Aranmanai Siruvayalil

I've attended the pongal festival function in Seattle conducted by Seattle Tamil Sangam. My friends (Raaj, Mohan, Anitha, Vinod, and Anjana) did a dance performance for the song 'Randakka Randakka' from the movie Anniyan. Their performance was fantastic and each got a trophy from STS. I am so glad :-) Kudos to them.

There was a wonderful stage play "Aranmanai Siruvayalil" conducted by STS next to our gangs' dance. All the actors have done their job perfectly. The dialogue delivery was very good and its in typical chettinad style tamil accent. The storyline was very good. This team simply took the audience to village life for 1 hr 30 mins. Great Team Work :-)

It reminded me those memorable days I spent in my village and all the galaatta I did there.

Its the time to disco.....

Thinking of something that make people energetic and enthusiastic, lots of things are popping up in my mind. Really, what makes a person happy. First thing that hit my mind was music. Then a good game of cricket if you were an indian, a game of baseball if you were brought up somewhere in the US. What else!??! I kept thinking... I just analyzed what is common between my friends, what is interoperable between us. I kept coming back to music & wow i discovered one more thing that we all had in common...Its the sister of music :-) Oh Yeah it is dancing! Yes a good dance makes me energetic & enthusiastic. I was watching my friends practice for a dance event. Wow day by day they are getting better at this. They were practicing for a tune that entire tamil nadu was dancing for!

Stop reading for a second & take a guess of what tamil song it could be!??? :-)

Its a tune from Anniyan. Ok i know you guessed it now. Its Randakka Randakka, the same one where you enjoyed watching the kondaikari sada dance. Deep in everyone's heart there is a desire to dance, but due to shyness we just do not bring it up. Come on, all great dancers were not just born, its intrest and pracitce that makes them better! Leave your shyness back & start dancing when you hear a good tune and your heart feels happy. Try it once & I am sure you will forget the world and feel like a fresh apple! ;-). Ok, I gtg, its the time to disco!

You know, How we go?

I noticed that an un-planned activity is the most successful and graceful result yielder. Have you ever noticed that? It can be a trip or treat or function or playing games with friends. We will go thru a situalion like standing in a dead-end and no one knows how are we going to proceed... but, we will proceed and get something best out of it :-). I think, We pursue the course that our judgement and conscience dictates us on the fly.

So no one really knows how we go (reality speaks) ;-) This applies to life too.... Take life as it comes and get the best out of it :-)

Jaywalking

I just came to know about this interesting term called Jaywalking. It used to describe when a pedestrian crosses the street without regard to traffic regulations. In common use, the term generally refers to someone crossing a busy street outside of a designated crosswalk.

Obey rules and Walk safe :-)

Rubber ball theory for handling disappointments

A rubber ball always bounces back, in a similar manner, one needs to analyse the cause of disappointment, identify the problem, draw up a solution and bounce back to beat the disappointment in it's face.

Cool theory isn't it? NEVER EVER GIVE UP!

Monitoring/Managing different things

A month ago, I was in a deep thought about monitoring things that we are using in our day today life.

How cool?? if we switch-on and set a comfort threshold level in heater or AC at home before leaving from office (Yes, through internet - from remote) . I am sure this is possible using SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) . All we need is the following at home.

SNMP Agent/MIB support for Heater/AC

Ethernet support for Heater/AC

Client Web interface for Heater/AC

At the office end or Manager end, all you have to have is that a browser with internet access and an utility to execute SNMPSET. All the set operations like switching-on the device (heater/AC) and setting thresholds can be done through SNMPSET from remote.

Also, SNMPTRAPs can be sent to specified mobile phones or e-mail addresses if there is a problem with Heater/AC.

If UPS Monitoring/Management is possible using SNMP, why can't we Monitor/Manage other devices like AC, heater, and Coffee machine :-)

Just my thought for appyling technologies to make our life simpler.

Traffic Waves

Here's a very interesting article about Traffic Waves.

New Horizons: The first mission to distant planet Pluto

On Jan 19 2006, the New Horizons spacecraft set out on a journey to the edge of the solar system. As the first spacecraft to visit Pluto and its moon Charon, New Horizons looks to unlock one of the solar systems' last, great planetary secrets.

Looks like It will cross the entire span of the solar system and conduct flyby studies of Pluto and Charon by 2015, and Kuiper Belt objects encounter is scheduled after 2016.

Welcome back to earth!

On Jan 15 2006, the boomerang that NASA hurled into outer space seven years ago landed safely on Utah after collecting thousands of interstellar dust particles. Scientists believe that these particles are the pristine remains of the material that formed the planets and other bodies some 4.6 billion years ago. The unseen, unimaginable arenas of life such as the outer space sometimes humbles us isn't it? I am wondering how did the creator develope all this without any bugs. 4.6 billion years and still a lot more functionality is to be tested !!!

My first blog

I was wondering why people are blogging.... then thought of tracing the reason and got myself into it... So I am here to experiement :-)