Vadivelu gets out of his cabin and walks into cubicals. Picks up some 6 guys saying "Hey, you come", you, you types.... and starts walking back towards his seat.
One of the Gujju programmer asks him "Sirji, what is scheduled?". Vadivelu replies "Dont ask, come and do what I say"; So., are are puzzled and waiting for further instruction. Vadivelu takes his seat and gives a deep look at all the programmers.
Finally, he picks up two guys and says "you go and join the action committee in Lotus meeting room"; the guy asks, "sir, what is the action"; Vadivelu replies "Ummm., its about how to be inactive, dont speak, just go"; They go...
Then, vadivelu looks at another two and says "you two go and work on prototype for ABC Bank"; They reply "sir., we are working on bug fixing"; The remaining two asks "sir., what for us?"; Vadivelu says "Both of you just watch what these proposal guys do and learn from it".
By the time, vadivelu gets a call and he attends and goes into silent mode for 30seconds. Finally, he look at the gang and says "dont work on the prototype for now, abc bank is closed; so you all go and work on bug increase for XYZ bank so that we get some salary for another 6 months"
Friday, January 2, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Welcome 2009
Hey 2008
You Entertained us in fancy Olympics
Excited us with Abhinav Bindra
Fancied us street smart Dhoni
made us to realise the fighting spirit of Saina
You gave us so many problems
Showed us the reality
Made us to face turbulence
United us in deadly attacks
Good bye 2008, never learned so much in one single year !!!
Welcome 2009
Just make us to feel comfortable !
December Music Season Update - Final
Venue: Narada Gana Sabha
30 Dec 2008 – Vocal - Sudha Raghunathan; Violin R K Sriram Kumar
Excellent concert. Some of songs were: Sri jalandharam, karuna jooda vamma (thodi), rama rama payasage (pandhuvarali), mrudanga thalamu (sri ranjani), sathurdasya ragamalika, arul seyya venumayya (rasigapriya), kandha un aadhara vindham thunai, thaye gopalakrishnan yasodha, jagadho vaaraname. It was little sloppy in the beginning but picked up admirably during second half. Kandha was the pick of the day.
The sad part of the day was the body language of violinist Sriram who behaved as if he is playing music on sudha's private reception. He hardly turned and looked at the crowd !
Some general observation of mine on this season:
1. 80% of the crowd consists of oldies.... They are extremely good and knowledgeable in carnatic music. They come early and they keep their cell phones in silent mode. They share musical information. Good company indeed !
2. Singers should look at the crowd for the first 2 songs to get the feedback on mike / sound.
3. Why dont the sabha's keep some dust bins reachable?
4. Sabha should introduce the musicians before the start of kacheri.
30 Dec 2008 – Vocal - Sudha Raghunathan; Violin R K Sriram Kumar
Excellent concert. Some of songs were: Sri jalandharam, karuna jooda vamma (thodi), rama rama payasage (pandhuvarali), mrudanga thalamu (sri ranjani), sathurdasya ragamalika, arul seyya venumayya (rasigapriya), kandha un aadhara vindham thunai, thaye gopalakrishnan yasodha, jagadho vaaraname. It was little sloppy in the beginning but picked up admirably during second half. Kandha was the pick of the day.
The sad part of the day was the body language of violinist Sriram who behaved as if he is playing music on sudha's private reception. He hardly turned and looked at the crowd !
Some general observation of mine on this season:
1. 80% of the crowd consists of oldies.... They are extremely good and knowledgeable in carnatic music. They come early and they keep their cell phones in silent mode. They share musical information. Good company indeed !
2. Singers should look at the crowd for the first 2 songs to get the feedback on mike / sound.
3. Why dont the sabha's keep some dust bins reachable?
4. Sabha should introduce the musicians before the start of kacheri.
Monday, December 29, 2008
December Music Season – Update 5
Venue: Narada Gana Sabha
28 Dec 2008 – Mandolin U Srinivas Violin – Mullaivasan G Chandramouli; Mrudangam –
Tanjore Murugabhopathy; Ghatam – S V Ramani; Morsing Srirangam Kannan
Good concert. Some of songs were: Shanthamuledhu, balayamam, ranjani niranjani, Chinnan Chiru Kiliye & Saibhajan. Lovely concert with one of the best thani avardhanam performance.
28 Dec 2008 – Vocal - Neyveli R Santhanagopalan; Violin – V V Ravi; Mrudangam – Neyveli R Narayanan
I listened to first two songs - Ninnukori & Vathabi and left the concert hall as I felt overflowing with music for a given day.
29 Dec 2008 – Vocal – Bombay Jayashri; Violin – Embar Kannan; Mrudangam – Patri Sathishkumar
Excellent Concert. Some of the songs were: Nin thaathpamariya, Tripura sundari, hiranmayi lakshmi, manabyasa sarala, kalisiyunde, sivabalane vadivelane, kanda naal mudhal & thillana. Well executed concert and enjoyed well by rasigas. Sivabalane received maximum applause.
29 Dec 2008 – Vocal – O S Arun; Violin – Vittal Ramamurthy; Mrudangam J Vaidyanathan
I listened to first two songs - Vathabi & Brocheva and left the concert hall as I felt overflowing with music for a given day.
28 Dec 2008 – Mandolin U Srinivas Violin – Mullaivasan G Chandramouli; Mrudangam –
Tanjore Murugabhopathy; Ghatam – S V Ramani; Morsing Srirangam Kannan
Good concert. Some of songs were: Shanthamuledhu, balayamam, ranjani niranjani, Chinnan Chiru Kiliye & Saibhajan. Lovely concert with one of the best thani avardhanam performance.
28 Dec 2008 – Vocal - Neyveli R Santhanagopalan; Violin – V V Ravi; Mrudangam – Neyveli R Narayanan
I listened to first two songs - Ninnukori & Vathabi and left the concert hall as I felt overflowing with music for a given day.
29 Dec 2008 – Vocal – Bombay Jayashri; Violin – Embar Kannan; Mrudangam – Patri Sathishkumar
Excellent Concert. Some of the songs were: Nin thaathpamariya, Tripura sundari, hiranmayi lakshmi, manabyasa sarala, kalisiyunde, sivabalane vadivelane, kanda naal mudhal & thillana. Well executed concert and enjoyed well by rasigas. Sivabalane received maximum applause.
29 Dec 2008 – Vocal – O S Arun; Violin – Vittal Ramamurthy; Mrudangam J Vaidyanathan
I listened to first two songs - Vathabi & Brocheva and left the concert hall as I felt overflowing with music for a given day.
Sunday, December 28, 2008
December Music Season – Update 4
Venue: Narada Gana Sabha
26 Dec 2008 – Vocal – T V Sankaranarayanan; Violin – H K Venkatraman; Mrudangam – Tanjore Murugabhopathy
Good concert. Some of songs were: Gajananam, sfri naradha, sri guru praba, abaya varadhe saradhe (Hindolam), Saroja nala nethri (shankarabharanam), Karpooran narumo & venkatajala nilayam. For his age, he sang very well and sounded fully passionate. 65% of the hall was occupied and it looked like it was filled up with his fans that seemed to have enjoyed the concert fully. I liked it.
26 Dec 2008 – Ganesh, Kumaresh & Jayanthi Kumaresh
Bad Concert. Looked like one quite an unprepared concert. They failed miserably to keep the attention of listeners at the end.
27 Dec 2008 – Vocal – Ranjani & Gayathri; Violin – Charulatha (?); Mrudangam – Manoj Siva
Excellent Concert. Some of the songs were:Vallava nayaga, palil, nava siddhi petralum, sri kamakoti peeta, nee kelara, anjile ondru petran. I simply loved the song anandha bairavi unai allal aarabi specifically. The crowed guessed the song, raaga and hence, the built up was very enjoyable. Kudos the college going like Violinist Charu ended up playing her role very well.
26 Dec 2008 – Vocal – T V Sankaranarayanan; Violin – H K Venkatraman; Mrudangam – Tanjore Murugabhopathy
Good concert. Some of songs were: Gajananam, sfri naradha, sri guru praba, abaya varadhe saradhe (Hindolam), Saroja nala nethri (shankarabharanam), Karpooran narumo & venkatajala nilayam. For his age, he sang very well and sounded fully passionate. 65% of the hall was occupied and it looked like it was filled up with his fans that seemed to have enjoyed the concert fully. I liked it.
26 Dec 2008 – Ganesh, Kumaresh & Jayanthi Kumaresh
Bad Concert. Looked like one quite an unprepared concert. They failed miserably to keep the attention of listeners at the end.
27 Dec 2008 – Vocal – Ranjani & Gayathri; Violin – Charulatha (?); Mrudangam – Manoj Siva
Excellent Concert. Some of the songs were:Vallava nayaga, palil, nava siddhi petralum, sri kamakoti peeta, nee kelara, anjile ondru petran. I simply loved the song anandha bairavi unai allal aarabi specifically. The crowed guessed the song, raaga and hence, the built up was very enjoyable. Kudos the college going like Violinist Charu ended up playing her role very well.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Crazy Mohan's Chocolate Krishna
I watched Crazy Mohan's latest play called Chocolate Krishna at Narada Gana Sabha. It was 119th performance and has duration of 90m.
It is about self belief than getting addicted in god's belief. It provoked good amount of laugh and filled up with funny one liners. The linking up of Vodafone commercial is too good. Worth seeing once.
It is about self belief than getting addicted in god's belief. It provoked good amount of laugh and filled up with funny one liners. The linking up of Vodafone commercial is too good. Worth seeing once.
Friday, December 26, 2008
December Music Season – Update 3
Venue: Narada Gana Sabha
25 Dec 2008 – Vocal – Priya Sisters; Violin – V V Srinivasa Rao' Mrudangam – B Sivaraman
Good concert. Some of songs are: Sri valli devasenapathy, kanda purama soundaryam, kali dhanushkodi with ponguju sri raghu, rasika jana mohana ranjani, jo achudananda. I loved thirumal kunda and chinnan siru kiliye especially. They are sounding very fine while singing melody or in a soft voice.
25 Dec 2008 – Bharathanatyam by Shobana
Decent show. Shobana looked like an angel and danced with complete grace. Facial expressions were very good especially while she was dancing for yadhava Krishna, yadhukula Krishna. She played to gallery when she danced for nadhar mudi mel irukkum nalla paambey ! But I felt lost as it had no story like what Sonal Mansing gave on 24th Dec. Hence, my satisfaction level was not that good. But the hall was full for Shobana.
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