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Random

2010-03-07T07:48:00.000-08:00

I think i come to blog everytime i feel blah.. feel random.. A first sunday in a really long time that i've been home all day.. is that why ? Maybe I am claustrophobic . . or am i giving myself reasons to get to this blog... I should start clicking again... i should start playing my sax.... i should be doing my reading..... need to get off the block and bloody start. . . . so i know am moving towards my 2 year plan ::)))) waiting for those 2 years to commence... Blah..Humbug!!

Un - ex - plain - able. .

2009-11-15T07:58:00.000-08:00

I want to say something, yet I cant, not because I don know what to say, or how to, or whom to, when. But just that I feel good about not saying it, I feel things are better this way if unsaid, sometimes something unexplainable explains everything ... not to me though!!!

CV Time is back this year

2009-07-03T00:03:00.000-07:00

The year's session starts tomorrow. Am going with a lot of excitement. I hope they all have a great time discovering themselves and learning together. I am sure my learning will be great. At work, i look to learn from people older than i am. At CV, I'm learning more than i can imagine from a bunch of young brats :)

An Underwater Experience

2009-02-18T03:31:00.001-08:00

15 students from Chettinad Vidyashrams' theatre workshop took a deep dive into project 'Little Mermaid' as a part of their Annual Day Celebrations. Though they were neck deep in work, a bubbly experience indeed !!!

flagging off

2008-12-22T08:35:00.000-08:00

Why cant our local super hero travelling in the MTC keep his hands to himself ? He might stretch out now and then to maybe wave out to a couple of women in his attempt to woo them, if not atleast that, to tell that he going away for good and not returning.
Not to forget our wise politicians who, in the name of adding colour to the streets, end up plugging alongside roads, flags and danglers. I wish someone taught them to install street lights and brand it, if it means public visibility.
Coming back to our hero, now this guy, i don know how he looks for i had the honour of only seeing his hands stretched out. As the MTC bus was struggling onmaybe gear two up an inclined path, this hero put out his hand in an attempt to pull off a flag that stood tall alongside the Gemini flyover. As is very common in Tamil cinema, the hero is bound to fail the first attempt, and so did this guy. the towering aluminium pole was instantly reduced in height and found the neck of a two wheeler dude driving a few feet in front of me. that guy seemed like he was more concerned about yelling at the hero rather than even thinking if he was in pain. Yet another rider in front of me, slanted his bike in an attempt to escape the pole and succeeded. I was happy for him. The pole was now dangling to the left and right for it was mildly supported by connecting danglers.
Here i am now, in front of the pole which is oscillating like a mad pendullam. I get off my bike with a hundred impatitent drivers behind me honking.
Yes... there i was holding the pole and trying to put it in place. It wouldnt stand. so with all my might i am attempting to make it stand tall as the security guard from the american consulate watches on, with his rifle pointing in my direction. LOL.. Thank god i dint wave to him or anything, god knows if i would have been alive and typing.
the flag now stands tall and happy. So am i that i am alive. Our hero would have found something else by now that more interesting than a flag. The election campign guys will be proud of their decor. Idhuthan namma Chennai.

dRAINing money

2008-12-19T08:48:00.000-08:00

What happened to all those rain water harvesting schemes the govt put into place a couple of yrs back? well, they made it compulsary dint they ? But am guessing they dint implement it themselves. Result: one good rain and Chennai was sinking.
Leave alone what the govt did during the rains to drain water, or what they should have done so that we may not have been in a deadlock situation.
Again, back they strike with their flood relief fund, offering upto 2k to every affected household. People mock me coz i stay in a place called Kaikankuppam, but quite surprisingly, the area was not flooded at all. Getting to that place from else where was tough, lets leave that aside as well. Yes, coming back to the core of this post, the relief fund of 2k has been offered to the residents of Kaikankuppam(to an area that was not affected at all). the govt says: give it to everybody, the local councillors says:"Well. the funds are only for those who stay in the ground floor". There now. We already know where half the wasted funds are going. And now, our residents, they are no better. The guy living on the first floor after hearing that the relief is restricted to the ground floor, suddenly seems to start living on the ground floor, or atleast he's convinced the authorities that he owns a ground floor as well. He's now happy after having collected his 2k,"I can have curry for the nxt 10 days" he says with a sense of contentment.
the authorities now start feeling too many people are claiming money as a result of which their share seems to be decreasing. So they come up with yet another rule to this relief " if the man of the house is earning more than X amt of rupees per month, that family will not be eligible to avail relief. Now our residents are smarter than what i thought. My neighbours husband suddenly becomes a coolie who does not earn more than 400 bucks a month, when he's actually sitting in Dubai and earning atleast 100 times that. An act of shame in my opinion. A husbands pride sold in public for a mere 2000 rupees.
What does it take for us as citizens to tell the authorities that this a wrongly divered fund allocation to an area that was not flooded at all?
Well, not tellnig them that is better in a way to ensure that the relief fund does not accumulate all in one mans bank account.
By not taking the fund yourself, are u doing the society good? You're right in doing it to feel right about yourself, but you not taking it is only someone elses gain !!
Take it by hook or crook and then donate it to someone u feel is thoroughly deserving. Will that make u feel that atlest your share of the pie has been distributed right ?

Too many questions!! Too few answers.

Get FOOLed

2006-11-17T02:35:00.000-08:00

Cast:

Prateeksha, Ananya, Benaaz,Punya,Supraja,Anjana,

Shruthi,Rashidha,Drishya,Prarthana,Aashirwad, Madhu,

Revathy and Dharanya

Music: Ashwath

Dance: Deepak

Crew

Manasi Subramaniam, Mansi Sood,Apoorva and Sunanda

THE KINGDOM OF FOOLS WELCOMES ALL OF YOU !!

BE A PART OF THE MAGICAL JOURNEY

2006-07-08T22:59:00.000-07:00

frozen memories

2006-04-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

by far, this is one the best things that i have managed to do in my college life, one photo that i feel like showing people and telling them that it is my work.

however the whole process was quite hilarious i must admit. we had to shoot a category called beverage.. most of them opted to shoot alcohol .. a few of them took to shooting milk and cool drinks.. Well this idea of shooting ice tea was deepalis. we were casually sipping over an ice tea can outside a supermarket inAnna Nagar and i told her tht it was my slot the next day.. so thats how the plan started. now i needed another can.. so we bought another can of tea. and then borowed the glass too from her house.

At the studio:
i set up three lights for this shoot. two soft boxes on the product and one with a yellow filter to wash the background. initiially i had planned to drop ice inside the tea and try an freeze it. my aperture was 22 and with a shutter speed of 60, i managed this one.

ya.. so coming back to the plan, i put some ice cubes inside the can to create the vapour effect... but it dint come through too well.. and then for the amount of time i took to adjust my tripod and the product, the ice that had to be dropped into the glass was over.. so i had to make one more trip to the canteen and yes.. he dint hav ice too.. thats what he said... but then i went and opened the freezer myself... U See, being president you are allowed to do somethings that other students arent.. So i did find ice there.

All excited to come back and start shoot, kymal was incharge of dropping the ice into the glass. she did but the tea never came up.. we tried many times.. but only landed up messing the place and had to keep wiping the little ice tea that spilt over.
then i finally decided to drop the cut peice of lime.. and with all her might, she dumped it in the glass.. and she did so three times.. coz i was not really confident if i had clicked right thefirst time, nor was i confident of my second shot.. nor the third.. after which i gave up and said, CHUCK IT MAN...

after i saw the contact print.... hmmm.. stunning performance by AGR.

what is and what is not

2006-04-23T03:54:00.000-07:00

What is and what is not

what has made me write this?

i just read mathis blog on his experiences at MSND and how he called it his first mainstream production.

What is landing Stage? we are a youth theatre group and we a bloody professional in the way we do things on and off stage.

the quality of our productions are no less when compared to the other so called theatre in the city. our productions have received ample positive reviews from the press or rather "rave" reviews from critics who are not known for such writings.

Why the hell are people not taking LS seriously.. is it because neither Mansi nor i have a degree in theatre or is it because we are a bunch of youngsters? or what? i dont see a proper explanation behind why we are being called Amateurs by the other so called big players in the field.

well.. i don care who says what.. because i firmly believe that LS is professional in its approach. what is more important that anything is the People who have been with LS, people who still are and who will be.. must firmly beliebve that what they are doing is professional theatre. if you yourself don consider it a priveledge to be associated with LS and take pride in the theatre that you are doing.. you cant blame Mr VB for calling ..rather indirectly calling LS amateur . For all those who were from LS and who were listening to that without backfiring..... YOU ARE FOOLS. you are all doing theatre only for the glamour of it and not for making it a learning experience.

AGR

the game has begun

2006-04-23T02:12:00.000-07:00

yes yes. orey the estyle. just sad that you guys cant see my LS Cap.

Well.. this is me.. so now you guys can backbite.. i wouldn even care.

yeah.. dear blogsite. thankyou for accepting me as a blogger. u know i wont post anything sensible, nor will i do anything constructive.. who knows.. after this post i may even forget my password or my user id.. but anyway thnks to you

since i have just started now.. give me some time to get into the blog mood.. and who knows.. i may rock it then....

till then bye.. AGR