சினிமா - மலரும் நினைவுகள்! நண்பர் ரமேஷ் எழுதிய பதிவு சினிமா பற்றி. என்னையும் எழுத சொன்னார்.
இது எனது பதில்கள்.
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1. எந்த வயதில் சினிமா பார்க்க ஆரம்பித்தீர்கள்? நினைவு தெரிந்து கண்ட முதல் சினிமா? என்ன உணர்ந்தீர்கள்?
முதலில் நினைவில் இருப்பது எம்.ஜி.ஆர். படம். நல்ல நேரம். யானை எல்லாம் வரும். ஒரு குலநடை அருகில் பாம்பு வரும்...சிறு வயது ஒரு ஐந்து இருக்கும். இன்னும் நினைவில் உள்ளது. கோத்தகிரியில் பார்த்தது. இருட்டு. பயம். பாப்கார்ன். ஜாலியாக இருந்தது. அப்புறம் தங்கைகள் இருவர், அண்ணனோடு சண்டை போட்டு கார்னர் சீட் பிடித்தது, மறக்கவில்லை. முழு படம் ஞாபகம் இல்லை.
2. கடைசியாக அரங்கில் அமர்ந்து பார்த்த தமிழ் சினிமா?
சுப்ரமண்யபுரம். பெங்களூர். ஒரு சுமாரான தேயடர்.
3. கடைசியாக அரங்கிலன்றிப் பார்த்த தமிழ் சினிமா எது, எங்கே, என்ன உணர்ந்தீர்கள்?
கில்லி. டிவி. நான் ரசித்த படம். முதல் சீனில் இருந்து எனக்கு பிடித்தது. சினிமா என்றால் ஒரு நல்ல திரைக்கதை வேண்டும். செய்துள்ளார். தமிழ்நாடு கொலைவெறி வாசம்.
4. மிகவும் தாக்கிய தமிழ்ச்சினிமா
விஜயகாந்த் நடித்த செந்தூரபூவே. இன்னும் நினைவில் உள்ளது. ஆபாவாணன் படம்.
5-அ. உங்களை மிகவும் தாக்கிய தமிழ்ச்சினிமா-அரசியல் சம்பவம்?
விருமாண்டி ஒரு கமல் படம், சமீபத்தில் டிவிடி பார்த்தேன். சண்டியர் என்பது ஒரு ஜாதி குறிக்கிறது என்று சொல்லி பெயர் மாற்றினார்கள். படமெல்லாம் சண்டியர் வசனம்.
5-ஆ. உங்களை மிகவும் தாக்கிய தமிழ்ச்சினிமா-தொழில்நுட்ப சம்பவம்?
பாய்ஸ். அந்த காமிரா 360 டிக்ரி காட்சி. அருமை. அந்நியனில் ரிபீட்.
6. தமிழ்ச்சினிமா பற்றி வாசிப்பதுண்டா?
டைம் இல்லை. குமுதம், விகடன் மற்றும் ப்ளொக்ஸ்.
7.தமிழ்ச்சினிமா இசை?
ரஹ்மான், ஒரு முறை 'உயிரே ' கேட்டு பார்க்கவும்.
8. தமிழ் தவிர வேறு இந்திய, உலக மொழி சினிமா பார்ப்பதுண்டா? அதிகம் தாக்கிய படங்கள்?
ஆங்கிலம், தெலுங்கு, மலையாளம் மற்றும் ஹிந்தி படங்கள். ஆங்கிலத்தில் ச்லீப்லேச்ஸ் இன் சியாட்டில். தெலுங்கில் கங் லீடர். மலையாளத்தில் ஹிஸ் ஹைனெஸ் அப்துல்லா. ஹிந்தியில் ருடாலி.
9. தமிழ்ச்சினிமா உலகுடன் நேரடித்தொடர்பு உண்டா? என்ன செய்தீர்கள்? பிடித்ததா? அதை மீண்டும் செய்வீர்களா? தமிழ்ச்சினிமா மேம்பட அது உதவுமா?
இல்லை. பல சைஅன்ஸ் பிக்சன் எழுதியுள்ளேன். ஒரு படம் செய்ய ஆசை.
10. தமிழ்ச்சினிமாவின் எதிர்காலம் பற்றி என்ன நினைக்கிறீர்கள்?
நன்றாக இல்லை... ஒரே ட்ரெண்ட் வருது. சீசனல். ரசனை குறைவு. ஐந்து பட்டு. குத்து. பைட்.
11. அடுத்த ஓராண்டு தமிழில் சினிமா கிடையாது, மற்றும் சினிமா பற்றிய சமாச்சாரங்கள், செய்திகள் எதுவுமே பத்திரிகைகள், தொலைக்காட்சி, இணையம் உள்ளிட்ட ஊடகங்களில் கிடையாது என்று வைத்துக்கொள்வோம்? உங்களுக்கு எப்படியிருக்கும்? தமிழர்களுக்கு என்ன ஆகும் என்று நினைக்கிறீர்கள்?
ரொம்ப சந்தோசம். புத்தகங்கள் படிப்பேன்.
என் வாசகர்கள் எழுதுங்கள். என்னிடம் சொல்லுங்கள்.
என்னைப்பற்றி.... சுவாரசியாமாயிருக்க... பார்க்கலாம்... விஜயசங்கர். Read about my thoughts in Tamil & English (some may call it ramblings).
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Thursday, October 09, 2008
Sickness, Stomach and Worries
Holidays are meant for good food.
Food and family.
Life goes on.
At times even great food brings sickness.
Upset Stomach and worries.
We need not bother about anything.
And life goes around a cycle.
Food and family.
Life goes on.
At times even great food brings sickness.
Upset Stomach and worries.
We need not bother about anything.
And life goes around a cycle.
Wednesday, October 08, 2008
Writing Styles
An authors passion should be like the calendar. Should provide the day to day information in a narrative style, bringing in emotions, actions and feelings.
Novel is the form of telling a plot, with a story or multiple stories.
I like the twist form of short stories, with a small anti-climax in the end. The readers imagination should be at play.
Since I am adept in Tamil, and English, I command a very good focus on what is needed for the author and read accordingly.
You would be surprised to know that some of my works have been internalized by many English authors in USA, when I tried to publish. Irony.
So you might see me writing sparingly. I used blog as a medium of snippets. Gotcha!
Writing is a gift, please don't misuse it.
Novel is the form of telling a plot, with a story or multiple stories.
I like the twist form of short stories, with a small anti-climax in the end. The readers imagination should be at play.
Since I am adept in Tamil, and English, I command a very good focus on what is needed for the author and read accordingly.
You would be surprised to know that some of my works have been internalized by many English authors in USA, when I tried to publish. Irony.
So you might see me writing sparingly. I used blog as a medium of snippets. Gotcha!
Writing is a gift, please don't misuse it.
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
இந்தியா குடும்பத்தின் பரிதாபம்...
இந்தியா குடும்பத்தின் பரிதாபம்...
யு நீட நாட் கட் லோச்செஸ் லைக் திஸ்.
படியுங்கள் இங்கே
oh my India. அத்மா சாந்தியடையட்டும்.
இந்தியாவில் சோறாவது கிடைக்கும்!
யு நீட நாட் கட் லோச்செஸ் லைக் திஸ்.
படியுங்கள் இங்கே
oh my India. அத்மா சாந்தியடையட்டும்.
இந்தியாவில் சோறாவது கிடைக்கும்!
Ganguly announces retirement from International Cricket
Ganguly announces retirement from International Cricket, at Bangalore.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Ganguly-calls-it-a-day-will-retire-after-Aus-series/370498/
He will however play the IPL till 2011 for Kolkatta Knight Riders.
I would say, I am a proud fan of his ODI capabilities and gritty captain. He was the one, who kept Kumble, Laxman out....even while in form.
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Ganguly-calls-it-a-day-will-retire-after-Aus-series/370498/
He will however play the IPL till 2011 for Kolkatta Knight Riders.
I would say, I am a proud fan of his ODI capabilities and gritty captain. He was the one, who kept Kumble, Laxman out....even while in form.
Children and Suicide: On Slate
Do you want to read this?
http://www.slate.com/id/2201530/?GT1=48001
tough on me...
Children, they are Gods.
http://www.slate.com/id/2201530/?GT1=48001
tough on me...
Children, they are Gods.
Tata decide on Gujarat for Nano
Tata decide on Gujarat for Nano... After moving out of West Bengal.. they are going to get the Anand Agricultural University land, where no politician has dared to occupy as poramboke. Tough rule of land... This is a flat land...
Good luck! Book me one, and one more Tata nano!
Very funny!
Read here....
Surveyசன் என்பவர் எழுதுனது...
"hey John, if you are free over the weekend, could you join us for கோழி புடிக்க?"
Surveyசன் என்பவர் எழுதுனது...
"hey John, if you are free over the weekend, could you join us for கோழி புடிக்க?"
The Hill School, Pottstown
I was searching information about private boarding school in USA.
I came across The Hill School. Pottstown. PA. USA.
I have lived close to this school.
I lived in Reading from 1995 to 1999, before I decided to move back to India.
The current tuition runs about $42,000/- Wow! But worth it.
Very famous personalities, including Indians have studied here...
I came across The Hill School. Pottstown. PA. USA.
I have lived close to this school.
I lived in Reading from 1995 to 1999, before I decided to move back to India.
The current tuition runs about $42,000/- Wow! But worth it.
Very famous personalities, including Indians have studied here...
What can you learn from Hollywood?
Here is an interesting article by Guy Kawasaki.
Interesting.
http://blogs.openforum.com/2008/10/06/what-you-can-learn-from-hollywood/
Applies to India as well... particular to Tamilnadu.
Interesting.
http://blogs.openforum.com/2008/10/06/what-you-can-learn-from-hollywood/
Applies to India as well... particular to Tamilnadu.
Monday, October 06, 2008
Richard Branson: Management Utterances
Management gems from Richard Branson
'Business opportunities are like buses'
# A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
# Business is giving people in their lifetime what they need and what they want. And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. Occasionally we'll come unstuck and you know, we'll learn from our mistakes but so far I think we've managed to get it right more often than we've got it wrong.
# Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
# I believe in benevolent dictatorship, provided I am the dictator.
'I never get the accountants in before I start up a business'
# I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
# I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life
# Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
# The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically guarantee hit records.
'Quickest way to be a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet'
# With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
# If you are trying to do something for the first time, it's always an enormous challenge, and there is no guarantee of success.
You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
# What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
# Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
'You can't be a good leader unless you like people'
# We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product. . . It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.
# Well, I'm somebody who is just living. . . living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.
# Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
# We look for opportunities where we can offer something better, fresher, and more valuable, and we seize them. We often move into areas where the customer has traditionally received a poor deal, and where the competition is complacent. And with our growing e-commerce activities, we also look to deliver 'old' products in new ways. We are pro-active and quick to act, often leaving bigger and more cumbersome organisations in our wake. When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in the customer's shoes to see what could make it better.
'I wanted to be an editor or a journalist'
# If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
# I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
# My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our
house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
# Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
There's no model to follow, nothing to copy'
# Above all, you want to create something you are proud of. . . . That has always been my philosophy of business. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.
# We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.
# We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
# Peter Gabriel -- a Virgin artist for 20 years -- is still pre-eminent in the business. Whether the new artists will do the same is more questionable.
'All you have in life is your reputation'
# I'm inquisitive. . . and I love a new challenge. . . and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go. Some people call that 'brand stretching' and say that this is not the way business should be done, and in the Western world generally it's not the way business is done. And I think to be perfectly frank the reason it's not done that way is that most big companies are public. . .
# All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you. I had never really focused on what a good name meant before, but that night in prison made me understand.
# My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable, challenges and trying to rise above them.
# To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.
'I don't think of work as work'
# I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
# I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.
# As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.
# If you're good with people and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin.
'I overcome my difficulties by concentrating'
# Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management -- this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.
# Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.
# Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?
# If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.
'I don't think I'll ever retire'
# Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life, I fully enjoy it. I don't think I'll ever retire.
# If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognise you.
# Many people know the Virgin brand better than the names of the individual companies within the group.
# I have always believed that marketing starts with the product, not what you say about it. If you develop an excellent product with value that is right for your customers, then marketing it should not be difficult.
'If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything'
# We promise value for money, and we try to do things in an innovative way, in areas where consumers are often ripped off, or not getting the most for their money. I believe we should do what we do with a sense of fun and without taking ourselves too seriously, too! If Virgin stands for anything, it should be for not being afraid to try out new ideas in new areas.
# If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.
# I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.
# Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.
'I just love life'
# Three months of running a business or trying to set up a business and you will learn, I suspect, as much as you can learn in three years at a business school.
# The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.
# Clearly in the eyes of the consumer the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.
# I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.
'My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself'
# Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
# A lot of chairmen of a lot of companies are terrified of the press. Our attitude is if CNN wants an interview you never say no, you always say yes, because we want to become the most respected brand in the world and we have to get out there and talk about what we are doing.
# My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had -- every day I'm learning something new.
# Fantasizing about the future is one of my favourite pastimes.
'A company is people'
# I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no.
# When I graduated from Stowe, a big public school, my headmaster's parting words to me were: "Congrats, Branson. I predict you will either go to prison or become a millionaire."
# I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
# A company is people. . . employees want to know. . . am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.
'Branding is everything'
# Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
# Back then we would create a company based on frustration at other people's service and suddenly realised we had one of the most respected brands in the world.
# If you aren't willing to try everything and make a mistake, then you'll never make anything of yourself.
# I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.
'Business opportunities are like buses'
# A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts.
# Business is giving people in their lifetime what they need and what they want. And you know, I've had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure those industries will never be the same again, because Virgin went in and took them on. Occasionally we'll come unstuck and you know, we'll learn from our mistakes but so far I think we've managed to get it right more often than we've got it wrong.
# Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.
# I believe in benevolent dictatorship, provided I am the dictator.
'I never get the accountants in before I start up a business'
# I never get the accountants in before I start up a business. It's done on gut feeling, especially if I can see that they are taking the mickey out of the consumer.
# I love the freedom of movement that my phone gives me. That has definitely transformed my life
# Ridiculous yachts and private planes and big limousines won't make people enjoy life more, and it sends out terrible messages to the people who work for them. It would be so much better if that money was spent in Africa - and it's about getting a balance.
# The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically guarantee hit records.
'Quickest way to be a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet'
# With the casino and the beds, our passengers will have at least two ways to get lucky on one of our flights.
# If you are trying to do something for the first time, it's always an enormous challenge, and there is no guarantee of success.
You never know with these things when you're trying something new what can happen. This is all experimental.
# What's the quickest way to become a millionaire? Borrow fivers off everyone you meet.
# Fortunately we're not a public company - we're a private group of companies, and I can do what I want.
'You can't be a good leader unless you like people'
# We've got an engaging, edgy, vibrant, fun product. . . It may or may not work, but we're going to give it our best shot.
# Well, I'm somebody who is just living. . . living life, and if I get frustrated by something, then I like to try to put it right.
# Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can't be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.
# We look for opportunities where we can offer something better, fresher, and more valuable, and we seize them. We often move into areas where the customer has traditionally received a poor deal, and where the competition is complacent. And with our growing e-commerce activities, we also look to deliver 'old' products in new ways. We are pro-active and quick to act, often leaving bigger and more cumbersome organisations in our wake. When we start a new venture, we base it on hard research and analysis. Typically, we review the industry and put ourselves in the customer's shoes to see what could make it better.
'I wanted to be an editor or a journalist'
# If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.
# I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
# My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our
house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.
# Records are made to be broken. It is in man's nature to continue to strive to do just that.
There's no model to follow, nothing to copy'
# Above all, you want to create something you are proud of. . . . That has always been my philosophy of business. I can honestly say that I have never gone into any business purely to make money. If that is the sole motive, then I believe you are better off doing nothing.
# We'd love to be involved with the creation of something very special, something quite large and something quite exciting.
# We're going where no one has gone before. There's no model to follow, nothing to copy. That is what makes this so exciting.
# Peter Gabriel -- a Virgin artist for 20 years -- is still pre-eminent in the business. Whether the new artists will do the same is more questionable.
'All you have in life is your reputation'
# I'm inquisitive. . . and I love a new challenge. . . and if I feel that we can do it better than it's been done by other people, we'll have a go. Some people call that 'brand stretching' and say that this is not the way business should be done, and in the Western world generally it's not the way business is done. And I think to be perfectly frank the reason it's not done that way is that most big companies are public. . .
# All you have in life is your reputation: you may be very rich, but if you lose your good name, then you'll never be happy. The thought will always lurk at the back of your mind that people don't trust you. I had never really focused on what a good name meant before, but that night in prison made me understand.
# My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable, challenges and trying to rise above them.
# To be successful, you have to be out there, you have to hit the ground running, and if you have a good team around you and more than a fair share of luck, you might make something happen. But you certainly can't guarantee it just by following someone else's formula.
'I don't think of work as work'
# I don't think of work as work and play as play. It's all living.
# I've had to create companies that I believe in 100%. These are companies I feel will make a genuine difference. Then I have to be willing to find the time myself to talk about them, promote them and market them. I don't want to spend my life doing something that I'm not proud of.
# As much as you need a strong personality to build a business from scratch, you also must understand the art of delegation. I have to be good at helping people run the individual businesses, and I have to be willing to step back. The company must be set up so it can continue without me.
# If you're good with people and you really care, genuinely care about people then I'm sure we could find a job for you at Virgin.
'I overcome my difficulties by concentrating'
# Our model is to develop each business separately with its own shareholder and management -- this way we can concentrate on the job in hand, rather than be part of some enormous and faceless conglomerate.
# Although my spelling is still sometimes poor, I have managed to overcome the worst of my difficulties through training myself to concentrate.
# Some 80% of your life is spent working. You want to have fun at home; why shouldn't you have fun at work?
# If a chairman of a company visits Seattle, that chairman should take all the staff out in the evening and have a few drinks together, talk together and party together and not be embarrassed about the staff seeing the weaker side of you.
'I don't think I'll ever retire'
# Because I don't see Virgin as a company but as a way of life, I fully enjoy it. I don't think I'll ever retire.
# If you get your face and your name out there enough, people will start to recognise you.
# Many people know the Virgin brand better than the names of the individual companies within the group.
# I have always believed that marketing starts with the product, not what you say about it. If you develop an excellent product with value that is right for your customers, then marketing it should not be difficult.
'If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything'
# We promise value for money, and we try to do things in an innovative way, in areas where consumers are often ripped off, or not getting the most for their money. I believe we should do what we do with a sense of fun and without taking ourselves too seriously, too! If Virgin stands for anything, it should be for not being afraid to try out new ideas in new areas.
# If you don't take risks you won't achieve anything.
# I have no secret. There are no rules to follow in business. I just work hard and, as I always have done, believe I can do it. Most of all, though, I try to have fun.
# Wine, like life, is meant to be enjoyed.
'I just love life'
# Three months of running a business or trying to set up a business and you will learn, I suspect, as much as you can learn in three years at a business school.
# The companies that look after their people are the companies that do really well. I'm sure we'd like a few other attributes, but that would be the most important one.
# Clearly in the eyes of the consumer the brand has not been diluted, but we must guard against that happening at all costs.
# I just love life. I mean, you know, I love every second of it. I love people.
'My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself'
# Everyone needs something to aim for. You can call it a challenge, or you can call it a goal. It is what makes us human. It was challenges that took us from being cavemen to reaching for the stars.
# A lot of chairmen of a lot of companies are terrified of the press. Our attitude is if CNN wants an interview you never say no, you always say yes, because we want to become the most respected brand in the world and we have to get out there and talk about what we are doing.
# My biggest motivation? Just to keep challenging myself. I see life almost like one long University education that I never had -- every day I'm learning something new.
# Fantasizing about the future is one of my favourite pastimes.
'A company is people'
# I have enjoyed life a lot more by saying yes than by saying no.
# When I graduated from Stowe, a big public school, my headmaster's parting words to me were: "Congrats, Branson. I predict you will either go to prison or become a millionaire."
# I have always lived my life by thriving on opportunity and adventure. Some of the best ideas come out of the blue, and you have to keep an open mind to see their virtue.
# A company is people. . . employees want to know. . . am I being listened to or am I a cog in the wheel? People really need to feel wanted.
'Branding is everything'
# Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!
# Back then we would create a company based on frustration at other people's service and suddenly realised we had one of the most respected brands in the world.
# If you aren't willing to try everything and make a mistake, then you'll never make anything of yourself.
# I just like to enjoy life and push myself. Of course, there is method to my madness. When you are entering into a new industry, for example, it helps to do something to get your name on the front pages.
Some Questions of Industry Analysts
1. What are the ten deadly sins NOT to commit when working with an industry analyst firm?
2. What are the typical characteristics of an industry analyst that will enable you to more effectively work with them?
3. As a vendor, when should you be humble and when should you position yourself as an expert?
4. Does subscribing to an analyst's research improve coverage of your products or company?
5. How is a research briefs created and what impact can a vendor have on its content?
6. What are the three highest-level benefits you can enjoy from an effective analyst relations approach?
7. How can you best capitalize on industry analyst "rules of engagement?"
8. Precisely what homework must you do before you brief an analyst?
9. How do vision and ability to execute relate to how an analyst sees your company?
10. During a briefing, how do CEOs, VPs of sales, PR firms and VPs of marketing impact how an analyst sees your company?
2. What are the typical characteristics of an industry analyst that will enable you to more effectively work with them?
3. As a vendor, when should you be humble and when should you position yourself as an expert?
4. Does subscribing to an analyst's research improve coverage of your products or company?
5. How is a research briefs created and what impact can a vendor have on its content?
6. What are the three highest-level benefits you can enjoy from an effective analyst relations approach?
7. How can you best capitalize on industry analyst "rules of engagement?"
8. Precisely what homework must you do before you brief an analyst?
9. How do vision and ability to execute relate to how an analyst sees your company?
10. During a briefing, how do CEOs, VPs of sales, PR firms and VPs of marketing impact how an analyst sees your company?
Sunday, October 05, 2008
பட்டணம் தான் போகலாமடி
ம்ம் ம்ம் .. மூட்டையைக் கட்டிக்கோ
எதுக்கு?
பட்டணம் தான் போகலாமடி பொம்பளே
பணம் காசு தேடலாமடி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே என் கண்ணாட்டி நீயும்
வாடி பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
டவுனுப் பக்கம் போகாதீங்க மாப்பிள்ளே
டவுனாயிப் போயிடுவீங்க
அந்த டாம்பீகம் ஏழைக்கு தாங்காது பயணம்
வேண்டான்னா கேளு மாமா
கெட்டவுங்க பட்டணத்தை
ஒட்டிக்கோணும் என்பதாலே
கெட்டவுங்க பட்டணத்தை ஒட்டிக்கோணும்
என்பதாலே
பட்டிக்காட்டை விட்டுப் போட்டு பல பேரும்
போவதாலே
கட்டுச் சோத்தைக் கட்டிக் கொள்ளடி பொம்பளே
தட்டிச் சொன்னா கேக்க மாட்டேண்டி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே என் கண்ணாட்டி நீயும்
வாடி பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
வேலை ஏதுங்க? கூலி ஏதுங்க?
வெட்கக் கேட்டை சொல்றேன் கேளுங்க
அங்கே வேலை ஏதுங்க? கூலி ஏதுங்க?
வெட்கக் கேட்டை சொல்றேன் கேளுங்க
காலேஜு படிப்பு காப்பி ஆத்துதாம்
பி.ஏ. படிப்பு பெஞ்சு துடைக்குதாம்
ஆளை ஏய்ச்சி ஆளும் பொழைக்குதாம்
அஞ்சிக்கி ரெண்டு கஞ்சிக்கலையுதாம்
மேலே போனது நூத்திலே ஒண்ணாம்
மிச்சம் உள்ளது லாட்ரி அடிக்குதாம்
எப்படி?
ஒண்ணான சாமியெல்லாம் ஒண்ணுமே
எண்ணாம தவிக்கையிலே
மாப்பிள்ளே ..ஒண்ணான சாமியெல்லாம் ஒண்ணுமே
எண்ணாம தவிக்கையிலே
உன்னாலே என்னாகும் எண்ணாம போனா
பின்னாலே கேளு மாமா
ராத்திரி பகலா ரிக்ஷா இழுப்பேன்
நைசா பேசி பைசா இழுப்பேன்
அம்மா ..ஒதுங்கு ..ஒதுங்கு ..ஒதுங்கு...
ராத்திரி பகலா ரிக்ஷா இழுப்பேன்
நைசா பேசி பைசா இழுப்பேன்
டிராமா சினிமா சர்க்கஸ் பாப்பேன்
ராஜா மாதிரி சிகரெட்டும் பிடிப்பேன்
வேர்த்து உருகினா பீச்சுக்குப் போவேன்
மீந்த பணத்திலே மீனு வாங்குவேன்
ஆத்தாடி உன் கையிலே குடுப்பேன்
ஆத்தச் சொல்லியே சாப்பிட்டுப் படுப்பேன்
மேலே?
இதுக்கு மேலே சொல்ல மாட்டேண்டி
பொம்பளே
இந்த ஊரில் இருக்க மாட்டேண்டி
நான் இப்போதே போவோணும்
உங்கப்பாவைக் கேட்டு ஏதாச்சும்
வாங்கி வாடி
பட்டணம் தான் போகலாமடி பொம்பளே
பணம் காசு தேடலாமடி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே என் கண்ணாட்டி நீயும்
வாடி பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
டவுனுப் பக்கம் போகாதீங்க மாப்பிள்ளே
டவுன் ஆயிப் போயிடுவீங்க
அந்த டாம்பீகம் ஏழைக்கு தாங்காது பயணம்
வேண்டான்னா கேளு மாமா
மனுஷனை மனுஷன் இழுக்குற வேலை
வயிறு காய்ஞ்சவன் செய்யிற வேலை
மனுஷனை மனுஷன் இழுக்குற வேலை
வயிறு காய்ஞ்சவன் செய்யிற வேலை
கணக்குக்கும் மீறி பணம் வந்த போது
மனுஷனை சும்மா இருக்க விடாது
என்னை மறந்து உன்னை மறந்து
எல்லா வேலையும் செய்வே துணிந்து
இரவு ராணிகள் வலையிலே விழுந்து
ஏமாந்து போவே .. இன்னும் கேளு ...
போலீசு புலி புடிக்கும் மாப்பிள்ளே
புர்ராவைப் பெயர்த்தெடுக்கும்
அங்கே போவாதே வீணாக சாவாதே மாமா
பொண்ஜாதி பேச்சைக் கேளு
அப்பிடியா? ஆஹா...
நீ உலகம் அறிஞ்ச பொம்மனாட்டி
நான் ஒண்ணுமே தெரியா கம்மனாட்டி
நீ உலகம் அறிஞ்ச பொம்மனாட்டி
நான் ஒண்ணுமே தெரியா கம்மனாட்டி
ஊரு விட்டு ஊரு போனா
சீரு கெட்டுப் போகுமின்னு
ஊரு விட்டு ஊரு போனா
சீரு கெட்டுப் போகுமின்னு
உண்மையோட சொன்ன சொல்லு
நன்மையாக தோணுது
பட்டணம் தான் போக மாட்டேண்டி
உன்னையும் பயணமாக சொல்ல மாட்டேண்டி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே
என் கண்ணைத் தொறந்தவ நீ தான்
பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
ஏரோட்டிப் பாத்தி பிடிச்சி அதிலே
நீர் பாய்ச்சி நெல்லு விதைச்சி
நம்ம ஊரோட ஒண்ணாக உள்ளதைக் கொண்டு
நாம் உல்லாசமாக வாழ்வோம்
ஏரோட்டிப் பாத்தி பிடிச்சி அதிலே
நீர் பாய்ச்சி நெல்லு விதைச்சி
நம்ம ஊரோட ஒண்ணாக உள்ளதைக் கொண்டு
நாம் உல்லாசமாக வாழ்வோம்
எதுக்கு?
பட்டணம் தான் போகலாமடி பொம்பளே
பணம் காசு தேடலாமடி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே என் கண்ணாட்டி நீயும்
வாடி பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
டவுனுப் பக்கம் போகாதீங்க மாப்பிள்ளே
டவுனாயிப் போயிடுவீங்க
அந்த டாம்பீகம் ஏழைக்கு தாங்காது பயணம்
வேண்டான்னா கேளு மாமா
கெட்டவுங்க பட்டணத்தை
ஒட்டிக்கோணும் என்பதாலே
கெட்டவுங்க பட்டணத்தை ஒட்டிக்கோணும்
என்பதாலே
பட்டிக்காட்டை விட்டுப் போட்டு பல பேரும்
போவதாலே
கட்டுச் சோத்தைக் கட்டிக் கொள்ளடி பொம்பளே
தட்டிச் சொன்னா கேக்க மாட்டேண்டி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே என் கண்ணாட்டி நீயும்
வாடி பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
வேலை ஏதுங்க? கூலி ஏதுங்க?
வெட்கக் கேட்டை சொல்றேன் கேளுங்க
அங்கே வேலை ஏதுங்க? கூலி ஏதுங்க?
வெட்கக் கேட்டை சொல்றேன் கேளுங்க
காலேஜு படிப்பு காப்பி ஆத்துதாம்
பி.ஏ. படிப்பு பெஞ்சு துடைக்குதாம்
ஆளை ஏய்ச்சி ஆளும் பொழைக்குதாம்
அஞ்சிக்கி ரெண்டு கஞ்சிக்கலையுதாம்
மேலே போனது நூத்திலே ஒண்ணாம்
மிச்சம் உள்ளது லாட்ரி அடிக்குதாம்
எப்படி?
ஒண்ணான சாமியெல்லாம் ஒண்ணுமே
எண்ணாம தவிக்கையிலே
மாப்பிள்ளே ..ஒண்ணான சாமியெல்லாம் ஒண்ணுமே
எண்ணாம தவிக்கையிலே
உன்னாலே என்னாகும் எண்ணாம போனா
பின்னாலே கேளு மாமா
ராத்திரி பகலா ரிக்ஷா இழுப்பேன்
நைசா பேசி பைசா இழுப்பேன்
அம்மா ..ஒதுங்கு ..ஒதுங்கு ..ஒதுங்கு...
ராத்திரி பகலா ரிக்ஷா இழுப்பேன்
நைசா பேசி பைசா இழுப்பேன்
டிராமா சினிமா சர்க்கஸ் பாப்பேன்
ராஜா மாதிரி சிகரெட்டும் பிடிப்பேன்
வேர்த்து உருகினா பீச்சுக்குப் போவேன்
மீந்த பணத்திலே மீனு வாங்குவேன்
ஆத்தாடி உன் கையிலே குடுப்பேன்
ஆத்தச் சொல்லியே சாப்பிட்டுப் படுப்பேன்
மேலே?
இதுக்கு மேலே சொல்ல மாட்டேண்டி
பொம்பளே
இந்த ஊரில் இருக்க மாட்டேண்டி
நான் இப்போதே போவோணும்
உங்கப்பாவைக் கேட்டு ஏதாச்சும்
வாங்கி வாடி
பட்டணம் தான் போகலாமடி பொம்பளே
பணம் காசு தேடலாமடி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே என் கண்ணாட்டி நீயும்
வாடி பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
டவுனுப் பக்கம் போகாதீங்க மாப்பிள்ளே
டவுன் ஆயிப் போயிடுவீங்க
அந்த டாம்பீகம் ஏழைக்கு தாங்காது பயணம்
வேண்டான்னா கேளு மாமா
மனுஷனை மனுஷன் இழுக்குற வேலை
வயிறு காய்ஞ்சவன் செய்யிற வேலை
மனுஷனை மனுஷன் இழுக்குற வேலை
வயிறு காய்ஞ்சவன் செய்யிற வேலை
கணக்குக்கும் மீறி பணம் வந்த போது
மனுஷனை சும்மா இருக்க விடாது
என்னை மறந்து உன்னை மறந்து
எல்லா வேலையும் செய்வே துணிந்து
இரவு ராணிகள் வலையிலே விழுந்து
ஏமாந்து போவே .. இன்னும் கேளு ...
போலீசு புலி புடிக்கும் மாப்பிள்ளே
புர்ராவைப் பெயர்த்தெடுக்கும்
அங்கே போவாதே வீணாக சாவாதே மாமா
பொண்ஜாதி பேச்சைக் கேளு
அப்பிடியா? ஆஹா...
நீ உலகம் அறிஞ்ச பொம்மனாட்டி
நான் ஒண்ணுமே தெரியா கம்மனாட்டி
நீ உலகம் அறிஞ்ச பொம்மனாட்டி
நான் ஒண்ணுமே தெரியா கம்மனாட்டி
ஊரு விட்டு ஊரு போனா
சீரு கெட்டுப் போகுமின்னு
ஊரு விட்டு ஊரு போனா
சீரு கெட்டுப் போகுமின்னு
உண்மையோட சொன்ன சொல்லு
நன்மையாக தோணுது
பட்டணம் தான் போக மாட்டேண்டி
உன்னையும் பயணமாக சொல்ல மாட்டேண்டி
நல்ல கட்டாணி முத்தே
என் கண்ணைத் தொறந்தவ நீ தான்
பொண்டாட்டி தாயே
ஏரோட்டிப் பாத்தி பிடிச்சி அதிலே
நீர் பாய்ச்சி நெல்லு விதைச்சி
நம்ம ஊரோட ஒண்ணாக உள்ளதைக் கொண்டு
நாம் உல்லாசமாக வாழ்வோம்
ஏரோட்டிப் பாத்தி பிடிச்சி அதிலே
நீர் பாய்ச்சி நெல்லு விதைச்சி
நம்ம ஊரோட ஒண்ணாக உள்ளதைக் கொண்டு
நாம் உல்லாசமாக வாழ்வோம்
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