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Bulb

Invention :

In my chindhood I usually curse Mr Edison for inventing the bulb, coz its only because of him I ll endup studying in night. Then realized I would have anyway studied under candle light. So parava illa.

Mutta Bulb :

This is the first of its kind. Innum shape edhvum maarave illa. It give us a somber light. Comes under different KW like 100, 50, 75 etc.

Tube Light :

Mainly used in home. Will be white in color. Long and need a starter to make it work. In our part you can see this even in street.

Mercury bulb :

Usually very slow. But when in full flow it will be very bright.

Serial lights :

Another form of bulbs. Mainly used to decorate the trees and during any festival time.

Sneha :

Edison kandupudikkadha ore bulb. Given me this mokka dare to write about the bulbs.

Prank Calls / Message

Prank Calls / Message

Warning : Please do not try this on people with whom you are not familiar. You may end up behind bars. And if this is not interesting to you, then please stop watching documentary films.

Moral of the story is in the last para… :)

The below narrated incident just happened yesterday between Mr Smart and Ms Cute. Initially Ms Cute tried to play prank with Mr Smart. He knows its Ms Cute and yeah finally Ms Cute told who is she. But its Mr Smarts turn.

And he had this another number which he’s gonna surrender from tomorrow. He just realized that Ms Cute played a prank on him and its time for him. So he just sent a message to her. The following is the unedited conversation between them.

Smart : Hi.. Pls note my new number.. And stay in touch.. bye

Cute : Who is this? Sorry I lost my contacts

Smart : Lost your contacts??.. I don’t think you ve ever contacted me even when you have my number.. And this is the excuse everyone is giving now days…

Cute : Who do you think I am?.. may be you got me wrong.. I think I am in touch with all my friends..

Smart : Anyway keep in touch atleast from now on… good night…

Smart : Guess who.. least you can do is guess who I am… let me find out whether I am still in your mind or not

Cute : How long have I known you

Smart : Its good that you do keep in touch with your friends… May be I am not one of those important to you.. whom you know for last one year..

Cute : Seriously.. I did lose all my contacts.. can you please tell me who you are?

Cute : Hey do tell me who you are yaar.

Smart : Not a problem.. Let it be.. I will not disturb you anymore.. sorry..

By this time Ms Cute really got annoyed and called Mr Smart.

Smart : Hello…
Cute : Hello… whoz this
Smart : hey don’t you remember me… we ve met last year
Cute : who are you.. whats your name
Smart : You don’t even remember my voice… I am not sure whether you ll remember me or not
Cute : tell me where and when did I meet you
Smart : We met in your college somewhere in April or May…
Cute : hmmmm… hey I don’t remember… is it inside or outside college
Smart : (He got little bit confused. So he wanna play safe) I met you just outside the college
Cute : what date exactly… tell me… and whats your name yaar
Smart : (He quickly searches a name in her friend list. Yeah that name is not there in her friends list) I am ******… yeah we ve met last year April… I am not sure on the exact date… its somewhere around March or April
Cute : I normally don’t speak to strangers… how did you get my number.. and enakku ******nnu yaarayum theriyadhu
Smart : Hey… nee than number kudutha… when we met last year… And don’t think its just a prank call… I am changing my number from today… just thought of reviving our friendship..
Cute : (By this time she really got confused) I normally don’t give number to strangers.
Smart : (He now want to act smart) Ok then.. I am sure you are not going to believe me… bye good night… (Disconnects the call)

And again starts his SMS…

Smart : I am really sorry.. just thought of reviving the friendship.. And don’t think its just a prank..

Cute : yea no offence

Smart : we have even spoken for 30 mins once over phone.. And I don’t wanna tell the whole story.. Seems that you ll not believe me whatever I tell you..

Cute : Cause I trust memory.. And I know I don’t talk to strangers

Smart : ohh.. pls trust that.. but it dosent mean that you should not trust the people.. And we ve spoken for atleast 30 mins on your friends birthday..

Smart : Hey why cant we be friends from atleast now on.. You know my number now na..

Cute : Sorry, I don’t remember you.. So as fa as it concerns me it’s a prank


By this time.. Ms Cute really got annoyed with the calls and messages… Came online and where Mr Smart waiting for her… So after some initial mokkais he started the topic…

Smart : so u dont want my friendship huh :(
bye
Cute : ??... enna sollara
Smart : oops
wrong window
Cute : hahaha
who does not want ur friendship?
Smart : adu oru friendu...
Cute : if u want i will talk to him/her
Smart : she just messaged me
;(
Cute : ohh
Awww
Smart : wait.. I ll give her number
Cute : Peru enna
Smart : avalukku en peru ________ nna theryadhu
Cute : oh.. hey loosu!... u ARE tht nperson!... idiot!
Smart : she knows me only as *******… :P
Cute : poda!

Atlast she realizes that its Mr Smart whoz playing prank…

Smart : Ok then.. good night.. wont be disturbing you henceforth.. I ll leave u as a stranger only..

Cute : Please don’t.. I realize who you are.. I am sorry I forgot you..

Now I leave it to your imagination as who is that Mr Smart and who is that Ms Cute.

And yeah the morale of the story is “Murpagal seyyin Pirpagal Vilayum” and “A man reaps what he sows.”

Why "WE" dont have a Girl Friend

Why "WE" dont have a Girl Friend

This is my personal favorite. Its always a mystery surrounding me why some people do have girl friends and why some people (like me [:)]) don't have any girl friend. Many of us just keep on complaining that they don’t have a girlfriend without analyzing the facts behind that. Then I came across this topic from one of my friends. I am sure many ppl who are sailing in the same boat will agree with me.

The Top Resons

• You always end up sitting on the last bench of the school and college. And most importantly many of us end up studying in boys school and boys College. And when you join co-ed you are one of the kind that thinks u can get marks even sitting in the last bench.

• In the work place your invariably end up working in a team which doesn’t have any girls and the most attractive girl in the office will always be working in the team which you dislike the most. Even if you have a girl in your team, you will be very reluctant to speak to her and you will always join with like minded people in the team (Like minded = People don’t have a girl friend) and spend most of your day with them.

•You obviously cant dance and you are a pathetic dancer. The only dance which you know is dappankuthu. You tend to kalaai the guy who is shaking his belly and head and say it’s a dance and kalaai more when he dances with some girl.

• You perceive discotheques to be a places where u will have a chance to unleash your dancing potential(“dappankuthu”) and occupy the center stage with 10 other fellow rogues immediately throwing out the babes from the vicinity of the dance floor. This automatically repels the women from you (they consider u as out of civilization, unfortunately we are the only people who can really dance...)

• You will end up going to pub with your best pal and do nothing apart from having a breezer and Vodka for 500 bucks at tasmac.

• When ever the girl says she is watching friends you ask them about Vijay and Suryas acting, and they will be watching F.R.I.E.N.D.S. You don’t even have a slightest of ideas what the fu** that soap is all about. For you serials mean Chittiiii and Vidadhu Karuppu.

• Your intelligence level can take only flicks like Jackie chan and other action films. U tend to watch only good films like Schindelers List etc which cannot go well for flirting purposes. You hardly watch hindi movies and you really don’t like Sharukhkhan movies like Om Shanthi Om and Rab ne Banade Jodi and kill your friends if he asks you to go to that film. For you the best director in Tamil as well as in India is Bala and Cheran.

• The sole purpose of Yahoo Messenger and Gtalk is to scold your online friends and spread rumors about the other guys, ask your friend to book the movie tickets, cricket match tickets, discuss about Yusuf Pathans blistering knock in the latest 20/20.

• You can chat with your friend for hours with out any subject and you obviously cant start a topic with a girl. For you the stupid question you ever came across is “Whats up??... and What else??...”.

• You cant eat Spanish, chinease, Italian food as your favorite. For you eating out is having a Masal dosai and Idiyappam in a hotel. Your favorite restaurant invariably happens to be Saravana Bhavan or Sangeetha restaurant. You can add Karpagam mess, Nei podi Kaiyendhi bhavan, maami kadai to that list. We guys are clueless about bella ciao, Wangs kitchen, Italica, casa picola, etc etc unless we happen to go on a treat given by some other guy…

• You dont see a reason why u have to go coffee day or qwickys when the local
corner "nair kada chaaya" tastes like nectar and satisfies you more than a cappuchino. Lime tea is the best tea to have been invented by a human and you are thankful to Nair for providing it to you.

• Most of the jokes you know are adult jokes which you can discuss only with your other fellow comrades and which again takes the opportunity from telling a joke to the girl and impressing her. Besides you seriously tell very good jokes which the girls can't comprehend or think it is vulgar. You have to tell some absolutely "mokka" (terrible bores) to make them laugh which though you try hard u will never be able to. Most of the jokes u crack among ur friends are used by your so called friends to impress girls. “They will use ur jokes to flirt”.

• Whenever a girl or guy ask you for a best hang out place the most you can think of is either city centre or Spencers. You will be blank if they ask you for an Ice cream shop. The only ice cream you know is vennila from Arun ice cream o Kwality.

• You seriously cant start a topic with the opposite sex. I have seen guys chatting wih girls purely with all emoticons. You cant and will not do that. You have to crack a real dumb joke to start any conversation. The most important thing is you cant talk about what she had for break fast. I am referring to stuff like the following….
Boy: Hey enna inikku break fast
Girl: i had idli....
Boy: Is it??? Same pinch no back pinch.. Naanum idly than saapten..(he slightly pinches her)and laughs..
Girl: Ouchhh (artificially)...it hurts. Yen ippadi killara….
Boy: ohh.. rommba sorry (tries to apologise..)..Then say "; i had sambhar for
idli.."
Girl: sambharrrrrrrr............naanum adhe than saapten… same pinch (now she pinches him back slightly)
Boy : Ouch…. Parava illa… naan sambhar and chutney…
Girl : Chutneyyy… I love chutney… esp that thengai chutney
Boy : I had vengaya chutney today… too spicy….
Girl : yuck… I don’t like onion chutney at all…. Then after some time so whats up… what else
Boy : hmmmm… edhuvum illa… aana enna pannaradhunnu yosikkaren
Girl : You don’t have anything to speak to me??.. (She is artificially angry with the boy)
and the Kadalai continues for another hour and again the girl again asks what else at the end of that conversation and it continues. I swear we can’t tolerate any more of this. I will scream like “dei podhumda, konjam gap kudunga”. This is not my imagination. I have seen this...though I agree there may be many exceptions...

• You can’t sing bryan adams and you know only paul adams. If some one is referring to back street boys you ll think its “Adutha theru pasanga”. When they say about linking park you cannot even imagine who they are and the closest link you can associate with them is Panagal Park. You are clueless as to what rock music is. The music which you like most is Illayaraja's songs of 80's and 90's.

• You cant walk past a girl without passing a comment. Atleast to yourself or to your friends. All thru college life u belong to this boyz gang and even in your gang nobody has a girlfriend so there is absolutely an absence of the inspirational factor.

• Last but not least you cant even act like a cool dude. The words like hey man, hey dude, wassup, wanna, gonna. Gotcha, fu** you, gotcha are alien to you.


With all these above attributes it is very difficult for guys like us to fall in love or find a girl. Even if you happen to fall in love you ll spend most of your time with your friends and not with her. And whenever you speak to her it will be very short and sweet. You normally hate missed calls and it is most likely that the girl calls you most of the time. Its not a sin btw. I guess we are not made for it. Lets accept that and be proud of that. We are one among the few in the vanishing tribe.


We have THE uniqueness that we remain single till we get married and having that
trait is really a virtue and who knows; we might be the elite clique in the future. So all those of you who feel sad that they dont have Gf's chill!!! We are not made for it and I swear for our characteristics a GF would not have added any value addition and we are better off staying single till 28 or 30.


DISCLAIMER – This is purely my own opinion………….

There is no denying the fact that this is absolutely me (and even my friends for that sake)

If some girls think that this is ridiculous and not true, Pls rethink the best jokes u have heard from ur flirting friends.

And people who think you also belong to this category…pls leave a comment…
I would be very happy to see one more person like me…


This is a blatant copy paste from one of my friends (Hareesh Kumar’s) blog. I have tried to add my own version of not having a girl friend, but the concept and the idea surely belongs to Hareesh…… and finally accepting even this is one of the reasons for not having a girl friend.

Padikkadhavan - Movie Review

I am very much against these movie reviews. And I feel its bit too much writing it for your blog at 3.00AM. Cant help it though. I don’t know whether I will remember everything in the morning.

Well, the one good thing watching a movie at Satyam is that you don’t need to go there to book tickets. You can always book your tickets online. Select your seats and even select your snacks. That ll be delivered to your seat. Well I think that’s too much to ask. Parking will be a bit of problem but that too has been sorted out. Most importantly the whole theater is smoke free and they are strictly maintaining it.

And the second and important aspect of watching movie at Satyam is its good for your eyes. For both boys as well as girls [:P]. Naanga than usuallA 10’o clock moviekku 10.15kku povom. You tend to dress up good even for watching a mokka movie like Villu and ATM.

My friend asked me today morning about going for a night show. Think we were on time for this movie. It initially started with the regular Satyam dolby digital advertisement. Followed up with the safety precautions and explaining the fire exit system. I have not seen this even in some of the multiplex theaters in Mumbai.

Then comes the advertisement part. GRT thangamaaligai where Shreya wearing more ornaments than her dress and ask every one to buy gold from GRT [:P] followed by Visa Card add. The lucky guy with blue t-shirt running at the same place all over the world. Hehe.

Price for popcorn and coke is unimaginable at Satyam. 2 medium coke and a popcorn costs us 130 bucks. I don’t know how it is possible for them to sell coke above the MRP price. The ambiance inside the theatre is very good and sound system is the best in Chennai. You ll surely feel the worth for paying 120 bucks.

Ohh, I completely forgot that I am supposed to write a review.

Well if you call a collection of some telugu scenes, some third rated comedy esp when Vivek dressed up like a girl (I donno how these directing brats will watch movie with their family [:o]), some kevalammana graphics, 4 kuthu songs where they have done the cost cutting for Thamanas dress. (Guys, If you ve watched Kalloori before, pls do not watch this movie as your heart will be broken. Just like mine) and lyrics like Appa amma veliyattu velaiyadi paappoma (thu) and out of reality scenes as a MOVIE, then I am sorry I feel pity for you. Call me as man from stone age. I don’t care. For me

Padikkadhavan = Crap. Period.

Certainly not music to ears!!!

I drew inspiration to write this blog from a blog which I ve browsed through on a vettiest day, which coincided with calling one of my colleague with a weird ring tone…. Hence this has been dedicated to both of them [:D]

This evolution of technology has changed almost everything in our world. It changed the way we travel, speak, communicate and know things in a different way. In addition to it is the way we hear the phone / mobile ringing while calling our friends [:P]. Ring tones and caller tunes. Though this facility was started way back I think it’s high time ppl start realizing how annoying their so called favorite ring tones are.

Ring Tones

To start with there are many of them who just wanna show others that they do have a high end mobile or it’s their very particular nature that they want to annoy the others. What they ll probably do is, set a wacky ring tone. Some times they use it very well that you want to grab it and throw it from top of LIC.

“Twingggg”

if you hear this noise when u work seriously in office, it does not make u laugh but will highly irritate you.

Some more examples are

“Mama Message vandhurukkudhu eduthu padi” that too not in a male of female voice. (Hope you understand [:P]). We were in Satyam theatre watching some movie seriously and suddenly some mobile shouted like this and spoiled the entire mood of the audience.

There were baby’s cry, Vadivelu shouts, Cats meow, etc etc etc… But what do they want. just be luking at them, we can judge that they are ppl who demands some kinda attention from others. People don’t have an aura to attract needs these stupid things. At least that’s what I think.

while ring tones helps u to distinguish yourself, these take things too far. Especially if you bring them to the conference table !! And especially so if you set them to go off at the highest volume!!. hehe

Last year one of my colleague played a prank on my friend when he left his mobile unattended. He just took that phone screamed like.

'" ******, PhoneA eduda"
'" ******, PhoneA eduda"

Then set that as a caller tune. The worst case is the other guy wants to take everyone to cafeteria. As planned he guy called him and suddenly it went up like crazy.

'" ******, PhoneA eduda"
'" ******, PhoneA eduda"

Momentarily he got confused a bit and then realized that it was indeed his mobile which was ringing. Then took some more mins to realize what hit him afterall. The first thing what he did was locked his mobile with security code [:D].

Caller Tunes

Caller tunes. Well I know ppl want the person to hear the good music while calling others, I wonder whether some of them might just wanna irritate the others!!!.

“The person you are trying to reach, Is having a tender coconut at beach”

Suddenly Rajinikanth started speaking the above sentences while trying to reach for a friend of mine. And it goes on like breaking my mobile. I was like breaking his head instead [:D]

And other caller tune in which there was a cricket commentary [:P]. these were funny while calling for the first time, but certainly

“Not a Music or atleast not a music to Ears”

Mumbai!!!

As I don’t have anything to do apart from sitting in bus, looking around for colors outside, coz nothing interesting happening inside [:)], thought of writing (literally WRITING in the empty space of my Vodafone bill) for my next blog. Though I ve announced the topic yesterday, I was observing Mumbai from the moment I landed here and this thought of writing about Mumbai, to be precise how I look at Mumbai, has been running around for some time now. This might be boring to you. Yenna idhula mokka joke edhuvum kediyadhu. Idhukkum mela padicha adhu onga kashtam.. oops onga ishtam. hehe

For lovers of Mumbai, this is my disclaimer!!!. I am from Chennai and my Hindi knowledge can be compared to that of an American Hindi (hehe), and the fact that I have lost my favorite N70 on the day I ve landed here (infact I lost my mobile around 12:30 and I landed here in Mumbai at 11:00), you can be very sure that my views are biased.


Taxis – My mode of commuting

Coming to the point, first of all the most admiring part in Mumbai is Taxi’s & auto’s and persons driving them. Being a Chennai’tian (Che ovvoru officelayum irundhu idhe pazhakkama pochu), I ve always used to hear words like :-
“80 rooba kudu sir, thirumbi varumbothu gaaliya than varanum” and I some times feel that instead of giving 80 rubees its better to spend some time and get them one savaari back [:D]
“petrol vela yeri pochu sir”
“Enna sir meter poda sollra, endha kaalathula irukka”, “Meter odadhu sir”
“Mylapore Tank varaikkumnnu thana sir sonneenga, ippo ulla varanumna 10 rooba pottu kudunga sir” (My house is before Kapali temple, and people from Chennai knows how far is Tank and Temple),
its been an pleasant surprise to see that these taxi drivers doesn’t even utter a single word for petrol, inflation and turn the meter on even for going to the next street etc etc. Its even more surprising to see when they give back even 1 rupee change. As always drivers from Airport will be an exception.

Mumbai Trains / Buses

I have never used to tell time like 9:12, 8:57, 6:54, but that’s the most important part of life for many people. Thanks to Mumbai traffic and trains. I still used to wonder how these people used to travel in train in those peak hours and come out as one piece. You ll find “sorry” crowd in First class compartment and “Ot**” crowd in II class. In cricket they used to tell “Class is permanent and form is temporary”. But here “Crowd is permanent and your life is temporary”.

Bus is another extreme where no one boards bus here. When I ask for ticket from Nariman Point to Mahim, the whole crowd used to look me like an alien. Yaarum bus yera maatraanga. Aana enakku ennamo night bus journey than pudichurukku.

The Cultural Difference

The biggest difference you ll have to encounter in Mumbai is that cultural change. I still cant digest the fact that people here come to restaurant with their family, have their drink with wife & son and in front of their parents. Worst of all I have seen a 70 year old paatti ordered for Vodka with sprite in our next table, where us we have ordered Veg. clear soup.

Another major difference you ll see over here is the number of women used to smoke. Though I ll say Chennai is not a saint city, you will definitely not see girls smoking like this. Call me male chauvinist, or any other name, if women call this as liberalization and I ll prefer it being like 1890. Apporam indha dressing sense of girls. Ellarukkum appdiye veetukku veliyila vandha odane bollywood acrressnnu nenaippu. Appadi make up potta parava illa, andha alavukku than dressE pannaraanga. Ennaye vekka pada vechutaanga. As a good boy naan than kunicha thala nimiraama rottula vara vendiyadha irukku. Kadavule kadavule.

Other things

I ll get a big 2/3 bedroom flat with car parking facility for rent for 15K in Chennai. Aana inga enakku kedichadhu oru room and kitchen than. Idhu than inga nelamai. Kovi’nna namma ooru maadhiri irukkumnnu nenaichu pona thriumbi paakarathukkulla kovil mudinchu podium. Just realizing the legacy of our Cholas and Pandiyas, and how important it is for South India is their ideas of creating large temples for worshipping.

There was a nice cool breeze coming from bus window and there was no more space in my Vodafone bill. As the bus cross the Atriya mall, there were lots of people getting into the bus. Ivvolavu neram chumma okkandhu irundha ramanikku vela vandhuruchu. Andha ponnu onnaya than paakkara ramani. Ippo poi blog ezhudharaya nee uruppadave maatta appdinnu ennoda manasaatchi solludhu. So ippodhaikku indha topicA close pannaren. Aana enna than sollunga,

I MISS CHENNAI.

One more addition!!!

Long long ago... oru rendu naal munnadi than enakku indha vibareedha ennam vandhadhu... why cant you start a blog ramani!!!... nee yen blog start panna koodadhu???...

Just rewinding two years back, I thought Orkut is a big waste of time... Infact orkut nnu onnu irukkaradhe enga veetukku oru pudhu janthu (Desktop Computer) veetukku vandadhukku apporam than therinchadhu... My first thought about orkut is "its such a crap, waste of time"... And it proves me daily... hehe.... apporam thane blogs...

Blogs.. Oru naal friend oruthan avan blog ezhudirukkennu sonnan... appdinna ennannu ketta ennaya romba vidhyasama paarthan... andha alavukku than ennoda blog / social networking knowledge ellam... i believe in personal contacts rather than contacting in Orkut / mails writing blogs etc etc....

So coming back to the point, after that thought I put myself in others shoes... what they will think of my flow, my thoughts, my langauge, my mokkais, my intelligence, apporam idhu ellam en kitta irukkaanu enakke theriyadhappo mathavanga nichayama idha kandu pudikka mudiyadhunnu oru dhairiyam...

Apporam than oru migapperiya issue... edha pathi ezhudharadhu... I need some topic... Topic... thought of it for two more days... YES... EUREKA... YAHOO... GOOGLE... Ramani arrived for blogging... Whan thats going to create a sensation among my friends and admirers, why cant I write under that topic??... ezhudu da ramani... Inime idha padichuttu comment panna vendiyadhu on friendsoda kadamai....

And last but not least... Do not compare my blog with that of

Shruthis - Impulsive Ram

Deepthis - Deep(A) insight

Harishs - Imayavan - Blogspots...
Those are my inspirations and their writing flow cant be matched... Kadaisila onne onnu... Nee enna ezhudhi kizhichannu yaarum ennaya kekka mudiyadhu... yenna inga type panna than mudiyum... aana yaarume kizhikkavum mudiyadhu.... Thats my biggest inspiration....