Hell ya, I am Glad!!!

You Should Play the Guitar

You're very independent - both in spirit and in the way you learn. You can teach yourself almost anything, even if it makes your fingers bleed. You're not really the type to sit patiently through a music lesson - or do things by the book. It's more your style to master the fundamentals and see where they take you. Highly creative and a bit eclectic, you need a wide range of music to play. You could emerge as a sensitive songwriter... or a manic rock star. Your dominant personality characteristic: being rebellious Your secondary personality characteristic: tenacity

What Musical Instrument Should You Play?

Get Well Soon!!!

J.D Madan was injured in a horrific crash on Saturday night in Mumbai. What I got to know from a friend was that he was on a zen driven by his friend, couldn't see a curve and the car, plumetted from the edge of a cliff at around 120 kmph, flipped at least 8-10 times and crashed at the bottom of the hill.

Luckily, the driver escaped with minor injuries but J.D broke his neck, spine, fractured his leg and skull and multiple other injuries.He got operated last evening and the doctors are saying that he'll recover but it'll take a long time.

He is back in Chennai today and is to be chartered to the US for further treatment.

JD is an awesome guy, more than a racing champion. Very passionate about what he does and he was the one who fixed my cars Exhaust systems and accesories.

May god be with him and his family through out this troubled times.

One more...

I'm wasting time and it is one of my least favorite things to do! Argh, but I just don't have motivation to do anything right now. Besides things that aren't productive... and I really need to get some work done... I guess I've just kinda been really sad.(for a while)

I honestly feel like the world is against me. but still I don't give up! I am fighting it with all of my might! I am exhausted, and trying to be its friend, but that is how it feels every single day! Too many examples,

O.O but anyway. I will not give up. I take the challenge with a fake smile and just keep trying to face the world each day...

My Favorite Poetry...

After Apple Picking

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree

Toward heaven still,

And there's a barrel that I didn't fill

Beside it, and there may be two or three

Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.

But I am done with apple-picking now.

Essence of winter sleep is on the night,

The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight

I got from looking through a pane of glass

I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough

And held against the world of hoary grass.

It melted, and I let it fall and break.

But I was well

Upon my way to sleep before it fell,

And I could tell

What form my dreaming was about to take.

Magnified apples appear and disappear,Stem end and blossom end,

And every fleck of russet showing clear.

My instep arch not only keeps the ache,

It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.

I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend

And I keep hearing from the cellar bin

The rumbling sound

Of load on load of apples coming in.

For I have had too muchOf apple-picking: I am overtired

Of the great harvest I myself desired.

There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,

Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.

For allThat struck the earth,

No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,

Went surely to the cider-apple heap

As of no worth.

One can see what will trouble

This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.

Were he not gone,

The woodchuck could say whether it's like his

Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,

Or just some human sleep.

~ Robert Lee Frost

Katradhu Thamizh... Pathetic, Funny, Horrible... A Movie for Losers!

Went to this movie yesterday after watching an interview with the director by Madan on TV.

Read the review on the Hindu and thought that the reviewer, Malathi rangarajan was biased. Ironically, after watching the movie I see that the reviewer as echoed what ever I wanted to say.

The movie is just pathetic… the director in the interview yesterday and in the movie is so confused about what he wants in life. There is no leftist approach nor there is love for the language displayed.

The whole movies accuse rich people and the IT/ITES fraternity. Lil does the director know of the struggles and the hard work put by these guys to make it big in life, than to sit and crib about the society. He complains about guys working in call centers…

Man I’ve been there, if you don’t know whats happening in a call center it’s a shame… working against body clock, hitting targets, taking abuses, all this not for fun, but to sustain… I know a million people do it to take care of their families and give children good education… blah blah blah…

For all the people who knows me know that I am way to better in speaking this language and I’ve mastered it. I dunno if the so called Tamil loving groupies can talk, recite poetry, explain grammar like I do! I am saying this only because, I feel that I have the bloody right to criticize these morons who claim that they love the language and crib about everything in life and end up being losers like the hero of the movie and the director of the movie.

The hero has no clue about anything in life… he studies Tamil not for the love of the language, but he fells he would lead a better life. There ends the movie. One word, rather two words… Fuckin Stupid.

I am confused as to what to type… just like the movie so her goes the review of Malathi Rangarajan.

Katradhu Tamizh
Genre Drama
Director Ram
Cast Jeeva, Anjali, Karunas
Storyline An M.A. degree holder’s frustration makes him a murderer
Bottomline The loopholes are many!

What is the director driving at? That choosing Tamizh as the subject of study takes you nowhere? That even if you go on a murderous spree, killing 22 people, you can go scot-free unless you choose to tell the world about it? Or that studying Tamizh i s a deterrent to being worldly wise? Writer-director Ram’s confusion shows on screen. When the main character is subjected to relentless suffering, it’s suffocating. And the incessant deaths get too bloody for comfort.

MR Film Productions’ Katradhu Tamizh (U/A) with its telling tagline, ‘Tamizh M.A.,’ has some brilliant performances from Jeeva and Karunas. Lack of make up makes debutante Anjali’s portrayal extremely natural. But with no help from the story department, the actors’ exercises are futile.

Prabhakar (Jeeva) is a bright student, who decides to graduate in Tamizh. Not that he’s passionate about the language; he finds solace in the company of his Tamizh teacher and decides to toe his mentor’s line. But Prabhakar is fluent in English too. He even prepares a bio data for his room mate who lands a lucrative job. Why the frustration?

He knows his salary will increase on the completion of a Bachelor’s in Education. Why the eccentricity? The moment he begins to kill without purpose, the man loses your sympathy.

At best, Katradhu Tamizh is morbid, and at worst, it’s irritating. The mother and grandparents die in an accident, so does his favourite teacher. Later, there’s also news of his father’s death.
To add to the gore, Prabhakar turns homicidal and kills at will. His lover’s behaviour is equally perplexing. When in grave danger, she could have sought his help, but strangely she resigns herself to her fate in a procurer’s den.

Prabhakar catches hold of a cameraman (Karunas), gets his confession of the murders recorded on tape and hands it over to a private channel. But once the police want to nab him, he tries to escape! Till that moment, they aren’t even looking for him!

The lack of logic is befuddling. Lighting, tones and angles (S.R. Kadhir) give the necessary amount of greyness to the narration and Raghavan’s art complements the mood.

When you try to be different for the sake of being so, it only seems pseudo. Katradhu Tamizh is just that.

These Shoes Are Too Big For Me...

And I shamelesly say, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”

Fight Club Lessons...

I get so angry these days, not short temper… but a sudden rage! This happens a lot when I drive, I hate it when people honk, I hate it when they over take from left with no indications, I hate it when there is lack of civic sense, I hate traffic police… I hate roads… I hate them all.

These days its hardly surprising to find oneself having to fight strangers in the streets. And in the last 2 months I would have fought with atleast some 7 people. Right in the middle of the road, parking my car stand still in the middle of the road.

So one really have to learn some tricks to win the fights in any way that you can, otherwise you wil surely be left with some black eye, dislocated wrists, and also concussion. Like always best solution to win a street fight is to avoid one. It will be great if a dispute is resolved without any brawls and yes, better not let your treacherous ego cloud your common sense. In violent confrontations, make sure to be neutral and calm; apologize, even if its not your fault or the opponent is a regular no gooder and yes, do so in a confident manner.

If he persists, clearly tell him to back off. Never let your opponent get near you and don't be a fool and let him hit you first. As he nears, change your stance in a fighting position and just slam your outstretched open hand into his face. This is a great tactic to disorient the opponent. Well if you have to punch, keep your hand, wrist, and two largest in a straight line, and punch with those two knuckles as hard and fast as poible.

And yep, all those scratching, biting, clawing, spitting, hair pulling hair are good too. Remember you are in a street fight and that too with a rowdy aggressor, so don't think about rules, just think about your safety.

Know your limit too. Alone and fighters ganging up on you? Well run! Its not cowardice, its safety actually. A winner always knows when to quit.

When involved in these street fights, unless you are a mean fighter, you will be punched to a pulp. So the best tip to win the fight is to impede your opponents as much as possible, use sand, dirt, mace, or other sprays on the eyes, thereby you can run.

Fighting should be the last resort, and if you can talk your way out of a fight that's one real winner too.

Wow...Times HAVE Changed...

Some 2 decades before…

My Mom: Hello doc, I guess he has got fever

Doc: Checks temperature, mom and I curious to know what is it, he says 104
Gives me a shot, and scribbles prescription.

We come back home.

Yesterday:

Doc: What happened?

My Wife: He has got fever, It was 104 in the morning, I administered crocin drops and in the afternoon it was 102 and then crocin drops 5 ml, and it has subsidized after that. He is not dull and his motions are normal. I guess it’s a small case of viral infection.

Doc: Ok!!! Yes it is a viral infection and do continue what ever you are doing! I’m not giving any anti biotic continue the same.

My wife: Yeah I know, he need to fight diseases with out anti biotic and it would help him to be more resistant. Thanks doctor.

Doc: Why the heck did you even come to me!!!!

A Dream Of The Unknown...

Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices
That, if I then had waked after long sleep,
Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming,
The clouds methought would open and show riches
Ready to drop upon me that, when I waked,
I cried to dream again.

--William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Caliban), Act 3, Scene 2

Our New Logo...

The above logo sees the coming together of three distinct entities, Technology, Training and Creatives.

A symbiosis that works towards getting the maximum possible output with the coming together of these diverse elements. However disparate, it all comes together to form a coherent new entity - One Stop Consulting.

To bring home the thought, in Hindu mythology the pantheon of gods is made up of Shiva, Vishnu and Brahma. Or the triumvirate. They are respectively also known as the creator, preserver, and destroyer. But when they came together as one entity they created a force that was greater than the combined strength of them singly.

To sum up, the sum of the parts is always greater than the whole.

Comments???

Prince Chraming's Charm...

I was to drive for a Rally yesterday, and I thought I would take my wife and the boy along witth me... Nirav was the youngest participant(no free lunch... he paid his entrant fee). It was relatively a tough rally and the bottom line was "should drive fast to win" though the organizers claim it was just for fun.

The day started well, nice weather the flag off was at woodlands drive in. We drove with Aneesh, a friend of mine in his car, Swift ZXI, with a lot of upgrades on the car, like an all new free flow exhaust system, K&N airfilters, Irdium spark plugs version 5 and blah blah.....

To cut the story short, we had whole loads of fun and some nice driving, the first rally for my wife and she did a great job navigating... it also involved a scavenger hunt and I remeber running a long way in ECR to catch up with my car so as we dont lose any time buying stuff...

Finally, We came 2nd in the over all championships... and yeah Nirav was the attraction...

Did you really drive with the baby... Oh! he is alread in the tracks... and a million cho chweet from the crowd... One helluva Rally and My Prince charming charm worked... So he is the official sleeper in my team from now on when I drive...

What next??? Trek de Himalayas.....

Inner Strength... My foot!

If you can start the day without caffeine,If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you any time,If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,If you can ignore a friend's limited education and never correct him,If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,If you can conquer tension without medical help,If you can relax without liquor,If you can sleep without the aid of drugs...

Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!

I saw My First Silver Hair!!!

I've been in a really existential mood lately. I am spending a lot of time alone and all I do is examining my life, thinking about how I got where I am today and where I'll go from here. I don't come up with a whole lot of answers, but I did come to realize one thing.

Most of my life, from the age of six, has been run by schedules, time-tables, deadlines, and the relentless ticking of a clock. I always had to be somewhere on time, do something on time or finish my work on time. I had assignments to complete, classes to attend, "deliverables" to deliver and places I had to be. Jesus! No wonder I saw my first gray silver hair today while I was shaving.

I don’t know if I like being bored now. I'm not talking about sitting around a twiddling my thumbs. I mean the freedom a person feels when he or she doesn't HAVE to do much of anything.

This is the first time in a quite a while that I am traveling alone for close to a month with no friends, no work mates or family or anybody that I know of. I live alone in an apartment. I do wht I want to do most of the time.

If I feel like touring, I tour. If I feel like reading, I read. If I don't feel like doing a damn thing, I don't do anything.

I don't fear boredom. In fact, I wrap it around me like a warm, fuzzy blanket, and I find it very comfortable. I like not needing a watch anymore.

I also write meaningless random stuff when I want to, not knowing why I started and where to finish like the one now

Napa Valley... OOPS!!! Nashik Valley!

I am mumbai for the last week and the couple of weeks to come... and I'm escaping the schedules for a weekend and taking a wine tasting trip to Nashik.... Something I always wanted to do!

I Should be leaving tomorrow morning and one of my work mate here know somebody at the Sula Vineyards... So he is putting me up there... given the fact that I am great fan of Sula Savignon Blanc, I know I should have a great time and should take a lot of pics.

Life otherwise, I am here in Mumbai and am training a bunch of doctors, who work for a life sciences project of this big IT giant... Such Adamant as well nice people... They have studied enough and want no more education I guess!!!

I share the guest house here with a Doctor again, he is a resident research scientist... today is the first day I spoke to him when I offered him a drive to work... Man could you beleive he spoke to me for 45 mins on how Crocin lost its patent and how anybody can make their own Paracetomol these days...

I have no clue what he was talking, I dunno if more Paracetemols are good or bad!!! But thats my life here... I've been in conversation about Obesity, Carciogen, Adernaline, and what not!!!

Any case, I am excited about tomorrow...

Here I come Sula!

Go Air = Dont Go Air

Never fly Go Air... this is the second time for me... they call you 2 hours before and say the flight is cancelled due to things which are beyond the airlines control....

Fuckin Shit, last time it was fine... I wasnt travelling on biz... this time it is bad... Its a new client and my first assignment wid them...

Jet Saved me with an early morning flight, ofcourse at an un affordable rate... *SIGH*

Since Go Air = Dont Go Air = Lets Never Go Air.

Back, Been A While....

Back, been a while,

Works keeps me busy off late, not been training much, doing some assignments with humma.com, worlds first legal online music site.

I working with them in setting up thier radio portal, and technical marketing, pretty interesting and off beat.

They have lauchned a new album, composed by devan and sung by rang de basanti fame naresh iyer and ranjit and others...

Was there for the lauch and played lead guitars for them, played after ages and it was good... would upload the videos in the days to come...

Interestingly, after picking up the guitars after a long time, its eating most of my time and am candidly working on a few compositions, may work out may not, but I enjoy the time with my guitar...

Man, Life is intersting and you dunno where it takes you... only thing sure is it takes you to a destination called SURPRISE!

ME!


Thats ME!!!!
Thats The TEAM!

Team Again

YAMAHA 5 String BASS With Pre Amps, Sexy, Layed my hand on it!
One of the Best Bassies in town, Waiting for his new album, Full time software professional hope his debut album is a hit and he takes music full time!!!

*&^%&^%$&^%

Tired... work, home, money, banks, loans, creditcards, car, clients, SLA's, tax, auditor, doctors...

Need a break... or somebody key me back!

Proud...

2 Years now... still going...

P.S: the site is being revamped now and would get new look by thursday sans typos...

Brighter Day...

In life, there are defining moments.

It's what makes us who we are today. I can say I've had a lot of those moments. I guess we all have. What's important is that we use those moments to propel us to become better than we were the day before. To make us greater not worse. To not let fear creep in but instead learn and grow from it. And as we continue to live, we will still have those moments.

I don't need fame... I don't need recognition... All I want is to say to myself when I'm old is that through everything that I've been through in my life, I gave my best. I did what I could and I lived my life. Don't know why but I feel kinda down while writing this entry. Maybe because I haven't lived up to what I know I am capable of?

Maybe... Maybe not...

All I know is that I want to wake up one day, look in the mirror and to actually be proud of what I see. If the past is what defines who we are today, then what we do today is what defines who we are tomorrow.I dream of a brighter day... I yearn for it. I want it... And I will earn it.

"The reason why we fall is so that we can learn to pick ourselves up"

IBM LENOVO Y500...

My new machine, first post from it... what do I type???

k, would i get the million dollar funding next weeek... would I be a millioanire?

Welcome 2007!

* A much awaited payment was finally declared "I am never gonna get it"!

* My much trsuted car, stalled all of a sudden and burnt a big hole in my pocket!

* Much awaited Pinky's delivery, turned out complicated last minute... ended up C section!

* My Bro's kid fell sick was hospitalized... God knows what ever happenned to him!

* Dad got frustrated at work and put down his papers!

* Met with a bike accident after many a years... middle of the night!

* Driving my friends new car, the tyre busted, and crashed, another deeper hole!

* A slip between the cup and the lip, this is how work goes! * WHAT THE DUCK!*

* Went Over Limit in one of the cards, for the first time...

All this in just about 51 days!!! Hell ya sure makes life Challenging!!!

OMG!!! The Wait Is Over....

My religion when I was in college, My philosphers... call it what ever if you dont know me... for all you know me, you also kow how much it means to me!!!

Read more...

Yes... they are here... in a months time... I gonna see Steve harris, Dave murray, Janick gers Playing live... Gonna listen Bruce Dickenson Singing Live... OMG... I am Freaking Excited...

MAIDENS ARE GONNA ROCK INDIA.....

how I miss what I had...

Done a 170+ on a bike on the road

Slept 15 hours at stretch

No Smoking, No Drinking

Plug the electric guitar with distortion and play loud (though dont know how to play)

wake up to IRON MAIDEN's Wasting Love Everyday

Hate cars... Love the bikes... high speed and enjoy the breeze hitting the face...

50 bucks with gas a day is all that is needed

Not a single formal trouser on the wardrobe

Swearing was a part of speech!

Loads to write... no time like those days... Gotta run for a so called meeting!!!

How I hate growing up!!! Miss it all!!!

I post... hence I post!!!

There is this person at work who uses Comic Sans MS as his default font in his outlook to type mails.

I simply cannot take a paper or a presentation seriously if it's entirely in Comic Sans MS.

Seriously!!!

I don't care if it's supposed to be "child-friendly" or if you've changed font colours to red, green and blue in the middle to highlight certain terms.Comic Sans MS is not even good for COMICS.

It's certainly not good enough for an official communication!

*duh! Wht kinda post is this???

Rude... me???

Some one in my training called me rude??? Not the first time I 've heard people calling me that!

Two things I believe at work when i lead teams... Leadership Vs Popularity. I could be nice to people and win them over, used to do that I was very popular with no good!!!

Now trying to be a good leader, working on it, trying to win over people with integrity and in the process I come across these remarks, help me to mould myself to be better.

I am passionate about what I am doing and no harm in expecting or driving people towards it!!!

Lady, if you are reading this... welcome your feedback and sincerely working on it!!! and hell ya as always "We all win some and we loose some too..." aint we?

In Love With This Book...

Enjoying every inch of it...

We stand in awe, we've created life...

Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I close my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open

Well I don't know if I'm ready
To be the man I have to be
I'll take a breath, take her by my side
We stand in awe, we've created life

With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I'll show you everything

With arms wide open
Now everything has changed

I'll show you love
I'll show you everything
With arms wide open

If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he's not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world

With arms wide open...

Its that time of the year again... January!!!

Woot! First post of the year! I wanted to do a last post but I guess I was too busy and I missed it. Damn I miss everything!The past few days have just been crazy with work/training.

Wedding, travelling, training, new firm, new car... 2006 is over and the new year has arrived. To me, 2006 has been an amazing year and to sum things up, it was a jolly good year.

It certainly was a good year as far as traveling is concerned. I traveled to places that I have never been. The things that I have seen; the people that I have met; the scenes that I have witnesses just added colours of my year.

Not just for the stolen leisures, The rewards were good too and records were made. Along the way, I made some friends that I can visit when I'm bored and those who can share views with.

The romance department continue to grow stronger. :) I'm still discovering new things that put smile on my face. I'm the luckiest guy in the world!

Well work wise has been pretty fulfilling. I know I have moved yet another level. The biggest reward was the project that I my firm initially started with rs 100 investment, that has brought fruits the whole year. Just the way I wanted it. However, I need more in the coming year. I think I'm ready to face another level of challenges that will bring me more substantial rewards.

Well I never have the habit of making new year resolutions but of course I have some hopes:

New year;

New beginning;

New hopes;

May the Goods stay;

And the Evils stay away...

Hopefully I have learned and able to deal with things better.

I wish for:

~ Health

~ Love

~ and Happiness

Looking forward to this year too... and yeah, Happy New Year to all!