'Are you hurt, or are you injured?'

One of the Pretty Little Liars quote which took my attention.

Jake, the martial arts teacher (Aria's date) asks Aria a question as she is still not out of her little situation. 

His question was whether she is injured or hurt? and goes on explaining that he would ask his students the same “If they’re injured, I’ll just send them home. But if they’re hurt, I’ll tell them to just shake it off and get back in the game.” 

A call that a sage advice :) 

Mufasa and Simba

I am a huge Lion King fan and can never get tired of all the three parts. Though, first one is my all time favourite :)

I always wondered how amazing such animations had been made in 1993-94. The story is very simple where the cub (Simba) is tricked into thinking he killed his father (King Mufasa), and runs away with a guilt. Later, he gets to know he was trapped and roars to all his problems and becomes the king.

Simba the cub is the cutest looking cub I have ever seen. Whoever they created him, dude(s) you are awesome. I am so grown and still can’t stop adoring Simba. The multiple reactions it gives when it’s happy, sad, confused, excited etc are brilliant to watch.

The famous sitcom F.R.I.E.N.D.S has a scene where Ross’s monkey Marcel hits the music player and ‘the lion sleeps tonight’ song plays (from Lion King). None can ever get tired of that song. OMG love that scene. Click here to check it out :)

It is magnificent to see cub Simba growing into a majestic Mufasa (his father). Those who have given voices for the lions have done an extraordinary job. The class and elegance is just immense. 

I pity this generation for not able to enjoy such exclusive animated movies. They have a lot of distraction. Still thanks to dvds, some day they can watch :)

Senseless Road Sense

Yesterday, I took a drive from my home to besi beach. The street lights were bright and breeze was just at the right amount to forget my worries. The roads were calm with people taking a quiet walk. I always prefer not honking near my neighbourhood nor flash high beams I know how annoying it will be for others. I was feeling lot relaxed with soothing ARR bgms being played in light mode, rolled up windows, just too calm unwinding (wahhhh what a feel) and there pops a distraction – A sharp blackout in my eyes due to a car which came vrooming in high beam.  I could not figure out which car it was. I nearly could not see anything, anything at all. The flash cut through my eyes and I had to stop in a corner to clear and get a better look of the road. I felt I was dipped in a photo negative room.

Now, my question is – what is the necessity for high beams, when you are not driving more than 40kms, when the street lights are bright and everything is clear on road? When there is no fog/rain? Why do drivers switch on that high beam?  Do these guys know the meaning of high beams? It irks me so much that I want to throw stone on the car glass (Annamalai Rajini Style)

The infuriation dint stop right there, some crook driver kept honking like crazy. I guess he lost his reflex sense, and kept his hands on the honk and never took them.  Crap if you wanna go so fast, gooooooooooo  –  you can happily overtake and hit yourself on a tree.  Stop creating nuisance on the road.

Thanks to such kind of people, I lost my peaceful drive. I wish one day high beamers will face the same and realise how ghastly it is. Just hope !!!

'Respond; Don't React'

We meet a lot of people in our day to day lives. There are things which catch focus on forever in our lives. One such incident happened to me during a meeting with my boss.

My boss was walking us through the work materials and during the session, she said a line that goes like  “RESPOND; DON’T REACT”. She said it in a client’s point of view. But this very line caught my head ever since she said it.

The phrase (RESPOND; DON’T REACT) is not just for business, it can be attributed to life too. There are many instances where people make us completely annoying and angry and some do it simply out of spite.  That’s when it struck me, how easy a problem can be ignored or solved by responding rather than reacting.

Its 100% difficult to follow as reacting will ease us more quickly than responding to jerks.  But, if we value the relationship with the person more than our pride, we could obviously give it a shot.
However, there are few specimens who knock our nerves to rip them off – for such kind of people this theory will not work except for few hard smacks :P

P.S Thank you Rama :) It was so valuable :)

My Cloud :)

Okay! It has been like zillion years since I stamped on my own blog. Its time to relive who I am by continuing my blogging.

I was quiet amazed by this new funky thing called 'Word Cloud' I din't know what it meant in the beginning, well thanks to google images.

It is really awesome to see the set of few hundred text coming together and depicting a cool image. I might be outdated in discovering this, yet, I feel this is an excellent feature which can be used on many things and wanted to share. We can have a theme based words put together and make an image out of it and put it up on anything we want. It looks simple, yet stylish.

I was just curious in making my own word cloud, but I dint have patience to think and jot down the words. So, I took my favourite song (James Blunt - Good bye my lover) pulled its lyrics to make my own word cloud. Bammmm !!! it turned out brilliant (at least for my eyes). Check out www.wordle.com to create your own word cloud. Trust me it will kill your time in a happy way :)

Here, I have created my own cloud :) totally worth it :) Have a nice day !

Madras to Bombay

During my school days I always wanted to visit Bombay, I also did but mostlly as a tourist. Today I am here in Bombay to spend few weeks with my dad and brother, now when I look back into those days…. the way I used to gaze at every single thing in the city with an excitement, I laugh at myself today…. Damn I have grown! Well Bombay has not changed, I have.

Madras is a land of ‘The Best Things’ – Well, everyone would say so about their land too; but Madras is always special.

Let me walk through a small comparison...

First thing I noticed entering the city, was the ambience outside the airport; it was so annoying to see so many cars, autos, buses, being clamped and congested. The road which leads to the main roads were crappy with the so called tall buildings alongside which look greyed out and the half constructed buildings drenched in rains. I was under the impression that Madras airport is the one with the least looks but I really regret for my thought “Madras is heaven”, the road which leads to the main roads into the city are huge and classy. There is nothing to complain about the view of the city from airport; it is definitely ‘Love at first sight’

In Bombay, which is a metro too, has majority of people speaking either in Marathi or Hindi or some other language and have little knowledge in English, it was so hard for a person like me who knows broken Hindi but still want the local people’s help. It is damn hard - whoever comes to Bombay should know basic Hindi at least to 20% or you will need a English to Hindi translation book or a person with you who knows both English and Hindi else you will be dumb and showing hands and suffering. Come to Madras, even the auto guys, bus drivers, conductors, flower vendor, vegetable vendor, porter, taxi drivers, restaurant guys, small road side shops and everyone in the city will guide you even if you speak in English, though not in great English but in a much understandable way… for sure language is no problem in Madras.

Festivals are amazing in Bombay, at this time; Visarjan is like the best festival one could watch and enjoy, I must admit that every state must learn from Bombay when it comes to celebrating festivals. Visarjan – immersion of Lord Ganesha on the 10^th day from the start of Vinayaka Chaturthi. 10^th day hungama is too huge; I have never seen such huge idol of Lord Ganesha in streets and people singing ‘Ganapathi bapa moriya’ in loud voices. It was fabulous with lots of colours, dance, sweets, drums and lots more.. Celebrations were throughout the night, it was splendid. Any person who comes to Bombay cannot resist this time of the year. Be it Navaratri and Diwali are back to back festivals of enjoyment, I can’t forget the music which kept rolling into my ears for straight 24 hrs. Dance and music are predominet for these people and here I see Punjabi, Gujarati, Jains, Tamils and many more mingle in one single place and tap their feet together. It was such a lovely sight to see all different cultures mingling. Hands down Bombay rules festivals. BUT sometimes there are so many mishaps while parading en route to sea for immersion, yet this happens everytime when there is a huge crowd, keeping all the negatives aside, Bombay is lovely in nights, the shops where they make hot jelebies, samosas, vada pav, oops I almost forgot pani poori, trust me, I have never tasted the most tangiest and yummiest pani poori anywhere in the world except in this place. Bombay is good for all types of eating stuff, you name it you have!! It’s right across the street.

I must also say rains in Bombay are heavenly; especially for any person who travels from Madras, not that we hardly see rain, but here its most nice, chilly, soothing and also calm. Sometimes rains are disturbing but most of the times it’s pleasant and cheerful.

Temples…. Everyone would expect me to say Mahalakshmi temple and Prabhadevi Siddivinayak temple are the best ones… (yes they are… ) however … Sriradi Sai Baba temples are THE BEST in Bombay. Even a small sriradi temple will look beautiful and neat. Speaking about Mahalakshmi temple, the road which leads to the temple is a real mess, people who come from south will surely not like the path leading to the temple. The main Mandir looks veryyyy beautiful with nice flooring and small small sweet stalls. Behind the Mandir there is a huge open space which gives the view of the Arabian sea, it is a must see sight. Breeze would take us to a different world with Mandir bells tingling along with the smell of agarpathi. Aaaaahhhh divine… the rocks behind the temple is always wet as the sea water splashes giving it an antique texture.

Next temple which I visited was Mumbadevi temple in Zaveri bazaar… yes the same place where there was a blast few weeks before my arrival… until I arrived to that temple I dint know it’s in Zaveri….OMG… I must thank GOD for bringing me home safe. My heart was beating higher and higher as I was nearing the temple, the reason is the whole of Zaveri bazaar is filled with Muslim population. I quickly got reminded of hey ram movie seeing that pace. Zaveri chowk the sickest place ever… yuckkkkkkkkk to the core… I really don’t know how they are maintaining a temple there. It is such a sensitive area; a small spark is enough to create so many probs.

On the other hand I was amazed when I went to Narashimar temple at chembur, I thought I am at Madras. The place has a huge population of tamizhs, it felt lovely to hear tamil archanai…. Waare wahh… Tamizh is beautiful. Also Murugan temple which is few streets away from Narashimar temple was much more beautiful with so many steps leading to the main sanctam. ‘Azhagu’ is the word seeing that temple.

Speaking about malls - in Bombay they are quiet good, the extravaganza is more.. but the quality and collections are all the same in every mall.. Just that there are many malls. Yet, I still feel Madras has equally best malls and the best shops. Nevertheless I love shopping for earrings in any place.

So to conclude, Chennai (yes the first time I am typing this) my gorgeous Madras is my home whatsoever is THE BEST and Mumbai, is good in its own way, just that it should look more high class for being a huge business hub for India and standing as an important metro.

I really miss living in Mumbai… I boarded the fight staring at the view of the city thinking one day I will live in this city which I treasured and enjoyed inch by inch… However........
“Sowgame endralum adhu nammura pola varuma” :)

Arun Shourie addressed on ‘Real Significance of Scams’

It was a cloudy Saturday morning with chill breeze striking my face and I was in 29c bus to reach chetpet for a speech addressed by Mr. Arun Shourie, Journalist, author and former union minister and Mr. Vittal former central vigilance commissioner on the topic ‘Real Significance of Scams’ at chinmaya heritage centre organised by Nani Palkhivala foundation. I knew the speech is going to be amazing and most interesting. Since my company is doing PR for Nani Palkhivala foundation i was the PR executive assigned for this event. This is my first political event. i was under the impression that very young guns would be seen in the crowd, but to my surprise i saw so many old grandfathers and grandmothers walking up to floors to listen to the speech. The crowd had gathering of retired IAS, IPS, Advocates etc, mostly above 60’s. Their involvement in this speech made me listen to the speech. As so many people came via lift I saw Mr. Arun Shourie climbing the stairs with a beaming smile at me in reception and proceeded to the hall...

People were still coming in groups; never i have heard any political speech, i was so anxious to know what he is going to speak. Usually for any event media would reach little late or sometimes never turn up, but this time i saw herds of media people specially TV channels and almost all the publications signing the media registration. My curiosity went sky high.

After all the registrations i finally entered the hall. Mr.VIttal was speaking about the scams. I am no great in understanding politics ever. For that fact i used to sulk in college to study politics and write an exam for 100 marks (which was totally a disaster) one good thing about my college days is that i got the habit of taking running notes whenever someone addresses the gathering. The same thing happened here also.

The main topic discussed here was the 2G spectrum scam. (1.76 crore scam by RAJA)

Well coming to the point Mr. Vittal made few statements which was very much informative... i would like to jot them as points.

• He said time has come to expose those who give bribe rather than those who receive them.
• 1961 of dowry act says both the giver and the taker are found guilty; the same thing could be done for scams also. Or take actions like the outcomes of chandrawadhana commission.
• Today the conviction rate of punishment in court is only 6% which means 94% of people get escaped.
• In our country we make laws with huge loopholes.
• When there can be law breakers? And why not law makers?
• Why should we have tainted ministers?
• This topic of ‘Real Significance of Scams ‘shows how systematically we are fooled by our constitution.
• In Hong Kong when they had corruption they had ICAC – Independent commission against corruption, which was aimed to clean up endemic corruption in the many departments of the Hong Kong Government through law enforcement, prevention and community education. The ICAC is headed by the Commissioner. Due to which the corruption rate got reduced.
• To see a change in our country there are two T’s important to fight corruption

1. TINA factor (There is no other alternative) – This would ensure guilty and punishment is given.

2.Transparency – this would ensure prevention of corruption

• CVC, CAG, Election commission and Judiciary should bring the TINA factor.

Then comes Mr. Arun Shourie he opened the topic by what Mr. Vittal had said. I will jot them as points too

• Mr. Vittal said there are huge loopholes in our constitution but I don’t see any Loops I see huge holes instead.
• Corruption is like a cancer in our country it should be killed soon else it would spread so much.
• He mentioned that if ministers are corrupt their assistants would do paper work for the ministers and later for them too, this would develop and corruption level goes high.
• He said Nira Radia is a great contribution to the society where there is an interlocking web of mutual complexity which is exposed through the record conversations
• Today reforms are becoming impossible and PM is operating in a system where he is unable to improve reforms. Also added that PM knew about these scams before but did nothing for about 2years.
• Further he said we should be very active else a corrupt person will rely on our laziness by not looking into the facts.
• There should not be any adjournments by court for any scams else they would keep piling and over a period of time people would forget it and new scam would come up.
• Two punishments should be given

1.Physical incarnation – should be put in jail

2.Barred from public life for life.

• He said not to believe everyone is a crook and do not get deflected by facts
• Today most honest people are being under investigation for scams, advice to those people would be, don’t feel bad because it is your duty to help the country
• Advice to Raja – stop following my footsteps and become a approver, even your leaders have said that a single person is not involved in any scam.

Well there the speech ends. These are the few important points i could make note of. Once the speech got over every television media circled Mr. Shourie and asked zillion questions like are you ready to face the CBI, was your ministry clean when you were union minister and all that. He had answered positively for those questions.

What i was amazed was i had seen media being gathered to one person only in TV.. When I saw so many of them climbing up to the stage and asking question i was amazed. I was standing much interested in knowing what Mr. Shourie is speaking rather than the media crowd, so i was rounding that small speech trying to listen sharp. I felt happy sharing the same stage of Mr. Arun Shourie.

That day event was so damn educative. I had zero knowledge in politics before now it has grown a little; I hope I would follow about this spectrum scam if not other scams...