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For quite sometime, I keep stressing the sentence in tamil to my friends: "Career vachi Tiffin Carrier Kooda vaanga mudiyaathu" meaning you cannot buy a tiffin carrier using your professional career. Off late, I am seeing lot of my friends and colleagues running behind to enhance or sometimes even save their career.Come 2020, the entire definition of life and career has changed for many.All IT

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Off late, I have been distant to blogging due to a number of reasons. 2019 ended on a very bad note for me personally, as I lost one of my best friend due to excess stress caused by WORK. Yes, you read it right, W O R K. Along with him, myself and 3-4 others formed what we call as the Varuthapadatha Valibar Sangam in IT. Whatever the pressure of work, we make it a point to enjoy ourselves.

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2019 - a year of surprises 2019 seemed to be dawning only yesterday and here we are - at the end of the year already. This year had brought a lot of surprises and shocks to me personally and officially. Personally, my dad underwent a major procedure and thankfully he is alright. I am expecting my second child is another pleasant shock. Officially, I gave up my freelancing to a more steady

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If you are coming here, looking for a movie review, I am sorry to disappoint you, as I am not a movie analyst. ‘Hero’ worship: This term achieved real meaning in Tamil Nadu right from the days of MGR, who later on went to become the CM of Tamil Nadu. Coming from the same genre of acting, Rajni entered the industry in 1975 much before Maestro Raja Sir Debut. A man who cannot talk

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               This is one area where every parent (including myself) need attention. Of late, I see many Indian parents don't encourage kids to talk in their mother tongue. While the parents' urge to master English as an international language when the kid is young is commendable, ignoring mother tongue at the expense of this language is not something

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Blogging my experience on request of my very good friend: Being an Indian, It is very difficult for any kid to have desires. For example, when I was in my school, I aspired to become a cricketer one day. But I was forced to drop that desire, due to the break neck competition in sports field and my family's financial status. Cut to 2018, where I am working as a freelancer in my client's place.

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During my post on 12th exam, I mentioned how we should not be running the rat race that all others run. But, for NEET, I don't know what to say. Its a entrance exam for aspiring students who wish to become Doctor. For strange reasons, already students from TN have been allocated centres in the North. Already due to stress, we have 2 parents who died due to cardiac arrest. Each and every media

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With the advent of social media, people are using it both to their advantage and for other's good needs. But most of the times, the misuse always outnumbers the ethical use. As a result, media act like they don't know some news. The Sterlite and Methane issues in Tamil Nadu are a grand example to this point. Change is the only thing never changes, I hope one day everything changes for good.

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As the Higher secondary exams get underway in TN, I got a little nostalgic. From the time, I finished my SSLC (around 2 decades back), I lost interest in the ever competing world of education in India. I still used to remember how my parents encouraged me to play cricket and see movie before the public exams. It helped me a great deal that I got a decent score in all the subjects without

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வாழ்கையில் சில விஷயங்களை நினைத்தால் எனக்கு விசித்திரமாக இருக்கும். முக்கியமா சொலனும்ன நேரம் போறதுக்காக வெயிட் பண்றது உதாரணம் பன்னிரண்டாம் வகுப்பு படிக்கும் சிறுவனாய் இருந்த போது பப்ளிக் தேர்வு எப்போ டா வரும்னு இருக்கும்.ஏன்னு கேடிங்கனா அப்போ தான் லீவ் ல நல்லா என்ஜாய் பண்ணலாம். தேர்வு ஆரம்பிகர்த்துக்கு முன்னால நிறைய நாள் விடுமுறை இருக்கும். அப்போதெல்லாம் லீவ் ல என பண்ணலாம்னு மட்டும் தான் யோசனை

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This is what exactly I am thinking right now. Not sure where I am going. Feeling lonely even when every one is around. Suddenly the City gives me a look of a desert. Hoping things will be alright soon.

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I am a strong believer of GOD and that does not necessarily make me believe all the sayings of elders. But this one saying, I started to believe. Especially my love for Europe is still budding as everyday comes. I never felt I would be back when I left in 2013, but due to my good friendship I have made yet another come back.  Looking forward for a positive future! God bless!

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Since my return to India, there have been lot of good things happening in my life right from child until a new career. Hence we thought it was our duty to see the GOD in sabarimala and planned for a trip. We were supposed to take the long route (Or the Periya paadhai) from Erumeli upto Sannithanam. My father and I decided to take the journey on Jan 4 and plan was to return on 8th afternoon.

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Being in Chennai recently, I observed something that stuck me... Road RAGE.... I have never been a fan of Chennai traffic discipline, but this time what stuck me was the number of fist fights that were happening on the road, plus the number of fatal accident even in a city main road (where you cannot accelerate much). I have witnessed and I am witnessing a daily rage in our roads. Almost

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During my childhood, we used to visit Ooty often for summer vacation. I was fond of the toy train or the Nilgiri Mountain train. One striking feature of this trip from Metupalayam to Ooty was the number of tunnels that the train passes through. As a child, Whenever the train enters a tunnel, I used to wonder, when the darkness will end, as I am not fond of the darkness. Now, as an employee, I

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The Black Forest is a wooded mountain range in Baden-Württemberg, southwesternGermany. It is bordered by the Rhine valley to the west and south. The highest peak is the Feldberg with an elevation of 1,493 metres (4,898 ft). The region is almost rectangular with a length of 160 km (99 mi) and breadth of up to 60 km (37 mi

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Wish you all a very happy new year. As I step on to one of the most exciting new year of my life, I wish to look back at the past year. Not much was achieved in terms of work ;-) (who cares if you are enjoying your work day in and day out). It was an eventful year for me. I cleared my Belgian Driver's License practicals and held the license proudly. At the same time, my stay was shortened,

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"Ladies and Gentlemen, in a short while from now, we will be landing in Anna International terminal" - On hearing this announcement, I was very excited to see Chennai after a gap of 8 months nearly. All the excitement vanished once I arrived. There were absolutely no trees in almost most of the places - This, they say,is because of the metro rail construction. I remembered while studying for

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I have been to Brugge during my bachelor life (way back in 2008). Back then, I went to Boudewijn Sea Park. After that, this time, we (my wife and I) were planning to visit the ice sculpture. We went by train from Brussels. The ice sculpture is located right at the entrance of the Brugge station . The ice sculpture I must accept, was simply amazing.400 tons of ice were used and more than 12

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Yet another year passes.. This year was good to me personally.....Except for a few days... There were lot of highs in this year for me - touchwood. Right from car driving to exploring new places, I explored many new things... Some people were predicting "End of World". For them, I wish better luck next time ;-) For everyone else, I wish U a fun filled, happy, healthy, propserous and a

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This is one such word, I often hate to tell. I believe that when one says he is defeated, he loses the fighter in him. I myself sometimes keep trying till I knew there is not even a 1% chance of success. But one thing keeps defeating me and take my beloved ones away from me. That is "Death". I seldom utter this type of word. But during my recent visit to India, I lost my paternal grand father.

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This was one of our dream trip which we were planning for a long time..As usual it was the joining of old combination Anand and family along with us. We started our trip on May 31 to celebrate Arthi's birthday on the next day. We reached Rome the same night. This was one of the most unforgettable birthday for her. Our flight reached on time and we took a rented car to the camping village (Roma

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Yes, this incident happened last week (April 7) when we decided to spend our 3 day weekend in Frankfurt, the capital city of Germany. We boarded the 6:25 am ICE train to Frankfurt from Brussels and boy, I don’t have any words to describe how superb the train was (we only travelled in a 2nd class compartment) and it was still very much luxurious. The train started on time and we were cruising at

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It has been 3 months since my wife arrived and I have been really busy in wandering in and around Belgium. I would like to mark these trips as a fond memory. Jan 28 - trip to Amsterdam: Our first trip outside Brussels. We started very early and caught the 6:22 train and we reached Amsterdam at around 9:40 am. We had our breakfast in the train prepared by her of course ;-). We set out to the

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Its the farmers' day the Sunday and I wish everyone a Happy Pongal and Mahara Shankaranthi!

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