The IPL Phenomenon

The IPL has taken over the average Indian household. I'm so relieved that I don't get to hear them sidey serial soundtracks. I hear its making good money and has everyone young and old rivetted to their seats. It has created a whole new audience for itself and they are certainly getting their monies worth.

I support the Chennai Superkings and the Deccan Chargers for obvious reasons. One team has been doing well, the other is just getting into the groove. The Aussies are ruling over proceedings here - Hayden, Gilly, Symonds and my personal favourite, Mike Hussey. All of them have put in atleast one blitzkrieg performance so far. I used to love to watch Michael Bevan play in the death overs for the Aussies and Huss has taken over that slot. Stud players both of them and whats more both are left handed batsmen just like me.

Good Entertainment all around. Go IPL !!

PS: I have Deccan Chargers sticker on my bike . Woohoo !! Gilly is God ! :)

Tidbits of the last few days

Its getting real close the finishing lap. I have my last two semester exams on the 28th and 30th. Project Viva will be anytime this weekend. So its been real hectic, running up and down to college (which is 23 kms from home),last minute editing of the report etc. < April 14th was Tamil New years day. So PUTHANDHU NALVAZHTUKKAL to all the tams, WISHU HAPPY VISHU to all the mallus. It also happened to be my bike's 5th birthday. Boy do they get old on you !! LOL

I'm making a yearbook for my class. Most of the work is done and should be ready by the end of April. So thats something that lots of people are looking forward to. After all memories and each other are the only good things that we will take back from MGIT.

For all those people who believe black and white movies rule, this next piece should reassure them. Sun TV is showing Classic movies at 10.30 every night. So I got to see some amazing movies starring Sivaji, MGR, Muthuraman, Savitri, Gemini Ganesan, Padmini etc. It was certainly a feast for me. Movies like Thillana Mohanambal, Galatta Kalyanam, Deva Magan, Navaratri(Sivaji plays 9 roles) and a host of other movies totally kept me occupied through the nights.
K. Balachander's super hit THILLU MULLU starring Rajinikanth is one of the funniest movies of the 80s. It was even remade in Hindi into Golmaal with Amol Palekar

Apart from watching movies, I'm also writing scripts for a few shows that I have in mind and maybe something that can be made into a full length film if I get enough time to finish it. Other than this, nothing exciting happening in life I must say. Porkalam Angae from Thenali is playing on Winamp these days.

Thoughts running around in my head !

Tho Chalun from Border has become my latest favourite song. Leaving MGIT, Leaving Hyderabad. I'm going to miss my room the most I think inclusive of my bed, my Nirvana posters, my computer. I have the softest mattress in my circle, most of my friends will vouch for that. Two months from now, god knows which spongeless mattress I'll be forced to rest my body upon.



Had an amazing Farewell party at Bottles and Chimneys, danced for 3 hours straight, on boots. Ankles hurt so much that I could not perform to my best in the football tournament the next day. Lesson learnt, I'll dance only in sneakers from now on. The DJ was one painful fellow, playing few decent songs and loads of crap with the "dichik dichik" beat. But we danced nevertheless. Clicked about a gazillion photographs. At the end, I was given the title of Mr.Attitude. Is that a good thing or a hidden insult? Well, I got a clock for free so I guess its ok.

Wrote the last internal of my engineering life. Almost done with my project. So all good on the academic front, except I have no bloody clue what is there in the subjects that I have this sem. Entrepreneurship is manageable, but Industrial Electronics ? <Feels a shiver crawl down his spine> I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Musings has two of my articles, thats a good thing.
I missed Nirvana, thats a bad thing.
But I was walking through the 7 star Taj Mahal Hotel in Mumbai in shorts and a Mood Indigo shirt that I flicked from an IITian friend at that very time. Some consolation atleast. Did I mention, I've been to six cities in the last 3 months ! Nice no. And at every single place that I went, I was so well taken care of that I didn't feel like coming back. Thanks Vindhya, Shekhar (Madras), Padmini Aunty (Pondicherry), Thatha, Paati & family (Bangalore, Mysore), Venkatraman mama, Shashank and Rajat (Bombay), Ram, Akshay and Phalgun (Ahmedabad).

New things that have caught my fancy-
Saturday trips to The Fresh store .
The Outlook magazine.
Carnatic Music.
Lazing around in my room and not going out unless absolutely required.
Watching bad telugu movies in theatres in the RTC X roads area with Pavan and Arun.
A.R.Rahman's not so famous songs.

Played holi after 3 years. Got hit by eggs. Blech !! Looked very Pink Pantherish for 2 -3 days. Its been raining(read drizzling heavily) in Hyderabad. So good weather, though it gets a little humid when it doesn't rain. But the heat approaches with wrath and fury. To escape this I'm making plans for May and June. Kolkata, Assam, and Himachal on the itinerary. I'm going alone as it stands now, let me know if you want to tag along. Will consider ;)

And for those who I haven't personally told, lets make it official. Aditya Narayanan has been admitted into NITIE and will be leaving for Bombay/Mumbai on the 18th of June.

So these are most of the thoughts that are running through my head at this moment, and Tho Chalun is still playing on Winamp. LOL