~~Happy Mother's Day~~

 Dedicating this song to my mum :)

அபிராமி சிவகாமி கருமாரி மகமாயி
திருக்கோவில் தெய்வங்கள் நீதானமா
அன்னைக்கு அன்றாடம் அபிஷேகம் அலங்காரம்
புரிகின்ற சிறு தொண்டன் நாந்தானம்மா
பொருளோடு புகழ் வேண்டும் மகனல்ல தாயே உன்
அருள்வேண்டும் எனக்கென்றும் அது போதுமே
அடுத்திங்கு பிறப்பொன்று அமைந்தாலும் நான் உந்தன்
மகனாகப் பிறக்கின்ற வரம் வேண்டுமே
அதை நீயே தருவாயே!

PS: We had an agreement that instead of சீயக்காய்  I will give her Shampoo bath :)

~~Where life has taken me-memories~~

Before I started this blog I had one before, below was my only blog post in that. I wrote this post 2 months into the job.

*****Where life has taken me*****
Few days back i watched a tamil movie titled kadhanayagan.
(starring Padiyarajan n SV Sekar,
if u have seen the movie you can understand this blog better).
Its about 2 people having dreams of gettin a good job,better life style.
They plan to goto Dubai but end up landing in cochin.
Wait a minute this is similar to what i am experiencing right now!!!
To say few similarities
1) I am right now working in cochin:-
When i got my job in IT field i was told there are wonderfrul opportunities to go differentcountries around the world to see different places but in the end i got an opportunity to work in a different state(kerala) in India,never in my wildest dream i thought i would end up here.
2)Professionalism???
In the movie our 2 heros thinking as if they were in dubai used wear formal dubai sheikh s dress but will be looking like a black sheep in the crowd.When i attended my training i was told to wear formals while working.
Ok i had noproblem with that one, till i was allocated to a project in govt office of kerala.That too it was my first project.When i entered the office on the first day i was in my formal attire, the first person i saw was wearing dhoti and he was looking at me as if i am salesman. I got similar stares with rest of the people working there.Soon after i changed to their way of dressing .(not that i wore a dhoti)
3) &&Languages Learnt&&
In the movie our heros would try to get aquinted with few arabic words so thatit will be helpful when they goto to dubai.When i attended my training i was taught French, the reason given was it will be useful wheni would go to France and work there.
Going to France!!!! who would say no??? I too showed interest in learning that languagemastered few sentences like 'comment allez vous'(how are you).
But now i think it would have been better if we would have taught malayalam.
Anyways i havemastered few sentences in that language
bus evada nikkunu(where bus will stop??)
gnyan oonu kazhinu(i ate food)
Atleast i should feel contended i was not posted to pondycherry as i had known little French.
4)$Etiquettes$
In the film heros will discuss how to behave in dubai like what to do and what not to do there.Coming back to my life when i attended my training i was taught how to speak in phone,send a mail etc but what impressed me most was dining etiquettes where they taught how to eat using a fork n knife.
Now days my breakfast is like
Idiappam and paaya or appam and kadalai curry
wondering how it would be ,to have these stuffs with fork and knife.
5)Respect I get here!!!!
In that movie the villians will have a mis conception that heros are working for CBI and they will dealt with due respect which is not at all needed for them.Working as a software engineer in kerala is something similar to that. If you are a software engineer in bangalore or chennai you will be lost in the crowd but its not the case here. So whenever you say that' I am software engineer 'to the local people you used to get royal respect.
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But coming to reality there s one thing which has nt happened to me
which had happened to the hero in that film....
i think you should have guessed it by now, there was a beautiful heroine in the filmwho seemed to be waitin for the hero,encouraging him,helping him and in the end marryinghim
.May be i should come to a conclusion that it will happen only in movies!!!

~~Happy Birthday Mummy~~

Happy Birthday Mummy!!!

Dedicating my dad's poem for her :)))


மாலா முந்நூறு


"பிறந்த நாளுக்கென்ன வேண்டும்?"
பிரிய மனைவியிடம் கேட்டேன்.
"முப்பது வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னே
மாதம் முப்பது எழுதினீரே -
கவிதை என்ற பேரில் கடிதங்கள்!
இப்போ இரண்டு எழுத முடியுமா?" என்றாள்.

இல்லாள் இவள் பெருமை எல்லாம் சொல்ல
இனிய கவிதைகள் இரண்டு போதாதே -
இதோ " மாலா முந்நூறு " காவியம்
எழுதத் தொடங்கிவிட்டேன் -

தினம் ஒன்றாய் துணைவியின்
மணம் வீசும் மங்கள குணங்களை
எண்ணி எண்ணி எழுதிட
எந்தையே என்க்குதவிடுவாய் !

Net practice
அன்புள்ளம் கொண்ட அழகி
ஆசைகள் குறைவு
இன்முகம் இனிய பேச்சு
ஈடில்லா சிரிப்பு
உள்ளம் கவர் கள்ளி
ஊர் போற்றும் உத்தமி
என் விருப்பம் ஏற்று
ஏற்றம் பெற எல்லாருக்கும்
ஐஸ்வர்யம் கிடைத்திட
ஒருநாள் தவறாமல்
ஓய்வின்றி ஊருக்கெல்லாம் மகரிஷி
ஔடதம் அளித்திடுவாள் -
அ..தே மாலாவின் மகத்துவம்!

காப்பு

செவியினிக்க செஞ்சொற்களால் செகத்தீரை சிறந்த
ஓவியங்களாய் தீட்டும் மாலாவை - காவியமாய்
பாடிடத் துணிந்திட்ட பாவியென் மேல்
அடி விழாமல் ஆசி வழங்கு ஆனைமுகனே!

~~Global city~~

I was reading an article on how Global the city is. Importance were given for economic,political,cultural and infrastructural issues.
And they were ranked accordingly. Here are some of the rankings

New York city - Alpha++
Mumbai,Chicago - Alpha
Boston- Beta
Chennai - Gamma+
Philadelphia - Gamma
Doha, San Diego - Gamma-

Good to know many people are living in global cities :)

~~Quote I liked~~

"New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it -- once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough."
John Steinbeck

Sheila its always easy when somebody rightly puts whats in the heart :))

~~Osama dead -Cost America paid~~

I heard the news Osama Bin Laden was killed by the American troops after 10 long years of witch hunt. It was good to hear Obama giving a wonderful speech uplifting the patriotic spirits of the entire nation.

But at what cost it took to acheive this goal ? Did America paid too much for it ?. In 911 attack around 3000 people died but to kill Osama and destroy Al queda, America started the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Around 7000 soldiers have been killed in these two wars and around 50000 have been injured. The cost of running the war in Afganistan is $400,225,824,340 and the cost of running it in Iraq was $787,878,147,208 totaling upto almost 1.2 trillion dollars. It may be heroic to say American troops killed Osama Bin Laden and would surely sealed the chance of Obama winning the reelection in 2012 but the economic burden that this whole operation have put in America will transfer the cost of the war to the next generation. I cant help thinking how mighty Americans were in 2001 compared to China and after a decade things have turned. Anyways its would interesting to see the US strategy in Afghanistan after Osama. Soon they exit the better it is for them.

~~China's progress~~

I was reading the Sunday column in New York Times by Nick Kristof where he talks about how China has progress. The below few lines from the column quotes how the country has progressed in last two decades.


 When I lived in China in the 1980s and ’90s, there was always an awkward economic imbalance between me and my Chinese friends. I had a car, and they had bicycles. I paid for our meals together because I was so much better off.

Now there’s a new imbalance: Some of those same people ride around in chauffeured limousines while I get around in taxis. They take me to fancy restaurants whose prices give me headaches.


China is one fine example what will happen to country's progress if economic reforms were properly implemented. One of my Chinese class mate used to joke its easy to run the country when everybody shuts up does their work. But this decade will be most challenging one for them as they have to fight both the increasing inflation and fixed exchange rate.