All Said and Done!!!!

Happy retired life maa....

2009-08-05T03:10:00.000-07:00

When someone asked what my parents were doing, my reply would be "My dad is manager in IOB and mom is in Income Tax". Somehow I always had a sense of pride when I told about my parents position and especially my mom's position. Mothers seem to be the ambassadors of "sacrifice" in any home and amma is no exception. She is getting VR from Income tax today. I am very sure she is going through this with a very heavy heart.

From the best of my knowledge and memory I have seen all her decisions were in best interests of "us". She always put her own behind. Thats why when she could have retired as an Assistant commissioner of Income Tax( What would have been a perfect icing on the cake for an illustrious career), she is giving her career an abrupt end because she feels her services are more requred for us than the government.

From day 1 she has been running around for the family.When her interests lied in teaching she had to take a government job to meet the financial problems the family faced.Followed by that as the family grew she couldnt really give herself a break in teaching and continued. We as family kept moving places along with appa's and amma's transfers.Wherever she went she kept her two key values of honesty and integrity with her , the key reason why she is very popular among all the higher officials and assessees. Though she did a wonderful job she always had a sense of fear to do the right things the right way and that helped her in striving for perfection in whatever she did.

Managing dual responsibilities in Vellore and Chennai and doing incredibly well all on her own , travelling to raids with perfect ease and confidence, serving notices to strangers.. ah you name a difficulty and she has faced it with ease.

In her career in IT that spanned a memorable 30 years she made a lot of friends across offices, across geographies and bonded with them so well. She mentored the young when they came new into a govt office and was also a good guide in making them take both career and personal decisions.

She has never hesitated to learn anything new, from moving from literature to taxation to changes in taxation methods to learning and adapting to software tools and took changes that came her way with right spirit and attitude and did full justice to what was expected of her.

Everytime I went into Income tax office and utterred your name I was shrilled with the respect you got from everyone there. In a self-centered world that we live in its very difficult to earn people and you have done it with ease and thats truly because of your big heart.

I am sure ma.. though you found it difficult to cope with some of the demanding bosses and some of the non-cooperative subordinates you loved your job, and I understand what you are going through when you are dropping it off and again proved yourself to be an epitome of love and sacrifice.

You have given a lot to us all ma... you fought and got yourself transferred to all the places we all had to go, you compromised on lot of your work stuff for our health and our well being , now again this decision is in our best interests.. enough ma... its time for us to give you back atleast a millionth of what you have showered on us unconditionally.

This post is just for you.. Just to tell you that we are all very very proud of you. Love you ma..

Cost cutting time!!!!!

2009-02-13T00:09:00.000-08:00

With all corporates adopting various cost cutting processes and the economy taking one of its worst slides ever , we are in a state of "Cash is King!!". In such a situation managing an household is equally challenging. With me being a new entrant to the state of "kudumbastan" and having been brought up to live more luxurious living, the following are some stiff measures that I have decided to adopt to save myself a few penny :) [ Note : These are just guidelines for me to follow and not an advise to anyone.. as usual documenting it here :) ]

Keep Swipes away!! - Fallen pray to one of the most stupidest marketing techniques, I had once been forced to say an "Yes" to a credit card vendor and since then the tight coupling had started. The freedom(so-called) provided by these cards has put me too into the vicious circle of swipe in temptation, puzzled as how to pay it back convert to an emi , realize the loss incurred in paying in intsallments suddenly and again pay back somehow and again swipe and the circle goes on... Hence no room for temptations anymore. First oath I take is to STOP swiping the card completely. Anything to be bought buy with "actual cash" (or debit card may be) and not with the virtual money that this CC provides.
chennai trips!! - For the homesick boy that I am , getting used to these unplanned trips to hometown has become more than a habit to me ( and now for us). Firstly because the trip is unplanned you don't get tickets and hence its either a tatkal or by bus (volvo :P) -- the costlier ones. The ric journey to and from stations in both the cities - thanks to the location of my residences in both , the auto cost is equal to (if not more ) than the normal train fare from Bangalore to chennai. So the measures on this front..
- Reduce the trips to chennai ( decide based on need say an important wedding to attend etc)
- Plan it well so that we get tickets in train
- Difficult, but still try and use public transport as much as possible
- More importantly use debit ( and not credit) cards to book your tickets
Multiplex culture!! The multiplex culture has impacted majority of youth and I am no exception. Picking up some of the most ordinary flicks, booking tickets online( again swipe :D ) , popcorn plus pepsi during interval ( I cannot settle for anything less than a Jumbo-combo you see :))) and again after the flick a dinner( italian, swiss, continental... !!) to finish things off adding some extra fat to the tummy and some extra debt to be cleared in next CC bill ( or another flexi pay -- emi option may be??) . The measure is to cut on the multiplex cost, confine oneself to the DVDs and reduce the trips to multiplex immensely.
Communication Kills!! Its essential we have communication skills but the modern day cost of communication kills!!. The measure is to cut down on vetti chat calls, forwarding of jokes, setting of hello/caller tunes. Use phone only for communicating. Be precise and convey what is required and cut down on time of the calls. Opt for the basic packages when it comes to internet connections , when broadband packages were offerred I was particular about the high speed conns( 2 Mbps, unlimited download etc) ,simple reason being I should be able to connect remotely from home and work :P , but obviously for the lazy boy that I am I rarely do that. And when I do it can be done with a low speed connection.
Walk : Both for health and for pocket its always good to walk. Always prefer walking to vehicle when the distance is walkable , atleast the environment will have few ppms of CO less :)
Provisions, vegetables and Milk: Would never have been applicable to me 4 months back , but now these three are the most incurred expenses. The measure is to buy vegetables and provisions in bulk( provisions once a month and vegetable once for a week may be) . Buy vegetables from vegetable market , it should work both cost effective and qualitative. And get a milk card or coupon for milk may be..

Apart from these the usual ones that apply to everyone switch off lights, geysers etc when not in use... blah blah.... but ultimately let me see if I can be left with some cash in hand at the end of the day!!!

Getting Dumb

2008-10-16T04:26:00.001-07:00

I Happened to talk for a brief while in a preso today. I was stunned to see that my speaking skills have gone down to an incredible low!!

Any work arounds?

Felt bad and hence the post.. ignore!!!

Grandmas Aren't gentlemen!!!

2008-09-10T22:23:00.000-07:00

Grandmas aren’t Gentlemen!

Not too often
Do I take oldies on my bike
As I fear my driving
Will cause BP, Sugar et al to hike

When asked for a ride
I often blush,
Like a traditional Indian bride
Putting my head down and hiding from their stride

But once I acknowledged,
My grandma's ask
As I saw my dad's eyes
Warning me to be put to task

My bike started with a roar
"You can go fast" she declared
Encouraged I accelerated
More, more and more

I was really racing
When she tried adjusting her saree
My vehicle jerked and
Almost fell under a lorry

I acted fast and balanced the bike
As we saw the lorry go
"I saved her" I thought with a pale face
"Ha ha ha" she laughed
"At last" she yelled "the lorry won the race"!!

Donate blood Save Life!!!

2008-09-10T03:12:00.000-07:00

Its been long since i posted anything.

I donated blood for the 18th time today!! Somehow donating blood is such a nice feeling. Also registered for stem cells and phrasis donations.

nothing more.. everytime i keep forgetting when I donated blood last.. may be this post will help me remember the date:)

Going on a hike!!!(pun intended)

2008-05-15T01:38:00.000-07:00

One of my friends in HR forwarded this story, I am just putting it on my blog for tracking purposes:-)

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Have you heard the story of " The Washer man and the Foolish Donkey" ? To refresh your memory, and for the benefit of those who have not grown up listening to this moral story, it goes like this… There was once a washer man who had a donkey and a dog. One night when the whole world was sleeping, a thief broke into the house, the washer man was fast asleep but the donkey and the dog were awake. The dog decided not to bark since the master did not take good care of him and wanted to teach him a lesson. The donkey got worried and said to the dog that if he doesn't bark, the donkey will have to do something himself. The dog did not change his mind and the donkey started braying loudly. Hearing the donkey bray, the thief ran away, the master woke up and started beating the donkey for braying in the middle of the night for no reason. Moral of the story " One must not engage in duties other than his own" Now take a new look at the same story… The washer man ( J )
was a well educated man from a premier management institute. He had the fundas of looking at the bigger picture and thinking out of the box. He was convinced that there must be some reason for the donkey to bray in the night. He walked outside a little and did some fact finding, applied a bottom up approach, figured out from the ground realities that there was a thief who broke in and the donkey only wanted to alert him about it. Looking at the donkey's extra initiative and going beyond the call of the duty, he rewarded him with lot of hay and other perks and became his favorite pet. The dog's life didn't change much, except that now the donkey was more motivated in doing the dogs duties as well. In the annual appraisal the dog managed a " meets requirement" . Soon the dog realized that the donkey is taking care of his duties and he can enjoy his life sleeping and lazing around. The donkey was rated as " star performer". The donkey had to live up to his already high performance standards. Soon he was over burdened with work and always under pressure and now is looking for a job rotation… Disclaimer: All characters in the story are not at all imaginary. Any resemblance to person living or dying of work is purely intentional.
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Disclaimer from the blogger: Placing this story at the time of apprisal is purely coincidental!!!

Lets Talk Matri-mourny!!

2008-04-09T15:54:00.000-07:00

If anyone had asked on last friday what my weekend plans were gonna be I would have happily replied "eat mom-cooked food, set up my new flat( kindly note the point your honour!!),go out shopping with parents..blah blah" but little did I know that at 11.30pm I will get squeezed and compelled to write a BM profile of my own to enter the elite group of bright , young energetic bachelors ready to lose their "bachelor" status(rather divert from their "single"life -- hehe if this doesn't give a lopsided meaning).

I must admit that this has been one of the most challenging task that I have done in the recent past. Starting from eye-balling all the girl profiles (to see what they are loking for.. no no no.. not sight adiching!!)and realize that most of them look for fair,tall and handsome partner.. the trait that I have not possessed for last 26 years .. ippadi dideennu keta enga poven!!

Then we start off creating one.With my choices limited to Madhwa desistha non-kaushika gothra girls(puff!) , my profile already has to go through a very narrow channel to get through.. especially with god being a lil childish when he designed my face and me being childish in my eating habits.. thanks to both now I am absolutely shapeless!! Now for this shapeless person we need to add photographs to impress people( both girls and their parents.. enna kodumai saar ithu :(:( )

We choose two of the best snaps among the worst.. being a GUI developer these days WYSIWYG applies to photos as well.. ( localla sonna chatti-aggapi concept if you have heard?? )..yeah! we did find a couple of them one supposedly looking a lil modern and one with all mudras(or namams.. chamathu sandya vandanam pic you see).. what to do girls look for a traditional at the sametime modern broadminded outlook.!!

Sari photos done! Now what? Something about BM that I liked was he made my job easier.. there was check boxes for most of the difficult ones..then came the section of writing about myself! The most difficult one.. my character to be described in more than 50 characters! With all the above difficulties , the narrow channel I mentioned above, my horoscope for the horror scope it is( rendule kethu josiayara maathu funda.. I will have a difficult married life if at all I have one:D) my "about myself" was the only option for me to sell myself in the kalyana market . I write a little more than a parah about myself .. and now its review time!!

Sharing my BM link with friends and relatives is the most amazing thing!! Yo get to know where you exactly suck. "Your profile looks ok.. but for some grammatical mistakes" said an English friendly friend.. Oh My God!! Looking for tall, handsome good looking guys I kinda knew girls looked for glamour but do they look for grammar too? Glamour or Grammar .. i suck at both!
One friend says "put that you own a house" , the other guy says "Dont put your salary and assets da.. let the girls come for you than your assets".. Dei do you have any idea about the narrow channel I fall in? Nothing against girls they do look for the financial stability of the grooms.. quite rightly so.. I would look for the same if I was looking a groom for my sister too..

By mistake I have used the word "gauge" in the profile to mean gauging a person(remember screw gauge,bellows gauge etc etc??) cannot be done from these few lines( Just to give myself some more room and inducing a doubt in the girls mind that there is prolly something more which they may get to know about me if they talked!!- apparantely which isnt the case:D) But yeah as usual my englipis let me down and I used a "guage" instead of "gauge" which gave more a meaning like the types of trains meter guage and broad guage..( what am I trying to say here?)

Then there is my Aunt .. who adores and admires me for no reason and for no fault of hers.. my aunt dahlia she is like the one in PGW.. though there are similarities I am not Berty( I am a lil dirty may be :D) and I don't have a jeeves to pull me out of trouble.. she keeps telling the girl I am gonna get is very fortunate... alas!!

At last!! I must confess to all my friends I have not changed a word.. let the mistakes be as they are.. If i start correcting I may introduce more.. Just like how rat sees just the bait and not the trap.. the girl may also see just the positives and ..you-know-what!!!

Its been fun though!!

Tagged!!!!!!

2007-12-30T09:54:00.000-08:00

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...

2007-11-29T02:26:00.000-08:00

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....

2007-11-26T22:59:00.000-08:00

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 o f 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?!

2007-06-05T01:25:00.000-07:00

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!!

2007-06-03T23:41:00.000-07:00

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.

2007-06-02T10:38:00.000-07:00

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...

The Child in me!!!

2006-10-12T20:31:00.000-07:00

Ever wondered as what kindles the child in us.Probably this is one of the rare instances where i may put a serious post.

I remember my childhood days when i wud never sleep without hugging my dad.To go to sleep i always wanted my dad to be with me. Those were the days i slept a lot earlier than i do today, but then i used to wait for appa to come back from office, finish his routine and come to sleep..:) I used to feel so protected being with him.. sometimes advice, sometimes pacifying ,sometimes stories.. I used to love the warmth i got from being with him.

Days rushed!! I am now a "Grown-up"(so called). Got into a software profession, things reversed. Appa now waits for me to come from office. He only goes to bed after seeing me in and more importantly after seeing me eat. Most of the time i am little too tired to even talk properly. I had almost forgotten the lovely days of childhood hugging and being with him eversince i got a separate room and private space for me...

Yesterday was a very dull day for me... There was no specific reason though... i had got stressed out. Was in an all-time foul moods.. This is when i realised i cant take it anymore, shutdown my system and headed home.

My appa and my family were elated to see me home @ 8( when they were awake!!). The elation and happiness in their face brought a smile on my face.
After a very long time had a hearty meal at home but still something was bothering me... I didnt feel like sleeping.. especially not sleeping alone.. I walked into my parents bedroom... started talking .. talking..( all kinds of topics starting from movies, career.. to marriages,retired life-- everything) and i kept talking.. I really cudnt stop because this was after a long time that i had such a nice talk with my parents and sis...

I asked my parents if i cud sleep with them.. they were so game for the idea.. i slept next to appa as i used to before.. when i hugged him drops of tears rolled down my eyes.. My stress had gone down, felt a sense of new energy... tears still kept rolling... i felt like a child which cries without knowing what it wants .. and only the parents warmth and pats stops its cry..and so it did yesterday for me!!

That is when i realised and discovered the child in me again!!!

Love my family!!!

Mokkai - From a Developer's Perspective!!!

2006-10-01T08:51:00.000-07:00

Hey guys/gals.. back after a while.. One of my friends asked me what Mokkai meant... "Mokkai".. What exactly is "Mokkai"?.. well this was the answer i gave.. totally copyrighted to me... u can add additional clauses if you want to.. also do tell me if you find a meaning out of the definition..:D

"mokkai as defined by tamil local dictionary as.. a totally uncorreelated statement made with a purpose of making a staatement of sense making non sense with an amazing depth of creativity that is destructive(to others)... driving car bus and people insane:D This is MOKKAI "

HOWS IT!!!!

To Become a Poet

2006-09-21T00:34:00.000-07:00

Well, I am very novice to blogging.. so pasting one of my old poems here( Hard core poets please forgive me for calling this a poem)

To Become a poet

If anyone asks of my hobby
proudly i reply "poetry"
'so you are a poet'
I often remain quiet.

This is an easy way to earn fame
though your theme is strong or lame
you often play with words,
Describing plants,trees and Birds

Gramatical errors termed poetic beauty
negative statements called irony
illogical words as pun
which often reaches none.

To become a poet inspiration one does require
which certainly cant be put for hire
To be shakespere,Milton or Wordsworth
Wit and imagination should easily comeforth

if these a poet does lack
He is certainly on a wrong track.

:)

My First (S)Crap

2006-09-20T11:59:00.000-07:00

First of all my ernest apologies to all the people who have navigated to my blog(incidentally or accidentally) and found nothing here..Well lemme tell you you haven't missed much!! and my apologies are also due to my sweet blogger account which i kept dormant all these while:-)

Well not any more!!

Enjoy my craps from here on( Hopefully)

-Dwarak