Saddam Hussein Executed!!!

I wanted to write on this topic and PK enakku munnadi munthikitta. So read her blog first and this is a reply to that.

I dont know much about Saddam, so its actually not right on my part to comment. But with the knowledge of what I have I feel that punishment was right, probably life imprisonment kuduthurukalam. I know you are not justifying Saddam's act.. and i also understand the way you said he was good for his people. Something like Namba Nayagan padam style "Naaalu peru nalla irukanumna enna vena pannalam" . Whether it is Nayagan or Samurai or Ramana or Anniyan... all of these examples show the main char as killers, but they do good to common people by eradicating the bad ones. Ramana movie shows a very good example that PUNISHMENT shoud be harsh and Vijaykanth accepting death sentence himself was very good.

From the news what i heard, Saddam was the main reason for killing 148 shiyads in IRAQ. I dont think all the 148 people were bad ones and infact most of them should have been innocent which is what makes saddam as a villain. So arresting him was right but again like i said earlier whether hanging him is justice or not is a different question. If what saddam did was wrong, ofcourse what Bush did was also wrong. As per his orders, US invaded Iraq and many innocent people got killed. That way even he should be punishable.

Another question which I have is : Punishments are actually for the guilty person to realise his mistake. Do we really think in those angles while giving punishment or is it just to satisfy our own anger/revenge on the person ???

Check out all about Saddam here :- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein

December 26th

I wanted to write a big blog on this topic. But kannu ippo sokkarathale, keeping it short. Topic paathe odenu, you could have guessed what is it related to ...

Yes this is mainly about the Tsunami that we faced on 26th December 2004, before which most of us dint know what was Tsunami. Does the date December 26 or just "26" has something to do with this... Look at the below happenings

January 26, 2001

Day : Friday

Time : 8:46 AM local time

Scale : 7.7 on the Richter Scale

Epicenter : 43 miles northeast of Bhuj in Gujarat State

Destroyed large parts of the state of Gujarat. Of the 18 affected districts, Kutch-Bhuj, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar and Rajkot are the most seriously damaged. In these four districts more than 16,000 people have died

December 26, 2004

An earthquake of magnitude 9.0, the strongest earthquake in 40 years, strikes in the Indian Ocean off the western coast of Sumatra. While initial reports state that the resulting tsunamis killed approximately 100 people, by the end of the day this estimate has increased to over 14,000 people in coastal areas of Thailand, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, India, Bangladesh, Burma, Indonesia and Malaysia. Tremors are also felt as far as Singapore, eastern countries of Africa, and north-western Australia. A state of emergency is declared in Sri Lanka, where over 31,000 people are feared dead.

December 26, 2006

Southwestern Taiwan is shaken by a 7.2 earthquake at 20:28 (GMT+8). A second aftershock, estimated at 7.1 and centered in Pingtung County, is felt 5 minutes later. According to the Pacific Tsunami Warning Centre, no Pacific-wide tsunami is expected.

Something Fishy ?????

Enjoy Life!!!

Thnx to Karts for this mail...

A group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit their old university lecturer. Conversation soon turned into complaints about stress in work and life. Offering his guests coffee, the lecturer went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an assortment of cups: porcelain, plastic, glass, some plain-looking and some expensive and exquisite, telling them to help themselves to hot coffee. When all the students had a cup of coffee in hand, the lecturer said:

"If you noticed, all the nice-looking, expensive cups were taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones. While it is but normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the source of your problems and stress. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you consciously went for the better cups and are eyeing each other's cups."

"Now, if Life is coffee, then the jobs, money and position in society are the cups. They are just tools to hold and contain Life, but the quality of Life doesn't change. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee in it."

So please, don't let the cups drive you...enjoy the coffee.....

& Enjoy Life!!!

Faith keeps u going!!!

I got this in the mail from my collegue Ganesh. Was really impressed with it and immediately added to my blog...

Arthur Ashe, the legendary Wimbledon player was dying of AIDS which he got due to infected blood he received during a heart surgery in 1983. From world over, he received letters from his fans, one of which conveyed: "Why does GOD have to select you for such a bad disease"?

To this Arthur Ashe replied: The world over -- 5 crore children start playing tennis, 50 lakhs learn to play tennis, 5 lakhs learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, When I was holding a cup I never asked GOD "Why me?". And today in pain I should not be asking GOD "Why me?"

Happiness keeps u Sweet, Trials keep u Strong, Sorrow keeps u Human, Failure Keeps u Humble and Success keeps u glowing, but only .........

Faith Keeps u Going.....

Eppadi Iruntha Naa Ippadi Ayiten

Appadaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa - thats a sign of relief from the braces that i was wearing for about one and a half years (19 months). Just met Dentist today, got the braces removed, Still have to wear a temporary one for another 3 months. I would call it as "THE WORST TORTURE EVER" - Probably people who have had braces will agree with me as they would gone through similar pain.

The first picture was taken somewhere after 9 or 10 months after i started wearing the braces. That was looking even more pathetic, frightening (picture paatha therile!!!). Current version eppadi ??? Maddy maari ille... Asin fairever ku ad kuduthaa, Na Closeup ku ad kudukalam polaruke!!!

I was thinking of various titles for this post and here are some of them...
- From Pallavan to Vallavan
- Out of braces on the First day of the Last Month
- Jack Dawson with new look and new nick