Friday, March 30, 2007

போங்கு...

I had been to a mall last weekend and just could not digest the fact below.

A good plain jeans/carpenter/boot cut - $15~20
முட்டி, தொடை and other areas-la நாய் கடிச்சு விட்டா மாதிரி இருக்கிற Jeans - $70.

I asked my friend... "என்ன டா இது சொறிஞ்சு உட்ட Jeans ellam 70 nu சொல்ரான்?". He said "workmanship skills cost".

நல்ல போங்கு டா டேய்... ஒரு blade இருந்தா நான் கூட தான் இத செய்வேன்!

Tuesday, March 27, 2007

தத்துவம்

Yet another "தத்துவம்" from the stables of வெட்டி people - Sports this time

விக்கெட் விழுந்தா விக்கெட் கீப்பர் சிரிக்கலாம், ஆனா
கோல் விழுந்தா கோல் கீப்பர் சிரிக்க முடியுமா?

ரூம் போட்டு யோசிப்பாங்க போல

Friday, March 23, 2007

சங்கு

"Sehwag, Please don't make this Sachin's last game in WC's" - This was a placard in Port of Spain enroute to India's humiliating exit from cricket WC 2007. Do you see the anguish in those words? KG has observered another placard in the same game

A couple of quick observations at this instant
  • Fans are going to go berserk back home. This time, no construction sites... வீடு பூந்து அடிப்பாங்க. இன்னிக்கு rod தான் டி!
  • India may be the first team to catch a flight back home as Pak may be detained in Jamaica.
How is this?!?

Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Boo Boo Daylight Savings!

-> Bugged by the spring tradition of setting the clocks forward?
-> Waking up early because you are still not accustomed to the time change? I belong here... infact I don't even need an alarm now-a-days :-(

Here is something you can take solace from.

Time for crap...

Come World Cups or big events in popular sport, "vetti" people come up with crap lined up from nowhere and predict who would win the World cup. They came up with one last year after Italy won the football WC and have now extended it to the cricket WC currently underway in the Carribbean. Here is the theory.

ஒக்காந்து யோசிப்பாய்ங்களோ? Of course, I want India to win the WC. அதில் எந்த மாற்றமும் இல்லை :-)

But still, I found a flaw in that. Pope did not die in 1981 - there was an assassination attempt and he survived. எங்ககிட்டயேவா? :-)

Saturday, March 17, 2007

I am not taking it back...

Whatever may have happened today, call it even a St.Patrick's day reverse carnage from the minnows, I am not taking my word back on this.

P.S: Pak is out of the world cup for all practical/theoretical purposes, India are in their footsteps.
P.P.S: This is my 50th post :-)

Friday, March 16, 2007

Minnow Bashing

Cricketing records kept tumbling in St.Kitts. The reason? Heavy-weights South Africa are playing the minnows Holland. The Dutch were torn apart so bad had it been a 50-over game, SA would have plundered 500 runs, a record no one has ever thought about so far. The rain gods ensured that it does not happen. But it could soon become a reality with 6 minnows waiting to get bashed in this WC.

A quick look at the records that were shattered today.
  • Gibbs clobbered Dan van Bunge (pronunced van Bunga) for six sixes in an over - a record that so far had its place twice in first class cricket. Look at that kid. I instantly remembered this Vadivel dialogue on seeing van Bunge - ஒரு பச்சை மண்ண போட்டு துவச்சு த்வம்சம் பண்ணிருக்கியே டா யேன்டா இப்புடி?
  • Maximum number of sixes in a WC innings - 18
  • Maximum number of century partnerships in an innings - 3

And as if this were not enough, Johnnie Walker had pledged $1 Million in charity if someone hits six sixes in an over. That has become a reality now :-)

All these lead me to the question - Why do these teams win the toss and put the opposition in? Perhaps they think getting bundled out for a cheap score is more embarassing? But the duration of the travail would be much less batting first. They bat second, its the TV companies that ring their cash registers.

Next question - What is the need for 16 teams to play in this WC? Agreed that the game of cricket needs to be developed in the associate nations. Use "Money" to get the infrastructure ready in those countries. Conduct tournaments among the countries so that their game develops and then launch the top two in the international stage with the others. Not all 8. And please don't let them make their debut against the professionals. This certainly does not augur well for the associate countries who would certainly be distraught at the prospect of the "bashing". The matches that associate nations play must be accorded International status.

Michael Holding drew flak when he chided the concept of a 16-nation WC but one would realize how true he was after today's carnage in St.Kitts.

And finally, contributing to news as always is Messers Duckworth and Lewis with their dumb formula. The formula has helped the referee arrive at this conclusion - "to win the game in the event of rain, the Dutch will be required to make (their eventual final total) 132 in less than a single delivery". (Source: Cricinfo)

T.Nagar in Downtown Hartford

5.45PM - My friends and I were waiting for the bus to go back home. There was a huge traffic pile up every street and even in nearby Interstate ramps. "Mama" was omnipresent controlling traffic. The bus that usually comes at 5.40 and starts at 5.45 did not arrive till 6.30.

A cop parked his car on the road in an attempt to regulate traffic on a one-way street! He supposedly didn't know what he was doing. Buses usually turn right and arrive at the stop. Courtesy the cop, all buses were forced to divert towards the left (its a 50 degree turn only).

An official from the transport dept came around announcing that buses would start from a different place and so a crowd of close to 75 people ran towards the other boarding point which was about 250 feet away.

Based on our experiences in Chennai, we firmly believed that the cop will move his car and so, did not travel the full distance towards the new boarding point. We were waiting on the pavement and guess what? the cop moved the car away and the transport official came about apologizing to everybody asking people to go back. One could not hear the flurry of words people had reserved for that cop... siva sivaa... தேன் வந்து பாயுது காதினிலே...

This summarizes a daily routine in T.Nagar or any other big terminus in Chennai albeit with a difference... The transport official wouldn't have had any courtesy in Chennai, first to go about asking people to move and then apologize and ask them to move back.

Tuesday, March 13, 2007

//SYSIN DD DUMMY

I was thinking that Parliament was one place where our மாண்புமி்கு மஹாபாவிகள் did not bully/throw things at their fellow colleagues. But it is not to be anymore. The Union environment minister T.R.Balu was man-handled by a group of morons from West Bengal and the reason for that - misinterpretation of an amendment by the attackers. Who have we elected to represent us? All மஹா மேதைகள் eh?!?

One way that I can think of inorder to prevent the jokers that we have elected from rushing towards the "Well" is to create a real pit inside the premesis.

And by-the-way, what was Mr. Honorable Speaker doing in the melee? Shouting "Pleej, pleej take your seat"? We don't have speakers, do we? All we have is yet another SYSIN DD DUMMY

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Veerasamy

"Veerasamy" - A truck load of Vijaya T.R's insane family dreck on our laps!

People watch T.R's movies for "unintentional comedy" but this one is a heap of crap - Just Irrrrrrrritating. If you have not watched the movie yet, here is more reason why you should not watch it.

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

"Sourav" Saris

Even if Sourav Ganguly tries his best to stay away from limelight, there are people waiting to bring some focus on him - this time, its the "Sourav" crazy Bengali handloom weavers.

Handloom weavers? Yes. Guess what they have planned - "Sourav Ganguly Saris". The man who has made a fairy tale comeback into the national cricket team and is rearing to go on the 22 yards in the Carribbean, will make an appearance in the 6 yard and 9 yard saris back home.

Its a known fact that his fans in Bengal are die hard and will do anything right from burning effigies on the street to preparing a "green" wicket in Eden Gardens, but this one is out of the box. It will be interesting to see the response of people. குடும்பத்துல குழப்பம் வராம இருந்தா சரி :-)

Sourav is supposedly featured in the "Tangail Tanter" saris and the weavers seem to have put in a great amount of painstaking effort to weave the piece. More details here.

ஒரு மனுஷன நிம்மதியா இருக்க விட மாட்டாங்களே...