Category Archives: fun

Pongal Greeting cards 2020

Posted on by under expereince, family, fun, Lifestyle, Uncategorized

Our kids have created pongal greetings cards and send to friends, relatives for the third year.

Viyan, Iyal and their friends drew many cards.

When I asked for post cards in bulk at post office, they scared at me and denied as no stock. Then, nearby shop owner donated all his cards.

It has been a good event for all the kids to sit and draw together. Viyan has grown from scrapping to good drawings.

Iyal saw the postbox for the first time. They both wondered to know the process and happy to drop the cards on the box.

Its our pleasure the fill their childhood with good events and great memories.

If you need a postcard next year, drop me an email with your address ( tshrinivasan@gmail.com )

Try to create a card and send to someone dear for you. It is so wonderful.

 

Visited My college AMACE on Sep 22, 2018

Posted on by under alumni, amace, chennai, college, fun, kanchipuram, photography, social

When life is kicking me on all the sides, I am always looking for some rewind.

The old friends are like old Rum. The older, the sweeter.

Few weeks back, Arvind and Rajanna, my college classmates called me and shared their plan of AMACE visit. Who will miss this great opportunity!

On sep 22, Sudharsan call me and told that he was waiting near Tambaram.
I joined him on 30 min.

Soon Vijaykanth and Dinesh came on a car.
We jumped on the car and VRoooooooooooooom.

Talking with our friends is one of most glorious moments.
We had all fun talks.

Reached college at noon.

The Library welcomed us.
It was the place where I spent most of my college times.
The librarians recognized us even after 14 years.

Soon, Arvind, Rajanna and their friends from AP, Banglore reached college.

Then all went to our classrooms.

Could hear the echos of our sounds, inside my mind.

The dark corridors, steps, the benches, the labs, the canteen, the grounds, the hostel.

Hmmm.

Those golden days will be there only on our memories.

The jokes we told, the whispers, the secrets, the scolds of the teachers, the fights we had, the events, the boring classes, fearful exams, life threatening lab exams, the strikes, the sport matches, the mass bunks, the class cut movies….


We got an opportunity to rewind our life. We went 14 years back and life our lives for few moments.

It is so sad to see the current situation of the college.
The total strength itself below 100, including all departments.

This year new admission is only 8.

Most of the buildings, classrooms, hostel rooms are empty and closed.

On our times, we had housefull of class rooms, around 600 students in our batch itself.

Dont know what will happen to our college in the next years.

With sad feelings, we departed. Our college gladly sent a college bus to drop all of us in kanchipuram.

Vijaykanth, dropped me in Tambaram.

It is so hard to come back to real life.

Thanks guys for sending me back to our golden days.

 

Will be waiting always for our next meet and visit to our college.

Few clicks – https://www.flickr.com/photos/tshrinivasan/albums/72157695827864680

CANCLLED : Sri Vani Niliyam School – Kanchipuram – Alumni Meet – Invitation

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NOTE : This meetup is canceled due to unavoidable situation from school management.
We will try to organize another meetup soon.

Please Inform this to all your friends.

Thanks.

Sri Vani Niliyam Middle School, Kanchipuram

is the heaven, where we lived our 8 years.

Though the school is small,
though it is dark,
though it is so strict,
though the teachers give homeworks,
though we have to lift a huge bag,
though we fight with our classmates,
though we fail in some subjects,
though we are caught in copying in exams,
though our father refuse to sign in rank cards,
though we hate the fair note writing,
though we cheat from after-exam-answer writing,
though we have school in all saturdays,
though we have to stand in a long queue for free lunch,
though we have to walk a long to reach the school,
though we stand outside in prayer time,
though we see our name in blackboard as dis-obedient,
though our uniforms are torn and dirty,
though our hands shiver in the exams,
though we get 100 times impositions,
though we dont have get any playground,

we love our school days, more than anything.

Do you wonder is it possible to add a ‘rewind’ button in your life?
Do you love to come back to our school?
Do you miss our teachers to share your life’s great moments?

Come. Let us have an alumni meet our old school.
Let us check our names on the benches.
Let us listen our whispers on the wind.
Let us hear the sounds of the chorus repeats of the teachers,
Let us meet our friends and fight for the seat, once again.

Venue : Sri Vani Niliyam School, Adisenpet Cheeti Street, Kanchipuram.

Date : October 2, 2011  — CANCELED
Time : 10.00  AM – 4.00 PM — CANCELED

Invite all our friends, seniors, juniors, teachers.

Spread the word to rewind our life.

Meet you there.

Contact :
Shrinivasan – 9841795468
Loganathan – 9994368007
Suresh – 9600152989
Sathish – 9894751812

The end of a 28 years search

Posted on by under aree, fun, kanchipuram, marriage, treat, trekking, trip

I dont know when I started looking for girls. 🙂

May be from birth.

Schools, College, Office life are filled with girls around. Loads and loads of love. hmmm? Its not me.
Got so many lovers around me. Played a key role in some of the loves too.

But still, not found a heart breaking person to love. Is it a bliss or a curse ?

Lot of puppy loves were there. The problem is that they are LOT. hahaha.

The days were busy with technologies, services, and the treks,tours to explore the nature. No time to select a single girl to go around with.

Sometimes, If I thought of proposing a pretty girl, she might call me as a ‘brother’ on a beautiful day. Have many ‘sisters’ like this. Else, she will introduce her lover to me, who will become a brother-in-law to me very soon.

“Dont worry shrini. You will your girl soon.” Boring dialogue from all my friends. It is tough to hear the same for years.

Park, Beach, pub, disc, Temple, Library,Mall, TNagar, Search is so long.

“Ok Shrini. Let us stop here. Let us concentrate on adding more meanings to life than searching for a girl.” I told to myself. Started to do tons of stuff for the opensource community and for personal growth.

“Hai shrini. Shall we go for a girl’s home tomorrow? Can you get a leave? “
Dad and mom asked me last thursday, 3 days ago.

“Yes. With pleasure. Will be missing some fun at office. But still, they will allow me to work from home for a day”

I dont know how a single “Yes” can change my life.

Parents were searching for girl in many cities and towns. Distant cities and towns also in search area. But, cant find any one with full satisfactions like astrology, veggie, etc.

As a wonder, this time, we goto the next street itself. Yes. she lives in next street and I am missing her for years.

Friday morning. Full of excitement. Dad,Mom,myself, and brother are in her home. Cute little home. Elders started to talk a lot of common unimportant stuff.

Surprisingly, her dad started report on his pirated windows 7 and asking the possibilities
of installing Linux in his laptop. He already explored linux in his office.
I love to answer these questions all the time.
But never expected this discussion at this place.

“Where is she? Who is she? ” it is me to myself.

“Need Coffee? ” Her mom asked.
“Here it is”. She is bringing the coffee cups in a trey.

“Stop. Stop. Stop. The girl, only, should give coffee to all. Not her mom. How can I say that to you? Does nobody watches Tamil Movies?” How can I say it loudly?

Thank god. Her mom goes to a nearby closed room. Yes. They too watch tamil movies.

The door opens. An angel starts to walk. Thousands of lights, trumpets, music, hummings etc.
No. No. No. Thats not true.

The door opens. A pretty girl in saree comes with coffee.
“Is it a dream?”
“No”
“Take the coffee. Talk to yourself later”

She sits in front of me. It is very tough to face her in front of all elders, who are looking at me.

Little corner eye looks. She also in same boat.

“Is it she?”
“Is it he?

I might have seen her somewhere. Cant recollect where did I see.
May be in last birth. Bad memory.

“Shall I ask her to sing a song? Dance?”
“No”
“She already started to talk something. Answering questions. It seems that she is singing”.

The first electrifying eye contact.

“Dont excite much shrini. It may happen or may not” to myself.
“Ofcourse. But, it thrills”

Yes. she is vegetarian, works at

a good company for her passion, not much culture difference, can read tamil, looks nice.
What else you need?

“Boy,Girl, Do you need a private talk?” someone asked.
“Sure” both replied.

First talk is so much excited. Dont ask me what we talked. 🙂
Had a chat for around 15 min, talking funny stuff around us.

I dont know what she thinks on me. let us see.
she has to catch train at 10.30 am to goto office. It is already 10. Let us leave her now.

“Okey. We are leaving. Let us discuss in home and update you soon” Mom told.
She becomes a normal office going girl from a bride.
She starts to office.

After a lot of thinking, I said
“Yes”
to my parents.
Another “YES” which changes my world.

Day was busy with office works and some continuous interview calls.

She has announced her “Yes” already to parents in phone.
They called us for a discussion in the evening.

“So, Both agreed. How to proceed now?” Her dad asked.
“Let us have a small agreement function coming sunday, the day after tomorrow”
“Shrini, is it okey?” mom asked.
“Okey. But it seems so quicker. Why so hurry?”
“It will be like this only. Why we have to postpone when you both agree?”

“Hmmm. The effects of YES starts from now”. Dad smiled.

“Okey. Let us proceed.”

After some talk, we started from there.

“Shall I get her contact no?” I asked.
“Here it is”

“See, she comes to home from office. Let us ask her”
“Shall we have a small function coming sunday?” her mom asked here.
Looking at me, she said “Oh Yes. sure”

“Oh My God. What is happening? Except me, everyone is so fast”

I never ever thought of these things for the past 2-3 years.

“Is it real? or Am I in the middle of a inception kind of dream?”

“You discuss the further stuff. I have to goto chennai tonight. Tomorrow, we are going to a trekking”
told to mom.

“Make this trip as a last one with friends. You had already enough trips” mom replied.

“Let us see. But dont believe me”

Started to chennai. Mindful of thoughts and excitations. No sleep.
Picked up Mohan in the airport at 4.00 am and dropped at his home.

After a nap of 1 hr, my office team is ready for a long longing trek with mohan.

We spent the whole day in the lap of nature in the beautiful place called “Aree” near periyapalayam.
It is our own holy place. We used to come there regularly one year ago.
We had some long live memories of night stay in the jungle too.

The rocks, chill stream, green trees, ponds made me to live in a new world.
Learnt swimming a bit in a beautiful pond.

Returned to kanchipuram at the end of the day.

The next day is sunday. Its time to meet her again.
This time we had around 15 people went to her home.
Had breakfast with her. My brother Suresh, Friend Thanigairajan and relatives Gopi, Sumathi and Appu
started teasing both of us. Missing another brother Arulalan. He works in Delhi, missing tons of fun here.

Usually, I eat a lot. But this time, cant eat much when she is next to me.
She is also a very slow eater. ( May be I am the reason or not )

“We will come to your home today evening 6.00 pm” they informed us.

We reached home then.
Feel sleepy because of two sleepless nights and a full day trekking.
After a little nap, went out to make calls to friends to announce this sudden changes in my life.
Everyone excited to know this. No one is ready to believe this sudden decisions. Even myself.

Waiting for her arrival to my home.
Friends are making fun on myself.
Everyone from her home came.

“Where is she?”
“May be come bit later”
“No, It seems that she is not coming as elders started discussions”

“Why she is not coming?” asked a friend.
“She should come to your home only after marriage”

“Oh. Terrible elders. Why do they have all these rules?”

They went after a while and friends started to laugh till it pains, narrating all our old friend’s
marriage stories.

Announced this in social media. Flood of wishes started to flow.
Everyone wants a big treat. Most of them want a treat in a bar with drinks.
“Shall I give it?”
“Let us see”

Why this world looks more beautiful? Even air sings!
Movie songs are more interesting now.

She is not an angel. She does not come from heaven.
Yet, she does something. Adding more colors to my face and life.

Thanks for all your wishes friends.
Dont worry if you dont have a love or girlfriend to love.
I bet you. It is really thrilling and life becomes as beautiful as in love, even in arranged marriage too.
It is all about how you face the life.

I am writing this just to make sure that all these are not in my dream.
Eventhough it is a dream, I am not willing to wake up.

🙂

 

Update :

Though I was on dream moments and wrote this blog post, Nithya was still thinking to say “NO” or “YES” to me. After reading this post only, she said her “YES”. Then the rest is the history.

Writing blog, has given me tons of good friends, jobs and life partner. Magics will happen by writing. Start your blog today and keep on writing.

A.W.E.S.O.M.E trip to Kodaikanal

Posted on by under books, college, cricket, falls, fun, kodaikanal, trip

“Hei Shriniiiiiii. Can you join us to a trip to kodaikanal, this weekend? ”

What will you reply to this question, when you are loaded with tons of activities ?
I was so confused. I was never locked out with tasks like this before.

“Yes. With pleasure” was my default answer before. But this time, I had to think a lot before nodding yes.Office work, some personal tasks were ready to fill the days.

Who knows? I may meet some government officers in TN secretariat to discuss about the Free laptops with Linux provided by TN govt.

Still, I was not sure when Naresh asked me the question.

“We are booking the ticket for you in Tatkal, tomorrow morning”

“Thanks. But, give me some time to think. I have more works to do”.

“Oh. You can make it dude. Come and join with us”.

“Let us see, Will try my best to make it”

The next 3 days went like a dream. Almost completed all the tasks.

Not sure on the meeting with Govt officers.
‘Faculty Development Program‘ on Linux is being handled Baskar and the team from ILUGC.
Office works are almost completed and my team shared some load.

—

“Guys. Pack your stuff. Meet you there at Egmore station, today night 9 pm”

Hanging out with friends is one of my favorite passtime.
Was at office till 7.45 pm, finishing the last minute tasks.

Sathish joined with me from office to Egmore.

—

Got in the train.

“Hei you. welcome”

“Hi dude. you too?”

“Atlast you came!”

“Park your seat here”

It is a gang of 15 guys from my office, but from 3 different teams.
You don’t believe it. All these guys are so calm and polite in office.
I hope they are not so when they are out of office.
Let me see how it goes. Nice guys,They did not disappointed me. 🙂

—

“Oh My God. No girls in this compartment”

“So what?”

”    “

”    “
—

Train started moving.

“I can feel the chillness of Kodaikanal, here itself”

“It is the handwashed dirty water from previous window. Move your face out of the window”
 
Guys went busy with making phone calls to wifes, parents and girlfriends.

“I will wake you all at 5.30 am, tomorrow”
“Wake me if you can”

“Will –e on your face to wake”

—

Jagan, is the hero of this trip. His cousin has a guest house in kodaikanal.
He arranged for the local travel and the stay.

Train reached Kodai Road. Everyone woke up politely.

“Look for anyone with placard with our name”
“Ravi, Kumaresan, Yaswanth, Mary, Jonsy… No one is waiting for us”

“We have to find ourself”

We found the van and the driver some 100 feet away.

—

“I have to goto restroom”
 
Got this request for the first time.
This is the most spoken sentence in this trip by the team.

—

The van stopped at Nilakottai, Annai Motel.
Good place to have some rest.

—

The next few hours went by deep sleep as the van was climbing the hill.
The chill breeze made me to fall asleep immediately.

—

“Get down dude. Else we will roll you out of the van”

“Did we reach the Topslip?”

“Wake up from dream. This is Kodaikanal”

“Oh. Who are you?”

I was into a Inception dream. I think this is level 1.

“Ahhhh” Cant resist the sudden kick. I came to real world.

—-

Jagan, got the room keys. The room is so large to have 16 guys.
In few hours we got ready for the site seeing. 🙂

—

Had lunch at the “Hotel Welcome“.
We had our first quarrel with the server.
They messed with their seat arrangements and serving food.
Thank god. Nobody made it into a fight.

—

Van started to climb on the hill path.
The summer season was over, But still can see the travelers there.

Stopped at the Green Valley View/Suicide Point.
Mist and fog hid the valley.
The monkeys were waiting like they would jump on us any time.
Escaped from the ancestors.

—

“I want tea”
“Masala pori for me”
“Bajji”
“Ice Cream”
“Coffee”

“Have them guys, But don’t ask me for a rest break”
“Wait. Can you continue your speech little later? let me go for a break. Find a restroom for me”

—-

Anvesh brought his SLR camera. Naresh has his semi SLR.
I did not take out my small NIKON camera.
Let these guys take the snaps. I will give pose.

—-

It is a nice experience to feel the freedom.
Till yesterday, I was screwed up with a series of multiple tasks.
But now, I am standing in front of a huge hill filled with fog.
The breeze was so chill and mind was so relax.
Even a small travel can change the life into a heaven.

—

“We have one bat and two balls”
“Yes. All of us know that. What are you going to do with them?”
“—-. This is for cricket”
“Oh. Thats your fault. You should have told that earlier”
“Let us go to Pine forest and play cricket”

—

Pine forest is a neat place for a good play.
Two teams started to play.
We are the only human there.
The sound of the game is echoing around the forest.

—

A good camera with a model, to give pose makes a normal person as a good photographer.
As Naresh had a good camera, I gave different poses, helping him to learn the photography.
Siva joined with me to sit, stand, climb tree, jump, stare, smile to the camera.

—

After 6 pm, life becomes stale there.
Shops are getting shut down.
Guys are already rushing for rest.
They have to minimize the input.
Little input gives maximum outputs here.

—

Reached the room and the fun filled night started.
The guys begin to be themself.

Anvesh booted the TV. Anand opened his laptop.
JP still roaring his bat. Ilango filled the restroom,
making karthik, Arul, Doodala to wait outside.
Ramesh rushed to another room.

Jagan and sathyan went out to buy dinner.
I started to read the book “One night at Call center”

I heard the sound of playing cards and the cheating fellows in the game.

—

Dinner is from “Hotel Annakili“.
It is a small food shop. But the quality and taste is so good.
Dont miss it, if you go to Kodaikanal.

—-

Gossips, kidding, scolding …
Guys are like girls with they are as a gang.
The non stop fun talk is started now.
Cant read the book further. Jumped in the talk and got blessed by the god of fun.

—

The night was a real nightmare.
The snoring sound from both sides of myself, made me stay awake for the full night.
The SONY MP3 player helped me to minimize the snore effect.
Realized why there are some diverse due to snoring. They deserve the appeal.
Rooms are filled with guys everywhere. Cant move anywhere.
Somehow, the rock songs made me to escape from these roars and made me to sleep.

—

“If you dont wake, I will pour this hot tea on your …”
“my …?”
“Face”
“Oh. Can you bring it to my mouth, Will drink it in bed itself”
“Will add some ____, if you want me to do so”
“Noooooo. Let me wake”

—

Anand is good at making Tea.
Nice to have a friendly tea with unfriedly wakeup.

“What’s up guys?”
“I saw you and him,  were doing something yesterday night”
“So, the question should be, who was up?”
“Stop this nonsense talk, in the morning. We were exchanging our places, to escape from snoring roar”

—
After visiting the Kurinji Andavar Murugan temple,
We are in the Bryant Park now.
Bat and balls should not be kept vain.
The cricket team started shouting and playing.

—

The meadow is green.
The kids are running with their small foot.
I am walking with bare foot.
Can feel the foldings of grass.
The chillness spreads from foot to head.

I laid down on the grass.
The green trees around me are smiling on me.
The cloudy sky brings the romantic situation.

Started the MP3 player.
AR Rahman, Harris and Yuvan sat around me with their orchestra
playing all favorite songs for me.

When it started to drizzle, I requested them go back to their home.
The rain drops made me a kid.

I am going back to my school days, walking in the rain with friends.
The rain dance with brothers, rain stories from mom and dad.

A rolling cricket ball brought me again to the meadow.
I have to play in rain again with all my friends and family.

“Where were you lost? we were searching for you.”
“He might have gone behind any girl”
“or any couple”
“No. No. I was in this meadow only. Was listening to Music”
“Cant believe. Whatever you do, be safe. Dont get beaten by public, for any nasty stuff”

—

Prakash joined today and Ram left to home.
We rushed to “Kovai Annapoorna Hotel” for lunch.

Food filled the stomach and the environment filled the eyes.
It is a nice treat for all.

—-

Guna Caves.
Little deep forest.
We started to explore the Guna caves.
It is a steep hill, where even a small slip can show you the path to heaven.

There are narrow paths, where guys with guts can go deep.
We are the guys with guts and nuts.
But, we have tons of fears, we just came down.

—

Photographic sessions are nice.
We made Naresh tired of shooting our faces.
He started to run behind the monkeys to capture them.
“But, I dont see any difference between monkeys and you guys”

—-
 

The center lake is the most romantic place.
After having loads of stuff in mouth, we decided to go for boating.
Got two boats with 12 guys and 3 stood out.

I wanted to go for cycling. Ilango and Jagan were seeing the limitless donations of nature.

—-

Cycle, is my feather now.
Started to fly with cycle around the lake.
I could hear the fading voices of my college friends there. We came here at our final year.

The lonely paths lead to more explorations.
The couples inside bushes hid themselves well.
The young guy and girl started to give some gap between their faces.
One guy blushed at me when I see him kissing a girl.
Romance, Romance, Romance is all around the lake.

still wondering, how some girls accept all these plays of guys in public.
Still, it is good for guys like us to enjoy.

The guys in the boat also saw some green sceneries, for their lifetime memories..

—

I followed some guys and girls in cycle.
They are from nearby college and looking for some private place there.
I should not follow them any more.

Rushed on some deep roads.
Some lonely places are really nice to be there.
Lost myself in the lap of nature.

—

“Hei. Where are you? We are done with boating. Come soon”  Got a call from Sathish.
I have to rush to lake. I am already lost in deep roads.
No one here to ask the path.
Somehow found the way to the lake.
But, again missed the path and was roaming around the lake to leave the cycle in the shop.
Got 5 calls from the team. They are waiting with the pains in their bellies.

—

“Oh My God. He came atlast. Driver, please fly to room. I cant resist”
“If you eat like this, you have a lift a room, like a snail.
“Shut your mouth and …”

—

Another wonderful evening started.
When the friends start to talk with no limits, the fun also loses the limit.
Dance, camp fire, romantic songs, fun talk, kidding … made me to forget the entire world.

—

Third day morning.
Still I cant believe that I am living here without seeing computer, without checking mails.
Though the gang is updating live in facebook with photos and comments, I feel better to be out of computer.

Anvesh and Karthik started early to catch and reserve train for us.
Berijam lake is todays target to make nasty.
We started early as we have to travel more.

—

There are 4 awesome viewpoints on the way to lake.
The mist, deep valley, distant lake, some nice girls around, made us to love the nature.

A long lonely walk around the lake is a heaven, when you go with girl or boy friend.
But, this gang made the walk as a dirty, dirty fun talk.

“Oh, My non-existing God. This should be my last trip with guys, to the heavenly places like this”
This is my prayer for past 8 years. 🙂
The god is not hearing me.
Who knows? He may be praying to someone for me.

—

We invited Actress Anuskha, on our DVD player in our return trip.
“En ithayam“ song from the film “Singham“, was played multiple times, until the DVD player stopped to work.

—

Purchased chocolates, Tea leaf, oils.

—

Its time to say “BYE” to Kodaikanal.
Packed our things and cleaned up the room.

The trees, lake, parks, rocks are simply seeing us departing.
What else they can do?
They are in hope that they can be in peace from now.

—

After a looooong travel, reached Dindugal and got the train.
Will goto office, with a fresh mind and energy, tomorrow..

—-

Thanks a lot for the entire team for making this trip really AWESOME.

Thanks for my support team for freeing me from any emergency support calls.
Thanks for Sathyan and Sathish for their crystal clear accounts.

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Subscribing CSM School students to Govt Library

Posted on by under books, donation, fun, kanchipuram

We have  public library at our street.
It has a great contribution in our growth.

In order to make the CSM school students to use the library,
I discussed with friends and librarian to
subscribe all the CSM school students to the library.

It costs 30Rs per student as a subscription fee.

Last week, government announced an offer as 20 Rs subscription fees
until May 31, 2011

Discussed with Librarian and CSM School to get the list of students.
As the school is busy with admission, they can give the list of 6,7,8
class students as the first batch.

We got the list of 260 students.
To use the offer from the government, I decided to pay the money.

I paid 260×20 = 5200 Rs to librarian and they started the process of
joining the students.

Will get the bills in a week.

After the school opened, we can proceed with the next batch students.
I am discussing with the Dist Library Management to get these offer in
the later period also.

Thanks for all your contributions and encouragements.

Dr.Magesh is willing to donate a computer filled with ebooks to our library.
Requested the librarian to get permission from the government.

Thanks Magesh.