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Monday, February 26, 2007

Four Things

Four Things that make me nervous listed not in any particular order

1) Injection - The mere thought of taking a shot makes me dizzy
2) Balloon - A person blowing balloon in front of me where I cant put my hands over my ears. It makes me very nervous just waiting for it to burst any moment
3) Deepavali Pattas - A cracker whose fuse fire has been just lighted but which doesnt burst. The fuse wire just giving few sparks and dies and we still dont know if it is going to burst or its a goner.
4) Stray Dogs - The thought of driving past stray dogs which I know for sure is going to chase me.

Friday, February 23, 2007

Useless Jokes

Yesterday saw some clipping of kalaka povathu yaru in youtube. One guy was uttering some useless joke and the panel was laughing artificially. Also Vijay TV always inserts a group of people who laugh like maniacs inbetween those jokes. It could be clearly seen that those maniacs are not at all there in that studio. These TV channels think we are morons.

In the kalaka povathu yaruprogram the worst comperes I have seen are Pandiaraajan and cricketer Ramesh. Pandiarajaan's humor jells well only if he has a very good script otherwise his jokes are duds. Ramesh is a disaster. I dont know how they have a guts to take the stage.

Laughing for useless jokes is an art. Some people have perfected it. They laugh like hyenas at the right time and take home the name "he is a good guy". They never show tiredness in their face at all. People who havent mastered that art will take home the name "he is an introvert".

When few comedians are interviewed they are forced to reply wittily. They will try to be witty for questions like "unga full name enna?".

Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Parasite

Man is like a Parasite. Look at him he is always there consuming the resource. Go to any hotel or fast food joint you can see him standing in queue to consume stuffs. Out of what he consumes only very littles comes but most of it is added into his body.

Take the case of petrol or water he keeps consuming like anything and the earth keeps giving him back. When we see how much the earth gives and how much we give back to earth to sustain a balance we see we give very less.

Parasites attach themselves to anything and consume it till there is nothing left to consume and move on to other rich stuffs.

Few days back there was one guy who was proposing artifical trees to remove carbon di oxide (prime reason for global warming) from the atmosphere. He proposes to have acres and acres of fields with these kind of artificial trees. Man who has not been listening to planting real trees will he com forward to plant artifical trees?

The man suggests to convert all the CO2 captured through these trees into a solution. Now here comes his big plan he suggests to put all that solution with CO2 into the depths of the ocean bed. Now ocean bed is always considered to dispose things from needle to nuclear waste. This is nothing but moving a disaster from location A to location B. The interesting point is wherever the disaster happens the whole world will be impacted.

A parasite will eventually die once it has nothing else to consume until then consumption will happen at rapid pace as the number of parasites is also on the increase with resources dwindling.

Monday, February 19, 2007

Advertisements

Click here to read about boring advts.

Here is a list of some advertisements which made us longing for more

1) The first one that comes into my mind is the 7 up ads with the kool cartoon character
2) The vicks vaporub which will show people watching movie and a guy in the crowd will have nasal congestion and the hero in the movie will turn to look at him. Once he uses vicks inhaler hero will continue with dialogue
3) Minnaladikum venmai - Old Rin advertisement. Ivar satai enatha vida velupa
4) Old Pepsi advertisement with tag - Let the magic begin
5) Another pepsi advertisement where our Sachin and Ganguly? will fight for a Pepsi and Azhar will have it
6) Kingfisher - olalalala la la lei
7) Sila vishayame viseshame - Cadburys dairy milk
8) I forgot the product of this advt where one girl will call for someone using her hand and one old man will think she is calling her and come near her to find out she was infact calling someone behind him.

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Sucking Advts

There are some advts which we dislike the first time they are telecasted and there are some which we start dislike from second watching.

Here are few advts I dislike

All Shampoo advts (sunsilk,head & shlder, clinic plus etc)
All washing powder & Soap advts (surf, ariel, henkel)
Many of the Clothing advts (bharani txtiles, saravana stores, jeyachandran stores etc)
Many of health drinks advts (Horlicks, Complan etc)
All toilet cleaner advts
All Jewel shop advts (Saravana, Balu etc)
Some of Toothpaste advts (Pepsodent, some Colgate advts)

In the next post let us see some advts which are a treat to watch.

Wednesday, February 14, 2007

Military Tank

Ever felt like run over by Military Tank? I do. Almost everyday. May be the only difference is the size of the Tank. One day feel like like run over by truck and another day feel like shot by a canon.

The futileness of living in this universe and especially writing a stupid blog makes it much more worthless.

Wherever you see an Indian with a white guy you can see the Indian laughing for a Joke which would qualify immediatly for the most insipid joke of the century. What is the guy trying to achieve by pleasing the white? I agree there are some people who do come up with a cracker of a joke but we do laugh for almost anything, sometimes even BBC news.

People have totally lost the meaning of living if at all there is one. That included me as well. Let me accept it before some anon replies in comment asking if I know the meaning.

People tend to get happy for taking useless revenges like today i will not have coffee with him, today i will not call him, today let him die.

The whole world and the system sucks.

Monday, February 12, 2007

Indian Ishtyle

We Indians have our own style or way of doing things. And I can tell you that way or style will never be the right way of doing things.

Take a railway ticket reservation, boarding a bus, buying tickets in cinema theater, road directions etc. In all these things the first sign which will say that it is Indian way is the chaos happening around the activity. There will be no signs to guide and no persons to guide. The window marked as enquiry will be closed. In case it is open we will meet the most short tempered guy occupying the seat.

The best thing thats happening now is Indians carry their attitude whichever country they go. Coming to the reason behind this post, recently I had to visit Indian Embassy in London. I expected a western way of organised proceedings but thanks to our Indian people for giving me a dose of Indian culture right in the heart of London.

The first thing I noticed when I reached the high commission on a cold wet day was there were two long queues and the counters had unclear notices. So we can see confused desi as well as foreign faces asking the member in the queue on "whats the queue for?".

The moment you find the right queue and get your token, there is a race for getting into the embassy with that token. They open a door slighty just enough for wind to blow and people squeeze in. You can see some brawl happening between the person who opens the door and people trying to enter without tokens. After all these tamashas once you get in there is absolutely no clear indication on where to go. You blindly follow the majority and enter into a room with 10 counters.

You do all calculations in your mind using logrithms and differential equation and guess your queue and join a queue. Still you can see confused faces as we see people being called by token numbers. So you wont know if they will call by token number or by queue. In some counters they use token numbers and in some only queue is used (then why issue a token?).

All over the place you can find only confused faces. If goundamani sees that he will call "thiruvilale thulainju pona kolanthai maathiri". In this chaos you can find people boasting about their passport has run out of pages and they need another passport etc etc.

You also find a intimidating note saying if anybody acts rudely to Indian officials it is a criminal offence. So you find foerigners running between counters with no body to guide them. You can here some people irritatingly giving answers to people who ask doubts.

Why can't we do anything properly? Can't we learn from the best? Do we know about the existence of kind words in English?

Sevudan kaathule oothina sangu than ellame.

Friday, February 09, 2007

Thevai Oru Maapillai

Yesterday saw a Drama by S.Ve Shekar named Thevai oru Maapillai. A man spends most of his life looking for an escape route from his problems. One such escape route for me has been S.Ve Shekars drama. Whenever I have problems, his dramas provides me the necessary relief.

Coming back to this drama, may be this was telecasted in TV as a series but I dont remember seeing it. He has used along with his drama troupe ppl, chinni jeyanth, dileep, paandu, kovai anuradha, GK and many more tuesday TV drama specialists. Few of them are indeed talented and few of them irritates us to the core.

We can see that among those people many of them didnt even make it permanent in S.Ve Shekar's troupe. That is the success rate of those people.

Dileep is one guy who was given enough chances by KB, Visu and other directors but still couldnt raise up.

Kovai Anuradha we see his names in The Hindu Drama section and we have seen him in the earlier days of Sun TV. Other than that nothing much.

One thing is for sure that these Drama's does help us to get out of our problems temporarily.

Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Shoe

Shoe's nowadays plays an important role in many of our lives. The art of buying shoe's indeed an art. I remember the days when my parents used to take me to Bata showrooms to buy black shoes and then canvas shoes. Finding out the size of our legs always remained an interesting part in the whole exercise. The shopkeeper will pick a pair tie the lace with his own knack and will wear it in our feet.

Now my parents will ask me the most dreaded question. "Is it fitting correctly?".

It will be difficult to tell as the shoe will feel tight and loose at the same time. I will show a confused face and I will be asked to take few steps and see. I will try to walk but still I will be lost.

If I said the shoe was little loose the immediate answer from the shopkeeper would be that when I wear the socks it should be fine. If I say it is tight my parents will try to press the front of the shoe to see if they can find any empty space.

This is the same case after I have started buying the shoes myself. I can never judge if the shoes fit in perfectly easily.
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There have been times when I had worn shoes which were smaller in size. The pain it gives cannot be explained in words.

On the otherhand currently I have a shoe which is little on the bigger side which comes with its own problems. As long as the lace holds tight I can manage to walk but once the lace loosens a little this shoe irritates to the core.

This irritation will be coupled by the fact of tieing the lace using fingers which are made numb by cold. Try that, you would prefer to swim with sharks than experiencing a loose shoe with numb fingers.

Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Rejoice

Chennai US counsalate has opened six more VISA interview windows. - Source : The Hindu

People who dream of US please rejoice.
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Cauvery tribunal award - as expected TN says its a moral victory and Karnataka says its useless. Whatever the verdict the chances of Karnataka accepting the verdict is very less.
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Cognizant revenue & profit up. Employees of Cognizant please rejoice.
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Mumbai wins Ranji trophy. Mumbaikars please rejoice.
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Holiday for schools and colleges in blore - students from blore please rejoice.
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Windows Vista released.

People with more than 2 GB RAM and Intel Pentathol V please rejoice.

As we have lot of things to rejoice today. I am going to rejoice.

Saturday, February 03, 2007

Pokkiri Vijay - 4

Read part3 here

next day morning when hero goes to buy milk packet everybody looks at him with respect. milk vendor comes running to him to hand over milk packet and says "anna inime naane veetle paal packet potudaren inime neenga vara venam thalaiva"

Asin just looks at our hero and goes into trance and a trance music song starts in shubas voice

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villain is kokarichufying like a venomous inland taipan. "avana valara vida kudathu"
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now oru college kaatarom.

college vaasale hero irukar. he is not studying in college but will always be in college campus.

heroine joins as new entrant in that college and notices there is another glamous doll who is falling all over hero.

two three scenes here to generate heroines jealousy.
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at this time engineering entrance exam happens and hero's sister writes the exam.

when she is returning after exam villain takes her dupata and sends a message through her.

"dupatava edutha engalku un thangachi thalai eduka romba neram aagathu"

hero is still unfazed and comes up with an idea of neighbourhood police and conveys it to the chief minister.

cm says to hero "thambi intha chinna vayasule ungalku periya gyanam thambi. neenga periya aala varuveenga"

this neighbourhood police is nothing but empowering certain civialins with more power to tackle bad elements.

people take hero in their shoulder and celebrate. sitting on their shoulder hero looks at asin and another song starts. this song will have holi song effects lot of color powders.

intervalku time aachapa?

Friday, February 02, 2007

Sidney Sheldon

Sidney Sheldon, the master story teller passed away on January 30 2007.

Sidney Sheldon's The naked face was the first commerical novel I read. From then on I have read almost all his novels except for few of his recent novels.

Sidney will be missed by all his fans which includes me as well.

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