Kudu Kuduppaikaran

It was a Saturday early morning, say 5’o clock. I couldn’t continue sleeping as I was hearing a strange sound continuously. That sound was not new to me. I remember I heard the sound some where at sometime long ago. I woke up and sharpened the ears close to the sound. That was clear then. It was a KuduKuduppai sound. I don’t know how many of you could have heard this sound in your childhood. Not sure, what kind of feeling you have had when you heard the sound of KuduKuduppai at that time. But, I've had a scared feeling at my childhood whenever I heard that sound. The KuduKuduppaikaran (couldn’t find an English equivalent for ‘KuduKuduppaikaran’ anywhere!.) walks along the streets in the mid-night. He has a terrific make-up as if some ghost comes along with him and he tells fortune at each house in the street.

Also, I’ve heard so many rumors about this KuduKuduppaikaran in my childhood. My mom used to tell me that people would not attempt to meet this KuduKuduppaikaran face to face at mid-night, when he is coming on the streets; because he would be coming along with ghosts. Also, my childhood friends used to tell stories that this KuduKuduppaikaran visits grave yards in the midnight and does some special pooja with skulls, bones and then come into streets to tell the fortune. I scared to the maximum about this KuduKuduppaikaran then! Thereafter, whenever I heard this KuduKuduppai sound in the mid-nights, I scared…embraced my mom and used to cover my face using her saree due to fear! Though they were rumors, I didn’t have a choice other than believing it – as I was a child.

Days passed by. I’ve grown. Live in boring Bangalore – where I don’t have any such interesting story tellers. After many years, I heard this sound at an early morning! Instead of scaring, I felt happy this time! I was happy that this guy had not yet gone missing. I just opened my windows and watched around. He was singing some strange song, probably it was a mix of Kannata & Tamil languages. He stopped at each door step and was telling fortune. He was walking on his own way then.

I feel sympathy for him now. He cant get a job it seems. Same time, he doesn’t want to beg. So, he does fortune telling, what his ancestors used to do. Nowadays these people are decreasing in number. In childhood, they told me hoax stories about this KuduKuduppaikaran. Then, who can tell me a correct story about him now?

Mr. Google.

Intially I couldn’t get any results on Google about this KuduKuduppaikaran. But, I didn’t want to give up. Rephrased, refined the keywords and shot again. Then, google returned some shocking news about these KuduKudppai Community. This the result, I’ve got from google (text is in Tamil, better readable in Internet Explorer or FireFox3):

http://photobala.blogspot.com/2007/07/blog-post.html

Shocked. I am really heart-broken to read that this community is denied education & work! I wish them one day they get all the benefits and rights in the society that we’ve today.

I scared to see this people in my childhood. Now, mind-set had totally changed.. I am happy to see such strange things back in life!

Bangalore Life style

Bangalore – I always like the city for following simple reasons:

1. It is very ‘cool’ all around the year.
2. It has a rich look.
3. More towards western culture.
   

Now, I doubt about point #1, as the temperature is increasing drastically. When newspaper talks about environment no body continues reading it (me too). Now, I realize it practically. Last year, this time, I was going out with jerkin. This year, couldn’t even sleep during power-cuts. It is sweating all over the day time. Sure, the environment started the revenge over people who spoiled it.

What can I think of doing some thing for this from my side? Thought of growing some trees. But where? I live in an apartment where everybody shares their wall with neighbors. The only space left for us is stair-case and terrace. Almost, everywhere it is the case in the city!

All I can do is just to recall the ‘Cool’ Bangalore and tell stories to children like ‘You know, once Bangalore was so cool and it was the climate what you see in Ooty and…’

The real Hitler's speech!

When somebody is arrogant or very aggressive, we curse him as Hitler. Then, just thought how the real Hitler should have lived. I watched this video 'Hitler's speech' in youtube.! damn, he throws sparkles in his speech. Though I could not understand his language, I am getting scarred to see his body language. Till date, I never ever seen any politician or any leader has spoken in that aggressive/motivating style! This 55 seconds speech can wake up any lazy human being.

Dream #2: Stamina.

My mom is 55 years old (I am the only son and was born 14 years after their marriage). She used to get up at 5 o clock in the morning, irrespective of whatever the time, she goes to bed. She is able to do all the house work through out the day without showing any tiredness. I force her not to do any work in this age, and take enough rest. She says it has become her routine, and she can not stop doing work.

I am not even 24. But, I can not even do a half of the manual work that she does in these days. Because, for me too, it has become a routine – not to do any manual work. I am not strength less; but, am stamina-less, just like every other young living today. Spending whole of the day with computer, and living a ‘virtual’ life, spoils our stamina. You can really realize it, when you have to run for some distance at emergency.

I have a dream to mould my body just like I want – a six pack abs, muscles over muscles, very strong fist, and totally a flat body. It is not a crazy dream to attract somebody! :-) It is a kind of dream, that every one should consider for themselves too.

Let’s go one by one.

Six pack abs – If you have recently watched ‘Om Shanti Om’, then you might be knowing a lot about Six Pack Abs (unluckily, I have not watched the movie) . Shah Ruk Khan had hardly tried for more than 4 months with strict diet and exercise to get his six pack abs. If you watch that song, in which Shah Ruk appears without his shirt, don’t miss to look at his Abs. It is very tight and tough. Too hard to get such Abs. It gives a flat shape to the whole body. Without maintaining the Abs, a man cannot maintain the body; without maintaining the body, a man cannot be a complete man! It’s my craze to have my Six Pack Abs!



Muscles over Muscles – The world could not have forgotten the great martial artist ‘Bruce Lee’ so early. He didn’t simply have muscles. His peer fighters used to say, he had muscles over muscles. A different kind of muscle structure. Even, Lee too said many times that the Abs muscle is so important than anything else. If you get some time, you can google for Lee’s strength and workouts; you will get amazing info.



Very strong fist - I want my fist to have more power. To carry or to pull objects. Or to do any thing manually, we require lots of hand power.

Flat body - None of the animals has belly; none of the animals put over weight; none of the animals eats unnecessarily. Only we human being do it. We need to remember that any unnecessary or etc flesh in the body can lead to any disease. I am not talking about fitness stuffs here; I am talking about keeping the body flat and tight. Its good health wise and look wise.

To tell in frank, its my dream to have a body with aforesaid things. Its not a crazy dream. It’s a meaningful dream.

Dream #1: Harley Davidson

Here I go about writing my (costliest) dreams one by one:

Harley Davidson Ride..
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I am becoming crazy about different bike models in these days. Harley Davidson is my craze. I like big bikes with full of guts! Harley is a charming bike, with 1100 or more CC power. I have a passion to ride Harley Davidson over long high-ways about several hundred kilometers.

Harley Davidson bike price ranges from US $16000 to US $26000! (6 lac Rs to 10 lac Rs). The bikes are not manufactured or sold in India. If it is to be imported from US, with 60% import duty, then calculate the net price!

To ride such bikes, one should really have a strong body indeed. A tight body, with lots of stamina. Yes, I wish I can mould my body to fit in.

If I become rich enough one day, then I will definitely buy a Harley Davidson. I wish to ride the Harley on the street where I was born!

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Feeling free, peaceful..

I have lots of free time now; bad thing is, I don’t know what to do in free times; In the last ten years, I was rarely free. I was such an ignorant that I learnt to work and not to enjoy life. Whenever I get free time, I am stuck! If I think of at least doing my wish list stuff, then, definitely I will be screwed up technically. So, I don’t want to do that.

Music/guitar class, Hindi class, Painting class are in consideration.

Die Hard or Live Free [Not a movie review]

I make sure my mobile is safe in pocket, helmet is properly set, fuel is sufficient... Seated at bike, I commit myself to reach the destination in 20 minutes, at any cost... Accelerate it, go faster... faster and faster... as far as it can go faster... Looking at the speedometer, my heart beats increase... the bike touches 60.. 70.. and then 80.. and then....can't see... I am going alone in the road, just like a jet... Reach the destination in 25 minutes... - I feel unhappy as I come late by 5 min (though I had started several hours late).

That's how I learnt to live the life; a hasty life; full of hurry; full of useless commitments; unnecessary worries for unnecessary things; hard work that kills the body and brain; "Get it done at any cost - We must do it." - this was the command from brain to heart always!

I just want to get rid of all these hells and go to the river bed in my home town, raise a corp there and live a peaceful life.. I dont know how long I am going to live in this planet, but I am really scared that I am going to live every single minute in a hurry or working out some tough subject.

I am seriously thinking of freely living. To live every day as there is no more tomorrow. I am not going to stop working also. But, at least not going live this life style for sure; more minutes for me; more minutes for life.

The terms were different :-)

It was true that the terms we used today, were meant for different things, long back. Computers and Internet changed the life in an unpredictable way. I like the below forward mail.

I wish if the terms are reverted back :-)

----- Original Message -----

From: Govind

To: Undisclosed-Recipient:;

Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 3:03 PM

Subject: 25 Years Ago

25 years ago......

A program was a television show
An application was for employment
Windows were something u hated to clean
A cursor used profanity
Keyboard was a piano
Memory was something u lost with age
A CD was a bank account
If u unzipped in public u went to jail
Compress was something u did to garbage
A hard drive was a long trip on the road
Log on was adding wood to fire
A backup happened to your toilet
A mouse pad was where a mouse lived
Cut, u did with scissors
Paste, u did with glue
A web was a spider's home
A Monitor was someone who used to keep watch on classmates in absence of teacher
A Desktop was desk's top surface.
And a virus was the flu!

Time surely has changed ………………

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