LET US SWITCH IT OFF

Dear Friends,
We read so much about the global warming and we are trying to reduce the warm level(???!!!). Every nation is doing several awareness programmes.

We see that the habit of switching off the power in a particular time for few minutes is a recent trend in acting against global warming.

Let us take an oath now. Let us switch off the power every day for ten minutes. If every one of us do this regiously then we could very well save so much of power and save the globe as well.

SHALL WE START SWITCHING OFF FROM TODAY?

EERAM - WATER WATER EVERYWHERE

It was a Sunday evening. I had a call from my friend asking me whether we could watch a movie. It was long time since I saw a movie in theatre. The last movie I saw was Monsters Vs Aliens. So I thought I would go for it.
Since it was around 5.30 we have decided to watch it at the nearby theatre (RAKKI). The last movie I saw in that theatre was ALAIPAYUDHE. I still remmeber the insects that were watching movie along with us in the same seat (!). But it was renovated now.
We had two options. "eeram" and some other movie. We went to a movie called "eeram". We were expecting a different movie since the trailer was good.
As the movie began, it was mind blowing. I never saw a Tamil cinema thriller like this. The story started as an investigation story and went further as a story about ghost. It was quite thrilling. If you ask about the story, there is nothing so big. Its the same revenge taking ghost.
At the same time, its a feast for eyes and ears. Each and every frame was worked out carefully. It was awesome. The art was so good. the cinemotography was too god. Each and every frame speaks the story and gets the mood .Right from the colours, tone, frame composition, props everthing was so good.And the music was too good. Not even one song is like stuffing. It gels with the story lines as it moves. The music for the songs and the background music were too good and they were gelling so well. I did not realise such a style of music after Pidhamagan. There is a smooth flow and transition.
The story shuttles between current and flashback, which is enjoyable in a thriller. I still remember BOOGIEMAN where the scenes will change weirdly. It used to shuttle between inside and outside a house.
Adhi who played a cop role did his job. The physical gesture and attitude was perfect. He has shown the difference between a college student and the cop. The character was too much suitable for him.
Nandha who is seen as a soft boy in the earlier movies has come as a soft villain and his work is increased towards the end. The director cleverly played the story in such a way that Adhi gets more importance in the first half and Nandha gets it in the second half. I hope that Nandha gets a good break through after this movie. He might get registered like Jeeva in KAAKA KAAKA.
Only flaw in the movie I feel is the suspense reveals in the beginning of second half itself. The movie would have been even more better if that was kept secret some how.
This movie is a milestone for Tamil cinema for sure. After a long time I had a very good movie watching experience.

HEAVEN ON EARTH

It was May 15th 2009. I was coming out of a long meeting with my client at cenotaph road. As I took my bike out from the parking area, I started planning for my weekend. I was riding on the busy road with a very pleasant mood (Obviously due to the outcome of the meeting).

Though I had to go through the busiest roads of Chennai to reach my place, it was a food ride for me luckily. The traffic was as crowded as it used to be always, but amazingly it was flowing freely. Probably due to weekend happiness in everyone there on the roads I guess. I normally used to curse the same crowd when it gets blocked due to various reasons (I didn’t realize that I am a part of the same traffic!)

As I was passing through Mugappair,I saw a very small lightning at the far distance I could see on the sky. My mind started making its own music notes (It happens to me when I am so happy). My accelerator started getting more load on it. And the speedometer is slowly raising its needle to 60 kmph.

As I was crossing golden flats, I had some cool dots on my hands. It was the holy, heavenly raindrops. It started drizzling. Now my music notes started to transform to a new avatar. The new music was playing in my mind.

I felt that the heaven is open for me now. As soon as I crossed Amabttur Industrial Estate, the heaven was completely open. It started pouring. The roads were cleaned without any Corporation Employees (Thanks to nature!). My bike has got some free water wash (he he, even myself). That was the happiest moment in that hectic week.

My bike was giving me me a smooth ride even though the roads were covered with layers of waters. I took off my helmet wiser and enjoying the kisses of nature. As I reached home I was completely drenched. I was standing outside and enjoying the rain though I reached my home. My mother saw me through the window and asking me to come inside.

I murmured to myself,
“HEAVEN ON EARTH!!!”

ANSWER THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS!!!

We do think that happiness is the ultimate meaning of a complete life.
We learn a lot to gain some money to be happy. When we earn money, we start thinking whether that is enough for us. Then we start looking at avenues to earn more and more. Then we get lot of things and feel that we get what we wanted to. Then we start thinking about going beyond that. We go for luxurious things. When we get it, we go for even more luxurious things. And after getting whatever we want, we start thinking of relaxing and enjoying the peace of mind. But do we realize that we had lost so many years and did lot of sacrifice to earn happiness? Happiness for a short time in the second half of our life is there but it’s lost in the first half.

We think lot of things in life about ethics. Whatever is ethics for you may not be followed or agreed by another person. And both you and that person are happy with whatever we do.

What is the need for ethics? What is the meaning of ethics? Why is required? When we follow the ethics we feel so happy since our self ego is pampered. But what is self ego? When the other person does unethical thing his self ego is pampered. So what is the difference?

You feel happy with being so integrated to yourself and when a thief is getting a good amount in his assignment he feels so happy. So what is the difference? Why should that be considered as unethical? What is correct for you is not correct for some one else. It is seen right from culture, habits, business and so on. So how do you say that whatever you do is correct? The life is completely full of unethical things if you watch it constantly. We learn lot of ethical things and then we breach them in the practical life saying that the society is corrupted. You frame the society. Collection of you and me are the society. So that means you and me are corrupted. And how come we say that we are ethical? When we go by unethical things and we say that thieves are unethical guys, that are meaningless.

Please look into the meanings in life. Whenever you do something, please see to that no one is getting affected. If there is some one is getting affected, then please try to find a solution for it.

Please come out of all the presumptions and start looking at things with naked eyes.

FLOWERS IN A CYCLE

Flowers are,
Picked by men,
Presented to women,
People go to cemetery after death,
Flowers lie on the cemetery.

INDIA SHINING?

I still remember the India shines campaign by BJP Government. Today we cold see that there are lots of companies cut their high paid employee salaries. For example, there was an airline which reduced its employee salary to a large extent. Person who was getting 2 lakh per month is now getting only the 10% of it. Yes, he gets only Rs. 20,000/- per month. Why should this happen? Where is the problem? Which is the route cause for the troubles that we face today?

I could see a huge development in different industries. There are lots of opportunities for the nation to grow. The even though there is a huge financial crisis across the world, India and China is growing a lot.

But people in India feel the heat in fact. We could realize that the prices are hiked to the sky. The middle class lifestyle has become so hard. All the products are not reachable to all. Even though there is a recession in real estate industry, people could not even afford an independent house with half a ground land. Where are we then? Where is the growth? Who is growing at what level? Is the growth true? We need to know the route cause for the issues that are happening. Otherwise everybody will think that India is shining but it will be gold in reality.

We do work a lot for financial growth. But we do not feel the value for the growth. Why should that happen? It happens, because everyone among us thinks that we work a lot and we are upto the expected level so that we should get more. Even if we work less it will bring prosperity when it is a smart work. When we work, we need to keep in mind that we should reduce the cost as much as possible and increase the profits. So please work effectively as well as economically. When we work economically, then we will get more profits to the company. At the same time, we save a lot for the nation as a whole. It might be looking very meager at individual level, but the accumulated amount of savings could be a huge number when we work towards it.

Let us work economically and save money and energy. And let India shine!!!

GLOBAL WARMING! DO WE REALIZE?

I think there is no need to give an introduction of global warming. Everybody in this world is aware that our globe is getting warmer and warmer and warmer. But what do we do to stop or reduce global warming? Are we really environment friendly?

In our daily life, we come across lot of things. We do hear, see and read lots of things, but we do not keep them in our mind. When we listen something or read something, we think that we need to stop global warming.

We do understand that we are wasting or over utilizing the energy and the natural resources that we have, but at the same time we don’t pursue to stop that and save nature. So please notice few things and then proceed in the future so that we could save the nature and the future of us.

Fuel – If there is no transportation in the world then the world never moves and never grows. When we go out, we prefer to reach the destination faster, comfortable and safer. If there are only one or two people go together they can go on a bike so that they could go faster as well as save the fuel to a large extent. It is even better to take up a public transport mode to reach your destination. That might save even more. Your purse will remain healthy, but you should be alert to retain the healthy thick purse. Beware of pickpockets. It might sound bad for lot of us, but when you actually practice you can feel the difference.

There is one issue that might come is the condition of public transport vehicles. They should be maintained properly and they should be designed in such a way that a person will get interest to get into the vehicle. I would say the Chennai road transportation is better now-a-days. I could seethe difference between vehicles before 5-6 years and the present. But at the same time they need to be maintained properly. Maintainance shits sometimes. The corporation should take care of the maintainance of the vehicles. If there is an air-conditioned bus is there in a particular route, that needs to be maintained perfectly and that should be operated continuously in a proper time. Then a higher official of a corporate would like to get into it. Thus it reduces one car in the city traffic. So directly it reduces the fuel consumption of that particular vehicle and indirectly it saves the fuel of the other vehicles on the road since they get a free space and use less amount of fuel to ride on their way. It reduces the air and sound pollution to a large extent.

We can walk for the nearby places instead of taking a bike to the next street to show off that we got a great vehicle. In fact, there is nothing going to happen if you show off your vehicle. You save the time of course but you need to understand that this is affecting your life to some extent in terms of cost, health and social responsibility.

Gas – people talk a lot about the hike of gas pricing, but at the same time why there is a hike. The government is not going to hike the price unnecessarily. When there is an incremental cost of providing it to us, they are hiking. And if there is not subsidiary from the government for the gas manufacturing companies, the prices are going to be somewhere. When we consume gas, let’s take it as a promise that we will reduce the amount of consumption. The way we cook matters a lot. Friends! Please keep everything ready for cooking and then switch on the stove. Please take it as a promise that we will have to save at least a minimum amount of gas. You can feel the difference in your pockets in the monthly spend if you do so.
Electricity – we live in a modern world which is connected with technology. We do use lot of electricity everyday. Electricity plays a vital role in our life on a daily basis. But are we using it properly? The answer hurts.

The electricity is wasted in lot of situations. For example, we do switch off the TV using remote but please remember still it takes a very minimum amount of electricity to keep the remote sensor on. It’s only about TV, but each and every gadget we use takes power. When there is no use of some gadget, why should that take even the small amount of power? It might looks like very meager amount at individual level. Please realize that there are crores and crores of people are there in India. When it accumulates, it matters a lot.

So please let’s realize the situation and save energy!
Also the world!!!