Sekar,chandra.

Ney veli...

2010-05-28T10:04:00.002+05:30

Posting this from Neyveli! I arrived here last night and stayed at friend's home. Drove around quite a bit. And went 4 a walk too.... To someone from Chennai this place is like unbelievable !!

So many empty plots filled with trees amidst houses, uniform houses, perfectly laid straight roads with ABSOLUTELY NO TRAFFIC AT ALL.

This is a huge town-sized quarters !! I saw mud excavated from the mines and the mound was hill-sized! Deva's (the guy's home I stayed at) garden was the size of a small park! This place is very very different from the life style I am used to...

Its a really really nice place to stay for a short while... probably will get bored after a week. Hell, I've not seen more than a dozen ppl on the road all this time I was here :)

2010-03-09T19:20:00.004+05:30

Giga serials..!

2010-01-31T21:48:00.001+05:30

2 days back, I was sitting in the hall after dinner and my Mom turned on the TV 2 watch her serials.. Since I had nothing else 2 do (Now that I think about it,I seem 2 have "nothing else 2 do" a lot of the time) I joined her.
Here is a gist of what happened (mind you,considering what happened, an elaborate explanation can easily be mistaken 4 a gist) in 2 serial shows - a demo 2 Cameron about shooting stuff that has less than one dimension...:(

"The One B4 chellame" (I didn't bother 2 note the name)
It started with a guy calling his friends 2 a police station. Few mins later 2 lovers came there,too. He took them inside and the lovers married. An inspector walked in and the married girl told him that her dad was a police inspector. Build-up music ,close-up shots, Thodarum!

Chellame!
Radhika shouting outside her bro's door. Her brothers and wives come out. Intense arguements given in 3 lines -"You should have given the 'Sothu' when my husband asked. Give it now.No,We wont...Now we understand what an evil lady u are. No,now I understand how evil u ppl are. I ll throw away my share of 'Sothu'in ur face" Done.Thodarum.
30 mins idhaye pesirukangappa...

I ve read a lot of jokes on mega serials, but I think the name itself is really an understatement!!

My friend's gettin married!

2010-01-02T23:47:00.003+05:30

I just heard that my friend Lavanya is getting engaged... Mappilai is from chennai,but working 'down under' rite now! When she told me this, my first sensation wasn't delight, to be truthful ...

I ve known her since my childhood as a schoolmate, a very understanding and extremely loyal friend. She is such a nice person that I've felt at times that I don't deserve such a gr8 friend..

But whenever I come to chennai, I first think about visiting her home and then somethin else would come up. And I was always like, "She is gonna be right here, within 15 mins of drive. We can always catch up later"... And I ve forgotten to return her calls or msgs every now and then.

Little things.. but I wish I had done them.

because now, after june, she will come to India once in what, a yr?

I feel bad that I haven't spent more time with such a great and 'ANCIENT' friend.. Come to think of it, I've known her for over 15 YEARS.

But i also feel happy for her for getting such a good match(an engineer with PG), and a life abroad. If anyone deserves this, its Lavanya! And I feel old, btw! What with getting placed in Infy, 2 months outta-college-project I get the feel of my coll life having gotten over!

But I won't think too much about this, or Ill get Nostalgic..cos once I am in, Ill keep brooding for hrs!! So ill wind up 4 now!

PS: I got placed in Infosys :)

Better to be the king in hell...

2009-11-29T18:35:00.005+05:30

Some ppl think that its 'peace' that all humans are after and that we are stuck in these 'worldly problems' on our way to attainment of peace.... They seem to think that once we realize that - we will let go of the desires, greed, envy or even passion and go for 'peace' !!

I wouldn mind them much, except that they manage to convince sane and sensible ppl into thinking so too!

So this guy X who is chasing a promotion or a lover or someone who is toiling for a new home - he suddenly realises that what he is doing is stopping him from being peaceful! So he learns 'detachment' and ends up giving up his dreams !!!

When will these ppl realise before the age of 60 , it is not peace that humans want. We need the dreams to drive us.

We need greed to make us wake up in the morning with a purpose.
We need someone's love to give a meaning to our achievements.
and all the complications love brings - they make life less boring!

Our own problems, irritations and challenges that don't let us sleep - these define us.
It is wat makes us human! In fact, the choice we make about this whole 'peace' thing - its like choosing your dress.

Just answer this- Will you ever burn your itchy armani suit, and change permanently to a very comfortable khaki uniform??

So come, lets go play Mortal Kombat with life!!!! :)

Want an oscar???

2009-11-29T02:39:00.003+05:30

I watched this ARR interview, and a woman was interviewing him at his home

I guess most awards have a human shape... Because when took her into a large room ,there on a shelf was an ARMY !! He opened a suitcase and the Golden globes were there wrapped in a towel-like thin cloth!!!
She was like 'Oh wow!' and she asked which awards they were and all that... and then Rahman was looking at that shelf and replying an all..

After which he slowly said, "Few filmfares seem to be missing... and a couple of national awards..." :) :) :) :)

How do you lose a national award!???????
Thats exactly what that interviewer asked. He said something that I' ve always said after losing notebooks while in primary-school!:)
"(shrug) um, we shifted our home!"

If you hear that Rahman's shifting again go hang around when they are moving. Who knows, you might end up owning an oscar or two......

Show starts... placements!

2009-11-28T21:17:00.003+05:30

Finally completed the last serious end semester exams of B.Tech !!
But still stuck here in college for pre-placement training till 5th of nxt month..still i shouldn't be complaining about it cos FINALLY TCS is visiting SASTRA for placements(I heard they are planning to recruit 8000 this quarter)

A lot of things that were gettting delayed almost infinitely(!) have finally happened in the last 3 days.... (apart 4m the xams , that is :)!)
We've finally bagged the 8th sem project ( WABCO - TVS has agreed to take us.. god, getting proj in a good company is like getting agood dinner at our mess or visiting home! sort of have to wait 4 weeks b4 it actually happens...lol.. )

And then my new lappy is now finally in production somewhere in Malaysia.. dunno when ill exactly get it,though!
In the last week, I even managed to download 30 GB of movies, videos and songs frm coll lan! Will be very useful 4 technical project, u know:) ( cited the same reason to convince my dad to get me the laptop!! )

All thats remaining now is to start preparing 4 the placement process...

P.S: Watched 'Thiruda thiruda' yesterday after many yrs. If u haven watched it since u were a child do go and watch it now...
I am pretty convinced that Maniratnam was drunk when directin this classic..The thing I dont understand is how someone can manage to stay drunk 4 so long.....

Shwetha Basu!

2009-10-19T07:09:00.003+05:30

HI! I watched this telugu movie 'Kotha bangaru logam' by chance! Didn't really understand much,but for all I cared, I could have watched it in mute!

The movie was aaaawesome for three reasons:

1. Shwetha basu
2. Shwetha basu
3. Shwetha basu :)lol!
Trust me,this girl gives Jo a run for her money...bayangara xpressions!

My new novel:

2009-10-11T04:22:00.002+05:30

A combination of 'inspirations' in the past few weeks made me ACTUALLY sit down and start typing a novel. Something I had been thinking of doing since the stone ages...but still, better late...
Its still going on...I ve done about 8 chapters and planning to do 12 more at least. One thing I have to say - the process of writing is definitely tedious . But if you get into the stride it becomes an obsession instead of mere hard work. At least that how I felt!
Ive posted extracts from the from the early chapters in the previous post....
I would love to call it 'novel' work!...but I await the verdict from some really talented friends of mine.
But irrespective of whether Ive penned a good story or not....the creativity it brought out is reward enough for me !

My Untitled Novel...

2009-10-11T04:00:00.006+05:30

1.

“The only thing that interests you more than a o e is splitting couples, you ass.”

“C’mon dude. I didn’t know she would decide based on my advice. It was an idle conversation.” Evan’s tone was innocent. But if you knew Evan, you won’t need the twisted smile on his face to decide he was lying.

“Sure. Manny’s B’Day letter fiasco was an accident too, right?” Ron came back.

“He came to me!”

I laughed. “Actually, it should be ‘He came to me’! The fool gets all his subject essays written by me and for his heartthrob’s B-Day letter he goes o you!! I should say, it was the cheesiest letter I’ve read!” Ron and Evan too laughed because Manny was supposed to know more about Evan than any of us. They had been schoolmates, and Manny had seen Evan extinguish one young love after another!

You should know that ‘Love’ here was the College Boy-Girl thing that we fool around with when we don’t have anything better to do. So when Manny handed over the Wishes card to Sunitha who refused to talk to him ever after reading it, all of us got a huge laugh out of it.

Manny would passionately fake-curse Evan whenever the topic was bought up, but it was hard to take him seriously since he started eyeing another girl 2 days after the heart-break! Life moves on in ‘Sunfields Engineering Academy, Chennai.”…

And I, by the way, am Gangy, short for Ganesh.G . Ethan Varma.N and Ramesh Oberoi.N are my best friends.

We were in the 2nd year class, on the first day of the semester, and were exchanging our holiday stories while waiting for the Sir to come. You may have heard about the Engineering students having pretty dull lives .In our case as with most, this was somewhat true.

But we were the ‘New seniors ’, and it was exciting!

We did not know that an unbelievably eventful year- one that would bring surprises, joys, reality, relationships and sorrows – was only dawning.

2.

If you are into Engineering then you know that the first is the footslogging year at college. The first morning is always good. The professors will be full of smiles and seniors sweet.

The first evening - the seniors will make you dance in underwear! The next morning - your professor will walk in wearing a tie the same color as your underwear and within 10 mins make you wish you were back in the hostel dancing in underwear!

And there is also the additional pressure of adjusting to a new place and to the new attitude.

The second year is different. The boys and girls are put together from this sem. The seniors had warned that the 3rd sem was always extra-tough, but I don’t think it bothered us as much as before! You see, when you have girls around to look at, you can handle any slow class. But I was somewhat old-school, I admit.

It was like there was some like-poled magnet in their direction! My head would turn around reflexively. But ‘sighting’ girls soon became easier. You see, I had inspiring friends. Ron especially had a gift for this thing and there was a girl called Karina in our class, a row before us and fortunately, to our side.

“Hey Gangy, Look”.

I followed Ron’s gaze and instinctively said “Ron!” .He looked at me in puzzlement “Wat?”.

I was embarrassed about the 'Viewing' but didn’t want to sound like a hypocrite.

“Um……well, Baasandhi is here.” Prof. Basanth was the Math prof. He had no right being called Baasandhi though since it is sweet!

“I know! And I promise I will look at him when he turns me on more than …her!”

This happened in the next class too. But this time, Ron shot me a suspicious look. “Hey …what are you afraid of? Don’t tell me you don’t like seeing girls.”

I smiled sheepishly. “You gonna believe me if I say Yes?”

“So how come you squirm each time we…. ”. “Dude I don’t know how I d react if she noticed. I mean, hey, wont YOU be embarrassed? ”

“Sure, if I were in KG and she was my teacher... No, that didn’t actually happen, don’t give me that look! But the point is, the girls actually want you to see them.”

“Yeah?” That kind of changed things! “Sure! Girls are our hobby?” I nodded. “So if it weren’t the other way round for them, we will be extinct in 100 years!”

“But...we look at them all the time. It doesn’t happen ‘the other way round’. “

Ron took a deep breath. He said, “Okay, there is a cute red-salwar with blue jimiki in the second row behind me. “

“So?”

“Keep your face neutral-very important- and lean back slowly. Then turn and look at her as naturally and quickly as possible.”

I did exactly as he said and three seconds later was looking at her. Unbelievably, she was staring at me and turned the other side within a nanosecond!

Hey, wow! Ron is spot-on at this stuff. I looked at him, my face flushed with pride. “And you are not even good-looking” he said unemotionally.

4.

Coffee was –surprisingly – good at the canteen. We had managed to secure 2 samosas each despite the insane crowd around the stall. We threw dirty looks at juniors who took the cue and “Sir”ed us. We even shooed a couple of juniors out of canteen.

Ron’s eyes fell on someone’s new Nokia-N73. It was bloody costly and he had lost one recently. His usual reaction was zipping his mouth shut (to ensure that the expletives are inaudible). But today he simply smiled ruefully.

As we walked back I noticed a whole range of good-looking girls I hadn’t paid attention to before. I told Ron that he was my Bodhi tree, and I was forever indebted to him. Wrong thing to say to Ron. Because he made me pay for their four samosas to ‘clear the debt’. A girl smiled at me as we neared the class.
Yeah, Things are really starting to look up here, I told myself with a smile. And then I noticed the crowd outside our class.

We reached in time to see our classmate Anand being dragged away by a staff, flanked by two security men ......

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End of chapter:
Evan,I and Ron knew Anand very well. But had we really? Apparently not.
We can't have imagined Anand can do something like this. The whole thing had been a strange experience.
“You know what my grandfather told me before he sent me before he saw me off to college?”
“ Oil bath on Saturdays? ” Ron offered.
“Not exactly. He said “You are out in the world now. The real world. Soon the entire manner in which you see things and people will change. If that confuses you, it simply means – you are growing. ””

The Names we sport...

2009-09-23T17:52:00.004+05:30

Check out these names.
We have Badminton Men' s doubles competition coming up in our coll sports court :))
And the names of some of d participating teams -------->

NIKKUMO NIKKADO

SASTRA 613402

BALLS OF STEEL

METTI OLI! [Konjamavadhu samandama vaingada pera!!]

NANGADAN JEYIKKA POROM

AIYAYO IVANGALA!

THANNIYA KUDI!

BTECH UNITED

WTF
And others like Bashers,'mess'merizers,Manchester/liverpool Utd. , bon jonito
I ll note some more down nxt time and add 'em here.

KALPANDHU KABALI!!
thats a soccer team name! Our VC wld choke 2 death if he heard these names!

Powerful EXPERIENCES!

2009-08-01T04:51:00.006+05:30

Today I put the CPU on my cot,placed my hand on it,and plugged the chord and got electrocuted!

No,it was nt too serious.But serious enough to get my 2 roommates(both of whom wer juniors) amused by my reaction...
Now,that pissed me off.

So i quickly wiped the smiles off their faces with a tester :)
I put it in all the terminals(they keep their hands/legs under them wen sleeping) and it glowed brightly - Without switching em on! I thought of comforting them with "Relax,u ll hav enough shocks to get used 2 it by 4th yr" .
But I carefully refrained...they looked like they had put their fingers inside the plug point already!

The real reason I m posting abt it is this...Having cheered up my juniors,I got back 2 studyin 4 2morrow's exam jus like that.Bcos in all,I ve been electrocuted 6 times,and seen ma frnds getting mild shocks in my stay at hostel.
This new one didnt register at all..

It all started wen I came 2 'NEW' hostel in 2nd yr.(the 1st batch 2 move in).The room no. was AF33...I had an immersion heater under my cot,and the plug point over my head.My roommate had put the heater inside the bucket and wen i woke up one morning,he asked me 2 switch it on.
So lying on the bed i plugged the heater and had a bright(literally!) start to my day by pressing the switch !It illuminated my face with a divine glow by shooting out sparks....
I recommend the abv procedure for heavy hangovers.....i ve found it 2 clear one's senses very quickly.

That whole year was interesting! My computer 'earth'ed in all its metallic parts and the monitor screen.And unfortunately, a lot of parts in a computer r metallic!I swear,my arm moves away reflexively wen it goes near any computer screen....

i had my 1st proper Shock(not 'earth') a few months later. You know its a real shock wen u dont remember wat happened...in case u ve had one,i think u probably know that already...
One sec I am abt 2 hit the switch and nxt sec I am sitting and gaping at d switch board from the middle of the room(being a 4in1 it was reasonably large) -groggy,aching,a little thirsty and highly irritated for sitting like a duck...

It didnt help wen my friend curiously asked if i was alright,because I realized later that he was referring 2 my MENTAL condition!!It turns out he thought I was goofing around....... by jumping backwards and landing on my backside??who the hell does that???

(This was d same kind soul who felt sorry for losing a plug point wen it blew up in my face :/)

The last of a no. of such interesting events was jus day b4 yesterday wen we didnt get water in our bathroom. So i went 2 fill the bucket wid drinking water(for BATHING!)...The cooler was working -the tap is the pushing type- and in my irritation i put my hand on it and unnecessarily leaned on it with all my weight!
It must have taken offense at my lack of manners bcos i was jumping back the next sec!It was 'earth'ing.....

The main reasons I felt I should record all this -

1. I have not bothered even 2 inform the warden abt such hazards(but then,none of us do-they dont care)...
2.Wen it earthed in the cooler I went 2 another 1 and 4got abt it immediately...didnt tell even my frnds abt it.
3.To us, it has bcum like some sort of common event!
If I had felt serious about the cooler i wld have remembered 2 put on my slippers today IRRESPECTIVE OF THE SWITCH BEING ON OR OFF.Despite today's 'dosage'(!) being more severe I didnt seem 2 worry a lot.....and that worries me!!

It IS True that so far nothing has gone fatally wrong, and I dont know wat sort of voltage causes permanent damage.
But I hope I remember the next time that I DO NOT wish 2 find the answer for that by personal experience !

Empowered,
Chandrasekar.

Continued...

2009-08-01T03:47:00.003+05:30

Post script: A few weeks back a girl in Andhra had commited suicide -because she didnt get a seat in SASTRA.I want all of u prospective SASTRA freshers out ther to know that u can save yourselves the troule of taking your life by joining here-the management does it 4 free with a nominal fine of 35000 rs. per semster for surviving.

No,seriously guys...all those still in school-you need to ask the SENIORS of any coll b4 u make a decision...throw the prospectus,reviews,rankings,placement records and ur 'well-wishing' relatives' advice in the garbage...find out the inside truth. Trust me,most of us r eager 2 save innocent wld-b-victims if only u ask.
One senior may b prejudiced against the institution-but if 5 or 6 guys tell u to run for ur life-do exactly that.

MY GIUDING PHILOSOPHY ....

2009-06-20T20:59:00.002+05:30

This fwd is the most lucid xpression of my current philosophy-

A crow was sitting on a tree doing nothing.Seeing that, a deer decided to sit and do nothing...And in a short while,it was gobbled up by a lion!

MORAL:
To do nothing , you need to be on top!

WINNING THROUGH INTIMIDATION

2009-06-04T22:38:00.002+05:30

Robert Ringer.
Most pragmatic self-help book I have read. I recommend it after finding out first-hand that it works,BIG TIME!

A First in my college life- great attendance record

2009-04-17T02:53:00.004+05:30

Bunking is no big deal-nothing too serious in our college usually. Lag means paying a hefty fine,but that was it. This sem,BOY!did it all change!! The first few weeks were as usual.
And then all of a sudden bunking became Top concern. The magic word was 'RE-DO' if u have Lag! We were like,Are you KIDDING?
ONE MORE YEAR in this place????? The result...well,see for urself!
The 1st column is no, of classes and 2nd is no. bunked:

(check out the next post)

P.S : Have to go back to my preps for 'mechatronics' paper tomorro(Man,my departments name is not even there in the Word dictionary!!!).
After all,wen compared to attendance lag,arrear is an infinitely worse reason for staying longer than necessary!

1st column-NO, OF CLASSES,2nd-BUNK !!

2009-04-17T02:47:00.001+05:30

Dec - 2008	38	21	0	0	0
Jan - 2009	81	21	0	0	0
Feb - 2009	79	15	0	0	0
Mar - 2009	124	17	0	0	0
Apr - 2009	44	8

surge..!

2009-04-01T03:54:00.002+05:30

its been a long time since I ve used this word or believed in it.
you see,Life has not been so magical for me in the past few yrs...the reasons,analysis ..lets jus not get into that now.
But the thing is -you start to feel a lot different abt life in ways u wld never have guessed.

Now,all of us have this hazy dreams ,long term aims, short term goals and a lot of forced commitments too.Way back,I was a vivacious dreamer ...had no relation with reality..lolz..
I was ,at one point,like...'I think I wanna go into ploitics and u kno,change everything in the country ' ,,would nt give it a second thought.

It was like,I can burst ahead anytime I want...kinda like the nitrous boosters u get after a few blacklists in NFS game! 'Surge'. But then it changed to highly pragmatic goal settings,expecting and preparing 4 the worst...hope u get d idea!

Finally now,things have started to fall in place !
I can now afford to b a little...um,Wild! throw caution to the winds!

And I am again thinking of 'surging' ahead...one powerful shot!and I cld b back in ctrl.
Lets see how far it works out.....

Life is Beautiful*

2009-03-13T22:03:00.000+05:30

*Conditions Apply.

Reading the mind...through everything outside it!

2009-01-08T07:46:00.000+05:30

here are some statistics about the messages we receive from
someone we meet.

• 7% of the information we receive is from what they actually say.
• 38% of information we receive is from the tone, inflection and speed
of their voice.
• A staggering 55% of the information we receive is from their
body language.

These non-verbal signals will help you in dealing with the person but stay
focussed on what the person is saying. If you focus too much on their body
language signals, you and/or the other person may feel uncomfortable.

It is useful to be able to read people’s body language, but it is equally useful
to learn how to get your body to send the right signals and eliminate the
wrong signals. See below for some body language signals.

Be warned: body language is very much open to interpretation. Many
signals have different meanings depending on the person/situation. Keep this
mind when you assess a body language signal.

Note: Look for 3 or 4 signals that convey a similar message or the one-
off inconsistent signal. Also, consciously practise reading/doing some of
the signals as much as you can. Learning, as you practise, what works
and what doesn’t work for you will help you gain confidence to use body
language techniques consciously.
How to Read Body Language
Body Language Signals:
• Open arms:
o Energetically open and possibly feeling vulnerable
o A good way to show you are approachable, especially when
combined with open palms
• Palms up/open hands:
o Defences down
o An open heart
• Palms on chest – When a person uses open palms that occasionally
touch their chest, they are signalling honesty
• Outward, upward hand movements – This conveys an open and
positive message
• Folded arms:
o A defence mechanism that shows the person is not open to what
is being said or done
o May mean rejection
o Physically cold
o Stubborn in their outlook
• Hands closed – A closed heart
• Doodling – Bored
• Fist:
o Anger and to be avoided
o Physically cold
o Very tense
o Defiant or triumphant when held in air
• Feet under the chair – A sign of eagerness
• Looking around:
o Wants to get away
o Thinking about something else
o Bored with situation/conversation
• Stroking chin – evaluating
• Mirroring – This is evidence of two people getting on really well.
Each person copies the other’s body language, usually subtly.
Mirroring occurs with:
o Breathing
o Gestures
o Eye movement
o Leaning towards each other at the same time
o Crossed or uncrossed legs How to Read Body Language
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o Speech pattern
o Arm movement, or no arm movement
o Emotive energy such as being excited, relaxed, etc.
Note: If you practice this with somebody the key is to be subtle and
not be a copycat. There is a natural rhythm to the process, which is the
key.
• Yawning:
o Bored
o Tired and that may have nothing to do with the
situation/conversation
• Preening – This shows someone knows they are attractive
For example, flicking or stroking their hair or adjusting a collar and/or
a tie.
• Ear Tugging:
o Indecision
o Possible deception
• Puffing out chest – this has nothing to do with silicone implants. Men
do this when demonstrating their attraction to someone.
• Nodding – The occasional nod from a listener to a speaker is a
positive message. It is an indication they are listening and are
interested.
• Too much nodding – This indicates the listener has lost interest and
may be bored. (Probably where the saying ‘nodding off to sleep’ came
from.)
• Chopping hands down – This is an aggressive act, usually used to
antagonise.
• Body space – Respect for the other person’s body space is crucial in
gaining their trust. Stay at least one arm’s length away from them.
• Striding briskly:
o An outward display of confidence
o Anger
• Gentle leg shaking:
o The person is mildly stimulated
o May need to go to toilet
• Vigorous leg shaking:
o Reveals apprehension and nerves
o Desperate to go to the toilet
• On toes – Eagerness
• Clears throat: How to Read Body Language
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o Anxiety
o Has a cough/sore throat
o Habit
• Pretends to kick imaginary things on ground - frustration
• Open feet – reflecting and giving attention.
• Flushed cheeks:
o Indicates interest in the other person
o Embarrassment (usually temporary)
• Dilated pupils:
o Interested in someone.
o Focussed
o High on drugs
• High blink rate:
o A person who has an interest in someone will have an increased
blink rate.
o Nervousness
o Assessing
o Has an eye disorder
• Backwards moving:
o Rejecting
o Escaping
• Moving away – Sometimes there is no hidden meaning.
• Slumped posture:
o Bored
o Low self-esteem/confidence
• Legs entwined – A woman who is interested in someone will often
cross and uncross her legs when seated.
• Gazing – A woman will gaze long enough for someone to notice then
will quickly look away. Her mouth may open and lips slightly wet.
• Low voice – When interested in someone a woman may speak in a
low voice.
• Running hand along leg – sexually interested in the other person
• Running hands along legs:
o Really sexually interested in the other person
o Getting ready to leave
• Directly facing you with open stance – The person is interested and
you have their attention.
• Drumming fingers:
o Impatient How to Read Body Language
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o May be a drummer
• Open mouth:
o You have said something outrageous and their jaw has dropped in
shock.
o The person has tried to interrupt the conversation to get a word in,
but you haven’t paused.
o May be a sign of attraction
• Tilt of hips – Sign of attraction and a good flirting tool
• Finger pointing:
o Sign of assertiveness
o Sign of aggression
• Open legs – Receptive to the other person
• Staring:
o Defiance
o Sign of aggression
• Looks you in the eyes without staring – Confident, self-assured.
• Doesn’t look you in the eyes:
o Lack of confidence
o Is being deceptive
• Standing upright – reflects inner confidence and comfort level.
• Chewing fingernails – Nerves. The person is not feeling secure. If
they swallow, there may not be enough calcium in their diet.
• Quick and animated arm and hand movements – Lying
Note: Many honest, passionate people also do this.
• Darting eyes – deception.
• Shifting eyes – At the very least may be a lack of confidence or at
worst it is indication of a deception. Definitely means deception when
combined with a nose rub and ‘umms’ and ‘ahhs’.
• People tend to look down and to the left when lying.
• Running fingers through hair:
o Frustration
o Preening

Give me a break!

2009-01-07T03:17:00.000+05:30

I am guilty of being partly responsible for the eco. crunch!cos
I am blessed with lots of luck wen it cums 2 education..

I studied (its a very relative term...)in matriculation and we were screwed like hell in high school...and I came to college and Lo and Behold my batch has a new tougher syllabus,and I hav 2 free hours a week.

And the nxt yr the syllabus was watered down and the freshers had SEVEN or so free hrs :(( After all these 'The supreme court of India' had suddenly dicovered that sumthing called 'ragging' takes place in coll s every yr.
Horrified,it said 'ask him his name...and get kicked out of d campus-forever'....

well,to b fair 2 MY senior s i was nt ragged 4 knowing my name...
all they wanted was jus a hip-dance .I did it 4 em till one AM that night..

But I did not xpect that my notorious luck wld crash Global Markets :)..lol...so that I don get placed now in my 3rd yr!
On the serious side, its a little confusing with all d alternate options an all that.I had nt prepared 4 THIS scenario!

Reviews:

2008-12-02T21:03:00.000+05:30

A series of Unfortunate events-

If u can take the shooting of every scene as an event,and that chunk of movie scenes as a series,this movie is aptly named.

Sakkarakatti-
my father used to tell me when i was a kid that 'god's name' was the way to salvation.keep chanting it and u ll reach Him pretty soon.I think I can show him a much simpler way now.....

Actually,i m being unfair.this movie was PURE FUN!they ought 2 bring out more movies like this.there wer 5 or 6 of us in the room with the computer and wr commenting on every scene ,evry dialogue!the whole thing was awesome ly funny!! and then ther was this unforgettable "Pussycat!..chuuu..." scene. We paused it immediately(for fear of missing such wonderful shots :)) and wer literally rotfl !P.S: "all this was performed by trained profesionals.DO NOT TRY AT HOME!!"

Race-
Definitely can b watched once or twice. Plot s pretty cool,and pace is racy.And then ther is katrina :)...i dont think director has hrd of logic,btw!but its pretty good,still..

worth it?

2008-12-02T20:50:00.000+05:30

k,guys..torture time!i hav way too much free time and hav decided to create 'poetry'!!

Life is such a sweet,but short walk;
through a path of roses in a joy-laden park.

So,why stray off into those darkened blocks.......
and into roads that a mad crowd blocks!

that there is no time for hate,terrorism,vanity or greed
is agreed;

especially,in such a short walk!

P.S:On the serious side,speaking of 'short' life,i want to pay my respects to all those valiant ppl who died for this country.Sometimes i really wonder if kashmir is really worth all this madness....

The Aviator-

2008-11-29T19:42:00.000+05:30

This looong movie is worth a watch...leonardo di caprio plays ´Howard hughes´ ,the heir of a rich industrial family...he s a headstrong and highly ambitious guy-"When I grow up,I ll make the biggest movies and fly the best planes and bcome the richest man"(well, these are nt the xact words).
He inherits a vast fortune,most of which he pours into a mammoth movie "Hell's Angels"...he s a visionary, and ABSOLUTELY deaf to criticisms...in his time that movie is seen as madness!3 yrs and 4 million dollars ltr , wen it screened -he is accepted as wat he is -a visionary..

He goes on to build prototypes of better,faster and safer planes and acquires a company TWA and starts off to bcum the leader of Aviation indutstry ....
and then, just wen i thought the movis was over, I found that ther was a 2nd file!

Yeah,the rest of the movie is abt how he was pulleddown by his enemies and business adversaries ,and how he come s out of it despite insurmountable odds
...
the frightenened child bhind the facade of an incredibly strong man...and his onward journey..

P.S:
hrd Ghazini...Rahman has delivered,yet again.

´Rains´ of change!!

2008-11-29T19:09:00.001+05:30

today was to b the last day of my xams,and rite now i ought to hav been on my bus to che. but it was not to b..I usually lov rains ,and ya it was lovely with the relentless showers for 3 days.
but it came with a heavy price tag!

b4 i go on,i ve got to say about my life 3 yrs back...major change in important plans cöuld be irritating at best,and frutrating at worst.if ther r incompetant ppl around at those times , i jus go berserk.

3 yrs since , I am calmly posting....from the Tower of Babel!!
3 days back , we wer informed that the exam nxt day wer cancelled and wer to b held on 30th.(tomoro)
With no water (DRINKING water), power for most of the day it was welcome.
Adding a new dimension to the probs ,the mess ran out of rations.

No power fr the whole of nxt day,and then we were told xams on 29th wer cancelled ...to b held after 4th(no date specified)...
this noon ,the confirmed news was that it was to b on 6th..
30 mins b4 ,the 'confimed' news- xam was on 16th dec,one day b4 nxt sem....

ther s still uncertainity bt Hons. xams!

Ther r 2 ways to che...thru tanjore or trichy...2 bridges near tj hav collapsed...
As for trichy, one more bridge down and we need to circumnavigate 20+ miles to trichy...

hrd of Kumbamela?I hav nt seen it,but i think i ll a good idea wen I go to trichy tomoro! half the state wil b ther..WOW,COOOL......Power s gone,AGAIN!!
Life is never dull at sastra...that s for sure:)

Sujatha...Phenomenon

2008-11-16T06:30:00.000+05:30

Now that i hav sum time to blog i want to say about the tamil writer sujatha(pseudonym of Rangarajan)..he passed away recently and I happened to cum across this Diwali spl issue from "The times of India" in tamil..half of it was dedicated to sujatha...

I ve been familiar with his works for many yrs now..even as a layman reader not even knowing that sujatha was a man I devloped enormous respect for him by reading just 2 books of his(mere novels)..

If u love run-of-the-mill lits, stay away frm him.But if u want to b stimulated,inspired,shocked and made to ponder jus try him once and u ll kno...his inimitable style often carries subtle yet sharp humour(even that is never ordinary)...

"yarum idikkama ponum na college ku INCUBATOR la dan poganum."-frm ANNIYAN.

He was the only author in tamil whose works I followed consistently.As for others,it was a 'one-nite stand':)..lolzz. If ther s sumone out ther like me, this issue I told u abt is a MUST READ.

apart frm sum gr8 works of his,it displays many of his essays reflecting his opinions and thoughts on every other issue/topic.And articles frm ppl who knew him...reading it was like taking a fleeting journey thru his life. also,try

http://www.kirukkal.com/2007/04/writer-sujatha-short-biography

Finally,the cliche "U ll live on in our hearts and in your literature."Only,here its true...

6.15 am:(

2008-11-16T06:15:00.000+05:30

hmmm.have nt got much to say!

xams from day after tomorro...thanx to my hectic prep timings I woke up at 4 today(4 AM...ppl who kno me well cld mistake it as 4 pm!).I had nt meant to,but sleep jus wont cum! sat in the bed for sum time blinking at my bedsheet..

after regaining sum amount of consiousness ,I opened my system and now having run out of things to do,I m blogging.

And in case u r reading my blog,wow!u must be desperately bored!even more than me....:)

Starting serious blogging!!!

2007-12-21T21:08:00.000+05:30

Hmmm...its gonna take a LOTTA time b4 i get into a blogging mindset!!not anytime soon,cos ther s too much pressure,i m playing for high stakes..
Guess some ppl wld use blogs to vent out the pressure.Not me.I need lots of space to create something new,even sumthing as trivial as a blog.

The First Post!

2007-12-04T15:23:00.000+05:30

I m jus feeling my way around my 1st blog!Lets see..