The 30 Question Tag

1)LAST MOVIE U SAW IN A THEATRE?
Jodhaa Akbar

2)WHAT BOOK ARE U READING?

Nothing – this week

3)FAVOURITE BOARD GAME?

Monopoly

4)FAVOURITE MAGAZINE?

Kumudam !!! I hate the look and feel of reader's digest. I like to read filmfare while travelling.

5)FAVOURITE SMELLS?

The smells of:

• Good food
  
• Coffee
  
• Mehendi
  
• Flowers
  
• Chocolate
  
• Man Vasanai (the first smell emanate from sand when rain hits earth)
  
• Sandalwood
  
• Scotch Whisky
  

6)FAVOURITE SOUNDS?

The sounds of:

• Birds chirping
  
• Good music
  
• Rain
  
• Waves on a beach
  
• Sounds made by kids (Kuzhal inithu, yaazh inithu enbar mazhalai sol kelar L )
  
• "Vrrr" sound in forest
  

7)WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD?

The look people give when you meet with some accident

8)WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN U WAKE?

What time is it?

9)FAVOURITE FASTFOOD PLACE?
Chennai – Drive-Inn Restaurent (thing of past now L)

10)FUTURE CHILD'S NAME?
Not applicable J

11)FINISH THIS STATEMENT—IF I HAD A LOT OF MONEY I'D…
…. roam Europe, Yacht stay, read more and explore more

12)DO U DRIVE FAST?
Yes

13)DO U SLEEP WITH A STUFFED ANIMAL?
I'm too old for that.

14)STORMS–COOL OR SCARY?

Cool, I don't want to be caught in storm anyday !!!

15)WHAT WAS YOUR FIRST CAR?
Honda City

16)FAVOURITE DRINK?
Chilled beer & H2O, fresh lemon soda

17)FINISH THIS STATEMENT-IF I HAD THE TIME I WOULD…
….travel a lot, relax

18)DO YOU EAT THE STEMS ON BROCCOLI?
I don't eat broccoli.

19)IF YOU COULD DYE YOUR HAIR ANY OTHER COLOUR, WHAT WOULD BE YOUR CHOICE?
Black Black Black !!!!!!!

20)NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT CITIES/TOWNS U HAVE LIVED IN?
Bangalore (3 years), Singapore (1 year)

21)FAVOURITE SPORTS TO WATCH?
F1, Tennis & Cricket

22)ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU?
Donno much about her, but sounds a lot like a good girl J

23)WHATS UNDER YOUR BED?
A/c Remote (under Pillow)

24)WOULD U LIKE TO BE BORN AS YOURSELF AGAIN?
I prefer that way

25)MORNING PERSON OR NIGHT OWL?
Neither, it depends on need

26)OVER EASY OR SUNNY SIDE UP?
Sunny Side Up

27)FAVOURITE PLACE TO RELAX?
My study room, long beaches …

28)FAVOURITE PIE?
Apple Pie

29)FAVOURITE ICECREAM FLAVOUR?
Anyday Choco-Vanilla combo

30)OF ALL THE PEOPLE U HAVE TAGGED, WHO IS THE MOST LIKELY TO RESPOND FIRST?
I tag:

Not tagging anyone L

Answer in One Word Tag

I picked up this tag from Priya's blog
as I had absolutely nothing better to do L

Yourself: Enthu
Your Partner: Remote
Your Hair: Black
Your Mother: Fond
Your Father: Angry
Your Favorite Item: Stocks
Your Dream Last Night: Children
Your Favorite Drink: Beer
Your Dream Car: Ferrari
Your Dream Home: Lakeside
The Room You Are In: Livingroom
Your Fear: Accident
Where Do You Want To Be In 10 Years: Retired
Who You Hung Out With Last: Friend
What You're Not: Cunning
Muffins: Chocolate
One of Your Wish List Items: Vacation
Time: 17:38 PM
Last Thing You Did: TV
What Are You Wearing: Shorts
Your Favorite Weather: Chill
Your Favorite Book: One?
Last Thing You Ate: True Nice
Your Mood: Lazy
Your Best Friends: Kanaksabai
What Are You Thinking About Right Now: Y V Reddt
Your Car: Honda City
Your Summer: Furnace
What's on your TV: Songs
What is your weather like: Furnace
When Is the Last Time You Laughed: while-ago
Your Relationship Status: Friendly

Titbits

1. Saw the hindi movie "Race" yesterday. What a great movie with non stop twists and turns.... I dont think any one could have guessed even 50% right. Why cant people nominate these kind of movie to Oscar :)

2. Greatly disappointed after some googling on climate change. There is a prediction that by 2050, potato and peanuts would not be available. Come on, i cant imagine :(

3. Saw Dasavatharam trailor in TV. Impressive indeed !!!

4. "Yenda Ratchasha" song from the tamil movie "Singakutti" is lovely and melodious. Janaki Iyer has sung the song really well.

I told you so....

Very few times, we get a chance to do this... My turn goes now... On April 1 Nifty was around 4700 levels and it had a non stop rally from 3rd april onwards to 5050 levels on april 24 !!!

Extracted from what i wrote on april 1 on this blog >>>>>

"Hence, my outlook for april month is consolidation and framing of intermediary bottom of Nifty around 4550 to 4650 levels and Sensex around 14500 - 15000 levels. I expect market to stage a smart rally in april 2nd or 3rd week. Any further fall in indian stock prices could be curtailed by strong stocks like Hind Unilever, ITC, Reliance to a major extent. I dont expect Sensex to touch 13500 levels without these stocks falling heavily." <<<<<<

An Inconvenient Truth

What a great presentation by Al Gore... Full of data, past, current and prediction of future.... Amazing documentary.... Mind blowing effort.... Simple language & excellent depiction :)
Wondering how we can take responsibility after seeing the truth !!!

CNBC TV 18 - India

We have two business channels CNBC TV 18 & NDTV Profit. I will review these channels now.

CNBC TV 18 - Excellent analysts, presentation skills. Being the first channel, they have gained good standing in the market over last 7 years or so. Hence, their ability to reach out excellent brains across the globe is very good. Udayan, ayesha, lata & mitali carry the show in excellent way. Too many rewind (of what the guest said) happens in this channel.

NDTV Profit - Being the well known news channel helps them to "break" the news lot better than CNBC. NDTV's analysis on economics is far better than what they speak normally about stock market. No noteworthy anchors in this channel. Lunch show in NDTV profit is the best part where we can meet and listen to CEOs regularly.

Overall, thumbs up to CNBC.

Ayyo

I warned you "n" times.. dont go to places where things are given "free"... Inimey Keppiya.. Keppiya?

Times of India - Chennai Edition

Welcome relief for chennai news paper readers finally.... Neatly packaged paper with lots of local news. Plentyof filmy news in supplements, reasonable editorial, lots and lots of sports coverage... what else you want to wake up to....
The sad part is The Hindu had cut the price of the paper due to competition rather than patronage.... Sad that we were paying so much of money over so many years for the only available paper as they made huge money with loads of advertisement....
The reality of competition forced Hindu to cut prices.... Foolish on our part :(

Losing My Virginity

Hey... Come on... i am not writing about me losing my virginity.... it is the autobiography of Richard Branson... I read the 2007 edition and found it very very very interesting.
His entrepreneurship comes out very well from the book especially his early days of setting up of Student magazine or the record shop. Balloon adventure is expressed in an amazing way in three different episodes. Overall a terrific book to read.

IPL - chennai

Man1: Enna mamu... IPL ticket vanginiya?
Man2: No machi... 3 hour matchukku 600 rooba ticket-a? romba bongu...
Man 1: summava... evlo periya aalungallam varanga... summa vaanguppa...
Man 2: Machi... indha ticket kasu avangallukku illey... scene podara actor-kku
Man 1: Ah han... appadinnu solrey.... dhoni-kku 6 kodi pochuppa...
Man 2: Nanna kodukka sonnen.... ada poppa.

Priyanka Gandhi - Nalini Meeting

I must congratulate Sonia for taking this extra ordinary move. It is a very difficult decision and she did deserve to clean up the mental agony. It is anyday better to talk it out rather than to wake up with bad mid night dream.
Nalini also must have gone through the effect of "life after the crime". So it is not a one way route for both.
I am just wondering whether what Priyanka Gandhi did was part of Landmark Forum exercise- a US based company which conducts character bulding education courses to clean up the past.
I think, people should treat this as private act and not speculate on what they spoke.

Hoardings in Chennai

TN Govt moved swiftly to remove the unathorised hoardings in Chennai city after the verdict of supreme court.

City now looks defnitely better - just see the Panagal park or Church park on mount road... damn good. Kudos to corporation officials for such a swift move. Well done.

Titbits

1. The lyrics from the "Aana Ippo" song from the movie "Santosh Subramanian" is very very good.
2. TV Commercial of UTI mutual fund, IPL delhi dare devil are little different and good. Emkay's train commercial music (shown in CNBC) is fascinating.
3. Would somebody ask Leander Paes to shut up? He is loud mouthing like a drunkard. Probably, the media would be really upset about it. I feel Paes and Mahesh B were a divorced couple of last birth :) :) :)

4. Music Director Ram Sampath (Krazzy 4 title track) beat A R Rahman, Pritam, Himesh in one stroke by claiming around 2crore for one song. Poor Roshans they overpaid some one for one average movie !!!

Some Chennai Restaurants

I have got a new friend with whom I visited some restaurants during last 3 weeks. Might be useful to Chennaites.

Rasam: This restaurant is run by Shree Krishna Sweets and located near Poonamalle High Road Dharmaprakash. Old Bungalaw converted as hotel and ambience is not that much great.

But menu card said, the food speciality is "Kongu nattu unava vagai" (food from Kongu Nadu - i.e., around Erode); We ordered Melagu Paniyaram which was quite sumptuous for starter. We ordered Aapam and a gravy called "Santosha Bhojanam" which was very different like "Kootu". Sambar thickness was like Tomato Soup and tasted very well. Three different chutneys were also prepared well. We had one Oothappam and ordered a sweet "Ilaneer payasam" - it was simply out of world. The bill came to around Rs.450.

Can you guess the content of finger bowl?

It is the extract from hot tea pot with lemon. Overall a nice experience indeed.

Chit Chat: This is supposed to be a middle class restaurant with a USP of food until midnight. We went there by 10:30pm and could not find half of items. We finally ordered some kind of sizzler and managed to eat. Worth ignoring this place.

Cream Center: This restaurant is situated in R.A. Puram (on Chamiers Road). Good crowd hanging out always waiting for a place. So i got curious. We checked into this place and booked for our seat. We were asked to wait for some 15m. Finally we went in, very good ambience, fully crowded and noisy.

We ordered veg biriyani, sizzler and fresh lime soda. Delivery came in 12m and the food as really tasty. Then, we ordered some methi parotta and lentils. It offered good taste, soft, ideal for mouth watering feeling.

The bill came to around Rs.750 and i felt, it was worth spent.

But I would always love to eat the Uppuma of Drive Inn any number of times and sip a hot cup of coffee in Saravana Bhavan peters road !!!!! Yummmmmmmmmmmmmy....

Survey

Pls take this Survey... Inflation has gone significantly, oil, food grains, basmati rice, vegetables have gone up... So what expenses will you cut ?
1. Multiplex visits
2. Eating Out in neighbourhood
3. Annual Holiday
4. Local long drives and eating outs
5. General shopping of clothes and dress materials

Hogenakkal Issue

Anonymous asked my opinion on Hogenakkal issue. Thanks for asking my opinion. Here I go !!!

On a lighter vain, this entire episode is purely to motivate the cadres of respective organisations like political parties, linguistic chuvanist groups, actor's association etc...

General public should strictly ignore these events and observe the fun....and politely move out of touring in border areas; These things would keep happening every 2-3 years, script is same.

Have you ever seen such a wide publicity for GUCCI sun glasses as shown by tamil actors? Have you seen Cheran as angry young man... Just sit back and ensoi the punch dialogues... why to react in haste?

On a serious note, TN CM MK's projects put on hold is increasing... Be it satellite township, ram setu, new chennai airport or Hogenakkal water issue.... may be he should take retirement !!! He first claimed that he is stopping the project, then he said he is postponing the project, then he said he is not under any pressure from Sonia to stop this project, latest he said... he is negotiating japanese funds to start the project... very funny... he has got 50000 crores under his disposal but he do not have 1650 crores for this project !!!!!!!!!!!!! Probably, color TV is more important :)

Poor Congress... donno what to say... struck deeply between devil and deep sea....

If tamil actors association so upset with fellow Kannada actors, why not they stop selling dubbing / remake rights? Not co-operate on processing lab work etc.. taking risk of losing some revenue... they wont do it... becoz they just want publicity.

India needs to preserve water, build canals for farming, lay roads to connect millions of villages to be a real super power. The loss is mounting due to lack of storage facilities for food grains and vegetables.

Let us forget Abdul Kalam's vision for 2020.

Baharin F1

Lovely race... very few issues on track...

Ferrari's best possible finish.... which they missed out last time due to Massa's error... No such issues this time. Force india had a first credible finish....

Poor Alonso and Hamilton.... Kubica and Kovalainen are likely to be future stars !!!

Iran - Imam Square

I caught up with some episodes of "BBC's around the world in 80 treasure" during Sunday mornings recently.

I liked Imam's Square (Isfahan) as soon as I saw it. It is a huge place with Mosque, bazaar etc... spread over such a big landscape. Probably similar to Tinannmen square in size. Just check out the link below to feel the place.

http://www.art-arena.com/Imam.html

Stock market outlook - april 2008

Good amount of correction witnessed in March thanks to insipid budget, FII sale, slow down of GDP etc... Majority of Midcap and Smallcap stocks recorded their intermediary bottom on March 24.

Corporate results would be out in april, inflation taming started across the world in big way thereby containing the prices of commodities, US and Europe results would provide further writedowns thereby bringing some predictability of outlook.

Hence, my outlook for april month is consolidation and framing of intermediary bottom of Nifty around 4550 to 4650 levels and Sensex around 14500 - 15000 levels.

I expect market to stage a smart rally in april 2nd or 3rd week. Any further fall in indian stock prices could be curtailed by strong stocks like Hind Unilever, ITC, Reliance to a major extent. I dont expect Sensex to touch 13500 levels without these stocks falling heavily. Be very cautious while trading in commodities hereafter.