Aruval Somashekar

Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Vijayakanth, Sarathkumar, Vivek and Jyothika
Music: Vidhyasaagar
Choreography: Raju Sundaram
Direction: Dharani

Though not my own, could not resist posting this one! 

Volant Suicide

What comes to my mind immediately on seeing this is the motto of Perl - 'There's more than one way to do it'. Have you ever thought of something and discarded it because you did not find an use for it? Document it, someone else might find it useful! 

Bad, bad server. No donut for you

What is shown below is the error I received when I tried to register myself with orkut.com. Things are becoming more friendly!

"Unfortunately, the orkut.com has acted out in an unexpected way. Hopefully, it will return to its helpful self if you try again in a few minutes.

It's likely that the server will behave this way on occasion during the coming months. We apologize for the inconvenience and for our server's lack of consideration for others."

Banned Books Online - Sounds interesting? Look for yourself..

Innovation - do you see it?

After the inital impediments RmKV opened its Showroom in Chennai's most happening road. From the outset, the rivals were Pothys and Chennai Silks(the RmKV-Pothys vying has a trail from Tirunelveli). Now when they setup a showroom opposite Pothys, they must have had a business plan in mind. Pothys usually sports a mock-up at the entrance suiting the season - crackers during Diwali and pongal pot during Pongal are examples. Wow! this works and attracts people. This works if there is a existent customer base. But for a start-up, despite attraction, innovation is a mandate. RmKV struck the chord right there. They came up with the a silk saree measuring 700 feet which is more than twice the length of the Guiness record holder and approximately thrice the height of LIC building. The saree captures the beauty of the Mahabalipuram sculptures with the shore temple taking a prominent place. The promotional ads invite people to witness this marvel - a once in a life time opportunity and who will not want to witness it. They sell silk sarees with a similar design for 9000 rupees for regular buyers. Now a person who goes to Pothys or Chennai Silks also goes to RmKV atleast to winess this. This is window shopping on a large scale. The logic behing window-shopping is that buyers get attracted when they see it and then they go ahead to buy it. Assuming RmKV has a good collection at a better price, now they have shown it to people. Its business as usual.

RmKV will have its name in the records too!

Get Together at Mahabalipuram (Jan 1, 2004)


After an year and a half, we the batch of 2002 had a get together at Mahabalipuram on the new year day. Nostalgic about the good old days in college. Commending on the Friendship Day!

Student Memorizes GRE Word List, Fails Anyway

THE HIGHLANDS—Despite spending over three months preparing for the GRE, an unnamed fourth-year engineering student received the devastating news that he had failed the GRE examination yesterday. The failure will force the student to get a job and not hide away in graduate school.

Experts attribute the failing mark on the test to the student's pitiful showing on the antonym section of the test. "What did you expect?" asked career counselor John Burroughs. "He's a mechanical engineer. He should be taking the TOEFL, not the GRE."

Even though Burroughs attempted to tell him that the test would not go well, the student was still surprised at his performance. "After taking a sample exam, I knew that my paltry vocabulary would have to burgeon," he said, in an unnerving state of ebullient churlishness. "Therefore I assiduously prepared by studying word lists, reading the New Yorker, and attenuating my extra-curricular activities. Perhaps this aberrant behavior is what curtailed my studying. I realized within two weeks of my rigorous study-schedule I was irascible and truculently mauled all those who tried to support me with their mindless canting. Granted, this new course of action was hardly salubrious, however my impassivity allowed me to impugn others with endless invectives of perpetuating comeliness. Not only could I win debates, however I would also annihilate others with my large vocabulary."

However, all of the memorizing proved useless, as the student must now spend the next two months desperately searching for a job. "One of the myriad of negative aspects about my study sabbatical is the fact that I must now pursue employment with alacrity. Woe, potential employers will be apoplectic, as I seem to have forgotten all the mathematical formulae I had previously ascertained."

Many non-engineering students are less than forgiving towards the student's mistake. "For man to subjugate himself to the insipid task of memorizing a word list, ostracizing himself from his coterie in the spurious attempt at becoming a etymological connoisseur is preposterous," exclaimed SNRE senior Wendel Salming. "The GRE verbal section is an amalgam of decorous vocabulary words used in everyday language. I took it with little to no preparation. Being a virtual tyro to standardized tests I threw caution into the wind and took the exam practically unprepared, and passed it with flying colors."

Taken from Student Memorizes GRE Word List, Fails Anyway