Thursday, July 12, 2007

chinna chinna aisai

Sometimes I pity the song .. once touted to be the "song of the millennium " is allmost allways skipped when it pops up on my player . No offense really .. i used to like the song when first came out . There is somehting about Rahman's song that would not make u listen to it after a while . The song comes out .. it's a craze .. i'm listening to it all the time .. then after a few years , i don't think twice before skipping the song! The funny thing is that I never - ever do this to a old classic ( what would the song say .. it may get offended ! ;) ) .. jokes apart , I can listen to them (non rahman songs)many many times no matter what . Anyway , I digress ! .. the point of the whole post is the small stupid asai's that I have .. some i've done .. some i've not ..
1. to stand over a freeway ( i mean on the bridge ) & watch the cars whiz past below me .. gives me a strange sense of calm .
2. to go generally ( maybe to drop off somebody) to the airport & board a flight .. i like flying .. airports are like magnets literally !
3. to travel in a train in India & buy everything that is sold in the train .. most of the stuff sucks .. but i still want to buy it .. ne it the "coffeeeey" or the "vegetable cutlet "
4. to go on a trip without a destination ( nope .. i didn;t want the kudremukh trip to go the way it went & anyway it can;t be put i nthis category .. coz it did have a destination - kudremukh ,eventhough we never reached it !)
the list goes on ! ..

Sunday, July 8, 2007

allways seperate

I wish I had the spell check thing when I was in junior school .... that way my teachers would have thought i was a a potential contestant for the spelling bee . ;) A strange thing happened today - I was putting together a presentation; when the Mr Smart (or should I say Miss Smart - for some reason I allways associated good spelling as a feminine quality (maybe becoz I've seen girls spell better than guys ))! ) Spell Check kept interrupting me .Yet again , I had made an error in spelling. This happens to be a word my teacher made me write God know how many times as a punishment for not spelling it correctly then .. the word is separate ( & the way i spell it is seperate ) .. but that did not correct my thinking ! Actually , I disagreed then & I still disagree that I did not spell the word correctly .. we dont say ''sepaaarate '" we say "seperate " , to me "e" fits there better than an "a" . Another word which i often make a mistake in is allways ( i mean i spell it as "all"ways & not "al"ways ) .. in fact i allways make a mistake with allways !! for the same reason .. it's all ways - why doesn;t it have a double l ?? it has to happen "all" the time right ?
Actually the whole post may sound juvenile - this guy is some loser in spelling & so he is pulling out some vague reasons for all those mistakes he makes ! but thats not true - I believe I'm fairly good at spelling - you tell me a word & based on the sound - not on stupid rules , I can spell the word .. In that sense I like the american way of spelling things - spell it as they sound ( color as against colour ) . As a mark of my disagreement I title my post with my version of the spelling . PS : You can comment on anything other than tell me why seperate & allways are spelt as separate and always.
& I dont use spell check ;)