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Onion & Everest are similar Now.. Both are at Peak..

2010-12-22T22:40:00.000-08:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay....

Count down started for the New Year to begin. Holiday season & Snow havoc in West, Music feast in Chennai, Melodious chanting of sacred Verses 'Thirupaavai' for this holy tamil month 'Maargaizhy'(மார்கழி) in whole of Tamil Nadu, Beautiful Carols from the churches. Precisely all these makes December a lovely month.

We should understand this simple context.. Difference between Dec 31 and 1st Jan is just one day, where as difference between 1st Jan and Dec 31 is a full year. So let us lead a simple life by taking the life as it comes and not to complicate and confuse it with all our worries. This positive approach in our day today life can be very easily incorporated by trying out the Sahaja Yoga Meditation.

Fine, let us now go straight into our topic of this post.. I am sure every one will be aware of the soaring Prices of Onion in India. Except the Standard of Living of Indian people, every thing in India is very costly and high. Normally while we cut onion we get tears in our eyes, of late when we say or hear the Price of onion itself tears running down our cheeks..!! (முன்னாடி எல்லாம் வெங்காயம் உரிச்சா தான் கண்ணில் தண்ணீர் வரும்,ஆனா இப்போ எல்லாம் வெங்காயம் பெயரையோ இல்லை விலையையோ கேட்டாலே கண்ணில் தண்ணீர் வருது..!!)

Again I am not going to talk about politics here.. So let us see the basic principle of how we get tears while we cut Onions. This is actually a short story meant for children, but I am sure this will be really liked by people of all ages. I sincerely thank my uncle Mr. M.J.Srinivasan for sharing this wonderful short story with me.

Here starts the Onion Story. At the end of this story you all will know why we get tears while we cut onions. There was a mini super market selling vegetables and all other food stuffs. In this mini mart there were 3 friends (like '3 Idiots') namely Onion (hero of our Story), Tomato & Ice Cream. These 3 were brought into this shop on a same day & same vehicle. So this 3 become very close friends and started having a great time by talking with each other. While their Life was going so smoothly and nicely, there started the bad time for their friendship.

One person visited this shop and bought some tomatoes. Unfortunately the tomato which was one among this friendship fell down while weighing and got stabbed by some one. There comes the end of Life for this particular tomato. By this there started a disaster to this trio friendship. Yes, the tomato got separated from this wonderful friendship. So the left out Onion and Ice Cream became so sad and started crying for the depart of Tomato. Though Ice cream was in the refrigerator, tears were flowing from ice cream eyes. While this two, Onion and Ice Cream were solacing each other, there again came another storm in their friendship. This time one person came and bought, took away the Ice Cream from the shop. While the Ice cream was taken by the person, it started melting and there came an end of life to the Ice cream which was part of that lovely trio friendship.

So now the lonely left out Onion started screaming and crying very badly. Onion could not bear the sorrow out of the lost friendship. So Onion started praying to God and suddenly there appeared God in front of Onion. Onion said to the God... " Once we three (Onion, Tomato & Ice cream) were very good friends and thoroughly enjoyed our life by sharing all the good moments of each of one us. Now my best friends Tomato and Ice cream went away from this friendship and also lost their life too..

God interrupted the onion's talk and said life and death is common for all the creatures in this world. And I am sure sure you know about this very well.. Onion Gently replied to God like this.. "Lord I know this fact of life that life and death is common for all creations in this universe", But all my worry was not that. God was wonder struck with Onion's reply and asked what was the exact worry of Onion.

Onion then said to God, that while Tomato went away from the friendship and lost its life, it was me (onion) and Ice cream shedding tears for Tomato. Same way when my another good friend Ice cream went out of this friendship and lost its life, it was me alone crying and shedding tears for Ice Cream. Now some one might buy me also and take my life. Tell me lord who is there to cry for me??. Please bless me to Over come this sorrow my Lord...

God always listents to the words of sincere prayers and pleads. So in the same way God felt that Onion's worry is genuine and needs to be resolved.. So God said to Onion like this.. "My dear child Onion.. I shall bless you with a boon.. Who ever cuts you and end your life will start crying and shedding tears for your life. Let this happen with immediate effect".. Saying this God disappeared.. Onion was very much happy to hear this and thanked God for this wonderful Boon..

How is it? I hope you people not started shedding tears by reading this (mokkai) Post..!!..

எப்புடி...இதை(மொக்கை ப்ளாக்)படிச்சிட்டு அழாம இருந்தீங்கனா போதும். அவ்வ்வ்வ்......

Ok friends, Wishing you all a Merry Xmas, Happy & Prosperous Wonderful New Year 2011.

-- Vartaa..

2G Brings Individual Prosperity, But 4G Brings Global Prosperity

2010-12-01T01:11:00.000-08:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay.....

Wishing you all a Belated Diwali Wishes.. I think every one of you might be extremely busy with the year end wrap ups..

November 2010 is a month of happening not only in India, but around the world by means of wiki leaks.. In India politicians were extremely busy during this full month even without the working of the Parliament. Scams were getting exposed one by one during this month and of course 2G became the prime hot topic of every one in India.

This 2G scam involved several crores of money resulting in the prosperity of some individuals at the cost of the Country. Now pause for a While and continue reading. I am not going to continue any thing about politics. Just related the present 2G with the details I am going to continue here.

Yes, the topic is "2G Brings Individual Prosperity, But 4G Brings Global Prosperity".

The Individual prosperity out of 2G is just all about the huge money scam. But the Global Prosperity out of 4G is nothing about politics. Then what is all about this 4G, keep your fingers crossed and continue further.

Before I continue, I sincerely extend my thanks to my uncle(Mr. M.J.Srinivasan) who just put this great thought about 4G concept in a very few lines. I was really inspired by this 4G Concept narrated by him and thought of blogging this now as being the right time to talk about G.!!

4G is exclusive for India and Indians. So in fact we can be proud about this. Fine, enough of the suspense (guess going more than a Mega Serial..!!).

What is this 4G all about?

1) Ganges - River Ganges

2) Gita - Sacred Text "Bhagvat Gita"

3) Govinda - Lord Krishna also called as "Govinda" &

4) Gayathri - Sacred Mantra belonging to certain sect of people.

All the above listed are absolutely Holy and when a Individual person gets him related to all this, then the final result is nothing other than Prosperity. This prosperity does not mean only for the Individual but globally.

The Ultimate aim of every human being is to lead a good life and to enter into the kingdom of divine. This can be achieved by following the above listed 4G.

As per Hindu Dharma each person (division by means of their profession) has been clearly defined about their work or task to be continued without any deviation. When there starts a slight deviation in this then its the beginning of all the problems in this universe.

ok friends, that's it for now and catch you all sooner...

---varta.... Ungal Chromepet Kasi..

சிரிப்பே சிறந்த மருந்து.. சிரிப்பு ஸ்பெஷல்

2010-06-16T02:34:00.000-07:00

வணக்கம் நண்பர்களே...

இது முழுக்க முழுக்க சிரிப்பு தொகுப்பு.. உங்களுக்காக.. சிரிப்பு ஸ்பெஷல்....!!
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மனைவி: நம்ம பையன் என்னவாக வரணும்னு ஆசைப்படுறீங்க?
கணவன்: அவன் என்ன வேணும்னாலும் ஆகட்டும்...ஆனா யாருக்கும் புருஷனா மட்டும் ஆகக்கூடாது... நான் பட்ட கஷ்டம் என்னோட போகட்டும்...!!
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மனைவி: ஏங்க.. சமையல்காரியை நிறுத்திட்டு இனிமே நானே சமைக்கிறேன்... எனக்கு மாசம் எவ்வளவு சம்பளம் கொடுப்பீங்க?
கணவன்: உனக்கு எதுக்கும்மா சம்பளம்...? நீ சமைக்க ஆரம்பிச்சுட்டேனா என் இன்சூரன்ஸ் பணம் மொத்தமும் உனக்குத்தானே...!
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மனைவி: என்னங்க.. அதோ அங்க உக்காந்து தண்ணியடிக்கிறாரே.. அவரு ஒரு தடவை என்னை பொண்ணு பார்க்க வந்திருந்தாரு. நான் அவரை கல்யாணம் பண்ணமாட்டேன்னு சொன்னதினால அதை நினைச்சே இத்தனை வருஷமா தண்ணியடிக்கிறாராம்.
கணவன்: அடப்பாவி...! அந்த சந்தோஷத்தை இத்தனை வருஷமாவா கொண்டாடிக்கிட்டிருக்கான்..?
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புயல் மழையில் ஒருவன் பீட்ஸா வாங்க கடைக்குச் செல்கிறான்.
கடைக்காரர் : சார் உங்களுக்கு கல்யாணம் ஆயிடுச்சா...?
வந்தவர்: பின்ன.. இந்த புயல் மழைல எங்க அம்மாவா என்னை பீட்ஸா வாங்க அனுப்புவாங்க...!??
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நர்ஸ்-1 : நம்ம டாக்டரோட ஞாபகமறதி நோய் குணமான சேதி கேட்டு எல்லோரும் ஷாக் ஆகிட்டாங்க!
நர்ஸ்-2 : எதுக்கு?
நர்ஸ்-1 : அவர் நெஜமாவே டாக்டர் இல்லையாம், வக்கீலாம்!
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ஒருவர் : என்னோட இராசி, நட்சத்திரம் எல்லாத்தையும் கேட்டுட்டு, வீட்டுக்குள்ள ஜோசியர் போறாரே, எதுக்கு?
மற்றவர் : கொஞ்சம் அவசரப்படாம இருங்க.. பேப்பரைப் படிச்சிட்டு வந்து உங்களுக்கு பலன் சொல்வாரு!
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ஆள் -1 :ரொம்பக் கஷ்டப்பட்டு வீட்டைக் கட்டிட்டேன், ஆனா மனசுக்குள்ள ரொம்ப பயமா இருக்கு!
ஆள்-2 : எதுக்கு பயம்? கடன் அதிகமாயிடுச்சா?
ஆள் -1 :இல்ல.. நிலம்தான் யாருடையதுன்னு தெரியல!
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இளைஞன்: நீண்ட நாள் வாழ ஏதாவது வழி இருக்கிறதா?
நண்பன்: திருமணம் செய்துகொள்.
இளைஞன்: திருமணம் அதற்கு உதவி செய்யுமா?
நண்பன்: இல்லை, இந்த மாதிரியான எண்ணங்கள் வாழ்நாளில் உனக்குத் திரும்ப வரவே வராது.
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கணவன்: ஏன் ஆண்கள் இரண்டாவது திருமணம் செய்து கொள்ள சட்டத்தில் இடம் இல்லை?
வக்கீல்: ஒரு குற்றத்திற்காக யாரும் இரண்டு முறை தண்டிக்கப்படுவதில்லை!
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திருமணமானவர்கள் கீழே உள்ள செய்தியைப் படிக்கவேண்டாம்:
“சுதந்திரதின வாழ்த்துக்கள்!!!”
(இது இருபாலருக்கும் பொருந்துமோ????)
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ஒரு பெண்மணி நடு இரவில் தூக்கத்தில் எழுந்து தன் கணவர் அருகில் இல்லாததை உணர்ந்து அவரைத் தேடினார். வீடு முழுவதும் தேடி, கடைசியில் அவர் சமையலையறையில் அமர்ந்திருந்ததைக் கண்டார். அவருக்கு முன்னால் காபி இருந்தது. அவர் ஆழ்ந்த சிந்தனையில் சுவரை வெறித்துப் பார்த்தபடி அமர்ந்திருந்தார். இடையிடையே கண்ணில் வழியும் கண்ணீரைத் துடைத்தபடி காபியை அருந்திக் கொண்டிருப்பதைக் கண்டார். மனம் பதைபதைத்து அவர் அருகில் சென்று, இதமாகக் கையைப் பிடித்து, “என்ன ஆயிற்று? இந்த நடு இரவில் இங்கே வந்து தனியாக அமர்ந்திருக்கிறீர்களே?” என்று கேட்டார்.

கணவன்: உனக்கு நினைவிருக்கிறதா? 20 வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னால் உனக்கு பதினெட்டு வயதாகும்போது நாம் இருவரும் தனியாக பார்க்கில் சந்தித்தோமே?

மனைவி: ஆமாம், நினைவிருக்கிறது.

கணவன் (தொண்டை அடைக்கக் கமறலுடன்): அன்று உன் அப்பாவிடம் இருவரும் மாட்டிக்கொண்டோமே?

மனைவி: ஆமாம் (கணவரின் கண்களைத் துடைத்து விடுகிறார்)

கணவன்: என் நெற்றிப்பொட்டில் துப்பாக்கியை வைத்து “மரியாதையாக என் பெண்ணைத் திருமணம் செய்து கொள்கிறாயா.. இல்லை, 20 ஆண்டுகள் உன்னை ஜெயிலுக்கு அனுப்பவா?” என்று உன் அப்பா என்னைக் கேட்டது உனக்கு நினைவிருக்கிறதா?

மனைவி: அதுவும் நினைவில் இருக்கிறது. அதற்கென்ன?

கணவன் கண்களைத் துடைத்தவாறு: அன்று என்னை ஜெயிலுக்கு அனுப்பியிருந்தால் இன்று எனக்கு விடுதலை நாள்!!!!
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சரி நண்பர்களே... மீண்டும் உங்களை இதே போல் சிரிப்பு தொகுப்புடன் வெகு விரைவில் காண்பேன்.

நன்றி... நன்றி... நன்றி... உங்களிடமிருந்து நன்றி கூறி விடை பெறுவது உங்கள்..உங்கள்.. உங்கள்.. குரோம்பேட் காசிராமன்........

-- வர்ட்டா............

Continuation - Tirunelveli Trip

2010-06-01T04:29:00.000-07:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay...

This is in continuation to my earlier post about my tirunelveli trip.

The hotel we stayed was so comfortable and decent. We took an autorickshaw from tirunelveli junction to our hotel. We were royally ripped off by the auto rickshaw fellow saying that he has to take a bye pass road to reach the hotel due to some divertions etc., Being a new place (for all of us..) and also morning hours, without bargaining we hired the auto, but to our disappointment before we all could adjust our sitting, we reached the hotel. So this was the very first tirunelveli HALWA (bulb) we received early morning.. Actually the railway station was much in the visibility from the hotel we stayed..

Then we had our routines, freshed up ourselves and had a brief breakfast in the adjacent hotel. The filter coffee was too good and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. Then we hired a qualis (Air conditioned..!!) for our tirunelveli sight seeing and our vehicle geared up around 10.30 am. The driver was so friendly and we thoroughly enjoyed his company through out our travel.

We all played an instant small game among ourselves by trying to guess the driver name. Every one used their chance and said some names of their own. I used my (tiny) brain and guessed a name for our driver and in fact I was over confident that I will be the winner in this. Actually with great difficulty I read a name written in the glass behind our vehicle and thought that might be his name.. But unfortunately the name written on the glass was this driver's brother name. So none of us won in this game and in fact no one could even manage to guess the first letter of it..!! Strange name.. I am hearing it for the very first time.. Can any of you guess??. His name starts with the letter "V"..

Hence forth I shall term the driver as "Mr. V" through out this post. Mr. V was also kind enough to accompany (walking) with us to the tourist spots and shared all the info he has about those places. We learnt that several movies like Sami, Gilli, etc., were filmed in front of the kailasa nathar temple in nellai.. As if some historic spot, I immediately used my digicam to click all those divine(!!) filmed places..!!

While conversing Mr. V also found us to be good (surprising..!!) and shared about his personal to some extent. It seems the vehicle (Qualis) we hired, belongs to a famous tamil actor (he told us the name.. ) and in fact his (actor's) name was very well written "_____ CABS"..

Mr. V helped us by standing in the crowd to buy the famous halwa for us. To our surprise he did not even taste a little bit of it and said that because of regular eating of this halwa he developed a hatred towards it..!!

Then we entered in to the famous nellaippar temple. Once again great sculptures inside this mega temple. A person who pretend to be a guide in the temple showed us some pillars (made out of hard rock) and told us to bang those pillars with our hands.. Initially we were hesitant and was also not giving any importance to that person, but later out of his repeated request I just hit one of the pillars with my palm and then he asked us to keep our ears near the pillar.. My god.. amazing... we heard the sounds of different instruments like Veena,Violin, Jaltarang, flute from each of the pillars.. Then each of us took our turns and then tried to validate whether what we hear was true.. IT was TRUE.. What a design and construction during the olden days with out any qualified architect, hi-fi softwares like autocad or archicad.. How was that possible.. Still this question revolves around me.. Great India..

While exiting this huge nellaippar temple all of us were totally drained of our energy. After some time we reached our hotel and the very next day morning was our train from tirunelveli to Trichy.. Again to our surprise Mr. V told us to be ready in the morning, so that we can be dropped in the tirunelveli railway station. As promised Mr. V turned up exactly to pick us and while going to the railway station he shared with us his marriage photo where in the actor (owner of this qualis vehicle) was present. Mr. V was too good (ROMBA Nallavar...) enough to be so friendly, he did not charge us for the station drop.. Free of cost trip from hotel to railway station.. I felt it as some compensation for the first day rip off by the auto rickshaw. But to show our humanity, we gave an amount to Mr. V as a token of our love, but he was so adamant to take that and some how finally we convinced him to take. I experienced two extreme of people in span of two days.. one person ripped off (autorickshaw).. one person was so generous (Mr. V)

Whole of our tirunelveli trip Mr. V was our hero and he was so kind enough to make a phone call to us the next day to ensure whether we reached trichy safely.

One more interesting information to share. While our sight seeing trip, Mr. V showed us a statue of famous old Nadhaswara musician 'Karaikurichi Arunachalam'. While hearing and seeing this statue my father expressed his liking towards the music of Karaikurichi Arunachalam and also said several good things about him. Mr. V was silently listening to all of this and later when we reached trichy Mr. V called my dad and said that he has bought 2 audio cassettes of Karaikurichi Arunachalam which will be posted to our house address. My father was so much moved by this gesture of Mr. V.

Seeing the gesture of Mr. V, I instantly remembered the tamil verses..... "Nallaar oruvar ularel, avar poruttu ellarukum peiyum Mazhai"...

Our train was at 7.50 AM to trichy and we all boarded in our compartment very fresh being a fresh morning..

To be continued......

--- Vartaa....

Recent News in Chromepet

2010-05-27T00:48:00.000-07:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay.........

I hope many of you might be aware of my recent visit to Chromepet. It was very nice trip and enjoyed roaming in the streets of chromepet. Now I would like to share the recent news in chromepet with you all.

BREAKING NEWS:

As now it is become a fashion in all the television channels to display each and every news as 'Breaking News', I also will try to adapt the same now in this post..

The famous Church 'Amala Annai Aalayam' was broken (demolished) probably for further construction. This is the first breaking news in Chromepet. This church forms a part of the famous school Holy Angels Matriculation, where so many legends were grown and now several of those have become popular too.. Great School, great students..

Secondly, I was told that the founder cum owner of the famous one and only Nayar Kadai (Tiffin Shop)expired recently. So as a mark of respect and condolence the Nayar Kadai remained closed for a day. I visited once and met the sons who were as usual busy with their business. Also I came to understand that one of the brother (I guess Mr. Ravi) has moved apart from the main shop and opened a branch some where near hastinapuram.

The Hyssop VSP hotel is now the talk of the town. Unfortunately due to various reasons I was not able to visit the hotel even once, but came to understand that the quality as well as the cost is good. This hotel is now become a hot spot for the youngsters particularly during week ends.

For a change I found the Radha Nagar main road to be well laid and maintained to a greater stretch until Nemilicherry. Also I could see the M52E metropolitan Transport (MTC) bus roaring in the streets of Radha Nagar.

I got chance to ride on bike (Bike courtesy my niece Ms. Lavanya) in the streets of Radha Nagar. But to my disappoint I was treated like alien and in fact once got shouted by co-riders for using the indicators while riding the bike. When ever I used the indicator the near by vehicle riders starred at me as if I am from some unknown planet.!! One fellow shouted at me for using indicator and asked me in tamil 'Un Kai nallaa thaaney irukku, pina edukku indicator use panra' (means your hands are ok, then why to use indicators..!!).. I was stunned and there after never used indicator (to be true.. after this incident i never used the bike.. !!). Nalla kelupuraangaiya beedhiya...!!

Another interesting information I heard was, that oflate traffic police are so vigilant and strict in catching the offenders of not using the helmet for two wheelers. It seems if a person rides a bike without helmet the penalty is only Rs.50/- where as if a person has a helmet and if he does not wear while riding his bike the penalty is Rs. 100/- .. enna kodumai saravanan idhu.. I am not sure of the authenticity of this information.. Utkaarandhu yosipaangaloo...!!

The crowd for purchasing the train ticket was lengthier than the number of coaches in 2 electric trains!!.. No improvement at all in this issue..!! I felt this huge crowd might encourage lots of illegal (without train ticket) passengers in the electric train..

The great vettri and rakesh theaters remains same. I happened to watch (unfortunately!!) the tamil movie SURA in vettri theater. It was the very first week of this movie got released and to my surprise I got the tickets in the counter (totally empty..!!, the ticket issuer was all alone .. looking so sad..!!). Once I went inside and saw the movie I then realised the reason behind the ticket counter being empty..!! Also I co-related the dailogue of SURA after watching the whole movie... "SURA padam paarkkaradukku munnadi nalla yosichukoo.. yena padam paartha appuram konjam kuda yosikka mudiyaadhu".. aaavvvv... I became speechless until home after exiting the theater..!!!

Few of the old characters (shop people) recognised me and I had a brief chat with them too..

These were few of the recent updates about Chromepet. I shall narrate more in the coming posts..

I hope by this time the heat might have reduced to some extent in Chennai. Beat the heat (summer) with Thayir sadam... Njoy this blog post about thayir sadam: Courtesy Mr. Badri

http://chinnuv1.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/thayirsadham-oru-varaprasadham%e2%80%a6-rusi-kandavarrkkutagline

---vartaa..

My First Experience of Original Tirunelveli Halwa

2010-05-25T04:48:00.000-07:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay....

I hope all are fine and busy with their own routines. Summer is at its peak every where in particular at Chennai. I some how managed to visit during the peak Summer so called as 'Agni Natchathiram' (not the tamil movie..ok??) during May 2010. As a result we got nicely fried in the non-stop heat of the summer through out our trip. Just to cool us, before our departure we were able to experience the heavy rain fall in the name of cyclone 'Laila'. That was really so nice to enjoy the thunder and the heavy rain in chennai that too during May month..

We also managed to visit so many places during our trip to Chennai. I would like to share my experience of one of our trip, that is Tirunelveli. The main agenda of our tirunelveli trip was to visit a family temple near a place called seranmahadevi (now they call it as seranmadevi..). We had a pleasant & comfortable train travel from Chennai to Tirunelveli. We have planned and arranged the things very well before our travel to tirunelveli. So every thing went on well during our entire travel.

We visited few tourist spots like Famous water Falls 'Kuttralam', 'Pabanasam', 'Agasthiyar Falls' apart from en route temples like Nellaippar, Kailasanathar etc., To our disappointment there was very little water falls in kuttralam. But we thoroughly enjoyed a detailed bath in agasthiyar falls. We were told that this agasthiyar falls has abundant water through out 365 days. I cant put in words of the joy we had in this falls.. Amazing.. When ever some one visit tirunelveli never miss to have a shower in this falls.

The high light of the entire tirunelveli trip consists of two things. One is the visit to the family temple 'Kallur' Sivan Temple which is on the banks of the river tamira barani. Excellent temple to visit. The idol of shiva is a 'swayambu' (Swayambu = originated of its own.. not man made idol..) and this temple is just 1500 years old. Great sculputres and fantastic divinity through out the temple. We were told by the priest that this particular shiva temple is second in number in the Nava Kailsam (Nine shiva temples) and also this is the one and only temple where Goddess Parvathi resides on the right side of Lord Shiva in the temple. This is the very first time I am visiting this temple and thoroughly felt the divinity of the place. Memorable experience.

The second high light was the famous tirunelvi halwa which is sold in the popular so called 'Iruttu Kadai' (Iruttu Kadai = Dark Shop; less lighting..!!) This shop is located just in front of the famous nellaippar temple. We found more crowd in front of the shop than the temple. So we also joined in the Jyothi and became one among the crowd. It seems this shops opens only in the evening at around 6.15 and closes exactly at 7.45 likely. We bought smaller quantity of halwa and tasted at the same time. Wonderful taste. What a moment was that.. Original Tirunelveli Halwa... that too in front of the shop which is the authenticated seller of this famous halwa and also we were served hot halwas in plantain leaf... Then we filled our bags with sufficient quantity for our chennai consumption as well as distribution for our relatives and friends..

So far I was very nicely given 'HALWA' (bulb!!) by so many people... This is the very first time I myself got the original halwa of my own..!! I am sure many of you might have got nice halwa (bulbs!!) from several of your friends etc.,!!

Apart from this two high lights there were several nice experience during our tirunelveli trip. I shall try to share it with you in the future posts..

vartaa....

Hoteloooo Hotels...

2010-02-15T01:55:00.000-08:00

HOTELS IN CHROMEPET

Vanakkam Nanbargalay... I am sure many of chromepetians might have heard (even visited..!!) and began to exult about the recent developments in chromepet. In particular the upcoming of restaurants in chromepet. I am very much delighted to hear the news about the latest arrival of hotels in chromepet.

I have already written in my earlier posts, that a good hotel is really a curse for chromepet in particular Radha Nagar. Almost nearly for the past 15 years I have not seen any good vegetarian hotel in and around Chromepet. Now the time has come and chromepet is blessed to have good standard hotels.

During my recent visit to chromepet, I happened to have my breakfast in Balaji Bhavan. This hotel is located just few meters away from Vaishnava College Railway gate. I found the food very tasty and I thoroughly enjoyed my breakfast in detail. Also the response (Crowd) was too good, by which I had a feeling of having food somewhere in a hotel in T.Nagar I am sure many of you might have tasted and already given your ratings for Balaji Bavan. I really cannot even guess that how many of you will join hands with me in complimenting the food taste of Balaji Bavan.

The talk of the town in chromepet during end of year 2009 was all about the great Namma Veetu Vasanta Bavan restaurant. Until the opening of Vasanta Bavan in Chromepet we all used to go to Tambaram to have a quality food at Vasanta Bavan. But now chromepet is lucky enough to have this hotel in the prime location of the GST Road. I still not have tasted the chromepet vasanta Bavan food, but assuming they keep up their standard similar to their outlet in Tambaram. But I heard that we need to wait a long time to get a seat in Vasanta Bavan, that crowded..!! is this true?

Wow, more good news are on the way in chromepet with respect to the opening of hotels. Now Adyar Ananda Bavan also have opened an outlet in GST road, if I am not wrong, some where near the great Vettri Theater.. Amazing.. I have tasted once in Adyar Ananda Bavan in Tambaram and I found the food tasty.

So now our GST road is become a hot spot for choosing a variety of taste and restaurant. No doubt chromepet is all the manner competing with T.Nagar by having all kinds of outlets. I hope in the near future let Saravana Bavan too have an outlet in our Great Chromepet.

The most important and joyful news is that Radha Nagar now fortunate enough to have a good vegetarian hotel, that too in the most famous street.. 'Bharathi Street'. Thanks to the VSP and their contribution to Chromepet and Radha Nagar. The VSP super market is a big hit among the chromepetians.. Yes all the items are available and the display, customer assistance is perfect. I am sure the VSP will reciprocate the response of its customers by expanding and providing more customer friendly environment with their super market.

The new VSP hotel is located in Bharathi Street just above the VSP Super Market. So far I have not received any information about the quality and taste. I am just waiting for it.

So what more proof is required to show the world, that chromepet is booming and becoming like a Texas of Chennai.. In the future, Chromepet will be much more a better place than T. Nagar to have all the branded outlets.

but still I have a soft corner and sympathy to our long serving Bhajji Kadai Nair and Bonda Rao in Radha Nagar, station Road. They are popular in their own style.

Tail piece : During my recent visit, I also witness the MTC Bus Route number 52E services resumed. Yes, again the Bus Service between Nemilicherry and Broadway by route number 52E has resumed. Thats another good news. Thanks to the people who really put their effort to resume this bus service. I hope more frequency and more new services will be introduced in the near future.

In short, I AM PROUD TO SAY I AM FROM CHROMEPET.. TEXAS of Chennai..

The only draw back in chromepet, in particular Radha Nagar is the Railway Gate. Even a great astrologer cannot predict the subway or flyover possibilities in Radha Nagar.

- vartaa..

2010-02-12T04:53:00.000-08:00

TEAM INDIA

Hi all.. Wishing you all a Very Happy New Year 2010. So far the year 2010 looks good other than few natural disaster like Haiti.

Now let us now dance down the track... A Straight Drive.. Yes, without any more clues I wish to say something about Cricket, in particular TEAM INDIA and their performance in the recently completed first Test Match agains South Africa. I was controlling myself so much in posting something about cricket, but this time I cannot hold any more my frustrations and anger over our TEAM INDIA and their poor performance in the 1st Test Match between South Africa.

So many questions got triggered in my mind, once we lost to South Africa in the 1st Test Match last week. More than any thing I was so upset that Badrinath wasted a golden opportunity to prove his skills. Finally I came to a conlusion ( this is the only way I consoled myself..) we badly missed 'THE WALL'.. Mr.Perfect, Dravid.. No doubt he is a legend. TEAM INDIA badly missed Dravid, for sure he might have played a major role and would have changed the entire fate of the 1st Test match.

I would like to list out few of my suggestions to TEAM INDA for this second Test Match. I will be happy to receive all your comments for the below listed suggestions... Finally I decided not to make this post so serious (not worth...) talking about TEAM INDIA performance, so trying my best to blend it to bring out in a lighter manner.

1) Better, TEAM INDIA to hire some talented players from Australian Team to play in the 2nd Test Match against South Africa.. Hope for this Mr. Lalit Modi will be of great help to TEAM INDIA.

But before we hire players from Australian Team, we must make those players believe that TEAM INDIA is full of australian players and the opponent SA team is full of Indian players.. The main reason behind this is, as Aussies are already thrashing our Indian in the streets of Australia, as well they will do it in cricket field..!!!

2)TEAM INDIA always keeps up the motto.. Yes as we stand in the No. 1 Spot in the Test Match Rankings (SINGLE DIGIT), so we got defeated in the 1st Test Match against SA by Single Digit only, just 6 runs..

3)TEAM INDIA to bid and hire Amla, Kallis, Steyn from SA Team for the 2nd Test match.

As Amla is of Indian origin, and hence there should not be any problem in this decision..!!

4)TEAM INDIA was far better than South Africa in the recent 1st Test Match. Because South African Team was dare enough and also capable of batting only once against Indian Bowlers, whereas TEAM INDIA played twice, - continuously.. epppuddddiiiiiiiiiii..

5)First and foremost our TEAM INDIA bowlers cannot bowl swings.. how can we expect reverse swing.. Probably we should train the Indian fast bowlers to run in reverse (backward) and then try to swing the ball.. Should try this in 2nd test match..

6)If any of the South African bowlers takes 2 wickets against TEAM INDIA in the second Test match, the umpires should ban those SA bowlers from bowling for the entire remaining match.

7)Last but not least.. When ever our Master Blaster scores a century (100 runs) our TEAM INDIA losses. No problem, one more record for Sachin and one more feather in his hat..!! I guess because of Sachin's continuous records and so many feathers in his hat, our TEAM INDIA has now become a 'FEATHERLESS CHICKEN'.

Sachin got out the very next ball he scored his century in the 1st test match.. Very dedicated guy.. On Personal Front..!!!

As usual, let us keep our fingers (if possible hands too..!!) crossed and watch the 2nd Test Match between TEAM INDIA and South Africa at Eden Gardens, Kolkata from 14th Feb 2010.

It is sad to note that this global recession has badly affected our National Game, Hockey too.. yes TEAM INDIA (hockey) is still pending of their dues..

-- Varataa...

Nobel Break

2009-11-01T03:11:00.000-08:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay.....

I hope every one of you might have celebrated diwali in grand manner. Belated Diwali wishes to you all. Diwali is real joyous function and great moments to cherish through out the following days and months. The newly married couples (who got married prior to diwali that particular year) will have a special celebration during diwali and it is termed as 'Thalai (Head) Diwali in Tamil Nadu. As per me its only one year or that particular year diwali is the 'Thala Diwali for the newly married couples, but every year it is a 'THALAI Diwali for only one person in Tamil Nadu.. Can any one of you guess who it is...

It is none other than our Ultimate Star ''THALA' Ajith Kumar.!!!

Though traditionally Pongal is the main function of Tamil Nadu, yet Diwali holds equal or more importance with pongal festival. The pongal function went on well all these years and due to some sudden change to its fundamental by our great tamil nadu politicians, now there is a very big confusion among people when to celebrate pongal. Our politicians do not even spare the festivals..!!! ivlo Naal Nalla thaanaiyaa pongal festival poittu irundudu..!!! kelambitaangaiyaa.. kelambitangaiyaa.. Namma politicans edhaiyavadu summa ippadi kolluthi pottukiney irupaanga.. Namma makkulum semmaiya confuse agi, function celebrate panradaiyey vituduvaanga..!!!

There is only one major difference between Diwali and Pongal. I am sure many of you might have got the answer right now. The answer is ..... during Diwali we can eat pongal, but during Pongal we cannot eat Diwali..!!! idhu dhaan difference.

Along with this celebration mood and joyous moments, we take this opportunity to Wish and congratulate Mr. Venkatraman Ramakrishan for his Nobel Prize. Whole of our Country, in particular Tamil Nadu is so proud of Mr. Venkatraman. He has won this Nobel prize in Chemistry for his studies of the structure and function of the ribosomes.

Let us also wish and congratulate Mr. Barack Obama for his Nobel Peace Prize.

It is great achievement by Mr. Venkatrama Ramakrishnan. Recently I read a very good article about Mr. Venkatraman in tamil magazine and it was simply superb. I shall try to brief a few words about that article and I feel every one should read and should know the greatness of Mr. Venkatraman.

It was early in the morning, Mr. Venkatraman recieved a phone call from a lady who works as secretary in the Nobel Prize foundation office and informed him about his Nobel Prize. Mr. Venkat could not blieve this phone call and thought that was some pranks played by some one. Then he rang up the top level people in the Nobel foundation and then it came as a surprise to him that he has won the Nobel Prize for sure. Being morning hours, his wife had been for a walk and there was no one for Mr.Venkat to share this joyous news. His sister and family along with his father were residing in USA, but since it was sleeping time for them, Mr. Venkat dropped the idea of calling and disturbing them with this news.

Later he took his bicycle ( he does not have car it seems.. even to commute to his work place he used bicycle only.. ) and then located his wife and shared this happy news. Though he was born in tamil nadu at his early age of 3 years he moved to karnataka as his father relocated there due to his employment. So all of the studies of Mr. Venkatraman was not in Tamil nadu, where as to his surprise and shock several people in Tamil Nadu started giving news in all the tamil magazines that they were the professor, teacher for Mr. Venkatraman. !!! idhu daan namma aalugangaloda speciality. Cycle gap la auto ootiduvaanga..!! Also several people started mailing to Mr. Venkatraman claiming as his relatives, though he has not even heard about their names in the past..!!!

Then the local television arranged for an interview with Mr.Venkatraman, where his lovely humbleness got revealed. This entire interview shows nothing other than the greatness of Mr. Venkatraman.

Let me narrate about that interview details of Mr. Venkatraman in the future posts..

Enna friends, why there is no Nobel Prize for Blog posts???? Can any one find out and inform me..

-- vartaa...

2009-09-28T01:24:00.000-07:00

HAPPY VIJAYADASAMI

வணக்கம் நண்பர்களே .......
உங்கள் அனைவருக்கும் இனிய தசரா மற்றும் நவராத்திரி வாழ்த்துக்கள் நவராத்திரி பண்டிகை ரொம்ப நல்லா கொண்டாடி இருப்பீங்கன்னு நினைக்கிறேன். இந்த வாரம் நம்ம ஊரு இஸ்திரி கடைக்கு தான் ரொம்ப நல்ல வருமானம். வீட்டு பட்டு புடவை எல்லாம் ட்ரை வாஷுக்காக இஸ்திரி கடைக்கு போகும். இந்த ட்ரை வாஷ் செய்யற காசுக்கு ஒரு புது புடவையே வாங்கிடலாம். !!! இருக்கட்டும் இருக்கட்டும்.

எனக்கு தெரிஞ்சு நம்ம ஊரு புள்ளைங்க எல்லாம் ரொம்ப சந்தோஷமா கொண்டாடுற பண்டிகை இந்த சரஸ்வதி புஜை தான். அன்னைக்கு மட்டும் தான் நம்ம புள்ளிங்கோ எல்லாம் நைனா, அம்மா சொல்லற பேச்சை எல்லாம் அப்படியே கேட்பாங்கோ.. அம்மா, அப்பா சொல்ல முன்னாடியே புஸ்தகத்தை எல்லாம் கொண்டு புஜைல வைச்சுடுவானுங்கோ.. பாவம் பெத்தவங்க குழைந்தங்களை ரொம்போ நல்லவங்கனு சொல்லிடுவாங்க. நம்ம ஊரு புளைங்கலக்கு தினமுமே சரஸ்வதி புஜை தான். விளையாட்டு புள்ளைங்க. வராத படிப்பை வாவானா எப்படி வரும்?.......

நம்ம ஆம்பிளைங்க தான் பாவம். சும்மா ஒன்பது நாளைக்கு எல்லார் வீட்டு சுண்டலையும் துன்னுட்டு வயிறு நேஷனல் பெர்மிட் லாரி கணக்கா சத்தம் கொடுக்கும். அலாரம் வைக்காமலே விடிய காலைல எழுந்திடுவாங்க. இந்த ஆம்பிளைங்களுக்கு எந்த வீட்டு சுண்டல்னும் தெரியாது, என்ன சுண்டல்னும் தெரியாது. சும்மா மாவு மிஷன் கணக்கா தர சுண்டலை எல்லாம் வாய்குள்ளார போட்டுக்குவாங்க. அவங்க வயித்துக்கு மட்டும் வாய் இருந்தா சும்மா கெட்ட கெட்ட வார்த்தையா சொல்லி திட்டும். "என்னது இது சின்ன புளைதனமா இருக்கு.. பிளடி நொன்சென்ஸ்.."

இந்த பெண்கள் இரண்டு வாரத்திற்கு ரொம்ப பிஸி. எல்லார் வீட்டு நவராத்ரி மற்றும் பட்டு புடவை, சுண்டல் எல்லா விஷயம் பற்றியும் சும்மா ரொம்ப பேசி ரொம்ப அலசி அலசி ஆராய்ஞ்சு ரிப்போர்ட் ரெடி செய்து விடுவார்கள்.

Anyways these 9 days of Navaratri unites lots of people இன் particular ladies and keeps a good environment all over.

வரட்டா.................

UID's....Appreciable Adaptation

2009-06-28T07:36:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

Finally, I decide to break the shackles of dormancy with this post. Since so much has been said and discussed about Chromepet, I thought of jumping into totally different topics to write about.

There was a discussion between me and my roommate about a news article published a couple of days back [http://ibnlive.in.com/news/nilekani-quits-infosys-to-head-govts-unique-id-project/95681-3.html]. It was about the implementation of a new system called Unique Identification cards (UID's) by the Govt. of India.

As the news post claims, by employing this UID, each and every citizen of India can be taken into account and can be acknowledged for his economical and educational status and else more. It will be one of the most appreciable adaptation by India, of the already successfully existing system called Social Security Number (SSN's) in United states of America which accounts for each and every individual who earns taxable dollars. I feel that, rather than just westernizing in culture, which we should not have done, adaptation of infrastructure and governing schemes of developed countries should be given importance to put India on fast track to become a developed nation.

The best part of the discussion we had on this matter, is on what benefits it would serve on a future prospective just other than serving as yet another identification card. I felt it very interesting to share it here.

Once this UID's are implemented, as promised it will "count and account" for each citizen of India of his/her economical and educational status. If that happens, the Govt. of India should be able to identify and classify different sections of the society on a economical and education basis. If we can do that, then we can focus on employing reservation for different sections of society based entirely on economic status which many of us would highly recommend and strongly wish for.....Of course, it is easier said than done, but still its the thought that counts most. A good thought is half-work done and rest is only about execution.

[Thought courtesy - to my roommate Pradeep]

Regards,

Rajesh Subramanian

"YOU ARE THE MASTERPIECE"

2009-06-28T02:31:00.000-07:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay..

Thats nice to see another post with in a short interval. Recently I came acorss wonderful message, but unfortunately the Author of this golden words remains unknown. I felt it is really worth to share with you. The words of this article are so inspiring and motivational. I hope you all will also have the same feeling after reading this. Njoy...

“You are a Masterpiece"

A plum once said, just because a banana lover came by, I converted myself into a banana. Unfortunately, his taste changed after a few months and so I became an orange. When he said I was bitter I became an apple, but he went in search of grapes. Yielding to the opinions of so many people, I have changed so many times that I no more know who I am. Now I wish I had remained a plum and waited for a plum lover.

Just because a group of people do not accept you as you are, there is no necessity for you to strip yourself of your originality. You need to think good of yourself, for the world takes you at your own estimate. Never stop down in order to gain recognition. Never let go of your true self to win a relationship. In the long run, you will regret that you traded your greatest glory - your uniqueness, for momentary validation. Even Mahatma Gandhi was not accepted by many people.

The group that does not accept you the way you are, is not your world.There is a world for each one of you, where you shall reign as king / queen by just being yourself. Find that world... in fact, that world will find you.

What water can do, gasoline cannot and what copper can, gold cannot. The fragility of the ant enables it to move and the rigidity of the tree enables it to stay rooted. Everything and everybody has been designed with a proportion of uniqueness to serve a purpose that we can fulfill only by being our unique self. You as you alone can serve your purpose and I as I alone can serve my purpose. You are here to be you... just you.

There was a time in this world when Lord Krishna was required and he was sent; a time when a Christ was required and he was sent; a time when a Mahatma was required and he was sent; There came a time when you were required on this planet and hence you were sent. Let us be the best we can be. Don't miss yourself and let the world not miss you.

In the history of the universe, there has been nobody like you and to the infinite of time to come, there will be no one like you. Existence should have loved you so much that it broke the mould after making you, so that another of your kind will never get repeated.

You are original

You are rare

You are unique

You are a wonder

You are a masterpiece... your Master's piece.

Celebrate your Uniqueness.

- Author Unknown.

Enna nanbargalay, I am sure you all might have enjoyed reading the above.

Good, have nice time.. Shall come back with stunning post soon.

- Vartaa...........

Most Costliest thing in India.......

2009-06-21T03:47:00.000-07:00

Vanakkam Nanbargalay.........

I hope every thing is going good for all.. Once again sorry for the delayed post. This delays are becoming unavoidable. I guess I am too much maintaining the IST (Indian Stretchable Time..!!) Anyways, better late than never..!! enna solareenga?

So many results have been disappointing for most of the people since the month of May 2009. Yes, it started from Election results in India, followed by IPL ( My fav. Chennai Super Kings lost..!!) such a pathetic defeat for CSK in the semi's, followed by T20 World Cup failures by indian Team.

Fine, this is the moral of the life.. There will be ups & downs in life.. Last year we enjoyed the T20 Victory, this year let us be happy thinking that one of the Asian country is going to win the trophy. This is how we have to console ourselves and move ahead..

Oflate Dhoni is too busy with his Advertisements.. mmm. Indian cricketers are the richest sports people in this world.. I was controlling myself so much not to write anything about this cricket, but I am sorry, I could not stop myself from talking about our indian cricket. Our Indian Cricketers are the best example for this saying " Strike while the Iron is hot".. Earn as much as you can when you are popular..!! enna kodumai saravanan idu... Money is every thing in this present world. irukattum irukattum..

Friends, as usual the introduction of the blog is no way connected to the content or the continuation now..

I guess this month of june is considered to be the Fresh begining for almost all the people in India particularly. So many results in the month of May and June like Schools, colleges etc., Youngsters will start a fresh begining in their life either by entering into a school or college. Great moments.. Memories of School & College days lasts for long, never fades away.. Great..

As per me, June is a crucial month for so many. Drastic change of life for several. Rich becomes poor and the poor becomes bankrupt. Yes, it is true, continue reading further and I am sure you all will agree this point that June month changes several people lives.

I was so inspired by the lines written by Mahakavi Bharathiyar and which was nicely quoted by Mr. Cho in the Tele serial 'Engey Brahmanan'.. Some of the explanations by Mr. Cho is outstanding and as of now this Tele serial is marching with great success. I wish to blog in future some thing about this serial 'Engey Brahmanan' too.. But for the time being, here is the following Lines of our great Mahakavi Bharathiyaar..

I strongly feel only the owners of Educational Institutions strictly following Mahakavi's verses.. Yes every owner of the Education Institutions (either be school or college), particularly in Tamil Nadu see to that they give education to a poor person. If the person is not poor take as much as money from him in the name of Donation, capitation, building fund, and make that person really poor. This is how these people follow the verses of Mahakavi..

For even KG classes in a school, the fees collected is never less than Rs 25,000/- Cost of education is increased so much, does it reflect in the quality of the education or moral taught in the institution. For college admission just some lakhs.. Where is our country moving towards? Why no one (our great politicians) is bothered to raise voice on this. I know most of you will answer now, that many of the educational institutions are owned by these politicians.. mmm.. What to say now?

So now to summarise, this june month changes one's life drastically at this present commercial world. Hope you all agree with me now? Fine, let me conclude now and come out with more valid points to tackle this Costly education system in India.

ok friends... vartaaaaa......................

Chromepet My Heaven - Part VI

2009-05-07T02:11:00.000-07:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay....

For a change without having different introduction and contents, I will straight away enter into to the main topic.

Yes, I shall now narrate about the 2nd person by whom I was inspired by. I thought this is going to be a suspense, but one of the reader (Until today I do not know the identity of the person) has rightly guessed about the 2nd person.

The 2nd person is none other than the regular ghee vendor in chromepet, who comes in two wheeler. I remember he used to come in Bajaj M80, but now I think he is using TVS XL for his business roamings. Until now I do not know his name, we normally call him as 'Vennaikaar'..- means Butter Man..!! ( gosh.. it sounds like Super Man, Spider Man & HE Man..) Wow, that sounds good.. "Butter Man".. I am sure in the near future there will be a movie in this name "Butter Man" either in Hollywood or our great KoliWood (kodambakkam naina..!!).

This Butter Man sells ghee/butter on door steps at every house that too on credit basis. As per me he does this business more than 25 years now.. Though his children are well settled in US & UK, he still continues his ghee selling business until today. As usual when I enquired him why he is still roaming in hot sun for this business and even suggested him to open a shop and appoint some boys to do the door sales. He humbly replied that he is presently very well settled only because of this business and not willing to give up this business and to sit idle at shop or home.. Like wise there are so many legends in our great Radha Nagar, the list is endless..

There is a popular belief among this Butter Man's Customers that he mixes some quantity of Dalda ( Don't you know Dalda?? - oosi Mani, Paasi Mani samiyow..!!!) to the Ghee. Because of this the real Fragrance and taste of the Ghee is lost. I don't know whether this discovery & result by the ghee customers are true?.. But as he sells for Credit, I feel this Ghee and Butter will also emit Fragrance only on credit basis.. So when ever the Fragrance of the Ghee comes we should smell nicely and preserve, use it while having food..!!! enna, romba nalla ideava irukaaa??

During my last visit to chromepet I happened to see one more personality.. Mr.Narayanan who delivers Aavin Milk packet at door steps for the past 30 years.

Similarly there are various interesting personalities in chromepet. There is one more lady in the station Road Who sells lemon in front of a big commercial building. I guess when this commercial building was inaugurated the owners of this building would have purchased Lemon from this same lady to tie in front of the entrance to get rid off the bad omens..(Drishti kazhika..!!) But this owners never know that this building will be bought by this lemon selling lady at later days.. Yes, that is what happened. Idhu Kadhai alla Nijam..(Not Story but truth).

I shall say about this Lemon matter in the future blogs..

---- Vartaaaa.

Chromepet My Heaven - Part V

2009-03-31T04:59:00.000-07:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay.............

I hope things are going good for every one.. I guess people in India will be the most busiest beings in whole of this universe atleast for this month and April. The reasons are obvious March 31st year ending operations for several firms & people apart from this our great LS (I strongly have a doubt.. is it "Loot Sabha" or Lok Sabha??) Elections are gearing up in matter of 12 days..

Due to various reasons, I am not contesting this election for the Prime Minister Post..!!! ( I guess no extra jokes required for this post apart from this single Line..!!).

As usual the introduction of this post is no way connected to the main topic... I shall continue my earlier post (Chromepet my Heave - Part IV).. following are the lines from the earlier post..

Apart from this, I am very much inspired (even now) by 2 people of RN... I don't know how many of RNs remember and recognise these 2 people.. Come on .. Now start your guess...

Now the Continuation for this Post............

Just adjacent to the A.G. Hospital, at the corner of the road, we can notice a small tender coconut selling shop. Yes, this is one of the person, by whom I was very much inspired by. As per my knowledge this person is doing this same job for continuously almost 25 years. I really don't know since when he is in this business apart from this 25 years. If you immediately come into a conclusion by saying to yourself,what is the great deal in doing this business for more years.. I am sorry your judgement is really wrong..

When ever I am in chromepet I never miss to drink the tender coconut from his shop. As a practise during my last visit to Chromepet I went to his shop to have a tender coconut. I was casually talking to him and asking about his son's whereabouts. His son was 3 to 4 years senior to me in my schooldays. If I am not wrong the name of the person who sells this tender coconut is Mr.Thangam. He then replied that his son is employed with HSBC Bank in Singapore as some IT Head position. Out of surprise and curiosity I immediately put a question to him then why continuing this same job of selling tender coconut rather than taking rest at home. He then replied, that his son is in this position because of this tender coconut business and this shop gives complete satisfaction of hard work and sincerity. I was really moved by his humble reply.

I felt his words were more sweeter than the taste of the tender coconut. Still there are some good people who rely on hard work and sincerity. Great.

Fine, now its all your turn to keep guessing about the second person in Radha Nagar, by whom I was so much inspired...

While talking about Hard work and sincerity, I feel its all not applicable in this present time. I wish to ask the exact meaning of this two words 'HARD WORK' & 'SINCERITY' to our Tamil Nadu Politicians that too during this LS Elections. I am sure there will be definitely one answer from all our great politicans that, they all know about Lipton and Nayyar kadai 'T' ("Tea") and nothing about 'Sincerity'.!!!

Only GOD HAS TO SAVE INDIA FROM ALL THESE POLITICIANS..

---- Vartaaaaa..

Nyabagam Varudhey....Sweet Memories

2009-03-26T12:27:00.000-07:00

"ஞாபகம் வருதே ஞாபகம் வருதே...

பொக்கிஷமாக நெஞ்சில் புதைந்த...

நினைவுகள் எல்லாம் ஞாபகம் வருதே..."

Hello Everyone,

I was hearing this song last week and that's when I got an idea for this post. Its all about sweet memories of the past.

As we all know, Change is inevitable. Only change can refrain from being changed...Alright, That's Philosophy! All of us can relate events in our lives to this philosophy at some point of time. One fine day, I started to wonder, how so many things have changed in Chromepet with time?

To be relevant to this blog, I thought of sharing some of my memories related to the school I studied...."The Robert Matriculation School" of Chromepet. The good old school has undergone so many changes through its existence and based on what I heard recently, the school itself is about to go it seems, as a final change! I am not sure, how far this information is true? But if it is, then only memories remain!

If you had studied in this school, you would definitely miss it!! That's true with any school. I agree. If I compare the current condition of the school with the days when I studied, the school has definitely lost an important constituent, the "playground".

To start with, a small playground/parking lot that lie next to the school building....which lost its space to a small apartment complex. Next is the Big Playground near Nemilichery, which again has lost its space to a even bigger apartment complex. People like me who had played, fought, cried and almost enjoyed every bit of time on these playgrounds, can only relish the memories of these once existed spots in Chromepet.

Hope the school will remain for a while or else, a personal heritage site of mine will be missing forever!!

A Mini autograph...

Rajesh Subramanian

A Classroom Experience-Interesting Internationals!

2009-03-08T11:27:00.000-07:00

Hi Everyone,

I am very glad that, the frequency rate of blog posts is increasing. I hope, this rate will be sustained for a while. Also I am glad to know that there are few regular readers of this Blog. Thanks to all!

I thought of sharing one of my recent experience in an interesting classroom! It was an evening class after 5 PM. The class was a composite mix of internationals and native students. There were a couple of Chinese students, one from Germany, myself and a handful of American students.

It was a boring class that day. But, it looked like, the students had already came with their plans on how to spend their 90 minutes inside the classroom. As the professor started to lecture, students started to get in to their own world. Even I was so bored that day I started observing the students around. I was seated way back that day so it was not great deal to observe everyone in a small class with only 8-10 students.

There was a Chinese guy seated next to me who was enjoying his sleep so much that his Pen fell from his hand and he didn't bother to pick it. That's the Beginning. Then I noticed another student in front of me spending her time in art! She was drawing a cartoon with so much dedication! It was interesting because she was trying to make a cartoon of the professor standing and delivering lecture. I was trying hard not to laugh! It was a hilarious drawing. To my left, there was a German guy who started to sleep making himself comfortable by keeping a book for his head rest on top of the table. I was wondering, why I did not have so much freedom in my old school days? I don't think its common to have such a comfortable sleep in a class of 10 in India.

Then I looked little forward towards the first row of the class. There was an American girl sitting right in front and working seriously hard to try and crack a cross-word puzzle along with a cup of coffee. Really working hard...Isn't she? She was keeping the cross-word puzzle printout in-between a notebook and solving it comfortably as though she was constantly taking notes. Its a tough job!

There were a couple of students having a paper conversation(writing a conversation on a paper and passing it to your friend who will reply to it and pass you back the paper). I guess many of us would have tried this method in our school days. I used to enjoy it...! The last person sitting along side in my row was busy in text-messaging. I was just appreciating the limitation of Paper conversation.....!

Oh wait wait wait....!!

I did not tell you what I was doing all this time (Other than just observing...come on!! Is it not boring to just keep observing for 90 minutes?). This blog was born at that time! I took a piece of paper and started writing this blog. Later I gave some touch ups and presenting it to you now.

I can hear you all saying "Enna Kodumai Sir Idhu?"

OK OK....

I felt it as an interesting experience to share with.

Keep smiling,

Rajesh Subramanian

[I would also like to appeal to those interested readers to leave a comment/suggestions/arguments on the blog which will be exciting and would encourage the blogger to drop in more frequent posts!!]

Naan Kadavul - Aham Brahmasmi - Part 2

2009-03-05T04:16:00.000-08:00

vanakam Nanbargalay......

I shall continue my earlier blog about the film 'Naan Kadavul' and my views about it.

The lines from my earlier blog as follows :

First and foremost, I was able to grasp four main points after seeing the movie, they are :

TO LIVE THE PRESENT LIFE, AS HOWEVER IT IS
NOT TO REACT TO EVERY HAPPENINGS IN LIFE
REALISE THE GOD WITHIN EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIFE
HOW TO HAVE A 'DETACHED ATTACHMENT' WITH OUR RELATIONS IN OUR LIFE.

AHAM BRAHMASMI..............

Now The Continuation............. Instead making a lengthy blog, I thought of sharing my views about the above points through several blogs.

TO LIVE THE PRESENT LIFE, AS HOWEVER IT IS :

In life there are things which are in our control and there are lots of things which are beyond our control. While talking about things which are not in our control, in spiritual sense this will be termed as 'Fate' in English and 'Prarabda Karma' in Sanskrit. Nothing is going to change by merely brooding over the past or present sorrows. Few of the problems of self can be solved by means of brainy thinking or attitude but it is not the solution for all the problems. So just accept the life as it is and to live in the present rather than brooding about the past or imagining about the unknown future.

I asked God, 'How do I get the best out of life?'

God said,

'Face your PAST without regrets', Cannot change what has happened, so Forget it.

Handle your PRESENT with confidence.

And prepare for the FUTURE without fear !!

As we all would have heard these words frequently,

"Past is a History, Future is a Mystery, only PRESENT is the Reality, so always live in Reality (PRESENT)."

I consider the words from the song 'Maratha Vechavan' from the Tamil Movie 'Panakkaran' as the very best explanation to this point "TO LIVE IN PRESENT LIFE, AS HOWEVER IT IS".

I shall continue the other points shortly.

-- Vartaa....

Vendar Theater - Chromepet

2009-03-02T03:00:00.001-08:00

VENDAR THEATER - CHROMEPET

Vanakam Nanbargalay...........

I enjoyed reading Rajesh's ('kumural') sad story about watching movie in the very first row of Vetri Theater. I really don't know for how many years this theater is existing. I too have seen so many movies in vetri and Rakesh Theater. In fact I was also some times a victim of this First Row category.. So I guess this is the very first time Rajesh is watching a movie in vetri theater in First Row.. Come on, Rajesh.. cool.. don't worry.. Think positive, that you are the first to watch the movie and what ever remaining you allow only others behind your 'FIRST ROW' are watching.. (Actually this is how I convinced myself when I was victimised.!!)

Once I remember I was the first person in the ticket counter in Vetri Theater. I think that was our Captain's (Not M S Dhoni..!!) , vijayakanth's movie. The movie timing was noon 12.30, but I was there in the counter since 11 AM and at times I shed a proud view watching people standing behind me.. But that time I never knew that later every others will watch me with pity..!! Yes, this happened for sure.. The ticket counter opened at around 12.15, suddenly I felt my shoulders so heavy and then realised that people are walking on my shoulder from behind. I was standing at the same place where I was from 11 AM, but people were getting tickets from the counter easily by just keeping their hands inside the counter from my shoulder. I never got chance to keep my hand, forget hand.. not even my fingers near the ticket counter.. Finally after 10 minutes of this Shoulder journey except me every others standing behind me got the tickets and even marched proudly inside the theater. Within 5 mintues the ticket counter got closed with a sign board saying 'House Full'... I could not buy the ticket from the counter..!! what a shame after standing first in the counter.

I went with 2 of my friends who were laughing like anything seeing my plight and they were enjoying the whole scene than the real movie inside the theater. Finally we all marched sadly towards our house and sat quietly inside the house watching TV and by our presence we made our 'House Full'..!!!

So vetri theater is known for his black ticket stories..!!

The very best Multi plex theater in chromepet is 'Vendar' at Ganapathipuram. I don't know how many of you know this tent theater. Still I remember, exactly at 6 Pm every evening we can hear the Vadhiyar ('Puratchi Thalaivar MGR) song 'Acham enbadhu Madamaiyada..'. This is the indication that lights are on in the vendar theater. Only 2 shows in this theater, one at 6.30 PM and another at 9.30 PM. Thats it.. This is our 'PRARTHAN DRIVE IN' for chromepet.

The highest ticket was Rs 3.50 paise to sit on a steel chair and watch the movie.! The other rows are filled with wooden bench and the remaining front rows are filled with Sand. So in this Sand filled first row you can sit or sleep and watch.. Only thing you have to be careful of the frequent visitors 'Dogs' during the movie.. Otherwise such a comfortable row.

I have watched so many movies in this theater. I do not know whether this theater is existing still now. Can any of you reading this blog inform me about this?

ok friends, That is all about vendar theater at the moment. Though I have got some more things to write about Vendar, but preserving it for my future blogs.

- vartaaaa........

Vetri Rakesh Theatre - A Forgettable experience!

2009-02-26T13:27:00.000-08:00

Hello Everyone,

I would like to share a recent experience I had with this theatre which I consider a forgettable one. Every chromepettian who had lived for a few years in Chromepet would be very very familiar about this theatre. The theatre is one of the oldest in the locality and has been very active and popular among the people of Chromepet over the years. Among the youth, this theatre is an icon of chromepet. Right from Superstar to Little super star, they have some fan club or the other fencing the theatre with Name boards, Posters and Hoardings. I agree that I was also once a regular visitor to this theatre. No matter what the ticket price is...People still mob in. It is one of the biggest theatres too with a huge seat capacity compared to many city theatres in Chennai.

Alright, Lets come to the story line..

During my recent trip to India, I decided to go to this theatre to watch a movie named "Padikadhavan" along with my brother and his friends. One of my brother's friend waited in the queue for almost an hour to get tickets for the movie. He waited so long and gladly in the end, got the tickets for all. It needs a great deal of patience and tolerance to get tickets in the counter in this theatre. The ticket stub said the ticket was sold for Rs.8 but the ticket was charged Rs.100. This is not unusual. This is one of the so many notoriusness that the theatre was famous for. Something like A/c which was just a print sake thing in the ticket. The tickets had a seat number on it but my brother said it does not matter at all in this theatre. I was wondering why then they have it?

Finally we got into the theatre and were looking for the seat numbers since we were told at the door that we got to sit according to the seat numbers that day. I was glad that at last they were following some rules in this theatre. We had tickets numbered "FF", whereas the row started from row A and going down all the way to row Z. We thought that it was written "FF" by mistake, so we took the seats in F row. After a while, there were some people claiming the seats to be theirs. We were arguing with them and finally the theatre guy asked both of us to show the ticket stubs and then we were asked to look for our seat numbers in the front. One of my brother's friends walked to the front and then came back saying he did not find the rows AA's or BB's. Then, I started walking all the way to the front and I noticed row AA starting after row Z and the followed it all the way to finally find out that "FF" was the first row of the hall right in front/below the screen. We six people were seated in the first row of the Hall. We knew that it was going to be a arduous deal. It became almost impossible to sit there when we realised that, the mega speakers were on the sides of our row.

It was a horrible experience to watch a movie paying Rs.100 and sitting in the first row. It was the first time experience for me to watch it sitting in first row. In the break, we realised that some of my brother's friends who came very late seated in the last rows below balcony. When we were talking to them, they told us that they got black tickets. Then I realised the fact that, tickets sold at the counter are for the seats that are in the front and black ticketers have the best ones. A revolutionary business strategy!!

After realising that, I felt even more uncomfortable to sit and enjoy the movie. If anyone who gets into this kind of uncomfortable position goes to that theatre again, he/she would obviously go for the black tickets which is just Rs.10 or 20 more, rather than standing and waiting at the counter for such a long time. This is what the theatre management also expects.

Enna Kodumai sir idhu?

Rajesh

Naan Kadavul - Aham Brahmasmi

2009-02-24T03:34:00.000-08:00

AHAM BRAHMASMI

Vanakam Nanbargalay.....

Hope every thing is going good for every one in spite of the so called 'Recessions' & Economy Crisis.. Thank you Rajesh for the exciting latest details about our Great Chromepet.. After reading your blog, I felt as if I have been to those places mentioned. I am happy to hear that the 'Historical' Bharathi Street in Radha Nagar is going to have hi-fi commercial Hyper Market from VSP.. Great.. Good. That tooo during this peak of recession & Global Economy Crisis...!!

Until the very first news I heard about the bankruptcy of some banks in USA, I have heard (realised/felt!!) the 'Economy Crisis' only at (my) home level. So When I started hearing this term for the very first time in Newspapers, it did not give me any surprise or shock, but later when this words 'Global Economy Crisis' captured the headlines frequently, then I realised the importance and seriousness of it.

So to say precisely the 'Economy crisis' which was at locally within every individual home has been Globalised now.. Any way leave it... There is no point in talking about this recession and bail out stories of millions and billions money involved, while we struggle to save every penny in our life term.!!

cool guys, I know few of you would have already confused that I have given a heading and also a picture which is no way related to this blog so far..!!! hahahaha....

I am not going to write paragraphs about Global Economy crisis, just want to share my views about the recent movie 'NAAN KADAVUL'.. Fine, before I continue my views, I shall try to relate this movie to Global Economy Crisis... I really don't know the exact budget spent for this movie, but the costumes of the Hero 'Arya' reflects exactly the 'Global Economy crisis in every single scene of this movie... [apaadaaa.. some how I made a relationship of the above picture with my introduction of this blog.. SHABBBAAAAAAAAA...!! :-)]

I am sure many of the people will not like this movie because of various reasons. But Somehow I liked the movie very much and I shall try to express my views for the liking.

First and foremost, I was able to grasp four main points after seeing the movie, they are :

TO LIVE THE PRESENT LIFE, AS HOWEVER IT IS
NOT TO REACT TO EVERY HAPPENINGS IN LIFE
REALISE THE GOD WITHIN EVERY INDIVIDUAL LIFE
HOW TO HAVE A 'DETACHED ATTACHMENT' WITH OUR RELATIONS IN OUR LIFE.

AHAM BRAHMASMI..............

I wish to narrate more about this in the future blogs rather than making this blog a lengthy one.

so will catch you all very soon..

I take this moment to Congratulate Mr. A. R. Rahman who has not only brought fame for our Country but also found a permanent place in the history of Indian Film Industry. What an achievement, great... we all Indians are proud of you Mr.ARR, keep up the spirit and continue your dedicated service to the Music Industry. The Humbleness and the composed looks of A.R. Rahman, apart from his dedicated hard work has brought a life time reward to him at this young age.

ok nanbargalay............

- vartaaa.....

Latest on Chromepet

2009-01-29T09:02:00.000-08:00

Hi Everyone,

Wish you all a Happy New Year....2009! A Late wish, though the Latest from me...(Thalaivar paanila).

Thanks Kasi for your timely blogs, A Finisher(2008) and a Opener(2009), both on the rocking style of your own!

Vanakkam...Namasthey...Ni hao!

Dont get puzzled! Ni hao = Hello/whats up? in chinese!

Oru change venumla...! Evlavo panrom idha panna maatomaaa!

OK OK...

Before you close the page, I would like to say what I wish to...

Oops! As a matter of fact, I don't have anything to say. But I want to say something.

Rombha confuse panren la....It happens, since I lost the blogging touch for a while.

OK...Matterukku Varen!

I just got back from India (a month ago). So with the memories still very fresh in my mind, I was wondering why not to write a blog on something related to that...?

So, Here we go...!

The moment I got down from the plane and entered the Airport, I screamed within myself "Namma Chennaaaaaiiii.." in great ecstasy. Manasukkulla Oru inampuriyaadha sandhosham. Engum Thamizh, Edhilum Thamizh..! A foggy winter morning greeted me with the sound of some kovil loud speaker.

Andha Build up oda, I got into a car to go to Chromepet. Car kulla oduthu Aahaa FM. Thats new for me. I knew only Radio Mirchi and Suryan FM. So I got a small hint that things have changed a bit from the time I left. Another Big surprise was the completed flyover right in front of the Airport. When you reach the top of the flyover while driving, you get to see a nice scenic overview of the entire runway and all big beautiful planes waiting for the take off and Landing. It was great, but I was surprised/shocked to see how crazy people are to see flight operations? They stop their vehicle completely on the shoulder of the flyover, that too on right on top, and get down from the vehicle to watch the flights take-off and land as If they were on a view point of some tourist location. I am not exaggerating at all. I am describing just what I really saw. Police constables were standing on the flyover to prevent people from stopping on top of flyover causing accidents.

Enna kodumai sir idhu?

Ok Nevermind. Back to the story....I was on the car listening to Aaha FM. As soon as I reached Chromepet, the first thing that caught my attention was the beautiful & wide tar road of Radha Nagar Main Road. I have never seen it this wide at least in my recent memory. Next one to grab my attention was the "Vaishnava college Rail crossing". Railway gates still remain but people have found more than just one short way (Kurukku vazhi) to bypass the closed gate with Two-wheelers. That too nice and wide...You don't have to get down from your Bike to go past the Crossing. But the four-wheelers still remain cursed though waiting for their turn to squeeze in.

Don't have to say much about the recent modernization of Chromepet with Supermarkets, Textile Showrooms, and Chain restaurants. But the people of Chromepet (Makkals) are waiting with great expectations for this One Big Supermarket.......Adhu dhaan nambha "Vendhan Supermarket" I don't know for sure whether its going to be named "Vendhan". But all I know was, that It is to be Opened by V.S.P. and it is going to replace the existing "palasarakku" provisional store. Unfortunately I could not stay long to see the Opening of the store. But I saw that excitement in people to see it open soon. Its on the base floor of the huge maaligai (Bungalow) of V.S.P. on Bharathi street. I was able to sneak through the name board cover to see the caption for the supermarket saying "We Serve Pure"!

Some other important developments I noticed are these. Namma "Ramasubramanya Swami" Kovil (Ramasubramanya temple) was being remodelled and so it was closed. Some Kattumaana pani (building work) was going on the exterior. But the Big Talk was about the "Dosai/Idly maavu" kadai (Dosa/Idly batter shop) right opposite to the kovil that was making big business every day. Even I went to that shop a couple of times during my stay and had to stand in a queue to get it. Just two guys and a Grinder and they work (Both the men and the machine) non stop. Heard from my brother that they have couple more shops to0 in and around Chromepet which was also making a similarly big business.

Appadi ippadi Chromepet eh suthi vandaachu......Now lets move on to the climax.

Its about none other than our own.....Namma "Naayar Bhajji Kadai". I went there just once and only one of those two guys still remain there. The person who makes bhajji was still there but there was a new person for sales and Marketing.....(Pottalam kattradhu and customers kooda pesardhu) Its all because of those great sales and marketing skills of the previous Naayar in that post, that the Bhajji kadai has become dear to so many Chromepet makkals. So its not a easy job. New guy still needs some more time to get all those skills I guess. Namma old naayar is still doing great standing in that hot zone talking to customers and cracking jokes.

When I went there this time, I asked him about the other guy and his whereabouts. Naayar told me that they have opened a new branch in Nehru Nagar below the MIT flyover and it was taken care by the "Sales and Marketing" Naayar. Atlast they have expanded their business after so many years.....Adhaan "the special" news about "Naayar Bhajji Kadai" this time.

To sum it up, it was a great three weeks of time that I spent in Chromepet.....

Back with another interesting post soon......!

Until then,

Regards

Rajesh Subramanian

Break No : 5

2009-01-27T02:53:00.000-08:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay...

I am happy to catch you all with this one.. I know there are 2 continuations pending to my earlier blogs.. and now its the time to reduce it to one...

Here are the lines of my earlier blog, (from "Commercial Break : 2")

'Yen Crackers noice eppadi kurainju pochunu theriyalaiyemaaaa..' (Try to say it in Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan Style..) and keep guessing the reasons for yourself.. I shall say you the exact fact behind the use of less crackers for this diwali.. You will be surprised, even some of you may be shocked to hear that..!! I bet..

THE CONTINUATION STARTS NOW...............

The reason for the use of less crackers during Diwali 2008 was because of 'GLOBAL WARMING'... I got shocked when I heard this from several people in chennai.. Immediately the words of 'Vadivelu' flashed on my mind.. "Utkarandu Yosipaangaloo', ellam nalla thanya poiturundudu'..........

Enna kodumai sir,Diwali function's main highlight is the crackers... if that is also stopped..?? I feel oflate all the people have started thinking too much.. even for smaller things.. They forget to Enjoy the Day, Live for the day, relax and get relieved from tensions... If this Thought process of people continues, I don't know where it is going to end..

I walked through a lane, where I could not even find a single cracker burnt in any of the houses there.. The whole lane was so silent and clean without the left out remains of crackers. The reason for this is again 'GLOBAL WARMING'. I then repented for stepping in that lane during a great day of Diwali.

If people are like this, I guess year 2009 Diwali will be celebrated without NEW DRESS, SWEETS, RELATIVES, and those set of people might say, all this is because of 'GLOBAL ECONOMY CRISIS'.... hhmmm.. 'ennama peedhiya kelaparaangaiyya..'

Let me conclude this with a lighter moment....

Once there was a big feast arranged in a house. It was exactly the time to commence the feast, so the mother (Host of the Feast) asked her little daughter to say a prayer before starting the feast.. The little daughter replied that she is feeling very shy to say the prayer in front of so many people and may forget the prayer lines.. But still the mother forces her daughter and ask the little one to say the words which she (mother) uttered during the day as a line of prayer...

Then the little daughter started saying that line of prayer said by her mother during the day "Oh... God, Why the hell these relatives are visiting my house for this feast, I have to do lots of work...."

Learn to Live for the day, Take the life as it comes, Maintain the Spontaneity of a child, Enjoy every moment of your life.....

---- Vartaaa...

Singara Chennai Tamil....

2008-12-30T01:46:00.000-08:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay...

Sorry for having a long pause in my blogs. Due to several domestic committments, I was not able to devote time towards computer.

I am sure every one might be gearing up to welcome the New Year 2009... I felt, by having a good laughter will be the apt way to welcome the New year, amidst of the sorrowful happenings in Mumbai during November 2008.

I whole heartedly appreciate and thank Vidhya and Rajesh for contributing and expressing their concern about the Mumbai disaster. Words are not enough to express my sorrow about the whole of the incident.

I take this chance to Salute all the Martyrs in the brave fight during November 2008. May the buried brave Martyrs be a seed for uprooting the ugly terrorism all over the world.

Fine, let us not sink ourselves more in grief by remembering the Mumbai incident now..

Let us laugh and relax, for a while and welcome the New Year 2009 now...

Madras -kkaaaran endru sollada !! Thalai nimirndhu nillada !!

The aesthetic quality of Madras Tamil comes from the fact that a classical (and old) language like Tamil is given that contemporary touch by the constructive intrusions from languages like Hindi, Telugu, Greek, Italian, Persian and most importantly English (naduvula konjam uttaks naina). As a result, the language may sound uncivilized, from the point of view of the Madurai folks, who seemingly say 'Vaanga..ponga..' even before 'veesing' the 'veecharuvaa' and the Coimbatore folks who add this sickening slur to every statement... and in their obsession with pure Tamil curb the unfettered evolution of the language, thereby leading to little or no development of the language itself. For instance, words like 'bejaar','peela', 'saavu graaki' have no sense and no equivalents in the Southern dialects of tamil. Certainly an inexplicable loss to Tamil Language!

Now, really getting into the mechanics of the spoken language, the most important point is the relative position of the lips while speaking. While most tamil dialects involve a cavity of 2 inches between the lips,Madras tamil involves a much lesser gap (0.5 to 1.2 Inches). Mastering the exact position is half the language learnt.

Assuming we're using flash cards,

Card# 1 : All words-more specifically, all verbs need to be consistently shortened adhering to a set of strict rules.

padithidu(read), mudithidu(complete), sabithidu(curse) will be gracefullyshortened as 'Pachchi', 'muchchi', 'sabchi'. Note the conversion of the syllable 'da' to 'cha'. This is essentially true for the entire gamut of emotions to be conveyed in Madras Tamil. 'kondirukkiren' is converted for simplicity to '...nikkeren'. As a corollary, 'padithu kondirukkiren' ' = 'pachchi-nikkeren' 'kulithu kondirukkiren' = 'kulchi-nikkeren', 'Utkaarunduko (Sit)' = 'Kundhikoo', 'Thindru Mudithu Vittayaa'?(Have you finished eating) = 'Thunnutiya', 'Jaladosham' = 'Jalpu'

Readers can understand immediately that this was done to save time, so that in the same period of time a Madras Tamilar can convey 1.5 times that of a Madurai Tamilar and 5,000 times that of a Coimbatore Tamilar (depending on the length of the drawl...like 'yaeeeeeeenunga?') One anomaly to this shortening rule is, some words get suffixed with the syllable 'ka'. So, summa = summaka, dhoora = dhooraka.

Card# 2 : Madras Tamil does not use 'neenga' and 'nee' in different contexts. In fact, only 'nee' is used. This is not a deliberate attempt to degrade someone in public, but to offer a level playing field for everyone. So if the auto-karan asks 'enga ponum, unakku?' do not feel offended.

Card# 3 : 'da' is used by ALL IIT guys and ALL policemen for quite different reasons. The tone of 'ennada, license enga, vootlaya?' and 'what da, where is the Item, da?' are self-explanatory. Incidentally, all words beginning with 'vee' can be unconditionally substituted with 'voo'. So 'Veedu' = 'voodu' and 'Vittuvidu' = 'vuttudu'.

Coming back to 'da', a euphemism for that would be 'ba'. So a 'ennada' would be made to sound much less offensive with 'ennaba'. Other less effective words, principally used among friends include 'naina','vaadhyaare', machi', 'brether'(brother), 'allo'(hello)... the list is endless. When it comes to expressing intimacy and friendship, Madras Tamil is the best in the world.

Card# 4 :'enna'(what?) in Madras is 'yeenaa?'. So, combining quations (2) and (5), (sorry ba, 12th Maths madhiree aaychee) 'yeenaa pachchinikkera?', 'yeenaa kachinikkera?'.

Card # 5 : The syllable 'zha'(as in tamizh) becomes 'ya'. So, 'vaazhai pazham' is 'vaaya payam', 'vaazhkai' is 'vaaykai', 'vazhukki' is 'vaykki'. Off the record, 'zha' is a pain in the butt. More than 95% of Tamil Nadu substitutes it with 'ya' or 'la'.

Card# 6 : When it comes to borrowing words from other languages 'Madrassukku nigar Madrasse'. English words can be used in any context without feeling alien. 'wrongu', 'rightu', Railway tasion, bridju, scooteru, 'yechusme, Madras Tamil - Worth Reading !! 'adjist','abase', 'abscond', 'beetiful', 'superu', 'fruitu', 'pil im', 'figureu', correet, tenshun, its alriteba, and so on. Hindi has its contributions like 'bejaar'. Telugu: 'naina', 'baava', 'eppudu', 'cheppu' etc.

Many such languages have their representations all of which cannot be listed here. Also singular and plurals in English are inversed. So, even one lady becomes 'ladees', one friend becomes 'priends', a vegetable puff becomes 'puphs' etc.

Miscellanious : Superlatives are mostly functions of time and fame. But some superlatives like 'Lord Labakdas' ,'Amrican citizen', 'Columbus', 'pisthu', 'pistha' can be used at any time, anywhere, guaranteed. The etymology of these words are unknown.

Slangs are very important in Madras. Especially while drunk, during 'kozha adi sandai' and in the 'paal booth'. 'saavu graaki', 'somaari', 'kasmalum' , 'keesuduven', 'bejaara puduva' can be used as and when required.

The best ever sentence I heard in chennai is this : 'Vara solla vutaanda oray mayai'.. Means while coming it was raining heavily near the house'... hhhmmmm.. How easily this is said in 'Singara Chennai' Tamizh...!!

DISCLAIMER : Tamil spoken at Ethiraj, Stella Maris & other notable women's colleges is entirely different and is beyond the scope of this article.

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2009.

- Vartaaa..

Vanakkam from Vidhya

2008-12-18T12:25:00.000-08:00

After a long lapse, I am in the blog mood today. Much things have happened these days, especially the horrible thing in India. It is quite embarrassing to face the fellows in the office here in the US when these incidents crop up. We have no answers except to watch our country taken over by politicians on one side and terrorists on the other side. Who is being punished? the public who does no harm to anyone, nor enjoying any comforts in their life....The rich gets richer, the poor gets poorer and terrorists get terrorizing.

The media,...well they really earned well in these incidents. Actually people like us are dummies. We do not make the government. The politicians manipulate us and make their way and make money and make their life better. Who cares about us? The media are concerned about rewarding their staff who brings very attractive stories. Who cares about good things? BTW, I wanted to remind one thing about the pathetic state of the medias when our Bharath Rathna, the divine Singer, M.S. Subbulakshmi passed away, all the news papers showed the photograph of the dead cadaver, blown up in the first page of their papers. Not a single news paper put the divine face of her as seen in her devotional song cassettes. When she died she was very old and aged. There is no need for showing the age when she is there in every house and in every heart. This is what the media do....they want to highlight the dark, the unwanted and the uglyness of every aspect of society.

Well, Bombay has always been 'Bomb'bay. True Rajesh, we are angry and helpless and we will remain that way for ever....I am angry about that too.

The past two blogs are serious because of the serious situation in India. My next blog will be about my greatest anger on the health insurance and health policies in the US. ..... Athuvarai Ungalidamirunthu Vidaiperuvadhu........Vidhya

Ulaga Nadappugal...Cont'd

2008-12-02T12:07:00.000-08:00

Dear Friends,

Hope everyone is doing good.....Especially the ones in India. People are still trying to recover from the shock. I was also very shocked of hearing the whole tragedy. I was following the news about this incident and the whole thing was portrayed like a action movie in some news channels which pissed me off. Initially I thought it was a bomb blast and then found the story developing into all sorts of twists and turns. The most annoying thing for me was the coverage of these incidents by the media especially one of the news channel which even played a kind of background score for all kind of situations like the action scene with the choppers and the rescue moments! To What extent do they go to make money out of everything? I was mad at that.

Then came these politicians to steal the show!! Media must be the only ones who would have been very glad because of all those resignations and sacking of politicians because the terror operation was over and they want something new to make news and these politicians gave food for their thoughts.....! I don't think these resignations would make a great deal of comfort to any of those shocked minds of the Public.

Bombay has become "Bomb"bay! Though am not living there, It made me feel sad and more angry at the situation of helplessness we are in. The last but not the least of these are the effects of these on our cricket tours and tournaments. It made me even more pissed off. Cricket is also hurt and bleeding at the moment.....as much as Taj and Oberoi was during the last weekend. Hope it recovers soon along with the Nation looking for speedy recovery.

Ulaga Nadappugal thodarum....

Chromepet Kanavugal - I

2008-11-24T22:15:00.000-08:00

Vanakkam Vandhanam Sushswaagatham.........

Naan dhaan...Naaaane dhaan...! Ungal R A J E S H !

Appapaa.....indha vara buid up ku evlo neram okaandhu yosikardhu!!!!

Ok Ok...Back to Business! Thanks to fellow bloggers for back to back super paced blog posts...!! Special thanks to Vidhya (akka..) for the compliments..! Also I enjoyed your cool post on Naayar kadai. Popularity for Naayar Bhajji kadai is far exceeding my expectations...! Keep it up. "Naayar kadai ku kasu vaangaama namma kudukara advertisement ku naayar nammakita life long Bhajji ku kaasu vaanga koodadhu..!" [Naayar should never charge a penny for us lifelong for the kind of advertisement we are giving for his shop abroad from Middle East to Americana...!]

This post is just a random collage of sweetest memories from my past in chromepet...

Story, Screenplay, Fiction, Action, Sentiment - RAJESH

After reading Vidhya's "adhiradi" post on Naayar's customers....I thought of taking it over from where she left and elaborate a bit more on chromepet youth's favorite timepass "hot spots"...! I can see the smile on the reader's face now (Ore Punnagai)....! cool kilu kilu topic nu nenaikareenga pola...!

Adhaan illa!

Pala censorgal pottu dhaan ezudharen....!

(To Reader's Notice: The Post below has passed censor test..!)

Naayar bhajji ya saaptu valandhavan...adhunalaaa..enakku therinja sila pala info kala kudukaren..!

I am still wondering on how chromepet youth selected Kumaran Kundram kovil padi (Kumaran Kundram temple foot steps) as one of the "top priority" spot to spend their "Oru maalai ila veyyil neram" and "Pon maalai pozhudhu" having great chats on almost all topics one can talk when they are young. I still remember how crowded the entire padikattu (the steps) would be on a nice evening time filled with islands of friends groups all the way from top to bottom. Its a great "relax" feeling sitting there talking with your friends enjoying the cool "breeze" passing you...admiring the "beauty" all over the place. [Beauty = Left to reader's imagination!]

"Kundrathile Kumaranukku Kondaatam...Padiyinile makkal kootam idamillaamal thindaatam..."

Eppadi...Ennudaya chinna kavidhai...? From the Flashback...!
Thaanga mudiyalaiyaa....?? Seri vudunga...!

Nevermind.

Next spot is this "gandhi statue" on the road side just a couple of blocks away from kumaran kundram on a junction point....I dont know how many would have noticed that one such thing exist...! We had a specific slot to stand there and talk....if we miss our time then it will be occupied by some other team...! The greatest joke about this place is that we came to know that it is a Gandhi statue almost only after 6 months though we used to chat standing right in front of it every evening....! Enna kodumai sir idhu..!

Adhellam oru kaalam...(Sentiment time!!)

I will come up with some other Hot "timepass" spots in following post...!

[Timepass = Reader's discretion]

Watchfully waiting for the reader's comments....!!

Vaarom saamiyo!!

Vidhya is back - special episode on Bhajji kadai...

2008-11-24T08:41:00.000-08:00

Nanbargaley....

Mannikkavum. (sorry) .....I have been busy traveling between my work and my family. Rajesh and Kasi are busy shooting blogs on classical music, world news and Nayyar Bhajji kadai....Great work guys....

Well now that we have started on Nayyar Bhajji kadai, I cannot stop myself to express my share of experience which many people do not know. In those days in Chromepet, women are not supposed to go and buy bajji from any of the road side shops. That is because, the customers of the shop are roughly of the adolescent age, young (slightly older) etc men. So since it is an association of men, they will be in a “gala” mood, probably the effect caused by the “unchanged oil” (just like the fermented alcohol in the aged wine).

Makkale, don't you think it is unfair.....Does that mean we young girls and women were not supposed to enjoy the bliss of eating the bajji.....? Definitely not. I have been a secret customer of that shop for years....and you cannot stop wondering its fame if I say.....my father (70 years) is still a customer of the shop....(whoever runs it now). I had secret agents who bought that for me.

This is also partly responsible for my weight today. I think there is some strong connection that runs far fletched across the Bhajji customers.......I am starting to wonder, why I fell in love with a man who has been spending more than half of his salary in buying bhajjis in the Nayar kadai....(across the A G hospital)....why I still maintain a friendship with Kasi, while I lost touch with fellows who deserve the same.....why I am getting to befriend and admire Rajesh...our new blog member....Now I am getting the answers.

This bajji kadai, probably is a birth place of many ideas....be it in science, politics, or techniques to attract women (sight adikkara techniques...). I am now thinking of donating some money to that shop to expand its service.....

Kasi, about Sudha's concert.......I am extremely happy that you all had a good time. There is nothing better than listening to such an uplifting Indian Classical music....that too from Sudha.....also I am unimaginably jealous!!!!!!.

Rajesh, don't despair with the remake of the tamil film. You should feel happy about one point. Now Indians have got the thought of making sensible films.....if not original but at least a re make.

This situation will improve.....slowly people will start making sensible, inspiring films.

It is true that lately tamil movies are enough to make a man/woman commit suicide. Or if you are miserable with your life, you can watch a typical useless action/absolutely stupid love themed tamil movie. Then you will feel much much more miserable than you were and feel better about your life....

See u nanbargale....will come back soon.

Vanakkam

CLASSICAL STORM HITS BAHRAIN..

2008-11-24T03:29:00.000-08:00

CLASSICAL STORM HITS THE ISLAND BAHRAIN... Smt. Sudha Raghunathan..

It was on 21st November 2008 - Friday at Bahrain Society of Engineers, Juffair an extraordinary non-stop continuous 4 hours classical treat was enjoyed by all the carnatic music fans of Bahrain.

The first appreciation and the heartfelt thanks goes to the organisers 'Indian Fine Arts Society' and ofcourse to all the generous sponsors. Splendind event provided by IFAS, which was in turn hugely welcomed and enjoyed by all the bahrain living music fans.

Smt.Sudha Raghunathan classical concert accompanied by Sri.Embar Kannan on the Violin and Sri.Neyveli Skanda Subramanian on the Mridangam. Before narrating much about the Classical Storm of Sudha Raghunathan, I would like to brief few details about the great Artist.

Brief of 'Padma Sri Kalaimamani Smt.Sudha Raghunathan'

Music Legend : Smt. Sudha Raghunathan
Initial Guru : Sri. B.V. Lakshman
Life time Guru : Smt. Dr.M.L. Vasanthakumari ( MLV)
Sudha Raghunathan's Education : M.A. Economics - Ethiraj College

Sudha Raghunathan with her divine voice drenched the audience for continuous 4 hours and as a reciprocative gesture, the audience too anchored their feet firmly and never moved an inch from their respective seats. I personally felt, it is the divine music of Sudha that has tied the audience and glued them in their seats. It is not that easy to get to watch an exemplary concert like this, that too for hours. To say precisely, the audience on that evening are really lucky people to enjoy the classical treat from Sudha.

As a traditional opening, Sudha started with a varnam, then the famous 'Siddhi Vinayakam' in Ragam Shanmuga priya, followed by the Gala song 'Endaro Mahanu', Sri.Thiyagarajar krithi in 'Sri' Ragam. This sparkling opening gave enough hint to the audience to be prepared for a gala treat from Sudha. The expectation of the audience was upheld rightly throughout the concert by sudha.

Not to forget to add a line about the excellent Sound system at the auditorium. I personally feel the sound system is the key motivator for any artist during their concert.

Apart from that, Sudha received an outstanding support from co-artist Sri.Embar Kannan - Violin and Sri.Skanda Subramanian - Mridangam. The divine Sounds from Violin and Mridangam was like a rhythmic sound of thunder during a Storm.. So altogether it was a grand feast (unlimited Dinner with (in) Desert..!!).

Then as center piece for the concert, Sudha presented a song in Ragam 'Bairavi' with detailed alapana. Sri.Embar Kannan rightly utilised every single chance to reveal his profuse talent and dazzlingly supported Sudha's alapana. Though there was a small pause during the concert for presenting the artists with Momento and to honour the Chief guests, but all these were acceptable being a part of any concert.

I guess Sudha was very much inspired with the set of audience and their support, so that made Sudha much more in upbeat mood to provide some more musical delights that evening. She sang all her famous masterpieces like 'Brahma Mukatey', 'Kurai Onrum Illai', 'Kanda Naal Mudhal', 'Vishama Kara Kannan', 'Jagado Darana', Madhava Murali (Bhajan). I am sure none of the audience that evening might have had their dinner, as their stomach and heart is already filled by the divine music of Sudha.

There was a loud of applause and laughter when Sudha sang the following lines in the song 'VishmaKara Kannan'.. I too enjoyed this and even laughed after returning home..

Please manage to read the same lines in Tamil....

Pakkathu Veetu Pennai Azhaipaan..,Muhari ragam paada solli vambuku izhupaan..

Enakkadhu theriyaadenral, nekuruga killi vittu vikki vikki azhumbodhu idhaney Muhari Enbaan................ Vishmakara Kannan...........

The audience were also amazed at the speech skill of Sudha. Great Vocabulary, timing and modulations... ofcourse, Sudha is from Ethiraj college, so needless to mention her mastering of language.

Above all, Sudha was persistent enough to accomodate all her loving audience to click photos with her and to provide enough of autographs too. I was also lucky enough to click a picture with this Music Legend and to have her autograph. Being my favourite number 1 singer, I was so happy to be present that evening for Sudha's Musical Feast, in addition to the Photograph & Autograph.

We, the Music fans sincerely pray to the Almighty to bless this Legend Smt. Sudha Raghunathan with healthy, prosperous, peaceful life and to continue her dedicated service to the carnatic field by achieving to the new heights which I feel will be the right 'Guru Dakshina' to Dr. MLV.

--- Vartaaa..

Enna Kodumai sir Idhu...!

2008-11-17T08:19:00.000-08:00

Hi and "Hello" to fellow bloggers and followers of this blog...Hope everyone is doing great.
Its been quite a while since my last post. I don't know whether it is a coincidence or a superstition that whenever I write a post for a blog I end up getting busy with my work routine making it hard enough to find time for a quick followup post.

Since blogger Kasi is currently writing really hot posts on "ulaga nadappu" - (World Happenings), Naanum ennala mudinja sila pala thagavalgalai sollalaam nu decide panninen. I recently saw a movie named "S-A-R-O-J-A". I was really overwhelmed with the plot and the screenplay of the movie and was appreciating the Director's novel storyline. But......Last week one of my friend told me that it is a copy of 1993 English movie named "Judgement night"

Enna Kodumai sir idhu.....

Happenings of the World - I

2008-11-12T23:39:00.001-08:00

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Mr. BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA FROM "MUD HOUSE" TO "WHITE HOUSE"

Vanakam Nanbargaley....

While considering the famous sayings 'Be A Roman when you are in Rome'.. Let me abide to that.. Since I hear all the people across the Globe talking about one person 'Mr. Obama', and I could not stop myself from writing something about him and the recent events.

Let us very briefly make ourselves aware of few details about Mr. Obama. Here it is....

Full Name : Mr. Barack Hussien Obama
Place & Date of Birth : Hawaii & 4th August 1961
Graduation : B.A. Political Science - Columbia University 1983
First Employment : M/s. Business International Corporation
Obama's Manuscript : 'DREAMS OF MY FATHER' released in the year 1995
'The Audacity of Hope' - Year 2006
Achievements : First 'African American' as President (44th) of USA
Fifth (5th) Youngest President for USA
Obama's Election
Campaign Punch Dialogue : "CHANGE HAS TO COME TO AMERICA"

I am sure not every one in India knows about Obama, in particular in the interior villages of Tamil Nadu. If some one from those under developed remote villages were questioned about 'Obama', I am sure the answer will be like this... " Engaluku aarusi, ravai upumaa theriyum.. idhu ennadu Obama??.. Inippaa.. illa kaarama..??. ( "We know about 'Rice' and 'Rava' Upama (famous Tamil Nadu instant breakfast), but what is this Obama???.. Is this dish 'Sweet' or 'Spicy'..?? )

I still remember reading some tamil magazine saying that people in few villages still believe that Ex.Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Mr. M.G.R is still alive.. So this is the condition of General Awareness in the remote village of Tamil Nadu. But I feel by the massive existence of Media (Television, Radio FMs..) now the situation are changing a bit..

I am sure even Mr. Obama would not have dreamt in any time of his life that he will be the President of USA.. Thats how life is.. Happenings of unexpected things.. The best local example for us is our great Super Star 'Rajini Kanth'.. (Who is that whistling there now..!!) Have he ever thought that he is going to rule the entire Tamil cinema industry.. He might have travelled in the foot board of bus, starting his life career as 'bus conductor'.. but now he can have as many as own Bus Transport Company..

I enjoyed the timely joke about our great Obama and the White House.. Here it is....

So by this joke we balance both the North & South India by sharing a joke each..!! and for the rest of the world, here is a joke....

OBAMA RELATIVES MOVING TOWARDS WHITE HOUSE.....

So from this what we discover friends, Never Ever Underestimate a person by his looks, living or talks.. Time is the deciding factor for any person to be on pinnacle in life..

So always think positive, hope and dream for the best and leave the rest to the time and God to decide..

- Vartaaa..

Chromepet My Heaven - Part IV

2008-11-06T03:25:00.000-08:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay....

Let me continue from my previous one...

"Just few steps from the hospital gives a superb fragrance of food.. both in the evening and morning..If some one in RN does not know this particular place, then they are not eligible to be in RN.. Whats that? Can any of you recognise. Keep guessing..."

Before I could narrate about the Great "Nayar Bhajji Kadai"... it was brilliantly said by rajesh in his blog.. Yes it is absolutely right.. the Great food fragrance is from this tiny shop.. we the RNs call it as ''Nayar Bhajji Kadai"... It was founded and run by a person who hails from Kerala and popularly called in RN as 'Nayar'.. But now the whole of the show (shop) is run by his sons.. (Like VGP, P.R & SONS.. Now it is Nayyar & SONS..)

I really liked the way that Rajesh explained about our Nayyar bhajji kadai and would like to Repeat it here. I strongly feel, that Nayyar should have kept Rajesh as his either personal advisor or financial Analyst.. For sure, Nayyar would have a chain of business if he has sincerely followed Rajesh's Idea..!!

Rajesh's Words:

Next big thing is "Nayar Bhajji Kadai" I have spent so much of my Pocket money (Chillarai's) buying bhajji in that shop that if Nayar had saved it properly he could have bought both Swagath and Joy Bakery and even could have developed colloboration with Iyengar Bakery. Naayar kadai holiday is a "Dry day" in my Bhajji varalaaru!!

I am sure most of the RNs are 'Adimai' to Nayyar's bhajji.. But as 'Change is Envitable' in any field.. now this Nayyar kadai is left behind in the competition by the introduction of 'RAO KADAI BONDA'..

Apart from the Fragrance & Taste of Nayyar Kadai items, I am very much inspired by the Sons hard work.. Yes, they are the Live example for any youngster in RN.. I personally know that one son is a graduate and he still works in the shop full time.. So to say precisely, No job is a shame or less importance in this world, if it is done sincerely, loyaly, without cheating, harming other people..

The Nayyar Kadai timings are like this, it is from 7 to 8.45 AM and then 3.30 to 7 PM.. Thats it.. But they make a very good business in this short time and not only fill their kitty but also the customer's stomach and Heart..!!

I recenly happened to visit Chennai and was surprised to see the Nayyar Kadai in the same place with slight touch ups, (little of straw ceiling..) otherwise everything was same.. (I hope the Oil is changed..!!) The customer has to stand in front of the shop and the required items (Evening Menu :Keera Vadai, Masal Vadai, Millagai, Onion, Potato - Bhajji,; MORNING MENU : Idli, Poori, Medu & Sambar Vadai..) will be served in a 'Thaiyyal Illai' (Stitched Leaves').. Thats it.. This is how our RN Nayyar Kadai touches the Heart of its customers..!

Apart from this, I am very much inspired (even now) by 2 people of RN... I don't know how many of RNs remember and recognise these 2 people.. Come on .. Now start your guess...

Enna Nanbargalay.. How was the Diwali celebrations?.. Sweets ellam finish aachaa or still nsoying those..!!

- Vartaaaaaaa.

Commercial Break - No.2

2008-11-05T02:44:00.000-08:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay..

Wishing you all a Very Happy Diwali...

I hope you all celebrated Diwali in a grand manner. For us (Me & My Family) this was a very grand diwali. The main reason for this grand celebration is, we were in Chennai ..!! with our parents this time.. Wow..!! We went to Chennai just for a week exclusively to celebrate Diwali there..

We went with all our nephews & Niece to T.Nagar just the evening before the Diwali(Dawn..) My God, what a crowd.. I will never agree even if some one uses camphor to promise (Karpuram adichu sathyam seiydalum..) that People in Chennai are not living comfortably..!! I myself witness people using 500 Rupees note to pay for their juice which costs Rupees 7. 'Enna kodumai saravanan idhu'.. Apart from this all are having hi-fi latest mobile.. I guess only mine was an antique piece of all the mobile in Ranganathan Street.

It took nearly 4o minutes for us to cross from one end of the Ranganathan street to another end. Enna kuttamda sami.. Thaanga mudiyala.. All the shops had equal crowd.. none is less.. including the pop corn outlet.. Then instantly I realised (in fact scared..!!) that India is 100 Billion strength.. Initially i was so scared to step and walk on ranganathan street, but then I also got myself drowned among the crowd (andha kottuthin jothiyil naangalum Iykiyam aayitom.)

We went to RMKV shop and picked dresses for our Nephews & Nieces.. then done shopping throught out ranganathan street and pondy bazar. What is not available in these streets.. Unbelievable.. even a hyper market will not have few of things sold in these T.Nagar Streets.. Then we went to the Great 'SARAVANA BHAVAN' and thoroughly enjoyed the food. Wow, started from 'Sambar Vadai'.. and continued.. continued.. Great time.. That too in Air conditioned Hall..!!! I still remember, in my child hood to go to a Air conditioned hotel is a big thing.. Even just passing by a Air conditioned hotel will be broadcasted in a very big manner among our friends circle. .. Adhu ellam oru kaalam..

While returning from T.Nagar to our singara chromepet, we decided to travel by Air conditioned Bus.. 'G18'. Enna AC effect, summa gummunu Speedaaah 20 minutes la chromepet vandutom.. The ticket fare is worth and really enjoyed the travel.. Also the driver was enjoying his driving along with the Tamil Suriyan FM..

This was how we spent the whole of previous evening of diwali day...

To my surprise, I could not hear much of the crackers noice.. Initially I thought, I got some problem with my ears, but then realised the fact.. that the crackers noice was very less comparing my golden childhood days..!!

'Yen Crackers noice eppadi kurainju pochunu theriyalaiyemaaaa..' (Try to say it in Nadigar Thilagam Sivaji Ganesan Style..) and keep guessing the reasons for yourself.. I shall say you the exact fact behind the use of less crackers for this diwali.. You will be surprised, even some of you may be shocked to hear that..!! I bet..

Vartaa...

Welcome Rajesh to this blog space.. I thoroughly enjoyed your debut blog.. Keep up the good work..

- ChromepetKaSi.

Love story..23yrs old!

2008-10-24T09:29:00.000-07:00

Hello everyone...

Before going into the much awaited story of 2008...let me introduce myself to the makkals..! I am Rajesh, an chromepet Aadivasi...! Sheikh "Kasi" abdulla "Raman" is a cool acquaintance turned relative to me....(local ah sonnaa akkaa purusen...)
Seri...Enough of buildupss...!

Coming to the story...sorry "Love story"

Chromepet- A small town just on the suburban fringe of Chennai maam pattinam!
It is My First Love - Bharathi raja style la sonna..."Enn iniya chromepettai"
Yes...Still the Love story continues and it is 23 years old now...!
Already my fellow bloggers Kasi and Vidhya have described Chromepet top to bottom! So Let me slide through the left out points...of them and of course the twists and turns of my Love story!

Chromepet has the most amazing thing I liked so much!! Railway station and Bus stand are so close and almost one and the same!!! Enna madhiri somberi makkalukku it cant get better than this!! Every Bus stops!!!! Namba Puliya maram bus stop is great....Am not sure whether the puliya maram stands there but it is still puliya maram bus stop!

Railway station la kedaikaadhe vegetables and fruits illa...On Evenings, it turns out to be a mini market...! I am still pissed off on seeing that Fast Train not stopping in chromepet station!!! Enna kodumai sir adhu!! I hate to go in that Fast train because it wont stop in chromepet. I don't know the situation now.

Next big thing is "Nayar Bhajji Kadai" I have spent so much of my Pocket money (Chillarai's) buying bhajji in that shop that if Nayar had saved it properly he could have bought both Swagath and Joy Bakery and even could have developed colloboration with Iyengar Bakery. Naayar kadai holiday is a "Dry day" in my Bhajji varalaaru!!

Next Big Big thing is the 'n' number of cricket war grounds one can find in "Namma chromepet" Now it has been stripped of almost all playgrounds but those days...They kept me living!! Aeri Karai, Pattabiram, Kurinji Nagar, CLC, Statebank colony ippadinu sollikite pogalaam...If I had enough money I would have directed a movie on my own titled "Chromepet 600044"

Like this our Love developed gradually from Railway station to Bhajji shop to Cricket.......Day by Day I started admiring her beauty more and more. I grew along with her...I walked around her, I danced with her! I played with her!! I lived every moment with her!!!

Ippadi enga love develop aayittu irukka....."As our Love was blossoming" (Like Povomaaaa Ooorvolammm.....)

Came the First twist!!

(Thodarum....)
(Continued...)

Kasi serial 8.30 ku na ennoda serial 9.00 Ku
Prime time serial!!! Don't Miss it!!

Special Mention: Thanks to Kasi for adding me as a contributor and giving me a chance to share my Love story with you all!

varta....

I love chromepet too- A road to my place!!!

2008-10-10T11:52:00.000-07:00

Kasi had written about his birth place, Bharathi Street. For other blog followers and bloggers, I would like to you all to know that Kasi and I are play pals. We grew up and played together. We went to school together. I lived a little bit away from Bharathi Street where Kasi lived. But I am a daily visitor to Kasi's place since that was my grandfather's place too.

I will here describe shortly the path that leads to the great place where I was born and raised. Yes it is the Naidu Shop road.....But one has to overcome many trials and tribulations to reach Naidu shop road from Bharathi street.

The moment you cross Bharathi street and continue to follow the main road, you will be greeted by an unbearable smell (sariyaana Gabbu). Before your mind starts thinking about it, on to your right, you will see a small dust bin (kuppai thotti) made of concrete, has a size just about to
accommodate 2 school kids. It is very fascinating why people always love to put the waste exactly outside and around the dustbin. The bin is practically empty at all times. One potential problem could be: one needs to walk about 20 meters on the decaying waste matter
to reach the bin!

I would say the municipality could have set up a natural gas plant right there in the waste bin area and could have captured the methane gas that is arising out of the decay. Unfortunately I was not educated enough to suggest this. I am not sure if this still is the case. I heard
Chromepet is now becoming a Corporation....but it doesn't bother the waste bin...does it?!

For those people who cross RN main road everyday, I would say, their sense of smell would have completely gone....because they are immune to all these different kinds of sectors starting from the "kavuchi Kadai" to the "Gabbu".

You can have an enjoyable view of the waste bin from the AAVin ice cream / milk shop in the opposite side of the road. I have been a loyal customer of that shop...which explains my weight today! Beside that shop, is another snacks shop which is famous for the "kara sevai".
These shops are not the same anymore. Some do not even exist and the whole place now looks different.

What is more interesting is that, we can see many cart(mobile) shops close to the waste decay...like "elanndapazham, verkadalai (peanuts)" shops and a photo shop on the ground with blow ups of all tamil cinema actors....and the shop will have many big big hand kerchiefs which is very suitable for a "rowdi" makeup.....I still don't know why they sell it there. The source of electricity for these ground and cart shops is what is called as "betromas light". I donno the exact spelling of this light. But it will attract all the flies and insects directly from the waste decay and infecting ( or immunizing!) all the customers.

I am not sure, I remember a biriyani/pakoda cart shop also close by with very active business. I am sure the shop's monthly turnover is certainly greater than my first salary. When we cross the biriyani/pakoda shop, we will be hit by a smell which is a blend of pleasant pakoda and unpleasant old rancid oil. No matter whatever it is, when people cross this place in the evening, no doubts, their hunger hits the roof.

We pass this sector, then we are through with major fragrance sectors. I donno whether it is intentional or coincidental, RN has counter effects in different places. From the railway track, we would have smelled different things. But after crossing the kuppai thotti, we have a chance to completely eliminate the effects of all these things. Yes, there is a shop that grinds different pulses, dhalls, chillis etc (maavu mill). When we cross the maavu mill, almost everybody sneezes. This happens to be a very good exercise to bring out all the obnoxious smells out of our nose!

We are still walking straight. Then comes the "not so lit" area....many politicians came and went. But that part was never lit properly (although it is now). After a couple of good bakery shops and pharmacies, comes the Naidu Shop Road. Now we need to take a left. As soon as we enter and go a little further we see that the road becomes narrow and there are two river like formations widening into the road......Yes they are the Kaavai of Chromepet, the biggest open drainage rivers (kaavai) on the either side of the road. This is the second largest drainage river next to Koovam (chennai river...now supposedly a drainage river) that runs dare in living neighborhood.
This kaavai is the important reason that I am immune to malaria today. This has seen and supported trillions of mosquito generations and their mutations.

Every resident of that road had fallen into that river at least once in their life time including me. The part of the river in front of my house happens to have the largest width. So our house has been the sanitation and rescue ground for many fallen (in kaavai) people!

Rest in the next...

Chromepet My Heaven - Part III

2008-10-09T05:00:00.000-07:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay..

Sorry for the delayed posts, got held up with the Navratri celebration. With great difficulty returning to normalcy with respect to 'TIME' as well as 'DIGESTION!!'.

Coming back to the history of a 'GREAT PERSON's birth story...
It was a humid early morning.. in tamil they say it 'Brahma Muhurtham' silence prevading all the places, ready for the dawn, clocks ticking slowly. When the time was 4.10 AM there came a cry of a baby, entering into this earth.. and this is the birth of the so called 'GREAT PERSON' of the Bharathi Street of RN.. Let the person identification be still secret. Its easy for many people to guess it, but I wish to maintain the 'Mega Serial' style of describing..!!

As per the statistics I came across, great people and great events happens only between the date 20 till 30 of any month. It was not an exception in the case of this 'Bharathi Street' new born too.. it was between the above said date only.. Wow, what a surprise.. hhmm. Great..

That was a peak summer month. As we all know, chennai's Climate is termed as 'Hot','Hotter','Hottest'... So the month was a 'Hottest'one.. and also as a normal trend severe drought and water scarcity across chennai particularly in Chromepet, RN.. But this birth of the new born, brought heavy thunder showers in RN (not sure of other areas..)and kept a full stop to all the sufferings of RN people from the water scarcity and drought.. Wow, what a surprise.. This may even be a coincidence.. let it be... But still that hospital in Bharathi Street remains with the same structure apart from few external (outer) paintings and internal enhancements.. Structural part of the hospital remains the same till this day..!!! Wow, what a surprise again..

This is the history of the 'Great Person' of Bharathi Street for time being..

Just few steps from the hospital gives a superb fragrance of food.. both in the evening and morning..If some one in RN does not know this particular place, then they are not eligible to be in RN.. Whats that? Can any of you recognise. Keep guessing...

Enna Nanbargalay.. Saraswathy pujai and vijayadasami ellam nallabadiya mudinjuda? Ellarum books ellam pujaiyil vaicheengala?.. RN la edavadu new shop open aacha?
catch you all soon. Enjoy and have a nice week end...

Commercial Break...

2008-09-28T02:55:00.000-07:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay...

Welcome Srividhya. Thats a great way to commence your blogtravel.. Excellent. Continue your good work..

I am greatly relieved after vidhya started her blogs... so the important details about RN will be covered well from now..

Nanbargalay, before continuing more about RN, I thought of having some commercial break like having blogs on general topics too (other than RN) to have more fun and relaxation while reading these blogs..!!

yesterday being my half day working, I reached home around 2 PM, by that time my wife was ready with a very good lunch, so myself and my colleague had a nice lunch and thought of seeing the Tamil movie 'Raman Thediya Seethai' which was released in the nearby theater. The show timing was at 2.30 PM, so we hardly had time to rush to the theater after lunch and some how we managed to enter into the movie hall too..

Being 'Cheran' (director + (self made)Hero/Actor) movie I was really expecting some good story.. Cheran is not the director of this movie, it is K.P.Jagannath. Enna kodumai sir edhu... indha cheran oru vilangaada vilakannai moonjiyey vechukittu padam muzhuka kazhutha arukaraanya..('Hero Cheran face was like a Castor Oil drunken fellow in whole of the movie') A dumbo movie.. I was not able to sit and watch the whole movie.. Thank God, the AC in the movie hall was very good and it was really only relaxing factor for the whole of 2 and half hours of movie.. Don't even recommend to any of your enemies too to watch this movie..!!

Anyway, views differs, yet I am sure, this is not going to be a hit movie like 'Autograph'..

Wats happening in Tamil Nadu Politics.. Before 'Amma'(Jayalalitha) was CM,now 'Ayya'(Karunanidhi) is the CM and now our Captain (dont think Dhoni or Kumble) Vijayakanth is calling himself 'Anna'.. so thats how now the whole of the election campaign has started.. Enough of giving chance to 'Amma' & 'Ayya' now give to 'Anna' (Vijayakanth!!) it seems.. this is the election speech of Vijayakanth and his wife Premalatha... hahahaha. Apart from all this now our great comedian 'Vaigai puyal.. vadivelu' will also jump in the election.. So I was imagining the further elections speech from Vadivelu. It will be like this.. "Enough of 'Amma''and 'Ayya' rule in Tamil Nadu.. Now elect some 'Goiyya' (Vadivelu) as Tamil Nadu CM.. ". Tamil natuku Vidivu kaalam (Good Days) Varum... aaanaa varadu'.. Pongada venaigala..

I think all cine people are ready to play with Tamil Nadu people.. 'Nammala vechu Comedy kemady pannalayey'??..

ok friends, will catch you all soon in the coming blogs.. Mean while expecting some great blogs from Vidhya..

I love Chromepet too......

2008-09-25T11:14:00.000-07:00

When I read Kasi's "I love Chromepet", I was thrilled. As a Chromepet vaasi (dweller) I also have some interesting stories. The description of the RN main road by Kasi is so accurate. I imagine that Kasi will talk about the great man born and lived in Bharathi Street.

Talking about the popularity of Chromepet several years back.....Chromepet is not like Mylapore or Adayar.....When somebody says they are from Mylapore or Adayar, it will strike immediately "Oh Mylaporaa....". Chromepet did not share the same popularity in those days. People will have to search their brain database....and then come to a conclusion "There should be some place like that somewhere in the globe....probably under developed!".

Or sometimes "Oh is that the place that smells (stinks!) leather when we pass by?!" ....Now folks, this is the route of the name "Chromepet" (peyar kaaranam)....after the Chrome leather factory....

It is not like that anymore. Now Chromepet has Medical College.....Probably it is the only town that has engineering and medically colleges so close, within a kilometer.

It is astonishing how the leather factory exerted its aroma!!! onto the GST road....The leather factory had two branches...one on the east and the west side... which is responsible for the concentrated focus of the smell.

The traffic of RN main road not only consisted of cars, buses, autos, rickshaws, cycles and TVS 50s, but also herds of buffaloes, which are the main dairy supply units for the whole town. It is very very fascinating how the narrow RN main road could accommodate such a diverse traffic without a single traffic constable. There may be fights among auto people and two wheelers, but never with buffaloes..... they are in fact peacemakers and speed breakers.

I should talk about the railway tracks.....For somebody who wants to learn patience, they should try to cross the railway track in a car during the morning rush hours....It is a very good spiritual saadhana.

It is something close to Einstein's paradox...when u travel in a car and wait at the railway track, you can see numerous trains cross and eventually the railway gate never opens. But when you get frustrated of waiting and decide to travel in train, you will find that the train never comes and will see the gate is open all the time allowing the traffic to cross.....Which is true....Still this paradox is unsolved.....

I will illustrate more in my next message....

Chromepet My Heaven - Part II

2008-09-23T03:36:00.000-07:00

Vanakam Nanbargalay..

Now I shall try to brief the infrastructure (if any..!!) about Radha Nagar. While travelling on the GST Road from Mount Road towards Tambaram, immediately after the Famous 'Vettri Theater' on the right side, there is a Railway level Crossing, and from the other end (east side) of the Railway Gate starts the Great Radha Nagar.

As soon as you cross the East side of the railway Gate, the Fragrance (!) of Karuvaadu... will welcome you.. Presently the number of shops have reduced drastically. In the past, say before 10 years there were several 'Kavuchi Kadai'.. (Fish shops) on both sides of the begining of Radha Nagar Main Road.

As adjacent to these Fragrancy..Shops.. a very old building, with same old Iron Gate is the Electricity Board Office. Very next to this EB office is a very small temple for Lord Ganesha.. We RN (Radha Nagarians..) call this as Gate Pillaiyar, since situated next to the Railway Gate. I really don't know the origin or the Main Story of this temple.. (Rishi & Nadhi Moolam theriyaadhu..), but this Ganpu is considered to be a powerful god who fulfills the prayers of his dieties.. As popularly known, any Ganesha temple in any part of the world will be famous for his 'Sora Thengai' ('Cracking the Coconut'..!!) this 'Gate Pillaiyar' is also not an exception to that.. So many times during my school / college days I myself has broken several coconuts as a part of prayer (Bribe..!! - Lanjam) to the favourite 'Gate Pillaiyar'. But it is true, this small ganpu has fulfilled so many prayers..

On the left side of the Railway Gate starts with a lane which takes to the famous Ladies (Aunties!!) college 'Vaishnava College for Women'.. Popularly called as 'Vayasanava' (Aged ladies) college.. OK, let me elaborate more about this 'Vayasanava' college with a separate blog..!!

Being a curse for this RN main road, it is a two-way road.. I can describe, that the breadth of a balcony in any politician's house might be 100 times bigger than our RN main road.. So always there will be traffic jams, small fights, exchange of 'Ketta Varathais' (bad words!!) during every morning and evening hours.. On both sides of the begining of RN road has Auto rickshaw stand..with some name boards like 'Super Star Rajini Auto Rickshaw Manram' or 'Ultimate Star Ajith Auto Rickshaw Manram' etc.,

I really really don't remember when was the last time the Ashpalt (in tamil 'Taaru') was laid on this RN main road. May be my 'kollu' or 'ellu' (Great Great Great Grand Father's) might have the exact statistics of this Road Laid dates..!!

It is being a major curse for Radha Nagar, that so far it does not have a good hotel. So many hotels opened with a gala opening ceremony with loud speakers, but closed down very soon with out any noise.. No one knows the reason behind this. I really doubt whether there will be any standard hotels on the Radha Nagar main road for the coming decades.. Can any of the RN residents give me a valid reason for not having a good hotel?

The very first street that disects that RN Main Road is on the right side begins with 'Bashyam Street' where the famous Indian Bank is located. When we walk further, without getting into this 'Bashyam Street', comes a street on both left and right side.. (Un)fortunately both these streets have the same name 'Rajaji Street'.. Before making a turn either on the left or right side of the street, you can notice 'Canara Bank' on your left side with so many shops above and on the sides of the Canara Bank.

When we walk further, without getting into these 'Rajaji Street on the either side, there comes a street on your Left Side known as 'Kattaboman Street' and on the Right Side, called as 'Bharathi Street'.. Here I got so much to describe about.. You all will have to listen (read) about the born & existence of GREAT MAN.. Keep guessing who is that Great Personality.. Will catch (bore) you all more in next part..

Enna, nanbargalay.. summa 'Mega Serial' kanakaa oru full stop vechuten paartheengala..!!??? Varta..!!

Chromepet My Heaven - Part I

2008-09-16T23:53:00.000-07:00

It is quite natural for any person to love his birth place or the place where resided for more years. So obviously CHROMEPET being my birth place, it is my earthly heaven. I have seen and even now notice the reaction from the face of people who asks about my native place. As soon as I say it is 'CHROMEPET' their eyebrows shrink for a moment and the whole of the face resembles the Hero - Jim Carrry of the movie 'The Mask'.. As if I had uttered some bad words they react. Initially I was so surprised at times sad to notice such a reaction.. and at some instance I directly asked the reactor ( the 'person'.. don't assume for your own like 'nuclear reactor'..) the reason for such a response. Then they gave a detailed 'Kadha Kalachaybam' (Discourse).. that it is not inside the city of chennai and it is in suburbs..

hhhmmm.. So I guessed only human beings live in city and rest left out species all in suburbs.. What a justification.. To react to such remark.. I would rather say the famous dailouge 'Enna kodumai sarvanan idhu???..' irukattum, irukattum..(its ok..)

May be say 15 to 20 years back chromepet would have been a real suburb place. But now its not a suburb, It is 'SUPERB'.. Place. One should visit and notice the remarkable and unbelievable developments taking place in chromepet. My God, the whole of chromepet really resembles like a busiest part of a city.

For the past so many years and the years to come, the Madras Institute of Technology, in short M.I.T. is the only limelight and important location for chromepet. But now the scenario has changed, there are so many additional places like the recent M.I.T. Flyover, Naiha (Naidu Hall - Textile Showroom), Nallas (Fast food Chain..), and so many mini and maxi hotels, colleges, hospitals in chromepet have become the limelight and contributed to their own extent in the development of chromepet.

The main popular areas in chromepet are Radha Nagar, Hasthinapuram, Nemilichery, on the east side and New Colony, Nagappa Nagar, boarday..(Government Board High School) on the west side of the chromepet.

I am proud to say that I am a 'Radha Nagarian'.. in the coming blogs I wish to narrate more about 'Radha Nagar - The Past and Present'.. of my own experiences..

Nanbargalay.. (Friends) no other go, You have to read and enjoy (Bored..!!) of my blogs.. Vida Matten ungalai..!! hahahaha..

Debu to Blogs...

2008-09-15T00:38:00.000-07:00

Dear Friends,

This being my very first blog, I really confused what to write.. So let me keep this a precise one and (bore) catch you all with more contents in the coming blogs..!!

I have come across so many blogs, but never got inspired or triggered of an idea of creating a one for myself.. But some how today (Doom's day in the history of Blogs..!!) i also submerged myself in the blog world and thought of (torturing) sharing my pals with my stories..

I now remember the famous tamil words.. "Pootruvaar pootratum.. Thutruvaar thutratum.." ellam emmaiyey serum..!!

Inspite of my hectic work load in office, I some how manage my time at home to relax myself with this blogs..

ok guys.. Get ready for my blogs..!!