17.Mar.2009: பத்திலிருந்து ஒன்று வரை...

பத்திலிருந்து ஒன்று வரை...

பத்தாவது படித்த நாளில் 
   இருந்தே ஏதும் விளங்கவில்லை...
ஒன்பது வருடங்களுக்கு பிறகு 
   உன்னைப் பார்த்தும் விளங்கிவில்லை...
எட்டுத் திக்கிலிருந்தும் உன் 
   நினைவு என்னை சூழ்ந்ததால்
ஏழு பரிட்சையில் தேறாமல்
   அரியர்ஸ் எல்லாம் வாங்கியபோதும்...
ஆறு செமஸ்டருக்குள் அனைத்தையும்
   முடிக்க முடியாமல் போனபோதும்...
ஐந்தாண்டு திட்டம் போட்டு
   அவற்றை எப்படியோ முடித்தபோதும்...
நான்கு இலக்க சம்பளத்திலோர்
   வேலையில் சேர்ந்த பிறகும்...
மூன்று நிலை முன்னேறிய
   பொழுதிலும் உன்னைப் புரியவில்லையடி.
இரண்டாம் தேதியன்று திருமணம்
   என்ற அந்த கணத்தில்தான்
ஒன்றல்லாது அனைத்துமே விளங்கியது
   நானொரு முட்டாள் என்பதுட்பட!!

15.Mar.2009: நன்றி

நன்றி
புகைப்படத்தோடு ஜாதகத்தை இணைத்து அனுப்பியதும்
அனைத்தும் நன்றாக பொருந்தியுள்ளது என்றும்
ஒரு தேதியில் வருகிறோம் என்றறிவித்து
அந்த தினத்தன்று ஒரு குழுவோடு
பாட்டன் காலத்து விஷயத்தில் ஆரம்பித்து
எங்களின் தற்கால விஷயங்கள் வரை
அலசிவிட்டு, எங்களின் விருந்தோம்பலில் வயிறாறி
அப்புறமாய் சொல்லுகிறோம் என்று கூறி
யுகம் கழிந்தும் சேதியேதும் வராததால்
உண்டான மன உளைச்சலுக்கு வித்திட்ட
நக்கீரன் குடும்பத்தில் நீயும் ஒருவன்தான்
என்றாலும் - இனி அந்த மன உளைச்சலுக்கு
முற்றுப்புள்ளி வைத்துவிட்ட உனக்கு நன்றிகள் கோடி!!!!

11.Mar.2009: வேண்டாமே இந்த ஹோலி...

வேண்டாமே இந்த ஹோலி...
எங்கெங்கு காணினும்
யுத்தம்...
வெடிச் சத்தம்...
கலக்கத்தோடு மக்கள்...
கூக்குரலோடு அலறல்கள்...
ரத்தத்தால் உறைந்த பூமிப்படுக்கை...

உலகை வண்ணமயமாக்காமல்
ரத்தமயமாக்கிக் கொண்டிருப்பவர்களே...
வேண்டாமே உங்கள் இந்த ஹோலி கொண்டாட்டம்!!!!

02.Oct.08: யோசனை...

யோசனை...

பிறந்த நாளுக்காகவோ...
வீட்டில் நல்ல விஷயத்துக்காகவோ...
அலுவலகத்தில் பதவி உயர்வுக்காகவோ...
கல்யாணம் முடிவு ஆனதற்காகவோ...

இப்படி
ஏதோ ஒரு காரணத்துக்காக
நண்பர்களோடு ஓர் உணவகத்தில்
நன்றாக கதைத்து உண்டபின்...

சில ஆயிரத்தை தாங்கி வந்த
bill-க்கு debit அல்லது credit card-இல்
தேய்த்து விட்டு கையெழுத்திட - ஒரு கணம்
கூட யோசிக்காத என் மனம்

சாலையோரத்திலோ, கோவில் வாசலிலோ
பிச்சை கேட்போருக்கு ஒரு ரூபாய்
போடுவதற்கு ஏனோ அவ்வளவு யோசிக்கிறது!!!

31.Dec.2008: Responsibility...

In today's world, check with anyone if they have anything or anyone to blame. Immedialtely you will get the answer - a big YES from everyone. Only thing is everyone will have issues or persons to blame according to their living standards forgetting their own responsibilities. Let me not get into the depth of each of the persons in each standards. I have given below the situation that made me think about this.

The other day, I was in the hospital for some checkup for one of my family member. We were waiting for the doctor and talking in general. That moment, a school girl in her uniform was assiting one more girl who was badly hurt into the hospital. Even the girl who brought the other girl was also hurt but not that bad compared to the other girl. Both the girls, should be in their 8th standard, kept their school bags near the entrance and walked into the hospital crying.

The other girl was hit on her forehead and was bleeding in addition to scratches on her legs and hands. The girl who assisted this girl was also having scratches in the hand and leg. But she seemed a bit courageous in coming to the hospital. I dont know what I would have done in that age :)

We overheard and came to know that the girls were returning from the school in the bike and fell down. We thought some guy had dashed them and went. But after sometime we came to know the actual reason. Nobody had done anything but themselved. Yes, the girl who assisted was riding the bike and got caught in the sand and lost the control it seems.

I was feeling really bad for the girls for sure. But when I thought who was responsible for this incident or rather accident. The first thing is how can the parents allow their children, who are not even 15, to take the bike to school? Dont they know that they should not ride without getting a licence at the age of 18? Since the parents did not tell anything, the girls took the bike and went to school. This is the first step where this accident could have been avoided.

This is the fault by the girls. But, given their age, they do love adventures and riding bike is one among them for sure. This is the next level where the accident could have been avoided. But more than all these things, what struck me was "How can the management, teachers allow their students to come in bike?". Dont they know that a 8th standard student will not have licence with them?

They should have called their parents and instructed them not to allow this. They do teach so many things but they fail in not following them. If at all they have called for the girls parents to take the bike once they have reached the school, this could have been avoided.

With the above incident, one thing is clear. Everyone has a role in each walk of our life. But then we just do not care about them and cry once something bad had occured. We do not do what we are supposed to, but we will start blaming others. So, on this New year time, lets stop the blame game and look into our responsibilities first.

Happy New Year 2009!!!

This content is published here: http://socyberty.com/holidays/responsibility/

20 Oct 2008: Sach(in) a great feat!!!!

Breaking a record in itself is a special one. And when Sachin does that it becomes very special, not for me alone but for the whole cricketing world. Yes, Sachin - the master blaster, little master, modern era Don, cricket's GOD, you can call him anything - has added another feather to his cap by becoming the highest run scorer in Test cricket.

He not only went past Brian Lara's record to become the highest run scorer but eventually crossed the 12000 mark. So again he is the first one to have scored 12000 plus runs in both the forms of cricket - One day and Test cricket. He achieved this on 17th Oct 2008, the first day of 2nd Test at Mohali against the Australians.

Though there are some still murmuring that he should have done this long back or compare him with his comtemporaries or something else, this is no mean feat which the ordinary people can even think of. He is sach a person that he need not think of any sach things but he is destined and well deserved to hold sach records in his career lasting for around 20 years. This span of 20 years itself is a great thing which many can dare to visualize.

At times, even I have made some remarks or criticized about his performances, which everyone will agree that it has come below his standards in the recent times. But that did not stop me in congratulating this great feat. So my, I would rather say our, hearty wishes for sach a person called Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar on achieving sach a great feat.

Oops...I was totally lost and mesmerized by this guy that I was using "sach" for "such". So, for sach...mmm...such a person, let us wish him to scale more in the days to come.

This content is published here: http://sportales.com/cricket/sachin-a-great-feat/

It depends...

Certain people does something but that something would be totally unacceptable for someone. Why is it so? I feel this is because the people involved are fine with what they do. So it depends on the individual's perspective towards the act they do. You cannot write anything off by saying that is wrong or right. It depends on that particular person at that particular moment on that particular act they are doing.

If you look at the terrorists or the guys who does something which might involve huge loss of human lives, they never know what they are doing or for them that is the right thing to do. As far as the person/group of people is concerned, it is correct. We can say that their mind is corrupted but very little could be done to stop the people who do that - corrupting others minds and influencing them. Though we can argue that weak minds or person in need are targeted, the targeted persons also feel for that moment that what they are doing is correct.

Why to look at such a broader scale? Just check within your circle of friends, family members, colleagues, daily acquaintances and you will find that "It depends on each one of them for the act they do". Let us look at our friends circle. For some, cigarette smoking or drinking is not a big thing but for some those would come under bad habits. In spite of knowing that both are not good, they do it because for them it is not that bad.
Even in looking at girls/boys or passing comments on them or touching them at every opportunity, the border line drawn by each individual is differnt. Some would stop at looking, but some would go further to pass comments and some make the fullest of every opportunity to touch. If you ask them why they do it, each one would say there is nothing wrong in what they do. So you cannot say any particular thing as right or wrong at any given moment.

But when you live in a society among others, and if certain things are wrong and accepted by most % of people, we have to avoid doing that. Some still do even those things even if there is a law governing that act and is punishable. This is where the words terrorism, loss of human lives and such unwanted sad things are heard. One nice saying is there, even for a culprit to become good, he must be willing to become good. Otherwise, even if all of us say you cannot / should not do this or that, it will go unnoticed. Good thing is that some try to point out the wrong things so as to minimise the bad things atleast. But again, for all these to be in place, IT DEPENDS ... on how we take it.

This content is published here: http://authspot.com/thoughts/it-depends/