human paper weight

Today morning on my way to work, i saw this guy sitting on top of a pile of garbage. He was not sitting on a road side garbage pile but was sitting on the truck that was carrying city's garbage. Why would i call him a human paper weight? hmm.. usually the trucks cover the garbage with a net and this guy was sitting on the net like a paper weight, i cant but pity him. It stinks when you are about 20 - 30 yards from the truck... imagine this guy sitting on it itself.

hulu

Guys in US you all can enjoy what is supposedly the best high quality video streaming site that is available... for people like me outside the US the site does'nt seem to work.  This is just a screen shot from the site... so guys check this site out

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Flock rock!

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Apple gets better

yeah! you are rite... we have been getting lots of news about the new Mac book pro and Mac book that might not even use intel but as usual we will not know what is in store till the steve comes on stage!

But look at this! this is something people have always wanted "color changing cases" now thats freaky read this article about the patent that apple has filed

Haddows road

I shot this video from terrace of my office building! Look at the chaos at lunch time.

Eagerly waiting to see the joker

Warner Bros' The Dark Knight continues to power drive the North American box office and grossed a whopping $23.1 million Friday from 4,366 theaters. That's down only 66% from its record-smashing debut a week ago. With an expected $78 million weekend, down only 50% from the best-ever Fri-Sat-Sun, the Christian Bale-Heath Ledger actioner directed by Chris Nolan is also well on its way to making $300M in just 10 days, the fastest ever (beating Pirates Of The Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest which did it is 16 days). All anybody can do at the studios is keep repeating the word, "Amazing". And it is. There are even whispers starting whether Dark Knight can beat the incredible worldwide numbers posted by the all-time $1.8 billion benchmark of Titanic. "It can be the first movie that has a real shot," one rival studio bigwig told me cautiously. Because not only do people like the movie, but it's getting incredible repeat business. Even occasional moviegoers are curious to see what all the fuss is about.

I would like to see this beat titanic!

Source

MAC vs PC vs UBUNTU

This picture courtesy sums it all...

Keep in mind

No! this post is not intended for the readers but its more for myself but these three points i feel are very important

1. Don't try to change anyone neither expect them to change for you, let them be the way they are

2. No Ego! - please

3. Fight for your cause! but accept what you get, life is too good to spend it being upset.



Each one of the above points were told by three different people... thanks to you all

Nokia navigator

I got my navigator phone 2 months back and the phone works just fine in chennai, guides me to all the places in chennai, but yesterday i found a small glitch ... The phone completely avoids taking the sardar patel road and shows all possible ways to avoid it. I dont know what is the problem. Has anyone experienced the same problem.

this reminds me of memento

The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button from HD Trailers on Vimeo.

Chennai City traffic Police - Doing a good job!

I have been feeling this for sometime. Chennai city traffic police have been doing an excellent job. I dont think any other state or city police are doing so much for traffic regulation. They are at almost all the places, important junctions on holidays and late hours alike.

I took this picture yesterday afternoon (sunday) at kathipara junction, thanks to saturdays rain, this Traffic police is standing in ankle deep murky water regulating traffic. I am not sure anyone else would do this. Hats off and i do salute your hard work and effort.

My humble request please do not curse these people, i do understand there might be few black sheeps but then they are in every industry! Learn to respect them

Dasavathaaram Review

Found this awesome podcast about the movie which explains few theories in the movie... please listen to it if you din understand. Thanks to sudharshan who has done this podcast

Four long years

Happy birthday to my blog - its four years old now and this is 200th post. BTW i have another blog comerme.blogspot.com with two team members, its about food and restaurants around the world. Please let me know if you want to join as a member and start posting.

Eye Phone

This is not just another iPHONE competitor. As the site describes - " If you see something interesting while out walking for instance, you take a photograph with your mobile phone, select the item of interest with the cursor and in real time preprocessed information on the object selected is sent to your mobile phone. "

Uses a technique called "angle sensing", this technique actually identifies the angle of the shot taken. Ofcourse this will take time to reach india. Read on

Curb the evil!

After the april 2007 virginia tech incident, this is not what i expected. Now i really feel that, this is an issue. Read on

Mobile phone more dangerous than smoking

Though there were articles which speculated the harmful effects of the radiation from a mobile phone, there was no conclusive evidence of its relation with health disorders. This study now shows that it is definitely a concern and also that, next decade will be a proof of it.
Read the story here...

Picture perfect

I guess some amount of editing has been done but yet the this is a masterpiece!!! kudos to the photographer

Pigeon

I had to clean the pigeon mess inside the home... doing so i found a baby pigeon and pigeon egg! Now i did some reading and found that, eggs take 18 days to hatch and i have no clue if it is still alive..and the baby pigeon doesnt eat anything. Anyone has any idea how to feed the baby or what it eats?

Antioxidants Myth?

Now not again! another survey and this one converts a long thought belief to be a mere myth. Read on, i am kind of confused now.... are surveys any means concluding anything?

High beam - chennaite's

This is to all the chennai drivers using high beam at night. It is really irritating and it is unsafe for the vehicles coming in the opposite direction. Please use the head light to see the road and not on face of the driver in the opposite direction. Humble request please do not use unless and until high beam is needed. Chennai police should take this seriously..

The map says it all

Now i am all the more curious check this link out

Lifebuoy latest music direct lift off

Watched this ad in the TV, I knew it was a complete copy. Google for "'m Shipping up to Boston".... i just love the music...and btw this music is played in THE DEPARTED as well...

Citycat

For the uninitiated this is going to be the first Air-Powered Car, and guess what tata motors is planning it. First news that came out washe Air Car will likely never hit American shores, especially considering its all-glue construction. But that doesn’t mean the major automakers can write it off as a bizarre Indian experiment — MDI has signed deals to bring its design to 12 more countries, including Germany, Israel and South Africa.

A recent news suggests that "Air-Powered Car Coming to U.S. in 2009 to 2010 at Sub-$18,000, Could Hit 1000-Mile Range" tata i guess is striking the right cord this time, i remember TATA's entry into UK market which was not at al successful. Hoping that this concept will be a hit soon. Either we should be able to see Citycats in the last quarter of 2008. Keeping my fingers crossed.

Steve not again

I have always wondered what is it with apple's secret releases, of all the products released so far, i can think of iPhone and leopard for which the dates were announced. Rest either u see them on the site or its in some news that the product is already out. I definitely don't understand the marketing behind the whole thing. For instance i got my mac book september first week, 5 days after i got it, Macbooks were shipped with iLife 08 and i din have clue coz i would have waited another 5 days... if i were to upgrade i will have to shell out $79 for the newer version.

I like everything about apple, but not the secret releases... i cant honestly comprehend the tactics behind this. I can understand the impact is big when the speculation is almost nil, but i hate when i get affected. Anyways my vote is for u steve anyday...

The latest news... 1G Shuffle is just $49 go grab if u are planning for one

Never ever sleep with water tap open...

Morning 6 30:

Ding dong... ding dong....ding dong.. {sleepily i knew that it was paper boy, he is the only one who likes to play with calling bell} usually i dont get to the door, but today morning i had to, as i had to pay him. I get down from my bed splaaaash.... before i could realise i was in a haste to go open the door, but the bedroom floor was filled with water. Anyone with camera could have shot a jonty rodes in action.. i got up all drenched and went to the door... ( hall, bedroom, kitchen and another bedroom had atleast 1 cm of water... my addidas, sketchers all floating)..

paper boy : sir enna sir achu?

me : onnum illa... yevolo achu?

pb: 200 sir... yen sir veedu fulla thani... (dai naan enomo inge kulicha maari paakra)

me : therila ...

pb: paathu sir

7 30 :

1 hour and still going... trying to wipe the water out but in vein.. finally gave up cleaing at 7 45...with a bad back ache

. I opened the valve in the night, we get water only 30 mins everyday, so was lazy to wake up at 6 and open, so i opened it in the night itself, i do this usually but somehow i wake up at 615 or so and close, today i overslept a bit and ... rest is history :(

I am back

I am not sure how many of my good ol readers still visit my blog, i had given myself a decent break from blogging. I am back again ( would love to put that billa music for this punch... lol over scene). Was trying to reason out as to why i was out of blogging world... i dont know why!!!

I want break myself free out of this stupid routine life.. no workouts, no games (well since i returned back i dont have my old pals in chennai except for one).. when i am idle i am really idle and when busy.... anyways no more excuse, should do things worthwhile.

btw chk this out.... lol

Top 10 Valentine's Day Gadget Gifts for Gals

Err what? gadgets girls?? do they have anything in common..

Read this ...

Well was wondering why on earth am i reading all these articles once again Feb 14 is going to be just another day for me... trying to be emotional lol... anyways to all those deserving couples...wishing u deserving valentines day.

Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

I just read the specs, everything just looks fabulous, but it runs on windows. No i am not complaining too much about it. My take is that windows on mobile has not been too successful and by the way why is everyone trying to compete with iPhone, doing that you guys are promoting iPhone... anyways the phone is packed with features

check this site here...

Pirivom... Santhipom...

As usual i was late by 15 mins {last weeks billa i was late by 35 mins : -(}, gv had come down from blore and wanted to see a movie, reading the review i thought this was best of the lot. The movie started of well but then somewhere in between, it got too sentimental or emotional ...whatever!!!

We guys went all the way to mayajaal to watch this one... may be it was not worth going all the way to mayajaal, me and gv left the theater before the movie got over and visited our college (will write about that in the next post). The movie isn targeted for youngsters it more a house wife weepy weepy kind of a story. I dont want to comment too much, but would just say, if you like the soaps in sun or jaya tv, you might like this as well.

[+] - I don't know and as i said i dont want to comment on the -ves

wat's wrong with blogger

There is some problem with the blogspot, or this is happening to me alone... It doesn't recognize line breaks anymore, and if i give my own line break i see two lines when published... this could be effect of 3rd party templates i was using long back, but thats been ages. All my recent past posts look weird... apologies for that

Taare zameen par....

i am just speechless... master piece! absolute master piece!!!!

wow!

This is the phone which i had wanted for a long time. GPS enabled but by none other than the big GARMIN itself. Take a sneek peek at the phone, first resemblance is iPhone but who cares. I am kind of worried if its going to be AT&T again, those people are going to be expensive and i would even imagine they charge for the GPS usage. Lets wait and watch what happens when this is launched. http://gizmodo.com/350894/garmin-goes-beyond-portable-navi-with-nvifone

Three signs of how i feel now

Source yahoo- "Awful," "dreary," and "miserable" are adjectives that many people use to describe their jobs at one time or another. Dissatisfaction on the job is common and often temporary. But not many people take time to analyze what makes a job miserable, and how to fix it. Fortunately Patrick Lencioni has done much of that work in his book "The Three Signs of a Miserable Job." Job Misery Is Universal The author notes that a "miserable" job differs from a "bad" job, as one person's dream job may not appeal to another worker. A miserable job, however, has some universal traits. "A miserable job makes a person cynical and frustrated and demoralized when they go home at night," Lencioni says. "It drains them of their energy, their enthusiasm, and self-esteem. Miserable jobs can be found in every industry and at every level." Lencioni blames much of the problem on managers, who are a key factor in the job satisfaction (or dissatisfaction) of their employees. A recent Yahoo! HotJobs survey points to a similar conclusion: 43% of workers said discontent with their boss was the main reason they planned to look for a new job in 2008. The Three Signs Lencioni identifies the three signs of job misery as anonymity, irrelevance, and "immeasurement." Anonymity: Employees feel anonymous when their manager has little interest in them as people with unique lives, aspirations, and interests. Irrelevance: This condition occurs when workers cannot see how their job makes a difference. "Every employee needs to know that the work they do impacts someone's life -- a customer, a coworker, even a supervisor -- in one way or another." Immeasurement: This term describes the inability of employees to assess for themselves their contributions or success. As a result they often rely on the opinions of others -- usually the manager -- to measure their success. Three Remedies for Job Misery For workers who may be experiencing the signs of job misery, Lencioni recommends three steps to improve the boss-employee dynamic and enhance job satisfaction. 1. Assess your manager. Is the boss interested in and capable of addressing the three factors mentioned above? "Most managers really do want to improve, in spite of the fact that they may seem disinterested or too busy," Lencioni says. 2. Help your manager understand what you need. This could mean reviewing with your manager what the key measurements for success are for your job. Lencioni also suggests asking your boss, "Can you help me understand why this work I'm doing makes a difference to someone?" 3. Act more like the manager you want. "Employees who take a greater interest in the lives of their managers are bound to infect them with the same kind of human interest they seek," the author says. Or find ways to let your manager know how his or her performance makes a positive difference for you. Be Realistic Richard Phillips, founder of Career Advantage Solutions, agrees that "managing up" is a good way to improve job satisfaction, but he cautions employees to be realistic in their expectations. "Managers are not mind readers," he says. "Take the responsibility to communicate upon yourself, and remember there has to be an ongoing dialogue, or change is unlikely to happen."

General knowledge

he he... check this one here!!! http://www.furfy.com/virginitymap.html?source=qgyh2

Mist - Movie review

For once, i went to watch a movie without reading review and without knowing what it was about, the movie is pretty ok and story-line though not too different from various fictions, is well taken. Based on the Stephen King's novel is definitely a one time watch, a lot of people might not like the way movie ends, but then i felt there was no other way it could have either... Verdict - go for it 4/5

Hilarious

vel - movie review

CAST - SURYA, SURYA, ASIN, VADIVEL rest i dunno

DIRECTOR - HARI

MUSIC - YUVAN



[+] - i dunno what is plus in the movie, sorry except for one song, even yuvan disappointed. Even surya's acting skills are wasted.

[-] - Director hari, one humble request, we all know that making a movie is not a joke for that we have high regards, but make a movie enjoyable, this movie is like a repeat telecast of your earlier movies --- extensive use of cell phones, high speed jeep chase, mixing three four scenes together...dude we saw this earlier and we saw it from you... so please stop

overall verdict... watch the movie only if you have no other work

1/5

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Restaurants

Hey guys, i have started a new place where i can publish my reviews about restaurants in and around irvine. I will not limit myself to irvine, will also write about restaurants in other places. The site

Bourne Ultimatum - review

Watched the third one in the offing...i wouldnt say it is a must watch, but it indeed is a decent movie

[+] - Visuals [+] - Jason bourne [+] - Sound track [-] - Fails to explain a lot of incidents, this is what happens when your try to make a novel into a movie.

So, if you have a weekend to while away your time, go for this one

Stats....

Petrol consumption per day Country wise...I am speechless

Real life anniyan

What happens to corrupt people?? Hindu article I dunno if it is right? or wrong either... what do you guys think

This is bad

Jammu: In a second case of suicide in two days among the armed forces deployed in Jammu and Kashmir, a soldier shot himself with a rifle at a camp near her e on Monday, apparently due to work-related stress.
<\br> The Hindu

is it?

is it necessary to be harsh to someone, whom you dont want to hurt????

Live free or die hard - review

Today saw this movie, i kind of liked the movie...to me it lived to its trailers' expectation. My verdict go see it!!!

Also watched movie sivaji n my verdict -"no comments"

U.S. wants India to lower wheat quality specifications

so are we supposed to eat lower quality food? how mean....!!! but i am happy that, india has started demanding things..!!!

Chk out this Hindu news article

Typical Bachelors Kitchen

Thats how our kitchen normally looks...

nice video

Pic

will write about the mammoth trip soon... i made a chicago trip in between...

This is lake michigan frm Holland,MI

Mammoth Part II

1. Gondola ride

2. From the summit

3. June Lake

4. Sunset at Mono lake

5. June lke

Our group was the only group in june and mono lake.. that made it more beautiful

Mammoth trip fotos

I will write about the trip later... first the Photos

This i took on the way to mammoth... a place where they sell Beef Jerky... Mammoth village by night Village clock tower

Mammoth summit - 11053 feet

I will put more photos in the next post

Yahoo! Mail goes to infinity and beyond

This is true! check this out!!!

This weeks video

1. Pray for my brother - a r Rahman

2. Thanhayee - Dil chatha hai

Cricket

I have never been a fan of this game...I dunno what so ever! I always thought that media and people gave too much attention to the sport. Anyways this post is in support of the indian team.. yeah! they lost big time... but what the heck? they are humans

Media and fans please give them a break.... Its "just" a game ... and please treat it like one.

This weeks video's

There are two videos that i have added this week

1. Jamelia Superstar

2. Climax from Sadma The videos are on the right column. Scroll down a bit to see them

Mozhi - Review

Got a chance to see this movie, let me tell you this movie is way better than the movies that are out recently. I must also confess that i have not seen all the movies that were out. Thanks to prakash raj again for such a lovely movie. A simple story but very well told. I would give a 4.5 out of 5

[+] - Prakash raj [+] - Story [+] - Jothika [+] - Light but nice humour

i cant actually see any minuses in the movie. If you get a chance then dont miss the movie

DSC T50

Thats my house taken with my new camera DSC T50

sometimes it is better that things go unsaid! Probably i am a little emotional person... anyways it was not funny!

cauvery

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/000200702051701.htm

and btw this is my 150th post... took a very long time to hit this mark

what is this?

http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/08/stories/2007010822890100.htm

2006-2007

You realise that you dont write to me? Emailed my cousin, and what he meant was i never take the initiative to write mails. I was more happy to press that 'reply' button than the 'compose' button.

May be 10 to 15 years back i remember my mom asking me to add 3-4 lines in her letter to my granparents...she would say ' you should make it a habbit of writing letters' they will be happy to see your message. Same was the case when we recieved letter from them, my grandad made sure he wrote a paragraph just for me. The problem was reading it... his writing was a perfect example of a doctors prescription. He was a doctor! It used to take me a while before i could decrypt the message and read. Now that i am proficient enough to read his letters he is no more. Anyways that is not the issue and i dont want get too emotional on that.

I felt that, this year i was too lazy when it came to writing mails. No more leaking pens, no more stamps, no more rainy day... no more...err almost nothing... all it takes is 'write n send'... rest assured that it has reached the intended person.. unless mr.daemon decides to reply you back. A small simple mail personally addressed makes me feel happy... and i bet everyone agrees with me. So i would try my level best to write mail, i mean initiate of my own.

Year 2006 has been a nice year... few ups and downs and looking forward for 2007.

wishing all my blog friends a happy n prosperous 2007.

mapquest

Yesterday for the first time i used map quest... this site has a feature that i can choose not to use highways in the route to the destination and since 5 north is pathetic in the evenings i gave this a try.

I took me to another street by the same name in the same city... tho' i had given the full address.. lucky me that.. it was within 5 miles of my destination

Guru Movie

Thats me in the Dona point beach... i dunoo but for some reason i like this foto... i went to see the movie borat... my advice please refrain yourself! My god.. i cant imagine how they can even think of making a movie like that... I was told by my friend and still i went to watch...

another movie about which i dont want to talk about is dharmapuri...

and by the way this post has nothing to do with the movie guru.

Listen to this

I got this song from radio blog. thought you ppl would like..



i have not been regular with posts... i guess i will be back to normal soon

The Prestige - movie review

This is a movie about two magicians played by Hugh Jackman and Christian Bale. A story of friendship turning to rivalry and which turns to vengence! I went to see this movie for the reason that, it was from the director of momento and batman begins. The movie is good and definately worth watching once.

Scarlett Johansson has a worth while role in the movie! The only drawback in the movie is when Tesla box comes into the picture. Other wise, the performance, screenplay and editing is all flawless. So my verdict, go see it!

I saw prestige on friday and another movie called The Departed yesterday. Though the ratings for the movie were good, i din like the movie much. The movie has a similiar story line to that of kuridhi punal by kamal hassan. Undercover cop gets into a mafia gang and the gang is trying all means to find out about the rat! The movie is nothing great considering that it has Matt damon and jack nicolson. My verdict watch it if you have nothing else to see

Yesterday we all had a small get together for diwali, it was fun. It was fun playing with the kids. But poor them, they dont get a chance to fire crackers here! I bet they will be afraid to play with them when they go back to india.

Hope everyone had a safe diwali! subha i owe you the tag, i will write one soon

Watch this and enjoy! these guys rock, its called the Yogi B n Nachathira Feat Lock Up - Madai Thiranthu

weirdo me

I have been tagged by marutham, its been a long time that I wrote a tag. Well the tag game is back and I am back with a tag story. The tag is about few weird things about me. I reckon everyone has their own weird side and here is mine.

CAR SINGER: you would have heard of bathroom singer! Now what is this car singer?? Well perusa onum illa. I like to sing when I am driving alone. one crazy habit! I know if I turn the speakers off, I would myself stop singing as my voice is pathetic but anyways..

COMIC LOVER: There is nothing weird about this, other than the fact that, i still love to read comics and watch cartoon. If anyone out there is like me, then you tube and google videos rock. I saw tintin in tibet in google videos.

POORI HATER: yeah! I hate those pooris! I cant just stand them, I used to like them when I was a kid, but I dunno when I started hating those things. Poori dripping oil, my god! I cant even imagine.

Shoe lace: This might sound totally non sensical, but I cant tie my lace which will hold itself for more than an hour, I dont know what happens to the stupid thing. After a preset time, the stupid thing unties itself. So atleast 5-6 times in a day I tie my lace… thats sad!

Maths : Guys at college know that I was pathetic in maths, what they dont know is at times I can really silly with simple ones. Like 11 in binary is eleven or 70 + 29 is 89, even now I do these mistakes.

Absent minded: I was never like this, but these days I am turning into one big time. The list includes, trying to call my own cell number from cell itself, ends up listening to my unread voice mail. Taking exactly the wrong freeway (North instead of south) and realizing after a while.

I am tagging sp, nawaz

limited or no connectivity

Disclaimer : Computer Related

I dont know how many of you have had this problem? Yesterday i had this problem in home laptop. I could'nt connect to my wireless router. It kept giving me this error.At first i thought it could be the problem with the router. What happens at times is, as we dont turn off our router for days together, it would require a simple restart. I tried that but in vein.

Then i saw that, this message (limited or no connectivity) i was recieving when my system was trying populate it ipaddress, i mean thru DHCP. So now i thought DHCP server in the router was not working properly.

So i assigned a static Ip in the subnet as that of my router and DNS as my router and tried again, this time it was wierd, i was able to ping my router but nothing beyond it. So this eliminated the problem with my wireless card.

I tried repairing the network connection, tried restarting the laptop but all measures failed. Was wondering if i had re install my OS, that would be tedious.

So when i googled from my friends system, i found that, the culprit could be some spyware. My firewall program (ZONE ALARM) had run a scheduled check previous night and had found handfull of spywares, and some sites said, while removing the spywares some of them corrupt the TCP/IP stack.

So, that could be a posibility and luckily i found this tool

I must say that this is a must have tool! work fine and if you are worried that, its altering ur registry you can also, take a snap shot of ur registry with this, in case u want to revert back.

Second Life

Has anyone heard of this site before? Its been around for a while... This site is more like a game, its basicaly your virtual life!! Rather than me telling you about it. You check it for yourself!

Going to cinema

For people abroad it is a comman excuse for seeing a movie online is that, the movie has not released in a theater near by. So? you download a movie and watch it?? No thats not the way! i am not being a saint here and not that i have not done that. Yes! i used to do but these days i feel it is not a very good thing to do...

Why do some sites even do it... my point here is atleast dont upload the movie for atleast 30 - 45 days. Recently i noticed that some movies were online almost the very next day... that is not fair at all!

Point number one..this is not fair and point number two... the movie loses its quality and why should we do that? and for people who make it a point to watch movies online it is nothing less to stealing. Try to refrain from doing that!

anyways saw munnabhai in the big screen yesterday and it is a ok kind of movie, yes it has lived upto the expectations to some extent. My verdict is go watch it!
ghandhi-diri ... haan lage raho munnabhai

on the debris

on the wtc debris these indian building stand! confused what i am talkin about. Read this article. Certainly not a feel good factor for me.

Read this

Paper again

I hope this one is real...unlike mooligai petrol

thalavar retires

An emotional Michael Schumacher admitted to being "overwhelmed" when he announced his retirement plans moments after his victory.

Others carried or dragged away the wounded. Many of the wounded were taken away on handcarts. - cnn

vinayagar poojai

all home made! 1.Kolakatai 2.vadai 3.pongal 4.sambhar 5.rasam 6.sundal

Sony psp

My latest gadget - psp

This thing rocks

1.games -awesome

2.Movies- The clarity is amazing

3.mp3

4.pictures

5.Wireless browsing

cons

UMD disk..but yes its nice... never was a fan of iPOD and never will be

----- I heard that there was a minor stint with the ISP's blocking blog sites... whats going on guys...its our only source of entertainment these days. trust me i get to know a lot of happenings from blogs than newspaper sites. So please dont deny us our entertainment n news...

The amount of time that i browse at home is getting lesser these days. Its more like work eat sleep...oru vidhathula naladhudhaan...else willl be vetti browsin all the time.

Gopalan i still owe u the tag. Will definately write it soon..

hey guys n girls just out of curiosity ...

how many support love marriage n how many not ?

arranged love marriage?

Yahoo answers! and what does it answer for the above question? One person has to say this

arranged marriage - murder ||| love marriage - suicide

arranged love marriage - allowing someone kill you... lol!

posts are brief and am not writing that frequently... nothing suspicious, just been too lazy... will start writing soon...

UTAH

i wanted to write about my UTAH trip a while ago but then was too lazy to write. Moreover my blog for some reasons needs to much of editing with respect to HTML, anyways. . .

We ssn'ites had planned for the july 4 weekend to meet in Salt Lake city in utah. I was looking forward for this trip as i was going to meet bharathi after 4 years. The trip was fun and something to remember and cherish.

We all flew from different parts to SLC on 30 jun. (Deepak, ghuru, sai, bharathi, narendran, pradeep , joshua and myself)

bharathi from seattle,deepak from chicago, sai from chicago, narendran from san antonio, ghuru from sunnyvale, pradeep from cedar rapids , me from la and joshua was in slc.

we were there for four days and for the four days it was like in college again. we did white water rafting, ATV, camping and hiking. It was so refresing, thanks a lot guys for making it happen.

.--..--..--..--. I have been tagged by gopalan, will write the tag soon

Clothes and shoes were strewn along the tracks. -BBC

may their souls rest in peace

get direction - india

I forgot to mention about MSN maps in my last post. It is amazing, guess what? I can search route from guindy to avadi in Chennai.

There is a problem when searching routes in India, poor thing doesnt know the names of small roads and hence says take left/right on the "local road", still this thing is coool and not to mention the amazing picture quality of "birds view" of places in US.

msnMaps

Desi version of Amazon? Claims to have a lot of titles! Old and new books for sale online. Check it for yourself

Daily News and Analysis is Mumbai based site and targets youth. Section to voice yourself and the news is exactly what I want, unlike what I wrote in Tsunami post

Want to send family in India photo? This is a nice site, but I was told the courier at times gets delayed, but the prices are catchy

mp3

Now that I have more than a gig space in my mobile, I have started listening to music more than before. The songs that I listen repeatedly are :

1. Fanaa (Mere haath mein, chand sifarish, chanda chamke)

2. Krrish( Main hoon wo aasman, pyar ki ek kahani)

3. Rang de basanti ( loose control, khalbali)

4. Patiyal (kane vittu kan imaigal)

5. Swadesh (yeh jo des hai tera)

6. vetayadu vilayadu ( karka karka, partha mudhal naale)

7. Parijatham (onai kandanae)

8. Bluffmaster (bure bure boro, say na say na)

9. Gajini (sutrum vizhi sudarae, ranghola)

10. kaka kaka( uyirin uyirae )

11. Indian ( pachai kiligal, telephone manipol)

12. Johny (aasaiyai katrula thoodu)

13. Mila thirandhadhu kadhuvu (ora sanam )

14. Nizhalgal (poo kadhavae )

15. Boys – all the songs

16. Ayudha eluthu ( yakai thiri, oru unmai sonal )

17. Alaipayudhey (pachai nirame)

Almost all of the above mp3 can be downloaded from here

when tsunami strikes

I guess I already wrote something similar to this before, but time and again I get frustrated by the media and n number of news channels show casing biased news. Yes! Today the media in India has grown into a power which is capable of challenging people whom it was not able to a few years back, but on the flip side, coverage is becoming more and more biased, either political affiliation or geographical boundaries.

Remember tsunami, when a calamity of that scale occurs, what people expect is medias’ unbiased coverage. Two leading private channels in Tamilnadu were more focused on the political affiliation than the issue at hand.

Political parties however diverse their ideas be, should have come together to bring immediate relief to the victims. Political parties and media are just capitalizing the needs of day worker, the proof being, a govt. being elected just because it promised color tv. I am not against any party here, but just imagine how the party catapulted itself.

Man there are other basic needs, leave uninterrupted power supply, I dont know how many villages even have electricity, and metro city like Chennai doesnt have enough water!

Now coming back, what has happened to the people once the cameras were packed? What happened to the relocation and promised relief measures? May be its the hyenas time to cash in the situation!

Time for contractors to take control of the situation, tenders being given to the favored ones and no one knows about it! Now all this happens in Tamilnadu and just three days after tsunami struck, I read times of India and the main headlines was about a issue in Pakistan. Headlines is fine, I was not able to read news about tsunami in its entire first page! I had to select "states" page and in that "chennai" and there I found a news about this. Why this discrimination? Are they running short of reporters? Was this news not important for the people there?

I open Hindustan times, just to see a UK model posing for a photograph in the first page. Hmm thousands of lives have been lost and this paper is celebrating with model fotos.

All these things just increase my hatred towards media and other ignorant Indians.

audio blog

this thing is awesome! u dont have to sit n type... just call the number, record and refresh ur blog!

but the only drawback is, the number that they have given is a US number, so guys in india i guess will have to wait some more time before this happends there too! thnx to sp

Fanaa Review

Fanaa! First half of the movie is nice! though u would feel that you have seen a similar scene before. I liked the movie for its shaayari n modest emotions. There is one particular shaayar in which amir goes ' kahin kudh ki nazar na lag jaye, allah ne appko nazar hi nahi di'

kajol is blind in the movie n amir soluraaru 'un kanne un melai patudunu kaduvul unuku kanu paarvai tharala'

[+] kajols’ acting (good to see in her true form)

[+] Amir, he has performed with ease

[+] Subhaan allah song

[-] Second half has a bit of unwanted masala

[-] Second half looked a bit senseless

If u like n understand the shaayars' then probably this is a must watch!

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For the long weekend had been to Yosemite! it’s a nice place, giant trees, fresh air , fresh water… the trip was refreshing and gave us a much needed break.

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Was wondering if it is good to be selfish ??? I have not been able to be like that!!! But some people survive being one! it is all the more disturbing when you get affected Probably I should learn how to say a 'NO' or show my disgust right in front of the person, Whenever I wanted to do this, always I would wonder what if the other person gets hurted! hmm anyways

gabdain of andhra....

i couldnt control myself....

tagged

1.Grab the book nearest to you, turn on page 18 and find line 4. Ans. ATLAS SHRUGGED -ayn rand "can we have any security or plan everything"

2.Stretch your left arm out as far as you can.& catch air? Ans. Grabbed some junk papers

3. What is the last thing you watched on TV? Ans. Don't remember..(have no tv)

4. Without looking, guess what time it is? Ans. 330

5. Now look at the clock, what is the actual time? Ans. 328

6. With the exception of the computer, what can you hear? Ans. Panic alarm of a car

7.When did you last step outside? What were you doing? Ans. Morning... was tlking on the fone..

8.Before you started this survey, what did you look at? Ans. SP..

9.What are you wearing? Ans. tshirt n shots..

10.When did you last laugh? Ans. After while talking to sai n joshua..

11.What is on the walls of the room you are in? Ans. Poster of 'POLAR EXPRESS' n 'The Prefect Man'..

12.Seen anything weird lately? Ans. hmm...i dunno..

13.What do you think of this quiz? Ans. fun..

14.What is the last film you saw? Ans. M1-3..

15. If you became a multimillionaire overnight, what would you buy? Ans. i need some time to think on this..

16.Tell me something about you that I dunno Ans. pass....next q pls..

17.If you could change one thing about the world, regardless of guilt or politics, what would you do? Ans. I would change where India i will ship it to europe..

18.Do u like to Dance Ans. Yeah but...i dunno to ..

19. Imagine your first child is a girl, what do you call her? Ans. arpita..

20 Imagine your first child is a boy, what do you call her? Ans. sonu..

21.Would you ever consider living abroad? Ans. yeah!..

22.What do you want GOD to say to you when you reach the pearly gates? Ans. missed u!..

n i am tagging..

pk, gopalan, bharathi, deepak, marutham n badri..

gabdain in hollywood

Watched United-93 and MI-3…. No comments about the first one…it’s a one time watch and was pretty heavy for me….Lets talk about MI-3, I never knew there was Gabdain (Mr.VijayKanth) in Hollywood.

The movie has everything that a typical tamil movie has emotion, romance and comedy…but wait a minute! MI’s are supposed to be action movies , yeah! Just that action is similar to our gabdains actions…and hence comedy.

The movie has everything but story!!! Things I learnt from this movie

1. Any thing that can be inserted into key hole of a lock can open the lock (wire, pen refill …)

2. You can take your computer and laptop to any place and do weird things (roof top, bus, van and control machine guns and guns firing tennis balls…)

3. To blow the fuse of a high tech device that is implanted into your brain, you should electrocute yourself( namma gabdain rumba naal moonadi transformer vedika vechaaru theriuma..andha madhiri)

4. Gabdain is everywhere…!!!

In short this movie is hug hug hug bang bang bang….

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Its been 2 years into blogging…!!!

impressions

Unai Kandanae Mudhal murai… Song from ‘Parijatham’…plays in my mind---as the horizon gives way to my first glimpse of Grand Canyon… wow! It is one of those places which are really worth the fame. Grand Canyon holds its place in the list of natural wonders and a special place in my heart. I had been to GC and Las Vegas over the long weekend (I know it is too late…was just lazy to write) GC is 460 miles from here and las vegas 290 miles from there and whole trip was around 1300 miles, and best part was we started only Friday evening, coz we wanted 2 of our other friends to join us and they were working that Friday. The trip was tedious especially driving all that distance, but I reckon it was worth it. Coming back to GC.. despite its dryness, it tugs at my heartstrings like little else can… it is one place where you have to be, to feel it…no pictures or motion pictures can actually capture the true essence of the place. So if you are in south west US…try to make it to GC. Right: Thats Sunset at Grand Canyon. About Las Vegas---nothing to say, as I slept the moment I entered the room and woke up only at the check out time.. we reached vegas 2 in the night n I was dead tired. Friends went around vegas n I guess other than clubs n casino’s there is nothing much there.

are these people running out of names??? thats a road on the way back to LA from Los Angeles. All the fotos are from my mobile and i guess they wont be all that clear.



I am planning to move my blog to wordpress soon...

inbha thunbham

thnks to marutham The topic ‘inbha thunbham’ hmm… just wondering where to start…?

Ok will start with one of the part time job I did while doing my masters… used to get up at 4 in the morning and cycle 3-4 kms and do a cleaning job… yes! a cleaning job… man it used to be painful… I guess nawaz will be able to relate to…coz we both used to go together…

The schedule was something like this… wake up at 4 - 4:30, put on our gears (oldest possible dress and a helmet) and cycle to the work place (building meant for refugees)…used to sign in and start work at 6 in the morning. Trust me it was not easy, being tall has its own disadvantages, I had to clean the ceiling… ok anyways… we used to do this till 3 in the afternoon (of course with a lunch break in between). Then cycle back home have a nice shower and go to university at 17:30 … university used to be till 21:30, come home , cook something, eat, sleep and wake up at 4 again… wat is ‘inbham’ in this??? Money getting credited every week…

The next would be working night shift in 7-11… though it was not as tiring as the cleaning job, but it was boring and you were not supposed to sit down whole through the night… you can find my 7-11 experience here… actually was wondering what n all part time I have done while at aus Dish washing Cleaning Distributing junk mail Worked in 7 – 11 Worked in a sri lankan shop Worked in Australian post In a way, I feel that these things actually make you both physically n mentally strong..

Of course my list will always have the lovely ssn days… man those were the days of my life… those were the days of ssn…sigh! ---

n i would like to tag nawaz sudharshan bharathi sathyus sathyapriya bharathi barti

There is some problem with the blogger these days, the alignment is not proper and I am adding the line breaks et all myself n hence the crapy appearance so please bear with me. I don’t know if that’s blogger issue or template problem.

Was feeling bored and decided to watch some Tamil movie…was browsing through the net and came across this site. The deal is pretty ok, they charge $10 for a month for SUN TV. No! I am not a fan of sun TV, the money is worth for the news and the clarity is pretty good too… the timing is US central time… and guess what?? In the week days I get to see all the tele-serials when I reach home…grrr…

Half heard news…Mr.k has announced ‘vana tholaikatchi peti’ for everyone!!! Err.. whaat ???Man where are we heading? I seriously don’t understand the election gimmicks.

Watched patiyal few days back and my verdict, it’s an ok movie… same old masala movie with a different director and actor… Btw any good movie released???

foto recognition

Pkarthick has mentioned in his blog about foto recognition software... i thought it was not a easy job, this software does a decent job. You first need to upload your foto, it automatically detects the faces present in it; and the free version actually gets a closest match of a celebrity from its database...

This is wat i got ... aprom enna inga naan orae scene dhaan!

Of late as my friend rightly pointed out, I am also getting into the habit of writing too few a mails and with too little content. I wouldn’t blame my work schedule (yes! the amount of time spent at office is more than at home)…I am just lazy to type a mail…I realized that I don’t even chat much!!! I log in only once or twice into the messenger…

I presume a lot of people are doing the same! Do we think that everyone is email-able ??? and we need to mail them only when it is needed??? The fact that I have been proactive in my groups, and there are people who are worse than me makes me feel even worse… College days now looks like a distant past, I don’t even have a clue about the whereabouts of few people in my class… was this bound to happen??

I know everyone has had a special feeling for college friends, and when we separated we always thought that the chain will remain intact no matter what, hardly four years and I already see it breaking up… but at least I am happy that I am still in touch with a lot of people…I wish that we are email-able, callable and chatable …. Here is a list of my college friends, who have shared my ups n down and still in touch Nawaz, bharathi, ghuru, deepak, gv, thirumathi, suresh, vetri, selva and susi….this a list of those people, whom probably I will never forget! You wake me up at midnight and say ‘nawaz’; even if I knew 100’s by the same name… the first person to ring the bell would be this guy…
others who have been close to me or rather I have been close to:
Sai, narendran, jk, gopalan, ilango, arun(aluku), alex, gautham, ramya, barthi, kavitha, naveen, thiaga, pradeep, shyam(bulb) and sham….i hope I haven’t missed anyone…. I guess that’s too much of senti….
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here is foto i took at a temple near by...n i guess thats the max i have smiled for a foto!!hmmm...!

tagged again

Tagged by pk…
So here is my version

Movies I would like to watch over n over
1.dil chatha hai 2.nayagan 3.Terminator –II 4.Matrix –I
5.Mauna Ragam


TV Shows
Shows on Nat geo and Discovery

Favorite food
1.chapathi (only when mom makes)
2.Fried chicken noodles ( wangs kitchen)
3.chicken teriyaki (Subs) 4.puliyodharai and chips
5.thalicha curd rice

My Greatest Victories
Never thought on those lines till date…

I hate
Ego clash (This is really bad…)
people who put up different faces….

Great Personalities I would like to dine with
1.captain (want to see what he eats…hee hee)
2.of course with my long list of fans (Jlo, Angelina jolie, asin, amrita arora…) they have been waiting for long time now… so you know
3.definitely a romantic candle light dinner with that ‘someone special’
I would like to tag none…

banking system

Washington Mutual, that’s my bank! Almost all the desi’s around have an account in it and y not? It has a scheme for desi’s 1.No minimum balance 2.No monthly fees And I bet these two things are enough for a desi to open an account, but hey it has catch, is doesn’t have a concept of net transfer!!!! (So basically you use the netbank to see the statement) At first I thought this feature was missing only in this scheme, later found out the bank itself doesn’t have this facility! So even if you are a premium customer of WAMU, your netbanking will not have this feature…. So how do I transfer money to someone here??? Use cheques!!!! and you pay for the damn cheques!!! (how developed…) When asked the banker about this problem she says there are two ways to transfer money 1.Pay the person a cheque (really innovative guys… I never knew about this system huh! ) 2.Your name should be added to the account to which you are trying to transfer money (wowie- so I add my name to all the accounts to whom I think in near future I will transfer money!!!) Bharathi says Bank of America has net transfers but then, it is only between accounts of bank of America!!! (That’s better but still…) hmm... banking.................india is better mobile...................india is better publictransport...india is better(getting into one is a different question... atleast the damn thing exists)

just another post

was tagged by ponna long back... finally am writing... am gonna write about mom ofcourse! what i like about her... very understanding, caring and know what i need every time. i like anything she prepares (to be specific i like her chappathi n porotta) happy belated womans' day .. i know it is too late! -- --- --- --- ---- --- ---- --- -- last week had been to universal studios... its quite close to where i live... the place was good, but i guess kids would enjoy more... one ride that was good there was something called jurassic ride or dinosaur ride... and a 4-D show of shrek was good too! It is worth a one time. Saw 16 block last week, a ok ok movie...

thats one the way back home from tustin! the only place where i found some green stuff!! hee hee

some more foto to upload soon

ticket!

Already got the first parking fine…actually I never knew about this great (spell it absurd) system. We were given a parking a sticker, which we always placed on top of the dash board. We had hired a Chrysler convertible, and one day tried driving without the top… I very diligently placed the parking (tag or sticker or whatever it is) inside the dash and forgot to place it back on the top. Next day the car was missing…the car was inside the parking area meant for the apartment and the only way, one can go inside is with a remote!!! The car was towed from the parking lot of the apartment and the reason the sticker was not on the dash… I never in my dreams thought that, the sticker was needed inside the lot also… hmm… I would understand if this thing had happened in public parking place or we had parked the car outside the premises…. Doesn’t make sense to me at all coz 1. You can get into the place only if you have a remote to open!!! (No key lock at all) and for the remote also you pay! 2. The possibility of tailgating is minimal and even if it happens then, I don’t see the need for it to be towed away!!! Hmm… you park in your place and still pay a hefty amount. ------------------ ------ -------- ----------- ---------- ------------ ------------- -------------- ----------- ------------ ---------- i wanted to introduce this cutie next door...

he is choooo chweeet!!! and a real entertainer

he cant say 'l' so he says.... " i am no szeepy" or "i am szeepy! i go papa home"... he took nano pod to a mobile fone and started to talking holding it like a mobile... "hi... wazzup". I will keep talking about this guy the whole day... thats how much i am impressed.

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loads to write n post will do it soon

nothing to write

that was last year in trivandrum