Oviyaas

This post is dedicated to the works of oviyaas. Wow, the oil paintings are too good. All the work is from the artist Thangapandi. Actually, he is a good friend of mine. We did our graduation from the same college.

Posting my favorite here:

Looks interesting right? Those who are interested can look at his gallery at www.oviyaas.com.(http://www.oviyaas.com/gallery.html). He is totally dedicated to painting, by profession. So feel free to contact him for business.

Election

Next election is nearing and lots of campaigning have started in TVs, newspapers.. I do not know much about politics, and I have decided learn it from this election. So, I have started analyzing leaders and their parties. I have decided to post few of the funny things about our politicians, how crazy they can go while compaigning.

This post is dedicated to Swamy (CM J kae kannula verala vittu aatirukkaru!). There is a rumor that Swamy has promised the following during his last campaign in madurai.

1) will bring beach in Madurai (motha Vaigaila thanni konduvarattum!)
2) will make the madurai airport as International
3) will support the growth of sourastra community (he claimed that he has close relationships with sourastrians. actually, his wife's grandpa's father in law is from saurastra ;-) ).

Believe me, this guy has potential to dissolve any government :-).

Vijayakanth is next in my list, keep your fingers crossed...

Valentine's day activities: a summary

Today evening I was chatting with my friend. Here is snip of the chat (hope he does not mind).

my friend: hi da machi
me: hello
my friend: epdida irunthuchu valentine's day? (valentine's day kaisae tha?, learning hindi these days!)
me: lots of proposals da
my friend: wow!
me: and I rejected all of those, as usual ;-)...

the conversation continued and we ended with discussing the differences between a project and a product (ippdi iruntha namma ennaikku urupudrathu?!).

Ok, coming to the point, I know that most of the fellow bloggers are very much eager to know what I did on this day!

Here you go!

7:30 AM: I woke up, and my friend prepared a good tea for me.

10:00 AM: Came to office. My box has got crashed. Later IT folks rectified it. Checked my mails and had morning tea!

10:30 AM: the most expected activity started. I was browsing through 123greetings.com and other greetings website to find a suitable greeting card for a suitable person. Later did not find any thing good after 1 hour of browsing! (projectae ennanu theriyathu, athukkulae code adikka aarambichittaen ;-) )

12:30 PM: Went to Forum for lunch with my friends whose thinking are in the same frequency as mine (I mean, they are loners like me).

5:30 PM: I planned to participate in Anti-valentine's procession near palace grounds (initiated by shiva's senas), though, my intention is different from them. Later sat in office listening to music.

7:30 PM: planning to go home early, to watch Top ten in Sun TV.

juz' another Valentine's day!

Do girls drive smart?

Hmm, long time no post! Juz because I did not find any topic interesting to post!

Yesterday, I did not have work in office (dont take it literally, ;-) ). So I decided to leave early (6;00 PM, its my early time from office). I was driving back home by my street hawk (athan, namma ooru vandi splendor). my house is 10 KMS from office. (1 KM is 0.6 mile). Usually I prefer to stay as much away as possible from office. I am not a rash driver and the avg speed of my vehicle will always be 40 KM. I need not explain the busy traffic in Bangalore during peak hours.(In fact, 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM is the peak hour in Bangalore, and you will be definitely caught in traffic jam during this time).

In the busy traffic I saw a gentle-lady overtook me and was driving fast and rash. She was not wearing helmet. I have seen many young girls driving rash and fast both in chennai and bangalore. But hardly heard a case where in they met accidents. Why I always hear news like Youth met with an accident, where "youth" will always be "he", not "she". Or guys sacrifice and save girls from accident? Do girls drive smart (even without helmets and @ high speeds)?

Dog Bite

[Warning: This post is more tamilian friendly. For others, reading this post will be injurious to your mental health].

These days I am receiving lots of mails with "kadi" jokes, thathuvams...Some are interesting, but most of them are THE real kadis, it irritates and will make us mad soon. suddenaa enakkum antha maaari kadi thathuvams podanumnu aasai vanthuruchu (saddist ;-)). Here, I am writing my own kadis... Ennoda "sense of kadiness"ai konjam thoosi thaatirukkaen. ensoi(?) pannunga..

உடம்பு சரி இல்லைன்னா Glucose எத்துவாங்க, ஆனா Glucose சரியில்லைன்னா உடம்பு எத்த முடியது. கடைக்காரன்ட்ட தான் போனும்.

ஓரு "ஆண்"னால "ஆண்"லைன்னா(online) இருக்க முடியும், ஆனா ஒரு பெண்ணால "பெண்"லைனா இருக்க முடியுமா?

"Fan" சுத்தினா காத்து வரும், ஆனா தலை சுத்தினா வாந்தி தான் வரும்

என்னதான் இருந்தாலும், ஒரு ஆண் "penguin"ஐ "penguin"ன்னு தான் கூப்பிடனும், "ஆண் கிங்"னு கூப்பிட முடியாது.

கண்ணாடியை மூக்குல போட்டா மூக்கு கன்னாடி ஆகும், ஆனா அதை தரையில போட்டா "தரை கண்ணாடி ஆகாது"..

Last but not the least,

"Kicha di"ன்னு சொன்னா Kicha வர்றான்னு அர்த்தம், "Kichadi"ன்னு சொன்னா "kichadi" வருதுன்னு அர்த்தம் கிடையாது..

இனிமே எவனாச்சும் கடி "mails" அனுப்பட்டும் பார்துக்குரேன்...

For those who dont get tamil fonts, here is the transliterated version (No one can escape from me and this post;-))

udambu sari illainnaa Glucose eththuvaangga, aana Glucose sariyillainnA udambu eththa mudiyathu. kadaikkaarantta thaan pOnum

Oru "AN"naala "AN"lainaa(online) irukka mudiyum, Anaa oru peNNAla "peN"lainaa irukka mudiyumaa?

Fan suththinaa kaaththu varum, aanaa thalai suththinaa vaanthi thaan varum

ennathaan irunthaalum, oru AN penguinai penguinnu thaan kUppidanum, "aaN king"nu kUppida mudiyaathu.

kaNNAdiyai mUkkula pOttA mUkku kannaadi aagum, aana athai tharaiyila pOttaa "tharai kaNNAdi aagaathu"..

Last but not the least,

"Kicha da"nnu sonnA "kichadi" varRAnnu arththam, "kichadi"nnu sonnA "kichadi" varuthunnu arththam kidaiyaathu..

inimE evanAchchum kadi "mail" anuppattum paarthukkurEn...

2005++

After celebrating Jesus Jayanthi, I switched back to my day to day works. Started working from Tuesday and my boss assigned me enough work before he started for vacation :-((.

And now its time to plan for New Year. After enough thought on this, I decided to go germany for New Year. Wow, doesnt it sounds interesting? Couple of my friends started asking about the ticket fare, Visa details etc... Stop, stop, I made it clear to them that I have planned to roam only in German Airport for 6 hrs, after that flying back to homeland. Yes, my trip is getting over and 'm excited to go back to mother India... Is US ma kinda place, huh? US is the best place to freak out for short trips. no more comments on this...

And couple of friends asked me about new year resolutions. Ellarukkum onnu solla virumburan, "kicha does not wait for New year to take resolutions ;-)", (ithukku mattum korachchal illai).. and as a matter of fact, I do so.

But I have some cool tips for others, who can take some of these resolutions on new year:(namma makkal michavangalukku "tips" kuduthae olinjuruvaanga...)

for net freaks: (read "From this new year, I will"...)

a) not login in invisible mode on YM
b) not use BUZZ (ctrl+G) button on YM
c) not do re-search in google (see my earlier definition of "research")
d) not do ego-surfing

for soft engineers: (read "From this new year, I will"...)

a) not do regression testing for www.indiabulls.com during office hours
b) not use Office VoIP phones for making personal inter-nation calls (saving dollars..)
c) not to listen online songs during office hours (saving bandwidth)
d) not expect more than 20 percent salary hike
e) not play online games during office hours (this is applicable to me, but I have not decided yet on it ;-) )
f) not spend more than 60 minutes in office cafteria, per day (i have not decided on this also ;-))
g) not send more than one fwded mails, per week (I am sure that this will pull down the growth of inter-networking technologies)
h) not use "copy+paste" for more than once an hour

for NRIs returning India: (read "From this new year, in India I will"...)

a) not use "Jesus christ....", "Actually in US...", kind of phrases... ;-) (First of all, I have to control myself from saying these in Bang, hahaha)

b) not use the word "Desi" (folks, whenever I hear "Desi" I remember the infamous desibaba.com....)

for bloggers: (read "From this new year, I will"...)

a) not tag any other fellow-bloggers

Enough kiddings!! I wish everyone a prosperous new year 2006. 2005 is the worst year in my life (Lots of losses :-(( ), hope 2006 will be a memorable one.

Disclaimer: The only disclaimer that I have is with the Title. If you try to use 2005++ in C, 2005 will NOT become 2006, but the compiler will generate an error message, "LValue required"....

Happy blogging!

Snow Storm

Last last weekend there was a heavy snow, before I started to Boston to meet my pals. Upto 10 inches of snow piled up on that day. It was nice to walk in snow, on the slippery land...



this is one of the fotos captured by my colleague, and it looks great!!

I was looking at the foto and got involved too much in it..Later my favorites lines stroke my consciousness and got back to work :-).

The woods are lovely dark and deep,
But I have promises to keep,
And miles to go before I sleep,
And miles to go before I sleep.
- Robert frost

King Kong dies

One of the most expected movies of the season is out. King Kong! Yesterday, me and my friend went to the Regal cinemas, at Newington to watch it. (There is a "regal cinema" in madurai, which always plays English movies, and also it is notorious ;-)). We got the ticket for matinee show, crowd was less. One thing that surpised me was, there were no seat numbers and anyone can sit anywhere. Wow, it reminded me my golden days at mdurai theatraes. And more surprisingly, first few rows were getting occupied faster than the last rows.. I agree that in first few rows you can see bigger king kong than last rowers, but I did not find any other reason for contention of first rows.

This is the first King Kong movie I've watched. I have heard a lot about the pre-quels of this movie and had my expectations high. Was bit disappointed when I watched it. In the first hour they hardly showed the beast. few comedies were good, but it was dragging. All of sudden, some tribals appeared on the screen and they never turned back during the last minutes. After the Kong came to the screen, it was interesting and fast moving! Every beast has a weakness. It gets soft-minded for the heroin, and saves her from the enemies (dinosaurs, bats,...) (engayo kaetta story?). It gets trapped to the anti-villains of the movie and they bring it to the city for money. The last hour was very much boring... The movie ran for 3 Hrs, and I went there, knowingly. (I can hear u saying that unakku ithuvum venum innamum venum...). the movie is OK, overall, but does not worth for 3 hrs.



The above fight was like the one between our MGR and nambhiyar. Atlast, MGR saves J.lalitha. LoL....

Oops, forgot to tell about the message. After the King Kong was killed (actually, it was a suicide, but no one noticed it), one of our anti-villains appeared in the screen and said, "it is not the aeroplane which killed it, but, the beauty killed the beast". But no doubt that anyone will fall for Naomi Watts. So, the message is, "Beauty can kill any beast", ;-). Actually, I was expecting some message like "anbae jesus", juz kiddin'.. but,..

It looks like the Chinese have started protesting against the movie since the name sounds like their(?) prestigious city(?), Hong Kong. I know you are searching for some thing to beat me up, but this is the impact of reading many "kadi jokes" mails..., and after all, this sounds like our old "border movie and Allan border" kadi Joke, happy blogging!

Modern Art

Last monday, me and my friend went to Mac Donalds for snacks(or lunch?). Near to our seat there was a painting, hanging on the wall. I did not understand anything in that painting and told my friend that I did not get anything in that painting and asked him whether he gets anything. He said, "me too". happadaaa, enakku mattum thaan puriyalainnu nenachean. and he said," but that is modern art, you will not understand it". Stop, stop, stop.... I have been said the same thing alway about modern art. "if you dont understand some paintings, then it is called modern art". I got one good explanation from another friend who is very much interested in painting. He gave a definition of "modern art": a picture that conveys a message. Oh, thats the reason why everyone stare at some paintings and try to find what the artist is trying to convey. nammalakku straightaa sonnale sariya puriyathu.. ithule hidden message veraya, kilinjichchu!!

the following is one of such modern arts taken from an Aquarium centre, Boston.



seri, irunthaalum freeya vida manasu illai, I want to interpret atleast one modern art properly. For that I have to learn modern art. The best way to learn a language is to speak it. I thought the same should be applicable for modern art as well. Hence, I took my mspaint and broke my head to draw some picture which conveys some message. the result is:



Can you guess what the above picture conveys? If you are not patient enough for guess, then proceed further without guesses..





in Tamil:

"vaazhkaingurathu oru vattam,
athula jeykkuravan thoppan,
thoppavan jeyppan..."

in English;

Life is a circle(/cycle) of success and failure.

Hope I will able to interpret modern Arts in future.

enathu Laptop

It has been three years since I have used computers at home. I had a computer during college days. it was such a minimal configuration that the CPU becomes busy while running MP3 songs ;-). After my college days I refrained from computers during home hours. For the past few months I started feeling that a computer can make my life more comfortable. First I planned for desktops. Hmm, the rates have become so cheap that we can easily afford it. For frequent travellers like me a laptop would be better than a desktop. But it is bit costlier than desktops, but far cheaper than the PC that my father gifted me in Jan 2000.

My search for laptop started, and when I came to USoA, I felt that I could buy one. After a decent amount of research on Dell laptops, I decided to buy one model.
(Note: 'research' means searching for the same string in Google). Inspiron 600m is the model that I have chosen and I got it today. the following URL gives good description of it.

http://www1.us.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/entnb_600m?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn&~tab=specstab#tabtop

Now just playing with the configs of the laptop...

CFC

yesterday I called up my mom, and she was saying that it is heavily raining in chennai and in fact, chennai is inundated with water. Bad news for everyone.

Why these days we frequently here about floods and storms? I was discussing about this with my friend in madurai, during "hurricane katrina" time. He was saying that it is closely related to the depletion of ozone layer. And heard the same from many others too. Why suddenly Ozone layer started depleting, why it did happen before 100 years..Its all because of chemicals that gets emitted from our vehicles, air-coolants, etc.. Out of this, chloro fluoro carbon(CFC) is the major contributor for the depletion of ozone. CFC gets emitted from our air-coolants (fridge, ACs..). CFC does not do any harm to our atmosphere,I mean, it does not pollute of atmosphere. But it gets accumulated over the top and depletes the ozone layer.

Is there any remedies to avoid ozone's depletion? We can stop using all of our modern day-to-day medias and go back to stone age, to live a healthier life. or we can create devices which emits new chemicals,say XYZ, which will not harm our atmosphere. But we cannot guarantee that it will not create some other problem.

Sometimes I think that we can fill up the holes that are made in ozone layer, with ozone manufactured from earth. Like use the following reaction(?) and generate ozone, take a Rocket and fill up the ozone and come back home.

O2 + O2 + O2 === catalyst ===> 2O3.

This may sound absurd or funny, but if we have something of this sort then we can re-fill the ozone layer with ozone and can continue our fun with fridges and ACs and also we can avoid "hurricane simran" in future.

Welcome to the Hotel California

Atlast, my dream trip to california happened during thanksgiving weekend. Thanksgiving is like our "kaanum pongal", meet relatives and friends and have fun. Landed in Los Angeles on thanksgiving day, and went to my sisters place. It was exciting to meet my sister, brother-in-law and my cute niece after a long time. Lots of old memories shared and I felt nostalgic.

On friday, we went to Universal Studios. Wow, thats the place for pure entertainment. Mummy ride, Jurasic park, Van helsing.. are quite a few to mention about. First time I watched 3D and 4D movies. Nice experience. It was crowded (heavily), hope everyone is enjoying their long weekend.

Saturday, we went to Sea World in San diego, first time I saw a dolphin show. Sea world was not so exciting, unlike Universal studios, still, quite a lot of interesting things to see. Actually, I planned to meet two of my friends on saturday, but due to some reasons that I cancelled it and went to San Diego.

On Sunday we went to Laguna Beach, near to my sister's house. Wonderful beach to see. Atlast, I saw pacific ocean and my ocean count has increased to 3. (see my previous post on Atlantic ocean). It is far better than the Hampton beach that I visited couple of weeks back in east coast. Also, laguna beach is crowded (but not like the crowd we see in marina beach). Have posted few of the fotos I have taken, hope you will enjoy it. Later part of the day, went for shopping and was roaming here and there.

















Actually, we planned to Disney land on monday. But we were too much tired and my niece was feverish, so monday was rest day and I started back to Boston.

Right from the first day, I was searching for the "Hotel california" on roads. But with no luck. I thought it would be similar to our "Hotel Tamilnadu"...But did not find any Hotel california,even the last time I did not find any...big disappointment.

The most exciting(?) part was on Tuesday. I went to office early by 11:00 AM and my boss called me "Mr.California". Later we had a long chat about California and showed good productivity on that day :-)

This weekend I am taking rest.("athu thaane week fulla pannittu irunthe"nu neenga ketkurathu enakku ketkuthu....). Next weekend the next exciting part of my trip is going to happen. I am going to meet few of my best friends in Boston.

Hope it will rock!

'E' is equal to MC square

hmm, this is the first photo I have ever seen with maximum number of scientists!!

@lantic Ocean

I have seen Atlantic ocean in map. I remember days when I always get confused with atlantic and arctic ocean and wrongly fill the maps. But, now I can easily.

Last weekend I had a good time pass. On saturday, I washed my clothes and after that I got tired, lifting wet clothes from the washing machine is not as easy as you think. I spent later part of the day watching some tamil movies(holy crap!). And inthe evening we started planning for the next day(ithukku mattum korachchal illai). We planned to go to hampton beech. I have heard lot about American beaches. So, with enthusiasm we started on sunday,by 12:30 After noon. If it is some other place, then we would have started little bit later than noon :-P. We took a print out of the map, courtesy: the googlers. And it has mentioned that it is 20 minutes from my place. We caught the NH, I was the navigator and my friend was the implementor (athaan driver). After 20 minutes, I was not able to correlate the map and the road. We were lost!! We took the next immediate Exit and were bit relieved from the highway traffic. The road ended suddenly, and there was only one liquor shop. ada paaveeegala (vivek tonele), liquor shoppukku oru exitaa!!

(ramanaa stylele)
motham portsmouthle 3 million per vodka adikkuraan
athula 2 million per raawa adikkuraan
athula 1 million per mail-in rebatela adikkuraan......

hmm, now, I got how the american government has enough cash.

Our chase for next exit started immediately. And my map is not showing where we were!

After a long struggle we went to hampton beach. The time was 2:30 PM. The climate was very cold. (atlanticlna chummava??). To our surprise(and disappointment) kannukku kulirchiya ethume illai.

But the view was amazing! Calm as our weekday besant nagar(ithu konja overu)! only the sound of the ocean, and some birds. I love beaches and was very much excited to walk in the beach, after a long time.

Here are some snaps, which we took during our beach walk. (and of course, comments on side)



Wow!!, super foto graphy.



ai, vellai kaakka, who said "varumayin niram sivappu?"



ka(adha)l vettu! everywhere, lovers are same! I remember seeing ka(adh)al vettu
of mookkaayan and mookkayi at azhagar koil.(one of the favorite places for lovers in Indian philadelphia)


(last, but not the least, itz me boldly facing the currents of atlantic).












In my horroscope it is mentioned that I will see a BIG break in my life, after I visit all the 5 oceans (hey, wait a minute, how many oceans are there? is bay of bengal an ocean?, geo-graphyle namma konjam weak). ok, my journey of ocean is continuing, I am going to Visit pacific ocean next weekend. Yeah, I will be travelling to California for "nandri therivikkum thirunal". (thanksgiving day, in American language).

Figures!

Figures!! The thing that most interested me right from my school days and even now it is interesting me. Hey, dont mistake figures for babes, but it is all about digits. I like playing with figures and I observed one peculiar property of palindrome numbers, during my school days. Actually, I observed it during my college days. As you know I am currently in a place where colleges are called as schools,
I am using the same notation ;-), when you are in rome, become roman :-P.

Coming to the matter, this is what I observed: A palindrome integer of even length will always be a multiple of 11. If it sounds obvious to you or you dont like playing with figures, then press the "X" button on the right-top corner.

11, 1221, 1441... are some examples of even-lengthed palindrome numbers. A number is a multiple of 11, if the difference between the sum of the digits at even position and the sum of digits at odd position is a multiple of 11 or 0. Take 385 for example, (3+5)-8 is zero, hence multiple of 11.

Now, let us see palindrome numbers. If the number of digits is odd, then the number of digits at odd position will be more than that of even position, and also "odd digit set", and "even digit set" will be with unequal digits, hence it cannot be a multiple of 11. In even length case, the digits at odd positions will be same as the digits at even positions. so the difference will be zero and hence it will be multiple of 11.

Lo-Fi

These days I am seeing lots of "high five" things in blogosphere. I used to write "my favorites" in slam books, right from my school days. And I am tired of writing favorites. So, for a change I am writing things that I dont like.

Low fives:

Worst movies I've watched:

a) Kalki (heights of "abhatham": same story as "sindhu bairavi"
but I liked the later. KB forgot that he has already
directed one movie with the same
story)
b) mein hoon naa (last hindi movie that I watched in theatre)
c) aa aaH (sema kadi except for the heroin and songs)
d) enter the new dragon (junkest movie)
e) Lord of the rings (it was like raama narayanan's movie)

Five things I can live without:

a) mouse (I mean competer mouse)
b) non veg = goat, chicken, crab, pigeon, shark, prawn, rabbit...
c) moustache
d) girl friends
e) GOD

Heroines I DONT like:

a) deivayanai
b) jyothika
(sorry, my count over heroines is just two ;-))

Actors I DONT like:

a) vijayakanth ( I am losing the attributes of a maduraian)
b) murali
c) arnold (I consider him as my rival :-P, kela "bolt"tula nammaloda rival, he he he)
d) prasanth
e) TR

Celebrities I DONT like: (ellam "stomach burning" thaan)

a) Michael douglas (zeta zones)
b) Tom cruise (penelope cruz)
c) Ajay dev khan (kaajol)
d) pierce brosnan (*.*)
e) salman khan (aish, katrina)

Believe me, it has taken more than an hour for me this to compile. if I have written "high fives", then it wouldnt have taken more than 10 mins.

Five people whom I DONT like to pass this tag:

jagan
maduraiarian
kalai
mazhai
div

Happy blogging!!!

Interesting facts!

Got a mail full of facts!, I am posting excerpts of that mail, which interested me:-)
(with some comments from me within braces)

The roar that we hear when we place a seashell next to our ear is not the ocean, but rather the sound of blood surging through the veins in the ear. (then I am wondering how kushbu made it to sound like "I love you", oru vela "love" is injected in blood?)

The reason honey is so easy to digest is that it's already been digested by a bee.
(but our "honey"s are not so easy digests ;-))

It cost 7 million dollars to build the Titanic and 200 million to make a film about it (if we consider inflation rate then I think there is no big difference between the figures)

The sound you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually the sound of nitrogen gas bubbles bursting

Human hair and fingernails continue to grow after death (oh, thats the reason why ghosts have long hair and nails!!)

Every day 200 million couples make love, 400,000 babies are born, and 140,000 people die (looks like most of them are keeping it safe :-p)

Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair (Oops, my hair is full of metals)

Do you know the names of the three wise monkeys? They are: Mizaru(See no evil), Mikazaru(Hear no evil), and Mazaru(Speak no evil)

Last but not the least:

If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle; if the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle; if the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural cause.

Good lyrics

(This blog is related to kollywood, if u dont know about it, keep your fingers crossed for my next post).

I love listening to songs, and I used to gather information about the lyrics, singers. Now a days I am listening songs on wire, because I dont have the MP3 versions in my laptop.musicindiaonline.com is my favorite music portal for tamil songs. It has got good variety of songs, very well indexed on movie names, singers, musicians...

Yesterday I was browsing through the site for "Nizhalgal" songs.(one of my favorites tunes). I was literally shocked to see the lyrics writer of "Poongathave.." song. Can you guess who it is? Is it Kannadasan? No, no. Is it Vairamuthu? No, it is "gangai amaran". I never thought that "gangai amaran" has contributed to good songs via lyrics.

Some of my favorites are written by him and few are:

poongathave - nizhalgal
aasaiya kaathule - jhonny
kaatril varum geetham - jhonny
oru iniya manathu - jhonny
snow reta i love you - jhonny
en iniya pon - Moodupani

And the following gives a very good subset of his contributions as a lyricist.

http://www.musicindiaonline.com/l/26/m/lyrics.1378/

I know he has composed some good music also, but not able to find it out.

United States of America

Its the second time I am visiting United states, after 2 and half years of my first visit. I was longing for such a trip, since I got bored with bangalore and I wanted a change. The result is a two months trip to US.

This time it is New hampshire state, portsmouth. When I told about the state name and place, to one of my friends in UK, he was surprised, because he has seen the same state and city in the UK map. Hmm, there were days when Americans copied things from Britains, like what we (indians) do from Americans, these days. The weather is very cold and I am able to manage with my winter clothes, but I am used to this weather condition in madurai, chennai.. ;-)

The 16 hrs of journey thru lufthansa airlines was really hectic. I had a feeling of travelling in TTC... hectic, really. But the view from Top of the world was amazing, and I got a window seat to see those.

Landed here on last monday, Once again things started looking new to me.The driving style, ground floor notation, switches..... and a lot. u know wat I mean, right??? ( this is one of the most commonly used phrase here).

Everyone on the road is saying "Hi/Morning" to me. If we do the same in Bangalore, thats it we will be keep saying for ever!

First day was good, get to know about my new manager, colleagues... our manager took
us to an India restaurant. I am surprised to see him liking Indian foods. I saw the menu card, the price was shocking!! I ordered one stuffed roti and channa masala, that costed 15 $. My mind started doing the conversions, 15 * 45 equal to....and I stopped doing the calculation, knowing that I will not be paying the bill today, and the boss paid!

Second day we went to a chinese restaurant for lunch. I ordered one soup (miso soup) and tofu dish, thinking that it will be good. And my boss ordered something similar. The food was really pathetic,and my boss really enjoyed whatever he ordered. At that time only I understood the reason for my previous day "surprise". Jesus christ, he likes all the crap!

These days life is getting better since I have started cooking in my kitchen, cooked parathas, tomato rice, dal....and I never thought that I can cook such tasty food.

The winter is about to start here and the leaves are falling down. Each tree has different color than the other and it is very beautiful to see. I forgot to bring my camera and missed to capture the photos!

People say New hampshire is famous for the "change of color of leaves" and infamous for its bad weather during winter. Hope the winter will not be as cold as I am expecting.

கஜினி - ஒரு சிறப்பு பார்வை

மதுரை சிந்தாமணி டாக்கீஸ்:

அடியேனும், நண்பனும் சேர்ந்து "கஜினி" படத்துக்கு சென்றோம். 5 நிமிதம் கால தாமதமானதால் கொஞ்சம் சீன்ஸ் மிஸ் ஆயிடுச்சு. முதல் பாகம் நன்றாக இருந்திச்சு. இரண்டாம் பாகம் கடியை போட்ருச்சு. படத்துக்கு ஏன் அவ்வளவு கூட்டம்னு தெரியலை. நாங்க "கதை"க்காக தான் போனதுன்னு பொய் சொல்ல மாட்டேன். போனதே "அஸின்"ஐ பார்க்கத்தான். வேற எதுக்கு?

சரி, படத்தை கொஞ்சம் அலசுவோம்:

அ) படத்துக்கு ஏன் "கஜினி"னு பேர் வச்சாங்ன்னு தெரியலை. எனக்கு தெரிஞ்சு முகமது கஜினி, இந்தியாவை 17 முறைகள் போர் தொடுத்து, 17 முரைகளும் சூரை ஆடிற்கான்**.

ஆ) ஏன் இரண்டாவது வில்லன்னு தெரியலை. தமிழ் படத்துல இது எல்லாம் சகஜம் தானே ஃப்ரீயா உட்ருவோம்.

இ) கதை நல்லாதான் இறுந்துச்சு. "ஸ்க்ரீன் ப்லே" = சொதப்பல்.

ஈ) படம் எடுக்கிறப்போ 15 நிமிஸத்துக்கு ஒரு தடவை இயக்குனருக்கு கதை மறந்துடுச்சு "கோலி வூட்ல" ஒரே பேச்சு.

அஸினை பத்தி ஒரு வரி டமில்ல சொல்லனும்னாம், "She has done a wonderful job dude".

கஜினி - யாரவது ஃப்ரீயா கூட்டிட்டு போனா, ஒரு தடவை பார்க்கலாம்.

** - வந்தார்கள் வென்றார்கள் (மதன்)