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..

Ponniyin Selvan

I watched Shallow Hal for the second time yesterday. I was reminded of Ponniyin Selvan in Tamil. Both the movies tried to look at Physical deformities in a lighter vein. Thought i didnt like the ending of Ponniyin Selvan (Hero's mother dying part) it was a very good movie.

Both movies had enough reason to turn into tearjerkers. Except for occasional senti dialogues both the movies take us through some hilarious moments.

Jack Black was great in Shallow Hal. Gwyneth Paltrow didnt have much to do though the movies runs around her. The one who comes as Jack Black was also great. The movie has a feel good end.

I liked Ravi krishna's style of acting in Ponniyin Selvan. May be for the reason he gets irritated for silly reasons as I do. May Dialogues between Revathy and Ravikrishna were very natural.

In Shallow Hal Jack Black starts loving Gwyneth Paltrow though she is awfully fat. Gopika in Ponniyin Selvan has a crush on Ravi krishna though his face is deformed. True love is this, but is it there in this "Real" world?

Good Old Days

Does any of this remind you of anything?

"Pencille ooku udainju pochu"
"ink gaali aagiduchu"
"rubber tholainju pochu"
"Geometry box thulainju pochu"
"homework note bookaee tholainju pochu"
"Fever" (when we say this the time we enjoyed playing hand cricket will run in our small mind)
"Stomach ache" (this is used more than fever)
"No current" (when we say this the time we enjoyed watching tv will run in our small mind)
"Ooruku poiten"

but the one that beats all the above is

"i forgot" (when we say this we will be reminded of how many times our conscience reminded us and how simply we ignored it)

all the above are some reasons we (atleast me) give for not doing our homework

Note : Some reasons stated above can be used for various other cause also such as taking leave

PS: this post does not encourage you to use these under any circumstances

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Crocodile Hunter

Yesterday I was watching him on TV. He was struggling with a giant crocodile with lot of people. Today I read in rediff that he is no more. He has died when filming some underwater stuff.
Everyone who likes watching discovery channel, Animal Planet or NGC, definitly will miss him.

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Steve Irwin - we will miss you!.

GOD be with his family and friends at this time.

Vetayadu Vilayadu

First kudos to Kamal and Gautam for coming up with a film which is above normal Tamil film standards. In the past there have been investigative Tamil movies but Vetayadu Vilayadu stands different from those movies.

For those who are familiar with Television shows like CSI and movies Hannibal Series, will be able to notice lot of similarities between VV and those.

For those who expected a different movie from Kamal can be happy as this is a very different movie for him. But for those who expected a different movie from Gautam will be disappointed as the movie resembles KK in many ways such as repetition of Character names, movie plot, song picturisation and placement of songs.

Nowadays a new trend is noticeable in tamil movies where the honest guy kills the bad guy with all vengeance examples Saami, KK, Dhool, We can feel the punches ourselves.

The movie starts of promisingly with one such fighting scene between Kamal and bad guys with the impact as mentioned above. And then Kamal is pulled into a investigation of his mentor daughter.

During this investigation Kamal travels to New York.

The movie is all about how Kamal finds the bad guys who were responsible for the murder of his mentors daughter. There are lot of loop holes in the story which are part and parcel of any investigative movie. The reason given by the bad guys for the murders and the way they commit murders (they travel from US to Keeranur for a murder) is not convincing.

But whatever is the story we can always find these kinds of faults if we can forget this and watch it is entertaining.

The movie is very long. There is no need for Jyothika or Kamilinee in this movie.

Kamal’s performance is brilliant and he has underplayed but we can see he is ageing.

Harris Jeyaraj music is good but reminds of KK at lot of places especially in the song “Partha mudhal nalle” . The intro song for kamal “Karka Karka” is peppy and crisp.

Anthony has showed in lot of places his editing skills especially in the above song.

Gautam has tried to give a western type cop movie with some Indian sentiments thrown around here and there. So the movie neither looks like a full Indian movie or western movie.

On the whole this may appeal to some but not to all.