My first Blog

I welcome myself to the blog world... i just wonder why it took so many days to start blogging even though i have heard my friends talking a lot about it. I am planning to write everything that comes to my mind. Truth and nothing other than that. I am a little bad when it comes to writing so in my blogging process i wish to improve it.


My first story is about something which i love a lot and very dear to my heart. "Carrom"

I started playing carrom from a very small age when we were in Thanjavur. I was then a small kid say 3 or 4 year old. I used to go to my neighbours place and disturb then while playing. I used to come back home and tell my father that even I want to play that game. I was so excited and interested in playing carrom and i got used to it very soon. I will go crazy if i lose a game. Mostly my father and my brother used to be in the receiving end of my coins and striker missiles. We 4 of us, i.e my Appa, Amma and Sriram used to play doubles and i always chose my Amma to be my partner. She is little bad in playing carrom and I always wanted to prove a point to my carrom Guru "my Appa" and my dear bro. Most of the times we used to win with some help from my father and at times my bro used to furious. Hope he agrees with me regarding this.


I used to play carrom very seriously and i cant accept defeat. I always feel that i can beat anyone in this world, even Maria irudhayam on my day. I had a wonderful carrom partner in my college days. Seeni is some one who understands my game a lot and we always formed a very good doubles pair. We won 2 doubles championships together and i had won another with Vikram in my second year. I won the singles championships 4 times in my 4 years stay in MIT.

After my college days i played carrom very few times. I also tried out snooker, 9 ball pool when i was in the Infy mysore campus. But nothing made me happy and i dunno the reason. Carrom was so dear to me. For the past one week i have got back my happiness. Yes, i started playing carrom again. Honeywell has a yearly festival named HTS Utsav for which they conduct various competitions and carrom is one among them. So they have few carrom boards for practice and I am started playing from the first day. I was the person to inaugurate it. :)

Yesterday after a very long time i played tough carrom. It is a very tricky game when it comes to doubles. There are lots of decisions one need to make especially if ur opponents are good and a single mistake cud be fatal. I was playing with a beginner and we were against 2 champions from2 different colleges. So it was only me who had to take up the whole responsibilty. Carrom is one game i tell u where if both the players are good then it becomes little disadvantageous to the team. It is always better that one take the hold of the game and the other person plays for his partner. This was how I used to win a lot of games when i was in college. Seeni used to play for me and it was that understanding that helped us winning.

Even though we gave a tough fight coming back from 19 – 0 we eventually lost it 29 - 21. The game went on till 11 in the night and i just wonder how i was able to play till that time. Ennala pasi thaanga mudiyathu. But this was very analogous to wht Thiruvalluvar had said

"Sevikku unavu illa tha pothu sirithu
vayirukku eeya padum"

I was totally involved in the game and i was very happy that i played well yesterday night. I reached home by 12 30 walking from my Honeywell office with my greatest companion "My iPod". Woke up to my Mom's call at 8 in the morning. It is ayudha Pooja today and she was shouting at me and asked me to go to Thatha’s place for Puja.

I came back to the real world from the wonderful world of carrom.