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{mosimage}Finally I have decided to sever my ties with cousin sister Shenbaga and my uncle. This came close to the heels of the problems being escalated to parent's level. The bone of content is my closeness to my niece & their daughter Ammu. Like I have mentioned in my previous blogs, she was the girl simplicity personified. She didn't get the needed affection from her parents and her brother. She settled with where she got them - her friend's circle. May be I understood her problem, I always had been kind to her. Similiarly with Meera, my another niece. Whenever I go to Meera's house in Coimbatore, we (Meera, Uma, Ammu and I) always have a good time and last time on New Year Eve, Ammu gave her long overdue treat - the one for her salary increment.

{mosimage}வெள்ளிக்கிழமை மதியம்... பொதுவாக IT ஊழியர்கள் கும்பல் கட்டி நிதானமாக சாப்பிடும் நாள். என்றும் இல்லாத அதிசயமாக நானும் விச்சுவும் கீழே சாப்பிட போனோம். நான் என்னுடைய டிஃபன் பாக்ஸ் வைத்திருந்ததாலும், விச்சு சாப்பாடு வாங்க போனதாலும் நான் ஒரு lawn ஓர table பிடித்து உட்கார்ந்து காத்திருந்தேன். ஒரு பெண் வந்து 'அந்த table-இல் உட்கார்ந்துக்கொள்ள முடியுமா?' என்று கேட்டாள். நான் அரை மனதோடு எழுந்து அடுத்த table-ல் அமர போனபோது 'இதில் இல்லை அங்கே..' என்று சற்று தொலைவில் கூட்டமாக இருந்த இடத்தில் ஒரு table-ஐ காட்டினாள். எனக்கு ஜிவ்வென்று கோபம் வந்தது. 'வேணும்னா அதை இழுத்து இங்கே போட்டுக்கோங்க..' என்று கோபமாக சொன்னாலும் அந்த இடத்தில் இரண்டு chair-கள் இருந்ததால் அவள் சொன்ன இடத்தில்லேயே சென்று உட்கார்ந்து கொண்டேன். அந்த பெண் அந்த இடத்திலிருந்த தன்னுடைய டிபன் பாக்ஸை எடுத்துகொண்டு 'Sorry for the inconvenience' என்று சொன்னாள். அவள் முகத்தை கூட பார்க்காமல் 'its OK' என்று வெறும் கையசைப்பிலேயே சைகை காண்பித்துவிட்டேன்.

{mosimage}1. These days I prefer Illayaraja in 80's over AR Rahman and Harris Jayraj in Tamil, Nadeem-Shravan over Himesh Reshammiya, Pritam and others in Hindi music.

2. I tend to have an instant dry, lop-sided smile when I see some nice loving and caring photographs, read nice humane things and see people extending love for others.

3. I prefer to stick to & move with only well known friends rather than expanding the friendship circle. I don't even bother to break the ice between strangers or new colleagues and take my own sweet time to get them known.

4. I started believing that only the immediate family can be my soulmates.

{mosimage}Why is the media here so negative?
Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognize our own strengths, our achievements?
We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

We are the first in milk production.
We are number one in Remote sensing satellites.
We are the second largest producer of wheat.
We are the second largest producer of rice.

it Co-incidence or surprise, most of my favourite things are in 'C' e.g, Computers, Camera, Cooking, Cinema, Coimbatore are few to name but there is one 'C', which I hate to core, but still couldn't escape it. It is a 'C'ity called 'Chennai'. I had lived in & seen many places, but I never felt that 'C'omfort in Chennai. I tried to recall my days with Chennai, but still couldn't fathom one pleasant / comfortable moment in Chennai. I have just tried to find out various aspects of 'C' in Chennai. I make no bones in admitting that I am very much uncomfortable in Chennai

{mosimage}It had been a long time I have been dreaming an IT career. Ever since computers caught my fancy, I wanted to move to computers. Unfortunately I couldn't make it. Call it my indecisiveness / inability to convince my father to put me in computers, there had been a considerable delay. Despite all these I managed to take my move towards an IT career after 10 years since its inception. I came back to India to start my IT career and despite a promising start, I am still at nowhere. It has been days since my certification and it seriously poses problem. It is not the problem now because I waited about 10 years to make this happen and I can wait for even 10 months. But by problem is something else..

{mosimage}I came across this interesting debate in NDTV recently on a program called "Indian Youth Unplugged". It was just a debate with no conclusions, quite interesting to watch. This blog is my take on the "Indian Parenting". I seriously opine that Indian parenting is truly protective, sometimes over protective than being supportive. I don't mean to say that this is the right / bad way of parenting because I had seen the cases with best & worst of the results. The results depend on how the level of understanding of the parents, to be precise in most of the cases - father. No matter how old any individual is, they are still kids to their parents, but in the eyes of a typical Indian parent even 30 yr old man is a "child". This is the basic reason for Indian parents being over protective.

{mosimage}I always used to say Vaithiyanathan & Bala, my mama (brother-in-law) to start blogging, because these are two guys who are best conversationalists and with beautiful vocabulary, I had ever come across. Not only these two but also I had come across many more people in my life who see things in different yet intresting perspectives. People who look things in a sensitive as well as different way always have more to say to the world. The more you have to say, more you have to express and more expressive you are, more content you have for your blogs. Thats why I always used to tell my friends "YOU SHOULD WRITE BLOGS". Going through my blogs, once Vaithiyanathan asked me whether I had aspirations of becoming a journalist or to run a magazine of my own. What to say?

 

{mosimage}Nobody believes the predictions based on Zodiac signs, yet they are popular. Almost every second magazine, News Paper and web portals offer astrology as a channel, proving their draw among the audience. Do the lunar, solar charts etc. etc.. exist? Are the characteristics of zodiac signs true? Based on my experience I have enough reasons to believe that Zodiac signs hold true to a certain extent. Initially when I observe people, I notice certain characteristics and later correlate with their date of birth, surprisingly most of the time, most of them fall under a similiar pattern. For example I have many Gemini friends (including me) and all of them have a varying taste, prefer lighter friendship, exhibit liveliness and good conversationalist also. Now I try to predict their behaviours by their zodiac signs.

{mosimage}Few days back I came across a "finding" by American researchers that disturbed me very much. It had put forward its findings that "People who always say good things about others suffer from low self esteem". What a shit observation! It is absolutely ridiculous and a piece of trash that never deserved such exposure. What they mean to say? This means people who are picky and have no good opinion about others are supposed to have higher self esteem? Else people who always see the good point in others are supposed to be goofy asses? I seriously don't dignify these kind of "findings" but I fear this might spoil the young minds who come across these findings in their formative years.