Friday, July 29, 2005 

Fortune

Not sure how many of you have used fortune in linux. It is one fantastic tool, really lightens u up, when you are in a bad shape.

For those of you who have no idea what I am talking about,
 " Fortune is a tool which prints a random, hopefully interesting, adage."

Not sure if everybody will enjoy it, but still wanted to post it, since it brought me out of a pit.

My favorites

--1--
Rules:
(1) The boss is always right.
(2) When the boss is wrong, refer to rule 1.

--2--
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
-- Beckett

--3--
"In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos

--4--
Mosher's Law of Software Engineering:
Don't worry if it doesn't work right.
If everything did, you'd be out of a job.

 --5--
We will have solar energy as soon as the utility companies solve one technical problem
-- how to run a sunbeam through a meter.

--6--
Information Center, n.:
A room staffed by professional computer people whose job it is to tell you why you cannot have the information you require.

 --7--
Albert Einstein, when asked to describe radio, replied:
"You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long
cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing
in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates
exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive
them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."

--8--
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
-- Disraeli

All of you guys have a nice weekend !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3:12 PM | |

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 

Kavithai potti

Ellorukkum vanakkam,
Thot of giving a shot to the kavithai potti in Narayanan Saar's blog.


Enakkku kavithai ezhuthara alavukku ellam thamizh theriyaadhu. Even though it is my mother tongue, I have never learnt it properly per se as I was b&b up in kerala.

Gave it a shot, just for the heck of it.

The sleeping poet in me has awaken [summa build up]

Nambikkai
***********************************************************
Enakku parisu kidaikkum enru nambikkai ellai..
yaaen?
Enakku en kavithai mel nambikkai ellai
yean?
Kavithaikku poi mel nambikkai anaal
Enakku unmai mel nambikkai
***********************************************************

Okay everybody can start laughing....anaa onnu mattum sollaren, pirkaalathula naan oru periya kaviyaa vantha, onga gathi ellam kapeets.
eppadikku ungal idam irunthu vidai peruvathu..

peru echo effect la vijay ..vijay...vijay..................vijay ..vijay...vijay..................vijay ..vijay...vijay..................

3:10 PM | |

Tuesday, July 26, 2005 

Songs

I was listening to this song, then thot of posting about it. It is the song "aasai mugham maranthu" written by Barathiyaar, the popular version of the song is in Jonpuri raagam

The song goes like this

"Aasai mugam marandhu poachchae - idhai
yaaridam solvaenadi thoazhi
naesam marakkavillai nenjam - enil
ninaivu mugam marakkalaamoa

kannil theriyudhoru thoatram - adhil
kannanazhagu muzhidhillai
nannu mugavadivu kaanil - andha
nalla malarch chirippaik kaanoam

thaenai marandhirukkum vandum - olich
chirappai marandhuvitta poovum
vaanai marandhirukkum payirum - indha
vaiyam muzhudhumillai thoazhi

kannan mugam marandhupoanaal - indha
kangalirundhu payanundoa
vannap padamumillai kandaay - ini
vaazhum vazhiyennadi thoazhi "

 Even though I am big fan of Barathi's songs, what attracted me to this song was the last stanza. "Kannan mugham maranthu ponaal entha kangal irunthu payanundo". What is the use of my eyes if I forget my Kannan's face.

I was amazed at the depth of passion and devotion portrayed in this song, which made me think have I ever shown such amounts of devotion to any work that I have ever done/will do. :))
Being from where I am, things are pre-fixed, do engg, do MS in US, and get some work.. get married ..blah....it goes. Out of all these years, what was my levels of passion and interest for all the stuff I have done is some thing to think about!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

1:55 PM | |

Thursday, July 21, 2005 

Quick ones??

Well looks like a lot of bloggers post "Quick ones", why are they called quick ones I dont know!!!!!!
I found these in a news letter lying outside a Japanese fast food place..!!!!!!!

__A__
After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know I was a fool when I married you", and the husband replies, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice it"

__B__
Golf is a lot like business, you drive hard to get in the green, and then you know, wind up in a hole

__C__
Whats the difference between apathy and ignorance? .. I dont know and I dont care!!


__D__
A asked B what did you dream last night...B says "I dont remember I slept through most of it"

__E__
A was on his death bed when his wife B tiptoed into the bedrom and asked if he has any last wishes. "Actually, my dear, there is one thing I really would like beofre I go off to that great shamrock in the sky", "A piece of that wonderful chocolate cake of yours"
B says "Oh but you cant have that ", "I am saving it for the wake"

*none of these are mine, Respective owners hold copyright

10:23 AM | |

Friday, July 15, 2005 

Kallakkal Kathaikal -- Star Wars Episode IV - Revenge of Power Parasuram


One amazing forward that I got from somewhere.




The movie has no connection with any of the other stars wars pictures screened. The first scene starts in a Chinese Space station when Chinese scientist claims to have spotted a new comet heading our way and sends the message to NASA for confirmation. On the contrary NASA with its advanced technology in hands finds out that it was not a comet that was spotted but a huge space ship (extra terrestrial aliens coming to conquer the earth)which transmits a signal to earth to surrender or face complete destruction. Shocked by this all the world leaders panic and discuss on resolving the situation.

Then comes a suggestion from an Old Russian space scientist (played by nazar) who claims to have found some info on this alien ship years back during the cold war. He reveals that there is one and only one person in the earth who can defeat the aliens and save the earth from complete destruction. Guess who? None other than our CAPTAIN Bharat Bajaj (played by our captain Vijaykanth who is claimed to be an extra terrestrial child) who lives in a remote village with his wife (played by Mallika Sherawat who is a village girl but still flashes in modern attire) along with his cow Kamachi and Kamachi's son. Meanwhile NASA people come to Vijaykanth asking for his help to evade earth's dooms day .At first he refuses but later accepts due to pressure from Mallika.

Vijaykanth lands at NASA with a torn shirt and his Dhoti .Most in NASA remain skeptic about his abilities to resolve the situation .Vijaykanth orders some of the Scientists to build a space craft and gives them the design and tells them he wants it within 3 days. One of the scientists insults Vijaykanth saying he is a barbaric villager and what he knows about space craft design and he has no knowledge of space sciencezzzzzzzzz Vijaykanth starts telling the scientist about details of aeronautical stuff (gives all details) and also blames about the present corrupt political situation (dunno why all of a sudden this came in the picture) and keeps talking to a point where the scientists ears bleeds and they falls at Vijaykanth feet to stop. After the space craft is built he sets off with his pilot (played by Vadivelu) heading towards the alien space craft.

During his journey Vijaykanth's spacecraft is hit by a meteor and the craft spins into high revolution and captain falls unconscious. zzzzzzz all of a sudden the captain is in a duet with our Mallika sherawat wearing economical attire (lyric: Manadee manava unn munal meteor ellam mannu da).Naughty captain plays around with Mallika with miniskirt (you get the drift right!!!-Commercial stuff). Then he lands on the enemy alien space ship and finds out that a huge army of aliens are ready to attack the earth under the leadership of a dark evil leader(played by Raghuvaran) who is called as Lord Helmet(because he wears a black helmet). Vijaykanth takes out his saber (that star warz sword)and fights all of the army all by himself(Vadivelu too kills a few aliens with a spanner) and heads towards lord Helmet to defeat him. The big fight starts and goes on for sometime, as the fight goes on lord helmet's helmet falls off and his face is revealed. zzzzz Vijaykanth is shocked to find out the lord helmet is none other than his father (The story of this will appear in the next star warz prequel).

As the fight proceeds lord helmet gets weaker so he makes his runaway and he takes Vijaykanth's space ship and heads towards the earth zzzzzz Vijaykanth follows him and chases him. Lord helmet goes straight to vijaykanth's house and holds Mallika captive while Vijaykanth rushes to her rescue but he is interrupted by Pakistani terrorists and attacked (reason unknown).though the terrorists have big guns and bombs they go on to a have a hand fight with Vijaykanth, a huge number of terrorists gangs up on Vijaykanth and fight(The stunts are similar to the matrix movie part 2) as the fight proceeds Vijaykanth falls to the ground just then the camera focuses on new pairs of legs It is none other than Keanu reeves who tells Vijaykanth "neega ponga annae evugakuda naan velayaduran"zzzzzzz

Vijaykanth hits his place and rushes to rescue Mallika and defeat Lord helmet for once and for all. Little does he know that Lord Helmet has a booby trap set for Vijaykanth who keeps walking towards it unaware. Tension mounts as Vijaykanth nears the trap all of a sudden Kamachi madu (cow) comes in between and sacrifices it life to save Vijaykanth's life. The death of Kamachi puts all of them into a big shock including Kamachi's son. Vijaykanth swears to kill lord helmet and he breaks a window glass (usual old Tamil movie stunt) and falls on lord helmet and they start the fight. This time Vijaykanth gets badly injured and at a point drops his sword and falls to the ground. Just as Lord helmet raises his sword to stab Vijaykanth zzzzzzzzzz the expression on lord helmet's face changes and he falls to the ground and dies. zzzz Cow Kamachi's son PARASURAM has killed lord Helmet to take revenge for his mother's death (hence the title) zzzzzz the next scene is a duet song with Mallika Sherawat and the movie ends.

12:43 PM | |

Saturday, July 09, 2005 

House wife ah??

The last weekend I had an extended weekend, our company follows int** culture and gave us a four day week end. I was thinking I would head to office, I had a lot of work to complete vis-a-vis I had to finish some of my old journal work, and also read some stuff for my work. On Tuesday I was trying my best to keep myself busy, but then as usual when I got up at 10.30 am had coffee and read newspapers and it was lunch time, I was feeling hungry, made thakaali saadam had another cup of coffee and sat in front of the comp for some time, then I had a brilliant idea (bulb!!!), took the papers that I had to read and went to my bed, read that for some time and slept off.

This is how the whole morning - till evening went, total waste did not do any thing productive. Then came evening It was my turn to cook, had to wash clothes, sink fulla pathram, kitchen was in a disgusting shape, and best there was no kaykari to cook. So I went and put the clothes for washing, came back did one round of pathram thekkal, I was already sulking by then ( I always have this feeling when I wash others pathram!!!! too bad but thats the way it is!!!) went to grocery store and Indian store, athula 2 hours out. I was already dead tired by then. I couldn't believe my eyes kitchen sinkula ennam pathram, thevayaana pathram ellam clean pannittu, wanted to make lemon rasam and beans curry, so paruppu vekkalamnu pona, the paruppu packet that I had brought a few days back was in still in the back of my car, so I went down and got it, then I realised I didnt throw the trash, I was reminding myself when ever I go down to throw the trash. I was growing more and more agitated, came back cooker vechutu, went to put the clothes to the dryer apram vanthu cleaned the rest of the vesels, kitchen perukki paper towelaala oru thoda thadchuttu, sadam, rasam curry ellam aduppula vechutu, thuniya eduthundu vanthen.

Saptutu, apram thuniya madichu vera vekkanum. After all these things I was dead tired, was ready to go to sleep. I was talking to my friend, I was pitying about myself, about my life, because of all that I did today, he just told me one line, "this is what my mom has been doing for the past 30 years" and also told going to work for his mom was the best for her "as that was the only time she could rest for some time".

Just imagine doing this for 20-30 years not a single word of complaint, naan week la 3-4 days ithu pannarathukkula naan polambara polambal.

Although I was never of the opinion that women shud do all the work at home, coz it was never like that in my home, I got the point. Hats off to all the parents who compromise so much in their life for every body else, truly a great sacrifice.

eppadikku

2:54 PM | |

Thursday, July 07, 2005 

Dosai kathaikal

I am posting after reading this article from Haripi's blog. With due respect, as I was reading the idli conversation between the girl and boy in the post, I remembered one other conversation that my friend was making with fiance when he got engaged(might be hear say!!!!!!!)

Boy calls the girl in the morning from US
B: Good morning chellam
g: good morning
b: saapaadu ellam aacha
g: mm aachu
 b: kaarthaala enna saapta
g: dosa
b: evilavu dosa saapta
g: rendu dosa
b: moonaavathu dosa saapturukka maatayeee..
g: "giiggles" saaapadala
b: thottuka enna sambhaara chutneeeya?
g: mor kozhambu
b: oh mor kozhambaa....


This conversation will go on ever and ever....
ethulla enna point inspite of the fact g says i ate only 2 dosais namba payyanoda
kelviya koncham parunga.... ithu naattukku thevayaaa????

2:36 PM | |