Are you safe on wheels?? - Engeyum Eppodhum...

Hi

After Mr. Sivaraman’s update and few more positive comments in FB about Engeyum Eppodhum, planned to watch it. So, we booked in Rakki theatre for evening show and we (myself and Uma) watched it today. As per the comments posted by others, the movie is good.

I don’t want to make it as a formal movie review. But would like to share some experience. (message a vechu oru message a sollalaamnu...)

Movie throws a message on road safety with a mild, good love story. How you should drive your vehicle on road and particularly on highways. Its like you should drive slow for your safety and others safety as well.

Two buses (SETC and a private bus) starts simultaneously from Trichy and Chennai respectively. When the bus is on almost in a high speed an untied thorpolin cover from a van is thrown away by wind and it fallen on the bus and it hides the road view from the driver. The driver doesnt know whats happening on the road for few seconds and he loses control over the bus. It collides with the opposite bus. Lead actors are in the bus and they are becoming the victims. Who survives and who dies is the climax.

I have a similar close experience recently. I was travelling to Bangalore from Chennai on last Monday. We(entire family) have started here at 3pm and driving in NH4. It was heavy rain while we nearing Ranipet. One government bus was running in front of me with 50 – 60Kmph.  I was going behind that bus for almost 5 – 6 Kms without overtaking as there was a rain. Rain slowed down and I was decided to overtake that bus, hence accelerated my car from 50 to 60 and 70Kmph. While trying to taking him on right there was water stagnated in the right side of the road which I didn’t observe. On the half way through the bus was running on those water and it started spitting on my car. Inspite my wiper is in fast mode nothing is visible for me for atleast 10 secs. I tried to apply break and reducing the speed without tilting the steering. Once I got the visibility I ensured, by god’s grace we are on the right track.

I just scared on that moment where I don’t have visibility of the road itself when I am on 60 – 70 Kmph on a highway. I thanked god later that nothing has happened to us. When I am watching the accident part in that movie my experience just crossed my mind.

So, the moral of the story is whoever having cars / whoever lending cars from others, please drive slowly and safely on highway roads. I agree that if something has to happen then it will happen for sure, but we can also be careful on certain things and can avoid certain things.

MSK

Something missing - Part 2???

Hi

I have already made a post in the title of “Something missing”. Rather I can say Ragu has already posted it. It was on What I feel, What I thought….. and mostly on “I and me”. I feel / believe that these posts are not only for “I”. It is for We. If you ask me the question how it is for We? Then I have the answer for it.

Man has created most of the world. If you talk about motor revolution, telecom revolution, medical sciences, engineering, everything we are still going forward to make new inventions. Even the most valuable discovery of a man is “GOD”. So, we have created god too…  If you notify it deeply, all the inventions or discovery that mankind does is everything live for others. For example, if you take a pencil, it writes for you till the end or till you throw it out. So, you take anything for an example, it serves / lives for you till it ends.

Let us take creation of God - nature. It gives you everything that you want. It gives you light, food, shelter, clothes, medicines and whatever you name it. It has some purpose to exist. Here I refer purpose means, it has some work to do for others like mankind or any animals or creatures or anything. You cant see a part of nature is saying that I will give my life only to my family or referring to any of the community. It is for everybody or anybody. It shares everything it has with it, to everybody and anybody.

At this stage I think aren’t we the part of nature? Normally we live for us and to maximum for our family or friends. We earn for us and for our family. We do everything for us and for our family. What about the law of nature then? Are we trying to extend our arms? Is it possible for us to live for others?

So, here what it means, live for others? In countries like India, it requires lot of fresh hands to deliver lot of fresh ideas and to implement them as well. For example, most of the villages doesn’t have proper education. Children are struggling to study in most of the family due to financial constraints or due to some other constraints. Even parents itself are the road block for them in some of the cases. Isn't it our responsibility to make it right? Help them to study or educate their parents first to make them to give education to their children.

It is just an example. We can work on so many things that society requires our attention.

I know some of us will start arguing that practically it is not possible and blah blah blah… Moreover it is the fact that it is not practically possible for the kind of people who is visualizing his small world, small family with small hearts like us. But if we think from our inner heart it will say, yes it could be possible. Thinking from the inner heart is what is “SOMETHING MISSING”.

Note: idha naan oru naal nallavana pesala…. It is pricking me for so many years, as I said in “something missing – part1”. And this blog is not to blame us directly, but to have an inner thought / small insight of being a mankind.

Let us try to live for others.  

MSK

Away from home

Hi All

Good evening. I m happy to meet you all again through my blog. Some times i wondered that how people are able to live their life away from family and friends. What will happen to their responsibilities as a son, husband, father, brother and so on...? How do their family members live without his presence in day to day life? Fine... atlast I got an answer to these questions. The answer is its just a "situation". I would like to share my personal experience to you all.

My job

I am working with HCL Technologies for the past 10 months. I was assigned to a network testing project working for a Bangalore based client. This project was supposed to be wind up some few months earlier. But it was winded up after 10 months from my joining date. So, i was suppose to find some other project to place myself in. That is the time my manager approached me for relocation to bangalore, since there is really a good project. By having the options in hand i thought ok... it will be a better / different experience for me to explore it than any other options. So i opted it. I have cleared a interview to step in to this project and one fine day i got a call from my manager to hear that i have cleared the interview and been selected and i need to report in bangalore from 5th of Sep. My home mates were ready to accept my decision but with some hard feelings that i will be away from home. Since, i love to be alone i have taken it little lightly and started the preparations to relocate.

Relocation eve

My wife was telling me, "how will i be in home without you??" I was convincing her that i will come every weekend to home, so no need to worry, you think that i am coming late everyday after you sleep and going to office so early before you wakeup. Despite of me consoling her, i had a small hiccup in my mind that how would i live my life without family? Did i take a right decision on relocation? I felt something strange in my heart. i never been away from home till. How would I be managing the loneliness? As I was with this mindset, my daugher called me "Appaaaa..."(with some raagam) i literally broke like that i wouldnt be able to hear that again and this is going to be my last day in life. And this time I started consoling myself that I will come home every week end, i am going bangalore just for a training and it lasts a week.

4th Sep

As per our plan myself and my father started bangalore in our car, since i am going via avadi i took my wife and kid to drop them there as she was going to my in-law's house. I left them in bus stand and as my daughter signed me tata with her innocent face, (she doesnt know that i am going bangalore and i will meet her again after a week) that time, some of my tears honored her innocence. I started showing some interest in unrelated topics and conversing with my father to avoid a deep centimental scene. We strarted by 11am from home and had a break after vellore to have lunch which we packed for us. After a nice lemon rice, curd rice and beans poriyal we started our drive and reached bangalore (guest house alloted for me) by 5.30pm. Along with father I have walked a stretch to find where my office is. To my surprise it is just a 30 min walk from my guest house. Again we walked back guest house and had a good sleep.

5th Sep

My father woke up by 7am and he had a bath and started his regular pooja at guest house itself. We were ready to leave the room by 8.30 and we had breakfast nearby hotel. There was a vishnu temple on the way to office and we visited vishnu he blessed us with little puliyodharai. My father had a plan to visit "Shiva bala yogi ashram" which is in jai nagara before catching his 2.30 brindhavan express. He signed me "TATA" some 2 kms prior to the office. Now I am literally alone in a new state where i dont know the local language itself. Again my heart swirls with sorrow and loneliness. As i am less self motivated, it took time for me to regain my shape. I didnt even tried to talk to my daughter as I dont have strength and had fear that i may cry.. Finally i reached office by 9.30 and as expected nobody was there except security. Around 10.30 Aravind (a known person for me) entered office and slowly one by one. Introductions, handshakes and some more formalities happened, luckily i had my laptop with me and it helped to start my work from the day 1 itself.

Overall the office is good, the ambience, people everything is fine. Lunch is providing by the client itself. No restrictions for browsing websites. Moreover we played TT for 1 hour. I was little bit relaxed and happy while been in office.

This time i need to motivate myself more and i know that i am doing it. I tried to find house for rent in the day 1 itself and I failed. Planning to get the house in 15 days and to get my family here within a month max.

Being away from home(atleast for the first few days) is not a easy one to do, that too having a lovely wonderfull wife and kid at home. I can realise now that how difficult that everybody lives being away from their home. Will update you the happenings.

You may think that I have blown up the situation and showing it big... but it was my raw feelings...

Bye!!
MSK