Florida trip

I rarely remember things, and I am very good at forgetting things. So I decided to scribble down the rest of the memories that is still intact inside my head since I came back from the Florida trip. I was very hesitant when my BIL and sis first proposed the idea. They pushed me and made me to agree for the trip. I am thankful to them for pushing me, otherwise I would have a missed a life time opportunity.

 

We spent a total of four days. Normally it seems people plan for more than a week at this place. It was because of my official constraint we had to plan for just 4days. The first and last day we enjoyed Universal studios’ Islands of Adventure.

 

The minute we entered the parking lot, I was astounded by the way how organized things were. The parking lot easily accommodate more than 10k cars. And the place where the parking lot entry fee was collected was never jammed. There was no more than 5min wait, yet 100s of cars were inching towards the parking lot. We had to walk for 15mins from the parking lot before we can actually step inside the park.

WOW!!! was the first word that echoed loud inside my head. From a distance all I could see was the place was swarmed by heads, heads of various color style, and yet I never felt congested. The entry point where the park entry tickets were validated had a huge tower(the above pic). From then on the adventure began

The entire island was divided into various themes based on Universal's movie production. We covered Harry Potter, Lost continent, Seuss Landing and Marvel Super hero Island. Our first thing was to complete the Harry potter thing, since that is the newly added attraction about which the kids were excited.

The entire place was constructed with the harry potter theme. The castle, Hogwarts express and the staff at this area were typically dressed like the people in the Harry potter movie.

           

The buildings were very much as described in the book and portrayed in the movie, and I was happy to capture one such picture with sun playing a good part behind the castle tower.

    

We took off with a roller coaster ride Dragon Challenge, based on the Harry Potter story. It was an amazing thrilling ride, where you are pushed to your limits, it loops nearly twice at high speed and it makes you energized. The ride was awesome. The next thing we checked was forbidden Journey. The ride was themed to be inside the Hogwarts castle.

           

It was a great experience than just a ride. The ride transforms you into a Moghul riding behind Harry. You get to see dragons, spiders, dementors with some great graphics in-between. We did this ride 3 times and it was fun and exciting all the three times.

 

Just after we finished this, another medium level roller coaster welcomed us. it was called Flight of Hippogriff. This had no great turn or twists when compared to the previous two, but it was refreshing and energizing.

From Harry’s land, we moved to lost continent. There was not anything thrilling as the previous land, but it had a very good Broadway kind of a show – Sindbad's eighth voyage. It was a live performance  and it was awesome. We then did another small show kind of thing, Poseidon’s fury which involved real fire/water/air effects with a 3D animation. It was a good experience. From there we moved to Seuss landing. The place was more of the sweet little kids, everything gentle and yet involved fun. We happened to catch a Broadway show at this place, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and it was really awesome.

                         

I always saw the merry go-round from a distance. This time, even though my sis told it was for kids, I just went on the ride just for fun. It was good.

The final day, we were tired and did very little but some of the important stuff. We went on a ride HULK. True to its name, it was incredible.

The incredible Hulk

 

 

The wait time was 120mins for the ride, we waited and it was worth all the wait. From the same island, we did Doctor Doom’s Fearfall. It was a shoot out straight towards the sky for 15 Technorati Tags: 0 feet and then u fall down in the force of gravity. The view at that height was breath taking. I really loved it.

Overall it was one lifetime experience and unforgettable memories……That is all from the Island’s front. More to come from Disney

Kanden- Vijay Ebenezer - Rocks

Vijay Ebenezer is an apprentice of Harris Jayaraj and this album is the first to come out of Gautam's music production house. With all egerness and glittering eyes, i picked this up. It is a fine album. Penned by Thamari, Krish, Ravindran and Valli, lyrics are really good execpt few places. The album has a total of 7 songs each one brings a different mood to the listener.

I was thrilled by the musical arrangement of the song Oru Paarvai, especially the violin piece and equal match by Gurupriya in the latter part of the song. Use of violin for some reason brought me the memories of Raja's Era. A very fine song for all time.

Enge En rendered by Krish, Prashanthini and Dr Burn has a very light lovable feel to it. It reminded me of some famous tunes of Harris, not that the tune was a copy, but just the use of instruments and its arrangements, when the song started.

The final track and the only track to have been penned by Valli has some nice lyrics, with Nadashwaran and some breezy tune, chimayi steals the show.

Narmadha beautifully penned by Krish has Haricharan setting the track on a fast beat from the word go. It is even more powerful and sinks in you when Suchithra joins the party. A hummable tune, sure to top the charts. The track by Devan Ekambaran for two+ mins has a nice melancholic feel and lyrics which indicates someone parting from some one :)

Over all a very nice album, please do buy it. 4/5

To think

that I have just completed the first quarter of my life time is just thrilling and also poses a lot of questions. What have I really achieved over the last quarter? Well all INCs in NSE BSE WALLSTREET would pose there expenses. Well, I don’t have an exact expense list to post, but I do have a list with me. A list of income/expenses that took me from day one till today.

No ones life is without bitterness. Everyone has it. I too have had, but just seconds…not a heavy dosage. The greatest gift that I have had in the last quarter with no second thoughts - Kalyan. A man who stands tall in my memories when I look back with gratitude, a soul which is keeping me in the right path and will continue to.

A span of 25 years does involves a lot of encounters with earthly beings. And I have indeed come across very many of them. People from opposite poles. I would like to take a moment to thank all those who just helped me all along the way, somehow or the other. To all the people I met in Chandrasekara puram to Westmont,IL, a special heartfelt thanks goes out to them.

I don’t think I would ever be able to get few of my important relations under one roof some day. And here is my space and chance/time to thank them all. I would like to thank few special people on this day.

Mr Kalyanaraman Subbarayan (again a Kalyanaraman), the only reason behind me being carved as a engineer, without whom, I am sure I would be searching for a career right now. Gobli alias Sivasankaran who was always around me till the time I went to college, providing me enough inspiration and a great personality to be taken as role model. Mrs Indra and Mrs Veeramani for letting me know who I am and for the personality that people identify me for. Sampath, Varadhan, SK, Basker and Abhirami for laying some important foundation in me. Saravanan, Prince, Unni for supporting me in all possible ways for a perfect career launch. Sugan, Kishore, Nirmal, Shiva, Kumar for providing me the best of memories of college/Pizza hut and always there to encourage me with their best wishes. Muthoo, bala, Sabari, Mani, Sreeni, Bharathi, UM, Harish, Pradeep for letting me know that life is too beautiful to have grudges on it and helped me realize life will just move on, come what may!!! Guhan for being a silent and wonderful friend that a man can ever ask for. Arvind, a man who proved to be the best companion to hang out, till the time he vanished. KP, Shiva, Arun, Sundaram, Badri for providing some wonderful memories of srirangam life.

A very sincere thanks goes out to MSS and RMS for putting me in the right spots, letting me know my mistakes, making me aware of how worse I am and amidst me being a figure of greatest mistakes, still sticking with me and looking out for the best to happen to me.

Mrs Muthulakshmi and her children. Without whom, I would not have been equipped with the right spirit to handle the world. Each of a kind, with a different perception and different path and destiny. They are the ones who taught me, winning as ‘I’ is not only important, but we need look out for others in a heard.

Last but not the least, Srividhya for her timely advices in all my endeavors till she was around, Gayathri who proved to be an inspiration and defined a set of principles for me to grow, Arun for showing me, how benevolent a man can be, a man who showed me how much planning does help in life.

Finally, my mom and dad ( a man who did teach me to handle the life as it comes to us). A team of two who always wished me good, no matter what, listened to me when I needed, who winked away all odds just to keep me happy, for sowing me in the right land so that I can grow tall and broad.

For those whom I have missed….pardon me….Life is too good, to brood about things, if something does not happen today, probably it will happen tomo, if it does not, “GO GET A LIFE”, think about what next!!!! Its easy to just think about failure but to sort them out and turn them into success really requires a courage and proves life is indeed beautiful. Finally GOD, believe me I am seeing him daily, since my birth on this earth.

Let glory be with Kalyan.

The mood

was dull, madhan face told it all. His head hung like the last leaf of the fall. Suddenly a tremor sent madhan panicking. He realized it was his sweet mobile phone sitting in his pockets tickling him. He took the phone, read the name twice....probably more than twice......After a lot of hesitation, he held it against the ear and uttered "hello"....

A voice boomed from the little speaker of the mobile, covered with tiny hole, "it was not me. I am not responsible for anything of this sort dude. It was only Vasu's fault to have crossed your road"....It went on. Madhan, could not understand what it was, for he was not given even a fraction of a second to interrupt sathan, who was on phone. "Only Vasudevan sent a friend invite in facebook dude. I had nothing to do with it. I did not ask him to send it to Ramya. For some reason they are good friends now", now Madhan could visualize what it was all about, memories of Ramya flooded his big head, yet with tiny brain. Unable to comprehend and not wanting to get lost in emotions, Madhan shouted, "please not now. You dont even know what it is today, it is the 13th day".

"Hey listen to this first, we can worry about the 13th day later, your ladylove Ramya....wait a minute, did u say 13th day?" santhan was perplexed. "Yes. I sent you a message 13days ago, that my grand father passed away", answered Madhan. "U sent shit. U did not send me any message. As usual u would have informed your friends Bandu and Gundan. .........Sorry Dude" Sathan tried to be polite.

Madhan "Its ok." There was one final question Sathan had with him. "One last question. Is that ok?", With lot of hesitation and irritation madhan said a big YES. "Are u sad now, because your grandfather passed away or Ramya and Vasu being friends on Facebook?", before Madhan could slap Sathan via phone, sathan disconnected the call.


Since this seemed a very funny but brutal scenario, he called his best pal Thalabadi to share his experience. Unusually Thalabadi picked up the call on the first ring, before Thalabadi could address, santhan greeted him, "How come you picked my call in the first ring? Why? you alone and bored?".

"Useless street dog, tell me the reason for calling, you will not call me unnecessarily like your friends bandu and mokkai" answered Thalabadi. Sathan went on with his tale. After he completed, there was a long pause and then Thalabadi responded. "So his grand dad really dead? I received a message dude. I deleted it cursing Madhan, I though he has, as usual forwarded a useless message and that too about some old monk being dead from his girlfriend".

Neither of them could control their laughter for the next few mins.......For me I am still not clear as to why was Madhan so sad :P