Embodiment of versatility - Chinmayi

Chinamyi is someone who has made full utilization of her god-given-gift (her voice).. Being a trained classical singer, she started off as a playback singer and became popular with songs like "oru deivam thantha", "tere bina", "enadhu uyire" etc..she carved a special place for herself as a singer in tamil cinema.. Her next venture was as a TV anchor in "Airtel Super Singer"..With her smart/confident voice and presence, she succeeded in this role too..Unlike some other TV show hosts who overdo certain things in the process of entertaining the audience, she did a brilliant job....Until recently I didnt know that she was a dubbing artiste too...After that I realised that in movies like satham podadhey(for padmapriya), jilnu oru kadhal(for bhumika), varanam ayiram(for sameera) it was her unique voice for the leading ladies in the movies...
Now I hear that shez a RJ for aaha FM ...Hats off to her !!
More than all this she runs a language translation company named "blue elephant" .. Can u beat that??
Inspite of all these, one can find that she is a regular blogger...she periodically updates her blogspot http://chinmayisripada.blogspot.com
How on earth can someone find so much time to do so many things and that too exceedingly well ?? Everone has just 24hrs of time every day.. what that matters is how one wants to make use of it...
From what little I read/heard about her, seems like her mom is her backbone.. This proves that
"Behind every successful person, there is always someone else behind the scenes !!"

My best friend's wedding

The most awaited function happened in a grand manner last week. Despite the hot sun in sivakasi and chennai, the wedding and reception went on really well. Giri(My friend) dressed perfectly for each occasion. Her muhurtham get-up was the best.. With a simple red cotton saree, long bhindi and the temple jewelry , she looked like a beautiful dancer to me :)
the four of us (Giri, subbu, chiths and me)got together after a long time.. Though Giri was busy, we three had a nice time....While the mangalsutra was tied all our eyes were filled with happy tears.. Waiting for almost two years became fruitful at that moment :)

Her reception in chennai was splendid(closest to the tamizh word "bramandam" )....magnificient hall with a huge stage and flower decorations, giri and params in their best outfits, sumptous dinner, Giri's dad singing with the orchestra, hospitality extended by Giri's parents and above all hundreds of guests......
With so many known faces around: my collegesfriends, mysore friends, giri's relatives, i really didnt have enough time to talk to all poroperly.. (Now am feeling bad that I shud have spent some more time with all)
The function took an informal note with some of us dancing to some fast numbers
Wishing Giri and Params a very happy and successful married life !!

Too much planning is no good use

Many a times when I plan too much in advance, I end up in a mess.. Today my friend Chithu had come home. She had told me very much in advance that she wud be coming here. So I had planned well ahead, took sometime and bought nice pink kurti for her. This was almost 2 weeks.
Know what?? I completely forgot to give it to her :( I realised it only when she was abt to board the train in Thane Station)...Am getting really very absent-minded these days ..Need to work on it !!
However had a great time with her today :)

IITs – destiny for a few more: Thats what we think!

The dream destination for the studious “junta” has expanded a bit more from around 3000 seats to almost 7500 seats, over the last decade. Considering the fact that the total number of candidates have also increased, the probablity to get through has not increased after all. So it isn't so much of a good news for this year's batch..
How I wish they had done this 9 years before way back in 2000. Those days(its almost a decade now) we had two levels of screening. After the first level there would be 15000 left for the second level. Out of which around 3000+ would get an admission in one of the IITs. If they had 7000+ seats then, maybe I would have managed a spot amongst the last few seats...It wouldn't have done any good anyways. Except that I would have proudly said “I got an admission into the IITs, but I chose to reject the same” …Too Much!!!!

Speak out and Sort it Out

Life partner, as is rightly termed, is someone with whom you should be able to share any emotion/thought/problem openly without any cover up.This one particular aspect lays a strong foundation in any relationship (more importantly in a husband-wife relationship)
This is easier to practice between people who have similar mind-sets('cos they can relate to the other person's feelings quite well) . This is also quite easy for people who are extroverts who in general can openly express their thoughts to anyone. However by whomsoever it is practised it works wonders
It develops a comfort zone between the two in such a way that after you speak your mind out to your partner, any great problem/obstacle seems smaller and you come to a state of equanimity to sort it out fairly wisely.

Baby Talk - Mazhalai

There are almost 7000 living languages with many dialects in each language.It is interesting to note that, in each language there are certain words that are specially designed by/for kids. Probably these are used thinking that it would be easier for the kids to pronounce the same. However, each kid is creative enough to use new words as he/she feels and these words become a part of the vocab in the kid’s home.
There are certain words/phrases that grown-ups use when talking to kids. Some words that are used in Tamil house-hold (mostly TamBrahm house holds) where there are kids.
“Ummachi” – God
“adi kuzhambu aana pola” – the final mouth of food
“mum mum” – food in general
“thachi mum mum” – Curd rice
“Ta ta polama?“ –shall we go out ?
“thachiko” – go to sleep
“okachiko” – sit down
These are some common words… Apart from these, every word is pronounced by the kid at his/her own will. This is called “mazhalai” in tamizh .(I think its “baby talk” or “babble” in English.)
It is sometimes funny and sometimes cute to see grown-ups talking to the kids in this baby language...
Gradually as the kid grows up the language shifts from "baby-talk" to the so called grown-up-talk ...................

Cousin cum cousin's wife :)

My cousin (R) who lives in Madison, WI is leaving tonight back to US.. Oh do I call her my cousin or my cousin's wife ?? :) I would prefer to call her my sister, instead..
She had come down to India with the main purpose of attending my wedding.. Really sweet of her!!
Ofcourse her other purpose of visit is to lose several kilos of weight..hahaha!!
Jokes Apart, These days when ppl are busy with their lives, travelling across countries with a small kid without her hubby around is a rarity.. she didn't bother about all that .. She made it a point to be here the very day i told her about my wedding .. Thanks a Ton R!!
We both have shared an emotional bond always .. we can go on and on over phone about some topic or other.. These days we seldom get to meet each other.. however we make the full usage of emails, chats and phone calls ..
Wishing her bon vogaye and all bst wishes to stay happily with her sweet daughter and Husband ..
Cousin