This Iyer is a little funny ...

He was trying to call her since morning just to ask her about the plans for NEWYEAR's eve, but she did not respond to his call till evening, he felt a bit worried, and he thought that yesterday's fight could be the prime reason for she not picking up his call. It was 5:00 in the evening and he has already got tickets for the movie "Billa" at Satyam theaters for the 6:30 show, he decided to call her once again and dialed his number this time he was lucky enough to get a response from the other end "The number you are trting to reach has been switched off, please try again later. He does not know what to do, so he decided to go directly to her office, it was 5:45 when he reached her office, he was a known face to most of her colleagues and at the reception he was greeted by Shyamala, Hey Senthil, wat a surprise, enna indha pakkam ? Supriya enga ?, this question from shyamala made him terribly confused, he does not know how to react to this question and at the same ...

General 1. The year did not start well as expected, but was going on smooth. 2. Professionally no big improvements this year. 3. Personally also things did not change much. 4. Life continued in Bangalore with pain and thronging to come back to chennai ASAP 5. Got few new friends with whom i am comfortable with. 6. Health took a major set back with a ligament tear on the right knee, which almost paralysed me. 7. People at home started the hunt for my Miss. Perfect. 8. Salary hike was not that good 9. Started writing diary this year and hope to continue the same in 2008 10. One of my close buddy moved to UK with her hubby 11. Another close buddy moved out of blore and went back to chennai 12. Enjoyed my bachelor life in my own style - Blogging, reading, writing ofcourse sleeping. Pathetic Moments 1. The suffering i had due to ligament tear 2. Had a prolonged silence with one of my long time friend 3. Falling sick quite often due to severe cold and developed wheezing Happy Moments 1. The ...

What else we can say other than one more pathetic indian display. The way in which the indian batsmen batted in both the innings proved once again that they are spineless when counter attacking a quality side like Australia. The only consolation was sachin's performance in the first innings but in the second innings he felt out of place and was struggling to get the nick. The wall colapsed once again and it looks like he is following the foot steps of how Ganguly was playing 3 years back, i think i could have played much better than dravid, its high time the wall reconstructs itself. I heard that Yuvraj and Dhoni mistook this to be a 20-20 and was trying to fire from the word go and unfortunately it back-fired for the team. I really dont mind INDIA losing this series to Australia but they should offer some resistance, this victory was literally gifted to Australia which is painful to a die-hard indian cricket fan like me. I hope we show some resistance in the next match. Scorecard:...

Ah, thot of writing a new series called PITHUKULI, and i hope you all will enjoy this series. Here is my first try and please let me know your sincere comments. We all know that IT industry is a place for all educated people and english is considered to be the global language in this industry. Me hailing from the heart of chennai, i would love to see "Chennai Thamizh" being spoken at all s.w companies, so here is a small conversation between a Programmer and his Project Manager, in pure "Chennai Sen Thamizh". The situation is this ... Its appraisal time and Project manager is doing appraisal for his team member. ahhhh ... vaa kannu ... suresuu ... eppdi keera ? sokaa keerayaa ?? inaathuku unna itukunu vandhurukaango nu unikku message teriyumla ?? aahaann ... inaamo ... aapuraisalaa ... keepuraisalo ... ennamo oru ezhavu ... atha pathi kostin panna thaanae ittnadhukara ... kareeektaa putcha baa maatera nee ... seri ... nee immaa naalu inga kundhikinu inaatha kilicha ...

Ah, with this little experience of watching movies, i thot of rating the top ten movies which bothered me and gave me the pleasure of watching them. So here is that list, you readers tell me how many in this list actually matches your favourites. 10th: Saami - Vikram, Trisha - This movie has a very fast moving screenplay which does not make anyone feel bored. Highlight was Vikram's Acting 9th: Kaakha Kaakha - Surya, Jyothika - This movie is simply a Gautham's classic, every bit of the movie was thrilling and entertaining. Songs are this movies highlight 8th: Bhaashaa - Rajinikanth, Naghma - Hooo, a typical Rajinikanth movie and still is one of his all time best. Story line was simply ultimate, suits Super Star. 7th: Netrikan - Rajinikanth, Sarita - This movie is famous for Ranjini's anti hero role, it has an excellent story. Highlight was Balachander's direction 6th: Mouna Raagam - Mohan, Karthik, Revathi - The movie which proved that even mohan can act. Wonderful ...

With a very heart i write this blog. Just 2 hours back PAKISTAN has lost one of its eminent personalities, a great leader and a wonderful human being Benazir Bhutto. Its a shameful act by the Musharaf government by not giving enough protection to one of its great leader and led way to her assasination. Bhutto was shot 5 times using an AK-47 rifile and a suicide bomber blew himself off killing atleast 30 persons. Benazir succumbed to her injuries and died at around 6:16 PM pakistan time. I had a high respect for this great personality, i admired her character, strength and courage by which she fought the musharaf government. She came back to pakistan during the month of august 2007 after being in exile for over 9 years in the UK, she was determined to dethrone Musharaf in this coming general election and was sure of accquiring the term for the third time, but fate decided the other way and this wonderful soul was taken back by the almighty Allah. I sincerely pray for her soul to rest in...

கடலை விட்டு ஓடி வந்த ஓடுகாலியே ஊருக்குள் நீயும் வந்தால் ஊரு காலியே This was one of the funny poem which was published in one of the leading tamil magazine when entire south india was hit by this water demon. Till 25th December 2004 no one knew the term called TSUNAMI, but on that fateful black sunday 26th December 2004, all of a sudden this word got famous for all the wrong reasons. It all happened in no time and got over in a flash, in just a matter of 7 to 10 minutes it swallowed thousands and thousands of human bodies across the asia pacific belt, the worst affected contries are Indonesia, Srilanka and India. This incident will always be a pain in everybody's heart who happened to witness this tragedy, my heart goes for all those who have lost their loved ones and pray to GOD for them to give courage and strength to face life and let time be the best medicine to heal such a deep wound.

That was a romantic evening, where the skies looked to be in their best attire, its actually impossible for me to say what that color was in the sky, but it looked absolutely gorgeous. I was waiting for her in our usual meeting place, i never knew that waiting is such a pain untill i was infected by this love bug, i was growing impatient as the time rolled on, when i was about to leave, there came my angel in an even more best attire than the sky. She asked me whether i was waiting for a long time, i just pretended as if i came just a few seconds before her, and there came a striking reply back to me saying - "Then why so many peanut cones lying under my feet?" I dont have an answer to that, well, i said looking straight into her eyes "I love you", she said she could not hear that properly as the sound of the waves are too noisy, i again said "I love you" still she could not hear me, then i screamed "I LOVE YOU", this time i made sure that it was...

Charlie Chaplin was a comic, a rebel and a humanist. Those three little words are the keys to discovering the man who is still considered to be one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. They are also the keys to appreciating his unique ability to bring tears of laughter to our eyes one minute. And tears of understanding the next. The kind of impact this little genuis brought into my life is un-measurable. We both have many similarities on the personal front, which probably i cannot put it here, he still lives with me and guides me in all walks of my life. I wouldn't have met him in person, nor we both wouldn't have exchanged a word between us, but i LOVE him more than anyone in this world. Its so unfortunate that i was not here in this world when this genius was making the entire world laugh. I would want to lead a life as he did and i should die the way he died. He came into this world as a pauper and died as a millionaire and when he died, he gave away all his fortune ...

Well, rainy days are always wet in our minds. If something that always facinates me, it can only be RAIN. I enjoy RAIN when i am outdoors or indoors, both has its own variety of mood that settles inside me. If i am out in rain, i dont prefer hiding myself underneath an umbrella, i love to get drenched, I love to walk all alone as long as i have a path to walk, dont care about how far i am from home, its something more devine to me. I somewhat feel that, as we get old, we try to distance ourselves from nature's wonderful spectacle callled RAIN, why is it so ? RAIN is still the same, its pouring from heaven and kisses the earth all the time, but our views about RAIN has changed. When we were young, this the same mind which cried for going out and get wet in RAIN, dance as much as you can, splash water all over your body, roll on that wet ground, run like mad, design a lovely TITANIC and then make it sail on both sides or our street, for some poor designers like me, i used to simply t...

Hi Folks, thanks a lot for all those who were encouraging me and supporting me in writing blogs. Its high time i decide on adding up somemore spice and richness to my blog, since blogger does not give us the freedom to modify the layout as per our wish, i have decided to go on with a seperate domain so that i can alter it to my wish. From now on all visitors for http://iyerpaiyan.blogspot.com will be redirected my new website http://iyerpaiyan.com so please bookmark this new link for all my latest updates. Thanks once again for all your support and encouragement.

M S Subbulakshmi, shortly accronymned as MS. I am not such a great follower of carnatic music, even though my grand fatehr is a famous musician who has been a GURU for well known singers like T R Mahalingam, Maharajapuram Santhanam, Soolamangalam Sisters etc, etc, but somewhat i was attracted by this great person, i am still figuring out what's that magnetism that attracted me in her. I started collecting her cine songs as well as her bhajans, trust me, her voice was mesmerizing. Just listen to her "Kurai ondrum illa marai moorthy kanna ..." song in a music system, you will be taken to a new world. I should admit the fact that i was attracted towards that genius not for her songs, but for her looks. In tamil we would call "Pazhutha Sumangali", this term will be used for a women who lives with her husband for decades and she is a perfect example for that. Her beautiful kunkum on the forehead, her 2 sided nose studs, that wonderful silk saree she wores, a nice flo...

Its been our first outing after our marriage and both of us were excited about that, i have my own plans of surprising her today and she was not aware of that. It all started well and went fine till we reached the most expensive hotel in the city for a candle lit dinner. This being an arranged marriage i did not have a full idea about her character and i thought this will be a good start to get to know each other. I left the choice of ordering the menu items for us to her and she got involved in reading that menu card so deeply, untill she heard a female voice calling ... "Hey vasanth, what a surprise? Not even in the wildest of my dreams i thought i will meet you again, how are you ?", even i was extremly thrilled to see Vasanthi after a long time and i too reciprocated my happiness, i introduced my sweet heart to vasanthi and she told her that "This idiot didnt even call me for his marriage, but its a pleasure meeting you now". Vasanthi is a personality who gels w...

It was very dark everywhere and terribly cold, i was crawing on my feet and trying to find my way out of that place. I pricked myself to see if i am conscious enough to believe what i am seeing in front of my eyes, yes, i could see one of my friend standing in front of me and it was extremely bright, i was thrilled to see him, i crawled towards him with my hands stretched and then screaming at him with joy, but suddenly it became completely dark and my friend dissapeared, i was crying with pain and terrible cold. Once again there was a spark of light and i could see my lovely wife standing in front of me, i waived my hands at her, but that went un-noticed, i could see her looking at me with tears rolling on her cheeks, but before i could reach her, she dissappeared and there was total darkness and i was gripped with that biting cold. I could hardly move my feet and was slowly fainting, then i could hear voices of people talking ..... Hey where is your husband yaar ? One of my friend as...

I know everyone of you would have seen DOG's but does anyone of you have seen them in the way i see them ? Check this out and let me know on how many points you guys agree me and how many points are new to you. BTW - this applies to all the DOG's in this planet 1. Dogs before sitting (anywhere / anytime) they used to come around that place 3 times and then only it will sit. (Without doing that, they will never sit) 2. Dogs run from one place to another and stand there for couple of seconds and then come back to the same place from where they started (This is what they say "Naaiky Nikka Neramum illa, panna velai yum illa) 3. Dogs while running (chasing) / walking always have their toungue out. (This is what they say "Naaka thonga pottundu alayaradhu) 4. Dogs always use their left hind leg to scratch its left side of the body, to scratch their right side of their body they use their teeth and not the right hind leg. (I found out this after researching umpteen number of ...

Appa, enakku innikku oru interview irruku paa adhuku poganum, bus charge ku panam venum, oru 50 rooba irrundhaa tharaelaa ? Hmmm, dora ithoda pala thadava 50, 50 roobaavaa vaangindu poirukael, aanaa vela vaanga thaan thuppu illa, rascal Appavaoda andha vaarthai, raviya kooni kurugi poga vechudhu, irrundhaalum thirupi edhirthu pesara nelamai la avan illa, so vaaya moodindu appa munaadi ninaan, appa vum oru 50 rooba nota avan moonji la vitterinjutu ponaar Ravi anniku pona interview successfulla mudinjudhu, avanuku maasm 7000 roobaai la sambalam, ravi aathuku oodi vandhu modhalla avan appa kitta thaan andha news a sonaan, avar kaal la vizhundhu aaseervaadham vaanginaan "Appa neenga mattum enna mattam thataama irrundhurundhaa, naanum serious aa velai thediruka maataen, enakkum indha maadhiri oru nalla velai kedaichurukaadhu, unga kadipukku, romba thanks pa" Enna paa, script a padika sonna, neenga engayo mind a ooda vittundu motu moolaya paarthundu irrukael nu Kannan avan school d...

அழும் குழந்தைக்கு நிலா சோறு ஊட்டினாள் தாய் உன் முகம் காட்டி ********************************************************************************** அவள் குனிந்து பெருக்கினாள் அறை சுத்தமானது மனம் குப்பையானது **********************************************************************************

Based on the request from one of my best friend, i am deleting two blog's which were hurting a particular community. I still dont regret for what i worte in my blog, but i just can't ignore my friends request, so i am deleting those entries. I apologise if that would have hurt any of your centiments.

Hmmm, i was actually planning to put this on my blog for a long time. We have information for anything on the internet, but when it comes to relationships, we dont actually find much of information. In a country like INDIA, marriage is a very very complex affair, that too arranged marriage is something i call as "GAMBLE" not all the time you click the right chord. The interesting part of arranged marriage comes when the GUY and the GIRL meets in person and then start discussing about their likes and dis-likes and with a certain amount of trade-off they agree to tie the knot. Well i am not going to talk anything about arranged marriage here, i am just going to give some tips for couples who have got engaged and are waiting to get married, so the time between engagement and marriage is suppose to be the most ROMANTIC period of their life (atleast i want mine to be ROMANTIC between that time window), but not all couples are really comfortable in this period and will run out of s...

Well, I dont think i need to give an explanation on the above mentioned subject, as this term is widely known to all south indian youths, well for the sake of "Dummies" who (still) does not know what this mean, here is a brief definition of the term - Kadalai means groundnut in english and this term is normally quoted under the context where a guy talks to a girl for a longer period of time on a subject which is (all the times) not at all relevant to the situation, environment or the individual. So here we are going to see a typical kinda conversation between a guy and a girl, just to understand how to follow this technique to cover a figure. CAUTION: Over dosage of Kadalai Podaradhu can be harmful to any relationship, so reduce the dosage as accordingly. Here we go ... He and she meets in a pary of one of their common friend, neither of them have not met before and this is their conversation. Our guy is excited about meeting this new gal and wanna impress (depress) her at th...

THREE NAMES YOU GO BY: Satish Sat Cheetah (Friends call me this way, dunno why ?) THREE SCREEN NAMES YOU HAVE HAD: Minorkunju Kuttypaiyan Cheetah THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: My Hair Style My Slim and Sleek figure even at this age (Where most of the folks of my age show signs of pregnency, thoppaya thaan appadi sonnaen) My Sharp Nose (Ppl whih sharp nose are supposed to be smart, but i am an exception) THREE PHYSICAL THINGS YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT YOURSELF: My Back (i mean mudhugu, yaarum thappa nenaika vendaam), coz thats the place where i can't reach easily and sorinjufy Again My Back Again My Back THREE PARTS OF YOUR HERITAGE: Chennai, Chennai, Singaara Chennai - The place where i love to die THREE THINGS THAT SCARE YOU: Old maami's / maamaa's in weddings (They always ask when I am getting married) Palli (Lizard) Watching Sea / Ocean THREE OF YOUR EVERYDAY ESSENTIALS: My Alarm Clock cum Mobile My SONY Music System with BOSE Speakers My Laptop THREE THI...

I always wonder this master piece creation of GOD called "Sachin Tendulkar", he is always my ROLE model and i truely admire him not only for his cricketing skills on the field but even off the field i respect him for the way he is. He has this extrodinary ability of proving all the critics wrong by his actions, may be he is one perfect example for the saying "Actions speak louder than words". He has proved the entire world that he has not yet done with his cricket with his elegant knock(s) against pakistan in the recently concluded INDIAN OIL series, for those who were trumpeting on their roof saying "Tendulkar is gone, he has to retire, he has forgotten his batting, etc. etc." had to wear a black mask and then hide their faces behind their A*S. This little GENIUS has mesmerized me to the core that i can't take my eyes off him while he is on my TV screen. I wish i could meet him in person one day and then take a snap with him. I am still learning from ...

Yeah, the devil is back!!!. I was determined a while back that i will not change my Sony Ericsson W830i for atleast a year all untill i saw this P1i, what else i can say other than "I fell for my temptation". I saw this cute little stuff through one of my friend and immedieatly the "devil" sitting inside me convinced my mind and then forced me to go and get this stuff the next day. There was a very heavy battle between my mind and my heart, but finally my heart won (as usually) and also i had a sound savings in my bank, so i was able to afford this hefty 20,600 bucks, but considering the features this little giant has in it, i dont think its priced on the higher side on the SmartPhone sector of phones. I sold my old mobile for 8000 bucks to one of my colleague. For more details about this phone, please visit P1I

New XP Theme Microsoft has launched a new XP theme which emulates the skin color of Vista, this has that attractive black shade and when applied looks fabulous. Its a real good change for all XP users who have been bored in looking at that conventional blue color. I bet you that this will really bring in a good change to your eyes, you can get that theme here Video Conferencing Utility Here is a cool video conferencing utility which is offering FREE service. This utility has been bundled with tons of features, but one quality that they have compromised is the VOICE clarity, which is not as great as Google Talk, i hope they rectify that in their next release. All you have to do is to create an user id with them and you are all set to start video conferencing. To get that utility click here ooVoo

Its a real bad day for tennis as it has lost one of its champion player and we will never have a chance to see her playing again on any chanpionships. There once came a storm by name Martina Hingis which took every one by surprise. When Steffi Graf and Monical Seles were ruling both the clay and grass courts, this beauty came as a flash and then proved a real threat to those greats. Her first match was against World No 1. Steffi Graf, even though she lost the match, she gave a very tough fight to Steffi. It was all success afterwards as she played some aggressive tennis I have not seen many women tennis players playing attcking tennis as most of them prefer playing base line tennis, but this little swiss beauty mastered the art of playing close to the nets and then attack the opponent from the word GO. Who could ever forget her French Open finals 1997 when she played against Monica Seles, she came back very strongly to win the title after she had lost the first set (0 - 1) and the seco...

After 4 months of hard work, atlast i could complete my "Dream" collection of all my favourite songs. It has a total of 700 number composed by various artists. I will be cutting them on a DVD pretty soon and present the first copy of that to one of my best buddies as her engagement gift, her fiancee likes to hear ILLAYARAJA songs, so i hope he likes my collections. I will soon be publishing the list of all the songs that i have collected and then upload it to my blog. I would like to thank http://sukravathanee.org/ members who really helped me a lot in getting some songs which were really tough for me to get on the internet. Thanks a ton to all those folks who have helped me in this regard.

Water birth is a method of giving birth, which involves immersion in warm water. Proponents believe this method is safe and provides many benefits for both mother and infant, including pain relief and a less traumatic birth experience for the baby. However, critics argue that the procedure introduces unnecessary risks to the infant such as infection and water inhalation. History The use of warm-water pools for labor and childbirth is a relatively recent phenomenon in Western societies. During the 1960s, Russian researcher Igor Charkovsky undertook considerable research into the safety and possible benefits of water birth in the Soviet Union. In the late 1960s, French obstetrician Frederick Leboyer developed the practice of immersing newly-born infants in warm water to help ease the transition from the womb to the outside world, and to mitigate the effects of any possible birth trauma. Another French obstetrician, Michel Odent , took Leboyer's work further, using the warm-water bi...

Well... Well ... Well... What else i can say other than "Stupendous". I have seen many nail biting encounters in my life, but this one i would probably want to rate as number ONE in that list. Right from the word GO, the match was electrifying, not just because its an Indo-Pak encounter, but also its the WorldTwenty20 tournament final (A MINI world cup i would say). This is how the entire drama unfolded in that 3 hour long battle. India won the toss and then chose to bat, knowing that we are good at batting and setting a target, but unfortunately our TOP order did not click the way it normally used to, barring the exception of Gautham Ghambir, who played a responsible and also an entertaining innings of 75 in just 50 balls, actually he is the guy who paved the route to INDIA's success. India did not seem to have any partnership going for a longer time, and as we all know FATE always has a different thought, the much expected explosive YUVRAJ failed to fire and his wicket ...

Yeah, i am back to blogging after a long time, hectic work forced me to distance myself from blogging, but that is something which i volunteered myself. Ah, there were many interesting things that happen in this gap and the one important thing is the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup which kicked off on the 11th of September 2007 in South Africa. 16 cricketing nations have taken place in this competition and INDIA being the least favourite team in the competition have really done well and are now into the SEMI's and meeting the world champions. There was one match between INDIA and England where in Yuvraj Singh blasted the impossible 6 sixers in an over and i was so fortunate to watch that live and it was simply mindblowing. For those you have missed out, check out this video

Where else such bizzare things happen if not in INDIA, here is a very interesting news which i came across quite recently. Here is the latest in the corporatisation of crime. An agreement on STAMP PAPER is duely signed by the KIDNAPPERS and the victim's family saying that the victim's family will not go to the cops after the release of the KIDNAPPED individual even if the same person is KIDNAPPED again !!!! This bizarre sequence of events dates back to August 19th 2007 when a 14 year old "Saddam" went missing from outside his house in Uttar Pradesh, after a frantic search in the neighbourhood, the boy's father went to the police to lodge a "Kidnapping" case. With their usual nonchalance, the cops told the desperate father to go hunt for the boy himself. Left on his own devices, the victim's father made enquired but drew blank. Then on September 2nd, he was contacted by the kidnappers and they asked him to come to a remote village, the father begged t...

Hmm, after enjoying nearly 4 months of lovely home made food prepared by my grany and aunt, i am now pushed back to kitchen, yes i have left my grany and aunt at chennai and i came to bangalore on the 2nd of this month. Initially i was supposed to go to hyderabad for a training, and hence i dropped my grany and aunt back to chennai, but later that got cancelled due to the serial bomb blasts that happened at hyderabad. It was very different for me to cook after a long time and luckily i did not forget my culinary skills. I am planning to cook more variety dishes and then keep myself busy during the weekends. I am now back to bachelor life and have to do all household activities on my own, but this is not a reason for me to get married :-) I need to find out ways to keep myslef busy and kill my lonliness during the weekends!!!!

Its been a long time plan from my end to take a vacation and go to chennai and at last that happened on the 24th of this month. I along with my grany and aunt went back to chennai and i immediately plunged into vacation mood and slipped away from chennai to some beautiful villagges of south india. I usually go on a pilgrimage tour with my dad once a year and this time too we both had been to Mayavaram, Kumbakonam and to all navagraha sthalams. I always love nature and admire its beauty, and once again i was absorbed by the nature when i was roaming inside those remote villages. I really envy the kind of life style those villagers are enjoying, lushy green outfields, abundant source of water and above all, excellent human beings. If you are strandered some where and dunno the route, don worry, there will be 100s of people who will come for your rescue, still humanity is living in the villages. I could not imagine a scenario where a person coming all the way from his house till the bus s...

Once again our infamous ORKUT has hit the headlines, but this time with a far more ugly face. Sometime back there were arguments in the parliment to shutdown this social network website as it found lots of communities which were created to degrade the character of Mahatma Gandhi, but all that roar and fuzz lasted only for the time of opening a COKE can. Day before yesterday a MUMBAI based youth has lost his life for the crush he had developed on an unseen (beautiful) girl by name "Angel" whom he met and got accquinted thru ORKUT (this is what people say "A known devil is better than an Unknown Angel" ah!!!). The so called "She" pestered him to come and meet her in person at one of Mumbai's posh restaurants, but death awaited for him in the form of 3 youngsters (gangsters) who strangulated him to death and dumped him in his own SKODA. The youth who was named Adnan, got accquinted with this "Angel" and developed some kind of closeness towards h...