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All in all Azhaguraaja

Karthick Raghavan — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 01:58:33 +0000

If you are a late night or early morning TV watcher, you might be familiar with shows where people sell gem stones, change names and marriage dates, sell medicines and tips for a robust sex life, rebuild houses etc with the only goal of bringing prosperity and happiness into people’s life. People trust them all because they need instant success in life without hardwork. Last week, was watching one of these shows and there was a conversation going on between the host ( a name or numerologist ) and a participant. (The original conversation was in Tamil)

Participant : You say that you can bring peace and prosperity into life by changing people’s names, is it possbile to change country names too to bring world peace?

Host : Absolutely, it is possible. Take the case of India and Pakistan. India is in 5 and pakistan is in 7. That’s the reason for the enemity between these two countries. If names are changed to match 5 and 6, everything will go smooth.

இதுக்கு தான் ஊருக்கொரு ஆல் இன் ஆல் அழகு ராஜா வேணும்…

Ithukku thaan oorukkoru All in all azhaguraaja venumgarathu…

Leverock’s Flying kiss video

Karthick Raghavan — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:59:30 +0000

Enjoy the cricket worldcup 2007 where Dwayne Leverock celebrates his stunning catch of the indian player Robin Uthappa with a kissing statement.

8th Pass vs SSLC Fail

Karthick Raghavan — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 11:31:31 +0000

Balaji and I had a pretty short argument about the number of calls we receive in our mobiles on a daily basis. Balaji has 20 contacts and I have 250 contacts. I get around two to three calls per day whereas he gets one or two per day. The argument surrounded on who is worth using mobile and this reminded us of the famous Koundamani – Senthil joke. (Excerpt is from the movie Gentleman).

Senthil – Annae! Naan 8th pass annae. Neenga SSLC failu annae.

Koundamani – Dei naan SSLC da!

Senthil – Pass perusa Fail Perusa?

Koundamani – !@#$$%%

This put us in laughter for a while.

What a man!

Karthick Raghavan — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:44:21 +0000

Sajeesh is my colleague and a avid movie fan like me. He is such a lively character that he makes one laugh with the jokes and one liners drawn from the films. Name a thing, he will have a joke or a scene from the movies substantiating it.
Recent one we use is the one liner What a man! from Padayappa. If you watched Padayappa, this one particular scene never goes unnoticed without laughing where Abbass quips in with this line when Rajnikanth shows his physique. If you ask Sajeesh about it, he will say that the Abbas never had the line to say in the original script and when the camera turned towards him for the shot, he blurted out this line spontaneously and the director left it along while editing. Sajeesh also goes on to explain that the director left it alone because he did not want to trouble Rajni with a retake. A funny explanation.

Now if someone does a simple thing or a gesture, he turns towards me and says What a man! .

P.S. :- This post is intended for pun and to be taken in a lighter sense.

Innocence is bliss

Karthick Raghavan — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:51:46 +0000

A month or two ago, I was there at Sabaree’s home on my way to a movie. Sabaree is a senior colleague and a good friend of mine. Spent around 30 minutes in his home and had a chance to speak with his nephew Prahalad who is a first grader. Here is the transcript of my conversation with him. The original conversation was in Tamil.

Prahalad : Uncle! Are you working with my Chittappa? Where are you coming from?

Me : Yes and I come from Ambattur.

Prahalad : How do you goto Tambaram?

(Tambaram is where my office is)

Me : By train.

Prahalad : How far is it from Ambattur?

Me : around thirty five kilometers.

Prahalad : Do you buy tickets daily?

Me : No. I buy monthly season pass.

Prahalad : What is monthly pass?

At that time, the milkman knocked the door and I tried to explain him with a simple example.

Me : Do you buy milk at home?

Prahalad : Yes. The milkman delivers it daily.

Me : Perfect. Do you pay him daily?

Prahalad : No. I don’t. I am not too old for that.

Me : (!@%$$&*) Ok! Does anyone who is elderly in the home pay him daily?

Prahalad : No. We pay him once in every month.

Me : It is the same way for the train. I don’t buy tickets daily. Instead, I pay for it once in a month by buying a monthly pass.

Prahalad : So, you come to say that you don’t buy tickets.

Me : !@%$$&*!!!!!

Prahalad : Ok fine! How long does it take for you to go to office by train?

Me : It takes around two and a half hours.

Prahalad : Do you know? It takes a week to travel to Delhi.

Me : No my boy! It was the scenario before five years. Now a days with advent of fast trains, it does not take that much time. I suppose one can reach Delhi in two days time.

He never believed me and looked at his grandfather.

Prahalad : Have you traveled in Train for ten thousand hours?

Me : huh?

Prahalad : How long will one reach if he travels for ten thousand hours?

Me : !@%$$&*!!!!!

Sabaree’s dad came to my rescue by pulling Prahalad for regular homework.

Innocence is bliss. I have experienced it with Prahalad’s inquisitiveness.

Four for 10

Karthick Raghavan — Mon, 16 Oct 2006 03:41:03 +0000

Balaji has become a orange seller.
A bright career opportunity in Beach – Tambaram EMU .

ஆரஞ்சு நாலு பத்து ரூவா!

दस् का चार्!

Four for 10!

Ultimate google search

Karthick Raghavan — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 03:23:25 +0000

Going through the logs for my website’s latest visitors, I was surprised to see that a person from Chennai has searched for Master of Catching Mosquito chennai in google . I don’t understand what this person was trying to search for. Is he trying to hire a person to banish all the mosquitoes which disrupt his sweet dreams? Weird!
This reminds me of a Sardar joke. Once a Sardar was sleeping like a log after a hard day’s work was disturbed very much by a mosquito. Sardar got frustrated and caught the mosquito in hand and started singing Soh jhaa machhar Soh jhaa . Mosquito slept in his hand and Sardar went near the mosquito and started making sounds like a mosquito goiiiiiiiin goiiiiiiiin . The mosquito woke up.

What’s the moral of this post?

Nothing. Remember, You are at karthickraghavan.com.

Funny cellular IVRs

Karthick Raghavan — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:35:16 +0000

Tired of the default ” customer is not reachable ” or ” mobile switched off ” messages when trying to reach a cellular subscriber? How good it would be if there are custom funny messages which change according to the callers and subscriber’s moods. A bit of imagination…

A employee who comes to office late often does not turn up for two days. His angry manager tries to reach him on his mobile and hears the message, ” The employee you are trying to reach has switched another company with better perks and salary. Please try employing a fool later “.

A teacher tries to reach her truant student and hears the message “As the caller you are trying to reach is suffering from high fever, he cannot be reached at the moment. Please buy him a bottle of horlicks and grant him a month’s leave “.

A mom tries to reach her college kid and hears, ” the caller you are trying to reach is busy attending math sessions at college and has no plans of going to a movie and disco tonight “.

A PL tries to reach his TM to enquire about a project delivery which is due and hears, ” the software engineer you are trying to reach is busy playing Spider Solitaire, reading blogs and forwarding mails. Please try later “.

Have any funny messages? Pour in!

Jungle book

Karthick Raghavan — Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:39:38 +0000

Who will forget the jungle book? One of the most viewed Indian TV series for children of 1990s. If I still have my memory cells working, I would say that it was aired in DD1 (Doordarshan National) on every Sunday at 11.00 AM. There we were sitting in front of the TV for the next half an hour unmoved. I used to sing the title of the jungle book series by heart that time. All the characters in the series tied us up in front of the TV every week. The series was fictional and had a lot of interesting lessons of life. I did not know it as I was kid then. Now that I watched jungle book after a long time in a DVD, I realize it. Salute to Rudyard Kipling for such a wonderful story. I have listed out some of the characters I remember below.

Mowgli – the small boy with his boomerang tied up in his underwear and he happened to be the hero of the story.

Baloo – the bear

Bhageera – the black panther

Shere Khan – the tiger

The one I like the most was Baloo – the bear. He was really cute and always protected Mowgli. Which character do you like?

Here is an Odeo of the title song sung by me.

Thanks for putting up with my harsh voice. I apologise if the lyrics is wrong. It will be great if you can sing the jungle book lyrics for me. I will display it here and will have people rate it. Game?

Airtel Super singer

Karthick Raghavan — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:30:39 +0000

I commute to office by train and it takes around 2 hours to reach Tambaram (where my office is) from Ambattur (where my home is). I kill the time either listening to music or reading a book. One fine evening, on my way to office, as usual was listening to songs on radio. The train was not much crowded and I got myslef a corner seat. I usually have the habit of singing songs when I commute by train. Getting myslef seated in the corner, I started singing with great fervor and was facing the window all the while. I did not want others to spot me singing.

Few minutes passed and I was at peak singing along with Hariharan. Radio mirchi was airing anbae anbae from Jeans which happens to be one of Hariharan’s best and I was really into it. The train had stopped for signal which I had not noticed. There was a pat on my shoulder and I turned around to see a elderly passenger trying to convey something to me. Took my headphones off to hear him. (original conversation was in tamil).

Old Man : ” thambi! what’s your problem? Is there anyway I can help you with? I have been watching you from the park station and you have been trying to do something with your headphones on. Please do consider other people travelling with you.”

Me : “%*@$$##!!!”

Off he went in the next station. I had a strong feeling that the other passengers were smirking at me. Switched the radio off and continued my journey quietly.

Next evening I was at home surfing channels. Airtel super singer aired on Vijay TV, hosted by Chinmayi, caught my attention. A good programme to search for voice talent. The winner gets a chance to sing in Harris Jeyaraj’s (a well known music director) tamil flick. Hopes of me becoming a super singer started glimmering again! When I told the above incident to one of my friends, she said that certain people and certain things in the world can never be changed and I am one of them. I asked her the following question and got a great response.

Me : Hey! Can I become a super singer?

She : God only knows!

hehe!