Clear to fly!

Today is my clearance day in Singapore office, clearance to fly back home.

Many of my colleagues & friends told me why you are so adamant in going back in this difficult global recession period. I don’t know what to answer? I really didn’t answer & I don’t want to!  it’s my decision and this decision is not wrong; also people who are close to my heart are very happy in this decision.

Tomorrow I will breath different air, the air may be polluted/dirt than the place where I am now; but that is the air which made me who I am now.

I am ready to experience again the longest beach, crowded streets, food, society, people, traffic, friends & family.

Vaaranam Aayiram

Finally, I got the tickets on sunday night 10.30 show… no other chance as in singapore the movie is running full packed so I didn’t mind going @ 10.30 PM

Surya was army major and on the mission to critical rescue operation, he got the news of his father’s death; this is how the story begins and he start telling about his life, about his childhood, his school, college, first love, failure, difficult times & his coming back, all this stages are wonderfully portrayed.

In all this stages Surya dominated the screen & show us a mature acting skills. Still I don’t believe the way he came as 12th standard student it was really cool his physique, manerism & etc etc was made to believe he is really so young… hats off to surya for his physique, I believe his dedication to the project is his biggest strenght (keep it up Surya).

My favourite
I like the train sequences of Surya and Sameera, till sameera’s exit I enjoyed the movie a lot it was full of energy & full of love. I like many parts of the movie and I really felt bore in certain part of the movie, what I believe if Gautham made it less than 3 hours then it would be right formula & good as I felt more emotional because of the length. 

I ranked the song “mundhinam parthane…” in first place “nenjinil peidhidum….” in second that is before watching the movie but when I saw the picturisation of the song “nenjinil peidhidum….” it simply scored my heart.

Overall I enjoyed the movie and also felt it won’t be big hit as I can see lot of people commenting and joking some scenes & in the second half they were litrally started commenting each and every scene; so I believe it will take more time for us to understand this kind of movies & recognise it…

These are all my views and not the review, If you like Surya then you should watch this movie because the movie is full of Surya.

Run to gym…

After 3 months, I started going to gym; I was compulsive and prepared the exercise chart too for daily entry. First day it was normal (no pain) because I did jogging and simply stretching my muscles, second day I want to stress my muscles little bit so decided to jog for 2 km, 1000 meters rowing, doing some weights for chest  & shoulder, bars, pushups, inclined situps(abdomen).

Jogging, I ran constantly @ the speed of 7 km/hr for 18 minutes and completed the 2.28 km without any pain; as I am running in treadmill it will urge you to take the 5 minutes cool down. Totally 2.48 km in 23 minutes (I know it is not good timing but I felt great to complete this much in second day & first time).

Rowing, target is to complete the 1000 meters in 5 minutes; I concetrated, struggled and when I complete the 1000 meters the time was 5:16 minutes, if I maintain the constant speed then I would have achieved the 5 minutes but erroneously I picked up fast in first 2 minutes which made my muscles tired and unsupportive for the next 3 minutes, next time I need to follow invariant speed.

Chest, I dont want my muscle to cry in the second day, so I did bench with less weight.

Shoulder, same like chest passed easily with less weight (making ready for future weeks)

Double bar, first thing strike my mind was why shouldn’t I try it because I believed my shoulders are strong enough to hold my own weight (obviously I forget I am overweight, HA! HA! HA! ) then comes the price I am not able to push after 5th count, hands are shaking and finally I completed with 3 sets of 5 each.

Till here I am half way through;

Pushups, “Hey! I am good at it” so I took it with full confidence and when I was in count 11, know what happened? I was lying in the floor,  my hands are shaking more approriate word is dancing; but I didn’t give up and either moved from count 11, completed 3 sets with 10 counts each.

Inclined situps(abdomen), “I am zero in this” it was horrible like I went to hell 3 times and came back; I mean 3 sets with random counts in each sets; average 6 counts.

Anyway, it was good experience & will improve slowly… know, by who I am inspired? Hrithik & Surya… ( HA! HA! HA! HA! know what? my weight is 78 kg)

Deepavali @ Little India

My second deepavali celebration all alone in Singapore; usually I call 2 important person on that day, 1st my mom and 2nd my fiancee (present), lover (past) & wife (future). what surprises me was there particular question, whether singapore celebrate deepavali? it is actually good question because I didn’t shared my previous year experience with them, so they thought I won’t be getting leave as well.

Coming to deepavali celebration in Singapore

Little India  well known place for indians in singapore, deepavali will be celebrated with lots of light decoration all over all the streets in Little India, this year they have extended more lighting and covered all the streets almost they were switched ON for the past 1 month.

Crackers are banned in singapore so most of the deepavali fun is missing, like we can’t enjoy the skies in the night of deepavali how we are doing in India. In simple words, India – deepavali was full fun, enjoyment & beautiful & here it is another public holiday. 

But Little India is happening place during deepavali because of shopping, stage programmes, food & long walk in the streets are really great fun; this year I went to deepavali shopping few days before and when I went to explore it was rush, for 30 minutes I felt like in Chennai (T.Nagar)

Eventhough I celebrated deepavali alone it was different experience this year.

Near Office!

Photography! one of my hobby & interest; the camera which I am using is 2 megapixel mobile camera, picture quality is not so good, lot of care is needed while shooting; one of the main challenge for me is light.

Anyway I am planning to buy good camera, I am still investigating the price, features and reviews; let’s see how it is working out.

From Office Cafeteria

I thought of sharing some of my interest and I am starting with the first one which I took around my office; mobile are very handy because when I see some nice place with perfect lighting then I will click it with my mobile…

Just click!… 

iQuest building, IBP

 

 

 

 

International Business Park(IBP) is where my office building located, nice location far from crowded city life; 

I got this shot in the evening @ around 7.00 pm

German centre stop.

 

Everyday I use to take bus in this stop, totally opposite compare to my hometown. They keep up the time & bus captains show lot of courtesy to passengers. One of the reason I like singapore; they have very good public transport; trains are the best compare to bus service and singapore government is also planning for more train service and reduce the bus service (green environment programme).

I will reach my home approximately in 25 to 35 minutes with all the comfort.

Santa’s Birthday!

Yesterday my close friend Santa’s birthday; I & Lakshmi planned to surprise her. The plan is simple I have to arrange the cake in park near my apartment so by midnight (Friday night) Santa will come & bang! Surpriseeeeeeeee…

Santa blew the birthday candles & party started; I bought black forest cake (my favorite in cake), I usually won’t have cake but occasionally I will have so I made my mind & Lakshmi was helping Santa to cut the cake (I was thinking like they will serve me piece of cake)

Puuhhhhhewwwwwww!

Next second half of the cake was in my face, I was stunned & don’t know what to do? I was standing still with no reaction & full cooperation. After a minute I realized both of them made a cake art in my face.

What a mess? I made some cake art in their face too (all three look like clown). It was surprise for me because this is first time I celebrated my friend birthday with cake in midnight; it was colorful.

After they depart I came to my room & I was thinking about all the birthday I spent with my friends in past years, those wonderful memories made me calm, emotional & I slept.

It was such beautiful event happened yesterday.

Thanks to god for giving me such wonderful friends in Singapore.

Alone in Beautiful City!

Tall buildings, greenery, gardens, quality roads, ordered traffic, secured environment & quality of life… all these things never strike my mind when I got an oppurtunity to fly for singapore and work here; I was so surprised, content, looking forward to explore.

when I landed in singapore, I was totally amazed by the things surrounding me; my mind told me what a place? what a quality of life people having here; initial days I was staying temporarily with my collegues & searching for some accomodation, first few days I was scared to go out alone because this was my first trip all alone staying out of my friends, family & ofcourse my city (Chennai); slowly I gained the courage mainly because of the secured environment & accomodation (Paying guest) near my office.

In singapore, most of the apartments will be managed by the housing board; there are few private apartments also available which they call it as condomonium; difference? it is luxury flat with all amenities (swimming pool, gym, tennis court, security guard etc) luckily I got an accomodation in condomonium for less rent compare to other condomonium. In my house we are only 2 people, My housemate is around 45′ age & most of the time I will be alone in home; this is really a pain, for 25 years I was surrounded with family, friends, fun, entertainment etc… now suddenly I am alone in this beautiful city, it is like hungry man watching the food & cannot eat. 

When days went I was tied up with work, work & work; people here are working for 12 hours a day in average (oh god!), even early morning like 6′0 clock I can see many professionals with tie walking towards MRT (train) station.

whenever I have time, I started exploring alone not expecting others to join me, slowly  I stopped thinking about exploring as my work pressure grows, I had time only to take rest & eat in the weekends. It’s almost 15 months I am staying here all alone, ofcourse I have close friends here in singapore but most of the time I will be busy or they will be busy.

Life is so beautiful, it doesn’t bother how much we learn! it keeps on teaching us more & more.

Saturday Evening

Today I was in call support; no plan this weekend, I was sitting in my room, all alone & watching movie. I watched 2 movie with 1 break for lunch, sometimes we do weird things when we are bored with the day; I am not exception. Beauty of the day is; I didn’t get single call from anybody. Once my call support gets over, I decided to go out & spend sometime walking.

It was almost 6.30 PM in the evening and still I can see energetic blue sky above me, I am starring at sky & keep on walking in road where my leg is the guide; slowly sky becomes grayish blue & one by one I started noticing the stars, what a beautiful event?. This was not amazing event for many and everybody in everyday life they can notice but for me today it looks like big event is happening in the sky. There is a reason for it and it was in last 1 year I have seen the sky only few times (checking the weather) because most of the time my weekends will be tight scheduled and weekdays I will never leave office before 7.00 PM, so I didn’t get the chance to admire all this beautiful events.

There are lot of little things like this can ignite our day very pleasantly, like it did to me and inspired me to write this post. I was walking for long time admiring the sky & I know that I am missing my track and slowly getting lost but still the sky is beautiful and I can’t keep my eyes out of it… Inside my mind somewhere (I don’t know how to tell!) I sensed a voice telling sometimes we need to stop in our usual life path for this little things; this will make us more sharp, dedicated & innovative. I agreed & believed my inner sense.

Suddenly I noticed that I lost my route completely. 
Where I am standing?
Which street?
Which way I have to go?

Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha! Ha!

Now the sky is starring at me. I didn’t recognize any of the streets, finally after 15 minutes of walk I am back on track & reached home.