It needs a revolution to change something that some 6 crore people had been doing for ages. A revolution that changed how 6 crore people greet each other.
என்னப்பா.. எப்படி இருக்கே?? became என்னப்பா , சிவாஜி பார்த்திட்டியா ??
and BTW Happy Bday to the revolution called Rajnikanth.
Some sense of humour can have ur daughter's house bombed, Supreme court staying ur bandh call and even ur hunger strike called unconstitutional !!! (which engg coll did Ram study??)
Kerala govt decides 2 award 5Lac to Robin Uthappa for his heroic performances at world cup.. wondering y? the connect here is Uthappa's mom. She is from kerala. Now I request the kerala govt to consider Dinesh Kaarrthhick for the award ( of 5L ok,2.5L atleast) as his parents work is dubai. After all Kaarthhiick is more connected to kerala than Uthappa.
I have a natural bent arm ..so I chuck - 700 wickets n on n on..
I dint know ..mom gave me anti-obese drugs - 707 wickets .PERIOD
against minnows - Zim and Bangaladesh
Shane - 16 wickets
Murali - 168 wickets..
y is SL playing so much test cricket against zim n bang >?!!
Ever wondered what would have been Adam's surname? Considering that all surnames ..well most of them are based on ppl's occupation, after meticulous thought and analysis of all things he wud have probably done.. I strongly feel he shud have been Love. There you get the world's first surname. Even a few years back you would have seen certain David Love playing golf against certain Fred Couples(indicating, thats apart from what they do the best. Somewhere down the line circa no particular period, for all practical purposes , people changed their surnames and also dint stick to doing what their names claimed, else we wudnt have had an Engineer keeping wickets or a Courier delivering the best kick serve.
Surnames, sure are fascinating, diversified and perfect misnomers most of the time. A gal might still be Johnson(technically might be Williamson's, jus that Johnson isnt aware), So is the case of Indian pillais even if the baby is a gal. Indian surnames are mostly caste based, some are always Reddy, some crude and Rao, some really shetty. For a country like India so diverse, a typical south Indian would often associate Sharma with a bus rather than a Northie brahmin. Then there are godlevel surnames in Devar, found very south of India and warriers in nearby God's own country. Interestingly, Rajesh was really a pilot . Weirdly enuf Many of the Singh's in India are neither Sikh nor even Punjabi and have really bad voices. A few people have Mistry names named not so accordingly..
Very few like wordsmith had ever had a proper name, I would say or may be even Sharad Powar. There was an old joke arnd early 90s abt RSA cricketers not 2 have worried abt food ,they had Rice, Wessels and a Cook. thats better than their neighbour Zimbabwe's 1st president was actually a person named Banana, probably his mom thot Banana Sr was bad in bed ;) Noteworthingly,every one wanted Moore from Michael after his Farenheit 9/11. More often than less, we have surnames after ppl's jobs rather than the kind of job as in the case of Sooni Taraporevala.
O'Ghosh! there r so many interesting surname connects and disconnects, Woodbridge might never have been related to a Contractor nor a Sen, Dutch ! Udayar may even be a beggar and Tyagi never so, Mammooty aka Mohd Kutty, but a big actor. Bhat, of course !
For all the romantically chanllenged out thr, change ur name to carbon, jus that dating becomes inevitable !!!
Vairamuthu on Madhan n Sujatha
8 comments Published by Sujay on Saturday, April 21, 2007 at 12:44 AMசென்ற வார குமுத்தில் மதன் சுஜாதா கேள்வி பதில் ஒப்பிடுமாறு கவிபேரரசு வைரமுத்துவிடம் கேட்டதற்கு, அவர்..
அணுவை கடலாக பார்ப்பவர் சுஜாதா
கடலையும் அணூவாக பார்ப்பவர் மதன் ..
வைரமுத்தா வரிகள் முத்தா ??
Modified the K1 wordpress template for blogger 2.o , I think the comments are working fine..
still a lot of tweaking needs to be done, statcounter, links, About me are to be added..
May be a change in the picture.. Gimp needs some work ;)
More posts coming on the way.. till then plz comment on posts u were unable to..
Dumm Dumm Dumm's dialoguewriter was Perarasu .. u mite want 2 re-read the sentence ?!
Anbe Sivam's dialogue - Madhan (Hai)
Story Screenplay for the movie villain - Yugi Sethu
KuruthiPunal was directed by PC Sriram
Info courtesy Tamil Cinema community in Orkut n several blogs
contd....
Attend the unconference wikicamp.in, India's first and only unconference on wikis's.. Had a chance to brush shoulders with Jimmy Wales, Wikipedia founder, Atul Chitnis, man behind Foss.in n SVP, GeoDisc , lot more of some intelluctual crowd n tech enthusiasts.
Having missed blogcamp and the barcamps, dint want to miss out on this. More on unconferences can be found at wikipedia and infact TKF, The Knowledge Foundation(team behind blogcamp and wikicamp) is planning out on a book on unconference, of course wiki based!
Jimmy Wales was so unassuming, had flown down to chn for this meet. He gave abt a dozen interviews, for media, podcasts for podcasters and atleast 100 fotograhic sessions. In his keynote to the unconference, he gave an insight on wikipedia, his current n future projects, wikia and wikia search, an open source search algorithm.
Prominent Wikipedia contributors had graced the occasion and gave a comprehensive insight of their wiki experiences.. The event went thru the aftertoon with some good lunch, some 'mokkai' sessions and meeting some interesting ppl.
Good thing(sometimes bad) abt unconferences is most ppl come to such events to be among the intelluctual crowd and in such cases, the theme of the event is lost sometimes. This event was no exception, tho the theme was abt wikis, ppl thronged arnd jimmy wales most of the time.
Overall a new n enriching experience.
Sagaro gives a neat preview of wikicamp.in and more fotos here
its two months since I posted on this blog.. Lifez been quite different after I moved to chennai, new ppl, new state, new work profile... Not sure how in this new environment, my lifez gonna be..
Wanted to write abt a very interisting weekend I had, some 2 weeks back.. Watched two amazing movies and attended an unconference wikicamp.in
Paruthiveeran and Mozhi
both have been awarded 46/100 by vikatan.
Ameer and Radha has done a really tremendous job ..3rd movie for both of them..
Very simple storyline but screenplay and witty dialogs are trademarks of the 2 movies
PV is a movie which wud leave a heaviness after u watch it.. I felt the climax was an overdose and bit out of my comfort zone, nevertheless its that climax which wud make u leave the theater( or switch off ur DVD player/Media player in case) with a heavy heart..
Amazing cinematography and excellent choice of color usage ..u know..in a place where the best plantation available is cacti in nature..The Brownish tinge in the movie gives u a very realistic picture of whatz a rural 'Theni' looks like.. Characterisation is simply amazing, every role had a purpose.. from the small lad who roams with the 'sandiyar' hero(his attire is always some 20 yrs above his age..indicating his coterie) to the mom whose uninhibited verbal attack on both her daughter and husband time and again. Folk fair, caste(neatly handled), ppl, their mindsets.. everything abt rural atmosphere, name it, the movie has it. But for the climax, it was near-perfect movie. Karthik, amazing performance on debut..Priya Mani's char was amazing, a lifetime role for any heroine.. and she proved shez one of the best in business.
Yuvan was amazing, its all in the bloodline, have had his dad sing the 'Ariyatha vayasu'.. almost had feel that Raaja is singing in his own composition.. background score had the raw native feel,a very big asset to screenplay. Almost every dialog was witty and had that 'grammathu nakal'. The problem with the climax was it 2 was 2 natural and generally ppl dont goto movies to see pain.
Mozhi, a perfect feel-gud refreshing movie. Unlike to PV, chars had a very urban(e) lifestyle, posh apartments, attires jus out fresh from the rack, 5am jog in the beach(yeah, with a pomeranian). Again a simple story(too simple actually) but some really witty situational dialogues and neat screenplay ascertains you a perfect entertainer for all the 50 bucks and 2.5 hrs u spend for a movie. Prakash Raj at his usual best, I think, his 1st try at fulltime comedy. Prithiviraj, with his tinge of mallu accent gives him good scope for comedy and he is really natural. Jo, in her last film, ends her career in a really high note and proves again that she is the best actor among the current crop. Her exceptionally expressive face suits really well for the deaf-mute character. Swarnamalya fits in well but sometimes a bit over expressive(typical of ne Bhratnatyam dancer?). Keeps u entertained !!
KB, Bharathiraaja, BaluMahendra revived tamil film industry - gave some really gud story-oriented movies when MGR and Sivaji were in their wrong side of their fifties. Ppl loved the change from erstwhile hero-oriented movies. Now, both Kamal and Rajini in their late fifties and not many of the present actors going for good cinema these days, its high time that directors like Ameer, RadhaMohan, Cheran, Selvaraghavan, Gautam Menon(too talented yet frivolous) to change the face of 'mafia'-oriented cinema. Only Mani and Shankar stand apart in creating magic in fiction and fantasy irrespective of the cast. I guess its gonna be gud competition b/w realistic cinema and real cinema in yrs to come..
Abt the unconference in the next post.
contd..
the new Iphone rocks.. except for the no-3G and a meagre 2.0 MP cam.. but therz WiFi and Bluetooth 2.0.. Engadget had a gr8 live blog from Stevie J's key note.. Steve sure did rock . And Apple Computers is jus Apple Inc.
But I always wondered the emergence of wireless competition between 3G n Wimax .. sure and 3G - 4G is a wonderful technology.. but to get it to user level wud surely take time... but cant the same be made available with WiMax technology.??? sure for cellfone manufacturers it doesnt make a diff b/w incorporating a 802.11/b/g/n interface or a 3G system..
For service providers, new spectrum, new systems in place, new market.. and for users.. it would certainly cost them dear atleast till the market stabilises.. remember when cellfone came into existence, it was 8Rs outgoing n 4 for incoming. Only thing I see that brings the initial cost down is video call and may be video broadcast on 3G..I cant predict how video calls wud go well with Indians but I see IPTv thru wifi coming well ahead of 3G/4G mobile TV.
Tho 3G mobiles are very prevalent in India, only a couple of months back the Indian govt has granted permission to release 3G spectrum for service providers.. new spectrum, new hardware, new systems it wud atleast be 2010 for 3G market to gain momentum but making chennai/ blore wifi-ed wudnt take a month ?!! Ought to be cheaper and I see a nice market for IPTv here with ads.. Is some service provider listening ?
How abt this? Nokia-Tata Sky-Airtel broadband convergence.. Airtel can make the a city WiMax with 802.16e with 70Mbps speed. Tata Sky providing all the channels they provide thru broadband.. smaller screen, Less resolution, less bandwidth and Nokia providing mobile handsets with wiMax.
How will this business gonna do?!