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.