An experience with Konark Train

Konark express...the train from Mumbai to Bhuwaneswar touching the cities Pune,Hyderabad,Vijayawada, Vizag. Here is a wierd experience we had when we planned to go to Vijaywada from Pune by Konark train:

We planned to go to Vijayawada first time after our marriage...we were really excited to meet parents. We could reserve ac 3rd class in konark train. We packed everything 1 day before the journey. Finished the office work as early as possible and returned to home. Konark train arrives@ 7pm in pune and departures by 7:05PM. We were in the station by 6:30 PM. We saw in the display that the konark train is arriving on platform#3. We reached the platform, put the luggage down and sat on a bench. Pune station is the worst station we have ever seen. It is untidy and with no proper announcements. However, in the exicitment of going to Vijayawada, everything looked cool for us that time. We called our parents and informed that we are just waiting for the train. We bought water bottle, magazines to time pass the journey.
Every thing looked soooooo perfect... All set to go... just waiting for the train...

Time was 7:15 PM... We just thought is the train late today!!? Still waited with the same excitement. There was a man with a child sitting beside us. Balu started playing with the child. We had few smiles with her...
The man asked... Are you going to kanyakumari...? We said no, we are going to Vijayawada and waiting for Konark train. He said with an exclamation Konark train just left from platform#2!!.

What!!!..... We were shocked!!! completely.... and our minds were just blocked(To say in telugu - Dimma tiringi mind block ayyindi!!)

There was no announcment at all about the platform change!!

No idea striked for us for few mins.... I thought should we need to do something like 'Jab we met' movie... chasing the train by a taxi.... ;)

Balu talked to a TTE on the platform. He suggested us to take the kanyakumari express which is supposed to arrive on platform#3 soon... He said that 80% of the times, when kanyakumari express reaches Dound (the next station from pune), konark express just departs... We didnt have any other better try than this and we boarded that train... TTE alowed us to sit in ac couch. We were filled with so many thoughts... Can we be able to catch the train? What if the train is in far away platfrom... , wht next if we miss the train... etc etc...

Finally, we came close to Dound station... I strongly decided and told to Balu that in any case, we are not going to take running train (konark). We waited at the train door with the luggage. 

The train stopped... Luckily, fortunately... or any other sweet word... konark train is on the just opposite platform.... (as if it is waiting for us) :):)

We just ran and took the train :):)  We took breath and said Thank God!!

Few people gave us helping hand including TTE... thanks to them!!

Moments of life...

Thats a big college ground... focusing on to its gallery point, a girl and boy sitting together.... thinking deeply about future of their love.... The worried girl says ... "hmm... we still have to complete our graduation..., get jobs... and then convince parents for our marriage... so many things to cross...

Oh...God!! When are those days going to come...

• The day we get revealed off all the pain that we are hiding something from our parents...
• The day we walk hand-in-hand without any hesitation...
• The day we happily stand with our parents on each side of us giving all smiles for the family photo ;)
• The day we happily live in so called "our home"...
• The day we have right to ask for our privacy ;)
• The day we feel all our love resulted in tons of happiness :):)"

The boy just gave a gentle knock on her head and says "Don't worry, just wait... Everything will happen..."

Girl nodded filling the hope in herself and both moved on to the classroom...

After almost 7 years of that....

all hopes, wishes, dreams, blessings came true... Yes... those days have come...
They both settled in good jobs..., passed through the pain of convincing parents for the marriage... It should be said "parents made their love success"...

They are happily married with the blessings of parents/relatives/friends and wellwishers...

They live happily in their "sweet home".

Somethings may look far from us... we may see many hurdles to reach that... however, time takes us through everything...

What Music does to me...

Everybody likes music... Everyone enjoys it... Everyone loves it... Are there any other words that express what music does to everyone? Is it possible to covey what music actually does? I started thinking what really happens to me while listening to music...


I dont understand...

Is music taking me back to all good memories!
Is it making me sense the good life I have?
Is it enticing me to future arrivals?
or all these things happening at a time!!

I dont understand...
what am I going through... when listening to the great lyrics...
Am I feeling grateful to the artistic thoughts of the writer... ?
Am I mapping those lyrics to my real life?
Am I discovering new thougths?
Am I learning the life?

The mesmerizing voices of the singers, the perfect feel they fill in the song... simply makes me wonder... I envy them, and start singing along with them ;)

In my semiconscious mind, I see myself in a different world smiling, jumping, playing,dancing for the music... and that makes me tap to the rythm of the song in reality.

Music makes me forget all the problems and show rest all great things ahead...
It drives me to keep myself go on...
It simply rejuvenates me by pulling out all the pressure...
It makes me cheerful :)

Sunday Special

Sunday and special are the words we here together many times... It is a common question that we here on sunday 'Whats sunday special?'. Sunday is really special from all the days in the week for almost everyone... as it is an official holiday... :)

How sunday is special to me... the effect of sunday starts from sataurday night itself... I feel happy to remember that tomorrow is sunday... and I dont feel like sleeping that night... as I can get up late on sunday... Yes... first good thing is that I can get up late... no hurries and worries. And then special breakfast... we have plenty of time not only to eat ... but also enjoy it watching a good program in TV. I completely enjoy the Eenadu paper on sunday... specially with Eenadu special magazine... It gives a good feel to read that book... I enjoy almost every page of it... Me and dad used to fill the telugu crossword in it... It makes my sunday more intresting...

Then comes lunch part...
at home ...Mom defenietly prepares non-veg on Sunday... all that non-veg smell gets filled all around from every house. Without non-veg, I dont feel it is a sunday... :) After having a great lunch... me and sunny ... just used to lay on bed, watching some special movie in TV, playing pranks and slowly go to nice sleep... Later in the evening... we all (me,sunny,mom,dad) used to have a nice talk or shopping or movie... and then after dinner... sleep early with some excitement in mind to meet friends next day in school/college...

And now... after marriage... It is my turn to make sunday special by preparing good breakfast, non-veg curry... I make sure to get Eenadu paper and enjoy the magazine...otherwise... I feel something missing... I spend good time with Balu. Though there is nothing so intresting to watch in TV these days... me and Balu still enjoy that just exploring channels and playing jokes on the movies/programmes... we may go to shopping/movie eve... and then going to sleep with a small nag of going to office tomorrow... ;)
Even if we dont do something special on Sunday, we atleast have good time to relax ourselves and spend time with family... thats the speciality of sunday :)

Snowfall on Diwali night... Unforgettable

Diwali 2008... I got to celebrate it in London and not with crackers... but with snow :)

Me, Sapan&Satprakash (S&S) planned to go to temple in Neasden and started at around 6:30 evening. Feeling as great Indian lady on festival day, I wore saree :).

That evening was very cold and drizzling but I never anticipated that drizzle turns to snow and I would be walking in that.

There was a big queue at the temple where we stood in that drizzle without a shade... After passing a bit in the queue, we came to know that we were not supposed to carry handbags&camera inside and we have to submit at the place they provided. I have done that with patience and joined the queue again.


It was so cold that my feet started becoming numb and I desperately need to move inside; but the queue was not moving a single step forward. I was getting angry that the queue was not moving at all... At a moment, I felt like going back... but controlled with patience. That was the first time I was so much frustated with the coldness.


Finally, they allowed inside and temple was good. I got seperated from S&S as there were seperate queues for girls and boys. After darshanam, I couldnt find S&S. Rockets were played in the sky and every one shouted with joy. It was good but I couldn't enjoy it fully as I was under the snow searching for S&S. I wanted to click the crackers and snow but camera was not with me :(


After a bit struggle, I could meet S&S. We had some snacks and started back. There was a big queue to catch the bus that drops at underground.


At this point, we took a decision that gave us a novel experience. The decision was that instead of standing in queue, we planned to walk away and catch a taxi to go home.


We started walking... in the snow fall and cold weather and we couldn't find a single taxi. My feet became numb and it was so hard to walk holding my saree. We found a taxis center and went inside to enquire on getting taxi but we got a badnews that they cant provide taxi and said that we need to walk for 15 mins to reach underground. I was worried 'My God! Just then my feet were relieved from numbness and again I have to walk 15 mins in snow!!'. But there was no way and we started walking.


There were few telugu guys walking around like us and discussing about me 'What a situation for her... in such a weather with saree!!. I wanted to tell them that I know telugu but couldnt as I didnt want to stop/turn/talk. I was simply concentrating on holding my saree and not loosing my grip.


We were walking but couldnt find the way to reach underground. There was no one on the road to guide the way. Every one with us were searching for the way. Numbness was extending slowly from hands and feet to my body and the weather has become so bad. That is the moment I was tensed 'Whts goona happen to me!!' My body was becoming blunt, weather was becoming bad and we were not able to find the way.


Though our hands were not ready, we wanted to take a snap as it was worth clicking that snowfall even it was suffering us. Somehow, Satprakash took out the camera and took few snaps. I just brought a smile for the photo.


Finally, we took a way and found the underground station... We were so happy to see that and took a deep breath. Now no more suffering and we started enjoying the experience we had. Took few more snaps and went inside the station. A train just left when we went inside. But we could board next train after 15 mins. We turned red as blood started flowing normally. We just laughed on the experience we had. Once I reached my room, it was so warm... and had a nice sleep.


Watching the snow fall through window is a beautiful experience but being in snow is not easy. Though tough, it was a beautiful experience for us as it is very uncommon to be in snow.


This line is for me:


"walking in snow!!... wearing saree on Diwali night in London!!" :)

Kishore alias Balu gadu...

Kishore... few people call him Balu(me too)... colleagues call him Bala... friends call him Balu gadu (he too calls himself Balu gadu like pokiri pandu gadu) and his name is BalaKishore... oophhh... it is just introducing his name ;)

Actually... basically... arey...seriously yaar... he is my hero :)

Today is his bday... and I miss him a lot on this special day...

This post is to just say about him. I dont know where to start and just go like this:

He is very friendly... and has very good friends. All his frienships are longlasting. I am very much comfortable with his friends and really enjoy spending with them. He makes anyone very comfortable to speak and share anything with him...I do not need to take much efforts to make him mingled with my relatives.He knows who are important to me and gives the same importance to them from his side.

He is very deciplined and I am lazy :(. Gets up early morning (I can't). He will be available on time if he promises and expects everyone to be like that. It really annoys him if somebody is late and if he has to wait. Each second counts for him at that time. Most of the time I fail here and get his scoldings. One can see him undeciplined in implementing the things he has been planning from long time... those are preperation for CAT, learning guitar.

He has capacity of handling any situation... His importances are very well defined... and he has good planning. He is mentally strong, always positive and can justify his decisions confidently. He has good intelligence, good grasping and talent of managing people... but uses these only when necessary. He is not much oriented to use all his talents to grow further (I want him to put all his talents). Always saisfied with that he is and has.

One thing in him that contradicts with most of the guys is that he is more passionate of personal life than professional life. He simply sacrificed his package expectations and his role to shift along with me to Pune. It is rare that he works for a minute more than 8 hours a day and forces me too to leave office early (:( that is a bit difficult to manage for me).

The way he shows love...is all extreams. The words he always say to me "your reponsibility is to keep your mind cool..Rest all I will take care. I am there. You dont have to worry about anything" relaxes me. He plans a surprise for my birthday 1 year ahead...He ever monitors me that I am happy or not... What else can I expect from him... He knows me more than what I know...He easily guesses what I think at that moment.

His relationship with his mother is so special...Both are strenghts for each other...They care for each other a lot... This is the first thing that impressed me in him. He always expresses "My mom and soppu are most important than anything else and no comprimises on them". He expects much from the people he love and gets hurt if he doesnt get. This is where he is sensitive...

He has good patience and doesnt get annoy on any small iritations. But he is a bit uncontrolled if he gets angry. He doesnt look around if he gets angry(that stays not even for 2 mins). The key I have for this is to keep silent for those 2 mins...then everything will be all right. I think it is same with most of the guys... Infact I like this nature in him...I like the way he challenges when he is angry...(like a hero). But incase he is angry on me...I am gone...

Dont think he is a gentleman... he is all naughty... If I tell about any girl, first question he puts on me "Does she look good?". He tells happily to everybody that I have given him read permissions ;) (It means that he can "just""see" other girls). He takes everything lite... never gets reacted by others. He draws a clear line between the important and unimportant and least bothered about the unimportant.

His motto is to be happy and enjoy every moment of the life. He is showing me the best part of my life... taking me along with him to the heights of happiness. He is there for me to help, suggest, guide, care... (all these words are very small). I am very very lucky to be with him forever...

Once again... Many many happy returns of the day Balu... ILU so much...

Why tempting food is not good for health ;(

As I do fast on saturday night, I slept wihtout eating anything. Morning when I got up at 10:30, felt so much hungry. The more I become hunger, more I get tempted to Non-veg. I just remembered Chicken... and nothing stopped me to go to McD. I just ordered meduim meal that has 3 Chicken selects (pieces), french fries, cooldrink...
Haaa... what a tempting... delicious food... to satisfy my hunger. But if I think no.of. calories... it is going to add me.. :( It is the best combo to have a worst effect on my body. Arey I just wonder... why this tasty food is not good for health!! and I never get tempeted to healthy food like salads... :(.
But it is always part of life to enjoy such food and at the same time bothered about diet... especially for girls :)

Sweet romantic telugu song...

What a sweet song is this..
I dont remember if I heard this song before, but when I heard SP.Charan singing this song in some program in Maa TV, I just became crazy. I love this song & heard it many times.

This song from pellipusthakam movie has many expressions/feelings of a husband on his wife... it mainly figure outs that however a woman is, she looks beautiful to her husband... (taking positive case ;))
I like the line నా వన్నెల రాసికి సిరిజోత and second charanam specially. I didnt understand few words though:(
Anyways, it is a sweet romantic song with that mark of telugutanam.

సరికొత్త చీర ఉహించి నాను సరదాల సరిగంచు నేయించి నాను మనసు మమత పడుగు పేక చీరలో చిత్రించి నాను. ఇది ఎన్నో కలల కళనేత. నా వన్నెల రాసికి సిరిజోత. --2

ముచ్చట్ గొలిపే మొగలిపోత్తు కు ముల్లు వాసన ఒక అందంఅభిమానం గల ఆడ పిల్లకు అలకా కులుకు ఒక అందం నీ అందాలాన్ని కలబోసా నీ కొంగుకు చెంగున ముడి వేస్తా -- 2 "ఇది ఎన్నో"

చుర చుర చూపులు ఒక మారు నీ చిరు చిరు నవ్వులూ ఒకమారు. మూతి విరుపులు ఒక మారు నువ్వు ముద్దుకు సిద్దం ఒకమారు. నువ్వు ఏ కళ నున్నా మః బాగే ఈ చీర విశేషం అళ్లరే -2 "ఇది ఎన్నో "

A small thing that gives good feel...

There are many small things that give a good feel... One of those I have been experiencing much these days is holding the door for a while for the people walking behind me. When somebody is walking just behind us, and if we wait for them holding the door open, we see a smile and gratitude in their faces... and that gives a good feel.
It is a matter of courtesy not to leave the door on faces... and a way of helping others too...
Two days back, in the hotel, 2 ladies were few steps behind me walking with luggage and I held the door for them that I opened on my way. They responded saying thank u with a gr8 smile. Today, they saw me and greeted GoodMorning with a good smile. I was little bit confused as I did not remember them.. After sometime, I had recollected that I held the door for them on the other day...
Altogether, it is a good behavior to hold door for a while that helps others...painless and goodness :)

Feel like Dancing....

Good mood... Good music... full sized mirror... good enough space and no one around... makes me dance...:) I just have done that... I practised a good step from April masam lo song.... and I enjoyed it...

Life is Cool..

Life is sooo cool now... All credit goes to my parents and Kishore....

Parents accepting for the marriage is the best thing in my life... It has brought so much happiness to me and relieved from all the worries. Thanks to them.

Shifting to Pune is one of the positive changes in my life... Life is so peaceful here... I should mention Magarpatta City in which I am staying .. It is too good place to stay and work....everything at one place... It is just a 5 min walk for me to office and even the appartment I am staying is good ... very peaceful, secured and without any pollution. Ofcourse Kishore being here is a big addition for my happiness.

Roomates are good.. I never thought I could stay this much comfortably with non-andhraites I just got good people now...

There are no issues at work place... Teammates are very helpful I should specailly mention Brahmayya for clearing each and every of my doubts so clearly with patience & Parvinder for giving me a good chance and recognizing my work...

Currently being in London... and dreaming,planning abt marriage that is going to be on Feb 13th.. :) I think u can sense that I am happy ;)

Donated Blood

I have donated blood on 20 th June' 08... though there is no special in that, I was little bit excited as this is first time for me. Two reasons why I never thought of giving blood is that I was thinking that I am not enough healthy to donate blood and I am scared of the pain of needle that goes inside. But I made it.

Blood donation drive came to Amdocs and I had thought that I wll try giving blood so that I wll atleast know if I can give or not...but they took from me.
Finally... good satisfaction that I donated blood and also I am helathy enough :)

Last day in Wipro

March 14th'08 was my last day in Wipro...
During the notice period, I did lot of work but at the same time, I enjoyed it a lot... Even on the last day, I went to office at 7'am... early meeting. But after that lot of pending things for exit process... I wanted to share the news with many people in Wipro through mail at least but I couldnt do it properly as my machine is already taken over in the morning. I just sent an email only to joining batchments... I met some people unexpectedly and updated the news... but it was little bit embarrassing as I didnt inform them before.
In this busy schedule, I took Deepika, Sam and Kranthi for Lunch. We went to Kasani GR hotel in Madhapur. We spent some time there and came back to office.
I was told that by 6pm, I should leave the office. By 5:30, I collected my most importatnt things Relieving letter and Experience letter from HR. My team was waiting for a small gathering at cafeteria... they have given me a greeting card & gift article and we went to cafeteria... After 6, finally the time came to leave Wipro...I said bye to all my project mates. I was not much emotional... but some thoughts like I wont be with these people from tomorrrow... people with whom I spent so much time... I wont be coming to this place anymore...place where I spent 2.5 years.... May be, I was in so hurry, I didnt even give much space for those thoughts.
I came out of the gate. Atul, Deepika, Kranthi, Sambedana were there along with me... Suddenly, it started drissiling... No..no... it was not going to be a movie scene...we just chatted for some time... played jokes... and finally said bye...bye to them...
Bye Bye to Wipro...

About Chiru...

"Chiru... Chiru...Chiru..." A very well known word & person for Andhra Pradesh... who is the favourite hero for most of the andhraites... and an idol for a quite good number of people in AP. He is the Mega star...


Even I admire and appreciate him...

First of all, he is a big inspiration... He is very determined, hardworking and talented. He started as a commoner and risen as a big star...He reached tiptops in Telugu film industry...His tremondous talent tied with estimable character made everything possible for him.

He is best in "Action". There is no doubt about that... And his dance is too good... In fact, people get attracted for his dance and fights...

But what I dont like in him is he is not open for taking risks and do some challenging characters/movies which may not involve dance/fights...
If he was out of his attempts to appeal "MASS", there would have been good diversity in the characters he performed. Though he has done quite challenging characters in his early times in the industry, he finally moved to regular mass appealing charcaters. He closed his doors on more performance oriented characters and didnt get appreciation as much as he deserve in that concern. This is what I feel and would like to see him in doing very challenging characters. And I know that may not be possible as he is not young enough to do so and getting shifted to politics.

Coming out of movies, he is utilising the people's admiration on him in driving a purposeful Eye and Blood banks... This is even a great thing abt him...

He recieved "PadmaBushan" award, doctorate and he is worth holding those.

The way he has grown up in his career, his talent, character, being down to earth, respectful to everyone and doing something to society are the things to be appreciated.

Now that he is moving to politics, I just wish one thing: Instead of spending his time merely in saving his party/post, he should really do something good for people and bring some difference. There are many views on his political entry. However, if his objective in entering into politics is clear and clean, he can do it!!!

Wish him all the best!!

I have driven Pulsor (^!^)

I have driven Pulsor today at MMTS... Actually, it is not new that I have driven a bike... I drove once in Vizag on beach road early morning. That was the first time I drove... some how, I was fully confident and very cooool; After a small accident on Kinetic Honda, I lost my confidence; And I want to get it back...
Today I just tried. Initially I sruggled a bit... but after that I drove as a queen :) Ofcourse, Balu was sitting back and guiding me...
Still I dont have confidence in traffic... Should get use to it...
Initially, I was wondering how many things to handle while driving on bike... clutch, gear, break, accelerator... hmmm... but as said 'practice makes a man perfect', it is not a big deal after few trials
I got some satisfaction that I tried something :)

Morning walk@Jogger's park :)

Its been so long since I wrote a post... I dont say I am busy... but so many small things in my mind are not going for implementation these days... hmmm... thats bad!!! But some things happen without any prior plannings... and thats cool... Saturday morning... me,balu,siri,ravikishore went to Jogger's park. That was very lovely!! we enjoyed as much as we walked..had taken nice snaps...but still waiting for them to see in system:( . These people are real guys... no intrest in photos :/
We saw music director Manisharam... we dont know why, he was staring at us! We had a joke among ourselves that we wll go to him and say "If u dont mind..., (he would be almost ready to say yes thinking that we wanna have a snap with him...) Can you take a snap for us" :)

Musty Twenty20

What an excitement Twenty20 has given!!! especially for Indians... This format is really cool..., colorful with dances, crackers; cheerful with fours and sixes...

Though it is not a proper way of deciding one's capability, it provides ultimate entertainment for cricket lovers...

And about India...each match is a sensation...I watched every match except the one with New zealand (thats why they lost ;))...

First match with pakistan...I couldnt bear the tension till last ball and when it was tie...I was like "Enough". But then started bowl outs...It was like checkde movie (I watched before the match was started that day)...It was too good to see Sehwag, bajji, uthappa hitting the wickets and uthappa's act of expressing happiness with his cap is unforgettable...

Match with England... Youraj's six sixes in an over is marvelous... and it is a good victory

Then with South Africa...Expectations were very low for India for this match...but to every one's surprise, it went into semifinals knocking out south africa from tournament...

With the champions in semifinals, expectations were there but somewhere some fright. Finally...we took over the victory. It was really great upon India to beat them and went into finals...

And the finals...it was really like a dream India and Pakistan meeting in finals of WorldCup...These are the real rare moments which wont come once more...

What a tension every one had in the last over!! we couldnt dare to watch the channel when Pakistani's were hitting fours and sixes; we changed to some other channel. Whenever we heard whistles,shouts from next building, we kept the match and shouted with no limits. In last over, match was almost into the hands of Pakistan but catch in the third ball gave us the victory...

Defeating Pakistan...and getting World cup...what a great thing!!! The best celebrating moments for a country...

Dhoni is so special in this...he is a very good leader...and overall it is a team effort.

I enjoyed the whole series a lot... And ofcourse Indians being champions is the best moment.

Matches getting tighter in last overs resulting in lot of tension...For me that is the exciting part in this twenty20. This format is not good enough to judge one's capability as it is very instant...but good entertainer for 3 hours...

Waiting for Sekhar kammula's movie...

Till now, I just thought Sekhar Kammula is a very good director. But when I read his profile, I came to know... that he is much dare to dream and confident enough to achieve them inspite of his background...I really got inspired by reading his profile. After reading his profile, I understood money is not a stopper/problem in achieving our dreams...

...and coming to his work, he is really briliant. He looks up the things differntly and thats where his talent lies. I truly want to watch his first film "Dollar dreams" but I couldnt find any source. He has won national award for that movie...

And his two commercial telugu movies..."Anand" and "Godavari" are awesome...
We can see how life goes...small small things which give happiness...sensitive emotions...I am not getting words to explain...Those movies are really fresh and different from normal movies. Songs and Kamalini's performance have added up good flavour to these two movies...It is very much difficult to make these kind of movies than normal formula movies...

"Anand"...oka manchi coffee lanti cinema...

...lives upto it's quotation. It is a movie of showing people of different charcters and behaviours. All the things appear like happening in the next door...It is a combination of smiles, cries, sweet nothings, friendship, love. It is all about people...,life...

"Godavari"...ee vesavi chala challa ga vuntundi...

...It is a beautiful love story...that happens in a pleasant journey on Godavari river from Rajamandry to Badrachalam...Very lively background music makes us enjoy the movie..;Hearing up the thoughts of dog is hilarious... and character of small boy pleases...
"Ramachakkani seethaki" song which is used as background is too good...What a pleasant song it is!!...It is one of my favourites...I never feel bore how many ever times I listen to it.

In the both the movies, the characterization of heroine is excellent...very independent...infact attracts more than hero but not dominating. Listening to songs of both the movies gives immense pleasure...

Sekhar kammula is a proven director with his first film itself... and now his movies became branded... I heard that his next movie is "Happy days" which deals with the college life...
...College life is the best part of anyone's life that can be remembered forever...which adds up lot sweet memories...and I am very excited to watch how Sekhar is going to show it with his kind of presentation...

Awaiting for a good movie which gives feel of life...with enjoyable songs...

In this post, there are words like plesant, feel, emotions, life, love, good, music used many times... and thats what Sekhar Kammula's movie consists of...

He is really a great director and I wish he would continue making movies of good sense... and he would be successful in his life...

I would be always awaiting for his movies...

His profile:

http://www.nriinternet.com/Section1/12Movies%20and%20Music/2004/Telgu_Films/Anand_and_Dollar/BIOGRAPHY.htm

TV9 vs Etv2

Etv2 and Tv9 exclusive 24 hours telugu news channels...with some intresting programs...These channels can be watched any time as they mostly talk about current hapenings. I just gave a thought which one is better among them...

Special programs:
Tv9 is far better if we look at the special programs it is providing. "Hot Wheels","Buisiness Watch","Close Encounters","Spandinche hrudayam","Entho chinnadi jivitham","30 minuites", "spotlight","insight","evaro okaru epudo apudu","Question of hour", "Lifeline". All these programs are very intresting. "Spandinche hrudayam" program is like doing something for the society. The hearts of people in the program can really sense it. Even Etv2 has some good programs like "sakhi","prathidvani","margadarsi", "Sukhibahava", "Yuvabharath". But all those are little bit passive compared to TV9.

Almost all programs of TV9 are based on current topics and are made very intresting. They are going to come up with another program called "Samskruthi" and I am eager to watch it. Tv9 caption "For a better society" is being justified by its programs.

For Ladies:
I should talk about "sakhi" program in Etv2. It is really wonderful program. I like it a lot. I dont miss it whenever possible. In Tv9, there is one program for ladies i.e. "Naveena" which I hate the most. The approach of that program is like "woman should be treated equal to man". But it doesn't make much sense. They say like this "No one gets shocked if a man smokes. But if a woman smokes, why people magnify it?".Smoking itself is a bad thing and treatment of a woman is different in Indiam culture. I was suprised to hear that topic. They use to give an add on this program which "plays jokes on woman stitching, cooking and watching serials". Woman should grow, adapt into various fields but she can still stitch, cook food. Basic instinct shouldnt be lost. Those things are part of a woman life. Woman should be respected...Thats what I agree with. I just dont like the concept of this program.

If we see the concept of "Sakhi", it covers various things like "cooking", "money management","soft skills","corporate cultures","Gardening","Interiors" etc...

Coverage:
Coming to coverage of news...both the channels are almost same. I observed that Etv2 covers more international news than Tv9.

Presentation:
Presentation of news is more lively in TV9. But the worst thing is it unnecessarily highlights unimportant news which grabs attention of viewers. Presentation is more inclined to get commercial gain and attract viewers in all possible ways. Etv2 is moderate in it. It can make presentation more lively.

"Neralu goralu (ETv2)" and "Crimewatch(Tv9)" dont score any points; "Citylife(ETv2)" and "Entertainment News(TV9)" score equal points.

Totally TV9 is attracting the people regardless of good or bad. Evt2 should give a zippy presentaion to give a good competition to TV9.

Great change...

Great change is that ..... I started learning COOKING


Today morning, I cooked for myself and brought in dabba for lunch...Though it is not delicious, atleast "I can" have it. Hope I continue this. This is big change for me. I started learning cooking which is going to become part of my life. I want to get ease of doing that.

I made tomato+bringal curry.

My target is to learn variety items which are not cooked regularly. Soups,Restaurant items etc.. and make ambrosial food for my people. I know, I have to take many steps to go for that...

Following Ammamma.com

I hate TV serials which involve bringing up all possible and impossible problems and run for years and years...
When I went home last time, I caught up with an add of new serial called 'Ammamma.com' in Maa TV. The title itself led up some interest in my mind. It is really different with two unrelated words... For this generation, both are two different endpoints...

And the fact that title song is written by sirivennala excited me. It starts with "ee daramo pampande vellade aa mabbu daka galipatam" sung by Keeravani. Tune is so nice and picturisation of song is also good. It shows the variations that take place in a woman's life right from her birth...

First episode was good. I am watching it whenever possible...Till now, I liked it. It is little bit slow but natural and matches with reality;hilarious too. Hope it continues like that and wont become a typical daily serial with unusual turning points; tempestuous and depressing scenes;running for generations and generations

Reminiscence of 2 years in wipro

Wipro - My first company...Really I should thank Wipro for giving me first chance. Two years in Wipro went very fast...and July 4rth(2007) was the day which made me to call back last two years and I want to put those here.

First day...came with my father to Madhapur Office; met my classmates after a long gap. I was completely observing everyone and everything in the induction time. It was like coming out of well for me. All new people from different colleges...I had Sireesha with me until we were divided into batches for training. Initially, I felt boring in training... as there was no good company... But it just went on smoothly...There were some intresting people in my batch. I have a habit of categorizing people. Intresting people are those I have some thing to learn from them. After training, assessment...it created some frustation but was an happy ending.
After that, enjoyed few weeks before putting into project. It was bad that Sireesha was in QP. We would have enjoyed lot more if we were at same place.

I was temporarily put into a project for 2 days where I had a nice time with the PM. He was also from krishnaLanka, Vijayawada. So, we had a lot to chat. There was a good kinship in just those 2 days...and only for 2 days.

There happened many things between me and kanak relating us. In induction, we both were asked to give introduction of each other. In assessment, we both got same paper and finally we were into same project. It was so nice with kanak. she is so cool with good attitude. Me, kanak and Bhargav use to go for coffee very often. Initially I was haapy that work was easily understandable and able to do comfortably without any problem...But later I realised that I am not going to gain much from that. The very best thing about the project is the team, people I worked with. It becomes another topic if I write about them. In around 20 months experience in that project, I didnt have any bad instances as well as impressing. It went on flat. There was lot of awaiting to get released from the project...In that 20 months, I might have worked seriously for 12 months. After that project, I was trained for next project for 1 month and it was so nice that I enjoyed as well as gained good knowledge. Currently working in that....

I am growing...

Hey....I am not a complain girl. Infact I have grown enough of 5'7 height. I am gonna talk about positive growth in my attitude...


In last 6 months, I see a lot of change in my attitude and I am very happy for that. I gained lot of confidence.
Earlier I use to have a quote on my desktop "Anything is difficult before it is easy". It is very much true. Once we face anything, next time it becomes very easy. If I look back for which I felt difficult, it looks so silly. Some of the things were really silly. I was in trouble for such silly sthings...it is just because I havent experienced them in the right time. I hadnt taken a chance before for those. But now, I feel so happy when I am going to face any new challenges because I will be gaining experience on one more thing.

I watched an interview of hero Venkatesh where he said "It is very important to grow internally...but people postpone it and after retirement, they think over it. By that time, death will be right a side". When I think of myself in this regard, I feel I am good enough. There has been a lot of improvement... But there are certain things which I need to improve on. Being balanced on recieving comments and compliments; controling emotions on bad or good happenings.


Though I studied in English medium, I didnt get a chance to talk in English. No...I should say "I didnt take a chance to talk in English". We didnt have much complusion that we have to talk in english. There are two things about any language- Learning and Practcing. Learning was done inadvertently during academic period. But practing started only when it became necessary. Keeping learning and practcing a side, I should admit that I use to hesitate to talk in English. But now...it became part of my life. I dont have any kind of hesitations now and also improved a lot. I use to concentrate while talking and try to control myself so that I wont go wrong. I am able to reduce the need of concentration and in coming days, I am sure that I dont have to concentrate at all. The rate of learning is fast. I am still working good enough to Learn and practice English. Blogging helps me a lot in this. This learning will go forever...

Lot more to write...

Goodness in being Happy

In my view, a good person not also makes others happy but also makes himself happy. This is the concept of this post...

Being happy is the ultimate goal of everyone in life. It comes from many sources. When we share love with someone, when we achieve something etc.We feel happiness when something good happens...

But..."Goodness in being happy" is as much true as "Happiness in being good".
We do good in our life...but it is equally important to be happy in our life. You are good enough if you keep yourself happy. Life is very valuable. We should enjoy every moment of it. It is not that we can be happy if we dont have problems. We cannot avoid problems at all. There is no life without problems. Inspite of problems, we should be happy.
If we have any problem, just think practically...what can be done? We think in all possible ways for a solution...If we dont find any, what is the best thing to be done? We have to accept the consequences, and have to ignore the problem...so that we would feel happy for rest of the things and enjoy our life.
Is it not bad to worry about the pains for which there is no solution to avoid it and wasting valuable time/life? Also that effect will be there on our fellow beings/well wishers...

It is good to ignore them at our best.

So...Don't waste time on thinking about pains/worries/upsets...try to forget slowly...and enjoy life...

1)Be satisfied with what you have.

2)Don't compare yourself with others.

These two things will get rid of feelings (like jealousy,envy) which eat up your happiness. It is nothing but being good, right!!.

You can achieve anything only when you are happy...

Be a good person by being happy which in turn makes others happy...

This is what I have been praticing in my life...

Do good and be happy...It makes you perfect...

My life in Software Industry

I have very less experience in Software industry i.e. 20 months. Till now I am very happy in this. May be I havent faced the cons of the industry, great challenges yet and I dont know anything about other industries, I am still positive towards it.

The first thing most people look in their jobs is "Salary"--Money they are being paid and thats the best thing in this industry. Good numbers in the payslip every month keeps the smile. Hikes increase its curve.

Enjoyable weekend...Working people really deserve a 2 day weekend. It is common in other countries...but not in India. Five days of working week runs away very fast and two days of weekend gives an enough break to relax. Thats a good time to cover many things... spending with family/friends, shopping, sleep etc...Those two days keep up feeling that I have a good life.

I see a small India around in the office: People from different states, different cultures work together. It is somehow exiciting. I go for lunch with my friends. Each one is from different state. We have specific and at the same time general topics to chat.

Getting lot of information sitting in chair:
I have full internet access in office and any any silly doubt/topic I get I can get lots of information into my eyes. Not only information...lot of entertainment. I open news, social network sites, blogs, discussion forms. I listen to songs...having coffee...reading some exciting news. But remember it is possible when Iam in free pool or in project which needs less of my mind.

I didnt write about my work here...till now it is very easy.
I know I haven't savour right work yet...Hope I will get it soon and one day I will write unhappily nagging about the industry.

Site to go around places

If you are very interested to go around places sitting before computer, www.43places.com is the best one...

Learn how everything works

www.howstuffworks.com is a site which takes a concept, thing, technology (say stuff) and explains how it works. Everyday, it updates the topics. If anyone want to get a general idea on any stuff, open it and search. By now it has a lot of stuff explained in it. It is covering all most all the fields like Auto, science, entertainment what not!!...After explaining deep about the stuff, it also gives details like market rates, which company provides the best. For example, if u wanna buy a Home theatre and dont know anything about its technology, which is the best provider, cost...you can read through "How Home theatre works" in this site and can go with full confidence on that product to purchase it.If you can spend half an hour in surfing this site reading about one stuff everyday, you will be filled with some good knowledge and will have some satisfaction for that you have learnt something.The explanation of the stuff is also stepwise and very clear. I like it a lot!!!

Writing in local languages

http://www.quillpad.com/ is a site where you can write text in local language. It is supporting hindi, kannadam, telugu,tamil,malayalam. చాలా ఉపయోగకర site.

Rakhi review-Telugu movie

Rakhi- With a combition of energitic mass hero Jr.NTR and creative director Krishnavamsi...made people awaited with enthusiasm.

This movie is like filling a predefined template. The template is that a bad thing in society by some bad people--people suffering a lot on that--which irritates the hero in all possible ways--strats killing the people involved in that so that it frightens other people...By this time one can remember films like Bharateedu, Tagore, Apparichitudu, Ganesh etc. In this movie, the bad thing of that template is girls/ladies being suffered on various things like sexual harassments,eve teasing,Dowry cases etc. Hero to start murders, he should be having some flashback in which he goes to some depression which makes him to avenge on that. In this movie for a change, it does nt have a flashback, first half starts happily asusual and ends with hero in depression.

Jr.NTR has a sister(shows lot of love on her), father(Chandra mohan) and girl friend(Ileana). And Charmi is his sister-in-law. NTR and family plan for his sister's marriage with NRI with great difficulties as they have to give them huge dowry. Great difficulty involves NTR leaving ileana and accepting for marriage with Charmi as Charmi's mother gives money(saved for charmi's marriage) for his sister's dowry with a request that he has to marry her daughter. Within this, director shows some instances of girls/ladies suffering in various scenes. After his sister's marriage, they come to know that guy/family is not good and they are making the girl suffer. But still they send her to that family with a sentiment that she has to stay with in-laws (which is not practical/natural these days (though NTR doesnt want)). The in-laws of the girl wanted more dowry. NTR gets 5lakhs by selling his railway job to Sunil who is in bad need of that.Even after taking money, they burn his sister in keorsene. Now one can imagine the reaction of NTR. Out of great depression, he remains silent.

NTR family get bad outcome when they approach court. NTR starts killing the people who are torturing girls/ladies starting with his sister's inlaws. He completes more than 40 murders in 1 day all with petrol. Sushasini, the sincere police officer launched to catch NTR is very bigmouthed. People killed by NTR include minister's son.Minister abuses Sushasini and even kicks her because of his son's death. At that time Suhasini feels that what NTR doing is correct but tries to catch him. NTR after completing killing of his targeted prople, he himself admits to the police. During and due to the murders, NTR gets very much populated in the media especially girls/ladies come to jail to tie a Rakhi to him.Minister wants to take revenge on NTR and plans for a bomb blast at jail and in that Charmi and few girls die. NTR will be taken to minister's house by Sushasini and lets him kill the minister. Then the court scene in which hero justify the cause of killing people, talks about the girls/ladies being suffered and judge(Prakash Raj) gets convinced and decides to argue as a Lawyer behalf of him to rescue him from the punishment. And movie ends with NTR saying "Dont wait/expect for a brother like me.You should be couraguos enough handle the problems" to girls/ladies.

NTR's performance is good showing all his energy in the furious emotional scenes. One can imagine his kind of action with emotions. But his looks are not up to the mark. He has to work on that. Ileana has got a performance oriented role (for a change) as a Journalist, sacrificing her love and she fully proved herself. Her performance is good. Charmi, as a village girl is okay. Dubbed with her own voice doesnt suit much for the village slang. Music by Devi is just okay. "Zara zara" and "Rakhi rakhi" are the highlights.

Taking the movie on a whole it not a that creative output from Krishna Vamsi. But he handled the script well.The message it has given touches ladies well. And this is not a movie for NTR mass fans...This movie is worth watching once. We can feel the message given.