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kelambittaanga yaa.. kelambittaanga

Teacher : Mudhal masam january !
rendavathu masam Febuary!
Pathavathu masam enna?
Student: Delivary teacher.

January 14'kkum Februavary 14'kkum yenna vidyasam?
Oru ponnu Pongal kodutha adhu Jan-14
Adhey ponnu HALWA kodutha, adhu Feb-14

Madurai girl goes to Madras vegetable shop and asks
"eppadimma Keerai?"
kaigari vikkarava says:
"naan nallaththan keeran. nee eppadi keerai". ?!?!?!!!


Gangai aathula meen pidikkalaam... Kavery aathula meen pidikkalaam .. aana Iyer aathula meen pidikka mudiyuma?

Naaikku naalu kaal irukkalaam. Aana adhala LOCAL call, STD call, ISD call,even MISSED call kooda panna mudiyathu!

Thiruvalluvar 1330 kural ezhidhirundhaalum , avarala oru kuralil thaan paesa mudiyum

Thel kottina valikkum... paambu kottina valikkum.. mudi kottina valikkuma?

School Testla Bit adikalam... College Testla Bit adikalam... Blood Testla
Bit addika mudiyuma?

Pongalukku Governmentla leaveu kudupanga... Ana Idly Dosaikku kudupangala?!

Kolammavil kolam podalam. Kadalai mavil kadalai poda mudiuma?!

Life la onnume illa na bore addikum... Thalaila onnume ellana glare addikum...

Engineering Collegela padichu Engineer aagalaam, Presidency collegela
padichu president aaga mudiyumaa?!


Thooka marundhu sappitta thookam varum... Anaa...Irumal marundhu sappitta irumal varathu!


'Hand wash'nna kai kazhuvaradhu, 'Face wash'nna mugam kazhuvaradhu , Appo 'brain wash' nna braina kazhuvaradhaa?

Tea cupla tea irukum. Appa World Cupla world irukkuma?

Paalkova paalil irundhu pannalaam, aana rasagullava rasathil irundhu panna mudiyuma?


Sunday annikku sandai poda mudiyum, aana Monday annikku mandaya pottal vibaraithama aayidum !!!

Heart to Heart

A month has passed and although i was asked to attend the 30th day ceremony and i did want to go,i did not go.A month has passed since raji or rajendra prasad has passed on and i still am not able to digest the fact that he is no more.Just 51 years old and he died of a heart attack and all i can think of is " that is just not possible,for he was so healthy and strong and at one time the strongest in my mount road pals but for the bear who lives in canada called shenoy.

As usual i came back from my morning exercise routine at about 7.00 am and after sometime i asked wifey to make a couple of dosas and she went in and a few minutes later came out and said " i am so sorry but seeni had called to inform that raji his elder brother had died ".i looked at her,i heard her and yet i could not comprehend what she had just said.Something turned in my tummy,something broke somewhere and my first reaction was " what the hell babe,i have been home for nearly 45 minutes and now you come and tell me this." I called seeni and asked him,what can you ask him and yet i asked him " is it true".seeni said " aama satish,raji poiyiduchhu."I asked him " eppadi da,eppadi poga mudiyum." seeni told me that nearly a week ago raji had complained about chest pains and trouble with his breathing and they rushed him to apollo med and stabilised him.Well he had had a heart attack and his sugar levels was a high 580.After stabilising him,some confusion reigned and till date i am not sure what the hell happened and he was discharged on saturday evening and died the next day at about 4.30 am.He must have died peacefully because he had this smile,real peaceful smile on his face and when i went to see him he looked like he was fast asleep or in deep meditation.

Deep meditation,yes for raji and me spent some great times in pursuit of the that magical and yet elusive spiritual elevator.Girivalams in thiruvannamalai,paamban swami koil meditation,pattinathaar koil,maruntheeswarar koil and thirukazhugu kundram meditation trips are some of the few memories i have of him and i will keep them safe in my soul until my last breath.Like that famous cold play lyrics " those who are dead are not dead,but living in my head ",raji will remain in my memory.We secretly let the world believe that we have gotten over our loved ones deaths but we live with them and their memories untl we become a part of someone else's memory.

But the important part is that raji did not take care of his health and hid his diabetes from everyone and had some poor eating habits and he also had a huge tummy.A few years back when i asked him why he was losing hair all of a sudden and looking very run down,he said there were a few problems which were causing him tension and hence he looked a bit off.Raji's death was diagnosed due to myocardial infarction and two pipes of his heart were blocked pretty badly.

Well my plea to you all is not to ignore chest pains or shoulder pains for a long time and surely not to pass it of as some muscle pull or some other lazy excuse.Take you average tap at home and one day you will notice the water flow is thinning and yet you will not call the plumber and will wait,manage and endure until the water comes down to a trickle,the plumber comes in and checks and says " adaippu irukku ma " or he will say washer poidichhu ."The same way your heart tells you weeks,months in advance that something is blocking it and still a majority of the people will go on thinking it is some tummy upset,gas or even worse think " i am just 45 years old and how the bloody hell can i have a heart attack." well for your kind information anybody can get heart attack and die of a heart attack at any time and it doesnt matter if he smokes or does not smoke,eats more or eats less.

See all of us have to go one day and it is called fate,vidhi,thalai eluthu and it all boils down to the reason of our going.Some will die of heart problems,some will die of cancer,some will die of liver or kidney problems but we all die.Tale for instance a hyundai santro,lakhs of these models have been sold and yet each one of them comes to the service center with its own unique set of problems.for example my santro suffered rust problem because i live in besant nagar and close to the beach and my car rusted cos of the salty air.Another santro somewhere might suffer fuel injection,some might suffer suspension problems and so every car has problem in its own way,just like we have problem with out bodies.Maybe we can broadly categorize them as problems relating to heart,lungs,liver and kidney.All of us come into this world with a fresh and brand new body,but buried deep somewhere is the problem that will lead to our deaths.But many hasten this end by aggravating their problems by smoking,drinking,bad life style and cholesterol laden food.So their manufacturing defects rear their heads,waken up and start the count down.It is mother nature at work buried deep in our genes and she works and moves in mysterious ways.Maybe she is perfecting the human version which i doubt will be perfect what with all the pollution and new and aggressive diseases.

So i beg all of you,none of you are immortal,none of you are blessed with THE WOLVERINE'S genes to mend yourself and so don't ignore signs or pains in you body except for that pain in the underworld regions you feel when you see a hot chick cross you or a hot guy pass you.A block in your heart can cause a heart attack and a block in your brain can cause a stroke.Funny i see lot of people daily in the traffic who drive like they have had strokes or some abnormal growth of brain tumor.I seriously think that some of these zombies who ply chennai roads just have tumors in their head and are devoid of brain matter.

I want to end this post by saying that everything is possible because of love and if you have loved and have been loved then it does not matter when you die for love is what that makes everything possible.I love all of you and wish the best for you and all your families.Be well.

Time well spent

"There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying." Sarah Dessen, Just Listen

Time,i dont have time are words that often fall on my ears and yet after having heard them repeatedly i still have no understanding what it means.What is time but just your lifespan measured in seconds,minutes,hours,days,weeks and years.If you take the promised average lifespan of most of us then we can safely say that the general population will survive and live for 80 years.80 years you might think but when you convert it into days it works out just to
29219 days or 4174 weeks.that is it my people that is all there is and when you read it like that, i dont know about you but my stomach turned and i shivered as if someone walked over my grave.Well that wont do and will not come to pass for i am jolly well going to get cremated.rather someone put a light to my old arse than worms crawling up skin and bones.

Sometimes while driving i can feel my heart racing with tension and stress brought on by aliens talking on their mobiles,and dodos driving in the middle of the road and you have to play cat and mouse with that vehicle before you dive either to the right or left and carry on with your jet speed of 50 kms per hour.Seriously think about it,just stop and think about all the time we waste in traffic,in queues and other places where things can definitely be better and then you realise how much time you are wasting on assholes rather than doing something better with it.

A couple of days ago my friend sabu commented that my post on facebook was too long to read another friend babita asked me if i expected people to read so much.what has happened to the reading habit.I happen to know that it is kicking and alive in some of my closest pals but many have lost the habit of reading and complain that they have no time.

Life has surely become strange and weird for until a couple of decades ago everyone complained about having just one tv channel but now complain that they have too many channels and are not sure what to watch.The attention time span has shrunk like the cricket test matches which have now shrunk to Twenty twenty cricket.People want everything in one capsule,entertainment including and everything has to be a quickie.But is it possible and i think it is just not possible.when i passed out of 12th std you know what most would go for,either B.COM,medicine or engineering and some were adventurous and got into computer science.but now the options are limitless and infinite and yet there are not enough jobs for everyone.

Sadly in todays modern world everything needs to be compartmentalized and shrunk into time capsules.like our class schedules we set aside one day for this and some time for that and even parents and relations are told when they can visit and when they will be visited.Sad but true and this will be the case from now on.but i think one should set aside time for oneself,time spent in solitude catching up on reading,listening to music or watching that favourite film.Rather than cram in everything and not enjoying anything i think we should take it one step at a time for there is just too much on offer right now.It is okay if you are not aware of everything,it is okay if you not in touch with the latest political trends but it is not okay if you are not in touch with your loved ones and most importantly yourself.Look after yourself,nurture your thoughts,nurture your passions for if you dont love yourself then how can you expect anyone to love you truly.

I could go on for a bit more but i will stop here and let go of the bit i am chewing on and that is time.time is running out and it is time to live now,live completely.

A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Finds us farther than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,--act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Mother o' Mine by Rudyard Kipling

If I were hanged on the highest hill,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose love would follow me still,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were drowned in the deepest sea,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!
I know whose tears would come down to me,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

If I were damned of body and soul,
I know whose prayers would make me whole,
Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

What is that you fed me,the red of your blood or the white of your milk? Why is that my flesh craves for your love for is it because i am from your flesh and your flesh? Why is that you are the light at the end of the tunnel and the one true love ? Who am i mother dear but the shadow of your being and genes? Mother, Mama, Mom,Moeder, Ma,Nn, Mm,Ama,Mamm,Matre, Mamma are some of the ways a mother is called by her children in different languages around the world.A lone lioness will take on a pack of hyenas and die before she lets her cub get killed.There have been instances where an elephant mother has stood facing a speeding train while letting her calf cross the tracks.What is this bond and why is it so strong ?



The reckoning

Just as shalini drove away with mani and the scene that they were fleeing from started to fill with people,Bala was rudely woken up from his sleep by the wails of his cell phone.Bala had decided the previous night that he would get up late in the morning and hit the gym after about 08.00 am.He wanted the extra few hours of sleep to charge his batteries and approach the APRICOT TOWERS case from a different angle and he knew that however the weird the video had been there would be some rational explaination for the man to have fallen to his death and definitely a physically plausible reason as to how he flew out of the 20th floor.Bala answered his cell phone and was told that a person had fallen to his death at APRICOT TOWERS and that a weird and gruesome murders had taken place on the ECR ROAD.Bala replied that the murders on ECR ROAD did not come under his jurisdiction and asked more details about who had fallen to his death and was shocked to find out that the man was palani.Taking a moment to compose himself bala asked more details about the man palani who had died and when it was confirmed that it was the same gentleman who had shot the video he was truly shocked and moved to a certain extent.Shaking of his thoughts he said that he would be there in half an hour and requested that mr.rajashekar the security chief should be present when he arrived at the scene.Bala thought to himself and wondered how the case was getting weirder and more complicated and yet he had either to find a clue or motive to the crime.Slowly rousing himself bala got out of the bed and hit the shower.


Twenty minutes later his car drove up into the parking area of APRICOT TOWERS and bala got out and walked towards his team.Bala's demeanor immediately conveyed to his team that their boss was in a bad mood and would be on the war path.Bala greeted everybody with a gruff hello and turned towards Mr.rajashekar and asked him what the hell was going on and when had palani fallen to his death.Rajashekar said that even he got the news after about ten in the night and since the person who had died was a worker he didnt think much of it or that it would be in anyway connected to the other case which bala was investigating and hence decided that he would inform him in the morning.Bala stared at rajashekar and said " sir,this case is already complicated and we are running around to find any clues and now another person had died.Don't you think that even the most insignificant detail will be helpful or at least point us towards a direction for right now to be frank i have no direction to lead this case for there is no motive and no clue."

Bala acommpanied by rajashekar walked towards the marked spot where palani had fallen to his death and stood looking at the bloodstains slowly looked up towards the 20th floor and then turned towards rajashekar and raised an eyebrow.Rajashekar nodded and said " you are right,this man too fell from the same floor and we knew that from the elevator camera footage which showed that he got off on the 20th floor."Bala looked at him and said " is it possible that though he got off on the 20th floor he might have taken the stairs and gone up to the higher floors and fallen from there."Rajashekar said " no that would not be possible for we have already viewed all the footage from the other cameras on the higher floors and none of them show this person going there."Bala wondered whether to confide in rajashekar the details of his and palani's conversation and the video palani had shot of dilip falling to his death.But decided that it would be useless and only add to the tension of rajashekar and his security team.Bala told rajashekar that he would go up to the 20th floor on his own and walk the crime scene for himself to see if he could make sense of what had happened the previous night.Rajashekar looked at bala and said " sir,although palani fell from the same floor from where dilip fell it seems to me purely coincidental for palani was a painter working in the opposite building and just came to take some pics with his mobile phone and must have accidentally leaned too much and fallen over.So i request you not to link both the cases for it will draw unnecessary attention to us when there is already too much of it in the newspapers and television."Bala said he understood and took the elevator and rose to the heights where death seemed to rule this building.


Mani and shalini had checked into their room which they had booked online and apart from the quiet and uneasy glances between them not a word was spoken and yet both realised that the time was drawing near when secrets would be revealed and its burden shared.Shalini looked at mani and said " mani,it is not now but then back from the first moment we met and i felt that there is more to you than what the world sees and what you show to the world.I knew then and i know now and i am still here waiting to share and bear your pain or whatever is that you are carrying around."Mani looked at her and smiled and the smile was the saddest smile shalini had ever seen and said " i am going to have cold shower and we will talk,really talk."mani went into the bathroom and shalini stood staring as he went inside and sighing deeply switched on her laptop and also turned on the television.She was assaulted by the same news in every channel and every reporter was screaming the same news and the news was that three people had been hacked to death by some rival gang on the ECR ROAD.Shalini stared at the tv and kept staring at the tv not able to comprehend what she was seeing but then her frozen senses finally made the connection and she just collapsed on the bed.But all that she could conjure were questions,confusing questions that made no sense and she heard the bathroom door open and saw mani standing there.mani looked at her and then his eyes flicked to the tv and he absorbed the news that was flashing and then his eyes flicked back to shalini.slowly he came near her and then knelt in front of her and asked her " do you want to know,do you want to know why,are you ready to share my secrets and nightmares or doyou prefer to walk away from me and all of this and more of this which might happen or might not happen."

Shalini looked at him and then taking a deep breath,laughed and said " mani,are you trying to scare me ? for all these questions dont scare me for i am more stronger than you think i am.so go on tell me,tell me everything."mani looked at her and smiled and again it was a smile filled with immense sadness but also with lots of love.Mani took her face in his hands and kissed her deeply and it was a kiss that touched shalinis soul.mani kissed her and she felt his soul in the kiss and realised that it was the first time mani had kissed her like this and that the kiss felt different for he was not holding back and was giving himself to her.mani then took shalinis hand and said "mother.".

shalini looked at him and said "what,mother,what do you mean by mother.are you calling me mother.".mani shook his head and said "no silly,not you.i meant my mother and i called for her,for it is time you met her."shalini did not know what to make of it and mani said "look."

Aashritha stood before them and she stood floating and everything went cold,really cold and dark.Shalini looked,looked again and then she realised the secret mani had been carrying all these years and now the burden was hers and although she saw for a second she could not take it and fainted.Mani caught her as she fell and lay her on the bed and looked at his mother." did you really have to kill those men and kill them so brutally." Aashritha came close to mani and touched the bruises on his arm and chest and growled " they were let off easy and i wish it happened again for my anger still hasnt subsided."mani took his mothers hand and hugged her and said " how long,how much longer." Aashritha said " as long as i am,you will be safe" and vanished.

Hi people,

Some may have and some may have not but seventeen chapters of the story WHAT IF have been posted by me.I would be happy if a few of you could point out flaws,mistakes or just give your honest opinions about the story.Be well.

satish

"What if" I don't have any opinion?

Never thought in my wildest dreams that I would get addicted to this PrabhuDeva song...😛

COFFEE DRINKER'S PSALM

Caffeine is my shepherd, I shall not doze.
It maketh me to wake in green pastures.
It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses.
It restoreth my buzz.
It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake.
Yea, I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction.
I will fear no Equal For thou art with me;
Thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me;
Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks
Thou annointest my day with pep;
My mug runneth over.
Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life
And I will dwell in the House of Mocha forever.

THE DIETER'S PSALM

The lord is my shephard I shall not want.
He maketh me lie down and do push ups.
He giveth me sodium-free bread.
He maketh me to partake of green beans instead of potatoes.
He leadeth me past the refrigerator for mine own sake.
He leadeth me past the pizzeria.
Yes, though I walk through the bakery,
I shall not falter, for Thou art with me.
Thy diet colas, they comfort me,
Thou preparest a diet for me in the presence of mine enemies,
Thou anointed my lettuce with low fat oil.
My cup shall not overflow.
Surely Ry-Krisp and D-Zerta shall follow me all the days of my life.
And I will live with pains of hunger forever.

One day while jogging, a middle-aged man noticed a tennis ball lying by the side of the walk.
Being fairly new and in good condition, he picked the ball up, put it in his pocket and proceeded on his way.
Waiting at the cross street for the light to change, he noticed a beautiful blond standing next to him smiling.
"What do you have in your pocket?", she asked.
"Tennis ball?" the man said smiling back.
"Wow," said the blond looking upset. "That must hurt. I once had tennis elbow and the pain was unbearable!"