Monthly Archives: September 2008

Raman Andalum Ravanan Andalum Ennaku oru illai

Posted by toalakan-web on September 28, 2008 None comments

Yes its true politician don’t have a permanent foes especially in my gr8 state of Tamil Nadu. With the elections coming I’m sure we will see more foes becoming friends.

Already Mr.Vaiko has joined in alliance with Miss. Jayalalitha’s AIADMK which threw him in Jail for a year for supporting LTTE inside India. I remember him and his friends like Seeman calling her names but today I saw a news that she is extending her support for the Eelam cause and wondering what will be the reaction from Mr.Seeman.

Will he take her support if she forms the government in TN? I guess he will since every one is a opportunists.

Truth is I don’t give a damn who rules the state because every one swindles peoples money.

Fight of quotes

Posted by toalakan-web on September 25, 2008 None comments

Change We need or Shake things up which one is going to win and the fight is already intense.

Portable apps is gr8

Posted by toalakan-web on September 18, 2008 1 comments

I was looking around for a U3 drive to buy and I found out there is an open source portable application loader called Portableapps which is gr8 and has all my favorite applications running directly from the drive.

It can even run from my mobile…:) I’m on my way to order a non U3 drive…

Songs picturized in a diff way

Posted by toalakan-web on September 11, 2008 None comments

Songs are supposed to be remembered for there music but some tamil songs like the ones below I remember them for picturization. These songs are out of the normal duet songs with people dancing around which makes people to go for a smoke break during a movie.

These songs have one thing in common the story is included along with the song which gets the viewers attention.

  1. En Kanmani En Kadhali : The song takes place in a bus between the lovers consciousness as they travel in a bus. The best part is the conductor shouting like ‘Inthama Karuvatu koodai munadi poo’,'Thenampettai super market iranku’ along with the song which basically brings the lovers to reality. The same concept was elaborated with Anbe Aaruyire which was a ok movie.
  2. Sangeetha Swarngal – Alagan : This song would have increased the revenue for the telecom companies. A song that every guy would have thought after spending so much of Dads money @ PCO/home phone and finally blaming the bill on some unknown connection problem. Night fulla Kadalai varukiratha decenta patta edutha ippadi than irukum sir.
  3. It clearly shows how a guy gets bulb when trying to flirt with a girl he likes. Lintels no boiling.

There could be more songs but these are the ones that I like.

Irony

Posted by toalakan-web on September 10, 2008 1 comments

Here is an article that I was reading today which basically says that Indian chefs are welcome in UK but not IT workers.

Soon after that I was wondering if Veera Pandiya Kattabomman welcomed any of them to his kingdom. Time changes lot..:)

Started again..

Posted by toalakan-web on September 9, 2008 2 comments

Yes once again I have started reading about the events that lead to Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination and its effects. I’m not sure when I’m gonna stop reading about this and get over it. I have been doing this ever since the incident and it can be credited for my avid interest to read newspapers.

Yes my relatives used to buy me newspaper as a gift funny but true.

Well the trigger today was this movie called Kuppi which was in the latest viewed films in Tubetamil.com website. I have already seen this movie and director has to be appreciated for taking up such a well know story that the whole world knows in a good way with out boring the viewers and telling the story without any bias. Wonderful acting by the casts and movie resembles the exact situation in 90′s TN.

This kind of real life incident movies have to be welcomed rather than the same old love story and commercial movies in tamil. It would be nice if some one makes the movie from Rajiv Gandhis point of view but then there would be too much of political interruption which would screw up the movie.

I have seen 2 other tamil movies based on the same incident but Kuppi stands out better. The other 2 being

  • Terrorists by Santosh Sivan with english subtitles. Its a cinematographers movie gr8 camera work but too slow and boring except few scenes. A typical documentary and you will amazed how beautiful back waters in TN are.
  • Kutrapathirikai by R.K Selvamani I would recommend not viewing it too much of commercial ingredient. Although I dont undestand why this movie was banned for more than 10 years may be the Censor thought it was a lack luster attempt by director and didn’t want some thing like this to be released.

Here is a Google book that I’m currently reading which gives a basic understanding of India’s role in Srilanka’s ethnic conflict. If you are interested here is the dreaded Jain commission report which is too boring and repetitive.

I would have done a podcast but too lazy to do it today may be some time later when I’m done reading to my content.

When will Indian politicians be like this

Posted by toalakan-web on September 8, 2008 None comments

I’m wondering how long it will take for Indian politicians to keep aside politics and come together like in US for a day.

We Indians follow the west a lot , boast about every successful NRI living in the west and compare everything with US.

If it has already with out my knowledge plz let me know.

Where r u

Posted by toalakan-web on September 7, 2008 None comments

Finally I have lost my thumb drive :( . This is one of the few things that stuck for more than 3 years before I loose or misplace it some where.

For every pen that I have lost if i get a dollar I would have at least a 1000$.

No Smoking..

Posted by toalakan-web on September 7, 2008 None comments

My dear Smoker’s,

If you haven’t heard the news that you can’t legally smoke inside your office/restrooms in India any more. The law will be effective Oct 2 2008 and its a good initiative by the government.

Passing law is an easier task but implementing it properly is always been a problem since Independence. For e.g the reservation law that was supposed to be effective only for 10 years, traffic laws who cares you are cursed if you respect them, bribery is illegal in India ….etc.

Rather than having a law that makes it illegal to smoke inside office they could have charged the smokers in order to use the smoke room. It would avoid some cheap people from borrowing cigarette’s every time from the smokers as well :) .

Grand Canyon 2008

Posted by toalakan-web on September 2, 2008 None comments

Lots of people have described about Grand Canyon and there is no use explaining it again. You have to see it your self to know what is so grand about the Canyon. Its mind blowing and took few minutes for my brain to accept that there could be something so big and grandeur. Here are some pictures that I took @ Grand canyon.

Unfortunately the whether was bad and we hadn’t planned our trip properly so we ended spending the whole Sunday on deciding where to go. Then finally by mid night we decided to hit Vegas on way to Redlands.

Although this was my first trip to Vegas I wasn’t excited enough to visit places so we started to Redlands around early morning.

Obviously if it was me I wouldn’t have gone to Grand canyon for the Labour day Weekend( too lazy). Thanks to Sharief and Raj for dragging me in to the trip,driving all the way long and importantly keeping up with my back seat driving( one more i should work on).

If you do have time and willing to walk around a lot then please visit Grand Canyon. I will if I get a chance or sure.

Still tired of all the walks..

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