Thalaiva

Is Time to Lead caption missing in Thalaiva posters :-P

Friends

If movies entertain you in one way TV serials entertain you in another way. There was a time when I used to switch off the tele whenever I see the show Friends running. But slowly started loving it. The Wonder Years is the first serial to which I became a fan.

Recently I love Two and a half men. But after Charlie Sheen left the series I don't feel like watching it. The British comedies were in a different league such as Fawlty Towers, Are you being served, Yes Minister and so on.

Comedy Central channel is playing some of these series and its really nice to sit and watch them after a tiring day. Recently it plays some British comedies such as Coupling, How not to live your life which I have not seen before and they too were excellent.

After spending a lot money and time on money I have now turned my attention to such series and the first buy is Friends collectors edition. Have started watching from Season 1. So some serious TV watching ahead.

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.

Face Off

Are you interested in seeing how an innocent face looks like? I am talking about some faces like Paasa malargal Saavithri, Sivaji Kalyana parisu Gemini, Nenjil or aalayam kalyan kumar, Mouna raagam revathys dad. There were many B/W movies in which you can see those paal vadiyum faces. You may not find them in real world but let there are some places where you can find such faces.
Here are some places where you can find them
1) If you are familiar with churches, then go to a church on Sunday. Wait you have not seen the faces yet. When the Pastor calls for communion you can see people go to the altar and then come back. Observe the faces, everybody will look like how GOD intended them to be. You can rank eveyone as the best father, mother, brother, sister. Especially when they come back after taking the communion.
2) On any friday in a typical chennai family watch girls with in the age group of 16 to 23. When they get ready for kovil their face will undergo a change. All fashion elements will disappear. If she is in Jean also the face will have a very different innocent look. Wait you have not seen the peak yet. Follow them (dont get caught) to the temple. When they give the archanai koodai to the poosari and when poosari offers the flame now observe both men and women. You can call them the best people in the whole milky way.
3) There is another type of innocent face you can see, this used to happen few years back dont know if you can see them in this generation. When the head of the house agrees to take the family to a cinema or exhibition observe the faces of the others. Especially when a neighbhour of that family sends their son to go with that family observe that kid. Well combed, extra ponds, tucked in shirt with elastic trousers. You can call him the most well behaved kid in the whole universe.
4) If you have been to onsite observe the parents of software couple who have been invited to stay with the couple for a few weeks and also look at the face of the software couple. You will say this is a vikraman type of family like vaanathai pola

Now the big question.. is that their real faces?

Wishing

I wished a person today. He walked away without reciprocating. It is an embrassing situation.

We can calm ourselves by thinking

a) That guy would not have noticed me
b) That guy should be having some severe problem so he was preoccupied with that thought
c) I was not loud enough for him to notice
d) May be i never wished him. I only thought of wishing him. No words came out of my mouth

We dont want to think

a) That guy heard me but wantedly ignored me
b) That guy was afraid of talking to me so he had shut himself away from the environment, he walked quickly past me

Most of us do avoid people. When we notice someone whom we are allegic to coming towards us. We take out mobile phone and immediately start reading old SMS's. We start making panic calls to persons whom we would have never called in first place. We walk back making some action oh i forgot to bring my note book. This goes on and on..

We never realise how the other guy would be feeling at that point.

Whatever this kind of situation sucks.

One Two Three

Giving numbers is a lot better I have been to some gatherings where they do something more sinister. Now everyone with same number forms a group. You see in that group two guys know each other and there is one girl. You start thinking how the girl will be feeling to be among a crowd of guys. In your group there will be one guy who looks more mature he will start by saying let us introduce ourselves. He will show a restrained enthusiasm by which he means he wants to win by any means. You rehearse in your mind what to tell about you and what not. You notice carelessly when the girls talks about herself and feel jubiliant that she is a junior to you. When it is your chance you tall all that you didnt practice in you mind.
Now the conductor assigns some interesting !!! group excercises which you have to work it out with pure strangers. People in your team start talking most of which seem to you like "what one earth are they saying?". The mature guy suddenly forms an affinitiy with another guy and suddenly they both become the pilot and copilot of your team.
Finally the conductor wants each team to come and present. Everybody in the team expects the matured guy to go and present but the co pilot actually goes and presents the case. For some reason you feel your team did a good job but not the best job.
you check the time another 7.30 hrs to go ..
Let me stop here.
The point i am trying to make is why do they make people sit with some strangers. When you are in the company of known people you creativity will be high your performance will be high, you can enjoy the session. Contrarily in all the team gatherings they split you to sit with strangers saying you will get to know more people. In truth i will not be meeting the guy who was part of my team.
So why not let the groups be formed as per individual's wish and make everybody comfortable you can sure expect some interesting fireworks with everyong participating enthusiastically.

One Two ..

Most of us who would have participated in any Team event would have faced the situation. You walk into the room find lot of strangers. You search for a familiar face among the crowd. Ah Ha There is a familiar face. Under normal circumstances you would have walked into a shop which you are not interested whenever you notice this guy accidentaly in the street but today he looks like a ripe apple. You walk to him and start an useless conversation. You look around the room and find expect you everybody knows each other. The instructor or the conductor of the program walks in and asks us to count number of people in the room. Mind it this normally happens at the very start of the meeting or whatever. You can see atleast 5 or 6 people getting up and couunting each coming up with a different number. There will be a huge laugh and then they will come to conclusion on the right count.

All this while you will be watching what was so funny in that. You will be happy that the person next to you didnt laugh.

The instructor will do some complex Math and ask the first person in the front row to start counting 1. He will say the next person should say 2 and likewise it should go till 5 and then again start at 1.

By this time you would have found out the motive of the instructor. He wants to split the team and group strangers together. The ripe apple will be snatched from your hands now. There will be no time for you to move five seats away. It's too late.

The comedy isnt over yet. The first person will say 1 and it will go on till the fifth person saying 5. Now the sixth person will say 6. One intelligent guy will rise from his chair and say you should say 1. The guy who said 6 will act embrassed as if he stepped onto something very disgusting and say 1 again. The matter doesnt end here the dumbo next to him will say 7 and immediately correct himself to 2 and then give an intelligent smile to the crowd. By this time few dumbos would have become intelligent but still mistakes will happen atleast three more times. When it is your chance you would have already calculated what number you will be and you will utter it correctly and give a big yawn. You will be checking who else is with the same number as you are. You are now afraid if the first 2 minutes of this one day meeting has been like walking on charcoal of fire how the next 7.58 hrs is going to be.

TBC..

Compassion

Our hero comes whistling he sees his friend sad (very sad). That gives him more confidence as he feels there are people who are sad at the time when he is happy. He goes to him and asks with compassion

Hero : Enna maams sogama iruke

Friend : Samma kadi da total collapse (friend looks totally dejected)

Hero feels more confident in continuing the conversation

Hero : Eanda enna aachu

Friend : vidra onnum pana mudiyathu

Hero whistles in his mind feels 5 % sad for the friend but cant wait to hear the problem

Hero : solda definitea naan help panaren

When Hero says this he is 80% genuine he expects something terrible must have happened to his friend.

Friend : dei i have 20 K GBP in London HSBC bank but dont know how to transfer it to indian icici account if they will charge commission or not. can you help me

Hero's confidence falls down

Hero : naan enna da pana mudiyum?

Friend : Also yesterday i got my car delieverd but there is a small scratch at the back of the car

Hero has mixed feelings hearing this.

Friend : Our boss has asked me to leave for US for 3 years da i am totally not interested

Hero now starts looking for an escape route. His whistle disapears. He looks at his friend as his number one enemy.

Friend : Can you give me a ride to Park Sheraton now i have been invited for a shareholder meeting da.

Hero feels he should never have met this guy on this day.

Hero : illaeda naan oruthara mukyama paaka ponum

sollitu our Hero goes home immediatly take remote control and starts watching TV. His friend is now his current enemy until the friend gets a real disaster problem.