படித்ததில் பிடித்தது

ஒன்பதரை மணி காலேஜிக்கு
ஒவ்வொருத்தனா கெளம்பும் போது
ஒருத்தன் மட்டும் தூங்கிகிட்டிருப்பான்
ஒன்பது இருபது ஆகுற வரைக்கும் …

அடிச்சி புடிச்சி கெளம்புறப்போ
அரை குறையா குளிச்சதுண்டு
பத்து நிமிஷ பந்தயத்துல
பட படன்னு சாப்டதுண்டு

பதட்டதோட சாப்பிட்டாலும்
பந்தயத்துல தோத்ததில்ல,
லேட்டா வர்ற நண்பனுக்கு
பார்சல் மட்டும் மறந்ததில்ல!

விறுவிறுன்னு நடந்து வந்து
காலேஜ் Gate நெருங்குறப்போ
‘வெறுப்படிக்கிதுடா மச்சான் ‘னு
ஒருத்தன் பொலம்பி தொலச்சாக்கா,
வேற எதுவும் யோசிக்காம
வேகவேகமா திரும்பிடுவோம்
வெட்டியா ரூம்ல அரட்டை அடிக்க ,
இல்ல ‘KG’ தியேட்டர்ல படம் பாக்க!

‘கஷ்டப்பட்டு ‘ காலேஜிக்கு போனா
கடங்கார professor கழுத்தறுப்பான்.. .
assignment எழுதாத பாவத்துக்கு
நாள் முழுக்க நிக்கவச்சி தாக்கறுப்பான் !

கேலி கிண்டல் பஞ்சமில்ல,
கூத்து கும்மாள குறையுமில்ல,
எல்லாருக்கும் சேத்துதான் punishment ன்னா
H.O.Dய கூட விட்டதில்ல!

ஈ அடிச்சான் காபி இந்தபக்கம்னா
அத அடிப்பான் காபி அந்தபக்கம் …
ஒருத்தன் மட்டும் படிச்சிட்டு வந்து
ஒன்பதுபேர் பாஸ் ஆனதுண்டு!

பசியில யாரும் தவிச்சதில்ல
காரணம் – தவிக்க விட்டதில்ல…
டீக்கடையில கடன்வச்சி குடிச்சாலும்
சரக்கடிக்க பஞ்சமே வந்ததில்ல!

அம்மா ஆசையா போட்ட செயினும்
மாமா முறையா போட்ட மோதிரமும்
fees கட்ட முடியாத நண்பனுக்காக
அடகு கடை படியேற அழுததில்ல …

சட்டைய மாத்தி போட்டுக்குவோம்
சாதி சமயம் பாத்ததில்ல,
மூஞ்சிமேல காலபோட்டு தூங்கினாலும்
முகவரி என்னன்னு கேட்டதில்ல!

படிச்சாலும் படிக்கலன்னாலும்
பிரிச்சி வச்சி பாத்ததில்ல…
அரியர்ஸ் வெச்சாலும் வெக்கலன்னாலும்
அந்தஸ்த்து பாத்த ஞாபகமில்ல!

வேல தேடி அலையுறப்போ
வேதனைய பாத்துப்புட்டோம்
‘வெட்டி ஆபிஸர் ‘னு நெஜமாவே
மாறி மாறி சிரிச்சிகிட்டோம்!

ஒருத்தன் மட்டும் சம்பாதிக்க ஆரம்பிச்சு
ஒன்பது பேரும் உக்காந்து சாப்பிட்டப்போ
மனசு கட்டபொம்மனா நண்பனுக்கு நன்றி சொல்ல
கண்ணு எட்டப்பனா கண்ணீர் சிந்தி காட்டி குடுக்கும் …
பக்குவமா இத கண்டும் காணாம
நண்பன் தட்டி கொடுக்க நெனைக்கிறப்போ
‘சாப்பாட்ல காரம்டா மச்சான்’ னு
சமாளிச்சி எழுந்து போவோம்…

நாட்கள் நகர,
வருஷங்கள் ஓடுது,
எப்போதாவது மட்டுந்தான் இ-மெயிலும் வருகுது
“Hi da machan… how are you?” வுன்னு …

தங்கச்சி கல்யாணம்,
தம்பி காலேஜி,
அக்காவோட சீமந்தம்,
அம்மாவோட ஆஸ்த்துமா,
personal loan interest,
housing loan EMI,
share market சருக்கல்,
appraisal டென்ஷன்,
இந்த கொடுமையெல்லாம் பத்தாம
‘இன்னிக்காவது பேச மாட்டாளா?’ ன்னு
இஞ்சிமறப்பா போல ஒரு காதல்,
.
.
.
எப்படியோ வாழ்க்க ஓடுது ஏடாகூடமா,
நேரம் பாக்க நேரமில்ல போதாகாலமா!

இ-மெயில் இருந்தாலும்
இண்டர்னெட் இருந்தாலும்
கம்பெனியில ஓசி phone இருந்தாலும்
கையில calling card இருந்தாலும்
நேரம் மட்டும் கெடைக்கிறதில்ல
நண்பனோட குரல கேக்க
நெனச்சாலும் முடியறதில்ல
பழையபடி வாழ்ந்து பாக்க!

அலைபேசி இருந்தும் அழைக்க முடியாம போனாலும்
orkut இருந்தும் scrap பன்ன முடியாம போனாலும்
‘available’ ன்னு தெரிஞ்சும் chat பன்ன முடியாம போனாலும்
‘ஏண்டா பேசல?’ ன்னு கோச்சிக்க தெரியல..
இத பெரிய பிரச்சனையா யோசிக்கவும் முடியல!

கல்யாணத்துக்கு கூப்பிட்டு
வரமுடியாமா போனாலும்,
அம்மா தவறின சேதி கேட்டதும்
கூட்டமா வந்தெறங்கி,
தோள் குடுத்து தூக்கி நிறுத்தி
பால் எடுத்தவரை கூட இருந்து
சொல்லாம போக வேண்டிய இடத்துல
செதுக்கிவச்சிட்டு போன என் தோழர்கள்
தேசம் கடந்து போனாலும்
பாசம் மறந்து போகாது!
பேசக் கூட மறந்தாலும்
வாசம் மாறி போகாது!
வருஷம் பல கழிஞ்சாலும்
வரவேற்பு குறையாது!
வசதி வாய்ப்பு வந்தாலும்
‘மாமா’ ‘மச்சான்’ மாறாது!

 

Ads – Social Cause in a nutshell

Hi

I was pretty impressed by a recent mail I got which had some brilliant Advertisements, I have short listed some, mainly the ones which speaks for a social cause.

Ad industry has been growing in technology and creativity year after year. Just an ad with a big celebrity doesn’t touch the heart of people.

Save trees to see a bright future

Anti Smoking

I just became a fan for this brilliant Ad

Practise Charity

Donate eyes

Dont drink and drive

Global Warming Effect

Plant More Trees

Some ads which I still remember right from my child hood are,

1. Nirma Washing powder – A good rhym like song
2. Fevicol ads – Many good ones here – Eg. Unbreakable egg laid by hen eating grain from fevicol basket. 
3. Colgate – The tag “Preferred by Dentist” has made the toothpaste so popular
4. Complan – Focussing on the growth of height – Will tempt parents who need children to grow fast.
5. Rasna – The cute girl
6. Preethi mixie – in Tamil Nadu – “Preethi ku naan guarantee”
7. Titan – Brand Music
8. Airtel – Right from mobile to Digital TV now – The AR Rahman magic music has lifted its brand
9. Saint Gobain – The Monk puffing out air to find the glass and the washing woman throwing water to clean the glass
10. Vodafone – Hutch dog – “Wherever you go, our network follows”
11. Boost – Boost is the secret of my energy – Our energy – Made cricket fans (esp Sachin fans like me) kids to go for it – They also often promote the brand by giving Cricket bat and ball for it. I ve even waited very patiently for it and insisted my parents to go for Boost coz of this.
12. Lion Dates – Ads palyed a huge role when the Dates business was just on – Again in tamil – “Singam pola strength enakku”
13. Gold Winner oil 
14. Garnier – Take Care
15. Raymond – The complete Man – Classy ad impressing the big boys.
16. Fair & Lovely – Fairnes in 6 weeks – I dont think any middle class and up home would have been without this product before the recent surge in cosmetic industry.

I have  a small poll here to choose your favourite ad of the above mentioned. You can choose multiple choices too. 

Cheers,

CK.

 

Green Book, Digantar, Jaane Tu, Kaaki Sattai

Dear buddy

I am getting little bored nowadays and not getting the mood to write posts.. Unlike the prev post, there glowed a bulb in my mind to write a post on the topic. This post is just to share some info, experiences and my new interests.

Coming to the info part,

1. Green Book

More and more campaigning are going in many parts of the world for Energy saving and Carbon emission curbing.. I came across an interesting book, a ebook and a green boook, which I hope we all must go through and try to use as much as we CAN.

http://www.morganstanley.com/about/community/littlegreenebook/

2. Digantar.

An article about a new schooling method in India. How a couple’s desire for building a school with REAL LIFE learning and methods, helped bring down Female illiteracy of 98% down to 12% in a remote village. I liked the primary concept of equalities among the casts, only when a child grows with all level of families of income, he/she (Thanks to Naga 🙂 ) does knows what is real world.

See the today’s rich adults., many of the adults who have been grown up in international public schools, TILL AN AGE, does not know what is the value of the money. How a Rs. 1500 note given for a ‘Bowling’ session + Food can help feed a whole orphanage for a meal. The environment they grow, from child hood to rich schools, which charge 1 or 2 Lakh / Annum for <blah blah> they does not know the real pain a co existing child gets to work for earning his daily bread. If you justify it is of personal interest and for entertainment, and why should I alone care for it, you are perfectly Irresponsible.  I dont blame all such adults, there are people from their stature doing many good support activities for under previleged. Hats off to them.

Well, too much of my words, read the article.

http://epaper.timesofindia.com/Default/Scripting/ArticleWin.asp?From=Archive&Source=Page&Skin=TOI&BaseHref=TOICH/2008/08/03&PageLabel=2&EntityId=Ar00200&ViewMode=HTML&GZ=

Coming to the experience part,

I happened to watch (the more appropriate word would be MOVED BY) a movie I watched recently, Jaane Tu. I like the movie very much,

• not alone because of the great enthusiasm it brought out soon after watching the movie.
• not alone because of the crisp and cool humor in Father Son sentiment and Dialogue
• not alone because it makes me feel, ‘Where s my Love?’.. Well I ll need to put a * here
• not alone because Genelia is one of my favourite heroins.

There are many reasons why I liked it.

My new interests….

To be frank, I am very poor in movies stuff., be it old tamil movies, or famous Engish movies or Block buster Hindi movies, I have seen very choosy movies. And since ipo neraya neram konjam vetti ah irukarathunala, I have recently started colleting a lot of movies which I can watch in that time..

Present list I ve bought and yet to watch is (You can see various Genres)

1. Die Hard I, II
2. Wanted
3. Schindler’s list
4. Juno
5. Kung fu Panda (missed to watch in Theatre)
6. Forrest Gump
7. Old James bondmovies (First 007)
8. Dil to Pagal Hai
9. Kabhi kushi Kabhi Gam
10. Kaho naa pyar hai
11. Rang De Basanthi
12. Maha Nadihan 😉
13. Kaaki Sattai
14. Sarkar ( I watched Sarkar Raj, inspired by its dialogues I ve bought this)

And some more movies I forgot.. Konjam konjama paakalam.. Mudunja ethachum review panren.

Sari, indha varathuku aruvai potachu nenakaren.

* Conditions Apply. No comments or questions reg this please 😉

CK.

 

When will I light myself ?

On a pleasant tuesday afternoon . . .

Normally the narrations begin with the title as ‘A fine sunday morning’ or ‘A fine rainy day’ for a pleasant story. But things has made me to title this post with a fine tuesday afternoon. Yes, the job shifts are taking a toll on my personal life. This evening brought me nostalgia about my pleasant child hood and my future dreams.

On a fine tuesday afternoon, I am sitting in a chair outside my home trying to catch the magic of soft drizzling on me. It is raining pleasantly in a classy coimbatore weather. I see the ripples of water going round and round, bringing the nsotalgia I told. I am sitting with a pleasant novel in my hand, ‘Eleven Minutes’ by Paul Coelho, the book composed my dreams. The day has not been great for me, as it has started to question the choice I had made some months ago. I would not say it that was the easiest of the choices you make in your life. I had in my hand, the two options for career, land in a IT job and replace my dad in his business.

The arguments for both choices were pretty equal. For the first choice being, as I told it was my dream career, I had my passion for computers right from the time I had knowledge about computers on Grade 7, besides the IT industry was booming well, all my friends pursued the same path after college (well, this is a weak point), you lead a settled life (monthly salary, no risks I thought, tension less unlike the business gamble). The second choice has equal arguments too that I can replace my dad soon after taking over my dad’s concern ( a small scale spinning unit), give his rest for his looong tiresome days (he was 18 when he started working and still he works, it s 38 years my dear), stay close to the family as always (which is a dream for me now and by family I mean all the relatives too, it is a much bonded group we have in here, CBE people may know well I hope), and you have your business in hand, no need to bow to anything except for love.

I made my first choice as I had shown a few interest towards textile field right from my Grade12 (I chose EEE not Textile tech in PSG Tech famous for its Textile course), and the running of the mill has not shown much scope (it was bad when I made the choice, now from bad to worse). My father has accomplished his dream of being a entreuprener (what the heckof spelling here), and owning a spinning mill, and my parents in the first hand pushing me not to continue this business and opt for the IT job.

I made my choice.

Now things are getting tough here back home, though I do my best to give my best financial help for their well being and emotional support. Thats the max I can do now wothout taking a frastic change in my choice. The various daily works and the labour tensions (well, I really cant list that here, to make it simple – in IT terms the attrition rate here would be as good as 50% – guess the scenario). Well, dont please kid by giving the idea of keeping an assistant or a manager. The situation back here is all the assistants we keep give added tension by taking the labourers from our concern when they leave of the company, and to make it worse, they make a agreement as simple as this. The labourers give them a part of their salary every day for their inaction in work not be questioned. We cant watch them close as of 24*7. And my father is a gentle person, with a pleasant heart, not the kind of beating and things happening in other concerns around. I am proud of his character, but this won be suitable here, unfortunately. He is exhausted now I can see, but yet uncomplaining. He hides his feelings to himself.

  Well, my dad has did his part of showing me the "Road to be walked upon". When will I show the same to a person who is a candle for me giving his light. I am determined to light myself soon WELL before the candle fades away. But time is a cruel warden I hope, it doesn’t allow you to resue the prisoner for sentiments.  I hear someone saying, "Actions speak louder than words". Buddy, I have no choice but to wait for minimum of few (3-4) years before I get settled here., as I dont want to get moved for emotions and downgrade my long term goals.

I dream a end to all this soon, a relief for my dad with weekly temple trips for him, a wonderful day daily with my mom, a weekly trip to meet my cousins, a bi-monthly trip with family to some temples, a bi-yearly vacation somewhere. One with friends, another with family. Oru thennandhoppu in my thottam, a warm new, old style farm house. A new classic home.

This is not a great desire what I have. I hope the reality be more than imagination.

Love, CK.

 

US – China – India

Hi all

Long since an idea has been pestering me to write an article on this.  I could not find much time to update the blog..

India – China – US.

We see both countries India and China, galloping each other in the race for the future super power after US. Now though US manintains its dominance over the world, US depends on China and India on a large scale., be it for minute toys, automobiles, food items, software industry, the backbone of every other industry (coz of its well versed e-governence), spirituality 😉 , medical toursim, etc. One of the strategy of US to maintain its control over the world is to develop the techno-nano-blah balh weapons and make the world to see it with an AW!! like when we see the 007 films. They also make a huge amount

http://www.globalissues.org/Geopolitics/ArmsTrade/Spending.asp

The above link gives a sample that the military expenditure around the world. Around 46% of the world military expenditure is by US and 80% of the expenditure rise is due to 2006. Now though the figures are for 2006, I hope the situation might have been worse now for the Iraq war and its under hand help to Pak.

The US – Pak – India – China relation is really a twist and tangle,

• US gives arms for Pak to eliminate and fight with terrorists 😉
• Pak rather gives the arms to terrorsits and militants to fight with India
• US advises Pak to support them to find Osama
• US avises Pak to support India’s fight against militants 😛
• Pak plays a double game with militants and US
• US makes a statement that Osama is in Pak
• US prez Bush supports outgoing prez Mush over issues now

Finally whoever wins, India is affected.

• India uses its military might and fights hard to develop a missile or advance a missile technology.
• The next day, Pak releases a new missile… Now this becomes tricky.
• There is rumour that China has sold the missile to Pak.
• US doesn’t like the growth of China over it.  It needs support of India to tacke China.
• Hence, US strateggically makes the 123 agreement with India, making India to fall in a spider web.
• Due to the agreement, India acheived nothing till date., the agreement has not shown promise, India spoiled its relation with Iran, Russia.
• US gained by making India to vote against Iran in the UNO and making India a partner to fight against China.

See now what s the point, who are the allies and who are the wolves…