ஓ பக்கம்

In this week Anatha vikitan's "ஓ பக்கம்" Ganni wrote something about Narendramodi. I actually can't understand whether he is supporting or against Modi/BJP ?. He says "even though thelka and other news paper exposed Modi's involvement in some murder and 2002 riots people elected him. The educated people didn't care about those reports since they are most benefited in his government and voted for him". This clearly tells one thing, Modi did lot of development work on his state which made the ppl to forget all those allegations.

I have some questions for the so called secular parties in India. Don't they see caste/religion when they select a candidate for election. If the secular parties are really secular what stops them from implementing uniform civil code across the country. The communist party of Westbengal which cannot protect Taslima nasrin in kolkatta, should not talk about hindutva. If BJP is appeasing Hindu's then other secular parties are playing with minorites.

The Raise of BJP in TN

Like other Tamilian's, I'm a strong supporter of Dravidain Parties (DMK, AIADMK, MDMK, DMDK). Once again, like a common Tamilian, I might change a my support between these parties(and not outside these parties). Even though BJP don't have a strong presence/leader in TN, I feel the party is slowly gaining its momentum in the state. Thanks to the ruling govt(both state and center) policies. In Tamil Nadu, all the religions live in Harmony (atleast when compared to other states), But now I personally feel there is a big divide between Hindus and other Abrahamic religion . It could be even my personal feeling, but I could see the same among lot of people in my age group. Hindus have the feeling that the govt is caring only for the minorites and the minorities have the feeling that they are being oppressed by Hindus, I don't know which is true or I'm not arguing for a particular side. But I'm worried about the communal hormany of my state. Most of my Hindu friends openly support BJP, which I feel as big gain for BJP. Previously BJP was believed as Bramanical party in TN, but now ppl see it as Hindu party. If this trend continues eventhough BJP might not get in power during next election, but in another 10 to 15 years BJP will be have a decent(or even strong) presence in Tamil Nadu.

Joke

Just a joke, Orgianlly from Idly vadai (He/she wrote it long time back)
"T-20 கிரிக்கெட் பார்த்தையா ? இந்திய இளம் சிட்டுங்க பின்னிபெடலெடுத்துடாங்க. அதுவும் மிஸ்பா கடைசியில பந்தை தட்டிவிட்டு, அத ஸ்ரீசாந்த் சூப்பரா புடிச்சத பாக்க ஆஹா சூப்பர். இதிலேந்து என்ன தெரியுது. உலகில் எல்லா மூலையிலும் மலையாளக்காரங்க இருப்பாங்கன்னு பாவம் மிஸ்பாக்கு தெரியல."

Chennai Book Fair 2008

Chennai Book fair
Date ; 4th Jan 2008 to 17th Jan 2008
Venue ; St.George School, PH road (I'm not sure abt it. I think its the venue)
Starting from 2001, I'm a regular visitor/buyer in this event. When ever I enter the exhibition hall my mind is filled with some sort of Joy. During my college days every month I save some amount of money to buy books (It never crossed 300Rs). In those days I primarily buy books which are use full for my studies and some Tamil Poems( The last Tamil poetry book that I have bought was vanavil poonga by pa.vijay after that I haven't got any Tamil poetry book). When I started to work, my mindset slowely got changed. For the last 2 years I have bought books in various discipline. Last year I got the complete set of Arthamulla Indumatham , Idlyaia Erungal, Some English Fiction (I think its Windmill of God), Understanding the Enterprise SOA (sami sathiyama ethuvarikkum naan SOA/Webservicesla workpanninathu ella), Ajax in Action. Books that I couldn't buy wereBalakumaran's udiayar since it was too costly(I normally buy the entire set, I don't like buying volume by volume) and Kadal pura of sandilyan (Out of stock).
I have big list for this year. But This year I'm in Bangalore, I don't know how I go there. Next weekend we have team outing so i can't. Next Next week, I have to go to my home town for Pongal. Now its the time for me decide, either Team Outing or Chennai Book Fair?

Year End Special

The most important and unforgettable events of my life in this year(2007)

• In my previous company got promoted as Sr.Software Engg.
• Shifted my room/house from Nerkundram to Vadapalani
• End to "29C" bus travel as my office shifted from Beseant nagar to Saidapet
• Quited Maarga and Joined TCS
• Left Chennai and moved to Bangalore
• My Sisters marriage
• My Grandfathers death
• Completed 3 Lotus certification exams in 42 minutes in a single day

The Last Testament

Writer Sam Bourne can take a session on "How to Spoil a good theme with a bad screenplay". He has taken a good ( or Most controversial) subject for this work. Normally I don't comment/write any thing about the English/Tamil fictions that I read. But this book made to write. On seeing the title, I thought it will be like another DaVinci code, taking us to past.
I personally feel the author needs to improve his skills while narrating an town/area or incident (Even I too lack that, I cant bring up the words here to whats actually in my mind). When I was reading Angels and Demon I could cleary get the picture of the particle accelerator of Cren , In Windmills of God, I can image how Romania will look like and how the American embassy will be there. But in this book I couldn't get a image of either Israel/Palestine or the Clay tablet.
After reading the first 2 chapters, I could guess what the will could be. Normally I will not take more than 5-6 hrs to complete a English Fiction, but I took more than 16 hrs to read this book. Not because of its size but interest level.
My Personal opinion is don't get this book even at 90% discount. My lesson from this book is never trust the newspaper reviews that are printed on the book.

Billa

Last Sunday I watched Billa at Innovative Multiplex, Bangalore. For 5+ months in Bangalore, this is the first time I saw such huge crowed for a Tamil movie and even House full board (Trust me I'm not a Ajith fan).

Hero : Ajith
Herione : 9thara, Namitha
Director: Vishnuvardan
Music: Yuvan
Cinemotography : Nrivsha (sorry if misspelled)
Action: Don't remember his name
Story: Already 3 movies with the same story are there.

Hats off to Vishnuvardan for making such a decent(not good, still some holes are there) screen play. Even though most of us know the story, the screen play didn't make us sleepy. Yuvan too did a decent job. My name is Billa song didn't match to its older counterpart. Still it has the flavour of the old song. Vethilaya potendi and seval kodi are good.
character changes in new billa are
1.Manaromma and Thengai srinivasan characters have been removed. Just one adopted
son for velu.
2.A Friend(santhanam) characters has been introduced for velu

Surprise Surprise, Ajith didn't talk Punch dialoge. Ajith really acted well, esp in the Billa character.Even though the director tried to have a serious introduction for 9thara, Introduction of 9thara makes us to laugh. I personally feel 9thara looks good in traditional Indian dresses than Bikini. Prabu and other police guy (I dont remember his name, acted in arindhu ariyamalum and pattiyal as police) have acted well.

2 Characters have not been used well. 1. Rahman - The main villan, 2. Namitha. I feel there is no need for Namitha character.

The director has a good screen sense, for example, Since Prabhu is bit bulk in most of the scene he will be eating chocolates. Niravsha has did an wonder full cinematography

The action is too good. Unlike in recent movies where hero pulls a tractor silencer in one hand or kick a tractor tyre, the action sequence are really good with very fast movements. None of the fight sequence last more than 2 mins( or may be it was too good so that i couldn't guess the time correctly). I would say in recent times i have never seen a Tamil movie with such a good action. Ajith has did some good action scenes, the car chasing and jumping in the bridge (If they are graphics, then the graphics team has did a great job)


Some major holes in the screen play;
1. How prabhu knows about the look alike of Billa and that too in malaysia
2. How prabhu gets access to the malaysian govt database and deletes some record when he is a DSP in Indian police
3.When the entire Billa gang is transferred to prison only 2 guards will accompany them. Where as in some earlier scenes when Billa was transferred to a prison a huge convey of police will come.

I'm repeating the same once again, I'm not ajith fan.

You can watch this movie once for its qulity

For the past few months I restricted myself from writing any thing about political party and politics. But now I'm back in track.
1. Rural Service for MB BS Student.
At the age of 17/18 normally students join in the medical college. Current duration of the course is 5.5 years, so at the age of 23/24 they complete their studies. Nowadays Just MB BS is not enough either MD , MS or some other Master degree is needed, for which another 1 or 2 years required. So at the age of 25/26 only they can earn. If the govt makes 2 years rural service mandatory then only at the age of 27/28 they can start to earn. Govt says they will be providing 8k as a salary for the 2 years. In today's market, a fresh engineering graduate can earn even 25k/month and after 2 years of experience his salary would be more than 50k. For a doctor's it takes years earn 50k/month. The central govt is purely behaving like an American corporate.
They want to all the villages to have hospitals with doctors but not ready to spend money.
Our Honorable Health minister has said, after completing his MB BS he worked in a village for 2 years. I really appreciate you intrest Mr.Anbumani. But look at the fact, not all the MB BS students father runs a political party to make their son an union health minister after completing their rural service. If every MB BS students father owns a political party, then the Rajayashaba should have more that 200000 seat and every year it should be increasing and every year 20,000 new health ministers will be in the union cabinet.
If the govt really wants to improve the health infrastructure across the country then
1. Construct Hospitals/Primary health care centers in all the villages across the country. There are some villages in India which even don't have primary health care center.
2. Fill all the vacancies. If there is vacancies in reserved quto then make it as open
3. Nationalise all the Medical colleges (Engineering colleges also)
4. Control the charges in private hospitals
5. At least one govt hospital in every district should have the MRI facility, ability to do open heart and by pass surgery.
6. Control the drug price
7. Our govt spends lots of money in various studies, i will suggest one such studies which will surely help our medical infrastructure. Send a team to Cuba to study how the medical infrastructure is working there.

If the govt implement all these things (at least half of these points) surely not only rural India, but the entire India's Medical infrastructure will be on of the best in the world

Using caste as a shield to face is problem is a character of Coward. I'm not pointing at any one and saying this. Its just my opinion.

2. Child Labours:
As per Wikipedia the definition for child labour is"Child labor is the employment of children under an age determined by law or custom. This practice is considered exploitative by many countries and international organizations."
In India the minimum age is 14 years. If 14 years is the cut off limit then how the advertisement industry and Motion picture industry can employ children below the age of 14. I don't know the legal aspect behind it, but still if acting is a valid profession then, motion pictures and adflims employing children below the age of 14 should prosecuted under the child labour law. Its just my thought

3. DMK youth conference:
This month DMK is conducting a Huge youth conference in Tirunelveli. Most of the advertisement that i came across for this says,all the youths come to this meeting. Why suddenly DMK started to give attention towards youths?. Some magazine say that Mr.Karunadhi will hand over the power to his son Stalin and after this meeting stalin will be declared as the CM of Tamil Nadu ( India is a not ruled by any king. Its still a domocartic country). But I don't agree with that. Mr.Karunanidhi will be the CM/DMK Chief until he is alive. I think the reason for this Meeting is DMDK ( i believe its Vijayakanth's party). Last september they had the annual meeting at Pudukkottai (My home town). One thing that surprised me was the crowd. More than 70% of the participants are in age group 25-35. I have seen some political party meeting where most of them are middle aged or old village men and women in dothi and sarees. But the DMDK meeting totally surprised me. I could see less number of Middle aged and old peoples. Rest are youth and most of them wore Pant shirt which is not common in a political party meeting. I believe that this DMDK meeting is the reason behind the Current DMK youth meeting. In other words, DMK is worried about the DMDK's growth.

4.உபதேசம் உலகத்திர்கே:
A political leader and head of political party in Tamil Nadu, has always opposed plan by the state government to create SEZ and expansion of airport, saying that farmlands will be acquired for this and agriculture would be affected. He behaved (acted) like he will not allow any farmland to be converted to SEZ or any other industry. Today one of the senior minister from Tamil Nadu have given the proof to the media that the college that the political party leader runs for the past 15 years ( I'm not sure about number of years) is constructed over fertile farmland and encroached land. What does the leader say now.

How to make parotta

Make chapattis in tri-angle and circular shape. Sell the circular ones as Chapatti's and Triangular ones as parotta. If someone asks about it, then say its a north Indian tandoori paratto. Its Weird to read isn't?. But this really happened in my office canteen.
Normally in my office canteen they sell some thing called kerala parotta, which has some appearance similarities with normal parotta. But today in the menu I noticed they have only published as parotta and not kerala parotta. I think i don't want write the rest, you could have guessed what would have happened.

First time

I have been developing lotus notes application for 2.5+ Years.
But today for the first time I saw a Live Lotus notes application being used by an end user. To be more clear i came across an Lotus Notes application being used in my bank (I don't own the bank, I Just have an account). Still they are using R5. The guy who i meet was struggling with the application and the mail client. When I just enquired him about how comfortable he is with that application and mail client, the answer I got was, "To do any action, i need to click too many buttons and i have to search for the buttons. The error message are not understandable".
After hearing that, I'm just confused, does notes is really tough for the end users? or does the user don't have any exposure to notes/computer environment.

Some Truths

The Story of Stuff - Know the facts of the products around you. Must see website for all. (watch it with audio)

Pongal

Yesterday I was bit lucky. At the Hotel Pongal, I got a table immediately. Its a fairly small hotel. This Hotel is one of the most important eat outs for me in Bangalore. I really love the food they serve there. They server authentic Tamil foods here and the service is fairly good.
If you are in Bangalore and if you want to taste tamilnadu Idly(?) you can go there.
Yesterday I had 3 Idlys, 1 podi dosa and 1 parotta for just 38 INR. This is really cheap and the quality was good. Some times back a hotel at Jeevan bheema nagar charged me 50 INR for 1 addai and that to with out avaiyal.
The parotta was too soft. Normally i have eaten such soft parotta's only in nov-veg hotels ( read it as Munniyandi vilas). Podi dosa was also good, but the chef used too much oil to make it crisp. Idly's with tomato chutney was a killing combination.

The problem with this hotel is the Hand wash area is not closed. When we are eating we could see others washing their hands, which makes me uncomfortable to continue. Also the wash area is too small, people have to stand in queue. There is no parking area.

Location ; Outer ring road, Next to innovative Multiplex, Marthahali

Can you ?

Last week we had quarterly team meeting, And as usual I(we) was sitting ideally listing (trying to listen) to the clients.
A strange thought came in my mind. Since I stopped writting in Tamil almost 7 years ago , Why not to write Tamil Alphabets.I have been using transliteration softwares like quillpad etc., to type in Tamil. I Wrote Uir elluthu without any problem. I had good start in mei elluthu also, But after letter 'tha' I was struck. I forget the order. It took almost 15 mins for me to write it completely and correctly. I was totally ashamed of myself.
I thought lets try with others, I asked 5 of my friends to write the same, Out of the 5 only one guy wrote instantly without thinking. When compared to the other 4 I was better.

Appa neega eppadi?
Tamil padathukku Tamil title vacha mattum Tamil valarathu.

Food Coupons

Last July my weight was around 76 kilos, Today its 90+ kg. I Was totally shocked to see my weight.In 3 months I gained 15+ kilos. I'm sure that its becoz of my uncontrolled diet. When I was in Chennai,even though I get good food than here in Bangalore, my weight never crossed 80kg.
At last i found the reason why my diet gone Uncontrolled. The reason is food coupons. Since Food Coupons have tax relief, I got for the maximum possible amount.
The problems with the Food coupons are
1.They come in very standard denomination like75,50,20,10 and some times 5. Except for my office canteen no other eat outs will give balance. For example 2 idly's cost 8 Rs. If i give a 10rs coupon, the eat outs cashier will not give back 2rs.So i will get a vada for 7rs. So every time when i get idly,i go for vada. Logically for saving 2rs i spent another 5rs.
2.Since I'm not paying as cash in the eat outs, I spent more.

So I advice people to not to opt for food coupons

Movie Review - ATM

Hero : Vijay
Heroine : Shriya saran
Direction: Baradan
Music: A.R.Rahman
Story : Appadina enna?. Director sir, Vijay Double action, Shriya, Namitha mattum poothathu. Konjum storyum venum.

Vijay as usual danced and acted well. Shriya tried to act, all the best for her attempt.
I Don't understand why the director has opted for shayaji shinde (bharthiyar) for such a small and useless role. The same thing applies for Namitha too. Namitha comes for only 2 scenes and one song.
A.R.Rahman voice and music didn't suit vijay. Madurikku poogathadi and Ponmagal vandal are good. Vijay should either opt for Srikanth deva or Devi sri prasad for music. I believe they can give what vijays fan expects.
If you have some time to kill, you can watch this movie.

Movie Review - Vel

Hero :Surya
Heroine : Asin
Director : Hari
Music: Yuvan
One line : You can win your enemy with your brain power than your muscle power
Once again a usual Hari Movie, with a fast screen play. Nothing is so attractive in this flick.
Music is toooooooo Poor.

You can watch this movie once

Diwali

I have been to my home town after a month for Diwali. This is Different Diwali for me,
Upto my Knowledge this is my first Diwali with out crackers, and I spent Less than 1 hr infront of TV. The only pgm that i watched during the days is Vijay TV's "Eppadi Thorkin Eppadi vellum".
This year I didn't buy crackers becoz of some rituals and customs, But form next year I will not buy crackers.
When I was a kid when i ask for crackers my father and grand father used to say Don't burn money (Kaasa Karriakkatha), Namma sambathikka arrambicha appuram than nammaku puriuthu.

Choose the best answer

Who appoints supreme Court Judges?
a) President
b) Prime Minister
c) DMK chief M.Karunanidhi.


When Supreme court of India has already given the Verdict that conducting Bandh is an anti national event, then how come Madras High Court didn't object the Bandh organized by the ruling party. What's happening in the TN Judiciary system.
I'm sure that the person(s) who have filed the case against the Bandh in Madras High Court would have surely referred the supreme courts verdict during their hearings, so the judges cannot deny that they don't know abt the supreme court judgment.
When such incident happens In a state where the literacy rate is higher than the national average, then how the ppls will have faith in Judiciary system.

btw, Congrats V.Anand for regaining the World Chess Champion title

What's Happening

Yesterday some Indian communist leader has said,collaborate with China for generating Power. I don't know what's wrong with Indian communist Party. Are they talking with sense?. If India does something like that, then that will be best example for "சொந்தத ேசலவில் சூனியம்"

Second Incident, Some Central govt agencies has said in the supreme court that there is no historical proof for the existence of Lord Ram or Ramsethu. I doubt at Census report claims that India has 80+ crore of people following Hindu religion

MTC goes hightech. MTC has accquired AC volvo buses to operate in chennai. In our college days we used to say some phrase, the same applies here.

சுல்தான ேசாத்துக்கு சிங்கி அடிக்கிறார்
குதிரைக்கு Goldspot ேகக்குதா. The person who gave this idea should travel in 59 or 159 during the peak hours ( 7.30 Am to 10.30 AM). MTC buses are to serve the middle class and Lower class people, Instead of Introducing new Volvo Buses, maintain the existing fleets properly. If all the buses are Utilized properly most of the problems will be solved.

The X factor

What satisfies man. Earlier i worked for a start up company. When I look at my friends who work for big companies I used to think that, when we join in such companies all our worries will be over and we can live happily.
Now I'm working for one of the India's biggest IT company. When I ask the same question Am I satisfied?, the answer is No. I'm working in a big project, have a big brand name. But still I miss some thing. I don't Know what I'm looking for. But some thing is driving me towards some thing.
It may sound crazy, but this is the fact. Do all the people have this problem?

Will Lotus Notes Survive

Ed Brill and Alalepofsky in their blogs continuously praise Lotus Notes 8 and created a impression on me that Lotus Notes is having a gr8 future.
But I believe in the real market condition is against Lotus Notes. One of World's biggest Financial institution with operation over 75 countries is migrating their applications to Share Point form Lotus Notes. I think this is a big blow for lotus notes. I think its the right time for me to change the technology or I need to have knowledge in some other technology so that i can survive.
I'm bit confused on what to learn.

Some Questions?

1. Few months back, some Hindu union stromed in a college ,they manhandled the professor & thrashed the student there,for alleged obscene paintings. Communist and DK peoples raised their voices against it.
When now Taslima Nasrin is attaked, Why they are keeping silent?

2. My second question, Why communist in West Bengal banned Taslima Nasrin's Book, when they say they are secular?

3.My Third Question, I believe that, Tamil literature society is more open and any one can write about any thing, but still why Taslima Nasrin's books are not translated in Tamil (When i searched in the net, I can find that her books are translated in many south Indian languages but not in Tamil)

4. The UP state govt plans to introduce reservation in pvt sector to. The reservation will be in 3 categories, SC/ST, OBC and Financially backward OC's.
Here is my Question, How the govt will find the Financially backward OC's and do they get a separate caste certificate?

5. Will Tata's TiO2 (Titanium Dioxide) plant will come to Tuticorin or not?

Anybuddy please answer my questions.

Any one please answer me,

Life in Bangalore

At last, I have shifted to Bangalore. After 7 Years in Chennai, my life took a turn, moving out Tamil Nadu. Initially i had of small fear of how to survive in Bangalore with out knowing Hindi or Kannada. But to my surprise most of the people knows Tamil or understood Tamil.
The main thing that i miss in Bangalore are the hot sun, marina and Eliot's beach, Masal vadai, tea kadai.
In Chennai most of the streets have tea shops, But here there is no dedicated tea shops. Instead tea and coffes are in small grocery shops. When i was searching for accommodation, some of my friends said that get the "AdMag" news paper, where you can find listings. I searched in Marthahali area for almost 1 hour i couldnt find any shop selling news paper.
The only thing that worries me now is I'm becoming lazy here. Waking up 9 .00 am in the morning, bathing at 12.00 pm, Having the break feast and lunch(full south indian meals - thanks t0 Hotel Gowri shanker) at 1.30, having a tea at 5.00, a small snacks at(just 2 punjabi samosa and a masaldosa) 7.00 and dinner at 10.00.
I'm not doing enough work for what I'm eating i believe a couple kilos would be increased in my weight during the last 10 days.
So finally i preparing my self to stay in Bangalore for the next 18 months.

Is The Hindu an Anti Tamil News paper

When 100's Tamil's are forcefully evacuated from Colombo, The Hindu didn't give importance to that news, but when the SL PM asks apology it published the news in first page.
You can even check this on their website itself. Here are the link
Todays Edition SL PM asking apology: http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2007/06/11/
June 8 - http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2007/06/08/
June 9 -http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/2007/06/09/
I'm thinking of stop buying Hindu here after.

Photos taken with my Phone

Morning Sun

What this dog is doing

During Pongal Pooja

Pudukulam - An Evening view

Beehive at Pudukkottai Collector office

Movie Review - "Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End"

Jack sparrow is back, but not as expected. Here is the overall story, How Jack sparrow overcomes Davy Jones and how William Turner rescues his father. The Hero of this part is not Jack Sparrow or Willam Turner but its Elizabeth. Elizabeth becomes a pirate lord (!) and commands a ship.
The movie is toooooooooooooooo long.
If you have some sorry too much time to kill, then you can watch this movie.

What to say?

It seems that too many people around the world are jobless. Check this link for the proof http://www.thechurchofgoogle.org/.

And the Game begins, Inaugurated by Maran brothers

At last the Maran brothers officially started the spat between Stalin and Azagiri. Who will be the Political Heir of MK after his retirement. This is the title of the survey conducted by AC Nelison group for the Tamil Daily Dinakaran (owned by the Maran brothers). I heard that around 70% of people voted for Stalin, 20% for Dayanith Maran and less than 2% for Azagiri.
Immediate Consequence: Dinakarans's Madurai office was burnt.
But the highlight is, SunTV is showing this in its headlines(!@#$)

Lets have a small imagination what are near and near future things that will happen:
1. Soon, May be today evening or Tomorrow our CM will release a statement saying that the miscreants who burnt Dinakarans's office don't belong to DMK nor Azagiri's supporters. They are some social elements who tries to destabilize the government. And the government will take all the necessary action
2.Both Stalin and Azagiri will release some statements saying that there is no competition for CM seat between them
3. MK might sell more SUN TV shares to the public like before.
4.The possibility of neglecting Maran's form DMK will be high, but Maran will play more smart games.The Maran's will not enter south TN for atleast next 6 months and SUN media group could suffer some set back in south.
5.The SUN media group will portray the TN'S best central minister(verya yarru namma DAYANITH MARAN) as more best(surkama sollunum na they will try to expose him as ALL IN ALL AZAGU RAJA)
6.Once MK retires from politics, DMK will split in to either 2 or 3 factions
7. Maran will either stick with Stalin or create the 3rd faction
8. During election, All the faction will ask for vote with MK's Name

Rise of Rupees

I'm not a big economist, i even don't know to calculate my tax properly. But the raise of Indian Rupee against us dollar is worrying me.
March 5 2007 1UsD = 44.40
May4, 2007 1USD= 40.9
Most of the IT companies in India get business from American customer and they pay in dollars. My billing rate is same in during the period. Assume let's have 160 billing hours per month and my billing rate be 40$/hr, then during march my company would have earned 160*40=6400usd, which intrun 6400*44.40= 2,84,160Rs . But in May for the same 6400 USD, my company will be getting 6400*40.9 =261760Rs. A difference of 22400Rs. If this continues what will be status of the IT coz, this will directly hit on our salary and inturn our economy growth. I also read that RBI is taking some measure to crub this. I pray to GOD this should happen ASAP.

Movie Review -Spider Man 3

Spider man is back, This time not one villain but 4. Harry Osborn gets some new Power and tries to revenge spider man for his fathers death(Part I), One of Peter Parker's co-worker gets a super power and tries to kill spider man, also police reveals the person who killed Peter Parker's uncle(Part I), The Killer gets some power and becomes a sand man(?!). Peter was bitten by alien insects which influences the Spider mans behavior. Besides this usual romance with MJ.
When i was in the theater i had the feeling of watching a Ramanarayanan's film.

With Friends

Almost 3 Years after my college, I met 19 of my college mate on May 1st. Its always good to be with friends. We went to the movie Unnale Unnale and had our Lunch at Hotel in Mount road( I think the hotel is Sindor, The food was not bad). 6 hours gone like a second, I really miss those friends. We are class of 63 students, But there was no gangs with in the class. All the 63 belong to the same group. I still remember when there was feud between Me and 3 MBA students of my college, all the 62 came along with me, I really fell proud to have such a good friends. During the college Cultural program even though we don't have big dancing or singing talent in our team we still managed to get second place in the event. Those are really golden Moments.
When some one asks me which is the best part of my life i would say the last 3 years of my college days.

A question?

If May 1st is a govt holiday why TASMAC wine shops remain open on may 1st?

Movie Review - Unnale Unnale

This May 1st , along with 19 of my college friends watched this movie at Sathyam cinemas.
Direction: Jeeva
Cast:Saadha, Vinay and Tanisha Mukerjee
Music: Harris Jayaraj

The entire story of the movie is explained in the title song "June ponaal......". Nothing more to tell about the plot

I feel,the movie is tooo slow and the comedy track is poor.
Music and cinematography are excellent.
You can watch this movie once.

7E - Shanthi towers

At last our house search came to an end yesterday. We finally got a 1BHK flat at 7th floor.
Almost for the last 6.5 years we were at Nerkundram, Initially we stayed there because it is near to our college, Once we completed our degree we still stayed there because the house rent is less and we have 24 hrs mtc bus access. But the problem with that is it too far away from my work place.
House rent in Chennai is increasing at a very high pace. Today at vadaplani or velachry rent of a 2BHK flat is around 8k/month with 10 months rent as advance. If its a independent house then its too high( upto 15k/month).

Movie Review - "300"

Directed By: Zack Snyder
Cast :Gerard Buttler, Rodrigo Santoro
Story : How the Spartan King Leonidas(Gerard Buttler) with 300 soldiers fight against the Persian king Xeres (Rodrigo Santoro) and his army 1 million soldiers.
When i watched the movie i felt that entire movie was shot inside a studio and used blue screen tech to fill the back ground effects. They could have used some better technology for graphics.
Most of the action sequences are unbelievable.
If you have some time to kill you can watch this movie

Comparative study : Appraisal and Resignation

The appraisal season has begun. Here is an comparative case study of the effects of appraisal vs Resignation
In appraisal meeting they will speak only about your weakness, errors and failures.
In resignation meeting they will speak only about your strengths, past achievements and success .


In appraisal you may need to cry and beg for even 10% hike.
In resignation you can easily demand (or get even without asking) more than 50-60% hike.


During appraisal, they will deny promotion saying you didn't meet the expectation, you don't have leadership qualities, and you had several drawbacks in our objective/goal.

During resignation , they will say you are the core member of team; you are the vision of the company how can you go, you have to take the project in shoulder and lead your juniors to success.


There is 90% chance for not getting any significant incentives after appraisal.
There is 90% chance of getting immediate hike after you put the resignation.

So If you want an appraisal submit your resignation immediately ! :)

TAF and India's Concern

Today Morning LTTE's demonstrated their capability by attacking an Srilankan Airbase using Airplanes. As per the LTTE, the TAF(TamilEelam Air Force) attacked Srilankan Airbase and returned safely. Thus becoming the first terrorist organisation in the world to successfully carry out air operation with out any external source.
Immediately after this incident, Indian govt raised it concerns about LTTE's raising power. When 61 school children's(Tamil origin) were massacred by SL Air force the Indian govt didn't respond immediately, When 100's of Tamil(Indian) fishermen are killed the Indian govt kept quite, but now immediately our govt is raising its concern.
If the fishermen from kerala are killed by the SL Navy will Indian govt be quite?. This shows how the Govt of India works. If the center follows the same policy towards TN then, govt will face one more headache

Movie Review - "The Pursuit of Happyness"

Last weekend i watched this movie, The Pursuit of Happyness.
Produced by Sony Pictures and Will Smith.
Cast:Will Smith (others i don't know the name)
Oneline : How an ordinary sales representative become a wall street legend.

Will smith plays the role of a sales representative who is not able to make money from his job. Attracted by a stock broker, he too wants to become a stock broker. He quits his job and join an unpaid internship . He faces several obstacles and at last he becomes a stock broker.
I'm a great fan of Will smith after seeing the movie "ALI" and "HITCH". Once again will smith proved that he is a great actor. The story seems to be simple but it has some thing in it which bonds the audience to the seat.
My comments : Must watch movie for every one

Google Themes

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Google once again rocks, this time with themes for the personalized home page. Totally 6 themes are available. its really cool, i did some googling regarding this dynamic themes and got this link.
This explains some intresting features about the themes

Bachelors life log #1

In the year 2000 i came to chennai to do my engineering studies. Almost 7 years have gone(completed my BE degree in 2004), iam living away form my parents. Missing gr8 things in the life, but still enjoying many things.
In the past 7 years the major problem that i(we, including my room mates) faced is searching house. Most of the house owners are not ready to lend their house to bachelors. Even if they lend, we will have to pay more when compared to the rest of the tenants.
I have to travel almost 1.5 hours daily to reach my workplace, so i decided to shift my house some where near to my office. Through a middle man we searched for a house. We already informed him that we are bachelors.Last sunday the middle man called us informed about a house. Since my friend was not available , i alone went and visited the house, when i talked to the landlord, i agreed for a rent of 2500 and 10 months rent as advance. When he asked how many members in my family i said 6. The land lord said 6 persons cannot stay in that house since its a one bedroom house.
Then only i came to know that the middle man haven't said to the landlord we are bachelors.
Once again the house owner enquired how many of us are going to stay and what are our occupation. I said me and my friend only will occupy and both are working for an IT company.
The land lord think for a moment and he agreed for us but with one condition. The house rent is '3500' and the advance is 35000.
"Enna koduma sravanan ithu "

Its official COLA's have pesticide

The Health Ministry on Wednesday submitted an affidavit in the Supreme Court admitting that there are pesticide residues in cold drinks.
check this for more details

CPI pls get out of India

Till some timeback, i support communist party of india. I thought Indian comrades are different form the rest of partners across the world. But my predication was wrong. They are too like the rest.
According to the westbengal govt 11 persons were dead during Nandigram protest. Press claims that 22 (Mamta says that 100). WB govt used police force against the protesters. Are the protesters are anti social elements or terrorist. They are just farmers. The govts action is something similar to Killing in Tiananman square.
The WB govt is acquiring farmlands for the proposed SEZ and when the owners of the land opposes it,the govt kill them, vow what a policy. There is no big growth in WB in the last 30 years are so. Still the unemployment rate is high when compared to rest of the country.
Yesterday the CPI clashed with DMK regarding the martime university issue. They said that the center did not discuss this issue with them before announcing it in parliment.
But the CPI didnot discuss the proposed SEZ with their state people before announce it.
I think this is the right time to kick the comrades(all sorts of communist) out of the country.

Latest Comedy by Su Sami

Su Sami is back with bang, this time he took cricket
http://thatstamil.oneindia.in/news/2007/03/12/swamy.html

1000 Ways to torture - Way #1

Way#1:
Tie a person to the chair.
Make sure that he doesn't close his eyes and ears.
Now the important step; Play the movie "THIRUMAGAN ". There is no other cruel punishment is this world.
If the above method didn't work, then take the person to the theater which screens this movie and ask him to watch the whole movie.
S.J. Suriya stop acting.

Movie Review - Muni

This Weekend i watched this movie.
Directed by: Ragava Larance
Produced by: Saran
Cast; Ragava Larance, Vedika, Rajkiran etc.......
Genre: Super Natural Thriller ( They called so)
One-line : What happents when a ghost enters into the body of person who afraid very much for ghosts. Ghosts has its own flash back.
Stunt : Copy from matrix( both 1 and 2)
+ : Dance, and heroine( hi hi hi)
- : Every thing else, Director sir konjam padam edukkurathu munnadi audienceum think pannunga. Also think little logic too




Muni - Super natural comedy
If you have lots of time to kill you can watch this movie.

Power of Google

Today morning i encountered a Technical problem, so i opened the IBM Lotus discussion forum, and searched for the problem that i have encountered. But the search was not fruitful. Then i used the same keyword in Google. The Google search returned some results for this keyword.To my surprise 2 results in top 10 results are form IBM Lotus discussion forum.

Googel வாழ்க Google வாழ்க

Facts about IITJEE

The sums spent by IIT aspirants for coaching factories is about Rs 2000 crore per year, which is four times the annual budgetary allocation of the government to IITs. About 1,60,000 take JEEs and 3,500 are admitted to seven IITs.

During a recent year under review 979 candidates from South Zone secured admission. Of them 769 were from AP, while TN accounted for 94 successful candidates, Karnataka 84, and Kerala, for not more than 32 candidates.

Check this article in deccan herald for the full report.

This means that except for AP all the other 3 south states education curriculum is not up to the standard.

தமிழா இதுதானா உன் தரம்?

Case 1.
Some times back when an actress said some thing about pre martial affairs, some political parties staged big protest against her, saying that she is against our culture and her words would spoil the society.

Case2.
A pimp was arrested, all the political biweekly magazine flashed news about him. Now he is writting his auto biography in a political biweekly magazine and the magazine advertise that we have the exclusive series, be the first to read it. No one oppose this. All the political parties keep their mouth shout. Dont they know that he is spoiling our culture.

Who I am I?

My designation says that i am a programmer. But what actually i am doing?. Some one has already invented some software and iam doing all the works within the software, at times i work in different software's but still under a limit. I think i don't need an engineering graduation to this work. I graduated as an electrical and electronics engineer. I feel, Any one with good common sense can become an software engineer. That may be reason why IT companies recruit arts and science student. Once i completed my graduation i made an oath that i should not be an assembly worker. This is the reason why i quit my previous job and joined in IT company. But now i feel that still I am an assembly worker, only difference is the shopfloor.
The other question that always come in my mind is, we have very big IT companies like TCS, Infy, wipro etc. Every year these companies post a good profit margin, recruits thousands of worker,
but ,Why none on these companies come up with their own programming language?

Movie Review - Mozhi

Last Saturday i watched this movie, Directed by RadahaMohan,
Cast: Prakesraj, Jothyka, Prithivraj, Swarnamalya
Pros: No kuthu pattu, no stunning fights, realistic screen play, Prakesh Raj's comedy and Jothyka's acting
Cons: Tooooooooooo slow(All the songs are melodious)

My suggestion: You can watch this movie in theater

Other side of cops

Check this link for salary details about cops
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/cop-tales-rs-20-for-a-15hr-slugfest/top/33680-3.html?xml.

Battling for the cause of chennai citizen -Kudos to Traffic Ramasamy

Traffic Ramasamy - One of the largest filers of public interest litigation petitions in the Madras High Court. He was instrumental in getting a ban on plying of motorised fish carts in the city, the recent order by supreme court to demolish unauthorized building in the city( its still an order), wearing of helmets mandatory for drivers and pillion riders of two wheelers etc.
His latest petition is against TN CM and Arcot Veerasamy for their comments against High court Judges. And this petition started to work, yesterday high court cheif justice asked explanation from Arcotor and also commented on the so called explanation given by the CM for Arcotor's remarks. Hope there will be some interesting news for the next fewdays.

Movie Review - Tamirabharani

After a longggggggg time( almost one month i didnt watch any movie,) i watched a movie yesterday. The film is directed by Hari, Hari followed his usual trick, fast screenplay. The film starts with flashback, at most of the places i could guess what will be the next scene( i havent read the movie review before. May be i too have the directorial skills. ).
Here is my comment about the movie
Vetranga paduranga
Vetranga paduranga
Vetranga paduranga
Vetranga paduranga

I havent watched other new films, so i would suggest if you time to kill you can watch it

I watched this movie in a multiplex which also screened Guru. On seeing Abhisek Bachans photo in the poster a passer by commented that, " Prasanth is looking different in this movie". Did Prasanth really looks like Abhisek Bachen?

Cauvery tribunal verdict

The Cauvery tirbuanl has given its final verdict. One of the important aspect of the judgement is

"any parties which disagrees with the verdict an approach supreme court"
Surely karnataka will appeal against this verdict and the case will continue..........................................

lets come to the other point:
If Karnataka is ruled by congress party and Tamil nadu is ruled by AIADMK will the verdict be the same.
Some outcome of this verdict, DMK gets a good impression among farmers and tamil people and once agin in corporation election DMK will win(no need to say about this). But the situation of tamilians( including my sister) living in Karnataka is still under threat.

Did Jesus Christ came to India

Two articles in two different magazine share some thing common-
1- hai madan in this week anathavikatan
2. news plus of Saturday(3rd Feb 2007) Deccan chronicle.
There is no details about of Jesus christ's life between his 12th to 28th years.
The article in DC also states that he came to India and got englightment from Buddhist and Hindu sadhu's. Can any one explain me about it.
Just out of curiosity iam writing it.

First Wiki novel

For creative writers who need a platform to expose their skill got an golden oppurtunity.
British publisher Penguin Books came up with a Web-based, collaborative novel that can be written, edited or read by anyone anywhere. The novel, A Million Penguins, went live on Thursday and its first lines are already being written, edited and rewritten by enthusiasts on www.amillionpenguins.com.

Thanks to wiki

Ticket to Bangalore

My sister came from Banglore to chennai to attend a marriage reception on 28th Jan. She asked me to get return ticket to Bangalore some 10 days ago, as usual i forget that, she arrived in chennai on jan 26. When she asked me abt the return ticket, i realised that i didnt get the ticket. I searched for the whole day at last i got the ticket form an agent called "Abirami Travels" in beseant nagar. He said the regular bus is full and the seats are available only in spl bus. I agreed that and got the tickets for 480 bugs (almost double the rate), He informed that we need board at Oasis Travels at T Nagar. I was relieved.
Sunday nite i reached the travels office 9.30, The regular bus is scheduled to to leave at 9.45 pm and the special bus at 10.30pm. The regular bus arrived only at 10.15 and departed at 10.30. The travels person informed us that the bus will come only by 11.00 Pm, There were around 45-50 persons waiting for the bus, i started to feel something fishy about that. At last a 36 seater bus came at 11.30. To our surprise, the travel agent said only those who have got ticket form him can board into the bus. 34 People boarded in that bus. Remaining people where waiting out side the bus. I had a argument with travels agent and secured a seat for my sister. One more seat was left out. One more ladies passenger was accommodated in the bus. Around 10-12 peoples where waiting outside with out seat. The agent convinced 2 of them to sit in drivers cabin. For the rest of the passengers he arranged car. Around 10 passengers where carried by a Tavera. By 12.00 pm, the bus started to move , i moved to my house.
My sister reached Bangalore only by 8.30 am next day morning. When i asked her the reason, she said, the bus they where traveling took them only up to housur, from housur they arranged a connecting bus.
Its a big lesson, here after i will not get ticket in any spl bus by private operator.

Questions to Doctor Ramdoss sorry மருத்துவர் இராமதாசு

Before reading this i like to inform you that i don't belong to any political party.
I assume that "மருத்துவர் ஐயா" Refers to Dr.Ramadoss. If it is wrong, then the name
Ramadoss that i have used is to represent the persons who is responsible for that


Today morning i came across a vinyl banner at Adyar, it invites people to attend the meeting being conducted by "தமிழ்இன மானம் மீட்பு இயக்கம்". The meeting is headed by Dr.Ramadoss, who is the founder of this organization.
According to Dr. Ramadoss,For the following issues the organization will work
1. To Retain the lost Tamil Language
2. To Retain the lost Musical Tamil
3. To Retain the lost Tamil Homeland (!?)
4. To Retain the lost Tamil Feelings(!?)
5. To Retain the lost culture
6. To get Social justice(மறுக்கப்பட்ட சமுகநீதி) for Tamil which are currently blocked (!!!!!!!!!!?)

I dont know what Dr.Ramadoss is trying to do. I couldnt stop laughing after reading the point3, 4, and 6. I dont know what he is meaning there.
To Retain the lost homeland. Upto my knowledge there is a small dispute with karnataka and kerala regarding the 4 villages. Is he going to get back those villages?
To Retain the lost Tamil Feelings(இழந்த தமிழ் உணர்ைவ மீட்க): What he means by tamil feelings?
The most important thing To get Social justice(மருக்கப்பட்ட சமுகநீதி) for Tamil which are currently blocked. Ramadoss are you not ashamed to tell like this. Are tamilians are treated as second grade citizens in the country. Are tamilians are restricted from central govt jobs.
Do you think that people are such an idiot to belive your words. I think 1o central ministers are form tamil nadu (Iam not sure about the numbers) including Dr.Anbumani Ramadoss. Mr.Ramadoss, If you really think that tamils are not treated equally, then you can ask your son to resign form the central govt and lead a domonstration?.

Simply dont talk about tamil,Do some usefull work to improve tamil. Since Dr.Anbumani Ramadoss is the health minister of India, he can bring MS and MD in all Indian regional languages, why he is not doing that?

My opinion about you and your movements is
"You are trying to use the same weapon what Anna and Karunandi used in 60's, to catch the power".

Book Review Iraq- Saddam Plus Saddam Minus

Last week i got a chance to read the book Iraq- Saddam Plus Saddam Minus by P.Ragavan and published by Kizhakku Pathippagam, costs 100INR.
The first few chapters of the book are really good. It tells about the early life of the Saddam. , how he joined in a political party, how CIA helped him to reach the power. The rest of the book was mere collection of newspaper headlines. There is no clear explanation for many things.
On a scale of 5, my rating is 2.5. Any one who wants to have a brief introduction to the gulf politics can read this book.

5 Worst cellphones

Check this link to find the 5 worst cell phones
http://news.com.com/2300-1041_3-6151618-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg

Lemuria ?!#$

Recently i came across an article which has some details about the extinction of Kumari kandam(in Tamil) or Lemuria(in English). It has cited many examples from ancient Tamil literature. You can check this link to find more details about the Lemuria-The last continent
I have a special relation to with the word Lemuria. After completing my Graduation, when i was looking for job, i came across a add in the Hindu Education Plus. A computer center called Lemuria who calls itself as the Expert in Mainframe and claimed that they have placed 65 students in Top IT Industry on the current month. Lured by their add, along with my 5 friends i visited their center. To my surprise the place was jam packed with students. The Counselor of center who spoke to us talked in such a manner that once if we join in their center surely we will get a job in top notch IT Company.
Then came the fees issue. He said, since we are joining as six members he will give us 5% discount in the course fees. We 6 paid the fees and started to attend the class in Mainframe. COBOL classes where bit boring. But for the rest of the things we had a wounder full classes. Even 2.5 years latter, i still remember JCL and CICS. The faculty name is Kumaraguru. After 2 months of training we completed the course. As soon as we completed the course immediately they took us for an interview( in the mean time 2 of my friends got placed in CTS and TCS). We had a great hope. But to the dismay none of the candidate from the center was shortlisted for the next round of interview. My HR person said that your performance was not good. We began to work hard. We spent almost 10 hours a day in the center. Almost a month gone, we( didnt get any other interview call, but still in the news paper they advertised that they placed 40 students in that month.
We got little confusion or to tell in otherwords we slowly started loose hope in the organization. 2 more months passed still we did not get any interview call, but still in the news paper they claimed that they have placed 50 students. It took us 4 months to understand that their claims are bogus.
Then there was big struggle to get a job. For quite some day i worked as Marketing executive for Hutch, then as Junior Engineer with an construction company for 3 months, then at last to my current company.

Moral: Never trust a person who says with out any hard work you can get the result!

Hard disk

Seven year ago when i was in my 12 th std, my computer teacher said in next 10 years you can find PC hard disk of capacity 50 gb. At that time 4gb hard drive was biggest in the town. His predictions have gone wrong. In the next 2 years we got hard disk of capacity 20 GB. Yesterday Hitachi announced its launching of 1 terabyte hard disk. The company announced that, in the first quarter of 2007 it will launch 1 TB hard disk for PC, subsequently in the second quarter for digital video recorders. Hitachi has priced the 1 TB disk around 400 us$, making 1 GB= 40 cents.
Its obvious that with in a month of its release, iam sure that seagate will release its version.( Seagate also sells a home storage device with two 500GB drives to make up 1 terabyte.)

The hard drive turned 50 last year, and over the past five decades data capacity has increased at a fairly regular and rapid pace. The first drive, which came with the RAMAC computer, weighed about a ton and held 5MB of data.
Soon we can have hand help media player with 100 gb capacity in an affordable price

Adieu to 8890

At last after 51/2 years my Phone, Nokia 8890 got rest.


I know this is a quiet long time to have a same mobile phone. But, still i had this phone. Its really an amazing phone, i had dropped it twice into swimming pool, once into mud during rainy season. Still it worked( with out doing any service). These factors made me to buy another Phone form Nokia.
This time i got N72.

Its really an amazing phone with several cool features.The music player is really good. But the downside is a fully charged phone can play music only for 4 hrs.
Tech specification
2o MB internal memory and 128 MB External card expandable upto 2GB

2M pixel camera( Really Good)

TFT256k Color display

Voice Recorder

Media player Support MP3 and MP4 formats

Real Player

Blue tooth

My comment is ,its worth for the money that i have paid ( Since i have bought it:D).