Marina beach- the chennai's hot spot..

Mahatma Gandhi, Kannagi, Thiruvalluvar, M.G.R, Annadurai...you people know what, i met them together yesterday. But i missed the legendary actor Sivaji Ganesan. Wait wait, iam not bluffing, nor i was travelling in a time-machine. Probably, Chennai-ites would have guessed by now. I was in the Marina-beach(which is popularly misconcepted as world's second longest beach. But who gives a damn, my Chennai is Chennai and Marina is Marina :) )

The place as everybody knows is one with a lot of activities..Be it the kids who play on the beach sand, the guys playing cricket(remember Ch-28 movie), the vendors selling eatables, the lovers and the list goes on..

Here are a few clicks of this hot-spot....

beach is one of the best places for taking photos of your Shadows ...(by the way, this is my gang and find me out..)

Who can resist looking at the colourful,mouth-watering cotton candies??

(certainly i can't....but mom says "Nandhu, NO cotton candies at beach"...)

The police patrol (or life-guards, that's their real name) can be spotted in the evenings.. But you know what, with such a heavy clothing, they can't actually guard lives ...










CORN...one of the best things i like..nothing can come near the hot-ones on a cloudy evening...
(by the way, this lady is grilling one for me..
and as usual " it's yummy..." :) )










pay Rs 10/- get a paper cone filled with
puffed rice(pori), raw-mango, spices, and hot steamed ground-nuts... What more can you ask for ??
This is a typical sundal-stall on a tri-cycle..
(one of the hot-selling business in beach)








Bhel-pooris, pani-pooris, channa, pav-bhajees
so what is this stall, a mini chat-centre...
(for people who consider their health point of view, don't try this unless you certainly want to)











this is the balloon shooting arcade..
take a riffle, aim one balloon, place your finger on the trigger...shoot..."dishuum"...
"sorry mam, the riffle is not loaded"
:D









But to top the list there are a certain group of folks, like me, who love to do some art in the sand....( i made this, and a few started to copy me :) )


"விலகிச் செல்ல நீயும்,
உன்னை நினைத்து வாழ நானும்
இல்லாவிடில்,
காதலை உணராமலே இந்த அலைகள்
கல்லறை எய்தியிருக்கும் !!"்

(if you are lucky enough, you can also spot a few upcoming lyricist like me ... anyways, i made this lyric, sitting there...)


That's it for now and as usual "do comment"...

nandhu :)

Never ever quit...

Hiya frens,
This time iam back not crazy, but with something serious which i feel like gushing out loud. Just a few weeks before i heard something which really touched me, made me lose a day's sleep. I just met an old friend of mine, who said one of her cousin's with whom i have played in my childhood attempted suicide. I just felt my emotions running due to two good reasons:
one she was someone who i enjoyed to be with and two, she is no older than me(of course, i know that suicide has nothing to do with age)

So, where did it all start? This girl was affected by an attack of TB around two years ago(don't ask me if she smoked...you know what, the passive smokers i.e, people who don't smoke are usually more susceptible to problems). And coming to the reason of her suicide attempt is what touched me more than anything else...she resolved that she should not be yet another carrier of the disease and didn't want people to look down at her...( i can see the real pain..)

I just didn't know how to react to the disturbing info i got. All i could do at that time was to ask about her condition. (thank nature !! she was saved and she is fine now). I always wanted to write about suicide-(God I Quit!!)- attitude, but i never knew i will be hit with such an incident.

As a lyricist i can feel the truthfulness behind these lines,

"WHEN TEARS DON'T STOP FLOWING FROM EYES,
AND NO ONE APPEARS TO BE OWN,
WHEN DEATH APPEARS BEAUTIFUL THAN LIFE,
A PERSON IS FORCED TO COMMIT SUICIDE."
But in this issue i don't want to be a lyricist.. i can sound more logical by saying: "the most bold decision a coward can take and the most coward decision a valiant can take are just the same- SUICIDE, a permanent solution to a temporary problem" But logic doesn't work often when people are in vain..

All i can tell those who try to indulge in the idiotic ( i can't find more suitable word) thought of suicide is: Life is not over with your eyes closing and heart stopping to beat...
there will certainly be people missing you badly...
just think for sometime in peace..Afterall, you can't burn a beautiful dress at-once just because it got stained...rite??

So,
Stay strong,
and start loving yourself,
you are special for someone..
And you'll meet that someone at the right time..

Keep smiling, afterall hope sustains life :)

catch u ppl soon,
do comment,
nandhu :)

I see the me in you...

Hiya!! I just got a day-off from my inplant training. So, i planned to make a short trip somewhere out. And you know what, like my other plans it didn't flop and went really well :) .
My mind sensed a few things are too good in life.

• A bus journey however horrible it be, is always fun when you have some nice friend.
• Ice lemon tea tastes good (today i tried it for the first time...and it was gud)
• At times you never know when you turn hyper and speak like a FM (hey watch out!! as a matter of fact i dunno if speaking out is bad...but am planning to watch out)
• At times trying to act seriously can really bluff people.. ( a big NO...am not going to try it again)

But the worst part of bus-travel is travelling all alone. I did that on my way back home :(
I had to travel for around 40 minutes and the scorching sun made me sleep, though i tried my best not to. Finally i decided to keep me awake. And i knew what i had to do!! (common i always have a pen and a paper..)Wow, now i had a reason too..wat's next...nandhu started to write her lyric.. :)

I just thought of my friend(s) and wrote a few lines..this is how it goes...

கண்ணாடி ( I see the ME in U) ->

தத்தி தத்தி நடந்த போது
தந்தையின் முகத்தில் சிரிப்பைகக் கண்டேன்

முதன் முறையாய் "அம்மா" என்ற போது
தாயின் உள்ளத்தில் மகிழ்வைக் கண்டேன்

பள்ளிப்படிப்பின் தேர்ச்சியின் போது
என் ஆசிரியரின் மனதில் நிறைவைக் கண்டேன்

நட்பே , உன்னிடம் மட்டுமே
காலத்திற்கும் என்னைப் பார்க்கிறேன் !!

( yippee!! i made a lyric in that boring journey...
lingerings of the past are at times very usefull)

"A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself" (cool na?) ==>

saying this its me signing off. Do comment and Catch you ppl soon .

nandhu :)

LDOL (last day of leisure)...

So, this is going to be my last day of leisure( i just feel that i mayn't get a long time to relax for at least a week from now). So i just planned to roam around. Suddenly i thought of one good place "moore market", as i had a couple of books in my wish-list. But due to some technical fault, i ended up going to my book bank and i had to give a BIG NO to moore....as usual, it was a flop..

(But what ever it be, i didn't forget two things i usually do at the central station..to treat me with a bar of my favourite chocolate and to grab a cup of Rathna's sweet corn..yummy!!)

So what's next?? for people who dunno, iam planning to attend an IPT from (In plant Training...well why can't it be an IPL??? ) tomorrow at some place which will take me an hour and a half to reach. And the worst part is , there are a helluva things over there which make me feel a little bit bored (+++ tired).

To start with

• "be punctual at 8:30 am and you can leave by 3:30 / 4:00pm" (damn, am not working for them and they are not paying me even a single buck).

• "No boarding/ lodging " (i actually expected something for Rs.500/- which i pay).

• "No certificates will be issued if your attendance is not proper" ( i planned to bunk a few days :( ).

• "Remember that you are just five students in a group of 70 students"(so my dreams are shattered.. i didn't expect such a good strength to make things worse and of course it means things are gonna be according to some preset time-tables and rules)
  

please don't expect some more hard-and-fast rules...I think this is enough for someone who is actually in the holidays after successfully( i think so) completing the semester exam.

So am i sounding like "a turkey before thanks giving day"??

Well, i do have some valid reasons to attend the IPT....

• I want my resume to look a little bit like an engineer's (you know that professional stuff)
• My sissy has got a couple of certificates more than me ... so right now iam trying to equalise her..(IPT is one good way)
  
• I wanna learn the routes (just praying that the buses should be empty-enuf)
• My cam is tired of shooting people, so why not some machinery and industrial stuff???

Hmm, that's all i can think of. I just have one good thing for sure, i have my friends around and i hope i can manage it.

That's it for now...the tetris game which i downloaded recently is awesome and is calling me ...
Catch you people with the IPT experiences soon...
Do comment...

nandhu :) the knurdy (again)

Yippee!! My lyrics in RMKANICA'09

Hiya ppl!! you know what my exams for this semester are over (about two days before) and here is nandhu for her next blog.

Well, just a few days back, i got my copy of my college magazine(RMKANICA - that's what they call it). Ofcourse, that's not something special for me. But i just wrote my tamil lyrics for that magazine and it got published :)


So, here are those lines...




கல்லறையும் கோட்டையும் உன் கையில்
்(The above lyric has a speciality..until now this is the one for which i took longest time to complete.. "an hour" .. but i personally feel it's worthy.. :) )


கிறுக்கல்கள்
(so, what's special with the above one..it's just close to my heart..i dedicated this to my mom on her birthday :) )

Well.. now am moving out for my cuz's birthday (of course, with my RMKANICA ;) )
So, catch you people in my next blog...
hey, wait.. wait.. do post your comments...

nandhu (d knurdy) :)