I am on fire!

It was my turn to drive for lunch and I obliged. I was going to lunch with couple of non-Tamil speaking colleagues, one an American. The car stereo started off where I had left in the morning. The opening beats and rhythm were quite catchy to the American colleague and he asked me what it was. And I said,
"A Tamil film song"
"That's a female voice, right? What is she singing about?"
"It's actually a duet. She is singing about, in simple terms, sex"
"Really? "
"Yeah, not love, but sex"
"Interesting. Can you translate that for me?"
"What?"
"You know, like what exactly is she singing?"
"I can try"
"Wait a minute....this is the pause control right?....I need every line"
"Are you kidding me?"

He started it from the beginning and paused it when the singing stopped at the end of first few lines.
"No, come on, go on..."
"They're saying..."

i'm aroused oh daddy o'!
i'm horny oh honey bunny!

He started smiling and asked, "Is that what she is saying? Or are you making it up?"
"No, I took some creative liberty. She is actually saying 'I'm on fire'"
"I thought you said Indian censorship did not allow such things"
"Well, we have this weird exception. We don't tolerate such things in dialogues, but we are fine with it when rendered as a song"
"Why is that?"
"Why does radio shack ask for your phone number when you buy batteries? I don't know!" (*I quote Seinfeld like a Bishop quoting bible*)
"Okay, go on"

i'm aroused oh daddy o'!
i'm horny oh honey bunny!
my heart got struck oh sugar!

"Here, let me control the song"

Like plucking thorn with a thorn, let's douse fire with fire!
Like plucking thorn with a thorn, let's douse fire with fire!

"What's that supposed to mean?"
"The guy wants to put out fire with fire, you know.....in 'that' sense"
"Well, okay, if you say so..."

Your eyes are glowing with lust please keep it up cherry!
Like plucking thorn with a thorn, let's douse fire with fire!
Your eyes are glowing with lust please keep it up cherry!

My colleague lost it at this point. "What the heck was that?"
"He is talking about lust"
"Yeah, but then he asks her to 'keep it up'. I thought he was singing to a she"
"It is she, and he is asking her to keep the lustful glow in her eyes, you jackass!"
"For a second there, I thought it was one of those 'Elton John' type of songs"
"Do you want the rest of the song or what?"
"I do, I'm sorry, proceed..."

As man and woman rub against each other, let sparks fly
All 5 senses are like sparks, let them all burn in desire,
before it goes down come

Now, he is laughing uncontrollably and banging his head on the passenger seat bag.
"When the guy sings 'before it goes down', is he referring to 'that'?"
"May be..."
"Or is 'it' means the 5 senses?"
And I get defensive, "Actually, I'm not doing a good job.It's actually sort of poetic"
"Oh, that's poetry?!"
"The original one...that's not as gross as I made it sound"
"But, that's what they are singing about, right?"
"I guess..."
"Don't stop, keep going..."
"I think I've had enough for one day, I'm changing the song"

And what song do I get from my random select!

இளமையெல்லாம் வெரும் கனவுமயம் இதில் மறைந்தது சிலகாலம்
தெளிவும் அறியாது முடிவும் தெரியாது மயங்குது எதிர்காலம்

Vettaiyadu Villayadu: A movie experience of one of a kind!

Anybody who tried to watch the movie here in Chicago area will vouch for that. 7:00 pm screening got cancelled because they couldn't get the "potti" in time. They started the 10:00 pm screening a little late. Like two hours late. So the movie started.

First half ended.

The second half had an interesting twist! The movie started in reverse. I mean that literally and figuratively and geometrically! The second half started with the climax and proceeded to the scene before that and the one before that, so on and so forth! And all this appeared on the screen upside down! The crowd was uproarious! I think, they wound the reel for the second half in reverse or it was some kind of divine intervention. It took another thirty minutes to decide there was nothing the organizers could do and so they said they'll refund the money to all the 400 odd people. I came back home at 3.30 am after watching only half the movie!

Such instances are when it makes me think seriously about that three letter guy up above the sky! This movie is seriously jinxed!

First half review- CSI: Madurai! The first half was a right mix of CSI, Law and Order, Dr. Phil. And I mean that in a good way!

Overheard from the crowd:

"Padathula comedy undungala?"
"Padathula operator dhan comedy!"

Bad Karma or bad hard drive partitioning skills!

How does one react if their parents found out what they did not want their parents to find? And to top it, the said parents did not even show any signs that they know what the one was trying to hide! How dare they take the high road!

And to rub it in, they probably had a good laugh at the one's expense in their grown-up circle. And one loud mouthed grown-up teases you with that!

I feel like a five year old who just wetted his bed! Bah! Life is unfair!

Off late...

.....my life is a series of Type I errors!

விளக்குமாறு் கட்டைக்கு பட்டுக் குஞ்சரம்!

When my insurance spends $4.2K to fix a car that's worth $5K at the most, saying "no" to scrapping it, what else can I call it?

Parting advice from parents: "Start going to gym regularly"

அன்றும் இன்றும் I

அன்று:

கடாஅக் களிற்றின்மேல் கல்படாம் மாதர்
படாஅ முலைமேல் துகில்

(The cloth that covers the firm bosom of this maiden is (like) that which covers the eyes of a rutting elephant)

இன்று:

அவளுக்கென்ன அம்பாசமுத்ர
அய்யர் ஓட்டல் அல்வாமாதிரி
தாழம்பூவென தளதளதளவென வந்தா வந்தா வந்தா பாரு!

கும்மி அடி.....கும்மி அடி......