• Watched Vellithirai and Jilla (I still cannot believe that I watched this Telugu movie dubbed into Tamil fully!) back to back on Kalaignar TV last week and liked both the movies. Both made a good time pass. What a versatile actor Prakash Raj is!

• I hate this crazy weather. One moment the sun is shining brightly and the very next moment the weather becomes so dull and gloomy.

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Even as I am trying hard to keep my eyes open (the sleepiness that creeps in post lunch!), a dozen thoughts flash through my mind and I have started pondering over the questions that I have been asking myself for quite sometime now. Hasn’t predictability crept into my life in the form of things that I do everyday? Have I not got settled into this routine a bit too comfortably? Everything from the music that I listen to, the movies that I watch, the concerts that I go for, the newspapers, books & blogs that I read, the websites that I visit, to the food that I eat, the work that I do, the people whom I chat with, seems to have an air of predictability to it. There’s predictability in every single thing that I do! A kind of monotony seems to have crept in. But then I am not complaining about it at all and I do like it most of the times. Despite that, the urge to break free from this routine does make a grand appearance once in a while and now is one such moment. But what do I do to achieve that is THE big question!

Now don’t think this post is about some serious thing on reading the title. This post is just about my laziness!

‘2 minutes Ma!’ – That’s where it all starts. That is the reply that I give my mother everyday morning when she wakes me up. 2 minutes extra sleep becomes 10-15 minutes and by the time I sit with the coffee in my hand, the countdown for catching my bus would have already begun!
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Today evening’s bus journey made me do so much serious thinking that I am writing a third post on it! When I was in the midst of my serious thinking about life and memories, a group of 3-4 small kids laughing, giggling, waving their hands and shouting tata, Bye to all of us in the bus caught my attention. I smiled back in reply to their Byes when I experienced yet another what I call Swades moment (moments which makes you go through what Mohan Bhargav/Sharukh goes through in the scene in Swades where he buys the water from a poor boy selling it in the station and drinks it). Those kids, clad in torn clothes, were standing outside what were obviously their homes – small huts. A wave of questions passed through my mind – Imagine what we were doing when we were of the age of those kids. Will these kids go to school? Here I am enjoying myself, listening to music, sitting comfortably inside the bus. What about those kids? How will they manage to live in their houses when it’s raining heavily? Will they ever get to live in real homes? So many unanswered questions! Those kids unaware of any worry in life continued waving with innocent joy and happiness on their faces even as my mind tried seeking answers to these unanswered questions.

I guess I have done enough of serious thinking for a day. Don’t you agree? 🙂

This post has been in the draft for a more than a week now. I thought I will post it before Navaratri ends!

There are quite a lot of things to look forward to during Navaratri, a festival lasting the maximum number of days compared to all others – Kolu, Sundal, Kolu bommais for sale at Mylapore/T.Nagar/Khadi (I might have missed some places) in various sizes and shapes, visiting friends and relatives, they in turn visiting your house 🙂 , special alankaraam at most of the temples for ambAL, doing poojas for books (padikkaramo illaiyo bookskku poojai mattum correctaa poattuduvom 😉 ), vehicles, etc. on Saraswati Pooja and above all, singing almost everyday! It’s that time of the year when your singing skills are put to test what with everyone asking you to sing as soon as they know that you are learning music. At the same time, no one is spared from letting their singing talent from being exposed 😉 While there are some people who, I don’t know why they want to sing in the first place and subject everyone to torture with their singing, jump at the opportunity to sing as soon as they are asked to, there are others who really sing well and who leave you wishing to listen to their singing more. I don’t belong to either of the categories 😉 While I am at the topic of singing during Navaratri, I thought I would give a warning to all girls who sing. Girls, beware of guys like this one 😛 Cha kaalam romba kettu poidtthu 😛

A few days back, when the Govt. bus in which I was travelling stopped at Pondicherry, all of a sudden the strong smell of whiskey/brandy or whatever it was filled the air when a fellow who was drunk got into the bus. It was DISGUSTING!!! For the next two and a half hours, I had to undergo the torture and finally end up with a head ache since that fellow sat right behind my seat! 🙁 Why do these people want to subject others to torture like this just because they wanted to have fun and got drunk? Add to it the Govt. is helping these drunkards by opening TASMAC shops at every other corner in all parts of the state and do I have to even say anything about the place where the drunkard got into the bus!

Talking about situations that cause instant headache to me, one more is when I am forced to sit next to someone who has just come back from smoking and talk with him/her. The mixed smell of cigarette and mouth freshener or whatever it is that they keep chewing leaves me disgusted. I hope I am not put into situations like this anymore!

Alaipayuthey is now being shown on K TV and here I am, sitting in front of the computer! The reason: ‘No signal found’ is what’s there on my TV screen now. 🙁 From the morning, it’s like that only. As usual, this is happening only when I very badly want to watch something on TV. 🙁 It seems that some cable had got cut in SCV and that’s the reason for this. Why today of all the days? Does it have anything to do with the launch of Kalaignar TV today? 😉