Category: Personal

Roads of Sewage


Yesterday on reaching Periyar bus stop in Madurai we decided to take a walk to house. It was fun walking with friends discussing agenda for the trip.

After planning to revive People Justice my eyes blinks at something that creates news. While walking on Ellis Nagar bridge I came across this street filled with sewage water.

I don’t know how people live in this locality which is polluted and hazards to live. Already Madurai has enough mosquitoes and survey tells mosquitoes in Madurai drink 5000 liters of blood a day.

After People Justice is back I’d definitely want to work for the welfare of people.

In Thiruporur Register Office


After a long Thursday’s work I went home by 6.30 AM on friday. Then after taking a nap for 3 hours I drove to thiruporur a place that ends Old Mahabalipuram Road.

I’m here to collect Certified True copies of my property which I need to process a loan.

I use to visit this place during college days and it was a village those days. I’m stratled to see elite houses and entire demography of the place changed.

Now I got all necessary documents and I must thank my friend for makeing the process simple.

Another important aspect of the place is; it has a temple for Lord Muguga and it is here LTTE supremo Velupillai Prabakaran got married.

Safety at Risk


Yesterday I drove to office with lot of challenge and one experience was irritating and risky. I was teased by a van who didn’t allow me overtake him.

Also he was carrying loads of PVC pipes, those pipes stretched beyond without a reflector. Also he drove crazy risking people traveling behind him.

Our crazy corrupt cops catch poor two wheeler riders to such van drivers who give a dawn to safety.

Challenging day


Yesterday evening I was driving to office. It was a hectic day as I was attending calls non-stop. Then when I went to take my car a truck was parked in front of our gate and I had to wait for 10 min until the driver came back.

I drove some 500 meters just to realize that I forgot to take my wallet. Then had to return home to pick my wallet.

Then I realized I had to fill gas and I had to loose 5 min on the bunk.

Then the irony of dealing with mad drivers and unruly pedestrians. Finally reaching office was a big challenge.

At Aavin Adyar


I’m waiting opposite to Aavin parlor in adyar. I think I’ve to write about this place as my mother use to say that she use to hangout with her friends during 1970’s.

She use to tell me a 1000 times that she use to drink a flavored milk for 25 paisa (today it costs Rs.10/-).

Then as a kid I use to come here to have my favorite ice-creams and flavored milks.

Then this became a spot when I was in college and till date.

This has become a place of history and to my knowledge it exists for 4 decades.

Since I was waiting here I thought I can do something useful by sharing the bond I carry for this place. Also I wanted to experiment adding image to a blog post through mobile. You have to excuse for the dark image as I’ve to explore using camera with mu BlackBerry.

Banking @ 4 AM


For last two months it was all financial mess and thanks to Paypal and some under performance. Because of financial issues i had to forgo my salary for last two months. This has resulted in me using my card and some messy financial management.

I know i musth have been more careful in planning my finance during this time. Because of all those mess i forgot all my monthly commitments and it resulted in last minute syndrome and i had to settle all my bills at last moment.

One such thing is one of my EMI which i’ve given Standard Charted Bank account for  ECS and i just remembered about the commitment. Thanks to SCB’s 24 hour banking because of which i went and made a deposit of nine thousand by 4 o clock in the morning and this is what i did last month also and many other times in the past.

Thanks to the flexibility offered by banks for making me too tardy.

New-sense by Tempo Parkers


Almost a year back a house on our street has been leased as a godown to a retailer. They use tempo’s to transport the stock to their store. But this has turned to a new-sense for the residence as they are parking the tempo on the roads which makes it difficult for four wheelers.

Also there was an irony with metro water who have dug one half of our road and made it difficult to drive. When i came home from work by 3 AM i got irritated as one half was not usable and even the other half because of the tempo driver.

Look at the they way they have made it. I think it is time to take serious action against them. I’m planning to initiate to get a signature from all other residence and post a complaint with the police station.

Also i want to take a snap as a proof to see the difficulties faced by residence;

Birthday Treat for college buddies


What is a birthday without offering treat. I had to honor 3 treat on my birthday and one such treat was dinner for College & School buddies.

I always feel happy to be with my college buddies Vicky, Kuruvi & Sudhir which is a brotherhood’ly friendship. After a lot of confusion we finalized with Copper Chimney and as a strange surprise i was the first to be there.

Thing have changed a lot where in during college days friends use the be there before the person who is offering the treat. Those days offering a treat was forced and compelled one. These days it was a opportunity to have a get-together and time to have fun pulling each other.

After a long time of fun it was time to document the moment and here are the snaps. And i must thank guys for make it a memorable day.

My Birthday Party


This is a post which i must have made a week back. But because of hectic schedule i had to wait for long to make many posts.

One important post which i must share is that of my Birthday party. It all started on 24th a day before my birthday which is on February 25th. I know my sister would have planned a surprise and i wanted to prank her. So i asked Balaji to book tickets for some movie.

Then the evening as a coincidence my sister came home the same time i reached with a cover and there were lots of covers with cakes in kitchen i realized there is something special going to happen.

Then i told my mother and sister that i already planned for a movie with Balaji and immediately i got a call from Balaji telling his fiance has lost the ring he has got him. Initially i thought it was a prank made by Balaji. But when i came to know really the ring was lost i felt sorry for her.

Then my mom asked me to bring a bucket from terrace and when i went it was a surprise. To see Cake, my uncle, aunty, cousin brothers and sisters & Balaji handling the camera as usual. Then it was fun and time to shoot some snaps.

Then on coming down to home was surprised to see my college buddies Mr & Mrs. Vignesh, Sathish & Sudhir and it was all surprise and it is all planned by my sister. The came with Cake and gift and they took me back to my birthday we celebrated on 2000. I feel guilty that i never did anything special for her.

Then came a surprise gift from my mother, Balaji & sister. It was a Blackberry and today it is of big use as I’m not wasting time. Even when I’m in my rest room I’m making the time productive :). Thanks a lot guys.

Finally it was my sister who has won the day as she made it more memorable and she broke all my tricks to make prank of her.

Missing


I’m almost about to complete 3 decades on this earth. Firstly i can’t believe how fast days have run as i still keep thinking that I’m just out of school as i still keep thinking about my Farewell party thought it has been 13 long years.

On rewinding back to the past it it mixed with Joy & Bitter experience. Some of the bigger bitter experience has always been loosing good friends who has to part ways for several reasons ranging from reasons like Career, Quarrel, Family etc.

I also miss the golden Schooling days and College days. Today i got an opportunity to sit alone and think back the past and cherish the golden moments which i’ve come across.

I remembered how i bunked classes for playing cricket and for watching movie, fighting for barring first & for a extra bite of samosa, how 3-4 guys travel in a 50CC bike, planning all crook methods to pass an exam et more.

There are several friends who have come across in my life but some are really special and live close to heart. Of them i miss these folks;

  • Vignesh (Thankfully he is back from US)
  • Balaji Murali
  • Aravind
  • Balaji Kandan (Don’t know if he has time for me after marriage 😦 )
  • Kuruvi
  • Sudhir
  • Senthil Nathan
  • Prabha
  • Biju
  • Anand
  • Stalin

Though i’ve good number of friends i miss the above list as i’ve spend some memorable moments with them and no longer they have the same time for me these days.

Now times pass and there are bunch of new friends who fill the gaps. But there can be no replacement as each one contributed to my happiness in their own way.

When ever i get an opportunity to meet these folks i never missed the opportunity to meet them. Latest in the list being Stalin & Anand whom i met at Stalin’s engagement.

Now it is time to think more about the golden days and have a dream where i can be with my missing buddies.