Prabhu n Ferrari

Ok. First things first set your speaker on mute. Watch this video. Laugh like crazy. Feel better.

Pay special attention to
0.27 seconds to 0.37 seconds
0.52 seconds to 1.00 minute
01.16 seconds to 01.53 seconds

P.S. This contains a video of vijayakanth and devayani dancing

Sometime back, I sent a childhood photograph of mine to some of my friends. One of them responded asking ‘Yaar idhu?Payyan un saayal la irukaane!’

Sigh!

Japan
Michael
Engine Failure

All the more painful, when I saw Michael go and pacify each and every team member of Ferrari. Cha!

Both championships gone towards Renault now. Sigh! Ferrari lost it in the beginning of the season, when they didnt get their act together X(

There was this kalai vizha programme in Sun TV. I dont know the reason why there was a kalai vizha for kalaignar. If am not wrong, there was one another vizha some months back. Maybe Sun TV ran out of movies, to telecast on a saturday evening and they approached the cine association to fill the gap. And hence the kalai vizha maybe.

Anyways, coming back to the shameless ice putting programme

Dayanadhi Maran was the most busiest man. I think the photographer/camerman worked in HLL or some company which gives this ‘Buy 1 get 1 free’. Any photo, dayanidhi maRan will be there. And a close up of every VIP will be followed by a closeup of Dayanidhi Maran.

It started with ‘neerarum’ song. In hindsight, the only best part of the programme. After that Satyaraj, appeared on stage and praised Kalaignar as embodiment of ‘Thiruvalluvar, Anna, Periyar, IlangovadigaL’ and many more people. Luck was on the side of kamarajar, rajaji, bharathiyar and other famous tamil personalities. They were spared from this comparison.

Then SJ Surya appeared on stage and sang ‘oru poNNu oNNu naan paathen. ava paartha oru paarvayile 100 peru sethu poitaan’. Dayanadhi Maran looked very much worried when SJ Surya was singing this song. SJ Surya paadaradha kaettu kalaignar sethu poitaa? But then that is only paguthaRivu right?

Then came Ramanarayanan on stage. He praised Kalaignar and said something. I was thinking if some monkey or elephant will jump from behind and garland kalaignar after this. Nothing like that happened, and SA Chandrasekaran put a shawl around Kalaignar. And I dont know what SM Krishna was doing here. He presented a 1 metre long pen to kalaignar and a ariyaNai.

It seems Kalaignar gifted thirukural to Bill Gates. So director shankar called him ‘Digital saandron’. Thank god he didnt say DMK and Kalaignar only named Sun microsystems.

Navya Nayar came and introduced a dance group saying ‘vaRumazhayai oLitha kalaignarukku kaaNikayaaga oru nadanam’. Some kids dressed up as rabbit, deer etc danced. But then thamizh kalaacharam what happen? So 3 girls dressed as peacock came and danced on the stage. Ever since sridevi acted as mayilu in ‘16 vayadhinile’, peacock became a tamilian bird.

FEFSI Vijayan came on stage and called Kalaignar as a theerkathasiri. I think he meant theerkatharisi. He also said there were only 2 vari(tax) in tamilnadu. Only January and February(Produced as janavari and febravari). Thamizhanoda mugavariya ozhikaama irundha seri.

Then came maaveran Napoleon. He said idhu oru arumayaana vilaa(I think he meant vizha). Yaaroda vilaa va sonnaaro?
Luckily, there was a break for 6.30 news. I didnt watch beyond that.

I gave up. I couldnt stand this programme beyond a point. Give me a Vijayakanth movie any day. Not such stupid programmes. Sigh. These people are also tamilians Well the only good thing was I got to see Rajni and Kamal. Kamal seems to have lost of weight and looks relatively younger. Good. And Rajni the same as always. Otherwise it was a total waste. God bless Tamilnadu and Tamil cinema. Tomorrow if amma comes back, there will be another programme where they will proclaim Amma as kaliyuga aaNdaaL and thamizh cinemas thaai, whatever. Replace SA Chandrasekaran, Ramanarayanan with SS Chandran, Radharavi, S.Ve.Sekar etc. Same reel in different projector. Vengaayam!

1. The salaamia desam in vikram tor tor movie was shot in Rajasthan right? Is that eli temple for real? If yes, any idea where it is in Rajasthan?
2. Parts of Sarfarosh was shot in Jaisalmer? If no, where? I mean the climax part.
3. Anyone been to Mandvi beach near Bhuj, Gujarat? Worth it?
4. Which are the most often visited(crowded) places in Rajasthan? I wish to skip them

One of my good friend is getting married in Jodhpur sometime in December. Planning to take some days off and spend a week or so in Guajarat(Somnath,Mandvi,Bhuj) and Rajasthan(Jaisalmer,Bikaner,Jodhpur). So all your suggestions will be sincerely appreciated

Why do people in India, especially the so called intellectuals and media, refer to Israel-Lebanon etc etc as middle east??? Is Israel middle east for us?

Off late I have been trying to play around with my N70. From this wonderful site, I got to download so many cool applications (Earth finder, weather report, pulse wallpaper updater, moon calendar etc). But best was this. I never knew you can gtalk(chat) from mobile. That was one thing, opera browser didnt support. But thanks to MGTalk, am able to chat from mobile.

Now, I am searching for this radio mundo site. I came across this article about radio mundo. Mobile Internet Radio. Thats something interesting I say. But the site mentioned in the article seems to be wrong Anyone knows the correct site address, or better some mobile internet radio sites?

And hey, where do I get tamil fonts for mobile phones? I would like to browse through tamil sites as well

Dear NN,
I frequently travel my bus from Bangalore to chennai (and vice versa). Sometimes the person next to me uses my shoulder as his head rest  I mean, he leans on my shoulder in sleep. What do I do?
-Neil Shoulderstrong, Bangalore

Dear Neil,
I had blogged about this a year back. There is a technique. Observe for two to three times. The person will settle in. As in, his subconscious mind will know there is a shoulder next to him. And people don’t sleep non stop placing their head on other persons shoulder. They will wake up, change their position and slowly drift towards your shoulder. What you need to do is during 3rd or 4th time, just when the person is about to lean on you, you go forward. The person will fall on one side, sprain his neck or atleast be rudely shaken awake from his sleep. Never ever will he place his head on your shoulder.

Dear NN,
I got married some 3 months back. And I followed the newly married guys protocol completely. That is, I didn’t contact any of my friends after marriage. Then I watched the marriage CD two times. Once with my parents, and once with my wife and in laws and showed a blank face whenever someone asked me ‘Do you know who that is standing next to dad’s younger brothers wifes 3rd brothers 2nd daughters school teacher?’ etc. I called my wife every 1 hour from office to find out what she is doing. I didn’t watch much sports channels also. Now the 3rd month(of marriage, ofcourse) is getting over. I didn’t find any protocol to follow now. Please guide me.
-Kalyanam, vathalagundu

Dear Vathalagundu Kalyanam,
First things first, send a sms ‘Whats up?’ out of the blue to your friends. The message will bewilder them, but then they will atleast know you still remember them. Guys who are already married will immediately respond to you, since they have been through this situation already. Its those single guys who will crib saying ‘You forgot me’ blah blah. And you can invite almost every single person home for say, lunch or dinner. Don’t worry, not everyone will turn up. And before someone comes up, you can clean the house in a mad rush. And during the party, pretend you are cool and sit in the sofa and chat about politics while internally fearing if the friend will blurt out something you have hid from your wife. So for the coming 3 months, concentrate on calling people home for party. Call bachelor guys for parties. They will be extremely loyal to you and will not tell anything bad about you to your wife. Anything for home made food you see? And if there are some single guys and girls, call them. The single guys will get a chance of pickup and drop in addition to the home made food. And think of the gossip prospects, this party will throw

Karnataka has become a model state now. No more border disputes. No more insfrastructure problems. No more law and order chaos. All the farmers can sleep in peace now. Rain or shine, there isnt any worry for them. Petrol and Diesel prices have reduced by half. Air deccan will now land in the terrace of everyones house. No more poverty, or deaths due to hunger. Every person residing in Karnataka will get 20 shares of google.

Why?

Because there was a 12 hour bandh in Karnataka today. A very peaceful bandh. All problems solved. Yay!!!!!! Its time to celebrate folks!

Machi TV learnt that there was a secret all party meet last week in Karnataka. And in a massive sting operation, Machi TV brings to you what happened there. And for the benefit of everyone, we are posting the transcript in english.
Characters involved
Kumaraswamy : CM of Karnataka
Yediyurappa: Deputy CM of Karnataka
Vatal Nagaraj: Karnataka’s answer for Bal Thackeray or Ramdoss
Dharam Singh: Former CM of Karnataka

CM: Hello all. Welcome to the all party meet
Dharam Singh(Ex CM): Hello sir. All well? What time is the party starting?
CM: We can start in another 2 hours. You know sir. These press people and IT people are torturing me daily. They are saying all IT companies are moving out of bangalore, infrastructure has crumbled, law and order has worsened etc. Being my senior please tell me how you manage such a situation. I asked my dad. He said go and sleep. Everything will be alright
DyCM: After that, please tell me how you managed to have an alliance with this JD(S) guys for so long. They are so boring
(Dharam opens his mouth. All very eager to listen what he says. He sneezes and closes his mouth again)
CM: Sir?
Dharam: You are talking to me?
CM: Yes sir. Please advise us.
Dharam: Ok. Call for a bandh
CM: Bandh?
Dharam: Yes. On the day of Bandh, there will be no traffic. So no pollution, no traffic. Less law and order problems. Very minimal accidents
CM scratches his head and says : Yeah, but?
Dy CM: Brilliant idea sir
CM: Huh?
Dy CM: Come on. You didnt get Dharam’s drift? 1 day of bandh results in less problem for bangalore. Now if we take the entire 1st week of october, the no of accidents, pollution levels and other damaging factors will be extremely less. Now we can project that to the media after this week. And say, contrary to what people think bangalore has the minimal infratsructure or law and order problems. And request all IT captains not to leave the state.
CM: WOW. Too good! But we are the ruling party. How can we call for a bandh?
Dharam Singh: Use the Vatal Nagaraj trump card
CM: How?
Dharam: uh oh. What is this CM? Everything cannot be explicitly explained. See now. You mention maharashtra, belgaum, karnataka in a sentence. Nagaraj will take care of remaining things.
(Dy CM goes out of the meeting room and after a while brings Vatal Nagaraj)
Dy CM: Nagaraj sir. Next week we are planning for a all party all MLA bash in belgaum. We can go by car. But our supporters need to come by train. The problem is all trains to belgaum are booked. In fact there is a train called chalukya express that goes via belgaum to mumbai. In that train, tickets are available till mumbai,maharashtra but not till belgaum, karnataka
(Immediately Vatal Nagaraj jumps out of his seat and screams)
Nagaraj: Maharashtra down down. Belgaum is always part of karnataka. Central government down down
(CM, Dy CM and Dharam singh exchange a smile)
Nagaraj: On 4th of october, we are calling for a statewide bandh. To show the world that Belgaum is part of Karnataka. Jai Rani Chennamma
(Saying this he walks out of the meeting room)
Dharam: That is all. Now being the government, you need to support this bandh. Otherwise people will paint you anti kannada. And if someone asks, you can always say that the bandh is called by someone else. And being a passionate citizen, you had no other way to ensure safety. And dont worry. Most of the media are from communists. They love Bandh and protests. In fact communists might even start supporting your government, since you called for a bandh
CM: Thank you so much sir. Lets all celebrate on the 4th of october and discuss on future plan of action. Ok?
(All of them disperse)

And so ladies and gentlemen, we have a bandh on the 4th of october in Karnataka!

Formula 1 cars run on tyres. Not tires

I was reading the readers mail section of Planet F1 and was amused to see this

…What an amazing performance by Michael Schumacher.

But of course when it’s not Michael or Ferrari, it’s just racing.
Bruce Ford

Where are you hiding James Allen? Why is your mouth shut on team orders?

Flavio uncle. Look at what you said last year