Yes, Finally Gajini is released! Heard that the opening is so grand and its already booked housefull for few days! The initial comments from the movie-goers are also good. I was so longing to go for the movie on the first day, but didn’t get tickets. Somehow one guy booked the whole balcony on sat morning show and it was exclusive for Verizon and CTS makkal. I got a chance to get the ticket, but then I had other important work to do at that time and so decided not to go. I gathered a group for Sunday, but alas no tickets - even in Mayajaal, its booked. May be I’ll plan during a weekday sometime next week. I’m not going to miss this film by any chance. Its not for the hype, not for the screenplay, its not for the songs, its not for Suriya and its not for Nayandara. Its all for the cutie Asin!
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I’m still not sure whats wrong, but my PC is not booting up. I guess the trouble could be with the SMPS as the SMPS fan itself is not working. This weekend, I’ve to get it ready somehow. I tried contacting Sify to suspend my account till it gets ready. The guy at the call center asked me to mail me. What the heck? I’m calling them because I’m not able to bring up my PC and they are asking me to mail! I went to a browsing center and sent a mail. Then I get a reply that the product can’t be suspended. Well. Get lost. Somehow I got Sree’s laptop connected and started working. Its all fine now. But all my bookmarks and data is in my PC. I’ve to get it ready soon!
Last friday I attended the first BEA User Group’s meeting. The presentations were about Diablo (Code name for Weblogic Server 9) and Service Oriented Architecture. I was quite surprised that many people didn’t know about Eclipse. When the guy who was presenting asked how many of you know about WTP, I was surprised that only 3 hands were raised(It was me, Chaitu and Dinesh). How can that happen? Does everyone else is using MyEclipse or WSAD? It cant be. I guess people who use Eclipse, still use the plain text editor in it to edit JSP, CSS, HTML, etc and use an ant script to deploy. Only 3 among the 300 were using appropriate editors!!! Why the Indian techies has gone so bad? I soon got an answer. One guy had a printout in his hand and was asking me, ‘is this the right conference na?’ I looked at the printout it said ‘Win a mobile phone’. Looks like there is a mobile phone to be given out to one lucky person and he came only looking for the chance of being lucky. I could see few others came for the good food (to be honest the hot dosa with chicken curry was very tasty) So I decided that the real techies stayed back at office/home and were busy coding while the vetti guys who have less/no work and guys looking for free mobile & food came for the meeting. (of course there were 3 exceptions and you know who ;-))
Soon after that I was going thru the blogs which I’ve read for few weeks. Look here and here for interesting entries about Cedric & budding Indian techies (look for the comments). hmmmmm. Hey fellas, welcome to the club. You got lot of company in the industry.
- iPod Nano, the cute little thing I already fell in love with.
- Blog Search - an Google has created a new search. As like other Google products, its cool. I tried searching for my real name, but lots of Prakash and I cudn’t find mine I recently formatted my C: drive and reinstalled everything. I lost all my blog list and this search is a useful one to find my blogs. To make things simpler, I wrote Google blog search engine extension for Firefox, and hey its working smart
- I finally somehow installed a 512 MB RAM in my system in addition to the existing 128 MB. Installed Windows XP, Google Desktop Search & Konfabulator
When we were going to the Sivasamuthram falls last week, we stopped at some place for lunch. I took my camera into the hotel, but didn’t get any nice objects to shoot. Guys were asking me ‘Why did u bring ur camera then’ Desperately I was looking for something to take a picture and all I saw was this grade filled with bottles. I hesitated to waste a shot in my film camera. Ravi lended me his digi cam and so here is the shot. It came pretty well than I expected 
Wondering what the heck it is? Its a building set kind of toy that Ravi bought for his brother’s kid. It has metal sticks and magnetic balls. If you have enough of those sticks and balls, you can build any structure, you can image. I was pretty much bored one day and didn’t know what to do and was playing with that. Thought how about a photo of it. I arranged it on a sheet and then clicked with my K2. The result is good, with a few tinkering with picasa.
I told here that I’ve got a good offer. I thought I’ll get a decent hike here because I’ve done a good work. Based on that belief and few other factors, I declined that offer. Its almost confirmed that here I wont get any hike this time. All my efforts towards shipping the product, my decisions on the design, 80 hour weeks, training for other members, personal sacrifices for this project, what more? Now all that for nothing. I’ve ‘promises’ for next appraisal, but should I wait till then? May be a good interesting work will make me stay. Nothing is decided as of now. But for the fact, I literally got pissed off because of this process.
Yesterday I discovered a nice web page for typing in Tamil. We have to just key in the Tamil text in English and it will be transliterated(not translated!) into Tamil. Which one you think will be better read? Englishla type pannai, atha appadiye manasula maathi purinchukaratha, இல்லை, தமிழ் வார்தைகளை தமிழ்லயே படிக்கறதா? The second one right? At least I prefer that way. This is really good for my other blog and will be trying to use it more often for that.
Its easier to get started, but going forward, if we need specific words, it was a little tough. But otherwise, its too good. Try it here.
Englishல ஒரு நல்ல பழமொழி இருக்குங்க. ‘Change is the only thing remains constant’ அப்படின்னு. யோசிச்சு பார்த்தா அது எவ்வளவு உண்மைன்னு தெரியும். நம்ம ஒவ்வொருத்தருடைய வாழ்க்கையிலயும் எவ்வளவு மாற்றம்? நான் எல்லாம் சின்ன வயசில படுத்தா போதும், தூக்கம் சொக்கிட்டு வரும். night 9 மணி ஆனா போதும், படுக்க கூட வேண்டாம், அப்படியே தூங்கிடுவேன். இப்போ எல்லாம் அப்படியே opposite. ராத்திரி எப்படியும் படுக்க 1 மணி ஆயிடும். அப்புறம் சூரியன் FM. ‘கேளுங்க, கேளுங்க கேட்டுகிட்டே இருங்க’ தான். தூங்க போக 2/3 மணி ஆயிடும். சாதரண தூக்கத்துக்கே இப்படி ஒரு changeன்னா மத்த விசயத்துல கேட்கவே வேனாம். சின்ன வயசில ஒருத்தன் நடந்துக்கறத வெச்சு, அவன் பெரியவனானதும், இப்படி தான் இருப்பான்னு சொல்லறது கொஞ்சம் கஷ்டம். இல்ல, இல்ல ரொம்பவே கஷ்டம். இத புறநானூறுல ரொம்ப அழகா சொல்லி இருக்காரு, பொன் முடியார்.
பால் கொண்டு மடுப்பவும் உண்ணான் ஆகலின்,
செறாது ஒச்சிய சிறு கோல் அஞ்சியோடு,
உயவொடு வருந்தும் மன்னே! இனியே
புகர் நிறம் கொன்ட களிரு அட்டு ஆனான்,
முன் நால் வீழிந்த உரவொர் மகனே,
உன்னிலன் என்னும், புண் ஒன்ட்று அம்பு -
மான் உலஈ அன்ன குடுமி
தோல் மிசை கிடந்த புல் அணலோணே.
விளக்கம்:
சின்ன வயசுல, பயல் ‘பால குடி’-இன்னு சொன்ன மாட்டேன்னு குறும்பு பண்ணுவான். ஒரு சின்ன குச்சிய காட்டி பயமுறுத்தினாலே பயந்து குடிச்சிடுவான். இப்போ என்னடான்னா, பய சண்டைக்கு போயி யானை எல்லாம் கொன்னுட்டு வாரான். நெஞ்சுல ஒரு அம்பு குத்தி இருக்குடா-ன்னு சொன்னா, ‘ஓ, அம்பா? நான் எதோ சின்ன புண்ணோன்னு நெனச்சு கவனிக்காம விட்டுடேன்’ அப்படிங்கறான்!
Usually I go to a beach near VGP at the saturday mornings. One morning I went with my Canon K2 and got this wonderful shot. Nothing much to add other than its a nice combination of colors
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