Its sweet time :-)

Just prepared this and though of posting here :p



Ahaa, elaa food trials'um ipdi nallaa nallaa vantha enna dhaan pa panrathu ;-)

Moru Moru Murukku :-)

Wanted to try some snacks since sometime. And, muruku, being one of my fav noruku theenis, caught my attention. Fortunately, I asked my mom to sent me the muruku achu too along with the not-so-important-but-feel-like-having stuff when one of our family friends came onsite with a little baggage ;-). doubt'aa vaanghi koduthaangha...engha naan panna porenu..Yipeee, I tried today (source--thanks, Mullai) and it came out awesome :-):-) its a very nice feeling that I cant express in words whenever I try some recipe and if it comes out as expected (nalla vidhamaa dhaan ;-))

anyway here is the sample of my Murukku :-)



epdi iruku? :->

J

Mozhi - Azhagu, Urchaagam, Sandhosham, Niraivu !

Last thursday, I happened to see the flick box of this movie. The photo gallery and the crew interview was interesting and I was eager to watch this movie. To my surprise, I noticed the showtimes in NJ..I was on cloud nine :-) booked tickets for Saturday evening show and we were all set.

Hammaa, such a wonderful movie...excellent performance, dialogues, songs, music, screenplay, direction -- EVERYTHING !!! You will just sit and enjoy! avlo thaan...cant express more...

Prakashraj - Very nice person. His smile, casual dialogues--I liked him :-) Wanted to thank him for producing such a nice movie. Kudos to him!!

Prithviraj - He rocks. Natural facial expressions--either its love, disappointment, laughter, he is just amazing!!

Jyothika - She is cute as always. did a good job. costumes are nice. I didnt find any different acting as it was casual for her to act with her eyes. Anyway, good effort..I appreciate that.

Swarnamalya - She has done a decent job. A liked her more than Jo ;-) "Jyothika character vera yaar paninaalum ok..but Swarnamalya character mattum ava panninaa dhaan nalla iruku" was his comment after the movie.

Baskar, Brahmaanandham - They have done their roles perfectly. Brahmaanandham is new to Tamil but he is a very famous comedian in Telugu..I have already seen and enjoyed his Telugu movies..It was good to see him in this movie as well.

Vidhyasagar, Vairamuthu - They did their best. All songs came out very well and music goes along with the lyrics. Vaarthai elaam kaeka mudiyuthu.

Viji - Dialogue writer. dont know if this is the first movie for him. Impressive!! very casual, humorous dialogues..like namma generally pesarathu..so we dont feel like watching a movie. Good work!

KV Guhan - cinematography. OMG, he painted the story in a beautiful way..its so fresh to eyes. you can see some closeup beautiful shots. Everyone looks beautiful in this movie :-)

Last but not the least, Radhamohan - Hats off to him. he looks very simple...ivalu talent irukaanae theriyaathu...Kudos!!! Hope he does more projects like this!

We thoroughly enjoyed this movie :-)

J

Calling India ...

My international calling facility on my landline got deactivated couple of days back and the customer service guy said it would take another 3 - 5 days to re-activate it. I wanted to talk to my mom, so was chumma googling for "free calling India" ;-)

Found this and a bit excited to see the trial offer of 10 free min (to India)..wanted to give a try and see if it works....Yipeee :-) After asking your name, mail id, phone number details, he sent a confirmation mail with a pin...thats all..call their toll free number, and dial the destination...I talked to my mom for 10min :-):-) orae kushi :-)

Also, I found the calling rates in this site pretty cheaper than the other sites I went through....anyone using their calling cards already??? lemme know.

I was curious to know if there were other sites with the same free trial offer. Yes, I found this. Used and talked for another 10 min with my sis :p

I was greedy by then, searched for other sites, but they seemed to have a tie up with the earlier ones, so they displayed "Our database records say that you have already registered with us blah blah".. naan "okay right thanks"nu veliya vanthuten :D

Appa thaan therinjuthu, ethuku phone number detail kaetaanu :D though I have 2/3 email ids, I could call only from my landline phone by then :D

anyway, waiting for A's mobile to use another 20 min from both the free trial offers :p

J

Nee'nu solraalaa?

A was on phone the other day with his mother talking abt some veedu-vaanghara stuff...

Aunty: ippa veedu vaangharathu pathi J enna solraa?

A (sirichutae): Avaluku enna theriyum....elaathukum ok nu solraa...nee vaangharenu solriyaa, ok...vaangha vendaamnu solriyaa...adhukum ok.

Aunty: (forgets that I am ok for anything and worries for..) unnai nee nu solraalaa??

Me:#-o

Horror Night II

continuing the horror night experience

Note: Ayoo, ippa andha bayam feeling'ae illayae :p will try to write...illana elaarum vanthu adichuduveengha pola iruku :-)

A and I looked at each other after hearing the door knocks again. When I was about to switch on the light, A said "no, dont switch on the light". We both walked in the dark towards the hall. We stood near the dining table and A whispered "will it be the thaatha that you said who came to repair the room heater today morning". [The background for this question: I usually tell A abt the happenings at home. And, generally I will be happy if someone talks to me nicely. A always warns me (enakaevaa ;-)) not to give so much details and trust ppl.]. Ok, coming back to the story...I was confused for a moment "epdi elaam doubt varuthu Ugghh". He then asked "you have (Apartment) Super number". Yes, I did store the number and the telephone table is kept a few distance from the main door. I was not courage enough to go there and pick the receiver. Idhula enna kodumai'na, I was scared to see A's face with a detective kinda look and asking questions in the dark..ufff.

A slowly went near the door and asked "whos this". There was a reply this time "This is Thomas. Please open the door". OMG, this is the peak of my fear and I asked A not to talk to him anymore and lets call Super. But A replied "I dont know who you are. I cant open the door". I was like adapaavi..inum en pesitu..lets call Super. A was showing his hand, "nothing is happening..you stay there". enaku ennamo avan kaila gun ethavathu vachutu, andha door vazhiya suda poraannu thonitu irunthathu. So, I was asking A to come out of that place.

"Bang"--we heard the sound of the lift door opening at our floor. There was a silence after that. We were not sure whether that person was still standing there and somebody accompanied him or he left the place.

After waiting for 5 min with no door knocks or bell sound, we both went to the room. I tried to lift the window curtain and saw if somebody was going out of our building. I didnt do that finally. We went to bed. A was about to sleep. naan kotta kotta muzhichutu irunthen.

"Be careful. I dont know what I do if I wake up in the middle of my sleep. I might go, open the door too" -- A calmly said this and slept.

??!!!!??? (my face was like the yahoo emoticon :-O)

P.S: sound** [in the first part] -- Next day morning, when I opened my wardrobe, I saw my belt in the floor. :D
And our guess (still) abt Thomas is that he might have mistakenly come to the wrong floor and tried to knock the door located in the same place/direction of his apt.

J