Venkat's Blog

“O vanity! you are the lever by means of which Archimedes wished to lift the earth!”

Vanity cravings yet again. A new domain and own hosting.

First post from my swanking, uber-cool, sexy, new laptop

A huge jump from that clunky, lumbering, out-dated, old Compaq.

I’m loving it, though the Reliance Datacard sucks big time.

Note: This post is not about the movie.

“vAraNam Ayiram SUzha valam Seidu
nAraNan nambi naDakkinRAn enRedir
pUraNa poRkuDam vaittup puRam engum
tOraNam nATTak kanAk kaNDEN tOzhi nAn”

Vaaranam Aayiram is the composition of Kodhai Natchiar, popularly known as Andal. It is a paasuram from Natchiyar Thirumozhi – a heart-warming rendition of Andal’s desire to wed her ideal husband – Lord Krishna.

In Vaaranam Aayiram, Andal confides to her friends about a dream in which she sees Lord Krishna walking towards her with a procession of a thousand elephants (Vaaranam Aayiram) to wed her. She sees her people welcoming him with poornakumbham and thoranam.

To know more, I suggest this post and this one.

Passing a day is like moving through a tank of molasses lately. Oh ya, my “to-do” list runs in reams. But I’m hell bent on whiling away this part of my life – and may be I deserve it.

Actually I’ve been doing nothing for a while now -except procrastinating and barely getting responsibilities off my back. Thats when I decided to get back to the best time-killer I’ve ever known – reading novels. But with the lousy library that I’ve access to and my pronounced “love and affection” for its staff, I was in a limbo.

Then came the savior in the form of Microsoft Reader. Its lite, can read and best of all free. Whats more, the file sizes that I need to download are ridiculously tiny – so much for the 75 GB download limit.

Now, I’ve got enough books to see me through the rest of the college days.

And with it comes the familiar feeling – guilt.