Grey Matter

If Nobel Prize Committee had:

Indians they would have given it to Rahul Gandhi.  (I am an Austerity Holy Cow)

Tamilians they would have given it to Karunanidhi. (I give Anna Award to myself)

Tweeps they would have given it to Sashi Tharoor. (Dare not touch the Holy High Command Cows)

Me,  I would have given it to myself.  ( Do I need a reason?)

I decided to accompany @balaarjunan from office even though I started early. And as cliched as it can get : It rained. Rained cats and gods.(Yeah I know that its “Rained cats and ****”. But I don’t want to call them by their first name and call upon their wrath. I call them as Gods just to please them)

There is one thing about rains — it increases your biological needs. I mean when you are hungry it makes you feel more hungry, when you want to piss, it makes it more urgent need.

After waiting for a long time we decided to cover bala’s laptop with black sheets(Thanks to the black panthers ) and was ready to hit the road.

He was like batman with a long black paper on his back.

We went to Sholinganallur (Stupid people call this nice named place as SHOLS). There is a tea shop in Sholinganallur that is the first tea shop to open in the entire area. I used to have tea here at 3 am in the morning sometime  back.  Thanks to the night outs at office.

Being nostalgic to the 3 am tea, coupled with the rains, I recommended we have tea in the same shop.  Tea at 10:30 in the night did not seem right idea for Arjunan.  He had a cold drink and I ordered for my tea. One sip of the tea and you know you are in bliss. And that’s when the bloody bus came. I had to leave half of the tea and catch the bus due to Arjunan’s insistence.

And when walking to back home, I encountered GODS again. It was time to put up a brave face and walk past them. This time I made it. They didn’t bother to bark at me.

Politics has long been the creative juice of most of the satirists.

The cartoons, essays and the caricatures that we read in the newspapers have now started trickling  into Web2.0 world also. Like:  Ramesh Srivats’s tweets.

And what best time to hear the satirists than the elections.

I was travelling back to home on an Auto. The auto driver, on seeing a yellow and something flag, said “I wonder whose flag is this”. Then after seeing the Sarath Kumar posters he went on “Ah, Sarathu kumaru.. Everybody started creating a party. If it goes on like this Vadivelu, Kanja Karuppu will start parties”

“They occupy all these marriage halls and make  life hell for us”

And then came  a convoy of Sarath Kumar’s party workers. They were all in the usual cinema style Sumo cars. And all were shouting “Aye,Aye,Oyi,Oyi” at other vehicle drivers and onlookers as if they were shooing away some stray cow eating their plants.

The auto driver remarked “Ithungalukkellam vottu podanamam” /For these kinds we have to put vote- it seems,with a sarcastic look on his face/

“Yellam Kai nattu kesunga.. Namba payyan oruthan irukkan.. dei yennada panrennu ketten.. Katchila senthutan na nnu sonnan. Dei.. nee kainattu ache da nnu sonen.. Athukku avan solran ‘Katchila senthachu illa inimey minister ana padichikalamnnu’”

English translation:

All these are illiterates. I have a known person. I asked him what is he doing. For that he said I joined a party. I asked him what you joining a political party? Aren’t you illiterate. For that the guy replied ‘I have joined party right, we will learn if  I become minister’

Remember the days when you waited for somebody to send an invite for GMail. I remember me asking all those geeky guys to send me one if they can. It was as if like there were only two kinds of people around me. Those who have Gmail account and those who wanted one.

But after getting the account my first reaction was “What this doesn’t even have folders?!” But over the years I have learn’t to use labels.

This is the most used web application by most of us.  Hope they keep doing the labs thing forever. Let it be in beta forever.

With the posts about Airtel Super Singer and controversies surrounding the show making waves, I just got reminded of one such singing reality show that I used to catch up. Star Singer is a program on Asianet channel.  I like the quality of singers there. And the show was language agnostic, there by we got to hear the songs from varied languages.

A couple of songs from the youtube:

Good. Short. Predictable. Could have been better, longer and technically sounder.

The dude who poses as warrior, as commando, who’s faces are all over the city with photoshopped gimmicks – like the face with a roaring panther besides it.
By far the best exponent of photo shop among politicians, proclaimed “Fast Unto Death”  if they dont stop the war in Sri Lanka.

And 4 days later he finished the fast by drinking the “Pala saru”.