tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59919782011-08-16T14:00:02.705+05:30Inspirations, Thoughts, Ideas and my Daily Life is blogged here. A multimedia guy, with a slow entry into motivating domains - photography, cinematography, documentary filming & advertising.kayyakhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00006589202698848260noreply@blogger.comBlogger321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5991978.post-1130219950402173322005-10-25T11:16:00.000+05:302005-10-25T15:01:12.446+05:30

I was riding my thunderbird down College Road and had to stop at the signal. It was raining hard and bikers know how difficult things could get in chennai monsoons. Unexpected huge potholes, heavy traffic, smoke and dirt that one can't stand, and hard Rain. YES :) didn't we ask for water? here it is.. pouring and pouring. I was quite excited like a kid riding a bike when it poured all over.. : )

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Murugan & Malli. Episode 1.a short story Murugan was very tired that day. He wanted to have a look at rural Madurai. So he decided to go on a long ride to meet his grand parents in KK Nagar. He hired a tvs50 moped from the mechanic nextdoor and took on the rural highway...At 15kms pe hour, he could hardly miss anything on the road. The speeding highway trucks put that little moped onto the stony

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This is a short-essay-sequel from Raju's Diary. Kaveri Express - Starts hereRaju's mobile was buzzing.. "Raju, you would love to check our Class XI Yahoo Group now, lol. Early Morning boy! Madhu".It was 6.45am.. Raju was wondering 'Why does Madhu wake up everyone so early in the morning? She must better work for a DayLight BPO.. and mind you, an Indian Daylight BPO..' sighs Raju.Raju was puzzled.

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here is a photo-story, almost a year back, while doing first studio shoot on Film..! Subject: table tops, health care productsCosts: Air Conditioned Studio, Lights, Studio AssistantPurpose: Photos to be incorporated into a presentationTime left: under 24hrs. to Click, Process, Print and ScanRisk Level: Very High. If this didn't work, can lose the presentation as well+ve Factor: Good opportunity

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This is a short-essay-story from Raju's Diary.The train halted at Chennai Central arriving an hour late to the scheduled time. Raju pulled his leather carry bag and rushed out of the coupe, thinking about plans to get back to his project in Bangalore.He walked a few compartments and stumbled upon an aged couple. This old uncle was bargaining with a cooliewala for he would pay only Rs.25 for

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Spell bound with strong throat chocking emotions, imagery that blows out imagination, a story of a young blind-deaf girl who is taught to See the Light, who is taught to re-write her otherwise BLACK fate, the best of Indian Cinema in recent times is here... BLACK.BLACK portrays how a teacher makes a blind-deaf girl understand the concept of 'seeing light' or roshini. The movie has been extremely

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pictures of the Tsunami hit marina beach of chennai http://www.kayyak.com/photos/index.php?album=Tsunami-Chennai

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The glass windows in my room were rattling for quite some time. I woke up to check if something was wrong.. oops, I could feel the room shaking, Mom was in the kitchen preparing Coffee and she didn't feel it, maybe because she was standing. I told her "Amma, Earthquake ma" .. "Ennada Solrea???" (what do you mean?) "Ama, It is an Earthquake" I could feel the shock thru' her eyes that went wide.

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from http://www.thebigview.com/pastlife/ I don't know how you feel about it, but you were female in your last earthly incarnation.You were born somewhere in the territory of modern South Australia around the year 1600.Your profession was that of a builder of roads, bridges and docks.Your brief psychological profile in your past life:Person with huge energy, good in planning and supervising. If

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woooo.. its been 77 days since my last blog...! I was pretty busy and .... lazy over things. Here i go. 1. Started clicking with my F80 machine - lots of rolls, prints, enlargements and framings. Got my assumed best one - the Golden Buddha - on a 6x10 inches print, framed on a A4 mount and put on my Office wall. Looks gr8! Two of Arjun's Nephew Sarvesh a.k.a 2T a.k.a Servo 's pictures framed,

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Hi dudes!I bought a Nikon F80 with Sigma 28-105mm aspherical lens. Chose this cam, after hours and days on google, reading reviews and feature comparisons. But for Good Photography Camera does NOT really matter, its in the composition and colors.The camera has awesome controls, and the lens seems to be good, a bit heavy though.just started to click, come 36!

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Hi Dudes and Dudettes, just dropped in to say how good this weekend was, I saw 4 movies this weekend... Finding Nemo, Hidalgo, Seabiscuit and Autograph (Tamil). I was off to Find(ing) Nemo on Satuday. When I told my friends that I went alone, they were like 'All Alone.. ?!', 'Yes', 'O' Really?' 'Yep, alone'. Does it really matter? Just think about this, if you go with your friend(s) do you

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Saw Finding Nemo this morning at Studio 5 (Satyam Cineplex, Chennai) wooow man - 'breathtaking CG work' and the entire voice talent team has done a gr8 job!The colorful coral of the Marlins, the forgetful Dory, the 'Fish are our friends, not Food' Sharks, the mighty Whale, 150 yrs old. Crush - the Turtle and its kiddies in the EAC (East Australian Current), the tank and Nemos' Mates at the

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W3C.. CSS.. XHTML.. DHTML.. XML.. RSS.. JS.. the ASPs and .NETs PHPs Servlets CFMs and there is mySQL and MSSQL .. oops, fast growing technologies and standards that need to integrate to deliver a wholesome web experience. a-list-apart refined my mind a bit today. It offers extremely well researched articles with possible work arounds, check it out -> http://www.alistapart.com/

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a starter on travel and fun @gangtok darjeeling this march 04 - the yellow taxi enthusiasts.. visit Shalin Jain's Think Pad Pics from @gangtok darjeeling this march 04

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Oo yuva yuva Oo yuvaahahah heard this track from Maniratnam's latest venture? the songs are pretty good, lots of techno stuff and no live instruments, Mano was telling me that they might have used synths purposefully to match the concept. This movie seems to rock ... shot in two languages, whole lot of starcast, rahman on the keys, sreekar prasad on the edit and importantly Ravi K Chandran on

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Hi guys!! its been 15 days since I updated the blog. Feb and March have been quite busy at work end.. So Shal & I planned to take the heat off and headed to Darjeeling and Gangtok. This trip was truly amazing! I have scanned the prints and squeezed them in my Y! photos 30 MB space, now I hv'got very little space to add more pics :( Will find a solution soon to upload all my pics :) http://

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Strings' Duur has enthrawled me so much, just could not stop listening to the title song and the Reprise!! The guitar strumming, techo mix & the melody.. it has simply blown my mind. In the past 3 days (from when I got the CD from Shalin) i must have atleast (over) heard it 50 times.. The songs are so fresh and lively, there aren't any sad love songs, lyrics are amazing (friends say so, I

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This is the 3rd part of '@Kodai this Feb'. Read part 2 here. Since kk did not call or return for quite some time, Sai and Arjun planned to visit the hospital. There were local busses that ply quite often in this route. People inside our bus were uneasy and got off it. The policewala was still writing down the First Information Report (FIR) But he was taking rests in between. Most of them were

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This is the 2nd part of '@Kodai this Feb'. Read part 1 here. All of us were asleep. There were heavy headlight glares from opposite vehicles. But managed to escape them somehow and tried to concentrate on my sleep. A Horrifying Thud.. a Crash.. and a Loud cry! Oh Shit... what was that. Everyone woke up with great despair. The driver did not get off the bus for almost a minute and was not sure

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7 guys. 7 girls. 2 days. 1 accident. This is a title that came to my mind to name this post on our awesome Kodai tour. We hired a mini-bus on saturday. Arjun was the Cashier cum Tour Coordinator. KK (Krishna Kumar) was the navigator .. he gave company to the driver to keep him alert on the road. He did not sleep when most of us were far asleep (it seems I was snoring. loud) I am the only guy

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Got up much late, guess it was 11ish. Gulped a cup of hot Delhi Ishtylu Tea (for those who are not familiar with the Delhi Hindi+English Slang, Style is pronounced IsHtylu). I was actually rushing for the Bazaar (market) to buy loads of stuff for my sister. Delhi is a good place to go shopping for Women. It is cheap and most of the goods are use-and-throw away kinds. And the market is flooded

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I am writing this post after wasting some precious time trying to speak to Dell Sales Support. I generally try not to complain about things. But this was a bit too much. Have never had such bad experiences before... It is all about Dell's pathetic sales support in India. I love & appreciated Dell for my Dell Inspiron 81oo notebook. But this incident makes me think otherwise... paying almost

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Hope you all had wonderful time welcoming year 2004! I was browsing through few old system backup cds, and found something nice. Wanted to put it up in the blog. It is Artist Madhavan alias Maddy's Autograph!! So whats gr8 about it...?! anyone could get an Autograph.... nope! this is a personalised autograph Madhavan had signed for me ;) during a get-to-gether(!!). My sister & I designed the

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I am in Madurai at 6am. The bus travelled thru' the small streets of Madurai, full of fruit vendors. Got an auto rickshaw and I was home to meet my mom :] .. There she was, with that everlasting smile. A smile that tells me ... 'never give up son'. Its is her attitude to take the most serious issue with an ease. I would like to be like that.. & am learning it from her... After a quick bath and

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I was praying that they shoudn't play any movie. The ticket read 'Video Free' in bold letters. good.. that means no video.. oh no.. it meant 'Free Video'. They started playing a movie. Gosh! How am going to sleep with all that re-recording thru' an 8 watt 'Pioneer' just over my head.. Title cards of the movie had started... something changed my mind. I wanted to see the movie. Why man karthi?

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Started from home at 8.oo pm. The reporting time on my ticket was 8.15 pm, father asusual drove at a normal speed, reached Yogalakshmi Travels Egmore Office by 8.20. The Mini-Bus, which is supposed to take us from Egmore to the Airport ehh.. Koyambedu Bus Stand, was late. It did not come around by 8.30. So the Manager said 'Sir, If there is free seats in Madura Radha's Mini-Bus, you could board

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Marina beach, Chennai is the second longest beach in the World after Miami Beach in Florida. . Known Fact to many. I was out with shalin on saturday night to Marina for some 'fresh air'. As many would agree with me, much of the beach and water is polluted with plastic bags, human waste and what not. It looks like a dump yard towards the Northern end where the Buckingham Canal joins the Sea.

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IRCTC ! have you ever tried booking a ticket through the Indian Raiway Online Ticket booking facility? No? then don't ever try one. IRCTC stands for INDIAN RAILWAY CATERING AND TOURISM CORPORATION LTD., Sounds like a catering service more than a Railway. Here is my (pathetic) experience.. Once you hit www.irctc.co.in, the page loads slowly, at leisure, you actually tend to forget if you

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Dinner at TANGERINE We had just previewed Mano's comopositions for our upcoming album (!) Shalin is writing the lyrics and Uncle is on the vocal (more on this later). Got delayed a bit, and both of us were tired with loads of work @ office. Needed a refreshing place to dine-in... We were discussing for over 20 mins (!), Chinese - shal went 'no way kk', we have had the best of Chinese lots of

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Hi friends ! 12 New Snaps added today, most of them were taken on a tour to Courtralam; mid 2003, a hill station very famous for its WaterFall.. which is supposed to cure diseases (if any ;) due to the medicinal nature of the water .. 'Delightful Nature' and my 'Favourite Close-ups' check them out here...

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Diwali @ Madurai Just returned from my Diwali Trip to Madurai.. Thought this might be a good start for by BLOG. It was a 3 day trip to Madurai - my hometown, is usually a hot city. Since the monsoon had set in most part of TamilNadu, the temperature was bearable during the day, and in the evenings it started drizzling and later in the night there were heavy rains and the climate was just right

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