Amusing Incidents in US - Part 2

How smoke detector became my villain?

I would like to boast myself that I'm a good cook. Don't give a look. I'm telling serious. One fine Sunday, I was cooking sambar , rasam and potato curry (That day something struck my mind and said, "Sajith, you can do it", that's why I touched the cooking utensils. Otherwise who cares!). Here the hotel rooms are closed completely and the windows cannot be fully opened and smoke detectors are placed to detect any smoke, so that fire accidents can be avoided. Coolers/ heaters are in the room which can be used to control the temperature. Why I'm saying all this? Got puzzled? Adding pepper and salt to get more flavor. Hope you would able to predict something I guess!

Finished cooking sambar and was about to cook rasam. Poured oil into the vessel and the vessel became so hot which I didn't notice. When I added garlic and mustard seeds, a thick smoke came out from the pan, as if coming out from steam engine, and within minutes I started to hear siren coming from fire engine. For a couple of minutes I was wondering what the heck happened and has any police arrived to hotel? Suddenly I realized that it is coming out from the smoke detector in my room. Oh man! You know, I started to sweat like a pig and didn't know what to do?

The smoke detector is in the roof above the bed, so tried to wave my hands off to clear the smoke. Ran length of the room and tried to open window couldn't open. Tried to keep the door but was worried coz i don't want the next door person to give a stare look on me. Suddenly an idea struck me, did kept the coolers to the coldest temperature. Switched on the TV and kept in high volume to suppress this sound. All done still this alarm is wailing. So I prepared myself by saying, "Sajith, this is your worst day prepare yourself and don't worry man whoever comes and questions you or throws you out of the hotel. Don't worry this is not the end of world. You will definitely find a way to come out of it. You have friends who can make you stay in their rooms". So many thinking went through and I switched off the burner everything and poured water on it to look as if i wasn't cooking at all and all the utensils went into the kitchen cabinet and nothing was outside and I was whistling a Tamil song which encourages how to face any situation but still horror in my face was clearly visible when I checked the mirror in the bath room.

Bit curious to know what happened? This siren went for fifteen minutes and no one turned up and I rang up my colleague and told up this incident and asked him why the hotel authorities didn't turn up?

He said, this is quite usual man, since there were lots of Indians used to stay in that hotel. They know that some Indian is doing cooking. Ha ha!

Finally I relaxed myself and laughed thinking about my genius work!

THE END

Cast: Hero - Me, Main Villain - Smoke Detector, Villain1 - Rasam, Special Appearance – Cooler

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Smoke Detector

Amusing incidents in US! Part 1.

I would like to share a couple of incidents I came across in US.

1. How a name can be killed by Indian?

One of my friends was working in a call center job and he got a call from american lady. This guy is new to US and doesn't have got much acquianted with the American names. He was actually sitting on another person's seat and the call was for him. Following is the conversation
Customer : Hello I'm Bonnie here, can I talk to Ramesh?
Hero: Hi Vaani, Ramesh is not available in his seat right now. Would you to leave a message?
Customer : Thanks, Tell him that Bonnie called and ask him to give a call once he comes.
Hero : Thanks Vaani, I'll definitely pass on the message.

Once Ramesh comes, this guy, our hero tells him, "Hei Ramesh, Vaani called you and asked you to call her back". "I dont know anyone by that name, are you serious? Now our hero starts to realise things that somewhere he has done wrong. After a couple of minutes of racking his brains , "Yeah she sounded american, could I be wrong?" Ramesh searches all his contact list and finally comes to know that it was Bonnie who called up and laughed seeing our poor chap's mistaken identity!

How a name can be killed by American ?

My name is Sajith. Here in America J is silent. So think of the tortures, one has to go through.
X : Hello! am I talking to SAHITH ..( Mummy! the name which you fondly put is dying ma.)
X : Hello! am I talkin to SAAAAHI... (looks like he got a old tape recorder winding dead slow, will you stop it grrr.)
X : Hello! Can I talk to Saith ( Yeah you are talking to Saithan kee Bacha (devil's son) only.. Man stop it, I'm really pissed off).
X : Hello! Can I talk to SAHI ( Yeah you are talking to Mr. Right C'mon man don't make my day worser)

Corporate Jokes.

This happened in real life.

My friend was a consultant and happened to be there at the customer site when the project go live was happening. As a part of sign off process he asked the Director of finance on how the project is going and how the product addresses their requirements.
For this Director told "Well my friend X, My COO asked me why we have not chosen this wonderful product even though it was in the market for more than 1o years". My friend 'X' got excited and told it is such a nice product and it has got lots and lots of features but i dont know why you didnt came across earlier. Can you tell me, what best feature in the product has impressed you?

Well,when we used our earlier product we used to get a turnaround of 30million but now it has gone 300 million. Can you ask someone to look into this issue and resolve this issue asap and get your ass out of this place immediately and dont waste my time and energy!!

My friend got totally stunned with this reply. Happy moment became a most embarassing moment in his life. Still laughs when he thinks about that.

Is it right to Pinpoint the mistakes done by others.

Suppose your wife or kid or friend or colleague or subordinate does a mistake and you are very sure that this mistake needs to be pinpointed to them and make them realise that it is a mistake, will you directly go and pinpoint to them. If yes then you are wrong coz they might feel low in those circumstances coz they might have done inadvertently or they dont know that it is a mistake at all. So in such cases you might ask what is best way to realise that they have committed a mistake. Solution : Make them realise by setting yourself as a role model in the long run or tell to them in such a way that they has to realise their mistake as well as dont get hurt.

Let me tell you a story. In the OLD myth, Sridevi and Moodevi were fighting with each other to know Who is beautiful in this world. At that time NARATHA came through the way so they both asked him to give a verdict. Naratha got perplexed and he sweated coz he has been put up in a difficult situation. If he tells Sridevi is beautiful then Moodevi will stay in his house and give problems whereas if he tells Moodevi is beautiful then Sridevi will go away from his house. So he thought for a while and asked both of them to walk for a while.

Now he gave the following verdict : Sridevi looks very beautiful when she arrives whereas Moodevi looks beautiful when she goes away. Both of them got convinced with this reply and went away with Joy.

In this story who has won, a. Sridevi - No b. Moodevi - No. It is actually Naradha coz of his wise reply.

I explained to this to my friend and he tried this mantra at home. He came and told me this "My wife doesnt wash the clothes or clean the house so i set myself as a role model washed the clothes and cleaned the house for a week. The following week my wife came and told me happily "i dont know these years that you are a best dhobi and housekeeper so the forthcomin years also please continue". What i have to do now."

I love chennai.

Hear it


I went through this website and it was kind of promotional website and telling about Chennai and also trying to make chennai a wonderful place to live in. It contains some interesting articles and photography to go through. Please spare sometime if you really love chennai.

I Love Chennai

Most beautiful presentation about love!!

Dedicated to girls who have lost their pretty boyfriends. If you fwd this link definitely your lost love might come back. Listen with speakers on since it is too nice to hear.

Prettyboy

License to Kill - 2

I was goin in 40kms (very high speed for me coz of the experience) and these cows as usual was going to cross the roads. So i asked my master whether we shall wait for the cows to cross or go through. Master tells me " Arre Sajith you can easily cross this c the cows are 20 ft beyond dont you have sense to calculate this". I thought why the hell did i posted this question to him. Anyway i had fears in my mind but i moved on.

Suddenly the cow boy makes some noise "kkk kkk bruaaah" thats it all the cows started running like they caught a mad cow disease. I dont know what to do now i pressed on accelerate button instead of brake so my car is also running mad so i took a wild turn and went on rampage spree hitting the nearby dustbin (plastic) etc and i dont know what happened then coz i closed my eyes fully (its best way to avoid watching horrible things right).

Everyone nearby came and asked anything happened to me then only i realised am still unhurt. I cant blame anyone coz if i have to whom i have to 1. master for giving the decision or 2. the cow boy for makin such noise or 3. the cows for running mad.
After this incident if i happen to see any dog or cow or sheep ill let them pass the road then only ill move on even though they are miles apart (similar to the diesel engine oil advertisement - lorry driver allow the cycle to overtake him).

License to Kill - 1

This happened while i was learning to drive a car. Everyone will have some kind of experience to share while learning to drive. Me too had.

I was learning to drive the car in the 100 Ft road in velachery at 730 in the morning. At this time there wont be much traffic. So i was comfortable riding the car and ill drive as such i was a pilot of airplane. Eyes glued on to the roads so much that even the pebbles were visible something which you can see only if you use the lens. ( See how much concentration am having). One more thing ill drive the car very slowly like a bullock cart so the master will scold me that you better go and ride a bullock cart itself. It will just pass through my ears like a breeze.
Everyday near the rathna cafe some cows used to pass the roads every morning i dont know why they cross the roads (coz there is no place nearby to gaze upon). Sometimes it will be 1 or 2 other day it will be 6 or 7. I think they are going for a morning walk like oldies used to in beaches.

This particular day was quite normal and i was little bit comfortable riding the car. But still have one hand on gear and other on steering wheel and one foot normally focussed on break if not accelerated and other on clutch.


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Periodic Table Amazing!!

Back to School Days. Think which subject will be your toughest. For me it was Chemistry.
I dont know is it coz it did a lot of chemical reactions in my stomach before going for exam or benzene ring looks like a hang for me.
Sometimes even steam came out through my ears the moment I saw the question paper.
It reminds me the very first day of chemistry class. I think it was 8th or 9th not very sure on this. Teacher comes with a big stick in hand (tall enough to his height). I thought may be he is a P.T sir, going to explain us how to play polevault. To my sadness later point of time I came to realise that he is a chemistry teacher and what he is carrying is a periodic table. The chart looked nice and i really enjoyed watching it like a poster of cinema star. Later he told that we need to memorise those elements in the periodic table, i thought of running out of the class. I cursed the people who discovered the new elements and made my life miserable.
Finally i stood by my fate and mugged out upside down and came out unscathed and all is a different story altogether.

To refresh yourself just go through the periodic table seen in the pic. Its really different from the usual ones.

PeriodicTable

What element is your Love?

Your Love Element Is Wood

In love, you tend to gently dominate and guide your partner. For you, love is all about sharing goals and future plans. You attract others with creativity and vision. Your flirting style is defined by your honesty and assertiveness. Growth and improvement are the cornerstones of your love life. You may focus on goals too much in relationships, but you never come out of them with a loss. You connect best with: Water Avoid: Metal You and another Wood element: will be doomed to a stormy relationship

What Element Is Your Love?

Dating in Workplace...

Recently while I was going through this website and noticed that the information posted in the site has got more relevance to our present day living. Also the point to be noted it was a kind of advice to workers who normally get tangled with rumours and certainly get spoilt in their lives. Eventhough the title seems little bit odd but the content seems good.

Just go through the same and make yourself prepared to face with intelligence if you have any :).

Dating

Note : Points mentioned in that website is relevant to US federal law, but nowadays it has become more applicable to our living coz of economic boom.

While you are away, movie stars are taking your women. Robert Redford is dating your girlfriend, Tom Selleck is kissing your lady, Bart Simpson is making love to your wife.

Baghdad Betty, Iraqi radio announcer, to gulf war troops

Never Smoke near your house!!

Story told by my friend :
He is a chain smoker and used to go to pettyshops to smoke. Once he smokes the smell should not come so he will get a betelnut or chewing gum to avoid being a suspect( Every dick and harry in town does that, just added little spice here). He is so frequent to these petty shops that once the shopkeeper sees his face automatically keeps one Wills flake and a betelnut.
Everything was going usual until one day his dad came along with him to this petty shop to get a betelnut and leaf. On seeing his face the shop owner automatically keeps the cigar. To his embarassment he could not tell the shop owner to hide the cigar.
His dad is a very stubborn guy and he still fears him a lot. It was such a moment he could not think what he has to do. Dad becomes suspicious on seeing this and asks him why the shop owner has kept the cigar on seein him. This guy feels that the world is goin to get over.

Continued in comments....

M.A.

One of my friends got degree in both Tamil and English. I was just boasting this to my friends that see how determined that guy was to get a degree in languages and was explaining about his temperament to achieve such distinction. While we were seriously discussing about this one of my friend told me that he too got such a degree. We were all perplexed as we had heard that the guy did his graduation in some other stream (Commerce).

Then one of my friends asked "Buddy! then you were supposed to have become a lecture in some college. Why you came into the IT field and making our lives miserable".

For that he replied "Did I say that I did graduation, my friends called me fondly M.A M.A (In tamil which means UNCLE) which is also a distinction right". After saying this he giggled.

We are still searching for that guy as he escaped from the clutches of our hands after this scene.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Critic as Artist, 1891

Count on your Enemies!

On birthday of Abimanyu's wife, he bought a gift for his wife and presented to her. The uniqueness of the gift is that it will tell which person/ thing is there in the person's mind. When abimanyu's wife looked into the present it showed Abimanyu coz she always think about him. At that time Balarama came and enquired whether he can check whats in his mind, it showed a battalion of army with he himself marchin in the front. Everyone was busy checkin what is in their mind but Krishna remained silent and not getting involved in this act. So Abimanyu tried Krishna and enquired him y not he. For that Krishna told if you people come to know who is the person in my mind always then you all will astonish. But people still persisted to show him. Finally Krishna agreed and sat infront of the gift, the gift shows the face of SHAKUNI. Everyone asked y him, for that Krishna told the following " you all people will think about me only when there is something good or bad happens in my life whereas SHAKUNI will always think about me on how to destroy me thats y he comes first".
"So count on your enemies you will become famous very quick."
Disclaimer: Not very sure whether this incident really happened in Mahabharatha, it was told by my friend and found to be interesting so posted this.

Hate the sin, Love the sinner

Mahatma Gandhi

Lights On! Start Camera! Action!

Recently i came across one of the beautiful site, explaining the nuances of photography. After seeing the website i was spellbounded as if just woken up by a dream. There is definitely a third eye needed to see the beautiful sceneries revolving around our every day aspects of life. Kudos to the photographer and definitely one should not forget that you need high resolution cameras to get those stills captured.

For that you need to spend some bucks :)

Photos

People come into your life for a reason

People come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. When you know which one it is, you will know what to do for that person. When someone is in your life for a REASON, it is usually to meet a need you have expressed. They have come to assist you through a difficulty, to provide you with guidance and support, to aid you physically, emotionally or spiritually. They may seem like a godsend and they are. They are there for the reason you need them to be. Then, without any wrongdoing on your part or at an inconvenient time, this person will say or do something to bring the relationship to an end. Sometimes they die. Sometimes they walk away Some times they act up and force you to take a stand. What we must realize is that our need has been met, our desire fulfilled, their work is done. The prayer you sent up has been answered and now it is time to move on.

Some people come into your life for a SEASON, because your turn has come to share, grow or learn. They bring you an experience of peace or make you laugh. They may teach you something you have never done. They usually give you an unbelievable amount of joy. Believe it, it is real. But only for a season.

LIFETIME relationships teach you lifetime lessons, things you must build upon in order to have a solid emotional foundation Your job is to accept the lesson, love the person and put what you have learned to use in all other relationships and areas of your life. It is said that love is blind but friendship is clairvoyant.

How to create good work habits

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us: John Dryden (poet, critic).
Dryden couldn't have been more right.
Take a small action that you perform every day. Its cumulative effect (over days, weeks, months and years) could be huge.
Let's say, in 2001, you decided to read a new article related to your field of specialisation daily. By 2006, you would have read 1,825 articles by just devoting 10 minutes to this habit everyday. You would have also enhanced your level of knowledge, expertise and authority in your chosen field.
Avinash Johnson, 28, a graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology -- Kharagpur, has handled challenging assignments with General Electric during his stint with them. Now a senior software professional with Oracle, he has a high stress job with multiple demands on his time. According to Avinash, his life would be chaotic without good work habits. He zeroes in on four habits that have helped him the most.
1. Avinash religiously maintains a list of tasks to be done and sticks to it, updating the leftovers in the next day's list.
2. To handle the stress, he meditates for 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes after coming back from work.
3. He replies to e-mails immediately after reading them. This habit, he says was the hardest to develop, but is extremely rewarding. It saves him time; he does not have to go through the e-mail again, which he would have had to do if he replied later. It also reduces the clutter in his inbox -- and his mind.
4. Avinash does not carry work home, though he is always tempted to do so. This has helped him maintain the much-needed balance between work and life.

What is good?? What is bad??

Sometimes in life you have come across a situation wherein you dont know whether you are doing the good thing or bad thing.
It just arose me a question what is really good and what is bad...
To me in general there are no such things called good or bad.......infact, we have defined something as good, and something as bad........
what is natural?...had killing been so bad, why would nature itself be killing so many lives, and that too, with extreme of cruelty!!
but in the begining of society, we humans had to define something as good and something as bad, in order to maintain the similarity and to bound us in some rules, which is the essential factor for society.......then, after several centuries of practice, we considered them as "eternal good" and "eternal bad", that is called morality......
if i come to spirituality, then it had been said many times that, SINS lie in our mind.....nothing is real, the truth is emptiness......if i observe neutrally, if i be just witness of my acts, within a minute i'll come to know that, even "I" does not exist, even ego doesn't exist, how can other beliefs be real!!....

whatever we are doing in general life, we are unconscious, we are sleeping.......whether am praying, or am killing, am unconscious about the manifest truth!!...am unconscious coz i think am doing, and the reality is, it is being done!!....it is just happening to me, i m not doing....but, even if we hear and believe it, we never feel it...thats y we are unconscious....and if i am unconscious, whatever iam doing is a sin (as taoism says)....
meditate, .....these silly questions will be disappeared very soon

Be Right Back!!!.

Everyone would have used or would have come across with an acronym in your life.

Hey BTW where are you put up now???

Etho Americalaye piranthu valanthavannu manasula ninappu.. J. Valanthathu ennamo madasamy nagar , korukkupettai..

Sometimes you would have stuck without knowing what the person really intends to tell you by using these words. Anyway if the other guy is not known to you much you will simply keep that as a secret (chidambara rakasiyam) and wont reveal to him that you didn’t understand what he says. But sometimes it so happens that you need to reveal to him that you didn’t understand and you will be in a difficult situation if the other guys looks at you or tells like ( Enna itha kooda theriyalaya ayyo waste waste – unmai ennanna ithu mathiri blood niraya enakku nadanthu irukku). Do you want that kinda bizarre situation to happen in your life.

Herecomes the rescuer. http://www.acronymfinder.com

This website tells you all the acronyms that you would have come across in your life. Search this site and get yourself equipped to handle these kind of situations with ease.

Note: I can’t explain what is the meaning for acronym. Better you can buy Wren and Martin or 6th Std English Grammar he he heJ

PS: For those who is not able to catch what am trying to tell. Here are some of the examples of acronyms..
BRB, LOL, VOIP, PS……

What's your love story??

Interesting article i read in the net, thought i would like to share with you all.


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