Su J

converstation b/w me and my friend over the fone long time back..

he : did u get a fwd reg the incident happened in Madivala mosque ??
me : nopes, temme!
he : they found a dead rat in the biriyani they served !
me : oops, then wht happened?
he : they closed down Mosque! (sic)
me : OMG ! is the situation normal thr in madivala ?
he : ya..
me : Do they serve Biriyani thr?
he : obviously.. y not?
me (thinking): Oh! Annathaanam perhaps, on fridays !
me : no protests against the closing down
he : no,I guess, but they will re-open after sometime..
me : ya..

we switched on to other topics...
but I was suprised by the news ..

- dead rat found in biriyani served in Mosque..
- Mosque closed down..
- no protests

I dint give much a thot and only after a week, I received the fwd my friend was talking abt and I was ROTFLAO...

the madivala mosque my friend was talking abt was actually 'Madivala MAS' a restaurant in Madivala..

MAS phonetically sounded MOSQUE to my dear hearing organ !


ps: 'Madivala Mosque' is a famous landmark/bus stop in these parts..

People magazine selected Michael Manga as the one of the sexiest man alive...
General-a peru style-a irukum but paaka manga maathiri irupaanga..
intha aalu paaka style-a irukaan but paeru 'Maanga'-nu vechurukaan.. weird !

yep, its mine now and on the way from Singapore... :)

I have been using ICICI credit cards for almost 2 years.. used CC for almost all purchases ranging from getting a single Dosa@The Forum to a SONY WEGA for home.. No issues until last month I forgot to pay the dues..

This month's statement had a Late payment fees of 300 bucks and a service tax of 30 INR.. all for an outstanding amt of Rs.700.. I jus shot one mail to the a/c manager saying I have been a prompt payer of CC dues blah..blah., I want the late payment fees reverted back and next day it got reversed !!! :) :)

But next day's statement when viewed online, they had charged me an interest of 250 bucks for the late payment and for all the purchases after that... weird !!! One more mail to the manager and this too got reversed back !!! :)

After reading abt a lota credit card blues, I was quite surprised to see such 'customer care' from ICICI guyz.. All done with jus 2 mails.. cool !! Things do work properly !

Therez a small temple near my house in cbe called 'Black' Mariamman temple..well, thats what ppl call that temple.. me used to wonder y such name tho' all Mariamman idols in most of the temple are black in color..r was it the anglicised version of 'karu'Mariyamman ?? (thx Arun ;) )

Then when inquired, it turned out to be 'Plague' Mariamman temple... Thanks to eloquent Tanglish speaking ability of the ppl, Plague became Black...

Seems that Plague erupted across South India in 1898 and the epidemic took a heavy toll. People believed that pleasing Goddess Mariamma would eradicate Plague and built Mariamman temples in lots of places including, suprisingly, Bangalore,(Source : Wikipedia) But the name 'Plague Mariamman' sounds otherwise.. :)

ps: Therz a Mariamman temple in Bangkok.

U can see these in lot of places in Blore..(apart 4m traffic jams and 'under construction' flyovers)

"Family bar" and restaurant.
Andhra Style Multicuisine restaurant.

Q : Connect Telugu movie 'Gaayam' and Tamil movie 'Thiruda Thiruda' ??
A : Gaayam - Direction by RGV, screenplay by Mani Ratnam
Thiruda Thiruda - vice versa

Q: Name SJ Suryah's sports goods company ? ( in case he starts one)
A : Sleazenger !

Wishing our Super-star a very happy birthday !!!

















whats common between Yuvi and Thalaivar???
b'day, of course..

okie, for Yuvi :
Happy b'day dude !

Saw 6(Aaru) yday... 2nd half was okie-dokie except for trisha's presence and in the 1st half, 6 was a perfect 7.5 (ezharai)..
(two liner reviews is enuf for the movie)

vikatan gives 'Thavamaai thavam irundu' a 53/100... so a must watch for the next weekend !

It was love at first sight. I still remember the minute I saw her, a fine breezy morning of Jan 31st, 2004 in Chennai, not the romantic of cities, but still, the aura she spread made me think so. She was introduced to me by my cousin n I was just bowled over in the first meeting. We struck a chord immediately.

She has been with me ever since, thru the ups and downs of my life hearing all my cribs, laughter.. running thru all my emotions. Not many my friends knew that I was this close with her.

She was a model had excellent features, amazing curves. I jus loved her more than anything in the world. Moreover, she wasnt possessive, allowed me to flirt with her other-model friends. I used to do it shamelessly right under her nose. :)

Every day she wakes me up promptly no matter how crude my fingering was, the previous night ;) She has a amazing voice and jus before sleeping I used to make her sing my fav numbers and she did without any second thought. She always urges me to keep in tuch with my friends and help me call them often remembering the no.s of every single friend I have. I was really proud to have her.

For almost 2 years, we dint have any problems and the all of sudden over the weekend she broke. I persuaded her to be her ownself but she refused.. I have no idea !! I am lost, I feel disconnected from the world. I feel so alone..I want to talk to her... I cannot live without her, I cannot live without my cell..Nokia 6100, my precious !

ps: I have given the fone for servicing and hope to get it back soon in proper state... n so 98453 93467 wont be active for a few days.. contact me thru mail.

Update : I got 'my precious' repaired and working fine ! 650 bucks down the drain ..

How wud an eunuch likely to start a conversation ???

Ans : Gender-Ali speaking, ...

ps : plzzzz, no offences meant !

With some benign intention of making some cool money thru google ads, I signed up for google adsense for this page.. okie, money isnt the only criteria, I had quite a few reasons like, the left column of the page is empty, 2 know abt adsense etc.. and atleast this wud urge me to blog more and get a bit of page hits..

Then came a reply saying they wud resort back in a few days after reviewing.. if this page conforms with their ..blah..blah.. After a few days, I got a reget mail saying that this page will not be allowed to host google ads. Reason stated : "My blog is in primarly in a language that is not supported by google ".. Oh my gosh.. I jus had one post in thamizh.. what happened to google's niche in dealing in intricate details???

Also, why isnt Thamizh supported by google (herez the list of supported languages ) .. classical language, 5000 yrs old !! Is Ramadoss listening ???!!!

என் தாயிர்க்கு இணையான தமிழுக்கு
என் இணயதளத்தில் ஒர் இடம்..

பேரன்போடு தமிழையும், அந்த தமிழை
இங்கு வரை எடுத்துச் சென்ற கல்வியையும்
இன்றியமையாமையாக்கிய என் தாயிர்க்கு..
பெருமிதத்தோடு அற்பணிக்கிறேன்...

பல தமிழ் இணைய பக்கங்கள் படிக்க படிக்க தமிழுக்கும் உண்டோஅடைக்குந்தாழ் என்றே நினைக்க தோன்றுகிறது..
அந்த உந்துதலில் உறுவான எண்ணம் இந்த தமிழ் இ-பக்கம்

இது ஒரு சோதனை முயற்சி.. அதனால் இங்ஙே நிறுத்திகிறேன்..
மீண்டும் தமிழ் எண்ணங்களோடு சந்திப்போம்...

மொழித் தவற்களுக்கு மன்னிக்கவும்..காரணம் :
தமிழ் எழுதி நாட்கள் ஆகிவிட்டன..

நீ நல்ல காலத்திலேயே ஒலுங்கா தமிழ் எழுத மாட்டியே, என்று அம்மா குரல் கேட்கிறது.. (okay Mom, its jus a web page )

இவண்,
சுஜெய்

My trips to cbe, mostly been alone, not that I prefer but it too turns out to be as fascinating as a chat r with 'someone' ... Observing(!) ppl never fails to amuse u..Nope, I dont eavesdrop, u can call it overhearing *grin*

Last friday, I opted to board the Kurla at Cantontment station...(Not that I wanted a change, but dint want to miss the train..I almost missed once-thanx to the usual friday jam near Majestic) I reached Cant a big one hr b4 Kurla had planned to reach.. Now, the luxury of boarding at Cant is, with jus one platform, u have all the privilege in the world to observe all genre of ppl waiting for their trains across the platform..

I jus walked amidst the dense crowd hoping to find a congenial spot to place my baggage ..my ass as well, I was jus able to find a small elevated slab narrow enuf to place either my baggage or my butt, I resorted to place the thinner one..ya u r rite, my baggage..2 much digressing? ok, lemme get back.. I jus stood beside my baggage, with an air of indifference, back of mind tracing for a bait to make my ear drums n gray cells active..

Tracing jus stopped short when I heard two guyz talking in English with some accent and fluency ,I bet,any make BPO guy wud feel inferior...With some audacity I shud say, I shamelessly overheard their conversation.. They were talking how 'they' looked 'down' upon the BPO and the software industry. One quoted 'dumb jobs for dumb ppl'. Then the topic changed to the accents and content value they obsevere in such low profiled techies, seems its all pesudo-accents and failure to bring out adrenaline in their expressions. phew !! Perhaps, God is so dumb not to place Medulla oblongota not so near the vocal chords. From their talk abt presentations and English, I guessed they must be marketing grads from B-schools where they teach *Attitude*. They soon parted after a small hug and a kiss(!), much to my relief.

Some benches got free as special train to Chennai burdened itself with more passengers. I jus sat near a sober looking family, the only entertaining member being a kid counting the no. of bogies of a goods trains.. I becames nostalgic, as I used to do the same as a kid, half the time losing count midway.. A ringtone broke a brief silence as the young gal took out the 2100 (perfect handy tubelight !). She was talking to her collegemate about lackluster attitude of the Placement committee of their college and how it affected the careers of the students..Hmmm, if at all opportunities are even for everyone..God is definitely not communistic.. Next train on the track and more benches clear up...the family also boards the train..

Next train expected was mine and with a solid 20 mins to go, I found 2 hefty looking guyz heading straight to an empty bench near mine, close enuf for my ear drums to pick up sounds... In fact I wanted to read something, but the dimness of the light was sharp enuf to inflict some pain to my eyes, I prefered my ears to do the talking.. :) They were talking abt their good ol' college days where one was a big bully and how he attracted quite a no. of good looking babes by showing off his *attitude*... sure is, I mused. Topic came to how miser the Indian software paymasters are, while publicly discussing their salaries. Talk abt public displays of stupidity !!

Soom my train arrived, I boared amidst some shoving and pushing to find their 'allocated' berths.. INDIA?, I climbed on to my berth.. slowly dozing off to sleep...waiting for the TTR to check my ticket.. One quote came to my mind ..One cannot judge people, coz, people are people.. they are what they are !! - as quoted by Mr.beautiful accent guy .

Minutes ticking.. no sign of that bugger.. may be I shud shout like ambi(in anniyan) TTRRRRRRRRRR ....

ciao,
Su J

Over the weekend had to witness a function at my place : 'puberty function'.. well thats what the invitation read.. for my cousin. Seriously I am not aware of the consequences of hosting such functions. But a question that I would love to ask these hosts, ur child has attained puberty, Congratulations ! U have a healthy gal !! .. but y make it public ? Attaining puberty is something personal, very personal..God, please drive some sense to these minds !!!
Imagine the mental trauma the young gal had to experience over the entire function, that too a 11 yr old kid.. kneeling down to get the blessings of elders.. posing for photographs with almost 500 odd ppl who had come to attend the 'function'.. including a handful of teenaged guys whom my bro invited.. sheesh !!
Thanks to all the old fashioned grandmas who hold pride in hosting such ceremonies, preserving the Indian tradition and the magnanimity of my uncle who spent a sum of atleast .5 Lac... hoping to get some gifts for the function ??, I wonder what gifts these ppl give for such functions.. sanitary napkins??
Life is so complicated, y no farewell party at menopause?

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One thing everyone in Infosys take pride in bragging abt Infy is its spectacular buildings, landscapes..It has almost everything, everything as in everything.. from dominoes to Coffeday to Amul, from tennis courts to cricket grounds.. world class gym, sauna, pool..facilities, best in business..name it, Infy has it...
I usually say to my friends.. Infy has everything expect a barber shop.. but wait somebody has heard me say that, a lot of times too, now they have opened a new 'skin n Hair care salon' .. now what do I say?

salon is here, opening a saloon isnt very far I guess :)

.. me saw Anniyan on monday in cbe, had actually kept it to watch it in PVR.. but had to succumb to my ever-profound affinity towards Shankar-social theme movies and that 2 with my firiends' gud rating of the movie..
Quite a movie, shud say.. vikram was simply amazing.. I will be surprised if he doesnt get an national award jus for the climax..for the trivia Anthony Hopkins got the oscar for his 16 min appearance in the movie 'Silence of the lambs'..
gud break for vivek after a not-so-gud-going movies, He and Sujatha made the pace of the movie, tho' not in his traditional style, he has proved that he's best in business..
I jus cant stop writing abt vikram, this man has taken so much care to prove that he is best time and again... This isnt Shankar's movie but a vikram one.. _amazing_
Harris Jeyaraj wasnt that classy when compared to all the technicalities in the movie..
But had to witness Indian,Mudhalvan, gentleman shadows in Anniyan...
worth a watch .. a second time 2...

Adios,
Su J

45.23809523809524% of me is a huge nerd! How about you?

There are 2 kinds of audience, those who appreciate Mani Ratnam movies and those who dont. Feeling sorry for the 2nd category of ppl, I make an humble attempt to write a review for Ayitha Ezhuthu.. Mani ratnam films , always are a class apart, n as expected this was no exception. Came out 4m the theater with a satisfaction of seeing a gud movie after a long time, the last gud movie I saw was incidently Kannathil muthamittal. Mani, the best project manager i can say, knows how to extract best, Take a bow ! Characterisations always mark any of his movies, well, this movie is all abt 3 characters, 3 youngsters brought up in diff surroundings with his own perception of the world !
The cast is highly remarkable, Maddy as Inbashekaran, brought up as a street urchin in the slums of chennai .. Surya as Michael vasanth, a born genius, a student leader ..Siddharth as Arjun Balakrishnan is Casanova II aspiring 2 have fun and fun only.paring them are Meera jasmine as sasi, Isha deol as and Trisha as Meera in that order.. The story is abt the three youngsters happening 2 come across each other on Napier bridge..and how their life change after that. well the story starts only in the mid - 2nd half ..the rest of the story is about what these characters really are !! a different attempt can say, after all is what Mani's movies are ..more about the story will be an injustice 2 a gr8 movie..so left 2 u 2 c..
Maddy,easily the pick of the actors..I think this will be his best performance, he has gone heights, way 2 go Maddy ..keep it up !one can c the rawness and the crude behavior in every move, an exhibit of a beautiful acting.. Surya, as the name goes , rises day by day, film by film .. yet another marvellous performance..done brilliantly in a character every youngster aspires 2 be.. Siddharth fits in this one, cool performance, have 2 c a few movies to judge better, neways , a gud artist in the making..Meera jasmine, man ! where was this beautiful actress all these yrs?? gr8 performance !! gr8 talent wasted in movies of pudhiya geethai caliber... Trisha, no big role to perform and no comments on Isha deol (has 2 be really careful, her mom could be a threat !) mani always pays equal importance to the techies, puts in a gr8 mix ..AR Rahman, Vairamuthu, Ravi.K.Chandran, 'Vikram' Dharma, Sabu cyril - real world class.. everyone at their personal best. Songs are exceptionally gud, 'Fanaa' (read -> death for a gud cause) stands tall for its lyrics, Music, Dance, set, picturisation..what not !! Jana gana mana - a clean score - gonna be a hit.Nee yaro - bow to Ravi.K.Chandran ..simply awesome photography..u never know its our gud old Marina where the song was shot ! And going for the real picture, we can c Mani's touch at several instances, the twists, churn, turns , u can never be short of suprises..another world class Screen play..dialogues by Sujatha- for a man he is, yet another performance..If you are looking for faults in the movie, only one i can c was deja-vu of Mani's old performances.. can c Nirosha of Agni nakshtram, Karthik of Mouna Ragam, etc...
A real worth for ur money !!
Sujay

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