Rest in peace Phil!

It was a shocker to hear about the sudden end to Hugsey's life. I was heartbroken when my manager told about it in middle of our critical meeting. Nothing else was going into my mind ever since I heard this! Damn! Why God? A 25 year old young kid has to exit from this world in such painful way?

My thoughts and prayers are with Phil's family and friends. David Warner and haddin were severely affected by his loss. Saw David spending the whole time since Hughes got hit in the ground till now with him. Stay strong warnie, this is what humankind is. Earning people shows the importance of one's loss.

Also, it wasn't your fault Sean Abott. It was merely an accident and you are not responsible for this. Stay strong man.

I'm not gonna watch cricket for somedays. 

We miss you Hugsey! May your soul rest in peace...

Steven Smith the future!

In recent times of Australian Cricket history, they couldn't find the proper replacement for Punter at one down position, as he was exceptionally driving that place with steady runs.

After Ponting's retirement, there were so-many options and initially it was working fine with Watto. But due to his injury concerns, he couldn't be the replacement for that spot for long time. In times it was occupied by Clarke, Mc Hussey, Hughes, Marsh, etc. But nothing clicked, yet so far.

But with the last 2 ODI performances (including today's) added to the Pakistan series in UAE, I tend to feel it will be SPD Smith!

Smithy has an Asian type of batting technique and Australian type of thinking power; which allows him to play according to the situation anywhere in the world, doesn't matter whether that's in Asia or Australia.

moreover, he applies the street cricket techniques when the opponent team tries with all the field setup against to him, so that they will be clueless where he's gonna hit the ball!

As world's best batsman currently, A B Devilliers stated, "Smithy will be a nightmare for the other team's captains", and said rightly so...

Australia finally found the best replacement to Punter, and probably for Clarke too, if he is not gonna make it for WC2015. 

Here's a soul from Srilanka wishing you good luck Smithy! Way to go!!!

Magician and the Snow white

It has no connections to the Snow white story; But there is a Snow white kinda kid Singing in-front of the musical magician! you know who I refers to; yes, it is the Magician A R Rahman and Snow white Spoorthi!

Last 2 weeks if you have followed up the Vijay TV Super singer Junior 4, you would've noticed, Spoorthi was singing songs which are very-much hard, still she delivered with the spirit to do so. She sung "Nenjil jil jil" from kannaththil muththamittaal, with the original singer, my all time favorite Chinmayi; Even Chinmayi praised Spoorthi for the brave attempt, and said she did a better performance while performing the practice sessions. But it was not up to the mark that day. She couldn't reach the upper notes easily. Again, she took "Thoda thoda malarnthathenna" in A R R round, along with mighty Shravan, but couldn't achieve the standards;

Those 2 were the indications for me, that she is going to come back so powerful, even harder; Shall we say, waiting for the main war, keeping the troops prepared. Just like how Guru Bhai saved his voice to produce in the court! An utmost silent before the Storm!

Yes, she produced probably her best, in front of Mozart of Madras! Singing in front of the musical maestro would make other kids shiver, but this cutie pie was never down, She sung like as if she was waiting for this moment only! "Minsaara Poove", male and female parts of the song, both she sung, showed dynamics to differ them, put beautiful aalaaps, moreover, Sung as she's singing for the final time, with full of confident and Spirit!

Having listened to the song, A R R just asked only one thing, "How old are you Spoorthi?" :)
That's the wow factor!

http://www.tubetamil.com/tamil-tv-shows/vijay-tv-shows/super-singer/super-singer-junior-4/super-singer-junior-4-vijay-tv-13-11-2014.html

She simply ruled the stage yesterday, Everyone, including Siddharth, were loving her performance.

And on another note, Mr. A R R, gave a good explanation on why he didn't sing for Kaaviyath Thalaivan, That is, "It doesn't require to sing in all his movies, If the voice supports the plot and hero, he will definitely sing. And moreover, there are many good singers than him, and he accepted it!"

How many of our musicians will do this and be simple? Never!

If you have to go places, Be simple, talk less, listen more. That's what Rahman taught us Rahmaniacs.

~Rahmaniac Anojan 

Connecting dots...

Sometimes I wonder, why on earth I'm still living... Some days are very near to the hell... Some times are very hard to move on with. Sometimes I used to think why it's all happening only to me...

On all those occasions, it was like a routine, my hand easily touches my iPhone's music icon, and after some 10 or 15 minutes, I'll be the total opposite guy to the one who was there 15 minutes earlier. It's all the magic of music what changes the mind. Its sort of a meditation.

We, the guys in computing field never get time for any kind of activities as meditation or yoga, but we have loads of time to plug in a headset and do mediation! Where Rahman (for me) being the guru who sits opposite to you and instruct you to meditate!

This happens not only with the music, but lets say you are down with something and feeling absolutely empty; Those times go check the ongoing cricket scores, if your favorite team scores good (Australia for me), it will be a changing factor of your mood; If its bad time for them too, then you'll connect the dots with you and your favorite team and start thinking nothing is happening good this time! Fallacy :D

Sometimes you even apply  the quantum physics to your life, when you are having good time, your scripts will pass perfectly at office; your favorite team will win the match; your favorite person will achieve something; You'll feel you are the happiest person in this earth. duh?

Now the other side, when you are down, everything which happens around you also will be against to you. Those times what you really require is a shoulder to rest and a coffee to zip.

Of course the shoulder what I'm talking is music; it's great if you are blessed with a shoulder of your better half, if not, music will do that magic of creating that inception world with imaginary existence of beautiful couple within you.

Don't you feel it? try this for example: When you are down, just play "Ennodu nee irunthaal"(Ai) or "Yaarumila thani arangil" (kaaviyath thalaivan) in your ears. lets add a coffee cup too in the hand! If that time there is rain as well, man, you will feel heaven on earth!

Sometimes I feel, is this what Steve Jobs said about connecting dots? Quantum physics? But then, he was talking about "you can connect the dots only from behind"... Ah! makes sense! When you start feeling happy, from that time only your real happiness begins! maybe I'm writing a new theory here, but it makes sense to me :)

To feel happy later, you connect the dots to make the happiness via your headset! It shouldn't be a headset, It can be a cup of coffee, can be your beloved Timmy (human's best friend), or can be your Aussie team ;)

Bring it on guys, Happiness is there around the corner, just start connect the dots to find them!

Only this feel of freshness keeps every soul move on with their lives, so do mine!

~"i lost" Anojan

Yarl IT Hub... Creating a silicon valley in J Town - Season 3!

There had been lots of talks gone through about Yarl IT Hub and Yarl Geek Challenge, therefore, I'm not gonna talk about it more, as this event is well known to all the IT related guys from Colombo to Jaffna.

This season 3 was so special for me since this was the first time I was seriously into the project. I got an opportunity to mentor the Junior Geek Challenge, thanks to the organizers for gave me this wonderful opportunity.

First of all, met a wonderful team from different companies in and around Colombo, to mentor. We all from different backgrounds, different technology specialists, but the vision of us for this mission was clear and it was in a single direction.

The Hackathon was held in TCT hall in Jaffna for the first 2 days, followed by the final presentation and awards giving in Jaffna library auditorium. The event was well organised, with the help of the co sponsors and the talented event organizers.

The task given to us was to encourage and take out the best throughput from the junior competitors, and for our astonishment, some guys were extraordinary in their ideas and in techno handling.

There were schools who came from long distances to participate, they were much enthusiastic in giving their best, and one of the school's college day was on the second day of the hackathon, still they came to confirm their participation. 

All of their ideas were very unique and useful, both in terms of technology and business. Comparing to the standards of the Senior geek challenge, the juniors did better job, given the platform. 

It was a learning curve for me as well, mentoring was like learning together with the kids to achieve their goals, sounds good, isn't it? :)

While mentoring the junior guys, got an opportunity to look at the Senior Geek Challenge as well, Their ideas were exceptionally well; They had good technical skills; the solutions they have created were the needs of the real day to day activities, which is a win-win situation for hackathon and the presenters. 

But...

This was not a big win for the investors, as the proposed projects and solutions were not that handy when it comes to business model. Thinking about their solution in business point of view was where the senior geeks lacked in. 

The next season should cover the business conceptual mentoring as well for the competitors. 

And one more area to get improve is to think out of the box. this is particularly for the junior guys. Most of their presentations were related to Education. they have to come out of that barrier and should think about the social responsibility and economical products, as they are the young bloods who are gonna rule the silicon valley coming years! 

Altogether, it was not second to any hackathon happening around the globe, yet, need to be better and set trends as Yarl! (Can somebody think of changing it to Yaazh, as the grammatically correct spell. :D)

A group pic of junior teams and mentors :