Variety is the spice of life

Recently junior narrated an incident that happened in his class. A kid was playing pen fight during class hours and the teacher had confiscated them. While she was taking them to her table, the kid had been shouting "you have no right to take my pen"!! Junior and the whole class had apparantly found that rant funny and had been laughing. In fact, the kid might've shouted that in jest possibly too! But the fact of the matter is, was that right behaviour in any sense? it reminded me of an incident during my school days. My tamil teacher used to divide the class into the columns we are seated as A,B,C and D. She will ask spot quiz kind of questions from the subject and any one who answers correctly will earn ten points for their team. She will throw the chalk to the one who answered correct and that person has to write the point on the board. The chalk shouldn't break while catching or during writing. Once, one of the kid, broke the chalk while catching and instead of wa...

Ever since MGR became the CM of this state, every actor with a 3 word initial or name aspires to covet the seat. Make some hit movies with good songs and entertainment, the moment it becomes a repeat or near repeat at the box office, start an organization and slowly branch it out into politics converting it into a political outfit, seems to be the straight forward and somewhat tried and trusted approach when it comes to TN politics, with movie and politics being 2 sides of the same coin. Either the politicians approach movie people for their support or the movie guys themselves start their own bandwagon!! The main issue with this setup being, the very purpose and intent behind such organizations and how blatantly misguided they are and how openly greedy and corrupt they are, right from their moment of formation. Even while being just a fan club, their intention is to promote their hero, boost their salary by boasting/hyping unreal numbers and above all tarnishing other actors and fight...

 It is no longer global warming but global hotting or more precisely global burning like hell!!! If there is one topic which finds place year after year in this space that would be on how hot it is becoming with every passing year and how unbearable it is becoming with every summer that seems to be on an ever increasing trend. During my school days it used to be 4 months of summer from around April till june-july end and then it would relatively become cooler with rainy season starting. Or bare minimal when it used t blaze away during day time, evening will be filled with rain. This year, from March onwards, AC has been running non-stop everynight and we are already in the 9th month with forecast of every day having increased temperature by atleast a couple of centigrades. This year may be exceptional with el nino, la nina and all combinations of those vowels and consonants playing havoc across the globe. But it seems to be increasing severely despite the peak summer being supposed...

After completing Prodigal daughter, a book which always gives a sense of fulfillment and happiness, i thought of posting about it. But if there is one book that has found numerous reference in this space, that would be it. In fact, i was reminded of how i had a thought of becoming President myself, when i read the book for the first time and how it invited ridicule and embarrassing comments when i shared the same with couple of collleagues from my first company. The fact that i am not even qualified to become president of an apartment association leave alone a country is an altogether different matter. But whenever i read that book, it invokes a sense that if you are determined you can become one. Of course, Archer doesn't dwell into the details of every single day of the life of the characters and obviously the novel deals with key things from their lives. But whenever i read the section where she is first nominated for Senate and the quote that "Kennedy said he had the best ...

I first came across this series maybe almost a decade back. Even within first few episodes it felt very content heavy and that too quite serious about itself. The reason why i even went about this one is because of the name "Nolan" being associated with it. It is created by the brother of Christopher Nolan, the madsensical director, who is hell bent on making movie watching as serious and interesting as reading quantum physics for public exam. He is one guy who has an increasing set of niche followers with every movie of his!! Not understanding his movies in first watch is an "in" thing to say and no one would believe if you said anything else to the contrary. Person of Interest, stands heads and shoulders above any other data series that has ever been made and possibly will be made as well in its genre for the simple reason that it takes itself seriously from episode one and every single episode then onwards, which form a straight line towards the season finale epi...

This is not a typical book review post, but more of an emotion. I can't tag this book as yet another favorite of mine. It carries lots of happy and positive memories for me and if at all i've to tag someone for a teacher's day post, that would Jeffrey Archer for improving my english and in fact for having taught me most of the words i use and familiar with at present. His books were my distance learning course which gave me confidence about the language that Rapidex couldn't. My dad was anxious and at times more worried at my language skills, especially English and his insistence and the efforts he took to improve it only made me more scared and insecure about the language. So much so that while my school mates played shuttle on the day before tenth public exam for English, i was slogging till late in the night mugging up lessons as if it was science. Archer's books made me relax and enjoy the language and his easy use of sentences made me understand and realize wha...