Leelai

I watched this movie "Leelai". It was  a very nice, light and romantic movie. The time just flew by watching this movie. It was very neat and the new faces were refreshing. I like Santhanam's comedy and he did fine. It is a well directed movie and targets the young audience.

I am hooked up to this song ever since I listened to it. I am playing the song in repeat mode and is constantly in the background of my head.

I am thinking of watching the movie for the second time. lol.......

There was a time when internet was a costly affair. I had a dial up connection at home during my engineering days. I used to check my emails twice a day for not more than 10 minutes each time. Most of the times the phone line worked disastrously and I ended up going to a cyber cafe.
When my cousins went abroad, it was very difficult to catch up with them. I think it was early days of broadband when Yahoo introduced video chat and it was little too much to do a video chat with webcam on. However we managed to do video chat with my cousin to see the little one.

Today when I want my parents next to me or talk to my sister like before, I can hardly think of some time off to go be with them. There are so many factors that go into planning a trip and working it out. Many of you like me might not get to meet family often.
But skyping is definitely very comforting when someone can easily talk or see people who live far away. Happiness, crying, anger, sadness, yelling everything is over the phone. All the more an Iphone with the skype app is like a boon for me. I get to at least video chat and the days just pass by.
It is definitely not being in person with someone but the very least better in some ways. Someone said that out of sight is out of knowledge. Anything like skype reduces the weird meaning in the saying.

Sometimes it is better to choose to be happy and console oneself ignoring the worrying part. Although I miss my parents and sister, I think about the goodness in getting to chat.

Time has changed from internet being costly to eating and sleeping on internet. I can't imagine a day without internet. May be I should tell internet is elixir of life.

A neat jingle

I totally love this jingle from the Tamil movie unnale unnale... It's a beautiful movie as well..

I hate him as much as I love love him... Sometimes I feel he doesn't have ears, eyes and is too old. If he ever thinks about what I have to say he would show it in his actions and assure me. May be he is too busy and I am in his bottom priority...

I am still with you my beloved turban master.

AkkamPakkam

This is a song that I sang in a tamil mandram. I have uploaded the rehearsal version of it.

Great Restart

“*Doubts and difficulties surround us just to move us and confirm our
faith. We are tested as it were*.” – Sri Sai Sacharitra, Ch. XXIX.

Thomas Edison lost two million dollars’ worth of equipment and the record
of many years’ work, when his laboratories were gutted by fire, in 1914.
Edison’s son, Charles, found his father standing near the fire, his white
hair blown with the winter wind. His heart ached for his aged father.
Edison saw Charles, “Where’s your mother?” he shouted. Bring her here, she
will never see anything like this again as long as she lives.”
The next morning, walking among the ashes of his hopes and dreams, the
67-year-old Edison said, “There is great value in disaster. All our
mistakes are burnt up. Thank God we can start anew!”
There spoke a man with the friendly attitude towards life and its
happenings.

What a great way to think like Edison. As long as we have our focus set right, the hurdles should never hinder us.
Like my master says Shraddha(Faith) and Saburi (Perseverence) is needed.


Bow to Sai and peace be to all.

After a very long time, I have made good friends at work. I meet lot of people everywhere. I like to meet different people, know them and read them.

Learning about people is always fun. I try to understand their minds, approach them knowing their frequency.

I seamlessly move with some people and it has been very difficult to understand some of them. In some situations I move away from people whom I cannot get along with.But definitely knowing people is a good experience.

I also hear people ranting for various reasons at various times. How do you feel when someone rants ? Do you feel sympathetic ?

Or do you feel motivated that you are in a better situation than them ? How should one feel ? I am clueless at times when I do not know how to react when people tell how bad they feel about certain things in their lives.

I have had a war within myself to react well and be patient to listen to what others have to say. But I also feel that everyone has difficulties in their lives.Sometimes people forget to count the blessings and talk about their difficulties as though its end of life.

For each of us our difficulty appears like giant mountains. There will be no fruitful outcome in comparing each others difficulty level.There are some of us who rant openly and there are some of us who keep our worries within ourselves.Those who do not open up appear as though they are very happy but that doesn't mean the person does not have hard feelings.

Learning psychology and reading minds is very vital. I try to understand people's mind and react accordingly. All that I see is there is problem everywhere.

Most of us conveniently do not understand others but expect others to understand us all the times. I think being sensible about what we are complaining, to whom we rant and putting ourselves in others shoes will help us realize the reality better. What else can I think of ? May be doing this will help us to be better individuals.

I checked today’s date and I realized that I have been blogging for six years now. Really? Has it been six years? I can’t believe that I am still doing something without being bored. I do not blog as often as I think I want to write, but I try to find some time as much as I can. Sometimes fear of how the post will be perceived is also a reason to hold back on writing some posts.

Along with starting a blog, I also did another good thing few years back. I registered in google groups that talk about the goodness of my turban master. It has been wonderful so far to read stories and good things every morning. How is it that everything is good with the turban master?

Here is a small gyan from today’s email:

It is important to understand that the air never gets depleted from the universe no matter how much is consumed. We are floating in a pool.
 Natural law is that what one may absorb, others may not be absorbing it.
For example: A leaf takes green colour, the flower is not absorbing it. It takes another colour.
 
If someone absorbs fear, he is making someone else fearless. That individual is creating that field, atmosphere around by being receptive to it.
 

Don’t take fear. An environment of fear is self-created... enhancing the devil by feeling fearful of him. By being fearful, someone else is becoming fearless. This is how terrorists work!
 
The Supreme has made everyone a reflection of itself.
Be fearless and counter attack. Now we have to be fearless, aware and conscious. This is the message.

Understand the subtleties. Everything is floating in the universe. Universe balances all. Same sun rays fall on the cactus as on the flower, what they do not absorb, shows on them.

Doubts and fear come when you are fearful, karm heen.

Face your fears... counteract by saying: “Why should I be scared when I am truly working on myself?” People often become submissive. Say to yourself:
“I am in surrender if I am truthful then divine help will always be there for me” Energy is depleted by being fearful. Forward your fears to the Universe. “I am on path of truth love karm and light, I am not taking it.”

Watch the body language change. Grace will descend.Be a worthy medium of divine grace.

Need of the hour

A completely preoccupied mind needs a vent. When there are several thoughts crossing the mind and the mind doesn’t know which one to process and address…..uhhhhhhh. This definitely hurts the head.

It is so much nice to close the eyes and to let the thoughts flow. To follow the thoughts lined up like bogies  and to not get involved and not to get stuck in them is an art. The moment I involve in a thought, my mind reacts to situations, anger, criticisms and everything that will hurt my head. Is it that hard to meditate? I try to meditate but am so caught up in my thoughts that I react to every small thing.

Calmness is the need of the hour.

CHANGE

Things do not change; we change.

Isn't it very true ? We desperately look forward for things to change. When we cannot change things that are not under our control, we try to show our anger on irrelevant things and change irrelevant things only because those are under our control.

Today I made one such attempt to change my blogger template.

If it didn’t Bring you Joy,

Just Leave it Behind.

Let’s Ring in the New Year
With Good Things in Mind.

Let Every Bad Memory Go
That Brought Heartache and Pain.


And let’s Turn a New Leaf
With the Smell of New Rain.


Let’s Forget Past Mistakes
Making Amends for This Year.


Sending You These Greetings
To Bring you Hope and Cheer


Happy New Year!

விடுகதையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை விடைதருவார் யாரோ
எனது கையென்னை அடிப்பதுவோ எனது விரல் கண்ணைக் கெடுப்பதுவோ
அழுது அறியாத என் கண்கள் ஆறு குளமாக மாறுவதோ
ஏனென்று கேட்கவும் நாதியில்லை ஏழையின் நீதிக்குக் கண்ணுண்டு பார்வையில்லை
பசுவினைப் பாம்பென்று சாட்சிசொல்ல முடியும் காம்பினில் விஷம் என்ன கறக்கவா முடியும் (2)
உடம்பில் வழிந்தோடும் உதிரம் உனைக்கேட்கும்
நான் செய்த தீங்கு என்ன (2)

விடுகதையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை விடைதருவார் யாரோ
வந்து விழுகின்ற மழைத்துளிகள் எந்த இடம் சேரும் யார் கண்டார்
மனிதர் கொண்டாடும் உறவுகளோ எந்த மனம் சேரும் யார் கண்டார்
மலைதனில் தோன்றுது கங்கை நதி அது கடல் சென்று சேர்வது காலன் விதி
இவனுக்கு இவள் என்று எழுதிய கணக்கு கணக்குகள் புரியாமல் கனவுக்குள் வழக்கு (2)
உறவின் மாறாட்டம் உரிமைப் போராட்டம்
இரண்டும் தீர்வதெப்போ (2)

விடுகதையா இந்த வாழ்க்கை விடைதருவார் யாரோ
உனது ராஜங்கம் இதுதானே ஒதுங்கக்கூடாது நல்லவனே
தொண்டுகள் செய்ய நீயிருந்தால் தொல்லை நேராது தூயவனே
கைகளில் பொன்னள்ளி நீ கொடுத்தாய் இன்று கண்களில் கண்ணீரை ஏன் கொடுத்தாய்
காவியங்கள் உனைப்பாடக் காத்திருக்கும்பொழுது காவியுடை நீ கொண்டால் என்னவாகும் மனது (2)
வாழ்வை நீ தேடி வடக்கே நீ போனால்
நாங்கள் பூவதேங்கு (2)

இந்த படமும் இந்த பாடலும் எனக்கு மிகவும் பிடிக்கும். தனிமையில் இருக்கும் பொழுது இந்த பாடலை கேட்டால் ,அர்த்தத்தின் ஆழம் புரியும்.விடைகள் கிடைப்பது சரமம் என்றும் புரியும்.

During my engineering days, I was not a big fan of electronics laboratory. Theoretically there should be an output for every input and there is an expected output. But there are other factors that I have been clueless about which might have led to a not so favorable result. I really have not got an expected output most of the times I have experimented in the electronics lab.
I relate life to an electronics experiment many times. We know that the input we give is correct. Sometimes we don’t know the other factors which might lead to the undesired output.

Detaching science from this post, I want to squeeze in philosophy. When we don’t get certain things, we are trained to think that god gives us those at right time. Well, with that hope we try to put in the same effort thinking that we will be rewarded someday. There are times when we know that we deserve the best and the right things but it just does not happen. We ponder upon it over and over to find the reasons for not getting something. There really isn’t a great discovery for this exercise except for tiredness. But still we try out different things to get where we want. The irony is by the time it happens we lose interest and the victory loses its charm.

Having this thought is very natural. However we still should learn to live, like and love those victories and moments.