Procrastination

Its Procrastination which is my biggest trait. Iam supposed to complete a job given by my boss last week, of which only 75% is pending. Whenever i open this document to work on it i just hop on to the blogs i know and keep on reading. In other words, i do blog hopping......

Maybe if it was a strict boss i would have completed in time or if i do on-site job i would have been done with it.

The main reason is my aathukarar who happens to be my boss - its his mistake of not being strict with me. He believes whatever reason i tell him. Hmmm iam not in any way responsible.

Today in the morning rombavum kenji ketrukkar so konjam manasu vechu innaikku kandippa antha work mudikkanum

P.S - nejammave athu office related job thaan - house hold work na intha guilty feeling laam kandippa etti kooda paakkathu.

Open Day!!!!!

Today went to my sons school for open day. Actually intha open day ennanna oru oppethara samacharam. All teachers would say only nice things about your child. Pinna 50-60 k selavalichi school a sethaa unga paiyan nalla padikkala nnu solliduvaangala.
Unga paiyana avaru nallavaru, vallavaru rombavum nyayamanavarunnu sollittanga. Seri acutally what i was about to say was the questions asked by the fellow parents to the teachers about their child

" Is he attentive in the class
Is he listening properly, and whether he is able to answer all your questions
He doesnt read anything at home.
How can i train him at home additionally."

Ithellam etho 10th std teachers kitta kettathu kidaiyathu. These were the questions asked to the teachers of L.K.G.

Innoru comedy ennana they gave a circular saying that "Please visit the projects done by your brilliant wards at school"

Actually antha projects ellam parents google search panni apparam etho IAS CAT prepare panra range'kku group discussion ellam panni raathri kan muzhichu (ennoda examekke naan ivvalavu pannathu kidaiyathu) prepare senju koduthathuthaan.

And the highlight was they made few children dress up as the community helpers and made them to sit with their schools. Antha pasangala paakka rombavum paavama irunthathu. Athula oru kozhantha amma venumnu azha arambikka avanga mam odi poi avanga ammava theda ore comedy thaaan.

Anna Flyover........

Anna Flyover had been synonomus to chennai for a long time.

You cannot imagine a film showing chennai without zooming the immortal Anna Flyover...
Be it, a traffic jam or a chasing scene where an innocent is being chased by a ferocious villian or our own police officer (sarath kumar, vijayakanth) chasing the deadly villian after he has killed our one of the top brass, Anna flyover can never be dispensed with.

And this famous landmark also holds some of my most cherished memories as well nightmares.

Be it the first time as far as i could remember on that bridge or the most recent with my kid who always loves the flyovers and this one being his prime one , i always enjoy the scenic view it offers.I can very well hear people saying "What the hell does it offers other than the traffic snarl both at the nungambakkam high road and church park junction?" But still each time iam delighted when i climb up the flyover.

My first trip over the flyover etched in my memory was to the Marina with some relative. I used to look from the windows of our own pallavan , the rani seethai hall with all the signboards of manmark kudai and the statue at the MG road with wide eyes.
Since, i follow the roads and the routes clearly i was declared the official guide to all our relatives who would like to have a visit to the Marina.
As a child, i always had this confusion of return from Marina to T.Nagar via this Anna flyover. We would go thro GN Chetty road but the return has to be taken thro the "O" to re-enter while coming back. This is where i always end up confused and in turn would confuse the drivers.
Namakkuthaan chennaiyin official guidennu nenappache, so vazhi theriyathunnu othukka manasu varathu.... So i would keep quiet and would silently pray while he goes thro the Anna Salai. Oru nambikka thaan enga ponalum intha road kadaiseela saidapet vanthudumnu theriyum. So when i finally came across the teynampet junction i was much relieved.
Then only did i understand that both GN chetty road and Anna Salai run like ">" - this symbol.

Next, the important point in all the students life - board exams - 10th as well 12th. Since my centre was DAV girls school on both the occasions i had to go only thro our beloved fly over every time. Though i would be tensed and busy reading on the way (appothane rombavum sincerea padippom - to put a scene) , i would actually enjoy the view over the flyover those few minutes of crossing them. Ennada few minutes solrale nnu paarkapadathu. Iam talking of 96 - 99 . So antha period at 8.15am in the morning you can just like that cross the flyover.

Then comes the turning point. Always i used to wonder while travelling on the flyover from t.ngr towards Mount Road - intha leftla oru road porathe ithu enna road ah irukkum - i mean the road below the flyover i.e MG road. I have never been to the road till that time.
But, little did i realise that my entire career would be based on that buildings located on the road. Buildings nnu en mean pannenna cos both Income tax and the Institute of CA suthisuthithaan ennoda pozhappe. So rite after my 12th foundation nnu onnu join panrathukkuthaan i stepped into the MG Road. Hmmm oru nimisham antha statue lernthu avar enna thirumbi paathamaathiri irukku..bramayo.

Today, my kid always compels my athukkarar to go on that flyover.. So even if we are to visit Citicentre we are compelled to take the flyover and take the right where UII stands and then go to Radhakrishnan salai via Gopalapuram boys high school.

Appada no TV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

Though we are used to two hours of powercut daily a privilege which Tamilnadu alone offers, a full 24 hrs of power-cut is much more different. It was a relatively new experience.
My boy was little shaken bcos he literally starts and ends his day with modern curse chutti TV. Thanks to me, who introduced him to dora which people said was very informative.... Slowly his viewership spread to jackie chan, He-man , godzilla and all the other dubbed versions borrowed from other channels.....In this aspect i feel pogo is much better with the variety it offers (no offence intended between tamil and english). Iam concerned about the violence being shown in chutti TV in the name of cartoons..(barring few). Ithula Jetix rombaaa advanced with various versions of power rangers (aracha maave thirumba thirumba araikkiranga).

Seri Seri, innaikki enna pannenna - uruppadiya romba nalaikku apparam Dora illama suppandi thonaiyoda satham oottinen...Did some joining the dots and puzzles and colouring with my kid. During my childhood, i would wait for youngworld to do the colouring and the siruvar malar for the kids corner containing joining the dots. Took old magic pots and tinkle and read for him.....

Then at 4'0 clock the power came. Bt our precious old version ONIDA (ennoda aathukararoda porantha veettu seetham ) "grgrgrnnu " "enna konjam rest edukka ONIDA parlour anuppungappa nnu sollama sollidichu" .
So another 48 hours would pass before anything constructive can be done.. (enna ennoda athukkarar out of station)
Constructive - appadinna puthu TV nnu neenga eduthunda naan poruppu illa (Enna irunthalum appo iruntha TV yoda quality ippo entha TV yum varathu - enga aathukkararoda dialogue whenever i ask him to change this)
PS - Enga ONIDA voda vayasu 15yrs aakkum
Actually, TV illama romba thavichu ponathu en paiyana illa naana nnu theriyala . Power vanthappuram varalannu sonna vodane" ok" nnu avan vera vela paakka poittan. Naanthaan manikkoru tharam pottu sariya varuthaannu paarthunde irukken

Legend in his own way - Shri.NAGESH

Awesome performance. Wonderful timing sense. Beautiful dialogue delivery

These are the words uttered usually when u describe an artist and especially when u describe an actor of great calibre like NAGESH. But i dont know the meaning of any of those written above. Those are cine-circle languages.

One thing i would know for sure is I love this man from my childhood. Simply i just cannot take my eyes of him when he is in the screen. It doesn't matter to me with which hero he plays or what role he plays. He is at ease in all the characters he play.

Yesterday, I happened to see SERVER SUNDARAM in SUN TV. God!!!!!!!!! Incredible he is. No other person could have played it so easily. Somehow I get attracted to the character he plays. It can either be a comedian, hero or character role or the role with negative shades.

I just love all of his films but the one that comes to my mind right now - Ethirneechel, Bama vijayam, Iru kodugal, server sundaram, Galatta kalyanam. The list is not exhaustive though i dont remember the names exactly.

And not to forget the screenplay of those days. They are picture perfect and dont loosely hung with loopholes. To be more specific i was dumbstruck seeing the movie SERVER SUNDARAM and the way each scene was dealt. There was clearly a thread woven for each and every scene.

Example from the movie

Nagesh's friend takes him to a production company for the chance. There when everyone teases he suddenly goes wild and acts mad. Then they realise that it was part of acting and praise him. One of the producer gives him advance for his next movie and when the other offers him , he cooly walks off asking him to meet him at his home.

If it was today's movie the scene would abruptly end there as if it was an hilarious scene. But when u look in the movie, the next scene begins like this....

Nagesh would be praying god to give him level-minded head so that he remains as he is now.At that time the friend comes home and would complain him of his behaviour towards the end at the production house. And the way he adjusted everything with the producer.

This sequence was utilised optimally for the next incident to follow.

Now, coming back to nagesh. I just can't stop raving about him even if he plays the bad guy in the movies like " Apoorva Sahodarargal, Cheran pandian and so".

His talent is not aptly recognised and not to mention about the awards.....

Even my kid rejoices his movies...............

I think that is the award which he has won.

Samaiyal

Man.......... Look at the transformation. Is this the girl who knew nothing but only to prepare buttermilk that too with loads of salt?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Before marriage

I have given lots of anxious moments to my grandmother in the kitchen. Though she complains that i never would do things on my own she actually never gave any chance. i was the apple of her eye.

1. I would actually wonder how these ladies are boiling milk and how they would know that it had come to the saturation point. This was mainly because my grandmother was using the "pal cooker" and it would give the whistle sound - an old model in which we have to pour water removing the cover of the whistle. Then she would ask me to reduce the flame. I would wonder how does on earth she knows when to switch it off. but would never dare to ask her because then if i was to learn it means i have to do and give it a try. Kitchen was a place for me to take my plate and wash my hands.

2. Then the next best thing was the rice. She had a small paaththiram in which she would cook 1 cup of rice for both of us. Actually this sort of samaiyal was only after the death of my grandpa. Previously it was a joint family and the samaiyal on the whole would be for not less than 20 people per session. This excludes the number of the guests which my uncle, grandpa and i would bring very often without notice.

One day all of a sudden she was sick and was hospitalised. Then after recovery she didnt want to be a burden for her daughter-in-laws who gave rasam and rice for 3 days. so she asked me to keep the rice in the cooker. She gave me all the instructions properly but not the most important one.

Bang.................... went the cooker touching the ceiling and missing me by few seconds. I was asked several questions but i replied everything with utmost confidence.

Atlast we discovered that i hadnot kept water in the cooker for the vessel to float????????????????????????????



After marriage

Now I can prepare a whole of feast even for a gathering of 10 -20 people. Thanks to LIFCO samaiyal puthagam and not to leave the internet.

She is dumbstuck with my transformation and lavishly praises to all my relatives about my culinary skills though not even once she admitted it to me.

This time the kara adai and the vella adai was perfect to the T. And i would give full 10/10. But the rava kesari was a tragedy this time.

Though my hubby never complains he enthusiastically would go a bit farther by eating and relishes each and every dish i make.

Though i can cook all items with little help from cook book my trademark is

1. Filter coffee
2. Samabar - both ordinary and arachuvittathu
3. Paruppu usili
4. Potato fry
5. vetha kuzhambu
6. Not the least payasam

Always this would be my menu if someone comes to my house. So if anyone is to visit my home my in-laws are so sure of the menu that they would surprise the guests with the name of the items served.

I have taken a oath to change the menu atleast for the next get-to-together.

Gooseberry alais nellikkai

The very word Gooseberry alais "nellikkai " in tamil kindled all my childhood memories not to be mentioned rather sweet ones.
The other day i was teachin my pre-school kid all the fruits both orally as well visually through CD ROM of fruit rhymes. Rather i should say i was educating myself all the english acronyms of the fruits which i hadn't heard of.
Fine, now back to our topic. We moved to our new house which is surrounded by whole bunch of trees which includes mango, gooseberry , guava, plantain and not to leave behind cocunut.
My kid was asking the name of the trees and i was very ashamed to tell him those rather lettin him to discover on his own. Then, there aroused my memories of how independent i was and playful which is very much not at all provided to this generation kids.

I grew up in the locality of independent houses where the apartments were not so much heard of though in the heart of the city that too near the shopping paradise of T.Nagar. We, the children would never be at home in the evenings and should i mention anything about the holidays? There was one this house a not so huge one but well surrounded by trees of which the nellikkai maram would occupy considerable space. The inmates of the house were so sweet that they would never close their gate and would never mind us play there. We would climb the trees and would have the nellikkai and play all sort of games over there which are not at all heard now-a-days.
We would sit on the tree and chat for hours together and u bet we wud get the salt and chilli mixture from the aunty of the house itself. All the boys and girls together would be around 10 and we would play ; paandi, dog and the bone , Nondi, help, lock and key, Thayam, pallankuzhi . All these games we would play with loud screams and laughter, and not even once that aunty had ever scolded us. She would also give us water to drink though our houses were the opposite ones.
I dont remember her face or name but we would address her as uthra aunty since there was a baby called uthra there.

Imagine now for putting my boy to sleep, i close all the windows, doors, and switch off my mobile and lower the volume of telephone.

HAS TIME CHANGED OR WE PEOPLE HAVE CHANGED.

Wish i would try being like uthra aunty.