WHY SO SERIOUS ???

Rules of Negotiations !!!!

2012-02-07T18:52:00.003+05:30

heard this from a wise man:

"Basic rule to get best deal: be ready to walk out of the deal any time"

Air Travel Tips

2012-01-10T09:50:00.006+05:30

Last year been very busy flying and delivering the ITIL trainings. so got handful experience of flight travels and gathered enough information to write a book"Air travel: what to do and what not to do". Here are few inputs from the same:

1) You dont need to carry printout of the air tickets, all you have to do is give your PNR number at the respective airline ticket counter.

on the contrary to above point, it's enough if u give your name and ID proof alone to get the ticket at the airline counter !

2) Either be the first few who gets the boarding pass or the last few who gets the boarding pass. by this way you'll get your baggage first from the conveyor belt after u alight.

on the contrary to above point, irrespective of boarding first or last, it's your luck which will decide the baggage collection at conveyor belt. This has never worked for me, so i'm sure it'll work for you all.

3) While answering the seat preference question, dont fall in the trap by telling "i want window seat so that i can get the view of the word". Check with them whether the seat is close to exit or not.

on the contrary be sure that you mean the exit from flight and not the "emergency exit", coz, thats just in the middle !!!! u'll end up sandwiched !!!

4) Never try to flirt with air hostess until you are so sure that you have all the cards, coz most of them got bulky boyfriends !!!!!

5) Never get influenced by your co-passanger to buy foods sold in flight....particularly domestic flights...coz, the moment you got down, you run for rest room !!!!

6) Never do any inflight shopping, first they are not cheap, second, they are all crap !!!!! you'll get better deals in platform

7) Never take a windows seat when you are drunk, logical !

8) While taking the flights after 9 PM, go for aisle seat....easily accessible to restroom

9) Never talk to middle aged co-passenger, they always talk as if the flight is not going to land !!!!

10) Never ever never....sit next to a celebrity !!!! even though none notice them, they can still make u sick !!!!!!!

well thats it for now, If you have any doubts on particulars, pls post it as comments....will let u know whatever i know !!!!!

Mr.James Pattinson

2012-01-03T08:31:00.000+05:30

Mr.Pattinson, thats nothing new, wherever we go, we help debut to get their best figures against us...but thats it...taking our wickets doesnt mean that u r on top right now....this shall pass....for another 5 yrs, this is gonna be ur only memorable moment and you go as a failure from here on !!!!!!!!

Happy New Year

2012-01-01T09:56:00.002+05:30

Happy new to all !!!!!! definitely going to be an exciting year with some big ambitions lined up....wish you all great success !!!!!

Samsung note

2011-12-27T08:33:00.001+05:30

Got a samsung note....comments from friends:

"show me your laptop"
"is that a brick ?"
"they rightly call it as note, it'like my school note book "
"do u really bought this phone?"

on top of all, this is the best comment:
"can u make calls from this ????"

PS: I used note for publishing this article !!!!

ITIL and real life

2011-12-21T16:43:00.004+05:30

For the past 1 year i have been delivering ITIL classes across globe. I find striking similarity between ITIL practices and every other aspect of interactions in day to day life. One reason could be that, ITIL is just a set of logical deduction of running IT in an organization, however it's just the means and not the end in itself. If you expand the scope of ITIL concepts little outside IT, the analogical model reveals more astonishing perspective in the flow. So i'm planning to share few similarities between ITIL and "things" outside ITIL in the coming posts.

SACM - Service Asset and Configuration Management.

I always used to tell this to my Students that, the ITIL in any organization starts with the basic understanding of a working SACM/CMS (Configuration Management System). After reading the ITIL concepts again and again, i can say that SACM will be the starting point of implementing ITIL in an organization, atleast the "Planning" part of SACM.

What is SACM? Organization uses "things" to deliver products or services, these "things" have tangible value to it and called as ASSETS. Any Asset, that you want to control, monitor, configure, edit, add, remove will become a CI (Configuration Item). A piece of land, purchased by an organization is an ASSET, and if you need to monitor that land and if it undergoes a change (building has been built for office/car parking, rented out, leased,etc.,) then it's considered as a CI. To make it even more simpler, the desktop purchased by a company is an ASSET, and if the desktop is used by "USER" (employee/employer/supplier) and company needs to monitor the desktop, then it becomes a CI.

All the organization needs this ASSETS/CI to build their products and services. That's why, SACM is the first and foremost thing in implementing ITIL (atleast the "PLAN" stage). In a way, SACM is the backbone of ITIL.

Now the striking analogy with real life came in the form of Indian Auditors Association. I was going through the Auditing parameters and guess what ? the first and foremost audit parameters includes an "ASSET REGISTRY" to be maintained and should be audited atleast annually !!!!

ITIL is just logical deductions !!!!!!!!!

I am Back (not really)

2011-12-21T09:25:00.004+05:30

18 months since i blogged. I was active in Facebook. Looking back, i feel that i shldnt have left blogging. The Advantages of Blogging over FB are: (Purely Personal View)

1) It's one way communication.
2) We have time to prepare and reply to counter thoughts that comes through as "comments"
3) Blogging is less controversial as most of the people(particularly friends ;) ) are away from it.

3rd reason gave me a strong justification to move to blogging again. 18 months is pretty good time for some internal transformation in characters and the future blogs may look mature, but still it will have the taste of humour...like always.

Significant achievement in life for the past 18 months includes:
1) I left Infy
2) I really left Infy...wow !!!!
3) I became ITIL expert...and trainer( this is not a JOKE)
4) Joined a new venture which i believe is going to help realize all my dreams.
5) Still no GIRL FRIEND....(seriously girls, u all have some problem !!!!!!)

thats pretty much as of now....CIAO

My Experience with my company - Training Days - 1

2010-03-01T12:07:00.006+05:30

I got placed in this company on Apr 17, 2006, little less i know that i just digg my own grave. All because of Shafi, he was giving high hopes and he told me that "In that company, if you are unlucky you'll go onsite in 1 year, if you are lucky you'll go in 6 months", so with US dreams, i stepped into this company for a lot less salary (ironically, even after 4 years, i couldnt reach my prev companies "salary+perks" )

The first day of training started with a long lecture from an HR person. He claims himself hailed from Indian Army with high discipline but opens his jaws n eyes when he sees a girl. While teaching us how to be ethically obliged to rules and regulations of the company. Believe me, this company got some unbelievable rules which will make u dumbstruck. I used to think whether the company's founder really wanted to start a company or a school.

The HR person was literally torturing us with his lecture and his tone was strict than any of the professors i have seen in my entire educational life. He was talking about some anti-sexual harassment, that was pretty new topic to me (at that time). On explaining further, he told us that if we receive or send porn sms to colleague, he'll take severe action and we need to inform him promptly.

After all the lectures, finally he was summarizing things and he did that in a QnA fashion, so he asked the question "what will you do when u receive a porn sms", i replied "Forward to you". The whole class burst out of laughter and his face was growing red....

Day 1 ended well !!!!!!!!!!

Hi

2010-03-01T11:57:00.002+05:30

A simple Hi to all, informing that i have resigned from my present company and moving to new company in mid of April.

I had been busy all these times with my certification, interviews and absolute nonsense stuffs.

It's really a great feel to put down your papers, though my resignation was taken sportively by everyone as if they were waiting for it, well, all is well now....

I m planning to write a series of blogs about my experience with this company...so wait guys,

I AM BACK !!!!!!!!

GOA - promotional songs

2010-01-01T19:27:00.003+05:30

wow wow wow wow wow wow

Listened to two songs from upcoming Venkat Prabhu's movie "GOA"....man both are damn goooooooddddddddddd

They are ezhelaelu thalaimuraikum and valiba vaa vaa....

dont miss it guys, its coming rounds in net !!!!!

Hope the movie fairs well in box office also !!!!!!

Happy new year

2010-01-01T16:28:00.001+05:30

Happy new year to all.

May all your dreams come true.

All i wanna say is they dont really care abt us

2009-12-29T22:44:00.002+05:30

i like this song, "they dont really care abt us" by MJ. I like that song for that unique beats and the electric guitar part and that care free voice yelling "all i wanna is that, they dont really care abt us".

After reading couple of Charu's article about the music, it enlightened my listening abilities.(for this matter, i'm strictly not recommending charu for idiots..he's the real joker from dark knight..he just upsets that established order).

So with that insight i listened to this song and i was realizing few things abt the song, then i immediately downloaded the lyrics and read it once...wow..what a song.

The pain that colored people underwent for the past several decades had been just put up in a 4.42 mins song in a most beautiful way. This song is a brutal truth, not only abt colored people, but it hold good to any type of discrimination...the questions he put forth and how arrogantly he breaks them to pieces are just mindblowing... for example:

"Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Jew me, sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kike me
Don't you black or white me

All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us

Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, now
I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
You're rapin' me of my pride
Oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy...
Set me free"

This is definitely not a person asking others to treat him equally, but it just says how he feels when u ill treat.When u listen to this song with utmost abilities and all your senses open, then you'll never discriminate your fellow human !!!!

MJ, whatever the world may call you, i just adore you !!!!!!

certification

2009-12-27T20:22:00.002+05:30

1000 pages - 50 questions - 35 to pass - days to study - if not cleared then "no promotion". The best part is i dont even work in that platform now...so what...RULES.

well, i always wondered whether Mr.Modern Mythological idealistic industrialist really wanted to start a company or school ?????

more often he proves that all he needs is a school and not a company !!!!

now all my 3.5 yrs of hard work will go unrecognised if i didnt clear this certification...

now i'm thinking, will it be a loss for me or company ????????

as of now the answer is ME...so going to study.....

while studying for this exam i just felt humiliated to the core...

Now, I am what you see below (i made this in mspaint)

2009-12-22T18:49:00.002+05:30

Opis Komedies - Part 41: Company can never kill ur humour

2009-12-22T10:33:00.003+05:30

After 2 years i spoke to one of my ex-colleague.

Me: so dude, whatsup ? howz germany
Kamlesh: yeah man, its going fine, how about you ? Still in
Me: yeah, the same comp...
Kamlesh: bhai, heard that they gave hike this time...how much?????
Me: pretty high, i booked my ferrari last week
Kamlesh: (laughing out of his heart) bhai, company can never kill your sense of humour !!!!

smile

2009-12-22T09:09:00.001+05:30

no matter how much pain u r in...people always expect u to smile n crack jokes....guys, please leave me alone for couple of months, i need strength to regain and start focusing on life....

wow

2009-12-20T19:48:00.000+05:30

wow...thats going to be the most unpredicted event in my life !!!!!!!

Colours - Guys !!!!

2009-11-23T16:51:00.004+05:30

Kochu sometime back told strongly that guys are colour blinded and cant see beyond 7 colours. Since that day, i am testing her prophecy and amazingly she's atleast 80% correct.

For guys, all the colours they know are VIBGYOR - violet-Indigo-blue-green-yellow-orange-red. Then add the word light or dark to it...now its done. I checked with few more people and i am relatively correct.

Few observations:

1) People from south, Rose colour means pink colour.
2) Silver is not a colour, its a metal.
3) The colour of silver is referred as shining white.
4) No idea about mauve\beige. Mauve means light violet and beige means light brown.
5) There's no ash color, its either light grey or dark grey.
6) Skin colour can be categorized as white, yellow, black, brown. no tan is accepted ;)

Well, there are lots to add to it. but yeah, to certain extent we are colour blinded, no issues, it makes our life little easy !!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 40: Kya bath hein ?

2009-10-29T19:00:00.004+05:30

(A long break from Opis Komedies, actually, now lots of opportunities around as shanm returned, shrikanth\raghu joined the gang and one and only karthi in full form !!!!

So will try to capture all....)

Since two days, Shrikanth was trying to learn hindi and most of the times it turns out to be some gibberish !!!!

Shrikanth and Shanm were trying to speak in hindi today.

Me: (to Shrikanth) Idhar aao, hum hindi mein baath kartha hoon
Shanm: (suddenly getting up) Kya baath hein ?
Shrikanth: ennadu, kaalaila kulikaliya ? (havent "bath"ed today ?)

Shanm donno what to say :D

I told this to Ram and he came up with one more piece: Couple of his friends trying to impress some hindi speaking girls:

M1: Kya baath hein ?
M2: (with full frustration) hmmm, bisibelabaath hein !!!!!

Chiggy Wiggy With You !!!!!

2009-10-20T18:18:00.005+05:30

By this time, everybody would have heard this awesome song from ARR in the movie Blue.

Excellent peppy song + Sexy voice + Awesome dance = A Super hit visual entertainer.

Few things i love in this song is:

1) The happiness that inflicts in your veins once u hear\see this song.
2) Kylie's steps for "I wanna chiggy wiggy with you", with both hands in thumps-up position, with a little hip shake for 180 degree and just letting the hands go in a carefree way......wow....no words to express the joyous step !!!!!!
3) At one more place, she attracts you to her feet, that akki piggy will start shouting Gori...and she reply with a flick in her neck towards backside and says "Babyyyyy"...oh man....after "go on" expression from Corres, this is admiring !!!!
4) The way she pronounces "boy" and "Fella" everytime, my heart goes for a toss and it was like she's calling me "boy" and "Fella"!!! wat a voice !!!!

People who admired like me till this point can skip the below part....

After admiring all these , i decided to read more about her in wiki and came to know her age !!!!!! I was fainted and now i know why she calls everyone "Boy" ;)

Kidnapped !!!!!!

2009-10-08T21:48:00.003+05:30

I m in madurai for some personal reasons, Today noon, mom called me and showed a flash news in Sun TV. It reads this way "Chief building inspector Mr. XXXXX has been kidnapped today morning." I saw the name and was shocked for a min. It is my friends dad. I confirmed the news also. Now waiting for his safe return.

One thing is sure, once he come back, the people who did this will regret for their rest of the short life. I will clearly say that the kidnappers did a biggest mistake in their life !!!!!!!!

Karthik subburaj

2009-10-04T20:56:00.001+05:30

It’s hard to praise someone in same age group. The first thing stand in front of you is ego, that to , if the stage is something like you all had an equal opportunity and only few overtakes you, then you’ll never speak about them. But there would be definitely few whom you would like to talk about beyond all this barriers and they had reached to that level in your mind not only because they are great but also they are still the same people whom you had moved around.

I will name three people like that, Suresh, for his greatness, Ramasamy, For his Intelligence and finally Karthik or as we call Subbuni for his talents. I will take sometime in detailing about the first two persons, but now I felt it’s time to speak something about Subbuni J

I first saw his in Quest 99 @ TCE. He mocked Surya’s aval varuvaala song. It was nice. Then eventually he became my college mate and things went smooth. We had very less interactions @ the earlier stage and after a year, we had an opportunity to play a skit for our college annual day. There formed the team and I really came to know how talented he is. I would say it was us first , who made the skit on Cricket match with Old actors Vs New actors.

Subbuni coined the script and it looked awesome. We re-used all old jokes and I played the role of MGR(don’t laugh…I say) and he played the role of TR(u all can laugh now J ). It was a big hit and paved way for us to various cultural events. It was a roller coaster ride from then, what not, wherever we went , we started winning. Feel good days. In between, we made some serious stuffs also which got critical acclaim from students.(kanji thotti + weavers problem was the best during those days). Thus, our college life ended with high note and we were split and were doing our jobs.

I used to think about what next and I really don’t have guts or talents to take it further, but for Subbuni, it was still a burning desire to make it big. He kept on honing his skills and waited to strike the right chord. Then one fine day, he joined a one day course on short film making and that was his visiting card. Then he invested his interest and money to learn more and ha came out with his first 3 mins film: Who’s the Indian – I was also a part of this project. Then he never stopped, he tried to visualize his dreams\concepts and all came out well. The technical brilliance of his film and narration techniques was also improvising a lot.

He started getting recognition, he won few awards(one international) by now and he’s taking a big step soon in his life. I knew he’ll definitely succeed.

I had associated with him for couple of short films and believe me, its tough to work with him. With very little resource and immature artists he thrives hard to get the maximum out of it. U wont believe , for every short film, he took almost 7-8 hrs for shooting alone J. If he come out big, he’ll be rated next to Shankar for perfection.

You can watch his short film at this location: http://www.reel-dreams.blogspot.com/

All the best subbuni and I m very proud of you !!!!!!

huh Gilma...huh Gilpa

2009-10-01T12:09:00.003+05:30

These two phrase always brings a smile in my face. I was using this when i was in high school. In all my notes, i fill it with my own crappy philosophies (obviously funny) and at the end, i'll leave the signature "Huh Gilma.....Huh Gilpa !!!!"

Suddenly, someday back, i saw a funny status message in one of my friend's status message. It reads "Sampa - lakkadi - bampa", after seeing that my funny tag flashed. since then, i m using this tag...but this invites lots of troubles from that time, few of my friends asked questions like:
1) dude, full masti kya ?
2) hey, ny new girl friend ?
3) wat man, u boozed a lot kya ?

on top of all this, i still remeber the comment i received from my mom after seeing my note:

"Son, are you going to join al-umma ???? "

I almost stopped writing after this question :)

Finally, my personal comment when Fahad asked for the meaning, as i was fed up explaining people i told him into ulti frustration:

"Man, This is neo surrealistic philosophy !!!! "

Then he didnt asked and i dont have to explain, so planning to use the above sentence to anyone who'll ask in the future.

A sample of that neo surrelaistic philosophy:

"Sky above and Earth beneath, This is Life" :)

Your Answer please ? Question 1

2009-09-22T15:34:00.003+05:30

Which is the most irritating thing:

If you are the last person in the long queue ?

or

Only 1-2 persons standing behind you in that long queue ?

Happy Birthday U1 !!!!

2009-08-31T23:09:00.001+05:30

Happy Birthday U1 !!!!! thrill me with your compositions as u always do !!!! All the Best !!!!!!!!!

Hits counter in blog

2009-07-26T20:18:00.003+05:30

The Hit list that comes in my blog kindled great interest at the start. I forget where i saw first, but it was a little struggle for an half-baked IT guy like me to add the same to my blog. I managed to do that at last, then i become too much obsessed with the same.

Everyday, will login to my blog and i'll check for the hits. If the Hit was less than 10 , it really pisses me off for the whole day. I know lots of people and i was assuming that atleast 25 people will cross my blog as their routine. When the results does not match my predictions it became a thorn in my head.

I was trying almost all stupid things to run the meter fast and i end up doing one thing, that is, refresh the page 10 times daily morning and thus increasing the count by 10. I did this for around a month and finally i realized that i'm as usual victimizing myself for unknown pleasure.

I stopped doing that one fine morning and i forgot the whole episode of hits. I saw the hits today and it crossed 11250. Let it be, who cares now ;)

Hungry

2009-07-21T20:14:00.002+05:30

Once a hungry man was searching for food. He was so hungry that he was in tears and great pain. Then he stooped over a stone and suddenly fell in the valley. He stood up and found abundance food there. Turn anywhere u see fruits, like apple, grapes, banana and also a stream to quench his thirst. In excitement he started eating, he was eating as if he's gonna empty the whole valley within mins, he ate 3 apples, when he took fourth, it was hard for him, he was almost full. Even then he was so much obsessed with food and keep on eating, at one point he cant take anymore and just fell flat to death.

He was so much dwelling in past and he forgot to say enough. There was only input and no output. Had he given some time for digestion, he could have emptied the valley in some years, but alas, he forget this simple fact !!!!

Endurance test

2009-07-18T22:36:00.002+05:30

Its been long time since i break into pieces and last Thursday was one such day where my endurance was tested for good 40 mins. I felt like insect in front of the mighty arms of rule makers in my company, who drives by numbers. Emotions apart, if i was the owner, even my intentions would be money. After all , Money is the only Ethics for any businessmen and thats how they should be.

So , something minimal expected for my 3 years of employment was not given and i was fuming for that. Evening we had a discussion on that and thats where , i was about to break into pieces. It wouldnt be decent to provide more details, but it was a certain eye opener for me. I knew where i was placed in the structure and it was not in good position.

The learning was phenomenal and somewhat i can now draw a line between profession and company. This learning though cost me 3.3 years !!!!!

2012: At worlds end

2009-07-18T22:21:00.003+05:30

I saw the trailer of 2012. one more graphical junk, but also the concept was enough to kindle interest. Assuming that 2012 gonna be the end, here's my list of to-do before that (the numbering is not based on priorities, just for count sake)

1) To Visit US and upload few pics in orkut.

2) To ride a 75HP tractor

3) Gift something to parents

4) To meet Ms.X and inform her that i loved her from bottom of my heart

5) To come on television atleast once....

6) To direct a short film

7) To buy a standard 350cc Royal Enfield.

8) To make someone love me truly.

I can only think this much now. At the last day, i wanted to be with my family. Life short lived :)

What the hell !!!!

2009-07-15T23:40:00.002+05:30

15 hrs of continuous work without hearing music....all i can see are numbers and percentages everywhere !!!!!!!!

Who is it - Most fav song of MJ

2009-07-01T13:31:00.003+05:30

"Who is it" from the Album Dangerous is my most favorite MJ song. The song was penned and arranged by MJ himself.

Right from the start of this song, there'll be some dark emotions running behind. The song sets you in a mood from the first techno beat. It was never before heard beats with beautiful sync throughout.The voice of MJ was at complete recluse mood, the pathos and the feel of being cheated has been excellently portrayed in the voice.The music bit that starts from 2.50 min is absolutely awesome, donno the instrument arrangements but it adds ice to the cone.

The Lyrics of this song is completely filled with agony,pain and defeat. I gave attention to the lyrics after several listening and was really moved with the meaning. This song is really phenomenal and got some stunning visuals. The song was captured by David Fincher and thats in perfect flow with the song.Listen it and i believe you'll like it.

My next ten mins of fame

2009-07-01T11:54:00.002+05:30

One more ten mins of fame !!!! There was a video making contest couple of months ago in my company. As per my SPM's request(torture), i made a short film for 2 mins. The theme is just how we handle a P1 case and the business impact of the same.

There were 17 entries in total and few are really good. The one made by Anupam based on ZooZoo was damn cute. We almost forgot the story and this video went for several round of screenings and finally ours got selected in top 3 videos.

I was delighted for few mins and then came back to normal state. But then someone reminded that we'll have a special interview of ours in the company Launched TV...now thats coool !!!!

So into ten mins of fame again and thankfully this time for all good reasons. I sincerely wish n hope that i should not goof up in the interview or else there'll be one more entry in Opis Komedies !!!!!!

King of POP

2009-06-26T09:42:00.003+05:30

It was somewhere in 92, i was 10 then, My uncle bought me a cassette. It was Dangerous by Michael Jackson. The cost was somewhere around 120 bucks and i'm astonished with that price!!!!

I put the cassette in the player and the first song was JAM...at the start of that song, there'll be a glass breaking sound...that was the moment i became fan of MJ. Absolutely amazing album !!!! i heard each n every song for next couple of years and till now, whenever someone speaks about English songs, i say "My fav is MJ".

Others moved ahead with Backstreet boys, britney or even few went back to beatles, Elvis Presley...but for me its only MJ. off late, people gave me a cold stare when i told them that i'm MJ fan. well, there are lots of reasons for that but then i loved only his music and we have seen may examples of great people being little unstable here n there... just bits n pieces of life.

MJ, you are a genius and i adore you for that scintillating voice and awesome dance movements. You will always be there with me through your songs and you'll remain "KING OF POP". Rest in peace.

Conversation

2009-06-11T11:33:00.002+05:30

The "Hey Hi" and "Bye" from SHE is absolutely delightful. It starts with an excitement and the lowers into husky voice. It sounds like AR Rehman song starting with high pitch and ends with finishing touch of Ilayaraja with fading melody....in total....for atleast 3-4 hrs, HE will be in all smiles !!!!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 39: I need half

2009-06-10T12:46:00.002+05:30

This happened sometime back. Me, Karthi, Shanm and my roomies went for a treat for shanm's onsite trip.

We had some beers and i paid as shanm was not ready to pay for this xtra stuff. Finally when dinner was over, we all came out...then:

Shanm: Srini, tell me how much u spent on drinks.
Me: 400
Shanm: ok, take this (and he handed over 400 to me)
Karthi: (walking in X from far behind, said loudly) Hey, i also had half of the drinks, so give me half of the money !!!!

Well, i donno wat to say, but i'm sure he's pretty confident that he's right and we all burst into laughter !!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 38: is that urs ????????

2009-06-08T15:16:00.002+05:30

Bishwa came to my cubicle, the girl sitting behind me brought a big fat JAVA book...seeing that lying on the table...

Bishwa: Please dont tell me that by any chance it's ur book...

i turned back and felt the bulb in my face...he left with big laugh...MORON !!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 37: Harsha Bhogle

2009-06-08T15:04:00.003+05:30

Happened today....

Me, Arun and Dinesh were talking about world cup T20, the best attraction of T20 as of now is Harsha Bhogle, for very obvious reasons :)

So i started topic on him:

Me: Dei, u saw Harsha Bhogle ?
Arun: no, is it new Hindi movie ?
Me n Dinesh: grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

PS: oooops, after 4 months , back with opis komedies :)

Coast II Coast

2009-06-05T09:35:00.003+05:30

Yesterday, Me n Raghu (+1 in my friends list) went to wedding engagement. It was too crowded and we decided to eat outside. Raghu took me to a Mangalore style restaurant. I already have a great respect for Mangalore as they produce best looking girls in the country (Kerala comes next). Samples are Aishwarya Rai and Deepika Padukone...

After our short trip to Mangalore for Ashwath's marriage, Mangalore gained loads of respect n love from me. Now as a next step, i went with Raghu to this restaurant called Coast II Coast in koramangala. The ambiance is good but above all the best thing is food.

I was new to the place so raghu took care of ordering best in the restaurant.We Started with Anjal fish, then Bangda fish and then had Neeru Dosa with Chicken curry. The taste was something outstanding that i had in recent times.

Now i feel like i'm preparing myself for Mangalore...anyone available there ???????????????

Oye - Povadhey Prema

2009-06-05T08:41:00.002+05:30

Somebody Translate this song plsssssssssssssss...it's awesome n haunting !!!!!!!

u can listen to this song here

nannu vadhili needa vellipothundha.... kannodhili chupu vellipothonadha....
vekuvane sandhe vali pothundha.... chikatilo udhayam undi poyindhe....
naa yedhane tholichina guruthuga ninnu thesthunna...
nee jatha lo gadipina brathukika bali avuthunna....
nuvvunte neenunta.... prema.... povadhe... povadhe..... prema....
nannu vaddhili needa vellipothundha.... kannodhili chupu vellipothonadha....

inni nallu nee vente saguthunna naa padham... venta padina adugedhi antundheee...ooooooo
ninna dhaka nee roopam nimpukunna kanupape nuvvu lekha nanu niladhisthundhe....
korukunna jeevithame.... cheruvaina ee kshname.... jaali leni vidhirathe... saapamainadhe....
maru janma undhante brahmanaina agidheokate..... ye mantha mabbu thana adalika sagani choote....
nuvvunte neenunta.... prema.... povadhe... povadhe..... prema....
nuvvunte neenunta.... prema.... povadhe... povadhe..... prema....

lollu sabha again !!!!

2009-06-03T08:13:00.002+05:30

I was talking to friends and finally the topic deviated to Lollu sabha Manohar. One of my friend told me this:

In one episode, someone will ask manohar: (translation later)

Q: sir, ungala veetla epidi koopiduvaanga ?
Manohar: Manohar nu koopiduvaanga...
Q: appo veetukku velila pona, epidi koopiduvaanga ?
Manohar: Manoharrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr nu sathama koopiduvaanga...

Ultimate one !!!!!!!

Translation:
Q: how they will call u in home ?
Manohar: Manohar
Q: so when u go out , how they call u ?
Manohar: Manoharrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, with loud voice

Oye - Rocking Telugu Album !!!

2009-05-25T10:39:00.002+05:30

Yuvan's at his peak this year..Starting from SMS to Oye, 6 albums released and nearly 30 songs...my tracklists are filled with this 30 songs in loop. Such an amazing versatile composer...cant imagine the same person who made "Oru nimisham" from KPKP also made a rocking song like "adada vaa asathalaam" in SARVAM.

Now here comes one more rocking album from Yuvan..OYE, siddarth and Shamili(the same ANJALI girl) with new director anand renga. Yuvan came up with 6 tracks and all six are absolutely mesmerizing !!!!! soft rock romantic songs and a complete western package.

I m not much into music, but all i can say is these songs are pleasant to hear. With another 5-6 albums on the way, clearly it's gonna be Yuvan's year !!!!!! Way to go YUVAN....u Rock.

Entered Quarter Finals

2009-05-20T20:27:00.003+05:30

Wow...what a match !!!!!!! thats all i can say. It was like clash of titans and both the team never gave up till the last moment and the better team deserved the victory. It didnt start well for us today as sushma was run out at the first ball of the match. Then Shilpa saved the day with some couples and girls managed to score only 3 runs. Then Anubav and Prasun opened the innings. Apple Super Kings had a good bowling attack in the name of Pradeep, Raghu and Dilgar. Pradeep started with his as usual tone and was sticking to the cricketing principle. But he was way to ahead today and gave some wides. The score was pretty decent for 5 overs with 22 runs. Then the disaster started as we lost the openers and shortly followed by abhi. Then myself and Vishal joined the attack and we were running for every single opportunity. We made some 25 runs partnership with my personal score of 13. Then i got bowled by an deceiving delivery from Raghu. So we finished with 53 in ten overs.

We have to win this match to enter Quarter Finals. We had a very simple plan, bowl, pick wickets and contain the runs. Starting from sushma,shilpa everybody stick on to this principle. Girls gave just 2 runs in the given over. Then came their openers. The fielding by our team was outstanding today and we can see that urge for victory in everyone's eyes. Guys flying around the ground and picking catches, accurate throws and making run outs and some sexy bowling from fantastic four: Ashwath, Anvar, Anupam and Sudeep. Though wickets started falling in equal intervals, the match was close till the last ball. We knew that their best player is Raghu. Raghu can turn the match with two shots as the run rate was almost run a ball. It was an awesome ball from sudeep which got inside edge and moving towards my left.(i was the wicket keeper) I am really surprised that how i took the catch it should be reflex !!!! Their batsman were giving their heart out for winning the match. Gaurav was diving for runs and finally it was 12 from last over. and it got reduced to 5 from 2 balls. 5th ball of the over was OP and that guy swing the bat straight in the air, the ball was way too high and ashwath put his best efforts to take the catch but couldnt, the best part is that these started their third run , at the same time, ashwath made that giant throw and i collected the ball and in frustration i uprooted all the three stumps !!!! finally, their girls were not out and they wanted their girls to face the last ball. I warned Raghu that he's fast bowler, despite that he got that girl to bat. finally as expected she cant even see when the ball crossed her and we won the match by 2 runs !!!!!!!

ooooooooopssss....now into Quarte finals...now we are relaxed and going to enjoy the game !!!!!!!!!!!

PS: today also i dived to finish two runs.
PPS: Baish saw the first half and left to attend some meeting, before going he told others that "If at all there's a team which can defend this score, it's this team" how true !!!!!

Sri Lanka - the end ?

2009-05-17T21:10:00.004+05:30

The news is bad. Most of the channels claims the demise of LTTE chief Prabhakaran. What Next ?

1) No more political drama from Tamilnadu parties. Kalaignar dont need to start fasting after breakfast and ends before lunch. Vaiko dont have to cry on stage anymore. Jayalalitha dont need to give diplomatic answers on the issue.Congress may claim that it'll work towards wellness of Tamil people there.(if there are any) No other parties have to take any stand going forward.

2) Tamil cinema fraternity dont have to rally on this issue. soon seeman and few others who raised concerns will be released and start their next movies. we can see more duets on the sri lankan land going forward. some director may even claim that we r the first people who took shooting in this area.

3) No more discussion in Orkut forums from sudden Tamil belief people.

4) No more articles in newspaper\news channel supporting\cursing Tamil eelam and Tamil people.

5) Soon some hollywood director will make a movie on this issue and may claim some oscars(this will definitely happen)

6) No more weapon fires, they'll soon kill all Tamils over there. some business loss for armour industries, which they will soon find someother way to promote their business.

7) The people in Tamilnadu can return to their normal lifes of idly\vada, Hindu editorial and nayanthara's skin show.

8) Vairamuthu\pa vijay may write poems and can make some money. They will even release that book in kalaignar arangam in front of Kalaignar karunanithi and can make everyone cry with their word prowess.

9) Lots of newly wed Tamil couples may go to vanni, kilinochi for honey moon and can even take pics in front of cemetry.

10) The last living few hundreds of Tamil people may end up dying through disease\famine and few may opt to work under sri lankan people for food.

Finally, in few years everyone will forget Tamils lived there and start with their new life. There's a line in the movie Naan Kadavul: "Those who are unfit to live, i give them death, thats a boon for them...those who are unable to live, i'll give a boon for them and that is death."

But....some questions which lingers my mind are:

1) What about the Government and fellow Tamil fraternity who made Sri lankan Tamil unable to live ?
2) I cant sleep tonight...mebbe i may encounter endless sleepless nights till my last day. How about you guys ?

Sarvam - Saavadichitaainga !!!!!!

2009-05-17T11:58:00.003+05:30

Weekend disappointment. Arya is dashing, Trisha is beautiful, stunning visuals and enchanting music...but also fails to impress. What would have been an inspirational movie had been pathetically narrated and ended up as a damp squid.

"How to go on in life...." is the one liner of the movie, it could be told in a more convincing way is what i felt when i came out of the movie. Technically a brilliant effort with main credits going to Nirav n Yuvan. They are the real heroes of the movie. Be it the songs or the climax shots, Nirav's cam is a treat to watch. Same with Yuvan's soul stirring music n BGMs. Yuvan never fails to capture the minute details in a scene, even in this movie, Arya n the kid travel in the car in hill station. The re-recording gives the perfect sound of car travelling in hill station and also the gear changing sound.... classic !!!!!!

The visuals of the songs neethaane and kaatrukulley are mindblowing. Nirav has done some excellent work. When it comes to picturing songs, only two movies i like, Dil se and Alaipayuthey...and after that i liked Sarvam songs. Good work team....

The dialogue department failed miserably in the movie, be it romance or the tension filled scenes, the dialogues were straight and not gripping at all....Overall, it was like the two most talented technicians in the industry has been cheated by Vishnu...So Sorry Vishnu aana vadai pochey !!!!!!!

wow...much needed victory

2009-05-12T20:32:00.003+05:30

Atlast, some cheer moments in life. We humiliated a team to core today(MPL cricket). Losing the toss, we were put to bat first. Shilpa n Sushma opened the innings and scored 12 from two overs. Oh my, these girls scored 8 runs by running btw the wickets..includes a couple also. Then guys came in, we changed the batting order and we sent Anubav n Prasun. Both gave an excellent start and made a solid partnership of 70 runs. Anubav scored 43 and prasun accompanied with a well made 30. So finally, at the end of ten overs the score tickled 106.

Then their girls opened the innings, we knew that it's an uphill task for them, but we wanted to really keep it tough on them. Their girls were out in the first over itself with the score of 4 on board. Then came their men, its now 103 from 8 overs. Aswath started the bowling attack and gave 1 run in his over. Then came Anvar, he kept it very straight outside the off...and batsman were not able to make any runs. Meanwhile they lost couple of wickets, one run out and one keeper catch.

Fifth over bowled by Sudeep and i took a catch in that. There are couple of incidents were i really dived\floated n took catches. This was one such, the ball was spinning in the air and going behind my shoulders. I started moving back and then made a turn and saw ball is couple of foot away from me, then i donno what happened but i just stretched my hand and was in air for couple of seconds and took that catch...then rolled on the ground..oh my...that was very satisfying !!!! i just cant believe it and i was damn soooo happyyyyyyyyyy !!!!

Then it became a one sided match with the opponents trying to score runs and getting out. finally they were 36 all out. We convincingly won by 70 runs and were happy !!!!

PS: why this much desperation over the opponents ? well, their captain umpired one of match and turned the results upside down...wanted to thrash him there but then we did that in todays match ;)

Mafia Wars in Facebook

2009-05-06T19:34:00.002+05:30

One word about this game --> Mindblowing !!!!!!

This is a strategy game built by Zynga softwares and is present in Facebook. All you need is a facebook account, then start building your mafia. The basic details about the game:

1) You'll cross each level by performing jobs, fights or helping other mafia family members. You'll gain experience points which will help you to achieve the next level target.

2) For doing Jobs you need Energey, for fighting you need stamina. both will be refilled after sometime.

3) Your strength will be increased by profile points you gain after reaching new level. You'll be given 5 profile points. You can invest them in your Attack, defence, energy, health or Stamina.

4) Through jobs n fights you earn money which you can invest in properties which will yield you hourly income.

Enough said about the basics, start playing and you'll get addicted to it...I crossed level 100 two days back...and believe me...I'm lovin it!!!!!

Ravi's Blog

2009-04-16T14:06:00.002+05:30

I have been blogging for sometime and i used to read other's blog also. Though i follow few blogs regularly which u'll find on the leftside corner of the page.

A year or more than that, i found one blog in net. Actually it all started with Sadhguru. Rama was always talking high about sadhguru and by interest i was searching articles about him and ended up in this blog: http://hisnobelwoes.blogspot.com/. This blog doesnot comes under any category, it's more like a personal diary of a pessimist person. I really donno whether this person is really a genius or just one more bloke. But one thing for sure, if you read this blog you'll be dazzled\confused and at times feel like meeting this person.

Why suddenly i m writing abt this person ? coz, in my blog followers i found this person...so little surprised and lot shocked, so thought of mentioning abt him. Read the blog, atleast u'll come to know even we can blog in these ways ;)

MPL updates: Blazing Hawks Blazing moments

2009-04-16T08:34:00.002+05:30

MPL kicked off on Monday, but the real performance of bat n bowl happened today with some amazing performance by our Team(Blazing Kawks). The winning streak started right from the toss as Aswath called for Heads and Heads it is. As per the plan we fielded. As you all know, first couple of overs were reserved for girls but they know little about our girls. Can you imagine a girl coming down the wicket and hitting over the mid-on ? well our Sushma can do that. Can you imagine a girl pulling the ball over leg square ? well our Nisha can do that. Can you imagine a girl bowling Yorker and can stop the lightning speed ball with ease ? well, our Shilpa can do that. Enough of introduction, now to the game. First over were bowled by Sushma and Shilpa was rested today. The line and length was straight and accurate. The opponent team can come up with just one run losing both their girls.

Then comes the men’s brigade. Ashwath’s unlucky steak of “missed-catches” continues in this series also. Sorry Ashwath, we’ll ensure that it wont happen again. Ashwath end up with 11 runs in two overs. Anwar was as usual accurate and fast. He gave the first breakthrough for opponents men’s brigade. The batsman miscued and swing the bat it went high and bowler and keeper were rushing to take the catch. As they are approaching the ball, there comes the voice “leave it..it’s mine”. To our shock it was Sushma who judged well adjusted herself just under the ball and took the catch. Almost the whole ground came to still for a fraction of second and then there was the loud outburst. Anwar completed two overs conceding 7 runs and taking an important wicket.

After the first wicket, it was cake walk for our second set of bowlers Sudeep and Anupam. Sudeep the second fast bowler(nxt to lightning speed vishal) came in for the bowling change. The batsman got absolutely no clue where the ball is pitching and where it’s taking turn. Well it was more like a practice for wicket keeper to move on leg and off side to stop the ball. With this type of neat bowling it would be injustice if he was not awarded with wickets…and he got two. An excellent catch from Abhishek and an easy catch for the keeper. Sudeep conceded 4 runs in two overs and took two wickets. Then Anupam, Mr. Variation Expert, was as usual un-predictable. He bowled on the right areas so that batsman cant make any big shots, and if someone tries, then it will be a wicket for sure. He took two wickets. Anwar took a catch in long on and other wicket was stumped by the keeper. Anupam ended with conceding 7 runs and taking two wickets.

Now few words about fielding, a pretty decent work from fielders although its not upto the mark of blazing hawks. Anubav was at his best on the leg side with those accurate throws and sprinted fielding. He was as quick as supersonic. Altogether some excellent fielding efforts from Nisha, Sushma, Anupam, Ashwath, abhi, vishal, Prasun, anwar, anubav, Sudeep saved lots of runs. Altogether a good effort from the team.

So the first innings ended with 36 runs and we need 37 from ten overs. Our girls opened the innings, the only thing told to them was “don’t finish the match in two overs, guys also need to bat”. But it seems like Sushma didn’t even mind it as she hit the first ball to boundary on the leg side. Together they scored 11 runs and made the target easy for the guys. Then came the star openers Anurag and Abhi. Both were cool and confident. From the first ball they went on hitting the bad balls and rotating the strike on good balls. Abhi played with ease and hit 3 boundaries. He scored 16 of 8 balls. Though the score was not huge, abhi was little hungry for snacks so he ramped up the innings fast and he finished the match in 4.3 overs.

Two months of not so freqeunt blogging !!!!!!

2009-03-31T10:26:00.003+05:30

Two months gone and only 5 posts..well thats not my type !!!! i could think of one reason, i m sort of pissed of in professional front....but thats how it works here...well atleast for me...life like waves...raise then fall...raise then fall...raise then fall....

Here's a list of things i wanted to blog but couldnt...

1) ARR's oscar.(nothing new to add, already all elite people spoke abt it)

2) Shanm went onsite.(now who'll clean the room ??????)

3) Sarvam - a rocking album.(katrukulle and Adada vaa are haunting...sure blockbuster)

4) SMS movie review.(light hearted comedy, i particularly like urvashi's character....typical mom !!!!)

5) Valkyrie movie review. (the best polictical thriller, though we'll know the end, but bryan singer somewhat kept us on the edge of the seat through out)

6) few Tea\Coffee\Snacks with SHE ;) (i'm lovin it...such an unpredictable character...in simple terms...nutcase)

7) MPL is back...this time we made a team of all likely minds, so gonna enjoy the game for sure forget winning or losing.

8) a bunch of OPIS KOMEDIES....i really forgot all now !!!!

9) More about the grandeur marriage i attended....the number crossed 70K and best part is rounds in Porsche cayenne...sexy gadget.

10) finally some imbalance moments......

well, i m not gonna write anything above in detail....but i decided to come back to normal and face whats there in the pack :) in BILLA style...."I'm Back !!!!"

My best friends wedding

2009-03-03T16:35:00.003+05:30

It's not the movie review, it's my best friends wedding on Mar 8th, 2009. I knew him from 9th std, he was introduced to me by another best friend shafi. This guy came to school and after couple of months only i started talking to him. We slowly and steadily became good friends in 1 year. Then he left our school and joined some other school, almost 1.5 years we haven't heard a bit about him and he also somewhat hid himself from all his old friends.

Then one fine day, i heard that voice at my gate, instantly i identified, it's him. Then he explained me why he has not contacted me for a year. fair enough reasons and by that time he almost quit studies and went into business. Though his father created an empire for him to maintain, i saw him slowly growing the ladder with his own intrinsic qualities.

I learnt many things from this guy, the power of silence, the choice of words, simplicity to the core and approach towards bigger things in life. In all these years he grew and became an indispensible power in the state. They are No.1 exporters in their field and got lots of laurels for their company. Above all, he always remembers me and shares things with me. I always felt positive vibrant when i speak to him.

He's getting married this weekend, it's gonna be a big event in madurai. I am in madurai now....joining these events :)

Poonamalle !!!!!!!

2009-02-24T13:36:00.002+05:30

Yesterday, i went chennai with my dad to meet a doctor(yeah, u guessed that rt...he's a dermatologist). The clinic was in poonamalle road. So we got down at guindy junction and we took a bus to poonamalle. It was some 20+ Kms away from guindy junction. When we reached the busstand, i got this sick feel because the place was nothing less than a slum !!!!!

I immediately dropped the idea of taking medication from that doctor, but my dad insisted and we went and asked for the address.

Me: This is poonamalle road.
Autodriver: Yes
Me: well, u know where's Breeze hotel ?
Autodriver: Yes, it's in poonamalle road.
Me: (bit confused) yeah, so where exactly in this road... (showing the direction) this way or that way.
Autodriver: (he pointed the direction where we came from and told) That way...u have to go another 25 kms !!!!!!!
Me: (shocked !!!!) what ???? this is poonamalle road rt ? then how come !!!! (i was literally blabbering)
Autodriver: yes, but u see, this poonamalle road starts from central station and ends here...nearly 35 kms..........

My dad was in splits as i was the one who acted like i-know-all-roads-in-chennai.....Then we took a bus and travelled another 45 mins to reach the location !!!!!!!

I still donno why the hell they kept that whole road as poonamalle road..........!!!!!!!!!

After that , we got sometime to roam , so i went and asked an autodriver:

Me: can u take us to spencers?
Autodriver: ok, 70 bucks....
Me: what ????? too high....it's in anna saalai rt..it's a short distance....
Autodriver: sir, u know where anna saalai starts from...............?

The next moment, i dropped the roaming plan and went back to hotel.....

Opis Komedies - Part 36: Why ? Why ? I donno why? It always happens to my!!!!!!

2009-02-11T17:19:00.004+05:30

Two days back, there was a meeting in my company. The meeting was in VC (video conferencing) and so all around the globe it was connected. We have state of the art technology conference room.

The meeting was about some quarterly updates and i was dragged to the meeting as it's not having enough strength. I tried my level best to listen what they are trying to convey and seriously it didnt made any sense to me.

After 15 mins the monkey in me started peeping out, there was a mike in front of me with a switch. It's provided to ask questions if you have any. It was so tempting and i pressed it. It switched on, i was delighted and i was doing mike testing in it by tapping the mike. It was making some minute tap sound, with full delight i then switched it off. Then i looked up and to my shock the camera was focused on me and i'm visible thourgh out the world !!!!!!!!

OH NOOOOOOOOOo, it was too embarrassing and i can see people started laughing after seeing my reaction, then i donno what to do, so i was trying to avoid the camera by moving side, to my dismay there's no way i can move anywhere, i tried for ten mins and atlast i got up from the seat and sat on floor...the whole hall burst out of laughing !!!!!!!!!!

My Unit Head "You should never turn this guy mad !!!!!"...for the next 1 hr of meeting i was sitting on the floor !!!!!!!!!!

PS: i didnt knew that mike was connected with the camera !!!!
PPS: u want to know how the camera went off then, well, it was my PM who pressed the button accidentally and it started focusing him....
PPPS: Me, great escape !!!!!!!!!!

Naan Kadavul: Review 2

2009-02-09T19:57:00.003+05:30

Arya played the lead role in this movie. It takes sometime to understand what type of people they really are. Well, he's grown up with Aghori sadhus and transformed into an Aghori. Aghori's are worshippers of third face of Siva. The three faces of siva are Vamadeva, Isaana siva and Aghora Rudhra. So Aghoris believe the third face, aghora rudhra of lord siva.

Arya lived in that role, that would be the right statement. The aasanas, the dialogues and the power in his eyes are too good. He fits this role in tailor made and he leaves an impression that no one else can do this character. Dialogues for him are little but then acting skills are never measured based on the pages of dialogues but the body language that should make justification to the role. In that way, Aarya excelled in the role of Aghori sadhu.

Technically speaking, there's lots of minute details added to his character. Be it the perfect "shiraasana" pose or the way he role gaanja or the dialogues he delivers or his pronunciation are all perfect. He speaks like a guy who has spoken very less tamil in his life with traces of hindi slang. Also, Arya's voice was like someone affected with throat cancer, why so ? because, the prolonged consumption of gaanga removes the real voice of yours and there'll be a big opening in the throat, so whenever the person speaks there'll be more air coming out of throat giving that "hissss" sound.

The way he carries the nair reminded me of an animal taking its prey to eat. Everytime he says "Aham Brahmasmi", we can feel that vibration in our heart. Also that killer looks, it penetrates through anyone. The sidha song he tells to his mom to get him released from her was toooooo powerfull and hard to digest. All his 3 yrs of hard work has been paid in triple !!!! good work aarya !!!!!!!

Naan Kadavul: Review 1

2009-02-07T13:14:00.004+05:30

Concept 1:
"இந்த உலகத்தில் வாழ தகுதி இல்லாதவர்களுக்கு நான் தரும் வரம் - மரணம், இந்த உலகத்தில் வாழ வழி இல்லாதவர்களுக்கு நான் தரும் மரணம் - வரம் !!!!" translation "those who are not fit to live in this world, i give them boon - that's death and those who cant live in this world , i give them death - thats a boon". If you cant understand\digest\interpret these words then Bala's "Naan Kadavul" is definitely not for you.

Concept 2:
I met lots of people in my travel and beggars are most prominent among them. They are people with guttered physique, pathetic voice, handicapped, dumb and also few who acts like all the above and i simply ignore them. I never ever gave a single penny to any of these guys. For me, they are low life peoples, people who dont want to work and wants everything for free, just by raising the voice "amma, thaaye, pitchai podunga", i hate that very sound.I saw many physically challenged peoples who works or does something to lead a decent life, i have all respect for them and never fail to acknowledge their mental power and survival instinct in this world, but on the contrary, i hate those "physically challenged beggars" who makes awful expressions and asks for money, i never had any respect for them...until, yesterday when i came out watching "Naan Kadavul".

I sincerely wish that there's no such situation prevailing around the beggars(as shown in the movie) but at the same time if it's there, even less than 1%, anywhere in this world...thats really paining. I was filled with unavoidable thoughts about all those people whom i ignored in the bus stand, railway station, outside my company, college, signals...i felt guilty. Why i have not given anything to them ? how can i assume that they beg and earn a life out of it ? how did i ever ignored the physically challenged beggars ? did they got affected because of my ignorance ? what if someone on some particular day, to whom i have not given anything resulted in some extra beating from his boss ? i felt the pain...i cried for some hours. I whole heartily said "I am sorry, next time i'll show humanity when i meet any of you on the way, i try to give something, i believe that u beg because someone is forcing you to do that, i believe u didnt become beggar by choice...." Disturbing thoughts for the whole night.....

Movie review:

Bala did a brilliant work in blending both the concepts. It's not a film, which you can categorize as good or bad, it's just an unavoidable movie and in my opinion "This is the identity of Cinema". It's a very intense movie narrated in a dark way with dry sarcastic comedies through out. For the ages to come, people will speak about this movie...

I am closing my review here....but this is not the end, will write few more reviews about this movie once that uneasy feeling settles down !!!!!!!!!

Short Film released atlasttttttttttttttttttttt

2009-01-28T20:30:00.001+05:30

http://reel-dreams.blogspot.com/2009/01/cause-and-effect.html

chk out the link for the short film i mentioned several months back.....

ada cha, it came 20 days late and missed oscar nomination for best supporting actor for me !!!!!

Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum....simply superb

2009-01-27T19:24:00.002+05:30

Kunguma Poovum Konjum Puravum, the title is taken from old chandrababu's song. When they announced this i was not surprised that Yuvan was roped in for this project as he's a versatile musician and he has proved that beyond any doubts in this rocking album.

5 songs with one repeat and all 5 are excellent in their own ways...he served a full meals with supreme taste. Like some unique movies which raises the movie watching experience to next level, this album definitely takes tamil audience indulged in tamilized-english songs will take them one level up.One more creative album from Music Prince.

Chinnan sirusu: A melody from Prince and the starting beats sets u into the mood. Javed Ali of "Jash-e-bahara" fame and Bela Shinde of "in lamhon ki" fame (both from Jodha Akbar) rendered voice for this song. Wow, the instruments and sounds will give us a vivid visualisation of a place surrounded by trees and only the lovers in the frame.In whole, will linger in ur years for long time.....sweet song

Kadaloram: Again a melody with prince himself giving voice.(there's a separate SPB saran version also). This again tells the pain of love and clearly stands unique in the lot.The beats are simple so that we can really feel the lyrics .In this song, only the tune is innovating and gives a good feel, rest he follows the same steps of any conventional song.

Muttathu pakathula: Remix version of "Nandavanathil oru rajakumari" from "Karakaatakaaran". I love the original version which comes for less than 30 sec in the movie. Somewhat i forgot this song and after some 10 yrs, i heard it now and wow.......what a song !!! Voice by Venkat Prabhu, as playfull as gangai amaran, this is a typical kuthu song with excellent music. I was really amazed with the small metallic guitar piercing in the second half of the song. This song is definitely gonna be a chart buster. It takes front benchers to dance and back benchers to tap their foot in the theatre !!!!!!!

Na Dharmenda: SPB, back with a song like "singari sarakku namma sarakku". Such a gifted voice he got, its still fresh n new and only he can add pep to any song with little gestures in voice. simply speaking, hear it for SPB once. Then, the rock music in the middle...can someone imagine a rock guitar piece in btw these type of songs...sheer imagination...excellent application. one more fast paced song which keeps u live till end.

Oru nimisham: Innovation...creativity at its best...thats all i can say abt this song. It's an oppari style song(sung during deaths) with the original voice of Velmurugan with excellent thappu music at the background. The music raises and lowers and without ur knowledge u'll be dancing for this song. The pain in the song is penned beautifully and u'll get a mixed emotion of dancing with lingering thoughts of lost love. Once again an excellent creative work from Yuvan.

Overall, i rate this album above all the recent releases in Tamil. After hearing the songs, i felt like hugging Yuvan and giving some pat !!!! Thanks Yuvan for this absolutely mind blowing album...I will definitely watch this movie once for the songs. All the best to the team.

HE, SHE, SHE's Friends and Slumdog Millionaire

2009-01-25T12:47:00.007+05:30

HE is not so charming guy, but everybody calls him a good guy. HE is extremely shy with girls and slowly trying to get over it. So HE finally decided to take out a SHE to a movie. HE asked SHE at the time of GHAJINI release. SHE denied....Then one day HE was talking about Slumdog Millionaire and SHE was excited to see the movie. SHE asked him whether HE can book tickets for her and roomie...HE said yes.

It took SHE 2 days to finalize showtime and date. So finally friday, SHE asked HE to book 3 tickets. So HE went on booking and asked SHE's credit card number. SHE dont have one...now HE has to use his card to book ticket as well as collect ticket. So HE proposed that plan to SHE, that HE will book 4 tickets, 3 in a row and 1 seperate. SHE thought for a min and said, book 4 continuous. HE delighted:)

Then HE opened the site and started booking and then........GOSH....issue with the system and credit card booking not accepted. HE was bewildered, then HE asked his friend and roomies card, but to add more pain it also failed. Desperately HE called Credit card company and got to know that he can do online transaction only after couple of hours !!!!!

So HE decided to goto theatre directly and book it. So HE and HE's friend(who's newly married and going to his house) accompanied him for a while in this eternal travel. HE then rushed to counter and found that HE's 3rd or 4th guy to book the ticket.wow...HE got it. HE spent 2 days on his speech and to show off his technical\analysis\logical skills while watching the movie. HE prepared so hard that even Obama should take tips from him!!!!

On the D Day he got up early, brushed twice, bathed twice, perfumed twice and in a friends bike he reached theatre even before the operator came. Forgot to say, HE took 30 mins to dress-up only to look like a security guard :( !!!!Then he waited...waited....and waited....clocks ticking in 1/12th per second !!!!finally he received a call from SHE: "Hey, will be there in 15 mins..." So HE started waiting again. After 15 mins SHE called again to say "Hey, it will take another 15 mins, so can you wait or else u can leave the ticket at the counter and we will collect it"...HE said "thats ok , i'll wait"

Now, HE is a sort of movie freak who loves to watch the movie from newsreel, if not HE will fight with his friends for coming late. This is how HE is, for the past 18 years of movie watching!!!!!! So HE broke that vow today....Had it been other day, HE would have ignored his friends and got into the theatre, but today, he decided to wait....finally SHE came with her friends.

A very formal "Hi", thats it. HE already decided not to talk to SHE's friends and will give full attention only to SHE. well, HE was nearly 15 mins late for the movie and HE took the seat. For his great shock...They sat like this. SHE's friend, SHE, SHE's friend and HE !!!!!! so the whole purpose was out of question and all his expert opinions speech was went in air !!!! The movie started and there was one gross scene...SHE's friend was so scared...hmmmm...had it been SHE, HE would have reacted but then it was just SHE's friend and HE wanted to maintain his cool image....so HE sat like dumb throughout the first half.

Interval, one more chance. HE was enquiring about the movie to SHE, HE was trying to show off his observing ability and asked SHE "i m still wondering how come that blind guy able to identify Benjamin Franklin"...SHE said "who cares, u cant see that much logic in a movie"...clearly stumped...to make-up HE blabbered "you are right, but then as its nominated for Oscars, these small things they have to take care...." SHE gave a dry smile...meaning SHUT UP.

HE bought pepsi for which SHE wanted to pay but HE managed to push the bill. HE expected to sit next to SHE atleast this time as her friends were not around.HE cleverly took two straws so that he can offer one to SHE...but as luck goes well for HE, HE end up sitting in the same position. Second half went in the same fashion and HE almost ended up like watching the movie alone...After the movie HE offered her lift till MG road which was rudely denied by SHE. well, HE was fed-up and called his friend "Machaanz, nothing went well"...HE's friend "did u asked for lunch.." HE:"that was a cool idea, will call now "...the call was never picked. HE kicked, his bike and came home and SHE went...who cares...let SHE go anywhere SHE wants to........HE came home and desperately writing this blog.................

No TV !!!!!!!

2009-01-20T18:39:00.003+05:30

I was talking to deeja other day. The topic went from project to public life to various topics and finally i told her about the delhi-6 songs. To my amazement, she said, she dint knew about it. I told her to watch TV coz every now n then they're screening the trailer. She gave me an ultimate reply:

" No TV in our House."

I was shocked for sometime and cant digest that news. She's married and got a kid but still she don't have TV in her house.I yelled "Thats a sin". I stressed her again and confirmed the news. She was very subtle and little surprised with my shocking expressions. I asked her why and she said:

"We decided to spend some good time with each other, so we prefer talking to each other everyday rather than watching TV..."

All this time they spent on talking and understanding each other. It was an eye-opener for me. TV was very much an integral part of me. i really cant imagine a life without TV. Even though crap programme is on, i used to watch\surf channels. After she said that , i realized how much time i spent on TV rather than with people. In home, i always watch TV, i don't spend much time with my parents\sister or even friends. i do spend a lot of time in front of TV and lots of time i ignored peoples for the sake of cricket match\movie\song....I felt guilt that day !!!!!!

Thanks Deeja for this enlightenment and happy birthday to you !!!!

Sakkarai Pongal !!!!!

2009-01-20T18:37:00.003+05:30

Oh god....i was completely out for one whole week, but how came i forgot the splendid sakkarai pongal we prepared and distributed to all !!!!!!!!!

well, all said that "it was awesome !!!!!!!!!!"

i was really happy for sometime on that day !!!!!!!!

Padikathavan: Review

2009-01-19T16:43:00.002+05:30

After Villu fiasco, i went for this movie yesterday. Again the expectations are as less as possible.It turned out to be a good entertainer till first half and second half was gross.
Dhanush did a good job and his comedy sense is really good and expression are too good. In Tamil,among heroes, i like prabhudeva when it comes to comedy and after that its dhanush who can really make us laugh with his gestures and expressions.

There's nothing big in the movie to discuss apart from few twists which are not that much twisted. The comedy stands out in this movie and it's done really well by dhanush and Vivek. Except, they should have edited\shredded the vivek-bathing-in-heroine-costume comedy..it's awful and irritating.

Overall, a decent masala movie with all its elements. Looks like dhanush identified his plus and minus and giving a sheer entertainer. It's all the way Dhanush who's carrying the movie in his shoulders and he does it well !!!!

Weekend sin - Villu

2009-01-19T11:27:00.003+05:30

Well, it all started with my roomie Shanm who pushed me to watch VILLU. I always have some preset mind when watching this type of movie and thats leave-your-brain-at-home, but still watching this movie gave me real heart-attack and other illness including vomit with the obscenity and dysentery with the action scenes.

There's nothing much-to-tell about the story, as it revolves around the one-man-who-can-save-everyone. Normally This spoilt brat uses superstar name in every movie and he tries to establish as next super star...but in this movie he took the path of MGR..believe me, MGR would have committed suicide if he was alive...same holds good for bharathiyar also.

The intro scene was one hell shot seen in the recent times...I think the whole team is not out of KURUVI impact...and he continues the legacy in this movie also yes he fly across a street to save an "attu" figuru !!!! and then as usual an intro song. Then he travels to village meets nayan n vadivelu and some shitty\crappy comedies...except for "rendu mulam idly". Nayan's as usual role with less-dress was as usual awkward. heard that she's the highest paid actress and to retain that she's reducing the dress as much as possible and sometimes its so scary....

Nayan, pls get little less salary n use little more clothes. If she's wearing such bizarre costume for songs, fine, we can forgive....but showing everything in all the scenes is little too much. even the front benchers used to get fed-up with this skin show....

Now back to story as second half travels to Munich with hell lots of goons showing some godfather stuffs !!!! then vijay meets them and some absolutely non-sense fight sequence and songs and what not !!!!! they used one famous dialogue from"good bad ugly" and insulted that dialogue to the core by vijay delivering that with a constipated look and throat cancer voice...then as usual there'll be bombs which-wont-hurt-hero, air fight, water fight and everything..in sum-up ,again an useless movie from him.

Vijay looks like an AIDS patient in this movie. We all know that he can dance gracefully, fight elegantly but he failed once again to choose a little convincing script. all this larger than life wont fit even our Superstar...so vijay better come down to earth or soon you'll join the league of Vijaykanth or JK Ritheesh !!!!!

well is there anything good to talk abt the movie..why not, in the interval they showed SARVAM trailer, looks promising(atleast the trailer)...when i came out of theatre , villu's intro song was lingering in my mind "raama kitta villa kettan, bheema kitta kathaiya ketten"....in frustration i told..."dei, unkitta naanga romba naala oru nalla padam kekkuromda !!!!"

Emosanal Attyachaar !!!!

2009-01-07T17:31:00.003+05:30

I heard this song couple of times for less than 20-30 seconds during trailer...it's a hinglish song from hindi movie. Details:

Movie: Dev.D

Casting: Abhey Deol..donno others

Director: Anurag Kashyap("Black Friday", "No smoking" fame...)

Music: Amit Trivedi

Singer: Bony Chakraborty

Lyrics: Amitabh Bhatacharya

well, today i got a chance to listen to the whole song. It starts with brass band beats...like the band played during marriages...red costume and big instruments !!!! The song lyrics is absolutely deep rooted and hilarious....the voice sync with the song and music just blends...everything makes this song the best of the lot in recent hindi songs !!!! a very different approach to a song....

My fav line:

Tauba tera jalwa..tauba tera pyaar..

Tera Emosanal Attyachaar..

translated as:

hell ur charisma...hell ur love....

(and) ur emotional atrocity !!!!

I'm Lovin it...great song to hear and feel ;)

The full Lyrics:

eh dil pighla ke saaz bana loon,
dhadkan ko awaz bana loon,
smoking smoking nikle re dhooan.

Seene mein jalti hai armanon ki arthi,
Arrey what to tell you darling kya hua.
Arrey sapne dekhe jannat ke,
par mitti mein mil jaen,
phooken re ghar baar ki duniya..
ko bole good bye..
Chad jae haye Allah,
jisko bhi yeh bukhaar,

Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Jao Jao oh dilbar,
oh dilbar ohh!!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Ho gai dil ke paar tragedy…tragedy,
lut gai re bahaar, gul sukh sukh murjhae,
Ho gai dil ke paar tragedy…tragedy,
lut gai re bahaar, gul sukh sukh murjhae,

Bol Bol why did you ditch me,
Zindagi bhi lele yaar kill me,
Bol Bol why did you ditch me whore.
Bol Bol why did you ditch me,
Zindagi bhi lele yaar kill me,
Jao pia jao pia jao pia….

Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Jao Jao oh dilbar,
oh dilbar ohh!!
Tauba Tera Jalwa, Tauba tera pyar,
Tera Emosanal Attyachaar!

Skool\College Komedies - Part 5: Dappan n Suppan

2009-01-06T09:39:00.002+05:30

Again, the same Dappan @ Don. He became so famous such that, whenever someone calls others as DON, it was considered as serious offence. I knew once a guy hit other guy badly because he addressed him as DON. So, DON was considered the worst bad word in the history of our college.

One day, Dappan's father came to college. Dappan used to say that his grandfather is 12 foot tall. When his father came, someone asked the same to him.

Friend: uncle, is your father 12 foot high ?
Dappan's Father: no no. he's only 11 foot tall.

The guy who asked was in trauma for two days. So friends started calling his dad as Suppan. After couple of months, dappans gradma passed away. This Particular friend of Dappan went there and he commented like this:

Friend: Suppan a pethathukke avanga aatha sethu poirukanum, suppan vera dappan na pethuttan, ithukapuramum intha kilavi saagalaina ulagam thaangathuda !!!!!

(Translation: that old lady should have died for giving birth to suppan, now suppan brought dappan to this world, still then if this old lady lives, no one can save this world !!!!)

Skool\College Komedies - Part 4: Dappan @ Don

2009-01-06T09:22:00.004+05:30

In every college, there will be one character who speaks only lies. These guys will speak these lies with so serious expressions. The best thing to do with those guys is that, listen to them carefully when they are speaking and if possible provoke them a bit....after that fun un-limited !!!!

There was one such character in my college, believe me i forgot his real name. Everybody used to call him DON or DAPPAN. So this guy hailed from Chennai and he's very fond of telling lies and keeps his face so serious. so a real maakan will definitely believe whatever he says.

From day 1, he used to tell everyone that he's kick-boxer. Along with that he tells a story also, once upon a time, when he was in school, he went for a kick-boxing competition. The opponent was so strong and well built, well this guy is also well built, i mean he looks like a big pig. The fight started and opponent hit him bad for first three rounds...Blood bleeding(believe me he tells all this with subtle expression ) and he finally fell down.

Everybody thought that DON lost, but then, like in cinema, his master ran towards him and started shouting "Come on, you can do ittttttttttttt !!!!" well, this words echoed in his ear and next moment he got up in slow motion and gave a reverse kick on that guys face...then what, that guy was knocked out and DON won !!!!!

He told this story several times and one fine day, he was in his hostel room and one of his friend asked him the same story. Once the narration got over, he asked DON to give a demo. DON got up, moved the bed, table and chairs aside, then he froze suddenly looking at the ceiling.....then he said

DON: Maapla, inga venamda, Ceiling la bulb irukku, naan paatuku atha adichu udaichutena ?????

(Translation: not here, what if i hit the bulb hanging from the ceiling????)

Well, the ceiling was nearly 15 foot high and the guy who asked fainted there. After that we stopped asking him to show any demo, who knows, if we take him to open air, he may say, "Maapla, what if i hit the sun\moon ????"

Three Trailers

2009-01-05T15:15:00.005+05:30

I saw Three trailers last week, Naan Kadavul, Padikaathavan and Villu.

1) Naan Kadavul:

A really scary trailer and a very promising one for something new. From trailer we can adjudge that, Arya is a saint alias hit man. He destroys and then the chief priest announce him as god. A damn good team in place, bala with Ilaiyaraja and vaali. The songs are soulful. Lets wait n watch the movie...

2) Padikathavan:

Cant expect anything else from this masala team...the trailer is OK type. Tamanna was hot and i believe she'll fulfill what she's paid for. (somewhat got bored with nayan's physique and i dont think so that anything is left in her to show). Dhanush as usual, looks like someone in the line of "Thiruvilayaadal aarambam"...hope its not Rambam !!!!

3) Villu:

ahem, lets talk something else....

Lets wait n see the tamil audience reaction, coz the success of the movies may not be in the same sequence i mentioned above............

Skool\College Komedies - Part 3 : Tamil Teacher !!!!

2009-01-02T14:20:00.002+05:30

I joined TVS Lakshmi Madurai in my 9th Std. That was one place where only brainy peoples will stay and the culture is totally different. somewhat i cleared the entrance and also as they were expanding the school i got a seat there.

At early stage, it was very tough for me to make friends. Before joining the school, i was introduced to Suresh by Shafi, after i joined school, he become my friend and soon turned out to be my best friend. Suresh took Tamil as second language and i took French as second language.

One day, Suresh was in ground along with prasanna. It was their volley ball practice session. One guy approached both and started talking.

Guy1: juniors eh ??? Second language ?

Suresh: Tamil

Guy 1: who's teaching tamil for you ?

Suresh: some old lady...

Prasanna: !@#!#@!!@#%%%***!@#$!#!@ (he used all possible abusive words against that mam)

Guy 1: (he was dead silent and finally) hmmmm, she's my mom !!!!

The next moment both suresh and prasanna escaped that place in stop-block pace. Well, the story has not end yet......

Next day, during Tamil class, both were literally shivering. That mam entered...she came straight to these guys.

Mam: who's Suresh in this ?

Suresh: it's me miss.

Mam: hmmmm, so u r the one who called me old lady ??????

Suresh:(completely collapsed) yes mam...sorry mam....(he was also bit happy coz, he just called her old lady but prasanna was the one who abused her a lot...so suresh was expecting something big for him)

Mam: hmmm, lets see how u pass Tamil exam this year...

And she left. Suresh was in shock and Prasanna was happy. Well, Suresh never cleared Tamil exam after that and prasanna never faced any issue in Tamil !!!!!

Till date, Suresh dont comment a girl based on her age !!!!!

Ashwath marriage @ Mangalore

2009-01-01T17:03:00.003+05:30

So one of my close friend in office got married this week(29th-dec-2008). It's a love marriage and this guy is such a nice person. Any technical issues he'll go way beyond his time and extend help. If at all i face him in the competition of promotion and stuffs , i'll just give my place for him...not only for his brilliance but also for his good nature !!!!!

I met his fiancee in a party. Though i donno anything about her , they appeared made for each other. Their love story started in college, he proposed she disposed(as usual) then again after some time, she understood him and finally family came to know and they said..."son, good choice, go ahead !!!!!". In that way, they got engaged last year, and married on 29th Dec 2008.

It was an awesome marriage, i should say it was so cute to look at this pair. They are just perfect pair. during the whole marriage ceremony, whatever the priest says these guys followed with uncontrollable laugh in their face...believe me, it was such a beautiful ceremony. Anyone who see the marriage will be happy and relive the best moments of their life. The above photo is just a sample one.

All the best to Ashwath n Shilpa. May you guys keep on smiling in your life !!!!

you guys rocked and inspired many to think about marriage ;)

Rava Kesari !!!!

2009-01-01T14:40:00.003+05:30

Happy new year to all....

We prepared Rava Kesari today and it came out so well. Nagu tasted first and said that its good, had he said the other way he knew what will happen to him. Then i brought it to office and started searching peoples to taste the product. Deeja, soundarya,sweda and manasa voluntereed for tasting the product. They said its too good. Now got full confidence and in one swing i started distributing to whomever comes that way....atleast 25 peoples...sunil,Kochu, sanyam, paaru, nisha...etc. Everybody were delighted with the sweet and were giving good comments.

Finally, i called Payal. I gave it to her and as epitome she said "superb, better than my mom's kesari" ........wow !!!! Thats something good i heard at the start of this year !!!!!!!!

Last post for the year !!!!

2008-12-31T18:41:00.000+05:30

Last post for the year.....

It was a very ordinary year again !!!! hope something good happens next year...!!!!!

See u all nxt yr ;)

Opis Komedies - Part 35: Dark knight !!!!

2008-12-31T17:23:00.002+05:30

Pantry Area. Me, Shanm, Sunil and Karc were having Tea. The conversation went like this.

Me: Today, i'll go Forum n buy "The Dark Knight" original DVD...long waiting for that !!!!

Karc: (confident of pulling my legs) u saw the movie already right, then why do u want to buy it ? (ha ha ha ha ha)

Me: actually, see, there are some good movies we want to own it in DVD, say for you, you would love to buy original DVDs of Kuruvi, Aathi, Thiruvanamalai...its like that only.

Now me n sunil were laughing at Karc and he as usual giving his sheepish grin to hide his defeat...in the whole process Shanm was thinking seriously and finally...

Shanm: so u r going to buy "Karuppu Iravu"

Me: what, that sounds like some porn movie !!!!

Shanm: no no, i just translated Dark Knight to tamil....

Me: ada paavi...thats not "night"...it's "Knight" !!!!

now except shanm everybody were laughing !!!!!!!!

Skool\College Komedies - Part 2: What happens ???

2008-12-31T11:40:00.002+05:30

This happened in my school. During chemistry lab, we'll always be analysing salt. Still wondering why we analysed that !!!!

Our chemistry mam was a fair n fat lady. Nithya is her name. She's very strict and any issues she uses her hand to solve it. so one fine day, it was not our lab but i was standing near to the lab to get my note signed before practicals.

As i was checking final phases of my record book..there was an internal viva-voice going on. The group consists of all notorious guys. Satish and couple more guys, i forgot their names. this is wat happened:

Mam: so, what will happen when u heat copper sulphate ?

guy1: (after a min silence) donno miss...

guy2: (again a min silence) donno miss...

Satish: (a min of deep thought)hmmm...it becomes HOT.

the next second, i saw 3 record note flying out of the hall...!!!!!!

Skool\College Komedies - Part 1: Workaholic !!!!

2008-12-31T10:56:00.001+05:30

It happened in the final year of college. We had CTS campus interview and surprisingly i got selected for interview. Before interview, they gave me a pink form to fill. It consists of lots of unheard words(at that time) like skill set, area of interest, aim, what will u do 5 years from now...etc.,

I was completely puzzled with those type of questions, even my mom didnt ask such questions. So i took help from a guy, saravana Kailash, he's a fruit and that means he knows all necessary things regarding education n stuffs. He was giving high fundoo english words to fill that form. finally, i read my form and i didnt understand 60% of it...actually the rest 40% words are like a, the, this, me...etc...

The interview panel consists of two people, one 40+ guy and other some 22+ gal, from the moment i got in, i was so impressed with her. i shook hands with her and was answering all questions looking at her only(actually it was the guy who was asking all questions). Finally, she also donno how to react and she took my pink form and started reading....after 2 mins, she started smiling...and trying very hard to conceal her smile...

After few minutes, she asked...

She: So Srini, as per ur form, u r hard working and good at team work ?

Me: (with biggest possible smile) yes...

She: also, u r WORK ALCOHOLIC ???

Me: (with much more smile and pride) yes, i'm WORK ALCOHOLIC !!!!

After that both were laughing for few minutes and needless to say i was not selected !!!!

I came out. Then only i came to know that, it was not "Work Alcoholic" but "Workaholic".....!!!!!

Ghajini - review

2008-12-30T19:04:00.004+05:30

I watched it last week, but didn't get time to express my thoughts !!!!!

Well, it's a well made remake of tamil version without altering the essence. The climax was trimmed well and it's a neatly made movie in recent times. Few good points:

1) Aamir...well, its all the way Aamir. It's his grandiose show...be it a businessman role or STML patient, he fills the screen and he cornered Asin in performance !!!!!

2) Asin, definitely her career best and all she got to do is speak in hindi...again an excellent performance !!!!

3) ARR at his song. Nobody can stop him, the re-recording for hitting scene was far better than tamil version. Also songs and re-recording all the way was astounding !!!!!!!

4) Photography...ravi K chandran scores full marks just for one n only song..."Guzarishhhhh". It touches ur heart !!!!!

5) Details. As Aamir being a perfectionist took lots of care in continuity and details. In the hindi version, he used to hang the Polaroid Cam in his right shoulders...as he's lefty.(in Tamil it will be hanging on his left shoulder !!!!).

So it's complete paisa vasoool movie. a full package meals...!!!! WATCH IT !!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 34: Ghajini...RAM...ROM !!!

2008-12-30T17:51:00.003+05:30

Shanm and Sunil were discussing about GHAJINI.

Shanm: he'll forget everything in 15 mins....
Sunil: oh...so he got only RAM !!!!!
Shanm: but he remembers basic things like brushing, bathing and driving...
Sunil: oh...he got ROM also......but NO HARD DISC !!!!

First time ever shanm shut his mouth for someone Else's outrageous comments...normally, shanm gives these comments and we get irritated !!!!!!!! on that day, it happened the other way around........good one Sunil !!!!!

Room Komedies - Part 2: Singhania to Ramasamy ????

2008-12-30T17:36:00.003+05:30

Dec 25th, me, shanm and sundar were going for some purchase. Previous night i watched Ghajini. The conversation went this way:

Shanm: how was the movie ?
Me: good, second half better than Tamil...Aamir did a good job.
Shanm: how was the romance ?
Me: the same
Shanm: who was the policemen ?
Me: same...riyaas.
Shanm: what abt villain
Me: (losing patience) SAME....
Shanm: what's aamirs name in the movie ?
Me: Sanjay Singhania...
Shanm: singhania na ????
Me: (lost control) hmmmmm....Ramasaamy oda hindi translation thaaaan Singhania !!!!!
Shanm: oh...then sundarrajan's hindi name ?
Me: (pongada........) BANDAR RAJAN !!!!!

Both were laughing !!!!!

Abhiyum Naanum :(

2008-12-26T15:12:00.004+05:30

A very ordinary movie...told in an ordinary way...with ordinary performance....summed with ordinary music\visuals...and few..very few extra-ordinary dialogues !!!!!

The movie is like a stream, it starts...it flows and it continues. Dont enter the theatre with the impression of "Mozhi" rada mohan....this is yet another creation from "Ponniyin selvan" rada mohan !!!!! the basic elements like sarcastic comedies and detailed characters are there...but still it fails to impress beyond a point.

Everything in the movie is very much predictable and as a whole the plot fails !!!!!There are lot more issues while discussing the father-daughter relationship. Rada mohan played safe from start to end. He's a very good creator when it comes to human emotions, so i thought he will discuss some serious issues...but nothing like that happened till the end..Maybe he's not that good\bold as Bala or Ameer !!!!!

Watch the movie, but definitely don't expect "Mozhi" from this movie....This is a very ordinary movie.

PS: sometimes, ordinary can become extra-ordinary !!!!!

PPS: B&C la pudingikkum !!!!!

PPPS: also, it looks like Rada Mohan is targeting only A center...sathyam la 50 days odum !!!!!

Room Komedies - Part 1: Sir, Chicken 250 gms...not possible

2008-12-22T10:11:00.002+05:30

After the success of Opis Komedies (dei, unakku manasaatchiye illiya?????)...fine, along with opis komedies i thought of sharing my room komedies also...so here it goes:

Yesterday, we decided to cook chicken and we went out for shopping the necessary items(including chicken). We went to the shop: (the whole conversation was in bit Tamil n Hindi)

Me: chicken 250 gms.

Shop Owner: sir, chicken 250 gms...not possible sir...only 1.5 kg and above. but i can give kari for 250 gms...

Me: no, we want only chicken...not kari...(turning towards shanm) what shall we do now ?

Shanm: we are only two and definitely cant take 1.5 kgs and all, i'll try to call my friends, if they are coming, we can take it.

(He called atleast 5 people and no one was interested.....!!!)

Me: ok fine, we'll search for some other shop where we can get 250 gms.

(We walked for about 40 mins in that road asking everyone abt chicken shop and we couldn't find any....with full depression i told shanm.)

Me: shanm, we cook kari today and nxt week, we go to "total mall" and get frozen chicken there.

Shanm: ok, i'll call my mom and ask how to cook kari.

(Shanm called his mom and she was explaining him how to cook kari.)

Shanm: srini, kari is easy to cook it seems....

Me: ok fine...we'll get 250 gms kari.

(went to the same shop after 45 mins...)

Me: 250 gms kari...

(Shop owner asked the guy to give me 250 gms kari...he took a chicken and made it into pieces to make it 250 gms !!!!!)

Me: this is kari....?????

shipowner: yes sir, that is chicken and this is chicken kari !!!! chicken wont come for 250 gms sir..only kari comes for 250 gms !!!!

Shanm was rolling on floor and i was cursing my hindi....smuck...he could have told us that it's chicken kari...in madurai chicken means chicken and kari means mutton !!!!!!!!

PS: we cooked it so well that we finished it in the noon itself.

PPS: Nxt time, we wont go for chicken !!!!!!!

PPPS: even if we go, we wont go to the same shop....enna villathanam !!!!!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 33: Cricket Quiz

2008-12-17T19:34:00.005+05:30

Suraj, my old friend (he's not old, i knew him for more than 12 years ;) ), working in my company and came to bangalore for short term project. He asked me today to accompany him in a cricket quiz. I love cricket though i m not good with statistics...despite, i went with him. He was over-enthu and all set to crack any questions....

We entered that 100 seater capacity hall, 2 per team, so virtually 50 teams on race. First, prelims, the questions were displayed on the screen and we have to write down the answer. I went with no expectations, so i was very calm n serene...Sooraj was very interested and his face changed after 2 questions...After couple more he was perplexed and agitated.

I thought i'll add more oil to the fire.

Me: dei vennai, u called me telling that we'll rock and all...and now u r looking like shit !!!!
Sooraj: (with a defeated expression) dei, i started watching cricket from 1995...but they are asking questions even before world war I....wat'll i do ?????
Me: (burst out of laughter)

PS: we managed to get 8 out of 29
PPS: there was a guy sitting in front of us and for each questions he was giving victorious gestures and demotivating sooraj
PPPS: he scored 7 out of 29...sooraj was the happiest person at that moment !!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 32: Why Blood...same Blood !!!!

2008-12-17T19:00:00.003+05:30

In Dark Knight, Joker says this "he he he ha ha ha ho ho ho...i thought only my jokes were bad"...i rephrased and said "he he he he...i thought only i'm stupid !!!!"

This is the continuation of the breaking-Glass-with-hand-incident. There's a guy called Vinay in other project. He came today with big bandage in his shoulders. I asked him what happened and he said on the day of drill, he was scared and he hit against the wall and shoulder cuffs dis-located !!!!!!!!!

Well, then only i told the above dialogue !!!!!

Get well soon Vinay...

PS: best part is that jiristi was coming behind him
PPS: thank god, she didnt stamped on him !!!!

Samayal Chakravarthy...Kitchen King..SRINI !!!!!

2008-12-15T08:31:00.003+05:30

After all the stunts that happened on Friday...i took break from any external activities for 2 days. Yesterday night, Sundar (my ex + present roomie) who's eager to cook bought gas stove + idly maavu + eggs.

So we started our mission "Dosa 2008". The gas stove is automatic, we switched on and sundar tried his first ever DOSA...but then as per the common man rule "Nothings comes good at first time", he ends up making...something like dosa but definitely not dosa. Then it's my turn. I poured the maavu on the tava and to my amusement, i spread it with utmost perfection and it came out as perfect circle...Sundar was amazed and i was delighted. Thus i prepared all good dosa and finally i made two egg-dosa also !!!!!

Today morning, i tried Dosa again and this time, i eventually found how to make paper dosa ;)

So srini ban gaya kitchen king !!!!!

PS: sari sari....recession la velaiya vittu thookuna oru side business vachirukennu sollu !!!!!
PPS: hotel name - Samayal King Srini's
PPPS: hotel caption: With the touch of bachelorhood !!!!
PPPPS: he he he he...any investers there ??????

orkut today's fortune

2008-12-13T08:14:00.005+05:30

Today's fortune: Total absence of humor renders life impossible
reminds me of yesterday's incident

Opis Komedies - Part 31: A small act of bravery ends as a mockery !!!!!

2008-12-12T18:48:00.004+05:30

11:00 AM. The fire alarm was set on and Disaster Recovery Representatives from all floors were alerted to empty the building. It was so scary situation that house keeping guys\securities were rushing and making people run like hell. Everybody were rushing towards the EMERGENCY EXIT. I'm one of the DRR in my floor and my job is to ensure safety for a process area...close to 60 peoples. All the people are rushing towards exit. Our Floor is of restricted access and all the emergency doors are closed and the key was kept in a glass box fit to the wall with a small metal hammer. During emergency take the hammer , break the glass, take the key and open the door. Ironically, hammer was not there......without any second thoughts my action was just instantaneous and i punched the glass box...it opened, took the key and gave it to someone to open the door, then only i realised that my hand was bleeding !!!!!Blood on the floor and still i managed to take out all the people and ensured protocol and came out of the building last...

Then only i came to know that it was a surprise mock drill !!!!!!!! When i heard that i was like almost fainted...ada paavigala...they could have intimated atleast the DRRs in prior !!!!!!

finally when everything got over...there was mixed reaction from people...half of the crowd appreciating and rest half was mocking !!!!!

it was just one hell of experience....finally i heard this comment:

Security 1: so any causalities ????
Security 2: all 18000 people came out safe...only one person got his hand hurt in trying to open the emergency exit !!!!!

PS: SuperStar birthday anniku super a oru stunt adicha...kadaisila vadivelu range la kondu poitingaleda !!!!!!!!
PPS: vidra vidra sooona paana....apidiye maintain paniko !!!!!
PPPS: true...EKSI !!!!

Orkut Today's fortune: 11-dec-2008

2008-12-11T18:12:00.002+05:30

Orkut Today's fortune: The foundation of every state is the education of its youth

Dei, idukkum enakkum ennada sambantham ????????

A Film By Srinivasan !!!!!

2008-12-10T17:55:00.003+05:30

Well, it all started a week back. Lakshmi, my colleague used to read my blog and one day she asked me whether i can take a series out of it (Opis Komedies)..BINGO !!!!!! I immediately accepted and gave her my first script today. The script got approved and Monday we'll be going for shooting !!!!!!!! will update more on it soon !!!!!!

If everything goes well, it'll be a series(something like F.R.I.E.N.D.S) or else it'll stop with 10 episodes !!!!!

Special thanks to subbuni (karthik subburaj), who inspired me !!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 30: Password

2008-12-08T17:08:00.004+05:30

This happened couple of times during internal certifications. There'll be a DEN where we have to give our certification and that place just beat the hell out of me always. If the certification i have to give is related to Technical, then i'm done. I'll be looking like a big guy sitting with constipation credited with piles !!!!!

A lady lab attendant will be there, she's there for the past 2.5 years. A short, dark, fat, sodaputti (spects) lady and she always give nightmares to candidates. The chances of peeping to other system or using any other mode of communication to other world will be easily deducted by her. As she's so short she can just walk in between cubicles without getting noticed. She's mom of all funny dialogues. The Best one from her is:

She used to give passwords for logging into the exam portal, sometimes if she gives us the wrong password, she used to say(shout):

"If the given password is not working then i'll give you one more password, use it"

Wondered many times that my company developed an application with more than one password for single webpage or is this lady trying to conceal her mistake that she gave the wrong password !!!!!!!

Now, i'm struts Guru !!!!!

2008-12-08T16:58:00.002+05:30

As per my company policy, i cleared a STRUTS based Advance JAVA certification which as per the company standards made me "Struts Guru" !!!!!!

As per my standards, I'm just an OCA who can work in Oracle and nothing else !!!!!!!

whiteboard

2008-12-05T08:18:00.003+05:30

I used to jot down my tasks in a white board sometimes:

1) to remember what all things i have to do for the day.
2) just to show others that i'm working :)

Last time when i filled my whiteboard was 6-7 months back in my prev development project(now, dont ask what i have developed...they are still in the process of finding that !!!). Yesterday i wrote couple of tasks

1) Case Age (not ICE AGE)
2) Script

Today morning i saw my board and someone has added this:

3) Fight the demons within.

After two days, it brought smile from my heart...simple things keep the life moving!!!!!

PS: i usually come first and leave last...
PPS: i started searching that person...
PPPS: the options are limited, so i'll find in another 30 mins :)
PPPPS: kandupidicha solren !!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 29: Sound service

2008-12-02T15:14:00.003+05:30

Riyas gave us treat today. After the treat we were walking towards our office. Riyas bought a new Sony Mobile and he showed it to us. then:

Karc: enna model ithu ?
Riyas: W800i....
Karc: sony phone la sound service nalla irukkum !!!!
Shanm: sound uuu service aaaa ????? aamam, avaniapuram murugan sound service la irundu eduthathu...nalla irukkum... apidiye mike set pathium visaringa !!!!!
Karc: (sheepish smile as usual)

Others burst out of laughter !!!!!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 28: Card eduthaacha ?

2008-12-02T14:41:00.003+05:30

Riyas gave us treat today. Me, shanm, karc and Riyas had a good lunch at Pallavi Grand. This happened there; after lunch, Riyas paid and the waiter gave him pen and slip to sign. After signing he gave the slip back and kept the card inside:

Me: Riyas, card eduthaacha ????? chk pannidunga !!!!
Riyas: (in lollu sabha manohar style) naangellam velaila suthama iruppom !!!!
Waiter: Sir, Pen thirupi kudukuringala ??????

Riyas was stumbled for a sec and we burst out of laughter !!!!!

PS: if u dont smile for this...then there's some flaw in my writing style !!!!
PPS: believe me, it's too hilarious and the timing was perfect !!!!
PPPS: ivlo sollitene, atleast idukaagavaachum siringa pa pls !!!!!!!!

COMICS !!!!!

2008-12-01T19:55:00.002+05:30

I was just thinking abt the stuffs that i am missing now. One prominent factor that got my attention is COMICS !!!!

it was the start of 90s and i was getting acquainted with tamil by reading ananda vikatan(i was only 8 when i started reading Vikatan, still i feel that i'm 3-4 years late ). Then my uncle, Mani mama (dad's best friend) introduced me to the whole new world of imagination and creativity. I dont remember the first comics i had read, but i still remember that i spent almost all my vacations with these comics(till eleventh std ;))

The characters i still remember are, rip gerby(my personal fav), mandiravathy mandrake, irumbukai maayavi, 13, tex willer, maayavi, spider and last but not the least...the one and only lucky luke !!!! wow, these characters formed integral part of me when i was growing. i wanted to be irumbu kai, as witty as mandrake, as strong as mayaavi and spider, as smart as tex willer, as swift as rip gerby and finally as cool as lucky luke and posses a girl friend like madesty :)

The Lion and Muthu comics were at their best. The Rani comics is really a crap one as i dont like the font\pics and also the story they pick.(i love the madesty series alone) They were my best pal at that time along with "SHAKTIMAAN". These superheroes inspired me larger than life stuffs. As a very ordinary person, i started adoring these characters. They are best entertainment i ever had !!!!!

I also found an interesting blog on comics(http://comicology.blogspot.com/). Absolute nostalgia !!!!

PS: 6 years later i came to know Rip Gerby is a baldy !!!!
PPS: I have seen him without HAT in only one comic series !!!!
PPPS: he he he he !!!!!

Ava enna enna thedi vanda Anjalai !!!!!!!

2008-11-29T12:35:00.009+05:30

After "venmathi venmathiye nillu" from Minnaley, this is definitely the most painful song in recent times. This song beautifully portrays the pain of love. The way they made this song is excellent that you can feel the pain inside. Surya dancing with the traces of "oppari" (songs played during death) is brilliant.

The song starts with "setha kottu" (death beats) where he'll be lying on the floor(drunk). The first half of the song travel from his friends house to his house and then a small outing with his friends and sister. The second half shows how he gets addicted to drugs and the pain incurred by drugs and love.It creates ripples for those who has experienced these pains to certain extent and tears for some extreme .

Few places where i was too much involved in the song are:

1) .13 sec - where surya start dancing by hitting his heart.
2) .26 sec - where he enters his house with his friends.
3) .43 sec - sameera n surya's cameo dance appearance and surya's expressions after she vanishes
4) 1.55 min - where he ends his dance with tears in his eyes
5) 1.59 min - as continuation of the tears, his first gesture for the lines "adanga kuthiraiya pola" is excellent. It just shows his anguish, pain and helplessness
6) 2.42 mins - where he comes back to home and his sister tries to make him sleep. the bro-sis relationship is beautifully portrayed. Gifted are those who got sisters !!!!
7) 3:00 mins - the scenes where he slowly gets addicted to drugs...horrible and sends cold nerves inside !!!
8) 5.03 mins - where he hits a guy with frustration, anger and the effects of drug....

The persons behind the success are:
GVM - director (yogesh corrected this :) )
Thamarai - Lyricist
Rathnavelu - DOP
HJ - Music
Karthick, V.Prasanna - Singer
dance ?????

A very disturbing song !!!!!!!

PS: moviela mattum thaan oru sameera pona oru divya varuva !!!!
PPS: somewhat these reel life romances acts as an filtrate for real life romances !!!!
PPPS: rendu thathuvam sollitanpa...note pannungapa seekiram !!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 27: Thank god !!!!!!!!

2008-11-28T18:45:00.003+05:30

One more Quarterly townhall meeting and i organized the fun events(as usual).

Our IBU head came at the end of the meeting and he was delivering an inspiring speech about the present trend and how my company is taking steps and how each and every person has to react for this situation. It was really inspiring...and this happened next:

IBU HEAD: we have seen such situations earlier also, in 2001...(turning towards me) srini, were u there at that time ?
Me: (a big) NO !!!!
IBU HEAD: thank god, that's why we survived !!!!

The whole hall burst out of laughter and i really donno what to say !!!!!

Two things I can take from it:
1) it was just for fun !!!!
2) even he knows me !!!!

PS: he he he he he !!!!
PPS: whatever situation maybe, i take only the positive outcomes !!!!!
PPPS: srini thathuvam solraaanpa, note pannungappa!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 26: What to tell machine ????

2008-11-25T19:17:00.006+05:30

Arun was booking ticket for PVR in pulaas system. From their conversation anyone can easily makeout that they're first timers :) atlast, after little struggle they managed to book tickets(actually, they were using my ID to book tickets). After the booking got over i just logged out from the site:

Arun: dei, i want to take the prinout of it da...then only i'll get ticket
Me: (with full kaduppu) not required, there's a kiosk, u can get it from there.
Pulaas: hey, i wanted to ask..what you will tell to that Kiosk machine ?
Me: (with more kaduppu) hmmm...go infront of the machine, say "anda ka kasam...abu ka kusum...ticket kudu seesey"

Needless to say, in a blink of second she started chasing me and i somewhat managed to escape with little damage!!!!!

13 Tzameti

2008-11-25T08:18:00.003+05:30

Yesterday night, after watching the ICL clash, i tuned to UTV world movies. It's an excellent channel which gives a wide variety of foreign language movies. The movie @ 11:00 pm for yesterday is 13 Tzameti.

This is a Spanish thriller directed by Gela Babluani and protagonist role performed by George Babluani(brothers !!!!)I have never seen such a mind-blowing film in recent times. It's literally mind-blowing. I lost sleep for 2 hours and it gave me immense fear. The movie is based on a group of rich perverts who put other people life's in stake for their own eternal pleasure. The performance of all the characters is simply outstanding. The fear they exhibit through their eyes is just more than brilliance.

Well, a little into the story, a young carpenter, sebastian, unable to control his urge about a secret job which can fetch him a fortune of money sets his journey to the house of death. The rich perverts of French community gambles during the weekend. The gamble is based on Russian roulette game. In simple terms, 13 people will stand in circle with their guns facing the opponents and have to fire when the lights turn on. They will be given 1 bullet in round one and the bullets count keeps on increasing till the last round. Well, our sebastian, unknowingly gets into this trap and now there's no going back and he has to play it out. The mental chaos he undergoes in this events form the rest of the story. I was not very sure about the story and nearly my heart pounded out when i came to know abt the game-plot, from there on it's a roller coaster ride. The fear completely surmounted me and it started sweating @ 12:00 am in bangalore cold !!!!

One disturbing thing about this movie is that, this can't be a complete fictional, it can happen somewhere in the world. The success of this picture is the narration style of this movie from the point of view of the persons who are playing this game. Even though the protagonist took the mainstream of performance, all the other 12 characters depicts their emotions via their eyes.....and it's terrifying !!!!

For a change, if you guys want to know how death will be or the moments before death..watch this movie. If not you'll get fear of death atleast you'll get respect for all lives around !!!!

The whole movie is made in Black&White and in broad daylight. The music is just amazing, camera is simple and efficient in capturing emotions(no bizarre angles, almost still shots). The editing is slow but the screenplay is too gripping that you'll feel the cold nerves !!!!

PS: this is purely my personal opinion...
PPS: watch it once and if it doesn't gives u fear, be happy that you are very much gifted in life !!!!
PPPS: yaaruppa anga, thathuvam solran seeni, notes edunga !!!!

Guzarish !!!!!

2008-11-24T17:27:00.004+05:30

Those who got addicted to "Sutrum Vizhi sudare" and lured in its harmony please don't listen to Guzarish !!!!!!

Reasons:

1) Guzarish is just un-comparable !!!!
2) Guzarish is just mind-blowing !!!!
3) i donno the difference between preludes\interludes or what instruments he used...but it just gets into you completely and u'll be dumb-strucked through the whole process !!!!
4) Last but not the least....one more reason is that, after hearing Guzarish...u feel like "Sutrum Vizhi sudare" sucks !!!!!!!

Kudos to genius and thanks for great music !!!!

PS: i am just waiting for Rama(http://ramsrules.blogspot.com/) to come out with his review !!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 25: My calendar !!!!

2008-11-24T11:02:00.005+05:30

Couple of weeks back, my day was completely filled with meetings. Almost all the day I’m filled with meetings but this is a special one , coz i didn’t even find time for lunch !!!!

so i just took a screen shot of my calendar and send it across to my small elite group of friends, who firmly believe that i am not working at all. This group of people includes Ashwath, sunil, shanm, bishwa, shristi and kochu.

Well, if we start a mail chain, it goes for hours with all types of comments for which atlast you will feel like ending ur life at that instance. This elite group has enormous sense of humour with utmost sarcastic touch.

On that day also, the moment i send my screen shot i got 6 replies in 8 mins. At that time, Kochu passed my cubicle and i asked her:

Me: Hey Kochu, u saw the new mail chain ???
Kochu: haven't, will chk now !!!

After sometime,

Kochu: i didnt get any mails !!!
Me: (wondering !!!) what ???

the next sec, i got call from Ashwath:

Ashwath: Machaanz, why is the onsite PM is there in the mailer list ?????
me: WHAT !!!!!

Heart almost bounced out of my mouth !!!! the reasons are:

1) I mixed up the mail id of Kochu with that onsite PM
2) she's a lady PM in onsite
3) The worst part is, she's the one who asked me for updates and in turn i arranged all those meeting !!!!!

That was one of the most embarrassing moment in my career...i pinged her and apologised.She's generous enough to give a smile and push this topic behind woods !!!!

PS: this post is dedicated to Kochu !!!
PPS: past 2 weeks i m trying to avoid to pen this incident...finally kochu almost threatened me to write this !!!!!

Opis Komedies - Part 24: sunday cricket match !!!

2008-11-24T09:45:00.004+05:30

Sunday 23rd Nov, 2008. 00:00 hrs

I got an SMS from Ashwath like this:

Hey i got 15 tickets to da cricket match in bangalore this sunday. Shall we go ?

I saw this message in the morning and i was trying his number couple of times. Finally 9:30 am he called me. I asked him about the tickets and cost, he said it's given at the end of the sms and asked me to check it myself.

Immediately i opened the message again and checked. It was:

if you get dis kind of msg plz take me also to match :)

DAMN UR PJ !!!! actually he's a localite and we dont have any grounds to doubt the authenticity of the message !!!! but anyways, he made bhakra out of us !!!!!

PS: i gave him back with filled-water-bottle
PPS: few guys called at midnight to confirm the ticket !!!!

Visitors List !!!!

2008-11-21T08:34:00.005+05:30

I added a new widget to my blog, "Visitors List". I had this some time back and while changing the blog template i deleted it, after that i haven’t bothered\noticed this widget at all. Interestingly i added this yesterday and i was eager to know who all are visiting my blog ;)

Today, i saw the results. As below:

The results are expected, like the three dots in India (Bangalore, Pune n Delhi - whatever i scribble i immediately drop a mail to few of my friends and they are distributed in that location). No wonders abt the dots in USA and CANADA. Friends are there. But the confusing part is a dot from Australia. All i know about Australia are kangaroos and cricket...so i am completely surprised to see a dot there !!!!!

Still analyzing and will publish my findings soon ;)

Opis Komedies - Part 23: How was CAT ??????

2008-11-20T09:24:00.003+05:30

There is a guy in our project. An intelligent guy but often fails to conceal his activities. He's a CAT aspirant and he was preparing hard. As i personally gave CAT and failed i have that mutual sympathy for this guy. One day i asked him about his preparation and i got a very ferocious reply that he's not preparing for CAT and he's only helping his friend in his\her preparation. (That’s the stupidest answer I ever heard )

Well, i wondered how in the world a person can help others by just sitting in his place and solving all mock CAT questions of his own?? Are they connected through telepathy ???

The CAT got over last week and half the population whining about the brutality exhibited by the IIM in setting the question papers and other half much relieved and started their regular work. I saw this guy today and asked him:

ME: so man, how was CAT ?
HE: I didn’t gave it man !!!!
ME: (adango....abusing in mind voice) yeah i know man, i was about to ask how your friend whom you helped in preparation gave CAT ????
HE: (sheepish smile...another failure act to conceal his defeat) i didnt ask him man !!!
ME: (dei, veri yethaatha...abusing again) That's unfair man, you should have asked your friend about that...heard that it was pathetic !!!!
HE: (didn’t reply and just sat back)

in this whole process, Ashwath was trying very hard to cover his laughter !!!!!

I'm Lovin it !!!!!!!!!

Crossed 100 posts!!!!!

2008-11-19T15:08:00.003+05:30

Some events in life passes just like that even before we notice...the same happened with my blogging also...

The thing is that, as the topic suggests, i crossed 100 posts and eventually this is my 102nd post!!!!!

I was planning to write something elaborate about the blogging experience and stuffs on my 100th post but somehow everything got misplaced...so what...i just love sharing the lighter experiences and i believe there should be atleast few to whom i bring a little smile for the day !!!!

PS: vadai pochey !!!
PPS: entha oru vishayathaium plan pannama seiya koodathu...!!!!!