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KSRTC Bus Booking: Giving Birth In Bus!

2010-03-05T17:55:00.001+05:30

Context: I was trying to book a bus ticket in KSRTC from Bangalore to Chennai.

KSRTC gave me 4 options. See the above screenshot. All is fine. But, they have not given description on the terms - “Lower Birth”, “Upper Birth” :) I can interpret in many different ways that will get censored in my brain itself.

KSRTC, please change the spelling guys.

‘How to Google’ – In Google

2010-03-05T17:45:00.001+05:30

Can we call this height of stupidity? The search term “how to google” is being googled in google for 549,000,000 times :)

Website of a Chennai Auto Driver

2010-01-22T16:12:00.005+05:30

I was browsing my FaceBook account and found a very interesting status update from my friend Jaggy. The status update is about a website being owned by an Auto driver in Chennai. The site is: http://www.tuktastic.com

First of all, I salue Samson for thinking out of the box. ie., coming out of his hardcore profession of driving an auto and making a presence in web.

The content in the site is really good. Anyone who want to tour Chennai will give him a call for sure. I like the thought of organizing the site into different sections that talk about what you can do in Chennai. In every section, he makes a statement that he can guide / take / suggest / help in doing anything the customer wants. One more salute.

Above all, he never calls his vehicle as Auto. He calls it 'Tuk-Tuk', this is cute. This relates to the tuk-tuk sound the tuk-tuk makes :) Nice thought Somson. Now you are one among the group that make Chennai proud.

Crazy Wishlist

2010-01-22T09:22:00.004+05:30

Anyone will want to earn money in an easy way as possible :P Here is my crazy wishlist to earn money. I wish somebody pays me for doing the following from morning to night:

Enjoy Twitter through out the day. I love reading the tweets of the people whom I follow. Its as refreshing as drinking a strong coffee.

Enjoy FaceBook through out the day. The funny, meaningful, leg-pulling status messages and comments are the best part. Esp, the comments, Oh my god, you could see one's creativity in the comment section. But, a few are spoiling the fun by 'like'ing these type of status - "Got up now", "Going to office", ".....". F The W.

Listen to songs non-stop. When I am down, listening to songs make me feel really better. When I am in super excited mood, listening to songs make me feel like I own the entire earth and 100 girls surrounding me :P

Travel. Yes, travel from anywhere to anywhere. Traveling always keeps me high. New place, new people, new culture, new pictures, new food, what else one needs to make life interesting.

Watch new movies in iNox with Tomato-chilly-popcorn in one hand and Sprite in another. Wow, what an experience. The last time I did this was at Avatar 3D @ iNox Jayanagar.

Dinner'ing @ Kebab Magic. Whichever country I go and eat whatever food, Indian food beats them all and Ranks No. 1 in my mind. Esp, the combination of Chicken Shawarma Roll + Chicken Tikka Roll + Grape Juice in Kebab Magic is mindblowing. I enjoy every second of eating it :) Sometimes I say "aahh haa.....aaah haa chance ae illa" while eating this combination.

Blogging. My favorite. My darling. There is some kind of happiness when a post receives a comment (be it +ve or -ve), when people follow the blog, subscribe to it, discuss about it. I do have lot of Blog friends. Have never thought Blogosphere will be this much fun.

P.S: Lets get connected in FaceBook, Twitter. The "Peppy Connect" widget is in the right side.

The Great Indian Arranged Marriages

2010-01-08T11:36:00.003+05:30

Most of the marriages that happens in India, specifically Tamil Nadu (:P) is 'Arranged'. Fact is: Many people like love marriages, but because of so MANY factors the poor youths have no other choice other than settling for an arranged marriage. I am NOT saying arranged marriages are bad and love marriage is great, not at all. That is totally different and debatable topic. This post is all about: What all happens in a typical arranged marriage. Please don't take it serious :) Please Please.

Arranged marriage is a 4 step process.

Phase 1: Project Opening Ceremony / Initiation

Scenario A: Broom House..oh sorry, "Groom's House"
Typically when the guy is at 26 or so, a popup reminder flashes in the parents brain and auto-snoozes every month. The reminder will say: Your son has reached the marriage age, start looking.

Scenario B: Bridge House.. oh sorry, "Bride's House"
When the girl is 21 or so, the same reminder flashes in the parents brain, but snoozes daily, that’s the difference.

Parents decide to take steps to get their son/daughter married. First step is to inform their closest relative that they have decided to get their son/daughter married. Parents will be all happy on that day, they will not sleep on that night. What they will do without sleeping - Dreams. They dream about the bride/groom, where and when to have marriage, whom all to invite, post-marriage activities etc. Their life never stays the same after this day. They communicate this decision to their son/daughter, and you could see them blush, but they won't express it out. Natural. Understood. Fine.

Phase 2: Project Kick-Off
Parents ask the son/daughter about the expectation from them. This expectation requirement will be communicated to that closest relative and few others as well. Mobile phones usage goes to the peak during this definition period. "You know, my son needs a girl of 5'10" height, beautiful, working, especially in IT, should be working in a company where she gets bonus every year, increment every year, modern blah blah and blah" and the list goes on and on till Vodafone cuts the call. All the brokers will be in high demand during this period and will be in full swing action. Parents will schedule for daily status update with all the brokers, closest relative, closestt relative, closesttt relative.

Phase 3: Project Implementation
In this phase, the beneficiaries are photo studios. They make good business by offering marriage-photo-package. I know a studio in Chennai that charge 5K+ for few marriage snaps. What’s next? Yes, all the brokers receive a copy of the photograph on the same day. The courier companies also make good business. The parents start seeing the photos of bride/groom. This first round is called “Photo-Screaming” round. Only at this time, their vision will be extra powerful and crystal clear, even the Sankara Nethralaya doctors cannot assure such a clear vision. The subtle points on the looks will be promptly noted by parents and they reject photos one-by-one. The photo that they think is the best goes to the second round, it’s called the "Astro-Mastro" round. In this round, the family Astrologers are invited to the house and the paper in which the squares are drawn in random (called Horror-scope) is given to the Astrologer. He looks at it and tells loud all the planets name he remembers – “Jupiter, Mars, Venus, Uranium, Benzene, Chlorine etc and etc should come in one line, the day it comes, the marriage can happen”. Also, the astrologer compares the Horror-scope of girl and boy and gives a comprehensive review and a match score card. If the score is more than 70% then the Astro declares that the couples are a perfect match. Don’t be surprised if the Astrologer says the score as “268 for 3 wickets” if he is a cricket fan. The next round is the “Desktop-Background-Verification” round. In this round, the parents hire a secret agency as freelancers, that’s their relatives. The message passed to them is “try to find out whether the boy/girl is of good character, no bad habits, their wealth, health, etc”. The secret agency feels proud of this assignment ad in-turn outsource the work to many small groups. I really don’t understand what these secret agents will do. After a week, these agents send a report to the parents. The probability of these reports to be at least 5% correct is ZERO. Parents asses the details like as if they are reading Gita / Kuran / Bible. If this round is also cleared, then this indicates the completion of the Technical round, now it’s the HR round that will be conducted by the son/daughter. “What is the name, education, work details, date of birth, height, hobbies” – few questions asked by the HR, that’s the son/daughter. Parents don’t answer these questions, instead they show a white sheet in which all these details are documented, the Marriage Resume. If the person fails to clear the HR round, then the parents start the Technical Round afresh with the “Photo-Screaming” round. Point to note is – HR interview happens by not seeing / talking to the candidate, that’s the rule of the project set by the project managers (parents).

When the person clears HR round too, it’s time to initiate the joining formalities, that’s the time to talk about marriage. Boys side parents, relatives and the boy go to the girl house for the 1st time. They are treated with Kg and Kg of sweets, some special dishes which the girl’s mom have tried for the first time. Irrespective of the taste of the food / sweet / un-named dish, the boy side says it’s the best food item they have ever had; the digestive system manager hears this from inside of the body and just cries and the person immediately asks “where is the loo”. The girl usually comes after the parents called her name “name_of_person come come”. The girl comes with dozens of coffee tumblers (even though there are only 2 people from the boy side) with her eye sight perpendicular to the ground. While serving coffee to the boy, there is a 2-second extra wait deliberately made by the girl. All four eyes meet. Romance. A full length Manirathnam movie with AR Rehman score completes in 2 seconds. Boy like girl and vice-versa. Boy asks parent “can I talk to the girl for sometime”. The parents react as if they heard “can I goto Bombay and do a sex-change operation” and immediately stare and say “No”. Pity the boy, also the girl. The talks like – date of marriage, place, budget etc are discussed and they come to a mutual agreement by exchanging two copper vessels in which saree, flowers, fruits are kept. This is the “Sar-Flo-Fru-Treaty”. Everyone puts the first gear and moves ahead for marriage related work. Marriage happens.

Phase 4: Project Maintenance
Post-Marriage!

Too Much Of Anything Is Good For Nothing: Technology

2010-01-05T09:46:00.004+05:30

Birthday wishes, passing messages, playing pranks have taken a new dimension in this 21st century. The preferred mode of wish - in person, telephone, letter, email, pigeon, anything else?. But, the TV and FM media came out with a mind-blowing concept of wishing for birthdays through TV and FM. This is the height.

For the benefit of people who haven't been gifted to watch / hear these programmes:
There is a FM programme where in people can wish others on any occasion / pass a message. This is how it works: Lets say there are two people - A and B. A calls the RJ (the one hosting the programme) and tells the phone number of his friend / relative(B). Then the RJ dials in B. Now, A, B and RJ are in conference. Now, A passes a message to B. The message will be like - say Hi to your dad, How is your new shirt, Are you coming to Vijaya Hotel tonight for dinner?A can also wish B for whatever occasion. Then the call is closed. The RJ feels proud as if he closed the deal between India and Pakistan on Kashmir. There is a TV programme that does the same thing explained above in FM station.

What is this? Guys (the ones involved in these programmes), don't you have brains? Common sense? If you want to wish a person, why not to call them directly? Do you need a middle-man even in this? There are people who listen / watch these programmes, that's the best part :)

Operation Eunuch

2010-01-04T21:41:00.006+05:30

How many of you have felt irritated when an Eunuch stands right in front of you and demands money? Ok, I can hear you screaming "Me, Me, Me!". Hands down.

Sometimes the way they demand money from us make us think for a second that we are debtors to them. Why should we give money to them without any reason?

Eunuchs have specific location in Bangalore (JP Nagar Phase 6) where they roam in gang of 5+ and loot every individual who is waiting in the traffic signal. Also, you could easily notice an Eunuch demanding money in the Chennai - Bangalore train. You can even forget your train ticket, but don't forget to carry 5 or 10 rupees with you to 'donate' it to Eunuch. Long live the E's.

Last week, I was waiting in the JP Nagar 6th phase signal.

Eunuch (E): Give money.
KP: Huh?
E: Take money (lends out her (err..his?) hand and almost reaching my shirt pocket)
KP: Wait, I don't have change
E: Give me the money, I will give you change
KP: Ohh..hmm... I already gave money to another person. (there were 4-5 Eunuchs conducting a mass raid on the public, probably they should join Income Tax department)
E: Don't lie bhayya
KP: I'm serious. I already gave money.
E: (she calls another E, lets name the person E9)
(E9 arrives on spot)
E to E9: Did he give money?
E9: (Looks at me) Hmmm.... NO!
(My heart stopped, I can't manage one Eunuch only. Now, there are two Eunuchs right in front of me)
KP: I gave money to another person, not to this person.
E: Today is Jan 1st, first day of the year. Don't lie.
KP: I gave.

Signal was Green and without giving anything I escaped.

Long back, I was traveling in the Bangalore Express Train from Chennai to Bangalore. I was reading a book - "The Google Story". For the first time in life, a teenage girl sat right in front of me in my compartment. Train started. I was fully into the book. Suddenly, there was a clapping sound and heard the jingles of the bangles. I looked up for a second and immediately put my head down in reflex. Eunuchs arrived. Time for damage I thought. Since then I was acting as if I was reading the book by placing my forehead parallel to the train floor, but my mind was thinking whether the E's will come to me and demand money and create a scene there by embarrassing me in front of the teenage girl. And in the next second, it happened. The scenes I imagined were executed perfectly by the E's. They walked straight down to ONLY me and placed their hand on my book. I felt yuck. Gave Rs 10/-. Don't know for what. Was really embarrassed.

Again, the same question - Why should anyone give money without any reason? Soft terrorism?

Five Point Someone --> 3 Idiots. Which came first? Answer is simple!

2009-12-31T13:44:00.008+05:30

Now, almost everyone know that the Hindi movie "3 Idiots" is a movie version of the paper book "Five Point Someone" (FPS).

Now, a question for all of you - Who is the author of the book FPS? Answer: Chetan Bhagat

Yet another, When was this book released? Answer: 2004

This being the fact, the makers claim 3 Idiots is an original story. I am an ardent fan of Chetan. Come on, FPS is his kid. The DNA of the book belongs to Chetan. No one can / should claim false credit. But, strangely, the "3 Idiots" did.

Please read, Chetan Bhagat's view on this issue here: http://www.chetanbhagat.com/blog/general/a-book-a-film-and-the-truth

Anger: Extension of Anniyan, Unnai Pol Oruvan

2009-12-30T11:39:00.004+05:30

This post is an extension of the Tamil movies "Unnai Pol Oruvan" and "Anniyan". These two movies deal with the hero's(Kamal Haasan, Vickram, resply) anger towards the society in general.

I am cool at most of the time. Sometimes, I get very angry in the below mentioned circumstances. I get angry when -

i see a food item that was priced Rs 30 earlier (a year back), now costs Rs 100. The same applies with – Cinema tickets, house rents, land rates. All credits to Software Engineers. Anyone disagree?

airtel introduces the ‘Unlimited GPRS for mobile’ plan in a week and withdraws the plan in same week. This has happened at least 5 to 10 times I think.

i don’t get the 50 paisa, 1 rupee or 2 rupee change from Bus Conductors and Auto-walas. Alternatively, if we give 50 paisa or 1 rupee less than what they charge, they don’t accept it.

i ask for Aalo Parantha at Upahara Sagar (@ Bangalore) and the in-charge refuses to give Chutney (that I see in a 100 cm diameter container right in front of eyes) and says pointblank “We give only some gravy with Aalo Parantha. Won’t give chutney!”

i buy an item (say 250 ml Maaza drink) inside a Bus Stand for price higher than MRP. I got a water bottle for Rs 25, MRP was Rs 20. I showed that to the shop owner @ Koyambedu Bus Stand (Chennai) and told him “don’t sell like this to a honest lawyer, (s)he will sue you”. The reply I got is – Sir, this shop is inside bus stop, that’s why costly.

i open the gate door of my house compound at 2 AM and my house owner switches ON the compound light and gives me a dirty look like she has seen a thief. What the hell, I pay my rent, does it matter what time I enter my home? After all, I am a Software Engineer. Again, anyone disagree?

i think every month that at least for this month I will not have any expense and I end up spending all my month’s salary by mid-month itself.

my mobile broadband disconnects automatically without any reason when I am downloading something important.

i see a dirty restroom.

i think I have got the best deal for a product that I purchased from a store and I see another store selling at super cheap rate for the same product. Cheated!

i browse the TV Channels and all I see is TV Serials in which one slaps another OR a crying scene OR a depressing demeaning black hole sad scene

people have “Busy” status ALWAYS in their GTalk. Few of my friends do this :) Really want to know how anyone in this world can be Busy 24 x 7 x 365. Waiting for Dec 21st 2012 :P

the traffic cop catches people for silly reasons whenever they need money and says “take the RC book, driving license, insurance papers”. I have seen ‘N’ number of incidents in Chennai.

the media overplays an unimportant news just to create a hype or fill their news hour.

i see news like “Ranbir Kapoor is the sexiest man now, a latest survey says” in the Headlines. Come on, is this really a news that deserve the Headlines?

my house maid promises to clean my house twice a week and comes only twice a month.

i see people disobey the traffic rules.

i see idiots who honk from the back when there are vehicles in front of mine and the signal is also RED.

i see people dress shabbily and everyone could see everything. Upto you to imagine what this line means.

i see people fight and die just because their name is not mentioned in a wedding invitation.

i see people spend tens of lakhs on a wedding.

It's not the complete list. These are top of my mind points.

Avatar, Bavatar, Vivatar

2009-12-22T22:08:00.006+05:30

Talk of the town....oops.... Talk of the world is now - "AVATAR", a great movie by the Titanic fame director James Cameroon. But, this post is not a review of Avatar. This morning, I got a forward mail in which the Avatar poster was morphed. There are two great 'legends' in Tamil and Telugu cinema industry. They are namely Dr. Vijay and Baalaiya (not sure whether he is a Doctor). The morphed pictures had these two in it. Here it is. Credit goes to the creator of these images.

Yeppa :)

2009-12-11T14:53:00.008+05:30

Paa - A movie that made an impact among audience right from its posters / stills. The reason was - Amitabh's getup. Honestly, I didn't realize it was Amitabh until I read the details. All that is fine. Happy that Paa is running successfully.

This morning, I opened my mailbox and I found a morphed still of Paa in a mail. The photo had TR Rajendran as 'Paa' and Simbu as son. Who will not laugh on seeing this picture. Oh my god, I can't stop laughing. Whoever has done this work - Good creativity. Esp, TR getup is mindblowing. If this really happens in a Tamil movie, I will watch it first day first show no matter what.

For people who don't know who TR Rajendran is - Please goto YouTube and type "TR Comedy" in the search box. Your life will turn colorful after that.

Source Of Interest: Season 1

2009-10-14T15:15:00.008+05:30

Claps! Drum rolls! This is the 100^th post in Peppy Talk. I am so happy J This special post was in my mind for the past 2-3 months, but I had put a speed breaker for it to be the 100^th post. In our life, we do / perform many tasks either by your own instinct / would have inspired by someone. How many times you had liked a song only after listening to a particular singer sing it? How many times you had watched a movie after listening to a animated review by your friend? These were few of the actions that I am talking about. I am no exception. I have also done the same. In the recent past (1.5 years), I have been capturing the actions that I picked up after seeing / being influenced by others. I have been noting it down as and when I do a task. The following are the list of actions that I picked up and the people behind it:

Blog

The mere reason of existence of www.kprabu.com. I have always listened to Vishwanath Surendiran (Ex-MindTree Mind, IIM B Grad as of now) about his blog writing tactics / blog-related-topics. This happened in 2008. This was the trigger to have my own blog.

This blog is still alive and healthy because of Vinay Kudithipudi (Director – IT Global Ops, TravelCLICK). He is one of the busiest person I have seen. I thought – If Vinay has the time to blog, then I should definitely have the time to blog. My blog post numbers that plunged during 2008-Nov-Dec was back into full swing after seeing this person’s blog. You might also read THIS.

Monopoly Game

November 2008. Ezhilarasan Natarajan (Associate Director IMS, MindTree) invited bunch of friends in Schaumburg to his house for the Thanksgiving dinner. After the dinner, we decided to play Monopoly game. I had played this game when I was in 6^th std, was not interested after that. But, this time when I played the game with 7-8 friends of mine, I was so damn interested and was fully into it. I loved the game. Game continued for three hours, till 1.30 AM. We decided to close the game, I had the highest asset. From then on, I nudged my friends continuously to play Monopoly. One such game started at 7 PM and got over at 4 AM the next day. I won J. Yet another day, out of the blue I woke up at 3 AM. Didn’t get sleep. I didn’t know what I do. Finally, I did the craziest thing possible – played online Monopoly game in internet at 3 AM.

Database Queries

I am a Business Analyst, so I thought I need not worry about technical stuffs anymore. Allwyn Satvedi (Director of Enterprise Applications, TravelCLICK), is also an SQL expert. I was so much interested and involved in writing SQL queries (single query more than 1000 lines) only after seeing the way Allwyn structures the queries and explains it.

Mobile Phone

Venkatesh Balasubramanian (Principal Consultant, MindTree) is a mobile fr

eak. He keeps changing mobiles for every season (winter, summer, etc :P). He does not stop there. He explains me about his mobile features and I melt like wax listening to his explanations. Have walked in to Univercell forthe “Mobile Exchange Mela” many times. Have changed two mobiles after Venky’s influence.

Drawing

Nisha Vickraman (Senior Developer, Keane), BEST drawing artist I have met so far. She maintains a BLOG of her drawings. Very creative, committed and amazing artist. I have decided to draw / paint after seeing her drawings.

Twitter

Kiruba Sankar (CEO, Business Blogging) and Akbarsait Noormohammed (Module Lead, MindTree), the two people who inspired me to start my own Twitter account and tweet regularly. To be more specific, I tweet REGULARLY only after seeing Akbar’s consistent tweets.

Travel website, Delicious

Akbar BLOGS about ColdFusion. A consistent and quality technical writer. On seeing his blog, I thought how good it will be if I write about my passion – Travel and Transport industry. There started www.travelhawk.org.

I maintain 30-40 bookmarks in my laptop at home. My lapi crashes often, it runs windows, so do understand. Whenever it happens, I lose my bookmarks and I keep scratching my head for the bookmarked URLs. Akbar explained me that this can be solved by Delicious and from then all my bookmarks sit in Delicious. Have more than 60 bookmarks now. Bookmark-life made so easy.

Podcast

Suresh Gurumurthy (Program Director, MindTree), sends emails on interesting podcasts. Only after reading the mails, I figured out the Podcast world. I learn so much from Podcasts. www.Podcastalley.com is my home for Podcasts.

Sticky Notes

Julie Corbley (QA Specialist, TravelCLICK), a person with more than 50 sticky notes in her desk / documents. She organizes things / get things done very well with the help of Sticky notes. I started using Stickies and it improved my daily activities significantly.

Humour

It’s always better and good to have a humour quotient while talking. Tim Woomert, (Senior Business Analyst, TravelCLICK) does that naturally. I like listening to him and have conversation with him on and on.

Cooking

Mohan Raj (Module Lead, MindTree), taught me how to cook. He taught me to prepare Dhal, Chappathi, Rice, Sambar, Egg curry, Egg burji and right now I excel in these items J. I am very interested in cooking now. After marriage, I have planned to cook many new items (referring to videos, online) and enjoy it.

Monish Mathiaas (Module Lead, MindTree) cooks so damn well. He BLOGS his cooking. The cooking items in his blog acted as catalyst for my cooking spree.

Book reading

I have never read a novel until 2005. It’s after listening to Monish’s explanation on booking reading I stepped into the Book-o-sphere. My current book is: 2 States by Chetan Bhagat.

Drums

Kripal Kavi (Ex-MindTree Mind, ROSS B-School Grad as of now) is an awesome drummer. In 2006, during his leisure time at work, I have seen him drumming with pencils and markers at his work table. Was sparked by this particular action to learn drums and I have my own digital drum pad (Yamaha) now.

Music, Chess Game

Sudarshan Rengarajan (Senior Developer, MindTree), a music fanatic who is so much interested and involved in music. It was Sudarshan who explained me Western and Carnatic music. His explanation is one of the reasons for my interest into drums and pursuing it.

I have played chess in my school days. But never liked it, so I stopped playing. A year back, Sudarshan called me for playing a chess game. Needless to mention, I fell in love with the game. I am a Chess addict now.

Business Analyst Role

Dwijavanti Bharath (Ex-MindTree Business Analyst, now Queen of a home in CA, USA) and I have not worked together in a project J But, my Business Analyst role inspiration was her. I have seen her doing all the tasks a BA would perform and that’s how I understood the different responsibilities of BA and my interest inclined towards this role. I still am very happy to be a BA.

Photoshop Design

Arumugapandian Thangapandian (User Experience Expert, MindTree), THE best user experience designer I have met. Have worked with him closely to design work-UI, morphing, poster creation, backdrops. I was interested in Photoshop only after listening to Arumugam’s explanation on “How to use Photoshop”.

Dressing

Deepak Gunalan (Business Analyst, MindTree), a dressing mascot. Have seen Deepak’s dressing mannerism (pressed, matching, tucked in properly all time, pleasing colour dresses) to work and then I decided “no checked shirt and dull looking dresses to office”. I have never entered office with a checked shirt since last one year.

Brand Conscious

Vivek Srinivasan (Business Analyst, MindTree), a very brand conscious person who uses a Mont Blanc pen and a Tissot watch. I was not a brand conscious guy, my favourites were cheap and duplicate good looking products :D. Only after visually seeing the brand appeal, I was convinced to look for only brands in my purchases. Since then I carried only a Parker pen, and picked up only branded shirts and pants.

Email in Mobile

Until 2006, I was not a fan of checking emails in mobile. Griffith Alfred (Module Lead, Satyam), showed me his HTC Touch and the email checking facility in it. I was so inspired by this functionality and all the phones I had since then was a PDA :)

Consulting

Vineet Gupta (Program Director, MindTree), took a four full day session at work. His talks refined my consulting quality A LOT.

Karthikeyan Ramasubramanian (Program Director, MindTree) and I discussed about Insurance Industry for about 20 minutes in our cab. I must tell you, I learnt ‘how to explain things to others’ in that 20 minutes from him.

Frozen Thoughts

Alaguveda Selvappalam (Senior Consultant, MindTree), reads a magazine called Frozen Thoughts (daily in cab). Have also noticed her passing the mag to few more people in cab and asking them to read a particular page. I was too curious to know about this mag and I bought it in Central Railway Station (while boarding Bangalore train). I must say, I loved the mag. THE best mag I have ever read. Will definitely read all the month’s edition.

Unambiguous English

Krishnakishore Bavaraju (Program Director, MindTree), expects everyone to write and speak unambiguous crystal clear English. I love this. Whenever I sit next to him in cab, I see him reviewing work-related documents and he keeps telling me about the ambiguity in English lines in the document. Whenever he points out an ambiguous English, I keep telling myself “My English should refine day by day, it has to be unambiguous”. I still follow it.

Gogola, India :)

2009-09-28T11:10:00.001+05:30

Been to Besant Nagar beach a.k.a Elliots Beach, Chennai. After two hours of chatting, we went to Pupil for dinner. Stumbled upon a road side ice cream shop – named as “Gogola” (similar to Google). This shop is present adjacent to Pupil. The font and color resembles Google. Hope Google doesn’t sue Gogola :)

Open questions to Gogola:

Are you trying to become famous by taking up Google’s name?
Why did you use the same font and color?
How did you arrive at this name – Gogola? Why not Googla, Go-Cola, Goof-up-gola?
What does this name Gogola mean?

P.S: I am no way associated to Gogola for indirectly marketing them here in blogosphere :)

East Coast Road, Chennai: Weekend Special

2009-09-05T11:13:00.002+05:30

ECR - East Coast Road is well known for its polished, green-rich, beach-side, scenic road. Many Chennaite hail here for the weekend. Out of the 'many', many are youths :) Those many's many are giving a new definition to this ECR road.

On Saturday and Sunday, if you happen to travel from Thiruvanmiyur to Mayajaal, you will at least see one couple in bike. The girl in this set will have her head covered with dhupatta (not sure of the spelling) or any other specially designed cloth. Only the eyes and nose will be visible all time. Sometimes, the lips will be visible and sometimes not. You should understand it why. The face will be totally uncovered only when no human being is there for 1 Km radius. This is pattern 1.

In the midst of romance / hiding-tactics on bike, few of Many's Many don't care of their dressing sense. While driving in my car in ECR, many times the couple(s)-bike have crossed me. Whenever they ride in front of me, I lose my concentration. The reason is just only one word - Exposure. I (trying) being a good boy, will not elaborate on this. This is pattern 2.

Now, lets see the seating position in bike. By far, I have noticed only three positions. Description for the below three pictures – Back Lean, Front Lean, Coupled Couples. While I was driving in ECR, I saw a couple’s bike in the front and I thought they were going to fall down on road. After a second I understood that the hero had exhibited his bike-riding-talent to impress the heroine. This is pattern 3.

I am not against couples romancing on bikes in ECR. I welcome it. Its up to the Many’s Many to cover or not to cover their face. But, for those Many’s Many, please take care of your dressing etiquette and public behaviour when you are in public. Let the ECR stay as described in the first line of this post.

Tag: 26 Questions

2009-08-17T14:28:00.005+05:30

Second tag post. This time, tagged by AV (more details about this person below). You may read the first tag post HERE.

Rules for this tag are as follows:

Link the person who tagged you.
Display award on your blog with these rules
Reply to the questions below
Tag 7 people deserving the award according to you
The Person who tagged you : Archana V or AV or TCG (The Crazy Girl :) )
Seven people I tag are :

Questions:
A – Available/Single? Available and Single.

B – Best friend? There are three. Won't list the names.

C – Cake or Pie? Cake.

D – Drink of choice? Hot Chololate, Lemon juice, Mango juice, Slice, Mazaa, Kool Koko, Strawberry Frappe.

E – Essential item you use every day? Brain.

F – Favorite colour? No favorite, like everything from Black to White. ( I meant the color)

G – Gummy Bears Or Worms? Gummy Bears. You know the softness and elasticity in it resembles........... another Gummy bear! What you thought?

H – Hometown? Chennai

I – Indulgence? Internet.

J – January or February? Dumb question of the first order. But, I will chose January as it has 3 days more than non-leap year February. I always want more, no double meaning here.

K – Kids & their names? No kids as of now, nothing in progress too, no plans of creating it in near future too too. Possible names could be : Shruthi, Smitha, Kevin.

L – Life is incomplete without? Gilma and Gilpa. Non-Tamilians, there is no English equivalent for these two words. Pardon. Period.

M – Marriage date? Dumb question of the second order. But, it will be on a weekend only.

N – Number of siblings? Only one brother. God, bless my dad.

O – Oranges or Apples? Apple, I love Steve Jobs :)

P – Phobias/Fears? Fear of Lizard, Snakes. Basically - all reptiles. Did I leave out Cat.

Q – Quote for today? Quote for life time: If you really want something, all the universe will conspire in getting you to achieve it, The Alchemist.

R – Reason to smile? When you are tagged :) When someone writes comments in blog / FaceBook, When I see what I imagined happen.

S – Season? Winter.

T – Tag 7 People? See above.

U – Unknown fact about me? I have been injected only 2-3 times in last 10 years. I will run away if I see a injection needle.

V – Vegetable you don't like? Brinjal. Beet Root, just beat it.

W – Worst habit? Biting nails.

X – X-rays you've had? Should I need to say this is the dumb question of third order.

Y – Your favorite food? Mexican, just love it.

Z – Zodiac sign? Scorpio, the mighty.

'Ignite Chennai' Event: Not Ignited

2009-08-08T22:33:00.003+05:30

Yesterday, bunch of my friends at work attended the Ignite Chennai event organized by ThoughtWorks. All the 5 of us were audience, not speakers. The event started at 6.30 PM, that's a 30 minute delay from the planned time of 6 PM. Now that's not a good sign. The presentation hall was filled with nearly 40 people (that include 20 presenters). I expected at least 200.

Rule of Ignite Chennai: A presenter can present only for five minutes and use a maximum of 20 slides for presentation.

Govindarajan Sundarajan kicked off the event by giving an introduction about the event. Then first presenter took the show, followed by the other presenters. Few notable points:

Out of the 20 presenters, only 2-3 were impressive.
out of 20 presenters, 4 were from ThoughtWorks.
Though only 20 slides were allowed, many presenters used more than 20.
There was a presentation on Google and its suite of products (Blog, GMail, Groups, Reader, Ad Sense etc). I felt really disappointed on this presentation. Why would someone present about Google and its products in Ignite Chennai.
A presentation ONLY on Java Structs, Hibernate, iBatis and a whole set of J2EE suite of products. Man, I was really on the edge of anger. I felt that the organizers should have filtered these core-technical topics out of Ignite Chennai. What would a non-techie understand? In 5 minutes how can a person cover the entire J2EE concepts? Disappointed.
A presentation on building schools in India. This presentation looked more like an advertising / marketing thingy. Disappointment again.
A UI designer presented a topic on E-Learning. First four minutes, he spent on doing a physical activity that was totally useless, all of us in the last row ended up laughing for the whole of 5th minute. In the last minute he rushed up his slides and that was yet another thumbs down presentation.
There were two presentations on ice-breakers. 50% disappointment on both.
All the other presentations were very OK types except for a presentation made by a lady on "How to handle fake products", that was really awesome!

I had actually set very high expectation for the event. May be that's the problem. I expected at least 2-3 totally out-of-the-box ideas and many innovative ideas. But, after listening to the 2.5 hours of event, I was totally disappointed by the content. I felt that the number of entries received for the event was less. Marketing should have been much better, that definitely would have attracted quality contents and presenters. Since Ignite Chennai is happening for the first time in Chennai, we really can't pull negative points out of it. Overall, Ignite Chennai was OK. Appreciate the initiative by ThoughtWorks for conducting Ignite Chennai. Expecting a revamped version of Ignite Chennai from ThoughtWorks next year. All the best in advance.

Radio Stations

2009-07-23T08:18:00.004+05:30

"Good Morning! This is your favorite RJ Shakthi and you are listening to Blah-Blah 99.99656554 FM"

Yes, this post is about Radio Stations.

All India Radio (AIR) was ruling the air at one point of time. Now, almost all the numbers (including decimals) between 90 and 100 are taken and there are FM stations in the numbers. Competition has become so fierce in Chennai, because of this, every FM station has a tag line that indicates "We are the best". If everyone advertises that they are the best in FM market, then what is the meaning of the word "best"? Probably its time to rewrite Oxford English Dictionary.

"There are very few good RJs.
Majority of the RJs make us frown.
There are very few good programmes.
Majority of the programmes make us clown."

Let me explain a programme (lets call it Non-Sense, in short NS) in one of the radio station in Chennai. This NS runs for 3 hours. Starts in the morning itself. People can go and bang their head on a wall 100 times instead of listening to this NS. RJ will announce the topic that will be discussed in this 3 hours of NS. Then the callers will have to call the NS programme and speak NS to the NS RJ. How NS!! Few of the topics I have heard:

If you have 5 rupees, what will you do? [KP] Bloody, I will go and buy cotton for 5 rupees and keep it on my ears, instead of listening to your 3 hours NS.

Though I said I will list a few programme names, I really don't want to list more than one NS. Again, only few callers talk something meaningful and thoughtful. Majority of the callers talk NS.

I am sure you would have heard about lot of SMS contests in FM stations. One such SMS contest that I heard:

"In the recent budget, they had reduced the price of which product?
Option A: Toilet Brush
Option B: Tooth Brush
Option C: Mobile Phones

If you know the answer, take your mobile phone and type "SMS Contest BULL SHIT " to 12345. One lucky winner will win a lucky prize"

What the hell. Most of the SMS contests are of this demeaning quality. Just to earn money, these stations should not conduct worthless contests and make the listener's brain go dull.

Though there are numerous FM stations in Chennai, FM still has its life. The one and only reason for the FMs existence are songs. So, FM Stations, please have a balance on 'advertisements-RJ Talks-SMS Contests-Songs'. Have a proper mix among all these.

Oh, its time for me to tune one of the FM station to listen to one of my favorite RJ ;-)

Attention To Detail

2009-07-05T14:49:00.010+05:30

Today morning I went to a nearby small vegetable shop to buy vegetables (of course) :) The shop was filled with busy people, at least 10 people were there. There was only one weighing machine in the shop. Customers had to wait in queue and give the vegetables to the (shop)keeper and he will put in the weighing machine and bill us. This is the process :)

Shop Keeper (SK): Who's next?

KP: Yeah, can you weigh these potatos and tomatoes?

SK: Ok. hmm... Potato is 1 Kg, Tomato is 2Kg. Is this fine?

KP: Yeah, that's fine. I need 100 gms of Ginger.

(He pointed a corner of the shop where lot of sacks were sacked together. He said one of the sack has Ginger)

SK: Ok. There it is. Go, take it and come.

KP: Ok.

(I walked towards the sack and picked few pieces of Ginger and happily walked towards SK)

KP: Here it is, weigh for 100 gms of Ginger.

SK: Oh, sir, its not Ginger. Its Taro!! ('Senai Kilangu' in Tamil)

(Everyone laughed. I felt like shattering 1 large family size chicken pizza on my face. Shatak!!)

KP: Oh is it, ok. May be Taros were mixed with the Ginger sack. I will take Ginger this time.

TARO and GINGER.

Moral of this incident: When you are not sure of what you are buying, ask the people around.

Perungudi Batteries @ Sholinganallur, Chennai

2009-06-15T21:41:00.002+05:30

Last month, on a Sunday, I started my blue colored Ferrari (its called as Maruti 800 among public) and it didn’t. I tried my hands on all trial and error methods to start the car, but ultimately I failed by all means. With the help of my cab driver Rajan, I figured out that the car battery was choked. No acid water inside the battery. I carried the battery to a battery repair shop named “Perungudi Batteries” in Sholinganallur, Chennai.

I met the shop owner in the garage, told him about the problem and gave the battery to him for repair. I went inside the shop / office to settle the bill . It must be hardly a 200 sq feet room, that’s it. There are 3-4 people (mechanics) working in his shop. The owner had managed to hang a big notice board with thoughtful lines in it. I asked him,

KP: You wrote these lines / sayings?

Owner: Yes.

KP: How often do you change it?

Owner: Everyday, I write a new line.

KP: Why do you write quotes / sayings in your shop?

Owner: People should always be happy sir, their thoughts need to be changed first, to make them happy. Many people come to my shop and many read it. My shop boys read them daily. I am happy that I am doing something useful.

Though the English needs correction, the attitude of the owner to write quotes daily to make people around him happy, to spark the good-thinking-attitude in them needs appreciation. I have seen many shops where these quotes are either on a printed sheet or on a framed picture. But, this small-battery-shop owner managed to buy a big white board and dedicate one half space for his shop ‘Announcements’ and the other half for writing quotes. Pictures below: (Click on them to enlarge)

Tamil lines in English: “If you chase and kill anger, in turn happiness will chase you”.

Quote on ego

2009-06-11T14:46:00.002+05:30

I was listening to an audio podcast on "Sales Pitch", the speaker mentioned a thoughtful line,

"You got to let the ego go"

The Dhaba @ Besant Nagar: Hopeless

2009-06-07T19:13:00.003+05:30

One of my friend, Kiran had come to India (from the US) for 2 weeks vacation. Sriram (friend), Kiran and I met at Besant Nagar beach at 6PM. After 1.5 hours of chatting, we were hungry. There are many good hotels to dine in Bessie, but my good Indian friend recommended this hotel – The Dhaba. This hotel is present near Cozee Corner.

Clock read 7.30 PM.

Three of us entered the hotel. There were 4 tables, all were occupied by couples. Nice, this must be a romantic place, I thought. Waiter signaled his hand and guided us to a table in another section of the hotel. In this section also, there were 4 tables only. This is the hotel’s capacity. Packed our ass comfortably on the chair. We ordered for Starters,

Hot and sour veg soup (one by two)
Golden Aloo Fry
Gobi Fry
Murgh Malai Kebab

Waiter: Anything to drink?

KP: Do you have Mango juice?

Waiter: We have Mango Nana

KP: What is Mango Nana? Do you have Mango juice?

Waiter: Yes, we have Mango Nana.

KP: (Ok, this guy is deaf) Bring me a Mango Nana or whatever.

‘Starters’ order was complete (we thought so). We were chit-chatting for 15 minutes. It was 7.45 PM. We lost patience and called the waiter. A new guy attended our desk, took all the starters orders again. Now, that's a negative sign for the hotel. Another 15 minutes passed. It was 8 PM. We really don’t know what these guys were doing inside the kitchen (if at all there is one). Don’t know whether they went out in search for a hen to prepare the Murgh Malai Kabab. At 8.05 PM, the starters arrived.

On seeing the hot and sour soup, we were literally hot and sour. The soup was mere color powder sprinkled on hot water, with some raw tomatoes here and there. Yes, it was like that. None of us liked it. Sriram finished his soup (so-called) in 1 minute; Kiran took 10 minutes to gulp it, don’t know what he enjoyed by keeping that hot water infront of him for 10 minutes. We thought, soup was a clear failure. What’s next. Its Gobi Fry, but they didn’t fry it. That’s amazing. They should have named it “Raw-Gobi No-Fry”. It was a Gobi vada. We removed the outer flour layer and had a look at the Gobi inside, it was Reliance Fresh. The Gobi was green, raw, fresh and smiling at us “You losers, you lost your 2nd wicket”. Ok, fine. What’s the 3rd wicket. Its the waiter’s special “Mango Nana”. I am still not sure what ‘Nana’ is. The Mango Nana was green in color. This time a green colored powder with ice-water and Jal Jeera. I was baffled, why it was named “Mango”. 3rd wicket down. The 4th one was Murgh Malai Kebab. I don’t think the person who cooked this Kebab had a tongue. There was no taste at all. No, no and no. I had to eat 6 pieces of tasteless chicken. I felt very bad than that hen (only if its cooked, it can be called chicken) on the plate. 4th wicket is totally useless. Golden duck.

Clock read 8.20 PM.

“Waiter sir, where is the Golden Aloo Fry that we ordered in starters”. This time an another waiter attended us.

“Oh you ordered for it? ok, I will take the order”. This was the 3rd waiter we saw.

Spellbound, all three of us. It was served after 20 minutes, it was good.

We ordered for the main course to a person “A”. Then we again called the waiter “B”, “C” and “D” and informed the same main course order to them. I called a waiter and told the order again by holding his hand. Sriram was in splits when I did that. At 8.30 PM, Sriram called a waiter and told him that we ordered main course and we are waiting for it. The waiter’s reply was “Oh, ok” and he walked straight to the next table and took their order. It looked like as if we were giving him a status update on our order. At 8.45PM, the main course was served. After eating the unhealthy starters (it should have been called as ‘finishers’), we didn’t feel like proceeding with the main course. We just tasted them and majority was wasted :(

In the mean time, we ordered 2 Jal Jeera Paani and 1 Lemon Juice. As usual, we repeated the same order to three people and finally we got it. Jal Jeera Paani and Lemom Juice were the good items in this hotel.

9.15 PM.

“Bill please”. Bill came to our table in 1 minute, we asked for the bill only once.

For the thumbs-down food, Kiran paid Rs. 850/- Our plan was to keep at least Rs. 50/- as tips, but after the mind blowing experience at the hotel, we were sad to keep even 10 rupees. We thought only we had a bad experience. But, that was not true. The table next to us was occupied by a family (2 adults, 2 kids). The family man didn’t even have a smile for the entire 2 hours and his eyes were always searching for some waiter to attend him.

So, the conclusion is:

If you want to be literally ragged by a group of people, goto this hotel.
If you want your adrenalin secretion process to speed up, this hotel will definitely be a catalyst.
If you are a interviewer and you want to conduct stress interview, don’t worry. Ask the interviewee to dine at this hotel. If he comes out happy, you can definitely recruit him.
If you want to sit in AC for more than 3 hours, walk into this hotel in the morning and order for only one dish and keep quiet. Best case, your order will be served in 2-3 hours. Worst case, your order will not be served at all till they close the hotel at night. Even at 10PM, don’t be surprised if the waiter says “Oh ok, you placed the order is it, I will bring it”. Enjoy the AC and beat the heat.
If you want to improve your communication and public speaking skills, goto this hotel. Because, you will have to keep on talking about the orders to many different people and you should also use your body language to make them understand your order. In my case, I should have made some jargon to inform the waiter that I need a “Mango” and not a green colored liquid called “Mango Nana”. Sometimes you have to get up and shout in front of everybody, that’s public speaking.
If you want to follow strict diet by eating only raw vegetables, needless to say, enter this hotel and order for any dish, it will be served raw.

Beach: Bliss

2009-06-02T22:23:00.006+05:30

May 31 2009, Sunday. At 7 AM, I went to a chicken stall near my house (in ECR) to buy chicken. The person in-charge of the store told me that it would take another 30 minutes to prepare the chicken. I didn't want to wait till then, I drove towards the beach in ECR road. I drove at the speed of 10 kmph and enjoyed the architecture of the big and beautiful beach houses. I reached the beach in 5 minutes, parked the car and walked on the beach sand.

The naughty sun was out, but hidden behind clouds :) so, the weather was very pleasant. There was no one in the beach for at least 500 meters from either of my side. I enjoyed the lonely walk on the beach sand. Walked very slowly, noticing all the tiny ships far inside the sea. I did a 180 degree turn and walked backwards and enjoying the beach house beauty from beach side. Again a 180 degree turn, walked towards the beach. I reached the shore point where the beach water comes and pulls in towards beach. I stood there for 10 minutes and watched the beauty of the waves in water. I enjoyed the wave sound ussshhhhh-dummmmhhh-ussshhhhh-dummmmhhh. It was so wonderful to see the entire stretch of beach in the mild chill weather at 7 AM. While I was enjoying it, I realized that I had been to the beach only 5-6 times in the past 8 years (though I live just 300 meters from the beach). I realized how stupid I was to miss such a wonderful gift of nature. I had missed a lot. I made a point that I should visit the beach at least once in a fortnight. I thought I should have had a laptop with broadband net connection to just sit down on the beach sand and chat with all my near and dear ones, to browse, to play my favorite game of Chess (and more importantly, win all games). Slowly, the sun starting coming out of the clouds and the rays reflected on the sea. Man, I must tell you it was a fascinating experience :) Within seconds, the sea was literally glittering because of the sun rays reflection. I wanted to walk all along the beach shore, but I didn't do it. Wish I had my lady love next to me to hold hands to stroll along the beach shore without noticing the time! And that will happen soon.

Travel Industry, Business Analyst: Two more sites

2009-05-31T18:52:00.003+05:30

Kprabu.com, a 6 lettered site is my personal space on net. I always wanted to have a professional space as well :) And, that's how two of my other sites are born.

They are,

Travel Industry: Talks about travel, travel technology, hospitality, logistics management, tourist spots etcetera. Click on the hyper-link to know more.
Business Analyst: Talks about the day to day activities of BA, the do's and dont's, tips and tricks, tools for BA, etc. Click on the hyper-link to know more.

Its been a month since these sites were live and they are updated regularly as Kprabu.com. Do visit them if you are interested in Travel Industry and Business Analyst role. Happy reading :)

Simple technology, great usage

2009-05-27T22:43:00.002+05:30

After my office hours, I reach home by 6.45 PM by office cab. My cab driver name is Rajan. I am the last drop person in my route. Rajan’s next pick up is at 10 PM from a call center company. His house is very far from the call center company, so he won’t go to his house in this 3 hours time. Many days I have wondered how he spends his 3 hours. One day I asked him,

KP: Rajan, you are dropping me at 6.45 PM, I am your last drop person. Your next pickup is at 10PM. I know you are not going home also. So, what do you do in this 3 hours?

Rajan: I halt the vehicle near the Sholinganallur-ECR junction and take rest. This junction is pretty close to the call center company.

KP: Oh, you do this daily eh.. hmm… won’t you be bored in this 3 hours?

Rajan: No sir, I will take rest for 30 minutes. Then, there is a serial that is telecasted at 7.30 PM in Sun TV. Its “Thirumathi Selvi”. That helps me to spend another 30 minutes.

KP: Serial at Sun TV?? You goto some nearby store to watch the serial?

Rajan: No sir. I will make a call to my wife’s mobile, she keeps her mobile near the TV speakers. Then I keep listening to the serial’s audio using my phone. I put my phone in speaker mode so that I need not hold the phone.

KP: WOW, that’s nice time killer. So, you make a 30 minute call daily. What’s your mobile bill?

Rajan: My wife and I have a Tata Indicom mobile. It’s 10 paisa between us. We have selected the 10 paisa plan.

KP: That’s awesome. So, for 30 minutes you pay only 3 rupees is it?

Rajan: No sir, I cut the call during advertisements. After the Ad, my wife will give me a missed call. I will call back again. So, the entire 30 minute serial will cost me 1 rupee 50 paisa. That is roughly 30 rupees per month.

KP: Very nice. What do you do after the serial?

Rajan: I will have dinner till 8.30PM. Then, I will sleep till 9.45 PM and then I will go to the company for pickup at 10 PM.

I was amazed on how much technology has improved these days, more importantly how different those technologies are being used. Mobile and TV are very common products / technologies these days, but the usage of these two by Rajan is brilliant. Entertainment comes in different packages.

TGMGT

2009-05-25T22:39:00.002+05:30

Disclaimer: This post talks only about the girls who wear T-shirts that has lines like “Touch here” on the breast area.

Now that the disclaimer made your eye lid wide open, read on.

Touch here
Which one do you like?
Think Tanks
I am lucky!
Hows this?
Stop Staring!
Pitstop!
Got Milk?
Left or Right?

These are the few notable lines that I have SEEN on a girls T-shirt, right on the breast area. Go through the above list again and read on.

Lets call these types of girls as “These-Girls-Make-Guys-Terrible” type (TGMGT), now that’s palindrome! (Mr KP, your computer science staff taught you how to write palindrome program in C++ language, least she would have expected you to apply the palindrome funda on girls breasts, way to go). I am sure you would have also noticed these type of lines.

If you are a conservative guy / girl, then you would have felt ‘shit’, turned your face 180 degrees from the breast and would not read this post anymore after this line.

If you are a practical and broad minded guy, then you would have felt ‘cool’ and would have starred for 5 minutes without bothering the people around you. You would also write a blog post on 'TGMGT’ like how I am doing now and make many peoples tongue touch their cheek.

If you are a person with one leg in conservative and another in broad-minded category, then this line is for you. You might think only now after reading the previous line “What I would have done? May be I would have starred willingly and act to the outside world that I don’t like TGMGTs”. Its ok guys, remove the mask.

So, these are few of the reactions people exemplify after seeing TGMGTs. Now, lets get back to TGMGTs (I mean, back to the topic).

Why do TGMGTs wear T-shirts with ‘those’ type of lines? To make guys look there? To attract attention? To attract blog posts like this? They want everyone to talk about their T-shirt? To tell the world that they also have two? Two To Tango!

So, guys, next time when you read any of ‘these’ lines on a T-Shirt, the one and only word that should strike your mind is –“TGMGT”, the palindrome.