Books you must read...

Screw It, Let's Do It by Richard Branson

This is a short autobiography of one of the most admired business personalities in the world, Richard Branson. There is a lot of interesting trivia that one can come know reading this book like how Branson met Pil Collins, why did Elton John compose an album for Princess Diana, what got Banson into the jail, what's the connection between Branson and Amundsen. Besides these trivia what really grabs your attention is the determination that Branson towards all the things he has done in life so far. This book also answers your question on what sets a world class business leader aside from the mediocre ones. This book is one of the 'Quick Reads' editions that is 100 pages written in simple and plain english. You just need about an hour to read this book.

"Always beware if the risks are too random or too hard to predict, but remember, if you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it's like to win."

"Chase your dreams, but live in the real world.

"Never do anything if it means you can't sleep at night."

"Challenge is the core and mainspring of all human action. If there's an ocean, we cross it. If there's a disease, we cure it. If there's a wrong, we right it. If there's a record, w break it. If there's a mountain, we climb it."

Inside Steve's Brain by Leander Kahney

This is a book on Steve Jobs, the face of Apple. I would strongly recommend this book to managers, techies and aspiring entrepreneurs. If you've ever wondered, "What's so great about apple?" or " What's so great about Steve Jobs?" then this book will be able to answer. Its facinating to read about how Steve Jobs plans every single product launch to the minutest of details. The book also explains the miticulous approach of Steve Jobs when it comes to developing products. Each apple product is designd to perfection and the motive behind designing each product has always been to redefine existing standards and taking it to the next level. This makes apples products far mor supeior in the market and the only thing other companies can think of is to try and catch up. There are definity a lot of things to learn from Steve Jobs, and this book clerly highlights those and goes a lot in detail making it easier for the reader to look at the big picture. If you have already read or planning to read Steve Wozniac's (co founder of Apple) biography, then let me tell you there is a bit of cotadiction between both the Steve's version of the story.

Some Exerpts from the book....
"What makes Steve's methodology different than everybody else's is that he always believed that the most important decisions you make are not the things you want to do, but the things you decide not to do."

"A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."

"Design is a funny word, some people think design means how it looks. But of course, if you dig deeper, its really how it works. The design of the Mac wasn't what it looked like, although that was part of it. Primarly, it was how it worked. To design something really well, you hav to get it. You have to really grok what it's all about. It takes passionate commitment to really thoroughly undersand smething, chew it up, not just quickly swallow it. Most peple don't take the time to do that."

"When you start looking at a problem and think its really simple, you don't understand how complex the problem really is."

"Innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10.30 at night with a new idea, or because they realised something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem. It's ad hoc meetings of six people called by someone who thinks he has figured out the coolest new thing ever and who wants to know what other people think of his idea."

"The older I get, the more I'm convinced that motivesmake so much difference."

"You can't be too far ahead, but you have to be far enough ahead because it takes time to implement. So you have to intercept a moving train."

"It gave a tremendous level of self-confidnce, that through exploration and learning one could understand seemingly very complex things in one's environment. My childhood was very fortunate in that way."

PJ Time

 This is the December editon of Dadly PJs & Onliners.

Auburn: Hey when do we start the Christmas decoration.
Vimal: Let's first find out if the birthday boy is ok with all this.
Auburn: Who's the birthday boy noe?
Vimal: Jesus Christ.
Auburn: Oh God, should have thought of that.

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Rishi: How old are you Auburn?
Auburn: 27.
Shashi: Hey yesterday you said your were 26?
Vimal: Hey Happy Birthday Auburn.
Everybody in the room: ?!?!?!?!?

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party

Shashi: Do you know the latest craze in China, selling virgin chicken. Restraunts that claim they serve virgin chicken attract a lot of crowd.
Baba: What's a virgin chicken?
Vimal: Egg. So omlette and egg burji are in demand now in China.
Shashi: Dai.....
Everybody in the room: Ha Ha Ha....

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Rishi: Hey where did you get the spring roll from?
Auburn: In some shop in commercial street I didn't plan to pick up spring rolls, the guy asked us to have a bite. It tasted good so picked up some for the party.
Vimal: So what would have happened if Auburn actually had to eat spring rolls there instead of just having a bite?
Baba: What would have happened?
Vimal: Bite would have become Kilo Byte!
Rishi: Hey send this guy home man.

@ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Thomas: One of my friend is selling his Ford Ikon, if you are really intrested I can take you to his place one day.
Baba: Ya please let me know.
Thomas: Sure you can probably take it for a spin and then decide if you want to go for it or not.
Vimal: Hey in that case make sure you take Mutthaiya Muralidharan along with you.
Baba: Why?
Vimal: He is a good spinner naa...
Everybody in the room: Aiyyooo....

@ Karthik's Party, looking at Rishi's 100 Pipers bottle...
Vimal: Rishi where are the remaning 95 Pipers?
Rishi: What?!?!?!
Vimal: The label says 100 Pipers but there are only 5 in the label.
Rishi: The rest are in Scotland.
Some other day @ Auburn's Bachelor Party
Rishi: My brother is going to Scoland in Jan and even I'm planning to go there at that time.
Vimal: That will be good, finally you'll get to meet the remaining 95 pipers.
Rishi: Wha? Oh ok... Yaaa....
Everyone else in the room: ?!?!?!?!?!?!

At an ad hoc drinking session outside the Leela's, at a time when everyone was drunk...
Chetan: Guys name any 10 great men in the world.
Jones: Bill Gates.
Amith: Niel Armstrong.
Vimal: Jack Daniels, Johnny Walker.
Russel: Michael Dell.
and so on, then
Chetan: Good so all these men, they had a dream, they were detrmined to pursue their dream and they lived their dreams. Right? It was no rocket scince for them to achieve their dreams.
Vimal: But Chetan, for Niel Armstng it was rocket science.
Chetan: Good One....
Everyone: Ha Ha Ha....

Chai: What movie is this?
Vimal: Taken.
Chai: What's it about?
Vimal: The whole movie is about a kid sleeping.
Chai: What?!?!?!?
Viml: It's about a kidnap.
Chai: Oh God.

Vimal: Hey how long Tequila has been in existance?
Chai: I don't know, it didn't come with a birth certificate.
Vimal: ?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Vimal: Nice shirt, how come this one's with a ChineseCollar.
Auburn: I Like this Mandrain collar, but the tailor didn't make it the way I'dasked him to.
Vimal: You should have written the specifications in a piece of paper and given it to him.
Auburn: No I actually gave him a sample shirt and he still screwed it up.
Vimal: Sample shirt doesn't work you should have written the insructions and givn it to him.
Auburn: How will that help?
Vimal: He will Read & Taylor (Reid & Talor) naa...?
Auburn: Started......?!?!?!?!?!

Leeni: Harmoica is like a mouthorgon right?
Vimal: Nope its a girl named Monica who loses everything.
Leeni: Ok. No more questions.

Vimal: Where is this guy comming from?
Amith: He had gone to attend an interview for a vacancy in our xyz department.
Vimal: That's a tough job and he wants to move there?
Amith: Yup.
Vimal: Ask him to keep a fire extinguisher with him all the time.
Amith: OK.
Shashi: Why?
Vimal: His ass will be on fire most of the time naa that's why.

Chai (holding a beer bottle in his hand): Hey where is the opener?
Vimal: Must be sleeping.
Leeni: Yaa he played the whole day naa so should e tired.
Chai: What?!?!?!?!
Vimal & Leeni: You were asking for Sewag right? He's the opener....
Chai: God.

Vimal: Hey check out that name board, it says Legal Answer.
Amith: Where?
Vimal: See there it says Laajawab.
Amith: Ok.

There's a new social networkig site for all the donkeys out there, its called AssBook.

Pictures can say a lot

Here are some pictures that i really enjoyed, thought will share it with the rest of the world and explain the meaning hidden inside every picture.

"A journey of 1000 miles begins with a single step." You need to step on this guy's ass for him to join us for a trip. BTW that's Russel trying to kick Amith's ass.

The more hands you have the more you will clean your house. Russel (in pic) has an obsession towads cleaning so the friends lend him a helping hand.

PJ Time

A lot of my friends curse me for the kind of PJs / Oneliners I come up with time and again but end of the day we all have a good laugh except the one to whom the PJ / Oneliners is directed to. Well actually all of my close friends come up with deadly PJ / Oneliners themselves which has left me speachless sometimes as well. Here is a compilation of such PJs and one liners...

Vimal: Hey our clients travelled in the same flight we travelled in, but we reached Pune before them.
Rishi: How is that possible man?
VImal: We were sitting in the front and the clients were sitting at the back.
Rishi: Aiiyoooo.

Once we all planned to go out for dinner and Chai came checking on us..
Chai: You Guys are ready?
Amith: No we are naidu..
Chai: Oh God....

Leeni: Hey Russel's team won the dream team award today.
Vimal: Oh so his is the only team that keeps dreaming and not doing any work huh?
Leeni: Good one... We'll bug Russel with that.

Karan: Hey this is where we took photo last time as well.
Vimal: Is it? But who dropped the photo?
Shashi: Ha Ha Ha Ha...
Karan: ?!?!?!?!?!?!

Rishi: He made a career limiting move.
Vimal: I guess the next time he'll make a career limiting Amruthanjan.
Rishi: Aiyyoooo.... Hey go da....
Vimal: Why are you calling me a horse?
Rishi: What?
Vimal: Goda means horse in hindi naa?
Rishi:?!?!?!?

Vimal: My neighbour has two cats and he has kept some wierd names for them. One is pixel and the other is megapixel!
Amith: Macha that's pixie and marushka.
Vimal: Whaterver....

Vimal: Our Ramu quit naa. He is with ABC Company.
Baba: Seriously?! What is he there as?
VImal: Employee.
Baba: ?!?!?!?!?

While watching the movie Taking of the Pelham 1 2 3.
Leeni: Vimal. Quickly tell me which part this is? 1, 2 or 3?
Vimal: ?!?!?!

Baba: I need a beer macha...
Russel: Its in the fridge...
Baba: Macha where is the opener?
Vimal: Both are in Mohali, one is injured I guess.
Baba: What ?!?!?
Vimal: You were asking for Sewag & Ghambir right?
Baba: Aiiyoooo

Vimal: Hey Chai, I read this somewhere. Let me see if you can crack this. You are in a boat in the middle of the sea and all you got is two cigarettes and no ligher or match box. How will you light the cigarette?
Chai: I'll quit smoking.
Vimal: No Chai, just throw one cigarette into the water.
Chai: How does that help?
Amith: The boat becomes lighter
Chai: ?!?!?! Dai Magane...
Amith: Or you can start praising one cigarette and the other cigarette will start burning out of jealousy.
Chai starts punching Vimal & Amith.

Russel: How come you are coming back from work so late?
Vimal: Don't ask macha.
Leeni: Ok Fine. Russel shall I serve dinner?
Russel: Yup.
Vimal: ?!?!?!?!?!

Russel: I want to try Lasania
Vimal: I'll let you know the next time Sania Mirza goes to France.
Russel: What's that got to do with Lasania.
Vimal: Because in France Sania will become La Sania right? that's why.
Russel: ?!?!?!
Chai: Dai....

Vimal: How to improve digestion?
Chai: How?
Vimal: You should read a book while eating.
Chai: How does that help?
Vimal: 'Readers Digest' naa...
Chai: ?!?!?!

Why doesn't fairness creams make people fair?
Because when you are applying the cream to your face, the cream actually gets applied to your palm and not your face that why. Don't believe me, check out your palm you will realise that its fairer than you face!

Vimal: How to succeed?
Chai: If this is one of your PJs I'll kill you. Anyways tell me.
Vimal: After you have eaten the fruit, suck the seed instead of throwing it away, that's how you sucseed.
Chai: Dai Magane.

This is meant for the shortest guy in the group: "How is the air down there?" or "Bugger you'll be the last one to know when it rains."

Amith says this a lot, "You are half way towards being successful, you SUCK."

"Your IQ is Chappal Size."

Leeni says this a lot to Vimal: "You are a 'geniASS' (genius)."

"Fail Fail until you successfully Fail."

Chai: Macha I went to pick up some chicken liver from the meat shop.
Vimal: Dude you should have bought Hindustan Lever instead.
Amith: No dude Godrej 7 lever is better than all this.
Chai: Dai Magane.

Amith: What do you do when you feel sick?
Chai: Take medicines?
Amith: No. You should put your hands up in the air and say 'balley balley.' (Sick is generally pronounced as Sikh in south india).
Chai: ?!?!?!

Russel: Why aren't you eating fish?
Vimal: Because I don't know swimming.

Vimal: Why don't you eat non veg?
Amith: I'm a vegetarian macha.
Vimal: So what. You drink water, water is non vegetarian.
Amith: How?
Vimal: Fish lives in water naa....
Russel: Macha you can eat mutton or beef both goat and cow are vegetarians, they eat only grass...
Amith: ?!?!?!?
Chai: You buggers....!?!?!

Baba: Macha our sandeep bought a new blackberry.
Amith: Is it? which one.
Baba: Black Berry Storm.
Vimal: Hey no man Halle Berry is storm.
Baba: What?!?!?!?
Amith: You've not seen the x-men movies? In that Halle Berry's character name is Storm.
Baba: Sorry macha I shouldn't have opened my mouth in front of you guys.

Vimal: Baba let's see whose phone has the loudest sound output. I bet my Nokia 6131 is 1000 times better than your expensive blackberry.
Vimal then plays a song from his phone and Baba also start playing the same song. Vimal stops playing after a while and Baba is still playing the song.
Vimal: Oh your phone is playing the song? I didn't know you even started playing until i stopped playing in my phone.
Amith: Baba that was an insult.
Vimal: But I thought that was a black berry.
Baba: Sorry macha I'll leave....

Books you must read...

I am going to share a brief summary of some of the good books i have read which you can try as well. These are my personal views and can vary when compared to the rest of the world. These are more of a "Books I recommend" post for all you readers out there.....

Our Iceberg is Melting by John Kotter
This is a easy to read simple fable about a bunch of penguins who live on an iceberg without knowing that it is melting. There is one penguin that sees this coming and works on enlightning the rest of the group and finding a new habitat. This is a good read for starters, the languauge used by the author is simple yet powerful. This book teaches you change management and enables to look at things differently. If you are a book worm you will complete this book in <>The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma
I don't think this book needs an introduction nor a recommendation. This book again teaches you a lot of corporate stuff and some values in the form of a fable. When youread this book you definitely do come across instances where you can relate to any one of the characters. This book even sometimes leaves you thinking "how come i did not see it this way." Another good book for starters.

First Break All the Rules by Marcus Buckhingham & Curt Coffman
Actually one of my friend had asked me find out the cost of this book when I'd been to a bookstore. I read the review on the cover of the book and thought I'll read it. This is not a kind of book for starters or first time readers (atleast from my understanding of starters and first time readers). This is a must read for all people managers and more so for the ones who are aspiring to be people managers. There are a lot of useful management concepts that you can take away from this book. This book teaches you and provides tools that would make you life as a people manager a lot easier, effective and efficient.

Conversations with God 1, 2, & 3 by Neale Donald Walsh
If you are very religious and have completely faith in the God you worship, this book might turn out to be a shocker. I gave my girlfriend (well I don't know if that word is still appropriate) part one of this series, she is a person who falls under the criteria mentioned in the previous sentance and she did not like the book and she did not even complete the book. This book takes a completely different approach towards religion, god, life and the world. One fine day the author decides to write a letter to God and suddenly he realises that God is responding to his letter through him. End result the author asks the questions and god answers them. I thoroughly enjoyed this series because the concept of god and religion this book deals with is very much closer to my ideology of god and religion. This book make you imagine certain thing that you would have never imagined before, somethings like darkness doesnot exist it is a mere absence of light, because we've seen light we created darkness in its absence. Same thing goes for good & bad, head & cold, etc. This book is refreshing and reviving, though it can get too texty texty a couple times (especially the third part) which might reduce your attention span.

This series has some real good phrases that eveyone will like such as, "If you saw you as God sees you, you'll smile a lot." "God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. There is a devine purpose behind everything and therefore a divine presence in everything." "God has no way to speprate himself from you or anything else. Hell is simply not knowing this. Salvation is knowing and inderstanding it completely."

Cows Don't Give Milk by Pramod Batra
This is another interesiting read for first time readers. There are a few places where this book teaches you some strategies and stuff but mostly it preaches things that have alerdy been preached a number of times in various other books, text books, seminars, etc. In a nutshell this book takes a very practical approach towars some of the most frequent and common issues we come across. The tag line is "Cows don't give milk, you have to take it."

Who Says Elephants Can't Dance by Louis V. Grestner Jr
If you are techie you'll enjoy this book and if you are not a techie and is aspiring to be an entreprenuer then its even better. Lou Grestner is not a techie, but he takes over as the CEO of IBM when IBM is going through its all time low in is history. Lou gets the basics in place and transforms this mega corporation into one of the most profitable IT company in the world. It is said that as companies get bigger, they tend to forget the basics and do a lot of complicated stuff that would set the company in the path of destruction. IBM was on one such path when Lou took over, some of the things he brings in are simple solutions that has a long term fix and immense potential for cost saving & profit making. A lot of oltimers in IMB did go through a culture shock when Lou brought in such changes but Lou and his team have managed to stay focussed and achieve waht they wanted. Some of the things that Lou got in as immediate and long term fixes were centralisation, verticalisation of the orgs, performance based variable pay structures, things that helped drive more accountability at all level. There are some graphs that depict IBMs performance before and after Lou took over and that's a kind of graph that can substitute your resume! There is one phrase that Lou keeps telling his people which I have also started using a lot these days, "People do what you inspect and not what you expect."

The Greatness Guide 1 & 2 by Robn Sharma
Another easy read from Mr. Sharma. The Greatness Guide series is a compilation of small articles that talk about all aspects of life. Each chapter is about 1 or 2 pages each so this is a bokk that you can pause or stop reading at any time. But guess what it is quite difficult to pause / stop reading this book. If you buy this book you also get to download one of Robin's 60 minute speach on what differentiates a great organisation from mediocre organisations. That is a very interesting audio, atleast most of it. If you are a people manager then some of the stuff he talks about in this audio will definitely turn out to be very useful. You can even use some of the chapters in these books to train your pople managers.

The Google Story by David A Vice
One coincedance you'd notice if you read books like this is some of the big IT giants in the world today once started off as a collage project. Google and Sun Microsystems (SUN - Stanford University Network) are one of those companies that started from Stanford. This book is amazing due to the amout of detail that it deals with, it covers a lot of interesting trivia about google, the internet search industry, how google stays on top, why google employees are so happy with their job, etc. There is one entire chapter in this book that talks about how the google cafeterias are designed! It also anwers our question on how Google make money, what is the basic concept of page rank, etc. If you have a gmail account, have you ever noticed that whenever you read an e-mail, all the sponsored links that you would see on the right side of the screen will be related to the subject of your e-mail (well there was a law suite filed on Goole for breach of privacy for the same but that story is history now)?

This book also talks about why google does not have any competitors till date, how aggressive and obsessive are the founders of goolge to capture every region of the world market, how obssessive is google in redifining benchmarks that they themselves set in the industry a while ago, how obssessive is google in innovating. Do you know gmail was project by one of the google employees? Well google gives each employee a few hours every week where they can work on their own projects and innovate, gmail is one such project. It is a must read for management professionals and techies. This book also has some stuff for the common man... How to use google as a calculator, how to use google as a currency converter, how to look up people, phone #s, address using google, how to optimise your search in google, etc.

Shift by Carlos Goshn & Philippe
Another transformation story of one of the biggest auto makers in the world. Carlos comes to Nissan from Renault to fix the company and save the company from going bankrupt. This is another book that reinforces that if you don't have your basics in place then you are in for disaster. Carlos brings in a lot of optimisation that minimises costs and also changes a lot of traditional practices that existed in Nissan that was actually slowing down its progress and turning the organisation in the opposite direction. There is a lot you can know about the auto industry, do you know how one of the hot selling car segment, "the SUVs" come into existance? Well this book can answer this for your. There is a fair amount of Carlos' biography that may not interest you that much but all in all an interesting book to read.

பட்டப்பெயர்களுக்கு பெயர்போன இடம்

பட்டப்பெயர் வைப்பது ஒரு கலை. அந்த கலையில் தேர்ந்தவர்கள் மிகச்சிலர். பட்டப்பெயர் வைப்பதில் எல்லையட்ற்ற திறமை கொண்டோர் கோவை ராமலிங்கம் காலனி மக்கள், மனிதர்களுக்கு மட்டுமின்றி எல்லா பொருட்களுக்கும் பாரபட்சம் இன்றி பட்டப்பெயர் வைத்த கூட்டம் அது. ராமலிங்கம் காலனியில் வளர்ந்ததால் அங்கே புழாக்கத்தில் இருந்த பட்டபெயர்களில் சில எனக்கு நினைவில் உள்ளது, அவற்றை பொது நலம் கருதி இங்கு வெளியிடுகிறேன்.

மல்லி - இவன் பொழுது போகவில்லை என்றால் நண்பர்களின் வீடுகளுக்கு phone செய்து வீட்டில் bomb வைத்திருபதாக சொல்லி விளையாடுவான். இவனுடைய இம்சைகள் உச்சத்தில் இருக்கும்பொழுது 'காதலன்' திரைப்படம் வெளியானது. அதில் ஊர் ஊராக சென்று bomb வைக்கும் வேலை ரகுவரனுக்கு, தவிர ரகுவரனின் கதாபாத்திரத்தின் பெயர் மல்லி என்பதால் இவனுக்கு இந்த பெயர் சூட்டப்பட்டது.

கொத்துமல்லி - இவன் பெயருக்கு தனி காரணம் ஏதும் இல்லை. இவன் மல்லியின் தம்பி என்பதால் இவன் பெயர் கொத்துமல்லி.

குண்டுமல்லி - ஒரு தருணத்தில் கொத்துமல்லி நிறைய தின்று தின்று குண்டாகியிருந்தான், அப்பொழுது அவனை குண்டுமல்லி என்றழைத்தனர்.

நாமம் pant - Tommy Hilfigure வடிவமைத்த Track Pant வகையை சேர்ந்த இந்த pant கடைகளில் புதிதாக வந்திருந்தது. இரண்டு பக்கங்களிலும் மூன்று கோடுகள் நாமம் வரைந்தது போலிருந்ததால் இதற்கு நாமம் pant என்று பெயர் சூட்டப்பட்டது.

கிளிபுளி - இவன் எப்பொழுது இவனுடைய அண்ணனின் பைக்கில் horn அடித்துக் கொண்டு சுற்றிக்கொண்டு இருப்பான். இவன் அண்ணனுடைய பைக் horn ஒரூ தினுசாக 'கிளிபுளி கிளிபுளி கிளிபுளி கிளிபுளி' என்று ஒலி எழுப்பியதால், அதையே அவனுடைய பெயராகிவிட்டது.

காக்கர்லால் - ஒருவன் கிட்டத்தட்ட காக்கையை போன்ற நிறமுடைய சிறுவன் என்பதால் அவனுக்கு அந்தப் பெயர். இவன் மைதானத்தில் விளையாடிவிட்டு வீட்டிற்கு கிளம்பும்போது இவன் நண்பர்கள் கூறுவது ஒன்றே ஒன்று தான், "பாத்து போடா, வழில காத்து கருப்பு வந்திச்சுன்னா அடிச்சரதே."

கு - இவன் பெயர் குமார், பெரும்பாலான சமயம் யாரையாவது கடுப்பெத்துவதே இவன் வேலை. இவன் பெயரின் முதல் எழுத்தை மட்டும் பயன்படுத்தினால் ஆளை கூப்பிட்ட மாதிரியும் இருக்கும் திட்டடிய மாதிரியும் இருக்கும் என்பதால் இவனை 'கு' என்று அழைத்தார்கள்.

திருவள்ளுவர் - இவர் ராமலிங்கம் காலனியில் கேபிள் ஆப்பரேட்டராக இருந்தார். இவர் திருவள்ளுவரை போல வயறு வரை தாடி வைத்திருந்ததால் இவருக்கு இந்த பெயர்.

Teespty - TVS 50 என்ற மிகப் பிரபலமான இரு சக்க்கற வாகனத்தின் பெயரை சுருக்கியதால் வந்த பெயர் தான் teespty.

புல்லெட் - இவன் மைதானத்தில் விளையாடுவதை இவனுடைய அம்மாவோ இல்லை அப்பவோ பார்த்துவிட்டால் போதும் துப்பகியிலிருந்து விடுபட்ட தோட்டா போல பிசிக்குவான். ஆகையால் இந்த பட்டப் பெயர்.

முயல் - இவர் தனது வீட்டில் இரண்டு மூன்று முயல்களை வளர்த்து வந்தார், முதலில் இவரை முயல் முருகேஷ் என்று கூப்பிட்டார்கள். இதுவே காலப்போக்கில் முயல் என்று சுருங்கி விட்டது. முயலை கடுப்பேத்த வேண்டுமென்றால் "நான் பார்த்த முயலுக்கு ரெண்டே கால்னு சொன்னாப் போதும், முயலுக்கு வேரிபிடித்துவிடும்.

அட்டு மாமி - ராமலிங்கம் காலனியில் யார் எந்த வேலைக்கு கிளம்பினாலும், கிளம்பும் பொது இந்த மாமியை பார்த்துவிட்டு போனால் அந்த வேலை உருப்படவே வாய்ப்பில்லை என்பது ஐதீகம். இதற்கு ஆதாரம், மைதானத்தில் கிரிகெட் விளையாடிய எவனும் அட்டு மாமி வீட்டுக்குள் பந்தை அடித்துவிட்டு, அதை அட்டு மாமியிடம் மன்றாடி வாங்கி வந்த பிறகு அவுட் ஆகாமல் இருந்த சரித்திரமே கிடையாது.

வல்லரசு - இவன் மஞ்சள் நிறத்தில் ஒரு பைக் வைத்திருந்தான். அதில் காலியாக இருந்த இடத்திலெல்லாம் விஜயகாந்த் திரைப்படத்தில் வரும் வசனங்களைப் போன்ற பழ மொழிகளை ஒட்டி வைத்திருந்ததால் இவனுக்கு அப்போது வெளியான விஜயகாந்த் திரைப்படத்தின் பெயரையே வைத்துவிட்டார்கள்.

மயில் பொறி - இவன் பெயருக்கு குறிப்பாக ஏதும் காரணம் கிடையாது. தமிழ் வாத்தியார் தமிழ் இலக்கியத்தில் எதோ ஒரு மயில் பொறியை பற்றி பாடம் நடத்திக்கொண்டிருக்கும் பொழுது தூங்கி மாட்டியதில் இருந்து இவனுக்கு இந்தப் பெயர்.

Samantha Fox - இந்தப் பெண் ஒரு முறை நடந்து போகையில், மல்லி அவளை பார்த்து, இவள் 'Samantha Fox' மாதிரியே இருக்கா என்று சொல்ல. Samantha Foxன என்ன டா என்றான் கிளிபுளி. அதற்கு, Samantha Fox தெரியாத டா? அது ஒரு கோடுரமான மிருகம் ஆபிரிக்க காடுகள்ல இருக்கும் என்றான் மயில் பொறி. அன்றிலிருந்து அவள் பெயர் Samantha Fox ஆனது.

Intelligent Fruit - இந்தப் பெயர் குறிப்பாக யாருக்கும் இல்லை, யாரவது முட்டாள்தனமாக எதையாவது சொன்னால் அவர்களை Intelligent Fruit என்றழைப்பது வழக்கம். ஞானப் பழாம் என்பதன் ஆங்கில வடிவம் தான் இந்த Intelligent Fruit.

Dockson - இவனுடைய நிஜப் பெயர் Dickson. இவன் மலயலத்துக்காரன் என்பதால் கொஞ்சம் 'ஒ' சப்தத்தை பெயருடன் சேர்த்து Dockson என்றளைக்கப்பட்டான்.

Ojiya - இவனுடைய நிஜப் பெயர் Vijaya (kumar) இவன் மலயலத்துக்காரன் கிடையாது ஆனால் இவன் டோக்சனின் நண்பன் என்பதால் இவன் பெயரிலும் 'ஒ' கலக்கப் பட்டது.

டாபர் - இவனுக்கு இந்தப் பெயர் ஏன் வந்தது என்று சரியாக ஞாபகம் இல்லை. ஆனால் இவன் முகம் பார்ப்பதற்கு doberman ரக நாய் போல இருப்பதால் இந்த பெயர் என்று நினைக்கிறேன்.

வாத்தியார் - இவன் பார்ப்பதற்கு Elimentary School வாத்யார் போல இருப்பன் ஆனால் செய்கிற வேலையெல்லாம் வில்லன்கமானது.

Road Runner - இவன் எப்பொழுது காலனிக்குள் நுழைந்தாலும், தன் பைக்கின் hornஐ, "பீப் பீப்" என்று கார்டூன் நெட்வொர்க்கில் வரும் road runnerஐ போல அழுத்திக்கொண்டே வருவான். ஆகையால் road runner என்று பெயர்.

இவை ராமலிங்கம் காலனியில் பயன்படுத்தப்பட்ட பட்டப் பெர்யர்களில் ஒரு சிறு பகுதி தான், இன்னும் நிறைய தெரிந்தகொள்ள வேண்டுமெனில் உடனே அங்கு குடி புக வேண்டும் இல்லையேல் எனக்கு இன்னும் கொஞ்சம் ஞயாபகம் வரும் வரை காத்திருக்க வேண்டும்.....

I Don't Understand...

I was on my way to work and while i was riding down this lane past ITC Infotech, a woman in an Activa came from one of the perpendicular roads and entered the lane I was riding down. She didn't bother slowing down or even looking behind to see what kind of vehicles are coming and is it safe to turn, she just turned in full speed and got into my lane. I almost ran into her but managed to apply breaks and turn my bike a bit to her left to avoid an accident. I called her an "Idiot" for what she did looks like it ticked her off the moment I said that. She then shouted back at me saying "Idiot. Don't know how to speak to a girl?" Before I could say anything she disappeared like a flash of lightning. I was wondering if women want to be treated equally then why complain when someone shouts at you like how they would shout at any other man?
I Don't Understand....

I've been religiously following the IPL and now the T20 world cup. Other than enjoying the sport and the drama there is one interesting thing I noticed. Most of the time, when they show a bunch of Indians in the gallery all of them immediately waive at the big television or the screen in the stadium instead of waving in the direction the camera is.
I Don't understand....

This is someting that isn't particular to one incident, but something I have noticed many a times. A lot of dudes when they come out with their girlfriend or with their newly married wife always try to impress the girl by trying to exhibit great traits of Bravery. They will stare at people looking at the girl, they will unnecessarily pick up a fight with people around, or do something to impress them. If a girl is already with some one and like that person then why should that person desperately try to impress?
I Don't understand....

While in a traffic signal waiting for the lights to turn green, the guy in the tail end will be the first to 'honk to death' the moment the signal turns green. Though he knows that there are a lot more vehicles in front, every one will start moving only after the signals turn green and it will take some time for him to be able to move forward.
I Don't Understand....

Whenever you ask somebody why there is so much traffic congestion in Bangalore, the first thing that most of us blame is "Autorickshaws." We then start complaining that Autorickshaws try to get through small gaps, go into one-ways in the wrong direction and most importantly never stop in signals. I don't see why it should be a problem. All of us are trying to get somewhere but for the autorickshaws, those folks are trying to earn their bread. If they have to stop in every signal for about 60 seconds on an average and not go in the wrong side in a one-way the amount of time and fuel they will end up loosing is huge. So where is the return on investment for someone who is trying to earn his bread. We all know very well that the main cause for traffic congestion is people not following lane discipline, driver's impatience, pot holes, traffic cops & unnecessary signals though we always tend to blame autorickshaws as the one of the major cause for these issues.
I Don't understand....

I have noticed one thing in most of the signals in Bangalore. Atleast for about 10 seconds in all the junctions I've noticed, all the sides have are on Red Signal ensuring all vehicles are stationary. Even if some genius thought that this is required so that people can cross the roads, then why is only 10 seconds and can't people cross the road if only one side of the Junction is on red signal at any given point of time?
I Don't Understand....