Fear Not .........

Merry chirstmas !

2010-12-23T15:37:00.000+05:30

crisis or hardship - it's the best crucible to ..

2010-07-21T09:24:00.001+05:30

Context:

I heard few comments on Michel Jackson, saying he was innocent and was vilified; many think it’s all due to his bad childhood. I have nothing for or against him. But I wanted to share on two people’s lives, which had terrible adulthood and childhood . This is not so that you may imitate them, but just for your info; sometimes some info gives us new perspectives.

Andy Grove – Intel ex-CEO

Born into Jewish family – survived near death experience from scarlet fever - hearing loss – hunted by Hitler– Father “disappeared” – Mother raped by Soviets – hunted by Soviets and communists - He had lived 20 years under murderous oppression, surviving by always remaining alert to the possibility that even a simple attempt to purchase a loaf of bread could cause him to disappear along with many other young Hungarians - immigrated from Austria to the United States with the help of International Rescue Committee – taught English himself – few more yrs in college – worked in Fairchild – joined Intel as 3^rd employee – Became CEO in 1987 – Saved Intel from near death by Japanese competition – Pushed Intel into microprocessors from memory chips – Intel Market cap grew from $4billion to $197billion during his tenure- Though with several 100 millions of wealth, He lived modestly, eschewing many of the trappings of great wealth and power.

Biography

Business Week

What if there was no Hitler or Soviets or Grove was born in a peaceful country? He would have been a local journalist or a chemistry professor.

John. D. Rockefeller - Standard Oil Co

Father was a philanderer & absentee- Cheats even his children - Fathers comment "I cheat my boys every chance I get. I want to make ‘em sharp." - Mother struggles to raise children - she taught her sons that "willful waste makes woeful want" - he did his share of the regular household chores, and earned extra money raising turkeys, selling potatoes and candy - @16 age got his first job - from his first pay started giving 6% - 10% for charity - started doing business with small savings - slowly moved into oil industry, borrowed & reinvested - Formed Standard Oil Co - ruthless businessman - Controlled 80-90% of oil refining of the world. Wealth was close to 1 billion $ in 1911 – yet was a faithful church attendee, taught Sunday school, and was a church trustee, clerk, and occasional janitor - Later Standard Oil was split into multiple companies by govt, since it became a monopoly – After the split each company became big on its own - Today the child companies are worth trillions of dollars(Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Conoco, part of BP etc) - his own wealth would have been 400billion$ in today’s dollar value, 8 times that of Bill Gates. – He gave away most of his wealth to charities, missions, and foundations. Wikipedia

this is one forward mail, which made me to think for a ling time, sharing it here in my blog...thanks to the sender of that mail.

tweets..

2010-03-07T17:36:00.002+05:30

for 2nd week continously eating only vegetarian #lent..and now planning 2 watch a mega serial in english 'lost' & zzz. no power cuts pls.
husbands learning cooking notes in twitter, trying to surprise their women for womens day
i think after todays game against england (sure defeat expected), it is best to change national game to something else #embrassing #hockey
is it going to be 'hurt locker' or 'avatar' ? #oscar
video for art lovers, german invasion of ukraine in WW2 depicted in sand art.. http://bit.ly/180qYw
@yathirigan //LockStockAndTwoSmokkingBarrels// 1st time hearing thala...will chk it. now downloading 'heist' ..#robbery theme movies
@yathirigan "UsualSuspects" awesome movie, it gets boradcasted in TV here often...lot of gunpower..lot of blood.. :-))
@yathirigan almost from the start, it was clear the hostage situation was not going to get bloody..certain scenes spoiled the suspense
"inside man" cudnt understd the movie clearly...bank robbery subject, no great suspense in the movie,its good @mu75
@mu75 he he i am least bothered on these actresses, but lot bothered on these cultural and moral policing going around..beating stuffs
@mu75 hmm i got that in mail...so does this also involve "bringing disrepute to tamil culture" why not advocates petition..@vjshankar
watching 'inside man' and why does this movie has "chaiya chaiya" song as soundtrack....surprised. #movie
Forbes’ top philanthropists from India are all women http://bit.ly/a9mvEU
RT @padakali: 'yeshtu' can also be used for numbers like 'how many people'. 'yeshtu jana'. more on http://www.padakali.com/?i=1001
womes reservation bill...national parties vs regional parties showdown will happen, wonder where will DMK stand on this...
mitchel johnson escapes with just fine, after head butting styris... http://bit.ly/csRvNp #cricket

Sachin's Appraisal !!!!!!

2010-03-03T07:17:00.002+05:30

200 Runs / 147Balls / 25X4’s / 3X6’s

Agree you have done GREAT…………..
BUT BUT BUT BUT

25 x 4s = 100

3 x 6s = 18

It implies that you have done 118 Runs in 28 Balls.

And 12 x 2s = 24

58 x 1s = 58

It means you have done all 200 Runs in only 98 balls

So you have wasted 147-98 = 49 balls

Considering only 1 run scored on each of these balls you could have earned 49 valuable RUNS FOR OUR TEAM
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MANAGER’S COMMENT FOR SACHIN: So you only met the expectations and not fall under Exceeds Expectations/Demonstrates Excellence (though anyone of our team could not do it) and

Your rating is 3

( thanks - forward mail )

gone MAD !!!!

2010-01-27T21:04:00.001+05:30

Alistair 'Cook' (eng) - Someone who cooks food

grant 'Flower' (zim) - Reproductive organ of angiosperm plants

Andy 'Flower' (zim) - The period of greatest prosperity

Graham 'Onions' (eng) - An aromatic flavourful vegetable

Ryan 'sidebottom' (eng) - side+ The lower side

Ross 'Taylor' (nz) - who stitches cloth (tailor)

Salman 'Butt' (pak) - the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking

Cameron 'White' (aus) - some colour

Ian 'Bell' (eng) - bell

Ashwell 'Prince' (SA) - A male ruler or head of a principality

Dickie 'Bird' (eng) -Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers.

'Cricket' - Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises

'Duck' out - domestic bird.

David 'Shepherd' - someone who keeps the sheep together in a flock

if and only if you are as crazy as me about cricket, do add your discoveries.

MEA-Tharoor Tweet.

2009-12-30T12:12:00.005+05:30

backdrop.
david headley was an ex-convict, who travelled many times to pakistan after 9/11/2001. he starts visiting india from 2006-2008 number of times on a multiple entry business visa. now he was presumed to have planned various terror attacks, including mumbai attack.

ok now.
1. an ex-convict, and a person who is on a FBI watchlist, how did he managed to get easy multiple entry VISA into india.
2. his various visits to pakistan, should'nt it have triggered an alert to ministry of external affairs (MEA) while issuing VISA.
3. his VISA papers went missing in embasy and took a long time to re-appear(not sure if correct paper has re-appeared).
4. when Dubai market crashed, many keralites and other workers were laid-off via SMS, and across india various channels showed how indian workforce are exploited and the poor conditions they live in.

now what does minister of state(MoS) for external affairs do. does he explain any of these goofups in his tweet or twitter.no.he remained silent on twitter about all of these issues, never ever uttered any word. finally when he tweeted on MEA policy, it was right away blaming visa restrictions that was ensured for security purposes. reason he cited

26/11 attackers never had any VISA--

this statement straight away looked utter foolish, specially becasue there is increasing evidence now that 26/11 "planners" had entered india using VISA. if VISA restriction was severe then, may be 26/11 would not have been planned in the first place.

business is affected because of this--

terrorist attack are not made only for killing civilians, it is also made to crash the business interest of the country, to stop MNC from investing in , make the country a financially instable place. perhaps this was the reason many attacks are made in mumbai, the financial capital of india.
so business interest is very closely assosciated with security. what use in giving unrestricted VISA to foreigners, which also allows certain loopholes and ultimately result in attack on the financial capital.

my opinion, MEA is one ministry which is not in great hands now, including SMK.

Lost symbol

2009-12-19T11:04:00.003+05:30

Dan Brown novels have always courted controversy, like davince code,and certain sections of angels and demons, which is an absolute thriller. in both these works there will be outright attack on medevial catholic chruches and christianity in general. now with his latest work 'last symbol' there is little or no attack on catholics. and this i think has made the book a total flop(based on my reading only). there is simply logic less explanation for certain main events like CIA running behind a certain villain to stop the villain from releasing a video, and the CIA takes this mission as though a mission to stop the entire world from getting destroyed. the story dragged and dragged and dragged and i took a fair 2-3 weeks to complete. caution made to readers,please do not attempt this one, i already ignored one person caution and had to endure through this difficult reading.

another year is coming to end, recession is receeding, there are signs of recovery, india already has posted 7.9% growth last quarter when alalyst and experts around the world predicted only 6-6.5 growth in india.

i seem to be hearing "oru kal,oru kannadi" song from SMS movie a lot. dont come into any conclusion on "oru heartbreak" for me. i have very few songs in my system and amongst that this song is the best.

finaly one quiz question, how many states will be in india 5 years from now ?

This one goes out to...

2009-11-11T23:02:00.000+05:30

i request request request request .....to hear the below song. easily the best song i have heard in recent times. do comment if you had liked the song.

"We weren't born to follow....." by jon bon jovi.

We weren't born to follow
Come on and get up off your knees
When life is a bitter pill to swallow
You gotta hold on to what you believe
Believe that the sun will shine tomorrow
And that your saints and sinners bleed
We weren't born to follow
You gotta stand up for what you believe........

A weak chirping sound.

2009-10-26T21:33:00.010+05:30

coming off from work, started using social networking sites, i was one of the late entries in orkut and was amazed how all friends who i never hoped to meet where there right inside my machine,scrapping me messages, sharing photos.wow..really cool.

then one of my friend introduced to blogging. it was instant. blogging was like writing diary, i kept writing,writing,writing without caring how many people ever read my blogs. solitary comments came now and then, asking me to keep writing.sometime i read back the old blogs and relive if there are any special moments i have written and also gets amazed sometimes on my poor writing skills.

one thing i noticed in blog world is tamil blogging group,the group was a very interactive group, and i also noticed that tamil bloggers took special care in encouraging new bloggers to write by giving them awards, referring blogs within blogs. acknowledging good writing. and also somehow all bloggers looked like close friends sharing all good and bad news amongst readers.sometimes forming a group and helping people financially and morally on crisis situation. but along with these comes the negative part, you will see few comments, like writing bad about one personally, also some even writing a full post just to attack someone personally, and sometimes even ending up in body blows, hospital admissions (even these body blows and hospital admissions will be published in blogs). and there are few people who feel like writing whatever in mind is a very good form of writing and use bad words very liberally on a public forum. here i got a bit cautious, i like writing in tamil and i like arguing without any purpose (mostly to irritate the author on the subject), hot topics in tamil blogging will always be on religion divide(another matter of concern).i wish to read and write cautiously(to avoid body blows) more on tamil blogs.

the latest addiction which is stopping me from publishing my weekly blogs, twitter, i was attracted to twitter mainly because twitter was always the first to report a breaking news across the globe.it was twitter that reported president obama called kayne a 'jackass'. being a news maniac i signed up to twitter and found that it is actually a micro blogging site. to be simple you can blog in 140 words. and if you follow people correctly, just login to twitter and you will know all that you like to hear and read on internet on a single screen, many business are using twitter now, recruitment agencies are also using twitter for recruitment.if you wish to follow me you can follow at http://twitter.com/Sammy_I
after starting to use twitter,i hardly login to my orkut or facebook account.hopefully my blogging is not as much affected like orkut.

october kitchadi ...

2009-10-11T18:28:00.008+05:30

weeks after obama was severely snubbed in denmark, thanks to olympics 2016. another european country, norway decided the guy is not bad after all and decided to offer the highest honour award one can imagine. mr.president was very gracious and humble in accepting the award.internet was set ablaze when the news came out, there was one comment i liked the most. //Fourth US President to win a Nobel, first to get one BEFORE he does anything//.

i must admit i am starting to enjoy the champions league t20 tournament happening in india, only because in the first week all the indian teams were dusted and brought to ground, when i imagine the amount of money spent on indian teams, and compare the same with other teams. does money destroy talent ? . in soccer i guess the most costliest teams are invariably table toppers. whereas in cricket mumbai, kolkatta..costliest teams have always fought only for wooden spoon. does this mean these business guys did not know where to put the money? or cricket is a game where you can have bunch of talented players and still lose.

two IPL teams have apparoached steve waugh for a coaching assignment, the guy very famous for his social cause and charity work in kolkataa declined the offer, only because he didn't want his charity work to be affected, i am not here to compare him with other indian players who only come in news for the record's they are setting in marketing deal's. charity is one thing you are not supposed to compare or speak out loud, a fmaous phrase for charity "your left hand should not know what your right hand has given" yet, for me guys like steve waugh are real cricketing legends.

there was a quiz i asked in my earlier post, answers are given below.
1. photo of udham singh when he was arrested in england. he ws the person who assasinated dyer for avenging jalian wallabagh massacare. he was also closely assosciated with bhagat singh.

2. the paper photo was blank editorial of indian express when emergeny was declared by indhira gandhi.

3."Babe" Didrikson Zaharias. In the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics, she won two gold medals in the javelin and the 80m hurdles event. In High jump category, the judges, however, disallowed her jumping style (jumping over headfirst) in the final tie breaker jump. And she was stripped of Gold medal for high jump. But strangely she was allowed to keep the silver medal. Pic 3 shows The Babe Didrikson Zaharias Museum in Beaumont which is also the chamber of commerce welcoming center.

4.Brand Obama (connection)
Yes Pecan’ in support of Obama(Yes We Can) during his campaign.Pepsi had temporarily changed its logo in the U.S to support Obama.Ikea too launched an ‘Embrace the Change’ campaign inspired by Obama

Tamil Blog

2009-10-08T22:12:00.005+05:30

native tamilians are welcome to read my new blog. henceforth this blog will be used only for english writing.

http://maduraitrichy.blogspot.com/

Rukhsana Kauser - Jhansi Rani

2009-09-30T21:31:00.004+05:30

..its time we celebrate bravery acts done by common people, armed LeT millitant who has been active on that area for 5 years was killed by this young courageous girl and her family.

JnK governor had already refered her name for galantry awards. hope more coverage is given to this single act, may be it will influence common man to fight against terrorism.

to read more http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8279929.stm

Quizzing week...

2009-09-26T16:59:00.012+05:30

this week i got into a quizing tsunami, let me explain how it all started, last friday i was introduced to an ethical hacker and a quizzer, and it was easy for me to ineract with him in the second category, so it all started with who is vice president of india question, and went on to more advanced questions. it continued even in office, i was getting close to 50-60 mails daily on the week asking some quiz questions. participants in this mail contest were from different companies like BoA, hexaware,oracle and quiz was mostly dominated by hexawarian's.

also we decided to participate in a quiz competition organized by a famous business institute, it was a online quiz which starts at 10pm and closes at 11pm. but unfortunately for the level of knowledge i had, mostly i was found working on the quiz till...midnight 12.30-1.00 am. and sometimes even the next day. there was a business quiz, sports and entertainment and india quiz. our hacker friend came out in flying colours in sports quiz, whereas i was able to crack some questions in india quiz. business quiz was a complete failure.

i am going to post some questions for readers to try to crack questions, obviously i expect the gang with whom the answer was already shared not to answer here.

1.significance of this picture, (india quiz)

2.significance of this picture (india quiz)

3. connect the pict(sports quiz)

4. connect, to something entire world witnessed(business quiz)

short trip..short blog

2009-09-23T19:43:00.020+05:30

this is the third time in as many consecutive years i am visiting kerala. this trip was interesting on various aspects, especially on planning, i think the planning started 2 months back., further reading of this post might not be interesting for many readers, yet in the habit of recording all my trips, i am continuing on my writing.

ok.the plan was to halt at palakaad and go on trekking expedition to a falls, visit a dense forest, and also to visit one of the various dams surrounding the city.

myself,subbu, mani,stanley...before starting to board the train went for a quite party at a very famous hotel chain in t-nagar chennai, this is one hotel chain i like the most in various cities i have visited, Quality INN. but unfortunately for us we found one small dead cockroach in one of the dishes served, the manager,chef..was summoned to our table. and we agreed not to make much of fuss, the hotel management in reciprocation decided to shower us with various main course as complementary dishes."on the house sir", said the waiter smiling.
there was a coincidence, earlier in afternoon we had watched a movie called 'ninaithaale innikum' in satyam and the movie started with same scenario of hero finding cockroach in food..and fighting with management.

ok. train journey, as usual involved creating nuisance for co-passengers, surprisingly this group of friends decided to sleep very early by 2.00 am(less nuisance,happy co-passengers) and there was a person called mani, who is also a gold medalist in loyola college, at this time mani found that he had lost his mobile, and just when we were thinking of pulling the chain and file FIR in whatever juridisction the train stops, another brilliant friend managed to track the lost mobile, co-incidence no.2. this friend prasanna is also a gold medalist from st.joseph college trichy.

well by now you would have imagined the gold company of friends i was travelling with in this trip. as train reached coimbatore, attention turned to thangaraj, thangs as he is called,is from coimbatore and took everyone to a restaurant in coimbatore,he says that was the best restaurant in the city, given the level of knowledge everbody had about the city, everybody agreed and food was really great.subbu somehow in this trip was having a very high blood pressure partly because he was the official tour organiser and partly due to stanley and myself.

ok. time to introduce other members in the trip, there was a hacker,a model and 'mari mari' aravind..along with prasana who was already introduced in this blog, this is the first time i am meeting these guys, and i thoroughly enjoyed the fun we had together, not sure if guys felt the same way.

i am yet to elaborate on whether the plan i mentioned in the starting of this post materialized or not. if you are still interested in reading about that, you can read it here ..courtesy thangs.

tharoor tweet....

2009-09-18T17:06:00.005+05:30

Quesioner-"Tell us minister, next time you travel to Kerala, will it be cattle class?"
Shashi Tharoor- "Absolutely, in cattle class out of solidarity with all our holy cows"

since i am getting into a holiday mood in a friday afternoon, i decided to write this in office itself, lets go deep inside this supposedly funny statement. what this statement might hold for in his future political innings. there are 2 important words that demands attention in his reply.

"Cattle class".
minister called economy class in airlines as cattle class, referring to the crowd, and space between co-passengers, you see in a economy class. he later clarified he was actually blaming the airlines for boarding passengers like this. did he really ?
any shrewd politician opposing Tharoor, would say minister had called the majority indians who usually go by economy class, and other indians who still dream of flying..as CATTLES..some might even start saying minister called the working class people as dogs...and it will go on and on.. even i feel like a cattle when thinking of travelling in economy class.
next important word.

"holy cows".
before analyzing this word, we should rewind the events that happened in that week, madam sonia decided to fly by economy class, as usual it became a breaking news in all televisions..the next day more breaking news...rahul gandhi decided to travel by chair car in shatabdi express. one television sent their reporter along with rahul, and the event was again beamed across the country. now we all know for the entire congress community sonia and rahul are the most holiest posession...madam still is one of the powerful women in the world and rahul is the prince in waiting.
now co-relating shashi Tharoor "holy cow" comment to madam and rahul's austerity is not going to be a big headache for any critic or reporter or congressmen. this comment can also be linked to pranab...most senior person in congress who in the first place asked Tharoor to follow austerity.

ok what does the man himself who made the statement say. his twitter explanation was something like holy cows in most dictinoary a set of holy rules. again not satisfactory reply.

Shashi Tharoor says he is a diplomat for all his life, if i had the privilege of interacting with Tharoor i would first ask him to read meaning of the word "diplomat" in his own dictinoary. hopefully that should teach him how to tweeeettttttt....

kitchadi -YSR

2009-09-04T20:34:00.006+05:30

..not a good week for AP, their charismatic leader has perished in an tragic accident. i have read several news now that, how he gave importance to farmers and agriculture sector. in my opinion Indian politics is very simple, if you are ready to take care of the farmers or rural sector, you will never be in danger of losing. Chandrababu naidu , SM krishna, these leaders were too friendly with IT sector and spent most of their time in IT revolution, they created lakhs of opportunity in IT still the very next election they faced they lost.somewhere they forgot about the farmers plight.
2 days after the accident, emotions and sentiments are still running high in AP, over 60 people have died either by suicide or heart attack now. sentimental idiots.

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...all weekends have become sports weekend for me now, just recently i
noticed that i am getting close to 8 sports channel in my TV. last 2 weeks have been spent watching some late night English premier league matches, F1 force India podium finish, and on Monday Nehru cup final,which India won. one of the major event i failed watching live in the past weeks was 100m,200m world record by bolt. they say next major event for bolt is commonwealth games, i am planning to visit Delhi to watch the event.

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sania mirza received "double bagle" in US open, for those of you who doesn't know what double bagle, it is losing 6-0,6-0. a very very rare scoreline in major events. usually when we play tennis at my office, and if something like this scoreline comes, we used to give some charity point, so that the opponent is not too embarrassed.
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movies...if somebody can suggest a good movie i will see that movie and write review . none of the movie i am seeing are worth writing reviews this week.

J

2009-08-21T20:41:00.015+05:30

this week we will see about alphabet 'J'

Jinnah.
you go to a kid or guy like me in current generation and say the word 'partition' you most likely end up having conversation on how to partition your hard disk in computer, well 80 years ago the word 'partition' meant partition of undivided british ruled india, and the man behind it all was jinnah, BJP leader sometimes have praised jinnah, as he had opposed congress before independence. Advani once told jinnah was secular, and faced the wrath of RSS,he even cried on national TV when speaking about the incident. the other senior leader who had watched all these does not seem to have learnt the lesson.

Jaswant Singh.
our jaswant singh went a step further, after praising jinnah, he went on to criticize nehru and sardar vallabhai patel for partition..
just in case you do no not know how important he was for BJP, remember kandahar, IC-814, terrorist were released for exchange of hostages. it was jaswant singh who went with the terrorist to secure the release of hostage. now our jaswant singh did some historic research and writes a book about jinnah, he was promptly thrown out of the party.

Jayalalitha
in tamil if a lady is un-married you are supposed to call her 'selvi', if married you should call her 'tirumathi'. now you might be wondering why i am taking tamil lessons. well our CM karunanidhi has called jayalalitha 'tirumathi' obviously refering to her past or god knows what..but i think this is certainly very low of an leader or CM to call someone like this. (sorry guys..since this post is about 'J' alphabet i have to include this)

Jonathan Trott
after KP, another South african has come to haunt aussies in the ashes, it was a debut match for jonathan trott, a decider for the series, a crumbling pitch, but still the guy managed to hit a ton on his second innings.

kitchadi

2009-08-16T19:27:00.005+05:30

actually writing kitcadi is becoming very easy for me. just try to remember the top news that happened in the week, add some opinion of yours and write it..ok this week was really boring, i got caught myself in a marathon project meeting on friday evening, add to that, i missed the DJ night that happened in my office for I-day celebration. however i did managed to attend other celebrations that happened in the afternoon, courtesy lunch break.

//4 swine flue death in bangalore //
still i have not seen much panic in the city yet,agreed some schools have panicked, closed down, but i have not seen anybody in my office with surgical mask. however when you come to public transpaort, you will find IT girls using their duppatah as surgical mask, i think their fashion statement does not allow surgical mask,guys in public transport are scared a lot, you will find atleast 3-4 guys with absolutely no symptoms wearing mask. from what i have seen the infections have spread a lot. the proportion of infection to the number of death reported is still less. somewhere i read that even though there is no medicine to prevent the infection, over a period of time, human body itself will build its own defense mechanism against this virus.

//I-day headlines ///
what will be the headlines in a i-day ?, obviously there will be a presidents message on the eve, and prime minister message after flag hoisting. neither of these were top news in india. gues what, sharukh khan hogged all the headlines, apparently sharukh khan name flashed a red alert in a US airport,and state homeland questioned him for 2 hours. our Don got p****d off, wonder why there was so much fuss about questioning him for 2 hours. agreed he is a global icon, agreed he represents indian entertainment industry. without any offense to srk fans, we all know how bollywood industry was connected to D-company and underworld some time back, and how some have funded it. media went overboard to make a fuss, one channel reported people all over india are hugely upset on independence day for what happened to SRK.

kichadi over....will be continued next week.

celebrity sport

2009-08-09T16:21:00.007+05:30

current faces of indian cricket, harbhajan and yuvraj have given out statements on how it is unacceptable for them as cricketers in india to sign the clause. nobody seems to convince them, initially mahesh bhupathi and sania mirza tried to send a message to them, they spoke about how as a sportsmen they had a moral obligations to be part of the system like this, and how they didnt have any objection to that. then came Abhnav bhindra, the only person to have won a individual olympic gold, well abhinvav went a step further, he told basically the issue is to do with the lack of knowledge on the clause for cricketers and went on to gave a short guide on how to folow the WADA gudielines without much fuss, and how he has been following it. then came badmiton sensation 19 year old saina nehwal, well i liked her comments a lot, her comment came immediatly after yuvraj comments came on how it affects his time with family and how they are much superior,in terms of the number of times they are on foreign tour, saina straight away rubbished the theory of cricketers spending less time with family and hence cannot be compared with other sportsmen.
now our crciketers who are still thinking themselves as a special breed of sportsmen,are thinking who are these guys to advice them, they had easily insulted president of india and had get away with that, they had rebuffed sports minister number of times, now who are these other sportsmen to advice them.

i have read various forums supporting cricketers stand, most of the arguments would be

//in a calendar year they paly a lot, unlike other sportsmen, they get very little time with family,//
this was the reason abhinav bindra gave a special guide on how to follow, he goes on to explain howit will easily blend into your daily routine and in short he says ""... you’re ready to pee when you get up in the morning and that’s all they would ask for.”

//BCCI accepts any in-competition testing,but outside the competitionit is not acceptable for them //
of all the arguments this sounded the most childish one for me, we all know cricketers are prone to injuries, waht if these injured players take some banned drugs to come out of these injuries fast, i think this was the precise reason out of competition testing have started in world sports.

//crciket is a skilled game, performance enhancing drugs cannot be used to influence the game///
we play test matches for 5 days, bowlers bowl long spells for 10-15 overs without break,batsmen sometime bat continously for an entire day, i cannot see this happening in many other sports in the world. if that is not enough why does a shooter like abhinav has to go through all the torture of drugs testing, what does a olyimpic shooter can benefit from drugs, or how tiger woods, who had already signed up with WADA can benefit

//cricketers are natinal treasure, they are at security risk,if they are to tell about their whereabouts to WADA //
this is the single most valuabe reason that BCCI would be fighting, already sachin and dhoni are terrorist target for some time now. may be they need some excpetion.

whereabouts clause is controverisal accpeted, but there are different ways to protest, you dont come out and show yourself as a superior breed when compared to other sports in india. few years back it was dravid, ganguly and sachin who were the face of cricket in india, now we have harbhajan, yuvraj and dhoni...

ரிச்சர்ட் கீர்

2009-08-07T19:44:00.010+05:30

ரிச்சர்ட் கீர்..... ரொம்ப பிரபலமான ஹாலிவூட் நடிகர், ஒரு ரெண்டு வருஷம் முன்னாடி இந்திய வந்தார், AIDS விளிப்புனர்வுக்காக வந்தவர், கொஞ்சம் உணர்ச்சிவசப்பட்டு சில்பாவிடம் சில சில்மிஷம் பன்னார், அட உடனே ரொம்ப கற்பனை பண்ணாதீங்க, விழா மேடை ஒன்றில் அம்மணியை ரெண்டு சுத்து சுத்தி கன்னத்தில் பச்சக், நம்ம ஊரு செய்தி தாள்கள், மீடியா விடுவார்களா ? படத்தையும், வீடியோவையும் போட்டு போட்டு காமிச்சார்கள், கலாசார காவலர்கள் (moral police), அய்யகோ நெஞ்சம் பொறுக்குதில்லையே சொல்லிட்டு , கொடும்பாவிலாம் எரிச்சு, கடைசில நிதீமன்றத்துல ஒரு கேஸ் போட்டு, நீதிமன்றமும் அவர் கைது பண்ண சொல்லி அரச்ட் வார்ரன்ட் பிரப்பிச்சிது, இன்னும் கூட அந்த வார்ரன்ட் இருக்குங்க, அவர் இந்தியாவுக்கு அடுத்த தடவை வந்தா கண்டிப்பா கைது பண்ணுவாங்க, பொது சேவை,விழிப்புணர்வு சொல்லிட்டு அடிகடி இந்தியா வந்தவர், அதற்கு அப்புறம் இந்த பக்கம் தலை வச்சு கூட பார்கலை ....

அட இப்போ எதுக்குங்க பழைய விஷயத்தை கிளரிகிட்டு, இதை நான் எழுதிறேனு நீங்க நினைக்கலாம், விஷயம் இருக்குங்க, இங்க மற்றொரு ரிச்சர்ட் கீர், உருவாகிட்டு இருக்காருங்க..
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ஆமாங்க இவர் தாங்க இந்தியாவின் ரிச்சர்ட் கீர் !

இந்த படம் செய்திகளில் ரொம்ப வெளிய வரவில்லை, எனக்கு தொடர் மின்னஞ்சலில் வந்தது, கொஞ்சம் சுவாரஸ்யமா இருந்தது, அதாங்க என்னுடைய பதிவில் போட்டேன் வேற எந்த காரணமும் இல்லை ....

spirit of cricket

2009-08-05T20:57:00.012+05:30

..if somebody asks me about best photographs captured in a cricket pitch, i would rate this right at the top. what is so special about this, read on.

Imagine India vs pakistan match in a worldcup match, animosity and importance of the match will be similar when it comes to ashes series, some say it is the mother of all test series. here it was england fighting a very hard batlle and just when they thought they had the match in hand, Aussies last wicket pair put up a tough fight, for almost 10-15 overs bret lee took several body blows, faced fiery bowling from harmison, flintoff and co.

this match happened in edgbaston ground, in birmingham. second match of the 2005 ashes series which aussies were leading 1-0. flintoff played a big part in the match, made significant batting scores in both innings and bowled a very decisive match winning spells, there was one spell where he was literally unplayable and also took 3 wickets in 4 balls.

from an win situation for england, the match went to the point when aussies were left with just 3 runs to get, with 1 wicket left. then kaprowicz made that fatal mistake, instead of taking another blow in his body or ducking under a fast bouncer, i think till date for england this would be an magical moment, after the final wicket,crowds and barmy army went bersek, palyers went crazy celebrating the win. then came this picture, being the man of the match and playing is heart out, flintoff didnt rush to the stumps to collect memorablia, or was not found running around the ground with shirts removed. he went down on his knees and was seen consoling bret lee, who took several body blows from his bowling.

though unfair, there are another 2 parallel instances i always compare this with

aus vs india, 2nd test match, sydney, remember how they celbrated in sydney when india was in a similar situation and the final batsmen left was anil kumble who was also then captain. nobody even bothered to shake hands with him, the team won the match only because of bucknor blunders, but still celebrated as though they have captured the world.second.this might not be a right comparison, ind vs pak in T20 WC final. miserable misbah,.dhoni's boys.

when engalnd finally won the ashes series, and all the soccer like celebration were over. Flintoff was asked to comment on that incident of him consoling bret lee..what did he really say to bret lee. he answered them in humour, part of the transcript

"".....We were all celebrating and I saw Brett Lee down on his knees and I just went up to him, put my arm around him and said: It's 1-1 you Aussie Bastard!"""'

years later, bret lee when asked for a comment..was serious in his answer.
""That moment for him to come down and shake hands, and the photo that came out of it, that to me is the spirit of cricket. """

sunday

2009-08-02T17:08:00.009+05:30

...today i lost my cooling glass, it would be close to 3 years since i purchased, and i rarely used it. as i was getting ready to church i found that my coolers were lying near my vehicle key, and as usual i ignored its existence. as i was proceeding out of house i realised i was wearing a very beautiful blue t-shirt (self build up...kindly ignore), and went on to imagine how my blue coolers would be a perfect match..for my wear. this is how i weared my cooling glass.

church service went on well, and on my way back to our house we stopped by to look after few things in a levis showroom, though it was meant to be a window shopping for me, i was very impressed with an slim fit, black caudroy full hand shirt. one young lady in the shop saw my interest and asked me to check if it fits in a trial room. now this is where i lost my precious posession. so i kept my coolers in the change room and then checked the shirt, was very happy with the fit, and checked out of the shop paying for the shirt, much happy with the unexpected purchase in the morning. on my way back to house we stopped by in a restaurant, and for a change in sunday we had a vegetarian food and just as i was getting back into the house, i realised i was not having my dress matching coolers over my nose.

i speeded back to the shop only to be told by their staff that it is difficult to get back that cooling glass. one guy there went on to tell how people have lost 30k-40k costing mobiles in the change room, and few people who have also lost their wallet. though i am not much worried about the value of my coolers, it was kind of stylish one (atleast thats what i thought) which i had for a long time. i wrote my name and number in a book in the shop asking those guys to call me if something comes up in the end of day.

hopefully i will think of some better things to write in my next weekend.

Kitchadi

2009-07-25T12:07:00.013+05:30

**ex-president abdul kalam was frisked by continental airline staff in an indian airport. this incident happened some 3 months back and suddenly came to light this week. even PM has expressed concern over this. continental airlines though are standing by their policies and have said they followed US law, some state homeland law that was made after 9/11 . does US law precede Indian law in india ?. indian law says not to frisk him, US law says to frisk him. now the boarding is happening in India...what law should these authorities follow. ***

**there is a distinct difference between the way sub-continent teams and teams such as australia, south africa and england play test matches, sub continent teams always take a lot of time to set a target in the fourth innings which in most cases end in dull draw, be it dhoni or kumble or any other captains, they are never confident to set a target, only when they cross 600+ they feel secured to declare the innings. and they take too much time to set that target that the oppositions will be forced to play for draw. srilanka didn't go for a win in their last test match, though they had enough wickets in hand. Australia in other hand though set a record total to chase, went for the win and never played to draw the match. **

**india is all set to complete nuclear triad, they have built a nuclear submarine, in addition to the already existing land based and air based nuclear missiles. submarine has been named 'arihant'. **

**informaton and broadcasting ministry has sent a notice to star plus channel for broadcasting 'saach ka saamna' program. curious after reading this news i watched the program. with just one telecast i happened to see, i realised the main publicity or success of the show lies in asking an husband or wife in front of their spouse wether they cheat the other and goes on to ask some very obscene question. we are speaking about reality show in a tv here, not some scenes happening in a A rated movie. well this program might have been a success across various countries, and i am not sure what kind of questions they ask, but i think there are certain social and moral values we have in our country, it is a shame on persons who come on show and speak about their dark life, atleast i cant imagine a tamil tv hosting this kind of prograam , there are lot of moral policing available for stopping this in tamil nadu, remember how khusbhu cried and asked apology for making some comment on pre-marital sex. ****

கேள்வி பதில்

2009-07-10T21:48:00.017+05:30

தமிழ் பதிவுலகில் ரொம்பவும் பிரபலமான ஒரு பதிவுங்க, இது ஒரு சங்கிலி பதிவு, அப்படினா என்னனு உங்களுக்கு தெரியும்னு நினைக்கிறன், ஆமாம் இதை படிக்கும் நீங்கள் தொடர்ந்து இந்த கேள்வி பதில் எழுத வேண்டும்.... கொஞ்சம் கஷ்டம் தான், முயற்சி பண்ணி பாருங்க, குறிப்பாக கல்யாணம் ஆனவர்கள் ரொம்பவும் பயந்து பயந்து எழுதும் ஒரு பதிவு.

1.உங்களுக்கு ஏன் இப்பெயர் வந்தது? உங்களுக்கு உங்க பெயர் பிடிக்குமா?சாமுவேல் இக்னேஷியஸ் ...இதில் ரெண்டாவது பாதியில் வரும் பேர் நான் பிறக்கும் முன்பே போய் சேர்ந்த தாத்தா பேர், சாமுவேல் என்ற பேர் ரொம்பவே பிடித்த பெயருங்க. ஒரே ஒரு சமயம் என் பெயர் பிடிக்காமல் இருந்திருக்குங்க, ஸ்கூல் படிக்கும் போது, ஒரு தமிழ் வாத்தியார் என்னோட பெயரை திருப்பி வேலுசாமி நு பெயர் சுட்டிடார் ..அப்போது

2.கடைசியாக அழுதது எப்போது..? ரொம்ப எளிதாக அழுபவன், பெரும்பாலும் நிறைய சிரிக்கும் போதும் அழுவது உண்டு,.....ஏங்க இதுக்கு டாக்டர் யாரையும் பார்க்கணுமா ? கே டிவி ஆர்த்தி காமெடி ப்ரோக்ராம் கடைசி.ஆங்கில படத்தில் terminal, செண்டிமெண்டல் அழுகை.

3.உங்களோட கையெழுத்து உங்களுக்குப் பிடிக்குமா? கையெழுத்து பிடிக்கும்ங்க, ஆனால் இந்த மாதிரி கேள்வி கேட்கும் பொண்டாட்டி சத்யமா பிடிக்காதுங்க.

4.பிடித்த மதிய உணவு??..மீன், மட்டன், சிக்கன் ..ரொம்ப பிடிச்சது மூளை fry. ஆமாங்க நமக்கு அது கொஞ்சம் கம்மி அதான்.

5.நீங்கள் வேறுயாருடனாவது உங்களோட நட்பை உடனே வச்சுக்குவீங்களா?
உடனே முடியாத காரியம்

6.கடலில் குளிக்கப் பிடிக்குமா? அருவியில் குளிக்கப் பிடிக்குமா?
அருவி, எழுத முடியாத சில காரணம் இருக்குங்க.

7.முதலில் ஒருவரைப் பார்க்கும் போது எதைக் கவனிப்பீர்கள்?? ..டிரஸ் சென்ஸ்..

8.உங்க கிட்ட உங்களுக்கு..பிடித்த விஷயம் என்ன..பிடிக்காத விஷயம் என்ன?
பிடித்த விஷயம்...பக்தி.
பிடிக்காத விஷயம்..பேசியே அறுவை போடுவது.

9.உங்க சரிபாதி கிட்ட உங்களுக்கு பிடித்த,பிடிக்காத விஷயம்.. pass

10.யார் பக்கத்தில் இல்லாம இருக்கறதுக்கு வருந்துகிறீர்கள்? தனியாக இருப்பதை ரொம்ப விரும்பும் ஒரு ஆள்.my loneliness is my hapiness.தமணா, அசின் இதற்கு விலக்கம்.

11.இதை எழுதும்போது என்ன வர்ண உடை அணிந்துள்ளீர்கள்? வெள்ளை , மஞ்சள்

12.என்ன பாட்டு கேட்டுக் கொண்டிருக்கிறீங்க?..
என்ன கேள்விங்க இது ...ரொம்ப எரிச்சலா இருக்கு, ஒன்னும் கேட்கலைங்க .

13.வர்ணப் பேனாவாக உங்களை மாற்றினால், என்ன நிறப் பேனாவாக மாற ஆசை?
எங்க மறுபடியும் இவ்லொ எரிச்சல் பண்றீங்க ..

14.பிடித்த மணம்?எங்க ஊரில் மலை சாரலில் வரும் மண் வாசனை ரொம்ப பிடிக்கும்ங்க.

15.நீங்க அழைக்க விரும்பும் பதிவரிடம்..உங்களுக்கு பிடித்த விஷயம்..அவரை அழைக்கக் காரணம்?
ரொம்ப எளிதான கேள்வி ...பிரபா, ஜெக்கு,சுப்பு,தங்கம்
அழைக்க காரணம் ...ரொம்ப சுவராஸ்யமான மனிதர்கள்
பிடித்த விஷயம்..என்னால ரொம்ப கஷ்ட பட்ட ஜீவன்கள்,நன்றாக எழுதுபவர்கள்

16. பிடித்த விளையாட்டு?... டேபிள் டென்னிஸ்

17. கண்ணாடி அணிபவரா? இல்லை.

18.எப்படிப்பட்ட திரைப்படம் பிடிக்கும்?... காமெடி, பாமிலி drama ..

19.கடைசியாக பார்த்த படம்?.. transformer அறுவை .hangover comedy

20.பிடித்த பருவ காலம் ?...கேள்வியில் பதில் இருக்கு..வெட்டி ஒபிபிசெராக ஊர் சுற்றிய காலம்,

21.இப்போது படித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும் புத்தகம்? இந்திய அரசியல் சாசனம் ....படிக்கலாம்னு நினைச்சேன்னு சொல்ல வந்தேன் ..கடைசியா படித்தது the week.

22.உங்க டெஸ்க் டாப்பில் இருக்கும் படத்தை எத்தனை நாளைக்கு ஒரு முறை மாற்றுவீர்கள்?பெரும்பாலும் பின்னால் இருக்கும் படம் தெரியாமல் இருக்கும்ங்க ..கிட்டதட்ட recycle bin மாதிரி தான் அது இருக்கும் .

23.பிடித்த சத்தம்? பிடிக்காத சத்தம்? பிடித்த சத்தம்....பைப் ஆர்கன் ....பிடிக்காத சத்தம்..drums

24. வீட்டை விட்டு நீங்கள் சென்ற அதிக தொலைவு?
எங்கயாவது தொலஞ்சு போனு நேர்லய திட்டிறேன் .

25.உங்களுக்கு ஏதேனும் தனித்திறமை இருக்கிறதா?எவ்ளோ அடிச்சாலும் சும்மாவே இருப்பேங்க ....அட..நிஜமாங்க பள்ளிகூடத்தில் இருந்தே பழக்கம்.

26.உங்களால் ஏற்றுக் கொள்ளமுடியா ஒரு விஷயம்..?
நிறைய விஷயம் இருக்கு.உதாரணமா தீவிரவாதம்,மாற்றி அமைக்க போகும் gay சட்டம்.

27. உங்களுக்கு உள்ளே இருக்கும் சாத்தான்? அப்படி யாரும் சாத்தான் இலிங்க ..ஆனால் கொஞ்ச நாளாவே எதை எடுத்தாலும் குறை கண்டுபிடிச்சுடே இருக்கேன்.

28.உங்களுக்குப் பிடித்த சுற்றுலாத் தலம்? ஆல்ப்ஸ் மௌன்டைன் ..ஹி ஹி ..இன்னும் போலிங்க

29.எப்படி இருக்கணும்னு ஆசை ??.. சிரித்து வாழ வேண்டும் ...பிறர் சி...............

31.மனைவி இல்லாம செய்ய விரும்பும் காரியம் ??...pass

32. வாழ்வு பற்றி ஒரு வரியில் சொல்லுங்க? ...போராட்டம்

who let the dog's out...

2009-07-10T00:00:00.003+05:30

... 'hangover',a must watch for movie buffs, if you are planning to go to this movie my advise is to take few rounds of high drink, take your friends and watch the movie in a theatre...you would most likely end up rolling on the floor with laughter.you also would have to make sure to watch the movie even after it ends and when they put information of the cast....i mean the loudest laughter in theatre will happen during this part of the movie only.

one of my friend got so impressed with the story that he actually went to LA with his friend, and this friend of mine who has been a teetotaller all his life, even started drinking just to enjoy the way it happens in movie..

fitness first

2009-07-05T20:39:00.004+05:30

..well the first time i have joined a fitness centre, for almost a week since joining i was just running and running basically doing only cardio exercises, ignoring all the heavy weight machinery and equipments in the gym, now one morning as i was sweating out running, a guy comes up to me and calls me to join his class, ok this is where i started doing some serious workouts in gym.

body pump, this is the class name and it happens in a studio kind of room, an instructor would take a class for 1 hour, program starts with workout on thigh muscle and goes on to strengthen all other muscles in your body, you have to lift bars with weight and do exercises along with the bar in synchronous with the music playing in the background.. on my first day i was not able to complete the class itself and this alarmed me, as there were not so fit girls around me who were easily going through the class. it was not until completing the next 3-4 classes that the instructor came up to me and told i am doing well. after a month or so i stopped going to this class and started going to a different class.

spinning...this class is all about cycling and happens in a different studio with very colourful lighting's as well, they say in a single class you can burn around 200-300 calories. i have observed that this class is quite popular and mostly the classes are full, the instructor will simulate a environment where you will be warming up, racing, climbing up a hill, and climbing down,i started liking this class very much and am attending only this class now regularly.

it is almost 2 months since i joined this centre, though there are some visible improvements in my fitness, it is still no where near my goal i was aiming to achieve. this is mostly due to my eating habits and my not so good control over that....

central cabinet

2009-06-27T00:32:00.011+05:30

the first minister to get some serious work was our foreign minister, s.m.krishna. just days after he took charge of his seat, there was a gurudwara shoot out in vienna. which initially looked like any other shootout in a foreign country snowballed into a serious headache for government. just when he thought he had things in control, there was australia. there was students.. and there was racist attack.

health minister, gulam nabi azad, now this is more serious than anything, a global epidemic, pandemic, government says it has stocked enough medicine and repeatedly assures people not to panic, till now there was not a single death and most cases have already been cured. though i am not judgemental on his performance with this single issue i think he has done good in this short period. there is a perception that he is not qualified for this ministry, and doesn't have knowledge on his ministry, well lets remember he is a heavyweight and crisis manager for his party for a long time.

agriculture minister..sharad pawar...mostly press releases and statements are coming from cabinet secretary only. in his previous term managed to give undue importance to cricket more than his agri ministry. not a competent minister specially in crisis situation. continues to be involved and interested in BCCI more than farmers.

in my opinion, government master stroke came when it appointed nanden nilekani for national id card project., with a cabinet rank. i think this ministry is in the best hands. in a developing country like india, going forward there should be more technocrats in ministry apart from politicians. our PM was not an politician when he was finance minister in early 90's and we all know how he was involved in globalization of indian economy.
may be nandan nilekani induction in central cabinet is also signs of things to come .....

Hype.P.L

2009-06-22T16:02:00.006+05:30

when IPL became a big hit in its first season, there was a conception in cricket fraternity on how it has brought out domestic talent and played a big part in few youngsters getting springboarded into national team...at the end of first season, we had the likes of Ghoni, ravindra jadega getting selected on national team with their sole contribution in IPL alone...however during their national duty captain didn't have enough faith on them and they were mostly not palyed and sometimes dropped immediately after touring.

IPL season 2, apart from the usual aussies domination, there were some indian beacons like ojha, pandey(bangalore), abhishek nayar. as expected the national team selection after IPL has again rewarded them, with the inclusion of abhishek nayar and nehra solely on thier IPL performance. ok now the question, is it justified in selecting players on their performance in IPL alone ignoring there contribution in ranji trophy and other domestic competition, does a bowler bowling just 24 balls in a match prove his merit. or a batsmen hitting 3 sixes in an over suddenly becomes more important than an other domestic player who has a better average and technique.

all these first time selected members, as though reading from a written script say, how much IPL helped them particularly playing alongside international players and performing against or along with them. in my opinion they are carrying a wrong confidence if they are thinking or relying only on their exploits in IPL alone. now Abhishek nayar might have hit Flintoff for 3 sixes in an over in a match against chennai, or nehra might have kept Pitersen tied down and taken his wicket.if you try to repeat that in a 50 over match against England in Lords, then you are most likely to be proved wrong.

the world T20 champions, Pakistan did not have any IPL experience this season, with all pakistani contracts suspended by IPL, and as if that is not enough to red face Modi....people were thinking about ICL when abdul Razaaq made crucial contribution in semifinal and final matches. No doubt IPL is a good entertainment, good earning for players, good finance for the board..but i think it is not a good idea to reward IPL performers with a team selection, conveniently ignoring thier stats in other domestic tournaments.

later this year there is going to be a T20 champions league tournament, another question, how can you call it champions league, when the domestic leagues that contributed to world T20 champions are not represented. It is no luck or co-incidence that pakistanis made it to the final twice in a row, everybody knows that they have been having very successfull t20 domestic competition for a very long time. BCCI will throw its money and power to make champions league tournament success, but without pakistani presence the tournament is not complete or atleast lack quality cricket. It would be worth watching the likes of gilchrist and symmonds face pakistani pacers, rather than seeing them belt hapless bowlers(read delhi bowlers).

coming to the worl cup result, personally i was very happy that sri lanka lost the final..and i guess when the entire country would have supported srilanka to win in final, most people down down south would have loved seeing srilankans bite the dust. that is tamilnadu for you.

kangaroo attacks slumdog

2009-06-09T14:59:00.006+05:30

suddenly students are being stabbed, beaten with screw drivers, cars being burnt,petrol bombs being hurled. hungry Indian media had got a beautiful story to run for a month. closeup of bruised student with swollen red face, another student in life support, another very ..very closeup image of abdomen stitches are common pictures in TV now. from what i have heard and seen in online press the Australian media hardly cared or reported any of these incidents. also till date there were hardly any arrests made regarding these incidents. seems like kangaroos are having a nice tiger dish(tandoori) down under.

well somehow this made me think that, the home country or people here or the media here care much more for these citizens who leave the country for higher studies and most likely settle abroad. if a prominent Sikh is assassinated in Austria an entire state in India goes to bundh, buses and trains are being burned and highways blocked, it takes several days to return to normalcy. if an andhra student is killed in US there are debate and resolutions getting passed in state assembly and not to mention headline news in national media. there were rally by students in Chennai against recent attack in Australia. great ! good stand for your countrymen when they are in trouble.show solidarity, politicians and governments mostly forced by their moral obligations tries to get justice for these victims.

OK..now what you get back in return for all this. the single most huge contribution that NRI's have made over several years is entertaining bollywood, kollywood, tollywood artists, inviting them for shows, spending money on amitabh,ash,abhishek's movements. latest trend being they have started inviting cricket stars also. the recent most shocking event that happened in India was 26/11 the entire country mourned over the tragedy, central government sent emissaries to all countries to put pressure on Pakistan, and to some extent it achieved to arrest key people involved. now the obvious question is did Indian's living abroad go out of their way to support the cause, was there any signs or shows of solidarity, a silent rally or anything of that sort. another most intriguing aspect is writing books, blogs and articles showing the country in a very poor light, some of these books have went on to win the coveted 'Booker prize' award and some have made out to be a blockbuster Oscar winning movie, all at the expense of showing the dark secrets of the home country, these people who have gone from this country and settled abroad know very well what to sell in the market, don't they.

i am no saint to write this, but the last time i checked, ..this blog though trivial gives me liberty to write this. thanks for reading.

செய்தி துளிகள்

2009-06-03T22:23:00.008+05:30

நம்ம ஊருகாரைங்க பாசகார பயளுங்கனு, எங்க ஊருலரிந்து போன அமைச்சர் நிருபிச்சுடாருங்க, ஆமாங்க சென்னை சேர்ந்த ஒரு குழு டெல்லி -சென்னை ரயில் பிடிக்க தவறி , திரு திருன்னு முழிச்சிட்டு இருந்திருக்காய்ங்க, அப்ப நம்ம அமைச்சர் ஒரு தனி ரயில் பெட்டி ஏற்பாடு பண்ணி வழி அனுப்ச்சு வைத்திருகாருங்க. சில பேரை அவருடன் தங்கவும் வைத்திருகார் டெல்லியில்.
அருவா வெட்டுனாலும் சரி, பாச மலைனாலும் சரி, நம்ம பயலுங்க தாங்க முன்னாடி.

பிரசில் நாட்டை சேர்ந்த ஒருவரை, ஏற் பிரான்ஸ் விமானம் ஏறும் சமயத்தில் ஏற தடை பண்ணிர்காருங்க, காரணம் அவருடைய பாஸ்போர்ட் செல்லுபடி ஆகும் தேதி முடிந்து போயிருக்கு, விமானம் ஏறும் கடைசி நேரத்தில் இப்படி ஆகிருகேனு அவருடைய நண்பர் ஒருத்தர் ரொம்பவே சண்டை போட்டு பாத்திருகார், ஆனால் அவர்க்கு அனுமதி மறுக்க பட்டிருக்கு, சரி நண்பனுக்காக தானும் அந்த பயணத்தை கைவிட்டுருகாருங்க.

உயிர் காப்பான் தோழன் ! அப்படின்னு சொல்றாங்களே அது இது தானோ ?

Movie Review

2009-06-03T22:12:00.002+05:30

Movie. Angels and Demons.
adaptation from Dan brown novel. the novel if you read will be simply breathtaking, a fiction that covers physics, relegion, history, arts and much more. the book shows the early catholic church in a very poor light, and how medieval churches considered science as thier main enemy.

having read the novel the suspense element in the movie has already gone, it is known pretty much beforehand what will happen and how it will happen in the movie. still the only consolation is beautiful picturesque of churches and artifacts in Vatican city, even this interest were gone after sometime when i realised it would be highly impossible for the crew to get access inside churches in vatican.
the novel is 100 times more interesting and thrilling. if you are planning to watch this movie, skip it. get the book and read, best selling novel by Dan Brown.

தமிழ் ஈழம் அரசியல் !!

2009-05-26T18:38:00.007+05:30

ஈழ தமிழர் பிரச்சினை, எப்போதுமே தமிழ் மக்கள் கொஞ்சம் உணர்ச்சிவசப்பட்ட ஒரு விஷயமகவே இருந்தது. இந்த பிரச்சினைக்காக உண்மையாக சண்டை போட்டவர்கள் , அவர்கள் தேர்ந்தடுத்த முறை, போராட்டம் இதை பத்தி நான் குறைவாக எழுத விரும்பவில்லை, இந்த பிரச்சினை வைத்து சுய லாபம் தேடியவர்கள் பத்தி தான் இந்த பதிவு.
சினிமா இயக்குனர்கள் ...!!!

சீமான், பாரதிராஜா மற்றும் சினிமா துறை மக்கள்.தெரியாமல் தான் கேட்கிறேன், ஈழ தமிழர் , சகோதரர்கள் என்று மார் தட்டி ஆவேசப்படும் இவர்கள், இது வரை அகதிகளாய் வந்து குடியிருக்கும் மக்களுக்கு என்ன பண்ணி இருக்கிறார்கள் ? தமிழ்நாட்டில் நிறைய இடத்துல அகதிகள் முகாம் இருக்கு சார், பத்து பதினஞ்சு வருஷமா மக்கள் அங்கயும் கஷ்ட பட்டுட்டு தான் இருக்காங்க. பாரதிராஜா ஒரு தடவையாவது ஒரு முகாம்முக்காவது போயிருப்பாரா, அங்க இருக்குற குடும்பங்களுக்கு உதவி பண்ணுங்க அப்புறம் ஈழத்தில் இருக்கும் தமிழர்களை பத்தி பேசுங்க கேட்கறோம்.

சரி உதவி செய்ய முடியலைனா, அவர்களை பத்தி படம் எடுத்து காமிங்க, விழிப்புணர்வு ஏற்படுத்துங்க. இந்திய சுதந்திர போராட்டத்தில் மேடை நாடகங்களும், கவிஞர்களும் முக்கிய பங்கு விகிக்கலையா.

சும்மா ஜெயில் உள்ள போயிட்டும் வந்துட்டும் இருந்தார் சீமான், நிறைய செய்திகளில் வந்தார், அவருக்குனு ஒரு கூட்டம் சேர்த்தார், அதை தவிர வேற என்ன சாதிச்சார். இப்போது கூடும் பாராளுமன்றத்தில் ஈழ தமிழர் பிரச்சினைக்காக பேச யாராவது இருக்காங்களா, எனக்கு தெரிந்து ஒருவரும் இல்லை, இதை பத்தி எல்லாம் யோசிக்காத நம்ம இயக்குனர்கள், காங்கிரஸ் தோல்வி அடையனும் என்ற ஒரே குறியில் கதை, திரைகதை, வசனம் எழுதி பிரசாரம் பண்ணினார்கள். வழக்கம் போல படம் ஓடவில்லை.

அரசியல்வாதிகள்..!!!

அண்ணா சமாதியில் உண்ணாவிரதம் , ஜெயாவின் திடீர் தனி ஈழம் கோரிக்கை, கலைஞரின் தனி ஈழம் கோரிக்கை.

முதலில் இவர்களை ஈழ தமிழர்களின் பிரதிநிதியாக யார் அறிவிச்சா, ஈழ மக்களா ? இல்லை அங்கு இருக்கும் நடேசன், பத்மநாதன் போன்ற அரசியல் தலைவர்களா, இல்லையே. என்னை கேட்டால் முக்யமான பதிவியில் இருக்கும் இவர்கள் விட்ட அறிக்கைகள் அங்கு இருக்கும் இலங்கை அரசை மேலும் துண்டி இருக்கும், எங்கடா தலைவர்கள் யாரையாவது விட்டு வைத்தா இவர்கள் தமிழ்நாட்டின் உதவியுடம் மறுபடியும் தனி நாடு கேட்டு சண்டை போடுவார்கள் என்று, கைதி செய்ய நினைத்தவர்களை குட சுட்டு கொன்று இருப்பார்கள். போர் முனையில் இருக்கும் சூழ்நிலை தெரியாமல் இவர்கள் எப்படி அறிக்கை விடலாம் ? வெள்ளை கொடி பிடிச்சிட்டு சரண் அடைய முயன்ற தலைவர்களை கொன்றதாக செய்திகள் வந்திருக்கிறதே.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6350563.ece

வழக்கமா LTTE தலைவர்கள் யாராவது செத்தால் அவர்களை பத்தி கவிதை ஒன்னு எழுதுவார் நம்ம முதல்வர். தற்போதைய சுழ்நிலையில் அவரால எழுத முடியாது என்றே தோன்றுகிறது , அவர் பாணியில் ஒரு சிறு கவிதை, இந்த கவிதை தமிழ்நாட்டில் இருக்கும் இரு முக்யமனா கட்சிக்கும் பொருந்தும் ....

வீழ்வது தமிழினமாக இருப்பினும் வாழ்வது நமது கட்சியாக இருக்கட்டும்

what went wrong !!!

2009-05-17T13:06:00.006+05:30

since i have followed the election extensively, which most of my blog readers would agree, today i thought i can put down my own views on this election.

where did BJP fail.

1. they took up the issue of series of terror attacks in the country, they started the campaign with that being there main issue against the current government....mid way through their campaign they found out that the ghosts of the kandahar has come to haunt them.

2. vibrant gujarat..they tried to show the rest of the country that that they have leaders who have done very good in area's of development and administration. and they made Modi as their chief election campaigner. nobody has to teach the opposition to counter this factor, don't they.
the only state where Modi didn't campaign, apparently Nitish didn't allow him to campaign in bihar and BJP allies swept polls there.

3. week PM....now this is very interesting. they made a quite man so upset that he came out all guns blazing. apparently there was some 'walk the talk' program LKA did some one year back. which PM quoted and made the 'iron man' surrender. within a span of 2 days sonia, mms,rahul and priyanka ...kept saying so much about kandahar and how he was the home minister then and was not informed about the major decision they took at that time. LKA had nothing to answer for that, he said it is becoming personal and refused to respond.

4. when a journalist throw'd shoe at p.c, congress dropped not one, but two of their party nominations in delhi...dude dropping a candidate in delhi requires lot of gut's really.
when CEC gopalasami, sent an advisor to BJP to drop Varun gandhi, they showed with their constituion experts that CEC has no right to do so and went ahead with their nomination....pilibhit or varun hardly mattered for BJP, but the real message what BJP tried to send to the electorate was, they stood by what varun told in that alleged CD.

5. chief players for BJP - advani, modi and varun, whereas chief players of congress had a clean image - sonia, mms, rahul and priyanka.media being congress friendly the later group hogged headlines before the elections.

in 2004 when BJP was in power, 'india shining' campaign let them down, rural sector didn't have anything to cheer. and they thought that government was too urban friendly.

in 2009 congress didn't make that mistake, actually the recession forced them not to make that mistake. all that they were doing was countering all major allegations BJP made against them, and when they countered they countered it hard. being a election with no major issues BJP went to an extent of making swiss bank money an major election issue, it is definitely an issue to discuss in parliament but not in an election field.

it is easier to write about a losing party, thats the reson i worte this post very easily. and just an after thought at the end of this post i realised i didn't write anything about LEFT failure. this was expected the traditional voters who backed left all along have realised that n-deal is not so bad for the country. they didnt like left trying to pull down the government during its tenure and voted for stability.

'jeya ho ! jaya போ !'

கிரேசி கிரிக்கெட்

2009-05-14T18:15:00.007+05:30

எனக்கு அறிமுகமான ஒரு நண்பர் இருக்காருங்க, cricket ல பயங்கர ஈடுபாடு, ஒரு பெரிய மென்பொருள் கம்பெனில வேலை பார்த்தாலும்., நேரம் கிடைத்தால் அவுங்க ஊரில் நடக்கும் போட்டிகளில் கலந்து கொள்வாருனு கேள்விப்பட்டிருக்கேன், அதுவும் கல்யாணம் ஆன புது மாப்பிளையாக இருக்கும் போது. இவர் ஒரு ex-professional அம்பயரும் கூட, சமீபத்தில் அவருடைய ஒரு பதிவு படிக்க நேர்ந்ததுங்க..

.. http://thodar.blogspot.com/2009/05/11-odi.html

அவரிடம் பண்ண ஒரு சின்ன வாக்குவாதம் தாங்க இந்த பதிவிற்கான காரணம். இந்திய கிரிக்கெட் வரலாற்றில், ரசிகர்கள் மிகவும் கொண்டாடிய அல்லது நியாபகம் வைத்துள்ள வெற்றிகள் list. நமக்கு கிரிக்கெட் அறிவு ரொம்ப கம்மி, அதுவும் முக்யமாக யாருடைய பெரிய விசிறியும் இல்லை. ..அதனால் இந்த list மற்றவர் பார்வையில் தப்பானதாக இருக்கலாம். கிரிக்கெட் ஆர்வம் இல்லாதவர்கள் இதற்கு மேல் படிக்காமல் இருப்பது நல்லது

1. 1983 வேர்ல்ட் கப் ....

இந்த மேட்ச் பார்கலைங்க, ஆனால் கபில் லார்ட்ஸ் மைதானத்தில் கப் தூக்கிய காட்சி ....background la தேசிய பாடல் போட்டுட்டு அந்த வீடியோ போட்டா, இப்ப குட ஒரு கிரிக்கெட் ரசிகனா அதை பார்த்தா புல்லரிகும்ங்க.

2. T20 வேர்ல்ட் கப்...

பின்னணி ........2007 வருடம் நடந்த வேர்ல்ட் கப் போட்டியில் மரண அடிங்க. bangladesh எவண்டா உருவக்குனானு, இந்திரா காந்தியலாம் திட்டிட்டு இருந்தாய்ங்க நம்ம பசங்க. ...2008 ..ஆள் பேரு தெரியாத ஒரு அணி 2008 south africa t20 வேர்ல்ட் கப் போட்டிக்கு அனுப்ப பட்டது...பல ஜாம் பவான்களை கொண்ட அணிகளை வீழ்த்திய நம்ம ஜூனியர் அணி, இறுதி போட்டியில் பாகிஸ்தான் வீழ்த்தியது. அந்த கடைசி பந்து என் நண்பர் ஒருத்தற்கு 'heart attack' வந்து ...அப்புறம் நம்ம 'அப்பம் சுட்டியா' பிடிச்ச கேட்ச் நால அவர் பிழைத்தார்...

3. கொல்கத்தா டெஸ்ட் மேட்ச் ......

இன்னும் கூட பல அணி தலைவர்கள், எதிர் அணியை 'follow on' பண்ண வைக்லாமா வேணாமானு யோசிக்க வைத்த ஒரு நிகழ்ச்சி....ஆஸ்திரேலியா தனது 'last frontier' பிடிக்க முடியாமல் செய்த மேட்ச்.(அதற்கு அடுத்த series aussies அதை கைப்பற்றினார்கள், அது வேற கதை போங்க ...)

4. natwest trophy..........

பின்னணி ......இந்தியாவிற்கு வந்த இங்கிலாந்து அணி, ODI இறுதி போட்டியில் இந்தியாவை வீழ்த்தி கோப்பை கைப்பற்றியது, flintoff தனது சட்டையை கழற்றி மைதானத்தை ஒரு வளம் வந்தார்.....இதை மறக்காத நம்ம அணி தலைவர், இங்கிலாந்தில் நடந்த போட்டியில் ரெகார்ட் chase பண்ணி வின் பண்ண அடுத்த நிமிடம்....லார்ட்ஸ் பால்கனியில் தனது பழி தீர்த்தார் ..

5. Sharjah ...

வழக்கம்மா இந்தியா நல்லா அடி வாங்கும் ஒரு இடத்தில், சச்சின் ஆஸ்திரேலியா அணியை துவசம் பண்ணி எடுத்துடாருங்க ..சச்சினின் அந்த இந்நிங்க்ச்சை 'desert storm' என்று வர்ணனை காரர்கள் மற்றும் மீடியா சொல்வார்கள்..

சரிங்க, இதை படிக்கும் கிரிக்கெட் ரசிகர்கள், அவர்களுடைய list அல்லது opinion எழுதினால் நல்லா இருக்கும் ...நன்றி.

Politics..is it a Ditch ?

2009-04-23T21:19:00.011+05:30

...all the interest i had in IPL last year had gone down this year, mainly due to my extreme interest in politics and also due to chennai SK losing consecutive matches. Contrary to some of my friends, who blame politicans for everything, somehow over the years i have learned to respect political leaders or people in public life.

the first time i was amazed by an tamil leader was seeing Vaiko's fierce speech in parliament some 8-10 years back.(yes a bad start). though over the years the same person has become my most hated leader now.

another tamil leader that i started admiring is p.Chidambaram, when he carries that suitcase to present budget(he has presented budget many times) wearing that traditional tamil dress, it is a proud moment for tamil's. this guy has studied in harvard and they say he is from some royal family in south tn, still he wears traditional dress and his interviews in tamil will never have single english words.

the most recent speech i liked in parliament was made by Omar abdullah, kashmiri political scion, this happened during the no-confidence motion that ruling party faced an year back. for 3 days all elected MP's from all over india spoke and argued, and this guy moslty in early thirties spoke for 10 minutes and media and papers in india carried his speech for the next 2 days. if you wish to hear his speech, it is available in youtube.

coming to recent events, famous sound bytes that created news and my rankings based on the attention it got.

varun--- "^&$$#$%...".........." that was not my voice"
Modi-- "congress is budiya(old and week), gudiya(doll)"
priyanka-- "lets discuss development instead of budiya and gudiya"
Advani -- " weak PM"
Manmohan -- "weeping in corner, BJP Iron man was quick to melt"
Rahul --" i want to ask 2 questions to Advani....."
BJP spokesperson,...."PM manmohan singh is Night watchman..he has to vacate for Rahul"

ok..... as i write this post there are 2 phases of elections that got over.

when 26/11 happened we saw candle light marches and 'we want change' sort of campaign mostly by people in metros, now 5 months after the event there is a genral election happening here and statistics have come out that, voter turnout amongst urban population has not improved and there were poor turnout in cities like bangalore, this amidst many campaings this time by media and other organsations to go out and vote.

now lets put this into perspective, which one is going to help their cause, marches and campaign like this or..going out and choosing/punishing their representative.

it is true that you name any politcian, there will be loads and loads of negative publicity and most of the time serious crime offenses against them, but that has never stopped me from admiring select few leaders or politicians, may be my veiw will change over the years..may be not.

a tale of two cities....

2009-03-10T22:00:00.011+05:30

BLR - namma bengaluru
CHN - singara chennai

BLR - Kannada, Tamil, Hindi, Telugu, Malayalam...and some Oriya.
CHN- Tamil, Tamil, Tamil, Telugu....few Hindi, malayalam.

BLR - men and women in road side tea shops
CHN - only Boys and Men in tea shops and Kai yenthi Bhavan. strict no no for girls.

BLR - girl, women smoke in public...fag corner usually visited by all gender.
CHN - only seen in isolated places, ITES, BPO's.

BLR- across all part of city.
CHN- only in t-nagar surrounding.....it was about traffic.

BLR - 35 degree C max, low humidity
CHN - 40 degree C max, high humidity

BLR- Malls, Parks and Pubs
CHN - Malls, Pubs, Entire coastline from marina to mahabs.

BLR- girls - formal shirts and trousers and fridays -only jeans. strict no no churidhar on friday.
CHN - giirls - Churidhar, long skirts and sarees- friday- jeans. strict no no jeans after marriage.

BLR - guys - jacket (rain or shine) , carry backpack. both striclty have an IT logo.
CHN - guys - semi formal, semi casual....jackets ..strict no no.

BLR- pani puri, hot jilabi.
CHN - Vada, Bajji and samosa.

BLR- HAL, IAF.
CHN - ICF, HVF.

BLR - M.G.Road.
CHN - N.H. Road.

BLR- share cab.
CHN - share auto.

BLR - sweet sambar and chutni.
CHN - sweet only in sweets.

BLR - Royal challengers
CHN - SUper KIngs !!!!!!!!!!!

p.s. -- feel free to add more or correct.

news bulletin...

2009-03-05T22:18:00.004+05:30

written below are few of very interesting news i'd followed recently. these news interested me a lot and hence took a place in my blog.

'Mission impossible-part 4'.
RAW nabs Bangalore blasts suspect in top-secret mission.

In a top secret mission, a team of the Research and Analysis Wing tracked down an absconding accused in the Bangalore serial blasts case in Muscat, and sneaked him out of Oman, since India doesn't have an extradition treaty with that country.

'trimurty-2009'.
Congress, BJP, CPM all three have joined and formed alliance.

yes, you had read it right. the news extract below.
Setting aside ideological differences, the Congress, the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Communist Party of India Marxist have joined hands in Sikkim to unitedly fight Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling's Sikkim Democratic Front in the assembly polls scheduled to be held later this year.

'Crimson tide-part 2'
two nuclear submarine collide in Atlantic.

UK and france submarines collide, Both submarines' hulls are covered with sound absorbent tile(no echoes -no sonar) to reduce detection by sonar, so the boats' navigational passive sonar would not have detected the presence of the other.
technology that helped submarines to go undetected had almost resulted in a nuclear catastrophe.

blogger trouble

2009-02-24T19:49:00.008+05:30

..the contents of your blog may be used to file criminal charges against you, this judgement came from the highest court of justice, supreme court, and also by a bench comprising chief justice of india, K.G. Balakrishnan.

bench has this to say
"""""""We cannot quash criminal proceedings. You are a computer student and you know how many people access internet portals. Hence, if someone files a criminal action on the basis of the content, then you will have to face the case. You have to go before the court and explain your conduct,' """""""""

read more about the story in this link http://www.itexaminer.com/bloggers-may-face-prosecution.aspx

hope the judicial system has some judgement soon for events happened in judiciary down south....

மங்களூர் போலீஸ் ...தமிழ் டவுட் ?

2009-02-12T22:56:00.012+05:30

வீழ்வது நாமாக இருப்பினும் வாழ்வது தமிழாக இருக்கட்டும் ......

இதை சொன்னவர் கலைஞர், கொஞ்ச நாளாவே இதை பத்தி யோசிச்சி பார்த்திட்டு இருக்கேங்க, நமக்கு எதுவும் ரொம்ப எளிதா புரிந்து தொலைக்காது தவிர அரசியல் அறிவும் ரொம்ப கம்மி...
என்ன மாதிரி ஒரு சூழ்நிலையில் இதை சொன்னார், இதன் அர்த்தம் தான் என்னாங்க ???? ரொம்ப உணர்சிபுரனமான சொற்களாக இருக்கு...

தமிழுக்காக உணர்ச்சிவசப்பட்டவர் ..தமிழனுக்காக ஏணோ அமைதியாக இருக்கிறார்.

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மங்களூர் எதுக்கு famous என்று யாருகாவது தெரியுமாங்க, ஓகே நானே சொல்லிடுறேன் ...moral policing. சிறு சிறு அமைப்புகள் இப்போது எப்படியாவது news la வரணும் என்றே இதை பண்றாங்க. இத மாதிரி காரியம் பண்ணும் பொது ஒரு சின்ன calculation பன்னுவாங்கலம், இதனால் வரும் police case, arrest மாதிரி தொல்லை எவ்வளவு , இதனால் வரும் publicity எவ்வளவு என்று ....இப்போதெல்லாம் இந்த calculationla அவர்களுக்கு கிடைக்கும் publicity எல்லாத்தையும் மிஞ்சிடுது

..உதாரணத்துக்கு mangalore pub attack பண்ண போகும் பொது, கூடவே media காரர்களையும் கூட அழைத்து சென்று இருக்கிறார்கள்... நம்ம media காரர்கள் சொல்லவே வேண்டாம் , பிரச்சனை என்று தெரிந்தும் எங்கடா போலீசிடம் சொன்னால், நமக்கு நல்ல வீடியோ கிடைக்காம போயிடும் என்று நினைத்து , படம் பிடித்து காட்டி விட்டார்கள் .. போலிசிடம் சொன்னால் கூட ஒன்னும் தடுத்திருக்க முடியாது, state home minister மற்றும் gov அப்படி..
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கபடி குழு....

2009-02-09T21:34:00.007+05:30

அது என்னமோ தெரியலங்க எங்க ஊரு மைய படுத்தி ஒரு படம் எடுத்தால், அந்த படம் ஒரு பெரிய ஹிட். உதாரணத்துக்கு 'காதல்' , 'சுப்ரமணியபுரம்', 'சண்டை கோழி'.......????.....மற்றும் பல (வேற ஒன்னும் ஞாபகம் வரலை) இப்போ எதுக்கு இதை பத்தி சொல்றேன் என்று நீங்கள் நினைக்கலாம்.

'வெண்ணிலா கபடி குழு' , உண்மைய சொல்லனும்னா படத்தில் நடித்த actors ஒருத்தர் பேரு கூட தெரியலிங்க இருந்தாலும் படம் கொஞ்சம் வேகமாவே போகிறது, நம்ம ஊர்களில் நடக்கும் திருவிலாவில் ஆரம்பித்து, ஒரு கபடி போட்டியில் முடியும் கதை.
மதுரை மற்றும் சுற்றி உள்ள பகுதிகள் எடுத்திருபார்கள் போல இருக்கு, சில பாடல் காட்சிகள் தேனீ மாவட்டத்தின் மிகவும் செழுமையான இடங்களில் எடுத்திருகிறார்கள்.
பெரும்பாலும் மதுரை என்றால் அருவாள் வீச்சு, கொலை, சாதி சண்டை, இதை பத்தி தான் நம்ம படைப்பாளிகள் படம் எடுப்பார்கள், ஆனால் இந்த படம் கொஞ்சம் வித்யாசம்ங்க.

படத்தில் பிடித்த காட்சி பரோட்டா கடை காட்சி தாங்க, மதுரை ஒரு தூங்கா நகரம் என்று பலரும் சொல்வாங்க, அதுக்கு முக்யமான reason பரோட்டா கடைகள் தான், 24 x 7 service.

படத்தில் வரும் கபடி கோச் சிங்கள தமிழ் பேசுகிறார், அவர் பேசும் போது என்னமோ சிங்கள தமிழர் படும் கஷ்டங்கள் கொஞ்சம் நியாபகம் வருது...

change has('nt) come...

2009-01-27T20:08:00.005+05:30

"yes we can"...."the change we can believe in"
these were the main propaganda that was done by senator obama during his race for presidential nomination and election campaign.now let us see the situation after the senator becomes the president. surprisingly during his address to the country after his swearing in ....he went blah blah on all the common things like fighting terrorism, fighting poverty....and nowhere in his address he mentions "yes we can"..."the change we can believe in", instead there were words like, the current crisis in economy may not be resolved immediately..."it will take time to resolve, but we will prevail".

i would like to ask all obama supporter's this question..when there were thousands of people assembled in a cold weather, looking up to him as a man who is going to solve all the crisis the nation is going through, why was he not able to tell those lines "yes we can". that's because the realisation stuck him now that the situation is beyond his control.
another indicator was world market during and after the power change, there was no indicator to that effect worldwide, in fact many markets traded in red during and after his swearing in.

it is election year in India, five years back there was a slogan used by ruling BJP it was called "india shining", and after the election only they found out that it was shining only for big corporates and high class people's and not for farmers..and the ruling party paid the price for that campaign.

until recently before the results for 5 state election came out, BJP had "fight against terrorism" as there main election slogan, but after the negative results of that election, now they are unsure what to use, and they are being extra careful this time to choose a correct slogan. I think BJP had to go out and make strong regional alliance if they are thinking of winning this election, single majority is not going to happen for any party, it is unfortunate but these are days of co-allition government..

congress for there part are confident that they will have farmers vote this time, "farmers loan waiver scheme" will help them definetly. revival of railway's, N-deal are other achievements, that they will try to project. and as usual congress is not going to project any leader. who knows it might also be rahul gandhi, unless otherwise his "inner voice" says something to him....

third front, already they have projected mayawati as PM candidate and maya is riding on suppport from left parties. Left might not be in a very favourable position this election, personally i think there ideologies might take the country atleast 5-10 years back. i think mayawati can forget becoming a PM and make an ally either with congres or BJP, atleast she might become a king maker.

and now my blah-blah is over....

பழமொழி...

2009-01-20T20:05:00.017+05:30

என்னோட ரொம்ப நெருக்கமான நண்பர்களிடம், இந்த பழமொழிகளை நான் எப்போதும் சொல்வது உண்டு. எனக்கு இதை mansion ல இருந்த ஒரு தமிழ் டீச்சர் சொன்னார், அவர் சொன்ன நிறைய பழமொழிகல் மறந்தாலும், இந்த ரெண்டு பழமொழி மட்டும் நான் மறக்கலங்க .

கப்பலே கவுந்தாலும் கன்னத்தில் கை வைக்காதே .........

சாதரணமா யாராவது சோகமா இல்லை கன்னத்தில் கை வச்சுக்கிட்டு இருந்தா சொல்ற பழமொழி இது.
இதற்கு உண்மையான அர்த்தம் என்ன ?
இந்த பழமொழி சொல்லப்பட்ட காலங்களில் ..பெரும்பாலும் 'business' காரர்கள் தங்கள் சரக்குகளை கப்பலில் தான் எடுத்து செல்வார்கள்.
'கன்னம்' என்பதற்கு தமிழ் அர்த்தம் ,திருடர்கள் போடும் ஒரு பெரிய ஓட்டை.
இதன் மூலம் இந்த பழமொழியின் உண்மையான அர்த்தம் அறியலாம். உனக்கு தொழிலில் எவ்ளவு பெரிய நஷ்டம் அடைந்தாலும் திருடாதே என்பது தான் இதன் அர்த்தம்..

கப்பலே கவுந்தாலும் 'accountல்' கை வைக்காதே...would be more appropriate for India Inc i think.

பந்திக்கு முந்திக்கோ , படைக்கு பிந்திக்கோ..

ரொம்ப பிரபலமான ஒரு பழமொழி, கல்யான மற்றும் விசேஷ பந்திகளில் முதலில் செல்ல வேண்டும் , சண்டை எதனாச்சு வந்தா பின்னாடி நில்லு ....
இதற்கு உண்மையனா அர்த்தம் கொஞ்சம் புரிய கஷ்டம் , ok let me try. அதாவது நாம சாப்பிடும் போது ..கை எப்படி முகத்துக்கு முன்னாடி கொண்டு வந்து சாபிட்றோமோ ... அதே மாதிரி படை மற்றும் போர்கலில் வில் வீரர்கள் தங்கள் கை நல்லா பின்னாக இழுத்து வில் எய்ய வேண்டும் என்பது தான் இதன் பொருள் .

next time if someone tells you an tamil proverb, remember it does not really mean for what it was said.

amazing grace..........

2009-01-16T22:07:00.012+05:30

...i have been hearing lot of music these days, and was particularly listening to this artist songs a lot and thought of writing about them.

lean rimes....'cant fight the moonlight'..this song is one of my all time favourite and was featured in a movie 'coyote ugly'. the movie is about a small town girl coming to a big city in US and making it big .

lean rimes - 'amazing grace'. this song is an christian hymn. never ever heard a person singing in such a high pitch....my laptop speaker usually goes into resonance when i put this song . and if it was put in my player...it was usually my eardrums will be in the verge of a major crash.well the reason i like the song was largely due to its lyrics. it was written by a person who was involved in slave trade..it goes something like this, and contains bible verses in its lyrics..."amazing grace, how sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me, i once was lost but now am found , was blind but now i see.....""

you might listen to the high pitch in which the singer sings this song. have managed to upload here.

..not a great lover of music, the reason for my sudden interest is largely due to an mp3 player gift sent from my friend in US..thanks mate .i know you would be reading this....

Year 2008.......

2008-12-31T11:38:00.006+05:30

written below are few of my personal opinions on certain events that happened in 2008. comments on other events that you remember and want to write about are welcome.wish everyone a wonderful new year ahead.

Tragedy of the year --- 26/11, innocent lives were taken by armed terrorist who went on a killing spree, officers and hotel staff's were killed on duty .People who survived still go through post traumatic disorders and entire nation of billions went into a shock for several days.

Lightning of the year --- this was certainly usain bolt, never before in a olympics 100m final have seen a contestant celebrating and macking gestures even before touching the finish line.in the process he even broke all world record in that run.

Throw of the year --- if you had imagined this happened in bejing Olympics 2008 then you are wrong. this happened in a press conference in iraq when a iraqi journalist throwed a shoe at US president Bush. Overnight the journo became a hero and household name in all arab countries. last read in news that the shoe brand and maker is also making huge profit.

Costliest slap of the year --- Harbahajan to Sreesanth. the slap cost him 3 crores as he was suspended for the entire IPL season.

Costliest Fishing of the year --- Andrew Symonds fishing in darwin,Roy skipped a team meeting in the middle of a series with minnows bangladesh. this Fishing trip made CA drop him for the India series, and his comeback after that is not a great success till date.

Child of the year --- Moshe, 2 year old baby saved by an indian nanny, saw both of his parents being killed and bled to death. a large community of israel was in tears when the final rites were performed after a week in israel. An isareli rabbi has this to say to moshe ""moshe ...you might not have a mother who will
hug you, but you are the child of entire israel""...for many the symbol of 26/11 attack was this baby crying outside the building in the arms of an indian nanny.

Shooter of the year --- no it is not Abhinav Bindra, it was actually a railway police in CST terminus mumbai, who dared to come before a terrorist with a normal .303 m rifle, take aim and shoot at him. Unlike bindra his shot might not have hit the target or did not win him a gold medal, but everybody who has knowledge of arms and weapon would know that it is a suicide to go and confront a guy with AK47. video of this incident was another defining images of 26/11.

Politician of the year --- Rahul Gandhi, has this to say to Rajnath singh when he was considered a bacha(kid) by opposition. ""I am still a bachcha""....“However, fortunately or unfortunately for him (Rajnath Singh), 70 percent people of India who are powering the country are also bachchas,”

Gymnastic of the year --- rajnikant for his somersault, after sensing that his film is not going to be screened in karanatka, apologised for his statement earlier on hoganekkal issue, this came as a shocker to many tamilians and was one of the several factors that made his movie a huge flop of the year.

Moshe...

2008-12-03T19:33:00.009+05:30

well this post is going to be pretty confusing as to what i intend to say, feel free to comment or condemn this post.

what is our tolerance towards terrorism.15 years after 93 mumbai serial blasts, when we seem to get pictures of dawood in wedding celebration..intelligence agency is not able to spot him...few years back it was reported that intelligence agents did managed to spot him in karachi, no operation was done as he was gaurded by armed motorcade for a length of an entire street.
there is still a national and political debate on the death sentence of the terrorist involved in parliament attack.
just hours before being killed in the attack, hemant karkare the ATS chief was seen explaining his investigation in malegon blasts, the accused his team found apparently was sent out in bail, and he was criticized for his investigation by a major political party.

Today we see rallies being held everywhere, debate and a national consensus and hatred against politicians and government, how did the public respond after Gujarat riot, did'nt we elect modi again. today everybody speaks about the sacrifice made by NSG comandos and mumbai police in the attack, how would the public or media respond if there was a hijack situation and a ransom for release of captured terrorist is made, would we remember these commandos then, remember how JeM chief was released after the IC-814 hijack in kandahar, if i remember correctly there were heavy demonstration by public and opposition parties for release of terrorist. I think in situations like this it is very difficult to debate on what is right and what is wrong and whom to blame.

terrorism is a global threat, so called super power countries are still fighting it. for US it was '9/11', for russia it was 'beslan tragedy', for UK it was july 7 london attack, for India it is Mumbai 26/11....US managed to make a war against the attack, other countries had counter terrorism operations, few succeeded. I guess this attack surely would have some counter operations by India and will succeed against terrorism, till then my daily prayers would have few extended lines for me and fellow countrymen.

in the line of fire....

2008-11-29T23:00:00.019+05:30

Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan (NSG commando)

Hemant Karkare (Anti Terrorism Squad Chief)

Vijay Salaskar ( Sr. Inspector)

Ashok Kamte. (Additional Commissioner of Police)

"..for what you do in life echoes in eternity...""

நண்பர் கேள்வி .....

2008-11-17T19:23:00.003+05:30

..கொஞ்ச நாட்களாவே தினசரி படித்தால் global slowdown, recession, lay off இந்த மாதிரி செய்திகள் மிகவும் பரிச்சியம். மேலைநாட்டில் சில பிரபலமான கம்பனிகள் இழுத்து மூடப்பட்டன, பல மக்கள் தங்கள் சேமிப்பை எங்கு வைப்பது என்று இப்போ ஒரு பெரிய குழப்பம் ..எனக்கு தெரிஞ்சு கொஞ்ச நாட்கள் தங்கள் தலையணி அடியில் வைப்பது தான் சிறந்தது..இது பத்தாது என்று சொல்லி வைத்தார் போல் எல்லா கம்பனிகளும் தங்கள் வேலை ஆட்கள் குறைப்பை ஆரம்பித்து இருக்கிறார்கள்.

இந்த மாதிரி ஒரு சுழலில் என் நன்பர் ஒருத்தரை சந்தித்தேன். நண்பர் பெயர் சுப்பிரமணி , அவர் கேட்ட ஒரு கேள்வி என்னை ரொம்பவே சிந்திக்க வைத்தது.ரொம்ப ஒன்னும் சீரியஸ் மொக்கை இல்லைங்க தொடர்ந்து படித்து பாருங்கள் ....

என்னடா, உனக்கு நீ பார்க்கிற வேலை இல்லை என்றால் வேற என்ன வேலை பார்க்க தெரியும் என்று ஒரு simple கேள்வி ...இவர் என்ன நம்மள கேள்வி கேட்கறது என்று அதை பத்தி ஒன்னும் யோசிக்க வில்லை..ஒரு ரெண்டு நாட்கள் கழித்து அதை பத்தி யோசிச்சு பார்த்தேன். அப்போது தாங்க எனக்கு நான் பண்ண சில வேலைகள் நியாபகம் வந்தது ...

ஒரு ஆறு வருடம் முன்னாடி ...நான் தின கூலி வேலை பார்த்து இருக்கேன் ..என் சொந்தகாரர் மற்றும் நண்பர் ஒருவர், அவரிடம் வேலை பார்க்கும் ஆட்கள் வரவில்லை அன்று ..நமக்கும் கொஞ்சம் ஆர்வம் , அவரிடம் வீட்டில் சொல்லாதீர்கள் நான் இந்த வேலை பண்றேன் ..கூலி மட்டும் சரியா கூடுத்திடனும் என்று ஒரு condition..ஒரு மூன்று நாட்கள் drill work பண்ணேங்க (எவ்லவொ பண்ணிடோம் இதை பண்ண மாட்டோமா.. சார் ! ...) அதற்க்கு மேல் முடியலை ..விட்டா போதும் சாமி என்று ஒடி வந்து விட்டேங்க, கொஞ்ச நாளைக்கு தூங்கும் போது கூட drill sound கேட்கும்ங்க ....

நம்ம superstar மட்டும் தான் கண்டக்டர் வேலை பார்பாரா....நான் கூட கண்டக்டர் வேலை பார்த்து இருக்கேன் ..சேலம் - கரூர் ரூட் தாங்க நம்ம ரூட்...ஒரே ஒரு நாள் தான் வேலை, நண்பர்கள் கூட போன ஒரு டூர் மத்தியில் நான் கொஞ்சம் பார்ட் டைம் வேலை பார்த்தேன் ...ஒன்னும் இல்லை...கரூர் ...கரூர்...கரூர்...என்று bus முன்னாடி நின்னு தொன்ட கிழிய கத்தனும் ...அதுவும் ஒரு நல்ல அனுபவம் தான்..என் கூட வந்த ஒரு கரூர் பையனுக்கு ரொம்ப சங்கடமா போய் விட்டது என்னமோ உண்மை தான், இந்த வேலைக்கு காசு ஒன்னும் வாங்கவில்லை ...

இதற்கு மேல எழுதினால் படிக்கிற கொஞ்ச பேரும் படிப்பதை நிறுத்தி விடுவீர்கள் .நன்றி.

India vs Zimbabwe series....error... vs Australia

2008-11-12T13:47:00.006+05:30

just cant resist putting the above title for this post, In almost all the matches there were heavy scores by the indian batsmen, scoring freely and mounting huge first innings total's in the range of 450-600+ runs, and in one particular match there were 2 indian batsmen crossing 200's....zimbabwe and bangladesh fans can compare their teams with Aussies now, there team wouldnt have conceded 2 double hundreds in a single innings against India. marigin of defeat in terms of run difference were huge 350+ and 150+ and Indian's kept declaring...declaring..getting tired of seeing the australian bowlers, fielders, captain and more importantly the cricket ball running all over the ground(they were supposed to run through the batting lineup).In one match they declared in both the innings, last test match in nagpur was the only time australia took 20 wickets...and guess what there was this krazy person with a krazy debut.. jason kreza, took 12 wickets out of that 20, what shane warne dreamed of doing agaisnt the fab four throughout his career in india, this guy managed to do in his debut, with a high price though.

.. i did watched the final rites being performed on the last day of the series live . When Hayden and company were raring to have a go at the indian bowlers from the start of play, Dhoni and Co were constantly having chats, discussions, forming strategies (..they might have also discussed politics and movie releases i think..)...slowing up the over rate of the innings. most funny part was harbhajan visibly annoyed everyone by having some stretching excerices on his own lying on the ground before starting his runup..this guy knows well how to irritate the Aussies on and off the field.

Ian chappel was screaming on the lunch break about dhoni's tactics of slowing down the over rate. similar screams were voiced for the 8-1 field employed by Dhoni on the third day they say it is a civilised version of bodyline. anybody who knows bodyline, please comment if that was a valid comparison.

Upcoming series would be more interesting i guess, andrew flintoff has got special training from grant flower for playing indian spinners. a part of this english team had defeated Aussies when they were in thier prime form and when they had prime players... a little over 3 years back.....

Read On.....

2008-10-09T21:52:00.005+05:30

...this post is going to be blah-blah about my reading novels, books and authors. please decide yourself on reading further.

reading habit has been well nurtured by my mom, it all started with reading comic books at quarterly, half yearly holidays in school probably 2nd std i assume, after that my mom having spotted the interest me and my brother had started purchasing many books. so it was always books like tinkle, gokulam, and several others which i don't remember, but tinkle has always been our favorite.

as days passed tinkle started became boring and books like TINTIN, ASTERIX and OBELIX became our favourite, though this collection of books comes with a high price tag, we managed to study all the TINTIN series and most of the Asterix collection. surprisingly a government library near our house in Chennai had most of the collection and there are always your uncle's and aunty's house to borrow.

by the ninth year in my school i had started reading english novels, we managed to take a membership in a very small library owned by a anglo-indian. it was always 'chase' novels initially (JAMES HADLEY CHASE) and ALISTAIR MCLEAN books. during this period i remember enjoying reading AUGATHA CHRISTEY novel very much, it is a detective story, which brings in many suspect characters for a murder, and suspense is absolutely awesome.

after this just for showing myself at my home and to others, i started taking huge books from the library. initially it was like skip pages in novel in places where the author starts giving pictorial explanation about a place, explanation about characters and scenes. the author who didn't bore in his explanation and description of characters and places was ARTHUR HAILEY, anybody who has interest in reading books should read his novels.'hotel','airport' are the two collections i remember of Hailey. even today when i search for novels in stores i always search for his novels first.the last time i read his books are in 10th std.after that never got a chance to get his books.

SIDNEY SHELDON started becoming my all time favourite, apart from that the other authors whom i like are JOHN GRISHAM books, for now i can only remember TESTAMENT...another recommendation from for readers to try this book, JEFREEY ARCHER american author i think, never liked his stories very much. DAN BROWN novels were good, but i never tried reading anything after reading his ANGELS AND DAEMONS because the subject of his book always had something against Christianity. Though i consider myself a voracious reader of novel, i have never tried or intend to read any of JK ROWLING books.

be it movie or novel intelligence operation stories have interested me very much. there is a old novel which i don't remember the name anymore, about a Israeli intelligence agent capturing a ship carrying armaments, was another of my memorable reading.

All this years of reading novels and stories, if somebody asked about my best reading. i would say PONNIYIN SELVAN...it was the first and the last tamil novel i read. though the volume of books were lying in my house for years, i never cared to read the book, until recently last year when one of my friend told about the story. it was a volume of 6-7 books, which i read every night before going to sleep for 2 month. the characters and descriptions in the books were so awesome that, i started getting dreams of finding myself in forests. another recommendation for readers to try this one. author of that book is KALKI.

many thanks for being patient and reading till this point, suggestions are welcome about books and authors.

பயோ - டேடா

2008-10-02T20:03:00.022+05:30

பெயர் - சாமுவேல் இக்னேஸியஸ்

வீட்டில் - சாம்.... சாமு

பள்ளியில் - 'சாமு-வேலு' என்பதை திருப்பி 'வேலு-சாமி' என்று கூப்பிடார்கள்

கல்லூரியில்- சாமிஎள்

வேளையில் - சாம்மி , மேடீ

தொழில் - சாப்ட்வேர்.

உப தொழில் - சாப்பிட்டு.. தூங்குவது

பிடித்தது - கூகிள்.காம் .

பிடிக்காதது - கிரெடிட் கார்டு பிள் .

பொழுதுபோக்கு - கிரிக்கெட் .

சமீபத்ய சாதனை - கம்பெனி மாறாதது.

நீண்ட கால சாதனை - காதலில் விழாதது

நண்பர்கள் - டேடாபேஸ் சர்வர்

எதிரிகள் - எர்ரற் மெசேஜ்

மறக்க நினைப்பது - மார்க்கெட் கிராஷ்.

மறக்க முடியாதது - டேடாபேஸ் கிராஷ் .

Blasts....Terrorism....Encounters....

2008-09-22T16:49:00.005+05:30

..there was a period when middle east countries, in particular Israel and Palestine continously hogged the international news with terrorist attacks, suicide bombers...and all the extremisms that you could imagine of. Israel found itslef amidst a group of arab countries looking for an slightest opportunity to overcome this nation. though it was their big brother America, who had helped them in most of the crisis, it was after a period of time, they developed one of the most respected intelligence and later they had all the sophisticated weapons to counter terror attacks. There are no more news about Israel and Palestine these days, thanks to India and their fighting brothers in Pakistan..last 4-5 years have seen explosions everywhere in India and Pakistan...latest being operation BAD..bangalore-Ahemdabad-Delhi and operation (intelligence are yet to name this operation), for now we will call this as operation mariott hotel. Pakistan interior ministers say this is pakistan's 9/11.

when there was a serial train blasts in mumbai 2 years back, India having managed to have a good relation with Israel in fact went on to acquire assistance imediately from Israel in terms of detectors and other technologies they had against bomb detections. So it was not a surprise when a major news channel in india, interviewed a Israel diplomat on the challenges india faced on terrorism on the eve of Delhi balasts, i still cant imagine terrorist managed to plant a bomb near India gate (though it never went off). One thing the diplomat happened to mention in his own isralei accent was, india can no longer rely only on intelligence agencies, rather they should infiltirate into the terrorist group. Interesting isn't it..he mean to say, there must be intelligent agents who should join the terrorrist group and be able to pass information about terrorist network and about their plans to the government.

Encounters, delhi police managed to crack the case within 2 weeks after the bomb explosion and a special team found itself in encounter with 4 terorist, Mohan chand sharma, lost his life. the person who lead the operation apparently was not wearing a bullet proof, and had taken 3 bullets in the body and battled for 8 hours before succumbing to his injuries. After reading about this news i couldnt stop myslef from thinking of the other 2 famous encounters that tamilnadu police had carried out before. 3-4 years back, flashback....

Operation Cocoon, bought an end to 3 decade long hunt for a forest brigand. it was a joint operation by karnatka and tamilnadu police and they managed to infiltrate the gang. So it was one of the infiltrator who was driving the ambulance in which veerapan was travelling, what happened next is known to everybody.....this operation still stands highlighted in achievements section of the resume of former chief minister, known better as Amma. the Other operation was veeramani encounter, a notoriuos gangster in chennai, it was said local police had warned veeramani several times, before carrying on with their operations. Also a particular sub inspector who was a core member in veeramani encounter was handpicked for veerapan encopunter as well. Traditionally tamilnadu police always have shown brightly during Amma regime....

now to the important questions, how many of us remember these officers who risk or sometimes lose their lives ...?

மறந்து போன நியாபகங்கள்....

2008-09-11T09:57:00.006+05:30

ஆமாங்க எனக்கு ஒரு வியாதி இருக்கு (நம்ம கஜினி படம் கதாநாயகன் மாதிரி வச்சுகோங்க ...அவருக்கு நிமிஷம்.. எனக்கு வருஷம் ) யாராவது கூட பழகியவர்களை ஒரு ரெண்டு இல்லை மூன்று வருடங்கள் கழித்து பார்த்தால் அவுங்க பேரு மட்டும் நியாபகம் வந்தே தொலைக்காது, இன்னும் ஒரு ஐந்து இல்லை ஆறு வருடங்கள் சென்றால் ஆலே மறந்து விடுகிறது. இப்போது இதை ஏன் சொல்றேன் என்று நீங்கள் நினைக்கலாம், அப்படி நினைத்தால் தொடர்ந்து படிக்கவும்...நினைக்கவில்லை என்றாலும் படிக்கலாம்.

நான் ரொம்ப நாட்களாக வருத்தப்படற ஒரு விஷயம்ங்க இது. மறந்து போன கல்லூரி நண்பர்கள் மற்றும் கல்லூரி நாட்கள். முதல் ஆண்டு முலு கல்லூரியே நமக்கு ஒரு பெரிய நண்பர் கூட்டம் மாதிரி இருந்தது, நான்காவது ஆண்டு படித்து முடிக்கும் போது நண்பர் கூட்டம் ஒரு அளவு சிறிய வட்டம். அந்த நான்கு ஆண்டுகளையும் எங்கவாது ஒரு டையரி மாதிரி எழுதி வைத்திருந்தால் இப்போது படித்து பார்க்க எவ்வளவு நன்றாக இருந்திருக்கும். அதுவும் முக்யமாக என்னை போல மறதி உள்ளவர்களுக்கு.

கல்லூரி முடிந்து சில நாட்கள் நண்பர்கள் சந்திப்பு மற்றும் ஊர் சுற்றல் தொடர்ந்தது, கொஞ்ச நாட்கலில் இதுவே தொலைபேசி அழைப்பாக மாறி , பிறகு சம்ஸ் (அதாங்க மொபைல் போன்ல மெசேஜ் அனுப்ரது). கால போட்கில் எல்லா தொடர்பும் துண்டிக்க பட்டு , இப்போது வெறும் கல்யாண கட்சிகளில் மட்டும் சந்திக்க நேருகிறது, அதுவும் நான்கு வருடம் சுக துக்கங்களை பகிர்ந்து கிட்டவனிடம் இப்போது வெறும் நான்கு இல்லை ஐந்து நிமிடம் மட்டுமே ..மச்சான் ஆபீஸ்ல ஒரு மீட்டிங் போகணும் ..என்று சொல்லி வைத்தாற்போல் எல்லாரும் சொல்லிவிட்டு பறக்கிறார்கள். கூட படித்த அம்மணிகள் சொல்லவே வேண்டாம் படிக்கும் போதே நம்மவர்களை கண்டு கொள்ளாதவர்கள் இப்போது எந்த பூலோகத்தில் இருக்காங்கனு கூட தெரியவில்லை...எங்கிருந்தாலும் வாழ்க.

ஆனால் பசங்க பாசகார பயலுங்க எந்த கண்டம் விட்டு கண்டம் தாண்டி போனாலும் மெயில் மற்றும் போட்டோ அனுப்பரான் , இதில் சில பேர் அவுங்க தேனிலவு போட்டோ கூட அனுப்சாங்க, தாங்ஸ்டா மச்சான்.....ஆனால் மேலே சொன்ன மாதிரி சில பெயர்களை பார்த்தால், இவன் எப்படி இருந்தான் இவன் கூட நம்ம பண்ண லூட்டிகள் எல்லாம் சட்டுன்னு நியாபகம் வர மாட்டிகிறது..இதில் இன்னும் கொடுமை பள்ளிகூடம் நண்பர்களை பார்த்தால் ஆள் நியாபகம் வரவில்லை... இதற்கு என்ன காரணங்கள் ? ..

மறப்போம் மன்னிப்போம் ! என்று எல்லாரும் சொல்லறாங்க ...ஆனால் நான் இப்போ மறந்ததற்காக மன்னிப்பு கேட்டு கொல்றேன் (நல்ல வேலை விஜயகாந்த் சார் இதை படிக்க வில்லை ) ......

a deal......

2008-09-08T13:09:00.007+05:30

...do you know as of this writing India can have civil nuclear trade with countries such as france and russia. last week Nuclear Supplier Group, comprising 45 nations agreed on writing to this effect. barring opposition and LEFT, scientist and senior statesmen hailed this decision as this will take the energy starved country forward in the coming decades.

Also in the process India discovered a new enemy, so China officially became the second enemy after pakistan. Obviously our good neighbor who considers itslef as the super power in this asian region, is not overly happy with the progress that India might have becasue of this deal. So amongst the countries that was not in favour of India, china stood top and this stunned several diplomats.

there are 2 aspects to the entire nuclear deal,
1. getting waiver from NSG, this enables India to have nuclear trade with member countries in NSG.this has been obtained after several diplomatic efforts with countries such as Austria,Switzerlans, NZ.So what next. India would try to genrate energy from their nuclear reactors with plutonium purchased from either of these countries.it is estimated the nuclear reactors might become functional to their full cpacity by 2020.

2. Indo-US nuclear agreement, this now stands in the US congress for the resolution to be adopted for or against the deal. As far as India's perspective even if the US congress votes against the deal. Nothing stops India from acquiring technology and resources from other countries such as france,russia,canada, etc..

Well if there is one country that becomes profitable immensely of this deal is US, they become a major supplier of muclear technology and resources, and it is estimated this will result directly and indirectly in creating more than 50,000 job opportunites in US. Not to mention the huge revenue and control over another developing Nation with respect to energy.

ok coming to the political scenarios behind the deal. LEFT had stood firm on their stand from time immemorial that they are against the deal. great, win or lose election, stand for your ideologies. Now coming to the other opposition, BJP. there are still few people who contribute this deal success to Vajpayee, who initiated the entire process. After the Pohkran test conducted by vajpayee government in 1998, In Order to convince the UN general assembly the then Indian governmnet went so far close to sign CTBT, comprehensive test ban treaty. So why oppose the deal now ?..taking side with LEFT. was it to bring the government down.. ?..I am sure if they were in power they would have gone all out for the deal themselves.

The present govermnet however had made the deal without any restrictions on Nuclear testing. though there was a leaked letter to US congress which indicate that, US would call off the pact if they conduct nuclear test. this has become the open secret for the country now, if they do a nuclear test, relations and pacts made are cut off...

Nuclear warhead for defence...or Nuclear energy for power genration and development... which side are you in ?..

what does the country need most now ..energy or warheads..?.. would this deal solve the energy crisis for the next genration ?...would India be able to challenge China and become superpower in Asia...?

தமிழ் பற்று ..

2008-08-26T20:10:00.037+05:30

..அடிப்படையாக நான் ஒரு மதுரை காரன் ங்க , அதனால தமிழ் மேல எனக்கு ஒரு தனி பற்று என்னிக்கும் உண்டு. அதான் இந்த ஒரு முயற்சி , தமிழ் போஸ்ட் ...

நான் அபபோது எட்டாவது வகுப்பு படுச்சிட்டு இருந்தேன் அப்பா வுக்கு சென்னை நகராட்சிக்கு வேலை மாற்றுதல் வந்தது, நல்ல பள்ளிக்கூடம் ஒன்றை பார்த்து சேர்த்து விட்டாங்க என்னை, நம்ம சென்னை பசங்க சொல்ல வேண்டும்மா என்ன, ஊர்ல இருந்து ஒரு மாக்கான் வந்துட்டான்னு பார்க்கும் போது எல்லாம் நம்ம ஊரு காரங்க மாதிரி பேசி வெறுப்பு எத்துவாய்ங்க , அதாங்க 'வாய்ங்க' 'போயிங்க' 'அங்கிட்டு ' 'இங்கிட்டு ' நு பேசி பேசி , பசங்க தான் இப்படி என்றால் நம்ம ஸ்கூல் டீச்சர் உம் கொறைச்சல் இல்லை, மதுரை ல இருந்து வந்து என்ன இவ்லோ சேட்டை பண்ற என்று சொல்லி நம்மக்கு எப்போதும் ஒரு எக்ஸ்ட்ரா அடீ விலும் அப்போது தான் தெரிஞ்சது சென்னை வாசிகலுக்கு நம்ம ஊரூ காரைங்க மேல எவ்வளவு பாசம்...

ஸ்கூல் சேர்ந்து கொஞ்ச நாளைக்கு என் சின்ன வயஸூ தமிழ் மாஸ்டர் மேல எனக்கு ரொம்ப கோபம் ங்க , என்னடா நம்மக்கு நிறைய தமிழ் வார்த்தை சொல்லி தரலன்னுதான் வேற என்ன ங்க பண்றது...

இப்படி தாங்க.... ஒரு நாள் கிரிக்கெட் விளையாட போனேன் ஒன்னும் புரியலை , ஒரு ரன் எடுத்தா எல்லாம் கத்துறான் 'போங்கு' 'போங்கு' நு ...அப்போரம் கொஞ்ச நேரம் கழிச்சு இன்னொரு ரன் எடுத்தா எல்லாம் 'காஜூ' 'காஜூ' நு கத்துறான் ....

ஒன்னும் புரியாத நம்ம ஊரு காரன்குளுக்காக, நான் கொஞ்சம் தெளிவா சொல்லி ஆகணும்...

போங்கு - ஏமாத்துறது (நான் ரன் சரியா ஓடலை போல இருக்கு)...
காஜூ - அதாங்க ஒரு ஓவர் ல லாஸ்ட் பால் ரன் எடுத்தா ..காஜூ ...

ஓகே ..ங்க ...கொஞ்சம் கஷ்டமா இருக்கு ..தமிழ் ல ப்லோக் எழுதுறது ....

Land dispute.......

2008-08-20T12:05:00.003+05:30

..Jammu and kashmir row, almost for a month now this news has made headlines in India, first and foremost this is not just like any other political unrest in the valley. After more than a month since the row started I am starting to hope now that this is not going to turn into a embarrassement for India in international community, already there was news yesterday that pakistan has setup a panel to monior the situation in Jammu and Kashmir, definelty not a good news.

How it all started...the jammu and kashmir goverment trasfers 99 acres of land to a pilgrimage trust, Amarnath shrine board. Apparently this was done to enable the trust to construct temporary huts and toilets for the pilgrims who visit the mountain, it is estimatd approximately close to 4-5 lakh pilgrims visit their pilgirmage in the himalayan mountain.

Now certain section which also forms majority in the state, protest against this fearing that this would affect the demographic balance in the kashmir. ok now the government obviously fearing for the majoirty section in the state, rolls back the land trasfer. this Rollback by the goverment made the other section to protest, gues how did they protest, they made a blockade, they blocked the highway linking srinagar with jammu and rest of the country, this they call it economic blockade, the blockade apart from making a shortage of essential items like food and medicine in the kashmir valley also prevented fruits and other grown items in kashmir from transporting out of the valley into other states for business. This made the farmers to march towards the lOC apparently trying to sell their products in PoK.

I dont think any pilgrims are involved in the protest, instead you got to see various outfits, political activists, communal acitivist who are trying to show their strength, and the outcome schools, colleges, business and not to mention the poor farmers and local people are the most affected. Also this is just not a fight for 99 acres land, not definetly, for several years the two communities had lived in peace, though there has always been a war waiting to happen, and this issue has tirggered it.

There have been talks going on and on, but still i have not heard or read a possible solution for the row yet. Meanwhile our very own seasoned politician and tamilnadu CM MK has given some suggestion to solve the issue to centre, except that he did not make it public, very good political move taking into account the vote bank he has with the minority community...

"Sound of Music"

2008-08-12T11:56:00.005+05:30

..growing up as a kid i have overheard lot of conversation about this movie by my parents, and decided recently to check what the movie is all about. when people who are least interested in movies and also consider viewing movie as a sin speak good about a movie, you need to check about it, wouldn't you.

Well it is a typical movie that can be watched in a boring saturday afternoon, slow movie, an musical treat to any music lovers. This movie got released in 1965, and the story opens in the backdrop of world war 2 when nazi's are about to capture Austria, and movie revolves around a nun maria,a widower captain, and his seven childrens.

More than the story line or script of the movie, the movie i think got famous only for the songs. there are 2 songs which made me sit up and notice and am sure will impress any person, whether he is interested in music or not."My Favorite Things", "Do-Re-Mi".

My favourite things...maria sings this song when the little children gets afraid or rather terrified with the thunderstorm.the lyrics reminds me of one of a post made by my friend...about what she does when she gets bored.the lyrics of the song goes something like this.

Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens
Bright copper kettles and warm woolen mittens
Brown paper packages tied up with strings
These are a few of my favorite things
.
.
.
When the dog bites
When the bee stings
When I'm feeling sad
I simply remember my favorite things
And then I don't feel so bad
...

http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=j9KwlIHcmq4&feature=related

Do-re-mi.....in this song maria teaches the children on how to sing a song with proper notes.

Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with A-B-C
When you sing you begin with do-re-mi

Do-re-mi, do-re-mi
The first three notes just happen to be
Do-re-mi, do-re-mi
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.
.
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Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow Sew
Tea, a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to Do (oh-oh-oh)

Now to bejing Olympics. A day after making a billion dream come true, Abhinav has this to write, rather than going all gha gha over his achievement, he called for support to all the athletes specially when they are not on top of the game...read more on this below.

http://abhinavbindra.blogspot.com/2008/08/day-after.html

home ..sweet home

2008-07-31T20:57:00.010+05:30

..since joining my new company last winter a fair period of time has been spent away from home. Assignments were always 3-4 weeks, so I was lucky enough to keep coming back to my home, before getting on a next assignment. after my first trip outside the country i reported directly to my office in Banglore and was still feeling the pressure to complete the project in schedule and the first weekend in bangalore went off breaking my dull head to solve an important issue.

It was just like any other friday afternoon when bangalorean's were getting ready for a weekend. What started as just a news when the first 2 bomb blast went off, later turned to panic and fear amongst the residents when there were more blasts around the city, but within few hours city was back to normal, and i was happily travelling on a night train to chennai to finish some work at my flat, just as i was boarding the train i got call from my friends to be ready for a short trip next morning. so immediately after reaching my home, i was picked up by my old colleagues and friends and off we went to a falls.

Still tired from my journey i was simply dozing off in the vehicle when everybody around me was partying hard, dancing, beating drums and doings things like that. before getting into water there were this usual sessions in which everybody participated with exception of few. my beloved junior shomik, i had groomed him from a fresher to a very successful DBA and have supported him very much in our profession, he was very particular in returning the favour that day by deciding to teach me swimming, well i tried my best and finally left it for another day to learn.

On our return back to chennai, we decided to visit one of our colleagues house, stanley. within a very short notice, stanley's mom was able to cook dinner for alomst 15-16 guys(some hugely built). and we all took pictures in his house, i was not able to use my camera though, earlier in the day i had got into the river with my camera in shorts pocket. it was raining very heavily in chennai by the time we were reahcing the city and guys decided to stay in my flat for the night. Sunday night i travelled back to bangalore.

i am writing this post sitting in a guest house in bangalore, my short project has come to a logical conclusion and from next week i would be reporting to my office in chennai....home....sweet home.

No Confidence..and Singh is King

2008-07-22T20:52:00.005+05:30

Today amidst all the deadlines i was having in my project i left office by 6 sharp, just to watch the no confidence vote the government was facing in the floor of the parliament. First video picture that i saw was few opposition MP's waving stacks of currencies, probably running into crores making allegation against the ruling party. Though i didnt follow politics closely, parliament sessions have always interested me, particularly when some serious decisions were being made, its time's like these when lot of drama happens.

ok so it is about nulear deal with united states, the LEFT after several warnings finally left the ruling party opposing the deal, and opposition NDA who were supporting the deal earlier, got a chance to pull the goverment down. Meanwhile there was this usual THIRD front who started dreaming about ruling the country for a short time.

there were few people who impressed me in the short time i saw the session, Omar abdullah the young politician from kashmir, made a strong speech about the deal and why he is supporting it.he went on to say that he is a member of the parliament for 10 years, both on the ruling and opposition side and never once had disrupted the proceedings or stopped anybody from speaking. thats an example isnt't it, how to conduct yourself in the parliament.
Honurable PM and honourable Speaker of the house. of the house. PM finally shed the image of the weekest PM by pulling thorugh the no confidence motion, and in the process also got a chance to take a dig at opposition leader and left.

Next few days in politics will be very interesting, one party which is most affected by this outcome in the next election will be left. for now i am happy that the government did not fall during a difficult time in economy.

Athena...

2008-07-03T22:28:00.011+05:30

..again i was made to travel for an assignment, this time the assignment is for a European bank, in Athens. what is special that strikes you in Greece. well as like any other European country, the country still holds its tradition, culture. not overly perturbed by any modernisation that are happening in the western world. there aren't many people who speak English in Greece. i roamed around the city in the only weekend i got, acropolis, whoever visits Athens should never miss this place.. and i pass by Olympic park daily for office. apart from these two places, i didn't get much opportunity to look around. Somehow Athens attracts lots of tourist from around the world and I also learnt that tourism and shipping are the 2 major industries in Athens. and

from what i have seen India is much more progressive country than this European nation.

so what do you do when you go to a new place or new country ?, enjoy the country culture, learn their language, taste their food. greeks use olive oil in their food preparation and there is a dish called peta(that's how we understood the pronunciation), so throughout the week i had chicken peta,beef peta...and as i said before "while in rome be a roman" in line with the above phrase started taking pork peta too..

climate, certainly it is that bad time of the year to travel to greece i think, the place is really hot.

ok wish i get some sleep...didnt sleep well for the past weeks...and regarding greek language i heard people tellng something like "'paragallo"..when they are trying to wish someone. did a google to understand, and couldn't manage to..so my idea of learning few greek words was not a success. any intelligent reader can help me understand the exact meaning of this word..

nothing to write......

2008-06-24T21:45:00.006+05:30

there isn't anything interesting for me to write now, still i would like to keep my blog updated..last 2 weeks i slept late, courtesy euro cup 2008, somehow this tournament has interested me a lot more than IPL or any cricket tournament for that matter, main reason being there were many close finishes...unusual for a soccer game.

turkey vs croatia......both are little known countries in soccer, i remember croatia has made to last four in a world cup, 1996 i guess not sure, so by past records that i have known i thought croatia would make it to the semifinals, it turned out to be a very thriling contest..
the match went into extra time after there were no goals in the 90 minutes. closing stages of extra time niether team has scored and was heading for a penalty shoot out..and the twist came, the little country of the two striked..i can imagine how croatians must have felt then...it is a magic isn't it striking in the dying moments of the game (29th minute) and taking your team to semifinal..

on the other side, turkish players for them they thought it was all over, there was just a minute left for the close, and already few turkish players were lying in the ground, as usual 2 minutes (injury time)were added to the extra time, then the unexpected happened when a turksh striker scored a equaliser in the dying seconds..unbelievable....eventually turkey went on to win in the penalty shoot out.

the other quarterfinal match between two heavyweights in football, italy vs spain was a complete disappointment, neither team looked threatening. i am a great fan of italy from the days of roberto baggio, the world champion played a negative game trying to stretch the game to penalty shootout and deservedly lost the match in the penalty.

As it is known i am hanging out with my friends in hexaware on weekends, and we all went to a movie called dasavatharam, this movie came with lots of expectation, first time in cine history an actor (kamal) is donning 10 different roles, and already was booked for a week in most of the cinema halls, still i managed to get tickets for a night show on the second day. well it was a complete disappointment for me and i almost slept in the hall, but the good news for kamal fan's is into 2nd week the movie is still running in packed shows.

there were few support calls from old office as well and on a saturday night out of sheer boredom in my house and being called by my old colleagues as well, i went to look after one issue in streaming server, irony is everybody was thinking i am an expert advicer in streaming technology though i am a novice, i ended up solving other 2 issues and made them happy....well as far as streaming issue i made few recommendations and it was open.

Good, i made up a post, when i started i did'nt know what to write and gave a title "nothing to write"........

...India Gate

2008-05-30T20:06:00.017+05:30

..well lets see what updates i have to write now from my last post....to summarise there were few business trips across the country and one pleasure trip ..again to god's own country..pleasure trip was not as memorable as our earlier trips..again it was with my friends in hexaware...not going into greater details, i wish to do a small write up...things that i remember now... after 2 months of the trip...

well as usual the trip involved my great mokkai during the journey...me and subbu shared all our experiences in project.....and an advice to Balan, our tour co-ordinator about train travel...

our trip to vayanadu...break down of our vehicle and our exciting journey in a jeep..Senthil had heart in his mouth and really struggled hanging out from the footboard of the jeep.....

falls..of all the waterfalls i had visited in recent years..this one was located in a very difficult terrain....alarm bells went on..as one of our senior and beloved collegaue slipped and hit the rock...for an moment his memory went blank...

there were antakshri..dance....and all the fun an normal touring group will have...few of the guys managed to play ..drums, trumpets, flute...without any instruments...

our tour co-ordinator, balan had his first taste of an hard drink....toddy.....good start isnt't it...

we played cards...hanged out in a resort and later in a beach.....

return trip on train was memorable particularly when we discovered that there was an pretty girl travelling along with us....well everybody tried there best to impress her..and all night we played cards ...dumb sherak...

back to work..i was sent on a business trip to banglore and later on a day visit to national caital....sure i want to write about my trip to Delhi....after finishing off my work ..i was left with 6-8 hours in the day to roam around the capital...well first thing i did was took a travel guide from my hotel and called my mom.....why would I call my mother....any guess..

yes...our family lived in delhi for 2 years...i was around 3-4 years old then....absolutely no memories of anything whatsoever.......

given the short time i had, symbol of love, Tajmahal was out of my plan....though i managed to visit most of the monuments...that symbolise the capital....

India Gate...extract from wiki, goes like this..

The India Gate is a war memorial in New Delhi commemorating the Indian dead of the First World War. The India Gate today also houses the Indian Army's Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, the Amar Jawan Jyoti. Inscribed on top of India Gate in capital letters is the line...
""To the dead of the Indian armies who fell honoured in France and Flanders Mesopotamia and Persia East Africa Gallipoli and elsewhere in the near and the far-east and in sacred memory also of those whose names are recorded and who fell in India or the north-west frontier and during the Third Afghan War. ""

Then went on to visit our symbol of democracy....Indian parliament ..and known by recent generation ..or atleast by me ..as a place where the ruling and opposition and elected representatives fight....wasting lakhs of rupees just discussing on policies that take years to get implement.....
then went on to visit..our official residence of the president of india.....Rastrapti Bhavan..went on to visit redfort.....not sure about the importance of this place.....except that it is built of a red stone by Shahjahan....

ok i managed a long post...after a long time....now getting ready for chennai Superkings vs Rajasthan Royal...IPL final....

For strict compliance...

2008-04-17T20:11:00.005+05:30

Give GOd the First part of everyday

Give GOd the First day of every week

Give GOd the First portion of your income

Give GOd the First consideration in every decision

Give GOd the First place in your life

Cellarstone

2008-04-02T17:46:00.009+05:30

...flashback again 2-3 years back

It was a recreation club for most of us, i got my first shock on the second day of my joining, i was called to a conference room, an entire team was trying to get a conference call to US without success, and they asked me to fix the device....at this point only i realised that my work is not a system administration support and it is rather a infrastructure support.....what followed later were calls for all the hardware, OS, network, application, servers, desktops, laptops, printers...... and strangely after sometime i realised i was supporting electrical system as well in the company, managing 3-4 high capacity UPS devices and the most funniest thing was when one of our client from US who was visiting our office came to my desk and told that his AC is not working, that was not my domain for sure. I was happily getting involved in all the other activites though.

Apart from all the roles i was into, most people in our office felt that i was the person who is enjoying the most in the company, reason was mainly i had to report to a manager in US..and i never reported to him...and i had one senior in my office who never reported too..we had our own territory..there was never a instance i can remember that my boss had complained about us...

back to our main entertainment ..after the hype in table tennis game got down after tournaments, we played more of carrom and chess, mainly to encourage and give opportunity to others for playing TT and another reason was for giving company to few talented guys in that sport..

Anand, this guy joined as a testing engineer, he had a high rapport with all the co-staff, he proclaimed himself as a carrom champion..but seriously i felt kamal,me and enos were one level more than him in carrom, still we encouraged him a lot.There would be huge crowd when we four of us played ..as each one of us would try to better the other ....kamal was consistent, me -close to consistent and alawys looked for difficult cut shots, with enos -it was always blind shots, he himself wouldnt know which coin he was trying but he will win..and Anand - crowd liked this guy very much, and few times he did managed to beat us..

Chess...played rarely, never attracted crowd as much. i had kamal beaten in an improtant round but eventually fell to a lesser known guy, i think even kamal would remember that game. second year tournament was an great disaapointment, i fell in the semifinal rounds in all the games...TT, carrom...and in Chess i gave a walkover to Anand...who eventually won the championship. But i made sure that anand never won a game against me..he played 4-5 games with me after the championships..but the champion never was able to beat me...we both played equal style of game.

trips on the company, there would always be year end party on a resort or a theme park, which i always skipped due to my year end church service, we once went to pondicherry, when most people were visiting ashram, and museums.....me ,vijay and jenser found pub everywhere and enjoyed all combinations of drink that was possible...there was once a long trip to hogaanekkal...me and Anand got knocked over by drinks..still i remember both of us had more
than 4 beers and we were so knocked out that both of us carried a lemon in our hands in bus all the way from hoganekkal to chennai..lemon it is beleived neutralises the effects of a drink... and it did that day..

..ok back to work i got a change of job profile in the company after few negotiations with the management, now started looking into DBA activities as well after some training on that line. what followed later was bad days for that company..they lost an important client, business went down...slowly people started moving out of the club..sorry company..

NSA ....and friends...

2008-03-23T19:28:00.007+05:30

...all this happened 2-3 years back during the period of 2004-2005. i decided to write about my friends and associations i had during this period after seeing a post from one of my friend, http://www.scribd.com/doc/122368/CellarStone-buddies this link realy moved my genrally cold heart to write about my memories..and relationships we had...

initally when i joined this company i started hanging out with few cool guys in the company....vijay, raghav, jenser...so we were the happiest person's on that company, most of the co-staff usually found us in the mornings with hangovers...since we were performing well nobody had any complaints though....

later moved to a mansion near my office, as my senior was going on a long leave and i was in infra support. so this place was called NSA mansion....later this became the hub of master brains in that company...few of the master brains

Kamal- he was an aspiring and budding e-marketing professional, who later learned the tricks of the trade fast....and had high influence in marketing the product the developers made. smart guy and very popular amongst girl....great player of all games he was right there in top and this guy is very compassionate towards needy people....he tried his best to teach me e-marketing...but i never learned

Karthik- fresh out of college and new to chennai as well, he learned a lot from us..bike,drinks, smoking..and he listened to all our great blunt stories eagerly without getting bored...he had come from one fo the top colleges in TN and nobody can question his talent and passion for work..one good thing he learned from me was reading books and novels...i was involved in a bike accident with him...no injuries to anybody thank god...

Maneesh -he is most senior person in our group but again a close friend...he is from varanasi and the difference in culture and language made us more closer...for 2 years every evening he had given us papayaa....this guy is fond of fruits, specialy papayyaa..again a smart and clever person..he is fond of movies...and most of the movie shows we went were for him.....

Enos- the abdul kalam of our company, our company CEO realy liked tis guy very much for his work, he developed a product out of nowhere and became famous....he is known for working only on nights....coming to office on casuals.... and for fighting with program managers...he is again close to me...we went to church together...along with 2 more guys me and enos recieved value award in our first year in company..

events that i remeber now...

As it is known kamal is famous amongst girls, one fine day one girls car broke down and she called kamal to help...but since we were close friends and wherever we went we went in groups..and whatever we had we shared...we all went to drop her safely at her house....

our trip to hogganekal....everybody had a nice bath on the falls, except for me and karthik all other guys were topless..to the discomfort of these guys our managing director forwarded all the pictures to the entire office in india and us...there were secret comments from girls....

weekends were usually shopping and eating out....what followed was usualy fights for sharing the budget..even if it fell 1-2 rs short there would be hours of fights to settle it...

the way a senior PM reacted after he lost to me in tabletennis semifinal before an assembled office...he just throwed the bat angrily at the table and went off....no handshakes...nobody were able to react at that moment...nobody even clapped for my win...

we slept on conference rooms, due to a bit of workload and mostly due to hot summer...office was like home....enos and karthik even had thier pilows and bedspread in office...
we drank once in office terrace..had few rounds and again worked...
we had regular session in our rooms, most of our discussion were like board of directors discussion, and few gossip sessions as well...

those days will never come again......evrybody's paths changed drastically in these 3 years...there is one secret wish i have now..would we ever be able to work together again in a same office....even if we did, we would never be able to spend time like we did before....miss you guys....

..games

2008-03-08T13:54:00.006+05:30

..another weekend, another Saturday and well i seem to spend most of time time alone at my place these days...no more Friday night parties, no more Saturday morning hangovers, and no more pirated DVD movies to watch... on the other end work at office just seem to move along fine, no pressure, no late night work, no weekend scheduled works..but one thing that is interesting in office is i am completely into an technical environment that is very much demanding and new to me.

i have started playing table tennis in office, there are 2 games which have fascinated me a lot football and table tennis....i had played football in my school days, coming from a school that encouraged sports, we played the game with lot of pride and of course many injuries in leg and once in head ...well one thing i can still remember is once me and my friends had a game with the seniors, we were studying std 7...those guys were actually professionally trained by the sports trainer. we did lost the game that day but most people who saw the game and even the seniors saw that we were pretty good and attacking in the game. after that when i moved to a new school in chennai there was literally not much games i played and once i remember we played and it was one sided in which i scored close to 4 goals....

i was performing very poorly in other sports though...cricket..can remember just swinging the bat wildly and managing single digit scores...missing easy high catches...volleyball very famous in my school in chennai...not upto the level again..just managing to serve into the court..that was the big achievement.

it was in one of my earlier companies that people taught me tabletennis..and within a short period i caught up the game fast and i was right there in top4 by the end of the year..we played a lot of indoor games during this period carrom, chess and tabletennis ...sports festival happened every year and i managed to beat few big guys in TT..even the guys who taught me and finally lost in the final..after this i became popular guys tried their best to beat me....they liked my serve and everybody was imitating my serve. so what is that special in my game i defeated so many experienced guys...i was very strong in forehand cross court..bit weak in backhand..and i moved so fast and was hitting most of the shots across the table with high speed...i guess its the speed....Guys here in my new company seem to play lot of spin and these guys are too good in backhand also...have marked few guys to knock them........sport it is...

Saturday...afternoon 3 pm, boring and watching a movie....possibly next week i might go on a tour to god's own country..

....lent

2008-02-08T09:42:00.000+05:30

.....had an important assignment and i was travelling on the evening of new year, i was happy that i was not made to travel out of station on the month of december, so we were a litlle happy family and celebrated christmas and new year together after a very long time..

the assignment went well, as usual there was pressure from my manager and my client. 3-4 more days left to finish my task. So it was one day like this that i was stuck in one issue to solve and working late night...around 10.45 got a call from my brother...well the tone said it all, it was not a good news. my dad was hospitalised for fracturing a bone near his hip. being a physio himself my brother did analysed the situation very well and made arrangements in a hospital that he had worked 2 years back..this is the second time that my dad was involved in a serious situation, the first one was even worse, and in both the occasions, both me and my brother were not around..

..next day i realised that i was not able to concentrate on my work anymore..well my manager and client were sympathetic enough to release me and major part of my work in this assignment was also over..well 3-4 days from then i was travelling on air,road and rail.....once standing 6 hours in a train all the way from chennai to trichy, i was travelling from one city to other and arranging logistic support for my dad treatment and getting few formalities done in my dad office...meanwhile my brother flew back to his place..and my dad was recovering fast..

now lent days have started....days starting from ash wednesday till easter are called lent days..there would be forty days during this period when most christians go on fasting and prayer...and i would as always would not take any non-vegetarian food during this period....most churches preach these principles during this period

prayer, penitence, almsgiving and self-denial...

2007 ...as it happened

2007-12-24T21:48:00.000+05:30

1. January and February .....though we didn't feel it while we were doing it....when we think now, i can say that we worked like anything and put in lots of efforts in this period..department restructure, peoplesoft migration and new portal upgradation are three things that i remember...

two more things which i would like to keep remembering happened during this period....most of my friends still tease me about this..first one.....my project director called me on one weekend ..Saturday late evening and asked me "which server were you working today" .....he had assumed that i had worked on a server today and there was a server crash because of that...that was like hitting flat in your face.....
next one ....hmmm really proud of this one .....my PD this time had few good words for me and my junior especially after we had slogged for an important activity...he wrote that was "dedication to the core and it was beyond his expectation"....so this was the period when i was called 'dedication to the core' by my colleagues....though most people wouldn't have agreed ..especially my own manager....

2. march and April........travelled to mumbai as my junior was getting relieved and i was asked to support mumbai region...had nice time without doing any work or taking transition from him in mumbai...roamed all over mumbai for 3 days.....

pity... i can also remember that during this period India lost in cricket world cup...can see many of my friends with broken heart....

4. may and June.......... during this period me and my office friends travelled all over south tamil nadu (what else to do..particularly when most of us didn't get opportunity to travel overseas...)...

trip will be in memories for most of us...we travelled in big groups and had blast and fun...yercaud, salem, devakottai, trichy......and then relatively small group went to allepy, ernakkulam, kottayam...

5. July and august.........couldn't remember doing any work during this period...sort of siting in bench....can remember there was a server crash once...and there was high stress cause of that....nothing else....and appraisal happened..

went on a small trip to thekkadi, theni, surli falls......with my parents

6. September and October.....after effects of appraisal, i had started looking out for other opportunites and had put in my papers by august end.....
took time off and spent some time with my parents and relatives.....

7. November and December....new company, new roles, new challenges.....i was sent to an important assignment in my new company....very tough especially since i was new and i was trying myself to prove my abilities....November month, high stress and pressure

December....festival time and not much work in office...Christmas with my family...flat decoration and furnishing..

to summarise.............

the year 2007, January, February and November has been very hectic in profession....

there were lot of trips and spent a lot of time with friends and families....that is good....

no major achievements or recognitions this year....though i got a promotion..glory be to god....a promotion and ace award (2006) at my first year in this company...

job change....hard and tough challenges in profession....also i did realised that i was missing my friends a lot ....and i still miss them....though i was always a guy who is not much attached to relations, emotions and feelings......so i had changed in character..

just a week left in 2007........hope to be a better person in 2008...yes i would definetly..

....and christmas message

2007-12-16T19:16:00.000+05:30

...so he is back with us, yes my elder brother..he is just 15 months older to me and he is back after more than 2 years since he left india...felt good as i stood in the airport waiting for him, couldnt see any change in him as he walked out from the lounge...ok.. he is kind of pet to most of my relatives here in my native...and already many relatives were calling me in my mobile at midnight to reach him..very optimistic, religious, casual, very tough, very ambitious and i had learnt the importance of upholding values in life from him.....though i cant ever be as ambitious and tough like him.

already he has left to my native and i can imagine the kind of reception he gets from my relations there.. everybody is very fond of him, and I should admit that i would never get that kind of reception anytime from them...

what else, not much work in office, and yet to make friends here at my work place.....usually very slow starter in making friends. i was involved in whole lot of purchase for my house last week....now my Christmas tree has got some additional decorations .....choclate hangings, teddy bear, choclate santa....and whole lot of choclate decorations..

month of December is always special for all Christians...as people try to share their happiness and joy around...remembering Christ...

do you know immediately after Jesus was born in Bethlehem ..the first message about his birth was delivered to Shepperd's....an angel of the lord came before them and told them where exactly they would be able to find him.....specific instructions were given to them about the place and child.... amazing isn't it ...the message was not sent to any high priest, or religious leaders or kings....and sheperds were the first to visit the new born king.... remeber in all manger decorations in christian houses you will see sheperds standing around new born baby....and i like this particular sheperd statue carrying a lamb in his shoulder....

While shepherds watched
Their flocks by night
All seated on the ground
The angel of the Lord came down
And glory shone around

"Fear not," he said,
For mighty dread
Had seized their troubled minds
"Glad tidings of great joy I bring
To you and all mankind,

well i have got few stuffs in my fridge to finish before my parents come and see it ............and i have to do it without my usual company....and this one is imported...couldnt make what is it ..right ..thats good...

remembering Titanic ...

2007-12-07T19:53:00.000+05:30

what reminds us when we think of titanic......ship of dreams, love and many more......but there are many tales of bravery, sacrifice and heroism..most of these actions though has been shown in the movie..hardly anybody remembers the sacrifices....these are not just stories but real incidents that happened on that fatefull night..as said by few of the survivors.

engine room crew, nobody in the crew thought of getting away as the ship was sinking..these men struggled and kept the power and lights running as long as possible......

Officers ..many of them stayed on the deck to load and launch the lifeboats..they made sure all the boats are safely away....

wireless operators....captain Smith visited the wirelss room one last time and he said that they could abandon their post now....he said "Its now every man for himself, boys "....they stayed back trying desperately to send distress signals

these peoples risked their lives so that others might have a better chance of survival...they were a part of ship crew and they felt it was their duty to do so....they held on to their job and duties till their last breath....

most inspired story for me when i read about all the valliant efforts of people on board was of the Titanic Band...they were not a part of ship crew and they were not needed to keep the power running or load life boats....yet they stayed in the ship till the very end ..playing light, airy music to keep passengers calm when available lifeboats are loaded...as it is seen in the movie..the band played even when the ship turned on her nose and was sinking...a survivor says he cannot imagine how they ever able to play band at that time..
their efforts might not have saved many lives as other rescue workers did....but they made final moments of many lives ...less tragic by their soothing music ...it is believed that they played the below music though some survivors say it was a different song....

Nearer, my God, to Thee, nearer to Thee!
E’en though it be a cross that raiseth me,
Still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to Thee.

Refrain
Nearer, my God, to Thee,
Nearer to Thee!

Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
Darkness be over me, my rest a stone.
Yet in my dreams I’d be nearer, my God to Thee.

and there are countless accounts of newly wed husbands, men and old men agreeing to give up thier places for women and childrens.....

"Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends." John 15

i would like to remember titanic for all the love and memories of these brave men ......and definetly not for love between jack and rose............

Come december.........

2007-12-02T18:18:00.000+05:30

its that time of the year when you feel chill in the air and you know that the festival time is there..start december, plans have already started in my family for our christmas celebration, after 2 long years my elder brother will be there as well and my parents would travel to chennai for xmas...

ok ..i was out of station for almost 15 days on an official work and very happy to be back in my place now. really dont want to travel anymore till new year....lets see. i went to my church today and found that there is a carol rounds visit to my house on this week, hmm...it would be a great feeling singing all good old christmas song with spirit and joy, and today i started decorating my house for christmas, christmas tree is already in place...with cereal lights, christmas bells, snow flakes formation over the trees(nothing but cotton spread over the tree)...and in the coming weeks would be looking to decorate my tree more...

Evening, went for shopping and got my fridge stuffed with usual food items, it would be only noodles, corn flakes, egg and some choclates...nothing more, i lost all interest in cooking vegetables and now looking for only ready made foods. As it is a practise before any christmas, there are some serious shopping to be done in the coming weeks, a very difficult one..furnishing my house...

Its been a long time since i had a hang out with my friends and couldnt meet anyone yet since coming back to chennai ...when we meet there would be lot of things to discuss..probably would go out for a night show and discuss things in my place...

ok i am going to cook some stuff for my dinner now...watch a movie probably and sleep.....

Continous learning...and a record miss

2007-11-03T20:28:00.000+05:30

..Saturday night and i am sitting alone in my flat and writing this post. its been 2 weeks since i wrote anything here..

about my new company and job, i am told many things already to study and research, career has reached a new level where i have to work on high end techniques of multiple technologies and multiple platform. expectations are really high..well..my past experience is definitely helping me..

i managed to take a day off and attend one of my close friend marriage, it was in my native and she was very happy, being there in one of your friends important event of life will make anybody happy..she is pretty close to me and i realise now that after her marriage i wouldnt be able to keep in otuch with her as much as i did before...

my parents were not there in my native and i visited few of my relatives house, most of them are retired persons and i spent a considerable time with each of them as it was more than 2 years since i met them..and i had lunch in my cousine's house, her house is just opposite to my house and my dad had already called her up and asked her to take care of me....well she is about my same age and we are good friends...i did miss to meet one person in my native thats our house servant, i had always managed to meet her when i go home, and few times when she was sick i used to go to her house and visit..it is been a routine since my college that i always go to my native once in 4-5 months...so my next visit would be some where in mid 2008...goodbye madurai..

...i had subbu and few of my old colleagues from fresher batch visiting my place and we went to a falls near chennai...its a place called konnai falls in andhra pradesh..and by the time we returned to chennai..it was rain rain rain ......

well i will come to a crazy record miss, it was on thursday when jegu and thangaraj came to my flat. in my previous company i am an undeclared champion of mokkai..mokkai is a term that is commonly used these days, for a person who speaks on any topics to any person non stop..and it is again very important that the topic should not in any way interest those who are listening to them..... jegu i consider is a runner up to my position...so just imagine when we meet. it started in bed and we kept talking talking talking ..and finally jegu gave up and slept...and i was still talking...and it was 3.30...yes it was a record miss, me and subbu are joint holders of a record..we spoke non stop till 5.00 in the morning once...

jegu has just come to my place, he has got dinner to me also, after finishing that we would watch a movie and sleep .........

still missing .......

2007-10-13T19:03:00.000+05:30

the week started well, joined my new company and went through the usual procedures, the HR Manager had an presentation about the organisation and i should say he did extremely well, after this came a bit of shock..i was told that i would be given training on all software concepts for a week... most of them not related to my work profile...may be it would be useful to developers,testers and project manager...i tried my best to get involved in training and then just left it ..i was just going through the day ...

i did missed my friends in my old company a lot, so i decided to give them a visit, as expected subbu was in tea shop and i gave him a pleasant surprise ....then there were other bunch of guys...jegu ..a very busy person nowadays but still always takes time for me ,,,,thangs,shomik... who came down and we exchanged pleasantries. me and subbu went for a drink and discussed the usual politics and other develpments in hexaware..

there was another important incident that happened this week, neeraj...left the company for a better opportunity...though neeraj was not directly reporting to me ....till the day he left hexaware(even after i had left hexaware) he gave me the respect of team leader, even this week i had asked him to look after a producton issue that shomik was not able to solve alone and i was not able to look into it..he was busy with his relieving formalitites and still he took time and solved the issue...though he is my junior i spoke to him whenever i had issues with my manager and he always came with good suggestions..this guy is really matured compared to other guys in his batch...i still remember the advice he gave me in car on our way to airport ....i was returing from mumbai after taking the handover from him...he had left our project 6 month back...

me,neeraj and sugesh worked as a team...the relationship we had between us is more than just a team member....we are known for not sleeping on any open issues and there are numerous issues that we worked as a team and solved.....in my short final address to the project ..all i told was any credit i recieved should be dedicated to neeraj,sugesh,deepa and of course my manager. It is hard to relaise now that we tried our best and always gave more than 100% for the company and still me,neeraj and sugesh had a bad experience that forced us to look for better opportunities..nobody stayed in hexaware...anyways we didnt do anything for charity and this is very common in IT organisation ...

i also missed one more guy..Shomik..the person who has taken my roles in hexaware,....though i have not worked with him much he is an exciting talent ..and often by mistake i called him neeraj... he is feeling very happy now that he is getting so much challenging tasks...even i felt happy for him as i had selected this guy from a bunch of freshers, when my manger had asked to identify a capable resource for DBA.....

ok its saturday night and i am sitting alone in my flat and writing this post...really boring ..still sometimes i enjoy loneliness.......

out of hexaware .......

2007-10-04T23:22:00.000+05:30

..i Started writing in this blog to record important moments and memories i had in my work place, after my resignation i was not my usual self, many people noticed that and told me, especially there were 2 senior managers i went to meet the day before my last day, both of them were shocked and told me that i am looking really sick and unhealthy.my usual smile was no more there and slowly many people kept telling me that i am dull.

so what is this all about, basically i am a person with little sentiments,and seperation from friends and colleagues is another thing which happened regularly for me, i have switched 4 companies now in my 5 years of experience....still there is some kind of bond tht i have developed here in hexaware and it was a pain for me to seperate from this bunch of guys. words didnt come to me on my final address to the group and i choked, most people felt i cried though i never cried, not that kind definetly...

there were 2 more persons who got relieved on the same day, prabha and rohini....prabha...she is one girl i know for sure who still reads my boring posts here and kept asking me to write more, i still dont really know what is it in my post that she likes a lot, i become sort of good friend to her recently..and even she felt great about my friendship with her.

so there was usual praises from managers, project leads about our work. one thing that people told in common was i was always calm and ever smiling. and everbvody wished me for my new assignments.......glory be to god...

there are few people i know will miss me for sure, my close friends for i gave very good company to them and i spent most part of my time with them for the past one year..there was another close friend of mine, as i expected she cried as i bid farewell to her, i dont have any friend who had cried for me til this time....ok.. so this is the group i am going to miss in the days to come...i was so attached to them in recent days....

almost a week since i left hexaware, and next week i will be joining my new company...

Dropped the Nuke

2007-09-17T12:06:00.000+05:30

..exactly on 23rd of august i sent my resignation mail to my manager, then i went to his desk, his intial reaction was he felt very happy that i am moving ahead in my career, and then there was usual discussion about what can stop me from taking this decision...

As it is always i have kept this news an highly classified information, have not even discussed this with my close firends, i called jegu and subbu and told them the news later after discussion with my manager. It was very shocking for them, especially Subbu as he had slept in my apartment for most part of the week and i discussed everything with him over the night....my past, my future ...except my present. jegu swore never to come to my flat again, this guy is highly sensitive ...

counter offers.... there was a long discussion with the department head, As i stepped into the room i decided not to discuss too much about the circumstances which prompted to take this decision, but later when i came out of the room an hour later i have told everything to him...these people know how to get out information from you...

Transition.....ok we have already identified an guy who would be taking the mantle from me..this guy is full of energy and talent and i had little time in convincing him to handle the job alone...

so what it is like, Putting your papers and working in office..knowledge tranfers ...now i realised the amount of activites and work that i was involved all this period, i have promised my junior that i will tie up all loose ends before getting relieved, he is a fresh guy and i really dont want him to be put under any sort of pressure ....

pressure ..hmmm that is part of DBA..isnt it...

Boom ..another crash....

2007-08-05T19:05:00.000+05:30

..long time since i wrote in this blog, its friendship day today and was happy receving and sending messages to my dear friends, i have been staying away from my parents since my college days and i have always enjoyed hanging out and sharing my feelings(or rather mokkai) with friends.. over the years my friends circle has become shorter and shorter..courtesy professional life . Still i would cherish todays memories for every friendship day to come ....myself,jegu,subbu,thangs had a great bash...ealrier we had went to recieve thangs from US and he came directly to my flat.....we had everything aranged ..food, soft drinks,movies...and we took lot of snaps in my house and chatted for a long time in bed ...and slept late night ....as i slept i had a disappointment that one of my dear friend fought with me and never cared to wish me this day .....

work has been hectic this week...another server crash, i have got involved in four major server crashes now ...made a quick stop gap arrangement for all the applications and went to datacentre, this server had already crahsed six months back and me and a sys admin guy had managed to recover ..but today we found that there is very little chances of recovery ...so i called my manager and reported the situation.....he was very upset and he tried to give me a dress down for the incident but i told him we had still lot of options left to manage the setup ....and he felt relaxed...and we did manage to run the setup without much impact.

next day morning ...again i was summoned to my manager desk, he asked about the crashed server backup ..it is very critical for my position to take regular backups. but i never did it and i had to listen to his dressing down now.There was kind of chaos in office ..hrms and few other apps was not working ..even as i was troubleshooting that issue ...they asked me to go immediately to work on the crashed server....we tried whole afternoon whithout any luck to recover the server....i came back to my desk late evening and fixed the hrms issue and another issue in authentication ...somehow i learnt from reliable sources that my manager was not very happy with the way i handled the whole situation and i felt very high pressure within myself ....the whole night i thought about this a lot and finally decided that i am not going to handle this issue anymore ...

So my senior was in charge now as i told i am not going to work on the server anymore...she went to datacenter and jegu was kind of scolding me for sending her to datacenter for this work, ...but things looked better after she took charge, things started falling in place and there was a new server up and running in the evening...but along the process she had to take all the shoutings from my manager ....she made sure there was no major issues or pending work for me to handle the next day as she had planned to take leave ..that was really nice of her...isnt it .

Friday ..and Weekend

2007-07-01T12:03:00.000+05:30

Friday ...came early to office today, we had to decommission a peoplesoft server, this particular server was used by the 2 outsourced teams, i was taking backup of the database, and this took a long time as the size of the db was enormous and the server was also very slow..there were usual routine mails for providing access to VSS, database server, my senior was doing most of these works...my department head called me for a discussion around 12 noon ...nothing useful came from that discussion

afternoon me,subbu and jegu went to a hotel near sweetland and somehow managed to bring the bill to 200 ..you get a free chicken wings served when your bill reaches that amount..all dishes were very ordinary...

..it is getting damn boring for me now..i went around few desks asking people if they can give me some work (didn't ask this to my senior and manager ..hee hee)..subbu was doing some research on calling webservice from sql server and i was helping him...but i couldn't understand anything in that..then i saw one of my colleague and dear friend doing Db design ..so i sat with her and forced her to teach me what is DB design all about.. she taught me in a way.. in which i can understand very little...evening a developer came for creating a new interface job between two application, pity he didn't come with release checklist or installation plan ...so we told him to come with that..went home a bit early today and was watching cricket match...

Sachin was hitting all over the ground ..whenever SA bowlers bowled him short balls he pulled them ferociously ....it was a great sight to watch ...after few hiccups india won the match...i made myself noodles tonight and slept a bit early ....very strange for a Friday night ...definitely this Friday night was not our regular boys night ..

Saturday ....had cornflakes a mix of choclate and regular corn for breakfast ..then spent my time watching TV and checking office document...afternoon, didnt feel like going out for lunch and i prepared noodles. As i was getting into a deep sleep in the afternoon ..i got a call from my friend and grrr...didn't sleep after that ...evening subbu and jegu came to my home ..subbu was to do a project for one of his Friend from my home ...after few discussions as requirements was not very clear ..he didn't do the project and he slept in my house....today nobody had any mood to go out or party and everybody left early by 7pm ...... i was feeling a sour throat...dinner.. had hot and sour chicken soup and briyani in a decent hotel near my place ..watched a movie called Platoon and then slept late ....

Sunday ...went to church service..today i went to the altar and gave thanksgiving for the promotion i got ....my parents had asked me to do this and i personally have a strong belief that it was God's blessing that i had performed well in my current job..had breakfast in a roadside shop. i had a lot of cleaning to do in my house this weekend ..gosh ..house looked great after all the cleaning ..of course my servant maid did it ..i am very conscious to keep my house clean.

i have got strict order from my mother to cook my own rice today ....so i cooked rice, egg, vadagam and had lunch ...Voila ...my first attempt in cooking rice came well ... afternoon i was into deep sleep .. ..evening boring... boring...boring ...so i decided to do go shopping ...went to office as i had my gift coupon left at my desk ...reached office around 7.30 ...then i remembered today was sachin's birthday ..had a nice chat with him over phone and i was doing some work related to decommissioning of the server

...i called jegu as he had called me earlier for an issue ..and we both were looking into that issue....now he is in a kind of crisis situation..he just discovered that one of his implementation in recent days got escalated right to top level..just to a level below our CEO ....so there was lot of phone calls between him his TL and our department head ....at last issue was resolved and i helped him send a mail ..that mail was again marked to top level people ...even i had never sent mails till that level ....but our boss asked us to send it so no issues ...

already late for shopping so we had dinner near our office and went home .....back to home by 9.30 pm, watched cricket match ..and slept late around 1.00 am ...

no work ........

2007-06-28T12:53:00.000+05:30

As i write this i am hearing my favourite english numbers in office..not much work this week..

Tuesday ....the shock i got the previous day after seeing my salary revision has come down and i am to my usual self ....still thinking about my next step though..today most of my colleagues got the papers ...it was a mixed reaction..few people felt happy ..and most of them felt disappointed...went back home and was watching India vs South Africa cricket match ...i am no great expert in analysing cricket ..but can say captaincy is bad ..India needs a more dynamic captain.

Wednesday ....came early to office and jegu called from outside to join him for breakfast..after finishing few mails i went and joined him for breakfast..came back to my desk and i felt like fainting ...i was trying to sleep in my desk itself and i was not..jegu told he has got some work in passport office ..so i went along with him ...thought i will feel better if i go outside ..it was drizzling outside....jegu had left early today ..as he was travelling outstation...so me and subbu went for lunch ..as usual we got food coupons from an trainee sitting next to subbu....today she understood before even we asked her ....all that we told her was we are going to lunch in top floor ..she opened her handbag and gave her coupons..good this junior is a fast learner..

Still i was feeling sick ..so decided to go home early and sleep ..after reaching home i was not able to sleep ..today i felt something wrong ...felt like i was drugged by someone...then evening i had cornflakes ....and then had some serious discussion with my friend over phone...i was told that the problem i had was because that i woke up early ...after dinner i decided to watch a movie ....

Ben-Hur ...this is one of the greatest classicals in 1960's ....the record this movie has set in getting oscars is till now not broken ...though in1990's titanic managed to equal its record .....so i slept late after watcing this movie ..

Thursday ....so i slept till 10 am in the morning ...that felt good. reached office around 11.30 and not much work today also ...subbu asked us wether we can visit one of our colleague in hospital ..she has just given birth to a boy baby ....so subbu,me and jegu went and visited her ..she was very happy ....this is the first time i am visiting a just born baby..we came back to office around 3.30 ...it was drizzling outside and it was getting very dark .....as i write this blog my manager is standing beside me waching my monitor..didn't care for that ..especially after what has happened in my appraisal ....

Part 5- Trips, outings and more ....

2007-06-24T14:15:00.000+05:30

i had the previlege of seeing Neeraj grow from a trainee to an well experienced peoplesoft DBA in a short span of time..finally my manager and his boss decided to release him to an client project..so i went to mumbai to get the transition ..except for getting transition about the setup in mumbai we did everything else..neeraj,sachin and me ..went roaming around mumbai for the three days i stayed there. Though neeraj was my junior still he gave me very good advice to the professional challenges i faced in ISG and i had turned up to him for few issues...

By now most of my friends here in my department were expecting them to be released to other departments.... So we decided to spend maximum time between ourselves ..and thangaraj initiated and organised a tour to devakottai ...occasion being Alagappan marriage(he is another stalwart of ISG)

All the plans we made in the trip went topsy turvy ..thanks to organisers..chennai to salem to yercaud to karrur to devakottai to trichy to chennai....i would rather call this trip an amazing race...many people got elminated and out of 12 people who started the trip only 5 finished the race ...there was an excellent writeup of the entire trip by me,jegu,subbu and sachin i would post that in a seprate post..trip was an success and memories of the trip will linger long...

just one week after we were back from a long trip, we decided to go on a trip to kerala ..God's own country, pity this time we didnt have much people on the trip..just four of us(so no elminations), me,jegu,subbu and kevin...let me try to refresh few memories of the trip ...

We were having dinner at central station chennai..when we found that one of our colleague from hexaware, she is from BI team ...poor girl she was standing before a hotel with huge crowd....she was calling jegu to help her but jegu tried his best to escape ..until i made jegu to help her ...hee hee..everybody was very happy after seeing the travel reservation chart stuck in our compartment...i cant disclose the reason in this post....had to switch trains in combatore junction..and we were on our way to ernakullam.

Me and subbu sat in the compartement door steps and were enjoying the scenic beauty of kerala..meanwhile jegu and kevin were fast asleep ...an interesting thing happened in trissur station ...me and subbu were standing in the railway station and watching shops over there ..as usual i was telling some mokkai story about kerala to subbu and he was listening to me ....with our backs to the train.....train started moving without any notice ..no signal ..no horn ..nothing and it was moving with very less sound and high speed ..somehow subbu turned back and noticed it and we caught the train in running ..lesson 1 never turn your back on a train in kerala ..

Allapuzha..awesome is too little a word to explain the experience we had in this place ..we took a double decker house boat ..with two well furnished bedrooms all for four of us ....we had a special energy drink from kerala ...even jegu took this drink(just one sip), that was quite surprising for all of us ...then watched a popular kerala movie by mohanlal ....had a sumptuous amount of fish ....and then slept on the boat ...next day morning we took bath in the backwaters of kerala ..and then went on a cruise ..everybody took titanic pictures standing with outstrecthed arms on the corner of the boat ...hee hee..

Then we went to Kevin's place in kottayam, there again we went for a swim in a river ..somehow i managed to go till the middle of the river with zero swimming knowledge ..without any notice kevin and his cousine ..pulled me to bottom of the river and held me for few seconds..gosh ..lesson 2 dont get inside a river without knowing swimming ...

back to chennai ..there is a person called naresh this guy is from pune and he has just joined our project ....as usual this guy had the experience what every person who comes from other state to chennai will have..got robbed ...he lost his debit card and lost 16k ...somehow we managed to find the culprit ..it was someone from daaba express ..we had went to this hotel last week and naresh had dropped his card there ...so 6 guys from our project went for a fight with hotel manager ..we took with us few heavyweight guys ..just to show our strength ..they were himanshu and shomik ...so there was high confusion in the hotel and finally the case went to police station ....police asked us to come in the evening..

Subbu went on a urgent work that day and jegu was travelling ..so it was left to me to manage naresh's case in tnagar crimebranch police station ...everything happened so fast ...we took a suspect and within one hour of interrogation he accepted that he took money...this day i saw how police interrogorate ...i dont know what degree of interrogation was that ..but i felt really sorry for that person that day ..and i can still remeber the sounds that echoed when they hit him ...and the bad filthy languages these cops use while interrogating....we stuck a deal between police ourselves and the culprit ...the culprit agreed to pay the money and we decided not to lodge a FIR ..i thought if we are going to lodge an FIR it will be a lengthy process and it will take a long time to get back our money and this guy will also go to jail....

Back to office ..would rather call it a planetorium ..mercury,neptune,jupiter,venus,mars and galaxy ...all these are server name and they kept haunting me with some trouble or other ....

back to my flat ...i had setup a mini galaxy in my bedroom with twinkling stars and satellites and was very proud to show it to my friends ....

Part 4. Dedication to the core ....

2007-06-22T16:02:00.001+05:30

As i was celebrating new year ..little did i realise the horrors that were to come. First weekend of 2007, me and neeraj were summoned and were asked to look into an issue that HRMS team were facing, i was having cold fever then and we both managed to support the team in their issues.

I was caught in one of the biggest scandal that emerged in internal systems, KB.NET ...that was just a folder in one of the servers i manage ..server name is isg-mercury..that folder went missing suddenly and i was made to feel that as though a mutli million project got lost because of that.... thanks to few developers ...as usual made some cover ups and managed to get out of the scandal....

Next our bosses decided to purchase a new server B and move all application from server A-B, B-C.....rename B as A and A as B....didn't have the courage to argue on their decisions and went ahead and started implementing.. meanwhile there was a new version of few applications getting released..our bosses considering the impact on business decided to do everything on pongal holidays. i could see lot of hardwork,dedication and commitment from Subbu's team during this period...and me and my senior closely worked with them..

Now hexaware management decided to re-organise their department structure...... simple it might sound..but it was another great challenge that internal systems faced as it had a major impact on all the applications...this was the period where me and my senior faced the heat..

All applications were brought to a standstill ....now Neeraj and me did peoplesoft application and Db movement from mumbai to chennai ....so here we were working all day on department restructure and working all night on peoplesoft application move, we finished the move in the early hours of the next day ....both of us felt elated as everything went as per our plan ...our department head appreciated us and wrote that was dedication to the core..later this became a nick name and people started calling dedication to core ...

But there were high causalities which happened during this period.....i got the firing from my manager and department head on all issues that arised because of server movement and department restructure ..the wounds took a long time to heal...i felt i was accountable and responsible....

Nothing much entertaining during this period except for regular weekend forums we had in hotels and rooftops around chennai and few lengthy engrossing sessions in my flat..slowly my flat started becoming a favourite hangout for all my friends ....

Part 3, Friends and Colleagues...

2007-06-21T21:39:00.000+05:30

another 2 months passed by, now i have started supporting three more projects PSASM,eRecruit and Innovation.ISA became an instant hit in hexaware and my manager was so happy about it..infact it earned him an Star award...along with it came more and more challenges.

Techsummit ..was happy to see my friends involved in lot of activities(video shoot outs, paper presentation,hex songs (which never materialised)), though the chennai team had numerous meetings and planned immensely, a team of 5 guys in Mumbai earned internl systems a award to cherish...our department head became so happy...cheers mumbai ISG. I had a small role in setting up a high techh game for the show..

At this stage my manager and PD thought, me and Neeraj ..were taking lots of pressure. We were like a pressure cooker that would break anytime(as usual buildups). So they took another senior DBA with high experience, now that made us feel happy and took off lot of pressure..she was from microsoft family...

Meanwhile as usual the developers for any issues that came in their production application started blaming the new Sqlserver 2005 versions and DB migration ...fights happened now and then for access to the server.

It was almost 2 months since i took the job of creating a additional domain controller for the main LDAP server, and implementing a backup ISA server..

Again my manager decided to take a break from his tough schedule ..and he was scared that server would also take a break ..so he gave me a plain deadline finish the job before 3 days...now that i have a microsoft family in my team ...took help from them and finished the task...away went my manger on a happy family trip. Still he managed to call me once when he was on the trip and by coincidence that was my birthday...so i told him it was my happy birthday and he wished me ...heee heee .

Took my friends and colleagues to wangs kitchen for my birthday, one of my dear friend jegs...ordered Duck roast..i was happy that he chose that dish since it was christmas time and christians usually take duck dishes on christmas ..so everybody was eagerly waiting for a big duck roasted and toasted with good toppings...though the dish didnt turned out to be what we expected ..everybody i feel enjoyed the lunch...we did missed one great fan of chicken on that day ..of course it is none other than thangaraj, he was on deputation in mumbai

had developed good friends in ISG now and they were around me to help whenever i was stuck in a problem .....

as new year 2007 dawned ....

Part 2. Work and how not to work

2007-06-21T16:08:00.000+05:30

it all started happening in the months of may-june... Internal systems were planning a prestigious landmark in their project by implementing LDAP login and Internet Enabling.

There were lot of meetings, discussions, target dates .. and I was a silent spectator in all the discussions and developments... my manager and the other DBA were literally sweating with ISA ..the mechanism they used for publishin the application in Internet. Anyways i had the previlige of setting up LDAP to work with Peoplesoft.

After this landmark my manager thought he needed a break and went on a long leave...but what a pity ..the main application and db server also decided to take a break ..and it broke..so i was into a crisis managemnt team discussion and everybody was searching for a backup as we had a perfect Business continuity process in place... alas ..to our horror we realised then that the backup was being taken in the same server....

Still we managed to recover applications within the critcal recovery time ..thanks to development team and logshipping(forgive me cant explain about this)....would like to mention few names here .....Subbu,jegu,Srini who made that possible. probably this incident made us know each other more, and we started hanging out .

GALAXY ...... i never realised this name would mean so much in my work in hexaware. So here we were working on a plan to move all sql2000 db to sql 2005. From now i started sacrificing all my weekends to GALAXY (bad habit to boast about your sacrifices).

Meanwhile i was all set to occupy a brand new flat that my father has purchased. Sugesh left hexaware and ... i became the Lone DBA in chennai with one of my dear friend managing things in Mumbai.....Slowly we started feeling the pressure of the Job....

Part 1, Life in Hexa

2007-06-21T14:06:00.000+05:30

It all started way back in April 2006, i had just finished 2 rocking years in an small company in chennai, when i got a offer from hexaware to join internal systems ...

After finishing the formalities the HR person took me to another person named Thiyagu..so this person was the department head and as he was on the way to his lunch ..... he took me to the cafeteria, there he introduced me to my colleagues who were in the middle of their lunch, had to shake with my left hand with everyone....

Started fitting into the roles of another DBA called Sugesh... man he was an amazing character to talk about...two months rolled by and suddenly Sugesh comes and tells me i have got an on-site assignment.....2 months into joining an project here i was getting ready to go to onsite.... really thrilled ...

Pollachi ....so this is it...pollachi is the onsite for Internal systems ... so my manager asks someone from development to accompany me as i was new ....but huh none of the developers are interested in going to this onsite.... later this assignment played an important part in getting ACE award ....great news.