Latest Attraction...

Maddy for his sixer smile, Vijay for his dance, Ajith for his eyes, Siddharth for his tough looks... There is something about everyone that attracts. Eyes, smile, dance, looks...I guess Michael or Mike as he is known in the Star Vijay grosser shows, KKK and Jodi No 1 has it all:) He has already become the biggest drawing card in the new season of the serial where he plays this really tough guy. Yesterday he left me charmed with his dance in the male solo dance. He is not this really tall handsome hunk but his gestures can put one in trance...;) A presage, this guy is gonna make it BIG.

Hmm...It's Okay.

I have never been able to dislike/hate anyone. Do I have a prob? I don't judge people. I have keyed out there is no use in that. My liking and disliking is always limited to principles. I have this conviction, 'there is good in everyone'. Well I don't go correcting them but still when my friends get chatty about people and say they are so and so. I stay mum. I kind of find myself ill at ease among buddies complaining or gossiping about someones character and nature. Character is something really personal. With just some obscure knowledge on someone, who are we to comment. Before dishing the dirt, why not think about yourself being hashed out. My friends wont understand, they will tell me 'Yaa dear, to your eyes everyone is good'. N they will have tons of examples, 'You said she is not like that, now you get to see for yourself'. Lolzzz. I have kind of got used to this now. Friends mean more to me than proving myself right. My world will fall apart without them. But to dispense with this personal guidepost is just not possible for me 'Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody'.

The Super Cool Woman...

Kiran Bedi is busy and is no mood to rest even after retirement. The First Indian IPS woman to the Hindu, 'Earlier, I used to serve to earn and now I earn from radio,tv,newspaper columns to SERVE my NGO's'. Read more on the article here .

Drenched...

It's been a really long wait for the release of Gautham's 'Vaaranam Aayiram'. So many grapevines about the story. Some say it's Russian film 'Character' and many others it's Tom hanks 'Forrest Gump'. Now all this, given that Gautham takes lots of inspiration from Hollywood flicks. Whatever, I wish the film releases soon... Heard the music tracks. Good ones. The melodies ' Nenjukul Peidhidum' and 'Mundhinam Parthene' will stay for long. Naresh Iyer's voice in 'Mundhinam' is damn romantic, better than in Munbe Va. I can't review about the tunes but ya the lyrics by 'Thamarai' is in a word 'outstanding'. I say that coz she is this lyricist who gives so much importance to 'Tamizh literature'...Writing simple lines would have been an easy job, but I guess she really wished to give people a different treat. I suppose 'Nenjukul' is a song wherein she has used so many adjectives to refer to a beautiful girl and all of that in a guys perspective. When I heard 'Karkha Karkha' from Vettaiyadu Villayadu I thought Thamarai was really good and now Nenjukul makes me feel she is brilliant. Na na...I haven't been able to comprehend the song fully even after so many hearings. The specialty in the song is the rhyming words... Watch out for the different 'ai' 's that goes so well with the rhythm of the song... Maamazhai(heavy rain)... Thaamarai(Lotus)... Vaanilai (weather)... Pizhai(fault)... Perrallai(huge wave)... Thaaraghai(lady)... Kaarighai(beauty)... Kaanchanai ( lady)... Anthaadi(Everything, mudhalum mudivum). I ended up reading my first ever thamizh short story of Pudumaipittan while searching for what does 'Kaanchanai' mean. As per the story Kaanchanai is this really beautiful daughter of the King of Kasi. Intense Google search took me to Sanskrit pages, so much of related stuff with 'Thiruvaimozhi' , 'Aandal Kalyanam' et all:)

'Kavidhayin suvvai, artham puriyum varrai...' (The taste of poetry is only till you have got the picture of it..)So I stopped my search there. Poetry is always fun. You can interpret it the way you want it to be. I am presently relishing this Harris+Thamarai+Hariharan's 'Nenjukul Peidhidum Maamazhai'...Totally drenched!

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii...
Nillamal veesudum perrallai…
Nenjukkul neendhidum thaaraghai..
Ponvannam soodiya kaarighai...
Pennae, nee kaanchannai.
Oh shanthi, shanthi oh shanthi…En uyirai, uyirai nee endhi...
En sendrai sendrai, ennai thaandi…Inni nee thaan endhan anthaadi.

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii.

Yedho ondru, ennai eerkka...
Mookkin nuni, marmam serkka...
Kalla thanam, yedhum illa...
Punnagaiyo, bogam illaa.

Nee nindra idam endraal, vilai yeri pogaadho...
Nee sellum vazhi ellaam, panikatti aagaadho…
Ennodu va, veedu varaikkum...
En veettai paar, ennai pidikkum...
Ival yaaro yaaro theriyaadhe…ival pinnaal nenje pogaadhe...
Idhu poiyo meiyo theriyaadhe…ival pinnaal nenje pogaadhe...
Pogaadhe...

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii...
Nillamal veesudum perrallai…
Nenjukkul neendhidum thaaraghai..
Ponvannam soodiya kaarighai..
Pennae, nee kaanchannai.

Thookkangalai, thookki sendraai...
Yekkangalai, thoovi sendraai...
Unnai thaandi, pogum bodhu...
Veesum kaatri,veechu verru...
Nill endru nee sonaal, en kaalam nagaraadhe...
Nee soodum poovellaam, orupodhum udhiraadhe...
Kaadhal ennai, ketkavillai...
Kettaal adhu, kaadhal illai...
En jeevan jeevan nee thaane, Enna thondrum neram idhu thaane...
Nee illai illai endraale, en nenjam nenjam thaangaadhe.

Nenjukul peidhidum maamazhai…
Neerukkul moozhgidum thaamarai...
Sattendru maarudhu vaanilai...
Pennae, un mael pizhaii...
Nillamal veesudum perrallai…
Nenjukkul neendhidum thaaraghai...
Ponvannam soodiya kaarighai...
Pennae, nee kaanchannai.

Oh shanthi, shanthi oh shanthi…En uyirai, uyirai nee endhi...
En sendrai sendrai, ennai thaandi…Inni nee thaan endhan anthaadi.

Title Change...

For the last few days I have been thinking about this... What has my 'blog posts' to do with my 'blog title'... 'Remnant thoughts from the inside shelf'( dat is a delusion, there was nothing really personal in my blog). So changed it into LIKES... Ya this is quite apt. I hardly maintain my diary but even then at the end of the day I write something thr, even if it is just some scrabbling... I am not this usual blogger, its gonna be only till I find a better pastime...

Pray for me brother...

Just felt like adding the video. Though I keep writing time and again about love for ARR music, I sometimes just can't express the feeling after listening to many of his numbers. Sort of spiritual fulfillment... I don't know exactly what to write.

Weird...yet Nice:)

'Kadhal ennum saabam thandha devadhaye, kaannalaamo raagam nindru povadhaye...' This song 'Oru mani adithal' has followed me for years or rather the other way. I can't point out what I like about this song... the lyrics or the fact that it was a rarity to hear this number. I still remember once when returning from collg, this song was played in some shop in loudspeaker and I was lingering before the shop wanting to listen to it fully and another day got to enjoy the full number in FM played in the auto I was travelling. There was this another song, 'goat song' as I used to call it. Rarely in FM or in some music channel I get to hear it. I never knew which film or who was the composer even. But it always sounded catchy. I started googling with just some middle lines in the search tab since I wasn't sure of the starting word even. Found it was 'Oyilaa Padum paatila' from SeevalpperiPandi. It was an Illayaraja song. Happy to have both the songs in my system now:-) Not just that, years back, guess during school days I remember watching a Karthik-Gowthami-Suhasini movie. It was a quite a good flick. And there was this one song picturing between Karthik and a little girl, a dad-daughter one which was like really touching. An unwitting subject to search on. But sometimes it's like that... You will remember a pani puri or an icecream shop that's quite far away from your place and you would have eaten there just once... But you would do just about anything to get there. Ever been in thos shoes? Now this was a search for a video song... Knowing nothing but the actors it was hard to look for. I had to type all that I knew about the movie, wishing atleast some of the keywords in the search tab would lead me to relevant pages. Gowthami's wikipedia and from there went on to find the movie where she costarred with Karthik and then from the movie name to the song. Atlast I was glad to find someone had uploaded the video in youtube. Dat was quite a rare number sung by Mano composed by Illayaraja sir again. 'Naan vaazndhadhu konjam andha vaasathil vandhudhitthu uyiril kalandhaai enn uyire... ' It was 'Endhan vaazhkayin artham solla' song from Chinna Kannama. The little gal was Baby Shaamili. I just didn't remember that while searching. It had this heart-warming lyrics. Stupid na but I was like so happy. Pleasure of finding something long lost. Must be that.

Lyrics of Endhan from Chinna Kannama

Endhan vaazhkayin artham solla
Pookalin vannam kondu pirandha
magaley enn magaley
Naan vaazndhadhu konjam andha
vaasathil vandhudhitthu uyiril
kalandhaai enn uyire
unn poovizhi kurunagai
Adhi aayiram kavidhaye

Endhan...

Vaanam thalatta megam neeratta
valarum velli nilave
Vaazhvil nee kaanum sugangal nooraaga
vendum thanga chilaye
Thaayin madi serum kandru pola
Naalum valarvaai en maarbiley
Sei unn mugam paarka thunbam theerum
kaalam kaniyaagum deviye
siru kili pol pesum peachil
enai marandhean naan amma

Endhan...

Kanavil ninaivaaga ninaivil kanavaaga
kalandhal kaadhal devi
uravin palanaaga kadalin amudhaga
pirandhai neeyum kaniye
kaana kidaikaadha pillai varame
kannil jolikindra vairame
kodi koduthalum unnai pola
selvam kidaikadhu vaazvile
pulli maaney thoongum mayile
ennai marandhean naan amma

Endhan ...



Thanks to Google!:)

Cost is too high...

'Jeevitham oru kazhcha vasthu aakaradhu... Sandhosham aayalam, sangadam aayalum adhil oru sogaryadha vennam...' Dialogue from Sathyan Anthikad film Vinodayaatra. Means ' You should not make life an exhibition. Be it happiness or sorrow there should be some privacy'. I was searching youtube for the 'video of Balachander's speech on Aamir 'receiving the 11th Gollapudi Srinivas award for best direction for Taare Zameen Par. My search key words weren't exact, so I landed up watching the media's coverage on cat fights in the film industry. Don't actors need privacy? The obvious answer is celebrity status comes with a cost... How easy to say, why don't people understand they are actors just before camera, and acting is a profession just like any other. At the end of the day they too need love, they too are open to all emotions... There are other ways to raise your TRP... Talk about their works rather than their personal lives... Must be this topic is a trifle and outdated one to blog on but I just tried to wear their shoes for a moment and will tell you it hurts... hurts like hell...

Quotes of Viggo Mortensen - good ones!

If you're trying to please everyone, then you're not going to make anything that is honestly yours, I don't think, in the long run.

I definitely need to sleep more. But as they say, you can sleep when you're dead.

There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

Feeling composed...

Works of Swami Vivekananda - Work and its Secret

( Delivered at Los Angeles, California, January 4, 1900 )

One of the greatest lessons I have learnt in my life is to pay as much attention to the means of work as to its end. He was a great man from whom I learnt it, and his own life was a practical demonstration of this great principle I have been always learning great lessons from that one principle, and it appears to me that all the secret of success is there; to pay as much attention to the means as to the end.

Our great defect in life is that we are so much drawn to the ideal, the goal is so much more enchanting, so much more alluring, so much bigger in our mental horizon, that we lose sight of the details altogether.

But whenever failure comes, if we analyse it critically, in ninety-nine per cent of cases we shall find that it was because we did not pay attention to the means. Proper attention to the finishing, strengthening, of the means is what we need. With the means all right, the end must come. We forget that it is the cause that produces the effect; the effect cannot come by itself; and unless the causes are exact, proper, and powerful, the effect will not be produced. Once the ideal is chosen and the means determined, we may almost let go the ideal, because we are sure it will be there, when the means are perfected. When the cause is there, there is no more difficulty about the effect, the effect is bound to come. If we take care of the cause, the effect will take care of itself. The realization of the ideal is the effect. The means are the cause: attention to the means, therefore, is the great secret of life. We also read this in the Gita and learn that we have to work, constantly work with all our power; to put our whole mind in the work, whatever it be, that we are doing. At the same time, we must not be attached. That is to say, we must not be drawn away from the work by anything else; still, we must be able to quit the work whenever we like.

If we examine our own lives, we find that the greatest cause of sorrow is this: we take up something, and put our whole energy on it — perhaps it is a failure and yet we cannot give it up. We know that it is hurting us, that any further clinging to it is simply bringing misery on us; still, we cannot tear ourselves away from it. The bee came to sip the honey, but its feet stuck to the honey-pot and it could not get away. Again and again, we are finding ourselves in that state. That is the whole secret of existence. Why are we here? We came here to sip the honey, and we find our hands and feet sticking to it. We are caught, though we came to catch. We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life. We are being worked upon by other minds, and we are always struggling to work on other minds. We want to enjoy the pleasures of life; and they eat into our vitals. We want to get everything from nature, but we find in the long run that nature takes everything from us — depletes us, and casts us aside.

Had it not been for this, life would have been all sunshine. Never mind! With all its failures and successes, with all its joys and sorrows, it can be one succession of sunshine, if only we are not caught.

That is the one cause of misery: we are attached, we are being caught. Therefore says the Gita: Work constantly; work, but be not attached; be not caught. Reserve unto yourself the power of detaching yourself from everything, however beloved, however much the soul might yearn for it, however great the pangs of misery you feel if you were going to leave it; still, reserve the power of leaving it whenever you want. The weak have no place here, in this life or in any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death. There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery, floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life, weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death.

Attachment is the source of all our pleasures now. We are attached to our friends, to our relatives; we are attached to our intellectual and spiritual works; we are attached to external objects, so that we get pleasure from them. What, again, brings misery but this very attachment? We have to detach ourselves to earn joy. If only we had power to detach ourselves at will, there would not be any misery. That man alone will be able to get the best of nature, who, having the power of attaching himself to a thing with all his energy, has also the power to detach himself when he should do so. The difficulty is that there must be as much power of attachment as that of detachment. There are men who are never attracted by anything. They can never love, they are hard-hearted and apathetic; they escape most of the miseries of life. But the wall never feels misery, the wall never loves, is never hurt; but it is the wall, after all. Surely it is better to be attached and caught, than to be a wall. Therefore the man who never loves, who is hard and stony, escaping most of the miseries of life, escapes also its joys. We do not want that. That is weakness, that is death. That soul has not been awakened that never feels weakness, never feels misery. That is a callous state. We do not want that.

At the same time, we not only want this mighty power of love, this mighty power of attachment, the power of throwing our whole soul upon a single object, losing ourselves and letting ourselves be annihilated, as it were, for other souls — which is the power of the gods — but we want to be higher even than the gods. The perfect man can put his whole soul upon that one point of love, yet he is unattached. How comes this? There is another secret to learn.

The beggar is never happy. The beggar only gets a dole with pity and scorn behind it, at least with the thought behind that the beggar is a low object. He never really enjoys what he gets.

We are all beggars. Whatever we do, we want a return. We are all traders. We are traders in life, we are traders in virtue, we are traders in religion. And alas! we are also traders in love.

If you come to trade, if it is a question of give-and-take, if it is a question of buy-and-sell, abide by the laws of buying and selling. There is a bad time and there is a good time; there is a rise and a fall in prices: always you expect the blow to come. It is like looking at the mirrors Your face is reflected: you make a grimace — there is one in the mirror; if you laugh, the mirror laughs. This is buying and selling, giving and taking.

We get caught. How? Not by what we give, but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love; not from the fact that we love, but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, then, is this: the man who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish man, is the most successful. It seems to be a paradox. Do we not know that every man who is unselfish in life gets cheated, gets hurt? Apparently, yes. "Christ was unselfish, and yet he was crucified." True, but we know that his unselfishness is the reason, the cause of a great victory — the crowning of millions upon millions of lives with the blessings of true success.

Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you — but do not think of that now, it will come back multiplied a thousandfold — but the attention must not be on that. Yet have the power to give: give, and there it ends. Learn that the whole of life is giving, that nature will force you to give. So, give willingly. Sooner or later you will have to give up. You come into life to accumulate. With clenched hands, you want to take. But nature puts a hand on your throat and makes your hands open. Whether you will it or not, you have to give. The moment you say, "I will not", the blow comes; you are hurt. None is there but will be compelled, in the long run, to give up everything. And the more one struggles against this law, the more miserable one feels. It is because we dare not give, because we are not resigned enough to accede to this grand demand of nature, that we are miserable. The forest is gone, but we get heat in return. The sun is taking up water from the ocean, to return it in showers. You are a machine for taking and giving: you take, in order to give. Ask, therefore, nothing in return; but the more you give, the more will come to you. The quicker you can empty the air out of this room, the quicker it will be filled up by the external air; and if you close all the doors and every aperture, that which is within will remain, but that which is outside will never come in, and that which is within will stagnate, degenerate, and become poisoned. A river is continually emptying itself into the ocean and is continually filling up again. Bar not the exit into the ocean. The moment you do that, death seizes you.

Be, therefore, not a beggar; be unattached This is the most terrible task of life! You do not calculate the dangers on the path. Even by intellectually recognising the difficulties, we really do not know them until we feel them. From a distance we may get a general view of a park: well, what of that? We feel and really know it when we are in it. Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart — we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties. Nature wants us to react, to return blow for blow, cheating for cheating, lie for lie, to hit back with all our might. Then it requires a superdivine power not to hit back, to keep control, to be unattached.

Every day we renew our determination to be unattached. We cast our eyes back and look at the past objects of our love and attachment, and feel how every one of them made us miserable. We went down into the depths of despondency because of our "love"! We found ourselves mere slaves in the hands of others, we were dragged down and down! And we make a fresh determination: "Henceforth, I will be master of myself; henceforth, I will have control over myself." But the time comes, and the same story once more! Again the soul is caught and cannot get out. The bird is in a net, struggling and fluttering. This is our life.

I know the difficulties. Tremendous they are, and ninety per cent of us become discouraged and lose heart, and in our turn, often become pessimists and cease to believe in sincerity, love, and all that is grand and noble. So, we find men who in the freshness of their lives have been forgiving, kind, simple, and guileless, become in old age lying masks of men. Their minds are a mass of intricacy. There may be a good deal of external policy, possibly. They are not hot-headed, they do not speak, but it would be better for them to do so; their hearts are dead and, therefore, they do not speak. They do not curse, not become angry; but it would be better for them to be able to be angry, a thousand times better, to be able to curse. They cannot. There is death in the heart, for cold hands have seized upon it, and it can no more act, even to utter a curse, even to use a harsh word.

All this we have to avoid: therefore I say, we require superdivine power. Superhuman power is not strong enough. Superdivine strength is the only way, the one way out. By it alone we can pass through all these intricacies, through these showers of miseries, unscathed. We may be cut to pieces, torn asunder, yet our hearts must grow nobler and nobler all the time.

It is very difficult, but we can overcome the difficulty by constant practice. We must learn that nothing can happen to us, unless we make ourselves susceptible to it. I have just said, no disease can come to me until the body is ready; it does not depend alone on the germs, but upon a certain predisposition which is already in the body. We get only that for which we are fitted. Let us give up our pride and understand this, that never is misery undeserved. There never has been a blow undeserved: there never has been an evil for which I did not pave the way with my own hands. We ought to know that. Analyse yourselves and you will find that every blow you have received, came to you because you prepared yourselves for it. You did half, and the external world did the other half: that is how the blow came. That will sober us down. At the same time, from this very analysis will come a note of hope, and the note of hope is: "I have no control of the external world, but that which is in me and nearer unto me, my own world, is in my control. If the two together are required to make a failure, if the two together are necessary to give me a blow, I will not contribute the one which is in my keeping; and how then can the blow come? If I get real control of myself, the blow will never come."

We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, "Oh, the world is a devil's world." We curse others and say, "What infatuated fools!" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? "Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that.

We only get what we deserve. It is a lie when we say, the world is bad and we are good. It can never be so. It is a terrible lie we tell ourselves.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon any one outside, but be a man, stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find, that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

Is it not a shame that at one moment we talk so much of our manhood, of our being gods — that we know everything, we can do everything, we are blameless, spotless, the most unselfish people in the world; and at the next moment a little stone hurts us, a little anger from a little Jack wounds us — any fool in the street makes "these gods" miserable! Should this be so if we are such gods? Is it true that the world is to blame? Could God, who is the purest and the noblest of souls, be made miserable by any of our tricks? If you are so unselfish, you are like God. What world can hurt you? You would go through the seventh hell unscathed, untouched. But the very fact that you complain and want to lay the blame upon the external world shows that you feel the external world — the very fact that you feel shows that you are not what you claim to be. You only make your offence greater by heaping misery upon misery, by imagining that the external world is hurting you, and crying out, "Oh, this devil's world! This man hurts me; that man hurts me! " and so forth. It is adding lies to misery.

We are to take care of ourselves — that much we can do — and give up attending to others for a time. Let us perfect the means; the end will take care of itself. For the world can be good and pure, only if our lives are good and pure. It is an effect, and we are the means. Therefore, let us purify ourselves. Let us make ourselves perfect.

Kangal Irandal...

For every season there is one particular love song that Tamil Cinema assures which would become a welcome hit among all divisions of public. Kangal Irandal from Subramaniapuram is definitely making waves. Everything about this song would strike one in the first hearing itself. The open voices of the singers Belly Raj and Deepa Miriam(hav they sung any other songs?) The lyrics by Thamarai. She is too good. Right from her big break 'Vassegara', she has never failed to impress. Many of her famous numbers being under Gautham's direction. Engineer by education, writer by passion! 'Pesa enni sila naal arigil varuven, pinbu paarvai podhum ena naan, ninaithen nagardheney... maatri'. And the rhythm to this rhyme is given by 'James Vasanthan'(remember the anchor in sun tv...?) It seems he was a music teacher in Kodaikanal and the director of the movie 'Sasi Kumar' was his student. He had promised to give James a chance if he becomes a director. The worthy part of his music is the importance he gives to vocals. The flute is used whenever there is a pause in the vocal. This song is based on some classical raga(no idea what..?) but has a western peppy beat throughout the song. The beat snowballs when it reaches Kangal Irandal...the touch! And hey the video of the song is also good. But I wonder why the heroine blushes so much...?:)

Kangal Irandal lyrics with an amateurish translation and video:

Kangal irandal un kangal irandal
ennai katti izhuthai izhuthai podhadhena
(With your eyes, you tied and pulled me and as if it was not enough...)
chinna chirippil oru kalla chirippil
ennai thalli vittu thalli vittu moodi maraithai
(small smile, with that impish smile, you pushed me and concealed it all.)

Pesa enni sila naal
arigil varuven
(I would think of speaking and come near...)
pinbu paarvai podhum ena naan
ninaithen nagardheney maatri
(then I would pass by as if the looks sufficed)

Kangal ezhudhum iru kangal ezhudhum
oru vanna kavidhai kaadhal dhaana
(The eyes pen...a beautiful poetry, is it love?)
oru varthai illaye idhil osai illaye
idhai irulilum padithida mudigiradhe
(there are no words, no sounds and can be read even in the dark)

Iravum alladha pagalum alladha
pozhudhugal unnodu kazhiyuma
(Not night, not day...can I get more time to spend with you...)
thodavum koodatha padavum koodatha
idaiveli appodhu kuraiyuma
(if so will will the space between the touch and feel be bridged)

Madiyinil saindhida thudikudhe
marupuram naanamum thadukudhe
(I yearn to rest on your lap but my shyness stops me...)
idhu varai yaaridamum solladha kadhai
(all of it an untold story)

Kangal irandal un kangal irandal
ennai katti izhuthai izhuthai podhadhene
(With your eyes, you tied and pulled me and as if it was not enough...)
chinna chirippil oru kalla chirippil
ennai thalli vittu thalli vittu moodi maraithai
(small smile, with that impish smile, you pushed me and concealed it all.)


Thiraigal andaatha kaatrum theendatha
manadhukkul eppodho nuzhaindhitai
(Not the touch of the waves, not even the feel of the breeze...when did you alone make it into my bosom)
udalum alladha uruvam kolladha
kadavulai pol vandhu kalandhitai
(like the God with no body or form, you have got inside me)

Unnai andri ver oru ninaivilla
(There is no other thought other than you)
ini indha vonuyir enadhillai
(this soul is no longer mine)
thadaiyilai saavilume unnoda varra
(there is no bar even in death to come along with you)

Kangal ezhudhum iru kangal ezhudhum
oru vanna kavidhai kaadhal dhaana
(The eyes pen...a beautiful poetry, is it love?)
oru varthai illaye idhil osai illaye
idhai irulilum padithida mudigiradhe
(there are no words, no sounds and can be read even in the dark)

Pesa enni sila naal
arigil varuven
(I would think of speaking and come near...)
pinbu parvai podhum ena naan
ninaithen nagardheney maatri
(then I would pass by as if the looks sufficed)

Kangal irandal un kangal irandal
ennai katti izhuthai izhuthai podhadhene
(With your eyes, you tied and pulled me and as if it was not enough...)
chinna chirippil oru kalla chirippil
ennai thalli vittu thalli vittu moodi maraithai
(small smile, with that impish smile, you pushed me and concealed it all.)

Class 4 The Mass!

ARR sweet 16! Dats what I felt exactly when I heard his latest album 'Sakkarakatti'. Anyone there who believes Rahman compositions are just about melody, then this album is meant for you. Yup, it's peppy songs. Not the ordinary kutthu paatu with just one instrument playing it all. Violin, guitar, piano, sax, drums etc. The MAN has used it all, and the confluence is amazing. There is no clash in the orchestration, its brilliance. Look out for the song 'Elay', the prelude, the interludes...Whatta modulation! Pulse of the youth caught with immense technical knowledge.
My Fav 2 is Taxi Taxi and Marudhaani.

Taxi Taxi
Singers: Benny Dayal, Blaaze, Viviane Chaix and Javed Ali
Lyrics: Blaaze, Na Muthukumar, Viviane Chaix

The lyrics is simple. Though the French intone and some of the interludes have been beyond my understanding:) It's a friendship song. Na, it can't replace Mustafa. Coz this wont be easy to sing esp the RAP by Blaaze. He rocks! A youthfully energizing song. The bale bale and ole ole chants are superb!

Ha ha hey hey....
Nanba nee oru ilavasa taxi

Once upon a time when we were riding real easy
Only we used our new Maruthi
Look up on the sides when a city girl pass by
Bale bale you say bye bye bye

mmm(it's a peculiar sound..) say bale bale
mmm say ole ole
mmm say ole ole
shaaba

mmm say bale bale
mmm say ole ole
mmm say ole ole
shaabaaaaaa…

Rasi Rasi…nanban kidaithal ellam ossi
Taxi Taxi...nanba nee oru ilavasa taxi

Nee nee nee nee illayael, naan naan naan engu povathu
Thoal saaya thoal illayael en vaazhkai ennavathu

Rasi Rasi…nanban kidaithal ellam ossi
Taxi Taxi...nanba nee oru ilavasa taxi

oola oola…nanban kidaithal elllam ossi
oola oola…yossi yossi…yossi yossi

Blazze[RAP]

En thavarai nee maraithai
Enakai archanai vaanginaai
Un Thoalgal Enniyai poal
Erri midithaen, thaanginaai

Ezhum poathu kai thanthu
Azhum poathu kadan thanthu
Ilaipaara madi thanthu
Enakena vaazhvathu nee thaane

Rasi Rasi…nanban kidaithal ellam ossi
Taxi Taxi...nanba nee oru ilavasa taxi

[French intone]

na na nana...

Thillana Thillana Thimiru pudicha thillanaa
Anbaa naan Anbaa naan adangamaataen hero naan
Kalla thanam theriyaadhu
Kaadhaliye kidaiyaathu

nan na na nana na na...

Kanjathanam theriyaathu
Kanjaave kidayaathu
Nalla pazham kidayaathu
Gnana pazham kidayaathu
En uyir nanban nee thaane

Rasi Rasi…nanban kidaithal ellam ossi
Taxi Taxi...nanba nee oru ilavasa taxi

neeya neeya neeya neeya illayael
na na na na na na engu poavathu
Thoal saaya Thoal illayael en vaazhkai
ennavathu…ennavathu…ennavathu…

nan na naa na na na...

Taxi Taxi...Awesome taxi…
Taxi Taxi…Raasi Raasi…rap ae jaasthi…
Taxi Taxi… hey… hey..ah..hah…hah..
Taxi Taxi…Make the wave… Make the sound…
Taxi Taxi…kumbakumengum city city
Thinam thinam engal tire kaatchi
Group boys naangal king of the streets
Live people gather every body follow me

Look up in the side when ya see u when u pass by
Friend thavira friends thavira stay with me all at the time
Goli soda pizza.. they must they must ask why?

mmm say bale bale
mmm say ole ole
mmm say ole ole
shaaba

mmm say bale bale
mmm say ole ole
mmm say ole ole
shabaaa...


Marudhaani
Singers: Madhushree, ARR, Henry
Lyrics : Vaali

Marudhaani is a female solo. The interlude thara..ra by Rahman. Vaali's lyrics is interesting. It takes lots of time to understand coz of Madhushrees tamil accent. But you don't bother coz she plays the same magic with her voice as in Sandai Kozhi song from Aayitha Ezhuthu. The best part in the music of the song is the piano interlude. Awesome!

Aaa....Aaa...
Marudhani...Marudhani...Marudhaani vizhiyil en
Adi podi deepaali
Gangai endra kaanalai kaatum
kaadhal kaanal endru Gangai kaatum
Vaazhum payirku thaneer vendum
Kadhal kadhaikkum kanner vendum

Marudhaani vizhiyil En
adi podi deepaali
Agaayam man meethu saayathu
Nijamaana kadhal dhaan,inaiyaana paadal dhaan...
athan oasai ennaalum oyaathu...

Maruthaani...Maruthaani...Maruthaani vizhiyil yaen...

Avan idhaya veetil vaazhum aval degam venthu pogum
enai avan marunthida maataan sottu neerum sottu sorum
kadhali kai nagam ellaam pokkisham pole avan semipaan

ARR: oh...oh... tha ra ra ra... tha ra re ra...

oruthikkaaka vazhgira jaadhi
unaravillai innoru paadhi

Maruthaani vizhiyil en
adi podi deepali..
Nijamaana kadhal dhaan...nilayaana paadal dhaan...
athan ossai ennaalum oyaathu...

oh....oh...oh...

aval avan kadhal nenjil kandaale siru kutram
avan nenjam thaai paal pole ennalum parisuththam
Aathiram naethiram vooda paalayum kallaai aval paarkiraal

ARR: oh...oh... tha ra ra ra... tha ra re ra...

Aaga motham avasara koalam
avalakku athu kaatidum kaalam
Marudhaani...Marudhaani...Marudhaani vizhiyil en
adi podi deepali
Gangai endra kaanalai kaatum
kaadhal kaanal endru Gangai kaatum..
Vaazhum payirku thaneer vendum...
Kadhal kadhaikkum kanner vendum..

Marudhaani vizhiyil en
adi podi deepaali
Agaayam man meethu saayathu
Nijamaana kadhal dhaan...nilayaana paadal dhaan...
athan ossai ennaalum oyaathu...

Marudhaani...Marudhaani...Marudhaani Vizhiyil en...

Happy Birthday Padu!!!

Happy Birthday dearest! You are in no way gonna read this but that doesn't make you any less special. Friends from 9 th std on. It's not just school time friend, you are more than that to me. You know my each semester percentage better than I do. And your advice atleast to make mom happy next time...lol. Not many I know who get 90+% in 12th and don't choose Engg or Medicine. In your family all 3 of you are like that. Advanced Diploma in Fashion Tech, B.A in Jainology and all those religious courses you attend. You will get a reputation for patience for sure. I still can't forget those dresses you designed for the fest in your college. Remember what I said, if at all I become an affluent person, I will have you as my personal designer. My Manish Malhotri...hehe! I just wish you make the best use of your talents, and not opt for in-law-sevva .

To my Gudiya
इस छोटे से दिल की, एक छोटी सी आशा, काश हम रहते साथ साथ हमेशा !!
dat is dhil and small ki, didn't get the right fonts. Now don't call me copy cat:)

And this song for the memories we shared along, esp it always reminds me of Goa. Dil Chahtha Hain title song with translation.

Dil Chahta Hai, Dil Chahta Hai
(The heart wants...)
Dil Chahta Hai, Kabhi Na Beete Chamkeele Din
(The heart wants...may these sparkling days never end)
Dil Chahta Hai, Hum Na Rahein Kabhi Yaaron Ke Bin
(The heart wants...may we never have to be without our friends)
Din Din Bhar Ho Pyaari Baatein
(May our days be full of poetry)
Jhoome Shaame, Gaaye Raatein
(Our evenings dance and nights sing)
Masti Mein Rahe Dooba Dooba Hameshaa Samaa
(May our time together always be fun and exciting)
Humko Raahon Mein Yoonhi Milti Rahein Khushiyaan
(May every path we tread bring us happiness)
Dil Chahta Hai, Kabhi Na Beete Chamkile Din,
Dil Chahta Hai, Hum Na Rahe Kabhi Yaaron Ke Bin

Jagmagaate Hain, Jhilmilaate Hain Apne Raastein
(Our paths dazzle with their glitter)
Yeh Khushi Rahe, Roshni Rahe Apne Waaste
(May this joy and light be ours by right)
Oh Oh Oh ...

Jahan Ruke Hum, Jahan Bhi Jaayein
(Wherever we stop, wherever we go...)
Jo Hum Chaahein, Voh Hum Paayein
(What we desire , we will receive...)
Masti Mein Rahe Dooba Dooba Hameshaa Samaa
(May our time together always be fun and exciting)
Humko Raahon Mein Yoonhi Milti Rahein Khushiyaan
(May every path we tread bring us happiness...)
Dil Chahta Hai, Dil Chahta Hai

Kaisa Ajab Yeh Safar Hai, Socho To Har Ik Hi Bekhabar Hai
(How strange is this journey! if you just think each of us is so unaware...)
Usko Jaana Kidhar Hai, Jo Waqt Aaye, Jaane Kya Dikhaaye
(of where he is destined to go...of what the future holds for each of us...)
Oh Oh Oh ...

Dil Chahta Hai, Dil Chahta Hai
(The heart wants...)
Dil Chahta Hai, Kabhi Na Beete Chamkeele Din
(The heart wants...may these sparkling days never end...)

- ur best friend!

Bill Gates ~ Mind and heart in the right place!

Bill Gates, the Microsoft Chairman calls it a day. I have deep reverence to this legend. The dreamer, the altruist! I have grown up believing the world of computers belongs to him. Before I could hear of Charles Babbage, I heard of Bill Gates. As a dropout, as a dreamer, as an achiever, as a philanthropist. Been in the Forbes list for a long time, now at the age of 52 he is all set to devote the rest of his life to full-fledged charity work. Hats Off Sir!

The Wall Street Journal had presented the 'Bill Gates Speech To Harvard Graduates'. Thanks to Sony Mammu who had send me the link few months back. Any Google search will lead you to the YouTube or to the article. I find it a pleasure to have that speech posted in my blog.

Bill Gates Speech At Harvard :

President Bok, former President Rudenstine, incoming President Faust, members of the Harvard Corporation and the Board of Overseers, members of the faculty, parents, and especially, the graduates:

I’ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: “Dad, I always told you I’d come back and get my degree.”

I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I’ll be changing my job next year … and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume.

I applaud the graduates today for taking a much more direct route to your degrees. For my part, I’m just happy that the Crimson has called me “Harvard’s most successful dropout.” I guess that makes me valedictorian of my own special class … I did the best of everyone who failed.

But I also want to be recognized as the guy who got Steve Ballmer to drop out of business school. I’m a bad influence. That’s why I was invited to speak at your graduation. If I had spoken at your orientation, fewer of you might be here today.

Harvard was just a phenomenal experience for me. Academic life was fascinating. I used to sit in on lots of classes I hadn’t even signed up for. And dorm life was terrific. I lived up at Radcliffe, in Currier House. There were always lots of people in my dorm room late at night discussing things, because everyone knew I didn’t worry about getting up in the morning. That’s how I came to be the leader of the anti-social group. We clung to each other as a way of validating our rejection of all those social people.

Radcliffe was a great place to live. There were more women up there, and most of the guys were science-math types. That combination offered me the best odds, if you know what I mean. This is where I learned the sad lesson that improving your odds doesn’t guarantee success.

One of my biggest memories of Harvard came in January 1975, when I made a call from Currier House to a company in Albuquerque that had begun making the world’s first personal computers. I offered to sell them software.

I worried that they would realize I was just a student in a dorm and hang up on me. Instead they said: “We’re not quite ready, come see us in a month,” which was a good thing, because we hadn’t written the software yet. From that moment, I worked day and night on this little extra credit project that marked the end of my college education and the beginning of a remarkable journey with Microsoft.

What I remember above all about Harvard was being in the midst of so much energy and intelligence. It could be exhilarating, intimidating, sometimes even discouraging, but always challenging. It was an amazing privilege – and though I left early, I was transformed by my years at Harvard, the friendships I made, and the ideas I worked on.

But taking a serious look back … I do have one big regret.

I left Harvard with no real awareness of the awful inequities in the world – the appalling disparities of health, and wealth, and opportunity that condemn millions of people to lives of despair.

I learned a lot here at Harvard about new ideas in economics and politics. I got great exposure to the advances being made in the sciences.

But humanity’s greatest advances are not in its discoveries – but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity – reducing inequity is the highest human achievement.

I left campus knowing little about the millions of young people cheated out of educational opportunities here in this country. And I knew nothing about the millions of people living in unspeakable poverty and disease in developing countries.

It took me decades to find out.

You graduates came to Harvard at a different time. You know more about the world’s inequities than the classes that came before. In your years here, I hope you’ve had a chance to think about how – in this age of accelerating technology – we can finally take on these inequities, and we can solve them.

Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause – and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

For Melinda and for me, the challenge is the same: how can we do the most good for the greatest number with the resources we have.

During our discussions on this question, Melinda and I read an article about the millions of children who were dying every year in poor countries from diseases that we had long ago made harmless in this country. Measles, malaria, pneumonia, hepatitis B, yellow fever. One disease I had never even heard of, rotavirus, was killing half a million kids each year – none of them in the United States.

We were shocked. We had just assumed that if millions of children were dying and they could be saved, the world would make it a priority to discover and deliver the medicines to save them. But it did not. For under a dollar, there were interventions that could save lives that just weren’t being delivered.

If you believe that every life has equal value, it’s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: “This can’t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.”

So we began our work in the same way anyone here would begin it. We asked: “How could the world let these children die?”

The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system.

But you and I have both.

We can make market forces work better for the poor if we can develop a more creative capitalism – if we can stretch the reach of market forces so that more people can make a profit, or at least make a living, serving people who are suffering from the worst inequities. We also can press governments around the world to spend taxpayer money in ways that better reflect the values of the people who pay the taxes.

If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world.

I am optimistic that we can do this, but I talk to skeptics who claim there is no hope. They say: “Inequity has been with us since the beginning, and will be with us till the end – because people just … don’t … care.” I completely disagree.

I believe we have more caring than we know what to do with.

All of us here in this Yard, at one time or another, have seen human tragedies that broke our hearts, and yet we did nothing – not because we didn’t care, but because we didn’t know what to do. If we had known how to help, we would have acted.

The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity.

To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps.

Even with the advent of the Internet and 24-hour news, it is still a complex enterprise to get people to truly see the problems. When an airplane crashes, officials immediately call a press conference. They promise to investigate, determine the cause, and prevent similar crashes in the future.

But if the officials were brutally honest, they would say: “Of all the people in the world who died today from preventable causes, one half of one percent of them were on this plane. We’re determined to do everything possible to solve the problem that took the lives of the one half of one percent.”

The bigger problem is not the plane crash, but the millions of preventable deaths.

We don’t read much about these deaths. The media covers what’s new – and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it’s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it’s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It’s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don’t know how to help. And so we look away.

If we can really see a problem, which is the first step, we come to the second step: cutting through the complexity to find a solution.

Finding solutions is essential if we want to make the most of our caring. If we have clear and proven answers anytime an organization or individual asks “How can I help?,” then we can get action – and we can make sure that none of the caring in the world is wasted. But complexity makes it hard to mark a path of action for everyone who cares — and that makes it hard for their caring to matter.

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have — whether it’s something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

The AIDS epidemic offers an example. The broad goal, of course, is to end the disease. The highest-leverage approach is prevention. The ideal technology would be a vaccine that gives lifetime immunity with a single dose. So governments, drug companies, and foundations fund vaccine research. But their work is likely to take more than a decade, so in the meantime, we have to work with what we have in hand – and the best prevention approach we have now is getting people to avoid risky behavior.

Pursuing that goal starts the four-step cycle again. This is the pattern. The crucial thing is to never stop thinking and working – and never do what we did with malaria and tuberculosis in the 20th century – which is to surrender to complexity and quit.

The final step – after seeing the problem and finding an approach – is to measure the impact of your work and share your successes and failures so that others learn from your efforts.

You have to have the statistics, of course. You have to be able to show that a program is vaccinating millions more children. You have to be able to show a decline in the number of children dying from these diseases. This is essential not just to improve the program, but also to help draw more investment from business and government.

But if you want to inspire people to participate, you have to show more than numbers; you have to convey the human impact of the work – so people can feel what saving a life means to the families affected.

I remember going to Davos some years back and sitting on a global health panel that was discussing ways to save millions of lives. Millions! Think of the thrill of saving just one person’s life – then multiply that by millions. … Yet this was the most boring panel I’ve ever been on – ever. So boring even I couldn’t bear it.

What made that experience especially striking was that I had just come from an event where we were introducing version 13 of some piece of software, and we had people jumping and shouting with excitement. I love getting people excited about software – but why can’t we generate even more excitement for saving lives?

You can’t get people excited unless you can help them see and feel the impact. And how you do that – is a complex question.

Still, I’m optimistic. Yes, inequity has been with us forever, but the new tools we have to cut through complexity have not been with us forever. They are new – they can help us make the most of our caring – and that’s why the future can be different from the past.

The defining and ongoing innovations of this age – biotechnology, the computer, the Internet – give us a chance we’ve never had before to end extreme poverty and end death from preventable disease.

Sixty years ago, George Marshall came to this commencement and announced a plan to assist the nations of post-war Europe. He said: “I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. It is virtually impossible at this distance to grasp at all the real significance of the situation.”

Thirty years after Marshall made his address, as my class graduated without me, technology was emerging that would make the world smaller, more open, more visible, less distant.

The emergence of low-cost personal computers gave rise to a powerful network that has transformed opportunities for learning and communicating.

The magical thing about this network is not just that it collapses distance and makes everyone your neighbor. It also dramatically increases the number of brilliant minds we can have working together on the same problem – and that scales up the rate of innovation to a staggering degree.

At the same time, for every person in the world who has access to this technology, five people don’t. That means many creative minds are left out of this discussion -- smart people with practical intelligence and relevant experience who don’t have the technology to hone their talents or contribute their ideas to the world.

We need as many people as possible to have access to this technology, because these advances are triggering a revolution in what human beings can do for one another. They are making it possible not just for national governments, but for universities, corporations, smaller organizations, and even individuals to see problems, see approaches, and measure the impact of their efforts to address the hunger, poverty, and desperation George Marshall spoke of 60 years ago.

Members of the Harvard Family: Here in the Yard is one of the great collections of intellectual talent in the world.

What for?

There is no question that the faculty, the alumni, the students, and the benefactors of Harvard have used their power to improve the lives of people here and around the world. But can we do more? Can Harvard dedicate its intellect to improving the lives of people who will never even hear its name?

Let me make a request of the deans and the professors – the intellectual leaders here at Harvard: As you hire new faculty, award tenure, review curriculum, and determine degree requirements, please ask yourselves:

Should our best minds be dedicated to solving our biggest problems?

Should Harvard encourage its faculty to take on the world’s worst inequities? Should Harvard students learn about the depth of global poverty … the prevalence of world hunger … the scarcity of clean water …the girls kept out of school … the children who die from diseases we can cure?

Should the world’s most privileged people learn about the lives of the world’s least privileged?

These are not rhetorical questions – you will answer with your policies.

My mother, who was filled with pride the day I was admitted here – never stopped pressing me to do more for others. A few days before my wedding, she hosted a bridal event, at which she read aloud a letter about marriage that she had written to Melinda. My mother was very ill with cancer at the time, but she saw one more opportunity to deliver her message, and at the close of the letter she said: “From those to whom much is given, much is expected.”

When you consider what those of us here in this Yard have been given – in talent, privilege, and opportunity – there is almost no limit to what the world has a right to expect from us.

In line with the promise of this age, I want to exhort each of the graduates here to take on an issue – a complex problem, a deep inequity, and become a specialist on it. If you make it the focus of your career, that would be phenomenal. But you don’t have to do that to make an impact. For a few hours every week, you can use the growing power of the Internet to get informed, find others with the same interests, see the barriers, and find ways to cut through them.

Don’t let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives.

You graduates are coming of age in an amazing time. As you leave Harvard, you have technology that members of my class never had. You have awareness of global inequity, which we did not have. And with that awareness, you likely also have an informed conscience that will torment you if you abandon these people whose lives you could change with very little effort. You have more than we had; you must start sooner, and carry on longer.

Knowing what you know, how could you not?

And I hope you will come back here to Harvard 30 years from now and reflect on what you have done with your talent and your energy. I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world’s deepest inequities … on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but their humanity.

Good luck.

P.S
We like to add degrees to our names, the real identity is to identify ourselves with the aam aadmi and to see that the informed conscience doesn't prick us at the end. And dat will not happen by earning dollars, but in using those degrees to do some thing for the needy. Changing care into action dats the call, thn wat stops today's youngsters? At 21 now I feel the reasons might be that we still are confined to the environment whr we are in. We would like to come out, but thr is a fear of future n yaa can I alone make a change. Wat is imperative is to find people, something like data mining wherein one finds relevant data and retrieves them from the database. People of similar interests should come together, and move forward with confidence. Surely most of these inequities will disappear. But " Well Done Is Better Than Well Said". Hmm....I m tongue-tied:(

Ambulance Services!

A 3 digit no like 100 for police n 101 for fire station isn't available for emergency as of now in Chennai. Many a times we aren't able to help someone hit by a vehicle coz we aren't aware of the emergency numbers available in the place. The below are ambulance services in chennai with the location and number.Do make it a point you take the print out of this consolidated list and carry it with you. You will not know when it will come in use. God bless!

List:

1. A.C. Ambulance Service -24355942

2.Accident Relief Force -42077777

3.Apollo Hospital - Greams Rd / Teynampet / Tondiarpet - 1066

4.Aysha Hospital (91 A, Millers Road Kilpauk) - 26426930

5.Balaji Hospital (Guindy Industrial Estate
Lawyrjaganathan Street,) - 22345282

6.Bismi Ambulance Service(Vadapalani) - 9444280414

7.Chennai Kaliappa ( 2nd Main road R A PURAM
600028 ) -24936184

8.Child Trust Hospital (Nungambakam)- 42001800

9.Devaki Hospital(Luz Church Road, Mylapore)- 24993391

10.Govt. Royapettah Hospital - 28483051

11.Govt. Stanley Hospita(Royapettah)l --25282350

12.Hindu Mission Hospital(GST Road, West Tambaram)- 22262244

13.Helping Point (Nungambakkam) -28280257

14.Jayadev Ambulance Service(Kilpauk) -26412317

15.K J Hospital( Purasaiwalkam) -26411513

16.MV Hospital(West Mada Church Street,, Royapuram) -25954913

17.Madras Medical Mission(4a,Jj Nagar, Mugappair)- 26561801

18.Malar Hospitals Ltd. (Gandhi Nagar,1st Main Road, Adyar) -24914023

19.Mass & Co. (Choolaimedu, Chennai,) -22301890

20.Miot Hospital (Poonamallee High Road,Manapakkam)-22492288

21.National Hospital (Jaffer Sherin Street)-25240131

22.Nichani Health Centre( Royapuram)-25978777

23.Sampath Nursing Home(Natchiappa, Mylapore) -24980572

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25.Sri Kumaran Ambulance Service (Choolaimedu) -23743348

26.Sri Ramachandra Hospital ( Porur) -24768027

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28.St.John Ambulance Association( Kodambakkam) -9381001272

29.Voluntary Health Service(Anna Nagar ) -22541972

Pgs From My Diary - Dated June 20th ' 08

It's 5 mins past 11. ' Oru aayiram paarvayile, un paarvayai naan ariven...' Hello fm. Past few days I have resumed listening to the radio between 10-1, esp Radio Mirchi; Mokkai Nights & Kadhala Kadhala. I was wondering What is it like to become an RJ esp during night time. Who would listen to you...ppl having night shifts, car/taxi/lorry drivers, the road corner pani puri shops, owls & yaa ppl like me who have slept most of the day time and now the eyelids are tired of resting anymore! Oh ya I remember during the reconstruction of my neighbour's house, the workers after a tired day would switch on the radio. It appeared to me like they forget their physical pain and have a peaceful sleep. Their meaning of music is different. Thanks to radio sets which come at affordable prices. ' Neer kulle muzhiginaalum needhi sagadha, nenju kule vaazhum engal jodi saagadha...' Kalai maatum kandaal kaduvul theriyadha from Dasavatharam. Rangarajan Nambi role, the first half an hour is a must watch. Kamal's acting, cinematography, art direction, song every piece of that first few mins in the movie is damn good.

In Kadhala Kadhala, Dr. Love has taken the topic of self love today...the last 2 days the topics were interesting ,office love, celebrity crushes! Today it's boring. ' Loving yourself' , I recall Suresh Punjabi's session in 3rd year. It was a soft skills training pgm for 2 days in collg to equip us for placement at the end of the year. At the close of the first day training, Suresh sir had asked us to write a Love letter to ourselves! To show how important self love is. Dat was the first and last love letter I have written. It's safe in my desk along with another precious letter given by Akhi on Friendship day 12th std. 'un punnagai naan semikindra selvam adi, nee illai endrral naanum inge ezhai adi...' kannukule unnai veithein. I like the lyrics and the innocence PrabhuDeva displays in the song. I prefer listening to the radio n switching channels to my saved Fav playlists in my comp. Vow! Another fav number from one of the worst movies I have seen ever. The song ' Ven megam pen agaa uruvaanadho...' music is by Yuvan from yaaradi nee mohini...' kanmudi orr orum naan saygirein, kanneril anandham naan kaangirein...' Hariharn is such a consummate singer, so much feel in the song...

Uma has said she would come home tomorrow, we girls are so much bored...the hols seem never-ending with no idea of when the company would call...I turn back few pgs , dated 1/6/08, I had prepared a check list of things I should do this summer...Haha..." I have 100% belief that I would do something tomorrow which I had totally ignored today". Am I stupid or optimistic..? I don't know but this much I am sure I love myself a lot. Eppayadhum urupuduvein..:) This belief keeps me going. I have been picking up some random blogs and reading these days. One was that of a gal who is so good in writing, her inditing style is so unique. But I haven't understood why does she take the nay side of things always. She seems to hate herself. From her old posts I could key out there was some love failure. She finds her blog to be her only solace, so I didn't want to comment anything. Really wish she finds love again in life. Ha, Oh ho sanam...Oh Ho, it's Dasa again. It's the Pop singer Kamal! The pairing between Kamal and Jaypradha was good, it would remind anyone of their Salangai Oli...Naadha Vinodhangal. It's 12.20...I am reminded of a friend who is kinda rough these days. I wish to give her a piece of my mind, but I feel she won't take it in the right sense and face-offs don't interest me. ' uravin perumai pirivil kandu, uyirin paadhi kuraindhein...' Azhage sugama un kobangal sugama. The violin piece is amazing. Divi and me had decided to learn guitar this hols, dunno whn..?

Dr. Love is telling something sensible finally. ' Do things that you love, for eg dressing up well & when ppl pass some good comments, you will feel good about yourself' dats quite true:-) Another beautiful thing to do is to openly tell ppl ' They look good/ beautiful/ handsome today ' you don't know, you might be unknowingly making someones day. Hello fm... 'Nilave ennidaam neringadhe, nee ninaikum edathil naan ilay...'dats a beautiful song. Old songs...day before I had chanced upon a tamil song review site. There was this post on " Polluted songs"...bloggers who are lyrics enthusiasts were ripping apart songs, entries of adulterated songs! The main target of one guy was Kannadasan, he was listing double meaning songs of the legend. Well, he got fitting replys from fellow bloggers. I was taken back when he sort of declared one of my fav songs to have vulgar lyrics. ' Senthazham poovil vanthadaum thendral...' from mullum malarum. The beauty of nature and subtle assumptions of nature as woman. I have loved the song so much. Another blogger commented ' Palam sillar ulam enna yen padaithaan andavan from the same song, must be Kannadasan knew there would be ppl like you who see everything in double meaning'...hehehe...I was so happy! Dr. Love signs off wishing the listeners a great weekend. The song is 'Alankuil, koovum reyil yavum isai agum ada kanna...'...Harini's classical touch. I remember Kirthi, in school days we used to sing together Harin's 'Manam Virumbuthe'... Kirthi knows each line by heart. The time is 1'o clock...Ha, his pic is the screensaver in my mob. My frnds call me crazy, but I don't bother...I still get glued to the chair when I see Vijay on screen nevertheless I have got tired of his humdrum roles in the past many flicks...Hmm...I have really liked this idea of writing my dairy listening to radio! Gudnite.

P.S. Net connection isn't stable in the night hours coz of low voltage otherwise I could have made a direct entry into the blog.