Tag Archives: Personal

I’m not Sita – ur not Rama either

Posted by toalakan-web on January 7, 2009 4 comments

I have faced this situation n number of times every where I lived in United states of America whenever there is a talk about India or going to Hindi movies.

I’m going to redirect them to this post to find my answer because I’m tired of telling each of them individually.

There is a wide spread accusation that people from Tamil Nadu (India) don’t speak or hesitate to learn Hindi and they should speak it since its a national language. I can’t talk for the whole tamil speaking people but here is my answer to it

  1. If the need araises then I will learn hindi which I don’t see happening in near future.
  2. I’m too lazy to learn and Hindi would be the last thing I would even consider learning.
  3. I tried learning once hindi as a kid and failed miserably hence I’m staying away from it.
  4. I don’t have to prove my nationality by learning Hindi.
  5. I’m happy watching Hindi movies using sub titles.

No offense guys we can always communicate in english which I beleive every one of my friend knows.

Adiós 2008 and Plans for 2009

Posted by toalakan-web on January 1, 2009 1 comments

Adiós 2008 and welcome 2009.

Well 2008 year had its good/bad in its usual way for me. Well I can split the last year in to 3 periods

  • Jan – April 2008 was a good one with me settling @ my job and finally getting over my debts back in India. Not much of activity going on here except I learned Adobe Spry.
  • May – Aug 2008 was the slow period or the bad to me since I gained a lot of weight around 10 pounds which was basically since I lost a lot of sleep during this time. I learned Coldbox during this period so its not that bad.
  • September – December 2008 was the best period since I had a lot of things to do like the trip to grand canyon,joined ESRI as a full time employee,posted lot of my podcast, won a Adobe web premium suite and got myself a new home back in India.

I pretty much expect the same kind of cycle in 2009 as well with less no of bad days. I don’t have any big plans for 2009 but here are some that I believe I could achieve in the next 365 days.

  1. Lose that 10 pounds that I gained last year. I have already started working on it and lost 3 7 pounds in a month so I expect to lose that 10 by end of April 2009. Its slow but works for me.
  2. Get my parents to USA one that has been failing for the last 2 years.
  3. Jump into Adobe Flex.
  4. Talk/read less about the srilankan ethnic issue which I was doing a lot during 2008. Its just too dragging and I have strong appetite to read about it so I’m planning to reduce that appetite.
  5. Increase my blogs viewers base and posts more on tech rather than on politics. It would be hard since 2009 is a election year in India.

Lets see how much I can do in this year.

I will release my blogs stats for 2009 by this weekend.

ICICI NRI services sucks..

Posted by toalakan-web on October 19, 2008 3 comments

If ur wondering Y I haven’t blogged for the last week is because I have been trying to open an NRI account with ICICI bank which is a real pain. They made my life so miserable by each call center representative/ relationship managers/ online resources giving me different instruction for me resolve the discrepancies.

I wasn’t treated like a customer it was like as if I’m begging them to save my money in their bank. My dad worked for ICICI and obviously I liked th organization since he worked their. Not any more and I’m so pissed with them that I’m not going to recommend ICICI to any one or may be I will go one step ahead and request my friends to close their accounts with ICICI.

Looks like the good old days of ICICI serving its customer has gone or may be I was treated differently snce my dad worked with them.

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 more podcasts

Posted by toalakan-web on August 9, 2008 None comments

I have decided not to do any more podcasts considering that I’m really bad with my oratorical skills. Don’t be so happy I will not be posting my podcasts in podbazaar site any more but I might posts some podcasts in my personal site just for my satisfaction.

Its my personal site and I can post any thing I want.

One more thing that I’m not good at. Yes I hear the question what I’m good @.I will let every one know when I find it.

Until then there will be pathetic attempts like this :(

Thanks to every one who listened to my podcasts..and people if I suck @ something please let me know and dont do the crap of supporting ur friend. I hate that.

Hamara bajaj..

Posted by toalakan-web on August 6, 2008 None comments

Reminds me of my dads scooter Bajaj Chetak the one which I broke learning to drive :(

Pulambalgal – 2 Just like that -2

Posted by toalakan-web on July 27, 2008 None comments

In this podcast I have vented out my feelings about the soft nature of the Indian government in handling terrorist attacks in Indian soil.

Be nice to smokers

Posted by toalakan-web on July 24, 2008 None comments

Be nice to smokers. They don’t have long to live.

A quote that I stumbled upon browsing the web. It looks funny but its the truth..

Buxfer personal expense mgmt web app

Posted by toalakan-web on July 20, 2008 1 comments

My room mate introduced me to this web app for maintaining the room expenses and it does what it promises to do with ease.

Its web 2.0 too also so everything is done through clean ajax calls.

http://www.buxfer.com

One less thing to keep track off..

Took almost 8 years..

Posted by toalakan-web on July 17, 2008 None comments

Today one of my friend send a video link about colleges not allowing guys and girls to interact. Every one in chennai know which college has that rule but I wonder y it got reported suddenly in media now since this was happening for a long time almost like 8 years before when I joined college.

I have always liked my college and this was one of the main reasons that I didnt choose that management owned college even I though I had a seat with them.

My college is not gr8 but still not the worst one like these people.

Kadalai podurathu ovvaru Aan Magan Pirapu urimai.

Means Flirting with girls is every man right..

Report from Times Now

This is a video that I made about my college 2 years ago and look how much fun we r having.

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