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Happy Days - Placements

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:48:00 +0000

Off late, one thing which I do very often is thinking about the good old college days. Software engineer ayitale ithu ellam sagacham thane..Recollecting college life always feels good. Few incident stays fresh in mind which we love to recollect very often and ofcourse campus placements in definitely one among them.

Dawn of third year, almost everyone of us were made to karachu kudichufy all the funda's of placements by our Placement Representatives ( ellam namma pasanga than, nanga P.R nu solluvom ). Entire year has been spent preparing for aptitude, doing G.D's and attending mocks. Ithu pathathunu sem leave ku kooda hostel la stay panni prepare pannanum nu P.R oda anbu thollai vera.

With the record recruitment made by TCS last year, getting recruited felt easy. TCS is everyone's favorite in college and even named as "Thaikalagam" coz getting a job in TCS was considered equivalent to government job. They recruit in bulks as if it looks like the recruitment being made for "The Chennai Silks". 90 % of our preparation was focused on cracking TCS, which went to the extreme that we mugged up entire verbal section of GRE Barrons 13th edition. Some were more worse or talented should I say?,could answer for 4th word in 153rd page.

TCS maintains the practice of not changing the question patterns over the years, so it felt like yet another class test to us. Almost 90 percent of my class cleared the first round. With more than 600 from college selected for the interview, and no one being sure of the count , all we wanted was to secure our place in the company by any means.

There I was clean shaved, tucked in , along with borrowed shoe & tie attire rehearsing gaptun's sen-sex paragraph dialogue "Damil natla motham" for Tell about yourself.There was no clue as of which panel among 100 plus, will be an elimination.Many panels interview didn last for more than 5 mins. Epdi than oru varusama padichatha 5 eh nimishatula la sollarathu...In other panels, people were made to sing, say josiyam, punch dialogue.. Many of us were jollu vittufying the H.R's .. Ranagalathalayum oru kilukilupu ketkathan seyuthu...I decided to enter in the 5 mins panel, but there was already a huge crowd mochufying as if they were in a ration shop to buy kerosene.

I was searching for the right panel till end of the day & realized that it is not gonna work and entered into what we called database panel.

There were four H.R's ready to screw me. words in bracket represents the actual things going thru my mind.

H.R : Tell about yourself ?

Me : Damil Natla motham #$@#$%%@#$@#$

Had a glance at my resume

H.R : How many chairs can you make from XXX wood pieces in ZZZ days blah blah blah ?

Me: { Carpenter ah vela pathu irupano } I dont understand the question sir.

H.R : You have XXX wood pieces, ZZZ days how many chairs blah blah blah ?

Me: {Active voice la irunthu passive voice ku sentence ah mathita purinjuduma } The question is not clear sir.

H.R : ZZZ days , XXX wood pieces, blah blah ??

Me: Still I didn get the question sir.

H.R : Ok Premnath, the answer is 60, can you arrive at this solution ?

Me: { Yenda question eh therila nu solren, apparam epdi answer ah solrathu } Took a paper nd pen, thought for few mins, " sorry sir I give up"

(Another lady H.R walked in)

H.R : What else you know Mr. Premnath ?

Me: { what else ah ?? , Ada pavingala, Oru question ku thana answer pannala ,athukullayum Onnume theriyathunu mudive pannitengala, athuvum puthusa vantha ponnu munnadi ipdi asinga paduthetengale } I am good at OOPS sir.

The interview went on for another half hour and I managed to confuse and convince them. As expected maximum count boarded the TCS lorry. I take this opportunity to thank our P.R's Balaji and Paramesh , without them, we would have never achieved 100 percent placement. Also special credits to third year toilet, which is the birth place of the famous "Prime Number Algorithm" played a crucial role in our placements.

Finally,

One of the rare clicks during our placement preparations.
From Right : BalaMurugan , S.k, Nandha, Sharaafath, Applet Kannan

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags : Placements ,College ,Happy Days

Time Flies..One year @ Bangalore !!

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 11:56:00 +0000

I can't believe how fast a year has passed. It feels like yesterday when we landed in Bangalore with our luggage's for start our career as a fresher. This day marks our one year completion in and so much has happened in the past year.

First day experience was a total crap..Fell as a prey for bloody house brokers...Parthone epdi than ilichavayan nu kandu pudikaranungalo.. Eluthi otti irukkum pola.. We were so innocent that we believed madiwala is at walkable distance from BTM.. Gave token advance but later realised that it was worthless to pay for it.. Well it was a little late :-). First day in Bangalore , total loss- 10k . Presently residing at a place close to the old one. Every time we cross that house, nayagan background music plays :-(

Learned the art of cooking. Started from no where, tried out a few fatal experiments like boiling rice without water etc,etc but finally what matters is that even I learned to cook. But anyways my frnz feel that I am gud at cutting vegetables rather than cooking.. :-)

My taste buds which have been accustomed so far only to traditional Aryabavan & Amman mess, got a lot to explore & experience ranging from Bengali to Punjabi, Chinese to middle east cuisines, KFC, McDonalds. But almost a year & still I find it difficult to adjust to Bangalore pongal in a semi solid state with thayir pachadi combo.

Almost 75 percent of the weekends were spent roaming in the FORUM & MG Road. It really hurts to watch the harry potter mandayans varuthufying with the bangalore babes. Life la oru 22 years ah waste pannina mathiri oru feeling..

Apart from the usual visiting places, we had some good weekend hangouts , adventure activities, team outings, long trip s as well. Especially the wyanad trip was exciting.

This post wouldn't be complete, if I didn't even mention a single word about Guitar. Started of with great enthusiasm , bunked 3 months , changed tutor and finally snapped a string also. Guitar kathukiteno illayo , I ve become an ardent fan of Maestro Raja Sir.

Amidst these one important thing to be noted is that , ennada kadantha 1 year la work ah thavira ella vetti velayum pannitu irukkane nu nenaikathenga. Mathathu ellathayum sollitu intha mathiri important matter ah ellam archive pannale na epdi. sarithiram miga mukkiyam illaya.. [Future la namma oppicers yaarchum padichangana appraisal ku useful ah irukkum.]

Both the beginning and the year end share the similar events. Except during the end the loss is much higher than the former . 7 1/2 Satan has played its pranks.. This post shares the information behind the scenes.

Not a fresher anymore :-(. Expecting a great year ahead. While I pen down this my media player plays

சொர்கமே என்றாலும் அது நம் ஊரைப் போல வருமா?
அட என் நாடு என்றாலும் அது நம் நாட்டுக் கீடா ஆகுமா?

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags :Bangalore ,Experience Software Engineer

The LOST

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:15:00 +0000

"If something can go wrong,by all means it will" - Murphy. What will you do if You wake up and find that everything happens goes against your will ??

1. Woke up early morning just to find out that laptop was stolen.

2. Searched for mobile & figured out that it was already gone.

3. For the first time, my friend went for bird watching & jogging. He was in a dilemma whether to carry his phone. But last minute decision was "no". We never locked the door from inside & the heavy breeze left the doors open.

4. Thief managed to reach till the second floor, came in with ease & walked across the room picked up the laptop bag. Ivalo nadanthum nanga 2 perum cow(erumai nu epdi yen vaayala sollarathu) mela rain water falling effect la kuppura paduthu thoongitu irunthom..

5. All the study materials inside the laptop bag were left behind beside my bed. Later that night we found out that the charger which was plugged to the wall was also picked. The expected use case is that, during exit he should ve noted the charger. Since the bag was full & it cant accommodate the charger, he should ve thrown out all the study material stuffs. Unfortunately, the mobile was lying at the place where he left the notebooks.

Fate, Carelessness, Bad luck you can name it anything, but anyways gone is gone. :-(

As per the sources,to file an FIR you should take a person who can converse in Kannada with the police. If not you will end up getting more abuses than expected from police. We were given a template and asked to write a complaint letter. By reading the template one thing got cleared, this is a usual activity in Bangalore, coz the scenario in it was exactly a ditto of ours with the only change being name & address. Bad luck didnt stop there, on return my friend who was already tensed forgot his mobile in the police station. Searched the police station & later it was a constable who had our mobile phone. "Oru mobile phone ah ye ivalo careless ah tholaikarenga, neenga ellam ...." apdinu aaatha aarambichavar than summa aaathu aaathu nu aaathi irukkar. What to do avaroda time, kai ya kattikitu vaya pothikitu lecture ah ketka vendiyatha pochu.

There is no way that we can get the things back. But by writing this, I feel at least a few will get alerted.

For those who are staying in bangalore - Neenga careless ah irukenga nu naan solla varala, innum careful ah iruntha nalla irukkum nu than solren...

P.S: My blog turned 1 today.. 18 posts, 1865 hits,320 profile views... Not bad for a starter.. :-)

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags: Bangalore,Thief,Laptop,Mobile theft,Police Station

Ideas to Popularise Blog

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Earlier when I started to blog, the only thing in my head was to fill in the page with some crap. Later this guy had changed my mindset and diverted me to participate in Adsense program. Offlate I have been doin some homeworks on adsense, SEO optimisation and other stuffs to promote my blog. Decided to share some weird ideas to increase traffic to your website.

1. Set the browser's homepage to your blog address and write to vijay T.V, saying that whenever you open the browser this page shows up. Sure to get one hour show named "Computeril Pei- 2" in Kutram- Nadanthathu enna.

2. Using blog url's can be a better option than bad words in common toilets.

3. When asked for name or address, give them your blog address and tell them they can find your name there. Likewise Update your resume .

4. Vadivel mathiri pora edam ellam, "Ellarum pathukonga Naanum blog eluthuren, Naanum blog eluthren.." nu koovite poonga.

5. Tail every outgoing message with bold 24 pointed blog address.

6. Set blog url as your Custom message in all IM's & Social n/w's.

7. Final yet effective, if your blog is too worse that no one can read, then distribute it to SUN Pictures. Your blog will be broadcasted atleast 1000 times/day along with "Vizhi moodiyum" .

Vera ethachum ??

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags: Adsense , Increase website Traffic , Popularise Blog

Sarvam - Review

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Sat, 30 May 2009 14:33:00 +0000

1. First day, first show, Just 50 rupees.

2. No signs of SUN PICTURES to purchase this movie.

3. Plenty of tickets available at 2'0 clock . Even no reservations are done.

4. Not more than 30 members in the theater among which 15 were us.

Ivalo irunthum nanga sarvam ponathuku ore reason - THRISHA. But again Poster la mattum pottu yemathitanunga. Vishnuvardhan should understand that only trailers & good cast will not be a crowd puller. Sarvam being named a romantic thriller, offers no romance with Arya trying to woo & impress Thrisha with his stupid moves & you cant call it a thriller when the plot can be judged within a few frames (if you ve watched lot of old tamil movies even few frames is more than enough). Another thumb rule of tamil cinema, if you cant derive at a plot to describe how hero is attracted towards heroine, go for love at first sight. Latest addition to that is to remix any of the Raja sir's BGM in the background. Arya gets attracted towards thrisha, roams behind her, makes all his stupid moves to attract her & finally succeeds in his love. Sometimes I wonder whether trying these will work in reality. ? There goes another parallel story, villan's revenge against the one who killed his family in an accident.

These two lines along with unwanted song sequences with Arya's funny steps, makes the first half of the movie. Eventhough there are several ways to connect these two plots, bloody director kills Thrisha and transplants her heart to the kid. This happens during interval. From there onwards Arya's only job is to save the kid from the villan for the next one hour. Thrisha & Arya has no big scope in this movie. Arya has done his part well, but for someone from Bala's School this is not enough. Only thing enjoyable in the movie is Nirav Shah's cinematography. Anyways the 50 bucks is worth for watching Thrisha's tatoo.. :-)

P.S : For those who expect a sizzling hot kiss, Remember Expectation always hurts.

Final Verdict - There are lot of better ways to spend 3 hours.

Technorati Tags:Sarvam ,Tamil ,Thrisha ,Arya ,Vishnuvardhan

When Creativity Fails !!

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Mon, 18 May 2009 09:51:00 +0000

Tired of thinking out various strategies to attract girls. Here are few products which can help to attract them or even make them run behind you. Try Bajaj XCD , AXE Effect, Fairever Handsome, Gillete Vector Plus and the list goes on. Ipdi than product ah advertise panranunga..This is how advertisement media works. A place where you can expose maximum creativity, follows this thumb rule, When creativity fails introduce women. Theriyama than ketkaren, bike vangina ponnu , body Spray use pannina ponnu , Shave pannina kooda ponnu correct ayidum nu enna logic la than yosikianunga nu puriyala. Oralavu Sumara irunthale, oru ponnum parkarathu , ithula Bike vangina pathu ponnunga odi varuma enna .. Dr .Vijay kitta poi sonnalavathu adutha padathuku intha scene ellam mindla vachukivar, . Vivek solra mathiri ithana spare parts la vikkatha vandiya ponna parkuthuu nu vangarathuu... Ketkaravan kena payala iruntha pothume ivangaluku.. Ithu ellathayum kooda sakichukalam, aana Minto Fresh Vangina Laila va impress pannalam nu oru advertisement podranungale, 20 varusha valkaila correct agatha laila va antha 50 paise mittai la correct aga poguthu..??

Intha out of the box thinking apdinu onnu ellam kidayathu pola.. Evano oruthan AXE natha marunthu adicha figure set ayidum nu aarambathula pottathu than... Aduthu varavan ellam athiye pidichitu thonga vendiyathu...Hamam soap vangave yosikaravan ku ,ethukunga AXE effectu ellam. Ivangaluku ellam recruitement process la logical thinking, reasoning ellam irukkanu theriyala.. Namma makala pathi yaruku theriyum, ithe idea la Software company market pannina, 10 or 15 customer vanthu product ah vanginalum vanguvan.. Apdiyachu recession kuranja seri..

P.S : Inthavideo va pathutu than, intha alavuku mokkai poda thoonuchu...

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags : Advertisement , Media , Commercials , AXE Effect ,Women & Ads

Election Comedy !!

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Tue, 12 May 2009 16:45:00 +0000

Election vanthalum vanthuchu etho puthu padam release aana mathiri all TV layum ten minutes ku oru thadava advertisement oda aarambichiduthu.. Finished my dinner & was watching Dwyane Bravo smashing Appam's over all around the ground. As usual started switching channels during the starategy break, & was thinking what to blog, suddenly caught up with this flash news in Kalaingar TV.

முக்கிய செய்தி: சில தேசத்துரோகிகள் செய்த சதியால் மின்தடை ஏற்பட்டு உள்ளது. சரி செய்ய மின்னணு ஊழியர்கள் விரைந்துள்ளனர்.

There has been power cut for several months in TamilNadu and the results of all protests were similar as that of dead body ear la sangu oothifying. But now even with no one questioning, they are updating the status. Ever since election came up , people are given all the grants. Bus fare went down, regular supply of power, Switching of parties, blame game everything is happening here. Doesnt mean that it happens not only in TamilNadu, but the amount of humour & comedy they make is what really matters. Eventhough many channels are trying their best to publicise their leaders, I prefer watching JAYA TV coz it has decided not only to demote the kalaingar rule but also to kalaichufy kalaingar to the extent. Evalo alaga avaroda fasting ah match panni comedy panranga.. Room pottu yosipangalo...Top 10 comedies la first place ithu than..

My question is why should media broadcast these videos only during election times? Namma makkal kitta irunthu gentleman arasiyal ellam ennaiku than pakarathu.. Ofcourse we are also free pheonyl giving odane kudichufying gang.So namma big parupu mathiri pesa koodathu.. Intha thadava yavathu entha aarisikum , uluntha parupukum namma yemarama iruntha seri. Poruthu irunthu parpom...

Nan ivalo neram mokkai poda try panninathu puriyalai na intha video va parunga.. Simple but effective..

oru 10 mins strategy break la neram pogama poda aarambicha mokkai kadaisila pothu karuthu solra alavuku valanthuruchu...

Disclaimer : Election pathi eluthorome athuku sambanthama ethavathu photo podalamnu search pannina pothu first kidacha photo. Matha padi athukum intha post kum entha sambanthamum kidayathu ..

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags : Tamilnadu Politics , Election , Karunanithi , Media , Jaya TV , powercut , Comedy

Enna Villathanam

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Mon, 11 May 2009 14:21:00 +0000

Election varuthe makkaluku ethachum nallathu solluvom nu ellam kidayathu...Ootu podrangalo illayo correct ah itha mattum pannidranga pa... Ethana periyar vanthalum namma aalungala thirutha mudiyathu...

Courtesy - Dailythanthi.

Technorati Tags: Thrisha , Media , Birthday , Dailythanthi , Advertisement

Cheers
Prem.

கற்றதனால் ஆன பயன் !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:18:00 +0000

Got this forward during work. Posted in Anantha Vikadan filed under கற்றதனால் ஆன பயன்......Good one...

எங்களது சம்பளம்
உங்கள் கண்களை உறுத்திற்று
வாழ்க்கை முறை கண்டு
வயிறு எரிந்தீர்கள்
கலாசாரத்தைக் கெடுத்தோம்
என்றொரு புகாரும் உண்டு
பப்புகளில் புகுந்து உதைத்தீர்கள்
சினிமா எடுத்தீர்கள்
பத்திரிகைகளில் கிழித்தீர்கள்
பெண் கொடுக்க மறுத்தீர்கள்
எங்களது சம்பாத்தியத்தின்
பெரும் பகுதியை
வரியெனப் பிடுங்கினீர்கள்
நாங்கள் அந்நிய தேசங்களிலிருந்து
ஈட்டி வந்த பணத்தில்
பாலங்கள் கட்டினீர்கள்
'இந்தியா ஒளிர்கிறது' என
விளம்பரங்கள் செய்தீர்கள்
இதோ கும்பல் கும்பலாக
நடுத்தெருவுக்கு வந்துவிட்டோம்
சந்தோஷம்தானா
சகோதரர்களே?
உங்கள் சட்டைகளைப் பற்றிக்
கேட்கிறோம்...
'கணினிமொழி கற்றதன்றி
வேறென்ன பிழை செய்தோம்?'

-selventhiran

Technorati Tags : kavithai , Vikadan , Software Engineer, Layoff , Tamil

Trip to Wyanad

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 11:30:00 +0000

Wayanad, One of the memorable trips of my life. Every time we plan for a weekend trip, we end up sleeping in our rooms. This trip was not planned neither organized. All happened in just 2 days of time. We started @ 7 AM in Toyato Qualis that we booked. The route is pity straight forward Bangalore-->Mysore-->Gundelpet-->Kalpetta.. Reached wyanad by 3.30 ... Wayanad is a place of hype. Not all places are as exciting as mentioned in other blogs. Few places that are worth spending time out here are

1. Edakkal caves- Located on the way to kalpetta, this place is a gud trekking spot. Nearly takes 2 hrs to climb 1000 feet & reach to the top of the peak.

2. MeenMutty Falls - Must see location. 2 hrs of tiresome trek down the forest, you ll find the exciting sound of waterfalls providing a exciting scenic view. Be sure that you take up your first aid kit, coz this place can really mess up things if u are careless. Climbing up ll take out all your energy & all you can find is Kerala coconuts sold at Rs.20. Thirunelveli la alwa 100 Rs nu solra mathiri la irukku...

3. Sunrise valley -Located few km from Meenmutty falls, this is a view point. Similar to the one in kodaikanal, but too good to watch.

4. Chembra Peak - Even though we didn have enough time to cover this location, it is a great trekking place not to be missed & it requires almost half a day to complete the trek.

Rest of the places like pookote lake, Banasura Sagar Dam, view point,tea estates are just like anyother tourist spot. My advice would be not to spend much time on these places. If anyone is planning for a trip to wyanad, I would suggest them to stay in hotel "Wyanad Hights". One place where you can experience maximum hospitality with affordable price. Thilakan (09605224326) is the caretaker who did everything to us to make our trip enjoyable. The entire trip costed around 2500 Rs.

P.S : Thankfully all things went as planned. If the weekend trip got canceled, we had plans to register for the bungee jump that was conducted the same week which resulted in mishap. Who knows,may be I will not be sitting here typing this post... The Butterfly Effect!!!...

Cheers
Prem.

Technorati Tags : wayanad , Edukkal caves , Meenmutty falls , Chembra Peak , kerala , Adventure , Trek , Travel

COW-BOY returns !!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 08:27:00 +0000

Can't think of a better example to explain how far technology has reached people. Enga ooru pattukaran, Karakatakaran ,Mattukaran intha varusai la adutha avathar of Ramarajan is computerkaran. At the current market level where every hero is showing getup change, ramrajan has bought a new look by eliminating his trademark potta potti & blue towel....Few possible story lines

1. village background la maadu meichutu irukura ramarajan, senbagam(maadu perunga) oda
products ah globalisation pannarathukaha e-bay la account create panni epdi google oda compete panrar nu irukkalam.

2. Mattukaran turned into IT minister to deal with the Recession & downfall of Indian economy.

Whatever happens ,this movie for sure is gonna be a box office comedy of the year. will ramarajan be able to introduce his sentimental cow in this techno filled movie??. Wait till the movie release..

Cheers,
Prem

Thee - No smoke, No fire.

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 07:23:00 +0000

Before watching this movie I had plans to write a review for this. But I had a feel of guilt & wanted not even a single word named 'Thee' should be ever mentioned in my blog. Things have changed, after I watched Sun TV top 10 movies today where Thee was given first place & being praised for its technicality & social awareness..Sun pictures has tried everything to promote
this movie. Hope after reading this post, I can save at least a few from watching this movie.

This movie has several firsts in my life. First time I felt I've wasted 3 hours in my life. First time I tried to leave the theater before interval & forced to stay & managed to escape by climax. Bala , Manirathnam ellam tamil cinema va vera stage ku kondu poga try pannitu iruntha, intha mathiri aalunga lam enga irunthu than varangalo theriyala.. Itha produce panni promote panna SUN pictures vera..

Speaking about the story, which I am still trying to figure out, Sundar.C plays the role of strict police officer who appears everywhere when something bad happens.With large amount of girl fans following, Sundar.C appears nude in his intro scene. He gives plenty of advices to the public & tries to change the society. As expected he gets punished for his honesty & gets his family dead. As usual hero does a get up change & enters into the villans place & punishes them. Epdi MGR meesai vacha oru getup meesai illama oru getup, apdinu character difference kamikara mathiri, Sundar.C also tried showing some difference by cutting his hair for the politician role. Eppo than intha trend ah matha porangalo. Instead of taking revenge, Sundar.C keeps on
shouting mokkai dialogues which leaves the audience irritating. This movie has nothing except headache to offer to the viewers. Sundar.C covers almost 70% of the dialogue & u can find him in almost every frame. Camera man has tried his best to cover uncovered parts of Namitha by all angles, who plays an additional role of a actress controlling politicians accompanied by her usual stuffs ( Swim suit, Item number, Doing Jilpansss ki kilpansss with hero). One thing for sure intha
mathiri producer,director irukara varaikum Namitha market koraiyave koraiyathuu.

After interval, vera padathula okkantha mathiri oru feeling, as there is an entire set of new crew in the second half. Ithula en pakathula ukkanthanvan vera "Enna machan innum 'Kathal vaibogame' patta kanom nu??" oru kelvi. Enga nelamaiya nenachuu alugaratha sirikaratha nu theriyala.. Seems Namitha has maintained good chemistry, biology on screen with Sundar.C leaving the viewers confused as wat film they are watchin.

Srikanth Deva has done his part of irritating the audience . Better its time for him to stop making music. Sivaji would have shot him dead if he watched or heard the remix of his song 'ka - ka ' followed by the lyric 'valliyama valliyama' sung by Great DEVA. Atleast Gaptun, J.K Rithish,Sam Anderson or vijay would have guarenteed some laughter but this movie is a real sucker.

Final Verdict - Intha padatha parkarathu pathil thee kulichuralam. Watch it at your own risk.

மொத்தத்தில் தீ - பார்பவர்கள் வயிற்றில்

Cheers
Prem

நான் கடவுள் -My Views

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:37:00 +0000

Disappointed. This is what I felt after watching Nan kadavul. Despite the huge build up for this movie - bala direction , 3 years of work, Arya sacrificing more than a year in his career for this movie, it didn impress much.

Few parts which I loved about the movie

BALA - Credits to him for always trying to do something different, rather than sticking to the default principles of tamil masala. Every frame we can see his perfectionism speaking. He is the real hero of nan kadavul. Really liked his guts for portraying the reality of mafia begging. Yet another national award will be in his bag.

Physically challenged people - Doesnt seem like these people are in front of the camera for the first time. Real professionalism in acting. People (So called hero's) like J.K Rithish, Santhanu & few others of kollywood ivangala parthavathu nadika kathukita seri. The timing comedy made by these characters are a real plus for this movie.The comedian who accompanies vadivelu, will be now recognised for his splendid performance as a character artist.

Visuals- Technical values were given much importance. Being the visuals of kasi or the rusty environment of the temple, the cinematographers have done well.

Villan - Raghuvaran ku aduthapadiya nan parthu bayanthathu intha villan than. Good choice for the role.

Why the movie doesnt impress much .

Arya - He had nothing much to do.His portion comprises of Growing long hair & beard, Staring the camera, Thalakila nikkarathu & shouting aham brahmasmi, fight sequence.Ithellam vachu arya nalla nadichar nu sollida mudiyathu. Traces of Pithamagan can be seen at few places of the movie. Could not pictuarise thala performing as Rudra especially in topdown posture...

Story - As usual pala idathula logic puriyala. Better Bala should have taken seperate documentary portraying the life of Agories & the life of begger, mafia. He ended up messing both leaving the audience confused. If u can bare Vijay oops Dr.Vijay jumping from Guindy to Thambaram, Gaptun doing major surgery using mobile light, appo ithu ellam oru periya matter eh kidayathu.

With promo's & trailers making huge expectation among the audience, the momentum goes off once the pichaipathiram starts. Nan kadavul is not a entertainer.

Final verdict - Watch it.. Atleast for Bala..

Cheers
Prem.

Happy days - "Booting the System"

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:31:00 +0000

I was watching this movie last week. Even though the movie was not up to my expectations, it certainly made me remember those beautiful days of my life. This post is not a movie review, but all those sweet memories. So I thought why not archive it in blogosphere. So here I go.

"What's your ambition?" principle asked, during my admission interview for class 11. "I want to be a doctor " was my reply. Next question was "What if not ?". I replied with confidence "No I will". Looking back now makes me feel how funny this statement was. But still I don't get the reason why I wanted to be a doctor. It was my family who were more interested than me. I studied to my maximum that I even skipped the maths entrance classes to study biology. But I missed the medical seat by just 5 marks. Athavathu cut off la ye 5 marku mela venum :-) . Managed to get GCT, information technology in counselling. One of the best decisions that changed my life totally. Being a student from biology background, chances of using the computer were very rare. Earlier in my life I ve used computer only few times for playing games. I was happy to see that only 6 out of 60 from my class were from computer background. So I thought I can samalichufy. Lot of doubts during first semester as "What is information technology?" "Why are we studying physics , chemistry , workshop?" "Why there is no computer related courses?" went unanswered.

Syllabus in GCT are pity weird. Second sem we had our first computer theory & practical subjects. While other department students had C fundamentals, CS & IT ku straight ah C++(practicals) & OOPS. Ithula OOAD nu Mr.Grady Booch eluthina oru theory paper vera. KEYWORDS, VARIABLES, DATATYPES ellam puriyatha puthirave irunthuchu. Being a autonomous institution rules for lab are " I dunno what you ll do, You have to get the output verified by next week". Computer ah pathiye onnum theriyathu ithula C++ vera. To add to it our first program was MATRIX OPERATIONS. Athuvum size of matrix vanthu (n*m) ah irukanumam. GOKUL was our only hope. Pet named "Moniter mandai" of our class. Though he is from biology background, he was good at programming. Ivara pathi sollanumna, while our interests shifted to circket in school days, his interest was on computer games. So programming la U-TURN ellam poduvan. Whole class copied his code.

Yet another shock was waiting for me. The class was divided into 2 batches of 30 each, with myself being the first person in the second batch. It really hurts to be the first roll number. Every time you go first, not knowing anything, get the maximum scolding & later the staff realizes that its not only me but the entire class knows nothing. This is how it went for the first time

Staff : " Boot the system"

Me : "I dunno mam"

Staff : "Don't you know this.? Switch on the system"

Ore insult ah poochu. System ah on panrathuku peru than booting nu theriyama poche. The respect which my observation got was further worse, with code being written on both the sides, was thrown out of the lab. I also didn't last that long inside the lab. Viva apdinu ennanamo ketka, my only answer was "I don't know". I was also standing outside. Few moments later all my friends joined me. Standing outside the class, which I once considered as an act of guilt & moment of shame, now I was really enjoying this special moment.

Even though life has changed much, with usage of words like no issues, ASAP, FYI and all other jargon's in everyday life, I couldn't resist laughing at those sweet memories of booting a system. Those were the best days of my life. Still more to come. Keep reading.

Cheers

Adieu 2008

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:12:00 +0000

This will be my last post for this year. 2008 is one of the special year for me, filling my life with most memorable & everlasting moments of life time. If the channels can show top 10 of 2008, then why not me ? So here goes my compilation of the events that made 2008 so special for me. Its not a countdown, but just a collection of few events.

INFOQUEST 08 - Every dream of an GCT- CSITA ian. Its our technical symposium organized only by the students of CSITA (Computer Science & Information Technology Association) . It turned out to be a great grand success with lot of participents & seniors turning up. One of the greatest moments which can never be expressed in words.

SAYONARA 08 - Our farewell function. 4 years of life in heaven came to an end in 2008. Still I can remember the day when tears were rolling down our eyes when Balaji (our PR, CR, All in all enga class ku ellame ivan than ) train started to move. Railway station la irunthavanga ellam ethuku crying nu puriyama engala pavama parthathu than highlight.

EMPLOYED - It had been tough times when everyone started their life journey, few guys were left behind waiting for call letters. I was forced to be a dhandasoru for 4 months, with everyone visiting my home asking the typical question when is my DOJ ? Few were not interested in me skipping TCS. Anyways at last I got a job, I got a project , I got salary. No worries.

MARRIAGE - Yet another unforgettable incident is the marriage function of Dhanalakshmi, enga classmate. First marriage in the ironicz (enga batch peru) batch. It was like a mini get together for us after parting for 2 months from college. The trip started with friends visiting my home followed by trip to kodaikanal, forced to go to madure karthik's home. The strength was full, even class la kooda ivalo strength average ah irukkathu.

GUITAR - Enakulla thoongitu iruntha isai kalaingana thatti elupinathu intha year la than. When I say guitar, the first question everyone asks was "Varanam ayiram effect ah ?". But it started when I saw "Rock on". A break from the daily routine of normal company life. It has been 2 months since I ve started playing. Etho oru A.R , Illayaraja alavuku illainalum, Harris range ku aachum vasikeren ippo. :)

BLOGGING - Long term goal has been achieved in 2008. Vetrikarama 2 years of planning ku apparam elutha aarambicha blog. Oru matter illainalum epadiyo samalichu 8 post kita eluthiten. Evalo than yosichalum nalla mokkai podra subject kidika matinguthu. Few friends whom I ve given credits in my first post stopped blogging itself. Ithuku karanam nan aarambichatha illa ennanu theriyala. Ethu epdi ponalum, prem elutharatha nirutha mattan. :)

RESOLUTION - Nothing big. Same as last year "Adutha new year aachum nalla resolution edukanum" .

Happy new year all.

Cheers

Shristi Adventure Camp

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Thu, 25 Dec 2008 20:16:00 +0000

After having our product being released last week, the organization decided for some team building activities. With various teams opting for different places, our choice was Shristi Adventure camp. This camp provides outdoor activities for various programs like team building, leadership qualities etc. It is located at Tumkur Road almost 60 km away from the city. This is a one day camp and we were asked to pick any one of the days from Friday to Monday. As none of the teams were interested in camping on weekends, Monday was our choice. As always Monday mornings are blue, I struggled to wake up at 5.30 and managed to reach office in time. Delayed start due to few people & the increasing appetite for food, made the 2 hours of bus journey very boring. Anyways we guys boarded the mapillai bench & had a nice nap. Once we reached we found the place was deserted & gave the feel of jungle. Few kms of walk through the forest, we reached the camp. It is a private property covering 56 hectares maintained for adventure camps & team building activities. Breakfast was served & we had our tummies full.
Now its time for some activities. The entire group was divided into 3 teams & activities were planned such that points were allotted for each activity. The events are spider web, Island hopping, Parallel Bridge crossing & pipeline. At first sight, it seemed to be boring & nothing to do with team building. But once we started doing it ,it was full fun & enthusiasm with each one developing a strategy to handle the problem. Me & vijay (my teammate) came out with a different approach in Island hopping, ended up injuring the knees of the instructor :( After completing each activity, juice was provided, as though we did something useful. The facilitators wanted us to be hydrated every now & then. Last event was the mountain hiking where we covered almost the entire place walking for 2 hrs. The scenic view of the mountains & the lake were the best parts of the trek. Pics are here. Our team won by scoring maximum points. It was a nice experience altogether having fun & entertainment for the whole day accompanied by some good food. This was my first trekking experience & I really enjoyed it. Expecting a few more treks in 2009 ...

Cheers

Flying High !!!

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 08:52:00 +0000

With almost 3 months of stay in bangalore Life was boring and mechanical.Home and office were our daily routine.All the weekends we either used to sleep or visit the nearby shopping malls to pass time.So we decided to take a break. This time it was adventure sports the PARA-SAILING.

We had no clue of what this sport is to be. We googled for more info and the registration form read you must register five days prior to this event.Since it was someday in the mid week our plan got cancelled. So we registered for the next week. Para sailing is conducted in HOSKOTE lake. None of us knew how to get to hoskote , so we phoned up the instructor and got the directions. It was really a tough task to wake up at 7 but I managed to do it & we started off at 8 am. We took the bus to marathalli from BTM water tank. It was just 15 mins of journey in the early morning with no traffic on sundays. From there we went to KR puram cable bridge bus stand. As per plans we boarded a 316 bus and took tickets for stop next to mandore. Hancharahalli is the place I guess.

We reached there at 9.30 and were really hungry. All we could do is to fill our tummies with tender coconut as no hotels were there. On the right was our expected landmark Andrew wood craft and we walked straight. The route to hoskote lake was pretty interesting. We took up the straight road as suggested by the villagers.No parashutes were found on air yet we moved believing that we have taken the right path. And finally we were there at HOSKOTE lake. To our surprise Hoskote is a dry lake with few goats nd buffaloes grazing around. There is no such registration process as well. we were the only participants over there. Declaration forms needs to be filled before taking the flight. Its just the formality that comes with every sporting activity.This is how it works, The parachute is hooked to the person and a long rope is attached to the person with other end of the rope being attached to the jeep. With the favourable wind conditions it lifts the person when the jeep is acclerated and you will gain height. It was my turn. Me being afraid of heights , it was really a great thrill to para sail. Prayed to all the kulatheivams that nothing bad should happen. There is nothing to worry about since there are few trained professionals. With the general rule lesser the weight greater is the height I was going much higher and higher. This is the time. You are up in the air , flying like a bird , clicking the aerial view at an altitude of 300 meters above the ground level. I was just shouting screaming and enjoyin the flight. But all joy lasted for only 2 minutes.I wished it could have been a few more minutes in air. 350 bucks is quite large sum for just 2 minutes but it was a different experience cum adventure altogether.It was not as adrenalin pumping as expected. Dont forget to visit the rose gardens that are well maintained on the way to lake.Here are few snaps. The parasailers are planning to organise an event in december in which the proposed height factor is 600 meters and charge is 500 bucks. If anyone is really interested here is the contact number of the instructor 9886797597 (Neeraj is his name) .Gonna try bungee jumping next...

Sam Anderson Unleashed

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 17:28:00 +0000

Every king will be replaced by another.
The fight for the crown continues till eternity. Wondering what am I talking about. Its the crown which every hero in kollywood aims at. Its the SUPER STAR crown. The tamil film industry has finally discovered the real super star.The super hero. The ONE. No words to describe his talents.
A local lad from ERODE has stunned the kollywood industry by his awesome performance in his debut movie 'Yaruku Yaar'. His debut strongly delivers a message to Indian cinemas. Yes he is the only hope, only dream for oscars.No more Khans and Bhachans. Yes he is none other than SAM ANDERSON. Also called as sandy, sammy , andy , sam he has achieved great heights which no other actor in world cinema can achieve. Ranked equal to Al pacino, Brad pitt, Russel crowe, Jhonny depp many are still in a confusion why this rising star chose tamil film industry. Rajnikanth is quite confused what to do to sustain his position. It took a lot of time for ulaganayagan to showcase his talents in various movies. With a single movie SAMMY destroyed all those images through his multiple talents which includes dance, dialogue delivery, scene presence, dressing sense, English knowledge and wat else. Gaptuns conditions are even worse. All the fame earned through youtube are erased by a single video. Even google ranks Sam anderson first out of 791,000. Great achievement indeed. Fans are flooding to join sam anderson fan club in orkut. I was cursing myself for not knowing his presence. Credits to my friends. Still wondering whom this guy is, then take a look and leave ur comments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0iXYpHXWIA

Cheers

Xploring Bengaluru

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:25:00 +0000

Hi all. Nearly a month has been passed since my last post. Doesn't mean that I was busy, had no access to net. I joined my concern almost a month back and corporate life is really cool out here. Had loads of fun in induction and training programs. Still can't forget those odd days when I was asked to do improvement to get into medical stream. Nalla velai I somehow managed to escape or else CHINNI JEYANTH mathiri note ah suthikitu innum student ah than irunthu irukanum. About life in Banglore it is really very fast. Even after spending a month here I still find very difficult to get used to it. I really find it difficult to figure out the areas, as there are many layouts, flyovers, crosses, mains, circles and the list goes on. Real estate is one of the profitable business out here. The land owners gets bucks more than what a software engineer earns in a month. As far as climate is concerned its always cool and chill. Cant predict when will it rain. To resist the chillness many wear socks along with slippers which is a weird combination in Tamilnadu.

Banglore is flooded with shopping malls and software engineers. No wonder why people say when you throw stone in the streets of Banglore it will hit either a dog or a software engineer. There is atleast a mall for a muttu santhu and everything is extremely costly out here. Language is also bit a problem. Only englipis will not help at certain places. Everyone in my batch often used to communicate in hindhi though they are from different places. But nammaluku therinjathu ellam idhar awwo, yek gaon mein yek kishan rahatha tha. Itha vachu evalo nal than samalikarathu. Anyways the butler hindhi that I learnt helps me to sort things out. Traffic is really hectic in Banglore. If you compare Chennai with Banglore, former is far much better. The best mode of transport I would suggest is nataraja service. The vehicles in traffic will be much slower than our mattu vandi. The better thing is that auto fare is pity decent coz its metered. But ooruku pudusha iruntha avalothan, ore area va pala thadava round adichu yemathiduvan. Nalla velai nanga rendavathu round varum pothu kandupidichutom..:-) The major problem for me here is Food. Worse is that Sambhar tastes like payasam. Even some hotels contain jaggery bottle along with salt and pepper. Thank god we got a TamilNadu hotel near our place. Interesting trivia is that we are cooking. Cant believe isnt??. I ll share my experiences in cooking in the upcoming posts. Another thing which captured my attention is the So called Fashion in Banglore. For boys if you wanna be fashionable then do something to your hair. Watever it may be. Either spike it or color it. Fashion doesn end up here. Drop down ur pants as far as you can. I found many of them wit this kinda outfit calling it a fashion. Dunno why they are so desperate to show off their Jockey. Many girls are addicted to the lipstick culture irrespective of the ages. Even girls started wearin short shirts and I don wanna discuss more about that...:-)

Everyone here knows Rajnikanth. But I was surprised when one of my colleague who is from Delhi asked about Vijaykanth. He had seen Gaptuns stunts in youtube. It really took a lot of time to convince him that gaptun is a hero and not a comedian. I was happy that he havent seen any of T.R videos. Illati atha ennanu solli puriya vaikarathu. Learnd a few kannada words. Life has finally become mechanical. Yet enjoyable. Still exploring Banglore...

Cheers

The Road Not Taken

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 08:10:00 +0000

Hi Folks,Happy to inform you all that my "do-nothing" life comes to an end by this July. Yes ,I am gonna be a corporate from aug 4th. No more DHANDASORU,VETTI and all those stuffs. Got recruited for TCS and EMC Corporation, Banglore. Feeling a bit sad to miss my friends and our THAIKALAGAM TCS. Heard from my friends that corporate life sucks and they find no time to enjoy. Just now finished all my formalities related to my company.Some of them were filling in the employee details, which had declerations relating to who will be receiving the P.F in the event of my death. Ada pavingala innum valkaiye aarambikala athukullayum death ku apparam nadakaratha pathi yosika aarambichutengala da..

Got my tickets reserved in a II tier Ac [ Company Sponser ] on aug 2nd. This is my second visit to Banglore. First visit happened a week ago, leaving us with bitter experiences. We almost ended up spending a 10k,worth nothing. Well atlast all we could say is "Vidra Vidra Suna pana".It needs a seperate post. Worst part is that I was down with fever after return. Lost a few kgs. For all the efforts that i put up for 2 months to increase my weight, ellam rende naal la waste ah pochu. Hope this time everything goes fine and I do blog regularly. Meet you all in my next post as a corporate.

Cheers

My First Blog...

noreply@blogger.com (Premnath) — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:23:00 +0000

Well, atlast i too have decided to blog. But unfortunately the decision was made nearly 2 years back. Had an idea to blog after entering into the corporate world, but my loneliness and boring environment at home made me to put pillayar suzhi to my blog..Well this is my first blog, so I am keeping it short.

Just got the interest to blog from a couple of my frnz, Narasimhan ( I bet if you read his blog, you ll find other stuffs boring) ,Geethapriya ( The one who introduced the word "blog" to me) and finally vijayan (Who has stopped blogging recently). Special thanks to you all folks. What am I supposed to do here?? Well I am jus gonna scribble all my thoughts, no matter how funny and crazy they sound. Lets see if it has any influence on my life..Thats it for now..Meet u in my next post.

Cheers