It’s a Wonderful Life

Understanding the life is simply an art. Some really appreciate it, where as a few curse it. Life is better understood only when we know who we are and what we are. Until a few years back, I ask the Almighty & pray for my wishes to get true. A few really happen (like the results of all my 12 years of schooling) & a few miss out of my way (like all the girls I loved).

We never knew what we gonna be in the future and wen we are kids & someone asks us we say what ever object impresses us on that particular day; say a stethoscope, a revolver, an airplane or a cricket bat. This is accepted till a certain age (may be till your teen age) but there are a few who still search for their future and walk across the road as the path leads them & one such idiot is I, me & myself!!!

I go behind something & that goes behind me in the opposite direction, unwillingly I accept to the fact & realm of life and start moving forward with a false saying “ There is always something better in the store” can someone answer me “ Do you always get the better & best things after you miss out something ?!?!” Not at all… It is really an assumption & confidence that makes you to think that what you got now is better than what you could have had. The truth is, you will never get what you missed but your alter ego makes your mentality to think in such a way & enjoy your life as though you got something much better. After all, Life has to Move on with thoughts like that. It’s just another argument that leads to whether GOD or Supernatural powers exist on earth. Few believe it & a few believe that they don’t believe it.


Coming back to me, just like how the Oxford dictionary added the two words “Jai Ho” & “Slumdog” in their big book, can they add “Jai” as a synonym of haplessness? I am always un-lucky; I don’t know Y me alone?!?! Once after watching the movie “Lucky man” (Tamil movie, as no tax exemption 4 Tamil titles @ that time), I still remember that night where I was dreaming about having one such book (which shows the future) in my school bag to check whats gonna happen in future. Although, it was my junior school level & you know what i dreamed ?!?!? It is who my wife is & what is her name. Of course, the term Girlfriend did not exist in my mind at that age.

When I think about it, it sounds really funny but let me tell you having one such book is the numero uno curse you can get in life. Life is best enjoyed only when we do not know what will happen tomorrow. The essence & thrill behind that has no words to explain. You plan something & you build something!! You take off somewhere & you land somewhere!!! At one point, you never know what you are & why you are in this place but still you have a goal to set & think a healthy future is ahead and start traveling in it. I sleep everyday with so many questions running across my mind but the answer to it is “what ever happens, let’s face it positively”. Well, according to me, for instance, the happiness present in knowing much ahead of where and how you meet a girl, whom you like d most on the next day is much lesser than you meeting her all of a sudden, the sudden shock you get, the immediate smile that widens ur face, your tender heart that skips a beat, your useless mind that suddenly makes you to forget what you were talking about. Will we get all these lovable feelings in life if we wait for her much ahead knowing anything & everything on earth? Certainly, For certain things we should wait until the right time comes. Accept this with a big NOD!!!

As mentioned in some line earlier, whether God exists or not!!! I think it is really a stupid question to ask when you put yourself in his shoes. I tried to be like God for one day when I was waiting for a girl in satyam cinemas. The CEO of world plays a real tough job up above the sky!!! The one minute thought, if I was God and I come to know whats happening in & around me & also by knowing the future, who knows just like how I am waiting for a girl, my better half might be waiting for a guy & we may cross each other several times not knowing who we are gonna be in future. This one minute thought made me to accept to the fact that “He thy Lord, thy Exist or Not, Shall be the Superior (Chapter Jai 3:16).

I repeat, Understanding life is an art & I am still “UNDER-STANDING” my Life. Just think of a world without you and the world with you & what changes you did to this world in the wonderful life provided to you & you will feel happy if you had done things to keep people happy, if not you will work towards it. Currently,I’m working on it, whether i am lucky or not, the two hands & one small brain is enough to make people happy, live happily & hope i make my life fruitful not only to me but also to the people surrounding me & make them smile all the time.


This blog is a dedication to the legendary Frank Capra, the director of the Classic movie “It’s a wonderful life”, an inspiration to write things in my blog & in my life too.

Height of Highness

What is exactly Highness? What sense of feeling does it give? What makes the fellow rascals from IIT’s & IIM’s to succeed in Life though they freak out 24x7. What am I lagging & what should I do to be like them?!?!?!? Endless questions rising inside me like tsunami and I wake up the very next day with a thought “Today I will definitely be like them & succeed” but that day never comes. Why is it so!?!? Am I the only person feeling like this or may be I am the only one talking this amongst a million folks. This confusion did not blossom yesterday or the day before. It’s wandering my mind since 1997 where I failed in all the subjects sans language, after all it’s my mother tongue and I know all the bad words in it.

What should I do now & what am I doing now?? Where can I try to be like them?!? Well, my mind literally became a question bank with the answer pages missing. Started to look for the solution n googled all night... Browsed the pages of success stories.. Listened to top notch advisors… Read the books “Three mistakes of my life”.. “Five Point Someone” & Planned to watch the movie “Three Idiots” too. Well, after all, will I be like Opal Mehta who tried to get into Harvard.. Nah.,. I know nothing about Success so I certainly cannot be Opal Mehta to predict something in advance. My zeal to be a successful man was still in the searching mode until I found the Mantra which happened to be a guide not only for the French Book but also for my unanswered questions.

On one fine day I stopped the search of other characters as I failed in all my attempts and started to live myself and started to feel the happiness. Just let the way life leads and enjoy the spirit of every activity. Tried to learn in the experience of my own life and started to love my life. Sudden highness in my thoughts and brightness in my soul and what was considered as a dream once is by my side today and what ever I thought of and dreamt is happening slowly. The only reason for this could be, I, me and myself. I changed myself, not artificially but it happened naturally and this natural change in behavior, attitude gave me the confidence to reach altitude.

Leaves fly in the wind, cotton wanders in breeze, papers and covers raise in the air. Not sure whether they are happy when they fly but I fly now as I am happy. I am flying high and high enough to the extent of saying I am not able to reach the Clouds as it is 3 feet below my legs. My mom said that I smile when I sleep., My brother said I became a crack-pot., My colleague said you are the only one to smile when they declared there is no hike for the current year & my best friend said do not show your 32 teeth all the time. Whatever it may be, who ever might say anything, this smile will never stop. My heart beats 72 counts per minute and for every count I reach one step above. When we are happy, we get the confidence of achieving anything in this world but remember Life is just a Roller-Coaster so anytime our landing is expected, yet smile & smile with confidence, your smile may take you for a second round of Highness!!!

Altogether, there may be Mondays & Tuesdays in your life but for me all of them are Happy Days…

- JAI HO!!

December 26...

One of the major set back that our Chennai saw was the TSUNAMI. It was a full moon day & the waves will be more aggressive than the regular. There are a lot of Scientific & Seismic reasons for Tsunami. On the contrary, Direct/ indirect impact of God playing a role on it were controversially portrayed in the film Dasavatharam. This is just another perspective and a small imagination if the sentimental aspects of the Sea being a strong reason for TSUNAMI.


Alaigal oivadhillai, Idhuvarai naan kanda endha alaiyum oindhadhillai,
Alaigal paaivadhillai, Nichayamaaga endha oru alaiyum ippadi paaindhadhillai.
Nilavu ondru muzhuvadhai thondriyadhaal neeyum karai muzhuvadhum thondrinaayo;
Nilavin mel neenda naal poramaiyinaal aval vandhadhum neeyum vandhaayo;
Kadarkaraiku varum manidhargal nilavai rasipadhundu,
Karaiku varum manidhargal manal veedu katti magizhvadhundu.
Nilavu mattum azhagillai endhan alai oasiyum azhagena ninaithaayo,
Nilavin azhagai maraithuvittu undhan azhagaana osaiyai engal sevikul paaithaayo.
Unnudaiya indha maatram engal vaazhvil naangal kanda miga periya yaemaatram,
Innum engaluku kuzhapam nee seidha seyalin nokkam,
Kovathil engalai adithaayo alladhu paasathil anbudan anaithaayo.
Adhikaalai vandhirundha alaiye nee maalai vandhirundhaal enna aagirukum
Maalai mattum nee vandhirundhaal innum pala muthukal sidhari pogirukkum.
Poruthadhu podhum pongi ezhu enbargal, Un vishayathil,
Nee pongiyadhu podhum poruthiru;
Un azhaginai kaanum varai poruthiru, alaiyin inimaiyaana osaiyai ketkum varai poruthiru.
Unnai verum uppu thaneer endru ninaithavargalin kannil kaneerai varaveithaaye;
Kaneerai varaveithuvitu indha uppu mattum inikiradho endru kaetai.

Pongiyadhu podhum poruthiru, un azhaginai rasikum varai poruthiru
Kaalam varum varai poruthiru, unnai kaana makkal varum varai poruthiru.

December 26...

One of the major set back that our Chennai saw was the TSUNAMI. It was a full moon day & the waves will be more aggressive than the regular. There are a lot of Scientific & Seismic reasons for Tsunami. On the contrary, Direct/ indirect impact of God playing a role on it were controversially portrayed in the film Dasavatharam. This is just another perspective and a small imagination if the sentimental aspects of the Sea being a strong reason for TSUNAMI.


Alaigal oivadhillai, Idhuvarai naan kanda endha alaiyum oindhadhillai,
Alaigal paaivadhillai, Nichayamaaga endha oru alaiyum ippadi paaindhadhillai.
Nilavu ondru muzhuvadhai thondriyadhaal neeyum karai muzhuvadhum thondrinaayo;
Nilavin mel neenda naal poramaiyinaal aval vandhadhum neeyum vandhaayo;
Kadarkaraiku varum manidhargal nilavai rasipadhundu,
Karaiku varum manidhargal manal veedu katti magizhvadhundu.
Nilavu mattum azhagillai endhan alai oasiyum azhagena ninaithaayo,
Nilavin azhagai maraithuvittu undhan azhagaana osaiyai engal sevikul paaithaayo.
Unnudaiya indha maatram engal vaazhvil naangal kanda miga periya yaemaatram,
Innum engaluku kuzhapam nee seidha seyalin nokkam,
Kovathil engalai adithaayo alladhu paasathil anbudan anaithaayo.
Adhikaalai vandhirundha alaiye nee maalai vandhirundhaal enna aagirukum
Maalai mattum nee vandhirundhaal innum pala muthukal sidhari pogirukkum.
Poruthadhu podhum pongi ezhu enbargal, Un vishayathil,
Nee pongiyadhu podhum poruthiru;
Un azhaginai kaanum varai poruthiru, alaiyin inimaiyaana osaiyai ketkum varai poruthiru.
Unnai verum uppu thaneer endru ninaithavargalin kannil kaneerai varaveithaaye;
Kaneerai varaveithuvitu indha uppu mattum inikiradho endru kaetai.

Pongiyadhu podhum poruthiru, un azhaginai rasikum varai poruthiru
Kaalam varum varai poruthiru, unnai kaana makkal varum varai poruthiru.

Madras nalla Madras!!!

Indru nee Chennai aaga irundhaalum, Engal manadhil endrum nee Madras nalla Madras dhaan.


Vaazha vandha palaruku nee nalla vaazhkai-ai kaatinaai,
Vazhndhu kondirukkum silaruku nee nalla ookam ootinaai.
Ethanai azhagu unnidathil adhai vivarika vaarthaigal illai ennidathil. Undhan azhagai eppadi varnipaadhu;
Paasa alaiyaai paaiyum Marina-va alla
Endrum thiruvizha pol kaatchi tharum T-nagar-a,
Amaidhiyaai ullaavarum Adyar-a illai
Varungaala Bill Gates-ai uruvaakum Ritchie Street-a.
Pala aayiram kangal unaku adhu theru vilakugalaai ingu iruku,
Maalai naan nadandhu varum velayil ennai kandu nee kan adipadhu edharku.
Naatkal kadandhaalum unaku vayadhu varambillai, unaku azhagum kuraivadhillai.
Nee indru pol endrum vazhndhida, un azhagu melum malarndhida
Un swaasathai endrum swaasikum Chennai-ite.

ON HIS BLINDNESS…

"yov!!! kaiya keezha podu ya... ipdi summa theva illaama kaiya thooki thooki dhaan indha nelamaiku aal aagita"


Well, we have come across the very famous elegy written by John Milton, On his blindness, which is world renowned and now jus like the remake of the movies this elegy is going to be back by none other than our Steve Bucknor. He wrote this elegy to the Indians at the SCG.

Malcom Speed still considers Bucknor to be sweet 16 and I wonder where he bought those glasses, might be his grandma’s present for his 2nd birthday. Mr. Bucknor when did you check your power last??? Mr. Benson is no where indifferent, he is Benson with several grandson and it’s high time to get rid of both of them.

When asked about this to Mr. Bucknor he in turn blamed the Indians for his mistake. He said these Indians are taking me into task with whatever I do. In the day 1 and day 2 they said that I am not raising my finger often for their appeals and I really felt for that and corrected myself and declared Out for almost all the appeals in the last day. What else can be done?

Coming to the match, there are a lot of ways to test the patience of a batsmen and I really pity sourav for giving him out for one pitch catch and all. I think he is the only batsmen to get out in both one pitch and two pitch catches which happened earlier with Moin khan, Enna koduma sourav idhu!!!

I fail to understand why the umpire (Benson) referred to the un-ethical captain for his judgment. There can be two reasons why Ponting raised his finger

1) He might have told the umpire that Clarke caught the ball in one hand and according to street cricket one pitch one hand is out. So he is right!!

2) He would have threatened him “Adutha tour England dhaan anga unna Lords Ground la oda vittu odhaipen”

Clarke and Ponting played all the games except cricket there, they played Ground touch, 7 Stones, Rugby. I think Clarke will wait for the umpire to give out even if he is caught at long-off.

The OZ’s appealed for anything and everything that passes the bat. In fact, when Harbhajan was batting he saw them appealing for a fly passing on his bat and when asked about that he was summoned for racially abusing. I think Monkey looks much better than Symmonds, he looks like a comic character with spaghetti in his hairs and plaster of paris over his lips. May be it’s the best lip gloss in Australia.

The indians were too soft with this issue. I wished to have our Sreeshanth and Sidhu at that place and i'm sure Bucknor would have been parceled to jamaica in a special flight.On the whole, this was a match played between 11 member team and 14 member team and the Umpires defeat India by 4 wickets.

On appreciating the effort taken by the OZ’s for their 16 consecutive wins the Australian Cricket Board has announced that the SCG( Sydney Cricket Ground) here after will be called as SCG( Street Cricket Ground) where they can play Under-Arms and Over-Arms Cricket and sometimes even with Plastic ball.

"Aiya!! jolly!!! enna veetuku anupchitaanga!!!!"
ooh-la-la-la-la-le-lo!!!

WILLOW WOOD vs HOLLYWOOD

The board of Control for Cricket in India decided to select 12angry men for an important series up against the aussies and had plans of selecting some goodfellas but with the politics of desire only few good men were opted for the final- destination. With this attitude, performance is jus boot-less in every one. But, our players show an over-whelming performance not in the cricket but with their acting talents in the Advertisement.

Since our Indian Cricket team is filled with endowed actors who by chance came to Cricket instead of Acting and hence are not able to perform well (in cricket), all I thought is if they get chance to act in the movies, which movie and title will be apt for them with respect to their performance.

 

NAME OF THE ACTOR                                                           MOVIE TITLE


SACHIN TENDULKAR                                                             The Godfather

SOURAV GANGULY                                                               You only live Twice

RAHUL DRAVID                                                                     Rahul Dravid ki Deewar

VIRENDAR SHEWAG                                                             Gone in 60 Seconds

YUVARAJ SINGH                                                                   Attitude

MD. KAIF                                                                               God only knows

MAHINDRA SINGH DHONI                                                    Too fast too furious

AJIT AGARKAR                                                                      Gone with the wind

HARBAJAN SINGH                                                                 Spin city

RAMESH POWAR                                                                    Run, Fat boy, Run

SREESHANTH                                                                         Princess of Controversy