This little part of my life is called ' :) '

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Received my I20 this morning. Admitted in Rutgers State University.

Guess what this is the lake inside the campus :)

Fingers crossed for my VISA process to be successful

With all your blessings and wishes

Thanks a ton all of you :) :) :)

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Ill treat you!!

Its just too good to see the number of hits in my blog is nearing 1000...

This post is to announce that the 1000th hitter will be treated by the owner of this blog.

You may type in your name in the shout box ....

Batty count down starts...

I just hate Monday, 18 February 2008

I don't know why, I don't know how, I don't know about tomorrow. I just hate Monday, 18 February 2008. I know this doesn't make much sense, but its been boiling within me for hours, and I just had to say this... I HATE TODAY!

MOOD :

I still feel insecure

I steel feel nothing

I still feel down n low

But Im sure its not sorrow

Sometimes, I feel unimportant

and mostly, inferior

Inferior to everyone

I feel like a loser

Loser in my own eyes

and maybe, others

Sometimes there is disrespect

In my own eyes

Wherever I am

Or whatever I do

I still feel like a loser

And maybe I always will

I dont stand up for myself

And preach the whole world

What a great loser

And left all alone

With only doubts n questions

All against myself

I reject myself proudly

I feel like a loser

I question my own beliefs

What can be worse

I love to cribble

And Even know that I am
I am just another loser wasting my time

With heads up in the sky

And I always dream

Only dream

Dream that I wish I could do that

But i think i will only dream

I feel like a loser

And maybe I always will

Kuchi kuchi rakkamma...

Rules :
1. Put your MP3 player/Media player on shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. You must write the name of the song. no matter what.

I put both my Media Player and mind in 'shuffle' mode and this is what emerged. I am really really old fashioned and extremely random in hearing songs. I might just put you people to sleep with my choices.So, here goes the soporific.

IF SOMEONE SAYS “HOW ARE YOU",YOU SAY?
"Lose yourself " by Eminem
Good for a start.

WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?
“Numb.......” by Linkin Park
Hmm.....That's Fishy......

WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
“Madurai Veeran thaane......” by Paravai Muniamma
?????

HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
“Amrican Pie...” byDon McLean
That's poignant.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE’S PURPOSE?
“Ammadi Aathaadi....” by Yuvan/Simbu/TR/Perarasu
Issshhhhhh...... Honesty bites....

WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
“Kal Ho Na Ho........” by Sonu Nigam and Alka Yagnik
Great. I love this shuffle.

WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Ooru vittu orru vanthu..." by Ilayaraja
Enna koduma saravanan ithu?

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
“Starry Starry night........” by Don McLean
One of my favorite songs.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
"Bunty Aur bubli..." by Blazee Rap
hmmm... it makes no sense...

WHAT IS 2+2?
“Compicated...." by Avril Lavigne
Ha ha ha!!! I know...

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
“Raasaathi en usuru ennathilla..."by AR Rahman..
Could have been a more apt song... :)

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“Tumko dekhaa to yeh khayal ayaa.......” by Jagjit Singh.
See. Ghazals make sense. And they are punctual.

WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
“Oru naal oru kanavu athai naan.." by Ilayaraja/Jesudas
Just my luck!

WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
Jurassic Park OST!!
Read it as - BIG :)

WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
“Kanda naal mudalai..." By Yuvan
Lucky Stars!

WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
“Jaane Kyun log pyar karthe hain..." By Shankar Ehsaan Loy
Dai paavigala... pottu kuduthutingala???

WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
“Thaai Manne vanakkam...” By ARR
Ha ha ha.... Imagine me in pattu veshti and sattai, dancing to this song.. ketta comedy

WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
“Unakkena Iruppen..." By Joshua Sridar
May be this is to my wife... Touching :

WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Malai malai malai maruda malai...." by Deva
Ithukkellam naan porupilla.. Sue my Itunes...

WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
“ Road Trippin'.." by Red Hot chilli peppers
Ive never been to a road trip.. :( God, is this your way of letting me know that ive wasted all these years?? Nan enna seya??

WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

"Namma kaatula Mazha peyuthu.." yuvan
:)
WHAT SHOULD YOU POST THIS AS?
"Kuchi kuchi rakkamma..." Bombay,ARR

Cool,I loved doing this... :)

9 Things I Hate About Everyone

Prelude : I've tried some sorta Maddox stuff here. No offence.

1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is?

2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually.

3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn Right! What good is cake if you can't eat it?

4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they?

5. When people say while watching a film, "did ya see that?" No Loser, I paid 50 bucks to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor!

6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"... Didn't give me a choice there, did ya sunshine?

7. When something is 'new and improved'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new.

8. When people say "life is short". What the hell??? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!!! What can you do thats longer?

9. When they resist deliberately to comment here .

NOTE : In the second part of the prelude. I lied. ;)

Yeh dil mange more :)

Baby chick, white chick, have you any dress,

Yes honey, yes honey, three wardrobes full,

One for the fashion, one for my taste,

And one for the tradition that is long down the drain.

It was during this sunday (13-01-2008) when I saw 'Neeya Naana' a debate program in Star Vijay I heard a girl say she spends around 5000-7000 for a month's beautificaion process.. I just thought "Neeyellam nalla irupia?"..Only then I came to know namma thai thamizh naatla paathi ponnunga ipdi than irukanga nu... Kali kaalam da saami..."I want more" is generally the attitude which women have when it concerns anything related to beauty. The moderate size wardrobes do no justice to the dresses, beauty products, jewels and other accessories which a girl owns. Nothing short of an abyss would actually do justice.A girl starts filling up her wardrobe right from her childhood. (Some "modern" girls use these dresses even after they grow up) That is understandable however, a baby always wants more. It is cute then. After seven donkey years, if you still have the same practice, it is obviously more irritating than cute. One of the main reasons a guy tells his lover, "Nee kattina pudavai-oda en kooda vaa" (come with the saree u are wearing) is to avoid having a 500 sq.ft wardrobe in his 800 sq.ft. apartment. So, that is said more with fear than with magnanimity.

The way guys and girls buy dresses can be summed with ease up in one sentence. Guys buy dresses for occasions and girls create occasions to buy dresses. Even a stone age leafy costume on World Environment Day would do because its a new addition to their collection nonetheless.

"Hey new dress is it? What's special?"

Boy (beaming) : Its my birthday you see.

"Hey new dress is it? What's special?"

Girl (how could you ask me such a question?) : Ofcourse..this is second Saturday you know. Got one for tommorow too, heard its the second Sunday.

Though every girl has a mini Naidu Hall at her place, they constantly spot new designs. Ok, nobody would complain if they stopped with the spotting designs thingy. It goes without saying that shopping is due that weekend.

HEADLINES : Common Entrance Tests cancelled for the current academic year.

Mom : That newsreader wears new sarees everyday and all of them are fantastic. Wonder where she gets them.

Aunt : Yeah, last week during the Tsunami news braodcast, she wore a yellow saree with pink border. It had a zari like the one you got for your anniversary in 1905.

Sister : Amma, look at that chain she is wearing, I want one like that.

Dad (to himself) : Bank poi paisa edukkanum. Indha maasam bonus ippadi indha Shobana Ravi-aala naasama poguthu.

Commonplace happenings eh? Its always a mini mega-serial at home even when Tsunmai strikes or WTC collapses.Variety is the spice of life, agreed. But you girls are already spicy enough, dress doesn't matter :-)Similarly, the make-up thingies are usually overdone. Powders, creams, lotions, lipsticks, lipglosses and a dozen other items yet to be named are an integral part of a girls' purse. Makes you wonder if make-up or make-over is the right word for the process.Certain things for which girls go to beauty parlour really make me laugh.

Me : For what are you going there?

Girl : Bleaching and threading.

Me : Bleaching I know, they did that for toilets before all this Harpic and Domex came in...but threading?

Girl : Thats for removing these hairs. Shaping your eyebrows and stuff. They tie a knot with a thread and pull it out.

Me : Tamil-la sonna m***** pu*********?

Even the hottest of babes go to the parlour to become hotter. That's something that puzzles me.Why do girls always have this "Yeh Dil Maange More" attitude? Is it that they never stay content with what they have? Or is it hormonal the way men and sex are inseperable? Why? Kyun? Yaen? Yaendi? Yaenulu?The only time a girl's "I want more" attitude is fruitful is in....guys know what I mean ;-)

Disclaimer : I've described in detail about the situation and I am not complaining. Won't be complaining till I get married atleast :-) So it is just curiosity...which is probably gonna kill this cat? :-)

Note : Feel free to bash the author. Controversies and fights are encouraged :-)Cheers :-)

Note 2 : ipdi evlo post eluthinaalum en blog padikra ponnunga soodu,soranaye illama commente pannama irukathu keeevalama irukku :) innum kevala padanuma venama nu neengale mudivu pannikonga

Taare Zameen Par - Aamir puts SRK in shame, big time

Foreword : This is my 25th post. Thanks for all those who've helped me keep this blog alive. :)

Don't sign off on your list of the Best Films of 2007 just yet, because ladies and gentlemen, the year's most honourable film has arrived. Taare Zameen Par, directed by Aamir Khan and written by Amole Gupte is the one film you have to watch, because it's a film with a big heart, an important issue, but mostly because it's a film that could change your life.

Who can't relate with Taare Zameen Par's eight-year-old protagonist Ishaan Awasthi who can't get his head around his studies? Be it words or numbers, he struggles to make sense of them, falling way behind his classmates, much to the frustration of his teachers and his parents.
Naturally, it doesn't help that his elder brother is a class topper and a tennis champ to boot. Ishaan meanwhile, is a dreamer who's fascinated with little fish, and spends most days punished outside class letting his imagination run riot. At home, he's mixing colours, painting away instead of doing his homework.

Convinced that some strict discipline will straighten him out, Ishaan's father packs him off to a boarding school, much against both his wife and Ishaan's wishes. Unable to deal with this betrayal, Ishaan goes into a shell at his new school, not only failing to show any improvement in his academics, but also no longer inspired to paint. When substitute art teacher, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, recognizes in him all the symptoms of dyslexia, he takes it upon himself to help Ishaan.

First educating his parents about his condition, then urging the school's principal to give the boy more time to catch up, Nikumbh devises unconventional methods to teach the boy, and succeeds eventually in changing his life forever. There should be no doubt whatsoever in anybody's mind after watching Taare Zameen Par that the real hero of this film is its remarkable, rooted, rock-solid script which provides the landscape for such an emotionally engaging, heart-warming experience.

Between the writer and director, they construct some of the most memorable moments you're likely to come across on screen. Take that simple one that illustrates the everydayness of a schoolboy's life - the one in which we see Ishaan biding his time, punished outside class, moon-walking in the corridor and burping away enthusiastically. Or that heart-wrenching scene in which Ishaan's mother discovers a flip-book he made which reveals just how vulnerable he's been feeling.

It's not just the little moments that stay with you, but also the film's crucial scenes, which are handled with such rare maturity. "Meeri maa.." song and the "3 into 9" sequence for example. :)

And then there's that other scene which I consider the most important in the film - the one in which Nikumbh visits Ishaan's home and explains to his parents what exactly is the problem with their son, and how they may have damaged his confidence even further - it's a poignant and delicate scene because Nikumbh is at once confrontational, admonishing, comforting and hopeful, and it works also because it's performed so instinctively by Aamir and the actor playing Ishaan's father.

Plus :

* Darsheel Safary - The boy who was Ishaan - vaippe illa.. sema... I could see him telling Aamir "Macha naan pathukuren, nee konja neram nadikama iru"

* Aamir

* Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy - especially the meri maa song was damn good. Kudos again guys

* Sethu for photography

* Rest of the cast and the crew for the wonderful effort :)

Minus:

The movie was kinda lengthy and the last scene could've been even better :)

Lest you be mistaken, let me make it clear that although it's centred around a dyslexic protagonist, Taare Zameen Par is not a film about dyslexia. Nor is it a film about any disease or disorder. It's a film about parents and children, about the pressures we put on our kids, about how we push them into becoming assembly-line products instead of encouraging them to find their own unique strengths. It's also about finding our heroes.

Verdict: WATCH IT!

Rating : 60/100