Rejection letter...

Imagine you have applied for a job. You are awaiting the results of that interview. One day you get a letter saying that your application has been rejected. What do you you do now? Sit and sulk or take it positively and move on?

Both of the above approaches result in you not getting the job. Try this approach, you will be amazed at the result.

You can use the same approach to any other situation in your life, but I cannot say the result will be successful every time.

Bringing your personality to your desktop

Everyone believes that each individual has a personality. So does Microsoft. That is why they have brought a new series in their range of computer hardware. So now you can choose a mouse that suits your personality. Have a look. I had sopme free time yesterday. So I was scribbling a few lines in the note. You can read them at QSS.

Talking music....

auuAuuuuee... auaueueue... Dol Dol Dol na mave.. comin whathuk Dol Dol Dol na mave.. salaam namasthe... pommpomm pompomppom pompompom.... Dol Dol Dol na mave.. comin whathuk Dol Dol Dol na mave.. salaam namasthe... diga diga dumm dadadaaam digi didi dam... diga diga dumm dadadaaam digi didi dam... auuAuuuuee... auaueueue... auuAuuuuee... auuAuuuuee... auaueueue... Dol Dol Dol na mave.. comin whathuk Dol Dol Dol na mave.. salaam namasthe... diga diga dumm dadadaaam digi didi dadam dudu dubada de... diga diga dumm dadadaaam digi didi dadam dudu dubada de... diga diga dumm dadadaaam digi didi dam... Dol..Dol...Dol....salaam.. namasthe...salaam.. namasthe...salaam.. namasthe... 1000 por kaasu for guessing what this means...!!

Blogger Profiles

These Blogger profiles are quite interesting. It gives a lot of information that is quite interesting to read. Details like no. of posts posted, no. of words posted give an interesting statistic. When you fill up the profile, you can search for bloggers who have the same interests. For example, I had quoted Alaipayuthey as one of my favorite films. When someone views my profile, they can click on "alaipayuthey" to see who else have listed the film as their favorite films. Similarly you can click on locations, say you want to know how many bloggers are from Tamil Nadu or perhaps Chennai. So why don't everyone update their profiles. It is going to take only a few minutes.

Things here

Things are so fine here Jax... Now am into a new project da (PPMA). then how was things there for u? how was the new work environ? just key a few word in a mail to me... Hope u would have received invi from Muthuisami...His marriage is on 9th June in trichy da... He asked me to convey his spcial regards to u. And as usual our suresh and me were used to discuss all tits and bits of everything other than work ...ha ha... nothing more to key. ::Mahendran

traffic

Last night it took me more than two and a half hours to go home. I got

caught in heavy traffic. The rain gods joined in to enjoy their share of fun.

Uprooted trees and branches reduced to the already slow-moving traffic to a

snail's pace. I wonder how the other Bangaloreans fared.

Manny, can you send me the budget sheet? How are things there?

A small note

I think it would really be useful if you can give a gist of the article whenever you post some links. Maybe a kind of teaser preview. Just keeping in mind the principle of AIDAS. Anyone remembering what that means. Just plain links alone is not useful to anyone. I recieve any new posts through email. And all I can see is just a couple of links. It is not usable. I guess everyone knows enough HTML to add a 'title' attribute to any hyperlink you post. If you can give a small note on the link, it is fine. But if you feel that it might spoil the surprise, atleast give a hyperlink title to the hyperlink so that people can know what they are clicking. That is if it is not too much trouble for you.

My initial thoughts

My first thoughts on reading the article were : "What was Francois Gautier trying to convey?" Is he ranting about the obsession with white skin? Or is he commenting upon the political scenario? I cannot comphrehend. He started off with politics, somewhere in the ensuing paragraphs, he moved on to the image of india in the western world and then later on to bollywood and then accusations and then ends again with politics. I don't know whether what sort of image he wants to project in the minds of the indian readers, an Indophile or an Anglophobe? I doubt if a majority of the educated people in India have ever heard of the aryan invasion theory, nor is it taught in schools as history. It has always been a bone of contention among historians, not the common man. I feel that this article is mainly targeted in arousing confusion in the reader. I wonder how the editor of the newspaper let this nonsensical article get past his desk. BTW, since when did Ouest-France overtake Le Monde as the largest circulated French daily. BTW, why don't we reply in the comments section, instead of posting it individually.

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held, is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible." Right! In the outset let us see Who said this? Again a white skinned man called "Bertrand Russell"... Why this quote when there are too many satires quoted by intellectual Indians? why this obsession? Do you need a white man's quote to authenticate your stand point? and this is what Francois Gautier has qutoed in his write up as ... "Obviously, colonisation has frozen the Indian mind in certain patterns and the British made sure, through Macaulay's policies, of leaving behind an enduring inferiority complex among Indians, by constantly harping on the flaws of Indian culture and inflating them. That is why today Indian intellectuals repeat like parrots what their masters had said before them..." In retrospect, this is infact the mind set that has been sowed deep inside the indian minds...And I won't agree that Francois is a racist...had u read the writings of Francois, you might not be in a position to brand him as a racist and as a constant follower of his writings I wont agree upon the facts put forth by kishore that he's a racist. I dont want to further quote some quotes as if quoting some IPC sections here now as it makes this discussion more like a court script...Instead the objective of francois was to discover the unknown inferiority of the majority of the indian minds (if not the whole of indian minds)...right! :: Mahendran

One week...

It has been a week since I joined. I wouldn't say that the past one week has been somewhere in the middle of interesting and boring. Since I have found a way to keep in touch with the blog (via email), you can expect me to be posting more than often As for the recent discussions , I would like to read the original article. (Manny, why don't you post the link to the article. That would lead to any copyright issues, I hope.)

New mobile number

I have got a new mobile number. You can contact me @ 9880340087. Please inform others who still have my old number (9840171578). Currently, I am posting this through mail.

Junk cannot be Junker than this...

Anybody over there to marry a tribal dark skinned lady???!!!!!!!who turns out to be good and serving man kind...????? I am removing that article from our blog so that we may avoid copyright issues which we faced in the past...

Review: Ayitha Ezhuthu

Manirathnam disappoints... no story-line... no punch in characters... no choreography... no nothing... These were some of the comments I read before watching the movie on sunday... Ayitha Ezhuthu is another Manirathnam classic... But for those who expect to see another love, another duet, another dance with a scenic beckground, another fight, another suspense and another happy ending.. this is not the kind of movie to bet ur money on... Manirathnam spends ample time with the flashbacks, which is the only way he can stress on the ingenuity of the characters he wants to portay... The screenplay is awesome.. There is not much choreography.. but given the positioning of the songs in the film it is not logical to spoil the flow by inserting unnecessary choreography... You cannot expect creativity in "yakkai thiri" nor can you expect special effects in "Jana gana mana"... the songs must be seen in the context of the film and a scenic choreography would have made no sense... No wonder that all songs put together comprise not even 30 minutes... The way the characters are handled is very unique only to the Mani style of films.. from the unpredictability of Inba (Madhavan) to the endearing expressiveness of Esha Deol the actors fit their roles very aptly... The most impressive part of the film to me was the screenplay... though a shade in the style of alaipayuthey, Mani weaves his magic once more and does not disappoint... The songs are already a hit so there's no repeating that... Rahman shows he is still in form... Watch the movie if u want to see something beyond the ordinary.. For the rest of the lot this isn't your piece of cake.. so just wait until the next movie with a lot of "masala" stuff comes your way...

Junk cannot be Junker than this...

I'm referring to that article "The white woman and India". Its a pity that people are influenced by the senseless scribblings of a "White French man".. if I may call you that way sir.. his racist mentality is evident from the way the "colour of the skin" becomes the only theme in the article. More than politics or history his words are an offence over the skin of people. I don't understand why the feeling that the image of India is "harmed" by images of our poor. USA has a significant population of "native americans" (or the so called "red indians"), who have been overthrown by the "white skinned" European settlers for their own selfish motives... The native Americans live in valleys and ridges and many unaware that there is another world and that there's something called technology... Are we Indians more selfish than such a ruthless American lot..?? Indians respect Mother Teresa not because she's white-skinned, not because there's no one else "brown-skinned" in India to take care of poor but because we respect every human and honour his/her good deeds irrespective of his/her skin color... White people spend hours on the beach and put on a hundred creams to get tanned. And in winter they even artificially lie under infrared lamps in beauty parlors to get brown! Why this obsession for the Indian woman to have white skin? I ask the same question to Mr.Gautier, why do your people want to become brown like us Indians... Isn't white beautiful enough for you..??? Why this obsession to become brown..??? You are that sect of perennially irrational ideologists for whom grass is always greener on your side... Junk can never be junker than this...!! --------- The fact that an opinion has been widely held, is no evidence that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. - Bertrand Russell, Marriage and Morals (1929) ch. 5

few minutes with jothika

hi friends, for the first time in mumbai i went to see a tamil movie in theatre. it turned out to be a great occasion. the movie was perazhagan and i got a chance to see three suriya and three jothika. yes, i saw 2 suriya & 2 jothika in that movie and remaining 1 jothika and 1 suriya in person...... they came to see how the movie was going in mumbai. totally around 10 people only knew that they r in the admin room of the theatre. so we went there and meet them, i was just standing nearer to jothika.... wah what a beauty...... machan ganja, nee miss pannittada.. that time only i understood y u r telling her as ur thalaivi.....hmmmmmmmm.... we had only few words with them, a4 that they left from there. in that movie comedy was really good, vivek + suriya turned out to be very good combination. atleast for the comedy and suriya/jothika, film lovers can see this movie once. - vijay

Working under lights...

Sachin Tendulkar took 79 matches to score his first ODI hundred... by the next 79 he had got a dozen of them.. Zaheer Khan had not taken 5 wickets in an innings for a long time.. Srinath quoted once "Let him take his first five wicket haul, and u'll see him take many more soon after that"... Zaheer took his first five wicket haul against New Zealand in 2002... and ended up as 3 successive hauls in that series... I had not spent night-outs at office in all of my 18-month career.. Then it happened at last on May 6th... 5 days later, today.. am here again sitting at office late at night... and probably many more to come...!!

playing around

There might be few changes in the template as and when I get some time to fiddle with it. As before, I would like your help in doing so. Since now, there is an option for comments, I would like everyone to use it as much as possible. Also I would like everyone to update and share thier profiles. I have updated mine. There were some interesting statistics on my blogging. Check out my profile. As a first case, i would like you to leave comments on what items do you want to have in blog like search, frequently visited sites and so on. leave your comments...

Beaut..!!

The blog layout is very good.. hope jax gets net access in Wipro and the blog comes back to life...!!

A new look

Ram told me that Blogger has been updated. Thought I would have a dekko at it. It was true. Now the interface looks beautiful. Traipsing through the site, I found a lot of changes. A huge set of templates were given. I chose one to test it out. A new set of tags have also been added. Rini might know about the importance of those tags. Well, once you have read this, log into Blogger and check it out for yourself.

Night out at office

Ever thought of spending a good part of the night at office...?? its been long time I posted something... and I finally felt like posting... a simple way to celebrate my presence in office at 2300 hrs... its kind of different to work with that tinge of sleep lingering on the corner of the eyelid... and u keep trying hard to pull up ur eyelashes to keep the eye open for just a little while longer... when u feel like a pillow would be more than a luxury to let u have a good night's sleep... and amid all this u keep doing that little piece of thing called "work"...