Kannu…. Ithu puthusu !!!

So much excited and I felt the electricity in me when I heard these words (refer this blog's title) from Rajini’s next animation movie ‘SULTAN’..this was the theatrical trailer of the Thalaivar’s next animated movie before the start of Sivaji…. Oh yes I finally managed to get the ticket and watched it in the middle of the week….(gotto take a day off…its alright ‘udal mannuku… 1 day leave thalaivaruku’…end of the day, its worth)

I was ontime and all set to watch the much awaited, hyped, anticipated movie …. What should I look forward in this movie??? Is it A R Rehman’s music, Sankar’s direction, Antony’s editing, Anand’s cinematography, Thotta dharani’s immaculate sets…. Above all the one and only DON of the tamil cinema, the thalaiva, the super star’s action itself…. Know what??? All these hypes haven’t gone on a toss… all the efforts are apt… and the project is ‘THE ONE’ and unique…. Never ever in Indian cinema…. I remember when I went to see the movie ‘BABA’ on the first day first show, got disappointed a lot with the paucity of grip…this time everythingz perfect and man, you gotta watch this damn amazing master piece of this team….

I don’t wanna sit on the story and break the surprise to you.. just wanna share about my feelings at various stages of the movie as follows



Thalaivar’s entry: I expected it to be grand'er (like in padayappa) but the projection is little milder than what I thought.. its quite common with sankar and this kinda entry actually suits the story…..so stunned with thalaivar's out look.... so damn young for his age....

The first song: ‘Ballelaka’ was cool and made every one chill with Nayantara featuring in it …. Look at thalaivar .. so young, so charismatic, so energytic… don say he is above 50….

Vivek : This chap won accolades… his slapstick humour never let any movie down and this movie is one of his top performance… I always admire his quick wit and expressive comedy.. no wonder he is china kalaivanar….if you say vadively in chandramuki then vivek proved his position in SIVAJI

Shreya: the homely girl (apart from songs) filled the position very well and was really cute with her handy acting… outclasses very well in the songs and a very good add on for the movie credits…

Punch dialogues: Whats thalaivar with out punch dialogues… ‘Kanna panninga thaan kootama varum …. Singam epothum single’aaa thaan varum’.... i bet no one else in the world can deliver this with the charm as this master-of-charisma does..... 'pera ketaalay summa athiruthila !!!'

Stunts : peter heins did his homework very well… thalaivar co operated well and strained a lot to bring it well… the climax fight is still in the eyes…

Suman : I should say this guy is an intelligent choice.. though he didn’t impress much with his acting, he suits the role aptly with this sarcastic appearance and dialogue delivery…I should appretiate who ever chose him for this role

Oru koodai sunlight: this song is the real eye catcher… thalaivar is actually a white guy in this movie… its one year hard work in the technicians end to do this ‘picture grating’ thing and it has come out very well enough to see the smile in audience face….

Comedy : Thalaivar and vivek proved best together…. Specially when they try to crack in to shreya’s house. Solomon papaya done his tiny bit very well… the comedy dominates the first half of the movie….

Screen play: Now, this is the highlight of the movie… although this reminds lots of scenes from sankar’s earlier movies Indian, gentleman and mudhalvan, still looks fresh with thalaivar in it… full credits to Sankar being a strong backbone with his amazing intelligence in direction and extrdnry screenplay….good show !!!

There are few minor reservations abt this movie in my mind as follows

Sahaara song is not to my expectation… I would love to see that song in a nature rich part of europe… still done the best with the indoor…

Mayilsamy, chinnijayant and damu been given a oorugai part (touchable) wer they desperate to show ther heads in the movie for 10 secs????

It was only thalaivar and vivek took the most of the movie and no room to show some action from villan’s end… Suman is more a model in the movie

A stretchy first half where every one irritates the hero when he is on his attempt to do good…. at one point made me think ‘Come on thalaiva…enough patience … now show some sincilating style and action’

Best scenes:

When thalaivar sits in the tea shop and negotiates with suman with the black money in front of income tax office…. BGM was sexy that time….

When thalaivar tosses the bubble gum to his mouth and the one rupee coin in his own stylish way…. (I am practicing the same way but wasted lots of bubble gums so far)

The 2 stunts, one when thalaivar gets the black money from suman and the other one is climax fight… (just observe the music too)

When he clearly explains how our country suffers due to those big shots logging black money in ther back yard ….(this is real learning even for literates)

Oru koodai sunlight song…. Man its spain and its thalaivar and its shreya and its arr and above all its technology that rules

Thalaivar enters again in other getup with his head shaved up…. Kudos to costume designer and the make up artist…


Altogether, the movie is a master piece and a complete family entertainer with the calculated and healthy mix of romance, fun, action, sentiment and MESSAGE…

Business break

This is a so called corporate term invented by one of my colleague and I further want to enhance.

What is a Business break?

A break taken during your work hours which defines the following
- the break duration is still part of your working hours
- tea/coffee can be a part of BB (business break) but not the only part
- losing your concentration wont affect you. Means, you can relax
- what ever happens in the break duration is important for some one else
But deftly. Not for you.

Reasons for a BB:

- when you are stressed
- when you are overloaded
- when you are angry with some official issues
- when you want to pass the time (specially those die’ng hours before weekend)

Examples:

-conference
-peer/protégé’s presentation
-summit
-all hands meeting
-board meeting
-(at times) team meeting too

Benefits:

- relaxed mind
- you can postpone the deadline of the work
- you can cherish the fun happened during the BB
- you can think of some thing useful personal stuffs (like what to do in weekend)
- nthng will make you happy if you gotta catchy peer sitting opposite

Chaps doing Business studies may be you can include this term as part of your ‘innovative research’ in corporate world ;)

Eppothum Pachai Tamizhan

Being traditional is the name of the game…. Marriage nowadays is becoming western as ppl (specially/only males) dress up with pants/shirts or jeans/tshirts with no sign of Indian in that… However, I appretiate ladies/girls in this aspect as they always stick to their sarees on these occasions… even the groom wears suits most of the time for his reception…I can see many grooms take up the traditional attire with no intrst during their marriage….

This time its my (one of the) best mate’s marriage in Chennai and we (family and friends) are charged up for the event… It was also a reason for me to have a long weekend break to visit Chennai… I once again had a thrilling night drive with heavy rain all the way till vellore…. Good 2 days with lots of rest and food….the marriage was on Monday and this time I decided to show up little traditional… I found my marriage veshti (I dunno how should I tell this thing In english….its a big white bedsheet like cloth tie around your hips…) shining new…. I have no idea on how to tie this thing and some how managed to get it straight with the belt around (shhhhh)

The ladies took almost a million year to dress up for 1 hour presentation in the almost alien public….the hall was relatively posh one located around 2 kms away from our house in chennai… As soon as I sit in the car in the driver seat the ‘veshti’ played crazy and started to slipaway showing all my bare legs…(for god sake !!!) I later some how managed to squeeze in with out letting much of my ‘maanam’ fly around…

Reached the hall on time and I was embarrassed to see every one watching me… I din show up though… I was walking like how vijayakanth walks in ‘Chinna kownder’..like how sharath kumar walks in ‘Naataamai’…like how kamalhassan walks in ‘Devar magan’… like ooops…I think geetin outa core…yeahhhh…sooo with all those hype I was walkng slowly inside….and my whole family coming behind…(no more film comparisons)

My other mates started taking the micky outta me…however, they felt different happy abt this attire…. (who knows, I might be an inspiration for other aliens in the crowd to dress up same way in forthcoming marriages) the groom was very happy as he got a partner to get embarrassed…. (bull dog!!!) later I got used to it and felt not much different…

p.s: I wanted to upload the picture with the traditional attire but i cant due to this bloody technical hickups in this blog tool.... ahhhhhhhhhhh

Perplexed with the marvel of the technology …

I was never fanatical about mobile phones until wen I got this gift (treasure) from my beloved…. I basically use phone only for sms and calling…. I need the following features in the phone usually,

Strong enough as I use to drop the phone often (ofcours, accidentally)
Long battery life as I seldom charge the phone
Unique design (like rare model)

May 20, was an abslte great day… started off well when my wife wake me up at midnight drove me to anger extreme…. I was well tired after a long day at office and yelled at her forgetting its my bday for that moment….i got calls from my brother and others….meanwhile she ran over to the wardrobe and got a pack… which totally chased the sleep off…. Its brand new Nokia N73….i remember Ive told ‘impressive’ about this spec. once before marriage and she was too sweet to get that bloody thing in the right moment (my old mobile was anyway about to expire) ; )

I started working on the phone straight away…big screen, black colour, built in camera….. my joy knew no bounds… oh girl how lucky I am…. Following features of the phone really made me fumble outta surprises…

3.2 mega pixel camera
Large colour screen
2 gb space to store music, pics, videos (any hell in the world)
Amazing usability
Internet access
Radio
Bla bla bla

Next day morning I got up and started clicking on the pics straight away… I started assigning ring tones (“pray for me brother” song itself) assigng pictures and music to contacts so that it will be picked up when they call me…. (now I can identify its my wife jus by hearing the ringtone) exchanged files with my uncle’s mobile (thanks to the amazing Bluetooth feature)

I quickly copied around 200 songs to my mobile and started to playing it around with the loud speaker… the clarity is damn perfect (ofcourse yaar it’s a music edition)…

Last night I was going late to my home and I really enjoyed the travel by listng to all my favrte tunes and parallely browsing those wap sites through the ‘airtel live’ connection in my phone….I really wonder this technology advancement in the mobiles… it is jus the size of the wallet and the features are countless… but the worst part is that I have to now be very carefull and have this thing very safely unlike me earlier days….however, worth taking that pain ; )

SEGA kooda JuJubi thaanda !!!

Hot Hot Hot…

Not just the weather in Chennai, the expectation on the India’s most expensive movie…. The music is out already and started rocking among the audience… Ive listed my views on the songs of the movie…. I was too late to write this review and there are reasons…. A R Rehman is known for his slow poison music…. And so I needed time to get comfortable with songs…..

THE BOSS – theme music – Spicy one

This will absolute set your nerves straight and risen your spirits…. One can imagine the thalaivar in this song…. Am sure Sankar will make no mistake in projecting him for this music….. “Sachin adicha sixer thaanda..Sivaji adicha puncture thaanda”…The blaze says it all…. don’t think a lot about the lyric’s logic… just feel the music and enjoy…

Vaaji Vaaji – Tradition duet

The song remainds many old musics… The continuous drums bgm used in many songs…. The lyrics doesn’t make much impact in me as am not a big fan of fast duet songs.… “Un kaal kolusoligal pothumadi pala kavignargal karpanai thavidupodi”… most of the lyrics are written to dance with the music…

Sahara pookal – Heart slips with the melody

The initial music bit deftly pleases any one… Udit narayan and chinmayi got new feathers on ther cap…. They just dominated the voice of Vijay jesudas/Gomati sree in the other version of same song…..the lyrics will deftly keep you mesmerized…
“Oraayiram aandugal semitha kaalam ithu….Noorayiram aandugal thaandiyum vaazhum ithu” I love to hear this song when am driving….

Oru Koodai Sun light – My favorite one

This is deftly not a tamil music I used to hear…. This is very much different indeed…. Initially I had a feeling of singing “Who let the dogs out” for the initial music…. I dream this song to be shot some wer in Europe to blow up the thalaivar’s style….”adadadada asathuthtu Style, adada nadapathum Style, adikadi mudi kalaivathum Style, kadakadakada siripathum Style, vara vara vara ellamay Style”…cant wait to see this song…

Attiradee – bit noisy

This I felt like a yet another song in the list… nothing much on the line of impression… am little annoyed with loud voice of a r rehman (he is good when he sings slow) and the loud music…. Tanvi’s voice sometime sounds like male… wicked…


Ballelaka – Mann vaasanai

This song should be the thalaivar’s entry song… the bass effect is catchy and SPB’s voice takes you till the end… there could be no better voice to match our thalaivar image…. If you got a good woofer this song will keep your feet tapping and mind with josh for full 6 minutes…. The lyrics says the proud Indian life and the hidden joy with life in India (specially villages) … “Ballelaka Ballelaka ottu motha makkaluka … annan vantha tamil nadum America”… you shoud listen this


As a whole the music CD is worth buying and am still confused with the dates of the movie release…. Ooops…. Gotto get back to work… catcha in next blog ; )

~~~ Are you searching, For a reason ~~~

Don’t be so confused… This a mind blowing line of the top-of-the charts music album “Pray for me brother”.. It’s A R Rehman coming up again with the sheer brute perfection… I hear this song atleast once in a day… I am always a big fan of a r rehman’s voice (rember the song “Thaai mannay vanakkam”, “New york nagaram” etc…) You gotto listen with your headsets, eyes closed and with out thinking anything else…. The lyrics are damn cool You can find it in the link

http://ramblingsoul.com/2007/01/25/lyrics-pray-for-me-brother/

… You can download this song from websites (try google search)… Its worth hearing….

Its all about poverty and the music will jus bring the tears (atleast virtually) out of you…. The video just rocks and makes one to feel like watching it again…. Bharathbala (the director of “Vande maataram” ) got another feather on his cap.

A R Rehman is a musical genius indeed makes every Indian proud.... he is now reaching hearts beyond the boundaries.... I admire this chap a lot for his loyalty towards the Tamil film industry as it is the one which lifted him and put him bright in the national scenario.....

****_-_-_- Time chaser ride -_-_-_****

No apologise this time… u kno wat am talking abt don ya??…. Lemme carry on with my blogging spree from here on (I hope so) ….

This happened few weekends back (2 or 3). The Friday was too long for me to work… Ive started at 7 am in the morning and had bloody load of issues to solve and winded up around 4.30 pm due to reasons… it was the team outing that day in my office and am organizing it and as an extra flavour (rather, to rub salts on the wounds) the participants (for the dinner) gotto get their spouse. (What the ….???) I was mentally prepared to face the music… I went home got dressed up and reported to the spot promptly with my wife … I initially planned to drive to Chennai on Friday evening but later changed my plans as I am indirectly forced to take up this responsibility ..uhhhhhhhh….managed to get back home around 10 pm and hitting my bed straight away bearing in mind that I have tough morning next day …

“Wake up hun, its 3 o clk and get ready”, I cant really open the flippin lids of mine… gosh… (some body take me to the world of no-humans) ahhhhh…. I planned to leave at 4 so that I can reach Chennai on time for the breakfast (however, the brief plan was to eat on the way if we cannot survive any more) mom, grand mom, my wife and her mate was busy in getting dressed (I dunno why ladies are always curious to dress up knowing its gonna b a boring car journey and no onez gonna watch them) and packing stuffs… (ooops have I mentioned ‘packing truck load of stuffs to stuff em in to a car)

Pretty much expected behaviour, I (male) got up late and got ready on time, others (females) still checking their outlooks…uhhhhh…. Finally we all loaded the car by 4.15 am… and managed to start cracking by around 4.30 am… I started to roll the wheels slowly … filled the gas last nite, had a strong cupa tea to chase the sleep off… wat else….my goodness forgot my audio cds….for f**k sake why is my memory ripped off???????? All I got was 2 mp3 cds (one with an assorted/stupid collection of my own and the other is a set of old songs) I gotto live with this (ofcourse with 4 other ladies) for the rest of my drive…i was not surprised to see flowing traffic at this manirathnam’s time zone…. Its very normal in bangalooorrrruuuu… lucky I stay in the border which is very close to the exit that connects to Bangalore- madras highway…



“yayyy my office”, my wife with her low icecream voice… my grand mom has slept, my mom was listening, her mate wasn’t keen, I kno that its her office and the place is pitch dark… I dunno waz the point in screaming… I started picking the micky outta her…we now reached hosur…It took around 20 mins for me…I am mentally pissed off with the boring ambience inside the car as almost all have slept….i now made up my mind… the last time when I was driving from Chennai-bangalore, I made it in 5 hours… I thought ‘why not lemme break the record?’ … any way the inmates doesn’t kno if its raining or snowing outside the car and am sure they won give a damn….

I wont think about anything for too long… got my sandals off..pumped up the audio a bit and got cracking….from ther I made 100 kmph average and I cannot sleep as I gotto concentrate a lot …. The light was handy enough to pick the potholes and speed breakers… gotto keep an eye on those ‘intelligent human beings’ who

- cross the road with out caring anything in the world
- drive the vehicles (basically trying to sneak) in thro the opposite way
- stopped the vehicles in the middle of the road wth out any indicators
- changing lanes wth out any indication to the following vehicles

driving in India (no matter if its highways or in town) is always a kick-ass task and Indians are always pretty good in that (specially chennaites, trust me I found this out from my personal experience ( as a flavorà naren karthikeyan is a chennaite ) )

I have now crossed 90 kms in an hour time… the car is a mere grave yard… (heyyy don think that, I meant that all are quiet and sleeping) I am not enjoying this at all… however, I din give up I kept the speed ticking up… at times I reached 140 and I wanted to raise more than 143 but I cannot find a stretch…. The road was completely desserted most of the times…. I liked it… I reached vellore in 2 hours time… it shouldn’t have happened… I SLEPT FOR A BIT … kreeeeeeeech…..i applied the pumping break and my mom murmered from sleep ‘is that a dog on the road? ’, “yeah mom! I guess” …oh yes… really lucky to get away from that truck that was too close … and ther I got this quails guys who is very much enthusiastic… he doesn’t wanna let me go… he kept chasing me and took me over… iam now a charged up chap… go Aravindh go….

A killer 1 hour I should say…. We were racing against each other… given a scare almost to all the vehicles on the way… am sure 98.8 % of the vehicle drivers wudve cursed us… I din care tho… I am helping myself to keep me awake ….i managed to stay ahead most of the time…. Some point near sri perumpudur I gave up and let him go as my mom & my wife are awake and I don wanna give any scare to them… I still kept up 90 odd speed… its only 30kms left to reach Chennai outline…the time is 8.20 am… I am really really hungry & sleepy but I thought I can make it completely as I crossed most of the tough time… “better, lets go home for breakfast”, my mom said as if she was driving all the way and she don’t mind hanging on for more time… “Ok.. no issues”, I generously knoded my head and kept a good pace until I reahed home … we touched Chennai around 8.45 and I haven’t pulled over at any point… we reached home around 9.30 due to heavy traffic in the city…

I really love my long drives specially when iam with my friends and got my own/dad’s car with the woofer attached… don’t ask me how my car looked after the trip… I paid extra to make the car look clean again :”(

Few of the high lights of the trip:

Bangalore – Chennai high way is a master piece of the Indian road ways as the roads are laid with high quality ingredient with 4 lane traffice and well painted lanes…made me drive comfortably… hey did I said I broke my record by making it in 4 hours approx…(300 kms)

There are 4 tolls which collect apprxly 30 – 40 rs. When u cross them.

You have to take diversion to go inside the town at any point as the high way is a mere bypass road.

All the passengers were sleeping most of the time leaving my driving fun in total jeopardy.

No food all over the journey (very important point)

All are still alive with out any trauma ;)

General tips on a long drive:

The one sitting next to driver should make sure they are awake and keep the driver entertained to ensure the safety of the trip

Have a good strong tea to keep yourself awake….

Don’t listen to those slow music specially when you are driving at night….

Make sure your tyres are good, got proper stepne and filled up the fuel before your journey…

Give a proper indication if your are changing lanes or stopping the car…its for your safety

From my experience… the more early you start the better you enjoy your drive as the roads are empty most of the time… better go to bed soon before night…

In 3 Minutes (a sad story ---(not really yaar ;) )---)

This is the real incident happened to my friend. As part of data protection, I have changed the name of the characters involved.

Rahul and me are working for the same team and he sits in the adjacent cubicle. He is down to earth dude with a cool attitude. I always admired his ‘life-is-a-kick’ mentality and wanted to live like that… oh well … lets focus on the intended incident : )

Jus back from lunch, we wer chilling out in our desks… surfing arnd, chkng out personal mails and stuffs like that… rahul very surprisingly lookin thro our office monthly magazine in his desk and I was booking my e-tickets fr my trip to Chennai next week…

“Aravindh!!! U there at yr desk??”, I was puzzled with this shout from him..”Ofcourse I am… I was with u during the lunch and we are back to the desk together… wazzup any way???” I smelled smthng intrstng (mostly turns out to be silly) ..”Check out this chick… looks lavishing yaar” , he walkd in to my desk with that shiny magazine in his hand..... I can see the curiosity to fall in the trap (u know wat I meant here don ya??) on his tone…

“So.. what u gonna do??? Dream about her for ages and finally fall in love with some one else??”, I askd him unwillingly…. “U laugh …. My day will come…anyways..shez cool na… I love her da…”, some body kill me. He always tells this wenever he finds a new chick in his line…. I got habituated to this and keep ignoring this statement….

He got back to his desk and I was moving on wth my ticket booking headache…. He yelled again “Dude!!!! Come over….” Now I am a real angry man…. He always calls me out for all silly issues…. But this time he yelled in a stronger voice and so I thought shud b worth goin… I thought I can book this ticket later and closed the window…locked the system and popped in to his cubicle…. “wazzup man??” I asked him in an annoyed tone… “Hey look at this” I saw that he was a little happy wen he saying this…. It was my company’s employee directory.. he spotted her profile in that….”are u sure it is the same girl???” I was puzzled…. “Yeahh man.. chk it out the name is same …PREETHA NAIR… she is a contract employee in germany division…I guess she would have gone ther on assignment basis….” ….interstng….”Smart” …I deliverd the complement very promptly…

“Wait….lemme do this..” he was so anxious to kno more about her…..he opened the dangerous habbit that attacked the IT industry very recently .. http://www.orkut.com/.... He gotta fake account in that….he opend the search window and typed her name .. “Rahul, do you think she gonna use this crap in the middle of all her schedules????” even I was curious to kno the anser….”lets find it out na…heyyyy not in this first page da…. Lemme see the second one…. Oh yes…bingo…ther u go….look at that man….i got it..” he was overwhelmed…”How can u b so sure” …”Dei… look at that pic man….her face is printed crystal clear in my heart….how can I forget…see the magazine pic..both matches..” oh yes it is her…. Now I am curious too.. “Check her profile….” …..i ordered him… “oh yes…she is from the same place I am from (though her native is different)…hey I think smthng is wrkng out…. we work in same company (though she is in germany).. wat more u need to fall in love da….”

I felt a little restless….. I was wondering… this cant b happening…. "Ok keep scrolling……” i orderd again... "Oh S**t !!!!! wat the f**k …. Crap man…. I don believe this…..” he was screaming all on a sudden… I got my eye sharp and focused on the monitor…lol…”hahahaha” I …LMAO … wicked…… its all over …. I was anticipating a twist and now iam more relaxed…..after seeing this line in her profile…

MARITAL STATUS : MARRIED

Sweet experience in the ‘SPICY’ zone:

Too long …’again’ stupid me…. Come on yaar… too many things are happening around takin my eye out of blog for a while ( I kno its been ages still oru bandha thaan) :)

Wed locks all the way…. Yet another marriage to add flavour to my travel arnd under the topic ‘Marriage spree’ ;) this time in south India…. And its in Hyderabad…. This isn’t my first time visit… however, the marriage place is like 130 kms away from the city …. It was a small and beautiful town called ‘Siricilla’ … the date is ‘17/12/06’ last Sunday…. I neva thought the night and the dawn are ‘killer (cold) temperature’ range in Hyderabad…. I havnt taken much of warm clothing anticipating the place won b as cold as Bangalore (ithu thaan ‘paruppu scenu’ nu solrathu) …it was 3 am on Sunday mrng I got up in the train unable to bear the chilly wind…. Waz roaming here and ther and askd out the other passangers for a extra bedsheet if they cud spare…. They gave such a nasty look as if I am gonna run away with that bed sheet and buy charminar by selling that bedsheet for half price in ‘chor bazaar’…. I got angry wth the look they gave and din bother to ask any more…. I preferred to stay struggling … anyway its only couple of hours left to finish the journey…

Reached arnd 5.30 am and was happy to see my frnd driving down to pick me up from the ‘kacheguda’ station…. And guess wat he already heated up the car whch made me feel like I finally reached ‘heaven’ :) reached his house after a 20 mins warmth…. Was quacking for a while and the I got ready for the big day… the break fast was damn mouth watering made by his mom…. Idlis, vada (mre than the size of the idli) , the thickest coconut chutney and sambar…. Wow man I wish I shd stay ther for another 1 million years…. Then we left to one of our other friend’s home which is apparently the starting point of our journey… there wer 3 other guys waiting for us… quick meet & greet happened…. 2 of em are already married and having cool life out ther…. We 5 guys started the kick off.... wth cherishing all those good old days.. the drive was pretty handy and very enjoyable… it was very short (jus 3 hours yaar)

We wer jus on time for the muhurtham….. the groom tied the wed knot exactly in 30 secs after our arrival…. (good for him. He got our blessings on time ) then we took the last few rows of the hall and started behaving like we wer in college…. Soon the lunch time arrived and so does our other mates….. we soon formed a big gang and started to quack quack…. The food was damn delicious wth all those needed starters, main course and deserts… ( yummy yummy…. Vantha vela mudinjathu) felt good to kno few our other mates got engaged and soon gonna fall in the trap ;) and all started issuing bumps for some reasons…..we got in to the terrace and clicked few snaps

The second half of the day was exciting… we left the marriage hall arnd 3 pm and this time I joined the other car (gang) weve been to a temple near by… (forgot the name of the place but it’s a shiva temple) then on our way back to Hyderabad… that was a experience… the car was actually owned by a travels and ther was a driver taking us thro… the car was stopped and checkd in the border of the city and found the driver doesn’t have enuf docs to let the car go…. We all partly pissed off…specially me as I was exhausted already… then the driver called up his office and called for help …. We have sensed nthngz gonna happen sooner… we all cracked in to a local tea shop ther and start grinding off stuffs…. Tea, biscuits, bajjis etc., then we talkd mre and mre made us feel so excited…. After 1.5 hours wait we finally releaved and got thro….

Later I joined my other mate to stay over in ‘Hitec’ city….. as a whole it was another typical & lovely experience I always anticipated….

Being Citizen.

Don even think like that after looking at this topic…. Am not being patriotic or sentimental or emotional about the word CITIZEN ;-) jus keep reading …

I was always a hopeless, lazy and 'life is all abt fun' sorta guy and never cared abt the society or cmmnty until few years back…. That doesn’t mean I am now perfect now tho…. However, ther are few issues that made me think ‘Why not???’ when it can be done with out pain… u confused???

I always feel like slapping those flippin NRI’s who just visit once in a year for 4 or 5 weeks vacation and thinking they are from a posh society they keep bashing at the Indian government and public…. The fun factor is that they are American in US and a proper local at ther home (hope u got wat I mean)….. any way I cant comment more on this issue as India is a democratic country for some reason and no point in wasting time blogging abt those creeps…. If you are good in observing by now u wud hav realized that the people who criticize the following wud have been the part of the same problems….i wanted to list out the issues and how the painless contribution will bring a major change in a big scene……chk it out

Traffic:

This is a major prblm the country faces absltly due to huge population and insufficient facilities…. U gotto bear in mind that India is one of the worlds largest countries and so, maintenance and support is not a peanut factor… so rather bashing at the govnmnt. Lets take a minor responsiblties that is wrth taking … like, using the existing transport (buses, autos..not necessarily public) for your travel rather driving yr own car for daily use... this reduces the major traffic at the roads... (I kno this is tough for ppl who are in IT as most of em think they are doin the absltly best job in the world and thnkng they deserve a separate car even for goin to ther Loo….) also, treat the pedestrians and other two wheeler riders as humans (if u notice many ppl driving car keep swearing at them all the time as if he is the only person in the world driving perfect) .... do say sorry if u scare them with yr big posh car by mistake…. (know wat???? Accepting yr fault and saying sorry will reduce most of the potential quarrels and roadside riots… due to minor accidents) this I found out of my own experience…. gettin this attitude Is actually very easy after attempts (don ask me how many times u messed up driving the car…) ;-)

Litter:

This is another factor that makes the foreigner go “yaaaaak” abt our country…. We don have to clean the litters on the road rather we shall learn to behave lucid in clearing our own garbage wth out troubling the public…. Its very common for the ppl to throw tiny litters ‘jus like that’ on the road…jus coz u don have any punishment by law, doesn’t mean its yr statuatory rights…. Specially ppl in the vehicles… rather throwing the garbage u can always keep it with u and dispose it wen u find the next immediate bin… iam sure this is not really a pain but u shd learn to stop feeling disgusting wen u r having yr own litter wth u… (I slowly adapted myself to this habbit however, I still throw away if I lose my patience looking for a bin… after all I am a human and I guess I am prone to mistakes) u don have to b stupid like me ;-)

Manners:

This is another key factor that pulls our country apart… we (Indians) seriously need to work on this… I noticed ppl take ther subordinates (like Manager-employee, car owner- driver, customer-server in a hotel, elder-younger, husband-wife) for granted… and I totally hate this kinda attitude… ther is always a difference between commanding others out of love and commanding others jus as they are below yr position… I will call the later one as “exploitation of the people’s inability” … we gotto respect ppl..no matter who ever they are… and practice telling “Thanks”, “Sorry”, “Please” to all human beings with equal respect…. Shud learn to stay humble and polite (specially with strangers) I guess this is not a tough thing to do…. Wat say pal??? ;-)

U may realize that actionables u have read is not actually complex and can b done by any one …. However, u don have to agree with my ideas if u feel am silly… these are only my feelings : - ) (after all we are in a democratic country)

If you reached to this part of the blog then I guess u strted thinking alrdy…. Being a literate (is it???) u can still think abt this and try to implement this wth yr life style… who knos??? May b u can inspire some one and finish the day with this feel-good mentality….

‘Gaana’ songs….

Oh my god !!! I havnt blogged for ages and I think I shud blame it on myself… been such a stupid and shame I still havnt settled with balancing my work and social life… however, am making a good progress in putting myself in to lime light …. I started loving the way I now work (vela senjitu apram pesudaaa nu neenga solrathu kekuthu…still naa kandukala) I can feel myself the difference I feel with in me over the experience I gain out here… it is indeed energetic… I learn a lot over this period (mostly out of my own mistakes)….. wo wo wo !!!! I think I still haven’t got in to the actual thought for this blog…..sorry folks !!!

Tamil nadu film industry always have a special reservation for this ‘Gaana’ songs and ther is no surprise to see millions of people go mad over this jus like R & B in the wester countries… the beat in these songs are absltly mind blowing and make any one to dance (atleast tap ther feet) … for the people who don’t kno abt these songs, these are special class of songs (I will say it as ‘maverick’ songs) which don’t agree with any particular music style or Raaga or any rhythm…. These songs are unique and u cant classify it at all…. Most of the times (not all the times) the lyrics doesn’t have any meaning at all… the objective is basically to forget everything and jus dance n add flavour to the ambience…. (did I say ambience???)

These songs wasn’t ther before ilayaraja’s period…… and slowly the maestro started introducing this roughly arnd late 70’s…. however, there wasn’t much welcome for these songs in between bachelors of those period (rasanayaeee ilaatha janthukkal) later the ultimate music director Deva changed this and introduced songs that really made many go mad on it….

Songs like ‘Ooothikinay kadichikava’, ‘kavala padaatha sagothara’, ‘aynavaram gopaalu’ ,'Manmadaraasa manmadaraasa...' , 'Eppadi Podu Podu Kannale' etc… are few of his famous Gaana’s… Prabhu deva is absltly master in choreographing gaana songs… I shud say he is the pioneer in this and none can compete wth him in this class….As for voice is concerned am not particular about a special voice for gaana songs but i liked the voice of Gaana ulaganathan (~~~vaazha meenukum vilangu meenukumkalyaanam ~~) though he made only 2 songs yet....

Even A R Rehman started mixing few gaana;s (I won say his music are completely gaanaish) with his hits…. Like ‘Peta rap’, ‘Madrasa suthi paaka’ etc… he is not really a gaana master… I like this gaana song ‘Yammadi aathadi’…recently from the movie “Vallavan” ….lovely song and am sure any one will get the spirit and go mad on hearing this music…kudos to the chaps who did the music(Yuvan shankar raja), danced(simbu & Co.) and sung(thalaivar TRR) aptly... :) oh well..... am in party mood already... crap man still one more day left for the weekend... some body keep me alive ;)

Towards India’s Center point

The marriage era started in my friend’s circle (cant believe yaar I am getting older and older) and I received my first marriage invitation from a very close friend of mine in Nagpur… I was very much excited as I have never been to a north Indian marriage.. I made up mind to visit him at any cost…my friend was kind enuf to buy me a 2 way ticket to Nagpur…

Last weekend was absltly wonderful…Ive been to shopping (after a year) got stuffs from Benetton and a local designer shop… packed up and all set to take off… I was so thrilled and xcited to visit Nagpur as I never been to that part of the India ever… he sent a cab to pick me up from the station …I was fascinated by the streets and the less traffic roads (ofcourse I kno its not much happening place i was surprised to see this as I traveled from one of the most crowded place of India…) The roads are good actually infact lot better than Bangalore… reached home in abt 15 mins…

A little embarrassed to see whole family waiting for my arrival… the house is all delighted already and my arrival added the flavour … ( me so special huh!!!) his marriage was actually over before I cud reach Nagpur and I was quite early (by arnd 16 hours) for the reception… met all his nagpur frnds and they wer so frndly and treated me as one of em… they all wer so amazing and active… they took more responsibility on the arrangements and even taken enuf care that I am not bored at any point…. Later weve been out for a grand dinner and I had sheer fun with em dancing and eating all nite….

The next day is a big one … the groom is all dressed up for the show and the bride jus outclassed any one around making them feel jealous on her..it was quitea simple function for some reason… however, we all had fun being in that occasion.. the food was an abslte mind catcher and I ate more n more… one of our frnd got his kid out ther whch jus looked like made of a clean wax… he was so cute and playing all the afternoon with me and more catch was his 6th finger on his right hand…cant b a better way to cherish the occasion…

Later in the after noon I changed myself and been on a local tour on the roads of Nagpur on my frnd;s bike…it was partly great as the climate was lavishing …. Been ther to India;s center point and amazed to see ppl havnt made that point a big tourist point at all…it was jus another memory kinda built…

Later went arnd the jungle, lakes etc….reached home arnd 5 in the evng…had a lovely tea time with his parents who wer so so sweet during all the time I stayed in nagpur..they even packed snacks for me…. Then, been on the shopping spree with the couple on the happening streets of Nagpur…they wer too kind and got me a lovely shirt of my choice …later I grabbed few packets of ‘lasoon chutney’ (famous thing in Nagpur) and I was all 'ready' to leave… soon we rushed to an amazing multi cuisine restaurant to feed ourselves…its only an hour left to reach station…quick dinner it was and I was well on time to the station... deftly an experience :)

Bangalore to Chennai

I guess I had the longest break ever in my blog (ennamo 25 varushama blog ezhuthara maari scene podaraanaynu paakareengala??? Kandukaatheenga ;)) 2 many things happening that really placed me out of fun for a while… now I realized Im missing my favrte hobby and got back wth an intrstng (to me) travelogue ;)

Its diwali season and the office was a complete bliss on last Thursday as the next 5 days are holidays ..i was totally held up wth my prjct and haven’t really had time to dream my holiday plans….however, I was desperate for a good break to keep me alive…. I meant to leave on Thursday after noon in a luxury coach but I have cancelled the tickets as I cant take off from work and so i booked the late nite ticket in a ‘dabba’ local bus (I kno I have to blame myself…it happens, freeya udungo) I managed to reach home (in blore) 3 hours prior to departure….shave and bath done…packed up slowly and left home (at last)…

My room mate and me anticipating an auto to majestic (the bus terminus in bangalore) and ther u go we got one straight away that too late nite that too he agreed to go with the 1.5 charge of the meter rate… we thought we are lucky and got in…1.5 kms before the bus station I have seen the worst traffic havoc in Bangalore…the scene was like the whole city was affected by a serious epidemic and ppl are moving out of the city in search of a better place to live….i felt the scene like those come is ‘Dawn of the Dead’ movie wer those ppl walk as a group in the road without caring anything in the world … though ther are cars and buses running arnd…

We have booked the special bus and some how managed to reach the area for special buses, there we saw a girl (don ask me how good looking was she…. Naa athu maari payyan kedayathu!!!) standing and talking over the phone and she was conversing in English and trying to get her frnd to the special bus area and her frnd is totally confused and cant able to guess wer the place is…. This girl started to scream in tamil “ayoooo naa enna pannuvayn ithu enna edamnu kooda therlayaeeeeeee” means “I am helpless, I cant recognize wer the hell I am”…(kashtam vantha thaan thaai mozhi thanaaala varuthu)..later we are totally stuck wth our search for our particular bus and cant find any sign of it….ther was a conductor (note : he had a cup of coffee in his hand) ther understood our meticulous situation and offered a free information “bus trapped in traffic for 2 hours…” in kannada…. I can understand we are in deep S**T… I nagged my frnd (he can speak half baked kannada very well) to enquire how sooner we expect the bus …. He asked the question without taking his eye out of coffee…. Apparently the conductor gave a long kannada anser which I cannot interpret… but this amazing frnd of mine, with out even listng to anser, askd the conductor “where can I get the coffee” ….freaking hell !!! do u realize the situation and the pain …u ***************** he zipped his mouth ther after and me, half dead with hunger…. One of our other house mate joined us soon and we got a bread pack for dinner (I have to call it so :( )


We finally got the bus after an outrageous agonial 2 hours gap …. I was so happy to find a place to sit atlast….we throwed the bag on the top and banged the seats… way tooooo small seats for a big giant like me and a medium one like my mate….(ada kaduvulayyyyy some body kill meeeee) 1.5 hour later the bus started moving In a good speed after all those inch by inch movements in the traffic…. I slowly noticed the crowd…there was a just-married-couple with ther family sitting on the other side…the girl was a big mouth and din stop complaining abt one or the other all the time during the travel…(naduvula English vera…adangokka makka…) behind me was a set of IT paruppus(like us) discussing about object oriented programming (officela ithellam discuss panatheengada….evalachum kedacha coffee corner poi kadala poda vendiyathu….middle of the nightla 2 maniku odara dabba busla intha naathariku OOPS rumba theva thaan…kanna katuthuda saami) 2 row infront of us wer a jus-married-couple started quaking and kept quaking all nite (antha ammani konjam over scene thaan… thaangala!!!) a upper-middle aged man got in and started screaming at the non availability of the luggage space for his ithu pona, naathampudicha bag…. (intha ujala thalayanunga tholla thaanga mudilada saaami)

I was too tired after a very long day…we soon dozed away inspite of all those tortures around…It wasn’t easy tho…ther was an accident in the highway whch stopped the bus for an hour…I got up like 7 in the morning, found the bus stopped for a break….to my dismay the bus jus traveled 150 kms for all 5 hours…. (busaa otitu vanthaangala ila thallitu vanthaangala..enna koduma ithu saravana!!!) I have no choice ….i cant sleep ther after…ridiculous 3 hours after that….i was counting every minute, every km god get me home soon….finally we managed to reach home after 2 hours wait and 10 hours travel (shud b 6 hours)….home sweet home…. Ate like a pig and crashed the bed… good long week end :)

Route No. 11 (A Short story)

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On celeberating my 50th post :) I cannot think of any other way of projecting my short story in a common area and guys u gotto bear this ;) This story is purely fictional and it DOES NOT replicate any one living or dead. If you think the "I" in this story is me, "Please grow up :) "

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Monday Morning 7.00 AM,

Getting up early is always a pain. I know this, still I don’t want to miss this warm experience (???) every day for this silly sleeping reason. First day of the week, I always love my formal wear. Allen solly blue full sleeve shirt fits my physique very aptly with those catchy black trousers. I nearly finished polishing my black leather shoe. All done and there I go on the streets for a pleasant morning walk to the shuttle stop.

7:15 AM,

I am waiting straight opposite to the Ragi Gudda Arch for my shuttle. I keep watching the other colleagues getting accumulated. Bingo there she is, an angel coming over with light green salwar. She looks confused as she can’t spot her usual cab mate in this place, probably the other girl is off today. Her hair is a good example for perfect black waterfalls, so uniform and one cannot take the eyes off her. She has fair complexion and always looks lavishing under this morning sun shine.

7.23 AM,

The bus arrived finally and I was anticipating yet another (not often though) good seat that gives a good vision of her. Bingo!!! Cant be more lucky today is one of the rare one-in-million days. Yeah I am seated next to her in a 3 seater, very luckily there is no third (aka “kabaab mein haddi”) person this time. I was in window (I always love a window seat) and I pretend like sleeping by tilting my head over the window pane facing her straight away.

7.28 AM,

The wheels started rolling after a short pause. There was a sudden break with in 2 seconds the bus left, it was a cow (should I call it a stupid) trying to cross the road with out caring anything in the world. She was shocked and closed her eyes tightly (like a cat, she thinks the world is dark if she close her eyes…. Many girls think this eh…) though I don’t want this to happen, I admired her scared up expression.

7.45 AM,

She got a call on her Sony Ericsson (why many girls going for sony mobiles, whatz wrong with nokia???) I was trying to be cheeky and curious to find the name flashing, but she was quick enough to pick the phone (she dint kno I am cheeky and watching her for long ) She uttered few hindi lines with ridiculous urudu accent, I always doubt she should be a muslim (Inshallah, she shudnt be married…. For Christ sake I don’t want to suicideJ ) I guess she was talking to her dad planning her family outing the week end. (I know its evil to over hear but CURIOSITY KILLS THE CAT )

7.55 AM,

She started to doze away. She always do this, I hate sleeping in the bus specially in the morning. I guess she never sleeps on time at nights. But I can let her go as I will be more convenient to admire her beauty. She looks more beautiful when she closes her eyes (Is that really true or is that only an illusion) that morning was horrible for me too. I was back from my home town 1 hour back and even am too tired.

8.10 AM,

I felt too embarrassed when she was awake ( and found me looking at her ) when the bus ran over a massive hump on the road (bloody driver… always rash!!!) I pretended like I was staring at something behind her head. She didn’t bothered any way and got back to sleep. I thought I should not look at her for the rest of the journey and even I closed my eyes. To my dismay, I slept :(

8.25 AM,

She slowly touched my hands and I was surprised by this and I should say the best 2 seconds I ever had in my life. Later I saw her eyes and so did she. I told her “Hi, I am ( my name ).. May I know your name please” she gave a commanding smile as if she knows this long back. The she opened her cute lips and said “Hi, I am ----------------“ Kreeeeaaaaaakkkkkkkk… what the ****? Another big hump and this time even I was awake with a sense of shock. So did she, ahhhh it was dream straight away in the morning, somebody kill me.

8.26 AM,

I cant think any more, I got the courage all on a sudden and told her “The route has bloody lots of humps and the driver is way too rash isn’t it?” as if I am the only one who is extremely affected by this. She nodded her head slowly with a worried look on her face “Yeah”, that’s it not a word more. She was quite and I guessed that 1000 things should be running on her mind. I don’t want to bug her but very apparently I cant sleep any more with 1000 other things running on my mind too.


8.45 AM
We are just 5 minutes away from the office. There was a sense of urge that nagged me to ask her out for her name, the other one inside me said “no way”. How ever, I liked to stay away from her and keep admiring her physical outlook all the time for every possible morning i could travel in the Route no. 11. “A Thing of Beauty is always joy for ever” and you wont enjoy the beauty if you are with it all the time. So I decided to zip up my mouth. I am supposed to get down the campus before her’s and there it is. I said in the most polite way I can ever talk “Excuse me !!!” She opened her eyes (very clear that she was just closing her eyes and haven’t slept) her hairs all scrambled due to early sleep and her eyes looked tight and tired. “Am sorry “ she was sweet when she said that and given enough way for me to go on. “That’s alright…..Thanks” god cant this bus go around for the whole day ???? I don’t wanna go. My phone ringed parallely, “ Hey man, where are you? Don’t you know there is an important team meeting in 10 mins ? quick yaar” Oh yes baba, am outside the office…

திடீர் கவிதை !!!

This is a tamizh poem from my frnd.... he sed these lines "on the fly".... i really liked this coz coz coz ........first chk out the lines ;)

Office Manners(In IT Companies):

Figure வந்தா பாத்துட்டு போ...
மத்த Colleague வந்தா பாக்காம போ...
Team Lead வந்தா மொறச்சிட்டு போ...
Manager வந்தா மதிக்காம போ...
ஏ டன்டனக்கா ஏ டனக்குனக்கா !!!! (this line is adaption from TR)

this chap hardly speaks a good tamizh and these lines all on a sudden made me LMAO .....

…Nothing bothers like a serious trauma…

I think ive been goin thro the worst time I ever lived in Bangalore… I was having good fun wth my long weekend but all that set to a jeopardy coz of a long and flippin internal body heat that kept me off from routine for 3 days consecutively…. U never kno the real pain unless u exprnce it yrself… I don wanna go in to this as this again triggers the pain in myself… L I have taken a day off to have enough rest as the chair in my office gives me a scare like I will get more problems…. But this goddamn project and deadline really needs to me to b in that day and I found my lead wasn’t happy wen I told him I cant cme to the office that day…but I have no choice I cant work at all (first time I wanted to b at my work and I cannot…so ironic!!!) I ve decided myself that I have to go to work by any means the next day…. But this killer pain still playing foot ball on my stomach for the whole night ….

No proper sleep and straight away went to my work early in the morning…. I had stuffs to do (as anticipated) ….. the early mrng scene I watched was a real night mare for me and I am still in shock….guess what??? Ive seen a dead body in front of my office….uhhhhhhhhh…. oh my ****** this cant b happening… folks arnd ther sed he was hit by a mini bus half an hour ago and this chap was dead on the spot…. The dead man looks like a cab driver and hit wen he was trying to cross the road outside our office…. Such an outrageous death I shud say….


Parallely i saw another accident (no loss of life tho) in the other side of the office.... a tata indica cab was hit by a truck and this totally jammed the whole traffic flow (though it is slow alrdy)...too pathetic to see even well exprnced drivers acting extremely careless...


I guess ppl can understand my state of mind now… I am now really sick and anticipating to go home at an earliest… but all I learnt was tragedic news that we hear normally are much more than serious than it really sounds…. This u can understand only if u feel it yrself… safety is the need of the hour to survive in this killer world …jus a slip in the road will take all yr dreams and desire to accomplish things away from u before u realize it did… however, jus our precautions wont help us… if the big road like that had a frequent speed breakers, the impact wudve been minimal or nothing…. I cant see how these IT companies along the road never thought about all these….waz the point being a leading software industry wth out humanity and common sense… people in this part of the world don’t really realize the value of life(me too in this list… but I atleast realize now)…

Movie Dialogues :)

i was thinking abt how movie dialogues affects our real life..... i am a big movie buff and few dialogues always stays in my head and i keep murmering those at times.... specially few of those vadivelus "Kelambitaaaangayyya kelmabitaaanga" ....Gowndamani's "Ada varumaiku poranthavanay" .... Santhanams "Goyyaka thalaya"..... i admire ther dialogue delivery on ther own funny accent... it needs a special talent either..... on holly wood i am always a big fan of Jim Carrey's funny english accent whch makes me LMAO ..... "Somebody stop me ....." in Mask is ultimate one.... The following are the few dialogues i enjoyed best in tamil movies....These are not funny but really catchy ones that i enjoyed.....

Vetri vizha:

Enaku velayatu rumba pudikum… jeikaravangala pudikum…thokaravangalayum pudikum … aana thoora ninnu vedika paakaravangala pudikavayyy pudikaathu

( i liked the way the villan sed these words )

Dheena:

Ajiths brother: Singam enaikum sethatha saapdaathu.

( he is top class with his tone.... the bravo)


Thenali:

Oorellam orayyy sandai….enaku appa china vayasu, ethuku adichikaraanu theriyala…. ippavum theriyalai…

( i felt the tears myself.....)

Nayagan:

Kamal : Thappilai…naalu peruku nallathu nadakuthuna ethu senjaalum thappilai

( kamalaaa kokka.... the ultimate one )


Also, there are dialogues which makes u go mad out of laughing....though those dialogues are meant to be serious one in the movie.... chk it out

Thavasi:

Villan: Thavasi… nee enna venumnay avamaana paduthara
Thavasi: Dei nee venamnu thaanda avamaana padutharayn

( ithuku thavasi ayya summavay irunthirukalaam)


Run:

Villan: Avan yaaru?
Assistant: Shiva
Villan : Evana iruntha enakena….

( ada goyyaaka thalaya apram ethukuda pera keta )


Vetayadu Velayadu:

Kamal : I suspect the deadbodies are ther…
New york police: How do you know?
Kamal : My instincts tells me…
NYP: Eh????

( kamal sir neengala??? acticngnu soltu ethuku intha velai ellaaam ))

Sivaji ganesan roars in Karnan movie…when the heroines dad insults him :)

( nalla velai sivaji sir ippa illa... ilati zooku kootitu poi vitruvaanga ))


Gajini:

Police : Hey look at the number its 10 digits....so it must be a cell phone number

( yaanaikum adi sarukkum .... wicked, this scene was chopped on later shows .. good they realised how funny this was wen everything else was serious around ) :)

Please share more dialogues in the comments section... am sure u kno more.... ;)

::::::::::::::When Lifez Going Monotonous :::::::::::::

if u kno me well personally, u shd b aware that i always like to face differnt situations than gettin on wth watz happening all the time.... i slowly had this feeling growing aggressively on me until last week as life started to b more workaholic and no much fun occupying my mind.....

the remedy arrived last weekend :) yeahhhhhh it was a team outbound training that we had for 3 nights and 2 days.... however, i wasnt anticipating any much fun as i thought its gonna b too official and things will b very formal... my perceptions were almost stupid, i realized this once we started trip.... the place this time is Danteli, 60 kms away from hubli (Karnataka) .... this place is very close to Goa border (i shudve sneaked away ...)

we left bangalore on train on thursday nite.... we wer 70 ppl altogether and it was fun all nite in the train... public wer too good and din bother us at all.... reachd hubli the next morning and started heading towards danteli....Danteli is a lavishing beauty wth fulla thick jungle and aggresive river all over... medium showers there tickled my adventure bones and i was floating
with the bliss for all the 2 days.... we reached the jungle lodges resort and adventure camp... very unfortunately the white water rafting got cancelled at the last moment due to heavy water current ( this current was indeed a shock to me :( ) we hired a training team from outside to carry on with the team building exercises (the actual objective of the trip) .... the guy was pretty impressive wth his looks and commanding tone... the main purpose is to kno ppl in yr team very well by travelling with them and sharing yr thoughts....

i slowly gotto kno many ppl in my deprtment who wer (unlike my team) very good and frndly... we all wer charged up (tho been too tired out of the train journey) for the activities.... we all wer broken in to many teams and the tasks wer given.... it was all fun and thrilling we learned a lot about strategy, communication, collaboration, resource management, adapting to environmnt etc.... all these years ive seen all these only in books... now i felt that all myself ... it was great yo...

few of the activities were very much challenging and taken the piss outta us.... it was so long and tiring .... still we had the fun we wanted every often.. the food was absltly great (my deepest concern ;)) i was in dormitry sharing wth 10 other cool dudes in my deprtmnt... its an irony, no matter how good or bad the ppl are ... when it comes to dormitry and sharing every one appears extremely good and frndly.....(is that my illusion???) doesnt matter i had my fun... the eveng we had the treasure hunt as a part of the team activity... it was an experience... torches in the hand.... dark jungle ... scary night...rain every where... search for clues...fear of those deadly creatures... the funnies part is ..our clues wer taken by monkeys there and the resource person of our deam disclosed the back up clue he had......the day was finally over at one point (no one found the treasure....hahaha)

the night was abslte fun and laughter for us in the dorm..... again too late... and forced myself to sleep as i was too tired... the next day wasnt so exciting as we all totally worked out and the physical activities was not appealing to us at all.... again team activities .... the common thing i observed here is the seniors (mre than 2 years in the company) wer more energitic but was way too rude and were trying to dominate the juniors (less than 1 year odd exp...like me) in most of the team activities.... this is only a nudge that i had wth in me and apart from this i enjoyed the rest of it.....

we all wer set free the after noon for the coracle rides along the river... i chose to skip this as the coracles wer over crowded and i felt stuffy in between the crowd.... so we ( all my mates who joined sap wth me) prefered to have a long and conversational walk in to jungle just to ease ourselves.... i shud say it was another experience and its so ironic ppl strt to flow out wth emotions wen they are excited or in a very different situation wer they never in wth the same ppl.... we all had a common theme in our discussions...its the managers attitude and behaviour against the new bies.... we rated good, bad and worst managers.....enjoyed the scenic beauty of danteli....

back to resort...packed up and left the place wth fulla adventurous and completely strange memories.... this is not a normal outing at all.... for the first time i felt this wen im out to a jungle....adventure, learning and fun all the way.....

mahabaratha and the management

*** (Non) Statuatory Warning***

This blog is quite long and will be interesting for managemnt freaks. stay off if u r not one of this kind :)

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I t was one of the pleasant Tuesday evening, i shud say... was a pretty long day for me with burden gettin heavier smoothly... it was our department Q3 startegy meeting ( a summit, precisely)

My department vice president is organizing this and I was thrilled as I never attended this on previous quarters… however, I was anticipating a boring lecture thaz gonna make me doze away… The meeting started and I liked the way my VP done wth his presentation (im not elaborating on this as this is not my concern of this blog ;))

Ther was a short 10 mins break and I was aware that therz gonna b a 1 hour presentation from a professor of IIM – B about “Unbundling Managerial Potentials” … by that time I was sure this is gonna b totally an alien concept for me… also therz gonna b a grand dinner after that (do u still think I will b lookin forward for the presentation) I made up my mind to sit for an hour by keeping eyes open and switch off the rest….

The professor had a typical geek look on him… with long hairs tied, French beard, pot belly that bounces often, bla bla bla…. He started and I thought I cud lend my ears for a couple of mins (before I switch off myself) he started in an abslte grace ,

“Iam Ramnath Narayanswamy, and I am here to talk about some management stuff that will let u go away with some value”…

this still doesn’t appeal much to me… then he started with this question

“Tell me my friends, what is management?”

very apparent … any one will ask this before they start any kinda discussion regarding management… (but I din kno the exact anser…very ironic!!! Ain it?? ;)) a manager geek in the crowd (of 100 odd people) answered…

“Doing the right thing at the right time”, he sed with fulla bliss all over his face (finally he gotta chance to answer some one in a crowd)

“May I add……at the right place as well???” , he placed his request in a more lucid manner… I am impressed with his communication …. Very much anticipated reaction from the geek… “Yes…I guess u can” I was LMAO (What else he cud say) …”But I have to tell this, the whole definition is not completely acceptable” …every one wowed at this …he gave a lovely explanation for why this cant be the apt anser… later he defined the management as follows…

“Management is a creative response to a set of contradictory constraints”

…. Some body kill me ..i don have any clue about how to understand this definition, later he added.. “Those contradictory constraints are SWOT (Strength, Weekness, Opportunity and Threat)”…is it???, “When you putting a step ahead you have to parallely work on all these four major factors”… impressive, I thought (I cant explain about how to work on all these factors due to severe time constraint )

Any one who is old, experienced and confident will keep telling one or the other contradictory descriptions… so im not surprised any way…later he was explaining about his attempt to map the epic (Mahabaratha) to our management …he compares the management life as a war and he quotes 3 key factors thaz needed for a good manager (warrior) as

· Analytical Intelligence – Your actual technical skills that u put on yr work… This forms the actual ‘SCIENCE’ of war.. In Sanskrit he defines it by the word “Shradda”
· Emotional Intelligence – your leadership, interaction, attitude, etc.. at yr work place… This forms the actual ‘ART’ of war.. In Sanskrit he defines it by the word “Viveka”
· Spiritual Intelligence – this is the main part where Indians are absltly amazing and this is the key factor that puts India at top in many MNC’s … This forms the actual ‘CRAFT’ of war.. In Sanskrit he defines it by the word “Vairakya”

So to win the battle one needs the above skills and fight wth determination….

Later he was discussing the pro’s and con’s of all the 6 pandavas (including Karna) and how a guy like each would actually be in the management world … at the end he beautifully concluded by quoting “you have to be like Krishna and use all these 6 character’s attributes to win the game” this impressed us a lot and we all din aware of the fact that the clock was running fast and we crossed the time bar… we actually wanted to know more but schedule is a schedule….

Later Im back to my desk to know mre about this amazing piece of gods creation (I mean the professor) … gotcha!!! He is quite popular in google search.. he got his own website as well its http://www.ramnathnarayanswamy.com im amazed to look at his profile and found completely demotivated by this as I find myself not even a fraction of his achievements….. I liked his attempt of mapping spirituality with management and I even mailed him my appretiation with my doubts…. Surprised to see his reply with in an hour wth my doubt got clarified….

This speech however is motivational one for a ordinary developer like me but indeed a usefull one to our managers where I can find thick difference between how a manager is suppose to be and how they are actually now… pathetic… I am now quite curious to face the challenges in the management world …would like to be a manager at some point in my future and see how challenging will the tasks be, equally balancing with my personal life J

No More Orkutting

****ive decided to stay off from orkut for ever****

Orkut is an online webcommunity to make friends... i was using this for about 5 to 6 months ... the whole design was interesting and it is a magnet (i shud say) has the extreme power of attraction... specially with all IT guys... the chief advantages of it are

• you can catch up wth any old mates through the appropriate communty (say your school group or college group or work group)
• u can scrap any one (u dont have to be his friend)
• u can see any ones profile in the orkut world (again u don have to kno him to see his profile)
• u can upload pics and have a nice and handy album for others to see
• community forums are ther to have a common discussion about anything regarding the commnty...

as the above features attracted me, i slowly got addicted to orkutting and later i happen to realize these features actually are the biggest draw backs either....

• --> catching up old mates <-- this is very much useless... may b one in 1000 will b bothered to reply u even if u catch yr old mates.... if u really wanna stay in touch wth yr old mates u wudnt hav lost ther contacts.... for those lost contacts one of u 2 won b keen to b in touch for ever (atleast i found this in my experience)
• -->scrap any one <-- so do they, i can find many non sense scraps ...not jus in mine, even wth my frnds scraps... most of them are anonymous...(no privacy) why the hell shud some one else know about what u talking to yr frnd...u can mail em rather...
• -->can watch any ones profile<--no privacy again...this really sucks (specially for girls)
• -->can upload pics<-- this is quite a dangerous feature... many girls caught in this trap... they upload ther pics and many evil elements are mis using the pics to morph and black mail the girls....(atleast this feature shud b evacuated)
• -->commty forums<-- people use mock accounts and start posting all those offensive, illegal, idiotic posts that irritates many using it... i can see many useless cmmtys like i hate india, i hate tamils , i hate myself, pessimists and bla bla bla....
• waste of time.... hours are wasted on this by exploring mostly useless stuffs... (don ask me wat in the world are u doing by saving those critical minutes ;) even sleeping is good i guess)

however, the above are still fun for the fun loving people but literally makes u an addict ... i hate myself to refresh the orkut page every now and then to see if i got any messages.... many peeping in to my frnds profile jus coz they kno me... i feel guilty as myself being a bridge to reveal my frnds details as well ... i thought the whole concept of orkut is a kinda absurd and proper attention to be given so as to solve the concerned negative issues...

this is jus my opinion and i am not anticipating any one to agree with me... but i jus wud like to warn my mates to be carefull with this danger that might take u to any extent.... frnds, no matter if u do orkutting but make sure u stay safe and fine... specially girls b carefull with this extremely dangerous predator (orkut) .... :)