tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23849399618961795532011-11-15T22:13:22.682+05:30my life. my view. my thoughts.Shiva Shankarhttps://profiles.google.com/108017115134789176011noreply@blogger.comBlogger341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2384939961896179553.post-80669062766454488242010-12-31T22:16:00.006+05:302011-01-04T10:18:21.621+05:30

Its that time of the year when you need to get a new diary, feel guilty about last year's resolutions that you didn't keep up, when  you have to reflect upon what you have done for the past 365.25 days (2010 is not a leap year nerdy idiots) - The good, The bad, The highs, The Lows and The Everything that happened last year. I saw lot of my friends sum up their experiences of past one year in a

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I read this Kavithai in Ananda Vikadan way back in 2002. Had to share with a friend now and since most of the social networking sites have word limit for the updates i am posting it here. This one inspired me to write some kirukkal kavithaigal on my own... so this kavithai is always close to my heart :P காதலித்துக் கெட்டுப்போ: அதிகம் பேசு ஆதி ஆப்பிள் தேடு மூளை கழற்றி வை முட்டாளாய் பிறப்பெடு

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Rediscovering RajaRajeshwaram:. For someone who fought with his grandmother and vowed never to set foot in temples again for all the stupid superstitious rituals associated with it, I have come really a long way. I don't know exactly when the fascination for Thanjai Periya Kovil started for me. I think it was after i finished reading “Ponniyin Selvan” novel. Ponniyin Selvan changed me completely

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          The Hindu Nxg had a photo contest called "Framed" and had invited photographs about Chennai as part of their Chennai Day celebrations. I sent some pics that i had taken and one of my photograph got published. This is the first time that one of my photograph got published in a newspaper and i would like to share this with all of you. Thanks a lot for all your support and i hope i can

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    Recently i uploaded a picture of Monkey Waterfalls (Valparai) and i received lot of queries as to whether i photo shopped it since it was looking very unrealistic. So here is the camera technique used to capture waterfalls like this... Shutter Speed:         You need to have a compact camera or a DSLR or a point shoot which would allow you to adjust shutter speed of the camera. If you shoot

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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            I have been a big fan of quotes. You can convey something which might take an entire book within 2 or 3 sentences. That is the beauty of the language and the beauty of quotes.... For long i have been posting some quotes in my FB account and Twitter, but they seem to disappear amidst the vast pile of other useless information. So i have decided to compile everything into a single blog

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Travel Date: April 24th 2010 (Saturday):           Started  at around 10 AM from my native village (near Papanasam) towards Chidambaram. On our way to Pichavaram Lake saw a sign board about "Gangai Konda Cholapuram". I never knew where Gangai Konda Cholapuram was and i have always wanted to visit that place. Rajendra Chola had built a temple there which looks like a miniature version of the

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             Once upon a time in Chennai, Aako thought of watching all the top 250 films of IMDB since he was a BIG film buff. So far he has watched about 68 films out of the 250. He also has a tracker to track the films that he has finished watching: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AkcgS950kTqNdHY2d1l0ZmdfanY2aldYZzJZT1FRQ0E&hl=en Apart from watching Aako also decided to give short,

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First things first…  What is a Photoride?? You would have obviously heard of photo walks… A Photo walk is an event in which group of photographers meet at a particular place and take photos while walking around that place… pictures of a particular road, street….goes on like that. A photo-walk can be classified under street photography… Why Photoride? Why not a Photo walk? We would surely

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 “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine        Last weekend had an interesting discussion with my friends... We were just back from a one day trip to Yelagiri and we were discussing how awesome the trip was and gradually the discussion went on to whether we will be going on such trips, once we get married :P One wise man (Thats me :D) suggested

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Jan 1rst, 2010. I gotta get in shape. Too much sitting has ruined my body. Too much abuse has gone on for too long. From now on there will be 50 pushups each morning, 50 pullups. There will be no more pills, no more bad food, no more destroyers of my body. From now on will be total organization. Every muscle must be tight. - Taxi Driver

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Photography?? Camera?? When was i first introduced into this wonderful world??? Had to think about that today and i recollected when i first saw a camera. 1992 - I was studying 2nd standard and my uncle had come home to visit us and he brought a Kodak camera with him. Like any other 2nd standard kid i was fascinated seeing a camera for the first time. Kept on pestering my uncle to

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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ARR's soundtrack for the Hollywood Movie "Couples Retreat", fell in love with this song as soon as i heard it the first time... As i type this i had listened to this song 50 times... will keep listening to it :) Here's the video: And here's the lyrics to sing along :) Love you Rahman as always :D குறு குறு கண்களிலே . .. எனை அவள் வென்றாலே... குறு குறு கண்களிலே எனை அவள் வென்றாலே...

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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பூமியில் வானவில் - Complete Collection (click on "Read more" for a slide show)

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The various video presentations that i did for my department and college: Independence day presentation: Woman's day presentation: Presentation about my college: Presentation for Asthra (My Department Sysmposium): First half of this was developed by my junior Raja :) - Presentation for a workshop (Advaitha):

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For my programmer friends this is not related to any data structures theory and for others this got nothing to do with any bucket :P This is just the list of things that i wish i could do before i "Kick the Bucket". I was inspired to write this down after watching the movie - "Bucket List". You can check out the original bucket list over here. Shivz Bucket List: 1) Go to Himalayas. Trek

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Prank on Vodafone Customer Care | Upload MusicFunny prank made on Vodafone Customer Care by some arts college students from Chennai.... Hats off to the Vodafone guy to have kept his cool throughout this irritating call...But he is a human being after all right after 3 minutes of persistence he finally loses his cool!! :PMaari mavane vodafone kai la maatuna.... unakku sangu thaandi :DListen to the

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Recently i had uploaded to flickr a photo of a tree's branch which i shot Kodaikanal. I liked the picture very much because of the simplicity in the picture... But i was taken aback when one of my friends (Obviously wouldn't want to name him) asked me if i took this shot against a white wall. Actually he asked me whether i was holding some kind of twig against a white wall when taking this

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Ponniyin Selvan - the greatest novel ever written. When i went to the book fair this jan, i came across this novel and the sheer size and the volume of the books surprised me... there were totally 5 books in the package and all of them were huge (last one was the biggest). Nevertheless i decided to buy "Ponniyin Selvan", came back home glanced through first few pages and forgot all about the

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What is your worth??? Please think and please GO out to VOTE!!!!

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Wanted to try blogging from my mobile... There were some steps to activate and after going through all that.. established the connection between my blog and my mobile. Its fun to blog from mobile but obviously i am concerned about the GPRS rates... i think this blog would have taken at least Rs.5 to get uploaded... But anyways i am now happy to have found a new way to blog :D Took a picture

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Are you a Fan of Disney Pixar's Wall-E??If so, Read on.... I bought the WALL-E DVD pack so that i can watch "The Pixar Story" ( a documentary film about pixar came into existence and how it is ruling the animated movie world). There were loads of extra features which came along with the DVD but one "thing" which really impressed me was a "Short Film" named "BURN-E". I was introduced into a new

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All about a Dog - will be updated soon

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Hi, First of all i am honored that you are reading this blog, though there is nothing useful in it.... :P This is my first blahg... yea yea (Blog)... i used to put mokkai in http://mokkasami.blogspot.com/ but was not an avid blogger then and i myself never read any of my posts.. so closed it down :( I have been in blogger since march 2007 but was never into serious blogging... Why?? Here

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