weekend theme - "C O M E D Y"

Had a sooper-dooper weekend... (which I realise, is ending ... right now...)
Imsai Arasan 23am Pulakesi , the Tamil movie has been banned in Bangalore. God knows for what reason. Heard from a few friends that the movie is really funny and a must watch. My cousin's friends had gone to Hosur to watch the movie. So what did we do...yeah we too decided to go to Hosur. "Balaji talkies" was the place to be and 1 PM was the show timing. We left home at 11:30 AM on Saturday, to reach Hosur at 12:30 PM. Thanks to the weekend, the roads were absolutely empty. Can you imagine Hosur road to be empty :)
Reached Hosur and asked an auto guy "pulakesi padam odara Balaji talkies enga irukku" (where is Balaji Talkies which is showing the movie Pulakesi" to which he replied "andha padaththa thaan thookitaangale. pakathla Raghavendra talkies la odardhu" (that movie has been removed from the theatre, its showing in the next theatre called Raghavendra Talkies"
So, round and round we went, through the streets of Hosur, in search of Raghavendra Talkies,

On the way we found the poster of "Mosquito Man - kosu manidhan". Can you imagine a movie by that name....
Well, we finally found Raghavendra 'theatre' DTS in the 'down road'. The show was only at 2:30 PM and the gates were locked, so went spent the time listening to music in the car.
At 2:20 when we walked up to the theatre, there was such a huge crowd that we had to stand in the ladies queue to buy the tickets.
"Dont damage seats, it is for your CONTINENT" (...... read CONVENIENCE)

The movie was hilarious, not the usual Vadivelu jokes.... we were seated amongst a huge college gang, so it was good fun!

Sriram had forwaded details of a play by EVAM showing at Rangashankara. Got tickets to watch it Sunday evening.
Once we were at the auditorium, we could see hoardings which read "Karthik Marry Me" Karthik Kumar of "Alai Payuthey" and "Kanda Naal Mudhal" fame is a part of the Evam group.
My cousin was heart broken that she could not get his autograph :)
The show was HILARIOUS! Just too much! These guys rock! Just don't know how 2 hours went by. They got the whole crowd involved in the show, at one point the everyone in the theatre was screaming out dialogues from Hamlet (or.. Evam's version of it) We kept laughing non-stop... it was just too good!

There... its now past 10:30 PM Sunday.... hm.... life goes on....

Keep Smiling :)

New Words for 2006

Got this from a friend... liked it a lot :)

NEW WORDS FOR 2006 :
Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!

1. BLAMESTORMING : Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2 . SEAGULL MANAGER : A manager, who flies in makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3 . ASSMOSIS : The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.

4 . SALMON DAY : The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5 . CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles

6 . PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

7 . MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

8 . SITCOMs : Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9 . STRESS PUPPY : A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10 . SWIPEOUT : An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11 . XEROX SUBSIDY : Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

12 . IRRITAINMENT : Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.The J-Lo and Ben wedding (or not) was a prime example - Michael Jackson, another...

13 . PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE : The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14 . ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15 . 404 : Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message
"404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16 . GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17 . OHNOSECOND : That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake)

18. WOOFS : Well-Off Older Folks.

Lightening fingers

Was watching this video on YouTube. This guys rocks! The co-ordnation between the left and right hand is just superb...

Final Fantasy

Wohooo I’m back

After a lot of thought and reasoning, I resumed my piano classes today. I did not have to think twice about wanting to learn, it was only the “Are you willing to get up early even on weekends” that had to be answered!
As soon as I entered the class today, I looked at the master I said “Hello Sir”.
Wonder of all wonders, the man remembers my name :)
He said “Vidya no?”
I said “yes Sir, I want to start classes from today”.
To this he said “yes yes, u have good knowledge, but why did you stop coming? Not well aa?”
(not well for a year???)... “No Sir... training, project work... busy...” I mumbled.
“ok ok, be regular from now on OK?”
OKAY!

I still remember the day I went to sign up for the class... funny story stored in my April 2005 archives : )