<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036</id><updated>2011-11-06T01:39:44.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>.:Bala.G:. ... .:பாலா:.</title><subtitle type='html'>என்னையும்.....என்னைச்சுற்றியும்.......</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>39</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-116227156390926217</id><published>2006-10-30T20:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-10-30T21:28:00.153-08:00</updated><title type='text'>A New place</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;vidudhalai...vidudhalai....client kitta irundhu vidudhalai......&lt;br /&gt;I was busy in the last one week in packing my things, taking data backup...blah...blah....Now I am in Atlanta (syam, ippo we are in same time zone)....here in Atlanta-la, more Desi makkal, more Indian restaurants, last but not least good weather....hope I will have good time here....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thank you all for ur comments to my last post....and sorry for not being able to visit all of your blogs....time kedaikum bodhu kandipa visit panren...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Saw the news that Hyundai had gifted 100 cars to Chennai police...car super-a iruku.....i wish they should use them efficiently..... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/400/hyundai.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Have u guys ever used &lt;a href="http://www.guruji.com"&gt;Guruji.com&lt;/a&gt;? How its better than Google or other search engines? If any of you know about it, plz do let me know.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.guruji.com"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/400/guruji.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;Life-la, first love success agudha, illa failure aagudhaa-ngradhu mukiyam illa&lt;br /&gt;Saagum bodhu naama oru love-oda saaguromaa-ngradhu dhaan mukiyam&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="right"&gt;-Sombu (Vallavan)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-116227156390926217?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/116227156390926217/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=116227156390926217&amp;isPopup=true' title='132 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116227156390926217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116227156390926217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/10/new-place.html' title='A New place'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>132</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-116164207400035488</id><published>2006-10-23T15:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-23T15:28:39.416-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fun @ work</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;When I was working in chennai.....me and my teammates decided to celebrate our TL's birthday in the office. The plan was to decorate his cube in the early morning before everyone comes to the office, all the team members wear blue jeans &amp; company T-Shirt, run a surprise graphics program (during windows startup) to wish him. We thought it would be better to create our own graphics in 'C' than downloading a flash movie from 123greetings.com.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Plan panna maadhiri graphics program ezhudhi startup folderla potaachu (all of us knew his system pwd :))...cube-a decorate panniyaachu....then he came to the office by 9:30 and he was surprised to see the decoration.....we all wished him and he switched on his system....indha neram pathu system admin-la irundhu oruthar vandhirundhaar....windows logon panna udane, black colorla oru command window open aachu (yet to start our program)....idha paathadhum, avar&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Boss idhu kandipaa virus thaan boss....network cable first unplug pannunga"&lt;/strong&gt;nu sollitu avar maatum table keezha pugundhu Lan cable-a kazhatitu irundhaar...avar veliya vandhu paartha enga program oditu iruku.....idha paathutu irundha enga ellaarum vizhundhu vizhundhu sirichoem...adhukappuram enna cake vettings and eatings...photo sessions :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Imbermason is wealth&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hope you guys are reading many blogs and most of you visit every blog to check if a new post is available. If you think its time consuming, Google Reader is available to help you. Just login to &lt;a href="http://www.reader.google.com/"&gt;http://www.reader.google.com/&lt;/a&gt; with your gmail login ID...add ur favourite blog URLs in the option provided in the left hand side. It will highlight when a new post is available.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Advantages:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;1. No need to install any "Feed reader" in ur system.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;2. You can check the status of all ur fav. blogs anywhere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Ensoi!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/googlereader.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" height="349" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/googlereader.jpg" width="452" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-116164207400035488?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/116164207400035488/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=116164207400035488&amp;isPopup=true' title='37 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116164207400035488'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116164207400035488'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/10/fun-work.html' title='Fun @ work'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>37</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-116104677897812343</id><published>2006-10-16T17:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-18T00:34:30.916-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tagged</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Konja naal munnadi &lt;a href="http://princessofgold.blogspot.com/"&gt;Ponnarasi&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://paddyfieldprincess.blogspot.com/"&gt;Marutham&lt;/a&gt; matrum nam uravinargal ellorum enna tag ezhudha solli irundhaaha....but due to some unavoidable circumstances, i cudnt write the tag....ippo nanbar &lt;a href="http://kaysonline.blogspot.com/"&gt;KK&lt;/a&gt;-vum tag ezhudha solli vambula maati vitadhaal indha tag-ai ezhudhugindren......let me write about some weird things/habits in me....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;1. What is the above said "unavoidable circumstances"?....its none other than my &lt;strong&gt;somberithanam&lt;/strong&gt;... washing machine-la wash panni, drier-la dry  panna dress-a oru 2 or 3 daysku apuram thaan, madichu/iron panni vaipenna paathukonga...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;2. I never go to bed earlier than 12AM (even if I am tired) or wake up before 7AM....kaalaila alarm adicha apuram oru thookam varumae...adada....adhuku apuram thoongina, sorgathaiye paathutu varalaam...i like that :)...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;3. &lt;strong&gt;Unnoticeableness&lt;/strong&gt;: i don't like being popular (weird?).....when I was in college, I used to sit in the middle row benches....appo than lecturers/profs yaar kannlayum padamaaten, question keka maataanga :)....front bench and last bench pasanga paavam adikadi maatikuvaanunga....neenga nallavara illa kettavara?? rendume kedayaadhu ;-)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;4. &lt;strong&gt;Nail-biting&lt;/strong&gt;: Indha pazhakkam chinna vayasula irundhe iruku...adhigama yosikaravangaluku indha pazhakkam irukumaam...(really??)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;5. Genarally, I wont speak much (u shld believe this)...adhaanalayo ennavo theriyala, I take some time to become closer to new friends.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;6. &lt;strong&gt;Fearfulness&lt;/strong&gt;: Enakku konjam bayandha subavam iruku....for e.g. exam ezhudharuku munnadi, examla therinja qs vandhaa epdi irukum, theriyaadha qs vandha epdi irukumnu rendu angle-layum think pannuven...kadaisila, theriyadha qs vandha enna aagumnu adhigama yosichu bayandhu poi nippen....Me iseekoltu (optimist + pessimist)/2. where optimism is greater than pessimism&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;7. Interesting-a TV paarkum bodho, illa computerla vela pannum bodho, yaar enna pesinaalum en kadhula vizhaadhu I mean en kavanathukku varaadhu :)...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Right hand sidela irukra nallavanglla yaaru venumnaalum tag ezhudhalaam!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-116104677897812343?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/116104677897812343/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=116104677897812343&amp;isPopup=true' title='36 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116104677897812343'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116104677897812343'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/10/tagged.html' title='Tagged'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>36</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-116061810047186571</id><published>2006-10-11T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-11T18:55:55.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Fall</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Fall.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/400/Fall.jpg" border="5" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-116061810047186571?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/116061810047186571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=116061810047186571&amp;isPopup=true' title='27 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116061810047186571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116061810047186571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/10/fall.html' title='Fall'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>27</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-116029978168671233</id><published>2006-10-08T02:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-08T02:29:41.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Technology</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Two weeks back, me and my friend went to a branch of 'Bank of America'(BOA) to transfer money from my 'citibank' account to my friend's BOA account. Since the money transfer fee is lesser in "Cash advance" mode of transaction when compared to ATM withdrawal money, we opted this mode.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We approached a staff(S1) (who looked like new to this bank) and asked her to do the same. Avanga thiru thirunu muzhichutu, its not possiblenu sonnanga. Since some of our others friends had already done this before, we told her its possible.  In the mean time another staff(S2) came and told her how to do that. Then, S1 went inside to do the transfer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oru five minutesku apuram S1 came out and told sadly "we are sorry, we lost the electronic transaction code and cant deposit the money"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;adipaavigala enna solreenga? doctors ellam operationku apuram vandhu solra maadhiri solreenga?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt; So.o.o.o.....? &lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;(micham meedhi irukra panthayaavadhu vitu vainga)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S1 and S2:&lt;/strong&gt; let us try what can be done. Please wait patiently &lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;(aaama idhuku onnum korachal illa)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S2 called some numbers and came back to us after 40 mins. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S2:&lt;/strong&gt; Once again sorry&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt; ???? &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S2:&lt;/strong&gt; We could not do anything. Can you please call your citibank call centre and ask them to revert back the transaction or get the transaction code?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me:&lt;/strong&gt; Yeah&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;S2:&lt;/strong&gt; If they cant cancel the transaction, please come tommorrow we shall do something else.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;Kadavule, en pozhapu ipdi aayuduche :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Came back to my apartment, called citibank call centre (vera enga? chennai thaan) and told the details. She said, money has been already deducted from your account and it can not be reverted back. (Transaction code-yaachum kodu thaayi, unaku punniyama pogatum). Got the code and went to BOA next day. Then they sent a fax to citibank, chennai saying that they didnt get the money and to revert back the amount.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Two daysku apuram, I got my money back.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If that machine had received the transaction code without failure, our transaction would have completed in lesser than 5 mins.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-116029978168671233?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/116029978168671233/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=116029978168671233&amp;isPopup=true' title='47 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116029978168671233'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/116029978168671233'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/10/technology.html' title='Technology'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>47</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115973214292615454</id><published>2006-10-01T12:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-10-01T17:06:34.160-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mutual Fund Investment Tracker</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I have prepared an excel sheet to track the amount invested in Mutual Funds. Thought it might be useful to some of you :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This excel sheet directly gets the NAV of selected mutual funds from &lt;a href="http://www.valueresearchonline.com/"&gt;ValueresearchOnline.com &lt;/a&gt;and can be used to calculate Gain/Loss of your ivestments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Though some sites offer online tracking of Mutual funds, I though it will be good to maintain a personal tracker where we can keep about the purchase/redemption transaction number and other additional information.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It can be downloaded by at &lt;a href="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/MFInvestmentTrackerv1.0.xls"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Mutual Fund Investment Tracker v1.0&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Comments and suggestions are much appreciated.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115973214292615454?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115973214292615454/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115973214292615454&amp;isPopup=true' title='61 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115973214292615454'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115973214292615454'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/10/mutual-fund-investment-tracker.html' title='Mutual Fund Investment Tracker'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>61</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115916724946683525</id><published>2006-09-24T23:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-26T09:29:40.816-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Andha maram.......</title><content type='html'>Idhu dhaan &lt;a href="http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post_21.html"&gt;andha maram&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post_21.html"&gt;read this first&lt;/a&gt;)..... gnyabagaarthama irukatume ;-).... kayaru katti support koduthu irukradhaala straight-a iruku..else...???&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_0136.jpg" border="0" /&gt;Indha azhagiya paravaigal (Kuruvi?) en veetu vaasalil koodu katti sandhoshamaga irundhana....Fire dept padupaavinga checking-kaga kalaichu vitutaanga.....How do they know that its a water sprinkler? :(&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_6831.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_6832.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nalla pose kodukudhu illa?&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115916724946683525?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115916724946683525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115916724946683525&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115916724946683525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115916724946683525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/09/andha-maram.html' title='Andha maram.......'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115864602283826108</id><published>2006-09-18T22:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-18T23:16:01.776-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Madras to Pondy</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;En suvasa katre.....En suvasa katre.......&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I was working in Chennai, I used to go to my home town Pondicherry every weekend. Friday evening 6'O clock aana podhum bag maatikittu ooruku kilambiduven. Thiruvanmiyurla bus pidicha next 2.5-3 hrsla naan enga veetuku poi serndhuduven. Apuram enna amma samaichu vacha saapaadudhaan dinner. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pondicherry is a peaceful and a small town. Idha naan solli thaan ungaluku theriyanumnu avasiyam illanu nenaikiren. :-) Since most of my (Pondy) friends are working in chennai, they also return to Pondy every weekend. We play cricket on saturdays, go to movie on sundays. Movie tickets (even the black tickets) are cheaper in Pondy when compared to Chennai theatres. On saturday and sunday evenings, we assemble at beach. Naatla nadakra muikyamaana, thevaiyaana/thevai illadha vishayam pathina discussion ellaam inga thaan nadakkum. Veetuku pogum bodhu paani poori/masala poori saaptu ammakitta thittu vaangradhum undu. Last but not least, I can enjoy the home food atleast 2 days in a week. Moreover I can get escaped from washing my dresses. ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One fine friday evening I was returning to Pondy. As usual busla suryan FM paatu jora paadittu irundhuchu.... two persons of age 40 stopped the bus near Kovalam and got inside....yaaru pa adhu checking inspector maadhiri bus-a stop panni yerradhunu think panradhukkulla they started checking the tickets one from the front side and another one from rear side.... adada transport dept ozhunga workaagudhunu sollite pocketa paathaa ennoda ticketa kaanom :(....thooki vaari potuduchu.... since I was standing at the centre, both of them were coming towards me from both ends...busla vera "&lt;strong&gt;Payana cheetu illaadha payanigalidam Rs.500 abaraadhamaaga vasoolikkapadum&lt;/strong&gt;"nu bold lettersla ezhudhi irundhaanga...adhaa paarthadhum ennoda bayam innum adhigamaachu...bcoz i had only Rs.200+.... inniku ennoda maanam (irukaannu buthisaali thaanama ketka padaadhu) Bay of Bengal kappalla etha poraanganu mudivukke vandhuten....finally both of them attacked me at the same time....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Sir ticket kodunga...verify pannanum"....(adhu irundhirundhaa koduthirupomla)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;vera vazhi illaama...asattu sirippu sirichitte..."sir ticket tholannnnju pochuuu..." nu sonnen.... enna avanga oru look vitutu, verified their list and came to know that one ticket was not verified....enakku romba sandhosham.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Innoru ticket vaangi adha bathirama vachikonga" nu sollitu keezha irangitaanga...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;by that time, we had reached Kalpakkam....Nalla vela maanam pogala....bought the ticket for Kalpakkam to Pondy again....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After all these things happend, pakkathila ninnutu irundha oru punniyavan, thambi konja nerathukku munnadi pacha colorla oru ticket parandhu pochu adhu ungalodayudhanu kettar....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First line of this post is the starting lyrics of the song I am listening to now :)....are you scrolling and looking at it again? ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NOTE:&lt;/strong&gt; Pondicherry thanniku famousnu, yaarukume theriyaadha unmaya yaarum comment adikaadheenga...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115864602283826108?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115864602283826108/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115864602283826108&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115864602283826108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115864602283826108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/09/madras-to-pondy.html' title='Madras to Pondy'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115804374054807117</id><published>2006-09-11T23:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-12T00:41:37.736-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vandhuten.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/BDay.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/BDay.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Long time no see (even my blog :( ). Cudnt find time to visit any of the blogs in the last 2 weeks due to personal &amp; offical works, labor's day long weekend trip, B'Day celebrations followed by parties...etc. My friends celebrated my B'Day in the &lt;a href="http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/recipe.html"&gt;same fashion&lt;/a&gt;. This time they performed abishega araadhanaas to Murugan (its me) using a mixture of Pepsi, milk, curd, ghee, grape juice and mango juice. Nalla vela fridge-la vera edhuvum illa, illana adhayum mix panni irupaanga. I am damn sure that in one of the upcoming B'Day celebration(s), this mixture will do some chemical reactions and gonna blast. Idhoda vitu irupaanga? nope...they throwed eggs too :(....&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Let me tell abt my labor's day long (just 3 days) we&lt;a href="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/GC.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/GC.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;ekend trip. This trip was a sudden one and was not pre-planned. We went to a rental car agency to enquire for a mini-van for our trip. Since it was a long weekend, we worried that we wont get any. But luckily got one Dodge caravan. Veeetuku vandhom, dress-a pack panninom, and started for the trip in next 30 mins. First we went to Portlandand picked up remaining of 3 of our friends. During our dinner, We decided to go to Las Vegas which is 1300 miles from our place and it will take 18 hrs to reach. Edha pathiyum kavala padama kelambinom. Evening 6PM-ku start pannina vandi, next day 1:30PM-ku Las vegas-la poi thaan stop aachu (excluding 4 stops for filling gasoline).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/LV.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 240px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 180px" alt="" src="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/LV.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p align="justify"&gt;When we reached LV, the temp was 102deg F. It was so hot (idhu konjam too much thaan illa). We spent 1 day and 2 nights at LV. LV is a different world-nu sollalam. In our trip we visited Hoover dam and Grand canyon too. Edho oru padathula Hoover dam-la irundhu James Bond jump panninaarame, naanum jump pannanlaamnu paathen, but since it was just 725 ft in height it didnt meet my expectations, I dropped my plan ;-).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;I have to tell abt Grand canyon. Jeans padathula namma Aishu indha edathula thaan Haira Haira song-ku dance panninaangalaam. Did I dance? This qs is out of syllabus, so just leave it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Points to ponder&lt;/strong&gt; (school english bookla ipdi thaan potu irupaanga)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Travelled for 3000 mi (~4800km) in just 3.5 days. To be precise, drove for 40 hrs at an average speed of 75miph (120kmph)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Got a chance to travel along in 6 states (Washingtom, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, Nevada and Arizona)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;Next meet panren....Howz SOK?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115804374054807117?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115804374054807117/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115804374054807117&amp;isPopup=true' title='22 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115804374054807117'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115804374054807117'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/09/vandhuten.html' title='Vandhuten.....'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>22</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115674784901011310</id><published>2006-08-27T23:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-27T23:55:32.470-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanimai</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/DSC07459.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 500px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/DSC07459.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Place :&lt;/strong&gt; Florence, OR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Camera used :&lt;/strong&gt; Sony DSC-P10&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Person in this Pic :&lt;/strong&gt; My friend&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Click on the picture to view the original picture (2592x1944)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115674784901011310?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115674784901011310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115674784901011310&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115674784901011310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115674784901011310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/thanimai.html' title='Thanimai'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115674744890133696</id><published>2006-08-27T23:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-27T23:44:57.093-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Vinayagar chadhurthi SPL</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Vinayagar chadhurthiyai munnitu we guys prepared Kozhukattai, sundal, kadalai paruppu aviyal and Paal payasam.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/400/IMG_0272.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115674744890133696?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115674744890133696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115674744890133696&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115674744890133696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115674744890133696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/vinayagar-chadhurthi-spl.html' title='Vinayagar chadhurthi SPL'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115630856412855525</id><published>2006-08-22T21:45:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-22T21:57:00.676-07:00</updated><title type='text'>South sister -- Camping and Hiking</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/IMG_0196.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_0196.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; This weekend I had been to South sister, the third tallest mountain (10,358ft) in Oregon state. We reached the Devils Lake trail head(5450ft) at 10PM on saturday, set up our tent and slept. When we woke up early (for me ;-)) in the morning at 6AM, the temperature was 39degF (4degC). Oh my God, I have never experienced this much lowest temperature. Udhadugal vedika aarambithana, udal nadunga aarambithadhu, kaigal eriya aarambithana. It was my toughest morning as I was fighting with the water to brush my teeth.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/IMG_0204.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_0204.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;At about 7Am we started our hiking. For the first 1.5 miles, we climbed in the trail path in a dense mountain hemlock forest. There we saw a small eye catching river (see the picture). After reaching the top of this mountain, we saw the beatiful South sister mountain and we walked on a flat highland (Moraine lake valley) for 1 mile. Then we started to climb over this steep mountain. At about 1:30PM we reached the summit at an altitude of 10,358ft. Wow, the view from the top of this mountain was just breath-taking.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_0206.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;We walked for around 12 miles in 11 hours and Imust have lost atleast 8 pounds in my weight :(. I am very much tired and still recovering.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115630856412855525?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115630856412855525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115630856412855525&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115630856412855525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115630856412855525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/south-sister-camping-and-hiking.html' title='South sister -- Camping and Hiking'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115562555675920245</id><published>2006-08-15T00:04:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-15T00:31:09.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>சுதந்திர தின வாழ்த்துக்கள்</title><content type='html'>&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com/IN-FLA~2.gif" /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;இந்தியர் என்பதில் பெருமிதம் கொள்வோம்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;இணைந்தே இன்னும் பல சாதனைகள் புரிவோம்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;மேலே உள்ள வாசகங்கள் பள்ளி பாட புத்தகங்களின் கடைசிப் பக்கத்தில் காணலாம். ( நான் படித்துக்கொண்டிருக்கும் போது படித்திருக்கிறேன், இப்பொழுதும் உள்ளதா எனத் தெரியவில்லை)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;வளர்ந்து வரும் நாடுகளில் நமது தாய்த் திருநாடாம் இந்தியாவும் ஒன்று என்பது அனைவரும் நன்கு அறிந்ததே. நம் நாடு விரைவில் முன்னேற்றம் அடைய நாம் ஒவ்வொருவரும் பின்வரும் (என் மனதில் தோன்றிய) எளிய யோசனைகள் மூலம் நமது பங்கை அளிக்கலாம். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;அவன் நேர்மையாக இல்லை, இவன் நேர்மையாக இல்லை என பிறர் மீது குறைகள் கூறுவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டு, நாம் நேர்மையாக நடந்து கொள்ளலாம். &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;விதிகளை மீராமல், அவற்றை பின்பற்றலாம் (எ.கா: சாலை விதிமுறைகள்...) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;லஞ்சம் வாங்கவும் கூடாது, தரவும் கூடாது (எ.கா: RTO அலுவலகம்...) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;இயன்ற வரை பொருளாதாரத்தில் பிற்படுத்தப்பட்ட(financially challenged) ஏழை மாணவர்களின் கல்விக்காக உதவிடலாம். (கல்வியறிவுள்ள எவரும் 'இலவச மோட்டார்சைக்கிள்' எனப் பிரச்சாரம் செய்பவர்களுக்கு வாக்களித்து வெற்றி பெறச் செய்யார்) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;தவறாமல் தேர்தலின் போது வாக்களிக்க வேண்டும். (அரிது அரிது ஊழல் செய்யா அரசியல்வாதிகளைக் காண்பதரிது. எனவே குறைவாக ஊழல் செய்யும் நபருக்கு வாக்களிக்கலாம். அடுத்த முறை ஆட்சிக்கு வர விருப்பம் உள்ளவர், சென்ற முறையை விட இந்த முறை குறைவாகவே ஊழல் செய்வார்) &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;நாம் வாங்கும் ஒவ்வொரு பொருளையும் ரசீதுடன் வாங்கலாம். இதன் மூலம் நாம் வாங்கிய பொருளின் விற்பனை வரி அரசாங்கத்தை சென்றடையும். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;இப்பதிவைப் படிக்கும் வாசகர்கள் தங்களின் மேலான கருத்துகளைப் பின்னூட்டம் இடவும்.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;பின்வரும் ஏழு அம்ச உறுதிமொழிகளை ஏற்குமாறு ஜனாதிபதி அப்துல்கலாம் இளைஞர்களைக் கேட்டுக்கொள்கிறார். &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;1. இலக்கை நிர்ணயித்து, வெற்றி பெறுவேன்.&lt;br /&gt;2. துணிவுடன் உழைப்பேன்.&lt;br /&gt;3. என்னைச் சுற்றிலும் சுத்தமாக வைத்துக் கொள்வேன்.&lt;br /&gt;4. உள்ளத்தில் நேர்மை இருந்தால், நாட்டில் ஒழுங்கை கொண்டு வரும்.&lt;br /&gt;5. நேர்மையுடன் அடுத்தவருக்கு எடுத்துக்காட்டாய் விளங்குவேன்.&lt;br /&gt;6. அறிவு தீபத்தை ஏற்றி, அது என்றும் சுடர்விட உறுதி கொள்வேன்.&lt;br /&gt;7. வரும் 2020ம் ஆண்டுக்குள் வளர்ச்சி பற்ற இந்தியா என்ற குறிக்கோளை அடைய நான் செம்மையாக பணியாற்றுவேன்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;நாடென்ன செய்தது எனக்கு? எனக் கேள்விகள் கேட்பது எதற்கு. நீ என்ன செய்தாய் அதற்கு?&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115562555675920245?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115562555675920245/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115562555675920245&amp;isPopup=true' title='12 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115562555675920245'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115562555675920245'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/blog-post.html' title='சுதந்திர தின வாழ்த்துக்கள்'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>12</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115526884084805874</id><published>2006-08-10T20:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-10T21:12:07.600-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Asin in God Father</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Heard that God Father is going to be released today in theatres. But one punniyavan had already released one song of this movie 2 months back in Google video. I wonder how did he get it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambi, songla Asin baesha irukaa, paarthaela....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=8547814212782005378&amp;hl=en"&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;        &lt;br /&gt;If not able to see this video click &lt;a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8547814212782005378&amp;amp;q=tamil"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimer:&lt;/strong&gt; I am nowhere related to the contents of this video. Just sharing it which is available to the public in Google video.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115526884084805874?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115526884084805874/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115526884084805874&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115526884084805874'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115526884084805874'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/asin-in-god-father.html' title='Asin in God Father'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115489591655350912</id><published>2006-08-06T13:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-06T20:40:05.143-07:00</updated><title type='text'>NewYork Nagaram</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;First of all, Friendship Day wishes to you all. Greetings anupina nalla ullangaluku en mikka Nanri.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Listened to the songs of &lt;strong&gt;Jillunu Oru Kadhal&lt;/strong&gt;. ARR padina &lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;Newyork nagaram&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; solo song is excellent. Spouse/lover-a pirinju irukravanga indha paata ketta romba feel pannuvaanga. This is the only song I have been listening to in the last 4 days. Thought of writing a post on this song, but engal anna &lt;a href="http://gnana-kirukan.blogspot.com/2006/08/sarvam-sri-arrpanamasthu.html"&gt;Arjuna&lt;/a&gt; enaku munnadi mundhikittar. Sari lyrics ezhudhalamnu paatha &lt;a href="http://prabhukrish.net/"&gt;Ferrari&lt;/a&gt; indha velaya pannitaar :(. The Lyrics of this song is &lt;a href="http://prabhukrish.net/2006/08/04/newyork-nagaram-lyrics/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://funwiththoughts.blogspot.com/"&gt;Pavithra&lt;/a&gt; song keteengala??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ambi, ennoda adutha post ungalukaaga....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#999999;"&gt;பேச்செல்லாம் தாலாட்டு போல....என்னை உறங்க வைக்க நீ இல்லை.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#9999ff;"&gt;நான் இங்கே...நீயும் அங்கே...இந்த தனிமையில் நிமிஷங்கள் வருஷமானதேனோ....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115489591655350912?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115489591655350912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115489591655350912&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115489591655350912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115489591655350912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/newyork-nagaram.html' title='NewYork Nagaram'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115458299195153702</id><published>2006-08-02T22:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-02T22:29:51.966-07:00</updated><title type='text'>How true it is......</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;                                                                                                           - Vernon Sanders Law&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;P.S: Got this text from the signature of a mail&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115458299195153702?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115458299195153702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115458299195153702&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115458299195153702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115458299195153702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/08/how-true-it-is.html' title='How true it is......'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115429033448102929</id><published>2006-07-30T13:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-30T13:26:44.576-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Google Pages</title><content type='html'>Wanna create a Web page freely?? If yes, here is the great service from Google. Google gives you 100MB, but Yahoo gives only 30MB. Visit this link &lt;a href="http://pages.google.com"&gt;http://pages.google.com&lt;/a&gt; to create your own web page page.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I just tried one for me and the URL to my (so called) web page is &lt;a href="http://balamurugang.googlepages.com"&gt;http://balamurugang.googlepages.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Enjoy creating your web page!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993300;"&gt;போகும் பாதை தூரமே...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;வாழும் காலம் கொஞ்சமே...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff6600;"&gt;ஜீவ சுகம் பெற...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff9900;"&gt;ராக நதியினில் நீ நீந்த வா....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115429033448102929?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115429033448102929/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115429033448102929&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115429033448102929'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115429033448102929'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/07/google-pages.html' title='Google Pages'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115362833538687977</id><published>2006-07-22T21:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-23T01:38:03.586-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My New Digital Camera</title><content type='html'>I have bought a new Digital Camera. Its &lt;strong&gt;Canon PowerShot A700&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/400/a700.jpg" border="1" /&gt;Pic courtesy: dpreview.com&lt;/p&gt;For those who want to know about the technical details of this cam, can get the same from &lt;a href="http://www.dpreview.com/reviews/canona700/"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;கண்கள் இமையை விட்டு உன்னையே நம்பி நிற்க.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;சுவாசம் காற்றை விட்டு உன்னையேத் தேடிச் செல்ல....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;தாயாக மாறிப் போனாயே....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#ff99ff;"&gt;வேராகத் தாங்கி நின்றாயே....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115362833538687977?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115362833538687977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115362833538687977&amp;isPopup=true' title='25 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115362833538687977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115362833538687977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/07/my-new-digital-camera.html' title='My New Digital Camera'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>25</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115285667160897545</id><published>2006-07-13T22:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-14T00:48:38.706-07:00</updated><title type='text'>SuperComputer</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Yesterday I read an article about supercomputer in my office intranet. I came to know that the world's fastest supercomputer uses 1,31,072 processors. Its unbelievable right?? Also it has 32,768GB of main memory (RAM) and executes 2,80,600 floating point operations (GFlops) per second. Here is &lt;a href="http://www.top500.org/list/2006/06/100"&gt;http://www.top500.org/list/2006/06/100&lt;/a&gt; the list of top 500 supercomputers.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;One of the top 100 supercomputers is in my office campus. But havent seen :(&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc6600;"&gt;July 4th weekend trip Part-II&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Apart from Seattle &lt;a href="http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-4th.html"&gt;fireworks&lt;/a&gt; show, I visited the following places too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;White water rafting&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/prpv7.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ramona falls&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/DSC010571.5.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;color:#3333ff;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Mt Hood&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/DSC010761.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;அன்பே உந்தன் பேரைத் தானே விரும்பிக்கேட்கிறேன்.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;போகும் பாதை எங்கும் உன்னைத் திரும்பிப் பார்க்கிறேன்.....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115285667160897545?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115285667160897545/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115285667160897545&amp;isPopup=true' title='18 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115285667160897545'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115285667160897545'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/07/supercomputer.html' title='SuperComputer'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>18</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115216884860612695</id><published>2006-07-05T23:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-07-05T23:59:15.570-07:00</updated><title type='text'>July 4th</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Hope you all might know that July 4th has been celebrated as US Independence day. Since it fell on tuesday we got a long weekend for 4 days. On July 4th evening, we had been to Seattle to watch Independence day fireworks show. It was performed at the middle of a lake and people gathered in a park near to the lake to watch the show. All the streets near to the park were jam packed and we struggled a lot to find a place to park our car. It took us more than 45 mins to park our car (also we paid 10$ :-( for that ).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As usual SUN waved 'tata' only at 9:30PM and sunlight was there till 10PM. Naama enga ponaalum kaiya veesitu thaana povoem. 9 manikku mela bayangarama kulir adika aarmbichiduchu, apuram enna enga pal ellam type adika aaraambichiduchu. Aana namma america makkal irukaangale chair, drinks, saapda thevayaana food, pothika porvai ellam konduvandhu 6 manike settle aayi irundhaanga. Indhula enna advantage-na, pakkathula naraya figures irundhadhala time ponadhe theriyala :-).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally the event started at 10:20PM. Oru helicopter US flag-a parakka vitutu andha lake-a oru round vandhudhu, plus one focus light from the park pointing to the flag....wow....DTS theatre-la trailor paarkara effect....adhukkappuram fireworks start pannunaanga. This was my first time to see fireworks and it was a wonderful treat to my eyes. Around 25 mins, different colours-la fireworks. Naan malaithu poi annaarndhu paarthutu rasichutu irundhen. Square, circulare, spherical, star, heart, galaxy, falls (silver &amp; gold colours), fountains....innum pala vagayaana forms-la fireworks panni irundhaanga. It was worth waiting in the cold to watch this colourful show (ponnungalayum sethukonga ;-))&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Innum photos upload pannala. Till then watch the video of the show at the following links&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Part 1: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuKdn8yyNBw"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuKdn8yyNBw&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 2: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbiPk6HuE7E"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbiPk6HuE7E&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 3: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccsGpVRwbg"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccsGpVRwbg&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 4: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg8dqfCYLo"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Wg8dqfCYLo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 5: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXRx86U5uU"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAXRx86U5uU&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 6: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8Se4QZl-U"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ8Se4QZl-U&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 7: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFGClaidw5Y"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFGClaidw5Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 8: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xOH2zMsBHk"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xOH2zMsBHk&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Part 9: &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBhmR8EbY8"&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nBhmR8EbY8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;வாயில்லாமல் போனால் வார்த்தை இல்லை பெண்ணே....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;நீயில்லாமல் போனால் வாழ்க்கை இல்லை கண்ணே....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115216884860612695?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115216884860612695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115216884860612695&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115216884860612695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115216884860612695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/07/july-4th.html' title='July 4th'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115173335412754487</id><published>2006-06-30T22:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-30T23:12:18.476-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Time to Dream</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This info. might be old to some of you. Following is a 2 minute movie made by M.Night Shyamalan, the famous thriller movie director (director of "The Sixth Sense", "Signs",....) for American Express card. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;p&gt;I was very happy to see him in this advertisement for an american product. :-) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/9gXBTkikwMA" width="425" height="350" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;The same movie &amp;amp; behind the scenes are available at &lt;a href="http://www.mylifemycard.com/"&gt;American Express&lt;/a&gt; website.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:130%;"&gt;Nayagan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Till now I have seen a few parts of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayagan"&gt;Nayagan&lt;/a&gt; movie. Last week I got an oppurtunity to watch the entire movie. It was a perfect team work and worth watching it. I really enjoyed the movie a lot. Also I came to know that it is one of the few Indian movies to be listed in TIME magazine's ALL-TIME top 100 movies, issued in 2005. The article is &lt;a href="http://www.time.com/time/2005/100movies/0,23220,nayakan,00.html"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;கண்ணைக் கொஞ்சம் திறந்தேன்...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#cc33cc;"&gt;கண்களுக்குள் விழுந்தாய்....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color:#990000;"&gt;எனது இமைகளை மூடிக்கொண்டு,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="color:#996633;"&gt;சின்னஞ்சிறு கண்களில் உன்னைச் சிறை எடுத்தேன்&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115173335412754487?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115173335412754487/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115173335412754487&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115173335412754487'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115173335412754487'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/07/time-to-dream.html' title='Time to Dream'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115138268294612479</id><published>2006-06-26T21:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-26T21:31:22.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Recipe: பிறந்த நாளைக் கொண்டாடுவது எப்படி?</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;இன்று எங்கள் நண்பர் அரவிந்தின் பிறந்த நாள் மிக விமரிசையாகக் கொண்டாடினோம். இச்சம்பவம் இப்பதிவிற்கு மூல காரணம்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;நண்பரின் பிறந்த நாளை எப்படி கொண்டாடலாம் என தெரிந்து கொள்ள வாருங்கள்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;தேவையானப் பொருள்கள்:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. பழுத்த தக்காளிகள் - சில&lt;br /&gt;2. முட்டை - நபர் ஒன்றுக்கு, ஒன்று அல்லது இரண்டு (அழுகியதாக இருந்தால் மிக உகந்தது)&lt;br /&gt;3. ஐஸ் கிரீம் - தேவையான அளவிற்கு&lt;br /&gt;4. கேக்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;செய்முறை:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;முதலில் பிறந்த நாள் கொண்டாட இருக்கும் நண்பரை கேக் வெட்டச் சொல்லவும். கேக் மேலே உள்ள கிரீமை ஓரமாகத் தள்ளி விட்டு, கேக்கை சாப்பிடவும். பிறகு கேக் கிரீமை முகத்தில் தடவவும். விளைவு?? Fair &amp; Handsome கிரீம் போட்டது போல், நண்பர் பளபளப்பார். செர்ரி பழம் இருந்தால் அதை பொட்டு வைக்க உபயோகித்துக் கொள்ளலாம். ரோஸ் நிறத்தில் உள்ள கிரீமால் மீசை வரையலாம் ;-). "மணமகனே மருமகனே வா" போன்ற situation song பாடி பிரமாதப்படுத்தலாம்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;பிறகு தக்காளிகளை நண்பர் மீது பிழிந்து அவரைக் குளிப்பாற்றலாம். பிறந்த நாள் திருவிழாவின் உச்ச கால பூஜையை இப்போது நெருங்கி விட்டோம். முட்டையை இரண்டாகப் பிளந்து நண்பர் தலை மேல் ஆஃப் பாயில் அல்லது ஆம்லெட் போடலாம். இல்லையெனில், சொயீப் அக்தர் மாதிறி அதி வேகத்தில் எறிந்து முட்டையை சுக்குநூறாக்கலாம்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இப்பொழுது நண்பர் அழாமல் அழுது கொண்டிருப்பார். அவரை குளிர்விக்கும் வகையில், மைக்ரோ ஓவனில் வைத்து கூழ்மமாக்கப்பட்ட ஐஸ் கிரீமை அவர் மேல் கொட்டி அவரை குளிர்விக்கலாம்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இவ்வாறு எங்கள் நண்பர் நள்ளிரவு 12 மணிக்கு கவுரவிக்கப்பட்டார். நண்பர் நீடூழி வாழ என் வாழ்த்துக்கள்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;உடலுக்குள் எங்கே உயிருள்ளதென்பதும்&lt;/span&gt;.....&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;உயிருக்குள் காதல் எங்குள்ளதென்பதும்&lt;/span&gt;.....&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;நினைத்தால்&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;நினைத்தால்&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;அதிசயமே....&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115138268294612479?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115138268294612479/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115138268294612479&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115138268294612479'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115138268294612479'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/recipe.html' title='Recipe: பிறந்த நாளைக் கொண்டாடுவது எப்படி?'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115087344878213900</id><published>2006-06-20T23:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-21T00:09:44.086-07:00</updated><title type='text'>அர்ஜுனரு வில்லு, அரிச்சந்திரன் சொல்லு</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;நான் U.S வந்த புதுசுல கார் ஓட்ட பழகிக்கிட்டு இருந்தேன். கார் ஓட்டி என்ன பண்ணப்போற ? பக்கத்து ஊரில் இருக்கிற பில் கேட்ஸ பாக்கப்போறியா? அப்படியெல்லாம் சிறு புள்ளத்தனமா கேட்கப்படாது. இங்க அத்தியாவசிய தேவைகளில் காரும் ஒன்னு. நம்ம ஊரில் சைக்கிள் வச்சு இருக்கிற மாதிறி இங்க எல்லோரும் கார் வச்சு இருப்பாங்க. நகரத்தில் இருந்தா கார் இல்லாம ஒரளவுக்கு சமாளிக்கலாம். ஆனால் நகரத்தை விட்டு வெளியே இருந்தீங்கனா கஷ்டம் தான். அதனால வந்த இரண்டாவது நாளே கார்ல உட்கார்ந்து steering பிடிக்க ஆரம்பிச்சேன். சுமாராவும் வண்டிய ஓட்டினேன். JetLag கொஞ்சம் பாக்கி இருந்ததால அன்றைய தினம் பயிற்சியை சீக்கிரமா முடிச்சுக்கிட்டு வீட்டுக்கு போய் தூங்கிட்டேன். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இரண்டு நாளுக்கு அப்புறம் மீண்டும் கார் ஓட்டலாம்னு சொல்லிட்டு கார எடுத்தேன். "அர்ஜுனரு வில்லு, அரிச்சந்திரன் சொல்லு...." பாட்ட full BASS-ல வச்சிக்கிட்டு, வண்டி ஜோரா நகர்ந்துச்சு. எந்த இடத்துல ஓட்டினேன் தெரியுமா? வேற எது, நம்ம ஆபிஸ் parking lot தான். parking lot-ல ஸ்பீட் லிமிட் 15மைல், ஆனால் நான் 25மைல் வேகத்துல வண்டிய விட்டேன். நாம நம்ம இந்திய மண்ணுல என்னைக்கு டிராபிக் ரூல்ஸ மதிச்சு இருக்கோம்? ரெட் சிக்னல் போட்டதுக்கு அப்புரமும் வண்டிய நிறுத்தாம போறதும், அப்படியே நிறுத்தினாலும் stop line-அ கிராஸ் பண்ணி நிறுத்துறதும் தானே நம்ம வழக்கம்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;பாட்டு நடுவில் "இவனொரு அதிசய புலி...." என்ற வரி இன்னும் என்ன நல்லா உசுப்பேத்தி விட்டுச்சு. ஒரு 10 நிமிஷத்துக்கு எந்த பிரச்சனையும் இல்லாம ஓட்டினேன். வலது பக்கமாகவும் இடது பக்கமாகவும் வண்டிய திருப்பி "8" போட்டுக்கிட்டு இருந்தேன். திடீர்னு ஒரு அதிர்வு. என்னனு பார்த்தா, வண்டி பிளாட்ஃபார்ம் மேல ஓடிக்கிட்டு இருக்கு. பயந்து போய் வேகமா பிரேக்க அமுக்கினேன். ஆனால் வண்டி எதிரில் இருந்த 10 அடி உயர மரத்தை பதம் பார்த்துட்டு தான் நின்னுச்சு. பிரேக் அமுக்கினீங்களே, ஏன் வண்டி நிக்கவில்லைனு நீங்க கேட்கலாம். நானும் அதே கேள்வியைத் தான் கேட்டேன். நான் அமுக்கினது பிரேக் இல்ல, ஆக்ஸலரேட்ர் :(.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;நிமிர்ந்து நின்னுக்கிட்டு இருந்த அந்த மரம், சாய்ந்து போயுடுச்சு. ஆனா கீழே விழவில்லை. (இது ரொம்ப முக்கியம்). நான் பண்ண சேட்டை வீடியோ கேமராவில் கண்டிப்பா பதிவாயிருக்கும் என்ற பயத்துல எனக்கு car-o-phobia வந்துடுச்சு. அதுக்கப்புரம் ஒரு வாரத்துக்கு என்னால சரியா வேலை செய்ய முடியல. இப்போ கொஞ்சம் தெளிவா இருக்கேன்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#663366;"&gt;பிடித்த பாடல் வரிகள்: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;marquee&gt;&lt;span style="color:#006600;"&gt;பூவே உன் பாதத்தில் &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;புஷ்பாஞ்சலி&lt;/span&gt;. பொன்னே உன் பெயருக்கு &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;பொன்னாஞ்சலி&lt;/span&gt;. கண்ணே உன் குரலுக்கு &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;கீதாஞ்சலி&lt;/span&gt;. கண் காணா அழகுக்கு &lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;கவிதாஞ்சலி&lt;/span&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/marquee&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115087344878213900?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115087344878213900/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115087344878213900&amp;isPopup=true' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115087344878213900'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115087344878213900'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post_21.html' title='அர்ஜுனரு வில்லு, அரிச்சந்திரன் சொல்லு'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115035418924064478</id><published>2006-06-14T23:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-14T23:55:54.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Buisiness card CD</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Have you ever seen CDs/DVDs in any shapes other than the regular Circular ones? Will you believe that CD versions of paper buisiness cards are available?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am using a smaller CD which contains hardware drivers in my Lab as in the below picture. It simply sits in my wallet ;-)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/powerful.1.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 192px" height="192" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/200/powerful.1.png" width="250" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/versatile.0.gif"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/200/versatile.0.gif" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pic courtesy: &lt;a href="http://www.cdigitalmarkets.com/busniess_card_plus.htm"&gt;http://www.cdigitalmarkets.com/busniess_card_plus.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Visit &lt;a href="http://www.proactionmedia.com/shaped_cd_dvd.htm"&gt;http://www.proactionmedia.com/shaped_cd_dvd.htm&lt;/a&gt; to see the different shapes of CDs available in the market.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115035418924064478?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115035418924064478/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115035418924064478&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115035418924064478'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115035418924064478'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/buisiness-card-cd.html' title='Buisiness card CD'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-115009573019587020</id><published>2006-06-11T23:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-12T00:02:10.213-07:00</updated><title type='text'>ஆசை</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;அலுவலக வேலைகளை அவசர அவசரமாக முடித்துக்கொண்டிருந்தான் கோபி. பன்னாட்டு மென்பொருள் நிறுவனத்தில் கணிப்பொறியாளராக பணியாற்றிக் கொண்டிருக்கும் இவன், தீபாவளிப் பண்டிகை விடுமுறையைப் பெற்றோர்களுடன் கொண்டாட இன்று இரவு அவனுடைய சொந்த ஊருக்குச் செல்கிறான். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"Monday வந்துடுவ இல்ல?" என்றார் அவனது மேனேஜர்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"வந்து தொலையறேன்" என மனதில் நினைத்துக் கொண்டு, "கண்டிப்பா ஸார்" என்றான் கோபி.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;வாகன நெரிசலில் மீண்டு பேருந்து நிலையத்திற்க்கு வருவதற்குள் போதும் போதும் என ஆகிவிட்டது. பண்டிகை என்பதால் பேருந்து நிலையத்தில் மக்கள் கூட்டம் நிரம்பி வழிந்தது. மேலும் பண்டிகைக்காக கூடுதல் சிறப்பு பேருந்துகள் இயக்கப் படுவதால் அவன் பயணிக்க இருக்கும் பேருந்தைக் கண்டுபிடிக்க சிறிதே தாமதமானது.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;"என்ன கூட்டம் டா" என முனுமுனுத்துக் கொண்டே முன்பதிவு செய்த இருக்கையில் வந்தமர்ந்தான். Meeting, Project மற்றும் மேனேஜர் தொல்லை இல்லாமல் மூன்று நாட்கள் நிம்மதியாக இருக்கலாம் என்பதை நினைத்துப் பெரு மூச்சு விட்டான்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;பேருந்து புறப்பட சற்று முன்பு.....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;பய&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ணி:&lt;/strong&gt; பஸ் திருவண்ணாமலை போகுங்களா??&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;பே.நடத்துனர்:&lt;/strong&gt; சீட் இல்ல பா....ஸ்டேன்டிங் தான்....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;பயணி:&lt;/strong&gt; பரவாயில்ல ஸார்&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;பே.நடத்துனர்:&lt;/strong&gt; சரி ஏறு. வழியில நிக்காம உள்ள போ பா....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;நாள் முழுவதும் வேலை செய்து களைப்பாக இருந்ததாலும், ஊருக்குச் செல்லவிருக்கும் குதூகலத்தினாலும் இந்த இரைச்சல்கள் அவனது செவிகளுக்கு பெரும் பொருட்டாய் தெரியவில்லை. இமைகள் மெல்ல மூடின. பேருந்தும் புறப்பட்டது, அரை மணி நேரம் தாமதமாக.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;பேருந்து ஓட்டுநர் களைப்பாருவதற்காக (தேநீர் பருகுவதற்காக) அதிகாலை 2 மணியளவில் பேருந்து நிறுத்தப்பட்டது. பேருந்து நிறுத்தப்பட்ட சில மணித்துளிகளில் பேருந்தில் இருந்த ஒரு வயதுள்ள ஒரு குழந்தை அழ ஆரம்பித்தது. இரவு நேரத்தில் வேறு எந்த சத்தமும் இல்லாததால் இக்குழந்தையின் அழுகை பேருந்தில் உள்ள சிலரின் தூக்கத்தை எளிதாகக் களைத்தது. குழந்தையின் அழுகை கோபியின் தூக்கத்தையும் விட்டு வைக்கவில்லை.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"ரே..ரே..ரே..ரே......"&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"என் கண்ணு இல்ல, என் ராஜாத்தி இல்ல,....."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;இவ்வாறு குழந்தையின் அழுகையை நிறுத்த குழந்தையின் தாய் முயற்ச்சித்தாள். ஆனால் குழந்தையின் அழுகை நிற்பதற்கான ஒரு அறிகுறியும் தென்படவில்லை.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;இவற்றை எல்லாம் கேட்டுக்கொண்டிருந்த கோபியின் மனதில் சில கேள்விகள் எழுந்தன. அவனை விட அதிகமாக நேசிக்கும் அவனது பெற்றோர்களைப் பிரிந்து முழு திருப்தியையும், சந்தோஷத்தையும் அளிக்காத இந்த வேலையை ஏன் செய்ய வேண்டும்? எந்தச் சுமையும், பொறுப்புகளும் இல்லாத குழந்தைப்பருவத்திற்கு மீண்டும் செல்ல முடியுமா?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;பதினைந்து நிமிடத்திற்க்குப் பிறகு பேருந்து புறப்பட்டது. குழந்தையின் அழுகையும் நின்றது, இவனும் தூங்கினான்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;மூன்று நாட்களை சந்தோஷமாகக் கழித்து, மீண்டும் திரும்பினான் பணிக்கு. அதே விருப்பமில்லா முகத்துடன்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;பி.கு:&lt;/strong&gt; பிழைகளுக்கு மன்னிக்கவும். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-115009573019587020?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/115009573019587020/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=115009573019587020&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115009573019587020'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/115009573019587020'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post_12.html' title='ஆசை'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114939836977986988</id><published>2006-06-03T22:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-06-03T22:19:29.793-07:00</updated><title type='text'>சென்னை செந்தமிழ்</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="color:#009900;"&gt;தமிழுக்கும் அமுதென்று பேர்&lt;br /&gt;அந்தத் தமிழின்பத் தமிழ் எங்கள் உயிருக்கு நேர்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="color:#993399;"&gt;- பாவேந்தர் பாரதிதாசனார்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இந்தப் பாடலை எழுதியவர் எங்க ஊருக்காரருங்கோ.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;எந்த மொழியிலும் இல்லாத 'ழ'கர ஓசை தமிழ் மொழிக்கே உரித்தானதுனு கேள்விப்பட்டிருக்கேன். ஆனா,அது எவ்வளவு தூரம் உண்மைனு எனக்கு தெரியாது.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;தமிழ் பேசர பல பேருக்கு 'ழ' -வ சரியா உச்சரிக்க தெரியாது. 'மழை'க்கும், 'மலை'க்கும் வித்தியாசம் இல்லாம உச்சரிப்பாங்க. நான் நல்லாவே 'ழ' -வ உச்சரிப்பேன். இப்படி சந்தோஷமா இருந்த நான், என் நண்பர் அனுப்பின, link-அ திறந்து பார்த்து பயந்து போய்ட்டேன்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;நீங்களும் பாருங்க.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_bashai"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_bashai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_bashai_vocabulary"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madras_bashai_vocabulary&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;அதுல இருந்த வார்த்தைகள் எல்லாம் சென்னைல உபயோகத்துல இருக்காம். பல வார்த்தைகள நான் கேள்விப் பட்டதே இல்ல. சென்னை மக்களோட அந்நியோன்யமா பேச இந்த வார்த்தைகள் நல்லா உபயோகப்ப்டும் என்ற தேவைய உணர்ந்த நான், இந்த வார்த்தைகள கத்துகரத்துக்கு, 4 வரி நோட்டுப்புத்தகம் வாங்கி ஒவ்வொரு வார்த்தையையும் பத்து தடவ எழுதிப் பாக்கலாமா இல்ல VETA இங்கிலிஷ் டிரெய்னிங் சென்டர் மாதிரி, '&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span style="color:#000099;"&gt;சென்னை செந்தமிழ்&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;' கத்து கொடுக்கர இன்ஸ்டிடுட்ல சேர்ந்து படிக்கலாமானு தீவிரமா யோசிச்சிட்டு இருந்தேன்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;அப்படி யோசிச்சிட்டு இருக்கும் போது, நம்ம சிங்கக்குட்டி தனுஷ் நடிச்சு அண்மைல வெளி வந்த 'புதுப்பேட்டை' படம் பார்த்தேன். ஆஹா, என்ன அருமையா சென்னை செந்தமிழ் பேசராங்க. உங்களுக்கும் சென்னை செந்தமிழ் கத்துக்கனும்னா இந்த படத்த பாருங்கோ. ஆறு படமும் அப்டிதான்னு கேள்விப்பட்டேன்.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;இப்போதைக்கு நான் அப்பீட்டு. அப்பாலைக்கா ரிப்பீட்டு. ;-)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114939836977986988?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114939836977986988/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114939836977986988&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114939836977986988'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114939836977986988'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/06/blog-post.html' title='சென்னை செந்தமிழ்'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114898004940475726</id><published>2006-05-30T01:56:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-30T02:14:36.040-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Road trip</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;வர வர என்னுடைய அலுவலகத்துல 8 மணி நேரமும் வேலை செய்யற அளவுக்கு வேலை கொடுத்துட்டு வராங்க. அதனால Blog படிக்க மட்டும் தான் முடியுது. இங்க மே 29ம் தேதி Memorial day அனுசரிக்க பட்டதால long Weekend கெடச்சுது. நண்பர்கள் எலோரும் 2 நாள் Roadtrip போகலாம்னு முடிவு செஞ்சு Oregon state-அ சுத்தி பாத்துட்டு வந்தோம். எந்தெந்த இடத்த பாத்துட்டு வந்தோம்னு இதோ சொல்றேன்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Klamath falls&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;இந்த இடம் Oregon-California state பார்டர்ல இருக்கு (நான் Washington state-ல இருக்கேன்). மாங்கு மாங்குனு 400 மைல (~650 கி.மீ) 7 மணி நேரம் ட்ராவல் பன்னிட்டு வந்து பார்த்தா, ஒரு அருவியும் அந்த இடத்துல இல்ல. Klamath falls என்பது ஒரு ஊர் பேராம், பாத்துட்டு கடுப்பாயிட்டோம். விசாரிக்காம வந்தது எங்க தப்பு தான். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Crater Lake&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Crater%20Lake.4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/200/Crater%20Lake.3.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;எரிமலை வெடிச்சதனால, மலை மேல இந்த ஏரி உருவாச்சுனு சொல்ராங்க. பனி காரணமாக North entrance ஏற்கனவே மூடப்பட்டதால 100 மைல் அதிகமா சுத்திட்டு South entrance-க்கு போனோம். நாங்க போகர நேரம் பாத்து பனி பெய்ய ஆரம்பிச்சுடுச்சு. அதனால இந்த வழியையும் மூடிட்டாங்க. நமக்கு நேரம் எப்போ நல்லா இருந்திருக்கு?. கார்ல இருந்து கீழ இறங்கி போட்டோவுக்கு போஸ் கொடுத்துட்டு, திரும்பிட்டோம்.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Sand Dunes&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Sand%20dune1.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/200/Sand%20dune1.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;கடலோரம் வாங்கிய காற்று....குளிராக இருந்தது நேற்று.....Sand dunes என்பது காற்றினால் உருவான மணல் குன்று. பசிபிக் கடலோரத்துல இருக்கிற ஒரு மணல் குன்றுக்கு போய், மணல்ல ஓடரத்துக்காக உருவாக்கப்பட்ட வாகனங்களை வாடகைக்கு எடுத்து ஓட்டினோம். வாடகை கொஞ்சம் அதிகம் தான், ஆனாலும் மணல் மேட்டுல ஓட்டும் போது இருந்த த்ரில்லிங் அதை மறக்கடிக்க செஞ்சுடுச்சு.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Sea Lion Caves&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;லிஃப்டின் உதவியோடு 200 அடி ஆழத்துக்கு கீழே போய், இயற்கையா உருவான கடல் குகையில் இருக்கிற கடல் சிங்கத்தை (Sea Lion) பார்த்தோம். இந்த இடத்துக்கு அருகே ஒரு Light house இருந்துச்சு. அது உலகத்திலே அதிக முறையா போட்டோ போட்டோ எடுக்கப்பட்ட Light house ஆம். &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Sea%20Lion.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/200/Sea%20Lion.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;இத்தோட முடிச்சுக்கிட்டு நாங்க பசிபிக் பெருங்கடல் கடலோரச் சாலையில் பயணித்து வீடு போய் சேர்ந்தோம். இந்த பயணத்துல நாங்க ஆறு, ஏரி, மலை, காடு போன்ற பல இயற்கைக் காட்சிகளை பார்த்து மகிழ்ந்தோம். இது போல காட்சிகளை நான் இது வரை டிஸ்கவரி சேனல் மற்றும் வால் பேப்பர்ல மட்டும் தான் பார்த்து இருக்கேன்.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114898004940475726?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114898004940475726/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114898004940475726&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114898004940475726'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114898004940475726'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/05/road-trip.html' title='Road trip'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114828347570371680</id><published>2006-05-21T23:59:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-22T00:50:54.996-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Reservation</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Let us suppose 1000 students are studying in 12th (HSC) standard in a small town. Out of them 300 students are from upper class/upper middle class family and 700 students from middle/lower middle class family.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;In that town, some Govt. and some private colleges are there. Few of the Govt. colleges are popular and the student will definitely get a job if he finishes his degree in those colleges.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Consider the folowing exam results (entrance + HSC):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;1. Most of the students from upper class/upper middle class family score more than 80%.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;2. Most of the students from middle/lower middle class family score less than 80%.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Govt. college X can admit 250 students in a year. If the seats are given purely based on merit, the students from the first category will fill all the seats and very few from the second category.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The reason for the first category of students to get good score was they were given proper coaching. And this will be possible only if their family is economically good. I am damn sure that all of these students attended some coaching classes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;If you see the second category of students, their families were not able to support them financially and they could send their son/daughter for coaching classes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I have the following Questions in my mind which I dont have clear answer:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;1. Did both types of students get similar kind of education?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;2. Should all the students be admitted purely based on merit?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;3. If yes, when will the second category of students get the seat in that college?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;So, the first category will continue to be the same in the future and very few of second category will migrate to the first category.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I wonder why only Doctors and Engineers are against this reservsation. If reservation is not good for the country's grwoth, why dont the other Govt. employees like teachers, advocates, police, accountants, clerks, peons.....can join with them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I feel economically poor and bright students should be given oppurtunity. Reservation should be classified based on family income and not by caste.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114828347570371680?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114828347570371680/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114828347570371680&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114828347570371680'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114828347570371680'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/05/reservation.html' title='Reservation'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114776515321135184</id><published>2006-05-15T23:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-16T02:01:59.613-07:00</updated><title type='text'>CRYSTAL Mountain</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;This weekend went fine for me. Its been two weeks since I entered into the United states. In the first weekend, I just went with my colleague (Actually I didnt have an idea to buy anything) to a shopping mall in &lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?oi=map&amp;q=Bellevue,+WA"&gt;Bellevue&lt;/a&gt; which is very near to Microsoft headquarters. Thought of buying a pair of shoes. But I could not find a good one :-(.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My roommates are staying here for more than a year and they know almost all the places in Washington state. So, I asked them to take me to a nice place. Initially we planned to go to &lt;a href="http://www.nps.gov/mora/"&gt;Mount Rainier&lt;/a&gt; and started our journey. But unfortunately the roads were closed as it was covered by snow. Then we proceeded to &lt;a href="http://www.crystalmt.com/"&gt;CRYSTAL&lt;/a&gt; mountain which is famous for SKIing. Since this is my first time to touch &amp;amp; see snow, I was amazed to see the place. After our lunch we started to climb over the mountian. It was very thrilling and risky too to climb over as the slope was more than 60 deg (I am serious). After 2 hours of climbing, all of us lost our energy to climb further and we gave up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Crystal%20mountain.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We were damn sure that if we come down in the same way, we would end up in accident and severe injury. So, we searched &amp; found another route which is being used for skiing in the winter. Appuram ellaarum sarukkikitte keezha vandhu serndhom in just 10 mins. Thank God for showing another path. People say that it will be nice to visit the palce in winter. Let me see if I get an oppurtunity.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First pic is Mount Rainier taken from our car.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Mnt%20Rainier.1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="190" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/Mnt%20Rainier.1.jpg" width="281" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Crystal%20mountain.6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 188px" height="237" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/Crystal%20mountain.6.jpg" width="275" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/IMG_6659.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 281px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 212px" height="205" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_6659.jpg" width="281" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/IMG_6658.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="CURSOR: hand" height="215" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_6658.jpg" width="290" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/IMG_6656.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 283px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 208px" height="241" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/IMG_6656.0.jpg" width="283" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Crystal-topview.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="WIDTH: 291px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 208px" height="241" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/Crystal-topview.jpg" width="291" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Crystal%20mountain.5.jpg"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114776515321135184?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114776515321135184/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114776515321135184&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114776515321135184'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114776515321135184'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/05/crystal-mountain.html' title='CRYSTAL Mountain'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114722716339793695</id><published>2006-05-09T18:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-09T19:14:50.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Thalaiva</title><content type='html'>Election is over. After the polling results are announced, new government will be formed by any one of the leading parties in few days.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which one of the following different options will be used by the minister(s) to greet the Chief Minister in public meetings.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Vanakkam Aiyya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Kummudaren saamy&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Hello Sir, Good morning/evening.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;Hey, Nice to meet you (american style ;-))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Last but not the least&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color:#3366ff;"&gt;Silent-a, CM kaal-la vizharadhu.... &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I am sure that many of you have seen the last one...he he heee...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Disclaimar:&lt;/strong&gt; This blog doesnt point anyone directy/indirectly.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114722716339793695?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114722716339793695/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114722716339793695&amp;isPopup=true' title='19 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114722716339793695'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114722716339793695'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/05/thalaiva.html' title='Thalaiva'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>19</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114704317418620596</id><published>2006-05-07T15:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-07T16:08:12.066-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pacha Kudhira</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Eventhough it is not a good movie to write review about it, I am just writing my opinion about this movie. This may help others to avoid watching this crap.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The story is not new to Tamil film industry. He is a rowdy, hits everyone in the Kuppam and no one likes him including his mother. First half of the movie has nothing but Parthiban's looties with Namitha. He tried his level best to beat SJ.Surya. In the second half of the movie he does some good things to the people living in his Kuppam and becomes hero. The people who scolded him, starts to call him "Thalaiva" once he gets water to the Kuppam. As usual he kills other 2 rowdies in the climax.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Padam thaan kodumai-na, song adhuku mela. You can find lyrics like "Kola kola Kozhy kozhambu" in the songs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Written &amp; Directed by R.Parthiban. I wonder how come he gets stories like this.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Kudumbathudan paarthu magizha koodiya padam idhu KANDIPA illai.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114704317418620596?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114704317418620596/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114704317418620596&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114704317418620596'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114704317418620596'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/05/pacha-kudhira.html' title='Pacha Kudhira'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114672638480223450</id><published>2006-05-03T23:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-05-04T00:15:58.070-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Around half of the World</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I am writing this blog from US. Uhh??? eppo da US pona??...I have come here to US for a short term assignment. I started from India on April 30th 2.45AM and reached Seattle on the same day at 8.40 PM. But it took around 30 hours to reach here. Flight journey was not as good as I expected and it was boring. (No gal(s) in my next seat ;-)) Since I am tall, I managed to sit in the fixed seat in the flight :( . It was almost same as Rajahamsa bus of KSRTC. In the bus we can tilt &amp; push the seat. But in flight we cant. Since I was preparing for my journey I could not read any of the blogs for the past one week. Moreover I am yet to get my system in the office. I am recovering from JetLag now.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Here the culture, people, rules &amp;amp; regulations, weather, etc....everything looks new to me. As I am staying with my friends, I am getting good company and good food too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Veli naattu mogathil mayangiya naanum oru saraasari Indian.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114672638480223450?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114672638480223450/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114672638480223450&amp;isPopup=true' title='9 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114672638480223450'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114672638480223450'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/05/around-half-of-world.html' title='Around half of the World'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>9</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114587970607272722</id><published>2006-04-24T04:43:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-24T22:27:04.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Radio Mirchi in Bangalore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I had been to Commercial street yesterday for shopping. When I was selecting a T-Shirt in a shop, suddenly I heard an advertisement in the radio that was familiar to me. Thats none other than &lt;span style="color:#3333ff;"&gt;"Yappa yappa Ayyappa....Radio Mirchi hot-appa...."&lt;/span&gt; I was shocked to hear this in Bangalore. Bcoz I used to hear this in Chennai Radi Mirchi FM and it is very impossible for FM signals to propagate from Chennai to Bangalore. Also Radio city was the only private FM station being broadcasted in Bangalore. Then I came to my apartment and tuned my mobile handset for any new FM station and I found Radio Mirchi at 93.3. This FM station was aired in Bangalore last week (April 17th). There is no doubt that this popular channel (in other cities) will be a tough competitor for Radio City. Obviously FM listeners in Bangalore have got another choice and going to have a good entertainment.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To my surprise, my mobile phone picked up Suryan FM &amp; Radio mirchi from Chennai today morning. Got a chance to listen to 'Mirchi' Suchitra's charming voice ;-).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Is there any (tele)communication engineer to explain me how come this can happen?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114587970607272722?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114587970607272722/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114587970607272722&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114587970607272722'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114587970607272722'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/04/radio-mirchi-in-bangalore_24.html' title='Radio Mirchi in Bangalore'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114536155420450812</id><published>2006-04-18T04:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-18T04:59:14.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Toon Disney</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I had a grand welcome last weekend when I went to my native . As soon as the sweet kids of my neighbor saw me, they became very happy and shouted “Haiyya Balu mama vandhaachu…” Why they became happy on seeing me? Will I take them to beach? Or Will I get them Ice creams?. Nope. They can watch their favorite cartoon channels in their TV. A month back I went to their house and deleted all the cartoon channels from their TV. I had promised them that I will tune and restore all the cartoon channels once their exams are over. So they were eagerly waiting for my arrival.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kidz:&lt;/strong&gt; Mama vaanga enga veetuku pogalaam…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me   :&lt;/strong&gt; Edhuku da….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kidz:&lt;/strong&gt; Exam mudinja apuram cartoon channels ellathayum TV-la vaikiren-u sonneenga illa…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me   :&lt;/strong&gt;   &lt;strong&gt;:-D&lt;/strong&gt;   aamaa…..adhuku enna ippo??&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kidz:&lt;/strong&gt; vaanga polaam….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I used this chance and asked them to sing and dance. Since there was no other way, they did everything (even I got a kiss &lt;strong&gt;;-)&lt;/strong&gt;). Then I left to their house.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Me   :&lt;/strong&gt; Endha channel venum da?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kidz:&lt;/strong&gt; Cartoon Network, Toon Disney (now it is broadcasted in Tamil too) and Kogo (POGO)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After tuning &amp; storing all of these channels, they compelled me to sit with them and made me to watch their favorite program “Power Rangers”.. the dialogues in the program were like the following one…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nallavan:&lt;/strong&gt; (kettavana paathu..) Vara vara unga attagaasam adhigamaagikittae poitu iruku…&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kettavan: &lt;/strong&gt;Adhuku naanga enna panradhu....&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;(Nallavan gets angry)&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kettavan:&lt;/strong&gt; Nee yaaru kitta modhura-nu theriyaama modhura….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nallavan: &lt;/strong&gt;Naan therinji kittu thaan modhuren….nee kettavan….makkal ellaarukum theengu pannitu iruka……&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;(Just b4 the fight)&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kettavan:&lt;/strong&gt; I have this power, that power…..and the list goes on….&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Nallavan:&lt;/strong&gt; En kittayum unna edhirkira sakthi iruku…. He told some ‘XYZ’ name &amp; prayed…."XYZ give me the power…"… I think someone was listening to him &amp;amp; gave him the power…. Andha time-la oru minnal maadhiri oru light vandhutu pochu....also his dress was changed….&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;..&lt;br /&gt;The villain was waiting for all these things to happen. After sometime the fight was started &amp; went for 5 mins with bayangara sound effects. As you expected, the villain lost the fight and left by saying “Naan unna apuram paathukiren da” (ippave paathutu pogalaam la)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Oru Vijay padam paatha effect irundhudhu…… cha No Vijay movie was released for Tamil new year…..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114536155420450812?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114536155420450812/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114536155420450812&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114536155420450812'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114536155420450812'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/04/toon-disney.html' title='Toon Disney'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114527831428128873</id><published>2006-04-17T05:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-17T05:51:54.323-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Greatest Love.....</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/The%20Greatest%20love.....0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/400/The%20Greatest%20love.....jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114527831428128873?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114527831428128873/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114527831428128873&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114527831428128873'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114527831428128873'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/04/greatest-love.html' title='The Greatest Love.....'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114475027108113148</id><published>2006-04-11T03:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-11T03:14:23.696-07:00</updated><title type='text'>One year with semiconductor giant</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Yep. I completed one year with the semiconductor giant yesterday. I have been sent to this dream company by my parent company which is located at Chennai for a short-term assignment. After completing the assigned task successfully they grabbed me for another maintenance project where I have to fix the bugs in the firmware reported in 4 similar kinds of servers. It was really a nice experience in working in this company. The work environment and the culture here are just amazing. 12 months went just like 12 weeks. Since I pursued my engineering in the electronics branch, this company was a dream for me. Sometimes even I had thought that whether the security of this company will allow me inside the company premises to submit my resume ;-).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wish to have the same kind of good work in the future too.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114475027108113148?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114475027108113148/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114475027108113148&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114475027108113148'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114475027108113148'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/04/one-year-with-semiconductor-giant.html' title='One year with semiconductor giant'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114430140774640198</id><published>2006-04-05T22:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-05T22:30:07.760-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tagged</title><content type='html'>I am tagged by &lt;a href="http://bharan.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bharani&lt;/a&gt; :-)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114430140774640198?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114430140774640198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114430140774640198&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114430140774640198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114430140774640198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/04/tagged.html' title='Tagged'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114414607469020582</id><published>2006-04-04T03:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-04-04T03:23:49.016-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jam...Traffic Jam</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;As everyone know Bangalore city is popular for its traffic density. It was very much crowded on the eve of Ugadi. This year Ugadi fell on Thursday and helped most of the people to get a long weekend just by taking a vacation on Friday. I was one among them :-). City buses and autos set ‘Majestic’ as their target and were rushing from all part of the B’lore. My friend cum colleague had arranged a treat on the same day and pleaded me to attend the same. The poor guy BalaG planned to attend the treat partially and leave early to catch his Pondy bus on time. As usual all the bad lucks joined their hands together and prevented me to attend the same. It took us 1hr 25mins instead of usual 20mins to reach the restaurant where the treat was arranged. As it was getting late I dropped my plan of attending the treat :-(. After wishing him “Nalla iruda nanbaa...”, I left to Majestic in the same bus (Enna kodumai Saravanan idhu!!). I donno whether he slept on that night or not as he was very sad that I cudn’t attend the treat ;-). After the City bus reached one place where all the buses from all parts of B’lore meet, the driver had to slow down the bus from a mega speed of 20kmph. He tried his level best to change the gear from 2nd to 3rd and increase the speed. But the autos and other vehicles didn’t allow him to do so. Finally I reached Majestic after 2hrs 15mins. Indha time-ku thiruttu VCD-la oru padamae paathu irukalaam ;-).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Great Thanks to the traffic!!! My Pondy Bus also came late after 45mins.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114414607469020582?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114414607469020582/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114414607469020582&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114414607469020582'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114414607469020582'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/04/jamtraffic-jam.html' title='Jam...Traffic Jam'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24391036.post-114293085918003034</id><published>2006-03-21T00:47:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2006-04-24T22:27:28.660-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Trip to Beaches in Karnataka</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"&gt;We started our journey at around 12 AM on Saturday, 18th of March’06 in a luxurious DVD coach Tempo traveler van. As usual all of us were talking and teasing everyone for the initial one hour and went for sleep. Since we were traveling in the night one of us had to be awake and give company to the driver. We did this on a shift basis. Initially we thought of going for a trekking to Kodachaadhri. But at the final moment we changed our plan to go for many places instead going to a single place and getting tired by ourself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"&gt;We reached Shimoga hills in the morning and took a snap of the hill view. Finished our breakfast &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"&gt;in Manipal at 10:30AM and started to Maple beach. Manipal is well known for Manipal University. Manipal and Udupi are adjacent towns and Maple beach is just 3km from Udupi.&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/St.Mary"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/St.Mary%27s%20Island.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; At around 11:30AM we reached Maple beach. Once we reach this place everyone in our gang was busy changing their dresses and got ready for taking bath at Maple beach. We played beach ball and took bath. After one and half hours play we started to St.Mary’s Island which is just a boat ride away from Maple beach. It took around half an hour to reach St.Mary’s Island by boat and they charged Rs.70 for to and fro. St.Mary’s Island is an excellent place to visit. The sea water surrounded by this Island was very clear and it was in Turquoise color. We were allowed to stay in this small and beautiful island only for one hour as the boat has to return back. We covered almost all part of this island within the allowed time and returned back to the land at 3:45PM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then we started to Udupi Sri Krishna temple. After having late lunch at Udupi we had darshan of Lord Sri Krishna. As far as we had seen, the gals in this town are looking very good and they are traditional unlike gals at B’lore. We planned to see the sunset in Maravanthe beach which is on the way to our next target Murdeshwar. We were not lucky enough to see the sunset in the Arabian Sea as we reached this place 10mins late. May be the Sun didn’t want to see our faces before it signs off for the day. The sea shore in Maravanthe beach was gud as like Besant Nagar beach in Chennai. After spending half an hour at this place we continued our journey to Murdeshwar. The people traveling in West cost highway will definitely enjoy the view. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Murdeshwar.0.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand" alt="" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/320/Murdeshwar.0.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;We reached Murdeshwar at 7:50PM. In this place, a gorgeous and giant Shiva statue has been built over a small rock surrounded by sea water. We don’t know whether this is a holy place or the place constructed to attract tourists. Also we were not interested to do research on this. We booked 4 rooms in a guest house who maintains this place. One of our friend’s birthday fell on 19th and we planned to have his birthday celebrated in the beach. After our dinner, B’Day baby cut the cake exactly at 12AM in the beach. Hope this should be his first B’Day celebrated by cutting cake in the beach that too at 12AM. After that we went to our respective rooms and slept.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://balag.myphotoalbum.com/view_album.php?set_albumName=album05"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;color:#000066;"&gt;After finishing the breakfast on the next day we started to OM beach at 9:30AM. We reached Gokarna at 11:15AM and went to the ancient Shiva temple. We were allowed to enter the temple only after removing our shirts. After Darshan we started to OM beach which is 8Km from Gokarna. I don’t know how to describe the beauty of this place by words. This place was the most exciting, most enjoyable, most memorable, most amazing, etc.. place in our trip. In this place hills are surrounded by sea and both were saying ‘Hi’ to themselves. Some foreigners were attracted to enjoy its beauty and some of them were taking sun bath. The sea water was as gud as in St.Mary’s island. Once we reach the place, all of us were disappeared from the land and giving attendance in the sea. Even after playing for 2 hours we didn’t have the mind to come out of the sea. Then we decided to go the other side of the hill by a very small motor boat. The journey in this boat was thrilling. We reached the other side of the hill, spent 10 mins in that beach and returned back. Then we started to B’lore at 3:30PM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had our lunch in a high way hotel. On the way to B’lore we went to Jog falls which is 829 feet tall and one among the world’s top 100 falls. Water was very less since March was not the best season to view this falls. So we were not satisfied. The best season to come to this place is Oct-Dec. Again we continued our return journey. We stopped in a small village and bought some fruits for our refreshments. We bought 2.5kgs of Grapes for Rs.20 per Kg and 1.5Kgs of Oranges for Rs.18 per Kg. We guys finished everything within half an hour. We had our dinner in a small town called Birur at 10:30PM. Finally reached B’lore at 4AM.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The trip was very gud and we enjoyed a lot. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/24391036-114293085918003034?l=balamurugang.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/feeds/114293085918003034/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=24391036&amp;postID=114293085918003034&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114293085918003034'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/24391036/posts/default/114293085918003034'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://balamurugang.blogspot.com/2006/03/trip-to-beaches-in-karnataka.html' title='Trip to Beaches in Karnataka'/><author><name>Bala.G</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/03304450392078627699</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='32' height='25' src='http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/6502/2528/1600/Dreams.jpg'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
