Tagged by Ponmahal :P

New Year Resolution.... phew..

I hate breaking promises and I don't break one :)
and..... so I don't make one ....

In this way, I have kept my New Year resolutions & promises for about 25 years .. (I am quoting a year less, because I never knew I had to make one when I was 1... )...
(manasatchi: Dei... now stop rambling...) .. ok..ok ...
Irrespective of resolutions I make, every second of 2008 has some hidden surprises specially for me.. ( I can't avoid emulating Kamal's Anbe Sivam dialogue ... I just admire it and believe it to the fullest..) ... So I am not making any resolutions or promises... but just be myself and follow my heart .. I wont regret...
I can only pray, hope & wish that a few things that happened to me in 2007 not repeat in my life again ...

PK... nandri for Tagging... I doubt I'd have written a blog again in January 2008 if you'd not tagged .. I was planning to write in February anyway :D

Enakunu Tag panna yarum illathathale... Yaravathu vazhi pokkarhal intha tag padichu enaku comment pannina .. I dedicate a tag to them... :) :)

Ippadi oru posta !!!

Post pottu romba naal achu .. blog pakkam varala Prasad'nu oru ava peyar vanthudakoodathula :)
inthango .. sapidungo ... intha mari post neraya pathu irupinga.... ana inga pathu iruka matinga ... :)
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Seri ... ippo violence /badwords use pannama comment pannungo pappom ;)

hey, kanavu palithathe ....

Golden Tag ;)

How do we go about writing this tag???

Make a post describing either the dream that came true or the dream that would never come true :) Which means one should'nt write about a dream that you think might come true in future :D Gotcha???? If you are a person who gets no dreams like me :( Then write about the dream that you dreamt while you were very much awake- I mean daydream. Hehehehe...
You can tag any number of people as u wish. :) Or you can also tag none.

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Ennala night dream ellam niyabagam vechuka mudiyala… so I am gonna tell u my day dream , rather my fantasy :P

The cuckoo clock cuckoos (how do we say that ;) ) 7:00 in morning. X gets up from the bed, answer nature’s calls and goes to prepares some idly, listening to SUN News. 7:30 - Y, peeps out of the quilt having a second thought whether to get up or not. Vijayalakshmi aka Viji, their kid, was still sleeping next to Y. Urging the kid to get up, Y goes to take shower. When Y meets X at dining table at 8:00, X finds that the crease of Y’s shirt was not properly pressed. Hence, asks Y to remove shirt and irons it again. Y, taking the kid along, waves a good bye and a secret flying kiss to darling standing by the gate ;).

X goes back to watch some songs on Sun Music. 11 AM, X answers the doorbell and finds the neighbor Z, whose bread winner for the family has also left to office for the day. They talk about their neighbor hood, rate TV shows, curse mega serial mother-in-laws, boast their kid’s IQ until 4.

X makes some evening snack for the kid and sweet heart. 7 PM, X takes in charge of the TV remote to watch mega serials. Y and the kid self-serve the afternoon meal that X made for them at 8. “Yummy, mushroom curry nalla panni iruka appa nee”, says Viji. “Prasad, you are too good a cook da. You know I love mushroom curry J and have made it so good. Love u da”, says Y. Prasad, the proud home maker, sits there in front of the TV, operating the remote and nodding his head as if acknowledging the compliments. Prasad’s face was glowing with pride out of those compliments from his family.

I used to tell this to my friends when I was in college during when I was so confident that I am not going to get a job. Infact, I even planned to propose the girls who get job in campus placement. I guess this will satisfy Gold’u’s dream tag – as this is something that will never happen (at least I believe so).

Prasad Goes to New York

Certain Disturbing Contents are removed from the picture. But, I have still included the picture as that is the hero of the story. Still, Viewer Discretion Advised.

The entire plan to unleash our spirits on New Year started like this.

Meet my UG freinds Parthiban Periyasamy aka Ben, Muthusamy Karupaiya aka Sam, Gopalakrishnan Kaarmegam aka Paul, Koushik Athereya alias Kutti, Sashwath aka Lorry. Ivunga perayum, photovayum pathone therinchu irukum, ithula iruka wordskum ivanunga moonchikum entha sambathamum illainu ... ana naan emanthuten :( . Antha kodumai kadhaithan - Prasad goes to NY.

I was so thrilled when I received this ppt and itinerary from Ben. “Yo Man !!! We will be in NY on New Year- Cool lounges, hot dance floors, “multicultural” streets, indomitable, cosmopolitan and not to mention the beautiful babes. We will explore everything”, I was adding enough fuel to Balaji’s (my roommate/friend) ‘bon-fire’ envy.

ithellam nana sollalai... ennai ippadi ellam sollithan NY ku kootitu ponanga :( .. but anga nadanthathu ennavo ... ( move fingers in front of your eyes in circular motion... basically flash back)

1. First day, not admitted into any of the disco clubs bcoz we were underdressed. It seems that the disco clubs and lounges in NY don’t permit underdressed crowd. Among the list of not allowed from our wardrobes are the sneakers, jeans, athletic wears, round neck t-Shirts, detachable pants and half trousers, of course ;). Guess what? We had only these :(.

2. We had to drive 110 times miles at late night on 30^th to Atlantic City to a disco club which allowed jeans and t-shirts.

3. Came out of the club frustrated at the end as none of the blondes [drooling: P] danced with us.

4. Next day roamed on the streets of NY to find a good place to spend the night.

5. Boarded the ferry to Staten Islands. When the ferry reached there, we realized that it is high time we go back to NY again. So, we caught the same ferry to come back to NY.

6. The funniest part – I got lost at one of the metro stations L. Sight adichite trainla vanthutu irunthen. Naan sight adicha blonde oru stational erangita. I scratched Sam’s hands to show him the girl. He never reacted. Only then I realized that I was scratching a 6’ 5” tall African-american’s hands. I was so terrified to see none of the 7 guys on train. I did not carry a mobile phone also. imagine - how it will be if u get lost in NY on New year Eve without phone and car. I got down at next station and ran towards a street that I guessed they should have got down. Intelligent guess !! I got them in next 15 minutes ;) started breathing only then. (Only later I learned that one of our fraternity had promised to throw a party if I am permanently lost ..grrrr)

7. The laptop where we stored all information about the disco clubs refused to start. That was the first time the laptop died it seems.

8. Fustrated enuf, we started to go back to hotel room even before it was 12:00 so that we can see the NY events on TV.

9. Missed the GPS. Lost the way to hotel.

10. Finally managed to reach hotel at 12:05 AM :( New yearum pakkala new york um pakkala ... 12 mani anapoo .. thuikku theriyama carla poitu irunthom .. ennavo symbolica iruntha mari irunthuchu :D

Ore oru aarudhal, New year annaiku Bridgeport Perumal Kovil ponom. Angeyum ennai tholaika sadhi nadanthahu appuramthan enaku theriyum ... :(

Tagged by Mystery

1. Were you named after anyone?
Sun God ;)

2. Do you wish on stars?
Nope, Im burnt enuf

3. When did you last cry?
When I lost a best friend recently.

4. Do you like your handwriting?
Yup. Its hard for atleast me to differentiate between my hand writing and Times New Roman.

5. What is your favourite meat?
Fish (esp. Salmon)

6. What is your most embarrassing CD on your shelf?
Don’t really have anything like that

7. If you were another person, would YOU be friends with you?
Cant really say. Next Question.

8.Are you a daredevil?
I am. This answers question 7

9. How do you release anger?
I shout at :(

10. Where is your second home?
Besant Nagar, Chennai ;)

11. Do you trust others easily?
Amam .. I don’t trust instantly

12. What was your favourite toy as a child?
My tri-cycle

13. What class in school/college do you think is totally useless?
There was a subject called Socially Useful Productive Work(SUPW) while in school. – We call it Some Useful Periods Wasted (SUPW) ;)

14. Do you use sarcasm a lot?
Yeah

15. Have you ever been in a mosh pit?
Yep.

16.What do you look for in a guy/girl?
If it is a gal then I don’t look for anything specific, jus be down to earth; if its my gal I would be happy if she puts my interest ahead of even her best friend's :)

17. Would you bungee jump?
I will.

18. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off?
No..the last I did so was wen I was in 5th std.

19.what's your favourite ice cream?
CCD at Shakes n Creams ;)

20. What are your favourite colours?
Black & Blue

21. What are your least favourite things?
My laundry clothes and unwashed dishes.

22. How many people do you have a crush on right now?
One..hmm.. nope.. three…wait.wait.. Six… forget it.. None ;)

23. Who do you miss most right now?
Amama >:D< (That’s how I call my grandma, She is ill :( )

24. What are you listening to right now?
right now, Nothing.

25. If you were a crayon, what colour would you be?
Black

26. What is the weather like right now?
Fluuries -4 deg27.

27. Last person you talked to on the phone?
Mahesh ;) I see smokes coming out of someone's ears ;)

28. The "first" thing you notice about the opposite sex?
Eyes ;) (Now dont ask for Second thing ;) )

29. Do you like the person who sent you this?
I think I do ;) ( Affirmation needs confirmation from Kavi ;) )

30. How are you today?
Dull, so far

31. Favourite non alcoholic drink?
H2O

32. Favourite alcoholic drink?
Roasted Almond Mud Slide

33. Natural hair colour?
Black.

34. Eye colour?
Black.

35. Wear contacts?'
Most of my contacts wear, but I don’t ;) PJ :(

36. Siblings?
Useless younger sis :)

37. Favourite month?
April

38. Favourite food?
Amma vecha meen kozhambu

9. Favourite day of the year?
Dec 31st

40. Have you ever been too shy to ask someone out?
I do ask if I feel I shld ask. Infact, I have asked one and only one college. Unfoutunatly, ;) she agreed ;) (but sathiyama athuthan last time ava kooda pesinathu)

41. Scary movies or happy endings?
Happy Endings.

42. Summer or winter?
Summer anytime

43. Holi or Diwali?
Holi..

44. Do you like your name?
Yeah, very much. Everyone likes it ;)

45. What book/magazine are you reading?
Pour your heart into it

46. What's on your mouse pad?
ooooosi pona medhu vadai ;) … I don’t use mouse pad.

47. What did you watch on TV last night?
HBO After Dark Series ;)

48. Favourite Smell?
Mannargudi Mallihai ;)

49. Have you ever regretted breaking up with someone?
Yes.

50. Most tiresome thing you’ve ever experienced/done?
Yeah, my work (refer to previous posts for my work schedule)

Now this is my favorite part. I tag

Raz
Heidi Kris
Kutti
nandoo

Thala pola varuma !!!!

Disclaimer: Comments are solicited only in the perspective of Ganguly's character and not talents ;)

As I write this blog my thalai (the bengal tiger, most successful indian captain, dada of indian cricket) is on his way to script his 23rd ODI century against West Indies in Nagpur.(I believe he will convert his 50 into century). Sorab Ganguly is one person I have admired most since the day he pulled a match againt Pakistan in Toronto by claiming 5 wickets when little hope existed among almost every soul that watched the match of India's chance to win the low scorer. He is not gifted with the talents of Sachin and poise of Dravid, but he is blessed with a better gift - The Guts; The most important of all the qualities to survive the crisis. He took the captaincy on his shoulders when India was still fishing in troubled waters, with poor form of all players and the scams of Azhar and Jadeja bringing disgrace to Indian cricket. He stood upto the task and has built the team that made to the finals of World Cup '03.

At most times, when India had been chasing scores above 280, it would have been Ganguly who would have led the team by setting the pace for the game. You really need the guts to charge down to a 150 miles/hr lightning balls and send them to fence over the long off. On the other hand, I have hardly seen Sachin chase scores above 300 and win them for India. When Ganguly was pulled out of the team in a very unprofessional manner, few would have thought that he will ever make to team again. But, Ganguly never let his hope fade away. And infact, what a way to come back to International cricket when he is playing his first ODI after 11 months - he is coming back with a CENTURY against one of the best teams in the world. He was the only Indian batsman who scored above 200 runs in the South African tour where he made his test return. Nothing else can testify his character and guts better than this.

At one point of time, he grew complacent of his abilities to win the matches for India. But, to err is human. I neither found Sachin making big impacts in the tournaments at the sametime Ganguly was dropped from the team. Though I was sorry to see him off from the team, I am very happy to see his fearless assault on the opponents again. I wish to see his guts rule the game for a few more years atleast. Welcome Dada.

Oru IT Consultantin Diary....

......ithu oru unmai sambavam.

I once came across an article on life of grad assistant at a school. I wanted to track my day at office as I believed that my day was as challenging as the one I read. Inspired..here it goes ...

6:30 Wakeup and lie awake in Bed

6:31 Realize that its Balaji’s turn today to wake up early to take bath.

6:32 Hit snooze button. Go back to sleep.

8:00 Wake up suddenly with heart in mouth when you realize you didn't hit the snooze button--you turned it off.(office time 8 -5)

8:01 Fall asleep again ;)

8:30 Wake up with heart in mouth again.

8:45 Ready to go to office, will shave tomorrow. Call Arul (another vetti friend) to pick me up from home. Pick an apple to eat on the way.

9:00 Arrive at office.

Realize that Balaji arrives early to office even though he doesn’t work and put up a sincerely picture for himself. Vow to come early from tomorrow.

9:04 Put my office bag and winter coat at Balaji's place. Pick some junk print outs lying in his place and take a pen from him.

9:05 Pass my Project Manager's desk busily looking/scribbling into the papers I am carrying and talking to myself - he must be thinking I am coming from some meeting.

9:06 Finally reached my desk. Flit thru my voice mails.

9:07 Start my system.

9:08 Still booting

9:09 Windows booting .. Still..

9:10 Curse Microsoft..

9:12 Logged on :)

9:13 Uff.. Need to work man ... :( Search for IE on desktop and open mail.yahoo.com.

9:15 Realize that no mails for me. So decide to read all the group

mails ;)

9:30 Finished reading group and spam mails.

9:31 mail.google.com ;)

9:32 repeat what I did 9:15.

9:46 Depression: too much work to do today

9:47 For jumpstart - Ask Arul for a coffee. Interfere his work and take him also to cafeteria.

10:15 Return to seat after a micro break.

10:16 Just realize that the world is faster than u. You got spam mails and group mails from other classmates around the globe ;) So read them.

10:25 Want to keep with other guys - Logon to Yahoo Messenger and Gtalk !!

10:26 Old Classmate buzzes .. don’t want to talk to him - go to Invisible mode ;)

10:27 Open outlook mailbox to see if there were any official mails.

10:28 Select all the official mails by subject at same time using SHIFT Key and give a Shift Delete.

10:30 Realize that no one is buzzing - Come to visible mode again on Yahoo messenger.

10:31 Friend from India Buzzzz... He just returned from office it seems... Feel good about being in US :P

10:32 Boast about my work culture !! in US.

10:55 he is frustrated and leaves YM.(I guess he is hiding in invisible mode).

10:56 Wondering if someone else dares to buzz me....Everyone is offline ..Wonder if the entire world sleeping ?

11:59 Decide to leave an offline message to everyone on list to buzz me when they come online.

11:00 Phone rings - manager on phone - deciding whether to pick it or leave it to voice mail.

Realize that I wont be able to handle situations if he asks for status - decide to leave it to voicemail - so buy more time to react.

11:01 listen to voice mail. Heart in mouth again - he is asking me to reply to his mail that was sent this morning - F**k I deleted it - Shift delete.

11:02 Run to Arul's desk to see if he was on CC. Luckily he was. Fwd mail from his mail box to mine.

11:03 Send a reply to manager about how u r going to handle the situation he has predicted.

11:05 Start printing out loads of stuff that may be vaguely related to my work and carry them in front of manager and tell him u r working on his mail ;).

11:10 Feel Sleepy ..uff...Shldn’t have watched HBO late night specials yesterday ...

11:12 Revive from the momentary thots of *** movie I watched the previous night ;)

11:13 Wondering why I should not write a shell script to automate my

work.

11:14 Realize that I don’t know shell script and decide to work the regular way.

11:15 Back to perverted Day dreams.

11:18 Ooops .. my manager's voice in next desk .. I start typing keys at very rate - to give a feeling to manager that I am fixing a program between life and death.

11:20 Prick..Prick..My conscious pricks :( . I decide not to waste time anymore.

11:21 My friend from Dubai gets my offliner ;) He buzzes me ..a longtime since i talked to him :( .. "machan, how r u. Nethu Mall poniye..eppadi irunthuthu?"

11:22 Realize that I shldn't have asked this question. He started giving fundas now .. Shit..

11:25 Tell him that I have got loads of work and so will buzz him later.

11:26 Print out some slides for afternoon's draft + presentation

11:28 Yuk...Print them again, I forgot to change Arul's name from last presentation slides.

11:30 Remembered suddenly that India has lost the cricket test series. Desperate to know what critics say ..

11:31 Print critic pages from Cricinfo. Need a quiet place to read - take it to restroom.

11:32 Read cricinfo sitting on my closet. The only place in office where I can do something without getting noticed by my manager.

11:40 Return to my desk, carying the rolled up printed papers - as if im in deep thots and stroking my pen against the paper.

11:41 Feel Dizzy ...badly need a break.. dont have the strength to walk to Cafeteria :(

11:42 Pick some water from pantry and stop by Balaji's desk.

11:43 Stand behind his chair and scare him when he is doing nothing but maximizing and minimising the screen. Chit Chat .. about the weekend plans.

11:45 Back to desk.

11:46 hunger Pangs !!! :(. Realize that I ve had only an apple and badly n need vitamins and minerals to proceed.

11:47 Call Arul's extension asking him to accompany for lunch.

11:50 At Cafeteria - browse the entire section and find some new cuisines - try out something new.

12:30 Finnish Lunch.

12:31 Balaji arrives for lunch - give him company til he finishes.

12:45 balaji finished - he got some urgent work it seems- so wants to

leave -

12:41 Karthik Joins lunch

1:00 Realize that my quick lunch is slightly longer than usual and decide to go to desk.

1:03 Arrive at desk - Jus remembered that I forgot to pick coffee.

1:10 strolled down to cafeteria again. Inky pink Ponky for English Toffee/Frecn Vanilla/Classic coffee.

1:11 Pick English Toffee - Drool at the Blonde who is at cash counter while paying ;)

1:15 At desk.

1:16 Sulk at my long day :( so far.

1:18 Back to perverted Day Dreams.

1:20 My friend from California calls... :)...Start discussing woes on our future .. and our job pressures..

1:45 Outlook reminds me of the team meeting at 1:50. Hang the phone and start looking at what the meeting is for.

1:46 Start scourging for materials for meeting. Print all of them.

1:50 Prompt at meeting desk. Waiting for others to arrive. I wonder wat they are doing still.

1:53 Meeting starts. My manager asks for status so many things i almost forgot over the past 3 weeks.

1:54:01 A 30 second urge to scold my manager begins ...

1:54:31 Realize that he controls my position in onsite and my appraisal and deputation.

1:54:32 But up a ugly smile on face and act as if I am listening carefully to him.

1:54:34 Thanks to my awareness - I didn’t do anything stupid.

2:00 Terribly headache out of the job pressure.

2:01 Seriously consider resigning my job immediately.

2:02 But realize that the job market is poor for my skill sets - so reconsider decision.

2:05 Pick some hot water an spend a few minutes on balaji's desk teasing him.

2:10 Realize that its my turn to cook tonight. Decide to stay in office till its time for my roomies to grow hungry and decide to cook themselves.

2:12 Grow worried about my future. how long will this last. Wat if I go back to India.

2:13 Nightmares of going to India. :( Logon to online banking to chekc my balance.

2:15 Check the share market in India and wonder whether I shld start investing.

2:20 Start wondering why India is losing so badly under Dravid's captaincy?

2:22 Sudden feeling of loyalty towards my company - Want to work.

2:23 But more than half of the day gone already. So decide to work late and compensate it.

2:25 Feeling my pot belly - I have developed one recently :( I think I shld go to gym. Shld I buy athletic tracks ?

2:26 Realize that my company has a Gym inside. Want to check out the facility.

2:27 Print out more stuffs and pick them and walk to the gym.

2:30 At the gym.

2:40 Satisfied that it wud be sufficient I decide to buy some tracks that evening from Wal-Mart.

2:45 Return to desk. See a mail from client, don’t reply though, I am too busy to do that immediately.

2:46 See a blonde pass by my desk. Admire till she passes completely.

2:47 wondering why blondes are so beautiful.

2:50 Perverted dreams again... :(

3:00 come back to reality. Decide to make a clear plans to work late in night and compensate the day.

3:01 F**k yeah !!! a birthday celebration today :) people gathered at the meeting table for cakes and soda.

3:30 Return to desk after feeding on all that I can. Now I realize how I have developed a pot belly.

3:31 Continue to write down all i have to do for the day so that i wont forget.

3:37 See my friend Steve (Sokku) online from India - he works on shift tonight.Start making fun of each other.

4:00 See my manager moving out early from office.

4:01 Sudden sense of freedom. Decide to go home for a short break and refresh and come for a all possible nighter.

8:30 Return to desk and arrange my desk, clean papers i printed and picked from this morning to get a fresh look to continue working all night.

8:45 realize that my PC desktop is cluttered and start deleting all unwanted files from desktop. Take a back up of actress pictures I stored ;)

9:15 Realize that I forgot to send a mail to offshore team. start composing the same .

9:30 Friend from India buzzez on Yahoo Messenger. He is shocked at the fact that I m still in office. He advices that efficiency comes down if we work after 5. We shld stretch only for few hours beyond normal schedule - not so long.

9:45 Sudden low feeling that I’ve wasted the entire day. :(.Stronger feeling that I might waste the night also. Decide to go home, sleep and come back early in morning.

10:00 Arrive home.

10:15 Feeling proud about having escaped from cooking tonight. Right royally walk into kitchen to serve myslef with watever my roomate has made.

10:20 turn on the TV to watch while eating any On Demand movie or new releases. I am efficient in multi tasking.

11:00 Finish the dinner. Pause movie. Wash hands. Lazy to wash plates. Drop it in Sink to be washed tomorrow.

11:05 make some chocolate milk. Argue with my room mates on politics and girls.

11:40 Continue watching the movie.

12:45 Roommates asleep. Pervert thots again .. ;)

12:50 After confirming all roommates are asleep, turn on HBO After dark specials ;)

1:40 F**k; I forgot to send the mail to offshore. Turn on the system; connect to office and continue the mail and finish it and sent;

1:45 Rough day !!! What a hard day I had... sending mails to Offshore at 1:40 in night... this is awfully bad :(

2:00 Forget about getting up early. I have worked late tonight. Turn off alarm and crash to bed :)

I wanna know if theres any part of the officework I shld have done efficiently or omitted. Makkale!!! Sollungo..sollungo...