That's Life in US....

As the clock stuck 12, day has started rightly for our Indian Bachelor in US.....Its 12 in the night, thats when most of the indian bachelors in US start their work....

"Hi machi how r u doing?, Work is as boring as it can be da, and how about your work?. I can bet mine is the worst da :)...blah blah and it goes on for one more hour"....

For some reason, life in US for indian bachelors is strange, not all get into a routine 9 to 9 schedule, life only starts by 12 in the midnight (when one cannot say its the previous day's hang over or the next day's start over ;) )

And the last thing a guy in this time can tell is he is still single, man believe me he is having the worst time in his life right in front of him. To kill a person would be more easier now for him rather than killing time. Thanks to Buyukkokten (for those of you who dont know him, he found Orkut ;)), but for him guys here would really die. Searching for profiles in Orkut and saying "Hi h r u doin.....mind being my friend?, etc" can kill another 1 hour from his night life.....

So what next?. by this time its already 2 in the midnight....Some close friends or dear ones who he thinks are close ones 4 him...(Poor guy, the reality might be they might not even remember him once in a day ;) ), will be called to just say a Hi, when the person at the other end will be rushing to hang up the phone to say "Sorry yar i am busy right now talk 2 u later"....Ha Ha, can he believe that life can be so painful?. (Thanks to calling cards, they made his life cheaper atleast ;)).... At 3 in the early morning (i must stop calling it even mid night, its already almost dawn ;) ).....all that he can now do is go to youtube in search of some songs while in paralel he grabs a pack of chips and a soda. (chips and soda make a good Combo to make such a Dumbo an even more fatter Jumbo :D)....

Alarm now rings for the 20th time that fine morning and there are no more chances left out to snooze it again(Mobile manufacturers need to realize that snoozing for just 20 times is not enough for an IB in Us ;) who knows our hero might be working in one of those companies too ;)).....With no other option left out, he pulls himself out from his bed at 9 in the morning.....Its a good practice to daily look at something good in front of you daily in the morning.....right na????....So guess what?. for any Indian bachelor in US ( i am gonna use the nick IB in US from here on, Indian Bachelor in US .... :D), his laptop will be his 1st idol which he has to worship before he can even brush his teeth.....So mails flowing out of his inbox, & what next?. Its always a game where you daily need to decide whether to check ur parents mail or your in-laws mail (lols ;) FYI.... parents are your parent companies and inlaws are your client companies to whom you are sold ;) ) and as always both never go in hand with each other.....If for your parents, you are bad, then for your inlaws, you are the worst lols ; and the same applies for u too ;)...If ur parents can torture u, ur inlaws can screw u lols :D....).....

So by this time, the milk in the oven is already flowing out ...... (but no worries, this happens only at times, and for the rest, the milk would have become cold again ;))......so with a cup of coffee, the next one hour goes to read through all mails....

"Hey dude, wassup?. can u follow up with this issue by COB?."....."Hey machi, you need to call this tester and make sure he gives the steps to reproduce this issue....."....."hi, its time to close your appraisal, failing to do so will delay your peanuts......(Hikes;))......."

COB for those of you who are not from IT industries (even for some of u who are in this industry and use this daily without even knowing what it stands for ;)), is Closure of Business and our AIM will only be to really bring closure to business after seeing the peanuts that we get ha ha....Nice to laugh but painful to realize....

When its 11, with a tooth brush in side his mouth, his shaving razors in one hand (its a rule that u need to shave daily when u r working in ur client location otherwise no one will be able to identify u as all ur client engineers will be bearing a frenchie, :) now dont ask me why the rule for us alone then, thats how rules are here ;) )....and a Bluetooth headset around his ears, "yes Tony, u r right, the blade needs to be changed (for ur shave????lols;)) , oops i mean the cutting edge ends that we use in our design methodologies and the design patterns blah blah.......Why the hell should he open his mouth with so many accesories around him and then talk for the next 15 minutes to cover up his blunder?.ha ha.... Can't he put it in mute and complete his activities?. That's next, as his most important call for the day would have started when he is in his standing shower......So with the loudspeakers turned on in his phone, and the phone in perfect Mute mode, he can relax a bit to take his showers off.....(Man, is it not crazy to not even have enough time to take a peaceful bath?.)....

By the time he finishes the last spoon of his cereals (Corn flakes in india are known as Cereals in US ;))....., his roomie will now be shouting outside as he is already late to office.....Another curse for IBs in US will be that they cant afford a Car or a house seperately and have to pool around with whomever they meet.....(Who will give a car or a house for peanuts?????.....lols.... )

"Good morning james, hope ur day is good so far....." (What's so good about this morning when you people are here to kill me......This is what James might be thinking of our Hero ;)"....and its 11:30 in the morning when we reach office, so what next?.

Buyukkokten comes into picture again....;)....don't ask me when he went off the picture ;))....So 25 scraps from 23 unknown people......"Do i know u?."...."Who are you?."...."What do u want from me????"....etc will be some of the replies for his "Hi, can i be ur friend" kinda scraps which he tried last night.....So next one hour will go in thinking of new plans and strategies that need to be deployed in tonight's scrap attempts ;)....."IGoogle" is the next target, (This can better be renamed as "I Always Google" ;)....), what ever social networking tool that our hero uses, Google comes into picture.....(For those of you who dont know about IGoogle, its a Google gadgets home page where u can add all messengers that u need in the form of gadgets there by allowing u to chat freely without need for proxies :)......I am gonna be the official marketing person for them ;))....Our Hero has a dozen of friends online in GTalk who are eagerly waiting for updates from him.....(this list also contains dear people to our Hero who forget about him totally daily and he keeps reminding them every now and then using his calling cards lols ;) )....

Oops, Client meeting at 12 and status report is yet to be prepared.....Our Hero's Status report must actually contain....

"3 new clients (orkutans) successfully added to the client list, 4 proposals rejected (orkutans who r not intrested in u), 5 new proposals to be done (with new ideas that have come in today's brainstorming session.... lols ;))....and so on...."

but the status report will contain....

"3 CRs fixed, 4 CRs resolved, 5 CRs open blah blah....we are working really hard and pushing towards reaching Zero CRs by End of this week etc etc" (CRs are issues raised against defects in ur code, norms acceptable are 100 CRs per 100 Lines of code with each line containing not more than a semi colon and an If statement ha ha).....

Soon the Status Meeting starts & the most important & highly awaited event opens up...Guess what???? The Coffees are taken (lols,believe me, most of them in that hall would attend this meeting only for this event cause in most of the client sites, coffees are paid drinks ;) & for your information, Black Coffee is the only best alternative that you would get here to Black Tea ;), Again its the ironical comparison of ur parent's company to ur inlaw's company ha ha....) Half Asleep Hero keeps himself inside the game by every now andd then adding "Ya i agree...", "Oops, no that would be costly...", "Ya i will have to plan for staffing etc etc....".....There will be some one at offshore who will definitely hate this OC for many reasons among which his professional statements like "No Issues", "Not a prob" etc will be the top rated ones ha ha..... (I think the concerned person reading the last statement above must realize that its them lols ;) )....

Alas, task executed successfully, and a victorious OC (Onsite Coordinator) will now compose a big essay in the name of MOM (Minutes of the meeting which went on for hours, then why do people call it as minutes of meeting, should it not be hours of meetings?. ...lols....).....this one big MOM will fetch 100 peanuts more to our proud OC when his next appraisal comes ha ha.....This is what they call as working for Peanuts....;)

Our super hero will now remember that something is eating him up to tell him that he has to eat something up......Lunch?. Shit, thats something which he left behind in his dining table back in his room......What the hell can he do man?. A man all alone performing so many stunts when he gets ready to office needs to forget atleast his lunch right?????......(Now no one can dare to ask him why he slept so late in the night.......He is not to be blamed, he did sleep as early as possible in the morning atleast ha ha :D....

"Can i ask my roomie to drop me back at my room to bring my lunch back?. ".....he can only think of this, cause any roomie (including u or me ) will kick his A** if he wants us to take us back so far to just bring his box of maggi that this idiot cooked right from early morning 10:00 when the milk was paralelly flowing out from the over ;).....

Dooms day....Now comes the worst fact that our super hero will unveil immediately.... Getting a job in Google or Microsoft is easier than Being a Veggie in US ha ha.....What are the options that you can get in a restaurant here?. A burger for a veggie will be a burger with no meat but with Fish (Its a fact that no meat here does not mean no fish ha ha i dont really understand the meaning of this statement in this place ....:))....A garden burger is the technically fit term to be used by a Veggie IB in US which will fetch him a slice of cheesse, half a slice of onion and half a slice of tomato (No patties as patties have meat here) stuffed in between a so called bun.....with this garden burger, our hero has to move the rest of his noon session ha ha......(Trust me, u will definitely feel like getting horns if u eat such things here :D)....Just kidding, our hero is right back from his nutritious lunch.....

What next?????....Don't tell me "Buyukkokten Returns"...ha ha i will kill u man...."A small nap after a lunch has technically proven to have increased the work effiiciency of employees"....I dont know who provides our hero such facts, but he is already fully asleep comfortable lying on his desk with musical notes coming out of his poor laptop....(some one has to save his laptop by moving his hands out of it which are pressing the buttons unnecessarily, but what to do, these are the only times when our hero uses most of the keys in his laptop ha ha......)....

Tea time after a nap is the best option one can find out, and play time would be the next best option after tea time....Table Tennis pro and billiards champion..our super hero..( dont ask me how he can learn so many things..... if you are as jobless as he is, you would have won the Grand master Title by this time..ha ha ;)) gets into the ground....

After an hour's tough play, Second victory for the day comes across our super hero...He finally would have managed to win his opponent who would be a poor 1st time IB in US, but that's ok by practise its possible.....Probably if he follows our hero's foot steps, he might become a better hero in the near future ;)....(1st victory for those of you who forgot after reading such a big blog, was his MOM or rather MOH ;))....a proud indian after his victory returns back to his cubicle....

100's of mails from 1000's of consultants keep flowing into his inbox....."Sir, we were pleased to see ur profile in our job portal, we have this opening Blah Blah....etc etc"......All gates open for our hero but none allows him to go through them....:).....Either they ask him something that he does not know, or he tells them something that they do not want to know lols....Net is, another day passes by without success in his hunt to jump into an US company ;)....

Amidst these junk, some official ones do drop into his inbox....

"Important CR drive down, by EOD i need status on all these issues......Blah Blah Blah Blah..." This is not the 1st time it would have happened. its a medically,technically,scientifically (all lly's u wanna add can fit in here as an adjective ;)...) proven fact that for all IBs in US, the most important and critical task for his day would come to his desk only by EOD and the important thing would be that all of them would need closure also by EOD....ha ha"........

What will this poor guy do now?. Cruel in-laws asking a newly wed daugher - in - law to cook meal for the whole family when the fact is the gal knows only how to boil tea (even this, she knows only to prepare for max. 2 people, more than that proportions always go wrong ha ha, probably she might know how to prepare bread-butter-jam in a better way (Concerned Reader is gonna kill me :D))....:(....and parents in this case are really helpless as they have literally sold the gal to the inlaws :(....Hope by this time, u all understand the whole story behind this para ;)....

The only person who can help this poor guy is the super hero himself....

Even now, our proud IB in US will not be sulky, u know why????????.....his EOD is only by 3 in the early morning....ha ha so he has all his time in this world to take care of these important useless tasks ins his inbox.....

With not much of impact, mentally and physically the same Hero goes back home to grab a pack of chips and a soda and starts his work....

now don't ask me what's his work man, its the same...."Hey hi, i am so & so...., nice meeting u here, i found u in the singles community Blah Blah ....ha ha"....Hails to orkut which single handedly drives-in the lives & motivations of all Single IBs in US....ha ha.....

"And guess wat?. by this time u must have understood that our IB in US is a Proud single, Socially non-smoking, officially and unofficially non-Drinking, Ethically pure and divine Thair Sadham (Curd Rice as they say ;))......" ....ha ha, then how the hell can he kill his time in US, if not the way described above lols ;)....

Disclaimer: This blog is purely imaginary and just brought out as a Fairy tale for the enjoyement of my readers......and the term parents and inlaws r referred only to mean companies and not the actual relations ;) If my future inlaws get to read this post, i think i stand an even better chance of not winning their gal....ha ha.... (So those of you who are interested in giving a referal for me inside ur family pls dont take the risk of circulating this post within ur family ;), again concerened person must be aware that i am pointing to them in this last statement above ha ha....Guys, dont post comments asking me who r the concerned persons who come every now and then in this post lols ;) )

Thanks all for patiently going through my post....See u soon ;) (Now dont ask me if i spent my noon in office to bring out this post ha ha, but u r right :D....I wrote this Blog at one single stretch but edited it almost 12 times to correct the mistake in it ;)....Being a professional IB in US, what ever i type (Blogs or codings), i make a minimum of 100 errors per 100 lines of delivery ha ha....lols..........bye.....

Dont ask for too many things, you wont know what you really wanted....

Why am i having such a title in place for a blog that i am writing without knowing what to write????.

In a way, it will make sense for some and not for many, i am not sure if i am in the some or in the many. oops too confusing. i really dont know what to write now :)....

When you dont get things that you keep asking for now and then, it pains?. but at times have you ever felt that it pains after getting something you longed really for?. Why is that so?. Is that because you really did not know what you actually wanted?. basically if we cannot differentiate between the lust and the rest, you will end up in such situations :).......That's too skeptical na?.

It happens for everyone of us that at some point you will not really understand why you are happy and at some point you will not understand why you are sulky....and if you dont know how to react to such situations its very good for you. Cause confusion starts only when you start reacting to such stuffs....

Man this is going way too philosophical , can we change gears now?.

Yes we must but why did i write up all these things?. Its just because i thought of all these when i was travelling for official purposes to a different country....Man would you believe i thought such non-sense on a travel?.

12:30 AM Nov 30th, '08

I finally learnt swimming. That's what was needed to reach the airport from my house. Ahhhhhh, it rained for the next few years altogether......After finishing a strong dose of calls with ma friends, i thought i will call my sis after i reach the airport. Man, i have never seen the airport this crowded till then in my life. It was the day when Muslims started to hudge and the whole of the airport was spell stuck with the congestion. I finally was able to find out my colleague in this confusion who was also travelling along with me. We finally made it into the check - in and etc etc, everything went on well....

I started a long lasting call session with my sister and it went on for hours. (man trust me i found it really difficult to keep my sister all awake while i was chatting :) )....finally we bid good bye and i boarded the plane. I slowly started getting a sense of disturbance within myself, not sure what it exactly was....As time passed by and the flight took off, i was able to realize that all that i wrote in the 1st 2 paragraphs came into my mind that time. Would u again believe it???? :D....

As thoughts started flying around my head, i gazed around the flight to see if there are any babes in and around me :) (trust me, i am one shameless creature who with such thoughts as mentioned above was still able to manage to look out for babes :))....And as luck always struck me hard, i could not find even a single gal who i can talk to :(....all that i could manage was to talk with Pooja every now and then....(ha ha, u guessed it right, she was the only indian air hostess who reciprocated well to me lols :D)....and if you are interested in knowing facts, here you go, Keerthi was the one who reciprocated to me in my previous trip....ha ha now dont ask me anything more :D....A Thairsadham (that's how my chweet cute sis calls me :)) can afford to do such things?. i did prove myself that i was all that capable :D....soon they started bringing in lunch and as always, i found it really hard to get hold of the last vegetarian lunch (man, they call vegetarian as special meals, i dont know whats so abnormal in being a veggie :D). and i was not suprised to see a big portion of lasagna inside that pack....for those of you who dont know what lasagna is, in short this is how its prepared....

"In a large bowl, mix together the eggs, parmesan cheese, and ricotta cheese and season with salt, pepper, and spices.

Lightly coat the bottom of each pan with oil ( I like to use spray olive oil for this job) and then add a little sauce to coat the bottoms. This is especially important if you are using the no-boil noodles because the sauce will help them cook.

There are no hard and fast rules about the order you add the ingredients....blah blah....and cook it for 30 minutes....e ingredients will settle a little bit when you bake the lasagna so build right to the top. Make sure you finish with sauce and if you have any left over, save it for when you are serving.

Cover each pan with some aluminum foil and bake for about 35 to 45 minutes until the center of the lasagna is hot, the cheese is melted, the edges are crisp, and your kitchen smells heavenly like Hell :D and if there are any left overs you can eat it tommorow too.....trust me, u wont be able to differentiate between today's lasagna and tommorow's, both will smell, feel,taste etc etc the same :D....lolz ;)"

and you will end up with a dish that you can never ever imagine to even touch....and belive me i ate it.....:(.....by this time my thoughts went off and my stomach started talking with me dis way....

"What the hell did you eat Hemanth?. now go straight, take a small left, there will be a queue, wait there in the queue (in ur new country u r supposed to elegantly follow queues), once ur turn comes, open the door that stands tall in front of u, u will find a small room neatly dressed and well scented, sit there for some time and come".....

This is what my stomach said to me and all that it meant was, it wanted me to throw off literally what ever i ate in the name of lunch and then settle down with a small bottle of coke to change the taste sticking with my taste buds :D......

By the time my stomach completed telling what it wanted, my head started talking again.....Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......its talking too much dude,

"Hemanth, why do u think people want to get something so much but they are not......".

"will you stop talking for some time?. let me first do what Mr. Stomach said and come, i cant take 2 tortures at a time"......lols.....

Let's meet next once i am done with my throwing and then come back and continue my throwing here lols :D....Bye guys and thanks for patiently reading what i threw here too :D........

.... and we call ourselves "Engineers"

Not the best way to start your day i would say......As always woke up with a Good Morning Msg from my friend....With a brush in one hand and the mouse in ma other hand, i started playing the song "Nenjukul Peidhidum ....from Vaarnam Ayiram"....Of late i have started listening to such songs a lot. If i am not talking, it means i am listening to these songs....Thats how i would potray that......Probably this could be one of the reasons as to why my Orkut one liners depict so much of Romance.....ha ha....Just kidding.....

"Lunch office la ...." as i uttered these words, i closed the door and started increasing the speaker's volume......"Yenodu vaaaaaa veedu varaikum, yen veetai paarrrr ennai pidikum....." I like this part of the song a lot that i keep tuning the song to this line frequently......

K by now you must be aware of the fact that i am a jobless, senseless, meaningless IT Engineer who is trying to start his day to the office without intentions of working.......(Even if i have intentions, i dont have work to do :))

As i started the bike, it was around 8:00 AM. I started taking the same route that i go by daily, and of course all the time humming the same lyrics....

With lot of obstacles, i somehow managed to reach the Guindy estate road.
Vendors busy selling Road side delicacies, People busy talking on their newly bought cell phones (guess :)), vehicles all over the place, not a place to stand.....

Now i had to take a left at the Guindy fly over.....I could see lots of cars and bikes racing around this very small turn.....

but soon i could notice that people were diverging at some point taking turns very randomly.....As i came near, i was shocked to see that a blind pedestrian was standing in da middle of this turn not knowing where to go. He was totally stunned by the bike and car horns that he could not dare to make a step forward or backward....And all that i could see was all these riders were modest enough to avoid this person but no one cared to stop for him to go or no pedestrian did care to guide him in crossing the road.....All neatly dressed up, tagged IT Professionals riding in imported bikes not caring about a blind pedestrian who was by then struggling for his life in the middle of such a busy road.....

And we call ourselves "Engineers"......

PS: You might ask why i did not react at that juncture when i have all the time in this earth to think of that incident and write this blog......I have no answer for this question....Probably i am also one such idiot who call myself an Engineer......

Poi Solla Porom...... ;)

Big mistake.......but at times we cannot avoid.... At this juncture, Balaji decided to change his status to commited in orkut..... "Dai, shall we change our status in orkut to commited as we planned?.,wassay?.".....as i got this IM from Balaji, i immediately ran towards my PC to hide the msg.....I cannot come across yet another shameful situation at home.....:) Even before i replied no, Balaji was too upset. "
"both should take the risk ....adhu dane namba policy?"....Balaji replied.... (Its not a reply infact, cause i did not respond first, he sent both the msgs himself ;) ) After another few lines of senseless chats, i finally made him comfortable in doing this deed all himself.... ;)....

By this time i was almost done with my dinner. (I really did not realize that Balaji at the other end was at cloud # 9 over his new achievement;) )
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BalajiSaysHello
and to ur info I have changed the relation ship status :)
check it out ......
achieve panniten ....
Hemanth
ha ah super da
:)
BalajiSaysHello
Naanum periya rowdy dan dialogue :)
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Ha Ha......pride in one end, fun at the other end......lols.....(But I cannot laugh out loud cause i am also one such guy who is still single ready to mingle and do the jingle now lols......;) )
and the chat went on as usual .....All topics ranging from who is rich till who is technical strong......(though we knew we both r neither of those 2)
Suddenly i could smell a rat gettting into the Trap......ha ha....after all the food inside the trap is so hot na ;)
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BalajiSaysHello
ranga is pinging me for relation ship status ... :)
atlast one guy is falling into the trap
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Now it was Balaji's turn to screw someone as expected.....Though at first he blabbered, he had good presence of mind.....He was brilliant enough in asking me for inputs and suggestions by pasting his chat transcripts with Renga and getting strong commitments from me ;)

While things were going on strong at one end, it was now my chance to show my talents too....

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k.renganathan.84 is online.
hi da
enna da balaji orkutla "committed"nnu potirukkan
Hemanth
ya da he is
ask him itself dont ask me anything i am confused on his behaviour
k
dei
overa vilayadadhae
he is pulling everyone's leg and
u r joining him
Hemanth
no da reall;y he is comited dan
k
DEI!!!!!
enna da solre?
Hemanth
frankly telling its a 3 month old news bang him for dat
ranga: DEI!!!
what is going on????........
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Hope by this stage, you must be confused reading this blog......Atleast i am.....cause now i am chatting with balaji and renga at the same time, pasting one guy's transcript into other and checking other guy's transcript in other's transcript.......ha ha ........When the going gets tough, the going only gets tough....ha ha to add more sugar to this chat, Vicky was called in for judgement by Renga......ha ha.....so one more chat window into my Monitor....

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vicky.prodigy
u there?
Hemanth
hi da
sollu da
vicky.prodigy
dei Balaji enna da comedy panrana?
Hemanth
machi to be honest he is kidding da
:D
lols
but hold on
dont tell this to Renga
he is playing with him
k
vicky.prodigy
ok
Hemanth
machi do a favour now
vicky.prodigy
ya da
do i have to telll yes balaji is committed??
Hemanth
ping Renga online in gtalk and tell him "machi did u see Balaji's status".he ill ask r u aware of it"tell him that u know already that Balaji is commited a month before today itself." tell him u know this before a month itself from me
ya da
BalajiSaysHello:
no da ask him tell him that someone else from our office told him
Hemanth
he pinged me before that
Hemanth
k
vicky.prodigy
and told it
i replied "WHAT CRAP?"
Hemanth
now tell u r going to tell the truth to him cause Balaji has come out with that himself
Hemanth
also tell u confirmed this news jsut now with some office member from my team seriya
Vicky
ok cool
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so goes the story on and on......3 fools at one end and an even better fool at the other end ha ha.....

By now Renga must have reached the edges of his chair..... He could not believe us and at the same time he cannot take the risk of taking this issue lightly......
"Machi r u guys really kidding or not da?. Please tell the actual matter da". as Renga told these, i was busy at the other end reading Renga's transcripts on Vicky's window.....(ha ha....idhu ellam oru pozhopa?. lols.)
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Renganathan: ok.. can u give me a name here?
Vignesh: i think its tat potato girl who has joined his team recently da
Renganathan: u mean censored?? ( tats her true name rite? - censored the actual name lols as per Balaji's request;).....)
Vignesh: Yes da her name is censored....(Again ha ha).
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Ha Ha and now its even more fun...u know why?. potato gal (Allo we call in short) is the nck of a gal with whom Balaji is paired with at office and now i know for sure he is gonna be back fired to the core ha ha......
"Machi, u know wat, not knowing how to tackle Renga, Vicky told the above statements and said its alloo with whom u r commited too"........
"Dai kadasila enaku appu vechutingala da, i am gonna tell Renga the truth else climax la i will become the comedian ha ha".
As this went on Balaji was too concerned about saving his name......Ha Ha who expected it to backfire him?.
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Hemanth
kadasi la its all back firing da
Balaji bayandhu is calling Renga to tell no Aloo gal and all its fun only ha ha
he started the game and he got backfired now ha ha
vicky.prodigy
:) :)
aiyo aiyo.... super da
machi... idha pathi oru BLOG ezhudhu da
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and this is how this Blog got created.....ha ha ......when we people r having fun readingthis blog, Balaji is too hot blaming himself for starting the game ha ha......"Uanku thevaya idhu?.Unaku idhuvum venum, inumum venum"....ha ha.....lols......

Note - Balaji/Renga: All these days, you guys were nuhappy saying my blogs at times mentioned some statements which you did not tell in reality, so this time i have copied and pasted exactly the chat transcipts. hope u trust me atleast now lols......

The way you are....

"It starts with something that u don't know why, does'nt really matter how hard u try.........." This was something which Linkin Park might have written when he was working in some Software company........Just kidding.......but how in reality could he be so meanigful in that song?. He does make some small sense in that song. But what sense?????......

June 23rd, 2004 - 10:00 A.M

"We have a total strength of around 50,ooo employees spread all around the world. We work on all technologies and we work along with all major clients in this industry....blah blah etc etc" what else could one hear in a Pre-Palacement talk?. As usual, the projector in the college has some starting trouble (less does the projector know that this is the first big placement that my college was expecting. For some, it showed something bad, "Arambame seri illa". For some it really did not matter a lot, and for the rest they were already dreaming of showing their offer letters to their dad and mom....."mummy, nan select aiten.....enaku theriyum pa nee select aiduvanu...." these words went around my mind as i was dreaming of a big success in front of me....
A gathering of 450 odd students.....Who knew who are the lucky candidates at the EOD (might be they were not lucky by getting selected, we must ask them now :)) For sure the padips from all departments were a sure shot....."oru department la irrundhu 20 peru vechukuta kuda namma department la 25 students, wont we be one among that?." I could hear one guy next to me whispering this with his friend while i pretended to be too keen in the PPT, whereas in reality, i had already lost my patience......"Please go to your respective halls where you will have to take your tests...." as time passes test retults are out, 450 becomes 200, interviews go around, 250 becomes 100, HR comes to finally round this number off to 75.......God 75 students are now into this big company.....Good or bad, their placement is finalised....Nothing can change it now.....

August 7th,2008 - 10:00 A.M

As i stopped my bike on seeing red, i finished this flash back also.....Its almost 3 years since this dream came into a reality and i am now a legacy member of a 11 member team....ooops too technical right?. Ya i am in this team for the past 2 years....Gone through all ups and downs of this project.....Morning coffees, afternoon lunches, evening snacks,night pizzas.......Suprised?. but yes you read it right.......all of those are food items......so where is that 4 letter word called "Work"?. oh that is stuck deep in between those food breaks......Never ending Client calls, Deadly deadlines (they have named it rightly to be called "dead" ), late night debuggings, hourly team meetings......and what not?. All these happen every now and then in all teams......and at End of day all that you can confirm is, you have not done even a single meanigful task for the day......then why all these rush and push for?. Appraisals, Hikes,peer reviews, manager review etc etc all happen regularly for no one's benefit. then why all these?. Did we ever think things will look so confusing 3 years ago?. Should i jump to a new company or should i pursue my higher studies or should i stay back until i get a different coloured tool from my company for my gained exp?. or should i???????? this list will keep growing until you will finally feel that there is nothing you can do but just sit back and have a cup of coffee with your team mate who like you just now finished scanning through the same "should I" list......While you still have your cup of coffee, your friends would have either compelted their master or jumped for a good pay or atleast got married ;)......
Appreciations for something you did not do, and escalations for something that you did are additional traits of unforced errors that you do daily.....

Some sit in front of their orkut profiles day in and day out, some have their chargers plugged into their mobiles all day while they continue talking with their GFs/BFs, while guys like me have nothing much to do rather than sit like this and write blogs.....atleast i am happy that there are some who are also like me sitting idle reading this blog of mine :)....lolz......take it easy dudes, after all we are software engineers............ :)

Kurang.....That's how Kannadi named him :)

With a small feeling i marched towards the IT Block as i waved hands to few known faces.....As if its been years since i met them...Just a week, that's it fools, i murmured these lines softly......I did not find it too difficult to find out that all alone pink building that stood tall and handsome.....what a color combination, white and pink for college buildings....no one can ever imagine.....one,two,three as i kept counting the steps without purpose, i walked up the stairs to reach the Second year IT - A Section. Fish markets are always noisy, but why should classes be?. I could not justify that statement or answer that as i entered into the class room. Reluctantly i joined Aravindh who was already sitting in the first bench.....and our padips "Buddi Balaji"...(Guy's its not buddy, its buddi (Kannadi alias specs) ) as we call him with affection was sitting in the second bench.....Studies is all that he knew before he joined ITLects....Ofcourse it was him, Vicky and Myself who named our company "ITLects"....Ofcourse with prior consent and approval from other ITLects members......"Dai, enna yend a imsai panringa......nan neenga ninaikara madhiri illa da....." This is a defacto statement that he will make even if u tell him about how beautiful a gal in ur class is :)......Fruit should i say?. Or a False - Positive error should i say?,.....Or can i put it as "Indha punayum pal kudikuma?." ha ha free....Let me say its Balaji..... ;)

Flashy eyes, Simpson's hair style, Yellow Shirtm, Brown Pants......I could suddenly visualize all these in one place......OK forget who it is ....lolz.......... ;)

I could see one kid sitting next to Aravind...... (Was it the mistake of the small guy's childish apperance or the mistake of Aravindh's gigantic appearance????)....All that i could think of was, it was a wrong selection made by a ant to sit near an elep.....oops...forget it again :)

.....It looked like a father and a child sitting in the same class room......Nothing much could i do, not even laugh a loud as Aravindh was the only guy i knew closely and i could not dare to start off with a grin with this comment.....As i gazed at that new guy, i took my seat next to Aravindh...."Machi, this is Renganathan da......", as Aravindh introduced that guy to me, a pair of shaking hands reached me for a shake. I could feel that this guy was slightly uncomfortable with this environment......whereas I was highly uncomfortable :(.....With this shake, i started chatting with Aravindh as usual....."dai, enna da ippadi gundu aita?., veetula amma eppadi irrukanga....blah blah........"........Soon it was lunch time....."Dai Pasangala, K.Renganathan.....This is too big da", as Balaji made this comment, "Kureng"....how is this came out Aravindh as if he has made a big discovery.....Stage Set, things finalized, deal signed.......Renganathan will now onwards be called "Kureng"....With this name keeping ceremony getting over, we started asking Kureng for a treat.....(Guys in college will have even more weird reasons for asking for a treat, Balaji has once given treat for sleeping in a class).....

Soon it was Computer Architecture period and Kureng,myself & Aravindh were standing behind the last bench for not answering some silly question. little did i know that it was a question from the subject. I was thinking why in this silly world will this silly lecturer ask a GK question when i am not good at it?. After all First day punishements and screws are new to me nomore.....mind it.

As the bell rang for the last class, i picked up my bag bidding Good day to Aravindh and balaji....I knew that Kurang is going to join me in some more months on my journey daily back to Koyambedu as he was from the same area too.......

So who is Kurang?????......

One of the MBA aspirants in ITLects......Remind u guy's he is not as kidding in look as i described....Nowadays he is posing a big threat to Aravindh in terms of who is becoming fatter....lolz......One good description about this guy can be this:

"My initial reaction to Renga was.. "what a Pazham" LOL!! I have never seen a more typical Brahmin boy in this age,, this era.. :) he is so straight fwd, he gives me inferiority complex!!

But if u think u can take him for a ride,,, think again.. there is a sharp mind in there,A mature, discipined, hard-working fellow, who has multiple interests, and a curiosity to do new things, to explore, Jokes apart, this friendship we share had developed quite unexpectedly .........blah, blah"......

To be honest this is not my opinion, but someone's opinon which ITLects alone knows.....lolz....:)....Renga enna manichudu da.....Just kidding.....

But to be honest, he is one guy u can depend upon......right from the first day i thought he was a fool :).......i knew that he always had a small complexion as to why he was single all the time......So much hidden inside this small fellow, dreams and aims.......Love and intentions......."Why am i single?. " Given this topic, he can talk continously for more than a month, so much to flow out from his inside.....In short, a guy single, ready to mingle and do jingle is still waiting for his gal.....Gal's, you are lucky.....Get it from me.....

Oops too much about Renga.....since he made a special request - "Machi, u did not write about me in first year"...I think i have written enought about him now....Rest in my next post as we start studying for our 3rd Sem.....bye guys.....

Note: Renga, please dont mistake me....Everything written above is because of Kannadi's stimulation. :) Guy's something like Balaji giving treat are imaginary....What to do, atleast in dream this idiot must give a treat na :).....

Bridging the Gaps....

Apr 14th' 2002 Chennai

For some reason i was very comfortable with that second bench not knowing that it will be my row number for the next 3 years. guys and gals were talking so loudly that i cannot avoid hearing to any of their shoutings. I was still awaiting Aravindh to come. mind you, he was the only guy who i know in this whole class. I did not dare to even peep in to any of the neighbouring conversations as i was totally uncomfortable. oops contradicinting myself, but first i mean i was comfortable only with the bench not anything else. Jithesh, Senthil, rajesh, and so on.....the gang kept growing and i sit silently still waiting for Aravindh to come. "Eppadi irruka machi", the long awaited words reached my ears as i turned around to greet the giantly Aravindh. i gave him a place near my seat. I could not resist myself from remembering one horrible thing which feared me and Aravindh every now and then. it was summer holidays now for all colleges and our college was teaching us C and Java in Bridge course. If there was some reason fo any one in this wold to hate Anna University this would have been the first one. We actually were missing Manivannana lot at this point of time as he was the only missing guy in our bench now. (Though had Mani been in IT he would have moved out of this second bench to the last bench :)). Soon the classes started and as always i stood in the desk shouting again, "I am Hemanth Narayanan, My dad works.....Blah Blah...". For new readers read my previous blog. Its almost the same story which happened again now. After some crap, we got time for a coffee break. I still dont remember what we talked first, but it was suprising that i talked to a stranger so easily. Same feeling was there by this time inside Aravindh too. We could not control ourselves. i said to myself "Kalakara Chandru"....Let me tell u something before you Guys start thinking too much by now. We both managed to just talk a new guy for the first time (sware that u did not think of a gal in this scene now :) ).... yes and that was Balaji. Though i was relucatant to talk to any studious Amanji guy, we had no other go. Soon we started knowing about his Semester marks, and i started getting a small fear inside me that i had chosen the wrong one. Aravindh was in a sense ok, cause he is a padips too guys..... "You guys will fall in to IT - 2nd year Sec A", as soon as we heard this i realized that its by this time May 23rd and its the last day of outr bridge course.....but i was in no mood to relish this news. reason is????....in another week or so, regular college starts, which means we have totally no holidays at all from 1st year till 2nd year.....With that strong dissapointment i somehow managed to walk back home.......(from my bustand not from my college itself ;)).....

Sunday June 10th - 2002

Ouch, as i sat on my fingers watching Sachin score his century against some team (forget who it was), i got a call from Aravindh. "Machi, enna da ellam ready a for tomm?.".....As if we are going to join a new college after 3 months of enjoyment at home....."Dai, last week dan da college closed and tomm coll re-opens, adhuku nadula enna da romba nal ana madhiri kekara?."...as i made this "now a sarcastic looking but then an irritating statement" as i started talking to him.....As i finished dinner, i slowly creeped into my bedsheet slowly dozing off......But had a very bad dream of standing out on the very first day in our second year classes........We used to talk daily for atleast 2 hours on the phone, meet outside, chat, run, walk and pondered over so many unwanted things......Don't think its a gal, its again a boy and it was Aravindh and myself who did all these things.....( For some reason that was a good training that i gave to Aravindh which is now useful to him ;) , Guys don't ask me more on this now :))....Might be i might make use of those trainings soon too..... lolz......just kidding.

7:55 A.M Monday June 11th - 2002

I walked sluggishly towards the bus stop and saw a gal rushing there towards the bus stop too. I ran as fast as i could and stood calmly in the bus stop as if i had reached there an hour ago. "Excuse me, did the bus come?."......That was the first time in my college life had a gal spoken to me....."Hmmm.....actually no", I made a big messy statement so easily and smiled at the gal. "opportunity knocks only once at your door".....These unwanted stimulating statements ran through my mind as i stood at the bus stop. every now and then the gal smiled at me......One good reason i thought which made me proud for being a student of this college......Time moved on and it was already 8:25 and the bus which should have come by 8:10 Max was still not seen. The gal immediately rushed towards teh phone booth and called the College Travel Incharge just to confirm that they bus had already left our bus stop 2 minutes before we both came and my presense of mind only stopped her from running behind the bus too :). As she came towards me, i thought i am done now...First relationship, First day, last day......By the time i thought of this beautiful hints development, she came to me and asked me "Shall we catch an Auto?."....Oops starts are still supporting me i thought......"Ya sure, i have to reach college at any cost" i said as if i am the chairman of the college.....What a Zodiac sign can do to one?. One hour before a guy creied like a kid to go to his college and the same guy is now wanting to reach college at any cost.....As i got into the auto, that was the first time in my college life when i felt why my college was so near my house :(....As i got out, "shall i pay for the Auto?. "....i made this seemingly bold statement for the known fact that i had 50 rs with me with which i cannot even tip the auto driver. "Hey congrats devi, heard that u have got TCS through off campus", as i heard these lines, for one moment everything went out of this world for me....My first flirt went off and it lasted for just 50 minutes.....and even in those 50 minutes she was hearing songs in her mp3 player while i was talking with the auto driver.....So this so called Flirting expeditiion ended as soon as that super super senior (or to be clear good looking super senior :)) got off the auto to get her appreciations from that idiot who screwed my dreams.....What the hell urged her to wish devi so soon?. just 2 minutes later had she wished devi i would have atleast started 2nd year with a happy note that i am also a capable young gun who is capable of flirting.....:(....With this heavy heart i entered into my college not knowing if it was Devi or actually entering the college that made me feel heavy now.....

Rest in our next post as we glide through our second year.

I am Hemanth Narayanan

"I am Hemanth Narayanan.....My father is working as a....", this is how i started off my intro to th whole class which was watching me with the least interest they could have.....obviously or theoritically that percentage is not Zero for sure cause its my class teacher's hour in the college and no idiot would love standing out or atleast standing in for some stupid question...What did Hemanth say now?....."and thats about my family...." as i concluded my intro, i walked back to my place......"hmmm......actually, my father....hmmm.....", Manivanna was not the coolest of guys when it comes to a stage performance....."Make it fast".....this statement would have almost brought tears out of Mani as he somehow managed to say "Thank you everybody" as if he was grate ful to each of th souls inside the room for not laughing at him :).....As time passed the last person in the class had just finished his quota of recitation in this competition......and now its time for me to go out for some highly confidential work....I have been specially appointed as this period's defaulter......(Very polite way of telling that i am being screwed badly :))....and in no time, i am standing out with Aravindh asking him how he feels about this situation......For sure Aravindh felt about this for some time but then realized that this is a college and he does not have the liberty of fearing or worrying for all these things....

"Anna 10 meals.......", Its a good bright and cheerful friday after noon and we all rushed to the meals counter....but whats so special about this at this point in the blog????......something to be really mentioned about is my college lunch during Fridays.....Potato porial, Onion Sambhar, Payasam,Appalam,Garlic Rasam, unlimited Meals, Butter Milk and what not????.....aS I started licking the payasam on my hands, "Thambi time achu ,kilambunga.....", shouted the hostel warder......"Sir ippa dan sir sapada ukandhom...."as we lied very sincerely, we started back again from Sambhar......"Burp.......", "dai naya thalli poi eppam viduda"....shouted Mani at some poor innocent eater (obviously from E Section).....now its around 1:30 Pm......something is so special about this time now....guess what????....It's half an hour since our Electrical Sir would have started his quota of screwing E Section....(In real he is a good teacher)...."Excuse me sir," this is how Rajeev started as we all rushed (pretended to do so) into the class room...."ellarum appadiye poidunga da"....as he shouted harshly, he came out to see the VIP list standing outside....."Sir there were not plates, so we had to wait for them".......Touched by this lie, he let in all the members of that team standing outside.....bbut for 2 all went in....but who were they and where were they????...idiots, myself and manivanan were left out in the rest room when these guys went in.....as we walked down cooly to E section., mani firmly prsesed me...."Machan these guys r too daring da....we have come and they are still in the canteen"......(God only knows that we are the last in that gang rigt now"......"neenga enga da vandhinga, tumbler illaya canteen la?."....as we focussed clearly on this yell from Electrical professor, we could see Rajeev waiving his hands happily from the last bench......"Shit tholanjom da naya", even before i could complete this our College chariman's car came inside the campus......This made our Electrical sir let us in......"pesadhinga da dogs...." as we proudly came inside our class, things were moving on smoothly...by this time, Aravindh would have completed one full note book......I some how managed to move the rest of this hour with Aravindh's calculator cover....(Without calci, he wont let us sit in his class, so i used to pretend with his calci cover).

Days passed by, and it was the last day of our last Sem for our first year....."machan, un Role number enna da?."....as i curiously asked ARavindh he said some magic number which i could not make out now.....Oh wow....we both are in the same class da....there was some strange calculation which our guys taught....if 2 guys got even numbers, they were supposed to be in the same class for the remaining 3 years in this college....For some reason i was very happy that Aravindh is in my class....Only other known guy who might be along with myself and Aravindh was a guy called "Vignesh"......(one of our ItLects member rigt now:))....A silent, moody, not so moving guy was Vicky when we saw him first.....To be honest, myself and Aravindh had not spoken to this guy in the whole of first year......(who knew he will become a partner in ITLects). Only time when i was with Vicky for the whole of 1st year was when there was a department match which ofcourse our department lost....I was a cool substitute then too......(I did not know that i would later become a star opener batsman for our team later:))....."Nee yen da ippadi irruka"....this was my strong reply for the brilliant cool statment from Aravindh "machan va da library poi books edupom for 3rd semester"....

"Students, Anna university has announced that from your batch onwards, B.E and B.Tech courses in all colleges will be given out by them, in which case we get affliated to them"......."Nasama pochu.....anga padika mudiyadhu nu dan da i came here....." this is how Manivannan felt....(he told it out whereas we did not thats the only diff)....So what next....."you guys will have a course called "bridge course" to cope you all upto the Anna university standard"......(can 2 months bring out standards in all students who could not bring that up for the past 12 years????.....) Something that was too worrying was....we had classes for more than a month's time in the annual leave for this bridge sake......

playfully i used the proverb, "Let's cross the bridge when it comes....." a lot of times but i sware i never knew it had such a meaning in our college life :).....So lets meet soon to see what we tore apart in this bridge course......:)

Commited status in Orkut

"Committed", "I am Committed", "Married","Committed".....Blah Blah.....These statements in the Status field of every Orkut profile really pisses off most of the "I am Single, ready to Mingle and do Jingle" kinda idiots......Am i not right?.

So are all who have those above status really commited?. Might be yes or might be No.....Some fools say "I am commited to my work" and some even say "They put it as a firewall"....So who cares about their commitment to work or their safety....Is that not some of the greatest heights that stupidity can reach?.

and does it really stop there?.

"Stay away from me, no strangers please", "Don't waste your time and my time by sending new friend ship requests", "I have enough friends already in my list", "I am here only to enjoy my know group of friends, so stay away from me".......i am sure you must have come across atleast one of them.....But did u refrain your selves from adding that guy/gal after reading these in their profile or did u go ahead and still send them a request?. So were you successful in getting their approval?.....

and what next????...."This user has restricted users from a specific region", "This user has no public pictures for you to see", "You have either entered an invalid destination user name or that user does not accept messages from strangers"......What are these now for?. So does it mean you can never do anything with a stranger in orkut????....

"No donut for you", "Its under maintaince try after some time", "Don't click any links even if its from your trusted friend"......Some more to add fuel to the burning fire.....Why all these now?.

and even more......"Your request has been sent to the moderator", "The moderator of this group has decided not to accept any new requests", etc etc....So now you cannot even join a community that you want....

All the above issues are just not for the sake of this blog, but something which you really get pissed off with.....

No new friends, no New communities, no new requests, no new messages....What the hell can you do now then?.

Probably create a new community for yourself in which you will be the creator, moderator, author and finally the member too......

So we all spend atleast 10 hours a day in a so called web page which gives you so much to see but nothing to get.

So if you can get to know no new person, is it purely or to say really a Social networking and discussion site????........Atleast i could not find any answer for this....If u do, let me know that through your comments :)

When i met Aravindh.....

"Vaapa thambi.....eppadi irruka?...." this is how my grand ma welcomed Aravindh as he came into our house.....(In short, i was in my Grandma's house for a few months as my dad and mom were in US with my sis....."ah...nalla irrukingala aunty"....this is how my friend Aravindh greeted my patti......As the conversation went on, Aravindh was offered a list of so many things which include milk, juice, dosas, etc etc which were all rejected by him...."Hemanth, un friend vandhurukan da...." asi woke up on hearing these words, i rushed to wash my face and came to the hall to recieve Aravindh.......soon we both were inside my bedroom talking about some personal things.....(secrets:))......As time passed by Aravindh started copying all notes from my books into his books......(Even now i could not think of that comedy, i seldomly scribble something in my classes and there is one guy who wants to copy that too:))....it was 6 in the eve and ARavindh has already bid good bye to me as he had to go all the way back to Velachery.....

This was our first meet offcially related to studies.....Then after this became a regular event for us.....Calls, meets, hangouts etc etc......(Hang outs mean going to college together and coming back together ha ha ).....Soon we became bus mates too as we started travelling in the same bus....

"Machan indha bus la varadhuku walking la ponna kuda we will get less wet...."......as i made this comment, i just managed to sneak out through our bus window to enjoy the rain outside while the rest in my bus where busy studying for their cycle test....It was raining really hard (as if its not Chennai) and our blue coloured plane was leaking all over except for a few places where there were no seats.....Some even managed to open up their umbrellas inside the bus. As the bus entered the puzhal lake area, i could notice something strange happening.....There was nothing that one could see through this glass in front of our bus driver......It was raining that heavily....Outside half of the vehicles stopped while the rest where going slowly.....but our Driver could alone manage to go steadily without even a single twist......I could not control my eagerness to know how this guy drove in this rain.....All of a sudden when for some weird reason the whole bus became silent, we could hear one loud voice alone shouting "Thatha left ponga...konjam rigt valainga....aaannn appadi dan....ippa straight...." then did we all realize that its time to pray again....but this time its not for our cycle tests (which i really did not matter at all:)) but for a different issue.....With all these accurate instructions from our GPS Conductor, the driver thatha was managing to steadily drive without seeing anything through his wind shield......oopppphhhh....So this is the technique behind this fast and steady driving......(Not sure if this was the inspiring incident behind our team's speed racer:)).......

"Last 5 minutes....."......As these words echoed inside my brain, i woke up to know that i have analyzed (or better say dreamt) a lot on the morning rain incidents while i was thinking of a 12 marks question......So with full confidence that i can do nothing much about this 12 marks in 5 minutes, i daringly gave back my papers to the examiner......As i walked out of the exam hall, i could find one guy drawing margins and borders for his papers (rather say book).....I would tell in front of even the Anna university Exam board that they can never find one guy in the whole of 256 engineering colleges who can finish any Anna university question paper within the given 3 hours time and draw lines for his papers......all thse but for Aravindh no one will or can even dream of doing...(Don't ask me why i cannot dream of this if i can dream of morning bus incidents :))......

"Machan oru manum theriyala da....." This is not the first time Aravindh said this to me....Its almost a statement which he will tell for sure after any exam he writes......though he will know for himself that the validy of this statement will only be 2 weeks (Answer papers come within 2 weeks:))......"Free ya vidu da......Enakum onum theriyala", as i said these, we walked towards our canteen for lunch....While i was gulping down the sambhar rice and talking to Aravindh, I could notice a fruit standing and talking to some one.....(Probably that would have been the only time we both would have met Balaji before we came to know about him in our second year.....)...."Ippadi yum irrukangala da pasanga ....as i told this to myself we both walked back to our classes......As usual i started my favorite activity after lunch - Sleeping....for that reason i somehow developed a good Rapport with Manivanan.......He used to give good support in all such college related activities......Even if Ajith had acted in Dasavatharam, Aravindh would not have stopped taking notes in the first class after lunch.....That much of sincerity one can find in him......

"The reason for mass being more in this chemical....."as my chemistry professor uttered these words, Manivanna was taking notes on the right side page of a note whose left side page was getting populated by my notes.....So thick friends are we????.....i am lazy enough to carry notes back home and Mani is lazy enough to bring notes from the college hostel which is really far from our class (100 m)...So we used to keep one note in our desk always and share that for taking notes (we used to write different forms of ABCD in that,that's it)......

The most sincere back bencher who i would say is Rajeev....(Guys don't think of Aravindh now....he was a first bencher sitting in back bench, any thing that barks cannot be called a dog:)).....Even while he sleeps, Rajeev scribbles something in his notes, and even changes new papers in the same process....myself and manivanna used to admire this a lot as we learnt a lot from him....."dai enda ippadi thungaringa, konja mavadhu notes edunga da...." who in that back bench world can give this advice except our speed racer????......."Thambi nee ezhudhu, enna vitudu" sleeping continued as we gave this short reply to Aravindh.....undisturbed by this, Aravindh continued on and on.....

For my whole of first year i could not complete even one note book....Remember even in that actually only the left sides were mine....which means not even half of a note book i could complete whereas Aravindh bought new notes for his second Sem.......

Lets see how much he writes in his new books as we come back on our next post :)

College Days....

Starting off with a new experience :)

Hurray…….why so much of excitement????.....Finally I have some how managed to get an Engineering admission for myself…..My mom’s dream come true. oh I am terribly wrong in saying that….God has blessed me with that seat…..You know why?. All because of my tremendous score in 12th and even more lavish score in my entrance exams…..with 250 being my cut off (Not sure if it was at least 250 or even lesser ). “Vanga madam we will go to this hotel for dinner”….This is how my parents invited my teacher who was all the way accompanying me right from my 10th standard till I got admission in this college…..Good dinner. All set to come back home….”Mami Hemanthuku abc college la kidaichachu…..” This was not the end but a beginning of a powerful telephonic conversation in which users at the other end kept changing but user at our end kept on going unbeaten…ha ha funniest way of describing a mom’s pride over her son’s achievement….I still did not like calling that an achievement cause I was aiming at Anna university…..lolz……cannot make it more funnier…..To be frank I thanked the engineering colleges counseling committee a lot cause but for them I would not have even entered Anna university even once…..2 more month to go before I can start a new journey….

“Mummy…..enga ma en bag”…….shouting like this I ran around the entire house just to realize that its my first day to college and I am searching for my bag……”Padikara pullaya irrundha dane akkara irrukum”…..as these words flurried out of my dad’s mouth, I found my bag to show it proudly to my dad and mom……so another 10 minutes and my bus will be in the bus stand…..some how managed to search the rest within 5 minutes……”bye see u in the eve”….even before these words neared by parents, I was already running through the streets…..”Shit……veetu pakathula college irrundhurindha bike vangi thara solirakalam daddy ya…..”…..as I uttered these words, my bus college conductor shouted at me “dai thambi, vara poraya illa kilambatuma?”. Super start for my college life with this idiotic screaming at me…..I could see something bright ahead of me. (mind u, I still know nothing about my college.)……”12th mattum finish pannidu, turning point idhu. After that college life jolly Dan, you are the king of your empire”…..these words kept ringing in my mind as I entered the college bus…..The bus started and it took almost 1 hour for us to reach an area called puzhal where my college is.

A neat blue silent bus with 29 other idiots, honked as we neared the college…..My goodness, the scenery all along was really awesome…..(Man actually there is nothing so good if u go now, it just shows how much I have gone out of my house till then) As people started boarding out of the bus, I too followed them silently…..Dreams of ragging, playing, shouting, dancing etc were still running all over my mind. “Thambi Admin office la poi kelu un class enga nu. Seriya”…..this was the first advice I got in my college life…..”seringa anna” As I completed this short and sweet reply, I started marching bravely towards the admin office. There was a notice board which would have been dead by now had it been a living being….That shows how many people are covering it up around. “Machan, nan I – A da…nee?”…..One guy came rushing out of that nasty crowd as if he has won first prize in some competition. Then did I realize that this big queue was to find out where people are going to spend rest of their days for this year…..With at most sincerity I made a small peep into that crowd……”Sakala,nee enga da inga????”…..oh shit some one really shouted so hard at me…..”machan neeya da….how r u da?.”…..so fast I realized my school friend balu as he came near me…..(Irony was I have never passed even a single exam in my school days with him, so it makes sense for him to ask that as his first question to me) With some intelligent statements, I could cover up the fact that I remember nothing about him but for being his school mate….”Dai nan I-E da….nee?.”…..as he put forth this point, I somehow managed to get a view into the name list and was shocked to see my name in the I-E list…..doomed totally….It was not that I had personal conflicts with Sakala but the fact that he is too studious started worrying me……Silently I managed to convey this truth to him…..which truth????....”Machan nanum E dan da….”…..”nee E illa da, manushan…ha ha ha ha”…..with this terrible mokkai he dragged me to the lift…..I started sensing a small amount of fear inside my mind on this E section life. (I swear, I did not know at that time that there were even more deadly things to fear at in college life)….”Thambi lift is not for students, stairs use panni po pa….”…..As one of the service person there uttered these words, I was totally stunned…..Sakala could not control himself, but he had to…….As we climbed up to the first floor, we could see a room saying E Section to us…..”Machan vandhutom da nama edathuku”…..with this pride around him (as if we both climbed Mt.Everest), Sakala took me inside the room. It was a big room (or class, I don’t want to use this technical term) lit with 4 tube lights, ventilated by 4 fans and finally polluted by 60 plus students…..The first thing I could ever think of as I stepped in was, will I get a seat in the last bench?. (I did not even fear this much when I stepped into Anna University for my counseling). Ah, there I found it……the last bench was totally empty on the right corner of the class……The first incident in my college life which showed something positive to me was this discovery…..Even before Sakala could introduce me to some of his school mates there, I made myself comfortable in the last corner seat…..

What next? Nothing really…..I opened my empty bag without purpose but just to do something to calm down my anxiety….but what am I really anxious about????.....To be frank, I did not want any studious boy to come and sit near me for the whole year……As I could peep out of the window to change my mind, I saw a really huge figure entering our class room. 6 feet, 80 kgs, broad shoulders and what not….a medium built weight lifter entered our class as the whole class paused for a moment (trust me, my intuitions were perfect, he did end up being our college weight lifter in the final sems)…..as he came inside he kept looking for something as if he had already lost in the same class room….ha ha but this time I could not laugh for my joke as he was marching towards my bench……shit before I could do anything further…..i heard him saying.”Hi”…..and even before I said a “Hi” he made himself comfortable near my seat…..With a big artificial smile I introduced myself “I am Hemanth, how about u?.”…..”I am Aravindhan Sundaresan”…..shit, I forgot that I had to from now on use my dad’s name all along my name……Ethics, will it come automatically if I keep playing under hot sun and roaming all around and eat and sleep????......”Forget it Hemanth” I said to myself as I pulled off my hands which were till then inside his hands….Ha ha hope you are clear that I meant a handshake in that manner. By the time I could know which school he is from, “Hi I am Manivannan” came a voice from behind me……Oh not again…..”Hi I am HemanthNarayanan, how about u?” I said this with extreme happiness…..Hope by this time you know the reason for my happiness….its simply because I have become a professional college student who gives his full name out during any introduction. So last benchers set….anything remaining? Yes there must be someone called Class teacher for this E Section. As I wished, the whole class stood up for some reason. “Sit down every body, I am deepa. I will be your class teacher for this year. I finished my B.A in……Blah Blah…..”……By this time, I started dreaming of P.T period….I was infact curious to stand up and ask Deepa if we have any P.T period today…… (I could not even realize that in colleges, they don’t have such periods). Suddenly I heard a loud voice….”Are you not coming from a convent school? Don’t you know how to behave in a class?”….Oh I could not believe this…..Some body getting scolding the very first day in their very first college class?......I felt really sorry for him……I infact I kept a reminder for myself that I have to console that guy and boost his confidence when I meet him in the interval….but something strange was happening in the class by now…..The whole class including my bench mates were totally staring at me…..how could they read my courteous mind?......Oops it took me another 5 seconds to realize that I had to actually boost my confidence and not some strangers…what does that mean?. I was the one who Mrs.Deepa was very clearly shouting at all the way…..But what for????......the next moment itself I got an answer for that dumb question “Wont u look at the teacher instead of day dreaming when she is telling something important?”……”Sorry miss”….. (I did not know mam is the technical word to be used in colleges)…..”Sit…..” and she continued after this statement…” You cannot come late to my class, you cannot talk in my class, you cannot sleep in my class….etc etc”……She put a big 7 levers lock to lock my big world of dreams….Man she said NO for anything and everything that all fresher’s would be dreaming of doing in their college life.

Things started pondering my mind……Am I really a king after passing 12th as my friends and parents said? Shit with all these rules and restrictions I cannot even be a student……All that made me happy amidst this tensely packed scene was that I was not the only one getting screwed, Aravindh followed me, followed by manivannan, followed by Rajeev (Back bencher of my parallel row) and so on…..Sakala was the second bencher…..So obviously he will not be in this list right?. But one thing I loved about my class teacher is no partiality for any one…. Even before I could finish liking that character in her, I could see Sakala screwed too. Suddenly I could feel some prayers running inside me…..what are they for….as I listened even more carefully I could see that I was wishing that the bell rings now and the period gets over….but how does that do good to me?. Ha ha with in a moment I could hear manivannan shouting silently “machan, kaal valikudhuda”….I could bend down to see that we were standing out for the whole period……A first class in your college life can start no better……these were my thoughts as I walked out with Aravindh and Manivannan for lunch break….

Rest in my next post……don’t worry we will somehow graduate out of this college 

Note: Expect for my friends names, all other character’s names mentioned in this blog are changed as I did not want to mention them without their knowledge

The Chase….

So what’s up with this chase????....Lets talk about that a bit later.

Many readers feel that I have given more marks than Dasa deserves in my previous posts…..While some readers think I am downscaling the efforts and praise needed for this film. But one thing that readers forget is all that I have written till now is only a recap of what I heard as feedback from the actual film viewers…..I am still a centrist…..(But there will be one writer’s post where I come out with my feelings on this film…Watch out guys ).

So was the later comment given by vivek and the latter by Guru????......Don’t pull words from my mouth readers….this time I am sure I am not going to let out the secrets ….Oh so no one knows about Guru bhai right????.....u r right its abhishek bachan…..ha ha…..A smart guy with lots of dreams and aspirations, who has finally landed in US for pursuing his Masters…...Passionate about singing, (records his own songs…..master pieces believe me), speed racer’s co-driver (mind u, he is really close to Aravindh)….But this guy is a real speed racer……He can burn out the engines of a Hero Honda Splendour in no time……so that’s all about gunda……Oops I uttered his nick name out….did I????.... (Guru sorry da back space is not working suddenly). Friendly and compassionate Guru has his own world where he is the emperor…..One guy who always feels that he is left out….. (Right from the day where he used to feel that he is the only Non-IT ITLects Member, he graduated in Computer science whereas other heroes of ITLects where from Information Tech dept.)….But his dreams of doing MS has finally come true…..(By the by there is always a race between Guru bhai and our Speed racer on who touches 100 first…but on what????....ask them your self readers )Oops so much about Guru Bhai…..????.....alrite, so lets have a separate post later for him.

So what’s up with this title????....”The Chase…?”….Yes, it tells what’s next after the film’s interval…..So all start running????....oops I am talking about what’s happening in the film dudes, not in the theatres…..  But nevertheless to say, the film is really interesting. Once Kamal joins Asin, and RAW Officer joins his PA, the film really heats up the atmosphere….So how Kamal saves Chennai from the deadly virus and how Asin gets Kamal fills the rest…..

So film done????....come on man….its Ravi Kumar’s film and he is yet to dance…..So a good song comes into picture when all VIPs including George Bush are present in Chennai. Might be it’s a part of the welcome ceremony for them. What ever……it’s the other good song that we made Aravindh listen before entering the theatre.

Alrite, an excellent film gets over at last. Am I right? “Machan polama….”was the call from Balaji as Aravindh and Renga stood there watching the closing scenes of the film….. (What was so interesting that help them back?) Yes as always it was the “behind the scenes” making of Dasa ….. Ouch this was the moan as we stood up to walk back….what was that????......oh come on guys, don’t think anything about the film now…..be positive….this time it’s because of the Mayajaal chairs…..probably had we bought our tickets at the neck of the moment, we would have got better cushion chairs 

Sleepy ITLects crawled back to the Bike stand where both our bikes were standing alone….”Machan eppadi da Ivan 40 la ye poran…..enaku porumaye illa da….” These were the words of praise from my team driver Balaji as I sat on the bike….

So film over ….what next????....” Machan oru coffee kuducha nalla irurkum da”…..As my sleepy ears sensed these group of words hanging around us; I immediately woke up…”dai did we not see a coffee day on our way to Mayajaal????”…….Vroom…as our speed racer started his bike, we have already decided our next plan……Renganathan, find the coffee day on our way (Cause he was the only fully awake ITLects member)….Let’s Gooooooooooooooo…………… (Just to remind the readers, it’s now 4 in the morning as the ITLects team march towards coffee day……)

“Café Coffee day”….read the hoarding as we neared coffee day along with our confident driller Balaji who said Coffee day he saw was a 24X7 one……..

”Vaanam Vasa padume…..”….Suddenly I hear this song pleasing my ears…..But why suddenly? I can now realize that it’s my ring tone and I have got a call……Talk to u guys later in my next post……





Disclaimer: All that i have mentioned above are pure facts. Any irritations/upsets caused are purely dedicated to our friend Balaji who encouraged me to write this Blog.

ITLects guys, (This is our company name....but the company is yet to be started.... ;))
This is just for fun, please don't take things seriously.

The Actual Dasa….

And now as the film has already started lets see a small review of it from what ever i have collected from the viewers....

Dasa.....that’s how it’s called.......But does it really show cast the ability of 10 times kamal’s capability????.....A big no is the answer on a straight shot....But its really not possible for any human being with all six senses intact to perform 10 times his own capability....Can a singer sing 10 times louder than he does normally????.....Can a dancer dance 10 times as fast he does normally????....Again a big no for all these questions....So am i coming to conclude that Dasa has its full quota of praise from all since its not practical for Kamal to perform equally on all 10 roles????.....I don't really know...so lets put aside this for a moment until all watch this film and then get back to this blog.

"Wow, the 2 crores scene was stunning.....".....This is a comment that I heard from a guy standing with me in the so called rest room.....So called????....yes Mayajaal could not match Sathyam in this aspect…..Again only this aspect????.....sorry again it could not match Sathyam in any of the aspects but for one….which one????...the fact that both screen Dasa  ….Hey mind u Mr. Writer, this is a review of Dasa and now a review of Mayajaal…..ok getting back to Dasa……for heaven sake at least in this post let me not drag too many things in except Dasa….

So what’s all about this 2 crores scene????....for all those who did not watch the film, it’s a bird’s eye shot of Chennai….The camera man has really done an excellent job in covering Chennai fully and portraying it as a classy foreign nation….oh cool…..job fully done. is it?. Are u trying to ask me if that’s worth 2 crores? Oh don’t do that to me…cause I cannot take that myself…..probably down the lane in this blog we might find answers for these lighter expenses…..(2 crores is lighter compared to the full film budget of 160 crores mind u ).

So what’s next????....Hi everybody welcome to 12th century…..what a direction isn’t it?????....Hey by the by I am praising it ok…don’t take it in the wrong sense….so some chola king is now in the form of napoleon…oh or should I make that statement vice versa????....He is one among other characters who fits perfectly for this role….Oops again I did not mentioned the 10 characters in this comparison….I meant the whole set of characters in this film even including a security guy  Napoleon has really done his job to perfection supporting Kamal in this shot. Though a small one, it’s a job well done.

Don’t sleep Balaji….this is what I had to tell to him to constantly make him see the full film…..in another few minutes, Rengaraja Perumal and Kamal will be thrown into the sea…..Kamal acts great in this scene….this is real acting as if he is an ardent believer of god….But what does he actually try to communicate to his fans here?. Is there some relation ship or meaning in this part being a part of this low budget film????....

To viewers its pretty much clear that Kamal has done his level best to bring out his atheist feelings out very well under the covers of so called “Great Acting”…..but this is not my opinion but viewers opinion……I am still a centrist with respect to Dasa….Think that’s very clear till now in this blog .

So Kamal’s magic statement “Kadavul Rengarajana kapathala”…..clearly shows how capable he is….what does that prove? But for this, Kamal has once again proved himself by excellently reciting slokas and mantras to perfection…. Is he preaching something to his fans at the cost of Aascar Ravi????....oh my goodness for all those who don’t know, Aascar ravichandran is the producer (now rich after distribution of this film ) who has been a strong supporter (financial supporter)……ok lets see what’s remaining for eating up another 158 Crores….(2 already gone under sea). …..though not new for Kamal, acting has been excellent throughout the movie. A pain has turned everything into gain for Aascar and K.S.Ravikumar.

Again back to Chennai and this time u will be taken to 21st century where Kamal is now a great scientist….(Don’t ask me now what’s the purpose of the 12th century scene…..For sure Director will know) This time its extraordinarily portrayed normal scenario of an action hero saving something from the hands of extremely dangerous, ordinarily portrayed villains. So who comes to rescue? No wild guesses please…no ordinary guesses required too…..It’s very obvious that it must be Kamal….But why????....cause remaining 8 roles of his have to eat up 2 more hours from now on….  One excellent character in these 10 roles (again this is Audience’s view not mine ) is this savior character, who is a RAW officer…..who is admiringly funny, mimicking Balaiya (old Tamil comedian) and looking extremely hilarious…..Oops but is there a question in your mind as to whether RAW recruits such people????? Erase this question…its irrelevant totally for the fact that it cannot be answered by anyone except me, the writer…..  But one this is for sure. Kamal has taken his acting to new heights…..The way he speaks “Enna ya idhu…..Terrorist Gang a nee?” is absolutely fascinating.

Ok so how many more to go????....hold on for a sec…I am confused…..are you too? Actually by this time u must have seen all the 10 and you would have actually….so what does this above confusing statement mean? Ah….good writer’s touch isn’t it????......the point is, make up for the other Kamal roles are so perfect that its too tough for us to find if its Kamal or not….. Hey come on readers, don’t take everything in the wrong sense…..I am trying so hard to make you people understand that this film is too good. Cause I am an ardent fan of Kamal’s acting and his dialogue deliveries….

Pluses for Dasa?

Does Kamal look like a man in his 50s…..answer is No.
Does Kamal act?. Nope he lives in all 10 characters,
Does Kamal sing in this film…Yup, he has proved him self again.
Etc.

Minuses for Dasa?.

Weight age for all 10 roles not equal…but that’s tough again to decide if its ok or not.
2 songs “Kallai mattum Kandal” and “Ulaga nayagane” some how win more points and somehow tally the rest and hence net score is????....
Does the film have a strongly portrayed Villain character?

But the fact is the hard work of Kamal and the make up man has really paid off very well in all the characters. Purely no doubt in that. Story might not be so strongly supporting that, that being a different question, Ravi kumar has done a great job too by trying his level best to cover up all 10 characters into the story within a short span of 3 hours….Oops by the by do u now think that 3 hours is a long one…..but its worth sitting….For one simple reason that u have paid 200 bucks boss so make max out of it…..  Just kidding……its really worth seeing cause Kamal has really done an excellent job.


Ahhhh alas the interval has now come, ITLects is now in full heels…..hey again don’t mistake we are not running to save ourselves, its because we have to stand first in the queue for the free snacks….remember this is what Renga was dreaming off before he entered into the theatre….  Oops onw small doubt, so rengarajan nambiar is now in his 11th role as Renga in ITLects ????....ha ha…..chillax renga….

Lets get back after interval in our next post….hail ITLects 

Just after Lunch…….

This title is confusing…is it????...no issues…it has no relation with this blog….except the fact that I have just finished my lunch when I started writing this part of my blog J


Avatharam begins….

“Machan padam wait a irruku da….whassay?.”…..This is not the voice of a single person, but the roar from the whole theatre…..Don’t u think this kindles our eagerness by tons????....it did…..”Ah…..Kamal looks great da….”….this time it was me who said this….but did I see the film now?. I am just standing out side the screen 1….but we could get glimpses of the film when ever some one opened and closed the door for official purposes….But what the damn could that official reason be….We could not think of anything now except Dasavatharam.

“Lets go near that corridor da…its too much to keep waiting here….”….So this proves how frustrated Aravindh was……For some reason our gang always listens to what ever he says…(But this statement is valid only at times ha ha)….So its now 12….”Dai. our dream of seeing the first day show is shattered da….cause its already next day morning”…..So this idiotic meaningful statement was made by????......no guesses obviously it must be one of the MBA aspiring fools….ha ha should I say fools????.... (No commentsJ)…Yes this time it was Balaji…..but why is it Balaji???? Cause is it because the statement was idiotic or because the statement was meaningful?..... J

But one genius consoled him saying “machan….still according to the theatre owners, its first day show for him…so no worries…my goodness….the guesses of all readers of this blog are right…the genius is of course myself J Again no offense on any one…Fact is still a fact so stay cool…..

Ok again deviation to the core….back to Mayajaal….”Machi what snacks will they offer, shall we ask?.”…..I really forgot who made this appetizing statement…..but for purpose, lets assume its renga?. But why Renga?. For one simple reason that he is the left out silent guy in this blog as of now J Again the saviour, the Genius Hemanth had to calm down Renga saying “Machi, edhavadhu nalla tharuvangada…”….Oops are there any non-tamil parsing readers for this blog…am too sorry….cannot avoid these statements cause they r costly…..:)

Clock this time exactly struck at 12……So the most awaited door opened as we entered into the “Chamber of Secrets” as if we were released from the prison of Azkaban….oops am I not really entertaining the potters who are reading the blog….Don’t mention Vivek……ah so is it the right time to introduce Vivek to the readers?......i think so…..vivek is one more genius who was a close friend of ITLects (Guys don’t ask what’s this…read my previous blog clearlyJ)….He works in an It Firm in Hyderabad where he earns a lumpsum….and this time its practical lump sum and not my IT based Lump sum as mentioned in the previous blog J……A deadly potter fan and a lively It Professional….oops am I really becoming a big writer???? J oh can some one drag me back to Mayajaal now????....

“Machan the songs are really good….aren’t they????”…As we said this (Myself and Balaji), we realized that our team speed racer Aravindh has not listened even a single song from this film….As always my handy Walkman Phone w500i came to his rescue (Thanks to Hyderabad gang Bharath….he only suggested me for this phone….oops don’t ask me for an another intro….time is runningJ)….As my phone sang the notes of “Kallai mattum kandal” song….the door opened and crowd started rushing into the theatre…..

So alas we are inside the theatre with great enthu…..the theatre is fully black with patches of white and yellow everywhere……As we settled down we realized that whites are waste papers and yellows are pop corns….ok so good way of describing a big mess…..no other option cause we are to be seated amidst this….I suddenly felt that something is sleeping at Balaji’s house….”Macha…whistle enga da????...”….as I questioned Balaji…..our official screwer this time forgot whistle….(This is not the first time he is forgetting itJ)So this dramatic,energetic,pathetic gang of 4 has no one who can whistle for ourselves….……Good so should we lose hope???....common we are not trained that way in our companies….we need to take any hit on us J.”machan ellarum sounda kathunga da….”….As I uttered this comment….we all shouted…but who all?????(Myself and Balaji J)as always nalla pasanga Aravindh and Renga kept silent…..as if Kamal will not come now if they shout….This is not the first time this happens….Everytime nanum Balaji mattum get caught for these things….(Tanglish coming now….don’t ask me why…its too tough to write when u have just finished ur lunch….Trust me)

“Sir….u got to gimme another 100 for this seat”…….This whisper was for some one but we heard that very clearly….(So is it a Whisper?.)….So now we have no other option that realizing that extra seats are being put for making maximum money out of Davatharam……Oops….now did I remember that we are yet to talk about the main film….

And the much waited screen at last got lit……Whistles all around, roars from ITLects (obviously only myself and Balaji) but all only for a saravana stores advertisement….. J…..”Aascar productions perumayudan vazhangum………”Dasavatharam”....We could not really believe our eyes…..All pain and effort that we put was to watch and hear this line in a theatre…..As we stood spell bound, there came our Ulaganayagan Kamal…….Oops its time for a small bye as we go ahead with the film on the next blog….

“Dai adikadhinga da…..definitely next blog we will get into the film”….



Disclaimer: All that i have mentioned above are pure facts. Any irritations/upsets caused are purely dedicated to our friend Balaji who encouraged me to write this Blog.

ITLects guys, (This is our company name....but the company is yet to be started....;))
This is just for fun, please don't take things seriously.

Chase of a Quadra for a Dasa

"Have u started machi????....."This is how i shouted at Aravind as the clock struck 10.

Oh by the by, i have to introduce you to my friends before i can proceed any further. Aravindh,Balaji,Renganathan,Vignesh and Myself (Hemanth) are 5 idiots who studied in the same college for 4 years sitting in the same bench. Ate together, slept together, studied together,played together etc etc....Oh no....Control + Z....Cause, the above statement has to be deleted cause we did not do those ;). Myself and Aravindh were close to each other as we studied together right from our first semester in our college. For all univ exams we prepared together even before the doom's day (thats how we call our examination day ;) ). Balaji and Renga are close to each other as they had complementing mindsets, right from their thought that combined studies won't help till their aim to pursue their MBA. and vignesh was little close to the rest, ha ha but don't ask who i call as rest.....No one....cause he is the left alone guy. but wait can i tell it that way?. i cannot for sure....he recently proved that he is not left alone by marrying himself to a gal.....ha ha again the worst way one can portray his friend's marriage....sorries to Vicky....oops....My mobile operator is charging me too much as i am having Aravindh in my call and have now really crossed the boundaries toooooooo much out of context......

Back to square one, Aravindh is quiet confident, that its enough to start by 10:45 to reach Mayajaal which very near to Sholinganalur but the problem is, Sholinganalur is very far from our place. After much of struggle managed to pack up Aravindh from his place by 9:45.....But as always, Calm Aravindh screwed innocent Renga(mind u, he is not that innocent) by asking him to come to our pick up point (Sangeetha bhavan Koyambedu)rather than picking him directly from his house.

Ahhhh....now ball in my court, i have to keep up my words by reaching our meeting point(sangeetha bavan) at least before the walkmanthon guy (Renga) reaches there. Go speed racer Go. This is the theme music behind screens when i drive my bike.....As always i reached our meeting point well ahead of time before the other lazy bums reached there (Balaji et al., please kindly bare with me for lying, for Heaven Sake, this is my blog and i cannot screw myself.).

After a very long wait of 5 minutes, Aravindh and Renga reached the spot. Come on man, don't think that way, waiting for viewing Dasa makes your time costly. so 5 minutes is equal to sitting in college for 4 years right now :). On the way i had to waste some more time in the Indian Oil petrol station where the Credit Card Swipe machi never works. Spending the hot cash that i had on hand (200Rs is a lump sum amount if u r working in an Indian IT company dear), I finally reached Balaji's house.

But u know what????....Balaji has his own way of screwing things by not having cash for himself and petrol for his bike. So once again wasted some more time which has by now become a routine in our tonight's adventure.

After a big struggle we reached Madhya Kailash (Did u think that we reached Mayajaal when i said "we reached at last"), might be thats a misnomer. From Madhya kailash Renga was too courteous to accept the fact that he did not know the route by telling Aravindh "Machan if u don't know the route please ask Balaji/Hemanth now itself ;)".

Go speed racer Go again, but this time its not me, but Aravindh....our machan shot up to great speeds of 40KMPH which made me and Balaji strongly believe that we are going to continue our trend of seeing the film by missing the first 20 minutes. (Nerverthless to say, Myself and Balaji have now a days started watching more films with our office colleagues but always go late to the show).

After a long race between me and Balaji, (mind u we both are in the same bike, ha ha cause Aravindh is no where in the race as of now ), we reached the toll gate. Now its time to search for the theater. You are right, its in Chennai, but where the hell from the toll gate????......so Balaji started searching for Aravindh while i started recollecting the route to Mayajaal....Luckily or to our surprise, i was the only guy who has ever visited Mayajaal in our crew of 4 who have lived in Chennai for a short period of a decade or even more.

Ah there came the most awaited pulsar without Renga and Aravindh cause it was not them but some stranger riding a pulsar.....We have lost patience and have reached a stage where we have decided to ask a cyclist passing that way if he had seen a blue pulsar walking along the toll gate lane...."Machan where r u guys da????...."this is how i fired renga in his cell this time.... (For some reason, this is the punch dialogue that i am uttering every now and then just to get a response that, "Nearing the place machi".....where as in reality they will be speeding towards the signal which is already in red)

Alas, we somehow reached Mayajaal....Sparkling faces entered the gates of Mayajaal....but to our dismay we just had 10 more minutes for not missing the first scene.....We were actually praying that nothing else stops us now from seeing the first 2 minutes of the movie for which we have spent 100 Rs till now (Oscar Ravi might have spent 2 crores for that, thats an unwanted statement irrelevant to the current situation, right???? )....

As we marched towards the ticket counter, (or ran should i say?.), (This time we excludes Speed Racer Aravindh who is busy talking to someone too interesting at midnight).
The big queue in front of the all alone single counter for the whole big multiplex made us angry......As always we are too brave within ourselves but not to the outside world...very silently and politely we asked the guy sitting in the counter for our tickets and snacks coupons.....but just before us stood a big idiot (really a bigger one compared to us in terms of idioticity)......he has booked 2 tickets but the idiot box in front of this idiot is not reflecting that it seems....ahhhhh shit...our luck has been struck this time too...its already 5 minutes since the film has started......clock did not strike 11:35 cause clocks strike only at full hours but we were about to strike the guy in the counter before which he threw 4 tickets to us.....we ran as fast as we could to just get ourselves caught at the entrance of the multiplex.....the 4 tickets that the idiot there threw were snacks coupons and not movie tickets....before we could start our fight again, the security let us in......

and now its 10 minutes since the film started......but this time the film is running inside our great minds but not the theater cause the screening of the 11:30 show is postponed to 12:00......so what next?. we need rest....don't we....but we actually needed rest rooms.....our team lead racer Aravindh was too happy that we did not miss the show....

So the actual blog about the dasa film is yet to start.......since the film screening is delayed, let me postpone the blog for that by at least a day.....

Disclaimer: All that i have mentioned above are pure facts. Any irritations/upsets caused are purely dedicated to our friend Balaji who encouraged me to write this Blog.

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