Mayila pudichi kalai udaichi aada sollugira ulagam!

Yep, ligament strain to the verge of tearing. It was a small fall down the stairs at home but the pain is huge. Came to chennai for some well deserved (?) rest for my foot.

So good to be back to the nest! Sigh! :)

Rock on and Road side romeo

Yep, been to 2 movies in a week. Guess I am freaking out on my mini-break :)

Rock on is really awesome, for people who take their friends seriously, it is a movie to watch. Well the message is simple "GO FOR IT, no matter what!". I guess the message doesn't hold for a rock band alone. It is for all those eager beavers out to start something on their own.

On the other hand.. Road side romeo.. he..he.. he.. it was an empty theater just the 7 of us, we had FUN. We were laughing our hearts out, I guess I would keep saying "Are you happy my dear chappy" for sometime to come now.

Mozzila accepts cookies from backdated servers

Though i blame all my troubles in the software world on Microsoft. This time IE seems to be behaving in a much better fashion than Mozzila Firefox.
When a cookie is sent to Mozzila from a backdated server and the date on the client is greater, it still accepts the cookie. Whereas IE assiduously rejects it.
Will send out a bug report when I can get the ethereal dump tomorrow.

Nitey nite.

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It has been an academic disaster. Did badly in one of the 1st term courses, not that I am optimistic about the other course results :)
What happened to all the oath that a certain person made in the blogger world? "Oh IIM thou shall not be let down if you give this mere mortal a chance" Bah!


I need to get back to the "I just have to mug, no other choice" vigor else the time and money will all go down the drain! Will transcendental meditation help to get wholesome concentration?

Inshallah!

We live in a crazy little world!

I have often wondered about the hypocrisy of "preaching" virtuous things. Game theory concepts have made me think even more :)

As a child I grew up reading the "Blighted" Enid. Where honesty, forthrightness, being straight forward are all seen as great qualities; Whereas spite, under handedness are all never forgiven!

Why go thousand miles to the west? Some thing more closer at home..our good old Rajini movies, how much ever masala they all have the message is very simple and uniform. The good triumphs over bad. The hero who is a paragon of virtues always gets the beautiful, gregarious, skimpily clad, party hopping (Who then turns very pious later!) girls.

Kids grow up thinking that is how the world is.. neat black and white.. You just have to pick the white.. Bhaaaaaam!
Rude shock when they realize that their sometimes good buddies and colleagues also play game theory concepts at their best. What is the net gain? Do the game playing people actually maximize their gain? or do they just sour their relationship for no net gain?
Why does this disparity even exist? Is it because the 1st person who tries to play a game doesn't have a dominant strategy? Or is it because they grew up without reading the Enid Blyton school series? Of course life is really complex, and cannot fit in a 2X2 matrix.

I heard some golden words of wisdom that is worth repeating.. "What is the point in doing an MBA, if you can't fit scenarios in a 2X2 matrix?" :)

At the edge

I should attribute it to the 1st term finals looming in the air in 2 days. I have hardly studied. Guess the "Open" book paper is letting me be lethargic. But I feel it is going to be much tougher than a closed book paper.
The last Economics was "ok", so if a similar paper is given, guess I can scrape through. History repeats itself, I am exactly the way I was in college and school, procrastination of studies being the motto.

Work is not being forgiving either. Just lots to do! :( wish I could distance myself from everything.

Oh well!

Life has changed! I dont ever remember refusing an invitation to party with people I like. Today i picked to slog over Finance at home vis-a-vis watching Batman!
No regrets - the evening was well spent over hair pulling mind numbing revenue recognition problems.

I came across this video today a friend of mine at work sent it across. Real cute one. The music is really appeasing and the thought is awesome.




Now that I have spread the joy of education, living and friendship I shall get back to work!

Phew! that was a narrow escape

Panic sets in at Bangalore. 7 serial blasts rock the city. Thank god they were of low intensity!
For some strange reason I wanted to stay back at college today and get a reference book from the library. My classmate was helping me find the book, call it work of fate there was not a single copy in the library. So I wanted to buy the book the book store was closed for lunch. My new found enthusiasm for the strategy course over-powered my will to run to work for the sumptuous food. I convinced myself to eat in college.
I hung around the bookstore till 2pm only to find out that the book was out of print.
After browsing for a while, I left the campus to be greeted by really bad traffic at Madiwala. I spent over 1hr in the madivala junction. I cursed the ever efficient traffic cops and politicians who fancy a mid-day high security city tour.
Little did I know that I missed a bomb blast by 10-15mins.
There are a couple of hypothetical situations that make me involuntarily shudder:
-> High intensity bombs like the Hyd/Coimabtur bombs
-> Me driving by the bus stand 15mins earlier like a do every other Friday!

Sigh!!

Oh my god it is Friday!

Gone are the days when I could heave a sigh of relief on a Friday and look forward to spend quality time with my husband. It is assignments/cases and more! To add to the friday frenzy we had a party at work today!

Sigh!!! Heading back to tallying balance sheets :(

Blogging

LOL!!!

F.R.I.E.N.D.S back!

Looks like we would have to wait for about a year before the F.R.I.E.N.D.S movie is out in the theaters. Though I see re-runs after re-runs every day and catch up on missed re-runs on weekends.. I miss the new episodes. I hope the movie is really funny!

It is just too boring!

Ahem! Ahem! The point I would like to make here: when i have to do the integral format of testing multiplied by pi times the diameter of my nose, and then factoring in the ballistic missile's nuclear waste.. we shall achieve 5-9s of HA

This is what I thought I heard from one human being today. The statement just didnt make any sense in my opinion a bunch of intelligent sounding words strung together. The human could have just kept clearing his throat for all I care :))

The week is running pretty fast, it is wednesday already and I ha vent done significant things for my classes this week. The humor in the gang is restricted. The silence is more apparent. One significant turn of events is that "county - the game" was interesting today. I shall write a dedicated blog for the rules and pleasures of county.. We were trying to pull in the WFH or vacationing gang members to play "county" on a tele-con mode, well we do tend to go over-board during leg-walks!

The average cynicism is on an all time low, perhaps the gang is missing the veteran cynic who has probably has spotted the abominable snowman in the himalayas by now :)
I am basking in the reflected glory of my main screen coding effort. Though it is a week late, I am glad I was able to code as much as I could...

Flex is calling where am I???

Om namo narayanaya.....

Dasavatharam.. I am glad I spent the 250 bucks I did. The movie starts with a powerful 12th century episode. It is about the war between shivites and vaishnavites. Kamal acts as the custodian of iyengar virtues. He tries to prevent the king from removing Lord Ranganathar's Deity from a temple and gets drowned along with the idol in the bargain.

There havent been many movies that have showed iyengars being brave. (I cant seem to recall even one) You always have pavom looking "Poornam" Vishwanathan or the likes potraying brahmins. The way Kamal says "Om namo Narayanaya" when asked to say "Om nama shivaya" sure does makes me emotional. But feeling good as a fellow iyengar stops there.

In the entire movie, they are bent upon throwing Lord Govindarajar's idol around. Really feels bad.. The story is so-so. The make-up is really bad. Music finally makes sense, the investment on the CD-A has paid off.
I wish I can get a good desktop wallpaper of the iyengar Kamal :)

Before you say "Thvameva"!

We were having a very normal discussion at work today. It was about the system of marriage. A friend and I were having this discussion about the whole arranged marriage funda. I was telling her that I did take a big risk but it has been okay. There were discussions around how parents have a "responsibility checklist" and tick of items and classically say in tamil "En kadamai over". The checklist is mainly a society driven list which puts marriage as the be all and end all of a girl's life. Well, if you ask me her life begins there. It is just not enough if you invite 1000 people to the wedding and have one big party. The girl has to be happy and content with her life after the party. If there is a loveless marriage I have often heard parents saying: "Oru kuzhandai porantha ellam seriya poiydum" Errrr... Shouldn't a child be a product of love? Having a child will just commit you the marriage even further. One should be in a relationship because he/she "wants" to not they "have" to.
My opinion:
One has to be ready for the marriage. Mentally prepared to raise a a child. I agree that there is no relationship without compromise be it between friends/parents-children/husband-wife. There is nothing wrong in a girl deciding whom/when she has to get married. This should not be misconstrued as a disrespect towards her parents. I know I wouldn't have said all this 3 years ago, but then I have become a shade wiser :) It is good that my parents packaged me out of the door before I started thinking this way! :)) I think parents should stop making decisions for their children after a point in time as well. Let us face it, the world was a much different place to live in 20years ago. The protective nature does seem to go over-board sometime and they tend to interfere. We as children do have the onus to refuse the advice without hurting their feelings. Be polite yet firm!
According to me marriage is just a legal agreement. I don't think I would behave any different if my husband and I were living together instead of being married. And "NO" having a kid is just not a solution. I cant help but to concur with Monica from FRIENDS about marriage: "there is no such a thing as a soul mate. Marriage is a relationship that we have to work very hard at"
I guess I would always be working hard always to sustain an amicable relationship. This is true even among friends.

There is nothing blasphemous or hideous in expressing one's thoughts however unconventional it maybe. Such an expression doesn't definitely deserve a confession in a place of worship! It needs a pat on the back of the person who dares to think differently!