No mood to go online these days - because i am on like 14 hours a day anyways at work - and there have been atleast 2-3 nights recently where ive actually left my laptop alone as soon as i got home and picked on a book instead. (Much to my mom's delight)

News: Travel plans confirmed. Im probably going to Brazil, China & Germany - in that order - in Aug / Sep on pending work - but this time strangely - im not too keen on too many trips - because i typically run into my old overcrowding problem - and its one thing im working hard to avoid.

I am getting a nice hang of the leather tanning business and i really can understand why people love this business inspite of its notoriously skewed Effort Vs Rewards ratio.

Diversion: Ive been noticing this trend off late - subtle - at first - striking - these days - the quality of tamil music (the movie music - that is) has like shot up big time - dead & buried are the days where we were forced to listen to worn warhorses like the ilayarajas, spbs and the likes.. heck - even Rahman was getting a wee bit irksome.

Today there are great young singers - kk, naresh iyer, krish, harish raghavendra..so on.. gr8 new music directors too - movie albums too are like never before - fresh.

The song of 2008 can only be this one: Kangal Irandal.. from Subramanyapuram -

*sigh* i even play this in office :)

Going to Madurai with a visitor for the weekend and back in time for another visitor - *sigh* i sometimes wish i cud take 10 days off and think about why im mindlessly whiling away my life :)

i swear to god that il watch atleast one out of the following 3 movies in Satyam next week (in the order of preference) - *alone* - if it really comes down to that -

Kung fu panda

Jaane Tu .Ya Jaane Naa

The Dark Knight

LOL

Spoonerisms - reading about them the other day i felt like Yogi berra once said 'deja vu all over again' :)

But then im sure that i've read about them back in school and I had almost forgotten how outrageously funny they actually sound - when we studied about them back then -

"The Lord is a shoving leopard" ("loving shepherd")

"It is kisstomary to cuss the bride" ("customary to kiss")

To a lady at a college reception: "You'll soon be had as a matter of course" ("mad as a Hatter, of course")

"Let us glaze our asses to the queer old Dean" ("Let us raise our glasses to the dear old queen")

"We'll have the hags flung out" ("flags hung")

"a half-warmed fish" ("half-formed wish")

"Is the bean dizzy?" ("dean busy")

"Go and shake a tower" ("take a shower")

"a well-boiled icicle" ("well-oiled bicycle")

(The quotes lifted out of wikipedia)

Bunch of things

Am reading Linus Torvalds' autobiography titled "Just for Fun" - a great read - if theres ever been one. I never gave much thought Linus or Linux for that matter - and i always assumed that he'd be like this google-guy type geek. Turns out that hes not - hes down to earth,VERY human and pretty candid about things in general - as you will observe if you read his book.

I wonder if im reading books too quickly and too many in too little time - to actually let any of the information from them soak into my grey cells. I dunno - i dare say - that some of it will have an influence in my subconscience or something.

On to other things: Rafael Nadal finally won his wimbledon - Regular readers of my blog ( :) i know this ones a wee bit tall) know that i predicted this outcome last year after i saw Rafa stretch federer to 5 sets - In ystrdy's match Rafa was 2 sets up - then went down on the next 2 - and thats when i switched off - he apparently won the last set in a tie breaker which lasted for like 20 minutes or so. God Almighty!

And hey - First time we've had a wimbledon champ (The Men's champ, that is) whos actually YOUNGER than iam - Nadal is 22. I dunno what to make of it. I guess i have to resign myself to peddling chemicals far and wide, and try to aim at topping some 30 year old's milestone or something :)

Finally heres the amazing Kabhi Kabhi Aditi and Anbae en Anbae

*sigh* work is going to send me to an early grave - all alone - within a few years - i havent been to the Gym - at the usual time - for the last week or so.

A pretty incredible thing happend to me today - i dunno - its like every wannabe super cool-stud-driver- in- chennai's wet dreams coming true :)

For about 10 seconds or so - My rusty Indigo actually scraped the side of a *sigh* silver, brand new, Mercedes S Class.(It wasnt yet registered). Technically it was the merc which actually gave up quite a bit of its side paint whilst rubbing against my poor Indigo opposite the Le Royal Meridien.

It appeared to be a pickup car of some sort belong to the hotel - and there was this poor chink in a suit in the back seat - clutching his briefcase nervously while the inflamed driver got out to see who had the gall to damage his merc :)

The poor bloke ended up being yelled at by a couple of by standers, a traffic cop and my good self for his rash driving. I swear i almost saw tears in the poor bugger's eyes while he was lovingly fondling the off colour side!

Surreal, huh ? I took a fair bit of paint off a brand new, unregistered S class and actually got the chance to yell the Merc's driver as if he had somehow dishonored by rusty indigo!