This Iyer is a little funny ...

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...

Veeraapu - I just cant digest the fact that all producers and directors have taken our tamil ppl for granted - "Ivanga enna eduthaalum paarpaanga, ivanga romba nallavangadaaaaa" ngra type la they have taken this movie. The story line goes like this, A very strict father (Prakash Raj) is a mathematics "professor" for a primary school in a remote village (aamaam avaru periya raamanujan). He thinks that the entire world is revolving around MATHS (avaruku science, history, geography elaam pudukaadhu, yaenaa avaru padikala / pudikala). His son (Sundar C) is a genius in SCIENCE (avarae oru mechanical school bell kandu pudichurukaar naa paarungalaen!!!) he invents radio (nalla velai marconi ku indha vishayam innum teriyaadhu), battery, watch (adhuvum eppadi, urula kezhangula iyaa watch ooda vekaraarr la!!!!) and his entire village is praising that Sundar C is a genius, but unfortunately our HERO is ZERO in maths, which his father does not like, so oru naal kovathula he bre...

Ah!! The heading presses to be a "Million Dollar Question" isn't it ? I am not writing this just because i am single. I too have my own hooks hanging over my head, but I am writing this after taking a careful survey amongst a set of folks in this society. I would first put forth the views of people who are not married. I could narrow down the reasons for not getting married into the fillowing broader "reasons" Individual wants to "Settle" in life He / She wants to have a sizable bank balance He / She does not trust in "Arranged" marriage (At the same time they are not in LOVE) He / She see marriage as pure GAMBLE So the conclusion is, people are just finding some excuse to avoid taking "Responsibilies" in life, of course i am one bachelor who is suffering from this syndrome, i too dont want to take responsibility. So what does the individual lose if he / she is SINGLE ?? - !!!!NOTHING!!!! Well, lets here the reasons of people who go...

Barkha Dutt :- She is one journalist i admire the most. I have been closely watching NDTV 24X7 for many years now, and i have personally kept track of this excellent female on the following major incidents that happen in our country Earthquake which struck Gujarat in 1998:- She was walking amongst those rubbles and was presenting the news LIVE with the equal intensity of the EQ. She was terribly shaken by physic and by voice 2. War in Afganistan :- Can you imagine yourself standing amidst of war tankers and millitants ? She was standing there, not for interviewing any afgan PM or president, she went there to interview a te*****st, where in this earth that female got such a guts ? even though we can say that a camera crew would have travelled with her, but still. The questions were asked by her in URUDU and at one point the te*****st said that she is talking wonderful urudu. 3. TSUNAMI - 2004 :- For the first time i saw that BOLD female got completely drenched in her tears, she could no...

I was terribly sha ken to hear the news when the portugal police declared that little Madeleine McCann can be DEAD. This is one incident which shocked the entire world. How can such strange things happen in life, ever since she was abducted from a portugal resort, this case was sorrounded by mysteries and so many un-answered questions. Its really hard for me to believe that she has been abducted from her hotel room when her parents were enjoying that cold weather outside the resort. If i have to put myself in the shoes of her parents, my heart really goes heavy and i am lost for words to console that mother. I still wish that some day this little angel should return to her parents, if that is not the truth may this wonderful girl be safe in the hands of GOD, till her parents reach there. Attimes life decideds to act very cruel to us. Continuing my prayers for this little angel's well being.

Hmm, i always knew that i have a poet sleeping inside me, and was waiting for that guy to come out (well he came out after 3o years). I have tried many a times to write short poems and kavidhaigal but thats a clandestine side of me. I was actually planning to post some of my tries on my blog, but just recently i made up my mind and decided to flash one here. This is one very good song sung my ARR for the movie JOK (Surya / Jyothika), where he will be singing this from Newyork and the song goes like this - Newyork nagaram urangum neram thanimai adarndhadhu ... paniyum padarndhadhu ... kappal irangiyae ... kaatrum karaiyil nadandhadhu .... Me being the first critic of this so called IT city of india, i thot of writing a poem which will portrait the flaws of BANGALORE city and no BANGALOREAN can comment on this, coz what i have told here is complete truth. Just listen to the main song and read my lyric in the same tune. BANGALORE NAGARAM URANGUM NERAM SORI NAAL KULAITHADHU, VERI NAAI KADI...

I am extremely happy to share the good news of my brother being blessed with a baby boy (I am yet to see that little one). I heard that he is doing fine with 3.2 Kgs, he came to this world thru a C-Section and hence his mom will take some more time to regain normalcy. By GOD's grace both mom and kid are fine. Our entire family is overwhelmed to have the 3rd boy sibling of our generation. I just cant wait anymore to see him, but that is not going to happen any soon, i need to wait for couple of weeks for that. Already we have one little fellow by name Anirudh who has started to walk on all fours and attimes manages to walk on two, and its sheer fun at his place as he is keeping his dad and mom quite busy with his notorious acts. Will try to post his snap quite soon!!!