@85 Cheaper Dosas

When I turned on my television today the headlines was "Karuna Turns 85". I conveyed my Birthday wishes to our CM from my living room itself.. And the happiest thing was, I got a return gift from him!!! Cheaper Idlis and Dosas. The govt has asked for a revision in the costs in restaurents, subsequently hotel owners have agreed for a 10-15% cut in food prices. Take for example a dosa costs Rs25-30 in a good hotel the price cut means one can have the same dosa for Rs 22-27. I practically don't find any difference. My mom's Thaiyar sadam is better..

5pt some college...

These are some annoying things which keeps haunting one's ears, when had a chance to be in my college. The following remarks often arises doubt in one's mind weather this is a professional college or a kinder garden...

1. Morning 8.15 in college bus "POM imposition submit panniyacha da"... man, I guess the person who said this still has his ABCD and 1..2..4..to 100 imposition pending!!!

2. At 8.40 "Give your attendance and then you can go to bathroom" omg even my LKG teacher did not say this.. My college lecturers wants to control us in these intricate areas too.. so pathetic

3. "I want the copied assignment on Monday" I guess a photocopy will do!!! then why call it an Assignment...

4. Situation:This was a Lab hour, Lab was under renovation and so we were asked to spend our time in classroom with the same desultory lecture.
"All of you wear your Lab coat because itz lab hour" wtf is lab coat a protective gear like a superman Jacket!!!!

and at last

5. ("We are proud to say, we conduct our college day at night")*


* With students tied firmly to their seat and lectures with armed weapons to keep an eye on them sometimes Shoot at site order in their pocket....

Mahendra Singh Dhoni-highest paid

Mahendra Singh Dhoni attracted the highest price of $1.5 million or €1.02 million per season in Wednesday's player auction for the lucrative new Indian Premier League.

Chennai acquired the services of India limited-overs captain Dhoni, a wicketkeeper-batsman, on a three-year contract to kickstart the Twenty20 IPL competition.

The bidding for Dhoni was aggressive with the last leg closely fought between southern India's Chennai and western metropolis of Mumbai. All teams jointly burst into applause when Chennai first raised the bid to $1million.

Australia allrounder Andrew Symonds attracted the next highest price - $1.35 million or €920,000 from Hyderabad, more than five times his base price where bidding began.

Bids for Symonds came in fast, with Hyderabad edging out Mumbai to secure his services.

Sri Lanka's 38-year-old opening batsman and former skipper Sanath Jayasuriya went for $975,000 or €661,380 to Mumbai, which also spent lavishly on India offspinner Harbhajan Singh.

India allrounder Irfan Pathan attracted a bid of $925,000 or €627,458.96 from Mohali, while South African Jacques Kallis was sold for $900,000 or €610,500.61 to Bangalore.

Mohali team's owners were jubilant with the successful bid of $900,000 €610,500 for Australia paceman Brett Lee, with businessman Ness Wadia pumping his fist and hugging partner and Bollywood actress Preity Zinta.

Australia captain Ricky Ponting went to Calcutta, only modestly over his starting price. The Jaipur team was among the first to bid for Ponting, but Calcutta won the bidding contest after billionaire distiller Vijay Mallya's Bangalore team bowed out.

The selection of Ponting will make for a collection of strong leaders at Calcutta, which is expected to be coached by former Australia coach John Buchanan, and which also has India's former test captain Sourav Ganguly.

There was the possibility of leadership friction at Jaipur, where retired Australian legspin great Shane Warne will join South Africa captain Graeme Smith, with the pair having previously engaged in some strong verbal exchanges, on and off the field.

Australia's retiring wicketkeeper-batsman Adam Gilchrist (Hyderabad), Sri Lanka's Kumar Sangakkara (Mohali) also fetched big sums, while Calcutta made successful big bids for New Zealand's Brendon McCullum and Chris Gayle of the West Indies.

Dhoni, Gilchrist and Sri Lanka spinner Muttiah Muralitharan - who went to Chennai - were among the six "marquee players" who were pegged as the biggest drawcards and started the bidding session at a Mumbai hotel.

Pakistan skipper Shoaib Malik will be joined at Delhi by compatriot Mohammad Asif. Pakistan allrounder Shahid Afridi went to Hyderabad and middle-order batsman Younis Khan to Jaipur.

New Zealanders Jacob Oram and Daniel Vettori attracted aggressive bidding before Oram was acquired by Chennai and Vettori by Delhi. Former Black Caps skipper Stephen Fleming was snapped up by Chennai at his base price.

Australia batsman Michael Hussey, Pakistan's Mohammad Yousuf, retired Australian strike bowler Glenn McGrath and Zimbabwe wicketkeeper Tatenda Taibu did not attract their reserve price and were placed in the reserve pool.

Bids for reserve pool players will be made at the end of the auction.

Yousuf is fighting a legal battle against the rebel Indian Cricket League, which already secured his signing, while McGrath has not played international cricket for more than a year. He had more test wickets than any other fast bowler.

The winning bids were disclosed by Lalit Modi, chairman of the IPL governing body.

"We're all very excited, this is a tremendous day for world cricket," Modi said before the auction began.

All bidding is being done electronically in a sealed room, where eight teams owned by a variety of Indian companies in the petrochemical, cement and infrastructure businesses are vying for 78 of the world's finest cricketers.

India's star batsmen Rahul Dravid and Ganguly attended the auction along with businessman Mallya, and Bollywood movie stars Shah Rukh Khan.

The IPL reserved four "icon" players from the auction - team captains Ganguly (Calcutta), Yuvraj Singh (Mohali), Sachin Tendulkar (Mumbai) and Dravid (Bangalore) - who are guaranteed 15 percent more than the highest-paid player at their franchise. Virender Sehwag was added to the "icon" list on a request from the Delhi squad ahead of the bidding.

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Catch the pirates also at....

catch at also at:

www.piratesofashoknagar.wordpress.com

Kesari!!!!

“School time expeditions (especially the dangerous ones that pose a high risk of being caned) has always encroached the pivotal chambers in our hearts, and the pirates of ashok nagar are no exception. We yearn the precious time we had wasted in boring essays, instead we could have had a quick run to the cavernous toilet, or a healthy verbal tussle about the recent film releases of the week.” Writes an enthusiastic pirate who wishes to share a hilarious episode that involves a wolfish devouring of the ‘ tasty kesari’ of our physics teacher. I am sure our schooling was very different when compared to yours, which you spent being bored by your teachers, but we spent our time in schools running around in circles. But we weren’t in the NCC, we were being chased by our martinet, who would be very disappointed if he hadn’t whacked at least ten boys for disobedience.
Our teacher that day, was stupid enough to move out of her place for a chat with the next-class teacher, and that was all it required for our pirate to make an attempt. When everybody was engrossed in knowing how the spectrometer works, pirate Hardy (who was so short that he needed a crane to look over the group of students) was looking bored and sulky. As his eyes roved over the assortment of instruments in the lab, his infallible eyes stopped over the alluring red Tiffin-box that stood right next to the lab- attendant. So the Himalayan task seemed impossible for pirate hardy, who beckoned pirate laurel for the task. Pirate Laurel was a professional in pilfering things that are very conspicuous.
As both the pirates were desperate for ideas, the diversion presented itself in the form of a fire alarm. Pirate Hardy scuttled like a rat, and pressed the fire alarm button. Much to the pirate’s dismay, the alarm went off throughout the school and caused a big pandemonium. Pirate laurel capitalized this distraction, and the Tiffin-box came into their custody. The most important thing is that the ‘kesari’ was exquisite in taste. This episode is one of the spectacular events that have inspired us in writing down our achievements, and so is the taste of the kesari ‘. There are other achievements that would make you faint, which lie on the pipeline. Just open your taps a little wider, and they will gush out.

How to identify a NRI in Chennai

The points below might help you in identifying NRIs in Chennai, for whatever reason you may want to do so.

1.Almost all the points refer to identifying NRIs while they are in the act of driving a car, for this is where their differences with the rest of the locals show through clearly.
A NRI is driving the car if the driver is wearing a seat-belt. The only belts the locals know of are the ones you get for 30 rupees in Pondy bazaar. Few years back, when the Tamil Nadu government planned to make wearing seat belts compulsory, the brahmin community revolted against the idea by saying "We already wear cross-belts, why do we need yet another belt?" and so, seat-belts went off fashion. The NRI wouldn't know that wearing a seat-belt in the searing heat of chennai would "brand" his shirt in sweat.

2.Both its side mirrors are in the proper position. Why would a local unnecessarily invest in an useless accessory? A NRI wouldn't know that it the responsibility of the person coming from behind to adjust according to the position of the person in front, who without any care whatsoever in the world, can swerve from one side to another.

3.An indicator is used to move from an imaginary slow lane to an imaginary fast lane or vice versa. A NRI wouldn't know that indicators are used to act as a first layer of defense for the car's body against other vehicles which come in a "little" close and are not meant serve any other purpose. Using an indicator is a sure-shot giveaway that the person at the wheel is a NRI. You could even go unnoticed by having a L-board, but not when using an indicator.

4.The car is still at the traffic signal when the countdown timer has reached the threshold of 9. Maybe, the NRI doesn't know that a single digit on the counter, and not a 0 or a 1, means that you have the green signal to go. The only other people still at the signal would be the unfortunate ones who are directly behind the NRI and it is logical that they can't turn to go around him, because they would have stopped their vehicles 1.2 cm behind the NRI's car.

5.you as a pedestrian walking on the side of the road, without warning, without any hand signals, jump to the middle of the road to continue your walk and happen to be in the way of a car, you hear the driver saying (and not shouting) "What the ...", "Are you crazy?" , "Are you out of your mind", then you can be sure that the driver is a NRI. If the same NRI happens to retain some of his roots, you might hear him saying "Paathu ponga sir" or "Enganga poringa". If it were a local, you would wish you were deaf for you might hear "Eh Saavugraki, Vootle solltiya?" or "kasumalam, Nee Saavarthukku En Vandidhan Kadchidha". A NRI wouldn't know that pedestrians, cows, buffaloes, goats and not vehicles have the right of way on our roads.

But, chennai is constantly changing and so, the breed of NRIs would also have to constantly evolve to be ahead of the masses. No idea as to what this breed might do next.

source: www.srajarams.com