amidst all the coughing and flu this weekend, i watched a movie..in the theatre !!! well, we had booked the tickets last week, when i was still untouched by flu. and i was feeling better after those 5 tablets and one pricking injection doing their job quite well. i was up on my legs and managed to convince my dad too.
well, it was a long time since all of us ( dad, mom, sis and me) went out for a movie, the last one being "chandramukhi" an year back. this time it was "mozhi", another tamil movie.
to tell you the truth, i was actually watching a good tamil movie after a long time. no bloody stunts, no item numbers, no vulgar comedies and best of all ..no tear jerking sentiments. well then were you watching a chinese movie, you could ask..!!!
believe me, it was a tamil movie with all the characters drawn out of the real life that you could relate to them. the songs are hummable, the humour actually makes you laugh and the acting was well within realistic limits. another thing i liked in it was that it didn't make you sympathise with the hearing and speech impaired heroine, but it actually treated her like any other girl.
so just thought that i should give some space for this star among meteors in my blog and here it goes.
Sunday, March 11, 2007
smile.. the language of love
i was walking to the bus stop to catch the bus to my office.. as i do daily. on my way, i saw two little girls plucking flowers from a plant which had grown out from a house. i was trying yo find out what flowers those were, when one little girl turned back and instantly smiled at me.
i found myself smiling back at her immediately, and waved at her. she became even more happy and waved back.
somehow that girl and her smile had managed to brighten my day. sometimes, all it takes to clear your cluttered mind is a smile. it is most easiest thing to do, and it makes even the most villianic of faces look pleasing. i think to myself, if someone else had smiled at me in the same way, would i have smiled back?? no. i start thinking of the reason behind the smile, of whether i had seen that person before, or wonder if he is mentally stable !!
that girl never thought of all this. but just smiled.
i look back and stare at the little girl, this time envying her!!
i found myself smiling back at her immediately, and waved at her. she became even more happy and waved back.
somehow that girl and her smile had managed to brighten my day. sometimes, all it takes to clear your cluttered mind is a smile. it is most easiest thing to do, and it makes even the most villianic of faces look pleasing. i think to myself, if someone else had smiled at me in the same way, would i have smiled back?? no. i start thinking of the reason behind the smile, of whether i had seen that person before, or wonder if he is mentally stable !!
that girl never thought of all this. but just smiled.
i look back and stare at the little girl, this time envying her!!
Fun and Flu !!!
last week was one full of hectic activities !! and loads of fun ..:-) well, it was my teammate arun's marriage at "avinashi". this is a small and busy town near tirupur, which is near coimbatore..which is ..ok forget it.
so we all (8 of us in my team) decided to go there. we left chennai on tuesday 6th of march by the trivandrum express. we managed to spend all of the 7 hours playing cards and dumb charades. finally we got off at 11 in the night at tirupur where a car was awaiting. so off we went to avinashi and to the marriage hall. had so much of food at 11.30 ( hot dosas and chapathis..), that we just flopped on our beds at the hotel.
at around 2.50 pm, there was a scream and all 3 of us woke up and then "takk" the power went off. ( there were 3 of us girls in the group). it was like a scene from a thriller movie. we could hear people speaking, but were too scared to open the door. so we called the guys from our team sleeping in the next room. one poor guy picked up and spoke groggily, and i was speaking to him almost breathless.
what he came out and saw will surely rank as one of his memorable experiences. 3 guys drunk to the brim, were lying on top of each other right in front of our door. don't know how they had the sense to switch off the main switch of our room. anyway, they managed to make these guys go inside and got the power back.
but we were quite shaken by this, and my head started throbbing with pain. i dozed off after half an hour of anger, helplessness and cursing in my mind.
well, the marriage next morning went off fine, and our train back to chennai was only at 10.30 pm. visited the avinasi lingam temple and off we went to "black thunder" .
we had so much fun from around 12 in the noon to 5.30 in the evng, that at the end of it none of us could even put one step forward. personally, i was having a good time with a group after school and college tours. anyway, on the way back we also visited marudhamalai ( didn't want to leave out anything) !.
the cheran express threw us into chennai the next day morning. and i went into my bed straight away and found myself waking up to the afternoon sun at 1 'o clock.
all was well, but the next day i found my throat hurting so much that i couldn't swallow. always the first sign of impending danger. rightly so i found that i couldn't sit in office the next day and ran home, only to be told by the doctor that i had all the symptoms of "flu".
well,well, well...after some earfull and "i told you so" from my parents and popping five tablets for the past 2 days into my painful throat..here i am narrating.
all in all, it was good fun despite the flu ;))
PS: think before you get into the water at black thunder, it needs some serious cleaning.
so we all (8 of us in my team) decided to go there. we left chennai on tuesday 6th of march by the trivandrum express. we managed to spend all of the 7 hours playing cards and dumb charades. finally we got off at 11 in the night at tirupur where a car was awaiting. so off we went to avinashi and to the marriage hall. had so much of food at 11.30 ( hot dosas and chapathis..), that we just flopped on our beds at the hotel.
at around 2.50 pm, there was a scream and all 3 of us woke up and then "takk" the power went off. ( there were 3 of us girls in the group). it was like a scene from a thriller movie. we could hear people speaking, but were too scared to open the door. so we called the guys from our team sleeping in the next room. one poor guy picked up and spoke groggily, and i was speaking to him almost breathless.
what he came out and saw will surely rank as one of his memorable experiences. 3 guys drunk to the brim, were lying on top of each other right in front of our door. don't know how they had the sense to switch off the main switch of our room. anyway, they managed to make these guys go inside and got the power back.
but we were quite shaken by this, and my head started throbbing with pain. i dozed off after half an hour of anger, helplessness and cursing in my mind.
well, the marriage next morning went off fine, and our train back to chennai was only at 10.30 pm. visited the avinasi lingam temple and off we went to "black thunder" .
we had so much fun from around 12 in the noon to 5.30 in the evng, that at the end of it none of us could even put one step forward. personally, i was having a good time with a group after school and college tours. anyway, on the way back we also visited marudhamalai ( didn't want to leave out anything) !.
the cheran express threw us into chennai the next day morning. and i went into my bed straight away and found myself waking up to the afternoon sun at 1 'o clock.
all was well, but the next day i found my throat hurting so much that i couldn't swallow. always the first sign of impending danger. rightly so i found that i couldn't sit in office the next day and ran home, only to be told by the doctor that i had all the symptoms of "flu".
well,well, well...after some earfull and "i told you so" from my parents and popping five tablets for the past 2 days into my painful throat..here i am narrating.
all in all, it was good fun despite the flu ;))
PS: think before you get into the water at black thunder, it needs some serious cleaning.
Saturday, March 03, 2007
school days- 1
the first incident that came to my mind on my school days was this.
well, all my schooling from 2nd std to 12 th std was done in a small town ( my dad loves to call it semi urban !!) called rajapalayam. it is 2 hours drive from madurai..all in tamilnadu.
so i joined a small school in 2nd std, and that was quite a modest one by all means. nothing much i can remember of that. then for the 3rd std, i got into the best school in that town, chinmaya vidyalaya. this was the best , coz they insisted that u spoke in english, which was unheard of in that part of the world..and i was going to learn hindi :-) .
anyway, so the little girl (me!!) trotted into the class on the first day and sat down. (now comes the best part. ). the teacher asked us all to take out the notebooks and guess what this stupid one took out?? a big, black slate !! the whole class burst into laughter. even the teacher was amazed. even in that small town, people didn't bring slates to school and that too in the 3rd std.
i still don't know if it was my parents who asked to take that or me. but the first day was such a big embarrassment and i was in tears. and to top it all i was in the wrong section and asked to leave halfway through the class.
whew..so much for the first day !! :-)
well, all my schooling from 2nd std to 12 th std was done in a small town ( my dad loves to call it semi urban !!) called rajapalayam. it is 2 hours drive from madurai..all in tamilnadu.
so i joined a small school in 2nd std, and that was quite a modest one by all means. nothing much i can remember of that. then for the 3rd std, i got into the best school in that town, chinmaya vidyalaya. this was the best , coz they insisted that u spoke in english, which was unheard of in that part of the world..and i was going to learn hindi :-) .
anyway, so the little girl (me!!) trotted into the class on the first day and sat down. (now comes the best part. ). the teacher asked us all to take out the notebooks and guess what this stupid one took out?? a big, black slate !! the whole class burst into laughter. even the teacher was amazed. even in that small town, people didn't bring slates to school and that too in the 3rd std.
i still don't know if it was my parents who asked to take that or me. but the first day was such a big embarrassment and i was in tears. and to top it all i was in the wrong section and asked to leave halfway through the class.
whew..so much for the first day !! :-)
School days !!
just thought of going down the memory lane a bit..think about things good and bad, the great deeds done and some of the not so great ones too. not sure how honest i can be. and one more decision i made ( which is not entirely my own idea), is that i'm not using caps in my blog unless absloutely necessary. you know it is so liberating to know that i don't have to press the shift key at the beginning of every sentence. i saw this style in another blog and found it quite interesting. well, some things can be imitated !! :-)
ok, now back to the point..so from now on, whenver a blog of mine carries this title, get ready to walk down the memory lane . but i'mm not planning to put these down in any order of time.so you may find me in 1st std some time and then in my 12 th. so bear with me.
ok, now back to the point..so from now on, whenver a blog of mine carries this title, get ready to walk down the memory lane . but i'mm not planning to put these down in any order of time.so you may find me in 1st std some time and then in my 12 th. so bear with me.
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