What kept me laughing all weekend:
உஷா: “அண்ணா, நாம ‘ஷோலே’ படம் போகலாம்.’
உப்பிலி: “ஆமாம், ஷோலே. ரொம்ப நன்னா இருக்காம். மலையாளம்.”
அத்திம்பேர்: “உப்பிலி, ஷோலே மலையாள படமாடா? இந்தி டா!”
உப்பிலி: “இந்தி-யா? அதைக்கூட தமிழ்ல எடுக்கறதா இருந்தாங்களாம். தேவர் பிலிம்ஸ்-ல தான் எடுக்கறதா இருந்தாங்க. கே.பி. சுந்தராம்பாள் கூட நடிக்கறதா இருந்தாங்க.”
அத்திம்பேர்: “அப்படியா?”
உப்பிலி: “படம் பேரு தெரியுமா? பழமுதிர் ஷோலே!”
(from Crazy Thieves in Palavakkam)
The Times has an article that captures the biggest sports stories of 2009 in numbers. Good read. My favorite from the list was:
3: Iron used by Elin Nordegren in the incident with her husband, Tiger Woods
Listening to one’s entire song collection in shuffle mode has many advantages — for one, it enables me to remain lazy. More importantly though, I love the feeling of anticipating the next song — அடுத்த வினாடி ஒளித்து வைத்திருக்கும் ஆச்சர்யங்கள்! Today, two songs that the music player served up one after another caught my attention. In [...]
(Much ado about something trivial. The section titles are inspired from The Day of the Jackal.)
Anatomy of a plot
I was going over Google Analytics after a long time this weekend, and I found that I was getting a few hits from Bing for the search term “Koundamani”. A closer look revealed that VKpedia was the [...]
Yet another series of long nights this week, and I had, for some reason, decided that I will listen only to Tamil kritis. I think it all started with a desire to listen to the song “enna thavam seidhanai, yashOdA“. One led to another, and I chanced to listen to Madurai Mani Iyer’s rendition of [...]
Dimitar Berbatov has been a near-tragic failure since he moved to Manchester United from Spurs in the summer of 2008. The player who came in for over 30 million pounds has only scored four goals in 18 games this season, and apart from the one wondergoal against Sunderland(?), he hasn’t wow-ed me at all.
But he [...]
I was listening to a Bloomberg News podcast this weekend, and the topic of discussion was outsourcing. Prof. Jagdish Bhagwati was one of the guests. The discussion was on familiar lines, centering largely around the politics and the economics of outsourcing.
What set me thinking was an rather interesting point raised by Prof. Bhagwati. He alluded [...]
Here’s what I found when signing up for a discounted copy of Windows 7 (for anyone with a .edu email address):
Saw this on the train ride home. I cannot comment on this advertisement without adding a standard disclaimer about “dignity of labor”. Or be labeled an elitist.
The title of this video is “Watch This. You will laugh to death.” I can only say, “Oh God!”
Went to The Hindu’s Friday Review page to check if they had a review of Kandasamy, which almost all my friends have declared a must-avoid. Serendipitously however, I ended up reading a review of Teree Sang, a movie about kids falling in love and going to second base and beyond. This line from the review [...]
The only trouble with Chris Matthews, who incidentally is my favorite political commentator, is that he almost always assumes that anybody who does not agree with his point of view is an idiot. This is evident from the difference in the way he interviews liberals and conservatives – to one group, he is genial, even [...]
“இதனை இதனால் இவன்முடிக்கும் என்றாய்ந்து
அதனை அவன்கண் விடல்.” – Saint Thiruvalluvar (c. 1st Century CE)
Frankly speaking, this man is seldom wrong.
For the first time in weeks, #iranelection is not a top-10 Twitter trending topic. In short, but sadly, the house always wins!
Ilaiyaraja deserves an “Ilaiyaraja Award for Excellence in Background Score” for his work in Naan Kadavul.
God bless JUnit!
Parthiban Kanavu is one of my favorite movies, and as a consequence (or probably, because) it is one of the most quotable movies. The absolute best is a line from “Nagesh” Krishnamurthy, where he tries to pacify his grandson, Srikanth, who is ranting at his wife singing a Carnatic kriti: “ஏன்டா, உனக்கு கோபம் சங்கீதத்து மேலயா? [...]
Distractions u can do w/o on a busy day: figurin out how to put a fallen key back on the keyboard. Useful: http://is.gd/1xFNJ
There is no such thing as well planned but poorly executed. Poor execution implies poor planning.
Pammal K. Sambandham is one of Kamal’s most underrated movies. It is also probably the best “Madras” movie ever made.
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