Pollachi - Vaalparai - Part1

I didn’t anticipate that it would happen now. Infact none of us predicted that. We were just carried out our day to day work in our office without even having a thought of that (well, it is in my case atleast). Things are keep on happening in the world around you even if you don’t notice. It happened just like that.

Well, What happened is the question?

So the answer is “Trisha has decided to get married…” (name changed due to confidential reasons :)). By using that name I can feel your eagerness who doesn’t know about her and anger as well who knows about her :). Anyway please don’t judge that the story is going to be about her marriage.

She has invited few of us one month prior to her marriage. Since it is in Pollachi near Coimbatore, the venue attracted us and we started showing interest to attend that marriage. And ofcourse she is one of our greatest team members and friends too - to not forget mentioning about that. We started planning about the trip. While in planning we came to know that couple of our vetty gang key members didn’t receive the invitation and hesitated in attending the marriage. Well, here we had a challenging situation to trigger some interest in them to join the trip. So, we decided to add another agenda in our trip.

And that agenda is VAALPAARAI.

So, everyone agreed for the trip now even the vetty group key members who didn’t receive their invitation. So the step-2 process is to take permissions for the leave. Couple of us struggled a lot to get their permissions since we are married. ;). We informed our managers for our planned leaves and applied it. Our managers are kind enough to accept our leave requests unlike our better halves (obviously it’s a joke :)). We planned to make the trip in 2 hatchback petrol cars (jazz and i20). Here our plan goes like this…. Start at Wednesday afternoon and reach Pollachi the same night. Thursday morning to attend the marriage and start to Vaalpaarai, should reach there by lunch. Rest of Thursday at rest, Friday to visit Athirapalli falls and Saturday morning to start back to Chennai. Step 3 plan is to book our stays. Bride promised us that she takes care of stay at Pollachi on Wednesday night. We have to book the stay at Vaalpaarai for 2 nights. We searched for some resorts and tea bungalows through internet. Nothing worked out but a resort we got it through just dial. Deepika Residency is the resort name. We called the contact person Kumaresan and registered our bookings and we paid 2000 as advance to confirm the bookings. The story is about 2 parts… one is pre trip and the second is on trip. Now we see the first part.

Once the trip was planned and confirmed all of us were bit excited. Bachelors were excited because they are going for a trip. Married men were excited because they are going for a bachelor’s trip. One guy was interested to join the trip from another team since it is the bachelor trip. Ofcourse he was married and a good friend of one of our vetty group key member. Only one of us was not excited and even not remembered about the trip till we started. That could be because he is a bachelor. One man got the permission from his better half just a week back the travel starts. Meanwhile I was busy in changing the batteries and car tyres to my jazz since it was already due and for the safe of co travelers in the long drive. We were discussing and planning about the trip /travel in our daily after lunch get-to-gethers. We were discussing about the route to reach Pollachi and finalised the route as follows. Chennai – Chengalpet – Villupuram – Ulundhurpet – Athur – Salem – Avinashi – Pollachi. Then we were discussing about the driver options where we had enough number of alternate drivers too. Some of our vetty group members who were not joining the trip were very irritated about our chats in the name of planning, but we don’t want to stop because of that, since it gave us the energy for rest of the day work. Yes ofcourse, it was a good motivation for most of us to carry out the work in office. Suddenly we got a doubt whether our cars would accommodate 5 members comfortably. Why doubt, let’s check practically. Few days we went to the parking area and just rehearsed our seating positions. I don’t know exactly what they concluded even the space is little bit constraint. We all were set to go, so no constraints. I have created a whatapp group named Pollachi, to do the instant planning. But I don’t see any important planning done there but shared few songs list for the travel. Car owners should take the responsibilities for creating the play lists. We had few sound check sessions in the lunch time. In the name of checking audio quality we have taken rests in the car. But I dint had any clue what would have happened if the sound quality test fails. All these happened just because of the excitement of the trip.

When we passed the days like this the calendar has already reached the travel date. Yes, that is Wednesday morning. We reached office with travel bags since we planned to start from office at lunch time. Couple of us were engaged in deadlines. So we planned to start as 2 batches. One has started around 1.30pm with 3 members. It has to pick up 2 persons on the way, one from Padur and another from tambaram. Another batch started at 3.30pm after they completed the tasks. I am the driver for the 2^nd batch. We had lunch just near Navalur and started at around 4.30pm. So, the long awaited journey started with wheat parota and egg kurma as delayed lunch.

We are here in the end of part – 1 – pre trip. Here comes the part – 2 - On trip. Lets wait for that for next release.

Athiri hills and Thoranai hills

Athiri hills near Coutrallam

After Sathuragiri, Vellingiri, Paravatamalai, we were searching for “Whats next?” then my spiritual partner / good friend named Mr. Raguraman did come with a place called Athiri hills which is situated near Alwarkurichi, Tirunelveli district. So after so many discussions, chats and conference calls with our spiritual group we decided to visit there in the month of December. Then we started @ 26^th evening around 6pm from Tambaram with having 2 cars for 6 people.

We have reached Coutrallam @ 4am on 27^th. We had a bath in Aintharuvi at that time which is unforgettable. It was too cold to take bath at 4am in December and it is too violent. Few people were sleeping there near the parking places and nobody was taking bath in the falls at that time. But after few hours we felt it was a wonderful experience which we never have.

After completed our bath we proceeded to “Thoranai malai” a Murugan temple in the hill which is 15 kms

steps leading to temple

from Coutrallam. We had a priest there who welcomed us in the foot hill and asked to climb and reach the temple and also asked us to take a bath in one of the sunai’s. We started climbing the hill @ around 6am. There are steps available to climb till the temple. Most of the steps are too steep and made us tired on just beginning itself. It was almost 1500 steps that we have to climb. I am not remembering the exact numbers it took 1hr for us to reach the temple though we were very slow.

Temple front view

The temple is situated just in midst of a rocky plain fully covered by iron grills. (Iron grills might have built to protect the temple from the monkeys). It is a very good treat to eyes to see the surroundings and the sceneries. Once we reached the temple the priest asked us to take a bath in the nearby sunai. But we told that we already taken a bath at Coutrallam. He insisted again to take a bath there since it would be really nice. We don’t find any issues to take a bath again in that sunai. We thought it would be again a good feel to take a bath in that place. We reached the nearby sunai and found a rope tied bucket near the sunai which is looked like a well. We have to use the bucket to take the water out and bath. Again it was a pleasant experience taking bath there.

On the way to temple with our spiritual group

Scenic views around

Waiting for chutney :)

After the second bath of the day we completed the pooja in the temple and started climbing down. We reached the foot hill by 9am and hot idlies were waiting for us. There is a lady who is serving the disciples directed by that priest and she made the idlies ready before we get down. We had 4 idlies with coconut chutney, which we felt like amirtham at that time.

After heavenly breakfast we started to Athiri hills which is near ambasamudram and 15 kms from there. We are almost running late and reached there by 10.30 or so. There was a old man again like a priest who took us to the temple which is 1.30 hrs walk from there. It is a reserved forest where the forest officers are very strict that we should not take plastics, cameras, liquor bottles etc. But it is required to protect our own mother nature from the nuisance people.

Way to reach Athiri Maharishi's temple

We started follow the old man in a single trail path. This forest has all the animals except lion. This is the tiger reserve forest “Kalakkad Mundanthurai Tiger reserve”. With all the “darr” fear inside us we started follow that old man. The way starts with the long view of “Kadana dam” and we walked along with the river way. It was really a beautiful sight with the backdrop of western ghats. On the way we reached a small river and decided to take a third bath for the day. Again it was a wonderful experience, the water is crystal clear and the fishes, stones are able to see just like we see through a glass. After the bath we again started walking through the forest and reached the temple. On the way we have seen a palli vaasal also. Afterall it is a heaven and no matter what god is there

The river where we took bath

and who are not. We are ready to worship whoever crosses us. That mindset will come automatically in such a place.

The temple is just in middle of the forest. To say exactly it was not mostly like a temple but a living place of

Temple front view

Athiri Maharishi with his wife Anusaya. It was exactly like a “Kudil” of some sages which has been converted as a temple afterwards. There is an idol for Korakkar sidhar also placed and believed that he had his tapas there. Even we could see the Vinayagar, Murugar idols available in the open space. Just to imagine how the life would have been there for just a couple in midst of a forest and doing the tapas and poojas. I believed that it is a heaven to lead a life there.

A nap under the tree in temple side

We had a small nap there since we all are tired due the last day’s long travel without much sleep. Afterwards we had curd rice which has been prepared by the priest there. Again it was really nice to have that in the forest where we were already in dead hungry.

We were started walking back to foot hill where we started @ around 3pm and reached by 4.30pm. The way is not so steep to climb. We can easily walk to the temple through the forest but with few steep climbings.

distant view of the kadana dam

We have started and visited the “Sivasailam temple” on the way to Ten Kasi, where the main diety is “Saila

Kasi Viswanathar temple gopuram

nathar”. It was a good temple and few hundred years old. Then we visited Ten Kasi, Kasi Viswanathar temple. It is the temple of beauty with its one of the huge gopurams in tamil nadu. We had a dinner there and stayed in Coutrallam where one of our friends booked a home kind of stay.

Morning we have planned to take an oil massage with a bath in Coutrallam main falls. We took an ayurvedic massage which costs for Rs.300 per person just near the falls. But in my opinion it was not so good but OK kind of. We had a bath in Coutrallam after the massage. It was really nice experience again. Only my spiritual partner was with me to visit nearby Kutrala nathar, the others were started in one car to pack up. It was a

Puliya marathadi lalakadai

nice and big temple and so beautiful. So many deities are there inside the temple where we visited one by one slowly. We were also supposed to go back to room and pack up things for starting back to Chennai since we are already running late. We started at around 11am from Coutrallam and we reached at 9pm at Tambaram.

On the way we planned to buy Milk kova in Srivilliputhur since it is famous for. We have found that "Puliya marathadi lalakadai" near the bus stand is the one where you can find the authentic Srivilliputhur milk kova.

Srivilliputhur temple gopuram  while returning

 Overall it was one of the most memorable trips in my travel diary. Yet to explore more heavenly places.

Thanks

MSK

Paradesi

We decided to go movie paradesi as one of our friends told that the movie is extraordinary. Fine, this is enough for us to decide for a movie outing. So we started from porur at 6pm from our friend’s house for a 6.40 pm movie scheduled in AGS, Villivakkam. Since it is a Saturday evening, we struck up in a huge traffic and managed to reach the theatre at almost 7pm. We are not happy that we lost almost the 20 mins of movie. But the “next seat man” told us that the movie started late and you would have lost not even 10 mins. That gave us some relief and started watching the movie with some great expectations. Naturally expectations are there for Bala movies and the round the world reviews added more in to it. Fine, I will get in to my opinion now towards the movie.

Movie sets to be in 1900AC. The movie starts (at the time we entered) happily with a marriage function. The villagers are gathered as a family for the function. In between Atharva’s periappa died which has been hidden by the villagers to get the “Nel soru” in the marriage, by not doing that they will miss the “nel soru” (and it is about their varumai, where I don’t accept since the village people will give preference for the people and too a death instead of a food, but bala managed to justify somehow by his screenplay). Vedhika, the heroin tries to tease Atharva as he seems to be a bit of “mentally retarded person”, she denies giving food to him, but he is very hungry and need it badly. This scene extends for 5 to 10 mins which irritated me much, but I don’t know why. Then I got convinced that even my two friends who accompanied me also got irritated by that scene. Finally she showed her love by giving food to frustrated Atharva. But here Atharva expressed his frustration well than us.

After this scene I wondered that nobody has cared about the “died periappa” rather the movie continued with Atharva/Vedhika love. I did not convince with this major hole in Bala’s direction. (Mentally retarded?) Atharva trying to make love with heroin where she rejects in the beginning and accepts finally in a half built house in middle of the thorn bushes (mullu kaadu). Heroin’s mother not accepting the lead’s combo and yelling at Atharva to forgot her daughter. (Her mother’s performance reminds me the Ambika character in Avan Ivan.) Atharva’s grandma is the only person who supports him. We should appreciate the performance (actually no performance, it was she lived that character easily) of his grandma. At some point even his grandma was shouting at him that he is not going for any job.

This time our hero is looking for a job outside his village and able to find one for cutting woods. A tea master who gives that job was beating our hero like anything as he sits on a bench. He is not supposed to sit on a bench since he came from some low caste. This scene especially pictured well and we able to feel the disaster faced by untouchables in that period. After completing his job of cutting hundreds of wood he was not given the payment, so he cries in front of the tea master to get the “coolie”. This is where the new character gets introduced as “Kangaani” who is searching for people to work in tea estates owned (taken should be the right word) by the britishers.

Kangaani is in Salur Village where he is convincing the villagers with the sweet words that they could work with him and can earn more money to lead a better life. People were convinced and felt happy by his words and decided to go their and work with them to earn more money. Some people were going with their families and some left. From here the movie travels most with songs and distressing moments of the migrating people.

People started travelling to their new work place and they travel for 48 days by just walking. Here, while they start their journey there is a background song “Oh! Sengaade” which showing us how sad they are leaving their living place. Here I would like to compare the song with situation comes in the film “Kannathil Muthamittal – Vidai kodu engal naade” the people are forced to migrate from their native, so the song was matching that situation very well. Coming to this movie, people are volunteered to migrate for better living and I don’t see the need of the core sadness in that song. The song was like making us to feel the sadness which was totally miserable.

While travelling, an old man was fallen down due to probably de-hydration. But I wondered how other people leaving that old man in the middle of the way (almost a pottakkaadu) without making an attempt to give him water or try to save him. The villagers are almost should be the victim’s relations where his wife only seems to be shed tears for him. And later the people harshly taking that lady with them and leaving that old man just like that.

Now the movie set to revolve just in a tea estate where they realize that the Kangaani is the villain and exploiting the people’s soul to their best. Newly married lady (karuthakanni) is getting raped by the britisher, half of the people were dying due to the fatal disease, hero’s leg vein has been cut as he tried to escape, people were not given their payments, Dhanshika also died in a disease and Karuthakanni as well. Hopeless people spending their life time in tea estates without seeing their families and relations. Doctors are arriving to medicate the people but they are trying to convert them as Christians rather doing treatments. Everything is going against the slave people and there is no hope even for us that they will rejuvenate. Finally due to man power shortage another set of people brought in by Kangaani in which hero’s wife and their son gets in to trap. Atharva was crying (kadhari kadhari) by seeing his family there and the film ends as the title appearing “a film by bala”.

The film has been well portrayed how the people were exploited to their core without recognizing them as a human. By seeing that movie we feel how lucky we are since we are leading a comfortable life.

In my opinion the entire movie could be a good documentary rather than a movie, where I disagree that it is a good movie rather could be a good documentary. If it is a life of such people Bala missed to show the other side of their part which could be their happiest moments. The characters in the movie are crying their best from the beginning to the end which fails us to feel for them. Songs are also a major drawback as the singers also crying for them with old sad musics.

I don’t accept this as Bala’s best movie as saying by most, it could be a best documentary directed by Bala.

MSK

An abandoned child

She was very good to me and so me as well. She was with me always in my life. My journey, my good, my bad everything she knows. Who is that she?

Many of my friends would aware that I have adapted a child at 2003 and she was my part of life afterwards. I have taken her to more social events, rather I would say she had taken me to so many places. Few of my friends were moved with her and said me that she is brilliant, she is cute and she is great. It is very bad part that she fell on sick after few years as she is getting older too. I have consulted and medicated with so many doctors but it doesn't helped us. She has undergone with some surgeries too in between. But her health goes worse than ever.

So I am planning to abandon her with most pain in my heart. My worries are how she feels on me if I do so. But I don’t have another option as of now other than doing this.

But the good thing is that I am adapting a new child again to make another journey. I know the same things will repeat again, but I need her for my journey to be better.

Guys! Yes, I have booked a new Pulsar 150 again.

Parenthood

There are so many moments in our life which makes us delight. On those one of the most beautiful moments in our life is Parenthood. Most of us are gifted to experience these nice moments.

Though it is the good feeling for father becoming a parent, it is the mother who flourishes a lot in many ways. Mother is a feeling that she is turning to be a full woman. She has unloaded the load which she was carrying for almost 10 months. She has got a big bless for her lot of sacrifices, patience, tolerance of unbearable pain, fear and so many. Hence she has become a mother so as she is.

She has to be very careful on her food selection from the day 1 of her conceive. It is because the baby inside her womb should not get affected. So she eats most of the food which she doesn’t liked a most. Her inner organs is not stable in the routine process as she doesn’t able to take the food regularly in the early pregnancies. After managing a couple of months without maintaining a normal diet it gets settled to have some normal food. Even then she avoids most of her favorite items like, chocolates, ice creams etc for her baby’s health. She takes lots of fruits till she gets bored to that. She is not able to attend her relative’s functions, friend’s marriages, regular outings and even office works because she should not travel for the baby’s safety. She has to take lot of injections, medicines just to avoid infections and to develop immunity for her baby. Whatever she eats it is for her baby also. She loses her so well maintained physical structure, health, energy. She takes a kind of spice called saffron (kunkuma poo) for her baby’s complexion.

A man facilitates her for all these periods. He gives his full support to her from eating the food till she sleeps. He gets everything that she wants. He gives a moral support to her to complete this project with successful delivery. He holds her hand while walking. He carries all the things with him to give a free hand to her. His shoulders are always ready for her to get rest. He gives her strength. He virtually / mentally carries the baby with him always till the woman does so. Fortunately or unfortunately a poor man can do only this.

So, after a lot of pains and a long waiting a mother gives birth to the baby. A great achievement happens with the re-birth of a mother along with baby. It’s a great feel for that father too for his long wait in his life and as well in the hospital’s corridor. He is again gets busy with the hospital formalities after birth and till the discharge. The parents think that they have reached the climax and everything will go smooth from now onwards and they can take a break for a while. But the life won’t leave you like that…. J

There is something waits for you to look upon.

The next step of parenthood is nurturing the baby.

A mother not getting relaxed after this but a father can do a little or more a little. A mother starts to learn, how to feed an infant. It’s a new experience to her. She doesn’t know even how to hold her child. Slowly she starts knowing everything. A mother has to feed her baby for every 2 hours even in the night time. She lost her sleep almost for first 6 months. Still she maintains her diet for her baby’s health. Whatever she eats it reflects in her baby’s health. So she has to be very careful on selecting her diet. Once a mother stops her breast feeding pace by pace, baby starts eating some semi solid / solid foods. By the time the baby grows. So many delightful moments for parents there too when the baby starts responding to us, turning around, crawling a bit, walking, making sounds, calling us as “amma / appa” etc.,

So parent’s world is taking a entire shift towards their child. They work for their child, cooks for their child, play with their child and forget most of their other activities. Parents literally lost their own world and entering in to their child’s. They start financial planning for their child’s future. Parents hold their child’s hands forever to ensure that the child is safe. The child also grows without facing an issue till it sees the outside world. Parents answer any number of times to their child’s question, they make them everything to understand. They give knowledge. They give wealth. They give strength. They give love. They give extraordinary care.

Parent looks for a best school for their child’s education. They are trying to give everything best as they can do.

I used some words to try to explain the parent’s nature way.

But I am sure that these words were not enough to describe their love, affection, care, sacrifices, tears, patience, tolerance and so many things that they shown towards their baby. And I am sure that there are no enough words also in all the languages.

Whatever the parents character to be… a father may be a bad citizen or a mother may has a cruel mind or both are may be the sadists, or whatever are they in their characters, whether good or bad, they are parents. A parent doesn’t forget to do their duties for their children. They don’t forget to give their love. They don’t forget to give you the best that you need. They give everything to you as much as they can. They never forget to forgive you in so many ways. Parents are parents.

Parents love would not change if days pass by. They love their children the same amount even they are getting old. They love their children the same amount even their children are married.

So it’s the child’s time to repay the amount of unchanged love to their parents. At the time of aged day’s parents requires that child’s love irrespective of their character. A father may be a bad citizen or a mother may be a cruel minded or both are may be the sadists, or whatever are they in their characters, whether they are good or bad, they are parents. A child’s responsibility and duty to repay the entire amount of love and care to their parents irrespective of parent’s character.

It’s also everyone’s responsibility to help or support our brothers, sisters, husbands, wives, relatives to do their duties to their parents, to love their parents, to hold their parent’s hands forever till the end and to take care of them with every care.

We all have different parents, but in their love, affection, caring their children all the parents is same. It is our duty too to treat every parent as our parents. There is nothing we loose by accepting other’s parent as our parents. If we do so, there is nothing we loose if we get scolded by them. There is nothing we loose if they want to prove their intelligence to us. There is nothing we loose by losing to them.

Please don’t restrict your love to your own parents, offer your love to every human beings who are in the parent’s age. Please show the care to them also as you shows it to your parents.

Please don’t show your anger to them, don’t walk with ego with them, and even don’t mind their intended mistakes.

After all they are also parents.

Love all. Serve all. J

MSK

Thirupaachi - Part2???

Velayudham – everybody is telling like it is thirupaachi part 2. But I won’t accept it. Director has done much in this film, I don’t let anybody say like this. But it is a part 2 movie of the films like thirupaachi, all vijaykanth movies who fights against Pakistan terrorists, vijay’s all earlier movies.

To be said in a single line it is a 2^nd part of bakery (lollu sabha of pokiri) (fight na fight e va??? Dance podu.. dance na dance va we want sentiment…)

There are so many new twists and story lines in this movie. Let’s see one by one.

Movie starts with the Pakistan terrorists targeting Chennai to collapse, as a different approach (very new concept in film industry) a politician supports it and helping terrorists to execute it.

Velayudham, is the man who can solve our problems in city – is the sentence believed by Chennai people. As a different approach he is the man who is solving all their issues just by fighting bad guys.(manishan evlo peru vandhaalum salikkama sanda poduran)

As a different approach, Hansika and Genilia are used for all the songs. Evlo than thalapathy makkalukkaaga sanda mattume poduvaar, oru relaxation vendaamaa???)

The first try / attempt by the tamil film industry and vijay – thangachi sentiment, vijay is doing everything for his thangachi.. You will feel pity while terrorists killing his sister. (idha vida vijay character a indha padathula pazhi vaanga mudiyaathu – avvalavu neram nammala azha vecha vijay mudhal dhadavaya azhuvaaru…) after that he takes revenge on us by killing all the terrorists who are the reasons for his sister’s murder. (yaaro senja thappukku appaavi makkala yaen pazhi vaangareenga??)

In his last movies he jumped from the building to railway bridge, this time he will jump from a railway bridge to train to attack the terrorists in the train. He stops the train single handedly (nambunga pa… spiderman mattum idhellam panna ukkaandhu paakareenga illa???) by applying break and save the train from hitting a big gas plant and avoid a major gas tragedy.

He got impressed in a video game something will be called like assassin it seems, and wearing that dress for a change while he fights with terrorists. It’s almost like spiderman wears his dress when trying to save the people. A different approach on his costumes when fighting.

Another innovative thinking is all the Pakistan terrorists talking in tamil.

I am just stop mentioning with these new innovations in tamil industry and particularly in his(Vijay) film. Rest of the movie you watch it to get a real punch.

Santhanam is the only aarudhal in the movie, but unfortunately he is not the hero and he comes in very few county scenes. Hansika also give some aarudhal to us and she too comes in few scenes. Vijay is the only torture in the movie and again unfortunately he is almost in all the frames, since he is the hero.

Another comedy is all the Pakistan terrorists will come and fight with Vijay and nobody will carry atleast deepavali thuppakki. Pakistan terrorists avlo kevalama va poitaanga??? If they happen to see this movie real la ve there is a serious threat to tamilnadu.

Positives:

Ore kadhaya ve vechu 20 – 25 padam pannanumna… needs a separate talent. In that part Vijay rocks.

Negatives:

Velayudham full movie (except santhanam part)

Tragedy:

Velayudhatha naan paathadhu

Warning:

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Conclusion:

Don’t conclude that it was a review.. idhu adi pattavanin adi manasu vali..

MSK

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

Final Destination 5

Hey Guys,

When i was signing up my blogspot i made my stand not to write movie reviews, but after seeing Final Destination 5 (FD5) i again made up my same stand with some exceptions. Though am not the professional or even part time review writer, will share some of my views about the movie. Also am writing this because after all i have created my own blogspot and i dont know so far what to scribble in it. 

Well, I have watched the movie FD5 3D in Sathyam at 7.15 show today with my office colleagues and friends.

About movie FD5

I say I have seen one of the best 3D movies. Whatever the sounds / noice created by us while seeing the movie like "Wow / Ayyayyo / yabbaaa / oh ! ****" its certainly the 3D effect. Starting from the title "Warner Bros Production" and till "The End" the 3D view was awesome.

Director Steven Quale and the writer Eric Heisserer made us to realise how vulnerable our life is.  

A set of employees around 10 -15 is making a retreat outing. When they are crossing a bridge which is under construction, one of the employee (probably he should be the hero) foreseeing the bridge collapses and leads to several deaths. This is about 5 - 10 mins scene but you cant forget for 5 - 10 years in your life time. Then he is attempting to make a quick evacuation from his bus and saves the life of 8 employees including himself.

Well, the 8 got escaped time being, but the director decides that they are not deserved to live anymore, then he (director) starts showing his creativity on killing those 8 one by one for the rest of the movie. You cannot imagine that the deaths can be so terrific or horrible. Here Director's creativity wins even god's creativity. He made every scene to watch from the seat edge. He scared us through out the movie such a way that you will not notice the rest of the things in the movie like music, camera and other stuffs.

Overall this movie is not for weak hearted persons and even the strongest persons who doesnt want to weak their hearts.

I watched the movie

I have called up Mr Reddy and asking about his accompany for this movie before booking tickets. But he has rejected the invitation and said "it will be so scary for me and i dont want to watch it." I said "hey reddy please watch the movie with the mindset that it is just a movie and dont get in to that totally." That's fine, after 15 mins, as the movie proceeds i realised what reddy said and i should have taken up his stand too. I thought of winding up in between also, but you should remember that i didnt go alone to give up my image, so i continued watching.

I was bit relaxed at the time of interval, even i loved the repeated adds, from saravana stores and some queued up of stores in t nagar and also some of the junk adds.  Oh! No!... is the word came from my mouth once the movie started continuing after interval. Fine, I have convinced myself that "theatre ku nu vandhuta padam poda thaan seivaanga and adha pota thaan seekiram mudiyum, veetukku polaaam". I didnt feel much difference between the first scene and the climax, since everything are same, but this time in climax i was bit dare to watch it as the fear was getting saturated.

When I came out of theatre some of the fear stayed within me. I was walking on the road very carefully, when i was crossing the road i took some extra cautions thinking that anything may happen at anytime, that too so damn horribly. Even i drove the car very carefully than ever before to reach home. Finally i reached home by 11pm. My daughter welcomed me with her own nice smile. I was surprised nothing happened to me so far.

The only good thing happened was the movie ticket fare, popcorn and coke were sponsored by my good colleague / friend Mr. Prasanna. I didnt scare by spending my own money from my own pocket... :-)

Thats it from me as of now, since i get really a good sleep after a terrific experience.

Thanks, will meet like this adikkadi.

MSK

Intro

Hi Friends

I am creating this blog for the following reasons.

1. it is free to have a blogspot for me.

2. it has very easy 3 steps to create

3. my friends having their own blogspot

4. i didnt own a blogspot

5. want to try writing some of my own thoughts

See you adikkadi

Regards

MSK