tik tik tik!!

Once upon a time long long ago.,...it took me ages..,..

When you actually hear these words some people might think people just talk about the fact of "TIME", but it is not. These words contain a lot of emotions for different people of different ages. For some people time heals in a different way and for some people time might seem still. 

For me time showed me different phases of life till now. Even though its almost eleven years since my grandfather had left me it took me hell a lot of time to get rid of those memories after May 6th 2009. I literally cried in happines that if my grandpa where here I would be happy to show him my 12th grade marks he would have been so proud of me. But, every time it is my grandmother the IRONLADY who gave me that strength to face life and asked me to move on because it was just a part and parcel of life. I enjoyed my school life at Jawahar Vidyalaya and infact had lots of memories. Although, my high school life at Ahobila Math was not so funfilled I did not have had any friends who were like the ones with whom I had good times.

But, it was my college life which painted a shade of colour in my life. The 3 years totally took away lot of ideas which I had for myself to enjoy the way I wanted to lead it. Why not take this way, because I am highly optimistic I learnt about friendship and also to keep away from some people who totally fried my back. I learnt Carnatic Music for about 2 years, when I was about to start to learn Varnam..the main song g g r s s r r  g g r r...the 10th CBSE exam came as a big "HIROSHIMA"  from my family because I didn't do good in my science model paper and was forced to quit from the classes.

Music was always a part of my life since my birth and in my DNA. This was the only 'light' which made me continue singing bhajans at temple and also grouping with people. All these kept my passion for singing alive by singing cine songs at home.  Sometimes, the same passion may also change your life in the you never expected. I lost about two years for the same forgetting campus interviews and did articleship alongside searching for singing chances and recording songs. 

When you get that thought of somehow making into the industry it is quite difficult, because you don't know that are just a drop on the grass. But, after certain point of time you will get to know that you can always record a song for your own passion. 

When I was young I used to collect a lot of stamps and coins (was a Philatelist and Numismatist). Whenever I used to go by Pondy bazaar, I will definitely goto the post office and buy the new release of stamps just for the sake of collection. All these kinds of hobbies takes our life on and on and as I said time might seem still but it's ticking all the second in your life along with your emotions. 

If time seems still for you don't worry, you are way ahead than me. 😉😊

Vaanam Kottatum!!

Some people might have the passion for science and go for it with confidence because they know the concept and the theory behind it. This was never the case for me since childhood. My favourite drink would be those days in the early 2000s was Milo. I used to get a lot of free gifts also along with it, one of which was the book about planets, stars and galaxy. 

Normally, I used to be fascinated if it was geography class because it used to be a lot about climate, weather, global warming, etc,. Beyond that I stared to google or find or learn any info about the space. I had this passion towards science but couldn't present it very much on paper. Therefore, I had to take commerce group and finished B.com and MBA. 

This passion inside me never left me because I used to predict the weather for Chennai for today and tell my neighbours, friends and family. They gave me the idea to post the current weather update for Chennai on and off on my page in facebook. Once I had even warned my friend who was in Georgia,USA about the Hurricane that was about to hit Florida after 10 years and cross the state of Atlanta. 

I had asked him to be prepared with his food stock for three days because all the stores near him would be fully crowed to buy their stockings. He was confused first whether to buy or not but to his fortune he listened to me and bought a day earlier before they started to announce on the local TV news. He thanked me because every single shop was full including Walmart. 

The same incident happened here when the IMD was confused about the movement of the cyclone Wardah in 2016. I had informed my neighbours about the cyclone not crossing Andhra but about to cross Chennai after 30 years which was on 1985. The neighbour next door and our family had stocked the goods when the shop owner and other fellow people had no idea what we were upto only when they came by the night to switch on the TV and get get the official news from IMD. 

Like I earlier mentioned on my previous blog post about the 2015 cloudburst,people did not have any idea as to what Elnino and Lanina phenomenon.  I had put an entire post as to make sure people know what is Elnino,but still only a few handpicked followers read the post and one of them shared it.

Most people keep a radar or look at a Satellite picture to predict the upcoming situation. I require the satellite image or the radar only 25% of the time. The rest of my predictions are just pure observations of the movement of the cirrus cloud and nimbus clouds and the flow of the air from which direction to which. This five minute observation is more than enough for me to predict the days weather because I have grown just by seeing the sky from my childhood. 

The surprise of the whole of my passion is even my 80 year old grandma asks me how the day will be it a sunshine or a drizzly morning 👌😆

Anyways wanted to share with you one of my passions in life and how I am pursuing it in a different manner. Hope you people liked it! If you want you can follow me on my facebook page for updates on weather 😊 

Idhu Namma Chennai! Chancey illa!!

Vanakkam Makkale!! Don't know if you have read my first blog. I am new to this blogging and so do comment and share your views so that I can improve my blogging better 🙃 Doing my usual weather updates on facebook I thought this was the doomsday for Chennai (December 1st 2015) the Elnino phenomenon.When the clouds shredded and made the sky jet black

The rain started early by November 30th evening and was torrential which made the cars and bikes to wade through even big Anna Salai. Already,the city and the outer had started receiving heavy rains at intervals for the month which was actually 20% more than the normal of what Chennai city and Kancheepuram should. 

When just one night's rain flooded the streets, still the meteorologists were not able to predict anything about the sudden cloudburst which was going to happen because of the Elnino.We struggled for daily milk and bread as the supermarket next street had no idea what to do. Most of the storm chasers and the private meteorologists had suggested the opening of Chembarambakkam Dam everyday by 500cusecs per calculating the outbreak that was about to occur. The officers of the dam were waiting for the official order from the government. But it was too late when the government had ordered the release of the dam water by midnight. 😑The adayar river in its flow crossing the kasi theatre bridge under after the day people could even wake up to its full flow over the bridge.

The order was late and also the dam was about to break it's walls which would cause a big rampage in the nearby areas in kancheepuram. Every single house or an apartment or a township constructed above an once upon dried lake had submerged until the first floor both inside and outskirts of the city. I had somehow had an instinct that the water levels would rise more than expected and therefore parked our car inside the apartment which was raised.The water had even come upto the ground level of my apartment and had covered the tire by night.

The flood made it difficult to help a struggling young boy of age about 13 to help him get injected both in the morning and in the evening because he had a kidney transplant. The worst of the whole thing was not even a single doctor was available here even if he was he was not ready to offer help. We formed a group in the street and they helped me carry the boy to an old man's place inside this flat where we found humanity still exists. Behind his place the wall would be so small to cross to the next street's apartment where a girl was practicing her final year medical in Stanley Medical Hospital. She offered to inject meds for the if we brought him from his place without getting wet or any kind of dust. ❤️😇

The whole grand Duraisamy Subway was closed for more than a week totally submerged.

But above all of this we people gathered in our terrace everyday to eat with what each and everyone had. Some said they had their worst time of their lives, but I would say those were the days which could never be rewritten or asked for. Those were the moments everyone not only in our flat but also in our street enjoyed and saw truly what humanity was and is. Now, people would not ask for the police or the government because they know Chennaites will unite whenever and wherever it is necessary. ❤️✌️ cheers people have a good day!!

Silence?!!- Say What You Need To Say

Vanakkam!! This is the usual way every person down south in tamilnadu greets and ofcourse that's how I used to post on my facebook or Instagram page when I forecast a weather for Chennai. Yes! This tambrahm has a younger brother who is ofcourse taller than me. I live in the west mambalam area, literally 27 years now when I am making this blog happen.

Like every other tambrahm family I was brought up by my grandparents but specifically maternal. I was very fond of the railways and I still am a Philatelist and a Numismatist. This was only because of my grandpa who used to lead a simple life yet all perfect. 

A MAN WHO NEVER RAISED VOICE AGAINST HIS WIFE. He used to take me to show off the railways every evening no matter what because his grandkids are his life. He just loved teaching me even simple stuff from cricket news in The Hindu to playing a carrom board. He worked as the manager in the admin department of port trust and retired in the mid 90s in the ABK-AOTS DOSOKAI, an Indian and Japan collaboration office as a manager till 2004.

He used to take me to all the stamp exhibitions and flower exhibitions conducted by train. I know people talking about the OCD amongst the too perfect but when I was about to think that he had, NO. He is just a man of perfection who just comes home keeps his watch, spectacles, and wallet at its place, he would start doing SAVASANA by lying down on the floor to get more strength to do the next job and ease himself out if required. 

Even if it is bandh or no-transport day, he used to walk all the way from beach station to Mambalam by the trackside. My grandma is only half his height and sometimes when going out she finds it difficult to follow him up😂 It was one of those summer holidays were I used to hangout with my grandpa. He came from his work and his yoga to give him a jolt because it's WEDNESDAY. He used to leave the home 3:30pm exactly and would ask me if I wanted to join him for buying veggies from the market across the station. 

He was all ready with his bag scrolled up under his arms and asked me one last time, "dei na kelambaren variya illiya?" I was watching some show in the history channel his wait would be exactly for five minutes and the best part is he will not say bye to me😂 When the door shuts, I would realise, and run after him saying bye to my grandma.

He would know what to buy, where to buy and from whom to buy. All those sellers would recognise him and give him the correct veggies. One important thing about my grandpa is that "HE NEVER LIES" 👌I would forget this point everytime I go out with him and get caught by my grandma. I would willingly carry the bag for him till home he would resist but I would still do. There will be two shops near the Ranganathan street staircase, one would be the ice-cream vendor and other popcorn. My grandpa would look at me and notice that I would want one from each and he would buy me. On the way home, I would tell him," thatha please paati kitta solidadha", and you know what would have happened😇

Later on he joined a local religious centre here called Ayodhya Mandapam started serving people as much as he could because he can never stay home idle without doing anything. Because of his influence there I would get a seat in the front every time during the margazhi utsav and would get autographs of Mrs.Sudha Raghunathan, Embar Mr.Kannan, etc., and also would ask them to sing my favourite songs by writing it and sending a small parchment.

Till 2006 he stayed with us in the same apartment after which he was asked to vacate because of the landlord. Until then he stayed on his own legs and payed rent from his pension. HE WAS ALWAYS A MAN OF HIS WORDS. He would never mean harm to anything and till he was alright I have never seen him raise his voice against anything or anyone. 

My grandparents had three daughters including my mother in the middle. My chithi(3rd) left to the US after marriage in 2003 and my perimma (1st) lives exactly opposite to the door which my chithi had bought initially. My grandpa was asked to move to her place and stay free of cost because it's her place. But, my grandpa who was used to standing on his own legs was not able to digest this. Ofcourse, it's his daughter and she is the one who is offering the generous flat. 

The point was he wasn't interested in her daughter losing the rental money for his sake because he had to search for another place. My grandpa was such a hard hearted man that he wasn't able to say NO to his daughter's offer and also take that place.

In the initial phases of his life he had just completed PUC to marry my grandmother and later on he was working and studying and finished his colled in The Presidency college, Chennai. He had friends in his morning walk with whom he talked and even completed ICWA. He had started taking tuitions to manage the family by then. 

Such a person was on his own legs and he had even made 6-month US trip thrice, the last one which went horrible because he was just confined to four walls when his grandkids were out to school. He also fell sick beacuse of it and somehow managed to come back home. 

I was in tears when I received my grandpa because he lost his memory. He couldn't even recognise my face as he was high in DEMENTIA. He went back forty years in his life memory and identified me as his cousin whom he had helped. The man had cheated him in his good times so my grandpa always had a grudge for me. 

But, gradually it didn't last long. He used to run away one day and sleep fully the other day. One fine May day the 6th 2009, he had decided to leave us all in just a fraction by walking in godspeed. He had been the first victim to the scorching agninatchatram. Since then I had taken rights for doing the final rituals and it's been 11 he has breathed his last.

A legendary man who kept things within himself. He had never let out voice against anything which had ultimately taken him to deep thoughts. You should not cage a bird which shouldn't be. My grandma used to tell me that it was his karma which he had to go through. NOPE

Man Proposes God Disposes

We may have thought of lot of things to say, to do but ultimately the end result is different. Wish my grandpa was still there to guide me through my life. Wanted to start my first blog about my grandparents and especially my grandpa.

LET LIFE ROLL ON AS IT GOES!

CHEERS!!✌️😇

Grandpa- S V RAMANAN

Grandma who just hit her 80, the proud S V RUKMANI 

with them this Mambalam thachimamu

HARISH G