Friday, March 17, 2006

Terror in subway (U/A)

Yesterday

Sayeed , Are u mad r u going to do this?
Yes akthar, i don't have any other way.Already my family is big and with kind of income i earn i cant make ends meet.
But isn’t there any other way?
No,Its an order from BOSS
Ok,its upto you then.Where and When?
Tomorrow 9:30 in the morning , in the subway.Guindy Subway
But it will be crowded to full , rite?
Yes , but that will help me to take cover
Ok,Do u want me to come?
NO

Today

8:30 Am.

It is one of the busiest subway in the city ,buzzing with activity.It sees thousands and thousands of people dialy.It is open to all, rich,poor,literate,illeterate,powerfull,useless ,teacher,pickpocket this list is endless .It goes by this tag line "Whoever or whatever you are,it doesn't matter,if u got to get to the other side u must go through it".

This subway is also special in way that ,it is opened by M.G.Ramachandran(well known as MGR).Iam one of the thousands for whom this subway is a part of day-to-day life.But probably the unique to feel proud thinking "Man now you are crossing the sub way once crossed by MGR"

If this subway is just part of life for some , for some it is the life.It is the main source of their income.You can buy anything from flowers,umbrellas,fruits and electronic gadgets to shirts.No other place drives so much a crowd. It is ,infact a business complex underground from, the time it opens in the morning till it closes late in the night.

And today at 8:30 it was as normal as any other day.

8:55 Am.

The subway is full.Business is in full swing.I think flowers and kerchiefs sell the most here than in any other place in chennai at this point of time.All that you can see is faces some very serious , some very sad, some really happy and some disappointed as they lost the mobile signal amidst the important call.These things are very normal at this time of a day.

9:10 Am.

There in the distance a man with a black shirt and lungi entered the subway.He was well built and six foot tall. He had very horrible scar on his alarmingly threatening face.
The very look at him will make you feel that he is upto no good and will definitely pump your adrenaline. Even he doesn’t seem too comfortable, he was sweating slowly in the corner of his head.He looked horrified pre-occupied with the execution of the order form his BOSS.

He tried to justify his move by thinking of the reason behind .It was just yesterday evening he was talking to his BOSS.

No i will never do this
U have no other way
Why?
What do u mean by why'?Do u know how many children u have,do it if u care for your family
But.....
Go

With a determined face he slowly made a move to-wards one corner of the subway.He was very careful that no one should note his next move.And he tried to look as if he is he is upto nothing.
But actually any one who passed him looked at his threatened face suspiciously.In the mean time he slowly slid his hands into his underwear pockets.

9:25 Am

Though well educated and placed in a software company,iam orthodox,the reason being i never take the left side way into the subway.Well, that cannot be fully accounted to as 'Orthodox',there is also a strong reasoning behind that.

The first time i took the left side in ,i lost my purse in a crowded bus,the next time it was a real bad day in my office.The other time when i really dared to take that way i was bleeding a hell after an accident.So i decided never to take that way hereafter and it did pay me well.
But today, unfortunately iam pushed to the left side in , into the subway by the crowd and my worst fears poped-up alive.

When i got into the subway,i saw things happening to confirm my worst fears.There was commotion and terror all over.Everyone was moving to a place where some thing is happening. I tried get through the crowd to see what is happening.There in the center two cops were taking to a man in red shirt.

Is this he, who is standing here for the past half hour ?Pointing to a man in black shirt with horrified face.

Yes sir ? he is also having something in his pocket.When he is not being noticed he puts his hand in to take something and suddenly when he is crossed by some one he takes his hand out, very suspicious so .., i called you sir

Ho ok we will see to that
.Now the cops turned to the horrified man in black shirt.

Who are u?Whats your name? one of the cops asked him.
Sir,iam Sayeed.Sayeed khan answered the man.
Where are u from? haa?
Sirr..iam from the slum near saidapet
Oho what are doing here from 9.00
Sir..
I know dammit , i know what you upto.Whats that u have in the pocket?said the cop
Sir .. i swear i dint do anything wrong
Whats that u have in your pockets
Nothing sir really..
Ok come to the station
No sir..sir , i will tell..I was trying to take this 5 rs out. He emptied his pockets to show a five rupee coin.
What?the cops said.
Yes sir i was trying to take this 5 rs
So is that all?
Yes sir
But why are you standing here for the past half an hour
Sir..Actually i was shy and i don't want to do that in the crowd
I don't understand said the cop
Sir..I actually wanted to get a Condom from the vending machine and i was afraid that people will laugh at me said the man pointing his fingers to the newly installed condom vending machine in the corner.
Ha ha ha is that all
Yes sir, said the man gleefully with his black face red in shyness.

The crowd was cheered up and the terror in the subway started to subdue and for me my worst fear got postponed.

9:30 Am

The man finally inserted a 5 rs coin in the machine and took the delivered condom his surprise no one was laughing at him.Its then he thought It seems its very common.

10:30 pm

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Tomorrow:

So,akthar what does your BOSS say.
'Hmmm , she is really happy and pleased.My wife is really intelligent
She says Better.. be safe than worry.

Thursday, March 16, 2006

Forward's Rule

Read in Shivaji -Nagesh 'Thiruviliyadal' style...............

Cigarette: A pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end & a fool on the other.

Etc.: A sign to make others believe,you know more than you actually do.

Love affairs: Something like cricket where one-day internationals are more popular than a five day test..

Marriage: It's an agreement in which a man loses his bachelor's degree and a woman gains her master's.

Classic: A book which people praise, but do not read.

Diplomat: A person who tells you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.

Politician: One who shakes your hand before elections and your confidence after.

Committee: Individuals who can do nothing individually and sit to decide that nothing can be done together.

Ecstasy: A feeling when you feel you are going to feel a feelingyou have never felt before.

Office: A place where you can relax after your strenuous home life.

Conference Room: A place where everybody talks, nobody listens & everybody disagrees later on.

Dictionary: A place where divorce comes before marriage ..

Tears: The hydraulic force by which masculine will-power is defeated by feminine water-power .

Compromise: The art of dividing a cake in such a way that everybody beleives he got the biggest piece

Conference: The confusion of one man multiplied by the number present...

Opportunists: One who starts having a bath when he/she accidently falls in a river ...

Lecture: An art of transferring information from the notes of the lecturer to the notes of the students without passing through "the minds of either".

College: A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.

Pessimist: A person who says that O is the last letter in ZERO, instead of the first letter in word OPPORTUNITY

Miser: A person who lives poor so that he can die rich.

Optimist: A person who while falling from Eiffel tower says in midway "See I am not injured yet"

Smile: A curve that can set a lot of things straight.

Divorce: Future tense of marriage.

Monday, March 13, 2006

void Creativity ()

When i dont get anything to write or when my creativity goes on a strike , i dont cry not knowing what to blog :-) forwards are handy.
Yes for a guy like me who wants to blog daily these forwards help a lot.One such mail forward blogged.

The Silence.

Have you ever experienced a moment in your life when you just ran out of words and you go...
s i l e n t ???

Let me assist you in recalling.....

The moment when you left your home for the first time and you look back at your parents who are worried that their son/daughter are leaving them yet happy that their child took the first step towards independence....

The moment when the girl/boy you like most.. smiled back at you ! You don't say anything.. you just smile back.....

The moment when you get better marks than you expected... those "numb" moments of ecstasy n surprise "is that true?"...

The moment when you are parting with your old friend(s) and the train has just started...
and you are standing on the door of the wagon.. waving "bye-bye" with your heart beating fast......

The moment after the HR manager has just called you and told you,"You are through! Congrats !"...

The moment when you sit alone in your room after having told everyone that you cleared that exam you prepared for 6 months !!

You can go on remembering your "special" moments !

I had always wondered why I never said anything to myself at those moments.. as if it was "understood"... happiness, joy, pain.. all feelings just flowed ceaselessly in the 'years' that passed in those flash moments !

They say.. the best way to communicate is through "silence". Love. Joy. Grief. Surprise. Anger. Hope. Expectations. Support. Non-cooperation...

Can you imagine the importance of a silent moment in a song ?? When Bryan Adams stops for a while along with music, before he goes on in his husky voice......

Please forgive me. I can't stop loving you !

Ever had those moments when you thought you were tired enough that you reach for your bed after dinner.. but find yourself wide awake looking at the roof of your room silently...

But you sure are 'thinking'... those moments of self-talk are the most important in our lives.
Those moments when we listen to our own hearts ! Those promises... those decisions... those are the moments when we make our destinies !

Next time you go silent... listen carefully to what your heart is saying..

listen to its joy...

listen to its pain..

listen to its fears..

listen to its desires..

and

Be in touch with your true self...

Bye




Friday, March 10, 2006

Yahoooooo

Haaaaaaaaaaay its weekend again.
This week was pretty fast.

Cya

Thursday, March 09, 2006

Typewriter- The forgotten classic

The first 'Hello World' of my life started in my '5th' standard with that black machine in my fathers office which will always be operated by a sweet lady.I have always wondered her speed and accuracy working on that. The elegance with which she feeds the paper and pulls the feeder back to the position once a line is finished can never be seen today .




(Wikipedia)

Typewriters are really fascinating to watch at , the movements of the ribbon
and type bars up and down are really enjoyable as if they are dancing to a rhythm. Everyone one from a middle class family would have been to a typewriting class at some point of their life.The type writing classes were the places of fun which will tell you thousands and thousands of love stories.We even had movies on those love stories.

It was a source of confidence in those days.The one with a typewriting lower/higher qualification is a sure shot winner in interviews.

But these elegent machines are just history now.we cant see them anywhere. We dont even think about it. We don't feel the vacuum their absence have created.

We can no more here their 'tic' 'tic' 'tac' 'trrrr'.Yes modernization ,do snatch good things from us.
I really miss it.

Captain is the next 007 [:-)]

HINDU'S HOLY BOOKS ACCEPT HOLY PROPHET MOHAMMAD'S (PBUH) EXISTENCE

Pundit Vedaprakash Upadhyay, a Hindu professor, in his stunning book claims that the description of the" Avatar" found in the Holy books of the Hindu religion, matches the Holy Prophet Mohammed (PUBH). Recently in India, a fact-revealing book has been published. The Book has been the topic of discussion and gossip all over the country.The author of this book, Pundit Vedaprakash Upadhyay, is a learned and famous Hindu professor. The book is Kalki Avatar. Pundit Vedaprakash Upadhyay is a Hindu Brahmin of Bengali origin. He is a research scholar at AllahabadUniversity. After years of research, he published this book, and no less than eight pundits have endorsed and certified his points of argument as authentic. According to Hindu belief, the Hindu world awaits "the guide and leader", named Kalki Avatar. However, the description as given in the holy scriptures of the Hindu points only to the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) of Arabia.Therefore, the Hindus of the whole world should not wait any longer for the arrival of Kalki Avatar (the spirit) and should readily accept Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) as Kalki Avatar. These are the FACTS verified and supported by eight other eminent pundits. What the author says is that Hindus, who are still anxiously awaiting the arrival of Kalki Avatar, are simply subjecting themselves to never ending pain. Because, such a great messenger has already arrived and departed from this world fourteen centuries ago.


The author produces the following sound evidences from the Vedas and other holy books of the Hindu religion in support of his claim:


1. In the Puranas (Hindu scriptures), it is stated that Kalki Avatar would be the last messenger of God in this world. He would be for guidance of the whole world and all human beings.


2. According to a Hindu religion prediction the birth of Kalki Avatar would take place in an isle, which again according to Hindu religion is Arab Region.


3. In books of Hindus, the names of the father and the mother of Kalki Avatar are given as VISHNUBHAGAT and SUMAANI respectively. If we examine the meaning of these names we shall come to some very interesting conclusion. VISHNU (meaning God) + BHAGAT (meaning Slave). Slave of God = ABDULLAH (in Arabic) is the name of Prophet's (PBUH) Father.

SUMAANI (meaning peace or calmness).Aamenah (in Arabic means peace) is the name of Prophet's (PBUH) Mother.


4. In the religious books of Hindus, it is mentioned that the staple food of Kalki Avatar would be dates and olives and he would be the most honest and truthful person in the region. Without any doubt the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) is acclaimed to possess these qualities.


5. It is stated in Vedas (holy book of Hindu Religion) that the birth of Kalki Avatar would take place in an honorable clan. This perfectly fits the Quraysh where Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) belonged to.


6. God would teach Kalki Avatar through His messenger (angel) in a cave. Allah taught Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) through His messenger Jibraeel (Gabriel), in a cave known as Ghaar-e-Hira.


7. God would provide Kalki Avatar with a very speedy horse to ride and travel the whole world and the seven skies. Indication of burraq (Horse) and Me'raaj (the night when Prophet [PBUH] travelled the seven skies).


8. God would provide Kalki Avatar with divine help. This was particularly proved in the Battle of Uhud.


9. Another dazzling account given about Kalki Avatar was that he would be born on the 12th of a month. Whereas the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) was born on the 12th of Rabbi ul Awwal (Hijra Calendar).


10. Kalki Avatar would be an excellent horse rider and a swordsman.

The author here draws the attention of Hindus that the real days of horses and swords have gone and the present time of guns and missiles. So it would be foolish on the part of those who still expect Kalki Avatar, who should be an excellent rider and swordsman to come. In fact, the divine book, the Holy Qur'an, contains qualities and signs attributed to Kalki Avatar reflecting on the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Mail

Here is the first mail from my frnd after landing in UK(on his onsite assignment)


Subject: Hi ! DA MACHCHEE
Hi Da,

Ingae seri kuliru da, its fluctuating between -3 and +3. And the travelling the flight was too good but the food from Dubai to London was too bad i mean veg stuff. And here we bought some rice and did thayir saaatham today. And the door next by there are two girls next door, i think so u would get a spark but i didnt. OK DA wat abt ur latest spark, just update me.

Regards,
J.Shanmuganandan

Monday, March 06, 2006

Saturday, March 04, 2006

My dear Brother

Jus showing my blog to the future blogger 'My Dear Brother'

And ofcourse he will be happy to see his name in here. Is it rite?
Guru Venkatesh R

K c ya all.

Friday, March 03, 2006

Read !!!

Two new books ,

Bookless in Baghdad by Shashi Tharoor.
Local by Jaideep verma.
by my bed side.