would not discriminate against people on the basis of colour or race. Today when we
lose software outsourcing contracts and get thrown out of the US, we go back and beg to be allowed back in instead of fighting back by being more
creative than them.

We need drastic changes in the education system and in government policies to reward creativity and value addition. Changes that produce creative
people, visionaries, dreamers, people with guts, like Vikram Sarabhai and Jamsetji Tata.

We are definitely not dumb. We just have to stop thinking that we are.

What Nandan Nilekani said was absolutely true? We cannot think beyond the backend work, let me not restrict it to software, considering all other indutries we have not suceeded so much in creating products that have earned international acceptance. Why is it so? US has been a free nation for 250 yrs or so, we cannot achieve that growth in 50 and odd years but atleast we shud have made some progress. We are still in the infant stages. We indians boast about being the software hub of World, tech savvies skill sets etc. But 90% of the work we do is the backend procesing except for a few projects. This does not need any innovation or creativity. The MNC's are not outsourcing because of the quality of our services, it is because of the cheap labour. China is cheaper than India but they lack the english and knowledge that we have thats y these MNCs chose India. It is a well known fact. But it is kinda symbiotic relationship in which they get their job done at low cost and we get employment. But where is this going and what is its future? As India develops the ratio of rupee:dollar will decrease and one day may be in another 20 years or so rupee might be equal to 1/8th of a dollar.If that happens US companies will start searching for an alternative, they might have started already. So we cannot depend on this outsourced software industry forever. One fine day outsourcing may not happen and many ppl may lose their jobs overnight, it has already happened once, remember post y2k times. We have to think more innnovatively and come up with some new ideas. I spoke to my friend yesterday who is working for a software giant, in the discussion we spoke about the architecture stuff, he said that architecture will be designed and given by Microsoft, we ll use it to develop the application. This is the same with all software companies, biggies like IBM Accenture EDS design the system and give the framework to us, we write millions of lines using that architecture. I could not avoid comparing this to construction of a house. The engineer designs the plan and gives the blueprint to masons , they build it using the plan. They are engineers and we are masons. Sorry if this line hurts any software pros, am one of them. I hope a time will come when Indian products get world wide recognition, world will use a programming language invented in India, systems all over the world will use OS written in India. Lets wait n see.

What prohibits us from thinking innovatively?
In my opinion the root cause is our education system. This needs a change.
Will write about our education system later on some other blog, but our system definitely needs a change. That cannot happen overnight, but have to be gradual.

Disclaimer:
Am not blaming our software industry and am not against it, am a part of it. Jus expressing my views.

An Alternative

2006-01-04T09:48:00.000-08:00

An Alternative to what? wud have been the first question in your mind. All of us might have used Google, whether it be software engineers or net savvys survival without Google is hard. Google has become a verb now. I got it from a friend this is a new search engine still at its beta stages, if people are fed up with Google try http://www.previewseek.com/. It has some enhancements like categorisation of results etc. but speed cannot be measured now because this will be seldom use. Other parameters like Intelligence are a bit OK. Try this for a change.

31st December 2005

2006-01-01T07:39:00.000-08:00

Few days ago we(i mean myself n frenz) thought of celebrating this New Year with great fun and partying, so we started our discussions a week ago , we started with Disco or resort plans but finally what we did was totally different and had a 1000% deviation from our plans. We were very much enthusiastic this time coz the last year we skipped celebrations , reason is very well known. Initially we planned for dicso at some star hotels. Some discos allow only couples. We are a gang of 8 or so boyz so that is ruled out, some other clubs inisist that boozing is mandatory. We dont wanna booze at the 1st hour of a New Year so that is also lost, finally some non alcoholic bashes seemed to be for families and will not suit us bachelors so ultimately we decided to our same old choice, our favourite hangout, the BNB as we call it, Besant Nagar Beach. Since some of our guyz had some personal commitments they have to leave early, after a long discussion at my fren's house we decided to dine at Pizza Hut. 6 of us made it finally. We just had a soup, a pizza on sharing basis, a dessert. The bill was 1200 rs. approx. Does the dishes deserve that much money? Absolutely not. Why does a dosa like item made of wheat dough, applied with cheese and pieces of vegetables accompanied with sauce cost 300 Rs. I searched thru the net. 3 kgs of Mozarrella cheese cost 4000 Rs. this is the MRP, but definitely these ppl must get it in some subsidised rate. Let it be 3000 finally. Hardly around 50 gms will be used for a pizza, may be less than that. Vegetables cost only 50 per KG at max. They use only pieces as toppings. Olives the base and all other stuff i think it should definitely be around 100 Rs. to prepare a large pizza. But they r selling it at 330 Rs. on an average. The rest 200 is for the A/C , cool interiors etc. I realised how we are wasting our money on this. I am not against pizzas nor do i hate them or like them. But why is it so costly and why do we have to spend too much on this? i cudnt justify that. But anyway we enjoyed the dinner moments. Before going to pizza hut we dropped by Moonwalk to get some dvds. I bought 4 of them.
Italian job, Troy, Sound of Music and Karnan(Sivaji starrer). I have been planning to watch Sound of Music for a long time and at last i got one. From the trailor i understood that it is the movie that inspired Shanti Nilayam in tamil. Karnan, oh what a movie amazing performance by Sivaji. The songs are also gud, plannin to watch it some time next week.
I didnt like all the programs in our TV channels, so planned to watch my own. Yes i watched Italian Job for the first time , gud action packed movie a worthy addition to my collection. Then decided to go for Troy in the evening, watched Troy again for the 7nth time with Appa. The first day of 2006 has gone and now am blogging about it. Looking forward for a gud 2006 and wishing you all the same......

VIRUS is always not dangerous....

2005-12-28T21:30:00.000-08:00

What an irony? A computer malware has accomplished the duty of a cop in Germany.Read this, leave your comments.In my opinion cops themselves must have written this malware.

Amusing music of 2005

2005-12-27T21:30:00.000-08:00

The year 2005 is approaching its end, its time to recollect things happened in the past one year. I decided to start with cine music, yes the Tamil Cine songs that i enjoyed the most, hummed, sang in the past 1 year. I find it very hard to rate them. So i decided to list them rather than sorting. I have divided the songs into 2 categories "The persistent ones" and "The transient hits", persistence in this context is about 2 - 3 years. Transient is about 2 - 3 months. Okay lets go into the list.The listing is not based solely on music but includes the picturisation too

First we ll c the "The transient Hits":
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Andangakka Kondaikaari - Anniyan
Beats are gud and the costumes with rich colour too deserves a mention.
No wonder that kids next-door loved this.

Devuda Devuda - Chandramukhi
There are 2 reasons for liking this song, first of all it is thalai's comeback after
the feeble Baba. The next is SPB.

Aararai Kodi - Ah Aah
I have already said about this in my previous blog. This song wud have been a splendid
hit if it had featured in a Rajini movie.

Sakkai podu - Daas
This music is similar to Karagaatakaaran, i always love the folk music
so i enjoy this song.

Ammulu kutti - Daas
Actually i love this song for its charanam coz the original tune was composed by great Raja --> Adiyei manam nillunna... from Neengal Kettavai

Mama paiya - Devathayai Kanden
Funny video and enjoyable tune.

Thee Pidikka - Arindhum Ariyaamalum
Sexy voice of Suchi and the way Yuvan has mixed Thyagaraja Bagavathar with
todays beats

Yela Yela - Arindhum Ariyaamalum
Charanam is sooper

Kaathadi pola yendi - Mayaavi
Video and choreography was different and Jo's cute expressions chance ae illa.

Vaadi Vaadi - Sachein
Best Kuthu of the year, Vj's dance and excellent modulation, best suited to dance for a while
[P.S am not a Vijai fan]

Suppose - Sukran
No reasons but i liked the song

Saathikadi - Sukran
Funny lyrics am typing some for sample below:
"Vaaya ellam moodikittu vanarama maarikkitu mooka vachu dhammadichu kaataporen"
"Paati ku naan vetti paakaporen, saamiku naan jeans thachi poda poren,
Kaviri ke thanniya thaan ootha poren, mottaiyila seepa vachi seeva poren"
"sunnuku naan torch adippen, balliku naan poova vappen"
Doesnt make any sense.

Appan panna thappula - Tirupaachi
Folk beats and Pushpavanam's voice [dont mistake me]

Thai maasam - Maja
Folk song and sema tune

Boom Boom - Raam
Peppy tune and gud choreography

OK now lets move on to the serious part,

"The Persistent hits"
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Adhu Oru Maalai - Gajini
Karthik's mellifluous voice and Harris's gud tune, a mild and gud number.
Asin looks gorgeous in the video.

Nizhalinai Nijamum - Raam
Vijai has proved an age old proverb "Pulikku pirandhadhu poonaiyaaguma"
Yes he has done a great job. While listening to this song i get a feeling that
i get when i listen to "Amma endrazhaikaatha..." from Mannan.

Thottu Thottu Ennai - Kadhal
Gud tune and lyrics

Oh Sugumari - Anniyan
Shankar Mahadevans Voice and modulation was very gud.I used to sing this many times even though nobody listens to it.

Aiyangaaru Veetu - Anniyan
Hari's Melodious voice and soft nature of the song.

Pani thuli - KNM
Tune and the seducing female voice

Raa Raa - Chandramukhi
Chance ae illadha paatu.Best of the year 2005. I always like songs that
have a Carnatic tinge to it. Especially when she sings the lines "Nee kondhu ne kori abhisaani kai nenu..."
I dunno what is Carnatic, i am totally clueless about the ezhu swarangal but i luv listening to semi carnatic songs rather than pure ones except for some of MS's.

Mayiliragae - Ah Aah
Tune reminded me of old b/w movie of MSV times, mild and soothing melody.
Video is crap, but i Luv it.

Alagae brahmanidam - Devthayai Kandaen
Gud tune and Harish's voice made me like this song.

Engoi Koyil Mani - JI
Melodious tune, tharu thalai's padam was a big flop but this song is the odd one out in the movie.

Yaaro oruthi - London
Unfortunately i saw this movie in theatre, but this song really impressed me and the the reason is Karthik.

Kaatril Varum geethame - Melody
Carnatic tinge and arumaiyana aalapanai by the 3 sisters.

Kajuraaho - Oru Naal Oru kanavu
Ilaiyaraja's tune and Hari's voice blended to perfection.

Vennila siragaidikka - Ponniyin selvan
Tune was gud, cute expressions by Gopika and meaningful lyrics that inspires everyone.

Kan moodi - Sachien
Melodious song and i always like melodies.

Unnai charanaidendhen - Thavamai Thavamirundhu
Melodious and voice of Srikumar was gud, it was a surprise from Sabesh Murali.

Of all this songs i feel only one as evergreen, yes "Raa Raa" from Chandramukhi.

If someone has read this post completely and reached here, i wud like to say a few words to u.

Thanks for reading such a huge post with patience ;)

King Kong the 8th Wonder/Nth Blunder of the world.

2005-12-26T05:52:00.000-08:00

This was the movie i saw yesterday. Actually i was longing for some sleep coz i slept hardly for 3 hrs the previous night. Yup i left for office at morning 4 o clock, But my frends called me at afternoon for a movie, since it had been a long time since we have gone for a movie together i said yes and finally we decided for King Kong ( the truth is that we cudnt get a ticket for any other gud movie). "It is one of the best movies i have ever seen"
This wud have been my comment if i were a 10 year old kid, but i am old now am able to reason things. So i didnt like the movie much, am confused whether i should thank God for givin me this power of reasoning or to hate him coz am not able to enjoy a movie. OK now we ll go into the story line.
Heroine is a drama artist, suddenly the theatre is closed. She starves for food. Luckily gets an oppurtunity to act in a movie directed by a person who wanna shoot his movie in some new location (like our director Shankar), so he selects Skull Island where no one has even gone before and the crew starts out in a ship. The heroine falls for the script writer in the movie on the ship journey. When they go to the Skull island the heroine is unfortunately served as food for a huge Ape. Ape instead of eating her falls for her beauty and does whatever she says like a dog, Then the director traps KK and brings him to NewYork and finally the ape dies.
I tried to tell the story in one line but it took me so much. The positives of the movie are:
1. Peter Jackson has taken great effort in showing the NewYork as it was before 50 years or so. Each ever frame has been sculpted carefully.
2. There are some comic scenes between the heroine and KK.(King Kong)
3. Special effects are gud and especially KK is very well done.

Negatives are:
1. Remaking an old story is always negative.
2. Unnecessarily Peter Jackson introduced some dinosaurs and creepy animals. I think he has mixed all the monsters that have appeared in various english movies.
3. Hero is the greatest person in the world and no monster can kill him.
4. Heroine looks beautiful sometimes and at some frames she looks disgusting.
5. Over graphics and unnecessary chasing scenes between the movie crew and dinos.
6. Climax is too long and boring.
7. The tribal people of Skull island have over done their roles and unneccesary make up.

Peter Jackson has got a new disease after making the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the name of that disease is Longomoviasis (its my own term)i.e. somehow you should make the movie long even if it has a short story. This movie runs unnecesarily for around than 2 and half hrs. But i enjoyed that time irrespective of the movie quality, coz we passed comments along with the other audiences, we compared the movie with our own Rama Narayanan. We heard songs like "Nandri sollave unakku en mannava vaarthai illaiye..." when KK saves the heroine and "Sollal aditha sundari...." when heroine and KK enter into a ooodal etc.
The only thing that i liked in the movie was the post climax dialogue, when KK is dead the people nearby will say that "The planes killed him" at that time our director (not peter Jackson) says "It is not the planes, it is the beauty that killed the Beast", thats true, even beasts and great people fall for beauty and die at last.
Thank God this movie dint gimme a headache like War of Worlds.
In short if you have no other work to do or if you have any kids go for King Kong.

The Q is dead...

2005-12-23T21:44:00.000-08:00

This is the ad of Satyam cinemas as we may have seen, sometimes when i see this i imagine about a similar one, our parliament building on the frame and outside there should be a board saying "Morality is Dead" coz of the people who stay inside. But today a gud decision has been taken inside that building. The MPs who shamelessly accepted money for asking questions were stripped of their stature. Kudos to the people who did it. But this punishment is not enough it is infact not a punishment at all. They should have passed a law like this, "These MPs or their immediate relations i.e. family members should never contest in any election in this country for the next 5 years atleast" .So Morality is not dead it is at coma stage, waking up sometimes like the one today.....

P.S: I searched for a single word for all good things like purity, humanity, manners, justice, virtue etc. couldnt find a better word than morality so used it.

Commitments....

2005-12-22T06:51:00.000-08:00

Yesterday i received an email from my friend, i was shocked on reading this mail. The reason is he is bachelor life came to an end and he has started sharing his life with his wife. Yes he is married. 23 years is a very young for a guy to get married. This makes my mind generate some thoughts. Pros of getting married at this age is you can feel a bit matured and responsible, you have a girl to share your everything with, that feelin makes you confident,comfortable. There are other reasons too.... But cons are that you cannot be independent. You cannot stay late night in office or leave to a movie with your friends, it creates a circle around you and you have to live inside that circle. We ll have to live up to her expectations, we ll have to make decisions based upon her opinion. In short we cannot live a life of our own. So obviously there are more cons than pros at this stage. Some people prefer to be bachelors for life. But most of them prefer the other way and i hope majority wins. Kaalam badhil sollum......
P.S: This blog may seem a bit random but this is the thought i got after reading that mail so am puttin it as it is

Freshness.....

2005-12-20T07:04:00.000-08:00

This week i have my monitoring activities so had to be early in office, i mean that i have to be in office by 4:00 AM IST:(. Even though it is very hard for me 2 wake up in that time, i have to do it.Amma told me to hire a call taxi daily. But i preferred bike rather. The last one year in this industry has made me the laziest person in the world. I wake up only at 7:30 or 8:00 am. It has been a long time since i have seen this world at 5:00 AM. Now i ve gotta chance i dont wanna waste it. The freshness of the air and the calmness of the streets really makes me happy with the bonus of a slight drizzle. Thanks GOD. My mom insisted me 2 wear a helmet but i delibrately ignored it coz i wanna enjoy the fresh air blowing in my face. The bike journey existed only for half an hour. The chillness of the air was also great. On the whole i enjoyed riding in the streets at 3:30 morning. If i wake up at this time my whole day is fresh and brisk. Thats y our ancestors had the practise of waking up early i guess.
BTW i didnt wear a helmet and now am suffering a headache because of the chill air :)

Kadi corner

2005-12-16T08:29:00.000-08:00

Got this as a forward
Cell ula balance illanna call panna mudiyaadhu
Manushanukku call illanaa balance panna mudiyaadhu

No am wondering how cud people think like this....

Weekend comedy

2005-12-15T08:50:00.000-08:00

Last weekend after a strenous night at the office i thought of going to a movie on Sunday, called my friend and asked him, finally we decide to go 4 Kanda Naal Mudhal or Thavamai Thavamirundhu, unfortunately we couldnt get a ticket for both the movies in Udayam. My friend called me to tell this sad news. I asked him what are the other movies, he said another theatre is showing Sivakasi. I asked machi why dont we consider it, these are words that came from his mouth "adhukku naan veetla poi sappitu thoongiduven da", i thought that something is better than nothing and tried to convince him , even i begged him and at last offered him a sponsorship, but even then he remained adamant and refused to come for the movie finally i asked him "dei padam aerkanave paathutiya da", he said no. I asked the reason then why dont you come. He said "i quit watching his movies after Madurey da", i was quite helpless and cud say nothing to him. and finally we agreed on what he said and veetlaye saapititu paduthu thoonginom... OC ticket provide panniyum varamaatengaranga aana padam mattum sooper hit aayiduthu... adhan comedy :))

Shame for Indian Cricket

2005-12-14T08:39:00.000-08:00

Today our board announced the great decision of dropping our Dada, Bengal Tiger, Prince of Kolkata. One of the worst decisions that BCCI has ever made. They cannot tell one gud reason for this decision, Dada contiributed 80 runs in this match and supported Sachin very well in his historic innings. He is more experienced than most of others in the team. Why did BCCI drop him?
The answer may have 2 possibilities. Either Chappel is planning for a vengeance or the new senior management is acting biased towards one particular state. Even mediocre players like Kanitkar etc. were given ample time to prove themselves, but what about Dada, he is a star, he shuld be given gud chance to prove himself. He has already been punished by stripping his captaincy. Why is the BCCI being so harsh? Already politics has done much in the team and that is the only reason gud bowlers like Balaji are not there in the team. If consistency is the problem then why r people like Sehwag still in the team, based on past records right.Then Dada deserves a sure place in the team. Actually i felt annoyed by the way Kolkata fans behaved in the match against South Africa, but now i feel the other way. These kind of decisions always spoils the morale of the team. Indian team a kadavul thaan kaapathanum.....

A Beautiful M(ind)ovie

2005-11-30T08:15:00.000-08:00

Happened to watch the "A Beautiful Mind" this weekend, could not resist myself from bloggin about it. What a gud movie? Probably one of the best i ve seen so far, the storyline is about how a mathematical genius suffers from schizophrenia(hope the spellin is correct), mental illusion problem. But apart from these scenes what i liked the most was the love story between Russel crowe ( the genius) and the heroine. It was portrayed so well like our love classics. Usually english movies show love as Doggie style ( yaaru venaalum yaaroda venalum polaam) but this movie is different. The best scene that i liked was when Russel asks the heroine for some proof or result that she loves him. Here goes the dialogue:(approximately)
Heroine: How big is the Universe?
Hero: Infinite
Heroine: How do you know that? Do u have any proof?
Hero: No but i beleive in it
Heroine: That is love, you have to believe it.

Even though this has been mentioned long ago in our old tamil literatures and movies it was nice. Rusell Crowe's acting was amazing. I enjoyed the movie very much. If this movie has to be remade in tamil the following wud have been my starcast:
Hero: Kamal
Heroine: Jo
Charles(Hero's room mate): Madhavan
William Parcher (US Military Officer): Nasser
Dr. who treats the Hero: Sivakumar
Hansen: Ramesh Aravind

but if this happens the producer will be in trouble bcoz we ppl need a Kuthu song and punch dialogues in our movies.......

Coool Get tos...........

2005-11-20T09:29:00.000-08:00

We had a get together with college pals today as usual in my frends house. Its been almost 1 and 1/2 yrs past college life but still we maintain the same kindals and matter jokes when we meet. Heart becomes light at times like these, i enjoyed those moments as usual. We went ot Besant ngr beach as usual and had some COOLING THERAPY for our eyes ( i mean the sightings....) heated by computer screens. Pasangaloda orundhaa time poradhe theriyala.......

Legend of Ze(or)ro....

2005-11-12T21:35:00.000-08:00

Yesterday we went to the movie "Legend of Zorro". If we call tamil movies as "Masala" and laugh at our heroes , then we should also laugh at this movie. I bet this is worse than our Vijaikanth movie. The hero our Zorro will always be the saviour, like Krishna said in Bagawad Gita "Engellam adharmam thalai thooku kiradho angellam Zorro varuvaar". I think the director has seen a lot of Indian movies he has adapted many such sentiments in his movie. Antonio looks old, has lost his charm. Catherine Jones looks hot as usual, the few positive points in the movie are the boy (son of zorro), those little altercations between Zorro and Elena, worst part is the graphics and the stunts, especially the climax scene was horrible. We left the theatre 10 mins before the climax, thank god atleast the Horse in the movie performed well unlike Humans.

Diwali Crap....

2005-11-01T09:09:00.000-08:00

Since it is Diwali today all the satellite channels telecasted their own programs as usual. The common formula that has been derived somehow by these is channels is the following:

Diwali = 1 pattimandram + 1 game show + some actress interview + walk the talk style paetti + 1 road show....

Especially there was an overdose of Asin, whenever i tune to the other channel i could see only Asin. Being an ardent fan of Asin enakke bore adikka vachittaanuva. Everything was total mokkai except for ONE. The ONE program that i enjoyed today is the Concert by the MAestro andrum indrum endrum Ilaiyaraja. Iam very happy to see the masetro come out of his Shell after a long time, en baashaila sollanumna OTHA CHANCE AE ILLA(sorry for using chennai tamil).... All the songs are best and each one melts us. The genius SPB in combination with Raja gave a beautiful performance, even though i have listened to all the songs before,inniku kekkum podhu pullarichiduthu :). I thanked God coz he granted me a birth in India, if i had born elsewhere i may not have had a chance to listen to such gud music and followed such a gud culture. God has gifted people like Raja,Rehman,SPB with music and gifted Rest of the World with them.

US Return...

2005-10-31T10:19:00.000-08:00

A couple of months back i received a forward listing all the funny things a foreign return guy/gal wud do while coming to India. It had some things like 1.Cribbing over the pollution and dust in Chennai 2.Drinking mineral water 3. Starting a conversation with "Anga ellam..." etc.Last week my frend SAT(ish) returned from USA for his vacation. I expected atleast 1 or 2 of the 21 items listed in that forward. i thought he wud call us Dude instead of Machi, he wud like to have Pizza instead of the chat items we usually have, but nothing happened. He was the same old guy i studied with a year ago except for his French beard. He has always been an inspiration for us and a role model on how to behave, still he is. But i have some friends who go there and pick up some fake accent and put some vethu scene, adhennavo therila pasanga/ponnunga velinadu ponaa aale maaridraanga ya , except for a few like the one i mentioned above....

365 days of a post student life

2005-10-18T10:01:00.000-07:00

I just completed one year in my job today, so i thought i wud blog about that. Even though i completed my college last year april i consider myself to be a student still i got a job, now that i have become a 1 yr experienced guy i have an observation to share with people who read this blog. As a student my only responsibility was to score gud marks in exam (obviously i didnt do it :) ), but now i have more responsibilities each day, i am answerable to many ppl (i am not showing off)enna appo naan kasu koduthu padichen ippo naan kaasu vangittu velai seiyaren adhaaan...... :)

The curse of Human Race.....

2005-10-16T05:24:00.000-07:00

Day before yesterday i saw the movie "Schindler's List". Some scenes were touching, the movie itself is so emotional. When i was watching the movie, i felt that some scenes of torture, especially shooting people in the concentration camps by Amon like a video game were a bit exaggerated. I thought that something like that cud have never happened.But i had some doubt, so the next day i bought a documentary about Hitler and the rise and Fall of Nazis. All the videos shown in the documentary is claimed to be authentic. I couldnt find much difference in the scenes shown in this original documentary and Schindler's List. Before yesterday evening i had some respect for that organism as a gud leader and commander , but as soon as i watched these videos i realised that he was not an human being. I could compare him with the so called "Rakshasas" described in our mythology.Kadavulnu oruthar irundhaarna idha maadhiri jenmangal ellam appadi uruvaagarthunnu therilai pa. Many people wud have already talked about this and blogged about this, but i just wanted to say. I dunno whether i was over emotional when i watched the movie, but it touched me to the core....

SMS freaks

2005-10-09T07:00:00.000-07:00

This incident happened a couple of day before when i was in the saloon. A guy sat near me, he seemed to be a college student, 2 or 3 years younger to me. For about half an hour this guy continuosly kept messaging some one, am sure that atleast 10 SMS must have been sent. From the smile in his face once he receives the sms i concluded that it is from his gf :). He didnt stop messaging even when he was in the HOT SEAT ( not KBC but the seat in the barber shop ) he kept on messaging even when the barber was busy cutting his hair,it frustrated the barber. i wondered why is this guy sending so many sms, instead he cud have talked with the other person thru a call. I dunno what to say about this, is this an addiction to SMS or vethu scene.... therila pa....

Gajini....

2005-10-02T06:24:00.000-07:00

Today i saw the long awaited and hyped movie Gajini. I thought i ll blog about it. Unfortunately i came to know the whole story of Gajini before wathcing the movie from my frend who already saw "Memento". The movie opens with Nayantara a medical student willing to do a project about Surya who is a peculiar case, having short term amnesia for 15 mins. Then it goes on. The highlights of the movie is the flashback scenes involving Surya and Asin, it is well directed by Murugadoss and makes the audience happy. Asin as usual is great. Surya too has the posh look of a millionaire in the movie. he has done well. The worst part of the movie are the songs, some time before Kamal Haasan said in an interview that songs do hinder the flow of screenplay. I realised how true it is in this film. Since the story has been inspired from an english movie the songs does not fit into it. Harris has not given his best too. Nayantaara has put in a lotsa weight. i think soon she ll join the Mumtaj, Namita list of heavy weight actresses :). The climax fight needs a special mention, gud graphics work, surya has worked hard. I dont realise one thing in this movie, why does a short term memory loss patient looks and reflects body language like a psycho?
Overall the movie is gud and definitely watchable one time.

A gud Leader

2005-09-30T10:47:00.000-07:00

Its been a couple of weeks since my last blog. I didnt blog bcoz nobody reads my blog.anyway i thought i will pen down some of my thoughts(not my own) that i imbibed from some ppl about leadership.

who is a gud leader? The direct answer is that a person who makes his sub ordinates confident and courageous can be said as a gud leader. Leadership doesnt mean that blast your junior get the work done. Behave with your junior in such a way that he automatically does the work for you. In my office i am working under leaders who
take responsibilty for the mistakes done by sub ordinates, get the scoldings from client then advise the juniors softly, but at the same when there is appreciation from client they share it equally among the team members. i think this is the most important quality of a leader which will give the confidence and enthusiasm to his subords to work better. I have learnt this as a lesson from my seniors.......

dubble meaning dialogues in movies

2005-09-11T06:23:00.000-07:00

today i thought i will blog about this bcoz i have just watched Ah Aah. Romba naaalaave namma tamil movies la double meaning dialogues irukku, it is not just new or a present trend, for example take "Sigappu rojakal" it has many dialogues in double meanings, padathula double meaning dialogues is necessary but it shud be crisp and make the person listening laugh and not lead him to mugam sulipu. May be i might laugh for all those dialogues jus bcoz i am 23 yrs old, appa amma ketta thaan theriyum. In Ah Aah there is a lot of such dialogues. Yesterday while watching the movie i saw in the row before me, there were a group of 7 or 8 girls were watching the movie, there were many such similar groups, avanga paakarudhula thappilai. They are just like me, they ll enjoi the movie and such jokes just like we guys do. Before 20 or so years when movies like Manmadha leelai etc. there were no protests like this.aana ippo mattum en prechinai varudhunnu theriyalai pa....

Chatting.....

2005-08-28T06:28:00.000-07:00

Many times in my life i have wondered what is the purpose of this chatting? why was it invented? Is it a computerised version of the chat we have in real life with our frends, the answer is a clear NO. B coz in reality, when we have a chat, we cannot hide somethings like our appearance etc. what we spoeak is truth ateast to some extent. But in the online chatting we hide everything.Nobody will show their true faces.
On the optimistic perspective the use of a chat is to pass some time and share some useful info among us and develop some frendship. but only a meagre amount of people who chat,belong this to optimistic category. They always see the positive side. but the other part which is more common is the negative evolution of this chat, cateorically speaking there are 3 kinda ppl.
1. These people log in and just hunt for some female ids and once they get it they beg the person to chat with them. I doubt whether girls do the same with boys because there is no need for them to hunt ids, we are always the volunteers both in terms of chat and love proposals.
2. The second category is the most common. They are the people who search for sex in chat. In fact this search has led to a new term called Cyber Sex. This sounds funny isnt it. Just before a week i found an id named "for_aunties_without_panties". Eventhough the id is creative :) he is just looking for someone to talk dirty. Some people are ready to talk dirty to persons of same sex also. Pathetic situation.....
3. There are some people who rename them selves to some female ids, log in as a female pretend to be so and have some chat with the people of the first category and even the 2nd category sometimes. Does these kind of people have some psychological problems?
Some ppl have become addicted to this chatting. I have myself seen this. I can see some ids which are online all the time when i log in to the system. I have the seen the same id being online in morning, evening and night. May be he might have a broad band. But isnt he wasting all the money and time in this chat. I dont mean to say that "Nobody should chat". One day i created a female id and logged into system for chat. Just within a few seconds my screen was populated with too many messages saying Hi, Hello ... one guy even said "Please chat with me, I beg you". the system hung because of these IMs.Thats when i realised how foolish they are. My point is jus say a Hello, if there is no response leave it, why do u need to beg like this? what will these girls or people pretending to be girls think about you? not many of us do tell our true names and our details in chat. I dont mean to say that "Give all your details" but somethings can be said like what r u studying, how you look, job etc. But nobody says the truth. The case filed by a Canadian tamil resident last week is a gud example. One woman deceived him in chat that she looks beautiful and she loves him, this fool gave more than a lakh to this woman, the funniest part is that she gave a tamil actress photo instead of hers and this guy believed in it. There are many similar people out there to do things like this.

In short chatting is another world in which people live with fake identity and false faces.But there are some exceptions....

Anbe Aaaruiyre

2005-08-23T10:09:00.000-07:00

I have been listening to this new album by rehman for quiet sometime. i thought i could just blog about Ah Aah audio today. It has been a long wait after AAyitha ezhuthu to hear some standard music from the genius. According to me the wait has turned fruitful. Ah Aah the much hyped movie, has got a gud music score.

The movie has 6 songs. The first one sung by the genius himself is different as usual, i can the feel the power of his voice in the song. "Aararai kodi pergalil...." is how the song starts with. One of my frends commented that this song was like reciting some mantra, i also felt the same at first, but as we all know rehman's songs take over our minds gradually as we listen to it again n again. Now i feel the song is great. Only one negative point is that we have to listen with full concentratioon to understand the lyrics.

The next song is the "Mayiliragae.." the slower version which i rate as the best of all the six,the tune is superb and the tempo is slow and mild that remembers me of some songs in the MSV era.(not the tune :) )this version has been sung by Narsh aiyar and Madhusri, both of them have done a fantastic job. Chance ae illa, a gud evergreen song after Raa Raa.. this year. i am sure this song will earn gud opinion from music critics.

The next one is the "Marangothiye...", the faster version of the preious song. The song starts like the "Thottal poo malarum.." in New but as it goes we can find the difference and the magic done by the genius. This is the second best in my rating.

Then comes the song by SPB(the legend) and Shreya gosal, "Thazhuvudhu...." this song is somewhat different, both of them repeat the same words many times in different modulations which has given the song a gud feel. Pallavi is great, but charanam is not as gud as the pallavi. this is the 3rd best according to me. I feel that this is not a great song for a person like SPB who is a GOD in singing. Shreya goshal has done a gud job, she has also given a feel to this song.

Other songs are not so gud to talk about, they re mediocre numbers according to me. I have not listened to them so much. The heroine of the movie Nila is cute, even though she cannot replace Simran :( she can definitely make it. Lets wait n watch how the controversial director has filmed the songs......

Ego - The devil within

2005-08-22T10:10:00.000-07:00

This blog may seem to be a bit of advise or philosophy, but it is the truth. I am writing what i felt about this.The forbidden word ego, what is it? it is the basis of self destruction of a human being. Many a times we have been slaves of this ego.Ego can be said as the inability of a person's mind to accept reality, defeat, failure. we can see our ego everywhere. In college when we dont accept some advise from a junior, in office when we dont hear to our sub ordinates. Ego leads to anger, wrath and hatred towards others. Complex is a cause of ego. How many times do we accept a defeat happily when another person below our stature out performs us? In my point of view a person should not estimate his ownself bcoz if the estimate is over or under, problem will be created.It is very hard to estimate one's own self accurately.What do we loose bcoz of ego? we lose friends, relatives even love is broken sometimes bcoz of ego. Whenever we involve in a fight with others be it our frends, relatives and even parents, many of us dont have the guts to go to the other and say the magic word "SORRY", our so called ego will never allow us to do so. I said guts to ask sorry bcoz it definitely needs a lot of courage to get out of our ego.

We can see the maximum destruction ego can cause to a society in our politics, all the cause of dirty politics is ego between the politicians. The race to decide who is superior? Ego and superiority complex are not much different. The latter is the root cause of all problems. we shud Never have head weight, never think that we are superior. we shud Remember that there will be atleast one person superior to us in this world. Many of you must have known drums Sivamani, he said in one interview that "Mandai kula weight jaasthiyana, veliya namme weight thaana koranjidum" means if we increase weight on our head (dont take this literally :) ), our respect in the society( which he means weight ) will automatically decrease. That is absolutely true.

I have tried to overcome my ego many times it turned out to be successful sometimes.But now i have improved a lot.What to do i am also a part of a normal human race. Ego has become an inherent quality in human beingslike the ability to speak,think and smile. EGO is like diabetes it can be controlled but cannot be cured completely(romba kadichittenaaa... :) ).

P.s: People who read this blog may say "periya paruppunnu nennappu" [he is trying to show off]
I also feel the same when someone talks to me like i have written above,but that is also ego :D .

Movie experience

2005-08-21T05:29:00.000-07:00

Today i saw the final part of The Lord of The Rings trilogy.
I have been seeing one part per day for the past 3 days. The storyline of the movie was great. The way these 3 movies were shot are also awesome. The locations particularly deserve a special mention. Kudos to the team.I heard that the locations are in New Zealand. The character which i liked in the film was that of Legolas, how smart and knowledgeable was he. Inspite of enemies being close to him he remained calm and composed i liked his attitude. His archery skills are superb. Thats all for now......

My first blog

2005-08-19T11:24:00.000-07:00

This is the 5th blog id i am creating here. each time i create a blog i forget about the login details since i dont use it often, so this time i ve decided to blog regularly. I have made a note of my details.I will blog regularly about myself and some thoughts in my mind.................