Our wanderings and perceptions

Here is the era of music and songs through apps. Gone are the days of tapes and discs. Until recent years it was mp3 songs but with the advent of unlimited internet its music streaming. New songs are released in one of these apps.  When this concept of music apps came in being it felt ambiguous with the numerous mp3 files lying in the system storage. Once you start using a music app you'll get the feeler of it and start falling for this app.  Their websites are available when you are listening to music via a desktop or laptop and install apps while on the smart phones. All these play the local music or mp3 songs stored in our smart phones. Its free to listen to these songs with high speed network. To download your favourite songs or to listen to songs ad-free one will need to make the payment. There is option to go with monthly or yearly payment. Also coupons are available on other online purchases to make the required payment. Lets see in detail some of these In...

An interesting Ad - when a daughter asks her Mother for her favourite dish, the Mother refers to food delivery app to get it. Gone are days when Mothers toil in the kitchen to make their kids's favourite dishes healthy and tasty. Moms who were seen to be packing food items for travelling children like making masalas, papads and ready made powders are now  preferring to stay away from kitchens don't seem to be good. But food delivery apps come in handy whenever you chose to eat from whatever restaurant you may prefer. Be it a hot afternoon or a cold rainy night the delivery boys weather all that to get your food. Two wheelers fly along the road with the delivery boys carrying square shaped bags on their backs with red, orange and green wordings. At main road corners you see them awaiting with their smart phones for the next orders, at near the gates of SEZ areas catering to the crowds delivery and outside the restaurants until the orders are getting prepared. There are t...

This film is a skate through technology for Tamil movie buffs. 3D visuals, 4G sound and CG of 2.0 compete with Hollywood. Plots which thrived on social reforms, love and revenge has finally arrived at the technical platform hence the lack of story, but who cares when there is so much on screen to enjoy.  Its been 25 days since the movie has hit the theatres, but we ended up watching only after the number of shows reduced to 1 per day in the near by multiplex. 25 days is an achievement today for any movies. It was a full house but sad to see that our theatres are not to exhibit such technical extravaganza. Seated in the costly lounge area we were not able to view the lower 25% of the screen. The initial scenes are filled with flying cell phone, some of the talks that happen over mobiles makes you actually feel happy when the phones literally fly off the handle. Enter Dr. Vaseegaran from how we left him in Robot but with an able Robo assistant Amy. Can't think of anyone els...

During any Chennai child's school days in the late 2000 picnic or school excursion meant Mahabalipuram or the Crocodile park. In line of two's, kids will folk the Shore temple, the pancharathams, the Arjuna thapas and the butter ball in Mahabalipuram. A day's trip to this Mamallapuram - as it was curated by the Pallava king Mamallan, takes around 2 hours drive from the city as we have to cover a distance of 85 kms through OMR (Taramani, Padur, Thiruporur) and ECR. After crossing 2 tolls in OMR, the last bit of the path is through ECR whose toll charges Rs.56 and then the entry to Mamallapuram monuments  is for a fare of Rs.75. There is ample parking space in the Sri SthalaSayana Perumal Temple compound. Just diagonally opposite to this is the Pancharthas. The elephant carving is seen here. Being a weekend we could see huge number of visitors here, many north Indians. The stone art was appreciated by all witnessing it.  Selfies and photographs keep flashi...

In a lazy weekend afternoon we decided to take a drive to the dutch fortress - Sadurangapattinam alias Sadras. This is few kilometres away from Mahabalipuram. When the ECR ends the right takes you to Sadras while the left is towards Mamallapuram. After driving for 10 mins we come across the fly over above the Buckingham Canal and a small distance from Kalpakkam. At the end of this fly over we end up at  Sadurangapattinam village and a little left turn at the end of it takes you to the fort and end up near the beach. The beach had no visitors, we could see few fishermen netting near by. A few minutes there enjoying the beach wind we came across this scene of two boats coming across each other. Opposite this beach site is the Fort. Adjoining this site is a the play area for kids. The entrance to the fort is on the other side and not towards the beach. The fort has a secret chamber in its cemetery space, leading to the beach waters. The entrance ...

There are various types of cooking world over depending on the style of cooking, the ingredients available in that part of the region, the weather conditions pertaining to that landscape and also the religion practised. In today's world as the universe converges to one, the availability of multi-cuisine food has become the norm of gourmet. Most of us are aware of Chinese food like dumplings and spring rolls; while we have never kept our foot near its boundaries. The much conservative city of south India - Chennai, has now opened up to international cuisine. Though the star hotels of Chennai have specialisation in internationally acclaimed cuisine, it served only to the more affordable class of the society and the rest got a taste of it only when the specific restaurants came up. With the food delivery Apps - its is easy to try variety of food from the confines of our home and also reserve tables in the top restaurants of the city with just a click. Majority of the households ...