Back to griping...

I was once told "Lets see if you can clear one interview first".

Somehow I think that is going to be true. (You can imagine my expression)

3 brothers and many lions.

Craziest thing I've done is I ran in front of LIONS..........You guys wondering what I'm blabbering???

Story goes this way......went to the Banaraghatta Zoo at the age of 26.... like a 6 year old with 2 other fools(My friends).

We went on a safari in a "SO CALLED BUS" which was a 40 seater with 50 people in it (Most of them stinking).

We stopped near all the stupid looking animals and took pictures with our dumb camera phone. My phone made a Tiger look like a Monkey

FINALLY the LIONS come.....Every one exited.....The bus stops and every one pulls their cameras out and the lions pose for us..CLICK CLICK CLICK......Every one is happy.

Now the bus driver tries to start the bus. GUESS WHAT???? THE BUS DOES NOT START.

OK.... I think they have a wireless communicating device..........NAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!..The bus doesn't even have a dash board. No mobile signal also......KAYOS every where. People loosing it....Shouting at the poor driver and cleaner.

One guy he was getting a heart attack......the others decide to release foul smelling gas from their body. My idiot friend mistook the smell to FRESH BIRYANI.

One of my idiot friend tries settle things down in the bus...So he gives a speech in English but apparently NO ONE KNEW ENGLISH!!!!!!!!! However he managed to shut them up with his UGLY FACE.

The idiot friend made a monkey face at the lion..... YA........The lion did get ticked off.......And when the lion replied back to him with a ROAR (Trust me, a real scary one).. His face got stuck that way and he still walks around with that face..

Finally another bus arrives........So we could Communicate.HOW?????
We shouted for our lives.

Another empty bus arrives.....I tell my idiot friend, "DUDE,I THINK THEY WILL SHOOT THE LIONS WITH A TRANQUILIZER AND TAKE US OUT...BLAH BLAH. "Guess what happened.

A Fat guy got off the bus, scratching in such a place where only MICHAEL JACKSON has done in public till date. He picks up a small pebble and throws at the lion..Guess what happened???????

The lions ran for their lives.......and sat about 20 meters away from the bus...The fat man (STILL SCRATCHING THERE) opens the bus door and I was first to greet my SAVIOUR (STILL SCRATCHING THERE)

He asks me to go to the next bus and I had to take a walk to the next but which was 10meters away from the bus..

For once I was good with my numbers..The lions were 20 meters away and the bus was 10 meters away, towards the lions.....So technically I'm going 10 meters closer to the lions.....WOW..now I feel like a fool...

I got off the bus first and next thing I know , I was in the other bus......I don't remember what happened in between..

Every one followed.

Every one happy.

Every one shook hands with the fat guy for saving us but I still remember where he scratched, hence decided not to shake anything which belongs to him.

We felt like 3 stooges on the way back home...

Story By: Karthikeyan

Being Unemployed...

I am almost nearing the end of my Master's. I still don't have a job, and just realized that I am one amongst the 186 million in this world. Phew !!!

That is some sad statistic and I hate to be part of this group. I still havent graduated but the future doesn't look any brighter. I am in one of those most negative frame of mind. It would take me a long time to set myself straight on track.

Tamil Movies and the new genre....

I have been watching a lot of Tamil movies off late, which is not new. But here are the new things about these movies, none of them have a super hero or a great actor in it nor is it directed by a famous director. There have been at least a dozen movies that I have seen with good plot and different stories. The ones that stood out were Mozhi, Kaloori and Anjathey.

Well one may argue that Mozhi had Jyotika and Prkash Raj, but honestly it was a great movie where one single actor did not stand out, but the entire team had to be lauded. Kaloori was very serious and tragic movie but the director actually made real amateurs act. That movie had at least 5-6 people in front of camera for the first time and with all probability acting for the first time as well. Anjathey was a very decent movie with a relatively amateur cast and for sure a strong script.

If Tamil cinema is moving, one should say that it really moving strong. A lot has to be told about the producers who are prepared to give these directors the chance to make movies which has low investment but high risk as well. Coming from an industry which has always thrived because of its super stars, this is surely a welcome change.

New paper cricket called Twenty-Twenty !

My friend said it correctly it is indeed like paper cricket and in that name they have really spoiled the class of the game. Twenty-Twenty was started with the only purpose to attract more people to the already dying County Cricket in England. When it first came into the scene no one expected this to have made such a mark, well the Aussies and then the South Africans recognizing it just did it for the game. The pitches in One-dayers these days are already tailor-made for the batsmen, in this form of the game it is even worse. It is like playing on a concrete floor nothing that the bowlers can do. Like my friend and I were discussing there needs to be few modifications to the game to make it better. One of them could be making only 6-8 batsmen bat and not all the 11. My friend went to an extent of saying one beamer per over (Although I still think that can be very dangerous). There should be no field restrictions at all, like test matches. From the first over place the fielders where ever you want. Finally play on green tops just to test the batsmen really. These changes makes Twenty-Twenty much more fun than just a mere turn the page and add whatever you get there, Oh My God it is so inane.

Yellow Paper communication.

I found out that the pot in my loo had blocked and I had put 2 post-it(s) on the door of the bathroom saying "The flush does not work so please use the other loo". The sub-roomie of mine had to hurry that day and ran into the loo without reading the post-it and of course had the bathroom flooded. After he comes out he has this tone where he has made a mistake and we had this conversation

he - "The bathroom is not working I think there is some problem."
me - "I had put the post-it there didnt you read it?"
he - "Oh the yellow Paper??"

There ends the conversation. I was speechless. I for a moment feel that it is my fault as I should have woken him in the night to tell him that the loo will flood if u flush it. So much for my very formal way to communicate with him.

Blank....

For the past few days I have nothing to say and do. I am doing my research as though it is mundane. Well I am actually bored and the best part of being bored is that you can keep saying you are bored. I hate saying it but never else can you actually say bored. At the moment my mind is blank as blank as it can get and today onwards I am going to be reading random stuff to see what I can be doing... suggestions invited.