Tagged!!!!!!

SVM tagged me... some 35 odd randow Qs .. here they go...

1. Name one person who made you laugh last night?amma
2. What were you doing at 0800?Blogging. got up at 6:D .. match pazhakkam
3. What were you doing 30 minutes ago?Scrapped in orkut...
4. What happened to you in 2006?I turned 25
5. What was the last thing you said out loud?STOP IT.. too much ottals abt horoscopes
6. How many beverages did you have today?2
7. What color is your hairbrush?White and red
8. What was the last thing you paid for?Tirupathi Undiyal kaasu to Ram....
9.Where were you last night?At home
10.What color is your front door?Brown
11.Where do you keep your change?In my purse, sometimes pocket
12.What’s the weather like today?Warm n sunny day....
13.What’s the best ice-cream flavor?I always go for butterscotch
14. What excites you?Presently anything wrt house,furniture,girls, matrimonial prospects:P excites me
15. Do you want to cut your hair?Nope, just had one
16. Are you over the age of 25?Yes.
17. Do you talk a lot?Yeah!!!!I talk a little tooooooooooooooooooooooo much
18. Do you watch the O.C.?Yeah in application forms i find it.. if u mean the one that comes with SC ST OBC etc.. if u mean anything else NO:)
19.Do you know anyone named Steven?yeah Stevan waugh, Stevan Speilberg..
20.Do you make up your own words?yeah..
21.Are you a jealous person?no
22.Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘A’.Anusha,Archana,adz
23. Name a friend whose name starts with the letter ‘K’.Kaushik
24.Who’s the first person on your received call list?Home
25.What does the last text message you received say?reached safely.. by a friend who dropped me and drove back home
26. Do you chew on your straw?No
27.Do you have curly hair?Don know
28.Where’s the next place you’re going to?Upstairs to my room.. time to sleep
29.Who’s the rudest person in your life?none
30.What was the last thing you ate?masala dosa
31.Will you get married in the future?yes .. hopefully if gals get insane and blind
32.What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the past 2 weeks?I am legend
33.Is there anyone you like right now?nope
34.When was the last time you did the dishes?3 months back
35.Are you currently depressed?NOT AT ALL
36.Did you cry today?NO
37.Why did you answer and post this?I didnt know what tagging meant and then realized tagging is by answering this post

Vote of Thanks...

I have been in blore for almost 6 months now.I have always been cribbing about staying alone, feeling bored lonely, bangalore roads, traffic, people etc. But there are few people who really make my day here in this techy city. Just had a thought i should spare a thought for all of them who really help a lot in keeping my mood upbeat!!!

The list is as follows..(in no particular order)

My "Motherly sis" Harin- As i call her. Whenever i feel like having home-made food(of course some homely advice:D)i get here.. any problem anything she is there for me.. she is in OZ now.. missing the "motherly" food and caring advices of course..:-(

Ms Chara--"Devily sis"-- Har's friend.. Chara.. don get bugged.. by devily i mean Devi-ly ( devi in Hindi means goddess) means Godly!!:-D[i am proud of my punning ability .. hehe].. she too plays a key role in bringing smiles to my innocent face( a lil exaggeration shud be accepted.. its my blog!!!)She is my company to watch all good movies/plays.. even when my "motherly sis" is busy working from home or working for home as the case may be!!!

Manj and V-- Their house is my "break out" area.. whenever i feel like making myself light and feel like talking i am here.. what choice do they have but to listen to me..They are always caring and readily helping whenever i am in need.. of course i am fond of the aaloo parathas manj makes and also V's super ottals.!! But manj one thing.. I know Manj for 6 yrs now.. its her duty(fate) to listen to me.. but V listening to me and treating me as his friend is something i like a lot about him. I have always been worrying the friendship between a boy and gal , to last long depends hugely on the partners they get and i am very fortunate u got V!! Hats off V!! Really proud of you!!

Now comes Mrs Viboothi( real name not revealed on her request) and she "likes" being called this way!..My chat friend-- We don meet much often but we chat almost daily.. whenever i feel kinda bored/dull her pings always enlightens me.. apart from that any detail needed on bangalore(route, places to visit etc) she gives me .. obv with some help from Mr Viboothi i think!!Anyways danx Mrs Viboothi.. and i wish u good luck!

Last but not the least i need to mention abt guys at work who keep me going.. Srijith,Ratna, Manu,Sai and Rohith.. they make my day in office..Srijith as u may be knowing is my college mate...Ratna, Manu Rohith and Sai have been my carrom mates(of course team mates.).. Any help in carrom Sai is there!! Professional advices manu and Rohith are there.. Personal and professional polambals Srijith gives a patient hearing..Manu, Sai and I also form the only "developer" quiz teams at work! Thanks a lot guys.. you don't know how much you mean to me!!
How could i miss Bajji and family.. their house is my second home.. (rather one of my second homes).. career and financial guidance -- bajjis bro is there.. good nice homely food (maam and manni) .. Miss my sis? Bajji's sis comes as a caring sis.. feel bored ? two yr old Ajay does enough to keep you occupied..and yeah of course there is bajji!!

Thanks a lot to all of you and i am very proud of you all!!

A special word of mention is also needed for "Potluck" and "Khana Khazana" who provide me with homely food for a nominal price.. inspite of eating out frequently if i am still healthy now its definitely bcos of you both!!



Lots of Regards!!!

[[ps: people who want their names to be removed pls let me know asap]
[[ps: senti post again.. pls forgive me]]

Down the memory lane....

I Can't beleive 8 years have gone since i completed schooling, 5 since i came out of PSG ! Still the thought of those days gets me on to a nostalgic avatar and my mind gets flooded with loads and loads of sweet memories. To me a weekend in coimbatore is more than I can ask for from a perfect weekend.

The moment i step there its like all the negatiives/worries in me are flushed out and i am fed with a new sense of hope, added dosage of energy and abundant enthusiasm and ofcourse an incredible quantity of youth!

The 28th and 29th of October was one such memorable weekends(rather a sunday and monday) i spent in cbe.. (Thanks to the grand wedding couple and may all their dreams come true!!).

After dumping my bags in AarVee i started off to go to my school.

Maths has always been a subject i loved and thought i could do well in it. I met my maths ma'am to whom i owe lot for getting me know the little maths i know today ( rather i knew on the day of the exam). When i neared the class room i could hear her voice. Same Arithmetic and Geometric progressions. Nothing seemed to have changed in the school and also in her. For a moment I thought i was still a student. I could hear her tell the usual "Can't you work without making noise" that she used with most of us. Not sure how many times i was on the receiving end, thanks to the old naughty boy in me.

The school has changed. Lots of trees , lots of greenary, new paints, changed organization of class rooms. My XII B was now IX A. The cricket ground was the same. The pic on the left shows a distant view of the cricket ground. Not a great wicket(infact there is no wicket.. we played on mats) But still it will have a special place in my heart. This was the ground i got my first fifty on. Man what a fun it was. I had been constantly getting out in the 30s that 50 had somehow become a non-reachable and an elusive figure to me. Reaching it for the first time was really a special moment with an able partner in tube(Vinod we called him tube) Dude i don't know where you are now but certainly miss our cricketing days. (Please note that i didnt get many 50s after that though, this was just the first of the few fifties i scored)

The roads of puliyakulam, Good Home apts we stayed are very very special to me. Everyday before i go to college i would go till puliyakulam to see ganni. That is Asia's largest pillaiyar if you didnt know. The picture on the left shows a the flat we stayed( the one next to the broken-window-flat) and the Puliyakulam pillaiyar. I still can't beleive he allowed me to take a snap in the temple.

Pic: The good home apt and the pillaiyar


Visit to PSG is always my routine. PSG is no-different from what it was when i left just that few more buildings have come up. The moment we step into the campus a sense of belongingness flows in. The days from 1999-2002 comes back. The days when Adz , Badri ,Rama and I used to rock!! (We still rock.. just that all of us are old and one has a new member in the family!!).


The prolonged kadalais at our tech beach as we used to call it. Man i feel i have really lost the capacity to fry nuts(Kadalai varukarthu) . May be i am too old for that now :-(. During college days you would see me there always!!:D





The NMB bakery and innumerable ragging sessions I have gone through amidst smoke and noise. That was during the cricketing days, when after practice sessions we will go to NMB with all senior guys and though i got lil irritated then now i feel that was real fun. Man now it has developed a lot. Lot of space inside and more importantly "Smoking banned"!!!!!. When we used to study NMB was a paradise for smoking and ofcourse ragging!!!



The famous "famous cafe". This was literally second home for Adz and me. We used to spend atleast 14 hrs a day together. 8.30 to 4.15 in college. At 4.15 go to famous( as we called it) Have sambar with idly.Have sambar with dosa. ( just note the emphasis on sambar there.. there have been days when i have ordered sambar alone!!). We used to love it. Namma asthana tiffen centre. The pambings when we see Nair sir or any other faculty was the best part. Then we will head to IBM ACE and from there to badri's room in cross cut road. One to two hrs of vetti manga there and then will head home

Well Time moves on!! But luckily we are all still what we were but for few responsibilities added, few kgs gained, few more worries but those wonderful moments are still with us to cherish!!!Looking forward to YAM in december!!

Are we getting eManiacs?!

In a bid to learn a bit of cooking and also driven by the fact that i need to be cooking in a fortnight's time, i sat down noting the recipes amma narrated and gradually realized that apart from the basic difficulty of understanding the ingredients( my usual confusion about mustard with Jeera, U dal with Thoor Dal, and so on) i had a basic difficulty -- WRITING!!!


Every now and then when my mom repeated few ingredients or steps involuntarily my mind started searching for something that i am used to doing a lot..."Ctrl C" and "Ctrl V"...

Are we forgetting the art of writing? Why is it that i was finding it hard to do something i have been doing for last 20+ yrs.. When i sit back to recollect when i last "wrote" quite significantly , it was the Data Mining and Warehousing paper in my 5th sem MCA, when i wrote then i didnt realise that will be my last significant writing( ofcouse i never expected to pass the paper.. thats the reason probably i am taken by shock for suddenly suspending with a skill learnt from child hood- Writing!!)

Gone are days when we had to fill forms to book a railways ticket,Thanks to irctc which has reduced the overhead.. Now i have a ready made notepad with all the details and guss what i do ...Yipppee u got it right "CTRL C and CTRL V".

Gone are the days of writing letters, the concept of penpals.. Now we either chat or "eMail"..I don remember when i last bought an inland letter or when i last used a stamp:(

Gone are the days when we "wrote" the household expenses.. a simple excel spreadsheet solves all our problems now..But we miss the fun time we had in trying to find where we missed a calculation or a zero here and there( there have been times when i have misread a "Pillayar suzhi" for a carry over 2 and made addition mistakes..--Miss such fun though i felt terribly embarrassed then)

Dictionary.com's meaning for the word "illiterate" states a person who cannot read or write, now inspite of being a post graduate we dont write.. Are we getting illiterate?:) Are the pains that i put in trying to improve my handwriting in a "four-line notebook" gone a waste??( i cant imagine the number of times i would have written an imposition in my life)

Lastly... Gone are the days of diary writing.. instead you know what we do.. we write such lengthy posts in a blog!!!!!

May the almighty save the art of writing from being extinct!!!(Also if possible the blog world from such posts:D)

cheers

ps: by "write" - the physical act of writing in pen/pencil/balpam/chalkpiece on a paper/slate/board or notebook

Helmet Rocks!!

Well, Just one day and the entire city seems to be masked!!! The Govt's decision to enforce compulsory wearing of helmets seems to have reached almost everyone( pls note "almost" not all.. i have still not got a chance to get myself one.. ob adichyfying in car till then :P)-- but ofcourse i wear seat belts though..



Its good to see two wheeler drivers(and pillion riders) wearing helmets. Its a nice feel to have that the number of casualities due to any fatal accident is gonna reduce tremendously( atleast i hope so)

Similarly it will be nice if some laws are enforced for foot board travel as well..

but u know its funny to drive without seeing other fellow drivers faces .. esp the gals:**D

Will get an helmet soon for myself:)) Till then ofcourse i am going by car.

Cheers


**for guys like me:))

Back.

hey.. i m back to my blogging ways!! as if i had been a fanatic blogger before:P. just adding one more to the handful of posts i have posted.. from now on i beleive i will be a little more regular in blogging :)

Promises and Promises.. Again?? well Promises are t be given always (not kept with us)

I guess anyone reading this post may feel i had stayed without blogging:))

bye...