A li'l way off

The post is my random strolling on profound topics (spirituality).

Got inspiration for this post while listening to 'Bhaja Govindham' song. This immortal song was written by Adi Sankaracharya. MS Subbulakshmi, the queen of music, poured life into the song with her golden voice. If you like carnatic music, you can listen to the song here. You may need to register in the site to listen to the song. If you appreciate philosophy in lyrics, you can take a look at the English translation of Sanskrit lyrics here. Direct link for song is here. 

Have you ever wondered why did we born in this country?
For long time, India has been ridiculed as land of snake charmers, sadhus and sanniyasis. Contrastly, it is a land of deeper spiritual thoughts. The spiritual knowledge of an average Indian is always astonishing. Hinduism is way of life here. Buddhism has its roots here. Zen took out its branch from south India. The way of living without harming others is preached as Jainism in this land. Ahimsa is proven as way to fight against oppression. I am proud for being an Indian and living in India.

Li'l idea on a relaxing vacation
Imagine spending few days with loved ones in a house situated at top of a mountain, surrounded by deep green forests. The place is filled with chirping sounds of birds. The garden of the house has a small pond bordered by lush green plants and colorful flowers. Squirrels play merrily with fruits in the garden. The melodious music and golden voice of MSS Amma fills the air in that place. Wow. Isn't it look like a preview to an eternal bliss

I am too young for a deep introspection. But at times I am baffled with questions like 'Who am i?', 'what's purpose of my life?' .... And felt empty while performing regular rituals and worships in temples. Never heed to humbug spiritual talks. I am atheist at times, agnostic and iconoclastic in arguments. Yet I found few places which give an eternal bliss. The song 'bhaja govindam' is also about spiritual search, explained in layman terms by Adisankarcharya. He is a paramatma, his word and thougts has to be true.

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A Vagabond strolls on - 2

Drizzling rain and long stretch of roads are always biker's paradise. I am still hooked on to biking because of few occasions like this. I was on bike with my friend on saturday evening to visit a new apartment of another guy in such a pleasant climate. My new bike shows its mighty in high speeds and we were zipping past all heavy vehicles in the outer ring road.

Tummyful- Few more restaurants discovered ;)
Aangan in Koramangala - Asli punjabi khana. Food quality is good and the hotel ambience is also great
Sharma in Koramangala - Great quality food at damn cheap rates. I love this
Parika in CMH Road - a decent multicuisine restaurant with as usual sky high bills. Mangalorean dishes are surprise addendum in their menu. Dunno whether this is best hotel for mangalorean foods, but liked it!

Song for the day. This one is from movie parineetha, 'Piyu bole, Piya bole'. Again one more smashing hit in Sonu and Shreya combination. Have a lovely time with the song (English subtitles are also there in the video for non-hindi speaking people)

Solla Maranthuten!
Saw Valavan movie last weekend. It wasn't a great entertainer. And as promised I am not writing a spoiler review for it. I liked the first half of the movie. It was more casual and the story plot is about love as seen by this generation guys. Engeyo sontha kathai pakkirey mathiri oru feeling!! ;) Balakumaran's touch was seen in dialogues only at few scenes. Santhanam and gang done their comedy role neatly. Yuvan's songs are the real face saver. Editor could have played a little more proactive role in second half of the movie and could have reduced its length.

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A vagabond strolls on!

Today is my best friend's marriage. His is love marriage, as usual opposed by parents. But married his lover girl today in Alaipayuthey style 'Mangalayam thanthu nanena Navajeeva....' . He is my friend, philopsher and guide for my love from the day one. A big storm may come when they convey their marriage info in their home. Hope dust settles soon and the couple starts living together peacefully.
Best wishes and congrats for the lovely couple!

I am listening to this lovely song 'Pal Pal Pal' from Lage Raho Munnabhai. The song is about dilemma in the mind of the hero for telling a lie to win his girl's heart. He wants to convey that to his girl in a letter, but he fears about losing her. The girl doesn't know this fact, thinks the guy is writing a love letter to her. The lyrics and situation added more color to this song. The magical voice belongs to Sonu and Shreya.
For hindi lyrix, refer here
For English translation, you can look here and here.

Have you ever wondered the power of smell? Mysterious power of smell hijacks you to a different world altogether, it gives you a different feeling from normal state of life.... Few in that list
The 'man vasanai', the smell of sand which arise with first drops of rain
The green bug smell, which fills your nostril when you criss cross into their nature and world
The distinct dettol smell, which strikes you when you enter an hospital
The smell of your girl ;) Lemme play it safe here, this is hear say, inspired from the song 'Selai kattum pennukoru vasam unda?'

I am welcoming this weekend with 'Valavan' movie. Waiting to catch up with friends for the late night show of this movie tonight. I got a mixed review for this movie till now. Wait to hear from me. If movie is bad, I promise you that I wont write a spoiler review for sure ;) This whiz-kid simbhu's growth is amazing in tamil tinseldom. Hope he gives out one more good entertainer. Wish you all a happy weekend too!

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Kal Ho Na Ho

Love has not made me a poet! But gave me a heart to appreciate poetic lyrics.  Put on your headphones and listen to this song. I bet you will fly in different world altogether. 

Here is english translation of lyrics of the song 'Kal Ho Na Ho'.

Life changes it's beauty all the time
Sometimes it's a shade, sometimes life is sunlight
Live every moment hear to your heart's content
The time that is here may not be tomorrow

One who loves you whole-heartedly
It is difficult to meet that person
If there is someone like that somewhere
That person is more beautiful than all
Grab onto that (person's) hand
He or she may not be so gracious tomorrow
Live every moment here to your heart's content
The time that is here may not be tomorrow

Taking the shadow of your eyelashes, when someone comes near
You try to reason with your crazy heart
Your heart just goes on beating
But think, that which is here now
That story may not be here tomorrow
Life changes its beauty all the time
Sometimes it's a shade, sometimes life is sunlight
Live every moment here to your heart's content
The time that is here may not be tomorrow
The time that is here may not be tomorrow

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Hona Hain Tujhmein Fanaa

If the moon was to recommend me
This is what it would say to you
I want to drop the veil of decency
I want to cross the line with you
I insist on destroying myself
On destroying myself in you

If i tell you my true intentions
I am sure they will make you blush
If I make you hear my heartbeats
I am sure they will leave you flushed
But i can't hide my true feelings
For I must destroy myself in you

Lost your heart? I mean, did you fall in love with this song? Which attracted you the most?
Shaan's magical voice
Poetic Lyrics
Onscreen chemistry between Aamir and Kajol
Music

Disclaimer: Quoting arbitrary songs from movies has no personal relevance ;)

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House born in mind

I was thinking about the apartment that I would like to buy. It was a sleepy afternoon in home. My niece wanted me to sit with her, when she was enjoying teletubbies show. Was getting bored, I tried hard to concentrate and drew the apartment that I would like to buy. I am not a civil engineer to worry about the measurements, beam location, columns width... But the thought of home design is very interesting. I took an hour to put that imagination and dream into a piece of paper. Today I translated that paper drawing to computer using a freeware. The drawing is devoid of many details, but it is rough sketch of my expectations. My cousin is a flat promoter. Believe, he is going to have a tough time with me in building my apartment. :)

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Diwali Gala

Diwali gives us an occasion for family get-together. I love diwali for this reason. Crackers, sweets, visiting temple, new movies, big TV shows... can come next in priorities for diwali. When I landed back in office today morning, all friends greeted with same question "How did you diwali go?". I enjoyed and relaxed in this vacation. When my granny was there, diwali vacation used to pull in all family members. The time spent with cousins are best part of my childhood memories.

Chinna vayasu terrorists dialogues: ;)
Me: "Ippadiya iruntha evalo nalla irukkum! mmmm.....next week school will reopen...bore, bore! "
My cousin: "dont worry da, Iraq-ila Bush podara bomb onnu kooda target mari namma school-ila vizhamala poiyudum??!! :)"
Me: "Wow. appadi vizhuntha romba santhosam. Jolly"

On sunday, my brother was planning for a trip to sirkazhi (20 kms from my homeotown). He had to catch up with anni's side relatives it seems. He usually get bored in those visits, so he needed some company. He was calling me pasama "Satheesh, nangala ellam mama vitikku porum, neeiyum variyada?". I was not aware of his grand plans, so said yes. I had to get out of my comfortable couch for the trip (missed sleeping!). First we went to my mama's house, then to anni's relative place and then to anna's friends house. Visiting relatives during diwali can become a dangerous experiment at times, everybody will welcome you with lot of sweets. Everywhere I have to say 'hi' and chat with lot of unknown people. These chats are usual boring stuffs which turn me off in few minutes. Thank god, my niece was keeping me engaged throughout the evening. While coming back, I was polambfying with anna. "Ada, paavi, neethan kalyana pannikitu ella relatives vittikum porey, ponnum. Enna ethukada matti vittae.. :) " Anni was laughing all the while. I missed outing with friends on that day because of this trip.

My love story didn't get any importance during this visit. Nobody was talking about the past incidents now in house. So sad :( Dad started it in mid, but left it out saying "Unnaku unga ammaku thane problem. Solve it yourself. Nee love pannina ponnai unga amma thane parkalamey reject pannita. What to do?" Amma didn't open up this topic and all. I have no grudges on them for not speaking about my love. I ,myself, don't know the state of my love, then how on the world I can expect them to talk for me? Seri, seri, romba polambals vendom! :) Hope you guys had great diwali too.

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diwali galatta

I am in mid of diwali vacation with family. Hope you guys had fun filled diwali too. Vacation in home looks at times boring, too long to pass off. Thankfully it's time for family get-together and catching up time for lot of my school time buddies.

I was seeing 'Silinu oru kathal' movie with family yesterday. My expectation from the movie was nill, because of lot of spoiler reviews. Movie minus last 30 minutes is a real entertainer. The scenes between surya, Jo and their kid are too good to cause jealous within any married couple. Love after marriage is dealt beautifully in the story. In one scene, surya in a high state

Surya: "Nee ennai nalla santhoshma vachirikey. Are you happy with me?"
Jo:      "Naa enga ammakitey irunthathey vida, enga appakitey irundhatha vida, ungoda romba santhosama     iruken da"

Wow. Those words conveys proper answer to man's expectation in love. Every man wants to keep his girl happy and satisfied throughout his life. If his girl is happy, that makes him the happiest man in the world.The past story of surya isn't anything new. Can't avoid getting Deja Vu feeling in most of stuffs in college time love story. But you can't avoid it, as kollywood story tellers has done enough research before in love stories :)

Now time for spoiler review. Me and my friends landed in 100th movie of sarath. 'Thalaimagan'. On diwali day evening, after our usual chit-chat, we needed some movie to relax down. Unfortunately we were forced to this cinema, because other movies had enough audiences to fill in the hall. I know most of you will skip this movie, but writing a spoiler review now to save you, if you get a faint notion to watch this movie.
Hero as press reporter, Heroine as co-worker, Mineral water factory, hot dialogues, baddie lady police cop, one more politician villain, comeon, you can write this story yourself after this. Vadivelu tries his best to keep the audience alive for few lighter moments, couldn't do much. We should have run away from the cinema after first introduction song of hero, that is sung by sarath himself ;) But we were out of movie hall after the second song. Ohh man, I could not even think about anything interesting in the movie. Rating is highly avoidable.

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Happy Diwali!

Wish you all a happy Diwali!

 

Wish this Diwali adds more happiness and prosperity in your life!

 

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You are not that bad!

People who believe in first impressions don't like me much. As an inane introvert, I don't go and speak with some strangers. I call it the reserved attitude, but people call it arrogancy. Once my friend told me "When I saw you for the first time, I thought you are a guy with lot of thimiru (arrogancy); who wants to talk to you?". This is the honest feedback on my first impression. Nothing got changed till now. It still remain same but for people who follow my blog. Now I am getting feedbacks as a guy with some sensible thoughts too ;

Three months ago, when I spoke about my love to my girl, she wanted me to meet her sister and brother-in-law. That meeting idea made me more conscious. You got to market yourself in those situations, which I had never done before. Frankly, I don't believe in my look or my first impression. Baffling situation gave me some confidence also. I said to myself "You are not going to lose anything. If meeting goes positive, you may end up with two more friends. So cool and be yourself".

Me:  "Hey, how good you akka and athimber are?"
She: "They are very nice people, you will enjoy the dinner with them"
Me:  "Ohh, that good to hear, I want to give them a good first impression. What's gonna be your dress for the evening?"
She: "Why?"
Me:  "Thought we could wear some dress which will make us look like made-for-each-other pair"
She: "Comeon....let's not pretend ok? We are. We will be ourself"

Later we meet them in the restaurant. They are indeed nice couple, found myself comfortable in speaking to them. We, techies, share a common thread which can weave us in one society. We had lot of common topics to chat about. And I was in my high spirits that day. Besides, their friendly attitude made me feel at home. After hours of chat, we left for the day. I pinged my girl in the next day morning to know about my feedback.
She: "You are not that bad da! They liked you. You got some sensible thoughts also in your head"
Me : "Thank god. You made my day"

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Desert Rose And Alchemist

• If you wonder whether arabian desert sands are the only connection between those two on subject line, well, there exist one more: me and my friends.
  
• I was listening to the 'Desert Rose' song by sting. This song has a special place in my heart, it reminds me of my close friend. We met as a strangers when I attended interview for my last company. I was fighting to get a good career then, work remained my first love then(even now). We never shared much in first half of that career, other than occasional smiles, hi's and bye's. This statement look interesting on hindsight as she is my best friend now. I bug her a lot these days for each and every headache I face in life. The first few short mails we used to share was only about songs. She introduced a lot of fine music and songs into my world. This desert rose is one among them. The lyrics in the song are philosphical and intriguing.
  
  I dream of rain
  I dream of gardens in the desert sand
  I wake in pain
  I dream of love as time runs through my hand
  
  I dream of fire
  Those dreams are tied to a horse that will never tire
  And in the flames
  Her shadows play in the shape of a man's desire
  
  This desert rose
  Each of her veils, a secret promise
  This desert flower
  No sweet perfume ever tortured me more than this
  
• The Alchemist is my favorite book till now. This never answered any of my inner questions; but kindled the fire to look for answers. Again my best friend from college time intoduced this book of change. We were roommates during my days in Trivandrum. His talks always touch the line of spirituality to a fine extent. 'Anbe sivam' movie, talks we had on the road side restaurants about the life, Balakumaran novels, weekend cricket on medical college grounds are green in my heart. Now I don't have contact with this friend :(
  
  Few lines paraphrased from the book:
  If you want to achieve anything in life, go for it. The whole world will conspire in your favor to achieve that goal.
  The man become perfect when he understand the soul of life is what present everywhere in the world: the soul in sun, the soul in wind, the soul in heat...
  
  

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5000 and goes on....

• Check the visitor's number is top of left column in my blog. It crossed 5000. Hurray!
• The number of blog posts crossed 200 recently.
• And it has been exactly two years since I started this blog. I posted my first entry in october 2004.
• My blog was left unnoticed for long time, untill GP discovered it. Now I have lot of friends for my blog. I like to convey my special thanks to all my blogger friends. Happy blogging folks!
• I like to give a treat to this 5000th visitor. Here are his details as captured by sitemeter tracker. If you know me, you can claim your treat whenever we meet next.
   
• Happy Diwali wishes in advance! Wish this diwali add more color and brings in more happiness and prosperity in your life!
  

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This girl is crazy!

I have heard people receiving blank calls and blank sms before. I am also under that attack for the first time. A girl is calling on my mobile phone continously from today afternoon and it is not complete call. She gives out a missed call and then sends me some stupid sms :) If I try to call back the number or attend the call and ask about her, she says she can't hear my voice. I gave it to my friend in the next time. She replied to him clearly that she want to talk to me only ;) We are having hearty laugh now.  Ohh boy....she should be crazy!

Her sms-es started like this
Who is there

and goes on, on and on...
Few words to u but i can't when i hear ur voice
Just few words plz
Plz plz plz talk to me i wil be more happy
Tis is rashmi from coimbatore
Plz plz plz sorry sorry plz cal or talk to me beg u plz

 

I got this sms after I posted the sms to my blog.

U hurt much sorry extremely terribly sorry i won't disturb  u i'l pray 4 u i am always ur welwisheru teasingme with ur friendsbye withtears don't take big issue

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Random rambles

My weekend was a mixed bag. I had tried out few new restaurants with my friends and went to fun world/star city/water world. I was in office even on weekends :( definitely not for work but for catching up with frens :)

Teased taste buds in two new restaurants: the Rendezvous and the Umerkot in koramangala. The Rendezvous is an european restaurant, had steaks and pizza on last saturday. Those guys played it safe by making it a bar cum restaurant. The menu includes lot of known and unknown euro dishes. The ambinence in Umerkot takes you to the mughalai time frame, it has a niche wine bar too with various vintage classics. Had briyani in this, defnitely worth a shot. I would classify it best, in par with the Hyderbadi House briyanis. The Hyderbadi House become a regular for all my friends here. Bangalore offers a wide range of restaurants that improves the quality of living. If you happen to stay in Bangalore, definitely try your hand in these three restaurants.

We were planning for a trip to the Chunchi Falls in kanakapura road, 75 kms off the city. We couldn't made it up in the end. The saturday nights in the city become more crowded. The pubs here are overflowing with techies. The population of fairer sex seems to be ever in rise in pubs and salsa classes :) Guys, time for you to wake up and match with the freaky girls of the city.

The fun world isn't that fun. The bowling alley in the star city is the only worthy spot in the whole environment. The other rides and swimming pool side rides are not upto the mark. My trip to wonderla in the past was the real spoiler, couldn't stop comparing these rides with lavish facility in wonderla. Few photos from the trip are below.

I try to list down the reasons.

• I love this city because,
• quality of living is high compared to other places
• people run with attitude to enjoy, which has to be welcomed
• city got affinity towards adventure sports and weekend outings
• city got some nice outing spots for day outing and helluva lot of trek spots
• I hate this city because,
• there is a big local inflation in the prices
• people are misusing the unlimited freedom
• city can spoil you, if you aren't principle centred
• traffic sucks at times!

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I will kill you if you die

Dont think this is some drunkard's statement, it's cliche dialogue in this movie. Wow, this gets a position in my worst-ever movies list ;) My rating for the movie is not just avoidable, but run away from the cinema showing this movie. It is sick movie, I had bad dreams in night after seeing this. Guess it will take more than a week to get rid of effect of this movie. Period. The story line is again based on paranoic schizoprenia. God only knows how many movies going to discuss in same subject line. Heroine has a pathetic life and besides she gets affected by this disease also. Hero, Shiney Ahuja, plays the role of movie director. He uses heroine's fame for his new venture. But falls in love after knowing that she has become bimar. The appearance of Rani,the imaginary friend of heroine is terrible. Whenever she comes on screen, I can feel the uncomfortness in the whole cinema hall. Songs are the breathing occasions in the whole movie. Like modern days bollywood movies, this one also tries to use the skin factor to add color to the movie. My friend was telling the dialogues are good, don't know in which form. The few english dialogues I heard were pathetic.

Heroine on one occasion says: "I love you Adi, I love you too much"
Hero: "Shit....it's already 4.30 in morning"

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Friends makes our life!

Friends leave an indelible impression in your mind and thoughts. When I find good character in my friends, I cheer about it. This post is about the best behaviors and characters I have seen till now.

• Paying back to the society: We drew a lot of energy from people around us. We would have not reached what we are today without our society. I got a head start in the social work with the inspiration of my friend. It was a selfish world till then- my life, my work and my family. Turning back to Jan 1 2005, it was just a week after Tsunami. I was pulled into rehabilitation work along with Aid India movement in Chennai by this friend of mine. It was the first time ever I could see people living without proper shelters, families seeking alms with any strangers they could meet, kids running everywhere looking for someones help and youths working with zeal in helping people of their society. Alas, it was a tear jerking experience then. Aid India distributed dresses to those people on that day. That experience pushed me into working as volunteer in Dream A Dream.
  

• Adopting a child: It is not an easy to get into a paradigm of adopting a kid and taking care for their life time. One of my friend wished to do that. That thought itself is truly inspiring and left me dumbfounded for long time.
  She: "Satheesh, I am going to this home of orphans in Bangalore regularly. Had seen enough of their pains. Had seen the joy in their face when they see me. Now I am decided after my marriage ,I am going to adopt a kid from this home."
  Me: "mmm...your guy may not agree to it, right??"
  She: "Well, If it is arranged marriage ,I care a damn for his wish :) My first kid will be adopted. Just because my marriage is going towards love side, I will get one kid for my guy and then my second kid will be from this home"
  :) Clarity in thoughts and clarity on what she wants and she don't want really astonished me.
  
  
• Friends: All through my life, I had shown an independent behavior. My friends list is big, yet I never went into close friendship with most of them. But one friend of mine showed me the wonders of friendship. Friends enjoy the time when they chat with this friend of mine. They go a long way in helping and protecting this friend's life.
  

PS: The post script is not related to the subject of this post. But its about my favorite subject ' LOVE'. Here goes a soft melody that speaks about the character necessary for love. Ofcourse thanks to english subtitles, I would not have understood the meaning of this lyrics ;) Keep a check list of what's good on you, if it matches with what said in song, then your girl should be truly lucky.

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A magic called love!

• Love stories always proved to be successful plot for movies, at least in India. If people can relate to love stories in movies and support them, why on the world they oppose love in real life? Parents speak to kids about movies, family, culture, songs, functions and other paraphernalia's. But how on the world they forget to mention their stand on the love on real life? I had interesting argument with my Anni (bhabhi) regarding discrepancy in my parents' stand on love. Me: "Our family is cheating younger generation. All the time, they give an impression that they are free to kids, open to kids, and they are open to love marriage also. But when it hits them on their face, they cry, gets depressed, gets worried a lot. Isn't it double stand on their part?" Anni: "mmm....true. But there are some confusion in you guys' stand also" Me: "Why? when it come to love, I went and spoke to my dad that I love so-and-so, and asked for permission and wish in the marriage? If they are not going to accept love marriages, they should have brought up me from childhood saying that they wont allow any bull shit called love....but why didn't they do it?" Anni: "But wait...did you ask your dad's permission to say your love to your girl. You first proposed to her and then only came to your dad for getting his permission for marriage, right??" "Then you don't have rights to ask them to open up about their stand on love marriage" "If you ask them before proposing that girl, probably you would have known their true position" Me: (couldn't argue further) "mmm....But Anni. I have to be man of the family at times when it comes to take decisions. I loved her, i decided that she will be my girl for my life and then propose to her. I can't ask permissions for taking decision and all....come on...I got to be strong these times " :)
• Seeing movies with family are the best time where you can roll in the discussions in home. This time, when i was in home for pooja holidays, it was more like a faily reunion. I was spending time with my dad, mom, Anna, Anni and my niece harini. On Sunday, We were seeing 'something, something' movie. It's also love story movie where the playboy hero falls in love with his dream girl. His mom spoils the scene by scolding her. Here hero decides to go for his love further, goes to her village, works in the farmlands along with herAnna . There were some challenges he had to meet to marry his girl. The whole village conspires in his favor for his love and he marries his girl in the end.Of Course happy ending fairy love tale. There were couple of interesting moments/discussions during the movie in my family Anni got bored in the flow of movie in mid and "evalo love movie varumo theriyiley...koncham bore adikudu, ila" Me: "Anni, don't undermine love movies. Those are hit subjects in tamil movie world. See how hero loves his girl. It is good to see. It got to be a hit movie. Love is truly the best thing to happen in one's life" Anni: (with smile) "ada paavi, nadavulle, unga love matter-iku support theduriya" :) During the scene when hero's mom scolds the girl, I was looking at my mom's reactions. So sad, She didn't show any reaction, just silently she was seeing the movie. But dad left the room calling it is too boring for him to see. :)
• One sub-question to this post on love. Why on the world movie exaggerate love? If you listen to few lyrics on love songs, they are exaggerating a lot about love. SPB in song from same movie: "aagayam ithena nall mann methu vizhamal thoonaga thangavathu kathal than...., aanda dandu kalangal boomiyul pookal poopaka karanema kathal than..." The lyrics in this song are written with good aim to potray of love, but most I found to be too much exaggeration. Why can't movie directors strike a balance in portraying love in movies- much like a practical love? The near-optimum movie I have seen in love is "alaipayuthey" . Maniratnam strikes a practical attempt to discus what is love in real life. All love issues are there in the movie too, but mostly dealt in close relation to real life. Everywhere he leave the audience with question "Is it the feeling you are seeing the true love?" rather than preaching what true love is. Lovely movieyaar!
• I have a post below. Cheery News . And I have kept the question open till end of the day, just to see how interesting people’s imagination is going to be. Again, this post has got nothing to do with that question. ;)

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changes after marriage!

Changes in life after marriage are innumerable and hopefully interesting too. Recently I was browsing through smiling girl's narration of changes in her life after her marriage. Life looks like a dream when we meet our girl, fall in love and get married. Life may not be so green after marriage. During love life, you would have met your girl for 3-4 hours a day and/or utmost spend a day or two during trips. After marriage, she starts living with you all the time. You got to meet her even if you are happy or sad, excited or tired down. Teasing times will pass by to check your true love for your partner. Gosh! It’s too complicated.

"My dil goes mmm..." song from Salaam Namaste is about these changes. My knowledge on Hindi is very limited. It's been my favorite song for long time. I checked the English translation of lyrics today and no doubt that "my heart goes mmm..." to the lyrics also.

[+] I have a post below. Cheery News . And I have kept the question open for one more day, just to see how interesting people’s imagination is going to be. This post has got nothing to do with that question.

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Cheery News!

After months of depression, and hell a lot of blog posts in melancholy, this post is indeed about some good news from my end. No, I am not going to say about the news now. Take a guess. Comments section is all yours now, pour in your imagination about what could that news be.

Sticky entry at 5PM IST: Lot of people (only 2) guessed it correct! Thanks a lot for all your wishes!

Got promotion in office. My new designation is PROJECT LEAD  Hurray! :)

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Astrology - A sheer stupidity!

I am skeptic about influence of sun sign or moon sign on people’s behavior. Suppose your sun-sign says you are an extrovert, social, very polite and moon sign says you are an introvert, independent, arrogant and reserved, which one to believe?

There are only 12 sun signs and 27 moon signs, is that mean the whole 6 billion plus population has to behave in only 12 different ways or 27 different styles?

All weekly predictions based on sun signs almost have general and vague statements like "you will be happy for first half of the week", "you will travel to different places", "and you will meet your love partner". Don’t you think these stupid and vague predictions will hold good for any damn people.

Astrologer will say "Sun is in 12th place" and it is bad for your career. So go to this temple, that temple. If you believe his words and starts spending your time in pilgrimage tour, then only your boss will take serious note of you.

Gemology is one more stupidity added up in this modern era. Gemologist may foresee some bad happenings in your life and suggest you some stones. Ask him to do it for charity or less money, he will give all bull shit reasons. "Gems are precious stones", "wearing impure gems will worsen your state"... Almost all the stones he suggests will be non-precious stones. But still people spend lots of money in those.

Now people are even predicting human nature by the way you sleep. Come on, I can’t stop laughing at this. I sleep in 3-4 different styles during the course of my sleep. Does that mean I have different character each time I turn back in bed?

People may argue astrology is an ancient science. If that is the case, why don't we think of offering B.Sc (Bachelor of Science) degree for studying astrology?

If you get enthused by these predictions, go here and be happy to know your death date also.

PS: Something to cheer about. The number of my friends in orkut crossed 200. And the number of scrap messages for me in orkut crossed 1000. Silly little things, yet these give some joy in these teasing times.

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Tag on deeds!

Found this tag from The Smiling Girl's blog. It's about your actions in the past and the one who want to do in future. It is a big post though. for the full list, you gotto refer to source tag in Smiling girl's blog.

What I did:

03. Climbed a mountain (trekked in Himalayan snow peak once, few other trips to mountains nearby)
08. Said 'I love you' and meant it ;)
13. Stayed up all night long and saw the sun rise (Did this once during college, stayed up all night not to see sun rise, but not for flunking a crazy exam)
19. Slept under the stars (in summer vacation in my native village. Tht kindles the green memories of childhood spent with cousins)
20. Changed a baby's diaper (Does helping my anni and akka in bringing their kids count?)
30. Had a snowball fight
33. Seen a total eclipse (In this city, during college excursion)
36. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking (Always! That's what I am doing in Swingers now)
38. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment (Yes. I am down only on few occasions in life)
42. Had amazing friends (Tough times help you identify your dear frens. Now I have the list)
52. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love (Yep. I am still in)
57. Pretended to be a superhero (Thinks like that ;))
59. Lounged around in bed all day (What big work have you got when you go home these days...sleep, sleep baby sleep for the whole day)
64. Played in the rain (hundreds of time)
84. Performed on stage (Yep)
96. Raised children (Spent long time with all younger kids in my family during their formative years)
100. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over (not once, 4 times till now)
110. Broken someone's heart (Sad, but yes)
141. Thought to yourself that you're living your dream
146. Dyed your hair (Dyed hair didn't look that bad...so not embarrased much)

What I wanna do:

07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
10. Bungee jumped
18. Touched an iceberg
21. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
49. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Kissed in the rain (Pretty good one!)
67. Started a business
70. Taken a martial arts class (Planning to join one soon)
128. Had your picture in the newspaper (Hopefully not for bad deeds)
129. Changed someone's mind about something you care deeply about (I Wish I get this magic power)
138. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language (Speaking to someone who is not ready to speak to you is also included in this, right?? :))

PS: Love is truly powerful. Everyone enjoy the moment they know they are in love. Isn't it? Tom cruise funny action in Oprah show says it loudly.

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Wonderla Weekend!

I and my friends were in Wonderla this weekend. This theme park near Bangalore has both dry rides and water rides. The usual suspects in theme parks viz. wave pool, twisters, splash cars... catches attention easily. The new and risky ones like techno jump, Insanity are few uncomfortable rides, but give the enough adrenaline rush :)

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Engagement Gift Ideas For You!

Engagement is the time when a guy gifts his girl officially ;) Most of the engagement gift ideas are associated with romance. Anything related with romance gets a place in my blog for sure. (Huh...friends, Hope no speculations/gossips after this post ;)) .Here are few cool and romantic thoughts. Vote for your favorite gift for your would-be and reason it out also.

a) Gold Pendant

b) Diamond Ring

c) Hi-tech Electronic gadget viz. Mobiles, Blackberry,i-pod...

d) A Kiss

e) Pre-Marriage trip to Swiz

f) Your choice. ;)

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Romantic Faux pas

"Hee, hee..."innu vazhirathu romba sagajampa. I was seeing Kushi Tamil movie in TV today. In one scene, Vijay tries to pull words from Jyothika (Jo) to know whether she likes him or not. Dialogues go like this:

V: Jenni, Unnaku yara romba pudikum?
J : mm...Appa. Ennaku appava rumba pudikum!
V: (got surprised) Correct.Appa-thane nammakku uyir koduthathoo. Appa than ellamum. Next..??
J : Amma
V: (got surprised, but getting little irritated also) Athuvam sari. Ammavum appa polathan. Appuram??
J : Mani Ratnam
V: (confused)??
J : film director
V: (got irritated) mm..Right. He is a good director. Nice film maker. Next
J : AR Rahman
V: (got highly irritated) Music director? Amammm. He is a nice music director. Jeni. Ithellam common-a ellarukum pudikira people. Unnaku particular-aa pecial-aa yara pudikum???
J : (now she got confused) Nee yariyo pudikumiunnu sollanum ninakira! ;) Yarunu sollu, naa pudikiuma pudikathainnu sollren??
V: Hee..hee...hee...
He escapes from the scene with simple vazhiyals smile.

Hope you guys has faced similar situation in your life many a times. You might have wanted to know whether your girl friend is also interested in you. One moment I could remember is: I have a close friend (who is a girl). I love speaking to her, love spending time with her. Basically I am very much interested in her. But I didn’t know what her feelings towards me are. The best idea I could get was to write this blog post. How-to propose your girl? I sent the link to that friend after publishing the post in my blog and asked for her comments ;) Her comments and my replies are strictly classified as vazhiyals ;) If you missed the action before, refer the comments in that post.

Dont just stop with a smile. Feel free to share your jollu experience ;)

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Shakira!

Disclaimer: This post is just for adding glamour quotient to my blog!

Shakira is new pop wave hitting guys' dream now. I hate Britney more than how much I love Shakira. Shakira is far better than Britney Spears. What do you say? You never seen her in action before. Here we go...

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Dear Dad and Mom, I Love You!

In past, I fell into the trap of forgetting my roots. There are times where I fought with my dad and mum and I didn't obey their words. I don't speak much with my dad and mum daily. I was trained to live independent from undergrad days. The simple conversations we have can't be even classified as chats between normal friends. Dad has an explanation for this"after certain age, you got to be independent; parents have to maintain a distance to let their kid grow up". I even crib to my parents that we don't go for family outings. The best picnics I remember were to nearby temples.

My telephone conversations with my parents seldom change. A typical chat:
Dad: "Hi Satheesh, Nalla irukiya?"
Me: "Mmm Dad, nalla irukken. Neenga eppadi irukenga? Amma nalla irukangala?"
Dad: "Ooruku eppo varey?"
Me: "Theriyilipa, And I get bored if I come home. May be I will come during festival times"
Dad: "Ammakite pesariya?! Wait pannu"
Me: "mmmm..."
Mom: "Nalla irukiya da, dance class nalla pocha, dinner acha?!" and the usual queries
Me: "Amma...neriya question kettu paduthathey ma"
Mom: "Ooruku eppo varey"
Me:" Who is there in mayuram ma...I will get bored if I come there ma"
Mom: "Naangala irukkomila??..."
Me: "mmm..."
Mom: "seri...decide panni sollu. I will get tickets for you"
Me: "mmm...Good night ma. Appavukkum good night sollu ma."

The telephonic conversations we have shows the distance I had with my parents. The more I grow in my career; more I got into the trap of forgetting my roots. I would not have reached this place if my parents decide to curb me. It is the freedom they gave made me a human being. I never had bad time in my life before. I never cried much in my life. I never had to work hard to achieve more in life. Though I haven’t born with silver spoon, I never had any trouble during my formative years.Even then I cribbed day before yesterday. "Naan unga kooda close illathathukka karanum, neenga enna seriya vallakula" (You haven't brought me well, that's the reason why I am not coming close to you)

Even though I fight with parents in the past, they never let me down. There was a time I had SMS fight with my dad.

Me: "Kids tell their interests to parents once in a while. But if parents don't listen to them, that kills the spirit in kids. They don’t come ever afterwards to parents. I behaved much matured manner by coming to you and asking for permission. But you and mom spoilt the whole scene by keeping me in dark and spoke wrong things to right people."
Dad: "Dear Satheesh. I accept that we behaved in immature way. We have grown up in village side where all these are still bad. We opposed what we found is wrong. But I love you. I can accept anything for you to make you live your life happily". These are the times I fought in a childish way with my parents. But my parents love me even with all this inhibitions of mine.

They know what's going on in my mind even without speaking single word. This time when I went home, I wasn't in my high spirits. Both never failed to notice that big let down in my face. I was dull for the whole day. At the end of the day, mom and dad called me.
Mom: "I know things went wrong. Let's talk it out"
Dad: "It's tough time for us to see our son like this...please calm down. Let's speak out the issues"
All these words came from them even after me let them down in the past. I couldn't stop breaking down before them. I was crying in my mother’s lap for hours.
Me: "I haven't done any mistake. But my life is royally messed up now. What wrong I did to you ma? Why haven't you believed me?" I was pointing my fingers on my mom for all troubles in my life. How stupid I am?
Mom: "Satheesh. Nee onnum thappu panneleda. Let me be the one who has to suffer for killing your feelings. Please don't break down. I am just holding my life to make your life happier."
Whatever I speak, I know my mom won't hate me. I am not a great human being; I blame others for my mistake. I have so much wrong on my side to correct myself. Even then I know my parents will love me forever.

In evening, while I was starting back to Bangalore,
Mom: "Satheesh, tickets ethutiya? Change irukka? water bottle vennuma?"
Me: "Amma....pls. Nee teacher-a irukalam. Athukaga, neriya kelvi kettu, romba paduthathey ma"
Mom: "mmm...unnaku parents pasam-ina eppo puriyathuda!!"
I didn't reply then. I probably can’t understand my parents love for me in the whole life. Amma and Appa are always like that. I am always like this -last worlds' freak. We never going to talk like close friends. Yet I love my dad and mom!

Dear dad and mom,
I am really feeling sorry for letting you down in the past. Really sorry ma! Really sorry Appa!! I know you will accept my sorry. I know you don't even need my sorry or I love you message. But I love you. I love you so much; love you more than anyone else in this world.

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Random rambles

• I saw "Something, Something, Unakkum, Enakkum" movie this weekend. It came out very well. Definitely, this post is not the movie review. J The movie plot is quite impractical, but still it won because people want lovers to fight out any damn problem. Anything is fair in love. Isn't it?
• Why Techies slog back in office for long time? Techie and late night office hours become inseparable twins. Managers in tech startups rely heavily on their engineers. The tradeoff between the business development and engineering innovation is not arrived at most of time. Being a company with hunger to grow more, marketing guys push for more product development opportunities. Engineering team with enthusiasm to support the company, tend to push their limits to meet customer demand. This is what we call slogging. Slogging for long time give a kind of satisfaction to Techies. In the end of the day, if you could win some more pennies for your company, that's the winning spirit. Work is first love for me. The 9-hour job schedule can be implemented in big companies. I am not saying that these guys don't have enthusiasm to work more. But in those biggies, planning and execution are also counted. When systems fall in place, slogging can be reduced. But I personally hate working for 9 hours only for a day. It gives a feeling of working in government companies. L
• My favorite song from the movie "Parijatham". I couldn't tell which is USP of this song: Love, melody, camera, that rain background, casts… But it got that magic in it.

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Long weekend

After long time, I am traveling home bound. Gandhi Jayanthi with pooja holidays gave all Techies a long weekend here. Hope all would have been back to work after the weekend; I am still away from my office. I am on continuous travel. Will update you with photos of the trip later.

• Saturday was Ayutha Pooja. I was with my sithappa and his factory on this occasion. My sithappa is my role model; his story is always inspiring for first generation entrepreneurs. He is expanding his factory here in Chennai and also in Middle East.
• On last Sunday, Did you guys noticed a full-page advertisement in leading newspapers speaking about AV Birla scholarships and candidates who secured it? Mahesh Nair, IIM-C PGDM student is also in the list. He is my CAT exam trainer in TIME koramangala institute. Enjoyed that proud moment to see a known friend bestowed with that rare honor. Kudos Mahesh! Best wishes.
• Monday is celebrated as Vijayadashmi, day for goddess of education, Saraswathi in this part of world. We went to Saraswathi temple nearby my town. It's for my niece who will be on school rolls from next year. :) This temple is always been dear to my heart. During my plus two exam, my friends and me made a trip to this temple. The belief is to get your new exam pen and yourself blessed by Saraswathi to score best marks :) The temple has grown more popular these days and has now a big white graffiti board where you can scribble your exam registration number. Don't know how poor goddess can cater to so many pupil's request fro good marks??!! :)
• Wednesday in Karnataka wide bandh as I heard last before leaving Bangalore. Is it legal to call for bandh these days? Bandh sucks :(

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