Best quote i've ever read... "Do it now... Today will be Yesterday, tomorrow..."

Perfect Timing, Bad Innings...

If you think this post is about sports, I'm sure you are wrong. This is once again about my festival time unreserved journey to hometown, but different...

Sometimes we may feel the things around us uncomfortable and we may have bitter experiences. But when we look back to those moments, we will smile. Thats what happened to me on 13th of this month.

I was going home for 'Pongal' holidays. I had reached the station at 17.30 itself, for my train at 19.55. I was standing in the queue - probably 30th from the first. This time I was more hopeful that I would get a window seat, but the problem that I didn't realize then, was the heavy luggage I was carrying - mostly my engineering Books. Most of the people standing in queue thought the train would arrive at 18.45 or 19.00, where they (including me) went wrong. As the Train arrived the station only at 19.40 - only fifteen minutes earlier from the departure time - the RPF could not control the crowd and we all missed the line. Carrying heavyweight I couldn't even enter the compartment - I think I tried thrice to enter into the train, but all failed. I had no choice but to stand near the compartment door. Suddenly another group of passengers started pushing me from out. I was moving, squeezed, moving and at the end I was almost in the middle of the compartment - standing. There was not even a small space to sit or stretch legs.

I started my first ever standing journey. But it gave me a chance to make some train friendships. As usual I started listening to ARR music and started sleeping - best part of standing train journey is that there is no need to hold anything for balance, of course you can sleep while standing. When I woke up, train had made it to Trichy and most of my standing companions got down to stretch their legs so did I. Again train started and we were stuffed into it. Time was fleeting... After 10 hours of standing I got a seat as the train reached Sivaganga, and I got a short time wonderful sitting journey of 45 minutes at last...

It was hard to tackle the problems while I was traveling, but it gave me more pleasure when I looked back and shared this with my friends...with a smile...

"ACCEPT THE PAIN"

3 Idiots (film)

When I watched '3 Idiots', -yesterday- it was a pleasant experience for me to see a college friendship story with college friends as a college student. It is Aamir's hat-trick box office hit after Taare Zameen Par and Ghajini. The writer duo -Rajkumar Hirani and Abhijat Jhosi- has developed the storyline more smoothly from the original. Hirani's movies always stands for its writing department.

Whole movie gave us a mixture of humour and emotion. When the movie character Raju's family is shown to you -black and white-, you will feel pity for their life and the story narration will make you laugh even at that moment. Muraleedharan's camera played a solid role in success of this movie. Songs were amazing especially 'Zoobi Doobi'...

Every characters -from 'Rancho' to 'Millimeter'- have done their jobs well. 'ViruS' and 'Silencer' were amazing. Movie gives us a good message that if we stand for our Originality, all will be done well, from the main character Rancho through his inventions -Helicopter with a wireless camera and Vacuum extractor with a Power Inverter.

Hats off to Aamir and Hirani...

Maniratnam - the legendary Director

He is the man who made me visualise what was happening in Sri Lanka. He is the man who made me wonder 'Can anyone think like him and be straight forward??'. He is the one who made me realise what friendship is... He is Mani Ratnam.

From Pallavi Anu Pallavi to Guru he gave different emotional characters on screen. No one can forget 'Idhaya Kovil' and 'Mouna Raagam'. First godfatheristic movie 'Naayagan' based on a underworld don in mumbai - it is said to be Varadharajan Mudhaliyar - got a place in Time magazine's "ALL-TIME Best 100 Movies".' Thalapathy' taught how a friend should be. 'Roja' and 'Bombay' gave A R R to the world and got National Integrity Awards. 'Dil Se' and 'Alai Payuthey' expressed love in Mani's style. 'Iruvar' gave a visualisation of two political icons life and took out Prakash Raj's talent as an actor. 'Kannathil Muthamittal' gave a look around Sri Lankan Tamils. 'Guru' was extraordinary. Every movies he directed made me stick to the story for some days and every dialogue in his stories made me wonder. Thats why I say He is Tamil Nadu's best movie dierctor...

Waiting for 'Raavana'....

Why Expectation Hurts???

Yesterday my friend asked me "How could you be always smiling?". I replied with a smile "I never expect anything". Yes, expectation always hurts. When we expect someone to do something or expect ourselves to be like someone or expect ourself to do something, we are supposed to think of the future - a result that's uncertain - is expected. This gives us a lot of stress and we forget to be happy. Remember friends life is a One Way. Here you can look back and you can remember what happened but you can't either ride back the past or expect the future. So live the present memorable and enjoy every moment... Keep Smiling... Be Happy...

Note: I expect you friends not to expect anything...

Jacquieline Saburido

"Not everyone who gets hit by a drunk driver dies".

This will be the first thing you will notice when you visit Jacqueline Saburido's website http://www.helpjacqui.com/...

Jacqueline was returning back to her home with friends after attending a birthday party at Austin. Reginald Stephey, a 17-year-old high school student, was on his way home after drinking beer with his friends at a party. Reggie's GMC Yukon veered into the Oldsmobile carrying Jacqui and the others. Saburido was left to burn for around 45 seconds as the flames engulfed the vehicle. Her face was totally disfigured and she needed 40 operations to ensure survival, including Cornea transplant. Reggie was sentenced to two concurrent seven-year prison sentences inside Huntsville Unit and was fined $20,000.

Jacqui started her campaign against drunken drive. She is most well known for a commercial in which she holds a pre-accident photo of herself in front of the camera, which she lowers to reveal her disfigured face and says, "This is me, after being hit by a drunk driver". When asked why she appeared in the campaign, Saburido stated "I feel very good to do it because I know people can understand a little more what happened to me -- why my life changed completely. So I think for me, for everybody, it's a good opportunity".

Saburido and Stephey met for the first time after his trial and conviction in 2001. Stephey later stated that "What sticks out in my mind is, 'Reggie, I don't hate you.' It's really touching someone can look you in the eyes and have that much compassion after all that I have caused". He was released from Huntsville Unit on 24 June, 2008. Jacqui stated, "I don't hate him, I don't feel bad because he's out, he can reconstruct his life again".

Its hard to forgive a person after he had destroyed your entire life. But Jacqui did this and she is continuing her campaign against drunk driving from her home at Louisville, Kentucky.

Do Not Drink N Drive.....