Happy New Year folks,....

Putting the hot and sweet memories of 2008 by a side,. here we step into 2009,. and yes,. like always with great hopes and expectation. Well my new year's eve was a kick in the head - a wonderful start, well i'l tell about it later. But as far as now, i wish all my blog buddies a very very happy new year. 

A Journey to Tiruvannamalai the photocollection

Thiruvannamalai is a spiritual heaven in south India which attracts everyone who seeks to be self realization. The place is so divine and lot of people even from other countries visits Thiruvannamali. Thiruvannamalai aka Tiruvannamalai aka Arunachala Hill has several ashrams located around the hill. Arunachala temple (temple of lord shiva) is located near the hill, and Ramana Ashram of Ramana Maharishi, Yogi Ramsurat Kumar Ashram, Sheshadri Swami Ashram are the other famous places located around the Arunachala hill. A road around the
Tiruvannamalai hill covering 16 Km distance is also famous for a sacred practice called “Girivalam”. It is believed that people who circulate around the hill on full moon day through this road will get their needs satisfied. And once in a year at December full moon day is celebrated as “Karthigai Deepam”. At that day many people gather in Tiruvannamalai and they light a huge Ghee lamp in top of the hill. I have the habit of going to this place regularly not only because I am spiritual but also there is for sure some force that exists in this place that makes the mind peaceful and calm. The below is a video that I have created with all the photographs I took in the hill and in the places around the hill. I have tried a little narration in the video. The 1st video is the recent video that had been covered in the trip on Dec 6, 7th of 2008 and the second video is the photo collection before 5 years. 

This is the recent video:

Video before 5years

Words said by Kumar, unexpected from him

Kumar is my friend and my class mate, from the day i joined college i know him only as fun lover and sarcastic person, but this was not the same image after i read couple of his posts in his blog. He always used to talk about movies, make fun of friends, and some boys talks, but the below conversation is what made me write this post about him,

(This is our conversation in Gtalk)

me: hows the holidays,.

kumar: f*cking bad da

me: what you doing mostly ??

kumar: since my granny died i am not doing any thing

me: Macha why back to sad memories at the time like this da

       Cheer up man

kumar: what to cheer up

me: why still thinking about your granny and doing nothing ?

kumar: she passed away day b4 yesterday what should I think about then

me: ohh no,... that granny u mentioned in your blog ??

kumar: yes da

me: man tats really terrible da

        i thought u were speaking about long back stories da

kumar: no

me: sorry to hear da

kumar: ok

me: how did it happen da ??

kumar: heart attack

me: she was admitted in hospital na ??

       ohh kk

kumar: yes da

me: seriously sorry for speaking about silly things at this time da

kumar: ok da

 

(After some 5seconds)

 

kumar: http://i37.tinypic.com/29o3hx5.png

             see this still this is a still of shreya on Shivaji

             this is blue ray screenshot

me: wow,.. semma da,....

       but dai is it necessary at this time

kumar: why

me: you crazy bugger

kumar: you only told to cheer up na ?

me: dai athukunnu ithu too much da

       i thought u were sending your granny's pic

kumar: lol

             i don't have one

me: thuu

kumar: now see my status message da, u will think that will be apt for the moment

me: hmm

(The status message of him was “At toughest part of Life”)

me: yup,.

       kk,. dai neee sogamaana orey adiyaa sogama irukkey

       but cheer up nu sonna orey adiya cheer up ayidrey

kumar: i normally don't share my sorrows with anybody da even my parents

             that's the problem with me.,

me: that’s really a great practice man

Kumar: i share only happiness with anybody da

me: that's what makes u a better person than others, and that’s why people love to stay and hang     

       around with you

kumar: kalaikiriya

me: chee no da

       serious da,. like Charlie Chaplin said "i walk in rain to hide my sorrow”

kumar: only face will tell the truth at these times

kumar: ha ha i sleep alone in the bed with bed sheet on to hide my sorrows 

me: no macha ,. how can i kalaichify u at time like this

       Gethu machaa,. you can put this quote in your blog as words said by Kumar

        im gonna do that in my blog,. as words spoken by Kumar

kumar: lol

kumar: enna vachi comedy ethum pannaliye

me: cha illa acha,. really i became a fan of yours from the quote u said da

(End of Conversation)

So as i told him,. here is the words of Kumar,. 

" I sleep alone in the bed with bed sheet on to hide my sorrows "

It was heavy rain outside and Madipakkam totally drowned in flood

It was on 26th Nov there was a slight drizzling and cold, and many were happy about the climate because it had been very long time people here in Chennai (Tamilnadu - India) had seen a good rain. At the beginning the rain was a really life saver, saving all the people from the hot climate, but then it continued to pour for 3 days, non-stop blessing from the heaven really ruined the liking towards the rain. My place in Velachery - Madipakkam is a low lying area and so there was water stagnation all over,. The local bodies here arranged for boats to move people to safer places because the water level in streets was like 4feet and even more in some places. Water came into many houses even in mine. But my dad is so sentimental, so he didn't want to leave the home alone and also we have 2 dogs in our home, so we cant leave things just like that. We shifted all the valuable things like TV, sofa, and electronics stuffs to the shelves and we were spending time on bed. It was fun watching all the snakes moving here and there in the water, we got used to it, and there is so many snakes (little venomous) in our area, there was even birds from different country chilling out in my place. The most hectic thing was that they didn't provide electricity stating that any electrical accident could happen at this condition. The rain water stayed in my home for a day, and it stays for more than 6 days in streets. Some how after speaking to AE in EB we managed to get power supply after 5 days. Think of it, 5 days without lights, fan, AC, computer, internet, even landlines are dead, you cant charge your mobile phone,... Oh my God. Usually the rainy season makes water to stagnate in my place especially in Madipakkam - Ram nagar, Srinivasa nagar, Velachery - Vijayanagar, but this time it was heavy rain and people were very much upset about all the damage that the rain had caused. I even didn't have batteries for my Digi to take photos, but after two days the water level decreased and then went to shop to buy batteries. The below are the shots that i took which covers the water stagnation area in Madipakkam and in Velachery.

Click to Zoom images below

The new arrival “Spotted Great Dane” puppy

I am not much of a pet lover but its always good to have a Dog in every home particularly in India, especially in Tamil Nadu there are several thefts taking place and having a hunter family dogs, those ones will be sure helpful. We had previously a labor dog, which now got older, and within few days its going to blue cross, because its really hard to see your pet die after aging. First when my dad brought this one to our home, I was eager to see it cos I’ve heard that “Great Dane” breads can grow to the length of a human, 6ft and even above. But after seeing the dog I was totally disappointed, it was really small and the color was crappy. Of course pups will be small when they are young, but the color pattern appeared to be really wicked and more of a stray dog. So seeing its appearance and funny look I named it as “Scrubby”. Yeah its very active, and growing fast, but its hard to manage a pup. Also now our old lab is to leave, and its name is “Slash” this is the picture of Slash, the black Lab dog.

I love growing beard because it gives a wise feeling

See this post may seems to be silly, but the thing is that everyone who i see around were asking me whether any love failure. See like ive told several times i never fell in love, that was a crush before. That too the crush was like having a liking to pick up a cute little baby in your arms, but when the baby hesitates or cries, then you would just leave her to her mom and admire her from distance. That was the same condition that happened to me. And this beard growing has nothing to do with that. Actually i have the habit of growing long beard in the exam times because i have a crazy belief that growing beard will make me wise., and wiseness is essential at exam times rite ?. Also i have the hobby of going to a spiritual place in every semester holiday, and the beard will make me feel like a saint, a wise man, it gives a divine feel. And here is one of my picture i like to share,. look at it, and try to imagine the ambiance that i would have felt at that place and at that time.It was morning 5.30 and bright sky with orange light, it was last December, winter morning cold.
I and my friend stayed at the top of that mount several feet above the ground. At a place like this is where you can feel so many new things and your mind will be so fresh. Much eager to go there even in this December too. It was for this reason i particularly grow beard in the exam times. Now this time i have a interview in middle so i guess the beard is not gonna last for long time. How ever the beard always works well with me, its kind of lucky symbol for me. I wrote all the exams well this time, except DSP, but even DSP(Digital Signal Processing) did quite well than expected. So i love growing beard, but i would shave regularly just because of a advice from a close well wisher of mine.

A day for cute angels, stars, the most important day

Its Children's day, who could resist the smile of a cute little baby. The innocent smile on their face, they are so happy unaware of the bullshits in the world. And we can watch a cute baby for months straight without even food or water. Here is some cute baby pic i have collected ., look at them and tell me what is the beautiful thing in the world ?

Its really hard to control the heart

Several times in several situations we could have experienced this in our life, heart taking over our mind. Our mind always analyses and predicts the reaction of each action that we would plan or intend to do. But even though our mind would suggest not to do something, its our stupid heart that will not listen to our mind. At this condition we would actually be doing what our heart says. And this is due to power of heart that is higher than mind, whereas saints meditate and concentrates their mind on things so that improving their power of mind over heart is high. Hence it is always good do things what your mind says than listening to your heart.

Meditation and yoga brings a great power to brain, speaking about yoga or meditation doesn't mean that you have to be spiritual or i am not speaking about superficial things, its just that silence and calmness is always a great force for a human being.

Timon the most optimistic character

“Hakuna Matata” – No worries
This great phrase invented by highly genius soul “Timon”, well technically it was actually “Rafiki” who would have coined the word in the movie, but the word comes from Rafiki as a reflection of Timon so it belongs to Timon. I always admire the character “Timon” the most in the lion king. Nathan Lane had really spoken well through Timon. My favorite quote from Timmy boy is

“And if he falls in love tonight,
It can be assumed, his care free days
With us are history, In short our pal is doomed”

Timon is a hell of sarcasms and I love his style, I just always wanna be like Timon in life than being Simba. What could you ask more in life, a mentality and character of Timon is far enough. Well sometimes I also dream for Rafiki’s wisdom. And to add to life, a friend like Pumba will be perfect. Always reality is hard and strange with its ugly face whereas imaginary things are great to go for. Both Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella had done great vocals in the Lion kings, particularly the accent and the pitch at which both of them speaks is so amazing and wonderful. Of course Lion kings 1, 2 and 3 had a great welcome from people but I am wondering will there be Lion kings 4, because if there would be a part 4 of the movie in future it will be awesome to watch.

In my study holidays things were so much distracting

I really felt that this post is essential to be shared with people so that you can understand my condition on the study leave. First couple of days in the beginning of my study leave went fine with considerable amount of study, but the third day it started. Boringness, when I sit in front of a book it appeared to be like the most annoying thing. So thought ok, lets make a little change to mind and then sit back to study. So I went online in gtalk asking my friends what they were doing, many replied not started studying and many had the same status “bored”. (Manasukku konjam santhoshamaa irunthuthu), If I get in front of computer then its really hard to move away from there because I would be doing browsing, chatting, and other works so sincerely so that I sometime i will not be aware how time flies. Thus I some how managed to move my butt away from the computer and again opened the book with a oscillating mind. Ohhh no, all the stuffs appeared new to me, well it’s a simple student psychology that we will not study in college days thinking that we can make it in study holidays. And when its study holiday time then we would compromise our brain by telling “lets do it later, there is hell of time” and I am not an exception for it.

It was half a day past, and this time I managed to study half a unit in a local author book studying for 45mins straight, and mind was whispering to myself (“dai romba padikkathada kolambida podhu”) “don’t study too much you’l get confused”. So went to watch TV, I usually don’t have the habit of watching TV, but now at this time I felt I can sit even on a hot stove instead of sitting before a book. Chutti TV was my preference, there was a cartoon (World short stories), good to watch. In middle my mom said she wanna watch a serial show, (“Cha,. Study holidayla oru manushaan nimmathiya TV kooda paaka mudiyala, inna veedu da ithu”) I shouted at her and went inside my room and got locked up inside. I don’t have the habit of sleeping in day time (exception in class rooms). Then I was looking through the window from my room, it was little dark outside (athukkula poluthu poiducha, no chance, time poogaavey illaye), no it was not evening, its just cloudy. There was a call from Mother Nature, cool breeze with wonderful scenery. It dragged me to my house top, as my place is in Madipakkam (In Chennai – India) a calm area and water, grass field around my home I like to spend my time sitting on house top and watch the beauty all alone. I went upstairs welcomed by cool breeze, it was before rain the wind blowing to blow away clouds, and it was dark creating an anxiety whether it will rain or not. But the climate was so good, after which it started drizzling while I was sitting there. Small droplets of water pouring on me, I didn’t have the heart to get away from there finding a shelter. So I just stayed there and got wet, and a little thought strike into my mind saying what if you get cold, its your exam time be careful. If someone would have seen me that time they would have thought “is he taking bath in rain?, does Chennai suffering from so much scarcity?”. I went down to my home and sat back in front of book in the rhythm of rain water dropping I just tried to study that’s all.........,

Lab exams and studies vague weekend and nothing to do

The past week had been really a vague week for me, really nothing special happened except a new arrival of a puppy to my home. I was preparing for my university lab exams and the week had been a complete boring time of my life. Usually i have the habit of updating my blog in the weekends but this weekend i really ran out of subjects. Well i could really write a post on my university labs and how i helped many students in my class and the other class to get output in their univ lab, but i don't wanna get into any troubles. But like people say (Naalu perukku nallathu senja, yethuvumey thappu illa) i felt great about helping people with the univ lab. They all thanked me, even the other section guys and said "theivamey unga kaiya kaalaa nanachi kumbudromnu" (means, you are our saviour) and they even planned for giving me bumps (a traditional way in India to greet another person) thank God i escaped. Felt really great for my work and like the old saying "nalu perukku help senja, unakku help thaanaa kadaikkum (means if you help others, you will receive help) i too did my lab exams well. And happy for finishing all my labs in the entire B.E.

Other than that i have university exams ahead and has this commitment to work hard, stay in hostel and stuffs, so i guess there will be a long gap in posting any new posts. Well study holidays have already started and i am really trying to do things, plan things, learn thing but finally ending up with nothing. Just trying to read something from book for my exams, really afraid of DSP (digital signal processing) paper in this semester because people call it as Degree stopping paper(DSP) in short. Phooffff,. really its a long breath to take when i think about all the exams ahead and works that had to be done. I have to take the books, dust them off, identify the current semester books, sit for study, and its a looooooooong journey to go. :P