Life is Beautiful :-)

Most exciting Kerala trip... Part 1

2011-01-05T21:08:00.005+05:30

SK & Archana's wedding gave us an opportunity for this wonderful Kerala trip. It was yet another Spartan wedding & it was on Thursday so we planned well ahead to club that along with Kerala trip.

When Banuchandar a.k.a Banu send the initial mail about the trip 12 of us confirmed for the trip. But as anticipated at the last minute 4 of them (2 families) couldn't make the trip and which left with me alone going with family, also our tour agent informed that he can't make the trip in the pre-committed amount with just 8 people. There pitched our expert Banu with an excellent idea of bringing his parents & Babu's Mom which made the count to 11 and make the trip possible. Booking the ticket with all these changes alone can be written as a separate post... :-)

We had nice time at the grand wedding on 9th Dec & started to Satur railway station, from where we will be traveling to Ernakulam by Gurvayur express(6127). Here Babu is been selected unanimously as the treasurer for the whole trip. The train arrived on time & we started our journey.

Since all of us got adjacent seats in the train it become very comfortable for us & we started playing dumb charades with Tamil movie names. The game became very funny when Banu appa & Babu amma started suggesting old movie names. Funniest moment was when Banu was acting & Santu was trying to find the name, as usual Santu was very slow and Banu is getting irritated by Santu's totally irrelevant guesses.. :-D

Our treasurer planned early & got dinner for all of us at Tirunelveli Junction. Since the train will reach Ernakulam by 4AM we planned to sleep early. We all were sleeping & suddenly felt that the train was not moving, it was around 12.30 midnight and when I woke up Banu appa told that the train was at Nagercoil station & it's been canceled further because of some landslide on the track due to heavy rains. Then we woke up Banu & we were thinking about further action.

After half an hour the fan & lights in the train were powered off so we were forced to move out of the train. Everybody was worried about Thanmayi since she is the only kid in our gang. So we thought of go to the bus stand and decide whether to travel further or stay in some hotel. When we came out of the railway station, railways have arranged for few buses to take the stranded passengers to the bus station. But we couldn't get into it because of heavy rush.

That's when Babu & Santu fixed a Tata Sumo to take us to bus station. Suddenly it started raining and we all rushed inside the Sumo. 11 people and all our luggage's were packed inside the sumo & Thanmayi is the one who got a comfortable place even in that packed vehicle & she was smiling to everybody. :-)

When we reached the bus station, the rain has subsidized & we decided to travel to Trivandaram by bus and from there we planned to take some train to Ernakulam. When everybody was concentrating on Kerala Transport buses, we managed to get seats in TNSTC bus. That was really a comfortable journey in the situation which we were in. Thanmayi got a whole seat to sleep on..

During that journey we were looking for some train details & Airtel GPRS helped us in finding the list of trains and timings. And we planned to take Jan Satabdi from Trivandaram to Ernakulam since that's the fastest train. That's when Banu told that he couldn't reach the tour agent since last evening, his mobile was switched forever. We started looking for various reasons & solution for them. If the agent might be absconded, might be sick, might lost his mobile, etc.. So we started preparing action plan for each of the scenarios.

If at all he got absconded or sick we can't do anything & we decided to make our own plan and go ahead with some outings in & around Ernakulam/Cochin. If he lost his mobile and have none of our contacts that he should be there in Ernakulam station waiting for us. So we decided that Prasanna a.k.a Malai who was traveling in different route towards Ernakulam might reach early & can find the agent.

We reached Trivandaram by 2.45AM, when we enquired about the train details at the station we got a good news that Guruvayur Express(6128) which was going to Chennai Egmore was been canceled too and that will leave from Trivandaram at 4.30AM and we can travel in that train using the same ticket in same seats. That gave us a some relief. In that train apart from us, there were only some 20-30 people in the whole train since it was an unplanned trip. So we all slept nicely for few hours. Since it's an unplanned trip the train was given less priority & held at many of the signals & finally we reached Ernakulam by 10.15AM

In the mean time Prasanna reached Ernakulam before 6AM & managed find the tour agent after going around the railway station couple of times. So that gave us complete relief that he is there to guide us. Agent himself had some bad experiences; he lost his mobile, the van which he had fixed for our trip stated that they can't come so he struggled to find another comfortable van for us.

Once we reached Ernakulam we had a nice breakfast at one of the restaurant in railway station with hot Jeera water. That re-energized all of us & our tour guide made some changes in our itinerary because of the train delay so the second day's plan is been swapped with first day's plan. So we started our journey to a hotel at Muvatupuzha. That's when the entertainment team is formed and it comprises of Athi & RP they should organize some games and keep the people entertained. Cochin traffic played it's part in our journey & we reached the hotel around 1PM.

Our guide gave us 15 minutes to get ready to go to Athirappilly falls (Punnagai Mannan falls). Since Thanmayi was very tired with all this unplanned delay in travel we planned to stay back in hotel. We feed Thanmayi with rasam satham & made her sleep around 3.45PM. All other friends returned around 8PM & they had bought dinner on the way. We all had dinner together. They just have visited the falls & haven't entered it since they went little late after the closure time. But it seems they had wonderful time both during the journey and at the falls.

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VTV's resemblance to my life!!!

2010-03-01T10:17:00.014+05:30

Vinnai Thaandi Varuvaya(VTV) is one of the feel good movie that I have seen in the recent time frame.

As my friend Manimaran said "Instead of reading about love in pages in books, it has to be felt seeing it & Gautam Menon has presented it in VTV wonderfully."

The movie is completely about the love between Karthik(Simbu) & Jessy(Trisha) but never felt bored at any instance. Cinematography was very good & the costume design is superb... Inspite of being a die hard fan of Maestro, I still enjoyed the music by ARR! Before seeing the movie the songs seems to be okay but after seeing the visuals & correlating with it now the songs appear very pleasing.

To tell about Simba, he played the role as per the Director's instruction & it came out very well. And many people liked seeing Simbu like this. And I wish he got lot's of talents & so he should not waste it by simple head weight.

Beyond everything in most of the scenes I felt lot's of resemblance with my own life. And bringing that feel itself is a big success to a director.

And most of us have came across atleast any one of the instance where we can correlate with any one of the scenes in the movie.

I have jumped compound walls to meet her, thrown mobile in tension, waited outside her house for hours, traveled 1000's of kms to meet her, waited in streets just for a glimpse, small lovely fights, had situations where I couldn't attend calls, etc etc...

Thankfully our parents are not like theirs, we convinced our parent within an year to accept our 13 years long love... To be frank it's not so easy to be in love with the same person for so long. Sometimes we might feel insecure, we will move to different places, meet different people & even our socio-economic status will change in the 13 years time span.. But ours affection now is as fresh as it was before 14 years...

You might have heard of lot's of people who are made for each other. If you want to see such a couple, here we are "Made for each other"

And this movie also made me feel how much I would have missed & how much depressed I would have been if we haven't been together. She is been with me during all the important happenings in my life.

Few things in this movie which were opposite to my life is, our town is so small ence we can't meet so easily & most of the people there know either my parents or her parents. We don't have ODE cafe there to sit & talk for long.. Most of our meetings was at a crowded bus stand, standing at two different bays so nobody in our town can notice our presence. Just to see we will go to some crowded public places & all our conversations are over phone (Thanks to Alexander Graham Bell).

Only to my ladylove - Lot's of time I felt I want to scream loud so the whole world can hear what I say but this the first time I got such an opportunity... I love you so much my dear... Thanks for making my life a masterpiece.

Life is Beautiful!!!

Poem on Humanity...

2010-02-10T00:28:00.004+05:30

This poem fetched me 3rd prize in a competition in our school :-)

தலைப்பு: மறைந்து வரும் மனிதநேயமும் இறுகிவரும் இதயங்களும்!!!

பனி நிறைந்த மலைகளிலும், கண்ணிவெடி நிறைந்த நிலங்களிலும்!
வீரர் பலரின் சொர்க்கபயணம், நமக்கு நூற்றாண்டின் இனிய பயணம்!!
மாக்கள் இரத்தம் ருசித்து பழகிய மனிதனின், மக்கள் இரத்த ஆசையின் நிறைவோ?
மருத்துவமனையில் வெடி வைத்து மனமகிழ்ச்சி அடையும் மனிதநேயம்!!

முல்லைக்கு தேர் தந்தவனும், புறாவிற்கு தசை தந்தவனும்..
மூச்சிழந்து பெருந் தூக்கம் தூங்குவது மனிதநேய நிறைவுடனோ?!
மனிதன் இன்று அடையும் பௌர்ணமி இன்பம் - நாளை
முதல் தேய்ப்பிறையை, தொடர்ந்து அம்மாவாசை என்பதின் முன்னெச்சரிக்கயோ?!

குணம் படைத்தவன் வேதனைப்படுகிறான் பணத்தின் தேடலால்
பணம் படைத்தவன் வேதனைப்படுகிறான் நிம்மதியின் தேவையால்!!
இரவில் சூரியனோ குணமும் பணமும் ஒருவரிடம் சேர்வது?!

இதயம் இடம்மாறி நடந்த திருமணங்கள், குணம் மாறி
பணம் இடம்மாறி நடக்கும் திருமணம் ஆகிவிட்டது

நிம்மதியைப் போதை பொருள்களில் தேடுகிறான் மனிதன்
திறமையைக் குண்டு வைப்பதில் தேற்றுகிறான் மனிதன்
தன்மானத்தை தலைகளைச் சாய்ப்பதில் நிலைநிருத்துகிறான் மனிதன்
மனிதநேயத்தை ஆழ்கடலில் மூழ்கடித்துவிட்டான் மனிதன்!

எதுகை மோனையும் நயம்பட பாடினான் மனிதநேயத்தை பாரதி
எடுத்துக்காட்டாக நினைக்காமல் பத்திரப்படுத்தினோம் அலமாரியில் புத்தகமாக
முற்செடியில் ரோஜா வளர்வது முற்செடிக்கு சிறப்பு சான்றோர் கூற்று
மனித ரோஜாவிடம் ஆணவ, ஆதிக்க, சுயநல முட்கள் முளைப்பது சிறப்போ?

மாறுமோ இந்தநிலை? மாற்றம் தான் கொண்டுவர முடியுமோ??
எத்தனையோ விடைத்தெரியாத கேள்விக்குறிகள் அவற்றில் இவையும் சில?!

I tried to make close translation to English & here it is...

Title: Crumbling Humanity & Hardening Hearts!!!

In snow filled mountains & land mines filled field!
With brave soldiers funeral journey, we are sailing happily in the new millennium!!
After tasting animal bloods, is it people's dream to taste human blood?
Now humanity is feeling happy planting bombs in hospitals.

Here lived the people who gave chariot to jasmine & gave his own flesh for pigeon..
Did they sleeping permanently as they are satisfied with humanity?!
Today's full moon's brightness may be a warning that starting tomorrow
it's going to be decline & subsequently new moon day with full of dark.

Good Human is worrying in search of money
People with money is worrying in need of peace!!
Is it like seeing sun in Night that same person have both money & humanity?!

Marriages which happened by exchanging hearts lost its property
Now marriages happening by exchanging money...

People searching peacefulness through drugs
People improving their talents by planting bombs
People establishing self-dominance by killing people
People buried the humanity well under the ocean.

Bharathiyar sang about humanity rhythmically
Instead of using it we safeguarded in cupboard
It's great to have a rose in a thorn tree but
Does having Egoism, Dominance & selfishness prickles is good to humanity rose?

Will this state change? Is it possible to bring a change??
These are few questions among the whole lot of questions to which we don't know the answers?!

Be safe online!!

2010-02-02T15:02:00.006+05:30

Recent phishing & malware attacks faced by some of my friends provoked me to write this small self help article.

1. If you are visiting a website please ensure that you are visiting the correct URL. Many times we will get spoofed by Typosquatting
For example if you type http://gogle.com it will take you to http://google.com, but not all the providers are google to acquire all possible combination of domain names.

2. Beware of phishing. Most of the phish sites will be start with the domain name similar to the original sites. If you look carefully at the URL in the address bar the last part of the domain is important.
For example http://ebay.cgi-bin.tru.co this URL starts with ebay which is the sub-domain of main domain tru.co which is not an original ebay website. The web page might look exactly like ebay page but it's a phish site.

Mostly bank sites, paypal, ebay were targeted by phishers previously but these days even common mail sites, social networking sites are also being targeted.

If you suspect a site as phish you can verify it's authenticity by searching at http://phishtank.com If the URL that you searched was not available there you can submit it for analysis. There is also Anti Phishing Work Group & you can post the URL's there too. http://www.antiphishing.org/

3. Never click a link sent from an unknown user in an email or IM. Sometimes the from address will look like the original bank email ID.

4. And none of the bank will ask for your Debit card number & pin while logging in to their website so never give out that.

5. Always check whether the banking sites uses https instead of http. https is a secured protocol commonly used by all authenticated bank/company. Previously GMail offered https as a optional service now it converted it as a default service for all the users. While using https it might be little slow but it's always secured. Many websites we uses http by default & they may also have an optional https service.

For example meebo.com always points to http by default. If you key in https://meebo.com it will get into secured page.

6. Never have a common password for all the sites like mail, social networking, banks etc.

7. And always have password length greater than 8 characters & it should contains capital letter, small letter, number & special character. Which makes it strong & difficult to break it using brute force attack.

8. Never save all your passwords anywhere like writing it down or saving it as draft in mails.

9. Always clear cookies & cache of browser after accessing the bank sites. The following link contains the step by step instruction to clear cache/cookies in different browsers.

http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=32050

10. If you doubt whether any of the sites may harm your computer by infecting it with malware/spyware/virus. There are various services available to check the authenticity of a website. Key in the URL & check whether the site is good or bad.

http://safeweb.norton.com
http://siteadvisor.com
http://www.mywot.com/

Google too have it's own analysis engine which shows "May harm ur computer" when it detects the URL produced by the search result is harm. But none of the service give you a 100% guarantee because internet world is huge & rapid, there are high possibility that the website owner can change the content after the site got scanned.

It's always best for us to keep our steps cautiously...

Hope this will help atleast very little...

Pongal Celebration!!

2010-01-19T19:22:00.012+05:30

Pongal is celebrated during mid of January. It's a harvest festival in TamilNadu & also a thanksgiving to Sun & Nature. And it also been celebrated as Mahara Sankranthi in most of the Indian states.

The day preceding Pongal in Tamil Nadu is called Bhogi when people discard old things and focus on new belongings. Actually the origin of this particular celebration is to discard/destroy all our bad thoughts/habits and start of with a new beginning with all good thoughts but people started burning material things & creating pollution instead of burning their ego.

So here I present a small photolog of how Pongal was celebrated in our home.

There is no pongal without a Kolam (Rangoli). And it's very common that various newspapers/local TV channels organize a kolam competition during pongal.

Here is a Kolam drawn by Mom & Sister infront of our home.

And we are getting ready for the pongal preparation. Stones are ready to keep the pot, small wooden sticks, Sugarcane, oil lamp, Coconut, pumpkin, banana, turmeric, betel leaves & betel nuts.

Couple of years back we have grown all those things mentioned in our own garden & celebrated...

Pot is kept on the stove & they started cooking the Pongal...

Fire! it's one major form of energy which keeps the world functioning...

Pongal in one of the pot got Pongified :-D (Over flown)

Usually water won't over flow when boiled. But the water which we boiled here is the water which was used to wash the rice...

Another pot overflows in full flow...

Here is the completely prepared pots of pongal. One is Sakkarai Pongal (Sweet) & another one is Ven Pongal (Salt & prickle).

You can see the layer of ghee in the left pot ;-)

Hope this was a virtual treat to you folks...

Am I Religious??? Yes!! May be!! No!!

2009-10-13T17:33:00.003+05:30

Am I religious?? One of the most sought after question that I ask myself!!!

I born in an orthodox Hindu family..
I was brought up like I have to pray daily & I'm still practicing it. And I should not eat Non-Veg on Saturdays & during Tamil month Purattasi, I was following this very strictly till I was into college. I go to temple atleast once in a week. I have been to many temples in all four South Indian states. I read lot's of books related to Hinduism. Also I follow some of the principles mentioned in it. By this does it mean I'm a Hindu???!!!

I lived in a house where our house owner was Christian.
Most of my childhood were spent there. And all of them were like relative to us. I used to go to Church along with them on Sundays sometime. I have read bible along with them. I have decorated Kudil along with them. I have went with Santa Claus to different Christian houses. My mom has offered a candle stand to the church in our town as oblation. I have been to Velankanni Church, Besant Nagar Church & of other churches across Tamil nadu. I follow some of the principles mentioned in bible too. By this does it mean I'm a Christian???!!!

I studied in various academic institutions where lot's of them are Muslim.
I have been very close to some of them. We all used to eat in same plate together in our hostel days. We used to celebrate Ramzan & Bakrid together. I have been to mosque, played with the fish in the pond there when I was a kid. One of my Dad's employee was a Muslim & he is the best one who worked for my Dad [even my own cousin brothers who worked for my dad is not good as him]. I have heard lot's of teachings from Quran from my friends & admired those. By this does it mean I'm a Muslim???!!!

Textile Shop near my Dad's shop is owned by a Jain.
They are really close to us both business wise & personally. We have been to their house for their festivals. And the Jain temple in our town is just adjacent to Perumal temple so we used to go there to. And heard Mahavira's teachings from them. Also one of my college junior who is very close to me is also a Jain. By this does it mean I'm a Jain???

When I was a kid I believed only Hinduism is good & slowly education enlightened me. And the people who I started interacting with them really changed me a lot. Brought me into limelight... Every single thing that I learn in science makes me to doubt about the existence of God. And the funny thing is when I slowly moving up the standards learning various scientific lessons my doubt towards God's existence increases directly proportional similarly my faith towards God. It may because every scientific thing is motivating me to find the existence of God....

And still I'm not sure whether I'm religious. But I'm sure that there is some Super Power let's say some form of energy which controls the whole universe, few of us believe it as Lord/Almighty & we are searching it through different path named religion. I don't see any other reason behind it, also in olden days they need a way to streamline every individuals character & our forefathers used religion as a tool. But today we people creating a divide based on it & creating a hatred, it's pointless.

Our town is highly communal sensitive area. I used to wear "Vibuthi/Senthuram, one fine day during my 9th standard I was going to school in morning around 8PM. I usually go by bicycle to school & I have to pass through a vacant ground on the way. When I was passing through that place two men blocked me & beaten me just for wearing Senthuram. One of the guys said, "school kid so lets leave him don't harm much". At that moment I hate the community of those guys. After few months Coimbatore bomb blasts happened, followed by lots of violence in our town. Shops were shut for two days. At that time I was young & thought that whatever the people doing were right. Then slowly I realized that what both of them did was wrong. Though I got personally victimized by communal issues, what if I again go saying that they beat me so I will beat atleast 5 of them??

We are all educated people. Education is not simply studying & scoring. Education should groom us, make us a civilized human. Come join hands let's make a wonderful world ahead for our next generations to live here....

I have to really thank few people here who helped me in grooming me in this aspect. Shiek Fareed, Mohamed Kiffayathulla, Alwin, Javid (my school friends), Mohamed Yasar, Venkatesh Prasanna, Banuchandar, Karthikeyan V, Udayakumar N, Kamalavel(Great friends of mine fellow Spartan), Saadhik anna (My dad's old employee), Dhirajkumar Jain (my college junior), Abtony, Shamz, Nabeel, Ismail, Benedict & Javeed Ibrahim (Twitter gems).

Am I religious??? :-)

Vinayagar Chaturthi...

2009-08-23T11:44:00.010+05:30

Vinayagar Chaturthi is celebrated as the birthday of Lord Ganesha. Ganesha, the elephant-headed son of Shiva and Parvati, is widely worshipped as the supreme god of wisdom, prosperity and good fortune.

Two to three months prior to Ganesh Chaturthi, life-like clay models of Lord Ganesha are made for sale by specially skilled artisans. They are beautifully decorated & depict Lord Ganesh in various poses. The size of these statues may vary from 3/4th of an inch to over 25 feet.

Ganesh Chaturthi starts with the installation of these Ganesh statues in colorfully decorated homes and specially erected temporary structures pandals in every locality. The pandals are erected by the people or a specific society or locality or group by collecting monetary contributions. The pandals are decorated specially for the festival, either by using decorative items like flower garlands, lights, etc or are theme based decorations, which depict religious themes or current events. The statues are worshiped with families and friends.

For 10 days, from Bhadrapad Shudh Chaturthi to the Ananta Chaturdashi, Ganesha is worshipped. On the 11th day, the statue is taken through the streets in a procession accompanied with dancing, singing, and fanfare to be immersed in a river or the sea symbolizing a ritual see-off of the Lord in his journey towards his abode in Kailash while taking away with him the misfortunes of his devotees.

People will get small idols of Ganapathi & worship it in home too. When the big idol in the temple is taken to be immersed in the water resource in their locality, they also will take the small idols in their home & immerse it along with that. The idol will usually be decorated with the following flowers Vel erruku (White Calotropis gigantea) & Arugam pullu (Cynodon_dactylon) which is special for this Lord.

Vinayagar Photo in our home decorated with Arugampul:

It's believed that kolukattai is the favorite food of Lord Ganesha so we present those to him while offering prayer. It's basically contains the raw rice flour stuffed with coconut & jaggery mixture and baked using steam. There are different varities of like sweet kolkuattai, kara kolukattai, parupu kolukattai etc...

Wife, my cousin Bro & Me stuffing the Coconut-Jaggery mixture in rice flour & my FIL was watching us.

Kolukattai is baked & ready. [U can notice the steam in the right top corner :-)]

We offer lot's of food items this like Avul, Pori, Kadalai, Sundal, Sweets, Fruits, Coconut along with the Kolukattai. But finally after pooja we ourself will eat those :-D

Our padayal to the Lord:

Twitter Quiz :)

2009-08-19T13:22:00.033+05:30

I dedicate this to my dear people who are following me on Twitter & my blog...

Bunch of great people I got to know from twitter...
@bharathy_99 @BalaSN @nadhiyamali @krithikan @varunshridhar @wiredvijay @thenewbnb @lone_observer @sudhamshu @idlee_amin @fossiloflife @surajram @adapaavi @mageshcse @bsherly @Svara @shan_adhicary @shamz911 @delhidreams @viveksingh @hiyer @KirtiB & some matured guys @javashri @shivakumar @ismile_sm @octaped

I thank god for creating such a nice characters & I thank twitter for introducing them all to me.

1. What time did you get up this morning?

Today at 5.30 AM. Usually around 6 - 6.30 AM.

2. How do you like your steak?

Most of the varieties of steak comes under Beef & I don't eat that. But have eaten Chicken, Lamb, Fish, Rabbit, Turkey, Quail, Pigeon, Deer [When it was not illegal].. But now sticking only to Chicken, Lamp & Fish rarely & atleast 2 eggs per day ;-)

3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema?

If I remember currently it was Ayan it's a Tamil movie.

4. What is your favorite TV show?

Deadliest Catch, Some wildlife programs... If I'm not watching any wildlife then I might be watching any NEWS :-)

5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be?

Venice!!!

6. What did you have for breakfast?

Any of the south Indian tiffin items that my wife prepares.

7. What is your favorite cuisine?

Chicken in any-form but I need Masala in it & baked properly.

8. What foods do you dislike?

Most of the vegetables. For e.g. Pumpkin, Bitter Gourd & lot more..

9. Favorite Place to Eat?

My home [My mom's, Aunties & Wife's preparation in order :-P]

11. What kind of vehicle do you drive?

One Motorcycle which was manufactured by a company & it's a joint venture of an Indian & a Japanese company, name of both the companies starts with same letter. Product name of the bike contains two words & starting letter of both the words are same too... :-P

12. What are your favorite clothes?

I prefer to be in Sleeveless T-shirt & Shorts. And mostly I wear formals if I'm out. But these days my special costume designer (My other half) is taking care of my dressing style & she prefers me wearing T-shirt & jean. Me trying to change to it from formal wears.

13. Where would you visit if you had the chance?

Italy, Paris, Turkey & Egypt.

14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? ???

It will be 1/2 full most of the time. For a change very rarely it may go 1/2 empty..

15. Where would you want to retire?

No plans yet. But I want to be in Mettupalayam during the last phase of my life...

16. Favorite time of day?

Early morning... When there is BMCT I like to have a walk, hearing the beautiful sounds created by different birds.

17. Where were you born?

In Mettupalayam at my Grand Ma's home as the first baby in the family to a 18 year old kid (My sweet Mom).

18. What is your favorite sport to watch?

Tennis [Love watching Federer playing ace..]

19. Who do you think will not tag you back?

Theriyalaye Pa... [It means I don't know] (Nayagan Kamal style...)

20. Person you expect to tag you back first?

@varunshridhar/@BalaSN

21. Who are you most curious about their responses to this?

@BalaSN @nadhiyamali @krithikan @varunshridhar @idlee_amin @wiredvijay @mageshcse @bsherly @Svara @shan_adhicary @shamz911 [I have teased some of them many times so they may try to take a revenge back...]

22. Bird watcher?

Yes yes.. I still remember the wonderful romantic Kuyil pair in our college hostel. Daily around 5.30 PM to a particular tree the male bird will come & start singing, then after few minutes the female bird will come. They will start playing together jumping across branches, and one of them will softly caress the other using its beaks.. That was really wonderful...

23. Are you a morning person or a night person?

Fresh Morning...

24. Do you have any pets?

Nope!

25. Any new and exciting news you’d like to share?

Going to be father in 2010 & we are very excited about that. Enjoying every moment of the baby growth. It was so thrilling to see a baby of 9 cm performing cyclic motion inside stomach through scan.

26. What did you want to be when you were little?

Scientist :-D

27. What is your best childhood memory?

Does 8th standard can be said as Childhood??? If so then my budding love can be taken as best one. If not then ??? When I was in 4th standard, the day before independence everybody was preparing for the function. And the rope in the flag pole got cut. Everybody was clueless what to do & they cant break the base since next day there is a function. At that time I suddenly started climbing the pole, holding the rope in my mouth. When I was nearing the top the pole started oscillating slightly on both the sides. Still I managed to reach the top & inserted the rope in the hole & got down. Whole school was watching me when I was on the top of the pole. Once I got down I got praise from all the teachers & principal it was a happy moment.. But in the evening I got a loads of scolding from my mom when I told this to her. I love you Ma.

28. Are you a cat or dog person?

We had a cat when I was a kid. Once it has eaten 4 new born chick of a sparrow which has built a nest in the roof our house & then the parent sparrows started screaming. I beat the cat like anything then my dad took it & left it somewhere across a river in our town. After that never interested in Cat or Dog.

29. Are you married?

Yes I'm. It's been a long fought war crossing all the stages of emotion. Thankfully God has created a wonderful person & sent to me as my lady love.

30. Always wear your seat belt?

I don't drive. While traveling if I sit in the front seat I will wear but wont when I sit in the back seat. There is no logic here but when we sit in the front & seeing the road will make us wear... ;-)

31. Been in a car accident?

Nope. But once a bike accident luckily no injuries. Once the bus I was traveling met with an accident. Lens in my spectacle gave me a deep cut on my face & I have to do 2 stitching to make the scar invisible.

32. Any pet peeves?

Nothing I suppose.

33. Favourite Pizza Toppings?

Chicken Tikka Makhani & Chick 'N' Spicy [half & half :-P]

34. Favourite Flower?

Rosa, Jasminum officinale, { Musa paradisiaca, Clitoria ternatea, Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Helianthus annuus & Euphorbia cyathophora } Yaye, Finally I managed to recollect all these 5 species that I studied in Botany during my +2. I still preserve those herbarium that I submitted for my +2 practicals.

35. Favourite ice cream?

Chocolate... :-D

36. Favourite fast food restaurant?

Airways.. It can't be said as a restaurant, but it's a fast food hotel which provides tasty food. It's just near my college & we have eaten here more than in hostel mess. It was golden times when our parents will send 1000 bucks for monthly expenses & by second week of the month itself we will ran out of money. In the evening we will sit on the bund & will gather a group of people. Collect money from each one of them & will go there to have our dinner...

37. How many times did you fail your driver’s test?

Never. Got it on the first attempt itself.

38. From whom did you get your last email?

Facebook, friendship confirmation message from @KirtiB ;-)

39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card?

Mostly on IRCTC website.

40. Do anything spontaneous lately?

Of course tweeting & some teasing...

41. Happy with your job?

Something can't be shared with public because it's protected under service of contract. So sorry for not answering this question. :-|

42. Broccoli?

I'm a pure Non-Vegetarian. :-P

43. What was your favorite vacation?

My North India tour during my college days. I'm the only one who took bath in train during our journey to Delhi in Tamil Nadu Express using a water bottle as a mug. It was the first time I was tempted to have a beer but then my friends didn't allowed me & still I couldn't taste it.

44. Last person you went out to dinner with?

My cousin brothers.

45. What are you listening to right now?

Theivam thantha Veedu... from the movie Aval Oru Thodarkathai!

46. What is your favorite color?

Yellow, Sky Blue

47. How many tattoos do you have?

None & I don't want to have one... :-P

48. How many are you tagging for this quiz?

Very few since some of them I wish to tag are busy people & they wont be interested these kind of game...

49. In What time did you finish this quiz?

More than an hour.

50. Coffee Drinker?

Very rarely. Only when my Mom or Wife compels that too only if I have a biscuit to dip in it..;-)

Thanks a lot to @nadhiyamali for tagging...

My tags: @BalaSN @varunshridhar @krithikan @Svara @mageshcse @bsherly

Gokulashtami Celebration:

2009-08-14T13:19:00.012+05:30

Gokulashtami is a Hindu festival celebrating the birth of Lord Krishna. It's also called by various other names like Krishna Janmashtami, Krishnashtami, Saatam Aatham, Ashtami Rohini, Srikrishna Jayanti, Sree Jayanthi, Janmashtami...

The festival falls between August mid and September mid months of the Gregorian calendar.

Kolam in Tamil, also called Rangoli in the rest of India, is drawn using soaked rice ground to a fine paste and mixed with lot of water. A white cloth is used to soak the paste and make the drawing. Krishna’s feet is drawn from the front yard to the pooja room, indicating that the lord is entering the devotees home.

Some people if they have any kids in their house they will soak their feet in the paste & ask them to walk. But I don't have any kid in our house now ;-) [Will be there one next year :-)] hence I used my hand to draw the foot. If you keep your thumb on your palm & close all the the four fingers the part part of you forehand will look like baby foot. So just fold the fingers as mentioned & soak the bottom of your hand in the paste & press it in the floor.

This is what I'm trying to do here... :-)

Use left hand for left foot & right hand for right foot.

Then just put a small finger like line on the top of the impression that you kept. And now it will look like a beautiful baby foot as below...

So we have drawn it from the door to Pooja room as below..

After getting these things done. We have to get the stuffs that Krishna likes [old people told these, maybe they like these dishes ;-)] Vennai (Butter), Muruku, Seedai, Naavalpalam & it's called Jambul in English[Thanks to @octaped for letting me know.], etc.. We have to be in the fasting & praying from evening & at midnight we have to offer Pooja's then only we have to eat. But we become so lazy so we did the Pooja at 10PM & then had our food.

This is the first festival we are celebrating here at new house after marriage so it was fun & interesting. What a beautiful life we have & we are thankful to God for that...

Using two different Firefox version in same machine.

2009-08-12T22:35:00.001+05:30

It was @contactnaveen who made me to find whether there is any such possibilities to make two different version of FireFox run on a single machine.

My Ubuntu machine at home is a Jaunty 9.04 with kernel 2.6.28-14-generic, I had an Ubuntu based FireFox of 3.0.13 in built & I tried to make the latest version 3.5.2 up & running simultaneously.

Step 1:

First download the Latest Firefox from Mozilla Website. Bunzip & Untar the file in /opt directory. [It's my preferred directory you can do this in under any directory ;-)]

Step 2:

From Command Line execute the following command:

prakash@home:~$ firefox -ProfileManager

It will open the profile manager of FireFox. By default the profile manager will appear as below if you don't have multiple profiles already.

Now add a new profile by clicking the Create Profile button & give a name to your new profile.

After adding the new profile just exit.

Step 3:

From command line open the inbuilt FireFox of 3.0.13 using the following command.

prakash@home:~$ firefox -P default &

-P is the argument Profile Name, if you got a different profile name for your inbuilt version itself then can use that too. '&' symbol is to open the FireFox process in background.

Step 4:

From command line open the latest FireFox of 3.5.2 using the following command.

prakash@home:~$ /opt/firefox/firefox -P Test -no-remote &

I have saved my new build under /opt so I'm using that path. If you have saved in any other location please use the complete path to the firefox binay file.

Here I'm using the new profile name Test (that we created in Step 2) for the argument -P. -no-remote is asking the FireFox to use a new instance of it while opening, if we don't pass that argument it will open a new window but it will be same instance of previously opened FireFox.

Now you can use two different FireFox in the same machine. :-)

Enjoy using two different version of FireFox or two different instance of FireFox in a same machine :-)

Caution: I have identified a small hook here. If you currently using default profile and there is no profile and if you have remembered all your Passwords using "Password Manager", while creating a new profile all the saved password got wiped out. Hence it's better to create a new profile (instead of default), save all your password in that profile then go ahead with the above exercise.

Kulatheivam's - Family Guardian Deities

2009-07-15T15:09:00.000+05:30

First thanks to @varunshridhar for rekindling my blogging self...

In this post I'm trying to narrate the story of our kulatheivam Lord Pattani, Lord Thaanthodri Perumal, Kathireswari Amman & Paapathi Amman.

Lord Pattani:

He is our Kaaval Theivam (Saviour God). And he gets the first priority. Before beginning any functions or prayers we will first pray them then only we will go ahead with other prayers.

Let me try to narrate the story of Pattani here. The real name of Lord Pattani is "Malukar Sayibu" (Sayibu is colloquial word for calling people following Muslim religion). And Pattani is one of a community name in Muslims, since our lord belongs to that particular community our great grand parents used to call so & that itself become the name of the Lord.

Here comes the story. Few hundred years back Malukar Sayibu was going through this village named Paadiyur, it was full of dense trees those days. He was a very masculine in nature, he usually carries a gun & whip with him always. On the way he saw the village people offering prayers to Aiyanar (he is another savior God in villages), Aiyanar statues will be usually be like he sits on a horse. Seeing this Malukar Sayibu laughed at them & teased the villagers saying why you are praying mud statues & he ate all the food dedicated to Lord Aiyanar. Then he teased the villagers asking whether this mud horse can compete with me & win??? In that sudden spark of time the mud horse of Aiyanar start running, seeing this Malukar Sayibu got astonished & chased it to overtake it. After crossing few meters Malukar Sayibu's head got busted & the horse that he was riding become a mud statue and the mud horse of Aiyanar which got life and ran disappeared suddenly. After this incident whenever the villagers crossed the particular area they feel they were being followed or they feel haunted. Hence all the villagers started worrying & stopped going on that way. In such time all the villagers decide to accept this demon as God & pray him first before starting any other prayer or functions. And all the people went to that particular place & started praying. Then came the oracular prophecy from sky that his soul got liberated & he will remain as a savior for all the people & future generations from those families. Form then on it become custom that we pray him first before any important events. There is a tomb near the temple where he was buried, even these days some Muslims come & offer prayer there.

Tomb:

You can see a green building in little far.. that's his tomb.

Whole view of the temple:

Here if you see, apart from one horse all other horse will be seeing in other direction. That one odd horse was instated by my grand parents when they tried to keep it facing as other horses but it kept falling then they keep it facing South direction (facing the village where our grand parents lived) it stood firm. :-)

We normally offer Karumbu Sakkarai (Brown unrefined cane sugar) to this Lord.

Thaanthondri Perumal:

This temple is located at few kilometers from Karur. It's located in top of a small rock in a cave, but there is a temple now. Again few centuries ago there lived a cowboy & every evening his cows failed to produce milk. He was very disturbed by this behavior & hence one day he followed the cow whole day to see its activities. It was grassing in the rocky fields & later it went near a cave & started pouring the milk on one statue like stone in a cave there. Seeing this the cowboy got tensed but suddenly there came a voice from sky telling that it's Lord Vishnu in self incarnated form. On hearing this he rushed to the village & informed all the villagers there then they started praying this Lord. The name Thaan thondri came from the Tamil words for Self Incarnation. They also said that the statue was kept growing slowly for years & it was suppose to hit the roof of the cave. At that time they put the crown in the head of the statue & fitted it with a nail & after that it stops growing... (Something always remains a Myth......)

There is a restriction so I couldn't post the post of the main deity. Here I'm posting the photo of the Lord's marriage ceremony :-)

Kathireswari Amman:

She is one of the feminine family deity for us. There is an interesting story about her. Long time ago there were two sisters in our village & they belong to our particular Kulam (means a set of people belong to a same descendant). And due to some custom they asked the younger sister to enter the fire. Seeing this the elder sister was so sad & convinced the village people that she will enter into fire instead of her sister. But she have given birth to the a baby just now so she thought what to do. And finally decided to enter the fire with her kid. When he entered the fire along with her kid. The fire disappeared & she along with the child got disappeared too. From then on the people of our Kulam started praying her as our feminine deity. And her name is Kathireswari.

Tree under which the Lord resides:

All set for Prayer:

Jakkalamman Temple:

Above I mentioned that Kathireswari have just delivered a baby before entering the fire. And the midwife who performed the labor was this Jakkalamman. Hence we offer prayer to this deity & there is a belief that she will take care of all deliveries happening in our Kulam without any complications.

Paapathi Amman:

This particular God is specifically for the families who got descended from my Great Grand Father. Around 200 years ago my Great Grant Father's Cousin went to a monthly market in a village that's far away from their village. While returning back one small girl came along with them to our village. My great grand father's cousin brought this girl to my great grant father & said that he already got too many kids so he can't bring this kid & asked my great grand father to take care of the her. My great grand father accepted that & started taking care of her as his own kid. One day when they were feeding cows in their farm, the small girl suddenly become a snake & disappeared. Then came a oracular prophecy mentioning that she is a god came in favor for our family. Then we started offering prayers to her. There is a interesting sub-story that the real name of the girl is not Paapathi, it came from the community of the girl in which it born. There is a myth that people who knows the real name if they tell it to anybody they will become an orphan & face a brutal death. And one such incidence has happened hence none of them were dare to tell the real name. To my knowledge my grandfather (My Dad's Dad) was the last person who knows the name & he was so stubborn that he never told the name even in his death bed. I'm keep trying & asking lots of people to find it... Let's see..

There is a special festival for her. It happens once in 7 years. Everybody in our family will be in special restrictions for few weeks & they will prepare a clay pot from a wet sand & bring it without burning the pot. (Usually all the normal pots will be burned after making else it will broke easily while cooking). And using that they will try to boil the milk using the fire burning the camphor. If everything goes fine the milk will boil properly else the pot will get broken.

Paapathi Amman Temple:

Main Deity:

Height of Ego:

In the above picture you see two temples. Both are temple for Lord Vishnu. The temple in the left belongs to our Uncle's family & the right one is for our family. First there was only one temple that's our Uncle's. Later a decade ago our family old people planned to build a new temple. If you closely notice you can see the temple in the right will be little taller & broader compared to the one in the left. See how people are exposing their ego among their own relatives.... Nobody can change people like this....

Disclaimer: All the above stories are kind of heard only stories, there is no written proof. It took me 5 years to gather all these info from various people & all of them are above 70 years old. I want to get it saved somewhere before it get disappear like anything. If I get more info or additional details I will update it in the same post. This post may not interest many people sorry about that. There some superstitions that many people believe, though we don't like we should not tease it.

Anticipation....

2007-11-15T09:47:00.000+05:30

During our childhood days when there is some occasions like Birthday, Deepavali, Exam Holidays, etc... We will be eagerly waiting for the D-day always thinking about that day. Starting at least on week ahead we will think about the new dress, cakes, crackers, fun, entertainment & lot more.... It will be some feel that we will get only during our childhood I hope.

But now I'm feeling so. Because the great event my friends are coming to my home & we are going to Masinagudi for the weekend 17th & 18th November 2007. Whatever work I do my thoughts are always revolving about the trip. Really I feel like kid now....

Eagerly waiting for this weekend...

Mozhi...

2007-11-10T15:17:00.000+05:30

Mozhi is a movie in Tamil language by Prakash Raj’s Duet Movies. So Mozhi means language in Tamil. Before writing about my thoughts about this movie I want to say one thing that I’m not a film reviewer or some good observer. I’m a normal person who liked the movie & just thought of writing about it.

I hope it should be a low budget movie since most of the scenes where taken in the apartment, beach & school. But I feel it’s really a great movie with some feel among many commercial movies being released in Tamil these days.

I saw this movie in my computer in home on Deepavali afternoon with my family. Really it’s a good move by Prakash Raj to distribute the movie through Moser Bear CD’s to stop piracy :-)

I thought of seeing the movie after receiving lot of good comments from many of my friends.

The baseline of the movie is Jyothika is deaf & dump and she works as a school teacher & Swarnmalya is her friend who also works in the same school. Prakash Raj & Prithiviraj both are musicians and good friends. Prithiviraj falls in love on Jyothika but she is a very confident person who thinks that she can’t live with him for various reasons. Finally Prakash Raj marries Swarnamalya who is a widower. On the same day Jyothika accepts his love.

It's really a different approach that Prakash Raj has tried. The story is really great. Apart from this the way in which the film move is really fantastic. There are some good time jokes which make us laugh. If there was no comedy then it would be monotonous & to sentimental which many of us wont like it. Prakash Raj proves that he knows the perfect mixture what people like.

My cycle ride to office...

2007-11-09T16:10:00.000+05:30

I’m proud to be one of the very few people who come to office in bicycle. So I just want to tell how I decided to go to office in cycle before I talk about my beautiful cycle ride.

I joined this new firm in February I moved all my things from Chennai to Bangalore including my Hero Honda – Super Splendor. First day I went to office through auto rickshaw & on the same day I got few friends & I inquired them about the procedure to get my paper done to use my bike. The shocking news that I heard was since my vehicle is of Tamil Nadu registration and it’s less than 18 months since I bought the vehicle I have to pay 12% tax on my invoice amount and 3% educational cess on that 12% amount. Apart from that it takes around 3000/- bucks to change my registration to Karnataka registration, since it’s not safe to use vehicle with TN registration here ;-)

For the next few days, in the morning I go to office by walk & in the evenings one of my colleague dropped me near my home. On seeing the distance I decided to send my bike back home & buy a new bicycle for me. Then I searched in net to find a good bicycle model & finally settled with Hercules Thriller which I bought on 4th March 2007.

I love my bicycle very much it’s one of the key part in my successful career here because it helps me to reach office whenever I wish. It will be really beautiful to ride bicycle to office around 6.30 – 7.00 AM since the chillness will start diluting by the powerful rays of the sun. Many people will just peep out of their house with brush on their mouth (I don’t know why many people enjoy brushing their teeth watching the movement on the road). Then I can see some school children’s cheerfully going to school carrying their back pack. Some housewives will come to the Milk vendor to get milk packets in their night dress & unkempt hair. On the way to my office there is a Shiva temple & I’m graceful to pray a few seconds while crossing that temple. In the beginning when I went to office in cycle the security people dare at me but later they used to it. :-)

In the evening it will be more grateful than morning, because no vehicle in the road can take me as fast as my cycle during that time. I can able to ride through all the small gaps in-between the cars. Some night rides at 11PM will be funny there wont more people moving around but we can see many drunkards. While it takes one hour for most of the vehicles to reach a particular distance; my cycle will take me in just 15 min in the heavy evening traffic. :-)

My ride during rainy days will be wonderful because with my jerkin & rain coat pants I will look like mountain rider. Amidst the pouring rain my cycle will take me safely in all the roads, it wont stuck up anywhere. It will ride even if half of the wheel is submerged in the rain water.

Some more special features of my cycle is the principal cost is very less compared to all other mode of transportation. Maintenance cost is very low. No need of fuel except free air once in 15 days.

Apart from everything it’s a good exercise to me which keeps my body little fit. I really love my bicycle...

In the following map red line is the path through which I daily travel in my bicycle to reach my office...

Life as a Tester...

2007-10-05T13:30:00.000+05:30

When I got placed in one of the reputed company on 30th June 2004 I was so happy, it was a feel of achievement. Most of the Spartanz have placed & also most of the ITians also got placed. I was in the state of euphoria. There starts my dream... I thought that I'm going to build something that many people in the world will use it. I'll achieve something which nobody ever achieved. A usual dream every individual will have. :)

With all those dreams one year went on, beautiful final year of my college life.

Then come the D-day. I got the call to join on 20th June 2005. The thing which disturbed me most at that time was I got posting in Bangalore. While filling the resume I gave the preferred location as Bangalore with my friends just as fun. But only when I got the posting there I felt the pain.

Me, Yasar & Dharani, we all got the same joining date. When we got the groups split up on that day Me & Yasar was into Embedded Systems & Dharani was into Telecom. All of us were happy. Especially me because I'm so much interested towards embedded systems. And the training starts, it was really good & I learned a lot. After training we completed our exam (that was a big comedy & I have to write a separate post for that alone). The came the most devastating thing to my happiness that I'm into Testing & not going to develop something on embedded system. I felt like I'm in hell. I don't like Bangalore & now the work is also which I don't like. I want to do something to get ride of it but I don't find any way. Only think that I did was struggled a lot & got relocation to Singara Chennai.

Then without any interest my professional life started as a tester. I got into one project, when I saw the lab & the work the people were doing I had ok kind of mindset to work. So me & Manimaran were new members to the team. We got some stuff to learn & we started reviewing test cases. Then we wrote test cases with functional docs for 2-3 months. Then we get into work of testing at that it was total loss for the client to whom we were working so they planned to sell the company to another well known MNC.

When the whole acquisition was over the company already had a similar kind of project what we were working on so they scrapped the whole project & thought of integrating their product with what we were building. So they prepared a complete new requirement & came with proposal for another version of the project. And people in our team prepared SOW's & lot more stuff of architecture. But finally our client decided to give of the project & the whole ODC was closed. Now 60 people who were working in the project were free. Around 15 people from that team resigned the organization & few of them moved to other project. And few of them where on bench & I'm one of the unlucky guy. I thought that my life in bench will end soon... But it continued for 11 months. It's really horrible, I thought that my life itself gone, since the starting of the career itself going like this. Then took the decision to take a shift on December 2006 until that I never thought of shifting.

Just posted my resume in job site, got calls from some consultancies & finally got an interview call from one good MNC. Attended Telephonic interview on one Tuesday & got a phone from the HR that I'm through with telephonic & they wanted to me to have direct Interview. Attended Direct interview on following Thursday. On the same evening I got a call from the HR informing that I'm through with it & they sent me the soft copy of my offer letter. Everything happened in fortnight. I posted my resume on December first week & I got my offer before before 13 of that month.

At that time just need something to work instead of sitting idle. So I accepted the offer. But still I was not interested to leave my old company but if I'm still there then my life will be spoiled totally like stagnant drainage. Anyway I did a good move @ good time.

One of the many reason that forced me to leave that job was my big bosses over there never heard us. We have spoken many times but they were not at all ready even to hear what our problem is because they are already having huge mass in bench so they never care about us. As per one good saying "Employees are not leaving the organization, they are leaving their managers". In my case it's absolutely correct.

Then I joined the new organization in February 2007. Then got into work soon. Here too testing only [since I was already into testing & had experience in testing] but it was something different. I felt happy with the work that I'm doing day by day. I got to do some research on it. It's not just boundary value testing. It's pretty interesting. I'm working on top notch technology which is going to come sometime tomorrow. And many people will use what we are certifying so it's pretty challenging & going great as of now....

Troy

2007-09-21T17:27:00.000+05:30

This the scene which inspired me to watch Troy. And the complete movies drives me to learn more about the whole history happened there & I'm now in the process of learning more about the history........

Fear of Death...

2007-03-30T08:28:00.000+05:30

After my usual visit to my hometown I was traveling in a bus from Erode to Bangalore on 25th March 2007. The bus starts at 11.30PM from Erode & reach Silk Board (Bangalore) by 5.30AM usually. I'm a traveling in this bus every Sunday for past one & half month. Since I have already booked the ticket I sat in my seat (#18) it's exactly near the door, 4th row from the driver seat.

All the seat's in the bus were occupied. Many people were requesting the conductor that, "I want to go to Mettur or Dharmapuri (it's small town on the way to Bangalore) shall I board the bus". The conductor replied, "please wait outside the bus while the bus starts I will take you all, there is no seat so you have to stand during the travel". It's very common in India traveling long distance standing, since it's not easy to provide sophisticated transportation system to the whole lot of population. So when the bus is about to start it was almost flooded with people. Since my seat was near the walking bay people standing there kept hitting me.

Then the bus started softly giving us all a small vibration, riding through the bus stand it reached the main roads towards Mettur. Mudhalvan movie was being played in the TV's kept in the bus. It's one of my favorite movie so I was watching it wearing my specs since my optical power is -3 in both the eyes I can't see the image clearly without specs.

After reaching Mettur many people standing got down & new set of people got into bus to travel to Dharmapuri. Then it reached Dharmapuri safely riding through the soft night. And there most of the standing people got down so the bus in now only with seated people & traveling towards Hosur via Pallakoad.

The bus have just traveled 6 kms from Dharmapuri. I was in a semi sleep state, keeping my legs folded and laid on the back of front seat. Suddenly felt a jerk, I was standing outside the bus in the agriculture land. Only after few seconds I realized that the bus met with an accident. Before I realize I got down of the bus with reflex action. Since I sat near the door I was the first person to get down, with in few seconds everybody in the bus got down. Many of them got wounded, due to the sudden jerk people sleeping hit the iron in the front seat and many of them got their teeth broken. I have a deep cut on my nose, it was because of my spectacle. Thank god the glasses haven't broken, if it had broken then I might heavily wounded. It was bleeding heavily in my nose, it's total dark so I couldn't find where I'm wounded I just feel that it's bleeding near nose. I used my kerchief to remove the blood stains & after some time I realized that there was a cut on my nose & the bleeding is not from inside the nose.

One guy got fits people helped him. Then I went inside the bus again to take my bag along with other passengers, I heard screaming from the front of the bus. I remember an old lady, one girl & her mother sat on the first seat behind the driver. I couldn't even think how much they have wounded I quickly took my bag & got down. Only after that I tried to find how the accident happened.

The bus was traveling in the left end of the road & a lorry was traveling in right end of the road in opposite direction, during that time another one lorry tried to overtake the lorry without realizing that a bus is coming in opposite direction. Then both the bus & lorry driver applied sudden break but in vain already the lorry had hit the bus. Surely the bus driver might have badly wounded. The lorry driver haven't wounded much.

Then some people came from the near by houses, we requested them to help the people who stuck inside. Since we are under total shock we can't be stable to anything.

I along with some 3 others thought of going to Dharmapuri again & take another bus to Bangalore. But how we can go at this time, we crossed the road to take a help from the upcoming lorries. When we crossed we saw two policemen reached the place, I astonished on seeing them, whether TN police are so active. We requested a lorry to give lift to us till Dharmapuri. By God's grace that driver is a very good person, he took four of us with sympathy. For us the lorry driver traveled through Dharmapuri instead of going in his normal route to Namakkal. On our way to Dharmapuri we saw three ambulance & two police patrol jeep crossed us. And also a bus to take the deserted travelers to the destination. I really amazed that, do things happen so fast (in few min) in India? We got down in Dharmapuri bus stand thanking the lorry driver & cleaner.

We three people took another bus to Bangalore from Dharmapuri. We reached Bangalore by 6.15AM. This is the first time in my life I have felt the fear of death.

Possessiveness!!!

2007-03-15T11:37:00.001+05:30

It's an universal feel.

Many times psychosomatic stress because of possessiveness leads to sleepless nights which may later leads to a disease called insomnia.

Dictionary Meaning:
pos·ses·sive [puh-zes-iv] Pronunciation Key –adjective

1.	jealously opposed to the personal independence of, or to any influence other than one's own upon, a child, spouse, etc.

2.	desirous of possessing, esp. excessively so: Young children are so possessive they will not allow others to play with their toys; a possessive lover.

3.	of or pertaining to possession or ownership.

Possessiveness @ different stages:

A child will be more possessive on everything. He wont allow others to touch his toys, pointing to his mother/father he will frequently say to others that "it's my mom/dad", wont give eatables to others easily. But what I more insist on is the possessiveness on relationship. The child will never allow anybody else to sleep on his mom or dad's lap.In a family if the mother gives birth to second child, she have to care more of that new born. But the first child will then start crying or fighting with parents that they are not taking care of him. At worst cause he may try to harm the new born. Everything is because of the universal feeling called possessiveness of the child on his mother.

When he grow up and goes to a school. He will be possessive on some of the friends/teachers. If his friend is spending more attention on somebody or somebody tries to be closer with his friends he will turn violent because of the feel. Else if his favorite teachers doesn't talk well to him or if he cares more about some other student he will became irritated.

During adolescent age when he falls in love with somebody. He will be deadly possessive on her. He always want her not to any other guys, she should spend more time with him, should care more about him, like this the list keep going. And one stage he will become mad such that always thinking about her that too when she is away from him.

When he got married & bear a child. As the child grows it will get new relationship when his child fall in love, there comes his possessiveness on his child. He will feel that his child has been controlled or more inclined to his love interest only.

And at old age when they retire & reach second childishness they expect more attention towards them from their children. That expectation is because of their possessiveness on their child.

Why I write about possessiveness??? Because I'm becoming mad due to possessiveness.

Love Marriage in India

2007-03-13T15:01:00.000+05:30

The phrase love marriage/arranged marriage can be heard only in India. As many of you know Indian is filled with lot of tradition and culture. Most of the Indian marriages are ruled by caste culture.

In India children's are more bonded with their parents than most other countries. Apart from some Asian countries it's very rare to see children wait till their parents get them a bride/groom.

I don't know why Indian society is so interested in an individuals personal life? What it's for them if a guy & girl are in love? If a guy is in love it's moderate offense if a girl is in love it's highly offense. If somebody see a girl roaming with a guy then they start preaching that the girl is of bad character.

When coming to love marriage in India it's really a huge task. The problems come from various angles they may be of different caste, religion, status, parents ego & lot more...

There is one more tradition that in a family if there is an elder brother & younger sister with age difference of less than 5-6 years then then brother can marry only after arranging for his younger sisters marriage. It was a good old tradition when most of the Indian families were poor. Why it was happening so in the past was if a guy got married then he will start living separately & will concentrate only on his own family wont care about his sister. But its not the situation these days, now even girls are earning much more.

You might have heard of process going to D-State in Linux. It's nothing but an infinite sleep by a process waiting for a resource to be released. Here I give a example of D-State in human. Let's say in India there is a family (A) with an elder brother(M) & a younger sister(N) & another family (B) with an elder brother(O) & a younger sister(P). Now N & O are in love both are of similar age and O can marry N only after arranging P's marriage (bcoz P is O's younger sister). But P is much younger to marry so O&N have to wait for some more years. Bcoz of this M have to wait since N is M's younger sister. So only after P's Marriage N&O can marry and only after that M can marry. It looks strange, isn't it? So here M have to be in D-state until N get married.

SCDL - PGDBA 1st SEM

2007-03-05T12:09:00.000+05:30

On fine Saturday morning wake up early to finish up my scheduled Organizational Behavior & Managerial Economics papers, still have two papers scheduled for next Saturday. Both of them are difficult ones Management Accounting & Business Law. Anyway I have prepared well so surely will do well.

Since most of the questions are from assignment it's not so difficult. Going through assignment will surely help out. If anybody need assignment papers find it in the yahoo groups links below.

SCDL2006
SCDL_PGDBA_2006

Spartanz – One for all & All for one.

2007-03-02T15:11:00.000+05:30

On 18^th July 2001 when Induction program was going on for freshers in Rajam Hall, MIT Chennai nobody knows that the history will be rewritten by a bunch of friends called Spartanz.

I learned the definition of the word friendship from Spartanz. It’s not just a set of people who got acquit just to spend the 4 years enjoying. It was not a bond created by mother’s womb but a bond which was created by noble feeling, friendship.

The Beginning!!!

2007-03-02T13:23:00.000+05:30

I have thought of writing blogs many times even I have wrote some posts but today I deleted all my posts and starting fresh. And I have to surely mention who is the inspiration for my interest towards writing Blog. He is a great graduate from IIT --> Dhaylan. And the title of the blog was inspired from the beautiful words of Banu.