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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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..

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...