Winner is...

Ok, Now that I have some time in hand. I will say, who gets to fill their belly for what does "V stands for". First Thanks to everyone of the entry. I'm glad. Also to take a neutral stand, I asked my friend to judge this. Thanks to her. Amudhan was lucky with this "Varutha padatha Vaalibar Sangam". :) Amudhan is a friend and a fellow blogger who writes here here and here. 

Well, I read lot of good posts around me. Apart from some of them I share in my reader, here are few in the month of January..

Poem: A Quick love by Neha

On a Bored Evening... by Sankar

Can’t girls talk about beards? by Revathi

He,Ne,Ar,Kr and Xe. by Abirami

The biggest secret of Photography from DPS

Flickr stream of Arun

Flickr pool from BWS

I got lot more, but I need to refactor some code. :) Take care...

Anger

A strained throat

Those Crippled hands
Migraine head

Broken keyboard
Unpacked bags
Charged batteries

Manirathnam movies
Da Vinci Code, Kuran
and Bible

Not You, Not me.
Yeah, not him too.
F#%@

Don read this..

Orkut's fortune teller has been so kind on me today! Wondering how lucky I'm. I did say right, don read it. Now that don tell me those consequences. :-)

17

This is the last option I have where there is no soul awake other than those that are right across the globe. Its been hard on the last few days, but happy that my body din complain. Though my brain had some down time. I started to fall in love with this blue seat, which my 'evil' soul tells just don fall in love with it. And you know how good I'm at avoiding evil path. With my neighbors radio running, I don think I need more entertainment. Oh Yeah, thanks to those security who insisted to answer only in Kannada and Hindi despite of knowing my multi lingual skills. What else can I use to fill space? Oh yeah! I heard many people around me say Obama won the US presidential election. I trust them, din go to CNN. Yesterday, Ended up having the funniest conversation with my Dad! This is the last photo I clicked.

Chalo, got to go now! Bye...

Monday Musings / revsjoiedevivre

I was wondering what to blog next, a lazy solution came in the way of these tags. I was tagged twice with in a week. First tag was in office for the weekly magazine Monday Musings. Thats why the week after tagging me, Monday was declared as a holiday. But the sad part of this column is that they wont let out the name of the person who nominated me. I really wished I could know that, to ask "DON YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTION? Ah!. Meanwhile revsjoiedevivre aka revs an future sister in law and my lastest blogger contact tagged me. :) revs tag first.

• Last Movie You Saw In A Theater Sa-ro-ja for the second time. I jumped out of the seat @ PVR. :)
  
• Favorite Board Game Life, Just for the fact that it left me a bachelor for a long time.
  
• Favorite Magazine I used to get sportstar for the pictures and its center page poster.
  
• Favorite Smells amma samyal
• Favorite Sound laughing
  
• Worst Feeling In The World passing the question, Since I don want to think of one.
  
• What Is The First Thing You Think Of When You Wake? Shit! It was a dream, I though she was real.
  
• Favorite Fast Food Place Sasi pani poori, Coimbatore
• Future Child’s Name psdskrbsagaksla (its a concatination of all my girl friend's first character)
• Finish This Statement. “If I Had A Lot Of Money I’d…” spend it, what else.
• Do You Drive Fast? No, srihari will speak more about it.
  
• Do You Sleep With A Stuffed Animal? Not got a chance.
  
• Storms-Cool Or Scary? My vocabulary is poor enough to understand the question
  
• What Was Your First Car? The one I got in ammam kovil festival
  
• Favorite Drink I will take the answer that SS gives. :)
  
• Finish This Statement, “If I Had The Time I Would …..” sleep (easiest question of the lot)
  
• Do You Eat The Stems On Broccoli? I eat idly and dosai
  
• If You Could Dye Your Hair Any Color, What Would Be Your Choice? rainbow starting from left to right and have an 1:1 with my manager. :)
  
• Name All The Different Cities/Towns You Have Lived In Sydney, Shangai, Utah and New jersy.. (belive it..)
  
• Favorite Sports To Watch F1 & EPL To Play street cricket, gilli
  
• One Nice Thing About The Person Who Sent This To You She is such a kind hearted, caring person. She is one of the best friends whom you can find in a million. She is such a brilliant, studious and clever girl. Provided she is beautiful. :) (I better wash my hands now...) :)
  
• What’s Under Your Bed? floor
  
• Would You Like To Be Born As Yourself Again? OMG, Not again!
  
• Morning Person Or Night Owl? 24x7
  
• Over Easy Or Sunny Side Up? pass
  
• Favorite Place To Relax friends house
  
• Favorite Pie anything
  
• Favorite Ice Cream Flavor Chocolate
  
• You pass this tag to - nobody :)
  
• Of All The People You Tagged This To, Who’s Most Likely To Respond First? nobody!
  

Part 2: (Monday Musings)

• I belong to State / Place - zion பிறக்க நீனைத்தேன், ஆனால் கோவையில் பிறந்தேன் (I wish I was born to zion, but I was born in Coimbatore.)
  
• In my family there is - நானும் என் பெற்றோர் (Mom & Dad and Meee)
  
• I Love - தூக்கம், மின் கட்டுரை, புகைப்படக்கலை (Gaming, Sleeping, Blogging and Photography)
  
• I Hate - பெருசா ஏதும் இல்லை (Nothing much...)
  
• Most Memorable Moment at Novell - தினம் தினம் இருக்கும் காப்பி ப்ரேக் (Every day coffee break)
  
• If I could Change something about myself / a habit of mine that I would like to change - குறைவான தூக்கம் (sleeping less)
  
• My Favourite Book - Cuckoo's Egg
  
• My Favourite Movie - தளபதி, The Matrix
  
• My Favourite Dish - அம்மா சமையல் (Mom's Cooking)
  
• My most cherished possession - பழைய நண்பர்களின் கடிதம் மற்றும் வாழ்த்து மடல். நான் எடுத்த புகைப்படம் (Old letters, birthday cards and Photographs that I take)
  
• Three things about me that my colleagues would not know - சமைக்க,கற்பிக்க பிடிக்கும்.
  மைவிழியோரம் கருமச்சம். (I love cooking, I love teaching and I have a mole on my left pupil)
  
• I Fear - going alone to Hospital
  
• What do my friends lovingly call me விஜய், வீ (Vijay, V)
  
• Happiness to me means நண்பர்களுடன் இருப்பது (Being with friends)
  
• If I win 10 crores on Dus Ka Dum, I would... வேற என்ன செலவு செய்வது தான். (spend it)
  
• Message for Novellites - அண்ணா சேம மொக்க question அண்ணா இது. Work Hard, Party Harder!

Special thanks to Santy and Dams for helping me out with the tamil stuff.

Update: I was told I can only post in English in MM. But who can stop me here. :) I call this the full version.

Take care when you invite for your wedding

Hey just few things only. At regular intervals I find wedding invites getting to my Mailbox. I love and respest them all. Just that I just hate some of the things I see in the mail. Some time they are personal invites and not as a backup e-invite. So take atmost care of what one is sending to their friends.

- Send the mail with contacts in BCC. People with 'Reply to All' will shoot at thier leg by sending it to all. Some times I find some X contact getting added into my contacts because of this.

- Take some care in making the image! Crop and resize the scanned image to best fit size. Make the orientation fit to page. Rename the file. (Front page.jpg, back cover.jpg...)

- Best would be embedded the image in the mail and send it rather than a mail attachment. Also have a P.S that there is an embedded image.

- Try writing down what is there on the image as mail content. Images are not allowed in all mail servers.

- I would prefer getting a soft copy from the Wedding card printer rather than scanning it.

- Give equal importance like your printed cards is all I ask. :)

Dream

I got up from my dream

I remembered the song
I remembered the scene
I remembered all, but

I never remembered her

கண்மணி அன்போட காதலன்

Disclaimer: Any part of this post directly or indirectly relate to my employer or great artist behind this song.

Just a small thought of what will happen if a nerd composes the same song with his nerdish girl friend. This song is just a reminder of "machan peru madurai..." song that we composed for srihari in hostel. Just incase your browser does not render the font properly, thy this image version.

Update: Due to issues in rendering this font, I'm doing a Ctrl+Shift+End and del for the text. Until I really complete the text version. Please use the image version.

Advices

I hear them all the time. At home, at team dinner, at the coffee table, at the yoga class, on phone, on chat and even in my dream. I have recollected few of them so that you can advice me in choosing best of them.

• Try Sleeping early...
  
• Don skip your lunch, I even got a nice punch for this. Goodness only it pained the giver..
  
• Try saying "no" when someone ask you to do something...
  
• The following is a trio, It came one by one:
  
• First get a girl friend...
  
• You should be getting a workaholic girl friend..
  
• You should get a girl outside the IT industry who is fun loving...
  
• Go to the Gym regularly, you need to loose some weight...
  
• Why don you shave?
  
• Don go out in the rain, get warm cloths for winter...
  
• Need to improve on my photography composition...
  
• Try to get the bike of the parking and drive it atleast once...
  
• You should be doing your higher studies, I will sponsor you!
  
• Start early from office...
  
• This one was a bumper, try writing someone usefull in the blog...
• Never blog at night...
• Get married, .........

Update: Changes will be made as & when I feel like.

Story Time - 1

Being Black

Sankaran pillai was a fun loving person and a responsible parent. He had a kid who was young alert, active who always gets astonished by the things he looks. The kid carried a look of being darker than the other kinds in the street. One day Sankaran pillai took his kid to the near by amusement park.

He was excited and kept on asking questions to Sankaran pillai, how does that light glow? how does the giant wheel spin? How does the pop corn jump? Sankaran pillai answered all his questions with at most importance and dearness. Suddenly the kids his stiff excited body was sullen. Sankaran pillai asked whats the matter dear? The kid looking at a balloon shop said, "Appa, There are so many balloons in the shop? There is red color one, blue one, green, yellow and even white! But why isn't there a Black color balloon like me? Is it that the balloon will not fly if it was like me?"

Sankaran pillai smiled and replied, "Kanna, The air inside the balloon is what that makes it fly and not the color outside the balloon." :-)

Do you know how we got this color? He continued, "It was a day to day routine of God to create new and unique Human beings. Each and every one of the incredibly distinct from the other. He runs a painting division in heaven that does the painting for all the created Humans. In the painting division, all the newly created Humans are made to stand and with their hands folded like praying. At this point God starts to pour the paint that he has chosen for each individual. Once the paint flows throughout the body they are dried and sent to earth. This is the reason why both the palm of the hands and the sole of the foot did not get painted by the pouring paint and they are uniquely white for all Humans."

Note: I din keep track of the author name nor the person who told me.

Sleeping

TTR: Tickets...
Him: Err! Again disturbed & annoyed and his sleep stuck his ticket out with eyes half open.
TTR: (Checks... Parses his name list twice...)
Him: (Regains consciousness, are you done? Sir)
TTR: yevada ponum? (malayalam) (Eng: where do you want to go?)
Him: Stumped! Why is this language change?
TTR: Looks at the ticket and takes again.
Him: Coimbatore
TTR: This train is going to Palakkad now. It crossed Coimbatore long back.
Him: $^!#