Maryan - Experience with my GANG :)

Bharathbala-Rahman-Dhanush this combo enough to have expectation on this movie. I was waiting for the release date to see the magic on screen first day. Sharavana called a week before and said movie is getting released in Auro 3D and said to book for that at any case. Wednesday night booking will start usually at sathyam cinemas. Tuesday night, remembered to book but out of tiredness slept early :(

Wednesday morning 7'o clock, got up and checked website. Auro 3D screens fully in red and other sathyam screens full except S2. Decided to go for S2 finally as i dont want to miss this on first day. Started calling the gang for confirmation.

7:45 AM called sharavana, he asked to book seats beyond screen. Next called anand, he was sleeping and said hello in a low voice and once i said movie booking, he said in a loudly ok ok. He confirmed kannan n pondy too would come and asked to call radha. Called radha and he said yes and asked to wait for a min that he will call jith to get confirm. 8:00AM, already S2 getting booked row by row and i saw seats only at 4th row and that too getting booked at every refresh. Got a conf call from radha n jith and they confirmed too. Then called ravish and finally booked 8 tickets. 

We missed BV as he had a family function on friday. Thursday, BV felt that he would miss to join and afternoon he said he going to come as his function cancelled. Checked the layout again and there a seat before 10 rows from where we booked. Still he asked to book as he thought like atleast all can go together. Booked a single ticket. But time not good for him as he said again at afternoon that his function scheduled again :( Later we called sundar to join in place of BV.

Friday came. As there was rain in the eve of thursday, i thought of to go theatre before rain come. Unfortunatly rain started at 3 itself. I worried to indira about raining and she laughed at me as there was still 4 hrs there for the film. Rain didnt stop till 5. Ravish msged me heavy rain to irritate me. At 5 30 Jith started in his car with pondy,kannan and sundar. Radha started to his room to come directly to theatre. I planned to start after 15 min. Kannen called me in middle and asked to take service road as there was heavy traffic in tharamani signal. Myself and ravish started in bike and called anand about the short route. I reached theatre in 10 mins then radha and anand too joined there. At 6:15 sharavana came with his usual costume and jith & co too joined. Now the problem is whos going to sit in tat bv place as it is 10 rows beyond. Anand volunteered to sit there :) we all settled in seat with thalaivaa trailer. Myself with ravish n sharavana aside.

Film started. Brilliant Camera work and scintillating rahman music overwhelmed other things. Sharavana didnt like the movie from starting, this is expected as he never like slow paced romance and only like mass subjects. Ravish actually feared on seeing that villain and saw me whenever he came on screen. After long wait(it seemed like that) interval came. Gathered at reception with radha favourite pop-corn,hog-dog, puffs. Jith remained in queue and offered me cold coffee. I said hot coffee. After a long chat we Went back and settled. After some 10mins jith remembered my hot coffee and he passed through, it came to my hand. 

Movie went in different track, hostage, dry area, misplaced songs. As climax came, ravish lost the grip and started laughing for everything. One last song(top of the album), Nenje ellu still to come. As it is a modern paced song, thought of how that would fit in that situation. Song started like anything as a dream sequence(no way it has to be placed there). Ravish laughed out and started making rocket with tissue. Myself and sharavana started talking. I shocked when sea came into desert and movie ended with usual tamil cinema climax. Just thought, all good ingredients are there like bharatbala, rahman, dhanush, brillient camera, acting etc but still something was missing and didnt get into compromise with this movie.

A day at my WORK

Still remember the days of CQ upgradation version 7.0.1.8. Late night, with my co-worker and while doing the error message of gskbat and then we solved that with IBM..good memories.. After i left company and joined back, again a big upgradation.. Where she handled alone with the same upgradation and it failed and IBM too cant able to help at that moment and they didnt find the root cause of the issue too.. Again the same upgradation and surely knew issue would come. IBM too ready to attack when issue pops up and they agreed to have a p1 ticket for upgradation that means round the clock support until the issue get resolved. All teams involved like oracle to take backup of DB and unix team to take backup of file system and fallback mechanism if in case upgrade failed. All ready and the day has finally came. 

We decided to start the activity by 7. We fixed time by 10PM and i slept early and set alarm for 5:30AM. i got up at 12:30 AM thought of time up and for every 1 hr i got up and checked. Atleast i slept but this girl didnt even sleep for whole night. DB team completed the backup on time. Unix team not yet confirmed the backup. She sent a remainder by 4 30 AM. No response. Called the helpline and tracked. At last they sent a mail by 5:30AM. 

I took bath, had tea and started by 6 30AM. I knew for sure, out of work, cant able to take breakfast. So thought of to buy good day biscuit near by office but no shops opened by that time. Parked vehicle and walked to lift, there she also entered at same time. Both went in to start the process. There only she said she didnt sleep for whole night and vomitted too for having mango late night. Naughty girl, she usually do like this. In spite of cold, she came with head bath.

At 7 AM, we started shutting down the application and started uninstallation of existing version. Uninstall finished at 8 and then we started the installation of base version and that finished by 9 30. Then the next step of applying patch is the one which failed last time. In test server that goes for 1 1/2 hrs. So we decided to put that patch and wait with fingers crossed for 1.30 hrs. we executed command and went for a coffee break to canteen. Took boost and back to seat to watch in parallel.

After some half hr, command finished with no error. YES patch upgraded successfully in short time. Excited and happy, shouted :)

Started testing for some half hr. Actually we planned a lot to do if patch upgraded successfully. But out of lazy we simply passed time. At 1 30 we started for lunch. Went to saravana bhavan near by. She said that she cant take anything except juice. I too thought of to take light. we ordered 2 butter naan + panner gravey + 1 lemon juice and 1 coffee. At 2 30 we back to seat and did some post upgrade work. At last we found a bug too and fixed. she fully fainted out of tiredness. we decided to leave.

At 4 30 started from office and dropped her at near by signal. After a long time this upgrade made me remember the past work.

Making of Sura Fish Puttu

 Its a long time that i made a dish in my home. Started the day with no more plan. Decided to try something, and sura fish strike immediately since i was thinking to do sura puttu several time before but missed. Went to fish market with dad and got 1kg of PAL SURA fish. Opened you tube and saw a video of how to make it and then started preparing. Its a simple and easy dish that can be prepared with very less oil compared to the indian fish fry recipes. Decided to take snap of everything on making. Mummy too supported on taking pic :)

First got ready with all ingredients. Here goes the list

Next took fish and cut into small pieces and boiled in water with turmeric powder, ginger garlic paste and salt for 10 mins.

After that, take out the fish, filter water and remove outer cover and bones. Sura speciality is you dont need to worry about fish bones, only one will be at centre, thats it. Thts why this fish is special to make puttu easier.

Now scramble the fish into small small pieces. Take a kadai and heat the pieces for some time to make it dry.

Now take a pan to make the dish. Add required oil and put Aniseed(sombu). After that put the chopped onions and fry till you get golden brown. while frying add chopped chilly and ginger garlic paste.

 My mom preparing rasam in next pan, dont look at it :)


After that, add goriander leaves and then add salt, turmeric and chilly powder.

Fry a little and then add fish to it..

Fry well so that it will not stick in pan. Add chopped coconut and pepper powder. 

Thats all, delicious Fish puttu is ready to eat.

How is it????

KADAL - Asok's View

Usually maniratnam movie plot will be known earlier a bit but this time completely not known a single bit of what the story about.. Ofcourse its a kadal backdrops peoples story, all expected it could be something similar to "Neerparavai" but its not.

Whatever story line, as am a maniratnam movie freak,i went for the first day show without knowing how it could be.. Usually in his movie the frame will be very polish, even an ordinary shot will look very beautiful in his movie camera, Rahman songs and BGM, lead pair, cinematography etc. In this movie too you will get all these flavours as usual. what else you want then?

First shot.. A maniratnam movie.... full whistle in theatre.. Introduction of two giant character of the movie at very first shot..Arvind swamy after 10-15 yrs, bulgy but same expressions, eyes and smile :) 

Maniratnam previous movies usually will be a remaking of any epic stories or some big personalities life story or some already known plot. But this time a completely new one. Its about faith, good and evil and christian belief. Arjun refers himself as satan and the act of converting others to it. Aravind as opposite of God's way of love. Who will win in this fight and gowtham & thulasi's  love and how they come out of it, gowthan in whos side?? its all KADAL...

CAMERA work, toooo good. Specially on songs. Need to write a separate view on songs alone.. Moongil thottam, Nenjukulle, Adiye songs are for visual treat.. These songs are taken in the exact same location with different camera angle.. I thought like Nenjulle will be like a background theme song but 2-3 stansas will come as a romantic bit. Camera angle on sea is splendid..

SONGS.. No words.. Usually rahmans magic will be known after hearing songs 2/3 times.. On hearing these songs first, i thought like how come these songs will fit for this village backdrops.. But after seeings visuals and songs, exactly fit it. Moongil thottam is natures beauty song. 

Introducing Gowtham and Thulasi.. New bees did well.. Their dialogue delivery and their expression made us laugh in most scenes. Specially thulasi's smile, everybody in theatre whistled.. Her white dress in all scenes is like an angel look..Arjun and aravind fit for the role and their performances too good...

So finally, what all you expect in mani's movie, you will get all.. First half bit slow, not engaging us to go over(like standing at sea shore) and second half full speed (like in the middle of sea)..

Twitter/FB/Text addiction now causes worry

This is about the views of a TOI article on 3/1 and made me realize something either good or bad, i want to share that.. Article title: "Twitter addiction now causes worry". They said about the tweeting addiction of each and every moment of activity and it becomes a usual habit for most and the worst thing is they didnt aware of what they doing. This suits very well for facebook/orkut and other social networking sites.


Saying each and every moment like "Am in pizza hut and ordered fiery chicken pizza and waiting in table no.1" , "am in the middle of this movie", "About monday morning and friday weekend mood" etc etc

Article explained all the views about this. Mostly get addicted to this and they casually do this as a habit. But the real thing is they not enjoying that moment of activity rather than they keen on typing that and updating in the sites. They always live in a imaginary world and expect others to focus/to attract attention. And the height of kind is, "Today something am expecting to happen" or "My fingers crossed for the result" etc. They will not tell what going to happen but they expect others to ask them what is it and finally somebody will tell or mostly keep silence. One more reason they say is if they tell about what going to happen, then sentimentally they feel that the result will not be positive.. then why they have to give a confused heads-up before.. they will not say what it is and in spite they need attention too by asking what is it.. what really they expect???

Its really a kind of addiction and one day they will get bored and they will realize what they doing... knowingly or unknowingly most of them doing this kind..

Article explain the positive side of that too like those who be shy to talk infront of the stage, may use this platform effectively to improvise them. And somebody's creative jokes and idea sharing really help many or to get time pass atleast.

Whatever, this status is not to say anything bad about or good or to blame anyone, but just to say what we are all doing...

ARTICLE:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/internet/Twitter-addiction-now-causes-worry/articleshow/17866634.cms?