WeLcOmE tO tHE Fi@$cO's wOrLd

time is running so daam fast

2011-12-03T02:08:00.002+05:30

I just realized its been more than 2 years since i wrote anything here ... man nothing runs faster than time ..

Manchester derby

2009-09-20T06:02:00.003+05:30

Am exactly 12 hours away from the Manchester derby. Well its the game between the Red Devils and Manchester City.
The last time we met at the Old Trafford, we won 2-0.
I wish I am in India just to enjoy the match with my my gang ... wearing the United Home Kit :)

I will continue with this post once the match is over..
Its time for some pre match shopping :P

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POST MATCH REPORT :::

it was indeed one the best derby i have ever witnessed. It started with all high hope and in no time we were leading 1-0. But ever since we scored the goal, City started to dominate the game and the remaining first half looked shaky for us :( and a huge mistake by Ben made it 1-1.
I became nerves every time City was controlling the ball with all butterfly's flying inside.

Finally the first half got over and it was 1-1 and City dominating in all possible areas.

Second half starts : I am sure our lads would have got some nice firing from the BOSS :) We started the second half with a positive mindset, we were able to break through the flanks and cause of trouble to the City defence. It was a perfect cross by the evergreen Giggii and a perfect finish by Fletcher.. its 2-1 now.

Earlier today my friend predicted a 2-1 united victory ... i was thinking about that and laughing to myself ... By the time i realized that the match has restarted after the goal celebrations it was 2-2. Dam it Bellamy jumping in joy. It was thunder... to the top right corner. Ben was no where near the ball and he cannot be blamed.

Introduction of Valencia made the difference .. Bridge was not able to match his pace and the City boss made some tactical changes which actually backfired .. he he.

United started to dominate the entire field, their control and passing was perfect. Given made a number of pin point saves .. a few from Breba and one from our legendary number 11.

Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 80th min goal .. another Giggs, Fletcher combo and 3-2 it is.

But it was not over yet ... Another costly mistake by our defenders... and Bellamy scores again. It was a 90th min goal. We had nothing left but hope and injury time. 4 mins over and i lost hope .. i was filling that "whats there in my mind" section in FB, even before i submitted that ... we scored again ... yes it was from the magical number 7.

the final score was 4-3

Glory Glory ManUnited

so called onsite

2009-09-17T05:27:00.003+05:30

What do you expect me to say .. just back another meeting. These meetings are actually killing me :( Followed by a long call with my manager about a mail that we received from my offshore counterparts.
the rift between the offshore and onshore team is becoming a never ending story.

We just keep questioning each other for no good reason ... absolute nonsense.

believe it or not, during my early days On-site was like GOD to us and we just do what ever they ask us to do.In fact i used to hate that, now i am here in the US and its not right for me to expect them to close their eyes and blindly follow ma instructions...
All that i need is more interaction with my team,esp: i want to discuss about the issue with everyone and not the leads alone.
The distance between us, i mean with my team is actually growing day by day and I am sure one day they are going ask MAHESH ... WHO ????

Well we cant blame anyone and they may have their own reason behind it :)

"If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed." - Christopher McCandless aka Alexander Supertramp

???

2009-09-15T12:23:00.003+05:30

Well i really dont have anything to talk today ... I opened this page after a long time and that I dint feel like closing it without drafting something or other :)

It was just another monday, nothing special except for the fact Sachin scored a hundred. Well I postponed my certification again ... its now on 16th and 17th and i am really going to prepare this time :)

What else ... ma mom called again and was telling about some wipro girl ; as usual i kept listening to her. In between my team from India called to get some clarifications .. The call is finally over and its time for some serious dinner.

of course with a drink and some ilayaraja music. Cheers to all

speed

2008-03-20T02:47:00.010+05:30

It happened few months back... but really forgot to post this and it was in draft for a long time now ...

days are moving really fast .... weekends gets over in a flash and by the time I realize its Monday again... it was just another Thursday and told ma friend Suman... "i am sick of spending ma weekend in Mysore" ... we both thought of going to coorge... 2 guyz 2 bikes. Thursday evening we both were in the bowling alley and the plan got changed, coorge became wayanad. Friday evening: we both sat together and searched for some resort in wayanad where we can spend the weekend... noted down few names n took photo copy of the bike papers... played bowling again and we both headed towards our place to take some rest b4 starting. It was 5 in the morning and ma alarm was ringing, as usual i kept pressing the snooze button and continued to sleep till 6. Then i started getting sms after sms. It was Suman. The message read "Get UP U B******". I got the same message ard 17 times. Finally i woke up, took a fast track shower, packed all the necessary items and started my enticer. Finally at 7.15 i reached Suman’s place.
we wasted no time, we went to the nearest petrol bunk, "Tank full plzzz". We are all set for wayanad.
Believe me... it was awesome to drive in the highway when its empty. The best part was we dint cross the 60Km/hour mark for a long time which made the ride even more pleasant. We made our first pit stop at around 9 and got our self fueled with idly and coffee. Soon after that we were forced by the rain god for an unscheduled second stop... we started again after a small group and on the way saw a group of infy folks having tea. We knew some of them so had a small chit chat and came to know that they are heading towards ooty.
Finally it stopped raining and we started the bikes again. We reached Kerala border.. no wonder they call it the Gods own country.
We never thought the roads in Kerala would be that good .. suddenly Suman stopped his bike and was waving at me to stop. I took a U-turn and what a surprise there was a T-shop in the middle of the forest, and the shop was located on a small tree house. Pitstop # 3: tea and bajji.
Finally we reached Wayanad and dam it was so hot. We checked with the locals and reached Edakkal Caves which is very near to Ambalavayal around 12:30pm.

Inside the caves formed in-between the rocks ancient petroglyphs which dates back 4000-5000 years back are visible. The name Edakkal means in-between in Malayalam. Yes, the caves are formed by the “in-between” space of those gigantic rocks. Those alphabets and symbols seen on the cave walls are identified to be part of the Neolithic age. (4000Bc to 1700bc)

The caves are about 300 feet from the ground level and we have to trek up to reach the cave.
The roads are well build but we can’t take the bike as the slope is too much.
Well they have commutation facilities provided in Jeep by the local people. But we have already decided to walk, but at the same time to our surprise we dint see any jeep operating on that day. Well i thought it was lunch time.

The path towards the caves turned to be difficult to climb up. We had to go through small passages though the rocks, which almost looked like a cave. Finally we reached the caves and guess what .. "IT WAS CLOSED FOR MAINTENACE".

We trekked back to the parking with our heart filled with disappointed smiles   

Now comes the turning point … Suman was so frustrated and he said this F*** place is so hot … and with a sarcastic smile I told him is not Ooty. That’s it the plan got changed and we both decided to go to ooty … well if u remember it was very much like the speed ad with “Naren Karthigeyan” and “Dhoni” , where they travel from one place to another just for the climate.

But my bike was not ready for a cold, hilly place and she was in need of some makeup. So changed the engine oil, checked the brakes and few more changes. Mean time we had our late lunch. We were all set and its ooty this time and Suman was our GPS till we reached the Tamilnadu border. Hez basically a mallu and was able to communicate with the locals and get the route. Finally we reached the check post and the same routine questions… both the bikes were registered in Mysore and our TN police started asked a hell of questions in a awesome broken English .. I showed him my Tamilnadu license and he asked why are we going to ooty via Wayanad. Our answer was pretty straight forward “ WAYANAD IS HOT” .. he got pissed off and called his inspector. What else do you expect now .. some bargaining and finally they let us go.

Now comes the worst part but the most interesting part… there was literally no road for about 15 KM, it was up the hill and on top of it .. it started raining  We took more than 1.5 hours to cover that 15 odd KMs and finally saw the proper road … and it was all tears of joy. If I am correct we both took some 30 mins break.

About 7 PM we reached Ooty … man it was lovely and we booked a costliest suite in Lake View Paradise .. our basic and only requirement was TV with ESPN  all that we wanted was to see the Man United – Arsenal match …

Now what else do you expect two guys to do .. watch the match .. celebrate UNITED VICTORY the victory in the rain, had good rest, settled the hotel bills and that’s it back to Mysore

Mysore -> Wayanad -> Ooty -> Mysore

Now we are planning for Munar trip …we are the boyz gang.

chk out this link .... http://napster47657.wordpress.com/ - nicely scripted by our very own suman

:(

2008-01-02T17:27:00.001+05:30

Infy has launched a new blogger and in fact blocked you in office ...
its actually increasing the distance between u and me :(

Swipe Out (as we call it)

2007-10-24T12:00:00.003+05:30

It all happened in a flash …

We all got a mail from the HR - there is going to be a inter DC video competition ... Basically I talk a lot among our group and believe me some times it just torture them by talking.So they actually wanted me to act in that movie and they are going to make sure there is not going to be any dialogs for me ... As usual I dint take that seriously and in fact forgot about the video competition

One fine day Rudesh called me to his cabin played me a old video clip directed by ‘ZACH LIPOSVSKY’ and asked me how it is … I said awesome and he said I am going to act in the remake of the movie which they are planning to shot it for the competition… I was just back from an small accident and I was not even able to walk properly. I had no other options but to say yes (end of the day he is one of my boss).

It was Sunday morning :( we went to office and had a rehearsal of the movie .. It went out well and we were asked dress up in formals and take the final shit…. Oops shot.

I went home and came back in full formals, people were looking me wired … of course they will when they look a dumb idiot walking around in formals on a Sunday.

We were all set and started shooring the film… believe me I gave a hard time to Rudresh. If Vivek (my co star) can finish in shot in 2-3 takes I make sure it take around 5-6 :D

We spent about 6 hours for this 3 mins movie and at the end of the day it came out really nice.

That’s it our work is over… but poor director spent hours in editing and adding the sound efforts to the movie. Once the final version was out I was like wow… great… awesome (not able to think of any other words). I was not able to believe ma own eyes . I am actually looking myself in the screen and I am not that bad you know ..

I would to thank Mr. X who actually started forwarding the movie and now it have reached almost all the software engineers in my place and that’s the power of internet.

i think Rudesh will we having the complete video (unedited/unrated (lol)) .. i will try to get them and write a blog on making of the movie ASAP.

2 days is not enough

2007-07-25T16:41:00.001+05:30

Was working hard on an automation project and my team was bugged with the wind-chill files … we were spending more than 16 – 18 hrs before the comp, I hate myself for working like that … I was like a mad man, dead and walking cause of all the issues and coding. I actually started hating wind-chill.

It was around 9 PM, I was on another onsite call showing a demo of a logic that I have prepared… if was so bugged up that day and wanted to go for a long drive before I start working again. Well whenever I feel so bored or moody or irritated, I just start my bike and go to bandipur wildlife sanctuary, 80 Kms from my home.
The call got over and I was about to leave but my phone rang again. This time it was another onsite coordinator who is in charge of the automation project which I was working on.

He asked me how’s the work going and status. Though I was preparing myself for a long drive I told him that I am working and a module… he asked me to stop all the work and go home... I was like “WHAT… this guy must be crazier than me”. I asked him why…. He told me that “THE PROJECT GOT SCRAPED”. I was like... Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Need not work on this anymore but at the same time “What the F***, all the hard work is directly going to the bin”.

As decided earlier I went for a drive and next day when we reached office we all knew that the project is scrapped but nothing came out officially. Finally at around 11 AM our manager arranged for a meeting with my entire team. He asked us howz everything going and with a sad face informed us that the project is scrapped… we all acted in such a way that we never knew about that before… lol. He also told us that we all are released from the project immediately.

For the first time in 2 years in was on bench without any work. I was actually waiting for bench and I wanted the bench period to be more than 3 months. My friends told me tat will ruin your appraisals and the productivity will be very less.

Again I am not someone who is worried about all these appraisals and other stuffs. I know what I am doing and what I want to do is right.

First 2 days in bench did nothing but attended a workshop on personal effectiveness. Believe me it was really useful.

Went home for that weekend told all ma friends in Chennai that I am on bench and my project got scrapped and I was so happy that I can actually do something useful in life apart from work.

Monday morning:

Happily went to office and opened my mailbox… got a mail asking me to report to a new manager for my next assignment.

The fun is over now and I am gonna start working on the new project once I complete my knowledge transfer sessions about the new modules in which I am gonna work on.

GOD if you can keep some of friend on bench without any project for more than 8 months… why only 2 days for me.

its all mine now

2007-07-23T16:50:00.000+05:30

Y!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I bought a new mobile…. Yes it’s a nokia again but for the first time I it’s out of my pocket and it’s a N95. I am exited but ma mom and dad on the other hand are not happy that I have spent such a huge sum on a mobile. But I did what I want to do and what ever happens I am responsible for that.

I called by my sister and told her that I bought a new N95 and the first this she told was “Buy me also one” … I was like what ….. [:O] .But she was just kidding.

Some think I am crazy to spend that much on a phone

Some are jealous that I bought a new N95

Some are happy for me

But I am least bothered about that SOME and end of the day I am happy because I did what I want to do….. n its dream come true

world after death

2007-07-06T13:01:00.000+05:30

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DONATE YOUR 'EYES' !!

(This beautiful thought just had to be shared!!!)

Yet another sleepless night

2007-06-05T13:42:00.001+05:30

And there was reason. I got to hear from my old college buddy Arun after a long time. I started thinking about Arun, my good friend in college. We were in our second year of engineering and were awaiting the juniors to join. Being seniors for the first time was exciting all of us. People were all planning intelligent ragging pranks as ragging was officially banned in our college. Two months down the line, things normalized as usual, no more ragging pranks. Then there was this talk of the town junior Divya. She got famous as the home coming queen in the US colleges. Man, she was one perfect girl: not too beautiful and not less too. I have to confess, even I was after her for sometime as she was from our own department and we were her immediate seniors. Soon I realized that she’s too good to be mine. For me, the life has just been to compromise and to console!

Well, it’s my friend Arun who shocked me when I realized that he was feeling love for Divya. This went unnoticed for most of our friends for quite some time. I was guessing it as I was close to Arun and to some extent knew Divya. Slowly our guys go to know about this as the friendship was too close to remain just friendship. In a year, they got really close. And the question, where this relationship was heading, was getting in everyone’s mind. I felt they made a good pair but are they serious?

Arun was really serious but was playing safe for the obvious reason that he may end up losing her friendship too. Divya looked serious as she let the relationship go on strong and better with Arun hinting his love everyday. She could also be playing smart, but I could hardly get her perspective in this. I just kept myself informed of the relationship.

End of our college days, the relationship was still the same. Arun never proposed. Ask me, there was no need for proposal. But as it happens, in love, a yes or no is needed. The relationship cannot proceed further if it’s not defined properly within the time. May be Arun was more conscious of his friendship than the love. May be she knew of this and made him also realize this and played safe. All my inferences could also end up no where close to the reality. A guy becomes wild when he knows someone figured out his unspoken love. I never wanted to risk that. I thought let me just wait and watch.

It’s been five years since we left college. One of my college friends had mailed his wedding invitation. I was happy to see Arun in the ‘To’ list. I mailed Arun almost after three years and of course was curious to learn about the relationship but the since it was the first mail, I kept it very formal asking about his present life. But his reply answered my curiosity and failed all my inferences about the relationship. I realized how bad I was or rather still I’m in reading a girl’s mind. Thanks Arun for making me realize that.

Sivaji the Boss

2007-05-30T20:41:00.001+05:30

The Boss - Pera ketta chumma adhirudhilla

Thanks to ibnlive.com for this much awaited trailer

TWO FRAMES...........

2007-05-21T19:51:00.000+05:30

This is a story happening between two friends, true friendship means similar things affecting two lives, and that’s what happens here too, the following Red lines say the story from one character's perspective, and the Black lines from another. The blue lines that comes in the end is something common between both.

Any dam girls’ college you go, the gals out there will be talking about him, his physique, his style, bla bla bla, who else but the hero of the latest block buster movie “Mudhal Kaadhal” …. It’s another movie now and Chinna was supposed to be in the shooting spot in a beach resort in ECR. Everyone was waiting for our hero.

All the college guys are talking about Aakash a movie director who is famous for introducing new hero in all his movies, he used to go to college cultural programs and other shows conducted by college students and pick a new hero for his next movie. But one thing every one can guess is all his movies had 2 heroes and one them will be Chinna, his childhood friend. It’s a new movie now and everyone except for the director is there in the shooting spot.

Director Aakash tried calling his mobile…. “The person you are trying to call has not replied please try again later” that was all the answer the Aakash got.

Chinna threw his mobile in frustration as there is no response for the other side. Yeah he is repeatedly trying to reach Aakash. He was able to see the tension in Kumar’s face. Kumar is the other hero of the movie, a student from PSG Coimbatore doing his final year engineering.

Instead of sending one of his assistants to Chinna’s house he himself went as they both were good friends right from the school days.

The assistant director of the movie and the producer requested Chinna to go to Aakash’s place which is some 40 KM away from the spot and check out what has happened to him.

Chinna’s house is in some 50 KM away Aakash driving his new Honda City which he got as a gift from the gals family whom he is gonna marry was thinking about his old days with Chinna.

The other hero of the movie also joined Chinna and they both were heading towards their director’s house. On their way Chinna was telling the Kumar about his old days with Aakash.

Aakash was studying in one of the best school in Chennai and he was so famous for his creative and lateral thinking in such a young age. He excelled not only in studies but also in other activities like sports n other stuff.

“I knew Aakash for a long time now, we both studied in the college and now working together. It was in the middle of the 3^rd semester our batch in charge Mrs. Deepa informed us that a new student will be joining us in another hour”……

Chinna to guy sitting next: “machi entha batch in charge sonnadhu than sonna full solla kudadhu pasgala paaru ponna irrukanum nu kadavula vendhikitu irrukanga”. But for their disappointment it was this guy Aakash.

Chinna joined Aakash’s school when he was in his 7^th standard. Later that day they had selection for the football team. Aakash is the under 15 school captain and the best player. Chinna went for the selection and Aakash under estimating him gave the ball to ball and try and said “hey Chinna I will come for the ball now mudinja stop me from taking the control of the ball” Everyone including the coach was shocked to see Aakash failing to take control of the ball and coach told everyone that Chinna moves were still in his eyes. The team was selected and now its time to decide who the captain is. Many opted for Chinna over Aakash making Aakash jealous of Chinna… but Chinna told the coach that he is play only in the position of sticker and doest have much of field experience on the other hand Aakash can play the role of both defender and midfield so as he knows about our team better he should be the captain. Later that day Aakash asked sorry to Chinna for what he was thinking about him and both became good friends.

Chinna joined the cultural team as he was a talented dancer and loves to act in dramas.

The professor asked Aakash to introduce himself

Aakash: “Hi guys this is Aakash. I did my first year in Mumbai …”

As he was introducing himself

Chinna was telling his friend “Machi another Zee TV da”

Aakash hearing that: “Dude yennaku Tamil theriyum, native Coimbatore.” Chinna: “Sorry bro don’t take it seriously.” The same day both of them went for lunch together and had a long conversation between them. Chinna came to know that Aakash is interested in writing stories and directing. Aakash is kinda of guy who never takes life seriously but Chinna on the other hand gives importance to everything. Aakash was weak in mathematics and 3^rd maths was supposed to one the most difficult papers to clear. Aakash was trying hard to understand the concepts seeing this Chinna invited Aakash to his house where he can teach him maths. It was during this period of time they both became good friends. The 4^th semester started and students were happy that they need not study any other department subjects like electrical and micro processors any more. Later that day the HOD came to class and started talking “Students as we all know the college day is not far away, I spoke with the final year students and they seem to be very busy with their project work and placements. I want you people to do something which will make our department feel proud.” Chinna: “Excuse me sir, what about our immediate seniors?” HOD: “I am ordered by my higher officials not to give them a chance after the skit that they performed last year. Guys I don’t want a repeat of last year performance please”

Chinna told Aakash “Machi eatha vitta namaku Vera nalla chance kadikaadhu… lets prove who we are.” As Chinna was interested in acting he was playing the main role in the skit which was directed by Aakash. The skit was so nice that their department won the award and later Chinna became the general secretary and Aakash the joint secretary of the college cultural committee.

Aakash knew everything about Chinna, except for the reason why he moved to Chennai from Coimbatore... time passed and its time for all students to take a different path and move on... yeah its farewell time. Being best buddies both Chinna and Aakash joined the same college but till date Aakash have never asked Chinna why he moved to Chennai in the mid of his 6^th standard or about his mother.

Though they were best friends, Chinna never asked Aakash why he left Mumbai and came to Chennai.

In the car Chinna tried calling Aakash again

Kumar: “Sir is it ringing”

Chinna: “PICK PICK PICK….. DAM what the fuck is this guy doing with his mobile?”

Kumar: “Yenna sir aachu”

Chinna: “That idiot is not picking da, vidu we will go and see. Fine what was I telling?”

Kumar: “you were telling that u became to secretary and ……”

One day during the college days when Chinna told Aakash that he is love with a gal… Aakash gave a wired smile and told Chinna “Never believe a gal they will ditch you and find a better person”. Aakash though don’t hate girls he never believes them at any cause. He keeps telling everyone that girls are cheats.

Sad part was that the college that they joined don’t give much of importance to cultural activities… but they formed a group among themselves got support from their seniors and started protesting against the college management and asked them to change the rule and start giving equal importance to the sports and other extra curricular activities. To everyone’s surprise the college accepted the student’s petition.

Chinna after a lot of effort convinced Aakash that not all gals are cheats and which indeed made Aakash going along with Chinna to his gal friend’s house and started to move along with gals freely.

As it was on Chinna’s and Aakash initiative they were made the joint general secretaries of the cultural committee…. They both started to take short films with the help of the co students. Aakash was directing and Chinna playing the lead role in the stories. One day Chinna asked Aakash to help him in cleaning his room. Aakash told Chinna “dude order me and I will do what ever you want me to do” and later that day they both were cleaning the room. Chinna’s dad entered the room and asked who wants coffee and told them that he going out of town and will be back in a day or two. Chinna asked Aakash to continue cleaning and he will be back with coffee. As he was cleaning Aakash saw an old photo which Chinna have never shared with him before. He was sure that the guy in the photo is Chinna. It was Chinna family picture in which Chinna sitting in his moms lap and his dad sitting next his mom holding a baby. Aakash was speaking to him self “this lady must be Chinna’s mom and the kid must be his brother or sister.” Before Chinna came back with the coffee Aakash kept the photo back inside the book from where it took the same. Chinna doesn’t want Aaksh to see the picture so he asked him to clean the other part of the room.

Meanwhile Aakash and Chinna became famous figures when the short film that they took got the first prize in a contest that was conducted by ZEE network. Even though Aakash and Chinna put equal effort, Aakash got more credit as he directed the film. Aakash was getting a lot of phone calls and many people were congratulating him… as his phone number was published in the paper he started to get calls from some college gals …. One day when Chinna was having Aakash mobile the phone rang and it was a new number… the phone area code was 022. Chinna dint answer the call as its some new number and passed on the phone to Aakash. As Aakash answered the phone his tone changed.

Once they are done with the cleaning work Chinna and Aakash were watching the news channel and as usual the new channels were making news.

BREAKING NEWS: Actor X and Y who got married a year back got divorced.

Aakash being a hardcore fan of ‘X’ wanted to see the whole story in the news but Chinna switched off the TV and lighted a cigar. It was the first time Aakash saw Chinna behaving like this.

As Chinna was wondering who that person on phone was… he heard Aakash yelling at the person on the other end of the phone… “I don’t wanna listen to dam voice again in ma life you B**** “and disconnected the call. Chinna wanted to know about the person who called but decided not ask Aakash and pizz him off again.

Aakash thought Chinna was in some mood off and that’s why he was acting like that. In no time 4 years of college got over and Chinna and Aakash got offer letters from the best software companies in India. Being a mechanical engineer Chinna doesn’t want to join the software firm but Aakash felt the other way. He told Chinna that as he wants to take the job as wants to take some short films and direction is his passion.

Its farewell time now, students were planning something big for the farewell and they invited people from cine industry as chief guest for the farewell. Aakash and Chinna had an excellent theme in their mind and made it as a play. Watching them perform, one of the director who came in as a chief guest assured Aakash and Chinna a role in his next movie which may start in a year time.

Chinna mean while got an offer from one of the best university in US and was in a confused state. But Chinna had something else in his mind. He wanted to join the film school where he can learn more about acting. Aakash advised him to go to US, complete his masters. Now it’s all set Chinna going to US and Aakash joining the software company. Aakash had come to see off Chinna to US. As they were waiting Chinna got a call, Aakash could make out easily that it a same gal who keeps calling Chinna when both were together. This time Chinna was yelling instead of blushing.

As promised by the director, both of them got a chance in the kollywood. The Director told Aakash that he already has many assistant directors so offered both acting roles in his next movie. But Aakash refused to act as his dream was to become a director. Even Chinna quit from the movie as second hero as he wanted to do his film only if Aakash is in there. Now both of them were busy looking for job in one hand and checking with directors is there is any suitable role for them in any film. Being frustrated they both went to a bar and started boozing. Aakash got the same call again, Chinna could make out easily. This time Aakash was crying instead of yelling.

Chinna called up Aakash almost after a month after going to US and asked what he is up to now. Aakash told him that he is earning handful and the same time got offers to make some ad films through which he getting famous in film industry. Chinna felt very happy for Aakash. Aakash asked Chinna “Vera yenna mams, I hope u remember that you are calling me and it’s a international call for you” in reply Chinna told “Illa da naa phone panna matteraa vera, I think you know that a gal keeps calling me often”. Aakash: “Aama da aadhuku yenna ippo”. Chinna: “Ava yenna love panraala da… that’s why last time she called me I scolded her and cut the phone. Ippo daily mail panni disturb panra da”. Aakash: “Nalla kaariyam panna da... I am happy for you”. Chinna: “I wanted to tell this to someone da, yennaku Unna vita Vera nalla friend illa that’s why I called you machi”. Aakash: “Vidu da, everything will be fine. Stop thinking about that and concentrate on your studies yenna. Don’t forget that nee panrathu fast track course and in another 2 months unnaku exam”. Chinna: “Ok da, yellariyum keatadha sollu, Naa apparamaa pesarean”. The call got over. Aakash knew that Chinna is in love with some other gal and that’s why he rejected this gal’s love. But who is that some one???

Now Aakash had this awesome story which sure will be a blockbuster but none of the producer would even listen to it. But one producer was convinced with the story but he wants Aakash to make some other movie before starting the shooting of this movie. Aakash was puzzled. He told the producer “But sir yenkitta ippo indha story than irruku”. The producer told Aakash that he had come to the farewell in which Aakash and Chinna made the skit and he first wants that skit to be made as a movie. After long struggle the green flag was shown to Aakash and Chinna. The producer wants the movie to be released as soon as possible.

Aakash one day got a call from a producer. Going there the producer told him that he saw one his latest ad and was very impressed with that. He asked Aakash if direct a movie which indeed is going to be a Malayalam remake. He asked for a day time and called by Chinna asking him what to do. Chinna told him to take the offer and asked him if he can start the film after a month so that he will as be back in India and can act in the movie. Chinna knew that getting a role of a hero in this movie is not going to be easy. The next day Aakash told the producer that he is ok with the movie and asked when the shooting is going to start. Producer told him the movie will start in another two months time and he wants everyone including the hero and music director in the movie to he new artists. So its all set Aakash is going to direct his first film and Chinna is the hero.

They completed the movie in 7 months time and it was a hit. Aakash and Chinna were bagging all possible awards for new director and actor.

They tried to complete the movie as soon as possible and in 5 months the movie got over and it was released. The movie was a normal hit in ‘A’ category but in ‘B’ and ‘C’ it became a super-doper hit.

Now Aakash was set to make his second film. “Mudhal Kaadhal” was born. It is the script that Aakash was having in his mind for sometime now. Chinna is the main hero and as usual Aakash selected a college student for the second hero role. After listening to the story, Chinna realized what Aakash was going through. Chinna knew it is gonna be big and was sure. After his first movie being a hit the expectations for this movie was really high and as expected the movie was a super doper hit.

Present Day: It's been a year now. They both are working in yet another movie.

Chinna reached Aakash residence, he asked Kumar to stay in the car and he entered the house... shouting “Aakash… Aakash… yenga da irruke”. The maid came out running and he told Chinna “Vanga ayya, yenna aachune theriyela neethu night oru phone vandhuchu aadhuku apparam Aakash thambi kaatha irrundhu room vittu veliye varala”

Chinna opened the door with the spare key and he saw the mobile on the bed and it was switched off and saw Aakash.

Aakash reached Chinna’s house and asked Chinna’s dad “appa chinaaku yenna aachu yean pa inniki avan shootingku varala.” Chinna’s dad “Avan veetliyaa irrukan, naa morning than pa Bombayla irrundhu vandhen avan veliye poi irrukanula nenacha”. Chinna “Sari pa naa poi avan room la paakarean”. As he entered the room he saw an empty VAT 69 bottle, a diary and then noticed Chinna at one corner of the room

He had a beautiful bunch of dark red rose buds, her favorite, in his hand. He stood in silence, staring at the words

" Janani

Born: ** **** 198*

Died: 20 June 2004”

The next one will be 'Mudhal Kaadhal' which is actually the flash back for Aakash.. which will actually tell us the reason....

It's all over, and it's an end of an era

2007-04-26T13:32:00.001+05:30

It was only in the year 1991 I started watching cricket with a lot of curiosity… and the following year it was the 1992 Worldcup. The kiwis were the really in a good form at that time and i was supporting them and became a fan of Martin Crowe but me supporting the Kiwis dint last for a long.

When I was talking about cricket with my mom she was just listening to me as she doesn’t know much about the game in-fact even I don’t know much at that time, then ma dad told me about the mighty WINDIES and gave me some books that he has collected during his college days which was about the West Indian cricketers. The book just had pics of those players who toured Pakistan and Indian in 1980s and their records. Ma dad told a lot of Sir Viv Richards and I also got some inputs from ma grandpa. He was also a great fan of the then West Indian team. 

We just had Doordarshan at that time and all the matches were not aired live and if you want to any cricket news the only way to read the news paper. One day the news was about a young cricketer who scored his maiden century against the Aussies. Yeah it was Lara and he scored 277 against the odds. From them, till date I am a hard core WINDIES fan…. In fact more than a fan. It's all cause of him, the one and only LARA. He has retired from international cricket now but I am still a great fan of the legendary WestIndian cricket team and will be supporting them at any cause…. 

Almost all his innings were unforgettable but some of the most memorable innings of Lara that I have witnessed were 

His 96 out against Australia in 1996/97... The situation was 10 overs 96 to win and he single handedly won the match which made Australia failing to reach the finals of the Commonwealth Bank Series for the first time since the inaugural competition in 1979-80. 

All his innings in the Srilankan tour in which he scored almost 40% of the teams total
His century in the 1996 Worldcup against South   Africa
153 in 143 balls against Pakistan in Sharjah 

153* against Australia that made Windies win the test match 

213 against Australia in the same series – another match winning innings

400* against to England and many more

FOR SOME SUCCESS IS THE WAY OF LIFE..............AND BRIAN CHARLES LARA IS NO EXCEPTION TO THIS RULE..............

Brian Lara' s 277 against Australia in Sydney 1993, his maiden Test century,was the fourth highest maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against

Australia

by any Test batsman

Lara celebrates breaking Garfield Sobers' record individual score of 365 in Tests, againt England on April 18, 1994, at St John's, Antigua

And later, Lara relaxes in the changing room after breaking the world record

Lara pulls on his way to 501 Warwickshire against Durham in 1994

Lara sweeps during his hundred against South Africa in the 1996 Wills World Cup quarter-finals at Karachi. Lara single-handedly knocked

South Africa

out of the tournament

Lara smashes one through the covers on his way to scoring 213 against

Australia

in 1999. Many say this innings, and his unbeaten 153 in the following Test, were his finest

Yet another special innings from Lara, his innings of 153* taking his team to victory over Australia

Lara was immense in the 2001-02 series in Sri Lanka, scoring an astonishing 42% of West Indies' runs

Almost ten years to the day, Lara breaks the record. Again. His magnificent 400 helped avoid a whitewash by

England

, whose bowlers had dominated the series

Lara holds aloft the ICC Champions Trophy in 2004, the biggest ODI tournament West Indies achieved under his captaincy

Lara celebrates after breaking Allan Border's record of 11,174 Test runs in Adelaide on November 26, 2005

Lara looks on during the opening ceremony photo shoot of the 2007 Worldcup

Lara walks through a guard of honor to start his final innings

Now its all over... bye bye Lara

Almost conquered Tadiyandamol

2007-04-25T10:47:00.000+05:30

Till Wednesday evening I was planning how to go to Irrity for my friend’s sister wedding. I finally got two maps and also got all the info about the petrol bunks on the way as I was planning to go by bike. It was only on Thursday morning my friend Savita called and said she has invited some of our common friends from Chennai and we have to plan something for the weekend and I was confused and not sure what to do, join my Chennai friends and go to Irrity, many ppl told me that the ride all the way to Irrity would have been awesome. Later that day when I was spoke with ma friend Ganesh and I was indeed ordered not to go to Irrity if the Chennai ppl are coming. I have no option now but to join them.

Now the next question was what to plan for???? We had many plans and someone suggested Tadiyendamol. None of us had been there before except for my friend’s project manager Rudresh. Got some inputs from him and decided to go there.

By Thursday evening we got the approval from our HR to borrow the wildlife camping kits from our office (it’s always nice to get something free na) collected the same on Friday. We people did a lot of shopping on Friday for the trip and we are all set for the trek.

Saturday morning ppl from Chennai arrived got ready in hour or so at around 9 we (Myself, Magesh, Parvath, Sunil, Kaki, Lokesh, Mani, Srikanth, Savita)

We all started had our breakfast and we were heading towards Tadiyendamol. Everything was as per the plan till we started but on the way we got delayed and reached the place only at 4. Ppl told us it will not be possible to trek all the way as it’s already late and it would take some 4 hours to reach the peak. Then there was a change of plans and we decided go by the tempo to till Tadiyendamol fort and trek from there.

We reached fort at 5 PM started to walk and there first thing that welcomed us was bit of rain and lot of leeches. A local person guided us to a house where we can get kerosene as we forgot to get them along with us. We reached the house at around 5.30 got the kerosene and started towards Tadiyenda… the place where we have planned to camp is about 5 Kms away the path that was leading us to that point was amazing. It was actually getting foggy and dark as we were heading to the base. The base can be easily identified… It is a point where there is a huge rock and indeed the land is kinda flat too.

6.45 PM and we have reached the base.

Myself and Magesh went in search of the stream and found the same... it was not to my imagination. I actually thought it would a huge stream where was ppl can take bath but it was very thin, may be we went in a wrong season.

The minute we started to set up our tent the started and it was pouring. We managed to set up one tent in the rain and decided to wait till the rain to stop. Finally the rain god answered out prayers and a except for me, sunil n srika, others started to set up the tent. We 3 went in search of wood for the camp fire. But by the time we returned empty handed everything was set. The tents were perfect. We cooked yummy maggi that night.. yeah that was our dinner

It would have been really great if we had a camp fire as we ppl slept in fear (many told us that if we don’t have camp fire leopards may attack us in the night). We planned not to sleep and were chatting sitting on the huge rock till the rain god made us go into the tent n zip our self into the sleeping bags.

Sunday morning we started to trek towards the peak and reached a particular point before where we can take a lot of snaps…

The view from that peak was awesome and we were walking in the clouds. The view from there was enchanting. It was green forest every where and thank god people dint make this place as a picnic spot.

We spent some time there and by the time everyone reached that point it was 8 and few ppl were very tired and wanna go back to the camp. We had simple rule – “either everyone goes or no one goes” after a long discussion we decided to go back to the camp.

The first thing we did was make some breakfast... We had some maggi, bread and egg left. So its time for the veggies to have plain bread and for the others the menu was bread with scrambled egg and half boil ... We collected some stream water for cooking maggi and it tasted better than the one we made the earlier night (I am still not sure if kaki really made it taste good or it’s the stream water that gave the yummy taste)…

Time to pack up and start… :(

If not for the chennai friends (Magesh, Loks n Parvath) bus which was at 7.30 PM we would have reached the peak and spent somemore time in tadiyanda.

It was a truly beautiful trek except for the leeches... btw did i tel u litchi soda is my favourite drink ;)

We managed to take a lot of photos and i will be updating this blog soon with the link of those snaps :)

A Dream

2007-04-16T02:42:00.000+05:30

Dreams – result of chemical reaction happening in brain. Well, I’m not interested in the science behind the dreams. Lot of things happens in dream, most of which we can’t remember when we wake up. Though sometimes it is not completely wiped out and we have a chance to rethink on our dreams. When we think of them, we realize that they are no surprise because they have relevance to whatever we were thinking for a while or what we can correlate to things we are aware of. Basically, we can get to the root of our dream. But there few, very few dreams which make us puzzled. Why this? What’s the relevance? Did I ever think about this? Who is this person? Have we ever met? Did this happen in my life or going to happen? If you have ever wondered with any of this question about any of your dreams then go on reading else you can safely quit reading as further reading will hardly make any sense to you. Here I’m describing one of such dreams which had no relevance to my thinking or any of the movies that I watched recently.

Guess most of us have this so called “Dream Partner” in our mind, which we can hardly express. And most of the times we ourselves are not aware of how this person looks as we just have dots that are not joined. My dream girl had curly hair, looks wheatish and athletic. Practically, there can’t be girl with the specification that I have in my mind as that is the ‘Ideal’ girl that never exists. I used to tell myself, look for all the specifications in a girl and compromise on few things that’s no problem. I have also classified the things which can be compromised and which can’t be. I had all the dots spread in the drawing sheet but couldn’t join them. With every girl I like, I try to join the dots. There have been instances where I had to convince myself, this is the girl as she covered most of the dots which no girl ever did. Just because she covered most than other girls, doesn’t mean she’s the ‘One’ because there are lots of other essential (not compromisable) dots yet to be connected. Slowly I was giving up on this “Dream Girl”. The face of my dream girl was never visible even in my dreams. If I press my mind to show the girl’s face, it replaces with the faces of recent crushes or the default, Salma Hayek.

When I woke up from my dream yesterday, I felt something different, a mixed feeling that I can never explain. I had a face in my mind which was slowly fading away. I closed my eyes again to rethink the dream. I’m with my friends (can’t remember even a single person though) on a tour to north India (don’t ask me which place). We are in a bus which is passing through so many cities, towns and villages. We enter into a semi crowded city in the evening. A local city bus crosses our bus in the opposite traffic and of all the people in the bus, only one face flashes in front of my eyes. There she is, my dream girl. I can hardly believe my eyes. I smile at her, she smiles back at me. The face: I have never seen in my life so far. So impressive, so exact to my imagination, it fits perfectly as my dream girl’s face. Well I don’t want to describe how my dream girl looked but definitely not like Salma Hayek. The other things that I noticed are – she was in uniform, may be a school girl. Who cares, all I’m happy about is all my dots joined and I have a face in mind. This feels so good, as my search now will be so refined. I don’t have to connect the dots for every girl; I have a face to look up to.

Face of the unknown Angel. No relevance to any of my crushes so far. The last of which is the Chinese waitress of Dynasty Buffet, who I gave a tip of $5 just to see the cute smile on her face. Man, she too was an Angel but sadly stands no chance in front of my dream girl. Now it is time to name my dream girl. After thinking on it for a day, realized it is very hard to name an Angel. I leave it to my dreams to give her a name too.

Trip to Oooooty

2007-04-10T18:01:00.001+05:30

It was Thursday morning and one of ma friend from Chennai DC pinged me asked to call another friend in Chennai. I called him and it seems they are going to ooty and I was asked to join them.
Well Friday was a holiday for them n they started on Thursday evening. I wanna go ooty but how???? I told to myself... “No way I am going by bus” its jus 170 Kms from Mysore and i wanna go in bike. But who is gonna come along with me from Mysore?? The whole day I was just thinking of the Ooty trip and I was confused to core.
Friday as usual I went to office and I asked all ma friends if they are coming with me to Ooty, they had their own plans n said “sorry machi”. I was like a mad guy thinking of jus one thing “how to go to ooty”. Some asked me not to go alone what if the bike gets punctured or some problem happens in bandipur forest or Mudumalai forest … there wont be anyone to help and not safe to stop the bike in that dense forest. I even called ma friend in US and asked me what to do… even told me the same what others told... “Not safe to go alone”, safe in the sense like bike getting repaired. It was around 1.30 PM, Friday and I was still thinking of going or not. It was time to have lunch, and then at around 2.30 ma friends from Chennai called me again as asked me to join them. Well now its time to decide. I took a one rupee coin and tossed it up in the air… if it’s a tail I am going in the bike alone. Lucky me it was a tail. Told bye to ma friends and then started from office. Went home changed ma costume and started to Ooty, filled ma bike tank with fuel on the way. It was 4 PM.

It’s not the first time I am going for a long drive but it’s the first time I am going alone.

I started driving towards bandipur. I know that they won’t allow any vehicles to pass through bandipur after 5.30 or 6, so I had a non stop drive till that point… then was I was driving through the wildlife sanctuary. Saw different kinda monkeys and dears, peacocks were happily passing crossing the road. I dint cross the 30 Km/hr mark and was enjoying the drive. Finally I reached Karnataka Border and entered Tamilnadu. Now its time for me to cross another wildlife sanctuary and this time it’s Mudumalai, a place famous for elephants. The climate was awesome and so was the drive and to ma surprise there was a traffic jam in the forest… well it was small elephant blocking the way and we were asked not to disturb him (the elephant) after some 20 mins the way was clear and I started driving again… now ooty is just 20 Kms away and I need to climb up the hill a path which has 36 hairpin bends…. Believe me it not that easy to drive up the hill and as I moved it was getting chill and ma jerkin was in the bag. I don’t wanna stop the bike so the chillness made the driving worse.

Finally I reached Ooty.

We were 6 of us... Myself, Sethu, Siva, Venky, Thambi (Ravi) and Ashok we had a rocking 2 days in ooty. Queen park Residency was the place where we stayed, ma friend Ashok’s uncle was one of the partner of the place so we had a royal treatment there, roamed all over ooty and was partying big time in the night. 2 days went like 2 mins and it was time for me to leave Ooty. Sunday morning 11 and started back to Mysore… Our beloved President Mr.Kalam is giving a speech in ma campus on Sunday. I don’t wanna miss that so I dint stop anywhere but it took more time than I expected to reach Mysore and reached only at 2.30… and I missed his speech... Sad Na

Finally after a long time got a break from the regular work schedule and made a successful trip to Ooty.

Now its time for GO GOA….

Such a bad start............

2007-03-31T11:01:00.000+05:30

going to chennai after some 3-4 weeks... the train is at 8 PM. at around 1 PM my mom called me n gave me bad news... all trains will start running at 6 AM as there is a bundh in Tamilnadu for the supreme court verdict on the OBC quota issue ans she asked me to cancel the tickets ans stay back in Mysore... all my friends in Mysore are like going home so i thought there is no point staying back and being optimistic i thought my train will go to chennai.

it was 7.30 PM i reached Mysore junction i was dropped by one of ma friend naveen as i entered the station i heard some announcement in Kannada about my train i was waiting for them to tell the same in English as the only thing i know in Kannada is "Kannada Gothilla" something i learned after being in karnataka for 2 years.

The announcement came a recored voice "Passengers kind attention please, Train number 6221 Mysore Chennai Kaveri Express via B'lore Katpadi Arrakonam to Chennai will stop at Arrakonam Junction because of the bundh in Tamilnadu on 31st march 2007. Sorry for the inconvenience caused"

it was like shit and was talking to myself "WHAT THE F*** MAN" then called ma mom n informed her tat the train will come till arrakonam only.. she being very cool asked me to not to come to chennai... but i had tons of plans in ma mind and i dont to miss them at any chance... i called ma friend n asked him to bring his car to Arrakonam at 5.30 AM... sad he is goin his sleep....

For the first time in many weeks the train started on time from Mysore and not to our surprise it reached B'lore some 30 min late...i was dam tired and wanna sleep but got caught in between a Bengali group who were shouting the whole night n dint allow me to sleep.. but still i managed to catch some sleep at 4 AM and it was like 5 min but I reached Arrakonam i got out of the train n called ma friend to ask where he is waiting... n the TT came to me n informed me tat the train is going to chennai central... again i was talking to myself "WHAT THE F*** MAN".. if i go in the train to chennai central my friend will kick me. So i went out n came all way to ma home in his car... the journey was comfortable but still.... the tension the railways caused was horrible.... now its waste of petrol, money n my friends sleep.... poor chap dint sleep the whole night, n dint allow another 2 guyz to sleep tooo... all 3 dint sleep as they started at 3.15 in the morning to pick me up in Arrakonam...

Wat a Bad start for the day... dam i am goin to sue the railways now

The Terrorist

2007-02-19T22:59:00.000+05:30

Mr. X, is not more than 27, and belongs to banned organization, in fact a banned terrorist organization.

It was a weekend and people were happily shopping in the busiest street in the city.

X was going towards that street in his bike, attached to it is a box filled with 5 kgs of TNT ... All that he needs to do is just pull the trigger with will ignite the TNT.

He is driving fast and then started a fight between his heart and mind…here mind says “Dude are you really going to trigger this bomb and kill these people” and the heart replies “what did this society do to us.. Kill them all. The only thing that’s important for you is our organization nothing else”

Now he driving crazy towards the street and his bad luck a dog comes in his way and he slips… he was able to hear his band break and feel the warmth of the blood that’s bleeding from his head… he was able to open his eyes and sees a young middle ages man parking his bike on the pathway... A group of people around him… his head on a old ladies lap who feels for this guy as her own son… another guy doing the first aid to him… now his mind tells again “ITS THESE PEOPLE WHOM YOU TRIED TO TELL… WHOM YOU THINK WILL DO NOTHING TO THIS SOCIETY WAKE UP…. WAKE UP…. ”

He feels sorry for his act, surrenders to the cops, starts a new life

no more diamond in ma life

2007-01-29T19:07:00.000+05:30

Last week i got a chance to see the movie 'The Blood Diamond' great performance by Leo.

I have heard ppl telling about these diamond trading but after seeing the movie i really felt bad for those poor Africans who are really rich cause of the wealthy natural resource which is being used n enjoyed by the white, upper class n rich.

I really feel this kinda illegal trade of diamonds is still happening n the Indian traders are no exception. I am no super man to go and stop all these trading and help the needed people but what i can do stop buying Diamonds n stop ma family members buying the same.

Dear friends diamonds are a great symbol of love but lets love the people first, stop buying Diamonds and this will for sure stop this illigal trading and for sure those friends in Africa can he helped.

thnks a ton

2006-11-29T23:49:00.001+05:30

oh yeah its not far away. December 6th is ma birthday, i was bored and dint have much of work today n i was jus thinkin......................

I am goin to become 24 now n what have i achived in life ????? i think the same thin every year on ma B'day but till date i havent got the answer.

Is ma mom n dad happy with what i am now ? 'I dont know' is the answer.

till date most of the things what i have done is for ma parents....

starting frm skl then college now wrk.

When i was in skl i did many things which made many ppl unhappy (includin me) so i dont wanna tel that now

Comin to college :

i think it was in ma 2 nd year of enginneerin when i first bought a dress going out with ma friends... b4 tht i wont even do the shop.... ma dad feels what ever he buys to me is nice i like it... i dont blame him for that cause i dont comment on the stuffs tht he buyz for me, I jus wear them..

ma aim was to do B.Sc maths n then M.Sc in IIT followed by PhD but i was forced to join engineerin :( then ma life changed completed all my 8 semisters jus for the sake of getting a degree :P

well i was a dumb student till my 4th sem cause engineerin is not something i wanted to do so i dint study... thanks to ma friends (keerthy,loki,parvath,lav,parvath,VJ,....) these ppl made me study n its cause of them i got 80% in engineerin

sotware is something which i hated to core during my college days n am a mech guy. But my dad wanted to see his son as a S/W engineer ... crazy na (made me study mech then asking to become a S/W engg) but i tried hard n after all its quants that they asked in the intrance so got thro infy Y!!!!!

but finally what i wanna tell is... what ever i have done so far is not something which i wanted to do and at the same time i dont knw if i would have been this happy if I have done what i wanted to do..... so MOM n DAD thanx u soooooooooooooooo much for everythin that u have done to me for the past 24 years... this 24 is the only thin thats buggin me...

time or money ??? both is ma answer

2006-10-21T00:02:00.000+05:30

is this is going to ma happiest diwali...

For the first time in ma life i did a nice job on the eve of diwali. I wanna thank ma friend Kishore for giving me this opportunity…. I have given donations n other kinda stuffs to the poor n for those people who are in need… but every time I give money to a charitable trust or to some ma friends who go to the charity to visit them…

I reached Chennai today morning (20th Oct) n since it’s a working day in Chennai Infosys I thought of going there so that I can meet all my infy friends in a single place… n as planed I did go there met one of ma friend n was having a tea near the back gate… then another friend of mine joined us... then Kishore… Kishore asked me if I can join him as he needs to go to parris (the one in Chennai) as he wanna change some cloths he bought a day back n he is bored to go there alone… first I don’t wanna go as I wanna meet ma infy friends… then I decided to go…. We reached there at around 4 PM. He actually wanna change the cloths that he bought for some physically challenged kids for this diwali

We were done with our shopping at ard 6.45 then reached Andhra Mahila Sabha we asked to give the cloths to those people by the time we reached there it was around 7.30 I just saw the kids eating n I almost cried not able to see them… at that time for a second I thought is god there ???? Then answered to myself yes he there n that’s the reason why we people are here to help them (those kids)

I saw the happiness in those kids eyes when they saw those cloths n that was like thousand butterflies flying around me n I felt that as the most happiest moment in ma life… then I decided… do help them but not just by giving them money but by spending some thing equivalent to money which is TIME…. Yeah THAT’S WHAT THEY WANT MORE THAN MONEY…

N again I wanna tell this is going to be ma happiest diwali (at least for another year)

Vehicles occupy every inch of space

2006-10-15T14:08:00.001+05:30

Here now i would like to add some of the forwards i got about Hosur Traffic

A large concentration of IT offices and small industries in and around Hosur Road region draws thousands of people every day.

It almost takes 1.5 to 2 hours to reach ma office everyday. Even ma friend in Chennai tells the same but the only difference is he travels to Mahendra City which is 45 kms from his place n I go to Electronics city which is just 13 kms from ma place..... so everyday 4 hours in the bus.. n its become ma second bedroom (the place where i sleep) n there was one day in which there was no traffic n i reached office in 30 odd minutes n crap i lost ma sleep......

there was a mail from one of our companies director last week to give co operate with the changes happening... it seems there is a elevated highway coming which will join silk board and electronics city.. n there is also a 14 way line coming up… wow tats a great news for the IT companies… but what's going to happen to the pedestrians ???????????????? there lots of small scale industries along the Hosur road n 90 % of those employees are using cycles as their mode of travel....

i don’t wanna make any kinda comment on the government as still we don’t know what plans they are having in their heads.

so what do u think would be a temp solution for this traffic problem ????? According to a recent study by the FHWA in the US. Only 40 per cent of congestion on the roads is from insufficient road capacity and bottlenecks..

A recent research paper from the Federal Highway Administration in the United States concluded that 60 per cent of the traffic congestion is non-recurring - i.e. this congestion is caused by something other than insufficient capacity and bottlenecks. This chart tells us the story - more than half the problem is not due to lack capacity, but lack of capacity management, which results from ignoring and neglecting important issues. In Indian conditions, the lack of pedestrian, bicycle and informal public transport (auto rickshaws, taxis and private buses) management contributes to more than 30 per cent of the traffic congestion. Simply improving the management of these can result in savings of time - and money that would otherwise be sunk into even more grand engineering plans.

Another black day in Mangalore

2006-10-10T00:35:00.000+05:30

Well today was another crap day in Mangalore.

Today is was speaking with ma friends out there n what they tell is completely different from what the papers tel. so people tell me why is such clashes happening in Mangalore ? And in-fact this the only problem with that beautiful city apart from that its one of the best place to live in

Few years back a Brahmin gal and a Muslim guy ran away n a similar program happened. Are people waiting for a reason to fight for or it’s the politicians the root cause of the issue?

Are Hindus and Muslims still enemies? Or the Indian politics is not allowing them to get along with each other by some way or another ?

Kiss me goodbye -- Concluding part

2006-10-03T20:12:00.001+05:30

STOP READING IF U HAVENT READ THE PART 1 OF THIS STORY

“One Café Latte and one Café Americana”, Rishi ordered.

“This is where it all started”, Rishi said as he kept looking at the menu.

“It was an interesting start. Common friends introduced us. We started off with SMS, then online chats, and then over telephone…” she recollected those days.

“Interesting start. An interesting end” he was sarcastic.
She couldn’t help but be silent.

The coffee arrived.

“We had the same coffee flavor that day. Didn’t we?” she asked.
He didn’t respond.

“Can I ask you a favor?” she asked.

“Sure. Anything”

“This is the last day for us to be together. Why don’t you just be yourself? I want to have the best time of my life… today… with you” she said.
“Where to next?” she asked.

“Surprise!”

They drove for an hour. He drove her up a little mound. They walked down a narrow lane. It began to drizzle. They weren’t new to that.

“Where are we going?”

“Heaven” he smiled. She locked her hand with his and leaned over his arm. They walked until they reached a dead end.

“We cannot walk any further. One step more and we will fall off this cliff”, she warned.

“Don’t you want to look beyond the place where we stand?” he asked as he hugged her from behind.

She looked up and beyond. She saw the vast sea, which was a mix of blue and gray, the endless gray and gloomy sky, swaying palm trees, and the wet sand. She was bowled over by the view.

She held him close to her.

“You looked at the end of the cliff and thought this was the end. But when you looked beyond it, didn’t you see the beautiful sea and feel the cold breeze that makes you feel closer to me?” he whispered in her ears.

She knew why he brought her there. She understood what he was trying to convey. She turned towards him and pecked on his wet cheek.

“We see two different things standing at the same place, don’t we?” he continued.

She was silent. It began to rain heavily. Until evening they walked, talked, and ate. They kept their silence at the museum, left their footprints at the beach, tipped at roadside restaurant, and beyond that, spent a lot of time holding each other’s hands – he didn’t want let go her – she wanted to hold his hand for one last time.

They reached his house.

As they walked inside the house,

“Do you want to make dinner together?” she asked.

“Why would I say ‘No’?”

They spent an hour in the kitchen making new dishes. They never did that together and they discovered that it was fun to be cooking in each other’s company.

When the cooking was done, Diya went upstairs to get a shower. She locked herself in his room. The room did not have her gifts, not even a photograph of her. It was organized and clean. What it missed was she. She pulled out a paper on his table and began to write.

When she walked into the bathroom, she noticed a gift-wrapped box. It had her name on it.

“He must have worked on a lot of things tonight” she thought.

She unwrapped it to find a long turquoise skirt and a white kurta. She loved it. He knew what she always liked.

After an hour she walked down in that new dress. As she walked down the stairs she saw the dining table. It had neither roses nor candles.

As she reached the table, she noticed the beautifully lit Christmas tree beside it. Rishi wasn’t around. All of a sudden the lights went off.

The extravagant Christmas tree ignited the dark room. The beauty of the tree excited her. Beneath the tree was her gift. She gracefully picked it up.

“My last gift for you” Rishi said. He hugged her from behind.

In the radiance of the tree, Diya was glowing with beauty. Rishi was formally dressed.

“So, can I go ahead to unwrap this last gift of yours?” she asked.

“Don’t expect diamonds in it” he laughed.

“I wouldn’t. A diamond is no more my best friend when you are around” she smiled.

She unwrapped the gift to find all the gifts and cards that she had given him.

She realized that she had got the same last-gift for him. A tear escaped through her lucid eyes.

“Did you like the gift?” he asked as he switched on the lights.

She was silent. She sat by the tree not wanting to do anything.

“What happened? Do you want me to serve food there?” he asked.

“Sure. Switch off those lights and come here. We will eat beside the tree”, she suggested.

He sat down beside her with two glasses of red wine. She moved closer to him. He could smell the freshness in her. He had always loved that.
“Isn’t the wine a little bitter?” she asked.

“Even the wine?” he was sarcastic.

She didn’t respond but continued to peck the wine glass.

“Do you believe in making a wish before the Christmas tree?” he broke the silence.

“I’ve already made my wish”, she said.

“What is it?” he asked.

“That is a secret!” she got up and walked to the dining table.
He looked at her graceful walk. “I’m going to miss you”, he said to himself.

“What are you doing in the dark?” he asked her.

“Getting us some food. I can hardly see anything”, she complained.
He switched on the lights. He made her sit on the chair. He began to serve her.

“Let me serve you tonight because I wouldn’t get this opportunity for a lifetime” he said.

She smiled at him and began to eat.

“Aren’t you eating?” she asked.

I don’t want to waste my time eating. Let me sit here and look at this beautiful lady for some more time.

They talked about her job until she finished her dinner.

“I need to leave in another 10 minutes. It is getting late” she said as they were walking up the stairs to get her dress.

“You are going to leave me in 10 minutes…. forever” he said in a sober tone.

She turned around and was moved to see his eyes moist. She hugged him.

“I’ve never seen your eyes moist and I don’t want to be the reason. Men don’t cry” she patted on his back as if to console him to move on.

He hugged her closer. A gesture of insecurity.

“It is getting late”, she said.

He kissed her gently on her lips as the teardrop fell from his eyes.

“I love you so much. I cannot afford to let you go”, he said as they were kissing.

She moved away and sat on the bed.

“In that city, what if I meet somebody else and fall in love with that person?” she asked.

“You are not someone who would fall for somebody so easily. You take your time to fall in love and trust a person. So when you meet somebody else, I would be happy for you because that guy should have been far better than me, else you wouldn’t be leaving me alone”

“I’m touched”, she said.

“But I’m not”

They made love that night… for the last time. He got up to put on his dress. She was there on the bed, her tress caressing the pillow, and the blanket covering her pristine body. She was looking at him with shyness and the passion. Her eyes were moist.

He noticed the letter that she had written beside the bed. He began to read.

Rishi,

I know I made a decision that could break our relationship forever. I knew today was the last day in our lives as lovey-dovey lovers. But after spending almost a day with you, I think I shouldn’t have taken that decision. I would have been a fool to take up a career in some other place and leave behind someone who adores me truly. I did look beyond that dead end and at the lovely sea.
I think I will spend the rest of my life with you. That makes sense. I love you for what you are. You weren’t rude. I know you were hurt but you never showed it on me. I love you for that.
Here is a promise that I make on the eve of this Christmas. “I will be with you forever no matter what”. And let me also make a wish, “I should be in your thoughts forever”.
I love you Rishi. Thanks for being my life.

Love,Diya

Tears flowed down his eyes. He looked at her. She was still looking at him, beautifully. Blood ran down her nose and mouth. The poison was slow but true. She was dead.

(need comments from u people what should have happened there ???)

Kiss me goodbye --- PART 1

2006-10-03T19:33:00.000+05:30

“I’m leaving. Forever. I don’t see a future.” Diya said looking right into his eyes.Rishi was speechless. Nothing ran in his mind, because it was already strained… strained due to all those arguments in that month.

“Please react. Please tell me something”, she pleaded.

“Is it somebody else? Is it because of a new job? Is it because of the argument that we had the last week?” he wanted to ask her all those questions, but he blatantly asked, “So when are you leaving?”

She did not expect that. She knew he was hurt and he was finding it difficult to express it. She had gathered the courage to speak it out. She had even practiced it the previous night. But he wasn’t prepared. It was unexpected… uninvited.

She turned away and looked at the endless sky kissing the endless sea. She couldn’t see his eyes any further. He still looked at her. She was still his woman, the woman he worshiped for the past six months.

“I’m sorry”, she said looking at the sunset. She let the tide caress her feet not knowing his heart was also down under her feet.

He did not respond. They have been to that beach a lot of times. They have enjoyed the sunset together. This sunset was different. The sun was setting down forever in their relationship.

“So when are you leaving?” his voice was rude. He was angry but was hesitant to show it on her. He knew that she must be having a reason for the break up, but he was scared to ask for it. He didn’t want to know. He was fine with her silence.

“I’m leaving town in a week. For a new job” she uttered.

“Cool. How come I didn’t know it earlier?”

“I’m sorry for not letting you know. It was a telephonic interview. I was selected last week. Thought about it for a week now and I’ve decided to take the offer”

“I’m happy for you. You know what is best for you. Like you for that. But why should a new beginning in your career be an end to our relationship?” he asked.

“The distance. I hate it”

Rishi laughed and his heart felt light. He was confident that he could convince Diya that distance was just a stupid reason.

He held his palm over her cheek and ran his fingers into her hair.

“Which world are you in? You think distance is something that can kill our relationship?”She looked at him now. His eyes were bright with confidence.

“I strongly trust that this distance is the cue to our breakup. My last relationship meant nothing after waiting for him for a year. He came back as someone different. The damage was done, it was the distance between us.”
He saw something crashing behind her back. It was his world that was no more behind him and under his control.

“Can we leave?” he asked.

“We aren’t done yet” she insisted.

“If that is what you want, we can walk different paths” he obliged.

“Are you sure?” she was crying.

“If you are sure, I’m sure too” he didn’t cry.

“Thanks for understanding me” she said.

“Anytime” he said.

That night, Diya picked all his gifts that she had put all over her room. She took out all the cards and flowers that he had sent. Wrapped them all in white satin cloth and put a bow on it. “I’m sorry”, she wrote on it.

“I don’t want to do this to you. I love you. I cannot afford to lose you. But it is the distance. I’ve been through shit waiting for someone who went away to a far away land and came back as a different person. I don’t want to wait for somebody anymore” random thoughts ravaged her mind.

“I hate you for doing this to me. You were the only person I had ever wanted. I thought my search for that special someone ended when we decided to share our lives. Now you are here, trying to snap me off, and take away my happiness”, Rishi couldn’t accept this.

It was 1 AM. Rishi telephoned Diya.

“Can I ask you a favor?” Rishi asked.

“Sure. But don’t ask me to stay back” she hurriedly said.

“No. But I want something else”

“What is it?”

“Can I spend one whole day with you? Just 24 hours… for one last time?” he asked.

She couldn’t wait to say, “Yes”

He was excited. He knew he had 24 hours to change her mind, forever.

It was a beautiful dawn. Rishi did not sleep all night, but he was chirpy that morning. It was his day to make a lifetime decision. He was determined.

At 9 AM they met up at the café.

“One Café Latte and one Café Americana”, Rishi ordered.

“This is where it all started”, Rishi said as he kept looking at the menu.

(To be contd…)

NYC Ramayana

2006-09-26T19:15:00.001+05:30

A young second generation Indian in the US was asked by his mother to explain the significance of "Diwali" to his younger brother, this is how he went about it...

"So, like this dude had, like, a big cool kingdom and people liked him. But, like, his step-mom, or something, was kind of a bitch, and she forced her husband to, like, send this cool-dude, he was Ram, to some national forest or something...

Since he was going, for like, something like more than 10 years or so.. he decided to get his wife and his bro along... you know..so that they could all chill out together. But Dude, the forest was reeeeal scary shit...

really man... they had monkeys and devils and shit
like that. But this dude, Ram, kicked ass with darts and bows and
arrows... so it was fine.

But then some bad gangsta boys, some jerk called Ravan, picks up his babe (Sita) and lures her away to his hood. And boy, was our man, and also his bro, Laxman, pissed... And you don't piss this
son-of-a-gun cuz, he just kicks ass and like... all the gods were with him... So anyways,you don't mess with gods. So, Ram, and his bro get an army of monkeys..Dude, don't ask me how they trained the damn monkeys... just go along with me, ok...

So, Ram, Lax and their monkeys whip this gangsta's ass in his own hood. Anyways, by this time, their time's up in the forest..and anyways...it gets kinda boring,you know... no TV or malls or shit
like that. So,they decided to hitch a ride back home... and when the people realize that our dude, his bro and the wife are back home... they thought, well, you know, at least they deserve something nice... and they didn't have any bars or clubs in those days... so they couldn't take them
out for a drink, so they, like, decided to smoke and shit...and since they also had some lamps, they lit the lamps also... so it was pretty cooool...you know with all those fireworks... Really, they even had some local band play along with the fireworks... and you know, what, dude, that was the very first, no kidding.., that was the very first music-synchronized fireworks... you know, like the 4th of July stuff, but just, more cooler and stuff, you know. And, so dude, that was how, like, this festival started .......

(I GOT THIS AS A FORWARD TODAY N I AM SHARIN THE SAME WITH U PPL)

IS THIS WORLD CHANGING

2006-09-25T23:33:00.000+05:30

Is my male dominant world changing?????

“YES” is the sad answer. Where is it heading towards???? To a much balanced world with no bias on sex- I wonder if this is possible. World can never be balanced, after all humans are animals too (species) and as nature says one species has to dominate other. So what is gonna happen???? – The obvious question. Is it going to be female dominant one? – “Soon” yet another hard to believe truth.

The statements made above might look very odd and seem like they are said with no base. “Baseless statements” – termed by few of my well-educated, cultured and rational male (species) friends. They are cultured and rational because they feel male (species) had dominated female (species) and its high time to give them EQUAL RIGHTS.

Here are few “Bases” to the statements I made earlier. As we all know, earth evolved from unicellular to multicellular species. There’s always been domination by the fittest species. Things change – Survival of the Fittest. Mighty Dinosaurs are no more today. But they did dominate/rule the world. When humans came in to the world, there too was two kinds of species – Male n Female. As nature always does, males were exact complement to female. Then how did male gain the dominance???? It’s not just that male outnumbered female, various factors right from the physical strength to mental strength. Many of my opposite species will not agree to it especially mental strength. But that is the fact. Else, the world would have been the other way around. To put it in much better way and also to convince my complement species. Women were the one who dominated the world first. Mother land and mother tongue are few terms which still remain as the proof of it. Worship of Female goddess was dominant as history says. Take Hindu myth, all gods were supposed to be from the prime female goddess “Adhi Parasakthi”. What exactly is this “Adhi Parasakthi” – Wondering???? Sanskrit has the answer. Adhi – The First, Para – The Ultimate and Sakthi – Power, which combines to The First Ultimate Power. If you ask me it’s neither male nor female its just power. But, as this power was termed in a Female Dominant world it was assumed FEMALE. For Christianity followers, “Da Vinci Code” has many evidence of female worship. How did it all change then? - Take a break, let me think.

Actually no thinking needed, the answer is straight forward. As females are struggling today (to regain) for dominance, male also did. And finally they conquered. That’s when world changed. All male GODS were born. Have you ever wondered why Lord Siva had only male child and not a female???? Keep wondering. From Jesus to Prophet – Males. That’s how we came to power. But what’s happening now - We are slowly losing our regime.

NO- we are just giving them equal rights which we denied them to show our dominance. We are not letting them dominate us we are just waiting for them to come up equal – are the justification given by the rational and cultural males. It’s just the story of hare and the tortoise. Hare leads the race and just waits for tortoise thinking it can never cross him but before even it knew, tortoise will be in lead. That’s what is going to happen – it’s natural. There were few men in male dominant society trying to spread female domination, the Da Vinci himself. There will be males in the female dominant society too who’ll take forward the male domination and hope we bring it back again!

~ A Male Chauvinist.

by - GANzz

ih lla

2006-09-24T10:21:00.000+05:30

siht si a ggolb hcihw i ma nitirw retfa wef shtnom. I tsomla deppots nidaer dna nitirw sgolb eud ot emos yparc lanosrep snosear.......... tuB I ma kcab won

SIHT EGAP LLIW EVAH YREVE GNIHT TAHT UOY TNAW

- HSEHAM