Eeram

Disclaimer: This is not a praise post for a movie! Though I review everything a lot and don't write anything on it, I want to write a review of this to every bit for it is one of the most decent and adorable movies I've seen in the recent past. :)

After procastinating myself from watching this movie for quite sometime due to ethical reasons (ya! the heroine dies and her character name is.. RAMYA!!), I somehow made up my mind to watch it finally.

The Cinematographer:

• He is the story! The water droplets speak a lot all throughout the movie! Every droplet falling down is a small time lapse movie on its own!
• His perspective.. matchless! How did he set his hefty camera in such angles and took those shots puzzles me still!! Esp those shots.. the top view of the veggie vendor slowwwwwwly movie up in the air. The perspective changes all of a sudden to show a water droplet. I still wonder what ISO setting and f-Number he had to capture water droplets in such dark light!
• His color combination! Wow! Woww! Wowww!! Black-n-white filled with water everywhere and a bit of RED! Mind blowing!! It would take me hours to do such a selective coloring in PS. Kudos to the cinematographer and the editor!!
• His bokehs!! Ooh.. ooooh.. oooooh!!!! Lovely lovely lovely!!! Up close to everyone's face and there you see a big bokeh behind. In Tamil film industry only few are experts in this. Ravi K Chandran did it in Kannathil Muththamittal when Simran comes running to see the girl in the station! So many bokehs in this movie.. and none makes you feel bored! And ya.. different shapes too!! Mostly circles.. some octagons.. some eclipses!! I still love the scene in the temple when the hero focuses with his camera. Wonderful! Speechless! Bohehs bokehs bokehs and RAMYA in the middle of them!! :) :) :)
• And the best of the perspectives was when the heroine was dragged by her husband to the bathroom! That was such a horror scene. Had it been taken by some masala director, it would have had such shouting background scores bringing the roof down!! This one.. classical. Something of the sort of becoming one with eternity... like the one that comes in the Gladiator while wading through grass. A slow freeze with a nice background score at that point brought the compassion needed what other directors sadly try to convey / produce!
• Will you live up to the level of my favorite cinematographer Jeeva?? Making the life colorful to every bit as he did.

The Editor:

• He is Mr. perfect! He controls the speed in an awesome way! Though having much less role to play as the cinematographer did his work properly, he showed his capabilities in various places. Stunning!
• When the hero takes a photo of the building, a zoom-in surrounding-in-white zoom-out effect! Oh.. ooh.. ooohh!! It pushes you a step back! I literally fell down!! :)
• When the heroine is tortured mentally, tears run down her cheeks and there the editor brings in an old TV with grains getting-disturbed-often effect. Man.. there you are!! A clear representation of the heroine's mind in a much different way! How many ever times it comes on the screen, it never makes you feel dull! Editing should be done in this kind of eye pleasing way!
• One place I felt you could have done a bit more perfectly. When Nandha brings down his cup of coffee and Aadhi raises it. Well yes, having the same cup and taking same place in the screen, that was almost meant to be a different perspective! A rewind-fastforward kind of motion that you tried to bring in. But, sadly, they both didn't match. A bit more care at that point would have brought in a tremendous effect to that scene!! :)

The Music Director:

• Awesome music! Perfectly matching the theme! Good that you didn't turn this to an RGV movie with blarring bizarre sounds! Haunting slow melodious tunes. I loved the score when RAMYA was introduced (of course I will :P) and when the heroine (at times I need to be subjective for my good! :P) is dragged by her husband!! Expecting such tunes and not any kuthu songs in the future! :)

The Visual Graphics editor:

• Oooh oooh oooooh!! For those who praised Dasavadhaaram even for its good-for-nothing graphics, here is how graphics should be! Merging one with the reality!! Those glass scenes are marvellous. Esp for the small girl where she turns back and the glass holds the previous image till she turns back!! Oh! Man what an interlacing!! Good if you can take Graphics in Tamil industry to next level!! :)

The Director:

'Kaiyai kudunga boss!!'

• The first time I saw the Cancer cup, I smiled knowing what the character could be. The next time you introduced it with the villain demanding his cup, I loved the scene! I felt the possessiveness you wanted to convey there and attaching Cancer to it appropriately. And when the villain said he is possessive of his belongings and he fears if the heroine would leave her, Oh! Man! You are justified!! :) :) And ya, the Pisces cup justifies its role too! :) But, will everyone relate Cancer to possessiveness and understand it in when you show the demanding nature of the hero? is not needed. Good that you are catering a large range of audience. It's like a poem. For those who just see the words, they love it for how the words are placed. For those who feel the meaning, they love it more!! I loved it more!!! :) :) And even more for I'm a ... CANCERIAN!
• Perspective - Oh ya! You too have a role to play. Share the comments I gave with the cinematographer! :) Coz.. You have something more in praise!! :D
• Dressing sense!! Eee.. eeee.. eeeeehhh!!! The first time I saw heroine's dress slipping a lil bit [I've sharp eyes, mind you! :P], I felt a bit disgusted!! But when the hero calls her and informs her.. ooh ooohh ooohhh!! Love you man love you!! You justified the scene and the need!! Great!!! And the explanation given by hero.. wowww! woowwww!! woowwwww!! perfect! I agree with heroine saying one should know his surroundings before saying something of that sort, but I agree with the hero even more!! Coz.. I'm like that - every bit of it!! Accidental dress misalignments happen and it's good if someone points out rather than seeing if someone is there around or not to say that. If said, it's just a one second effort for a person to correct it. If not, it remains as such unless a person realises that himself / herself! Kudos man!!
• And ya!! You really brought in the message you wanted to convey by different ways! Your respect for women is amazing. It's one horror movie torturing women but not demoralising a heroine for that sake! People like S.A. Chandrasekar should learn from this! Someone going to the shower is more clearly shown by showing the water flowing down from a shower than showing a scantily dressed heroine! You did the former and you stole the show!! :) And in the climax scene when you wanted to convey the villain's mindset in Saranya's dress.. Thank God! She didn't have to show her flesh! Thanks man!! :) But then, when the heroine is being killed, you needn't have shown her inner garments... though.. you are justified!! In short words.. you aren't as bad as your producer!! :P
• The apt use of the word 'Sex'. Good that you've broken the barrier. Clearly moving out of roundabout ways that Gautam Menon uses, you are straight to the point. And, it doesn't bring in any digusted feeling though! Good!
• The clever portrayal of possessiveness and the mindset of a possessive person. Oh man! You rock! I guess you should be a cancerian to depict it so cleverly. And ya, you depicted pisces too perfectly. :D True.. Cancer - Pisces cannot match!! :P

The final punch line.. "ovvoru manushanukkum manasula eeram irukkanum"! Ah.. aah.. aahhh!! Took me to some nostalgic state!! A message well said!

100!!

Finally!!! Phew!!! 100 downloads!!! :D

Thanks all for helping me reach this goal!!! :)

How to lose friends and alienate people!

In ur millions of friends, consider me as a friend to share things, have a walk, sip a cup of coffee, watch a movie, laugh out, live life.

- An SMS shouted in my mobile today!

Hatread begetS violEnce

- Subtitle of 'Yogi' movie that caught my attention while driving behind an auto that was having this poster.

That left me in a puzzled state bringing back nostalgia after quite a long time.

Back in my college life, I didn't have much friends. I sticked to a very few. Probably because only they matched with my interests and was more in way 'I can adjust'. And for those, hmmm!, I wasn't that great a friend though, which took a very long time for me to realise. "Everything relationship is a result of some need. Only a few sustains once the needs are satisfied!!" [Courtesy: Me from my college days!]

That was the time I went in search of lots of friends. Became a flirt? as I was called so! Tried to figure out what was in lacking me. Got many many reports - just like Manipal gives me!! One of them being from K, 'You always tend to be in your room doing something in your computer. You never concentrate on who's around you!'. Mmmm.. ya! Agreed. I was like that. For the reasons being - 1. I got my computer after years and years of yearning. It was an 5 yr dream come true and I was totally attached to it than any other soul in hostel. 2. I generally can't concentrate on 2 things at the same time. And more often when one of them is a computer! 3. I! had! the responsbility / onus of punching every damn character for every other project throughout my 8 semesters. And, as a result, I never came out of my room. Also adding to this, I generally had an impression that none likes me. I was there for 'put-my-quoted-phrase-here'. Because, people were behind few others - always treating them as Gods!! I cannot throw my ego and behave like a u-shout-at-my-wife-i-dont-care-a-darn or u-shout-any-bad-word-who-cares person. I, by very being, since my childhood, can never ever tolerate such things. I don't care if I'm extracted work to the fullest as long as I'm considered as a friend rather than being a worthy servant. And, I, since childhood, was the cynosure throughout my school life. All of a sudden I can't put me in a situation where people just use me!

Throwing all my ego, I went out to search more and more people. I never cared if it was as boy or a girl. And, I stopped coding during my pastime. Just for the sake of being away from my computer. But still.. there were issues. All throughout the past 2 years. People, though seemed to treat me as a friend couldn't accept me fully. I was again a servant at times of need. The very essence of frienship - to share things lacked a lot from every person around me. As long as I come to know from X or Y or Z about A or B or C, A or B or C wouldn't tell me anything - and 'vice' versa. Friendship is all about joy. Ofcourse, the comfort in pain is there - which is the most important. But, as a whole, it's about bringing in happiness. Did I get any bit of it? And the reason for the expected answer was quoted to be 'my expectations'!! Watching a movie or going for a walk or meeting at a coffee point or sitting and speaking over sweet nothings in a park - those should have been the eventful things that I 'expected'. While it happened among others - I - was standing as a mute observer - or even a blind observer - to all that happened!! With all those 'grave reasons' I was only able to stand speechless knowing that none of those reasons were true! Purposeful avoidances, punishments, ditching away, indifference, 'not-told-to-you-for-the-sake-of-not-to-hurt-you', 'not-told-to-you-for-the-sake-of-not-to-put-you-in-trouble', portrayal of ego, lack of compromise, vengeance - was what I could see throughout. When people could run for help just for someone crying for 2 hours, I struggled to overcome my high BP throughout the night with none coming for help. When people could adjust any kind of food and eat anywhere, I, for the past 2.5 years had never ever been accompanied by someone for having my dinner [unless it was a b'day treat for which I was called for-the-sake-of-calling!]. When people could go for movies together every month portraying some reason for-my-sake, I've never been accompanied by anyone for any movie that I've called each one in the past 2.5 years. With everyone wearing every new style coming into the market, and when people can come early from office for carrying one's friend's shopping bags - I wear ragged clothes, as I never had anyone to come with me for purchase. I was fortunately [as I was asked to call it so] given the chance of atleast seeing the new robes bought! Those were the days in my childhood when 'I' used to select dress for every memeber in my family of 20 people since my 5th std. Today.. I stand as a Software Beggar! With certain of them kneeling in front of others for not going out with them for once, I've never been accompanied by anyone even after quite a lot times of asking if anyone could get me out.

I, till now, couldn't get to know how all-those-mature minds couldn't understand why I 'expect' so 'many' 'not-for-sale' things! It's just about an year or two till friends could enjoy life together going around the city. Once someone got married, it ll be more about one's own family than about one's friends. People generally would like to spend time with better halfs and not (bitter-in-case-of-me) friends going further. Probaly A and B, or C and D .. T and U can be so! I can't expect that to happen in my life - for it has not happened even now before marriage!! All I - anyone for that matter - have got is just a period of 1 year at max. With everyone giving this thought a valid concern and utilising that 1 year at the fullest, and ditching me away... hmmm!! I couldn't comment on why I'm being forced to live a life like this.

Well.. Finally [for-those-sighing.. i didnt ask you to read] confessions!!

• Yes! I EXPECT!
• Yes! I EXPECT a LOOOOOOOT!
• Yes! I've begged people to speak to me!
• And ya! I've requested people not to speak to me in my life time ever after! - And they happily agreed to it even!
• Yes! I want to be the cynosure!
• But again.. I can accept a life with people around me understanding my feelings and emotions atleast!
• Yes! I want myself to be cuddled and pampered - and that's the way I was brought up! I don't find a reason - why I should be blamed for everything - though not cuddled!
• Yes! I ask for help - but only when I realise I cannot do it! There are things which people can't do it on their own in this world! Even Nepolean for that matter!
• Yes! I want people to give reviews for something I did - at the same time I hate when people do the same for the saking of doing!
• Yes! I want an ACK - if not a reply - for every mail I send. I don't send any review of Vijay's lost flop or Vadivel's vaththal comedies!
• Yes! I want to be considered as a friend always - not when X or Y or Z goes out of one's life or A or B or C comes in on the other hand! - I'm not a free commodity that comes with Kumudham!
• Yes! I want my friends [who I feel are treating me so - and if that's my mistake - I pity myself for being a prey of deceiving art] to spend time for me as well - INDIVIDUALLY - as they spend for others! I don't want it to be accurate in every second. But atleast to 1/10th of what is being spent.
• Yes! I CAN 'tolerate nonsenses'. But not ego!
• Yes! I want things to be shared with me - if not 100% - atleast 80% - for friendship on very being is formed only on sharing something. Without which the yellow shirt crossing MG road or the Blue chudidaar walking along Pondy Bazaar are no different from 'you'!
• Yes! I want any bad news - when regarding me - to hit me first and the sooner - than reaching my ears through E or F or G after a long time.
• Yes! I want some space in heart!

At the end of the day.. figuring out none of the above can happen..
Yes! I've resolved to coding AGAIN! With my laptop being my only companion these days!

Disclaimers:

• The title of the post is the name of the movie that I watched today with my sister commenting, "probably perfect for you!! :P".
• For those who consider this as a 'diary' - well yes! it is!! a digital diary! I dont have great bunch of friends. And with those I have, I've been stricly ordered not to share any information by old pals. So, I!, can only have my blog post as something where I can vent out things. Like it was once said by HWMNBN, 'He atleast vents out things in a fit of rage!'. So, it's just reader's discretion to stay away from such posts!
• I've also been told by G, 'You cannot disappoint your readers by such posts!!'. Well yes! I'm sorry. But I've no choice. I tend to be at both the ends. A post on 'Astamaththu sani' will also be there. And posts of this sort will also be there. I don't follow the 'Golden Rule'!
• And this is not based on any X or Y or Z in particular. This is about every other person around me in my life!! And I mean it! For those of you who feel it other way - I can't do anything about it! And this is not a disclaimer unlike in previous posts!

I hate Facebook!!!

This is why I don't tend to use Facebook!!! I dunno how it knew all these things!!! :( :(

P.S.: No points for any guess!!! :P


Update: Thanks to kilu for this awesome picture in comments!! :D

What's there in this name????

Am totally fed up!! Can't the world think of some other names?? Why is the whole world running behind just one name?? It's irritating!!!!

It all started here..


and then this...


and then this..


and now this!!!!!



On top of this... Hmmmmm!! Heights!!!!!

There are even many many many more!! Why is this sudden shift?? Aaah man!! Gimme a break!!!!!!!

[P.S.: Idhulla endha ulkutthum illai!! :P :P]

Kodaana kodi

இன்னாசெய் தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர்நாண
நன்னயஞ் செய்து விடல்.

இப்படி இந்த திருக்குறள் மட்டும் பலிச்சிருந்தா.. நானெல்லாம் நன்மை என்னும் ஆழ் கடலில் மூழ்கி முத்து எடுத்திருப்பேன்!!! :P :P :P அவ்ளோ செஞ்சுட்டோம்!!! :D :D :D

சரி.. கலியுகத்துக்கு ஏர்தாப்ல மாதுவோமே குறளை!!

இன்னாசெய் தாரை ஒறுத்தல் அவர்நாண
நாணயம் குடுத்து விடல்.

அட்லீஸ்ட் இப்படி இருந்திருந்தா.. "கோடான கோடி .. அதில் குளிப்போம்விளையாடி!!" னு பாட்டுப் பாடிட்டு இருந்திருப்பேன்!! அதுவுமே இல்லையே!!!

ஒரு வேளை நான் எக்கச்சக்கமா நல்லது பண்றேனோ?? :-? :-? :-?

[பி.கு: ஆன்றோர்களே சான்றோர்களே தமிழ் ஆர்வலர்களே மற்றும் அரைவேக்காடுகளே.. சொல்லில் பிழை இருப்பின் திட்டாமல் இருத்தல் நன்று!! பொருளில் பிழை இருப்பின் பொது மாத்து குடுத்தாலும் வாங்கிக்க்கொள்ளப்படும்!! :P :P]

P.S: There is no motive behind this post! Only motive is 'mokkai'! :P :P I was watching some comedy in TV from the movie 'nadodigal' where this particular kural comes!!

Just a thought!

In a tech-savvy city like Bangalore, almost all traffic police inspectors at each and every signal are equipped with Blackberries!! That's a good move!! (Atleast not for rash drivers like me though! :P). But, why not the same Blackberry be used in an even more better way??

Pondering.......

Consider the traffic in Bangalore. Everyone is almost squeezed out while getting back home from work! In this, will it be possible for an ambulance to reach the hospital on time? Ofcourse not!!! I bet!! Just imagine!! [sorry-kareena :P] Why not the ambulance have a way to feed in that start and destination of their route - some app automatically finds the shortest path first (too-much-technical :P) or rather some road with less traffic that time - and informs the traffic inspectors in that particular route so that those inspectors can stop the traffic in that particular route some time, say 10 mins, until the ambulance crosses that way??? Sounds good?? This activity is being done for all those big-big-people (sale-e-brity, politicians and people-with-A-Z-cat-security-service). When we people can stand and witness those convoys for 10 mins, can't we wait for the same time for an ambulance to cross by??

Soch!!!! :P :P

[At times, I can also think! Happens!! :P]

Pessimist

Facing failures since childhood (though am still a child!!), I developed in myself to see things in a pessimistic way. This pessimistic approach helped me to get out of failures easily whenever they happened as I my mind was set to see that situation pretty in advance. For those people around, my pessimistic behavior would have annoyed a lot. And further, unluckily, when things were fruitful at the end, I was treated to be a boaster. Rather I downplayed!! I don't say I am modest and don't celebrate my successes. It's just an aftermath of several failures that I'm just happy that particular event wasn't yet another failure event!! Just happy about something doesn't mean that I have to celebrate it!! :P

It can be called as some sort of premonition or God's grace or ill-luck. The first intuition I have about the possible outcome of an event, say positive, always turns out to be the opposite finally. This happens to me in everyday life. Right from the time when I wake up till I hit the bed again (and ofcourse, even in my dreams too!! :P). I wake up telling myself I should be good today. Never in my past I has happened! :P I wish I work properly everyday instead end up writing such blogs!! :P I wanted to get centum in Maths during my public exams. Ill-luck!! missed it in just one mark!! I knew I had made a mistake in Chemistry paper and wouldn't be getting centum! Ill-luck again!! Only centum in my whole school!! (which my Chemistry teacher herself can't believe it even today!! :() I wanted to end up working with 'my passion. my potential.' Passion was high but potential was low!! :D :D I used to wish, I see someone today. Even though the probability of occurence is 1, my fate, he/she wouldn't turn out that day!! I used to wish I don't see someone at all!! High chances that I wake up in his/her face that day!! Heights!! And.. my US trip. It was planned to happen sometime in July. I never had any hope on the plans to work out properly! Again, I am not being modest!! I just happened and, as I mentioned earlier, I wasn't happy about it for my mind was set to accept the fact that it won't happen in my life. That's the basic reason I couldn't cherish myself going to the US and inform others as well!! (Anyways, even others didn't cherish it :D). I wish some people stay with me lifelong! And :D :D :D as always, it wouldn't happen at all!! :D And so on and on and on..

Series of such (un)fortunate events made me have a negative thought on anything by default so that atleast it turns out to be positive!! I generally don't force myself to have negative thoughts. But am sure that the first thought I get about something fails for sure!! This pessimistic behavior led me to the state what I am now. I better choose to be recluse instead of being with someone and giving my negative opinion about something! I choose not to wish anyone of their endeavors just for the sake that I feel myself to apocalyptic and I feel me wishing someone would bring only failure and not success!! And it has happened quite a lot of times!! I don't remember wishing my sister on her my public exams even [event as old as 3 yrs back!! :D] I felt atleast my near and dear ones [@kilu: appadina?? :P] could understand it! Poor me!! Only my mom understands this fact!! :D :D.

[ And for those.. who feel this is yet another polambal!! Please take pains to look at the heading of this blog!!! I didn't ask you to waste time reading such pessimistic posts! It's you who opted for it, btw!!! :P :D :P :D ]

One Riot causing riot in my life!!

Just like trying out any other search engine, happened to stumble here somehow! The result ... NO COMMENTS!!


When people get such amazing search results.. why-on-earth am I getting such results??????? :( :( :(

Pazhaya Ninaivugal

பழய நினைவுகள்
படுத்தும் வேளையில்
பதுங்கிக் கிடந்தேன்
பகலும் இரவாய்!!

@Kilu: Naangalum ezhudhuvom!! Kavidhai!!! :P :P

Ashtamaththu Sani

With each one started to blog about their own personal problems, I felt I was lagging behind for quite a few months. I was seriously thinking of a stupid topic to blog about and couldn't find any!! :( Luckily today morning I happened to read Idly Vadai!! And that was a perfect post for me to blog about!! :D

It was about the Ashtamathu Sani that was dancing over my tongue all these days!! :P I dunno if because of that I spoke "little" bad or I dunno if it came to me for I use "Saniyan" always! But anyways, it was there somewhere in my tongue dancing happily and making me sad! :P

This Sep 26th, it finally decided to leave me (and my counterparts) and I was really waiting for it. But never intended to see what good I have after it goes. Luckily today I read an article about it. And man!!! Everything that has happened to me where listed there! Not sure if everything that they say "will happen", will happen!!! :D Here are my comments! Inline!! :D

உங்களைப் பற்றி:

எதிலும் வழக்கு போடும் [true :D] மகர ராசிக்காரர்களே நீங்கள் எவருக்கும் அஞ்சாமல் [appadiyaa??] உண்மையைப் பேசுபவர்கள் [i am modest :P]. எல்லாரும் நன்றாக இருக்க வேண்டும் என்ற எண்ணம் உடையவர்.[no comments :P]

எப்படி இருக்கப் போகிறது இந்த சனிப் பெயர்ச்சி:

இது வரை அஷ்டம ஸ்தானத்தில் இருந்த சனீஸ்வரன் இனி ஒன்பதாமிடத்தில் இருந்து வரும் 21/2 ஆண்டுகளுக்கு [rite vidunga!! ennakkum en pondaattikkum sandai varaadhu!!! :D] என்னென்னெ பலன்கள் தரப்போகிறார் என்பதைப் பார்ப்போம்.

இதுவரை பட்ட காலிலேயே படும் என்பது போன்ற நிலை மாறும் [aduththa kaalukku aapaa?? :(]. நீங்கள் செய்யாத தவறுக்கெல்லாம் மாட்டிக் கொண்டீர்களே [he he! true!! :D], இனி நீங்கள் அதிலிருந்து தப்பிப்பீர்கள் [odi olivaenaa??]. கோர்ட், போலீஸ் என்றிருந்த நிலைமை மாறும் [nalla vaelai adhu illai!!]. இதுவரை இருந்த வந்த உங்களுக்கு எதிராக இருந்த நிலைமை மாறும் [aagaa!! mmm :) :)]. வாழ்க்கைத்துணையுடன் இருந்த பிணக்க நிலை மாறும் [appadiyae onnu illaiyae!! :(]. முன்கோபம், பிடிவாதம் நீங்கும் [kaettuchchaamaa?? un sol paechchu kaettu nadappaenaam!! :P]. குடும்பத்தில் இருந்த வந்த மந்த நிலை மாறி உற்சாகம் துளிர்விடும். உங்களது வார்த்தைக்கு முக்கியத்துவம் கிடைக்கும் [superungo!! naalu IEEE paper podalaamaa?? :P]. பிரிந்த நண்பர்கள் [i-am-sorry!], உறவினர்கள் மீண்டும் வந்து சேருவார்கள் [appadiyaa?? :O :O sathyamangala saamiyaarey!! kettiyaa?? neeyum naanum onnu seruvomaam!! bethththththa comedy!!! adhukku nu "andha vidhyavin mahanidam saedhi solladi.. ennai.. saerum naal paarka solladi!!" nu paatu ezhuthi blog la vittuttu irrukkaadhey!! naakku thellaedhu!! :P :D yaruppaa adhu kootathula?? kovilpatti veeralatchumiyai vambukku izhuththadhu?? :-?].இதுவரை இருந்து வந்த கடன் மெல்ல மெல்ல தீரும் [ennakku kadan vaangi pazhakkam illai! kuduththu thaan pazhakkam!! :P]. அடிக்கடி கடன் வாங்கிய நிலை மாறும் [ada vaangalaingaraen!! thirumba thirumba summa ta ma ta ma ta ma nuttu!!]. நோய்கள் குணமடைந்து உடல்நிலை முன்னேற்றம் அடையும் [appo doctor fees kammi aahum nu solreenga!!! indha ulcer, BP, chest pain, nervous trouble, lottu, losukku ellaam poiduma?? naanum 6 packs 8 packs 22 packs ellaam vechchupaenaa?? :O :O evanda avan "suriya vukku soup oththi kudukka thaan laayakku!!" nu kaththuradhu??]. ஆன்மீகத்தில் நாட்டம் அதிகரிக்கும். முக்கியஸ்தர்களின் [appadina??] ஆதரவு பெருகும். உங்கள் மீது குடும்பத்தில் பாசம் அதிகரிக்கும் [pinna!! laptop enna! ipod enna!! paasam illaamaiyaa!!! :P :P @suruthee: correct thaaney??? :D :D]. வீட்டில் திருமணம் போன்ற சுபவிசேஷங்கள் நடக்கும் [adhey adhey!! vaaiyila naalu kilo sakkaraiyai poda!! eppo nu sonneenga naa nalla irrukkum!! ponnu... paalakkaadu thaaney?? :D (small doubtunga.. ilavatta kallellaam thooka vaenaamula?? :( )]. உங்களது தனித்திறமை [idhellaam vera irrukka??] வெளிஉலகுக்கு தெரிய வரும் [vera enna theramai therinjirukku veli ulagaththukku??]. புதிய வாகனத்தில் உலா வருவீர்கள் [adra sakkey!! adra sakkey!! maruti swift thaaney!! ada theriyumey!! :D :D :D]. இதுவரை பேசியது போலல்லாமல் இனி இணக்கமாக பேசி காரியத்தை சாதித்துக் கொள்வீர்கள் [appo ice veppaen nu solreenga?? sop sappa matter appo?? maela sollunga maela sollunga!! :D]. அரசாங்கத்தில் இருந்து வந்த காரியத்தடை நீங்கும். புதிய வீடு, வாகனம் அமையும் [ada eththanai vaaganamunga?? onnu podhum!!]. பெற்றோர் ம்ற்றும் உடன்பிறந்தோரிடம் இருந்து வந்த மனக்கசப்பு நீங்கும் [ada anbu thangachchi suruthee.. kaettiyaa?? anna anna nu konjuviyaamaam!! pottu thaakku!!! oh! mobile ku konja aarambichchuttiyo?? :P]. உங்களைப் புரிந்து கொள்ளாத உறவினர்களும், நண்பர்களும் [marupadiyumaa?? ethanai paeru???] இனிமேல் புரிந்து கொண்டு நடப்பார்கள் [dei.. kavuja kandasamy!! ennai purinju nadandhuppiyaamaam!! appadiyaa enna??]. உங்களிடம் கோபப்பட்டவர்கள் இனிமேல் இறங்கி வருவார்கள் [mottai maadi la yaarum illeengo.. irangi varradhukku!!]. திருட்டு போன பொருட்கள் திரும்ப கிடைக்கும் [heart thaan pala murai thirudu poirukku.. kidaikkungalaa??]. போட்டிகளில் வெற்றி கிடைக்கும் [potti mudinju paetti kuduppaenaa??]. வழக்கு, வியாஜ்ஜியங்களில் வெற்றி கிடைக்கும் [justification la adichchukka mudiyaadhu nu sollunga!!]. வியாபாராத்தில் ஏற்பட்ட நஷ்டங்கள் விலகும் [ada ini thaanga app store ku application podanum! aprom thaaney nattamellaam!!!]. விற்பனை அதிகரிக்கும் [appo.. iphone ku appu podalaam nu solreenga!! :D]. பதவி உயர்வு, இடமாற்றம் கிடைக்கும் [100% palichadhu ponga!! :D :D]. பணப்புழக்கம் அதிகரிக்கும் [eppadi.. silrai silraiyaa niraiya irrukkumaa??]. நல்ல வேலையாட்கள் கிடைப்பார்கள் [ada mannaar company mangaathaa!! kaettiyaa?? nee thaan ennakku sop ezhuththi tharuviyaam!! :P :P]. புதிய ஒப்பந்தங்கள் கையெழுத்தாகும் [ada ennakkaa?? enra company ka??]. பங்குதாரர்களிடம் இருந்த கருத்து வேறுபாடுகள் மறையும் [pangae illeenga!!]. உங்கள் ஆலோசனைகள் ஏற்கப்படும் [Dr. R. Sriram. Ph.D, B.Sc (psychology). nu board maatidalaam nu sollunga!!]. வியாபாரம் விருத்தியடையும். உத்தியோகத்தில் மேலதிகாரிகளுடன் இருந்து வந்த கருத்து மோதல்கள் நீங்கும். சக ஊழியர்களிடம் இருந்த மோதல்கள் நீங்கும் [dei junior aprasandigalaa.. ini PR PR nu nonaththamaateengalaam!! :D]. நல்ல நிறுவனத்தில் வேலை கிடைக்கும் [ada superungo!! nadandhirichchey!! :D]. அயல்நாட்டு வாய்ப்புகள் தேடி வரும் [vandha nalladhu thaan!! :D]. கனவுகளில் இருந்து வந்த தொல்லைகள் நீங்கும் [adangokkamakkaa.. kanavula duet paadinadhu thollai yaa??]. நீண்ட நாட்கள் பிரச்சனைகள் நீங்கும் [neenda naal na.. oru rendu varusham vechchukalaamungalaa?? irupadhu varushamaa oru pretchanai irrukku.. adhu theerumungala??]. மாணவமணிகளே நீங்கள் எதிர்பார்த்த மதிப்பெண்கள் தேடிவரும் [rite vidunga.. 800 vandhiruchchu :D]. மந்தநிலை [irrukkunga], மறதிவிலகி [ada illeenga nesamaavey!!] நன்மை ஏற்படும். கலைஞர்களுக்கு [yaarunga? indrajit aa??] பாராட்டுகளும், பரிசுகளும் குவியும் காலம் இது [gold aa bite panniyae old aahiduvaen nu sollunga!! :D]. மொத்தத்தில் இதுவரை இருந்த வந்த வறுமை மற்றும் மன உளைச்சல் [ada eppadinga ungalukku theriyum? mai pottu paartheengalaa??] நீங்கி செல்வவளமும், நிம்மதியும் ஏற்படும் [vandha seri thaanga!! unga vaai vaaku balikkattum :)].

:D :D :D :D

Another year..

.. another month.. another day! Still in the same state with life struggling to move ahead of obstacles. Caught in an enigma where the life stands still without knowing what to do! Days and nights(?!) of preparation finds no answers! All those 3000 words disintegrates to mere alphabets recited by a Kinder Garden student without knowing any meaning! Fear reigns the supreme as the D-day (death day?) nears! Just a last chance in life!! To get rid of all troubles!!! The only panacea I can have in my life!!! Does He think the same way? Time will tell me!!!

Thaen vandhu payudhu kaadhiniley!!

Sometime during my 6th std, I came to know what a "bad-word" means. It was just a starting point with 1 or 2 so-called-rowdis in the class used to utter it, and get punished my teachers after being pottukuduththufied by some pandu pasanga!! By 8th or so, almost half my class started using it. But the usage was restricted to only fights and only when being angry. This continued on and on and on with almost 95% of the boys starting to use them all by 12th std. Entering college, I could find the boys matured so much that they started using them all so colloquially every now and then. The air was filled with clear pronounciation of all those body-parts-or-diff-professions-or-watever-comes-under-bad-words. They moved on to nicknaming boys with all those names and it became a routine life to hear those words every now and then just like hearing one's name. Thought processes started getting corrupted with such vulgar (?!) and erotic (?!) words.

This continued over the years when the film industry started using this as a style factor for the villains, after the poor villains were banned from smoking in the movies. Thanks to Gautam Menon!! But for him, probably(!!) none would have known many words or wouldnt have started using in day to day life more frequently or wouldnt have educated many or wouldnt have became a more stylish factor for reel life villains!! Poor censor board, many couldn't figure out what the villain is trying to say in the movie. All heard just beeps whenever they showed the villain's face!! This continued over the films that followed and developed to an extent that the villain's dreamgirl or the sorna-ka or the female villain too starting to use it!! [ courtesy: pithamahan :P ]

I cannot say if this was the start for the girls to start using such words. But somewhere at some point of time, they too started using it!! But the poor part is, they started using such words without knowing what they actually mean!!! :( I was stunned to notice that this style factor has become a part of soaps too to increase their TRP rating. A new serial's trailer in Vijay TV had a loud beep for a word uttered by an actress in that. I really doubt if she knows the actual meaning of what she utters there and she actually utters such a word so casually even after knowing the meaning of it!!

This has nothing to do with gender bias or something. In that male dominated society, the male air got corrupted and polluted long long ago. With boys able to hear only such pleasant-honey-smoothened-words when in a group always!! Atleast the female air was a bit pure all these years. Should this corrupt their air too??? Should they also delve into such so-called-bad-words?? Should they also corrupt their mind?? Should they also become morally bad?? [ Edhaachchum seiyyanum sir!! oops madam!! :P ]

Is this an Yahoo bomb??

Trying a search of "handsome siddaarth" gives me this result!!! OMG!!!! What's happening in this world???


Dark Handsome God ???? Is this yet another Google bomb???? :( :( :(

P.S.: I tried giving "handsome sriram" and ended up getting the same result!! :( Am I not handsome??? :-? :-s

Of Jockey Jetties and Nike Shoes...

Those were the days when classrooms were filled with guys wearing exchanged shirts unwashed for days. Jeans used to survive one whole semester. Boys used to buy 2 jeans pants for a whole semester and would throw it when the semester exams get over. Rooms were filled with unwashed clothes. They had a single pair of slippers bought few eons back with 2 or 3 stiches here and there. There were even rooms where guys used as store room of dresses and slippers which anyone can use it as per their need and the fragnant smell it gives!! Tissue paper was an offensive word when they don't even know what an handkerchief is!! But the hostel bathrooms had just one thing for sure, a wall mirror, to see how ugly they are and make them a bit better. Soaps were something even the local stores inside the colleges hesitated to sell. Those were the college days, they were dependent on their family and were spending every penny as if they were a piece of gold. Swiping in ATMs was a big event of the week. Guys going to canteen more than twice a day were termed as rich! Vallet had no more than Rs. 100. Something like Rs. 3000 a month was more than enough to pay any bill in college and meet one's needs! Having cellphone meant that he/she is Ambani's kin. Prepaid connections were God's gift to them. Free SMS was heaven!! Those were the days when people were following communism without knowing it. :D :P

After getting a default 2 lettered degree, joining in some MNC, earning in *few* thousands, counting on the number of zeroes in the salary, the entire lifestyle changes. The dirty unwashed clothes gets replaced by costliest brands in the town. Jockey jetty becomes the style factor ( but then, that doesnt mean one should show it to everyone!!! :P Banglore girls are so curious about it for some unknown reasons!!! :D ). Those torn slippers get replaced by Nike shoes. Vallets are filled with credit cards from every other bank in the town. IT professional sans credit card is termed to be working in a company running in loss. T-Shirts advertising the costliest brands becomes one's identity. Having the latest costliest phone is a part of social status. Prepaid connections are a part of history, everything is just a call away! Every caller, including "hello-we-offer-you-credit-card" callers, should be greeted with a caller tune which changes every week! Malls are always filled with youngsters buying something or the other. A pencil bought at landmark writes volumes more than the same bought at annaachi kadai. Only a dinner at a 3-star hotel fills the appetite. Tissue papers are piling up in the dustbins always (what to do!! It's sweating right??!!).

With the start of every month, having *few* thousands in the bank account, credit card swipes more than a clock chimes a day. Every month has a big list of items to be bought. The living space, 10 times the same as a hostel room, is not enough for even two to stay. By 10th of the month, almost 75% account gets debited for paying credit card bills, telephone bills, rent and more. Left with a max of Rs. 10000, the rest 20 days passes - which is really a very insecure financial state. Going to workplace by a bike is just better than reaching by bus. The newest car in the town should be in one's garage. Audi gets parked under scorching sun most of the times. By 22 one should own a car. By 24 one should own a flat of *few* lakhs in the heart of the city. Gandhi smiles more than anyone else on one's day-to-day life!

Why is this sudden change? Is this the need of the industry? Do white collars really need to bear Louis Phillipe logo? Does visiting a mall is more important than anything else during weekends? Watching the new movie paying in hundreds is something like a gift to the director/actor? How many of them spend few pennies for the poor at signals after having a heavy dinner at a big hotel? How many do give something to the underpriveleged/orphans/differently abled people? When Rs. 3000 was way more than enough while in college, why is Rs. 30000 something very less to meet one's needs in a month? Are the credit cards the measure of one's qualification? While wasting a Rs. 400 worth pizza for it lacks the sponginess, does anyone think of someone sitting on the street begging for food? While going for a movie and spending Rs. 100 for popcorn, does anyone think of a child crying out for milk? When one buys a shirt for few hundreds, he/she think of someone cleaning the cars at the signals? Is there any real happiness with any of these? Will this recession change the people's mindset?

India isn't that poor. It's the IT capital of the world. But sadly, as Sujatha quoted in Sivaji, "the rich get richer. the poor get poorer!". This needs some change. Living life lavishly is not a big deal. Living life with humanity is something that counts at the end of the day!!!

P.S.: I haven't seen Naan Kadavul yet. I dunno nothing more than it's a movie on beggars and aghori baba!! I don't have a credit card. I don't run behind brands!