phokat times

I am amazed

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:53:00 +0000

Do you know anyone who can recount an incident in following ways:

1. In active voice
2. In passive voice
3. In first person's view
4. In second person's view
5. In third person's view
6. Finally conclude in their own view...

I know ...
And I am amazed..

Happy Birthday Kiran

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Today is Kiran’s birthday..

I hope he has a good day!

Raghav was quite excited about his dad’s birthday.. but dint wish him.

Raghav gave him a big hug and that expressed everything he would have wanted to tell his dad.

MIL made puri for breakfast. She also made that yellow alloo sabji, which Kiran likes.

I wanted Kiran to buy a pair of new shoes.

But he doesn’t seem to have enough time to go shopping.

Happy Birthday Kiran!!

Cost Cutting

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:30:00 +0000

Thanks .. For being there..

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:55:00 +0000

"A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling."

Yes.. You did master the art of reading my mind..

And I rediculed you..I am very sorry for being such stupid all these days ..

I was never ready to hear any honest criticism from you ..

Did you ever wonder why? Coz it is always been very hard for me to take criticism, particularly from a good friend.

I was blind for having missed to count the blessings bestowed upon me, in the form of a good friend..

But thanks .. Thanks a lot for being there for me ..

I know you will be there for me in any crossroad of my life..

Thanks .. For being there..

Happy Birthday Naresh...

I wish you that are blessed with all that you wish for!!

And I know you truely deserve it!

Life

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 09:49:00 +0000

Who do you turn to when the only person in the world that can stop you from crying, is exactly the one making you. cry

True Love

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:00:00 +0000

"True love is when you have to watch a friend leave, with the knowledge that you might never see him again. But you know he'll be in your mind and heart forever..."

Enga Veetukku Krishnan 4 yrs munnadiye vanduttan

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:49:00 +0000

Happy Birthday Raghav

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 17:14:00 +0000

Tomorrow (August 11th) is Raghav's Birthday ..
He is completing 4 years ..
And it looks like yesterday when

1. He was introduced to bloigword by his dada and he ranted that people around him arewierd..

2. He was dressed up like a girl before his mundan ..Tht was just a few days before his first birthday

3. I though life would be easy when he was terrible 3

And today he wants to join his dad as an energy engineer.. and he loves computer games. and sometimes teaches me windows shortcuts ..

Today he says he is a big boy ..

So true ..
Making the decision to have a child--It's momentous.
It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body

Btw . what are friends for?

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:37:00 +0000

There are a very few people with whom I am myself or take the liberty of being a bit slack in my behavior..

If you had been following this blog, By now you would have surely guessed who these very few people are..

But there a few people who freak me out .. Completely

There is one person, Bala, at my work... And he is one such person who is entirely capable of making me exhibit a strange deviation from my usual behavior.

But of course he is also a cute friend. And I do like his company..

Everytime I speak to him, we end up arguing and most often the argument would be very obviously deliberate.

As someone said .. "No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."

And I guess we both live by these words.. we say silly things and argue that what we said is correct .. And we both know that it was quite silly to argue on that topic..

And yesterday while we were arguing on some such stupid topic .. He wrote a poem..

nee kuzhandhai petra pinnum kumari dhan

un ennanathin vazhiyaga

ne Manam mudiththa pinnum kulandhai dhan

un seyalin vazhiyaga

This left me wondering if he thinks I am immature.. and that left me fuming..

After a lot of thought.. I understood that yeah.. I had been acting immature.. He had actually been bringing out the kiddish nature of me or that adamant child which is in me..

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.

So thanks Bala..

You have given me another reason for why we should have friends .. They know more about us than what we do..

Happy Friendship Day

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 17:29:00 +0000

Thanks friends .. For raining happiness in my life..
Happy Friendshipday to all ..

Me Myself and Preethe

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 08:16:00 +0000

I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
- Beryl Pfizer

This is exactly what happens to me.

Wish google comes up with a global search tool, which could locate any damn thing,

It should be able to search for Raghav’s light red sketch pen lying between the sofa cushions or an address slip which got lost in my handbag mess.

Update: Another miracle in this world. Welcome!

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:47:00 +0000

Update:

Son of Proteus had been sleeping the whole day just like his father and woke up late in the evening.

And now the proud father is happily playing with the little angel

==================

Dear All

This is Preethe..Rajesh’s (http://meproteus.wordpress.com) friend here..

I am Very Happy to announce that Rajesh’s wife gave birth to a handsome baby boy

New born and mom are doing good..

Rajesh... I share in your celebration of the new life you created!

Congratulations, and enjoy the years together!

Best wishes

Preethe

Another miracle in this world. Welcome!

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:08:00 +0000

Dear All

This is Preethe..Rajesh’s (http://meproteus.wordpress.com) friend here..

I am Very Happy to announce that Rajesh’s wife gave birth to a handsome baby boy

New born and mom are doing good..

Rajesh... I share in your celebration of the new life you created!

Congratulations, and enjoy the years together!

Best wishes

Preethe

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 10:06:00 +0000

I am not interested!

Absolutely not!!

I am not interested in knowing what your sister's neighbour's grand-mother's fifth cousin cooked for her wedding day…

Organized Nomad

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:41:00 +0000

I use google.

I am an organized nomad.

Programming Humour/ Horror

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:21:00 +0000

This was shared by a friend on Google reader from http://balkrishnapatankar.wordpress.com

Hilarious!!

Interviewer: “Is studying computer science the best way to prepare to be a programmer?”

Bill Gates: “No, the best way to prepare is to write programs, and to study great
programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to
the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished
out listings of their operating system.”

DEBUGGING : Removing the needles from the haystack.

Endless Loop: n., see Loop, Endless.
Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop.
- Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure
to BASIC; as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.”
-Dijkstra

“The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a
soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea.”
- _The Wizardry Compiled_ by Rick Cook

“The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of
referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable PI can be given
that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant.
This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change.”
- FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it
harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.”
- Bjarne Stroustrup

“Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals.”
- Henry Spencer

“Never put off until run time what you can do at compile time.”
- David Gries, in “Compiler Construction for Digital Computers”, circa 1969.

BASIC programmers never die, they GOSUB and don’t RETURN.

Real programmers are surprised when the odometers in their cars don’t turn from 99,999 to 99,99A.

FORTRAN is not a language. It’s a way of turning a multi-million
dollar mainframe into a $50 programmable scientific calculator.

C is almost a real language. Even the name sounds like it’s gone through an optimizing compiler. Get rid of all of those stupid brackets and we’ll talk.

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.

Programming is 10% science, 25% ingenuity and 65% getting the ingenuity to work with the science.

Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.

We don’t really understand it, so we’ll give it to the programmers.

COBOL programmers understand why women hate periods.

Computer interfaces and user interfaces are as different as night and 1.

The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten 10% of its
capacity, the rest is overhead for the operating system.

A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren’t broken.

The computer is mightier than the pen, the sword, and usually the programmer.

Programming is an art form that fights back.

After a number of decimal places, who cares?

“Virtual” means never knowing where your next byte is coming from.

If at first you don’t succeed, you must be a programmer.

“It’s 5:50 a.m., Do you know where your stack pointer is?”

If God had intended humans to program, we would be born with serial I/O ports.

There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.

You never finish a program, you just stop working on it.

Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow.

PL/1, “the fatal disease”, belongs more to the problem set than to the solution set.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of APL, I shall fear
no evil, for I can string six primitive monadic and dyadic operators together.

Programming is a lot like sex. One mistake and you could have to support it the rest of your life.

Another Glitch in the Call
(Sung to the tune of a Pink Floyd song)
-
We don’t need no indirection
We don’t need no flow control
No data typing or declarations
Did you leave the lists alone?
-
Hey! Hacker! Leave those lists alone!
-
Chorus:
All in all, it was, just a pure-LISP function call.
All in all, it was, just a pure-LISP function call.

You can’t make a program without broken egos.

Me , Myself and Preethe

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:08:00 +0000

Nobody can be exactly like me.

Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

-Tallulah Bankhead

Communicator!!

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 06:55:00 +0000

Dear Preethe’s IT service Department

You may have blocked blogger and twitter.

But you cannot block the communicator.

Also you cannot restrict me from changing my status message on communicator.

100 characters blogging continues... on our local communicator

Current status on communicator!!

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Yours truly

Preethe

Freedom!!

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:09:00 +0000

12 days left.

And I want to enjoy my last few days of freedom!!

Q & A - A Tag

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:26:00 +0000

My IT challenged brother tagged me ..

Q: When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought?

A: Eppadi irundha naan ippadi aayiteen

Q: How much cash do you have in your wallet right now?

A: 2K plus some change

Q: What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR?

A: CORE ( I am now working on AIX unix machine .. hehehee)

Q: What is your favorite ring tone on your phone?

A: My mobile is on silent mode most of the time. I am presenly hunting for Malgudi days title music.

Q: Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone?

A: My husband's

Q: What are you wearing right now?

A: Sandalwood and black color salwar kurta

Q: Do you label yourself?

A: Seriously puriyala.. if it means if i wear some branded dresses .. then .. no

Q: Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently own?

A: Lemon - bought it from Shoppers stop

Q: Bright or Dark Room?

A: Bright

Q: What do you think about the person who took this survey before you?

A: Sariyana Multiple Personality Disorder patient

Q: What does your watch look like?

A: I dont wear one .. romba naalukku apparam i bought one for Rs100 and Raghav broke it within two weeks

Q: What were you doing at midnight last night?

A: What do you think a mother of a brat would do .. blissfully sleeping after the typhoon rested.

Q: What did your last text message you received on your cell say?

A: Apply for PAN Card .. grrr

Q: What’s a word that you say a lot?

A: Hmmmmm

Q: Who told you he/she loved you last? (Please exclude spouse , family, children)

A: Edukku???!! .. ennoda sogathatha kelaradheenga please .. ;-)

Q: Last furry thing you touched?

A: Enga veetla oru tedy irukku .. paavam adhu.. vaangum bodhu it was white .. ippo boodham maadhiri irukku.. . btw .. i toughed a snake two weeks back in Crocodile park .. wow it was slimiy .. loved touching it.

Q: Favorite age you have been so far?

A: college

Q: What was the last thing you said to someone?

A: "sari - ok - take care" to my husband over phone

Q: The last song you listened to?

A: Before I do - Colin Raye

Q: Where did you live in 1987?

A: Trichy aggragaram. Thiruaanaikaval agraharam

Q: Are you jealous of anyone?

A: hmm yes .. Srimathi .. my colleague .. she has a son who goes to college .. still she is thinner than me :(

Q: Is anyone jealous of you?

A: andha maadiri yaaravadhu irundha .. paavam avanga..

Q: Name three things that you have on you at all times?

A: Mobile, thoughts abour Raghav and Purse

Q: What’s your favorite town/city?

A: Chennai, Hyderabad, Bhopal

Q: When was the last time you wrote a letter to someone on paper and mailed it?

A: I tried writing a letter to hariharan and send it with his marraige gift. couldnt recognize my handwriting after writing one line. So typed it and took a print out.. :(

Q: Can you change the oil on a car?

A: naan verum back seat driver mattum dhan

Q: Your first love/big crush: what is the last thing you heard about him/her?

A: yeah .. Venkatapathy Raju .. I came to know about that he is married after one year of his marraige :( And latest U heard he is in some cricket selection commitee.

Q: Does anything hurt on your body right now?

A: my shoulders

Q: What is your current desktop picture?

A: Ever handsome Denzel Washinton

Q: Have you been burnt by love?

A: venam sollitten .. aludhuduven ..

Tagging

Rajesh – I,proteus
Sri – Thoughts Keyboarded
Senior – Moments

Happy Birthday Rajesh!!

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:26:00 +0000

Wish you a very long and Happy Happy life dear Rajesh!!

edukku theriyuma??

1. "Ruthlessness" Virtue or Vice maadhiri serious posta commedy pannuven .. adhukkum salikkama reply panna

2. Phone panna edukkama enkitta thittu vaangi sanda poda

3. Totally unexpecteduh neeyum madhuvum Chennai vandhu ennoda veetukku vandhu, Raghavkku piece piece vaangi thara :)

4. Boodham maadhiri OT dressla photo eduththu anuppa

5. Ennoda stupid jokeskku sirinnu sonnapaprama kazhtappattu sirikkka

6. Naan Datawarehousing paththi explain pannappram .. BI toolna ennannu .. Seethaikku Raaman chiththappava questions ketkka..

7. Blog template maathittu.. check pannudi mail panna

8. Pondykku vandha malivu vilaila sarakku vaangi thara ;-P

Have a great life da!!!
We will grow old together ;-P (anyways .. I know you are already old.. enakkuinnum time irukku )

Tagged to Good old days

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:22:00 +0000

Thanks Sri for tagging me ..

I relived my memories ..

1981 - 1986

Appo naanga Mysorela irundhom. So remember spending my holidays at my maternal grand parents' place in Trichy. I used tO love that Trichy house... A typical old Agraharam veedu with thinnai,railiway paltform maadhiri long hall, hall sidela chinna chinna rooms and kitchen at the end. Visits to Thiruvaanikaaval (Thiru Aaani Kaaval) also called Akilandeshwari temple used to be my favourite timepass. koyil kolathula neraya meen irukkum. adhukku pori pottundu irundha timeporadhe theriyadhu. ange oru kutti aanai irukkum.. Andhukku rice and vellam pottu periya periya urundai panni ootuvaanga.. supera irukkum paarka..

Apparam .. Mysore.. had a lot of tourist attarctions. Chamundi Hills, Brindavan Gardens, Najangud and many more ..Summer Holidaysla Chitthi, Chithappa with their kids, aththai paati , maama and family ellarum varunga.. Amma used to take them for a guided tour to all these places.. My favourite used to be Brindavan gardens and the musical fountain shows.

Pic 1: Naane dhan
Pic 2: With Mom and Dada.. taken in some Mysore exhibition

1987- 1993

We shifted to Chennai from Mysore. My materanl grandparents also moved in with us after selling our Trichy house. Chennaila Ayanavaramla settle aanom. Our house was quite near our maama thatha and maama's house. Their's was a joint family. Adanla eppovum jejennu kootama irukkum avanga veedu. Ennoda cousins , second cousins , third cousins ellorum iruppanga.. orey kooththu dhan.

Maama veetula rendu maanga maram irukkum. maanga adichucha veetula thittu vilum.. so periyavanga ellarum thoonginapparam maanga adippom.. Kitchenla salt and molaga podi edukka thada irundhadhu.. adhanala therumonaila oru thatha cut mango kada vechipaar.. anga poyi salt thirudindu varuvaanga.. Ellam ready panninundu out-housela poyi sema koothadippom.. Apparam .. night dinnerkku mottamaadila
ellaraiyum okkaravechchu saapadu poduvanga.. Wonderful days.

Soup panrennu maggi tastemakera hot waterla karaichu maamava kudikka vachchadu innum niyagabam irukku .. Paavam Raja maama .. he dint utter a word.. he drank the whole cup of soup..

Apparam .. amma and appa kooda neraiya oorukku poyirukkom.. ooty, madurai, Coimbatore, Thirunaveli, Tanjavore, kuttraalam, Mukkombu dam, Bombay.. We used to frequently visit Trichy to meet my grandmother's chiththi..(our great grandmother).

Pic 1: Mukkombu Dam with mom , dad , bro , Anu aththai family, Vidhu and Raghu
Pic 2: Ayanavaram veedu - bro , Chiththi's kids( satish , krupa), (innoru chiththi's kid) Bhargavi
Pic 3: Little Folks theme park- Priya, Nivi, Bro and Ramesh

1994 - 1998

10th std and 12th std timela engeyum poga mudiyala .. more over we shifted to Alwarpet. so our visit frequnecy to Ayanavaram also reduced. But school friendsoda nalla enjoy panniyirukken.. Kazhudha ketta kutti sevuru maadhiri.. engalukku Boat club road and Mcrennet bakery dhan kutti sevuru.

I love dogs.. Enga veetukku pinnadi Demonty colony park irukkum.. adukku walking kootindu vara dogs ellam ennoda friends.. Doogie and Bruno were my best friends :)
Photola irukaradhu Bruno ..

Pic: Alwarpet Veedu - two dogs (Bro and Bruno) :-P

1998 -2002

Golden days of my life..Wonderful college with 650-acre campus.. situated on beautiful plateau. According to amma and appa .. naan anga padichcha four yearsum enakku holidays dhan.. we never used to attend any classes..New Market, Dus Number market , Kota,Indian Coffee House (ICH), College Dam, campus temple etc etc etc
.. Romba enjoy pannen.. miss those days.. Evenings hostel maadila poyi okandhu pesa aarambichcha time poradhe theriyadhu.. And ofcourse mess table discussions were the best..

Pic 1: Hostel maadi
Pic 2: In fornt of new ICH , New market Bhopal

2002 - till date

Work panna start pannapparama breakknu eduthadhu marraige timela one month. Srilanka and Singapore trips were wonderful. Apparam Raghav was born. Ippollam Raghava Childrens park and beachkku kootindu
poradhu dhan holidaysla naanga panra orey vela..

Pic 1: Guindy Children's park

Indha photola enga total gange irukku .. except Vidhu.. We met last weekend for our Cousin Balaji's wedding.. angeyum poyi sema ruckus pannom.. Total fun..

I woud like to tag : Ones and Zeros - Kiran , Meproteus - Rajesh

Today I found the pearl with the same old unique shine

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 14:20:00 +0000

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf

Yeah.. Even I have lost many friends..

Coz of my ego which avoided me in getting back in touch.
Coz of distance
Coz of busy life after marrige

But there are a few who are always at the back of mind, reminding that me that they are pearls with unique shine, gifted to me.

I take extreme care not to avoid them in midst of this hectic life.

Also I take all possible measures to try to keep this bond going.

I got back in touch with one such pearl.. after 6 years ..

And that makes this day a very special one...

Dear God! I cannot thank you enough for this gift!!

Ideal Life

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:37:00 +0000

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. - Mark Twain

Good friends -- tick
Good books -- tick
Sleepy conscience -- working on it ..

Good Bye

noreply@blogger.com (Preethe) — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:30:00 +0000

How would you deal with a person who does things even after he is warned about the consequences?

How would you deal with him when he yells at you and blames you, after facing those consequences?

I said "Good Bye.." I wish I had said Get Lost