VISHU - വിഷു

Vishu marks the first day of the month Medam of Malayalam Year.

Although the calendar year is changed in the month of Chingam - which marks the festival Onam.

Vishu, which means 'equal' in Sanskrit, is the harvest festival of Kerala, and is celebrated in a very grand manner.

The day starts with the Vishukanni, followed by Vishu Kaineetan, crackers or Vishu Padakam, loads of masti and then the Vishu sadhya, yummmmyyyyyyy.

Vishukanni is generally made by the elderly lady of the house, and is believed that the entire year should be as prosperous as the VishuKanni. Kanni is generally set with the photo of Krishna in the middle and with deepams lighting, along with many traditional things with Konnapoo being the most important one.

After the VishuKanni, elder people give Kaineetam to the young ones, generally in the form of rupees. This is followed by the fire works i.e. VishuPadakam. Also new clothes are weared on this auspicious day and it is called as VishuKodi.

Then, in the afternoon the lunch is served and is termed as VishuSadhya, where traditional Keralite food is made and serevd in a Banana leaf.

I wish everybody a Very Happy Vishu (Vishuashamsakal - വിഷു ആശംസകള്‍).

May this year be as prosperous as the VishuKanni.

Break The Rules!!!!!

RULE - a regulation, a guideline, have always binded ones life. Since the very childhood memories, one can remember, we always live our lives sticking to rules. Rules set by parents, rules set by society and some we don't know who, but they always exists.

Right from the early school days we are told to abide by the school rules. Rules like, we should not laugh loudly, should not talk loudly, will they implant a silencer in my throat to cut down my voice. If a child is loud in expressing himself, he should have the freedom to express himself the way he want. And if the rules are not followed we are marked as B or C grade students.

Cmon its time to Break The Rules set by the School!!!!!

Our society is not far behind. They will have hundereds of crappy rules set, and its really hard to believe majority of them follows them. The worst part is these rules vary from society to society, like people living in middle class locality will have different rules than to those of the higher class. If a guy is talking for long over his mobile phone, immediately people will start making gossips about them, and these can be best seen, where people rent out their homes for clg or IT guys. If one comes home a bit late on friday, its considered to be a taboo in the society. It really doesn't make any sense why people have any objections about this. Specially the aunties of the house. And if we dont follow the rules, we are being treated as the irresponsible people of the society.

Cmon its time to Break The Rules set by the Society!!!!!

The so called IT firms too have their own rules set for people. In one hand they will talk about flexibility on the other hand they have their so called policies which kills the flexibility and the free atmosphere. Rules like wearing formals on a particular day, wearing casuals on some other day, should have Tie on this day. Why do these firms follow the so called western working culture so blindly, though on ground reality we both dont have anything in common.

Cmon its time to Break The Rules set by the Companies!!!!!

It's really big time now for us to Break The Rules, and step outside the cocoon which had been tightely wrapped by the threads of the so called unwanted rules.

To Bhai

This post is special for me, as in this I would be writing about my brother, so will take time to write this as I would like to make it special. But, I am really bad in expressing myself.....my Mom and Supriya always tells me, that, I need to imporve in expressing myself. So Bhai, I guess you won't mind by the way I will be expressing myself here.

I have always referred to him as 'Bhai', people in my village always give me a different look whenever I say 'Bhai', may be they are right because you never hear a Mallu referring to his elder brother as 'Bhai', it will always be 'etta' (etta means brother). But cmon you village fellows I can't change it now, beause he have always been a 'Bhai' to me.

He has been one of the most influential and inspiring person in my Life. His caring nature towards the family, his command as an elder son, his anger and all other small small things makes him a better person. He is truly an allrounder person, who will do all the work, you name it and he will be like yeah why not, let me try. And I really respect that person in him. Many a times I have tried to imitate him, but realized I can never fit-in in his shoes.

It always feels great when you grow under such a protective environment, nobody bullies you in school (as we both had been to the same school), somebody keeping an eye over you and guiding you what to do and what not to do, but sometimes its irritating thats because, I feel, we loose our independent way of doing things which the elder brothers enjoyed in their young age, but later when we grow up we realize how stupid we were to think like that.

He is also a good teacher for me, I have learnt many lessons from him which no teacher can teach you. In my childhood I was very afraid of dark, he was the one who help helped me to defeat that fear. I was in a very Jubliant mood when I first walked on a dark road all alone, and the reason for that, was you, Bhai. He was the one who taught me ride a bicycle, he taught me to ride a bike. I have learnt a lot by looking at him doing things.

He was suppossed to be back to India by 30th March, which is his birthday but his stay in New York have been extended till June. I was planning to buy a birthday present for him, but you know, my mind always becomes blank whenever I think of gettnig a present for him. So, I just thought of writing a post for him instead of buying something, because 'words speak louder than actions'. I know, after reading this he will say 'kya.....likhta hai tu'.

Moreover he is a perfect son for my Mom and Dad, a perfect Grandson for my Nanny, a perfect friend, and more over a perfect brother for me. Thanks for being the person who you are, and hope you will always remain the same.

Happy Birthday Bhai !!!!!

???

Its been few weeks now I haven't posted anything on my blog. It's not like I have not written anything, infact I have worte few of them but never felt like posting them here. Don't know why, somtimes its really confusing on what all things to write. I think of a topic and even start dumping the stuff onto paper, but somewhere down the line I loose touch on the topic and am lost somewhere and I am just not able to find my way back.

Its because of this reason, I have also subjected the post as '???'. Even writing this I am having a feeling that I may get lost somewhere, but I am determined that I am definately going to post this one today.

And also I have planned to rename the title of my Blog to 'MAVERICK' from 'Simply Me - Anup'. Tejaswini have branded me Copppy Cat (mind the triple p in that), the day I gave the title as 'Simply Me' thats because even her title have the same name 'Simply Me'.Now I guess she remove that 'Copy Cat' tag from my name [:)]
Lets come back to 'Maverick'Maverick because I loved the character of Tom Cruise he palyed in 'Top Gun' (he was called by the name Maverick).
It also means 'person who thinks independently'.
And honestly on top of all I love the way it sounds 'Mav-e-rick'.
There is one more word which I like the most and that is 'Deja Vu'. I heared it first in the movie Matrix, and liked the way Neo tells it, then I didn't knew what does this mean. The first thing I did after watching the movie was to check the meaning of the word in the dictionary.

There are few happening things stored in for next couple of weeks. First is, the project on which I have been working for last 6 months is going live this weekend, so fingers crossed for that. Second is, it's my Big B's (my elder brother's) birthday on 30th. He will definatily be enjoying his birthday in US, guess what he was about to come back to India on 28th but his stay got extended. Lucky Guy.

-Anup Nair

I read the post which I wrote and clearly it didn't made any sense to me. The flow jumped from one topic to other without any link. Its only because of this reason I gave the title of this post as '???'. I hope I will come back next week and really write some good stuff.

Filmy Tag

Ok now this is the Tag Started by Tejaswini, so here it is for you Tejaswini.

1- Which was the movie that you had waited for with anticipation and turned out to be an utter dud?
- > The movie is Villu....its a Tamil movie starring Vijay and it came out to be a remake of the movie Soilder.

2- Which was the one most ridiculously stupid movie you watched in a theatre and then thought that you might as well have thrown that money in a well for all it was worth?
- > I watch only handpicked movies, and the most bakwas one was Trimurti, which released in my school days.

3- If you had to be in a movie or a scene that you would want really really to be something that happened in real life, which would that movie or scene be and which character would you be?
- > would have wanted myself in the shoes of Sarkar, with so much of power I would have smoething good.

4- Write three songs that would tell me what you lovvvvvvvvvve to do in your spare time...
- > Really difficult, cant think of three songs, coz currently 3 things I do is Cook, read/watch movie/write, and just think of anything else.

5- Name a movie you actually thought was better than the book or atleast did justice to the book...
- > I believe it has to be The Kit Runner

6- You are on a desert island... you found the island genie who granted you on wish that he would bring one person to join you on your exile... You have told the genie who you want that to be... apparently the genie isn't all that magical... he went to get that person and you are waiting for the procrastinating genie to get back with that person... What song do you sing while you wait?
-> It will be a Mallu song 'Kadhayille Rajakumaran' movie 'Kalyanaraman'

7- One song on your IPOD/mobile that was a huge hit a few months/years ago and the radio stations used to play every hour and seem to have forgotten all about now that you tend to listen to often enough
- > 'Tera Mera Rishta Porana' movie Awarapan

8- One song that reminds you of somebody or a group of people... Do inform why it causes you to reminisce...
- > Its the famous song 'Sutta' coz we (entire class) sung that song during our farewell with some guys playing guitar.

9- The one movie you saw most recently and which lived upto all your expectations if not more...
- > 'Slumdog Millionare' it really did touched to some extent

10- The one song you have heard atleast twice today... either on the radio or the cell or on TV...
- > I may be another mallu song 'Aayiram Kannumayi'

Bonus Question: In view of today being Valentine's day... Well it was when I started thinking of this tag, type down song which is meant to be romantic, but the lyrics make you think otherwise (There are a lot of Govinda songs I know, but try to think of a song not many people would know or think of)
- > Yaar I cant think of any (as its 5:30 in the morning) for the bonus answer, but will definately pen it down if I think of any.

Now as I have completed the Tag, I would like to Tag my brother Anish

Friends - Long Lost One

When ever we say FRIEND our mind instantly run over and try to collect the names of all the good friends we are in touch with. But how often do we think of those people who were our friends at some point of time.

These Friends may be those of our school days, or guys from our old neighbourhood, or from collage or from some other place. But they are all now Long Lost Friends.

The chain of friendship changes, it always does, it happened to me and and I guess it happens with everybbody. Its like when we are in school, we feel that, the entire class is my friend and we may neverloose them, but when we step out of school, we tend to make new friends in colleage and slowly down the line we stop thinking of the school friends and this cycle goes on and on. Same happens when we get into a job and keep switching them, we always have a big list of Long Lost Friends.

If we go through our memories we may definately find many moments of our life where we must have had fun, had fight, had done weird things with these friends but now still they are Long Lost Friends.

And in the long run, we are only left with few handfull of friends, whom we say they are our best buddies and try to forget our Long Lost Friends.

This post of mine I would dedicate to all my Neighbourhood friends, my School friends, my Junior colleage friends, my Engg friends and to all those friends who were part of my life at some moment but now who are my Long Lost Friends.........

Happy Valentines Day

Feb 14, this is the date, which brings out smile on many faces and the most awaited day by all the people in love.
Yes I am talking about the Valentines Day.

On Valentines Day we think of those people the most who have given us the most memorable moments in our life, who brings out smile to our faces.
This is the day where all the loved ones express their affection and love to thier loved ones and build a special connection between themselves.
And its not restricted to youngsters, but people of all genre express their feelings to thier loved ones.

And I would like to wish all the people in Love a Very Happy Valentines Day and also to all those people who are single and ready to mingle.