<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955</id><updated>2011-11-27T22:12:32.856+05:30</updated><category term='rules'/><category term='tamil cinema'/><category term='badminton'/><category term='gandhi'/><category term='hotel'/><category term='cricket'/><category term='கூகுள்'/><category term='christmas'/><category term='garden'/><category term='pondicherry'/><category term='London'/><category term='Ram'/><category term='Ajax'/><category term='war'/><category term='கவிதை'/><category term='home'/><category term='world clock'/><category term='job'/><category term='novel'/><category term='tips'/><category term='world cup'/><category 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in meeting her, but ended up in a beautiful way of&amp;nbsp;getting engaged with my SoulMate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Engagement Day!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1161611613758450811?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1161611613758450811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1161611613758450811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1161611613758450811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1161611613758450811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-awIUXhCjekg/TnEve4wIg6I/AAAAAAAAGYg/gJJ07JAjKGM/s1600/VKmac13.png" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;dream come true moment :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;I always wanted to own one!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;by the way another speciality is, only a handful of people in the world will have&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Mac laptop with Windows Phone.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Spec: 13.3 inch LED&amp;nbsp;- 1280 x 800&amp;nbsp;- Sandybridge i5 - 320 GB - Lion OS X - 2.04 kg&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div 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src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1982297592307946624?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1982297592307946624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1982297592307946624' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1982297592307946624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1982297592307946624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2011/06/my-windows-phone.html' title='My Windows Phone'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image 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src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-9030827463995865457</id><published>2011-04-07T00:59:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2011-04-07T01:00:00.083+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='vote'/><title type='text'>Just Vote!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEBoG55Wxk&amp;amp;hd=1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2giP6dNSEHI/TZy-qL9E7UI/AAAAAAAAGCw/b6Oj1agTHIs/s1600/justvote.PNG" /&gt;&lt;span id="goog_426297750"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span id="goog_426297751"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Just &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEBoG55Wxk&amp;amp;hd=1"&gt;Vote&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-9030827463995865457?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebEBoG55Wxk&amp;hd=1' title='Just Vote!'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/9030827463995865457/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=9030827463995865457' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9030827463995865457'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9030827463995865457'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2011/04/just-vote.html' title='Just Vote!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-2giP6dNSEHI/TZy-qL9E7UI/AAAAAAAAGCw/b6Oj1agTHIs/s72-c/justvote.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-4635562868009211190</id><published>2011-03-22T02:53:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2011-03-29T01:58:40.973+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cricket'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world cup'/><title type='text'>Fantasy Cricket</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Fantasy Cricket rocks!&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;although I came fifth in the league round of Sharks (my hyd gang), its thrill &amp;amp; fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;I can't forget these days where I got up early in the morning, thats 8 am :-) to change the captain and watch cricket.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mx8R1kept9s/TYfA090QyNI/AAAAAAAAGCg/oaRrdM-_ljQ/s1600/SharksPondy.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" 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type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2011/03/fantasy-cricket.html' title='Fantasy Cricket'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Mx8R1kept9s/TYfA090QyNI/AAAAAAAAGCg/oaRrdM-_ljQ/s72-c/SharksPondy.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3430209514723920250</id><published>2011-01-24T01:34:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-24T01:56:21.286+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='home'/><title type='text'>my virtual home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"&gt;I designed a virtual home I am planning to build in my hometown. It came very professional. Unbelievable!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TTyJmQ0YqJI/AAAAAAAAF5M/xgRUlkJSiSg/s1600/Karthi_Illam.png" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3430209514723920250?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3430209514723920250/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3430209514723920250' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3430209514723920250'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3430209514723920250'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2011/01/my-virtual-home.html' title='my virtual home'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TTyJmQ0YqJI/AAAAAAAAF5M/xgRUlkJSiSg/s72-c/Karthi_Illam.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1381992889440923618</id><published>2010-12-31T23:55:00.032+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-01T20:53:00.790+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2010'/><title type='text'>My Top 10 of 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Some of the hearty moments, good and bad, as it happened along the year 2010!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;A snowy visit to Ferry meadows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Got permanent job.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Gained 'couple' of friends and lost quickly.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Blackpool trip - go carting, first visit to dance clubs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;My new hobby with Nikon SLR- &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan"&gt;Photography&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Finland trip - enjoyed superbly with jagan and richie.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;York &amp;amp; Harrogate trip - a stay at richie's place.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Rahman Concert @ O2, London.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Rutland Lake trip - nice evening outing with roomie chetan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Scotland trip - met raj in his den.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;India trip - Hyd and Pondy - touched the past.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;5 star nights @ Novotel, Hyderabad.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;In Hyderabad office as a 'Client'.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Woburn Safari Park &amp;amp; GoApe.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Nikon zoom lens 55-200 mm.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Mahabharata Kurukshetra war - a practical revisit &amp;amp; thinking - Gods are humans... once!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Enthiran - the 'defining' Indian scifi movie - watched twice in sheffield and london. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Spectacular Bonfire &amp;amp; Fireworks in Ferry meadows.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Ponniyin Selvan &amp;amp; Parthiban Kanavu - read superb tamil historic novels.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Christmas holidays - played counter strike for hours, watched avatar in 46" big LED screen just few metres away, awesome. good time pass with chetan and his friend.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;oh! should I not stop at 10?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;There goes an year in a blink of an eye!&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1381992889440923618?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1381992889440923618/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1381992889440923618' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1381992889440923618'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1381992889440923618'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/12/my-top-10-of-2010.html' title='My Top 10 of 2010'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1386389616119681386</id><published>2010-12-31T01:53:00.010+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-02T20:20:45.403+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tamil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kalki'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='novel'/><title type='text'>Parthiban Kanavu - Wiki</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;I just finished formatting the entire novel in &lt;a href="http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81"&gt;Wikisource&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I first saw it, the contents were there but were badly placed, like the conversations are clogged into single paragraph.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Formatting the chapters (count: 77) took almost a day to complete. Nevertheless enjoyed reading it again while doing. I also added image to the main page and indexes. :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This is the first time I am contributing something in wikisource. great feeling !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TRzq7XHFOxI/AAAAAAAAF2g/eST2S6vKztA/s400/ParthibanKanavu.jpg" style="align: center; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 225px; " border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5556574345805249298" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;பார்த்திபன் கனவு&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;A great classic from Kalki. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Happy Reading! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1386389616119681386?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1386389616119681386/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1386389616119681386' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1386389616119681386'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1386389616119681386'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/12/parthiban-kanavu-wiki.html' title='Parthiban Kanavu - Wiki'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TRzq7XHFOxI/AAAAAAAAF2g/eST2S6vKztA/s72-c/ParthibanKanavu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7234449854735858019</id><published>2010-12-12T02:19:00.010+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-01T20:37:49.203+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tamil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Bharathiyar'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poetry'/><title type='text'>வாழ்க பாரதி!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TQPlnGRfeuI/AAAAAAAAFz0/Q_R6LGn0gJM/s1600/Bharathi.jpg"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; 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"&gt;தேடிச் சோறுநிதந் தின்று - பல&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;சின்னஞ் சிறுகதைகள் பேசி - மனம்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;வாடித் துன்பமிக உழன்று - பிறர்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;வாடப் பலசெயல்கள் செய்து - நரை&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;கூடிக் கிழப்பருவ மெய்தி - கொடுங்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;கூற்றுக் கிரையெனப்பின் மாயும் - பல&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;வேடிக்கை மனிதரைப் போலே - நான்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;வீழ்வே னென்று நினைத் தாயோ?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;                                                  -&lt;a href="http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%A4%E0%AF%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF_%E0%AE%95%E0%AF%80%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%99%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%95%E0%AE%B3%E0%AF%8D/17._%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%B0%E0%AE%A4_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BE%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%8D"&gt;பாரதியார்&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-style:italic;"&gt;Celebrating Bharathi's birthday!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7234449854735858019?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7234449854735858019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7234449854735858019' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7234449854735858019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7234449854735858019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/12/blog-post.html' title='வாழ்க பாரதி!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TQPlnGRfeuI/AAAAAAAAFz0/Q_R6LGn0gJM/s72-c/Bharathi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7974669239919119954</id><published>2010-11-13T01:33:00.011+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-01T20:34:29.680+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ponniyin selvan'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tamil'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='novel'/><title type='text'>Ponniyin Selvan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;பொன்னியின் செல்வன்!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="line-height: 28px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal; font-size: 16px; "&gt;&lt;a href="http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TN2d2gVSchI/AAAAAAAAFxw/8mYWe51hRhQ/s400/Ponniyinselvan.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 159px; height: 250px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538756676453298706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(32, 32, 32); "&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;யாம் படித்த புதினங்களிலே பொன்னியின் செல்வனைப் போல் இனிதாவது எங்கும் காணோம்!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;I started first few chapters very casually in wiki, but couldn't stop reading this historic novel day and night, in office and home :) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "&gt;It took me 1000 years back into the Chola kingdom. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;I felt my body and mind  swinging back and forth between 1000 AD and 2010 AD.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The narration is easy to read and simply superb - &lt;span style="font-size: 13px;"&gt;தேன் தமிழ் வார்த்தைகள்!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;Novel wiki source: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://ta.wikisource.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D_%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D"&gt;Ponniyin Selvan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;To buy/present the book: &lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.udumalai.com/?prd=%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8A%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%A9%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AF%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%20%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%86%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%A9%E0%AF%8D%20(%E0%AE%AE%E0%AE%B2%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B5%E0%AF%81%20%E0%AE%B5%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%B2%E0%AF%88%20%E0%AE%AA%E0%AE%A4%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%8D%E0%AE%AA%E0%AF%81)&amp;amp;page=products&amp;amp;id=4360"&gt;Udumalai.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px;"&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;google terrain &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em style="color: rgb(103, 117, 58); "&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=p&amp;amp;ll=11.298954,79.525909&amp;amp;spn=0.361581,0.44014&amp;amp;z=11"&gt;map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt; will help you visualize the journey.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="margin-left: 40px; font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="gmail_quote"&gt;&lt;span&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="gmail_quote" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;&lt;span&gt;இருபத்தி நான்கு நிமிடங்கள் ஒரு நாழிகையாய்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "&gt;பத்து மைல்கல் ஒரு காத தூரமாய்&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;ஐயாயிரம் ஆண்டுகள் வேண்டா...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 13px; "&gt;ஆயிரம் ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன் பயணிப்போம்!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7974669239919119954?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7974669239919119954/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7974669239919119954' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7974669239919119954'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7974669239919119954'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/11/ponniyin-selvan.html' title='Ponniyin Selvan'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TN2d2gVSchI/AAAAAAAAFxw/8mYWe51hRhQ/s72-c/Ponniyinselvan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-799006908344338245</id><published>2010-10-30T22:24:00.011+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-01T06:25:45.017+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pondicherry'/><title type='text'>Vamba keera palayam</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;Vamba(a) keera pa(a)layam, a small livelihood area just outside the famous oval ring road (boulevard) of Pondicherry town. It is situated at the south east end along the seashore, where a road from the ring splits out and is located between the old harbour and the new harbour light house.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Palayam can be referred to something like 'shire', a very common subname that denotes a locality. I have no idea why the place got the name 'Vambakeerapalayam' :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vambakeerapalayam is a mix of both town and village. It has a panchayat within it and most people here are fishermen who worship sea as their god. The god of the land is 'Angaala Parameshwari' an avatar of Sakthi, the wife of god Shiva. They celebrate an annual festival every year and it will be wonderful to see the gods while in procession.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/5129169234/lightbox/"&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TMxPsiBpgjI/AAAAAAAAFw8/rCRZX_oo-yk/s400/amman2.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 310px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533885668598055474" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"&gt;God Parameshwari in procession - taken at Vambakeerapalayam&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;The famous Indira Gandhi stadium which hosts Independence and Republic day parades, 150 years old Petit Seminaire school, Electricity &amp;amp; Agriculture departments of Pondicherry are all stone throw away from this place.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Inspite of all this, Vambakeerapalayam is notorious for fights within and outside with other sea villages, many times ending up with spilling of blood. A small boy who was born and brought up there knew a little about this but never understood why. He joined a school ran by a &lt;a href="http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2005/05/blogtograph-part-1.html"&gt;visionary&lt;/a&gt; and passed out with more than 90%. He then pursued engineering and cleared out with distinction, plus a job in hand. He then for the first time moved out of this place to Trivandrum, Hyderabad, Atlanta(US), Chennai, Sheffield(UK) and now in Peterborough (UK). For nearly six years, he is out of this place but made frequent visits to this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;This place, Vambakeerapalyam, is always so special for him and... his name is Karthigeyan.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-799006908344338245?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/799006908344338245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=799006908344338245' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/799006908344338245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/799006908344338245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/10/vamba-keera-palayam.html' title='Vamba keera palayam'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TMxPsiBpgjI/AAAAAAAAFw8/rCRZX_oo-yk/s72-c/amman2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-4428203444478211283</id><published>2010-10-25T01:01:00.027+05:30</published><updated>2010-10-30T03:13:04.955+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahabharata'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kurukshetra'/><title type='text'>Chakravyuha</title><content type='html'>I accidentally happened to &lt;a href="http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/09/war.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;revisit&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Mahabharata, which I watched as a television drama in my childhood days and was not much excited. But this time, reading the epic took me to those Mahabharata period, i.e. almost 5000 years back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Perusing the Kurukshetra war, the soul of Mahabharata, is the best thing happened in my life in recent times&lt;/em&gt; :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I read the concise and interesting version of the war &lt;a href="http://www.warriormonks.com/kurukshetra/kurukshetra.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; and, often cleared my doubts and matched the story with Kisari Mohan Ganguli's one-to-one english version &lt;a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/maha/index.htm"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One of the fascinating events happened in Kurukshetra war is the formation of an array called Chakravyuha on the thirteenth day of the battle. The vyuha which was aimed to captive 'Yudhisthira' turns out to reveal one of the most lovable hero of the war 'Abhimanyu', who at the end of the day attains heroic death.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was so interested in knowing about the design, the formation size, the military science and ways of penetrating and breaking chakravyuha. I literally filtered the whole internet but not able to get much information about this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as I know, there were two main theories for Chakravyuha&lt;br /&gt;* It could be a 7 rings of circle with warriors rotating in liason&lt;br /&gt;* It could be a 7-tier spiral formation with warriors spiralling in and out - as in this &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padmavyuha"&gt;wiki&lt;/a&gt; page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The book 'The Mahabharata - a modern rendering' has some &lt;a href="http://books.google.co.in/books?id=5GgCZqN_hAgC&amp;amp;lpg=PA236&amp;amp;ots=MS1X0raAH2&amp;amp;dq=what%20is%20chakra%20vyuha%20formation%3F&amp;amp;pg=PA236#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false"&gt;good information&lt;/a&gt; on Chakra Vyuha and beautifully describes the prowess of Abhimanyu on that day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But still... no concrete information could be found on Chakravyuha. I wonder if there is anyone who published an article on this? Maybe, I should do it :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Useful References:&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m07/m07032.htm"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Mahabharata - by Kisari Mohan Ganguli &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://blogmymaze.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/the-indian-labyrinth-chakra-vyuha/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Indian Labyrinth&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.warriormonks.com/kurukshetra/drona-parva/dp-3.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Warrior Monks&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://my-mind-space.blogspot.com/2008/09/chakravyuha-demystified.html"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arbit Articulations&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-4428203444478211283?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/4428203444478211283/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=4428203444478211283' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4428203444478211283'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4428203444478211283'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/10/chakravyuha.html' title='Chakravyuha'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6023761828651976144</id><published>2010-10-07T03:54:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-10-07T04:04:58.490+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><title type='text'>enthiran after</title><content type='html'>all the hypes apart.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enthiran is too good. A powerful sci-fi story told in a very simple and neat manner.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I never expected Rajini to be as good in action and acting. He simply blew me out.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ash is also dashing, but not so natural as in Raavanan.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I missed the climax (the mother of all Indian cinema climax) due to unfortunate timing, will need to watch it again sooner :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Here's Rajini's new oneliner:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Only Rajini can invite the entire Bollywood watch a film 'dubbed' in hindi.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6023761828651976144?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6023761828651976144/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6023761828651976144' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6023761828651976144'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6023761828651976144'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/10/enthiran-after.html' title='enthiran after'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5700461992136022485</id><published>2010-10-01T02:19:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-10-03T15:32:55.509+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tamil cinema'/><title type='text'>enthiran before</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Its good to see an Indian film that takes the whole bollywood, kollywood, tollywood... to hollywood level. We should welcome and encourage such efforts from indian directors and producers.... blah blah blah :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;thalaivaa....&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Just 1 more day to watch your super film 'Robot', this time in Sheffield with my college friend.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last time I watched 'Sivaji' in London 07, with nearly 10 friends from my college class. A very memorable experience. It was the first tamil film to watch outside india.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Enthiran - the robot, eagerly looking out to watch the so called 'Robotic Experience'&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;laka..laka..laka..laka&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5700461992136022485?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5700461992136022485/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5700461992136022485' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5700461992136022485'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5700461992136022485'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/10/enthiran.html' title='enthiran before'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-598178762672887456</id><published>2010-09-24T03:17:00.011+05:30</published><updated>2011-01-01T20:44:42.314+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='mahabharata'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='war'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='kurukshetra'/><title type='text'>Name the War</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Well, I had a heavy lunch at office and was little dizzy. So started to browse for some interesting article and ended up in this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;It was about a war that just took me right into the battle field as if I am watching a matinee movie :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;A war that was fought by nearly 4million soldiers with 1.5millon on one side and 2.5 on the other....but ended with just 12 warriors to spare, after 18 days.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;what.......?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;Yes, It is the great &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurukshetra_War"&gt;Kurukshetra War&lt;/a&gt; ! Watch it &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurukshetra_War"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Below: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 23px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;Arjuna and Bhishma engaged in a fierce duel, however Arjuna's heart was not in the battle as he did not like the idea of attacking his great-uncle. During the battle, Bhishma killed numerous soldiers of Arjuna's armies. This enraged &lt;b&gt;Lord Krishna&lt;/b&gt;, who grabbed a chariot wheel to kill Bhishma. Bhishma wanted Lord Krishna to break his vow not to pick up any weapon in the battle and at once requested Krishna to kill him, as there would be nothing greater than attaining death at the hands of the supreme lord himself&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms', sans-serif; border-collapse: collapse; line-height: 23px; "&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" &gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TMxVoUyl0vI/AAAAAAAAFxE/wwIjmqIjqow/s400/kurukshetra.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 273px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5533892193395528434" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-598178762672887456?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/598178762672887456/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=598178762672887456' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/598178762672887456'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/598178762672887456'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/09/war.html' title='Name the War'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TMxVoUyl0vI/AAAAAAAAFxE/wwIjmqIjqow/s72-c/kurukshetra.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1430571487015164962</id><published>2010-09-18T23:47:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-19T00:04:53.642+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='nikon'/><title type='text'>55mm - 200mm lens</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Added a telephoto lens to my nikon kit.&lt;div&gt;Taking wildlife was not so easy before this. It just zoo..oms :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TJUE9wHWgTI/AAAAAAAAFuI/IdY-v-1tmuE/s1600/swan.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TJUE9wHWgTI/AAAAAAAAFuI/IdY-v-1tmuE/s320/swan.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5518322377346679090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1430571487015164962?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1430571487015164962/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1430571487015164962' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1430571487015164962'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1430571487015164962'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/09/55mm-200mm-lens.html' title='55mm - 200mm lens'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TJUE9wHWgTI/AAAAAAAAFuI/IdY-v-1tmuE/s72-c/swan.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1560133478836224345</id><published>2010-09-12T21:28:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-21T16:25:22.653+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='movie'/><title type='text'>Raavanan</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Watch this movie with no expectations and with no thoughts of Ramayana or a movie from ManiRatnam etc. You will appreciate it, probably at the second time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;It is one of the beautiful movies from India.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TIz8tBPZKcI/AAAAAAAAFuA/sHbIMrYNzIw/s320/raavanan1.jpg" style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 303px; height: 320px;" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5516061493979326914" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Cons:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;The portrayal of the feelings for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;revenge&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt; being less than the feelings for &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;love&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Expectation: If you are eager to see a modern day Ramayana, you are definitely disappointed, as the movie leaves us the decision to make - &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;who is right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Missing of regional feel in dressing etc.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Bit long flashback in the second half&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:100%;"&gt;bak bak bak - although this was used in the climax as a way of portraying the heroine's 'acceptance' for Veera's stay back request, a better way could have been chosen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1560133478836224345?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1560133478836224345/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1560133478836224345' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1560133478836224345'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1560133478836224345'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/09/raavanan.html' title='Raavanan'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TIz8tBPZKcI/AAAAAAAAFuA/sHbIMrYNzIw/s72-c/raavanan1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6300600456896411339</id><published>2010-09-05T23:48:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-09-06T00:05:35.006+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><title type='text'>woburn safari park</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TIPiaSXOFYI/AAAAAAAAFtk/801wigrIsPM/s1600/DSC_1510.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TIPiaSXOFYI/AAAAAAAAFtk/801wigrIsPM/s320/DSC_1510.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5513499310065325442" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my first safari ride and... go ape too :-)&lt;div&gt;this is my second go ape activity, the first one in lake district where the trees were super high and hence super thrill.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6300600456896411339?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6300600456896411339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6300600456896411339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6300600456896411339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6300600456896411339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/09/woburn-safari-park.html' title='woburn safari park'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TIPiaSXOFYI/AAAAAAAAFtk/801wigrIsPM/s72-c/DSC_1510.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1362555726059650811</id><published>2010-08-24T23:32:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-25T00:09:22.981+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><title type='text'>The Hyd Trip</title><content type='html'>It was pleasant to be back in hyd, although a short stay. I was busy following my project plan but still had good moments with my team mates and friends.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Played Cricket [Runs in matches: 1, many, many, 0] :-), went to Chilkur balaji, shopped in Inorbit and had fun with friends.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; A memorable one and yes, there is a small moment of pride for being back as a client to the same work place where you were an associate just a year back.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1362555726059650811?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1362555726059650811/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1362555726059650811' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1362555726059650811'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1362555726059650811'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/08/hyd-trip.html' title='The Hyd Trip'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-9000493332225651126</id><published>2010-08-23T00:10:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-28T00:46:55.016+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><title type='text'>the scot trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/THFvT1QhyCI/AAAAAAAAFr4/d94ab50Umcs/s1600/Loch_Ness.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 296px; height: 250px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/THFvT1QhyCI/AAAAAAAAFr4/d94ab50Umcs/s400/Loch_Ness.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5508306205755426850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/sets/72157624781996884/&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/THFvT1QhyCI/AAAAAAAAFr4/d94ab50Umcs/s1600/Loch_Ness.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I planned this with my TCS friend Subu whom I happened to meet in bus on my way to office. The plan was to roam in Edinburgh on first day, take a coach tour to lochness on second day and to visit Raj's place on third day and go trekking with him in a nearby falls.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Raj is my roommate in Peterborough who is settled in Edinburgh. Although a senior architect and a head of the family, he behaves like a friend to me and is very kind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The first day went as per plan. We covered National Museum, ate at Kalpana veg restaurant, went to Calton hills and took a short walk on the Royal Mile street at night. The famous but usual &lt;i&gt;Edinburgh castle &lt;/i&gt;was reserved for the last day,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The second day went busy with Timberbush coach trip. The guide was funny and more passionate for Scotland calling every top leaders in the world is from Scot origin, few include Bush, Blair, Brown, Cameron...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On third day, Raj picked us up to his home where we had delicious south indian food and started to falls of Clyde with him and his son. The sights on the way to the falls was superb. I was just shooting everything on the way in my nikon. He then dropped us back in edinburgh castle which was our last stop before taking the train.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;a nice trip!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-9000493332225651126?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/9000493332225651126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=9000493332225651126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9000493332225651126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9000493332225651126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/08/scot-trip.html' title='the scot trip'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/THFvT1QhyCI/AAAAAAAAFr4/d94ab50Umcs/s72-c/Loch_Ness.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-8074440158966470277</id><published>2010-08-15T15:52:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-08-15T16:00:48.726+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='hotel'/><title type='text'>5 star nights</title><content type='html'>1 night in a 5 star hotel - awesome :)&lt;div&gt;14 nights in a 5 star hotel - boresome :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;staying at novotel, hyd. waiting to go home.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-8074440158966470277?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/8074440158966470277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=8074440158966470277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/8074440158966470277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/8074440158966470277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/08/5-star-nights.html' title='5 star nights'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6910581195882503905</id><published>2010-07-28T02:23:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-28T02:25:32.178+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pondicherry'/><title type='text'>terrific trips ahead</title><content type='html'>yep, going to Scotland this weekend and flying to hyderabad on Monday and... going to pondy after 2 weeks, &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;so terrific trips... ahead &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Get ready Nikon :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6910581195882503905?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6910581195882503905/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6910581195882503905' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6910581195882503905'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6910581195882503905'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/07/terrific-trips-ahead.html' title='terrific trips ahead'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1369269688067670056</id><published>2010-07-24T19:11:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-25T06:21:30.283+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='London'/><title type='text'>Rahman concert</title><content type='html'>at O2 arena, London on July 24th&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I booked it couple of months ago. It lived upto the expectations. Infact everyone in the O2 wanted him to 'play more' :-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I just expected him to play some remixes of famous songs, but he did totally in his own way which is very interesting. The stage was colorful and artistic reflecting more of Rahman's nature.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A different music to my ears and a different experience to myself.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Good one. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;By the way, it was also a triathlon day in Hyde Park, London; where I roamed and watched in the evening before starting to O2&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1369269688067670056?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1369269688067670056/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1369269688067670056' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1369269688067670056'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1369269688067670056'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/07/rahman-concert.html' title='Rahman concert'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-976522194029041244</id><published>2010-07-08T04:55:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-07-08T05:02:40.426+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world cup'/><title type='text'>so Klose</title><content type='html'>oh no, Germany is out. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Klose, the only player because of which i support Germany. He was playing for Germany third time in a row in world cup and is just 1 goal from equalling world record of 15 goals in world cup.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I clearly remember watching his goals when he played first time in world cup for germany, back in 2002 during my college days. What a stylish finisher he is...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;So close Klose :( unbelievable and sad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-976522194029041244?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/976522194029041244/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=976522194029041244' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/976522194029041244'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/976522194029041244'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/07/so-klose.html' title='so Klose'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-102165140417603008</id><published>2010-06-14T15:00:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-06-14T15:26:44.826+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='finland'/><title type='text'>Finn trip</title><content type='html'>My friend Jagan came to Finland for nokia project (what else then...), so Why not a trip to Finn? but its not as easy as just booking and flying to Finland as I am in Tier1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I need to apply for Schengen Visa but the Finland embassy wants to see everyone in person before issuing visa. So I applied leave and went all the way to London, they just took 2 minutes to look at me and get my passport for further processing. dah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ok, I got my visa. Hoped for multiple entry so I could go other places in europe, but they just gave single entry. dah dah!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was joined by Richard at Helsinki airport, stayed at Salo (jagan's place) and roamed in Helsinki and Turku.  I was so eager to go this trip because of my new Nikon SLR camera. I started shooting more than 500 pics in first 3 days of my trip. oooooh! Jagan was not happy since his portraits weren't as good as expected, I think may be he was planning to give his pics for bride selection :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It ended as a nice and fun trip with some really awesome pics I have ever took.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/sets/72157624071749385/"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/sets/72157624071749385/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my first trip to europe.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-102165140417603008?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/102165140417603008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=102165140417603008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/102165140417603008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/102165140417603008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/06/finn-trip.html' title='Finn trip'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-4833289292557427794</id><published>2010-05-24T02:31:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2010-06-01T11:58:50.270+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fun'/><title type='text'>hey flowers</title><content type='html'>hey flowers, birds, moon, lakes, rivers, mountains &amp;amp; winds !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I hereby request you to get yourself well dressed, I got an &lt;a href="http://imaging.nikon.com/products/imaging/lineup/microsite/d3000/en/"&gt;slr&lt;/a&gt; :-)&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/show"&gt;http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan/show&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-4833289292557427794?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.flickr.com/photos/karthigeyan' title='hey flowers'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/4833289292557427794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=4833289292557427794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4833289292557427794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4833289292557427794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/05/my-subject.html' title='hey flowers'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7905244430343499708</id><published>2010-05-14T02:18:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-16T01:39:49.545+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><title type='text'>Daisy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  border-collapse: collapse; font-family:'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;korean film in the backdrop of Amsterdam.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  border-collapse: collapse; font-family:'trebuchet ms', sans-serif;font-size:13px;"&gt;awesome girl and a good love story!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="410" height="341" id="veohFlashPlayer" name="veohFlashPlayer"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.veoh.com/static/swf/webplayer/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.5.1.1004&amp;amp;permalinkId=v1300031pwMKNHHS&amp;amp;player=videodetailsembedded&amp;amp;videoAutoPlay=0&amp;amp;id=anonymous"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.veoh.com/static/swf/webplayer/WebPlayer.swf?version=AFrontend.5.5.1.1004&amp;amp;permalinkId=v1300031pwMKNHHS&amp;amp;player=videodetailsembedded&amp;amp;videoAutoPlay=0&amp;amp;id=anonymous" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="410" height="341" id="veohFlashPlayerEmbed" name="veohFlashPlayerEmbed"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;Watch &lt;a href="http://www.veoh.com/browse/videos/category/entertainment/watch/v1300031pwMKNHHS"&gt;daisy&lt;/a&gt; in Veoh.com&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7905244430343499708?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7905244430343499708/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7905244430343499708' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7905244430343499708'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7905244430343499708'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/05/daisy.html' title='Daisy'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1773942604520751240</id><published>2010-05-04T23:39:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-05-04T23:50:15.715+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK'/><title type='text'>Blackpool Flares &amp; Hush</title><content type='html'>A trip to blackpool, a beach side city famous for rides and pubs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S-BjrG54CcI/AAAAAAAAFTM/UV3a1mGefWg/s1600/InfusionRoller.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 329px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S-BjrG54CcI/AAAAAAAAFTM/UV3a1mGefWg/s400/InfusionRoller.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467479539866667458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first visit to pubs. A peek into the UK's night life culture. Nothing to say.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On day 1, we went to GoCarting and Paintball shooting. Both were awesome and fun.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On day 2, we went to pleasure beach.There were many rides in pleasure beach, I was little scared to take the Pepsi Max BIG ride but took many others and enjoyed with fear :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On day 3, did a little shopping, casinos and return home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice break!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1773942604520751240?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1773942604520751240/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1773942604520751240' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1773942604520751240'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1773942604520751240'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/05/blackpool-flares-hush.html' title='Blackpool Flares &amp; Hush'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S-BjrG54CcI/AAAAAAAAFTM/UV3a1mGefWg/s72-c/InfusionRoller.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6563829459699358492</id><published>2010-04-27T14:25:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-27T14:32:54.893+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='IPL'/><title type='text'>CSK Whistle - 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chennaisuperkings.com/"&gt;Chennai Super Kings&lt;/a&gt; - IPL 2010 Winner :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/gExoAZDWy5I&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/gExoAZDWy5I&amp;amp;hl=en_GB&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" height="385" width="480"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6563829459699358492?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6563829459699358492/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6563829459699358492' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6563829459699358492'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6563829459699358492'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/04/csk-whistle-podu-2010.html' title='CSK Whistle - 2010'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-4311973963798487937</id><published>2010-04-20T15:01:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-27T14:34:24.117+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='adp'/><title type='text'>Celebrating 1st year</title><content type='html'>in ADP, UK&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A year back this day, I was nervous and excited to take a contracting position for Multibrowser project. A whole new world opened to me. Different workstyle, different people, different challenges...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Probably I would be the only lucky guy to fly without a job from india and land this country with an offer in hand... oops offer in mail :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looks like I achieved what I dreamt of... though a long way to go in life.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-4311973963798487937?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/4311973963798487937/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=4311973963798487937' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4311973963798487937'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S8xXY1le2yI/AAAAAAAAFTE/OhDl682yBps/s1600/Dharamsala.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S8xXY1le2yI/AAAAAAAAFTE/OhDl682yBps/s400/Dharamsala.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5461836532306336546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dharamsala, Himachal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a beautiful place to play cricket :-)&lt;br /&gt;What a &lt;a href="http://www.cricinfo.com/ipl2010/content/story/456511.html"&gt;match &lt;/a&gt;to watch in IPL season 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chennaisuperkings.com/"&gt;CSK&lt;/a&gt;, the only team to qualify for semis in all seasons does it in style.&lt;br /&gt;Indian cricket should move to such locations rather than concrete walled city stadiums.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-4811460596459503504?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/4811460596459503504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=4811460596459503504' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4811460596459503504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4811460596459503504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/04/crickets-beauty.html' title='Cricket&apos;s Beauty'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S8xXY1le2yI/AAAAAAAAFTE/OhDl682yBps/s72-c/Dharamsala.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-499013729994793049</id><published>2010-04-14T03:03:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-14T03:09:39.050+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tamil'/><title type='text'>Happy Tamil New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;சில்  என்று  பூத்த  சிறுநெருஞ்சி  காட்டினிலே&lt;br /&gt;நில்  என்று  கூறி  நிறுத்தி  வழி  போனாளே&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;நின்றது  போல்  நின்றாள்&lt;br /&gt;நெடும்  தூரம்  பறந்தாள்&lt;br /&gt;நிற்குமோ  ஆவி  நிலைக்குமோ  நெஞ்சம்&lt;br /&gt;மனம்  பெறுமோ  வாழ்வே !&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-499013729994793049?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/499013729994793049/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=499013729994793049' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/499013729994793049'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/499013729994793049'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/04/happy-tamil-new-year.html' title='Happy Tamil New Year'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5428018147206044289</id><published>2010-04-11T04:13:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-04-11T04:18:17.431+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happy'/><title type='text'>In pursuit of happiness</title><content type='html'>remembering the day i started to UK.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;still, in pursuit...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5428018147206044289?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' 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src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-9195093703413512187</id><published>2010-03-11T01:33:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-11T01:38:42.651+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='football'/><title type='text'>the posh</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S5f7z9c_cqI/AAAAAAAAFQc/mOSqQ6EZFWg/s1600-h/football.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 331px; height: 265px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S5f7z9c_cqI/AAAAAAAAFQc/mOSqQ6EZFWg/s400/football.PNG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5447099144415965858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Watched my first football match live in UK.&lt;br /&gt;The &lt;a href="http://www.theposh.com/page/MatchReport/0,,10427,00.html"&gt;posh&lt;/a&gt; won :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-9195093703413512187?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/9195093703413512187/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=9195093703413512187' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9195093703413512187'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9195093703413512187'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/03/posh.html' title='the posh'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/S5f7z9c_cqI/AAAAAAAAFQc/mOSqQ6EZFWg/s72-c/football.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6925723852636300563</id><published>2010-02-14T01:33:00.010+05:30</published><updated>2010-02-15T17:01:40.473+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='gandhi'/><title type='text'>Gandhi's 10</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;1. Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   2. You must be the change you want to see in the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   3. Nobody can hurt me without my permission.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   4. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   5. An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   6. I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   7. I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   8. First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;   9. I look only to the good qualities of human. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:lucida grande;font-size:100%;"  &gt;  10. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Some quotes&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problem.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Is this my first post on Gandhi... hmm :)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6925723852636300563?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6925723852636300563/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6925723852636300563' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6925723852636300563'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6925723852636300563'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/02/gandhis-10.html' title='Gandhi&apos;s 10'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3702704889167918234</id><published>2010-01-26T16:26:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2010-02-14T01:33:19.602+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='happy'/><title type='text'>Happy Republic Day!</title><content type='html'>I am happy.&lt;br /&gt;I made a 'couple' of my friends happy!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3702704889167918234?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3702704889167918234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3702704889167918234' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3702704889167918234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3702704889167918234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/01/happy-republic-day.html' title='Happy Republic Day!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-605929170619704427</id><published>2010-01-19T20:39:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2010-03-28T19:34:52.600+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rules'/><title type='text'>Nice Home Rules!</title><content type='html'>If you move to a new place and happen to live with the people you like, then&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Don't speak short, elaborate the words and run them through your thought process and slang words, to avoid communication gaps :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Better tell them in advance, your way of life in the past and some unique behaviors you have, so you wont hurt them by chance :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. If every one are from different paths of life, it is natural to have a little friction which should be accepted by you. ex: you may like to play cricket, but not all will be interested same as you.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;btw, if you don't listen me, you will experience me :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Update on 26th March, 2010: Operation success, relationship died :(&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-605929170619704427?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/605929170619704427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=605929170619704427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/605929170619704427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/605929170619704427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/01/nice-home-rules.html' title='Nice Home Rules!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-940806655061650161</id><published>2010-01-12T15:01:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-12T16:19:25.729+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Hinduism'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Vivekananda'/><title type='text'>Here is a man who is more learned than all of our learned professors put together!</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swami_Vivekananda#First_visit_to_the_West"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Here &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;is a man who is more learned than all of our learned professors put together! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Three religions now stand in the world which have come down to us from time prehistoric — Hinduism, Zoroastrianism and Judaism. They have all received tremendous shocks and all of them prove by their survival of their internal strength. But while Judaism failed to absorb Christianity and was driven out of its place of birth by its all-conquering daughter, and a handful of Parsees is all that remains to tell the tale of their grand religion, sect after sect arose in India and seemed to shake the religion of the Vedas to its very foundations, but like the waters of the seashore in a tremendous earthquake it receded only for a while, only to return in an all-absorbing flood, a thousand times more vigorous, and when the tumult of the rush was over, these sects were all sucked in, absorbed, and assimilated into the immense body of the mother faith.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From the high spiritual flights of the &lt;strong&gt;Vedanta&lt;/strong&gt; philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of &lt;strong&gt;idolatry&lt;/strong&gt; with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists, and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hindu's religion. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Where then, the question arises, where is the common centre to which all these widely diverging radii converge? Where is the common basis upon which all these seemingly hopeless contradictions rest? And this is the question I shall attempt to answer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;-Swami Vivekananda &lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;An excerpt from the &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Complete_Works_of_Swami_Vivekananda/Volume_1/Addresses_at_The_Parliament_of_Religions/Paper_on_Hinduism"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Paper &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;on Hinduism, read at the Parliament of Religions, Chicago 1893.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jan 12: Celebrating Swami Vivekananda's birthday! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-940806655061650161?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/940806655061650161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=940806655061650161' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/940806655061650161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/940806655061650161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/01/here-is-man-who-is-more-learned-than.html' title='Here is a man who is more learned than all of our learned professors put together!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7267655682447507126</id><published>2010-01-11T15:49:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-11T15:50:02.760+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='job'/><title type='text'>11-01-10</title><content type='html'>why me?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7267655682447507126?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7267655682447507126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7267655682447507126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7267655682447507126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7267655682447507126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/01/11-01-10.html' title='11-01-10'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6708109883756918843</id><published>2010-01-06T21:18:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2010-01-11T15:49:38.377+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='time'/><title type='text'>The Pain!</title><content type='html'>Have you experienced the pain you get, when you are about to enter the college exam hall but very less prepared for exam?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Each moment between entering the exam hall and sitting at the desk expecting to see the questions you prepared for, will literally kill you in pain.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very few times I have come through that pain in my life,&lt;br /&gt;apart from the time I said above :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is one time!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There is only one medicine for it - Time!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6708109883756918843?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6708109883756918843/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6708109883756918843' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6708109883756918843'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6708109883756918843'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2010/01/pain.html' title='The Pain!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3738350049425100802</id><published>2009-12-27T00:58:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-31T04:56:04.570+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='christmas'/><title type='text'>Christmas Holidays 09</title><content type='html'>I think, i think this  was the long weekend I was away from home but not playing cricket, football, tennis, foosball, snooker, TT or even little cards&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hmm, something must be done. Though I got good roomies, I should change them like me :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anyway after a long time, I was watching films all day,  in christmas day&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Godavari - watched twice, front and back :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Polar Express - nice cartoon film for kids&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Citizen Kane - the classic&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;National Treasure&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3738350049425100802?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3738350049425100802/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3738350049425100802' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3738350049425100802'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3738350049425100802'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-day-09.html' title='Christmas Holidays 09'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6167604823560971975</id><published>2009-12-17T20:27:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-31T04:57:58.413+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='snow'/><title type='text'>Its snow day in my day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SypHCKDAkFI/AAAAAAAAFKY/sAo4LqNG-1Y/s1600-h/snow.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 233px; display: block; height: 105px;" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5416219604248727634" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SypHCKDAkFI/AAAAAAAAFKY/sAo4LqNG-1Y/s400/snow.png" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;a Cycle's rest&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SzZjue7Q-0I/AAAAAAAAFK8/T7Cia0VJprg/s1600-h/cycle%27s_rest.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SzZjue7Q-0I/AAAAAAAAFK8/T7Cia0VJprg/s400/cycle%27s_rest.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5419628851813743426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first day in Snow was awesome. I didn't expect so much snow on the first day in my life :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A normal visit to a nearby lake with my roomies (Chetan, Amit &amp;amp; Shveta) turned to be a surprise fun and a memorable one. I walked a little on the iced lake, skated on the snow by sitting on a plastic signboard, took some best shots with Canon SLR camera (hey, dont see the cycle pic, thats from my iphone).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nice Snow!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6167604823560971975?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6167604823560971975/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6167604823560971975' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6167604823560971975'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6167604823560971975'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/12/its-snow-day-in-my-day.html' title='Its snow day in my day'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SypHCKDAkFI/AAAAAAAAFKY/sAo4LqNG-1Y/s72-c/snow.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5491735081297952877</id><published>2009-12-01T15:24:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2009-12-27T00:54:52.089+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Zero degree</title><content type='html'>I thought the river would freeze at Zero degree and I would require to wear a lots of dress to protect my body. But nehhh... I was wrong&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;my first experience at zero degree.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SxToXxKISNI/AAAAAAAAFJU/tN76Nh0GWXI/s1600/zero.png"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 233px; height: 138px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SxToXxKISNI/AAAAAAAAFJU/tN76Nh0GWXI/s400/zero.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410204547409266898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SxToOiY4dOI/AAAAAAAAFJM/fBmoVGBlaFw/s1600/photo.jpg"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5491735081297952877?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5491735081297952877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5491735081297952877' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5491735081297952877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5491735081297952877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/12/zero-degree.html' title='Zero degree'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SxToXxKISNI/AAAAAAAAFJU/tN76Nh0GWXI/s72-c/zero.png' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-637213192742805326</id><published>2009-10-31T00:55:00.008+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-31T13:32:18.007+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='age'/><title type='text'>When I was 25!</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;I was then 25 years old. I had everything except courage to chase one of my dreams and then one day I took the most expected risk. I then saw this world, a totally different in experience. It was all good and sweet... for a short time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I then realised that as day grows and as you become older and older, the desire for worldly posessions grew in you knowingly or unknowingly. It is so hard to pull yourself out of you and see the drama around this earthly world. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SutCR6-UJzI/AAAAAAAAFFM/huUByA7uiXk/s400/unknown.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 145px; height: 82px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5398481453989504818" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You are pulled to yourself. I am pulled to myself... well, consciously into this &lt;i&gt;unknown&lt;/i&gt;!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The trick now lies in How I am getting out of it. If I fail, I will then be just like another family guy who will go more and more selfish for a future of another couple or so humans who bonds to me as my most related.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In short, I am no more 25, ha ha ha.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-637213192742805326?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/637213192742805326/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=637213192742805326' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/637213192742805326'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/637213192742805326'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/10/when-i-was-25.html' title='When I was 25!'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SutCR6-UJzI/AAAAAAAAFFM/huUByA7uiXk/s72-c/unknown.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-8837335867215251698</id><published>2009-10-17T22:23:00.006+05:30</published><updated>2009-10-31T00:36:00.109+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='deepavali'/><title type='text'>Deepavali</title><content type='html'>When I was a kid, the crackers start to burst a week before deepavali day arrive, it sounds everywhere from early morning to the time till school starts and in evenings once the schools are left. Even a Law need to be passed to stop the tyres burnt during this season. &lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Such is the craze among the children to fire crackers, more ego issues raises here as 'who fires more'. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Such is a fun to watch kids doing all crazy stuffs in firing, from bursting small tunnels to litting inside a frog.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Back to Present:&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last time, I am at home celebrating quietly without firing a cracker :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This time, its me alone near London home preparing to go home for a 3 week break.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;i&gt;Such is a truth when a kid grows to be a man. Sometimes I wonder why we have this transformation that loses our innocence and brings us into the harsh reality &lt;/i&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-8837335867215251698?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/8837335867215251698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=8837335867215251698' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/8837335867215251698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/8837335867215251698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/10/deepavali.html' title='Deepavali'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3220689110338707332</id><published>2009-09-02T02:42:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-09-02T02:44:13.497+05:30</updated><title type='text'>gmail is down</title><content type='html'>First time since I started using this from 2004...&lt;br /&gt;gmail is down&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Sp2OdFPGcJI/AAAAAAAAE9c/FpaByRs6XC8/s1600-h/gmailDown.PNG"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 141px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5376610160423104658" border="0" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Sp2OdFPGcJI/AAAAAAAAE9c/FpaByRs6XC8/s400/gmailDown.PNG" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Sp2OYAChBLI/AAAAAAAAE9U/mSPy6NwYO6E/s1600-h/gmailDown.PNG"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3220689110338707332?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3220689110338707332/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3220689110338707332' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3220689110338707332'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3220689110338707332'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/09/gmail-is-down.html' title='gmail is down'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Sp2OdFPGcJI/AAAAAAAAE9c/FpaByRs6XC8/s72-c/gmailDown.PNG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6943533468823181118</id><published>2009-08-27T01:41:00.018+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-27T02:30:43.580+05:30</updated><title type='text'>mughil</title><content type='html'>&lt;blockquote&gt;a small set of humans helping a small set of people to get a small piece of the&lt;br /&gt;life they deserve, in this small end of the world - &lt;a href="http://www.mughil.org/"&gt;mughil &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;its something big for me, here's some of my greetings for mughil :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWb7maKFcI/AAAAAAAAE80/4EvptRr1iKc/s1600-h/mughil.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374373178561402306" border="0" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWb7maKFcI/AAAAAAAAE80/4EvptRr1iKc/s400/mughil.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWby-EM62I/AAAAAAAAE8s/bAz1tZ-iB7A/s1600-h/eyes.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 279px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374373030292941666" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWby-EM62I/AAAAAAAAE8s/bAz1tZ-iB7A/s400/eyes.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWbrBpvUmI/AAAAAAAAE8k/TxyGKoEbAt0/s1600-h/childeyes.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 266px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374372893816738402" border="0" alt="" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWbrBpvUmI/AAAAAAAAE8k/TxyGKoEbAt0/s400/childeyes.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWbgfsYmhI/AAAAAAAAE8c/kd4tG5utN-4/s1600-h/kidsbday.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 308px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 400px; CURSOR: hand" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5374372712902334994" border="0" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWbgfsYmhI/AAAAAAAAE8c/kd4tG5utN-4/s400/kidsbday.gif" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6943533468823181118?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6943533468823181118/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6943533468823181118' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6943533468823181118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6943533468823181118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/08/mughil.html' title='mughil'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SpWb7maKFcI/AAAAAAAAE80/4EvptRr1iKc/s72-c/mughil.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6413776955480803966</id><published>2009-07-21T03:05:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2009-08-27T01:57:50.661+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><title type='text'>3 months</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;The longest time I was in a job outside India.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Its gonna be broken in an hour.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What did I do these 3 months. Here's the notes for you to develop&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jagan, Sheffield :: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Sriram, Birmingham - Isle of Man :: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jagan, Mohanaram, Richard, Navin, Dutt Cambridge :: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Mohanaram, Jagan, Richard, Ganesh, Portsmouth - Isle of Wight&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Every trip turned to be a good trip.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SmTnS4tU56I/AAAAAAAAE4A/gvOH1SZhmVE/s320/IMG_0436.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360663768123893666" /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6413776955480803966?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6413776955480803966/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6413776955480803966' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6413776955480803966'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6413776955480803966'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/07/3-months.html' title='3 months'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SmTnS4tU56I/AAAAAAAAE4A/gvOH1SZhmVE/s72-c/IMG_0436.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-2683187528769684861</id><published>2009-06-27T10:49:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2009-06-27T11:00:06.506+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='UK'/><title type='text'>I am back</title><content type='html'>Its been a long time since I blogged, vooooooooh.&lt;div&gt;Things have changed since my last post but whats exciting is the journey I made.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Why did I apply for UK visa? why did I hesitated to resign from my Indian Job nearly for 4 months after I got the visa? What am I doing in UK now? :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;That might be a boring story for you to revisit my past, but its a special test for me.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;There were points in this recent past where my atmost confidence went to almost zero :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Nevertheless its worth a try&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-2683187528769684861?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/2683187528769684861/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=2683187528769684861' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2683187528769684861'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2683187528769684861'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2009/06/i-am-back.html' title='I am back'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7679581477130533278</id><published>2008-10-04T22:53:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-10-05T15:13:36.738+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Alone at hyd home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;Nobody home. Muruga in team trip to Araku, Thyagy to a beach trip near vizag, Bala and Mahe to their real homes :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You know what? Sometimes loneliness makes you sick like none other disease.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Though being alone for 2 nights and 1 day, it didn't make me though. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;With TV &amp;amp; laptop-broadband, you can survive some hrs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Luckily i had my office badminton tourny, so the day just gone like a flash (though i went only till quarter finals and fought brave)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style=""&gt;Watching&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt; Friends&lt;/span&gt; series is the main entertainment for me at nights. Also helped Bala to decide his laptop and paid the rent in the evening. Need to watch the good collection of movies in Thyagy's lapi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;What else, one more night to go...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;oops, blogging is missing in the list :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7679581477130533278?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7679581477130533278/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7679581477130533278' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7679581477130533278'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7679581477130533278'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/10/alone-at-hyd-home.html' title='Alone at hyd home'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-941752903431702553</id><published>2008-09-17T23:32:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-18T00:00:21.985+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='sports site'/><title type='text'>Run Sports</title><content type='html'>When someone in the team came up with an idea of conducting sports events, i was slightly reluctant but just gave my name for the events (carrom, chess, tt, snooker)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The task of organising the event was handed to a fresher girl and an experienced guy in automation team. They tried to mail the team everyday with the list of participants and dates of events, but eventually everyone forgot them after closing the mail box. This really turned to be a pain for them, they even failed to start the first game since participants are busy or not present.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, i thought the only way to solve this is to have a website where they can see the dates of their matches and comments on results. I also had a plan to put all participants pics in the site so they get some attention and responsibility.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I designed a brand new sports site for my team events, also a pretty decent one and launched it as a surprise. It really worked. Everyone got excited and attracted to the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I too liked the site and came up with more features like Scrolling team pics (flash), Blog roll, Image gallery(Ajax control) etc. to add more spice to the event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SNFKytGg38I/AAAAAAAADOI/H67_YDR9yN0/s1600-h/runweb.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SNFKytGg38I/AAAAAAAADOI/H67_YDR9yN0/s400/runweb.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5247057275824168898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Well, after a long time, i did something with passion and creativity&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-941752903431702553?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/941752903431702553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=941752903431702553' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/941752903431702553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/941752903431702553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/09/run-sports.html' title='Run Sports'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SNFKytGg38I/AAAAAAAADOI/H67_YDR9yN0/s72-c/runweb.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6961939068786798375</id><published>2008-09-15T22:58:00.009+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-16T00:14:22.188+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='1 rupee'/><title type='text'>One day with One rupee</title><content type='html'>It was a day that i got up as usual late, relaxed, got ready, packed food and rushed to station to catch my 10'o clock train. My stomach grunned and reminded me that I had just one banana before leaving from home. Well, why not a have a tea meantime before the train reaches in a couple of mins.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;But the surprisingly danger fact is, I had just 1rupee in my pocket. Just 1 Rupee to start the day, not even a tea costs that in Urban india (its 2.50 bucks minimum). The mmts &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"&gt;train pass&lt;/span&gt; saved the day for me to reach office and i totally forgot about this dangerous fact. For lunch, i ate the food that i prepared and took in the box. In the evening, I went for a tea break with my friend (obviously he paid for me), that kept my 1 buck still in my purse :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;img src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SM6qrRZp4PI/AAAAAAAADOA/zUoE83zsgSo/s400/1rupee.jpg" style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246318276315308274" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The thought that i should withdraw from ATM striked now and then but i never cared about it much as i was in a safer office zone. After a bit long client meeting in the evening i rushed to the train station where i was aware again that i have just 1 rupee in my pocket, this time it was a clear mistake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Well, there is nothing else i could do except to spend it :) and get a few fried groundnuts for that 1 rupee from the poor farmer who sells it everyday at the station platform. The groundnuts tasted good in my train journey back home.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Atlast i felt good for spending the 1 Rupee worth it... and oops... now i got 0 bucks with me :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6961939068786798375?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6961939068786798375/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6961939068786798375' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6961939068786798375'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6961939068786798375'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/09/one-day-with-one-rupee.html' title='One day with One rupee'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SM6qrRZp4PI/AAAAAAAADOA/zUoE83zsgSo/s72-c/1rupee.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6333032599888326604</id><published>2008-09-12T19:56:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-12T20:33:51.287+05:30</updated><title type='text'>time for an adventure...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;What application would worth half a lakh?&lt;div&gt;well, i have applied one for it :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Lets wait and see the result. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;If it is success, its time for an adventure...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SMqEpyVw8_I/AAAAAAAADNw/RZlLIJ5Tyhg/s1600-h/s_london-eye7.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SMqEpyVw8_I/AAAAAAAADNw/RZlLIJ5Tyhg/s400/s_london-eye7.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245150569448928242" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6333032599888326604?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6333032599888326604/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6333032599888326604' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6333032599888326604'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6333032599888326604'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/09/time-for-adventure.html' title='time for an adventure...'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SMqEpyVw8_I/AAAAAAAADNw/RZlLIJ5Tyhg/s72-c/s_london-eye7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7641936413266943186</id><published>2008-08-25T22:41:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-09-16T00:19:12.582+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='microsoft'/><title type='text'>360* TajMahal</title><content type='html'>Cool tech.,&lt;br /&gt;I initally thought it is similar to &lt;a href="http://www.cooliris.com/"&gt;PicLens&lt;/a&gt; (now Cooliris), but later found both give us totally new amazing experience&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photosynth.net/view.aspx?cid=66fc546a-5f21-4daf-9cee-240711304016"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5245151765100958530" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SMqFvYfbE0I/AAAAAAAADN4/0T4ZjVZxDC0/s400/msphotosynth.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7641936413266943186?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7641936413266943186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7641936413266943186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7641936413266943186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7641936413266943186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/08/360-tajmahal.html' title='360* TajMahal'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SMqFvYfbE0I/AAAAAAAADN4/0T4ZjVZxDC0/s72-c/msphotosynth.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5945960384486888669</id><published>2008-08-12T22:22:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-12T23:08:02.944+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cook'/><title type='text'>Karthi - the cook</title><content type='html'>Yeah, a record has been set by me not in olympics but in cooking.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just did a solo performance and cooked for all my roomies which indeed is an achievement for me :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Items: Potato+tomato kozhambu (Pulusu) &amp;amp; Potato fry.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Till yesterday i was helping Muruga in cooking but today I was not able to believe what happened. I am a cook officially :)&lt;br /&gt;I am the last one to become a cook in our hyd gang of five - Mugunthan, Muruga, Mouly, Bala &amp;amp; me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;hmmm.... wow, the food tastes really good, believe me or ask my roomies.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5945960384486888669?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5945960384486888669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5945960384486888669' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5945960384486888669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5945960384486888669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/08/karthi-cook.html' title='Karthi - the cook'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-9172501757625470488</id><published>2008-08-09T23:06:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-09T23:21:30.993+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rain'/><title type='text'>Splendid Rain</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJ3WCcxj-6I/AAAAAAAADMU/hN5bly4GHpg/s1600-h/rain.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJ3WCcxj-6I/AAAAAAAADMU/hN5bly4GHpg/s400/rain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5232573679646538658" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its a rainy day, all day in hyd.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-9172501757625470488?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/9172501757625470488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=9172501757625470488' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9172501757625470488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/9172501757625470488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/08/splendid-rain.html' title='Splendid Rain'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJ3WCcxj-6I/AAAAAAAADMU/hN5bly4GHpg/s72-c/rain.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3794441037039052614</id><published>2008-08-07T20:57:00.004+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-07T21:08:49.861+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Kadapa'/><title type='text'>the trip to Kadapa</title><content type='html'>&lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: green;"&gt;/* the pic story begins */&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: green;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;The scenic view is worth a first shot in any indian film for 'a remote town on the backdrop of mountains'. So as here in our story.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;Location: near Thamatam's hometown (my colleague), galivedu, Cuddapah&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrVTlprI/AAAAAAAADLk/M0bTYosEWzw/s1600-h/mountain.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrVTlprI/AAAAAAAADLk/M0bTYosEWzw/s400/mountain.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231799226318825138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;The Dwarf Mountains of the Eastern ghats, not high enough to block the North East monsoon winds, but adds beauty to the space.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;Thanks to the recent rainfall, the whole area we visited is filled with green, not showing any signs of the 8 years drought in recent past&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrcWSLFI/AAAAAAAADLs/MlcW8xkp-38/s1600-h/eastern+ghats.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrcWSLFI/AAAAAAAADLs/MlcW8xkp-38/s400/eastern+ghats.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231799228209179730" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;The new irrigation project to counter-effect the failure of the monsoon is the latest addition to Kadapa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrq9Gd-I/AAAAAAAADL0/5GkVN8utC7Q/s1600-h/irrigation.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrq9Gd-I/AAAAAAAADL0/5GkVN8utC7Q/s400/irrigation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231799232130086882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;The legendary 'once in a lifetime' bike-trip in search of a 650 years old...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrkVIyjI/AAAAAAAADL8/TTnv2lgLyi4/s1600-h/board.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrkVIyjI/AAAAAAAADL8/TTnv2lgLyi4/s400/board.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231799230351854130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;Driving nearly 50 kms(one-way), extending deep into the nature, crossing villages and districts (from kadapa to ananthapur), the search ends here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;  &lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;“Thimmamma Marrimanu”&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVr_f7I4I/AAAAAAAADME/SFteNh_TOaw/s1600-h/marimanu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVr_f7I4I/AAAAAAAADME/SFteNh_TOaw/s400/marimanu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231799237644854146" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"&gt;a few words:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;'the soil can be taken to the nearest center to find the potassium(ka) and nitrogen content which helps to grow crops specific to it' - Krishna&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;'not as fertile as lands in villages of Gangetic plains' - Navin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;'better roads than in my village' - Srinivas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;'3 primary schools and 1 high school in 50 km stretch, a good sign for village India' – Karthik&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: verdana;"&gt;Thanks Thamatam, for inviting for your marriage&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Trebuchet MS;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; color: navy; font-weight: bold;"&gt;that’s  a  trip worth a day…&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/b&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:navy;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: navy;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: green;"&gt;/* the pic story ends */&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: green;"&gt;/* the google maps begins */&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsV1LquftI/AAAAAAAADMM/P-BDaaaYWTw/s1600-h/geliveedu.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsV1LquftI/AAAAAAAADMM/P-BDaaaYWTw/s400/geliveedu.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5231799395530211026" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style="text-align: center;" align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:85%;color:green;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: green;"&gt;/* the google maps ends */&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3794441037039052614?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3794441037039052614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3794441037039052614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3794441037039052614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3794441037039052614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/08/trip-to-kadapa.html' title='the trip to Kadapa'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SJsVrVTlprI/AAAAAAAADLk/M0bTYosEWzw/s72-c/mountain.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3048086140665732432</id><published>2008-08-02T13:00:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-08-05T17:17:46.626+05:30</updated><title type='text'>bomma manasu</title><content type='html'>nammaga thappani nisamaina&lt;br /&gt;nuvviga raavani cheputhunna&lt;br /&gt;enthugi vinadho naanathi ippudainaa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;evvaru edhurugo vasthunna&lt;br /&gt;nuvvevo anukundunna&lt;br /&gt;neerupam na chupulo nuthilanaa...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;kannul karichae unnaa&lt;br /&gt;nuvvu ninnati kalavae ayinaa&lt;br /&gt;ippatikae akalalo nae unnaa...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3048086140665732432?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3048086140665732432/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3048086140665732432' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3048086140665732432'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3048086140665732432'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/08/bomma-manasu.html' title='bomma manasu'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-2485787220546794053</id><published>2008-07-29T15:23:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-07-29T15:23:08.494+05:30</updated><title type='text'>high five...</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;4 years before, the day started for me&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Joining IT for me is like &lt;em&gt;Getting paid for eating sugarcane&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Ya, I love working with computer and adding to the fact i am getting paid, its a exciting feel.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Today, I am entering my fifth year in IT industry.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-2485787220546794053?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/2485787220546794053/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=2485787220546794053' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2485787220546794053'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2485787220546794053'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/07/high-five.html' title='high five...'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5427175953699911644</id><published>2008-07-08T12:28:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-07-08T12:33:20.764+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lunch'/><title type='text'>Lunch Box</title><content type='html'>Something special today&lt;br /&gt;I brought lunch to office, which i never done before in my 3.5 years of IT experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to muruga, who again started the spirit of cooking @ home and brought back my tastes with superb egg burji, aloo fry &amp;amp; kozhambu (pulusu) rice.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;issssssssss... ippavae naaku ooruthae :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5427175953699911644?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5427175953699911644/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5427175953699911644' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5427175953699911644'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5427175953699911644'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/07/lunch-box.html' title='Lunch Box'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7791603772726457794</id><published>2008-05-10T12:26:00.005+05:30</published><updated>2008-07-08T12:28:35.148+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='eyes'/><title type='text'>I, me and a pair of glasses</title><content type='html'>I have now joined the club of Gandhi, Subash Chandra bose and my dad&lt;br /&gt;and now i can see a the same old world, bit clearer :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SHMPzOd2JoI/AAAAAAAADCk/IIUD45JpfDA/s1600-h/eye-glass-33210.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SHMPzOd2JoI/AAAAAAAADCk/IIUD45JpfDA/s400/eye-glass-33210.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5220533765783561858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;and thats the story of my new pair of eyes...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7791603772726457794?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7791603772726457794/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7791603772726457794' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7791603772726457794'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7791603772726457794'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/05/i-me-and-pair-of-glasses.html' title='I, me and a pair of glasses'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SHMPzOd2JoI/AAAAAAAADCk/IIUD45JpfDA/s72-c/eye-glass-33210.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3014647620167557832</id><published>2008-04-25T22:50:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-04-25T23:00:20.247+05:30</updated><title type='text'>iPhone served its purpose :)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SBITTzn-cYI/AAAAAAAACeM/vIQNUGYdW9c/s1600-h/iphone.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5193234551307923842" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SBITTzn-cYI/AAAAAAAACeM/vIQNUGYdW9c/s400/iphone.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SBITFTn-cXI/AAAAAAAACeE/_DGhrz4aNss/s1600-h/iphone.gif"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3014647620167557832?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3014647620167557832/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3014647620167557832' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3014647620167557832'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3014647620167557832'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/04/iphone-served-its-purpose.html' title='iPhone served its purpose :)'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/SBITTzn-cYI/AAAAAAAACeM/vIQNUGYdW9c/s72-c/iphone.gif' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6605762606801194999</id><published>2008-04-07T14:22:00.003+05:30</published><updated>2008-04-07T14:49:24.602+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pondicherry'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='garden'/><title type='text'>Botanical Garden, Pondicherry</title><content type='html'>I am in Pondy for a week break, got a chance to go to Botanical Garden (when we didnt get ticket for a movie and don't know where to spend the afternoon)  :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The garden was bit shaggy and clearly not in a good maintenance, but still the essence of the century years old trees remembered my sweet days i spent there in olden days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I played cricket in the garden with my school friends and even studied there for my semester exams during my college. It is one of my favorite spot (which was in good shape in my school days)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's one thing i saw new in the garden, which is actually very old :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R_nirPgoq8I/AAAAAAAAB7o/38C7os8ojEs/s1600-h/DSC00510.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186425678419504066" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R_nirPgoq8I/AAAAAAAAB7o/38C7os8ojEs/s320/DSC00510.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R_nia_goq7I/AAAAAAAAB7g/2khUanMH4kw/s1600-h/Indias+oldest+specimen.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5186425399246629810" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R_nia_goq7I/AAAAAAAAB7g/2khUanMH4kw/s320/Indias+oldest+specimen.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Standing under the Oldest specimen of the country&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hope it regains its beauty very quick.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;A Hindu article on it for u: &lt;a href="http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/05/28/stories/2005052800070100.htm"&gt;http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/mp/2005/05/28/stories/2005052800070100.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6605762606801194999?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6605762606801194999/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6605762606801194999' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6605762606801194999'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6605762606801194999'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/04/botanical-garden-pondicherry.html' title='Botanical Garden, Pondicherry'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R_nirPgoq8I/AAAAAAAAB7o/38C7os8ojEs/s72-c/DSC00510.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1210468029207281629</id><published>2008-03-31T23:30:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-03-31T23:33:22.644+05:30</updated><title type='text'>The Doomsday</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;In page 67 of the book &amp;quot;The Doomsday Conspiracy&amp;quot;, Sidney Sheldon says&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Yes, They did an experiment at Temple Buell College in Denver where healthy flowers were put in three separate glass cases. Acid Rock music was piped into one case, soft &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;East Indian&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt; Sitar music was piped into the second case, and the third has no music. A CBS camera crew recorded the experiment, using time-lapse photography. At the end of two weeks, the flowers exposed to the rock music were dead, the group with no music was growing normally, and the ones that heard the Sitar music had turned into beautiful blooms, with stems &amp;amp; flowers reaching toward the source of the music. Walter Cronkie ran the film on his news show. If you wish to check it, it was on October 26, 1970&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But why did he mention as East India rather just India. Probably if he had mentioned as 'Indian Sitar' music, the western world would think it is a music of american Red Indians. They even dont know the name Red Indians was derived because of us. I think, the day Columbus landed in the west was the Doomsday where we not only lost our richness but also the richness of the word 'India'. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Anyway, experiment proves that our Sitar music is simply the best music even nature likes :)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1210468029207281629?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1210468029207281629/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1210468029207281629' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1210468029207281629'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1210468029207281629'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/03/doomsday.html' title='The Doomsday'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3492646626837747584</id><published>2008-03-09T20:41:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-03-14T22:45:51.741+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='trip'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='india'/><title type='text'>a trip to Godavari delta</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The weekend visit to East Andhra for my colleague's marriage made me to think '&lt;font color="#800000"&gt;why not a trip around India?&lt;/font&gt;'&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The lush greenary on the banks of Godavari &amp;amp; the small canal that runs paralled to the road (with farm fields on both sides till the end of eyesight), quietly energises the soul &amp;amp; eyes.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://lh4.google.com/Karthi.Velou/R9qyvAf9M_I/AAAAAAAABes/O_XdcvzYrB8/100_0338%5B7%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-bottom: 0px" height="393" alt="100_0338" src="http://lh6.google.com/Karthi.Velou/R9qyxgf9NAI/AAAAAAAABe0/NgKHg0dyOJw/100_0338_thumb%5B5%5D" width="588" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;the places I touched...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;blockquote&gt;   &lt;p&gt;Kakinada - Kotaiyah's Kaja is a special sweet of the town (something like Pulla Reddy in Hyd &amp;amp; Adyar Anandha Bavan in Chennai),&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Yanam - part of Pondicherry Government (thats my town)&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Thratchapuram - one of Siva's triranga spot in Andhra, the other two are Srisailam &amp;amp; K&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Andervedi - where Godavari merges with the Sea&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;Amalapuram&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Also this is the first time I am attending a marriage that took place at night 10:30 PM. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thanks to Sandeep for inviting for his marriage &amp;amp; Prashanth for persuading me to join the trip :)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/mm?ie=UTF8&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;ll=16.645402,82.034912&amp;amp;spn=1.613054,2.993774&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;z=9"&gt;&lt;img style="border-top-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px" height="700" alt="eastandhra" src="http://lh4.google.com/Karthi.Velou/R9a6KAf9M-I/AAAAAAAABeM/R316oTV85wE/eastandhra7%5B2%5D" width="500" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3492646626837747584?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3492646626837747584/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3492646626837747584' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3492646626837747584'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3492646626837747584'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/03/operation-explore-india.html' title='a trip to Godavari delta'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-22337996422246361</id><published>2008-02-22T17:14:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-22T17:18:32.397+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Barcamp'/><title type='text'>Barcamp Hyd @ Google</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;An interesting incident happened this time&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Thyagy &amp;amp; me reached the spot a bit late (as usual) and joined the queue at the Security gate to&amp;#160; get pass. Only when i said to Thyagy to get ready with the company ID card, i realised i didnt bring it (as usual). Luckily ADP gives a small card that i kept in my purse, so i took it and said 'hey heres' my ADP card'. I heard a voice from behind&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;X: Are you from ADP?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Me: Yes, how abt you?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;X: No, I worked for ADP long back&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Me: Oh, nice meeting you, so where do you work now?&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;X: I dont work...&amp;#160;&amp;#160;&amp;#160; I earn by blogging and live blogging&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Me: Oh, so are you like Amit Agarwal? (wondering how many people started like Amit but the reply i heard was a little shock, probably now a simple guess for you)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;X: I am &lt;a href="http://labnol.blogspot.com"&gt;Amit Agarwal&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Me: (oh my god, am i speaking to Amit, the first professional Indian blogger) Nice meeting you Amit (at the road)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;and thats a least way you expect to meet the celebrity of the day :)&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Infact apart from getting goodies :) my interest to go to the camp lied in attending his presentation on 'how to blog with google adsense'&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-22337996422246361?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/22337996422246361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=22337996422246361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/22337996422246361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/22337996422246361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/02/barcamp-hyd-google.html' title='Barcamp Hyd @ Google'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1544742727391818614</id><published>2008-02-12T22:07:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-22T14:20:14.750+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Amma Kolam</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;The best and the worst things happens so close to me with almost immediate in one following the other :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Whats the best thing happened in the pongal holidays?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I took snaps of my mother's beautiful &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolam"&gt;kolam&lt;/a&gt; , she drew on each day of pongal festival and uploaded in flickr&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[ Kolam - is a decorative design drawn in a variety of sandpainting using rice powder by female members of the family in front of their home. A Kolam is a sort of painted prayer -- a line drawing composed of curved loops, drawn around a grid pattern of dots.] (Plural: Kolangal)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;She makes her best artistic vision in designing the kolam in notebook to making it real in roads. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://flickr.com/photos/parameswari/2194750632/in/set-72157603716719124/"&gt;&lt;img style="BORDER-TOP-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-LEFT-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-BOTTOM-WIDTH: 0px; BORDER-RIGHT-WIDTH: 0px" height="141" alt="clip_image001" src="http://lh5.google.com/Karthi.Velou/R7xWzwo9WFI/AAAAAAAABcY/9p5_M5gRCPo/clip_image001_thumb" width="242" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;and whats the worst followed.... my system @ home gone down, making her not to upload her latest ones :(&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I just assembled it not even a year ago (&lt;a href="http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/07/story-of-my-sweet-pc.html"&gt;The story of my sweet PC&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nevertheless i am happy to see my mother's beautiful kolangal in the web :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1544742727391818614?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1544742727391818614/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1544742727391818614' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1544742727391818614'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1544742727391818614'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2008/02/amma-kolam.html' title='Amma Kolam'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-7595320502096442743</id><published>2007-11-26T18:25:00.002+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-20T22:42:16.914+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='badminton'/><title type='text'>Badminton</title><content type='html'>This time i was too eager to participate in &lt;a href="http://www.hyderabad10k.com/"&gt;Hyd 10K run &lt;/a&gt;, one of the famous &lt;em&gt;run, jog or walk &lt;/em&gt;event in hyd. I registered for the event and even thought of going for a practise session arranged by the company&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;(இதெல்லாம் உனக்கே ஓவ்ரா தெரியல'ன்னு கேக்கபுடாது)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What happened atlast is a simple guess :)... ya, i didn't go for the event. but didn't miss the big event the day before, guess what...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5137146685502372018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R0rPsVRxuLI/AAAAAAAABQY/po7Bi33U3NI/s320/PB020843.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;note: if you have guessed someting by sneaking the above Photo, its a old trick (that too after i have clearly mentioned in the topic)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;itz for Badminton practice... right, many of you might not be knowing that i am a good (சரி) decent badminton(shuttle) player.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I went for a professional classes (நம்புங்கப்பா) from std. XIII to IX and then dropped due to 10th exams. It then resumed at the college third year (iam not sure though) where myself and Mouly represented year (3rd yr Vs 2yr) and lost to some national players :) (இதையும் நம்பித்தான் ஆகனும்).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then i went to trivandrum for my TCS training, where we had 2 shuttle courts in our hotel. But it was a new environment where people from Delhi, Calcutta, Punjab, Pondicherry all gathered. The guys from North took the courts and started playing as if they were the best (no bias here, just the rouse fact).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just waited for my turn to enter and it arrived. That was most memorable badminton days where i just smashed the opponents and made them to turn back. Quickly earned some good badminton friends (and lost ofcourse, this was 3 yrs back). I still remember one guy who bowed and touched my feet during the last days of shuttle play for my simplicity and powerplay (sounds like trumpetting???)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;...and then after a huge gap, i touched my racket for the company tournament (March 07) where i went till quarters and then it was just this Saturday (அதுக்குள்ள ஆறு மாசம்) for company practise for the upcoming tourny.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;அதுல என்ன ஆச்சுனா? Yogi'b sethu style'a oru RAP&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't fail to impress&lt;br /&gt;but i failed to win with little suppress&lt;br /&gt;I didn't fail to gain points quicker&lt;br /&gt;but i failed to lose stamina a lot freakr&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I'm gonna get stronger, smasher&lt;br /&gt;I'm gonna thrash 'em bit easier&lt;br /&gt;I'm gonna winner winner winner &lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-7595320502096442743?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/7595320502096442743/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=7595320502096442743' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7595320502096442743'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/7595320502096442743'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/11/guess-what-bad-guess.html' title='Badminton'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/R0rPsVRxuLI/AAAAAAAABQY/po7Bi33U3NI/s72-c/PB020843.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3865044477567456842</id><published>2007-10-26T18:29:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-20T22:26:34.099+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='சேது சமுத்திரம்'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ram'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Sethu'/><title type='text'>அண்ணே அண்ணே...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;செந்தில் (செ): அண்ணே அண்ணே சிப்பாய் அண்ணே நம்மஊரு நல்லஊரு இப்ப ரொம்ப கெட்டு போச்சுண்ணே..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;கவுண்டமணி (க): டேய் கரிபால்டி தலையா, அப்படி என்னடா கெட்டு போச்சு&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;செ: பந்த் எல்லாம் நடக்குதுண்ணே, எதோ சேது சமுத்திர திட்டமா அத உடனே நிறைவேத்தணுமாம், அதுக்காக கடைய எல்லாம் மூட சொல்றது நியாயமாண்ணே?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;க: டேய் பிஞ்ச தலையா, சேது சமுத்திரதிட்டம் மட்டும் முடிஞ்சுதுன்னா தூத்துக்குடிக்கும் சென்னைக்கும் கப்பல் போக்குவரத்து வேகமா இருக்கும்டா, அதனால தென்தமிழ்நாட்டு மக்களுக்கு வேலை கிடைக்கும்டா&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;செ: அதுக்காக ராமர போய் நம்ம முதல்வர் 'அவன் என்ன இஞ்சினியர் படிச்சிட்டா சேது பாலத்த கட்டினான், அவனே ஒரு குடிகாரன்'னு ஏண்ணே திட்டணும்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;க: டேய், நேஷனல் ஐவேலதான் லாரிக போகமுடியாதபடி வழியமறிச்சு கோயில் கட்றீங்களேன்னு கடலுக்கு போனா, அங்கேயும் விடமா ஏண்டா உங்க ராமர கொண்டு வரீங்க? அப்படி அந்த கடல்ல புதைஞ்சுபோன பாலத்துக்கு மேல கோயில கட்டி என்னடா சாதிக்க போறீங்க? முதல்வராவது பரவாயில்ல ராமர ஒரு இஞ்சினியராதான் கேட்டாரு, நானா இருந்தேன் அவ்வளவுதான் மரியாதயா ஓடிபோயிடு...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;செ: என்ன இருந்தாலும் ராமர போய்... பாலத்தை போய் இடிக்....&lt;br /&gt;(கவுண்டமணி கோபமாய் தன்பக்கம் திரும்புவதைப் பார்த்து அப்படியே நிறுத்துகிறார்)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;க: டேய் நீங்க மட்டும் நூறு வருஷமா சும்மா கிடந்த பாபர் மசூதிய இடிச்சு கோயில் கட்டுவோம்னு சவுண்ட் வுடும்போது நாங்க ஏண்டா ஒரு நல்ல காரியத்துக்காக லட்ச வருஷமா சும்மாகிடக்கிற சேதுபாலத்த இடிக்கக்கூடாது?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;செ: என்ன இருந்தாலும் ராமர போய்...&lt;br /&gt;(கவுண்டமணி கையில எதையோ எடுக்க)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;செ: சரி அதவிடுங்கண்ண திமுகவ சேர்ந்த டி.ஆர்.பாலு தானே கப்பல்துறை அமைச்சரா இருக்கிறாரு. அவர்தானே சேது திட்டத்துக்கு பொறுப்பு, அப்படின்னா அத வேகமா முடிக்கறது அவர்கிட்டதான இருக்கு. அப்புறம் ஏன் அவங்களே 'சேது திட்டத்த வேகமாக முடிக்கக்கோரி பந்த்'னு நடத்துனாங்க, ஒண்ணுமே புரியலண்ணே.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;க: எப்படிடா உன்பிஞ்சமண்ட இப்படிஎல்லாம் யோசிக்குதோ? இதெல்லாம் அரசியல்ல சகஜமப்பா, அதெல்லாம் நீ கண்டுக்கப்புடாது. ஒரு நல்ல விசயத்துக்காக பல கெட்ட விசயங்கள் நடக்கறது தப்பே இல்ல, ஒரு நிரபராதி தண்டிக்கப்பட கூடாதுன்னு பல குற்றவாளிகள தப்ப விடறதில்லையா அதப்போல.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;செ: நீங்கதானே எதோ நல்ல விசயம் நல்ல விசயம்னு சொல்றீங்க. நம்ம நேவியில இருந்து ரிட்டய்ர்ட் ஆன ஒரு மெரைன் இஞ்சினியரோட சொன்னத கேட்டேன். அவர் 'இந்த சேதுசமுத்திரத் திட்டமெல்லாம் ஐம்பது ஆண்டுகளுக்கு முன்னாடி வந்திருந்தா பயனுள்ளதா இருக்கும் இப்ப அது நடைமுறைக்கு ஒத்து வராது'ன்னு சொல்றாரு. உதாரணத்துக்கு இவங்க&lt;br /&gt;12அடி ஆழத்துக்கு சேதுசமுத்திரத்துல கால்வாய் அமைக்க போறாங்களாம், ஆனா பெரிய கப்பல்கள் போக 17அடியாவது இருக்கனுமாம், வேணும்னா நீங்களே இங்கபோய் இத (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/01inter.htm"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;http://www.rediff.com/news/2007/oct/01inter.htm&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;) படிச்சுக்குங்க.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(கவுண்டமணி அதை படித்து கடுப்பாகி)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;க: எனக்கு அங்க போய் 12அடிக்கு தோண்டறாங்களா இல்ல 17அடிக்கு தோண்டறாங்களான்னு பார்க்க முடியாது. ஆனா உனக்கு நான் இப்ப தரப்போற அடிய வேணும்னா எண்ணிப்பார்க்க முடியும். இந்தா வாங்கிக்கோ... இந்தா வாங்கிக்கோ... இந்தா வாங்கிக்கோ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(அய்யோ அம்மா வலிக்குதே - செந்தில் ஒரே ஓட்டமாய் ஓட கவுண்டமணியும் பின்தொடர பேக்கிரவுண்ட்ல எதோ பாட்டு பாடுகிறது)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"அண்ணே அண்ணே சிப்பாய் அண்ணே நம்மஊரு நல்லஊரு இப்ப ரொம்ப கெட்டு போச்சுண்ணே.."&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125630331042720466" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RyHloRvE6tI/AAAAAAAABJs/ei0F5w6HYpI/s400/Sethu.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3865044477567456842?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3865044477567456842/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3865044477567456842' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3865044477567456842'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3865044477567456842'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post_26.html' title='அண்ணே அண்ணே...'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RyHloRvE6tI/AAAAAAAABJs/ei0F5w6HYpI/s72-c/Sethu.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5527844700713633689</id><published>2007-10-12T20:39:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-10-18T14:49:12.514+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Pondicherry - 2007 Best Small State of India</title><content type='html'>Puducherry has outshone Goa and Delhi to occupy the top slot in the Small State category. Its performance on social sector parameters has been as impressive as in the sunshine sectors like technology and hardware. - &lt;strong&gt;India Today &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Rw-PlbNWuMI/AAAAAAAABHw/Y7MJnZwgX4w/s1600-h/image004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5120469174465247426" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Rw-PlbNWuMI/AAAAAAAABHw/Y7MJnZwgX4w/s400/image004.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Puducherry Chief Minister N. Rangasamy&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;• Rs 61,064 is the per capita income of the people in the state. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;• The state tops spending in healthcare in 2006-07.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;• It is the only state to provide breakfast, umbrellas and raincoats to school students. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PUDUCHERRYSmall State Big StridesDespite the propensity for freebies the state has done well, thanks to the rush of big tag investments. By Anand Natarajan Talk of Puducherry and the first thing that comes to mind is Auroville and the sun-kissed beaches all around. But behind the sense of calm is a bustling industrial hub that has, yet again, catapulted the state to the top slot in the "small state" category. For a state known for its generosity in doling out freebies and subsidies, Puducherry has done remarkably well. Its relentless pursuit of growth-oriented schemes has resulted in a balanced development, with the state garnering a GDP of Rs 7, 196.17 crore for 2005-06 and recording a per capita income of Rs 61,064. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Puducherry's economic growth rides on its industrial growth. In the 1950s, it had just three textile mills and five small industries. Today, it boasts of 71 heavy industries, 168 medium enterprises and 7,632 small enterprises. The state's industrial policy, which seeks to make it the nation's hardware capital, gives a special thrust to information technology, biotechnology, agro-processing, auto ancillaries and electronics. Puducherry's economy depends on agriculture as well. But dwindling land availability and a depleting water table are threatening the sector. Efforts are on to meet the challenge with the state budget allocating Rs 25.11 crore for agro-related operations. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Puducherry scores high on education and also on sops. Though the free midday meal scheme is on everywhere, it is the only state to also provide free breakfast, umbrellas and rain coats. The state accords priority to health. It recorded a per capita expenditure of Rs 1,071 in healthcare, the highest in the country, in 2006-07. A sum of Rs 21.78 crore is being spent on the tourism sector this year. This will be complemented by an ambitious expansion of Pondicherry Airport. As it chugs along nicely on several fronts, Puducherry's front runner status is secure. But if it doesn't pull its act together on heavy subsidies and freebies, its place could be challenged.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Courtesy: &lt;a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://news.digitaltoday.in/news/in20070914.jsp?param=cover-best" target="_blank"&gt;http://news.digitaltoday.in/news/in20070914.jsp?param=cover-best&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5527844700713633689?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5527844700713633689/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5527844700713633689' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5527844700713633689'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5527844700713633689'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/10/pondicherry-best-small-state-2007.html' title='Pondicherry - 2007 Best Small State of India'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Rw-PlbNWuMI/AAAAAAAABHw/Y7MJnZwgX4w/s72-c/image004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-5118144553175480084</id><published>2007-10-10T18:05:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-10-10T18:17:17.675+05:30</updated><title type='text'>எழுத நினைத்தவை</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;1.அறுபது வயதில் இந்தியாவும் ட்ரேயினில் பிச்சையெடுக்கும் சிறார்களும்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;அடிப்படையில் எதுவும் மாறவில்லை. மாறியது எல்லாம் முன்னேறியதைப் போன்ற  நம் எண்ணம்.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. அண்ணாவின் சிறுகதைகள் &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;50களில் தமிழ்ச் சமுதாயத்திலுள்ள வேற்றுமைகளை காட்டுவதாய் எண்ணிக்கொண்டு தமிழர்களை ஒட்டுமொத்தமாய் வருத்தப்பட வைக்கும் கதைகளைக்கொண்ட தாள்கள்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. அர்த்தமுள்ள இந்துமதம் &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;இந்து மதத்தைவிட கண்ணதாசனின் கசப்பான அனுபவங்களை கூறும் பொருந்தா நூல்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5118144553175480084?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5118144553175480084/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5118144553175480084' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5118144553175480084'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/5118144553175480084'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/10/blog-post.html' title='எழுத நினைத்தவை'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-2750118167154740229</id><published>2007-10-10T15:06:00.001+05:30</published><updated>2008-02-20T22:43:50.334+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='batsman'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cricket'/><title type='text'>Captain VK -&gt; Batsman VK</title><content type='html'>ya, i have decided to concentrate more on batting than in captainship :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;நான் கேப்டனா இருந்த விஷயம் உங்களுக்கு தெரியாதுன்னா, இப்ப தெரிஞ்சுகோங்க&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This captaincy took a lot out of my batting &lt;em&gt;consistency (அட நம்புங்கப்பா) &lt;/em&gt;which i need to get back, more important is to reduce getting ducks :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Note: &lt;/em&gt;My cricket captainship record was so good as India's T20 record both in &lt;a href="http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2005/12/madinaguda-vs-madhapur.html"&gt;Madhapur series &lt;/a&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Miyapur &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Vs Madhapur) as well as in Microsoft - &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Sharks&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;vs Dynamites&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The transfer of captainship to Thyagi took place last weekend&lt;br /&gt;Guess whats Thyagi's score as a debut captain? &lt;strong&gt;0&lt;/strong&gt; :-)&lt;br /&gt;It was good weekend for me with a blasting opening in the first match and played a sensible cricket in the third match to victory but asusual got a duck in the second match :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Being an &lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;aggressive batsman&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, I just follow 2 main techniques in my batting&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Raise out of the grease, go for the ball &amp;amp; shoot where it is getting pitched. In this way you avoid any swing that makes you play hard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;li&gt;If you feel the bowler is gonna bowl lenght or short pitch, look where it is getting pitched - close your eyes, imagine a trajectory path of it reaching your bat &amp;amp; swing your bat at the right time&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;முன்னதை &lt;strong&gt;ஏறி சுத்தறதுன்னும்&lt;/strong&gt; பின்னதை &lt;strong&gt;கண்ணமூடிகிட்டு சுத்தறதுன்னும்&lt;/strong&gt; தமிழ்ல சொல்லுவாங்க :)&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;இப்ப சொல்லுங்க படத்துல நான் என்ன டெக்னிக்க யூஸ் பண்றேன்னு ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5119644287341344930" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RwyhWrNWuKI/AAAAAAAABHc/a_fXA06kd_0/s400/cric.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-2750118167154740229?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/2750118167154740229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=2750118167154740229' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2750118167154740229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2750118167154740229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/10/no-more-captain.html' title='Captain VK -&gt; Batsman VK'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RwyhWrNWuKI/AAAAAAAABHc/a_fXA06kd_0/s72-c/cric.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-8608803750921315445</id><published>2007-09-19T12:44:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-10-10T15:42:11.566+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Way to go</title><content type='html'>ரொம்ப நாளைக்கு அப்புறம், கிரிக்கெட்ல சும்மா சூப்பரா விளையாடியிருக்கேன், எல்லாம் அந்த 20-20 மேட்ச் பார்த்த எஃபெக்ட்&lt;br /&gt;Match1: 8 balls - 25 runs&lt;br /&gt;Match3: 14 balls - 32 runs&lt;br /&gt;இதுல straight'la அதிக தூரம் அடிச்சு, மெளலியோட ரெக்கார்ட வேற ப்ரேக் பண்ணிட்டேன் :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஆனா நான் எப்படா வேலை செய்தேன்னு எனக்கே தெரியல, பாராட்டு மெயில் எல்லாம் அனுப்புறாங்க...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5111819042665126386" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RvDUVfIh2fI/AAAAAAAABFc/Qrnl7NwDUIc/s400/aw.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;என்னவோ போங்க...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-8608803750921315445?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/8608803750921315445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=8608803750921315445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/8608803750921315445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/8608803750921315445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/09/blog-post.html' title='Way to go'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RvDUVfIh2fI/AAAAAAAABFc/Qrnl7NwDUIc/s72-c/aw.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-4335592596641842890</id><published>2007-08-04T22:45:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-09-01T00:32:56.028+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sultan - the boss</title><content type='html'>Rajnikanth's first animation movie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align = left&gt;&lt;object height="250" width="325"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/rMzrT_OMuHg"&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/rMzrT_OMuHg" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" height="250" width="325"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-4335592596641842890?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/4335592596641842890/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=4335592596641842890' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4335592596641842890'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4335592596641842890'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/08/sultan-boss.html' title='Sultan - the boss'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-2701315973957285877</id><published>2007-08-02T23:37:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-10-10T15:41:03.219+05:30</updated><title type='text'>கவிஞன்</title><content type='html'>கவிஞன் நானொரு காலக்கணிதம்&lt;br /&gt;கருபடு பொருளை உருப்பட வைப்பேன்&lt;br /&gt;புவியில் யானோர் புகழுடை தெய்வம்&lt;br /&gt;பொன்னினும் விலைமிகு பொருளென் செல்வம்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இவை சரியென்றால் இயம்புவது என்தொழில்&lt;br /&gt;இவை தவறென்றால் எதிர்ப்பது என்வேலை&lt;br /&gt;ஆக்கல் அளித்தல் அழித்தல் இம்மூன்றும்&lt;br /&gt;நானும் அவனுமே அறிந்தவை - அறிக...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-கண்ணதாசனின் அற்புத வரிகள், என் பாடபுத்தகத்தின் நினைவுகள் வழியே...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-2701315973957285877?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/2701315973957285877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=2701315973957285877' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2701315973957285877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2701315973957285877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/08/blog-post.html' title='கவிஞன்'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3939451831946038946</id><published>2007-07-26T23:28:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-10-10T15:41:20.016+05:30</updated><title type='text'>the story of my new PC</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;நான்:&lt;/em&gt; ஒரு AMD 3200+ processor கொடுங்க. இந்த ப்ரோசசருக்கு என்ன மதர்போர்டு போட முடியும்?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;கடைக்காரன்: &lt;/em&gt;.... (அவன் சொன்னதெல்லாம் எழுத முடியாது, நீங்களே எதையாவது நினைச்சுகுங்க)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;நான்:&lt;/em&gt; MSI நல்லா இருக்குமா, அப்ப MSI மதர்போர்டே கொடுங்க, அந்த மதர்போர்டோட விடீயோ மெமரி எவ்வளவு?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;கடைக்காரன்: &lt;/em&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;நான்:&lt;/em&gt; 128 MB'ஆ, ok&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;அடுத்து என்ன வாங்கனும்னு நினைச்சேன்...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;நான்:&lt;/em&gt; ஆ.. 1 DVD Writer கொடுங்க - Serial -ATA (SATA) DVD drive தான் வேண்டும்,&lt;br /&gt;ஹார்ட் டிஸ்க் IDE technologyla இருக்கும்போது, DVDயும் IDE'a இருந்தா ஸ்பீடா இருக்காதுன்னு இண்டிகா கம்ப்யூட்டர்காரன் சொன்னது நியாபகம் வந்தது.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;கடைக்காரன்: &lt;/em&gt;....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;நான்:&lt;/em&gt; Sony'la மட்டும்தான் SATA-DVD இருக்கா, ஒகே. என்ன மெளலி, 1 GB RAM போடலாமா, இல்ல 512 MB போதுமா?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;மெளலி:&lt;/em&gt; இன்னொருதடவ 512 MB போடப்போறியா?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;நான்:&lt;/em&gt; (கடைக்காரனை நோக்கி) 1 GB RAM கொடுத்திடுங்க.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;வேறென்ன ஒரேயொரு கேபினட் தான் பாக்கி....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஆகமொத்தம் என்னோட பழைய ஹார்டிஸ்க தவிர பார்த்தா, ஒரு புது CPU'வே வாங்கியாச்சு. மேட்டர் என்னன்னா எல்லாம் பார்ட்ஸ் பார்ட்ஸா இருக்கு. ஒரு சாஃப்ட்வேர் இஞ்சினியரா இருந்த என்ன கடைசியா ஒரு ஹார்ட்வேர் இஞ்சினியரா ஆக்கிபுட்டாங்க. எப்படியோ புத்தகத்த பார்த்து ஒருவழியா எல்லாத்தையும் கேபினட்டுக்குள்ள அடைச்சாச்சு, DVD-drive மட்டும்தான் உள்ள போகமாட்டேன் அடம்புடிச்சுது.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cabinet Front Panel'a திறடா, ஈசியா உள்ள வச்சிடலாம்னு மனோஜ் சொல்ல, பையன் ஹார்ட்வேரிலும் பெரிய ஆளுபோலன்னு நினைச்சி மாங்கு மாங்குன்னு கஷ்டப்பட்டு ரெண்டு பேரும் சேர்ந்து திறக்க, அப்ப வந்த சிரினிவாசன் சும்மா ரெண்டு தட்டு தட்டி DVD'a உள்ள வைக்க, எங்க ரெண்டுபேரு முகத்தையும் கொஞ்சம் பார்க்கணுமே :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5091581823652219874" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RqjusTegS-I/AAAAAAAABBc/tB6ZE-nrsKw/s320/IMG_0033.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;எப்படியோ கடைசியா Windows XP media center'a போட்டு பார்த்தபோது ஒரு அழகிய மகிழ்ச்சி, நாமலே அசெம்பிள் பண்ணதாச்சே...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3939451831946038946?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3939451831946038946/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3939451831946038946' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3939451831946038946'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3939451831946038946'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/07/story-of-my-sweet-pc.html' title='the story of my new PC'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RqjusTegS-I/AAAAAAAABBc/tB6ZE-nrsKw/s72-c/IMG_0033.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6474673868343633181</id><published>2007-07-04T00:39:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-07-08T00:11:40.052+05:30</updated><title type='text'>The look</title><content type='html'>With the new look of my blog, lets look at the England as seen by the reflections on my eyes :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;a beautiful country with shires &amp; counties... with woods &amp;amp; farms&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I once dreamt my way to office to be surrounded with nature, filled with farmlands on one side , bunchy trees on the other side with pleasant drive of air that energizing you. But anyone who lives in Chennai or hyderabad would know that you can only dream of it :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Its the dream come true while travelling from Oundle - the place i lived in England - to Peterborough - the place where my office is. The 10 miles of journey takes me to my dream everyday...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oundle - an ancient market town, also has one of the England's top school - &lt;a href="http://www.oundleschool.org.uk/index.php"&gt;the Oundle school,&lt;/a&gt; running for 450+ years (WOW). Its a small town where you can go around in 20 mins by walk but Peterborough is a modern city, an important rail hub connecting London to the North.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5083433642521816690" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Rov79vXIbnI/AAAAAAAABAE/9i9TY_qCxe0/s400/oundle.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sometimes or to say most of the times in the evening when i am alone in my cottage, it was really boring for me. Thanks to the England's TV channels, i found some programmes of good interest to me &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;'&lt;em&gt;England got Talent&lt;/em&gt;' &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;'&lt;em&gt;20th Century Battlefields'&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Rise and the Fall &lt;/em&gt;of - Tony Blair, Maragarat Thatcher&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;em&gt;The making of Deep Throat &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="left"&gt;are some programmes helped to pass my time until i get sleep.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But the most beautiful pass time is watching the Extended edition of the Lord of the Rings. There were also special DVD's on how they made it. hmm, here's my movie list in UK trip &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Departed (watched in Emirates flight, on my way to London)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Citizen Kane ( " )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The 12 Angry Man (from my lapi)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Beautiful mind ( " )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;A few Good men ( " )&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Spy Game (too good, i watched it thrice, thanks Matt)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Lord of the Rings (1, 2 &amp;amp; 3 = 6 DVD's) + Behind the Scenes (6 DVD's) ooops!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Highlander (1980's movies, fav film of Gary)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;em&gt;Alien (DVD is waiting for me to see)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;still 11 more days, so it may get added to :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;its a thrilling sadness to miss this place, but without friends even the heaven would be boring for me... (alright, dont ask me,'Will you see that?' :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6474673868343633181?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6474673868343633181/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6474673868343633181' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6474673868343633181'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6474673868343633181'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/07/look-into-uk.html' title='The look'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Rov79vXIbnI/AAAAAAAABAE/9i9TY_qCxe0/s72-c/oundle.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1425089066319248866</id><published>2007-06-19T21:54:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2007-07-05T00:05:42.073+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Sivaji - 2nd Day 2nd Show... WOW</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RngnbqflECI/AAAAAAAAA3U/RLvcimSKyUA/s1600-h/sivaji.gif"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5077851936076927010" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/RngnbqflECI/AAAAAAAAA3U/RLvcimSKyUA/s400/sivaji.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;நினைச்சுகூட பார்க்கல, ரஜினி படத்த (அதுவும் இந்தியாவின் மிக அதிக பொருட்செலவில் எடுக்கப்பட்ட படத்த) இரண்டாவது நாளே லண்டன்ல பார்ப்பேன்னு.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;சும்மா சொல்லக்கூடாது, சங்கர் ரஜினிய ட்ரில்லு வாங்கியிருக்காரு. எத்தனை கெட்டப்பு, எத்தன ஸ்டைலு... வாவ். சிவாஜி கணேசனா, எம்.ஜி.ஆரா, கமலா டான்ஸ் ஆடவச்சு ரஜினியோட சின்ன வயசு ஆசையை எல்லாம் நிறைவேற்றி வச்சிருக்காரு&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ரஜினியும் அடிதூள் கிளப்பியிருக்காரு, என்னா ஃபைட்டு, பிரமாண்டத்த சங்கருக்கு சொல்லிதரணுமா என்ன? ஒவ்வொரு பாட்டும் சும்மா நச்சுனு எடுத்திருக்காரு. ஏ.ஆர்.ரகுமானுக்கும் பாட்டு செட்டுக்காகவுமே படத்த இன்னொருமுறை பார்க்கலாம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இப்ப ஸ்கிரீன்ப்ளே, கதைக்கு வருவோம்&lt;br /&gt;சங்கர் தன்னோட வழியில் இருந்து கொஞ்சம் வெளியே வந்து டைரக்ட் பண்ணியிருக்காருன்னு சொல்லலாம். ரஜினி படத்துல அவர் காமெடி பண்ணலன்னா எப்படி? அதனால சீரியஸான கதைய ரஜினிக்காக காமெடி கலந்து கொஞ்சம் லைட்டா தந்திருக்கார்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;எப்போதும் அரசியல்வாதிகளை கிழிச்சு காட்டுற சங்கர், இந்த படத்துல (அதுவும் இந்த கதைக்கு) அவர்கள அவ்வளவா சீண்டாதது ஏன்னு தெரியல, ரஜினியோட அன்புக்கட்டளையோ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஆனா 'இந்தியன்' படத்துல மைல்கல்ல கூட மிஸ் பண்ணாத சங்கர், இந்த படத்துல மிகப்பெரிய ஓட்டைகள எப்படி கண்டுக்காம விட்டார்னு தெரியல. ஒரு வருஷத்துக்கு படம் எடுத்தா கதை மறந்திடுமா என்ன?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;எது எப்படியோ தலைவர் படம், நம் இந்திய மக்களுக்கு ஒன்ன தெளிவா சொல்லியிருக்கு - 'பாலிவுட் மட்டும்தான் பெரிய பட்ஜெட் படங்கள பண்ண முடியும்கறது இல்ல - கோலிவுட், டாலிவுட், கோழிவுட்டாலகூட முடியும்னு'. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;பேரச் சொன்னாலே சும்மா அதிருது இல்ல...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1425089066319248866?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1425089066319248866/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1425089066319248866' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1425089066319248866'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1425089066319248866'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/06/sivaji-2nd-day-2nd-show-wow.html' title='Sivaji - 2nd Day 2nd Show... 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/&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;வெகுதூரம் வந்தேன்... முதல்+முதல்நாள் (=11th day) இன்று...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6094577395041226704?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6094577395041226704/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6094577395041226704' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6094577395041226704'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6094577395041226704'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2007/05/vk-in-uk.html' title='VK in 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src="http://bp3.blogger.com/_sHnB75oERr8/Roy-UfXIboI/AAAAAAAABAQ/TL2waAsbD9k/s400/banner.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;எனக்கு தெரிந்தவரையில் 'யோகா' என்பது வாழ்க்கையை வெறுத்த சாமியார்கள் எல்லாம் காட்டுல போய் டைம்பாஸ்காக பண்றதுன்னு நினைச்சிருந்தேன். கடைசியா யோகா (பிராணயாமா) பத்தி என் எட்டாவது வகுப்புல படிச்சதா நியாபகம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;என்னோட ஆஃபீஸ்ல பார்த்த இந்த வார்த்தைகள்தான் என்னை அவங்க கிளாஸ்க்கு இஷா யோகா போகலாமா வேணாமான்னு தோண வைச்சது. அப்பதான் என்னோட ரூமியும் (பாலா) இதுக்கு போயிருக்கிறான் தெரிந்தது.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;நாமதான் ஒரு படத்துக்கு போறதுக்கு முன்னாடி, படம் நல்லா இருக்கா இல்லியான்னு கேட்டுட்டு போறவங்களாச்சே.. என்னடா போலாமான்னு அவன்கிட்ட கேட்டா - 'Dont expect anything or Expect the worst'ன்னு சொன்னான். இதகேட்ட பிறகு எவனாவது போவான்னா, ஆனாலும் நாங்க போவோமில்ல... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இப்பதான் வாழ்க்கையை தொலைத்த சாமியார்கள் யாருன்னு புரிஞ்சுது - வேற யாரு, நம்மல மாதிரி நரகத்துல சாரி நகரத்துல வாழ்றவங்கதான். யோகிகள் எல்லாம் தெளிவாத்தான் இருக்காங்க...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-4178324168164135633?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='related' href='http://www.ishafoundation.org/' title='Please see... this moment is inevitable'/><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/4178324168164135633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=4178324168164135633' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4178324168164135633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/4178324168164135633'/><link rel='alternate' 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அலங்காரம்.. அம்மனுக்கே கட்-அவுட்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;கோயில் பூசாரி மைக்கிலே அலறுகிறார்:&lt;br /&gt;இன்னும் சற்று நேரத்திலே &lt;em&gt;'அகிலாண்ட கோடி பிரம்மாண்ட நாயகி அங்காள தேவி பரமேஸ்வரி'&lt;/em&gt; வீதியுளா வர இருக்கின்ற காரணத்தினாலே பக்தர்களும் பக்த கோடிகளும் அலைகடலென திரண்டுவந்து அம்மன் அருளை பெற்றுக்கொள்ளுமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம். அதுசமயம் வீதியுளா முடிந்தவுடன் 'சினிமாப் புகழ்' சாதனைப் பறவைகளின் கலைக்கச்சேரி நடைபெறவுள்ளதால், மக்களனைவரும் அம்மன் தேரினை இழுக்க அலைகடலென திரண்டுவருமாறு பணிவுடன் கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;பேச்சு நின்று பாடல் ஒலிக்கின்றது:&lt;br /&gt;'அம்மா அம்மா ஆலயத்தம்மா பவானி தாயம்மா....' காது கிழிய.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;சிறிது நேரத்திலேயே பாடல் நிறுத்தப்பட்டு, மீண்டும் பூசாரி குரல்:&lt;br /&gt;எங்கப்பா பஞ்சாயத்துக்காரங்க (நம்ம மெளலி, கோபு, கிருஷ்ண திவாகர், மனோஜ்), அவங்க எதோ சொல்லனும்னு சொன்னாங்களே! அவங்களே இன்னும் கோயிலுக்கு வரலன்னா எப்படி மக்கள் வருவாங்க, எப்ப தேர எடுப்பாங்க. இங்கப்பாரு ஒருத்தரையும் காணோம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;அரக்கபரக்க நம்ம பஞ்சாயத்துத் தலைவர் (யாருன்னு சொல்லத்தேவையில்ல) கோயிலுக்குச் சென்று மைக்கை பிடிக்கிறார்:&lt;br /&gt;மைக் டெஸ்டிங் 1, 2, 3... ஆ ஒகே.அன்பான மக்களே, கடந்த மூன்று வருடங்களாக நம்மூரிலே 'மயானக் கொள்ளை' அம்மன் திருவிழா சிறப்பாக கொண்டாடப்பட்டதைப்போல் இந்த வருடமும் 'மயானக் கொள்ளை' :) திருவிழா சிறப்பாக நடைபெற அனைவரும் கோயிலுக்கு வந்து தேரினை வடம்பிடித்து, அதுசமயம் நடைபெறவுள்ள கலைநிகழ்ச்சியை கண்டுகளிப்பதோடு நின்று விடாமல், கோயிலருகே சிறியதாக '6 அடி' உயரத்துக்கு வைக்கப்பட்டுள்ள உண்டியலில் தங்கள் காணிக்கையை மறக்காமல் செலுத்துமாறு பணிவன்புடன் கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;உண்டியலில் செலுத்தப்படுகின்ற காணிக்கையானது பஞ்சாயத்துக்காரக்களுக்கு பங்கு போடப்பட்டு :) மீதமுள்ள சொற்ப தொகை &lt;a href="http://mughil.wordpress.com/"&gt;'முகில்' &lt;/a&gt;எனும் தொண்டு நிறுவனத்துக்கு தாராளாமாக வழங்கப்படும் என்பதை மிக மகிழ்ச்சியுடன் தெரிவித்துக்கொள்கிறேன்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;அதுசமயம் வெளி ஊர்களில் உள்ள அன்பு மக்கள், உண்டியல்வரை வந்து காணிக்கை செலுத்த முடியாததை உணர்ந்துள்ள பஞ்சாயத்துக்காரர்கள், அவர்களை நேரடியாக பஞ்சாயத்து கேஷியர் 'கோபு' அவர்களின் ஐசிஐசிஐ வங்கி கணக்குக்கு (000901528165) கடத்திவிடுமாறு கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறோம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஆ அவ்வளவுதான்... வாங்க எல்லாருமா சேர்ந்து தேரை இழுக்கலாம்..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-முற்றும்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;'நீ எடுத்த முடிவு தப்புன்னு தெரியும்போது அதை திருத்திக்க வாய்ப்பு, கிடைக்காமலேயே போகலாம்'&lt;br /&gt;- 'மொழி' படத்தில் இருந்து...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(a reminder for my friends, in my way...)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5881785895908547782?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5881785895908547782/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=5881785895908547782' title='0 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என்னடா இவன் எதோ ரெண்டு மாசம் vacation போய்ட்டு ப்ரேக் எடுத்திட்டு வந்திருக்கான் நினைக்கிறீங்களா? எனக்குத்தான் தெரியும் நான் எவ்ளோ ப்ரேக் ப்ரேக்காகி வந்திருக்கேன்னு.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இந்த இரண்டு மாசத்துல எங்கே நான் தொலைந்துபோனேன்னு எனக்கே தெரியல. இப்ப மறுபடியும் ஐதராபாத். நிறைய வேதனைகள் நிறைய மாற்றங்களுடன்...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இததான் பெரியவங்க அந்த காலத்துலேயே என்ன சொல்லி இருக்காங்கன்னா&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;"தீதும் நன்றும் பிறர்தர வாரா&lt;br /&gt;நோதலும் தணிதலும் அவற்றோர் அன்ன"&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I thought of reanalysing myself but never remembered when i analysed myself before... :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-5799250477380976246?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/5799250477380976246/comments/default' title='Post 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The most thrilling experience is with the bunch of Pakistanis who sat next to me in Dubai airport and opened a talk. 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மழைத்துளிகளாய் &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;உன்மெளன வாழ்த்துக்கள் முத்தமிட்டு நனைத்திட&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;சில்லிய மணலில் மெல்லிய மண்வாசனையில்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;அயர்ந்து உறங்கும் &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;என்இனிய நீண்டநாள்!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;இந்திய இரவு 12:00 மணிக்கு ஆரம்பித்து அமேரிக்க இரவு 11:59 முடிந்த என் நீண்ட பிறந்தநாளை ஒரு கவிதை கொண்டும் என் நண்பர்களின் வாழ்த்துக்கள் கொண்டும் சிறப்பிக்கிறேன்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:78%;"&gt;-கார்த்திகேயன்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-2131967427458283045</id><published>2006-10-29T09:11:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-10-30T22:21:17.338+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tamil cinema'/><title type='text'>வல்லவன் -  blog விமர்சனம்</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;முடிஞ்சா மதன்ஸ் திரைப்பார்வை ஸ்டைல படிங்க, முடியலன்னா சாதாரணமாவே படிங்க... சிம்பு கோவிச்சுக்க மாட்டார்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;வல்லவன் - சிம்பு தன்னை வல்லவன்னு நிரூபிக்க முதன்முதலா டைரக்ட் பண்ணியிருக்காரு. இதுல பாத்தீங்கன்னா... அவரு நம்மகிட்ட வல்லவன் நிரூபிக்கறதவிட நயந்தாரா, ரீமாசென், சந்தியாகிட்ட மன்மதன்னு நிரூபிக்கறதுலேயே குறியா இருந்திருக்காருன்னா அவரு எந்தளவு இந்த படத்த வெற்றிப்படமா ஆக்கனும்னு உழைச்சிருக்கார்னு நீங்க புரிஞ்சுக்கனும்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இதுவரைக்கும் டயலாக் பேசுறேன்கிற பேர்ல கையை சுத்தி சுத்தி பார்க்கவந்த ஆடியன்ஸ் தலய சுத்த வச்ச சிம்பு இதுல டைரக்ட் செய்யறேன்கிற பேர்ல காமிராவையே சுத்தி சுத்தி நம்ம மண்டைய பயங்கரமா சுத்த வைச்சிருக்கிறாரு.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ரீமாசென் சைக்கோவா இல்ல எல்லாப் பொண்ணுங்ககிட்டயும் அடிவாங்கற சிம்பு சைக்கோவான்னு அவன் அவன் இங்க மண்டைய பிச்சுக்க, இந்த படத்துக்கு டிக்கெட் வாங்கி மூணு மணிநேரம் பார்க்கற நீங்கதான்டா சைக்கோன்னு சிம்பு க்ளைமாக்ஸ்ல புரிய வைக்கிறது, தமிழ் சினிமா வரலாற்றிலேயே முதல்முறைன்னுகூட சொல்லலாம். வல்லவன்... He&lt;br /&gt;knows what to do...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5227/884/400/vallavan160906_164.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இப்ப நடிப்புக்கு வருவோம், "ஒரு ஸ்டூடண்ட்டா ஒரு நண்பனா ஒரு பல்லனா ஒரு ஹீரோவா நம்ம சிம்பு பல வேடங்களில் வந்து தன் நடிப்புத்திறனை அழகாக வெளிப்படுத்தியுள்ளார். வல்லவன் - மன்மதனை மிஞ்சியவன்" அப்டீன்னு சன் டீவி திரைவிமர்சனத்துல தன்னைபத்தி சொல்லனும்னு சிம்பு இந்த படத்துல பயங்கரமா முயற்சி பண்ணியிருக்காரு. ஆனா அதுல பாத்தீங்கன்னா 25 வருட தேய்ஞ்சு போன கதையில இவர் பேசுற பஞ்ச் டயலாக்கும் அழுவற சீன்ல இவர் பண்ற ஓவர் ஆக்டிங்கும் அடடா தீபாவளி அதுவுமா இந்தபடத்துக்கா வந்தோம்னு நிறைய பேற அழவச்சிருப்பது அவர் திறமைய காட்டுது.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இந்த படத்துல முக்கியமான விசேஷம் என்னான்னா சாதரணமா பாட்டுக்குத்தான் தம் அடிக்க வெளியே போவாங்க, ஆனா இந்த படத்துல வர பில்டப் சீன் அதாவது சிம்புவோட மூக்கு காது வாய் அப்புறம் அவர் நொண்டி நொண்டி நடந்து வர சீன்லயே பல பேர் வெளியே போய் தம்மடிச்சிட்டு வந்து கரெக்டா படத்த சண்டையில இருந்து பார்க்கறது ரொம்ப&lt;br /&gt;ஆச்சர்யமான விஷயம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;கமல், ரஜினிய போல மட்டும் நடிக்காம தெலுங்கு பட ரைட்ஸ்சுக்கு அலையா அலைஞ்சுகிட்டு இருக்கும் நம்ம விஜய்ய போல அங்கங்க படத்துல நடிச்சு விஜய்க்கு கடும் போட்டியா உருவெடுத்திருக்காரு சிம்பு. பாவம் விஜய், ஏற்கனவே ஜெயம் ரவிக்கிட்ட தெலுங்கு பட ரைட்ஸ்சுக்கு போட்டி, இப்ப அவர் பண்ற ஒன்னு ரெண்டு ஸ்டைலுக்கும் சிம்புகிட்ட இருந்து போட்டி வந்திருக்கிறதுனால ரொம்ப நொந்துபோய் இருக்கிறதா எல்லாரும் சொல்றாங்க&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ரோட்டோரம் சர்க்கஸ் வித்தை காட்றவன் எங்கே கூட்டம் கலைஞ்சிடுமோங்கற பயத்துல விதவிதமா சாகசம் செய்வானாம், அதேபோல நம்ம சிம்பு எங்கே மக்கள் படம் ஆரம்பிச்ச உடனே எழுஞ்சி போய்டுவாங்களோன்ற பயத்துல கண்டதையும் கலந்தடிச்சி ஒரு நடிப்பை வெளிப்படுத்தியிருப்பது ரொம்ப எருமை, ஓ சாரி அருமை.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;தமிழர்களின் கலாசாரத்தையும் பண்புகளையும் சிறிதும் விரசமில்லாமல் அழகா படம்பிடித்து காட்டியதற்காக எல்லாரும் சேர்ந்து சிம்பு தலையில ரெண்டு கொட்டு கொட்டலாம். ஏம்பா எங்கப்பா அந்த மருத்துவர்? நான் மனநல மருத்துவர சொல்லல, எல்லா இடத்திலயும் தமிழ்ல தான்&lt;br /&gt;எழுதியிக்கனும்னு சண்டபோடுவாரே எதோஒரு மாக்கா கட்சி தலிவரு, அவரு கண்ணுக்குல்லாம் இந்த படம் தெரியாதோ? படத்தோட பேர் மட்டும் தமிழ்ல இருந்தா போதும் படம் எப்டிவேணுமானாலும் இருக்கலாம்னு நினைச்சிருப்பாரோ?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;வல்லவன் - he knows what to do, only with Nayanthara &amp;amp; Reemasen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-2131967427458283045?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/2131967427458283045/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=2131967427458283045' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2131967427458283045'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2131967427458283045'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog.html' title='வல்லவன் -  blog விமர்சனம்'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-2479061675177608597</id><published>2006-10-22T00:10:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-10-30T22:28:11.499+05:30</updated><title type='text'>கார்த்திகை ஐயனும் தீப ஒளியும்</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;கார்த்திகை + ஐயன் = கார்த்திகேயன் =&gt; Karthigeyan =&gt; Karthikeyan... Karthik&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;தீப + ஒளி = தீபவொளி =&gt; தீபாவளி =&gt; Deepavali =&gt; DeepaWali... Diwali&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;இப்படித்தான் வார்த்தைகள் உருமாறி போகின்றதோ?...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-2479061675177608597?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/2479061675177608597/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=2479061675177608597' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2479061675177608597'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/2479061675177608597'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/blog-post.html' title='கார்த்திகை ஐயனும் தீப ஒளியும்'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-6975550049088813008</id><published>2006-10-14T09:29:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-10-24T09:31:08.766+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Let me be - SMK</title><content type='html'>Only very few people takes hobby in a professional way, and here's my gr8 friend who made his hobby 'singing' and entertaining. Hear to his latest song that rocks...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://odeo.com/flash/audio_player_gray.swf" quality="high" width="322" height="54" name="odeo_player_gray" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="always" wmode="transparent"  type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashvars="audio_id=2218721&amp;audio_duration=228.963&amp;valid_sample_rate=true&amp;external_url=http://media.odeo.com/6/5/5/Let_Me_Be_-_Kaitki_s_Version_10-14-2006.mp3" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy Birthday Jack!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rewind: I still remember that i quoted my hobby as working with digital music in softwares such as GoldWave, ACID express along with Jack, One of my reason for getting selected in TCS :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-6975550049088813008?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/6975550049088813008/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=6975550049088813008' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6975550049088813008'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/6975550049088813008'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/let-me-be-smk_14.html' title='Let me be - SMK'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-3312676498301940390</id><published>2006-10-10T00:35:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-10-10T00:42:10.530+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='world clock'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='widgets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tips'/><title type='text'>The World Clock</title><content type='html'>We all have friends in differenct locations of the world. Here is a small tip to have the clocks of the worlds cities @ your desktop so you may call them for voice chat at the wrong time :) ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/interesting-story.html"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5227/884/400/netherland.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. Go to &lt;a href="http://widgets.yahoo.com/"&gt;http://widgets.yahoo.com/&lt;/a&gt;, download and install it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2. You will find many useful widgets in the 'My Widgets' folder&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3. To get the world clock showing different cities's time around the world, you should download 'World Clock Pro' widget&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4. Go to &lt;a href="http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=36128"&gt;http://widgets.yahoo.com/gallery/view.php?widget=36128&lt;/a&gt; and download it&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;5. Double Click on the 'World Clock Pro.widget' to open the analog clock. Also have a look at the license.txt (thats a good practise we never follow :)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;6. Now a single click on the clock opens 3 options, clicking on the + sign opens a new clock (expect a delay)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5227/884/400/chennai.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just play around to get what you want in it...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-3312676498301940390?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/3312676498301940390/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=3312676498301940390' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3312676498301940390'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/3312676498301940390'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/world-clock.html' title='The World Clock'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1895685550129977337</id><published>2006-10-08T10:23:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-10-08T11:30:47.911+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='code search'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='google'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='கூகுள்'/><title type='text'>google code search</title><content type='html'>சரி நம்ம கூகுள்கிட்ட இருந்து புதுசா வந்திருக்கே, நம்ம ப்லாக்ல போடறதுக்கு முன்னாடி யாராவது எழுதியிக்காங்களான்னு பார்த்தா, வந்த இரண்டே நாள்ல ஒரு உலகமே அதப்பத்தி எழுதி இருக்கு :-#{0%&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இதுல &lt;a href="http://anildigital.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-code-search.html"&gt;இவன் &lt;/a&gt;என்னடான்னா 'கூகுல் கோட் ஸர்ச்ல எனக்கு பிடிச்சது ரெகுலர் எக்ஸ்பிரஷ்சன்னு' சொல்றான் (டேய் அப்டீன்னா என்னாடா?), &lt;a href="http://deathbycomet.com/2006/10/05/some-of-your-db-passwords-are-belong-to-us/"&gt;இவன் &lt;/a&gt;என்னடான்னா 'நான் பாஸ்வேர்ட் கோட கண்டுபிடிசிட்டேனேன் கத்துறான்'. இதெல்லாம்கூட பரவாயில்ல, இவனோட &lt;a href="http://blog.predius.org/2006/10/05/fucks-per-source-package-and-license/"&gt;ஆராய்ச்சிய &lt;/a&gt;நான் எப்படி சொல்றதுன்னே தெரியல.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இதோப்பாருடா கூகுளுக்கு வந்த வாழ்வ?&lt;br /&gt;நான் பார்த்து வளர்ந்த பையன் (சத்தியமாங்க, நான் ஸ்கூல்ல படிக்கிற காலத்திலேயே பார்த்திருக்கேன் :) என்னமா முன்னேறியிருக்கான்...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.google.com/codesearch"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5227/884/400/codesearch.0.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;கொசுறு செய்தி(விஜய் ஸ்டைல்ல):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ண்னா... ஆனா நம்ம கூகுள் தல என்ன முடிவெடுத்திருக்காருன்னா சும்மா வாராவாரம் ஒரு வித்தைய காட்றத நிறுத்திட்டு, எல்லாத்தையும் ஒன்னா சேர்த்து (விஜய் எப்படி தெலுங்கு படத்தோட காப்பிரைட்ஸ்ஸ ஒன்னா வாங்குறாரோ, அதேப்போல) கலக்கலாம்னு முடிவு பண்ணி இருக்காரு. அத இங்க இங்க... &lt;a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-google6oct06,0,945092.story?track=tothtml"&gt;இங்க &lt;/a&gt;படிங்க னா...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1895685550129977337?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1895685550129977337/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1895685550129977337' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1895685550129977337'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1895685550129977337'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/google-code-search.html' title='google code search'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-1131408484099963015</id><published>2006-10-02T09:10:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-10-02T09:21:37.554+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='widgets'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='tech'/><title type='text'>Interesting story...</title><content type='html'>Sometime in early 2000 Arlo Rose came up with an idea for a cool little application. It would use XML to structure images, and a scriptable language, like Perl, in such a way that someone who knew the basics of Perl could put together cool little mini-applications. The goal was that these mini-applications would just sit around on your desktop looking pretty, while providing useful feedback.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;All he ever really wanted was to have a cool looking battery monitor and something that told him the weather, but he knew the possibilities for something like this could potentially be limitless.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fast forward a couple of years when Arlo began working with Perry Clarke at Sun Microsystems. Over lunch one afternoon Arlo gave Perry the basics of this dream app. Perry suggested that JavaScript would be far easier for people to digest. He was right. It's the basis for Flash's ActionScript, and Adobe's scripting engine for Photoshop. Of all the choices, JavaScript made the most sense. Shortly after that lunch, the two began to spend their nights and weekends making this thing a reality.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Look down to look what it is in my desktop...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://widgets.yahoo.com" target=_new&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5227/884/400/VK%20desktop.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-1131408484099963015?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/1131408484099963015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=1131408484099963015' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1131408484099963015'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/1131408484099963015'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/10/interesting-story.html' title='Interesting story...'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-115877353783359872</id><published>2006-09-20T23:02:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-09-20T23:59:18.440+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blog'/><title type='text'>'Windows Live' Writer</title><content type='html'>I am just taking my blogging to the next step with my new tool - Live Writer &amp; Blogger2 &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger2/5227/884/400/live_writer_mine.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;நம்மல சோம்பேறி ஆக்குறதுல கூகுலுக்கும் மைக்ரோசாப்டுக்கும்தான் என்னே சுகம்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ஆனாலும் கூகுலுக்கும் மைக்ரோசாப்டுக்கும் இன்னும் சண்ட தீரல போல, வார்த்தையை மட்டும் தான் ப்ளாக்கு அனுப்ப முடியும், படத்த அனுப்ப முடியலன்னு லைவ் ரைட்டர் அழுவுது&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;ஆயிரம்தான் வித்தை காட்டினாலும் உருப்படியா எதையாவது எழுதுடா படவா'ன்னு நீங்க சொல்றது எனக்கு கேட்குது :) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;அமேரிக்காவ பத்திதான் தெரியாதத எழுதலாம்னு இருக்கேன், ஒ.கே'ன்னு சொல்றவங்க கையை தூக்குங்க.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ex: நம்ம ஊர்ல மெர்சிடஸ் வச்சிருக்கவனுக்கு உள்ள மதிப்பு இங்க BMW பைக் வச்சிருக்கவனுக்கு இருக்காம்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-115877353783359872?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/115877353783359872/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=115877353783359872' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115877353783359872'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115877353783359872'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/09/windows-live-writer.html' title='&apos;Windows Live&apos; Writer'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-115867941391131270</id><published>2006-09-19T20:46:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-09-19T20:53:33.913+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='DigiCam'/><title type='text'>Make every shot a Powershot</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6196/436/1600/camera-inhand.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6196/436/320/camera-inhand.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Alas..., i got a new digicam, Canon Powershot A540&lt;br /&gt;I was not aware that it has so much features until i get &lt;a href="http://www.dcresource.com/reviews/canon/powershot_a540-review"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt; :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-115867941391131270?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/115867941391131270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=115867941391131270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115867941391131270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115867941391131270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/09/make-every-shot-powershot.html' title='Make every shot a Powershot'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-115707301704909360</id><published>2006-09-01T06:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-09-01T06:50:32.406+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Ajax'/><title type='text'>Back to the game - AJAX</title><content type='html'>Rediffmail is one of the first indian company to implement Ajax in an international style.&lt;br /&gt;They have done what Microsoft is striving hard to implement in their hotmail.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you forget about the ads and its resemblance to outlook, bringing out such an application to live is simply gr8. I would say they have beaten Microsoft in a way.&lt;br /&gt;Anybody know who implemented the new look to rediff?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The phonetic support to send mails in regional languages simply rocks.&lt;br /&gt;Kudos to Rediff... have a look @ the sneak look @ the ajax-rediffmail below&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6196/436/1600/rediff.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 428px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 405px" height="422" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6196/436/400/rediff.jpg" width="400" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you guys want to know about ajax, refer &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php"&gt;&lt;em&gt;here&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-115707301704909360?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/115707301704909360/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=115707301704909360' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115707301704909360'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115707301704909360'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/09/back-to-game-ajax.html' title='Back to the game - AJAX'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-115585089515634121</id><published>2006-08-18T03:06:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-09-01T06:48:19.170+05:30</updated><title type='text'>Out of my Nation</title><content type='html'>I was all set to go America, one of the dream nations for many Indians.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just had two reasons to go to US&lt;br /&gt;1. As a S/W engineer, its an implied rule to go to some onsite after 2 years of IT service in an Indian MNC Or else who would need to face this question 'Ennada Rendu varusham aagiyum innum velinaadu pogaliyaa?'&lt;br /&gt;Onsite means some place away from india, may be Uganda or sudan... who cares? but u need to be out of india :-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Ofcourse money, seeing your payslip in dollars...Bingooo. Though not for me...but for my future.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But never expect these companies would take you in their palms and drop in US. Its hell a&lt;br /&gt;lot of process and follow-ups you should do to get things done.&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;13th Aug 2006&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't expect my first international journey would turn to be one of the worst journey in&lt;br /&gt;my life. It all started with the usual delay of Air India (5hrs delayed) that left me in Newark @ 11 in the night missing my connecting flight @ 8&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was given a receipt to take another Continental flight in the next morning @ Terminal A.&lt;br /&gt;The next day got more worser when i discovered that the Continental flights to Atlanta&lt;br /&gt;operates in Terminal C and not in A. To go from one terminal to another u need to get the&lt;br /&gt;Air-Train that runs on top of the airport (as this airport is 10 times bigger than our metro&lt;br /&gt;airports).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It got more worser at Terminal C when i heard it the flight CO-1185 doesn't belongs to&lt;br /&gt;Continental Airlines. I need to run there to get the info abt this flight which is Delta&lt;br /&gt;Airlines operating @ Terminal B&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;oooooooooof... when i reached there, i had just 15 mins for take-off and a big queue before me. On explaining my emergency to the Delta personnel there, i got an immediate entry to the check-in counter. After checking my receipt and the passport, the lady at the counter said&lt;br /&gt;'you have no seats booked' and asked me to get out of the way for others.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was just blown for a minute. 'Oh my God'&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I asked the Delta personnel to help me out in finding my name again. She checked my name in all the flights and found it in 7'O clock one to Atlanta. 'ooooooooof' was the word i&lt;br /&gt;uttered then.&lt;br /&gt;---------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;17th Aug 2006&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Atlanta: Iam now at the outskirts of Atlanta working for a retailer on behalf of this MNC&lt;br /&gt;I found only cars and trucks moving in those broad clean roads, not even a bike until the&lt;br /&gt;third day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Veg Burger, Fish Sandwich, French Fries, Onion Rings were some of the items that filled my&lt;br /&gt;stomach for the first two days in my hotel stay.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now i have moved to an apartment(do not think of the indian one, this is different) with one of my colleague here (Bharani) who supported me a lot in getting there&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There were some gossips that the project would not survive six months here... I don't know what happens next, iam just getting the transition - my work&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-115585089515634121?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/115585089515634121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=115585089515634121' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115585089515634121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115585089515634121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/08/out-of-my-nation.html' title='Out of my Nation'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-115493065329398104</id><published>2006-08-07T11:30:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-08-07T11:34:13.310+05:30</updated><title type='text'>அதான் அதான்.. அதே...தான்</title><content type='html'>&lt;p&gt;அதான் அதான்..                 அதே...தான்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ஆன்சைட்னா                      யு.எஸ் தான்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;யு.எஸ்க்குப் போய்           புதுசா சட்ட வாங்கி   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ஆபிசுக்கு போட்டுட்டு   போய் அமர்க்களம் பண்ணி&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ப்ளென்ல ஏறி                     ஊரசுத்தி பார்த்து&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;அதான் அதான்..                அதே...தான்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;எனக்கு யு.எஸ் விசா    கிடைச்சுடுச்சு தான்&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;டொய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்ய்... டொங்&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-115493065329398104?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/115493065329398104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=115493065329398104' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115493065329398104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115493065329398104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/08/blog-post_07.html' title='அதான் அதான்.. அதே...தான்'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7246955.post-115450325943661854</id><published>2006-08-02T12:48:00.000+05:30</published><updated>2006-08-05T16:45:22.620+05:30</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='கவிதை'/><title type='text'>தேவதை</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt; தேனூறிய பலாச்சுளையின் இனிமையைப் போன்றே&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;விழுதுகளின் கொடியாய் உன்பார்வை படர&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;பற்றற்ற என்உள்ளம் பற்றியது - உன்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ரகசியம் காக்கும் மெளனஇதழ்களின் வார்த்தையிலே!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;மேகத்தின் வாழ்வதனை கரைக்கின்ற மழையாய்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ஸ்வரத்தின் நாதத்தில் எழுகின்ற இசையாய்&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;வற்றாத என்இதயத்தில் உன்நினைவுகள் பவனிவர&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;ரிதமோடு இதமாய் என்னுள் நீ!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;-கார்த்திகேயன்&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The masterpiece revealed...an end to all unless she realises...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7246955-115450325943661854?l=karthigeyan.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/feeds/115450325943661854/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7246955&amp;postID=115450325943661854' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115450325943661854'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7246955/posts/default/115450325943661854'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://karthigeyan.blogspot.com/2006/08/blog-post.html' title='தேவதை'/><author><name>Karthigeyan</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/00936700705343613369</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='24' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_sHnB75oERr8/TOxbatwsYFI/AAAAAAAAFyc/HswD05v-Cao/S220/IMG_0275%2B-%2BCopy.JPG'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry></feed>
