It was on my mind for quite a longtime. After serious thoughts for a week, finally made up my mind to submit a proposal a week before Valentine's day. I wasn't sure if it would turn out positive. No need to say the pressure you undergo waiting for something you longed for.

This one is very good - அனுப்பப்படாத ஒரு கடிதம்!!

Read this first - Sandhya turns singer. I saw that particular program. Really, i thought the song is played from the movie. She gave here best that day. I had a wish that she sings a song in a film. You wish for something, hadn't shared that with anyone, neither had put any effort to make it true.

Indian cricket squad selection has seldom used right policies to select players. So it's not a great surprise to see them drop Dravid. I am great fan of Dravid. I myself felt that he needs a break. Probably he should have opted out for the last two matches against Australia.

Diffen is a site developed and launched by couple of my friends.

One among today's headlines in The Hindu - Ensure bandh does not affect normal life. I wonder, how that could happen? I repeat, we live in a weird World.

Read this first - Divorce through video-conferencing, at least the first paragraph.

No need to say, it's been a lengthy gap from blogging. I am thinking of slowly getting back to blogging soon. But, things I missed blogging will always be missed - books, revisiting friends, relatives, Chennai life, movies, ever growing love with my MacBook.

As usual, accommodating to new environment takes time and sacrifices. Things I was completely aware are pollution, traffic, crowd, poor customer service. Only thing that took me by surprise was work environment. I am completely shocked to see such a bad atmosphere to work.

After exactly 28 months, I am leaving from Seattle, returning to India. If I have to summarize the experience in a word – it is AWESOME. This post is to get my thoughts registered about my stay so far is Edmonds/Seattle/US.

Couple of days back, two kids knocked my apartment door around 8:00 PM. From the way they have dressed I guessed it is their Halloween celebration. The little one showed her bag, I looked into it and took a chocolate. I saw her parents giggling right next to my door.

Couple of months old travelogue. A day at Crater lake and a day at Florence was planned to perfection. We started our trip in two cars on Friday night. One of my friends came down from SFO, we picked him up from airport and accelerated the rented Camry.

After analyzing and following closely about MacBooks for a long time,i bought one last week ! I was very much excited to post pics and my thoughts the day i got in my hand. But felt that waiting till the end of honeymoon period would let me give a neutral feedback.

Nothing to post,so as usual list of movies i saw:

தமிழ் - யுகா,திமிரு,அரண்,உனக்கும் எனக்கும்.All are bad

Telugu - Lakshmi,Pokiri.Good entertainers.After watching Pokiri, completed a dream song with Ileana on the top of Space needle.Now i understand the meaning of - Pulchritudinous.

This post best explains how lazy I am. The post is about the long weekend trip we went on July 1st. Staying over night was not a preferred choice for us. So decided to visit places which are three/four hours drive.

“We ran out of fans”. This was the response we got in all shops over the weekend. Yes, a machine using an electric motor to rotate thin, rigid vanes in order to move air, as for cooling [link].

I was speechless when I got the same answer again and again.

A month ago we went for Mt.Baker.While googling around, i found a site which suggested to take the scenic route.

பாரிஜாதம் - A very good one.Refreshing screenplay.Songs are not catchy but really good after few listening.

தலைநகரம் - Average one.

நாளை - Bad.Ananada Vikatan should seriously revise the way they allot marks.They had 41 for this.

புதுப்பேட்டை: It didn’t meet my expectations, still was a good one. Few areas were technically done well (Camera work, Art direction, background score). ஆபாசமே இல்லாம எடுக்கபட்ட குளியலறை காட்சி உள்ள ஒரே தமிழ் படம். For sure, Selvaragavan is setting new trend in Tamil films.

Day 1: Sanjuan Island

The ferry ride was wonderful. My intuition said not to believe the visitor centre recommendations. Still we decided to follow the instructions. The places they recommended didn’t meet my expectations about the Island. Saw a camel like creature name Alpaca.

Last week I got a mail from Bank of America, informing me about a prize scheme if we deposit cheques via ATM. I think they are encouraging the use of ATM’s, so that they can avoid long queues in the bank. In no way the ATM’s can match the services of good looking female tellers.

தங்க மகன்: Couple of weeks back the DVD print ditched us, it got stuck after an hour. To compensate for that disappointment, we watched it twice this week. Listening to the songs after a long time and got addicted again. My search for தம்பிக்கு எந்த ஊரு is in vain.

This is about Verizon DSL service. Last Friday I received a DSL kit from Verizon. A note on it said, we’ll not charge you until it is activated. When I was out of home, my friend got a call saying that Verizon will charge as soon as the kit is shipped.

In Seattle, Sun comes out once in a blue moon ;-) Apr 22nd was one such day.We decided to check out this year's Tulip fest.Though my jaws didn't drop as last year, it was wonderful again.

More pics here

Tulip fest 2004 post here...

It’s been almost a month after I visited few areas of Olympic national park. I was tied up with some work as well as laziness which prevented me from writing a blog post or to post some pictures. Now that I have beaten them to death, I am back.

I just showed my access card near the door and waited for the beep sound. So what’s wrong with it? Nothing as long as it is in your office. I just did it in front of my apartment door and was wondering why there was no beep sound.

Until couple of weeks back I didn't know that there is something called Vietnamese cuisine. But now I am in love with it. It all started when one of my friends decided to treat us at a different place.

I think someone cursed me that whatever movies I see let them be bad. After watching one movie I feel that this is the worst I have ever seen. Within couple of days I see another one worst than the previous one.

Kovai brothers - I walked out of this movie an hour before its completion.

Yes it happened again. When my room mates leave, it just pisses me off. Am I parking my a$$ too long in the same place? It’s my noble gesture to dedicate a post to my ex-roomies. Regular readers of my blog might know this [Is there anyone out there?! Yea… I see one person raising his hand.

Last week might easily be the worst weeks I have had so far in terms of movies I saw. தம்பி – scary. Director Seeman’s dialogues are sharp and odd at places. Eg: Sharp: ஆயுதம் வாங்கற காசுக்கு அரிசி வாங்கிக் இருக்கலாம் இல்லை.

I got an opportunity to perform an UI study for a new version of a tool that we are using. The vendor gave me eight tasks to perform and explain the rational behind each and every move. One guy was monitoring the proceedings.

I didn’t update the movies list for quite some. The reason being my poor memory and the movies list got accumulated like hell. Moreover most of the movies are the ones that I saw for the nth time. Here I go again:

இதயத் திருடன்: Nothing to see except Kamna’s navel.

I was having a chat with one of my American colleague this morning. After finishing the normal what's up thing, the brief chat headed towards personal life.

Col: So you have been around this place for quite some time, do you like it?

Me: Ya, I like it very much.

சாகனும் அவனுங்க எல்லாம் சாகனும்...

Found a scuzzy vcd print of the movie Dishyum in the net. I thought of waiting for the original DVD but director Sasi in title card lured me {சரி சரி Sandhya தான் reason போதுமா ?} The story is about two people who are diametric, falling in love for each other. Yes n-th time in Tamil cinema.