Life is to Enjoy

After a pathetic performance over my arrear papers, I was totally down and out. I messaged some of my friends and got these encouraging and motivating words. 1. "Vidu machi... arrear ellam oru periya vishayama. Namma life la arrear vakkama loan ellam settle panroma nu paru." 2. "Hey free a vidu. Dont take it 2 heart" 3. Dai question paper pannavanukku unnoda therama theriyala da... chinna payyan polachu poran, freeya vidu 4. Wow... Congratulations... more things to come in life... keep updating. enna irunthaalum Srirama... arrear paper la arrear vakkira alavukku nee mosama padikkamaatiye da... unnoda inth disturbance ku karanam enna?

My parents after a 2 week outing to Kasi, Allahabad, Gaya and Rameshwaram returned home today morning. I was upto listening to all stories that was narrated by my mom. That was really thrilling. I am supposed to write an exam on "Management and Managerial skills" tomorrow. I didnt even touch the book so far. I think it will fall in as an arrear one more time. :-(.

Rava upma is one of the best bet recipie which most of the Indian bachlors should and would know to cook if they are self dependent for cooking food. There are several points which support this argument. Key points are: 1. Less utensils to wash after preparation. 2. The overheards involved like cutting vegetables is less. 3. Faster preparation. (helpful when you are feeling too hungry). Sari ethukku ippo ivvlo build up? Inninkki naan athaan pa panni saapten. Summa solla koodathu da Srirama, nanna beshaa pannina po. Unakku neeye oru "O" pottuko.

I listened to couple of election campaigns that happened in Ambattur O.T. Bus stand. One today and the other on Friday evening. The point all parties make is different. But their approach seems to be same. They tend to hype thier party with the achievement they have done and start critisising the other party's agenda as well as their schemes. Hmmm Evvlo naal thaan ippadiye panna poraanga? There is a lot to getting vote than these is what I feel. How about keeping a commitee/group for a temporary basis and find out new solution to reach people? The protocol has been the same for doing campaign. It is really boring and frustrating for a common user when he tries to commute across the stage that is put. Ask the two wheeler riders and four wheeler riders they say "Eppo da May 6 varum nu irukku. Appo thaan intha sandalanunga nimmathiya vandi otta vazhi viduvaanunga". No one really gains out of these small and silly talks they do. If the intention is to reach the public, then i...

So at last queue la wait panni Voter ID card naanum enga appavum vaangittom. It was not so frustrating as it was when we got a ration card. EC deserves a pat in the back for making such quick turnaround times and making the process simple enough. But some basic things still needs to be made right. Anyway an improvemnt is an improvement and it needs to be noticed and given due recognition. Next step is to decide who I should vote. Well, both 'big party' contestants in my constituency are reported to be all time rowdies and rouges. Which porukki is a better porukki and whom shall I select is the real question. I may be forced to use the rule called 49-O. According to this rule, you need not vote for any one and you may just tell the EC officer there that no one is fit enough to be voted and I wish to use 49-O rule and register my dissatisfaction. It is as good as voting against all candidates. I got this info thru an e-mail forward. Guess this is true. I will enquire and update t...

I watched yesterday's cricket match in Sahara One for the first time as I didnt know that it was also telecasting the match. Before watching I said to myself "He is a private channel and wouldnt cut the cricket as DD does". But on the contrary it was other way around. He is cutting both the first and the last ball of an over. Moreover when a four is hit of the last ball of an over, we didnt know whether it was a four or a two. To add to the woes, whenever wicket falls, the next 2 deliveries are guaranteed to be not shown. When looking at all these, Doordarshan is better off in many ways. Although he is ad prone, he is ready to cut the ad and take us to the first delivery of an over which is n times better than Sahara One. Gone are the days where ESPN and STAR sports were telecasting the Indian matches. They are the real pros and they still are. I remember last they telecasted the Indian tour of Australia which was done excellently. If only giving high money to BCCI is the...

Today morning on my trip to my office, one of my old friends Dinesh happened to board the bus. We as a group used to chat and wake up whole of the bus which would sleep otherwise. He is travelling to Chicago this weekend. So we had a practice round on how he would behave there and how he wants me to behave (he believes I will be onsite with him soon). In US people talk about MDs and BDs (Million and Billion Dollars). If you had seen a movie called "We are not Tata Birla", you would have come across the scene "Dollar na intha Amman padam, murugan padam lam irukkume, athuthaanengo?". Just for a moment we had a thought over that dialogue and immediately Dinesh said MD - Murugan Dollar and BD - Balaji (Lord Venkateshwara) Dollar. After that he said he will send me 20 MDs and 35 BDs. It will be always fun when he is around. I will be missing him. All the best da Dinesh. Seekrama MDs and BDs anuppu.

Thideernu leave pottu veetla summa ukkanthuttu irunthaa sema bore adikkuthu. At least one consolation was that I helped my project mates over the phone to solve some issue. Match la kooda namma pasanga sothappals. Hmmm arasiyal news thaan varuthu TV news channels la yum. Athayum meeri matha TV channels a paatha MEGA SERIAL... orey azhugai thaan. Avanga azhartha paatha, " Enda naaye leave potta, office ku olunga poyirukkalam illa " appdinnu kekra maari irukku. Somehow I should push to office tomorrow.

Its one of our practice to go to our Jayashree tea stall in Ambattur OT every sunday evening and have a chat of our last week's work, life and what not. Me, Sundar and Senthil would gather on every Sunday evening to have a discussion of our lifetime every week(end?). The tea shop owner is a good friend of Sundar as he had been a regular visitor of that shop right from his college days. So he wont mind us blocking some of the chairs there which might affect his business at peak time. The week that was, the week that will be, politics, cricket, next weekend plans and a host a lot of things would go in our dicussion. Nothing in the world can equal that chat. Although technology has advanced a lot with mobiles, internet, chats, emails, etc... nothing equals a chit chat over a cup of tea (tea mattum thaana da Sriram?). Looks like I might miss it in another 15 weeks. (please dont question me why).

It is always good to go outing with your close friends. But if the team with whom you work become your best friends, then its time to enjoy with them also. After a lots of hiccups, my team finally agreed to an outing to Queensland - A theme park in the outskirts of Chennai in the Bangalore-Chennai Highway. There was a 'Youth Factor' (I will reserve the meaning of this word to my team and myself) that was a part of our team always which kept us going (boring?) always whenever the sun was blazing on us mercilessly. We tried and covered almost all possible rides available there. The happiest part of the outing was a last minute dropout of one person whom we always had an issue with. Orey friction thaan pa with that person for each and everyone who made it to the outing. Any way God was with our side to make sure that person didnt make it. No prizes for guessing who that is. On a closing note, I would say that 'Youth Factor' was the talk of out team throught the outing. Th...

I must admit that it was a good movie and tried to convey what it had to in a crisp way. But the following are the questions I have on this movie. 1. It is supposed to be a Patriotic national movie. But why is the local slang used heavily? I know hindi to some extend and I can follow a decent speed hindi. But the problem with this was the slang used. I felt a bit lost. 2. Since it had to reach quite a few people down south (remember, it is campaigned as a movie that every Indian should watch) it is important to put the songs fully (as south indians prefer song to be in full in most of their movies). Most of the songs had dialogues in between and especially the "Paatshaala" song was really messed up. 3. The final question is that in the group of 4 friends, isnt even one single person very serious about his life until such incidents happen? I mean the stuff shown about the college students is too much. Now I know no one would even care (or rather dare :-P) to see my blog or res...