KIRUKKALS - NOTHING BUT KALAKKALS

Why Me?

2010-12-05T17:03:00.003+05:30

Swamiye... Saranam Ayyappa"... Veeramani was singing in ucha sthayi* (Higher pitch) inside the ipod that was connected to Raju’s ears. But Raju was so overwhelmed by his thoughts that neither the song nor the spirit of the song could go beyond the ears to his heart or mind. Raju, as you would have guessed by now, is a typical IT professional, with whom many of you can easily relate to. Slogging round the clock during weekdays and ending up weakened during weekends. Adding to his woes is the travel time to office. His office is located at Mahindra City and hence Raju would have to spend at least around 1.5 hours in a (s)train journey to reach his office. Most of the time Raju uses the travelling time to finish off his quota for sleep that day as he seldom gets enough time to sleep at his home sweet home.

Raju is working in a critical project for a US client and he is required to support the client during the American morning hours and then since he is a “senior” resource in his team, he should also be there to support his Manager with the required information during the Indian Morning hours. Consequently he can think of leaving home only after 11 pm and even then if luck forbids, he would have to share the cab with some girl for whom the cab has to travel from Mahindra city all the way to almost Mahindra Pallavan's city (Mahabalipuram). By the time the driver wakes up from his sleep and realizes there is another soul to be home dropped, the time would have crossed 1 am. That too now since Raju had been observing Sabarimala Viratham (Viratham - Austerity seeking GOD's blessings) he had to take a mandatory bath and only then he can go for sleep. By the time he is about to get an onsite opportunity in his dream, his merciless mobile wakes him up by alarm settings set at 6'0 clock everyday.

"Hmm… What a life it is” thought Raju as the train was speeding past Thrisualm, “being a Software Engineer going through the same routine tasks daily without any respite. Just because my manager and onsite coordinator gave some fancy promises to the client I would have to work overtime to cover up and present a rosy picture. …hmmmmmmmm”, Raju was slowly getting into a griping mode. “Getting up at 9, finishing the daily chores, taking the train, travelling for an hour, then slogging in office till 11, catch the cab, reach home, sleep at 1, then again getting up late at 9………..ooof… what a monotonous life mine had become. In a way I feel being treated like Chitti the Robot in Endhiran. ………. Just like Chitti, People play with me, have fun with me, give me loads of work, appreciate and clap whenever I do well, want me to have feelings for whatever that bothers them… Deadlines, customer pressure, management pressure etcetra etcetra… But I am not allowed to have any desire or feelings for my own like good rating or onsite spiration….. They will tell some insane reason and switch me off…Ennangada nyayam ithu………. (Translation: colloquially telling Not fair at all) Hmmmmmmmmmmmph…..” Raju’s Enthiran parallels came to a halt with the train he was travelling had end the run in between MEPZ and Tambaram. “Oh shhh”, (restrained from completing “it” as he was under Sabarimala Viratham), Raju got further irked about this unnecessary delay. He took off the earphones from his ear and peeped out of the window to see if there was any technical problem that was causing the delay. He could see none however. Others in that compartment did not seem to bother about that delay much…but thatz fair enough… Not everyone travelling at the mid noon time of 11 am would be going to office as our Raju does, so they may not be in a hurry to reach their destination. Raju started getting restless, he thought of getting down at that place itself, walk to a nearest bus stand and catch a bus to reach the office, but decided against it. “I have a strange luck that the moment I get down, the train will start to function again pushing me into further depression” he thought and hence rejected that idea. Not knowing what else to do, Raju got up from his seat and walked inside the train looking at the watch to check the time. It was 11:15 am……..and the train looked like being settled at the same place where it is standing right now . “Hmm… gone…. I am going to miss the 12:00 meeting with the onsite coordinator and he is going to send mails with all those red flags and bold letter cc-ing PM, DM and whoever he has in his address list….GOD………… Why all this is happening to me……. Why why why” depression gave way to anxiety in Raju’s face with every growing minute as he slowly walked inside the train.

At that same instant a kind voice called from behind of him “Hey Raju”……… , Raju turned back in surprise and found Mr.Sundareswaran his father’s friend who was also travelling in the same train was the one who called him. Raju was surprised to see him there and so greeted him

Raju: (trying his best to appear cheerful, but still in a dull tone): Hi Uncle, how are you doing

Sundareswaran: I am good Raju. How are you doing and what are you doing in this train

Raju: (feels like telling mmm…. I am here working as a TTR…… but then he controls himself and maintains that formal composure and tone) : I am going to office Uncle, got late yesterday, thatz why (tries to smile kindly but ending in a wry smile)

Sundareswaran: Oh cool, nice to know your office is very flexible [Raju’s reaction was a grrrrrrr to this one, but he somehow managed to hide that emotion of his as Sundareswaran continued] looks like you have taken up Sabarimala viratham this year as well..nice to know that

Raju: : Hmmm..Yes Uncle…… It was you who advised me to go to Sabarimala last year

Sundareswaran: Yeah I remember that very well. You were very down and depressed about the lack of promotion and onsite opportunity at your company. Hence I suggested you to take up Sabarimala Yatra which would rejuvenate you and remove your worries. I could not meet you for the past 1 year and hence could not get your Sabarimala experiences at all. How was it? And did you experience any positive changes thereafter?

Raju: (who was holding his composure till now breaks up, and nodded his head in strong disapproval): No uncle, certainly not, If at all, my woes have only increased since last year with more pressure, even chota bachas are promoted ahead of me, they go and sit in the US as my onsite coordinator and asking me questions.

Sundareswaran: Well…

Raju: : I took your advice wholeheartedly and believed it would work out because I myself had a wonderful experience during my 1st trip to Sabarimala with my father at the age of 12. The atmosphere was wonderful, there was the feel of spirituality all over the air and when I happened to have glimpse of the lord I was feeling goose bumps and an unexplained joy. I followed every customs associated with the viratham with utmost sincerity. From getting up at 5, taking bath, doing the pooja at home and going to temple to repeating the same after returning from office I was doing everything. But still my trip to Sabarimala last year did not bring any good feel to me.

Sundareswaran : Why, whatz the problem

Raju: The whole place right from Pamba river to the way to Sabarimala was dirty, polluted and so was the minds of the fellow devotees. There appeared to be no moral values and people were downright selfish and jealous. All in all there is little of devotion and lots of commotion out there and hence I didn’t have any divine feel unlike in my earlier trip. I decided not to carry on with the Sabarimala viratham any more but my parents insisted me not to stop with two times and hence I have taken it up again for the sake of going third time.

Sundareswaran: Hmmmph..

Raju: Uncle, I gave my best to this viratham but still was unable to get or feel the almighty’s grace, don’t know why all this is happening only to me… It has been like this throughout my life……… I gave my best in my college and school got into a world class software company, still I end up toiling all day without any satisfaction or reward whatsoever. Is anything seriously wrong in my horoscope?

Raju by now was venting out all his emotions to his Sundareswaran Uncle, he just could not control all that was bugging his mind for a very long time. There was none to share his emotions so far, Parents were too busy in their own respective works while colleagues turned a deaf ear to him. Manager does conduct a one – on – one meeting, but that will eventually turn out to be a one voice (Manager) on one ear’s (Raju) meeting. Sundareswaran who initially was taken aback by Raju’s emotions later did not seem to bother as Raju was letting his emotions loose. He took out a pocket transistor from his bag and started tuning it to FM Rainbow.

Sundareswaran (in a relaxed voice): Hey Raju, I think FM Rainbow is at 101.4 Mhz only……. But I don’t know for some reasons, I am unable to tune it to that station at all even though the dial stands at 101.4

Raju was like…almost uttering….”What the …” and some text that could be written only in password font, but then he realized he is under Sabarimala Viratham and hence controlled himself. Also, he was used to these apathetic gestures from his colleagues whenever he tries to share his emotions. So he returns to his formal composure once again

Raju: : Oh Please uncle, when we are travelling, not always the radio picks up signals at the same defined frequency. Try to tune it slightly several times to correctly capture the signal

Sundareswaran: Ha ha, even a radio needs to be tuned sometimes to receive the correct signal, being a much complex designed human being you expect everything coming to you automatically just by sticking to some rules is it?

(Raju was dazzled, he did not expect this old man to hit back him like that, that too logically... Sundareswaran continues as Raju looks on)

Sundareswaran: Look my son, Life is not like your application deployment process, just to follow the steps in the installation document and get to see the application up and running… To get to anything worthy we should first make ourselves deserving, be truthful in our efforts and make some adjustments as we move on. Just like the radio needing to be tuned to capture the frequency, human mind should be tuned to identify and move forward with the way to growth. Hardwork will not get counted if you don’t have the right attitude and the right intention. When you have the right intention you don’t stop to see what others are up to and start complaining about that and when you have the right attitude, when in hard situations, you don’t sit and whine to GOD asking “Why Me?”, but rather fight your way through the situations and show to the world “Why Me?” the deserving winner. The Ayyappan chant "Kallum mullum kaalukku methai" is not just for eulogizing the lord. It also carries a moral with it, that only when you enjoy the journey, you will be able to reach the destination. Work or Worship all that is needed is the intent and being truthful in the effort to meet that. Remember my boy, If you do certain things just for the sake of doing it, you will only feel forsaken at the end of doing it

Raju stood there still not knowing what to reply as for the first time, someone pointed out his problems from his perspective rather than from their perspective (as his onsite coordinator and PM does). He felt like some ice broken in his mind as Sundareswaran got back to reading his book once again without waiting for any reply from Raju. The Train started to move from where it was halted towards Tambaram, his iPod that was in repeat mode started singing once again “Swamiye Saranam Ayyappa !!!”

Looks Can be deceptive

2010-11-15T18:29:00.003+05:30

P.S - 1 : A new post after a very longgggggggg time at my blog , in a new genre .. This was basically written for Office forum. posting it here :)

It was the final of the prestigious Inter school Football tournament between Adarsh Vidhyalaya and Geetha Matriculation school and the match was in its penultimate moments. The game was closely fought and there was little to seperate between the two teams . Adarsh Vidhyalaya the defending champions were desperate to lay their hands on the coveted trophy once again and prove they are the unbeatable team while the hosts Geetha Matriculation school were keen to prove a point that they are second to none in front of their home crowd and hence the match was going down to the wire adding tension and excitement among everyone present in the crowd. The score line 0 – 0 at the end of the extra time just served a vindication of the vigor with which the game was played by both the teams. After a neck to neck, agility-meets-ability, 90 minutes of power play the game moved to the inevitable penalty shoot out for deciding the winner of the trophy. Both teams went into their dugout for a short break before the impending thrilling climax

The coach of Geetha Matriculation school, PT Master Nallakannu, called the team for a huddle to help decimate the tension of the atmosphere. The hosts were written off by everyone even before the tournament started, as a weak team and many people including the staffs believed the team was participating for academic interest only, after all the annual tournament is being held in their school thanks to the rotation policy. Hence, for such a team to come so far, the "fragile" team being agile on the field and knocking off victories after another on its march to the final, caught the attention of everyone. It was made possible by one student, Dileep, the attacking mid-fielder who turned out to be the unlikely star of that tournament. His energy, enthusiasm, spirited powerplay caught up with his team and together they played like a dream in the run to the finals. Largely helped by the label of underdogs the team was able to put up powerful performance thus far, the burden of expectations was weighing on them at that instance. Verve gave way to nerves as the feel of a so near yet so far path to glory of success passed through everyone's minds and the minutes were ticking away for the penalty shoot out. Nallakannu tried his best to give a pep talk to motivate the team but everyone's fears meant the motivational talk was just going to deaf ears. The mood at the Adharsh Vidyalaya camp was somewhat similar but they seemed to handle the tension better as they had been in familiar situations many times before. Yet the feeling of getting defeated by a "weak" team made them extra determined not to lose at any cost.

Referee blew the whistle to signal the start of the penalty shoot out and the sizeable crowd was cheering the home team at every moment thereby increasing the tempo for the game. Adarsh Vidyalaya opened the penalty shoot out first and both teams scored the first three goals comfortably. Adarsh school also shot the fourth goal comfortably while the guy Muthu who next came for Geetha school was caught in two minds over where to shoot the ball whether to the left or right side and ended up kicking it straight to the goal keeper and the score line now showed 4-3. There were ooh's and aah's in the crowd and the supporters of the hosts started to lose their new found faith in their home team. And talks such "I already told this.." and "I already knew this... " started floating in the air.

The mood got upbeat in the Adarsh Vidyalaya team and they already started to celebrate for their consecutive victory . Brimming with confidence their best player came out for the next shoot out. He went for a casual shot to show off his talent but the overconfident shot made the ball flew over the goal post. The scorelines remained at 4-3 with a life line offered to the Geetha Matriculation school team. The next player for Geetha School came out with his legs trembling as he approached the ball, barely managing to kick the ball towards a point in the goal post. It was easy enough for the goal keeper to collect it but somehow a dust fell into his eyes and he was unable to concentrate on the direction where the ball was travelling letting the home team level the scores at 4-4. The match came alive once again with the crowd coming on the edge of the seats. The player coming in next for Adarsh Vidyalaya shockingly stumbled on an easy chance and failed to get the ball past the goal keeper who flew in the right side well before the ball was shot. Still the ball went straight into the keeper's hands leaving the game and the trophy up for grabs for the home team.

A sense of excitement gripped the home team, they could not quiet come to terms with the feeling that they are one shot away from the coveted trophy that could help raise the stature of not just Football but also Sports in their school. No doubt everyone in the team were quiet thrilled and PT Master Nallakannu could not hide his emotions. He called up Dileep who has been the hero for the team so far to deliver the knock out punch for winning the trophy. "Dileep, you are the right person for this nerve racking moment. You had been a star so far, now is your chance to become a super star. Now go and shoot the goal". Dileep came forward to take the privilege. His team members came up to wish him all the best and also stressed how important it is for the team to win the trophy and how bad it will be for everyone's morale if they fail to win having come within striking distance of the winning line.

Having been free of expectations and with a license to enjoy the game without worrying about the outcome, Dileep has performed exceptionally well and won laurels for his talents but the expectation tag along with the "What if I did not" question pulled down his morale and he developed a cold feet while proceeding to the ground. Questions , expectations flooded his mind - the thought of being looked as a hero among his class and school mates especially the special glances from the beautiful girls of the school, these thoughts comforted his mind and also fired him up. But Newton's third law wreaked havoc on him as reverse thoughts also swarmed his mind. "What if I fail to hit the goal"....... A negative thought multiply much rapidly giving rise to multiple negative thoughts and so it did to Dileep. As he marked his position in front of the goal post , he realized he was the cynosure of all eyes and his team was waiting with bated breath. The thoughts and the negative thoughts, the expectations of the home crowd not to mention of his team's and coach's came before Dileep's mind, he was so perturbed by the thoughts and felt he could not take any more. One part of his mind wanted to just kick away the ball , come what may be and run away from this place to put an end to the mental trauma but another section bogged down by the fear of failure made the 500g football appeared to be a 500 pounds iron ball in front of him. Either way he wanted to escape from the present. At the moment a sudden thought striked him and he looked at the gallery, his eyes desperately searching for his loving Father Sundaram. Ah there he is at the second row, his bright eyes constantly following his son. The serenity in his dad's face made him look like a Zen master capable of converting a Tsunami into a beautiful fountain. Noticing his son is looking at him, Sundaram smiled at him that carried the trust and confidence the dad had in his on. That one smile was enough for Dileep, he felt recharged and emptied the tea cup in his mind. Suddenly the crowd, the noises they made, the goal keeper went away from Dileep's vision and only the goal post was visible to him. He moved towards to the right of the goal keeper, thereby luring him to the right while kicking the ball to the left which comfortably landed in the goal post to a sweeter win amidst loud cheers for Geetha Matriculation school. The win was truly remarkable in the context of the contest.

Sundaram cant stop clapping along with the other people in the crowd as Parthiban, his childhood friend and father of another member, Ajay belonging to the football squad looked on. He waited for Sundaram to stop clapping and asked him "Sundaram.... Wow da..great to see you like this today maintaining your cool and composure. For the last 15 minutes I just stopped forgetting the game and was looking you in awe. Amazing transformation from the days when you imagine various things and fear about it. I was initially thinking that this simple school tournament game meant trivial to you and hence you sat here not bothering about the outcome of it, but looking at the way you celebrate I wonder how you changed like this, Did you visit any psychological doctor and recieved therapy? or is it just that some one applied a magical wand over you and made you a cool guy?"

Sundaram laughed at Parthiban and replied

"Ha ha Parthi, beware dude..appearances can be deceptive, you only saw my face but could not feel the amount of pressure I was carrying with me. My heart was literally in my mouth when I saw my son coming out for the final strike, but then I know my son will be looking out for me before the penalty shoot out. My son turns to me for support than any one in this world and so i need to stand up to his belief. If he sees a worrying, tensed face just like what I encountered in my younger days at any important occasion, then my son would have lost the battle even before waging it. I as a good Father would never want to allow that and hence masked my face to show what could be good for my son and for his life rather than showing what I think. You are true, I had been a pressure cooker in my younger age and more often than not, defeated my own self without the need for any other competitor to do that. My parents and teachers only reminded me of the repercussions of failure rather than motivating me to go for the success.I dont want to inherit that to my son, i always encourage him and show him that I have immense faith him and his abilities. Even when he fails he knows that I will be happy that he had put up his best and enjoyed doing a thing irrespective of the result he had got. You know Parthi, Face is the index of Mind... But my son's mind is susceptible towards picking up negative emotions from my face and hence I send out positive signals for the benefit of him, afterall the onus is on the parents to nurture their children to have a determined and strong heart good enough to succeed in their life."

"Cool da, I have got to learn a lot from you to be a good parent. ... Hopefully before your son finds your real emotions and gets to know that Looks can be deceptive, he learns to look, scan be receptive only to good thoughts from people around him and filters out the negative thoughts..Good luck Daddy dude!!!" as Parthiban was replying his friend, frenzy celebrations sets off to mark a landmark victory.

-- SHUBAM

P.S - 3: Theme inspired and borrowed from this interview with Gary Kirsten, the spark for this story for this title came when he says looks can be decieving, (http://www.espncricinfo.com/magazine/content/story/484723.html) taking the knot from that particular answer of Kirsten I wove the story with the plot inspired from Vettiya Madichu Kattu a Bhagyaraj film...... So basically whatz my contribution? hehe nothing, just the lines are my own and others are woven over the borrowed things Do let know your comments and critics as this is a completely new genre for me........

Uyirae..En Uyirae...- Final part

2010-03-13T00:33:00.006+05:30

P.S - Atlaaaaaaaaaaast......... Sep 2008 ezhutha aarambicha story ah March 2010 vetrigarama mudichittaen....... yipeee..so one major block cleared and please expect more posts from me :D

P.S - 2: Dont mind the blog template........ I am anyway gonna change it again...This is a temporary arrangement wonly :)

Click here for Part-I of this story

[Scene-4]

Location : Get Well Soon Hospital @ Mylapore
Time : 1 pm

Doctor Rajaram's cabin.

Dr.Rajaram was having his mid day meals as Nurse Rita drops in with a coffee mug

Nurse : Enna doctor ippadi medhuva saptutu irukeenga...anga patients lam ungala consult panrathukku thudichittu irukkanga....

Dr.Rajaram : Patients na konjam patience-um irukkanum Rita....... enna than naan doctor ah irunthaalum, only when I am in good health I can look after others health' illiya...athukku velaikku naduvilayum vela velaikku correct ah sappidanum

Nurse : athu sari..unga custom ungalukku.......avanga kashtam avangalukku..... inthaanga Coffeee.. daily 3 cup coffee kudikkarathu mattum ketta pazhakkam illiya

Dr.Rajaram : aama ketta pazhakkam than enna panrathu...... vida mudilaye.... thappo right oh ovvoru manushanukkum oru addiction irukkum..enakkum ethavathu irukka vendaama...athan ithu ....

Nurse : Basic ah ve ungala jeyikka mudiyaathu....... idhula pesi jeyikka mudiyuma doctor...

Dr.Rajaram : (sips the coffee) aaha aaha..sooper coffee po...... chumma solla koodathu....... Nurse's coffee na Nurse's coffee than..besh besh sooper ah irukku.....

Nurse : vilayadatheenga doctor..... seekiram seekiram..... patients lam wait panranga paarunga...... antha IT company pasanga oru paiyana kootitu vanthaangalae......

Dr.Rajaram: Yaaru Chinnasamy ngra chinnu thaane......theriyum theriyum..... avanoda appan enakku childhood friend

Nurse : appo neenga avangalukku Family doctor ah

Dr.Rajaram : apadi lam illa........ Family Friend than... eppavachum meet pannipom........ sollirukan avan thannoda pasangala pathi

Nurse : sari, Chinnukku neenga sonna test lam eduthaachu.... avan friends lam ungalukkaga than waiting..........Office la permission kettutu vanthirukkangalam....... result ah therinjittu seekiram ponum nu avasarathula irukanga........

Dr.Rajaram : intha software company pasanga thollai thaangalae....... office la evvalo neram nalum velai paarkama arattai adippanga.........aana ippadi oru thevaikku nu velila vantha kooda seekiram ponum seekiram ponum nu parappanga

Nurse : athu sari doctor, ennathan office la velai paarkalenalum, angaye iruntha salary ku prachinai varaathu........ithu thirumba porathuku late aachuna, leave, loss of pay nu poiduchunna........ Salary cut aayidume...anyways....avangala first attend pannungalen.....

Dr.Rajaram : With pleasure madam...... Come on lets go......

(Doctor gets up and walks in to the room where our Hero Chinnu was admitted)

Chinnu voda friends Hari, Paarthi, Shanki, Sushi, Jaanu were standing anxiously around Chinnu, as he was still recovering from the giddiness

Nurse : Inga paarunga..patient ah suthi ninnuttu irukkanga..... konjam idam kidaicha podhume...enga paarthalum circle form pannida vendiyathu

Doctor : (to nurse) Chinna pasanga thaane...ithukku peru than Ilavattam nu solvaanga..free ya.... vidu........ (sathamaga) Friends..... enna panreenga...... paavam antha paiyan..... kann muzhikkum bothu avan thalaiya suthi neenga ninnuttu irukkaratha paartha, marubadiyum thalaiya suthidum avanukku...... konjam air varattume patient ku

Paarthi : enna doctor... kilambu kaathu varattum nu solreenga

Doctor : haha.......good one...... irunthalum naan appadi sollalai........ konjam spread aagi nillunga nu sonnaen.....

[Meanwhile Chinnu slowly re-gains his consciousness much to the relief of his friends]

Hari : ennada Chinnu ippadi pannitae... oru pechukku nee ava azhagula mayangiduve nu sonnaean..... nijammave mayangittiye da..... avlo azhagava iruntha

Chinnu : (suthi paarthuttu understands the situation he is in) oh my GOD...what I am doing here........ innaiku oru delivery irukku....naan ponum

Paarthi : dei dei overaa scene podathe da..namma Manager inga illa..Doctor than irukar... nee delivery athu ithu nu pesina avar vera maathiri purinjikka poraar

Nurse : Mister...

Paarthi : yes Sister!!!

Nurse : ipadi neengale mokkai pottutu iruntheenga appuram naanga eppo than pesarathu enga Doctor ah pesa vitteenga na thane avar Chinnu voda problem ah pathi explain pannuvaar....

Hari : Sorry doctor, Please sollungo.... We are very curious to know if there is anything serious?

Chinnu : enda Hari intha build up......Doctor, pasanga thevai illama kalavara pattutanga ninaikaren........ Devathaiyai kanden... Kaadhalil vizhuthen maathiri Kaal thadukki vizhunthen....... avlothan.... mostly enna..vitamin kurai paadu irukkum....... Becosules sappita sari aayidanum ninaikkaren..am I right?

Doctor : so smart...... nee oru software engineer nu prove pannite thambi...... naalu anju vishayam internet ah paarthu therinjukittu udane entha problem kum ithan solution ngrathu......

Paarthi : Sorry doctor........avan oru cashewnut...eppavum appadi than peter vittutu irupan.........neenga solllunga... avanukku blood test lam edutheengalae.. Result vanthatha.....

Chinnu : sss..sorry doctor.... neenga sollunga

Doctor : mm..athu..... ok Chinnu, blood result , ECG report lam vanthathu...... ECG is fine........... but you have a high blood pressure.......and moderately diabetic as well........... BP shoot up aanathunalathan unakku mayakkam vanthirukku

Chinnu : (Shocked) bp ya........ (bp ya bp ya nu moonu thadavai echo aaguthu around the room) ena doctor solreenga.... I am barely 23...... enakku poi BP yum sugar- uma... I cant believe this.......

Doctor : hmm...... nee ketkara kelvi nyayam than......... aana makkal epadiyo diseases um appadi thane irukkum..... ethukum neram illai neram illai nu paraparappa odittu irukkara intha fast food society la.... diseases kum porumai irukkarathu ila.......... athan early age laye vanthuduthunga..........

Chinnu : but but doctor..... I am very health conscious you know....... I am a tee totaller......... alcohols sip paninathu kooda kidayathu.........cigaratte ku strict no no...... beedi enna...... beeda kooda nan podurathu kidayathu....... enakku poi BP nu neenga solratha enna la namba mudiyale doctor.... itho paarunga intha Paarthi.... oor la irukkara A-Z ela ketta pazhakkamum irundhirukku........ ivane last week panina medical check up la all clear aagi vanthirukkan

Paarthi : dei dei nanbana nee....... nambikkai dhrogi.......... romba nalla manasu da unakkku

Chinnu : sorry machaan........ oru emotion la pesittaen........ Enga friends circle laye naan than more health conscious.... athulayum past 2 months ah naan diet la than irukkaen..... i dont drink coffee or tea and only Diet Coke..... Morning sappadu ngra per la enga veetula podara heavy luggage ah complete ah avoid pannitu, I go in for sandwiches @ office.... Gym la enroll pannirukken

Paarthi : aana weekly ethanai vaati povaan nu lam ketka koodathu

Chinnu : summa iru da.. Night kooda soru sappidama tiffin thaan sapidaren..... I dont know being a software engineer working 24 x 7, what else I will be able do to maintain my health........ [sighs]

Doctor : haha...relax thambi relax...... There is a truth and tragedy in whatever you had told...The truth is you have just spelled out the reasons why you got high BP at a relatively younger age........and the tragedy is you had been fooling your own self by developing an illusion that whatever you had been doing is healthy

Chinnu : Doctor....

Doctor : First and foremost........ stop having the illusion that just because you do not smoke or drink means you are a very healthy man..... Smoking and Boozing are a must avoidable but they are only an apparent evil thing known to everyone.... People miss the larger picture here.... there are pretty bad things which do not get classified as an avoidable thing at all and continue to be ...... The Fast foods for example........Do you know the level of sodium and sugar in those foods.... or the Transfats and Saturated fat contents? Single handedly these junk foods can lead you to cancer, brain tumor or heart attack

Chinnu : ......

Doctor : Secondly, you were referring to your skipping breakfast as part of diet.......that is the most insane thing that one will ever resort to......... Breakfast is nothing but Breaking the Fast, i.e breaking the starving period for around 10 hrs since the previous night...... It is the most essential part of a day's meal in providing the energy for your day's activities..... By ignoring the breakfast routine and resorting to snacks at odd times you had only been putting yourself at high risk category... And definitely when you starve like this........ you would have gone for fillers, like biscuits or puffs to keep your mind happy.......

Sushi : Agreed doctor...... Not only Chinnu, but almost all of us take up snacks between lunch and during the evenings... But then.....arent we in the age where the elders would say "Kallai sapittalum karaiyum"..... Our digestive system are supposed to be in the prime form at this age.....

Doctor : you seem to be a smart girl...........but you miss a point here...... The age old adage you mentioned is not false at all........ But imagine............when was this coined....... At an age when the youth had to toil hard daily to earn their meals....... Even the rich kids had to keep themselves physically fit for the demands of the then society. But what is happening today? You get everything at the click of your mouse and the comfort of your house....the physical working part is almost literally removed........... But does the people really compensate for the loss of the advantages they had with the earlier life style.......... Today.....even for visiting a friend at next apartments you need a bike or a car, even for going to your office in the 1st floor you take up the lift.........Dont you ever know that climbing up the stairs brings down your pressure......

Nurse : Therinjirukum doctor..... pressure romba irangiduchina low bp vanthudumo nu bayanthuruppanga :D

Doctor : hahah... Good one.......appuram games.... Chinnu paiya..tell me when u last played cricket or football or any such outdoor games?

Chinnu : well....... 9th standard varaikum vilayadittu irunthaen...... Then 10th vantha pinnadi, studies appadi nu responsibilities vanthuttathala I dont go for playing at all..... athukappuram vilayadarathukku naanga enna chinna pasanga la nu enga friends ellarum vittutom

Doctor : mm..paaru.......... adhuvum kidayaathu.......... chinna pasanga than odi odi vilayadanum nu ethum auto pinnadi ezhuthi pottirukangala enna? enna paaru........ My age is 53..naan vaaliba aal illa.......aanalum volleyball aaduven daily......ethuku..... to keep my body fit and keep my mind in good humor.......... ippadi wrong ah na food habits nala udambula toxin mela toxins ah eduthukittu, athai compensate panra maathiri entha oru physical activities um panama.......... ottu mothama unnnoda body system ah nee kai vittutae..... athuvum paavam evlo than handle pannum...... Infact ithu verum warning sign thaan........ nee sutharikkalena it can lead to Cancer or other potentially risk diseases.......

Chinnu : enna solreenga doctorrr... :( :( :(

Doctor : Kanna unna bayamurutharathukaga naan ithellam sollala.......unna maathiri niraya youths and that includes ur friends here......... world economy pathiyum politics pathiyum, ovvoruthar personal life mishappenings kooda correct ah therinju vachikkaranga.......aana health vishayathula mattum arai vekkaduthanama konjam konjam thernju vachikittu, spoil pannikarom nu theriyamalayae avanga health ah spoil pannikaranga....... antha aathangathula than konjam niraya pesittaen......... Dont worry.........all is not lost............ blood pressure moderate ah than irukku...... if you wake up now and change ur life style understanding your body you can lead a very healthy life.........

Chinnu : hmm..ok doctor....... eppadiyo bayamuruthinalum fact ah solli puriya vachirukeenga..... I will definitely abstain from the garbage foods and the garbage life style...sss abba over advice....... konjam thoonga vidunga doctor

Doctor : hahaha...

Paarthi : (mimicking Doctor) Good one!!! appadi thane solveenga doctor

Doctor : makkals lam nakkals nalla than panreenga........... sari...... enakku time aachu..adutha patient ah poi paarkanum....... Vartta... Good luck and Get well soon

Chinnu : Thank You doctor!!!

(Saranya.......the white chudithar angel of Chinnu drops in in the room in a hurry)

Saranya : oh oh...what happened to Chinnu......... what happened to Chinnu....

Paarthi : enna ma enna..enna avasaram

Saranya : illa....... naan kaalai la coffee sappida poirunthappo en munnadi oruthar mayakkam pottu vizhunthuttar......... enakku romba bayama pochu...........udane I screamed

Jaanu : scream panniya... enga yaarukume ketkaliye

Chinnu : Icecream voice ponnukku..High scream eppadi varum Jaanu.........

Jaanu : dei jollu jaggu..mooodu da

Saranya : ivara andha nilaima la parthavudane enakkum appadiye mayakkam vanthuduchu........ appuram friends than thanni adichi ennai ezhupinnanga

Paarthi : nalla technique ah irukke... Whiskey ah brandhy ah......

Saranya : haiyyo.........water en face la sprinkle panni ezhupinanga nu sonnaen

Hari : verum water adichale mayakkam thelinjiduma

Paarthi : akka vukku low budget mayakkam vanthiruku pola....... athan water wash laye enthiruchittanga.....

Saranya : appuram naan friends kitta visarichathula sir ku than mayakkam vanthathu... intha hospital la admit pannirukkaratha sonnanga...... Ivara pathi Appa kitta phone la sollumbothu than therinjathu.........en appa vukku onnnu vitta cousin than ivanga amma vam......... enakku ivar Aththan murai venumaam

Paarthi : adra sakkai ...Love waves unakku satharanama work out aagala da..Tsunami range ku work out aayirukku

Saranya : kandippa poi paarthuttu va nu appa sonnanga...athan udane taxi pidichu odi vanthaen.......

Hari : taxi kula utkarnthe vanthirukkalame...en odi varanum

Jaanu : niruthu da...nee sollu ma

Saranya : Chinnu..... enai parthutte irundha neenga en mayakkam pottu vizhuntheenga...... naan en athai paarthu mayakkam pottu vizhanum

Chinnu : athu onnum illa Saruu..naama rendu perum orae nerathula Kaadhalil Vizhunthuttom..... WE just fell for each other because we are made for each other

Hari : adappavi adappavi....... doctor ippothaneda 1 hr lecture koduthuttu ponaaru......ponnai paarthathum plate ah maathi pesi kavuthuttiye da

Paarthi : Vidu machi....... Avanukku love work out aayirukku.........as friends naama santhosapaduvom...... Love dialogues lam anubavikkanum aaraya koodathu........ vaa naama ellorum kazhandukalam........ Machi Get well Soon da !!!!

[Subam]

Uyirae..En Uyirae...

2009-09-12T12:45:00.016+05:30

[Update: Part II Completed...final part to go]

P.S: Hi Guys It is nice to be back after a longgggggggg time.... I am only trying to continue the story that I have started almost an year ago..... Ippothan continue panna aarambichirukken....pazhasai konjam edit panni...trim panni... so please bear with me for atleast one more post till i complete this one...

Athu oru kaalai velai. athikaalai velai lam illa... konjam athiga neram aagi vitta kaalai thaan... aduthaduthu snooze panni vida patta insult thaangama oru vazhiya antha mobile alaram adikkarathai stop pannirunthathu. ithukellam konjam kooda feel aagama, antha veyil sutteritha kaalaiyilum oru kaaLai (athaanga Bull :)) thannoda kaalai (leg) neeti sugamaga paduthirunthathu. camera va apadiye leg la irunthu aarambichu konjam konjama mela Joom panneengana (vijaykanth style la zoom pannunga) rendu pillow ku nadula oru dirty fellow voda mugam theriyutha.....avar thaaanga indha kadhaiyin Nayagan Chinnu...ennada ithu Chin -nu, cheek -ku, lips -u nu lam peru vaipanga la nu yosikareengala...avanoda appa enamo avanukku Chinnasamy ngra thannoda thatha perai thaan aasai aasai ya vachaaru...... aana enna prayajonam...intha SMS kaalathula namakku podura dress lernthu, sappidara sappatai cook panra time varai ethaiyume surukki thane pazhakkam...... athan Chinnasaamy ngra thannoda azhagana perai surukki Chinnu nu vachikittan...

Chinnu voda family oru azhagana, niraivana family... government employee Appa... Highways department la velai paarkararu...Amma home maker.... ore thangachi Shwetha BSc final year student.... Chinnu oru Gen-X jenmam...i mean..Gen-X gentleman... Engineering mudikkara 90% graduates maathiri avanum pathu manikku office poitu, irava, pagala, kulira, veyila nu ethuvume theriyatha nerathula veedu thirumbara oru typical IT Employee..athunalathan paarunga, kadigaaram ettu maniyai thaandi avasarama odinalaum, ethukkume asarama nammaalu thoongikittu irukan..

"dei anna...... office ku time aagaliya..innum ennada thoookam" nu kettukitte ulla vara... ithu avanoda anbu thangai Shwetha... one moment wait panni paarkira thannoda anbu annanai, next moment washbasin la irunthu oru mug thanni pidichittu vanthu avan face la peechi adikkira..... kanavula ularikittu irunthavan intha unexpected attack la alarikittu enthirukkiraan.... para para nu enthiruchi kann muzhichi paartha kai la mug oda sirichikitte nikkara swetha...avanukku vantha kobathukkku semmaiya adi pinniruppan... but antha samayathula intha pasangaloda amma Mrs.Varalakshmi Rajasekhar entry tharaanga...

(Varalakshmi, their mother comes inside)

Chinnu: Amma..paarunga ma intha kazhuthaiya...nalla thoongitu iruntha en mela thanni ya adichitta

Swetha: thanni adichittu thoongarathu than thappu.... thoongara oruthana thanni adichu ezhupparathu thappe ilae

Chinnu: iva vaaiyai paarunga... college padikkira ponnu mathiriya nadanthukkara... nonsense...

Swetha: podaa Dog.... ettu manikku kooda asarama thoongikittu irukkara nee mudhalla software engineer maathiri nadanthukko...appuram ennai sollu

Varalakshmi: sari podhum di....anna ku konjamaachum mariyathai kodu...enna than irunthalum unnai vida periyavan

Swetha: periyya ivan.... paarunga ma ivanala en friends mathi la enakku maanam poguthu

Varalakshmi: en enna panninan?

Swetha: en friend malaavika irukka illa? anniku ava namma veetukku vanthappo eee nu pallai kaamichittu vazhinjittu irukkan

Chinnu: acho...illave illa ma...actually en pallu la oru chinna problem... antha ponnu oru BDS student aache. Adhu than ava kitta pallai thiranthu kaamichu kettutu irunthaen.athai intha pisasu thappa soluthu..

Swetha: adappavi......!!! Amma...nambave nambatheenga... konjam kooda koochame illama eppadi pesaran paarunga...

Chinnu: (samalichufies) ada...en pallu la koocham irunthathu nalathan ava kitta pesinaen.... Satyam ah ma...

Swetha: vidarathu reelu.. ithula Sathyam, Inox, Studio 5 nu udans vidaran ma...

Varalakshmi: sari podhum unga sandai... chinnasamy..nee poi kulichittu office kilambara vazhiya paaru....dee swetha..nee college po vendama......... En rendu perum ippo kaalai la nerathula mallukku nikkareenga

Chinnu: Mallukku nikkala ma... mallu vana iva friend maalu kaga ninuttu irukkom :D

Swetha: deii.... Maalu vam maalu....iru iru...maalu voda aalu, baalu nu oruthan irukan... avan vanthu, un pallai odaippan.... appo theriyum unakku entha pallu la problem nu

Chinnu: hehee...ok ok sister... ithukkelam kochikkalama... lets make peace :D

Varalakshmi: podhum da unga vilayaatu.... nee poi kuli po....Shwetha... un tiffin box la sappadu eduthu vachirukkaen..eduthuttu college kilambu po

Ippadiyaga, ovvoru morning layum Chinnu veeetula usual ah nadakkara antha casual convo mudivukku vanthuchu... Chinnu rushes to the bathroom for performing his early morning duties, while Shwetha leaves for her college...
Chinnu voda parents, native Tanjore ngrathunala, avanga veetula sappadu eppavume special ah irukkum.... athu lunch oh, illa breakfast oh illa dinner oh ethuvanalum irukkatum.... Ovvoru naalum vitha vithama sappadu senju vaippanga... Indraiya menu, ven pongal, idli, kesari and arisi uppuma...Shwetha vum ava appavum erkanave saptutu, avangavanga work place ku kilambi poittanga... Chinnu mattum than baaki... Varalakshmi amma, dining table la avanukku sappadu eduthuvachittu, paiyan ready aagittu sappida varathuku wait pannitu irukkanga.... 8:30 ku bed room vittu velila vanthavan..... nithanama ovvoru velaiyaiyum mudichittu, arakka parakka 9:45 ku dress pannitu odi varaan hall ku....

Chinnu: amma..amma... en watch ah engae vachae...

Varalakshmi: en da.. night thooongumbothu kanda idathula pottutu kaalaila tension nerathula thedarathu.... ithukku than naan appave sonnaen

Chinnu: sari podhum ma..ippo advise ketka neram illae...watch ah eduthu kodu

Varalakshmi: en da ippadi erinju vizhare.. T.V stand mela irukku paaru un watch..eduthukko

Chinnu: 10 mani ku onsite la irunthu oru call irukku....erkanave ennoda manager en mela oru gaanda irukkaru... ithula meeting ku late ah ponena mirugama maariduvaaru...

Varalakshmi: en unga manager enna Gaandaa mirugama? :p

Chinnu: haiyyo amma... unga mokkai ya kettu koba padarathukkku kooda neram illae...... (quickly puts on his shoes) naan varen...

Varalakshmi: dei thambi.. itho paaru sappadellam eduthu vachirukkaen..saaptutu poppa...

Chinnu: Time eh illama...so sorry... ippo eating ah vida meeting than enakku mukkiyam...sariya... Bye bye

Varalakshmi: dei dei... ennada.. kaalaila sappidalai na udambu kettu poidum kannna.... please konjamaachum saptutu po da

Chinnu: oru neram sappidalai na onnum aagidaathu... erkanave intha company sernthathu la irunthu semmaiya fat aagitaen nu ellorum solraanga... ithu vayira.. illa MRF tyre ah nu en friends lam gindal panraanga.... so intha maathiri high calories sappta than udambu kettu pogum....

Varalakshmi: athukkaga onnume sappidama vayithai kaaya poduviya

Chinnu: (stylish tone) no no no.... enga office food court la vidha vidhama sappadu kidaikkum.... meeting mudinja pinadi sandwich and juice saaptupen... I am in diet u know.........Vartta.....

thannoda Hand vachu senja Veetu sappattai vittutu Sandwich nu etho bread ah sappida poguthe intha pillai ena nondhu konde, padi thaandi pattini yaga pogum maganai antha padi thaanda pathini Varalakshmi ammal kavalaiyodu paarthu kondirukka, thann honda shine bike ai kilappi kondu office selgiraan Chinnu

[Scene-2]

The clock has already ticked ten past ten when Chinnu reached his office amidst the morning traffic at chennai that moved at a snail's pace. A tensed Chinnu hurriedly entered office and scampered past his colleagues who wished him good morning, to his cubicle. Before his manager notices, he should settle in his cubicle, open the PC and any application to give an impression that he has come long ago and is busily working. He is already ten minutes late for the meeting...but nevertheless busy ah irukkara maathiri scene kaamicha thappika mudiyutha nu paarkalam nu he thinks....This has been the daily routine for Chinnu who has earned the reputation of a regular late comer. Vaangatha thittu illa from team lead or the manager or the on site coordinator, but Chinnu just could not change his habit even a bit. Yaarukavathu birthday, marriage nu wish panrathuna kooda, he would not wish on the same day...avanoda habit padi, Be-late(d) ah than wish pannuvan...

As Chinnu was gazing through his outlook inbox for the day's mails, his next cubicle colleague parthi comes near him.

Chinnu: Dei machaan ..enga team pasanga lam meeting poitaangala..? you know..actually i was held up in a critical task..i mean...

Parthi: dei enkitaye un peter ah kaatariya, nethi namma manager 10'0 clock meeting ku kandippa ellorum nine ku varanum nu sonappo, fine fine nu thalai aatitu, vazhakkam pola Ten Ten ku variye da.... kaalailaye un mela kaari thuppitu meeting ku poirukkaru manager with shanki, susi and Jaanu alone...

Chinnu: sari vidu...kaata vendiya film kaati nan avara cool pannikaren.....

Parthi: podaang....sari po..nee epadiyum thiruntha porathillae... namma Jaanu endra janaki yoda engagement next week varuthu la... we are collecting Rs.50 from everyone, unnoda kaasu pending...eduthu vai athai....

Chinnu: dei aniyayam da... athu than marriage ku gift vaangi tharuvom la... engagement ku ennada panna poreenga aalukku 50 Rs collect panni?

Parthi: namma team saarba oru cake vaangitu poi engagement couple avangala vetta solla porom..... cake vettumbothu balloons lam parakka vittu jamaaika porom.....

Chinnu: athellam Wedding day ku thaanda intha mathir cake vaangi vetta solvaanga da..engagement anniku ethuku thaniya oru vetting day?

Parthi: It is team decision..nee pulambama paisa va edu..

Chinnu (aluthuthukonde): Sariyana vasool raja da nee.... Janaggi........un friend kitta dabbu nagi ma.... intha nerathula dog ennai paduthuthu paaru

Parthi: dei mooduda...call mudichittu Jaanu and team varaanga paaru....

[Shanki endra Shankar, Jaanu endra Janaki and Sushi endra Susheela return from their onsite call]

Sushi : hidaa chinnu, as usual innikum un punctuality puncture aayiducha

Chinnu: hehee.. enna panrathu sushi.. nilamai appadi.... intha meeting kaga breakfast kooda sappidama odi vanthen theriyuma

Shanki: that doesnt motor da....u didnt make it to the meeting anyhow....entha oru velai seriathilum pretend panrathukkum correct ah attend panrathukkum vithiyasam ithu than

Jaanu: Shokka sonnae shanki..paiyan enna solrathu theriyama shake aagitan paaru...

Chinnu: sari sari.... overaa ottatheengappa....

Shanki: sari da free ya vidu.... enakku semmaiya pasikkuthu..come on lets go to Food court and have something to eat...Client kitta pesi pesi thaavu theernthu pochu enakku

Chinnu: hmm ok..i too will have something to korichify... lets go folks.........

[So antha 5 member team proceed to Food court for breakfast]

Scene-3
[Venue: Food Court]

Shanki: Guys...naan poi ellorukkum bill pottutu varen..wait pannunga.... Jaanu nee as usual cornflakes than sappiduve...others..enna sappida poreenga

Parthi: enakku idly solluda

Sushi: enakkum..

Shanki: ok cool..unakkennada Chinnu

Chinnu: I am going for vegetable sandwich da..

Shanki: sari..... oru nalla place ah paarthu settle aagunga... naan poitu order pannitu vaangitu varen..Jaanu..neeyum vaama...

Sushi: pasangala..anga oru table gaaliya irukku paarunga..lets go there.....

[Ellorum table la poi utkara, Chinnu coke tin vaangitu joins them]

Chinnu: hey guys..coke kudikareengala.... Food court la vaikkara thanni kudicha thaagam adangave maatenguthu..... athan coke tin vaanginen...

Parthi: poda.. 10:30 is coffee time for me.. naan coffee sappiduven

Chinnu: milk powder la podara namma vending machine coffee thaane..uvvee...athai eppadi da kudikare..... over coffee udambukku aavathu da....itho paarthiya diet coke...calories kammi.. not bad for health.....

Parthi: enna machi panrathu.... pazhagidichu..vida mudilaye...

[Few moments later Shanki and Jaanu join them with the food items and they settle down eating, chit chatting]

Sushi: enda shanki..namma Jaanu three years ah love pannitu iruntha paiyanaiye kattika veetula successful ah sammatham vaangitaa engagement varai kondu vanthutta...nee five years ah oru love story ottitu irukkae... eppo athai marriage stage la arangettram panna porae

Shanki: Hmm... avalukku enna..athai paiyanai love pannina..so perisa entha problemum varama easy ah matter mudinju pochu...en kathai appadiya.... appa kitta antha ponnai kootitu poi...intha ponnu enakku etha ponnu pa.. ivalaiye katti vaingapa nu sonna...Mavane un taste ku etha ponna iruntha pathathu da...namma caste ku etha ponna irukanum nu ketkararu...enna solla solra... etho pechu vaarthai nadanthuttu irukku.... paarkalam

Sushi: pechu vaarthai ethanai varusham than nadathuve..seekiram oru mudiva solli kalyana sappadu podu...

Jaanu: athellam irukkatum..intha Parthi paiyan oru ponnukku nool vitutu irukkanae antha kathaiya ketkaliya nee...

Sushi: yaaru...antha Punjabi ponnu Pavithra thaane... theriyum theriyum...

Jaanu: enna theriyum..avan nethiku avala propose panna poitu bulb vaangitu vanthathu theriyuma....

Shanki and Sushi (chorus) : Wowww...theriyave theriyaathe.... dei paarthi...enga antha story ah sollu...

Paarthi (embarassed): yey...Jaanu.. puhleeease....vittudu...maanathai vaangathe...

Jaanu: haha..ithula enna irukku da...cool it machi... etho oru loosu paiyan kodutha idea la...ivan oru greetings um rose um eduthukittu nethikku Pavithra cubicle la kondu poi ava illatha nerathula vachirukan.... ava athaiyellam paarthathum semmaiya tension aagi....... yaaroda velai ithu nu koochal potirukka..... paiyan ava kitta poitu ithellam unakkaga than nu solrathukku yeh teri liyae pavi.. nu solla start panninavan ava kannula therinja kobatha paarthu mirandu poi...teriliyae pavi..enakku therilayae... nu maathi ularitu odi vanthuttan..hahaha...

[Everyone laughs at Paarthi....]

Shanki: enda dhairiyam ah solla mudiyathavanukku lam ethukkuda love-u?

Paarthi: sari vidu.... naanavathu oru level varaikkum ponaen..aana namma Chinnu evlo naala antha Saranya ponnai thoorathula irunthe love waves pass pannitu irukkan... Intha mokkai murali ya evanavathu ottureengala....

Chinnu: ennai enda vambuku izhukkareenga... en kaathal konjam aazhamanathu illiya....athunala than naan aazham paarthutu irukaen..... ava kitta solrathukku kaalam paarthuttu irukaen...hehee

Paarthi: thoda...love ah solrathukku vazhiya paaru da na..ipadi vazhiyare...

[Their friend Hari arrives]

Hari: dei chinnu..mama...nee route vittutu irukkiyae un aalu Saranya inniku white Salwar la bright ah devathai mathiri summa super ah vanthirukka da...ippo Cafeteria la than iruka

Chinnu: appadiya....ohhh...etho wedding poitu inniku late ah varuva nu ava team mate sonnan..... antha costume la than vanthirukkala office ku.... then itz a must watch...naan kilambaren..guys...see u later

Jaanu: ennamo Sify oda cinema review maathiri sollitu poraan..must watch nu...

Sushi: dei vaangi vacha sandwich ah sapidama odariya.... nee sariyana jollu da...

Shanki: avan summavae avalai pathi uruguvan... nee vera yen da hari avana ethi vidare....

Hari: hmm..just thought of sharing this info..satharanama oru alukku dress la vantha kooda azhagu nu solvaan..inniku nijammave super dress la vanthirukka....ivan mattum avalai paarthan na...mayangiye vizhundhuvuan

[Venue: Cafteria]

Chinnu goes to the cafeteria situated in the right side of the Food court..Saranya was not there..all other friends were there....oh..probably Coffee vaangitu vara poiruppa, thinks Chinnu and prefers to wait for Saranya taking a corner seat, some distance away from their desk...As his heart pumps up awaiting Saranya in a supposedly cute dress, his mind pens up a poem in that cycle gap....

"Vennira Salwar-il nadanthaadum Perazhage,
un vazhiyile Selvaar-in manathai panthaadum un azhage.."

ippadi oru bit-tu Chinnu manasula uruvaagitu irukkumbothu avanoda kavithaiyin nayagi Saranya Coffee cup oda thannoda idathukku thirumbi vanthu kondirunthal...Vantha antha Ponnu looked deep into namma Chinnu's eyes who was ogling her a few meters apart..Avalai aavaludan kannodu kann paartha andha second, solla mudiyatha maatrangal pala happened to Chinnu...His heart beat rapidly, the face started sweating and he felt butterflies flying in his heart...."Idhudhan kaadhal enbatha...idhayam pongi vittatha..." ena avan ninaithu kondirukkumbothe, the butterflies shifted their position from heart to stomach, kangal soruga, namathu kathaiyin nayagan Chinnu mayakkam adichu keezhe vizhunthan

"A" For Apple

2008-09-05T00:08:00.005+05:30

It is prithz who has tagged me this time... intha maathiri tag nu vanthathan blog panrathukke mudiyuthu :) illati ore somberis of india than.... :D, so here goes the tag

Rulezzz

The Tag name is A for Apple
Give preference for regular sites
Ignore your own blog

P.S : I had been an avid surfer of net for the past 9 years or so.... athunala sila olddddie sites (some sites which is not active anymore or which i am not visiting much) mention pannuven..makkal tension aaga koodathu :)

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http://www.annauniv.edu
- +2 la 70% mattume marks eduthuttu veetukku pona enkitta en amma ketta mudhal kelvi, intha mark ku annauniversity la seat kidaikkuma pa nu (with real innocence and curious for her son)...enaku semmmaiya feelings aayiduchu... so UG padicha naalu varusham college ku anna univ vazhiya pogumbothu ore ekkathoda paarthuttu irupaen... :) UG mudichittu, GOD's grace, PG degree, ithe Anna Univ la padikkira opportunity vanthappo, the pride and sense of satisfaction i felt was soooo immense.... athunalaye this site was soo special for me... :)

B

http://www2.blogger.com
- B nu naan en address bar la type pannina, athu intha oru site visit panrathuku mattum than :)

C

http://chennaigalwrites.blogspot.com
- Vani's blog....used to write sooper stories once upon a time...updating frequency kurainjaalum, whenever she writes a post, she writes it with full of enthu

http://www.cricbuzz.com
- After Chennai implemented CAS and Cricket telecast lam buss aana, pinnadi, cricbuzz site than engaluku heaven maathiri... the ball by ball update is much faster than cricinfo..and what makes it much more interesting is the live chat thatz being provided in the side... Namma close friends kooda Suda suda milagai bajji saaptutu chepauk stadium la T20 match paartha enna excitement kidaikkumo antha excitement thara koodiya site... ippolam even when the match is available for telecast in the channel, i prefer following the match in Cricbuzz :)

http://chat.rediff.com
- Am a long time rediff chatter...and a chatting experience of around 6 years there :) variety of friends and variety of experience, i cud say, in a way, Rediff chat was instrumental in shaping up my personality...... improving it and improved my attitude.... ippo oothi mooditanga andha chat aiye.... GTalk or YM not withstanding, public chat in rediff.com always rocked.......

D

http://dpetals.com.sg
- Neat and decent gift mart site... Singapore gifting sites laye oralavu economical and that offers good range of gifts na athu intha site nu sollalam

http://www.dictionary.com
- Sila samayam yaar kooda na chat pannitu irukkumbothu tak nu oru azhagana vaarthai thonum..aana artham than theriyaathu.... udane intha site poitu athoda meaning, usage lam paarthuttu, chat la use panni asathida vendiyathu than :)

Divya's site - http://www.manasukkulmaththaapu.blogspot.com - Advice Aunty Ambujam oda site ithu..... :)

E

http://edmantra.blogspot.com
- This blogger is a genius gal.... visit panni ava blogs ah padinga..ungalukke puriyum.....about her writing skills

F

http://findnearyou.blogspot.com
- namma romie is a columnist in this website.. athunala i will visit here appappa.....

http://fastmail.ca
- around 9 years ago, much bfore the advent of gmail, this mail server was the lightest and fastest mail service available...

G

G for Google - I was a reluctant user of Gmail initially.. but now... the Google family than enakku internet la sagalamum

Mail - Gmail
Chat - GTalk
Blog - Blogger
Time pass - Orkut
Picture - Picasaweb

and the omnipotent and the ubiquitous Google for all search engines..... been a google user from the early days of Google... (some where around late 1999 nu ninaikaren)

http://gargling-garbage.blogspot.com
- one of a best friend's blog..she doesnt blog much these days (or for that matter, she never had blogged much since she started blogging :p) but she has her own way of writing... and one particular piece of story written by her was just awesome....

H

http://www.hotmail.com
- Ennoda mudhal mudhal mail id was created in hotmail....... (way back in 1998 i suppose :D), antha email id was indiansubra@hotmail.com... it was so much of pride those days, having an email id.... :D create pannina, 3 months login pannama iruntha id poidum nu enakku appa theriyaathu...but hotmail was like my early days in the webspace...so i have fond memories when i think of this link :)

Harish's site - http://www.magixncurses.blogspot.com
- Vaarthai jithan...and many a times my inspiration to several posts.... serious ah aarambichu appuram curious ah kondu vanthu kadseela hilarious mudikkara vithai harish ku kai vantha kalai :)

http://howstuffworks.com
oru kaalathula, i will visit this site often to acquire knowledge :), this is an online encyclopedia nu sollalam, avvalo information irukkum

I

http://irctc.co.in
- When i first made a reservation for train tickets using this site, i was feeling so happy, that i saved a lot of time for my father, in getting these tickets booked online rather than having to wait at the railway station queue.. but ippo most of the ppl ithula matum than book panraanga...making the life of so many citizens standing in the queue, difficult...

one more drawback booking tickets online is.... if u miss a train for some reasons, u will not get any refund with an online ticket... experienced this fate atleast twice so far :(

http://in.rediff.com
- Rediff.com has always been my source for news anytime.........

J

www.jaxtr.com
- phone from PC site...

actually J la not much websites coming to my mind... but naan enoda email la naan J nu type pannalae sister email id varum..... so J antha vagai la sollalam... :)

K

http://kaysonline.blogspot.com
- Saga KK's blog... thalaivar blog panrathillae these days

M

http://memoriesofprithz.blogspot.com
- Azhagazhaga stories ezhutharathilayum sari, or like in early days, chronicle of her day to day life ezhutharathilayum sari, the richness, the sweetness, the beauty of words and the soul behind each of her post chanceh illatha oru delightful experience....

N
http://nightmail.com - the name of this mail server was interesting...so naan ithulayum oru account vachirunthen..once upon a time

O
www.orkut.com - orkut provided a new way to link with long lost relationships, friendships etc.,

www.123greetings.com
- (Logic 1 - one, starting with O :D) - I wanted to mention this site somehow....as this is one of my most favorite.... ever reliable site to send e-greetings........ has a variety of options to choose from and sila wordings lam so apt ah irukkum....

P

http://prabhukrish.blogspot.com
- My manaseega guru in blogging... Prabhu had been my long time TFM page (willl come later in this post) friend.... prabhuvoda blog posts and the numerous blog links from his sites paarthu than naan blog pannave aarambichen

http://pravagam.blogspot.com
- Wishing for someone, and taking pleasure in celebrating for some one requires a big heart...and G3 has it is in loads.... but akka en ipa blog panrathillae therila...

R

Ramya's site - http://sagittarian-ramya.blogspot.com
- Roam Roam Romie yoda blog.... she can adorn her post with lovely narration and can decorate it with marvellous words.... Girl with loads of talents............ site black and white ah irunthalum, post ovvonum colorful ah irukkum.... courtesy her choice of words and subjects for the post

S

http://supershanki.blogspot.com
- Gillie yoda blog.... perukketha maathiri super blog thaan...

http://silenceofthesea.blogspot.com
- en friend oda blog... complex words lam pottu, puriyatha maathiri ezhuthuva...aanalum nalla ezhuthuva :)

http://www.statcounter.com
- appapa intha site poitu en blog ku yaar vanthaanga nu therinjukkarathula romba aarvam enakku :)

http://www.sysindia.com/forums
- This is inactive now, but oru kaalathula i was an active vistior to this site :)

T

http://www.tamilthunder.com
- Tamil torrents site, movies, music ethunaalum inga irukum

http://torrentportal.com

http://torrentz.ws

http://tfmpage.com/forum
- Very long association with this site.... being an ardent ARR fan, i had been a regular visitor to this tamil film music discussion page... matha MDs fans oda arattai, sandai ellam nadakkum ingae... this is the place where most famous blogger like prabhu, praveen, magix ivangallam uruvananga... It had been a fun and a very good experience at this site

U

http://univercell.in
- oru mobile vaangrathukula intha site pala thadavai visit panni marubadi marubadi paarthen :)

V

http://visithra.blogspot.com
- If you want to see an ardent blogger, who religiously updates her blog regularly, look no further than visithra :)

W

http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com
- To update my system with the latest patches from microsoft

Y

http://youtube.com
- where else to visit for videos... ultimate time pass site :)

Z

http://www.zazzle.com
- Gift site...

Actually i found it difficult to recollect the names of sites for all the alphabets....yosichu paartha, i shud attribute it to my addiction to Google..ethu thevai naalum Google vazhiya ve poittu irukarathai kammi pannikanum :)

I would like to tag Lalli, Romie (Sagittarian) and Divya (manasukkul mathaapu)

Forever - with Love

2008-08-16T01:05:00.010+05:30

It is a long time since i had posted. Some stories are in the pipeline, but the line is kind of blocked, so could not get the story flowing. :) Execuses for the same. I thought I will break my long sojourn with blogging with a post on the day I cherish the most :)

What fun in life without Love... It is love that makes our life beautiful, It is love that makes any relation stand out among all others........ and it is love that makes any festival a special one. Raksha bandhan - is one such festival, which strongly bears the signature of the Indian Tradition. This, imho, is the day when Girls honor a guy they lovingly respect, and from whom they can always expect.

A sisterly relation is one of the most beautiful relation in life. It is unique in its own way it makes your responsible, at the same time lovable..... You stand up for them on their behalf, or you can help them seek their better half. Knowingly or unknowingly, sisters are the one who groom you to be a better groom for your bride. For a girl, a real brother is one, who is always there for her, care for her and when needed also dare for her. As far as I am concerned, I may not entirely be like this, but definitely I will try to be like one... :)

I pray and wish for all the sisters who had sent me rakhi... Heart felt thanks to all those DEAR sisters :)

Jumping in Joy

2008-04-21T23:11:00.005+05:30

Normally I am the kind who enjoy watching others enjoy.. jumping, dancing etc.,.. For the sake of dignity :D and keeping my good boy image, i refrain from doing it..although i encourage ppl to do such stuffs....

But yesterday was an exception..... It was ARR show...ARR all the way...To talk about the arrangement, it cant get worse than that.... Imagine yourself immersed in the wave of people, not having enuf place to even stand, forget about sitting...and with sultry air, booing and shouting crowd...But then....this is an ARR show..and when ARR weaves his magic, you forget everything else.... I've heard of phrases, Jumping in Joy....but alas I was doing just that along with thousands of people gathered at St.George ground.... Nothing else mattered when the sheer joy of Rahman's music and the bliss of watching A.R.Rahman performing live....

I am no voracious writer to narrate the concert, Also there was just too much to say.... It is one kind of an experience.....Words cant do justice to that....It is something that is to be experienced :)

Ella pughazhum oruvan oruvanukke... Rahman might refer to Almighty, but the stealer of show yesterday was the mighty Rahman :) More than anything else, the feeling of "I-was-there-to-watch-ARR-on-stage" made me feel more cheerful...such is the power of the man... :)

Thanks to Ramya,Sandhya,Aravind and Ayshu for the tickets... :) and thanks to ARR community for the concert pics :)

Kaadhal Neethana !!! - COMPLETED

2008-03-19T22:37:00.011+05:30

P.S - Ithukku Rendu rendu part than... second part ezhuthale..within this weekend ezhuthanumnu irukkaen :D

Warning : once again, intha story la vara niraya terms, Software makkal than purinjukka mudiyum... thappa eduthukatheenga others :D

Warning 2: I like CHO's writing style very much...oru flow la ezhuthittu irukkumbothu sometimes he digress and expresses his opinion and then comes back to the story.... not that i followed his style here...but i tried a bit of that :)

UPDATE: Sorry for the enormous delayyy… Thanks to GG, Divya for constantly checking :D. For a story sense I have renamed the hero’s name to Sri from his earlier name.

Click here to read the IInd part directly

"Success!!! Success!!! Mission Achieved"

Project leader Ramki punched in the air in joy and the team (Test lead Kishore, tester Sampath, developers Priya, Sri endra Sridhar, Ranjith and Rohini ithaanga team ppl...thani thani ya intro kodutha kadhai pathu muzham vanthudum :D) who gathered around him joined in the celebrations by clapping their hands...Indha celebrations paarthuttu ithellam etho Rocket launching center layo, illa etho Scientific Research center layo nadakkaratha ninaichukatheenga... This scene happens in our very own Chennai in a software company. Matter onnum illa...The day was Wednesday, Project ku weekly delivery day. Athaan from the morning maangu maangu nu velai parthu, oru vazhiya after many builds and rebuilds, code ah pack panni onsite ku deliver pannitu, onsite co-ordinator ku mail anupi vachittu than intha celebration.... Semma tired ah feel panravangala appapa fired up panrathukku ippadi weird ah celebrate panrathu oru chinna pazhakam avlothan..

"sari sari podhum unga celebrations lam..." Project Manager Ramanathan thannoda cubicle la irunthu enthirichu vanthaar... "Deliver panniyaachu la...Ellorum veetuku kilambunga.... Time is 10 to 12... 12'0 clock CAB ah pidichathane veetukku seekiram poga mudiyum..mmm.mmm...seekiram kilambunga..Ramki make sure that ppl leave as early as possible” sollitu Ramanathan avar veetukku kilambinar...

Test lead Kishore, Ramki pakkam vanthu "paarthiya da Ramki, namma Ramu ku than team members mela evvalo karisanam.... kalai la irunthu aththai panniya iththai panni ya nu egathukkum torture koduthuttu irunthaaru..."

Ramki, "ada machaan athu illada... inniku anuppara delivery la irukkara bugs lam nalaikku onsite la irunthu anupuvanga la..athai fix panrathukku ellorum vanthudanum la..athan karisanam ponguthu avarukku"

Kishore, "sariya sonnae maams...Call center makkal kooda paravalla... Iravinil aatam, pagalinil thookam nu avangalukku life oduthu..nammala mathiri pasanga pozhappu than ippadi aayiduchu.... Christopher North ippo irunthiruntha Sun never sets in a software company nu sollirupaar"

Ramki chuckled..appo Rohini interrupted in their convo to ask, "sari annanungala.. unga mokkais lam kaalai la vachukkonga.. naangalam kilambattuma..thookam varuthu?"

Kishore "ei rohini...athan thimingilame sollitu poiduchu la kilambunga nu..appuram en intha sura meen kitta ketkare... Kilambu ma..."

Rohini "priya..vaa vaa.. Car poyida poguthu..vaa naama kilambalam..Dei Ranjith nee vare la" kettutu Rohini leaves with Priya...Ranjit, "aama rohini..one sec iru...system shut down pannitu varen" nu sollitu Ranjith kilambaran...

Ramki "sari vaada..naamalum kilambuvom...aama enga un tester Sampath...inga than irunthan, tak nu kaanama poitaan"

Kishore, "athu onnum illada...etho namma onsite aadhiseshan kaalai la oru doubt kettirunthaan..athuku reply panni mail anupittu kilambaren nu solitu avan cubicle poirukkan avlothan.....sari antha chinna paiyan Sri engae"

Ramki..."therila da Restroom poiruppan ninaikkaren...sari nee bike la thaane vanthirukke...enga veetu la mariyathaiya drop pannitu po...ECR road la polaam"

Kishore.."machan...athu ECR road ah irunthalum Easy ah na Road ilada...safe illada bike la porathu night la..vaa naamalum CAB laye poidalam.."

"Hmm..sari ok..then lets run..." monitor ah switch off pannitu Ramki started with Kishore

Sampath mail anupichittu thirumbi varumbothu antha idame silent ah irukku, as everyone had left... Sri mattum avan place la utkarnthu monitor ah ye paarthutu irukkan.. He approached him

Sampath: Dei maaple... ellorum kilambittanga.. nee mattum kilambama enada pannitu irukae?

Sri remained silent... Sampath avan pakathula vanthu paarkiran... Sri mugathula oru depressed look...

Sampath: dei Sri..enna aachu unakku..oru maathiri irukkae...ennada sogam... kaalaila namma thimingilam thittinathu ninaichu feel panriya... managers na apadi thane..ithukkelam feel pannalama?

Sri: cha athellam illada..

Sampath: oh oh..inniku build la nee panna module la ethum bugs varum nu kavalai padariya??

Sri: ada che... unakku intha project, software, office ithellam vittutu out of the box thinking eh varaatha

Sampath: hehee..enakku Black box, White box testing than soli koduthaanga..athennada Out of the box... :D..sari sari machi muraikkathe... enna matter... en intha sogam

Sri: hmmmm...(takes a deep breath)... machaan..konja naalave ore feelings da...sariya sappida mudiyale..thoonga mudiyale...

Sampath: yaaruda unnai disturb panra antha ponnu

Sri: deii......eppadi da oru ponnu than ennoda intha sogathukku karanam nu kandupidichae..nee genius da

Sampath: mannangatti... unnai maathiri 20-25 age group la ulla pasanga, naatai pathi, nammala suthi irukkara makkal pathi ya ninaichu kavalai pada poreenga..ungala feel panna vaikkira ore vishayam oru ponna than irukka mudiyum..sollu yaaru antha ponnu..

Sri: hmm....solraen...namma team Priya irukka la..ava thaan

Sampath: adappavi......ennada solrae..nijammava...

Sri : aama da...avaloda kuzhandhai mugam, eppavum smiling ah irukkara face, ellorukkum help pannanum nu ninaikara character, pesunaale paadura maathiri irukkara ava kural

Sampath: dei dei paarthu da...jollu kottuthu

Sri: machaan..mudiyala da... eppa paarthalum ava thinking ah ve irukku da... she is disturbing me so much da...ava thought vanthaa...appadiye enai naan maranthu poidaren... ava kannai paartha, enakku appadiye appdiye lightning struck aana maathiri aayiduthu....avalai pathi ninaichitte irukkanum nu thonuthu da..

Sampath: hmm hmm... konjam overaa than eri pochu nu ninaikaren unakku :)

Sri: poda...evvalo kashtama iruku theriyuma enakku...I am trying to avoid seeing her during office hours for fear of getting over emoted..aanalum mudiyala da... face kaati koduthudumo nu bayama iruku..enakku mugamudi pottuka therila...athunala mugatha moody ah irukkara mathiri vachikkaren...infact appapo namma thimingilam Ramu illena sura meen Ramki ivanga thittarathu vasathiya iruku...intha veshathukku

Sampath: hmmm da.. I can understand ur feelings and pain da... en da unakkulaye vachu kashta padare..sollida vendiyathu thane ava kitta

Sri: athu thaane bayame.. ennathan manasula intha kaathal ngra feeling baarama irunthalum, avala pathina dream appappo aarthala iruku... ava kitta naan solli oru velai ava reject pannita....... haiyyo athu ithai vida periya baarama irukkum da machaan..

Sampath: nee enda appadi ninaikare... probably avalukkum pidikkalam la..

Sri: pssst...nambikkai illada.. naan podhuva girls na avvalava pesurathu kidayathu.. aarambathula training la irunthappo, romba shy ah irunthathala, priya ulpada, yaaru vanthu pesunalum sariyave pesama avoid pannirukaen...athaan paaren namma team la ellar kittayum jolly ah gala gala nu pesara ponnu, enkitta avvalava pesa maata..inga pakkathula Ramki kitta adikkadi doubt ketka vara ponnu...intha pakkame paarkama, kandukkama poiduva... inimael ava kitta pesi, friendship aagi, opinion create panni....vidinjidum

Sampath: already vidinjiduchi :) machaan..time is 1 am already...

Sri : podaa.. ipadiye pala nights intha love success aaguma, failure aagiduma nu yosichu thoongama irunthirukaen..

Sampath: sari da..sari da serious ah ve ketkaren... enkitta solli te la naan unakku help panren da love success panrathukku

Sri : ennada panna pore...

Sampath: cinema la hero friend lam hero ku enna idea kodupan....heroine kitta vambu pana oru rowdy ah set up panni, antha idathula hero va fight panna vachu, opinion create pannra maathiri idea koduppan la

Sri: athukku?

Sampath: athe maathiri...naan thane ava module testing panraen..athula design side ah paaru thappu thappa niraya bug pottudaren...ava HTML la konjam weak...nan solrathu nijammave bug ah nu kooda paarka theriyaathu... Ramki kum sariya theriyaathu..so kandippa unkitta than varuva doubt ketka... avalukku nee help pannina un mela oru image varum..athai vachu love valarthukko

Sri: dei donkey... nalla kodukkirae da uruppadatha idea.. unkitta kettaen paaru.... reebok shoe ah laye ennai adichikkanum...

Sampath: sari da sari da feel pannathe..ennoda range ku idea sonnaen avlothan..

Sri: poda dubukku..naane paarthukaren...

Sampath: kizhichae... nee murali maathiriye silent ah irunthu appuram arali vidhaya araichu kudichiduvae... naan solraen kelu... sariya thappo...ava kitta propose pannidu, aanathu aagatum

Sri: dei machaan..ennada solrae

Sampath: aama da..athu than ore vazhi...vidinja Valentine's day...Feb 14.. sentimental ah correct ah 12 manikku un love ah nee first time velila open pannirukae..indha naalai vittudathe...inike greeting koduthu avalukku propose pannidu..illena evanavathu munthikka poraan..

Sri: dei avasara paduthathe machaan.... enakku amaiyara vaazhkai thana amaiyum da

Sampath : poda dubukku... machaan...Vazhukkai thaan da thanaa amaiyum...Vaazhkai lam naamala than amaichikkanum.... u give a try on val's day man... work out aagum

Sri: eppadi da nadakkum nu solrae??

Sampath: kandippa nadakkum.... Independence day anniku konjam kooda desiya unarve ilama kavunthu paduthuttu thoongara makkal kooda, Kaadhalar thinam anniku semma kaadhal unarvoda iruppanga.. anniku ne poi priya kitta propose pannina work out aagara vaaipu irukku..adhuvum illama weekly delivery project nammathu... ithula Thursday than konjam relaxed time..Friday la irunthu next Wednesday varaikkum, adutha build semma tension ah pogum..pesarathukku time eh irukkathu...So make or break tomorrow...

Sri: sari da.. nee solrathum correct u than... let me get things clear.. enakku en feelings ah kattu padutha mudilae..athuvum ava ramki kitta vanthu vanthu pesumbothu, psst..enakku pidikkalai da..romba posessive ah feel panraen...i know it is wrong...but i cant help this...anyway....u have given me a glimmer of a hope.. kandippa naan nalaikku propose panraen... sari vaa naama veetukku kilambalam

(With this resolve, Sri and Sampath leaves for the day....)

Next day…. Actually same day than...Sri yum Sampath um Thursday athigaaaaaalai 1 manikku thane kilambinaanga… sari, Logically speaking, thoongi enthirucha than oru naal mudinju adutha naal aarambikuthu nu vachukalam… apdiye paarthalum Sri ku athu same day thaaan..avan than night full ah thoongave illiyae…. Priya kitta thannoda love ah propose panna porom ngra ninaippu avanukkulla semma excitement undaaki vittuduchu….. Priya Yeah solvaala, illa poya nu solvala nu ore tension.. Fears apart, romba naala suppress panni vachiruntha love ah Priya kitta express panna porom ngra feeling avanoda udambula ovvoru cells aiyum excite aaki vittirunthathu…. Excited state la irukkara atoms ah LASER state nu solvom la, appadi paartha, namma Sri anniku oru Super LASER state la than irunthaan… purandu purandu paduthalum, thookam vara maatennu murandu pidichitte irunthathu… athanala 6 manikku lam enthirichu, kilambi, 8 am ku lam office ku ready aagitan…

Office ku pogara vazhi la, oru gift shop ku poitu ethuna greeting card vangalam nu paarthan Sri… He was of the view, that 8 am was too early for a gift shop to open…. Oru doubt oh da than kilambinaan… But he was surprised, when he saw so many gift shops opened and that too crowded by lover guys and wanna be lover guys… Athu sari… intha maathiri nalla business nadakkanum nu thane, intha maathiri hype kilappi vitturukkanga… appuram en early ah thiranthu vaikka maatanga…. 24x7 timing la yae thiranthu vachiruppanga, inniku Valentines day ku irukkara public support ku… innum indha day anniku Govt leave vidarathu onnu mattum than baaki…. Oralavu decent ah na kadai kulla nulainju irunthathu la oru Greeting Card ah pick up panni eduthuttu vanthaan…. Aduthu love Gift ku romba thevaiyana Roses than avan enga thedinaalum kidaikkave illae... sari love proposal ku roses ah vida, ezhuthara Proses thane mukkiyam nu thannaiye console pannitu office ku kilambi poidaran

Time was 8:30, Few staffs mostly, the house keeping people and the other project ppl were in office at that time..athuvum Sri project la the previous day overnight work pannathunala, ppl will start coming only after 10 or 10:30... athu varaikkum thaniya tension oda eppadi utkarnthirukkarathu nu yosicha Sri, Sampath ku call pottan....

Ring went on the other side, kittathata after 10 rings, Sampath picks up the call

Sampath : Hello.. (in a feeble voice)

Sri : ennada pannitu irukae

Sampath : (yawn) thoongitu irukkaen da..

Sri : adinga...hurry up da..innum enna thookam..kilambi office vaada...

Sampath: dei manasaatchi irukka da unakku... 2 ku thaan da en veetukku vanthaen... athukkula ezhuppi ethukku da thookathai kedukkare.. onsite aadi seshan phone pannana.. nethikku nama anupicha thula ethum prachinaiya ?

Sri : vayitherichala kottatheda.. athai pathi yaaru kavalai patta... nee thaane inniku en love ah propose panna sonnae... etho oru thairiyathula prepare pannitu vanthirukkaen..tensed ah iruku da.. konjam company kodukka vaada

Sampath: adapavi..adappavi...athaane..love nu vanthutta, office velai ekkedu kettu ponalum kavalai pada maatengalae...podaanga... unakku love propose panrathukkelam ethukku da company... neeye yosichu ethuna pannuda.

Sri : dei dei bayama irukku da..ithellam enakku romba pudhusu da...

Sampath : naan mattum enna 5, 6 ponnungalai love panitu, naan avanillai nu sollitu irukaena.. poda loosu... love la mattum yaarum apprentice ah iruka kodathu da.. entha prachinai vanthalum affront with ease ah irukkanum..purinjatha...so neeyae samaali

Sri : Guruuuuuuu..paarthiya...intha maathiri encouraging ah pesarathukke nee venum da.. dei maaplae... nee kulikka kooda venaam... inniku valentines day nu avanavan kanda kanda scent ah pottutu vanthirukan..office eh naaruthu... so appadiye kilambi vaa..

Sampath: aaargh..kaalangrathla kadichu en thookathai keduthuttae... unnoda thollaiya pochu...sari vidu.. varen innoru 15 mins la....

Sri : thanks da..nee than da en uyir nanban...

Sampath: aama naan uyir nanban..nee uyirai edukkira nanban.... phone ah vai..

Sri phone ah cut pannitu, Priya ku nu vaangina greetings la ethuna ezhuthi kodukalame nu ezhutha aarmbikiran....yosichu yosichu ezhuthinathula time ponathe therila.... Sampath Office ku vanthu avanai ulukkina pinadi than Sri thannoda dream world vittutu intha world kullaye vanthaan...

Sampath: dei loosu ennada panrae?

Sri : hehe.. en aalu ku propose pannanum la..athukkaga oru chinnatha kavithai ezhuthinaen da..

Sampath: enda project ku code eh nee net la irunthu eduthu copy paste panni than poduvae.. ithu eppadi

Sri : sonthama ezhuthinaen da... meyyalumae...

Sampath: kodu, padichu paarkalam...

[Sampath reads out the poem Sri had written for Love Proposal]

pen mayilae...
un penmaiyilae,
mana menmaiyilae,
anbulla thanmaiyilae,
karuvizhi kanmaiyilae,
sarukkinaen naan, en thinmaiyilae,
ulamara unai nesikkiraen unmaiyilae,
sammatham thanthu en vaazhvelam varuvaya en anmaiyilae...

Sampath : ada ada ada..eppadi da eppadi da….. kalakkirukkae po…. Intha poem padicha Priya urugiduva po..un mela

Sri: iru maapu…namakku en intha irumaapu… etho manasula irukkaratha vaarthaiya pottiruken da..avlothan… I didn’t try to add any decorations to this……….

Sampath: rite da rite da..puriyuthu… .sari, all set da machi… poi letter ah koduka vendiyathu thane… Priya ponnu office vanthudicha

Sri: yea yea..da vanthtutta….

Sampath: apuram enda delay panrae.. kondu poi kodu po

Sri:machaan..poru da… konja neram aagatum…..tensed ah irukku da..

Sampath: ennada tense… Present tense la tense aane nu vachukkoyen..unoda future tensed ah ve irukkum….. delay panama un love ah relay pannu po….

Sri: dei mama.. (gets a bit nervous)

Sampath: machii…. Inniku un villain Ramki 11 manikku than varuvaan…avan vanthuttan na un kaariyame kettuthu…either unakku work mela work koduthu utkara vachiduvaan.. illangati antha priya ponnu kitta vazhiya aarambichiduvaan…avan vazhiya munnadi nee propose pannara vazhiya paaru…

Sampath ipadiyaga force panni Sri ya greeting cards oda anuppi vaikkaran avan cubicle ah irunthu…. Sri ku than Ivvalo neram romantic mood la irunthavan tak nu real life ku crash land aana mathiri aayiduchu.. thayangi thayangi Priya cubicle nokki nadanthaan..Eduthu vacha ovvoru step layum avan heart beat, Simbu padathula varra dan danakka beats ah vida semma fast ah adikkka aarambichathu… Priya enna vidai tharuvaa…. piriya vidai tharuvala…illaena avalai vittu naan piriya vidai tharuvala…. Would she or Would she not….. ippadiye nervous ah pala questions sumanthukittu Priya cubicle pakkama ponan… anga cubicle pakkathula iruntha pillar orama poi ninnu, priya ku theriyama ava cubicle la vera yaaravathu antha neram irukkangala nu paarthan…. Oru velai Priya, thannoda letter ah paarthu ethuna extreme ah react panna, mathavanga munnadi maanam pogama paarthukalamae…!!! Ellam oru disaster control measure thaan….

Priya seemed to be busy with something… ava friend Rohini was near her.. Priya va suthi gift wrapper, balloons, greeting card cover, sketch pens lam irunthathu…. She seemed to be writing something in that card….Sri wondered… naan than ivalukku propose panrathukku greeting card oda varen… intha ponnu card ah vachittu enna pannuthu…….. oru velai ivalum Valentines day kaga propose panna poraalo… ninaikkumbothe Sri manasu jollunu…sorry… jillunu :D aayiduchu, because, when he suspected she is writing a Val’s day card, he assumed, she is writing to her… Eppavume namakku heart thane takes precedence over mind… but soon sanity prevailed and his mind started thinking practically…. “oops…appadi na appadi na…. she is going to propose to some one…avalum love panraala…. Yaarai yaarai…” questions swarmed his mind… avanukku help panrathukkagavo ennavo, Rohini ithe kelviya Priya kitta ketta

Rohini : Hey Priya, enna pa panrae.

Priya : (busily writing in the card) mmm..sattiyum, paanaiyum panraen… paartha therilae… Greeting card fill pannitu irukkaen..

Rohini : athu theriyuthu… Gifts, chocolates, Greeting cards…. Ithellam unkitta paarkumbothu rumba Pudhusa irukkae

Priya : (still writing) hmm..hmm..ellam pudhusa than aarambikkum…. Enna panrathu…….

Rohini : sari sari…athelam vidu.. yaarukkaga intha greetings, gifts lam….sollu sollu

Priya: (Rohini ya nimirnthu paarthu, with a smile) en pa..unakku theriyaatha… innaikku enna naal nu (smiles again)… naan marubadi solanuma..

Rohini : heyy..nijammave theriyaathu…….. sollen….

[Sri yum 512 kbps (kilo (heart)beats per second) heart oda answer for the same million dollar question ku wait pannitu irunthaan………… He closed his eyes tightly….and prayed to himself… Priya en perai sollanum..en perai sollanum…en perai sollanum]

As if to add to the suspense, Priya paused for a few seconds and then said with a shy smile

Priya: namma Project Leader Ramakrishnan alias Ramki

[Bang……there it is…. The worst Sri feared has just come out of Priya’s mouth…. As a shocked Sri listened, the convo went on between Priya and Swapna]

Rohini : heyyyy…nijammava……… sollave illiyae

Priya: ithellam poi solitu iruppangala…. Sari sari… help me with wrapping these gift into this oki… I want to surprise Ramki when he arrives in office tomorrow (blushes)

Rohini : periya aalu than nee sariya plan podare po… eppa pa ithellam

Priya : (smiles and blushes) hmmm..hmm athai yen ketkare… pona vaaram project la oru tough module la avar kitta help kettutu ponen la… kittathatta oru 5 hours work panniruppom..appo than.. (pauses..smiles)

Rohini : killadi nee..kalakkare po….

(ippadi ponnunga rendu peru pesittu irukkaratha sogame uruvaa kettutu iruntha Sri ku oru kattathuku mela porukka mudilae… Priya kita propose panna vanthappo, ava enna solvaalo, ethu solvaalo nu bayanthuttu than vanthaan… but human psychology is, when u do something, expecting something to happen, you get tensed and nervous about doing it, but when u realize it is not going to happen, the expectation on that “something” is removed… In that situation, all the tension and pressure gets relieved, and you tend to do the same thing with more vigour… Ithai than Sri Krishnar BhagvatGita la Seiyyum seyal meethu pattru vai, Seyalin vinai meethu patru vaikathe nu artham vara maathiri Kadamaiyai Sei, palanai ethirpaarathe nu advise panninaar…… , namma story layum egappatta tension la iruntha namma hero Sri ku, Priya-Swapna conversation kettu, mudhalla sogathula idinju poi ninnalum, konja nerathula, ithe maathiri thelivu piranthathu…. Theerkama Priya munnadi poi ninnan)

Sri : (brimming with emotion) Priya, nee intha maathiri Greetings, gifts………. Cha.. unkitta naan ithai ethir paarkave illae

(Priya was like stunned… ithu varaikum avvalava pesaatha Sri ippo thideernu vanthu pesaran, athuvum kobama, but samalichikittu she replies)

Priya : Why, whatz with it… Intha maathiri oru special day la ippadi lam celebrate panna ena thappu???

Sri : irukkalam…aana nee ippadi pannuvaenu naan ethir paarkalae.. unnai paartha romba soft spoken ponnu maathiri theriyuthu… aana nee love la vizhuvae, Valentine’s day anniku greeting, gifts lam eduthuttu, neeye poitu oru paiyanukku thanthu propose pannuvaennu naan ethir paarkave illae..nichayama ethir paarkalae….

(emotion la, romba unarchivasapattu kotti theerkaran Sri)

Priya: hello hello mister wait……. Pesi mudichiteengala…. En sir….. February 14th Greeting card eduthuttu poi oru paiyanukku kodutha….. athu Love proposal ku mattum thaana… en February 14th anniku yaarukkum pirantha naal vara koodatha… appadi vantha avangala yaarum wish panna koodatha???

[Shocked was the reaction… this time it was a pleasant shock!!!]

Sri : enna enna…. Appadina…inniku Ramki ku….

Priya: aama namma PL Ramki ku Feb 14th ah na inniku birthday…. Surprise ah avarukku gift and greetings koduthu surprise pannalam nu naan, Ranjith, Kishore ellarum plan pannom….

[Sri could not believe his ears…. He could not control his tears also….tears of joy]

Sri : oh!!!

[Rohini interrupts]

Rohini : Sari da Sri, apadiye iva Ramki ku Valentines’ day card kodukkarane vachukkuvom…athunala unakku enna….?

[Shaken by this unexpected question, Sri composes himself to answer)

Sri : enna….enna…enna…. I LOVE YOU Priya

[solllitaaan… manasula irunthatha solliye puttan Sri…. No violin music, no drum beats etc.,Rohini becomes speechless, Priya was shocked…and without blinking her eyes replied back]

Priya: whaaaaaaat…. You too???

Sri : you too va… appadina…vera yaar yaaaru unnai Love panraanga Priya?

Priya : ada mandu…. Naan than ivvalo naala ungalai love pannitu irukkaennu ninaichitu irukkaen… neengaluma ennai love panreeenga….

[intha idathula thamthana thamthana music pottukonga… namma hero Sri manasula than intha music…]

Sri : neeya…neeya…neeya pesare Priya… nee ennai love panriya…. Nee adikkadi Ramki place ku than varuviya… oru velai Ramki ya than..athavathu..vanthu..vanthu…

Priya : haha en mennu muzhungareenga…. Naan Ramki place ku, ethavathu karanam vachittu adikkadi varathu unmai thaan…. Aana nee avar place pakkathula irukkarathunala than naan anga varen grathu ungalukku theriyuma… unga kitta pesanum pesanum ninaichu, aana ungalai paarthavudane antha idathai vittu vanthuttathu theriyuma

[Sri was stunned on hearing this… he could only stutter]

Sri: appo..appo… ellar kittayum free ya pesara neee, enkitta mattum ithu varai pesama avoid pannathu…athu..athu…

Priya : haha.. ithu koodava puriyala ungalukku… naan podhuvaga gala gala , sidu moonji kitta kooda jolly ah pesara type..appdi irukkara naan, unga kitta pesa mudiyalai na..appave purinjikka vendaam… ungala paarthavudane ennala mathavanga kitta irukkara maathiri irukka mudilae..athu en nu solla theriyaatha oru vetkam… training batch la paarthathula irunthu, ur quiet ness, ur sharp mind, ur tendency to help others ithellam ennai rombave impress panniduchi… sari ennikana oru naal love ah express pannalam nu vachittu irunthaaen..aana neengale express pannuveenga nu naan kandipa ethir paarkale

[ avlothaan… Sri clean bowled… he is lost for words…all his lips cud mutter is “Priya…” ivanga rendu peroda love dialogue la maathiri nadula ninnutu onnume pesama iruntha Rohini, decency karuthi antha idathai vittu poidara.. ]

Priya : Sri…

Sri: Priii….

[ippadiyaga mathiyana velai la oru software company la ellar naduvulayum intha Romance thodara, Greeting card, Roses, Valentines day nu ethuvume thevai illama rendu hearts exchange nadanthathu… Ellorum Sri-Priya love ku Vaazhga Valarga sollunga paarkalam… naan ippo Subam poda poraen… Nandri Vanakkam…. ]

[SUBAM]

Tact-o-Fact

2008-03-15T21:33:00.005+05:30

Ellorukkum vanakkam... This is a tag post...and am Tagged by namma Rasakka

I am Copy pasting the rules here

In the 8 Facts about Yourself, you share 8 things that your readers don’t know about you. Then at the end you tag at least 8 other bloggers to keep the fun going. Here are the rules.

RULES:
* Each blogger must post these rules first.
* Each blogger starts with eight random facts/habits about themselves.
* Bloggers that are tagged need to write on their own blog about their eight things and post these rules.
* At the end of your blog, you need to choose eight people to get tagged and list their names.
* Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged, and to read your blog.****

Hmm..this tag was interesting... First when i saw this point,

>>sharing 8 things that your readers dont know about u,

I pondered on what might be those points that readers doesnt know about me........ Enna sollalam...... Ennai pathi Negative points sollalam na... mind la thonichu.... namma negative ah clean panni, develop pannina positive image kaamikalam(athavathu padam kaamikalam :p) athai vittutu negative ah expose pannina, nallava irukkum..waste ah poidathu? :)....sari pogattum Nallatha ethuna solalam na.. naan vera romba modest ah :D, so I dont like blowing my own trumpet :D.....sari ithu rendum ilama, Sharing 8 things readers dont know about me ethu nu yosicha, enaku enonoda ATM card PIN, Credit card number, Mail password ippadilam nu than thonichu.... kittathatta athai than pottirupen... appuram than cool down aagi... Sari ithu kashtam, rules ah slight ah bend panni, 8 facts ah, 8 incidents nu maathi Autograph type la nyabagam varuthe nyabagam varuthe nu yosichu paarthen..old memories ethuna podalame.. past memories nu yosichu kittathatta poorva jenmame nyabagam vanthiduchi :D, mudinja alavu try panirukken... I hope i satisfy the blog rules :)

1. College I year padikkumbothu oru term exam la (Chemistry) ethuvume therilaya....appathan romba blatant ah copy adichen... pakkathu seat la irunthu paper vaangi... romba guilty ah irunthathu.. but appo oru promise pannikitaen..inimael epavume Xerox copy thavira vera copy um adikka koodathu nu (coffee illa...copy :)) mudinja alavu athai follow um pannirukken nu ninaikkaren...

P.S : Office la panna vendiya work ku, Googling panni code copy paste panni naan code ezhutharathu ithula serthi aagathu :)

2. When I was young (12-14 yrs old) In our apartments, naanga pasanga lam aaluku konjam kaasu pottu (1 Re each), sports tournament nu nadathuvom, among around 6 of us... Running race, Slow cycling ippadi sila events.. and ithula jeyikaravngaluku prize.. Prize enna theriyuma..50 paisa gun, 1 rs ku oru pambaram ippadi lam... It used to be fun and interesting at the same time...Ellam T.V influence thaan :)

3. Athe T.V influence la, cricket vilayadum bothu kooda, rather than having a monotonous cricket matches within ourselves, we used to conduct Triangular tournaments among ourselves (courtesy Sharjah Tournament 1991-92), 6 peru iruntha, 3 teams of 2 person, 9 vantha, 3 persons each nu... It will be two rounds of league matches and one final.... Again this was more interesting than the usual cricket matches...and Summer vacation la laam it was great fun

4. Anyone of u remember Maggi club?? Those days it was there.. If u are under 14, u can be a member of that club...I used to be a very active member of Maggi club..Maggi noodles adikkadi vanguvena..so antha wrappers la Maggi logo mattum cut panni, delhi la irukkara avanga office ku post panninom na they will make u a member.. Depending on the number of wrappers u send, they will send u interesting games, board games maathiri irukkum..semma interesting games athellam.. those games were a great hit among my friends in our apartments.... enkitta irunthathu la extra wrappers anuppi I even made some of my friends as members.. Athula en friend kaga one time try pannumbothu, I didnt have enough wrappers in hand..so what we did was, we went around our locality, kuppai kottara idama poi, we collected (rather porukkufied :D) maggi wrappers .. appadi kashtapattu member aakirukken avanai... :p

5. Ithuvum chinna vayasula than... in our apartments.. Newyear eve la laam enga apartments la night la ovvorutharum avanga flats munnadi kolam poduvaanga.. Kolam podura Flat sisters ah ottanum nu, naanga pasanga lam ovvoru flat kolathaiyum comment adichu mark pottom (Idea ku 20 marks, Neatness ku 20 marks etc.,) Ippadi Jolly ah ottarathukku nu aarambichathu, Aunties lam serious ah eduthukittu, ippa every year athaiye Kolam contest nu official ah kondu vanthuttanga anga :)

6. Ithu ennoda sontha oor la... We used to go to our native place during my school holidays.. anga ulla friends innoru gang.. enga street friends lam sernthu association nu onnu aarambichom....En friend oruthan veetula 3 pasanga..athula eldest paiyan than first president....antha anna college ponavudane, another senior guy became president.. intha association pinnadi develop aagi, we used to conduct elections lam.. :).. naan leave la mattum than ooruku porathunala naan foriegn secretary..matha posts ku lam election... ballot boxes lam vachu election nadathinom :)... Ithula comedy enna na... nadu la oru time anga president ah iruntha paiyan family kum innoru family paiyanukkum oru sandai vanthu, antha paiyan intha association la irunthu vilagi, he formed a potti association...athula mostly avanga family pasanga than members (they were around 5-8).. ithu serious ah ve pochu... they wont play with us..we wil not be playing with them... arasiyal maathiriye iruku la... but ithellam nijammave nadanthathu... appuram enna aachu na, konja naal kalichu rendu side um utkarnthu pesi merge panninom association ah :)

What we used to do on behalf of the associaton was, enga street ah clean panrathu, library mathiri chinnatha maintain paninathu, apuram street orathu la oru idathula kuppai pottutu asingam pannitu irunthaanga... To clean up that, what we did was anga oru poodam maathiri vachu, we made that as a temple... Temple nu sonna asingam panna maatanga la... athan... Yearly once, antha idathula pongal lam vaippom, with the help of the street residents....

7. When I was 10 years old, we moved to the apartments I was referring to above.. I owe watever positive qualities (atleast the trigger for those positive qualities) I have now to that apartments. Romba romba bekku maathiri irunthaen when I moved there.... Even to start playing with the people there, pakkathu veetu chinna ponnu than kootitu pochu... intha anna vaiyum game la serthu konga nu :D... Appadi irunthu, niraya nalla vishayam enakku la develop aanathuku antha flat than major reason :)

8. Since I was kind of very much an introvert during my younger days and also being a single child, I used to do so many things to myself..rather than share / mingle with ppl.... appadi aarambichu than poem ezhutharen nu solli kirukka arambichathu... Rhyming varathukkaga naan pannina attagasam....haiyyo solla mudiyaathu :D...My first poem was this

(Father to Son)
O my dear son,
your eyes are like sun,
your mind is like a gun,
So please eat this bun.

(Son reply)

O my father,
you dont bother
if you want me to eat this bun
then i wud have to surely run

:D uthaikkanum nu thonutha?? but i liked this "poem" of mine..oru diary onnu maintain panni, i used to write all such stuffs... athuvum mathavanga kitta kaamika bayam.... enga flat pasanga romba nallavanga... naan diary lam POEM nu ezhuthi ulla etho etho kirukki vachirunthathala naan poet nu solla aarambichittanga..without even reading what i had written inside... ippadi vera ethi vida aarambichavudane, kittathatta oru English karadi ya (a.k.a Vijaya Rajendar) suthittu irunthaen in my young age :D

Another sample

My name is subramani,
my heart is like sweet honey,
I care about attitude and not money
Mothathula en baaniye thani...
What's your opinion, tell if any...

:D :D :D

Thanks to Raz...... I really enjoyed writing this post..... re collecting the happy incidents in ur life really refreshes u...and sometimes, ippadi lam irunthirukkena nu I am surprised at myself now... :).. I dont know if any of you like this post or not..but I really liked doing this tag.....

I would like to tag my friends GP and GG.. Happy Tagging guys!!!

Azhagana Chinna Devathai…..

2008-01-16T23:41:00.001+05:30

P.S : Another story, this time a new one :D, but sans any P.J or twist or komeedy... There is no turn, just an attempt to keyboard down (i mean "pen down" :D) a simple "Brother-Sister" love story.

P.S -2 : Thanks to Ramya, as the opening para was written by her... I wish I could write the entire story short, elegant in her and few other bloggers' style, but writing a crispier story is definitely not my cup of lime juice (Sorry I dont like Tea :D)..

This is an story written entirely in English with a Tamil title..not that I planned like that, but I couldnt get an apt title than that... That song from Samuthram is my favorite :)

AZHAGANA CHINNA DEVATHAI

Anand stood in front of the mirror in the wash room, scratching his jaw line lazily… Popping his knuckles, he examined his face carefully in the mirror. Leaning closer, he grabbed his chin and looked more closely at the stubble that was starting to appear on his cheeks...He was a proud man today. It was his D-Day.., Anand - member of his college's elite basketball team, a symbol of macho man…, chance to be every girl's poster boy at college….

It was for this very moment, Anand had been waiting for years. Getting into his college team was no joke as Anand had found it out every time he loses out to the top players in his team during the selection process…. Despite being a captain and a champion in his school Basketball team, Anand was mostly finding himself in the sidelines not being able to make it to the College main team. But, lady luck finally smiled on him this time, as a last minute withdrawal from Kumar, who is the team's short forward, owing to viral fever helped Anand pave his way into the team after 3 years …. Couldn't be a better time than during the State championship, for Kumar to develop viral fever, Anand thought…. Smilingly he looked at his watch….Gosh!!! Time is already 7:30 and he had to report for the mandatory practice today at 10:30 am for the all important state wide tournament. Dilip, the coach of the Basket ball team was very strict on the players and their attendance to the practice sessions. He can even go to the extent of firing the player from the team, if they fail to turn up or not punctual. Bearing this in mind, Anand quickly did with his things and readied himself in a hurry… One two buckle my shoe… three four here comes the star….. Anand whistled in joy as he laced up his brand new Nike shoe….

"Ma!", he called up his mom who was in kitchen busy with her morning chores. "Ma… I am leaving for college for the Basketball practice session. I might be back by lunch…. Buh Bye….Tell Appa and Nivi also"

"Nandhu…." Amma responded from the kitchen, "One minute dear..., I want to talk to you…Can you please hold on".

"Oh…Amma… what is that ….Tell it later no…. I am already late...Can't u keep your stuff later?" Anand groaned impatiently…

"Wait my darling…I would be right there…" Anand's mom hurried to the hall …. "Nandhu.. Where have u started, so early in the day?"

"Huh... Ma, I had told you 1000 times already... I am having my basketball practice session today…your son is now a team member of the College basketball team and is going to be a champion player pretty soon…. "

"Ohh nandhu...thatz wonderful" smiled Amma, paused for a while and continued, "I am so proud of you… But sorry dear, today you got to do something more important than this Basketball practice session, and so you are going to stay home" Amma calmly told with a gentle smile on her face...

Anand was shocked…. "What…. Amma are u crazy...What are u telling??"

Amma continued in the same vein… "You know rite… Your Chithappa's (Uncle -> Father's brother) wedding anniversary today and he has arranged a function at his home. Appa and I need to go there…. You must be aware that your sister Nivetha is having her model exams next week. This is an important exam for her, as this is going to decide what group she can take in her 11th standard next year. Hence she will not be able to come with us…So you need to stay at home and taking care of her. You can go to your practice session on another day."

Anand miffed angrily "Come on ma… don't play….If I skip this practice session, then finished… I would be out of the team…, I am not going to throw away my three year dream for the sake of her stupid exams…. I am leaving…."

Amma, "Nandhu, come on dear,... you should not be talking like that… Please understand the seriousness…There would be so many telephone calls and also many ppl will be ringing at the door. It would be a distraction for her studies if she is going to attend all that… Further you got to understand, your sister would feel uncomfortable studying alone at home….So Take care of her…"

Anand gestured his disapproval by shaking his head, "Nothing doing.. Playing for the College Basketball team is my first preference.. I am not interested in doing a receptionist job sitting at home…I am going to go… Do whatever u want" and started to leave..

"Oh, is that so…", Amma stopped smiling, "Thatz great… let us see how Appa is going to get ur dream bike Pulsar" …

"Ammaaaa!!!!... This is atrocious…… unfair on me" a baffled Anand fumed angrily, as his mother she told in a stern voice and went inside to resume her kitchen duties. But he was unable to protest anymore to his mom for his Amma knew, how much a Pulsar bike means to her son, even more than the College Basket ball team selection. While all his friends raced in style in their 125 cc bikes, Anand had to be content only with his 98' model Bajaj Kawasaki all these days. Only now Appa has given his consent for a brand new Pulsar bike through his mother's strong recommendations. Anand knew when Amma says something she means it and hence he was not able to do anything when she played the Pulsar trump card. If he does not abide by his mom, not only he will lose out the opportunity to get his dream Pulsar, but it will have other repercussions as well…

Anand went inside his room, banged the door with a noise and locked it. He was dejected over not being able to attend the practice sessions. "Nivetha….Nivetha….all 'cause of this girl…...How many things I need to put up as a brother………… It had been like this always….cha…."

Anand was so happy when Nivetha was born fourteen years ago. He longed so much for a sibling, since it was boring being a single child for all of his 8 years and especially because all his friends were having fun with their siblings…. However, the euphoria over Nivetha's entry into his life lasted only a few years, ever since Anand was thrusted with the responsibility of taking care of his sister… Anand had his own reservations about whom to mingle with and who not to, He was proud of himself for being choosy, but Baby Nivetha, with her charming smile, did not seem to bother about all those and got attached with everyone she came across. It became Anand's duty to go around in search of her to every house, around the apartments and to bring her back home…… Irrespective of wherever she is, even if it were to be at his "enemy's" house, Anand had to do that…. He hated doing, but he had to… no other go!!!

As Nivetha grew, Anand's responsibilities also grew. He had to drop her at the school, then pick her up in the afternoon after school hours…If she had any special classes, Anand had to wait till the class ends and then take her home…Akka will never bother about her brother waiting idle for her, wasting the time. She would come leisurely at her own pace, but would fight with him even if he comes a minute late to pick her up. Ohh!!!!!!! She gets so wild when she gets angry with him… The mistake would have never been his, but he would be at the receiving end getting punches and pinches from her….. Even after all this, only Amma would only force him to approach and make up with her

Nivetha created other problems too to Anand…… She was very studious with her studies and always held the first rank in her class. Hence comparisons between his and her studies would become a topic of discussion at home… Anand failed to understand his folks' reasoning…. Given a chance, Anand could score centum in all of Nivetha's second or third standard subjects…. but if little Nivi writes his College exams, can she even score 10 marks??… Then how could she be called as studying better than him….. Why don't these ppl understand…?

"Hmmmmmmmmm"…sighed Anand….. He looked at his watch….It was showing 10:30 am… The practice would have started…. He was not there, rather wasting his time at home... How sad!!!... Anand quickly switched off his mobile, before coach Dilip call him up and blast him for not attending the practice session… He is out of the college Basketball team anyway, then why to hear to all the crap from him, he thought, as he came out of his room to the hall.

The entire house was quiet, Amma and Appa must have left for Chithappa house and Nivetha should be studying in her room… What I would do now, he wondered…. "If she does not have any exams, at least I could play with her or chat with her leisurely….Now if I go and try to talk to her when she is studying, she will surely blast me"…."Man, this is Totally unfair!!…" he thought…"When she had something to say or share, she would tell all that stuff and I would be patiently listening to her, but when I had to tell anything, she will not even have the interest to listen or at times, she would just shut the door and tell She is busy….".

Hmmm….Got bored, he browsed through the day's newspaper. There was nothing interesting in the Sports section that day and Anand was not interested in reading other sections anyhow…. He glanced at the week's Young World section…… Nivetha's article, the one she has sent for the Children's day essay contest was featuring in that issue of Young World. Anand was not interested in reading it…. He had read it several times before it was posted for the contest. The contest asked the contestants to submit an essay on their most valuable person in their life….Nivetha chose to write on her close friend Rathi in her article. He felt she should have rather mentioned about their parents, but then thatz her choice….

As Time passed, Anand felt bored being idle and thought he could peep into Nivetha's room to see what she is doing… So he slipped into her room. Nivetha was in the balcony discussing seriously about the human respiratory system over mobile, with her classmate….. Anand looked around the room…The books were neatly arranged in the book shelf and only two books, which she was studying currently was lying in the studying table…. Compare it to his table, it would have been scattered with so many books, any book even remotely related with the subject he is studying….Nivetha would often chide him for keeping his studying table messy and warned him not to touch hers…Anand would reply "I am just creating the mood to study and that is my way of studying :D"

Anand looked further in the room... He saw a red color diary, half closed with the pen on the last written page lying in Nivetha's bed… It was her diary which she uses to write her poems, drawings, etc that she submits to contests or competitions…… What she could be writing now, during this important exam time, he wondered…… Driven by curiosity, Anand took the diary and looked into the last page which she had left opened…It was the essay "My most valuable Person" and she has written one paragraph for that…. "Oh it is the same stuff that came in the Young World magazine…" Uninterestingly Anand flipped to the previous pages, when he noticed his name in that last page… He was shocked… "Hey, this does not look the same thing which she posted…I read it several times before posting it…", a confused Anand read the passage from the beginning

"My dear Anand anna.. The most valuable person in my life… he is more than a brother, I would say he is my second dad….in that he cares much like our dad does, more lovable bcoz I need not fear him or respect as much as I do to my appa. He tirelessly hears to what I say, advices me a lot even though he know, I would not listen to any of that.... I must say, am proud to be his sis. He, for me, is the best among the best…....

Tears rolled down as Anand was reading through the passage….He did not expect this from Nivetha… He knew that Nivetha has affection for him... but hearing that from her, this was the first time ... Anand never thought feeling something that he already knew, would make him feel sweeter,something similar to when Nivetha was born fourteen years ago…

"Annaaaaaaa", Nivetha's voice brought Anand back to his sense, she had just finished her call with her friend. "Annnnnna...I am so happy to see u here now Anna..."

Anand quickly closed the diary he was reading .…."Ye…s…yess…. Nivetha…., .. how are u doing" he stuttered

"I am doing great na, Amma told you were angry with her for being asked to stay at home for the sake of me…Sorry nandhu na… Because of me you had to stay at home and skip the practice session no..."

Anand quickly shook his head in the negative "Hey never mind pa… I was.... I was actually ok with this…."

"Wowwwwwwww…really?? yes……. Yes… Anna Thanks a lot", Nivetha's face brightened with joy..

Anand just smiled in reply…Usually he would have teased her or tried to irritate her during her exam times…He had always treated Nivetha just like any of his best friends, only difference being she gives him that additional responsibility of taking care of her… Not that he didn't treat her as a sister…It was only that, at times, he felt he was overloaded with the responsibility of a "Brother", especially whenever his Amma thrusts the responsibility on him. But now he felt, for some one so lovable, it is a joy doing anything for them, than a burden. He felt stupid for whining about his sister earlier. Anyway now the ice had broken and had started melting now….

Nivetha continued, "Anyway anna, I will continue studying oki….Every 2 hours after I finish a chapter, we shall chat for some time…. Deal? "

"OK Nivi..done, You carry on, I will time pass by reading some story books", Anand pulled a chair and sat before her

"Sure… …. Anna, You know what…. If you are in front of me, my mind seems to work better… I donno why… It looks like magic.. All this time I was sitting and wondering about my Zoology assignment due for next week. As soon as you came …ideas are flowing… "

Anand smiled, "Nivi darling…come on, don't joke..oki?"

"Hey, I said it straight from my heart anna… seriously!! You don't know how badly I wanted to have you near me while I study…"

Anand was touched by her affection… How foolish of him to even think about as a burden for taking care of her… "How blessed I am to have such a lovable sister… Is it not a pride to be a brother, What more joy than to have a chance to make my angel sis happy!!!" he thought. After a moment of silence, Anand showed the diary he had in hand, and the passage she had written.. "Nivi, what is this you have written here, isn't it different from the one you had posted to Young World"

"Oh..that?... When that contest came up, my automatic choice for the most valuable person was you.... But then I felt our love was very close to my heart that I don't want to publish it publically...and hence I wrote on Rathi, my best friend from pre-KG days"

Anand did not reply to this…. Actually he had no reply to her.…So he just smiled at her in reply...Nivetha continued with her studies and soon, got absorbed into it completely. Anand patiently sat in front of her the entire day and gave her company as she studied meticulously for the exams. Anand used to complain whenever he was forced to give company to Nivetha during her exam preparation, citing it as a waste of time. But today he felt otherwise.. Even though she never took the break she told him, infact she didnt even care to talk with him while she studied, Anand loved every moment of the time he had spent for her, for he had just realized being by the side of a love one, when they need was more important than any other thing in the world!!!

P.S - Today (16th Jan) is Kanu pongal... I would like to dedicate it to my lovely sisters and my dear elder sister :)

பொங்கலோ பொங்கல்!!!!

2008-01-15T16:40:00.000+05:30

[For those who are unable to read the following in Tamil, for a variety of reasons :) Here is a transliteration in Tanglish :)]

எல்லாருக்கும் வணக்கமுங்கோவ் ... தை பிறந்த இந்நாளில், பொங்கல் என்ற நன்னாளில், அனைவரது வாழ்வும் சக்கரை பொங்கலாய் இனித்திட, உளம் கனிந்த இனிய பொங்கல் வாழ்த்துக்கள் ... Happy Pongal Happy Pongal என்று யாரவது வாழ்த்து தெரிவித்தால் , தமிழ் திருநாளிற்கு ஆங்கிலத்தில் வாழ்த்தலாமா என்று தமிழனின் தமிழ் பற்று பற்றி கட்டுரை எழுத ஆரம்பிக்காமல், வாழ்த்தும் அவரது நல்ல உள்ளத்தை மட்டும் எடுத்துக்கொண்டு நன்றி தெரிவியுங்கள். திமிங்கில தமிழை தமிங்கிலம் (தமிழ் + ஆங்கிலம்) என்ன செய்யும்? வாழ்த்து தெரிவிக்க மொழி முக்கியமில்லை, தான் பெற்ற இன்பம் அனைவரும் பகிர்ந்து கொள்ள வாழ்த்தும் மனம் ரொம்ப முக்கியம்..என்னை பொறுத்த வரை அது தான் உண்மையான தமிழ் உணர்வு :)

ஏதோ என்னால் முடிந்த ஒரு சிறு கவி"தை" :D

பொங்கட்டும் பொங்கல்,
சுவை நிறைந்த இனிய பொங்கல் உங்கள் இல்லங்களில்,
மகிழ்வான இனிய உணர்வு உங்கள் உள்ளங்களில்,
திக் திக் என்ற நிலை மாறி வாழ்வு தித்திக்க,
பச்சரிசி பாகோடு அடுப்பில் உலை கொதிக்க,
அப் பால் பொங்க, மனம் அன்பால் பொங்க
இனிய பொங்கல் நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்.....

Please pour in your thoughts on the whole Pongal festival, starting from Bhogi, Thai Pongal, Maatu Pongal and Kaanum Pongal... :) Let us celebrate Pongal in its truest spirit and spread the happiness around us :) Nallarukkanum nallarukkanum...ellorum nallarukkanum :)

HAPPPPPPIEST PONGAL WISHES!!!!! MAY CHEERS ADORN YOUR FACE, JOYS FILL YOUR HEART AND HAPPINESS EMBRACE YOUR HOME !!!

ellarukkum vanakkamungov... thai pirantha innalil, pongal endra nannalil, anaivarathu vaazhvum chakkarai pongalai inithida, ulam kanintha iniya pongal vaazhthukkal... [Happy Pongal] [Happy Pongal] endru yaaravathu vaazthu therivithaal, tamizh thirunaalirku aangilathil vazhththalama endru tamizhanin tamizh patru patri katturai ezhutha aarambikkamal, vaazhthum avarathu nalla ullathai mattum eduthukondu, nandri theriviyungal. thimingila thamizhai thamingilam (thamizh + aangliam) enna seiyyum? vaazhthu therivikka mozhi mukkiyamilai, thaan petra inbam anaivarum pera vaaztha vendum engira manam romba mukkiyam..ennai porutha varai athu thaan unmaiyana thamizh unarvu :)

Etho ennala mudinja oru chinna kavi"thai"

"pongattum pongal,
suvai niranintha iniya pongal ungal illangalil,
magizhvana iniya uNarvu ungal ullangalil,
thik thik endra nilai maari vazhvu thithikka,
pacharisi paagodu aduppil ulai kothikka,
ap paal ponga, manam anbaal ponga

iniya pongal nalvaazhthukkal"

Tell Me Why

2008-01-12T19:09:00.001+05:30

P.S : One more repost :)I Initially posted it at this blog during March/April 2006. Now made some few changes, edited it and reposting :) Will def come up with a new post from my next posting :D, please put up with me this time :D

Warning: My first attempt at a serious story... This story does not contain any Mokkai, any P.J, not an iota of humor. Those who read this kindly suggest if I shud attempt more serious stories...or it wud be better if i stick to whatever i am doing now :D

"Manju...Manju..." Raghuraman called out for his sweet grand daughter, as he entered into the house. Anand, his son, replied "Manju is not doing well pa. She is sleeping in her bedroom " as he was sipping his evening Tea. "Oh, what happened to my sweet heart?", a worried Raghuraman queried. Anand, "Oh..Nothing Dad, You know rite, our Driver Shekar's house caught fire yesterday and he and his folks got injured?"

Raghuraman: (sighed) Oh yes, poor guy Shekar, he is quite a nice man

Anand : Well yeah, we paid a visit to him at the hospital

Raghuraman : Oh is that so? I could have come with you na.. Had u informed I would have left early from my friend's house

Anand : Well, I wanted to meet him as soon as possible, and hence went to hospital as sooon as I returned from office. We took Manju also with us so that she could console her best friend and our Shekar's son Gopal. Thatz the mistake we made. Little girl, she is not able to bear all these things whatever happened to Gopal and Shekar. She was weeping from that time. Just now she had slept

Raghuraman : Oh Lord, my sweetie has such a tender heart. (turning to Jaya, his daughter in law) Jaya, Did she take any food after coming from school?

Jaya : No Mama, we went straight to hospital after she returned from school.

Raghuraman Hmm.. poor girl. OK let us not disturb her today. let her sleep. Let's hope She will get back to her cheerful ways soon.

Jaya : yes Mama, Wait, I will bring you Tea. (Jaya goes to kitchen to bring him Tea)

Anand's family belongs to upper middle class section. Anand is a manager in a leading Leather factory. His family is a short and sweet family of Jaya and his cute little daughter Manju. His father Mr.Raghuraman lives along with them. A retired school principal, he is the friend, philosopher, guide and play mate for Manju. Manju love his thatha (Grandfather) so much so that she considers him as her Best friend and shares everything with him more than her school mates or parents. Every day, Raghu thatha would tell stories to her and will try to tell some Moral or Philosophical values through those stories. Both Anand and Jaya are nice people with good heart and helping tendency. Shekar is their car driver,a faithful and sincere person. He stays in the nearby slum just behind Anand's apartments. His son is Gopal, a sweet and smart chap. He lost his mom at an earlier age itself and only his father takes care of him. Everybody in Anand's flats like him very much and he is like a darling for them, always attending to any kind of help they are requesting him. Gopal is Manju's best friend as both are of almost same age. Anand, Jeya and Raghu thatha treated Gopal as their own child and shower kindness and sympathy on him.

Life was going smooth for everyone, till the previous night when a power leak in the colony transformer set off fire in the nearby slum. The fire wreaked havoc in the slum destorying all the huts there. Since the fire broke out in the night time, the poor ppl didnt have much of time to escape from the perils of the fire accident. Some people succumbed to the burns while many of them got hurt ranging from minor to severe burns. Gopal's house too didnt escape the wrath of the fire. Gopal could manage to escape with few minor burns but his father Shekar gets severe burn wounds in the fire. All the injured people including Shekar get admitted in the Government hospital. That day Anand and Jeya paid a visit to Shekar at the hospital. They took Manju along with them as they thought she would be able to comfort a grieving Gopal. But Manju was apalled at the condition of her dear Driver Shekar uncle and the grief of her best friend Gopal. She could not digest with whatever that happened and burst into tears. Nobody could console her, even the injured Shekar tried to convince Manju that he is alright, but none could stop her tears. Hence Anand and Jaya has to leave the hospital with a crying Manju. And as Raghu thatha said they let Manju sleep without taking her food, hoping sleep would give some peace to her.

[ Next day Morning ]

Raghuraman just gets up from sleep and comes to the hall. Anand is busy going through the daily paper

Raghu : Good Morning Anand...

Anand : Good Morning pa,

Raghu : Jeya, Did Manju got up?

Jeya (worryingly) : Yes mama, she did. But she still looks terribly upset, refusing to take food. I dont know what to do

Raghu : Oh God. I think this is getting serious. O.K Anand, with your permission, let manju take leave today. I shall take her for a walk along park and try to bring her to normal

Anand : Oh ok dad, you are the best person to handle her. Please do it

Raghu thatha takes Manju to park. A sombre Manju quietly follows her thatha. Both were silent during the walk. They reached the park. Seated in the park bench, Raghu thatha opens the conversation

Raghu : Oh dear, why are u so sad? See darling, sometimes you cannot help such unfortunate circumstances.

Manju remains quiet. After a long pause, she started

Manju : Thatha...., Tell me... tell me why?

Raghu : What darling?

Manju : Tell me.... Why does Gopal suffer? Why does Shekar uncle suffers ? What wrong they did? You have told me so many stories that only those who are bad or committed evil doing, suffers a lot. What did Gopal do? Why is he suffering, Why does he have to suffer? He is a born poor, he doesnt have a proper house, he only has torn clothes, he doesnt have toys to play with, he is not having good education, he lost his mother from his birth itself, he is not even having a good food daily. He is already being treated severely by God. Then why should he still suffer..Why thatha Why?

Raghu thatha remains silent.. Manju continues

Manju : Look at me, I am born rich, I have good parents who take care of me, I have so many nice clothes to wear on, I have a room full of toys to play with. Appa gets me all delicious food items whichever I ask for, We have car and so on. GOD hasnt given these things to Gopal. All he gives for him is pain, agony and suffering. Do say dear thatha, Is God really fair?

Raghu thatha maintains his calm composure and replies

Raghu : oh Dear, do not doubt about the fairness of GOD. GOD is really fair kanna. Just wait and see na, Gopal would not experience any more problems when he grows up in life. He is he is really gonna come up nicely in life. All the pains he had been suffering so far will only build his mental strength and resolve. Believe me dear... Nothing is permanent.... If life, at the moment appears darker for Gopal, there will be a day pretty sooner arriving for him. Be assured of that and dont worry!!!

Raghu thought this should put to rest the concerns Manju has for Gopal and his problems. He felt far more relaxed having talked with his grand daughter. But to his surprise, as he noticed Manju, her face gave an upset look and she started to break into tears. Amidst tears she asked

Manju : But, but thatha, if nothing is permanent, and God is fair, does that mean I would lose all that GOD gave me? Will GOD's fairness snatch away all the good things that I had been enjoying, As I grow up in life, will i suffer, the way Gopal is suffering right now?

Raghu thatha was speechless now... He did not expect this from Manju. He was unable to talk

Raghu : No ma..it is not like that...it is ..it is

Manju : Tell me thatha, if GOD is fair, that would mean I will lose all that I have got, Life had been happier to me so far, I did not have to pass through what Gopal had to pass through. By being fair, Will God snatch away all these things he gave me?

Raghu : No dear no..it will not happen to you... your life will be happy always

Manju : Then thatha, is GOD unfair? If God is, then those who are suffering will continue to suffer is it? If, as you say, GOD is fair then all these tragic things would happen to me some day...... Now tell me thatha, is GOD fair or unfair?

Raghu thatha remains silent for a moment. He thinks deeply for a while and then replied

Raghu : Yes Sweety, GOD is fair, GOD is impartial

Manju : does that mean (starts crying)....

Raghu : Wait dear wait, let me ask you a question..answer it..... Do you believe that GOD takes care of every one of us?

Manju : (thinks..)mmm... Yes I do

Raghu : If that is the case, then why do you need a Mother and a Father to take care of you when GOD can take care of you

Manju : (thinks for a while... and then answers) Well....GOD cant do all things by himself....And he cannot do something for someone exclusively. So he gave me a Mother and Father to take care of me alone.

Raghu : absolutely!! u rite there sweet heart.....GOD's fairness is far different from what you think as fairness. If you think GOD has given u riches, good food, dresses and nothing for Gopal, you are wrong. GOD has given Gopal, so many things, that you and me does not possess,such as the ability to react smartly to situation, the ability to face tough situations etc.,

Also dear, If GOD made your family rich and your neighbour's family poor it is like GOD's way of telling you that you must use your wealth to make sure that they don’t suffer. If GOD gives you happiness he implies, you should share your happiness with others and you should make a sad guy around you happy. God cannot give everything to everybody. He gives rich and wealth to some people and at the same time expects those people to share these riches to people around them, who need those. Help ppl when they are in trouble, when they need it, with whatever abilities you are blessed with by GOD. If you forget this simple fact and start to act selfish without willing to help people when in need, then dear, you are right, you might suffer later in life. You would understand the fairness of GOD if you understand this also. :)

Manju was listening to her Thatha earnestly. Her face brightened up at last. She wiped her tears and smiled. As she saw a Granny who was struggling to cross the road, she ran to her and took her hand and helped her cross the road safely.. Raghu thatha smiled to himself. His grand daughter has understood life and understood GOD.

வாழ நினைத்தால் வாழலாம்

2008-01-07T21:20:00.000+05:30

P.S : This was a story I wrote longggggg back.. Infact it can be called as my first story :D, I wrote it when i was around 14 years old... had posted this story in blog earlier as well.. but appo nammalai niraya perukku theriyaathu :D (shooo... ippa mattum theriyuma nu ketka koodathu :D) sari pudhu year la oru confidence boosting post podalamae nu pazhaiya post ah thoosi thatti date ah maathi munnadi kondu vanthu vachirukkaen :)

Wrote in taminglish and converted the same into tamil using this link

கோபால் நமது கதையின் நாயகன். வாழ்க்கையில் தோல்வியைத் தவிர வேறு எதையும் சந்தித்திராதவன்.அம்மா ஆசை போல் பிள்ளையாய் பிறந்தாலும் அம்மாவாசையில் பிறந்தவனாயிற்றே!! அவன் வாழ்வில் எல்லாமே கோளாறுதான். கோபாலது ஆசிரியர் 'கூழானாலும் குளித்து குடி' என்பார், ஆனால் கோபால் குளித்து விட்டு வருவதற்குள் அவன் கூழை வேறு யாராவது குடித்து விடுவார்கள். அவனது ஆசிரியர் 'குரைக்கிற நாய் கடிக்காது' என்பார். சரி ஆசிரியரே சொல்லிட்டாரே என ஆசிரியரை நம்பி இவன் குரைத்துக் கொண்டிருந்த நாய் மீது கல்லைத் தூக்கி போட, அந்த நாய் இவன் உடம்பில் ஒரு கால் கிலோவை குரைத்துவிட்டது. அவன் படித்ததெல்லாம் சரிதான், ஆனால் அதுதான் படிக்காத நாய் போலும். எல்லாம் அவனது தலைவிதி. இந்த சம்பவஙகளுக்குப் பிறகு ஆசிரியர் சொல்வது எதையும் கேட்கக்கூடாது என்று தீர்மானித்து விட்டான்.ஆனாலும் அவனது விதி அவனை விடாது துரத்திக்கொண்டிருந்தது. வகுப்பறையில் ஆசிரியர் கரும்பலகையில் ஏதேனும் ஒரு திருக்குறளை எழுதி விட்டு, கோபாலிடம் இதை எழுதியவர் யாரென கேட்பார்.கோபாலும் பரிவுடன், 'நீங்கதான் சார் கொஞ்ச நேரம் முன்னாடி எழுதினீங்க' என்று அன்புடன் கூறுவான். இவனது பரிவை புரிந்து கொள்ள முடியாத ஆசிரியரோ , இந்த பையன் நம்மை நக்கலடிக்கிறான் என்றென்ணி இவனை வகுப்புக்கு வெளியே துரத்தி விடுவார்.இது போல ஏதாவது ஒரு பிரச்சினை இவனை வாட்டிக்கொண்டே இருந்தது. ஒவ்வொரு முறையும் தேர்வு மதிப்பெண் வாங்கிச் செல்லும்போதும் வீட்டில் யுத்தமே நடக்கும்.கோபாலது பெற்றோரோ தங்கள் பையன் அனைத்திலும் முதலாவதாக வரவேண்டும் என்று விரும்புவர். ஆனால் கோபால், பள்ளியில் இருந்து வெளியே வருவதில் வேண்டுமானால் முதலில் இருப்பானே தவிர, மற்றபடி பாடங்களில் எல்லாம் கடைசியில் இருந்து பார்த்தால்தான் இவன் முதல் நிலைக்கு வர வாய்ப்பு இருக்கிறது. இறுதி தேர்வில் மட்டும் எப்படியாவது திக்கித் திணறி தேறி விடுவான். அதுவும் அவனது அப்பா 'நீ பரிட்சையில் பாஸ் பண்ணலேனா உன்னை மாடு மேய்க்க அனுப்பி விடுவேன்' என்ற மிரட்டலுக்கு பயந்துதான்.

இப்படி நாளொரு மேனியாவுடனும் பொழுதொரு வருத்ததுடனும் கோபாலது வாழ்க்கை ஓடிக் கொண்டிருந்தது.இல்லை..இல்லை..அவனை பொறுத்தவரை நொண்டி நொண்டி போய்க்கொண்டிருந்தது. தற்பொழுது பத்தாம் வகுப்பு முடிவுகளை எதிர்ப்பார்த்துக் கொண்டிருந்தான். அன்றுதான் தேர்வு முடிவுகள் வெளியாகின்றன. காலையில் இருந்து ரிசல்ட் பயத்திலேயே உலாவிக் கொண்டிருந்தான். அவன் தந்தை வேறு 'ஒழுங்கா மதிப்பெண் வாங்கலைனா ஏதேனும் திருவிழாவிற்கு கூட்டிட்டு போய் தொலைச்சிடுவேன்' என்று மிரட்டி உள்ளார். அதனால் ஒரு கவலையுடனே தான் வீட்டில் இருந்து கிளம்பினான். பள்ளிக்கு அருகில் உள்ள பேப்பர் கடைக்கு சென்றான். அங்கு அவனது நண்பர்கள் அரட்டையடித்துக் கொண்டிருந்தனர்.யாரையும் கண்டுகொள்ளாமல் மெதுவாக ஒரு பேப்பரை வாங்கி கொண்டு தனது பதிவு எண்ணைத் தேடினான். ஆகா..! இதோ இருக்கு.. ஆனா என்ன...அவன் நண்பர்கள் பலரோட பேர் தான் விடுப்பட்டு போயிருந்தது. "பாவம் அவர்கள்" என்று நினைத்தபடி அவர்களருகே சென்று "என்னங்கடா, பாஸான என்னை விட பெயிலான நீங்க ஜாலியா இருக்கீங்க" என்றான். அனைவரும் பேசுவதை ஒரு கணம் நிறுத்தி விட்டு இவனைப் பார்த்து, இவனை பார்த்து நக்கல் சிரிப்பு சிரித்தனர். பாலாஜி சிரிப்பை அடக்கியபடி, "போய் மறுபடி சரியா பாருடா என்றான்". ஒரு கணம் திடுக்கிட்ட கோபால் மறுபடி சென்று செய்திதாளைப் பார்த்தான். அவனது எண்தான், சரியாகத்தான் இருந்தது. கம்பீரமாக தலை நிமிர்ந்த கோபாலுக்கு அதிர்ச்சிக் காத்திருந்தது. "தேர்வில் தவறியவர்கள் எண் என்ற தலைப்பில் இவனது எண் இருந்தது.ஒரு கணம் முறுக்கிய மீசையுடன் மிரட்டிய அப்பாவை எண்ணிப் பார்த்தான். ஒரு Full பாட்டில் விஸ்கி அடித்தமாதிரி இருந்தது.

நிலை தடுமாறி செய்வத்றியாது வீட்டிற்க்கு வெகு தொலைவில் உள்ள பூங்கா ஒன்றிற்கு சென்றான். தனது நிலையை எண்ணிப் பார்த்தான். அப்பா எப்படியும் செம காரமா திட்டித் தீர்த்திடுவார். அடிச்சாலும் ஆச்சரியம் இல்லை... அதுவானா பரவல்ல.. இந்த அம்மா மெகா சீரியல் மாதிரி சென்டிமென்டலா பேசியே ஒரு வழி பண்ணிடுவாங்க. இதை விட கொடுமை, அக்கம் பக்கத்துல என்னமோ அவங்கதான் என்னை படிக்க வைத்த மாதிரி, துக்கம் விசாரிப்பாங்க. இதெல்லாம் தேவையா... அதுக்கு பேசாம தற்கொலைப் பண்ணிக்கலாம். வாழ்ந்தால் மானத்தோட வாழனும்னு வள்ளுவர் ஏதோ ஒரு குறள்ல சொல்வாரே....அது என்ன?? ம்ம்.....'தோன்றின் புகழோடு..' அப்புறம் ஏதோ வருமே...''அடச்சே... இப்போ அதுதான் ரொம்ப முக்கியம்.... வாடா மச்சான் வயசுக்கு வந்துட்டே...கோட்டு அடிச்சு Suicide பண்ணிகிட்டே'....ஒரு புதிய தைரியத்துடன் மனம் அழைத்தது.. 'அதுதான் சரி...உதவாக்கரை என ஊரின் பழிச்சொல் கேட்பதற்கு தற்கொலையே மேல் - முடிவு செய்தான் கோபால்.

சரி எப்படி தற்கொலைப் பண்ணிக்கலாம் என்று யோசிக்க தொடங்கினான். 'பேசாம பேன்ல தூக்கு போட்டுக்கலாமா?' 'வேண்டாம்..வேண்டாம்.. நம்ம வெயிட் தாங்காம பேன் விழுந்துடுச்சுன்னா அப்பா கொன்னுடுவாரு'..'அப்போ பால்ல விஷத்தை கலந்து குடிக்கலாமா?'...'அய்யோ வேணவே வேணாம்..தப்பித் தவறி வேறு யாராவது அந்த பாலை குடிச்சிட்டாங்கன்னா முன்னே சொன்ன தூக்கை அரசே நமக்கு போட்டு விட்டுடும்..' 'கிணத்துல விழலாம்னா நமக்கு வேற நீச்சல் தெரியாது...'...'இவ்வாறு பலவறாக யோசித்த கோபாலது கண்ணில் தூரத்தில் தண்டவாளம் தெரிந்தது. காசு செலவழிக்காம இலவச தற்கொலைக்கு இரயில் தான் ஒரே வழி' என்று ஒரு வழியாக முடிவுக்கு வந்தான்.

மாலை ஆறு மணியாதலால் வானம் மெல்ல இருட்டத் தொடங்கியது. ஊருக்கு ஒதுக்குப்புறமாக இருந்ததால் அந்நேரம் அங்கு யாருமில்லை. இதுதான் சரியான சூழ்நிலை என்று கோபால் முடிவுக்கு வந்தான். சரியாக மணி 6:25 க்கு அந்த வழியாக திருச்சி ரெயில் வருவதை தினம் பார்த்து இருக்கிறான். 'நடடா தன்மான சிங்கமே! உன்னை உதாசீனபடுத்திய உலகை நீ உதாசீனபடுத்து" என்று மனம் ஊக்கமளிக்க தண்டவாளம் இருக்குமிடத்தை இருபது நிமிடங்களில் அடைந்தான்.

மணி 6:20. தண்டவாளத்தில் தலையை வைத்து உடலை குறுக்க கிடத்தி படுத்துக்கொண்டான். மனதுக்குள் எல்லா கடவுளையும் வேண்டிக்கொண்டான். இன்னும் 5 நிமிடம் தான். பின்னர் எல்லா தொல்லையில் இருந்தும் விடுதலை.

'ம்ம்ம்... எமலோகம் போன உடனே நமக்கு சொர்க்கம் கொடுப்பாங்களா இல்லை நரகம் கொடுப்பாங்களா?...சொர்க்கம் போனா அங்கே ரம்பை ஊர்வசி நாட்டியம் பார்க்க முடியுமா?"..."அது சரி, இப்போ ஏன் ரம்பா தமிழ் படத்திலே நடிக்கிறதில்லை??'......
'ரொம்ப முக்கியம்..போடாங்க.... கம்முன்னு கிட..யாரு நடிச்சா என்ன நடிக்கலைனா நமக்கென்ன?'...

மணி 6:22.. வெகு தொலைவில் இரயில் கடக்..கடக்..என்ற சத்தத்தோடு வருவதை உணர்ந்தான்.கோபாலது மனம் லேசாக படக்..படக்..கென்று அடித்துக் கொண்டது. ' இந்நேரம் நம்மளை காணாம அப்பாவும் அம்மாவும் கவலைப்படுவாங்களோ' ..'நல்லாக் கவலைப்படட்டும்...எவ்வளவு திட்டிருப்பாங்க....நல்லா வேணும்.' என நினைத்துக் கொண்டான். '

இன்னிக்கு என்ன கிழமை...அட இன்னிக்கு புதன் கிழமை..இன்றைய மெனு இட்லி சாம்பார் ஆச்சே...அம்மா நல்லா பூ போல இட்லி சுட்டு நெய் கலந்து தருவாங்களே..' நினைக்கும்பொதே நாவில் எச்சில் ஊறியது. 'ரிசல்ட் பயத்தில் காலையில் இருந்து ஒன்றும் சாப்பிடாததை வயிறு நினைவூட்டியது. 'அடப் போடா, மானஸ்தனுக்கு பசி எம்மாத்திரம்?' என சமாதானப்படு த்திக் கொண்டான். 'ம்ம்ம்.....' என்னதான் திட்டினாலும் பல நாள் அம்மா பாசத்துடன் ருசியாக ஊட்டியது ஞாபகத்திற்க்கு வந்து கண் லேசாக கலங்கியது. உடனே சுதாரித்துகொண்டான். 'டேய் கோபால், நீ இப்போ சாதாரண மனிதன் இல்லை, பொது வாழ்க்கைனு வந்துட்டா நோ சென்டிமென்ட்ஸ்..."

மணி இப்பொது 6:23... இரயிலின் கடக்..கடக் சத்தம் கொஞ்சம் அருகில் கேட்டது. கோபாலது மனம் படக்..படக்..கென்று அடித்தது. இரயில் தன் மேல் ஏறும்போது எப்படி இருக்கும் என்று நினைத்து பார்த்தான். ரொம்ப பயமாக இருந்தது. கண்களை இறுக மூடிக் கொண்டான். ஒரு முறை கதவிடுக்கில் தெரியாமல் அப்பா கதவை சாத்த தன் கை நசுங்கியது ஞாபகத்திற்கு வந்தது. அந்த ஒரு வாரம் அப்பா சரியாக சாப்பிடாமல் வருத்தப்பட்டுக் கொண்டிருந்ததும் நினைவிற்கு வந்தது. விரலுக்கே அப்படின்னா, இப்போ என்னாகுமோ..என்று நினைத்துக் கொண்டான். 'அது சரி...ஆனா அளவுக்கு மீறி திட்டுறதுனால தானே இந்த கோளாறு..' உடனே அவன் மனம், 'அட பைத்தியக்காரா, நீ நல்லாப் படிச்சா உங்கப்பாவிற்கா பணம் கொட்டப் போகுது..உன் நல்லதுக்குத் தானேடா எல்லாம்' என்றது.

இரயிலின் படக்..படக் ஓசை அருகாமையில் கேட்டது. 'என்ன இந்த மனசு இப்படி மாத்தி சொல்லுது..ஒரு வேளை நாம எடுத்த முடிவு தப்போ!.. சேச்சே...இருக்காது...அப்படியே அப்பா அம்மா திட்டறது பரவால்லேன்னாக் கூட, பத்தாவது பெயிலானதுக்கப்புறம் வாழ்ந்த நம்ம கவுரவம் என்னாகிறது. ஊர் உலகம் என்ன் சொல்லும்...இது மானம் காக்கும் செயலல்லவா...???' 'மண்ணாங்கட்டி...!!!' அவன் மனம் திட்டியது..'ஏன்டா புண்ணக்கு, இப்போ நீ செத்தா என்ன உடனே 'GOPAL PASSED 10th STANDARD'னு சொல்லிடுவாங்களா 'GOPAL PASSED AWAY'னு தான் சொல்வாங்கடா லூசு...தொடர்ந்து வாழ்ந்தாலாவது எப்படியாவது ஜெயிச்சு பேர் வாங்கலாம். செத்தா ஜென்மத்துக்கும் நீ பத்தாவது பெயில் தானேடா...' மனசு குத்தி காட்டியது.

'அடப் படுபாவி மனமே! பயந்தாங்கொள்ளியான என்னை ரேக்கி விட்டுட்டு இப்போ தத்துவம் பேசறியா...ம்ம்..ம்ம்..என் வாழ்க்கையிலே எல்லாமே எனக்கு கோளாறுதான்..' ' கோளாறு உன் வாழ்க்கைல இல்லேடா மரமண்டை..எண்ணத்துலேதான். எத்தனையோ பேரால் சாதிக்க முடியும்போது உன்னால மட்டும் ஏன் முடியாது?'... கோபால் 'ம்ம் ம்ம் இப்போ நல்லா அட்வைஸ் பண்ணு...புத்தருக்கு ஒரு போதி மரம் மாதிரி நமக்கு இந்த தண்டவாளம் போல..'

மணி 6:24 இரயிலின் கடக்..கடக்..ஓசை வெகு அருகில் கேட்டது.. கோபால் எழுந்திருக்க யத்தனித்தான். ஆனால் பயத்தில் அவன் கை கால்கள் அனைத்தும் அசைக்க முடியாமல் ஒட்டிக்கொண்டது. 'ஆண்டவா! இதற்குப் பெயர்தான் மரண பயமா? என்னை மன்னிச்சிடு இறைவா...என்னை காப்பாத்திட்டா கண்டிப்பாக உன் துணையுடன் வாழ்ந்து காட்டுவேன்.' என்று வேண்டிக் கொண்டான். ஆனால் என்ன செய்வது?. இரயில் கடக்..கடக்..என்றபடியே வேகமாக வெகு அருகில் வந்து கொண்டிருந்தது. அதை விட வேகமாக கோபாலது மனம் படக்..படக்..என்று அடித்தது.

இன்னும் சில நொடிகள் தான். 'கடக்..கடக்.கடக்...கடக்.கடக்..கடக்.....' எதன் மீதோ மோதுவது போன்ற உணர்வு கோபாலுக்கு ஏற்பட்டது. 'அட இவ்வளவு லேசா இருக்கே...நாம் இப்போ செத்துட்டோமா..... இல்ல நான் காண்பதென்ன கனவா...' குழம்பினான் கோபால்.... தனது பலத்தையெல்லாம் திரட்டி தலையை தூக்கிப் பார்த்தான். பக்கத்து தண்டவளத்தில் இரயில் வேகமாக திருச்சியை நோக்கிப் போய்க்கொண்டிருந்தது.... கடக்..கடக்..கடக்...கடக்...கடக்....

Mokkai Murali's take on Movies

2008-01-05T21:05:00.000+05:30

Mokkai #1

(Mokkai Murali and his friend were watching the movie Baasha in K-TV]

Mokkai murali : Do you know why in most of the Rajini films the villain's name is Antony?

Friend : huh...would there be any reason first of all?

Mokkai murali: yea man..there is a reason.... Rajini is the hero rite, so he is doing good... and the villain is bad, will be doing just opposite to him..so his name is Antony(m) meaning he will always do opposite to wat Rajini wud be doing

Friend : !@#$$%###

Mokkai #2

Mokkai murali and his friend were talking about Tamil films and tamil film stars

Mokkai murali : dei machan.. cinema field la Thala nu peru vachirukarathu yaaru

Friend : ada ppavi ithu theriyaatha... thala na Ajith da

Mokkai murali : appo thalapathi yaaru?

Friend : namma ilayathalapathy Vijay.... ennada..intha basic thing kooda theriyaliya unakku?

Mokkai murali : athu eppadi da... ajith Thala na... andha Thala ya Pathi ya (Husband) adainjathu Shalini thaane...appo nyayama partha Shalini thane Thala-Pathi :p

P.S: For those who wonder why I am not updating my blog can now understand how mokkai mood I am in rite now :D

"C"-Mukhi

2007-12-12T16:24:00.000+05:30

Hi all, Any one of u remember "C"-Mukhi, the spoof on Chandramukhi, something I had started writing longggggggg ago???... :)... It is entirely a dedication to my office folks who encouraged and cheered me a lot when I published it in our office bulletin board... I started posting "C"-Mukhi series way back in August 2005, started writing having something in mind, lost my way in the middle and was going nowhere beyond a certain point and left it unfinished... I gave it a new blog also at http://cmukhi.blogspot.com.. :) I tried to resume again in May 2006 with the hope of finishing it, but with no success... This time I am determined to finish it at last..:D, I am done with until the penultimate chapter...only the last chapter remains to be finished... What more apt time to resume it than on Rajini's birthday himself.. Happy Birthday to Rajini sir... :)

P.S : I have edited, made it crispier, trimmed certain scenes... So even if you had read it earlier, give another read :D

"C" - MUKHI

FOREWORD : Buoyed by the success of Chandramukhi, distributors and producers decides to remake this film in some other languages to cash in on this success. But since already Chandramukhi and other Rajini films had been remade in almost all languages, the producers are now left only with cyber languages like "C", "Java" etc., Since our Superstar is popular across all languages , they decide to try in computer languages too. Hence Chandramukhi is remade as C-Mukhi with certain scenes from Rajini's earlier films also lifted here and there.

(i) PART I - INTRO OF SUPER STAR

(ii) PART II - HISTORY OF CHANDRAMUKHI

(iii) PART III - RAJINI vs NEELA

(iv) PART IV - LAUNCH OF VTPR S/W COMPANY

(v) PART V - RAJINI'S ADVICE TO S/W ENGINEERS

(vi) PART VI - NAYANTARA FIGHTS AND FALLS LOVE WITH RAJINI

(vii) PART VII - RAJINI Vs ANTONY

(viii) PART - VIII - ENTRY OF CHANDRAMUKHI AND PROBLEMS APLENTY FOR VTPRSOFT

(ix) PART -IX- RAJINI TAKES ON CHANDRAMUKHI

PART - I - INTRO OF SUPERSTAR

S U P E R S T A R
R A J I N I

As per the practice the above words flash with the usual Theme music. (Whistles puhleeeeeeeeese)

Scene - 1

IT village,Siruseri, Chennai.

The camera flashes at the sign board of the company which read "VTPR Web Technologies". The company wore a deserted look. The doors of this World Wide Web technologies company were locked and upon the ceiling one could see a company wide web, woven by some spiders. It had been 2 months since the company's top management decided to close the operations temporarily and sell the shares of the company . But why would anyone think of selling a profit making company? Thatz a secret...shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh........Come on, let's go inside the room. The door opens (Graphic Effects) and the camera takes us into each of the rooms. Inside one dark room, suddenly a PC switches on automatically and shows up some fearful screensavers with terrorizing musical effects. (Scene ends)

Scene-2 opens with a light music

Prabhu was driving a car. His mobile ringed and he attended the call. At the other end was his P.A, Mr. Thyagu. "Sir, as u desired, I had successfully completed the dealing. VTPR Software Company would be merging with us soon. We had got 75% stake in the company". Prabhu smiled. "Wow, That was a real good news Thyagu. My Jyo would be very happy to hear this news. She was the one who advised me to take over this software company". A delightful Prabhu switched off the call and the scene ends.

3rd Scene opens

"ABCD" Software company in Ekkaduthangal, Guindy. All employees were busy working on a Friday morning. Jyothika a.k.a Joe was one among them. You could hear typing sound everywhere which should imply people were busy working. The company’s Senior Project Manager Neelambari was also busy with her daily work, i.e playing NFS IV in her system. Things were going smoothly, when suddenly a group of testing people, Ravi, Ramu and Suresh, came running into Neelambari’s cabin. As Neela did not expect this, she lost control over the car she was driving and was pushed to second place in the game. She got irritated and shouted at them. "Don’t you folks have any manners? Is this the way to come to a PM's cabin?..... Tell me, what is the fuss all about?" One of them replied, "Sorry Madam, we just found a major bug in the Banking project that threw a javascript error. Thatz why we rushed to inform you...." Ravi promptly reproduced the bug at Neela's machine. Neela's face grew red in anger upon seeing the bug. "O.K, so track down the bug immediately and fix it at once." Jyotika, whose cubicle was next to Neelambari's, came running to her place, and hold Neela's hands, pleading to her "Maa'm… How would the testing team know about the error or where to fix… Please dont ask them to tamper with the code, I had written. The bug they refer might have caused due to other reasons and not because of the code… Allow me to debug the code, Please..". Before she could stop, Neela slapped jyotika. "Afterall you are a software engineer working under me and you dare to advice me", she shouted and turned to the Testers and said, "What are you waiting for?. Go and do necessary code changes to fix the bug".

So the testers sat down at Neela's system and debugged the application to find out why the bug was occurring. After some time, Ravi says, "Madam, the bug is likely due to this particular function in the security module. If I comment the line that calls the function, the bug does not recur"… Neelambari thought for a while and then responded "Go ahead, either delete the function or delete the line that calls the function… I just want the application to work without errors and give an impression to client that all is well with our product". The testers hesitate, "Maa'm this is legacy code. It had been part of previous releases also and worked without errors.. If we break this, it might lead to other problems also." Neelambari shouts, "I don’t care about all that... Just go ahead and do what i say".

So suresh proceeded to delete a piece of code which he thought would have caused the bug. Jyothika who was witnessing all these incidents happening was sincerely praying that the code change should not happen. Afterall, it was she who coded that module, slogging in the nights, weekends to complete it. As Suresh was about to press the DEL button, a hand grabbed Suresh's hand and pushed it away. An Intro music with heavy beats started playing. The hand took the network cable that was lying in the floor and fixed it in the server machine that was hosting the database. Apparently it was unplugged while Neelambari was busy playing NFS. The bug did not recur when it was rerun. As the camera moves from his hand to the face we find it was none other than our Superstar Rajini. He flashed a smile into the webcam at the audiences (whistles and claps) and bang, started the intro song.

[ Tune : Padaiyappa starting tune...]

"Work hard and go to onsite..........
Already onsite? (then) work for ur sight*...."

*sight - one's boy friend or girl friend (in Tanglish)

A brief pause and there was silence everywhere. Superstar waited for somebody to ask "who are you man?" so that he could continue the song. But everybody seemed to know our superstar and hence nobody asked anything. At that moment in some other room an interview was taking place and interviewer was asking the candidate. "Tell the simplest form of datastructure in C"

[ Rajini leaves Padaiyappa tune in the middle and picked Devuda Devuda tune]

"Array...Array....Array...Array" [Tune : Devuda Devuda tune]
"Chicago, Florida,
Software means India..
Java or .NET
we are the king yaar....
English is stronger
We can work longer..
You please continue outsourcing..
(chorus -- REPEAAAATU)

knowledge - vast (u)
less is our cost (u)
We are the IT super power
(chorus -- Sabashuuu)
Intro song ended thus and Rajini went to meet Jyothika .

A visibly peeved Neela who was waiting for the song to finish, started to shout at Jyothika now, realizing Rajini had come to meet Jyotika......... "How many mails do u need me to send reminding the guidelines regarding Personal visitors. Dont u know that Visitors should not be allowed to enter office premises at all...Where is that security", she called out for security "Security....Security.." . Rajini stopped her, "Relax Relax...Neela, why are u getting so angry.. I am not a visitor, I am the Network security expert coming at the behest of ur company chairman for consulting on ur company’s network issues. Here is my visiting card". Neela glanced at the visiting card and realized what Rajini said was indeed true.

Rajini continued, "Why were u getting too much irritated, For a Project Manager, commitment can be there, but not commotion , pressure can be there, not panic, should know to talk soft, not shout like this........ On a whole a manager should be a manager and not a damager. You know one thing? A Faulty Design document is the root cause for all Bugs. One should know how to control it. Otherwise the project would be a big failure. Good Bye!!!..Rajini started to leave the place but turns once again (Whiskkk..... special effect)

LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST!! ... A Highly tensioned Project Manager or a lengthy coding Programmer can never be able to complete a project successfully". Whissshkkkk, Rajini salutes in his own style and leaves the place amidst a roaring BGM. Jyothika also used this opportunity to escape the place and they both met at the Food Court.

(At the food court)
Jyothika : Hey Rajini, it was a surprise to see u here today. We tried to reach your mobile yesterday but could not get you.. How you came here at the right time?

Rajini : hahaha... (laughs and turns to the monitor and tells), When I come, how I come, nobody can guess, but whenever needed I would be right there".

Jyothika : OK OK, I know, Prabhu would have sms-ed you about the new venture we are upto.

Rajini : yeah yeah, i got his message.I have come to help you to set up the new office. I have a small work to be completed here, let's go to Siruseri today evening. Prabhu too would be there at that time

Jyothika : Anyway, Thank god u saved my code, otherwise they would have spoiled my entire work

PART - II - HISTORY OF CHANDRAMUKHI

Evening time..Prabhu, Jyothika and Rajini arrived in a car to inspect their newly acquired office, VTPR Software company. Since the doors were locked, Rajini went to the security cabin and asked for the key from the Chief Security, Vijayakumar. Vijayakumar inquired why he needed the key. Rajini informed him that Prabhu had acquired the company and soon he would resume the operations at VTPR Software Company. Vijayakumar was shocked. "VTPR Company???.......... you mean you had bought that one". Rajini "Yea yea..u are right...Whatz the matter?". Vijayakumar replied "Sir, that company is haunted. ".

All of them were surprised. "What do you mean" asked a puzzled Prabhu. Vijayakumar continued "yes sir, that company is haunted by some bio virus. Dont you see that company remaining locked for months. There is a story behind it. ". Vijayakumar started narrating the story of the mystery behind the VTPR software company.

"This is a MNC company which had its corporate head office at US. Some years ago, Mr.Raja was appointed Divisional Manager for Chennai office. Raja was a good administrator and an excellent manager. The company's profit increased multi fold under him and the company was getting some plum projects from major US companies.. While looking for a C resource, Raja came to know of one talented girl called Chandramukhi…who came first place in the World level conference of Programmers held two years ago. She was just brilliant when it comes to 'C' and PERL programming. If she started coding in C, one can watch it the entire day, (the complexity of the code, very hard to understand for any others). Raja wanted to employ Chandramukhi in our company, who he thought would be the best resource for a high risk project we got. But she was already working for GSKRN software company though at a lower pay. Raja tried all his tricks to get Chandramukhi in our company but Chandramukhi was steadfast in her decision.

Finally Raja pressurized the consultancy through which Chandramukhi got into her company and made her join VTPR software company. Chandramukhi was unhappy, but unable to do much about that, she started working here. At nights she would stay in the company, secretly doing coding for her old company and send it through internet to them. Raja found it one day when he was analyzing why there were so many Night Taxi requisitions from Chandramukhi. He called the old Project Manager of Chandramukhi, Mr.Sekaran to his company, and in front of Chandramukhi he made the MD of GSKRN company dismiss Sekaran. Chandramukhi was also fired from VTPR Company and both of their names were blacklisted so that they would not be able to join in any other software company. The project that Chandramukhi was involved in here was dropped and her computer, in which the entire code she had written was locked and shifted to the godown. Soon after this incident Raja went onsite, But those who were working here began to get affected by many problems, frequent virus attack, hacking attack etc., It was rumored that Chandramukhi, as a measure of revenge, had employed some black magic here and the employees working in that company or the computers there would be get affected. It was beginning to show, as almost everyone encountered some or other serious problems in their official and personal life. Gradually, the employees shifted to other companies, and hence the head office was forced to shut down its operations in Chennai. The black magic of Chandramukhi was still haunting the company. It could cause problems to anybody who enters this office".
Vijayakumar finished this lengthyyyy flashback as Rajini and Prabhu completed another yawn. But Jyothika was keenly listening to this story.........

Jyothika patted on Prabhu’s shoulder… "Hey Prabhu…. wake up. The flashback is over. Come lets go inside. See him (Rajini), how nicely he is pretending to listen to the story, yet day dreaming. Wake him up also..." She turned to vijayakumar, Sir your story was very nice, but now please give the keys, we need to go inside"

Vijayakumar shrugged his shoulders. "O.K it is up to you to believe or not. Whatever I said were true to the best of my knowledge... " Rajini interrupted, "Ok ok Vijay, cool down, Now don’t start writing resumes with declaration statement. letz go inside dude" Vijayakumar accompanied them with the keys, as they went inside the company. There were dusts all around the place. All the systems wore a dirty look. It seemed as if the place was abandoned for years. Rajini went through all the rooms including the room where Chandramukhi’s condemned system was kept.

Prabhu : The company interior is fine except for the dusts and dirt all around. I think once we clean this place would look great. (turns to Vijayakumar) Sir , can you please arrange for people to clean this place, We would be occupying this by the end of this Aadi** month

[Aadi * - Tamil month, considered generally inauspicious for any new events, occasions such as marriage, house warming etc.,]

[Vijayakumar looks unhappy]
Vijayakumar : Sir, so you have decided to occupy this place. Isn’t it? I think you would have got this company at Aadi special discount price. Havent u read papers regarding the frauds related to Aadi purchase?

Rajini : ok ok vijay. Cool down. Do what Prabhu says. Come on Prabhu let’s go. I think Joe has to slog today in office. Is it not Joe? So let’s hurry

Prabhu : Hey jyo, have u put urur papers at your office?

Jyo : Not yet, I would do that on Monday pa.

And so they leave the place..But none of them noticed Vijayakumar's eyes as it turned devilish for a moment and then returned to normal…

PART - III - RAJINI vs NEELA

Let us take a break from the story and get to know something about Prabhu – Jyothika ‘s flash back for a moment.

Both Prabhu and Jyothika were software engineers working in different companies. Jyothika as u know was working for ABCD company while Prabhu was working in XYZ company. XYZ company was a client to ABCD Company and had been outsourcing some of its works to ABCD. Once when Jyothika was on a visit to XYZ company for deploying their application, she also deployed her heart into Prabhu’s. Inspite of both working in Software companies for a number of years, without proper planning, they decided to get married as soon as they fell in love. Only after marriage they came to realize the problems that could be faced by a software couple, especially when they were working in different companies. In order to solve some of those problems, Jyothika proposed an idea to start their own firm for a better future.... Prabhu accepted that idea and hence with the help of his influential father, he bought stakes in VTPR Software Company and owned it. Rajini was their family friend and a leading network specialist graduated from Massachusettes Institute of Technology (MIT) in America. He was an Independent Network security consultant for many leading companies including ABCD Software Company. His job was to give consultation and ideas regarding network setup, educate network administrators of the company for a stable and secure network and help them related to network issues. Neela , the other character we had seen, was a Sr. Manager in ABCD Software company. Being the daughter of the company’s CEO , her position , was definitely not a hard earned one.

Location : ABCD Software company, Monday Evening

Rajini, scheduled to work in night shift, walked in to office at 6 pm, just as Neela was coming out for the day.

Neela : Hey Rajini, I would like to have few words with you

Rajini : Oh sure, what is the matter

Neela : Rajini, you are very lucky.

Rajini : (confused) : Why?

Neela : I myself am admiring u la, thatz why....

Rajini: (Smilingly.) Oh!!!..

Neela : Looking at our company’s market value, salary figures, many ppl, more talented and experienced than you, have applied for the prestigious Sr.Network Admin position. Not only from Chennai but also from US and UK. But I don’t want to take any one of them. Our company needs a Network Admin like you. I went through your career profile and was very much impressed. People told me, somewhere in our earlier part of our career when we were juniors, without knowing each other, we had worked together in a project. I don’t remember all that. In the rapidly changing IT field, only back up admins would be storing the old data.
(Rajini smiled as Neela continued)

Neela : I don’t know why…When you swiftly found out the problem the other day, when everyone of us were thinking it is a software bug, I liked your ability to think quickly.. When you stepped into help for Jyo, I liked ur team spirit, When you took the responsibility in your hand and argued on behalf of other employees, I liked your leadership skills, When u dared to talk straightly to me and even advised me, I liked your communication skills. Above all I liked the enthu with which you fix the problems. Five characters.. These five characters had impressed me a lot. (Pauses and then continues)
I want everything best for our company. From the security we employ at the gate to the software to secure the network I want everything as best. You are one and the best. Having a productive guy like you in our company, we can proudly show to our clients abroad about what we can do. I would like to have you as Sr.Network Administrator working full time for our company. Now tell , aren’t u lucky. Even I am appreciating you. Come and collect your offer letter from my dad tomorrow. Probably you would feel shy. I would get the offer letter for you and get it to you tomorrow. O.k? Good boy..

Neela started to leave, saying this. Rajini waited for a moment, then clapped his hand and called "Maa’m.". Neela stopped and waited.

"Just a minute.", Rajini said and walked stylishly towards her.

Neela : What?

Rajini: (softly but firmly) You had told about your wish. Havent asked me yet? (pause) I don’t want to join your company as Network Admin…

Neela was shocked as she dropped her company ID down which swiped her out. Just as her card swiped off, a smiling Rajini take out his employee ID and swipes in (BGM and this action is done in a slight slow motion)

Rajini: (smiled and continued) You want a productive employee for your company….. I want a productive company as my employer (in terms of salary). Your company….is not one such.

Neela gets angry and frustrated.

Neela : you don’t know about our company. If we plan to employ one we will go to any levels to hire them.

Rajini : (laughs) Babe.., you had listed my 5 characters. I have another character too. Sixth character. This Rajini’s sixth character. Don’t try to see that. You would feel sorry for that.

Neela : Rajiniiiii...

Rajini : You don’t know about me. My Network........... Isolated Network........ Never try to breach it.

Neela : Can I ask you if you are planning to join any other company for full time

Rajini went near her, and said Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. and walked into the office.

An upset neela grumbled "Having rejected my offer, let’s see how you or the company you are gonna join survive".

PART - IV - LAUNCH OF VTPR S/W COMPANY

[ A month later.... At the launch of VTPR Software Company rechristened as VTPRSoft. Only close associates were invited to this simple celebration of the launch.. Jyo’s PM Neela and her father, the MD, were called as special invitees. Jyo and Prabhu welcomed them with glee. ]

Jyo : Welcome madam, it is a real pleasure to have you here with us. Please make urself comfortable inside.

[ Neela and her father went inside]

Prabhu ( to jyo) : Hey, Why did u ask them to make themselves comfortable. What would you do if they go and take a nap at the Duroflex cot in the guest room.

Jyo : Oh c'mon prabhu, Don’t be stupid!! Go and serve them drinks….

Prabhu: O.K leave it. Have u collected all the documents pertaining to your work in her company? Hope that doesn’t become a problem

Jyo : oh never prabhu.... All formalities has been completed, Neela had assured she would get me the papers latest by the End of this week.

[Just then Rajini arrived in his own style]

Jyo : Hello Rajini, We had been expecting you for so long. And you come so late (shows false anger)

Rajini (turns towards the monitor) : I may be a late fix, but I am always a hot fix.

Prabhu : you just keep delivering dialogues. Those who were lesser talented and popular than you, had planned in advance and had started their own organization. But you are still lagging behind.

Rajini : Ha ha ha. Some ppl code by example (searching from Google etc.,)…. But I always lead by example…. I don’t follow others…… OK that much for the punch…now shall we go inside?

[ Everyone went inside the company, The Formal inauguration got underway]

M.D (of Jyo’s company) : Hey Jyo. You and your hubby can make this new venture a grand success. Good Luck (shakes hands with Jyo)

Jyo : Thanks a lot sir.

[ Neela and MD were about to leave just as Jyo calls Neela ]

Jyo : Maa’m ....

Neela : Yes, Jyo, tell me whatz the matter?

Jyo : Regarding my relieving order and other documents...

Neela : (smiles...) hmm...yes Jyo, I had forgotten to tell that. To honor your commitment and long standing service to our company, we had arranged a grand farewell at our office tomorrow. You must attend that. Rajini, you are welcome too there… I would get your documents at the end of the function, Jyo.

Jyo : oh thanks a lot maa’m. But why all these fanfare?

Neela : [with a cunning smile] oh you deserve it Jyo. I wanted to hold a function for you. You are a marvel. You are a treasure…

[ Neela continued as Rajini stopped her ]

Rajini : Wait maa’m wait. Why are u praising unnecessarily… Tell our good things during Appraisal meeting, tell our problems in a personal meeting…

[ A visibly annoyed Neela walks away ]

Prabhu : Why did you stop her Rajini?

Rajini : Kanna, always understand . If somebody praises someone at their face, it means they are planning a ditch for them.

Prabhu : So do you think she is planning something against us tomorrow?

Rajini : Ha ha ha . Let us wait and see.

PART - V - RAJINI'S ADVICE TO S/W ENGINEERS

[ Next day evening at Neela's office ]

A grand farewell was arranged at the Office. Keeping in with the office custom, the party started with a song sequence

(Tune : Ra..Ra. ramaiyah)

As Computer first sang in Java language, a singer translated it in plain English

[computer] Public final ContentMarkupLanguage HTML;
[singer]Only one HTML - All around the Web
[computer] Public final float SalaryHike;
[singer]Only one Salary Hike - Around the year
[computer]Public final SuperStar Rajini;
[singer]Only One Super star for the entire world........
Only....... One....... Super star for the entire world........
After some drum beats, Rajini enters the scene singing
E..E... E.... Engineer.......
Four phases in your software career.
Listen here, E..E....E.... Engineer
Four phases in your software Career...
Four phases in software career,
Which phase you are in now, think Dear,

[ E..E..Eee Engineer....]
In the First phase, you will be put into training,
Boring lectures will leave ur mind draining,

Second phase , you will start to test or fixing,
Slogging for a dumb work, will be taxing,

Third phase , you will take up management and team leading,
Slowly you would realize, that ur IT skills are fading,

Fourth phase will be when u realize, this life is boring,
But u wud never dare to escape it, with money pouring.

Four phases in software career,
Which phase you are in now, think dear.......
Listen here E..E..E.... Engineer
Four phases in software career.

As the song ends, they hear a huge explosion. System Engineer Naren came running

Neela : naren, What happened?

Naren : Nothing maa’m. Jyothika’s system crashed.

Neela : oh, but it sounded like the World Trade Center crashing.?

Naren : Since jyo has not switched off her system for decades , the motherboard got overheated and the harddisk got burnt. Luckily for us, except for the hard disk and the data in it, other parts of the PC are not much damaged…

Neela : Oh, I see (turning to Jyo) What jyo, All the tasks assigned to you was in that system only rite? You are yet to finish some tasks and I noted that you have not checked in the code to the server machine too.

Jyo (worried) : Yes maa’m. But a system crash is not my fault

Neela : We had sent so many mails requesting you ppl to switch off the systems atleast once in a week. You had never listened… and since you always kept it on, even the auto update and system back up could not happen correctly…. Now you see the result of all those negligence….a system crash…

Jyo : But..but….

Neela : (with a wicked smile) Never mind, take your own time, complete the pending tasks assigned to you and then collect your documents

Jyo : Maa’m pleaseeee. I need to start the work in our company tomorrow.

Neela : (smilingly) I can do nothing about that dear. This is company rules…….

Jyo starts crying. To redo all the pending tasks that went with the crash would definitely take another 2 months. Every employee in the gathering felt sorry for jyo. They knew this was Neela’s handwork. Rajini pacified Jyo…

Rajini : Hey jyo, cool, why do u cry. Just wait and see

Smilingly Rajini walked towards Jyothika’s system, Build up music started

Come on, Come on
Yeah Come on,
Hey Come on, Come on…… , Yo!!!!!
I am back to explore, Give the comp, give a few minutes now,

S.A (System admin) thatz what they say
C to the C to the N to the A
S.A thatz what they say…

Yo, I am about to service,
Here I come, I work without any fees

[Rajini reaches near the system. Switches on the system after replacing the hard disk in his system with that of the one in Jyothika’s system ]

Yo ! I am about to login,
For the justice I will win,

Can you stop me you cannot
I’m the admin and you are not

Do you expect me to be here?
Lemme tell u that none has to fear,

I am a magical man,oh yeah
I am a man on the machine with a mission as I have clear vision,
Well, they try to make the system work

The name is S.A , yeah thatz me
The name is S.A , yeaaaaaah thatz me...............

To everyone’s surprise, the hard disk Rajini replaced actually contained all of Jyothika’s data in perfect condition. Jyo could not believe her eyes. Tears were rolling from eyes and she could not utter a word. Neela on the other hand was shocked.

Rajini : (victorious smile) Ha ha ha, This is the actual hard disk of Jyothika’s machine and the one that got crashed was the duplicate hard disk I replaced yesterday in this machine

Neela turned towards the junior programmer Madhu with anger

Rajini : ha ha Neela, why are you looking at Madhu. I will narrate, whatever that happened yesterday

[ FLASH BACK ] Time : Yesterday night

Madhu was returning from Neela’s room all smiles. She straightly went to Jyothika’s system and logged into it, with Jyo’s user id and password. Madhavi her fellow colleague came up there..

Madhavi : Hey madhu, what are u doing yaar, in Jyo’s system? Are u gonna take over this system after Jyo leaves?

Madhu : haha no no, I am going to install this Trojan in Jyo’s machine that would screw up her machine leading to a system crash.

Madhavi (shocked) But why?

Madhu : Mhmm.. Neela madam wants to hold Jyo’s resignation so as to distrupt their new company’s operations. This is the only way by which we can hold her back legally.

Madhavi : But but Jyo is our good friend, she had helped us a lot during critical times and guided us when we entered as freshers.

Madhu : haha, But you know in a Corporate life, ppl will accept you as a professional only when you are selfish and think only about ur growth..... And I am a true Professional. Madam assured me that I would get an onsite opportunity and a good hike during the next quarter..

Madhu inserted the CD containing the malicious software in Jyo’s PC and told Madhavi, Come on Let us crash Jyo’s system now.

[ At the moment, they both hear a clap sound. Rajini was coming down the stairs]
Rajini : Lets crash..yea Let’s crash [smiles]
System ah crash panratha kashtam??, athai recover panrathu than kashtam…
Code la bug kandupidikkaratha kashtam?? Athai fix panrathu than kashtam…
PC la virus podaratha kashtam?? Antha virus ah remove panrathu than kashtam…
Hacker irukkara idathu la laam, oru System admin um iruppan ma [ Saying this, Rajini dives in air and lands near Madhu]
[Both were shocked]

Madhavi : Sorry Rajini, I am very sorry. Only Madhu was trying to do something silly.

Rajini [gets angry] : To get an Onsite opportunity or a salary hike, there are 1000 ways, 1000 places, Please don’t do it at the expense of your colleague.

[Madhu immediately changes heart]

Madhu : I am very very sorry for my behavior. I will never repeat this. Kindly forgive me

Rajini : O.K, get Jyo’s hard disk to me and replace it with this faulty one…. (hands over a hard disk to Madhu) Now go ahead installing the software that Neela gave u.

Madhu : Yes pa

[ END FLASH BACK ]

Rajini : (victorious smile) Ha ha ha I hope, now there is no problem in getting Jyo’s documents rite?
[ A heavy BGM is played in the back as an apparently fuming Neela handed over the documents and papers to Jyothika. They both left the Office]

PART - VI - NAYANTARA FIGHTS AND THEN LOVES RAJINI

(Few months later)
[Location : VTPRSoft Office]

Business at VTPRSoft had been smooth and steady. With the expertise of Rajini and the management skills of Prabhu combined with diligence of Jyothika, the company was doing enormously well. Also the recruitment had yielded some best talents for the company. Within few months after resuming its operations, VTPRSoft earned a good reputation as service oriented company. Owing to Rajini’s efforts, the US Software giant MilliSoft certified VTPRSoft as its most valuable partner and made VTPRSoft as the official Testing center for all of their software products that were outsourced to the Indian vendors.

Watchman Vijayakumar’s daughter Nayantara was made the receptionist for the company. Even though she did not like them, as they occupied this building much against her father’s wishes, she took the job, since she had no other job.

Vijayakumar once arranged for a special lunch for Rajini, Prabhu and Jyo at his home. Nayantara was assigned the task of getting the menu for the same.. When she inquired them about their food preferences, Jyothika and Rajini chose vegetarian, while Prabhu who had a liking for variety in foods replied

"Nirpathuve, Nadappathuve, Parappathuve neengalellam thinner thaane, en veetin dinner thaane, "

,implying he would eat any kind of living being. Nayantara realized that Prabhu could turn out to be a threat to animal kingdom in Siruseri, and so immediately chased away all the birds and animals that were roaming in the nearby vicinity,

" Kokku para para
Kozhi para para
Mynah para para
Mayilae Para.."

Her hatred for them increased but nevertheless she decided to maintain silence and was doing her work sincerely.

One day Morning, Rajini was going through the company’s Bulletin Board hosted on their Intranet for a technical doubt. Since he could not find any help in any of the forums, he was browsing through other forums. He was surprised to see all the forums except the Sports forum, inactive. There was a huge discussion going on in the Sports forum as to whether Sachin or Lara was the best ever player. Most of the postings were from Nayantara and she was posting all technical, statistical and personal failures of Sachin in comparison with Lara. Rajini got very much irritated over whatever that was going on, and he asked the moderator to delete all the posts immediately in the Sports forum and disallow any further activity there.
After some time, a visibly angered Nayantara came to Rajini’s room.
Rajini ( coolly) : Hey ten thara

Nayan (angrily) : Nayanthara....

Rajini : yeah yeah nayanthara... watz the matter

Nayan : Why did you block access to Sports forum

Rajini : Ha ha ha, you are supposed to be a receptionist and not a sports columnist.

Nayan : What do u know about cricket or any other sports? You know only about coding, networking blah blah. You know I had been a cricket captain in my college women’s team.

Rajini : Haan….

Nayan (Embarassed ) : You can only block acc...acccess to the sports forum...(stutters) but..but..you cant block my spo..spo...sports knowledge.........

Saying this Nayanthara walks away angrily from the room. After moments of silence, Rajini started singing at her ( no no not athinthom song , he is a national hero boss :), so he sang in a hindi tune :) ).

[ Tune : Yeh Tara woh Tara from Swades]
Yeh Tara Woh tara, Nayanthara,
Cricket se, dekho, mein brian lara
Yeh tara woh tara Nayanthara
Cricket se, dekho, mein brian lara

woh young days le,
simply superb i play!!
have to see my batting skills u tara.........
Batting, bowling, all I do, and win too, do u know tharaa tharaa…….

Everybody in the office joined the dance too… Nayantara came to know that Super star had been a good cricketer and also one whom John Wright and Greg Chappell consulted for some technical methods in batting and fielding setup. She felt bad about mistaking Rajini and also realized in Tamil films no one can be and is allowed to be more talented than the hero. Hence as per Tamil cinema Grammar, Nayantara immediately fell in love with Rajini.

Rajini : hahaha, Remember, a bulletin board shud not be used as a bullet board to hurt others’ feelings and thatz precisely why we blocked the access. I hope you would have understood. Go ahead, the access would return.
[A happy Nayantara returned to her cabin]

PART - VII - RAJINI Vs ANTONY

[Few days later]
A tensed Prabhu rushes into Rajini’s cabin.

Rajini : Hey Prabhu, why do u have to look so serious and tensed like V.V.S.Laxman?. I didn’t say you will not be included in the next match, did I?

Prabhu : Oh come on Rajini, we have got a serious problem

Rajini : What is it?

Prabhu : We had been testing the software product by Antony Software Technologies as per our contract with MilliSoft rite? The company chairman Mr.Antony is on the line now. He is warning us to close the bugs that we have logged into Millisoft’s defect tracker for their product… otherwise…

Rajini : otherwise?

Prabhu : Otherwise, he would influence Millisoft’s top management to break our contract with them. Antony Software Technologies is a 10 year old company and had been the partners of Millisoft for more than 5 years now. Antony personally knows most of the top management guys there at MilliSoft. Thatz why I am more worried. What should I reply to him?

Rajini : hahaha, don’t worry. I will take care of the issue. It is lunch time na. You go and have ur lunch..

Prabhu : So soon eh? Just now I had my breakfast. I will have it after an hour or so. Now I am having snakes

Rajini : (terrified) : What?????

Prabhu : snakes you don’t know? the chips, biscuits, cakes stuff…

Rajini : oh snacks ah ? o.k o.k you continue having it. I would take care of this problem.

[Prabhu left the place]

Rajini : Antony…………

[Antony immediately recognizes Rajini’s voice. Rajini had been Antony’s arch rival for years.]

Antony : waare wah Rajini…………. So was it my old friend who logged in so many defects against our name

Rajini : Hey hey hey , don’t see the defect count ah, see the effects on client.

Antony: Don’t teach software management to me. You are a kid in the software business. I had been running a company for 10 years now. If you find defects, do you think you are a big Tester?

[Rajini just smiled]

Antony : (continues) Defects kandupidikkaravan ellam Tester aagida mudiyaathu. Just tell me whether you will close the defects or not.

Rajini : Sure, I will give u 7 days time. You fix all the reported bugs, I would close the defects in the defect tracker.

Antony : [in angry tone] Haaaa, you are setting time to me is it?, OK, I will close… I will close your chapter and your company contracts with Millisoft within the same 7 days time u gave………..

[Saying this, Antony angrily disconnects the phone]

(the next few days)

Scene : Antony and his team hacks into Millisoft Defect tracker and changes the status of the bugs

[Flash] Somebody takes a picture of it

Prabhu comes and tell to Rajini "Antony is hacking into Millisoft’s Defect Tracking system"

Rajini : Let him hack

Scene : Antony bribes a VTPRSoft employee to get the contract documents pertaining to this project.

[Flash] Somebody takes a picture of it

Jyo rushes to tell Rajini, "Antony has got a copy of our official document"

Rajini : Let him have that

[ After a week]

Antony called up Rajini

Rajini : Hello, VTPR Soft

Antony : Antony……… Marc Antony…… You had given me 7 days time to finish off the bugs rite. I have taken enough steps to finish off your company as a whole.

Rajini : Ha ha ha…. Kanna, If there is a PC in front of you, just read the latest E-mail from MilliSoft,.

A shocked Antony logs into his PC, and read the E-mail that he had just received from MilliSoft. MilliSoft’s Vice president for Asian operations have sent a mail that read "We are sorry to inform that our agreement stands cancelled in view of your fraudulent activities’" and attached were photos that showed Antony bribing VTPRSoft’s employee and him hacking into Millisoft’s website.

An angry Antony kicks the monitor infront of him………. Rajiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

Rajini : Ha ha ha, Yeah yeah yeah Rajini………….. Super Star Rajini………….. Enna sonne Enna sonne?
Defects kandupidikkaravanga ellam Testers aaga mudiyathu nu you told la . yea, quite true, ... Defects kandupidikkaravanga ellorum Testers aagida mudiyaathu…. Aana ithellam naanga kashtapattu kandupidicha bugs illa…unga defective code nala thana vantha bugs… … This is not a minor bug. High severity bug. We can do nothing about this.

Antony grumbled and moaned as Rajini continued

Rajini : hey hey hey……. GOD will give so many compiler errors to a good programmer... But he will make the code pass UAT successfully with zero defects...For bad programmer’s code might seem to run perfectly in offshore environment. But during UAT, GOD will make the bad code fail miserably. Your code(points at Anthony) will fail in UAT phase…. Try to correct it…..

[ A dejected antony hangs up the phone... But since Rajini was the one who called, the connection is still active, After a few minutes silence, due to rajini's magic, automatically the speaker turns on in Antony’s phone. Rajini delivers a punch line ]

Ennai pathi theriyum la "Intha Rajini oru idathula code change senja............... 100 bugs fix panna maathiri......" (Sshhk sshk sound..)

(BGM followed by Rajini disconnecting the phone)

PART - VIII - ENTRY OF CHANDRAMUKHI AND PROBLEMS FOR VTPRSOFT

On a fine Monday morning, Prabhu calls Rajini at his cabin and informs him about "Hey Rajini, you’ve got a mail from a top US company to solve a technical problem. Seems like you need to go there immediately".

Rajini feels peeved, not because he had to leave to US immediately, but, wat the hell, how could Prabu login into his official email account and check his mails without his knowledge.

Rajini : Prabhu, this is too much, I think you are crossing your limits, how can you peep into my mails?

Prabhu (replies with a smile): well… Monday morning, I didn’t feel like working at all..Yesterday when u logged in my system and checked ur mail, you had set the option for remember password rite, so I was able to check ur mails :D. Hey come on, this is how it happens in the original Chandramukhi also. After all Remakes shud not deviate much from the original

Rajini got irked, but knowing that this guy Prabhu can never be changed, so he left the issue there and started to leave for the immediate Onsite assignment. So he bid good bye to everyone in the office including his love Nayanthara.. "Any problem one SMS, Rajini will be right there", Saying this Rajini signed off in style

Business continued as usual at VTPRSoft with Prabhu and Jyo effectively managing the office. As Rajini and Prabhu had instructed, no one dared to enter the room where Chandramukhi's PC was locked and other than that room, the entire office was kept clean and nice.

But Jyo was rather curious to browse thru Chandramukhi's system. In her earlier office, after lunch time and during relaxed times, she used to spend time playing solitaire, mine sweeper and other PC games which gave her a refreshing break from the mind boggling work. Especially Jyo enjoyed the thrill of playing the games at office without getting noticed by the PM or PL. She missed all those now. In the hush-hush created by Neela while getting the relieving order, Jyo could not get the back up of her personal data from her old office machine. She heard from some old staffs who worked there earlier about Chandramukhi, that she used to play Prince of Persia, Dave, Paratrooper and similar games during office hours..tjhey were telling that the buzzing sounds of such games were still ringing in their ears. Ever since hearing this, Jyo's curiosity to check out Chandramukhi's system grew more.

So Jyo, ignoring her hubby's and Rajini's warnings, on one fine day, unlocked the Chandramukhi room and stepped inside.......The room was covered with dust and Chandramukhi's system was looking dirty and pale with all the dust on it... Jyo cleaned the room in quick time and switched on the monitor, as the system which was on standby mode all these days came back to life as she moved the mouse cursor.

At the same time, Prabhu who was typing google.com in his browser, accidentally missed out one of the letters and was taken to a porn site, while Accounts department aasha while doing online money transfer to one of the company's clients, entered an additional zero to the amount accidentally and pressed enter even before she realized it……

The effect of Chandramukhi had thus started to haunt the VTPRSoft Office as Jyo, unaware of these things proceeded to browse thru Chandramukhi's system. She was amazed at the amount of data in Chandramukhi's system, thousands of DOS and Flash games, the Entire collection of Calvin and Hobbes, Tintin, Asterix and Obelix and so much more. And then there was a huge collection of MP3 songs, English, Tamil, Hindi and even Konkani. This PC was surely a treasure, she thought. Jyo was just wondering, how Chandramukhi's PM even thought of firing such a hardworking, dedicated employee.

Just at that moment, Prabhu called for Jyo. So she quickly switched off the monitor, closed the door and left the room immediately to respond to Prabhu.

Next day... Everyone were busy working on a module that had to be delivered to onsite that day. Prabhu after attending a client call at the conference room was returning back to his cubicle. At that time he noticed Nayantara logging into a different system from that of hers and doing something. So he stopped and inquired Nayantara, "Hey Nayan, wat are u doing here, your job is in the front office..." Nayantara, who did not seem to expect Prabhu at that time, got tensed by his question and replied "yea..yea Prabhu, this is anita's system...she is on leave today and it seems she had forgotten to check in the files that she has modified yesterday. So she called me up today morning and asked me to just check in the files...as these are critical for today's drop. I am doing just the same". "O.K Fine", said Prabhu and proceeded to his cubicle.

The module was completed shortly and was packaged for the System testing. Prabhu thought he would just do a round of Sanity testing before the testers started BVT (BVT - Business value Testing, Testing of key functionalities which must be passed if it needs to be delivered) on it. He ran the application and it looked to run smoothly suddenly, the application crashed and the system hanged. Everyone were shocked. "how could this be" was the question in everyone's mind. Nasser, the Module leader quickly pointed out "the bug should be in the database module only. Anita was handling it, but she ran it in her machine yesterday..showed me also before she left for the day, it was working fine..somebody shud have screwed it afterwards..", he paused and raised his voice "Who worked on Anitha's system today"......... everyone's eyes fell on Nayantara.. She got terrified... "No..no..i did nothing at all. I just checked in whatever code Anita has entered into VSS".. Prabhu was puzzled at this sudden failure of application..But he did not mutter anything rather looked at nayantara with a straight face..."Please go away from here to your cabin....", he turned to the developers "Folks, look at the root cause of this issue and get it solved immediately. "

PART - IX – RAJINI TAKES ON CHANDRAMUKHI

From that day onwards, problems seem to coming in plenty for VTPRSoft. Machines crashed too often, Programs threw memory out of exception error and compiling took unusually longer time than before. Prabhu and Jyo got upset by this and were worried about the business prospects if the problem continues. Hence Prabhu sent an SOS like SMS to Rajini to return to see what is haunting VTPRSoft of late.

Rajini arrived to VTPRSoft office from US, as soon as he got the SMS from Prabhu. Prabhu apprised him of the strange happenings that were happening over the recent few days at office. Staffs were under the impression that these could be the effect of the black magic of Chandramukhi. Prabhu refused to buy this "black magic" logic...he He rather suspected this as Nayantara's handiwork in association with Neelambari to stop the organization's growth. However Rajini rubbished these claims by Prabhu, as he thought Nayan could have never thought of doing such things. Prabhu thought since Love is blind, Rajini did not want to look Nayantara as guilt.

Rajini ran the latest virus scanners, anti-spyware in every system, but none of them showed any problems in the system. Rajini was clueless…. What could be the problem.... During day times the systems ran fine without any issues… but during nights, some weird things were happening from any of the system... The problem occurs only for a few while and there was no log or anything created in the system, for Rajini to analyze the reason behind such a behavior. Another thing Rajini noticed was a strange sound coming from Chandramukhi's room in the nights.. If Rajini knocked the door of that room, the sound will stop..

On a fine day, as Rajini was working in his laptop monitoring the company's network set up, suddenly he found a strange thing happening... A malicious application that bypassed the company's firewall system was transmitting through every systems... Alas!!, Rajini could not stop that application through any of his software... And it was actually going towards the company's Project server... God!! If it gains access to the project server, then it might erase the entire data in that server.... Rajini was quick to react to this danger... He ran to the server room where prabhu was working in the Project server system... Swiftly, he pushed Prabhu from the chair and unplugged the network cable... Every staff arrived at the server room hearing this huge noise that came as a result of Prabhu falling to the ground... A shocked Prabhu got off from the ground... Rajini apologized to him and explained to him why he disconnected the network cable from the server system... Prabhu was surprised... "From which system, this virus has originated, Any idea?", he enquired... Rajini paused for a moment and said... "Hmm... it has come Nayantara's laptop only"

Everyone was surprised... Prabhu was very much angry... "I told u already rite... This girl is the reason for everything....".. Rajini replied... "O.K dont worry, I will take care of her".... Nayantara who was also present there,was shell shocked... "I did not do anything...Please believe me...", she requested everyone, but no one was believing her... Rajini took Nayantara along with her laptop and went inside the conference room... He locked the room from inside, so that people from outside could only hear some whip lash sound.... After a while.... Rajini came outside of the room, a worried Vijayakumar inquired "What happend, what happened to my dear daughter's laptop... Dude..dude.. She loves that laptop... she can't bear losing the laptop... ... I assure u, she had kept it protected from any virus or spyware.. Nothing would have entered it, Kindly dont do anything to her laptop or disconnect the internet connection... She can't live without G-Talk or orkut dude....", Vijayakumar broke into tears... Rajini looked at him with a straight face and replied... "Dont worry... I have just disconnected the network cable from that laptop and put her system in quarantine... Things would be alright now... O.K everyone get back to work", Rajini left that place as a confused Prabhu and Jyo look over..

That night, the staffs in VTPRSoft left home early fearing Chandramukhi effect, and so Rajini was alone in the office. He decided to take another look at the Chandramukhi ‘s room…. The strange sound was coming again from Chandramukhi’s room…. Rajini, this time, rather than trying to go inside or knocking the door, observed the room, the sound carefully…. After a while, he left the place and left for his home with a sense of having achieved something….

[TO BE CONTINUED…]

Are you the one for me...!!!

2007-12-11T21:43:00.000+05:30

P.S : Before you start blasting me after finding this new post is nothing more than the translation of the marathon story i had written "Enakkoru Girl Friend venume", I would confess it myself... It was a long time since I posted anything in our office Bulletin board, and so I thought, I would publish one of the stories there...And so, I translated this story to publish it there...Phew....Translation was a real toughhhhhhh job...... :(, It took me more than 3 days for editing, trimming, (some tamil mokkais sounded more mokkai while translating it into english :D) And so this was that finished product... Some visitors to my blog would have avoided studying the Girl friend story coz of the length of that story, and a mixture of Tamil and English words... For the benefit of those ppl :D, I thought, I would post the translated version also at the blog.... :).. So here you go

Warning: Just because I say this story is in English, if you expect a Prithz level of writing, you would definitely be in for disappointment... This has been written in plain local english with strong tamil flavor :D.. Be aware of the fact you will be encountering so many grammatical errors...Feel free to correct it....:D

Are you the one for me...!!!
[Translated version of Enakkoru Girl friend venume ]

Raju was just staring at the monitor....He looked at the system time once again . The time was only 10 minutes to 12. Uh..Oh.. at least 20 more minutes before he can call his friend Sasi for lunch. Gosh...he never thought bench life would be so boring so soon. No work to do, No friends to chat with, None of his friends were online at that time..Even his onsite friends have gone to sleep after the day's fight with their offshore counterparts...lazy gooses.....no soul is available to talk in mobile even... Suddenly everyone appeared to be so busy with their work, while for Raju, the clock appeared to limp like a boozed old man on its way to the next minute..

Till last week, Raju also was in a project, a critical project as they always say…In IT industry, even a project not worth its salt will be called as a critical project, if the client is demanding…..Raju was not having a even minute to spare, overflowed with so many tasks to complete. Phone bells never stopped ringing in Raju's cubicle, from the onsite coordinator who spit fire even fiercer than a dragon, from the Testing team bugging with bugs always, from his Project manager who pings him too often to know about the current status… Particularly in the previous week, the work was just too much, with so much of his routine works got affected. He was not able to call his loving sister Nivetha also, whom he considers so much closer to heart more than anyone else. Nivetha is studying in IISc Bangalore, staying in a hostel. Raju never failed to call dear nivee at least once a day ever since she went Bangalore two years ago.. Hmm…from being such a busy bee to a zombie now in a space of 5 days … hmmmm…IT life for sure is a pendulum Raju thought.

Feeling restless, Raju looked at the time again. It was 12:09 now. He was convinced that lunch time was up and hence called Sasi at his extension.

Sasi : Yes Sir!!! Wassup?

Raju : Time is up…Come lets go for lunch

Sasi : dude… hardly 2.5 hours since u had your breakfast, you want to go for lunch so soon eh?

Raju: what to do da, if there is nothing else to do, eating is a good pastime at least….

Sasi : haha, mate.. You had been an all-rounder in our college, remember? Now you are looking all round in your shape…. Get trimmed man!!

Raju: now…cut that crap.. lets go

Sasi: Mann…so many tasks to complete before EOD

Raju: haa… you say tasks to do for EOD… am here Eee otting with nothing to do :(

Sasi: (amazed) Wow…how are you coming with such awesome one-liners?

Raju: Shut up..chalo, lets start

Sasi: hehe…Raju…. You know rite, I was following this girl Rupa, who joined our company recently.. Looks like it will work out….. I managed to get her consent for lunch today…So sorry da…… :D

Raju: hey sasi…..

Sasi: one minute man…looks like some onsite call is coming.. I will call u later..bye…

And thus Sasi hangs up the call… Raju got peeved… Oh God… not again!!, he thought… Not so long ago, Raju used to go lunch to the Food court with a big team… But the lunch team shrunk gradually as days passed by, when guys dropped out to go lunch on their own with their girl friends or fiancée. Raju could never understand, why is that a guy always prefers to part with their friends, when they get into Love… Is a love relation, so different, that you have to de-friend all others… What nonsense!!!, Raju never had liked this concept of Love and from all what he had heard, seen, portrayed in the movies he has seen, he hated Love more than anything else.. Raju felt more irritated. He longed to talk with his dear sister Nivetha, who is the only one in his entire world, can make him feel better and lighter. "How much I missed talking with her over the past few days", he thought, , "hope she does not blast me for not calling her…" Raju came out of the wing to the lawn, and calls nivee at her mobile

Nivetha : (all smiles) Helllooo brother…

Raju : Hey nivee…how do u do?

Nivetha: am sooper… how are u doing?

Raju: am fine too dear… Sorry pa, could not call u at all last week….you know, I was daily slogging at the office till midnight 12, 1…and had to come even on weekends..thatz why could not call u at all.. So sorry da… I think Mother would have told u about this

Nivetha: yea yea she told…. Thatz oki anna.. no probs…. I was fine

(Raju was surprised…usually even if Raju missed to call her one day, she would tore him to pieces the next day…. Now she is remaining quiet… strange!!!)

Raju: hey nivee, something odd with you today…hmm…Never mind… I asked you to get some T-Shirts for me rite… were u able to go shopping over the weekend?

Nivetha: oh no anna, I did go shopping last Saturday, but I was able to get only a shirt for you, didn't have enough money to get T-Shirts …. They were so costly…

Raju: oh never mind nivee, I will pour tea over the shirts you have bought for me and convert it into a Tea-Shirt myself…. (chuckles)

Nivetha: aargh…anna..you and your PJ's… wont you ever put a full stop to it?

Raju: hehe, even if I fall in coma, I will only put a comma to the PJ..will not put full stop…. (laughs, as Nivee groans at the other end) hey hey ok, no tension, … I got to tell ya something….

Nivetha: (interrupts) Anna listen, I got an important thing to tell u too….

Raju: foul foul…I only started telling first…

Nivetha: oh anna, Girls are the first… I will tell no, please….

Raju: aargh…. Oki.. go ahead….Tell..Tell…

Nivetha: Wait..wait..Tell me one thing before that, you are my very good brother rite, Whatever that is happy for me is happy for you also rite?

Raju: oh nivee…why this doubt….ur happiness is my happiness. You are my..my…

Nivetha: stop stop… don't start ur la la la music… this is not la la la matter, rather ooh-la-la matter….

Raju: what are u trying to tell?

Nivetha: u are not getting ah? Tubelight u are…Anna…I think I am in love with our Nandhini aunty's son Gokul….

(Raju was shocked…he could not believe his own ears)

Raju: (panicky voice) what……come again...

Nivetha: our Delhi aunty nandhini is there na, her son Gokul………. I love him…. (blushes)..He too loves me a lot (blushes again)

(bangggggg……. Raju felt like million thunders striking him…. Love…Love…the same thing that had distanced his dear friends away from him….you too nivee…. Raju was fuming with anger..but since he does not know how to express his anger to his sister, he remains quiet…)

Nivetha: anna…what happened, why have u gone into mute mode?

Raju: err….Nivee……..

Nivetha: (interrupts) anna anna… Hold on oki.. Looks like Gokul is on call… (blushes)… I will call u later oki… (blushes)… So sorry anna (blushes)…. Hehee… bubye (hangs up the call)

Gone….What a day it had been for Raju… first his best friend Sasi, who ditched him completely and gave company to his new found romance, now his alter ego, his own sister..Nivetha… My God…She too in Romance…huh.. That kid never knew the spelling of Romance so far… This was she used to write like "Romeo and Juliet have fallen in Romans…." for English exams..Now she is in love herself……how ridiculous…. Raju feeling dejected returned back to his cubicle….

[A day later…]

Twilight time, Besant nagar beach….Raju was lying on the beach sands near the shore looking at the waves that wetted his knees and went back. Amazing he thought, that just by looking at the waves could calm the wavering mind. Probably, the turbulence of the mind and the sea go in synch with each other….Depression in the sea bring rains, depression in the mind also bring rains, in the form of tears from eyes….. :( Hmmmm… when youth around him, chatter away with their girl friends sipping a cup of coffee, here he was, thinking philosophy…How sad…

At that instance, someone tapped Raju from behind. Raju turned back…. Surprise…Surprise…It was his childhood friend Magesh alias Magi whom Raju was seeing after a gap of 2 years… According to Raju Magi was the first "traitor", who ditched all of his friends after picking up friendship with a girl. He was now happily married with that girl….. Irrespective of the ill feelings he had with Magi, Raju was more than happy to see his best friend after 2 years, especially in the state of mind he was in…

Magi : Hey man how do u do

Raju: fine da… how are u doing..how is ur lover…sorry sorry..ur wife doing?

Magi: She is great da..am fine too… What are u doing here alone…and you look like you are depressed… whatz the matter.. Any love pain?

Raju: (a dry smile) yea yea… Love pain only… But it was those ppl who were near and dear to me, were on love… but the pain is for me…. :(

Magi: What happened da?

[Raju explains everything up to Nivetha's love story]

Magi: ha ha ha ha

Raju: Idiot, why are u laughing

Magi: sorry..sorry dude (laughs), but I can't help laughing at your childishness. I can very well understand that you feel lonely without those dears near u. But it is not fair on ur part to be expecting them to be always with you la.. Everyone have a life for their own and sooner than later you will also have one on ur own...

Raju : yea yea I understand all that. I agree that marital relation is the most important relation in our life, but isn't there a limit to everything. I hate this very concept of love da…….. It is a stupid thing….It makes a person selfish... You know, there is a proverb about Friends, "when the whole world steps out, your friend steps in"… but with Love… It is like…When a lover steps in, the whole world literally steps out of that person's mind.. how mean!!!

Magi : hahaa… dude….quiet true … But see.. It is human tendency to get all excited about anything new that you would experience. And when that is a love relation, the excitement knows no bounds because the very thought that you have got that person to live with your entire life is just amazing u know….

Raju: I cant accept this da…. Take the case of my sister, how can you say, she is good enough to choose her own relation..She is hardly 22…

Magi: Come on, 22 is age enough to make ur own decisions about life

Raju: hey…how can she dare do such things… without the knowledge of our parents, without telling me…

Magi: dude…Love is not a job offer to discuss with every ppl and then take a decision… It is a feel da…you can never know when that feel strikes you… Infact I would say, she told you first, then your parents, just out of her respect for you…Now what is ur problem… how is that guy Gokul?

Raju: hmm..Gokul is our distant cousin actually…we used to play together during our childhood. Later they moved to Delhi.. Just recently, we met him in a marriage function. He was teasing my sister there itself…He came up to Nivetha and told, hello madame.. how do u do.. Nivee was irritated, she shot back "hello sir, I am not madame… Call me Nivetha…" you know what he replied??? He said… "Oh nivee… I didn't call u madame… I addressed u as mah-dame"

Magi: hehehe, fundoo guy eh?… Ok how about his family?

Raju: hmm, his dad is an IAS officer, his mom, our aunty is a house wife… Good family only…

Magi: Then what is ur problem man… These days, the younger ppl, in the name of love, roam around with some useless fellows. Ur sister is great, she had thought about ur parents, family first… She had chosen, keeping in mind how your father would have chosen a guy for her marriage…You and your parents should take pride in that

Raju: Whatever da.. I cant accept this…

Magi: how can you da…Have you ever been to any places other than your home or office? Come out of ur shell da, look at the world around you… Love is not bad at all, Just understand… Marriage is an inevitable thing in our life…. We will not be able to select our Parents, we will not be able to select our siblings, and in most instances we will not be able to select our friends also… these relations just happen… But marriage, if we have a chance to see the person we love to be with….won't that be great? Just think…. Are we not planning for our studies, our career etc.,???… Isnt our personal life more important than these things? When we get a feel on someone, feel that they are the one for us to share our life with… that is a truly a great feel da

Raju: hmmmm

Magi: After all marital life is all about perfect understanding…. Not often you get a feel about some one in your mind, and they get the same kind of feel on u... it is really rare when that happens.. That is the power of love da, To make the better part of our life sweet, having a sweet heart as our better half would be great..wont it be? Not that I am against arranged marriage…not at all…. It is just that, for people with balanced minds, love marriage offers a higher chances of a happier life…. I am damn sure Nivetha has the perfect mind and perfect thinking… Come on da, are u not having belief on your parents' brought up?

As Magi lectured on the power of love, Raju felt a spark and his face got brighter

Raju: Psst da... I never knew the greatness of love so far.... Actually, I think, I had understood..what i had been missing in my life...ada...What love da... (gets up) Here...I have got up da and started.... I am also going to love!!!

Magi was stunned.. He never expected this.. he was like trying to defend for Nivetha's love, but never expected it would boomerang in this fashion...As he looked with shock, Raju left the place with delight....

Reality slowly dawned on Raju, as he returned back to home. Doubts started pouring in, as he stood in front of the mirror at his room, and pondered about it… It was long time since his entire reflection… a bulged belly, a head that threatened to turn into a helmet soon, Gosh……. wasnt this too much for a 26 year old, Raju was worried…. Nevertheless, somehow he should get a girl friend sooner than later, he thought, before Nivetha informs about her love to our parents. Suddenly an idea struck him as he remembered his colleague and a good friend Vijay. There can be no better person than Vijay to help him…, Raju felt….

Vijay --- Raju's colleague, a savior and like a Godfather to those who were in love. He would give excellent tips, ideas and tricks on how to win over a girl's heart. Whether the ideas get clicked or not, the love would get clicked for the person who came to Vijay. From approaching a girl to proposing to them, Vijay's ideas were just perfect and practical. Raju, inspite of being a good friend to Vijay, never liked Vijay's Love Guide role a.l.a "Shajahan" Vijay, as Raju abhorred love himself earlier. But now, he was going to Vijay for the same thing....... Hmmm...sighed Raju...He used to be very shy to even talk about love...Such was his allergy to the word Love, Romance..... that Raju used to wear only digital watch and avoid watches with Roman numerals in it, since when the dial on such watches ticked, he felt it sounded Romantic (Roman Tick) to him.......Weird it might sound, but he used to be like that earlier......Hmmmm....those were times when there was not a girl in my life... but to Knot a girl into my life, I should shed such kind of mindset, he thought...........

Having made up his mind, Raju approached Vijay at his cubicle the next day

Vijay : Hey Raju, hi..howdy

Raju: Hiiiiiii am fine da, how are u doing

Vijay: am excellent maan... so wassup

Raju: nothing is up da, rather my morale is down........ dude.. I need a help from u da...

Vijay: Oh...tell me buddy....watz the matter?

Raju: Suddenly I developed an interest to love some one da....But having been shy so far in my life, I dont know how to do that, you have to help me man...

Vijay: (Surprised) wowwwww... man is that you talking?.... I couldnt believe myself...Watz happening here?

Raju: Oh come on da, so far I had been of the view that only Kazhudhais (donkey in Tamil) do kaathal (Love in tamil), Singam (Lion in Tamil) would remain single always....

Vijay: Now what happened, that made u think, rather to remain in single, to mingle with some one, and make ur jungle life into full of jingles?

Raju: Hmm..So many people around me are selecting their life partner through love..that had inspired me also... I dont know da, dont know how to put that...but I want to love......thatz all I know

Vijay: hahaa, great da, you show the symptoms of Love... Love is like GOD only... We believe and do so many things related to it, but we will never be able to reason for that....Hmm..anyway I think, this feeling to love had come pretty late in ur life...

Raju: What to do da, During my teenage, I used to stay away from love out of shyness and also I was worried, that if I try to love some girl or tease them even for fun, some day, it might affect my sister later in her life........ Thatz why I had always been a good guy to girls... Also I had been of the view, that to flirt with some one, or to have interest in some girl is an unforgivable sin,

Vijay: Hmm...Whatever...... Now you want to love and is seeking a girl rite?

Raju: yea da, but not some girl....... She should be as gorgeous, as say, Asin... (blushes)

Vijay: Asin eh..... man..have u ever seen ur reflection in ur mirror?

Raju: da...we love and marry only once in life... so we should always aim for the best da...Only if we aim for someone in the range asin, we would at least end up getting some one in the range of our cousin...

Vijay: hahaa.. awesome man.... O.K...Let us try a different route for ur love... Love at first sight wont work out for u, lets try Love at first site...

Raju: what are u telling da?

Vijay: itz the same old formula, but in a different style....What would youngsters do in their college life, go to various women colleges and try their luck there la...

Raju: yea.....

Vijay: same thing, What you need to do here is, log into ur Orkut, visit various women's college communities, and select a girl who interests u....

Raju: how come da, do u think girls would put up their photo and all in a public community like orkut?

Vijay: What do you think man? With so many models of digicams and mobile cameras in the market, girls today never miss a chance to click themselves and put their picture online.. you could find their up to date pictures in their orkut albums… They would never worry about privacy or that their personal pictures exposed in an online community, with chances of so many notorious ppl with dirty thinking can have access to it….

Raju: deiii.. so are u trying to tell that I am a guy with dirty thinking?

Vijay: cool buddy cool, I didn’t mean u, I am telling in general…….. you don’t mind…. For your love to wORKoUT, there can be no better medium than orkut, you visit ladies college communities, select a girl who interests u, note their activities etc., and put a scrap in their scrapbook… Don’t put meaningless scraps, rather observe their scrapbook and their friends’ scrapbook where they reply and write a scrap accordingly

Raju: Do you think they would reply to my scrap?

Vijay: oh definitely, girls always have this sense of curiosity….they would think, oh do u know me, who are u etc., so they would definitely return ur scrap, what u would need to do then is reply politely and honestly… you should make sure that you never give an impression of a trespasser to that girl… maintain decency and dignity and develop the relation. Continue in this vein and after a while, get her G-Talk id and start chatting with her.. By this time, establish yourself well in her good books, impress her with ur skills, if at all you ever have some and then after a stage propose to her.. This is my master plan

Raju : cool da, actually sounds good…… I would do that

Vijay: yo man… Best of luck :)

Raju: Thanks da, bye

Thus Raju set out on his Mission – Girl friend on ORKUT, as his Love mentor Vijay advised. Raju browsed thru various popular Chennai Womens' college communities and went through the girls' (who were the members of those communities) album and profile. After thorough search and analysis, Raju zeroed in on a pretty girl Ms.Sujatha from one of a college community. Raju closely followed Sujatha's profile, scrapbooks and the communities she was part of. Sujatha was also part of the "Law colleges in Tamilnadu" community, Raju followed her to that community and searched if Sujatha had posted any messages in that community. Sujatha had actually started a thread in that community, inquiring for the best law college in Tamilnadu for her younger brother. Raju sensing this as an opportunity to acquaint with her, replied to her message in that thread, "Hi Sujatha, before answering your question, let me ask you another question, Say, if ur brother takes up law as his profession, will your brother become ur brother-in-law?".

That ploy almost backfired on Raju, as Sujatha when saw the reply, got irked over the fact that some stranger was trying to mock her. As soon as she saw this message in the Law colleges community, a fuming Sujatha visited Raju's profile to verbally blast him. But she paused to take a look at Raju's testimonials, most of which had portrayed Raju as a goody goody kind of guy, a guy who loves making fun in general, but very shy talking with girls.... After seeing the testimonials, Sujatha decided to give Raju the benefit of doubt, thinking he might be a genuine guy with no intention of mocking at her, probably he had only tried to crack a joke, never mind that ended as a PJ. So she got cooled and scrapped back at Raju's scrapbook, lol-ing for his attempted joke and asking him, if he really knew about the law colleges in Tamilnadu. This reply scrap, although a big surprise to Raju, boosted him in a big way. Immediatly he phoned to whomever he knew related to Law field and replied Sujatha in detail about what she had asked for. Sujatha promptly sent a thank you mail to Raju who made use of this opportunity to add Sujatha to his Orkut buddies list and also invited her to G-Talk. The master plan charted out by his master Vijay, was well and truly going on the right path for Raju, as a new relation started to dawn in Raju's life in the way he had wished for.

Sujatha was a B.Com graduate, seeking a job after having finished her college studies earlier this year. Both of her parents were working and her brother Kaushik had finished his 12th standard education. No one will be home during the day time and Sujatha had nothing else to do other than be online and keep chatting, orkutting or browsing. This suited Raju perfectly, as he was also in the bench with nothing to do. This paved the way for both of them to keep chatting with each other for the best part of the day. Slowly, but surely, the friendship between both of them grew stronger and closer. It went to the next level with their chat shifting to mobile from the internet medium. Sujatha would give missed call and Raju would promptly call her at her number. Well, most of the girls would only give missed calls, wont they? After all thatz why they are called "Miss"-ed calls.....

Since Raju was rather soft, decent and talked like a no-nonsense guy, Sujatha had great respect and admiration for him. She shared so many things about her, even discussed about her future plans and career with him. Raju liked this relationship with Sujatha a lot.. He got a girl friend for himself .... This good feel made Raju forget whatever his dear friend Sasi or lovable sister Nivetha did to him as well. But he made it a point not to ignore them as they did to him when they were in love. He daily called Nivetha like ever before. Raju wanted to share about this wonderful relationship he has had with his sister. But just when Raju would have overcome his shy feeling to start the matter, Nivetha would stop him and say "Anna...wait wait...looks like Gokul is on call, I would listen to the news later oki..." and would cut the call. Raju would leave the matter there itself.

A month later, Raju got allocated to a new dev project. Having been in bench for more than a month, he never felt like working at all, that too after Sujatha came into his life, he felt too sluggish to complete even a easier task. Neverthless, the sincere guy he was, he somehow managed to work and complete the task. But this affected his daily chat with Sujatha a lot, something he missed very much. At this time, Sujatha informed Raju that she was going to her native place for a family function. She asked him not to call her and she would be back after 3 days. Since Raju respected her words a lot, he did not call Sujatha then, it was one week since she had left, but still there was no sound of her either in G-Talk or orkut or at his SMS. Raju began to worry about Sujatha's well being and so decided to try calling her. But, Much to his surprise, Sujatha's mobile was engaged, Raju tried calling several times in the day but it was always engaged. More worried, Raju called Indhu, Sujatha's best friend, whose number was also with Raju

Indhu: Hello

Raju : Hey Indhu, it is me Raj

Indhu: Hey Raju, how do u do, how is ur work going?

Raju: All fine...hey listen, how is Sujatha, Where is she, had she come back from her native place or not.. I tried calling her... but the lines were always engaged

Indhu : Oh yea Raju, ever since she got engaged, her phone lines also went engaged..

Raju : (Shocked) Whaaaaaaaaat? What are you telling Indhu??

Indhu : hey yes Raju…. Even I was shocked when she ringed me today to tell this news…… You know rite? She told she would be back in 3 days when she left for her native place last week, but went into absconding…… Today morning she called me up and was all blushing when she told “I got engaged di, my aunty’s son is the groom” ….. It seems that they had gone for a family function at a native place… Her aunt who was present at this function, put forward this marriage proposal to her father it seems…. Even though this was totally unexpected, since the guy is a very chamathu guy, smart, handsome and earning hand full of sum in US, everyone in Sujatha’s family immediately accepted

Raju: Sujatha??

Indhu: yea yea, that loosu girl had a secret crush for him it seems, but was so shy to tell it to anyone for fear of being thought as a bad girl……. She was so happy that her aththan himself had initiated the proposal.

This left Raju shell shocked as he did not mutter any reply……. Indhu thought since there was no signal, she could not hear Raju’s reply…after waiting for sometime, she cut the call

Raju……he was shattered to say the least……. His bad luck with telephonic conversations continued…… Why me…why me always he thought… Whoever I have love and affection for, falls in love with some one else… So far it was not a problem, since those were friendly or sister relations… but now even my lover is loving some one only… Atrocious!!!

Sujatha logs into the G-Talk at this very moment and pings Raju

Sujatha : Hey hi Raju…..

Raju remains silent, he felt too upset to type

Sujatha : sorry da raju, so sorry, I know that donkey Indhu would have told you the matter before itself……… I thought I would tell about my marriage news myself

Raju: so it was really true…….hmmmm

Sujatha: yes da…. I felt so bad for not able to tell u, u know that…. Becoz..becoz… u know you had been a very good chat friend, someone who advised me, laughed with me…….. U know, I was feeling so lonely last two months … with no one at home… …. Bfore I got to know u, whenever I felt lonely, esp after finishing with my college, I would be daily writing diary addressing some virtual character….. After started to chat with you, I left that habit.…. Certain matters, I can't tell to anyone else, not even my girl friends, one reason is that all these loosu friends of mine do not have the patience to hear what I say…… you listened patiently to whatever I blabbered, gave me a chance to vent it out………. And another reason is, don't mistake me Raju.., since I don't know u or have never seen u, it gave me that comfort to tell out certain things, which I don't find with any of my real world friends

Raju felt so upset, as Sujatha continued talking, at this moment, Raju's PM called him to get an update about the Project Status, So Raju tells Sujatha

Raju: Hey Sujatha….hold on oki…. I will BRB (Be Right back)

Sujatha: Oki da…

It took a solid 20 mins meeting for Raju with his PM..When he returned back to his system, he found Sujatha had gone offline leaving a message to him.

Sujatha: What is this Raju, you told Be right back, and u left me back rather… you shud have told Be Left back…. J,O.K…. jokes apart, I won't come online so often hereafter, even if I come online, it would be only for checking mails and not for chatting… It was great knowing u, I will try to keep in touch thru mails…you also mail me okay?… I don't know if I would be able to send u marriage invitation, coz I don't know what would my hubby think, if I say I have chat friends and all….. Sorry da….. I know u won't mind this….Chalo….. Let us part as friends for now….

It was all over… end of a month old relation….. She, who he thought would become part of life, had rather told let us part as friends….Raju could not control his depressed feelings… So he just typed a mail to his PM, telling that he was feeling sick, and left the office….

[Same day, Evening time]

Same Besant nagar beach… Same sea… Same loneliness…. This time, the waves were more turbulent than the previous time, just like his mind, he thought. He was feeling lot sicker than last time, and was just staring at the sea, when someone tapped his shoulders……… He turned back to see, that it was the same guy Magesh alias Magi who was there…

Magi: Hey da Raju…. Nice to see u here again after a month

Raju: (he gets peeved at seeing Magi) dei dog, don't u have any other work? Are u a romeo, to keep roaming in the beach always… Whenever I come to beach, you are disturbing me

Magi: (taken aback) hey dude..cool..cool… What happened…. Are u angry with me?

Raju: (furious) what then da, Just because of ur stupid advice the other day, I am in this condition

Magi: Oh God!!! What did I say… o.k leave all that… What happened now?

(Raju narrated the entire events in the past one month in detail)

Raju: I was living peacefully with no girl in my life…. After listening to ur stupid advise last month, I hurted myself a lot falling in love…Do you know how much love and respect I had for her? At last, she insulted my friendship by telling that I am only a faceless friend…...Am I only for chatting and time pass?

[Magi keeps quiet as Raju continued with emotions running high…]

Raju: Why me da, why only me always… No one is understanding my love and affection… Look around here in the beach..so many pretty girls falling for some cheap guy with all sorts of bad habits… But for a good guy like me, for my genuine love, only such kind of things are happening

[Magi interrupts…]

Magi : Machi machi one minute… don't just go on talking… Do you know what is the basic qualification for love? …you should never be having any pre-notions or carrying any expectations about the person u are loving….But what you had done?… Browsed through various albums and selected one that impressed you… Love is not best of three choice da, it is something that you should feel from within…..

Raju : Come on da, Is it wrong to expect your lover to be a cute and lovely girl?

Magi : Not at all, if you expect your lover to be a cute and lovely girl, it is not wrong at all… But if you expect to love only a cute and lovely girl, then it is a fundamental mistake da….That too how…….Without any self belief you searched for your love in the world of web… The relation you get out of a virtual world would only be virtual da..Can't u understand that?… You are a software engineer…Don't you know the HTTP protocol, that these web pages use are stateless…and do not persist data in them.… And you had been searching for a relation, that need to be persistent throughout ur life in such a place.. how stupid da?

Raju : Whatz wrong about it da, Arent there anyone whose love or friendship had developed through online or chatting?

Magi : Yea, there has been instances for this… but none of them would have gone with the mindset or expectation of searching their love or friendship over net… That would have developed and their pure love would have carried that forward, rather than them pushing for it…. Moreover, all those internet love successes are more like exceptions than a rule for others to follow…

Raju : Hmmmmm…..

Magi : Further ur basic mentality was wrong…. Love is something that you get to feel when you see that someone special among the crowd of people you see daily…But you… you felt like loving someone just becoz ppl around u were loving… This is only childish mentality… how could you expect that to succeed at all?

Raju : Haa…do I need all this da? How good and quiet I had been, only coz my nears and dears ignored me, I strayed into such kind of stupid thinkings…. People around me, whom I thought as best friends and lovable relation, dumped me when they got a love relation for their own…….

Magi : machaan shall I tell one thing…. When we feel upset or disappointed or feel defeated, it would be so tempting to put the blame on others and think that we have done nothing wrong…bcoz it is so easy for one to feel self pity rather than to own the blame on any issue….But just for a moment, if you empty your tea cup and think with a blank mind, about why things are going wrong for us, we can get to understand better…….. Everyone around you has love and respect for u da… it is only you, who don't understand them… rather I would say your love for them is not true at all

Raju: Hey…me…me??

Magi : yeah you only…First and foremost, if the affection is genuine, no one will be advertising about it at all, as you had been doing… O.K…I accept… you have so much affection for some of your friends and towards your sister… But man, you are selfish…… thatz why you expect your friends and sister to give maximum importance only to you….You are possessive of them and feel jealous when they fall in love.. It hurts you and irks you..…. That is wrong da…Just think…. Can the affection you show be a burden for the ones u love?… Can you expect returns for the love you show to your lovable ppl?

Raju: well… ..I…er…

Magi : Think da, Just because your friends do not accompany you during lunch or because your sister does not talk to you as often as she did earlier, does that mean their love for you had diminished? Is that what you think about your lovable ppl after all?

Raju is unable to talk anything…he realized his folly… he felt like all his ego of "Good boy", "loving brother", "loving friend" getting shattered… He started crying

Magi : dude……. Why are u crying

Raju : I realize da… I realize how selfish and stupid I had been….. I really had been a selfish guy even to my friends or parents or my dear sister…. I never knew the real meaning of love or affection, and always carried a thought that others had always been ditching me…. I feel disgusted now …

Magi : Come on da, why shud u feel disgusted….Actually you should feel quite good about having identified about ur problem… Just think… as u had told, you had already been a good guy…. Now that you have acknowledged about this problem and take steps to correct it, won't that make you a more better guy…. Isn't that reason enough to feel cheerful about? To put it in Kamal's style a.l.a Anbe Sivam, He who accepts his mistake and corrects himself is actually a GOD :)

Raju : you are right da..very much…. (not able to talk)

Magi : Had the people around you not romanced, it wouldn't have made you come out of ur comfort zone to try things, to take a shot at love, to understand yourself or to expose the problems in u…. you would have remained like before with some preconceived notions about urself, without trying to improve urself… See… Even when they hurt, they make u improve, those are the real relations da…Come on da, you are a good guy, with OK personality, a talented IT professional… what more… just that you have to slightly change the way you think

Raju : you mean Attitude?

Magi : u r at-it-dude…. absolutely… Even that is not a big issue, u just need to make sure you don't get caught into any kind of mindset and be flexible, free and feel lighter in ur mind and heart… Good luck da !!! I am damn sure, I would see you with a dame next time I meet u :)

Raju : thanks a lot da machi…. You are right, I am indeed blessed to have such good friends around me and even more blessed to have a friend like you… And my dear sister Nivetha…. I had always mistaken her and had actually insulted her love for me .. Now I tell da.. I assure she gets whatever that make her happy…

Magi : Thatz the spirit da.. bubye.. It is getting dark, am leaving…

Next day… A far relaxed Raju arrives at his office… For the first time in many days he felt a lot lighter and better… He felt like talking to his sister, so he called her up

Nivetha: Hellooo annaaa… Good morning

Raju : Good morning, nivetha, how are u doing dear?

Nivetha: Am doing wonderful anna..…how are u doing… u know what? it was so nice hearing u now anna…..

Raju : hahahaa…watz the matter sweetie?

Nivetha : I have my semester exam today, you know rite?..... bad anna u are…. I thought you called me to wish me luck….. u totally forget ah?

Raju : oooh ooh sorry sorry da.. Wish u the very bestttttttt of luck.. u will definitely score much higher than previous sems

Nivetha : hehe thanks a lot anna…. O.K I have to leave for my exam.. Shall I go?

Raju : yea yea…. Bye..take care…. Hey hey nivetha one minute…

Nivetha : yes anna…

Raju : I love u a lot nivii……….so blessed to have u as my little sister

Nivetha : :D, what happened to you anna?

Raju : Just like that..I felt like telling that now..…. O.K Bye,… Good luck!!!

Nivetha : thanks a lot anna (she hangs up the phone)

Raju felt, he had never been so happy before…. He settled down in his place and checked the mails… He was slightly tensed about his PM's response, for he ran away the previous day without doing the work he had given….But alas, there was only 1 new mail and thankfully it was not from his PM…. Rather it was from Roopa….with the subject as Hi

Aaha… This is Sasi's girl friend right… What does she have to write to me… A confused raju opened the mail….. He saw inside just two lines,

Dear Raju…..Miss Roopa…….. misses You,
Will you accept me as…….., Mrs. Of You??

- With Lots of Love,
Roopa

Raju could not understand anything out of it… He wondered if he was dreaming…. Probably Roopa wrongly sent the mail to me instead of Sasi..or what? Sasi arrived at his cubicle exactly at the same moment

Raju : Hey Sasi, watz this man..your friend has sent some mail to me… Is this for u otherwise?

Sasi : haha dude that mail was for you only…. I can understand your confusion… I was behind her to get her love… But she… she was loving you only da… your good nature, smiling face and helping tendency bowled her it seems… But she felt so shy of expressing it to you at all… Thatz why she came to me, your close friend, for help…. The moment I learnt that she only loved you I threw away the love thoughts in my mind and accepted her as a good friend…. It took me more than a month to convince her to express her love to you directly rather than thru me….

Raju : (Excited)… you mean..you mean…

Sasi : yo man… She loves you da……….

Raju was literally flying……… A girl loving me!!!..... Oh God!!! And I was searching for a love all over when my sweet heart was just cubicles away from me…. Hmm…if only she had told this a month earlier, he thought….Oh come on, GOD might have thought that Roopa deserved a truly good natured Raju after all!!!…..Whatever it was, Raju knew that Roopa was the one for him…….!!!!

SUBAM

Enakkoru Girl Friend venumae - Final Part

2007-11-17T23:00:00.001+05:30

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[Continued..]
Indhu ippadi sonnathum, 1000V shock waves kaathula vizhuntha maathiri oru feeling Raju ku….. one more shocking news over the phone…………. Aduthu enna pesarathunae therila Raju…. Indhu ku phone pannumbothu , Raju was like, worried about if all is fine with Sujatha… but intha maathiri oru news avan nichayama ethirpaarkale…

Raju: Whaaaat engaged….ah?

Indhu: ada aama pa… ithai kettappa enakkum shocking ah than irunthuchu… avaloda child hood friend naan… enakke inniku kaathala than theriyum … 3 naalu oorku porennu sollitu pona ponnu, 1 week ah abscond aagittu inniku kaalaila phone panni solraa…. “enakku engaged aayiduchi di… ennoda athai paiyan thaan mappilai…. “ nu… Family function ku nu pona idathula, avanga athai, tak nu ivaloda appa kitta ivalai ponnu kettutangalam.. It was like totally unexpected for her pola… ethir paaratha vishayama irunthalum, avanai ethir la paartha vudane ivalukkum pathikichaam…. Ok sollirukka…. Antha paiyan US la velai paarkiranam.. 1 month leave la India vanthirukkan pola…. Seekiram kalyanathai mudikkanumnu udane nichayam pannitangalam… next month kalyanam nu sonna… avaloda mobile ah ingaye vachittu poitathala yaarukkume inform pannala…. Sorry di sorry nu aayiram thadavai sorry kettuta… sari pona poguthu, etho ponnu santhosama iruntha sari than nu free vittutaen :)

Ippadi Indhu sollite poga poga, Sujatha mela Kaadhal la vizhuntha Raju ku ithu ethuvume kaathula vizhalae….. he was totally perplexed.. avanukku ethuvume pesa varala…. Reply ethuvume varathathala, Indhu line la than etho problem nu ninaichu konja neram hello hello solli paarthutu appuram cut pannidara phone ah…

Raju….he was shattered.... Back to square one… enakku mattum en ippadi nadakkuthu… naan yaar mela laam anbu vaikkareno, avangallam innorutharai love panna aarambichidaranga… ithu varaikkum paravalla, sister, friend nu relation………aana…aana.. ippo naan love panra ponnu… avaluma………. Enna kodumai ithu.. :(

oru velai Indhu than ennai fool panrathukaga ippadi poi solirupalo…. ithu nijammave upset ah illa Indhu panna set up ah appadinu oru ishmall doubt varuthu Raju ku… Correct ah antha time la Sujatha logs in into G-Talk… It was a surprise for Raju.. and more surprisingly she pings him first..

Sujatha: hey Raju….. hi hi..

(Raju remains silent for a while)

Sujatha: Raju..raju… my dear friend… nee en mela semma kobathual irukkaennu puriyuthu… antha donkey Indhu kitta pesinaen ippa than… ennoda marriage pathi unkitta sonnatha sollita…

Raju: adippavi appo nijamthana…. (Raju gets semma upset, but G-Talk la emotions ah kaatara emoticons illathathala…, Sujatha ku Raju voda feelings puriyala)

Sujatha: aaama da…. Unga kitta lam en appave sollalai ngra reasons lam Indhu erkanve sollirupa la…. unkitta mudhalaye sola mudiyalai nu nan romba feel pannen theriyuma… bcoz..bcoz….

[“ Bcoz…dammit… I started loving u…” apadinu Azhagan la vara Bhanupriya style la solvaalo nu oru chinna nappasai vanthuchu Raju ku…ava bcoz ku appuram vitta ithunoondu gap la.. But ithu than padam illiyae :p, Sujatha continues ]

Sujatha: …bcoz u know you had been a very good chat friend, enakku advice lam panni, aaruthal solli…….. I was feeling semma lonely last two months theriyuma… with no one at home… …. Bfore I got to know u, whenever I feel lonely, esp after finishing with college and no one to talk with, I would be daily writing diary addressing a virtual character….. unkooda pesa aarambichathula irunthu antha pazhakkathaiye vittutaen…. Sila vishayam lam I cant tell to any one else, not even my girl friends, one reason is that all these loosu friends of mine does not have the patience to hear what I say…… naan ularunathellam porumaiya kettutu, u know u gave me a chance to vent it out………. And the best thing is, thappa eduthukkathe Raju.., since I don’t know u or have not seen u, it gave me that comfort to tell it out which I don’t find with my real world friends

Raju: Hmmmm….. (Raju ku vera ena pesarathu nu therila….aduthaduthu nenjile kathi kuthu irangina maathiri irunthuchu as she was talking, so just mmm kottitu irukkan…)

Intha nerathula Raju voda PM, Raju kitta project status ketkarathukkaga koopidararu…. Raju had to go… so he tells to Sujatha,

Raju: Hey Sujatha….hold on oki…. I will BRB (Be Right back)

Sujatha: Oki da…

Raju voda PM sariyana mokkai pottu kitathatta 15 mins aakidararu…. Raju thannoda place ku vanthu chat window ah paartha, Sujatha has logged off leaving a message

Sujatha: Ennada Raju, be right back nu sollitu u had left me back… pesama be left back nu sollirukalam nee :p Sari, jokes apart, inimael naan avvalava online vara maaten, appadiye vanthaalum avar kooda kadalai podarathukke time pathathu :D, It was great knowing u, I will try to keep in touch thru mails…neeyum mail pannu oki… I don’t know if I will be able to send u marriage invitation, coz chat friend na en hubby enna solvaaro therila :D, sorry da….. kochikkathe enna…. I know u wont be angry…. Let us part as friends for now….

Ippadi oru msg vittutu, Sujatha has logged off… avlothan…. 1 month ah katti kappathina relation mudinjathu….. Part of life aava nu paartha, let us Part as friends nu sollitu poitaale nu thonuthu Raju ku…. He just can’t control the emotions and the feeling of being ditched. Unable to take any more, Not feeling well nu PM ku chinnatha oru mail anupichittu he leaves the office.

[Same day, Evening time]

Athey Besant nagar beach… Same sea… Same loneliness…. This time, the waves were turbulent than the previous time, just like his mind, he thought. Cha… Kadal aruge kadalai poda sila per, kadhal panna pala per nu Jodi Jodi ya vanthirukkanga… naan mattum than ippadi thaniya pulamba vanthirukkaen… He was feeling lot sicker than last time, apadiye kadalai muraichu paarthuttu irukkan…. Pona thabaa mathiriye intha thabavum avan friend Magi varaan, Raju kitta vanthu avan shoulder la kai vachu ketkiran

Magi: Hey da Raju…. Nice to see u here again after a month

Raju:: (thirumbi paarthu, he gets peeved at seeing Magi) dei Magi..unakku vera velaiye illaiya..eppavum beach laye suthittu irukkae.. nee enna inga sundal vithuttu irukkiya…. Naan eppa beach vanthaalum enakku munnadi nee nikkare

Magi: (taken aback) hey dude..cool..cool… enna aachu…. Why are u angry with me?

Raju: (furious) pinna ennada pinna, anniku un veena pona advice ah kettu than ippa naan intha nilaimai la irukkaen…

Magi: adappavi naan enna sonnaen..sari vidu..ippa enna aachu sollu…

Raju: solraen solraen…. Naanum yarkittayavathu kottanum la…. Solraen… but nane veruthu poirukkaen..ippo karuthu solraneu solli aruthu thallidaathe… purinjatha?

Magi: oki oki sure :) :) nee sollu

(Raju narrates the entire events in the past one month in detail)

Raju: naan paatukku ozhunga, girls pakame pogama irunthaen…. Un pechai kettu intha paithiyakara kaadhal la vizhunthu…..ava mela evvalo anbu, respect lam vachiruppen theriyuma… kadsee la en friendship aiye insult panra maathiri nee verum virtual friend nu sollitaa… appo naan verumane chatting kum, time pass kum mattum thaana?

[Magi keeps quiet as Raju continues…]

Raju: enakku mattum en da ipadi nadakkuthu… naan vaikkira anbai orutharum purinjikka maatengranga….. ithe dhum, thanni adikkaravan, pala ponnunga kooda sutharavan ivanukkelam kooda lover kidaikkuthu… aana naan…ennoda unmaiyana love ku kadaisila ipadi than nadakkuthu….

[Magi interrupts…]

Magi : dei dei oru nimisham…summa dialog vittute pogaathe… Love ku basic qualification ena theriyuma…you should not be having any pre-notions about the person u are loving….Nee enna pannirukae… album album ah paarthu oru ponnai choose pannirukke… Love na best of three choice illa machi.. athu by chance orutharai paarkumbothu vara vendiya feel….

Raju : ennada solrae… naan love panra ponnu azhaga irukkanum nu ninaikarathu thappa?

Magi : thappu illa machi..thappe illae… Nee love panra ponnu azhaga, cute ah irukkanum nu ninaikkarathu thappu illae… aana azhaga, cute ah irukkara ponnunga la oruthi ya than nee love pannuvenu ninaichathu romba thappu da maame..…. Athuvum eppadi….un mela unakke nambikkai illama, real world la thedama… chat la poi thedirukae… antha virtual world la vara relation ellame virtual thaanda… padichavan thane nee… webpages use panra HTTP protocol eh stateless thaan…data va persist pannathu… appadi patta oru idathula nee unnoda life long persist panna vendiya relation ah thedirukkae…. Enna madathanam da?

Raju : ithu la ennada thappu… ethanaiyo peru chat moolama love pannaliya… avanga life lam nalla illiya….

Magi : irukaangale.. aana avangallam chat la thaan vazhkai thunai thedanumnu menaketu vanthirukka maatanga… chat panravanga kitta entha expectations um illama than chat pannirupanga… appadi aarambicha uravu develop aagirukkalam….and moreover internet love success lam more like exceptions than a rule for others to follow…. Kaadhal kottai maathiri paarkamale kaathal success aaganumna hero ajith ah vum heroine devayani ah vum irukanum…..naan personality ah sollale, but avanga attitude ah solraen….. eppo nee chat la thaan ponnai thedanum nu mudivu panniyo appave athu Kaathal kottai illa… Kaathal Ottai…

Raju : Hmmmmm…..

Magi : athuvum illama unnoda basic mentality eh thappu.. Kaadhal ngrathu thana oruthara paarthavudane manasula uruvaga vendiya vishayam… aana unakku eppadi..unnai suthi irunthavanga lam love panraanga na vudane, neeyum love panrennu kilambirukkae.. ithu childish mentality thaan da… ithu epadi da success aagum nu ninaikkare?

Raju : dei enakku thevaiya da ithellam..thevaiya nu ketkaren..naan paatukku amaithiya, nalla pilaiya thane irunthaen..ellam ennai suthi irunthavanga thane karanam…. Avangalukkunu oru love vanthavudane naan thevai illama poitaen… last 1 month love la irunthappa kooda I remained myself and kept in touch with everyone and not ignored anyone... Aana appa kooda en sister…. Naan pesunalum just formal ah pesittu, konja nerathula busy nu solli cut pannidara…. Ivanga ellam ozhunga iruntha naan en da ippadi poraen…

Magi : machaan onnu sollava…. Namakku oru upset, disappointment nu varumbothu, it is so easy to put the blame on others … naama entha thappum panala… ellam en neram, aduthavanga panna thappu nala than enakku kashtam varuthu appadinu solrathu romba sulabam… aana oru nimisham, namma tea cup ah empty pannitu, namma thappu enna nu yosichom na we can understand things better.….ellarum un mela paasama than irukkanga.. nee than avanga yaaraiyum purinjukkale… Solla pona, nee than da yaar melayum unmaiyana paaasam vaikkala

Raju: ennada solrae… naana… naana…

Magi : aama neeye than… mudhalla oruthar mela unmaiyana anbu vaikara yaarum, athai ipadi advertise pannitu irukka maatanga… aana nee moochukku munnoooru thadavai, athaiye thirumba thirumba solrae… sari naan accept pannikaren..nee un thangachi mela, friends mela laam alavu kadantha piriyam vachirukaen nu… aana nee selfish da… athunala thaan un thangachi, friends laam unkitta mattume niraya pasam vachirukkanumnu, unakku thaan niraya importance kodukkanum nu expect panrae….athunala than avangalukku nu oru love varumbothu un manasula oru jealousy, possessive ness lam varuthu.. athu unnai hurt pannuthu…. ithu thappu da… yosichu paaru unnoda paasame avangalukku baarama irukkalama? Nee kaatura anbu ku, returns ethir paarkariye.. ithu nyayama?

Raju: athu..athu vanthu…

Magi : nalla yosichu paaru da…. Yaarume unnai verukkalae…solla pona ellorum un mela niraya respect um anbum vachirukkanga… unkitta athigama pesama irukarathalayum, unkooda lunch ku varama irukkarathalyum avanga anbu kurainjiduchi nu nee santhegapadare na apo avanga mela nee vachirukkara anbu ku avlothana strength….avalothana un belief avanga mela?

Raju is unable to talk anything…he realizes his folly… he feels like all his ego of “Good boy”, “loving brother”, “loving friend” getting shattered… kanneer vida aarmbikkaran….

Magi : dei dei looosu, enda azhare

Raju : nee sonnathu ellam nyayam thaanda… yosichu paartha enakke puriyuthu about how I had been.. I really have been a selfish guy towards my friends or parents or my dear sister…. Anbu, paasam ku sariyana artham theriyaama irunthuttaen…. I feel a disgusted lot about myself now da…

Magi : Come on da, why shud u feel disgusted…. Solla pona unkitta iruntha kurai unakku purinjathuku nee santhosapadanum… yosichu paaru… u had already been a good guy…. Now intha kuraiyum nee correct pannikitta u will be a better guy..isnt that reason enough to be cheerful about?

Raju : you are right da..very much….

Magi : unnai suthi ullavanga love panama irunthiruntha, it wudnt have brought the problems in u outside… u wudnt have come out of ur comfort zone at all to try things, to take a shot at love, to understand urself… paarthiya… unnai varutha pada vachaalum, athunala unnai positive ah develop aaga indirect ah karanama irunthirukkangalae..athu than da nijammave true relation…. Unakku enna kurai machi.. chamathu pullai, elders ah respect panra thanmai, oralavu handsome, hand niraya sum vaangara IT professional….. unnoda think panra vitham mattum thaan nee slight ah adjust pannikanum

Raju : you mean Attitude?

Magi : u r at-it-dude…. Yea rite… athuvum onnum periya vishayam illa….entha mindset ullayum maatikama, mind ah light ah vachikitta vaazhkai santhosama irukum… nee ninaicha mathiri unakku nalla girl friend um kidaippanga… Good luck da !!!

Raju : thanks a lot da machi…. Nee sonna maathiri I am blessed to have such good friends around me and even more blessed to have a friend like you… Also ennoda loving sister Nivetha…. Avalai pathi thappa ninaichu naan avalukku, ava en mela vachirukara anbukku periya throgam pannitaen.. ippa solren da.. I will make sure she gets whatever that makes her happy

Magi : Thatz the spirit da.. bye.. paaru semma dark aayiduchi.... innum late ah pona en pondaati udhaipa… naan kilambaren.. bye

Next day… A far relaxed Raju arrives at his office… For the first time in many days he felt a lot lighter and better… He felt like talking to his sister, so he calls her up

Nivetha: Hellooo annaaa… Good morning

Raju : Good morning, nivetha, eppadi irukkae

Nivetha: naan sooper…neenga eppadi irukeenga… it was so nice hearing u now theriyuma anna….. I am so happy hearing u

Raju : hahahaa…watz the matter

Nivetha : enakku semester exam theriyum la..... bad anna u are…. Wish panrathukku than call paneenga nu ninaicha….. u totally forget ah

Raju : oooh ooh sorry sorry da.. Wish u the very bestttttttt of luck.. u are going to score much higher than previous sems

Nivetha : hehe thanks a lot anna…. Sari naan exam ponum..phone ah vachidava

Raju : yea yea…. Bye..take care…. Hey hey nivetha oru nimisham

Nivetha : yes anna…

Raju : I love u a lot nivii……….so glad to have u as my little sister :)

Nivetha : :D ippa enna na thideernu ithellam solreenga..

Raju : etho thonichu…. Sari bye…exam nalla ezhuthu… Good luck!!!

Nivetha : thanks anna (she hangs up the phone)

Raju felt, he had never been so happy before…. Athe spirit oda he checks the mails… munthina naal PM ku just mail mattum adichittu odunathukku ennalam thitti mails anupirukaro nu konjam tensed ah mail paarthan… Only 1 mail was there in his mail box…. And it was from Roopa….Hi nu subject pottu, she has sent a mail

Aaha… Ithu namma Sasi yoda aalu la… intha mayil ethukku namakku mail anupirukku nu kuzhappathoda mail ah open panninan… ullae paartha oru E-greeting, athu koodave oru side note…

Dear Raju, Miss Roopa misses You,
Will you accept me as, Mrs. Of You??

- Love,
Roopa

Raju ku ethuvum purilae… .ithu kanava…. Illa nijamma..oru velai Sasi ku anuppa vendiya mail ah wrong ah namakku anupichittala nu oru doubt.. apo Hi machi nu oru kural… Sasi was standing beside him

Raju : dei sasi, ennada ithu…… unnoda friend..enakku poi…… ippadi….. ithu enakku thana…

Sasi : haha athu unakku vantha mail thaanda… unnoda doubt puriyuthu… naan than Roopa ku route vittutu irunthaen… but ava route vera, point to point ah ava paarvai un mela than pattucham… athukku help ketka than un close friend ah na ennai approach panniruka… Chennai 28 padathula vara maathiri yaaro yaarukku ingae yaaro nu naanum free ya vittutaen…. Unkitta ava love ah solrathukku avalukku ippathan dhairiyam vanthiruku paaru…..

Raju : (Excited)… enna da solrae….

Sasi : yo man… She loves you da……….

Raju was literally flying……… ennai love panna oru ponnu…….. oorellam fair ah oru ponnu nu thedittu irunthane… enga office laye ennai love panrathukku oru ithayam…. Hmmm Roopa konjam moderate color than...but who cares……. All is fair in love and war…. Kaadhal pannumbothum War seiyyum bothum ellarum fair ah iruppanga nu summava sonnanga…..!!!! I like her….She likes me…. wat else shud matter???

SUBAM

P.S : There it is ... I kept my word... My hero got a heroine........ :D :D :D

Enakkoru Girl Friend venumae - Completed

2007-11-17T22:30:00.000+05:30

Note : I have taken off all the other parts and have left only the full version of the story :) All your valuable comments are not lost anywhere..it is still there... I am trying to compile everything and put it separately :)

P.S : Once again a story that I am gonna write in parts... this one am splitting coz it comes too lengthy..... athaan... kindly excuse.... ivlo perisa potta some chinna pasanga wont read at all..athaan... :D..

P.P.S (ala SAT style) : This is certainly not a comical story nor a spoof nor a take on anyone..I had written some love stories in the past, but in each one of them, the hero will always be outsmarted by the girl and his love would end in failure. To make up for all those things (hehehe... fearing of the side effects of that paavam :D), I wanted to write one story atleast, wherein the hero gets a heroine and his love succeeds.... This story arose out of such a thought :).. So over to the story....

1. Click here to read Part - I
2. Click here to read Part - II
3. Click here to read Part - III
4. Click here to read Part - IV
5. Click here to read Part - V

Enakkoru Girl Friend venumae

Raju was just staring at the monitor....He once again looked at the system time. It was only 10 minutes to 12. Uh..Oh.. at least 20 more minutes before he can call his friend Sasi for lunch. Gosh...he never thought bench life would be so boring so soon. No work to do, No friends to chat with, None of his friends were online at that time..Even his onsite friends have gone to sleep after the day's fight with their offshore counterparts...lazy gooses.....no soul is available to talk in mobile even... Suddenly everyone appeared to be so busy with their work, while for Raju, the clock appeared to limp like a boozed old man on its way to the next minute..

Till last week, Raju also was in a project, a critical project as they always say…In IT industry, even a project not worth it’s salt will be called as a critical project, if the client is demanding…..Raju was not having a even minute to spare, overflowed with so many tasks to complete. Phone bells never stopped ringing in Raju’s cubicle, from the onsite co ordinator who spit fire even fiercer than a dragon, from the Testing team bugging with bugs always, from his Project manager who pings him too often to know about the current status…
Particularly in the previous week, the work was just too much, with so much of his routine works got affected. He was not able to call his loving sister Nivetha also, whom he considers so much closer to heart more than anyone else. Nivetha is studying in IISc Bangalore, staying in a hostel. Raju never failed to call dear nivee at least once a day ever since she went Bangalore two years ago.. Hmm…from being such a busy bee to a zombie now in a space of 5 days … phewwww…IT life for sure is a pendulum Raju thought.

[ START BREAK ]: phew…. English laye ezhutharathu romba kashtama iruku…..so switching back to Tanglish… Harish,Prithz, Romie,KK, Kavitha04, ~Suchi and all peter English writers….Kindly execuse :D [END BREAK]

Raju restlessly looked at the time again. It is 12:09 now. He thought, ippave call pannathan, eppavum busy nu scene podara Sasi will come for lunch at 12:30 at least. So he dialed Sasi’s extension number from the intercomm. Sasi attends the call

Sasi : sollu machi

Raju : Wassup da

Sasi : Work than da… so many tasks to complete bfore EOD

Raju : Nee tasks for EOD nu solrae…naan Task-less ah Eee ottitu irukkaen…hmph…

Sasi : machan..epadi da kalakkare…

Raju : ayye..podhum…sari time for lunch…Vaa polaam

Sasi : dei busy da

Raju : nee busy da, enakku pasi da

Sasi : Barely 2.5 hours since u would have had your breakfast, athukulla lunch ah

Raju : enna panrathu, If there is nothing to do, eating is a good time pass at least

Sasi : ippadi solli solli than, overaa weight pottiruke nee… College la all rounder ah iruntha nee, ippo software company vanthu aalu rounder ah aayitae… :)

Raju : podhum, niruthikko, Sappida vaa…Come.

Sasi : dei machi..athu vanthu…hehee..

Raju : Come na, ennada pammare? Vaada

Sasi : athu illada… naan oru ponnukku route vittutu irunthaen la Roopa nu…. Ipothan work out aagara mathiri iruku… ava la lunch kooptirukken.. inniku ava kooda poren da.. Sorry machii…

Raju : adappavi….

Sasi : hey man, onsite la irunthu call panna solli ping panranga… I will talk to u later

Ipadi solitu tak nu phone ah vachidaran Sasi… Raju felt so awful….Oh God… not again he thought…!!!! Not so long ago, Raju’s lunch team was a big one..But as days passed by Girl friend, marriage nu vanthavudane Ovvoruthara kazhandukittanga…. And the latest to join that list was Sasi leaving Raju all alone.

Why is that the guy prefer to go with his girl friend all alone, Raju wondered….. Just because u get a new relation, u have to cut all the other existing relations..How stupid!!! Is a love relation so different, that u need to de-friend all others? Oh, Raju never liked this Love concept and from all what he has heard, seen, portrayed in the movies he has seen, he hated Love more than anything else…. Sasi kitta pesinathu la irunthu Raju got so irritated…Now he can’t go alone for lunch also… Office Food court la Single ah sappida pona..engayum utkara vida maatanga…. Sorry anga aal varanga nu solliye ovvoru idama thurathi vittuduvanga…cha cha…

Already idle ah irunthathunala irritated ah iruntha Raju, intha matter ku apuram semma upset…….. He felt like talking to his sister Nivetha… who is the only one in his entire world, who can make Raju feel better than anyone else…. Nivee kitta ithellam sonnale, manasu light ah aayidum.... Today is Wednesday thane...so she has classes only in the morning..shud be free now....ippadi think pannitu Raju comes out of his wing and calls up nivee at her mobile. Ring went at the other side... Raju was little bit tensed if Nivetha would be blasting him for not calling him for a full week...itz oki adjust pannikalam... sweet girl she is nu ninaichukittae Raju waits for Nivetha to pick the phone up....Nivi picks it up

Nivetha : hiiii anna

Raju : hey nivetha……nee eppadi irukkae?

Nivetha : am fine na… neenga eppadi irukeenga

Raju : am fine too ma…. Hey sorry da nivi, 1 week ah semma work…. oki va….ingayum angayum nagara kooda mudilae…bend eduthuttanga…. Saturday Sunday kooda office vanthaen theriyuma… athan da call pannala… am so sorry, amma vum appa vum sollirupanga ninaikkaren

Nivetha : yea yea they told… I was ok anna…. Don’t worry

(Raju is surprised…usual ah 1 day call pannalena kooda next day pannumbothu pichi eduthuduva.. now ethuvume sollaliye nu)

Raju : hey something odd with u today…sari pogattum vidu. Enakku Diwali ku oru T-Shirt vaangi vai nu sonnen la… vaanguniya?

Nivetha : oh anna sorry…. naan shopping panna ponappo, I was able to get only a shirt for u, T-Shirt vaanga mudilae…

Raju : Free vidu, nee vaanguna Shirt la Tea ya oothi athaiye naan T-Shirt aakidaren :D (chuckles)

Nivetha : haiyyo annna…verupethatheenga…. T-Shirts lam inga rumba costly ah irunthathu and aIso didn’t have enough money at that time

Raju : ATM la kaasu eduthirukkalamae

Nivetha : antha kodumaiya en anna ketkareenga…ATM pakathulaye onnu irunthuchu…but PIN number ah maranthuttaen.. athaan…

Raju : ada enna nivee…penn buthi PIN buthi nu solvaangale..appadi irunthuma maranthutte ;)

Nivetha : paduthatheenga anna…. Mokkai podarthai neenga stop pannave maatengala…..

Raju : hahaa… vaai bokkai aanalum en mokkai pogaathu :D…..sari, sari free… I wanted to tell u one important thing..…..

Nivetha (interrupts) : listen… I have an important thing to tell to u myself….

Raju : hey po foul…. Nan than phone panninen..and I only started… naan than soluvaen

Nivetha : ponga anna… Girls than first… Naan solrene anna….please please….

Raju : (konjalaga) chinna thangaiye nivetha...
nee sonnathellam ketpaen..enakku nee Vedha...
ippo first nan sola konjam enakku nee Way thaa..

Nivetha: hehhee.. poda anna...podhum ice..naan than solven....

Raju : aargh....sari sollu..sollu..solluuuuu....

Nivetha : solraen..solraen…. aana tell me this, u are a very good Anna thane… Watever that is happy for me is happy for u also thane…

Raju : enna pullae ippadi solli puttae…. Un santhosam than en santhosam..unakkaga… naan..naan…

Nivetha : (interrupts) podhum podhum…udane unga la la la tune pottudatheenga.. nan solla porathu la-la-la matter illa ooh-la-la matter…

Raju : enna nivee solrae?

Nivetha : mmm…purilaya (pauses)…Raju Anna..I think I am in love with namma Nandhini Aunty’s son Gokul…..

Nivetha ippadi sonnavudane Raju ku oru nimisham onnum purilae...he could not believe his own ears….

Raju : (panicky voice la) ennathu…….. ennathu… sollu sollu

Nivetha : annaa… Delhi la irukangala namma Nandhini athai, avanga paiyan, nammaloda cousin Gokul ah naan love panren anna… avanum…cha (blushes) avarum ennai love panraar…. (blushes again)

appadiye 10 atom bomb ah koluthi potta maathiri oru sound..athu onnum illa..Raju voda manasula intha maathiri oru feeling..avan heart la vedicha maathiri...Love…Love… Love…... athe vaarthai… Raju ku English la pidikkathe orae vaarthai… (Author: appo Romance ngra word na pidikkuma apadinu lam no cross qwestions ketka koodathu plz :D, ithu serious ah na situation..so mugatha serious ah vachikittu padinga.. ) ithu varaikkum avan kitta dear ah pazhagina friends elloraiyum avan kitta irunthu separate panna athe love… athe love la ippa avan sister um maatikitta… Raju ku kobam kobama varuthu… aana nivi kitta kobathai eppadi kaatarathu nu avanukku therila….coz He had never been angry with his sister so far... So silent ah irukan..

(after few minutes)

Nivetha : anna….enna sound aeh kaanom

Raju : (grumbles) huhhh......huhhhh....

Nivetha : haiyoo...anna pesunga nu sonna ippadi anaconda effect thareengal.. (chuckles)

Raju : (fuming) nakkala pocha unakku.... neee...

Nivetha : (interrupts) Anna…anna..wait…Looks like Gokul aththan is on call…(blushes) .I will call u later oki…. Sorry so much anna… (blushes) I will call u back… hehehe hehehe…(blushes) Bye anna… (hangs up the call)

Ippadiyaga Nivetha vum call ah cut pannidara. Raju is shaken to the core… What a day it has been for him…… First his best friend Sasi….nethi varaikkum hey machan enna vachan nu kulainjittu irunthaan…. Aana inniku, Call pesittu irukkumbothe, avan sight call vanthavudane, onsite call nu dabaaichutu phone ah cut pannitan…… intha ponnu Nivetha…. Avanoda manasaatchi, avan kooda pirantha thangai…. avaluma love la...My God…avaluma Romance la vizhunthutta… Romance ku spelling kooda theriyadha ponnu athu, English essay la laam Romeo and Juliet fell into Romans nu thathakka pithakka va ezhuthuvaale avala……avaluma kaadhalikkara....Wat a pity, wat a pity....Intha latchanathula avanoda orkut la today's fortune nu soli "you will recieve good news through telephone" nu laam pottirunthaanga....Ithu enna kodumai saravanan.... x-(

Raju over feelings la irunthathala, manasula pesittu irunthathu speaker on panni vittuta maathiri vaarthai veliyave vanthuduthu...avanoda neram..antha time la nu paarthu avanoda PM Saravana kumar antha vazhiya cross panraar... Raju solratha kettutu thannai thaan koopidarano nu ninaichikitu.. "hey raju..watz the matter dude..What u referred as kodumai to me? any probs?" appadinu kettute avan pakkam varaar......Raju avara samalikkarathukkaga pesa aarambikkiran

"athilla sir...ellarum India 20-20 cup ah jeyichathai romba surprised ah perisa solraanga... but namma abdul kalam ithai erkanave predict pannirukaru..athai orutharum kandukka maatengranga illaiya..athai ninaichu than naan apadi sonnen" nu solraan

Saravanan gets surprised.."oh is it...avar predict pannirukara...thatz great..eppo sonnar?" nu aachariyama ketkarar...

Raju "ada aama sir..India will be successful by 2020 nu avar than adikkadi solirukar la...enna oru hyphen ah vittutaru...mathapadi he was just perfect..illaiya sir" appadinu Raju sirichikitte ketkaran. Saravana Kumar ku vantha kaduppu la avar kai la iruntha laptop ah appadiye thooki pottirupar Raju mela...aana Office manners nu onnu irukkarathala control pannikitu, "summa ponavana kooptu mokkai pottu sorinju vittutiyada... iru di..un appraisal la aapu vachu athai aapuraisal aakidaren" nu manasukkula karuvitte vidu vidu nu poidarar antha idathai vittu....

namma hero raju vo Janakaraj style la "sogamana situation la kooda ippadi marana mokkai podariye da..athu eppadi da raju unnala mattum mudiyuthu..ennamo poda raju" appadinu thanakku thaane aaruthal sollitu depressed ah sirichikittae, he returns back to his cubicle

(A Day later…)
Twilight time….Besant nagar beach….Raju was lying on the beach sands near the shore looking at the waves that wetted his knees and went back. Amazing he thought, that simply looking at the waves calms the wavering mind. Probably, seeri paayara alai, alai paayura ennam rendume onna synch aagarathunala irukkalam... Depression in the ocean brings rains...Depression in our mind also bring rains...in the form of tears from our eyes... Hmmm...kodumai….thilo kooda suthittu irukka vendiya vayasula ippadi thaniya philo pesa vachuttangalae...Poor Raju, he had never been to beach alone previously... Chinna vayasula family kooda varuvaan…. He and nivetha would be playing in the beach, running and catching, building castles out of sand, going for a ride in the horse…used to be lots of fun…. Then with his friends group, in school, college and then in work…. Nivetha, whenever she comes to Chennai, pesters Raju to take her to beach… Now he is all alone in the same beach, kadalaiye verichu verichu paarthukittu….. veruppa irunthathu Raju ku…..

Appo some one tapped Raju in his back, Raju thirumbi paarthan…Surprise..surprise…ange ninuttu irunthathu avanoda childhood friend and oru kaalathula avanoda best friend Magi alias Magesh. Raju va porutha varai, Magi than mudhal “dhrogi”…close ah pazhagittu irunthavan, oru lover kidaichavudane, kandukkarathaiye vittutu antha ponnu pinnadiye suthittu irunthavanga list la mudhal aal. He has married her now and kind of settled in life. Appadi patta oruthanai kitta thatta after 2 years paarthathula Raju ku semma santhosam… avan mela kobam irunthalum, ippo irukara mind set la he felt so happy about meeting his pal Magi.

Magi : dei machaan..eppadi da irukae

Raju : fine da…… nee eppadi irukae…un lover..sorry sorry..un wife eppadi irukkanga…

Magi : avalukkenna da she is doing great… nee enna machi thannanthaniya beach la sogamae uruva kadalai paarthuttu irukka…enna kaadhal tholvi ya….

Raju : (depressed smile) :yea yea… Kaadhal tholvi than…. Aana kadhalichathu enna suthi irunthavanga… thothathu mattum naan… athan eppavume oru kootathoda suthittu iruntha naan inniku thaniya suthittu irukkaen :)

Magi : ennada solrae

[Raju explains everything up to Nivetha’s love story]

Magi : hahahaaa

Raju : dei enda ippadi sirikkare..

Magi : sorry da machan… I can’t but help laugh at ur childishness. I can very well understand that you feel lonely without those dears near u. But it is not fair on ur part to be expecting them to be always with you la.. Everyone has a life for their own and sooner than later you will also have one on ur own...

Raju : yea yea I understand all that. I agree marital relation is the most important relation in our life, but there is a limit to everything. I hate this concept of love da…….. stupid thing….It makes the person selfish... Oru proverb solvaanga about Friends, when the whole world steps out, your friend steps in… but intha love vishayatha porutha varai… It is like…When a lover steps in, the whole world literally steps out of that person’s mind.. how mean

Magi : hahaa… machan….true thanda… see.. It is a new relation after all…and it is but human tendency to get all excited about anything new that you experience. And when it is a love relation, the excitement knows no bounds because the very thought that you have got that person to live with your entire life is just amazing u know….

Raju : don’t blabber da… Take the case of my sis…. Chinna ponnu she is….after all… how can u say that she has the capacity to select the person to be with her life?

Magi : nee than da ularure… What is ur sister’s age da… u are 26 now…and she is just 4 years younger than u at 22. She is more than matured enough to choose her life and does not need any guidance in that.

Raju : dei…. How can she da… how can she dare to do such things.. amma appa va mathikkama….ennai.. I have been closer to her than our appa or amma is... I have shared so many things with her, which I have not opened with any one else

Magi : chinna pullaiyaatam pesathe da…. Ellorkittayum consult panitu mudivu edukkarathukku Kaadhal onnum job offer kidayaathu..athu oru feel da… you can never predict when it wud happen inside u, you can never explain that to others at all…. Actually I wud say that ava ippa unkitta sonnathe, because of the respect she has for u than

Raju : cinema dialogue lam nala vidu da nee

Magi : illada, not dialogue, I am telling straight out of my heart.. ippa unakku enna problem un thangai love panrathunala…. Antha paiyan eppadi patta paiyan….

Raju : avan enga cousin thaanda…. distant cousin actually…, Chinna vayasula their family was in chennai only and appa lam vilayada enga veetukku than varuvaan… appuram they moved to Delhi. Recent ah innoru cousin marriage la than romba nalaikku appuram avanai naanga paarthom.. appave avan en thangachiya sight adichittu irunthan. Galatta vittutu irunthaan… pakathula vanthu hello madame nu nivetha paarthu sonnana… nivee ku semma kobam…. Hello sir, I am not madam…call me nivee nu sonna…. Athukku la avan, style ah sirichittu, oh nivi… I said…mah-dame..and not madame…. appadinu sonnan

Magi : hahaa kalakittan po… sari ithelam paarthuttu annan unakku kobam varalai?

Raju : mmm..vanthuchu… but avan intha maathiri dialogue vittavudane Nivetha sirichitta…... as long as it is within limits, my sis does not have any complaints and enjoy such things, antha age kana enjoyment kulla naan interfere panna virumbale

Magi : Great maan… thatz awesome attitude on ur part, i must say…. Sari..avan nalla paiyan thane

Raju : hmm hmm… nalla paiyan than.. Appa IAS officer, amma, athavathu enga athai house wife, orthodox family. Ore paiyan

Magi : pinna ennada un problem… intha kaalathula ponnunga lam kaadhal nu sollitu oor per theriyatha, poruthame illatha pasangaloda suthittu irukkanga..un thangachi theliva mudiveduthu, same caste la, unga family laye select panna epadi select pannuvangalo, avangaloda mind ku pidikkira maathiriyum, athe samayam thannoda manasukku pidicha maathriyum oru paiyanai thane select panniruka.. she shud be congratulated actually. And you and your parents should feel lucky for having a girl like her in ur family..Athai vittutu en feel pannare?

Raju : irunthalum…. I can never accept this (shakes his head)

Magi : u can’t than da….coz you are 26 and innum verumane office poitu, kadamaikku nu velai paarthuttu , veetukku thirumbi vara pullai nee… man..come out of ur shell da..ulagathai suthi paaru… u will get to know how good Love is… machan..Kaadhal onnum ketta vishayam illa...onnu purinjukko… Marriage is inevitable in our life…. We will not be able to select our Parents, we will not be able to select our siblings, and in most cases we will not be able to select our friends also… ithellam thanaa amaiyara uravu.. But for a person we are gonna be with for more than half of our life… angayum, kannai katti nadu forest la kondu poi vitta mathiri thideernu oruthar munnadi nikka vachu, ivanga than un kooda life la vara poranga nu sonna, yosichu paaru… eppadi iurkkum? Namma studies, namma career pathi lam evvalo plan panrom, athe pola thane namma personal life um important...…namma mind ka oruthar mela feel vanthu, ivanga namma kooda vantha nallarukkume nu thoni, avanga mela anbu vachu, avangalaiye life partner aakikittom na life sorgama irukkum :)

Raju : hmmmm

Magi : after all marital life is all about perfect understanding... ivanga than namma vaazhkai thunai rendu peru manasu layum ore maathiri thonarathu rare vishayam machi. And when it does happen, it surely is a bliss…. Not that I am against arranged marriage, but for people with balanced minds, love definitely gives more chance for a better married life :) I do believe nivetha has the perfect mind and thinking... ada ennada unga appa amma voda valarppu pathi enakku irukkara belief kooda unakku illaiye...

Ippadi magesh love ah pathi uyarva pesa pesa, Raju manathil oru maatram…. Face la oru thelivu theriyuthu, and it gets brighter…

Raju : dei magi…….. shit da.. ivlo naal love ah pathi naan thapave than ninaichittu irunthaen..actually nee solrathum, ithu varai en life la nadanthathum vachu paartha……… enaku nee solratha appadiye feel panan mudiyuthu

Magi : (happily smiles) :) cool da, apuram enna anna na latchanama Nivetha voda love ah veetula eduthu solli avalukku green signal vaangi kodukka paaru..athu than ava mela nee vachirukara pasathukku unmaiyana mariyathai :)

Raju : ada athu oru pakkam irukkatum da……… nee sonnathai ketka ketka, enakkula oru feeling…… I think I found what I have missed all thru in life…….. ada enna da….. periya Love… (gets up) Enthiruchitten...itho varen... Naanum panrenda Love-u………….

Magi was stunned on hearing Raju saying this.. He never expected this…Thangachi ponnu Nivetha love ku support ah ava annana convince pannalam nu love pathi konjam extra bit potta… athu back fire aagi, kinaru vetta boodham kilambina maathiri intha paiyane love panna poraennu kilambittane nu avanukku thonuthu….Magi paarthutte nikka, charged up ah Raju kilambinan antha idathai vittu.

Veerama savaal vittutu vanthane thavira Raju ku aduthu enna panrathu nu purilae.. Veetukku pona udane Amma kitta sappadu kooda venam nu sollitu thannoda room kulla poi lock pannikiran.....Mirror munadi ninnutu thannaiye paarthuttu yosikkaran...Perisa savaal vittome… nammala la mudiyuma.. Love panra age lam thaandi poche da.. ithukku mela Girl friend kidaikkuma namakkellam……… ippadi lam thinking poguthu…….. Romba naal aachu avanai avane paarthu... Shave pannumbothu mugatha paarkarathoda sari...after a long time, he sees his reflection in the mirror....a bulged belly, vitta konja naal la helmet maathiri aagidumo nu bayamuruthara thalai…Gosh…. 26 age ku ithellam too much ah theriyuthe da machi nu avan manasu soluthu..athukku avan manasatchi..”Theriyum da theriyum… regular food lam skip pannitu, cream biscuit, pizza, noodles nu one by one ah ulla pogumbothu ithellam theriyaathu…. Taste ah irukkaenu waste foods lam sappita.. Fast foods na fast ah than side effects um varum” nu solluthu.. Psssst.. sari sari sari…athellam pazhaiya kadhai…… Come to the present..Ippo somehow he has to get a girl friend sooner than later… Nivetha matter veliyae mukkiyama Parents ku theriya munnadi enakku oru lover vanthudanum…athukana vazhiya paarkanum…. Enna pannalam nu yosichittu irukkarappo avanukku avanoda colleague Vijay nyabagam varuthu…Yess…avan than intha matter la namakku help panna koodiya correct ah na aal… oru nalla idea kidaicha kushi la thoonga poraan Raju…

Vijay …… Raju voda colleague… Raju Office la velai paarkira pasangalukku love matter la enna problem naalum Vijay kitta than odi varuvaanga… ponnungalai correct panrathukku Vijay correct ah na ideas koduppan…. Idea work out aagutho illiyo… antha ponnu work out aagidum, idea ketta paiyanukku.. Ponnungala approach panni pesarathula irunthu avanga kitta propose panra varai ellathukkum tips and training kodukkarathula Vijay namma Shahjahan Vijay maathiri... Ippadi patta Vijay va than Raju meet panni idea ketkarathu nu decide panninan… Sigh…perumoochu vittan Raju….Love nu pesarathukke vetka paduvan …Badminton aadum podhu kooda oorellam love all nu sollumbothu Raju mattum zero all nu pidivathama solra type…. Hmm… antha thayakkam lam when Not a girl into my life…..But to Knot a girl into my life, ethuna senju thane aaganum nu Raju thannai thane samathana paduthikittu Vijay cubicle ku poraan…

Raju pona time, Vijay cubicle la erkavane oru Panchayathu nadanthuttu irunthathu… athu onnum illa… avan kita idea kettutu pona oruthan avan experience ah solitu irunthaan… kooda avanoda friends

Vijay : ennada murali…. En pei arainja maathiri irukkae?? enna matter??… nee daavu vittutu irunthiyae dharini ava ena solra?

Murali : ada poda machi… nee sonniyae nu eduthavudane propose panama, friend ah pazhagi konja konjama nerunga aarambichen dharini kooda… athu work out aagara maathiri than irunthathu..close ah thaan pazhagina… nee solviye, ponnungalukku comedy sense irukkaravangala romba pidikkum nu.. Sari nu nethiku onu try pannaen… antha dharini pei nijamavae arainjiduchi

Vijay : ennada pannae? Overa blade pottiya?

Murali : ada illada, ava previous day avanga veetula paartha mega serials pathi pesittu irunthaala… naan oru vilayaatukku solli tak nu ava kannathula la killitu “I am a serial killer..coz I don’t like serials” nu solli sirichaen… adhukku ava udane ennai palaar nu arainjittu… “ I am a pinch hitter” nu sonna.. :(.. appuram sonna intha maathiri thodara velaiyellam vachukkathe nu :(

Vijay : ada ppavi..adappavi… Murali ngra perukku latchanama erumai maathiri porumaiya irukkarathai vittutu, comedy panraanam comedy….. Girls kitta lam paarthu pazhaganum da… free ya pazhagarangale nu freedom eduthukka koodathu… Girls sensitive na, u sense it, leave…limit meerina rivit (rivet) thaan purinjatha?

Murali : purinjathu annae… (kannathai pidichikittu) nalla purinjathu.. (Murali leaves that place)

Vijay : hmmm.. kodukkira role ah pannungada na over acting try panni mothathaiyum spoil pannidaranunga…..

[Raju enters the cubicle at that time]

Vijay : hey da raju…vaa machi vaa… eppadi irukkae

Raju : am fine da nee eppadi irukkae..

Vijay : ennakenna machaan…. Am sooper fine….. oru Project leader ah naan guide panra projects um click aaguthu… oru friend ah naan guide panra pasanga love um click aaguthu…. :) :) verenna verenna vendum………

Raju : machaan.. nee nijammave genius da…. Unna nambi thaanda vanthirukkaen……. Enakku nee serious ah oru help pannanum da…

Vijay : ethanai peruku da comedy ah help pannitu irukkaen naan?

Raju : ada kadikkathe da pangaali… enakku thideernu love mela oru interest vanthirukku (vetka padran) aana epadi nu than therilae :( ethanaiyo peru vaazhkai la kaadhal jothi ethi vachirukkae….Enakkum ethaachum help pannu da :D

Vijay : (surprised) dei ammanji…… ennada solrae….neeya pesiyathu… kanna neeya pesiyaathu… namba mudiyavillai…villai…villai….

Raju : asinga paduthathe da…ithu varaikkum appadi irunthutten….. kazhudhais thaan kaadhal pannum… Singam…single ah than irukkum nu ninaichittu irunthuttaen…

Vijay: haha ippa mattum single ah illama, oruthar kooda mingle panni, jungle ah na life la jingles paadalam nu eppadi thonuchu?

Raju: hmm ennai suthi ulla paathi peru Love panni than, avanga life partner ah decide pannikaranga…….. athu ennai thoondi vittuduchu…. athuvum nalla than irukkum nu enakku thonuthu………therila da…solla therila…… but love pannanum nu thonuthu..avlothan

Vijay: haha… ithukku peru than da love.. unakku athukana mudhal arikuri vanthuduchi… Love kooda kadavul maathiri than…. Athu sambanthapatta niraya vishayangala naama nambuvom….seivom.. Aana en seirom nu karanam ketta athukku sariya reason solla theriyaathu..thonum..pannuvom avlothan :)

Raju: athaanda athaanda….thideernu love pannanum nu aasai vanthiruchi da machi…. Nee than da en GF

Vijay: elae Raju nee desperate ah irukkae nu puriyuthu..athukkaga oru paiyanai GF aakika poriya

Raju: poda vennai…GF na God Father nu sonnaen da…….. machan help pannu da

Vijay: hmm… ok da.. college padikkara kaalathu lam vittutu, ippadi kaal age thaandi napuram aasai vanthirukka unakku?

Raju: dei…enna panna solrae….College padikarappa lam.. ponnungalai sight adichalo, avangala paarthu nakkal pannalo, thappa pesinaalo Reverse effect ah future la en thangachi kitta evanavathu athe maathiri panniduvano nu oru bayam nu vachukkoyen….. so naan ponnunga kitta romba nalla pullai ya irunthirukkaen…. Athuvum illama sight adikkarathu, jollu vidarathu, love panrathu lam desiya kutram nu ninaichiruken :D ippadiye poyiduchu en vaaliba vayasu….

Vijay: ennamo solrae..onnum purilae po…… sari vidu ippo unakku oru girl friend venum..avvalo thaane..

Raju: aama aama..aana etho oru ponnu lam illa… ponnu paarkarathu sooper ah slim ah semma azhaga Asin maathiri irukkanum :D

Vijay: adinga… Asin ah da…Asin-gama ethuna sollida poraen….

Raju: Machaan…eppavume perisa aim pannanum… Asin range ku aim pannathan namma cousin range kavathu yaaruna varuvaanga….

Vijay: nalla pesara da… dei machi solrathai kelu………. Unakkku intha old techniques lam venaam… un personality ku love at first sight work out aagathu…… naama love at first site technique try pannalam

Raju: enada solrae

Vijay: kelu.. old formula than aana new style… namma lam college la padikkarache ladies college ladies college ah suthi ponnungala sight vittu right panna paarpangal la pasanga

Raju: aama..

Vijay: athe formula than…. Orkut account vachiruke la..athula womens college community ah po………athula niraya girls iruppanga la…… avangal la unaku pidichavangala select pannu

Raju: athu sari..aana athula avanga photo lam irukkuma enna

Vijay: athai yen ketkare...mobile camera, digital camera nu vanthaalum vanthathu... chumma ishtathukku click panni orkut la upload pannidranga makkal lam.. privacy pathi lam kandukkarathe illae...pasanga nalum thannoda photo potta damage ayidumo nu Hrithik photo, Sharukh photo nu pottu escape aayiduvanga..aana ponnunga... athellam paarkarathe illa... appapa updated ah photo va pottiruvanga...public ah podaraome…kandavanga paarpangalae…silar misuse kooda panna chance irukkae nu lam theriyaathu…...sari athai vidu…nee enna panra..antha photo lam paarthu unakku pidicha ponna select panrae

Raju: cycle gap la ennai kandavan nu solrrae..hmmm

Vijay: sari sari feel pannathe..un love wORKoUT aaga namakku Orkut than help panna poguthu..ennoda plan ah kelu...nee ippadi ovvoru community ah poi athula irunthu ovvoru girls profiles ah poiyi unakku pidicha maathiri azhagana girl ah paarthu select panrae… appuram enna panrae… follow her in her scrap book….ava scrap book la mathavanga ezhutharathum, ava avangaloda scrap book la reply panrathaiyum eduthukko…. U can get to know about her….. intha kaala ponnunga pala peru orkut la than secret ah pesa vendiya ella matter aiyum pesirupanga..so athellam vachu u can infer something about her… and based on the communities she is part of and her testimonial, athai vache kuthu mathippa oru kelvi kelu ava scrap book la poi… hey nee thane antha ponnu appadingra type la..

Raju : appadi ketta?

Vijay: Ponnungalukku curiosity unarvu jaasthi… hey ennai pathi unakku eppadi theriyum..nee yaaru apadingra unarvu avangalukku udane vanthudum..so they will definitely return ur scrap..neeyum reply pannanum…intha maathiri poganum…. the important thing is u should not give away that nee sight adikkara party noh, illa trespass panravan noh…. Decency and dignity maintain pannanum….ippadiye maintain pannitu appuram nice ah G-Talk id vaangidanum…and somehow make them add u to their friend’s list

Raju: ada ada ada ketkarathukke nalla irukkae..mm appuram

Vijay: From there on, ur skills should take over….. pesi pesi ye impress panni, nee romba nallavan, vallavan nu theriya vachittu appurama step by step ah munneru… first phone number, sms anupparathu, call panrathu, appuram meet panrathu…ippadiye improve pannitu appuram propose pannidu.. ithu than en master plan

Raju: ketkurathuku nala iruku machi..but am not used to talk in a way to impress..esp with Girls….

Vijay: hello… opening ku than tips thara mudiyum..finishing lam nee than paarkanum… nan solratha correct ah follow panna unakku oru opening kidaikkum….athukku appurama magane un samarthu…..

Raju: sari da… poruthirunthu paaru Asatha povathu yaaru nu

Vijay: paarthu paarthu…… ushara illae na, nalaikku vayithai kalakka povathu yaaru nu aagida poguthu…… Best of Luck!!!

[ 3 days later…Vijay’s cubicle… Raju comes to meet Vijay. He is not there..only his team mate Vishal is there]
Raju : hey Vishal, enna da machan, namma guru Vijay ah rendu naala aalai kaanom?

Vishal: avan friend Mani nu oruthan DSP ponnai love pannitu irunthan… ivan than vazhakkam pola avanukkum kaadhal guru… antha love matter la konjam prachinai aagiduchi…. Odi poi kalyanam than kattikalama nu antha ponnai izhuthuttu poi Tirupathi la vachu thaali kattitan…. Vijay ah than satchi kaiyezhuthu podarathukka kooptirunthan… athukkaga tirupathi poitu, inniku kaalaila train la Chennai kilambirukkan.. vanthuruvan nu sonnan office ku, innum konja nerathila

Raju : adappavi ….aanalum avan friend ukku sema dhairiyam thaanda… DSP ponnaiye izhutthutu odirukkana…….antha ponnum paaren…. 20 varusham paasama valartha appa va vittutu evan koodavo odi porathuku accept panniruka

Vishal : haha… avalum ithe maathiri oru guilty feel la than da irunthirukka..but enna aachu theriyuma..avanga tirupathi ku car la escape aayitu iruntha time la andhra border la oru check post la avanga car ah madakittanga…. Car ah check pannathu yaaru theriyuma?.... antha ponnoda Appa dhan

Raju : adra sakkai… antha paiyani kozhi kunju amukkara maathiri kootitu poi laadam kattirupar la

Vishal : athaan illa…. ivan thannoda pudhu Maruthi Zen ah eduthuttu poirunthirukkan…avar antha car ah ye suthi suthi athoda azhaga paarthuttu irunthuttaaru… avaroda ponnai kandukkave illa pogumbothu Good choice son nu vera car ah pathi appreciate pannirukaru..… appuram enna… rendu perum escape aayitaanga

Raju : enna kodumai da.. sontha ponnu pakkathula irukkarathu kooda theriyama car ah paarthu jollu vittutu irukkira manushan… kudumbatha gavanikkaratha vittutu, azhaga irukkanga nu ethanai ponnunga la paarthu jollu vittutu irunthiruppar… ipadi irresponsible ah oru Appa iruntha entha ponnum odi poi kalyanam panikalam thappe illae…. Hmmmmm… sari namma Purasawalkam Prakash ah enga oru vaarama aalai kanom

Vishal : nethikku than avanga veetukku phone panni visaarichen…thalai ore feelings ahm….

Raju : en enna aachu?

Vishal : etho oru ponnu pinnadi suthirukkan…ava pesi pazhagarathai vachu ava love panra nu ninaichittu irunthirukkan.. kadseela athu marriage invitation ah kondu vanthu neeti…nee than da en best friend..unakku than first invitation..nee kandippa varanum nu sollirukku…..

Raju : hahaha..ada pavi… ponnunga manasai correct ah purinjikka koodiya arivu en koodave piranthathu nu peethikittu iruppanae.. avana ippadi emaanthan?

Vishal : ada, avan sonnathu, avan koodave pirantha avan thambi arivazhagana pathi… ivan oru bekku… etho aasai kolaaru……. Thappa think pannitu, ippa varutha pattutu irukkan……

Raju : Sari nee oru ponnukku nool vittutu irunthiye..antha matter enna aachu..love ah sonniya illiya?

Vishal : hehe solren da solren..inniku solla poraen.. ennoda kadhala kavithai yave ezhuthi vachirukaen :D

Raju : ada… kazhudhai nee kavithai kooda ezhuthariyaada.. vaasi ketpom…

Vishal : hehhee..ava daily office ku scooty la vara illa? Athai vachu start panirukkaen :D…
Scooty-ile vanthu
Duty seiyyum cutie,
My dear beauty,
Love panna unakku naan kodukkava KT,
Neethane en kadhali, en athaiyin beti…
I love you sollen… atleast oru vaati…

Raju : :) :)… appadi podu... Paarthu paarthu… nee T.Rajendar oda sishyan nu ninaichu ponnu bayanthu da poguthu…

[Next cubicle Manju gets up]

Manju : enda dei Vishal..….. eppa paarthalum unakkum Vijay kum girl friends, love ithai pathiye than pecha.. pesarathukku vera ethuvume kidaikkaliya….. en intha nalla pullai Raju vaiyum kedukareenga…

Vishal : sari sari nee niruthu… unakku boy friend thevai padumbothum naanum Vijay um thaan unakku help pannuvom…po po naan kudutha andha velaiya mattum paaru

Manju : kashtam da unga kooda (thalai la adichikittu she gets back to her work)

(Vijay walks into his cubicle just at that moment)

Raju : vaada Vijay vaa.. vaa.. Vishal ellam sonnan… kaadhaluku idea koduthuttu irunthathu poi, ippo kalyanam panni vaikkara alavu poitiya nee..kalakkare po

Vijay: :) :) sari sari antha matter ah vidu…unnoda search entha level la irukku.. un love match ah catch panniya

Raju: hehe hehe… :D :D

Vijay : ennada ennada..… brush pannatha un teeth la nee overaa blush panratha paartha etho un thotathula poothirukku pola?

Raju : :D athellam illa da… nee sona maathiri ovvoru women’s college community ah ponena.. Athu la iruntha photos lam paarthu, athula azhaga, en height ku correct ah, naan expect panra maathiri character ah oru 2,3 ponnungala select panninaen

Vijay : athu eppadi da raasa character analysis lam pannirukae?

Raju : vera epadi..avanga scrapbook padichu paarthu than…. Oralavu guess panna mudiyum la..avangalukku eppadi patta makkal scrap panraanga..avanga andha scrap ku eppadi reply panraanga nu..

Vijay : pottu thaaku… pachaiya sonna uravu paarkaren nu solli nee ulavu paarthiruke.. ithellam therinjavathu ponnunga avanga scrapbook la privacy maintain pannalam..

Raju : pannalame… naane advice panren inimael :D sari kelu… athula oru ponnu da Sujatha nu peru…. Soooper ah iruntha da :D

Vijay : sari sari overaa vazhiyaathe… matter ku vaa

Raju: :D ava join pannirukkara communities lam paarthen…. Athula oru community Law Colleges in Tamilnadu nu irunthuchu…. Naanum athukkula ponena… Saw her message there…inquiring for the best law college in tamilnadu, for her brother nu solliruntha… ithu than pesarathukku sariyana chance nu thonichu, athe community la naanum sernthu, antha message ku reply adichen….

Vijay: ennanu

Raju:Hey Sujatha, if ur brother takes law for profession, will he become your brother-in-law nu :)

Vijay: mokkai mokkai..angayum un mokkaiya vidaliya nee…..

Raju: :D free free……. Oru convo start panna enakku ithai vida vera vazhi therilae… message pottutane thavira…. I was skeptical if she wud answer to my message or if she will come and frown at me for ridiculing her….. enakku nu oru image irukku la..athu spoil aayidumo nu bayam irunthuchu

Vijay: mannangatti image…. Sari appuram?

Raju: inniku morning orkut check panna…..surprise surprise…..she has sent me a scrap at my scrap book asking if I really know, about which will be the best law college in tamilnadu… appuram enna.. oorula law related ah evan nlam theriyumo avanungalukelam phone ah pottu, info kettu I sent her a detailed mail…… ithai vache I sent her a friend request in orkut and she accepted that :D

Vijay: adra sakkai..adra sakkai..adra sakkai…. Machaan..ninaikkave illae… nee ivvalo seekiram en idea va successful ah implement pannuave nu… theritta da theritta

Raju: :D sonna namba maate nee… naan anupicha mail ku reply anupicha, Thanks a lot nu solitu, And she further asked me a detail about a particular law college.. ithu thaanda saaku nu, ithai pathi discuss pannalam vaa nu avala G-Talk layum add pannitaen… :D we were chatting all day today morning…… mudhalla ava keta details ah oru friend kitta irunthu vaangi sollitu, appuram konja konjama personal ah pesa aarambichom

Vijay: sooper da sooper….. machi...sonnathai tak nu pidichikittae… unakku karpoora buthi da

Vishal: ivanukku karpoora buthi na, ivanai purinjikkathavanga lam kazhudhai ya enna (chuckles)

Vijay: ada podhumada un comedy… machi Raju nee solluda..appuram enna sonna

Raju: hehe pesittu irukkumbothu oru matter sonna…… actually naan avalukku mokkai ya reply panni message anupinnatha paarthuttu she got semma irritated ahm.. ennnai blast pannalam nu than en profile ku vanthirukka…… aana vanthava, ennoda testimonials lam padichu paarthuttu I am a genuine guy, nalla paiyan nu therinjukittalam :D athunala than she scrapped normally appadinu sonna…. Podhuva theriyaatha guys avalai tease panna left right vaangiduvaalam… neenga lam appavi pullai nu ezhuthina testimonial thaanda ennai kaapathirukku :D :D

Vijay: dei note pannungada note pannungada… testimonial kum matrimonial kum link irukkurathai note pannungada…!!!

Raju: :D :D machi elam un plan da…. Nee than da enakku Guru……. Intha idea ku naan unakku Royalty tharen

Vijay: Royalty lam venaam… namma nair kadai la Royal ah oru Tea vangi thaa..vaa

Raju: athillada… unakku ethuna onnnu seiyyanum pola thonuthu da enakku

Vijay: enda en… etho friendship ku nu idea tharen… athukku ethuna thanthu enakku double M.A degree vangi koduthudathe da machaan

Raju: hehee ok ok…. Sari next action plan…..ippa aarambichathu… love ah maarurathukkum lets work together da.. help pannudaa.. :D

Vijay: kanna…. Oru ponnai paarka pesara varai than intha planning together lam… but to-get-her laam , nee ye than yosikkanum…… athukku lam yaarum help panna koodathu… purinjatha…

Raju: saringa Guru… :) :) :) sari atleast ethuna advice pannalamae :D

Vijay: oh sure sure…. Inimael thaan nee gavanama irukkanum…. Maranthum avalai offend pannidathe… normal ah ve pesu…. There will be many difference of opinion between you two… athellam perisu pannathe… ponnunga ninaikkarathu thappa irukkara maathiriye thonum, nammala purinjikkama pesaranga nu thonum… that is not misunderstanding… but actually a Miss’ understanding…ithu therinjathan kalayanam aana pinnadi Mrs’ understanding unakku perfect ah varum….

Raju: aaha aaha… arumaiyana karuthukkal..aazhntha sinthanai…

Vijay: sari.. mooodu… keep it up and good luck :)

Raju: Thanks da….

Ippadiyaaga namma Raju life layum oru new episode aarambikkuthu… Raju target panna antha ponnu Sujatha oru B.Comm graduate… College Studies lam intha year than mudichittu, aduthu velai thedittu irukkara ponnu… ava parents rendu perum velai paarkiranga… thambi yum tuition, friends nu velila poiduvaan…so veetula vetti ya irukara ponnu.. athunala endha neramum online, chatting, orkut thaan….

Indha details lam Raju, Sujatha kitta chat pannathula irunthu therinjikittathu…. Raju vum bench laye irukkarathala, Sujatha kitta kadalai pottutu irukkarathukku vasathiya irunthathu… daily pesa pesa, rendu perum semma thick friends aagaranga….. Raju soft ah, entha methavithanamo, thimiro illama pesurathunala Sujatha ku Raju mela semma respect… she even seeks advice from Raju on some of her decisions regarding her future….. Ippadi valarum relation, next level ku, athavathu mobile la pesikkara range ku varuthu…. Raju call pannuvan…Sujatha va…. Sujatha vum call pannuva… oru ring koduthuttu cut panniduva....( enna parkareenga… ithukku peru call panratha nu ketka koodathu… oru Miss oda call nu thaane athai Miss-ed call nu solraanga :D … so no silly questions… .) Sujatha missed call kodutha udane Raju call return pannuvan…(vera vazhi?? ) rendu perum sernthu mani kanakka pesuvaanga… pesuvaanga..pesikittae irupanga…

Ippadi develop aagittu irunthathu antha friendship…eppadinalum koodiya seekiram Sujatha kitta I love you sollidanum nu thonichu Raju ku…. Sari naama Sujatha va photo la paarthirukkom…ava paarthathu illaiye.. paartha accept pannipaala nu doubt irunthathu… but fine…athukku thane chat la strong ah foundation podarom.. manasu level la nammala strength pannikitta, appuram kaadhalukku kann illai ngra formula apply aagi, easy ah avala love panna vaikkalam nu feel pannan Raju.. Sujatha vum was getting very closer to Raju and took rights with him…

Raju: Hey Suju

Sujatha: ennathu ithu Suju, juju nu naaya koopidara maathiri… Sujatha nu koopidu

Raju: ada poppa, Sujatha nu koopita enaku Jeyam la vara Sadha maathiri… nee poyyya poo pooo nu solliduviyo nu thonuthu :D

Sujatha: adinga….. naan enna Sadha va?

Raju: yaaru sonna.. nee Saadhave illae.. nee Special aache

Sujatha: poda vennai

Raju: haiyoo enna ithu da podara pazhakkam..

Sujatha: daa…naan appadi thanda koopiduven da… nee oru dalda :p

Raju: nee da potta, appuram naan dee poduven

Sujatha: po da… naan da poduven..aana nee dee potta… naan enga dadee (daddy) ah koopiduven :p

Raju: apo nan dee pottu koopida koodatha :(

Sujatha: nee dee pottu koopida koodathu….venumna oru nalla Tea pottutu koopidu… good boy la :p

Ippadi jolly ah conversation pogum..Raju was enjoying this a lot….avanukku semma kushi, avan viruppapadiye oru Girl friend, Sujatha kidaichathunala…. Athunala avan thannoda friend Sasi, thangachi Nivetha panninathai kooda maranthuttan…. But still, like bfore, he daily would talk with Nivetha for some time………. Intha pudhu relation pathi avan thangachi kitta manasu vittu pesanum, happiness ah share pannikanum nu avanukku aasai………. But avan “Nivi..naan unkitta oru mukkiyamana vishayatha sollanum nu” aarambichu indha matter ah solrathukku vetkapattu, vaarthaiya kandupidichi solrathukku munnadi anga Gokul will be calling Nivi..so ava “Anna anna oki…. Hold on… I will talk to u later oki….i will listen to this tomorrow.. sorry :D” appadinu phone ah vachiduva… Sari poguthu nu Raju vum vittuduvaan… ippadiye yaarukittayum avan love pathi sola mudiyama poidudhu.

One month later, Raju va oru pudhu project la allocate pannitanga…. Munnadi lam thuru thuru nu velai parka koodiya Raju, one month bench life ku appuram, thuru pidichu pona maathiri aayitan…… laziness pazhagi ponathunala, mind think panrathukke overaa somberi pattukudhu..athuvum illama , avan life la Sujatha vara munnadi, time management avanukku perisa illa… infact konja neram velai paarkama iruntha sema kadi ya irukum… but sujatha kooda friendship develop aanathukku appurama, ava kooda chat panratha thadukkara entha work um avanukku kadi ya therinjathu…. But the faithful guy he is, eppadiyo izhuthu pidichi work pannitu irunthaan… ithe nerathula than Oru naal sujatha, naan oorukku poraen, thirumbi vara 3 days aagum, don’t try to call me.. my parents will scold… tata nu solitu poidara.

It has been 1 week sinc e then.. but there was no sign of Sujatha in the chat.. Raju gets restless.. G-Talk, orkut, ym nu ella idathulayum message vittutan avalukku..but there was no reply from her… avanala intha pirivai thaangikka mudiyalai…. Coz he was so used to sharing his mind with her.. slowly but surely, avan Sujatha vukku, nivetha ku equal ah respect koduthuttu irunthaan….so he was missing her a lot… Ivvalo naal Avala call panni disturb panna venaam nu ninaichaan Raju, but romba naal aayitathala…. Enna aanalum paravalla nu call panraan… .line was engaged.. Raju ku ava kooda pesa mudiyalenu varutham irunthaalum, sari she is active and fine nu nimmathiya irunthan…. Athukku appurama he tries several times later that day…but all the time, the phone line was engaged only…….. Raju ku mild ah oru doubt varuthu…oru velai ava incoming bar panittangala..athan busy ah ve irukko nu ninaikkaran…….. sari nu sollitu, Sujatha voda close friend Indhu ku call panraan… Sujatha has earlier intro-ed her to Raju as her best friend…ava number um raju ku theriyum….

Raju: hello Indhu…. Nan Raju pesaren

Indhu: Hey Raju eppdi irukkae….eppadi poitu irukku work lam?

Raju: am fine am fine… hey indhu… enna ithu, namma Sujatha vukku call panna try panna line eppa paarthalum engaged ah ve irukku

Indhu: hehe enna panrathu po, ava athai payanuku ava ENGAGED aanathula irunthu ava phone line um engaged ah ve irukku……. :)

Indhu ippadi sonnathum, 1000V shock waves kaathula vizhuntha maathiri oru feeling Raju ku….. one more shocking news over the phone…………. Aduthu enna pesarathunae therila Raju…. Indhu ku phone pannumbothu , Raju was like, worried about if all is fine with Sujatha… but intha maathiri oru news avan nichayama ethirpaarkale…

Raju: Whaaaat engaged….ah?

Indhu: ada aama pa… ithai kettappa enakkum shocking ah than irunthuchu… avaloda child hood friend naan… enakke inniku kaathala than theriyum … 3 naalu oorku porennu sollitu pona ponnu, 1 week ah abscond aagittu inniku kaalaila phone panni solraa…. “enakku engaged aayiduchi di… ennoda athai paiyan thaan mappilai…. “ nu… Family function ku nu pona idathula, avanga athai, tak nu ivaloda appa kitta ivalai ponnu kettutangalam.. It was like totally unexpected for her pola… ethir paaratha vishayama irunthalum, avanai ethir la paartha vudane ivalukkum pathikichaam…. Ok sollirukka…. Antha paiyan US la velai paarkiranam.. 1 month leave la India vanthirukkan pola…. Seekiram kalyanathai mudikkanumnu udane nichayam pannitangalam… next month kalyanam nu sonna… avaloda mobile ah ingaye vachittu poitathala yaarukkume inform pannala…. Sorry di sorry nu aayiram thadavai sorry kettuta… sari pona poguthu, etho ponnu santhosama iruntha sari than nu free vittutaen :)

Ippadi Indhu sollite poga poga, Sujatha mela Kaadhal la vizhuntha Raju ku ithu ethuvume kaathula vizhalae….. he was totally perplexed.. avanukku ethuvume pesa varala…. Reply ethuvume varathathala, Indhu line la than etho problem nu ninaichu konja neram hello hello solli paarthutu appuram cut pannidara phone ah…

Raju….he was shattered.... Back to square one… enakku mattum en ippadi nadakkuthu… naan yaar mela laam anbu vaikkareno, avangallam innorutharai love panna aarambichidaranga… ithu varaikkum paravalla, sister, friend nu relation………aana…aana.. ippo naan love panra ponnu… avaluma………. Enna kodumai ithu.. :(

oru velai Indhu than ennai fool panrathukaga ippadi poi solirupalo…. ithu nijammave upset ah illa Indhu panna set up ah appadinu oru ishmall doubt varuthu Raju ku… Correct ah antha time la Sujatha logs in into G-Talk… It was a surprise for Raju.. and more surprisingly she pings him first..

Sujatha: hey Raju….. hi hi..

(Raju remains silent for a while)

Sujatha: Raju..raju… my dear friend… nee en mela semma kobathual irukkaennu puriyuthu… antha donkey Indhu kitta pesinaen ippa than… ennoda marriage pathi unkitta sonnatha sollita…

Raju: adippavi appo nijamthana…. (Raju gets semma upset, but G-Talk la emotions ah kaatara emoticons illathathala…, Sujatha ku Raju voda feelings puriyala)

Sujatha: aaama da…. Unga kitta lam en appave sollalai ngra reasons lam Indhu erkanve sollirupa la…. unkitta mudhalaye sola mudiyalai nu nan romba feel pannen theriyuma… bcoz..bcoz….

[“ Bcoz…dammit… I started loving u…” apadinu Azhagan la vara Bhanupriya style la solvaalo nu oru chinna nappasai vanthuchu Raju ku…ava bcoz ku appuram vitta ithunoondu gap la.. But ithu than padam illiyae :p, Sujatha continues ]

Sujatha: …bcoz u know you had been a very good chat friend, enakku advice lam panni, aaruthal solli…….. I was feeling semma lonely last two months theriyuma… with no one at home… …. Bfore I got to know u, whenever I feel lonely, esp after finishing with college and no one to talk with, I would be daily writing diary addressing a virtual character….. unkooda pesa aarambichathula irunthu antha pazhakkathaiye vittutaen…. Sila vishayam lam I cant tell to any one else, not even my girl friends, one reason is that all these loosu friends of mine does not have the patience to hear what I say…… naan ularunathellam porumaiya kettutu, u know u gave me a chance to vent it out………. And the best thing is, thappa eduthukkathe Raju.., since I don’t know u or have not seen u, it gave me that comfort to tell it out which I don’t find with my real world friends

Raju: Hmmmm….. (Raju ku vera ena pesarathu nu therila….aduthaduthu nenjile kathi kuthu irangina maathiri irunthuchu as she was talking, so just mmm kottitu irukkan…)

Intha nerathula Raju voda PM, Raju kitta project status ketkarathukkaga koopidararu…. Raju had to go… so he tells to Sujatha,

Raju: Hey Sujatha….hold on oki…. I will BRB (Be Right back)

Sujatha: Oki da…

Raju voda PM sariyana mokkai pottu kitathatta 15 mins aakidararu…. Raju thannoda place ku vanthu chat window ah paartha, Sujatha has logged off leaving a message

Sujatha: Ennada Raju, be right back nu sollitu u had left me back… pesama be left back nu sollirukalam nee :p Sari, jokes apart, inimael naan avvalava online vara maaten, appadiye vanthaalum avar kooda kadalai podarathukke time pathathu :D, It was great knowing u, I will try to keep in touch thru mails…neeyum mail pannu oki… I don’t know if I will be able to send u marriage invitation, coz chat friend na en hubby enna solvaaro therila :D, sorry da….. kochikkathe enna…. I know u wont be angry…. Let us part as friends for now….

Ippadi oru msg vittutu, Sujatha has logged off… avlothan…. 1 month ah katti kappathina relation mudinjathu….. Part of life aava nu paartha, let us Part as friends nu sollitu poitaale nu thonuthu Raju ku…. He just can’t control the emotions and the feeling of being ditched. Unable to take any more, Not feeling well nu PM ku chinnatha oru mail anupichittu he leaves the office.

[Same day, Evening time]

Athey Besant nagar beach… Same sea… Same loneliness…. This time, the waves were turbulent than the previous time, just like his mind, he thought. Cha… Kadal aruge kadalai poda sila per, kadhal panna pala per nu Jodi Jodi ya vanthirukkanga… naan mattum than ippadi thaniya pulamba vanthirukkaen… He was feeling lot sicker than last time, apadiye kadalai muraichu paarthuttu irukkan…. Pona thabaa mathiriye intha thabavum avan friend Magi varaan, Raju kitta vanthu avan shoulder la kai vachu ketkiran

Magi: Hey da Raju…. Nice to see u here again after a month

Raju:: (thirumbi paarthu, he gets peeved at seeing Magi) dei Magi..unakku vera velaiye illaiya..eppavum beach laye suthittu irukkae.. nee enna inga sundal vithuttu irukkiya…. Naan eppa beach vanthaalum enakku munnadi nee nikkare

Magi: (taken aback) hey dude..cool..cool… enna aachu…. Why are u angry with me?

Raju: (furious) pinna ennada pinna, anniku un veena pona advice ah kettu than ippa naan intha nilaimai la irukkaen…

Magi: adappavi naan enna sonnaen..sari vidu..ippa enna aachu sollu…

Raju: solraen solraen…. Naanum yarkittayavathu kottanum la…. Solraen… but nane veruthu poirukkaen..ippo karuthu solraneu solli aruthu thallidaathe… purinjatha?

Magi: oki oki sure :) :) nee sollu

(Raju narrates the entire events in the past one month in detail)

Raju: naan paatukku ozhunga, girls pakame pogama irunthaen…. Un pechai kettu intha paithiyakara kaadhal la vizhunthu…..ava mela evvalo anbu, respect lam vachiruppen theriyuma… kadsee la en friendship aiye insult panra maathiri nee verum virtual friend nu sollitaa… appo naan verumane chatting kum, time pass kum mattum thaana?

[Magi keeps quiet as Raju continues…]

Raju: enakku mattum en da ipadi nadakkuthu… naan vaikkira anbai orutharum purinjikka maatengranga….. ithe dhum, thanni adikkaravan, pala ponnunga kooda sutharavan ivanukkelam kooda lover kidaikkuthu… aana naan…ennoda unmaiyana love ku kadaisila ipadi than nadakkuthu….

[Magi interrupts…]

Magi : dei dei oru nimisham…summa dialog vittute pogaathe… Love ku basic qualification ena theriyuma…you should not be having any pre-notions about the person u are loving….Nee enna pannirukae… album album ah paarthu oru ponnai choose pannirukke… Love na best of three choice illa machi.. athu by chance orutharai paarkumbothu vara vendiya feel….

Raju : ennada solrae… naan love panra ponnu azhaga irukkanum nu ninaikarathu thappa?

Magi : thappu illa machi..thappe illae… Nee love panra ponnu azhaga, cute ah irukkanum nu ninaikkarathu thappu illae… aana azhaga, cute ah irukkara ponnunga la oruthi ya than nee love pannuvenu ninaichathu romba thappu da maame..…. Athuvum eppadi….un mela unakke nambikkai illama, real world la thedama… chat la poi thedirukae… antha virtual world la vara relation ellame virtual thaanda… padichavan thane nee… webpages use panra HTTP protocol eh stateless thaan…data va persist pannathu… appadi patta oru idathula nee unnoda life long persist panna vendiya relation ah thedirukkae…. Enna madathanam da?

Raju : ithu la ennada thappu… ethanaiyo peru chat moolama love pannaliya… avanga life lam nalla illiya….

Magi : irukaangale.. aana avangallam chat la thaan vazhkai thunai thedanumnu menaketu vanthirukka maatanga… chat panravanga kitta entha expectations um illama than chat pannirupanga… appadi aarambicha uravu develop aagirukkalam….and moreover internet love success lam more like exceptions than a rule for others to follow…. Kaadhal kottai maathiri paarkamale kaathal success aaganumna hero ajith ah vum heroine devayani ah vum irukanum…..naan personality ah sollale, but avanga attitude ah solraen….. eppo nee chat la thaan ponnai thedanum nu mudivu panniyo appave athu Kaathal kottai illa… Kaathal Ottai…

Raju : Hmmmmm…..

Magi : athuvum illama unnoda basic mentality eh thappu.. Kaadhal ngrathu thana oruthara paarthavudane manasula uruvaga vendiya vishayam… aana unakku eppadi..unnai suthi irunthavanga lam love panraanga na vudane, neeyum love panrennu kilambirukkae.. ithu childish mentality thaan da… ithu epadi da success aagum nu ninaikkare?

Raju : dei enakku thevaiya da ithellam..thevaiya nu ketkaren..naan paatukku amaithiya, nalla pilaiya thane irunthaen..ellam ennai suthi irunthavanga thane karanam…. Avangalukkunu oru love vanthavudane naan thevai illama poitaen… last 1 month love la irunthappa kooda I remained myself and kept in touch with everyone and not ignored anyone... Aana appa kooda en sister…. Naan pesunalum just formal ah pesittu, konja nerathula busy nu solli cut pannidara…. Ivanga ellam ozhunga iruntha naan en da ippadi poraen…

Magi : machaan onnu sollava…. Namakku oru upset, disappointment nu varumbothu, it is so easy to put the blame on others … naama entha thappum panala… ellam en neram, aduthavanga panna thappu nala than enakku kashtam varuthu appadinu solrathu romba sulabam… aana oru nimisham, namma tea cup ah empty pannitu, namma thappu enna nu yosichom na we can understand things better.….ellarum un mela paasama than irukkanga.. nee than avanga yaaraiyum purinjukkale… Solla pona, nee than da yaar melayum unmaiyana paaasam vaikkala

Raju: ennada solrae… naana… naana…

Magi : aama neeye than… mudhalla oruthar mela unmaiyana anbu vaikara yaarum, athai ipadi advertise pannitu irukka maatanga… aana nee moochukku munnoooru thadavai, athaiye thirumba thirumba solrae… sari naan accept pannikaren..nee un thangachi mela, friends mela laam alavu kadantha piriyam vachirukaen nu… aana nee selfish da… athunala thaan un thangachi, friends laam unkitta mattume niraya pasam vachirukkanumnu, unakku thaan niraya importance kodukkanum nu expect panrae….athunala than avangalukku nu oru love varumbothu un manasula oru jealousy, possessive ness lam varuthu.. athu unnai hurt pannuthu…. ithu thappu da… yosichu paaru unnoda paasame avangalukku baarama irukkalama? Nee kaatura anbu ku, returns ethir paarkariye.. ithu nyayama?

Raju: athu..athu vanthu…

Magi : nalla yosichu paaru da…. Yaarume unnai verukkalae…solla pona ellorum un mela niraya respect um anbum vachirukkanga… unkitta athigama pesama irukarathalayum, unkooda lunch ku varama irukkarathalyum avanga anbu kurainjiduchi nu nee santhegapadare na apo avanga mela nee vachirukkara anbu ku avlothana strength….avalothana un belief avanga mela?

Raju is unable to talk anything…he realizes his folly… he feels like all his ego of “Good boy”, “loving brother”, “loving friend” getting shattered… kanneer vida aarmbikkaran….

Magi : dei dei looosu, enda azhare

Raju : nee sonnathu ellam nyayam thaanda… yosichu paartha enakke puriyuthu about how I had been.. I really have been a selfish guy towards my friends or parents or my dear sister…. Anbu, paasam ku sariyana artham theriyaama irunthuttaen…. I feel a disgusted lot about myself now da…

Magi : Come on da, why shud u feel disgusted…. Solla pona unkitta iruntha kurai unakku purinjathuku nee santhosapadanum… yosichu paaru… u had already been a good guy…. Now intha kuraiyum nee correct pannikitta u will be a better guy..isnt that reason enough to be cheerful about?

Raju : you are right da..very much….

Magi : unnai suthi ullavanga love panama irunthiruntha, it wudnt have brought the problems in u outside… u wudnt have come out of ur comfort zone at all to try things, to take a shot at love, to understand urself… paarthiya… unnai varutha pada vachaalum, athunala unnai positive ah develop aaga indirect ah karanama irunthirukkangalae..athu than da nijammave true relation…. Unakku enna kurai machi.. chamathu pullai, elders ah respect panra thanmai, oralavu handsome, hand niraya sum vaangara IT professional….. unnoda think panra vitham mattum thaan nee slight ah adjust pannikanum

Raju : you mean Attitude?

Magi : u r at-it-dude…. Yea rite… athuvum onnum periya vishayam illa….entha mindset ullayum maatikama, mind ah light ah vachikitta vaazhkai santhosama irukum… nee ninaicha mathiri unakku nalla girl friend um kidaippanga… Good luck da !!!

Raju : thanks a lot da machi…. Nee sonna maathiri I am blessed to have such good friends around me and even more blessed to have a friend like you… Also ennoda loving sister Nivetha…. Avalai pathi thappa ninaichu naan avalukku, ava en mela vachirukara anbukku periya throgam pannitaen.. ippa solren da.. I will make sure she gets whatever that makes her happy

Magi : Thatz the spirit da.. bye.. paaru semma dark aayiduchi.... innum late ah pona en pondaati udhaipa… naan kilambaren.. bye

Next day… A far relaxed Raju arrives at his office… For the first time in many days he felt a lot lighter and better… He felt like talking to his sister, so he calls her up

Nivetha: Hellooo annaaa… Good morning

Raju : Good morning, nivetha, eppadi irukkae

Nivetha: naan sooper…neenga eppadi irukeenga… it was so nice hearing u now theriyuma anna….. I am so happy hearing u

Raju : hahahaa…watz the matter

Nivetha : enakku semester exam theriyum la..... bad anna u are…. Wish panrathukku than call paneenga nu ninaicha….. u totally forget ah

Raju : oooh ooh sorry sorry da.. Wish u the very bestttttttt of luck.. u are going to score much higher than previous sems

Nivetha : hehe thanks a lot anna…. Sari naan exam ponum..phone ah vachidava

Raju : yea yea…. Bye..take care…. Hey hey nivetha oru nimisham

Nivetha : yes anna…

Raju : I love u a lot nivii……….so glad to have u as my little sister :)

Nivetha : :D ippa enna na thideernu ithellam solreenga..

Raju : etho thonichu…. Sari bye…exam nalla ezhuthu… Good luck!!!

Nivetha : thanks anna (she hangs up the phone)

Raju felt, he had never been so happy before…. Athe spirit oda he checks the mails… munthina naal PM ku just mail mattum adichittu odunathukku ennalam thitti mails anupirukaro nu konjam tensed ah mail paarthan… Only 1 mail was there in his mail box…. And it was from Roopa….Hi nu subject pottu, she has sent a mail

Aaha… Ithu namma Sasi yoda aalu la… intha mayil ethukku namakku mail anupirukku nu kuzhappathoda mail ah open panninan… ullae paartha oru E-greeting, athu koodave oru side note…

Dear Raju, Miss Roopa misses You,
Will you accept me as, Mrs. Of You??

- Love,
Roopa

Raju ku ethuvum purilae… .ithu kanava…. Illa nijamma..oru velai Sasi ku anuppa vendiya mail ah wrong ah namakku anupichittala nu oru doubt.. apo Hi machi nu oru kural… Sasi was standing beside him

Raju : dei sasi, ennada ithu…… unnoda friend..enakku poi…… ippadi….. ithu enakku thana…

Sasi : haha athu unakku vantha mail thaanda… unnoda doubt puriyuthu… naan than Roopa ku route vittutu irunthaen… but ava route vera, point to point ah ava paarvai un mela than pattucham… athukku help ketka than un close friend ah na ennai approach panniruka… Chennai 28 padathula vara maathiri yaaro yaarukku ingae yaaro nu naanum free ya vittutaen…. Unkitta ava love ah solrathukku avalukku ippathan dhairiyam vanthiruku paaru…..

Raju : (Excited)… enna da solrae….

Sasi : yo man… She loves you da……….

Raju was literally flying……… ennai love panna oru ponnu…….. oorellam fair ah oru ponnu nu thedittu irunthane… enga office laye ennai love panrathukku oru ithayam…. Hmmm Roopa konjam moderate color than...but who cares……. All is fair in love and war…. Kaadhal pannumbothum War seiyyum bothum ellarum fair ah iruppanga nu summava sonnanga…..!!!! I like her….She likes me…. wat else shud matter???

SUBAM

P.S : There it is ... I kept my word... My hero got a heroine........ :D :D :D