One more FM added to Chennai’s airwaves. It is none other than the Reliance ADA (Anil Dhirubhai Ambani) owned Big FM. Frequency is 92.70. Tune in and enjoy.
Archive for the 'Just for Jolly' Category
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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?
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!
Call him a techie!
Call him a web-master!
Call him a good friend!
Call him whatever you want. Ladies and gentlemen, I hereby announce the one and only champion of mosquito catching. It is Balaji. As a way of appreciation, let us all visit his blog thrice a week. Believe me or not, I witnesses him using a small lamp with a banish or a good-night mat at its top. He used to improvise it and kill a lot of mosquitoes then.
I don’t know why he is so much against this poor insect. Balaji, any specific reasons?
Now that dad has got him a tennis-bat-like mosquito catcher, he has started hitting them like Pete Samprass. Gosh! I will try to post the photo of him with this mosquito catching device. It is highly sophiticated that he charges it daily. If I ever lose a job what am I going to do next? Balaji! you don’t have to fear much. With Chennai becoming the mosquito breeding factory, you have a bright career ahead. 
P.S.:- When I mean “the one and only” – he is the only participant in the competition of mosquito catching.
Adding up to my post on humorous customer service calls, I have a joke to share with everyone. This was forwarded by my colleague and I really enjoyed this one as it involved Microsoft and its customer service.
Here it goes,
A plain computer illeterate guy rings tech
support to report that his computer is faulty.
Tech: What’s the problem?
User: There is smoke coming out of the power supply.
Tech: You’ll need a new power supply.
User: No, I don’t! I just need to change the startup
files.
Tech: Sir, the power supply is faulty. You’ll need
to re place it.
User: No way! Someone told me that I just needed to
change the startup and it will fix the problem! All I need is
for you to tell me the command.
10 minutes later, the User is still adamant that he
is right. The tech is frustrated and fed up.
Tech: Sorry, Sir. We don’t normally tell our
customers this, but there is an undocumented DOS command that will fix
the problem.
User: I knew it!
Tech: Just add the line LOAD NOSMOKE.COM at the end
of the CONFIG.SYS. Letme know how it goes.
10 minutes later.
User: It didn’t work. The power supply is still
smoking.
Tech: Well, what version of DOS are you using?
User: MS-DOS 6.22.
Tech: That’s your problem there. That version of DOS
didn’t come with
NOSMOKE. Contact Microsoft and ask them for a patch
that will give you ! the file. Let me know how it goes.
1 hour later.
User: I need a new power supply.
Tech: How did you come to that conclusion?
User: Well, I rang Microsoft and told him about what
you said, and he
started asking questions about the make of power
supply.
Tech: Then what did he say?
User: He told me that my power supply isn’t
compatible with NOSMOKE
Last week, I was in kerala for a colleague’s wedding. It was my first visit to the coconut paradise. I was gob-smacked by the scenic beauty of the state. After the marriage in Palghat, I and Sabaree (my colleague) headed to Ottapalam. Ottapalam is a small town with great views of the nature. After visiting Sabaree’s relatives there, we headed down to Guruvayur. On our way, I asked, our driver-cum-guide, Mr.Velayudham (aka) Aiyaapan
to stop the car to attend nature’s call number one. I was running towards the bush and there Sabaree spotted the yellow snake. 
It is called by the name “manja saara” in tamil. It was around 6ft in length and golden in colour. forgetting the urgency to pee, I clicked the scene with my Konica Minolta film SLR. I was 3-4 ft from her. It was truly the biggest snake I have ever seen in my entire life.
This incident reminds me a couple of things people always say when they speak about snakes.
“paambu padam edukkum”. In my case, I took the picture of the snake.
“paamba partha onnukku vandhudum”. whereas, “naan onnukku adikkum pothu paamba paarthen”.
The highlight was when Velayudham asked me to pee somewhere inside the bush as the snake was sitting comfortably outside. I never wanted to gamble and forgot my venture of peeing in the woods.
Going through my regular feed reads, I stumbled upon i4giveu.com which offers forgiveness to all the sins and wrong doings. Ok, let me call it an online repository of confessions. Every confession is ranked with the Forgiven or No forgive ranking. One can register or confess anonymously. For ranking a confession, one needs to register though. Ones reputation will be judged from Angel to devil upon the confession ranking, the higher the score the closer to Angel status you get and vise versa. Rank each confession after you truly decided on the sinners fate, the higher the score the closer to forgiveness. A sure thing is that it is good site to visit when one has a lot of time to waste and also some of the confessions are really interesting to read. Let us see how far this site goes through. Enjoy confessing and forgiving.
I started to use internet after I finished my 12th grade. only by 2000, internet became popular in and was affordable. I spent the first few years of my internet life only creating email ids. I think I had around a dozen then. I used to pay Rs.30, only for checking all the dozzen mailboxes, for an hour. In fact, people with a email id were real geeks that time in India.weird???????
Then I got introduced to Mouthshut. I increased my dad’s monthly phone bills a lot only because of this website. Idea behind mouthshut was to get people writing reviews for different categories of products. I was a very active writer in mouthshut till a year ago. Even I had a profile created for myself in mouthshut. Then the mp3 download mania caught me too. I started to search the web for mp3s of tamil and english songs and was downloading them. Mind you, I had a dial-up connection that time. It took hours and hours to downloadjust a few songs. All I did while downloading mp3s was to login to all my dozen email accounts and delete the junk mails I receive. The truth was that junk mails were the only ones I received for months.
By 2004, broadband internet was introduced to India and I was one of the early getters. After installing broadband, my area of browsing shifted to technical stuff. I started to read a lot of technical articles and also enrolled myself in geekstogo. Geekstogo is a free computer help forum. Here, I learnt a lot of technical and troubleshooting techniques for PCs. By this time, I had retained three email addresses and used only those.
Now that I have started my own weblog, I have started to read other blogs and comment on them too. I was speaking about this to one of colleagues over a cup of coffee and found that his internet life history resembles mine. Is this generic?
