தமிழ் மொழி

ரொம்ப நாளா தமிழ ப்ளாக் எழுதணும்னு ஆசை. ஆனா என்ன எழுதறதுன்னு தெரியல. அப்படியே எழுத எதாவது கரு கிடைச்சா, அத எப்படி எழுதறதுன்னு தெரியல - அதாவது ப்ளாக் முழுசும் சுத்த தமிழ எழுதறத இல்ல ஆங்கிலம் கலந்து எழுதறத. எப்படியோ, தமிழ ப்ளாக் எழுதணும் என்ற ஆசை இப்படியாவது நிறைவேருச்சினா சரி. இந்த ப்ளாக்கை தமிழ எழுதறதற்கு காரணமே ஒரு தமிழ் வார்த்தை தாங்க.

என்னோட அலுவலகம் முன்னாடி நுங்கம்பாக்கத்துல இருந்துச்சு. நான் புரசைவாக்கத்துல இருக்கிறதுனால இது பக்கம இருந்துச்சு. ஆனா இப்போ அலுவலகத்த தரமணிக்கு மாத்திட்டாங்க. இப்போ நான் புரசைவாக்கத்துல இருந்து பேருந்துல சென்ட்ரல் வந்து பூங்கா ரயில் நிலையதில்லிருந்து பறக்கும் ரயில தரமணிக்கு வரேன். ரயில் பயணம் எனக்கு புதுசில்ல. ஏன்ன நான் கல்லூரிக்கு ரயில தான் நாலு வருஷம் போனேன். ஆனா பேருந்துல போறது பல வருஷம் கழிச்சு. இப்போ சென்னைல பேருந்து எல்லாம் முன்ன மாதிரி கிடையாது. இப்போ பல பேருந்துக்கு கதவு இருக்கு. முன்ன மாதிரி பூட்போர்ட் அடிக்க முடியாது. இப்போ AC வசதி எல்லாம் பேருந்துல இருக்கு. நான் AC பேருந்துல போனது இது தான் முதல் தடவ. குறிப்புக்கு வரேன்.

பொதுவா படிக்கட்டு பக்கத்துல இருக்கிற இருக்கை வயசானவங்களுக்கும் உடல் ஊனமுற்றோர்க்கும் முன்னுரிமை. இதுக்காக அந்த இருக்கை மேல இன்னார்க்கு முன்னுரிமையினு எழுதிருப்பாங்க. அண்மையில் நான் பேருந்துல போகும் பொது, உடல் ஊனமுற்றோர்க்கு அவங்க உபயோகித்திருந்த வார்த்தை பார்த்து நான் ஆச்சிரியப்படேன். அது என்ன வார்த்தை தெரியுமா? மாற்று திறனாளிகள். கொஞ்சம் நேரம் இந்த வார்த்தைய பத்தி யோசித்துப்பார்த்தேன் - மாற்று திறனாளிகள். திறன்ன ஆங்கிலத்துல abilityனு அர்த்தம். நமக்கு எல்லாருக்கும் திறன் இருக்குங்க. நடக்க திறன். ஓட திறன். பேச திறன். பார்க்க திறன். வேலை செய்ய திறன். கேட்க திறன். நுகர திறன். ஆனா இதுல எதாவது ஒரு திறன் இல்லாதவங்க தான் மாற்று திறனாளிகள்னு கூப்பிடுறாங்க. எதாவது ஒரு திறன் இல்லைன்றது இல்லாமை. ஆனா நம்ம தமிழ் மொழி இப்படி போன்றவர்களுடைய இல்லாமைய மறைத்து இருக்கிறதை சுட்டி காட்ட தான் இப்படி ஒரு பெயர் கொடுத்திற்காங்க.

நம்ம கிட்ட இல்லாத ஒரு திறன் - மாற்று திறன். வேற எந்த மொழிலாவது இப்படி ஒரு அழைப்பு பெயர் இருக்கா? ஆங்கிலத்துல visually/physically challenged னு ஒரு அழைப்பு இருக்கு. ஆனா இந்த வார்த்தை இல்லாமையாதான் குறிக்குது. People with special needs னு சொன்னாகூட தேவைங்கறது ஒரு இல்லாமையே.

சரி. மாற்று திறனாளின்ற வார்த்தைக்கு ஆங்கிலத்துல மொழிபெயர்ப்பு என்ன? மாற்றுக்கு different னு சொல்ல முடியாது. ஏன்ன ன வித்தியாசம் என்று அர்த்தம். மாற்று என்ற வார்த்தையின் வேர் சொல் மாறு அல்லது மாறுதல். CHANGE. இத வச்சி ஒரு வார்த்தை அமைச்சா changing ability னு சொல்லாமா? இல்லை. மாற்று திறனாளி என்ற வார்த்தை தரும் அர்த்தம் ஆங்கில வார்த்தைக்கு இல்ல. இது தாங்க வேற எந்த மொழிக்கும் இல்லாத சிறப்பு நம்ம தமிழ் மொழிக்கு மட்டும் இருக்கிற சிறப்பு.

நான் ஒரு மொழி பைத்தியம் கிடையாதுங்க. தமிழன் தமிழ் மொழில மட்டும் தான் பேசணும் என்ற பறைசாற்றுபவன் இல்லைங்க. ஆனா தமிழ இருக்க இப்படிப்பட்ட சிறப்பை எடுதுக்காட்டதான் இந்த ப்ளாக்யை எழுதிறேன். வாழ்க தமிழ்!!!

Vinnaithaandi Varuvaayaa

Pathetic was the word I wanted to use till I neared the climax of this movie. A typical Gautham Vasudev Menon movie - excellent photography but snail pace tempo. The costumes were vibrant in colors for the leading pair. I even liked the choice of blue color for the hero’s bike.

My mood was a bit frustrated from the beginning of the movie. As usual of any Gautham Menon movies, there were too much detail on each scene and I felt the frames were running slower than 15fps. I was expecting something to happen in the marriage as the movie was nearing the interval. I had a few, a very few laughs in the first half. And the twist at the interval has just increased the tempo of the movie to 15.1 fps.

The choice of heroine could have been better since Trisha was horrible in the saree – primary reason being her walk like the Platypus on the land. One rarely gets to see good female actors who could act rather than entertain. Even then, if you find one, it would be only one or two movie where they would have acted.

When the hero goes to meet the heroine after being released from the police station, all my mind was expecting that both will get caught red-handed by someone - now that would have made the movie really interesting. (I really loved and laughed my stomach out when the hero gets caught by the heroine’s mother when they were together in a home in 7G Rainbow Colony movie – I guess I was the only person laughing out loud when that scene came in the movie because to me that is interesting because any viewer would be guessing what would be happen next and it’s in the hands of the director to show the aftermath in a way that the viewers shouldn’t expect it).

One more applause should be given to the director as he had livened the reason why the heroine rejects the love of the hero suddenly. That part is a bit illogical but that’s the way these girls are and I’m not surprised of such a behavior from the heroine. (There would also be a similar behavior of the hero in Gautham’s earlier movie Varanam Aayiram where the hero would suddenly go berserk after he returns from America and then getting addicted to drugs – Gautham should really work on his script).

Guys are always sentimental than the meek girls (meek but not sentimental?!?!? – well that’s how modern girls are). The director should be applauded for the hero did not marry till then whereas the ‘innocent’ heroine had. The only part of the movie where I felt the tempo of the movie in good pace was when the hero meets the heroine after 2 years in America. And I loved the background score by A.R. Rahman for that scene – really proved that he’s a true recipient of an Oscar.

I was bit happy that the movie did not end as any usual love story but keeping the failure as ‘the’ stepping stone for the hero to succeed in his career. I would say that the world needs girls at least for the guys to succeed in their careers than a guy finding his true love which one rarely finds and if he finds, he finds it to be a mirage in the end.

So to conclude, if anyone wants to watch the movie, please watch the movie at the possible highest forward speed in your DVD player. Look out for A.R. Rahman’s BGM and Manoj Paramhamsa’s handy works of the camera. As of any Gautham Vasudev Menon’s movie, good storyline but could have concentrated more on the screenplay so that the story would have been told in a very interesting and better way.

Cannot open user default database. Login failed. Login failed for user ‘UserName’. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 4064)

Obliviously, I deleted the database which I had set as the default database to my login in SQL Server 2008. To change it, I double-clicked on my login under Security -> Logins but it threw me an error stating unable to login to default database. After a headache of 20 minutes, I found the solution:

1. In the Connect to Server window, click on the Options button.

2. Under the Connection Properties tab, type the name of the existing database or the default database (usually 'master') at 'Connect to database:' option. (Drop-down will again try to connect so its no use of trying).

3. Then click Connect. Voila!

Thought this might be helpful than to try other sqlcmd options from the command prompt.

HE LOVED HER II

They were working in the same office but different project teams so he hardly noticed her but he was noticed among everyone because of his brace and charm. Her project got over and her team was dissolved. Everyone of that team was integrated to the other existing team and she was moved to his team. Only then he came to know that such a girl existed. When she started to witness his brace and charm closer every day, she longed to become his friend. And the longing grew every time she heard him joking and commenting with his peers. He never talked with her expect officially and that too happened once a while as both of their jobs were different in the team. Whenever she talked with him officially, his responses were always short and to the point and she used to wonder whether her longing would be fulfilled.

He was only aware of her presence until he saw how she behaved with others especially with the male peers. He started to respect her and admire her. When she volunteered to buy drinks for everyone during an inter-office game practice, he thought she was special. He then started sending her forwarded mails and started chatting with her using the internal jabber. She was really surprised at his initiative to talk with her because he had always spoken very little and officially. At first, she couldn’t understand him and most of the time she was confused on what he was talking about. However, their conversation over the jabber grew day by day. To certain extent, they had the same likes and dislikes. At one point, he admitted to her that he saw a mirror image of himself in her. When she heard that, she was so overjoyed that it became one of the best moments in her life. That day, her wish of becoming his friend was on the verge of being fulfilled.

Though he used to talk so much over the internal jabber but in person, he talked only official matters to her. She was always surprised how he could maintain two different behaviors, one on the chat and the other off the chat. She found the answer on the day she sat next to him in the office bus. She had changed her residence and it was on his way to home/office. In the initial days, her friend used to reserve a seat for her. Then, once her friend’s shift timings had changed, she would get the seats in the last row only since those were the least preferred ones. On that particular day, there was a seat available next to him. She first hesitated but then decided to take the seat after he acknowledged her presence with a smile. He slowly started speaking with her and on that day she came to know that he can talk non-stop. He spoke everything under the sun and she was amazed how much he knew about. Their relationship on the bus grew day by day and it became a routine for them that he started to reserve a seat for her.

To him, though he was friend to everyone in his team, he never considered anybody as his friend since he never exposed his real feelings to anybody. To her, though she had many friends and some were very close to her, she never had a friend only to herself. When these two people met, they touched each other’s longings, unconsciously.

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Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

Set in 18th century France, the film tells the story of an olfactory genius, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille and his homicidal quest for the perfect scent. Genius and homicidal? That does not go together and that’s why the title includes the tag “The Story of a Murderer”. Grenouille is a normal person (according to me) with supernatural sense of smell. He can smell anything. He can describe each item in a trash just by its scent. Grenouille keeps on feeding his nose with different kinds of scents. He’s thrilled by the different scent of each object. However, he becomes fascinated with one scent. The scent of a female human body. When the first time, he was exposed to the scent of a girl selling plums, she is startled by his behavior. In order to gratify the fullness of its scent, he unintentionally suffocates her. That is his first murder. He becomes so obsessed with the scent that he wants to capture it. Finally, he creates a perfume made out of human scent at the cost of many female lives. Whoever smells the perfume becomes a slave to it. And this is not what I wanted to tell.

The beautiful virtue personified in this movie is ‘OBSESSION’. Throughout the movie, you can find Grenouille is obsessed with the human scent. He wants to somehow capture and store it. He fails in most of his attempts but one he succeeds, his obsession grows stronger. In order to create a perfume, twelve individual scents are required to be harmonized together and the thirteenth scent would be the final touch that would make the perfume superior and different. He achieves to create all the thirteen different scents and I feel that it is his obsession which leads him to achieve this.

I don’t think obsession is a new thing. I can see it in every inventor, being it Einstein or Edison. Archimedes was so obsessed with how to determine the quality of gold in a crown that he was thinking about it even in his bathtub. It was their obsession that has led many people to become inventors. I feel that to achieve anything extraordinary, one needs obsession. I can also see it in Sportsperson like Sachin Tendulkar or Michael Schumacher, so obsessed that that have made them legends. I guess even Osama Bin Laden would have been obsessed with terrorism that he can do events like 9/11. Be it on the good side or bad side, it is obsession that makes people to become celebrities.

Earlier in this blog, I said Grenouille is a normal person according to me. In the movie, you can find Grenouille growing as a strangely detached boy. He speaks less in his childhood. I would say the reason is the obsession of his gift. If its obsession that would make a person to achieve things then I don’t mind if it is the same obsession that would cause others to call an obsessed person as abnormal. Whichever angle you look at obsession, still it is that which gives birth to legends. This is the stuff that legends are made up of.

What is your obsession?

Money has no memory. Experience has.

Money has no memory. Experience has. You will never know what the total cost of your education was, but for a lifetime you will recall and relive the memories of schools and colleges. Few years from now, you will forget the amount you paid to settle the hospitalization bill, but will ever cherish having saved your mother's life or the life you get to live with the just born. You won't remember the cost of your honeymoon, but to the last breath remember the experiences of the bliss of togetherness. Money has no memory. Experience has.

Good times and bad times, times of prosperity and times of poverty, times when the future looked so secure and times when you didn't know from where the tomorrow will come... life has been in one way or the other a roller-coaster ride for everyone. Beyond all that abundance and beyond all that deprivation, what remains is the memory of experiences. Sometimes the wallet was full... sometimes even the pocket was empty. There was enough and you still had reasons to frown. There wasn't enough and you still had reasons to smile. Today, you can look back with tears of gratitude for all the times you had laughed together, and also look back with a smile at all the times you cried alone. All in all, life filled you with experiences to create a history of your own self, and you alone can remember them all.

The first time you balanced yourself on your cycle without support...The first time she said 'yes' and it was two years since you proposed...The first cry... the first steps... the first word... the first kiss...all of your child...The first gift you bought for your parents and the first gift your daughter gave you... The first award... the first public appreciation... the first stage performance... And the list is endless... Experiences, with timeless memory... No denying that anything that's material cost money, but the fact remains the cost of the experience will be forgotten, but the experience never.

So, what if it's economic recession? Let it be, but let there not be a recession to the quality of your life. You can still take your parents, if not on a pilgrimage, at least to the local temple. You can still play with your children, if not on an international holiday, at least in the local park. It doesn't cost money to lie down or to take a loved one onto your lap. Nice time to train the employees, create leadership availability and be ready for the wonderful times when they arrive.

Hey! Aspects like your health, knowledge development and spiritual growth are not economy dependent.

Time will pass... economy will revive... currency will soon be in current... and in all this; I don't want you to look back and realize you did nothing but stayed in gloom. Recession can make you lose out on money. Let it not make you lose out on experiences... If you are not happy with what you have, no matter how much more you have, you will still not be happy.

Make a statement with the way you live your life!