My Paati - the genius

As like every other grandma, my paati (grand mother) is well versed with natural treatments for most of the illness. What makes makes me call her genius is what follows...

9 yard saree (9 Gajam pudavai) once the obligatory dress worn by married South Indian brahmins is now a history, and more likely, our next generation would be googling this term. My beloved grand mother (addressed as 'amma' by all her grandchildren), is always seen clad with a 9 yard (madisar) saree. Born to Mr.Venkatarama Sastry (not to be read as sastrigal) was a magistrate by profession. She was the apple of everyone's eye as she is the only girl child among the siblings.

Brought up with a rich tradition, she has learnt violin, carnatic vocal (no wonder she is from Thiruvaiyaru) and more surprisingly she has done her SSLC (under the british regime) . It was the time when education for girls was considered a sin (adupu oodhum pengalukku padippu edharku?) She can converse in english more fluently than many today.

Her general knowledge surpasses even those who are abreast of the latest happenings. Recently, while I was discussing about finding a tenant for my apartment, she suggested me to look ONLINE ( to advertise on the Internet..I was stumbled when I heard this term ONLINE from her mouth).

She seldom comes out of kitchen as like any lady of the yesteryears and does not talk to any strangers (gents esp.) But, what surprises me is, her source of knowledge! Soft spoken by nature, I doubt whether she knows any of the synonyms of the word 'anger'. Patience is her sibling (koodave porandhadhu) as I would term.

She implements many of the data structures such as Stack and Queue. She spawns a thread to lookup the stack of her memory lane and would do a context switch, back to the topic with the result. (Just to prove, Me the MCA ;D )

I believe she has her own dictionary, as she picks the words from, to be used not to hurt anyone. Getting up at 5:00 am is her routine (not to mention that she goes to bed only at 12:00).

KAMAL HAASAN - The TERROR

It may be quite common for anyone to ponder on the title of this post calling KAMAL HAASAN as terror.. I fear his versatility and hence consider him terror :-)

He is one of the living legends in the history of mankind. His expressions astonish one to a great extent in films like Varumai niram sivappu, Guna, Nayagan, Moondram pirai, Anbe sivam to name a few..

Iam puzzled at how a person from a middle class society could bring emotions of an unemployed educated youth (in the film Varumayin niram sivappu) without having confronted with such circumstances in real life.

I believe any human with a certain amt of hard work and dedication could scale upto the marks where achievers like Narayanamurthy or Viswanathan Anand are today.. But I put my foot down to say that, it would be a herculean task even to draw comparisons with KAMAL HAASAN.

Iam a die hard fan of Dr.KAMAL HAASAN, No wonder, you may have guessed it by now!!

OOPS & Decoupling

Initial comprehension about OOPS was that it is just another roundabout way to achieve things, rather than the usual way to code the logic.

With a better understanding (though I don't claim to be an expert now :), I feel that there could be no better way to achieve reusability in a more decoupled way. When applications are decoupled, they tend to stay for a longer period as the changing requirements could be catered.