ExpertDabbler

There are some topics which leaves you completely bamboozled. You are not clear whether to write about it or not - like an out of form batsman not clear whether to move forward or backward to a 150kmph delivery, only to be either plumb in front or lose his timber. But I guess it’s better late than never. This is regarding the Guruvayoor temple controversy. Dummies click here for more.

The point of debate is throwing open the temple gates to people belonging to other religions. Guruvayoor is famous for Lord Krishna and notorious for customs which reeks discrimination. I, for one feel it is wrong to bar entry to people based on religion. It’s sad to see the likes of KJY being denied entry. It was also disturbing to read that they’ve performed a purification ceremony when Vayalar Ravi’s son (born to Christian mother) married within the temple premises. Such practices are deplorable and absolutely shameful.

But, or rather BUT, I am really pissed off that the Congress and Marxists, the epitomes of secularism, have a comment or two about all this. Where were these Marxists when a Muslim woman was raped by her father-in-law and was issued a fatwa which terminated her marriage? Will the Congress condemn the religious conversions which goes on several parts of India in a tone half as strong? What’s the Congress opinion about the trouble KJY had in getting his son baptized in church because he sings in praise of Hindu Gods?

I am not against mistakes being pointed out in Hinduism. Every religion or culture always is in a state of change or evolution. Ancient rules or edicts should be viewed, analysed in the light of present day context and interpreted accordingly.
But the prevailing fashion is to point out ills only in Hinduism and then they can all go and attend Ifthar party during the month of Ramzan, Imranas and Shah Bano notwithstanding. Bull shit!

The religious minorities in India – I know 99% of them are sane, moderate people who just want peace, but they are also guilty of letting the 1% lunatics in their faith to speak on their behalf.

Recently, I read a poster near my home which is basically an invitation to Muslims to congregate and seek reservation in jobs. The congregation was to be held in Kumbakonam. Nothing wrong with that. It’s within their right to assemble and voice their opinions and demand privileges.
But one sentence caught my eye.

“Izhandha urimayai meettka thayakkam edharku?”

Oh really? Can anyone make out a list of all the rights lost by the religious minority in India in the last 50 years? I would like to know more on this… Any help would be highly appreciated.

hehehe hehehe hehehe

யாகாவா ராயினும் நாகாக்க காவாக்கால்
சோகாப்பர் சொல்லிழுக்குப் பட்டு
But still 4 more matches to go. So for now shhhhhhhhh!

He is staring at his monitor. He just opened his word processor to write the next blog post and was undecided on what to write. He suddenly remembers to log in to his Yahoo. He logs in to messenger.

Dsssshhh!
The mail alert says 7 messages. He is overjoyed. “All should be comments for the
blog post made yesterday night. Boy! i do write better nowadays’ he says to himself and eagerly logs in …

The mails were all comments. But comments from “persons” like “ageless-old”, “free-home-loans”, “online pharma” blog , “natural enlargement of assets” blog.

“Ennada idhu sodhanai? ipdi spam panraungale tharudhalai pasanga!” he says to himself
and immediately there comes another spam comment which goes like
“Creative blog. I too have a tharudhalai pasanga blog selling tips on how to be a tharudhalai pasanga. Will come back again”

‘Bull shit! Ennamo sondha kaaran madhiri marupadiyum vera varuvaanamey, Nonsense!’ He says to himself.

But he checked out the blog post. It was written almost a year back. He was kinda happy that those old posts are atleast getting some attention, even if its only from spammers.

Bang! theres another alert
“Creative blog. I’ve started a blog on how to avoid nonsense comments. click here”

‘Grrrr. ivanuga thollai thangalai da saami!’. He goes to the comments settings and enables “Comment Moderation” in blogger.

Abba,nimmadhi!

‘Ippo enna seiveenga… Ippo enna seiveenga… Ippo enna seiveenga ???’ he dances like superstar in ‘Guru Sishyan’.

He logs into yahoo in the noon. No comments.
Evening. No comments. Late in the night. None.

‘Idhu ennada vamba pochu? Nobody comments on my blog nowadays? How come i’ve suddenly become unpopular? Maybe the guys are all busy. Everyone has other personal work, after all. Who knows, a few might even have official work too!’
Lets wait for another day or two before coming to any conclusion…

The next day, a chat with one friend alerts him
“Why did you not approve of my comments in your blog y’day? :(”

‘Aahha! Comments? not approve? when? Am i not like CMDA when it comes to approvals? I approve all and sundry except the odd anonymous critic.’

The next day another buddy tells the same.

‘Hmph! Looks like there are more bugs in blogger than in all the triplicane mansion beds. Stupid fellows!’

He decides to remove comment moderation and almost immediately gets another spam comment in some obscure language. Maybe that was the equivalent of “Ippo enna seiveenga” in their language. Damn!

He finally uses the veto. He goes for the old fashioned, often painful word verification system and dances to ‘Ippo enna seiveenga…’ one final time.

Sigh!

Please bear with it folks. For I simply could not bear with the spam comments

Thanks to GV Sudhakar, i got a VIP ticket to watch the Kollywood to Tollywood match held in MA Chidambaram stadicum, Chennai. I watched only the first session from the grounds. The guys batted better than my expectations. Everything was so professional about it. I wouldn’t be overly concerned if a few go to Pakistan to replace some who play for India.

Hmm. its an irony actually. On the one hand, we have some professional actors who are better than our professional cricketers in cricket and on the other, some professional cricketers who are better than professional actors in acting(in TV commercials):D

OK. enough of vetti pechu. i managed a few snaps and this blog is dedicated to all my female readers who lose their sleep because of Arya:)
(en sevai evlo magathanadhu!, i need an award for my contribution to drooling )

click here for amateur sports photography

The below pic is not that of any star but my close buddy Suman

Warning: idu koncham thozhil reedhiyana post

Sify.com in Firefox

Sify.com in IE

When i first saw these tabs in IE, i thought these were the funniest set of tabs i’ve ever seen. Then it struck me that Microsoft’s philosophy with respect to IE bugs has always been ‘More, the better’.

And then i saw it again in Firefox and ‘Voila!, there you go!’

But what baffles me is, why on earth would the folks at sify would go ahead with such a basic cross browser bug?

I’m sure the folks at Sify are using some CMS to maintain the portal. But with IE being used as the default browser by so many people, does it not make sense to make atleast the home page of a leading portal to be cross browser compatible?

குமுறல்,
பகீர்,
கதறல்,
அவலம்,
கொடூரம்,
பரபரப்பு,
மர்மம்,
பரிதாபம்,
பீதி,
அதிர்ச்சி

அட டென்சன் ஆவாதீங்க இப்பொ தமிழ் பத்திரிக்கைகள் (துக்ளக் தவிர) அதிகம் உபயோகப்படுத்தும் டாப் டென் cover story வார்த்தைகள் என்ன என்ன என்று ஒரு லிஸ்ட் எடுத்தேன்.

அவ்ளோ தான்
படிக்கும்போதே மனசுக்கு எவ்ளோ நிம்மதியா, பாசிட்டிவ்வா இருக்கு பாருங்க!.

வாழ்க பத்திரிக்கைகளின் சேவை!

One acquaintance of mine, Laura Peterson, MA - Founder and Executive Director of Hands to Hearts International is in chennai and is looking for a photographer, preferably a woman photographer who can help her in one of her projects here.

You can know about Laura by clicking here

Interested women or Vis Com students who are interested in doing this assignment please do get in touch with me.

The assignment is for a marketing collateral, so you are expected to be reasonably competent in photography.

It’s even enough if you do something in the weekends.
I am not sure about the pay. You have to thrash it out with her. It’s like rain - Vandhaalum varum types. I am not underwriting it.

So any of you who are looking for some exposure to your photography skills and /or who want to help out an NGO, pls. call/mail me.

The following in the brackets is the reaction of PK’s Manasatchi to a news item Manoj weds Nandhana.

Strangely, PK’s manasaatchi(herafter known as PKM) has never been a cabinet minister nor does it own a TV channel. So there is nothing to worry about PKM…

Manoj…
(Grr… adangu. andha perai kettaley enakku suthama avadhu)

falls in love…
(Saniyaney! nalladhu ninai, nalladhu pesu….)

with a mallu girl Nandhana
(daaaaai… enna mirugamakadheenga da. Epidira? With a mallu girl? Damil ponnu na kooda summa vitiruppen…How is it possible? Eeee premam Enganey saadhyam? Daaaai….!! PKM turns hysterical and roars in rage)

PKM To Nandhana’s parents:
My heartfelt condolences to you. I can understand your agony, pain in the a&^ feeling. May the almighty give you the strength to cope with this period of grief.
Ungalukku erpatirukkum sogam eedu seyya mudiyadhadhu…

PKM To Nandhana (in Sivaji Ganesan style):
“Yemma yemma ipdi pannitiye ma?. Unakku love panna vera aala kedaikalai? En kitte oru varthai sollirundha ethanai perai sollirupen theriyuma?”

“Namma somu vai try pannirukalaam. Vaaram 3 romantic poem eluduvaar. avlo sugama irukkum.. padika…

Illa namma Ferrari ya route potirukalaam. Daily kandippa He-She kadhai solli unnai life muzhukka kan kalangaama parthirupaar.

illa sadhveegamaana aala venumna namma mukundan ai try pannirukalaam, vaishnavism, yoga, sanksrit nu poirukkum un life.”

“Ivanga ellathayum vidu, kalavaani paya ennayavadhu love pannirukalaam…avanga alavukku illenaalum yedho ennale mudincha alavukku kastam illama vechuppen….”

“ipdi pannitiye ma! yemma? yen? yen? (tilts his head, twitches his face, lips trembling)”

[Fade out]

Its night time.. PK is in white shirt (without banian inside) and white pants.
There is red light in the background . Low angle shot. He raises both his hands in the air and sings “Engey Nimmadhi…” and slowly walks away….

Year 2007

PK is now known as PiKanandha. He runs an ashram in the foothills of err. yedho oru hill. He is surrounded by his most ardent shishyai gals, all from kerala. One sishyai, the most beautiful and Pk’s favorite asks, “Swami, what made you renounce material life and take up err. spiritual, divine life?

And Pk goes about describing the terrible personal loss he suffered when a mallu girl Nandhana married Manoj.

All his shishyai gals listen to it with rapt attention and shed tears in the end. This is not the first time he is telling that tragic story. But his shishyai gals want to relive the pain he went through…..

(Those who want to relive like PK’s sishyais pls. go to the top and read it again)

And so PiKananda ji thus leads a spiritual life in the foot hills of yedho oru hill.

Its an irony that Pk, who never managed to go within a foot’s distance of a girl while he was a bachelor is now fully surrounded by girls all the time ever since he became a Swamiji.

Girls-PK never managed to understand them. Neither as a bachelor.. nor as a swamiji.. Sigh!

PS:
the above is just written as pure spur of the moment fun. no offense whatsoever folks.

R Dravid c.Kamran Akmal b.Shoaib Akhtar 2 (4 balls)

Guess this is what happens when agnosts like me suddenly turn to God in times of desperation
Vatsan, yeah i’d stick to Tendulkar

Atleast when i pray to sachin, the rest of the team seems to perform better.

Now the situation is “ulladhum pochu da”

Ada pongappa, me not talking cricket anymore for sometime:(