Toohey-isms

havell's

2011-04-25T04:56:00.000-07:00

did you see the recent "havells wires that dont catch fire" ad ? I was a great fan of the previous one and this somehow doesn't make sense. Add to it that i never approved pouring ghee into fire, even without getting into existence of god/bhakti etc. Not that i say this outside this blog any longer.

gotta blog this.

2011-04-14T00:12:00.000-07:00

happy tamil new years day (i believe J will come back and make this official)

menu for the morning:

sprouts salad
carrot-vellari thayir pachadi
mango pachadi
sena kezhangu varuval (my all time fav.)
vada
sakkara pongal
juice

apart from the basic three course rasam/sambar/curd

i refused the offer for papad. :P

dessert:

the relative who stays just overhead comes running, the sai-baba pic in their home has started emitting vibhoodhi.
i have it smeared on my forehead now.

:)

the WC ad campaigns

2011-03-25T22:09:00.000-07:00

good:

1. Vodafone super zoozoo
2. the latest bleed blue ads.

bad

1. the pepsi official sponsor things . i hate this.

my own

2011-03-25T06:23:00.000-07:00

Through out the world cup so far, i have read so many different articles about sachin tendulkar. analyzing from every possible angle and praising to an extent tendulkar would have surely felt at least a small thing.

well, here's mine

what if tendulkar had chosen some other field ? software engineering? or maybe politics ?

inadvertant

2011-02-28T21:12:00.000-08:00

fight at home. go somewhere to collect something. made to wait. 1 hour and 15 minutes. because they have misplaced it. talk nothing. shout at nobody. wait. atlast the awaited comes. but the receptionist who was handling you has gone for tea. she
comes back. gives you it. The thing is in alwarpet. some red-black flags need to cross. so wait at the signal for another 20 minutes.

calculating the strategy back home. go home and give in or hold up.

nearing home. traffic. you know how congested it can get near panagal park. that much traffic. Slowly move the bike by leg rather than by motor. somebody is honking. ok, there is some space in front. try to move front. the honking daredevil 18 something girl in scooty overtakes to get that space. Glare at the direction in general.

Now, the mother riding pillion in the scooty starts shouting at the girl. shout/advice/threaten (that you will not be allowed to drive). for about the next three minutes, we, me and scooty, had to move bumper close (or whats the term for two-wheelers? anyways, song on my lips "dei panakkaara.. nee keera vaanga kaaril poii...). The mother was still shouting when i crossed them.

I had a big smile on my face. I went home and everything was happy.

:D

And no post yet on sunday's match? this blogging circle is dead.

:(

Say WoW !!!

2011-01-20T21:35:00.000-08:00

From: VIGNESWARAN S.
Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 7:47 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: FW: True incident!!!(Got it as a fwd)!!!Say Wow !!!

fyi.......

Don't hesitate to read.... This may help you if you travel in MTC

True Incident!! Fight for rights.

I m working in Chennai (Thoraipakkam). I usually travel by
Metropolitan Transport Corporation(MTC) bus, from jain college stop (Which
is near to my office) to tidel park and from Tidel park I will catch train,
to home. MTC bus coming from kelambakkam(19B,21H) mostly wont stop in tidel
park in early days. So I usually prefer to get into T51 bus, which will
stop in tidel park stop. After some time 19B started stopping in tidel park
also.

Today while returning from office at around 8.30 pm, I was in a hurry to
catch my 9.28 pm train at Tidel park. I got up a bus(19B) in Jain College
at around 8.45 pm, and asked the conductor to give a ticket for tidel park
stop. He said, the bus wont stop there, and he asked me to get down at
signal if it stops there or else get down at stop next to tidel park. I was
arguging with him that I am going daily with the same bus and get down in
the tidel park stop. But he was keep on saying the same thing.. I got
irritated with conductor response. Suddenly I remembered a complaint phone
no.(9884301013) I read in one bus sometime back and noted down in my
mobile. I called that no. and said about the incident that conductor is not
stopping in the usual stop.

The MTC representative (person at the other end) asked me to give the phone
to the conductor. The conductor was not interested to talking with his
official. The MTC rep. asked me the bus registration no. He enquired where
is the bus at that time and I said it is in Kandhanchavadi. The MTC rep.
said he will come in the line and talk to them. I was curious how he will
come and catch the bus.

After few mins. the wireless transmeter(to track the bus), near the driver
in the bus started shouting... Driver stop the bus. Driver stop the bus in
the left side of the road. Driver was not sure what is happening may be his
first experience, for others(including me) it is the real first
experience. The driver stopped the bus and started listening to the
transmeter. The MTC rep. enquired why the bus is not stopping in tidel park
stop. The driver said he stops in tidel park stop and in the previous trip
also he has done. The rep. asked him then why the conductor is saying like
that. He asked the conductor what is the issue. The conductor was
speechless. The driver somehow managed the situation and supported the
conductor by saying that the conductor was new to this route. The driver
asked excuse for the incident and said he will stop in the Tidel Park stop

The MTC rep. said he wanted to talk the passenger who called him. I went
near the transmeter and spoke to the MTC rep. He said sorry for the
incident happened and asked sorry on behalf of MTC. Everyone in the bus
were surprised of things happening. I came back to my seat and I was so
embarrassed as all were looking at me. Few passengers asked me what is the
no. and whom I called. They also took the no. The bus stopped in Tidel Park
stop then. After getting down I called the MTC rep. and said the bus
stopped in the stopping.

It was a nice experience for me and others who travelled in the bus,
including driver and conductor and I was very shocked after this incident.
Yes, nowadays good things are happening in government sector also and
technology is used properly.

Complaint Phone no. for MTC bus : 9884301013, 9445030516, 9383337639

early year end post

2010-12-03T18:28:00.000-08:00

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

2010-11-27T06:52:00.000-08:00

...

2010-10-10T06:06:00.001-07:00

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

2010-08-17T07:40:00.000-07:00

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 !!!

2010-07-07T23:00:00.000-07:00

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

2010-06-11T02:00:00.000-07:00

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

2010-05-27T01:14:00.000-07:00

vidiyal eduththu kondadho,
vizhiyil karaindhu vittadho ...

:)

2010-04-30T05:48:00.000-07:00

Endhe manithan nenjukkul
Kaayam illai sollungal
Kaalapoakil kaayamellaam
Marandhu poaghum maayangal

my neighbours at chepauk

2010-04-03T22:24:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-30T05:20:00.001-07:00

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

2010-03-07T23:22:00.000-08:00

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

...

2010-03-07T21:13:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-24T01:54:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-22T20:23:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-13T01:54:00.000-08:00

maalai idum sondham
mudi potta bandham
pirivennum sollae ariyaadhadhu

now reading - valmiki ramayanam , Cho

2010-02-09T04:05:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-01T03:19:00.001-08:00

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found+lost

2010-01-28T21:28:00.000-08:00

???

VNV lyrics

2010-01-19T22:03:00.000-08:00

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

2010-01-06T05:22:00.000-08:00

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.

telangana strike not successful - working day today

2009-12-29T23:00:00.000-08:00

any one ?

2009-12-27T20:06:00.001-08:00

Anyone planning on a year end post ? my blog reader is mostly dead :(

To Suman

2009-12-24T05:12:00.000-08:00

Christ forbid, To Suman. and to the initiation of ganesh.

Avatar

2009-12-23T03:46:00.000-08:00

Have you seen ramanarayanan movies? Wherein, dogs and snakes come to the rescue in the last scene ? something of that sort happens here too.

may be i should have watched in 3D.
Still, the movie never made me feel bad about watching it.

good - the heroine's hiss
bad - cliched plot

...

2009-12-05T06:52:00.000-08:00

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paradise

2009-12-01T20:16:00.000-08:00

is not lost or regained. it is a biriyani centre in secunderabad.

bored

2009-11-23T22:46:00.000-08:00

to the core, i searched for tags to blog. but sadly i did this already.

i found this one interesting -
http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/bsd-guru/blog-tag-youre-it-13690

enna solla varraanga ?

2009-11-23T22:41:00.000-08:00

poi solla indha manasukku
theriyavillai
sonnaal poi poidhaanae

restored

2009-11-22T05:28:00.000-08:00

for a brief period of time, i liked being in temples, the chanting,etc. I am back to normalcy today.

the last few days

2009-11-16T04:02:00.000-08:00

oru plate idly, innoru plate idly, masala dosa, set dosa vadakari (share), single idly, coffee

may be a repost.

2009-10-13T20:04:00.000-07:00

thoughts on the video : when the song goes "you can be rich...", actually is that poor?

guess who

2009-06-26T23:07:00.000-07:00

http://undercutandflourish.blogspot.com/

there s a poll added on the left. (just like that. I kinda know the result already).

Itt'ss pinnkkk

2009-06-20T22:58:00.000-07:00

P.S : from someone's orkut videos

hushhh ! public , public !!

2009-05-30T01:41:00.000-07:00

I started using facebook today. The pages definitely load much faster than orkut. and the white background makes orkut look cheap.
And the utilities/applications. It felt a bit more chaotic than my orkut (has google imposed an almost schoolishly strict boxes and placements?) home page, but then i started looking around.
time has to be killed. its almost 2 and no one has called me. ok. some one hasn't called me. anyways, back to the topic, i started looking around. I saw that people were taking IQ tests. I clicked on that. And i was about the begin the test. Stop. I went out, googled (let the big-bing happen?) and took IQ tests out of facebook.

...

2009-05-25T22:21:00.000-07:00

Yennai naan arivaen,
yennai andri yaar arivaar ?

i come again

2009-05-20T10:16:00.001-07:00

காலை கண்ட கனவென்ன, மாலை உன் நிலையென்ன, இந்த நாளின் விலை என்ன ?

Oops

2009-05-18T20:49:00.000-07:00

mmm. i forgot another birthday today. its my younger cousin's. He must have just disabled the notification on orkut i suppose. I remember it showing up some
time back. A way to see who actually remember? Anyways, he pinged me dutifully to get wishes.
Well, its just not worth to try these things and get disappointed on your birthday, or is it ? so , unless you are sure of yourself... I mean, we got tools today, and we are all really busy, aren't we? (I remember replying to one's birthday alarm mail saying that as a principle i don't believe in these and that one will remember if they care.)
I just recently forgot TJ's first wedding anniversary. Upon which TJ reminded that it
was pavi's birthday two days later. I again forgot it, but thankfully TJ again called up and reminded.
Just before that, this is the worst of the lot, I forgot Nikhil's wedding till 11. Wedding was at 1130. I never made it.
I almost forgot arun's birthday. I just din't realize enough to wish vishnu on his wedding anniversary. I just remembered the treat.
Well, its quite some time now that my parents and sister call me upfront and inform me of weddings/birthdays so that i can wish them/others. And my sister gets offended the most. Oh, cmon. I am sorry all the same, but i never meant any offense.

guess what ?

2009-05-14T04:26:00.000-07:00

sometimes winning is everything

take a stand

now or never

choose a high

leave your mark

now or never

kill doubt

stand for something

prove something

make waves

never say die

live your dream

conquer your fears

take a risk

erase boundaries

beat the odds

trust your instincts

take up a challenge

never give up

prove yourself

own your words

right a wrong

dare to dream

push the limit

play with pride

wake the spirit

go for glory

tougher the better

face your demons

its your time

taste victory

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcKqMkYXzYU

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2009-05-12T07:44:00.000-07:00

http://www.carnatica.net/rasika/viewtopic.php?p=1938&sid=0838e62ede6109f48c82c8ab712df448

...

2009-05-09T01:45:00.000-07:00

from

http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/

watch out

2009-05-08T01:51:00.000-07:00

one of my friends status message -
barca deserves :-), no more all english fans ! ! !

Well, I don't care about the deserving part, I ain't even a barca fan, but what would i not give to see barca lift the trophy.

well, doesn't the guy look like straight out of an animation film ?

pepsodent-bache-jhoot-nahi-bolte

2009-05-08T01:39:00.000-07:00

one of the recent commercials. some where the kid goes, "enga ammuvukku enna vida en pallu mela thaan akkara jaasthi" (my mom cares more about my teeth than me).
I was laughing like hell (because i was watching it with my parents. who were asking me some real tough questions. other thing is, i was lying continuously.)

kunguma poovum konjum puraavum

2009-05-01T18:32:00.000-07:00

Fore word : definitely avoidable, dont get tempted by a few comedy sequences shown on the tv.

its a bit by bit copy of scenes and ideas from various movies. Right from the first scene where they show "Muttam" ooratchi ungalai varaverkiradhu. I decided against showing off by mentioning the sequences and their originals.

Slightly better is the second half in toothukkudi, as you might have read in other reviews or heard. But i doubt if even thats relative !

It was amusing to me because i watched it with my parents!

pick ? well, ok, the heroine character.

Ayan -

dont have that much to complain. but you dont miss anything if you dont see it.

and I think this is the first timely review i have written !

SMS ing

2009-04-23T01:16:00.000-07:00

after a long time

tickets booked.

dad - unbelievable

:)

Hope he doesn't get any wrong signals

don't they ?

2009-04-19T01:38:00.001-07:00

if some body you know refuses to donate blood, what will you do if some later time he needs blood ?
Some just get away with it, don't they ?

translated

2009-04-16T11:55:00.000-07:00

(from "akila akila")

"kaadhal idhu vaarthai alla vaakkiyam"

Love, is not a word, its a sentence (:P)

odum megangale

2009-04-12T11:21:00.000-07:00

oorellam thoongayilae vizhithirukkum en iravu.

cant help thinking about the song because i am working now, and its sunday almost 12. no, i am not the busiest/most overloaded person on the earth. I have my reasons,
but still it sucks.

vivaah

2009-04-05T02:14:00.000-07:00

Well, you think nice is nice ? good things are nice ? kindness is good ?
watch Vivaah - a conviction shattering nicest movie that you will ever get to watch.

A bag of sweets and you are supposed to keep eating them for almost three hours. Another over sweetened paayaasam. Can you ?

Chaachi character was the saving grace - not meant the "seayt" way.

But why am i posting it now ? when i saw the movie almost a week back? that may be called nidhaanama kovapadaradhu as one mr.sivam puts it. or i had other triggers. maybe, maybe ...

Well, Will stop here.

ENDURANCE TEST

There will be blood

2009-03-22T01:42:00.000-07:00

Great movie.
The following scenes might not make sense unless you see the movie.

lost in translation !

2009-03-21T22:38:00.000-07:00

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ham shaitaan

2009-03-03T21:34:00.000-08:00

roozi bood aasheqat boodam
az daste to kheyli raazi boodam
ammaa to ba'd sheytooni kardi
nazdike man nayaa to
boro, boro, delam toraa, toraa namikhaahad
digar, digar, namikhaaham bebinamat
bure bure ham ham ham shaitaan zara zara bachna re hamse

P.S : probably, Bala wants to book this title for his next film.

P.S 2: Smita, see label

compare and contrast

2009-02-28T13:17:00.000-08:00

you know ths song krishna mugundha from dasaavathaaram ? well, if you watch it, dint twitch your lips or smirk your face, let me know. Cos i like kamal.
well, the contrast is here -

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chumma

2009-02-23T02:31:00.000-08:00

- A still from "paiya".

its not good anymore.

2009-02-19T01:04:00.001-08:00

Well, i have a meeting today at 730pm. So i might not be able to play today. Tomorrow there is that party at Taj, which i wil anyway not attend cos i have another call lined up. Well, I think thats it. my volleyball playing days.

Mere maula..

2009-02-14T10:27:00.000-08:00

Sar utha ke maine to kitni khwahishein ki thi,
Kitne khwab dekhe the, kitni koshishein ki thi,
Jab tu rubaroo aaya, aaaa,
Jab tu rubaroo aaya, nazre naa mila paaya,
Sar jhuka ke ek pal mein, hooo
Sar jhuka ke ek pal mein maine kya nahi paaya...

Random

2009-02-12T00:28:00.000-08:00

#1) urinal trouble

There's not much vulgar content down there, but, here you go -

when we were in primary/high school, we had three urinals and when the interval/lunch bell rang, there were atleast 50 of us in the 10*8 space, standing in queues, and we dint mind sharing(with a friend already in front) to avoid the queue. But now, there are five urinals in the gents restroom in our floor. So max privacy at three current active users is achieved when the odd numbered one's are used. And avg current active users doesn't exceed 3 often. I can't understand when people choose to use the even numbered ones even when the odd ones are not occupied.
The only thing thinkable is to stand next to arun, and only if both of us are drunk.

#2) Quote from daily literary quote :

"There is no man, however wise, who has at some point of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory."
- Marcel proust

Related - "No man is rich enough to buy back his past" - Oscar wilde

truly inspiring

2009-02-11T03:10:00.001-08:00

"comprehensive victory" said rizi.
well. I will give it to him. It was. It has been like this for quite a while. There are very few instances when i last won a series against him.
But to think that this guy, just before a few years, used to paddle like a starter does, while i had already passed all those stages. Well, to get that dialogue(or rather
monologue - my response was tame in the sense there was no conviction in it.)
from him was truly inspiring.

Rizi, I know you will read this, and I will wait for your comment.

slumdog millionaire

2009-02-11T00:19:00.000-08:00

why doesn't anyone say anything about the brother character ? I mean, it was different, and it did have some character.

evade evade

2009-02-08T23:34:00.000-08:00

evade evade evade subramanyam

well

2009-02-05T10:31:00.000-08:00

the perfect side dish to beer at home is to take the fountain head, open a random page, and read through it. it will still make you introspect.

:)
happy birthday Smita.

:(
Its not good anymore

P.S:
:) and :( are unrelated.

Process definition for cooking

2009-02-02T23:21:00.000-08:00

Objective :

To get salt and spice right.

Reason :

y'days veg rice had neither salt nor spice. And to try to mix salt at the end only makes the rice more pulpy and hence a bit more disgusting.

MOP :

use the same spoon to add salt always. And do measure and remember the number of spoons added. So if you start with even a bad estimate, according to binary search algorithms, you will hit the right amount in a few iterations.

Notes :

only saani can eat y'day's rice without a word. Hail saani.

swimming !!

2009-02-02T00:44:00.000-08:00

is great. even when you dont know how to swim. Though people are watching. You are making absolutely comical moves with your arms and legs. Though the depth of water wont wet your neck if you stood up. Still it was great. Waiting for the next chance to get into water.

fight club

2009-01-28T22:46:00.000-08:00

Now i know why a blogger can't resist writing about it.

My pick - "Hey, you created me. I didn't create some loser alter-ego to make myself feel better. Take some responsibility!"

verbosity

2009-01-21T00:20:00.000-08:00

what is a nightly build?

R Ramakrishnan-a22686 [5:58 PM]:
There is a dev int branch - everybody should merge their work into the dev int after it is complete
R Ramakrishnan-a22686 [5:59 PM]:
and SCM will set config spec to pick up this branch and will build the whole pkg
R Ramakrishnan-a22686 [5:59 PM]:
so this bld will contain all the merged changes - more than one CR

SO its just a build with all the recent updates!!!

R Ramakrishnan-a22686 [6:00 PM]:
yeah

ok

and then this

2009-01-14T23:15:00.001-08:00

http://mediacenter.motorola.com/Content/Detail.aspx?ReleaseID=10546&NewsAreaID=2

What the fuck

2009-01-14T08:44:00.001-08:00

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2009-01/14/content_7396690.htm

Ouch

2009-01-13T00:17:00.000-08:00

http://pinkurippukal.blogspot.com/2009/01/blog-post.html

ullaththil nalla ulaam urangaadhenbadhu ...

2009-01-12T01:09:00.001-08:00

I never subscribed to the title line. But, after a long time, I am waking up in the middle of my sleep, for the past couple of days. I dont like it at all.

masha allah

2009-01-08T03:29:00.000-08:00

நெத்தியிலே பொட்டு வச்சி நெய்வரண சேலை கட்டி
மத்தியான வெயிலுக்குள்ளே ஒத்த வழியிலே ...

Excerpt

2009-01-06T00:34:00.000-08:00

from a conversation with my younger brother:

You start thinking about something. You start talking about it. To someone. And if the first conversation goes well, you set a precedant, a comfort zone. Probably you start off with a related topic everytime with the person though thats not what you are currently thinking. Then you start thinking about what you talked. A viscious cirle sets in.

Oh yeah, the last small part of my life (which was just the last week) was called playing brother. It involved eating three meals at times, returning home at time, listening more, talking less, talking as if its from experiences swelled over the years, etc etc. It was an eye opener.

Bhai : I know, I promised to spare you of this, but ...

Man

2009-01-05T09:32:00.000-08:00

the waiter serving unlimited meals at 11pm:

Do you want rice ?
No.
Little ?

Man, touch pannitta po.

Well,

2008-12-29T08:31:00.000-08:00

http://www.wikihow.com/Pick-Up-Men

The last few days

2008-12-27T23:59:00.001-08:00

Empty offices. No calls, thank christ. An impending dead-line seems to have no effect on me. I got to merge a few things tomorrow. I would have normally got very excited, and might have even thrown a few tantrums around. But I just dont seem to get excited about it. Good in a way.

One of the senior architects in our team always asks "how is life?" first thing when he meets someone. No good morning. He just smiles and asks this. I tell him whats up and whats down with work. Till one day when i realised the joke. Halfway through discussing some work, I stopped and said, you asked hows life and i am giving you a status report. He smiled and said almost all did the same and that's a joke he has been enjoying for years.

Wednesday, i shot myself in my foot, quite literally. I disabled the connection on which i was working. And then an angel from US offers to drive down and set it right. On his christmas eve. Well, that guy started it all.The pseudo vacation is going fine.

Thurday, x-mas day, i woke up at 230pm , ate, slept again at around 430 woke up at 830 and i think we saw a movie or was i reading a book ? anyways i slept again at around 12 and woke up the next morning at 9.

Friday, i worked for a few hours, played tt for an hour,worked again, stopped whatever i was doing at around 8 pm, and went to ghajini. Well, the movie was ok. Bhai feels the songs are cool, i am yet to feel it, but with arr, you got to hear the music again and again before eventually you start liking it. What i felt good about the movie (even in tamil) is the way he wants and exacts revenge. I am sure my mom is never gonna read this, But thats one of my primary criteria before getting married. I should be able to physically protect the girl from atleast two persons if not from a bigger gang. Well, you may understand now why i feel i have very little chances of getting married. Ouch, reality hurts.

Saturday, woke up at around 230 again, ate (Full meals at jubilee hills chutney - 110 rs - it was worth it), went shopping. I hadnt really indulged myself this year. I had bought a electic rice cooker and a violin last year, very impulsively.(It all comes swimming in now. I had once asked V to play the guitar. The answer came amidst giggles - "it's a voilin"). And i had also joined violin classes. And i had almost bought a watch for a few thousands. Is it already a year since all that happened?

Listen to Paarthale Paravasam - tamil Audio Songs at MusicMazaa.com

Well, last new years eve, Me, Cheta and naresh were sitting on top of a core dump. I was sulking and cheta understood. We went to gardenia and then we made naresh drink a couple a pegs of signature and went home. I know, this is kinda turning out to be a year end post, something i had decided to avoid. Me and my decisions!

But somehow i stayed away from it this year (I will wait for arun to say if i missed something). Anyways we three went, bought tt rackets. Set back by 3500 now :( . I hope somebody doesn't ask abdul khaadar-ukkum amaavaasaikkum enna sambandham. :P
Anyways, i damn it on the absence of volleyball players.

Well, saturday continues, I come to office to work, But my partner has already left, probably angered by my 3 hour delay. So i sit there idly because there is no mail from him. And then i watched "A wednesday". Whoa. It was enthralling. I droppped whatever plans i had for work.

And i went home with parcelled chapathis. I had half stopped at the wine shop to make it a perfect saturday. And then i dont know why, i just continued and came home. While taking a dish out of the kitchen, i saw it. A beer bottle that i hadnt opened last week. Well, if destiny had it this way. I had the beer, ate the chapathi, watched football, read for some time and slept.

Now that we are to it, I am reading "a fine balance". Its so far so good. Not essentially a page turner, not much masala, but its nice. (I am really happy about what i am reading these days. I am borrowing both the choices and books from S and V)

And now its sunday, i again woke up late, and came to office. Now there lies a pile of stuff to do. Baselining, building, Testing, merging. I am not starting it and instead made this post bulge and bulge.

the song - the backdrop

2008-12-22T06:25:00.000-08:00

Not the greatest song.(though i have a bias for veena)
Anyways, the backdrop is I can no longer hear music online for long periods since b/w usage is being monitored in my company. Thanks to the friendly guy who tipped me off, i promptly closed the window which had been playing to nobody from friday. This is one the few songs i have on my hard disk and i heard it all afternoon.

for God's sake

2008-12-18T01:24:00.000-08:00

YOU shouldn't have been her namesake.

near who ?

2008-12-14T20:10:00.000-08:00

I gave 200 rupees. He gave me back 70 rupees.

Isn't it 60 ?

No answer. It was 22:45. maybe its the night rate.

(Loudly this time) Isn't it 60 ?

Ledhu sir, 65.

From when?

Hasnt it been like this from the past fifteen days or so ?

Ahan, I bought it at 60 yesterday from you.

reluctantly handed me another 10 rupees.

Since you are a regular customer, sir.

astachamma

2008-12-13T09:25:00.000-08:00

a direct lift from "the importance of being earnest". The fact that the play was in our fifth standard syllabus might give you the hint of what to expect.

P.S: watch for the heroine swati.

random

2008-12-10T23:23:00.000-08:00

sweets at my cube:
The familiar "I am engaged mails". Raghu was more enterprising with his engagement mail subject. It read - "something something". and he gave some fruits i suppose. He is always the more enterprising of the lot.

Anyways someone said something about life throwing lemons. Sweets are better. So catching them without counting or thinking.

#2:
And i am continuing to have good luck with books and movies. The reluctant fundamentalist was good. And its just a 8-12 hour page turner. So much better.

The bourne supremacy was more light stuff. you know what to expect. Anyways it helped me kill all the time in the trains. I was living in trains that weekend.

And now Twilight is promising. It might end up as yet another M&B. but so far so good.

#3:
And project seven-five has started. More about it later. For now imagine that its a coup at nature, the struggle of a generation.

Infringement

2008-12-08T00:12:00.000-08:00

No Nothing about the bombay blasts. My personal(ok, professional) space is being infringed. And i dont know what to do about it.
link from R.Ka - http://www.codecomics.com/
jokes apart, If i dont gaurd my space, i will lose out. If i do gaurd my space, i will be called a non team player. Its a catch-22.
Fuck, why am i so cowardly ? i am afraid to do anything that s not in the books.

And yes, I do have my view, not on the blasts themselves, but on the hue and cry all over the tv, blogs, lunch tables.
There are several cases of ambulances getting stuck in hyderabadi traffic jams or people dying because of lack of medicines. There are so many things like this,lapses, which require no big intelligence, that lead to loss of lives. Because India is a poor country and because some politician couldn't care less and because somehow we never have a system to force this. I understand that living in hyderabad, I have a equal chance of dying of a bomb blast as i do of a road accident or in an ambulance in a traffic jam. Do you think it makes a difference as to how i die ?

I am not an egotist.I have no pride in saying that i am a particular national or relegion. I dont care whether an Indian killed Indian or a pakistani did. or a hindu/muslim scenario or such. I would be more angry on an administrator who lets down his fellow men than an enemy.

we dint have any pride in the way the country was run, did we ? In which case, i feel this sudden outrage in many blogs is vain emotional response of sudden patriotism.

random

2008-12-07T00:15:00.000-08:00

one night at the tea shop :

Nasty jokes doing the rounds. We are seven guys and a lady.

" I am one lady here" - lady protests to the talks.

Cmon, you are not too much of a lady.
(not said : you are in trousers, with seven guys, beyond ten pm, at a tea shop.)

If a donkey is in a stable, it still isnt called a horse.

(The person who had been absolutely silently til now - )
Well, Who is the donkey?

I don't know how funny it is to read this, but it was the classical vaaya koduthu vaangi kattikkara kind of scenario. We enjoyed it.

Kotha bangaaru lokam :

I stopped at 30 minutes. I continued. I stopped again at around 1 hour.
Mudiyala.

jeyam kondaan

Disclaimer : Watching it immediately after the previous mentioned film might have introduced some relative judgement.

One of the best hero characters(and the hero too) from the recent past. I am tempted to say, on the lines of pursuit of happiness.

The movie is a must watch.

P.S : dont get pissed off by the first fifteen minutes. The movie starts after that.

vaaranam aayiram

2008-12-02T00:38:00.000-08:00

The movie was good. The negative reviews only helped me to go in with a skeptic mind set and come out satisfied. Had the movie been any less, i would not have been able to watch it alone in a stinking theatre, myself fully drenched from a meaningless 3 km walk in the pouring chennai rains. I just saw the theatre, got that the movie is starting in 5 mins and bought a ticket and went in.

What impressed me in the film was the ninety days, surya, the lucky bastard that he is, gets with the girl. Ok, this, and the whole story as such, is a unrealistic, beautiful world, that we want to believe in.

Sometime back i had written about one young friend (http://odyssey-intoxicated.blogspot.com/2008/10/good-luck-guys.html). We were chatting today and he was going for a booze. I am bothered because he is an ardent surya fan and watched Jillendru quite a number of times. I am almost sure he must have liked the anjala song (Setting : Surya is a broken heart and the whole song is about him drinking and dancing kuthu"). Even i liked it. Even as i was watching it, I longed for a cigarette. The song is good, and awfully well placed. It compulsarily evokes a emotional response.
So did "ennai enakkae pidikka villai" in autograph. And for me, "poomaalai vaangi vandhaan" from Sindhu bhairavi. There are innumerable good songs of this genre.

But this trend of showing drinking and drugs as a solace to the broken heart is dangerous.

Verdict - watchable. If you are still skeptical, come out after the anjala song.

P.S : guess what the label means ?

one of those posts

2008-11-26T23:58:00.000-08:00

that you shouldnt read if you are in a good mood or not a pervert.

when you start looking through the political schemes in work around you, you get liberated. You no longer feel that you are cheated. Because they no longer surprise you.
I give in only cos i am too bored of conversations/arguments that are so artificial, the other person even may know that you know that he is not talking from his heart. maybe he doesnt realise that you know all the while what he is talking about.
Its at the same time demotivating. It makes me want to ditch work, cos I know I am being paid less, lets not spell out than what.
One part in me has been saying that quit and get lost. Other part says that stay and solve the puzzle.
i would be happy if i am given the same work with minimal chances of facing humans, very less interactions with anybody. Anyways let me try for another three months to whatever levels i can. Lets see.

back ground thought:
There is this movie, I dont know if i blogged about it before - A young girl, of about 10 or 12, has a habit of making diary entries. She is neglected by her busy parents, and is taken care of, pretty fondly at that, by a nanny. The nanny even takes the girl with her on movie dates with her boy friend. One fine day, this diary gets into the girls class mates hands. They find nasty entries about almost everybody. Sarcasm dripping entries. Her best friend finds a few targetted at her. Not sure what it was, but do remember that it was very hurting. She loses all her friends. Word reaches nanny and she too finds not so nice entries about herself. her boy friend, her relation etc. The girl apparently has taken a opposite-of-rose eyed glasses view on everything. Tbe nanny is sad. She quits.
The film, not sure here, ends with saying that the girl went on to become a successful writer.
Anyone knows this film ?

May be

2008-11-25T22:16:00.000-08:00

maybe it was the beer. may be because it was late in the night. maybe bcos i have started watching movies after quite some time. I am feeling good about whatever movie i watch.
I felt good about Fire.
Chetan today gave the ramayana connection to it. I knew that there is this urmila virah epic thats supposed to be good. But then i completely missed it when i saw the movie.
All that i noticed was nandita das was too good. maybe it was her first film.

Kahin Tho Hogi Woh

2008-11-25T00:32:00.000-08:00

Kahin tho
Kahin tho hogi woh
Duniya jahan tu mere saath hai

Jahan mein jahan tu aur jahann
Bass tere mere jazbaat hai
Hogi jahan subah teri
Palkoki kirano mein
Lori jahan chand ki
Sune teri baahon meinnn…..

Jaane naa kahan woh duniya hai
Jaane naa woh hai bhi ya nahi
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse
Itni khafa nahii

Jaane naa kahan woh duniya hai
Jaane naa woh hai bhi ya nahi
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse
Itni khafa nahii

Saasein khogayi hai kiski aahon mein
Mein khogayi hoon jaane kiski baahon mein
Manzilonse raahein doondthi chali
Khogayi hai manzil kahin rahon mein

Kahin tho
Kahin tho hai nashaa
Teri meri har mulaqaat mein
Hoton se hoton ko Chumthi
oo rehte hai hum har baath pee

Kehti hai fiza jahan
Teri zameenn aasmaan
Jahan hai tu meri hassi
Meri khushi meri jaannn…..

Jaane naa kahan woh duniya hai
Jaane naa woh hai bhi ya nahi
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse
Itni khafa nahi

Jaane naa kahan woh duniya hai
Jaane naa woh hai bhi ya nahi
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse
Itni khafa nahi

Jaane naa kahan woh duniya hai
Jaane naa woh hai bhi ya nahi
Jahan meri zindagi mujhse
Itni khafa nahi

What is it about raised hands?

2008-11-18T09:12:00.000-08:00

(Disclaimer : highly seductive adult content below :P)

God is in the rain:

God is in the rain - video

kaadhal virus

2008-11-18T00:37:00.000-08:00

Dug this album out of memory after a long time. I remember we had a casette in our hostel, which we utilised well.

vaan nilaa tharum oLi ivaL vizhi:

Listen to Kadhal Virus - tamil Audio Songs at MusicMazaa.com

The song has pure tamil lyrics. Not very uncommon. But rather uncommon in a fast paced song, right?

idi minnal mazhaiyilum
adikkindra puyalilum
uyir uLLa varaiyilum

happy birthday

2008-11-17T00:02:00.000-08:00

Vishnu : Hello ...
me : We are getting ready. We are on our way.
Vishnu : Ok. eppadi ivlo seekiram kelambittenga?
me : dont know. saran kulikka poittaan. naanum bhai um ready. arun kulikkanum. We will be there around 115-130.
side tone(arun) : happy birthday
me : oh, arun wants to say happy birthday to you.
vishnu : ada paavi...

Anyways, I will not be able to take chicken biriyani for a few more days. Not after Sorna's yesterday afternoon.
Damn you Vishnu, Why dont you get a birthday more often than a year ?

mot annual day - contd

2008-11-14T01:17:00.000-08:00

Ok, and so as expected, we went to drink.

cut - A bit of context
within our room mates, we have a very loose sense of money. we go to a hotel, if somebody has cash, he pays. If somebody doesnt he almost always offers to pay by card. And we do try to equal out, but nobody really cares. Well, once when i needed big money, i got a blank cheque from one and what was his current balance.

Cut - back to yday.
We had a couple of pegs and then this guy immediately offered to pay. I offered to share half. Immediately the third person in the table gave a huge thing on how they never shared, but only one person always paid. This guy is pretty close and we drink together often. But the person paying - this was my first time we came together and probably the last. So i politely said what i thought - i may never get a chance to pay for you again. The third person is still cooler and tried to solve the problem by saying "oh bud, we need to plan another pretty fast now". I thought it was over. Well, my friend(lets call him that) again started giving fundas about paying and things. Now cmon, we have been through such stages. I tried to tell him the story(the first cut) to drive that there is nothing wrong with sharing. I tried. He was like "oh, thats your room. but here ,," . I cut him there with a bad word as i can do only when i am drunk and told that "i dont care what he talks and i wont listen". I think he should have come back to senses and was trying to say the same things in a more formatted format, and i kept saying my above sentence. And then the guy told me that he wants to stay back in my home. one part in me, maybe the childish one, wanted to say " now that you subscribe to a different school of sharing philosophies ...". I stopped and i said he could. I thought not linking relationships to sharing bills was just a maturity which this guy hasnt yet come to.
But later when he told me he was thinking whether to go home or come with me, i said "suit your convenience." he dint come. I under estimated him. just keep it up and we will be fine.

mot annual day - contd

2008-11-13T23:20:00.001-08:00

open floor - everybodys dancing. And then this lady(a friendly,sisterly tamil lady) pulls me in. She dances. Everybody seems to be able to shake a limb. My one other tamil friend (tamils are the worst i have seen in dancing so far, in these colleges and companies ,they seem to me the most conscious) - even he is kuthu-fying. slow tune ? slow kuthu. fast tune ? same kuthu fast. hindi/telugu/tamil? kuthu. i mean, if you know, almost all tamil guys can at the least do this kuthu-dance. There is a genre of music called kuthu-pattu. I tried. I couldn't. The mot-asia head and indian head are dancing. Like you raise your hands and then start standing on one of your legs alternatively. Well, they atleast did that.
I stood in one side and clapped nodding my head , what i thought was, rhythmic.

motorola tech day/annual day

2008-11-12T22:53:00.000-08:00

Probably the last as an unified company. Else Sanjay Jha is a failure.
Feels bad.

ouch

2008-11-12T22:15:00.000-08:00

30 rupees tip for a 2400 bill. and then order a curd rice. 110 rupees. gave a 100 rupees note and asked to pick up the rest from the tip. the waiters were still courteous. tip becomes 20.
come home. see that you dint give the lighter back to the waiter. standard gas lighter. 20 rupees.
Ouch.

my igoogle page on 11/11

2008-11-11T05:38:00.001-08:00

simple questions

2008-11-11T01:27:00.000-08:00

When will the next seven days end ?

random

2008-11-06T21:37:00.000-08:00

Food keeps me going -
Its only afternoon, and I have already had two meals - one at 9 and other at 1. and looking good for a third. Some work also done. This day seems to be working out. Infact i liked the cafe nandini vada so much that i thought about changing my gtalk status message to "food keeps me going".

arun keeps going -
And i had actually bought a couple of extra dosas and vadas for the guys at home. Arun came out of the bathroom and was ironing out his shirt. I was just then having my morning cigarette and reading paper. Arun offered to drop me as he anyway will take time for eating the dosa. I was worried that i had to drop a just lit cigarette. So now i continued. And then arun went to kitchen to pick up the dosa. It wasnt there. The maid had disposed it thinking that it was the previous days'. And then i entered the bathroom to wash my stinking self. And then arun started to office.

kotha bangaaru logam -
music review:
I wondered if the producer or the director went to the music director with a happy days music copy and asked him to clone the feel. I liked most of the songs, yet most of them made me feel that I have heard the tune already. Maybe its only me.

Note : The song posted is not necessarily the best of the lot.

Adhiradikkaara machan -

Even if you are rajni, isn't there a time to beat up baddies ? Just before the song, shreya is in a white saree and all that.
Damn your sense shankar.