Spain are the Eurocup 2008 champions

On June 29th 2008, Sunday Watched the Euro cup final late night. Spain became European champions for the second time after Fernando Torres's first-half goal in Vienna proved enough to defeat Germany in the final of UEFA EURO 2008™.

Spain had won their only previous piece of silverware in this competition in 1964 and had not been beyond the quarter-finals of any tournament in 24 years, yet Luis Aragonés's men chose to use that history as an inspiration rather than a burden. After a strong start from Germany, seeking a fourth title themselves, Spain were the more dangerous side throughout an entertaining final at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion although it took just one goal – in the 33rd minute, courtesy of Torres's pace, perseverance and unerring finish – to end their long wait.

during the break time browsed Safari in my macbook and got this.

"Rested reasonably well last night, so why the lethargy on work today. Is it true the longer you sleep the greater the lethargy.? Should sleep less then ! Yes.?" -these words were in the mobile blog by the person I and we respect a lot, Amitabh bachchan. He's the real inspiration to do multitasking in the life. it's real that the more work or active you are the less lethargic you will be which is true and just try out that. but remember you have to really enjoy doing what ever you do and try to cherish each moments even if it's a tiring job.

Prakash Send Off Party

On June 23rd Monday evening 5:15 p.m. we had send off party for Prakash Pattabiraman, who had been with us for 8 years. He's moving on to dubai/abdudabhi for a new phase in his career. had nice time. enjoy the video below. 

Gopal-Varshini-Vivan's Party

After my carnatic classes on friday noon went to JBK Villas to attend the party arranged by gopal.I was meeting most of the friends after a long gap. was glad to see everyone in the party. Gopal varshini were really enjoying the new phase in their life. Vivan has brought them new energy and could see their faces more brighter with joy. 

Some moments from the party is below in the small video clipping. 

Dasavatharam - Confused on Incarnations

Decided to watch Dasavatharam today which was released in Doha last week. couldn't go because of other commitments.Today there was a special prog on Dasavatharam in Star Vijay  conducted by cartoonist Madan, in which director ravikumar gave the comparison with vishnu's dasavatharam, in which only poovaragan (dalit's) character, nambi and japanese characters are  convincing. Calling the villain as parasurama is too much.

One more interesting thing is the japanese name, he is supposed to be narasimha avatar (convincing) name also resembled. Shingen Narahasi (Narasimha jumbled).

The list is as shown below. 

 Matsya-Nambi Rangarajan in 12th century obvious fish in water

Koorma-Bush the turtle was beneath the huge churning that emitted poison leading Asuras and Devas into battle Varaha/Vamana -Khalifullah, the tall God also dwarfed by minority community status 

Parasurama hatchet man/Fletcher-the hitman 

Balram-Balram Naidu 

Rama-Avtar Singh in love for his wife 

Narasimha-Shingen Narahasi, the man who takes on the disbeliever on the shore, at dusk in bare combact (remember hiroshima?>>>  

Krishna -Vincent, saves the girl from molestation when she calls Narayana, loses out the political negotiations as his community is bought over by drink. Krishna tries for a Yadava -Kaurava negotiation hat fails as Yadavas succumb to booze and Krishna and Vincent die by the seashore, their feet wounded. 

Buddha-paati and today Buddhism is the religion of the Dalits in India, Vincent seems like her son as she attains enlightenment 

Kalki-Govind, harbinger of doomsday through virus.

Personally, I was disappointed by this movie as  What could have been an exiting adventure is spoilt due to Kamal Haasan’s indulgence and  wanting to be the first actor to do 10 roles in a film. but we can't blame him for that considering the great pains he has taken to do these roles. The only fantastic  feature of this film is the first 15 minutes set in the 12^th century. Quite Brilliant and excellent and is par with hollywood. Also to some extent the last 15 minutes of Tsunami but Computer Graphics has got some flaws. especially, you can't compare with Hollywood Tsunami (it is no where near 'Day After Tomorrow' scene).

 

Those who couldn't understand the first dialogues of Kamal in Nehru Stadium, he talks about 'Chaos Theory' and 'Butterfly effect'(which is a component of Chaos Theory) , which is true and no one has attempted these things in Indian Cinema.

 

The idol that is drowned in the sea along with Rangarajan(first kamalahaasan)  in 12th century by Chozha king results in a fault being developed at the bottom of the ocean and creates tremors more than 800 years later. These tremors result in the Tsunami. This is classic example of  'Butter Fly' effect.  (The phrase refers to the idea that a butterfly's wings might create tiny changes in the atmosphere that may ultimately alter the path of a tornado or delay, accelerate or even prevent the occurrence of a tornado in a certain location. ) Another explanation is that Govind is in fact the reincaranation of Rangarajan. As Rangarajani he couldn’t protect God and died in the name of God.In order to fulfill his Karma,he is reincarnated as Govind Ramasamy who ultimately saves the world from destruction.The idol in the end somewhat hints to this theory; his story began with the idol and it ends with the idol.

 

Basically a chaotic system  is one wherein long term predictions are impossible. Like for example, if I push a car, I know that it is going to move and it will continue to do so if I go on pushing it on and on. However, in a chaotic system, this situation cannot be predicted over a long period of time. Weather, for example, is a chaotic system.

 

Here in the movie, The 1st scene is perfectly connected to the climax, remember what Kamal says in the first scene, that he will not say “Om Nama Shivaya” , but Asin tells him to chant it , but still Kamal refuses , he believes in his god more than anything, but Asin feels “Its ok if we change the god or chant other god’s name, its life thats most important.” Now if u see the climax its JUST OPPOSITE…. Kamal doesn’t believe in god much and values lives of people the most…. but Asin deeply believes in god and that too this dialogue comes when both Asin and Kamal’s hand is on the god which came from the sea , and it also means that they are getting united from the place they departed hundreds of years back ( Kamal and Asin).

 

All these points if you analyze  are really great, but execution of the other parts  and dragging scenes spoil the film.

 

(One more personal point, I liked the scene in which my favourite Apple Computer is shown. George bush is using Apple Macbook Pro.)

You should not forget to mention kamalhaasan acting. from India glitz which had given a good review on Kamalhaasan. The eyes are considered the most effective tools in creating the right kind of attitude for any actor and Kamal Haasan is a master at that. There are many a time in the film when the audience would have to force themselves to believe that it is the same actor who is the good guy as well as the bad guy.The expressive and determined eyes of the priest, the mushy and yet funny countenance of Balaram Naidu, the hilarious CBI officer and the peaceful martial artist eyes of the Japanese character have all shaped up to fit into any acting text book. Hats off to Kamal Haasan on the acting front!!

 

Letter from Infosys CEO

Got this letter thru email send by Natarajan RameshRamadurai Sir. A Very good advise for all the late sitters.

Feb 21, 2008 10:55 am
Email from the boss


Mail sent by Narayan Murthy to all Infosys staff:




It's half past 8 in the office but the lights are still on...
PCs still running, coffee machines still buzzing...
And who's at work? Most of them ??? Take a closer look...

All or most specimens are ??
Something male species of the human race...

Look closer... again all or most of them are bachelors...

And why are they sitting late? Working hard? No way!!!
Any guesses???
Let's ask one of them...
Here's what he says... 'What's there 2 do after going home...Here we get to surf, AC, phone, food, coffee that is why I am working late...Importantly no bossssssss!!!!!!!!!!!'

This is the scene in most research centers and software companies and other off-shore offices.

Bachelors 'Time-passing' during late hours in the office just bcoz they say they've nothing else to do...
Now what r the consequences...

'Working' (for the record only) late hours soon becomes part of the institute or company culture.

With bosses more than eager to provide support to those 'working' late in the form of taxi vouchers, food vouchers and of course good feedback, (oh, he's a hard worker... goes home only to change..!!).
They aren't helping things too...

To hell with bosses who don't understand the difference between 'sitting' late and 'working' late!!!

Very soon, the boss start expecting all employees to put in extra working hours.

So, My dear Bachelors let me tell you, life changes when u get married and start having a family... office is no longer a priority, family is... and
That's when the problem starts... b'coz u start having commitments at home too.

For your boss, the earlier 'hardworking' guy suddenly seems to become a 'early leaver' even if u leave an hour after regular time... after doing the same amount of work.

People leaving on time after doing their tasks for the day are labelled as work-shirkers...

Girls who thankfully always (its changing nowadays... though) leave on time are labelled as 'not up to it'. All the while, the bachelors pat their own backs and carry on 'working' not realizing that they r spoiling the work culture at their own place and never realize that they would have to regret at one point of time.

So what's the moral of the story??
* Very clear, LEAVE ON TIME!!!
* Never put in extra time ' unless really needed '
* Don't stay back unnecessarily and spoil your company work culture which will in turn cause inconvenience to you and your colleagues.

There are hundred other things to do in the evening..

Learn music...

Learn a foreign language...

Try a sport... TT, cricket.........

Importantly,get a girl friend or boy friend, take him/her around town...

* And for heaven's sake, net cafe rates have dropped to an all-time low (plus, no fire-walls) and try cooking for a change.

Take a tip from the Smirnoff ad: *'Life's calling, where are you??'*

Please pass on this message to all those colleagues and please do it before leaving time, don't stay back till midnight to forward this!!!

IT'S A TYPICAL INDIAN MENTALITY THAT WORKING FOR LONG HOURS MEANS VERY HARD WORKING & 100% COMMITMENT ETC.

PEOPLE WHO REGULARLY SIT LATE IN THE OFFICE DON'T KNOW TO MANAGE THEIR TIME. SIMPLE !

Regards,
NARAYAN MURTHY.

Sruti's first bharatanatyam competition

On Saturday June 14th 2008 Got up by 5 a.m. only because of late night sitting. rushed to children education centre where ramateacher will be waiting for srutimma to do the make up for today's BPS cultural fiesto dance competition. dropped deepa and sruti by 6:20 there and came back home to do the morning routines; rushed to office by 7:20 finished some urgent work and proceeded to CEC where deepa with sruti was waiting. 7:45 was the registration time at BPS and we reached only by 8:05;




totally there were 6 participants and sruti was dancing as 3rd participant. after finishing registration I just wanted to check the cassette position. when I opened the taperecorder - shock - cassette is missing. I told deepa and she yelled at me. what to do. it's here told deepa its in the same bag where cassette had ejected out; felt relieved. otherwise I was getting ready to make a grand return to house. sruti did well but found out that her costumes needed more attention. Also the geetam 'varaveena' was short. but it's okay for a start. mehendi was missing in her hands. because of the photographer's interruption had to discard the mobile video version and had to reshoot full dance at home in order to send to appa - amma. Later in the noon edited to shorten the length and send to appa-amma; appa became emotional on watching sruti's performance. 

Below is the short video of bharathanatyam by srutimma. 

Father's Day

On 15th June 2008 Sunday noon as usual I picked sruti from BPS by 1:45p.m. and she gave me the father's day card as a surprise gift. I never knew that today is the father's day. In school they had told the children to make father's day card and present as surprise gift. Sruti had penned her own words and although there are spelling mistakes it is those mistakes that give a special attraction for this letter.

Send off for Sreeni Ponnambily

Today it's a sendoff day for sreeni-ponnambily-ritcha. Although we got introduced around one and half year ago we became very close in few months. friendship is one other wonderful thing I cherish about a lot. havegot lot of friends in my life which I consider as a great asset. although I lost contact of most of my friends as part of destiny still I remember those wonderful moments. today infact I went back to my pre-degree college days where we had a farewell party and we're all sad and couldn't enjoy the farewell party. at that time it's unfortunate that never had a video camera or even still camera. were not planned. but still through the lens of memory I am getting the nuances of those moments. When I sang the song 'vida taroo..' it took me 2 decades back. Sreeni-ponnambily are great friends whom we will miss a lot. Although it's only one year and had only very few occassions of gatherings and sharing, those days were wonderful, which I have in my daily diary. Thru sreeni I got introduced to madhu whom I had seen in my childhood days and who was living in the same neighbourhood, but we never got chance to get introduced to each other. It's another destiny to meet in qatar.

Well we started with small speech by sreeni on Qatar, friends etc. Sreeni is proceeding to Abudabhi to join Occidental petroleum as finance manager and it's a great leap for him.

later madhu spoke about missing sreeni, followed by leena cherising the memories and small talk by ponnambily. children sang sujanajeevana song and gave individual performance as well. sreeni sang vande mukunda hare... in his own inimitable style. madhu rendered old classic oru nimisham taroo...leena gave nostalgic moments thru the song yaad aara hee hain... famous hit from 80s. ponnambily sang kabhi kabhi another hindi classic. deepa gave her contribution in the form of choodiyaan. finally I finished with 'vidataroo...'. may god bless all of us to be again together thru a wonderful destiny. thru different friends I have learnt a lot. from madhu it's the joyful humorous way of living and from sreeni to take challenges in professional life. it really need guts to take , go through it and come out of it in flying colors.

Watched the Movie in our Home theatre in projection 'Horton Hears a Who' which is excellent in its adaptation, animation and total presentation. Sruti enjoyed much and I would say it's the child in me enjoyed the most .

In the Jungle of Nool, a caring, imaginative elephant named Horton (Jim Carrey) takes a dip in the pool. A dust speck floats past him in the air, and he hears a tiny yelp coming from it. Believing that an entire family of microscopic creatures are living on that speck, he places it on top of a clover that he holds in his trunk.

In fact, he finds out the speck harbors the city of Whoville and all its inhabitants, led by Mayor Ned McDodd (Steve Carell). He has a loving wife, Sally (Amy Poehler), 96 daughters, and one son named JoJo (Jesse McCartney), who, by Who custom, is next in line for the mayoral position, and as such, gives it his best effort to give JoJo enough attention. Unaware to Ned, JoJo doesn't share his father's wish. Ned is aware, though, that JoJo does not speak and tries to befriend him to get him to speak.
By 11:30 after finishing the movie, when going to bed was careful not to disturb any insects.