Breaking silence after nearly 50 days!! All these days the scribbler in me had to be rested for different reasons. Now with the hand to hand deal with You Telecom, I will be connected to internet, giving some time for Scribbler in me to wake up frequently.
Let me see how frequent can this scribbler wake up!!
Today could be called "Yet Another" Diwali for Tamilnadu. The most expected "Sivaji, the boss" , starring Rajnikanth (Oops! did I miss something??) "SuperStar" Rajnikanth, directed by the Shankar, music composed by A.R.Rahman has been screened today for public. No wonder the hype is beyond horizons. CNN IBN has this on the major note today. Nearly 12 minutes of their news session spoke about the Boss. Movie has been screened across 600 theatres and an estimated load back of nearly 80 crores. Though there was a restriction in Karnataka stating that atmost only 4 theatres can screen a same movie across Karnatake, Bangalore itself had screened this movie in 3 theatres. All major ones INOX, PVR Cinemas, (scratching my head for the third). Rumours about the story line has already been on papers and they would be justified in few hours from now. Have all these stats aside, what is that which created such an interest for this movie??
1. A movie by Rajnikanth after nearly 2 years?
2. Media hype?? - Flash news talking about Sivaji's trailer being shown in CNN IBN in the advertisement break at XX::YY hours.
3. Shankar's movie?? When Rajnikanth shakes his hand with Shankar??
4. A high budget movie, costlier than any other movie in India?
5. Name of movie, as it holds the original name of Rajnikanth?
Having big legends like Big B and SRK, can they be compared with Rajni? I never have seen such hype for any of theirs. What makes the difference between them? Definitely anyday, Big B is a performer. He concentrates more on his role, but the Big Boss has a blend of performance, comedy, STYLE. Is this the one which makes the difference or the hype created in the Kollywood??
Oops this is a delayed post. This should have got its position on May 4th as the day was the birthday of the mighty "Argumentative Indian"/"Scribbler". Somehow or other I had completed 25 (Title of the post). Not sure how to call it, a long walk or a quick stroke!! What makes Birthdays interesting? Definitely wishes from our dear friends plays a mojor role. There would be friends who talk to us after a long time wishing us on our day. The moment their name rings on the mobile, the expression of joy in our face goes matchless. Those finest moments really make the meaning of our birthday. Friends who remember your day and make sure that they are a part of the joy and wish you the best in your life.
For me, no different from many other, the day was full of fun. It started with Pradeep, Sekar, Sudharshan, Kumaresan, Narayanan bringing cake for me at 12. Sekar holding my legs, Pradeep holding my hands. Both lifted me to make me wave for every hit from Kumaresan and Suchu (Waiting for their B'days). Had calls for my friends Mom, sis, Padma, Suresh and Amritha. Enough number of topics of discussion went on to keep me awake until 2:30 AM.
As usual a delayed start to office. Meeting at 9. Had to rush to the conference room. Being a new joinee not much knew about my b'day. Slowly the information started spreading and had a good number of wishes from people who had never spoke to me. Had a cake cut at office. The day ended with huge number of wishes, cake cuts, bouquets, official meetings and a treat to Pradeep, Kumaresan, Narayanan, Sudharshanan and BalajiReddy at Samarkand, a restaurant in Bangalore. After the treat, I got an opportunity to drive Sudharshan's car (Not more than 20 meters.. :()
Logging into orkut, great to see scraps pouring down. Nearly 50+ on a single day. But the pick of the day was a call from a girl who denied to reveal her identity when she called me for the first time. Just few hints I could get from her words and tone. An english fluent lady, a first level relationship (not a friend of friend), knew me for 7 years (Ofcourse I knew her too). She said she will revel her identity before the end of the day. After a long thought and with some help from Narayanan, I found who she was. She was a class-mate (probably friend?? ;)) of mine in the first year of my graduation study. Identified as "Surya" she studied with me in the first year of graduation and now working with India's leading service provided. I was taken by surprise. She still REMEMBERs me. Exactly the kind of notion what I had about birthday. You get wishes from your old friends and help you maintain the IN-VALUABLE relationship.
Thanks to every single mind which thought about me on my birthday and every single heart which wanted me to enjoy the best in my life.
"If I were" is one of the most greatest excuses used by most. But this always goes only in positive sense. What is this goes with a negative sense? At a wildest of dreams, if you were not to utter a word from this moment to the end of your life!!! Considering languages spoken by more than thousands of people, there are nearly 6500 languages in this world. A normal human speaks nearly 2500 words per day (Obviously women more than men, any debates??) Mandrian, English, Hindi, Spanish, Arabic and Russian are the most used languages, Mandrian being used by the most. Each of these languages being used by a certain community/region of people. But there is a language which go beyond regions, beyond communities, beyond borders, beyond galaxies, the SIGN Langauge. WHAT IF we were to use only the SIGN language?? This language is not taught to us by anyone. This language comes with the so called "Human" package. Everyone understands this language and no-one needs coaching on this langauge.
I had a chance to watch a movie named "Mozhi" (In tamil means Language), may be inspired from he movie "BLACK". Keeping the story aside, all I was thinking about is how would a person live in this world having no power to speak nor hear. We call them "Physically Challenged", I call them "Mentally Challenged". It is all about how they accept their physical inability and how they grow in such a mocking world. They need to be mentally very strong. The most difficult part of their life is how do they express their feeling. Woman, well-known for their emotions. Can you expect a person who does not miss anyone, infact do not want to miss anyone? All she could depend on is her calm world around which never hears anything nor demands uttering a word. It is like a meditation. A real "Mental Challenge".
If we had to understand what it is, live a day without anyone without speaking or hearing. It is real tough one!! You would never be able to express how you miss the innumberable number of things in this world!!
If not watched, please watch the movie at least once. I bet the movie is beyond language barriers.
One of the unique identifiers which makes us call it the sixth SENSE is our ability to speak. But there are moments in our life where our minds speak and JUST only our minds speak and NO words uttered.
How would a person feel when the girl he loves is being loved by his best friend? Would the person be able to share his love or thoughts to either his friend or the girl? I would call this as one of the toughest moment in ones life. Here is when one would be forced to weigh his love and friendship. Obviously both cannot be compromised for each other!! Can they ever be? What could the guy do? To whom should he walk to? His friend or his love? Can he exercise his identifiers of sixth SENSE? What should he compromise?
The interesting part of love is that it is tough to express ones love to the person he loves. There are hardly any words which could express the love one has. I still wonder why creator though created such an interesting SIXTH SENSE, but has allowed us to go through such tough moments where the SIXTH SENSE goes un-noticed!! May be a SEVENTH SENSE makes sense?
Yes, hard but true!! India lost the opportunity to get into Super 8s. They have shattered the hopes of too many Indian fans, infact crazy Indian fans. I believe many prayers for the Indian cricket team have gone for nothing. All the wishes sent from the billion populated nation has gone worthless. The Indian cricket "role models" have not performed their "role". All the above stated statements are tautologies.
As an Indian cricket fan, I would still hope for India to get the world cup, if not this time, atleast in the years to come. It really doesn't make sense when people fume our cricketers house when they have not performed in the world cup matches. As cricket fans, we need to back them up and encourage them to perform better, or atleast never criticize them. Everyday atleast 15% of the internet bandwidth goes for criticizing the Indian cricket team. Forwards which mock Indian cricket team, an April Fool mail stating Indian team has reached Super 8s, finding sarcastic reasons for Indian team losing against Srilanka and many others are going to belittle our Indian players confidence and in no way is going to boost them up or pat them up for the next world cup.
When a kid fails, it is the responsibility of the parents to cheer up the kid and get the kid up and growing rather than just beating the kid asking for why the kid shattered the parents dreams. After-all cricket is another sport and it has to be treated as a sport. After all it is a matter of 100 overs and nothing remains after that. Sports are always meant to be as a part of entertainment and never meant to demolish things. Please stop criticizing our Indian (wounded) cricketers!!
World Cup 2007, the "War of the Cricketing Nations". After having lost to Bangladesh and enjoying an emphatic victory over the minnows Bermuda, Can India continue on going forward to win the world cup 2007? Here are some interesting coincidences!!
1. Captain of India in 1983 was Kapil Dev and now in 2007 is Rahul Dravid - Both the captains have their second name starting with the same character 'D'
2. The captain of India before 1983 was Sunil Gavaskar and the captain of India before 2007 world cup was Sourav Ganguly - Both the x-Captains have their first characters of their names the same 'SG'
3. Both the players Sunil Gavaskar and Sourav Ganguly open the Indian innings when they played for the world cup in 1983 and 2007 respectively
4. After world cup 1983, the next world cup was played in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka and similarly World cup 2011 would be played at India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
5. Prince Charles got married in 1981, exactly 2 years before India won the world cup. Now again he got married in 2005, exactly 2 years before 2007 world cup.
6. Australia lost the Ashes cup before 1983 world cup. Similarly Australia lost the ashes cup before 2007 world cup.
So will India win? In 1983 India stopped West Indies becoming a hat-trick world cup champions. Will India stop Australia from becoming a hat-trick world cup champions in 2007?
The Blue Bees have flew to W'indies to play the most expected World Cup 2007. India, a strong team (?) as the Blue Billions call it, have the most exciting and a capable lineup. The most experienced/exciting batsman of the century S R Tendulkar, one of the best orthodox batsman Rahul Dravid, The Bengal Tiger Sourav, the most dangerous opener Sehwag and an over-match Hero Dhoni and the list goes on. Having such a beautiful line up, it still keeps everyone wondering why really did India lose against the upcoming cricketers of Bangladesh. Is that because of their sluggishness or over-confidence or their defensive stance. Infact this is a mixture of all of them. But more than this, I would attribute the loss to the most expecting Indian cricket craziers. In India, cricket is not just a sport, instead cricket is a religion. More the amount of craziness, more is the pressure on the Indian Legends. Having so much pressure it is always an expected outcome to lose the simplest of matches.
India has never had the greatest of starts in the recent world cups. They are always expected to lose in their first match and following it, it is customery that the Indian Crickets Fans, blow up our Indian Cricketers residents. Expectations becomes Demands for the Indian cricket team and there is where they perform the best, LULL before STORM, a perfect example India Vs Bermuda. All the players stormed in to pile up such a record score of 413/5. Now having reached the STORM part of it, will it go back to LULL soon. We need to have our eyes open on the 23rd of March 2007 when India meets the SriLankans.
Hopefully the Lull to Storm doesn't go back to Lull soon.
The most seen happening in most of the metro cities in India, people never pay heed to traffic signals. From my observation, the main cause (entities, not reasons) for most of the accidents are Autos, Cyclists and Pedestrains. I very rarely see vehicles in the above categories following the traffic rules. Most of the times Auto Dirvers never look at traffic signals.
The maximum speed of an Auto can be seen when the traffic lights change from Green to Amber and to Red. The general assumption of an autowala is that if the front wheel of his vehicle gets into a gap, he strongly feels that the whole vehicle gets through the gap. Everyday morning atleast one Auto hits another vehicle and causes a traffic jam. Shortest duration of time can be measured when the traffic signal changes from Red to Green and the Autowala at your back horns.
Needless to say, Cyclists hardly follow any rules. Simple reason being they cannot be traced (No number plates). Amidst any traffic jam, these people have the previlege of not bothering about the traffic or the signal to cross roads and proceed with their journey.
Pedestrains, ooohhh the urgency of a pedestrian is directly proportional to the speed of the vehicle about to hit them. Waiting for just few seconds would never risk their life, but they always love to lead a risky life. I always wonder if the Pedestrian Signal ever matters in India.
Having these people aside, most of the times the Traffic Seargent who sees all these hardly cares to take any steps. This wonders me. Their main job is to ensure that everyone follows rules and regulations. But they simply watch people going against the rules. Irritating isn't it?
Everyone on the roads, these days, follow a simple mantra, "If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun". But for the fun of few, many have lost their precious lives. Every year atlest few hundreds lose their lives because of someone's fun.
Will this change atleast in the days to come?
Often I wonder what does the term Maturity actually mean. I came up with lots of instances which everyone calls Maturity!!
1. Understanding others emotions
2. Behaving according to environmental conditions
3. Having a broad-mind to accept and adjust to situations
4. Controlling one's emotions and being patient
5. Facing truth boldly
6. Completing a job independantly without anyone's assistance
7. Facing a situation and solving it in a fashion which is beneficiary to the most
8. Maturity is humility
9. Demonstrating respect
10. Not being egotic or egocentric
11. Accepting others advice and the list grows.
Reading these few questions arise,
1. What do you call a person who has only few qualities of the above? Is he not a matured person or is he a semi-matured person or is still getting matured? If so almost everyone fall into this category.
2. If a person has all the above stated qualities, (s)he is DEFINITELY the IDEAL. But can this be met? "IDEAL" is something which cannot be reached but can only be compared with (My opinion, refutes please?)
3. Of all the above states, "Experience" was not a part of the discussion at all. But why do people always relate Maturity with Experience. Can't a kid show some of these qualities?
A small kid does not have any ego, accepts others advice, speaks only truth. Having some above stated qualities, can we call the kid matured? A grown boy has lots of above qualities but obviously does not match all of them. So can we call him matured? A granny has some qualities, so can we call them matured?
So from which age does a person starts getting matured? If maturity is going to start from birth, then "does maturity really exist" as a separate entity?
Some strange thoughts!!
1. Why do we call it perCENT? Can't we call it perPAISE in India?
2. When nothing sticks to TEFLON, how do they stick TEFLON to PAN?
3. Why do they use RED flower to symbolify LOVE. Is that to say, LOVE is deadly dangerous?
4. Why do they call it a MONITOR, though it is we who MONITOR it?
5. Why do we call it a BUILDING, though it is already built?
6. Is NEARLY a short form of Not EARLY?
7. Why do we call it APARTments, though they are built TOGETHER?
8. Why do we call it MOBILE, though it is we who walk with it everywhere to make the device MOBILE?
9. 'Opposite poles attract each other'. Is that why HARDware and SOFTware go together always?
10. If TRAIN station has TRAINS, what does a FIRE station have?
11. Two-thrid of the globe is covered with water!! Then why do we face "WATER SCARCITY"?
12. Though mountains are NEAR to sun, why are mountains COOLER?
G stands for Gym. It was 6:30 AM when I woke up and had to hurry up to go to gym (Fitness One) as the place was nearly 3 KMS from my place. Thanks to Narayanan for giving me his bicycle. Vow! what a good cycle ride. Could control to recollect my school days where I ride cycle very fast to ensure I reach school just a minute before they close the gate. After a bit of struggle I found the place and I reached the door of Fitness One, the security stopped me. "What?" in a irritating voice. I said "I want to go to GYM, where am I to park my vehicle? (cycle)". Looking me so strange (why not, everyone who were to that GYM had been coming by either bike or car), he showed me a place to park. To the greatest of surprise, I had to park the cycle beside where the security had parked his vehicle. Yes, only myself and the security were the cycle users there. I went inside and since my company sponsors for its employees to use the GYM, it was an easy registration process and I was introduced to a trainer. He offered an hand with a boring smile which I had to acknowledge (Tough one you know). He asked me to get ready for the exercises. I went to the "Guys, get in please" room and dropped in my bag and came out. The trainer asked me surprised "WHERE ARE YOUR SHOES?". Oh man, I was shocked to hear that. How could I have forgot to wear shoes to GYM and that too for a place like Fitness One? I said, I will bring it from next day and I took up very few light exercises for nearly an hour and came back home at 8:30 with the presitigious cycle.
Moral of today's GYM:
1. Never ever expect respect when you are in Cycle
2. Please wear shoes before getting into Fitness One
3. Look at girls, never to let the trainer know that you are looking at a girl ;) (Lucky enough he was also watching her)
Recently I came across an email which had the subject reading "Shutdown Day". Here is the link what the mail points to http://www.shutdownday.org . After reading through the link, I really wonder about people who brought this concept of "Shutdown Day". I'm a proud owner of a computer from December 2003 and I have never felt that I could stay away from my computer even for a quantum period. Probably shutting down your computer for one day might be possible (should not be a big deal for many). But just wondering what happens if we go for something like "Shutdown Month". Can a person (too much into the webworld/software world) stay away from computer for a whole month? Would'nt (s)he feel as if (s)he has lost something? Would'nt (s)he feel that (s)he had lost his longtime electronic friend? Would'nt (s)he feel that (s)he is not electronic for nearly one month?
Just wondering how computers had been a part of my life each and every minute. How much have these electronic gadgets have been part of our life!!
I woke up today morning at around 8 AM and still to get away from the bed place, I wanted to hear some songs. Played a huge playlist in Winamp. The song was from the movie Minnalae (Music: Harris Jayaraj), the theme music. It just brought me good memories of the past where six dancers went onto stage to make a "Creative" Stage show!!
That was my final year at PEC (2003) and PECOFES (College day) was about to happen in another few days time. All through the college life, I had been hardly on stage and it was high time for me with my friends to give a stage performance. So there was a discussion going amoung our friends as to who has to get onto stage to perform. Six (professional) dancers decided that they had to host a dance show to prove that Computer Science Department is in no-way lesser than any other departments. (Un)Fortunately I was one amoung them. So we decided our positions. Our frontline dancer was none other than the legend Swaminathan (Call him Sam, he nearly has 3 years of experience in dancing, all offstage performance with people who have hardly dreamt of dancing). The next row was the brilliant me (Call me Visu, budding performer, obviously not in dancing) and Prebakar (Call him Prabha, the only guy who knows a bit of dancing). The last row was filled in by our CR Suresh (Call him Suri, hardly ever thought what dancing is or neither what bending his knees and hands is. He must have been an army guy) and the none other than our Magesh who calls himself Maddy (Read it Mannagatty. He had such great skills which could'nt even make dancing atleast an exercise). And last but never the least, the only guy with some stage performance experience Mr. (Thennal) Karthik. He has good skills, he does mimcry very well. But unfortunately he was not allowed to perform mimicry, he had to dance). Oops forgot about our moral support master, Mr. Saikiran, the perusu, who has an extremely good sense of humour. He is good at making mischieves and making other get caught for it and he remains as if he had never heard of that incident. I wonder if he was the one who initiated the thought but never had been a performer with us.
After deciding on the team, we all decided to go for a fusion song starting with a slow melody and ending with a fast rock song. Songs chosen, a initial few seconds from the song Janani Janani (Old song and we chose this for actually no reasons) followed by a clipping from Ilayaraja's “How to name it”. Next was from the song who has been a “Hero” for this blog entry, the theme music from the movie “Minnalae” and next was a clipping from an old song “Kannaikatti Kollathae” from "Iruvar" followed by a song from the movie “One Two Three”. Finally a rock song to complete the show. Until the song Minnalae all five of us (Sam, Visu, Prabha, Suri, Magesh) will dance and then for the M.G.R. song thennal will dance. And for the 1, 2, 3 song Sam and Prabha and finally the whole of the CSE department on stage for the rock song.
The “panchathanthiram” team planned for the steps themselves until the song as if they were the legendary choreographers. Finally it came out to nothing. All utter flop steps. All we knew was that we had to be “creative”, but how? So we had none other option to go to our only well-known college dancer Mr. Giddy (senior, CSE). He taught us few steps for the songs we chose. When he dances it looked like a dance, and when we did the same it bloody, it does'nt even look like an exercise, it was more of an drunkard dance. We learnt his steps and we thought of practising to make the “Drunkard dance”, a “Dance”. We practised so many times in my house, Suresh's house and college. All the practise days our teacher had been none other than Sai Kiran.The day of prelims came. All five of us thought of getting on stage. But for the benefit of our stage performance, only our front line dancer went onto stage to dance and luckily, we got through and we were allowed to make the stage performance. Lucky guys, we were sponsored “Water-Melon” by our class girls (Poor girls, so many expectations). Atleast we were happy that we made girls look at us. What else would a person have expected during his College life? We do anything to make a girl look at us during our college life. Would our dance worth their sponsor?
We frequently kept practising making few changes to the dance steps what Giddy had taught us. After those changes to steps we managed to make our dance atleast as an exercise. After many days of practice, the day had come where the stage debutants had to show their skills and prove their valour. We heard the voice of the comperer reading our team name “Pectium” to walk on to the stage to perform the dance. We went on stage and the ligts were put off except for the faint blue light. A laugh amoungst we dancers thinking about the audience (It was all their fate, who could help them. We never forced them to see our dance, a safe set of words to boost our confidence). Exactly 3 minutes went and all we 5 dancers had to come offstage. Believe me, we danced (that is how we thought). Now Thennal had taken his position on stage and he made a great show (Thank God, the only saviour). Now the dance from Sam and Prabha. What a synchronization? But the problem was the synchronization was not with the music, that was with the waving audience. All our other classmates joined on stage to dance for a music that comes in the song (Aaha, aaha). All I could remember is the dance from Chidambaran, Sekar, Moudood and PP. Wow, their steps were totally out of what was expected. Atlast for the rock song, the whole CSE department went onstage to dance for the rock song. Everyone doing their dance (infact this was better than the dance by our Panchathanthiram team). And the song finally ended up with our hero Sam sending in a flying kiss to the audience (Oops, what a hero he was!!)
Giddy, who taught us our steps should have definitely felt bad that none of the steps had suggested was there on stage and our so called minor modifications changed the whole dance. Mr. Sam has asked audience comments and one of our Juniors said that the dance was “Creative”. So the target accomplished. But somehow we become “Stage dancers”.
All these just ran through my mind within just few seconds and all I could do now is to smile and take my tovel as the water I wanted to heat was already bubbling. Just waking up and cleaning everything I had to reach my office desk, carrying only the memories.
Vow!! how good those days were!! We, the dancers. How does it hear? Atleast we had water-melons.
It has been a while I had thought of entering the bloggers world. This blog is almost alive for nearly 200 days, but without any blog entry. What attributes to this is my so called "Withering thoughts". Everytime I login, I used to think of some topic to blog in. Fortunately/Unfortunately nothing strikes. I would logout thinking that I would login later with some ideas which I receive when I'm at leisure. So many bloggable thoughts arise when I'm offline. But the moment I login, all thoughts I had offline gets withered like the dry leaves from a tree. The same is the case now!! But this time I did not want to miss it. I started hitting my counter scribbling about my "Withering thoughts".
