Sunky Monkey Merchandise
Mar 11, 2010 Fun
My brother has got hold of a Sunky Monkey key-chain recently ( Its not actually meant to be a Sunky Monkey one, but he flaunts it as one… 
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This one is really cool, and it actually has close resemblances to the real sunky monkey… he he
The Real Sunky Monkey
:: Screen credit.. some youtube video
Tags: chennai, Fun, movies, sunky monkey
AND THERE IT COMES TO AN END… 2009
In a couple of hours from now, 2009 will be over. Again a new year will begin, but this year would have given me some of the most unforgettable moments of my life. If I had to summarize 2009 in a few words, I would say, it was a dream run for me. It helped me look at reality; it looks like it has possibly shown me a path of where I should be heading. I became fully qualified in this year, ZCE, did try my luck at java as well, and then I was able to get enrolled for my MS. It was all very good. Much of it should be credited to the support of my friends (most of them are ex-colleagues now), so 2009 will be remembered happily for all that.
I tried learning guitar, it was quite happy to see myself playing it well, but due to unexpected (But somehow all my friends guessed it beforehand) distractions, I couldn’t continue with it for too long. My travelling hit an unexpected all time low this year with just 3 or 4 noticeable trips for the whole year; this was a huge drop when compared to earlier years. So If I wasn’t travelling a lot, I wasn’t obviously using my camera lot. I also had some fun at stock market and made some marginal profits out of my money; it did help me learn a lot on financial matters.
I did do a lot of stupid things in 2009, but just like every year, I would not regret for them (he he:) ), it’s a part of the package, which has some pluses and minuses; you don’t really have a choice but to bear with it. Nobody is perfect. I don’t want to be nobody…
So what are my plans for 2010?
- Study … Study… Study… If some of my engineering classmates looked at this… they will roll on the floor and laugh… but I have to do it, not too many choices here
- I should plan some trips and execute them!, travelling is one thing I missed a lot in 2009
- I technically don’t need any more gadgets/electronic devices… So I shouldn’t buy anything else this year, but save money (I was thinking about a Mac Book, an Android Phone, a Nikon D5000 SLR… and one more 23” Wide screen so that I get a dual screen setup at home, at the time of writing this…)
- Find someplace where they conduct Guitar classes during weekends near my residence (have already invested some money on the musical instrument, should try to get at least some ROI)
- I should blog more often, and start contributing lot more tech articles to Clickoffline.com, traffic influx has increased in the recent months.
- Anh! Well… Stock Market… yes
Why did I write this post? — Because of this inspirational article by my friend
Wish you a happy 2010 for all of you !
Stop Press update for geeks: I have just integrated the Picasa Web Albums into WordPress using GData API which is provided as a part of the Zend Framework (Sounds cool right). Checkout the Photography Link on the header, it uses ZF’s GData API to render the images by fetching them from Picasa Web Albums Site. I will blog about this in Clickoffline.com and will try to do some server-side optimizations to improve the blog’s performance.
To Weekendboozapuram
Very interesting Chennai map for Krish Ashok’s Blog http://krishashok.wordpress.com/chennai-map/
Look at all the names of places here.. very funny
Guitar notes for ‘En Iniya Pon Nilave’
I found the guitar chords for prelude at the beginning of the song ‘En Iniya Pon Nilave’ song by Iliyaraja
Notes are as follows
EN INIYA PON NILAVAE
C D Eb D (twice)
E---------------------------------
B------3-4-3----------------------
G---5-----------------------------
D---------------------------------
C Eb D Eb - C F E F
E---------------------------------
B-----4--3--4---------6--5--6-----
G---5--------------5--------------
D---------------------------------
C Eb D C (Bb) (Ab)
E--------------------------------
B-----4--3-----------------------
G---5-------5------3-------------
D--------------------------4-----
I am having a very hard time to getting to play these very simple tunes right, probably a lot more practice will help me in getting it right.
Song Video
This song is a classical masterpiece, only now ever since I started with guitar, I am able to listen to and relish the beauty of iliyaraja’s music.
I would also suggest ‘Iliaya Nila’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owiXDr1xQ8Y , this song is classic too, the guitar strip in the middle is just too good.
Reference Site: http://www.indianguitartabs.com/showthread.php?t=8540
Geek and his Guitar
I joined guitar class recently, for reasons unknown I really wanted to do something which is not related to computer science, I have been trying different stuff for a long long time and after a fairly satisfactory performance at photography, I turned my eyes towards music, especially guitar because some of my college friends were talking about it and I recently (read as 6 moths ago) watched Vaaranam Aaiyram. That was the right time when Suresh and Mathu were talking about joining guitar classes and the rest is history ( or at least I will try to forge some music history books to talk about my guitar life.. )
Its been a couple of weeks since I have joined, looks like the only good thing I know about guitar is that I am able to hold it properly and have been able to pick the right strings. The last class I attended, my teacher got very tired because he had to spend a lot of time to get the rhythm right. You can’t blame him, he hasn’t seen me as a student before, he should speak to my college Maths/ECE professors or my school Tamil teacher, they probably know how hard it is to teach me something which I have no idea about. But the good thing about guitar, which it doesn’t share with Tamil or other hard(useless) things is that I want to learn guitar, and never in my life did I ever wanted to learn Tamil. So, lets see how far I go with this new exercise.
I am now able to play a couple of movie tunes to some extent that people are able to recognize these as some kind of music, although they were not able to guess what music it was.
And these are my goals
- I have to learn to play guitar really well
- I have to learn to play “En iniya pon nila ve” Song
- Gotta find the train in which Meghna (sameera reddy) is traveling, and the rest will be history
I am a firm believer in having simple goals .. he he
