Subramaniapuram…

… is the tamizh film of the year. No movie this year has been this good and nothing in sight is going to beat this.

Wake up…

… and sail away from the safe harbour!

Sheet happens!

Overheard at work today:

There are many sheets in this excel file. First sheet reminds us of our responsibilities. Second sheet is the list of tasks to be carried out. Third sheet discusses planning. Fourth sheet is an amalgamation of the first three sheets. The sheets are ok till now. But the stuff gets too heavy fifth sheet onwards. This is too much for the day even for a strong and diligent man like me. I might need to drop those sheets after all.

Seems like a routine project meeting, right. Not when you are bored at work and looking for some entertainment. So just imagine the fun when the speaker missed the stress on the ‘ee’ part of the word ’sheet’. Happens!

Take my breadth away…

… is my friend’s theme song for the gym. I dismissed it as a two-dimensional illusion.

I Stray VI

Sophisticated software will not work in Kaiyendi Bhavans. It will always return a ‘Server not found’ error!

Revolving Doors…

… get you nowhere, especially when life comes a full circle.

I Stray V

Goundamani: Dei Gearbox thalaya! Two wheeler license kedaikka enna da pannanum?

Senthil: Ettu podanum Nei.

Goundamani: Apdiya. Appo Andhra Meals Hotella license kedaikkanumna Pesar-Ettu podanuma.

Senthil: Ponga Nei. Ettu eppadi ne pesum?

ZZZimple

Came across this well written piece in Slate, and could not agree more. I have always been a night owl and have never possessed the ‘good’ habit of getting up early in the morning.

But as an honest consultant, I have a solution that can help all of you night owls, bats and cockroaches kick that nasty habit of sleeping late and waking up late. Move to a country, whose timezone lags yours by the offset needed by you. For example, if you are used to waking up at 10am and want to get up at 6.30am, get a job in a country in which the time is 3.5 hrs behind yours. Simple, no!

I am in Italy and I find that I have been able to wake up really early in the morning. I also sleep at 11pm local time, since I usually find it hard to get sleep before 2am when I am in India. So all of you Indians who want to wake up early, please come to Italy.

But the disclaimer here is that you should cleverly manipulate your body’s biological clock in such a way that you never get used to the local time. If that happens, then we are back to square one again, and I see that I am gradually getting there. Not as simple as we thought.

So the moral is to solve a problem, a consultant who is honest alone wont do, he should be good too. But can a good consultant be honest? Doesnt it go against the grains? Am sleepy now. Go figure!

Gmail Ettrappattadhu

That Gmail is now available in most Indian languages is old news. I tried the Tamizh version. The translations are super-duper, which makes the routine of emailing much more fun. If you have not tried gmail in your mother tongue, please do it now. I have been using the Tamizh version for the last 2 weeks and I have no plans to switch back to English anytime soon.

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My favourite is ‘Thalaippu Illai’ for ‘No subject’. Makes one wonder ‘Ravikkaiyaavadu irukkirada?’

Shahrukh licks Aamir’s feet…

… says Aamir Khan’s blog.

Shahrukh is licking my feet and I am feeding him biscuits every now and then. What more can I ask for?

Now, before you jump to any conclusions let me add that Shahrukh is the name of our dog. And before you jump to any further conclusions let me add that I had nothing to do with naming him. In fact Shahrukh is the dog of the caretakers of our house. When I bought this house it came with the caretakers and their dog!

Well Shahrukh is once again begging for my attention, so let me get back to him. He is smelling too much, I think he needs a bath. “Heel boy, heel.”

The fun when these guys get going at each other. Now am waiting for SRK to create a blog and start hamming.

On a related note, I wish someone had given the ‘needs a bath’ advice to our own Vijay. He looks like someone who has not ventured into a bathroom for ages. Talk about maintaining an image for the fans. Heh!