early year end post

I am not sure if I am ever going to blog again in the near future, as in long blog with original content. Or if I will ever sit online for four hours not knowng what to do.

2010 is almost over. what a year. Can't explain what I have been through. ups/downs. it was tough. yeah. but i would take it. considering the delta in the number of things than what was done in 2009. except ofcourse getting married. living together is the real deal. Things are happening, but doesn't everything get refined over time ? ;)

but this post is not about 2010. this is about 2011.

Resolutions / wish list:

1) swimming

Imagine sitting in front of television watching croatian or turkish, when the hotel has the best swimming pool in the city. Damn.

2) drink at home

my wife had (no grammar mistake here. from all time fav list - kaaththula yezhudhanum pombalainga sonna solla) promised me a celebratory beer at home, if ever we save up certain money. you know, over and above. I am almost there. but then the below point directly interferes

3) buy a car

this is not really a wish or a resolution, but i am starting to feel the need for one.

4) take a vacation

a real one. like a week at a hill station. Looks like this will be the toughest one.
maybe a couple of weekend trips. like to kerala, coimbatore ? i kinda know that this one is not going to happen. Lets see.

5) take photos

No, i not really interested. Its just like all my pictures come out with shakes (improved in the last one week). But then, we kinda went to thiruvaiyaaru over a weekend, and mr.mani ratnam was sitting on the banks and discussing something over with his assistants. Ramya wanted to have a snap with him. i took one, repositioned and took another . both came out badly. so atleast to not spoil future moments. maybe i can go the Ukil way - Ukil is the intelligent/nice/warm/self-proclaimed sarcastic/compulsively pessimestic/geeky architect in my previous company - he carries around a tripod stand for his camera.

6) Now that i talked about 5 - i have anirudh's first birthday videos. never sent them. add investments submission and pan card application to that.
Damn, i am the worst.

I think thats pretty much what i would like to achieve in the next year :(

and yeah, the el-classico was a big fiasco. i can't digest the same team taking everything - the world cup etc. I mean, cmon, just because you have the players, you must not win everything. It must be in "sharing" basis. :)

Regards,
Ramakrishnan

MMA

...

Kadhal Anukkal Udambil Etthanai
Neutron Electron
Un Neelakannil Mottham Etthanai


Can't help remembering very similiar

Keladi rathiye rathiye udambu narambugal aaru laksham
Theriyuma sakiye sakiye kaadhal narambugal endha pakkam

A.R.Rahman no longer produces cult defining songs.

still, I like the mellow feel of kaadhal anukkal. And "irumbile oru irudhayam mulaikkudhe".

And yes, i never liked urvasi.

old joke

eppadi patta ponnu venum ?

padicha vela pakkara azhagan ponnu

padicha vela pakkara azhagan ponnu unna enda kattikka pora ?


but when said all of a sudden in a lunch table, and when message two was said pretty seriously, it was too good.

good times are back with jaffer :D

i am bollywood material !!!

everybody has skeletons in their closet. Its only about how well one manages to shut it up. If i am smiling all the time, it only means that I have put a shining golden lock on mine

- one customer manager

The same man said to me suddenly "you are so serious. if you play anti characters, you will be an instant hit in bollywood"
:D

the week

Monday:
sudharshan rapped me on the shoulders from the behind. i couldn't recognize him. he was my tution mate and college mate.

He was my maths tution mate. we went to Jabbar sir. He charged us based on monthly tests. 100 = 0, 90-100 = 100 80-90 = 150 till i think a max of 300. He will give the questions and mostly walk away. Many people used to copy. I never did. There was a catch - out of the ten 10 mark questions, nine would be from the book and one would require some application of thought. I would mostly score in the range of 80-90, mostly 90. some times, we used to argue with him for a mark, particularly if the score was x9, to go into the lower fee bracket. He would gamely give it away mostly. I hear that he shifted to the more usual 200/month pattern a couple of batches after mine.
Actually, sudharshan was the only guy who would score in the 90-100 bracket.

Wednesday :
gowri waved and started walking towards me in a hotel. i was half guessing her, before which she got up.

A lot of people seem to have set camp at velachery.

Thursday :
anirudh's birthday party. met many people from ambattur, notably sudha's parents.
:)

nice

vidiyal eduththu kondadho,
vizhiyil karaindhu vittadho ...

:)

Endhe manithan nenjukkul
Kaayam illai sollungal
Kaalapoakil kaayamellaam
Marandhu poaghum maayangal

my neighbours at chepauk

behind - a rowdy gang fully drunk. using empty water bottles to bang it hard rhythmically on the next chair (which was obviously made vacant)

left - a college student with his set of friends. cricket experts.

right - one jolly good friend. who enjoyed whatever happened.

front - a couple of ladies. all dressed up. more into talking. watching whether we were watching the cheer leaders or them

the match was anyways worth the headache. and a couple of filter coffees can clear any ache.

team work

when you left hand is injured, its your right hand that gets all dirty

P.S : Hack, somebody seems to have broken my company's internet policy. hence blogging

lets not say it

class mates (female) marriage in march and the guy chose to call himself CSAR ( c saravanan i guess)

how sarcastic

i refrained from mailing back. maybe its a old joke

...

Maanga jo mera hai
Jaata kya tera hai
Maine kaun si tujhse jannat maang li
Kaisa khuda hai tu
Bas naam ka hai tu
Rabba jo teri itni si bhi na chali

Those were the days

From: Ramakrishnan Ezhilarasu-a22635
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2007 12:06 PM
To: Prabhu Arun-a22873
Cc: Kamalakaran Suman-a22998; R Ramakrishnan-a22686; R Vishnupriyan-A21280; Pandian MuthuKumar-a22634; M Ganesh-vctw67; M RIZWAN NAZEER AHAMED-QTR463; Krishnaswamy Saran-a23041
Subject: Happy B'day

Arun,

Happy B'day.

When and where is the party?



Saran arun-a pugazhlndu oru kavidhai paadu





Regards

Ezhilarasu

(actual song on request :P)

at which place

there is an opportunity to make wealth, and which is far from the relatives of wife, hurry to there at eagle's speed

- from mahabharatham pesugiradhu

despite

maalai idum sondham
mudi potta bandham
pirivennum sollae ariyaadhadhu

now reading - valmiki ramayanam , Cho

and this is a subject of much discussion.

some unexpected humour from it-

soorpanakai comes to rama's cottage and instantly falls in love with his beauty.

Soorpanakai - who are you ?

Rama - I am rama, dasaratha's son, etc etc,... who are you ?

Soorpanakai - I will tell you the truth. I am a rakshasi and i have fallen in love with you. Please accept my love. don't waste your time with this
powerless, famished tummied, ugly looking seetha. I am all powerful and beautiful. Come lets enjoy these forests together (more exactly - naam iruvarum
ikkadugalil thirindhu kaliththiruppom)

Rama - Oh you are a beauty, but i am married man, and my wife is here. Instead look at lakshmana - he is a tigerish human, and he has no female company. So why don't you?

Soorpanakai turns her attention to lakshmana and then notices that he is no less and then says - Will you accept my company ?

lakshmana - But i not even a percentage of rama. He is my elder brother and the most powerful man in the world. You should really concentrate on rama(
ok - i am not exactly sure of this statement)

soorpanaka realises the mocking, turns to seetha and decides that she is the root cause of all evil, and pounces on her. The rest is the well known nose cutting


Bloopers :

lunch with saran and rizwan.

Saran : Ramar edhukku kattukkku ponaar ?

2)

Ramak - seedhai ponnae illa ( meaning Not exactly the biological daughter of janakar)

Saran - ponnae illayyaaa ?
Adinggg...

waiting for MNIK

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found+lost

???

VNV lyrics

Uyire unnai unnai yendhan
Vaazhkai thunayaaga
Yerkindren yerkindren
Inimel puyal, veyil, mazhai,
Paalai, solai ivai
Ondraaga kadappomey..

Note -
good - solai (1 count)
bad - puyal, veyil, mazhai, paalai (all -1 count)

towards the end of the song -

Kaadhal yellam tholaiyum idam, kalyaanam thaaney

my pick - hosanna

in response to

http://aroonprabu.blogspot.com/2009/12/my-10.html

raging bull tonight. Ever since Million dollar baby, i like punching movies. and yeah, fight club. oh yeah, i like empowered women , as long as they smile at me from a distance. I had to confess something to someone that s too personal to share, but lets say i am not in the F-bandwagon. (F-bandwagon usage - feminist - band... . I recently saw an article in TOI that had this title ... F-word. I thought it was the fcuk word. But it turned out to be about feminism. I just grazed the picture which had some air force employees in their uniforms embodying the essence of feminist power. One of the girls was good looking. No offense meant in the whole of this.

and i was about to type MDB for million dollar baby. and then comes thoughts of motorola mobile devices business :(
i know, i am an emotional wreck.


and then about my own top 10, i doubt i saw 10 movies in the year. But still here goes my top few (watchd over the last two years) -

life is beautiful
million dollar baby
kandaen kaadhalai (for failing to live upto the promise of completely spoiling the original)
pasanga first half ( ok, i remember the claps part of it and am tempted to wipe this off the list)
love actually - actually i did not see the full film. but the lyrics were romantic
avatar - for reasons before said
oye lucky lucky oye - surprise package
man from earth - watched this lying in the image hospitals bed and i am grateful for the time it killed.

Duds -

kambaqth ishq - well, i am PKS lover and hence i hate this. But kareena is dazzling as ever.
Dil bole hadippa - oh yeah, i watched it.
risk - everybody else liked it.

Happy new year everyone.