And The Award Goes To…

..Gradwolf.

This blog has been bestowed with the “Brilliant Weblog” award. The veracity of this decision is probably questionable, what with being awarded with six other blogs, but we at Gradwolf, don’t want controversies. Also, it comes from the stable of Maxdavinci, who normally roasts movies, people and blogs. Never mind.

Here comes the difficult part. Max asks you to pull up some of the old posts based on a few particular keywords.

Family: Surprisingly, I don’t have any. I’ve written a lot about cities, movies and friends but none solely dedicated to family. Well, the post that comes closes to that, is probably a Memory Meme that listed some small instances in my life, from a long time ago. A nice tag, courtesy Ram.

Friends: I’ve written a handful of posts on friends. Sample this about PJs with and by friends. Or this one chronicling tiny conversations exchanged between me and my friends. There are many more.

Yourself: Oh, narcissistic, are we? Here is the one on quirks. And this one on how the screen name of Aditya is to die for! There was also a post on fashion and dress sense and their growth with me.

Your Love: There aren’t many posts in this category but we all know that I have no qualms in appreciating the beauty of the opposite sex. So here is a list of crushes over the years. And these two on how to see “lakshanam” in Eastern European women.

Anything I like: Shameless publicity like buddy said. One of the repetitive themes this blog indugles in, is nostalgia. I know know, all senti stuff to laugh at. Here are a couple of them that I personally like. The one on Bombay. This one combining a few passions – writing, books and movies. This is what I do when am bored. And to have a few laughs, read what I overheard.

I had long given up on tagging people whenever I do tags. This is going to be an exception. Some of them probably don’t have the habit of doing tags, but anyway:

Meera: For all the slices of her life she shares, this is to Meera. Wonderful blog, amazing rants and super funny writing.

Salma: The best blog ever. I am probably saying this for the Nth time.

Confounded-Lady: So that she starts writing again. And chronicle the days with her aathukar in Uncle Sam’s land. For she is awesomely funny!

Nirmal: Nirmal is my senior from college and his blog is one of the most frank and open minded ones I’ve ever read. And Nirmal has a heart of gold. Really!

Arun Sundar: I don’t think he is going to do it. But brilliant blog nonetheless! Who can write one minute reviews. Some may not make sense but who really can?!

Best Duets

BG tagged me to list my top 10 tamil film duets. Dandilsa started this nice tag.

Azhagana Rakshasiye

Harini is simply brilliant. Pity she is not as successful as she deserves to be but she is simply brilliant in this song. And it’s Reethigowla!

Kanmaniye Kadhal Enbadhu

The video, too cheesy, but definitely one of Rajini’s best songs.

Anjali

An all time favorite, just for the sax.

Sundari

SPB creates magic. The tempo never wavering, this is one of Ilairaja’s finest.

Needhan En Desiya Geetham

My favorite song from Paarthale Paravasam and I guess this was linked from a different post of mine. ;)

Mazhai Varudhu

I love this movie and watch it whenever it plays on TV. And this song has a great feel to it.

Pudhu Velai Mazhai

Rahman at his best. Say no more.

Thoongadha Vizhugal

This seems to have made it to everyone’s list. So no explanations required.

Sangeetha Swarangal

I like the other song more from this movie but since am forced to pick duets, I pick this one.

Narumugiye

The best of them all. Yeah, Unni Krishnan and Bombay Jayashree simply ooze life in this one. Jayashree’s first film song and what a fine one to make your film debut!

(Oh! Dandilsa tells me this was not her debut song. Some song in Thambathigal apparently by MSV way back in 1983. Idiotic Radio Mirchi once upon a time gave me this wrong info :-\)

Anyone interested?

‘Q’

Super mom, super blogger, super woman aka Rads tagged me to write 6 quirky things about myself.

I am, usually, quite a normal person. Not sure how much justice I can do to this tag.

Like V once mentioned in his blog, while walking on sidewalks, I never step on the line bordering the cement blocks. I always make sure I step on the block and not on the lines. This does not mean I walk with my head held down, but often I do realize, that I just took an extra long step. Why? Because I didn’t want to land on that line!

My memory surprises everyone. Even me. I remember the most trivial details that people would normally miss. I am not sure when I actually got my senses but I do remember stuff back from when I was 4 or 5. Like a few days, few incidents, few words I told people. It continuous to this day. The best example would be friends who were not close in school but are close right now. I would tell them what happened that day, what I told them exactly, what they replied. Often they’d be stunned.

I drive with my subconscious mind. Ok, probably everyone does, but I drive so much with the subconscious mind that it doesn’t surprise me, but scares me. Often, I would be driving along the Doraiwamy subway. The next instant I open my eyes(the conscious mind I mean, like, look around), I’d be at the G.N Chetty road-Residency signal. I would have no idea of what transpired in between, which vehicles I passed, did I stop at any of the signals etc. Yes, it’s quite scary but it happens all the time.

Like Vivek(incidentally, this scene was shot on G.N. Chetty Road) , I have this “I know the IG(Inspector General), but the IG doesn’t know me” syndrome. If you can call it that. I like to go out a lot, participate in different events(quizzes etc.), meet new people and such. This way I get to meet a lot of people. Thanks to that infamous memory, I remember each one I meet, I know what’s the degree of separation between that person and me. So at random events like Saarang etc, there’ll be a sea of people and I would recognize many of them. Many more than a normal person would. And when I actually meet and interact with them, I am always tempted to tell them what all I know about them(I’ve succumbed to this quite a few times).

All my posts were written in around under an hour straight. It’s kind of weird that if I start writing, I finish it, publish it and then get to whatever work I have. So that means? Yeah, my drafts always show zero. I have never started a post and decided against publishing it. Never saved drafts to go back to them. Ever.

I am quite the megalomaniac, which can also be substituted with “day dreamer”. I have a lot of self-directed music videos in my mind. Yes. You may now laugh.

Quirky enough? I hope so.