Un paarvai maelae pattaal

One more tag :)

This is quite an exciting tag from Mathi. Her entry made great reading and I was ready to steal the tag by hook or by crook, but was pleasantly surprised to see that she had tagged me too!

The tag:
All you need is your music player in the shuffle mode and your ability to press the 'next track' button. Each new track is the answer to each question.

The questions are bold..
The answers are slanted..
And my comments are straight..
(Am talking about the font formatting here)

So here goes..

If someone says “is this okay?” You say?
Dandanakka Danakku Nakka - Kaalai
(Ya.. and maybe fold my lungi and bite my tongue and perform a saavu koothu)

What would best describe your personality?
Aaj ki raat - Don
(Achacho.. Enakku vekka vekkama varudhu)

What do you like in a guy/girl?
Yeh jo des he tera - Swades
(Politically correct :) )

How do you feel today?
Chor chor - Theme music
(Thiruda thiruda theme music.. Didn't even know I had this with me!)

What is your life’s purpose?
O indha kaadhal - Sattham podadhey
(Mom.. Hope you skipped reading this point)

What is your motto?
Tanha Dil - Shaan
( :( )

What do your friends think of you?
Duet theme music
(Sheesh! This is a revelation!)

What do you think of your parents?
Khwaaja mere khwaaja - Jodha Akbar
(Somebody translate this pls?)

What do you think about very often?
Its my life - Bon Jovi
(This is so un-me! I've never had such strong convictions on anything!)

What is 2+2?
Track 01
He he. Ok, the song is actually
Daddy cool - Boney M

What do you think of your best friend?
Nee Marilyn Monroe cloning-aa - ATM
(I guess/hope this has girls lining up claiming to be my best pal :P)

What do you think of the person you like?
Kaattu kuyilu - Thalapathi
(Hiiiya!! Finally one song that answers the qn at hand)

What is your life story?
Nenjil jil jil jil - Kannathil Muthamittaal
(WHAAAT! And sis dear always claims that she gets second degree treatment cos she's the adopted one!)

What do you want to be when you grow up?
Chookar mere man ko - Yaarana
(Doesn't make sense. Maybe that's what I'll be when I grow up - Nonsense)

What do you think when you see the person you like?
Genie in a bottle - Christina Aguilera
(Googled for the full lyrics of this song.. All I have to say is: Aggagagaa - Vadivelu style)

What do your parents think of you?
Kal ho naa ho - Kal ho naa ho
(Har pal yahaan.. Jee bhar jiyo :) Cool )

What will you dance to at your wedding?
Vasantha mullai polae vandhu - Pokkiri
(Those who know me: no cheeky comments pls :) )

What will they play at your funeral?
Nenjaangootil neeye nirkirai - Dishoom
(Elumbukootil neeye nirkirai would have been truer.. But this is so flattering)

What is your hobby/interest?
Please sir - Boys
(Pleading/Begging! My hobby? NEVER! At least, not after completing college)

What is your biggest secret?
Tanga Dunga - Paruthiveeran
(It's encoded)

What do you think of your friends?
Pal pal hai bhaari - Swades
(Unable to link qn and ans. 0 marks)

What should you post this as?
Un paarvai maelae pattaal - Chennai 600028
(Ya.. That's why we all blog right? :) )

Enjoyed doing this a lot! Throwing the tag open to one and all. When you're done, leave a link in the comments section. Let's get our mental association juices flowing.

Et tu, Brute?

Got a pleasant surprise a month back when I found that Mathi had tagged me. Apologies to her for delaying this one. As any conscientious blogger would clarify, this been lying in the drafts for quite sometime.

Tags are great cos they give us something to write about, which can be a huge relief when one is running a dry patch. But what is greater about them is that they give us a sense of security: if at all the post ends up drab, one can always pass the blame on to the originator of the tag. ("Such a dull tag it was, there was only so much I could do to make it interesting")

Anyway, this tag demands me to put up eight facts about myself. Here goes...

Fact 1: I have lived in 6 different places till date: Tirupattur, Sholinghur, Vellore, Coimbatore, Chennai, Bangalore

Fact 2: I love myself. A lot.

Fact 3: Realization is dawning upon me slowly: 8 is a BIG number, actually

Fact 4: Few of my material desires/targets in life: A BMW for my first car, A huge bungalow with a swimming pool right at the heart of Chennai, a library at home with full collections of PG Wodehouse and Calvin & Hobbes

Fact 5: And I placed fact 4 here so that I don't chicken out in the future :)

Fact 6: I have installed Google's "monetizing tool" on this blog (wink wink. Aint I being subtle?)

Fact 7: My room at home is like an outhouse without an attached bathroom. Everytime I want to relieve myself at nights, I need to encounter and defeat 6 doors

Fact 8: My all time favo movies: Saamy, Lagaan, Azhagiya Theeyae, Alaipayuthey, Sarkar, M Kumaran S/o Mahalakshmi, Anbe Sivam, Phone Booth, Independence Day, Baasha and a few more which I have forgotten now

Passing the tag to Martian Geek, Prabhu Ferrari, Desi and Knittins.

p.s.: The title is not in Latin. "Ettu" is Tamil for "Eight" and "Brute" is English for "Brute".

Tag: Special pic of 2007

The new year dawned in the best possible way for me - to be tagged by my maanaseega blogging-guru PrabhuFerrari! (Ok, technically, he tagged me at the fag end of 2007. But this sounds a whole lot better :) )

Thanks Thalaiva!!

This is what the tag says:

‘All you have to do is select and upload one photo that you have clicked this year that is special to you. Could be anything…aesthetic, technical or personal. Also, put in a short note why it is special’

I'll exploit this opportunity to put up my favos from among the pics I clicked this year before honouring the tag.

Let me begin with "people". I have taken very few pics of people this year, so it has been fairly easy to choose this:

My sis

This pic is special because this was among the first ever shots I clicked when I started controlling camera settings by myself.

Another pic is that of the kids I clicked at Thirumalpur. I spoke about it earlier here.

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Airshow @ Chennai: Sometime in Mar/Apr 2007

I love this one because it took too much of an effort from my side to click this right. These machines were flying way too fast(!!). It was very difficult to keep them within the frame.

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AappiLL

This was among the first "experimental" pics I took with my (then) new Sony DSC H3.

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Thennai Maram

This pic won me a consolation prize in a photography contest judged by Thotta Tharani.

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One more pic that is very close to my heart is that of some crops that I took during my trip to Thirumalpur. That also was put up in the same page I linked to earlier.

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Now, on to my S.P.E.C.I.A.L pic of the year:

Mis-focused flower
(Click on the pic for a bigger version)

Frankly speaking, this was an error in focussing. I should have rightly focussed on the flower. But the focus ended up on the bark of the tree behind. So this pic should have been deleted at once.
But I retained it because it seemed to say:

Whether you choose to focus on the beautiful or on the not-so-beautiful is a matter of your own choice

With my job done, I pass the tag on to Arvind. Hope he shakes up from his slumber soon!