Vetti Payan nin Vetti Pecchi

2010-06-29T14:40:00.001-07:00

Kites

The movie Kites failed miserably in box office. I am still trying to figure out why??. Kites and Ravaan were released this summer from Reliance BIG Pictures. Though i can understand the movie ravaan and kites follow the same backdrop where the actor and actress are running around and the goons trying to catch up...

IMHO ravaan lacks substance in the making, all characters were hyped and had subtle performances.

Where as, i see mature Bollywood output in Kites. Ranging from the stunts and the clean storyline the movie wins my interest. I was more connected to the movie because of the chemistry between hirthik and barbara.... I could feel the moments when an hispanic non english speaking girl dates an Indian guy. Yeah thats right you can hear me singing La Roux's Bulletproof. Barabara was very natural and cozy playing Linda. I bet there would be handfull of someone around here who would say thats a nice movie to watch....

2008-06-20T13:29:00.000-07:00

Back to form

Which means am getting lot of vetti time here. Its been a long long time since my last post. Anyways now i have something in my hand to post it up. Guess what Dasavathram. This is the movie i was long awaiting. and now here it goes with a great flop...
My expectations are all unsatisfied with this average movie. There are lot of things that went wrong in this movie. Though the movie isn't gud enough but its now a great buzz among the online community. Too much of talks, reviews, comments and explanation about this movie are hitting the www. So after all being a great fan of Kamal, why should i be left out.

Everyone must be having a story to this show. Like booked it in the first week, paid triple the price, watched in satyam... for me it all happened on the day I received an email from sulekha abt its release dates. sooner booked the online tickets for the premium show at Newark Screen 6, NJ. I was all set and in time to the theater on June the 12.

I have some opinions which makes me feel this movie is a thrash.
I was very much annoyed by the CGI graphics and poor picture quality. Later I realised the poor picture quality is primary due to video composition to incorporate multiple kamals in the same seen. My point is if the video has to be so derogatory then whats the point in planning multiple roles. Kamal could have given a better picture quality with a single role. Theaterla VCD partha madri irundhudhu. I suppose the VV had a better DVD print. Hmm I had to get adjusted and continue further on this movie.
Next the cheap stunts by Rangarajan,, dialogues were pathetic and uninspiring. Kamal could have given better with this role. The graphics at sea were like watching ramayana of the 80s. I liked the song though.
Then the hero Govind and Asin. Asin was so irritating with her Perrumalea!!! her acting was not at all natural, especially falling in love with kamal within moments before the movie ends. Balram naidu is the only character who gets my applause. I read in other blogs and wanted to reiterate the same opinion that for most of the characters the makup was like the Jim Carry in Mask. Konjom brightness korachi riukalam to make it look natural. every damn charactor Japenese guy, fletcher, Patti, kafiullakan,,, enough.. I could not take any one more of it.
The graphics is the tsunami effect is being praised by some reviewers. I am an't moved. It was Ok and may be that's the best this movie can offer.
And at last the story,, I do not realize who the target audience were for this movie. Kamal had put up a script which wants to talk about chaos theory but fails. Common man cannot understand the tectonic plates explanation nor the chaos theory explanation nor the Pearl harbour, Hiroshima humour. And if Kamal has targeted this movie for the white collared people then I would say its not up to the mark. It fails in all the aspect I talked about.

The movie could have been put better if the story revolved around all the characters (like in Babel) and not the characters revolving around a simple predictable story. Hope Kamal rests with his experiment and does only in what he is really good, Acting.

2007-09-17T08:10:00.000-07:00

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Visa Power

With in a week after I dropped the required documents to the consulate. I got the letter from consulate asking for my passport for visa stamping. I didn't let my friends know about this, I was not sure about the ongoing jinx on my onsite chances. After 2 weeks I got my stamping done. I was then 1 step closer from getting to the land of opportunities.

Shortly after that I laid my papers(resignation) in Oracle and my last date was April12. I was happy to be there on the Oracle Apps day celebration. I had now one last good time with my Hyd friends and colleagues. And I cannot forget that wonderful evening. I did have another reason to remember that nite, I crashed my bike while getting back to home after the party :-). I had to repair my bike as it was broken due to crash and I just escaped with bruises and a swollen forehead. Yeah that's rite I had not put my helmet that night.. a serious advice "don't drink and drive". Anyways I believe that God was there with me that nite and spared me on that fateful evening. So I can live and shortly become Satish Harry from Satish Haridass.
In my next post I shall update my life in US as I left India for the first time ever (April 23) overriding my fortune teller forecast.

2007-09-17T07:54:00.000-07:00

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My Costliest Movie,

Take a guess, how much would I have spent maximum to catch up with a flick at the Devi theater. Hmm 3600 bugs,,, wondering why did I? Actually I took a return-flight from Hyd to Chennai to make it happen, that costed me around 3500 + 100 bugs for the actual ticket for the movie Paruthi Veeran first day, matinee show.

Wondering when did I became such a movie freak to spend this much on a movie. Though the movie was worth watching, but I wasn't in the city just for it, I had come to drop my documents to the Chennai consulate office and since it was a evening return flight, I decided to catch up with the movie on the day it got released. Paruthi Veeran - worth the money

2007-09-17T07:22:00.000-07:00

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Was this a hibernation? or mere laziness or may be I was just busy, whatever the reason.
I owe an damn apology to myself, not to web-log(blog) my diary. Hu la la, here I am back, to entertain my self and my dear readers.

For a quick recap it's been 9 months since my last post. And this is the my first post for this year
There's lot of changes going around me, so I have lot to update onto my blog. Let me push them here as in the order they happened to me.

Fortune Teller!!!

In the start of this year (Jan12), I took my H1B visa interview at the Chennai consulate. For my much disappointment I messed it up with the VO and he refused to grant my visa. I was heart broken; I remembered the fortune teller who's forecast said I can get to onsite only at the age of 30.
I used to get picked up by my friends on this. I thought the jinx is working out. But I didn't loose hope and kept my aspirations going.
For my amusement my consultant forwarded the required docs, that were needed to get my 221g (visa) status cleared. And I was all set to take up the interview on March 8.

2006-12-18T04:37:00.001-08:00

REMIX OF LOOSU PENNE LOOSU PENNE SONG

[music....]

Work(girl)..,you gotta break my mind

Work..,there ain't any here

Work..,it is all wht i need

Work..,oh yes indeed

Work..,as time flies by

Work..,I say no lie

Work..,if you feeling same pain ...

oh then, let me explain,

[music....]

vetti payan vetti payan vetti payan

vetti companyla naan thaan inga vettiya sutharen

project varaadhaa project varaadhaa

inimel inimel enaku project varaadhaa(2)

kaalai mudhal maalai varai

dhinamum forwards anupi thaane

naanum vaazhuren

kangal moodi iravu thoongum podhu
en bedroom fanum keela vandhu enna ezhupudhe
eenna vettinu thittudhe

(vetti payan....)

canteenai thediduthe

kaalgalum odu thae

breaku breakaai.. breaku breakaai..

odi odi paarkiren ( odi odi paarkiren)

summa irundhu bore adichu

deskil naan thoonginen

romba aasaiya(2)

baby pola nimmadhiya thoonga theriyalaya

eaanalum thoongama thaan iruka mudiyalaya

eennai naane thitti thitti paarthen

manasu thirundha villa. ...
(vetti payan...)

2006-12-05T01:57:00.000-08:00

1 year of blogging

Huh,,,, 1 year of blogging, I remember when it all started, last december (2005) when I was getting no work and also often into training . Thats where I decided to make use of my leisure time to write blog so others can waste their time reading it.

From there till nowI had been bloging, u know wht it means. I had been vetti till date. No wonder why did I change my blog title lately... though I had not written many post in this year but I beleive, the time I spent on blogging is considerably more than wht I spent for my profession work. ( hope my manager dosn't read this until my appraisal is closed!!!!).

And ofcourse I see work coming up, may be in the next couple of months I could double up my posting frequency!!! he he....

2006-11-06T08:56:00.000-08:00

Friends map on Orkut

The friends map on orkut.com is a new feature giving easy location to your friends list. Based on the googlemap api's this powerful, user-friendly mapping technology can be used to locate all of your friends around the world. By clicking on any of your friends' pictures on the right-hand side of the map, you'll be taken to their locations on the map."To see your friends on a map, go to this page (use ur orkut account).

2006-11-01T23:51:00.000-08:00

Yogi B & Natchatra Songs

Damn the Hip hop rulz,,,, Yobi B & Natchatra are out with their new album "Vallavan" redefining hiphop in Tamil. Its a must buy DVD for Tamil Hip hop fans. I liked all the songs especially the Madai Thirandhu, Indian girls , Money Money songs blended with tamil movie songs. All the best to them and am already awaiting for their next bonanza,,,,

~~Listen online to Yogi B & Natchatra Songs~~

~~>>> Created a new sidebar 'My Playlist' in this blog featuring this~~ ~~Album >>>~~

Download it from here

2006-10-28T14:16:00.001-07:00

Diwali Holidays

I spent my deepavali holidays in my hometown. It has been a nice vacation for me, spending the maximum numbers of days on vacation ever, after i started working,,, Huh a total of 10 days...
I met my school & college friends, also watched movies Vallavan, 'E', Godfather with them.
Spent some good time with my family too,,, gave broadband connection @ home. The speed from BSNL broadband is really cool.
Tomorrow am catching flight back to Hyd. Again back to the monotonous schedule of office and work(k no work).
In the mean time enjoy this cool, super cool Tamil Hip Hop.

Madai Thirandhu ...

Also watch the original Madai Thirandhu song by Illayaraja

2006-10-10T03:29:00.000-07:00

The spur for Tamil Names to Tamil Movies

After the TN government's announcement that Tamil films with Tamil names will be exempted from entertainment tax has prompted many production to change the names of their films.This is the Government Order 72 that passed on 22/07/06. Lately after that we have seen many movies like Jillinu oru kadal become Silinu oru kadhal, Something Unakkum Enakkum' become merely `Unakkum Enakkum'.

Adding to the above trend,
Jailani a new producer, who after completing his computer education, went to the U.S., and later joined French director Al Nigreen and worked as an associate on seven films before starting out on his own. Jailani came back to his hometown, Chennai, to start on his first Tamil movie named '?', a thirller. The Name '?' would have been much appropriate for this movie but not worth to the financial benefits it would get, by changing its name. Now the movie is renamed 'Kelvi Kuri'.
'ECR' well known by its name and beauty that stretches along the east coast was the new banner for a film by producer R.S. Anthanan and cast by Srikanth & Bhavana. But apparently being changed to "Kizhakku Kadarkarai Salai", how dumb?.

Movie Godfather which took almost more than a year in its making has now been renamed to 'Varalaru' to take advantage of the entertainment tax exemption.

Giving Tamil names to Tamil movies is acceptable but names which are well known in their existing form should not be changed to weaken the orignality it bears. I hope the new flicks of the next season, movie 'E' and 'Vattarm' and many more are not names that were decided based on the influence of the above phenomenon.

2006-10-10T00:04:00.000-07:00

Google buys Youtube

Google has official announced its purchase of Youtube shares worth 1.65 billions. Now google would enjoy the monopoly status in the online video market. The news article also confirms that the youtube would still operate its business with all its employees from San Bruno CA.
The online video market estimated to be around 300 million video views per day across the internet is a huge space for google to widen its ad space.

2006-09-05T02:52:00.000-07:00

Steve Irwin Dead

People know him better by the name "The crocodile man". He has been a great entertainer in discovery and animal planet channel.

Yesterday, (sept 4th) he died during filming an underwater documentary called "The ocean's Deadliest". He was stung by a stingray off Australia's north coast.

May his soul rest in peace.

more details here

1. http://edition.cnn.com/

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Irwin#Death

2006-08-31T04:50:00.000-07:00

A crazy Blog "Shoot my blog"

Check out this 'Shoot my blog' to find more crazy pics.

2006-08-30T23:23:00.000-07:00

Download @ Max

I could not ever imagine 1.5 gb of data being downloaded in 17 mins over internet, thats around 1.5 mb of data transfer per sec. The last best i saw was 1mb/sec from java website downloading some sdk. But this is the movie Vettaiyaadu Vilaiyaadu from some ordinary server,,
Guys, am all set to watch this movie today evening,
Hmmmm i feel a bit poignant on downloading my thalaivar movie, and supporting piracy,,,I didn't feel damn a bit for any earlier downloads in the past. But huh... i could not resist myself from watching this latest flick. I hate hyderabad for not even screening a single tamil movie in the city,, I even had plans to get to b'lore on weekends to watch this movie,, But it is just a 20 min download which changed all my plans....

VetaiyaduVilaiyadu - Downloadpanu Padathaparu

2006-08-08T07:10:00.000-07:00

WOW What a charade!!!

This is among one of the many online puzzles over net. This is a puzzle game where one has to solve a puzzle to move on to the next one. Solving each puzzle only adds to your interest to solve the next. One has to find the next url to find the clue for the next puzzle. I tried some and spent the whole day on it,,, there are probably 30 sequential puzzle, i am struck at twentieth. Go ahead and spent some time over it.

2006-08-02T07:38:00.000-07:00

Today i complete my two years in IT,,,

In Aug 2nd 2004, i joined HCL. I can still remember that fine day when we five from PEC walked tall into the HCL Vadapalani office to recieve the offer letter, made many friends over there and then into trainng for the next 2 months,,,

Hmm i have already blogged my work in chennai in my first post. Adutha oru varsham inga hyderabad la than kuppa kotikitu iruken. Intha erundu vasha thila onnum sollura allvaku onum sadhikalai,, but enjoyed life specially in chennai. Hope to venture more in life.

2006-08-01T02:39:00.000-07:00

Yugaa

Marana Kadi,, adavadhu indha padatha paartha nenga sethu poiduvinganu solla varala,,Antha allvaku silla padagalalaa than mudiyum like sivakasi, athi,,,
But Yugaa athulendhu marpattudhu,,, intha padatha oru paadaila poravan parthunaa avan ezhundhu ukandhukuvan,,,Aprom director vittu address keppan, edukunu kekaringala avana paadaila ukara vaikai than,,,
Yugaa padam, generallana romance illa masala movie lendhu vellagi oru science fiction kadhaiya amachiirukaru director 'Yaar' Kannan. Peru ku etha madhari veallai panni irukaru,,,padam parthutu piragu palla kekera kelvi "yaar da otxxx endha kanaan".

Main charactor are richard (Naalai hero), and manikanden (boys) spoiling their well earned reputaion. Swarnamalya padhathuku thevayanu kavarchi kudhu irukanga, kuda extra 3 college gilmas vera irrukanga
Storyline than padathula hitye... chumma solla kudadhu director Da Vinci Code rasigara iruparu nenaikeran.Adulendu palla concept suttutaru, ennama science logiclam kudhutu irukaru, meteorites, PS(yes similar cult portrayed here). Oru pudhu chemical element "armol collegiate" lam pathi pesi irukaru,,, Science student indha padatha paartha avanku science mella irukura nambikaiyae poiyadum. Kodumaiyela kodumai Yugaa...

2006-07-30T08:09:00.000-07:00

EN PIRANDHA NAAL,,

Oru varushathuilla(year) enna da kastam illa sougama irunhalum indha oru naal ellarumea oru aruvammum mattrum sandoshthil dhan irupangai,,,, ennakum indha nal ipdi dhan iruuku,,,

enna da poranda nal anniku blog panurennu pakaringala,,,
hmmm life here in hyd really nothing much to do,,,,
lately this year i have been losing frnds, they have started moving out elsewhere from hyd.... not many friends left around... missing much in life or probably rite to say lost much in life

hmmm innku enna panninenu blog pannuren so nanu ini vara varashmlam i can look back and compare each birthday. (hoping this would be the miserable one)

Hmmm late nite after getting bithday wishes from none other than my beloved younger sister,,, i went to bed around 1:30(was also watching movies)...Adding to my frustration none of my roomies were either present at home they had gone for a second show movie, moreover they never knew today is my b'day.. I slept alone.

Morning i woke up at 11:30, Happy to c many misssed calls from fnds and family... i didn't want to call them back and apologize for being slept.... Anyways some called back later and wished me,,,
My aunt from Paris remembered abt my b'day and called me to wish, thats because my aunt’s daughter and son are also born in the same month, so neither of us nor them forgot our birthdays...
Later in the afternoon my dad called and wished me "Pallandhu nedodu vazgahda maganee",,, hearing those words delighted me,,,, later my mom and sister called and they too wished me…. Probably this is the first birthday I am celebrating, being away from my family hence experienced a mixed up feeling into myself... didn't realize the importance of their presence on earlier b'day but when I am alone, certainly I have only them in my mind. Miss you all.

I did not have any plans for the evening. The ppl I know here either don’t know today is my b'day or they were busy with their work. So just thought of spending the evening alone..... By afternoon my roomies also wished me on my birthday learning from the phone calls I was attending.

In the evening i decided to just play it simple and live it as good as any other day... In the evening I came to office booked tickets online for my trip on aug11-15,, later spent an hour in gym,,,, i believe pirandha nal annliku enna panaromo aththan varsha fulla atheytam pannuva,, hey i don’t want to b in office all year but wanted to be consistent in going gym that’s Y.... And again after a shower sat back on the comp blogging this parallely thinking about my dinner plans

Hmm alright time to sign off,,, To summarize, Today spent time as normal as any other day for me, but enjoyed being alone...its different on your birhtday. Miss you all.
And am bit sad about someone important forgetting abt it,, don't worry guys it isn't you,,,

Thank you All...

2006-07-13T05:35:00.000-07:00

Gang War, Rowdism & Violence,, ithu Kollaiwood mamu

Gang War, Rowdism & Violence have crossed the limit to the way, as I knew them. Not only in my society but also in Kollywood.

These days every flick from Kollywood has sought a new trend,
Almost half of the Tamil movies this year have been portraying a rowdy as a mainstream character a.k.a the Hero .
Some of the latest flicks are Pudhupettai, Pattiyal, Don sera, Nallai, Kokki, Kalinga, Thalainagaram, Chitirram Pesuthadi etc....
Gone are the days when hero kills the bad guys and saves the world. Though today he still kills but for his living.

Tamil cinema lea oruthavam ippo Hero na, avan rowdie character la then irukunu,,,,
Kadhaila chummKandyun thirutu panita rowdienu sollidamudhiyadhu, nama hero full time rowdy ya dhanpa irukamudiyum,,,

Antha madri hero na kadhai ipadhi dha pogum
Nama anantha heroku, Appa peru teriya kudhathu, china vaisela picha edahu irukunu, ganja illa kalacharayum kachi irukanu, sapadararoilliyo anna thani daily adikanu,,,
Aprom adhu engaendhu than teriya anna andha arealea gumtha na figure (heronine) avarkaghau set ayirukum,,
Aprom nama nice rowdy pakardhuku ipadi than irukunu : short hair irakakudahu, only long hair konjum dhadi and gethu meesai
Ithalam inrudha than rowdy sorry hero,,,,

Oru vidhathale intha padahthalam heroku tragic end kudhuthu irukanga,, Atleast good to my younger generation who should not be influenced by seeing such films....

Anna pavaom nama heroinu rendu munu duet songaku piraghu climaxla,
Onu nama nice rowdya potu tahlidavanga illa
Nama heroine actual rowdy savaadhicuduvanga not b4 she giving birth to my jr. nice rowdy.

Padhathala sapa herova irudhalum 10 rawody adiparu,,, samma(weapons) kaioyda vachi iruparu, allam matterum panuvaru,, police encounter list la toppa iruparu,, Oru Item songla pattai kelapiiruparu

Sada padama irundha hero ku actual rowdie villana irupagan but inga nama hero ve rowdy nallai avaraku pala villangal : actual rowdies, police department, and corrupt politician ana sagarthuku munadi allariyun ozchi katituthan povaru!!!

Aparom oru intersting matter enna na nama hero peru, appa peru teriyodho illiyo, firstname nalla ranga evangale vachikuvanga
Koki kumar, patasu bala, blade pakri, thoti jaya Naatu, Justin, right, bai etc. etc...

Few extracts from those movies
" Evan peru narayan murthy, Bai assignment kudhuirukara"
" Avan onu lesa patavan illa pa avanu nambala madhari item karen than"
" Balu va sketch poda sollu, mudhichidlam"
much like a s/w development involving design and then implementation.

These movies remind me of one horrifying event that I faced in Chennai.
One fine morning me and mouly (pillion) riding on my bike were heading office. We were traveling from vadapalani to ammbatur.
Just past the TCS JNR building there is a signal for right turn towards the Amanjikarai.
At that place we noticed few ppl running away for the signal.
Though we had to follow the straight road to ambattur, out of curiosity to know whts happening around. I veered the bike to the right side of the road, to our amusement we saw
A maruti esteem car being stopped by 3 persons at gunpoint.
For a moment we thought that was some film shooting, but by the unfolding arguments and ppl still running away we figured it out it being real with real guns. We were at few wards behind the esteem car to where the gunman where pointing their weapons.

For an instant we froze, anticipating something to happen, the driver could have raised the accelerator to run away, or may b the gunmen taking their shots. But within seconds mouly shouted at me to run the bike away from them, at that reaction I understood how foolishly we were standing behind the esteem waiting for something to happen.
Next we didn't even look back, I hit the gas to run past the signal.

Though we did not know wht happened there that day and who the people were? but we learnt what were the ground realities in Thalainagaram

2006-06-30T06:33:00.000-07:00

Bloggers World

Blogging has reached new heights in today’s web world impacting Hollywood too.
It seems it has gained more force equivalent to the other media.

"Snakesonaplane" is a new movie by New Line Cinema starring Samuel L Jackson and scheduled to release this August. The movie production was carried out with a low marketing profile, with not even an official movie website for it while at production.

But the future blockbuster seems to hit the audience even before its release at theaters. The web based fans caught by the attention “Snakesonaplane” had gone blogging their music videos, songs, funny mock film trailers, posters and T-shirts. I found more than 5 trailors of the movie at youtube with none of them having the original shots from the movie. All funny mock up home made video trailers.

The online phenomenon was triggered by a blogger whose blog featured a made up dialogue for Samuel L Jackson “...........”. The overwhleming response and anticipation of the internet community believes those to be from the original movie. And seeing the responses on his blog he demanded New Line Cinema to add these dialogues in the movie.

Seeing at the grown up buzz and hype at various blogs the New Line Cinema decided to shoot new seens and add to the movie as to meet up the expectations of its premature audience, further taking it from PG13 rating to R-rated.

The Production is also closely monitoring the unofficial marketing of the movie at the blog www.snakesonablog.com and looks forward to release the movie as early as possible.

Cool isn't it.

2006-06-29T01:11:00.001-07:00

Vetri Kodi Kattu

This is the list of my classmates who had been to abroad for work/studies.

Sriram

Venkat

Nihar
Subu Accenture
Azaghu HCL
Vijitha HCL
Arun Smy TCS
Ganesh Cybernet
Prakesh TCS
Tamizh TCS
Prabhakar TCS
Jack TCS
Andrew TCS
Arun Kmr TCS
Yoga HCL

Bubesh Satyam

Pradeep Syntel

Senthil

SaiKiran HCL

STATISTICS

TCS 7 HCL 4 Others each 1
In year 04-05 : 4+3
In year 05-06 : 11+1
Almost 1/4 of my classmates from CSE2K-04 PEC have gone abroad

I ever wondered how different would had been the experience for one when he steps into the other side of the world with no known names to call and friends to reach. The fun and excitement that one experiences out there is the pretext of the strange atmosphere that one has to survive in.
Wait a minute if u ask how can I comment on something that I have never been into, then u r probably right. This would be just my thoughts and imagination over it. Nevertheless I would say this is my blog and I enjoy writing crap.

Well who doesn’t dream to fly abroad, rite from the point when one visualizes his future He tries to fit in the word "onsite" somewhere in his career aspirations. And keeps dreaming for his day to come.

Well the good that matters for one, when he gets the opportunity is; the exposure, meeting diff people, and gets to goto new places which looks like heaven(just because he had not been there until yesterday), the sweet money. And the best of all damn good reasons, he becomes an elite member of the so-called "US Return Mamau".

For the first timers, going to onsite is more like a tour to enjoy than rather an opportunity to work. Infact the change as in currency, culture and much more, needs to be adapted at the new place. The food, communication, accessibility and most importantly family & friends are all compromised over the fact " I am making good money here".

And ofcourse working abroad makes you and your family proud. One would really admire the conversation that his mom makes out with their neighbours about the pleasant things, his son is doing around in the so-called "States". But apparently most of the time his son in US is actually trying to do things that are very different with interest of their parents.

It may be easy for one, to part his friends and family for a while and go abroad, because of the suspense thats gonna unfold for him out there, but for his family his absence is most haunting than the pleasure of seeing him become successful.

Its not just the onsite opportunity, worth mentioning here. I would also site the happenings after and before one fly’s to US.
The polambals, the anticipation, the dissatisfactions are all part of the job, while one longs for such an opportunity at work. For some it strikes very early making them miss out this seemingly weird but pleasant experience at work. But for some it takes really long.(Really really long), and they keep enjoying, being patient.
One of my workmate had to postpone his trip due to official reasons, which happened 3 times in a row and he gave up the next time when he was offered the opportunity once again,, funny!!!.

The Aftermath: I would not be very much surprised to see my friends not affected after being to a different place for a while. I do not know any of my friends who have changed their accent. I see my friends continue in plain fashion even after being to US. May be most of them had been there for short term trips and probably it needs more time and effort to change ones habit.

By reading this odd blog you would have guessed my interest over it. Yes I am keenly looking forward for such an opportunity in my career and kinda despo about it. I am longing to add my name in the list above. Strangely all my friends when asked about their feedback said "its very boring in US. Except for the money nothing is worth mentioning about the life in abroad." It makes me think about it.

But also it hurts me every time when someone from the non-IT asks my mother "Enna satish oru s/w engr. ne sonigae America lam poliya?" and my mother comes out with every possible reasons that she can tell, using the facts that I gave her to convince about the lesser opportunity at my current job.

Well atleast I have one good reason to still hold onto my aspiration. I believe I would rewrite this blog someday, when I reach US and have more to add to this article about my experience and fun. :-)

2006-06-23T22:26:00.000-07:00

Cool videos at YouTube/Google - My favourite videos

1.Typical Transforming Robot
2.Best Shot of a Shot
3.Self Contructing robots
4.Apache in action in iraq
5.Swiss air force
6.Heli shot down in iraq
7.Soilders in Iraq
8.Fight in iraq

9.Loose change - (cool 9/11 investigation 1 hour video)

2006-06-21T01:22:00.000-07:00

Da Vinci Code...

Finished reading the book today,,,,

This is in-fact an amazing book that speaks of the hypothetical facts that were discovered in our past.
Its not that the author discovered these facts by himself, its the way that he presents to us is amazing,, though there had been many books in the past giving more explanation to the holy grail, the sangreal, the bloodline and the PS.
But Brown had outlined them all in a simple and mind-blowing storyline in his book.

I regret I read this book quickly in 2 days, (just because of curiosity). I feel I should have read it slowing enjoying its very pleasure of reading it.

Anyways,, Hats off to the author, I wonder on him working out his imaginations to write such a suspense novel on Jesus' history and picturing it over today’s modern society.

It made me enjoy the places in and around Paris and London, and ofcourse I should say this story was an educational-adventure to read along. Love to watch this movie in theater. (releasing again on 24th)

2006-06-16T00:27:00.000-07:00

IT's Happenning

I wrote an article to give awareness to the freshers in IT industry,

I have blogged it on an another blog click here

www.itrulz.blogspot.com

hope it comes useful to many !!!!

2006-06-15T02:06:00.000-07:00

IT IT ,,,,,

en pera SatishKumar ,,Satish Kumar Apps Engineer, yen peru ku pinadi iruke designation dan en valla,, en thavam ,,
iruvathi oru varsh thavam,, antha vayasila than Oracle la select anna,,
adhuverikum arthammoda poikituirundha en vazhkae adhukuaparum suthamaa arthemea illame maripochi....

vazhakailaa marakamudiyadha neraiya vishyagal,
Neraiya sandoshgal (playing games over lan),
silla kayamgal (often into trainings),
silla ematrangal (vallaiya illa pa),

iruvathi oru vaisela MTS chennai HCL CTDdivision la join panna,
irundu varsham kazhichi OSS branch Hitec city,, Satish kumar, Apps Engineer,

Manager: This is satishkumar, srikanth, arul, illamaran, guys Senior AE kumaran. evar pathi nenga kellvi patirupingea, nama OSS branch transfer agi vanthiirukaru, inthu release muzhku unga kuda than iruparu and ofcouse
Mr Vasudevan Nayer, OSS release specialist 28 release panirukar,,,mumbai IDC, tani alla irudhu 24 clienta ozhichu katiirukar.
Manager: This is my team, indha teama assemble paandhu nandha, (dan ta tadan dandan huyee {muisic})
Manager: These guys are hand picked by me and report directly to me (dan ta tadan dandan huyee {muisic})

Kumar: "assai" client unnu mun nala city kulla demoku varapordhu thagaval vandhu iruku, unga instructions kagae than sir naga wait panoron
vetai ku nanga thayar...

MR Nayer: 28 release offshore lea mattum, 27umm slippage anna oru release mattum ontime, ellam antha ithu ponna oru release pathi than pasenaga,
So management ungaliam parthukitu irukapogudhu nenga enna pana poringa nu,,,
Ungala mudiyum...intha release kaga unga mananilaya ellamea negae mathikunum ellamea inga iruku,,

kadmain karanam nega oru code yezdhuna adhuta second lendhu unga life badhika padalam
avaga seanderagal chuma iruuka matangai, andhu bug varanumun than code ezadhiniganu nenaipanga pazhi vanga thudipangu and most of the time avangu kuri vakirathu unga vaelyea illa, appraisalum bonusum than,

Kumar: Nanga Nalu pera, engalku bayame teriyalea, dept. la engalea vati pasenganu sonagu, we were the resource at bench.

In that week while taking 3 release operations , encouter with one of the client

Cleint: Apps Engineer, Unn peru enna, Unna pathi solliiruknagea,,, xxtha onsitea varamate.
Kumar: Dai, (intha lots of bugs into the code)...

Illamaran: Manager Gaja,, evean pati namma kita oru recordum illa, anna catfetria lea pasikuram ellam vishayum unmai
evan oru pacha poriki, ponugala mattum onsite anuperathela number one,
ellam fresher ponunga, rendhu masathuku munadi baby nu pudhusa join panna fresher,
2 masthla visa edhutu onsite anupchiirukaran, badhikapatavar 3 senior ,aana urthurm camplain pana varaliyaa

(guys shall update it shortly, got some work, very fortunate to get some this time)

2006-06-11T09:30:00.000-07:00

Andy B'day Bash

Miss you andy in hyd!!

2006-06-11T07:57:00.000-07:00

Trip to Sri Sailam

Let the pics to the talking

Charminar

Some Dam on the way to sri sailam

One of the coolest place in my life i visited

We Taking a shower

The Sailam Dam.

A comfartable travel in Travera.

Snapped at the rite moment.

The Hill Top View.

2006-06-07T01:18:00.000-07:00

Software wars

Click on the image to expand

2006-04-09T22:33:00.001-07:00

My New MP4 player

Hi guys it gives me an opportunity to market the product that i bought last week,
This is an imported MP4 player 1 Gb.

--not branded local make only--

Functionality wise its better than the ipod.

This is a very gud bid that i won on ebay.com. The item was shipped from Hongkong and took 30 days,
The features of this player are
Functions as

Mp3 Player,
WMA Player,
MTV player,
JPEG/JPG picture & photo browser,
voice recorder,
USB flash disk,
Digital FM radio,
Digital FM Recorder,
E-book Reader.

Specifications

1 Gb Memory,
1.7 inch color screen (128 x 128),
2 audio socket,
stereo external speaker

This product satisfies all needs as a mp3/4 player. Also i wud say this is a gud value for money when u get this product for just Rs 3800/-.

for more info about the product and deal check out here.

But unfortunatly i am an't using this,,,, I bought this to gift it to my sister. She's using it and happy abt the product itself.

2006-03-21T22:18:00.000-08:00

Go Plus- An outbound training camp

After 5 months in Oracle, my turn to go plus had struck.
The dates were 16-18 March and the venue was ICRISAT.
( International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics )
And all this delay for my go plus training had paid off.... I met peoples who were all very kind and friendly.I spent those 2 days with them celebrating and enjoying time...

"The Whole 17 "

Me and Karthekeyan

We had played few games which were all interesting and challenging. For these games we had been split into teams. My team mates were Gaurav, me, Abhineet, Devender and Kalyani. We won almost all the games that we played.

Apart from these games I spent some time for bi-cycling, swimiming, volleyball and tennis.

I took the opportunity of being away and boozed along with Karthikeyan, Adarsh, Drhupadh accompanied by guru and kiran.

Hey the whole fun was the two girls stealing away the show, kalyani and latha they were very social and good friends to all...

I wonder I should quit oracle and join again to get another go plus......

2006-03-21T22:03:00.000-08:00

Places i had been too......

1. Jammu & Kashmir
I remember the 4 days trip to jammu and visiting Vaishnav devi temple in Katra...it was in the year 1998 after my 10 std exams

2. Punjab
On the very same trip i had a day stop in Chandigarh, I stayed there for a night at the Airforce Campus. My elder sister was born here abt 25 years back , when my father worked in this campus.

3.Uttar Pradesh
I was brought up here, i studied from 2-6 std here at Allahabad, I cannot forgot my3 day visit
to varanasi(sangam) for the Kumb mela(once in 7 years).

4.Uttaranchal
I had been to the place Dehradun for a 2 day visit for Military School exams and interview, apparently I didn't make it through......

5.Rajasthan
How could I miss describing my birthplace, yes Satish was born in Bikaner,,,,this was very early I hardly realize I was ever been to this place...But have to digest this fact...My mummy says I was given camel milk when I was infant....(hard to believe)

6.Madhaya Pradesh
I had been to places like bhopal and indore. I had participated the National Level Junior SoftBall championship. (A revised version for baseball) I can never forgot any of the matches that we played there on a 7 day camp.This was in the year 2000.

7. Gujarat
During High school my project got selected for the National Science Exhibition at RajKot. I was here exhibiting my project with my teacher for 4 memorable days. I visited the famous Shiv temple here.

8. Maharastra
This was one of the most excellent travel I had ever been into, I had to get to a place called Karad in maharastra.,,,, I cudn't get a availability in train, I had to catch bus and traveled to next nearest places before reaching karad. My first Paper Presentation in college was here.

9. Karnataka
Banglore is a hub for all IT professions and I had been there 3-4 times and guess what all times to attend interviews (Oracle, Tavent, Huwaei etc..) and also once to participate in the Visveshara Science exhibition sponsored by Intel. Bangalore is the most flourished place I have visited, I love to get settled down here in my career.

10.Andhra Pradesh
Hey this is the place I am currently working at. Hyderabad is really a gr8 city ppl love to live here its a mixed up phenomenon of tradition and modernization. Hope Hitec city is the next treo in the hyderabad, secudrabad series.

11. Kerala
Munaar, Guruvaiyoor are the places I visited during the 3 day tour organized at my college. These days were a break to us after long semesters and studies...

12.Tamil Nadu
Chennai is the place where I started my professional career. I dwelled here for 14 months.
Other places in TN would be Madurai, Thiruneveli, Karikudi, Ooty, Kodaikanal, where I have something to remember and cherish upon.

13.Delhi
I had been here touring all the monuments like Qutub Minar, Red Fort, RastraPathi Bavan, Palam Air Mueseum etc...

14. Pondicherry
This is my native.Rest of the time when I was not traveling I survived here.

2006-01-27T02:16:00.000-08:00

Trip to Nagarjuna Sagar Dam

Hi all,,, welcome back and let me narrate my holiday trip on 26 Jan...

Me and my roomies planned to make a trip to Nagarjuna Sagar Dam.
we had booked the tickets in advance through APSRTC Tourism. On 26 Jan we had to wake up early @ 5:30 am in the morning, and believe me it was very cold in the early morning here in Hyderabad....

Then we reached YATRI NIVAS at 7:30 in the morning....the bus which we boarded was really good value for money. It wasn't a VOLVO, but was good to enjoy the trip for 3 hours that takes us to reach the Nagarjuna DAM.

Just after reaching the DAM we were served lunch. We made it quick on with the fishes and meals served.
Then we continued our bus trip towards the Launch Site, just b4 reaching it, our 'guide' had stopped the bus at a broken bridge off the road where we took pictures of the dam...

At Launch site, we boarded a boat big enough to transport abt 200 ppl. This boat runs across the river connecting the launch site and the Nagarjuna konda island situated in the midst of the dam water...ppl here is where i see river Krishna for the first time in my life, well i have seen them in indian maps as-well...

The trip on the boat was for abt an hour, it was pleasant sailing across the big Krishna river as we were also enjoying the scenic beauty in and outside the boat. we kept watching those big mountains as well....... well it would be easy for my partners to understand the whole big fun we had on the boat,,,,
Then we landed up on to the island which had nothing worth watching but a museum with all ruined old age sculptures and budha statues... it was bit boring and we made it out from there as early as possible but not b4 we took snaps along the river side..

While returning back from the island we were lucky enough to again enjoy watching even bigger mountains close by the water as we sailed back to the launch site in the boat.

After that we boarded the bus to reach another spot called "Ettiputalla falls"
This is a place on earth worth mentioning,,,, it had few beautiful water falls, we could watch them all from a distance over the cliff....., we spent another couple of hours over there b4 we left back to home.
The whole trip wasn't that bad, to regret not taking rest on a national holiday. hmmm i had brought my camcorder with me we took video of our trip... i shall upload the video as-well, so ppl keep watching...

thanks for reading.

2005-12-23T01:32:00.000-08:00

Saravana weds Reshma..

On 12/12/05 i witnessed my friend Saravana’s marriage.

To start with i would like to tell u ppl how funny it got for me to come to pdy to attend the marriage function. I had already availed all my leave for the year 2005 and did not have any leave balance to take one for the function(as i had joined on oct i had only 3days, and took them all for diwali). Moreover i was attending training sessions thereby could not bunk on monday. we had already booked the train tickets to fro to chennai in advance for 9-12/dec. On 6th i cancelled my ticket and also informed all abt my cancellation.

I was disappointed of missing the wedding and also meeting my collage mates. On 8th i came to know abt my training getting postponed to evening, so i checked out and found possible to catch a flight to return by monday afternoon. I booked the flight ticket(also convinced praveen to do that with me) and bought a train ticket via broker to leave for chn on 9th. we all came in the same train but in different coaches and reached pdy on saturday evening.

On the very same day as soon as i reached pdy i talked to my parents for a while and i left immediately to catch up with my friends @ beach. We decided to get the last bachelor's treat from saravana. We went to the Ajantha Sea Shore Restaurant, though it was saravana's treat we never believed he wud come. we ourselves boozed for his cherished bachelor life. It was a very pleasant booze that i would have had. It was raining outside and we were all chatting and enjoying the moments, on that day we stayed awake for abt 3 in the morning, slept in friends house and i reached home around at 10am next day. Afternoon kiruthi invited me for a matinee show, i wanted to go but i thought i shd spend time with my family too( as i was not home yesterday) and was with my family until evening.

In the Evening i was on time to the function(or may be early). I meet most of our college mates and found fun talking to them. I had brought my camcorder with me i shot all the moments in the wedding. To add to the excitement, Jack had sung a song on the stage. It was really nice and worth appreciating his talent. We then gathered to wish the couple and also lifted saravana to bash him(traditional way among us to show happiness) but as he was 'mapillai' for the day we had to drop him untouched. At night after the function, most of us headed to the beach, we spent some time over there and then we left for home.

On Monday morning i was bit late to the function as many of us were, it was because the wedding took place very early in the morning. Though we managed to gather around once again and wished the couple for a happy married life. We all departed by afternoon.

The funny thing for me here was the flight i booked got cancelled and i had no way to return to hyd by monday afternoon. Eventually i missed my training and had LOP for a day. I had to book a bus for hyd and reached hyd by tuesday morning.

Hope u all enjoyed my narration of my visit to saravana’s marriage

-Thanks for reading.

2005-12-23T00:29:00.000-08:00

My First Blog

After these many days out in IT industry i regret why am i late for this ?
Ahaa at last I did blog it....
May be i was preoccupied with my job and training in my career...... but here @ Oracle i am able to find some leisure time. I loved to write a diary from college. But did not find interest in updating it daily and subsequently stopped writing it. May be blogging once in a while wud fill in that.

Lemme brief my life after College and benchmark a profile of myself to you. After graduating from Pondicherry Engineering College, CSE 2004, I had to take up the offer from HCL chennai. I had to live away from my parents and sisters out in the so-called Singara Chennai.
Well it did sound singara chennai for me until i worked at HCL greams road office. I often jump out to Spencer at office time. We had time to hangout with my roomies Kiruthi, Azaghu, Mouly and Andrew while we were living out at Vadapalani. This was the time when i was in training @ HCL and had ample amount of time to enjoy life out here at chennai.

But things changed out for me very soon, after my tranning got over i was transferred to HCL Ambattur. Work had started coming on to me. Within a month i had to stay night outs at office. Work over there involved frequent releases of projects. But at least i was interested in the job i was getting. In the month of April Mouly had to join Oracle at hyderabad.
So we shifted out to Anna Nagar with Yoga joining us and andrew had left us to stay in Kodambakam. Here life rolled out a bit slow as Azaghu had also left for US. We weren't enjoying chennai as before and moreover hcl @ ambattur is a bit outskirts to chennai; i hardly had chances to hangout with friends. I rather kept myself engaged with more office work.On weekends i would go to Pondicherry to spend time with my family.

Mouly had referred me for an opening in oracle. The interview process for me started in the month of july and i was offered an offer in the month of sep to join oracle at Hyderabad. i joined oracle on october, but hyderabad wasn't really new to me. I had recently been here for an entertainment trip with my college mates and also i had done my kinder garden and schoolings here, when my father was working in hyderabad for Indian Air Force

Thats how i reached here after college. This december all my trainings in oracle are over and by next year 2006 i hope to get some work to do.I would like to post all my interesting incidents in my life (hope i continue be free like this in oracle, until i get some job to do).
Ppl keep updating me about yourself too...

-Thanks for reading