Dai Room eduthu thanga poren. variya.. ella nee kandipa vara.... En Eniya Nanban told/asked/ordered.

"wat,I don't get you. what do you mean by that?' I replied puzzled. "Dai it is becoming very difficult for me to study for CAT after reaching home. My office is around 30 Kms away from home, after such a long travel, reaching home and studying for CAT is practically getting impossible. I fell asleep as soon as I take that book, I want to stay close to office and prepare till CAT. Are you Game?" Thenga Udaikara mathiri sollitan

No second thoughts, Evalo Panram Etha Pannatoma, I never questioned myself whether my parents will allow me to do this. I have always convinced them whatsoever. When I told them as usual Mom Got worried, Dad as always green signal. This I believe Happened in the year 2005, same time around When I started blogging too.

A week later he called and said " Machi come to my office this evening, I shall take you to the place where we are going to make our dream go live"

Promptly I went to see him and we both went to the so called room which was situated on a side of a small pond swarmed with mosquitos and frogs, where the nearby people washed their cars and clothes, always abuzz with some activity or other, a 1 Bed Room flat, it was so apt for us to enjoi rather than study :P". The place was somewhere deeper in Shollinganallur. The room was in the first floor and there was a family in the ground floor who was more than happy to give us breakfast and dinner. Lunch I thought I shall take in office.

The D-Day arrived, I asked one of my friend to bring his car to carry my belonging to the rented room. On the way " Avan dai unnaku ethu thevaya... enda eppadi nee uyira vangura.. sathiyama nee padika porathu ella,.. he was kidding on the way" As a matter of fact, even I wasnt that much concerned whether I am going to study or not, but 6 months in a hostel like room, was worth giving a shot for nothing :P

Our room owner . What a life he had, he was like those Charlie's character in Anniyan, he has build some houses which he gave them for rent, and everday he will sit in front of his house in a Kayuthu Katil, the owner's wife, the old pity lady very happily fries fish and gives it to him and nammaaalu jolly whisky adichitu eruparu. He gets rent, eats fish and drinks whisky and sleeps outside. With the world outside going very fast that people forget to eat and sleep, our fellow was living in his own world very happily.

As always, as everybody Day 1 we did study hard, and Day 2 early morning my friend woke up early morning and woke me too and we did study. Day 2 night, Yes of course. Day 3 is when things started to turn normal. We had a heavy dinner and we slept early citing the reason we shall get up early. Day 4 we were late to office.

2 Notable things to pen down during out 6 months stay outside home - Sudoku and Kadala Mittai.

There were a no of potti kadais on the way to our home and all those shops had this so called kadala Mittai. One day my friend bought these home. 6 months straight not a day we missed having that.

As a good aspirant for MBA, we dutifully subscribed to THE HINDU in a hope to read from top to bottom. But we took note of the sudoku which was at the bottom.For all what we know, that's the only thing which we did fruitfully. We used to bring print out of various sudoku's and try solving them. And it became a habit till day.

Things worsened as days went, our cook aunt started preparing delicious food for us, she told why don't you come and have dinner at our home so that I can serve you hot straight from the kitchen. Coz she saw that we are eating food very late after she delivers it to our door step and by the time we eat it becomes cold. That was an offer very tempting to accept and hard to resist. That day Nei Dosa to our plate, and eating at their place was no nice, TV, non stop chatting from tat aunty, her kid even more non stop chatting and hot,good tasty food. Namma Alluku Non Veg vera. Nei Dosa with non veg kuruma. Potu Thakunan avan. Ennaku thaniya sooda sooda sambar. Having started eating in her home, made us eat more while watching tv and having a casual chat at her home. after dinner we walk to out room with the kadalai mittai and straight we go to bed.

As days went, sometime we used to dine out at those restaurants at ECR late night and if time permits late night show at aaradhana/prathana theatre too and used to reach home very late, little did we had an idea that those roads are very dangerous. It's a highly crime prone area but we weren't attacked any day.

2005 October Time was the period when chennai was hit with one of the worst rains in the past 3 decades. The rain was too worse that even corporates along with school/colleges declared a 2 day holiday. It was a Thursday and a Friday and so combining with the 4 day weekend was one of the best times no office, great Chooda Sooda food, good music, okka mokka climate and with the cocanut trees nearby our window and a small pond some 500 feet away, I don't think I have to say what we did. ZZZZZzzzzzzz..... Despite this climate we still went ahead with knee length water to those potti kadai's for the Kadalai Mittai. not to forget those 4:30 PM Tea. Too pity I didn't have camera those days.

Tat time, we had a walk man and he bought an speaker set, and songs of Aa .. AAh , Gajini and Oru Kalloriyin Kathai shuffled repeatedly. Later he bought a MP3 player gifted by his brother, work, sudoku, dinner,songs and sleep. Days went.

The CAT D-Day came. BINGO, both of us flunked and the more surprising factor is both of us scored the same percentile.

Years went, the next year we again gave an attempt, this time from our respective houses and still we flunked. The very next year I skipped CAT and travelled on site, he went ahead with his kolai attempt again and made to S P Jain successfully.

Currently I write this blog from my office here at on site and he reads this from his classroom at S P Jain Mumbai. But things may and do change over a course of time, he will travel on site after his degree completion and write a similar blog at his on site location and I might read the same from one of those class rooms. :)


Amores Perros is the Film- 3 Different stories go thought a single common point. Like Ayudha Eluthu/Yuva, the difference in the later is the 3 stories are connected, they meet at a single point and then the story goes together. In Amores Perros it is 3 different stories going through a common point but the stories are not related. This is a Mexican film which translates again to 3 different meanings - "Sometimes you hunt the bear, sometimes the bear hunts you!" , "If your story turned out well, put it down to "amores." If bad, put it to "perros."" "love's a bitch" . But the films official English version went ahead with the translation " Love's a Bitch". One interesting thread in the movie is in all the 3 different stories, each have strong and emotional bonds with their various beloved dogs and how each dog changes their masters lives. Wikipedia quotes - In this sense, another interpretation of amores perros, "amor es perros" ii, can be understood as "love is dogs", a concept that anyone who ever knew a dog can instantly understand.
Personally I did like watching this film.