Achamundu Achamundu

After a long time, I saw a Tamil movie. It was very good, all the actors involved didn't overact or screw up, a solid story line and no unneccesary jokers, songs, fight etc. Above all, everyone in this generation IT field could easily relate to the family in the story. I felt like seeing another "Kuruthip punal". Folks like Kamal, KB, Cheran, Manirathnam should pay attention and give this team a good support in the future.

Cash for Clunkers - Useless for consumers

The recent US govt. policy on offering upto 4500 for old cars to induce consumers to buy new fuel efficient cars, is infact useless to the consumers. Couple of months ago, whatever cars that were being sold for 27K are now being sold for 32k. In reality, its the dealers who get this money. Consumers, in fact should have just stayed away from the dealers . They didn't and the dealers took advantage of it. It has definitely increased the economic activity and again the consumers are the losers!

An interesting perspective

My 2 -1/2 year old son is momy's pet. We can say n-number of reasons why he is mom's boy (she spends more time with him, does whatever his needs are etc.). However, in general son's turn out to be Mom's pet and girls turn out to be Dady's pet. The main reason behind this is, one doesn't call it a bluff on the human being of opposite sex. Dad knows the ins & outs of a boy and he can easily visualize himself as that kid, so he doesn't really buy into the sons' tantrums. Whilst the mom though she understands this, she can't call it a bluff and plays into him. The son thinks, Mom doesn't know and happy that he tricked her into believing him. The fact is she knows whats' happening but somehow is unwilling to play it straight while she has no qualms playing it straight to her daughter. To hide this fact the Mom would come up with umpteen reasons saying its a girl and she would be marrying into another family etc. But all these explanations are vail over the fact that she knows the bluff and calls it a bluff when it comes to girls. This vice versa between Daddys and girls.