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Hey Everyone! Happy Valentine’s Day!!
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Hey Everyone! Hope everyone is doing great amidst the unprecedented time we are in right now. It’s been almost 5 years since I wrote anything on my personal blog, ever since 2016, a lot has changed in me and one of the things I really miss is doing my creative work - writing blogs, making videos, exploring places and all those fun stuff. But for 2021, I’ve decided to get back to it - or atleast start writing some blogs. Although the site has lost almost all of its audience, I believe that this blog will be something that I can treasure along with my old memories since I started writing it.
\nWith that said, I would love to welcome you all back to my blog and let’s hope it only gets better from this point :)
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\n It had been a looooong time since we, the Happy Consimites had met together and Santhosh had come from london for his holiday. We had decided to meet up on September 5 or 6th 2015 and after month’s planning, we finally fixed the venue to be the Wild Tribe Ranch. It’s an adventure park to the north of Chennai, in a place called Ponneri. None of us had visited that park before and all of us were enthralled to get there. As always, we were having a lot of changes in the plan and only by two days before the actual date, we finally fixed the place. This would be my first trip where I would be taking out my Nykoo (Nikon D5500) out to the wild.
\nOn September 6th 2015,
\nThe day had finally come and we were pretty excited. I woke up very early in the morning at about 5AM and got ready by 6. Our cab that me and Dharani had booked arrived on time at our house. We started off almost on schedule and first picked up Ishwarya at Indira Nagar, Adyar. While on the way, we called up the others and told them to be ready. Next, we buckled up Abinaya at Medavakkam, as she was in her friend’s house that morning. Following on, we took Santhosh, Karthik Balaje on the way and finally caught up with Srinath and Chetna at Perungalathur.
\nWe took the bypass highway and started off slick on time and reached the outskirts of Chennai by 8.45AM. While on the way, we had troubles finding the right directions for the park and once we even messed up by getting into a farm. We were astounded with our driver’s skills as he swiftly drew the 9-seater Chevy Tavera along the foot-path of the crop field in REVERSE!!. While on the way to the park, we had a great time talking and making fun of ourselves after a long break.
\nAt around 9.50AM, we reached nearby area where the park is and we all moved into a restaurant for the morning breakfast. Starting with sambar idlis, we dug ourselves into the food one by one as plates came in. At around 10.50 AM, we finally reached the park, “The Wild Tribe Ranch”.
\nThe excitement continued as we all got down and took a look at various tickets for the park. Thankfully, the place was completely empty and we were the only ones to be there when we arrived. We all got the tickets, and we moved towards the ‘Supreme Geronimo’ (Kind of like a bungee liftoff). I was the first one to try and man, it was awesome! Weighing very less, I was lifted off to a spectacular height two times and it was really exciting. All of us tried it one by one and Ishwarya really freaked out although she loved it. For the other fat-sos, the cable couldn’t lift them up and so it was kind of boring to see them just bounce off a little :P.
\nNext, we all tried the bull-ride starting off with Chetna. Abi was the one who could manage to be on the bull for a longer time :D . We all took a lot of pictures at every ride and it was more fun than the actual ride itself :) . Next up was my favorite, the ATV. Not sure why everyone else drove it like a tractor in a crop field, but I really loved and paced against time with the ATV ride :D . Then, we had fun in the obstacle courses, a course with gym balls and finally headed out for lunch.
\nWe had been arranged lunch by the management, we had a separate room for us to dig in again but I wasn’t hungry at all to have lunch. I skipped lunch and instead I had lots of glucose to quench me through the rest of the day. After eating, me and Abi explored a few macro options in my camera and also found a toad by the wash basin.
\nAnd next came the Archery. Here everyone excelled in giving good poses for their portraits than hitting the target itself which was pretty funny :D . We took a lot of pictures and we were completely exhausted. With the remaining tickets, me, Dharani and Chetna went on the sliding bungee ride, the boys went on the ATV. Wrapping the day up, Chetna and Abi went up on the Trampoline. By 5PM, we started off from the park with a lot of sweat and memories.
\nOn the way back, the fun talks continued as we discussed about our futures and life partners — dropping one by one in their respective places. Certainly, this day could be one of the memorable days for we, the Happy Consimites. I’ve been a part of a lot of groups in my life but Happy Consimites would be my favorite in any of those. Contrary, to what most people have, where School gangs and College gangs are most cherished their life, Happy Consimites would be the one in the top that I will cherish forever ‘as a group’. I really wish that we can all stay together like this, even after everyone of us get married, explore and enjoy a lot more together. Although its been a long time since this happened, I really wanted this to be on my blog. My blog is going on through some tough customizations that I’m not able to take the time to learn and fix it, Hopefully it’ll be fixed soon. If I had missed anything or if you wish to ask me anything regarding the park, let me know your comments below.
\nPhotos taken are available on demand, feel free to contact me via IM or e-mail.
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Like I said in my previous post, It’s been exactly an year after I left BharatMatrimony (One of the best decisions I’ve ever taken in my life). Thanks to Ishwarya, for reminding me on July 22nd, my last day at office an year back. After nearly an year of being a VIP (Velaiyilla Pattathari), a lot of this and that happened, and now I’m almost going to complete two months of work at CompuSystems. The work allotted to me was extremely challenging and was a really difficult task (atleast to me). At first I was really scared how I’m going to complete it. I was sitting with same set of class files and was tinkering here and there, reading a lot of articles and books on OpenGL ES to figure out a way to finish my work. As days passed, I was quietly progressing step by step in a placid manner and I was getting some confidence I’ll be finishing this task soon. And yesterday, that final day had come. Once again, I was able to accomplish what I thought was impossible a month back after which I also a serious unbearable headache. I had finally finished my first milestone which I had kept to myself in the company and I’m almost ready to move the next task. During the course of these two months, I was not able to concentrate on anything else. Although, I got myself a new Sony Xperia Z2, my upgraded Xype, I was not yet fully happy it since I was thinking myself worth it for having such a premium class device. Almost three by fourth of the nights in the last two months, I was thinking how to finish that task, with a few wholly sleepless ones. I was not able to ask help on this to anyone, I wasn’t able to clearly describe the situation in which I was in to many, it was like I have to isolate myself on this until I find a solution for it. Meeting Ishwarya, too became like meeting every other consimite, that is once a month. It still amazes me that I had met Ishwarya only once in the month of June, in spite of being just a few blocks away. Having conversations with others became a rare scenario in my life and some times I don’t even know what to talk when I get a chance. Anyways, its all of part of the ‘change’ we all know.
\nThe strange thing is, I was not only the one with sudden difficult challenges in the past two months. Almost all my close friends got some problem on their own, which was not unexplainable to others. Hiding the problems to ourselves and cheering each other to move forward with confidence was the only way to go. My life had completely became like this, a workaholic :
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Funny as it is, it’s hard truth. Well, it isn’t all that bad, it’s just how things are now and they are clearly moving up a lot better. In a few days, I’m going to attend the Landmark Forum and hope to go on a few trekking trips with friends in the next few months. I even wish to do a few travelogues by myself and I hope you’ll all be seeing them pretty soon here (Yep, just another announcement you may never see :P). Well, thats about it, I shall update when things really start to happen. For now, one thing is for sure, I’m on the road…
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\nAlong with my team at ICAT, Chelladurai and others were working hard from the start of March for the International Video Games Competition at Scotland, “Dare To Be Digital”, but as days kept passing by, I was losing a lot of interest in programming games, which is definitely awkward. I realised something is wrong with my decisions and because of my decisions, myself, my friends and my parents had to suffer. Nevertheless, I still don’t regret what I had done. I strongly believe that every decision I make is approved by god for my better future. It may not look okay now but as time passes by, the jigsaw puzzle of my life start to take shape by itself.
\nLast year, I strongly set myself to go into a career that can influence the life of the people and I believed that building games was one of the way that I do that. Through ICAT, I learnt that game development is not easy as an individual because, developing a game requires a lot of likely minded people. Starting from the concept, the Game art, the Game Design, the Game Engine, the Audio and more, the Game Development is one serious process that one cannot do alone beginning a beginner. This was something were I faced a lot of difficulty explaining to my friends and family, why I couldn’t excel in this field yet. Although, everyone around me boosted me that I can do everything, and I’m capable of doing anything that I set my mind too, almost no one could realise the real truth about the game development process. When friends tell me,
\n\n\nC’mon Parithi, create a game like GTA, NFS..
\nIs that game that you did? Awesome!!
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I really feel miserable that they don’t get the point at all. The first problem is that most of my friends aren’t gamers at all, not even casual gamers. Although, they seem to think that they are boosting me, that’s not the way it works inside me. The only people who can understand me, was my classmates at ICAT, who face almost the same problem. Despite the terrible education given at ICAT, we tried to learn a little bit of Unity, a Game Engine, by ourselves and we were kind of confident that we would get placed. But getting placed at some company for a meagre salary, were I should work for hours and hours, on an idea that is created a generate a lot of revenue and was copied from an idea that is already popular, was not the point of quitting my well loved job at Matrimony.com. I wanted to work in a place where I can showcase my real talent and creativity, developing new ideas, and working on advanced new end technologies such as Augmented Reality. I wanted to work in something, that I will someday connect with my future dream, instead of just getting paid for a living right now. I met a lot of game developers giving lectures at ICAT and seriously they all have a lot of love for game development and really they do work for their passion. But almost all of them lack the one thing, I always had in my mind, that is to “Change the World”.
\nEvery single day, new technology advancements are being developed at big companies, such as the Loop Internet from Google, the self landing Dragon V2 space capsule from SpaceX, a self parking car from Nissan, a 4K television released by Sony and there’s more. And still today, there are people who don’t even have access to the internet, don’t even know how to get directions to a place on a smartphone, people don’t know that they can make free calls using the internet. My family doesn’t even know how to send me an image through WhatsApp. There’s so much that we are capable of doing but still not many of us do it. Forgetting the people who don’t care about these, even those who wish to change things are unable to do because are busy taking care of our own lives.
\nWith almost a day of thought, and still even now, I don’t how I can could bridge the gap to the real career path that I wish to take on my 25th birthday. The first thing that is stopping me from do what I really love to do is the financial burden that is indirectly placed on me because of ICAT and all the expenses that had been done by me in the past year. Secondly, I should get into a well settled and a secured job, so that I can think free about my future without worrying about my present. Thirdly, the most stupid and unnecessary fear I have because of my emotional lock with my friends, that is the fear that my friends will depart to their own paths as I take my own.
\nAs I said earlier, what I’m confident about is that, I know some way or the other I’ll connect the dots to reach the real path at the right time and therefore, I really need not worry about that right now. What I need to worry now is about my career that I take up till that point and also the people who are going to be with me when I reach there. Clearly, in order to create something by myself requires a lot of knowledge in technology and also management. I need to find the right set of people to share my same vision so that I can reach my target faster and also contribute to others. Within the next 2 years, I need to learn a lot in programming the web & mobile as they are ones who are going to take control of the future for the next years.
\nApart from that, I need to find time to be free, try out some sport, play a lot of video games, go on a hike or trek to beautiful places and try out various cuisines. Something I really need to do, discover new friends with minds just like mine and I’m sure a lot of them are out there. I should pursue my hobbies of reviewing technology and sharing adventure experiences to the people who are just like me.
\nIf there’s one big thing that I learnt in the past year, it’s something about the people around me and around others. It’s definitely clear that, no matter how clooo(..)se you are, no matter how much you time you spent for them, no matter what all you did for them, when they decide to change, they will change. There’s no way you can stop that. Never ever ‘trust’ anyone that they’ll be the same forever but you can always ‘believe’ in them. Realise the true meaning between trust and belief, also accept it if they change. Because, that’s how life is. Everyone, needs to catch their train when it comes. No one is going to wait for yours to come too. And I know most of you will catch your train when it comes, and if you don’t, you’re pretty stupid. That’s a lesson what Ishwarya and Abi taught me about people. I used to think that none of my friends would leave me so easily, but when certain people just make a sudden jump, I just couldn’t accept it.
\n\n\n..Stop living other people’s lives.. — Steve Jobs
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Remember that the people who wish to be with you, will always be with you. You can’t stop them either. So stop worrying about ‘anyone’ and concentrate on your life and your destiny instead of living for others. There’s so much we have to do for the country, science and humanity.
\nAs a new June starts, and as the next chapter of my life begins, I have a lot to learn as I take up my new job as a Mobile Developer at CompuSystems tomorrow, and there’s a lot of adventures, things to do as the days come by. It’s time for me to make some major changes for myself and the people who believe in me. Let’s wait and find out what I can uncover..
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\nI’m back in 2014. Starting off with a lot of enthusiasm on the New year’s day, Me and Arumugam went to the Besant Nagar beach to welcome the new year. We had at Kuttanadu Restaurant and we wanted to make it special. We bought food for the poor, donated a few toys to the children and we went to a fortune telling lady to find whats up for us in 2014. The lady said that this year wouldn’t be nice for me and continued that it’ll be the same as 2013. Although I don’t believe much in fortune telling, that gave me the creeps. We had a lot of fun in the beach that night and returned home by 2AM. We started cooking well in our room to save money and I was surprised that I had spent only Rs.1500 of my parents’ money in January.
\nWe also had a great time at the Republic Day celebrations, we went to the Marina Beach to salute for our mother land and watch the parade. Nothing much has happened this year, but it feels great to be back like in 2012. I’m trying to get back all my old friends as I had decided and there’s more to come. As for as this blog is concerned, I’m thinking of ways how I keep it with sync with my life, as I don’t keep much to write and post it here. With Kirthika, Prabhaharan, Namasivayam and many of my old friends getting back in touch, a lot of challenges awaiting at ICAT and on my personal career side, 2014 is definitely going to be one of the game changing years of my life.
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\nI certainly don’t believe in superstitions, I actually hate it and also hate the people who support them without an acceptable logic. I see it in way that, superstitions bring down the confidence that they can have on themselves and also nurture negative thoughts. It stops certain people to do what they want, even before they try doing it. Being that sort of guy, I’ve always told myself that 2013 is going to be good year for me, and even if bad things that happen, they are going to have a good reason to follow in the future. Starting with February, which as Sambarians, consider as a new year’s beginning, things started to shake up. Chetna joined Accenture and had to leave office, following which I decided to pursue my dream career. In a turn of events, I became greatly ambitious, thinking that I have nothing to lose, I decided to quit my job and start learning Game Development. I joined ICAT with great excitement with the notion that every student there will be as passionate towards gaming and that I can form a team to make the greatest Indie game ever. It turned out to be a Mega Game Zone, where my classmates, just come in, play Call of Duty : Modern Warfare from afternoon till evening most of the days and go back home. I had spent 2 lakhs as the tution fee for ICAT, that’s almost everything I had earned an year earlier. Also hoping that my decision of dropping out from work wouldn’t change much in my home, it eventually crumbled down the financial condition in my family, tripling the burden my parents had to give me for my education and stay here. After moving out from my old hostel, it became even worse. Right from childhood, I know the value for money, I don’t really ask for something to my parents, if I don’t really want it. After got into work, I completely decided to get everything I desire with my own earned money. That decision is still one one of the strongest decisions I had taken in my life, which is what makes me stare at techie gadgets in malls and check my empty pockets now. Although I saved half of the money I earned, I enjoyed buying at least one thing that I love every month such as games, tshirts, the skullcandy headset and my wrist watch. Just like that, all of them just disappeared after I quit my job, the t-shirts faded and got worn out here and there, games became outdated, I lost my skullcandy headset in a train, my Fastrack watch’s glass got scratch, the date stopped working, the strap became highly worn out, and the money I had saved in the year all got spent on paying half the fees at ICAT. The immediate question which everyone is going to ask and what I’ll ask to myself to is : Well, was it worth it? The answer is Yep, it definitely is. I have no regrets in what I’ve done, and just because the time isn’t right for me, doesn’t mean that what I did was wrong. I still don’t believe and I can’t accept that living like a guy born-grown-played-worked-died is great. I still believe every single line of code I write, every adventure I take, every single thing I do must change the world in some way, Well, maybe not the world, at least single person. If what I do doesn’t create a smile on someone’s face, it’s not worth it. I don’t get the point always cherishing someone’s else work, working for someone else’s life which always ends up looking for money all the time. And of course, that’s a very safe way of living life, no risks at all, they lots of income, all desires full-filled and people call them successful. Well, that’s great, I do great appreciate that concept but I just can’t do it. I’m willing to accept the name that I’m a loser, but I’ll be happy that I tried and failed. So now I know I’m crazy, I know the things that I did is not working out the way I want it. Being a tech geek, I love to buy new gadgets and I need money. I also need money to keep my family out of financial burden that occurred because of me, and the only fastest way I could do it is, join the bandwagon with the so-called ‘successful people’ of this age. I cannot fully blame ICAT for the things that I has happened to me, it was also a fault on me, as I wasn’t paying much attention to studying a lot of things by myself. My passion should have pushed me harder exploring the branches of Game Development and I should have a learnt a lot of things by myself.
\nJust like music, I’m trying to think game development is just isn’t my thing. If you didn’t know, I love to create music, I have tried to play a lot of instruments from my childhood, I had been using FruityLoops, the professional music production software, even when I in 9th standard in school. Just because I loved to create music, I wasn’t able to do it, to be true, I’m a total failure at it. I lack the music creativity unlike my brother, it took years for me to realize that and finally I had to give up creating music when I was in 3rd year of college. Everyone is going to say, ‘hey, that’s not right, you can do anything if you try, you just have to practise, bla bla bla’, of course I know that, but is it really that worth it? Everyone knows, I don’t work hard, I try to work smart, just because I’m super lazy. Why study and learn something that totally not in me? I could ask my brother to create a background score for my movie, and he would do it willingly and also gives him a chance to expose his musical creativity to reach a broader audience through me. Well, what do you thing I should do?
\nDepending on your answer above, read on :
\nYou answered me : Yeah, making your brother create the music is a smarter move. It helps him grow and also helps you in whichever project you are working on. You can try playing with music but don’t take it serious.
\nI’m a Everything-Wannabe, but I have to realize that there are things just couldn’t take it inside without deep effort. Almost all of you know, I’ve been programming since I was in 3rd standard, but on looking back on my experience, I’ve always had the higher edge on programming and designing for web. When I program the web, the code just flows out like poetry from my hands. I could visually see the output of what I’m doing right when I’m coding it without even hitting the F5 in the browser. That’s something that never happened in any other thing I’ve programmed, be it the games, softwares, mobile applications. Maybe that’s because programming the Web is easy? I’m not sure and also a lot of my tech friends don’t seem to agree with it. Maybe I’m built to be a Web Programmer, and that is what I’m made of. Maybe I have to dig deeper and enhance my talent in programming the Web and reacher a greater height. That way, I can accomplish my dreams of creating games through the Web just like Google does. Who knows? I’ll be a Game-Web Developer one day. For now, I mean 2014, I can keep my Game Developer dreams aside, learn Web and App Development even further work in a Software Development company. With the money I earn, I can buy my dream PlayStation 4, and also keep my parents happy as sooner. During my free time, I can learn game development on my own, creating simpler games for my friends to play with and also make games available on the Google Play Store, which might give me some additional income to necessitate my needs. After I’m completely satisfied, I’ll startup my own company at 25 and pursue my direction in developing products that reach people in changing the world again.
\nYou answered me : No way, don’t drop your dream to create music. Keep learning harder and harder even though you don’t have it in you, you will one day succeed. Even if it takes years, don’t let others take part in your dream project.
\nI know I will be able to accomplish whatever task I take, with a lot of learning and practice. Although I hate maths and physics since my school days, I can somehow inject it inside me and learn to love it. What I learn now is totally alienating from the things I’ve programming since my childhood, I do love it. Realizing that the bird you drag from the catapult in angry birds is actually following a parabolic equation, and a car dashing each other and glass pieces shattering in Burnout, is actually and object with a particle system attached and a collision system detecting the coordinates of objects and sending messages to the division messages receiver that divides that sprite with material of translucency into smaller pieces drawn across the 3D space with vertices generated in random order following the range obtained from the messages obtained from the collision system. Thankfully, you skipped that sentence as fast as you could and yeah it’ll take me an year or so in order to learn how to do that, if I’m not using an Game Engine. You are not here to know what is a Game Engine, are you? Anyways, that’s how Game Development is, I know it’s this way even before I joined the course, with a lot of learning and breaking my head, I will soon able to crack it up. In 2014, I’ll try to learn my best to learn game development to the fullest and I’ll get a job with fresher’s salary ranging from 10k and at maximum 20k if I get into a bigger company, I’ll leave Tamilnadu, leaving all my friends and make an all new paradigm shift to Maharastra most probably, or Karnatka or Andra Pradesh. After 2 years, I’ll use the experience I earned I’ll try to do MS in USA in game programming, and then get placed in a bigger company, buy my dream PlayStation 4 nearly 5 years from now. Work for a few years, and come back to India, I’ll startup my own company and pursue my direction in developing products that reach people in changing the world again.
\nRegardless, of whatever I choose, I’m going to be a game developer as I always wanted. You guys know how stubborn I am in the things I want :D. The decision comes down in which path I am going to take, the smarter move or the harder move. I really would like to know your comments. Please comment them below, if you have any opinions in the path I take for my future, most importantly 2014.
\nOnce I was standing near Ishwarya’s hostel in Adyar, and there was a tree nearby me. A caterpillar fell from the tree and it was trying to cross the road and the street was almost busy with a vehicle crossing every second. I tried to get it back into the tree, but it just wouldn’t budge, it turned facing the street again and again in spite of me changing its direction. I guess it really wanted to cross the road, or maybe it was following something. I was waiting for her for around half an hour, and to pass time I was watching the caterpillar move. I was like “Go, Caterpillar Go!”, I was happy for its ambitious plan to cross the street, I was wishing it all success. I assumed the position of the worm, it could have stayed on the branch, growing slowly and becoming a beautiful butterfly someday but no, it wanted to take risks and take up the adventure across the road. As I assumed its position, I started praying for it, that it must somehow cross the road, I took every vehicle that crossed by, as a hurdle that will come to my life too. The caterpillar made some turns here and here instead of crawling in a straight path, and I started to count in seconds, how much it has saved to save its life from getting killed. Almost 7 times, the caterpillar was just within millimeters from the vehicles’ wheels and it was because of the turns it had taken earlier. If it had moved straight, it would have got killed sooner as I had calculated. 4 times, as faster vehicles came near, they took it off it in the wind because of the force. Regardless, it kept crossing the street, it’s determination was astounding me. I was fully excited and filled with hope, that god is great, its a miracle how a caterpillar could manage to cross such a busy street. It reached almost 3/4 of the road, and I ran to opposite side of the road to welcome it to the finish line. It kept crawling slowly, I started hearing background music in my mind, and suddenly, pop! A car squished it to its demise within a second and it kept rolling. I was completely heart-broken, being a caterpillar, it was doing its best to cross the street, it can’t fly with super powers. I couldn’t understand why god did not help the fully determined caterpillar. I guess the all those happy things we hear happens only in stories and fairy tales, in their real world it’s not just practical. But the thing, we can learn from the caterpillar is to keep moving forward no matter how many hurdles we face. Also learning to take the right turns at the right time of life, to save our lives just like the caterpillar escaped from the death moments earlier. Without taking it’s demise as a negative thought, we can compare that to our age. We all know that we are going to die one day, what matters today is that we make the right turn choices in life to take care of ourselves and others with us. With me and also Prince, hoping that 2014 will be an awesome year for us, and also to you, I wish you a Very Happy New Year! Keep Smiling and Let’s laugh at the hurdles we face and shed our tears that are precious that gold to only those which are worth it. And most importantly, let’s be crazy!
\nHappy New Year 2014, Everybody!
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\nAlmost the whole month went unacceptably bad, right from the start and till the end. By bad, I don’t mean that something has affected my life, I just mean that my luck didn’t work out so well, things weren’t just favourable on my side. One of the examples could be the Parotta Story 2, which I’ve written before this. Alrighty, let’s start :
\n1. Became a True Lone Wolf :
\n‘Lone Wolf’ was more than just a status of mine on WhatsApp. After shifting to a new home, it was my responsibility to care of myself like taking proper food, washing clothes, and more. I began to feel the same way as I was in my old rented home back in June 2012. Although I go and meet Ishwarya almost every evening and spend a little time with my roommates every night, I still feel like I’m always alone like a Lone Wolf on the streets since I don’t talk with anyone for almost 95% of the day. I kind of love this, because it gives me so much time to think and plan for my future but it still hurts a little bit that I’m not with my pack.
\n2. Lost love for Music :
\nLosing my precious SkullCandy Headphones on one side, and not having anything to replace it, I almost lost my interest to listen to music. I don’t wish to buy a pair of headsets for my stupidity and besides I don’t earn anything either to buy another one.
\n3. Lost Focus of my temporary aim :
\nICAT classes are still going but I don’t seem to see any improvement in the method of teaching. I did love a few classes in PhotoShop & Maya, it was the only thing I had learnt something new in this course till date. All this made me lost focus in becoming a gamer, but still I want to become a professional in Game making at-least for a few years before I become an entrepreneur.
\n4. Unluckiness was a default expectation :
\nLike every other year, almost at every corner and every time, my luck was totally against me. Getting caught by the police with Arumugam while we were planning for our joint venture, continuously inspected by the Ticket checker both in bus and train, not getting food in every hotel wherever I go, just when I feel hungry are just few of the most unluckiest things that kept happening to me last month.
\n5. Unacceptably horrible events for my friends :
\nSome of the unacceptably horrible events that I don’t want to mention on this post, happened to some of my friends namely Freddy and Kirthika.
\n6. Lost faith in people & Lost friends :
\nBeing an OFAK month, October should the one which gets one step closer to all my OFAK friends. Although it did became very true in the case of Abi, the completely opposite happened to others. Of course, getting a reply from Kaushika for my birthday wish and talking with Muhil akka regarding her project made me feel happy, it also reminds that people do change, no one will be the same as time passes by. It was also Lilly’s birthday that month, who did not even reply to birthday wish.
\n7. Started saying ‘I don’t have time’ :
\nI know only losers say “I don’t have time”, and to be true, I started saying that. Although I don’t have a job, and the only thing to do for me is study — I’m unable to do that. While my classmates in school keep playing games, learn new languages to create games, I’m unable to concentrate with the multiple plans that I have on my schedule. The worst part is that, I was unable to complete even the most simplest things properly that I can make myself feel proud of. I’m very aware of this mistake I’m doing, and have already started rescheduling my plans even more efficiently so that I can both concentrate on both fun and work in my life.
\n1. Moved out of the horrible Hostel :
\nI was waiting to write about this for a month but I couldn’t do it. Moving to the to the new home is one the best things that had happened in October. Although I’m not aware how much amount of money is being saved because of this, but I’m very sure that I started to eat a lot. I really feel the difference inside me. With lots and lots of milk, fruits and vegetables a few times, and rice as a meal at any part of the day, I feel so much healthier. Every morning, I have to wake up at 6, seeing the sun rise and pump water from the corporation motor pump which is an awesome exercise, then making some delicious breakfast for myself, and going to school by afternoon after a quite a bit of learning by doing homework and meeting Ishwarya at every night does make me feel the day look great when comparing to the darkened room of evilness, sleeping all the time in hostel.
\nShopping at Sowcarpet with Boo Boo & Ishu :
\nWell, here the story about my friends begins. The Indira Nagar railway station is just a 20 minute walk from my home and its even more closer for Ishwarya from her hostel, which is something we realized only last month. Traveling by train have always been my way of roaming the city and now it has become one step closer. Ishwarya wanted to do shopping for Diwali and so she, Abi and myself wanted to go to Sowcarpet to purchase dresses for her. By afternoon, me and Ishwarya started off from her hostel and went to the Indira Nagar railway station. We came up to the wrong platform and so being lazy, we crossed the tracks (which I learnt that we are not supposed to) and came to the correct one. Abi started from Chromepet and she was already waiting that Fort station for us. After reaching Fort, with a lot of help for directions to goto Sowcarpet from others, we started walking. We entered into one of the clumsiest part of the city, where almost everything were like the ones was like the the stores I saw in Ludhiana, almost every one was owned by North Indians. We wanted to get to ‘Shree Jee Style’, a women’s clothing store which Ishwarya’s friend Bhuvana had recommended. We were searching a lot for it in the long street, and on the way I bought a small tap filter for our home. After almost an hour, we found the store that it is being renovated and so, it has been moved temporarily to another sport. Since we came all the way and searched a lot for this, we didn’t wanted to leave it. So we continued the search and finally found it at a small corner by the street, we went in and I was surprised how so much of crowd are interested to buy dresses from these small shops in the city. I was waiting outside the shop while Ishwarya and Abi were selecting dresses inside, but soon a kid opened the door to reveal that the store is actually filled with AC, I rushed in wearing my sandals. The shopkeeper told me to remove them and come inside, and I did. After coming in, I felt so much happy sitting in the soft pillow like seats in a room filled with AC. Surprising almost all the dresses that store looked good, and Ishwarya for the very first time, selected a beautiful dress that she liked a lot which was expensive too. She was very happy about the dress that she selected and she loved it. After taking two dresses, we moved out with a lot of satisfaction, the horrible streets roaming for two hours was definitely worth it after taking such a lovely dress which all of us loved a lot. To celebrate, we went to a classy North Indian Chat stall and had sweets and sandwiches to continue back to our home/hostels.
\nBut in the end, it didn’t go so well, the dress which she loved so badly couldn’t be worn on Diwali, as the dress couldn’t reach her after stitching it in time. She had to buy another new cheaper dress once again for Diwali :( .
\nAbi’s Birthday :
\nOne of the highlights of this month was Abi’s birthday. Me and Ishwarya wanted it to be really special for her and so we bought a purse filled with her favorite stationary materials and wrapped it up in a cooky silver paper. It was very surprising for us that Dharani also wanted to join us for Abi’s birthday and we were pretty excited. Chetna had said she’ll be joining us but unfortunately, she couldn’t meet us in time. Santhosh was having his classes and so he too couldn’t join us. Me, Ishwarya and Dharani started off from Indira Nagar at the early morning and headed towards Chromepet. As she was having exams the next day, we did not want her to come a long way out since she had much to study. The three of us got down at Chromepet railway station and although we know she was waiting near there, we sneaked out and went to a bakery to get a cake for birthday.
\nAfter getting a cake, we walked back to the railway station and saw Abi in a wonderful cooky colored dress and wished happy birthday. After taking a few snaps, we walked to Vasantha Bhavan, to have our breakfast. We went to the AC hall, and gave her the gifts for her birthday. While I was snapping each and every moment, Abi was unwrapping the gifts one by one and she was pretty excited. After finishing breakfast, we thought of going to a temple but as it was getting late for Abi, we started off from Chromepet in the afternoon. Me, Ishwarya and Dharani went to the Spencer Plaza, one of the oldest malls in Chennai and we were roaming there for about two hours. I got myself a drink of Milo after a long time and we saw a team of guys trying to make a guiness world record by collecting the largest number of books in one day.
\nLater that evening, Ishwarya had went to hostel while Me and Dharani went with Sunel to the Nandanam Restaurant after a lot of searching here and there. It was a very nice hotel, I really loved the kerala cuisine based meals they have there. It was a complete day for all of us and I hope Abi loved her first birthday filled with cookyness.
\nThe Six Pack :
\nNo, don’t check my tummy, I didn’t get any six packs and all. By Six Pack, I mean the six days I spent to be with Abi continuously in a row. Why is that special? It’s special because, just like Chetna — Abi is too far from our locality and so I don’t get time to meet her often. But the six days of meeting her continuously really made me feel something different and special, and that’s why this is starred on this post.
\nIt was about the time of Pooja holidays, when Me and Abi go together in a bus to Coimbatore for the very first time. On the second weekend of October, that friday evening, I had finally given my Reliance Netconnect+ to Arumugam and he accompanied me to office to meet up with Ishwarya. It was the first time, my college circle is getting clashed with my other circle of friends, which is my consim circle in this case. Me and Arumugam had a bet worth Rs.10 that Ishwarya wouldn’t recognize him when she meets him. But I stated, just after Ishwarya came down from the office, he had recognized her and the Rs.10 was mine. Later on, Me, Ishwarya and Vijayakanth got into a taxi and started off to Koyembedu bus stand. It was the first time, that Me, Ishwarya, Chetna and Abi could started to our native places from the same place for the first time. But although we were roaming in Koyembedu, we were unable to meet Chetna since she was stuck in traffic and her late office timings :( . After getting down at Koyembedu, we joined with Abi and started searching for a hotel to have dinner. All the hotels were completely filled, we spent almost half an hour waiting in various hotels. As time passed, Ishwarya’s slippers had torn apart and so she had to get them replaced by going to her grandma’s house which was just nearby. Ishwarya and Abi went off to get that job done, while me and Vijayakanth walk another 200 meters to find out there’s a Sangeetha restaurant nearby. We both went in and had our dinner, I ordered Chilly Parotta, which comes a free ‘Pepsi’. If you are going to ask, ‘What?? Parithi, drinking Pepsi??’, Well, your expectation of me getting into trouble, gets fulfilled real soon. We got parcels for the girls and we gave it to them. After bidding farewell to Ishwarya, who had to get bus in the government SETC depot, we three walked towards the depot where the travels and omni buses will halt. I was already in a bit of tension in searching for the travels in which I had booked, since the ticket was not having any mobile numbers. We reached the Majestic complex where the office was situated and Vijayakanth told me to go and search for the office, and told Abi to wait with him. But Abi joined me and we climbed up the complex and was relieved to see our travels office admist the middle of the first floor. The guys in the office checked our particulars and told us to wait for the bus that would be coming later. Me and Abi were waiting for almost an hour in the humid and airless place, fully sweating and standing in front of the office after notifying Vijayakanth that we found the office. We were worried about Ishwarya that she was waiting there alone, but no, God sent GnanaPrakash to give her some company :) . Later on, when the bus started, Chetna too joined her and they started off to Trichy.
\nAfter our bus came, we got in and started off to Coimbatore**. Abi** had her parceled up dinner and after a little talk of over 5 minutes, we went to sleep. The bus was having a giant TV screen with a speaker under our legs, which disturbed my sleep a lot. The seating was horribly spaced out, and so I couldn’t even move my legs. Somehow I managed to get myself into sleep and that was Day 1 with Abi.
\nDay 2, the dawn broke up, I was filled with sleeplessness and Abi was waking me up to see the sunrise. We were on the highway towards Coimbatore and I was feeling very nauseous thanks to the evil Pepsi. Yep, those who know me during the Bangalore IV Trip, please don’t try to remember what happened. I tried a lot a lot to get back to sleep but I couldn’t sleep at all. At one point, I twitched a muscle in my right arm while getting up and there it started, I felt a sudden unbearable extreme pain that immediately blanked my eye-sight to a space of whiteness, with sounds hearing like everything in life is being fast forwarded and I was to about to faint. With the little consciousness I had, I somehow managed to turnover opposite to Abi, and immediately fainted down to the seat, shutting down all my systems and started up recovery process. After 15 minutes I guess, I didn’t even know for how much long I was out cold, I woke up with ‘Where am I?’ and I was surprised to see Abi sitting near me in a bus. Quickly remembering what all had happened, I just lied down and tried to relax while Abi was keep on staring at me like a Meer Cat. I was upset that I’ve been giving a good company to talk as we moved towards Coimbatore, but there was nothing I could do. On seeing me suffering a lot, Abi exchanged seats, so that I’ll get more oxygen and then I started to sleep somehow. After reaching Coimbatore, she held my hand and walked me up to the street where my taxi was about to come. Her dad had came there to pick her up, and soon my taxi too came and I reached my home safely. And that was it, I spent that whole day in bed sleeping.
\nDay 3, It was a sunday, and I had planned to visit Abi’s home for the first time. She said she’ll prepare tea for me when I reach her home and so I started off after having my breakfast and got the bus to Venkatapuram. I used to blame bus no.70 and no.11 when I was in college as it goes through the places that I never needed to go, but those two buses were ones to get me reach her home now. I got down at Venkatapuram and took snaps of Abi’s school, the ‘Avila Convent’ and I was walking towards the next stop to get bus to TVS nagar. On the way I was thinking about the people of Coimbatore, how backward they are in terms of modernism and technology. I reached TVS Nagar, and Abi was there to walk me up to her home. I was welcomed by her dad and her family as I sat down the couch with a lot of fear. They gave me a lot of my favorite rasgullas, I felt as if her dad already know a lot about me. He acknowledged it, by saying that Abi has told him about me. Although I love rasgullas, I wasn’t able to eat them all, because of fear maybe. Abi prepared tea for me, there it was, a long time achievement unlocked! She showed me a lot of her childhood photos and we were playing with her little sister Gangarathi, whom I call, the Destroyer as she passed all the tests of mine including the bird origami destruction test. After two hours or so, it was time to leave to my home to have lunch and so I bid farewell to all and went to my home. Having one of the weirdest haircuts I’ve ever had, I almost lost my status of having spikes because of the new stylist. After packing up the things, I started off to the railway station in the taxi from home and on the way I picked up Abi too. Since, it was a bit early, she didn’t have dinner. After we reached the station, we had a lot of time for our train and so we were waiting in a seat. I was surprised to hear that her dad packed up some sundal for me to have in the station and Abi was having her dinner. Almost 10 minutes before the departure of the train, we started from the waiting seat and moved towards the train platform. Not knowing that the train was only half linked, we were searching for our compartment. It was a lot of fun, holding hands with each other and running from the first and till the end three times back and forth and yet not finding our compartment. Just 2 minutes before, the departure, the remaining compartments were attached to our train and we got in. Surprisingly, like all the time when I went to Coimbatore/Chennai alone by myself, the seats were empty near me with no one to occupy. We threw our bags to the middle berths, and pulled down the side lower berth and sat together in the middle. We were having a lot of fun talking about our friends and families as the train started. It was a dream come true for me to have a friend beside me to talk with and with no one around, when I’m going to Chennai. All the lights were off, I could see Abi’s face with full of glee as she gleamed in the moonlight falling on her. By the time we were talking, It was Kaushika’s birthday, it was 11 years since I meet my old friend, and I wanted it to be different. For a change, I decided to make Abi send the birthday wish to her as I typed and at around 12 AM midnight, we sent the message to her. I was telling a lot of stories from my past and she was doing the same, we felt really really close together, and even though it was getting really late, we still we didn’t want to sleep. I took the initiative and went to sleep first, while Abi was still poking her phone screen for something. I said good night and went to sleep feeling that this could be the best train rides I’ve ever had in my life.
\nDay 4, it was Monday, and it was a holiday. We reached Chennai at around 5AM in the morning and I wanted to go to the beach to see the sun rise. And so, without brushing our teeth, we took a bus to the Marina Beach and reached it on time to see the sun rise. We walked on the sand together till the edge and sat down waiting for the sun to come up. The sun rose beautifully over the horizon, but still hiding behind the clouds, we really loved the view as we were commenting on it how it is rising. We were there for half an hour and then started off to the Triplicane railway station to get back to our home/hostel.
\nDay 5, it was Tuesday, holiday for Abi but not for Me and Ishwarya. Ishwarya had just reached Chennai and she had started to office. Abi decided to apply for PF that day, and so she was planning to come to office. She started off in the early morning and came into Indira Nagar. I wanted to meet her too, but she told me to wait she tells me to start from my home. I knew there was going to be surprise waiting, and yes I was right. She gave me a Cadbury Gems Ball, as a treat for her cousin brother’s marriage fix. I did not have breakfast and so we went to Adyar Anantha Bhavan and had my breakfast in the morning. Later we went to office while I waited downstairs, while Abi was finishing her PF application procedure. Abi wanted me to be with her the rest of the day, and I was also thinking to bunk the stupid ICAT class, and Ishwarya ordered me to put leave and be with Abi. So saying, I took the day off. Dharani, Ishwarya and Abi had lunch in the terazza while I was sitting simply. Later on, I decided to get the experience certificate, so after bidding farewell to Ishwarya and Dharani, we started towards the Adyar Corporate Office of Matrimony.com. Once again, we went into Adyar Anandha Bhavan and I had my lunch. After half an hour, we went to the Adyar office and we were waiting to get my experience certificate. We waiting in the reception for the HR to come and we were discussing that this was fifth day continuously we are being together. After a while, the HR came and gave me my experience certificate which had a mistake in it. I was thinking that this was the last time I would be going to that office, but no, that mistake would eventually help me get inside the office again. Later that evening, we wanted to goto the Ayappan Temple, so we started off from Adyar and went to MRC nagar. For a change, we got down at the Music college bus stop and started walking. On the way, we sat down at a bus stop as we were tired . I was telling about my childhood stories to Abi and I didn’t realize that an hour has passed as I started to talk. Feeling a bit sorry, we went to the temple and Abi started off to her hostel. Dharani had given me his card to take some cash out of it and it was accidentally got stuck with Abi while she was on her way.
\nDay 6, this was totally unexpected. Dharani wanted his card back and so I had to go to Chromepet to retrieve the card from Abi. After the school was over, I got a lift from Chelladurai and went to Thirumailai Railway station to get the train. As perfectly planned out, I reached Chromepet at exactly 7.15 and obtained the card from Abi. We both went to a temple which I found to be very divine and authentic unlike other temples I’ve seen. We walked for around 20 minutes and after reaching her hostel, we departed with a difficult good bye after 6 continuous long days of being together. I ran back to the railway station and started to Indira Nagar to meet up with Ishwarya.
\nProbably this is one of the biggest and memorable events that happened in October and I was really surprised with this. I was not expecting that his would happen once again, but no, it did happen again with the ‘Six Pack 2’, you wouldn’t be able to read it through, would you? I’ll sum that up in another post. Let’s continue with the goods of October.
\nMet Chetna after a long time :
\nAfter a long time, i.e., after Chetna’s birthday, I was able to meet her again. Me, Chetna, Ishwarya, Abi and Gowtham met at Skywalk for a little shopping. We had a good time with Ishwarya’s cousin sister, and did a little shopping for Chetna. Even though I met her with a lot of anticipation, I still miss the old Chet as she used to be when she was with me in Consim.
\nStarted using my Mac extensively :
\nOne of the biggest things that has changed in the past year is that I’ve started using my MacBook Pro very well and the internet too.
\nKind of realised what I really am, Started doing what I really wanted to do :
\nWith the birth of BridgeThoughts, Me and Arumugam have finally started working on what I really wanted to do and I’m finding it really engaging.
\nI know I have left a little bit here and there that has happened past october but I’ve covered almost everything that happened. Anyhow, the October is over.I’m really glad about it, and november has already begun with a lot of fun and surprises. As I had set last month, I have completely started to focus on people who care about me alot and it does feel the same way as I was in my college years.
\n", "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1439464678930-c157fd3823cc?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2580&q=80", "date_published": "2013-11-12T05:28:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2013/11/05/a-parottas-story-2/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2013/11/05/a-parottas-story-2/", "title": "A Parotta’s Story 2..", "summary": "Special classes had started this week, to finish up the portions at school and so I had to start early everyday. Having half a litre of milk almost everyday, I believe I am on the pace of becoming a super kitty soon. Anyhow, this story is…", "content_html": "Special classes had started this week, to finish up the portions at school and so I had to start early everyday. Having half a litre of milk almost everyday, I believe I am on the pace of becoming a super kitty soon. Anyhow, this story is about another search for parottas on the same road as I had written weeks ago.
\nSince the classes start at 11am everyday, we had to have lunch outside. Me, Deepak and Chelladurai started from our campus in search for parotta. I didn’t want to make any mistakes as we did last time and so, with a clean target, we decided to walk towards ‘Mylai Briyani’ shop where I as certain to have parottas. On the way to the shop, we spotted a good hotel which had a board saying ‘tiffen/meals ready’. Although the sign said it had parottas, we kept walking towards our target. I had promised my classmates that I will get them 3 parottas for 20 rupees and they too were much anticipated.
\nWe walked and walked in the scorching sun, and soon we saw Mahendran and Palani walking towards us. Sankar, one of our classmates had parked Mahendran’s bike in the railway station platform without knowing that its an offence and they were just heading back from the court after paying the fine for it. They too were hungry and so they joined our search for the parottas. We reached ‘Mylai Briyani’ shop and we started washing our hands for the meal. But the hotel guy said that we don’t have parottas now, its only for dinner. Shocked to know that, we started walking back to the hotel were saw ‘tiffen/meals ready ‘ board and entered. We were almost sure that we’ll get parottas here but no, we didn’t. The waiter kept the banana leaves over our tables but we started walking out since there were no parottas.
\nThe guys weren’t ready to listen to my next choice again, and so I had follow them in search for the parottas. I had recommended ‘Meenakshi Bhavan’ — one of my favourite yet expensive restaurants in the city, but they weren’t ready to have food there. And so, we started the walk towards a parotta shop in the far corner near the light house. We walked all the way back from Mylapore to ICAT once again, with an added 20 minute walk to light house.
\nShockingly, once again all the parotta shops were closed but we were extremely hungry and so we dropped the mission. After searching through 3 shops, we finally decided to have Briyani for lunch instead and brings the end of Parotta Story 2.
\n", "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1565557623262-b51c2513a641?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=3024&q=80", "date_published": "2013-11-05T12:54:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2013/09/27/viva-la-vida/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2013/09/27/viva-la-vida/", "title": "Viva La Vida..", "summary": "I wasn’t able to post last friday as I was a bit busy at Coimbatore, for Sadam ’s marriage. Nothing has changed in ICAT, its the same old basic programming classes and engineering graphics lessons that ends today. From monday, I’ll be…", "content_html": "I wasn’t able to post last friday as I was a bit busy at Coimbatore, for Sadam’s marriage. Nothing has changed in ICAT, its the same old basic programming classes and engineering graphics lessons that ends today. From monday, I’ll be learning Digital Design that involves Adobe PhotoShop, AutoDesk Maya and more. I hope it’ll be interesting. Anyways, as promised, here’s what happened from the last half of August and this September :
\nYou all know Ishwarya, my trusty LLF, whom I believe who will always stay with me, support me, console me, advise me, that special friend whom I don’t publicly talk much about a lot just because of the fear that god might separate her from me too. Although our friendship is not clearly known to many, because of our varied wave lengths, she is a special person very close to my heart who will always be there for me, regardless how I behave/care for her. For an example, even if I don’t talk/chat with her for 6 months, she’ll be the same Ishu as I see today, and that’s what makes her so special. She is a girl with a set of ideals, which she always follows, which is kinda cool. Her main motive in life to have loads and loads of fun and keep others around her happy. Although, she doesn’t have big dreams, like we all do, she’ll be the one supporting and praying for us to succeed in our own. She is a friend to whom I can share anything that happens in my life, my future ambitions. Most importantly, she’ll be the one to hear all my ramblings and give comments about it, if I go wrong somewhere. If I miss someone, she’ll be the consoler for that too. It’s exactly like, she’s like the sweet medicine to my illness. Without medicine, I am going to slowly die or cure my illness with a lot of pain myself. For the reason she’s so special, I don’t want to tell much about her here. So for now, all you have to know is, she’s a very very important friend in my life, just like Chetna, Abi, Prince and Freddy. In other words, She’s that Parithi to some of you who wish to keep me as a secret friend without unveiling me and about me to your other friends.
\nWe had her birthday last month and we wanted it to be really special. I had gifted her with an AUDI car which she loves a lot. Chetna and Me planned to give her a surprise for her at Cafe Coffee Day by cutting a birthday cake at Adyar. I asked Dharani whether he could join and he said okay, and then Abi too joined our birthday plan for Ishwarya. I went to Adyar early at 7PM along with Ishwarya and Abi from office, and Chetna was already waiting there near the CCD for me. Ishwarya was shopping with no idea about the big event we were planning in the background. Just when Ishwarya and Abi started to their hostels, the rain started pouring to full force and I had to fetch a cake from a nearest bakery. I searched a few cake shops but they were out of stock and then I got a beautiful butterscotch cake from CakeWorld. Soon, Dharani also joined me as he came in the bus and we meet Chetna near the Cafe Coffee Day and ran towards the Mavericks Gym situated there. We entered Subway, as we were all hungry and so we packed in some sandwiches to fill our tummies. I saw Chetna’s laptop for the first time and while we were meddling with it, I got hold of some one in the front seat I had met before. It was Muhil Venkat, the neighbour of my close friend Hari Prasanth when we were at TNAU Quarters. I was surprised to see him, I went and gave him a small talk about how things are going. The plan was already an utter flop because of the rain, and so Chetna decided we could Ishwarya to the restaurant too. Gowtham had joined in and Abi had just come in time from her hostel for the treat, and wallah, it was a big surprise for Ishwarya to see Abi and Dhar sitting with us for her birthday. We were talking and playing a lot in front of Mavericks by scaring Ishwarya about the Conjuring movie. Clearly, Chetna’s decision to bring Ishwarya in, was a good idea to have fun. We were waiting and waiting for the rain to stop but it kept drenching us. Me and Dharani booked a cab to pick us up and the cab came in around 11.45. Using the headlamps of the cab, we just the cake and cherished her birthday with a lot of fun, we all loved it to the core by singing birthday songs, making fun of Ishwarya while I was recording them all in my Xype. It was an awesome birthday blast, which is very memorable to all of us, and ironically, the rain stopped just after we got the cab back to hostel. The rain was pouring for some reason after all. Later that midnight, Chetna, Ishwarya and Abi went back to Ishwarya’s hostel and had a lot of fun. But what Chetna and the Lift Planners [Ishwarya and Abi] did that night is still unknown..
\nIt was my very Best Friend Forever, Chetna’s birthday just after 6 days after Ishwarya’s. Me and Ishwarya started planning for her birthday even a week before her birthday. At the midnight of her birthday, me, Abi and Ishwarya connected together over a conference call to wish Chetna. The call was connected to some of her Trichy friends, which eventually made me join the biggest conference calls in my life. Nearly 8–15 friends were waiting on the call to wish her during the midnight, while Chetna was already on call waiting with her other friends. Somehow I managed to wish her, and we had planned to meet her at the Besant Nagar Beach, the next day morning, that is on her birthday. Abi bought the cake and Ishwarya and myself reached the beach to meet her. We met Gowtham, Dhilip and Chetna had a fun time in the beach. I took several photos, wrote on the beach sand for her birthday. It was funny to hear Chetna singing ‘Happy Birthday to me’ song, which still lol-s me out when I review that video. Then everyone went back to their offices, Chetna started off to continue her birthday plans, and I went to the ‘Jobs’ movie with Arumugam at Sathyam Cinemas which was a much-awaited movie. After the movie, I started off to my school and by the evening, Chetna came back to Santhome, to get the birthday gift from me. I was extremely happy to meet her again, as I had sad feeling from that morning that I couldn’t be with her the full day like last year. I still look up to the previous year’s birthday photos of her, it was so funny and crazy that day. Anyway, I met Chetna and Dhilip near my hostel, and I gifted her the purple sundial I got for her. After 10 minutes or so, they got the next bus and moved to Tambaram to continue her birthday plans.
\nI love Vinayagar Chathurthi every year, since I used to be at home as my mom makes delicious kolukatais for the auspicious day. But just like last year, I was forced to be here at Chennai and so with a sad face, I posted my status update in the morning about how I felt. I knew my mom would read it and make me kolukatais the next time I go to my home and it did happen :) That’s different story. But the surprising yet expected thing is that I did get kolukatais from my friends that day. Abi was not liking her hostel and so she had to move to a new one. I went to Chromepet to help her out for the shifting and immediately came back to my hostel since it was horribly raining, I got drenched in the rain fully. I wasn’t able to spend even 5 minutes with her because of the weather but yet, we managed to get things setup fast within 15 minutes or so, for accommodating her in her new hostel. She gave me a kolukatai got from her old hostel and by the night Ishwarya gave me a box full of kolukatais to munch with :)
\nAs I felt that day was incomplete, I dressed up the same costume, a week later and went back to Chromepet. It would have been better if Chetna and Ishwarya were there, but they went to their native place. It was a very sunny day, Me and Abi met at Chromepet but we had no plans, we were just roaming around. We got a new pendrive for Abi for her college and then we had no idea what to do. So we decided to the craziest thing ever could ever come up with. We took a ticket for the suburban train and we decided to goto the last stop where the train teaches and come back in the same train itself. Although it felt like a crazy plan, we loved the trip. The train went through a beautiful lake named Kolavai, the atmosphere was blue, windy and it felt awesome. We missed others and felt it would be better if they could have joined in. We spent around half an hour there, taking snaps, bought an water bottle and returned back to chromepet in the same train we arrived in. With just 15rs, we had an awesome and a very very memorable time, burning around 5 hours to dust. After reaching chromepet, I started back to hostel.
\nIt’s been two months since I left my job and I’m still not in a clear notion of what I’m doing and what I am going to do. But I’m sure I haven’t wasted the last two months, I kind of utilized okay but not to the levels of my expectations. To learn more why, read on…
\nWell, at first, I was having a very very very very bad time. As I am always alone in the hostel from morning to night, I felt becoming very lonely with no one to talk with/chat with as everyone is locked up in their daily routines. Being alone was actually a problem for me, as I’ve said many times in my blog because I’ve been alone in my home a lot of times from childhood. It took me weeks to realize that my hostel was the problem for my depression and not any other factor. At ICAT, I roam alone and be myself all the time but my future vision is always alive. Whereas, in hostel surrounded by 4 beds all the time, a locked room with no air ventilation which creates a lack of oxygen, a no good place to keep my MacBook Pro to sit with, and worse, the lights won’t turn on so easy at the evening because of the low voltage. All these factors, made me a lazy goon as I kept sleeping and wasting my time doing nothing. I had no idea what to do, and so I kept thinking. I got a notepad for me and for Abi to test out whether a to-do list solves the problem. No, it didn’t. Then I started keeping reminders in my phone to do the tasks, but I kept dismissing them unfinished. And there came iCal, my calendar application on my MacBook to save my day. I started planning out my days ahead of a month and set timelines for the things I have to finish by a particular date. Clearly assigning days for me, my friends, and the people, my calendar soon got a good shape with a lot of planned events. I started using IFTTT abundantly to track my whereabouts on my calendar too. That is how I started working on my blogs, learning Android and building the upcoming Parithi.Me mobile application for Android.
\nAnd this is going to be the last post I type from my stupid hostel. Tomorrow, I’m are going to watch the movie ‘Raja Rani’ at Sangam Cinemas with Chetna (after a month :) :) :) :) ), Ishwarya, Abi, Dharani, Santhosh, Karthik Balaje (seeing him after I quit my job at Consim). It’s going to be a fun day ahead, I hope we’ll have a lot of fun.
\nI should stop expecting a lot of things from people, not sure how I’m gonna pass this October having a lot of friends. To those of you who don’t know, every October or December in an year, I switch cycles. From the last October, I was paying a lot of attention to my friends and people whom I love a lot, and from now till the next October, I will be paying more attention to those who love me, whether I like it or not. Definitely it’s going to be a tough, but I have to handle it till the next August end because the people who love me, deserve my love back. I should also keep my mouth shut just like the last year, to stay away from trouble since most of the things that are going to happen are not going to favorable on my side..We’ll see how it goes :)
\n[Note : Viva La Vida — means ‘Live the Life’ in Spanish, it’s also one of my favorite songs from Coldplay]
\n", "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1519930808054-f7186bdbc1fa?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2250&q=80", "date_published": "2013-09-27T09:39:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2013/09/13/the-one-which-goes-up-has-to-fall/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2013/09/13/the-one-which-goes-up-has-to-fall/", "title": "The One Which Goes Up, Has To Fall..", "summary": "It’s been a month and a half since I came back to Chennai and started my journey of my own. Let’s go for a little recap. I caught my train last August 3rd, and reached by the next day, Sunday. Being the first Sunday of August, it was…", "content_html": "It’s been a month and a half since I came back to Chennai and started my journey of my own. Let’s go for a little recap. I caught my train last August 3rd, and reached by the next day, Sunday. Being the first Sunday of August, it was Friendship day. I got down from the train in the early morning at 5AM at Chennai Central, and started towards my hostel. I turned on my Data on my Xype, and surprisingly, hundreds of messages from many were flooding my phone for friendship day and I was pretty excited :) . Most of them were from Chetna, about our friendship and it was very touching to read them all while I walked to the bus stop to catch my bus. I replied everyone back for friendship day, and came to the Hostel. I was expecting a few changes in the room as I was out for 15 days, but nothing had actually changed. Everyone were sleeping while I rolled in, and I was feeling comfortable already. Although I was a little tired, I threw all my bags and started getting ready to move out. Skipping my breakfast, I boarded the bus and went to Express Avenue to meet Arumugam, who had come along with his cousin to buy her a new mobile phone. We were roaming around EA, and clearly I could feel myself a lot weaker than I was a month earlier. I had been rapidly losing weight, when I weighed myself for the medical report which was to be given at ICAT, I was just 50 — I had lost around 5 kgs in a month or so. Me and Arumugam, went to Zaitoon (a memorable restaurant, first visited along with Chetna) and we ordered a few dishes for lunch. Although I was crazily hungry, I couldn’t eat anything, both of us wasted a lot of food just like I did when I went with Chetna, but we paid the huge bill. Later on, he started back to his home and Around 6PM, I went to adyar to meet my Consim Friends at the Besant Nagar beach. First I met Abi after a long time, Ishwarya was on her way. Chetna had called me to come to the Adyar Bridge, we’re we could meet up and move to the beach, but after so many twists and turns here and there, All of us — Me, Dharani, Santhosh, Chetna, Ishwarya and Abi met at the Besant Nagar beach, and adding another twist, we decided to goto the White Pepper restaurant at Adyar back again. As I was not feeling hungry at all, I couldn’t eat anything. I just ordered the Arabian grape juice and others had their dinner. It was the first time, we had combination of us, in our Consim life history. Santhosh was telling about his plan of quitting his job and how he is going to prepare for his exams, and all of us were sharing our experiences together. After the dinner was over, I had to run back with Santhosh in his bike to INOX where I was supposed to watch The Conjuring with Vijayakanth. The movie was pretty awesome, I loved it and I was ready to watch it again with my other friends. The loooong day finally got over and I came back to hostel at the midnight.
\nIt was August 5th, the first admission day of my school. First, I went to my office to get my acceptance letter, bid farewell to all then came back to my hostel. Then I prepared myself and started moving to ICAT at 2PM taking all my certificates in my bag. After reaching ICAT, I was told by the receptionist (I was shocked to know that she knew my name) to wait for an hour for the admission process to begin and I was sitting in the lobby thinking how my future is going to be. With high hopes and dreams, I looking at everyone roaming here and there, talking about games, games, games and I felt I was in the right place to start my mission. A UG junior had came and sat near, I gave a small talk with him, how the classes are going and I was astounded to see his drawing in his art board. He said the classes are superb, the staff are teaching everything well and he is very glad that he joined ICAT. Later on, the receptionist called me and said to move to the auditorium where all things were set. I went to the Auditorium and took one of the front seats along with another guy. He was moaning why everyone is so silent here and he started talking to me. To my surprise he was from Coimbatore and we were discussing a lot while we were sitting. Within a few minutes, I started thinking that I have actually got my first friend at ICAT and things are going great. We both were having a lot of fun in the hall, commenting at others, behaving like a rowdy and such. Soon, the session started where one of the Heads gave a small introduction to ICAT and he told us to move to our respective classrooms. And that was the end of that boy, I do meet him now and then in the canteen but we don’t actually talk much.
\nLater on, I moved to my classroom along with my classmates and I was feeling a lot more like a student, almost forgetting that I was an employee just 15 days back. My HOD gave a formal introduction to how the things are going to be and till date, it was the last day I saw her at ICAT. I did not wanted to have the same image what I create everywhere and so I was a bit more talkative, straight away I expressed my talents and my experience to everyone, especially to the staff. I was believing that everyone of us who joined this course, has a dire aim to become a Game Developer and you’ll see soon why it became wrong. The first day at ICAT went extremely well, I went back to my office and shared my experience to Ishwarya and Abi. Later, Chetna, Arumugam, Prince called me and I was telling the same to them. I was really loving my day with ICAT. As the days moved on, we were having Creativity, Idea Generation, Art and Management Classes for our game development. One day, My Sir was taking a class on Idea generation. He told us to close our eyes and told us to start imagining things as he kept saying a few words at 10 second intervals. The motive of the game was to find what kind of persons we are — critical, logical or creative. He gave the words Water, Tree, Bird, Eyes, Fire. Everyone started thinking of the objects he told, within seconds, he told to open our eyes and asked what came to our mind just after he uttered a word to us. Many told a few scenarios, a man burring fire near a tree with a bird, a lake with a tree nearby and a bird flying, etc. He was classifying many of them as creative and logical. Some even mixed up Eyes with Ice. But in my case, I was not thinking of anything at all, I was just plotting the objects on my virtual art board and immediately thought of a scenario combining all of this. I felt like I was not so good at any of these things, and when he asked me, I told exactly what I was doing. I told him that I imagined a paper filled with all the objects he said and after he said the last word, I combined it to a scenario which is — a bird crying on seeing its house burning in the tree. He was a little surprised to hear my answer and told me that my answer was both critical, logical and creative. He added that everyone should try to think the same way and the funny thing was that others asked me to help them to think like that. That little spark which sir told, gave me a little confidence that I was meant to create and design games and that I can do this.
\nEvery evening I started going to meet Ishwarya and Abi, as I felt very lonely as the days pass on. I began to realise none of my classmates are like me, they have their own future plans and it was like they are not actually fully into gaming at all. I fell into a team that doesn’t interest me at all, and worse, my teammates mostly never come to class. I was feeling a lot empty, I felt I was wasting a lot of time. I began scheduling my tasks in my Calendar Application on my MacBook to help me get more productive. I began repairing my downed websites and started a little bit of Android. But the pace was not the same with what I used to have. I was extremely slow, I started sleeping a lot, wasn’t showing interest on anything. More on this, a little later, I’m totally vexed about this.
\nOn August 15th, the Independence day, Me, Ishwarya, Dharani, Santhosh, Abi, Vijayakanth went to The Conjuring movie again (for me, it was the third time), it was kind of fun to see Ishwarya getting scared to death. Later Me, Ishwarya and Abi tried to goto Sowcarpet to buy dresses but we ended up buying them at Spencer Plaza. Me and Ishwarya enjoyed the massage seat for Rs.20 which was put up there and we wanted to go for it once more. We forced Abi to go for it too, but as I expected she didn’t like it. We were walking here and there in the mount road and I was noticing a shop named Punjabi Dhaba. On seeing Dhaba, I was remembering all the things Chetna was telling about Dhaba when I went to Ludhiana. I was even thinking of going there but it was a small shop, so I was not opening my mouth to go for it. On the way, we were discussing about the things we were doing the last Independence day. The days when we were roaming TNagar, forming a human train running in between the crowd, having a lot of fun. Ah..old memories!. Later on, Ishwarya and Abi started back to the hostel and I went to INOX to watch Aadhalaal Kadhal Seiveer movie. Vijayakanth was already there and we couldn’t get any tickets and so we booked tickets at Sangam Cinemas and got our bus. To our surprise, Ginu George and Mohammed Kazzali were sitting behind us in the bus and when we asked where they were going, they said they are going to Punjabi Dhaba, which just freaked me out!! Just that afternoon, I was thinking who would ever go to such a small hotel like that, now I was literally seeing three people on their way to taste the food there, based my enemy Zomato’s recommendation. After watching that worthless stupid movie of my lifetime, I returned back very late to hostel.
\nA lot of things happened this August, a lot of good things for my friends and a lot of bad things for myself. Here’s a very quick summary of what happened this month. Abi got her M.E Embedded Systems admission at Sai Ram Engineering College, she got her very own smartphone and she moved to Chromepet. We had an awesome blast for Ishwarya’s birthday at midnight, one of the most memorable birthday events I’ve ever had. Had a fun pooled conference call for Chetna’s birthday and met her at the Besant nagar beach at the early morning. Went to Coimbatore with Abi for the first time, as Chetna and Ishwarya used to keep telling us an year back. Watched my mentor’s movie “Jobs” along with Arumugam to relinquish my lack of confidence, and become sturdy again to face the upcoming future. Went Started to live a life on my myself without being salaried and stop dreaming to buy things when I see electronic gadgets in malls.
\nIn my next post, I’ll describe the above in detail but now, back to what this post is all about. Clearly, The one and a half months I spent here, is definitely not the life I imagined. It’s worse than the worst. Although my dream and ambition is still strong, I believe I took a wrong path by choosing ICAT, as the education is definitely not good as of now, I did not get a good team to work with and worse, I couldn’t concentrate on my other works either. In addition to it, my hostel is getting worse, I feel like a kitten trapped in a house of rats. We are in deep search of a new home in Adyar and I believe things will better soon as the days pass by. A little more things to be noted, my blog will now be regularly updated every Friday afternoon, and a dedicated Android App is soon on its way to your smartphones. Stay tuned..
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\nIn the last few days I’ve been here in Coimbatore. I had a lot of things pending to get for my upcoming game development course. I wanted to get a Lunch box, a College Bag, a lot of forms and photocopies I should take for the first day of my school (Yes, school — That’s what me and Chetna call it). This post is just my ramblings in the past one week, skip to the last part if you just want to know what I really wanted to tell.
\nSo, for the past two days, I’ve been roaming around the city buying t-shirts, things I’ve mentioned above and since I was kind of too alone, I began analyzing the people a lot. Clearly, the World isn’t a Happy Place. Well, you wouldn’t call it as the World if its always happy, would you? You would be probably calling it heaven. Me and my parents went to Pothys, here in Coimbatore to fill up my wardrobe in my hostel for my school. I’ve been to a lot of boutiques but Pothys was something different. With good business tactics, they clearly had a notion that if you could make your customers happy, you make more money. I was surprised to see a Food stall built right inside of the cloth store where people could buy chat times, tea, coffee and soft drinks. And consecutively, there was many surprises such as an announcements for muslims that they can go down to the basement where the management has prepared special arrangements for their prayer, a fancy store where girls can buy perfumes, fancy jewelry, and even teddy bears? The most shocking part of the day was that they had a full fledged super market at the basement to make customers get everything they want from the same place. In addition, with advertisements about giving a free coinbox/piggybanks for kids to save money, they give those to every customer based on their bill amount of their shopping goodies. It’s kind of weird to see people get more happy to get the “free” piggybanks, than the clothes whey bought with the money they “paid” for. The thing is, You make people happy, you earn more money. You give small funny things for ‘free’, people ‘buy’ more stuff. Makes sense. When the guy who would have proposed these ideas at first to the management must have been considered crazy, but when they actually implemented and looking at its success, they must be calling him awesome.
\nAnd of course, there’s a different kind of people, who use that technique too much, which sometimes could be evil. Yesterday, I went to a temple at R.S Puram named Kamaakshi Ambaal Temple. I’m usually don’t like to go to the temples because of all the evil I see there. I’m a very firm believer of god, but I don’t believe all those superstitions which doesn’t make any sense at all. Whenever, my mom says something superstitious, I’ll alwyas ask the reason why. I very well know that every superstition created by our ancestors must definitely have a strong reason behind it. But in today’s culture, only the superstitions live, whereas the reasons do not. Even the ancient poet, Thiruvallur, he’s one of our ancestors right? In all the 1330 thirukkurals he wrote, he has mentioned god only as “Kadavul” (which means god in Tamil) and not by any name of a god. Looks like he also believed in one god. The temple, I went yesterday, is situated amidst the center of one of the most popular areas in Coimbatore. There’s a lot of crowd, we couldn’t park our car there. Using the people as an advantage, the temple authorities have placed various idols of various gods, making it look like a real business. There’s Iyappan, there’s Guruvayyurappa, and there’s more sacred special gods who can be worshiped only in several places. I got real angry with it, I asked my dad and my mom why is it so. My mom answered we should be thankful for that, as this temple contains all the gods in one place. I couldn’t get it, a person who is really dedicated and worshiper of god, would actually go to the sacred place where the god is meant to reside, just like my friend Dharani goes every year. If people really want, their god to be portable, why not have an app for that in their smartphone and a picture of that god in their pockets. Okay, I may be somewhat wrong here, because it’s actually a good habit to visit temples as they actually free our minds and give peacefulness but wait. While we were going around each idol, I noticed a gurukkal (the guy says mantras) was actually was not even seeing the god, and he was chanting the mantras to the wall and worse, he was even yawning while saying. I got extremely crazy on seeing all this. I wanted to move out fast, it wasn’t like a temple at all. Furthermore, there was one guy dressed a saint, sitting over a cloth textured like a tiger skin. I asked my mom, why they cheat people with fake tiger skin, why not use real tiger skin instead? She said its against the rules of the government to use those. Then my doubt was, why can’t that guy sit over some ordinary cloth instead of having a cloth with a tiger skin texture. Then I saw the main deity of the temple, The Kamaakshi Ambaal but I couldn’t find her name anywhere near it, since there was a big board “Sponsored by some XYZ Bank” hiding the god’s name and the people don’t even seem to care about it. And if I say, that people don’t respect God as they should, they would find me crazy!! Then I started looking everywhere, and everywhere I see, it was some marketing technique to make people pay more and more! It’s just pure business inside that temple and I believe many places are the same. I felt like even if I took an idol and built 4 walls around it, the stupid people would actually believe it and start paying me. Some of the women were busy seeing other women’s dresses and jewels they were and the people around them, than praying to god. Even the jasmine flower knitters run their businesses well because of these ignorant people. So, you give people peacefulness and a portable god, they give you money. And the people who believe true facts and true god, will be considered crazy, whereas the people who built temples to earn money, are called great.
\nWhen I was really young, I used to watch the anime named, Dragon Ball Z. It was one of my favorite anime that time, me, my bro and my neighborhood friends all used to watch it a lot. There is a character named Vegeta(click here to see him), who along with the other baddies wearing a pink glass device on one of their eyes. That device, would actually help them to track other guys, their powers, show routes and more. Even on the first day of seeing, I fell in love with it. From that day on, I wanted to create something just like that we can use in our daily life, that can help track things, show routes, show the daily temperature and more. When I was small, I had no idea how and what to do to actually make something like that. I used to share my ideas to my friends that I wish to create something like that and they would call me as a loosu or a crazy one. Days went on, when I was in my tennis class, I used to virtually imagine in my mind and track the ball with a wire like path, where it is going and where it would pitch on the floor and where I could hit. I kept practicing that, and eventually, even without my knowledge I started imagining thoses path in front of me. It was really head breaking at first, and because of my time thinking to create that stuff in front of me, I even started to miss hitting the balls that my trainer used to rally me at. That was my first augmented object I created in my imagination to fit my real life. As I grew up, I wanted to take it a further level. When me, Prince, Freddy used to play soccer (football) at our school, I redesigned my interface in my mind, just like it looks like a big plus sign, focusing on the ball where the guys are hitting at. At school, we were learning, physics and math those times and so I used to try to imagine what kind of equation would actually fit that equation, what that projectile would look like. And even while I run, I used to imagine levels of speed, a counter to count the number of seconds (even today, some can see me counting my fingers when I’m running) I take to finish my destination. I began getting a lot of data from myself and that actually bench marked me to do better next time since I was having solid statistics recorded in my mind when I do some sport. During my 12th holidays, I wanted to make even more out of it. I used to listen to a lot of music, and I so I created my own music player in my mind named “Avozine”. I loved how that music player looked and so, I wanted to really make a software in the real world out of it. I made the basic design with the very little Photoshop knowledge I knew in those days, and its remains can still be found here. But due to the lack of knowledge, I dropped that too but the music player in my mind has evolved so much better now. I loved the concept what I was doing, I tried to create an application in my mind for everything I do. I started setting up themes, with colors based on month, with importance to a close friend who has his/her birthday on it. As I started growing even more, I wanted to name those systems with version numbers and so I started with Parithi OS v1.0. I tried to integrate everything creatively in my mind as beautiful and unique as possible, but I always wanted to share that interface with my friends. I used to tell my friends, that I can see those things in front of me, their happiness levels, their speeds, the objects in front of me etc, but everyone even the close ones, used to make fun of me and think I’m just crazy and I’m trying to live like a robot. When I was in my 3rd year, I was learning Adobe After effects, a visual effects software I loved a lot. Eventually, I got a tool to actually create what I see and add it to the real world through a video and show people how it feels like. When I was in Parithi v3.8.2, I made a video with what I know, and this is what I came up with. I couldn’t exactly create what I see but I could at least show ‘something’ which shows what it was all about. Yes, as some of you who play a lot of futuristic games, may be knowing, its called a Heads-up display. It comes in many movies too but I’m not sure why people didn’t try to invent it for real as a normal person could. With the video I made, there was very very poor response, my cousins laughed at it, my friends said it was nice, some wanted to learn how to make these kind of videos, no one was actually interested in what it was actually about. The world was definitely not a happy place for me, it was sick. In my view in those days, the people were interested only in making their lives better, they wanted to do what they wanted to do. There was no appreciation for creativity, something which is new and something that could make others’ lives better. I used to tell about my interface to Arumugam, he may have thought me as crazy but he never actually said it to me like others did. Then finally in my 4th year, I decided to stop thinking about it, I kept my Parithi OS to myself. I kept building it, part by part, as advanced and intuitive as possible. I used to close my eyes and process so much data inside it, that people would actually think and laugh that I’m sleeping while sitting or standing when I’m in the bus. In order to rectify that, I tried hard how I could fit that full interface into the real world. I started looking out for big black objects when I look and imagine that interface there, and process on it. As days passed by, I kept it evolving, soon blurring the background of the real world and fixing the interface in front of me. And when I was about to go to office, I didn’t want to blur the background either. I could fit the whole interface in front of me, with very less headache, inside the real world itself. Thanks to inspirations, I obtained from the games such as NFS shift, Split/Second. With continuous tiring practice, it became something very remarkable and a useful innovation that I created it for myself. Now I can see name tags near my friends faces, their happiness levels, a thinking box which can even popup out what they are thinking, the time, temperature of the day, what my day’s tasks are, how my health is performing, and what things I should remember. Something that started with a projectile of a tennis ball in my class, changed into something I can’t live without. And well, with all this interface in front of me, I can’t stop talking about it too. I know people are going to laugh when I say these stuff are in front of me, and so I made it as a joke itself. I used to make fun with Chetna, Ishwarya, and Boo Boo (Abi) that I see these things in front of me and making themselves think I’m a robot talking robot language. I can’t do the same with boys, well you know what will happen if I do. Nonetheless, I love the interface and I know if the people had the power to see what I see they would actually fall in love with it. There’s this movie named Bridge To Terabithia, in which AnnaSophia Robb stars as Leslie, a character who imagines magical creatures are in front of her by keeping her mind wide open, and she has a friend who tries to realize the the same with her friendship. I’m still in search of that person who wouldn’t think I’m crazy and what I see is something which is real, and you can see it only if you believe in it by keeping your mind virtually wide open. I know some of the people are like me, having their own HUDs, having their own imaginations trying to make their innovations real. I still wanted to make that device, Vegeta has and I want people to feel the world like I do.
\nSuddenly, in the past year or so, some guy/group like me had actually invented this device (sort of), and well, Google bought it. Google now owns it as Google Glass, its a device that you can use to see routes, explore places, show calls and notifications and more, right in front of your eyes with a special device connected to your spectacles. And the people actually go crazy for it. WTH!!! Believe it or not, an Idea that I and many have been telling the world that it would be awesome with such kind of technology — is made fun of, laughed at, and considered crazy. Whereas, when the people actually see that stuff in real, they call it awesome, mind-blowing and what-not, they actually become crazy for it! Seriously, what is this world anyway. Well in my point of view, Google Glass is something of a first step towards what me and many had thought it would be the future and I’m sure it is. If I had the money, and mainly if I had the knowledge about electronics, I would have seriously jumped into this futuristic business. If people are so damn crazy about the little 1% of what they saw through Google glass, just imagine an interface that every human would be mind-blown to see, and live without, is given to their eyes.
\nWith Google Glass, still yet to reach the public, I don’t think it will reach bigger success. I believe such a technology will only survive, if its affordable, transparent, light weight, not-so-crazy looking, not disturbing to others, and seamless to user can make its way through the people. That device should also be something that people cannot live without and it should be something shouldn’t disturb or affect the real life. Maybe in the future, with the help of my only friend dolly in electronics (Boo Boo — Abi), and business partners (Prince) who loves to invest in research, I can actually create this device (in an incredibly thin form using the power of VLSI and other technologies that Boo Boo told me about) and make it available to the public in an affordable way that will definitely change the world. I think its the most ultimate innovation I have ever dreamed of. To me, the world is crazy, and to the world, I’m the crazy one, and to you, I wish to share a quote (I even wrote in it in my whiteboard in office once) made by Apple Computers (who have already changed the world, thanks to my mentor, Steve Jobs),
\n\n\n“Here’s To The Crazy Ones. The misfits. The rebels. The trouble-makers. The round pegs in the
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\nsquare holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules, and they have
\nno respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them.
\nAbout the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the
\nhuman race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius.
\nBecause the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world — are the ones who DO !”
This was the actual title I wanted to keep for this post as I had decided two months ago, but due to the lack of space, it came down here. Anyways, Today August 3, 2013, I’ve finally managed to reach v15.0 (But I call it to myself as v3X5 — as it’s a product of my birth date and birth month), with a focus to entirely see things different unlike never before with a strong focus to accomplish my dream with more fire within me. Actually, I have no other choice, I destroyed my life given by god, by myself, it’s now completely my turn to write it my way.
\nToday, I just got my Parithi logo printed t-shirt, one of my childhood dreams came true, and I’m stepping one more into the future. Of course, I’m extremely afraid and I have a lot of fear of what is going to happen to me, whether I can succeed in my dream or not. Failing is twice as fun than winning, it gives me a lot of more to know what I should do next. I don’t actually read books written by great winners, because I don’t want to win it their way and I want to it my way. Whatever, it is, I’m not going to quit trying. I will strive hard to my best, if not for me, I’ll do it for my friends, who have a lot of faith in me, that I can actually do it, the ones who support me and carry me forward. I wrote down, “№1” for the countdown on the day before my last day in office, no one actually knew why, and here’s the answer in the above subtitle. The line is a lyric in one of my most favorite songs — “Viridian City” (click here to listen to the song), — one of the Pokemon Jukebox songs, as always the Pokemon story always matches my life very well — where Ash Ketchum, the main character catches pokemon, I catch friends.
\nWith this, I am going to catch my train and my dream, I’ll be joining the Game Development class on August 5th, 2013. And oh, by the way, I also wanted to tell, if the World isn’t a Happy Place, make it own. You don’t need to think, you don’t need to cheat, you don’t have to do anything difficult to make that happen. All you have to do is Smile. Keep smiling, and keep on smiling, make others around you smile for no reason, even if it takes, you being called stupid. And if you do, and if everyone around you do, the world will definitely be a Happy Place one day….
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\n[P.S : This post is gonna be a little long, if you have a lot of time to read, click the read more button or come back again later..]
\nSkip to the next section [My Journey Began], if you are really not into knowing about our gang get together..
\nAs I mentioned in my previous post about the last get together, all of us were crazily planning for gang get-together day — July 21 (Whoa, I could remember this date 21, without even seeing the calender!). To talk about how this plan started, One evening, Chetna and Sri had called me together, we had a conference call about things were going on. And Sri said he would be coming to Chennai on 20th of this month. My last day in office was July 20th, and I had booked tickets that night to go home. Chetna had her dance classes for her performance at ITC Grand Chola, on July 22. Santhosh and his family were in progress of getting their new car to home. Although, everyone was kind of tied up, we all cancelled everything and decided to have a gang get-together. I cancelled the tickets and reserved tickets in the looong and stupid West Coast Express which takes about a day to reach Coimbatore from Chennai which would actually take only 7–8 hours in a normal train. Chetna cancelled her dance class and Santhosh somehow managed to reach us on Sunday. And so, it was settled, it was July 21, even before three weeks of that day, we started planning.
\nFirst it started with Sri, he gave an idea that we can goto a resort starting with MGM Eastwood Resorts. Then Chetna, told us to check out the Radison Blu Resorts. Karthik Balaje said we could go to a Theme Park. As a few days passed, we stopped planning about it and we wanted to start the fire again in the Whatsapp Group chat. Then Santhosh, said that we could go to an island named Mudhaliarkuppam (which was what I meant in my previous post) where we could have fun in the boats, see the sun rise in the early morning at Fisherman’s Cove. The days were getting close, it was Santhosh’s idea which lasted for about two weeks. I started dreaming how things were going to be, how those places are will look like and what kind of fun we will be having there. I even started a Google+ event thinking that this would be the final one. But as its my gang, as crazy it is, the plan started crumbling again. With no doubt, all of us couldn’t get up early at 4AM in the morning, and also the weather was kind of poor and unpredictable in Chennai. Rain was pouring and flooding the streets in that week and so we had to drop that plan too. The plan changed to a normal day-out with a movie and a restaurant but we wanted it to be unforegettable. At last, on the eve of my final day in my office (July 20), I called up everyone and asked for their suggestion what we going to the next day. Everyone were okay with the movie I told them and the restaurant was yet to be decided.
\nThe day had finally come! It was our Gang’s tentatively last get together day! Prior to the main course of the plan, there were little starters that most of the others couldn’t budge in. Me and Chetna first went to the besant nagar beach and enjoyed the awesome sight of the Bay of Bengal, and soon Abi and Ishwarya joined us for the breakfast at the Vasantha Bhavan restaurant. After finishing our breakfast, we hired an auto and moved straight to Sathyam Cinemas, where the guys had already got the tickets and moved into the theatre. It was the first time, I got to go to the Elite Class in the Sathyam Main Screen. It wasn’t that amazing, was okay but the surprising thing was that my former company’s CEO was there with us.
\nThe movie we booked was Turbo 3D, it was PIXAR’s latest movie and I knew it was going to be interesting and inspiring especially to me. My friends also loved the movie, although it was kind of small in length. We took a lot of group snaps together in the bay of Sathyam Cinemas and we actually enjoyed it. Then we went to the gaming arena, named BLUR, having no idea what to do, that’s what make us unique — We’re like a bag of crazy apples and potatoes. And then we moved out again.
\nLater on, Sri and Santhosh was deciding the restaurant for Lunch and it was the Residency Towers that got the okay call. Once again, I had to get onboard with the girls again (couldn’t figure out why the guys leave me alone with them — the only reason I could judge is that all of them are fat :/ ) to the Residency Towers, Chennai.
\nAfter reaching the restaurant, Sri and Santhosh, booked the table for us and told us the lunch will be served at 1PM. It was around 12PM, and we were waiting in the lobby. We were forced to split into groups as there was less number of seats together and we were having quite talks. And here comes your favorite character, The Dhar. Dhar, I mean Dharani, was telling my gang how things are going in office and little of Android here-n-there too. Chetna, was unusually silent, I couldn’t bare my best friend sitting idle, it was driving me crazy. I knew something was disturbing her; as she was the not same as she was in the theater. After a while, we went out to get cash from the ATM and I thought I could bring her back again, but I ultimately failed :( .
\nAt 1AM, we moved on to the 10th floor or so, the Crown of the Hotel, where our lunch was being served. It was a buffet, and there’s loads of things to eat and munch on but it wasn’t that good looking to give me a good appetite. We had a miniature magic show by a guy and it was really entertaining before we started our lunch. As always, I was dead silent, and I was looking around the hotel . It was kind of astonishing to see a lot of families in Chennai afford to have a grand buffet lunch in such a prestigious hotel and it kind of drove me that I should be able to do the same with my family in the future.
\nMooooving on, we got our plates and started eating the various dishes. I couldn’t go more than a round and so I went directly went to the desserts. We had a grand lunch and we spent around 2 hours or so inside the hall talking and talking. As always, Everyone kept asking me, ‘Why am I so silent?’ and it was same question again and again to Abi too. After desserts, we went out to the terrace and enjoyed the cloudy view of Chennai. We could see almost all the east and west parts of the city clearly and we took several photos, one of which has become my profile photo on Whatsapp and Facebook.
\nChetna had been telling us to go to the Tiruvanmaiyur beach where she saw some chutes by the beach. We were planning for the evening and set started off to the Anna Square first as there was a lack of buses en route to Adyar. We all got down at the Marina beach and we started walking towards the light house till we get information about the Tiruvanmaiyur beach where Santhosh and Karthik Balaje had went to enquire. We heard from them that were no parachutes there and so we all decided to goto the nearest Cafe Coffee Day near my hostel, which is one of my favorite spots to relax.
\nOn the way, we sat down in a few places to rest while walking and we had a swell time. Me and Dharani went to the shop and got ourselves some water bottles to drink on the way. After finishing it up, Me and Abi went to the nearest corporation dust bin and threw the water bottles, and on the way, I was telling how me and Muhil akka used to do environmental cleaning stuff we used to do in my childhood days.
\nAfter half an hour or so, we started walking back to Cafe Coffee Day, and finally Chetna spoke well to me on the way and after reaching the coffee shop. I was very happy that she came back together after a long gap from morning :) . Addition to that, we had lots of fun inside the coffee shop by playing and having coffee and drinks for all of us.
\nThen it was finally our time to leave, the day went awesome. We all came out, bid farewell to each and took a few snaps, started back to our homes and hostels.
\nAfter reaching my hostel, I packed everything starting from my formals, my headphones and went to sleep soon. The next day, I opened up my eyes clean, mind freed wide open with nothing in my mind as I decided to really wanted to wake up last night. With my skullcandy plugged in, I listened to my inspirational set of songs in my playlist — from Split/Second game’s official sound track, Pokemon, a few from the Backstreet Boys.
\nI really could feel that everything till then was gonna be left behind, it was a completely fresh start. It was up to me to keep what I wanted and I didn’t. In the last year, I earned a group of friends, a little of experience in a corporate world, a lot of fun, a lot of love, and of course, my own earned money. Most importantly, I got the confidence that I can take care of my self and I live my life independently. While, the money I earned is completely used up, for rent, games I bought, the fees I paid for the college, my watch and my SkullCandy Headset. Only the thing, I materialistically had in my hands were my FastTrack watch and my SkullCandy headset. Looks like I spoke too soon, I lost my precious purple headset in the following train journey :( . The only things I have are my friends, the experience I gained from the world and my FastTrack watch.
\nOn the way back home, my grandpa and grandma gave me lunch at the Katpadi Junction along with a bag of mangoes picked from our mango farm. Before I met them, I was fighting with my mom, that I hate their food and to tell them not to give me food. But after meeting them, I could feel their love for me even though I haven’t talked to them for over 3–4 years. I felt very touched in their enthusiasm and their interest in wrapping up the food for me, in a special banana leaf, covered up with paper. Maybe since, they were from a village background, they had struggled to get a use-and-throw plastic spoon for me to eat and they told me to take that spoon with me to home as they felt it was of a very good quality. The train was a very late to the railway station, because the train engine had a breakdown on the way and my grandparents had been waiting there almost for 4 hours for me. They did not even know what to talk with me, and being a silent guy, I didn’t know what to talk to them. They kept staring at me, till the train the started and thankfully, I bid farewell to them. I opened up the package, and I found it to be Tomato rice, one of the dishes I hate a lot. Over phone I had told my mom before meeting my parents, that I’ll throw away the package or bring it home without eating, but their love and affection, made me eat it all up. I felt very happy that there’s a some people in this world besides my friends to love me even without my notice.
\nAfter nearly 12 hours of journey in a stupid train, I reached Coimbatore at night. With big dreams to follow, I had my dinner and slept. The next day, I woke up with deep thinking about games, and would I able to do games. I opened up my recently bought domain, http://www.playcroft.com — and saw the simple “Welcome to PlayCroft” message getting displayed. I wanted to change it, so instantly I got up, had my shower and breakfast and started working on my gaming company’s website. Within hours, I was able to finish it with the help of various frameworks and plugins on the web and publicized it to my friends.
\nI know I’m good at programming, I know I have a lot of love for games, but was it possible for me to create great games, something which is considered the most difficult and the most challenging software that man has ever created? This were the questions that kept running in my mind a few hours after my website completion. I was not a big fan of Math, or physics — I knew I had an inspiration for Space Science and computers, gadgets and technology. But, Math, Physics and Trigonometry, Analytic Geometry, Artificial Intelligence form the basis of every game that has ever been created. When my friends tell me to create a lot of games (for fun or no fun), I used to think the same. How can me, who had never had interest in Math or Physics could become a good game developer. Well, I wanted to test it out myself.
\nAnd so I started, with Java. Saw a few tutorials, what game development was all about. Learnt a little basics and soon learnt that programming was only 1% of all those. Everything involved in developing games was purely Physics, Math and Geometry is some way or the other. Well, that’s true right? When we want to create virtual things that are true on the real world, we have use the same science to develop the same for the virtual gaming world.
\nI started my deep hibernation process (yeah, the one you call, sleeping and dreaming), tried to wipe out everything in my mind, I mean ‘everything’. After 3 hours of deep hibernation, I woke up, opened up my MacBook Pro, opened up Eclipse IDE and started to make a simple game using Java myself. It was all based on math and physics and yet, I could tolerate it. I found that I can cope up with it and to my astonishment, I could make 2D platformer within 3–4 hours and that I gave me a hell load of confidence. From the mistakes I did in my past, I knew over confidence is a killer. So I turned to explore more into the world of game development beyond the basics. There were several books to learn, and Whoa! In a few minutes, I found that there’s a huge ocean in front of me and I had to catch every fish inside it. The web, which I had learnt from my childhood till now, was completely of no use (of course, I could use it later for doing web based games) but it didn’t give me the basis for anything in the gaming side. It was completely new to me, and I have to learn my way through to master my dream.
\nI wanted that confidence, that I can do it and that I’m on the right track and there I had it. My next fear was, how I am going to get a job? How am I going to publish my own games? How am I going to survive in a different place? How am I going to start my own company and employ my friends into it? How am I going to explore Europe & USA with Prince and Freddy? How am I going to get Chetna, her very own house in Besant Nagar? How am I going to get an AUDI for Ishwarya? How am I going to take Boo Boo to a trip to NASA? How can I take my family to a foreign tour? How can I start my own restaurants and coffee shops? How do I become a business partners with my friends like Nalini, Arumugam, who want to start their own ventures? How do I build a dark black tower with a Parithi ‘P’ logo in the middle of Gandhipuram, Coimbatore? How do I execute plans that I’ve never ever told anyone before? The answers for all these questions were still unanswered, and they required another week-long hibernation. I was thinking and thinking and thinking of the same things again and again and again just like this loooooong sentence is looong enough just to tell you one simple fact that I was just thinking while I was sleeping with eyes closed and mind completely awake. You could ask its tooooo much of a big dream, right? Well, If you aren’t new to this blog, you know [this] and that I dare to do the impossible. [Why? Coz, its fun! :)]
\nLast week, as planned was a very good hibernation week. I got enough hope I can make my dream come true with vibrant support from my friends as always. I didn’t want to get into game development again, I purposely started to simply sit and waste time, coz in the future, I will scold myself that I was simply sitting when I had time to learn and that will help me learn things faster with a lot more thirst to learn more when I’m into my game development school. But sitting simply is annoying for another fact, it makes me really really lonely, with no one chat with, since everyone are busy in their offices and colleges.
\nPrince, my super buddy, is doing the same in his home at Madurai as he is in his work holidays and actually yesterday was his birthday. Although he doesn’t waste time like I do, he gave me company to play games online. And I also started to play several single player games I used to play while I was in college. With a little help for my dad’s work and my mom’s website, and some tunings to my current array of websites, I am finding myself to be busy although my public status message to all my friends, is just ‘being vetti at home jobless’.
\nWell, my hibernation and the aim I had come home had been fulfilled except for my hair-do I wanted to change. I also made several changes to my friends page, you could check that out here. Talking about friends, I wanted to take a moment to introduce you to Chetna, (whom most of you’ve asked me) and this is the end of this post for those of you who already know about her. Others read on.
\nThere hasn’t been a proper start and end for her on my blog since she became my BFF during the days I stopped blogging. Through my hibernation, I was flash backing myself from July to previous June, and she was an important part of what I had become today. Here’s hows things started. As you maybe knowing, I am very silent guy, I don’t talk much with anyone before analyzing them at-least for a week. Although, I had a strong set in mind to change myself since I didn’t like myself for what I was, I was losing a lot of opportunities because of my shyness and qualities of that sort. When me and Chetna were bumped together as 506–507 by putting us into the same team at office, we were like 1 and 0. I mean, if she was binary true, I was binary false. She was studious, I was not. She was talkative, I was not. She was a North Indian, I was South. She got placed in multiple companies, I was not. She was not a tech geek, while I was. And more, she had a PC, and I had a Mac :D . There was nothing coherent between us but our focus and motive was the same. I wanted to be different from my past, I want to obtain the qualities that I lacked, I wanted to have an open world, an open friend, to whom I share “ANYTHING” [not even almost anything, its capital ‘anything’] with no limits and boundaries. At first, she didn’t actually like me because of what I was, and that was actually a good thing. Because of her hate, she started to change me, and since I actually was striving to be confident and to have better attitude like her, it catalyzed me to change myself at a faster rate. But I was always a little scared of her, and still am, and that fear is nothing but I may lose her. She was almost everything what Shubham was to me in my childhood days, a friend without limits, trusty, supportive and she saw me the same way I saw her as. And therefore, we both became really great friends. I’ve met a lot of people, tried to make a lot of BFFs, but no one have not even got close. It lead me to believe one of the greatest truths of life, that is ‘BFFs are not made, they are born — which soon became my Whatsapp status. She was perfect friend and by perfect, I do not mean that there will be no fights or misunderstandings between us. In perfect friendship, there could be a hell lot of fights, but the mutual understanding between us is what that really matters. She may get angry of me and I may get angry of her, but whenever we do, we immediately talk it out, understand each other and be awesome friends back again. I always wish all friends in this world to be the same way. With no hiding, secrecy, sharing without limits, zero possessiveness and a better understanding, the world would be an awesome place. As a symbol of our friendship, we created something called as the ChuKy WiKy Promise, which even resides in WikiPedia. It is a lock or a promise that no matter what happens, we will always be together by forgetting what ever misunderstanding we have between us. It is also something I want the future ChuKys and WiKys to have. I always knew BFFs and OFAKs were not meant to last with me, from my life’s experience, and it happened in her case too. She got placed in Accenture and she had moved to the new company. During February, when she left, I gave her a ChuKy doll in remembrance of me and I was with her during her last moments while she boarded the bus from Chennai being a consimite. We have departed and changed directions but our 506–507 memories and definition of true friendship will always haunt those places in our office for years to come…
\nIf you knew about me and Chetna, and You’ve still read it through here, that’s great. The post isn’t over yet. During my hibernation, I planned a things to bring my dreams to come true. And I think this could be the perfect post to tell a few about it. A some of them are already publicized. My Dream is to create a network of services and products, with few of them named after one of my friends. Of course, the ideas are not revealed here, as this is a part of business. Starting with the Parithi Network,
\nParithi Network :
\nWell, that’s wraps it up. Definitely a long post to read. But hey, you’ve got my future in a single page, so its kind of actually short. Today, marks the day of a new album by my favorite artist ‘The BackStreet Boys’. Not sure, how they release every album at every starting stage of my life :) . I bought the album today from iTunes, and the first song kept kept me tapping my feet while others went downhill. Here’s a few inspiring lyrics from that song,
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\nI, I, know we’re gonna make it
\nIn a time like this where love comes ‘round
\nI, I, know we gotta take it
\nIn a world like this where people fall apart
\nIn a time like this where nothing comes from the heart
\nIn a world like this, I’ve got you
When I first joined Consim Info Pvt Ltd (at July 14, 2012), the only thing I had in mind was to become very independent away from family, live on my own, have my own cabin in an office with lots and lots of dolls, need to have a lot of friends and that was it. I had no idea of earning more, search for better jobs, or any other deviation to move from my company. Consim had everything I wanted, starting from freedom, technology, social culture, and I mean everything. I completely loved my stay in the company and as I wished, I got a load of friends to hang around with and to be precise, I had been in a circle of friends whom people would refer as a gang for the first time in my life. As days passed by, I loved my job even more, as I grew to be a part of the R & D department of the company and also offered to work with a Mac such as I have and my life, it couldn’t get any better.
\nMeanwhile, apart from my office side, I learned a lot to live on my own by renting a house and living alone, taking care of me and coming to office by myself. It was the first time in my life I felt so independent that I am living my life all by myself and not depending on my family or friends to take care of me. I almost lost contact with my college-mates which give me the confidence that I can restart my life without any worries as there would be no one there to let the others in my office to know about my silent character and childish behaviour. Of course, I started to act different than what I was, but I guess it wasn’t enough, people easily found my true character very soon. No one was to be blamed, it was all my fault how people knew about me, but well, it wasn’t all that bad after all.
\nAt first, as always, people started to think I’m a tech geek, technically very strong and has a wide exposure to modern technologies. Thanks to Sai Mam, Ram and Kumaran, I was offered to work on the LG TV applications which was completely new to me. The code was already well built and the application was almost ready for testing. Me and Chetna had to do only few minor modifications to make it work completely well and together we launched the LG TV application for BharatMatrimony within the first few months of our arrival. It was an exciting project to work on, and soon I was allowed to write the code for the IndiaProperty.com’s LG TV application from scratch. With the API they had built, I finished the project within two weeks, however, the timeline given the project was for nearly a month. Sankar, a former employee in my company congratulated me on my progress and I was pretty excited to soon catch with up others in building the other blocks of BharatMatrimony.
\nAfter the IndiaProperty LG TV application was finished, ready for taking it live, we held it up for future discussion and I finally entered in to working with the BharatMatrimony Team again. Headed by Kumaran, and having Chetna in my team, we had a lot of fun than any other team in the company and I was feeling very happy to be part of it. Soon, I moved from my rented house to a hostel and I started to live with my friends Dharani, Vishnu, and soon Vijayakanth.
\nDays went fine, however, I couldn’t focus well on my blog and my websites, which soon lost its hit rates because of lack of fresh content. Adding to those, I couldn’t concentrate much on working at hostel and therefore, my precious mac became dormant for months sitting inside my briefcase. I took it out when Prince joined the hostel for his training programs and only then found out that the battery of my mac had almost died as its’ electrons died out being idle. It couldn’t hold up its charge even for an hour, which made my cute little monstrous laptop into more of a arcade game box. And there’s more, I even bought a Reliance Data card to surf the internet, for which I had to spend Rs. 850 every month from my salary and the hard part was that I was paying it without even using it for surfing the web for an hour. Later, I tried to hook the modem up to use in my tablet, soon that too bricked and it wasn’t having any warranty, costing me around Rs. 13,750/- in loss again. Couldn’t blame anyone again, I was the one who haven’t used my possessions wisely, but I couldn’t help it either. I became very tired every night reaching the hostel and I couldn’t touch any but eat and sleep in my bed.
\nI made it a point to buy atleast something for me for Rs.2000/- every month with some savings too. With my first salary, I got myself a Wrist Watch from FasTrack, and then two games (Counter Strike : Global Offence & Battlefield 3) and finally a SkullCandy Headset. I was very happy till December, and after that, things started changing…
\nAt January, my best friend Chetna, got placed in Accenture and in a month she had to finish the relieving process and move to her new company. While that transition was going, there arose several rumours inside the company that me too will leave the company following her. Well, it was obvious to make everyone feel that way, since already three of the freshers who joined with me had already left. While I was having no idea to leave the company, the rumours were so strong that people started questioning me about it. I couldn’t bare it, I felt so bad and I was totally disappointed in the way I was treated even after I was working with so much sincerity. I’ve even neglected two golden opportunities to join with my friends’ companies where they had referred me with much better salaries. Adding more to my sadness, I did not get any challenging tasks to perform, as the tasks which I had was very simple while others were working on something very big. In one case, I did not perform those simple tasks well, I made a few errors that made the files get reverted back from the server. I felt like was losing even more confidence from my lead, which made me think I’m a total LOSER. The events that followed these, made me very depressed, I cried for many nights, talked with my mom, and one day I even moved to the terrace alone and stood seeing the light house, not knowing what to do.
\nWhile standing there, I had a quick flash back of all my life, how I grew up, to what I am exposed to, and the people I’ve met before. I knew I was something, I knew I was more than I think I was but I did not know why I kept doing mistakes here. I accepted that it’s all a part of life to get scolding from my higher officials was all a part of learning and a part of growing up — just like the school days. While looking back through my life, I noticed something odd. I was big lover of games, and I’ve even got scolding from my dad, that I was fit only for playing games and not creating them. I’ve spent lakhs of money on gaming, holding every console that the Sony PlayStation Range had to offer, an i7 PC that’s worth nearly a lakh, and a monstrous MacBook Pro with the highest configuration (awarded as the best laptop in the world) available at the time when I bought it. With that spark of light in mind and also from the light house that stood in front of me, I asked to myself, “Why not I try something to do to the world of gaming?”. Although, it might sound like a stupid question to myself, I wanted to try it so bad. With Gaming rage filled full over my heart and brain, because of the hardcore gaming we’ve been doing every night with Prince, Dharani, Vijayakanth playing COD4 Modern Warfare, I wanted to take a leap of faith and believe that I can do it — or atleast try doing my best in the game development field. Of course, I did not even know what is game development, I had no idea — game development was like greek and latin to me but something told me to give it a try with the only life I have.
\nWeb, was everything I know. I’ve been programming for the web from school when I was in 9th standard. I have tried basics in game development, using Game engines such as the XNA Game Studio, the openGL platform and DirectX, but still I was nothing in GameDev when compared to my knowledge in programming the web. I was trying to figure out combing my knowledge to match these two and I felt Game Programming (not Game Designing) would be a better option to focus my future on. So at that point, in front of the light house, just in front of the Terazza, I decided that I should jump in, open my mind wide open with belief and hope that things will go right and I decided to learn Game Development. Instantly, I called my parents and told about my decision, and like every other parent they denied my request at first. After a lot of crying for a few days and requesting me to give a chance that I could do this, they agreed. Chetna, Ishwarya and Prince were also a strong part of helping me take this decision, as they were the ones who made me realise what I was.
\nI soon started to look for Game Development courses throughout India and also in Singapore, and with lots of analysis, I locked ICAT (which is situated just near my hostel) would be the right place, where I would do my course and drive my future. I wrote the entrance test, passed it with a good score and successfully joined the course by paying the fees for the admission and the first term. However, the course was starting only in August and therefore I had to wait 6 more months to get started with my dream.
\nMeanwhile, at office, everything were running smooth. Oh-wait-No! That was the worse part. I once again, started learning more, I was given a little-challenging tasks once again, I became much more close to my friends, felt very close to my team leader and project manager and I was doing a lot of R & D — jQuery Mobile, Google Calendar, Underscore.JS, and what-not! Worst case, I was even offered to work on Mobile Technologies such as Android and iOS — which I wanted to work on so badly. I was once again having a lot of fun in office, felt like it was like my second home and I didn’t want to leave it. Although I thought about my decision for nearly a month, I felt I had taken a wrong turn. But my instinct was telling something else — it kept telling me, that I’m on the right track, I knew what I was doing and everything is going to be fine. With no other go, I continued, loved every minute I was there, made every person around me as happy as I could.
\nAs I said in my previous post, the days were counting tick-tock-tick-tock, and 7 months flew just like that. And now, I’ve quit my job — with hope and belief that everything’s going to be alright, confidence built up by my friends and those in office who really cared about me, a letter truly inspiring written by Boo Boo (Abinaya) to chase down my dream and conquer it.
\nWith high hopes and beliefs, a new category (I-Go-Gaming!) of my life begins..
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\nI rubbed off one of favorite quotes and I started the countdown for my departure 20 days from July 20th, which is going to be my last day at office, by writing down the number on my white board in my cabin. Although at start, no one seemed to give much importance to it, but as it got close, people started noticing.
\nI could still remember the days when all of us joined the office together and formed as a group even during the first week or so, and it is something that doesn’t happen with the freshers joined us this year. The remains of us in our gang are wondering a lot why the new freshers don’t group up like us and it called for our investigation. I wanted to get in to find out what’s going on and although I was not officially allowed to interact with them, I started going to their bays and learnt what they were doing in their training sessions. I tried talking to a few of them, clarifying their doubts in their training and had a few chitchats too. At first, Tamilselvi, the girl with my mom’s name started talking well, then Karthikeyan, Saranya and Sarjana joined in. It was nice to see them experiment with the web which I love the most, it took me back to the days when me and my gang were under training last year. Vijayakanth told me to take care of Ramesh for a week and so I started giving exercises to him and soon gave exercises to everyone. But as my days kept decreasing I couldn’t talk much with them, I had to get held up in my bay for work which was kind of engaging as it was related to our company’s data center migration. Talking about data migration, I also want to let you know that my servers now under a VPS and not another hosting server anymore.
\nI also got a ‘Parithi’ logo branded sticker for my Xype ordered from wrappz which looks so beautiful for me and yet as always makes me a bit unlucky as usual. Freddy had got a smartphone and so now it’s fun to have a new chatting group named ‘Les Vostokians’ on hike and whatsapp with me, Prince and Freddy.
\nI had already planned a lot for my last days at my office and everything went according to my plan. And as expected, there came several severe clashes between me and Ishwarya which I couldn’t bare, those days were just horrible.
\nApart from all those, we had a good time at the Consimites day, this time called as MaX awards but it wasn’t the same as we had last year.
\nIn addition to me, Vishnu and Karthik Balaje are also leaving our gang to start their new lives. We are about to celebrate our gang’s last get together at Mudhaliarkuppam this Sunday where we are going to meet Sri after a very long time and Chet after a brief gap. With this post, the Consim Life category is finally coming to an end, not sure what lies beyond the horizon..
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It was an awesome May and June has just started. As expected, it wasn’t good. In fact, it started with the worst day of this year yet. Let’s not talk about that right now, meanwhile, Me, Ishwarya and Abi had planned to visit the Mylapore Kabaleeshwarar temple this Sunday.
\nThe day had come, we all woke up very late in the morning. We waited for the evening, the day became very cloudy and started to pour in by the evening. I spent my day watching Jurassic Park in the TV and subtly playing with PSP. Dharani was sitting with laptop as usual and Vijayakanth had went to Devi Cineplex to watch Fast and Furious 6 yet another time with Ranjith.
\nAt around 6, we couldn’t sit in the room and so we checked for nearby restaurants to have some good dinner with our fresh salaries. We wanted to have a budget friendly month, and so we are cautious with every rupee before spending. When we went to Citi Centre last month, we noticed a lot of Parotta shops while walking and so we decided to have our dinner there. We had already told our hostel paati about our plan and she had cursed us we won’t get food easily.
\nVijayakanth had come at 7 pm and we had started from our room after half an hour. We walked and walked, in search of a Parotta shop and we went to street where we saw the shops that day. But this time, it didn’t look hygienic and so we decided to search for more. We walked back to the Kutchery Road and saw a Parotta shop on the way. We couldn’t see any chairs there so we were thinking for a minute. A guy from the shop asked us whether we are here to eat and we answered yes. He directed us to sit by giving us some plastic stools and asked our order. We ordered a set of Parottas for each of us and we started to wait. We waited and waited for 15 minutes and we still didn’t get any parottas. Losing our patience, we started to run from the shop and went to Mylapore.
\nWe went to another Hotel where we had already had parottas. After washing our hands and taking our seats, we ordered parottas to the waiter boy but he denied that the parottas weren’t available right now. We saw ourselves for a moment and started to move from the hotel.
\nHaving missed to get parottas at the 2nd hotel, we got a bit tensed. We decided to goto Senthilnathan mess at the heart of Mylapore, a hotel where we had already had lots of parottas with Prince accompanying us once. We walked towards it for 20 minutes and we were shocked to see that it was renovation. Highly depressed, and with deep hunger we once again started our journey in search for parottas.
\nI couldn’t walk anymore and told others that we can take an auto but others didn’t want to. And so we walked, I had an idea of going to another mess which is just near by our hostel and was hoping we could get some food there. It took us another 20 minutes to reach it and to another shock, the mess I had in mind was closed.
\nSaying, ‘Oh My God!!’, with Paati’s curse coming true, we started walking towards the Marina Park Restaurant at Pattinampakkam. We had been walking for nearly 2 hours, rounding the whole boundary of Mylapore and finally we reached our Parotta destination.
\nAfter checking on foursquare, we ordered 2 Malabar parottas for each of us, and even then, the order took an unbelievable 20 more minutes to get prepared and to reach our tables. Finally with a big sigh, we digged in to our plates and finally had our tummies filled in with yummy parottas. The mission was a success. After a heavy dinner, we paid the huge bill with our ‘Kaasu Panam Dhudu Money Money….’. And then me and Vijayakanth got ourselves a banana milkshake, and walked to our hostel.
\nClearly, this would be the greatest parotta search in my life next to the one me and Prince had a few months ago. Ready or not, a Parotta hotel searching app is coming soon to the Google Play Store…stay tuned…
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\nAfter 10 minutes or so, I finally reached TVS nagar and I called Abi to ask where she was. She saw me and my car before I could see her as she moved towards us. She had come with her dad and we got down to talk to him a bit and then we moved on. It was THE moment, “THE” moment I had been waiting for a long long loooooooong time. Abi became the first of all my friends in my whole life to see our car and again the first friend to see me driving a car. With too much excitement, not knowing what to do, I drove so crazy as I could and didn’t even talk well when Arumugam made a call to hear my Katy Perry ringtone.
\nAlthough I drove a bit crazy, jumping over speed breakers and speeding over the ongoing lane even after a driver on the front took out his hands out of his window to scold me. Unusually, my parents had been scolding me a lot less, maybe not to scold me in front Boo Boo sitting on the co-driver seat. After rallying down to the foot of Maruthamalai, we bid farewell to my parents and we started climbing up the mountain. On the way, we left our shoes behind and got some things for the temple. I took a lot of photos of Boo Boo while climbing up and to my surprise, the front Mandapam of the temple (which was under construction as long as I could remember) was completely constructed and finished. I didn’t expect that I would be coming to that place for the first time with her :). While we were walking, I was sharing a lot of my stories of my life, my bro’s, friends of my past and more. Especially about the days while we were in quarters, the Sambarian times and the days of my tennis class. After finishing the archana, we sat down to take some rest and she showed me her medals which she got the day before :).
\nAs and when I took photos, I sent them to Ishwarya but on that day, but unfortunately she was a bit busy that day, I couldn’t get any replies as I normally would get from her :(. The day moved on awesome, I told to Abi about me and my relation with Lord Muruga, the days of killing dogs and about our trekking adventures of me and my bro.
\nAround 10AM, we climbed down from the temple and went to our home in our car. For the very first time, a friend from my office came home and I was very excited. With jumping joy, I showed her around my house, my base camp, made her use my workstation, showed her my dolls and toys and took a lot of snaps. Later, my mom forced us to have breakfast, we had lots of fun eating and then it was finally time for her to leave as her dad was keep on calling her from morning.
\nWhile leaving, I showed our home garden, my umbrella tree, the Parithi HQ board and other crazy things around my house. Finally, we dropped her in the Vadavalli where her dad had come to pick her up. Instantly I started missing her so much, I felt so good when she was with me, the exact way how it would be when I used to roam around the quarters with Muhil akka. The rest of the day was kinda boring, I was sitting my way through the day and it was time I had to leave to chennai again. It was unexpectedly an awesome day, my mind was fully filled with Boo Boo.
\nAt night, when I reached the Coimbatore station, I was wondering how awesome it would be if she could come with me to Chennai and to my surprise, when I checked the listing for the passengers, I found the girl next to me was ‘Abinaya’. In shock, I looked closely and found the name was actually Abinaya Priya :(. Boo Boo (Abi) had now become of my most important people in my life and I wish there’ll be more adventures and stories with her in the days to come..
\nTyping this with the Soundtrack of the movie ‘The Borrower’s Arrietty’ playing on my Xype in the background, there couldn’t be nothing to strongly say Boo Boo (Abi) is the perfect Arrietty out there in the real world for me. Someone so special, someone so difficult to find, someone who is just like me, someone just like my Muhil akka, someone impossibly replaceable, someone I don’t want to miss in my life forever. To add more, she even made me love the lonesome service — Google+, as I wish to share something with her every morning on it. Being an one of my OFAKs, god keeps trying to take her away from me but I do pray that she shouldn’t leave me like others did. Trying to spend time with her as much as possible with every tincy wincy second I get, gives me so much happiness that my childhood days gave. To show that she’s my Arrietty, I’ve even given her a pair of clips and a sugar cube, I wish I could keep her as my dolly forever, but hey God, you wouldn’t let me do that, would you? :-S
\n", "date_published": "2013-05-29T05:58:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2013/05/29/days-after-my-birthday/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2013/05/29/days-after-my-birthday/", "title": "Days after my birthday…", "summary": "A week after my birthday, almost everything had subsided in my office but May was still May and I’m still in love with it. Although I miss the wonderful climate that Coimbatore will be enjoying, the hot and burning temperatures of Chennai…", "content_html": "A week after my birthday, almost everything had subsided in my office but May was still May and I’m still in love with it. Although I miss the wonderful climate that Coimbatore will be enjoying, the hot and burning temperatures of Chennai doesn’t bother me much. Ishwarya, Abi and the boys always quench themselves with fruit juices every afternoon to beat the heat that the sun had been scorching us lately. Well, me? I simply wave hands and get back to my seat as soon as possible to get some AC (and of course, the AC won’t very comfy either). As me and my mom are always allergic to food that contain too much heat, I try to avoid such foods and stay healthy as possible. But this friday, I did that mistake.
\nAs I was kind of low on money, I preferred to drink the low cost juices and milkshakes, eventually buying the legitimately stupidest drink I’ve ever tasted, ‘The Cavin’s ButterScotch Milkshake’. Finishing the whole packet bottom’s up, and even adding some Limca to it, I already got the instant feeling that I’m gonna be running into safe mode the very next day. And as expected, my throat started paining the next morning, I fainted in the bathroom and I was telling Abi that I wont be able to be okay that day.
\nAdding more misery to my tale, I ordered the tamarind rice for lunch because of the no-money-in-the-pocket scenario, which managed to bring out more heat out and successfully turn me off for the rest of the day. With difficulties to talk in the R & D, I somehow managed to present my presentation and came out from the meeting even before it was over.
\nAfter setting up Abi’s profile picture on facebook, with the doll (named after her Boo Boo) she gave me on her birthday, we started off to Chennai Central railway station. As I was too tired to move, me, Ishwarya and Abi decided to hire an auto rickshaw to goto station soon. Realising that it was a very wise decision on the way, I thought I could somehow manage to get the train without disturbing my friends too much. But fate has once again played in my life, all my fears came true in the railway station making Ishwarya and Abi run here and there to get me some food to eat so that I can take my tablets.
\nWith my system failing to take food, even if it’s the idlis from the prestigious Hotel Saravana Bhavan, I made Ishwarya and Abi get really scared of me :-( And thats something I never wanted to happen after the Bangalore and Goa I.V. trip. I really dont know why God keeps on making me face the same health hazard and make my friends worry for me again and again and again. After getting into my senses after an hour or so, I took out my phone and my book to read but I couldn’t remember and at the same time forget what had happened an hour ago. That’s something that even my enemies shouldn’t suffer from. With a few pages read on the book, texting that I’m okay to Ishwarya and abi, I heard a wonderful news from Chetna that she has got her project in Chennai which focuses on Wal-Mart. Not sure if it’s just a coincidence, I had told the story of Wal-Mart only to my parents and Chetna when I had went to Ludhiana and seeing the Wal-Mart in India with my own eyes tying up with Bharti. With deep regret of the incidents that happened three hours back, I moved from my place to catch my train.
\nThe late train moved in slowly onto the track, I ran towards my coach and got into bed as soon as possible after hearing all the rumblings of my fellow passengers. I woke up at 6 in the morning, looking along the green pastures of Tiruppur thinking what’s going to be my future with many questions arising whether I’ll be as successful as I dream I would be and whether my current set of friends would always be with me throughout my life. With no hopes and expectations, I went back to bed and woke up at 8am in my lovely city. Even after the train had stopped, I didnt want to get down. The fear that I’m going to be still dependent on my parents kept on bugging me. With 10 minutes of thinking, I finally got down from the moving train which was on its way to Kerala and walked towards the Ganesh temple in front of the railway station. My parents came after 20 mins to pick me up and I had lied in the back seat of my car thinking what to do.
\nAfter reaching the Parithi Network HQ, the lied in my bed all day and I mean all day..!! With nothing to, putting all my devices to go on full update mode, I relaxed for the entire day. It was the day of Abinaya’s convocation, I was expecting that she’ll take some photos with her dad. While thinking of her, I got an unexpected call from her exactly, she explained what happened in college that day. I asked how was her day and such, she was telling a lot about her convocation but unfortunately she couldn’t take any photos. I asked her what she was about to do the next day, and she replied she had no work and so we planned to goto the mountain temple near my home, the Maruthamalai.
\nLater on, I was watching some cartoons, made several changes to mom’s online jewel store and went to sleep after my dinner…
\nKeep reading…
\n", "date_published": "2013-05-29T05:57:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2013/04/08/a-day-at-ea/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2013/04/08/a-day-at-ea/", "title": "A Day at EA..", "summary": "It’s been a long while I had went to my favorite mall in my favorite area — The Express Avenue at Royapettah. Last night, I had come very late from the office, at about 2am in the early morning and was forced to have only 4 hours of sleep…", "content_html": "It’s been a long while I had went to my favorite mall in my favorite area — The Express Avenue at Royapettah. Last night, I had come very late from the office, at about 2am in the early morning and was forced to have only 4 hours of sleep. Although it was a sunday, I couldn’t sleep well after 7am and Dharani added some torment to it but pinging me in my tummy while sleeping. Since me and Vijayakanth always tease him for being so round and fat, he gets up very early in the morning and runs across the Marina Beach for slimming down a bit. But as far as I can see I couldn’t find any difference yet.
\nI woke up at about 11am, and texted Ishwarya to ask if she’s free that day. But there was no response till 12am, she was in a deep sleep I guess and so I started listening to Taylor Swift and Avril Lavigne. I also read a chapter in one of my books and updated my statuses on my new favorite android app called the Path. Later on, I took bath and planned the day with Ishwarya to goto the mall in the afternoon after lunch. Vijayakanth, Dharani and Sunel had already left the hostel to watch ‘Chennaiyil oru naal’ at the same mall in the morning.
\nAfter finishing my lunch, I started off to the street, the sun was burning down fiercely. I had no change in my pocket and so I searched my room in every corner to get some coins for bus and I managed to get around 7.50rs. I stood near an atm near my hostel and texted Prince what he was doing. Right now, he is in Kolkata with his friend Shanmugam exploring the parts of North India for his exam. He has been sending me photos of the life he’s living there and — god, it’s the same thing I’ve experienced when I went to Ludhiana, a few months back. After about half an hour, I called up Ishwarya to get ready and then I took a bus to adyar.
\nI catched 21H from my place to Adyar signal. The ticket cost Rs.11 and I had to use up the last 10rs note and a re.1 coin from the remains I took from my room. A few minutes later, I realised I should take the ticket for Adyar Depot and not the signal. I informed the conductor and he scolded me that he can’t change tickets. He added that I have to take another ticket from the Adyar signal to Adyar depot after we reach there. I checked my pocket for the remaining coins and I had only 6.50rs while the ticket cost rs.7. So I immediately digged my wallet whether I have any coins remaining. There was an old and rusty 50paise hiding inside it, which always used to irritate me by not allowing me to fold my wallet properly for a long time. It was finally it’s time to be used and I gave the exact change to get the ticket to Adyar depot after I reached the signal.
\nI called Ishwarya after reaching the depot and started walking to meet her. On the way to her hostel, I saw a mini van having a sticker labeled www.kuppathotti.com and I was wondering their that web address is actually true. So I took out my Xype and fired up the browser and went to the URL to find it out. Surprisingly the domain was actually true and they run a service to clean up homes and take out the garbage by getting requests online.
\nSoon Ishwarya called me with Abi was already on the call in conference mode, while they were playing by saying ‘Hello Hello….’ was looking around the beatific streets of Adyar. After a few minutes, Ishwarya came with her purple umbrella and we moved to the bus stop to join with Abi.
\nAbi was coming in the A1 bus in which we both hitched in and were surprised to see two babies sitting the seats together. Of course, one of them was our Boo Boo, I mean Abi :D . On the way I was explaining about the EA games and my future in gaming, after getting the tickets, we got down at Royapettah and started walking towards Express Avenue.
\nI interviewed Abi about how she thinks about EA as she hasn’t been to it before and that was the mission all about. A few weeks back, me and Abi were looking up our company’s outlets across the cities and I was shocked to know that Abi hasn’t seen EA or the outlet of our company we have there. And that day we set up the mission to visit it once and it was the day it was about to become true.
\nAfter drinking some tender coconut, we marched in to the EA and roamed around a bit. Taking some photos near the Holi preparation setups, we went downstairs and we kept on walking until I told them a few 30 meters away from our mission destination. Abi had almost forgot about what the mission was all about and was a little surprised to see the TamilMatrimony outlet standing beside her. I took some snaps of Ishwarya and Abi in front of our outlet and then we moved on to my favorite sweet stall, the GangoTree.
\nAfter melting in the taste of the delicious cerelac look-alike, Ramaldi Malai sweet, we were roaming in various stores. We met Vijayakanth, Sunel, Dharani, and Ranjith who were already there and then we had an awesome time at Lavazza for about 2 hours. And then we started off back to home after getting some coconut burfis at a small shop and got our bus. I got down at Adyar and spent some in solitude in the bus stop after which I returned back to hostel.
\nI know I have to say something here but……..you’ll soon see why it’s missing here.
\n", "date_published": "2013-04-08T04:21:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/10/10/gods-must-be-crazy/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/10/10/gods-must-be-crazy/", "title": "Gods must be Crazy!", "summary": "I could still remember the old childhood days when I was around 10 or 11 when Muhil Akka used to request me and my bro to watch the movie, which she got from her uncle in the United States. The movie is named the same as this post and I…", "content_html": "I could still remember the old childhood days when I was around 10 or 11 when Muhil Akka used to request me and my bro to watch the movie, which she got from her uncle in the United States. The movie is named the same as this post and I really believe that it’s kinda true now. As I hoped, the things and my gang has become normal again. I could even say it got better than before with all the extra fun we have, like teasing Ishwarya mainly. I’m just sooooooo happiee.
\nLast week we had Abi’s birthday and we had planned to come early to the office and surprise her by keeping a lot of balloons in her cabin. She just loves balloons a lot and the promising girls ( Chetna and Ishwarya ) came late as usual but they had got the things prepared well. We blew the balloons one by one and set it up near her computer. Later on, by the afternoon we gifted her a teddy bear and kept a ‘H_abi_ Birthday’ wallpaper on her PC. We believe that she was really surprised and we made her accept that it was not just another day, as she stated a day before.
\n![\"image\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2012-10-10-gods-must-be-crazy/0*cBCgu_H61rXD7Kex.jpg\")
The next day, we had booked tickets as per Chetna’s wish to watch the movie Barfi and also to get another birthday gift for Abi. So thinking that everyone will get ready on time, I woke up very early and got ready for moving out. I skipped breakfast and also started urging Vishnu to get ready soon. After a lot of quarrels, Me, Sri and Vishnu reached the Express Avenue mall and started to wait for them. The boys started to lose their patience and so the three of us went to the Kwality Walls Ice cream booth and they bought a couple of cones. Me? I went to the candy shop and bought M&Ms to show Chetna how it tastes like. Although she wasn’t that impressed, I really loved my world’s favorite peanut filled chocolate candy beans which reminded me the days when I used to play NASCAR on my PlayStation with my bro.
\nLater on, we went to Impulse — a store for buying gifts and goodies. It was the shop where we bought gifts for Ishwarya, Santhosh and the purple slapstick for me (Now gifted to Chetna). We didn’t find anything good for Abi there and so we moved on to the movie at the Satyam Cinemas.
\nAbi had come a little late and the other boys came when during the interval of the movie since they had heavy work at office. And about the movie? It was a very beautiful chaplinesque movie, I really loved it coz the hero did a lot of things that are common to me and the story was superb. Although I couldn’t understand everything, I was able to get the main theme of the movie thanks to Chetna’s translation. Something to be noted, this was my first Hindi movie in a theatre. When the movie was over, I actually thought we would goto Blur but all others were too busy to atleast hear my words, well maybe because we were all damn hungry. We searched the roads for the nearest hotels but we couldn’t find any. I came across one of the most irritating and idiotic things that some guys do, which I have only seen in the movies. Next, we took a bus and started moving to Besant Nagar. On the way, I was extremely sleepy so I started sleeping unknowingly without the notice of others I guess.
\nAfter meeting up with Santhosh and Karthick at Besant nagar, we went to a rich, superbly classy Indian restaurant called the Dindugal Thalapaakatti. The water tumblers were made of brass and was very heavy, the food tasted rich and spicy.
\nAfter finishing our late lunch, we then moved to the besant nagar beach. Santhosh had left us and went home. We walked to the beach and had fun shooting balloons with the air gun but unfortunately I missed to shoot those moments in my Xype :-(. Up next, we headed near the shore.
\n![\"image\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2012-10-10-gods-must-be-crazy/0*YyIInzXiK2KvhDkh.jpg\")
I tried a little photography fun here and there, nothing came out well. We sat in the sand for some time and suddenly Chetna wanted to get into the waters. We resisted at first, but after sometime, we wrapped up everything and moved into the sea. Everyone scolded me not to remove my shoes and told to stay in the beach but I couldn’t say no to my best friend’s words. I removed my socks and my Reebok shoes and jumped into the water. Sri didn’t get in but me, Vishnu, Ishwarya, Chetna and Abi had lots of fun playing with the waves. Chetna got really crazy and started splashing water on us.Vishnu couldn’t resist and so we started taking revenge on her and literally drenched her fully with the salty sea water. We played a lot, had loads and loads of fun and came back to shore after the sky went dark after half an hour. With lots of difficulty I buckled up my shoes with the sand inside it. It was unbearably irritating and paining but I didn’t open my mouth since others might scold Chetna for this. We almost forgot to buy the gift for Abi and so got the bus after a long horribly irritating walk. We gifted a lovely handbag for her and also a green M&Ms cap we saw coincidentally.
\nThen we all headed back home. I couldn’t wait to run back to hostel and remove my shoes. The moment I came in, I slammed the bathroom door and removed my socks. There was nearly a handful of sand sticking to it, and I felt almost shocked. And oh, if you were expecting to hear about Dharani, he missed all the fun as he was very busy with the office work.
\nAnd for the next three days, I lived a life on my own. It’s something I never wish to share with anyone (Maybe very rare 1–2 exceptions). Nonetheless, I did learn a very big lesson or maybe I should say I realized something important. My lovable Consim friends may not always be with me or care for me deeply as those in my college days, but they are definitely the best, the most awesome friends I had like those in the days of my childhood. When I came to Chennai, I came with nothing, but now I have one of the most valuable properties in the world, something I can’t live without for even a day.
\nEven if we have a lot of money, keep treats often, I dont think it will ever match the taste and have the real pure-fun as those treats we have with our purses and hearts fully emptied. Something else I learnt was that ‘Just Like the Sand In the Shoes’ (JLSIS) scenario, it’s not the pain I had suffered that matters, it’s the fun we had just before that really makes it worth it. Pain heals, but something you miss with your friends or family, you’ll never ever earn them back. So whenever you love to do something from your heart, never stop doing it with the assumption that you are going to pay for it in the future. No matter how bad the pain is, it will always heal but you may not have the things you loved to have if you stop doing it. Even now, as I buckle up my shoes for the office, the socks still has the few leftover grains of sand on it, even though I had washed it many times. It doesn’t remind me of the pain I had, but only the fun we had in the waters and can make me smile everyday. It feels like I can virtually relive those moments just by seeing it, and thats something you can’t get from a new, comfy, clean and tidy sock…..
\n", "date_published": "2012-10-10T10:12:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/10/01/the-day-of-60/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/10/01/the-day-of-60/", "title": "The Day of 60…", "summary": "September was a month where nothing had changed, no fun, no roaming with my gang, no nothing. That doesn’t mean I have lost hope on everyone in my gang, but I did lose hope that I can make a difference. It’s like they have changed to how I…", "content_html": "September was a month where nothing had changed, no fun, no roaming with my gang, no nothing. That doesn’t mean I have lost hope on everyone in my gang, but I did lose hope that I can make a difference. It’s like they have changed to how I was, a few months back, to which even I couldn’t change although I tried a very few times. I found that the only way to solve this is to replace my friends with new ones. Of course, that’s impossible but I can’t take this mental torture where everyone treats me as if I’m a see-through window. And I can’t blame them either, because they may have personal issues, lots of tension at work and I should be the one to understand that..
\nLast Saturday, I had to accompany Jiji Akka as she had to aboard the Indigo Flight at 10am. I woke up very early and I started off from home at the right to meet up with Jiji Akka at Pattinampakam. We were waiting for the bus to get to Guindy and Google maps had once again played with me by showing a low number of buses that goes through that way. After learning from the other travellers nearby, we boarded a bus and met Arumugam at Guindy. I’m a big lover of trains and flights and I was very excited to see the planes at the airport. An Air Asia plane flew over us as we waited in the train station to get to the airport and it was so close that even the shadow of that fell clearly on the ground below. We boarded the train at about 7.30AM and reached the airport by 8AM. The climate was awesome, I couldn’t even believe I was in Chennai as the sky was completely grey, filled with clouds and the sun was no where to be found. After reaching the airport, we took a few snaps and roamed the premises to find whether the Indigo staff are. After 15 mins, we sent off Jiji Akka and but we expected to meet her after getting the visitor passes. So me and Arumugam searched the booths to get the visitor passes and finally found one by the end of the building. We got the tickets for Rs.60 and entered the visitors’ room but she had already left the place and went through the gate for her flight. We didn’t want to waste our money and so we took seats in the visitors’ place and talked for an hour or so about our office adventures (although I dont have any exciting stuff to share this month).
\nAfter sometime, Jiji Akka called me and told that she had boarded the flight and so we started moving out of the airport and searched for a hotel to have our breakfast. Rain started to drizzle and the weather was superb as we then planned to goto the Vandalur zoo. We boarded the train once again and reached the zoo after an hour. We spent an other Rs.60 on our breakfast and another Rs.60 for the entrance fees for the Zoo. We rented two geared bicycles for Rs.60 again and started wandering in the zoo for some adventure in the foggy and cold weather. We had bought a 1ltr water bottle for breakfast but we didn’t finish it. Knowing that we couldn’t take it with us and having Chetna’s order in mind, I drank the full bottle in 1 go and threw the water bottle in the trashcan.
\n![\"image\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2012-10-01-the-day-of-60/0*qRJgw-2fZCBVtrpg.jpg\")
Moving on, I started doing a lot of stunts like wheelies, burnouts and swifty turns in and out the narrow roads of the park. A funny thing, Arumugam got his t-shirt splashed with strips of mud on his back because our bicycles had their mudguards removed. The only animal I had admired in the park was the white tiger, as I spent around 10 minutes trying to take a good snap of it and this was the best I could take from our range of sight.
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After two hours went started moving out, as I had booked tickets for Resident Evil — Retribution at PVR Skywalk. We reached there at about 2.00PM and we were very hungry to have our lunches. We ordered food at the Andra Bhojanam, and were waiting to get it in our tables. It wasn’t long as I realized after Arumugam told me to check the ticket and we were shocked to know that the movie has already started at 2.00PM and I was in the belief that it was 3PM. In a hurry, we cancelled the order and ran through the crowd to the top floor to watch the movie. After getting our 3D glasses for another Rs.60, we went to the movie theatre and watched the deadly boring movie for one and half hours. At 4PM, we came out had gave our bills to get the food we had ordered earlier. After filling our straving tummies, we ordered two Rasmalais at the Coimbatore’s Sri Krishna Sweets for another Rs.60 each and just loved the taste of it even though it wasn’t that good as my mom used to make.
\nThen we started moving out and headed out to our homes. The next day Sunday, Me, Sri, Dharani, Vishnu and Sunel went to the City centre where we met with Dharani’s classmates and watched the same dumb movie again at INOX. I loved the two hot chocolate drinks, after a long time. And again, it cost the same Rs.60. By now you might have wondered why I kept the name of the post like that and there’s nothing more to it.
\nAnd that’s it for now. A big “Hiiiiiiii!!!” to my new Invisible friends, S_h_akthi, AnnaShree, Rajesh, Praveen. I’m glad you guys know of me by now through Arumugam. I’m very excited to meet you guys, the same way you guys are, to meet me and I hope time will fix a day for that. By chance, if anyone wishes to reply to my hi back, you can use the comment section below. Stay Tuned, take care and dont forget to keep smiling.. :)
\n", "date_published": "2012-10-01T06:43:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/09/17/everything-happens-for-a-reason/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/09/17/everything-happens-for-a-reason/", "title": "Everything Happens For A Reason…", "summary": "I’ve been waiting, waiting, and waiting. It’s been a month since I’ve written something on my blog and even the keyboard of my mac feels new to me after not using it for a long time. My dearest device has lost its battery health to almost a…", "content_html": "I’ve been waiting, waiting, and waiting. It’s been a month since I’ve written something on my blog and even the keyboard of my mac feels new to me after not using it for a long time. My dearest device has lost its battery health to almost a half of its lifetime because of me and I feel very sorry for it :( . Although I had planned several posts by the end of every week, I didn’t have the mindset to post them because of the unpleasant environment that has been surrounding us for nearly a month now. I’ve almost forgot everything that I wished to write, which is why the previous posts have been deleted abruptly. Anyways, I’ll try to rewind my past and try to continue from where I had left off.
\nAfter a month, I had a chance to meet Arumugam once again. Since Dharani had went to his relatives’ home, me and Vishnu had to stay alone in the hostel room. So, I had planned to goto the Besant Nagar beach and Vishnu decided to goto the gym. I started all by myself in the afternoon after having lunch and for the first time, I got a chance to take a A/C Transit bus for going to Adyar. After getting down at the bus depot at Adyar, I had to use my Xype to find out the way to the Elloits Beach at Besant Nagar. I started walking for around 20 minutes with so many things happening around me and there was so many things to learn. Almost after an hour, Arumugam had reached Besant Nagar. I was in a call with Shahul and Arumugam was calling me to ask where I was, and to make things interesting, I connected them both into a conference call. While they both were busy talking to each other, I took the chance to search where Arumugam was roaming and gave him a surprise from the back. We went to the nearest hotel, ‘Murugan Idli Kadai’ and had Jigarthanda (a milkshake filled with jelly) after a long time. It wasn’t as good as the ones I used to have at Madurai, but it had a pretty decent taste. Then we walked across the beach and sat down by shore. Sharing all the stories between us and reliving the college moments, we spent almost 3 hours sitting in the same place. After the sun had set, the day had gone dark, we started moving to the nearest food court. Arumugam gave me a treat and also I had tried something to try for the first time from ‘Cafe Coffee Day’. He got me an Ice Cream filled Blackforest cake, which was just scrumciously delicious. By the time, we headed out of the food court, the whole city was drenched with rain on the streets. We walked down the water-filled roads to reach the bus stop and on the way, we ran into some of the dirtiest troubles. I was fully drenched head to toe, and was sure that I’m going to get a severed cold or fever. All the merciless drivers splashed the water on us and the people walking by the sides of the road, as the zoomed on the streets. By the time we reached the bus depot, a girl in a white dress was walking opposite to us, and she was very careful such that her beautiful white dress doesn’t get any mud on it. But stupid me, in a hurry I jumped over a puddle and splashed mud over her dress. She would have got so angry and scolded me a lot in her mind :( “I’m sorry whomever you are”. Finally, I managed to get bus somehow and I finally reached home by 9PM.
\nOne of the other happy things that happened to me was, My school buddies Prince and Freddy came to my office to see me after nearly 5 years. I was so excited to meet them. We had a little talk in the park for quite a while. I couldn’t talk properly because of the very bad dry cough I had obtained because of that rain. We wandered our office building and I gave them a mini blackforest treat in our office canteen. After an hour, they both left me and started moving to their homes. Prince wished to give something to me before he leaves, he forgot to bring the chocolates he had bought for me from abroad and therefore he gave me his old identity card from his ship for his remembrance.
\nI was also able to meet Ganesh, Dikshith and Gift after 4 years. We all met at the Express Avenue mall, watched a movie and done a lot of shopping together.
\nAnother good thing that happened was that I took my first knowledge sharing sessions in office and got the first place. Big thanks to all to all those who had voted for me and made this possible.
\nThis month, two of my three best friends had their birthdays. We had been planning to gift her a FastTrack watch. We ordered a cool trendy looking leather watch for her over the internet. We were hoping that it’ll reach us on the day of her birthday. The day before her birthday, Me, Sri and Chetna grouped together for coffee in the office pantry room and were planning how to surprise her. We were sharing several ideas and I gave a stupid idea of keeping some pictures as her wallpaper on the next day so that it’ll be surprising when she turns on her PC. Her birthday had finally come, and we wished her by midnight and I did some comedies as usual. By morning, Me and Sri were once again planning to do something to surprise her while walking towards the office. After reaching, I started executing my stupid idea of creating a wallpaper, and Sri was collecting a lot of photos of her friends. After we both finished it, we kept the photos as her wallpaper and turned off her system. After half an hour or so, Ishwarya and Chetna (who was in mega makeup than the birthday girl :-D ) came in. Sri said Ishwarya got surprised by the wallpapers, and so Score 1 for the team :) . Later on, I started checking the status of the watch we had ordered and shockingly (but luckily), the order was withdrawn by the company since the watch was damaged. It’s a matter of luck for us, since one of Ishwarya’s friends had come to see her and he too had bought a FastTrack watch for her. We all had lunch together and took group snaps after our meals. As always, we had the cake cutting in our pantry room, where Ishwarya was thrown into answering some very awkward and boring questions which we weren’t expecting. By the end of the day, Chetna went crazy for a treat as she pushed us all to a low graded non-vegetarian hotel, where we had lots of fun while eating and I believe it was the last treat we had with our gang’s full fun spirit filled in. If you are guessing that things are going to be tragic from now on, well, probably you maybe right.
\nFollowing Ishwarya, came Chetna’s birthday. Being my teammate, I had very big plans for her, I wished that we should make it a blast. As a whole, I didn’t have proper support to do anything special. Realising many things my friends had taught me, I at-least wanted something on her desk that shows that we are all a one big gang and no one can separate us. Ishwarya got a beautiful dress for her when she went home and it was the only part of the plan. A day before Chetna’s birthday, I told her that we’ll be giving something for her made out of nothing and something that is worthless in terms of money. I actually planned to give the Black & White ring which Dharani had snatched from her when we went to the Tnagar shopping. On her birthday, Me and Dharani had wished her over texting while Vishnu was in a deep sleep. On the morning, we teased him by reminding him about her birthday who was mind-struck for a second and immediately started calling her. It was extremely funny to see how he responded to us. I couldn’t resist my hands being empty for Chetna’s birthday and so I got ready real fast and zoomed for the breakfast. I went to the nearest stationary store with Dharani where we stood for probably 20 minutes to get some A4 sheets and a marker pen since the shop was filled some girls from a nursing college taking photocopies. After getting the sheets we went back to the hostel. While others were busy eating, I started making a Japanese Paper Box (Thanks to my childhood origami skills). All of them were keenly looking at what the hell was I making but in the end, It was Dharani who made the two boxes close just like a jewel box. After getting things done, we ran towards our office cab, and reached the office in time. After finishing the final touches to the box, I took the pen and started wandering to the places of my friends to get their signatures on the box while most of the colleagues were seeing what I was doing. I got everything well prepared and devised a way how to give it to her. We were all waiting and waiting for her to come in but she came very late, i.e., by afternoon, and therefore our excitement levels became very low. Anyways, we were happy on seeing her since her day was going great than she expected. By lunch, she had seen our gift and she liked it. After finishing our lunch, we gifted her the dress we had bought for her and once again took a lot of snaps. By the evening, we had the cake cutting, where Chetna couldn’t escape from the cake on her face like Ishwarya did. One of the craziest things that happened on that day was, Chetna’s dad had ordered 4 pizzas from dominoes and let her pay for it :-D We secretly went upstairs and had the pizzas fill our tummies. It was the last event in which my dear friend Bharath, had shown a significant presence :-( By night, Chetna’s best friend from Trichy had came to visit her, and we had a chance to meet him too.
\nAnd from that day on, we started waiting for Ishwarya’s and Chetna’s combined birthday treat. Now you can read the first line of this post once again. Due to several disputes inside our team or because of ill timings for our work, we were not able to have their treat. All the guys were very excited for the treat, they even started searching for a good hotel. One of which was Wang’s Kitchen. It’s a Chinese restaurant which serves a lot of food for an affordable price. One fine evening, we ordered food on home delivery, and that was the day when Bharath called me and said, he is going to resign his job and never coming back. Although I wasn’t shocked to here this, I felt that I want to meet him atleast once again before leaving. So I told him to come to office the next day but he didn’t turn up. Of course, I was a bit angry on him for that but I was very happy to know that he got placed in a company which suits his passion and his caliber. Many days later, he had texted everyone where and what he is doing.
\nAfter nearly a month, we finally had the hefty treat at Enté Keralam. Although its been a long time, since we all grouped together, I felt there was still something missing. Something that we don’t even know that we had it. But the day went great, we were having fun together after a long time. In the treat, Karthi and Ishwarya’s friend had also joined us. About the food, the food was really good. Following a very traditional kerala style, the essence and taste of the word was very unique. The briyani was made out of Tapioca, which I didn’t expect.
\nFollowing their treat, came Santhosh’s birthday. It was very odd to know that almost half of our gang did not wish him at midnight. The next day we celebrated the birthday of Santhosh, with the usuals, there was no fun as we had for Sri on his birthday. It was very clear to me, that the things have changed a lot from what it had been in the past three months. And to make things, even more clearly distinguishable in Santhosh’s treat that night, we went to the same ol’ Palmshore Multi-Cuisine Restaurant. We almost sat in the same places where we had sat for Sri’s birthday treat, but the excitement, fun, and joy we had for Sri’s treat was definitely missing in this one.
\nTo make things even more unbearable, my friends have started to say things that make me lose all hope that I can see them they were before. I was very happy that I have finally found some awesomely fun friends like in my childhood days, but now I know its not going to last forever. The slow crumbling of our gang is even visible to 3rd persons and outsiders such as our colleagues in office, the one who sold us bread/omelettes, the one who sold us corns/peanuts and stuff, the cafeteria persons in our Terazza — as they ask why we don’t hangout together like the old times.
\nThis week, I was forced to be in absolute loneliness as both Chetna and Arun Anna (the only people to whom I talk well in my team) had went to their native places. There was no one to talk or have fun with, and I became really mad as I literally slammed my head on the desk in front of me. Sometimes I text my friends Shubham, Divine, Nalini, Lilly, Kanchana to get out of this but it certainly didn’t help. Each and every second clocked like an hour and I was mentally crying a lot as I waited for the day/week to end. I felt even more sorry for Abhinaya who had absolutely no company for lunch and in the evenings. Without Chetna and Ishwarya, everyone behave so independent, walk by their own way and I can’t really understand why.
\nYesterday, me and Dharani made the shift from our rooms and shifted to an AC room. Thereby leaving behind Vishnu too :( since he wouldn’t join us because of his inability to stay in cool temperatures. Everyone are slowly moving away from me one by one because of some natural and unstoppable readings. Should I learn to accept them or should I do something about it. With an uncertain future, I couldn’t take strong decision regarding that.
\nAfter the besant nagar visit, I once again met with Arumugam. I was totally out of money since I had given everything to my friends for the birthday gift. Nevertheless, we had a great lunch at Hot Chips and I bought Counter Strike — Global Offensive from Reliance Digital. Whenever we meet, he used to tell me about everyone in his office and through that I came across Praveen — a geek just like me and Mr.David — a Techie and a Steve Jobs fan. It seems he had wished that I should meet this person and fortunately I had a chance to visit his office that day. I was waiting in the reception while he finishes his work and a group of people to the seats near me. They were chatting about something and suddenly one of them snatched my Xype and asked details about it. We were having a small talk and after 5–10 mins, Arumugam came out after finishing his work. He was unaware to the fact which surprised him to know that I had talked with them and I too was enthralled to know that it was Mr.David. Later, We went to a mind blowing Tamil movie named ‘Saatai’. The movie gave a very good message to me, that no matter how much we care for our friends, we can’t have them forever in our hands. Life has to move on, no matter what and that gave me a partial answer to my question why God doesn’t let my best friends to be with me forever. Well, I hope everything happens for a reason….
\n", "date_published": "2012-09-17T06:21:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/08/10/im-different-and-i-can-t-help-it/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/08/10/im-different-and-i-can-t-help-it/", "title": "I’m Different and I can’t help it..", "summary": "It’s August 15th, The Day Of Independence to my mother land and nothing makes people realize the culture and heritage of India unless they listen to A.R.Rahman’s song. Days are moving so fast, every week flies by just like that. It’s been a…", "content_html": "It’s August 15th, The Day Of Independence to my mother land and nothing makes people realize the culture and heritage of India unless they listen to A.R.Rahman’s song. Days are moving so fast, every week flies by just like that.
\nIt’s been a week since we’ve all been divided into separate teams and alloted our own cabins. And just like others predicted, we’ve become a little busy with our places. Whether we have work or not, we dont tend to move to other places and roam around as I normally would. But the unity between us haven’t changed a bit. We still have lunch together no matter how busy we are and I believe it’ll stay this way as long as we are all here.
\nLast Sunday, my parents had come to see me and they were shocked to see how my hostel room looked. My mom exclaimed how I am able to live in a place like this, and all I could say was that ‘I got used to it’. My mom couldnt even stand this place for 20minutes and so we hurriedly packed all my stuff to be taken back home. My mom had bought me a lot of sweets and munchies to eat, and forced me to eat atleast some of it. But ‘The Over-Confident Me’ told my mom that my friends are so caring towards me, they’ll keep some for me after they eat and that I’ll eat later when I come back. After getting quite a bit of scolding after a long time, I happily moved out to a first class room at Hotel City Tower, at Central but already started to miss my friends. As I always realized, it became clear even hell can be fun with friends and heaven can be boring without them. My mom wanted to goto the Marina Beach so badly but we couldn’t find time to go there. I bought a Rough-N-Tough looking FastTrack watch with my own salary just so my mom wouldn’t let me wear cool bracelets like Chetna does. My old buddies would make fun of me for getting a watch worth 3 Grands, but hey, I still say that the watch is just for seeing the time; But now, it’s not about the time it shows, it’s about how it looks. After my parents departed back to Coimbatore in the afternoon, I came to my hostel at around 3pm. Just when I entered the room, Vishnu was in a hurry to move out to meet his teammates. My mom called me and shouted to have those sweets atleast now, but the funny thing — the sweet boxes were totally empty but the time I opened them just like my mom predicted. Although my mom was slightly depressed to hear the bad news, I was very happy on all seeing all this. I told my mom it’s just a part of hostel life and I had to learn to live it. Since no one was there in my room to give company for me, I started to feel lonely again. I took my clothes to the laundry machine downstairs, and luckily Sunel gave me company for the rest of the day. We washed the clothes, went to his unbelievely clean room and played a lot of video games after a long time. By the evening, Sri had come to our room and we headed out to the beach and spent some time eating sandwiches and ice creams — and oh, dont forget the mind-tingling Appy Fizz, that made me go crazy on the streets.
\nThe next day we spent the whole day watching movies and going out to the beach once again.
Today, we planned go to T.Nagar for shopping for Vishnu along with friends. Ishwarya and Chetna had been calling us a lot of times to get up early and head to Adyar to join with them. So, I got up very early as usual and the sudden arrival of Dharani after his short trip to Tirupathi, was a surprise. Inspite of knowing that he is very tired, I urged him and Vishnu to get up fast and get ready to move out soon. After 15mins of torturing them, they finally woke up and got ready by 8.30. We had our breakfasts and started to Adyar at around 9AM. We reached Adyar at around 9.20AM and surprised to see Abhi in the bus stop, who was happily talking with her friend over the phone and she wasn’t aware of us standing behind her for nearly 20mins.
\nAfter sometime, Chetna and Ishwarya called Vishnu to know where we were, but accidently he disclosed our location by telling them we are in foreshore, followed by asking that we cant find them in Adyar :D. After sometime, we met them on the other side of the road, after they crossed the street halfway to call us.
\nWe got bus to T.Nagar and just after we got down, the girls went to the Shoe Store to buy footwear. This was the first time I’m going shopping with girls and I realized how time consuming it could be. But still, it was very very fun even though the other boys got a little frustrated as the day moved on. We roamed the most crowded and busiest street in Chennai in the burning sun in search of various tshirts and accessories. We bought Kulfis in the Aavin Milk Store and had lots of fun playing. Vishnu had left us and went on his own since he didnt have time and so me, Sri and Dharani sticked with Chetna and Abhi as we continued the shopping spree. Ishwarya had left us in the middle and so she had to miss the lunch with us :-( . Since we all were out of money in pockets, we were searching the streets for finding a low class restaurant to get some food for lunch. We found the ‘Madurai’s Sri Muniyandi Vilas’, ( used to be one of the best low class restaurants in Madurai ) and headed inside to dig in. Although the environment was uncomfortable, we had a swell time while having our lunch. Inspite of eating a lot, the bill came out so low which gave us a good surprise. We finally finished the shopping and we were ready to move back home but the streets were fully packed with people with no place to breathe easily. In order to move through the crowd swiftly, we formed a Human Train with Sri as the engine, followed by Me-Chetna-Dharani-Vishnu-Abhi and defined ‘fun’ to everyone around there, by piercing through the pack, like running away from the paparazzi. After the successful escape, we got our buses and moved to our hostels bidding goodbye to all and irritating Chetna for fun that we are going to the Besant Nagar Beach. At around 6AM, we once again went to the Marina Beach to relax ourselves.
\nOne thing is clear : Unlike my college days, it’s not only me who is different here. Everyone has their own different stories and different backgrounds. Everyone around me has their own unsolved problems, some even hate their jobs just because it’s not their passion to work here. Everyday I grow up mentally than the previous day in some way or the other, learning a lot of new stuff to behave and interact. I may not be so important to the people around me here, I may not be helpful, I may be kiddish, I may be crazy, I may be a human robot who does things mechanically, May be the one who doesn’t know what words to segregate when speaking with girls just because I treat everyone as the same friends despite their gender, Maybe the one who doesn’t know how to say fun things sound fun, instead uttering them the way they look serious. Despite the lot of attempts of trying to change myself, I fail several times and I love it. Having an iMac infront of me, with Steve Jobs as the wallpaper, I’m optimistic that I can make a difference real soon. I’m really thankful to those who speak negative of me, and thereby making me sternly beleive Steve’s quote, “People who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do”.
\n", "date_published": "2012-08-10T07:07:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/08/06/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/08/06/the-more-things-change-the-more-they-stay-the-same/", "title": "The More Things Change, The More They Stay The Same..", "summary": "It’s been around three weeks since I had shifted from my old rented home to the hostel, and whether my roommates like me or not, I love being with them. It’s become obvious that everything will change; I’m starting to accept, learn, think…", "content_html": "It’s been around three weeks since I had shifted from my old rented home to the hostel, and whether my roommates like me or not, I love being with them. It’s become obvious that everything will change; I’m starting to accept, learn, think and adapt the changes as and when they are born instead of making instant decisions when they happen.
\nJust a day back, I realized that I’ve started to live all by own with no help from my parents, the air that I breathe is no longer Coimbatorish, the morning shower is no longer warm and comfy (Its icy cold), the food that I eat has its differences from my past. It’s not only the things around me that has changed, its also the people : Including me, my friends, and the other people who surround me. I’ve already told about my friends a lot, They’re just the best type of friends I’ve got after a long long time ( from the day’s when Muhil Akka, Shubham, Prince were with me ) and I’m praying everyday that they shouldn’t leave me any sooner even though they tell me to accept the unacceptable changes of the near future. And about me, I’ve also changed a lot and some of the odd changes I made to myself depending on the NIETns feedback during our last tour, have made me become one of the type of persons whom I used to hate a lot. And some of my words still hurts others and jokes are taken seriously :( . Apart from that, I also suffer ridiculous loneliness sometimes, Well, being a good guy has its disadvantages. But thats just a tincy wincy part of my everyday which is ignorable. It’s wrong to have expectations and I’ve learnt it.
\nBack at the office, some of my miraculous wishes have to come true time and again as day by day our gang still have a lot of fun together everyday. I’ve tasted a lot of dishes in the most classy restaurants on the city, but nothing could beat the taste of a simple bread/omelette we eat during the evenings with silly pranks, fighting over the food from a single plate, sharing, etc, etc — It just feels so heavenly!! I hope these days will never change. We also went to the Mall and watched a movie — Madagascar 3 — and although it was technically 3D-lious, I didnt even want to write a review about it in Facebook as I always would, just because watching the movie with all of my gang together was way more # — — # (Because of my poor vocabulary, I dont even know what word to use here to express how much happy I felt on that day).
\nApart from my gang, I also had lots of fun with Nithin Anna in the early morning of around 5AM, as me, him and Dharani go on jogging across the long beach of Marina for over two hours. And also shared a lot of experiences with my Favorite Consimite, Arun Anna every day in the office. I’m so happy meeting new friends and experience new events everyday and the word ‘new’ is not actually ‘new’ to me anymore.
\nOur places have changed in the office, Me, my Pikachu (gifted by Nithin Anna) and my Woody Boat (gifted by Arun Anna) as we sail together by the corner of the office with a view of the ‘Sea’ to my right by the window and another ‘C’, one of my best friends (‘C’ for Chetna) near me. Sri and Ishu are also just in front of me and I’m connected to others via intercoms.
\nA lot of miracles have happened in the past few days but yesterday, while Chetna was browsing through Facebook, I coincidentally found out that she is actually the cousin of one of my well-known Facebook friends (Sneha Motwani — classmate of my best friend Shubham Shresth) which is just a mind-blowing fact for me O_o.
\nJust like all my favorite things on this planet, for example — Bengali sweets, my sweet friends also have a very short expiry date which is extremely hard to accept till this date and I dont think I’ll ever accept it. My friends power me all the time, Be it my everyday works, eating habits, talking habits, walking habits, etc. Even my Xype’s Pattern Lock is created by Chetna, Personality developed by Sri, work is inspired by Nithin Anna, Behavior by Arun Anna.
\nAnd about new look to my blog, I’ve dropped the idea. I love this design very much and I do not wish to change it for the time being. Until my next post, Keep Smiling, Be happy…
\n", "date_published": "2012-08-06T08:10:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/23/switching-tracks/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/23/switching-tracks/", "title": "Switching Tracks..", "summary": "Maybe I was wrong. It was not all black & white for me but something made me to feel so just because I expect a little too much from my friends. Knowing that everyday is not filled with sugar, spice and everything nice but still there is so…", "content_html": "Maybe I was wrong. It was not all black & white for me but something made me to feel so just because I expect a little too much from my friends. Knowing that everyday is not filled with sugar, spice and everything nice but still there is so much to learn and so much to realize from the things that surround me. The week after I came back to Chennai, almost half of the things that existed before had changed. Ishwarya and Chetna had taken a leave on monday since they couldn’t get back to the office from their native place in time and the day was clearly an example how it would look like if they were to leave us forever. Chetna gifted me and Srinath with a badge for each of us and mine had a moon on it, which I had badged it to my new backpack. It was clearly Chetna and Ishwarya, who form the Heart or Core of our gang, who keep all of us united together at all times. Without them, all of our trains would just wander to different tracks they way they like. The situation has changed a little bit as I have my best friend Srinath, with me at all times. He gave me a wonderful company and taught me a lot of things I didn’t know about Chennai, when all of us who belong to the tech team went to Sathyam Cinemas to watch the horribly logic less movie named Billa 2. I would have hated my entire day if it weren’t for him who made the movie fun and entertaining to watch.
\nIt was that day when I got introduced to Nithin anna, who had now become one of my best friends and one of my very favorite Consimities. We went to the theatre in his bike followed by his friend and it was amazing to see that he had known almost all shortcuts in the city as he swiftly and safely drove in and out of every tiny narrow street. On the way, he made me familiar with the names of the various places of Chennai as we headed towards the theatre in no time. Adding more, he is an expert in many web services and technologies as far I know, because of which he had become one of my internal inspirers in our office. He had taught me a lot of things from technology to behavior and had also gave me a lovely pikachu doll for my cabin (Ironically, this is my first pokemon that I’ve got on my adventure :P ).
\nYesterday, we had planned to goto the movie, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, which I had waited so many years to hit the theaters and finally I was about to see it. I started off from my home very late and had breakfast at the Sangeetha Restaurant nearby my home. For the first time, I had used Twitter as a texting service to inform Vijayakanth anna (we call him Captain) about my location and status. After a weird travel in the metro train, we had finally reached the theatre and had lunch just in time to watch one of the mind-blowing movies of our lives. After watching the movie, we were all over-excited as we talked and talked about it for about 2 hours and we finally got off at the beach at around 8 PM. Accompanied by Dharani’s classmate, Sunil, we were roaming through the Marina Beach for an hour in the darkness. Thanks to Sri, I wasn’t feeling lonely as I would feel always. We shared lots of stuff and had lots of fun teasing others especially Dharani and we walked till we reached an Ice cream shop to have something for dinner. This could be the first time I had fun here in Chennai without Chetna and Ishwarya but I still m….d t..m.
\nLast week, we were finally separated into teams. All of us had a lot of fear that we’ll get separated and we can no longer have fun together every lunch and evening. Although the team separations weren’t so bad as we thought it would be but unfortunately, what I had wished did not happen :( . Hoping that everything will turn out okay, I had no other go than to accept Chetna’s gtalk status message ‘It’s time to move on…’ and follow the path what I’m led into. I’m very confident that we’ll always be united and will have fun as always and I hope everyone around me believes the same way too…
\n", "date_published": "2012-07-23T10:54:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/23/compromise/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/23/compromise/", "title": "Compromise….", "summary": "It was the word I uttered during yesterday’s lunch and which made me step into the start of the new life which I’m about to fall in the upcoming month. I had been seeing a lot of changes in me which others could also clearly notice but…", "content_html": "It was the word I uttered during yesterday’s lunch and which made me step into the start of the new life which I’m about to fall in the upcoming month. I had been seeing a lot of changes in me which others could also clearly notice but whether is it enough to be ready for it is still unknown. In event of changing myself, one of the biggest things was that I started talking a lot, and I mean a lot than I usually would. Because of the very less experience outdoors, I started to blabber a lot of things which I shouldn’t say. Without knowing, I started to hurt a lot of people especially my dear friends. I might have lost the trust and respect people would have had on me and also got myself into several irreversible troubles and mistakes. With that in mind, I’m now going to try stabilizing myself and try to talk anything after thinking at least 10 times, just like I would write on my blog.
\nThe following contents of this post will be pure non-sense, so do not read it unless you have absolutely no other work better to do on this lovely planet:
\nOne of the difficult things to understand is when my friends are actually serious and when are just playing for fun. Although, I thought I had learnt a lot from Chetna, Ishwarya, Sri and Vishnu playful fights we have every evening after leaving office, I guess its not enough. For example, one day, Chetna had cancelled my friendship along with others for absolutely no reason as I didn’t do anything against her and has still not taken it back. Ishwarya and Sri randomly decide to stop talking with me finding some minor reason, (but Sri always talks to me). And I take all of this for fun although it hurts a twincy-wincy bit. When I start to talk, I blabber something completely stupid thinking that it would be comedic, but it would actually hurt others unless others notify about that or when I see the look on my friend’s face.
\nWhen I start to realize what I had done, I become sort of silent when I’m thinking about it and I guess that silence is too noisy that it actually turns everyone’s attention towards me. The situation is like this. My friends are so great and so cool, that they are like shiny beautiful shoes. I love those shoes and I wish to have it. The thing is that it’s bigger for me and I couldn’t fit in. So I try something stupid like wearing a lot of socks over an another, just so my feet looks bigger and make myself look like a clown or I try to make the shoe become smaller which in turn hurts and damages it. Well I couldn’t expect to get another one which looks the same and the only way to get those shoes is to grow up. And that’s exactly what I’m going to do. With some help from Sri and a little help from Nithin anna I think, I can grow faster to adapt to how I should behave and act.
\nMy primary objectives have already failed and all I can look upon now are the secondary ones. With my quest for friends are over at least for now, I think its time to let others explore about me. Yes, stalkers! I’m talking about you. Good or evil, I’ve always liked you guys for the interest you are showing in me as you read my blog without myself giving you the URL. Although I have three best friends here, I still wish I had a dedicated friend who is interested to know about me, my mission, my skills and accompany me to achieve something that can change the world into a better place.
\nHaving locked down to a PC, which takes about half a minute to copy a file when I press Ctrl+C, with no admin rights to install my favorite productivity tools and the one flooded with viruses, I’m made to work at one tenth of my potential. Although I wish to do more for my company, and innovate a lot of new things, I’m desperately out of resources which slows down my ability to perform. I miss my monstrous i7 Extreme PC and my beautiful high-end 15” MacBook Pro, which had always been with me in my successful times. I wonder why am I even telling this here :-/ .
\nIn spite of warning you, you read all this for nothing. As from my experience, this is the worst post I had ever written. And I’m publishing it just for the sake of my remembrance. If you wish to be a part of it, comment your thoughts below.
\n", "date_published": "2012-07-23T07:55:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/16/its-black-white-all-over-again/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/16/its-black-white-all-over-again/", "title": "It’s Black & White All Over Again…", "summary": "It’s been exactly 32 days after we joined Consim and almost every day was a day full of enjoyment with my friends. Two weeks back we celebrated the Consimites Day, with loads of fun starting from morning till the late night. Being friday…", "content_html": "It’s been exactly 32 days after we joined Consim and almost every day was a day full of enjoyment with my friends. Two weeks back we celebrated the Consimites Day, with loads of fun starting from morning till the late night. Being friday, we all coloured up with casuals and jeans to office, which was fully decorated with lots of baloons on every cabin. We took snaps of ourselves as we roamed through the office like a playground in the early morning. My friends Chetna, Ishwarya and Abhinaya wanted to take photos of themselves with the balloon arc made by the entrance of the office, whereas others wanted to take snap of themselves working on their PCs to show their friends and family. The day went well but by evening, many seniors started popping all the balloons. Although I’m not a big lover of balloons, I didn’t like people popping it especially when my friends nearby didn’t like the sound of it. To add more, I secretly snatched two balloons for Ishwarya and for one of her friends nearby, safeguarding it from many others who wanted to pop it for about 15 minutes but unfortunately the balloons died in the hands of our own friends Srinath and Karthi. After all the fun we headed up to the terrace and enjoyed a lot by taking creative snaps and panoramas of ourselves (soon to come in the Xype Gallery) while Karthik and Santhosh took funny portraits of themselves. Then we moved out to the park where we finally saw a blue sky in the evening after a long time since we usually come out of the office at night. We were informed to move to where the event was about to take place, but we leisurely walked and took rest in the park with a small chit-chat as I took a HDR group photo of my team. Little did we know that the event had already started and we were already late, until one of our mentors Vijayakanth came out in search for us. One of the amusing things that happened on the way, was made by Dharani, who got really tensed with the situation. After a few minutes he realised that he had kept the lunch bag back at the park and so he ran like a bullet train back to where we were and ultimately rolled to the ground in the event of taking his lunch bag. The moment was really amusing and ackward for a minute as it created a strange picture by our office building but we were all happy that he didnt get hurt. Finally at the big night in the auditorium, where Consimites day was all about, our friend Vishnu snatched the award for his creative idea of matchbox concept. :) Later on, we had a great buffet dinner and we all set off to our homes at around 9.30 PM.
\nThe week after, all of my team started working real hard on their tasks and our usual entertainment and fun started to deteriorate day by day gradually, until Srinath’s birthday showed up. Srinath was the first person in our team to celebrate his birthday in Consim and therefore guys had ridiculous plans for his birthday. At the pantry room, where we celebrate birthdays of every consimite, a beautiful blackforest cake was ordered for his birthday. Of course, the cake is not what made his birthday special to us and him. It was the sparkles, eye-liner, and the cake cream on Srinath’s face which made the day fun, entertaining and special to all of us. He had to change his shirt, clean his face for over 20 minutes in order to remove at least half of the stuff from his face to look okay in the office with us. Later on, we went out to nearby beach with Bharath and Arun Prasad, and we had a great time which words couldn’t express. Following that, we had a great birthday treat by Srinath in the PalmShore Multi-Cuisine Restaurant and I would say it would be the best treat I’ve ever had in my life. Of course, I’ve been to many birthday treats but most of the time, I would sit idle doing nothing. But here, there was some one else to replace that sort of character and therefore, I had a great time than I ever had before in any birthday treat of my life. Speaking of treats, I was always known as a kind of guy who doesn’t like food to be shared with me or from me. But hey, as I said before, its time to change. I’ve gradually evolved to be just like others, I see no problem in sharing food anymore (at-least when it looks good). I ordered the Arabian Grape Juice, which I really loved and I loved it even more when I shared it with my friends. I believe that my new friends made the impossible that no one could do to me in the past 21 years. I really wish we could hang out like this every now and then and I could give a treat to my friends like that for some random reason as my birthday is an year away from now.
\nSomething that shouldn’t be said : When I left Coimbatore, I really wanted to start a whole new life. Something that would define me totally different from what I was before in the past 4 years. When I stated in FaceBook that I feel like Ash Ketchum leaving Palettown, searching for a whole new adventure and new friends, I meant it. [Speaking of pokemon, coincidentally, my friends Srinath and Chetna are Pokemon fans themselves and we’ve named ourselves with Pokemon names. For example, Snorlax and Psyduck for Srinath (Sorry, Srinath :P ) and Charmander for Chetna]. Coming back to the point, my quest for new friends isn’t what I hoped it to be. Of course, my friends are great, fun and charming but still I’m easily the odd one out from the boys especially when I hang outdoors with them. I definitely feel very lonely when boys are concerned. It’s fun to be around with everyone together but having no one dedicated for you is rather unpleasant. I don’t wish to go back but at the same time, its difficult go forward because everyone’s character as soo new to me. Apart from Dharani and Vishnu who have been with me from my college — Taking my new friends, Character-wise, there’s Chetna and Bharath who think and act just like me, there’s Ishwarya and Srinath who are completely new type of people whom I like, there’s Arun anna who’s a Mac User and a tech guy whom I like a lot among the seniors, there’s Saichitra mam who is an inspiration to us all. These are my primary set of people whom I like to be best friends with, but I almost lost all my hope now. It’s been 30+ days, which is extremely too much time for me to analyse people and I have certainly failed. I didn’t get the response from any of them to the level I expect from each of them. All I can do now, is sit in my PC and work, work, work just like all others do nowadays and just get on with it. You could stop me by saying, ‘Hey you are speaking too soon! There’s still lot of time to discover new friends’. Well, yes I maybe speaking too soon but hey, if I were meant to have great friends, why I should go search for them? So, at-least for now, I’m not going to try anything stupid and let time decide whatever it wants to do. If you are one of those people, who have read this passage for more than two times, just to understand what I’m blabbering about, a big thanks to you..
\nWhen I went home back two days back, I observed a lot a things while traveling the bus, wandering the railway station and travelling on the train alone. There is so much to change on this planet, and even the smallest ideas we can dream of, can change a life of an individual. My everyday role-model, ‘my wrist watch’, the reason why I look at it so many times during the day is not to see the time, its to watch the second hand tick-toc-ing through the dial. No matter what happy, sad moment you experience everyday, your watch doesn’t stop. Although, it does only a small work, it helps you to make the most important plans and choices you plan for the future, and remember the times of the past. It continues to round the clock till its battery runs out, and even when it dies, it says the time accurate to the second it has lived on this planet. That’s something even humans couldn’t do. So, just like the second hand, love what you do, it maybe insignificant for you but it maybe a big leap for your company or for those who depend on you. Don’t worry about the sad moments you face, the clock is ticking, and those moments have a time to expire. Believe in yourself that you can do anything. Believe me, I’ve done so many many things which I had considered impossible in the past and I’m sure every one of you could do it if you just believe in yourself and work towards the goal with aspiration. Learn to earn happiness from the smiles of others by helping them in their difficult times. Always be happy to help others without expecting anything from them, even if you have a lot of work to do for yourself coz everything else than making someone else happy is secondary…..
\n", "date_published": "2012-07-16T07:39:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/04/level-up/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/07/04/level-up/", "title": "Level Up!", "summary": "So, you’ve noticed my loooong and stupid ‘About Me’ that I’ve updated on the top. Well, that’s great! Thank you! :wink: Before we start digging into my life, I wish to thank all my fans on Facebook and those around the world who are…", "content_html": "So, you’ve noticed my loooong and stupid ‘About Me’ that I’ve updated on the top. Well, that’s great! Thank you! :wink: Before we start digging into my life, I wish to thank all my fans on Facebook and those around the world who are supporting me for my career and for my websites. I really appreciate your overwhelmed support and I’m very surprised myself in the events that happened in the past few weeks. Last week, One of my commercial websites, TechTwinklers.com got shut down as I couldn’t pay the renewal fees in time due to the lack of high speed internet and time here in Chennai and therefore it lost the entire searching engine rankings on all search engines as the website got a DNS error. I was very much depressed and asked for help on forums and technical support but they said I was out of luck. But magically, after regaining the site back in the event of paying the fees, the hits started rising gradually and the magical part is that 96% of them were direct traffic — which could only mean the people who visited my website had actually saved it as their bookmarks or something similar. And thanks to them, TechTwinklers.com is now having a SEO ranking better than ever!! Almost all unique articles get to the first or the second page on Google Search and so — Time To Celebrate!!
\nBut hey, you are not here to know about bla-bla-bla websites right? You are here to know about me and my friends, which is kind of weird. Really… :roll:
\nSo, its been almost a month, that’s right — 21 days and I’ve got my first salary! Yipeeeeee….oh but wait, I have to give the entire amount to my house owner in the name of rent! Boooooo……Yes, I’m a big stupid and I know it. Please don’t call me and remind me about that again. Let’s just forget about that and move on. Although it started awesome in the early days of Consim, life is turning mechanical as days pass by but I couldn’t say the same about my friends who are filled with Pure Awesomeness!! (Except one or two — I had to add this line because I have to tell the truth). Commonly I sleep every night early at around 9.30 PM, setting the alarm at 5, 5.30 and 6 AM purposely, just so I can snooze the alarm for another half an hour and get a dreamy beautiful nap after turning off the alarm down. As I am totally locked with Consim memories in my mind, the only thing that comes to my dreams are my table and my friends at Consim. Their influence is so powerful on me that every night, I see the same monitor, the same friends sit around me and when I wake up in the morning, I see a stupid window in a deserted home somewhere in Chennai. And the day’s office experience is like actually living the dream, I dream last night every time. At the 3rd alarm — 6 AM, I wake up and get ready as slow as possible till the time ticks 8.30 AM. I lock my home and move to the office in an Auto Rickshaw wasting Rs.50, and that makes Rs.100 when I get home back at night. I have my breakfast at Terrazza in my office building with Sri which makes the morning lively.
\nI hate these stupid formals which I have to wear on the regular days, and the stupid salty water here in Chennai is gradually making my skin go darker by the day. At around 9.50, my rocking team — Team Aficionado makes their way through the office and even though my heart feels to wish Good morning to every one of them, my idiotic brain messes everything up and I wont even give a proper reply to them when they wish me. God only knows why! Maybe its because of the habit of not talking to any girl at NIET and maybe because of not having the habit of wishing good morning verbally to any of my classmates in college, I think this much be one of the things I must change first.
\nEverything I do in office is something which I did years ago and so the work I do is awfully boring for me. The only thing that is fun for me and which I love to do when I in my table, is to watch others, especially Dharani and Chetna, how they work and study non stop to complete their tasks. I also like helping others who ask for help who are far away from my place. Although, the ‘Thank you’s that they give after I help and the ‘Sorry’s which they ask when I ask for my help are extremely annoying (Friends don’t say those words to each other for simple things like this in Coimbatore).
\nDays went okay, but today — July 5th, things started getting really ugly and depressing. Today, I was requested to move to a different place where I am bound to be alone and a location so common to be viewed by all. I really couldn’t take it, with no idea what to do, I was sitting aimlessly near Sri. I had a slight hope that I could escape from the dreadful scenario but the events that followed turned out to be shocking. For one, Dharani had no feelings that I’m about to leave him, while others blamed me to stop crying like a cry-baby and just get on with sitting in the new place. With no other go, I moved on with a small optimistic thought that I got a brand new Lenovo Workstation to work with. But no, the bad day wanted to keep getting worse.
\nI had to swap PCs with Jiji Akka and so I had changed the settings for the mail for myself to work but the network settings were configured improperly, therefore the Internet did not work. After wasting an hour to get the System Administrator to come see me at my place, he concentrated more on scolding me for about 5 minutes non stop instead of getting the work done. I was unaware that I not permitted to change settings on the system and so I kept standing with no word to speak out and soon, the whole system was changed to the old one which I using previously. This one has a very old processor and works extremely slow to cope up with my pace of working. Being used to working on a Quad-Core Intel i7 CPU-based PC and Mac for the past 2 and half years, I really miss a lot of freedom and ability to show my full potential in the work to be done in less time :sad:
\nSeriously, having to sit with an old PC is no problem for me as I said the work is boring for me to do since I’ve almost tried everything already. But I really really miss my new friends :cry: , especially Dharani and Chetna. I don’t care whether they miss me or not but I wish we all could be together again soon. Sometimes, during the lunch I feel like I’m a wrong piece to a wonderful Jigsaw puzzle when we all sit together in the canteen. Most of the time, I couldn’t talk even though I feel like talking just because I have difficulty in eating too much of hotel food which kind of makes me feel uncomfortable as I’m always used to eat my Mom’s preparation at Coimbatore. And sometimes, Arun Prasad and Bharath give me a perfect company for lunch.
\nI am trying everything I can to engage my friendship with others from Day 1. One of the primary things I did was, I got all their phone numbers and started texting them every morning and night. As most of you know, how angry I get when someone doesn’t reply to my text messages. I thought many of my new friends are good texters and so I started wishing them ‘Good Morning’ and ‘Good Night’ and some forwards too. A horrific result of my experiment, except for Sri who had replied or wished back a few times, and one or two sent replies 2–3 times, others did not care much about my text messages :cry: ( I would like to insert hundreds of sad smileys here). After two weeks of research, I finally stopped wishing them in texts starting last monday. Maybe its because they are not texters, or they are trying to behave professional, or because I’m a new friend or worst case scenario — they might not like to text me :sad: . In the event of stopping the texts to them, I accidently stopped wishing my other friends too. But thankfully for the past three days, they wished me every morning and night with my good ol’ name added to every message and sending it exclusively to me rather than forwarding to a group just I like would text! Thanks guys, you still make me feel special!
\nAnd just because my new friends aren’t good texters to me, that doesn’t mean they can escape from me that easy. I’ll try to experiment and find more ways to become closer to everyone one of them and make them stick to me coz I don’t wanna miss any of these guys. While some of them wonder why I’m so different, I wonder why they are all the same. I’ve been a special friend for almost everyone at NIET and I hope I’ll be the same to atleast one or two here by the end of six months. There is still a lot to change in me, especially my analysing character as Vishnu pointed out, and I’m working on it. To be true, the one and only reason I like staying in Consim now is because of my new friends and secondly, our Saichitra mam.
\n:idea: A small note : I came to know most of you are not aware of the words I that I use for blogging, for example — Houston, in this post for instance — those words are actually linked to what they mean, you can actually click them to get to know why I’ve used them.
\n", "date_published": "2012-07-04T10:49:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/27/change-is-good/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/27/change-is-good/", "title": "Change is Good…", "summary": "It’s about 3 weeks at Consim and I believe I haven’t made any good progress in making friends, or maybe I could be wrong. Needless to say, as I told in my previous, my team is super awesome, very jovial and cool just like my special friends…", "content_html": "It’s about 3 weeks at Consim and I believe I haven’t made any good progress in making friends, or maybe I could be wrong. Needless to say, as I told in my previous, my team is super awesome, very jovial and cool just like my special friends at NIET, I’m very glad to be a part of this team. One thing is for sure, their characters are very odd and new to me which kind of takes me more time than the usual to mingle with them.
\nFor now, I have two great buddies and advisors, Vishnu and Dharani, who stick with me almost all the time and make me feel comfortable in this odd environment. A few days back, we had a very fun dinner at KFC as we walked a long way from our office to the restaurant where we had a fantastic meal. I usually don’t like the taste of KFC, but it definitely tasted better with my new friends around. As I said before, I’m learning more everyday to change like the rest of my team by learning their ways of conversing and the activities they do while we are in the office.
\nEvery morning, I team up with my friend Srinath and have a wonderful breakfast with him, which is also kind of new to me. Since he is from Chennai, he teaches me a lot of things I need to know about the city and certain facts I never knew about.
\nEvery afternoon, I have a very small conversation with Bharath and Arun Prasad as we watch the ships crusing along the shore of the Marina Beach which could be clearly seen from the top floor (Terrazza) of our building.
\nAnd inside the office, we have a certain fun filled learning going on with my friends Dharani, JiJi akka, Chetna, Ishwarya and Abhi. I still have to mingle more with Karthick and Santhosh though, who still remain as the mystery boys to me but that’s sure to change soon.
\nI love the change I’m being put into, but I couldn’t keep up with the pace, I try to do my best but I just couldn’t do it. Maybe some catalysing event can speed things up a bit and one such event happened today. We got our last semester results today and all of us were very happy that we have finally graduated and have officially became engineers. And in order to celebrate it, we went up to the terrazza for treats and had a fun conversation in the canteen. After some time, we came out to the dark and had a hour long talk about ghosts and stuff in the veranda. Seeing the beautifully lit view of Chennai, I stood silent as everyone were discussing about the topic. I had no idea to share and was never put into an atmosphere like this, so I compeletely did not know what to do. The things spoken by Santhosh and Srinath were very informative and made me to think why am I not aware of these kind of things. None of them know that I have phobia for biology and I kinda got creeped out while they were talked about dead people.
\nMoving on, today I felt for the second time that we are a gang than just a team, as we walked together till the main road talking and having lots of fun where each and every bit of it, was a whole new experience showing a new beginning of my life. The things that I’ve missed in the stupid NIET, have to started to show up in the form of my all new friends whom I love a lot.
\nAlthough I live alone in my new home, the memories made in the day at Consim fills me and removes my loneliness to last throughout the night and makes me more excited for the next day.
\n", "date_published": "2012-06-27T02:52:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/20/max-jj-kitty-then-stan-bb-and-now-wiky-whats-next/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/20/max-jj-kitty-then-stan-bb-and-now-wiky-whats-next/", "title": "Max, JJ, Kitty…Then Stan, BB and Now Wiky…What’s Next?", "summary": "Of course, I’m talking about the nick names of mine and this is the continuation of my previous post which you might have read here, last September . As days go on, the nick names for me keep increasing and I find everyone of them rather…", "content_html": "Of course, I’m talking about the nick names of mine and this is the continuation of my previous post which you might have read here, last September. As days go on, the nick names for me keep increasing and I find everyone of them rather interesting than feeling indifferent. Here comes the new ones :
\n**Stan **:
\nOne of my most common nick names used by many around the world in multiplayer games and by Kirthika (NIET) from the dawn of 2012. It’s a name given to me by myself and the mystery behind its origination is yet to be unveiled but I’m glad that many made a instant switch from calling me as Parithi.
BB :
\nShort and Cool names like these can be framed none than Nalini. BB, which sounds really cool while texting and chatting, does have a strange abbreviation to it — Big Brain. Uh, the reason behind the name is self explanatory if you know about me. Anyways, it’s just another cool name which I like very much just like JJ, but sometimes it gives me an odd feeling that makes me imagine myself look like Mojo Jojo from the PowerPuff girls, when my real character is actually more sound to Bubbles O_o.
**Wiky **:
\nFramed by my new friends at Consim— Ishwarya and Chetna, Wiky is just another name that’s based on my intellect and you don’t even need to ask why if you spend too much time on the Internet searching for some information on something. Sounds really cool and cute though, and I really like it. Not used more than a couple of times, but it’s definitely worth noting this one coz it’s definitely another memorable moment in the early days of my career. :-)
Stay tuned for more info on all my new friends, more stuff is coming up just after I get an okay from everybody to blog about them on my personal blog…
\n", "date_published": "2012-06-20T10:55:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/15/my-early-days-at-consim/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/15/my-early-days-at-consim/", "title": "My Early Days At Consim…", "summary": "It was the day which once I used to have a blank screen on my mind whenever I think of my future. But it wasn’t! It was June 14th, a hot burning but a beautiful sunny day and I had to join Consim. I had moved entirely to Chennai with the…", "content_html": "It was the day which once I used to have a blank screen on my mind whenever I think of my future. But it wasn’t! It was June 14th, a hot burning but a beautiful sunny day and I had to join Consim. I had moved entirely to Chennai with the help of my parents but I had to stay alone here from now on. On the very first day, I met my new colleagues at Consim at the Conference Hall where we were given the induction program. It was a very fun day for us, we had some technical seminars on technology and met the various heads of the company.
\nI was looking forward to make some very good friends from the very first day but till now I haven’t made any progress :fat: . But I do love my team a lot lot lot!! It’s filled with persons having various ideas, creativity, positivity, a desire to learn, and especially ready to have fun!! Finally, I get to meet people who are not like the traditional NIETns. This is my talented, friendly and a rocking team :
\nAnd also,
\nNot sure whether they are going to like their names displayed here in my blog as it hinders their privacy but I hope it doesn’t. As usual, I’m keeping myself silent for a few days in order to learn more about everyone of them. It’s just awesome to have lunch with them together and the way they share things around is just mega fun. It’s like a dream come true for me on seeing a team like this, with persons so jovial and having fun with each other without any bitterness in their hearts. On seeing them, I’m even ready to change myself and stay super-jovial just like them Strange thing is, all of them still require quite a bit of time to learn that my name is Parithi not ElamParithi and that I’m younger than most of them therefore I do not require any kind of respect while talking [which I completely hate], my ambitious “I’m Different” motto except for Vishnu and also to know that I’m always ‘Happy To Help’ in terms of anything, for which I was well known for in the NIET atmosphere. Speaking of atmosphere, the work environment here at Consim is just great!! I love every second I spend here, and I’m ready to work even on the sundays with my team.
\nThat’s it for now, What new adventures and new friends I’m going to get? is a question I can’t wait to get an answer for…Who’s going to get their names in bold fonts on My Friends page under Consimites? or Does it really matter? Have to wait and find out….
\nFeels kind of awkward for a boy who almost never wore formals in his entire life and the one with spiky hair -> to now have to wear pure formals 5 days a week with strongly combed hair…but what to do? Like I said, Time to change….
\n", "date_published": "2012-06-15T11:54:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/14/good-bye-niet/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/06/14/good-bye-niet/", "title": "Good Bye NIET!", "summary": "It’s been 4 long years and my college life has finally come to an end. To be true, I never liked my college with its stupid rules and the lack of resources it provided me but nonetheless I did have a splendid time down the calendar. It all…", "content_html": "It’s been 4 long years and my college life has finally come to an end. To be true, I never liked my college with its stupid rules and the lack of resources it provided me but nonetheless I did have a splendid time down the calendar. It all started when my friend Mani from Madurai who excited me about this college such a way that it is one of the best colleges in Tamilnadu and Kerala. He said that the college had lots of aircrafts and helicopters with very large buildings. He was about to join this college under management quota but at last he didn’t and he ended up joining the Kalasilingam University instead. Little did I know, that this NIET would become my college in the future. As for me, I wasn’t having a lot of marks in my higher secondary examinations and therefore I couldn’t get any good colleges. And when the Anna University counseling day for me, I was happy that the seats at NIET weren’t finished yet and thinking that its one of the best colleges as Mani told me, I decided to join it.
\nSoon, when me and my parents went and visited the college for the first time, we saw what the real story was. My mom got shocked on seeing the unpainted concrete buildings in which I had to study for 4 years and furthermore, she couldn’t accept how horrible the hostels looked at that time. I was filled with remorse and I had no other choice than to accept that this is the college for me and I had to cope with it. While paying the fees, we met Suganya, my first NIETn classmate. My mom enquired her dad about her marks and soon my mom started scolding me a lot as if I’m a total failure. My first encounter with another NIETn didn’t go so well and that’s when I really started hating NIET. Later when the inauguration ceremony started, I met T. Mani, who was with his dad on the way to the hostel. My mom asked him which department he belonged to and he said its Computer Science. Obviously, he became my first NIETn among the boys although I didn’t talk to him and I was looking forward to meet him when the college starts. After the college started, certain embarrassing situations happened like my mom accompanying to college the first week every morning as if I’m a 9-year old school kid. That’s when I was knew Kasi, Lilly and Debby. I couldn’t forget the first day of college when my mom accompanied me even inside the class and made me sit in the first bench with Nantha Kumar. All the students stood up thinking that my mom is the staff but they soon realized it was just my mom. According to the survey I made at the end of the 4th year, most of my classmates didn’t remember this incident. As for the first year, I had a very strong vision to obtain a lot of marks and started studying really hard to gain what I lost in the higher secondary exam. I had certain targets (competitors, enemies or whatever) to beat, such as Suganya (because of my mom’s continuous scoldings and mark comparisons), Panneer (because of his high marks in the internal exams), Kirthika (because of insulting me in the Physics Lab to pass my note or something through Kasi without asking me directly). But soon, all of these became part of my close friends.
\nWhen the lateral students came in the 2nd year, most of my classmates didn’t want me to have a good relation with them. Most of them objected me since I was talking to them but I didn’t care about it. I am and was always adventurous to meet new people and learn about them and that’s how I met Arumugam, Sadam and others. That was the time when I started a very very bad habit which I deeply regret and hate a lot till date — “Continuous Insanely Unwanted Texting for the whole day 24x7”. I became an text addict by which I couldn’t take my eyes off the phone and soon lost a lot of productivity and creativity. The habit got worser by the year and by the start of the 4th year, I had absolutely no productivity at all with very little things done new for every few months. I stopped learning new things and didn’t even know what to do for regaining my old position in the early past. To add more, I would have got trillions of billions of scoldings from my mom while texting which the other person on the end texting me might not even know. Anyways, I did manage to release my websites, learn some new softwares like After effects and such. Of course, Texting wasn’t all that bad, there were some really special fun times with really special friends, sharing of knowledge, reporting announcements and emergency situations with others.
\nMoving on, I stopped learning too much (I wasn’t much of a over-studying student, anyway) by the start of 2nd year and became really over-confident. My SGPAs started dropping down to 80s and I wasn’t much worried about it. By 5th sem, I wasn’t paying much attention to studies at all and I was studying everything only the day before the exams. But instead, I did make a lots of friends, well wishers and fans along the way. Here’s the final list of friends I made in NIET :
\nBest Friend :
\nI usually have a very best friend at every part of my life and that’s how I got Shubham, Manoj, Prince. It all depends how fun, inspiring, smart, always positive, cool, matured and aspiring they are and at the same time, how much they treat me as a friend, I couldn’t find anyone like that in NIET like my previous best friends :(
\nSpecial friends :
\nProbably, these are friends whom I like the most in NIET for their fun character, matured and cool attitude, positive, encouraging, catalytic, and a special something inside everyone one of them. And they comprise of :
\nOther Friends, Fans, Well Wishers :
\nJust because they are the third in the list doesn’t mean that they are not important. These friends comprise of my close friends, fans, well wishers who may like me more than I like them myself.
\nI had learnt a lot from my irreversible mistakes I did in the past 4 years which I deeply regret and I’m trying not to make more of them in the future. I am growing up every year for every birthday and I’m trying to stay matured as possible leaving all the stupid childishness behind. Everyday gives a new experience and an opportunity to learn more and I wish to grab every part of it. Something that hasn’t changed a bit before I joined NIET and till today is that — I still hate girls in general even though I learnt that not all of them are the same — And I still terribly hate advices whomever it maybe the one who is giving to me, even if its my parents. There aren’t many ppl in NIET whom I’m going to miss a lot. But there are ppl whom I am going to miss and so I keep disturbing them whether they like it or not.
\nI really appreciate and feel very grateful to everyone of you who were with me at NIET. Thanks for all the love and care you’ve shown to me for the past 4 years. On the last day of the college, when the boys wanted me to sign their shirts so badly and in turn they wrote “I miss you” and “I love you” on my shirt — not sure whether its true or not, Thanks for everything! I certainly do not look forward to meet any NIETn again but I would really be happy to have a get together party and I wanna be a part of it for sure!
\nStay United, Hoping to see all of you together again soon, Good Bye NIET!
\nA quick note to those who wondered what ‘3’ means when I type that in gtalk, it just means a blind silly ok :-)
\n", "date_published": "2012-06-14T11:46:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/05/10/the-last-niet-tour/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/05/10/the-last-niet-tour/", "title": "The Last NIET Tour", "summary": "It’s May 10, as planned this was the day in which the class boys finally decided to have the reunion in a form of a tour. The reason why girls didnt wish to show up is still a mystery for me, anyways the tour turned out to be worthy one. We…", "content_html": "It’s May 10, as planned this was the day in which the class boys finally decided to have the reunion in a form of a tour. The reason why girls didnt wish to show up is still a mystery for me, anyways the tour turned out to be worthy one. We planned to go to yercaud and this was the first tour in which I had my Xype with me. Because of the very worse battery life, I had to take my old Nokia 5610 for backup. I had to goto Ooty with my dad for testing one of his projects but I dropped it as I had some kind of intuition that this could be one of the most important days which I no NIETn should miss in their college history. And as I expected the story was not just about the tour, it turned out to be the most special day for some of us in class.
\nI woke up very early and removed the charger from my Xype. I got ready to move out by 4.15 AM and my mom already hired a cab to pick me up to Gandhipuram but unfortunately the cab company failed to inform the driver. Because of which, there was a half an hour delay in getting the cab reach my home after a long quarrel by my mom with them. At around 5.05 AM, the cab came to our home and the driver raced off to Gandhipuram as he drove lightning fast in the empty bumpy streets and driving in the wrong directions of a one way lane. Within 8 minutes he managed to reach my destination and I joined in with my classmates. Me, Panneer, Mani Vasagam (Panneer’s Brother), Kasi, Shahul, Muthu Sankar, Nantha Kumar were waiting in the Gandhipuram bus stand for the Tour bus to arrive. All of us had the challenge with the dying battery on our Android phones to make it last till the end of the day. Normally, my phone wont last even for half a day but I had to do something to make the best out of it today as I had to take a lot of pictures. I completely ignored all the text messages and notifications by removing the vibration from my phone and disabled every radio service such as WiFi, 3G and GPS to increase the battery a little longer.
\nThe bus arrived at our stop, pre-occupied with Arumugam, Bagavath, Arun Malar, Faizel, Aravind, Leela Shankar, Saba etc. Without further delay, we started off from Coimbatore with no breakfast as the gleaming sun started rising over the calm early morning sky. Maybe because of sleepless night, the boys weren’t looking much excited as they spent their time sitting calm in the seats inspite of Arumugam’s continuous effort to make them rise up and make the journey more enjoyable. On the way we stopped by in some bakery for having some tea and coffee.
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After having some refreshments, we started off once again towards Yercaud and on the way we picked up Natraj. We stopped at Salem for having breakfast at one of the hotels named Saravana Bhavan. I wasn’t feeling hungry and so I skipped breakfast. We had fun with a very strange guy/beggar/sage who kept on irritating us to spare some change for him. Especially, Sadam was very annoyed by him as he grabbed his shirt and chased him as I took video of him. We also had fun crossing the streets by jumping the concrete walls which separated the two lanes of the highway. Soon, Akash also joined us and we finally set off to Yercaud.
\nDespite several irritating songs playing the background stereo system of the bus, we had lots of fun on the way, played several games most of which were started by Arumugam.
\nWe entered the foothills of Yercaud and slowly drove up the hill crossing exactly 20 hairpin bends and reached the top by 11.30 AM. We came out of the bus and visited one of the most beautiful schools in Tamilnadu, The Montfort. We were very late, the watchman told us to visit and comeback within 10 minutes since they had to close the doors by 12PM. We had fun taking a lot of photos with friends, and I was putting my Xype to the ultimate test by taking some spectacular shots of some beautiful flowers I spotted with the help of Sadam.
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\n Then we moved to the top of the Yercaud hills, I believe its name is Shevroy’s Temple. It was a wonderful place with a beautiful scenery where our boys had fun shooting balloons with a gun and having more snacks at the tea bars. There was a temple with a very strange legend, where it was told there is a Shiva Lingam idol hidden deep inside the water (water from the Cauvery river stream) which is not allowed to be seen since 2 years back. Anyways, we saw another small cave temple which was prohibited from photography. The cave was superbly cool, the stones around the cave felt ice-cold which was amazing! We wandered off to the areas nearby and saw some giant tanks with some water having some small fishes.
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Next we moved out to Lady’s Seat, where we enjoyed seeing the beautiful panorama of the Yercaud hills, had fun with monkeys, taking snaps and seen a guy who sketches wonderful portraits using a pencil.
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We divided into two groups and had our lunches separately. Our group consisted of Kasi, Panneer, Mani Vasagam, Shahul, Sadam, Arumugam and myself. We had a hard time spotting the perfect restaurant for Lunch. We wandered the areas for a good one, and firstly we tried the restaurant run by the Tamilnadu Tourism Board, The Hotel Tamilnadu. They had a good looking hotel, but they had nothing but rice meals for lunch which didn’t look good. We headed out and started finding another one. After 10 minutes or so, we found Hotel Selvam. We dragged our tables and we asked what was on the menu. That wasn’t satisfactory too and so we moved out and found the most classiest restaurant in Yercaud, Hotel Shevroys. The restaurant was beautifully designed, had some wonderful artifacts, some turkeys and few birds running in cages and a very tall Oak tree. There were two restaurants inside and we decided to go with the Silver Oak Restaurant.
\nAfter a wonderful lunch, we headed out and joined with the other boys and headed towards the Boat House. On the way, we met with our classmate, Roopa who is a native yercaudian. Just when we got the entrance tickets to the boat house and entered in, the rain starting pouring very fast, making boating impossible for us. We spent around one and a half hours waiting for the rain to stop but the situation got worse and worse. We spent our time standing near the fence watching the Deer Park, talking some scientific stuff. I found Panneer’s brother to be very geeky with Android and along with Kasi, they taught me that I could zoom on the camera using the volume keys which I didn’t know before even though it was very simple.
\nAfter some difficult times, we started to head back to our homes. We stopped by another bakery at the foothills of Yercaud where we had some tea at 6PM. Later, we headed back to the bus and had some of the most intimate moments we can have together as NIETns. We discussed about our positives and negatives individually and got a chance to know about ourselves how we were in the views of others for the past 4 years. Although some opinions started some debates, we tried to solve it and stick to the aim of just knowing what others had to say about us from their minds. On my part, I was very eager know about my negatives, didn’t ask much about my positives and we were discussing about it around 15 minutes or so. Every opinion that others shared with me were completely true, but all of them were startling to me and made me wonder about it. We took an oath to ourselves to stay in contact with everyone and also planned to look forward for another get together in the upcoming months soon.
\nMy battery was almost over, struggling with around 25% of juice and I had to drop my best buddy Prince’s call from Netherlands 😫 My mom had booked a cab to pick me up at Ukkadam at 11.30PM. Our bus had reached Coimbatore at around 11PM and after bidding goodbyes to everyone, myself, Shahul and Kasi started off from BK Pudhur to Ukkadam. We waited for around 10 minutes, I got my cab and came home. My Xype still managed to pack in a juice of about 15% and the funny thing is, the Nokia 5610 which had for backup died fully out of battery, and I didn’t even use it for more than 5 minutes throughout the day 😲. As I was very tired, I skipped dinner and slept as soon as I reached home.
\n", "date_published": "2012-05-10T11:26:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/04/02/a-blank-happy-day/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/04/02/a-blank-happy-day/", "title": "A Blank Happy Day..", "summary": "It’s April 3rd 2012, the 9th day after I finally got a job which I love. Last night, I didn’t sleep well and I haven’t been normal for the past one week or so, for a reason I don’t know myself. I had to goto college today to pay fees for…", "content_html": "It’s April 3rd 2012, the 9th day after I finally got a job which I love. Last night, I didn’t sleep well and I haven’t been normal for the past one week or so, for a reason I don’t know myself. I had to goto college today to pay fees for our degree certificate and because of my unhealthy sleep time, I couldn’t wake up early as I should. I woke up 2 hours late than the usual time and therefore I had to rush up in getting ready for college. Luckily, I got a strange new bus numbered ‘46’ which goes directly to ukkadam by passing gandhipuram where I usually catch my bus. The day was getting stranger already, and I got a bit scared that I might go late for college and so I texted Arumugam whether its okay to go late. He replied with an awkward question that — whether its okay to go late, where? I was totally creeped out as I realized the fact that he didn’t know that we have to pay the fees today. By the time I could tell everything to him, he got the information from Kirthika and so I continued on, and told him to come to college with me since there was no one to give company for me today. Of course, having no company was not a problem for me but I wasn’t feeling conformable today. Arumugam was very angry over all of us since we failed to inform him about the fee we had to pay today. Although one side of me told that I had not made any mistakes since I’ve never informed him anything like this, on the belief that many others would have already informed him, another side of me made me feel guilty. I couldn’t clearly work this out myself and so, I took it up as fact that If I’m really wrong and should be found guilty, then let me suffer for it and I guess I deserve it.
\nAnyways, moving on…We reached the college on time as usual, but none of the boys who come with us in the bus didn’t show up today. After a small talk with the staff who catched Arumugam since he forgot to bring the ID card, we entered the college and headed towards the staff room to pay fees and run off. Unfortunately, the staff gave us a lot of work and we were forced to be there at college till the afternoon. A few girls showed up in the class along with Natraj and Nantha Kumar who came on behalf of other students to pay the fees for them.
\nSurprisingly, Kirthika gave a slam book and told me to fill it out. It was the much awaited slam book of one of my three most special friends in NIET, named Kanchana. Actually, I wanted to buy a glitter pen and a few colors to add a personal touch to it and also thought of thinking a lot of stuff before I write but I wasn’t able to do it. After receiving the slam book, I was in the essence of jumping here and there with joy. But with no further due, I borrowed a pen and started writing with almost everything I know about her. I wanted to fill all the pages in that but at the same time, I didn’t know what to write and so if you take a look at that slam book, all the empty pages are already virtually written by me, you just can’t see it. Of all the slam books I’ve written till now, I feel this was the one which I wrote with the maximum level of happiness. I also drew a kinda-childish drawing on it. Since she is also an invisible friend, I wanted to give my best to express everything as much as possible in those 4 pages.
\nAfter paying the fees and finishing the works given by our staff, we headed back to the class and had fun scribbling on the blackboard on the class with Nantha and Natraj and then we left the college in the afternoon. On the way back, I met with my old friend Jai Ganesh on the bus.
\nMe and Arumugam then went to the usual Central theatre, where we spent around 3 hours watching the movie ‘Wrath of the Titans 3D’. And then we headed back home and carried on with the usual sleeping and eating.
\n", "date_published": "2012-04-02T11:31:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/03/13/a-freaky-monday/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/03/13/a-freaky-monday/", "title": "A Freaky Monday..", "summary": "It’s March 12th, just another monday. Oh wait, It’s not just another monday, as the title says, it’s a freaky monday. The day fired off as usual as I woke up in the early morning and got ready for college. I was a bit late and therefore I…", "content_html": "It’s March 12th, just another monday. Oh wait, It’s not just another monday, as the title says, it’s a freaky monday. The day fired off as usual as I woke up in the early morning and got ready for college. I was a bit late and therefore I had to chase a bus with my dad in order to get to Gandhipuram in time. I always hated mondays but today, I guess it turned out to be a bad day for everyone. Today we were supposed to submit our project documentation and so I had to take my Macbook to college. In spite of being heavy, I had to stand in the hot sun in order to get a seat in the bus. The bus was late today and unusually a lot of college students were waiting for the bus. I was very tensed how I could get a seat in the bus with all this crowd but I stood there with hope.
\nWhen the bus arrived, I had no other choice than to run after the bus in order to get a seat for myself and Kasi. Fortunately, I did manage to get a seat for both of us but when I took out my Ike, I had a text message from Kasi that he will be coming late today and told me not to reserve a seat for him. So I moved aside to his place near the window and allowed a junior boy to sit. The bus started as soon as it came to the bus stop since it was late. The following events happened to my friends which made the day look really strange :
\nJust when the bus was about to start, Kasi showed up but he had no seat since he told me not to reserve a seat for him. Luckily, one of the persons in the bus got down and he finally got a seat to sit.The bus was crawling so slow with its humungous crowd filled in, but Lilly was unable to catch it in time :( Shahul had been sick and therefore he did not come to college.Sadam had taken leave today. Jaleel came in his brother’s bike since he had to bring his VAIO laptop safe. Arumugam didn’t get into the bus since it was over crowded and so he decided to hitch a ride with Jaleel.
\nA bus which was always filed with laughter and fun with my friends around looked so dead and empty with no one around me. To make things worse, I had almost 8–9 heavy bags, several notebooks and books over my laptop and I was worried sick. The leg started to pain with all this heavy weight, I was not even able to take out my smartphone to text or listen to music.
\nThe horrible bus ride finally ended as we reached the college and as I had expected, the day was empty. The staff didn’t ask us anything and informed to submit the documentation within next monday. We had fun playing with the water dispenser, playing NFS : The Run on my laptop, writing on slam books for Bagavath Singh and Baskar. That stupid Faizel broke my 4-year long treasured ID card into two halves ;( . And that’s about it. We left the college at about 4.30PM.
\nAs usual, we walked our way to T.M.Palayam bus stop to catch the bus. Even though everyone were looking at us, I had took out my pencil and tallied for the 7th time on a street wall which was for counting the number of times we came to that bus stop before leaving college. I’ll try to take a picture and post it in the upcoming posts. My mom suddenly called me and told me to come to Big Bazaar for purchasing dresses for the upcoming cultural fest in our college. I had taken several dresses already but I didn’t like any of them after coming home and so, I had to take again. Yep! I know that it sounds real stupid.
\nAfter sometime, Jaleel had returned from college in his bike and wanted me to hop on. I said okay after a few uh-uhs and we finally zoomed off from that place. On the way, we had to goto Panneer’s room where we had to give back the helmet Jaleel borrowed in the morning. This was the first time I’m heading to their place and I was pretty excited. I was welcomed by Natraj and Nantha Kumar who were surprised with my arrival. And to celebrate it, they decided to climb a coconut tree in their backyard while I was taking snaps of their room. Nantha hoped on to the tree and climbed up and up to reach the tender coconuts. After few minutes, he dropped some 7–10 coconuts onto the floor while Natraj tried to catch it. Then they took our the ‘Aruval’ (Sickle) and sliced off the coconut and gave it to us. We had a delicious thirst quenching drink.
\nAfter about 25 minutes, we bid farewell to them and started to head out. While leaving, I snatched the bike keys from Jaleel and started off the engine. And for the first time, I had shown to my classmates that I can ride a bike as I drew off several yards and came back. Then we headed off to Big Bazaar with raging speeds (Just kidding :P , its just 45 km/h) on the highway.
\nAfter getting down, I bid bye to Jaleel and entered in and met my mom. I had a hard time fitting in the mall since almost everyone thought I’m one of the staff belonging to Big Bazaar because of the stupid uniform of our college. We finished our purchasing and finally headed back home at about 8.30PM.
\nAnd I came to know about this Korean Drama named ‘You’re Beautiful ( 미남이시네요 )’ and I’ve watched 4 episodes as of now. I’ve seen a lot of dramas and tv shows but this could be one of the best. It has a very beautiful, unique story and an awesome plot filled with romance and comedy. The story is very addicting that I wish to see the remaining episodes by today (March 13). It’s worth spending 17 hours of your lifetime on this lovely story. Thanks to Nalini for recommending it!
\n", "date_published": "2012-03-13T01:54:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/20/runnin-late/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/20/runnin-late/", "title": "Runnin’ Late", "summary": "It’s February 20th, a week after I went to college because of this , and with lots of dismay, I had to go to college today. I went to sleep very late yesterday and therefore I was only about to get around 3 hours 40 minutes of sleep and I…", "content_html": "It’s February 20th, a week after I went to college because of this, and with lots of dismay, I had to go to college today. I went to sleep very late yesterday and therefore I was only about to get around 3 hours 40 minutes of sleep and I had to wake up at 4.30 in the morning. I was extremely sleepy that I couldn’t even walk straight and somehow I got ready by 7.10 AM in the morning with two yummy nutella-filled bread sandwiches for breakfast. I was late by a few minutes than my usual timing and adding to this, unfortunately my dad’s bike was found to be punctured in the rear wheel. I couldn’t walk to the bus stop since I was already late and so, Mom called for an auto to get me to the bus stop.
\nAfter reaching the bus stop, I boarded the bus no.76 which used to be my usual bus to Gandhipuram four years back when we had no college bus facilities in my area. I started to think all the old times when I had to board the bus with my mom whom used to get very scared since it was when I had to board buses by myself. I used to reach Gandhipuram at around 7.30 AM everyday and wait with my friends notably Lilly, Debby, Prabhu, Bijin, Yukesh, etc to get my bus to college. As years passed, we got our own college buses for our localities and we were forced to be separated since we belong to different areas. Since I was a frequent passenger of the Bus no.76, I guess the conductor must have known me well but we never talked to each other besides exchanging currency for tickets. To my shock today, he still remembers even after four years and asked how am I when I was about to buy tickets. He inquired how my studies was going on and I said its fine with a big smile. Because of the sleepless night I encountered the day before, I was dozing off every 5 minutes and finally slept without knowing by the time I reached my destination. Fortunately, the kind conductor was near me and he woke me up enthusiastically and told me to go and sleep in college with a funny accent. Feeling slightly embarrassed, I got down from the bus and started to wait for the next bus to college.
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The Old Man
\nAfter getting down, I started a quick search for Shahul but he was nowhere to be seen. Luckily, today there was the bus stand wasn’t as crowded as it used to be and so I got a seat to wait while the bus arrives. A mysterious old man was standing in front of me with suspicious sacks, waiting for some bus. He came near and asked whether the bus for Karunya has gone. I told him that I was not aware of it and told him to wait for the bus. But he took hold of my hand and asked me to come with him to Karunya, thinking that I am also waiting to go there. Terrified by him, I said I’m not going to Karunya and said I have to goto my college. Then the strange old guy took his rugged sacks and moved to another spot.
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Prabhu
\nAs the clocked ticked 8AM, our bus to college ‘101’ sliding its way into the bus stop. I finally met up with Shahul who got inside the bus and reserved seats for me and Kasi. Soon my old friends Bijin and Prabhu entered the bus but Prabhu was not having any seats to seat and so, he took up the place of Kasi since he was late to get the bus in time. I always wanted to be a news reporter from childhood and a CNN iReporter. Although I did not get any perfect chances for it, I took the opportunity to report Lilly where the bus is currently located in the name of iReports. I don’t know whether these informations are useful to her but it is fun to send them. On the way, we had hell loads of fun joining with Jaleel, Arumugam, Sadam, who teased Yukesh to the extremes.
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Bijin
\nAfter we reached our college, we had a little fun but most of the time I was asleep on the desk or the table since I was feeling very sleep all day long. There were no classes going on and we were left to sit idle in the lab where we had no other works to do other than playing games in Fedora and having chit-chat with neighbors. I was also asked to design the invitation for the upcoming NSS event which I’m going to deny doing it sooner or later.
\nThe long boring day was finally over and we started heading back to the bus stop again. As we were walking, I took a snapshot where I fell down from the bus last monday.
\n[The picture will be posted here later]
\nAfter reaching home, I was called by many of my friends in class who needed my help for their projects and so I was a bit busy that night too. I was able to goto sleep only by 1AM and that clearly showed how my next day is going to be.
\nOnce again waking up at 4.30AM, I got ready for college and headed to college once again with face looking sleepier than the previous day. But once we got inside the college campus, we were informed by Suganya that today was a holiday with regards to our projects. The sole reason for me to goto college was to install certain software for Lilly for her project but unfortunately the mission had failed :-( . We all got the same bus in which we came to college and returned to our homes.
\n", "date_published": "2012-02-20T01:37:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/13/ooooohhh-that-certainly-hurts-real-bad/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/13/ooooohhh-that-certainly-hurts-real-bad/", "title": "Ooooohhh . . .That certainly hurts real bad!!", "summary": "It’s Monday, February 13th. I was waiting for this day for a few weeks now because I knew this day is gonna be real special. I had planned to give the birthday present to my friend Nalini today along with some really different way of…", "content_html": "It’s Monday, February 13th. I was waiting for this day for a few weeks now because I knew this day is gonna be real special. I had planned to give the birthday present to my friend Nalini today along with some really different way of wishing ‘Happy Birthday’ using my Android Tablet but unfortunately plans had to change. As always, I started off from my home in the early morning and I taken the bus 96 unusually so as to reduce risk of damaging the gift I had kept in my backpack.
\nMy college days were almost over and so I wanted to try out some stupid techniques to make myself noticed. For a change, I really wanted to get some scoldings from some staff today, and so I had been wearing a blue cap over my head for the whole day and also wrapped my wrists using a blue handkerchief. I was feeling very uncomfortable with the kerchief and so I had removed it soon but I strongly had the motive not to take off my cap even when the class is going on. Well, my plan worked. Almost everyone started to wonder why I was wearing a cap so oddly, some boys made fun of it that I look like a pre-school kid but the thing which really blew me off is that one of the staff had thought something is wrong with my head and I was forced to wear a cap for curing purposes. She even examined my head for about a second and didn’t believe that I was wearing it just for fun. The attempt was very successful as it made everyone think odd of me today, but my aim for being scolded failed.
\nThen I had a chance to fix Nalini’s laptop by afternoon. I had tried my general troubleshooting techniques but nothing gave a proper response. I even tried to fix with my troubleshooting DVD but all attempts failed. I really feel very bad for it since this is the first time where I was not able to fix a computer. By disabling Windows 7’s automatic failure restart feature, I got the response as ‘Failed to Mount Bootable Volume’ which certainly proved that something is wrong with the hard disk. Then I fired up the Primary Hard Disk Self Test in the BIOS and confirmed that the hard disk is not functioning properly. But still I don’t understand how the windows was able to boot in the beginning and not after loading the files required to bring the desktop. With no hope of fixing it, I gave her laptop to her back with dismay. I also gave the birthday present to her and started off to have lunch. I was not hungry at the moment and so, I just a drink of apple juice as always.
\nUpdate : I was wrong about the error occurred in the laptop. It was not a hard disk issue.
\nThe day passed, we all had to goto the CAD/CAM Lab for the rest of the day. We had fun talking with our Lab attender but we soon got tired and started to sleep over the table. Just so you know, I still had my cap on.
\nAt about 4.30PM, we started moving out of the college as usual while Dinakaran wanted to goto the Library to take some books.
\nAs we started walking towards the bus stop, the bus number 101 came crawling through the road which gave confidence to some of my friends to catch it. One by one, Arumugam, Kasi managed to get into the bus, followed by Manikandan who started to run to catch it. Thinking that I’ll be only one left out to catch the bus, I started to take off with great agility, passing by Mani and grabbed onto one of the handles of the bus gateways. I was pretty confident of getting in, but suddenly **!!!BAM!!!**, as I had a head-on collision with one of the walkers on the side of the road with a great blow on my face. The sudden jerk stunned my eyes out for a second as I left the handle powerlessly and fell on the floor with many scratches and screeches. I rolled about 2 rotations on the road with great speed and got scratches on my left palm, my left shoulder got a big wound by tearing off my shirt, another big bloody injury on my left knee by tearing off my pant and several injuries on my right elbow and right knee. When I got back into consciousness, I was able to see my blue cap lying in front of me, Arumugam and Kasi running out of the bus which had luckily stopped because of me, Nalini and her friend getting inside the halted bus. Immediately, I took my cap and wore it before I started to realize about the severe pain which I was about to experience later on.
\nWith no time to waste, I got inside the bus and luckily, the bus conductor didn’t scold me too much and I was also offered to have to sit on. In spite of the increasing pain, I really loved the action I had experienced (Yeah, I know I’m stupid) and asked Mani to give a small flashback what had happened. I was praying that no one from my class should have seen fall down and that definitely paid off. I got down at Marapalam with Kasi and Mani, and had coffee in the nearby coffee shop and started to discover where my bruises are. Soon Shahul and Dinakaran joined the party as we shared the action story with them which gave them a quick jolt.
\nMy action didn’t end there, as I still started running in the middle of the busy highway to catch the next bus to Gandhipuram. But the boys didn’t want me to get into trouble again and so Mani took hold of my arms till I had to get inside the other bus. Later on, the news spread to few of my friends somehow. As I said already, I was very glad that no one saw me during the incident. However, I was very happy that my friends are really concerned about my safety and I did assure them that this would not happen again.
\nAfter I got back home, with hell lot of pain, my dad wrapped my wounds up with several bandages and I felt better already. My mom shouted a lot to the level that my ear drums could break-off but I certainly needed it. Thankfully, Flipkart had sent me a lovely new pair of Philips Headphones for free of cost for the damaged one I got with my tablet. I guess all ended well.
\n", "date_published": "2012-02-13T10:20:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/12/the-great-gate-day/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/12/the-great-gate-day/", "title": "The Great GATE Day…", "summary": "It’s February 12th, and today was the day which I didn’t want it to come so soon. Yeah, today we had to write the toughest engineering exam in India. A.K.A GATE (Gate Aptitude Test in Engineering). I didn’t have a strong mind set or an deep…", "content_html": "It’s February 12th, and today was the day which I didn’t want it to come so soon. Yeah, today we had to write the toughest engineering exam in India. A.K.A GATE (Gate Aptitude Test in Engineering). I didn’t have a strong mind set or an deep desire to get into one of the IITs of India (for now) in order to pursue my higher studies. Anyways with almost Zero-Preparation, I started off by waking up early in the morning at about 4.30 PM and got ready to leave my home at 5.30AM. I had planned to meet up with my friend Deenuji at Town hall in order to catch the bus to Government Polytechnic College where we had to write our GATE exam.
\nHaving texted ‘all the best’ to GATE aspirants like me, Lilly and Nalini, I left my home at about 6AM after having breakfast and got a wrong bus thinking that till will goto Town Hall but unfortunately the conductor said that the bus will not goto Town Hall. He was kind enough to sit by me in the empty bus and started to talk jovially and told me to get down at one of the stops where I could hitch a ride to my destined place. He also told one of the passengers to help me to catch the correct bus. The person whom he said helped me all the way from crossing the road, walked with me to the next bus stop, and got me into one of the buses which goes to Town Hall. Well, that was a really strange morning.
\nAt about 7.15AM, I reached Town Hall and met up with Deenuji and Akash, who were writing GATE along with me in the same centre. We reached the centre at about 8.05AM, I was mystified by the beauty of the city with its clean asphalt road with cars and locos moving with blazing speeds with a pleasant climate in a greeny environment. The road was so beautiful that I wished to drive an McLaren F1, right in the middle of it with a few drag racers.
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After getting into the campus, we checked our exam halls and decided to take rest from the long ride for a few minutes in the benches available there. To my surprise, my very old NIIT-mate, Balaji anna was already there thinking about the exam. I haven’t seen him for about 2 years and we are very surprised to see ourselves in that bench. We talked for about half an hour and started heading out to the exam halls where we had to take up our exam.
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The exam was unexpectedly very easy than I had thought it would be but I had not written it properly :-( . Anyways, it was a very good experience. Then me and Deenuji headed by Town hall to have our lunch and we spent some quality time discussing about the future for about 2 hours as we walked through the streets. At about 2.45PM, I got by bus to my home and that was all about it….
\n", "date_published": "2012-02-12T08:21:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/03/and-the-story-continues/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2012/02/03/and-the-story-continues/", "title": "……and The Story Continues!!", "summary": "It’s been a month since I’ve blogged because as usual, there was nothing interesting to write about. The year started very well, when I was in vacation at Hogenakkal Falls and Yercaud. Me and my family had a great time in the tour…", "content_html": "It’s been a month since I’ve blogged because as usual, there was nothing interesting to write about. The year started very well, when I was in vacation at Hogenakkal Falls and Yercaud. Me and my family had a great time in the tour especially myself, who had been depressed a lot in the previous month. Anyways, moving with a very strong positive attitude this year — I really enjoy each and every day for this year till now. Nevertheless being unemployed, I am confident that there is a future out there for me too. Instead of whining for something which I don’t have, I feel happiness in every thing I do especially when having fun with friends. Just like a novel, we do have sad and pleasant parts in our story but I hope all our stories will have a happy ending. There has been a lot of surprises (starting with the ATV ride in Yercaud) for me from the moment I had stopped expecting things and they tend to increase day by day as the pages of my life turn by themselves.
\nThat’s enough yada yada, its February 3rd 2012, the first post of this year. We had just finished our first review and I’m very much satisfied with what I had to present about my project. Although I feel a lot guilty for not able to contribute much to my project because of the lack of an Android device which plays a key role in our project, I have a strong hope that I can lead/follow my team to one of the best in the class.
\nToday was really an odd day. I woke up very early at about 4AM and started getting ready for moving to the college. Having sent my early morning tweet (SMS) to some of my friends, I finished my breakfast and moved to catch the transit bus. It was very strange that I had not received any text messages from anyone on my phone but it was functioning properly so I did not pay much attention to it. I boarded the usual transit bus number ‘101’ and I was half way towards the college. But unfortunately, our bus got punctured on its rear tyres and had to be halted in the middle of the highway. Auspiciously, we got a ride from our own college bus for free and reached our campus.
\nToday, one of the leading IT companies in India ‘Ramco Systems’ had visited our campus to engage us in several projects. After a brief lecture in the field of Cloud Computing by one of the dignitaries of the company, I am now much more confident to create apps based on the cloud. Although many of my classmates hated the lecture, I really loved it and I’m glad I could be a part of it. After the conference ended, we dispersed and started to leave the college. Me and Arumugam started walking on the street towards the highway but luckily, we had obtained a lift just after 5 mins of leaving our campus. It was a very highly classed Toyota Innova with sophisticated technology hidden inside almost everywhere in the car. The car had a fairly large SRS Airbags, Premium wood on the stereo systems and on the door handles, BOSE speakers and a very pleasant air conditioning system. The person driving the car inquired about us a lot on the way and we both were surprised at each other since he happened to be a graduate from TNAU where my dad is working. Maybe that created a good relationship between us and he gave us a very long ride. After getting down at Kovai Pudhur, I took a snap shot of his car which you can see below :
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Then I had to get another bus to reach Gandhipuram, when suddenly a hell lot of messages suddenly started rushing to my phone. Well, that explained why I was not receiving any messages from morning. Due to some kind of network problem, I received all the messages sent by everyone in the morning at once and I had to apologize to all of them as I was unable to reply earlier. Few minutes later, I took out my headphones from my backpack and realized that it was broken into half :cry: . I fixed it temporarily using my fingers and managed to listen to music till I reached home. And that was it. The day was over. Wooooffff….
\n", "date_published": "2012-02-03T07:01:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-happy-new-year-everyone/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/24/merry-christmas-happy-new-year-everyone/", "title": "Merry Christmas & Happy New Year Everyone!", "summary": "So, its the Year-End, all hearts should be filled with joy and energy by now. It’s December 24th, 2011 and probably this might be the last post of this year. I may not be available here when the new year starts and so, I’m posting this in…", "content_html": "So, its the Year-End, all hearts should be filled with joy and energy by now. It’s December 24th, 2011 and probably this might be the last post of this year. I may not be available here when the new year starts and so, I’m posting this in advance. 2011, It has been a great and a horrific year for me. I did lose a lot, cry a lot but also gained something out of it. I’ve got a lot of interview experience, friends experience, I got my lovely Macbook Pro and I guess that’s it for me. I became a stronger fan of Apple, Steve Jobs but also lost a lost interest in technology. That’s something that you might get shocked to hear from geek like me. Anyways, I hope you all had a fabulous year.
\nNext thing, you might ask me is : Where’s your New Year Resolutions?
\nWell, let us first check whether I’ve accomplished this year’s resolutions :
\n10. Hello Twitter! I’m Back! -> Well, it was ok. I did use twitter 10–15 times. Duh!
\n9. Eat Well. Spend Less. -> That didn’t go so well.
\n8. Accept Everything that comes on the way -> Well, I had no other choice.
\n7. Get the Best from what I have -> Total Failure.
\n6. More Videos from Parithi Studio. -> Not even worthy to talk about it.
\n5. Service to the Poor. -> I hardly remember it.
\n4. My Blog, More Personal and Techier -> Personal, Ok. Techier?
\n3. Get a Driving License -> I’ve got a Learner’s License
\n2. Better Attitude and Better Fun -> Parithi X was a total failure, that answers it.
\n1. Treat People Special, Who Really Treat Me Special!! -> Sort of.
Although most of the above are really worth doing, I wasted it all up. I didn’t accomplish a single task properly. Having said that, I’m not going to have a lot of resolutions for the upcoming year.
\nI know I sound like a Buddhist again. I’ve completely lost interest in something I’ve always admired from birth — That’s Technology. Tech doesn’t interest me anymore for some reason. Maybe it because I’m not satisfied with it or maybe its just that I have better things to worry about. I wish to discover inner peace which actually means find something that makes me feel satisfied and makes me feel happy consistently. There is a lot more on this planet besides technology and I feel I have to try to gain happiness in even the smallest things I do everything.
\nYes, I’m serious. I really can’t take the sight of non-vegetarian food anymore. I feel like its more inhuman. I seriously wish to become a vegetarian and 2012 is going to open its doors for me officially. I did manage to stop eating non-veg throughout this december and I’m sure that I can do it forever.
\nThis post does seem a little sad with nothing interesting. Well, 2011 started with Joy and Happiness but ended in bitter sadness. Maybe, 2012 will start with this sadness and end with Happiness. Well, I sure do hope so. Anyways, Thanks for everything guys and gals. You’ve been with me all year-long and I hope we’ll have a splendid year during 2012.
\nSpecial Christmas Wishes to Prince, Freddy and Debby along with their families and I wish you all a very happy, joyful, fabulous, New Year 2012! See you next year, Everybody!
\n", "date_published": "2011-12-24T02:06:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/21/2011-a-special-thanks-to-lilly-nalini/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/21/2011-a-special-thanks-to-lilly-nalini/", "title": "2011 : A Special Thanks To Lilly & Nalini", "summary": "This is the 3rd post of the 2011 Year-End Series and yes, this is the first time I’m mentioning my friend’s name directly on the post title. We’ll get into that in a few minutes, but first, I wish to thank each and everyone who has been…", "content_html": "This is the 3rd post of the 2011 Year-End Series and yes, this is the first time I’m mentioning my friend’s name directly on the post title. We’ll get into that in a few minutes, but first, I wish to thank each and everyone who has been with me all the way this 2011. Thanks for every happy and sad moment you’ve given me, thanks to all those NIETns and everyone who’ve wished me on my birthday, thanks to encouraged me,thanks to Arumugam and Kirthika who threw me a birthday party, thanks to Panneer for having me for his birthday party, thanks to Debby for her valuable encouragement, thanks to all those who gave invaluable birthday gifts. I sincerely thank everyone who did everything for me, Well you get the point, don’t you?
\n[This post is written with the assumption that ‘You’ are not Lilly or Nalini]
\nWell, as every one of you know, they’re my Special Friends, that’s why.Don’t worry, I’ll keep this post short because I know most of you are already in rage of jealousy. I’ll be really surprised if you came this far to read it. Anyways, I have been thinking a lot why they both are my Special Friends for which I didn’t know the answer for a long time. Most of you guys have openly told me that you are very jealous of Lilly & Nalini because I used to tell them as my special friends, sensitive towards them, and try to help them a lot and you’ve asked the reason too. You’ve also wanted me to treat you the same way how I treat them. ‘You’ refers to mostly everyone in my class because almost all of you have told the same to me. A few of you have also beat me up and threatened to kill me if I say that they’re my special friends. A few of you would complain this and that about them to make me hate them, but I guess it just didn’t work. Finally I’ve found the answer for all of your questions which I’ve been waiting to know it myself.
\nSo, I’ve analyzed what’s so special about them starting from Day 1 till today, as I have a complete record of all my conversations with them. The only conclusion I obtained is that they both are different from all of you. Ok, don’t punch your monitor, stay calm till you finish reading this post. Hoping you will, let me continue. The main thing I like them a lot is because they’re really fun to talk to talk or chat with. Of course, not all the time but most of the time it’s a very true fact according to me. Secondly, they think and act mostly the same way that I would which might be the reason why I started to like them. Third, they are modern just like my fellow SBOAns and behave just like my schoolmates Prince and Freddy. Besides, all these primary reasons, they’ve still got that one special thing that couldn’t be compared with anyone. Whether purposely do or just its their nature, they have the power to make me smile even in my sad moments, make me failure moments funnier, and make the happy moments even more happier. I solely believe that they do not intend to do this, its their nature and that’s why I like them a lot. They make me happy as I make you guys happy. It’s something that I wish you guys should learn from them. I definitely don’t want anyone to encourage me with advice when I fail, I don’t want anyone to console me when I’m sad. All I want is that you guys should be happy always just like them and make me happy too. Furthermore, another interesting fact as far as I know is that they both do not even wish to know why they are my special friends and they would not boast themselves that ‘Yay! I’m a Special Friend of the Great Genius Parithi’. And Uh, I don’t even know whether they intend to be my special friends, as far as I’ve seen they’ve considered me as just a friend in their long list of friends which is so cooool for me, who always hears that I’m a special friend to many of you guys. Of course, I love the way many of you guys treat me special because you think I’m a good guy, silent boy, bla bla but it does feel unique and different when someone treats you ordinarily with someone like me. Note : I’m do not wish to exult myself, I’m just telling a fact you always made me feel like. Sorry, If I’m wrong.
\nIf after the reading above makes you feel convinced why I state them as my special friends, I hope you will join me in thanking them both specially this year. And if you are still not convinced, you might ask this question :
\nIf you wish thank them specially, why don’t you just tell them directly? Why make a post for this?
\nAs I said already, I probably think that they don’t know that I consider them as my special friends seriously. So I don’t know how to wish them directly which implies a well known fact that I don’t understand them properly yet. And, I also wish to thank them for my own satisfaction which I can do it only in my personal diary. In my case, my blog is my only diary. It’s just something I wanted to do, and I did it. You might also ask why thanks between friends? Answer is : I wish to! They’re not ordinary friends for me, and they are special! But I hope Lilly & Nalini doesn’t read this. Anyways, moving to the point :
\nThanks a Lot Lilly & Nalini. Thanks for making my 2011 funnier and happier.
\n", "date_published": "2011-12-21T01:48:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/20/2011-the-things-ive-learnt/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/20/2011-the-things-ive-learnt/", "title": "2011 : The Things I’ve Learnt", "summary": "This is the 2nd Post of the 2011 Series in which I’ve discussed about the things I’ve learnt (besides the tech & curriculum) all the way this year. Of course, I’ve not learnt much this year as I told in my previous post describing how I…", "content_html": "This is the 2nd Post of the 2011 Series in which I’ve discussed about the things I’ve learnt (besides the tech & curriculum) all the way this year. Of course, I’ve not learnt much this year as I told in my previous post describing how I wasted my time regards learning new things. Although technologically, I didn’t learn new which was worthy, I did obtain a lot of wisdom about people and the way the world is. Here are those few things I’ve learned about :
\nAt one point, during the start of November, I heard a word about Ayappan through my friend Nalini but I didn’t pay much attention to it. By that time, I didn’t know much about Ayappan but what I did know is that he is a god and people used to travel long distances to pray at the Sabarimala pilgrimage at Kerala. And that was everything I know about him but suddenly something started to dawn out of nowhere. When my exams started, I had to travel in the town buses to reach the college to reach it soon in the early morning to avoid tension. So I used to wake up early and get the bus. It was a private bus which has its own stereo system all around and there were songs playing on it everyday. I found that the songs were Ayappan songs by the third exam day and soon forgot it. And then, a new trauma started. I had been receiving a lot of text messages from my mobile network, AirTel telling me to download Ayappan songs. Then, in the evenings when I’m at home, my mom started to put TV shows about Ayappan. That really made start to wonder ‘Oh My God! What’s going on?’, so I started to ask my mom about Ayappan and why everyone is talking about him suddenly. Only then I realized that mom knows a lot about Ayappan then confirmed my suspicion when my mom used to watch Ayappan serials so vividly a few months back. So I finally decided to know about Ayappan and started searching on Wikipedia. I found out that he is the son of Lord Shiva and Lord Vishnu which is a fact which amazed me very quickly. Furthermore, Ayappan has several different names for him and to my surprise half of my friends’ names are based upon him. But wait, there’s more. After a short gap of holidays, our placement training had started and I had to go in the college bus again. And for the first time, I could see that my driver was one of the followers for Ayappan and he had playing Ayappan songs in the bus all the time! Both in the mornings and evenings! I know a lot of guys in the mechanical class of our batch and one of them was Yukesh. He used to beat me up, tease me, and scold me unnecessarily for fun. But he too was on his way to the Ayappan pilgrimage as he wore the black shawl around his neck and he was forced to behave nicely to me. Well, that’s good news for me. Anyways, its Ayappan in and around everywhere and I’m glad I’ve learnt a lot about him at least after all these years.
\nBy you, I mean everyone who read my blog. Contrary to your thoughts, I never write my blog with you in mind. It is and it’s always been my words directly from my heart as I would write my own personal diary. But I realized that it could be a wrong practice because my mind tends to change even with hours or minutes, so I started to think over every one of my posts for at least two days prior to posting. I never check the statistics for my blog but I know a lot of you are reading it because almost everyone I meet, used to ask me, ‘Parithi, why you posted like this and that on your blog?’. And this is what I’ve learnt from you ‘visitors’, a few of you visit my blog just to show that you are my friend, a few visit to know about me, a few read it when they get bored, a few read it to stalk me, a few read for inspiration for blogging, a few just come and have a look just because its on my social links everyone on the internet, a few read it to know what I’ve written about you, a few don’t bother about it even if I write wrong about them, a few take a look just because of my friends told you to see it. I don’t mind to which category you belong to, but you are always welcome to check out my blog because it is ‘you’ who keeps this up and running. But I’ll be glad if you comment just a word or drop a smiley for the pain I take to write them. Anyways, that’s optional and it depends on you.
\nI used to think that the Government is for the people and by the people, until I’ve got my own hands on it and saw how dirty it is when I got my Learner’s License for Driving. Government doesn’t care for the people at all, all they care is just the money that gets distributed to every one in the politics world. To make this worse, Internet Censorship is on its way to bring down the freedom of students and patriots all over India. They can’t monitor 50 Lakh Group C Employees for corruption under Lokpal but they believe they can monitor 2.5 crore Facebook accounts 10 Crore Google Users from India.
\n2011 has been an year in which I had more social contact with girls than boys, so I did learn a lot about them. Some can be fun, some can be caring, some can be annoying, some can be dangerous, some can exploit us, some can be selfish or a mix of any of this. Well, I like only the first one, that is, the girls who are fun to talk with, which is why I like Lilly & Nalini very much but none of the boys realize this. I was surprised to see few girls exploiting their own best friends (who are girls), cheating them, behave in a horrific way that even boys wouldn’t behave to their enemies. While few girls are like ‘snakes’ as my friend Vishnu describes about girls, some can be a slow poison, they might be killing you slowly but you might not even know it. Some can be purposely exploiting, by having contact with us only to get things down for their use. Whatever it is, as long as they are my friends, I still like them. But in general, I still hate girls and 2011 made me hate them still more..
\nAlthough I belong to the Sambarian Religion (a religion created by myself, my bro and few of my friends when we were kids), I’m still publicly a Hindu and I worship Hindu gods as every Hindu would. The Sambarian Religion has its own story and certain principles that should be followed by every Sambarian. My dad used to raise us, by saying a lot of Buddhist principles to stop us from asking things when we were kids, most notably ‘Wishing is the cause of all suffering’. I had no interest in that in those times, but now when I feel like I’ve lost my inner peace and feel very disturbed, only that principle gave the perfect answer for that. I am not a person who expects a lot of things to happen, but I am a person who expects a very very few things and get highly depressed if those things don’t happen. So, I started in search of blissfulness and soon realized that Buddhism had answers for it. To my surprise, Buddhism’s principles are mostly common to those we synthesized by ourselves for the Sambarian Religion. And furthermore, my mentor Steve was a buddhist too. I learnt that Buddhism is not religion where we pray for something to happen as we would in other religions, it was religion where we could find happiness even if we don’t get the things we wish. Although I’m still a Hindu, mentally I wish to be a Buddhist from now on (maybe from 2012) and I’m sure it’ll be worth a try..
\nWell, I guess these are top 5 things I’ve learnt. If there are things that 2011 has taught you, share them below in the comments and maybe I’ll learn something from you too…
\n", "date_published": "2011-12-20T01:49:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/18/2011-the-year-in-which-ive-lost-everything/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/12/18/2011-the-year-in-which-ive-lost-everything/", "title": "2011 : The Year In Which I’ve Lost Everything", "summary": "It’s been a long long time since I’ve published something on my blog but it doesn’t mean that I’ve not written anything. I did write three posts after the trip to the temple but I didn’t want to post them because I saw no reason to do so…", "content_html": "It’s been a long long time since I’ve published something on my blog but it doesn’t mean that I’ve not written anything. I did write three posts after the trip to the temple but I didn’t want to post them because I saw no reason to do so. Anyways, a quick recap : We had been writing our semester exams last month and we attended quite a few placement training sessions and campus interviews. After my failure at the Logitech interview in the technical round, a lot has changed inside of me. I’ve been terribly sick after that and slowly recovering from it ever since. As for now, everything for this year is over as we wait for the Christmas and the New year which made start to think about what I’ve done in this year. So, this is the 1st part of the 2011 Series in which I’ve discussed about the things I’ve lost in this year. This series of posts are very personal, so I recommend you to move out immediately unless you wish to know about me and myself alone. There’s no inspiration for you and no interesting stuff that you can enjoy from here.
\nAs the post title says, 2011 is definitely ‘the’ year in which I’ve lost literally everything! It’s been an horrific year for me, things just didn’t go well starting from the 1st month. Here are a few reasons to justify it :
\n(Bear in mind, that I’ve used a lot of ‘used to’s in this post, which speaks for itself that I do not do those things now)
\nAs everyone knows, I had a strong passion towards Technology and Gaming. I used to be very hungry for learning more and more about the latest tech and trying out the latest games. I don’t know what happened to me but I’ve clearly lost my passion towards it. Even if I check out the latest reviews and news across the various tech websites, it’s mainly because I think I’m slowly losing my interest and not to quench my thirst for daily new tech. Whatever I try, I couldn’t cope up with the trends of twitter and I’m definitely not the first person to tell everyone about the new innovations and tech news that goes on increasing everyday. To make things worse, there were times when few of my friends taught me what’s happening in the tech-world. I really don’t feel like a Tech Whizkid anymore.
\nIn the years back, I used to be more potent in everything I do. I was tough to beat in video games, find out solutions fast in programming, memorize songs faster than anyone, cook various dishes without any help. But I guess I’ve lost those too in this year. I was not able to finish several games without walkthroughs, I couldn’t talk in english I used to, I couldn’t even understand what the guys were talking in the multiplayer sessions of the very few games in which I tried multiplayer. I was not quick in creating flash greeting cards for my friends and family, I even forgot how to get help for things from the internet when I faced difficulties when I work. I was not able to attract anyone easily with my unique style, I was too bad in my jokes, I became a boring guy to many people who had seriously lost interest in me which also signifies that I’ve lost people’s trust in me.
\nCreativity was a word which I used to think is a perfect word to define myself but I’ve lost that too. I used to create a lot of tunes myself with Fruity Loops Studio and the plentiful amount of musical instruments we have in our home, I used to create custom logos for many of the websites and product ideas I come up with. Being a Sambarian Leader and Sketcher, I used to sketch landscapes so realistically in my sketchpad with whatever I see with my eyes that I my old neighbors used to get astounded with. Now, I do not even know how to draw a face of a Mickey Mouse properly. I’ve lost my touch with origami in which I used to be an expert. I started to see a lot of websites for inspiring myself to draw logos. As everyone knows, I look for pixel perfection in everything I do but now although I’m not satisfied with my work, I don’t not try to make things better as I used to do. Meaning, I started to give up.
\nThis is the probably the most shameful thing for me. I used to boast myself that I’m very productive. I’ll be trying to make the most of everything I own, I even would try to push my electronic devices to their limits especially my Ike. Having a $320 smartphone, I used to take a lot of pictures, edit them directly on my phone, share them directly through online services, find ways to places using GPS, use voice recognition to access the menus, set my own custom equalizer for music, try out a lot of apps. But for the shame, now I don’t do nothing more than text, text, text. I’m definitely not worthy to own a smartphone now, as even a $20 mobile phone can do the same thing that I do nowadays. Knowing that in mind, I’ve stopped dreaming to buy an iPhone or an Android device. Same goes for my online presence, I used to feel proud that I own a fast internet connection and squeeze it to its maximum potential. But now, all I do online is chat, chat, chat. My monthly bandwidth doesn’t even cross 5GB unless I download games or movies. Last year, I used to download a hell lot of tutorials, videos for learning and even used to wonder there’s no space on my hard drive. I used to try out and create a lot of videos using 3DS Max and Adobe After Effects but now I do not even know how to create a simple transition without experimenting for at least 15 minutes. I bought a MacBook Pro to increase my creativity and productivity but it gave total negativity. I use a $2700 extremely powerful and expensive laptop mostly just for chatting!! Holy crap, I totally want to take out a pistol and shoot myself in my head for doing this. Still worse, I could have tried to make texting and chatting in a productive way but all I did was ask the insanely stupid question ‘what doing?’ to others and waste 90% of my SMS in talking bitter nonsense. I’m the only one to be blamed because none of this would happened if I had obeyed my parents’ words. Realizing that I’ve lost a lot of productivity, I feel very disturbed like I’ve lost my inner peace.
\nAlthough Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs doesn’t know me, I used to have him as my indirect mentor. I had learnt a lot from him from his keynotes, simplicity and style and even used to replicate him in the works I do. He taught me to live for myself and stop living someone else’s life. He made me realize being selfish is not a bad act at all unless it affects others. He also made me realize that we can change the world, if we are think and act different. More about Steve and how he changed my life can be found on the post here.
\nBy friends, I mean Shubham, Muhil Akka, Hari Prasanth, Kaushika, and many others who were my neighbors 9 years ago. Till this year, I used to have a strong hope that I could meet them again and enjoy with them at least for a single day but all those hopes suddenly shattered into mid-air for a reason I really don’t know. Maybe its because of the long time-span, or that they might have changed in character, or that they are very far away from me. Whatever it is, they are still my best friends but I just don’t have the hope that I could meet them again. If I get a chance to meet them, it would rather be a surprise than just an ordinary friendly meeting as I hoped along these years. Now the friends I have, also seem to be a little lost. The friends who say that they are always there for me — doesn’t seem to be how I want them to be. And the friends whom are in the way how I want them to be and the way I like, are not close to me at all. Yeah, pretty sick!
\nAlthough this is not totally true, I strongly feel that I’ve lost hope and faith in god because of the horrible things that had happened to me this year. Having survived 4 long years in NIET, I thought finally there could be some bliss in my life with the placements. But the failure at Logitech, crushed every hope and faith I had in god. I became terribly sick only because of that, I had lied in bed almost for a week continuously and still I’ve not been cured completely. I do not have any sort of clear vision for my future. I do not even know whether I have to study further or goto work. Whatever it is, I guess it’s going to depend only on my work and I don’t think any external power can help me through it.
\nThe reason for this is definitely unclear, I used to love music a lot. It served as a medicine for me whenever I’m down just like it would for many other music lovers. I’m still a fan of Linkin Park & Backstreet Boys but my Last.fm profile gives a clear proof that I’ve lost my touch with music.
\nI have several mottos for myself and one of them is the famous slogan ‘Impossible Is Nothing’. Till this year, I really believed for myself that nothing is impossible. I thought we could do whatever we aim for, if we continuously work hard for it. But this year, I realized that it can be false. There were just many events that proved this fact this year as I failed my missions one by one. Of course the words of Muhammed Ali cannot be false, but it is false as far as I’m concerned. I don’t think that everything on this planet is possible from now on.
\nAs you are reading this post, or just skimming it fast, you might feel that there is a lot of grammatical and vocabulary errors everywhere. Well the reason is clear, I’m not strong in English as I used to be. I feel very sorry that I’ve let the name of SBOA down as I face difficulty to read, write and speak in proper English. Joining forces with my stage fear, my disability in English makes me look poor in everything ranging from watching movies to playing multiplayer games. Words just don’t come out from my mouth in a flow when I talk in english, I have to think what word to use in advance in order to talk fluently. It’s a clear sign that I’ve lost my fluency in English.
\nI don’t say that I was fit last year, but I at least tried to become like JJ. This year, I had no motive to keep myself fit as I lived the way just the way it drove me. Parents shouting at me to take care of my health became a usual words-to-mutter everyday but I was not following it. My health became serious poor by this end of the year as I take a few steps to make it better.
\nThe answer is yes, these were everything that actually defined me. I took a month to think over these and I have not exaggerated anything here. You might argue that I still have everything I’ve mentioned here and say that I’ve not lost anything. Well, if you had known me very well, I’m sure you might discovered that I’ve a changed a lot worse and that I was more creative, potent, productive in the previous years than this year. Now, I don’t even know what to do as I loiter in my home without any interest to do anything or talk to anyone and I know that I’m not fit to do anything right now. I loved this year ‘2011’ very much as the way it sounds : ‘Two Thousand and Eleven’ but I didn’t expect that this could turn out to be the worst year in my life till now. I don’t even like the sound of 2012, but let’s just wait and see how it turns to be. I don’t have any hopes, I don’t know what I’ll be doing in the upcoming year, I don’t know whether I’ll gain anything that I’ve lost this year, its a totally blank year for me with new horizons and surprises that may likely restart my whole life again with nothing to lose and gain..
\n", "date_published": "2011-12-18T01:49:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/10/22/just-another-adventure-to-the-mountain-temple/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/10/22/just-another-adventure-to-the-mountain-temple/", "title": "Just Another Adventure : To The Mountain Temple", "summary": "It’s October 21st 2011, and once again I’m on my study Holidays for my semester exams which are going to start next November. Having finished my ASP.NET course on wednesday, today I had woke up early to start heading out from home for the…", "content_html": "It’s October 21st 2011, and once again I’m on my study Holidays for my semester exams which are going to start next November. Having finished my ASP.NET course on wednesday, today I had woke up early to start heading out from home for the Temple Adventure I had planned with my friends. Unfortunately, the North-East Monsoon was setting in this week and therefore it has been raining with hell-like thunders & lightnings over here. Two days back, me and my neighbors’ routers had busted due to the electric surge caused by the thunder over midnight and hence I was forced to buy several modems for us. Also I had to goto each and everyone’s home for setting it up for the Internet connection.
\nAbout 8AM in the morning today, I went to my neighbor’s home which was behind our house to finish the final setup for their Internet connection. But I had informed my friend Subash that I would be giving him the Windows XP cd at Gandhipuram that day as he requested earlier. I couldn’t reach him at the time I had told him because of all these busy work. Anyways, I managed to reach Gandhipuram by 9.30AM and gave him the CD which he was longing for a week or so. Next, I got a call from my friend Lilly saying that we need to send all the 10th & 12th marks to our staff regarding our placement in our college. Having known that I can send only 100 SMS per day (because of the insanely stupid TRAI), I added a topup of Rs.100 to my prepaid mobile account and started sending texts to almost everyone to send me their marks as soon as possible. I was on the way to meet Arumugam in his home, which was planned as just a irrational visit but now it had made itself rational since we had some work to do at this home. I got my bus at about 10AM and started moving to his place with my new bluetooth headset which made me look odd to many inside the bus. After reaching his place, we roamed around his house a little to take a look at the various rich houses which were built in the area. We then went to his house and turned on his computer and quickly started typing all the marks in the table by referring to my texts which had been rushing in from many of my classmates with their marks. After finishing it, we sent the mail to our staff but the sending had failed with a message stating that the recipient’s email address does not exist. So I contacted Lilly again and got the correct email address but it was too late by that time since we had started from his home. She had asked some help to my friend Arumugam and so we were on our way to meet her. On the way, I managed to send the mail using my Ike to our respected staff. We were waiting and waiting in the bus stop since we couldn’t get any bus for about half an hour (Don’t know whose bad luck is that :P). We got the bus at about 12.11PM and finally met Lilly at about 12.35PM. Having finished her work, we had a drink of Tender Coconut together after which she had headed back with her work. Me and Arumugam went to a hotel to have our lunch as I was very hungry. We ordered Chilli Parotta for both of us and I somehow managed to eat it. But Arumugam couldn’t eat it since he was not that hungry and so we had told the waiter to parcel it and give it back to us. After the waiter did as we told, we paid the bill and we started back to his house to spend the rest of the afternoon.
\nAfter reaching his home, his house owner had some works for him regarding their CCTV camera setup, they’ve been working on for the past week. I had joined them for their work and helped them without any dismay. I got a chance to ride a TVS Excel for about 2km and also I had a chance to spot a real life Nintendo Wii in their home. I had playing with the fruits which had been growing around the house and also acted as test specimen for checking the view of the CCTV cameras. In the event of playing there, I took a plastic bag tie which was lying out and stupidly strapped it around my wrist like a wrist band. Since it is meant for a one way use, the tie became locked to my wrist very tightly blocking the blood flow to my hands. I was searching Arumugam for about 8 minutes to cut that thing off of me when I finally met him near the staircase. He took a scissors to break it off and I was relived from it with a sigh look on my face. My Ike was about to die as it had almost no battery so we headed back to the house and started to charge it with his dad’s charger using their inverter since they had a black out at that time. After charging it for about half an hour, we headed back to the bus stop to start our adventure to the Temple at Marapaalam at about 4.34PM.
\nAdventure Time:
\nWe joined Abdul Jaleel on our way to the temple and started the journey about 5.10PM. We marched off through the unvisited roads towards the mountain and had lots of fun on our way. We had taken wrong routes, climbed the steps with fast paced heartbeats and unmatched thrill in our minds as we moved to the top. There was almost no one on the mountain, we just managed to see just 1–2 roaming around in the base of the temple. We saw majestic landscapes of coimbatore as the fog was settling down like a bedspread over my beautiful city, we spotted various tiny-looking trains from the top as they crawled through the rails slowly. We also saw many reptiles like the garden lizard (which were referred as the Dinosaurs’ brothers by Arumugam), took a deep look into the Army Camp where there were many shooting ranges, cadets circling the grounds, and many army trucks waiting parallel to each other in the depot. We had fun ringing the giant bell, worshipped god, tried to talked to a muted swamy who had been guarding the temple. We stayed there only for about 15 minutes and started moving down the hill. After finishing the adventure, we had a refreshment break in a bakery where I had a cup of coffee and then we had started heading back to our homes. Although our thrill and enjoyment cannot be exactly exhibited in the form of words, I managed to bring some of it in the video below. The video is in Tamil and for those who cannot understand the language I have several subtitles for them to follow. Take a look :
\nWell, thats the end of the adventure. Now, I would like to address why my blog was shut down for the past week. I believe that I might have hurt a certain minority of people by mentioning them incorrectly which maybe because of my inability to express my thoughts correctly. And I feel a lot which cannot be mentioned here and I really adhere from now on that I should not be very open as I used to be. I made a big mistake by writing certain posts which were actually about my friends and not about me. So sticking to my motto of this blog, from now on, It’s All About Me! The blog is now open since there atleast 3–4 persons on this planet with an enthusiasm to read about me and I don’t care about the haters. As always,
\n\n\nHaters gonna hate!
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\n", "date_published": "2011-10-22T01:40:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/10/06/thanks-for-everything-steve/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/10/06/thanks-for-everything-steve/", "title": "Thanks For Everything, Steve! ;(", "summary": "It’s October 6th, I woke up from my bed and was about to start getting ready for moving to NIIT in the morning. At about 7.35AM, I received a text from my friend Ganesh asking whether me the news that Steve Jobs (Founder of Apple) had…", "content_html": "It’s October 6th, I woke up from my bed and was about to start getting ready for moving to NIIT in the morning. At about 7.35AM, I received a text from my friend Ganesh asking whether me the news that Steve Jobs (Founder of Apple) had passed away. This inconvenient message shocked me as I immediately turned on my Mac and opened Safari. The Apple Startpage was redirecting to Apple.com which eventually had the message ‘Steve Jobs (1955–2011)’ and also the Wikipedia stated that he had died due to the pancreatic cancer from which he was suffering for the past few years. I still couldn’t digest this unbearable fact, I feel as if I’ve lost of one of my closest relations on Earth although Steve will not recognize me.
\nMany of my friends know that I’m a die-hard fan of Apple but little did they know that the reason of it is because I love Steve and his life history more than the Apple Products. He was more than than just a role model to me and that’s why I never told him as my role model. He inspired me and gave me the confidence that I need not copy from anyone in order to be successful and made me feel pity at my friends who merely copy everything from what they see in movies and sometimes utter the same words what the actors say in order to show off among others. I had watched every millisecond of all his keynotes starting from Macworld at Boston 1997 to the his keynote at WWDC 2011 just to see his awesome presentation skills. I started loving Steve from the day when my dad got a Canon Powershot Digicam to our home. The documentation manual of the camera was the first thing introduced me to the Macintosh platform although I loved and dreamt of having an iPod released by Apple in those days. When people were living with Windows XP on their computers, I wanted to be different and unique from everyone and that was the reason why I wished to start using a different operating system. So, I started searching for everything which is not windows and eventually I met with Linux. Although I loved the openness of Linux, it was not enough for regular use since it had a lot to mature. The Macintosh was the perfect alternative for Windows at that time, and I badly wanted to move to Mac OS 9 (which was the latest version at that time). But the switch was not possible since the Mac operating system can be be installed only on a Mac. Few years passed, and in 2008 I finally got my first taste with Macintosh with my Macbook with Mac OS X Leopard although i tried a lot of OSX86 hacks with my PC earlier. But as I mentioned earlier, my passion for Apple was not because of the products what it had made. My real zeal was because of the great work and effort given by Steve to his company while Bill Gates and others where trying to steal/copy him instead of innovating.
\nHe was a true visionary and the word ‘innovation’ can’t match anyone better than him. He never graduated from school, never went to a business school, and never worked for anyone in his life but still every business he touched had its Magical success because he believed that his vision for the future will drive him successfully. He wanted to change the world and how people interact with computers which always made his motto ‘Think Different’ true to reality and revolutionize the world in his one unique way. He saw cent percent perfection in everything he worked, from the fonts in the menus to the very edge of every button. His vision for the future was undeniably perfect as he released a portable music player (iPod) when it was an age of cassette players, he removed the DVD drive from the laptop (Macbook Air) when others where filling it with Blu-Ray Drives, he released a smartphone with no keyboard when all the popular smartphones such as the Blackberry as popular only because of its qwerty keyboard. He released the iPad, a tablet which no one could ever think of in this age in which he overthrew the mighty Adobe Flash that ruled the Internet with hope that HTML5 can rule over it. All tech reviewers savagely criticized the vision of Steve every time he announced a new product by stating that it would be definite failure such as no DVD drive for the Macbook Air, no keyboard for the iPhone, no mouse and keyboard for the iPad. But all those criticisms where crushed every time when those products hit the stores, where one could see thousands of people standing in line in front of Apple Retail Stores from the previous night in order to get their hands on the Apple device on its first day. And next, all the other companies would try to steal what Apple had done with its new product. Steve knew what he was doing, he never took any discouragements from others, he stood strong even in those difficult times when he left his family, his own company fired him. Being an Art Lover, he always added art to his inventions and to his gorgeous line of Apple Retail stores around the world. He pursued his interest and did not care about anything else and that made him to start PIXAR, the world’s #1 Animation Studios, the NeXT Computer Software which now powers the Macintosh & iOS and obviously Apple, the world’s most valuable company whose economical value is 3 billion dollars more than the US Treasury.
\nHis words at the Stanford university,
\n\n\n“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.”
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will always be reminded in my heart. The tragedies he faced in his life are unspeakable and yet inspiring. Today the enthusiasm given by Apple Fans for Apple could event crash the Internet as we saw how CNET, Engadget and many other tech websites died using the iPhone 4S launch. Steve made the internet look beautiful and delivered beauty along with Mac OS X to all the Web developers. Of course, He never gave a penny in the name of charity nor treated anyone great, and because of that we can’t call him evil. Wait, How many of us help the poor without any expectations and have selfishness in our hearts. We at least expect a good name or a have a slight hope that god will help us for that in the future. Steve was true, he was open to all and yet he was a genius with a great vision what people would love and thats how he could release the right product at the right time. That said, no one could deny that the world has lost a TRUE and AMAZING HUMAN BEING. I have no words in order to express my sadness about his death and I couldn’t even type this whenever I could think of this horrible fact. I’m sure his spirit will always be with Apple Foundation and he will still live in the hearts of many like me, around the world. As long as I’m alive, I will always be a follower of Steve, no matter what and no one could replace him. Because of him, Our Earth is now immeasurably great and the way he changed our lives will always remind him.
\nLove You Steve. Thanks for everything.
\n", "date_published": "2011-10-06T05:19:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/25/thirsty-too/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/25/thirsty-too/", "title": "Thirsty Too..", "summary": "Not Thirty Two, You Morons! Read Again.. That said, let’s move on. It’s September 25th, I didn’t expect anything from this sunday but I should say that this day could be one of the normal good days that is worth mentioning. Starting up from…", "content_html": "Not Thirty Two, You Morons! Read Again.. That said, let’s move on. It’s September 25th, I didn’t expect anything from this sunday but I should say that this day could be one of the normal good days that is worth mentioning. Starting up from the morning, I woke up at about 6AM and wanted to play some DiRT 3. So, immediately after getting up from bed, I brushed my teeth and then started playing. After finishing a couple of events on the game, I’ve started to get ready at 8AM for moving to NIIT. I’ve had my breakfast at about 8.30AM and got the bus at about 8.50AM to my centre. After reaching the streets of R.S Puram, I marched towards NIIT and reached the Lab at about 9.35AM.
\nUnusually, Today’s class was pretty much crazy. We had a lots and lots of fun together starting from the morning till the end of the class in the evening. In the morning, I taught some of the ASP.NET chapters to my fellow mates Vishnu and Rohit. Me and Bagavath played with all our classmates and also our staff by the end. We placed three pens, Bagavath asked the other person’s to select a pen from the set and I had to find the one which was selected by the person by fooling that we use brain signals for finding it. Serena and many others where so sure that we are cheating them and argued that Bagavath was giving me signals to find it. Later, Deboraal shared some of her stories regarding their ways of doing things in the church which were very interesting for me and Kirthika. We were informed that the Microsoft Certification Exam vouchers were available in the centre and they said that today was the last day to get it by paying Rs.2000. Unfortunately, none of us had the money with us today and therefore we all had to miss the chance of buying it. In the afternoon, me and Bagavath moved to the hotel for having lunch but I had taken only a Mango Milkshake so that I could eat properly in the upcoming treat in the evening. I also bought the Chip Tech Magazine on my way. Then at about 5PM, we started moving out of the class towards our home. Worth mentioning here is that this could be the best NIIT day I’ve ever experienced.
\nWhile we were walking out from the class, I got a call from Panneer at about 5.05PM and he asked me to reach the hotel at 7PM for his birthday treat. So I headed back home, refreshed myself in just 5 minutes and rushed back to the bus stop to get the next bus to reach the hotel in time. I used my Ike’s GPS functionality to find the route to the hotel and I started walking towards it. I reached the hotel and started waiting at about 6.57PM because there was no sign of any of my friends as I had already expected. The street was dark and empty as I wandered around for some time.
\nAfter a few minutes, I got a text message from Arumugam that they are starting from their room only at that moment. Feeling pity for myself, I wandered around the neighboring areas in search for a WiFi signal. Luckily, I got hold of two WiFi hotspots, one of which was unsecured. I started to hack around with it, but eventually failed because the router used was a Tikona model for which I had no experience of hacking it earlier. Then after a few minutes, I caught sight of 3 lovely kittens in the street, which were immediately named Mumi (Pronounced as Mewmi, not Moomi), Kelto and Scufaa. Their Mama cat was also searching the neighboring streets for food for feeding its kittens. Meanwhile, I was playing with them, as they roamed here and there in fear of me trying to snap pictures at them. It was a lot of fun playing with them, I definitely can’t describe in words how much I loved to be with them at that time. As some of my friends know, I have a habit of not taking photos of things I love which is probably the reason why I do not share pictures of my lovable belongings like my Mac over the internet. For the purpose of the blog, I took some snapshots of those kitties and for the first time I saw the white-eye effect on those kitten’s eyes when my Ike flashed on them while snapping them. Here’s one of the snaps clearing showing the white-eye effect on Kelto :
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-09-25-thirsty-too/0*SSC2i4DxDD2aKtrE.jpg\")
I was not able to snap all the kitties together at the same time since they are actively roaming here and there in the darkness. It was like the kittens were telling me, “Leave Me Alone! Leave Me Alone!”. People were seeing me as a strange kid and one of them sitting inside a car parked in front of the hotel, asked why I taking photos of those uncared kittens. I simply answered that I love kittens a lot which made him to smile and say ‘Carry on!’. Later, I moved on back to the hotel entrance after being exhausted in the event of playing with them for about 20 minutes.
\nWhile I was standing simply, an old woman with a red saree was standing lonely near me with fear in her eyes for some reason. I could sense that she was in some kind of trouble and I started to wonder what it could be. She looked fair, resembled a brahmin and was well dressed but looked a bit poor. After a few minutes, she herself came to me and said that she has lost her purse on the way back to her home. She asked whether I could lend her an amount of 3 Rupees in order to get bus. Immediately, I dug my hand into the pocket and searched for coins. I could find exactly 3 Rupees, which was a 2-Rupee coin and two 50 Paise coins which were printed on 2010. Bagavath gave me those two coins and told me to keep it safe while we were having lunch. But I generously gave them to the old lady even though I did not even have a single dime in my pocket after that. She touched my hands and thanked me by saying that I’ll have a good future and moved on to the bus stop. One of the guys who had been seeing this incident, came near me and asked what happened to her. I described what happened which made him smile and return back. Later, I could watch the lady get the bus from the bus stop and I was filled with satisfaction in my mind.
\nContinuing on, the time was about 7.45PM and still there was no sign my friends. I returned back to the kittens and I was astounded to see that there were not just three kittens but four! The new one was immediately named Newla, and I started playing with all the four of them at the same time. They were running here and there hiding under the motorcycles parked in the street while I chased them till I could get fully exhausted again. At about 7.55PM, I received a text message from Arumugam that they are walking on the way to the hotel, so I bid good bye to kittens and stood in front of the hotel as if nothing happened.
\nAt 8.00PM, one hour late from the mentioned time, Panneer and others came together and moved into the hotel. We dined up by arranging a series of 4 tables together and sat encircling the whole setup. We ordered the food and started eating with lots of hunger but I couldn’t eat as much as others did. Finally, I finished the meal and had a tin of Pepsi which accidentally fell when I tried to keep my Ike inside the pocked and spoiled my pants very badly. Later, Panneer and his gang bid farewell and started moving out. But I stayed there with Kasi in order to obtain a few videos from Saba Kumar which I had been longing to get it from him since Nalini’s sister wedding. My subtle perseverance finally paid off today as I got the videos and snapshots from him which I will be adding to my prestigious iPhoto Collection. I also got a chance to dig in to his Sony Ericsson Xperia Mini Pro which maybe my next smartphone, and also I got a quick hands-on with Muthu Sankar’s Samsung Galaxy Pop (his brother’s phone). At about 9.27PM, I finally said good bye to everyone and started moving to the dark streets alone.
\nWith no fear in my mind, thanks to Parithi X system, I accurately planned how to reach home as agile as possible. I hitched a auto rickshaw to the bus stop, for which the driver smiled and said ‘Right Pa!’ while I gave him the money at the destined place. It was pretty unusual to see that every auto-rickshaw driver I face alone on the street, are happy to have me whereas when me and my family go together, the drivers show an angry face instead. Luckily, the bus came under a minute of waiting and moved smoothly on the empty highway. Since I had drank a can full of Pepsi and nothing after that, my mouth was totally dry and I was thristy too (I guess now you’ll understand that the post title makes sense). Then I got another auto back home, and my expectations from this auto driver was not deceived either. He too smiled and was happy to give a lift to this poor boy. Then I got back home at about 9.45PM, which is not even half an hour from the hotel. This amazed Arumugam how I could reach home this much soon.
\nSuming up, the day was super awesome. I was satisfied with the day very much, can’t forget every single crazy moment at NIIT and the play with the kittens although I got insulted pretty harshly by my NIIT mam. I also loved that fact that, I could be alone by myself without any text messages due to the 100sms rule implemented from today (but I still hate you TRAI!!!!). So bottom line,
\n\n\nBeing a Lone Wolf surely feels more kewl rather than being with a bunch of Pigs..
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No Pun Intended. I’m not relating my friends to pigs, I just wanted to say that I feel more cooler and confident when I’m alone. Although the day was meant to be special for Panneer’s birthday treat, it finally turned out to be much more special when I was being alone by myself. The End? I hope not because I have a lot of stupid assignments to complete. And that’s the remaining part of this one day tale..
\n", "date_published": "2011-09-25T02:05:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/23/a-robotic-week/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/23/a-robotic-week/", "title": "A Robotic Week", "summary": "A quick word of caution for those who came here with a Google Search searching for science, this post has nothing to do with Robotics. So for those of you who came here in search of a robotics event, I have to say that you’ve got the wrong…", "content_html": "A quick word of caution for those who came here with a Google Search searching for science, this post has nothing to do with Robotics. So for those of you who came here in search of a robotics event, I have to say that you’ve got the wrong cab. Head back and hitch another ride with another search. And for all those who wish to know about me what I did in the past week, read on. It’s September 24th and NASA says that its abandoned satellite named UARS (Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite) which was launched on 1991 is now on its way back towards our Earth’s Crust by shattering into several pieces. The satellite was launched in order to study about the atmosphere and it was meant to be operational for just 3 years but its instruments were still operated till June 2005.
\nBoring huh? Well, that’s what this post is all about!
\nAs the title says, the week went very robotic than usual. Although this is a quite chronic feeling for me, this week was dreadful from the very beginning.The day starts at 6am in the morning,
\nThese were the things which I was doing for the past 5 days with barely no changes at all. I used to play a lot of games during my first year but now I’ve totally lost the touch of it even after installing the overwhelming DiRT 3 and Blur on my PC. I used to play till 2AM every night but now after showing a terrible performance in my 2nd Internal Exams, I’ve started to sleep soon at 11PM and wake up late at 6AM. I don’t know how this happened, but I could really feel good and healthy after these changes even though the life is moving with a hell lot of boredom. And there are two more things that I have to mention at this point, One is Facebook’s CEO Mark has announced the upcoming TimeLine Feature for Facebook in the F8 conference held yesterday and I can’t wait to try it out! The feature is actually a wish-come-true for me since I’ve been waiting for something like this for a very long time. I love the way how the new TimeLine profile shows all the important events of our life right from birth and also the lovely banner on top of it. If you are not aware of what I’m talking about, then you must head here and check it out for yourself. And Two, Right from the beginning of Parithi X, I could see few people trying to change me but I can’t see anyone who change themselves for a better future. Bottom Line,
\n\n\nPeople Want Me To Change, Which They Never Do Themselves.
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Also, since my college life is slowly coming to an end, I’ve started to wonder about my friends who will be in touch with me after the last day of our college. What do you guys think? Will we be in touch through some social means in the near future? I guess only time can tell…
\n:idea: **Sidenote **: I’ve added the frequent stars of my blog in the sidebar, check it out..
\n", "date_published": "2011-09-23T10:38:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/10/a-journey-to-the-mountains/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/10/a-journey-to-the-mountains/", "title": "A Journey To The Mountains", "summary": "It’s September 11th, 2011 and today I had to goto the Blue Mountains AKA Ooty for attending Nalini ’s Sister Wedding. My day started pretty early at about 4.00AM when all my alarms screamed together to wake me up as I didn’t want to be late…", "content_html": "It’s September 11th, 2011 and today I had to goto the Blue Mountains AKA Ooty for attending Nalini’s Sister Wedding. My day started pretty early at about 4.00AM when all my alarms screamed together to wake me up as I didn’t want to be late for the wedding. I was hoping that the day should be a good one and I was praying to myself continuously till I started from home. But things started to get worse from morning itself. My shirt was invaded by ants so I had to select another one randomly from my cupboard. Later, I had no food in the morning since I stubbornly decided that my first meal of the day should be from the function.
\nSo off I started from my home at about 5AM. Feeling extremely sleepy, I was not able to open my eyes in the bus which eventually made me to give the wrong change to the conductor and get unwanted scoldings from him. Later, I gave the correct change and started the day with hope that the remaining day will be better. While looking through the window, I could see hundreds of people actively wandering around the streets in the dark dawn of the day, and I was wondering what they were up to. Next, I was preparing myself how to behave at the wedding in spite of knowing that I will not able to follow it. I was very much scared from the past week regarding this since this is the first time I am attending a marriage all by myself. I stopped liveblogging on this post at about 6AM since it was difficult to do with a Nokia device in my hands.
\nNext I had to wait at the bus stop for about an hour from 6AM, for Arumugam who was late by a few minutes and finally reached me by 7.12 AM. Only then we realized that the bus to Ooty was not available at our current stop, so we had to get a bus to another bus stop where the Ooty buses will arrive. Unfortunately, the bus we got met with an accident with a car and was forced to stop in the middle of the road. We could not waste any more time on it, so we decided to get another bus and started to the new bus stand. At about 8.15AM we got the bus to Ooty, with the last seat which was definitely not favorable for us. Our journey started and we started moving towards Ooty with excitement in Arumugam’s mind and fear in my mind. Although fear is something that shouldn’t be there for Parithi X, I couldn’t help it. I was scared as hell and I was torturing my companion till we reached the hotel where the reception was to be held. None of the things such as encouraging words for my friends, songs by Linkin Park, couldn’t help me to throw away my fear. So, I almost paused the Parithi X system today.
\nFinally, we reached the place at about 12.15PM and hitched a ride in an auto-rickshaw. We headed to the Hotel Monarch at about 12.30PM and I was mouth shut after reaching there. We did not know what to do since no one was there to guide us. After a few minutes we entered into the reception hall fighting with each other and we were searching for Nalini. She was no where to be found for a few minutes and we saw her for a split second in the big projected screen displayed on the side of the Hall. Arumugam urged me to go and meet her but I couldn’t do so because of my well known stupid shyness. Then one of the persons in the hall noticed us and pushed us forward towards the front of the hall. With fear going off the charts, we moved forward and met Nalini near the dais. Arumugam started talking something to her which gave me a sigh of relief for sometime. Next, we gave the present to the wedding couple and took a snap with them. As usual, I made a few funny things on the stage by trying to run away in a jiffy without waiting for the second photographer and roaming and disgraced myself. Next, Nalini told us to have lunch and we moved to the dining hall. The food was quite different and strange. I was not able to eat it fully since Arumugam was urging me to move out soon for some unknown reason. After lunch, we met Nalini once again with her mom and sister and I took a snap of them but I failed to get a snap of her dad and brother which is quite disappointing. Then we both bid farewell to them and started heading out.
\nOnce again we hitched a ride in an auto rickshaw to the Botanical Garden and roamed there without interest for about half an hour. Next we started walking to the bus stand and took a sneak peek at the Railway Station. On the way we had a cup of coffee at Coffee Day and got a bottle of Appy Fizz. After reaching the bus stand, we were shocked to see that there was huge queue of people waiting for the bus and they were managed by the Police, to handle the crowd for the buses. The queue was long enough to the length of half a mile and we did not know how to get back home. With great luck, fortunately one of the persons started a fight with one of the bus conductors and made some of the crowd to get into the bus despite the conductor’s objection. We used that great chance to enter in and managed to get a seat at the last row of the bus. With a subtle mind of satisfaction, we started our journey back to our homes with music in our ears and we reached Coimbatore by 7.15PM.
\nSo summing up, the day wasn’t so bad, I might have talked well to Nalini but I didn’t, thanks to my stupid fear which I don’t when I’m going to rid off. Anyway, I hope that day will come soon. The day was pretty hectic from the early morning till the time when I finished this post. Regardless missing my NIIT class & exam, overthrowing my parents’ words and being stubborn in going eventhough most of my friends objected, I’m happy that I was doing all this for my friend Nalini,
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2011-09-10T10:35:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/07/my-call-signs-and-their-origins/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/07/my-call-signs-and-their-origins/", "title": "My Call Signs and Their Origins", "summary": "Well, Everyone knows that my name is Parithi , right? Also, it is ‘the’ most preferable name I wish to be called by anyone. For those of who do not know about me, my full name is ElamParithi Arul , where Arul is the name of my dad. And for…", "content_html": "But In The End,
\nIt Doesn’t Even Matter — Linkin Park.
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Well, Everyone knows that my name is Parithi, right? Also, it is ‘the’ most preferable name I wish to be called by anyone. For those of who do not know about me, my full name is ElamParithi Arul, where Arul is the name of my dad. And for those who are wondering about the meaning of my name, Parithi stands for the ‘Sun’ and Elam stands for the ‘Young’ according to the Tamil Language. Together, they translate to the ‘Young Sun’ — which probably doesn’t give any proper meaning. The correct translation could be the ‘Rising Sun’ which refers to the sun we see in the early morning. The appropriate alternative name in English could be ‘Dawn’ which gives the exact meaning. Oh Yes! I have other nick names too. It’s September 8, 2011 and let’s take a look at my other names or my AKA (Also Known As), created by my friends. Also to keep in mind, the following names are only those which I like to be called. I exclude all the others which are created to discourage me or insult me. To start, Click ‘Read More’..
\nMaX :
\nOfficially used by the Dark Wolves Clan — a group created in our school who are basically fans of Linkin Park and also share the same Technological Geekiness Together. While the name is actually named by myself, which I derived from the Max Lion of the Kwality Walls Commercial when I was about the age of 11. The Full name is MaX Rocket, which explains why my first Gmail username is rocketmacx. Now, the name is used not by many but my fellow buddy Prince often uses it to refer to me while texting.
\nJJ :
\nYes, sounds weird , I know. But it is the most creative, encouraging and stylish names I’ve ever had. Short for Junior John Cena, JJ was named by Nalini, when we had a smalltalk over myself acclaiming to do some workouts in the event of becoming like John Cena. This name is probably the best one and my most favorite because it sounds so cool and also because it has no influence from me which is not the case in my other names.
\nPrime :
\nAgain, this name is used by Prince while texting with Autobots of the Transformers in mind. While at school, we used to represent an autobot and I chose myself to be Optimus Prime and he decided to be Iron Hide. We also have other friends having names derived from the Transformers such as Sideswipe, Jetfire and so on..
\nKitty :
\nThis reason for this name can easily be guessed by all my Gtalk contacts because I have a picture of a Kitten as my profile photo. Used primarily by Kirthika and few other textmates, this name is a cute one used very often by them during chat conversations. It also explains why I have the same cat photo as my profile photo for quite a long time (probably 5 months).
\nNick :
\nNick is short for Nick Massetti, which is my official Multiplayer gaming name. Still being in used in a lot of games but it tends to use lose its importance nowadays because I’ve started use my name ‘Parithi’ in some of the new ones. Also, I don’t do much multiplayer gaming too at the present, because of the non-stop chatting business I have with my current friends. This does make me awfully regret and lament sometimes.
\nTristan :
\nThis could be one of my ancient names as far as the Internet is considered. Created by myself and also used as a Multiplayer gaming name, this name is somewhat special to me because it relates to the story of Bridge To Terabithia II which I wrote myself after watching the movie Bridge To Terabithia with tears like many others on the planet. To keep this name alive, its still being used as my Yahoo! ID and my Windows Live ID.
\nParotta Boy :
\nUsed by friend Sharath A.S and Rohit about 3 years ago when we were doing our first year in college. The name got its fame as I used to avidly eat Parottas for lunch everyday. As my food habits changed, the name is now on the list to be sent to space for destruction.
\nPreethi-Kutti :
\nNamed by my schoolmate Prabhaharan M.S while we used to study together in his home for the tuition class for my 10th, 11th and 12th standard where his dad used to be the tuition master for us. As you’ve probably guessed Preethi is derived from Parithi and Kutti is placed to the back of it to add a more cute touch to it, because he used to think that I’m cute. My tuition mates used to have a lot of fun with me by calling me with this name and I guess those days will never come back again.
\nX :
\nThis is actually new which was just named yesterday by Deboraal Jackulin after reading the post on Parithi X. Although this name is cool, it is still rather odd to be called and recognized by me. So, I guess this name too will be on the road to destruction sooner or later.
\nWell, I guess that’s it for this post. I could mention some of my other very special names but some of them are my passwords for various Internet accounts and some of them are insignificant such as Arumugam’s Mickey because he had never used it to call me with that name yet he still has it as my Gtalk name on his contact list. And some believe that I’m a good naming specialist because I used to keep good and sometimes funny names for my friends and also to each and every thing I possess such as my Ike, Tiki, Luna, and the list goes on. So, after reading this post, some of you might consider wondering to keep your own name for me. If so, share them below with your comments and I’m will be happy to know about them.
\n", "date_published": "2011-09-07T11:40:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/07/next-stop-vlogging/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/07/next-stop-vlogging/", "title": "Next Stop, Vlogging?", "summary": "As you might be knowing, I’ve been running this blog for over an year and blogging is not something that is new to me. I’ve been blogging from 2007, when I used to sit with my Old PC which couldn’t run more than a web browser, a few games…", "content_html": "As you might be knowing, I’ve been running this blog for over an year and blogging is not something that is new to me. I’ve been blogging from 2007, when I used to sit with my Old PC which couldn’t run more than a web browser, a few games and not to mention, Windows XP. Ever since I started blogging with a few free blogging services such as webnode, blogger, etc (some of them still exist today, click here to view it), my blogging skills have advanced into something that is present today. My Blogs have been evolved from free blogs to self-hosted blogs and I guess its time to add in some more to it.
\nSo, as a part of Parithi X in order to enhance my speaking skills and the ability to tackle a huge crowd, I’ve thought of trying something new and that is Vlogging (Video Blogging, for those who aren’t aware of it). So basically, what people vlog is about their interests, their adventure, etc. My cousin used to vlog sometimes about his career and his adventure with his camcorder or his iPhone by separating them into many episodes. Of course, I was not scared of blogging when I started doing it, but vlogging does give a totally odd scenario. Maybe because I do not have any experience in giving voiceovers and taking videos of myself but I guess I’ll get the hang of it while I start vlog something. And Vlogging does require a bit more work than blogging, for example, I need to transfer the video computer, do editing on it, and give voice overs and add a few special effects. So I can’t vlog more frequently either.
\nA few months back, me and my friends Arumugam, Sadam Hussain, and Abdul Jaleel headed out to the outskirts of Coimbatore near the Noiyal River. The River was a nothing but a toxic stream of water flowing across our city and we were wandering over there after buying and checking out the new Sony Vaio for Jaleel. My nimble hands wasn’t silent as usual, and started taking photos and videos of the scenery we were watching over there. I was using my Ike to take them and it was surprising that the children who were playing in the waters were enthusiastic in seeing my camera shooting them. Many of them called me purposely and told me to take a snap of them while they were playing in the toxic water. Well, that was definitely not a good sight, so I just took a few seconds of video for their request and headed back. Later, I headed back home and transferred to my Mac to create an iMovie. The movie came out pretty well and that could be my first vlog. If you haven’t seen it before, here it is :
\nSo, Tell me guys, Do you think that I should start vlogging? Do you think that my blogging are good enough to take it to the next level? Share your thoughts in the comments below, I’m eagerly awaiting your response..
\n", "date_published": "2011-09-07T09:15:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/07/parithi-x-a-new-heartbeat/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/09/07/parithi-x-a-new-heartbeat/", "title": "Parithi X : A New HeartBeat", "summary": "It’s September 7, 2011 and its been a long while since I’ve posted on my blog. A lot of things have changed since my previous post which ultimately made to me to think that my Mission Level X had been successfully accomplished. Although it…", "content_html": "It’s September 7, 2011 and its been a long while since I’ve posted on my blog. A lot of things have changed since my previous post which ultimately made to me to think that my Mission Level X had been successfully accomplished. Although it didn’t match with the 10 objectives that were mentioned in my actual Level X post, I still see a new ‘me’ within myself with all the new changes I’ve been doing to interact with the people. Basically, the reason for not updating the blog is because of the huge revamp I’ve given to my blog for which I had to work on for quite a long time and now it’s finally here for you to experience it. Parithi X (Parithi + Level X) is not something that I’ve dreamt of, like becoming a Rockstar, but it brings a complete change in me in the way how I interact with people, how I care about my allies and enemies, and how I think and behave with reference to my past memories. I no longer think about my past and beautiful memories which I used hope of seeing them again, I will not be thinking of the discouraging moments made by several people to take me down and I will be looking forward to meet new failures rather than successes since failure does bring a lot of experience and also it doesn’t give room for over expectations.
\nLast August, we had Placement training in our college which was one of the most important events to make me realize who I am. Although many say that I have a lot of knowledge regarding the technical side and also English, the Group Discussion (GD) event of the Placement training showed that I was a total ‘FAYUL’. Yet I did perform well in the other events such as the Technical HR and the aptitude tests. I was crushed to pieces when I saw even my old bus mates and classmates performing exceptionally well but will be pretending to me as if they do not have knowledge in English and Technical Know-How. I took it as a very serious issue to look upon and I am trying my best to overcome my fear when I face a significant amount of crowd. Next, I was asked to take a small presentation on TQM, which is one of the management papers which I have in my current semester. When our staff told me to present it, I was stunned and had to no other way to do it. So I made courageous attempt and presented the Toyota 5S System to the class. But still, my hands and legs were visibly shivering a lot in-spite of having no fear of the crowd in my mind.
\nNext, Girls. Fear? Nada. But still many girls think I’m scared of them on seeing me not willing to talk with them but they do not know that the real reason is that I do not wish to talk with them without any reason. Also, you have to consider the girls I mention here are not actually my friends. I do talk well with my friends who are girls such as Muhil Akka, Lilly, Kirthika, Deboraal Jackulin, Suganya and they seem to appreciate me very well with a good response. This shows that I have completely lost fear of talking with girls but I really don’t know how I managed to get rid of it.
\nSo, What is Level X now? and Why should I share it with you? The reason ‘why’ is because I want my fellow fans to know what I’ve changed within me and also with the hope that you might add it to your self policies to adopt it. And the answer for ‘what’ is Level X is a set of some policies which I adopt to reduce failure and improve productiveness for a better future. Here are a very few of them :
\n1. Do the things, You Love!
\nYou might have a lot of interests that you might love doing, but you will be concentrating on other stuff that interests your friends. Even I used to do the same thing in the past, but now I wish to concentrate on my work first and others’ next. Being unique is one of my top priorities.
\n2. Be Selfish, But Be Generous!
\nYeah, I know the sentence is made up of words contrary to each other but I guess you get my point. Although mostly everyone follows this and also tells me to follow the same but for the first time I’m going to adopt it. I used to help even the people who try to exploit for their own use and I even do it sometimes sacrificing myself by wasting my precious time of mine for other’s work. Well from now on, I say ‘No!’ to those try to stop me from doing my work and asking me to help them instead. Sorry exploiters, time to catch another horsey for you!
\n3. Take Risks, Not the stupid ones!
\nYou might have heard that the ship is not meant to stay at the harbor where its safe. It’s built to travel miles and miles over the seas and oceans fighting against the forces of natures such as storms. Same way, I’m sure we won’t accomplish anything useful if we are not ready to take any risks. But at the same time, we should be careful not to try to take the stupid risks either!
\n4. Keep Friends Close, And Enemies Closer!
\nYep, you’re right! It’s just another proverb. I’ve been doing this right from my childhood but I will be keeping in mind not to worry my true friends so much in the event of hanging out with my enemies instead. But this time, a slight change in that. I no longer worry about my friends who think that I’m moving on with another person who might be my enemy, because I realize that my true friends will know about me and my character. And I hope that they will not leave me alone if i ditch them completely and having a close relationship with my enemies.
\n5. Stop At Nothing!
\nI used to stop doing things when I face failure and cry in vain for them. But isn’t true anymore! I’ve decided to keep trying and trying with a strong hope of accomplishing that task even though it seems impossible. A great example for this could be the death of my Luna (My Transcend Flash Drive) for which I completely lost hope of making it work again. But last week, I took a serious attempt of making it work. And the result, Luna is alive now! I made an extensive research on how flash drives behave and how they get formatted, tried several tools and softwares, and finally came up with my own simple idea after two hours and implemented it on my Luna and brought back its life! So, what I mean to say is, Do not stop trying until you accomplish your goal — Nothing is Impossible! (Apart from the stupid ones).
\nContributions:
\nAccomplishing Level X, is made possible only with the help of my friends and enemies, and injecting Linkin Park’s music into my bloodstream by hearing it for more than 4 weeks continuously every morning and night. Because of the change in bus timings, I got back my old friends who were my bus mates during my First Year notably Prabhu. And also another second year guy named Vishnu studying in another college allied to ours and together I meet new challenges everyday. And now for some statistics, the Top 5 people who looked forward to see me as Parithi X were Kirthika, Lilly, Armugam, Deboraal, and Nalini. But Lilly contributed the most for encouraging me take more risks and challenges, whereas Kirthika and Arumugam did not want me to take unnecessary risks and get scolding from anyone. Here’s a statistical chart which might give a more clear picture:
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Although it might be discouraging Kirthika and Arumugam, who want me to be a good boy always. To those two I wish to say, ‘Sorry guys, There’s no use in being good! And also I can’t take any risks with enough courage if I behave like a good boy’. Now, I’m not Good, Not Bad but you can see me as a New Parithi X! And To Everyone, Let’s hope for a better future Together!
\n", "date_published": "2011-09-07T05:01:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/08/24/minis-only-if-life-could-be-this-simpler/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/08/24/minis-only-if-life-could-be-this-simpler/", "title": "Minis : Only If Life Could Be This Simpler. .", "summary": "Yesterday, My Friend Arumugam came up with an algorithm for our System Software Lab Observation note. The words made me wonder, Only If Life Could Be This Simpler.. The Algorithm is : Start the Program, Type the Program, Note the Result…", "content_html": "Yesterday, My Friend Arumugam came up with an algorithm for our System Software Lab Observation note. The words made me wonder, Only If Life Could Be This Simpler.. The Algorithm is :
\n\n\n", "date_published": "2011-08-24T09:59:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/08/14/cybernautz-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/08/14/cybernautz-now-just-a-thing-of-the-past/", "title": "CyberNautz — Now Just A Thing Of The Past…", "summary": "It’s August 14th 2011, and I’m happy to share the news that I’ve got new additions to my workplace. One is my New Buddy Doll named Muffy (A Dino) and My New Samsung Multifunction Laser Printer named Ebby (Samsung SCX-3201) which you can…", "content_html": "Start the Program,
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It’s August 14th 2011, and I’m happy to share the news that I’ve got new additions to my workplace. One is my New Buddy Doll named Muffy (A Dino) and My New Samsung Multifunction Laser Printer named Ebby (Samsung SCX-3201) which you can check it out here. And as I had mentioned in my previous post, Last week was the Cybernautz week — the week where I had to fully spend working for our technical symposium. The event finally took place this friday in our NIET Seminar Hall. We had more than 70 participants from various colleges to take part in the symposium and my job was to design the banners, certificates and other items for it. On the Day of the function, unfortunately my job turned out to be one of the worst jobs one can ever have! I had to sit with a laptop, present videos to the audience, and help the participants to present their paper presentations.
\nIn my point of view, Cybernautz ’11 definitely didn’t go well. Many of the events clashed together and the whole day felt like it was screwed up. I didn’t have my breakfast in the morning since I woke up late and I didn’t get to the have lunch either due to the busy work. After reaching the college, most of the things were not prepared properly which disappointed me a lot starting with the absence of a computer and a projector which we will be one of the main requirements of the symposium. Arumugam was so busy that he ignored me a lot but anyway he managed to arrange a laptop by calling Kirthika. The laptop belonged to my fan Saranya Selvamani and that could be one of the things that made me excited that day. I connected it to the projector with the help of a staff and I had setup multi monitor display, which made many of my classmates wonder how I did it. Saranya had a wallpaper of the Lord Ganapathy on the desktop which I had to change into the Cybernautz wallpaper for the sake of audience. Then started the nightmare when the clock struck about 10am and the event had started. The students had took their places on the dais along with the Chief guest who was the Assistant General Manager from BSNL. After the various speeches from my friends, the Chief guest took a lot of time explaining about the services that BSNL offered to its customers, for which I had to change slides one by one for his presentation. Following that, I couldn’t move for the refreshment break as I had to make arrangements for the paper presentation event which was to be held in a few minutes. Luckily I took a minute later to rush to the canteen and have some snacks at the end.
\nAt about 11.30 AM, the paper presentation event started. I had to copy each participant’s presentation to the desktop and help them present it. That boring work didn’t end till 3PM which obviously made me to skip my lunch (This is good actually, since my friend Bagavath had informed me later in the evening that the Lunch was so horrible the the participants were not able to eat even half of it). Following the paper presentation, we had the final round of the Quiz and the ending ceremony at about 3.30 PM. Finally the Cybernautz had its demise at about 4.15PM and only then I started to have some fun. I had reverted the wallpaper to the previous one and gave the laptop back to Saranya. Then I started wandering the hall with no motive like a brainless kid and I got a chance to bring my 20-year old wish to reality. My wish was to pop some balloons which I had done before and a Very Big Thanks to my friend Suganya, who helped me to accomplish the task by giving a needle to me to pop some balloons and bring my wish come true. It was very fun to pop them, and I had popped almost 20 balloons! I was so excited as I jumped with joy in the Seminar Hall while Lilly was busy in taking some flowers from the bouquet kept idle on the stage. Then Me, Arumugam, Suganya, Nantha, Kasi, few other boys and the Staff looted some notepads, files and biscuits from the remains of the participant giveaways and headed back home.
\nOne of the very saddest things of the day could be the fact that I was virtually blind all day long since I spent the whole day inside the seminar hall and I was not aware of any event that took place that day in the other halls. I was not even able to see many of my friends’ presence who might have been in color dress and Nalini was one of them which makes the day look tragic at the end. Overall, I give the Cybernautz — 3/10 score and my Happiness score for the day has to be 6/10.
\n", "date_published": "2011-08-14T12:22:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/08/07/happy-birthday-parithi-me/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/08/07/happy-birthday-parithi-me/", "title": "Happy Birthday, Parithi.Me!!", "summary": "Before you dig in to this post, I wish you a very Happy Friendship Day. Parithi.Me has been a public diary of mine, rather being just a weblog showcasing my thoughts and memories over the Internet, and today it starts its second year…", "content_html": "Before you dig in to this post, I wish you a very Happy Friendship Day. Parithi.Me has been a public diary of mine, rather being just a weblog showcasing my thoughts and memories over the Internet, and today it starts its second year because of your deary support to it and your interest in knowing about me. So I take great pleasure in thanking all of you for spending your precious time in reading my blog and I wish you continue the same till the end thereby keeping this expensive Blog to be alive forever.
\nIt’s August 7th, the first Sunday of August, obviously the International Friendship Day and I was confused on the date last week since many of my friends were wishing me on August 1st. I had updated my status on Facebook after doing several research on this regard and my friend Shubham Shresth had pointed out that the Friendship day falls on the 1st Sunday of August. During the past week, I had my boring Internal exams for which I never study and write the exams on my own. I had got my my New Tiki (HP V210 Flash Drive), Wall-E BRD and several books delivered to my home, which I had ordered through Flipkart. And once again, I was asked by Vasanth sir to come to college on a Holiday in order to design the stuff for the upcoming CyberNautz ’11. But unfortunately the day went in vain as we had not completed anything useful on that day. And regarding the website, I am really proud and happy that people are actually using the Online registration form designed by me for enrolling themselves for the event which is going to happen in our college next Friday. I had also joined NIIT for the ASP.NET Course which was my subtle idea to make my Sundays more productive than the rest.
\nToday, I had a sudden thought of bring my Compaq Presario 700 back to life. So I took it out from the dust, brushed and cleaned it and opened it with ecstasy. The battery was dead, and so I plugged in the charger and made it boot. It was slower than the three toed sloth, hardly trying itself to bring up the Windows XP Desktop. I couldn’t bare the speed, so I quickly took out my Tiki, downloaded several light weight Linux distributions such as the Damn Small Linux, Tinycore and Arch Linux and installed them onto it using the Live USB Method. Everything ran pretty well but none of them gave the visual pleasure to use them. So I dropped the idea, made the laptop boot Windows XP by taking its own time, after which I installed VLC player, Dropbox and Google Chrome which actually took about an hour to finish. The ridiculous fact about this laptop is that this costs more than my high-end MacBook Pro, which actually jolted me to think what will be the fate of my Mac after 10 years later. Anyways, I had to move to NIIT for the class so I turned off the laptop and started from my home.
\nAfter I reached NIIT, I was wished for the Friendship day by Deborah Jackulin, followed by the surprise from my favorite fan, Saranya Selvamani who had tied her Friendship Band around my right hand wrist. I was simply stunned and had no words to say to her as I stammered something from my mouth in order to wish her back. Subsequently, Kirthika and Jeya Sudha had tied their bands next to Saranya’s. Roopa and Serena Woolridge wished me for the same by shaking hands with me. Saranya Sivaraj, Renuga Devi and Silver Fancy Quel also did the same with a smile :) I was very happy about these events which even made me to think that this is the Best Friendship Day Ever!! My Network Operator AirTel had been punishing its customers by charging me for SMS on this day, but that didn’t stop me from wishing my other Friends (Shubham Shresth, Suhirtha Muhil, Prince, Freddy, Panneer Selvam, Nalini, Lilly, Arumugam, Kirthika and many others) by which I had lost almost Rs.44 from my account balance. But sadly some didn’t respond back maybe because of the tariff or maybe because they don’t consider me as their friend :( Anyway, the day went well interestingly as it was concluded by a 16-minute call from my best buddy Prince in the evening as we talked about his future shipping carreer and another surprise from Sharmila for another wish through gtalk.
\nI believe that’s it for this post, I guess that there will be a lot more for the following Cybernautz week. So stay tuned for the next week’s post. And once again, Happy Friendship Day, I really don’t know where I’ll be without you guys!! U All!!
\n", "date_published": "2011-08-07T10:42:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/26/r-i-p-luna/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/26/r-i-p-luna/", "title": "R.I.P Luna .. :(", "summary": "Not to be confused with Luna LoveGood (My Most Favorite Character in the Harry Potter Series for being Smarter like me :P ), this post describes about my Flash Drive which I named it as Luna. It’s July 26th 2011 and I’ve been seriously…", "content_html": "Not to be confused with Luna LoveGood (My Most Favorite Character in the Harry Potter Series for being Smarter like me :P ), this post describes about my Flash Drive which I named it as Luna. It’s July 26th 2011 and I’ve been seriously engaged in designing the stuff for the National Level Technical Symposium named “CyberNautz ‘11” which is going to be held on August 12th. I’m forced to sit in the department and design the posters, by which I miss almost all the classes. Surprisingly, since I’m staying 90% of the day in the department, all the staff members have become so close to me. Many Staff have started advising me to be bold and confident. They also added that my shyness is the only negative in me which can make all my tech knowledge and expertise go worthless. I’ve added of their advices to my Level X mission and I’ve decided to follow them seriously!
\nToday, I had taken my Macbook Pro to my college and showed it to my staff and classmates. Everyone was extremely fascinated on seeing my Mac which made me very happy but still a little sad that I could not show it to my dear friend Lilly. I had finished the design and uploaded the final poster to the CyberNautz site. One of the embrassing things that happened today was when our HOD had asked to arrange the PC and the Projector in our class. We had arranged it in the class as he wanted us to and was awaiting his instructions. Later, when I was asked to enter the password for the computer by our HOD, I typed it CORRECTLY according to the slang which he metioned, but it went wrong and all my classmates laughed at me. Then I gave the keyboard to him and let him type his password. According to the tamil slang, the correct letters which should be in the password is ‘vaa’ whereas he typed ‘va’ which authenticated the machine. With anger, I had to move out of the class, back to the department.
\nComing to the topic, I had given my flash drive ‘Luna’ to Sampath sir for copying some java related stuff. He had some issues while copying the files, which then resulted in the death of my Luna!! :( This is not the first time I’m having a bad time with flash drives but this is the first time to have my own flash drive get killed. I’ve mailed the Transcend Technical support regarding issue and I’ve also tried more than 30 Techniques to recover my flashdrive but all were in vain. There was no point in fighting with Transcend over the warranty, so I decided to buy a new one. Today, I ordered a HP V 220 Flash Drive from Flipkart and I’m hoping its arrival very soon. Lets hope this one gets a greater life than my old one. Anyway Rest In Peace Luna…
\n", "date_published": "2011-07-26T11:50:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/24/just-another-tiresome-week/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/24/just-another-tiresome-week/", "title": "Just Another Tiresome Week…", "summary": "Although its just 4 days past my previous post, a lot of significant things happened during this time. It’s July 24th 2011, and I’m writing this post being very tired after playing some BioShock 2 on my PC. There has been a notable change…", "content_html": "Although its just 4 days past my previous post, a lot of significant things happened during this time. It’s July 24th 2011, and I’m writing this post being very tired after playing some BioShock 2 on my PC. There has been a notable change in me, after I started the Level X mission and continuing to improve myself and I’m also enthralled by the visit of my classmate Roopa to my blog. Lilly has been an active helper for me to reach Level X, and I’m confident that I can accomplish it sooner than I had expected. And Apple had finally released its latest operating system Mac OS X Lion, for which I had been waiting so impatiently for over 4 months.
\nLast thursday, when we were having our lab session, we were informed by our HOD that we’ll be conducting a National Level Technical Symposium in our college. He mentioned that there will be a small contest among all the students of the CSE Department in naming the Symposium. I had no interest to name it, but I had a thought of keeping it as ‘TechniTriX’ which definitely has no meaning. Later, the selected name was ‘CyberNautz’, which was from a Second Year Girl from our department. I heard that she had been searching for a lot of good names and that she had been asking from her sister from another college. Anyway, I was called by our HOD to the department immediately and was told to start working on the design for the Poster, Cerficates, Banners, and the Invitation. Of course, I’m not going to gain anything from working for any of these nor that I’m going to get paid for it, but I have to do it. Its really awkward that whatever good thing happens to our college, I’m the first one to get affected by it.
\nOn Friday, me and Arumugam set out to the department in the morning and asked Vasanth sir who we should proceed with the design. From that moment till the evening, we had been searching here and there, walking from floor to floor to find a PC without viruses. Finally during the last hour of the day, we made a preliminary design for the poster and came back home. During the evening, Suganya called everyone through text messaging for enrolling their names for the NIIT Tech Test, which was about to be held the next day. After thinking for about a million times and asking Nalini, Lilly, Panneer, I decided to write the test. Then I had to send the list of students to NIIT by email as Suganya asked me to.
\nYesterday, I woke up very early as I would for getting ready for college. I started the download for Mac OS X Lion as I had scheduled it for this day. Then once again, I started thinking whether I should write the test or not. At about 9AM, I boarded the bus with an aim of watching ‘Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2’ but on the way, I decided to write the test because of the intense advice from my classmates to write it. Then I got myself a pen, went to RS Puram (my most favorite place to be in Coimbatore) started walking towards NIIT. On looking at iPlanet, I immediately thought of getting in but I didn’t since I was told by Kirthika that the test was about to start 10.30 AM. The time was 10.28AM, so I started rushing through the traffic and reached NIIT exactly at 10.30PM. I took out my pen, filled up the form, and headed to my old classroom for writing the test. At about 11AM, the test started with an extremely easy question paper which I was able to finish within 15 mins. Then I sat idle for the remaining 45 minutes, pretending myself as if I was doing some rough work for the questions. After finishing the test, I headed out to iPlanet with Panneer, Arumugam, Dinakaran and Nataraj. I asked my friend Vishnu at iPlanet about Apple’s words about upgrading to Lion from the Apple Retail Stores. He denied the fact and told that it was not possible in India. Slightly disappointed, we came out of iPlanet after surfing around the store for about 20 minutes. Then my dad called me whether he can turn off my Macbook Pro and stop the download but I refused to do so. Later, I skipped dinner and headed towards the Central Theatre with Arumugam. We got tickets for the Harry Potter movie and managed to get our seats by 2.15 PM. The movie was very satisfying for a Harry Potter fan like me, and the 3D visuals were stunning to the eye. By the end of the movie, I was immediately moved to tears when I thought about the golden moments I had with Suhirtha Muhil akka when she used to narrate the story of Harry Potter after reading each and every chapter from the Book. I updated my status on Facebook and returned back home. Feeling very tired, I couldn’t start the work for the design so I postponed it to the next day. Surprizingly, the download which I had started in the morning had finished and I started upgrading to Mac OS X Lion with lots of enthusiasm. At about 7PM, I finished upgrading both of my Macs to its latest operating system. But sadly my Macbook Pro is experiencing a lot of performance issues after the upgrade and a huge fall in battery life which is driving me nuts!
\nToday morning, I woke up very late and started working on the design for the poster of CyberNautz ’11. I was also having some network problems with my phone (which was later solved) but I did manage to help my friend Lilly for the Quiz competition she was having at NIIT. By afternoon, I finished the work for the poster with no interest and uploaded the design to http://cybernautz.parithi.com. Then I had my lunch, started to play BioShock and type this post whilst Linkin Park playing in the background….
\n", "date_published": "2011-07-24T08:55:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/19/mission-level-x/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/19/mission-level-x/", "title": "Mission : Level X ..", "summary": "It’s 19th July 2011 and I’m in the middle of the 3rd week of my 4th year in college. My classes are going pretty boring than usual because there are no interesting staff like Sampath sir, this year. And my restless minutes in waiting for…", "content_html": "It’s 19th July 2011 and I’m in the middle of the 3rd week of my 4th year in college. My classes are going pretty boring than usual because there are no interesting staff like Sampath sir, this year. And my restless minutes in waiting for the bus every evening is getting more horrible day by day. Leaving those aside, I had planned during my holidays to change myself this year and show a complete and visible metamorphosis of me to my friends. Everyone identifies me as a silent, over-shy yet intelligent boy and many people, especially the girls, used to tell me to change as soon as possible and also warn me that this is not good for my future career. Although I had understood their point, I didn’t show any change in myself to them for a very long time. To tell the truth, I have a tried a lot to change but as time passes by, the words of my friends fades away as they fade away from me, and obviously I restore myself to my earlier point.
\nBut this year, I didn’t want to do the same mistake again. So, I started to show some aggressive change even though I did not like most of it. Eventually many of my mates recognized the change and complimented me, which boosted up my confidence. Now, I’ve got enough confidence to talk casually even with staff. But still I feel that I need to change a lot more and reduce my shyness to a perfect Zero, in order to match myself with my friends. Till today, I did not have any fair advantage in changing myself and I haven’t got any new experiences either. Last week, I even felt that my opinions are being ignored by my own trusted friends just because I’m shy and not talkative like many others. That’s when I posted this message as my Facebook status. Starting from that day, I’ve really worked hard in showing some eXtra-ordinary behavior which I’ve never had in my life and I wanted to keep my pace running this way so I designed the mission named ‘Level X’ and added it to my imaginary HUD. Level X (pronounced as Level ‘EX’) is a word stylized for Level 10.
\nLevel X is a self-motivating mission designed for aggressive development of myself and it consists of 10 levels. Inspired by some of the famous Youtubers, learning some personality development stuff from my friend Prince and rigorously replicating my attitude from my friend Nalini, I’ve designed Level X in a way that makes me eXtra-Ordinary, eXcellant and eXecutive. The levels of this mission are :
\nToday I’ve got promoted to Level 2, by losing all my fear and talking to my Bus Driver to change the place where I get down. Postively, I got an advantage and now I can get down in a stop from where I get back to my home in just 5 minutes, which used to be 20 minutes of walking time previously. I really love the new change and I hope I’ll reach Level X real soon and become an awesome guy..Let’s see what time has to tell….
\n", "date_published": "2011-07-19T11:27:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/16/an-intriguing-nss-camp/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/16/an-intriguing-nss-camp/", "title": "An Intriguing NSS Camp", "summary": "வணக்கம்! (Vanakkam) — That’s how we greet someone formally in Tamil, which is a direct equivalent of ‘Hello’ in English. Speaking of Tamil words, this has been an another interesting week where I spent most of the time playing around with…", "content_html": "வணக்கம்! (Vanakkam) — That’s how we greet someone formally in Tamil, which is a direct equivalent of ‘Hello’ in English. Speaking of Tamil words, this has been an another interesting week where I spent most of the time playing around with Tamil for NSS Camp. A.K.A Computer Mela. Yes, It’s July 16th 2011, the day after the long tiring week in which, me and my friends spent most of the time teaching school children, some Computer Basics.
\nAs most of my college friends know, I’m the Official Designer of most of the college related activities such as Workshops, Symposiums and Sports Events and Camps. I design the Certificates, Posters, Banners, Invitations and even ID Cards. It’s a job for which I never get paid for and I hate it even though I gain a lot of experience by doing these works. I’ve been doing this for the past 3 years expecting nothing but I also get some ill-effects like losing attendance, showing my absence to my classmates, and most importantly I miss a lot of classes because of these design works.
\nWell, for this NSS Camp, things started differently. Our Beloved Sampath Sir, already notified me through Facebook about designing an invitation while we were on holidays. He had said that the work was supposed to be done in Tamil, so initially I was taken aback on hearing that. After college had started, he had asked me once again and I accepted to take up the work. I started a site for logging everything related to the invitation design, which can be found here. I started the work on my Mac and finished the Invitation design in about a day. I used the Google Transliterate to type in Tamil. Last Sunday, I had uploaded the design and notified sir on Facebook about the site. Later after he had seen the design, he called me and said that the design was awesome!
\nOn July 11th, the week started as usual which soon turned out to be a busy week. I had to goto Sampath Sir’s cabin to finish off the remaining work regarding the invitation and also I had to design the certificates. I was accompanied by the NSS Student Co-ordinator — Arumugam. I had to miss the Software Testing Test and I had asked permission from our professor to write it the next day. We spent the whole monday in designing that and I went back home and uploaded the certificates to the site. The next day, my companion took leave so no one asked me to come to the cabin and work on that day. I had to study hard for the test (ST) and but I couldn’t write that since I was late after lunch, Ma’m told me to write the test tomorrow. On Wednesday, Arumugam had made a comeback and we had to move to the cabin once again and start designing the other certificates. We missed all the classes and the day was spent wholly in the sir’s cabin. And finally after 3 days, most of our work had been finished and we were ready for the NSS Camp.
\nOn July 14th,
\nThe most-anticipated Computer Mela had started but still we got some new works which had to be done soon. We had to design the Banner which had to hung out in front of the college and also in front of our adopted school. We had done that as fast as we can and we had to design ID Cards for the members of the Student Council, which I discussed in my previous post. By afternoon, all the banners were printed out and we had a lots of fun in hanging them on the gate. The weather was super awesome, with subtle drizzling and the temperature was very cool. All our classmates were forced to move to the Internet lab, where they had created their own blogs and filled up my notification bar by joining Google+.
\nLater that day, our adopted schools had arrived to our college and headed towards our MCA Lab. All of them took their places and started playing with the computers. It was very difficult to manage them, as they were too naughty to handle. Most of them responded to us very disgracefully so I had kept a certain limit and stayed away from them. All were exploring the computer and tried working on Microsoft Paint, Notepad and Word. My fellow NSS team members took in-charge and started teaching them how to work with these softwares. I went outside the lab and went to sir’s cabin to finish the remaining work regarding the ID Card. I had created a simple not-so-good logo for the Student Council and urged with the work. After 2–3 hours, we had our tea and came back to the lab. Me and Arumugam decided to examine all the works made by the students, and we moved across each and every computer. All the students made good creative work using MS Paint and we saw a kid named ‘Dhanaprakash’ whose work was amazing. My friend complimented him by saying that he will get him a job at Microsoft. That kid took it serious although he did not know what he meant by Microsoft. He took that as some of kind of Candy/toy and started torturing us to give that to him immediately. Freaking out from that kid’s behaviour, we immediately went out from the place and soon the day’s work was over. The students started back to their school and we started back to our homes.
\nOn July 15th,
\nThe next day, we had everything setup and were well-prepared for the 2nd day of the Camp. At about 10.20AM, the students marched in to our college and I took a lot of snaps using my Ike. To our surprise, that kid ‘DhanaPrakash’ still remembered what Armugam had promised to give him and shouted to give that to him as he was walking by. They headed out to the computer lab and started playing with the computer again. We had our tea, and went inside the computer lab and saw all the children working with the computers. Most of the children was drawing animals, landscapes and modern art, while some writing their names of their family members in a notepad.
\nOur fellow mates tried their best to help them as we started our inspection to each and every computer. Later, Sir wanted to write all the students’ names to each and every certificate which was a tremendous task, so me and Kasi Vishwanathan suggested that we can atleast give this work to the girls, who haven’t done anything regarding the NSS until that time. So we took all the certificates and went to the Internet lab, where the remaining classmates were browsing the net. We handed over the work to Suganya and Tharani and showed them what they had to fill in the certificates. Then, we returned back for more inspection.
\n![\"Dhanaprakash](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-07-16-an-intriguing-nss-camp/0*4S5gx0VYH_XZjrg4.jpg\")
Dhanaprakash — the naughty kid had created a wonderful picture of an Indian flag and some modern art. He grabbed onto us each and every time we walked by him and was asking to give that Microsoft job to him. We couldn’t help so we ran towards sir and prepared the certificates. We added the seal of the Principal and the college logo to each certificate. Then we arranged all the certificates in the attendance order and went out to have some more tea and biscuits.
\nAfter a few hours, the session came to an end and we had to move out the students to the college bus. Sadam Hussain, who had made a lot of students become his fans, arranged all of them in a single line and escorted them to the entrance of the college. We all took a group photo together with the Banner at the back. I also took some solo photos of a few boys who forced to me to do so.
\nThen we all headed out towards the school and bid a temporary good bye to everyone. Some of my friends shook hands with them as I took some snapshots with my Ike. It was interesting to see that all these students being afraid to move out of the school gate without the permission of their staff in-spite of having so fiendishness inside them. Then we went back to our college and had our lunch.
\nAfter our lunch, we headed back to the school for the evening session which includes the prize distribution and other usual events. After we reached the school, we were welcomed by the boys with so much enthusiasm as they were super excited to see us. Some of them grabbed me to each and every side of the school to show me around their classes.
\n![\"Prabhakaran\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-07-16-an-intriguing-nss-camp/0*xBZ2O6r0hrxQIV3b.jpg\")
I met another silent kid named ‘Prabhakaran’ who sticked to us most of the time for showing around their campus. Later, rain started pouring in, so we had to take shelter in one of the classrooms. The class was pitch black amidst total darkness that even my Ike’s flash couldn’t take a good snap inside it. We spent about half an hour inside the class, where all the students (even girls) tortured me to take snaps of them as I tried to escape them.
\nThen my fellow mates called me to check a problem with the Nikon CoolPix Digicam in which the Xeon Flash wasn’t working. I examined it and found out that its a Hardware problem so I couldn’t help in fixing it either. We waited for about an hour for the rain to stop but it was of no use. So the ending ceremony was postponed to next week and I had to bid good-bye to everyone.
\nI returned back to college with Muthu Sankar and Natraj getting fully drenched in the rain and set off back to the bus stop at about 3.30 PM with my bag. Then I got the bus to Perur along with Arumugam and took some snaps of the temple on the way home. I was astounded by enchanting beauty of the temple and its lake that I wished to post one of its photos to Facebook. You can check it out here. Finally I reached home at about 6.20 PM and started transferring these photos to my Mac.
\nI’ll update this post once again after the ending ceremony is finished, so stay tuned. And For more photos taken at the NSS camp, check out the my Google+ Album or my Facebook Album.
\n", "date_published": "2011-07-16T03:57:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/08/back-to-college/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/07/08/back-to-college/", "title": "Back To College!", "summary": "It’s been a long while since I posted something on my blog and here comes something that I can write about! It’s June 8th, 2011 and its been a week since my college started after the long holiday of about 2 months. Although I had a lot of…", "content_html": "It’s been a long while since I posted something on my blog and here comes something that I can write about! It’s June 8th, 2011 and its been a week since my college started after the long holiday of about 2 months. Although I had a lot of fun by playing a hell lot of games, went to BSNL implant traning, released ReviewBox, and watched some blockbuster Hollywood movies in 3D, got a new MacBook Pro, roaming the streets of Coimbatore, taking a trip to Pondicherry, celebrated birthday with some surprizes, became a Tester of Google+, Overall the Holiday was — Boring! Yep, sounds funny but that’s the truth. And it was not only the case with me, but also with many of my friends at college like Lilly Deepika. Apart from the interesting things, during the leisure time I was sitting ducks when the time was trying to kill me. Thank fully, Prince tried to save almost all the days by texting regularly and filling up my inbox. Besides that, I also spent a lot of time in working with the ReviewBox, A Facebook App designed to change the way how people get reviews from friends, with Ganesh Ponraju. My usual sleeping time rounded the clock to about 2am every-night and I was waking up in the morning at about 9–10 am when the gleaming sun pushed me from my bed with its dazzling rays glaring my eyes from the window. Finally, the holiday came to an end as I finished it off by seeing Transformers 3 and installed Android on my PC, and started getting ready for college.
\nOn July 4th, the Day of American Independence, our College started. We were hearing a lot of rumors during the holidays and most of them came true on the first day itself. Our curriculum was designed by the Anna University Chennai, thereby relieving us from pain of writing hell of assignments and records. Like the Americans got freedom from the British, we got freedom from the Assignments. The first day went very well and it was more than what I had expected on the first day, our class was shifted to the top floor, there was a change in the minds of many staff, my friends Panneer, Arumugam, Kirthika became the Student council members. Adding to that, Panneer is also the Class Representative and the Treasurer of the Whole College. We also had an election to select the president for the Computer Science Department which was later won by Sadam Hussain. Another good thing was, we didn’t have to sit in the attendance order which was one of the rumors spreading during the holiday.
\nOne of the bad things is that, I still do not have any company to talk with while I’m waiting for the bus every evening college gets over, which brings some of the worst minutes of my life! And there is a big hurry-burry in selection of the members for the project we have to do in this final year. Lots of confusions are going on with no motive in mind and things started getting crazy in college as it has always been. Let’s see how things turn out in near future…
\nSide Note: I’m still waiting (4 months) for Apple’s upcoming operating system Mac OS X Lion, which is tearing me apart! ;(
\n", "date_published": "2011-07-08T10:38:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/28/inplant-training-at-bsnl-a-bitter-ho-hum/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/28/inplant-training-at-bsnl-a-bitter-ho-hum/", "title": "Inplant Training at BSNL — A Bitter Ho-Hum!", "summary": "Surly its been a boring and dull summer holiday and last sunday I was asked by Arumugam to attend the BSNL Summer Training instead of staying at home uselessly. So Sadam Hussain, Arumugam, Suriya and obviously me, decided to register at the…", "content_html": "Surly its been a boring and dull summer holiday and last sunday I was asked by Arumugam to attend the BSNL Summer Training instead of staying at home uselessly. So Sadam Hussain, Arumugam, Suriya and obviously me, decided to register at the summer camp the next day. We woke up very early and started off to BSNL Community Hall which was about 9–10 kms away from my home.
\nDay I :
\nWe reached the BSNL community hall and Facebook’s Check-in feature came just in time to my Opera Mobile 6 and helped me to check in my location for the first time. Although most of the places were not listed in the Facebook Places, I added my home as ‘Parithi HQ’ and the ‘BSNL Community Hall’ and checked in. The hall was pretty nice and it was the first time I got to attend such a conference-type hall. All the desks had its own microphone with a ‘speak’ button and we all had lots of fun playing with it. First day, the BSNL Chief inaugurated the camp and gave a introductory speech about the evolution of telecommunications in India and how BSNL came into existance.
\nAnd a marketing guy also wanted us and invisibly forced us to buy a BSNL SIM card stating that there was no good relationship between the students and BSNL. The Chief wanted us to realize that all other private telecom operators such as AirTel, Aircel, and the like, have their respective owners. So by using them, we are actually giving money to a single person which doesn’t come to Indian government in any way. He wished everyone of us to use BSNL’s services and help the government which may in-turn help us back in the form of urban or rural development. He also mentioned that all other operators transmit signals at higher signal signal strengths which are very hazardous to the humans, while BSNL uses a safe signal strength which is half of the other operators’s signal. Although his words are true, he wouldn’t convince the younger generation to use it, since we need flexible recharge facilities, free texting and cheaper call costs.
\nHis speech was followed by another BSNL staff who taught about the landline services how things transmit from one end to an other end. Since it was the first day, they had planned the schedule properly so we had to leave the premises at afternoon itself. Then we headed out to the theatre to the big time movie, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3D’.
\nDay 2:
\nIn Day 2, we studied about the transmission of data in a Broadband connection and a Dial up connection and how these things work. And in the afternoon, we headed out to the National Internet Backbone (NIB) to see the various hardware used in transmitting these datas. We were not allowed to use our mobile phones and therefore I couldn’t take any snaps with my Ike. The hardware kept there were very expensive crossing over Rs.6 lakhs per equipment. They include Cisco routers, BTS towers, etc. We finished the tour inside the building and we headed back home.
\nDay 3:
\nOn this day, we studied how the Wireless communications work. They include the Mobile Communication, WiMax, WiFi and the other wireless communications. We had about three presentations and then we were told to head out to the streets and take a Technological survey among the public to train ourselves with regards to the TeleMarketing services. But no one did this perfectly, we shared the forms within ourselves and filled it with our colleagues there in the training. We were also accompanied by Abdul Jaleel on this day who had finished his summer training last week itself.
\nDay 4:
\nIn Day 4, we had a theory class on how GSM and CDMA work. In the afternoon, we headed out the BSNL Telephone exchange, 2KM away from our community hall and we had seen practically how the hardware such as AXE switches, BTS towers, and others work. It was truly fascinating to see all these equipments and how they struggle to maintain those complex machines without any problems for 24 hours a day.
\nDay 5:
\nThis was the last day of the training. We had a session on other wireless communications and we had no interest in listening to the lecture and I do not even know what they had taught this day. The training finally came to an end and we obtained our certificates and headed back home.
\nOverall, the course was mainly focused towards the Electronics and Electrical students, so it was boring for me rather being interesting since I’m a Computer Science student. But I have to admit that, it was fascinating to see the different kinds of the equipments they have in the main offices. So I should say, It was Worth It!
\n", "date_published": "2011-05-28T01:33:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/21/me-and-my-kulfi-story/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/21/me-and-my-kulfi-story/", "title": "Me and My Kulfi Story..!!", "summary": "Its May 21st, and its birthday for my Grandpa, who is a just-in member to our home after we went to Pondicherry. To celebrate that we headed to the Maruthamalai Temple in the early morning itself in a cab. We spent about an hour there, the…", "content_html": "Its May 21st, and its birthday for my Grandpa, who is a just-in member to our home after we went to Pondicherry. To celebrate that we headed to the Maruthamalai Temple in the early morning itself in a cab. We spent about an hour there, the weather was pretty amazing. It was cloudy with fog filled almost everywhere but the visibility was not bad. I took my Ike to take some snaps but it weren’t good due to the weather. After an hour, the sun came shiny on and the weather turned very sunny. After that, we called the cab back and started heading out for breakfast.
\nWe went inside the city to the streets of R.S. Puram to the most popular Sree Annapoorna Restaurant for our breakfast. After finishing the main meal, I ordered the strange looking Kulfi. It was presented in a pot made of clay/sand and was looking very cute. It was kept in a freezer at a temperature of -3°C and it was solid ice when it was given to me. It was accompanied with a metal spoon and I tried to break it up with it but no use. The spoon curved into half when I poking the kulfi again and again. Seeing one of the waiters called the others and started discussing how to melt it down. It seemed as if this one was not commonly ordered by any of the others. The people in the neighboring tables started starting me as if I’m an alien and some of them even started laughing. One of the 4 waiters went to the cooking place and came back with a bowl filled with hot water. They told me to keep the pot over that to melt it down. Instead of getting melted, the kulfi pot made cooled down the hot water and still it was like solid ice. I told my mom whether I could take it out of the restaurant and eat it while returning home. The waiters said okay but they told to return the metal spoon and gave me a small bamboo twig and a white plastic use-and-throw spoon. Taking that, I came out and started eating it in the streets. Most of the people and the waiters in the restaurant were laughing at me on my way down from the restaurant. But that didn’t stop there, the people in the streets also started looking at me strangely eating from a sand pot. I couldn’t wait to get back to the cab. So I got in and finished eating before reaching home. After reaching home, I cleaned the pot well and filled it with real clay. Then I planted a Jade Plant (a.k.a Money Plant or Crassula ovata) and now it’s resting on my i7 PC’s table. The End. This is one of the strangest days ever.
\n", "date_published": "2011-05-21T03:36:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/15/finally-a-book-for-all-men-to-understand-women/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/15/finally-a-book-for-all-men-to-understand-women/", "title": "Finally a book for all MEN to understand WOMEN….", "summary": "This post was made possible by Lilly Deepika . Here’s a funny photo to show the understanding of all Men about Women..", "content_html": "This post was made possible by Lilly Deepika.
\nHere’s a funny photo to show the understanding of all Men about Women..
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-05-15-finally-a-book-for-all-men-to-understand-women/0*sOXY_La4jQlgicOk.jpg\")
It’s May 11th and my parents had decided to go on a tour to Pondicherry for 3 days from tonight till May 15th (Sunday) Morning. I always wanted to Live Blog something and I got the perfect chance now to do it, since I have my new MacBook Pro and Ike (Nokia 5800) with me all the way. But I couldn’t, since I need to get better blogging experience to do that. Anyway, like my other blog posts, I’ve divided this into 4 parts with respect to the date. Hope you like it..
\nMay 11:
\nMy Mom was pretty bored in these summer holidays and wanted to go on a tour as usual. She had been telling this for the past two weeks and my Dad finally booked tickets to Pondicherry for all the 4 of us. Unfortunately, at 11.30PM my bro had called to his friend to enquire about the schedule of exams and was shocked to find that there was an exam the next day. It was the ‘Engineering Graphics’ exam and he had to move to the hostel as soon as possible. So saying he boarded the bus at 3.10PM and went off.
\nMy Mom and me started packing things up for the tour and we sort of finished at 7.15PM when my Dad came from the office. We got everything ready for the trip and started from our home. We went to the Bus stand at about 9.45PM and we were waiting for the bus for about 45 minutes. Finally at about 11PM, our bus showed up. It was an AC-Deluxe sleeper bus and it was the first time, I get to travel with my new mac in the upper berth. I was pretty excited but soon fell asleep after chatting with my buddy Prince till midnight.
\nMay 12:
\nHaving disturbed by the gleaming rays from the morning sun at about 6AM, I woke up and the bus was passing by the countryside of Cuddalore. There was no 3G-network coverage and I was thinking when these country people would get to experience the awesome technology goodness of this age. I believe that the network operators don’t invest to support 3G in these areas since most of the people aren’t interested to use or they don’t even know what 3G is. Anyway, I fell asleep again since I had no other choice.
\nAt about 7.15AM, we reached Pondicherry and got down from the bus. We hired up an auto-rickshaw to get to the hotel where we booked our stay using MakeMyTrip.com. It was Anandham Residency, located in the heart of the city near the Nehru Street, which is one of the busiest streets of Pondicherry. My dad went to the reception for getting acknowledgement from the staff and we went straight to our rooms. We had booked two rooms, one for our parents and one for my bro and me. Since my bro went to the college, there was no other way for me; I had to be alone for the whole day.
\nAt 9.15AM, we went to the restaurant and had a buffet breakfast with the usual South Indian cuisine (Idly, Dosa and some Pongal). Then we went back to the reception and I took some photos of the lovely fishes in the aquarium they had kept there along with a big fish swimming lonely in another glass tank. They also a pot of flowers filled with water in front of the lobby and I took a snap of that too. Then we had a walk around the hotel for about 20 minutes, where we bought some soap dishes for our home and went to a Temple named ‘Shri Angaala Parameshwari Thevasthaanam’. After that I came back home and started typing this blog.
\nSoon I got a call from an unknown number. I attended it and it was a computer-recorded voice of Bharath telling me to register my number to talk to him on May 12th. He had told me to dial * to activate the service but I just dropped the call and continued my work. But soon after 5 minutes, I got an annoying message from my network operator AirTel, stating that 15rs has been charged from my account and thanking me for registering the service. I got very annoyed and angry on seeing the message and texted my friend Arumugam regarding the issue. He told me to call the customer care and report it. I called to the customer care and fortunately the issue was immediately solved and I got my 15rs credited to my account. I called Arumugam to tell about my experience about my first call to customer care, but unfortunately the call extended to 21 minutes and I lost 13rs again :P. Anyway I at least used that money now for talking.
\nThen we started to move out of the hotel once again. The temperature around the city was scorching hot and we walked through the streets. The streets were regularly divided into large squares like in the foreign countries and that’s what makes Pondicherry quite beautiful. All streets were named both in Tamil and French. It’s easy to spot a foreigner, probably from France in any part of the city since there a lot of roaming almost everywhere in the city.
\nWe came across one of the cousins with his parents who were doing their shopping. Within a minute, we finished our small talk and starting moving to the restaurant for lunch. I have a bad habit of drinking Sprite after my lunch in college and I ordered the same here too, but awkwardly the Sprite given here was 300ml, that 1.7 times getter than what I drink in college. It was clear that I couldn’t drink it fully. So I took out my water can and started transferring the Sprite from the bottle to my can. All the waiter and those people near my table was looking so curiously what I was doing, and to make it look more weird, I took snaps of it too :).
\nAfter that, we started moving to the beach. The day was getting really tiresome and boring. On the way, we went to the Park that is managed by the government. Most of the people were poor and they filled almost all the park benches while they were sleeping. I took my HandyCam out and started shooting video of them. Also, I took a couple of snaps here and there especially the four-sided pillars built by the French hundreds of years ago in memorial of the soldiers who died in the war.
\nAt about 3.50 PM, we reached the beach. As most of us know, Pondicherry doesn’t have a usual beach, instead it has a pile of stones and the deep sea is just in front of it. We got a call from my bro that he has finished the exam and got the bus to come here to Pondicherry. Then My Mom called my relatives and informed them that we are here in Pondicherry, and soon my cousin Narendran and ElanChezian got excited and wanted to see us immediately. Narendran couldn’t wait, so he came out to the beach with his bike and reached us within 10 minutes. We haven’t seen each other for a long time and so we were talking uselessly for quite a while. He showed off his new bike ‘Apache Hyper Edge 160’ and we were playing with it for some time.
\nThen with our parents, we went to the seaside coffee shop named Le Café and had a piping hot drink of Chocolate with sugar cubes. It was really awesome and re-invigorating and looked yummy to just see it. With lots of excitement to drink, I actually forgot to take a snap of it. Having finished the mug of hot chocolate, my cousin went back home. My parents and me came back to the hotel.
\nI stared continuing this blog for a few hours and tried chatting with some strangers over Omegle. At 8PM, we went back to the restaurant and had our dinner and got some Noodles for my bro. Then we set off to the bus stand, to receive my bro after his long trip and came back to our room at 11PM and quickly went to sleep.
\nSide-note: We had an aquarium here in our hotel, wherein a giant fish was isolated in a big tank which was swimming very lonely back and forth. I felt very pity for this creature as it had no company to talk to or play with. I even prayed that it should get some company very soon.
\nMay 13:
\nWe got up very early and started moving to my Grandpa’s house. The streets were filled with emptiness everywhere since the day was the Counting Day for the Tamilnadu Elections. The 144 Rule was adopted throughout the city, by which no one should come out of their houses or even if they do come out, they should not talk with each other (sort of). We spent the whole day in my grandpa’s house playing with our cousins and there is nothing more here to tell. We were staying there till 9.30 and started back to our hotel by a very long walk and reached our rooms by 10.30PM.
\nMay 14:
\nHaving woke up very late, we booked a Toyota Innova to goto the Amusement Water Theme Park named ‘PogoLand’ situated on the outskirts of the city. We went with my cousin ElanChezian and his parents and stayed there for about 3 hours. The water was not so clean, it was easy to find floating dirt floating here and there. I even felt like puking up on seeing lots of people spitting on the pools where we were swimming. I couldn’t take it, anyhow I managed to be in the water for atmost 2 hours. With a severe headache, half deaf ears and reddish eyes we came out from that stupid place and came back to the city. After finishing our lunch, we went back to the Beach and stayed there for half an hour and returned back to our room. I was feeling somewhat ok after taking some rest and about 5PM, I started playing Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit and continued it till 8PM. Then we had our dinner, bid farewell to the staff and came to the bus stand.
\nThen we got our bus at about 10.30 and came back home at Coimbatore at 7.45AM the next day.
\nSide-note: While coming out from the hotel, I tried to say good-bye to that giant fish and was surprized to find out that the fish was having tiny pack of goldfishes swimming around with it. Although it seemed pretty logical, I felt like as if my prayer came true. I took a few snaps of it, I’ll be posting them soon. Till then stay tuned to this post..
\n", "date_published": "2011-05-12T01:26:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/11/terrafugia-neat-piece-of-transportation/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/11/terrafugia-neat-piece-of-transportation/", "title": "TERRAFUGIA — NEAT PIECE OF TRANSPORTATION", "summary": "This post was sponsored by Lilly Deepika . Start saving to buy this little flying wonder by the year 2015! A Truly Flying Drive! Terrafugia has completed flight testing of the Transition POC (Proof of Concept). Simply land at the airport…", "content_html": "This post was sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\nStart saving to buy this little flying wonder by the year 2015! A Truly Flying Drive!
\nTerrafugia has completed flight testing of the Transition POC (Proof of Concept). Simply land at the airport, fold your wings up and drive home. Fly a distance of 725 kilometers at speeds of 185 km/hour; requires a special license to drive and fly. The time required for the transition from plane to car takes less than 30 seconds. Vehicle speed 185 km/hour, range is 724 km on highways. Vehicle is fueled with gasoline, and the price of the car is expected to be around $200,000.
\nThe first shipment will be in 2011.
\n", "date_published": "2011-05-11T12:44:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/10/more-illutions/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/10/more-illutions/", "title": "More Illutions :)", "summary": "This post was made possible by Lilly Deepika . Here is the Second Edition of Illusions :", "content_html": "This post was made possible by Lilly Deepika.
\nHere is the Second Edition of Illusions :
\n", "date_published": "2011-05-10T03:03:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/10/amazing-staircases/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/10/amazing-staircases/", "title": "Amazing Staircases!", "summary": "This Post was made possible by Lilly Deepika . Here are some wonderful and mindblowing staircases you probably might not have seen yet. Take a look :", "content_html": "This Post was made possible by Lilly Deepika.
\nHere are some wonderful and mindblowing staircases you probably might not have seen yet.
\nTake a look :
\n", "date_published": "2011-05-10T02:52:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/03/au-revoir-teenage/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/05/03/au-revoir-teenage/", "title": "Au Revoir Teenage!!", "summary": "Its May 3rd 2011, the 123rd day of the year and oh! Its my birthday too. Having turned 20 and forced to bid good bye to my Teenage, it seems that now I’m more responsible than ever and should start looking after me by myself instead of…", "content_html": "Its May 3rd 2011, the 123rd day of the year and oh! Its my birthday too. Having turned 20 and forced to bid good bye to my Teenage, it seems that now I’m more responsible than ever and should start looking after me by myself instead of depending on my parents and others. And I guess I’m pretty much ready for it. Anyways, coming to my blog, this post describes all the events that had happened in the past 1 month regarding my birthday.
\nMy Usual Birthday Scenario
\nUsually all my birthdays are pretty boring and we never get to celebrate it in the fancy manner that everyone does. The reason is that I was born in the mid summer where everyone (friends and relatives) will be on summer holidays, therefore they will be on tour or they will be in their relatives’ houses. This scenario dates back as far as I can remember till today. My mom used to say that we used to cut birthday cakes when I was a very small kid but I don’t remember any of those events. During 2002, I had a birthday party with all my neighboring friends but still missing my best friend (Shubham Shresth). After that I did not get a chance to cut a birthday cake till today and understanding the situation I’m never worried about it. And in school I never got to give chocolates to my classmates since we’ll be on vacation. Following the same theme for quite a long time, my birthday wasn’t looking special to me till this year giving a considerable amount of change.
\nThe Change
\nUnlike previous years, the craze started for my birthday from January itself when my friends Arumugam and Kirthika planned to give a birthday present this year. I had told Arumugam that it would be awesome to get a notebook filled with wishes along with signatures of all my buddy classmates and challenged that it is highly impossible to get one. And on the other side, Kirthika had started working on a PowerPoint Presentation for my birthday stating that it will be totally unexpected and surprising to see it on my birthday. I was quite happy to know that I would be getting some kind of presents this month although they are not like the ones what others get on their birthdays. And soon months passed by and there was no sign of Arumugam getting signatures from the classmates so I took it out of my mind and was eager to see the Presentation of Kirthika. The Presentation went through quite a bit of struggle before reaching me like protecting it from others’ visibility by locking it Hide Folders software and burning it to a DVD (for which Arumugam helped Kirthika to burn it up after losing a DVD with burning errors).
\nFortunately this year, my birthday was very close to the working days of my college and therefore I decided to give chocolate to my top 5 friends in college. But I was able to give only to Nalini and Lilly due to the tight examination schedule and all I had to leave to their native places as soon as the exam was over.
\nOn April 29th (last day of the exam), the cover for the Secret Birthday Party organized by Arumugam and Kirthika was blown somehow through my intelligence and I was eagerly awaiting to cut the cake but I was pretending that I had no interest in celebrating my birthday by that evening. Surprisingly after the last exam was over, Lilly called me in to the canteen and gave a lovely birthday present in a purple wrapped box on behalf of her and Nalini. Unfortunately, Lilly got bus and went home since it was getting late for her. After everything was over, Kirthika presented a scrumptious looking Chocolate cake for celebrating my birthday. The Attendees were the so-called Pa-groups (Saranya Selvamani, Renuka Devi, Saranya Sivaraj, Jeyasudha, Silver Fancy Quel), Kunthavai Devi, Manimegalai and the unexpected Nalini showed up for a big surprise. The boys were my best friend in class Panneer Selvam, Abdul Jaleel, Sadham Hussain, Bagavath Singh, Deenuji, Arun Malar, Baskaran. And Obviously Arumugam and Kirthika. Since it was pretty windy, we couldn’t lite up the candles, so I pretended as I’ve blown up the candles and started cutting the cake with a birthday song sung by my classmates in the background. Since I was having no memorable experience in cutting cakes, it was slightly hard for me. But with a bit of effort I sliced the cake and gave the first piece of cake to Panneer. After that we cut the cake into many pieces and I gave them one by one to each of my classmates standing there. After we finished the entire cake, we departed to our homes saying bye to everyone of us.
\nKirthika had given the Presentation DVD along with a chocolate in a custom-designed package that day and Arumugam had given a Blue wrapped present on May 1st. That was all for the gifts that I had received for my birthday and I had kept them near my i7 PC for opening them on the eve of my birthday.
\nI was waiting anxiously for this day to come so that I could open the presents especially the unexpected Nalini-Lilly’s Birthday Gift. The clock didn’t strike 12 yet but everyone started showing their birthday wishes for me. First one to wish me was one of best friend Suhirtha Muhil’s Dad who was also the first one to wish me on Facebook by posting on my wall at May 2nd 10:37 PM :
\n\n\nMany more returns of the day- Mahes Uncle, Malar Aunty and Muhil
\n
The first one to wish me through texting was Arumugam stating :
\n\n\nWish you very happy birthday! Many more happy returns of the day Parithi!
\n
After 12AM, the first one to call me was Kirthika (25 seconds) and wished me Happy Birthday and followed by a call from Panneer (41 seconds) and after that, its the Awesome Surprize!
\nIts been a looooong time (1 year) since me and Shubham had talked to each other over phone and I was shocked to see my Ike (Nokia 5800) ringing with the name ‘Shubham Shresth’ and my heart was beating like hell. I closed my eyes and tapped the ‘Answer’ button and started to talk. His voice was unbelievably changed and I managed calm myself down and started to talk with him. He wished me a very Happy Birthday and expressed his thoughts about my upcoming website (released now). Then he asked me to give the line to my bro and he too was too nervous in talking with him. After he had finished talking, he gave back the phone to me. Then Shubham wanted to test out my understanding and speaking ability in Hindi. I too accepted his challenge and told him to tell me a sentence in Hindi. He told something starting with (AAJ….) which i failed to understand and asked him the meaning of that. He translated that he was asking what was special for today. Having kept that in mind, I told that we’ll be going to a temple and for a dinner at a classy restaurant. After that, he promised that he will a take a look at my new website and told me to keep in touch through calls. The call lasted for 6 minutes and 32 seconds and after that we bid Good Bye. This could be the best surprise of my birthday this year :)
\nSince I was in a call, I was not able to see the incoming calls and messages. My Best SBOA Buddy Prince had called me but I failed to attend :( and therefore he had sent me a Voice SMS. Actually this is the first Voice SMS that I had received in my life. Following that, there were some unread birthday wishing texts from many. And I loved them all, and here are a very few of my favorites :
\nPrince :
\n\n\nHappy birthday buddy… You are 20… A big boy now…
\n
Panneer :
\n\n\nJoyeux anniversaire mon ami :)
\n
Nalini :
\n\n\nWish u many more happy returns f d day jj:-):-):-):-).hav a fabulous yr:-).
\n
I started replying them all and those who wished me on Facebook. In all the texting and call craze, I totally forgot about the gifts for my birthday. It was 1AM, but still I was not sleepy, I waked up everyone in my home and started opening up the presents.
\nNalini & Lilly :
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-05-03-au-revoir-teenage/0*7ZSzK8iTZmP3IsK1.jpg\")
The beautifully purple wrapped gift box of Nalini and Lilly contained a fancy Flash Campanula or in other words, its WindChimes with LEDs around it. I was not expecting this at all and it was quite surprising. Now it took the place in my room as a centerpiece decor jingling from morning till now and its quite amazing how the current from the battery flows through such a thin string or cables.
\nKirthika :
\nThe white custom-designed package from Kirthika had a package containing the DVD, a message from her and a Cadbury Dairy Milk Crackle.
\nArumugam :
\nThe Blue wrapped gift box of Arumugam contained something really surprising. Remember the challenge that I made to him that I mentioned above? Unbelievably his gift box contained a notebook which had birthday wishes and signature of 95% of my classmates in each and every page. I was really astounded to see how he and others (Sadham, Kirthika and Lilly) had managed to get the message from each and every classmate without any trace. Fairly, he had won the challenge eventhough I failed to find out when everyone were wishing Advance Happy Birthday unusually. The package also contained a small Teddy Bear keychain.
\nAfter finished seeing all the gifts, I went to sleep.
\nIn the morning,
\nI got up very early in the morning and made some minor refinements to the site and started getting ready to move to temple. We went to the famous Maruthamalai Temple situtated here in Coimbatore and prayed to the Holy Lord Murugan. Me and My Bro took our camera out and took some snapshots from the mountain covering the city of Coimbatore. Here’s one of them :
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-05-03-au-revoir-teenage/0*a3AyOqcgTvetvyS1.jpg\")
After returned back home, there was a surprising text message from RMKV wishing me for my birthday in my mom’s mobile. Here’s how it looks :
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-05-03-au-revoir-teenage/0*_3EfJ_RYR1L42Nse.jpg\")
Spent rest of the day sleeping under the AC and then went out to a very classy restaurant for dinner with my dad’s friend. Thats the end of my birthday :)
\nHere are all those who have wished me :
\nThrough Call :
\nShubham Shresth*
\nPanneer Selvam*
\nKirthika*
\nPrince* (Tried to)
\nRobin Gautham
\nGanesh Ponraju
Through Texts:
\nShubham Shresth*
\nPanneer Selvam*
\nPrince*
\nNalini*
\nLilly
\nKirthika*
\nArumugam*
\nArul Edwin Fredrick
\nDeepak
\nSri
\nDeenuji
\nSaba Kumar
\nAbdul Jaleel*
\nBagavath*
\nSuganya
* — Wished me at Midnight
\nOn Facebook :
\nThrough Messages:
\nSampath Kumar Sir
\nDeepit Jindal
\nJeyaraj Yuv
Through Wall :
\nChockalingam Csp
\nVishwas Patel
\nSaba Kumar P
\nMaya Dk
\nShubhangi Shresth
\nDinesh Raja Ruban
\nSharad Kaplingad
\nShiny Grisselda
\nAbhinav Anand
\nLuca Ubertini
\nRaghul Surya R
\nSneha Motwani
\nVishnu Pankajakshan
\nMahesh Waran
\nMayil Vaganan
\nVenkatesh Elangvan
\nRobin Muthukumar
\nManoj S Kumar
\nGabriel Raz
\nDharini Cool
\nPrem Sundar
\nBharathi Shanmugam
\nVignesh Subburaj
\nKrishna Kumar
\nSunil Chandrasekar
\nand many more…
Belated Wishes:
\nMy Aunty
\nMuthusankar
Its April 13th 2011, and the Assembly Elections are finally here after the craze over the change of rule that each and every citizen of Tamilnadu wants for now. All over Facebook, TV and other media, it seemed as if all the youth generation like students like me, wanted a governor ruling state to stop corruption and other illegal crisis and threats to the people. Leaving those aside, it was my day where I get to vote for the first time after 19 long years and I was pretty excited. I was hoping to vote for 49-O, which actually represents that I do not wish to vote for anyone but the Election Commission of India does not keep our vote for 49–0 as a secret and instead, it registers us using an application form with a reason why we have no interest in voting to any party. This definitely collapses the idea behind the voting by which removes one of the dire needs of people during elections called privacy.
\nSo I woke up late in the morning as usual, totally forgot that today is the Voting Day. Then mom hurried me to get ready for leaving since the booth will be filled with people with long queues which make us wait for a long time. I got ready in half an hour, had breakfast and headed to the Voting Booth which was a nearby school. I had got my Voting ID and slip (both having wrong spelling of my name like the other lakhs of Tamilnadu people suffering like me). When I had reached the school, already the booths were loaded with lots and lots of people with long queues. Since my batch and my parents batch were different, I had to stand alone in the queue with my batch. It was dead-boring for me, so I took out my Ike (Nokia 5800) and started texting to my friends and updating my status on Facebook. I also took some boring snaps here and there which made the people look at me like I’m out of this world. The line moved on and I got near the polling booth. The officers checked my IDs and got my signature (or should I say my autograph :P) in their ugly-looking registers and they placed another stupid black mark on my left index finger. To my shock, when I went to the polling machine, there was no sign of the party which wanted to vote alternatively and also the election officers did not help me to vote for the 49-O. So, leaving the life of the Tamilnadu people at stake, I just pressed a button without any interest and heard the stupid beeping sound. That beep showed that my vote was successfully registered and I ran away disappointed from that stupid place. Then I waited in the burning sun for my parents to finish their voting and I was searching for a juice stand to get some cool drink for the hot afternoon. Unfortunately, all shops were closed due to the elections and I just relaxed myself on one of the wall with a sigh look on my face. After sometime, my dad finished this polling and we started walking towards home. Lastly when I came out of the school, I took a snap of the entrance for which the stupid watchmen started scolding me and started to chase me. I ran towards my dad and got into our neighbor’s Mahindra Xylo and we came home. The End! And Oh, for those who are curious to know about my experience, It was sick and dumb! I hate this day!
\n", "date_published": "2011-04-13T04:24:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/04/09/gallery-a-new-addition-to-my-blog-powered-by-lilly-deepika/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/04/09/gallery-a-new-addition-to-my-blog-powered-by-lilly-deepika/", "title": "Gallery++ ~ A New Addition To My Blog, Powered By Lilly Deepika", "summary": "Its April 9th, and You might have noticed the new feature (or should I say a new tab, for those tech geeks out there) known as Gallery++. If you walked through it, you might have seen the showcase of some of the galleries which you may or…", "content_html": "Its April 9th, and You might have noticed the new feature (or should I say a new tab, for those tech geeks out there) known as Gallery++. If you walked through it, you might have seen the showcase of some of the galleries which you may or may not have received in your mailbox. Basically, the whole idea was given my friend Lilly Deepika and she has sponsored all the galleries that has been posted for now. She receives a lot of forward mail in Gmail Inbox and unlike us, she wishes everyone to see these fun and interesting photos instead of just forwarding them to our relatives. The Gallery++ has been filled with a lot of interesting stuff that might amaze or make you laugh, so take a worthy look at it before you leave this blog. For now, we have posted pictures of future technology, photos of Sachin Tendulkar, an interesting post about the made-in-china products, and more. If you like them, don’t forget to share them, you can use the inbuilt ‘Share This’ feature to share it via your favorite social website like Facebook,Twitter, etc. Or you can even copy the link and mail it to your friends and Oh, here’s the link to Gallery++ if you find it difficult to click from the menu on the side. Hope you enjoy them, Have Fun ;)
\n", "date_published": "2011-04-09T01:02:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/04/06/my-day-at-the-iplanet-my-new-planet-here-in-coimbatore/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/04/06/my-day-at-the-iplanet-my-new-planet-here-in-coimbatore/", "title": "My Day At The iPlanet : My New Planet Here In Coimbatore", "summary": "Its April 6th, 2011. I’m on my holidays — which is the so-called Study Holidays — and today I had to goto the AirTel office and the BSNL office to get my SIM card address verified and to get a duplicate SIM card for my mom which was damaged…", "content_html": "Its April 6th, 2011. I’m on my holidays — which is the so-called Study Holidays — and today I had to goto the AirTel office and the BSNL office to get my SIM card address verified and to get a duplicate SIM card for my mom which was damaged due to the long-term use. So saying, I had woke up late as usual, skipped my breakfast and started moving to the Coimbatore main bus stand at Gandhipuram to meet up with my friend Arumugam. I had planned to have my breakfast in a hotel but due to lack of time, we couldn’t have it and we rushed to the BSNL office first in the next bus. We had couple of fruit juices from the stalls due to the high summer heat on the streets and in the mid afternoon we reached the BSNL office.
\nUnfortunately, I had forget to take my backpack which had my ID card and photo which are required for the proof we had to submit at the office. Also I forgot to take my mom’s proof, so we could not accomplish the task planned at the office. With dismay on our faces, we had to come to my house again to take our required things for submitting the application form. We got the next bus to my home and notably Arumugam became the first NIETn to come to our house. We reached my house in half an hour and soon hurried after drinking pineapple juice and taking the required photos and photocopies of the address proof. We headed back to the streets and luckily I got my Voter ID at the Village Administrative Office on our way back. To withstand the burning heat, we once again had a tender coconut drink and had lunch at a restaurant nearby.
\nWe searched for the AirTel office in our area and I had one in my mind and on my Google Maps but again sadness swept our eyes since the office was under reconstruction. We went back to the bus stop in the scorching heat and caught the next bus. On our way, we saw the ad on one of the bus stops about the inauguration of the new Apple Store, known as the iPlanet. My friend just said it would be nice to see that shop, and immediately me being a Apple Fanboy, started dreaming of seeing my upcoming Macbook Pro at the iPlanet. I quickly took up my Ike (Nokia 5800) and fired up my Opera Mobile web browser to find the address and the phone number of the store and I found it in a jiffy. We called to the store and enquired about the opening times and was happy to know that it will be open till 9PM at night.
\nWe lots of excitement in my mind, we quickly went to the BSNL office, submitted the documents and got the duplicate SIM for my mom. I couldn’t wait to get to iPlanet, so without thinking anything about the money, we hired a auto-rickshaw as soon as we finished our job and started to iPlanet. It was located in one of my favorite areas at Coimbatore, known as R.S. Puram. We got down from the auto as soon as we reached and searched for the iPlanet in the neighbourhood but we couldn’t find it for 2~3 minutes. Then we walked a little and we were shocked to see a beautiful glass-glowed building standing out in front of us with the banner ‘iPlanet’. I was jumping in joy, took out my Ike and took a rough snap shown in the photo above. The building was so gorgeous that it simply became my favorite showroom in Coimbatore in seconds.
\nAlthough my friend Arumugam was hesitating to enter in, I ran inside the building filled with lovely Apple products everywhere. We were welcomed with a fresh Apple trainee and I asked to show me the Macbook Pro. Since he was new to the world of Macs, he couldn’t distinguish between the 15’ and the 17’ models so easily. I found out myself and tested out the beautiful glass trackpad and was simply enthralled by its beautiful aluminum unibody design. I asked him a couple of questions regarding the upcoming Mac OS X Lion Release and Education Pricing of the notebook. He was not aware of my questions so he had to check up with the store owner each and every time. After a few questions, he couldn’t take it, so he asked the owner itself to come and answer my questions. He told a good news that there will be a education pricing after 15 days from now and they will help me out in buying that after the release of Lion. They had noted my name, address and phone number to notify me about the changes which will be coming to the Macbook Pro soon.
\nThen once again I started taking a look at the Macbook Pro, by firing up Safari and taking it to http://www.parithi.com and seeing myself in the Facetime HD camera. Arumugam had his first taste with Macs and I was expecting a more astonished look in his face but I was rather disappointed. Then we took a look at the Macbook Air models, it was just looking gorgeous, like a device from the heaven. Then one of the goons at the shop made us angry by asking stupid questions like “What are your requirements?” with a stupid tone. We got very much irritated with his tone, and the owner soon washed him away from us telling him, that ‘those boys know what they want, you just move out!’. With a subtle smile on our faces, we moved on to my dream tablet, the iPad. We just saw our faces glimpsing on the glossy screen on the iPad and we took it in our hands. I couldn’t believe myself that all these were real and I was jumping with joy in the store itself. With fingers swiping the beautiful glass and apps flying here and there, all my iPad dreams finally came true. I launched Safari on the iPad with my forefinger and it just zoomed in on me and I launched my website on that lovely device. Here’s a snap where my site loads up on the Apple iPad :
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-04-06-my-day-at-the-iplanet-my-new-planet-here-in-coimbatore/0*1Hp3Z17q7SmNRLwA.jpg\")
I enquired about the release of the iPad 2 in India and the store guy said he’ll notify me after its released. Finally we bid good bye to the store and came out with minds filled with Apple goodness and had a refreshing drink at the fruit bar. Then we got the bus and came home. This could be one of the best days of my life!!! :) :) ;)
\n", "date_published": "2011-04-06T09:43:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/03/29/chilling-out-this-summer-literally/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/03/29/chilling-out-this-summer-literally/", "title": "Chilling Out This Summer..!! Literally..!!", "summary": "To My Blog: Long Time, No See! As for you guys, its March 29, and we’re getting ready to experience the summer with holidays, fun, cool shades, fruit juices, ice creams and oh yes, don’t forget the exams. The weather is starting to get…", "content_html": "To My Blog: Long Time, No See! As for you guys, its March 29, and we’re getting ready to experience the summer with holidays, fun, cool shades, fruit juices, ice creams and oh yes, don’t forget the exams. The weather is starting to get really hot, with evil mirages on the highways and blindfolding eye-sight, me and family had decided that its totally impossible to withstand the temperature these days in Coimbatore. It shoots upto 33°C maximum and goes below to 24°C minimum, thanks to Global Warming I guess :P. Anyways, to beat the heat, we had to think of someway to cool us down. We tried lots of fruits like watermelons, apples in our home for the past two weeks, I tried to drink ‘Sprite’ almost 3 days a week since I was obstructed by my friend Kirthika’s condition of not drinking more than 500 ml of soft drinks per week, but still no use of it. My mom couldn’t take the horrendous heat in our home during the afternoon where there is an unpleasant usual power-cut given by the paradoxic Governement of Tamilnadu. So saying, my mom told the situation to my dad, and we had no other choice to get an Air-Conditioner for our home.
\nWith no further delay, we had ordered a new A/C from our family’s most trusted company, Samsung. Its a 1.5 ton Split model named Samsung Purista [AS183BGC ] (for those curious geniuses who are wondering about the name, Purista is a treatment which works to inhibit bacterial growth, based on polyhexamethylene biguanide hydrochloride). Since, you’ve read the line inside the braces, I’m assuming that you are a genius and here are some more technical info about the A/C. It has a Bio-Sleeplus technology inside that automatically adjusts the temperature for giving us a pleasant and peaceful sleep during the night times so that we don’t feel very cold during the midnight. It also features a d’Light Cool Technology, which scans for the humidity and automatically adjusts the temperature for giving us an optimum temperature throughout the room. And it has the S-UTR Plus™ Compressor, Turbo Cooling, Smart saver, Inbuilt Stabilizer, Full HD Filter and bla bla blas. What I really like in this monster machine, is its cute and lovely white remote (the most beautiful remote controller in our home) which has a sweet lcd display and radium soft buttons that glows in the dark. Kewl huh? No? We’ll its kewl for me though. Unfortunately, but not disappointing, the A/C was installed to our main living room instead of my room, and it works simply superb. And oh, for those having an agaze look at the picture above, no donut for you. Its just a picture I got from flickr since I’m lazy to take a snap of our own new A/C :P. For more info about the Samsung Purista, check this out.
\n", "date_published": "2011-03-29T10:23:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/02/15/airtel-3g-blazing-fast-yet-tears-my-pockets/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/02/15/airtel-3g-blazing-fast-yet-tears-my-pockets/", "title": "AirTel 3g — Blazing Fast — Yet Tears My Pockets!", "summary": "Its February 15, and as I had mentioned in my previous post about my tour to Goa, I had subscribed to AirTel’s 3G plan that was worth ₹201 which gives a data plan for 250 MB. Since I was a bit busy in the tour last week, I didn’t get a…", "content_html": "Its February 15, and as I had mentioned in my previous post about my tour to Goa, I had subscribed to AirTel’s 3G plan that was worth ₹201 which gives a data plan for 250 MB. Since I was a bit busy in the tour last week, I didn’t get a chance to test the download speeds of the AirTel 3G network. Today, I had decided to test them out and I’ve used the popular speed testing website SpeedTest.net for benchmarking purposes. I’ve connected by Ike (Nokia 5800) to my workstation through the Nokia Ovi Suite 3 and it receives 90% of the 3G signal. The device uses HSDPA and it supports speeds upto 3.6 Mbps. I’ve benchmarked it with both Bluetooth and USB and got astounding results.
\nHere are the original benchmark results obtained from SpeedTest.net :
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-02-15-airtel-3g-blazing-fast-yet-tears-my-pockets/0*Sh_612kvyPNXryoU.jpg\")
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Although the data transfer speeds are mind-blowing, AirTel definitely tries to tear every Indian’s pocket with its inhuman data plans for experiencing the power of 3g. Last year, I was happy using BSNL 3g which had better 3g network coverage and affordable data plans, but AirTel certainly disappoints me after a year-long wait.
\n", "date_published": "2011-02-15T04:16:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/02/14/an-irksome-tour-to-goa/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/02/14/an-irksome-tour-to-goa/", "title": "An Irksome Tour To Goa!!", "summary": "Its February 14th, obviously its the day of the Month with the “Valentine’s Day” celebrated around the world. And also my tour to Goa has finally ended and I’m safe and sound in my basecamp. The Industrial Visit (will be referred as I.V…", "content_html": "Its February 14th, obviously its the day of the Month with the “Valentine’s Day” celebrated around the world. And also my tour to Goa has finally ended and I’m safe and sound in my basecamp. The Industrial Visit (will be referred as I.V from now on) fever was been spreading throughout our class for the past 4–5 months. Inspite of so many hurdles and opposition from our department staff till the last minute of starting the tour, we had managed to overcome them all. But that was not worth it. To say things clearly, this is what happened :
\nOur Head Of the Department (HOD) did not like the idea of the students planning the I.V to Goa, since he felt that it was unsafe for us. The organizers had selected Hyderabad, Bangalore just for name sake so that it might look like an Industrial visit instead of just an ordinary tour, but their main aim in their minds was to get to Goa for booze themselves with cheap alcoholic beverages available there. The organizers showed clear, false fostering over the students for making them getting interesting the I.V. for their own selfishness. However, 95% of the class agreed, paid the money and we were fully set to start our tour to Goa.
\nOur Class Advisor had told us that its was compulsory for every student to attend the class on that day, since if everyone had bunked the class for the excitement of I.V, the class would look empty. So like everyone except the organizers, I had went to college after preparing my backpack ready-to-go, the previous day itself. Our Ma’am got permission for us to leave the college at afternoon itself so that we can get ready for the tour without getting restless at the last minute. I started from the college at 1PM and reached home by 3.30PM and I verified my backpack for my clothes, medicine, first aid kit, snacks and water. I hired a taxi at 5PM to get to the railway station and I had told my friend Arumugam to recharge my mobile with an amount of ₹200. He had done the same but due to the misconception made by the shopkeeper who deliberately recharged me with a different plan which was worth ₹201 and was a 3G data plan. After reaching the railway station, we had fought with the shopkeeper and the AirTel customer-care to get the problem resolved. Finally at 7 PM, we had resolved the problem and I had been given with a 3G data plan with 250MB. However, my talktime balance was still low and therefore we had to buy two more recharge coupons worth ₹50, so that I could talk to my parents after getting to Goa.
\nAfter an hour, our train (West Coast Express) to Mangalore had arrived and with lots of excitement we entered it. Most of the boys had started drinking in the train itself and one of them made a big crisis in the middle of the journey that made him separated from everyone one of us till the end of the tour. Our mobile networks started to go out of our home network and they were on roaming. Me and Arumugam spent a sleepless night till morning because our organizers did not care about our seating arrangement.
\nWe had arrived at Mangalore at 5.30AM in the morning and we were waiting for our next train. We had filled up the ports in the railway with our mobile phones for charging them and we had our morning coffee. At 6.30, our train to Madgaon named Verna Express had arrived and we departed from Mangalore. The compartment was a chair car and it was a slow diesel train moving through tunnels and over beautiful rivers. We were forced to stop by various small stations in the country side an Me and my friends Muthu Sankar, Sadam, Shahul and Manikandan got down and took various photos at each of them. I also helped my fan Saranya to fetch drinking water from one of the stations while we were roaming with my handycam when our train was at halt for few minutes.
\nAt about 12PM, we had arrived at Madgoan (Margoa) train station and with tiresome sleeves, we took our backpacks and went out through the exit. We had waited for half an hour for our bus to arrive at the train station and I was busy shooting interviews with my mates about the train experience we had in the past two days. Later, we boarded the bus and went inside the city for having our lunch. It was about 3PM and the restaurants were out of seats for feeding us all. So we separated ourselves into groups and searched for other restaurants in the city. Me and my gang incidentally went inside a restaurant which was actually a Bar and we were scared of the surroundings. We had finished our lunch with hurry-burry and ran towards the ATM after realizing the expenses which we may incur in the following days might tear our pockets soon. After getting our wallets filled with cash, we ran towards our bus while everyone was waiting for us with dismay in their faces and set off to Hotel Solmar Exotic, which should be a 5-star hotel as told by our organizers. But when we reached there, we found that it was just a big mansion with a dirty swimming pool with no security for anyone. We were very disappointed and with sigh and anxiety we checked in to our rooms. Our room had a broken televsion with a 2–3 channels and my roommates (Sadam, Manikandan and Arumugam) was eager to watch the music channel 9XM. Our peacefulness didn’t last long since just after 15 mins, one of the organizers came to our room and told us that we need to change rooms since the girls were feeling uncomfortable with their existing rooms. We had a quarrel with him over this and to avoid any fights we decided to shift after our dinner. During the dusk of the evening, Me, Shahul and my roommates started searching for a tea stall to have some tea. Unfortunately we were not able to find any within our expanse. Then we found out that tea was available in our hotel itself for a price of ₹8. There was a heavy quarrel among the students regarding the look of the hotel and its location on the map. The hotel was totally insecure and the streets beside it were filled with pitch darkness during the night because of the absence of street lights. The organizers had told us that the hotel was looking beautiful when they had seen in the website, but to our eyes, it was a total disaster. Some of the kerala boys had raged with the organizers that they did not like their rooms and wanted immediate check out from this horrible place. The organizers calmed them down and started collecting an extra amount of ₹250 from each student for shifting to another hotel. Most of us did not like their sudden change and started to suspect them that they are trying to steal money from us. Finally the decision was set that we will be checking out the next day morning to another hotel.
\nAfter finishing the cat-fight, we decided to head out to the nearest vegetarian restaurant for having our dinner and soon realized that 99% of the restaurants in the city were actually Bars. We finished our lunch, bought some mineral water in the nearby pastry shop and started to head back to our hotel room. As I said above, we had to swap our rooms with girls since the organizers told us that it was insecure of them. But the tangible reason was that the girls had planned to swap rooms because their television was not working. We had been cheated by them and yet still my roomates did not lose their temper while I was burning with anger. For an hour, we talked about our day and plugged in our electronic gadgets for charging them up for the next day. Then the boys had went to the swimming pool to have the last-laugh and spent about 3 hours playing in the water during the dark night. I had went to sleep after receiving a call from my friend Kirthika who told me to sleep as soon as possible.
\nWe woke up in the morning at 7pm with frequent disturbances from Sadam’s alarm clock at 5am and we got ready to check out from our hotel. We had taken our belongings and boarded our bus. For breakfast, we searched for a restaurant nearby and finished it at 10am. Next we headed out to an old fort created by the Portugese. It was a a very beautiful fort surrounded by the sea on three sides and it had a vast expanse in the center. It also had a light house as a part of it, which looked very aged and darkened. There were few school children visiting the fort and few of the boys took photos with them and had lots of fun. After finishing the sightseeing, we exited the port and had some Nimbu-Soda (Carbonated Lemon Juice) near the bus. We boarded the bus and headed off to a restaurant by the beach. The Goa Beach was filled with colorful boats and parachutes flying here and there. There was a lot of water sports which we could try out for a certain amount price. I did not like to get into the water since I was not ready at that time, but my fellow mates got inside the water and had lots of fun. Me and my gang were walking by the beach with coke while Sankar was having his treat with a tin can of Beer. After enjoying the stay at the beach, we had to search the neighborhood for having our lunch. I did not like to have lunch at that time, so I bought myself a Kwality Walls Twister Zing to get my tummy filled.
\nAfter everyone finished their lunch, we boarded the bus back at 1.50PM and went to another rocky beach at 2.40PM. We took lots of photos and videos of our friends playing the water and we also tried to catch some small crabs crawling and hiding in the rocks. We spent about one and half an hour there and we started moving to our new hotel. We had arrived at the hotel at about 5PM and to our surprise, the name of the new hotel (Hotel Solmar) was the same as the one which we had checked out in the morning. It was all making sense, that the organizers had mixed up the hotel locations and had us all worry in vain because of their mistake. Finally, we had settled down and refreshed ourselves for dinner.
\n", "date_published": "2011-02-14T10:46:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-illusion/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-illusion/", "title": "Gallery : Illusion", "summary": "This Gallery post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika . Nothing in life is simple as it seems! This has GOT to be one of the Best illusion ever created. Incredible! If you watch the above images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr. Angry…", "content_html": "This Gallery post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\nNothing in life is simple as it seems!
\nThis has GOT to be one of the Best illusion ever created. Incredible!
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-01-09-gallery-illusion/0*h0gwZOTlHBVS54d8.jpg\")
If you watch the above images from your seat in front of the computer, Mr. Angry is on the left, and Mrs.Calm is on the right.
\nGet up from your seat, and move back 12 feet, and PRESTO!! they switch places!!
\nIt is said this illusion was created by
\nPhillippe G.Schyns and Aude Oliva of the Univ. of Glasgow .
\nThis proves that we may not be seeing what’s actually there, all the time!!
\n", "date_published": "2011-01-09T10:03:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-made-in-china/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-made-in-china/", "title": "Gallery : Made In China", "summary": "This post was sponsored by Lilly Deepika . MADE IN CHINA Anyone who bought an apartment here sure has a problem. Talk about a collapsed market! YES, IT’S An ENTIRE 13-STORY BUILDING IN CHINA LYING ON THE GROUND. They built 13 stories on…", "content_html": "This post was sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\nMADE IN CHINA
\nAnyone who bought an apartment here sure has a problem.
\nTalk about a collapsed market!
YES, IT’S An ENTIRE 13-STORY BUILDING IN CHINA LYING ON THE GROUND.
\nThey built 13 stories on grade, with no basement,
\nand tied it all down to hollow pilings with no rebar.
Don’t you feel better now that these are the folks that
\nmanufacture nearly EVERYTHING we buy and use today?
One more product “MADE IN CHINA”…
\n", "date_published": "2011-01-09T09:08:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-funny-but-interesting-young-to-old/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-funny-but-interesting-young-to-old/", "title": "Gallery : Funny But Interesting — Young to Old", "summary": "This gallery post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika .", "content_html": "This gallery post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\n", "date_published": "2011-01-09T08:55:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-rare-pictures-of-sachin-tendulkar/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/09/gallery-rare-pictures-of-sachin-tendulkar/", "title": "Gallery : Rare Pictures of Sachin Tendulkar", "summary": "This Post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika .", "content_html": "This Post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\n", "date_published": "2011-01-09T08:37:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/08/gallery-a-very-rare-parrot-flower/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2011/01/08/gallery-a-very-rare-parrot-flower/", "title": "Gallery : A Very Rare Parrot Flower", "summary": "This Gallery Post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika . This is a flower from Thailand . It is also a protected species and not allowed to be exported. This will be the only way we will be able to view this flower.", "content_html": "This Gallery Post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\nThis is a flower from Thailand .
\nIt is also a protected species and not allowed to be exported.
\nThis will be the only way we will be able to view this flower.
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-01-08-gallery-a-very-rare-parrot-flower/0*7rriAOvZN-h3TNrp.jpg\")
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This Gallery Post is sponsored by Lilly Deepika.
\nBladeless Fan
\nDyson fans use Air Multiplier technology to draw in air and amplify it. With no blades or grille, they are safe and easy to clean.
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Two Way Toothpaste
\nTwo way toothpaste is ideal for those who get angry with their partner for squeezing the toothpaste from the front.
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Infinite USB
\nInnovative USB plug designed to act as a USB hub when plugged in.
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Sixpack Bottle Carrier
\nIt can safely transport up to six beer, soft drink, or water bottles.
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Greenbo Rail Planter
\nSimply place your Greenbo planter on your railing, deck or fence. State of the art unique design assures its secure fit and stability.
\n![\"\"](\"https://parithi.me/images/2011-01-08-gallery-new-inventions/0*a0Uj2JHezMLUocam.jpg\")
Innovative Sewing Needle
\nWith a bit of pressure, the loop eye of Big Eye Needle expands to the size of a button hole — making threading a cinch!
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Butter Stick
\nButter on a stick from Japan will make a great addition to any kitchen.
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Upstanding Toothbrush
\nWhen the toothbrush is set down, it will sway momentarily until it reaches a balanced position — just like a tumble doll.
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Its January 4th 2011, the day after my Dad’s birthday but the thing what makes it really special is the NIIT J2EE Certification Exam held today. Yep, I’ve been studying at NIIT for the past 4 months for getting the certification for Java and J2EE Web Development and JSP. Unfortunately, the latter exam was being postponed again and again due to technical failures in the on-line servers and I had to wait for 3 weeks to write it. Finally, the exam was announced that it will be held today by my NIIT faculty on December 30th. She told me that I had to take a day’s leave on Jan 3rd so that I could concentrate on studying for the exam instead of wasting time in college. And I did that, I took two days leave from college (yesterday and today) and I was really tensed in writing the certification exam. Fortunately, the exam wasn’t that bad and I’ve managed to score well. And Guess what? I’m now NIIT certified Java and a J2EE Web Component with JSP Developer, and next-up, its Oracle Certified Professional exam for Java, which I believe that I will be taking it up by the end of this year.
\n", "date_published": "2011-01-04T12:38:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/31/my-top-10-new-year-resolutions-of-2011/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/31/my-top-10-new-year-resolutions-of-2011/", "title": "My Top 10 New Year Resolutions of 2011!!", "summary": "Hello Everyone!! Wish You All a Fantastic New Year 2011!! I hope you might have set your new year resolutions for this year. And Here’s my Top 10 New Year Resolutions for this year :) #10. Hello Twitter! I’m Back. Last year, I haven’t spent…", "content_html": "Hello Everyone!! Wish You All a Fantastic New Year 2011!! I hope you might have set your new year resolutions for this year. And Here’s my Top 10 New Year Resolutions for this year :)
\nLast year, I haven’t spent much time on sharing my updates on the popular Social Network Twitter. So I’ll be using it much frequently this 2011 and will be connecting to Facebook as well. I’ll also be connecting the Twitter Profile to my Facebook Page so that my fans & well-wishers who ‘Like’ me on http://www.facebook.com/ElamParithiArul can get my updates from Twitter on Facebook.
\nThis is self-explanatory, isn’t it? Anyway, I’m going to ditch my habit of buying candybars and chocolates every evening after college and going to take a leap for healthy and a regular food style this year, whether I like it or not! And that includes, More Physical Workouts, More Brainteasing Exercises for a better Me!
\nHaving understood Frederick Smith’s quote “Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something” and I’ll try to accept failure, destroy objections, and start moving ahead no matter what comes on the way to the road to success.
\nAs you maybe already knowing, I own a Top Class State-of-the-Art Powerful PC, a PlayStation 3, a PSP, a Sony HandyCam, Three Websites, Two Mobile Phones and a Nokia Smart Phone. Also two unused PlayStation 2 consoles, an Old Compaq Laptop and a Mac Mini. And Still I dream of getting an Apple iPhone 4, iPad, 17′ Macbook Pro, Xbox 360 with Kinect, Google Nexus 2, etc. Yep, This does cross the line and so from this year, I’ll be trying to stop dreaming of buying those (for now) and get the most of the things which I already own. And Besides, I haven’t even done anything useful with what I have now and feeling ashamed of having an rarely updated Tech Blog and for being a “Nothing-To-Sell” Ovi Publisher.
\nThere has been no useful animation or videos lately from our Studio. And we assure that there will be a change in that this year.
\nNothing new about this, I love to help the poor and those disabled who try to earn by doing some kind of work instead of asking people for free money (A.K.A Begging). I don’t roam much in the streets and so I do not get much chance to help them. Now that I have my own Internet Banking Account, I can help them through online charity services every month instead of spending my money lavishly in buying games for my PS3 and PSP. That said, I hope in doing my best in making the World a better place to live than the last year.
\nAfter getting a lot of feeback regarding my sites and blogs, Finally I’ve decided to give a treat to those Tech-savvy geeks and for those who love to learn about me. So, 2011 assures habitual updates on my tech blog and entertaining posts on my personal blog.
\nThis Year puts a Full-Stop to Teenage and still I don’t have a Driving License. Moving that to the Top Priority List, I’ll be on the watch for getting that as soon as possible.
\nEveryone is going to be seeing a new Parithi this year after learning what 2010 taught me. No Fear to attend calls. Better Attitude. Taking Fun to the Next Level!! Get Ready Expect the Unexpected from me, Better than Last Year :P
\nOf course, This is completely contrary to what I had set as a new year resolution for the last year. I ignored people who treated me special and tried to prove myself special to those who did not have any interest to know about me or those who ignored me. Feeling sorry for those, I will still make the latter realize what they’re missing from me WITHOUT ignoring those who really love me and care about me.
\nThat’s It for this year, although there are still some minor resolutions such as new language learning, which are not worthy to be posted in my blog. Thanks for reading and let me know what you have decided to do for this year through the comments below. Let’s have a Great Enjoyable Year Ahead Together!! Again, Happy New Year Everybody!!
\n", "image": "https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1609153315697-28eeea0c02a3?ixid=MXwxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHw%3D&ixlib=rb-1.2.1&auto=format&fit=crop&w=1234&q=80", "date_published": "2010-12-31T07:00:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/30/people-who-made-my-2010-worth-it/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/30/people-who-made-my-2010-worth-it/", "title": "People Who Made My 2010 Worth It!", "summary": "And by People, I mean my friends. Yes, It’s December 30 with more or less 30 hours for us to meet 2011 and its time we think about the people who made this year very special. So, In this post, I’ll try to enumerate ‘some’ of them who really…", "content_html": "And by People, I mean my friends. Yes, It’s December 30 with more or less 30 hours for us to meet 2011 and its time we think about the people who made this year very special. So, In this post, I’ll try to enumerate ‘some’ of them who really made my 2010 worth it.
\nFirstly, Its my Parents
\nSecond to none, although discouraging me most of the time. They are still the #1 Care takers better than anyone.
\nInspiration, Attitude Developer and Role Model :
\nNalini
\nLogical Encourager:
\nGanesh Ponraju
\nBlind Encouragers:
\nKirthika
\nPrince
With me, All the way:
\nPanneer Selvam
\nArumugam
\nand other NIETns
Long Time, No See Friend (after 8 years) :
\nSai Prasanth
\nDeepak
Still keeping in touch through Social Networks & Texting :
\nSuhirtha Muhil
\nShubham Shresth
\nHari Prasanth
\nDeepak
P.S This list is not written with top-to-bottom priority. Everyone (and others who are not in the list) has the same level of importance in making this year worthy.
\n", "date_published": "2010-12-30T10:56:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/27/the-automaton-a-parithi-bytes-software-game/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/27/the-automaton-a-parithi-bytes-software-game/", "title": "The Automaton : A Parithi Bytes Software/Game", "summary": "Its December 27th 2010, we were spending the last Monday of this year inside the lab, the whole day. We didn’t have much to do today, so most of us were just exploring the software installed in the computers. I was playing with Visual Basic…", "content_html": "Its December 27th 2010, we were spending the last Monday of this year inside the lab, the whole day. We didn’t have much to do today, so most of us were just exploring the software installed in the computers. I was playing with Visual Basic by arranging some command buttons here and there and quick caught up with a creative idea of a simple “Hit-It-When-You-See-It” Game. After an hour, I got everything finished and gave it to my friend and my neighbor in Lab, Deenuji . He took the task of testing the software and I was quite amazed how he found certain bugs so quickly which I was not expecting while I was creating it. Having understood the importance of Software Testing, I moved on with the development and removed many bugs in the next hour. He was not able to cheat the game after it was fully finished, and therefore we had finally created a fully functional simple clicking game known as “The Automaton”. The name of the software doesn’t relate to it much but we just kept it, since it was generating strings at the end of the game. This is the first product of Parithi Bytes Software and its available for download.
\nYou can download the Game/Software from here.
\nIf you find any bugs, have suggestions, need the source code or having problems downloading the file, please comment below and I’ll be back with you as soon as I can. We hope you enjoy it as much as we did!
\n", "date_published": "2010-12-27T10:54:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/24/getting-ready-to-be-taller-stronger-sparkier/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/24/getting-ready-to-be-taller-stronger-sparkier/", "title": "Getting Ready to be Taller. Stronger. Sparkier!", "summary": "Changed the post title a little bit so that GlaxoSmithKline doesn’t sue me for using their Horlicks tag-line. Anyways, its December 24th 2010 and people around me are getting ready to celebrate Christmas in a wonderful way tonight. And it…", "content_html": "Changed the post title a little bit so that GlaxoSmithKline doesn’t sue me for using their Horlicks tag-line. Anyways, its December 24th 2010 and people around me are getting ready to celebrate Christmas in a wonderful way tonight. And it makes me wonder, “What have I done to myself effectively this year?” and disappointed to know the answer is Nothing! Well, there is still 6 days time for bidding good bye to 2010 and there’s a bunch of holidays to do something. Following, one of my favorite friends and current role model, Nalini‘s advice to become like john cena, I’ve started taking some work outs for the past week and been walking a lot more in the streets than the usual. Really it feels great now and I love doing it, although I broke my left arm a bit due to very high stress and I don’t see much improvement in myself. Instead of sitting in front of PC and laptop most of the time, I’m getting a chance to spend quality time with my family and friends.
\nBesides that, I’ve also been trying my hands on cooking by trying out recipes from my mom’s recipe book. I’ve tried making a simple Christmas Cake using simple ingredients from the kitchen and it did come out pretty well from the oven. I spend time in reading the ordinary printed Newspaper in the mornings, instead of waking up my PC from hibernation and watching what CNET and Twitter has for me. Gratefully, I feel much more happy living my life as a normal teenager than a tech geek in this winter and I hope I will continue to be like this till I get to what I’ve written in my post title. That said, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year 2011!! Sayonara!!
\n", "date_published": "2010-12-24T12:32:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/19/im-too-sick-of-being-sick/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/12/19/im-too-sick-of-being-sick/", "title": "I’m Too Sick of Being Sick!!", "summary": "Its December 19, 2010 which used to be my big day for writing the NIIT J2EE Certification Examination. Unfortunately, I had been suffering from severe Cold accompanied by fever from yesterday. There is no clear reason how I got it, and I’m…", "content_html": "Its December 19, 2010 which used to be my big day for writing the NIIT J2EE Certification Examination. Unfortunately, I had been suffering from severe Cold accompanied by fever from yesterday. There is no clear reason how I got it, and I’m still wondering about it. Anyhow, I had prepared for the exam two days earlier itself and I was not that much worried for the exam. Finally today morning, I started moving to NIIT for attending the exam. Things started getting really worse, I was not even able to see things clearly since my temperature was pretty high (102°C). My staff said that my exam was scheduled to start at 1.00 PM IST. The clock ticked and ticked away but like the Inception movie, time was running super slow. I longed for so much time to get that exam finished and to get back home as soon as possible.
\nAt 12.35PM, I was in total black out. I started shivering but luckily I got back to myself after a few minutes. I almost lost the confidence of passing the test due to the stupid illness. Later I told about my situation to one of my friends named Kirthika and she said ‘all the best’ and told that god will help me out during the exam. Fortunately, around 1.50 PM, there occurred a server problem and we were told to wait for the things to get solved. I was really annoyed about this and I was getting very hungry too. And Guess what? Finally at 2.05 PM, my faculty said that the problem is not resolvable at that time and the exam has been postponed to December 25th (Christmas). Even thought it turned out to be a good news at that time, its actually a Bad news. Because, due to the enthusiasm, I lost my fever and cold in a jiffy and I really wanted to write that exam so badly. So I guess it was just an EXAM FEVER, after all!! :P
\n", "date_published": "2010-12-19T12:25:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/10/15/an-adventure-in-the-wild/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/10/15/an-adventure-in-the-wild/", "title": "An Adventure In The Wild!", "summary": "Its October 15, 2010 and we are going to have pooja holidays for the next 3 days. We were celebrating it in our college and unfortunately, it was pretty boring. So we decided to head out on an adventure that day, so Me and my friends…", "content_html": "Its October 15, 2010 and we are going to have pooja holidays for the next 3 days. We were celebrating it in our college and unfortunately, it was pretty boring. So we decided to head out on an adventure that day, so Me and my friends Arumugam, Sadam Hussain and Abdul Jaleel planned to make a quick move after college was over that afternoon. We did not have any maps or gps to point us to the nearest bus stop, so we had to make our own way through the sick turns here and there in the woods and the barren lands. We got some advice from old people living in the village to make our destination much easier to reach. The adventure was headed by Sadam and narrated by Arumugam, while Jaleel was playing most of the time on the dangerous adventure. We had to get drenched by the pouring monsoon rain on the way too. I took up the responsibility of capturing the whole adventure on my Ike (Nokia 5800) which were going to be later edited by Arumugam. After 3 hours, we finally reached our destination (Bus Stop) and headed back home. Happy Holidays everyone!! :)
\nUpdate : Arumugam’s video has been updated on his blog. You can check it out here.
\n", "date_published": "2010-10-15T11:46:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/10/15/the-usb-crisis/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/10/15/the-usb-crisis/", "title": "The USB Crisis!! :(", "summary": "Actually, I should be posting this as a good news but unfortunately things didn’t end up so well. It all started on October 9th, 2010 when I planned to get myself a Motor Bike (Yamaha Fazer). Along with my parents, I went to the Yamaha…", "content_html": "Actually, I should be posting this as a good news but unfortunately things didn’t end up so well. It all started on October 9th, 2010 when I planned to get myself a Motor Bike (Yamaha Fazer). Along with my parents, I went to the Yamaha Showroom, here at Coimbatore, IN. I tested out the Fazer for half an hour and It just wasn’t my thing for that moment. So, I dumped the idea of getting a bike and instead I planned to get a PC, which later turned out to be some sort of Workstation. I headed to CompuSoft Systems, where I ordered the components for my new PC. The Components were :
\n1. Intel DX58SO Extreme Series Motherboard
\n2. Intel i7 Processor
\n3. Transcend 6GB RAM
\n4. Seagate 1TB HDD
\n5. Logitech MM Keyboard and Mouse
\n6. Samsung 24″ Full HD Monitor
I placed the order and the dealers told me that my PC will assembled with two business days. So, I waited and on October 11th, we called them back to check the status of my PC. They gave a positive reply that everything has been assembled and its ready for delivery. That day, at 6pm we went to the store to take our PC and we came back home at 9pm. I was curious to turn on the PC, I formatted the drive and installed Windows 7 Professional to the hard drive. Soon everything was setup perfectly and was ready to do some work. I started off by plugging in my friend’s (Panneer) Flash Drive to my front USB port of my cabinet and was disappointed to see that Windows was not responding to it. I thought something might be wrong with the flash drive, so I removed it and plugged in my flash drive. It was same case, windows was not detecting too. The lights on the flash drive just blinked for a second or two and then turned off. In spite of knowing that something is wrong with the USB ports, I connected my DELL LASER Mouse to the front USB port as the mouse has a good plug-n-play interface and its visually interactive. I was hoping it would work but for my bad time, the mouse didnt work too. Still not knowing real cause of the problem, I removed the mouse and plugged in my Ike (Nokia 5800) with the USB cable to the same front USB port and I was astonished to see that Windows detected it as an “Unkown Device” which soon gave an error message “The Device is malfunctioning. Please remove the device and plug it again.” Then I plugged the mouse to the USB ports on the Backside of the cabinet and was shocked to see that the mouse was not working. I restarted the computer three times and it was was of no use.
\nTerribly upset about the condition, me and my dad opened the cabinet to see what was wrong with the USB ports in the front and we were shocked to see that the stupid fools at the store, plugged the USB interface to some other port in the motherboard!! This simple mistake caused such a terrible tragedy to my devices killing them one by one!! The USB ports which usually takes less than 5volts for working properly were supplied with 12volts from the motherboard which was the main cause of the death of my devices. Now, having lost 2 flash drives, a laser mouse and the usb circuits in my phone, I had to buy them all of them back again . But still I don’t know how to solve my USB problem in my phone. If you have a solution for it, please post it below on the comments section. And thanks for reading.. :( :(
\n", "date_published": "2010-10-15T03:49:00.000Z", "tags": [] }, { "id": "https://parithi.me/2010/09/01/cant-wait-for-youtube-s-life-in-a-day-film-premiere/", "url": "https://parithi.me/2010/09/01/cant-wait-for-youtube-s-life-in-a-day-film-premiere/", "title": "Can’t wait for YouTube’s Life In A Day Film Premiere!", "summary": "You should be knowing that on July 24th, YouTube conducted a worldwide upload event for filming the Documentary Film “Life In a Day” as announced on July 6th, 2010. YouTube Users from 197 countries participated in the event and uploaded…", "content_html": "You should be knowing that on July 24th, YouTube conducted a worldwide upload event for filming the Documentary Film “Life In a Day” as announced on July 6th, 2010. YouTube Users from 197 countries participated in the event and uploaded over 80,000 videos in 24 hours. Some of which will be selected for the film and will be edited by Oscar-award Winner Ridley Scott. The Movie will be screened at the Sundance Film Festival on January 2011. I was really depressed on seeing all of the videos and I felt sorry for myself for not taking part in the event eventhough I had lots of leisure time that day (Duh! I own a Sony Handycam too ). Anyways, Today, Youtube starts the ad campaign for the upcoming film and I just cant wait to see it!
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\nThis is to inform you that I have started my new personal Blog. I’ll be sharing all my thoughts and status updates from here from now on.
\nHave Fun!!
\nBye!
\n- Parithi
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