உடனே எனக்கு எனது இளம் வயதில் நான் கவிதை எழுத முயன்று தோற்ற நாட்கள் ஞாபகம் வந்தது.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
கை (யால எதையாவது) எழுத்து பத்திரிக்கை
உடனே எனக்கு எனது இளம் வயதில் நான் கவிதை எழுத முயன்று தோற்ற நாட்கள் ஞாபகம் வந்தது.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
May an end of the world begin…
Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Pursue your, huh?
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
பார்க்காத சாரதி
Thursday, August 4, 2011
நாஷ்டா துண்ணியா?
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Flat # 000, Writers’ Block
The last 2 months were very hectic from the point of view of the last 2 months!
My friends started questioning me why I am not writing in my blog (which means I have started bothering them more).
Beyond the business reasons, I too started wondering didn’t I find an hour to torment my creativity of sorts?
Then it dawned on me – all of us go thru this period of “don’t know what I did in the last summer or winter or wherever the last 2 months fell”, though it sounds a bit of a complicated period going by the narration. If my memory serves right and left, learned men and women call it writer’s block. I am not sure how this happens to even those who are not writers like the underdigitallysigned.
I heard different popular writers had their methods to counter this period of creativitylessness.
Rowling used to slap the tea shop owner once a while where she normally frequents for her Potter stories. The guilt and probably the tea shop owner’s return guilt made her work vigorously on the witches and the other horrifying set of creatures she comes up with. PG Wo tries to slip on his 4 little stairs and takes some deliberate extra rolls to get wet or dirty depending on the season to jump back to the writing table. Jeffrey Archer prefers to go to jail to start writing again. I heard he has a bunch of tax experts to work on cooking the defaults that will fetch him the “Yes Milad. I plead guilty for all. Now can I go to my cell?” opportunity. Tamil writer Sujatha used to dismantle his old computer completely and refixes it during these tough times. People say he adds a new feature to it every time he refixes and by the time he died, made it almost a living thing.
But I know a few guys who will never get this disease. I have a friend who only thinks in numbers and rarely in words. Having got used so much to Excel worksheets for countless number of years – even his signature by hand looks digital. For any communication in life, he will draw some rows and columns and try to accommodate all he wants to say within those. I used to wonder what happens if he is under the gun and asked to write a novel. I guess the digital novel will go like this:
| | The | Night | that | never | dawned | |
| | Lisa | David | Maria | George | Gardener | Driver |
| Page 1-38 | Intro and her father’s murder | | | | Comes once to mow to find the father’s corpse | Waits for instructions in the car doing nothing |
| Page 39-89 | | Meets Maria CNTRL C | CTRL V | | | Prime suspect |
| Page 90-224 | Meets David CNTRL C | CTRL V Falls in love with Maria and both meet very often (since 130 pages) | Escapes from an unidentified killer narrowly | | Comes to get the money for the mowing and the unrelated job | Drops and picks up lot of guests for the funeral |
| Page 225&226 | Goes to Police | | | | | |
| Page 227 - 342 | Keeps crying | Gets murdered | | Falls in love with Lisa and both meet very often (since 120 pages) | | |
| Page 343 | Cries and Smiles alternatively | | Catches George | Gets caught - happens to be the murderer | | Silently drives both Lisa and Maria |
There is another friend who has practiced a life of absolute silence carefully combined with complete thoughtlessness. Most of his answers will be – eh? Oh! Ah.. mmm. He has always behaved like a crashed hard drive with no answer for any type of communication. Imagine he starts writing his blog:
: eh?
darkness
: oh!
silence
: ah?
Monday, May 30, 2011
Chief Filtering Officer

I have a friend who always finds excuse for not keeping in touch. If you write to him any mail he will blissfully pretend he did not receive it. When you poke him with the next mail – he will reply with a shock – when did you send a mail?
And sometimes he even goes to the extent of pretending to have received only half of my mail – did you write about that? I did not see that in your mail?
I have only heard of the short term memory loss in films. But this short term mail loss is something new to me. I used to even wonder if the hotmail, gmail guys have started filtering our mails and are sending only those they see fit.
Imagine you have such a job.. Chief Filtering Officer (enough of this CFO junk jobs – what an interesting job this would be, wow!)
You to your boss: Boss.. I have kept some urgent emails on your table for your approval.. I have already done the first filter…
- Especially that one on this 65 year old guy retired from the AG's office writing to Jennifer Lopez on his passion for her and offering to will down all his pension money for her and asking her to pass it on to Britney if she has second thoughts..
- and the one from Raveena Tandon to Oscar guys asking about short cuts on getting the Oscar for the best actress for her latest film "tum bhee dulhaniya leke awoge our dulhan jayagi hum sabke saat kabhi idhar our kabhi udhar. oof.."
Your boss: sure.. sounds old to me. whatever has happened to that one half- filtered from Azharuddin to Serena on fixing a match with her own sister? And the one from Ganguly to ICC requesting for no slips for him as a special case?
You: Boss you seem to be sitting on much older mails than mine.. they should have been cleared years ago!
Boss: oops.. sorry. I guess I missed them. What are these new ones? Gambhir requesting to his doctor for a shoulder injury? Huh? read this man – please grant me 4 weeks of shoulder injury, yours faithfully?
You: that is chicken feed.. hear this out . Rohit sharma’s very confidential mail to BCCI – dear sir, I am sick and tired of this Tendulkar scoring runs. I have been watching him even before my birth and my father himself does not remember when he last watched a match without Tendulkar. Players like me have all been waiting to hear his retirement for the past several years. They said, last world cup, and then this world cup, and then IPL 2011 and now my team mate gave me a real shocking news this morning - that he wants to equal the record of the Aussies in the world cup! – 3 successive world cups! Imagine we win 2 and miss the 3rd!
Boss: why has he blank cc’d kohli?
You: boss, this is why. See a similar mail from Kohli to BCCI on Dravid! “dear sir, I know cricket is a passion for Dravid. But why I should wait for his passion to end for me to work on my passion? I have never heard anything called – I have a passion provided Dravid gives up his passion! Do we have any legal method to resolve this? Anticipatory passion or something? ”
Boss: enuf of cricket man.. check out this one from Karunanidhi to PM. “dear sir, I am already 90 years old. And I have never heard anything about telecom. My sons and daughters when they were young, used to fight for a mobile – and I thought you are talking about that only. What is scandal? I thought Veerappan was killed long back. Nowadays all scandals are very safe. What is this spectrum? Relatives? Yes. I want my spectrum to be around me always. I love all my sons and daughters. So please leave me alone in these old days”
You: oh, poor old man. I pity him.
Boss: look at this one from Pak PM to Obama: “dear sir, it is a big shock for me that Osama was near my place. I had clearly published a notice in all news papers telling him not to enter pak before I left to watch the world cup cricket. After that I was busy stopping the fist fight between shoaib and Kamran. I am shocked that both of them never told me about Osama. I have asked BCCP to ban them from all kinds of cricket for a period of 3 weeks inside Pakistan. ”
And it goes on….
Imagine this business growing and becoming a conglomerate with various divisions – hotmail filtering division, gmail sorting office, face book I like it wing, face book comments department and so on…. I would take that job any day. So will you, I guess.