Wat – doing – Me – Singapore!

This is probably my last post before I head back to Chennai this Sunday. I had come back to attend my parent’s wedding anniversary as well as my brother’s commissioning as an artillery officer in the Singapore armed forces. It was my dream once to become an officer, but despite all my efforts I could only make it to be a specialist.

My brother and I didn’t quite get along we always had something to fight about. But when it was my brothers turn to enter the army I had only one advice for him, and surprisingly he listened. “you might not have the best scores in your studies, but what we have is our fitness, if you can channel all that into making in to OCS (officer cadet school) then you prove that it is not all just brawn but brains too.”
1 year on, he made it. And after rigorous training in Brunei and Thailand he is now an officer. Now during my reservist if I were to see him in uniform I have to salute him. (Yes I have to salute and greet my younger brother, cos when we are in uniform, we are not civilians.


More pictures in my picassa

I dedicate this post to my brother, and my proud parents and relatives. 2008 saw me graduate, my younger brother an officer and my last brother is taking is O’level exams (10th public exam) this year, as the papers will be sent to Cambridge university in the UK to be marked, results will only be known next year. Hopefully the three brothers can score a hat-trick.

Whole of Singapore is gearing up for the first eva night F1 Race. But I am not bothered. Maybe when I watch it on TV I might like it. Maybe because of the huge price tag for the tickets to watch it. $1000 for the seats and $300 to stand around the tracks.

Its Tag Time!

It has been quite a few serious posts of late. So its time to take the foot of the pedal a little.

I am back in Singapore by the way. I had taken time off from my course to attend my younger brother’s commissioning as an artillery officer in the Singapore armed forces. I have posted some pictures from the parade in my picassa. I will talk more about it in the next post.

This post is all about just fun. I take this tag from a blog I came across. And I would like to tag all those who are in my blog roll, and ones who like reading this post.

Answer the questions below and do a Google image search on your answer, pick a picture from the results on the first page, with minimal explanation.

1.) The age you will be in your next birthday: 26



2.) A place you’d like to travel to: The Great Barrier Reef


3.) Your Favorite place: bed


4.) Your favorite food/drink: tiramisu cake , pepsi




5.) Your Favorite pet : oriental red discus


6.) Your favorite color combination: Red and


7.) Your favorite piece of clothing: Adidas



8.) Your all time favorite song: You and Me –lifehouse


9.) Your favorite TV show: Prison break



10.) Full name of your significant other: Rachel Bilson


11.) The town in which you live in : Choa Chu Kang



12.) Your screen name/nickname: Villain


13.) Your First job: testing engineer – HP


14.) Your Dream job: Project Manager – Networking


15.) Bad Habit you have: procrastination


16.) Your worst fear: my friend’s fart.


17.) The one thing you’ll like to do before you die: Sky dive (I don’t mind if I die trying)


18.) The first thing you’ll buy if you get $1,000,000: Bugatti veyron

It Pains me.

I have been staying in Chennai since mid May. I had plans that if a good job offer came my way in Chennai I would settle down in Chennai. Chennai looked very inviting when I came.
It is a fun place to live in. it is very high tech when technology and facilities are concerned.
But the reason why I can’t make Chennai my home is because; I am a person with a soft heart. I can’t bear to see children suffering. I have the urge to do something about it.

Last week I was drinking juice at an eatery near my institute, that’s when I came to see 2 kids, age around 4 and 7. They looked like brothers and they were sharing a meal of curd rice. The quantities of food look too little for them. They were not wearing any footwear, and their clothes seem to be very dirty and torn. It could be that they could only afford just one plate of curd rice. It was a morning and I think they should be at school, but instead they are out, probably working.
When I saw that I felt very sorry, but I still left. My mind was filled with memories of that scene. Then I regretted, I could have paid for their meal. But if I did that I would make them beggars.
Speaking of beggars, a few weeks back when I was coming back to Chennai after attending a funeral at my native place, the bus stopped at Chidambram. I saw little children ages from 4 up, were begging for money. I was seated in the bus watching the scene of the children saying “please donate; I have no money to eat”. Then one girl made her way up the bus and even touched my feet asking for donation. I could not resist and I donated her 10Rs, then a few others crowded around me and I had to spend about 100Rs total. Then as my bus started to leave I saw the first girl again, she was crying. When I looked around, there was her brother, he had beaten her and took the 10Rs from her. Could this be the same scene at their home when the parents would beat them and take the daily collection from them?

when i used to watch India from my cable TV channel prospective from Singapore, i see all the movie celebrities talking about hungry kids in Somalia. In India we need not look any further, just step in to some restaurants in Chennai, most table cleaners are these education deprived kids.

Lets clear the mess in our country before we show compassion towards the more under privileged.

I support actor Surya for his efforts with Agaram Foundation.

Dham Dhoom Review

Spoiler alert: People, who intend to watch Dham Dhoom, please don’t proceed.

Dham Doom was a movie with lots of hype with its movie trailer coming out long before it is officially released. The suspense was mounted so much that I decided to camp every night till the wee hours on the nights when rumors spread that Dham Dhoom was releasing. My homework paid off and I managed to get tickets to Dham Dhoom on the day it was being released and I did the booking at 3.30am about 4 days before it was released.

Dham Dhoom’s story was a masterpiece of Jeeva. Should he have been alive to finish the movie; the movie would have come up much better. Honestly I was disappointed with the movie. All the hype just turned out to be just hot air. During the first half of the movie a lot of build-up cues were given (this is probably Jeeva’s work”. In the second half not all the cues were answered. The movie somehow ended, and the ending was not very well supported and justified. And they all lived happily ever after. My verdict is, watch it for Jeeva and if you are a movie lover like I am you would understand the big master plan Jeeva had for the movie, he was a class above and the ones who took the job to finish the movie were not up to the mark. It isn’t their fault, they did their best. Every actor did their level best and it is not their fault that this movie didn’t score 10/10.

My verdict 7/10(all 7 points goes to Jeeva). The 3 was lost because of, 1 for the lack of some realism in the stuns and 2 for poor storyline in the second half.

This movie will tell us why the death if director Jeeva’s death is a loss to the Tamil movie industry, cos this movie showed great vision and master-class of telling a movie the second half will tell us why there can only be one Jeeva.