From HCL's Community Service Council...Tips..

First Post...this Year 2009...My Parents trip...Vote of Thanks...

#1 My parents visiting me and was roaming around different places in 3 months. I was constantly hooked into travel websites, travel deals, ticket deals, hotels and car rentals. I can still bet I can find better deals when it comes to travel in US.  

Guys, I would say the road trip with my parents from New Jersey to Washington DC and Phoenix to Las Vegas via Grand Canyon ;) were the best. You won't realise you have so much to talk for long hours with your parents. It's quite a different feeling. I would ask anyone to take this trip anywhere.

I should thank my friends who have accomodated my parents and I for those three months.

Maheshwer ( Yengal Anna Vijayakanth)

Gulam ( Vanathai pola Livingston)

Suresh 

Gopi 

Rajkumar 

Selva 

Murali

Karthik

Rajesh 

Vivek Krishna 

Special thanks for Shriram Kannan (the best in my all time fame), Shyam (travelling with me to Niagara), Bharath & Bhargavi (for taking them as their parents), Newton ( for arranging Rockford beach house), Raj Prabhu (for travelling with me to Vegas, he owe me a lot for showing the bite of Vegas), Gulam (travelling with me to Orlando), Chandra & Kalpana for helping out in Houston and Rajeshnath (my understanding boss)

San Antonio,TX

Corpus Christi,TX

Rockford,TX

Houston,TX

St.Louis,MI

Orlando,FL

New York,NY

Washington DC

Niagara Falls, NY

Grand Canyon,AZ

Las Vegas,NV 

Enjoyed this scene...Vaaranam Aayiram...

Watched Vaaranam Aayiram this week end....love scenes and songs are good..nothing much in the movie. I would not advice anyone to waste money...all the gud scenes are in youtube..

One of the best scene atleast for me...

Heroine asks lot of questions about him before she accepts him....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdQTl-gg_yQ

She herself answers all her questions after understanding him....my best...
Both performed...Surya scores and the shot where he plays guitar in the air...gud one..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyC9vUSzSAc

Pain...

Last week, I was little shake up last week when three friends and my parents went to India. I made two trips to Airport to drop my friends and evening started to Houston along with my parents. My parents return flight is from Houston. The Airport crew were kind enough to give me the Gate Pass to go along with my parents. My parents cried...I was okay..When I came back to San Antonio Airport, I really don't know whom to call or where to go. I suddenly felt this is not the right place for me and I don't belong here. Leaving behind my parents was not new to me, the current trip is my third one and I really couldn't understand.

Monday I wasn't able to work and one of my American friend, lady with wisdom, figured out the reason. She told even though you have been away from home. This should be the first time some one left you. Made sense and absolutely true. Believe me, you have to feel the difference...

The difference between you leave someone and someone leaves you....

Earth Hour US...

I wouldn't be aware of this Earth Hour US if I am not using Google. Earth Hour explained why Google home page had black background. The initiative was kicked off in Sydney and spread around to different cities. This would be small thing we can do by switching off our lights for an hour from 8 - 9 pm.

The video in below link shows how much energy saved during this hour. First time, something was so easy to get a great satisfaction. Just switch off the lights...nothing much..

http://www6.earthhourus.org/

HandBag Matters...

Today, end of work, I saw a lady going out with a big bag, carry bag and a hand bag. I was fascinated and thought what she would have carried to stay maximum of 9 hours in one place.
I am pretty sure she was not marooned in an island. Then, I realized not only her but every other women carried minimum of two bags with them if you ignore the purse. What for??

I know many men carry same purse from the time he started to have let it be for sentimental or lucky reasons.

I remember this one incident happened in my school days. Our French madam went out in middle of the class and she is famous for her make-up kit. My friends wanted to confirm the rumors and open her handbag. One person, Balaji, successfully opened and end up with thrashing from her. It was quite funny to relive.

World Richest Billionaires

In Top ten richest people, four people are Indians. Just thinking what it really does good to the country as a whole or for the people. If Mukesh and Anil assets are together (85 billion), Ambani group would be the number one in world. Forget one guy, who resides in UK, the rest of the guys accumulate to 115 billion dollars.

What can be done by these three guys money?

1. Can donate 11 dollar to every person in India? Making it the biggest and largest public distribution, 400 rupees to everyone is great achievement considering the fact that only 1/4 of the people can spent Rs.12.

2. Can spend twice the amount, the Indian government planned to spend in this Budget 2008.

3. The golden quadrilateral road project cost only 13 billion dollars so we could construct one circle, square and an octagon.

4. Cost of New Chennai International Airport is 25 billion so 4 world-class airport with 115 billion :-)

5. Basic medical Aids also needs its share.

To see in another side...

1. Can buy 460 Boeing 777 bus

2. Can buy out many of the Top IT companies.

3 Can buy more Bugatti Veyron cars to open new Taxi service.

Will keep adding it...

Naren

Day Light Savings..

Saturday night, we went out for movie. We had ready made parotta with Murali's kozhambu.. Suddenly we figured its 2:00 pm everywhere, no way this movie could be more than 4 hours. Then, we realised we lost one hour due to day light savings. God !! My one hour of sleep was lost and now I couldn't sleep. My body cannot accept its 1:00 pm, it would be 12:00 two days back.

The most significant thing, researchers figured out, energy consumption was more during the savings time rather reduced usage. So, then for what this is followed??

Meeting...

I missed a get-together for first time, happened in Hartford, Connecticut. I have to stay for a while in San Antonio because Mahesh (room mate) arriving here from Chennai. Courtesy calls :)

I think around 10 guys are meeting and its birthday for Rajendra Kumar :(

Happy Birthday dude..enjoy..