Madras2Chennai

oldies.......

2009-01-24T07:17:00.000-08:00

Dunno why... but off late it been oldies and olderdies only....

on track nowz.....

Un paarvayil oorayirammm....kavithai naan ezhuthuven kaatril naane....

Koi...

2008-08-24T09:40:00.000-07:00

Koi wa ne... well Koi in japanese means Rove.. actually Love... (therez no L in japanese u know) .. that means the japanese dont even know the start of love ! ....

well.. actually.. thinking about the things u luv.. u actually miss the things u really luv.. cud be the movie u jus missed this weekend waiting for someone.. or the drive u skipped because of work... u never know if u really wud get to luv something till u have done it... right ?....

but then there r things in life u do... and realy luv doin.. but dont get to do aymore....like running mad totaly drunk wid ur friends midnight... driving many a miles jus to eat the really simple breakfast u luv....u may be having a gr8 life now.. but u dont get to do wat u really wanna...

sometimes makes me wonder if all this trouble is relly worth it.. but then.. there r lotsa things u will fall in luv wid.. like the realy weird song u jus heard... thats wat makes this really worth it.. u never know... ur next luv might jus be that box of chocos in that dull wrapping sittin all alone on that aile of that 7/11... maybe ne !!

TADA IMA !!

2008-08-17T07:57:00.000-07:00

Well basically.... 35 months.. a few thousand cups of coffee... and more stupidly brilliant hours later... I realized I should start blogging again for the same reasons I stopped my....rather let go of my blog..

Not that I was really very passionate about it for starts, but then it felt gud to vent out more than just my idiosyncrasies on this really horrible template.... Even thought of stating a new blog... a fresh start... but who am I kidding !! though this is not all that great.. both to the eye and the mind.. this is where my thoughts belong...

SO ! startin today, well actually where I am Its already tomorrow... forget it .. starin now..... I probably think I should be blogging again... not for any great reason.. but thats the reason - That therez no reason - none at all... let me see for how long this can go on....

but then there has been a lot happening aound me... a lot .. in the 2 yrs that jus flew by.. or for me... crawled by... some fun... some not so fun.. but 'twas mostly terribly irritating..

days ahead look jus like the year that went by.. August.. then september...october.. seriously !

Ja .. sore dewa .. hajimesasete itadakimas....

Yoroshiku !

who cares...

2006-09-28T08:06:00.000-07:00

well this one....no one wud ever read this... no one wud even remember this one ....

u r someone for sooo long that u feel u need to change... change so much that even u can't remember ur oldself.... change so fast that noone sees it comin....not even u... a change so drastic... that u hope that u'll like bein ur new self.... change ...do u really hafta change...to someone u dont know... never wanted to be... change into someone u hate....u will hate if u remain so... change ...change to an extent none of ur frnds really know u... change ...well thats a process that can't be rolled back...that happens all the time....but why me ?!... this is not the kinda change I wanted...not that I have a choice now....

change back ?!?...nah....that aint possible...why !?.. u shud knw where u were, to get back....but u got outta thr so fast and so blindly tht u don't know the way back....nor can anyone help u!...why ?!?... mosta em dont even realize u have changed...stupid ppl ?!?...no they aint stupid...they jus dont care...

nobody cares...why the **** shud I !?...

PS: jus thinkin out loud ....

finally !! am in Love !!

2006-04-25T20:10:00.000-07:00

Wanted to wait ...wait for what ?!?....this post !

whats so spl about this post ? ....well this is the first one "after I fell in love "

the first time I saw her my heart skipped a beat...there she stood..in blue...that first sight took my heart away.....beat started pickin up pace...head went light...and it was love at first sight ....man did I jus rhyme ?!? weird !

she stared at me frm behind those glasses and we connected....

she looks perfect for her age ! jus luv her !!!

talked to my folks and herz...things kinda worked out !!

I know I am talkin crap here....but hey...I am in love...

well if u r wonderin, what the hell ! ... am ref'ing to the 1969 CJ3B ( thats a jeep ) I am gonna buy today :-) !!!

If I were a....

2006-02-06T02:07:00.000-08:00

Doctor.....would have atleast killed a hundred and wud have made another Frankenstine...

Engineer ( am one...but yeah...what the...) wud have built the tallest building in he world..and put a Plane right thro it...

Scientist... would have invented something....yeah something....and sold it for a billion $$

Politician.........wud be the president of US and India.....yeah right!

Explorer.....wud have discovered the land thats fulla booze ane pretty ones !!

Cosmonaut....cant spell tha astro thing .....wud have gone to DG45...whatever that is !

I am bored to death.....and gonna sleep...u guys !.....what did u wanna be when U were this old... ??

Another year !!

2006-01-31T02:30:00.000-08:00

Yeah right !.....two months of zero blogging.....
Reason : Work Work and Work !!

finally a breather !.....very little work came my way last week....and this week ?!?...noting yet !

enjoying my time at office..

to every/any-one reading this...
HAPPY NEW YEAR ! HAPPY PONGAL and hope u had a GREAT LONG WEEKEND FOR THE REPUBLIC DAY!!

NEW YEAR :....started this one with my friends...enjoyed it with FULL/HALF and a QUARTER of fun!

went on a trip to Kodai with my team mates ....last week....had a great time...kodaikanal semma cold machi .....sarakku ulla ponathukapparama thaan maams steady aanaaru....

boating, cycling...baloon shooting...and lotsa walking.....went to the usual spots around kodai...and drove the tempo traveller for some distance.....

looking foward for more vetti time at office...

action plan for the week....

see rang de basanti....sleep sleep.....ofcourse blog !....other than that ...lets see....

2006....2+0+0+6 = 8 ...my lucky number... !!

and yeah....finally ....I lost the war....my bro got the set top box....now with the Govt. planing to take over the MSOs.....another 5k govindaaa goooovinda !!

READING: THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES - BY 'CHE' GUEVARA

NEXT ON LIST : ZEN AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTANANCE... really dunno why I got this one....

SONG PLAYIN ON MY COMP : Amélie Poulain - La noyee

Miss Universe and Panner butter Masala !

2005-11-28T05:18:00.000-08:00

ok...I should tell u one thing....last week was the best !....friday night oosi dinner treat at the Residency Towers !! ...but the best thing happened on Saturday....

Saturday evening...sir got ready for another oosi treat at 'Le Rolay Meridian'......yenna poo software engineer vaazhkaila ithellam romba sagajamappa !.... took his car...picked up some team mates ;-) and drove to LRM....buffet dinner....went on...real drag

then suddenly it happened....the MISS UNIV ..Natalie walked in with a group and started to have dinner ...and the cool thing was...when I went to take a helping of Panner butter masala....!! guess who was WAITING BEHIND ME ?!!...yup....Nat !!

MISS UNIV, PANNER BUTTER MASALA...ALL OOSI....what more can a man ask for... !!

so after MY DINNER WITH THE MISS UNIV...sir full dreams thaan !!

actually two of my friends are still not sure if she was her...hey man who cares !!

innum onnu thaan.....Aishwarya rai kooda Movie pooita poothum...life oru full circle vanthatha aagidum !!!

Harry potter and the Age of the kings !!

2005-11-18T13:41:00.000-08:00

Time is 3:09 AM saturday....still at office...

work has been real sick lately...and today ..I mean yesterday...yeah whatever... wasn't any better....

by at 9 wanted to take a break...so some 5 of us drove to mayaajal and saw Harry Potter and the G of fire.. !...that released today...came back and jus finished one round of Age of kings....not that am into game or anything...jus that every1 watnted to have some fun...so some 8 of us played...and yeah my team lost.....

uhmmm.... really sleepy now...think will go get some coffee and head to the dorm....and work as usual in the morning...

hey who said being a sowtware engg is a dead life ?!?.....yeah hez right .....

Happy diwaalieeee everyone !

2005-10-28T07:35:00.000-07:00

this diwali sure is a happy one...thursday and friday off (rains in chennai...thats why...thursday I can understand....but today ?!?....hey...noonez complainin !!)....and 6 days off for diwali !!...what more can I ask for !!

be safe and enjoy the fireworks !!

and the sweets !!...

jus in case u wanna send me some sweets.....lemme know !! ;-)

Dental Mental....

2005-10-19T19:36:00.000-07:00

Finally I took a day off ....to get my dentals fixed....

My doc was surprised to see me....

he looked into my mouth and finally declared he had a good news and a bad news for me...

ok the good news first..

U dont need A root canal..

hey thats good....whats the bad news..??

U need two Root canals....

ok doc...did u jus see my head rolloff laughing....

now get it straight....I am scared about dental works....really sacred...reason...I had a RCT when I was 12 yrs old....and that scared me like hell....and I am still...

he gave me two shots and started work....fixed em....and the pain wasn't all that bad u know...!

the he fixed another cavity on the other side....so three fixes...

by the timeI am 30 I will have 30 fixes...and yeah...2 have been removed already...

right now my left side of the face is numb and cant feel a damn thing....

good...atleast I can have cold drinks without pain....

the best dental fix i've had was back in college....

man it hurts...so gonna logoff...

mummy...!!

Depression Munima....

2005-10-16T07:38:00.000-07:00

yeah....it rained like hell in chennai....and I hereby name the depression that caused all this rain..."depression MUNIMA" the worst part was .. had to go to work on all the days it rained...

missed the Hot rasam saadham and sleep...that I always do when it rains.....

planin to take a few days off from comin tuesday...and do what ?...sleep ofcourse...

and hey have to get my dental work done.....man am I scared or what !!...hope my doc dosen't wanme to have a RCT...root canal treatment....tis pain redefined....u'll know if u have one.....this tooth has been troubling me for ....how many years now.....7-8 yrs !!...had it fixed...but tis giving me problems again....

broke my tooth to half when the damn stirrup hit me right in my face when I dismounted....and that happened a good 10 yrs back....old pain really never dies...jus goes to sleep I guess....

have to go alone to the dentist....or else my dhumming matter will come to light !!

looooong time.....

2005-10-08T08:06:00.000-07:00

Yeah...tis been a looooong time.....finally after some 2-3 months ...I have some solid....hectic work schedule.....good...U know.... am a ...workaholic...

so....towards then end of last week...I got my new work...and guess what...me had been busy, tied up with all that work....and....now after a week.....am already ahead of my schedule by more than a week....u know I love to work....and by work I mean REAL work.....code ....luv me....esp the analysis part....and man I luv testing others' work and giving them new bugs to work on !!

next week would be really slow ...cause have already finished all the work....

and hey I saw GAJINI....on the first day...evening show....good movie.....ASIn...my chella kutti....jus amazing !!....man she looks ....u know....intelligent....first time I've seen a good lokin girl...look intelligent et all...

saw it again yesterday...jus till the part where Asin logsoff....

uhmmm...nothin much happenin....and that is kinda borin...
have my appraisals comin up....gawd am I gonna have fun or what....my Presentation is gonna rock....gonna take on the higher ups...and wud love to see their faces when I do that !!

Suttum vizhi sudare....Suttum vizhi sudare...yen ulagam unnai sutruthe....

okie..... bye !!

45 MIns of Fame !!

2005-09-25T06:30:00.000-07:00

in my 2 yrs of work...I've never done something this cool !!

now ....now.... I never knew that this would happen...but hey ...whatever I did it !!

on thursday....around 5 15 PM I got a call from my companyz comp division...they were hyst....and were on the edge...the whole network was jacked...and for the next 45 mins no mails came in or went outta chennai infy....

haha....they told me the that the mail server was all q'd up !!....and was stuck !!....the reason?....yeah me....and the mail I fwd to my friends in office....

the limit of the mail boxes for some is 2MB and the mail attachment limit is 10MB within the office...and yeah U got it right !!...urs sent a mail with attachment 9MB and the server was pinging the full mailboxes and that got the N/W down...

no one ever knew this technique !!.....

some o' em actually came and thanked me...reason...no mails for extra work from onsite that day... !!

for 45 mins....ppl didnt even know the mails they sent never even went out !...

cool eh !?!

who rocks !!

DMAKA DAKKA !!

2005-09-20T21:34:00.000-07:00

Captain !!!

yeah namma puratchikalngnar captain Vijayakantha has started a new party.....and I know it is a veeeery late news....on 17th the party was kicked off and the name announced at 9:09 am.....

DMDK desiya murpoku dravida kazhagam......

and u know....his intervied in Star Vijay channel...1st appearance on the small screen ....was actually good....looks like he has a sensible head....

and with his PUNCH dialogues....and his tamilan talk...he might end up getting atleast 6 seats in the next election.....maybe....

my vote is for he captain......atleast we would have some pullarikkara talk about abdulkalm.....pakisthan terrorists...wasim khan and stuff in the assembly.. !!

and hey we decided to call the party

DaMaka DaKka

yeah ....now jus waiting for some one else to start a Danda nakka party.....

and the fun begins !!!!

Life after life ...

2005-09-13T05:02:00.000-07:00

Donated my eyes today....

and someday maybe would donate all my organs....hey ! what the heck.....

there'll still be somethin left to burn.....

The return of the tag !!

2005-09-08T12:50:00.000-07:00

Ok here is the latest TAG...THE SEVEN TAG...for no reason at all...SUKHANYA ( www.cutefreaky.blogspot.com) has tagged me...her way of pazhivaangufying I guess !!

ok here goes...In no particular order....

Seven things you plan to do before you die!!

go to the moon

buy a ferrari

get a palace to live in

drink drink drink

become the Prez of India

Marry Aishwarya rai..Or Asin...even Anna kournikova wud do...

see Thalaivarz 'Maruthanayagam'....

Seven things you can do!!

What do mean ?....I can do any thing I wanna !!

ok....

go without sleep for a whole week...

sleep over the weekend

drink 1 full, 3 beers and another quarter in one hour

write with both hands

dream...even when am awake..

stare

spin my mobile with jus two fingers....

Seven things you can't do.

lie...really...

drive slow

take life seriously....

eat Non veg...not even eggs...

eat pineapple

juggle 3 balls

learn TABLES...I know only 1 , 2, 5 and 10 tables...

Seven things that attract you to the opposite sex!!

OH u dont wanna know !!

Seven things you say most!!!

torture

enjoyee maadi

oru kings oru tea

aggaaaa

ok ok

freeyavidu

***** *********

Seven celebrity crushes

AIsh

Cindy

Sharon stone

MEg ryan

Madhuri DIx

Ramya Krish

Asin...

only seven...! not fair !!

ok....for my share, I hereby officialy tag...

1. SUgs - http://sugunaindia.blogspot.com/

2. Sophie - http://carmalin.blogspot.com/

3. Chennai girl Vani - http://chennaigalwrites.blogspot.com/

4. Anu - http://anuforyou.blogspot.com/

ok !!

Sooper... !!

2005-09-07T12:43:00.000-07:00

The day was great !!

one plate fulla Kozhukattai....chips.....Apple juice...and Maddy's 'RUN' on TV.. !!!
semma cool weather !! light drizzle.....

life cant be better !!!

Happy b'day Mr.Pillayaar !!

I'll Be Back !

2005-08-30T23:20:00.000-07:00

u know.....every time I read the GITA....love to read these lines....

we mustave heard this a thousand till now....but nevertheless tis good to hear it again.....

yada yada hi dharmasya
glanir bhavati bharata
abhyutthanam adharmasya
tadatmanam srjamy aham

paritranaya sadhunam
vinasaya ca duskrtam
dharma-samsthapanarthaya
sambhavami yuge yuge.......

TRANSLATION

Whenever and wherever there is a decline in religious practice, O descendant of Bharata, and a predominant rise of irreligion--at that time I descend Myself.

In order to deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I advent Myself millennium after millennium.

U know thats god way of saying "I'll Be Back" The TERMINATOR STYLE ! hastala vista ... baby

(hey did I get the spelling right ?)

Really cool eh ?

50 posts over !!!..... Half century !!

2005-08-28T05:03:00.000-07:00

yEAH ...THIS IS MY 51st post !!....like the world cares...but any ways.....after putting thought into it... finally decided to put this up ...after some serious revisions....and u know tis kinda true !!...

1. You can stare at any Girl.......

2. You don't have to spend money on her ...and u'd still have money left after the 15th...and better....ur phone bill will never cross 500....

3. u dont have to dress well....and look well groomed....

4. No girlfriend, no emotional blackmailing.

5. If u don't have a girlfriend, she can't dump u.

6. Having a girlfriend is hot, not having a girlfriend
is automatically cool, and every one loves to be a
cool guy.

7. This can be more to life than just waiting for the
bloody phone to ring.

8. You won't have to tolerate someone else defining,
"right" and "wrong" for u.

9. Girlfriend can get so possessive that you can't do
anything according ur wishes anymore.

10. You can buy gifts for mom, dad, sis or grandpa
instead of a girlfriend and have a happier family
life.

11. You won't have to waste paper writing love letters
No more endless waiting for ur date to arrive at some
weird shop\place.

12. You can have more friends, as u will have more
time for them.

13. You wont have to see boring love stories instead
of action thrillers.

14. You wont have to tell lie to anybody and,
therefore, u'll sin less.

15. You can have good night's sleep-no need to dream
about her.

16. u can sleep thro the weekend !

17. No nonstop nonsense.

18. You wont have drown in the pool of her tears.

19. No tension.

20. You can be "urself"

I THINK ...THEREFORE I AM SINGLE !

1....2.....3....

2005-08-19T20:23:00.000-07:00

I know the Title is stupid....u dont hafta tell me !

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Take This 1:

this actually happened in my college...there was this guy..let's call him S....or whatever !....

it was our final yr project Viva...and this bright guy goes in and comes back in 5 mins....

S says : 'dei antha external sooper pshyco da...he is asking such stupid questions and asked me to get out when I answred them...cha...'

me: what did he ask....

S: he looked at me and said ' uhmm project is good ...oh u r using a FET ( thats a type of transistor...for the non electronics guys..)....seri ....FET sollu "

me : and ..?...what did u say ?

S: F E T...

me : ..magane naana iruntha suda suda ciffee-ya mela oothiruppen...

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Take this 2 :

urs truly was peace fully smoking in my college canteen....and u know every other staff in my college thought I was such a good boy et all...u know I used to study wel....ok....really....and It was the way I looked and...u know I used to look like a....what was that a fruit.....

and surprise....when I walked out....there they were...some 8 - 10 of my staffs all smiles....me ?...looked like a bulb...

actually one of my lect had seen me smoking and he had called ....phoned...yelled and there he had all the people who thought I was a good boy....giving them a free show !.....actually a couple of my lady staffs thought my smoking style was cool...u know ...so much for getting caught !

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Take this 3 :

most of uy might have heard this one...but never knew where it happened....well I know... !

was my semester Mechanical machines lab...me doing some calculations....and this uncle guy....hez some 5 - 6 yrs my senior...yeah still has this paper....goes up to the external.....and says that he didnt know how to do the experiment,..on the PETTER 5 HP engine....

External : u tell me how to start and run it I will pass u

Senior : ok sir....(gets ready).dud ..dud ...dud...(gaining speed)....dududdudududududududududududuududududududud

Ex: ...stop it...

Senior : dududududududududud...dud...dud...dud...dud..dud (slowing down)

u know he actually passed !! reason...the external didn't want others to experience the same torture !!

Independence day !

2005-08-15T01:32:00.000-07:00

I know one thing......

what ?

That I am Proud to be an Indian......

college.....ah....

2005-08-14T17:57:00.000-07:00

now there wasnt anything that I didnt do when I was in college...

When I smoked....I was like a train....when I drank....I was a fish.....and...

THE MYSTERY IS SOLVED:

This actually happened when I was in my second year...third semester....

In the history of the great Annamalai university ...this had never happened....they still dont know how it happened....2nd yr mid semester question paper was leaked..not by the staff...attender...noone really knew who leaked it and how...

confession after 4 yrs,....

well yeah that was me.....not jus me...a few whith me my BATCH MATES !....we leaked the paper...

see...we didnt wanna...jus that we did...

we were in the lab and I had this crazy habit of shredding all the waste papers and stuff there in the lab...one reason was that I was always bored, another one was that i didnt care to learn anything when in college....

that day when I was picking up the carbon sheets I saw something....printed was "mid semester question paper"....nudged my lab partner and gave it to him....he saw it and smiled and neatly placed it inside his record note book...

in the evening we deviced a plan and cliped the carbon sheet to the window kept a mirror and got the latrally inversed image and wrote down the whole QP.....and gave it to some of our friends....one really smart guy took xerox copies, went to the LH and gave it to all the girls he sighted in our class....and b4 we knew it, the whole class had it...and every1 scored no less that 45 outta 50 in the test...

and then they found out that the paper was leaked...but how and by whome no one knew...because urs truly had led a very tight operation !!

after 4 yrs I finally ....I told my lect this story...

guess his response... !

oh really !....see....now a days the students are not like this,......they come to college and go home...study....thats all...no thrill .....waste ....thats why I liked ur batch so much...always out to do some mischeif....uhm I miss those days....

so much for being truthful !!

The week that was....

2005-08-09T00:59:00.000-07:00

oh yeah....the week started off real bad....

after the episode at my office last thursday...I had a Talk with my PM(manager)....a real nice guy...but had to do it.....told him that after what had happened..I had learnt something from that mistake....what?....for ur work to be recogonised et all....u have to be a ching chak ( jalra...oiler....u know what I mean right...) and be a back stabber and stuff....and also told him that I could do all that...but never would...gave him the hoiler than thou speech.....he looked jaded after it all....good....

friday night...off to yercaud !!......had a great time there...booze....SIGHT seeing and all.....actually after some 3 yrs.....rode a Scooty...not bad at all...20 hair-pin bends ...uphill !!....overtook2 splendors, 3max100Rs one corsa and one bullet.. !!...

2days FULL enjoyment !!

came back to chennai on monday.....rushed to office.....and the my friend calls and he wants to go some place and asked if we could take my car....

okei !!....escape from office at 2 ......I killed a relative to get that leave.....hit the ECR .....monday and tuesday again FULL of fun !!......jus came back...btw went to my college and had loads of fun with my Lecturers and friends....oh thats a biiiiiiig story....

5 days of less office has done me good...actually fell better and people around me r no longer afraid to talk to me.....not givin them a cold stare all the time...but still hate to come to work......how false people r !!....

typiny the whole thing from office...jus came back ...still haven't gone home....time is 12 57 (thats past midnight !).....will be going home after some time...maybe I wont sleep...watch some movie and come back at 8....uhmmm......

WHATEVER !

2005-08-02T21:19:00.000-07:00

Well yeah...Whatever in caps.....I am in the worstest worst-o-worst of moods today....fell like killing someone.....

when the world is unfair to me....why the **** should I be fair !?!

I know......

The song thats actually keeping me from killing someone....

"unnai arinthaal ..nee unnai arinthaal ulagaththil poraadalaam....uyarnthaalum .....thazhnthaalum..THALAI VANANGAAMAL NEE VAAZHALAAM"...

KILL those ********......

who knows maybe I will..........

Ainthilirunthu Aimbathu Varai....5 to 50 !!!

2005-07-30T23:16:00.000-07:00

aaril irunthu arubathu varai...from 6 to 60 is Ranijikanth's story...but this 5 to 50 is my story....no ! not my life's story...thisiz different ... !!

Ok the comments suggest that my blogs are like JAVVU ( ;-} ) -- read that as reeeeeally loooong...so will keep this short..

I still remember...almost every month I had to got there...and always on a sunday....
if not my PT master would make me run 3 rounds ..well that was a big ground u know....

HAIRCUT !!...being a guy has some positives and some negatives....

some things I remember :

1. The wait from 8 o' clk to 9....reading paper....or some book with nice...ahem..nice pictures...

2. the slab that the cutter used to put when i was a kid...I would dissapear in that seat...

3. the pure white cloth

4. I used to close my eyes shut when it is done...I still do...

5. the scary story my nextdoor kid told me , how another kid got his ear cut off just because he didnt hold his head in that ackward angle that the cutter wanted it at

6. the powder that they dab on ur neck once it s done.Na th hard brush ....man I aint no dog !!

7. the strong smell of dettol and after shave mix.

8. the heaps of hair...I used to wonder what they'd do with all that hair....I still do !!

9. the question ....when I am giving them hair aren't they supposed to pay me ?

10. looking into the multiple reflections in the mirrors placed opposite to each other...and COUNT HOW MANY HEADS I HAVE !!

11. the bike rides with my dad to the saloon...

12. seeing people dying grey hairs to black...and wonder what colour blonde hairs grey to....well at that age I didnt know the difference between white hair and blondes !!

13. the sound of the sissors that the cutter makes when he is thinking how to spoil my good looks... ! I know....u dont hafta tell....

14. the chairs that go round and round

15. The summer crop to the mushroom cut to the now professional cut...I still prefer the summer crop...

16. everytime my dad wanted me to go back to the saloon and get it cut shorter

17. The little girls who came to boy cuts ( I still have a soooft corner for boy cuts...the demi style...no...not the BOB cuts....me hates them !!..and mind u not everyone looks good with a short crop!)

18. wonder where the cutters to get a hair cut....

19. The people who come to have a facial....ah...ye after that one u'd look like Brad pitt....pitt..yes....what crap !!

20. ..nd finally my fav. the knife they use to size and shave...man ! always wanted to have one...but dunno where to get one !

and now for the 5 to 50 !.....

I started to have cuts for 5...now they cost 50 !!.....but the 20 points remain the same....I really wonder why tis so costly now !!

Thiruvaasagam ....anyone ??

2005-07-27T07:03:00.000-07:00

yesterday I happened to go to get some DVDs....yeah I was on leave.....jus before that I went to the landmark store near my place....jus to look at the new arrivals....

Thiruvaasagam... !! in gold .....hey thats new....got a copy ....

Played it all the way back home in my car....then all the way to office today...and the whole day at office.....

the last track - track 6 "puttril vaazh aravum anjael...."

really good and had me hooked...

the song goes like this....

"I dont dread the snake ....nor the dishonest people who lie..."

sounds familiar ??...... READ MY PREVIOUS POST....

now thats scary or what ??.......

ESP ?.......u tell me !!!!

FEAR ??...really ....?

2005-07-24T17:56:00.000-07:00

well I dont have much time....leaving early from office after a loooong time.....jus enough time to type this out....I guess....

A few days back had an interesting conversation with an interesting person...he was like asking me lotsa questions...god knows why...like do I belive in fate and things like that.....then he asked me a question ...that was actually interesting....

MACHAN....WHAT DO U FEAR...??

Thats an interesting one....not because ...I still cant figure out why that was interesting.....but anywayz this is what I said and that actually it took him and me,as well, by surprise....

well...frankly I havent seen myself fear anything.....till now....really...never feared to pick up a fight...take a BIT to exam....stand up to autho.....drive at breakneck speed.....drink lts of alcohol....catch snakes.....wander bout in total darkness...watch scary movies even when I was like some 4-5 yrs old....really...there was nothing that REALLY scared me....not even life....the ups and downs....

but after some serious thought....well....read on...

" I've never feared the sea that can drown me....
fire that can burn me....
the thunderbolt that can fall on me from the great sky...
or the demons of the dark that I was taught to fear....
but,the thoughts from the mind of those who cant be trusted ??...

I've never feared to belive in what I belive...
lie for a greater good..
to fight for a cuase....
or to stand up aginst those against me....
but, people with no principles who dont belive in themselves ???....

I've never feared The kinfe that can kill me....
cruel words as sharp as the knife....
to hold the heart in my hand
or the blood that drips from it....
but, the cut throats who back stab and dont have a spine ??........"

just a thought......ogey....gotta leave..... !!!

Thanks, but no Thanks.......

2005-07-21T05:50:00.000-07:00

tis been a year now ....joined this stupid company a year back....they r gonna screw me now....and I will screw them back !!......

already some of my coll'g are planin to quit ..shouting 'unfair'....but I wont....someone has to stay back and fight...and fight I will....

love ur job...not ur company......how ture.....

Quote : " nalla work pannena ??.....athu poona maasam....naan sollarathu intha maasam..."

Chips matter !!!

2005-07-13T15:16:00.000-07:00

Next day actually two exams…..morning English apparum evening maths…

Time 8 o clock morning….

Me getting ready for English test…..and so was everyone else…

Thakkali (tomato) says to me : Dei…thala….yenna da nee padichitiya antha poem-a ?...onnume puriyalada…Milton-na yenakku tiffen box thaan theriyum…..antha company owner-a intha poem write pannaaru ??

Me : anga paaru…

Thakkaali turns…: yenga da ?...

Wack…one on his head….

Me : vaayamoodikittu padi….

Thkkaali :….athuku yethuku da adikkara ?.....innai-ku chips yeduthukittu vanthurukken….oru piece kooda kedayaathu….

Me: yaarukku da venum chips?.....( me planning already to flick his lunch box )

Trrrriiiiiiinnnnnngggggg….the bell goes ……

Me: dei…mottai….settu…..maams….thakkaali…..vaangada lets go inside… !!

Others in corus :..Paarunga da thala …english yellam pesuthu…

Me:…yes…come inside…let us write the English exam !!...

Pasangala anga paarungadaaaa…. !!!

Exam time-la…naangaellam Koil-ku pooi Pillayaara paakaromo illayo…yenga school top figure-a paathutu thaan poovom….

Me: today one centum confirm….

Mottai : yeppadida sollara?...

Me: athan namma chellam poguthe….. paathaachula…athaaan…..

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We enter the class take our seats….

Yen appa-ku thanks….intha maathiri name vechchathukku…yenakkum munnadi yeppavume….attendence order padi…oru soper figure….( will be ref to as Sooper Figure- SF)

Me: Yenna SF ready-a ?..
SF: dei poda….meanings..theriyum opposite theriyathu….
Me: yenakkum theriyum….boy-ku opposite girl…kamal hassan opposite Sridevi…unakku opposite naan….

SF: aamam….serupukku opposite shoe-……yenna otha kekutha…intha velayatellam ava kitta vechu koo….she points to the TOP figure….

Me:…yenna chellam kochikura…yellam oru time pass thaan…

SF:….romba pesuna…copy adikkaren –nu complain panniduven…..

Me: nee yenna pannaalum ok thaan..aana innaiku irukkaara…maths exam mattum sums kammi…..set language theriyathu…

SF : set lang-a ?....6th la irunthu padikaromeda…ithu theriyaatha….

Me: neenga padikkareenga….naan last year thaane matric…..athukku munnaadi CBSE thaane…athula ithellam kedayaathu…

SF: seri paakalaam…

Me: paakalaama ?....yennathu pakkaththu theatre-la release aana filim-a?...

SF: yenna da ¿.

Me: onnum illa…paper pass pannu….

During this conversation Our teacher had entered and the answer sheets have already been distributed,,….now question paper being distributed.......

In my class the TOP figure sits first…yellam avaloda dad name-o-logy padi vecha name thaan kaaranum…she takes the paper…

Teacher checks the time…5 mins more…..so she stops there

Only TF has the question paper…..she is already reading the QP…….

After 5 mins….just as the teacher gives the QP to Mottai….TP jumps up….”Missssss….”
As if a yeli (rat) had gone over her foot ….

TF:…miss this is the Maths QP…we have English now….( madam yeppavume…englipish thaan…..ore scenenu thaan….tanna panna…paaka tucker-a irunthathu naala…kalaaika mudiyala…yenga Porukki payan-nu nenachikittu…..namma kitta pesaama irunthutaana !!..aiooo… !)

Teacher :…is it so…ok everyone wait here…who is the class leader…..come and stand here….write down the names..i will bring the English QP…

She goes out…

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By now every1z looking at TP…..and mottai is fuming…just miss….

English is always easy….aanaaa..maths ?!......suttu pootaalum varaathu…..

Now my criminal mind working….planing …have to get the question from TP…only she knew what was in that QP…..

I looked at TP….she looked back…and smiled….aaagggaaaa…appadiye melt aaiten…
Appadiye…oru slow violin music ketuchu….suththi…smoke effect……appadiye….parakkaraa maathiri…

ME to ME: dei…veenaam….lovskku this is not the time……..athukellam roma time irukku…….( actually time illaama pochu….finally…avala kalyaanam aagi kozhanthayoda thaan paathen lasta…)

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ME: dei…thakkaali…..

Thakkaali : sollu thala…

ME: antha chips packet-a kou…

TK: ippova ?.....yenakku lunchuku venum…

Me : un luncha ?...antha curd ricekku…verala nakkikite saapududa….unakku Match questions venuma venama ¿….

TK : ( oru kevalamaana sad lookoda)….seri intha…..

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FB - continued !!!

2005-06-29T18:42:00.000-07:00

SP: Dei...kallu yeriyuthuda !!.... adi patuchuna papa odavittu adipaaruda !!

ME: Papa-va?.....inthavayasula unakku papa irukkada...

Maams: dei...avan 8th std-la irukkara namma Aishu thangaya thaan papa-nu sollaraanda ...

AR : yerumamaadungala....kallavittu adichum ooda maateeengalaadaa !! APPAAAAAaaaa...

naanga escape....oodi pooi busstand-la ninnukittu....

SP: yennada maativituduvaala?...antha english madam yenga theru thaanda...yenga amma kitta sonna....rendunalaiku soru kedayaathuda...

Maams:...antha kaanja roti-ya saapadarathuku ....summa irukkalaamda...vaada...naan unakku meen-kuzhambu panni yeduthukittu vaaren...

Me: vidungada...onnum matter illa....chellam naalaikuthaana solla poora...appaala paathukalaam....

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SP: innaikaavathu dhum adichi paakalaamda...

Maams: innaiku vaanaam...naal nalla illa....

Me: Dhumm-a ?....porikki pasangala....naanvarlada ...
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That night-ukku Appaala
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In class....basically naanga class-la romba vambu pannaravanga...hight order-la front-la nikkara pasanga...aana class-la last benchu thaan....athuvum,ponnunga sidela last benchu...classlaye heightu namma aishu thaan so ava last bench....namma criminal brain work panna aaramichichu.......

English class.....

Aish: Setheengada...mutti kaaya poguthu....iru iru...

SP: dei machan yethavathu pannuda !

Maams:...pesaama surrender aagidalaama?....

Me: irungada...oru nimisham...
Aishu-ma inga vayen sidela...onnu sollanum

Aish:Sorry keetaalum vida maaten...romba thimiru yeri poochu da...

Me: athellam illa...inga vaayen...

She came... took her to the corner...

ME: Inga paaren...nee complain panna...I showed her what I had in my hand....

English class came and went...no complains....

Sp and Maams: yennda da sonne....thappichom.....solluda...

I royally take my hand outta my pocket....

one small PALLI.....

Me:....onnum illada...ava yethavathu panna palli-ya yeduthu ava mela vituduvennu sonnen avvalavuthaan...

SP and Maams :....dei...intha idea-va vechu yenna-laam pannalaam.....

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Note : SP intha idea-va vechu avanooda thangai-yoda geomentry box-a yeduthukittan

namma MAAMA...Palli-ya kaamichi 12th-la avan pakkathuveetu ponna meratti love letter koduthaan.....

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ithellam overaagi.....that evening....

ME:dei...yenna poo...romba bore adikkuthu....

SP: dei yanga veetu side-la oru padam pootirukkaangoda...pooolaama?....

Maams: antha padathukellam nammala vidamaataanda....

SP: try pannalaame....nalla irukkumda...class-la ye nammathaan first-a pathutu stroy sollalaam...

Me: aamaam-da naan 4 1/2 adi..nee 4 adi...nalla ulla viduvaanda...

Sp: dhum adichi paakalaama.....

Maams: naalaiku vera midterm test...yennathuda...

Me: morning English...afternoon Maths-da...onnume padikkala...fail aana seththen...yengappa TV-ya yeduthu ulla pootuduvaaruda.....yenna da panna.....

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Tortoise.....Flash back !

2005-06-27T07:15:00.000-07:00

Hey...this is something that happened years in the rewind....some time when I was in school...in 10th to be exact.....jus a conv. I had with my friends...didnt mean anything then, but now ....

Me : dei....time yenna da ?

My Maams(friends r called maams/Machi...but strictly used only to address close friends/or friends ...whose name u dont remember ;-)} : 5:30 da....

Me : yenna da antha maths 6 30 varai classnu solli ivvalavu seekaram vittutaan....

Setu payan ( this is actually the name given to any north indian guy who speaks an unusual tamil...for more details contact sowcarpet...road-mele pooran...kaasu marthule kaaikuthu.....kinda tamil...) :

Ammam machan...veetumela pondaatiku maavu aatanumnu pooitan...

Me : Yelllarum yenga da....athukulla veetuku pooitaangala?....dei..anga paaruda..AISHWARYA RAI-u {that was the name we gave to our schoolz top figure...did I tell u we were the "poriki gang " ln school ??)...

MM: Kannu...inga vaayen...

AR: yenna da...

Me: onnum illa...time yennanu sollen...

AR: time...ungalukku bad time-u....yenga appa anga thaan nikkaraaru...koopadava...

SETU PAYAN : Illa akka....neenga poonga...

AR: Akka-va...seruppu piyumda !!

Me: mudiyaathe....nee shoe-la pooturukke !!...

AR: Joke-u?....{ she whips out her 1 foot NATRAJ wooden scale...and charges towards us ...}

ME, MM, SP: maama escape !!!......

we run and jump over the wall and from the other side

dei....angeye paarungada....Aishu guthika pooguthu !!......

from the other side....

AR : dei naaygala...naalaiku paarungada...english miss-kitta solli mutti poda vekkaren !!..

Me : paarda atha...pombala pulla maathiriya pesethu....

dum...on big stone lands right on setu payanz leg...aiyoooooo...

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PS: non tamils who cannot understand this...please wait...working on the translation... !!

Shortest blog ever !

2005-06-24T07:48:00.000-07:00

I CAME, I SAW, I BLOGGED.

Right-a...thapp-a??....illa Left-a ??

2005-06-19T22:03:00.000-07:00

Yentha nari moonjila muzhicheno....weekend naasamaa poochu !!!

baddest of weekend ever....radoi mirchi....chennai semma hot-u machi....

only nalla news....oru new ponnu kitta...ketathu....with semma style......"is chennai this hot or is it jus u ? ".....reply.."kya?"

naasaaa pochu...hindhi kaara ponna !...escape !!...so good news bad news aachu....

one interesting observation....If u asked me if I am left handed or right ?....my prompt reply would've been right !....till last week...

over the week end...I discovered that I am neither left handed or right.....

When I was in my 8th std....I badly bruned my right hand when I tried to do a " Buss" vedi on the day after Deepavali....and 2 days after that with my right hand all banfaged I was writing at full speed with my LEFT HAND !!

then I usually hold the spoon on the left when I eat.....keep my mobile in my left pocket and use the left to operate it....

I can type faster with my left hand....

I throw with my left hand....bat and bolw with my right though....

usually use my left to say Hi...

ippo ippo ippo theriyanum...am I a rightee or a leftee...

naatukku romba mukkiyam.......

naangellam tamilnadu auto style-la...leftla kai potu...right-la indicator potu..straight-a pora case-unga.....

another TAG ??...Yennathithu siru pilla thanama ?

2005-06-19T11:58:00.000-07:00

Tagged by : Yennai...once more ...but vera matterukku TAG panna perumai...
"Chennaigirl - Vani"-yai serum....

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY:

I usually use jus my name.....
but otherz call me....
1.Thalai
2. guru....yellam nama sishya KDs thaan
3.Machi...maams....naangellam basically pooooriki pasanga !

THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD:

Vasool_raja_BE
Dandanakka_danakkanakka
vidujoot

none of the above r in use....

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF

my always working moolai
my eyes...semma small....irukkane some times doubt varum
third one yosikkanum.....

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON’T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF
dont like my
25inch biseps
45 inch chest...
6pack abbs.....
yellam vaitherichal thaan....irunthiruntha dont like...illathathal.... nothing

THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE

question puryala...so...

Part 1
part 2
part 3

THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU

scary looking huge femmes

huge lorries

the comet thats going to crash in to my house in chennai...

THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS

filter coffee

thayir saadham

kannaadi...

THREE THINGS YOU ARE WEARING RIGHT NOW

watch

socks....

a beautiful blonde...

THREE THINGS YOU WANT IN A RELATIONSHIP

relationship-a?

first....want one relationship...apparum three things-a paththi paakalam....

ithai padikkara nalla manam konda naatum akkal...yethavathu help panna nallairukkum !!

dei..ivvalavu kaanji poya irukke ??....very bad....yaaravathu help pannunga...payan remba vettiya irukkan pola...poo-da poo...poo.....sadha ishtyle..

TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE (in no particular order)

Ambani yen thatha...
yenakku 1 to 100 count panna theriyum
BF appadina Best friendunu artham......

THREE PHYSICAL THINGS ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX THAT APPEAL TO YOU

colour....summa sundinaa ratham varanum....athellam onnum ila...

brains...

summa tanglish-la pesanum....uknow....u know...nu mokkaya poda koodathu

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO REALLY BADLY NOW

go for lunch.... aaaa..pasikuthu !!

kill thje onsite guy....dei naye unakku brainse illaya...intha chinna matterukka yenna lunchu-ku poga vidaama pannine.....

go for lunch....avvalo hungry !!

THREE CAREERS YOU ARE CONSIDERING

professional Ass'asin'

frankenstine work pannara scientist

lorry driver

THREE PLACES YOU WANT TO GO ON VACATION

Alps

pondicherry...yethuka...vera yethukku

home....my bed....

THREE KIDS NAMES YOU LIKE

Yeruma kada

ara ticketu

vanaram

THREE THINGS YOU WANT TO DO BEFORE YOU DIE

Aish-a paathu ILU sollanum

once more sollanum

twos more sollanum...

THREE (make it more!) PEOPLE WHO HAVE TO TAKE THIS QUIZ NOW

venaaam pa....apparum pazhi-ku pazhi vaanguvaanga....yethuku vambu......

actually ithai padikkaravanga yellam....tag aanathaguga.....

Who TAGGED the CAT ??

2005-06-13T14:50:00.000-07:00

Yaarrathu... yenna TAG Pannathu ?!? :

ANSH - The Sweet Penmani {title lift-off from SUGS blogroll! }

Total Number of Books I Own:

167 .....that includes the Tinkles...champaks... et all....

U know.... I have an 80 pages ruled notebook...with all the books I own ,listed...with the date of purchase and other details....

actually my dad's and mom's collection not included.....
my bro never got past Jataka tales....

TWO NEW QUESTIONS ADDED

Total number of books given to others and never came back :

Countless....never expected them to be returned anywayz !!!

Total number of books flicked from others :

To be exact ....16 .....mostly comics and 3 novels....never planned to return them !! ;-)

Last Book I bought:

The monk who sold his ferrari......I know .....My mistake... !....this book is right now with my GOOD FRIEND...mavane seththaan !!

Last Book I was gifted:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams...an e-book....want to know who gifted this book to me???......ask me....kaasu koduthu namakkellam yaaru gift vaangi kodukka pooraanga !!

ithai padikkara makkale....yaaravathu gift anuppunga !!...yenna kuppaya irunthaalum seri... !

Last Book I read:

Mahabaratha by C.Rajagopalachari.

I am currently reading:

Risk analysis - Concepts.

Five Books that mean a lot to me:

1. All my comics....ithellam illama....my 23 yrs ulaga vaazhkai romba bore adichirukkum

2. Vernon GOD Little - DBC Pierre.....unique style....semma attitude machi !

3. would've missed this one.....thanks ANSH.....Wings of fire...Namma APJK...simple,but,powerful (Kakka kakka style...)

4. some 12 volumes of Vivekananda stuffs........ haven't read them fully...but the little read changed me forever....what passion....!

5. My 10th std Tamil grammar text book......made me love my language....actually that was my Tamil teach'......

Who am I gonna tag ?....will update that info after tis done....

Nandri koori vidai peruvathu ungal anbu nanban.....

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ok...the following have been tagged by the great...the one and only....
actually curious....

1. Sophie
2. Arthi
3. Vani
4. Sange
5. Ramya
6. VIV

Just miss

1. The 'M '
2. Ammani

Latest update : ART and The chennai girl have replied saying that they'll post the TAG POST !!!
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Why I love weekends... !!!

2005-06-06T17:54:00.000-07:00

One old black denim....2 cotton shirts....

927.8 Kms travelled..... through 3 cities...number of towns and uncountable no of villages....

half OMR.....5 packet chips....lotsa smoke.....

20-25 tender coconuts...NONGUS.....banannas....

met some old friends....

no hangover...one movie....oosi breakfast....

and how can I forget the mangoes...uhmm...the mangoes... !!!

not a bad weekend.....not bad at all !!!

Good one....

2005-06-03T16:30:00.000-07:00

" Yethuvarai vaazhkai azhaikiratho...

Athuvarai naamum sendriduvom.....

Vidaiperum neram varumpothum....

siripinil nandri solliduvom...."

One Question...Answer please !

2005-05-31T21:53:00.000-07:00

Time 5:30

Day: Yesterday

Matter: Suddenly a question popped up in my head…no…no bulb over my mandai….

How is my life??

A difficult question to answer….how is my life getting along?...how do I gauge it?....there aren’t any parameters to grade it….

I could take some stupid test on the internet….But really didn’t want to do that….

Plan of action:

I decided to answer this one by comparing my life with someone my age….no not my co-workies….u know?...they r nerds...fulla questions…so this is what I did…

Walked out to the shop where I usually get my cigarettes …got one and lit it…one drag…uhmm……hey!.....that guy selling cigarettes ...Looks my age…

Now that I have a specimen … I asked him specific questions that would empower me with the data to actually come up with an answer to that question…

Okey here goes…

Where r u from??....he said some village (ans not information…jus data..)
How many years are u doing this ??.....17 yrs sir….

17 ?....from when….?.....from 5yrs sir…

So at 5 u were selling cigarettes ….where ???....at my village talkies sir….

Ok…then….?....at 12 I was selling at the town bus stand sir….

Ok then …what was ur turning point of ur life till now….??.....coming to Chennai sir….

Oh…coming here ..eh ?....what did u do after coming here ?......was selling cigarettes at the main bus stand here sir…

Ok…then ?....nothing sir….now I am selling the same in front of ur office…..

Now I can conclude….. :

Life is miserable when we analyze the data…jus like him….I’ve been doing nothing….studying in some school first….then high school…then college…..jus like he was selling…….now working in an office doing some work….will be doing the same for the rest of my life…..in this company then in another one…and another one till I retire…or have a heart-attack…..

Ah !! U really thought I would say that…didn’t u ??.....nay…..

I have a better life !!! …my life pattern may be similar to his….BUT…I have a Car…a cool phone….a degree (BE ma BE)…a good job in one of the best companies in India…a good bank balance.....a girl friend who actually looks like an Aishwarya Rai double (hey! common this is my blog and I can write anything I wanto!)….and he calls me Sir….

Know what …life rocks…with or without fun…..

howz urs ???

A post from past ... NEW AND IMPROVED !!!

2005-05-25T21:28:00.000-07:00

Actually didn't wanna post this...never ever...still dunno why I am doing this...

Happened some 3 weeks back.....was At a party....when someone tapped gently on my shoulder...turned back .... there she was......meeting her after some 6 yrs....

Her hair was not long....short...straight.....not the way I liked it....the curls were gone...

her beautiful face looked all made....the eyeliner that I loved on her was gone.....

she had some lipstick on...I used to hate it when she had that on...

she looked shorter...

the perfume she had on was different....not the one that once made me mad...

looked tired...not her usual hyperactive self....

she didnt look pretty in that dress.......used to look drop dead georg' in any thing she wore...

was that a high heeled shoe ?....she never used to like 'em....

her voice was ...music to ears ....not any more......

Her eyes were dull...the sparkle not to be seen....

her hair was coloured...not black ( the colour I LOVE)....

was obvious that she was trying hard to look beautiful...unlike before ...when she looked that naturally.....

She didn't look like the way I remember her....want to remember her.....

and did I mention ....she was married 2 yrs back....??!?.....

whatever........

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Tajmahalin vannam maarakoodum penne....minnum unthan kannam innum vannam kooduthey...

niramulla malargal solaiku perumai....nee ulla ooril vasipathu perumai...

nooru kodi pengal undu un pol yaarum illayee......

aanaal...kanni unthan kangal kangal mattum kaanavillaye......

what a joke... !!!!!

what colour ( notice that 'u' in colour ??!...me still in India)

2005-05-24T14:11:00.000-07:00

My friend wanted me to suggest a colour ...to buy a car....and the first one that came to my mind and the one I shouted out was BLACK....he gave me a strange look....and asked " Why ?"......"thats my Fav. colour da..."......"no, its not !"

"wHAT ?....it is !.....what do u mean by ' its not ' ?!?"....

he jus asked me a very simple question that has kept me thinking for the past 2 days.....

THE QUESTION ??.....HE ASKED ME WHY DO i SAY bLACK IS MY FAV . WHEN i DONT HAVE A SINGLE THING THATS bLACK !!

WELL...U KNOW...HEZ RIGHT !!.... MY DESKTOP HAS A BLUE BACKGROUND...

THE FILE ON MY DESK IS BLUE....

my MTB , my bike, ..my CAR !!....yup u gussed right...blue...

oh damn....somethingz wrong...I reached for my car keys...the key chain is blue too !!!....am I goin mad or what....

then I rushed home....opened my cupboard with a bang....(my mom gives me that funny look ....the same look I get every time I do something ....that I dont usually do...)

4 denims in different shades of blue...only one black....

4 full and 6 half shirts...and only one black one.. !!!......open my secret cabinet inside...( yeah I have one !!...and did I spell it right ?)...this is actually full of my painings and other stuffs I cant get myself to throw away...)......5 blue coloured pens.....6 red ones...and no black .....

this actually freaked me out.. !!!

walked back slowly the last place I would find something in blue.....surprise !!.....my fav Nike is actually blue !....I never noticed it before....

after all this....walked into my room....oh yeah..no points for guessing....the walls r in the light shades of blue....

no wonder my friend gave me that look......

but hey.....BLACK still is my fav colour....maybe I dont have things in black because of totally different reasons...

WHATEVER !!!

PS: I know this is fulla typos and grams....not even lookin at the screen and tping....what do u expect ??...

PPS: someone put a spell check thing on this one !!! pls !!!

Extra Chatpata Extra Mast

2005-05-19T01:27:00.000-07:00

Vaadi vaadi vaadi vaadi kai padatha CD.....hey that the song playing on my MP3
player.....

what ?...on my comp?.....hey NO !.....thats on my Mobile.....

yeah...I've finally chucked my old fone and now have a brand new one....with cam, MP3 player.....and lotsa other gooddies thrown in !!.....its really good....and am sure this is the best buy for the money spent....and thats more than 10k....hey...but worth it ..... !!

life is actually not going great.....no work.....and when I say that I mean jus that.....really boring...and first time in my life feel bored.....thats one reason why I got this new Fone.....this will keep me doing something...for another 3 days.....

ok....now where is that Appy and that pack of KURKURE ??....ok...danx...found it.....

where is my life heading ??......

Thought For The Day:

There are two rules to success in life:

1. Don't tell people everything you know.

2. .....

Attitude ?!?.....oh yeah !!

2005-05-17T12:54:00.000-07:00

And there's a million of us................ just like me

who cu** like me;

who just don't give a f*** like me

who dress like me; walk, talk and act like me

and just might be the next best thing ..................................but not quite me!

RIGHT ?!!

Watta fone !!

2005-05-15T09:57:00.000-07:00

Actually...I am posting this from my friends mobile !! technology remba improve aagiduchu....

whatta phone...the features and the display....touch screen keypads and the sexy lookin STYLUS....I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS PHONE !!!

PS: Have paid for the same very phone, will begetting it innother few days !!....apparum adanga maatommula !! scene thaangathu !!

Thought for the day :

Warning: Beer Contains Female Hormones

To test the finding, 100 men were fed 6 pints of beereach. It was then observed that 100% of the men gained weight, talked excessivelywithout making sense, became overly emotional, couldn't drive, failed to thinkrationally, argued over nothing, and refused to apologize when wrong. No furthertesting is planned.

Stupid English !! ~ Nice one ~ not my creation though !!

2005-05-11T17:15:00.000-07:00

Poem on English:-

English is a stupid language English is a stupid language...

There is no egg in the eggplant.

No ham in the hamburger.

And neither pine nor apple in the pineapple.

English muffins were not invented in England.

French fries were not invented in France.

We sometimes take English for granted.

But if we examine its paradoxes

we find that Quicksand takes you down slowly,

Boxing rings are square,

And a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig!

If writers write, how come fingers don't fing!

If the plural of tooth is teeth, Shouldn't the plural of phone booth be phone beeth!

If the teacher taught, why didn't the preacher praught!

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what the heck does a humanitarian eat?

Why do people recite at a play and yet play at a recital,

Park on driveways and drive on parkways?

How can the weather be as hot as hell on one day and as cold as hell on another?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy

Of a language where a house can burn up as it burns down.

And in which you fill IN a form by filling it OUT.

And a bell is only heard once it GOES.

English was invented by people, not computers.

And it reflects the creativity of the human race.

(Which of course isn't a race at all)

That's why, when the stars are out they are visible, But when the lights are out they are invisible!

And why it is that when I wind up my watch it starts!
But when I wind up this poem it ends!!!!

I LOVE ......

2005-05-10T01:02:00.000-07:00

I love Icecreams !!!.....yes more than Aishwarya Rai !!

All play and no work....

2005-05-09T14:18:00.000-07:00

All play and no work makes me a dull boy....

yeah u gueesd right...the project I was workin on is officially over.....and now have no work...why cant these people plan well in advance on the allotment of resources.....!!!.....now I am withotu ( I hate these typos !!) work...I used to like the days when I had to come to office sit around and go back without doing anything.....but really dunno why I feel really sick ,when I jus idle around....doing nothing !!...

this is what I did last week to keep myself busy...

read some 20 blogs....everyday

music non stop with online games....

designed a webpage for myself....but decided against uploading it....really sucked ! ...

explored the beauiful new stuff from Yahoo ...THE YAHOO 360 !....a waste of time !

came late and went home early...

read three books...2 management stuff bout risk management and one on Modern art...that was a good one...

the white board next to me is fulla hopeless sketches and some idiotic art work ...!....

somebody please give me some work !!!! WAAAA WAA

SALARY HIKE !!

2005-05-02T04:45:00.000-07:00

Today is a great day...its official...they have announced a hike !!.....really cant comprehend the calculations...but...my salary will be increased eff. last month...so next month will be getting more + more for this month !!

PARTY !!!!

Who or What R we ?!!?......the truth behind us !!

2005-04-28T03:05:00.000-07:00

yes, behind us...no !...dont turn around.....!!

This is a discussion that actually happened at my office......very thought provoking indeed !! read along !!

Who or what is Maithili, in context of Indian literature?

Maithili is a language spoken in central bihar. It has its own literature.It has its root in the old kingdom of that area.It is similarto Hindi.

Maithili brahmins are known for their gastronome qualities !!!
Maithili is a language which derives it's name from the region in Biharwhere it is spoken, the old kingdom of Mithla. There is a reference tothe area even in Ramayana- Janak( Father of Sita) was king of Mithla andhas been referred to as MithlaNaresh at many places in RamCharitraManas- therefore Sita was also called Maithili.

Recently one Congress leader, in defense of Sonia, quoted that Sita wasalso a foreigner because Janakpuri is in Nepal.

God Shiva is also a foreigner becauseMt.Kailash is in China.

Buddha was also a foreigner becauseLumbini(?) is in Nepal. So was Guru Nanak, because Talwandi is inPakistan. So was Porus. So was Gandhari.....:)

And what about Home minister Advani & Noble Prize winner Economics Dr.Amartya Sen???

Rama was an aryan ;Germans claim to be aryans so Rama was a German &nbs nbsp; Hail Rama....

the argument is wrong.the conclusion is fallacious

After defeating ravana .... Sri Rama flew back in Ravana's pushpakvimana & This is what the Mordern Lufthansa is . It is the modernversion of the older pushpaka vimana.The pushpak vimana was "driven" by hansa or swans....The insignia of Lufthansa is also a swan...This further proves Sri Rama was a German Hail Rama ....

No, on the contrary it proves that Ravan was a German since it was he who owned the Pushpak Viman. The passengers could belong to any country.

Say this to the DMK and they're gonna kick u!! according to them ravanwas a dravidian and was attacked by ram as ram was an aryan.So if ram was a german, and assuming he was a 'hitlerite 'aryan, thenravan must have been a jew!!!

Might be Russians too.. that explains why MK's son is called STALIN.

So, at present we are at a point where MK's son is a Russian, implyingMK is a Russian. MK is a ardent follower of Ravan who is a German Jew.Looks like the german govt running Karnataka(see our previousdiscussions for a proof of it) is conniving with the Russian govt atTamilnadu (who support German) to fight the Italian Govts reps at 10Janpath road. Some heavy international politics we have going on here.Wat's d'ya say man!!

According to maxmuller, Aryans came from Middle East.According to Bal Gangadhar Tilak, Antarctica was the home place ofAryans. And Swami Dayanand Saraswati says Aryans were originally fromIndia b'coz the place "saptsandhav" that is described many times intheir book is nothing but Doab region between Ganga & Jamuna.And One theory according Bhagwandas is that Aryans were originally fromIndia then they went to middle east and after some time they returnedback to India.So there are different theories about the origin of Aryansbut recent belief is that only India was their native-land.

OH BOY!! WHO ARE WE?

Let the 'intellectuals' decide... you will know who you are soon enough.

It just occured that a better subject would have been "CRICKET"but this &nbs nbsp; one stopped ...."Are our cricketersAryans/Germans ?" So we got to solve this one !

Germans don't play cricket. So cricketers can't be germans. QED

Indians invented the decimal system. Ravan(Jew) had ten heads, Ram'sfather(aryan + German)had ten chariots (Dash-rath) etc.Thus , the baseis 10. There fore they are all Indians
How logical!! Now I could easily prove that even Africans are Aryans.They have 10 fingers- so they are aryans. They have 10 toes on theirfeet - so they are aryans. Thanks for proving that all are aryans.

Then even monkeys are aryans!!!!!!(I think they too have 10 fingers).That's what ramayan says. So all vanars were also aryans!!!

No, Only the native of Haryana are are aryans b'coz U just remove the'H' in Haryana so it becomes aryana.Agreed or not????

Let me get it clear.Are u suggesting that all people in haryana aremonkeys?????
B'cas only teachers (arya's) are aryans. So all software engr's aredravidians.

Your theory only proves that Software engineers are not aryans.Thereforethey can be any thing other than aryans and not only dravidians.

My theory is first step to identify software engrs.I'm more interestedin showing that software engrs are not monkeys (bcas they are notaryans) which my house owner believes!!!

We sit before the monitor staring into the pixels, making faces thewhole day like monkeys. And you claim that you are not in this monkeybusiness? Beats me!!

ME too !!!

Story !! HELP please !

2005-04-27T19:50:00.000-07:00

Now that I am bored to death....i am planing to write a story....this is jus to amuse myself ....and ofcourse....to discover one more area in which I suck !!.....

so herez what I want......anyone...I mean anyone reading this jus leave back 5-10 names for me to be used in the story...

This could be ur name
ur friends....
ur whateverz
ur enemy's (mention this...will be used on a bad guy /gal)

u will not be paid anything for this...but u will have the satisfaction of helping an idiot who cannot even think of good names....but has an idea of writing a story !....

song thats playin on my comp:

'yentha kalaingnanum avalai silai vadippa,
yentha kavingnanum avalai paatil vaipaan
antha iyarkayum aval mel kaathal kollum...
intha ninaivaale yenthan kaalam sellum...

naan paarthathile aval orithiyaithaan naala azhagiyenben nalla azhagiyenben...'

~ Brain Damage ~

2005-04-27T14:04:00.000-07:00

Today is not very hot....with the summer peaking in another week ....one thing is likely to happen...BRAIN DAMAGE.....

I will go mad after a week.....but before that happens, there r certain things I need to get starightned out....

today is 27th and I dont even have mony for lunch....for feul and other stuffs i can use my PLASTIC...but for food in my office.....dunno....ok forget that....have another hour to work out plan....but then there is tomorrow...the day after that ,and 3 whole days after that before I get my salary....bad month ....

mangoe season has started and havent had one yet...my bro got some yesterday and the one reserved for me is still hafl raw...so will hafta wait....and the heaps of yellow mangoes on the Adayar platform...is really very inviting.....but then...i have to remember that I have NO MONEY....

My moms b'da jus flew by and I got her nothing.....so the first plan for next month is to take her out and get her something.....

WATER !!...finally after 6yrs of non supply of metro water....the first bucket of ale entered our tank yesterday....that happened after some talk with the mayor and after a new pipe connection was laid....that left out road....damaged and so driving in and out will be bad...certainly no road cricket...

I usually dont do this...but right now....a request has come up at work ...fix a dumb program ....the one i was working 2 weeks back....so a loooong ay ahead....I hate this ....

Morning was not bad....mom got up early and wanted to use the heat and put "vaddam"....I jus called and asked her to bring down some 'HALF DRIED VADAMS' ...trust me...they taste great !....waiting to get back home ....

Did u know that POLO 'the mint with the hole'...is mfg by makson Pharma?.....is this a damn medicine???.....dunno....sugar,starch,glucose,mint oil and processing aid (570)....whats that ??....

My Nokia mobile is made in netherlands...now thats cool.....

the comment on all my mails :
Real Programmers can't change a car tyre; that's a hardware problem.

the wooden scale on my desk has the logo and the words"mumbai express" inscribed on it !....I did that and ..not bad... !....the words r in tamil .....

there is an acer mouse pad lying on my desk....but why??..I have a HP machine...who cares..i aint using the pad....

I actually started writing this at 11 :18 when the dumb work came up....the functionality changes and logics seemed torturous ...and I xpected the work to be complete by midnight........but 5 mins before lunch...breakthro...!!....got the stupid thing workin...phew...then lunch....had a good one....some punjabi thali .....now back at ,my seat and back to blog....

someone turn on the damn AC !!...I am still feeling hot !!...

Got a new chair....large one...and very comfy....but tis tilted to one side....think I will fall asleep in another 10 mins....but then therez work .........

hey jus got a mail...Anniyan songs are out !.....there is a link in here....will tell ya how the songs r later....

This stupid Yahoo mail page is loading ...takin ages to....wanna kick the server !....

phonez ringing......no points for gussing who that is....my day is really bad today.....jus got off the phone with her...the conversation....she talked and talked....me said ..uhm....umhum...ok....ok....bye....I hate today....dunno why....

Temp in chennai is 34deg C...no wonder tis hot....

will be seeing Chandramukhi today for the n'th time....

have to leave by 5 30 today...

wednesday....dunno...whats on TV...

have to change my earphones...only one ear piece is working !!....who broke it !!

why did I wear grey socks today ??....

why is my white board dirty.....and not white ?!

why is google the only search engine I use??.....

why Am I typing all this......

this I think is my longest post....dunno why I did this...maybe I am bored to death...not that I dont have ne work...jus that I am plain bored.....

cant comprehend the reason ,why things are, the way they are.......

but one thing is for sure...the heat is taking its toll....and brain damage is sure to happen in the future....read that as 'near future'.....

Another stupid foward !! -get to know more about me ?!?

2005-04-21T11:32:00.000-07:00

Change all the answers so that they apply to you. Then, send this to a whole bunch of people you know *INCLUDING* the person >who< sent it to you.The theory is that you will learn a lot of little unknown facts about yourfriends. It is fun and easy.***Remember to send it back to the person who sent it to you***

WHAT IS YOUR NAME? U must know ...u sent me this stupid FWD

WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? Karuppin azhagu {swapna koodu} ... I listen to mallu songs too...Hey is that ,mallu gurl in the next cubicle listening ?!? also 'vellai pura ondru' and 'kurai ondrum illai- MS' are on the list...

THE LAST THING YOU ATE: potato chips

IF YOU WERE A CRAYON, WHAT COLOR WOULD YOU BE? Black

HOW IS THE WEATHER RIGHT NOW: hot !

LAST PERSON YOU TALKED TO ON THE PHONE? automated voice at the Airtel Cust service

FIRST THING YOU NOTICE ABOUT THE OPPOSITE SEX? -OO- {I ment specs ! }

DO YOU LIKE THE PERSON WHO SENT YOU THIS MAIL? really wanna know ?

FAVORITE SPORTS? F1

HAIR COLOR? black - dirty .

WEAR CONTACTS? nope...I am blind... I dont need contacts....

FAVORITE DAY s OF THE YEAR? chinese new year ! {every day is bad !}

FAVORITE RELAXATION SPOT? butt ! .

ARE YOU TOO SHY TO ASK SOMEONE OUT? out.... or..... to get out ?

SUMMER OR WINTER? winterish summer

HUGS OR KISSES ? where?....i mean the place.....i mean place, as in house or outdoors !

RELATIONSHIPS OR ONE NIGHT STANDS? who u kiddin ? .

CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? choco

DO YOU WANT YOUR FRIENDS TO WRITE BACK? please no ! .

WHO DID U SMS LAST? I dont message, I call .Have 100 mins free outgoing !

WHO IS MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND? hope no one does

WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND? everyone !

WHAT BOOKS ARE YOU READING? The monk who sold his ferrari....for a loooong time ! I hate that book !

WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? dust and coffee stain

WHAT DID YOU DO LAST NIGHT? that I was getting married to aishwarya rai ! hey....its my dream !

FAVORITE SMELLS: fresh mangoes !

CAN YOU TOUCH YOUR NOSE WITH YOUR TONGUE? hell no !

WHAT INSPIRES YOU? certainly not the good guys .

BUTTERED, PLAIN OR SALTED POPCORN? buttred ,of course

FAVORITE FLOWER: I donot like flowers .may be cauliflower....gobi manchurian..uhmm...

FAVORITE ANIMAL: Female Pterodactyl.

WHO SENT U THIS MAIL? The guy sitting in the cube behind mine.

Anger Management....what ever !

2005-04-19T01:34:00.000-07:00

Why?...thats the question I ask myself every time I blow my lid….and every time I come with a perfect explanation…and that leaves me with a really bad temper ….. that I think is not a mistake…cause I never get angry for the wrong reasons..

Yesterday my mom actually asked me why I get angry and start shouting most of the time…she said that she understood that I do not blow hot air for the wrong reasons…but jus why….

This is what I told her….see….when I say something will go wrong ,,it jus not an intuition…a calculated suggestion…but still u go ahead and do what I ask u not to do and end up with more problems and again ask what to do and say forget that said that this will happen…now tell m what to do….when u r not ready to even listen to what I say…then why do u ask….that is one….then u keep doing the same thing I don’t like over and over again ,even after me saying so…that puts me off…that’s two….

I usually try to keep calm and when ever I get shouted at…I shout back after trying hard to explain my stand and that fails…happens most of the time …when people cannot be decent enough to accept that they were wrong…I cant think of any situation where I have not accepted my mistake ..I always do…..and by the end of it she wasn’t convinced and said I was cold…I am not…

I am jus trying to be sensible and analytical about everything with no emotions….is that wrong ?.....as ever ,even this discussion ended with some heated exchange…..reason….as I was saying she wasn’t ready to listen…jus wanted to put across her idea keeping her mind shut to my replies…and when I did the same…she blew….

See I can see this reason….she can’t….aint my problem…I try my best to be good…at least I am trying….when no one else does ….that again makes me mad….

At office it a totally different scenario, being analytical helps…and people respect ur views…and they think twice before telling anything to me ..in a good way that is….cause they know that I make no mistakes…and even if I do, they understand…professional…?...that never happens back home…

The reason I am actually writing this is ?...actually looking for some inputs to handle the above situations…no ..not ways to control my anger !.... point is to find a way to react in these kinda situations…anger management wont work here as….I never get angry for the wrong reasons…jus that the fact that people cannot comprehend the situation….drives me crazy !!....

Maanga bathai !

2005-04-16T14:09:00.000-07:00

when I was a kid....like some 10-12 yrs back....my mom or my dad used to take me to the "marina" beach at least 3 times every week !...I used to really enjoy it...the long walk on the sand....the wind whizzing past ur ears...a crab Occasionally running over foot...making u go berserk , the 'molaga bajji', the waves.....everything was exiting...even if it is the same thing over and over again...it was nice...never failed to bring a smile on ur face.....and there was one thing that I never missed ...still don't... 'MAANGA BATHAI'...the boat shaped pieces of raw mango ,with cuts parallel to each other and perpendicular to the skin....with loads of chilli/salt powder !!....uhmm....the taste - hevenly !!...now-a-days...no time for all that is the situation in my gooofed up life !

Today....I am in office....did I hear someone say that toay is saturday ?!?...I know but my PM dosen't...I guess !....
well...I am in office still...and some 15 mins back I steppet out for a coffee....under my fav mango tree..one among the many inside our company campus....half way through ,something caught my attention... big, round....green...a fully grown MAANGA !....I wouldn't have given it a second look ....usually...today I dunno.....exited ,as I often get,...I looked at the Gardener guy and smiled at him....the reason.... he had a long stick with which he was actually spraying some stuff on the plants and the trees.....

' anna antha komba konjam ippadi kodunga'
'yethuku sir,?'
'kodunga sollaren....(I take the stick from him and go under the tree)...yellam maanga adikkahaan...(wack...one alls down)....'

by now my friend comes into the picture...
'dei...yenakku onnu...' (wack ...another one !)

'thanks anna....inthaanga kombu'.....'sir, paathu kazhuvittu saapudunga '.....'ok !'

I usually carry a knife in my bag....a habit that stuck with me from college....dont ask for what...I jus carry it ....

I walked back to my cube.....cut beautiful pices as explained above.....stuffed chilli/salt mix (got that from the food court dominos) into to the gaps.....now thats what I call a 'maanga bathai'...

3 pieces gone.....5 left.....music is playing ( nee our kaadal...from nayagan)....the room is really cold...a really good looking one stittin in the cube opposite to mine....hey who wouldn't wanna work on weekends !!! ...

hey... did she jus give me a smile....alert....I think shez after my maanga...I dunno if I will give her a bite...lets see.....that depends.....

World Record !! - Chennai beware....I have a 'L to Kill'

2005-04-12T05:22:00.000-07:00

The day : 12 April 2005
Time : 10 : 30.
Situation : Have to get a License to drive a Four wheeler

The story :

Me (to my PM) : hey....can I go out for some 3 hrs...I have to get my DL for a 4 wheeler...
PM: Today...its already 10 30.....dont waste time...twill take u all day to get it....and I dont want u to be missing in action !!..
M: no...I will be gone jus for some 2-3 hrs....will come back...
PM:...ok....do what ever u want...I am following the match....dont disturb me !....
Me ( thinking) : match...what the.....PAK will win this one too....haven't u heard bout match fixing ?....like duh....

Time : 10 35
Place : my office smoking tree...thats where we smoke
stuation: me still without a Dl but a ciggi in hand...

Plan of action :
Will take me 25 mins to get to the RTO office....so thats 11....and another 5 mins to fiil up the form..another 10 to pay the fee....11:15....them the last driving test is at 11:15...take the test...get back to the RTO office...take the Photo.....get the print out....get it signed by the RTO and laminate it....and out by 12 30......sounds simple....lets see...

Time : 10 :42
Place : Parking lot
Catch: I dont have my car to take the test !!!....problems can be handled as the come !

Time : 10 55
Situation : 5 mins ahead of schedule
Mood : tense yet upbeat

Time : 11:00
Situation : form filled up but a looooooooooooong 'Q' for the fee paymet
Plan: ladies queue....

Me: escooseme.....yenakku pay panni thareengala...
Some lady.....: ileenga ....ore queue thaan....
Me:................

Ok...then I wait in the queue....for a long time...some idiot didn't have change....and that took another 10 mins...off my plan...then there was a oldie who was filling up the form in the queue.....finally I paid the fee and got off the 'Q'....

Time : 11 58
Situation: Hopeless....last test must be over...

Twist in the Tale:
There is another test at 12 !!!

Time : 12
ah cut the crap !!!@!
I went for the test...didnt have a car...picked up a talk with someone there....borrowed his car took the test and at 12 30 I was back at the 'Q' to take the pic...I was drained....Chennai is really hot today.....
My turn came ....walked in....some lady snapping pics in there....I smiled...I always smile at anyone I see....she smiled back...me and my big mouth...." nalla Saarukku kaan maathiri yedunga"...thats....she and the guy operating the comp...were on the floor and laughing....and after three trials....some pic was put on the printout and given to me...

usually u r asked to sing and leave it and come collect it at 4....for me.....special treatment....I took the print out and walked out......time was 1 :30......the RTO was out for lunch....damn-

I asked the attender in there where he eats...." that shop at the end sir...."
run....run to the shop.....the RTO eating lime rice.....thats when I remembered I was hungry.....to hell with it.....
" master oru tea "......sat next to the RTO....with the tea glass.....smiled at him again.....he smiled back...I told him.." yenna sir,...romba late aaguthu...RTO vera unchuku pooitaaram....officela vera manager kathuvaaru...."....
"thanbi....yenna licensesa?"..."aamam sir"....." wait pannu saaptu sign panni tharen"..." oh...neengathaan RTO va ....sooper sir... wait pannaren,...thanks sir"....then he moved on to curd rice....I sat there starng at him....

" yenna pa urgenta?....kudu sing pannithaaren.....saapada kooda vidamaatengara....intha...pooi...lainate pannikittu....egisterla sign pannitu poopa..."
" ok sir...thanks sir...."

run back to the RTO....got it lam' and singen the register.....time 2:05.....

Time : 2:05
Status : mission accompalished...in record time

I can tell u this....I think I am the only guy to have got is license before 4 o'clk that day...!!.....smart right.....thank you !....thank you !....

went back home...dumped my bike.... took my car drove back to office ...time 3:00.....

Moral of the story :

1 lrt diesel 30Rs

1 Indica DLS car 4.2 lacks Rs

getting ur license in record time without priceless !
paying a bribe...jus using ur brains

~ Chennai-il oru Mazhai kaalam ~

2005-04-05T08:04:00.000-07:00

'Chennai-il oru mazhai kaalam' actually means Mon'soon' in chennai.....so soon ?!?....not that I am complaining....this time of the year , chennai is one of the hottest hells in India....I liked that...the hot weather....it is really cold inside the office though...this is the same heat in which we used to play 'theru'-street cricket all day...w/o breaf fast,lunch or dinner...yeah dinner !...flood light matches...all the streetlamps glowing gloriously above us !.....ah those days ....were like heven in hell....and now...?....the same thing continues....but with a difference, no food all day...but at office....not that I am a workaholic or anything ,jus that uhmm....u know...life Sucks..notice the 'S' in caps !...

today ...today isdifferent....it is raining in chennai....yaaaaoooooo!....after a long time... !!!....Kodai mazhai....summer rains !....my momz happy..no water problem for another month....every time it rain shez sure that the well will fill up....and she says it is already full....my dadz happpy.....he can sit at home and read books all day....my bro is happy...no office for him on the day....I am happy...!....really.....even on this day...I have to drive 25km to office and sit and code all day....still happy ?....well hey kinda....

and before I forget a new Baskin robbins opened at our food court yesterday !!....cool ...jus wrong timing....rain rain everywhere...and icecream !!.....now u know why I am happy!...
a long day ahead...and lotsa work.....lets see how the day is !.....the day that started with the rain falling on me....a rainbow I saw for a second....frogs jumping all around....the sweet smell of fresh grass....and a hot cuppa coffee !....uhmmmm...lets see.....

Good Evening, Sir...how may I help you ?!

2005-03-24T20:29:00.000-08:00

Good Evening, Sir...how may I help you ?!....so somthing similar is what we all hear when we call any customer care center.....and this is the only thing that will plesant right thro the conversation....U keep telling the guy/gurl ur problem and they listen thro it and in the end ...they either put u on hold or they say they aren't the ones who cane help u with this particular problem....well hey then who can ?!?...ah thats exactly the only thing they do not know !....

I am planing to get out of chennai js for a day on friday....and had to get my roaming activated....so this is what happened !....I called The airtel guys 2 days before andasked them to activate the roaming , and a gurl...{ with a very sweet voice} requested me to mail to their CCare mail Id from my official id....I did....two days gone and yesterday morning I call them and ask if its done....the reply 'its a corporate connection,sir,we do not know how long it will take,'

'well u know who will know this'
'no sir i donot'
'great !....u made my day....well what can u do ?'
' I can check if ur mail has been recieved and if action has been taken,but, can do nothing if it hasn't happened,though!'

'ok...herez my mail id..blah blah blah'

and she put me on hold....
half an hour gone....still on hold....I drop the call...lemme deal with them in the evening after getting back home !

Time 7 :45 PM

I call them back....and a guy answers...his voice is vaugly familiar....and I went ahead and rattled away on how bad the service has been and....tell him the problem...he says ....sir please go to the nearest airtel office and give a letter in ur companyz letter head and it will be done imm.
thas when i loose it...' hey I called u guys 2 days back and u still havent moved ur ass to get it done and ....blah blah blah....'
It was one of the worst conv i have had with a Ccare rep. I usually try to be calm and nice to them ....cause I know how it feels to be in that job...I was working for Sony Ccare for 2 months after college ,for some quick bucks....
the guy was cool....and asked my name three times...where I was working, where I was going ..and my address and all that crap.....he said he'll call after 1/2 hr and comfirm the status....thats funny....why is he asking all these questions ?...they usually don't....

Then b4 hanging up...He said ...'sir, my name is......'...and hung up....why did he say his name again?!?.....I don't know....!

then after 10 mins I got a call.....funny hey they dont work this fast !....
'dei machan....'
oh shit !....I recogonised the voice ...that was my friend 'A' , haven't seen him for a while,....They same voice I was yelling for 30mins straight some 10 mins b4 !

' dei....yenna da....ippadi kaththara ?....how r u !'

' dei.....was that u...i had a funny feeling when u said ur name and I knew I had heard that voice before !....sorry machan !'

' Even I took some time to reco ur voice , thats why I asked ur name again, whee u r going and all that stuff...then i knew it was u !...well....thats why I said I will call back !...and hey we cannot help u on the issue....but i have asked my friend to activate it....jus check...'
Sure enough i had a message sitting on my mobile that confirmed the activation !

Then we laughed for some time on the conv we had had...it was time for him to get back to work !

' Dei machi thanks da !'
'Ok...Ok.....seri machan....see u later over the weekend !'
'Ok da...'

Well u never know when u will come across old friends....so if u donot know whome u r talking
to....be nice...u never know...It might even be Aishwarya rai the next time !....!!!

Torture continues !!

2005-03-20T20:36:00.000-08:00

Where did I stop....?.....ah , yes....well The party was turning out to be a nightmare....really borin...! I mean that !....
There is one thing I always do when I am bored....grab a smoke and enjoy it.....but not today..why ?...cause I was outta stock....I asked this secutiry guy where I could get some....' In the bar, sir' he replied....ok...hey wait a minute.. ! BAR did he say ?.....oh yeah....run...run.... !....it was 7 30... there I was at the Bar....it was empty...ofcourse.... !no one would drink when they come to an official party...atleast in my company.....uhmm....atleast I could get the much needed smokes !...I went in and this is what happened...
Me: do u have kings...?
The Bar guy : yes, sir ...only a full packs..
M: ok ,one pack pls..
TBG: 45 ..,sir...
M: have change for 100..?
TBG : No sir....lemme check.....no sir...
M: well...what can we do now....uhmm.....ok...how much is a vodka small...?
TBG : 55, sir...
M: { thinking) 45+55 = 100....well hey one quick one...no one will even notice....
ok....give me a small with LC..
TBG: ok...sir....
and then he did something that changed the whole evening !....
he switched on the TV.... and the song I luved was being played...
''Kavalaiku marunthaanathe....vethangale saagum varai...sogangale kadhal kathai...kaarkaala malargalum yennodu thallaadum....vellai puraa ondru poonathu kaiyil varaamale.......

a really good song I liked....I turned to TBG....
M: u take card?
TBG: yes sir....
M: nother large..
TBG: ...ok...
The one large led to another...and before I knew it....5 larges and one smal down..
swiped the card and came out...life was beautiful....afterall......after some booze ...
there they were...all the femmes...not all that great looking ones though...hey who cares....dancing to some stupid BackStreetBoys song... ,some pairs....doing what they do best....the 'K'....
and....dinner served !!...
grabbed my plate....wasn't in a mood to eat...so filled up my plate with a big heap of icecream....walkd some distance ...to a place where no one was around....lit up a smoke....enjoying the icecream....and humming the song....
'yen vaazhkai vaan veliyil...vellai pura ondru poonathu ..kaiyil varaamale...
neeyum nanum serntha pothu kodai kooda maargazhi...
pirinthapinbu poovum yennai suduvathenna kaathali..
thuduppizhanthathum kaathaloodam...thisai maranthathu payankili..
poogum vazhi nooraanathe...., kanneerinaal seranathe.....illatha uravukku naan seiyum lalaaalaa....
kaarkaala malargal yennodu thallaadum...vellaipura ondru...................'

Its official !!

2005-03-20T19:22:00.000-08:00

Hey world !...its official....what is....nothing....jus that my system is 23...dumb years old....ststem as in me !....yeah thats right...I turn 23.....or is it 24...dont really care anymore...born in the year '82..u do the math....well....23 over in to 24 right...ok..

I told my PM that he wont be seeing me on the 20th...why?....cauze I have some personal work to do....hey I didn't wanna work on my day !....
on saturday.....I went to sleep at 11 night and my mom stayed up late and baked me my fav. plum cake..thanks !....and on this day....some 20 people called and wished me....others didn't even care...neither do I....of the 20 some 7-8 were my friends from KG....! they called me on my mobile ! how did they get my number..?..they wouldn'te tell !...
didn't get new clothes...have a load of new stuff and no party this time....didn't feel like havin one...
One thing I realized today....U might know a million people...thousands who respect u....hundreds who admire u....but only a few who care bout u !....and am happy that I have a few .....

Project Parties !?!...

2005-03-18T16:24:00.000-08:00

Know what ...I will kill myself the next time before going for a project party ....why?...tjis is why...on friday ...FRIDAY !....we had a Bu party at a resort named GREEN coconut...., a resort on the ECR- east coast road....
on thursday I got mail asking all of us to keep our evening free the next day as we were gonna have a bash ...where...and when...it didn't say....thats what gave me a sick feeling.....that actually was a warning ,which I didn't respect...
That fateful friday morning, my PM walked in to my cube and asked me if I was going.....going where??...to the party....I sheepishly said ' I dont know..'...then he said....I u r goin tell me ,Even I'm thinkin bout it.....what made me go that evening....FATE...

The resort was a sore....on the other side of the road...,that ment that the beach was a good 4kms away....so that plan of mine....down the chute....

they had no plan...and we were ased to do what ever we felt like.....I wanted to hit the sack and sleep...but they wouldn't let me....then I spotted it....a shuttle racket....good....I picked it up....was a bit rusty....but had a good play for almost 2 hrs....and before I knew it it was 7....and time for more tortures !!....

Why me ??

2005-03-16T18:44:00.000-08:00

Have always wondered.....is it my mistake ?.....what?.... being the youngest in the family, that is !...I have an elder bro'.....and in my family of four...I am the youngest...and with that come lotsa tortures....when I say that, I mean that.....when u say something ...no one takes u seriously....and ur inputs are always considered childish....hey i am 22 ,for crying out loud !....I am a grown up and I voted in the last election !.....I decide my country's future....but back home...I am still the KID !...
herez why I am jaded....my dad took out my car for a spin....he wanted to try it out...It is a brand new car..clocked jus 1k...and at a signal...some...idiotic @#$#@#** auto guy bumped into the car and that gave it an ugly dent...got it fixed though..he jus came back and said he'd fix it and he did....thats the end of that issue....yeaterday...my bro ( read BIG BRO)...took it out and came back with the front bumper fully screwed.. !...and that happened cauze of some ther idiotic driver (he says someone else...but guess who !)....Its never them !...he says he'll get it fixed....now a brand new car looks real ugly...and I hate it !....my dream has now become a night mare !...

I take it to office everyday...and I drive thro some of the busiest of traffics and not a scratch on it put by me....when I tell them to drive carefully...the look at me and say....hey ...buzz off...don't tell me how to drive......had I done this...all hell would've broken loose....

no one even takes my words serious back home...outside tis totally different...I am the boss...cause people respect u for what u r...that doesn't happen back home...I really wonder why...and this happens only to the youngest of the lot...how sick !....cruel world !...
now when my car gets back from the garrage....I know what I am gonna do...even if its gonna cost me some money....hey ! I am earning ...I can get it fixed....and dont tell me how to drive !!!

Still have a life ...! ...really ?

2005-03-12T06:12:00.000-08:00

Something I did yesterday,made me take a second look at the kinda life I have right now....nothin nuch...I jus cleaned my book shelf.....well after a loooooooooong time..and I mean it....
the minute I opened it ,I realised one thing....what was that ?...well the thing I noticed was that I had changed...a lot...right in front of me was a pile of old books ,covered in dust....this is the same shelf I treasured when I was a kid,the reason why it was soooo dirty was because of a simple fact that I never allowed any one to open it,not even my mom...not even to clean it ...well...that was how much I ....how do u say it...love it?....guarded it?...possessive about it...what ever....U get the point right ?!...

It has all the books I've read...all my paintings and sketches,my pen collection,cricket card collection,toys ....it was my shelf, my music books,my comics...everything in there was mine...I mean MINE....and for quite some time I haven't even had the time to look at them ....

I pulled out a few comics and now have them right besides me at my office desk.. ! the hot wheels cars are now perched on my CPU !...a brigt red Parker in my pocket, a tweety bird -pencil crown on the pencil stand....and a cool sketch of charlie chaplin pinned up on the soft board near me....

how I miss the days when I was a kid...reading books...painting....playing old classics ....my toys ...filling ink into my fountain...collecting cricket and WWf cards....humm....

Still love the life I have...jus that I has changed a lot....for the good or bad,I dunot know....
one thing that hasn't change is that I still love to be a loner...'yen vazhkaye brindavanam ,naanagave naan vazhgiren'....
okie...........

Have decided to do one thing after going home today....clean up my cupboard...lets see whats stored up in there !.....

Whatever !!.....

2005-03-03T21:30:00.000-08:00

Tell u what !....today has been the longest day in my life.....I mean it....at office from 6 :30 till.. god knows when ........

Jaded
Thats how life is right now....dunno whats happening to it....its taken a life of its own...what did I jus say ?!?....life has a life ?... one thing is pretty clear..'I' dont have a life !....I know I don't make sense...cant expect more from a guy whoz had jus 10 hrs of sleep in three days....rest gone in work and on my stupid bike...up and down...home to office...office to home...in a loop...performed every day...till I die I guess....

this is exactly what I did not want my life to become....stuck with a stupid job of coding...to top it all...did I tell u I hate computers... !....we dont get along well.....If not for my MBA aspi'ons ...I wud've quit this job loooooong back.....the company gives me a brand name....can u belive that.....but anywayz the tunnel sure is long....but can see light at the end....hope I get there soon .....

to end it on a positive note...my friend jus called...going out for a smoke...oh...u ...how much missed u ....I was actually talikng to my cigarette !...can u belive that....

I am going MAD !!!...help me please !!!

Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.

2005-03-02T21:22:00.000-08:00

Tis almost 9 in the night...still in office,asusual....have to write this...jus now a mail came in from my friend in the states....was my college mate...some attachments in the mail...some pics that we had taken when in college...

The picture goes like this...4 of us giving faces to the camera with the most beautiful of beaches in the BG....the pic was taken some time in dec 2002....final yr of college....a nice pic taken at a place called 'Saamiyarpettai'....somewhere between Cudaloore and chidambaram...the white sand...blue waves that lashed non-stop ....the vast steach of beach was practically empty everytime we went there...close to our college in CDM...we usedto hang out in the beach at odd hours ....

Time : January 1st.
Day : New Year.

this was the first time I missed the new year cake at home....why ?...cause I wasn't home...silly !
where was I...Back at Saamiyarpettai...not for a party...but for a totally different thing....
on 26 th..ye all know what happened....tsunami...this place was nothing like what I remembered it...in a jeans and a loose cotton shirt....my friends and I were at the sea shore...helping the affected ..
even after 3 days the shock was still there....the white sands ,were now...all brown,...the clear blue water ...was now muddy....bodies and old people all around...and infants crying and people sleeping on the road....thats when I ....for the first time...thanked god...for atleast giving people the heart to help...rather than party on that day....There were many smiling helpers all over the place....working thro the night...and can u imagine...we...some 7 guys were able to mobilise stuff worth almost 1.25L...contributions pouring in....everyday from all the near and dear...

thats one picture I want to forget....but never will be able to !...

even in this fast paced world ,there are some ,who atleast try to make a difference....

I have to really leave now....
signing off :

"Kadal manithargalai kondu,
manithathai vittu sendru-irukkirathu;
kadalukku nandri, manithathukku nandri " - KAMALHAASAN.

"the sea has taken humans and left behind humanity,O! sea I thank thee and .......thank thee- humanity "

Cyberphobia- Fear of computers or working on a computer.

2005-03-02T11:53:00.000-08:00

Yahooo !!...Actually ...whatever !...

I sucessfully compiled the dumb piece of code that'd been giving me trouble for the whole of yesterday !....wasn't all that complex ...but it took me a day to get it done and fixed !

Right after I did that ...guess what happened....

All thro life ,situations are the same.Yesterday,at home, mom had cooked the veggie I hated the most...the 'yukkiee' snakegourd...u cant imagine how much I hate it...anywayz...right after she put the 'stuff' on the plate...I gobbled it down ,like I always do...guess what happened next ...!

She rewarded me with another helping....things always back fire , dont they,right when u least expect them to :(

Now coming back to the story at my office...right after I yelled...my PM came in and he was pretty pleased that I had FINALLY finished it....yeah u guessed it right !....he gave me another tough request to analyze and code !.....deja vu !

People never get the point ,do they ? when some one asks for a sip from the drink u having and u get frust' and give them the whole drink...they r actually happy !...can u belive that ! very few really read between the lines and understant...the rest ....a pain u hafta live with !....

and by 12 noon today...all my hopes of a great weekend....poof ! vanished !

I am really starting to hate my work...

And as the Mentor of my company N R Nrayana moorthy once said :

"love ur work.....not ur company !" - very true ....Mr.NRN,totally with u on that !

Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single

2005-03-01T07:00:00.000-08:00

I caught myself thinking this morning !...can u belive that ?!?...really I tell ya !
twas this stupid fwd,one of the hundred stupid fwd mails that I get every day, from by friend from the b'lore branch of my office.Guess hez still on bench...{thats when u have no work to do !}...
The mail goes thus...
men are like appeles on a tree,the rotten ones fall off first only to be picked up first,but the good ones stay on the top and will be picked by someone whoz patient enough...hummm....really...lets see...

I had been thro school , college and now at work...whu does my my profile say that I am still single?....Because I am a good apple ?...or did the mail really mean I look like an apple ?...hey wait a minute... !
and another point....why does this logic work only for guys....the best apples on the other side get picked upbefore the bad ones....right ?....I dont know....need help on that....will hafta ask some one...

mystery solved :

I saw a friend who jus walked in...and viola whats on his Tee'shirt..
in bold !

"I think Therefore I am single "

now remember what I said when I started ?....that I caught myself thinking....mybe I've been doing this for a long time....aahhh...I hate myself for doing that !!!!

Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.. Cont..

2005-02-28T18:34:00.000-08:00

Well... the point I wanted to make....

The reason why the whole thing happened...u really want to know?..twas cauze they didn't speak the language and the best part is that they had tried to pick up a fight in Hindi !...

Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society

Thats what non tamils ,north of the 4 states, get when they come here....esp the northies....hey no offence ment....

The non tamil speaking mob can get away with hindi where ever they go ...till they land here..
We ,almost everyday, have a big fight here at my office...the nonTs vs the Ts...its not the people,jus their attitude !...'I know hindi tis the NATIONAL LANG...so u low lives better learn it...if ya dont ...somethingz basically worng with u' ...thats what they say...let them come here and tell that !....I am not saying that what everz happenin here is right...jus that better watch ur attitude...!

'the reason why hindi is the NL is that most people speak it'...well then why is the peapock the N' bird and not the crow !....one good point noted on the show is that almost 73.8 % in Tamilnadu speak English and the litrecy growth rate here is more than that of kerala... !...so if u dont know tamil...try english....dont even say Chalo...yaar...or even chai !

now thats the reason why TN is not attractive....!....we r too proud...nothing worng with that right !!

Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society

2005-02-27T15:20:00.000-08:00

TamilNadu - meaning the land of the tamils....pretty ordinary name right ?...well let's see...

There was a show in one of the hundred channels aired here,it was actually a recorded stuff of a discussion on why Tamilnadu is not on the global map and what can be done..and the reasons why the state was not on the fav list of big corporates...heavy stuff, any wayz I sat thro the show for nearly 2hrs...why?...not that I am a good citezen or anything...jus that my thalaivar...{read Kamal} was on that show.

The panel was of 2 big indust'ists , 2 from showbiz , a writer and a historian of the state !....and what did they conclude : 1. the band name had to be sold, 2. when the companies like TVS and others from the state were big..why aren't the FDis comin in like in other states...one really intelligent guy on the panel strayed away and mentioned that the state was actually doing well, and the returns on low invesments were high, and the kinda companies coming in didn't require big invests...point !....and the climate and water shortage were thrown in too...

Now thats what they think ....I will tell u the real reason why this is as it is:

Date : some time when I was in Bangalore...
location : Office...
I had got a transfer back home ... jus then a gurl next to me was talking exitedly to someone on the mobile....after the call she asked me if my trans'er was thro..I said yes...and she was rather surprised that I was going to CHENNAI !...why...{ hey, she ddn't know I was from chennai ..}...because some yrs back when her family had come to chennai her dad was beaten up at a market...and to top it all , her uncle who had gone to solve this matter ....guess what ...was beaten up too...ha !

thats the story...this blog is getting too big....cont in the next !

Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery

2005-02-25T18:01:00.000-08:00

I am a sweet person !...not that I am good boy or anything, tis jus that I love sweets !

It all started off when I was a kid..in 1st class I guess... don't really remember..uhmmm...wait....who cares... I started eating sweets like a maniac...when I say a maniac....I mean it !

Any sweet, for that matter, in front of me would disappear in a jiffy...my Fav. A biiiig bar of Dairy-milk, for those who dunno what that is..tis a very popular chocolate here , was my favorite !...The large celebration bar was actually bigger that my face at that time..I was a cute kid and everyone who came to see me had to get me one...atleast I made them...thats how it all started...

through the years, the only addiction {only ?!?} I still have, is this...it has now proved to be a fatal attraction,to my dental set atleast !

a whole bag of chocolates, that my friend had got me from the States ,are now history and guess what happned this morning ?.... yeah, U guessed right !...a tooth ache..dunno which one ...the whole upper jaw hurts.

My mom made me go to the dentist before I came to office.
I hate hospitals....the smell, the sick people...makes my stomach turn,thank god I didn't have my breakfast this morning,thanks to the bad tooth !

Ok..end of the day what do we have?...not one,but, two ! that have to be fixed...A RCT - root canal treatment on one of them...aawwh....have an appointment in the evening with the dentist..

but now, feel much better after I popped in a gum,the pain has reduced...think I will skip the appointment today .....

Odontophobia- Fear of teeth or dental surgery !

Verbophobia- Fear of words

2005-02-25T16:11:00.000-08:00

It is actually , really very suprising....did u jus ask what?....ME WRITING WRITING BLOGS!.....why ?....herez why..

1. I can talk for hours together on anything...I mean anything,but when it comes down to putting everything on a paper,or on a blank screen !....thats when I back off....

2. I am not very creative with words !

3. writing is not my passion !

4. I love to read ,but not wite !

5. the list is really long......and did I mention that I am a verbophobiac ?!?

Its not ' words' I fear, its using them logically.....imagination has no boundaries...languages and words do...expression is a problem.....and I am a real bad speller !...

Fact 1 :
I have more than 4 registered blogspots that r still empty. why? Not cauze I am lazy,jus that I don't know what to fill 'em up with !

Kural-191 says :
Words without sense, while chafe the wise,
Who babbles, him will all despise.
He who to the disgust of many, speaks useless things, will be despised by all.

But,hey !....who cares...I think tis about time I start doing what I do worst....write !.... and eventually over come this verbophobia of mine...let's see ...