Courtesy: Nirmal, Once more!
Here are the rules:
1. Players start with 5 random facts about themselves.
2. Those who are tagged should post these rules and their 5 random facts.
1)
I love animals - in the zoo! I'm not comfortable with anything that is not human, around me! I have a special "tryst" with dogs that they can't stand me and I can't stand them - as I have already mentioned here! Cats - the only cat I like is the one which comes in Tom & Jerry cartoon!
2) Tamizh Cinema
I'm a self proclaimed Tamizh Cinema PhD. Especially movies which came after 1990 are my favorite "research" area. I can talk about every detail of the film - starting from heroes to dubbing artistes for heroines!
3) Music
I enjoy music in various forms - Tamil film music, Carnatic, Hindustani, Instrumental and a very little of rock. I can't survive without my MP3 player. Musicindiaonline, Raaga, Oosai were one of the first sites I bookmark on any computer that I use.
4) Spirituality, Religion and Roots
Recently, I'm trying to develop myself on these aspects. I trying to fall into the habit of doing the sandyavandhanam as often as possible. I'm seeking to renew my knowledge in Indian History - starting from Harappa till current day stuff. So far, I have been a English fiction reader, but now I'm trying to read some stuff which deals with atheism, theism, tamizh literature such as Ponniyin Selvan, Sivagamiyin Sabatham. I'm also currently doing some parallel study of Hinduism and its roots - to more about concepts like Brahman, Advaita and try to practice as much as possible.
5) Tech Stuff
Apart from Windows, I don't know to operate any other OS. I know only 2 programming languages - C++ and BASIC (both were taught at school). But I have the ability to learn stuff fast - I'm pretty good with office (does that count as computer skills?) and perhaps video encoding/decoding stuff - courtesy downloading movies from torrents. I dont even know how to write a single line of code in HTML or any further enhancements of HTML. I think I thank Mr. Gates atleast once a day for making stuff easier for dorks like me. Nowadays, increasingly, Google is saving me much more often than Mr. Gates.
I pass the tag to Yuvabharathi.
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Wednesday, July 04, 2007
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
Ides of July!
Well, this is the time of the year when I turn older by an year. From the time I've a mental record of, I've always hated getting older. People expected you to act mature, behave responsibly, study well - whew! and perhaps build a rocket to moon as well! All this when the only change in me would have been that I would outgrown my previous birthday's shirt!
Ever since I was a small kid, the candle-cake thingy seemed funny to me! The sight of those conical party caps drives me sick with laughter - man, the guy who invented them must have a sick sense of humor, really! I have always avoided anything like a social thingy for my birthdays and had been lucky till I went to college, where, instead of cutting a cake, I was kicked and kicked and kicked and kicked and kicked till I used all my weight induced potential energy to break free and go home, with a smacked ass!
Once I was out of India, there was this kind of bday "fun" (for whom?) when after this ass-smack, everything from spoiled sambar to beer and tide detergent gets poured over you and you pretty much cant do anything other than pray that that gets over quickly. This ends only for some projectile action - eggs, bulbs and what-ever that breaks when it hits you are thrown at you. After some twenty two and half hits, it "hits" you that you can escape this by feigning a surprise hit on the eye. So I do that, people take pity and stop and as a mark of the end of ceremonies, pour whatever that is left behind from the previous round of pour-o-mania and leave you to lick your wounds - only to find you licked some tide on spoiled sambar crap - Yuck! A 2 hour bath later, with a just-returned-from-garbage-bin smell, you come out and get to sleep thinking whether the birthday was worth all this...... Perhaps birthdays are best left undisclosed!
Anyways, 23 is another number and has no connection to me! :P
Ever 16,
Karthik Sriram
Nonsense Trivia: Julius Caesar was assassinated on the ides of March and my bday falls on the ides of July (the month named after J. Caesar)- Now, I warned this was nonsense!
Ever since I was a small kid, the candle-cake thingy seemed funny to me! The sight of those conical party caps drives me sick with laughter - man, the guy who invented them must have a sick sense of humor, really! I have always avoided anything like a social thingy for my birthdays and had been lucky till I went to college, where, instead of cutting a cake, I was kicked and kicked and kicked and kicked and kicked till I used all my weight induced potential energy to break free and go home, with a smacked ass!
Once I was out of India, there was this kind of bday "fun" (for whom?) when after this ass-smack, everything from spoiled sambar to beer and tide detergent gets poured over you and you pretty much cant do anything other than pray that that gets over quickly. This ends only for some projectile action - eggs, bulbs and what-ever that breaks when it hits you are thrown at you. After some twenty two and half hits, it "hits" you that you can escape this by feigning a surprise hit on the eye. So I do that, people take pity and stop and as a mark of the end of ceremonies, pour whatever that is left behind from the previous round of pour-o-mania and leave you to lick your wounds - only to find you licked some tide on spoiled sambar crap - Yuck! A 2 hour bath later, with a just-returned-from-garbage-bin smell, you come out and get to sleep thinking whether the birthday was worth all this...... Perhaps birthdays are best left undisclosed!
Anyways, 23 is another number and has no connection to me! :P
Ever 16,
Karthik Sriram
Nonsense Trivia: Julius Caesar was assassinated on the ides of March and my bday falls on the ides of July (the month named after J. Caesar)- Now, I warned this was nonsense!
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