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Kaalangal Maarum, Kaatchigal Maarum

2006-11-06T22:53:00.001+05:30

Last post on Vetti Payyan. Moved from here to here

Endrum ungal aadharavai edhir paarkum ...

Sorry state of affairs ...

2006-08-29T20:51:00.000+05:30

This is what 2/3rds of the Software Engineers working in Electronics City say.

"My wife says I am not at home for enough time ... My boss says I am not at office for enough time ... No one knows that I spend 3 hours a day on the Hosur Road"

Am not writing a review ...

2006-08-28T21:00:00.000+05:30

Happened to watch one of the most awaited movies of the season "Vettaiyaadu Vilayaadu" last weekend. The mobile technology helped me in booking the ticket at Inox here in Bangalore. Rs 170 per ticket. Was reminded of Thiruvaanmiyur Thiagaraja where I have watched 4 movies for that amount. Anyways, thalaivar padam, 3rd day 3rd show so no regrets.

People waiting for the show to begin were excited. Overheard this while walking into the movie hall
"Kaakha Kaakha maadhiri irukum illa ..."
"Poda.. Adha vida nalla irukum"

Don't know what those two would have thought after seeing the movie. This movie was similar to KK in one way that this was also a police story and some thing which dealt with the emotions of the protagonist. Apart from that, Raghavan was not Anbuselvan.

Gautam has been bold enough to take the subject of a psycho serial killer and even bold to show the killings on camera. It was sickening to see the murders but apparently the censor did not feel so and gave the movie "U/A" certification. (Vayadhu vandhavargaluku U padama ?)

Some observations,
1. The movie did not require a big actor like Kamal .. but none of the contemporary actors would have fit into the role. May be Sarath Kumar.
2. Kamal's role in the movie was limited to that of the lead actor. Yeah, it is out and out Gautam's movie.
3. Kamal looked bloated, may be Gautam wanted it .. But we do not.
4. Too much of violence in the movie.
5. Some dialogues deliveries were excellent.

Aaradhana: US vandhurukeengale .. Neenga Software-a?
Raghavan : Illa Hardware. DCP Crime Branch

Anderson : "You cant break into a house without a proper warrant."
Raghavan : "We do it all the time in India.."

I liked this Anderson guy

One great thing in this movie was that the Americans in the movie speak English unlike our Captain Vijayakanth movies where the Pakistan theeviravaadhi also speaks Tamizh.

Muzik is decent. Songs were pretty good. Picuturisation could have been better. Cinemtography is excellent.

Anyways, this movie is not for the weak-hearted. Others enjoy !

Happy Vinayagar Chadurthi !!

2006-08-27T12:04:00.000+05:30

"Pillayar patti hero nee dhan pa ganesa ..
Nee manasu vecha naa naanum Hero pa "

The countdown has begun ...

2006-07-04T19:25:00.000+05:30

No Mood ..

2006-06-29T23:40:00.000+05:30

No mood to blog these days ...

Bangalore ponaalum Haripi vidadhu ...

2006-06-07T19:22:00.000+05:30

Dear Haripi, am so sorry to write about you again and again. This is too tempting.

Every one of us would have heard of the saying "Kaasiku ponaalum karmam vidadhu". My case is "Bangalore ku ponaalum Haripi vidadhu"

Read more ...

This happened sometime around 25th May. Haripi had joined work on 22nd and I was eager to know how his training was happening. Around noon, I sent a message asking how his induction was. He called me around 6 in the evening.

Me: Hi da!!
He: Who is this?
Me: Dei ...
He: I got a message from this number ...
Me: VK da
He: (He never listened to what I said) Are you calling from Airtel?
Me: What !!!
He: Are you calling from Airtel ?
Me: O*** naanVK pesaren
He: Ohh Appadiyaa, i thought this was from Airtel.

I couldnt control my laughter ...

Me: Why should Airtel message you ? And why should Airtel be bothered about your induction ?

He gave me some funny explanation.

Me: Seri, tell me now ... How is your induction ?

As soon as I asked this, he hit an orgasm and started talking about the technological park where his company was, about the cost of land there for some 5 mins.

He: Maama, ECR road is developing like crazy da.
Me: Oho..
He: Ammam, same with old mahabalipuram road.
Me: Ok..
He: So many IT companies da .. awesome for Chennai. Since Bangalore cant expand anymore companies are looking at Chennai da .. Infrastructure wise it is among the best.
Me: Hmmmm..
He: Maama, Old Mahabalipuram road ... In next 5 years, Old Mahabalipuram Rd is going to be the Information Highway of India.
Me: Ok Haripi ... naama nalaiku pesalaam

And I disconnected the fone.

He never answered How the induction was till the very end.

Am alive ...

2006-05-31T10:26:00.000+05:30

Interim Update : Am alive.

Will start the vetti activity of blogging again in a couple of days.

Me a Bangalore boy :)

2006-05-14T08:00:00.000+05:30

Got my final posting as Bangalore which was my preference. So have fixed a 2 BHK appartment @ Ranka Colony. Will be moving in from June 1st onwards.

Mathapadi, life is goin on... Travel is taking a lot of time. Too much traffic here. And the weather is too unpredictable also. Rains almost every evening adding to the woes of the commuters here.

Nuthing much in life.... Neenga dhan edhavadhu sollanum

Illi nodu enga oru Bengaluru ...

2006-05-06T13:35:00.000+05:30

Reached Bengaluru on 3rd and joined on 4th.

A 'thangable' climate and better opportunities. That is all good about bangalore. Apart from that bad and narrow roads, pathetic traffic blah blah ... Travel to Electronics City is pathetic.

Anyways, i think my opinion would change somedays later. I am lookin at Bangalore as my den for another 3 years atleast.

I dont have regular access to net since I am in trainin. And net access illama, ennavo kai odanja maadhiri iruku :(

Vettipayyan to Vyabara Thupariyum Nibunar

2006-05-01T19:06:00.000+05:30

The title says it all. The inevitable finally happened. I am also an EmBeeYea now. Graduated last Thursday in the esteemed presence of Shri Adi Godrej. Partied like crazy on Thursday and Friday. Now life is back to normal and expecting a tougher world, a new set of people, opportunities, threats ....

The last 12 months have been great. Hoping to perform well and go forward in my professional life. Am joining Infosys Technologies as Business Analyst on 4th May in Bengaluru. This is the first time am staying away from home. So any bangalore folks reading this, it is ur utmost duty to take care of me :D

Lotsa things happening in life. So think n times before you call me "Vetti Payyan" again :)

Till we meet next, adios.

Varta!

We failed in our mission ... :((

2006-04-25T23:40:00.000+05:30

Whatever one tries to do ... One is what one is ... And one cannot overcome his / her fate ... Evalo dhan try pannalum Idly Vada Pizza aagadhu ...

Why this build up?

We failed in our mission to portray ourselves as a part of the 'hep' gumbal. We decided to play pool. Prasad had his camera also ready and we rushed to Snookered in Adyar only to find that they had closed their business. Phone calls were made to locate any place to play in the vicinity and to our disappointment found none.

Apparam enna ... went to Baskin Robbins and had ice creams as if we had never had one in life.

And this pic of mine is "Ilavasa Inaipu" :D

We are sad :(

2006-04-21T08:27:00.000+05:30

Am writing this post with a heavy heart. Woke up today with this news. We are sad. Something happened in our close relative's family. We were shocked. They mean a lot to us.

The happenings strengthed my belief that one's character is moulded by the way one is brought up in life.

I sincerly pray to god to give them the strength to come out of this.

Thirupathi vandha thirupom ...

2006-04-20T12:46:00.000+05:30

Perarasu strikes again and as always he strikes terror in the minds of people watching this movie.

The story is a kalavai of some 100 movies that we have seen till now. And the dialogues are from some 500 tamizh movies released till now.

The initial scenes between Ajith and Sadha (Saadha in this movie) are very cheap and sick. The songs are typical kuthu style.

And the worst part is that Perarasu comes as an auto driver and delivers punch dialogues.
And there are so many messages in the movie. Every artist has been given an opportunity to tell a message to the society.

The only good thing is that we watched it in an Air Conditioned theatre.

Verdict: Unthangable. We even thought of opening our laptops and do some useful work.

Annan Vazhga !

2006-04-16T22:37:00.000+05:30

Uravugal piriginra pozhuthu, ninaivugal uravugalai serthu vaikum.

How true ! Idhai namakku sutti kaatiya Annan S J Suryah vaazhga !!

Me was total Damage

2006-04-16T00:15:00.000+05:30

Me total damage on my birthday that it took me 2 days to sit properly. Thanks to the birthday bumps that I got.

While I was sure of getting kicked, I was tryin to delay the inevitable. And during lunch my fans caught hold of me and kicked me to glory at the cafetaria. Vikas in particular was very enthusiastic and showed 200% commitment while Vasanth practised his football penalty kicking skills. Naanum evalavu neram dhan sirichindu irukardhu ... :(

As if it were not enough, there was a mob waiting at the tea shop in the evening. All I knew was that I was being lifted then everything blackened. And finally some divine angel intervened and they finally decided that enough is enough and left me alone. Me was so paavam that I could not even walk properly.

Anyways, the day was awesome because someone said, more the number of kicks, more people care for you. So I am happy :D

Well, thanks a ton for all those who wished me. This was one of the best birthdays I have ever had. You all made my day special.

Btw, someone promised to call me but did not. :(

Well ...

2006-04-13T06:39:00.000+05:30

26 happy years so far ... lookin forward for happier years ... Wish me on my birthday today :)

Shopping ...

2006-04-11T17:02:00.000+05:30

Went out for shopping yesterday. After OB adichufying for close to 3 years without wearing formals for work (yeah my prev company did not have a dress code) I started my hunt to buy formals.

As per R's advice (read force) went to Sri Krishna Collections in Panagal Park. Yesterday was the first time I visited the shop. They had a pretty neat collection of shirts and pants for formal wear. As usual I checked the "Buy 1 get one free" section and chose one really good shirt (dont ask me what brand it is. I dunno) and got one free. Then also bought 2 more shirts, 2 'pants material', one jean, one casual wear shirt, 3 Tees. And it took me 1 hour to finish the shopping.

What's the point ?

Here it is. First, I have never done shopping for this length before. Second, it took me 30 minutes to choose two shirts while I have done it in 3 minutes earlier. Third, my bill was close to some three thousand rupees and I did not give a damn to it while I have never ever thought of shopping for more than thousand rupees. And I am wondering who brought this change in me.

The 'Haripi Algorithm'

2006-04-08T23:17:00.000+05:30

I request all to read this first.

For all those who think Haripi is a complex person, I suggest you to read the following algorithm written by Prasad who incidentally is Haripi's cousin. This will make things easy for you to interact with Haripi.

Step 1: Haripi posts a question
Step 2: Haripi posts next question
Step 3: Haripi starts answering first question
Step 4: Haripi starts to answering the first question from ur point of view
Step 5: Haripi starts thinking for you also to get multiple answers for questions posted earlier
Step 6: He builds AI, NLP, Expert Systems, Fuzzy logic into the system taking craziness to crazy heights
Step 7: Haripi repeats step 1.

While this iteration goes on, your job is just to keep quiet. Look, how easy he has made it for you.

Dailamo Dailamo ...

2006-04-07T20:45:00.000+05:30

Dailamo Dailamo Daila Daila Dailamo ....
Dailamo Dailamo Dailamo Dailamo ....

Kalaileku raathiri mel kaadhale ...
Theekuchi ku thanni mela kaadhale ...
Risk Baskar ennoda love kaapathu...
Risk Baskar ennoda love kaapathu....

America Neeyanaa Afghanisthan Naanaana
Kalyanam endha ooril kooru ...

Un oorum ok dhan enga oorum ok dhan
Bin Laden enna sollran paaru ...

Unmella pithu pithu pithu pithu
Noi theera muttu muttu muttu muttu

Unmella pithu pithu
Noi theera muttu muttu

Kaadhal Oosi podanum Jet vegathil ...

(Dailamo Dailamo ...)

Srilanka neeyaana LTTE Naananaaa
Aiyaiyo vaaya konjam moodu ...

DMK neeyaana ADMK Naanana
Kottaila namma veeta podu ...

Vaai mela Ichu Ichu Ichu Ichu
Thaada nee Nachu Nachu Nachu Nachu

Vaai mela Ichu Ichu
Thaada nee Nachu Nachu

Kaanja Maadu Kambula Paayuradhapol ....

(Dailamo Dailamo ...)

Hurray !!!

2006-04-04T21:43:00.000+05:30

At last got my voter's ID card. And was absolutely delighted when I got it in just 30 mins. The process was very basic. One woman checked the name in the list, got my signature and gave me a form. Then I gave this form to the photographer who used a high quality digi cam to take pics. I was asked to wait for sometime and in another 20 mins got my ID card from the counter.

I was quite surprised to see that the people employed there were trained only to do the job and not answer questions. Infact, the person who was attesting the eubber stamps on the card did not even know what he was doing. All he told me was that he was asked to affix the rubber stamp at 'this' place. And the one who issued the card also did not cross check properly to whom he was issuing. These may lead to a lot of mal practices. My name was spelt wrong in the id card. When I raised this point to the person who was typing the details, he told me that 'It is an online mistake which can be corrected only offline'. Seems there will be some manual correction next week.

And I just realised that the election in Chennai is on May 8th. I may not be able to vote :(

MIB

2006-03-30T08:44:00.000+05:30

After being vetti yesterday, we thought that we should do something useful. So planned on MIB. MIB is not Men in Black bur Murugan Idly and Beach. Off we went at around 8 from college. We here is Haripi, Prasad, Chandru, Cub, Harshil and I.

The chakara ponjal there was awesome yesterday. So as usual we built a three tier model starting with Samghar Vadai, Ghee Uthappam and Dosai. Any MI visit will end with a coffee. The coffee there is the second best available in Chennai. Only Hot Chips serves better coffee. After a super dinner we were obvisouly very tired. So went to the beach.

We did some vetti chat till around 10 at the bessie beach and then came back home.

What's so special in this post ... well here it comes. After I reached home, Haripi called me. While we were talking, the call got cut and I did not bother to call him. Sometime later I saw a missed call on my mobile from Haripi and called him.

Me: "Enna da, did u call me again ? I forgot to remove the silent mode"
He: "Chumma only called up. Have you reached home?"
Me: "Yes da. I was at home when we spoke sometime back"
He: "Okk... Then why did you not pick the call when I called again ? Were you having your dinner?"

Me fainted.

And those who did not understand, why I fainted, read the post again.

PS: This blog will have such posts only for another month. So please dont accuse me for not writing anything useful. Am enjoyin the last few days of college life.

Kaalathin Kolam :D

2006-03-24T23:22:00.000+05:30

2 years before ...

1. My wife should like cricket. Should know about all players and should know all the statistics.
2. Should watch all tamizh movies irrespective of the actors.
3. Should cook me Oooki (Orulai Kizhangu aka Potato) 4 days a weekand Cauliflower the other 3 days.
4. Should not like parupusili
5. Should not mind me eating in Kayendhi Bhavans
6. Should be very active on YM, Orkut, blogs
7. Weekends for cricket and sleep

Now ...

1. I dont like cricket. How boring can it be ?
2. Tamizhh movies !! Am I stupid ? I watch only Hindi and English movies. That too Studi5 sofa seat.
3. How can some one like Potatos ? Cauliflower .. uvvvekaahhh !!
4. Parupusili is the elixir of life.
5. Dunno how people like to eat on Kayendhi Bhavans
6. How can people waste time on YM, Orkut, blogs ?
7. Weekends are for a movie at Satyam Cinemas and a drive on ECR

Idhu dhan Kaalathin Kolamo ?

How possible ?

2006-03-24T23:15:00.000+05:30

How can someone be very lazy or irresponsible when it comes to making a career choice ? How can someone be totally indifferent on what is happening in his / her college ? How can someone say that he/she did not expect any thing before coming here and is happy with whatever the outcome is?

If only he/she comes in front of me .. nalla palar palar nu naalu slaps kedaikum.

Neways, its his/her life. How does it matter to me ?

Enjoy Maadi ...

2006-03-22T22:12:00.000+05:30

What do you think of a person who

1. Had a hair cutting at Green Trends Salon
2. Went for a movie in Studio 5 (sofa seat :D)
3. Had ice creams at Move n Pick
4. Had dinner at Cascade

and that too all on the same day ....

Introducing Haripi ....

2006-03-21T22:21:00.000+05:30

You would have seen his blog here. Many have had a great opinion of this guy. People percieve him as a funny guy. But they dont know that he is a total mokkai.

We will be happy to have someone who can understand your thoughts. But Haripi is way far ahead .. He can talk for you and he can also think for you.

He will start a question, "What do you think of this?" and even before one could reply, he wiill say "Do you think like this ? But wont this happen this way?"

A dialogue with Haripi means he will talk on behalf of both people and you can remain silent.

And he has this ability to torture you with his questions.

Haripi: Dei, heard that our college is moving to a different location next year.
Me: I dunno da
Haripi: Perungudi or Palavakkam

Makkale, even after replying 'I dunno' this fellow is going ahead and asking the second.

Another instance, this was after we played an online quiz . This is how he tortured Prasad on Yahoo Messenger.

Haripi: We have answered 52 out of 70 questions.
Prasad, knowing about Haripi chose to remain silent. But our man did not stop.
Haripi: Do you think our performance is good enough for us to come in the top 10 among 200 probable participants?
Prasad was still silent
Haripi: Do you think other colleges would have also performed at the same level?

Prasad logged out of YM.

And then the worst was last Friday night. Around 11 in the night he called me.

Me: Dei, wat da ?
He: Mamaa, I am in Devi da, watching 'Chitiram Pesudhadi'
Me: Good da.
He: Movie is brilliant da. Bhavana is too cute.
Me: I know da ..
He: This movie was released first da ..It bombed. Now re-released and it is a big hit.
Me: hmmm
He: Maama, the learning da .. "Marketing is very important for a movie"
Me: (aahaa ... Haripi started :( )
He: Seri, when are you joining da .. May 9th ?
Me: No da. May 4th.
He: When is your marriage?
Me: July.
He: So, 10 days leave edupiya ?
Me: Dunno da, lets see ..
He: 2 weeks leave edu da ..
Me: Paakalaam
He: So where are you goin ?
Me: What?
He: Enga da pora ?
Me: Enna enga pora ?
He: Dei, after Marriage where are going (and he starts to blush)
Me: Why cant u ask this directly?
He: No da, so many people are there in the theatre, thats why i did not want to use the word 'honeymoon'
Me: Seri, we can talk tomorrow. (And I cut the call)

He was calling me during the interval of the movie and see what kind of a conversation we had.

Can anyone save us from him?

Chennai - kids day out!

2006-03-20T22:22:00.000+05:30

Came across this really good blog. This is maintained by Ms Revathy. And this is what the first post of the blog says ..

"Here I will try to tell you, what the kids of Chennai can go out to see, dine, play and participate. And I will try to tell you about the events as soon as I come to know. But, yes, sometimes it may be on that day evening. Please pardon me in those cases.

Also allow me sometime to gather news and places. Till then I might tell you about what you can do online or just read books sitting inside your cosy room!

And love you kids, if you also tell me about what you want me to include here!

Happy outing!"

A blog exclusively for kids is a brilliant idea and would like to appreciate Ms Revathy for coming out with it. That too when the summer holidays are round the corner.

Pattiyal - Go, Watch it.

2006-03-20T06:02:00.000+05:30

This movie may have traces of Hollywood and the recent Bollywood underworld movies. After 'Kurumbu' and 'Arindhum Ariyamalum', director Vishnuvardhan has done a brilliant job in portraying the life of 'hit men'. Bharath steals the show while Arya is also in his elements.

Go, Watch it.

Cultured Change ....

2006-03-14T10:33:00.000+05:30

Pattu Sarees, Neela Border, Agala border, Araku color, Pallu, Veshti ... I have learnt to appreciate these things these days.

The greatest run chase ever ...

2006-03-13T07:19:00.000+05:30

What can one feel for a team that scores 434 in 50 overs and still ends up on the losing side ?

SouthAfrica were brilliant in their run chase. Smith and Gibbs took the fight to the Aussie camp while Boucher, Van Der Wath, Telemachus and Hall sealed the show. I thought the turning point of the game was Van Der Wath's cameo of 35 of just 18 balls. And then Telemachus more than made up for his 28 run over when Aussie batted with a 6 balls knock of important 12 runs. Boucher remained till the end to see SA through.

Australia batted like true champions. Ponting and Hussey were brilliant that Symonds never got a chance to showcase hit hitting powers. But in the end SA had the last laugh.

Never since India's wonderful chase of 325 have I seen a high quality run chase.

Mick Lewis bowled the most expensive 10 overs in LOIs, a total of 26 sixes and 87 boundries were score in the match.

For a change the absence of Glem McGrath and Shaun Pollock did not matter to the cricketing public. Ashes defeat, defeat after scoring 434 ... do these things say anything about Ponting's captaincy ? His idea to bring on Brett Lee when only 7 were needed of the last over, giving a complete spell to Mick Lewis when he was going at 10 an over were some of the factors that mattered. One would have thought that an experienced campaigner like Symonds should have bowled at the depth.

Anyways full paisa vasool for all those who watched this match.

Romba too much !!!

2006-03-04T00:20:00.000+05:30

94 91 86 89 89 100 100 100 91 ...

These Bradmanesque scores are my Sister's marks in the 7th Semester of her engineering degree. Romba too much. I have not even had my attendance above 80%. Infact my marks and attendance will almost be the same. Anyways, naan andha kaalathu BE. So I can take some heart out of it.

Btw, way to go sis. Treat !!!

My Priority List

2006-03-02T20:38:00.000+05:30

YM, Pagalguy.com, Orkut, Cricinfo, Cricbuzz, Skysports.com, thefa.com, soccerclips.net, blogs, FiFa 2002, bessie beach, Murugan Idly Kadai, Hot Chips. I just realised that these have nothing to do with studies ....

Taxi No 9 2 11 - Paisa Vasool

2006-02-28T09:48:00.000+05:30

Am surprised that I watched two good hindi movies in a row. Bluffmaster, a couple of weeks back and now Taxi No 9 2 11.

Any different Hindi movie is less probable of being original and this movie is no different. The theme for the movie is flicked from Changing Lanes. But credits to the crew for making it wholly entertaining. I would rate this as a "must watch" for those who look for entertainment.

The country is really going to the dogs

2006-02-26T19:30:00.000+05:30

Manu Sharma shoots Jessica Lall in front of 600 people, the police arrest him and the case drags for 6 long years. The court acquits him and 8 others after 6 long years stating that there is no proper evidence.

Who are to blame here? Is it the judicial system or the police who failed to provide concrete grounds for the court to convict the accussed.

"The judge said the suspects were acquitted on three main grounds. One, the weapon used for committing the crime was yet to be recovered by the police. Two, three key eyewitnesses — Shayan Munshi, Shiv Das and Karan Rajput — had turned hostile. Three, while the prosecution said the two bullets which were fired belonged to one weapon, the CFSL report said they were fired from two different weapons."

It has to be noted that the key accused Manu Sharma is the son of a former union minister who is now a minister in the Haryana government.

Why is that a crime that was committed infront of 600 people could not be proved ? Partly because those who were considered as witness did not cooperate. Out of the four main eye witnesses, three turned hostile during the course of the investigation. But what about the other 500 people who were there ? It is true that the rich and the famous who were at the party were not forthcoming with the police. Infact, most of the people who were present at the Tamarind Court, where the murder happened partied again just two days later.

Salman Khan gets a year in jail for killing a black buck while Manu Sharma is left scot free for killing Jessica Lall. The country is truly going to dogs.

Gods

2006-02-23T17:42:00.000+05:30

Tuesday was the day of gods.

The first was Aswath "God" Damodaran. He is a god when it comes to valuation techniques. He visited our college for a lecture on Valuation yesterday and for two hours kept us spellbound. Even the non finance people were able to appreciate the lecture. And a few of us had the opportunity of being pictured with him. His' was the best lecture that I have had till now.

The second was Thierry Henry. The UEFA Champions League knock out phase was kicked off yesterday. Henry's magic was all over the football pitch. Be it passes, freekicks, runs or goals, Henry is a class apart. And yesterday he showed us why he is one of the best strikers in contemporary soccer. Real Madrid were shaken by the under strength Arsenal. Henry scored the all important goal. Taking Fabergas' pass from the mid of the pitch, god beat 4 Real Madrid players and then the goal keeper to score. He may be an Arsehol (I dun support Arsenal) but he is god.

The third is our own ARR. The less I speak of 'Godfather' music, the better. So am keeping it short and sweet. The music sucks!

But I dont care. The other two gods made my day.

15ooo hitz ...

2006-02-16T09:28:00.000+05:30

I did not realise this until Madhu told me. You can conveniently assume that it is Madhu in the pic :D

Bored ...

2006-02-14T17:00:00.000+05:30

The country is going to dogs :D

2006-02-06T22:00:00.000+05:30

He had his engagement last week. Infact his marriage date was fixed long time back. And as usual he told all his close friends.

Adhula one girl forgot the date. And she asked him a few times and he refused to tell. How can someone forget a close friend's marriage date? Now, She's He is also his friend. And he too forgot the date. But he had attended the engagement and found the date.

She: Dei, when is his marriage ?

She's He: Naan solla maaten.

She: Sollu da ..

She's He: Avan enkitta solla koodadhu nu solli irukaan

She: hmph!

She's He: Enna aachu unaku?

She: Unaku enna vida avan dhan mukkiama poitaan illa ?

She's He: Did I say that?

She: Appo date sollu

She's He: Avan dhan unkitta sonnan illa ?

She: I forgot, ippo solla poriya illaya?

She's He: Mudiyaadhu...

She: Appo unaku inime adhu kedaiyaadhu.

She's He: Aaha .. DD-MM is his marriage date.

She: Hmmm... adhu.

Ippadi patta pasanga irukara varaikum .. the country is goin to dogs. :D

How cruel can it get?

2006-02-03T10:33:00.000+05:30

Was wondering how cruel life can be sometimes. That too on when one is preparing for an examination on Financial Statement Analysis while his whole family is in a happy mood preparing for his engagement on Feb 3rd 2006.

Yeah! Today is my engagement with R :)

IE 7

2006-02-02T16:47:00.000+05:30

I loved the way my screen looked today. I have been using Firefox for quite sometime. Was wondering why Microsoft did not come up with a tabbed browser.

I am not comparing or arguing for or against any of the browsers. IE 7 looks neat. And i will be using this for sometime now.

Seeking Opinion II

2006-01-29T12:07:00.000+05:30

Something on the lines of this.

What do you think of a girl who travels some 20 odd kilometers to treat a guy and to add to that gives him Rs 100 for petrol ?

Random thought ...

2006-01-28T10:43:00.000+05:30

( ` | ` )

All good things come to an end ....

To be continued ...

Un'thangable'

2006-01-24T10:13:00.000+05:30

He: Enna paakara TV la ?
She: Paatha theriyala, padam paakaren
He: Adhu seri, bore adikarthukaaga Telugu dubbing movie ellam paakariyaa?
She: Unakenna adha pathi
He: Loosa nee ?
Saying this he goes and switches the tv off.
She: Edhuku da TV ya off panna .. (Screams at the top of her voice ...) Amma ... paaruma ivan naan TV paakache off pannitu poraan
He: Edhuku ippo kathi oora kootara nee?

Even before he could finish his amma, thatha, paati appear from nowhere ...

Amma: Edhuku da avala azhavidara ... Unaku idhe velaya pochu ... Yaar unaku leave vitta inniku ...
He: Naan unnum pannala ma ...
She: Paaru maa, enna ava azhavitunde irukaan (Saying this she starts crying ...)
He: (Ivalo neram normala dhane pesindu irundha ... ippo engendhu kanla thanni vandhudhu ...) Edhuku di unnum illadhathuku azhara ...
Thatha: Unakenna vayasaardhu ... yen da kozhandhaya eppapaathalum seendinde iruka nee
He: Ennadhu eppo paathalumaa ?
She: Ippo edho Ten Sports channel set top box illamaye varumaam ... keezha flash news maadhiri potaan ... enna nu pakarthukula ivan tv off pannitaan ...
He: (Aahaa, ippadi pulugaraale ...)
Amma: Unaku idhey vela da ..

(All go back to their work)

He: Ivaloda koduma thangamudiyalaye ... Some one save me ...

Don't worry brother, DBA will save you.

Zoho On My Blog

2006-01-21T00:57:00.000+05:30

Was talking to my ex-collegue a couple of days back. He and his team are working on Zoho products. These include

Zoho Writer - This is an onlineword processor. It is a free service & you canuse it in many number of ways.

Create, edit & access your documents from anywhere using just abrowser (no need for installing software like MS Word)
Share & collaborate with your friends online

Zoho Planner (Beta) : Onlineorganizer to maintain todo's, notes,appointments, attachments & reminders.

Zoho Challenge (Beta) : Helps universities, training institutes and educational institutions to evaluate candidates online.

thandora- you can add your business (company, product, services or even yourblog) & you choose the best tags/keywords which you deem fit willhelp the audience find it out. Very mimimal number of fields make theaddition of your business listing(s) easy.

Zoho CRM - On demand customer relationship management

He asked me to evalute the products, especially Zoho Writer andPlanner. I started using Zoho Writer and found it to be very good. Ihavent used any online word processor before. So this was completelynew to me. I found this to be a simple, easy to use application. Onecanexport the documents to word and even pdf, can share the documents across registered users. I think i am going to use Zoho Writer more frequently. One compelling reason is that I can publish the documents directly on my blog. This application supports blogger, livejournal and typepad.

And yes, this post was typed on Zoho Writer. Feel free to try and give a feedback.

Cribbings of India

2006-01-20T14:48:00.000+05:30

Some people forget old relations when new relations come ...

Probably life is like that ...

Paramasivan ...

2006-01-19T21:58:00.000+05:30

Back after watching one of the most kadi movies. 'The Hindu' this morning told that this movie has been declared a hit. Probably because Vijay's 'Athi' and Simbu's 'Saravana' were even worse.

P Vasu has taken scenes from earlier Vijayakanth and Arjun movies, added some stlye and presented it to viewers. Sick !

The only positive thing in this movie is Ajith. He is back to his old slim look and looks terrific. But apart from that and bike chase that happens in the climax, there is nothing that he has done in this movie.

Laila's role was pathetic. Infact it was irritating. Prakashraj is ok and so is Jayaram. Vivek has provided the much needed laughter here and there.

Even the kashmir terrorist talks in tamil. Enaku Vijayakanth movie paakara oru feeling. And few scenes were directly lifted from Arjun's 'Jai Hind'.

Music by Vidyasagar. Nothing great. And an item number by Ragasya that too that in Prakashraj's dream. A round of applause for the director.

And before ending here is the best dialogue in the movie. 'North South side la sutta, East West side la thala sedharum'.

Can go to an Air Conditioned theatre to beat the heat. Appadiye can sleep. Ticket charges for AC and cushion chair.

Coming soon ... Review on Athi

Thai Porandha Vazhi Porakum ....

2006-01-16T18:08:00.000+05:30

The much awaited thing has happened ....

After having an unsuccessful interview with these people, I got an offer from here.

And I am happy :D

Edit: Changed the title :)

Google's solution for Vettiness ...

2006-01-09T07:05:00.000+05:30

Google has been appreciated for being innovative ... Search engine, Gmail, Blogspot, Desktop, Alert, Answers, News, Picassa, Toolbar ... the list goes on. There should be someone who realised that one application should be developed for people who are doing nothing. And Orkut was born.

Am not going to take the pains of finding what Orkut means. I stumbled upon Orkut sometime during late 2004. Arvind invited me and knowing the type of person he is, I was sure that this was another form of vettiness.For people who are ignorant of Orkut, it is a networking site similar to friendster and hi5. But Google made sure that the use and feel of Orkut is better than the other similar sites.

Now, what can one do in Orkut ?

One can endlessly add friends to his list. One can join communities. One can scrap in another's scrap book. Or just spend time reading the various profiles.

Seems to be interesting!! How vetti is it?

Joining orkut is itself a clear indicator of vettiness. After joining, one can add friends to your list ... similar to adding on the YM or MSN. But the real vettiness begins when one joins the communities. There are communities for everything here. Investing, Football, Quiz, Movies, Languages and what not. But since some people are more vetti than others, they start communites like Sambhar Idli Vada Dosa, Kadalai, South Indian Coffee, Coffee without sugar, PhD in Movies, Tamil Songs the great, Liar Liar, Vetti, The Talkative, I no Know English, Ek Gaon Mein, I love wasting time ... Orkut is itself vetti apparam enna thaniya vetti nu oru community ?

Is it? What does one do in the communities?

While there are some communities that are really useful, many are heights of vettiness. There will be no connection between the name of the community and the discusison goin on there. They play games, antakshiri and what not. Popular games are "Rate the person above you", "Identify the movie from song/dialogue, punch dialogue", "Sentence making" ...

What else?

Scrapping is another form of vettiness ... Two people will be online, on YM or MSN, but still will chat through scraps. And talking of scrapping, girls invariably have more scrap entries than guys.

I saw a few entries like this ...

"Hey!! I am new to Chennai and looking for friends .. Can we be friends?"
Yen pa oru payyanoda scrap la poi idha adika maatiyaa?

"Am a kewl guy ... wanna be friends"
Enna un Story?

"Are you from ABC Engg college? You look like a girl who sat right across the row in my class"
Un class ponnu na onaku peru adayalam ellam theriyaadha ? Enna trick idhu?

And then people post some abstract messages like "The natural liberty of man only exists in your equilibrium.Embrace your brazilian friend".
Yaaru enna nu theriyaamaye karuthu sollraanga ...

The above are very few instances of what is happening on Orkut. And the gurls get on an average 10 friendship invites per day. And 9 of them are from guys whom they do not know. Well, Guys are shameless :D

Neways, this has been a fairly long post than I thought .... Mez back to Orkutting :D And anyone wanting an Orkut invite mail me.

~ Blog Birthday ~

2006-01-04T10:12:00.000+05:30

New Template ... Placements ... Break from Blogging

2006-01-02T06:08:00.000+05:30

How is the new template ? Was looking at so many templates and almose zeroed on one blue colored template when I found this one. A new template for a new year ... :D

And our placements start in another 15 days. Time to realise our dream. Am taking a temp break from blogging. I will be back as soon as I get placed. And while I am away, celebrate the first birthday of my blog on Jan 4th.

Tata!!!

A great year ahead ...

2006-01-01T09:02:00.000+05:30

CAT result, admission interviews, got Great Lakes, quit AdventNet, MBA Program, Cultural Shock, Lake Superior, Lake Mansarover, New friends, InDifference, Lots of realisation, and learning ... What a fantastic year. Looking forward to another fantastic year where we will reach newer heights. Happy New Year !!!

Note: While I was thinking about writing a post for the new year, I got a message from Prasad. I took the liberty of emulating and enhancing the message. (In short Copy-Paste with some modifications).

I am like this only ...

2005-12-28T22:24:00.000+05:30

I repeat what Howard Cosell said.

"Arrogant. Pompous. Vain. Cruel. Verbose. Show-off. I've been called all of these. Of course, I am."

The Power of Love II

2005-12-24T17:41:00.000+05:30

Namma Hero and his friend AR, were walking to go to college. Namma Hero was as usual fiddling with his mobile phone messaging his girl friend. AR was trying to get his attention.

AR: Maama!

Hero(Not even bothering to look up): Sollu da!!

AR: Are you going home after class ?

Hero: Yes da. Need to wash my clothes.

AR: Seri. Give me the room keys. I will forget it later.

Hero: Ummm.

AR: Kudu da ....

Hero( blushing seeing the message on the mobile): Tharen ...

AR: Dei.... Ippove kudu da ... (He stretched his hands to get the keys)

Now dear readers.... what do you think that Namma Hero did ?

He was still blusing .... and then shook hands with AR and continued walking.

AR was shocked ... Is this the power of love?

Btw, AR is sleeping in college only these days. When asked why, his reply was, "Maama.bayama iruku da ... avan porvai lendhu night fulla light velicham adikudhu da ...."

Appi Burthuday :)

2005-12-22T22:14:00.000+05:30

A little too late in the day. Neways, join me in wishing Madhu a very happy birthday.

Madam was very busy (seemingly busy I guess :D) today @ work. I called her at the stroke of the day and she said that she will call me sometime.

Madhu! thanks for keeping your word.

And let me see if you remember my birthday and wish me.

And one more treat from Madhu up for grabs.

Vettiness unplugged - Mez back.

2005-12-19T09:54:00.000+05:30

Well, it was so difficult to be away from blogging. So come what may, I thought I would continue my vetti work here.

So for the three souls who bothered to comment for my previous post, danks from the deepest depth of my heart.

Now, what is this post about ?

Apparently, the fa(o)rmer chief minister of Bihar, Ms Rabri Devi has refused to move out of 1, Anne Marg, the official residence of the Bihar Chief Minister. Seems she has no plans to vacate the place which she feels is rightfully her's.

Many of her children are thinking that the house is there since they were born and brought up there. But Rabri is more worried about her cows. Apparently, she would find difficulty in finding a place for her cows when she vacates this place. Hence her refusal to move out is justified.

The latest news is that, she is planning to marry Nitesh Kumar so that she can continue staying at the CM's residence.

Closed

2005-12-13T23:31:00.000+05:30

This is my last post. I intend to blog again. Don't know when :( I may continue here ... or may start a new blog.

This show has been running for a year. Time to move on in life. And thanks a ton for all who visited and commented here. Hope to see you again later.

Varta ....

My Weekend ....

2005-12-12T07:41:00.000+05:30

Somethings that happened in the past two days.

My two good friends, L and V got married on the same day. The irony is that they are enemies to the core. L married B my senior in College while V married V, L's close friend. I had to attend both wedding receptions on Dec 10th. V is my friend since class 3 and we both were cricket freaks then and football freaks now. I knew L through V in 1997. And I passed my engg by borrowing books from L's husband B. Join me in wishing the couples a wonderful married life.

Note: V is famously remembered among friends for chasing a kite from Nanganallur to St Thomas Mount before catching it. Now he is flying to Mauritius for his honeymoon. Asshole yesterday he was worried more about Manchester United's future.

The first day @ L'Attitude is over. We had Mr Chandrababu Naidu, Mr Jairam Ramesh, Mr Arunachalam (Carnegie Mellon University), Mr Vellayan (Director Marketing Murugappa group), Mr K S Ramesh (CavinKare) and Mr Suhas Gopinath (CEO of Globals Inc and the world's youngest CEO) addressing the conclave. We then had various competitions for other B School students. Vitamin F, the finance event of which I was a part was won by SCMHRD while the individual prize went to a student from MDI.

And some general cribbings. People are willing to lick ass to get things done. So disgusting. And why dont people return telephone calls or sms ?

And I was sick on Friday and Saturday :(

Ore kutaila vizhundha mattaigal

2005-12-09T17:31:00.000+05:30

1997 - V, V and K were making fun of V's brother S for going around with a girl in the name of love.

2005 - V,V and K are doing the same thing that S was doing in 1997.

Ore kutaila vizhundha mattaigal !!

I M BC

2005-12-08T09:49:00.000+05:30

The power of love ....

2005-12-04T12:52:00.000+05:30

I have heard that guys becomes poets when they fall in love. But I have never seen one before. But today I witnessed for the first time that if not a poet, a guy can actually become poetic.

H, A and I were sitting in this person's room chatting. And our hero was lying on the floor. I was fiddling with the handle of the window door and was making some noise. Our hero supposedly in a dream land was obviously disturbed and looked up to see what was happening. I assumed that he would have realised that it was me making the noise. I continued my vetti work and our hero looked up again.

Me: Dei, naan dhan da.
He: Ohh Neeyaa
Me: Enna Neeyaa?
He: Naan edho pura nu nenachen. (Pura -> Pigeon)

There was silence across the room for a second and suddenly every one of us laughed our asses out. Under normal circumstances this guy would have said "Edho Korangu nu nenachen". And we did not expect him to say "pura".

That is what the power of love is. It has brought a cultured change in him.

DBA is here to stay ....

2005-12-02T00:23:00.000+05:30

The events that have happened in the past few days have led to the formation of DBA, the Deprived Brothers' Association. As the name suggests, this is the association formed to safeguard the rights of brothers whose lives have been reduced to a mere existence because of their sisters.

Dear Brothers, Many of us have sisters who have caused life miserable for us. The DBA is here to save us. Enrol today !!

Basic qualificaitions - Should have a sister, preferably younger ones. Rakhi sisters are also allowed. Proof regarding harassment by sisters will be cross checked. Kindly bring in references from neighbours who have witnessed you getting harassed. And Member references will be given top priority.

This is a not for profit organisation. So no fee of any kind is charged. All we need is your support for your brotherhood.

Mez pissed off !!!

2005-11-30T23:54:00.000+05:30

Have been in a pretty bad mood since afternoon. Though I was controling myself in college, I could not do so at home.

Day started very badly with me struggling with the assignment on Valuations. There was some calculation mistake and a concept that I could not understand. Luckily the deadline for the assignment was extended. And then was totally irritated when this guy refused to do the presentation because he has never done a presentation before. What the fuck ? All the more reason to do it. He refused. And then had plans to meet two people. One refused on health grounds and the other for some unknown reason. And there were some other things that were bugging me.

Came home totally frustrated .... and amma's chapathi and paneer sabji came to my rescue. Am still not in a good mood. Infact a few minutes back I was cursing the whole world in general and one person in particular. I had actually called it a day and was ready to sleep. But thought I have to write this when I am in the bad mood. Probably I will get a good sleep now.

Nothing to beat this !!!

2005-11-30T08:16:00.000+05:30

We have been quite busy in college for the past two weeks. (Haripi is the only vetti guy among us. He comes to college only for lunch and snacks. Well, his credit papers have not started yet.) Yesterday we were relatively free and some guys were watching 'Troy'. My knowledge of english movies is restricted to the movies that they screen in college. Same is with Prasad. So while others were watching movies, we were wondering what is there in english movies that we do not have in tamizhh movies.

Shivakumar aka Kotler came up with some points most of which I cannot recollect now. And he mentioned that the English movies have some wonderful dialogues. He gave some examples like Gladiator, Troy and Braveheart none of which I have watched. I have watched Basic Insitich though ;) Even that movie had some great dialogues.

Beiing vetti like me, Prasad then started to look at some tamizhh movies that had some good english dialogues. I instantly remembered the dialogues of the late Major Sundarrajan. He was one of the tamizhh actors who could speak good english and the yesteryear directors used this to good effect. A typical Major Sundarrajan dialogue would have an english dialogue followed by its tamil translation. Like this. "You are under arrest. Naan ungala kaidhu seyyaren". Gowravam had some good dialogues by Sivaji. I could not recollect any other english dialogues. But Prasad came up with one that was accepted as the best by all of us.

That was rendered by the one and only Superstar in Padayappa. More than the content, the way he says it makes it the best. It goes like this. "Anger is the cause of all problems. One should learn how to control it. Else life will be miserable".

Prasad also pointed out this dialogue in Mannan. Yes. ShantiDevi is my wife...I'm mechanic by profession but i have lot of passion and compassion for fellow human beings...If you think educated people are cultured then i am not....and far far better than youuuu aaallll

What say ?? Isnt it the best ? Hail Superstar.

I am a Teetotaler

2005-11-27T15:15:00.000+05:30

I am Shameless ....

2005-11-24T21:25:00.000+05:30

She pays my mobile bills. She takes me to movies. She takes me to nice restaurants and pays the bill. She also gives me pocket money whenever I need.

Yeah! I am shameless.

Note: I wrote this after reading this post by Ram C.

This happens only in Bharath ...

2005-11-22T09:29:00.000+05:30

The Bharath above refers to Bharath Institute of Science and Technology now known as Bharath Institute of Higher Education and Research, the institute from where I did my under grad. There is one famous telephonic conversation between the Placement officer of the college and the HR of a reputed software company. This happened after I graduated and one of my juniors told me about the incident.

HR: We are interested in recruiting from your college.
Placement: Ok good. But we cannot talk to you now.
HR: Ok. When shall we talk about this ?
Placement: Try calling after a week. Meggido is happening now.

And even before the HR guy could answer, the Placement guy had cut the call. And for those who do not know what Meggido is, it is the annual inter college culturals that our college hosted. I need not say here that the company never visited the campus for recruitment.

After I passed out, I never went back to that place. They did not even have a convacation ceremony for us. I do not have any emotional attachment to that place. Being one of the first self financing engg colleges in Chennai, the infrastructure was poor and the quality of the teaching staff was bad. Ofcourse, there were a few good lecturers. But overall the management was not interested in improving the infrastructure. The funds from the college were used to start similar engg colleges.

The reason am writing about the college is because last week I met one person whom I have great respect for and who is associated with the college. He said that though the quality of students is good, the management is still the same without any interest in improving the quality of the college. Seems the policy of appointing the relatives of the management guys as lecturers still exists. Heard that they have come up with a good infrastructure and nothing more than that.

It is a shame that the college remains the same while many new colleges have developed good infrastructure and provide good if not great education.

L'Attitude 13°05 is here

2005-11-21T19:09:00.000+05:30

I am proud to announce that our B School Fest, L'Attitude 13°05 is happening on Dec 11th and Dec 12th. Click on the above pic to know more.

To know about our school, click on Great Lakes.

We Will Miss You

2005-11-19T05:49:00.000+05:30

Roy Keane stunned the football world by terminating his contract with ManU yesterday. He reached an agreement with the club which allows him to leave the club with immediate effect. He had been of glorious service to ManU during his Twelve years at Old Trafford. Even his worst adversaries on field like the ones of Patrick Viera held him high.

Find below the statements made by Keano and Sir Alex Ferguson. Courtesy BBC.

Keane said: "It has been a great honour and privilege for me to play for Manchester United for over 12 years.

"During my time at the club I have been fortunate to play alongside some of the best players in the game and in front of the best supporters in the world.

"At all times I have endeavoured to do my best for the management and the team.

"Whilst it is a sad day for me to leave such a great club and manager I believe that the time has now come for me to move on. After so many years, I will miss everyone at the club.

"I send my best wishes for the future to the management, players, staff and supporters of the club."
Ferguson said: "Roy Keane has been a fantastic servant for Manchester United.The best midfield player in the world of his generation, he is already one of the great figures in our club's illustrious history.

"Roy has been central to the success of the club in the last 12-and-a-half years and everyone at Old Trafford wishes him well in the rest of his career and beyond."

Roy Keane!! We will miss you.

Kushboo ... Suhasini ....

2005-11-17T10:02:00.000+05:30

Phew! When one thought that the issue was over, it has resurfaced again. This time, Suhasini is the target for the 'so-called' guardians of Tamil.

I thought our's is a democratic country and every one is entitled to have an opinion on every other thing. Kushboo has every right to say what she thought on the issue of Pre Marital Sex. Now, Suhasini by stating that Kushboo was totally misunderstood and it is a shame on the Tamil community has earned the wrath of the Tamil and women activists.

The media also has its share in the whole episode. They create a bias in the minds of people by using controversial headlines that attract eyeballs.

DPI and PMK are trying to do what DMK did to Tamil Nadu in the 60s. They are exploiting the 'language-sensitivity' of Tamilians to seek political dividends. Dr Ramdos, you have given sanskrit names to your grand daughters. You call yourself the guardian of Tamil and Tamilians. Please go and change the names of your grand daughters before asking the movie makers to change the names to tamil. Please practise what you preach.

As Suhasini said, "Tamizhan na enna, komba mulachuruku".

FAQs regarding Great Lakes.

2005-11-12T21:51:00.000+05:30

Itz admission time at Great Lakes and I have managed to put together some FAQ.

Click here and enjoy.

Shopping for gifts ...

2005-11-10T21:24:00.000+05:30

I have a chronic disability in buying gifts. Leave alone buying gifts for gurls, I cannot buy gifts for guys also. So when Suresh asked me to suggest something to buy for one of our classmates, my mind went blank. We were in Odyssey at that time. But the worse thing is, I cannot decide between two gifts, so one can forget asking me to decide among many things available there. Suresh had already thought of something, but was in a dilemma because he felt it will not suit the guy.

I delegated the job to Scudie and went to check the CDs there. The mantle again fell on me when I came back and I suggested the first thing I saw there. Folders. Some nice professional folders were there. But they exceeded the budget. Then we checked some headphones ... were not so impressive. Then we thought of buying Mobile Holders. Calls were made to find out what mobile he had. But again, the holders were bad. Either they did not fit his mobile or looked like the one gurls carry. I mean they looked fancy.

After a lot of confusion and thought process, we decide to go ahead with what Suresh had decided. We again made a call to find if it would be a worthy gift for him. And all of us were relieved when we knew that it would fit in his scheme of things. So a "Beer Mug" (an ultimate gift for any guy ;) was bought.

As were going towards the billing counter Suresh said, "Enna da, ponnungala maadhiri shopping seyarom. First paathadhaye half hour kezhiuchu vaangitom !" and me was mounam.

Note: Having said this, am very good at buying books as gifts and Madhu can vouch for that.

Customer Service - A Case Study - Episode III

2005-11-09T23:30:00.000+05:30

Read Part I and Part II before reading this.

P was disappointed when Vijay said that the problem still persisted.

P finally convinced Vijay that he needed to get more waiver amount than what was passed. It was like government office procrastinating day in and day out. He visited them atleast for 5 times and his final visit was on Sep 18th, 25 days after his initial meeting with Vijay. P expected the problem to continue for the next month as they generate the bill on the 20th of every month. He got a waiver of 50 rs which they had charged as late fees. Then his CUG calls were reworked and another amount of 198 was passed on. But SMS, local calls charged at 5 per min were still pending. Reason: Problem in reworking the bill. Promised that Reworked bill will be reworked properly again!!!!

Finally Vijay called P and said the bill had been reworked and an amount of 320 will be the waiver amount passed along with next months bill…. P thought he had succeeded as (220 + 350 + 248) which comes to around 815 as per his calculation. Next month bill got generated i.e. October 20th….but the waiver was not passed….P got pissed off and called Vijay. Screenplayla bayangara twist towards climax… Vijay had quit his job. But to help P he gave the number of one Biju in Billing dept. P called billing department immediately. This time no flashback only matter and he asked them to confirm with Biju. But they replied that as per their policy it will take 48 hrs. People are making a car in 26 mins…oru waiver amount pass panrathuku 48 hrs!!! Seri, It had been more than 3 months y not 2 more days. P waited for 2 days sending SMS “Bill” to **** checking whether its updated or not… Again called up Customer Care, now he got a service level of 20 mins. Phenomenal and fantastic finally got reflected. P is waiting now for his bill to see if the thing has reflected in paper.

Now he has another problem. Till now for local usage, his calls, sms were charged at roaming rate. This month he has availed the roaming service. He can only hope that there would be no need to write another case study on that.

The company is boasting that their Network follows wherever people go, but as a added service, the troubles have also followed P. What should P do now?

Customer Service - A Case Study - Episode II

2005-11-07T18:03:00.001+05:30

For the first part, click here.

Till then, the problem was in getting the connection activated and make it live… But after this terror struck P when he saw his monthly bill. The amount was a walloping Rs. 636 and it is only for 7 days between 13th July and 19th July. The purpose of moving into new CUG was defeated. All the CUG numbers had been charged. All SMS had been charged at Re.1 per SMS for a 10000 SMS free per Month plan. The Local Numbers were charged heavily around Rs. 5 / min.

On probing in deeper after getting bill, P understood that his number was not included in CUG itself. Aahaaa !!. Every time he called the Customer Care, he spoke to a different person so had start with the whole story again and by the time the person understood, P will be put up to another person. This continued for some time till Aug 1st week and only then his number was included in CUG. The problem of bill rework was still there. By this time next month bill also got generated. He expected the bill to waive him his previous month charges. However in that bill they had charged CUG calls till Aug 9th. As per his rework he had to get Rs. 814 as waiver for the 2 months bill. And he called up the Customer Casre agin to discuss this.

He made so many calls that he knew everyone on first name basis. They too had devised a new option in IVR menu. If you are P press 8. Maximum outgoing for the month of August was to Customer Care.

After taking these efforts he went to their facility at Alwarpet. Again he was put on to a guy named Vijay. Aaha gandam continue aguthu. On that day, (Aug 25th) he had 2 bills with each and every call being marked CUG/Non – CUG… separate calculation adjusted with appropriate tax amount (How meticulously calculated, lots of Home Work proved that he an enggineer is getting converted to accountant).

There he explained his story again. Vijay took his bills, spoke to many people in various departments, but still he was not clear on what the issue was. No one could understand what was happening. He took another complaint. Stack stood at 4 unattended complaints. But one of it was closed saying a waiver of Rs. 220 passed. Here is a person demanding a figure of Rs. 800 and they gave Rs. 220. P could not understand how they took it so lightly. From then on, P used to call Vijay every evening after 8 pm. Invariably he never picked up. And once when Vijay called him he was in class.

He curiously went to meet to meet Vijay the next day

Customer Service - A Case Study - Episode I

2005-11-05T18:34:00.000+05:30

"Hello!!"
"Hello Sir! Tata Sumo kedaikuma ?"
"uh?"
"Atlesat an ambassador ?"
"Yaaru venum ungaliku?"
"Idhu 9********* dhane?"
"Ammam"
"Sir, Tata Sumo venum sir."
"Wrong number nu nenaikaren"
"Neenga dhane sir number correctu nu sonnenga?"
"Number correct dhan"
"Kumar Travels dhane sir idhu?"
"Illenga, Kumar Travels number illa idhu"
"Ohh!! Sorrynga"

Ek Shagar mai ek vidyarthi padutha dha. Uska naam P hai. P was a Software Engg who is now doin his EmBeeYea. He had got the CUG (Closed user Group) connection. It was about a week after he got the new number, the above mentioned conversation took place. P thought that this was one occassional wrong number. But he did not realise that this is the beginning of a three month tryst with a leading mobile service provider.

On the same day he got so many calls asking for ambassadors and sumos. "Funny world!!" he thought. "How did so many people get the wrong number today?" The next day, he found the message "SIM Card Registration failed" and promptly called the customer care. After patiently listening to the IVR, he got to speak to a Customer Care Representative.

"Sir, are you calling from Kumar travels ?"
"No. Am a student and a part of our institute's CUG"
"Sir!! There is a mismatch between the SIM Card number and the Mobile number"
"How is that possible ?"
"This number was with Kumar travels and they had surrendered the number. Now they have recalled their number and the number has been allocated to them."
"Ohh!!"
"We will give you a new number and sorry for all the trouble"
He was given a new number. "Very good service" he thought as he noted his new number.

But the next day his outgoing facility was barred. He spoke to one Vijay Menon the coordinator for the institute from the service provider. Upon his advice, he called up the Customer Care and they activated the number. But he was getting many wrong calls again. Thankfully, not asking for Kumar Travels, but asking for one "Vetri". Seems Vetri was holding this number till a few days back. A wrong call to P and he answering became an instant joke among his friends. And to make things worse, his outgoing was barred again. Theen baar baar ho gaya. He was not able to reach Vijay Menon and another call to the customer care and again it was activated. P went to sleep that night praying that this should not happen again. Next morning he was thrilled when he found that his connection was alive and kicking. He sponsored Chai to his friends.

The joy was short lived ....

Perarasu Strikes !!!

2005-11-03T10:03:00.000+05:30

Not the movie but the director.

After giving a blockbuster with a pretty ordinary story in "Thirupaachi", Perarasu has teamed up with Vijay for "Sivakasi". While he makes stories banking on Vijay's mass appeal, his ability to give some wonderful songs deserves a special mention. He takes up the additional burden of writing the songs for his movies. He has an uncanny knack of writing stupid (funny) songs.

"Appan senja thappula Aatha petha vethala velanjiruku daa
Unna solli thappilla vayasu pannum mabula valdhiruka di ..."

The above are the first two lines from a song in "Thiripaachi". But this morning I watched a song from "Sivakasi" and it captivated my heart.

"Enna nu solvenungo vadu maanga ooruthungo
Vadu maanga oorantungo thyair saadham ready pannungo
Ungamma engamma namma sethuveppala
Ada summa ada summa nammala pethu vechala ..."

Sollil kutrama alladhu porulil kutrama nu kandu pidaka mudiyaadha padi paatu ezhudhara Perarasuku "Oh Pode!!"

Paarthadhu Ketadhu Padithadhu ...

2005-11-02T23:42:00.000+05:30

1. Came across an article that says that China is fudging its FDI numbers. More on this here.

2. ITC means Tobacco. No more. The amazing story of ITC's raise.

3. Always wondered if people are really stupid to sms TV shows on their four digit numbers. ET says so.

4. "Creating Winning Brands against All Odds" - A talk by Mr.Alan Durante at GIM.

Appy Deepavali

2005-11-01T06:08:00.000+05:30

En anbu nenjangale!

Anaivarukum en iniya deepavali nal vazthugal.

And special thalai deepavali wishes go to Arvind & Preethi, Karthik & Krithika, Venkat & Prithy, JK & Vijaya.

Anavasiyama vetti vela seyyama inniku TV la Padayappa, Friends, Vasoolraja MBBS, April Maadhathil, Chidambarathil oru Appasami indha maadhiri padam ellam paarunga.

Ensoi maadi!!

Kokarako Gummango !!

2005-10-30T22:37:00.000+05:30

Combined study panni dhan nightla
First rank vaanginaan avan statela
Naalu peru pesinaanga roadla
Nichayama ivan povaan topla

Pattukottai ezhudhinaan paatula
Enna valam illa namma naatula
Machanuku kan ellam notela
Americavuku parandhu ponaan flightla

Manasathan pootu potu pootala
Setup pannan figuru onnu sidela
Dhinamum vizhundhu kedandhan barla
Whiskey ya kalandhu adichaan beerla

Namma naata pola illa andha naatula
ponnukitta emandhuponaan maapulai
Kanna katti vittutaanga kaatula
Kaana ponaam avan world mapla

Enna solla varen indha paatula
Adhu dhan enaku unnum puriyala

Kokarako Gummango !!

Cut off for 36 hours !!

2005-10-28T20:17:00.000+05:30

Not exactly because my thatha's transistor was working.

Neways, Chennai experienced heavy rains starting from mid night the day before or from early morning yesterday, whichever way one would like to say. The peak time was between 5 AM and 7 AM when it rained non stop and also heavily.

The power in major parts of the city went off arnd 7 in the morning yesterday. No Computer, No TV, No mobile (no charge) and not able to go out anywhere :( Never been like this before. Spent the whole of yesterday lazying and pestering Amma and Sis. Read Business World, Outlook, Kumudam, Vikatan, Kalki, Junior Vikatan, Reporter, Nakeeran ( courtesy membership in the KYT Lending Library and amma who brought them the day before). Dug my bookshelf to find some unread books and found "The Thirdwave" by Alvin Toffler. It was too heavy me since I was in a holiday mood. Finished off the charge in my mobile by sending some Vetti SMS to friends. Played Brainvita and failed to finish with a single marble even once.

Around 7 in the evening, a ray of hope came into us after seeing power restored in the next street. A couple of minutes later when we heared a blast, we soon realised that it was hope in hell. The tranformer nearby had burst and we knew what was in store for us. Luckily, excellent kaathu and no mosquitos

And today we ( a few of us, samoogathin meedhu akkarai konda makkal ) had to run behind every EB employee to get the transformer fixed. The EB guys did a wonderful job in our area where the level of water had risen to 5 feet yesterday in many places. And finally around 7 in the evening, our homes were lit by the tube lights and bulbs glowing brightly.

Spent a good time with my family and that was the biggest plus in the past two days. Also got to know where things are at home when I was helping amma with her daily chores. (Help seyya poi thanga kitta asingapattadhu vera vishayam)

Also had lots of fun. But nothing could beat the following.

Yesterday morning Appa was starting to go to office wearing the old fashioned tent like raincoat. We convinced him to wear my 'jerkin and pants' rain suit. He covered his head with the jerkin cap. As he was about to leave, my paati came near and said, "Raincoat nanna dhan iruku. Aana edhukum oru kodai eduthuko".

How true !!

2005-10-24T21:00:00.000+05:30

Sol Endru Or Nenjam Illai Nil Endru Or Nenjam
Yedhir Paarkamal En Vaazhvil Oru Porkaalam Aarambam ...

Irudhayame Thudikiradhaa Thudipadhu Pol Irukiradhaa
Oraithidavaa Maraithidava Ragasiyamaai Thavithidavaa

Oru Pennin Ninaivenna Seyyum
Enai Kathi Illamal Koyyam

Idhil Meela Vazhi Ulladhey
Irupinum Ullam Virumbaadhu Oh Oh Yea....

Tidbits

2005-10-24T06:50:00.000+05:30

How do you identify or cultivate Indian Talent. Here.
The truth about God. Here.
Review of the movie I watched yesterday. Here.
Yet another proof of Raam's research talents. Here

And I want someone to help me in my corporate strategy assignment :(

IhateGanguly.com :))

2005-10-22T12:15:00.000+05:30

Came across this site. Cricinfo has a mention of this site in the article here. They have a discussion forum, articles, and jokes about the former skipper. I was ROTFL on reading this particular one.

How to Cook Maggie?

4 simple steps to cook Maggi noodles
Step 1: boil one cup of water.
Step 2: as soon as ganguly goes for batting, put the noodles in the boiledwater and put the tastemaker.
Step 3: stir till ganguly is onfield.
Step 4: As soon as ganguly is back in pavilion, your noodles r ready to eat.

Follow-up

From: Maggi Customer Care Center
Dear Customers,

We have received many compliments after we shared our recipe of 4 easy steps to cook Maggie. However we have received a very important complaint which we need to share with you all.

One of our regular customers, Mrs. Radha Pai, from Meerut had written to us that she tried out the recipe to cook Maggie during the first ODI between India & Pak.

She says that she followed all the steps correctly and was eager to have her breakfast. But she found that the Maggie was hardly fully wet and hence was not properly cooked.

We thoroughly apologized to our customer on behalf of our captain who returned back to the pavilion even before the Maggie was properly soaked in water.

In this regard we request all our customers to take a precaution and to wait for the Maggie to be cooked until after the re-plays.

Remember, even if Ganguly is back well before 2 minutes, the replays would ensure your Maggie is rightly done.

The management once again apologizes for any uncooked Maggie’s during the first ODI.

Regards.
Maggie Customer Care Centre.

Illayaraja's Concert - I missed it !! :(

2005-10-21T11:42:00.000+05:30

The supplemantary edition of The Hindu today carried a review on Illayaraja's concert that happened last week. Me was in all enthu to attend that but did not go because of an emergency at home. As expected the concert was a big hit and am looking forward to the telecast of the show on Jaya TV. (Most probably on Diwali day).

Am providing a link to one of the many reviews. I also have a powerpoint presentation on the show. This was made by Madhu. Will be happy to forward for those who are interested.

Seeking Opinion

2005-10-18T19:00:00.000+05:30

What do you think of a girl who goes for lunch with two guys and ends up paying the bill ?

No topic

2005-10-15T23:25:00.000+05:30

As I tried to insert it into her this morning, it refused to go in. .. wat happened today? I took it out and inserted again. No luck. Was pissed off. Why today of all days? Was already in a very bad mood and adding fuel to the fire this is happening here. Pushed it in with all my might ... nope. Only then I realised ... went in got the spare and now it went in and fitted like a 'T'.

And my bike started.

Mazhai ...

2005-10-13T23:40:00.000+05:30

Waitees. Not the review of the movie.

Yesterday was great. It was raining non stop for close to 4 hours. When I started to go home, I thought, 'What if the traffic bad ?','What if my bike stops in the middle of the road and refuses to start?','What if velachery lake overflows as it happened in 2002?'. But the moment I started on my bike ( am a proud owner of Bajaj Wind 125 ), I forgot everything and enjoyed every moment of it.

It was cold and raining when I started ... but the coldness was enjoyable. Normally when traffic signal is Red at Raj Bhavan , I take the Free Left into the Anna Univ road and take a U and go straight towards Halda Junction. But yesterday, I preferred to wait for the whole 70 seconds. I like the journey between Raj Bhavan and Halda. Even on a sunny day, that stretch would be cool.

I was worried a bit when I reached the Velachery Rd. The road was flooded, but I still took the road and after 'The Ashram' school, the journey was heaven. I was slower than usual , even let a TVS 50 overtake me. As I reached the 100 feet road, the rains had completely stopped and as usual the traffic there was heavy. so had to concentrate more on the road.

Once I reached home, amma said, "Raincoat eduthundu ponadhu evalo usefula iruku paathiya?". I wish I never had the raincoat.

As I am writing this, iTunes is playing this line from one of my fav songs.

"Mazhai Mazhai yaai pozhigiradhey
Manase kudaiyai thedaadhey ..."

ROTFL

2005-10-13T06:49:00.000+05:30

Somedays back She asked me His telephone number. I asked him if I could give his telephone number to her. He said yes. So, I gave his number to her.

She tried to catch him on chat a coupla times, but he was busy. Yesterday She messaged him saying "Vanakam pa. Sir ippovaavadhu freeya irukeengala?". He called up that number odane.

He: (in an apprehensive tone) Hello
She: Hey!! Busya?
He: illa

She realised that he did not know to whom he was talking to.

She: Do you know whom you are talking to?
He is silent.
He: (After a cpl of seconds...) I am thinking.
She: Kashtam. I am 'So and So'
He: 'So and So'
She: Yeah. 'So and So'.
He: I didn't have your number
She: I guessed so. Thought you would message me back asking who it was.
He: I hate messaging.
She:Listen! Am talkin to my amma. Will call you back in 5 mins.
He: Ok bye!!
She: Bye!!

She then msged me that he called and was muzhichufying. Later when he called me, he also said the same thing,
He: Machan!!
Me: Sollu da.
He: Avo voice romba nalla iruku da.
Me: What?
He: Huskya, supera iruku.
Me: Dei!! Huskya supera iruka ? Avaluku thonda kattindu iruku da. Voice romba kevalama irundhudhey da this afternoon ( She, if you are reading this, pls forgive me.)
He: Oh!!

I would have loved to see his face when he said that. Immediately after this, both of us started laughing. Machan, unnala mattum dhan da this is possible. Am still ROTFL.

Heights of Kadamai Unarchi

2005-10-12T16:20:00.000+05:30

We had an assignment on Corporate Strategy that was to be submitted today. Our study group met on Sunday and each one of us finished their part and sent it to one person for preparing the final document.

There is this guy who was a performing liability in my team. But for this assignment, he contributed a lot and we were all happy. Now to the story.

Date: 12-10-05 Time : 01:09 AM ( Yes!! Early Morning )

I went to sleep arnd 12 and was in deep sleep when my mobile fone rang. As soon as I picked the call ...

Me: Hey X, tell me da, wat matter?
He: Hey Dude!! Wat r u doing man? Sleeping uh?
(Kaalankaathala 1 maniku enna da pannuvaanga ?)
Me: Yeah, but its ok. Tell me.
He: I got a very good info for our corporate strategy assignment.
Me: Good man. Wat is that?
He: It is about the BCG matrix, a 3X3 matrix that captures the strategy of the company.
(Me was terribly impressed. 'Netru nee ippadi illai, indru eppadi nallavan aanaai?')
Me: Super da. Mail it to me. Will chk that out the first thing in the morning.
He: We can put it in our assignment rite?
Me: Will see the details first and then let us decide.
He: Fine. Am at home now. Will mail it to you tomorrow morning.
(Me was pissed off. Appo enna M ku enaku fone panna ippo)
He: I also called Y da. He is not picking the call. Dunno why.
(WTF!! Do you expect smeone to answer the call at 1 in the morning ?? Btw, Y is our group leader)
He: Ok then. Catchu tomorrow. Will decide on the assignment. Bye. Gud nite.
(O*** Inime enga Good Nite. Siva raathiri dhan)

For your info, the time is 4 30 and he has not come to college yet.

Nanganallur ...

2005-10-11T23:00:00.000+05:30

A majority of my Chennai life was spent in Nanganallur. We moved in to Nanganallur in 1984. There weren't many houses there. The roads were good. No water problem. The kids had lotsa vacant places to play while the elderly junta had some good temples to visit. Apart from regular bus services, we had everything else.

The place began to develop during the early 90s. That was when the foundation stone for the famous '32 feet Anjaneyar temple' was laid. And as the temple came up in quick time, lot of appartments also sprung up in the neighbourhood. The Anjaneyar temple contributed to the development of Nanganallur to a large extent. We got good roads because the governors and the ministers frequented the temple. The real estate prices went up. So many appartments, shops came up. We got a subway that connected Nanganallur to the GST Road. Prince Matriculation and Modern School became quite famous. More people, especially the retired and the ones nearing retirement invested in appartments in Nanganallur. The place became a hub of the Brahmanical community. The maamaas and maamis there made sure that the younger generation went for Paatu Class, Dance Class, or Slokam class. The 'vaadhiyaar' (not the teaching clan, but the one doing the vedas related matters) community also prospered. The early morning walks and the evening meetings in temples became routine for the senior citizens. Street cricket prospered with the reduction of vacant grounds and restriction of mottai maadi cricket. Wherever there was space, they built an appartment.

The navrathiri season was the best there. Guys would be on streets to watch the Iyer n Iyengar gurls looking cute in their pattu pavadais and going from one house to another for navrathiri collection. The guys also started goin to the temple a lot, for obvious reasons (adhan to pray!).

In 2000, the roads were dug to facilitate the central drainage system. That was when trouble started. All the places were dug simulatneously making it very difficult to commute. The roads were never laid for a long time. Bus services were cut. Roads werent widened bcos they could not be widened. Luckily we got another subway, but the lead roads to the subway were very narrow. The roads turned out to be 'yamans' for the riders. The municipality blamed the government for not allocating funds, the government blamed the municipality for not using funds properly. With so many houses, the groundwater depleted. The famous 'thanni lorries' were the saviours and in the process made bad roads worse. In 2004, the municipality managed to relay some roads, but then dug the same in a couple of months.

We moved out of Nanganallur and I have been there a few times since then. Nothing has improved except that more people are there. Btw, R and I had an argument about Nanganallur some days after we got acquainted. She hated the place while I loved it. Even now she talks about Nanganallur but I second her these days.

Edit: Found a blog abt Nanganallur.

Needhane Urugum Panimalai ... Naandhane Erimalai Erimalai

2005-10-08T19:13:00.000+05:30

Updated my lyrics blog.

Life @ Great Lakes

2005-10-06T23:48:00.000+05:30

Been a while since I wrote something about my college. We are now in our fourth term and have identified our horizontals and verticals. Each of us need to have a major and a minor specilisation. This is what we call as a horizontal. And in each of the horizontals, we need to choose a vertical. For example, for a Finance horizontal, BFSI i.e Banking, Financial Services and Insurance is the vertical. Vertical is the domain in which one would ideally like to have a career.

The institute helped many of us in identifying the major and minors. We had a leading HR Consultancy firm conducting a Psychometric test to identify the type of person one is and what levels of abilities and interests he exhibits in farious fields. The students were then counselled and were helped in zeroing on their specialisations.

Many of us were benefitted from these sessions. Apart from the objective for which it was conducted, we had a chance to interact with people who were doing recruitment consulting and get ideas about the type of companies that operate in our areas of interest.

Apart from this, we also are having some good courses going on. A special mention should be made about Mr Bharath Shankar. Anyone who listens to his lecture would fall in love with Human Resource Management. He uses interactive methods to keep our interest level high.

And I did a paper for IIM B paper writing contest. It was about adapting global manufacturing standards by Indian manufacturing firms. I think Ramesh and I did a decent job on this. Keepin fingers crossed.

And tomorrow we have OM exam. Been a while since we wrote an exam. And also since it is an open book exam, am relying on some class notes and ofcourse the books. And also since I am not having Operations as mu Major nor Minor am not going deep into the subject.

Time to hit the bed. It is tomorrow already.

Planetary position is so bad ...

2005-10-03T21:58:00.000+05:30

That was what I thought after coming home today.

Had a bad start to the day. Heavy traffic on the velachery road meant that I was late by 15 mins to the class. As per our principle, whoever is late must not attend the class and hence had to miss the first hour of the Business and Society class. And unfortunately for me, the prof had given a quiz and I had to miss that.

The day was fine in college. But the journey back home saw me nearly involved in 3 accidents.

The first was near the Saidapet court. I was coming from college and turned left to go to take the road opposite to Raj Bhavan and there was this Maruti Van parked exactly at the junction. The van blocked my view and as I was negotiating the turn honking, I suddenly saw 2 girls busy on their mobile fones, taking the turn into SriNagar Clny. One girl screamed, but I managed to avoid them. Was thinking wat wud have happened if I had hit one of them.

The worse was yet to come. I was on the velachery road. I had just crossed the Ashram school when a middle aged man who was standing on the road side suddenly started crossing the road when I was some 5 feet away from him. I had to brake and was pissed off.

Me stared at him.

He: Yeii .... enna ?

Me: Ippadiya roada cross pannuvaanga?

He: Ippadi dhan pannovom.

Me was shocked

He: Enna moraikara ... (pickin up a stone from the ground) Mandaya polandhuduven jakardhe ...

Me: (Slight a frightened) Podang L********* ( and started the bike and escaped)

As I crossed the Velachery Checkpost and turned right, into the 100 feet road, a Maruti Zen from the opposite almost hit me. Again my brakes saved me. That idiot could not wait till I crossed him and took the turn to go into the Velachery road. We stopped, exchanged some bad words and left. From then on, nuthin happened and I came home safe.

Amma was worried when I told her. "Kuzhandhaiku sutthi dhan podanum". Me too said yes. "Ammam Ammam, planetary position is so bad."

Nanba, rendu perum paadalaam. "Naan sethu pozhachavan da ..." nu.

Vaa Vaa Vaa Nee Varangaati Po Po Po ...

2005-10-02T19:15:00.000+05:30

The above is a song from the movie Daas. It has been a pain to listen to some of the Tamizhh film songs these days.

He: Vaa Vaa Vaa Nee Varangaati Po Po Po ...

She: Tha Tha Tha Nee Tharangaati Po Po Po ...

As if this is not enough ...

He: Engakka ungamma ungamma engakka adhanala naan unna kattipene ...

She: Engappan unmaaman unmaaman engappan adhanala naan unna othuppene ...

I would like to know who wrote this song. So irritating.

But there is nothing to beat the song from the movie Chanakya.

Varuviyaaa Varamaatiyaaa varalenna un pechu ka ...

Tharuviyaa tharamaatiyaa tharalenna un pechu ka ...

What is happening here ?

Onnu sendhutaanga pa!!!

2005-09-30T06:55:00.000+05:30

After all the punch dialogues and "Unakenna Unakenna" song, Illaya thalabadhi and Thalai posing during the launch of Thiruathi.

Marriage is an institution - Wats ur mode of admission ?

2005-09-27T23:40:00.000+05:30

Was talkin to my cousin about life in general ( rendu pasanga pesinaa edha pathi pesuvom ??? ) He was happy for me and was askin about R.

We started to discuss abt love and arranged marriage. He had the same opinion as I had. How can smeone marry a stranger ?

This question has been bothering me for quite sometime now. Agreed that there have been innumerable arranged marriages that have been successful. But, how can smeone decide to marry a person without knowing many things abt him/her. IMHO, one can never know much during the 30 to 60 mins of talkin during the "pen paarkum padalam" or the meetings in a hotel as is the fashion these days. So it is not abt the success of marriage, it is about the decision.

I feel that a major of these decisions take place on the basis of how beautiful he/she looks, wat is the salary and family background. And the time between the decision and marriage will be full of sugar coated phone calls and gifts. And not a single fight.

Now am not pro love marriage or anti arranged marriage. Jus wanted to know the logic behind it. And would be happy if some married aathmas bothered to give insights.

Oru Kalluriyin Kadhai II

2005-09-26T23:59:00.000+05:30

Some serious lecture was going on in the class. All the guys and gurls were listening attentively.

The paint gurl was also listening and takin notes as usual while the guy who was good in this subject was also listening. The gurl who sits next to paint gurl was absent and hence paint gurl was sitting at the absent gurl's place leaving a space of one chair between her and the guy.

Suddenly some guys frm the administration came to the class and wanted to take some snaps of the class. The prof also obliged. The camera man went near the blackboard and was focussing his camera on the class.

And suddenly this happened. The guy shifted his position to the vacant spot near the paint gurl and posed for the picture.

This was noticed by the co-founder of the FFF (Fedration of Fearless Friends). And he shared this news with other FFF people at the coffee shop. There was one P guy who told this to the guy.

The guy confronted the co-founder accusing of bad mouthing him. The co-founder used his verbal skills to come out of the situation. Afterwords, the guy told the co-founder that the paint gurl only called him and asked him to sit next to her.

But the truth was there to see.

100 Posts ... Superrr

2005-09-25T22:57:00.000+05:30

Am reaching another milestone ... 3 days after reaching this and 268 days after I started this bog. I saw this when I was planning to write yet another post cribbing about someone. But decided against posting the same when I realised that I on the verge of achieveing this landmark.

Someone asked me why do I blog. Obviously to know more people and make friends. But there was also a secret intent of improving my writing skills. Am happy that I am doing a decent job. I only hope that my English gets better.

Apart from knowing people, the satisfaction of writing what I think keeps me going. You can make that out from a few 'cribbing posts' here. And ofcourse the accumulation of revenue from google ads also motivates me.

I intend to start some niche sections in my blog. No planning has been done. And I also intend to have a guest blog section soon. Some of my friends who are not bloggers are interested in writing on some niche topics. I have to change the layout and design for that. Now that I don't have any pressure on the academic front, I can afford to spend sometime on this.

Neways, thanx for the tangible and intangible support you have given me. "Adiyen Thamizhan Naan Ungal Nanban. ". So continue your good work and I will continue mine.

Am celebrating the occasion by providing this link. Unga sandhosham dhan en sandhosham.

Btw, the owner of the fifth comment for this post gets a treat. ;)

Chappell vs Dada ...

2005-09-24T10:25:00.000+05:30

Indian cricket at this moment has an important decision to make. To do away with the captain who has taken India to an appreciable height or to do away with the coach who is a thorough professional and a hard task master. This decision is very important in the light of events that have been unfolded by the media in the past one week.

The news that something was wrong with the Indian team management was first sensed when Ganguly talked to the media about the 'step down from captaincy' issue. Gangluy for sure tried to grab the limelight, after he scored a painful century against a below ordinary bowling effort and imagining that he had let his bat do the talking. But never did he ralise that he was digging his own grave. This generated a sequence of arguments, more against and less in favour of the Indian skipper. As a thorough professional, Ganguly should not have spoken to the media on what happened in the dressing room. But being the type of person that he is, he took the opportunity to try and prove a point. Chappell on the other hand had echoed his opinion on the need to have people in form in the team. I would say that only the practise of coach not having a say in the team selection prevented Ganguly from being dropped.

Ganguly's supporters argue that he is the captain and he should not be dropped. They also state that he has taken Team India to incredible levels. While it is accepted that he has taken the team to a very good level, it has to be noted that he is not indispensible. Steve Waugh with whom Saurav can not even be compared, was under constant threat for a place in the team but he replied strongly by scoring runs and by scoring them in an effective way. No doubt, form is temporary and class is permanant. But form and performance are bloody important.

The recent mail from Chappell to the BCCI has generated lots of interest. While this was a report to the BCCI and was supposed to be confidential, the media somehow managed to get hold of the details of the mail. The Indian coach Greg Chappell has reportedly termed skipper Sourav Ganguly 'mentally and physically unfit' to lead India and has went ahead and said that the skipper was disruptive influence on the team during the recent tour to Zimbabwe. The coach alleged that Ganguly has been creating divisions in the team to keep his crown and often feigns injury. He also said the Indian captain has lost the confidence and respect of his team mates, aspects which are important for a captain. Greg Chappell has also threatened to quit if the captain is not changed. Chappell has told the BCCI that he will find it difficult to continue if Ganguly is retained as captain. The coach writes further that if India has to do well in the 2007 World Cup in West Indies, Ganguly must be done away with and a new captain must be appointed in his place as soon as possible.

While Ganguly can defend himself, the truth is there for all to see. How many times have we seen the skipper misfield and escort the ball to the boundry ? He has been an embarassement on the field many a time. And the injury scare before the Bulawayo test still remains behind the screen.

But all is not well with Greg Chappell too. He has also played his part in the ongoing events. First, he went public saying that Sachin is past his prime and then had a tiff with Yuvraj Singh in SriLanka about his place in the side. Yuvi, responded with a brilliant century and his reaction after the hundred was directed towards Greg Chappell. While Chappell's methods can be seen as motivating people and extracting the best out of them in the hard way, it has not gone down well with many.

Having said all this, the need for the hour is a decision by the BCCI. The BCCI has now realised the importance of that the current issue and has setup a review committee to deal with it. One can hope that the committee acts in the best intersts of the team fully understanding that the team is bigger than any individual. The need now is the nucleus around which the team for the future can be built. And I have no doubt that team India needs Greg Chappell than Saurav Ganguly at this moment.

Salaam Namaste - Aala vidu

2005-09-23T08:54:00.000+05:30

Happened to see one of the most crappy movies made in recent times. 'Salaam Namaste'. If one goes to the theatre to see some patriotic stuff, disappointment awaits.

Am not goin too much into the storyline, but just wanted to add that it is a remake of the movie 'Nine Months' starring Hugh Grant and Julianne Moore with some obvious changes to please the desi crowd.

Saif looks good and performs well. Priety Zinta looks aged and her acting is pathetic. And the romantic scenes involving them isn't romantic and the verbal duels are loud and silly. Arshad Warsi provides the much needed entertaintment and the scenes involving him and Saif are funny. Javed Jaffery is irritating.

And when Abhishek Bachan made a surprise entry, I was expecting something interesting, but the whole scene lacked sense and was silly. And the scenes where the doctor looks under the skirt of the women ? It was DISGUSTING.

Credits to the director for showing some exotic locations in Australia. I would love to visit the country. The movie will survive because of the marketing gimmicks of the Yash clan. And during the break, happened to see a trailor of yet another 'boy meets girl' movie named 'Neil n Nikki' starring Uday Chopra and a new babe Tanisha. She looked good ;)

5000 and counting!!!

2005-09-22T08:09:00.000+05:30

It is always nice to reach a milestone. So congratulate me!!!

Btw, the blog is running since January and the hit counter was put only on May 10th. And the 5000 hits happened more quickly than I expected. 'Mikka Nanri Hai' (this translates to thanks an lot) for all those who visited my blogs, left comments, and have blogrolled me.

At this moment I would like to thank him, him, him, him, him. These were the people who inspired me to write blogs.

And this blog will undergo some dramatic changes in the next few days.