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If you drink Ethanol, you will dance
If you drink Methanol, others will dance for you

-- With inputs from ரூம் போட்டு யோசிப்பவர்கள் சங்கம்.

Exploring Vettiness

Selva has posted about the infamous jelly-bean incident during the Trent Bridge test.

இத வெச்சு நம்ம ஆளுங்க புது level-ல பெட்டிங் பண்ணுவானுங்களே! Opponents would be paid to throw jelly beans when Indian tail is batting - நம்ம ஊர் கிருக்கு மாய்க்கானுங்க செஞ்சாலும் செய்வானுங்கோ!

BCCI's own Cricket League?!?

Oh boy! ICL has apparently scared the bejeezus out of BCCI that they have announced the start of Professional Cricket League. BCCI has asked Sunny Gavaskar to format the new league.

They say "Haste makes waste", don't they? Let's wait and watch...

And by the way, this will come as a bolt out of the blues for BCCI. Mr. Pawar & co, its India - think twice before you do anything. The politicians are available 24x7 to screw things up. In hindsight, is it Dalmiya who is giving Pawar a taste of his own medicine?

Bheema - Music Review

Sublime lyrics, undecipherable syllables, zestfully rendered songs with some brilliant score and a "deja vu" feel make up "Bheema" - Harris Jayaraj is back again. 6 cool songs in the album with varying amount of "Harris Gibberish" (yeah, the unreadable, undecipherable syllables that he is so fond of and starts his songs with).

We can probably have Gibberish Quotient (GQ) for all Harris' albums :-)

Oru Mugamo - Terrific lyrics suggest a potential Vikram intro song. It may be picturized on the lines of "Karka Karka". Krish and Naresh Iyer on song here - My pick of the album!

Harris Gibberish - 2%.

Mudhal Mazhai - Beautifully sung. Sweet Lyrics. Hariharan-Mahathi combo after Saamy take you to a different level altogether. A slight feel of "deja vu".

Harris Gibberish - slightly pronounced.

Rangu Rangamma - Anybody who claim to have passed the Test of Tamil Movies as Ph.D material (TOTMP) should find out w/o even hearing the song that this is an item number. It sounds good, a deja vu feel... yet, a must have for long drives!

Siru Parvaiyaale - Karthik/Harini special. An overdose of Harris' fond syllables makes this song sound a bit irritable at times. Thamarai's lyrics deserve special mention.

Harris Gibberish - 4%

Ragasiya KanavugaL - Sweet melody from Hariharan and Madhushree. I do not understand why do music directors go for North Indian singers who cannot pronounce Tamil syllables ('zh' et. al) properly? There are a few exceptions - Shreya Ghosal is one. Madhushree emulates Udit Narayanan - Tamil Roadkill!

Enadhuyire - A very very different number rendered by Chinmayi and Nikhil Mathew.

Overall, this album may not please the music purists but its certain to go down really well with the masses. Expect it to be a chartbuster already!

P.S: GQ - 2.5 on 5 [On the lines of Figure of Merit ;-)]