MJ - a tribute

When I heard the news that Michael Jackson died, I was shocked and upset too. Though I was not a crazy fan, I liked his dance and songs a lot. Especially the moves he makes, the moon walk, the rotation he does... he set a trend, he set a history, he was a legend.

Ok let me share some of my views on the Jackson I have known. I think it was in mid 90's that I first came to know about Michael Jackson. I saw a small kid doing a break dance in a TV Show. The song was so energetic and the kid did an amazing dance, walked liked a robot to shop, climbed the stairs and did awesome movements. It was then I knew it was a Michael Jackson song but dint know it was "Smooth Criminal" then. Since I was just 15 yrs I was not very good follower of the lyrics but enjoyed the music and hymmed my own lyrics. You will burst into laughter if I tell what I was hymming... "Echa kacha poching, poching, poching" - yeah this is what I was singing along with that song. After few years I thought I got the lyrics right and was singing it as "Any body watching, watching, watching..." but later came to know even that is wrong. Its only when the Net became popular, where we could get anything and everything that I listend to many of Michael Jackson songs and got the lyrcis. So finally the actuall lyrics went this was "Annie are you ok?, So, Annie are you ok?, are you ok Annie?".

After few years happen to be familiar with some of his songs like "Beat It", "Smooth Criminal", "Bad", "Dangerous". I should thank my friend Bala who gave me a CD on MJ. That had lot of videos and I was dumb stuck at the "History video" it was so fantastic and awesome. I was glued to the video by his moon walk. I tried practising moon walk a lot by looking at his video. And it was then I knew Michael was orginally a black guy and turned into white due to plastic surgery. There were lot of news about him that he is not a guy or a girl and he wanted to convert to a girl, he had lot of plastic surgeries. His life is full of mysteries and problems. He had many allegations and especially his relationship with kids. He faced one of his worst times starting from 2002 getting involved in the child molestation.

Though I didnt get a chance to meet him in person, I took a picture with his statue in Wax Museum, in NY. My message to Michael Jackson is that.. "Hey Michael, I'm not sure if you were happy throughout your life but I'm sure you made many happy, you entertained the world, you set a trend, you were an icon, you created history, you are the king of pop and you will be remembered forever..."

And here is me posing as San Jackson. Who would not want to be a super star, king of pop. Atleast in picture, I could pose ... :-)

Beautiful Pics

Some beautiful pics from forward mail

Crazy Sanj

My Version of "Are you Crazy" from Villu

Life, Money and Experience

Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now,you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother's life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won't remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty,times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn't know from where the tomorrow will come... life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full... sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown.There wasn't enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support...The first time she said 'yes' and it was two years since you proposed... The first cry... the first steps... the first word... The first kiss... all of your child... The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you... The first award... the first public appreciation... the first stage performance... And the list is endless... Experiences, with timeless memory... No denying that anything that's material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.

So, what if it's economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn't cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive. Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.

Time will pass... economy will revive... currency will soon be in current... and in all this; I don't want you to look back and realize you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences... If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.Make a statement with the way you live your life. Respect life, live with passion.Always remember this: "If you wait to be happy u will never be happy!Start living happily, you will be happy forever and ever!" :-)

My First Spray Paint

Here is my first trial on spray paint

Think about it !!!

There is no one good or bad in this world, but thinking makes it so,
What people call congestion in a bus, becomes a atmosphere in a disco...

Life - Live it

Life is Best
for those who want to live it,

Life is Difficult
for those who want to analyze it

Life is Worst
for those who want to Criticize it

Our attitude defines life ...

Enjoy your life so hard
that even sorrow smiles at you,

Live life so well
that even death loves to see you alive,

Fight so hard
that even fate accepts its defeat...

What is Love?

From a forward mail

In a classroom there were several kids, when one of them asked the teacher: - Teacher, what is LOVE ? The teacher felt the kid deserved the best answer she could give to that intelligent question. Since it was almost time for a break, she asked every student to go around the school and come back with something that would bring the feeling of love. The kids rushed out the classroom, and when they came back the teacher said: So, I want everybody to show what you brought to the whole class.

The first kid said: I brought this FLOWER, isn't it beautiful ? The second kid said: I brought this BUTTERFLY. Look at these colorful wings, I am gonna put it in my collection ! The third kid said: I brought this YOUNG BIRD. It had fallen with another one from the nest. Isn't it cute ? And the kids were showing what they brought. After almost everybody had showed their discoveries, the teacher noticed that there was a kid who had been quiet all the time. She was ashamed because she had not brought anything. The teacher went to her and asked: My dear, why haven't you brought anything ? She then answered in an innocent voice: - I am sorry teacher. I saw the FLOWER, and felt its perfume. I was going to take it, but I preferred to leave it so its perfume would last longer and others could feel it. I also saw the BUTTERFLY, soft, colorful..she seemed so happy that I did not want to disturb it. I also saw the YOUNG BIRD that had fallen between the leafs, but as I climbed the tree, I noticed the said look of its mother, so I decided to return it to the nest. Therefore, I only bring with me: the perfume of the flower, the feeling of liberty of the butterfly and the gratefulness of the look of the little bird's mother...

The teacher thanked the young kid and gave her an A, because she was the only one who realized that we can only bring LOVE in our hearts...

Love can only be felt...not possessed, If you try to possess it for your pleasure, then love can never be "LOVE"!!!

I knew you would come!!!

[From a forward mail]

Horror gripped the heart of a World War-I soldier, as he saw his lifelong friend fall in battle. The soldier asked his Lieutenant if he could go out to bring his fallen comrade back. "You can go," said the Lieutenant, "but don't think it will be worth it .Your friend is probably dead and you may throw your life away." The Lieutenant's words didn't matter, and the soldier went anyway. Miraculously, he managed to reach his friend, hoisted him onto his shoulder and brought him back to their company's trench.

The officer checked the wounded soldier, then looked kindly at his friend. " I told you it wouldn't be worth it," he said. "Your friend is dead and you are mortally wounded."

"It was worth it, Sir," said the soldier.
"What do you mean by worth it?" responded the Lieutenant."Your friend is dead." "Yes Sir," the soldier answered, “but it was worth it because when I got to him, he was still alive and I
had the satisfaction of hearing him say.......

" Man...I knew you would come ! "

100th Post

Ok here it is my 100th post in the blog. I started blogging about 3 years back and the initial objective was to keep the writing in practice. I didnt have specific topics but just started writing about whatever I felt. I'm good at morphing and started posting few morphings with some humorous imaginative content. Late the same extended to the movie review with morphings. I then started writing short stories not much though but have written about 7 of them. You need the perfect mood and the time to write them. Sometimes I got busy with work and sometimes with family. But I still wanted the blog to be active and so started putting some of the impressive forward messages that I got.

So lets see what has happened in this three years within blog

1. I have got a good collection of my own stories, incidents, movie reviews - morphings, inspiring forward messages.
2. When you go back and read them it gives a wonderful feeling.
3. I made few friends through blog and got inspired by them as well
4. I should say that this did keep me occupied, entertained and gave food for my creativity

Lets see where i'm heading to

1. Took 3 years to reach 100 but the target is to reach 200 in the next 1 year.
2. So far I just wrote for fun but now want to seriously start writing more stories
3. Registered a domain in my name
4. Included the google adsense

Here are some of my collections which I have organised. Take a look

Short Stories

• Kootu Kudumbam
• First Step
• P.Vittal & P.R.Vittal
• Second Hand
• Gato Amor
• In the Sky
• The Lost Wallet

Movie Reviews, morphings

• Airdeccan'le Asin
• Miss World miss me
• Lage-raho-sanju-babaa
• Sanju baba - the boss
• Motte-boss
• Kireedam
• San-players
• Om-shanti-om
• Billa-im-back
• Evano-oruvan
• Stars-on-earth
• Vaaranam Aayiram
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Shajini - 8 packs

Incidents

• Can I repeat the challenge
• Money Train
• Singles don't fret this valentine's day
• Men-in-white
• Massive-steam-explosion-in-midtown
• My-engagement
• All-are-invited
• Yaadein - 11 years back
• Country/city-i-would-like-to-visit
• Newyork-times-building-climber
• Year-after
• Meeting Abroad
• Flight Crash in Hudson
• Lakshita'vum Naangalum

Kavithai's

• Friends - En nanbargal
• Beautiful-kavithai's
• My-valentine
• Last-thought-intution

Inspirational Messages (Fwd)

• Golden Days
• Faith keeps going
• Enjoy Life
• Put-glass-down
• Confidence-trust-hope
• Break-your-bond
• Wrong-number
• Does-god-exist
• Never Abandon
• From-godavari-to-google-on-wheel-chair
• Excellance
• The Last Lecture
• One more chance pls
• I knew you would come

One more chance pls

It’s another morning... Again I have to go to office. Ohh, this is me… I shouted having a glance on my snap in today’s news paper. But what the HELL it is doing in the death column?? Strange…One sec... Let me think, last night when I was going to bed I had a severe pain in my chest, but I don’t remember anything after that, I think I had a sound sleep.

Its morning now, ohh….. It’s already 10:00 AM, where is my coffee? I will be late for office and my boss will get a chance to irritate me. Where is everyone…??? I screamed.

"I think there is a crowed outside my room, let me check.” I said to myself. So many people….. Not all of them crying… But why some of them crying… WHAT IS THIS??? I m laying there on the floor…

“I AM HERE” … I shouted!!! No one listen.
“LOOK I AM NOT DEAD” … I screamed once again!!! No one is interested in me. They all were looking me on the bed. I went back to my bed room. “Am I dead??” I asked myself. Where is my wife, my children, my mom-DAD, my friends? I found them in the next room, all of them were crying… still trying to console each other. My wife was crying… she was really looking sad. My little kid was not sure what happened, but he was crying just coz his mom was sad. How can I go without saying my kid that I really love him, I really do care of him. ?? How can I go without saying my wife that she is really most beautiful and most caring wife in this world..?? How can I go without saying my parents that I m … just because of u ?? How can I go without telling my friends that without them perhaps I have done most of the wrong things in my life… thanks for being there always when I need them… and sorry for not being there when they really need me..

I can see a person standing in the corner and trying to hide his tears… Ohh… he was once my best friend, but a small misunderstanding made us part, and we both have strong enough ego to keep us disconnect. I went there.. And offered him my hand, “Dear friend… I just want to say sorry for everything, we r still best friend, please forgive me.” No response from other side, what the hell?? He is still preserving his ego, I am saying sorry… even then!!! I really don’t care for such people. But one sec…. it seems he is not able to see me!!!! He did not see my extended hand.
My goodness… AM I REALLY DEAD???

I just sat down near ME; I was also feeling like crying… “OHH ALMIGHTY!!!! PLEASE JUST GIVE ME FEW MORE DAYS…” I just wasn’t to make my wife, my parents; my friends realize that how much I love them. My wife entered in the room, she looks beautiful. “YOU R BEAUTIFUL” I shouted. She didn’t hear my words, in fact she never heard these words coz I never said this to her.

“GOD!!!!” I screamed… a little more time plzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.. I cried…

One more chance please… to hug my child, to make my mom smile just once, to feel my dad proud on me at least for a moment, to say sorry to my friends for everything I have not given to them, and thanks for still being in my life…. Then I looked up and cried!!!! I shouted….

“GOD!!!! ONE MORE CHANCE PLEASE!!!!”

"You shouted in your sleep," said my wife as she gently woke me up. "Did you have a nightmare?"

I was sleeping…. Ohh that was just a dream…. My wife was there… she can hear me… This is the happiest moment of my life… I hugged her and whispered…. “U R THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AND CARING WIFE IN THIS UNIVERSE…. I REALLY LOVE U DEAR” I can’t understand the reason of the smile on her face with some tears in her eyes, still I m happy….

“THANK YOU GOD FOR THIS SECOND? CHANCE.”

So, Now it’s not late...

Forget your egos, past………..,

and express your love to others……….

Be friendly……………

keep smiling ..........

and be happy for ever…….