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? 😉

The first time I experienced tremor was in 2001. I guess that was the first time there was a tremor in Chennai after a very long time. I was studying for an exam in a room with the door closed. I was sitting on a chair and suddenly I felt as though someone was shaking my chair. I thought my sister had silently come and was doing that! Crazy me! I turned back only to find no one. I got up from the chair. Since I didn’t feel the shaking, I sat down only to experience it again. Even then, it never struck me that it could have been because of a tremor. I thought I was imagining things and went out of the room only to find everyone at home happily watching TV. I didn’t tell anyone about my ‘shaking’ experience. That’s when a girl in my complex came out of her house shouting at the top of her house asking everyone to come out and I realized that I had experienced a tremor! And, to think that I thought I was imagining things! LOL!
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Thanks to the frequent rains in the city, this is the present condition of some parts of OMR/the IT Corridor. God knows when the work on the IT Corridor will be completed and we will have a good road in place of the one below!

P.S.: Photo taken with my mobile last Thursday.

Why is it that a day that starts with a confusion goes on to become one with full of confusions only?

Talking about confusions, I remembered these lines: (God knows who came up with it!)

Don’t confuse the confusion until the confusion confuses you, and
If the confusion confuses you, you will be confused until the confusion confuses itself!

Yet another scrap in Orkut, from some stranger. Please read on to see how great a ‘friend’ I have got!

The (s)crap:
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On yet another day, you decide that you will consciously keep a watch on the food that you eat and make sure that at least by this month end, you reduce a few kilos. With the oath taken for nth time in the past few months, you go to the food court to have lunch with your friends. Your friend says she is going to have an ice cream and looks at you. You tell her that you won’t have ice cream and she laughs knowing very well about how strong you are in sticking to your ‘diet’. You go along with her and on seeing the different flavours of ice cream and thinking about how delicious they taste, you fight hard to control your temptation. To add to it, you see someone buying a large Sundae. That’s it! All oath forgotten and not caring the least about your friend laughing at you (after all, seeing this happen has become a habit now 😉 ), you get just a single scoop of ice cream. But, does it end there? The man at the counter asks, ‘Toppings?’ and on hearing him tell the list of toppings he has, you can’t control the temptation at all and end up eating a nice butterscotch ice cream with a butterscotch topping with the feeling of guilt pushed to the back of your mind! Yummy! 😀

Once the ice cream gets over, you decide that at least from now on, you will stick to your ‘diet’. But, next week, again the same story continues. 🙂

P.S.: Was wondering what post to write next when reading Gayathri’s post made me realize that I too have a similar story to tell. 😉

Check your mail, check your SMS, it’s Friendship Day wishes everywhere! Let’s take the scenario say, a decade back. Did we celebrate Friendship Day as we do now? (Of course, I don’t celebrate it in any special way even now) Did we wish anyone a Happy Friendship Day those days? In spite of that, didn’t we all have so many friends? If I don’t wish my friend a Happy Friendship Day, does that mean I am not his/her friend or vice versa? 😛 Why is everyone falling prey to all the marketing tactics adopted by the shops selling Greeting cards, gifts, friendship bands, etc.? I don’t believe in celebrating days like these at all since I don’t see the need to have a separate day for celebrating friendship or whatever it may be.
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Do any of you like the shirt that is supposed to match the silk saree being classified as ‘Jodi Pattu’ by Kumaran Stores? Those of you who missed out seeing the large hoardings in the city, check it out here. I don’t like the saree as well as the shirt. 😐