KOOTU-KUDUMBAM

Today morning, I went to the airport to drop my friend. On the way back I happen to see a shop where they sell parrots, lovebirds, rabbit etc. At that moment a short hint stuck me which i developed into a short story...

So here is my FIRST SHORT STORY

Balaaaaaa!!! engada tholanju pone, Vanthu intha saamanellam kaluvi vai - shouted his step mom. Bala is 8 years old, his mom died when he was born. From that day his dad used to curse him as the reason... "Saniyan, porakum bothey ammave mulingitaan". His dad happily married another woman and they have a daughter kavitha, who is 6 yrs old. Bala likes her a lot, but his step mom always keeps him away from her. His step mom's parents, brother all stay with them. He loves to call everyone "Mama, thatha, paati.." but none of them treat him well. Bala often feels sad, depressed, never shows it out but cries to himself when he is alone.

He likes Parrot a lot and whenever hears the parrot in the morning, runs to the terrace to see them. He has a desire to get a pair of parrot's for himself but doesnt have the guts to ask his dad. Whenever he goes to the market he passes by a shop where they sell birds like parrot, love birds, rabbit. He feels bad for the birds in the cage so more than the desire to grow them, he wants to relieve them from the cage. He starts saving money from every little amount he gets.

After few months he has enough money to buy a pair of love birds. "Annachi rendu love birds kudunge" - Bala asks the guy in the shop. The moment the birds are out of cage he is very relieved. He gets the birds, lifts them to the sky and leaves them on the air. An elegant smile in his face as they go up high in the air... Few mins they come back and they stand outside the cage itself. Amused by it, Bala keeps starring. The shop keeper says "Ingaye valanthuchu pa, kudumbathu vittu poga manasu ille polaruku paavum ..."

Kootukkul irunthaalum Kootu-kudumbamaga irunthaaal Suthanthiram(Santhosham) thaaanaa ???

Freedom is DOING what we LIKE
Happiness is LIKING what we DO ...

Sunset - From Space

Thanks to Ganesh for this email.... Me being a lover of astronomy really liked this picture.

The photograph attached was taken by the crew on board the Columbia during its last mission, on a cloudless day.

The picture is of Europe and Africa when the sun is setting. Half of the picture is in night. The bright dots you see are the cities lights.

The top part of Africa is the Sahara Desert. Note that the lights are already on in Holland , Paris , and Barcelona , and that's it's still daylight in Dublin , London , Lisbon , and Madrid .

The sun is still shining on the Strait of Gibraltar . The Mediterranean Sea is already in darkness. In the middle of the Atlantic Ocean you can see the Azores Islands ; below them to the right are the Madeira Islands; a bit below are the Canary Islands; and further south, close to the farthest western point of Africa, are the Cape Verde Islands .

Note that the Sahara is huge and can be seen clearly both during Daytime and night time.

To the left, on top, is Greenland , totally frozen.

Dream

One of the most important topic, atleast as far as I'M concerned. I wanted to write a detailed blog on this and thats why couldnt write this TAG by PK immediately. Dream and I have a very long, deep relationship he he!!! I get dreams almost every night and i dream even during day time. Few I can recollect fully while for many I faintly remember. Before going to my dream section, I thought i will share some notes on DREAM

My own definition of Dream :
The best thing about human being is the SIXTH SENSE, the ability to think (though most of us dont do it ;) When we sleep, our brain doesnt sleep. It still keeps working and so some of the thoughts, happenings that we see, feel which are recorded in the deep of our mind gets activated in the RANDOM function of brain and result is the DREAM.

What Wikipedia says :
A dream is the experience of envisioned images, sounds, or other sensations during sleep. The events of dreams are often impossible or unlikely to occur in physical reality, and are usually outside the control of the dreamer.

Ok, coming back to the topic "Dream that has come true or Dream that will never come true". Quite interesting topic. Most of the dreams i have had were weird. They were all very weird that they cannot happen :) The best part of dream is that it will look very real untill you get up. Some examples : When i was small, once had a dream where I would be pissing on the road side... koncham nerathule soodaaa irunthucha ennane paatha, I was pissing on the bed itself :)). Another dream, dont remember it fully but was some adventure and at one point I was falling from a top building or cliff... dopp nu satham, I really fell from the bed.

There is one dream which was very close to have happened. Let me tell about that. I think i was studying 1st std. Mom had gone out for some function. Brother was also not there at home. Only me and dad. I was sleeping in the bedroom. All of a sudden the roof from the corner cracked and started falling on me. I just woke up and tarted running..shouting "amma appa..." Dad was also not there. I ran to the neighbour house and was shouting "Veedu idinju viluthu, veedu idinju viluthu". Neighbours took me back to my house, I was scared. And Dad to came by that time, he had taken a walk to the end of the street. All were asking what happened ? I repeated saying "Ange, bed room la mele edinju viluthu". Everyone came inside and i was moving slowly behind them. Everyone looked up and so did i. There is no difference, the roof was as it is. I was still saying "Illa naa paathen, inga thaan mela idinju vilunthuthu"... It took some time for me to realise that it was dream. I call this as close because after 10-12 years later, our house had become old and i happen to see a huge crack starting from the top to the middle at the same corner which came in my dream. Thought the house dint collapse at that corner place, the ceiling outer layer did fell once when brother was shaving. It even hurted him :). Now that house is demolished and we have rebuilted it 5 years back. :)

Happy Birthday Nagesh!!!

Hi da nagesh - many more happy returns of the day

Im proud to introduce my younger brother Nageshwaran in my blog. He is doing 3rd year B.Tech IT in SVCE. He is very good at mimicry. Got a chance to pariticipate in the EQ program conducted by Vijay TV. Here is the program that he did...

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007

WISHING EVERYONE IN THIS WORLD A VERY HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!!!


Wanted to write blog continously and 1st day of the year eluthina, thodarnthu eluthuven'nu oru chinna centimentaaa he he.

Next immediate question... "New year resolution" thanee ??? Entha resolution'um edakka koodathebathey this year resolution :P. Eppadi eduthaalum maximum one month, athuku mela thaaku pidikarthu kashtam... so why strain.

Seri athu enna, New year mattum resolution... How does it make so much of difference. Koncham yosichu paarthen. Its yet another day just that one cycle has completed and this is a cut off followed universe'ly. Nambalum intha circle kullare vilunthathale, new look .. both myself n the blog.

First thought of posting a blog on "Why did we grow".. this question mainly arises during our birthday, vaiyasu era era, more responsibilities, more difficulties. When i see the small kids playing around, felt that we could have remained at that age itself. Though there were some frustrations, dissappointments for that age those were much much little than what we are facing now. When we see selfish, egoistic, arrogant people start hating the life and antha vaisule ithu ethuvume puriyama namba baatuku irunthurupom. Enna da new year athuvumaa ippadi pesurennu nenaika venam, just felt that and wrote it immediately. Evalo pesinalum, what to do the reality is we are growing, years are passing, time is flying... Lets try to forget the bad in past and look forward for new achievments in the future.

Oru chinna santhosham enna na.... "Asin" is selected as the Dream Girl for 2007... hurray!!!!!!!!!

;)

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

Beautiful Babes ;)

I know most of you would have misunderstood by reading the title ;) ...

Posting this blog from the 22nd floor Hotel Mulia, Jakarta. Actually on travel around asia for the past 5 weeks and really dint get time to write blog. So just thought post this picture of my cute girl frnds (Click on the picture for the full image). Wanted to give a new look to my blog and so changed the template. OOOPS, guess what, forgot to copy the "links I visit often", it all got deleted. Now got to add it again.

Ok here are some details about the girls

From left :- Sonia, Bavatharani, Shivani and Sakshi. Except Bavatharani, the other 3 are sisters. All of them are my neighbours. Sonia is eldest one and she reallly proves that, taking care of her sisters and the way she talks elderly among them. Sonia is in the UKG, while Shivani is in the LKG. The last one is trying to utter some words. Dont wonder if i say that very soon they are going to have a brother boy or another sister... These 3 sisters are marvadi's while Bavatharani is Brahmin. If all join together thats it... no one can control them. Sonia dances well, Shivani tries to imitate watever sonia does. Shivani is always my fav. Im sure they are waiting for me to come back to india and So am I