Last time it was fun and we are doing it again! Yup…The winter session of the Chennai Blogger Meet is on. It will great to end the year getting together with the chaps behind your neighborhood blogs.

DATE : 30th of December, 2006 (Saturday)
VENUE: Elliots beach,(Besant Nagar)
[near the police booth, opposite to Cooze]
TIME : 4:30 pm
kausik has put the Google Earth Map(In case you need directions) and also check out Sagaro’s blog

Go ahead….Spread the word! Bring along your friends(bloggers), if possible girls!
Meet you there
P.S: Anna Nagar is a part of chennai and so they can also participate and so can Ashwini hair oil models!

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The dreams that i get these days or atleast those which i could remember are totally weird. Here is one among the recent, i was in this exterior galaxy fighting some aliens (aftermath of reading such books and seeing movies of such genre!). All people around were having those extraordinary devices which emit enormous amount of colossal light kinda thing. (In other words the laser guns used in serials like captain Vyom!). There was this mammoth man pitted against me and both our guns produced rhythmic sounds with both shooting alternatively.

I importunately shot at him but nothing happened to him. He was standing like a Trojan horse. I stopped shooting but still the cadenced sound persisted. I was baffled and felt like i was in no man’s land. He neared me but that rhythmic sound didn’t stop…
It persisted….
It persisted….
It persisted….
Suddenly i woke up and still the sound persisted…..
Moron, It is the alarm near the pillow. I switched it off and slept again.
I can never wake up to a alarm call, be it on the day of the exam or even any special occasion.
There is no equivalent to the pleasure derived in taking the short nap after switching off the alarm!

The time i have been sitting in front of the computer doing something or the other has drastically increased these days. That too during the holidays i stare at the screen except the time in which i sleep,eat or crap. I also realized that it has been two full days since i changed my dress and stepped out of my door. I also wondered when was the last time i sat and watched a full movie in the television…ages! Today i switched off my computer(Yes….I did!) and decided to catch up something in the TV. As i was channel surfing i halted at Sun music. It has got some of the dumbest VJ’s and more than that the callers are totally insane…
Here is one such dumb conversation….
(Sorry for those who cannot understand tamil and it is almost impossible to translate this!)

Male VJ: Hello, yaar pesaringa?
Caller: Kandupudinga paapom! (WTF!!! )
VJ: Priya va?
C: Illa…
VJ: Kala vaaaaa?
C: Illa….naan daan Monica, enna maranduteengala???
Nethu 3:45 ku phone pannene…..
VJ: Oh…..nyabagam vandurchu,
Sorry Monica, Madurai lendu daane pesarenga?
C: Hmnn….Coimbatore!
VJ: Super….(with a fuse poona bulb reaction)
Female VJ:Cheri….enna paatu venum Monica ku?
(One dumb girl who stands aside and this is the only proper question she asks)
C: Edha new song play pannunga….
F VJ:Kandippa….
Neenga enna panrenga Monica…..
C: 10th mudichutu summa daan iruken.
VJ: Very good…Ungaluku kalyanam ayidcha?
C: Illanga….ippo daan padichu mudichen…
VJ: Seri paravala….unga kuzhandainga irunda kupdunga pesalam!
C: Ayyo!!

Apart from this the greatest kodumai is the “Yaarku dedicate panreenga?” question and the girl tells out her class attendance order and all family members including onnu vitta chittappa’s munavudu paiyan. All this is in addition to the scrolling SMS for which all dumb people pay money. “I love u chellam….pls call me(Ravi)” “Thala Ajith is back” “Singam Ganguly Kalam erangirchu!” “Hi…..11-B section boys”
Kadavule yaara kaapathunga!!!
My impulse forced me to write this after seeing this
How jobless people can be and the dumbest of all is there are a plethora of fan sites for some of the pretty female VJ’s in Orkut(No….I m not linking those).

My exams have almost got over but still there is pom pom left on tuesday. Actually writing such exams like Pom, ethics is great fun. There is something between me and the last exams. Right from the childhood i have scored relatively less in all my last exam be it the geography in tenth or math in 12th and the spree continued in engineering also. It is because after the exams we get holidays and may be i start of thinking what all to do in the holidays while writing the exams. Don’t know what will be the fate of POM. Btw, POM is principles of Management.

The fifth semester is the most crucial one in engineering as it has got a part in deciding the future. Till now i have done well and hope i don’t carry any of the papers to the future. Some exams went ok and some went bad. This time we had a gap of two or three days between the exams and i made the best use of them. I watched a hell lot of movies in between the exams and in the study holidays;) A day before one of the exams i watched 15 episodes of friends and caught with two nice movies. Friends is damn cool and i am watching it again and again.

“Eat well, sleep well” slogan also matched on right with me. One day i slept till 12:30 in the afternoon and woke up to see that the download which i started the previous night was still running and for sleeping extra 4 1/2 hours i paid extra Rs.1000 in this month’s internet bill. The unlimited usage is free only during the night in my plan and i think it’s high time i have got to shift to the unlimited plan.

The exam question papers were relatively ok for me. Some great comedy happened during the preparations. Till the previous semester the college dumped us with the prescribed texts and we had no other option of carrying it home and selling it after the exams. But this time we had to get the books on our own and i never did that. So two days before the exams started, i went to the British Council, returned all the novels which i had borrowed and searched for the subject books. I took some three books which had the same title as my subjects as far as i remembered. Later i found that they had nothing similar to my syllabus and were way too advanced. So chuck!

This one happened before the Microprocessor exam….
I got the book from my friend who had the paper the previous semester. It was 12:30 in the morning(the day of the exam) and i had completed the first line of the syllabus in the first unit. The other things were not there and the IT guys had a different syllabus from that of ours.

I called my friend sathish…
Me: Dei, Godse (Book author) oru !#^$!%@ da….
There is nothing in this book…
S: You should have got Bhuchandi(another author)
Me: I thought this one was suffice.
S: Ok….come to the room…
Me: It’s 12:30, the exam is today.
Ok….i will adjust!!!

Somehow the exam went off. This is one sick paper, we got almost the same question paper which the IT guys had the previous semester.

One of my College mates Paramasivan from the ECE department passed away during the exams. He was the college topper with some 92% aggregate and was a guy who had his goal focussed on academics. I had a small convo with him just two days before his death and our heart felt condolences to that guy. Why is he forced to leave the earth so soon. May his soul rest in peace.