Personal Weblog of Deepak Vasudevan

The annual bhajan for Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa by Veeramani Raju is being organized at Kamaraj Hall in Chennai. Please schedule your calendars and try to arrange the same. Veeramani Raju has also been kind enough to announce through his Facebook page that they are trying to webcast this year's event through his website as well:  http://www.veeramaniraju.com/ Date: 1st December 2011 Time: 1800 hours Indian Time

A reader commented on of my previous post as here: I was little surprised on what triggered the reader to post that way and then realized that it was a contribution of ' Abhiyum Naanum '. In order to dispel any myth and clear the same the specific post has been amended duly.  I regret for the wrong message being propagated and also at the same time delighted to hear from the well-wishers  like you. Thank you. :) As Raghu says in the climax of 'Abhiyum Naanum', 'Life is beautiful'. Here is a melody from Abhiyum Naanum. Disclaimer: This song in this particular instance is just a melody to enjoy. No hidden messages to express in anway. On the other hand I wouldn't mind considering to dedicate the song to my Ayyappa mapping Abhi to Ayyappa:

I have one habit or weakness which often puts 'bad people' in deep mess and trouble without even my and their knowledge and it helps bring them out to limelight as a service to the society. Perhaps it lights up the darkness created as my 'name' reflects its shine too. Of late, a few desi consulting organization has been duly reported to the labor department here and they are pursuing punitive actions on them besides serving as an eye-opener to others. Many times I am not myself involved in the so-called unearthing report and/or the so-called detective attempts. The 'Lord' makes it happen through me. Here is my so-called 'habit'. When you give me some concrete information or thing for 'safe custody' and it is a ethical thing then rest assured I can take good care of the same till you or the bona fide owner claims it back. And the confidentiality is assured to two hundred percent. However when the so-called thing happens to be touching the lines ...

We already covered about the crowning feedback in the birthday month . At the same I am also indebted to express my heart-felt thanks to Mark Zuckerburg  for the amazing community that he has  created bringing long-lost people back into the network. Whilst this is the plus-point of Facebook , it also does help you in identifying the rotten samples amongst the basket of apples so that you can remove them in the first instance. At the same time I am delighted to have a blissful show of bountiful greetings on the birthday month which just poured like incessant rose petals right a week before the birthday itself. Face is the index of the mind and a diligent careful use of Facebook in turn helps as a valuable fathom to assess the veracity of the entities in your network.

There was an interesting grammatical breakdown in my birthday post ;  in Microsoft Word perspective, a singular-plural disagreement.  My heart-felt thanks to Lavanya for bringing the same to my kind attention. You may be aware that I really feel happy when receiving comments-for-improvements which make me more dynamic rather than 'appreciations'. When you receive an appreciation the immediate gesture would be 'sit down and relax' which would slow down the progress. On the other hand a comment-for-improvement would make you tread ahead with more vigor and passion. Frankly I logged into my blogger to share the song ' Nalam Vazha ' which is by far the best melodious song as a 'birthday wish' as celebrated in the pages of 'LD'. I am glad that the birthday post itself had gathered a quick and good observation on the same. Whilst that I was feeling glad from the early afternoon of November 9 till the Hawaiian evening of November 10 there was som...

This blogger's humble birthday celebrations was from the city of Nashville, TN. I sincerely thank my friends and circles for sending me wishes through text, social media platforms like Facebook, email and in person. Here is a small birthday prayers dedicated to my Acharyas (spiritual gurus/teachers) and hence dedicated to the Lotus feet of my Lords (Srimathe Lakshmi Narasimha Parabrahmane Namaha and Swamiyae Saranam Ayyappa)

Not sure if OpenDNS made some re-categorizations or my recent Web-content filtering got stricter that familiar Google Youtube got blocked in my computer. Interestingly I could not sign out of Google Voice/Gmail because the logout urls for Google Accounts are currently serviced from accounts.youtube.com Now I am making selective adjustments in the Web-content filtering settings to allow these websites.

It is frustrating to see the situation in some of the developing and developed countries where the evil are prospering and the good people are suffering. The country which had been the benchmark for the world nations and considered super-power once is struggling to protect the lifestyle of its citizens. A host of unscrupulous immigrants are taking good advantage when the nation is suffering. The current government seems to be giving tall claims of various 'war-footing strategies' to improve the situation but the economy which has been ransacked and ravaged by the previous blood-hound leads seems to be in deep pit just like bhooma devi in the clutches of Hiranyakshan. Where is Bhoo Varahan and Lakshmi Narasimhan to resurrect the nation and the earth? The city of sky scrapers witnesses a large scale of selling of properties for the sake of food. The city of cars is witnessing people preferring to transit because of the state of affairs. I fondly recall the 'Unnal Mudiyum Th...

Google Voicemail seems to be having issues with Cricket Wireless phones. The local conditional call forwarding trick that is used to divert cricket voicemail system to Google Voice does not seem to work. Whilst the 611 team asserts that the systems are in place to make it work, the actual level-playing field does not resemble so and elicits an error message as below: I have posted this message to Cricket Wireless Facebook team to see if they can investigate and fix the issue.

Due to time constraints there had been a few occasions when the posts in this blog had been slipping into hiatus. However interested readers can also stay tuned through my micro-blog. I believe you would have seen my micro-blog linked through my personal website. Do send me more suggestions and improvements for the aesthetics and presentation in my micro-blog (LD-LavanyaDeepak).

Two weeks ago I had an opportunity to know about the film Raman Thediya Seethai through infact a really interesting source. I came to know of this title whilst preparing a script for a screenplay. Out of curiosity when I binged it, there turned out to be a movie on the same title. A lot of things to learn from Cheran's creations -- his wonderful ways to capture real life situations as movies. Ranjitha's confession of her inability to judge him at first sight and expressing her love towards joining hands with him is really heart-moving one. At the same time, Gayatri's authoritative and tender moves in making a thief turn a good hard-worker and joining hands with him is another good shot. The one thing I hated was Vidya's move for the way she ditched her family and everyone on the eve of her wedding and eloped with her paramour. Vidya -- the name is really bad for it shares another similar real life villain 'Pammal Vidya'. Perhaps V&R is a better person to...

Last weekend I had an opportunity to watch Radha Mohan's creations 'Payanam' starring Prakashraj. It is a clear demonstration of political interferences in the high voltage drama involving a aircraft hijacked from a fictitious incident involving a flight from Chennai to New Delhi. The pilots resisted causing the engine to be damaged forcing it emergency land in Tirupathi instead of succumbing to the hijack diversion to an alien land of Rawalpindi in Pakistan. A few points to observe from the movie are: Bad behavior of media to sensationalize the topics just for boosting up their TRP ratings even involving an illegal impersonation attempts by reporters. Unethical behavior of airport staff to smuggle explosives into the aircraft lured by the hijackers just for a pay of 2 lakhs. Is so many human lives worth just 2 lakhs? The government just blindly releases the terrorists to 'satisfy' its vote bank and 'dumbass' security advisors without heeding to the ...

I have been receiving a lot of requests from people what are the various URLs that need to be blocked as part of parental control and what I recommend as a good parental control tool. I normally recommend OpenDNS has a good, free, reliable and cloud-based parental control tool. There is nothing to install and you can get started with a faster and safer internet in a few minutes. Also OpenDNS groups the various URLs into different categories and it would be easier for you to block the URLs. My default ruleset of blocking is 'Custom' and the categories I normally block are hereunder: I fondly hope that categorization should be fairly comprehensive parental control for securing an individual families' driving rooms. Opendns also facilitates individual URL unblocking/blocking as exemptions over and the categorization specified.

JustDial  is a reliable and dependable staffed and human-attended humane yellow pages 411 search lookup service. Initially they started their operations in India. They have a quick number called 6999 9999 which is available in most of the cities of India. So when you call this number from New Delhi, the local JustDial would answer it.  Whilst calling from the mobile just dial prefix the (long distance) area code (called as STD code  in a few Asian nations) For me, back at home, Just Dial used to be one of the ICE numbers to be frank. Interestingly in this part of the country there are a few text-to-services like Goog-411 (ceased to be operational on November 2010), Bing 411 , 411 services provided by telephone operators (at a premium charge) do exist. But I still feel that 1-800-JustDial seems to provide an unmatched service. This is the same business as the one in India. For that matter when you visit http://www.justdial.com/ from here are you are only redirected to a...

A while back there was a small Target gift card from Bank of America . Today I just thought would pay a visit to the Target mall here to see what is good. Had it been Amazon there would be a different strategy to avoid the shipping fees and get it. For Target to qualify for free shipping online, you need to book at least $50 worth of goods. After a while the only item that I could afford with the gift card and was good was a Lexar Jump Drive . Don't worry. The illustration was lifted courtesy Bing Images. But the one I ordered was only a single piece of 4 GB storage. Glad that Bank of America is able to reward the customers for the spends on the credit card but only thing is that they ought to restrict the amount of telemarketing calls on the pretext of those cranky surveys at odd hours despite being protected by Do Not Call Registry .

For the fourth day today it had been incessant non-stopping rains which rendered several routes impasse including a partial closure of i495 and 95 because of severe flooding at Woodbridge VA Holly Acres Mobile Park where people had been summoned an evacuation forthwith late night yesterday. Occquan is almost resembling another big roaring ocean inland. The weather is still inclement. Schools which have recently opened for the year had opted to stay close due to the inclement weather conditions until further announcements from the weather department and  improvements. I had an interesting trip from Reston to Richmond yesterday. Almost had three to four detours because of almost flash flood situations en route before reaching the destination. Torrential Downpour is the one we would have heard and read of it. But this was the one which was felt  yesterday.

Around September 6 2010 I had posted my first anniversary celebrations here . Looks like 2011 has fun and enjoyment trebled. September 5 2011 is the first anniversary of Prathiba September 6 2011 is the second anniversary of this blogger .  Prathiba and Aravind have also another thing to rejoice -- The new addition to their family ('Ananya'). Sweet hugs and kisses to Ananya. Time flies really really very fast. It is time for peace and prosperity of the families. Please join me in the prayers and wish us.

Just two days back I was found cribbing around and lamenting ' Sick September '. So "what the hell is this guy around" would be the thought process nurturing in you. Yes. The dawn of September did bring a lot of sweet roses in more ways than one. A few of the good things as of writing on 1st September are: Ganesh Chaturthi Ramzan Celebration on the eve of September. I believe the first week is also loaded with a lot of celebrations a few of them are socially colorful and a handful of them have a personal fanfare. How about giving a privileged mention to the series of Onam festivals that are lined up for our keralite fraternity. Happy Onam guys! For those truly hard-workers, the first monday recognizes them at least in this part of the world. This point number 5 and September 5 is dedication to the teachers who enlighten us from darkness into the world of blooming knowledge. This point number 6 and Sweet September 6 is a treasured for me and my better ha...

The weeks of September pronounce some kind of sluggishness not sure because of the spiritual Mahalaya Paksham or because of the transition of climate from hot summer to either fall/winter. At least for a few years now, September witnessed a sporadic violence on me. A few recaps: 2006: Bouts of medical visits 2007: Bunch of leaves taken for ill-health compared to other months 2008: High temperature whilst at onsite that went up to getting an emergency call but my friend managed to get one of his friend who was a medical practitioner in Dallas to help out informally. 2009: :) 2010: Tylenol...Tylenol... 2011: Tylenol and now series of appointments with Prince William Medicine Om Namo Bhagavate  Maha Sudharshana Vasudevaya Dhanvantaraye;  Amrutha Kalasa Hasthaaya Sarva Bhaya Vinasaya Sarva Roka Nivaranaya |  Thri Lokya Pathaye Thri Lokya Nithaye Sri Maha Vishnu Swarupa  Sri Dhanvantri Swarupa Sri Sri Sri Aoushata Chakra ...

This week had been little truant across the East Coast all from North Carolina to New York. Whilst Tuesday we  did experience a novel 5.9 Richter Scale tremors which are kind of new in this region, the coastline is preparing to greet yet another hostile entrant -- 'Hurricane Irene'. At least to this point I have received three Weather Alert Text Messages  indicating the imminent siege of Irene in the region. The most latest news might say that Irene has weakened a bit but the coastlines are exercising heightened vigil. Several low-lying areas in NC have also been called for mandatory evacuation . Let us hope for the kindness and magnanimity of the nature.