Improper Tamil version Advertisement for Birla Sun Life Insurance

Recently came across the advertisement for Birla sun life insurance telecast-ed in a Tamil channel.

Similar advertisement telecast-ed in Hindi can be viewed in link
here

In tamil version, The girl talks about the profession of being chef , serving biriyani for her father.

She tells her father that, had she had become a Teacher as per her father advice, she would be putting egg's in paper (zero mark in evaluating paper) instead of preparing egg biriyani.

Is teaching profession meant for putting zero's in evaluation sheet? It is for sure degrading a profession. I hope they edit and correct the advertisement.

--Dhanesh Amma

Yesterday SANIA, Today SAINA

For the past three years, every where talks were about the tennis player Sania Mirza..
Now it is badminton player Saina Nehwal's turn..

Just a thought came to my mind... Both the female's name is having same alphabets but the letter I and N got twisted.

-- Dhanesh Amma

anarkali masakali rasakali lasakali (etc etc)kali...

The hot trend salwar's during this festive time for south indian ladies is the maskali.. The Masakali season started last year itself i guess, but it picked up well in the market only this year as the starting prize of the dress was reduced.

every where talks on masakali only. people were also discussing what's there with this name and got information that there is one Hindi song which starts with masakali..

googling gave me updates that it is from movie "Delhi 6" and in which the masakali is the name of the dove in the song. hence this is not the reason for salwar name..

On hearing name masakali, i could recall the name anarkali salwar.. probably they chose the name masakali as it rhymes with the name.

i also remember the anarkali was some dancer during the period of akbar.. on googling i got the info below.

History of Anarkali salwar kameez:

Anarkali ("pomegranate blossom") was a legendary slave girl from Lahore (Pakistan) during the Mughal period. She was a RajNartika. She was a dancer at palace of Great Mughal emperor Akbar. She was supposedly ordered to be buried alive by Mughal emperor Akbar for having an illicit relationship with Prince Nuruddin Salim later to become Emperor Jahangir. Due to the lack of evidence and sources, the story of Anarkali is widely accepted to be either false or heavily embellished. Nevertheless, her story is cherished by many and has been adapted into literature, art and cinema.
Courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehenga

The dance called mujra or mujara was famous that time. Famous dancers at palace of mughal kings dance for entertainment of Mughal kings. So, the dresses were worn by the dancers while mujra dance called as mujra / mujara dresses. Later they got famous by name Anarkali dresses or Anarkali salwar kameez in the rememberance of a great dancer and a passionate lover Anarkali.

(courtesy: http://www.pramanik.in/Anarkali_Salwar_kameez.html )

so now it explains clearly.. all the series of masakali, rasakali , lasakali, etc etc kali's are the series of anarkali type salwar with slight modifications.

They are just making business by giving different name so that it reaches wide market and give huge profit. so instead of having one salwar, people might want to get one in each type (i mean one dress from each of the list of kali's)

so what's your type of salwar for this Diwali??

keep watching this site for a new post on silk sarees..

--Dhanesh Amma

Performance Evaluation

When you take a long time, you're slow.
When your man takes a long time, he's thorough.

When you don't do it, you're lazy.
When your man doesn't do it, he's too busy.

When you make a mistake, you're an idiot.
When your man makes a mistake, he's only human.

When you're out of the home, you're wandering around.
When your man is out of the home, he's on important business.

When you're on phone call for long, you're wasting time.
When your man is on a call, he's on essential conversation.

When you sleep for long, you are irresponsible.
When your man wakes up late, he's really tired.

the list does not end here.. but i don't want to drag it further.. sample is enough. So ending it here..

Well.. this is about the majority case.. If you say , its the other way in your case, just replace the "man" with "woman" and "he's" by "she's"

--Dhanesh Amma

Scary dreams...

Dreams come from memories in your mind . Your brain mixes up the memories and comes up with a dream.

I'm not going to talk about Sigmund Freud's/ Carl Jung's/ anybody's theory on dreams here.. I am just going to share about couple of my dreams which i have had in my midnight sleep and possible reasons for getting such dreams. Who knows... you might also have got few of those like me or got all of the dreams which I state here.

Case 1 : Missing hall ticket for exam / Late for exam hall / Present on a day where your exam is over previous day

Hold on... I am not talking about this dream you had while you did your schooling or graduation. These dreams do come when you are in a profession.. where you do not have these kind of attempts in your past education history

I used to wonder, when i am not doing any part time course and not having any exam in coming weeks, whey I get such dream? I could assume that this type of dream is nothing but we are stressed too much in office or nearing deliverables at work place.

Case 2 : Bunch of hair comes from your head / All teeth are broken and fall out / losing your senses like becoming deaf , blind etc

hmm...either you are too much worried about yourself or stressed out too much which will cause these kind of dreams..

Case 3 : animals or insect bite you / animals talk and threaten you...

When i mention here about animal bite, some take it spritual and want to seek temple for remedies though it came in dream..May be this case of dream could could be an effect of watching too much animated cartoon movies like narnia / ice age etc..

Though one gets scared on having such dreams, we will feel much relieved on waking up.. because they were just dreams and we are safe..

--Dhanesh Amma

(Funny!) Leave Letter...

Writing a letter had been exercise in school days.

I am sure, everybody who had schooling whould have practiced the following

* Leave letter (Sick, injury etc)
* Leave letter (attending events)
* Letter to uncle for thanking him for sending you a birthday gift
* Letter to a company for sending you a parcel by VPP
* Letter to a friend telling your vacation experience in a tourist spot


Also every body whould have used the learnt knowledge in applying in real scenario.

Recently I came across a new situation where a student might want to take leave for attending his fathers marriage and her leave letter below.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Respected Sir

Most respectfully, I beg to state that my Father's marriage is scheduled to take place on 24th Aug., 2010. The marriage party is going to be held at Mumbai So, I shall not be able to attend the school for four days.

Kindly grant me leave for four days; from 23rd Aug. to 26th Aug. 2010.

My father wedding invitation is still in printing process and I shall provide you once it is ready.


Thanking you,

Yours obediently
Student Name
10th Std - 'A' section
Date: 01-Aug-2010


~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It's good to see that kids are not getting affected by the breakage of relation between parents and they accept the new relation too.

But, I'm not sure why these kids are in side of Father.. is it the financial support they get or the power of Men in the society?

I've heard a statement.... "My children and your children are playing with our children"... Soon this might become a common statement in India too..

--Dhanesh Amma

What is a blog?

I recently came across few tamil/english blog sites where i came to know about many people who spend their half of their day in typing and posting contents in blog on a daily basis.

half of them were mainly the catchy news which comes in the news paper or magazines or movie review or about people in media. they just provide link or copy paste the contents.

There are few writers who gain constant readers via this blog/websites. They post their articles in their site and based on the comments from the readers, they modify and publish the books easily.

Blog is a easy way to gain publicity, at least among the people who have access to computers/mobile phone with internet connection.

Have you ever tried to write a article and get it posted in a magazine? you will have to wait endlessly for getting it published.

But this is achieved at free of cost if you have basic knowledge about creation of blog and posting contents.

There are people who are registering their blog in the sites and having meeting with their co blogger. Very funny.

There were writers in the past who want to stay away from other writers and readers. But these bloggers meet and post articles with photos explaining what happened in the meeting.

The life time of some blog sites are also short. They come in, very active for a year or two and disappear.

Now, the blog readers are the ones who waste their time by reading such blogs.

Technology is a boon in few ways, at the same time curse in many ways. It is we who have to use it for boon than to get in to the trap of curse.

Ahh... now that explains why there is no post from me for the past two months.. I think twice before writing something, If it is really worth spending time in typing and posting.

Let my blog be filled with articles which will give some message to readers than just being a source of entertainment.

--Dhanesh Amma

அவனுக்கு தலையே இல்ல...

தலைப்பை பார்த்து யாரும் பயப்பட வேண்டாம்.. நிஜ மனிதனை பார்த்து சொல்லப்பட்டது அல்ல இது
எங்க தாணு குட்டி துணி கடையில் வைத்துள்ள தலை இல்லாத பொம்மைகளை பார்த்து சொன்னது.

அது நிஜம் அல்ல பொம்மை என்று சொல்லலாமா என்று யோசித்து, வேண்டாம் என்று அமைதியாகி விட்டேன்..
பின்ன... அந்த பொம்மை வாங்கிதாவென்று கேட்டா என்ன பண்றது ?

-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

Goat and Kid

A kid under shelter of Goat on a hot sunny day.

That's why it is told in tamil as, அன்னையும் பிதாவும் முன்னறி தெய்வம் - "Parents are living gods"

Advance Fathers day wishes to Fathers and expecting Fathers. (Third sunday of June)

--Photo clicked by my sister at Rameshwaram - Ramar patham temple

Danger: Smoking Daddy's kiss

புகை பிடிக்கும் பழக்கம் உள்ளவர்களின் வாய் தொண்டையில் ஏராளமான பாக்டீரியாக்கள் தொற்றி இருக்கும். இதில் “மீனிங் கோகுஸ்” என்ற ஆபத்தான பாக்டீரியாவும் ஒன்று.

புகை பிடிக்கும் பழக்கம் உடையவர்கள் யாருக்காவது முத்தம் கொடுத்தால் இந்த பாக்டீரியா உடனே அவர்களையும் தொற்றி கொள்ளும். இது உயிருக்கு ஆபத்து ஏற்படுத்தக்கூடிய பாக்டீரியா ஆகும்.

அதுவும் குழந்தைகளுக்கு முத்தம் கொடுத்தால் அந்த பாக்டீரியாக்கள் எளிதில் குழந்தைகளை தொற்றி அவர்களுக்கு ஆபத்தை ஏற்படுத்தி விடுகிறது.

பாக்டீரியா தொற்றுதல் மிகவும் அதிகமாகிவிட்டால் 10-ல் 1 குழந்தைக்கு மரணம் ஏற்படும் வாய்ப்பு உள்ளது.

எனவே புகை பிடிக்கும் தந்தைகள் குழந்தைகளுக்கு முத்தம் கொடுப்பதை தவிர்க்கவேண்டும் என்று இங்கிலாந்து பேராசிரியர் ராபர்ட் பூயி எச்சரிக்கிறார்.

மன அழுத்தத்தை போக்கி கொள்ள புகை பிடிப்பதாக பலர் சொல்வார்கள். ஆனால் புகை பிடிப்பவர்களுக்கு மன அழுத்தம் அதிகரிக்கும் என்று ஒரு ஆய்வு தெரிவிக்கிறது.



Message source: Maalaimalar news paper

It is also said that not only smokers, people who inhale the smoke from air also gets affected.

Smokers - They spoil their and also their family members life.

It is nothing but as said by a tamil statement :

sondha selavula sooniyam vachukkurathu...


--Dhanesh Amma

Tech Robot

A man wanted to buy his son a robot as a birthday present.
The next day he went to the shop and saw three identical robots in a room.
He asked the clerk, "how much for the robot on the right?


The owner said it was $250.
"$250", the man said. "Well what does he do?
"He knows how to use all of the functions of Microsoft Office 2010, responds the clerk.
"He can do all of your spreadsheets and type all of your letters."


The man then asked what the second robot cost.
The clerk replied, $500, but he not only knows Office 2010, but is an expert computer programmer.


Finally, the man inquired about the cost of the last robot.
The clerk replied, "$1,000." Curious as to how a robot can cost $1,000, the man asked what this robot's specialty was.
The clerk replies, "Well to be honest I haven't seen him do anything. But the other two call him " Team Leader " !!

--Dhanesh Amma.

*****This post is dedicated to my "Team Leader" friend.*****

Disci: The stuff is grabbed from internet and modified as per my wish.

Tongue twister...

Read the below content...

Mr.See and Mr.Soar were old friends. See owned a saw and Soar owned a seesaw. Now See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See, which made Soar sore. Had Soar seen See's saw before See saw Soar's seesaw, then See's saw would not have sawed Soar's seesaw. But See saw Soar and Soar's seesaw before Soar saw See's saw, so See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw. It was a shame to let See see Soar so sore just because See's saw sawed Soar's seesaw.

All about Nine

There is something special with Number nine.

We have nine planets in our solar system. (nava graha)

We celebrate nava ratri for worshiping nine forms of Shakti/Devi

In Mathematics one can play many tricks with number nine.

When I did schooling, I was asked to answer a question. How many nine's are there in range 1 - 100. I counted the numbers in mind and gave answer as 11. (9,19,29,39,49,59,69,79,89,99) . Note : here we have two nine's in 99. I was sure that I have given a correct answer, but I was told, I'm wrong. Yes. I had missed out 9 more nine's (90,91,92,93,94,95,96,97,98). Correct answer is 20.

From that moment, I do not like the number 9. Not just 9 but also 99 as it prevents the name of getting cent percent by one mark..

Recently I came across a clock which uses number 9 alone to show hours from one to twelve. Each hour is computed from three nine's and the mathematical notations. Image of it is shown below . (picture got from google).



But I get one question. Why the transgenders are referred as nine in tamil movies? Anybody of you have an answer for it?

Though this post is talking all about nine, this happens to be the tenth post in my blog..

--Dhanesh Amma

சன் குடும்ப விருதுகள்

தலைப்பை படித்ததும் நம் மக்களுக்கு புரிந்துவிடும் இது என்னவென்று. வெளி நாட்டில் இருப்பவர்களுக்கும் ஓரளவு புரியும் என்று நினைக்கிறன்..

மக்களை சீரழிக்கும் சீரியல் , தங்களுக்கு தாமே புகழாரம் சூடிக்கொள்கின்றன.

சினிமாவில் கூட, சிறந்த நடிகர், நடிகை , காமெடியன் , குண சித்திரம் , வில்லன் என்பதோடு முடிந்து விடுகிறது.. ஆனால் இங்கு அம்மா , அப்பா , மாமனார் , மாமியார் , தங்கை , அண்ணன் என்று குடும்பத்தில் என்ன என்ன உறவுகள் உண்டோ அனைவருக்கும் விருது..

இது பத்தாது என்று மக்கள் எஸ்.எம்.எஸ் மூலம் வோட்டிங் செய்ய வேண்டுமாம்.

( நம்ம மக்கள் தேர்தல் என்றால் வாக்களிப்பது இல்லை. தட்டு தடுமாறி ஐம்பது அல்லது அறுபது சதவிகிதம் வருது, பேசாம இந்த எஸ்.எம்.எஸ் முறை கொண்டு வந்தா நம்ம தேர்தல் கூட இரு நூறு சதம் வாக்கு வரும்ல...)

இந்த டான்ஸ் போட்டி , பாட்டு போட்டி ன்னு ஒரு சேனல் ஆரம்பிச்சதும் எல்லா சேனலும் அதையே பேரை மாத்தி ஆரம்பிச்சாங்க.. சீக்கிரத்தில் இதே போல எல்லா சேனலும் அரம்பிச்சுடும்னு நினைக்கிறேன்..

ஒரு கலைஞனுக்கு ஆஸ்கார் வாங்க ஆசை இருக்கும் , ஒரு விளையாட்டு வீரனுக்கு ஒலிம்பிக் மெடல் வாங்க ஆசை இருக்கும் , ஒரு விஞ்ஞானிக்கு நோபெல் வாங்க ஆசை இருக்கும்..

இனிமேல் இந்த அழுவாச்சி சீரியல் நடிகர்களுக்கு, குடும்ப விருது வாங்க ஆசை வரும்..

இதை பற்றி இன்னும் எழுத ஆசை தான்..

அதுக்கு சம்பத்தப்பட்ட சீரியல்கள் மற்றும் அதை சார்ந்த விருது நிகழ்வுகளையும் பார்க்க வேண்டும்..

வெறும் விளம்பரம் வாயிலாக இவ்வளவு தான் எழுத முடியும்..


-- தானேஷ் அம்மா

சூரியக் காதல்

நிலா பெண்ணிற்கு
சூரியன் மேல் காதல்..

வெப்பத்தின் இருப்பிடம் கதிரவன்
குளிர்ச்சி தருவது நிலா...

இருவரும் நேர் மாறானவர்கள்
ஆனால் காதலுக்கு தான் கண் இல்லியே...

எதிர் துருவ காந்த அலைகள் போல
இவ்விருவரும் காதலால் ஈர்க்கப்பட..

நிலா சூரியனை சந்திக்க
சூரியக்காதல் சூரிய கிரகணம் ஆனது..

--சென்ற மாதம் வந்த சூரிய கிரகணம் தந்த பாதிப்பால் விளைந்தது இது.

3 IDIOTS - Re(My)View

This is my first attempt in writing a review rather it is my view. It is not a movie review as i am not going to write anything about the directorial , editorial , filmatography, etc..

If you are a IIT or NIT passout, there are two characters, who will have occupied your mind after seeing the movie.

* Professor - Virus (Boman Irani)
* Book worm - Silencer (Omi Vaidya)

These two actors have done their part well.

I guess every college will have at least one professor like the one depicted in the movie and most of the batches will have one such book worm.

The movie covers the line , "Don't decide on your child's future and force on them"

A Kid - Whispering secret

How do you whisper a secret???

*Go near the concerned person
*keep your mouth near the person's ear
*Cover your mouth so that other dont read ur lips

one such sample is the picture below




This is not the same with kid. Here I refer the kids who are not eligible for play school even. ( less than 2.5 years)

When you whisper a secret to the kid and ask them to convey the same to others,
they will run and convey the secret to them.

They do not know the purpose of secret and how you whisper to their ears.

Hence they whisper with their cheeks touching your cheeks, keeping their hand near their mouth whisper to the world..

If you cannot picturize what i mean here, try the same with a kid and have fun.

-- Dhanesh Amma

Whirlpool - Fully automatic washing machine issues

Last new year time (Jan 11, 2009) we got a brand new Whirlpool fully automatic washing machine.

Generally a word is there that "The product works well within the warranty period". Washing machine worked well for a year for us.

Two weeks back, one fine Saturday... the machine went dead while the tub was getting filled with water. I started the initial investigation on the power cable to check if switch off happened due to loose connection. Bad luck :( cables were proper. Then troubleshooted again after half an hour and found that machine powered on. It was again working for about three minutes and then went dead again. I did not lose hope. tried again after sometime and machine started and went dead in few minutes.

Hmm... it was like a Mario game, getting life and going dead again.. but only three chances of life.. Washing machine did not start after that.

Booked a complaint to whirlpool customer care. The executive gave me a good news that warranty is for 2 years for washing machine and not 1 year as i guessed. Ah.. a relief to some extent. Yes. We are not sure , if that damage is covered under warranty.

The service executive called us and arrived in three hours (Whirlpool customer care service is good. I mean the part of job in accepting complaint and sending the executive)

The investigation result was Washing machine PCB is gone. The fellow told It will be replaced tomorrow (Either him or some other executive will come and do the job). Next day no one arrived. We then wanted to know if the complaint was updated and checked with customer care again.

The telephonic executive accepted our query and informed, they will do the need immediately. Another service executive called in three hours and got the details about model number and the number of buttons on the PCB etc. to bring the replacement part. We were desparate to get it repaired as we had a weeks clothes to be washed.

Bad luck again :( The executive came with a wrong piece. There was misunderstanding and the board he brought did not have option for warm water wash.

He made a call and confirmed that spare part is not in stock and we had to wait for one more day. The same executive arrived after two days with the spare part and fixed our problem.

Main problem for the PCB repair is water.
Following could be the possible causes for the PCB problem.

1. Either water might have reached while placing the wet clothes (we cannot avoid wet clothes where we have small kids)
2. Power off while the washing machine is on with warm water wash (The water while cooling down builds moisture inside)
3. Frequent power fluctuations.

The executive informed us that fully automatic washing machine will have frequent problems and the repair cost is also high where as semi automatic is problem less and also the spare parts cost is also less.

The statement is true to some extent, however the frequent problem comes in because of improper handling. Reason for improper handling is proper instructions are not provided at the shop where we buy the washing machine.

For example whirlpool gives a demo once we get a new washing machine. During demo we are asked to buy a stand (1000 Rupees) and cover (550 Rupees). Without the cover warranty does not apply.

If this is the case, why don't they add these parts to washing machine while buying and add it to price? When we buy a washing machine for 15.5K we can afford to spend 1.5K for the stand and cover.

If you do not wait for the demo and start using the washing machine and skip the demo operation you are probably the loser to know the information about stand and cover.

They also state that if we use salt water , warranty does not apply. Are we going to wash clothes in sea water? Even the chennai metro water is hard. In this case why are they selling a product where the warranty cannot be applied ? Lot of questions peep in, but if we are lucky enough in addition to our proper handling, the product we buy will stay with us for longer.

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