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

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

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

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

"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!

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

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

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........