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After my tiresome hunt for a nice, latest, cool, interesting, informative, encouraging movie in 2009 ( tough combo) I decided to watch some interesting movies of the 1980s, the ones that I had missed when I was to young to understand movie and too busy to waste three hours in a movie theatre... I have seen a few frames and heard some songs from this movie 'Unnal Mudiyum Thambi', but don't recall seeing the movie from start to end.. So that's how, I picked up this diskette two weeks ago after a quick raid in a Planet-M outlet. Starring Kamal Hassan, Gemini Ganesan, and Seetha, this Kavithalaya make is a wonderful gift to the movie industry by director, K.Balachander. Mr. Pillai [Gemini Ganesan(GG)] is a veteran in classical music. His music means the world to him. His children were good at music too, and would accompany him for all his concerts. He was very proud about his talent in music and believed that one day his son Uday would become a famous classical singer too. ...

There are couple of cool moments that kind of makes you wonder if people know that what they say is absolutely not making sense . No, don't try to understand what you just read... It was just my attempt to use all the words that I have been often hearing at work - Cool, Couple of, Kind of, Absolutely, making sense .. there are more.. Excellent!! Strategic and the list is endless. I am so tired of these words being used in almost every conversation, presentation, meeting, conference or whatever else that can have something to do with talking.... In my opinion, sometimes these words come in as fillers in between a technical/functional/management talks when the mind is busy trying to weave the next word into the sentence being spoken. In that case its perfectly okay... But what would you say if you were to define a cool desktop, a cool feature, a cool outfit, a cool talk, a cool gift??? I fail to understand.. I recall someone from U.S.A once remarking... When asked what do you wan...

It was a rainy evening. I walked out of the lift lobby and stepped out to breathe in the pollution-free damp air. It takes a good ten minute walk to reach the main road.. a walk I usually enjoy everyday on my way back from office. I take my time to watch the sunset and look at the fresh flowers that adorn the lush green lawn beside the side walk ways. The I-Pod is a recent hit with me. So, with some melody on, I started my walk. The sunset's crimson red was quite a sight.. It was more towards pink than orange.. Awestruck by the color combination and realizing that I cannot really capture this kind of a tint or shade on a canvas, I stopped to look at the sky one more time.. The clouds gave a nice touch of gray and white to the reddish pink colored horizon... Then there was yellow, light pink and purple shades in the sky... [ The last time I saw a similar ( but not the same) sight was on an early summer morning sun rise ten years back when we were huddled around a single engineering ...

I do not write letters these days, ( am sure most of us don't and social networking is in this shape today) and so there is very little chance for me to know that post boxes can actually go missing. They have painted it Red for everyone to see clearly...( Makes me think, should we research on why post boxes are mostly painted in Red? I have seen Blue and Green boxes very rarely.) A bright Saturday.... If mentioning the time of the day would give a better idea, here you go.. It was 12:15 P.M. I had posted a banking form last week through a popular courier service and as it had to happen, it has not got delivered till today, even as I write this post. So I decided to resend it by post. At worst speed, it would still reach its destination in three days. I walked to the nearest stationery store and bought stamps, covers and glue stick. I wrote the address on the envelope right then and headed straight to the bank to get the form. Once done, I sealed my now complete postal cover with th...

A sticker on a car read : Drink Coffee and Drive. Definitely a very positive way of saying Don't drink and drive . The road tradition and some handed-over wisdom says that this statement refers to alcoholic drinks only, but if you take a careful look, this statement is not written for anyone to take it serious. Frankly, it is not explicit enough to understand what not to drink and the general psychology is to ignore sign posts that you dont understand or you dont want to understand.....'Who is anyone to stop me from drinking? How does it matter if I drink juice, coffee, soda, water and then drive??' If this sounds like a teenager questioning the sign post, yes, that's what most people do, I believe.... Another angle.... We all have a tendency to ignore the usual statements ( we are tuned to forget the significance of the often heard/used words, signs, expressions or just about anything for that matter.... )... if you are not sure, tell me how many times you respond to a...

I have always believed that a nice wish can change your mood, change your thoughts, and change your way of life.. A birthday is one such occasion, when you get a chance to feel the difference and boost the feel-good factor within. I knew that my phone means so much to me, but never realized it as much as I did today... It is my birthday and this lovely little electronic magic has transmitted so many valuable wishes to me over phone, from far and near and dear... I knew Internet is a fantastic means to stay in touch, but never realized it as much as I did today.... It is my birthday and I have had a chance to receive so many wishes ( thanks to orkut) and most importantly send a thank you message in response. It almost end of the day and I thought I'll take stock of the moments that made me smile today... An early morning SMS wishing me a very happy birthday... All the calls that I received today... All the messages I received today... All the calls I missed and returned today... Al...