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