Category: Personal

The Proposal


propose-leap-year_6_444354aOne of my good friend called me and said he has got two proposals. He was happy that a girl proposed him and I was happier than him because I had good reason to ask him a treat. So today we went out for a movie and I thought it would apt to take him to the movie The Proposal.

I don’t want to talk more about that because it is someone’s personal and I didn’t get my friends permission to post even a bit of information he shared him (anyways pal if you read this blog don’t get hot because I didn’t specify your name :d).

Now I’m thinking how it would be if as girl has proposed me. Unfortunately not a single girl proposed me till date and not sure if I’d get that opportunity. I’m sure I’d have cherished if I had such an experience.

Thought I’ve approached girls for date and been successful couple of occasions I still envy people who got proposal from girls and strive to under go the experience.

Anyways let me not leave hope and keep my fingers crossed and wait for the lucky girl.

ICICI Bank and irony continues…


Again my irony with ICICI bank continues. I posted a blog showcasing my experience with them. You can this blog http://www.anandnataraj.com/me-icici-cibil for more info.

clip_image001Now I received this letter from ICICI bank on 22nd July 2009 which says a Lien was attached on my account for non payment my credit card. It further said they will be doing it within a week from the time they have dated the letter and I received the letter after a week. By that time the money was taken from my account on 21st July 2009. Also in the last line they have specified to call their representative Saravathi specifying two phone numbers that too without an STD code. When I tried calling those number from my mobile which is from Chennai region I got Error on connection. I assume that number is a Mumbai number, but I didn’t try coz I thought it was unnecessary to make an STD call and waste my money.

What surprised me is all this problem happened during the year 2005 and I made a settlement during 2007 and four years from the problem they have taken money from my account and even after two years of making the settlement they have not taken my name from defaulters list. Which means still my name is listed in CIBIL. Thought I didn’t apply for loan recently my credibility has been put on stake for mistake on the part of bank. Even on the first time it was not my mistake but I didn’t want to make it an issue. But again for the second time this Bank has proved they are irresponsible.

I’d like to get help of you readers to take the bank on all possible ways and I’d like to have your experience and thoughts. You can help me by giving

  • Legal opinion
  • Possible methods we can take the bank like thru media, legal, ombudsmen etc.
  • Please let me know if you know anyone from media and would like to expose banks irresponsible acts which causes trauma to customers.
  • Also feel free to post it in your blog, share this in twitter and other social media methods.  

Though the amount is not that big for me it created some issues to me are 

  • Paying attorneys which wasted my money
  • Had to call and inform everyone whom I issued to Cheque to stop doing it and then adjust them which has wasted time and caused unnecessary mental agony.

I want to take the bank and expose their act because banks don’t understand the value of a customer and they take us for granted.

Here is the scanned copy of settlement letter and transaction receipt issued by bank two years back.

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My friend met with acccident..


One of my best mates met with an accident 2 weeks back near Trichy en route to Kodaikanal. It all happened because the driver slept and let the vehicle in a pit. My friend suffered a fracture in the nose and is still recovering from it. Also one of his friends fractured his legs. After coming out from this my friend emailed me the snaps of his vehicle. I know how he worked hard to buy it and the joy in his face was over helming. But today I can see the sadness in his face. He is more worried that his vehicle is no more. But I’m happy that he is safe. Here are the snaps of the vehicle.

  

Driving to Bangalore


One of my friends has got an interview call from a company in Bangalore and the company has promised to reimburse him the petrol charge for driving to Bangalore. So we thought we can club that opportunity for a tour to Mysore or GOA.

So we are driving to Bangalore tonight and will be deciding where we will be up to once his interview gets over. As usual planning for drive his so high and I’m carrying a Red & White WINE bottle.

As usual we will be having our dinner at Khaja Restaurant Ambur. Other than that we have not planning much on how to spend time in Bangalore but for sure it will have a visit to Forum / Garuda Mall and I’ll have a tattoo sprayed for sure.

Sri Iyappan Tiffin Center Snaps


Finally took snaps of Sri Iyappan Tiffin Corner, Madurai. It is a small shop 10 * 10 shop which can server 8 people at a time and it is managed by one Chef who is also the owner of the shop. He is a multi skilled personality and he has some 4 stove and cooks 4+ items at a time and also he can take order and can mentally remember the items consumed by each customer and can make calculations. There are around 40 types of dosas and egg dishes and the center has been covered in Madurai edition of The Hindu. If you are in Madurai or visiting Madurai I recommend you to visit this eggiterian hotel which is open only at nights. If you need assistance for land mark kindly contact me.

For your convenience we have designed a route map (RSVP) to Sri Aiyappan Tiffin Corner.

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Address: No: 35 , Pandia Vellalar Street,Madurai- 625001.

Hurdles


Off late I’m challenged with lots of hurdles and I think it would be interesting to overcome them… 

  • Yesterday I wanted to blog about Palakkad experience from my uncle’s house and MS-Word really gave me tough time to make my previous post. I think system was affected by some work and when I type a work it will open a new document, file save option, save document, changing the alignment etc. at last with lot of difficulty I made the blog post.
  • Then setting up firewall in office has become a challenge right from the beginning and still we are working on it. Hope we will finish it by the end of next week.
  • Then wanted to make a blog post with the snaps I took from Sri Iyappan Tiffin center and there is some mess-up in the server and unable to upload photos. Now itz time to look into the issue.
  • Wanted to update WordPress to latest version 2.8.2, it asked me to take a backup of DB and files but my host was doing some maintenance and was unable to do that instantly.
  • Yesterday night suffered from insect bits and was unable to sleep well. So in the morning had to wash all the bed spreads and pillow mattress. When I wanted to start the washing work the washing place was full of mud and I had to clean that before starting the washing work. Thought I finished that work it irritates when we have some unexpected things before the work we want to do.
  • Then I asked for mobile charger from office admin and after an hour there was no response and again I had to call back to get it and that to from my BDE. Such small things affect the flow of our work thought they look simple and small.

For now let me sit and fix up things which can be finished by today.

Last three days


Last three days have been really exciting. This is the first time I’m sitting without much work in Madurai. Thank to our new CTO Kannan who has taken the responsibility of streamlining things. I thought I can spend a week in my fitness for a week and then go back to Chennai and concentrate in raising capital for Cogzidel.

For last two days I’m living just by eating white portion of egg and working out for 2 hours. This prompted Kannan to compete with me unsuccessfully. He stared with a strict diet for a day and gave it up the very next day.

Yesterday night thought of giving up my diet and thought of eating Dosas which made Kannan excited that I’m breaking my diet. Fortunately for me (unfortunately for Kannan) that Dosa shop was closed and I had to continue with my diet.

To the envy of Kannan I’m following my diet till date and hope to continue the same atleast for a month.

At last Joy in Madurai


It has been 10 months since I’ve been visiting Madurai and initial 2 month have been great struggle to catch up with the culture. Also added up to the irony the city was deprived of Multiplexes and MNC food joints / boutique food joints. In these 10 months I’ve experimented tasting lots of family run food joints and did a lot of Vagabond trips to locations near to Madurai.

Also for last two months I had to postpone my Vagabond travelling because of summer and still pinch of summer is severe.

Starting from next month I’ll start my weekend vagabond trips and the places in the list are; 

  • Rameshwaram
  • Kuttralam
  • Valparai
  • A days stay in KaniyaKumari

DSC01186DSC01188Apart from this there is a brand new coffee shop opened in Anna Nagar which has a great ambiance and menus are also good. Also it is not crowded yet and I really enjoy visiting this joint.

By the end of August Millennium Mall will be open for public and it has 3 screen multiplex.

 

DSC01182DSC01184Also 2 weeks back Big Cinemas has opened 2 screen multiples which is screening Hindi & English movies and also the ambience is nice and place is clean.

At last I feel a sense of relief as I might not feel bored during evenings and weekends.

Toddy Tasting


When ever I’m in Madurai one thing I never miss tastes Padaneer (Palm Wine). I can’t say tasting as I use to have 4-5 glass of it mainly to beat the heat wave. Palm wine is a seasonal drink which is available between March – June of every year.

DSC01198DSC01203I normally go to this vendor in the picture to have the drink and he has become my friend. It is sad that he will have his shop only for next one week as season has come to and end. The real fun in having padaneer from his shop is the consuming it the traditional way palm leaf along with Palm jelly and one must experience the taste.

The person who sells this drink says he use to lease some 100 trees from government and is producing this Palm Wine. He says they are into this business for last 40 years and it was started during his father’s days and he has taken over from his father for last two years. He says he will be into this business for 3 months and remaining 9 months he works as a Painter in Coimbatore.

He says when he was a kid palm trees and tree climbers were in abundant. Because of this demand for pal was very less. But over the times palm trees have drastically come down because of highway projects, road widening, canal projects etc.

Also palm tree climbers have started taking other profession as the scope for this profession is not that exciting. So he says demand for Palm wine / Jelly has risen drastically.

My body is prone to heat boils during summer. Since this drink is not available in Chennai normally I use to have Jaljeera water & Cucumber a lot. But this time in Madurai I has real Palm wine for the first time and also drank to the extent I wanted to. It really helped to cool down my body heat and prevented me from heat boils this time. Let me cherish this wonderful drink to the maximum until it comes to a close for the season.

One day happiness!!!


I generally have liking for pets, birds and fish. Of those three I was a fish breeder and I’ve had enough experience when it comes to fish. Regarding pet also i went against my mom and brought my present companion Mr.Burger Boy by beloved doggie.

But birds was a distant dream coz I new my mom will go crazy if I bring one as my mom is against caging birds. So, I didn’t have it even in the corner of my heard to have one. But here in Madurai I’m all alone and I can live a life which I love. Simply here in Madurai I’m what I’m.

So in a fraction of a minute while driving home I thought I must buy a bird and immediately I enquired where I can get birds in Madurai. I was told it is available in market and immediately I went to birds market. I was amazed to see different varieties of birds.

In the stack I really like this particular variety of bird called Cockatiel it looked really loveable and the shop keeper told me it costs Rs.1000/- and the cage will cost Rs.350/- without any bargain or thinking I collected cast from ATM and brought the birds and kept it in my cabin yesterday night.

Night I spent mostly playing with them and in spite of warning from shop keeper not to catch the bird until it gets connected with me. He said by feeding and talking to it daily will make it get accustomed with me and it will come without any fear.

But out of excitement I tried to catch one from cage and brought it out. In the process I didn’t know how to catch it and I caught it using itz tail and when it tried to fly the tail came out separately in my hand. I got scared upon enquiring I was told tail will grow in 2 – 3 months time and only then I got relieved from the guilt of hurting a bird. Then in the process to catch it back and put it in the cage became a tedious process and when I tried to catch it, it bit my fingers strongly eventually leading to bleeding.

Then I went for dinner and for a movie with a happily. In the morning that happiness was short lived. My HR Mr.Boopathi said having caged birds will bring bad vibes and he said that is not good. Also I got same thought from Major’s mom. Though I don’t buy their point as the shop keeper who sold me the bird makes a living by selling these birds. Also some of my friends are having caged birds from my childhood days and they are doing well.

But I didn’t want to hurt their sentiments and decided to give those birds. And fortunately my office admin said he has liking for such birds and he said he will take care of it. Atleast I was happy that bird is in the hands of someone who is really close and I can get a peep at it when ever I think.

So my happiness is not very short lived and it didn’t last even a day but I have a contention that I was a proud owner of two loveable birds for at least 4 – 5 hours.

So these are some snaps taken and you can have a look at my cute babies which I gave for adoption :(…