Waiting for the perfect man… ?

Well, don’t.

hehe… you don’t want to end up like that, do you?

[I hope I haven't incensed any guys out there!! ]

A day in the lives of vettEEEs…

This is a sequence of mails sent in a day (in the post-college era) by some of the vettEEEs. (The ones in the loop were – Me, Sumi, Ramya, Raam, KB, Bhargavi and Narsi.)

Ondra renda kelvigal…

‘iru vizhigalum vizhigalum inaindhana…
iru imaigalum imaigalum thigaithana…‘*

 

idhula slight doubt enakku… adheppadi iru vizhigal/imaigal… kanakku thappa varudhe… shouldn’t it be two pairs of eyes… assuming that our hero/heroine/whomever are not visually handicapped, idheppadi possible?

 

(* – the opening lines of the song ‘Yaaridamum’ from ‘Thotti Jaya’)

 

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Indha ‘VITOMINE – Active clothing for men’ apdinu city la anganga hoardings iruke… (by Chennai silks, I guess…) adhula irukara model namma* Arya-va?

 

(* Hehe… I just wanted you to note the usage of the phrase ‘namma Arya’.. avlo dhan… Last week ‘Ullam Ketkume’ patha after effects… I still haven’t seen ‘Arindhum Ariyamalum’ yet. ‘Life-a waste panreenga, Madhu’, V said wistfully yesterday… Hmmm….)

 

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Captain-oda movie ‘Perarasu’ eppo release agudhu?

 

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And about my struggle with the template to remove those spaces, I’ll forever be indebted to Vijai for pointing out to me that the problem was only with Firefox. There are no spaces when viewed with IE. (I wasted 3 hrs on this and might have spent more, if not for him! Avanoda style-laye sollanum na, ‘Nandri hai’… hehe…)

Phew….

Aaargggh… I’ve been spending close to 2 hours on this new template tweaking it like crazy. For a person who does not have any clue about html, it’s a pretty arduous task. I would have thought I was doing considerably well, if not for these two irritants -
* see the ‘Pages I frequent’ list in the sidebar? It’s got no padding to the right. And I’m clueless as to how to stop the words from entangling themselves on the right edge, as obviously, this list is picked up from my blogroll. (I’m making a mental note to check blogroll soon.) I have also removed the HP excerpt for the same reason. Will have it back as soon as I figure out a way to do this. (Or if I give up in the process.)
* and there’s this huuuuge space after my blog, before the comments. And this happens with the first post on the page only… happening with both the main and the archive pages. Irukara space la pudhu blog-e ezhudhidalam poliruku…

Oh, by the way, how does this new template look? It’s not my goal in life to keep changing my template every week, but then, I saw this on someone’s blog and fell in love with the template. And you see where it’s led me. I’m yet to make it exactly the way I want it to be…. but I’m almost there. If any of you have any clues about the above two problems I’m facing, kindly let me know.

Comments on the template are welcome. I, for one, think it looks cool and is pleasing on the eye. (Krish, indha dhadavayum nee edhavadhu sonna en template pathi, adi vanguva.)

vettEEE updates…

Okie, there’s one more story on the vettEEEs. Ellarum ennoda soga kadhaiya kelunga, idho inga. Jolly-a oru kalyanathuku pona naan, epdi sogame uruvana madhri veliye vandhen-ngradhu dhan kadhai.

And Krish had advice on how to handle the war I wage every morning. Hmm… oru official advisor range ku ayitu varan, la…? Anyways, with his permission, here’s a part of our chat yesterday :

Krish : i jus read ur post ..hilarious
me : which one?
Krish : i suffer frm the same problem
me : morning blues?
….
Krish : but i found a remedy re
Krish : if at all u get up
Krish : see
Krish : u get up rite
me : of course i do… i don’t die in my sleep..
Krish : say at 7.30
Krish : then ur brain will have a struggle goin on between 2 sides
Krish : one will remind u to work
Krish : one wud want u 2 sleep
me : there r no 2 sides…
me : only 1
me :
me : seri.. so
Krish : so wot u do
Krish : when its battling
me : ditch both and sleep?
Krish : make it a point to get up and run to bathroom and wash ur face
me : haha!
Krish : dont even think
me : hmmm…
Krish : ur sleepy side will always win if u dont do it
Krish : i have found this
me : hmmm…
me : seri, will try it 2m morning..
Krish : after that if u start sleeping no one can save u
me : vera vazhiye illaya?
Krish : no way

Okay, I didn’t try it this morning, as I actually woke up at 6:30 AM. Nethu naal polambina polambal-la, some internal alarm was set nu nenaikaren. aar-rai mani ku thaana ezhundhutten. So,I haven’t had a chance to try this today. Will try this sometime next week, Krish!!

And oh, I almost forgot to mention Raam’s comment on the ‘Ada Raama’ post. Here it is :

Raam: well, you pretty much described the incident the way it was.. Except for the fact that i was a little surprised that nee enna avalova vaarala nu

Kavala padadha, nanba, innum evlovo iruku life la… unna vaarama enakku thookam varuma, sollu?

‘Where’s the world heading to?’

It was during Lakshmi’s bro’s wedding. As always, oor-la slight-a therinja yaarukavadhu kalyanam-na, we girls in my class used to camp somewhere overnight. And for this wedding, I had stayed overnight at Ramya’s place. Actually, none of this is pertinent to what I’m gonna say, so ditch it all. Hehe…

Konja neram arattai adichapram, kadamai unarchi engala romba uruthichu. So, without wasting any further time, we went in to the dining hall to have breakfast. I had just seated myself next to an old man (whom I’ll refer to as thatha from this point forward) and Ramya was sitting on my other side. As always, we were all bubbly and yapping away to glory. As I was happily talking to Ramya, the thatha glared at me and I smiled back weakly. I lowered my voice, but nevertheless, carried on talking. The fact that Revathy knocked over Ramya’s glass of water on Ramya’s banana leaf by mistake, and the place was a royal mess in a matter of seconds, did not improve our standing with him one bit. Thatha was looking sterner by the minute.

Monday morning blues…

I hate monday mornings… Well, on some occasions like today, I hate tuesday mornings too. Heck, I hate every morning… every single one of them – when I’m forced to wake up mid-sleep, that is… I mean, what sort of a time is 6:45 to wake up? Muzhichukara time-a adhu…? Endha kevalavadhi ipdi kalankaarthala ezhundhukara pazhakatha kandu pidichano… kai-la kedachan, samadhi dhan. And if I ever get hold of the chap who said that 8 hrs of sleep is enough for an average human being, I’ll stone him to death. Seriously.

LOL…

Writing about Chennai’s heat, Praveen says
“Ramar mattum vanavaasathukku Chennai area-la engayavathu poi irundha, Bharatan seruppu kaettathukku adhalaye piyya piyya adichirupparu! Seruppu illama nadantha half boil dhaan!”

And about Captain’s entry to politics, he says
“Kaveri prechanai-a theerka, Karnataka CM-a he will meet, will meet, meet. “

Hahaha… indha payyanoda kusumbu-ku alave illa!

Ada Raama!

It was a hot summer day. Well, to be honest, I’m not exactly sure – it could have been ‘winter’ as well – there’s no difference in Chennai, you see. Anyways, the point is, it was hot. And we were in our final year of engineering. Realising that I was thirsty and finding my water bottle empty, I walked to the water cooler next to my classroom, with the bottle in hand. I was just filling water when I noticed that Raam was sitting on a stool outside the class, beyond the entrance. It was a little weird to find him sitting there alone, but Raam is known to have done weirder things and I chose to ignore him, as usual.

More blogrolls… and blogs…

Just blogrolled Praveen and Neha…. Praveen, cos I have been visiting his site for quite sometime and I find his blogs too damn funny… and Neha, cos she’s one independent, assertive girl… It’s truly a pleasure to see people like that, who don’t mince words… Just read her very angry post… I understand exactly how you feel, girl!!

And the new blog I’m talking about is this*. Well, I had originally intended to pen down some of my college memories here (and a little bit of school stuff too)… It’s too fresh in my mind and too good to be forgotten… I’m sure no one from BIST 2K2 EEE (it has now become Bharath University) can help smiling when reminded of some of these incidents… Honestly, we had an amazing college life and it just had to be chronicled somewhere… So, well, I have begun to write it down. However, I might not be the only person to write these stories… Raam, Aarthi, Bhargavi and Ramya have all shown enthu and might join in sometime… So, for that reason, it’s a new blog here.

Oh, btw, here’s what you can expect there -
* I shall try not to ‘damage’ anyone’s reputation… But then again, I decide the level of damage… (so, you don’t have much of a choice, Raam)
* I shall frequently choose to have selective amnesia.
* I will try to write amusing, funny and in general memorable incidents. No serious stuff….

Just written the first post... Slight-a ennaye damage panra madhri irundhalum, it’s ok nu ezhudhi iruken…

* Edit: All my blogger blogs are now combined into a single wordpress blog – the one you are reading now.