Disclaimer: Every girl reaches 'the age' when moms actually force her to go out with a guy, pataysify* him and make the poor soul so hopelessly lost that he is forced to do the 'forever thing' . But maa, i did the pataysify part so naturally at 18 and all you did then was police me! Life and moms never cease to amaze me ....<philosophical sigh >
P.S: Frankly, i don't know why i bother with disclaimers! It's not as if i need to be politically correct in my own blog!
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Arranged marriages are just a legalised form of double dating. Why double dating you ask, but kind sir aren't your parents dating mine? I don't think  i exaggerate when i say it is multi dating. They want to marry you more than i do! Krishnaaa, enna kodumai idhu ! **
Just as guys classify girls into 'BiLi aane' (high maintenance girl), 'homely' (take home to mom) , 'Phigarru'( good looking) and all that jazz, ive decided to do some taxonomical classifications of my own! Our ancestors went so far as to classify the entirety of womankind into hasthini,chittini,shankini and padmini , and you folks say two women never agree! So i have decided to do history a favour by classifying the 7 kinds of men you shouldn't marry.

Girls, if you spot any of these types, RUN!
1) Blink - and -miss guy: The once in a blue moon , one day wonder boy. You just meet him once and he disappears from the face of earth . You wonder if he was hit by a truck.  He's always busy, doing nothing.The next time he asks you out, he's talking to another girl <grimace>
You end up telling him that he reminds you of your elder brother.

2)Ask-and-answer guy: All through your evening's conversation , he's the only one talking. It looks like this:
AAGuy: Did you see the weather outside? It's so cold.    You :             <blank>
AAGuy: Lets eat at Amber, ok? Ok                                   You:               <blank>
AAGuy: Waiter , bring two glasses of chai.                       You:                <blank>
You come home and fear that you've selective voice loss as all you said the whole evening was Hi and Bye.

3)Complete-the-sentence guy: No parts of the conversation seem to go the way you like it to go.
You:I know your parents are ..  CTSGuy: ...truly wonderful !             You meant :.... from bangalore.
You : I don't like shopping .....   CTSGuy:... which is a boon for me! You meant : ..at the Dollar store.
You come home and suffer from an identity crisis since nothing you said sounded like you.

4) Stare -at- Floor Guy: He sits in front of you and looks at the floor. You start desperately searching for spots thinking the floor is dirty. After making sure that floor is clean , you start thinking if it has mirrors and he's looking at your reflection there. He knows that you have two feet and they are beautiful. You move closer to him and he jumps away like a startled rabbit.<geez>
You come home thinking you are a brazen and forward girl who defiled an innocent guy.

5)Kool - as - kukumber guy: This guy has karunanidhi glasses, vishnu vardhan's flowery tshirts and 'please-please-please accept my fraanship' attitude. The kommunications is peppered with koschens, chumma sitings, won'nower borings, dhurty lookings, koolz drinks, dialaags <faints> ***
You come home and instantly enroll for an english class. You pore over wren and martins to make sure you know English.

6) My -mommy-strongest guy : He talks only about how you should cook,clean,care,act,talk,walk,look like his mom.You also know when and where she took birth, went to school, got married and hoe many times she sneezed in her entire lifetime.<meh>
You come home and start looking for household helps for him and get convinced that you'd win trivia with all the General Knowledge .

7) I-am-God guy: In 45 minutes he tells about how bruce lee learnt fighting from him, sharukh khan learnt acting from him, stephen hawkings learnt science and tiger woods learnt golf from him. On the way back he tells some more, but your brain has stopped processing more superlatives. He also says he has rejected 45 girls before you and wants to marry you <dumbstruck>
You come home and curse destiny for the trails and tribulations of the past hour.

Adios Amigas and Amigos,
Rush

*Pataysify : Enchant a guy.
** Krishna what a trial!
***Bengaluru Banter boys words from his blogs/posts have been used.
**** Miss M and me have had some conversations like this about weird things guys do.
*****Sadly, none of this is fiction, most of it has happened to me or my friends!

Today and the people in it make me so happy :). After a long time , i feel i can trust someone again :)

When you are a foodie and a vegetarian who is of the !GMM (No garlic,meat n mushroom and not the Gaussian Mixture Model that you learnt during image processing :P) , you have no choice but to cook. When you are a working gal with a job that you love but gives you very little time , you'd do what im doing. Making things simple !

Ingredients:

1) Spinach - 1 bag, Potatoes -5 to 6
2) Onion -1
3) Ginger - 1
4) Cumin seeds 1tbsp
5) Salt 1 tbsp
6) butter 1 tbsp
7)Cut chillies -2 to 3
8) garam masala 1 tbsp.
9)turmeric 1/2 tbsp

Time it takes - around 25 mins.
a)Cook potatoes after adding salt n turmeric until it becomes soft.
b)Parallel-y add spinach,onion,ginger,chillies ,salt,garam masala and cook till it becomes a fine paste.
c) fry cumin seeds in butter and then add potatoes and spinach .Boil for 5-7 minutes.
d) Add parathas,chapatis or naan.

Voila, your dish is ready .Here's a pic.



Happy,
Rush

Disclaimer : Everyone around me is starting a company eideidowhatisay! But me is just doing 'aye thu blaady nonsense'
P.S: chutneygal and banterboy are putting words/ideazzzz in my mouth/head.
P.P.S: Vivek's videos should be case studies in HBR!!!Simbly too good, i say!
P.P.P.S: aaha - Rush  TM. Since these are my ideas , the copyright is mine ,no?
Well, Harvard you can send my MBA admit anytime soon.I'll gracefully accept ;)
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Hacker news , stop your annual search for ideas and  entreprenuers .As Jerry Mc Guire would say , SHOW ME THE MONEY !

1) Assault Anna (aaha  Dishuuuuuuuuuum)  
     Bizz idea: Nex gen dating. Boy and girl (gays and lesbians adjust maadi) can't marry because  
                     father, mother, husband/wife, neighbour,fly on the  wall, marriage maami,
                    milkman, rowdy,politician,god and finally they themselves are against the wedding.
     Tag line: Marriages are made by Assault Anna
     Turnover : USD 314159265 and still counting
     Marketing video : Vivek Demoez throughout. This is like the bible of the bizness.
     
2)Breakup Baba (aaha Damar )
   Bizz idea : Nex gen break up. You neednt be a Break up Artist  just do some build up and pile on.
   Tag line  : Kiss n Dismiss
   Turover  :  USD 314159265.... (Bah, you can only break those who are made by assault anna!)
    Ad          : Vadivel demoez at 1:20
     
3) Chindi Chakti (aaha Dhadaar)
    Bizz idea : Nex gen collection. Pose as someone else and get Offers that you can't refuse.
    Tag line   : Iodex ellidiyo allide arogya ( Where there is iodex , there is health).
    Turnover : 1x2x3x4x.................... rsperday- hospitalexpense1 xhospitalexpense2 X ................rsperday
                      [Turn to outsourcing. You can save your bones and bills too]
     Ad          : Vivek demoez at 1:25 in the video
  
4) Double dhamaka (aaha Mataash)
    Bizz idea : Nex Gen Exterminator service. You don't need this one, boo
    Tag line   : Maccharon ka samhar , tumhare uphaar[Mosquitoes die in your breakfast]
    Turnover : Turnover from making juice* 0.6 (there's tax!)+ Turnover from insect death + No tax (yay!)
     Ad          : Vivek demoez at 1:40
 
5) Electric eeeeeeeyah (aaaha eeeeeeeeyah)
   Bizz idea  : Nex gen shouting service. The bisness does the shouting and posing, you can give the punch.
                      They dub your shouts for you. Kung Fu Panda, its time to say thanks!
   Tag line    :  Inner piece
   Turnover  : USD 10000000000...... - USD Sum (for operating your vocal chords often)
   Ad          : Vivek demoez throughout.
   


Too much the hotness,
Rush

Disclaimer: I have generalized in several places and that isn't fair to those men who are an exception to the below rules. Well, are there any ;)
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Dearest Peeps from the Opposite gender,

I see that you really need help. Some of your are my friends, others i have observed and some is well just knowledge ;).And each time i feel like coming and telling you 'Dude, you are so totally blowing this off'. You dont have to know what women want to be MrGuy for any girl.Keep reading.

Asking a girl out on IM or text is tacky. A smart girl will reject you on the same medium.Thank your lucky heavens she even bothered to reply. Walk upto her and smile and ask. You'd score a major brownie point.

Talking to a girl about her best girlfriend/friends is a total no-no.Who are you trying to date anyway?!

Concentrate on your date 100% of the time. In an official wedding if you dance with someone else despite your date saying its ok , you are in big trouble. In women's world 'Its ok "<accompanied by a rolling of the eyes> translates to 'You are in deep deep trouble'.

You might think your grandmom calling you twiddly pie and you watching Bachelorette is cute , but well to an average girl going out for the first time with you  it is 'WEIRD'. Take a hint bro.Cease the chatter.

If you brag that you are the next best thing to happen to womenkind, then you'll have to really prove that you are a brad pitt *nobel prize winner*pulitzer prize winner * sachin tendulkar * ..............! An average intelligent girl can look through most of your blah.

If she refuses your invitation once and accepts it later she's playing 'hard to get'. Twice is questionable .But a three time  denial is a move-on-moron signal.

Compliment her on the looks, but if you turn into the Big bad Wolf from Little Red riding hood , she'll just have to call battle reinforcements from cops.

Stalking your ex on fb and blog is pathethic. Period. Look at yourself in the mirror and you'll know why she left you.

If you have researched when she was born up until the last moment she sneezed online, you are a MrCreep. Duh, move aside.

Don't gush on how awesome she is, how versatile and how she brightens your day. Keep the compliments coming but keep them light.

We KNOW what you want most of the time, we want something else too. And trust me they are not orthogonal!

If your concentration has survived so far, you have already crossed a major hurdle! Follow this and you'll come across as MrOkay. You still need to prove that you are MrGreat and finally MrOne.

Happy asking,
Rush

Why? Why in god's name and all that is pure and light did we have to see a movie like ra.one. How much more do they want the populace to be mentally challenged? I need months of TLC to actually get out of the brain numbness i feel.

Which stupid video game can be more boring than ra.one and g.one with their HART's bleeding all over the place.And if just any other guy says Tam Brahms are 'tayir sadam' i swear ill knock your teeth off! I also desperately wished every second that the wind would blow off his wig!!
A ripoff from XMen mystiques shape shifting, Endhirans emotional robos conflicting with Terminator styled one, Dart Vader and Voldermort combined disguise for ra.one and karan johar and ravaan's bacground score effects , this movie has gone a step beyond plagiarism . If getting over a husband was a robot, bring me as much as you can !! Read him .

I got out of the theatre to take a walk in the middle only to find several walkers like me. Boo hoo i couldn't even sleep through it  :(. Thank heavens,  i didnt waste more money and buy  3D ticket!! But still i don't understand, why? why?why 150 crores?

This month has been amazing.Opportunities have landed on my lap even without me asking. I was the MC of the entire Oracle Diwali 2011 event . Was again on stage after 4 long ,very eventful years and it was effortless. I just belonged :) 

Also acted in 8 short movies and made some friends for life while shooting these  episodes. :) . Another goal checked off my "30 by 30" [Thirty things to do before 30 ] list.  Check these videos out and let me know if the performances were good.

Videos 2,4,6,8,10,12,14,16 have me acting in them .Im the ' ultra modern coll Poo' in this! 
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL778A1039BC8AFFE6


happy happy ,
Rush

Just watched "Sophie's choice"  and it is also available as a book written by William Styron. Oh, im pained by the choice a mother has to make - one that asks of her to choose between the devil and the deep blue sea. She chooses to allow the killing of her daughter as a choice.Oh my! Oh my! :(

It's fiction but im so deeply disturbed! The times of the Holocaust must have been terrible and this movie sort of sunk it in for me. Im so blazingly angry at the man (Hitler!) who forced people to make such choices!!!


-Rush

I have held back for really long now, but in the interest of humanity itself i need to show a modicom of protest at the asian paints box that they serve as food.

It all started thus. On a fated day (ill or otherwise) i made the mistake of boarding the plane on a completely empty stomach. The smartly clad airhostess came to me and said "Ms He-gg-ad-no" (intelligible murmuring for few mins).

Again she made a brave attempt " Ms Heggo-da-na-ko" and this time she stared so hard at the paper that i thought it would burst into flames.  ( i gave her a reassuring smile)

Next, she decided she would do it no matter what "Ms He-ga-da-de-va-.." At this point i said a yes to stop her from making a silly mistake and botching up the fine job done so far.She said you have a vegetarian meal and handed me a bag of peanuts. To a soul ravaged by hunger it was peanuts in the metaphorical sense as well! Double whammy!

I looked up,down,side and remembered every little thing i learnt about what happens during a take off. My stomach did grumble a few times prompting my co passenger to think that i might be doing stuff  that cant be uttered in polite company. (If u r the curious type it start with f and ends with t .Go figure!) Another half hour passed and in came the meal tray. I smiled so hard , that my jaw still aches when i remember it. It was manna from heaven until i opened the lid...

Started with the salad, im the healthy type you see! I think i also had the fortune to see vegetables that were extinct or it could even be fossils from stone age (History aspect of my education !!). To cap it all , i even said "Moo". No, no this "moo' is not the white chalk paste water  that they try to pass off as milk with coffee.

Then i got to the bun and butter. I bit a piece and started fearing if dogs were allowed onboard the flight. No animal takes kindly to others stealing their food! After all this , my courage did not falter, i decided i'd complete the saga and live to tell the tale.

Opened the main box and saw india's tricolor in it. The yellow paste on the left had a suspicious resemblance to the yellow oil pastels that i had back home. I even double checked my bag to ensure that the airlines hadn't got it during the security check. In the middle was something , that might have looked like rice after multiple cosmetic surgeries. I had a sneaking suspicion that it was rice given its color! Then there was something green on the right and i gave a "Bleat" and a "Moo" too. My transformation to a Vegetron ( X Men lingo for a mutant human with vegetarian herbivore tendencies) was now complete.

Was about to open the box of dessert and my neighbour opened his box and it was chicken (could be a crow too...little do we know) and that about finished my meal for a while. Next 1/2 hour saw me utilizing all my super human powers to retain what was in despite the odor.

-Rush.

P.S: Travel goal Singapore -Check. Was a nice trip :).  Can easily see myself settling down there. If you are a business person , you have no business being anywhere else. :P
P.P.S:He does the description in this post way better, discusses the origin of the bun.

I grew up  listening to the story that the King of my City was cursed by a pious lady. I often asked my grandma to repeat the story over and over , rejoicing that 'Good triumphed over evil'.

The curse read thus,

" Talakadu MaraLagi "  [Let talakadu become a desert]
"Malangi Maduvagi     " [Let Malangi become a whirlpool]
"Mysoru arasarige makkalagadirali" [Let not the Mysore kings have heirs].

A brief two liner of the famed story is "Raja Wodeyar after killing the Viceroy of Vijayanagar (Tirumalaraya of Srirangapatna) in 1608 asks Tirumala's wife Alamelamma to give her jewels. She refuses and is said to have killed herself in malangi after uttering the curse".

As of today all these three things seem to be true. Here's an attempt to explain it scientifically.

1) "The talakkadu Phenomenon".

2) "The Curse of Talakkad".  Archeaelogy Channel's video.

3) No accounts of Rani Alamelamma.

Rush