Happy shivarathri :)

Hi ,
I wish u all a happy shivarathri :) May the lord shiva make all your dreams come true. Today is shivarathri a very special day. As the name suggests Shiva rathri is more famous for "Jagarane" , which means not sleeping whole night and praying shiva.


Shivarathri has always been a special festival at home. Now regarding jagarane i have some nice moments till date, thought of sharing them one by one....

As i dig through my memory ... when i was kid , i used to say to mom , with full josh that "this time i am going to do jagarane , so please dont force me to sleep ok". mom used to reply "let me see how long it goes ". and i used to think big deal one day i can easily skip sleeping.... now after dinner the next program is to sleep, since i have already declared about my jagarane, i was thinking what to do.. ok let me watch the movie. In those days Doordarshan was the only tv channel, and they used to play a devotional movie only after 1AM. So i used to wait for that, but i was never successful and used to sleep either just before the movie, or used to sleep after watching the initial titles of the movie, the next morning mom and dad used to tease me for not doing jagarane.

Then came an era where we friends used to discuss among ourselves the plan for jagarane. I think it was 8th standard , we decided to do jagarane at chummy's house. With all josh we entered sumanth's house played cricket / badminton under lights . and then what?? At 12 o clock sumanth's mother gave us payasam, and within half an hour ,all of us were in deep sleep. the next day sumanth' mother asked ... "aha aha jagarane anthe jagarane 12 o clock ella nidde..."
.... thats it same thing again happened in 9th standard , in chummy's house me and raghu , only difference is like i slept at 1'o clock. That day i was thinking simply to sleep i came here che....

But the most memorable shivarathri was when i was in 10th standard. This time it was just me and sumanth. It was just study holidays and we were having exams next to next week of shivarathri. I had firmly decided that i should do jagarane at any cost. And i had decided that i will read Biology subject completely whole night. so we started at 10 o clock and sumanth told me" seena plz just 2 mins i will get up my eyes are burning but i am sure i will get up after 2 mins" , thats it after half an hour i tried to wake him up but i could not . But since i had decided to read I went on and on and on and on... not even a single time i felt like sleeping . that too after sumanth slept i had wonderful concentration and i finished chapter by chapter . And exactly at 6 o clock in the morning , i turned the last page of biology book , sumanth's mom came and opened the door and she was shocked at the sight, and asked you were awake whole night, and i told her yes aunty I was so happy at that time , i was feeling like i had won a battle. i got up and went to my home and thats it.... jagarane was successul..... :)

I had read that subject so well that i never bothered to revise the day before exam. Poor chap chummy was in trouble as i was the one who used to plan the study time table there was not even a single day allocated for biology , somehow he managed to read by himself [sorry sumanth ;)].

Thats it till date , i never got that much determination to do jagarane. All my attempts to do jagarane just went unsuccessful. Many a times i had plannned for watching movies, tv, net ... once even tried learning c#/.net . but i could not do any of them.

Now today is shivarathri , and i have decided this time i will surely do jagarane. ITs 10:23 PM and i am still writing this lengthy post.... the next program is to visit Temple nearby [as it will be very less crowded ] . This time my jagarane program starts at 11:00 PM . Have something in mind . Let me see how far it goes.... I hope i will be successful this time atleast :) will tell you in my next post.

May all your dreams come true. Try celebrating shivarathri :)

PS: this time also when mom heard that i am going to do nightout she was like ... aha aha nodona antha.... I hope i will be successful this time.

- Seena

Non sense!

Hi there, me back with some junk [as usual]. Just have a look at the photo attached, yes its the same which we see daily and try to ignore, one fine day since i was stuck at some signal, I used my 6300 to take this one specially for this post.

Now whats wrong with these ppl, I have been thinking about this post or rather about this issue from past 3 months, never got time to write and i feel today its the right time. Daily on the road side we see such kind of vinyl banners, containing some 30 + photos embedded using photo shop spoiling the beauty of the city. You can see such photos every where , nowadays there is no reason left for them to affix all of their photos and just place it where ever they want.

The above photo is kept wishing birthday of some idiot, and his fan following. I have seen such kind of vinyl boardings just containing some 40+ photos and all of them placed tightly in a single frame. The reason for keeping such kind of boardings is as pathetic as the frame itself, some of the examples are wishing birthday, or wishing for the completion of one year in the party, or some group of idiots doing some poooja or some ppl for distribution of cloths to poor ppl.

The reason might be noble one , but my question is why do we need such big posters and that too containing so may photos. If you are trying to wish some one why cant you do it personally or even if you want to celebrate go and distribute sweet or whatever to poor ppl , but why to spend some thousands of money to spoil the nature. It looks so ugly and these posters lie there for months together even thought the occasion lasts for one day.

I have seen hell lot such boardings and every time i see them , i feel very much angry and my blood boils . Why the hell should i watch a big boarding containing photos of hundreds of idiots of different sizes and shapes, and that too at traffic signals, Nowadays I have controlled my anger as i cant do anything about , so thought i will crib here and i am done with it. If you are one among those hundred parties or group of ppl celebrating birthday of someone please try avoiding such a nonsense activity of placing a big vinyl banner with so many photos . Please we can do lot of things rather than wasting money on this and spoiling nature. :)


PS: All my anger got decreased even i was feeling happy when i was painting black on the faces :) . I pity the graphic designer who does this daily as a part of his job. poor chap .

The Hidden Talent!!!

Hi All,
Due to technical reasons[unavailability of clips] "Simple things" post have been postponed to tomorrow ... That was supposed to be the first blog for this year:( . So First of all I wish all of you Happy new year :) 2008. It already 8 days over in 2008 , as usual i am lazy ... ;)

Now straight into the topic .My hidden talent... yes , if you have never met me or talk to me over phone then u are not aware of one deadly talent of mine.. yes its deadly.... that is Music . I love music. Yes somewhere in my mind i think i am a good singer or musician [ thats actually the major culprit "I THINK" but "I am not " ] So want to share some funny experiences with ppl .

If i just think about flash back.... my memory tells me that "LALI LALI" song from swathi muthyam is the first ever song which i appreciated a lot .Its a lullaby and a Telugu Song. I think when i was in Play home i used to sing this song by myself, later i realized that i love songs i like music , so used to hammmm which ever song i come across, those were the days where the whole family used to watch Telugu movies and i used to learn all songs .. atleast the first few lines and just sing aloud....

Now after few years, i started liking music a lot so used to listen all kinds of music and learn whichever i used to like . So things were going smoothly till i joined high school and college, till that time i used to sing only in competitions and at home , so nobody had any problems with me.

Once i joined college , i got the freedom of singing anytime , anywhere . Good thing was our college had big rooms , i used to get echo effects if i sing aloud, i used to enjoy that and somehow forgot that ppl are around , so started singing... Since then i dont have any stop for my singing . Everyday everywhere , i started singing. It went on to a stage where ppl used to beg "seena pls stop singing" ;) ;) but still i never used to listen to anyone .

I remember once our HOD told me "Srinivas we will recognize your voice even if u are around 20 meterss away from us" ;) . I never knew weather its a compliment or a comment ;) I took it as compliment and used to sing even when ever i was passing their rooms :) .

During exams , there are few instances where ppl have asked me to go out because i sing while reading . :) I always have different kinds differenst sets of songs for the particular situations. The song comes out of me depending on the moood. So u can make a blind guess of 'state of my mind' by the song which i am singing.

In my previous company there was a poor person who is bugged of my songs . Daily morning i used to sing "Subha subha " and "Door jithna bhi tum mujhse paas tere mein "from JAL. Daily some 30 -40 times. She even asked me plesase Srinivas please stop it. Ever since i came to know she hates my songs. I had doubled my count and sang the same song .... ;) ;) ;)

I have even got some nick names .. like "Seena nigam " "Seenumiya" ,Thanks to vineeth for the names ;)

Ok now time for some confession. For all those guys who got disturbed of my songs during their exams .... and all those who got disturbed during their work , please dont feel bad. Its just in order to keep things coool was singing . I never had any intension of disturbing you .... :) thats it.


So "yeah sil silaa chaltha rahega" ... I keep continuing my this talent. Right now my inspiration for music is Mr. Mono mooorthy of "Mungaru male" movie. After 30 yrs of exp in Software Industry now he is pursuing his interest in music.

Even I will come back one day with some wonderful music [ i think so ;)] . So you guys can expect a movie after 25 yrs...... may be named "Mungaru Kole/KALE" and I will be the music director , there will be slight change in my name . it will be "Stereo" moorty :)

Thats all for now , catch you with next post

- Seena [ Futuristic name "Stereo" Moorthy ].
[please ignore my espelling mixtakes]