Kays Brainwave

Happy Diwali!!!

2009-10-16T14:35:00.000-06:00

Wishing all of you a very Happy Diwali!!!
Have a blast!!!

Varta...

DD News

2009-08-16T12:19:00.020-06:00

Kaveri Mukerjee:
This is DD National news, good evening and welcome and the headlines...
The Bharatiya Janata Party has virtually shut the doors on former Rajasthan chief minister Vasundhara Raje.
BJP leader Jaswant Singh admires Jinnah, says he was great.
India wants to buy Mahatma's house in South Africa.
Olympic champion Lin Dan clinches third straight world title.
Blogsville celebrates Blogfare awards in a very grand manner, pulling the world's attention to blogsville.
The news in detail...
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The news will continue after a break...

Welcome back.
Entertainment news
Blogsville celebrates Blogfare awards in a very grand manner in blogspot. All stalwarts of blogsville attended the occasion. Many bloggers from blogsville were presented with awards. Notable few were Gils, R-ampam, G3 and a few more. Lets watch the footage from the awards ceremony.
Show host: We request Mr.Gils to present the next award.
Gils: The next award goes to..... My dear saga and our katchi ko.pa.sa..treasurer..thalaivar ellam..ivaruku tharamaa oru awarda..chaancela..intha award enga sagaaku alithaathaal..awardkay perumai :D

KK awards speech: Thank you Gils... I am dumb struck and I am in total loss of words... I am very proud to get this award from you. I want to thank everyone for their support all throughout my bloging years... thank you...
Show Host: For awarding the next award we request Vethuvaettu R-Ambam to come to stage...
R-Ambam: The next award goes to a person who is Notorious for his comments, I wish he updates his blog more often :) It's none other than.... KK!

KK: I am very much elated, to get two awards at the same time. Thank you.
R-ambam: KK wait wait wait, you just can't go like that. There are rules you need to follow before you can get this award.

The rules of the award are as follows:-
Link the person who tagged you-
Copy the image above, the rules and the questionnaire in this post
Post this in one or all of your Blogs
Answer the four questions following these Rules -
Recruit at least seven (7) friends on your Blog Roll by sharing this with them -Come back to BLoGGiSTa iNFo CoRNeR (PLEASE DO NOT CHANGE THIS LINK) at http://bloggistame.blogspot.com and leave the URL of your Post in order for you/your Blog to be added to the Master List.Questions & Your Answers:

The person who tagged you:
R-Ambam is the one who tagged me with this award. One thing that made me go her blog is her blog title "Vethuvaettu" it was a very innovative name for a blog. She writes small and funny posts which are office friendly :) Wish her to keep continuing her writing for a long time to come.

His/her site's title and url: Vethvaettu (http://r-ambam.blogspot.com)

Date when you were tagged: 10 Aug 2009

Persons you tagged: Blogsville has introduced me to many friends all around the globe. I would like to give both the above awards to the following fellow bloggers.
1. Priya: For her long standing support. She writes many short and sweet thought provoking posts.
2. HTBM: I used to like her posts very much, when she was writing regularly. Now she is back after a break. I would like to give the above awards to her for taking the efforts to come back.
3. Vidya: Another short post blogger., who missing from action for some time. But came back with a bang. This award is for her her zeal after her comeback.
4. Natamai Syam: I am a big fan of his blog. Sad that he doesn't write now a days. Hoping he would come back with bang soon. This award is to encourage him to come back.

Lastly, I would like to say something in tamil...
Ella pugazhum iraivanukke!
God is great!
Thank you!
Weather News, Aug 17th 2009, Chennai will have a high of 32c and a low of 26c with few thunderstorms. There is going to be 60% precipitation and humidity is 89%.

Well, that is all we had for today's news. Good Evening.

Varta...

Bravery? You must be kiddin...

2009-07-28T15:43:00.010-06:00

I don't know what to say after watching this video, all I can say is, people are out of their mind to do something like this. If the children were forced to do this, what were the parents doing? They should have protested against such an act being forced on children. Just because its a state government school it does not mean, they can do anything and muffle it using their power. Glad the media brought this up. TN Government should take responsibility and take action on the state higher education minister, whose wife witnessed the event in person and did nothing about it, to stop it.
The Story

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Pachees about me

2009-07-05T13:47:00.006-06:00

Long long ago.... so long ago... that, even R-Ambam does not know how long ago... she tagged me with this tag. I took my sweet own time to write this tag. I actually got bored of looking at my own photos in my previous post, so decided to post this tag. One stone two mangoes.
The tag is to list down 25 things about me. I know I am a very famous personality but never thought people were so anxious to know about me. So, here it goes my list sponsored by Youtube...

1. I am like Mahatma Gandhi, immediately don't think I don't wear shirt and I wear only a dhoti... I meant to say I am truthful.
2. I am like Arvind Swami,

I mean patriotic like in this video...
3. I am like Michael Phelps when it comes to Swimming... atleast I hope to be.
4. I am a fusion of Pete Sampras and Roger Federer, soon you will see one more comparison of server along with video (This is one reason why I should buy a Handycam)

5. I am Sachin when I play cricket, only thing when he hits its a sixer, when I hit it goes straight to a fielder, slight timing problem...
6. I am like Usilamani, when it comes to coffee, I am big fan of coffee... besh besh romba nalla irukku! (Darn! could'nt find this video on youtube...)
7. I am like Amithab Bachan in this video...Dil ko jab Khushi Choo Jaaye...

8. I am like Aamir Khan in this video... yeh akela kitne ke barabar hai... Always coca-cola....

9. I love cinema, Personally like true story movies.
10. I am a big fan of comedy, Vivek and Kamalhasan are my favourite comedians in tamil.
11. I am just another IT coolie.
12. I am like Sombu in this video.. err... sorry Simbhu... when it comes to acting...

13. I am a big Fan of Ilayaraja, but at the same time I am huge A/C of A.R.Rahman. ARR rocks!!! any day!!
14. I love music in any form or shape, I listen to a huge spectrum of music types starting from filmi ishtyle to Raak and hard raak music... Is there anything better than music in this world.
15. Well music is something that makes me sad too, I feel bad that I didnt learn music, you may say that I can learn now but, I am confused on what to learn, I like to sing, play guitar, play key board, play sax, play flute, play drums... on and on and on... so its tuff decision :(
16. Currently I like Linkin Park, Pink, Evanescence in English, Shankar Eshan Loy's music in Hindi, ARR, YSR, VidyaSagar and James Vasanthan in Tamil.
17. SPB is my all time favorite singer, with Hariharan, Karthik and Unni Krishan being my seasonal favorite.
18. Uyirum Neeye from Pavithra is my current go to song for soothing me.
19. I wanted to be a Cricketer, musician, singer, inventor, pilot, join Army, join airforce, cinematographer, director etc Basically everything other than what I am actually doing.
20. I love to drive... I drive like the driving god...

21. I love sports in any form and shape... Basketball is my most favorite game to play...With Tennis being a very close second. One man inspired me to play basketball and its none other than....

22. I am weak in Maths can I skip 2 points and go to 25??? ;)
23. I like to travel... my dream job was to be reporter for some travel channel... Well as a matter of fact... I started blogging because of travelling, I started with travelogue and graduated to this blog.
24. I took three attempts to complete this tag... puff... even writing impositions in school is better...
25. Lastly I am like Prabhu Deva when it comes to dance.... neah.... just kidding. But I enjoy dancing whether I dance well or not is totally a different question... You guys tell me if dance ok, Check out my dance...

By the time I wrote this Tag, I am sure this tag has already rested in Peace, so I don't want to tag someone and wake this tag from its grave... So all of you just party in my name :)

Varta...

See through my lens

2009-05-05T20:42:00.011-06:00

Most of you know about my second wife ;). If not, well, I am referring to my Nikon camera. Though I have told that photography is one of my passion, I have never shared any of my pictures before on this blog. So I thought I will compile an album and share it in my blog. I am pretty much an amateur photographer, learning photography by watching photos that are there on the internet on many photo blogs and photo sites such as Getty Images (Getty Images is one my favorite site). Almost all my posts on this blog have images from that site. Here you go, some of the images that I took whenever I had my camera handy.

This album will be continuously updated, as and when I take some pictures. Feel free to drop in your comments.

Varta...

Yaavarum Nalam (13 B)

2009-04-17T19:19:00.000-06:00

Another first time on my blog! Though I do not like to read movie reviews I have always wanted to write movie reviews. So, here comes my very first movie review....

Yesterday I saw the tamil movie Yaavarum Nalam, the cast has Madhavan and Neetu Chandra in the lead role with Saranya, Poonam Dhillon, Ravibabu, Sachin Khedekar, Deepak Dobriyal and Murli Sharma playing supporting roles.
This movie is more a thriller than a horror movie, something that the tamil film field has been devoid of for quite a few years. There were a few so called horror movies in between like Shock and Sivi, but they kind of didn't meet a horror movie's demand.
Yaavarum Nalam has all the right ingredients needed to make a nice horror thriller. Though the movie has the usual horror revenge plot, the way the story has been handled is quite different and keeps everyone watching the movie eagerly waiting on what is going to happen next.
Manohar (Madhavan) and his family buy a new apartment and move into the apartment. From the time the family moves in to the new apartment, some small trivial inauspicious incidents keep occurring on everyday basis but gets shrugged off. But after few days Manohar senses that something fishy is happening, just then, he happens to see a serial that comes on TV which resembles very much like his family. He gets spooked by the similarity of events that happen in his family and the serial. Though all ladies in his family watch the serial on daily basis, none of them realize what Manohar finds eerie. From there, the story unravels as Manohar follows behind the mysterious happenings and finds clues and finally saves his family from any mishap.
In my opinion, a horror thriller is a difficult movie to make when compared to making a masala flick or action or Romantic subjects. Because even if one department falls back the movie will become more a comedy movie than a thriller movie. In that way, I feel Yaavarum Nalam has the right balance of everything that is needed for a horror thriller. Well that becomes obvious when you hear the crew for the film, the movie consists of National award winners like cinematographer P.C.Sreeram, editor Sreekar Prasad, sound designer A.S.Lakshminarayanan and art director Sameer Chanda.
I was not too familiar with the director's name, so watching the movie and having been impressed by the quality of the movie, I googled and found that director Vikram.K.Kumar, has won a National Award for his short film ‘Silent Scream’.
Shankar Eshan Loy, strike again, but with the background score more than the soundtracks this time. The background score gives the required eerie feeling that the movie requires.
P.C.Sreeram has proved why he is such a renowned cinematographer in India, the angles, lighting and the frame compositions speaks his experience behind the camera. His magic with the camera along with Shankar Eshan Loy's background score makes us sit still and watch the movie with lots of anticipation.
One negative in movie is, Madhavan's dialogue delivery during the early stages of the movie, his impatient way of talking kind of irritates. Actually only Madhavan has any scope of acting in the movie, others are all just supporting actors.
The movie was taken in two languages (Hindi and Tamil). So non-tamil speaking people can watch 13 B, I hope the movie should be pretty much same as Yaavarum Nalam.

On KK's Scale Yaavarum Nalam gets 4 stars on 5.

Varta...

Where the hell is Matt?

2009-03-25T19:16:00.002-06:00

Have you ever thought that a silly act on the streets could show how much fun this World is filled with? From the comments (19,671,578 hits) in Youtube for this video, I can for sure say that, simple things like this can bring smile to a million people irrespective of where they are in the World. The song for this video has something special, it makes me feel very light. I am not sure how many of you have seen this video, but this video is like a pill for me whenever I am sober. I may feel dull for whatever reason but this video will bring a smile on my face and make me brighter and spring back and face life in a positive vibe.
Now being a not so good time for many, thought I would post this on my blog and make a few people smile. Here you go.

About this video:
Matt was a game programmer, who got bored with his routine life. So he quit his job and used his own savings to go around places. That time, he decided to stand in front of the landmarks and do a dance step, which he video taped. He posted this video on his website and all of a sudden he shot to fame across the World. His video became so famous that he was contacted by Stride chewing gum and was sponsored to dance around the World. Hear it from the horse's mouth.

Checkout the the original video that Matt had posted on his site. There is a lot of places from Asia in this video, in fact lots of places from India.

BTW, It is Earth hour on March 28th, 2009 at 8:30pm local time. Please switch off all possible electrical appliances during this hour and vote for a green Earth. Please pass this information to everyone you know. For more information check out http://www.earthhour.org

Varta...

A Lost World

2009-03-04T00:05:00.002-07:00

In the Wee hours of January 1st 2009, while the whole World was welcoming and celebrating the coming of New year, hoping the new year will bring joy, hope and prosperity, a small village called Paranthan in the Northern part of Sri Lanka was waiting for the Sun to rise and brighten the air filled with gun smoke and the morning mist.

Appa: Thurai.. Thurai... Thurai Kanna... Happy New Year Karadi kutty... wake up karadi kutty...
Thurai: uuuuhn.... I am feeling sleepy appa...
Appa: Hoy! My dear Karadi kutty wake up soon, I have a surprise for you...
Thurai: You keep the surprise safe, I will get it from you once I wake up appa.
Appa: Chella Kutty, c'mon wake up... c'mon open your eyes... see its New Year!!

[Thurai opens his eyes slowly... his eye lids flutter trying to adjust to the dimly lit home]

Thurai: Is it New Year today?
Appa: Yes, my dear Kutty chellam.
Thurai: What does New Year mean?
Appa: New Year brings happiness and prosperity.
Thurai: Oh! Wow!! So I can play cricket with Sivarajah in the fields like before, go to the talkies and watch Rajini cinemas, buy ice cream from the ice cream peddler... and then.... many more fun things... right appa?
Appa: Yes my dear.

Appa: Ok, fast. Get ready soon.
Thurai: Where are we going appa?
Appa: There is going to be get-together in a near by place, we need to go there as soon as possible. There will be some delicious food for us.
Thurai: Wow!! Wish it was new year everyday! Appa look! There are so many holes on the wall.

[Thurai points to the bullet punctured sand wall]

Appa: Oh! those holes? Yesterday night after you went to sleep there was a huge lightning, which made those holes. Don't worry we can close them once we come back.

[Thurai says ok and starts to get ready to leave for the new year feast while he hums the tune Athiradee kaaran from Sivaji]

Thurai: Appa, I am ready! Why is amma still sleeping? Isn't she coming for the feast?
Appa: No da chellam, Amma was disturbed by the lightning yesterday night, so she is very tired and she asked us to go, leaving her here to take some rest.
Thurai: Oh ok, We can pack and bring some food for her from the feast.
Appa: Sure, nice plan! She will be happy that you got some food for her.
[Thurai's Appa says wiping tears from his eyes.]
Thurai: Why are you crying appa?
Appa: Nothing son, Just happy that you care so much for your mother.
Thurai: Ok, lets not disturb amma, let's leave now.
Appa: Yeah Yeah... Let's go.

[When they were about to step out of the house.]
Appa: Thurai, just wait here for a minute here, don't step out of the house.

[Thurai's appa goes to Thurai's mom and changes the towel that was placed on the bullet wound, which he used to prevent the blood from flowing all over the house. He had placed a towel before he woke Thurai. Because he did not want Thurai to know that his mother is no longer with him in this belligerent World.]

Appa: Thurai Kutty, come lets go.

[Appa peeps outside the house to make sure it was peaceful to step outside. Appa carries Thurai in his arms and sheilds Thurai to the maximum he can and looks around and walks swiftly.]

[After going some distance, they hear a loud bang in a close proximity.]
Thurai: Appa, what was that? so loud?
Appa: Are you asking about the loud bang?
Thurai: Yes.
Appa: Today is new year rite? So, some one is bursting fireworks to celebrate new year.
Thurai: Wish I too had some fireworks.
Appa: hmmm... Lets see if there are any shops to get some fireworks.
Appa: Why don't you sing a song while we walk?
Thurai: Ok.

[They walk some distance while Thurai sings all along.]
Appa: Shhhhh..... shhhhh...
Thurai: Looks like there are many who are bursting crackers in this place.

[Appa holds Thurai tightly and starts running]
Thurai: Appa, look, many people are running to that old building, is that where we are going too?
Appa: [Frantically] yeah yeah.

[A bullet comes from no where and strikes Thurai's Appa]
Appa: Ahhhhh!!!
[Bends down in pain and lets Thurai get down]
Appa: Quick, run to that place, don't wait for me. Quick... Quick... run...
Thurai: Ok
Appa: Thurai one minute.
[Appa hugs Thurai tightly and gives a peck on his cheeks]
Appa: Take care son... Go fast...

[Thurai runs to the old building where a nurse from red cross safe zone area takes him to shelter, Thurai turns back to see his appa lying down on the road sans any movement.]

Few days later...

[Thurai is very sad about what had happened on the new year. He does not talk to anyone, he constantly keeps looking out of the window hoping his mother will come in search of him.]

It's a very saddening thing to see many children loosing their parents during the War. I hope people come forward and adopt kids like Thurai and restore peace and happiness in their lives.

Hats off to Keshi who has adopted a kid affected in the Sri Lankan War.

Varta...

Our Madras Mozart

2009-01-26T22:41:00.009-07:00

First of all Wishing everyone a very Happy New Year!!! (Better late than never)

I am sure that, most of you would have found what this post is all about, from the post's heading. Yes, it is about, the one and only AR Rahman. I am sure I am not the only one posting about him, after the Golden Globe Awards, click here for some goose pimples.
I feel proud to say that I am one of the million fans that Rahman has all over the World. I have been his fan ever since I heard his name in Roja.
Later when I googled (hope they add this word to the dictionary soon :)) I found that many of the BGMs in Indian advertisements which I liked had his magic woven in it. The best example for this is Leo Coffee ad. Even now if I hear this music, my mind is rejuvenated as if I had a strong cup of filter coffee that my mom makes (One of the things I yearn for now a days).

I wanted to see AR Rahman perform live at least once in my life, I was lucky to have got a chance to satisfy this desire when I was in Chicago. It was a treat to my ears and eyes. Can never forget the experience, especially the song from Bombay that Chitra sang.

If Manirathnam and Kamalhaasan made us proud with an awesome movie called Nayagan which made it to Time's Top 100 all time best movies in the World, AR Rahman made us all proud with his debut work in Roja which made it to Time's all time best Top 10 soundtracks in the World. Ever since his first movie Rahman has been climbing new heights in each composition of his.
I am sure Rahman had to fight his way up, but even I had to fight by arguing with a lot of people who did not give him enough credit, saying he was nothing next to Maestro Ilayaraja. I agree, respect and love Ilayaraja's music, but I would never accept to the fact that Rahman is not comparable to Ilayaraja. I thought time had answered everyone and thought the argument would come to rest, but unfortunately for me, my B1/2 is a big time Ilayaraja fan, so the argument continues in our house.
I like Rahman for a lot of reasons, the main reasons being his soul full music, his down to earth attitude, recognizing talent, finding new voices, giving credit to his musician team (he was the first one to list his musician on the cassette cover), his patriotism, for the human he is.
Now, to the movie that got him the Golden globe award, Slumdog Millionaire. It was a good movie, nice screen play and great direction. I loved the way they had taken the movie, the movie really deserves the recognition and awards it gets. If you have not seen the movie yet, I strongly recommend you to watch the movie. Among Indian viewers there have been mixed responses about the movie, as far as I have heard all of them like the movie plot but many find it difficult to digest the way the movie is taken. Meaning, they are complaining like how Mr. Big B is complaining, saying they have shown Indian in a demeaning way. I strongly disagree to that, I feel whatever is shown in the movie does happen in India, I have personally seen child beggary like this in a small city like Coimbatore, then why not Mumbai? Check here to see some true incidents reported in Mumbai which kind of backs the movie. If Big B is so offended I feel he should work on how to make things better in the slums of Mumbai and other cities rather than denying the fact that the movie is baseless.

Check out the following song, this is my current favorite from the Madras Mozart. The song is from the movie Dilli 6. This movie is directed by Rakesh Mehra, the man who colored India with Rang de basanti.

AR Rahman We are very proud for you!! Congratulations and Good luck!!! Hope you make us proud in February again and make us call you O sarkar!!!!

Varta!!!

God's broker

2008-12-08T20:38:00.000-07:00

Another sage joins the fraud list, not in India but in Georgia, USA. Ever since I have known, I have always heard quite a few saints hitting the news stands for the wrong reasons, more than for any good deeds. I was thinking of posting about beliefs and practices and coincidently came across this news report from Fox news in youtube. Check out the following videos where Dr.Commander a so called saint at Atlanta, Georgia was caught for credit card fraud and practicing medicine without a license.

why do we need a broker for god? Won't god answer prayers if you pray directly to god?
I saw one of his speeches in Youtube where he draws analogy between God and Insurance company. He says that just like how we pay premiums every month we should pray to god and when you get in trouble that is when God will come, just like how insurance company comes when you land in some trouble. I rolled on the floor laughing hearing such a speech, and there were so many people patiently listening his crap. God! save all those people who follow blindly. I am pretty sure this incident will project a very wrong picture about Hinduism to people who are curious about other religions.
We can't blame people who do fraud like Dr.Commander, I think even people need to blamed for it. The most astonishing thing is, people believed all the crap such have doing ohmams over the phone and the ohmam video will be sent by mail in a DVD.
One thing I would like to ask everyone is, instead of pouring a lot of money to people like these guys, please help people in need by sponsoring education etc.
Be safe from people like Dr.Commander. Take Care.

Varta...

Top 5 cute romantic tamil movies scenes I like

2008-10-29T21:57:00.000-06:00

Actually I am not a big fan of romance being the core subject of a movie. I feel a cinema field is healthy only when it deals with a variety of subjects. I like the way how bollywood is producing movies recently. One of the recent bollywood movie that I liked was "The Wednesday". It was a nice movie with a nice and different plot. If you have not seen it, I would strongly recommend this movie. In tamil I think of all the new age directors I think Vetrimaran and Venkat Prabhu's movies are promising when it comes with dealing non love based story lines. But Gils' post provoked me to come up with a list of romantic scenes that I like in tamil movies. So here goes my list...

1. I don't think anything can beat the Karthik and Revathi segment in Mouna Raagam. Personally I love the scene where Karthik parks his bike before the bus and compels Revathi to say that she was looking out for him. The following video has all my favourite scenes in this movie.

2. Second one that comes to my mind is Ithayathai Thirudathe. The scenes are pretty much in the same style as mouna ragam but it still makes us enjoy each encounter between Nagarjuna and Geethanjali. The main reason being double damaka, in this movie both hero and heroine are shown as fun loving people. Check out the video below for my favourite scene in this movie.

3. I love every scene in Alaipayuthe but this is one of my most favourite scene. After a long break Mani Rathnam gave us a film in this genre. Another scene other than this one I love the most is, when Madhavan calls up Shalini at work. I tried hard for the video, this is the only one I could find. Sorry about the bad quality.

4. This again is from Mani Rathnam, I wonder how he thinks these kind of scenes. Trully brilliant ones. I like the way he handled this movies subject and the characterizations. After I saw this movie, I always wanted a wife like the one Simran portrays in this movie,independant, fun loving yet a strict mom.

5. Well finally I have a scene in my top 5 favourite which is not directed by Mani Rathnam. This scene is from Sillunu oru kadhal. This scene is a typical Mani Rathnam sequence, I am pretty sure the director of this movie was inspired by Mani Rathnam when he conceived this scene. This is one movie I liked but came to know that many did not like it. I felt it was a pretty decent movie, just that people could not digest the story line.

There are a few scenes which came close but missed my top 5 list.
1. Alaypayuthe climax scene, the scene where Shalini says I love you to Madhavan. Check here.
2. Another Mani Rathnam movie, in which we might not expect to have such a cute scene is Thalapathi. The scene where Rajini justifies cutting a police man's hand to Shobana. Second scene (Pidichuruku) in this video.
3. Gajini romance sequence between Surya and Asin. If the scenes were a little more fast paced, I guess this would have made in my Top 5 list. Click here for the video.
4. The romance sequence in the song Kangal irandal in Subramaniampuram. Click here for the video.

You might wonder why I have listed only scenes from Mani Rathnam's movies, but these are the most memorable scenes that have got stuck in my head. May be because I am a huge fan of him. One commonality between all these scenes is they all make you smile when you watch them, irrespective of the number of times you watch it.

Go ahead fill my comments with your favourites scenes.

Varta...

Crossing over

2008-10-13T22:24:00.002-06:00

[Today]
Rajesh uncle waits in front of the gate to board the flight to his destination. He keeps him engaged by watching the TV that was present in the waiting hall. Meanwhile a very old person sits in the vacant seat next to him.
Hello, I am Vinayagam.
Rajesh uncle returns back a warm smile and says "Hello Mr.Vinayagam, I am Rajesh. Nice to meet you."

[1 month back...]
Welcome! Welcome! Welcome! I am Rajaram, Vidya's father.
Hello sir, I am Rajesh, Vikram's father and this is Seetha my wife.
Lakshmi! Please come here, people from the bride groom's house have come.
Lakshmi comes into the room, gives a warm welcoming smile and says vanakkam to every one in the room.

[Today]
Mr.Vinayagam taps on Rajesh uncle's shoulder and asks "Why sir? Why are you so sad?"
"Nothing sir, had a lot of work to do but before that the time to leave had come, it makes me sad that I was not able to complete all my duties." replied Rajesh uncle.
"Don't worry sir, everything will fall in place as it should."
A man with a grey french beard sits in the chair opposite to Rajesh uncle.

[1 month back...]
Mr.Rajaram hope you or your Mrs are fully satisfied about this marriage.
Ofcourse sir, we are completely happy about it. Vidya is our only daughter and we respect her choice. We are sure her choice will be the best for her life.
Wow! thats nice to hear. My wife and I also feel the same way about Vikram's choice.
Vikram has a younger brother, Vinay, he's got exam tomorrow so we left him back at home.
[Vidya enters the room looking at nothing but the floor. She is made to sit in the center of the room.]
Shall we have the marriage after a month?
Oh sure, but... isn't 1 month too less a time to organize?
Oh don't worry about that, we can work together, and moreover lets have a simple wedding ceremony and a nice reception.
That sounds good, just the way I would like to do the wedding.

[Today]
How come you seem so happy? asked Rajesh uncle.
I am little bit sad about leaving here, but the happiness of meeting my wife again after many years subtilizes my sadness. How about you sir? asks Mr.Vinayagam looking at the man with the french beard who sat opposite to him.
"I am also happy, I will be meeting my wife, son , daughter, my father and my mother. The last I saw them was on December 26, 2004 when we went to Velankani shrine."
"Wow! that is so nice." said Rajesh Uncle.

[1 week ago...]
Vijaykumar as you already know next Monday is Vikram's wedding. Please come 1 or 2 days before the wedding along with your family. Sorry, Seetha could not come with me, since we didnt have much time, she has gone to give invitations to relatives and friends on the other end of the city.
Sure, What da, why so much formality? Vikram is like my son, We will all be there to bless him.

[Today]
"Look at those small children, look how happy they are, they don't even realise what is happening." said Mr.Vinayagam pointing his finger to two children who were playing catching game.
Oh look they have started to board. I think its better we go and join the queue, said Mr.Arokiaraj, the man with the french beard.
Mr.Vinayagam while getting up from the chair said "Yes, lets go Mr. Rajesh".
When they don't hear any reply, Mr.Vinayagam and Mr.Arokiaraj turn back to see Rajesh uncle missing. They look around trying to find Rajesh uncle.

[Today]
Mr.Rajesh!Mr.Rajesh! Mr.Rajesh! Please open your eyes slowly. How are you doing sir?
"Where am I? Why am I here?" asks Rajesh uncle looking at the doctors who woke him up.
You met with a small accident, but you are completely safe now. Your wife, sons, relatives and friends are waiting outside to see you. Let me go and let them know that you are doing great and send your wife and children here.

Mr.Vinayagam and Mr.Arokiaraj see all this unveiled.
Meanwhile at the gate, an important announcement for all passengers leaving to heaven, this is the final call for the flight leaving to heaven. Please report at the gate at the earliest.
Mr.Vinayagam and Mr.Arokiaraj give a warm smile to Rajesh uncle and bid adieu by waving to him and went inside their gate to board the flight to meet their near and dear in heaven.

Dedicated to one of my close friends father and to Randy Pausch.(Whenever you get time (video is 1hr 16 mins long), click on the link for Randy Pausch and listen to his last lecture, Randy was a professor in Carnegie Mellon university who became one of Time magazine's Top 100 most influencial people in 2007.)

Varta...

A year that flew over KK's blog...

2008-09-28T20:06:00.001-06:00

Where was I so long?

I got fused* after marriage, so didn’t have any brainwaves...

*fused with my better half :) (Hopefully this statement gets me tonite's dinner without any problem)

Now to the real blame absorbers...

About the same time last year I set my eyes on my 2nd wife (My B1/2 hates, me being with her). Just to clear the air here, I mean my Nikon SLR when I mean 2nd wife.

I always wanted a SLR ever since I was small. I totally fell in love with it when I tried out my cousin's SLR. Everyone fancies buying a bike or car or house after they start working, but I always wanted to buy a SLR. But correctly when I started working digital cameras came into the picture because of which I decided to wait for the digital camera market to stabilize before I can own my own digital SLR. Finally I got my own Digital SLR in September last year. So I was all excited about taking photos with my B1/2 being my model for all my try outs. The camera since then took me to places like Zoo, Canyons, National Parks, City parks to list a few.

Then when I was almost about to hit the ground after flying high with my new SLR, I had bid adieu to the windy city since my project came to an end. From there I ended up at the Mormon city. New place, new people, new office, new work, new business terminologies, new apartment but same old (new) wife :). So it kind of took some time to settle down in the new place with not a single familiar face around.

When I was almost set at the new place, work became hectic. The Go live date for my project was 1st of January. What kind of sane man would plan for a big release on the 1st of Jan? I would call them sadists, spoiling everyone's New Year unless their role is not that of a manager (rightly called as Damagers). Especially if your Indian manager is involved in coming up with the project estimates, forget planning anything.

Once the go live went fine, when I was thinking of starting to blog again... Steve Jobs' phone fell into my hand (another thing that my B1/2 hates). A cool gadget, which I could not resist. The power of having internet where ever you go (as long as there is cell phone signal) is amazing! I was all excited until 2nd second generation phone came, that's when I felt like... Gawd!! I should have waited!!

Again when I was about to make my second attempt to start blogging, new project, new office, new colleagues and new technologies. So Again I am kind of trying to settle down from all the changes around me.

So, you see, there is nothing to blame on me... Blame it on Nikon, Steve Jobs, Windy City, Salt Lake city, Old project, new project, previous project damager, new faces around me etc. etc. (This statements shows a real sign of Calvin's side effect)

Before anything comes again, I wanted to break my one full year of hiatus with a new post... So here it goes...

Varta...

Road-side Romeos

2007-09-28T12:29:00.000-06:00

Bill walks on the street and suddenly he hears someone calling "Bill! Bill!". He immediately turned to his left and saw all his buddies across the road. He crosses the road and shakes hands with Richie, Tom, John and Mark.
Tom pulls Bill's leg "Bill! busy stalking that lady, uhn? you didn't even hear us calling you. We were like yelling so loud that even Bill Clinton would have heard us."
Immediately after this the whole gang goes in a laughter roll and they give each other a high five.
Immedialy John comes to Bill's rescue, "Dude look who is talking. This bugger agaped at a woman for 20 mins only to find that it was none other than his wife."
Again there was huge roar of laughter and high fives being exchanged between the buddies. They made so much noise that everyone on the street turned to look what was happening.
"Shshhshhshh" said Mark. "Guys watch out the hot chick passing by in the black porche."
Immediately as if some one said eyes right, all the heads turned right at the same time just like the marching soldiers.
Once the car went out of sight Bill conks Richie and tells him "She's gone and so, stop seeing her and also don't forget to close your mouth you hottie old man!"
Richie blushes and turns his head.
Suddenly John says "Guys tomorrow there is a Sox Vs Cubs game at the Wrigley field, How about going for that?"
Mark says excited "Wow! great idea, lets go guys"
Immediately there are 3 echos saying "OK".
After talking for some time each one disperses towards their house.
Next day morning Tom and Richie assemble at Bill's place and wait for Mark and John to join them. They wait for long and finally after about an hour, Mark turns up.
Everyone pounces on him and asks him "Why are you so late? And where is John? At this rate we will enter Wrigley field while everyone walks out of there."
Mark replies "John won the race guys."
In chorus every exclaims "What??? When? What happened."
"It happened today early morning, while he was sleeping. He had a peaceful exit, just the way he wanted to have." said Mark.
"Well, He lived happily for all his 82 years. May his soul rest in peace. Guys this just reminds us that its not too long for us to meet our end." saying this Tom goes inside his house others follow him behind.

Varta...

:-)

2007-09-19T10:30:00.000-06:00

Its been claimed that its 25 years since :-) was used for the first time. It is believed that twenty five years ago, a Carnegie Mellon professor Scott E. Fahlman was the first to use the three keystrokes (":", "-", ")") to represent a smiley in a message.
Since then the messaging industry has added so many emoticons, that it seems almost impossible to send a computer message without using an emoticons.
The creator of the original ASCII emoticons :-) and :-(, with a specific suggestion that they be used to express emotion, was Scott Fahlman; the text of his original proposal, posted to the Carnegie Mellon University computer science general board on 19 September 1982 (11:44), was considered lost for a long time. It was however recovered twenty years later by Jeff Baird, from old backup tapes.

19-Sep-82 11:44 Scott E Fahlman :-)
From: Scott E Fahlman

I propose that the following character sequence for joke markers:

:-)

Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark
things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use

:-(

Below is the list of emoticons that GMail messenger supports.

<3
:(|)        (It's a monkey!)
\m/        (Rock out)
:-o
:D
:(
x-(
B-)
:'(
=D
;)
:-|
=)
:-D
;^)
;-)
:-)
:-/
:P

Its news to me that GMail has so many emoticons. I just knew a hand full of them. Whatever said and done, Yahoo! still rules the net with respect to emoticons. I don't think any other messenger service offers such a wide spectrum of emoticons. Click here for a complete list of Yahoo! emoticons.

:)

(sources: cnn, Wikipedia.org, GMail Help)

Varta...

Roomie Vs Honey

2007-09-12T21:50:00.000-06:00

Hola people! Hope you all are doing good. Well its been a long time since I peeped into this space. Sorry for making you guys wait. It kind of took time to settle down and subsequent to that the crank shaft in my brain seemed to have got jammed being idle for long. I am trying to revive my blog by writing this post. Hope I come back in full swing.

Warning: All characters in this post are fictious. Any resemblance in character with anyone dead or alive is just a coincidence. Hope this post does not become like the above picture(Me throwing sand on my own head)

Everyone says marriage is an eternal bliss. Well, though I would like to disagree, in order to avoid getting a black eye and also to get some food I too will agree with that and say marriage is surely an eternal bliss.
I was just comparing a guy's life BM (before marriage) and the same guy's life AM (after marriage), seems a big contrast.

Guy BM	Guy AM
He goes back home from work at 8:00 PM and the conversation at home goes... Roomie: Early today? Guy: Yeah man, Finished up something, so came home before I started the next module.	He goes back home from work at 5:00 PM and the conversaion at home goes... Honey: Why are you so late? Guy: No Honey, had some work, did that till I reached a logical end. Have to continue working on it tomorrow.
Roomie: Hey! what to do for dinner man? Guy: Let's heat some frozen food and have man, what say?	Honey: Cut Chicken, onion and tomato and cook Chicken curry while I make some Chappati's Guy: Ok, Honey.
Guy cooks chicken curry Roomie: Awesome Chicken curry man, You are the man!	Guy cooks chicken curry Honey: Hmmm ok. You should add some more spices.
Kitchen sink overflows with soiled vessels Roomie: Machan, lets clear this man.	Kitchen sink overflows with soiled vessels. Guy starts to clean them Honey: Here clean these too. And throws in a more vessels Honey: Scrub it nicely, I see few dots of dirt there.
Roomie: Hey! I have sent a request for you to join orkut. Join soon, I will scrap you.	Guy logs in his laptop first time in a week's time and types www.google.com. Even before the page loads Honey: You always sit with your laptop. Instead of me, you could have married your laptop.
Guy: C'mon man lets go play Tennis. Roomie: No man Guy: Stop lazying around, come lets go and play, you lazy bum!	Guy: Honey my old roomie is calling me for playing Tennis Honey: No need Tennis. Spend time with me. Guy to Roomie: Dude, I cant come man. Didn't get ground clearance.

Dedicated to all the husbands and to be husbands in this World. Jai Mata Di!!

Varta...

KK's day out

2007-06-27T21:41:00.000-06:00

One dull sober cloudy day (for a change from the usual bright sunny day) KK leaves from his house in hurry to to be on time for an important meeting with his client. His mom shouts from the kitchen telling him to have his breakfast before he leaves. But he shouts back saying "I am already late and on top of that you want me to have breakfast, vada, pasayam and all?" and leaves the house as he talks.
When he steps out of his house his father, who was sitting outside tells him to post a mail before he goes to office. Again he shouts back saying not today. He then takes his bike on to the road and tries to start but his bike does not co-operate with him. So he bends down to see what could be the trouble. Meanwhile a Santro that was passing by sloshed muddy water from the near by puddle on the road. KK's father and mother who were watching the whole scene unfold smirked hiding their face behind news paper and door respectively.
KK irritated rushes into the house and does a quick change and goes towards his bike to give another try. But the bike still follows murphy's law and refrains from starting.
Giving up with his bike KK heads towards the near by auto stand in the corner of his street. But to his luck there not even a single auto in the auto stand. He then calls one of his friend and asks him if he can give him a ride till his office. His friend tells him to wait at the bus stop so that he can pick from there. So KK starts to wait for his friend.
[Brute's contribution]
It was eight in the morning, KK was waiting for his friend. He was waiting for more than 30 mins and no sign of his friend, not even a call from him nor an SMS. In the meanwhile KK starts feeling hungry and so he walks to Idli banddi which was on the other side of the road.
[Golmaalgopal's contribution]
KK munches some idlies and suddenly tting!!! a brain-wave as usual(vaai summa irukkuma)and asks the idly fellow..."anne...ungaloda vandiyum 4 wheeler dhaan....neenga dhaan idha otittu porenga....pudhusa potta rule padi seat belt enga anne?" (translation: Brother..isnt your cart too a four wheeler? you are only driving this cart, as per the new rule where is the seat belt?)
Hearing that idly fello(ofcourse unaware of our thala's genius)gets enraged and starts to throw idlies at him...KK does some amazing matrix stunt and misses every idly that was thrown at him... But everyone was wondering where the idlies were disappearing, suddenly...G3 enters the screen (camera from low angle)...G3 catches all those idlies and asks the idly fellow 4 sambar n chutney, lifting him off the ground with just one hand. And in this gap our heeeerroo escapes to find his friend...and runs off without paying for the idlies that he downed.
Finally when KK reaches his office he finds that the meeting was almost over. Just when he was about to turn and go back to his cubicle his boss (not Sivaji) calls him and fires left, right and center and suspends him from office for a week.
[Sat's contribution]
Sad about the events that happened that day, KK walks back home sad with his face facing the earth like a sunflower which has not seen the sun for more than 2 months...KK suddenly bumps into something and falls down. When he looks up he finds G3. G3 catches him by his collar and picks him up and puts him on his foot. KK suddenly realizes that he'd better not mess with blogsville big shots hereafter...and immediately apologizes to G3... :P
In order to make his rotten day a little brighter he heads to his favorite sports bar. As soon as he enters he writes down some of his favorite numbers and gives it to DJ to play them. Correctly when the DJ starts to play his favorite numbers, his mobile rings "cloud #9 cloud #9" (Bryan Adam song)
He then pulls out his mobile and picks the call and says "Hey sweetie how are you?"
The voice on the other side yells "Where are you without going to office??"
Scared to tell about his suspension he lies "I got a comp off for a weekend that I worked, so I am at Ram's (how can a story be without a character named as Ram) house."
"Ha! you want me to believe that story. Let me check with Ram. Call him!"
"He is not here sweetie, he has gone to a near by store"
"Ok, then I will call his Mobile and check and cuts the call abruptly."
KK some how manages to call Ram before her and tells him to just continue with the lie and asks him to save him from her.
But Ram thinks himself to be Dil Chata hai Aamir Khan and tells her the whole story how and why he got suspended and which sports bar he is in currently along with the sports bar's latitude and longitude.
KK gets a call again so he picks it up and with confidence asks "Now atleast do you believe me?"
"Get lost!!, don't ever come in front of me again"
KK not knowing what to do, starts repeating "I am good boy (!!!!!)...I am a good boy!...please please believe me...I am a good boy!!!!" But the other side on the phone hangs up.
He just puts down his drink, pays the bill and heads straight to his house. She opens the door and he tries to convince her with all kind of answers but not heeding to him she slams the door on his face.
KK very depressed walks aimlessly on the road not knowing where he was going. Just then he sees a place that many people don't dare going there. He then climbs 140ft thinking about the whole day. Depressed by all the things that happened that day he thinks jumping down from there is the only way he can find happiness and so without any hesitation he jumps.

Suddenly he realizes that his wife, K was waking him up with a sweet smile on her face and a cup of hot coffee which was filling the whole room with it aroma in her hand. (Thinking about this only makes me so happy) Only then he realized that he was so disturbed about his meeting that day that he has had a bad dream about it. He then starts up his day happily with a broad smile thanking god that all that was not real.

Story: Jeevan Screenplay: Brute/GolMaalGopal/Sat/KK

P.S - This story is a compilation of the scenes that some of the bloggers contributed in the comment section in one of my previous posts.
P.S.S- Text in italics are the author's thoughts.
P.S.S.S - Stunt shown in the video is done by trained professionals like KK, do not try it at home.
P.S.S.S.S - Hope Ms.K sees this and wakes me with a bed coffee everyday.
P.S.S.S.S.S -I will be away from blogging for another one month to grow fatter from single to double.

Ha Ha Ha!! exceeded Sat's number of P.Ss :D

Varta...

The Boss

2007-06-13T00:19:00.000-06:00

Well its almost party time in the whole of Tamil Nadu. Every nook and corner of the state is echoing only one word. Yes its "Sivaji, The Boss". Super star Rajnikanth is back in action after a long 2 years of hiatus. Sivaji will just continue to run in the victory run by collecting the baton from the blockbuster movie Chandramukhi.

People from different strata of life, age or for that matter of fact any other diversity adore Rajnikanth on the silver screen. Every person who loves and hates him will see his movie at least once in the theatre. His movies are a total family entertainer.
Rajni is famous for his styles, which keep changing for each movies. One of his most famous style is to catch the cigarette in his mouth. It was in 70's that he started this stunt. Its still followed by many ardent fans across Tamil Nadu.

After styles the next thing that comes to ones mind when we think about Rajnikanth is his punch dialogues. The dialogues attain their meaning and beauty only when he says them. In recent times all new heroes in Tamil film industry have started using the same formula of having a punch dialogue for each movie. But nothing can come close to the way Rajni delivers it.

Rajni has proved that he is a versatile actor who can do varied roles which involves action, comedy and masala. Of all Rajni movies one movie that I love watching again and again is "Thillu Mullu"'. It is an out and out comedy movie. It was a remake of a hindi movie called "Golmaal". I personally feel this remake has surely out done the original. One of my favorite scene in that movie is the one below.

There is very common argument that compares Kamalhassan and Rajnikanth, to prove that Rajnkanth is no good etc. But I feel such a comparison is like comparing oranges and apples. Each one is good in their own way. Rajni's mass appeal, 100% entertainer, mixture of action, comedy, sentiments cannot be compared to Kamal's Acting, dancing, singing, perfectionisms, knowledge in various spectrum's of cinema. While Kamal has talent, Rajni has done hard work to reach where he is today. He is surely a source of inspiration for a lot of people, that if you put in enough amount of hard work, you can reach even beyond the skies.
I am just waiting for June 15th to come for Sivaji to release. Keeping my fingers crossed, hope the movie meets the humongous (this word is an under statement) expectation that people have for this movie.
Irrespective of how the movie runs, Rajnikanth will always remain as Super Star in most of the hearts in Tamil nadu. This post is dedicated to none other than the Super star.

Varta...

Learn Blogging in 30 days! Part-Trios

2007-05-31T21:24:00.000-06:00

For Flash back click here
For Flash back of flash back click here

Ambi was followed by Jeevan to give some tips on how to write patriotic post. He starts by telling about the leader during India's freedom struggle and suddenly Oliveoyl, who was in her own world stands up and says Gabdain Vaazhga!
Deepa who was playing her cricketer trump cards, suddenly sprung up from her seat on hearing about gabdain, she started shouting Sachin... Saaaachin..... Sachin... Saachin.... Sachin Gops who was dreaming about his car shouts "Present sir!" thinking the attendance was being taken. The whole class bursts out into laughter.
After Jeevan, Shiva comes to the dais to share his experience of how he found his long lost friend back again through his blog. While he about the complete, Kavi stands up and asks Shiva what his profile image means. For which Shiva replies that his profile means "Oru oorla oru peiya maram athula oru kuii" and again the class goes on a roll.
Suddenly everyone's attention is drawn towards a girls who walks on the corridor singing "Kallile kalai vannam kandan...". Karthikeyan runs to her and asks who she was and why she is going like this.
She replies "I am Janani, I had actually gone to Mahabalipuram during the weekend along with my mom and her friends. I was very moved by the sculptures and since then I have been going around lost, singing like this."
When Karthikeyan was talking outside with Janani, Sonata runs to the dias and quizes the class about the name of the film of the song which Janani sang. While everyone tries to name the film, Ace stands up and says bibiliki bilabi... Viji who was sitting in the first row stands up and asks "Mama biskothu".
Padma Priya, walks furiously to Ambi and asks "You are no good as a brother.". Ambi wondering what happened asks her what happened. For which she just points her finger at RSubras. He was singing the song "Kai veesamma kai veesu... kadaiku pona kai veesu..." to Prithz.
After everyone finishes with their lecture, Karthikeyan calls Priyamana neram Priya and gives her an award for the the best story in blogsville award for her Kadhal yaanai story. She starts telling about what inspired her to write the story. She gets disturbed by SKM and Chitra who were sitting in the first bench and discussing about each one's son, their behaviour, funny incidents created by their son's. Due to this Priya loses her cool and goes back to her seat. Karthikeyan annoyed by this tells SKM and Chitra to write an imposition on the black board.
Porkodi who was also in the first row, was irritated by the constant telugu conversation between Brute, Contended and Isha in the second row. She turns back and tells them "SKM's writing is like Jangiri alias Jilebi like the one she makes can you understand what she is writing? May be she is writing in telugu.". As soon as G3 hears about food she runs to the dais searching for it. KK hits his head and says "These people will never improve."

The End

Thank you everyone for all your patience and encouragement. You guys are not only stars in my story but you guys are the stars of my blog. Without your constant encouragement I dont think it would have been possible for me to complete one full year of blogging. Thanks Again!

I had fun writing this story with you all as characters. So I thought I will share the fun with you guys. So the next post will be a story with me as the character and written by you guys. So I request each one of you to pitch in some lines for the story as a comment. I will consolidate them and put them as a story in my next post. Unleash your imagination and have fun.

Learn Blogging in 30 days! Part -Deux

2007-05-18T01:32:00.000-06:00

For Flash back click here

Karthikeyan bangs the duster on the desk to make the class quiet.

On seeing this GomaalGopal tells Bharani, "Billu If Princi tells order order... then tell him I want one plate Pongal vada and one coffee".
Hearing this Bharani ROTFL's!! Karthikeyan see's this and calls Bharani to tell about how he blogs. Bharani thinks a lot and then he tells "Actually I think, I think, I think... and inspite of all the think I only blink, then I listen to some song and post that with the lyrics. In short my blog is Powered by Ctrl+C, Driven by Ctrl+V".
Immediately G3 stands up and says "You guys might laugh at Bharani for copying, but its talent and with some public service mentality."
Golmaal tells Bharani "Billu, be ready for a long bill from G3."
Karthikeyan gets the attention of the whole class and introduces Priya to class as the blogger who can literally write about anything from a shopping cart to women empowerment.
Priya comes to dais and talks about her experience in blogging. She tells "Writing blog is like a painting or a writing a poem, you can get inspiration from everything that you see in your daily life"
Suddenly Sachin Gops stands up and tells "Correct! That's why I wrote about my Window, Calculator, TVS 50....." while he was listing all the things that he had written people in the last row including gals started pelting with chalk pieces and paper rockets forcing him to sit.
After that Priya continues to tell about her inspirations and points to someone who was swinging outside on the near by tree. When everyone peeped though the widow they started to laugh, wonder ing what was so funny Karthikeyan looks outside and to his surprise he finds Heidi Kris wearing a white dress, singing and swinging. Sat looking at this conks Gils on his head and asks "Does she think herself as Sridevi in 16 vayathinile?" Gils replies to her in anger "How do I know?"
Sat keeps her cool and tells "Corrs! Corrs!"
Gils just sits back in his place quietly and mumbles "Let me get those Corrs song then I will make you drive a car and see to that you run over the car on yourself."
Meanwhile on the other corner of the room, ItchingToWrite takes out her cell phone and plays the ringtone loud keeping it near Ganesh. ArtNavy, who sits beside ItchingToWrite gets irritated by what she was doing and asked "What are you doing? Even Anush will behave better than you." for which ItchingToWrite replies "This guys mobile keeps ringing every now and then, so I am doing what I do to auto drivers on Chennai roads. It gives me a kind of happiness to do that.". Artnavy says "From tomorrow onwards I will get some of Anush's wooden toys, so that you can play with it.".
When all this was happening, suddenly a small boy dressed in Sharukh Khan's dress comes inside the class room singing and dancing "Devuda devuda yezhumala devuda..". While everyone was wondering who the kid was a small girl enters the room behind him and finds her mother who was hiding under the desk eating the yummy food that was cooked by Lera. Only then everyone realised that the mom of these kids Has to be her.
When everything settled down, Karthikeyan calls on Vidya to tell the class what technique she uses to get topics for her blog. Vidya takes the dias and starts "Sai chien Karthikeyan. Nee how students." The whole class wonders what she was talking. She then realised that she has got the hangover of chinese after attending the chinese new year festival. She then starts tellig about the history and geography of her blog and continues with the physics and chemistry of her blog then starts with dynamics and goes on and on and on as if she is powered by energizer battery.
Bored by the non-stop n............ (Did you think nonsense?? Vidya see what these people are thinking :) I didnt mean that way, I meant naration) Our class love birds Kittu mama and Maami start singing...

When they were about to finish their song, everyone hears Thee thee in a sweet voice. Arun hears this as tea tea and runs towards the door thinking someone was going to give tea and biscuit for everyone. Ambi who was standing near the door catches Arun by his ear and takes him to his place and tells him to sit there quietly. While doing this Ambi thinks within himself "Super, duper. Became a hero in front of all these girls... hehehehehe.... Thanks Arun". Meanwhile Arun repending over how his image was damaged by Ambi fumes and in turn smoke comes out of his ears. Again a sweet voice says Thee thee, and when we follow the voice, it was found that Marutham was singing a song. Venky who was sleeping so long suddenly got up when he heard "Thee Thee" and correctly he saw the smoke that was coming out of Arun's ears and started running out shouting "Fire Fire!". He went running in the college corridor even before anyone could realize what happened to him. Natamai immediately turns towards Kittu and tells "Paththa vechutiye parrata" and does one good morning opicer salute to Kittu Maami.
Shuba immediately turns towards usha and says "These guys are always like this, for no reason they get scared and run away shouting for help. Similar thing happened when I was born, Actor Surya and his brother current heartthrob Karthik (BSK'nu kooda sollalam) came and saw me when I was born. They took a peek into the cradle where I was put and started running like mad itseems. I still can't understand what they saw to get so scared."
For which Usha replies "Yenna Kodumai Shuba, These kind of people we should take them to Swiss alpine and fix them as your skis and ski down the hill."
Ambi is called upon the stage to give some valuable tips for the youth bloggers, there was a huge roar of claps for Ambi's entry.
Thanking everyone he starts his speech "People I am going to tell you how to write 68 posts and find your betterhalf." Hearing this natamai whistles in full flow. Ambi tells natamai "This is not for people who got married and frying potato bondas.".
Ramya raises her hand and asks a question to Ambi "I was told if I write about Eyes and change the color of my blog, dress and my accessories to green, many will fall for me, but all these made me look like a tree. Instead of guys falling for me I think soon some fruit will fall out of me. do you know why?". Ambi replies "If you ask kozhanthai(so claims Ambi) all this, he will start crying."
Krithika who was quiet all this while asks Ambi a question "Do good friends make better girlfriends/boyfriends and couples? Not necessarily.Because a relationship ushers in possessive attitude which brings out a different side of a woman's personality?
I'm pretty confused..."
Ambi replies "Hearing your question I am Kaathu-fused".

The class will continue....

PS - Folks, Thanks for the comments for the previous post, it was very encouraging. Sorry I was unable to reply to them. Hope henceforth I will blog more regularly.
P.S.S - Thought of finishing this story this week but was getting too long so extending it to one more section a la Gils.

I'll be back

2007-04-25T23:33:00.000-06:00

This is exactly what I would like to have currently.... Would any of you be interested for the tech writer post? :)

Learn Blogging in 30 days!

2007-04-06T11:45:00.000-06:00

Disclaimer: All characters in this post are not fictious and they resemble any person or blog in real world intentionally. And so junta take this in lighter vein.

This day one year back, Kays Brainwave came into existence. With all your encouragement it has completed a whole year of blogging. I was almost done with blogging when Kays Brainwave was about 1.5 months old. But comments and encouragement from you guys has made me going for more and complete a year. Thanks People!
Just an imagination of how it will be if all of us were in one class room studying about blogging. This story is inspired from zaban sambalke that used to come on DD long time back.

S0ul enters the class room with a Jamba juice in her hand and sits in the first row next to Keshi and starts to crib about how bad her day was. In reply Keshi was describing about the blue eyed guy whom she saw in the train. Later Sat enters the room and goes straight to the last row and tells Gils to move, saying she wants to sit in the last row. KK tells her that all girls sit on the other side and not here. Sat gets angry and yells "How dare you tell me to go sit along with the girls?". Gils who was watching silently so long smirks and looks at Sat. Sat turns towards Gils and says "So you are laughing at me uhn??? We'll see how you get your corrs". Immediately goes behind Sat and convinces her that he will give a seat in the last bench and also give her son papdi.
Then suddenly Natamai background music (If any one can send me this, I would appreciate it.) starts and Natamai Syam enters the room followed by Bharani carrying the umbrella and Arun carrying the beetle leaves box. Meanwhile Prithz who was sitting in the first row so long, suddenly got up and came to the last row. BSK goes and shoo's her telling her that she cant sit there. Prithz argues for some time and this comes to the attention of Natamai. So he goes near them and asks what the problem is, when he is about to let Prithz to sit where she wants, BSK places a bottle of Bacardi in Natamai's hand, after which Natamai changes his decision makes Prithz go and sit in the first row. Prithz goes and sits in the first row grumbling about how biased Natamai is.
M.Karthikeyan, the Principal of Blogging School enters the room with some teachers. He walks up the podium and greets the students. Prithz immediately goes to him and complains about what happened in the class. Karthikeyan immediately punishes Natamai, BSK, Bharani and Arun telling them they need to post a 100 words post everyday for the next 20 days.
Just then Ponnarasi excuses herself to enter the classroom. Karthikeyan questions her why she was late. For which she replied "There was huge queue for the tickets and by the time I got one, I was late and so I came running all the way from Mylapore." Karthikeyan was astonished hearing this, so he asked her in exclamation "You ran all the way here from Mylapore?Wow!! How could you do that?" he asked.
For which she replied "I got on to the train and ran inside the train until I reached here."
The whole class burst into a laughter and Karthikeyan was totally snubbed and so he told Ponnarasi to go and sit in the class.
Karthikeyan says "Ok folks, now its time to introduce you to our special guests who will give tips on how to write blogs in their own special ways. To start with I would like to call G3 to tell us about her speciality."
Arun whispers to Bharani "Hahaha, is she going to tell us how to put some mokka posts??"
Natamai tells to Arun "No she might tell something about how to write about food and how to find people for treats."
Bharani replies to Natamai "No thalaiva, she might tells us about how to write love poems and fool people saying its for a friend"
"Hahahahaha" laughed all three.
As expected G3 gave the class some gyan on how to write a post when you don't have anything to write about.
Karthikeyan comes back on the podium and says "Before the next guest comes and talks lets see some of your posts and analyze how it can be improved."
"Harish why don't you tell us about your post" asked G3.
Harish said "I wrote this post where I wrote a story in which there was an old man who stayed alone in a village in the middle of the forest and few animals were heading to his house and..."
"and what happened" asked G3
"Then I had a power cut so could'nt write more" said Harish
Everyone laughed out loud again.

The class will Continue...

Varta...

Main hoon na...

2007-03-30T15:24:00.000-06:00

Who is a show stealer? And where can they be easily found? I am sure most of you would have come across show steelers during your life some where or the other. One of the most common place where you can find these show steelers are in a meeting room. There is no other entertaining place in this World like a meeting room.
It is so funny to see different people trying different ways to be a show stealer, especially if the meeting is being organized by someone who is very important, like your boss or someone who has the ability to do a remarkable change to your life in some way or the other.
The leaders of show stealer are the Mr/Ms. KnowItAlls. These are people whom you can find in most of the meetings. These are people who think and try to show to the World that they know just about every thing under the sun and there is nothing in this World that they have not come across. Only if they come to know that others are listening and no one knows anything about what they are talking they immediately shift to the top gear and become so pompous that you can hardly stand them anymore. I feel like putting a cork in their mouth and shutting them.
Then there are Mr/Ms Disconnected who start talking something that is totally not connected to the topic that is being discussed. This includes people who go beating around the bush and finally when you think about what they said, he would not have said anything sensible at all. In one of my recent meeting one guy spoke for about 2-3 mins and suddenly finished. I was thinking to myself, so what is he trying to say here?? Only thing I could think of is, just to make his presence in the meeting he just spoke.
Then are another kind of people who try to make their presence in the meeting. They are slightly different from the previous category of people. These kind of people mostly oppose to anything that is being suggested by the meeting chairman. By revolting they pull everyone's focus on them. Again in my recent meeting, a suggestion of having a technical lead along with a Project manager was suggested for each project. So Mr.Revolt immediately asked how will just one person suffice for a team and they need to have a technical person for every 2 people or something. Hearing this I felt like laughing out loud, if the technical person is the one who is going to tell us how to code then why would the company need programmers they would rather have typists who will type what the technical person tells.
Then there are these Mr/Ms CloseProximity. These are people who always see to that they are seated at a close proximity to the meeting chairman or at least in the line of vision of the meeting chairman. These people may not make their presence by talking but they see to that they get noticed by the meeting chairman. They mostly try to display a very positive body language by nodding their head etc. If you ask them anything after the meeting, mostly they wont know what was told in the meeting and they would crib to you telling how bad the meeting was. If only they used their acting skills in some cinema they could have won some oscars.
Then there are another set of people, Mr/Ms BackBenchers, who do not care what is happening in the meeting. They just observe what different people do during the meeting and have fun at their expense. They generally try to sit as far as possible from the meeting chairman. They generally have the typical back bencher attitude waiting for the meeting to either end or serve food. Well I don't think I need to say in which category I fall, do I?

Varta...

Hazardous Post!!!

2007-03-21T13:26:00.000-06:00

Well true to the adage, An idle mind is a devil's workshop, Now my slowly becoming idle blog has become a devil's workshop. This a very different post in my blog. Go through this post at your own risk. Suddenly I am developing an interest to sing. As my blog name suggests, this blog is about my brain waves. So I decided to record a couple of songs which I sang. I am no where close to a trained singer, so hear me singing at your own risk.

Thanks to Gils for the Mozhi song lyrics. It was his lyrics that instigated me to try singing. So he is kind of a partner in crime.

KatrinMozhi.mp3

Thanks to G3 for all the support and encouragement rendered by telling I sang the Mozhi song well and suggesting some prospective songs that I can try and also by providing the lyrics for the song (Raja Raja Chozhan from Rettai vaal kuruvi) that I decided to sing.

RajaRajaChozhan.mp...

Another special thanks to my online singing teacher Prithz. For helping me improve my singing by giving some valuable suggestions and teaching me some nuances of singing.

Feel free to throw stones and rotten tomatoes but at the same time take care of your computer screen (I am safe behind it :D )

Varta...

Gud ol' days

2007-03-14T00:51:00.000-06:00

Ramya's tag reminded me of my college days. To me college days were one of the best times in my life. I feel I was fortunate to get a chance to stay at hostel. But this post is strictly only about college.
When I talk about college then I should also mention about Kadalai (Peanut) and Pongal (Food). For people who dont know about these, well Kadalai is when people of different gender talk to each other and Pongal is when same gender talk to each other. I am not sure about other places but Tamil Nadu makes it a big issue when a guy and girl talk to each other. So Kadalai is one of the hot things during a students life.
Though many people (including me) had fun by Kadalafying happily in the corridor, stairs, classroom, canteen and every other place in college. It was equally fun to play some pranks on people who were busy talking and disturb them. Some of the pranks that I can recollect now are
1. When a guy and a girl are talking we guys go and talk to each other saying there is too much smoke around.
2. An improvement on the above idea was to hold our nose and trying to clear the air and saying its too much of smoke, smells like some thing is getting burnt.
3. Another improvisation of this Idea is, switching on the fan for the guy and girl saying we wanted to clear the smoke in that place.
4. A very good idea was to run with a glass of water and give the guy and the girl. Because after talking for so long they might feel thirsty, social service.
5. One of my favorite idea was to run all the way to the guy and gal talking, and show them a cone made out of paper and as them if they could share some kadalai (peanut).
6. The best idea we had during our college days was when a guy and a girl are talking form a group of say 4-5 guys and go sit in the next table facing the guy and the girl. After getting seated place a hand on the table and rest your chin on your hand and keep looking at them. I have never seen this idea fail, always the guy and girl used to move out of that place.
Well other than disturbing people talking, there were also instances where crazy things were done just for the sake of bet.
1. Went around telling people to smile and took a photo of them using a paper camera. I got a egg puff and a cool drink for it.
2. A cocktail of coke and coffee and won a cool drink.
3. Drinking a full bottle of Pepsi at a stretch to win another bottle of Pepsi.
Class room was another great place. Whenever a lecturer gives us a problem to solve and goes around the class to see if everyone is doing it, I used to type 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,0 + 0,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1 and then "=" in my calculator. By then the lecturer would have crossed us and also by then some studious guy would have solved it and will be shouting the answer on top of his voice, immediately we also used to shout the same answer and escape from solving the problem.
Once for some lecture, we had to refer to a data book for solving a problem, my friend and I did not have the data book. So we wrote "Data Book" on the desk and when ever the lecturer tells us to look at the data book we used look at the word "Data Book" that we wrote on the desk. Well we escaped without getting caught as we sat on the 4th row that day. The lecturer saw only the first and last row people.
Other than this we had our chances to make our lecturers cry on few instances and eating when the class was going, reading news paper and magazines during class.
I don't think a masters program or job will be as good as a bachelors degree program. I think we become more mature by the time we pass out from the bachelors degree. Any day I would say that my college days are the most memorable ones. This post is more of a reminder where I have jotted down things which will rejuvenate my college days whenever I want to.

How do you feel about your college days, when you think of it now?

Varta...