Too tired to do anything!

Ever been there?
When it requires a huge effort to get to the comp and get online?
This June-July, work is really hectic...12-14 hrs a day, 6.5 days a week is the norm I go by these days...
We have a printing/publishing firm and our main egment is college text books..and since all colleges reopen around this time, there is a mad mad rush to get all our titles out in time...
Let this period get over and hopefully I should be able to increse my posts/week count :-)
Cheers!

When I was a kid....

Yesterday I was reminiscing about the things that I used to do when I was a kid...

When I was a kid, I used to.....
play a lot of games.....until it was too dark to see anything;
return home late from school everyday in a dirty, ink stained shirt;
used to be a lot more close to my parents and family;
fight a lot ( esp with my sis);
go any lengths to be in the centre of attention, and I used to love it everytime I got there;
sulk often at home and throw a fit about not eating dinner...but would be secretly waiting for my Mom to come and feed me;
loudly mimic the vegetable vendor everytime he passes by our street;
pose with a funny (what I thought was cool) look everytime for the cameras;
break everything from a TV to a radio to a telephone, and pray silently that my Dad was going to be in one of his good moods;( never was the case though)
travel with my family every summer to someplace or the other;
go to the beach every Saturday(with my family of course), play on the sand, stand on the seashore, rush back everytime the waves came by;
and I couldnt wait for sunday to arrive, for that was the day of assembling at grandma's house and non-stop cricket with Cogito and co;
go crazy about Sachin, Ayrton Senna, Stefan Edberg, Agassi and Mike Tyson;
play cricket inside my house with the walls acting as bowlers and furnitures as fielders....it was always India vs some other team and Sachin got a big score and lot of wickets everytime;
guard a 10 rupee note as if it were my life;
never wanted to cut my hair;
wanted to grow old really fast;
and a lot more.....
and now that I am 22.....I want to be a kid who wants to do all these things again;

Money Money Money...Is it a rich man's world?

I care a damn! :P As long as I make enough myself!
"I hate money." Usually this, comin from one of the younger ones in any family, would be generally followed by a generous patting on the back with a "Romba nalla payyan" tag from the entire family.
I am no rebel, but have never had any qualms about the fact that I wanna make money, and yeah you can add...loads of em. :) I have nothing against people who think otherwise. I mean..everyone is entitled to a opinion rite? ;)
However, I am tempted to add..my personal take on people who claim they do not go after money...is plain and simple.Most of em are lying...It is probably true that they dont wanna portray themselves as the greedy, miserly big monster that craves money. I have lived all my life in South India, and here, the hep thing to say is.."I dont care about makin money...as long as I am happy its fine." But, from what I have seen...this usually comes from the ones that already have enough money. Ask the poor ones the value of money.....ask the person who's worked his ass off to become rich...ask someone who has been starving for days....

But I do have to agree, there are some very rare people who belong to the elite class that are happy...money or no money. I guess, ultimately, all of us love money or to state it better, materialistice possessions. It is the intensity that varies. And I am one who loves making money. I cant think to the levels of the usual advice " Dont let money rule your life".....Dude lemme first make some..then we'll see who gets to be king.

And due thanks to Manoj, who inspired this post!

TNPCEE - Ctrl+Alt+Del

Got up groggy eyed and stared scanned today's Hindu with my usual cup of extra strong coffee...
Engineers from UMAS, Beach Harbour (Our very own University of Madras) would be really stunned to read this...( Ok I consider myself to be an engineer too since I was stunned)). Amma's aatchi unsurprisingly dished out yet another surprise..there will be no more TNPCEE from next year...No more classes at IIPE, ICE and some of the others I forgot..no more ogling at other batch figures..no more trying to get the answer out first to impress the girls...no more gyaans from other wannabe studs....no more a lot more. Anna University students will get admitted into Engineering Colleges based on the scores of their school-leaving exams alone.
This decision struck me as being rather odd...as I've felt over the past few years that the B.E degree has lost its charm and value, thanks to all the Andal Alagar Engg College, Dumming Kuppam Gounder College of Higher Technology and the other hi-tech institutions that have sprung up in and around the city. Save for the ones who cannot afford one..I guess everyone will be an engineer in a few years time...
And to highlight the fact, today we had an electronics and communication engineer who had applied for the post of office boy...The name of the college is better left undisclosed to avoid trouble...but I can surely drops some hints...
1)It is close to Tambaram
2)Its name is 3 letters long
3)And hey..it has a fax machine too!!
Ans) GKM College of Engineering.
Looks like everyone in Chennai is waiting eagerly to try the next set of Amma's surprises!
And here's the actual link from The Hindu.