The clock struck 9pm.
In his abandoned ancient half-ruined mansion hidden away in the hills,a boisterous cacophony of the sounds of a battery of cannons firing,which was his alarm sound originated from the clock in his bedroom and resonated along the narrow hallways and finally the hall with a high ceiling. He slowly pulled himself upright, opened his eyes like the curtain raising on stage and stared with bloodshot eyes at the clock, surrounded by an array of skeletons of deer,rhino,lion and other dangerous animals that he had hunted. He got down from the bed and clapped his hands as his manservant came rushing into the room with his dark black coat and helped him into it. The manservant then handed the wrist watch,with its time sync with the clock, to him and receded to the door.
He walked towards the oval-shaped mirror positioned at one of the corners of the room and gave a long cold stare at himself and the watch as the manservant waited near the large oak door.
Bang!
The manservant dropped to the floor and scarlet colored blood gushed out of his temples.
He slipped the shotgun into his pocket,wore dark glasses and meddled for a second with his watch.He then walked over the corpse drenched in a pool of blood, down the dim-lit stairs to the hall where all his henchmen had aggrouped and sat down on his exquisitely made brown maple furniture, lighted his cigar and puffed out x shaped smoke patterns. He looked at the other big clock in the hall, with its time synchronised with the one in his bedroom . His advisor walked to him, announced that his meeting with other top international notorious smugglers and druggists was due at 10 pm and stood back.
He ordered one of his man-servants to bring him some roasted chicken and noodles for dinner. While he crunched the chicken and munched down the food slowly(which was unusual), the enticingly hot young girl danced around the hall erotically. He noticed out of the corner of his eye that Ronnie, one of his henchman was looking anxiously at the clock and going out of d room silently whenever his shirt pocket appeared bright due to his mobile's illumination.After guttling down every piece of eatable on the plate and smacking the girl hard, he washed his hands as his advisor announced to him that there was only a minute to go for 10pm, i.e the meeting.He was late already.
He walked towards Ronnie.Giving him a warm smile, he positioned Ronnie's tie intact and stood back as everyone gasped on seeing his favourite hitman Ronnie collapse, blood oozing out of his pierced throat. He cleaned the stains of blood from his surgical knife, picked up Ronnie's mobile and stared at it till a message flashed.
"Time is ten nw. The bomb in his watch shouldve detonated.He and the other smugglers should be dead now. Good work Inspector Ronnie. Mission accomplished. Where should i meet you 2moro?"
He replied to the message,
"IN HELL... **** U COPS"
and asks his advisor to find the cop who was messaging by tracking down the number.
And leaves to the meeting in his car,still wearing his watch!
The watch showed 9.01 pm and wasnt ticking.
Monday, June 23, 2008
A Glitch in God's creation
Couldn't sleep peacefully even for a second on my way back to Chennai...
COurtesy : The guy in the lower berth, exercising man's disgraceful doggone habit, louder than the train itself...
SNORING
COurtesy : The guy in the lower berth, exercising man's disgraceful doggone habit, louder than the train itself...
SNORING
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Lets talk Business
Brittania, Lays, Centerfresh, Milo - the titans of marketing by giving-away-useless-products-for-free strategy.
All such business tactics are manoeuvred to ascertain no-bargain sales of the product and its target zeroes in on the most profitable age bracket - kids. Human's innate tendency is to grab free stuff. Never mind the cost of the actual product man. You are getting something FREE. Something that you dont deserve to have and consequently never mind losing. No responsibility hovers over the free item. Gets damaged? Nomatter at all, its anyway FREE. You can hand it over to the deprived, be a good philanthropist with a wide stupid grin... Philanthropy at no cost, i.e FREE.
Indians are really good bargainers, probably the best. Ability wise on par with Aussie cricket. Even while buying stuff that is not legally or ethically right, they bargain, asking the seller to be noble (manasatchi) and just to his business. Sounds like be good while doing bad or be fair while doing unfair acts ! And more than often walks away with a substantial bargain, floating in euphoria at his moment of 'glory'.
Bazaars are selling dvds like hot cakes. No longer do they start quoting the price of a DVD at 80 bucks, get bulldozered by bargain and finally settle for 20 bucks. Its point blank Rs.20 everywhere. Save your time. Doing some simple math, 5 div-x quality movies in a single dvd which implies 4 bucks for one movie. Producer's graveyard the bazaar.
A dose of nostalgia... Tuesdays and Saturdays were invariably the power cut days back in the late 90s and the dawn of 21st century in Madurai. 9am - 5 pm was the traditional duration when the city goes un-electrified and I would be at school for the most part of it playing swatkats with my benchmate using scissors and getting punished for being the lone soul submitting assignments a week after the deadline. Saturdays though were rueful in having me nailed at home, with no power and hence no tv,taperecorder and fan, and wondering intelligently why they cant run on batteries. And last summer, I used to start off to the bazaar,spend my time lavishly in each shop and rummaging through the stacks of dvds for nothing!
Let me take you back to 1995 when Britannia gave away freestuff on the basis of point system by collecting wrappers( both yours and those that you steal from the kid next door) and handing it over to the nearest vendor in return for a spin-top like the blades of a miniature helicopter. It was the rage of my school and I fended off any possibility of buying anything thats not Brittania. The big pack of Goodday fetched twice the points of its closest rival and with gleaming pride I used to buy it at the store near my school everyday. The wrapper seemed precious to me than the enclosed eatable ! Wonder why I spent hundreds on biscuits (main constitiuent of my boyhood diet) for a piece of simple plastic toy, easily available in namma oor thiruvizha at infinitesimal cost.
Now get propelled to the end of last millenium. Centerfresh and Big Babol offered cricket trump cards(again plastic!) free with every piece of chewing gum and getting the elite player's cards was reckoned to be the most crucial aspect of any serious collector. I was really lucky to grow up in a hood with atleast two shops selling chewing gum in every street. I gathered news from the Remuki beeda kadai shopkeeper about when his stock of chewing gums will be replenished every week which turned out to be Sundays. So, every sunday, when that middle aged man at the shop goes home for lunch and his dad, an octagenerian stands in, I sneak out of my home through the backyard ( not to alert my fellow card-collector/competitor and yeah also my friend! who lives across the street), buy a dozen gums and ransack the whole set of cards for the exquisite/rare ones and slip two-three cards into my pocket when he turns away for a splitsecond. I leave with a smile.
Mission accomplished !
And I head straight to my rival's home to flaunt about my new addition of cards and give a deep guffaw...
Now, move few more years forward to 2002-03,when Lays bolstered its foothold on the snacks sector with tazos(plastics yet again!). I had an edge over all other competitors when it comes to tazos, the free amusing plaything inside a Lays pack because I got addicted to Lays since I set my eyes upon it. 80% of the days in a year I dint miss out on Lays. If you are lucky enough to get two tazos in a single pack,it will make the next day's top news in school and friends exclaiming in awe and considering you a special blessed one,though cursing you bloody wretched child,under their breath.Tazos along with GIjoes was the ultimate combination of an indoor game and which provided more than a quantum of solace during those days with a powercut and helped me innovate new indoor games based on adventure. Looking at all the junior-school goers playing NFS for hours and Unreal Tournament for days, I can say they are missing something big in their life. Playing indoor/outdoor games with friends (well to all the detractors n those who know me well,I used to be passionate about playing outdoor years ago), helps you both bond well with them and also sharpens your creativity. Even Lays,Centerfresh and Brittania have stopped the practice of giving exciting free gifts, rightly though.
Cricket cards? Google up the name of the cricketer and voila,you get his pic,details and even about his secret affair and the his innerwear brand!
Swinging Tazos? Grow up, think of a kalashinov or a Shotgun!
Times are changing and change is the only thing permanent. But the pleasant niceties of the nineties are too good for me to stop thinking about and get carried away.
And its time I grab a pack of Lays, sadly though, without any tazo(s) in it...
All such business tactics are manoeuvred to ascertain no-bargain sales of the product and its target zeroes in on the most profitable age bracket - kids. Human's innate tendency is to grab free stuff. Never mind the cost of the actual product man. You are getting something FREE. Something that you dont deserve to have and consequently never mind losing. No responsibility hovers over the free item. Gets damaged? Nomatter at all, its anyway FREE. You can hand it over to the deprived, be a good philanthropist with a wide stupid grin... Philanthropy at no cost, i.e FREE.
Indians are really good bargainers, probably the best. Ability wise on par with Aussie cricket. Even while buying stuff that is not legally or ethically right, they bargain, asking the seller to be noble (manasatchi) and just to his business. Sounds like be good while doing bad or be fair while doing unfair acts ! And more than often walks away with a substantial bargain, floating in euphoria at his moment of 'glory'.
Bazaars are selling dvds like hot cakes. No longer do they start quoting the price of a DVD at 80 bucks, get bulldozered by bargain and finally settle for 20 bucks. Its point blank Rs.20 everywhere. Save your time. Doing some simple math, 5 div-x quality movies in a single dvd which implies 4 bucks for one movie. Producer's graveyard the bazaar.
A dose of nostalgia... Tuesdays and Saturdays were invariably the power cut days back in the late 90s and the dawn of 21st century in Madurai. 9am - 5 pm was the traditional duration when the city goes un-electrified and I would be at school for the most part of it playing swatkats with my benchmate using scissors and getting punished for being the lone soul submitting assignments a week after the deadline. Saturdays though were rueful in having me nailed at home, with no power and hence no tv,taperecorder and fan, and wondering intelligently why they cant run on batteries. And last summer, I used to start off to the bazaar,spend my time lavishly in each shop and rummaging through the stacks of dvds for nothing!
Let me take you back to 1995 when Britannia gave away freestuff on the basis of point system by collecting wrappers( both yours and those that you steal from the kid next door) and handing it over to the nearest vendor in return for a spin-top like the blades of a miniature helicopter. It was the rage of my school and I fended off any possibility of buying anything thats not Brittania. The big pack of Goodday fetched twice the points of its closest rival and with gleaming pride I used to buy it at the store near my school everyday. The wrapper seemed precious to me than the enclosed eatable ! Wonder why I spent hundreds on biscuits (main constitiuent of my boyhood diet) for a piece of simple plastic toy, easily available in namma oor thiruvizha at infinitesimal cost.
Now get propelled to the end of last millenium. Centerfresh and Big Babol offered cricket trump cards(again plastic!) free with every piece of chewing gum and getting the elite player's cards was reckoned to be the most crucial aspect of any serious collector. I was really lucky to grow up in a hood with atleast two shops selling chewing gum in every street. I gathered news from the Remuki beeda kadai shopkeeper about when his stock of chewing gums will be replenished every week which turned out to be Sundays. So, every sunday, when that middle aged man at the shop goes home for lunch and his dad, an octagenerian stands in, I sneak out of my home through the backyard ( not to alert my fellow card-collector/competitor and yeah also my friend! who lives across the street), buy a dozen gums and ransack the whole set of cards for the exquisite/rare ones and slip two-three cards into my pocket when he turns away for a splitsecond. I leave with a smile.
Mission accomplished !
And I head straight to my rival's home to flaunt about my new addition of cards and give a deep guffaw...
Now, move few more years forward to 2002-03,when Lays bolstered its foothold on the snacks sector with tazos(plastics yet again!). I had an edge over all other competitors when it comes to tazos, the free amusing plaything inside a Lays pack because I got addicted to Lays since I set my eyes upon it. 80% of the days in a year I dint miss out on Lays. If you are lucky enough to get two tazos in a single pack,it will make the next day's top news in school and friends exclaiming in awe and considering you a special blessed one,though cursing you bloody wretched child,under their breath.Tazos along with GIjoes was the ultimate combination of an indoor game and which provided more than a quantum of solace during those days with a powercut and helped me innovate new indoor games based on adventure. Looking at all the junior-school goers playing NFS for hours and Unreal Tournament for days, I can say they are missing something big in their life. Playing indoor/outdoor games with friends (well to all the detractors n those who know me well,I used to be passionate about playing outdoor years ago), helps you both bond well with them and also sharpens your creativity. Even Lays,Centerfresh and Brittania have stopped the practice of giving exciting free gifts, rightly though.
Cricket cards? Google up the name of the cricketer and voila,you get his pic,details and even about his secret affair and the his innerwear brand!
Swinging Tazos? Grow up, think of a kalashinov or a Shotgun!
Times are changing and change is the only thing permanent. But the pleasant niceties of the nineties are too good for me to stop thinking about and get carried away.
And its time I grab a pack of Lays, sadly though, without any tazo(s) in it...
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Thursday, June 19, 2008
Mustafa Mustafa and Pyaar
Try picturing a guy, arranging a deck of cards patiently for several hours to arrive at a momument. A pretty girl, no i'd better say a cute girl walks past the guy, still at work, flashes a wide smile and bang...her makeup kit containing handbag hits the underneath card and the structure collapses to the horror of the guy and the onlookers gasp, not at the arranged cards tumbling down but at the guy, holding a calm face following the sheepish grin from the cute girl.
Try picturing a guy, arranging a deck of cards patiently for several hours to arrive at a monument. A good male-friend of his walks past the guy, still at work and flashes a dumb smile. Blows air against the half baked building to check its rigidity and the structure collapses to the horror of the guy and the onlookers gasp, not at the arranged cards tumbling down but at the guy, swearing at his friend with expletives that you can find only in Eminem's uncensored lyrics or in a feedback about Bush by gulf natives.
The girl makes an absolute blunder and still stays off trouble while the guy can hold on his nerves when its a girl causing a problem.
Now,with nothing more to discuss on this topic, lets find what the bigwigs have to say about love and its apparent estranged relationship with friendship.
Our special correspondent, Ms. Reporter is decked up with steamy attire and ramped up with questions to fire at the experts.
Vijaykanth, who is playing a sleuth in his latest movie DYEHARD, argues that love is very much necessary in life but he doesnt have time for all that as he has to hunt down Kashmiri terrorists in Orissa.
Thalapathy Rajnikanth feels friendship is the most valuable thing on earth. But with much introspection, it was revealed that Rajni was friendly with Mamooty because he lived on the food given by mamooty.
Proof - Rajni sings " Nanban potta soru, dinamum thinnen paaru" ,ie he gulped down food from Mamooty's home.
And our reporter pointed out to the proof and demands an explanation.
Padikaathavan-Superstar shys away by saying "Yes,yes..Thank you".
Self proclaimed little ‘superstar’ Simbhu ( 20 years down the line, wont little be a little stupid? ) expresses his little thoughts on the same…
Love is sacred and its my duty to kill all the girls who are'nt living by moral values.
And when inquired why he had to rape them before the killing act, he retorts, " Look, my only hit movie was inspired by Sigapu Rojakal, the 80s classic. So you should be asking Kamal hassan for the answer "
Our reporter insists on a reply right there, Simbhu continues under his breath audible only to the reporter,
" Hey Ms.Reporter, you look gorgeous in this white salwar"
Reporter-Yikes! Pack up crew!
Our reporter finds time to catch up with Surya to record his perspective.
Time - 4:11 pm
" Hello reporter, its great to have you here, as I’ve got only few minutes left before Ghajini shooting resumes. Its a good movie, where I play the blah blah blah blah....."
reporter - Sir, your opinion on love?
Time - 4.16 pm
"Hello, you look like a reporter, so what can I do for you?"
At Vijay's place, he expresses his feelings on love
"Love is a once in a lifetime feeling and when you are in love, you will start listenin to flowers rustle as if its a soothing piece of music; you will feel like you are flying over a distance of a mile in the air"
Reporter - " But sir, you always do that in your movies but then we thought it was an action scene, with you performing a daredevil action stunt!"
Vijay - " make it superking action stunt else i'll get into brand loyalty trouble!"
Ms. Reporter finds Vivek at the beach, grumbling on Vadivel’s success. He chips in with his view on the topic by recalling his experience.
“Madhavan, a software engineer and a great friend of mine, once left me stranded after colliding head on with a truck and stalked Reema Sen into a mall. Finally I had to bear with the rain of blows from the cops before accomplishing an escapade. Also, Maddy had loaned out my gf for a week in the excuse of stopping a marriage he wasnt intersted in. So, I feel, guys can demolish friendship of any intensity for a girl, ie figure kaaga friendship cut pannuvaanga”. So vivek opines that a guy will ‘cut’ friendship for a figure.
Superstar's son in law Dhanush while on his way to the gym, took his time off for answering to the question.
"The girl will not lavu a guy who sells a tea or studies well as in Kadhal Konden, but the girl will love handsup men with a good job. So it ees best for the boy to register the marriage the day she says ok to love proposal. Beware, the girlu may prepare a pail/divorce in advance (mun jaameen). OKay enup for today, me going to gym for maintaining my six pack abs"
Reporter - " Isn't that your rib cage?"
Koundamani was spotted in a cafe and when asked for his views,
" I not taking love seriously. But one thing i telling ya, one romantic looku is enough to flat a girl. And while chattingla correcting a figure, check if your student or friend is deceiving you by acting like a girl! "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR0HY9JKd5Y
Our reporter found Shyam at a theatre which is screening his own movie, ushering his friends and other people in for free tickets and even pays for few people to see. When questioned,
"Love is.... Friendship?"
On being asked to explain, " err.. Well that was a dialog copied from Kuch Kuch Hota hai, so am off with it. Ask Shahrukh Khan for an elaborate answer."
(Ask SRK? Will he have time between managing a team in tatters, a reality show with the lowest trp ratings, blogging shit about other actors and making hundreds of commercials round the clock"?
On asked to brief about the twin love story nestled in the movie 12B and how they came up with the idea,
"Errr... 12 B's plot is loosely based on the Hollywood flick, Sliding doors. So buy its DVD at the bazaar shop no.24 and tell them that I had sent you. You ll get the best bargain. Also buy any number of movies there for the same low cost but please dont publish this little info on Sliding doors in your magazine tomorrow!"
TR, planning to don the role of King Kong in the Indian version of the same, takes out sometime from his cramped schedule to voice his views on the same.
Love is nothing but a rose to pluck
IF you escape the thorn, its coz of luck
Once in love, you are a happy duck
Ice Hockey game is played with a puck
Dandanuck hey hey dadakanuck
Ms. Reporter finishes, ”you may be an actor, but I don’t give a **** “ and slaps him hard.
Sarath kumar’s picking on the topic,
“ Love is very important. My political party is fully behind love and we offer full support to lovers, unlike the rest of the parties So with the power vested in me after being voted the CM, I’ll do anything to unify lovers. So please vote for me.”
Full support to lovers? Well, after ANNA durai, THANTHAI Periyar, is it UNCLESarath?
Kollywood bigWIG Sathyaraj speaks out his mind on love.
“Kannu, love can happen to anyone, be it a 50 year old thug and it might be because of an 18 year old. Friendship is very important too. I also thank Koundamani, Manivannan and Vadivel for sharing the screenspace with me and also make my movies tolerable by their comedy”
Jayam Ravi was spotted at a telugu theatre and was asked to talk about his views on the same...
"Girls will always go for guys who are lively/jovial/something something or disciplined/mokkai/dad's child.. or ..or..or..err... just wait till Siddharth's next movie is released!"
Ms. Reporter feels its not the right time to meet Vikram, who is working on Pithamagan and may talk/look like someone from the Apocalypto crew.
Kamal, meanwhile announces that he doesnt believe in marriage anymore. But dude, that’s an extremely late realization, you’ve married thrice till date!
On questioned about Simbhu's reply, Kamal argues,
Try picturing a guy, arranging a deck of cards patiently for several hours to arrive at a monument. A good male-friend of his walks past the guy, still at work and flashes a dumb smile. Blows air against the half baked building to check its rigidity and the structure collapses to the horror of the guy and the onlookers gasp, not at the arranged cards tumbling down but at the guy, swearing at his friend with expletives that you can find only in Eminem's uncensored lyrics or in a feedback about Bush by gulf natives.
The girl makes an absolute blunder and still stays off trouble while the guy can hold on his nerves when its a girl causing a problem.
Now,with nothing more to discuss on this topic, lets find what the bigwigs have to say about love and its apparent estranged relationship with friendship.
Our special correspondent, Ms. Reporter is decked up with steamy attire and ramped up with questions to fire at the experts.
Vijaykanth, who is playing a sleuth in his latest movie DYEHARD, argues that love is very much necessary in life but he doesnt have time for all that as he has to hunt down Kashmiri terrorists in Orissa.
Thalapathy Rajnikanth feels friendship is the most valuable thing on earth. But with much introspection, it was revealed that Rajni was friendly with Mamooty because he lived on the food given by mamooty.
Proof - Rajni sings " Nanban potta soru, dinamum thinnen paaru" ,ie he gulped down food from Mamooty's home.
And our reporter pointed out to the proof and demands an explanation.
Padikaathavan-Superstar shys away by saying "Yes,yes..Thank you".
Self proclaimed little ‘superstar’ Simbhu ( 20 years down the line, wont little be a little stupid? ) expresses his little thoughts on the same…
Love is sacred and its my duty to kill all the girls who are'nt living by moral values.
And when inquired why he had to rape them before the killing act, he retorts, " Look, my only hit movie was inspired by Sigapu Rojakal, the 80s classic. So you should be asking Kamal hassan for the answer "
Our reporter insists on a reply right there, Simbhu continues under his breath audible only to the reporter,
" Hey Ms.Reporter, you look gorgeous in this white salwar"
Reporter-Yikes! Pack up crew!
Our reporter finds time to catch up with Surya to record his perspective.
Time - 4:11 pm
" Hello reporter, its great to have you here, as I’ve got only few minutes left before Ghajini shooting resumes. Its a good movie, where I play the blah blah blah blah....."
reporter - Sir, your opinion on love?
Time - 4.16 pm
"Hello, you look like a reporter, so what can I do for you?"
At Vijay's place, he expresses his feelings on love
"Love is a once in a lifetime feeling and when you are in love, you will start listenin to flowers rustle as if its a soothing piece of music; you will feel like you are flying over a distance of a mile in the air"
Reporter - " But sir, you always do that in your movies but then we thought it was an action scene, with you performing a daredevil action stunt!"
Vijay - " make it superking action stunt else i'll get into brand loyalty trouble!"
Ms. Reporter finds Vivek at the beach, grumbling on Vadivel’s success. He chips in with his view on the topic by recalling his experience.
“Madhavan, a software engineer and a great friend of mine, once left me stranded after colliding head on with a truck and stalked Reema Sen into a mall. Finally I had to bear with the rain of blows from the cops before accomplishing an escapade. Also, Maddy had loaned out my gf for a week in the excuse of stopping a marriage he wasnt intersted in. So, I feel, guys can demolish friendship of any intensity for a girl, ie figure kaaga friendship cut pannuvaanga”. So vivek opines that a guy will ‘cut’ friendship for a figure.
Superstar's son in law Dhanush while on his way to the gym, took his time off for answering to the question.
"The girl will not lavu a guy who sells a tea or studies well as in Kadhal Konden, but the girl will love handsup men with a good job. So it ees best for the boy to register the marriage the day she says ok to love proposal. Beware, the girlu may prepare a pail/divorce in advance (mun jaameen). OKay enup for today, me going to gym for maintaining my six pack abs"
Reporter - " Isn't that your rib cage?"
Koundamani was spotted in a cafe and when asked for his views,
" I not taking love seriously. But one thing i telling ya, one romantic looku is enough to flat a girl. And while chattingla correcting a figure, check if your student or friend is deceiving you by acting like a girl! "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR0HY9JKd5Y
Our reporter found Shyam at a theatre which is screening his own movie, ushering his friends and other people in for free tickets and even pays for few people to see. When questioned,
"Love is.... Friendship?"
On being asked to explain, " err.. Well that was a dialog copied from Kuch Kuch Hota hai, so am off with it. Ask Shahrukh Khan for an elaborate answer."
(Ask SRK? Will he have time between managing a team in tatters, a reality show with the lowest trp ratings, blogging shit about other actors and making hundreds of commercials round the clock"?
On asked to brief about the twin love story nestled in the movie 12B and how they came up with the idea,
"Errr... 12 B's plot is loosely based on the Hollywood flick, Sliding doors. So buy its DVD at the bazaar shop no.24 and tell them that I had sent you. You ll get the best bargain. Also buy any number of movies there for the same low cost but please dont publish this little info on Sliding doors in your magazine tomorrow!"
TR, planning to don the role of King Kong in the Indian version of the same, takes out sometime from his cramped schedule to voice his views on the same.
Love is nothing but a rose to pluck
IF you escape the thorn, its coz of luck
Once in love, you are a happy duck
Ice Hockey game is played with a puck
Dandanuck hey hey dadakanuck
Ms. Reporter finishes, ”you may be an actor, but I don’t give a **** “ and slaps him hard.
Sarath kumar’s picking on the topic,
“ Love is very important. My political party is fully behind love and we offer full support to lovers, unlike the rest of the parties So with the power vested in me after being voted the CM, I’ll do anything to unify lovers. So please vote for me.”
Full support to lovers? Well, after ANNA durai, THANTHAI Periyar, is it UNCLESarath?
Kollywood bigWIG Sathyaraj speaks out his mind on love.
“Kannu, love can happen to anyone, be it a 50 year old thug and it might be because of an 18 year old. Friendship is very important too. I also thank Koundamani, Manivannan and Vadivel for sharing the screenspace with me and also make my movies tolerable by their comedy”
Jayam Ravi was spotted at a telugu theatre and was asked to talk about his views on the same...
"Girls will always go for guys who are lively/jovial/something something or disciplined/mokkai/dad's child.. or ..or..or..err... just wait till Siddharth's next movie is released!"
Ms. Reporter feels its not the right time to meet Vikram, who is working on Pithamagan and may talk/look like someone from the Apocalypto crew.
Kamal, meanwhile announces that he doesnt believe in marriage anymore. But dude, that’s an extremely late realization, you’ve married thrice till date!
On questioned about Simbhu's reply, Kamal argues,
"Love is divine, if u have the heart to donate blood to anyone, then it is love and you are God "
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Monday, June 16, 2008
Forbes 'SAFE' 17
Given below is a list of companies/corporates that are a part of the famed forbes 2000 along with their respective taglines. Now,forget the company name and read just the taglines.Consider those taglines to be that of some misc company.
Don't mind a few shades of crudeness...
Arranged in increasing order of suitability/aptness.
THE FORBES Safe-17
17.Everything is Possible - HP
16.Your partner for life - Max new york
15.A Passion to Perform - Deutsche Bank
14.The Stuff of life - kmart
13.Experience. Results. - CSC
12.Make Every Day Exciting - FORD MOTOR
11.All you Desire. – TOYOTA INNOVA
10.The Complete Man - Raymonds
9.Bond with the Best - Reid and Taylor
8.Because Health Matters - SANOFI AVENTIS
7.Be Fearless. SYMANTEC
6.Accenture - High Performance. Delivered
5.The citi never sleeps - CITI BANK
4.Do More with Less - Windows XP ~~~~ Your Potential Our Passion - Micro'soft'
3.Connecting people - NOKIA
2.You can do it. We can Help - Home depot
1.The world puts its stock in us - NYSE New York Stock Exchange
;)
Don't mind a few shades of crudeness...
Arranged in increasing order of suitability/aptness.
THE FORBES Safe-17
17.Everything is Possible - HP
16.Your partner for life - Max new york
15.A Passion to Perform - Deutsche Bank
14.The Stuff of life - kmart
13.Experience. Results. - CSC
12.Make Every Day Exciting - FORD MOTOR
11.All you Desire. – TOYOTA INNOVA
10.The Complete Man - Raymonds
9.Bond with the Best - Reid and Taylor
8.Because Health Matters - SANOFI AVENTIS
7.Be Fearless. SYMANTEC
6.Accenture - High Performance. Delivered
5.The citi never sleeps - CITI BANK
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
A year that was at college!
Dressed neatly in light blue designer shirt and dark blue slightly faded blue jeans, I clomped towards the beaming main auditorium, trampling across lush green lawn on a pleasant august forenoon...
Big day it was for 630 newbies to the famed SSNCE for it was a new chapter for a happy go lucky student and a grander stage to compete with the best in the business for the studious population...
As I opened the huge brown doors of the audi, the chattering sound of everyone resonated loudly and it took me sometime for the intensity of the occasion to mellow down in my mind.Nervous but excited eyes,astute ears, yabbering mouths and restless anxious minds all set to undergo a major transition in their life.
That was 295 days ago, with loads of dreams,which never materialized and was unaware of the unexpected changes that would creep into me gradually as days roll by.
Set aside the subtle changes in me, there are few realisations derived from my experience in college wiht quashed pre-college dreams
#Chennai is not Madurai
#Class getogether is not 30 mins away... It requires either careful planning or immense luck
#While in school,you dream of wearing colorful funky dresses in college but then you hit reality after joining college
#Be careful about the number printed in your designer tshirt unless you want to be compared with the person of the corresponding roll number
#Will be promoted even if you fail
#NO more restrictions on participation of other coll culturals
#Noone can live a kollywood college hero life
#Remember canteen is always crowded and beware of funny conniving pranks of your friends!
#You have to indeed study in college, atleast to pass
#Been to Mayajaal numerous times bt not once after joining college
#Pop corn costs shoot up eight times the original price on entering a multiplex
#Average speed of a vehicle in the city(except that of the CM's) is approx 6 km/hr during traffic extremum
#Word spreads fast, not necessarily true
The first week of college wasnt that uncool as I expected it to be. Felt anxious about making new friends and derived pleasure from the same feeling that shown evidently in every other classmate's face.Classes did happen as against the most essential logic of kollywood movies that centered around college life,though with lighter intensity and better interaction, but all the same for me.. YAAAWN
People who were ready to unwind fastly formed close knitted friend circles way early.
Having utilised my weekly co-curricular classes in school to great effect for the purpose of doing a week's pending homework, there was so little for me to improve on and so vast an area to start! Hence i ruled out the prospect of playing any popular outdoor games and finally chose the less-competent squash, which is always short of players. An ordinary performance in internals coupled by a desperate show in the semester exams, a good year in quizzing for a non-stereotypical quizzer like me...
Altogether, my first year at college was a very normal one,lacking in adrenaline rushing moments and conspicuous activities but nevertheless, satisfying for a guy who takes life easily on the stride...
A year that wasnt at college
http://subadeshkanna1.blogspot.com/2007/12/haunting-dreams.html
Big day it was for 630 newbies to the famed SSNCE for it was a new chapter for a happy go lucky student and a grander stage to compete with the best in the business for the studious population...
As I opened the huge brown doors of the audi, the chattering sound of everyone resonated loudly and it took me sometime for the intensity of the occasion to mellow down in my mind.Nervous but excited eyes,astute ears, yabbering mouths and restless anxious minds all set to undergo a major transition in their life.
That was 295 days ago, with loads of dreams,which never materialized and was unaware of the unexpected changes that would creep into me gradually as days roll by.
Set aside the subtle changes in me, there are few realisations derived from my experience in college wiht quashed pre-college dreams
#Chennai is not Madurai
#Class getogether is not 30 mins away... It requires either careful planning or immense luck
#While in school,you dream of wearing colorful funky dresses in college but then you hit reality after joining college
#Be careful about the number printed in your designer tshirt unless you want to be compared with the person of the corresponding roll number
#Will be promoted even if you fail
#NO more restrictions on participation of other coll culturals
#Noone can live a kollywood college hero life
#Remember canteen is always crowded and beware of funny conniving pranks of your friends!
#You have to indeed study in college, atleast to pass
#Been to Mayajaal numerous times bt not once after joining college
#Pop corn costs shoot up eight times the original price on entering a multiplex
#Average speed of a vehicle in the city(except that of the CM's) is approx 6 km/hr during traffic extremum
#Word spreads fast, not necessarily true
The first week of college wasnt that uncool as I expected it to be. Felt anxious about making new friends and derived pleasure from the same feeling that shown evidently in every other classmate's face.Classes did happen as against the most essential logic of kollywood movies that centered around college life,though with lighter intensity and better interaction, but all the same for me.. YAAAWN
People who were ready to unwind fastly formed close knitted friend circles way early.
Having utilised my weekly co-curricular classes in school to great effect for the purpose of doing a week's pending homework, there was so little for me to improve on and so vast an area to start! Hence i ruled out the prospect of playing any popular outdoor games and finally chose the less-competent squash, which is always short of players. An ordinary performance in internals coupled by a desperate show in the semester exams, a good year in quizzing for a non-stereotypical quizzer like me...
Altogether, my first year at college was a very normal one,lacking in adrenaline rushing moments and conspicuous activities but nevertheless, satisfying for a guy who takes life easily on the stride...
A year that wasnt at college
http://subadeshkanna1.blogspot.com/2007/12/haunting-dreams.html
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