Champions, Arbalests, Halberdiers, Trebuchets, Barracks, Knights were the only things going on in my mind over the last weekend, reason being a small AOE tournament held in my unit/DU/Dept.. whatever..
Was lucky to have friends who are born gamers as a team( me , rich and akhi). Totally 16 teams of 3 participated in knockout tournament of 2 rnds and a final. 1st two rounds were Death Matches and the final was a standard game. The 1st round was a bit tuf and we beat the oppenents in 45 mts (AOE time) but in the 2nd round we decimated the opposition in 28 minutes (again AOE time)
The final being a standard game took a little more than a hour and we emerged champions as the opposition could not stand akhi's invasion (as was the case in earlier rounds also).. Yep, I know I have to answer the question, what I was doing there.. Generally my fav past time is picking up relics and jus 1 was left to be picked up before Akhi and Rich thrashed the opposition and but I finished the game with resources enuf to make considerable amount of wonders :P
Tho I dont have a flair for gaming had a nice time thru out !
One thing that never cease to amaze me is the responsibility of every Tom, Dick n Harry on the road to indicate that the headlight on ur vehicle is 'ON' ..yeah, of course during daytime ;) .. It wudnt be a surprise if everyone who have this unique responsibilty generally shows consideration to hell a lot of other things that shudnt b done in public places viz..spitting on the rd, throwing garbage etc..
But y this special consideration for the headlight.. n BTW what a gr8 sign someone has invented to indicate !! Does this prevail from days headlights were put on vehicles or is it jus the film 'Ullae Velliye'(One Sleazy Thamizh film) is solely responsible for the act.
This is simply awesome, with TN's assembly elections coming up, our politicians never cease to bring out suprises. First it was Vaiko's stunt by shuttling between DMK and ADMK's alliances and then settling down at Poes Garden.. Next day MSM and Blogworld screamed "Y Go?".. not to mention, Cartoonists and joke writers across TN had a gala time over this.
But this one takes the cake, DMK announced their manifesto yday offering color TVs for every household. The reason quoted was 'for women's recreation and General knowledge'.. Oh yeah, SUN TV is nothing short of NGC..
Since DMK's manifesto is so enticing, What would be ADMK's.. contemplating over, to beat DMK's appeasement on 'Ladies sentiment'(sic), I wudnt be surprised if Amma announces a 'color computer'(yeah, color only) to every student or a '1 sovereign gold coin' to every unmarried woman again to appease the 'Ladies sentiment'(sic).. after all Men r considered to come with 'No tags attached'.. no sentiments whatsoever. :P
But what will our patriot, revolutionary captain come up with... discman with CDs of all captain films or video IPOD loaded with the same, better !
so whom do u vote for ?!
We guys (me n my roomies) started cooking successfully at our place..turning out fine n successful for the past 3 days..Bought stuff for cooking from Big bazaar and now a big hole in the pocket. Talk abt bacheloristic pleasures :)
We dint find ne guinea pigs so had to test on us.. Hmmm.. not bad, shud say.. No pukes, No diarrhoeas.. Everyone safe n sound ..er. alive for that matter..
So all r invited to have the taste of our inventions..(a.k.a recipes worldwide)
Truly a sports day yday ..3 matches, 1 amazing race.. I cud see jus one of them on DD.. jus coz Tamil Nadu doesnt have Star Sports and ESPN.. Arent there any sports enthusiasts there?? so much for SCV's monopoly.. Darn !!
Windies lost by 27 runs chasing 300 albeit they were 148 for no loss at 1 stage..
Imagine 49 sixes , 872 runs in 99.5 overs..OZ scoring 434 and proteas actually chasing it.. damn ! I jus cud not watch the runs galore..
in fact Telemachus bowled 1 maiden in this match, he definetely deserves the man of the match :P
1-2 pole for the prancing horses. New qualifying format, old tyre rules, lots of overtakings, Rosberg getting points for his amazing debut, 4 cars for redbull - two on Ferrari, other 2 on Cosworth..talk abt range ! I jus cud not watch Schumi back on podium after the 2005 debacle...Damn..Damn.. Damn !!
All jus coz I was at Cbe for the weekend :'((
9. Cancellation of e-ticket is done by the same means (n not at any reservation counter)
Back in school days, the 1st wed of March is always a half-day at school..wait.. that was when my school wasnt working in shifts.. reason being the annual car festival(தேர் திருவிழா) of 'Koniamman' temple, often heralded as the guardian temple of the city. Sources say that the Coimbatore was earlier called 'Koniamman pudur' and some traversing over a period time thru a lot of changes, the city is now called Coimbatore..
Last sunday me been there to the temple with mom for the 'mavilaku' function.. a special diya made out of jaggery and rice...offered to the deity. This is typically celebrated for a week with various rites like "1008 diyas", "mavizhaku" etc.. along with some classical music functions happening daily.
Highlight of the week-long function is the CAR festival that usually happens during the 1st wed of March and that closes the week-long celebration. The deity is proceed around the streets (for a few Kms) in a mammoth chariot/car(தேர்) which is abt 50 ft tall with stone wheels of abt 2-3 m in diameter often pulled by ropes.. Koniamman தேர் is one of the tallest ones in TN.
Lots of ppl seeking blessing pull the ropes of the cararound the streets. Since the car is taller than the elec poles, the wires are removed temoved temporarily and the electricity is cut around the time the procession takes place. Huge amt of ppl throng the streets trying to get a glimpse of the deity.
Nice celebration, too bad I miss it after I moved to blore.. Anyways I went the temple and saw the தேர் being built while coming back. Dont miss this when u r at cbe during the 1 week of March by any chance.
Yday, me had been to the 2nd largest Barista in India..yeps, at East.Tv swamy rd, RS puram, Coimbatore.. It's a duplex one with good lounges and importantly, good private space.. surely better than the CCD across the road. Has a separate section for the 'I wanna have a fag with coffee' ppl and also an open-air division.
Cosmo looking crowd with mostly "Dad's an ATM" kids. Nice hangout place if u are suited to such kinda places..wud surely pose a biz threat to CCD.
I have always wondered why expletives are always related with sex or sexual organs .. Also, most of them are the same across all languages.. Interesting part is, for conventional usage, they are replaced with animal names.
What curse did a dog, cat or a chicken had for such a usage ?!?! I do not want to use any othe profanities here ;)
One thing that never cease to amaze me is Google, started in 1998 as a search engine with jus 23 words on its home page and now the fastest growing company on Earth. Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, I would surely call them magicians. Now google is synonymous with search and it has become a verb as in 'Google it up!'
Gmail, well over 2 Gigs per id and still counting, when introduced, created a mass hysteria, now they have 'chat' within Gmail..cool.
Orkut - Half my time on net is spent on this.. Was able to meet my school buddies, long lost friends, interesting ppl, interesting discussuions n what not..tho other networking sites like ryze, Hi5 were there, u cannot beat orkut.
Google reader, print, videos, Google Talk, Froogle, Adsense all seriously amazing stuff ! Get them all here.
Now they have Google Base, where u can store all kinds of data to be searched. My personal fav is Google Earth, I am sure, the day isnt far when I can see myself thru satellite thru google.
In fact, blogger is also a part of Google. (Google bought it in 2002)
Hats off to Larry, Sergey and Dr. Schmidt (CEO)..
ps : I love google except for this. :D
I almost screamed over the fone , "SO, what are you gonna give me ?? a personal loan or a life time free gold credit card or house loan or a gal friend ??? ..this was when I heard a feminine voice saying 'Hello'.. I generally say a patient 'no' to these spam calls, but this was when I rushing to catch my office shuttle, early in the morning, 10.30 AM !!
I held back from screaming (huh!) and said hello !... suprisingly it was from a buddy..She was just returning a call as I had called her when she was busy.
On contemplating over the call, I realised that the only feminine voices I hear over the phone were from call-centre executives and I assumed the same when my friend had called and almost screamed at her.
Wow !! good going, I said to myself .. What a life ?! :)
I am doing a 'leoni' here..
Latest lyrics..4m a movie called Dhishum
Boomiku velicham ellam, nee kan thirapadhinaal
poovirku panithulikal, nee mugam kaluvuvathaal..
kadaluku nuraigal ellam, nee pal thulakuvathaal...
kaalayil aditha mazhai,........
k .. guess n fill in the blanks..
Karnataka's KSRTC bus service is one of the better inter-state transport I have seen.. from normal 'budget' deluxe buses to volvo buses, they have it all..
Now BMTC, Blore's local bus transport service competing with KSRTC has added volvo AC buses to its fleet, with initial service operating from Majestic to Electronic city and another one from Majestic to ITPL, targeting the IT population of the city. The buses look amzing, I wasnt able to get pics from the net, else wud have posted it here. They charge u abt 30 bucks from Majestic to E-city.
Hope they get better drivers unlike this one. (Courtesy: Silverine)
My pongal wish here.... (Dont miss this)
Hope u have a gr8 pongal weekend watching arch rivals competing against each other, ya both IND-PAK test match and Adhi, Paramasivan releasing together !
It was around the time when our PM was Narasimha 'Whats-a-smile?' Rao had opened the Indian markets for Foreign investements, aping the west was its best. The Indian public started getting the best media exposure, apparently there was a sudden surge in the Apparel industry and Indian roads even in smaller cities and towns saw a large no. juvenile dames sporting jeans and T-shirts, even shorts which was looked upon scornfully by the ultra-conservative insipid so-called culture guardians.
Gals being gals decided to oblige with tradition but did not want to lose out on the garment front . Days became months, years n the evolution started, Duppatta was considered as a nuisance as sporting it while riding resulted in bad injuries. Salwars became jeans. (still the purpose remained rite?).. Then the world saw kurtas instead of Kameez, later transformed into shorter kurtas, tighter ones.. As days went by, jeans and T-shirts, once contemptuously looked is now not an issue.We see all kuppathas to muniammas in Tees and jeans
I must sincerely appreciate the way the gals made the society conveniently turn a blind eye to this evolution. Guys, hope u are not missing the under the belt vertical evolution of salwars-to-jeans-to-3/4th-to-shorts ???
MONTHLY MILESTONES OF AN IT - GUY
| Heading | First Week | Second Week | Third Week | Fourth Week |
| a) Bank Balance | 20000 | 2000 | 200 | 20 |
| b) Conveyance | Auto ("I can afford it") | Share Auto ("I would like to share. I am selfless!") | Bus ("Public figures should travel by public transport") | Walk ("Good for health") |
| c) Girl Friends | Eena, Meena & Tina ("I can BUY love") | Meena &Tina ("I have enough girl friends") | Tina ("I am loyal to her") | "Huh! There is no pure love on earth!" |
| d) Mobile Maintenance | Frequent outgoing calls ("This is what mobile is invented for") | Restricted outgoing calls ("I should not create unnecessary traffic on mobile lines") | Rare outgoing calls ("Mobile should be used in urgent situations only") | Only incoming calls ("I am not going to call her until she calls me") |
| e) Boozing | "Come, let's go to Goa and freak out! | "Man, there is nothing in Goa. Let's go to Mysore." | "The best place to booze on earth is our house itself. What say?" | "Drinking is injurious to health." |
MONTHLY MILESTONES OF AN IT - GIRL
| Heading | First Week | Second Week | Third Week | Fourth Week |
| a) Bank Balance | 20000 | 20000 | 20000 | 20000 |
| b) Conveyance | A uto ("after all my boy friend pays for it") | Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it") | Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it") | Auto ("after all my boy friend pays for it") |
| c) Boy Friends | Rahul, abhinav, saleem, Peter | Sachin, sumeet, vinay | Abhijeet, Ram, christopher... | Arun, Saketh, vimal. |
| d) Mobile Maintenance | Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me) | Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me) | Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me) | Only Incoming calls (Its for ppl 2 call me) |
| e) Boozing | "Come, let's go to Goa and freak out! | "Come, let's go to Kulu and freak out! | "Come, let's go to Shimla and freak out! | "Come, let's go to Darjeeling and freak out! |
Nopes, its not a fwd post.. Reason behind the post is..long long ago..say arnd the time I joinedthe software indusrty, I got the same fwd sans the 'Monthly Milestones of an IT gal'.. That triggered the small(very little actually) male chauvinistic attribute in me and LO! the mailing world saw the genises of remaning part, the 'Monthly Milestones of an IT gal' table and I duly sent it back to the gal who sent it to me..
This also went as fwds and have reached my mailbox more a couple of times... even after more than 2 yrs...
hehehe.. I too have created a fwd.. This jubiliation is coz I used to wonder wher on earth do ppl generate such stupid fwds.. Now the realisation !! Fwds are neither created nor destroyed, they move from one mailbox to another.
Now the fwd looks awfully silly !!! LOL!
With my office restrictions on using any kinda instant messaging and my schedule, I rarely login to Y! msngr.. so installed a "Insta Messenger" for my blog.. so neone visiting my blog.. kindly IM/shout/yak/yap/jape using this for anything n everything..