Eli Race

Vanakkam!!! Vandanam!!! Namaste!!!
I have always stuck to impulsive writing but well mulled over. I was just going through my posts which I had written during my PG days. It has a variety of topics. Those were the days when I actually looked beyond.
I really wonder what has happened to me these days.
✓Getting up in the morning
✓Getting ready with days work in mind
✓Going to Office
✓Coming back from Office
✓Thinking about Office
✓Dreaming about Office.

I have got entangled in the rat race. There was a time when I used to pester all my contacts list with a daily dose of 100-150 forwards. Today I hardly have time for a single friend. "Machi Saavu adikaranga da naa konjam nerathula koopdran" has become my usual dialogue. Taking Official calls has made me hate Mobile phones to the core. "Don't you understand I am busy with work. How many times should I tell you" is my reply when my wife calls. There were times when I used to watch 4-5 movies at a single stretch. It has been converted to daily dose of 10 mins of a movie. Remaining nalaiki oru 10 minutes paakalaam. I simply miss the things right in front of me.
I sometimes wonder if this is the case with all my friends. Ulaga neethaya ithu.
To be changed!!! Let's See!!!

Corona vin vizhaivugal

Well!!!

It is 9 long years since I left penning down my thoughts. 

So what made me write again???

CORONA. 

The name Corona may send many into a dizzy but I want to focus on what Corona has given me.

Without doubt I would say, thinking about the Corona Virus sends down chills down my spine though my head can understand that it challenges very few harshly. But what if I fall in that very few. What will happen to my family. I know negative thoughts spoil the mind but mandaiku ettunathu manasu ku etta maataengithu.

But here I want to write about the beautiful things CORONA has given me. 

I used to work for 14-15 hours a day that too being  in a public sector bank before this lockdown began but now it has come down to just 7 hours.

I am enjoying good food that my wife is cooking. Every single day she is trying a new recipe.

I have literally stopped eating Non Veg. It has been 1 long month since I ate it. Now this is some serious stuff.

I am spending more time with my kids. I am playing with them. I am telling them stories. I am making them sleep. I am having dinner with them everyday. I am watching them grow.

I am spending more time with my family. Though I miss my parents but still happy that I am able to give more time for my wife and kids.

I am slowly going back to my reading days. I have started to read as compared to the NIL reading.

I have started to click.

I have gone back to observing the psyche of my colleagues more than the work they do. This is helping me in understanding them better.

So coming back to why I kick started my blog again.???
Because this is my life my rules.
Yaaru sirikalanalum paravailla naanga siripom la.
Ha ha ha ha ha...

Do what you love to do

This was the first advice given by all when i first stepped into my post graduation.

Now that i am nearing my completion and with the placement season coming to a near close, i really wonder whether everyone has really chosen their career path which they had always wanted to.

Great Yogis in their 70's are unable to decide what they like and what they need in their life, how can a youngster in his/her 20's determine what exactly he/she needs in his/her life. The needs of a young person is dynamic and that is exactly what is human nature. A person who wants to do something now may or may not regret going behind it at a later point of time.

People get lured by money more than anything else these days.
Taking the example of placements, there have been very few people who really went behind the jobs they really wanted to get into at the start of their post graduation. One of my classmate went behind a job with a higher pay package, just because her friend was getting a hefty amount. Well she is not the only exceptional case. There are many followers of money here who sat for the placement process just because they were being paid a huge salary.

More than what they want to do, it has to be how they want their life to be. There certainly has to be a trade off between power and money. Either they sacrifice their personal life and go ahead and be successful in their professional life or vice versa. Now what is that i am BS here. Nothing except that it is not always doing what you love but it is about where and how you want to position yourself in the game called life.

There may be many who might come back and say you wont get peace if you dont do the work you dont like. But just one question to them "if they are offered more money than what they are currently earning, wouldnt they really give it a thought?". Well this question is just to the more common people excluding the exceptions.

CHITTI = 1000 ARIMA

After Ages i am writing a blog because of a movie and just a day before my exam. Well i just couldnt help it. CHITTI the ROBO has made me pen this down...

A big production name which has the money to invest how much ever the movie demands, a mastermind director who has been slowly nurturing his child project for 10 long years, an actor who is known for his style, action and punch dialogues, the one who has proven his acting skills numerous times, the one who is treated as GOD in Tamil Cinema, the one who is growing younger and younger as he ages, a music director who has taken an Avatar in this world just for the word music and just creates magic with his hands. When all these big tycoons join hands, then you can except the magnanimity of the project. For a long time in the history of Indian Cinema, no team had the guts to go this far and invest large for a movie. But for the first time ever, this team has really created the magic. They have elevated the Indian Cinema to the next level. This movie had the power of 1000 ARIMA. The director got his every move right. Every chosen character in and/or for this movie both on screen and off screen were simply perfect. No others could have replaced them. No words could just fit in to describe this movie. You just need to sit and watch the movie to experience it.

In short, A movie of sheer technical brilliance. It is a visual treat.
THIS MOVIE IS AN EXPERIENCE.

A day in the life of Student and Professor in College

Student:
Shit yaar, another day of boring lecture.
Sala firangi, i dont understand what he talks.
Upar se right from the first day of my college i have been hearing the same gyan. I would have heard this 100 times and he is going to repeat the same today.
i dont know what he thinks of himself.
udar ka sabse kachada lecturer hoga.. idar bahoot bada dikha raha hai...
i am just waiting for the 10 sessions to get over...
aaj bhi i will go at 11.55 jab 5 min rah jayega for the attendance.. Attendance deke bhaag jaunga....


Professor:
I feel especially powerful today.
I should make the session more interesting so that i can capture the attention of all the students.
There is something lacking in my presentation. Am i not able to reach the students or is it because my presentation lacks content. Let me make the power point more attractive, let me add more content which will benefit the students.
I dont understand why the students fail to make it in the morning. Is it because of the early timing. They are doing their MBA, they should be ready for any such challenges.
If i can instill in them something new today, that might interest the students and they might attend my classes regularly from tomorrow.
Today i should deliver a powerful lecture. Let me see what best i can give to the students.

The day ends a big failure for both the students and the Professor.