Divaveli...

The time of the year, deepavali has come again. Like every year, a month before deepavali itself brings the excitement. Visiting, buying, bargaining, choosing.. ahh just too much work. But the satisfaction you get on the festival of lights is just priceless. Happiness, sharing, love, laughter and the best part is Family.. where there is always misunderstanding, arguments, quarrels.. But nothing can beat the togetherness felt on that day as a family. 

Festival of Lights

Every year, its the same routine since i was an infant. On the eve of Deepavali itself the excitement starts. We buy stuff to cook and clean for prayers of the dead (tata). We offer him his favourite food, drinks and sweets and thank him for all the goodness we have today. Well, after all that thanking and feeling.. we steal his food :p.. Appa is the head of the family, he feeds everyone from the banana leave food of the offering. I dont know why, the food from the offering is always awesome. Amma, chinnema, and patti will cook rice, chickent curry, boiled eggs, mutton peretel with lots of potatoes, veggies and lots of mouth watering foods. aaaah.. even the thought of it makes my mouth water. After stealing, eating and feeling bloated with food, we will walk along Jalan Station where the last minute shopping is done for the big day. 

After all that, we go home and do the kolem. This year's kolem was kind of nice and different. There was once when we noob's were doing Kolem which instead of looking like a peacock ended up looking like a snail instead. :D. Well somehow this year we succeeded. Then at 12am we play the fireworks. BooMbOOmBanGBoom... and Happy Deepavali :)

This year's Kolem

On the morning of Deepavali we thank god for the new clothes, food and joy throughout the year. This year i gave all my family members ang pow even though I'm not married. Well, that is like a personal achievement for me. Amma and Appa was suprised :). Then after going to temple and all we eaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat and watch tv and sleep and eat and talk and laugh and talk and eat eat and sleep.. and Divaveli is over.. :D 

FaceBooK and Friends

Whats the F?

Let me get it straight. Facebook is a social networking site where people unite, find, interact and share with friends and family. People share thoughts as well and some even make new friends. So why am i blogging about it? For the people who understand about social networking (2 thumbs up), for those who don't, please learn!

Firstly, if you want to share intimate thoughts (between partners). SPAM it on your partner's wall not on your status updates for the world to see. ITS INTIMACY! and everyone need not know when you got your erotic massage from your loved one or when are you guys planning to have the next session of back rub. WE DO NOT under any circumstances need to know about your private life unless one of the busybody pings you in the chat and asks. Then, by all means let that busybody know through chat or messages.

Secondly, if you are not happy or you are facing some problem with a certain individual, why not just confront the human being for doing such unpleasant things instead of indirectly poking the person through status updates and so on. Its irritating when you have the balls to say it loud in public (type out) and you dont have the balls to speak or say it to that individual. Lets just say, that certain individual said something with no intentions of hurting you, but you got hurt. Eventually, that individual is not aware that he/she had hurt your feelings. So, if you don't point it out to that individual. He/she will never know! so, instead of running around the bush, why not just come to point. It saves time, money, energy and lotslotslots of petrol.

Thirdly, this one is done through experiment.

When i upload a decent picture of my cousin: There are quite a number of friends request on the following day

When i upload a photoshoped version picture of my cousin: There are many many many friends request the following day

When i upload some cute dog picture: There are no friends request the following day.

So, random people dont mind adding a pretty gal (photoshoped) even not knowing who she is or whether she is related somehow to you or not. You just add her? What the hell? At least have some decency of sending a message introducing yourself instead of making the human waste their time clicking on your profile to identify if you are actually a person he/she knows.

Fourthly, please share fun stuff like links on news, videos of something interesting or funny (at least you can help keep others entertained) or good thoughts. Facebook is not a place to fight and defend your religion. It is a place where people come to find peace and make friends. C'mon people follow the rule: Make Love Not WAR! Leave your preaching and opinions about your beliefs to yourself. Nobody is interested in them. The world has enough war in real so we do not need fights in our virtual lives. Plus by arguing and throwing tooooot toooot words about each other, its not going to help anyone or make anything better. Its just going to cause more rumours about some fella who was innocently sleeping at home into a fella who sacrificed himself for his religion. I AM SICK OF THIS!!

Fifth, take jokes as jokes. Learn to laugh. It helps you to stay young =)

Sixth, when a human scribbles your wall, have the courtesy to scribble back.. If you do not have time for all that. Kindly please close your account.

Seventh, stop spamming and clicking on every link you see. Make sure you check to see if its a Spam or something. C'mon, its simple, people dont tell you that you might win a Blackberry for no reason. They keep it a secret cause they would probably want to win it! So that is obviously a fishy link. DONT CLICK ON IT! its not some kind of rocket science. If you click on it, it just makes other people's life more miserable and you give them the chance to think how stupid you actually are.

Eight, please for god's sake.. please.. STOP sending others request to help build your shed or feed your cows. And those gifts.. VoMyGawd! Can you guys just stop doing all this? If you want to play your farm or watsoeva, play it on your own. DONT bug other peoples lives with it. PLEASE for heaven's sake, GROW UP! If you have sooooo much free time, why not install Warcraft and play or even read Sun.co.uk. Good stuff in there rather than spending your life building a farm which brings no benefits to you and bugs others.

aaaahh... I think many would have already expressed this but some ignorant people are just not aware of this yet. I really hope people in Facebook will really get what Facebook is all about. I love the part that i can connect and share stuff with my friends for freeeeee but some of those annoying asses do exist as well. Hope they LEARN!

Tamil Mozhi

It was months back when my inbox was filled with videos and some information on semmozhinyane tamizhmozhiya. I didn't click or open any of it; not sure of what reason, maybe lack of interest or i wasn't bothered. One day when i was bored, i just clicked on a youtube link of this semmozhiyane tamizhmozhiya. This video started with the letter 'aa' in tamil. There were so many singers singing this song. Some were not even tamil. Now, i've read in many blogs, review pages and so on about the ethnic discrimination. Tamils, Telugus, Malayalees and so on, they seem to not like each others language. Lets take me for an instance; appa is tamil and amma is malayalee. So which do i follow? Should i just choose 1? It is so clear that my malayalee side don't like or approve anythin of us being tamils, not even the language. There are just to much controversy that i left the languages just like that and now i regret wholeheartedly. Tamil is a beautiful language! It is a wonderful language indeed. AAaahh.. The letters, the sound of each word, the pronunciations; when all combines.. it brings a whole different meaning. This song by AR Rahman has inspired me to brush up on my tamil. Singers united from different backgrounds and ethnic singing the verses of semmozhiyane tamizhmozhiya.. Its just breathtaking and filled with inspiration.   

This is the link of the video i found in youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqRR186LwMA  

The Lyrics

Lyrics:CM Karunanidhi Music:A.R.Rahman
SONG LYRICS WITH SINGERS  

(TMS)
Pirapokkum ella uyirkum pirandha pinnar 

(ARR) 
yaddhum ooreee yaavarum kellirrr  

(Harini)  
onnbadhu naazhi udupathu irende  

(Chinmayi)
uraividam enbadhu ondre  

(Karthik)
uraithu vazhndhom uzhaithu vazhvom..

(Hariharan)  
theedhum nandrum pirar thara vaarai yenum nan mozhiye nam pon mozhiyaam 
 
(Yuvan)  
porrai puram thallzhi porulai podhuvaakave..  

(Chorus)  
amaidhi vazhi kaatum anbu mozhi ayyan valluvarin vaaimozhiyaam  

(ARR + Yuvan + Chorus)  
semmozhiyana tamil mozhiyaa.. (P Susheela humming..)  

(Vijay Yesudas) 
orrarivu mudhal aararivu uyirinam varayile unarndhidum udal amaipai pagirthu koorum  

(P Susheela)  
orrarivu mudhal aararivu uyirinam varayile unarndhidum udal amaipai pagirthu koorum  

(G.V.Prakash Kumar)  
thozhgapugal thozhgapiyamum oppatra kural koorum uyar panpaadu  

(Naresh Iyer + chorus)  
olikindra silamubum meghalayum sindhamaniyudane..  

(T.L.Maharajan)  
vazhayapathi kundalakesiyumm..

(Chorus+ Nithya Shree humming)
semmozhiyana tamil mozhiyaa..

(Blaaze + Shruthi Haasan) 
kamba naataalvarum kavi arasiyevai nallaalum yemmadhamum yetrum puzhgal endrum yethanayo aayiram kavidhai neivor tharum thadai anaithukkum vithaaga vilangum mozhi semmozhiyana tamil mozhiyaa..

(Dr.Bala Murali Karishna + Srinivas + chorus) 
aagam endrum puram endrum vazhvai azhagaaga vaguthalithu aadhi anddam illathu irukindra iniya mozhi modhi vazharum uyiraana uzhaga mozhi thamm mozhi namm mozhi adhuve...  

(Sruti Haasan)  
semmozhiyana tamil mozhiyaa.. tamizh mozhi tamizh mozhi tamizh mozhi ya ghaaa... 

(Chorus)  
semmozhiyana tamil mozhiyaa..

(Chinnapponnu)  
Thamizh Mozhiyam Engal Thamil Mozhiyam  

(ARR)  
Vazhiya Vazhiya ve..Thamizh .. Vazhiya Vazhiya ve  

(ARR)  
semmozhiyana tamil mozhiyaa....

MAIN SINGERS: A. R. Rahman,T. M. Sounderajan,T. L. Maharajan,Shruthi Hassan,P. Susheela,Hariharan,Nithyasree Mahadevan,Chinna Ponnu,Srinivas,Blaaze,Karthik,Naresh IyerT. M. Krishnan,Aruna Sairam,Sowmya,G. V. Prakash,Chinmayi,Sweatha Mohan,Harini,Yuvan Shankar Raja,Vijay Yesudas,Gunasekaran,Raihanah,Susheela Raman,Krish,Bombay Jayashre,Nagoor Brothers


Credit goes to the owner of this blog:
http://mp3musichub.blogspot.com

Theeee Day I Met Rajni, ARR and the whole buncha Stars!!

A week before Endiran's audio release, my sister and i planned to meet the one and only Superstar. Well, not exactly meet but try our luck to at least see the star from afar. We planned to go earlier as the show starts at around 8pm. So the day came, and everything happened as planned. We were at PICC at around 4.30pm. Suprisingly, not many fans were there. So we met up with a couple of friends there. He was like this mastermind. He knew where to stand, what to do next, who what where.. WoW.. Anyway, while we were waiting, we camwhored a little.. and then ramya krishnan and sangeetha made an entrance into the hall. Hmmmm.. to my opinion, the crowd didnt know whether to cheer or just say hi.. LoL.. because the 2 stars did not even acknowledge us. Kind of sad though.. Lets move on.. then came karunas.. OMG such friendliness.. and then Vadiveloo came.. this man is such a comedian.. he even said 'chellema tathenge' to the crowd.. Haha.. so cute! Simbhu was next.. I am not his fan but he looks good, unfortunately quite short.. HahA.. Jayam Ravi!!!!!! he!!!! WoW!!! was sooo friendly... He layan all of us.. he shooked hands, signed autographs, smiled and all.. i nearly fainted!

then vairamuthu, the great tamil poet came.. everyone respected him by _/\_.. He writes wonderful lyrics.. okok moving on.. the other stars came in 1 by 1.. well after a while no stars came, the performers and robots were at the side of the entrance. At that very moment, i was so proud to be Malaysian. Dances united!!!! Then after a few false alarms.. AR RAHMAN and RAJINIKANTH came!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!! The crowd roared as they passed.. I tried to snap a picture but i just couldnt. I was just in that state of shocked and joy.. I don't know how to relate this feeling but the feeling was sooo one of a kind.. AR rahman and Rajinikanth stood rite in front of us.. They were so down to earth. Such friendly and nice people and i always thought that stars fly high (smacks myself). Then the mastermind of this plan said "lets try our luck by getting into the Vizha from the loading and unloading place". We marched there and took the lift.. when the door opened.. we realised that we were at the BACKSTAGE!!!! OMG!!!!! but how long can v stand by the door? We went down, there was a small tv showing the live telecast of what was going on in there. Then toilet feeling came d la.. sigh.. while i was in toilet, MoMO called.. she said "faster come".. i went out and saw shreya passing by.. she is such a beautifull person.. really! There was this aunty standing with us as shreya passed us. Then the aunty asked.. how come u guys are standing here.. well, we told her the truth, we dont have any tickets.. That kind soul let us into the Vizha using her access card.. Anywhere she is.. May god alwayz bless her with lots of luck and happiness.. Anyway, when we opened the door to get into the vizha.. that feeling.. like... I JUST CANT EXPLAIN.. that feeling came.. was a nice feeling!! and we watched the whole show LIVE LIVE LIVE!!!!! That evening was theee most memorable evening i ever had.. I neva thought i would get the chance to meet all the bestest stars at once.. I will never forget this day.. Superstar rajinikanth, AR Rahman, Vairamuthu and Director Shankar, Vadiveloo.. These people are legends in their own field of act. Will cherish this moments forever!

WorldCup

So the World Cup fever season is finally over. Overall, the results for every match was totally unexpected! Players received red cards for no reason. The jabulani was giving problems and not forgetting the annoying noises of the vuvuzuelas!!..Some goalkeepers had slippery hands. Well in that case not some... only one, English GREEN GREEN Man. Somehow, we can foresee his career after this. What about the samba's and the tango's? It was a great disappointment to see them get defeated though.

By the time the finals came.. i didnt know who to support because i wasnt in favour of both teams who managed to get to the finals. Spain and Holand? now.. now.. now.. who would i choose. Well, before all that... Paul the Octopus made his way into being famous for the WC prediction as he predicted 100% for all games. And then came the great Mani, the parrot.. well he didnt make a 100% prediction.. he lost at the finals.. So, in the finals.. i was not supporting the teams.. i was supporting MANI!!!! and i lost :(.. I seriously didnt like this WC.. It had no thrill at all.. hrrmph~ I hope next WC the samba's will be back with their moves. Oh ya.. before i forget.. i found the love of my football person... martin caceres, an uruguay player.. i loved the way he played.. i loved the way he is. He had the whole package. I will miss WorldCup :(... BUT im waitin for 2014. I have planned to save money and watch at least 1 match live in brasilWC 2014!!.. i hope this dream becomes a reality.. Lets just wait and see :)

Love Hurts.. Sometimes..

Love is so hard to deal with. Its frigging complicated because it sweet and sour at the same time. How i miss those days of being single. My mind was so free and i don't have to think anything deeper than what is happening at the moment in front of me. At the same time Love keeps me warm and happy. How much more complicated can it be? Sometimes i feel i am not given the attention that i want. Most of the time it does not reach to my expectations. Its funny when my friends care more than my loved one. Its funny that my friends laugh at my jokes harder than my loved one. Its funny that i spend more and most of my time with my friends than my loved one. Its even funnier that when i'm at my worst my loved one is just too busy to console me. How i wished my heart was numb. How i wished my brain could stop thinking of all this. Thinking of 'He didn't even call me to ask if i was doing ok' or 'He couldn't spend few seconds to show he exist' or even 'All i wanted was a pat on my shoulder not arguments'. How i wished that i was just my old self. I miss my old self. Well, its hard to let yourself go once you are in it. So we just have to deal with it.

Worries :S

Some people cant control feelings. Some can hide it so well that they don't even realize that there is a missing piece in you. I have this terrible habit of hiding my feelings to an extend that it explodes someday when i am provoked. When this happens, everything.. from sweet turns sour in split seconds because people knew me as this tolerant person who accepts everything or anything without anger, but.. (there is always a but!).. everyone has their limits and so do i.. anyway, as the book says.. let go of your anger and move on. I will be doing just that! Its time for me to change into a better person. But then it got me thinking... What is a better person? Being this so called tolerant person or a person who does not tolerate? How does a person stay in between those two lines? I'm not sure how to do this.. or where do i start the change. All i know is that by burdening your heart with all the worries and thoughts will not bring you anywhere. Sometimes you just got to let it out. LET IT OUT.. by any way of choice.. screaming.. talking to someone you trust.. listening to some head-banging music (emo songs makes you weaker).. or just telling your frustration to the person who is in the picture. The last one is the hardest but it lets the burden out of your chest a 100% but (again everything has a but!) it depends on the individual and how they convey to the situation of u confronting them. Well people are all kinds.. Anyhow, i'l be working hard on my change.. so that i will not burden my heart anymore. Actually, i feel lighter by just blogging it out.

What is my cheese?

People.. People with all sorts of characters. Some seem to be weird at first but then tend to be so normal as you get to know them. The story unfolds..

I walked to the library of my lab while waiting for my lunch mate and i found this book, "Who moved my cheese?". A book that had no awesome cover, looked like as if it was for kids.. with its drawings and all. Well, its just around 100pages with big fonts and it had some pictures of cheese. (pic below)

A perfect story of 4 types of people which had the same goal but behaved and chased after their goal in different perspectives. I believe i am just like Haw. A person with so much fear but tend to overcome it somehow.. yes, it takes more effort and time. Eventually, in that journey of reaching towards the goal.. we learn, we venture in new things, we experience and we create other opportunities. Knowledge never dies, Experience brings you to a new level, Opportunities opens doors to a better life. So what is the goal of my life? What is my Cheese? Career? Traveling? Love? Family? Wealth?

Seriously, i have no idea. But i'm having a thought about it. Maybe i'l spill it a little after i have made my blur journey into a clearer one. Lets say yes to changes!!!