Whirlpool of shadows

III floor :My apartment

'Mapla ezhunthirida .Nee paduththu rendu moonu naal aachchu.Phone panren'

Walk down the steps whistling 'Thottu thottu ennai'

II floor 2B

Disappointment.Aunty's flat door is shut .Why?Why?Did uncle come back from tour ?
Hindu is still in the Saravana stores polythene.Outstation?
Hmmm.I could have taken the lift instead.

I floor 1A

'Paaru-'Uncle' eppadi timekku office porangannu .Neeyum uncle maathiri good boya corn flakes saapidu'...

Grrrrrrrrrrr.
Dei Renganatha - Naan Unclenaa,Junior NTRa enna solluva?

Why does every apartment have an LIC agent who is ubiquitous?

Ground floor

Whiff of Puzhikozhambu .
Does puzhikozhmabu smell this great becoz it's cooked by Mahalakshimi's amma or does it
smell as divine even when my amma cooks ?

(Mahalakshmi:Stella Mary's 2 nd yr .'Maha' lakshmi really.Adnan's distant cousin.
Thankfully 'thangachchi' goes to college at midnight 7 AM .)

Right turn.

After hunching my back like MGR in adimai pen and crossing a maze of cris crossing cloth lines
full of lungi's,stained baniyan's and ........................ (That was Sharmila Tagore in action! )

Hoodibabaa.

Aaha.Gulti ponnu has come out.Is she going for a shoot again today ?
Illaye.No ambassador outside.The why is she 'oru maathiriya' dressed?
I've always seen her from this same Hoodibabaa here to their portico there distance.
I cant move their portico.Move hoodibabaa?An Idea can change your life.
Act Quill before some A.K.S.S.R.Madhava reddy acts .

If seeing Gulti ponnu is event A ,seeing neighbouring aparment's I floor Vandana (Ramesh found that!) is event B and seeing Aunty's balcony is event C ,the probability of me sighting
A (and/or) B (and /or) C from the current hoodibabaa location w.r.t to the
considered new location will be....

Oh no not again!Before i rev my mean machine and do a 'Dhoom' act ,Gulti's ammagaaru called her inside.Is that intentional or a coincidence?Did i drool too much ?

Out of apartment and on Kodambakkam high road .Meenakshi college bus stop.

Is that her?

Ayya periyavare,konnnjam thalli ninnu 12B varuthaannu paartha enna koranja poidum .
Its her.I know that not because i saw her.

But i suddenly hear a few violins,spot a few angels and hear SPB singing 'unnai paartha pinbudhaan'..
Now i see her better .Blue saree and a matching hair band.

'Roadla namma eththanaiyo ponna paakurom aana....'
Vivek !Those are words that need to be etched in stone .

She taught me punctuality in the last 3 days which my parents and boss could not in the last 25 years.

Naalaikku Busthaan .
I must react to the rise in US brent crude prices and global warming concerns.

Crossed the bus stop.
Few near misses by pallavan's ,thanni lorry's and Auto's with a 'Pennai nambaathe.Unnai nambu' advices.

Office
Dominique (Office Security) ,Vezhzhi malar varalaya ?

Mobile rings.'Home' calling.

Ennava irukkum?

Amma.

'Illa.Office'.

'Paravalla.sollunga'

I blush.

I hear SPB again.I hear Veenai this time .

No .Muster the courage.Pennai nambaathe .Unnai nambu

'Illa amma.Kalyanathukku enna avasaram .I want to earn more.May be resign after a
'supero fantastico fabulously excellent' rating in the appraisal .Take up a course in London business school and follow it up with an economics degree in Wharton .
But dont worry i'll come back to India and suggest ideas for the FM during budget time to eradicate poverty ....'

Y not ?

Its not the size of the dog thats important.It'sthe size of the fight in the dog .

Roopa purushottaman can wait for few more years .

Can there be a better First Valentine?

Watch this space!

This crass blog is dedicated to Atta girl who said to me 'Dont limit your thoughts.Break them '.
You sure inspire me .Thanks .

Flute, flowers and a rainbow

What a weather !

Even Gurgaon looks beautiful when it rains .

I want to sit on the Marine drive parapet for hours with a paper roll of hot peanuts.

I want a female dressed in a starched cotton saree to walk next to me and discuss why the 'Chamber welcomes Thiyagaraja' in 'How to name it ' is the best musical piece ever composed .

I want to go on a long drive listening to 'Margazhi poove'.

I want to chant 'Dugyeshva nudvignamanaha...' with the voice of Yesudas in the sands of Elliots beach watching a sedate yellow full moon .

I want to see children throw away their Xboxes and get back to playing with paper boats .

I want amma's Elakkai tea.

Atleast a butterfly on my shoulder.

When did i last see a butterfly?

On the banks of Kaveri

Kaveri -High quality South Indian restaurant 'claims the board outside Murugesannan hotel.
Thats the maximum number of lies per square inch i've seen after the RIM pamphlets and my resume .
But for a clientele which has survived testing regimens at engineering college messes ,eating Murugesannan's food is as easy as finding a Gulti named Srinivas.

If it's Roti,Kapda,Makaan and (bandwidth if Dewang Mehta insists on turning in his grave ) for the rest of India ,it's aloo,Maruti800 and 'bhaiyya' for the Delhiites and for the Tamilians like me in Gurgaon , its Kaveri and Murugesannan .

If you've shopped in Vashi or walked around the King's circle in Matunga you would appreciate the ease with which you could spot a Tamilian in an 'all india' crowd .Murugesannan's is one such face.

I've always believed that God first created a mould of Murugesannan's face and then tweaked it a bit everytime he wanted to create a new tamilian.
He is slighly darker than a black crow and slightly fairer than a very black crow .
Given a choice between a truckload of money and a 'kandavilas' vibhooti ,he would sure choose the latter.His Hindi is as bad as any other Tamilian's.
He would get away with a freaky statement like ' Saap(Its not Saab!) kho dosa fast Dheejiyena chahiyega' .In the whole of NCR, he is probably the second guy to step out of the house without sneakers (the first being your's truly).He is as bad tempered as any pallavan bus conductor and probably doesnt trust even himself.

When Kaveri's topline,middleline and bottom lines started threatening his lifeline he diversified into selling Tamil film CD's here.That was the inflexion point in his career curve .It didnt change his fortunes much but he almost got the halo back.
To err is human,to penalise is Murugesannan.
If the CD one took isnt in his custody at the end of the 24 hour ultimatum one had it.
Its a dreaded ' Have an earful .Get blacklisted.Watch Diwali release after valentines day .Dont get a 'new CD' prompt ' cycle .

Today , you can make Agarkar bowl consistently but cant stop Murugesannan sell CD's here.

I know him for 9 months now.
He doesnt even give me a smile even if i am the only customer in his hotel.
Even today he doesnt give me a CD without taking an advance.
No glib talks other than a scornful 'Sillarai illaya?'.

But i would go there again tonight.
Just to see a pockmarked scurrilous Tamilian fighting against all odds to be yet another also ran in this rat race called life.
Impossible in really nothing !