Year end post -2010.

This post comes as a customary act :)

My parents/wife/brother/anni everyone thinks/says that 2010 wasnt such a good year from a personal front. But i dont beleive it completely...

My brother and his family met with an accident and escaped miraculously on Jan-3rd 2010.
When everyone saw the accident as a bad omen, i saw how miraculosuly they escaped without any major injuries when the car was crushed and wasnt usable anymore.

My dad fell from steps and broke his head during April-2010. But i really was surprised at which he missed the sharp edges of the wooden shoe stand so that his head injury was minimal. For his age he didnt fracture any bone. This incident happen at 4:30am, he was bleeding continously & ed. He couldnt get up and alert anyone. I was surprised at how some instinct of my mom made her wake up and see my dad in the steps within 5 mins of his fall, so that he didnt lose much blood which would have had more harmful effect.

My wife's ankle swelled and she couldnt walk from June-2010. She had to undergo medication for almost 3~4 months for nothing as doctors couldnt diagonose the reason for swelling and they kept trying to understand the reason. She is almost bedrid from August2010 till now. Doctors keep referring to other doctors and we almost visited 5 doctors. But ThankGod we met a doctor named Krishnamurthy at last who was able to diagnose her ankle and found the reason and she started taking medication from Oct-2010 and she is getting better everyday now.

Its been a year filled with more hospital visits, doctor consultations etc etc.
Its terrible than how i have put things here ...

I agree that these are not good things to happen, but cant we be satisfied that nothing went adverse. Instead of cribbing and whining about things that had happend which is not in our control, we can control on how we take things, our thoughts and try to be positive. Why not thank the god for the miraculous escape, thank the god for waking my mom at 4:30am, thank the god for showing us a doctor who was able to identify the problem.

Other than that learnt to Swim, a long pending TO-DO item.
Went to Girivalam and planning to continue this as much as possible.
I have started taking work less seriously and trying to spend more time with wife & kid.
Started following NBA again.
Realized that we cant be always on our friends side after we understand that what he is doing is not right and keeps doing the same thing even after you tried to explain him a 100 times.
Planned to learn to play a musical instrument which didnt happen.
Planned to change the car - didnt happen.
Wanted to quit software job (may sound silly) - didnt happen.
Wanted to learn to whistle - didnt happen :)


Wish 2011 infuses more mental strength, healthy mind & body, positive thoughts & attitude.

Man-Madhan-Ambu

ManMadhan Ambu - Once you see the movie you understand the reason for the title.
It starts from there, little nuances all through the movie, subtle dialogues & actions (obviously counting Sangeetha out).
Omitting the last 15 mins and especially the last 5 mins, this movie seems to be a good watch.
"Neela Vaanam"s editing leaves everyone stunning. Soothing camera, works well with the mood of this story. No extra characters that is not needed for the story.

Some of the good things about the movie:
Not too many actors crowding the screen. Everyone gets their space. Even the Malayali couple.
The screen play is clear, yet with a twist.
Dialogues are sharp and crispy. (Trisha & Madhavan's dialogue in the Hummer is an example)
All actors have done their act so effortlessly and make the audience feel at ease.
Setup of the movie was awesome, having the backdrop of the story to happen in a european cruise ship gives this story an extra flair.
No song every 30 mins.
No fight after or before the songs.
No punch dialogues.
No villain flanking 50 goons behind him.
No sumo's flying, no aruva splashing blood, no pistol, no bombs.

Kamal has comeout with a clean, family, slow comedy entertrainer.

Ambu (Arrow) has indeed hit the target ...

Frustrated Indian...

As Indian's we have a great virtue of forgetting anything within a month time.
But looking back, i somehow doubt that this quality was induced by our great politicians.
Because they have the knack of doing things better than what they did last month.

Parliment was attacked, many respected army & police persons lost their lives to save some group of thugs/jokers/clowns/murderers/rapists.
Supreme court has sentenced life term for X and he will live his life fully because his mercy plea is pending in front of President.
The family of slain martyrs have given back their medals and Govt still shamelessly says that "LAW will take its course".

Serial Bomb blasts in Bangalore. No one knows where that case is heading.

Mumbai was attacked. We never talk about 26/11 now and the guy who was caught red handed is making a mockery of our democracy by asking briyani, news paper and perfume in jail.

Now, no one worries/talks about N.T. Tiwari's scandal with young women in Governor Bungalow.

When CWG Scam hit the streets it made waves across the country, then came Adarsh... to make the last 2 look silly we got 2G scam.
Capping all this, the minister is defended saying since he is a Dalit he is targeted on this scam.
CBI raids are happening after 2 years on which scam has happend :)

Then we saw the parliment stalled and our money wasted every day for the egoistic politicians fighting over whether to accept each others demands.

Nira Radia's tape leaked. Lobby'ists having hand in govt's policy making. People here think that Govt is making policy for common people. But these tapes showed us who those PEOPLE are.

Man who is once charged with corruption is heading "Central Vigilance Commision".

Sold our soverignty for nuclear deal, people are still suffering in Bhopal.

Now, to make us forget everything Govt is planning to increase Diesel cost by ~3Rs and LPG gas by ~100Rs. Cost of vegetables is up by ~300%.
Cost of Petrol today is 63Rs per litre.

Driving a car feels like riding a bullock cart after this rain. The roads that were laid just a couple of months back were being re-laid again with war foot urgency (atleast thats what news paper said so).

The next scam or act makes the previous one looks silly and better.

What next??

Eagerly Awaiting,
Frustrated Indian ...