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Friday, 31 December 2010

Two jobs !! Story of my work life

Its the last day of the year , here I am sitting in my nice rotating chair , staring at all the meeting rooms and other cubicles for signs of life nearby.. Its 10 in the morning , and still the whole office is deserted , even lights are not switched on , no sound of the usual keystrokes in the keyboard , no regular chat messages sound , and it looks like its Sunday . . . Still , am sincere , here I am in office , don know what to do.  ( I don have leave's to take , I need them later !! ) . And whats more interesting than sitting in your desk  with a high speed internet, with no people  to stare at your monitors . So here I am , the sincere , in my place from 830 am !!
Even in regular days , people turn up late in the morning , and thats what is the symbol of a product based company,people tell .. Its good and bad too !!
Good thing ,there is no time line , just come and go whenever yo r comfortable , but defn shd be here when your team is in need of you...
Bad thing , when work is heavy , u cant leave at your ease , even after 7,8 u hav to stay in here..

So , here I am , its 10.15 now , still no signs of life.. So wat do I do , i am just explorin the contents in my hard disk , still nothing interesting, songs I thought , no its already deserted office , and sound ll be clearly audible outside , as I don have a earphone  ( though there are no people to hear my songs , or to stare at me for hearing songs, still its a part of my conscience ) . So I was staring , at the desktop, there is a shortcut titled " SAP Logon " , i thought ok its been 2 hours now , I didn even open my outlook to check the official mails , while I had facebook and gmail opened in my chrome , the moment my system booted.. So I opened my outlook , waited for it to update its folders, and then came a mail , stating , Manager on leave today.. Woah !!
Wat a feel it gives you , that too for a fresher , no words can tel yo tat ,  hav to feel tat!! So I minimized outlook too , and again I saw "SAP Logon"  , I thought no way !! , How many times do i do the same , create a bank structure , create a loan product , create a customer , no no no no  !! My CPU inside my head was telling me not to do the same today too..
So I waited for my frens to come , Oops , one of my close pal in company wen to Goa for new year celeb, other guy is coming late today !!
So its 10.30 now , I thought why don I post what I am doin here , so here I am drafting down my work here..

So , 2010 is going to end.. What a year it has been for me !!
I graduated with distinction , so now am Sivaram.S B.Tech .. ( Am Engineer Sivaram daddy , like Varanam Airam style ) .
I joined my first job " Systems Software Engineer " at Hewlett-Packard, June 21st 2010.  I was in networking wing of HP-UX , its all confidential , not to be told outside, I tell myself , " avlokula namba worth ila ,ena terium enaku, perusa confidentiality nu feel panra " , ( I don kno anything in it , so there is no breach of Confidentiality Clause,am not worthy of it  )  .. So it was a happy 115 days in HP , doing nothing other than the communicator chats , reading the same page of the document of the project, not even proceeding one page a day.  We were a batch of 31 , though count was decreasing week by week , stil I enjoyed being there, with all those people from various parts of the country, struggled a lot as I know only Tamil n English, and people wer alwas speakin in Hindi .. I got quite a no. of frens there, and one of them actually inspired me to write a blog !! I had a nice mentor , there , so down to earth , helping me out everywhere , adviced me for my   career , even told me to join SAP , guided me a lot , even told me how to quit , how to speak to the hr etc..
Its rare to get a mentor , to guide yo even to write a resig letter !!


So I quit , now joined SAP ,on Oct 18,2010, its been 78 days here !! Am enjoying SAP. I felt more comfortable , its going good, and again got a nice team , nice frens .. Going good !! Having a nice gang here too hang around with  , i feel like college again , chatting afer lunch ,jus strolling around , woah nice , and I get paid for it !!


These are the significant happenings in this year , a couple of important family functions too , my grandparent's sadabishekam and my sister's engagement also..

And other significant happenings , I saw , a test match live in Chinnaswamy stadium , first time I am experienced seein match in ground.

And most important of all , I started writing this blog this year ! ( Date , check out my first post's date )

Wats this , sudden sound of life , some guy ping'ed me in communicator, atlas my frnd came..going for my tea !!!
I thank God ,for a good year 2010  and hope for a good 2011 too  !! Wishing yo too the same..

Regards ,

Sunday, 19 December 2010

A tribute to evergreen comedians of tamil cinema

Cinema , in its early stage was considered to be one of the greatest inventions in Science , which was out of reach for most of the people, time progressed, and now its really a part and parcel of our life..  Started as a medium for educating people, now its gone far from its initial objective.. As Maniratnam , one of India's great directors has quoted in his movie  'Iruvar ' , cinema is like a medium to convince people , to draw people's attention , which is far more powerful than poems,stories, articles , journals..
Now , whether boon or bane , cine stars are more attracted to making money than the passion for it . And almost , whoever has convinced the people on screen as a hero , is considered to be a real-life hero ..And those hero's utilize that following for their political reasons , as well as social welfare activities..But there are some , whom everybody admires , still not in the political arena or even small screen or even in ad's which help them make a lot of money..

Cinema , now has evolved a lot and one of its primary motto is to entertain people and , comedians perform a vital role in it. One such pair is Koundamani and Senthil.. One of the evergreen pairs of comedians which Tamil Cinema has produced.
They are fondly called as "Laurel and Hardy of Tamil Cinema".

Goundamani , originally born in a village in Coimbatore,  was interested in theatrical dramas and was actively a part of it from his early days. His original name was Mani , and when he entered into cinema at the age of 16 , he used to counter everyone with his one-liners or one-word witty answers, was called as Counter-Mani , and later it became Goundamani..

Senthil , born in Ramanthapuram district on the other hand , did not have interest in dramatics initially , he ran away from his home at the age of 12 , and was working as bar-attender in a bar , and a sales boy in a oil shop. Thats where he realized his talent of timing , people were coming to him just to speak with him for sometime , so that they can get relieved from their daily hectic work life.  So he nurtured his skill , and then later joined with Goundamani in cinema..

They are very hilarious , and they have produced some outstanding comedies in Tamil Cinema , they were almost part of all movies , and they were ruling the roost for almost two decades. They were just amazing in their body language, timing , and their dialogue delivery. They were and one of the best in Slapstick comedies till date.

Few famous comedies which the duo has made, the "vazha palam " joke , in  the movie "Karakattakaran" , and in the same movie , the car joke , the one dealing with the history of the car, Gentleman where the duo perfomed many rib-tickling jokes with the backdrop of westernization , and in Indian , RTO and a agent comedy is still known widely , and cheered by all generation of people.  And  one of the best evergreen comedies ever , in the movie 'Jai Hind ' where Goundamani plays a cop and Senthil comes in his dream in various avatar's , like Sandalwood smuggler Veerapan , Puli kuti,puna Kuti , and 'Lucky Man' playing roles of Yeman and ChitraGupta ,too name a few..

Goundamani's one liners are even now famous and still always a part in cinema , to mention a few , " Arasial'la idalam sadaranam pa' , ' Start Music ' , 'Ida poye thanjavur'la irukuru kalvetla eludi,angae utkaru,pinnadi vara thalaimuraiku thevai padum ' , 'Nan pathavadu pass , neenga eight fail na', ..

Later at one point of time , they gave way for the youngsters and they have laid a path for the up-coming comedians..To mention a few highlights of Goundamani and Senthil , the duo did not even endorse one product, while the whole set of Cine actors were earning huge sum in ad's . Goundamani said no to small screen serials, ad's , and even never expressed his political feelings and ideas to the media..

Even now , Goundamani attends important functions in Cine field, but never lashes out  comments or his ideas about others to the media...

One of the evergreen actor !!!

Start Music !! Adra Adra Adra !!